Show I. I f 11 MAKES 4 AMERICAN There Is a good deal of con confusion minds to what t 4 man many peoples people's as Americanism Some seem Gf cl o 0 think that nobody can cnn claim to tc toIe toe Ie e e a n real American unless his ans an- an 1 estors s of several generations back p k ame to this country countr Just how far fart r t d pack lack x they dont don't sa say It certainly is not true as a am m In a n western city said h at she and other children had been Jt t in school that the only r real al are the Indians Whereas Where e as wild the Daughters of the on olt get off In that case to say noling no- no nowa a ing ling of the Society of Colonial of ars aIS whose members are some u tt Imes accused of looking down their u IS apses osos oses at anybody whose ancestors come over o either in the thc MayI May- May of ower n I over or r the th next boat Jm i c. c It Is everybody's privilege t to take 11 rIde in his or her lineage but It Is ish h 1 o odys ody's right to profess a higher gree of Americanism than someS somene some- some S is ne else merely merel J because ones one's grandparents grand grand- parents arents arents left the old country some- some ti hat at earlier We Ve wonder what boat boate Ile KJ e immigrants came on whose defendants de de- are carrying on a whisper- whisper d jig j-jig j tg campaign against one of the Candidates for President because his l were born In Germany l Ir r. r Willkie is proud as he said In acceptance speech and has a s to be proud that his grandparents grand grand- r parents rents could not tolerate the poll poll- e. e 1 al oppression of their native e land landd l nd d came to America to seek and andr r lad nd ad spiritual liberty I What makes an n American Steve took the oath the other othery y which made him an American I i aft izen Steve has been running at a anut t nut stand on the tho corner by Y the bite hite ite House in Washington for a arid rid 71 pi iod Od many years ever since he came as It om h. h his IS native e Greece I a like Me Me-es Me S country best of all sa says s 's Steve I trad ivd the Presidents and White Whito WhiteHouse House House bets wh wino who have c come I i to k know ow him him himi ough rough the years accept him as a n i d American though he failed elal times to pass the formal forma tk nation for naturalization I t is not education that makes an It I On n the same day that Steve Hakos became an American cUin citi- citi I n another recent immigrant took tooke e e same oath He is perhaps the thea a educated t-educated man in the world at nt ast East In his own fiel Held field of lS' lS rs s. s His name Einstein I Ie B e Is a Jew born in Germany The Tho minds In the world of tee ce ce look up to him as a teacher ao o knows more than any of them themI I I. I i Now the Greek peanut vendor and ande k e Jewish master of mathematics e e on ual s' s Th rf h 1 q J j I eY ate me hot ns And both of them theta are arc equal I their rights as Americans to every I Fer her er American whose ancestors me meV over V r with Captain John Smith i Miles sh-or sh or for or that mat mat- who ram carne e In the hold of a mat mat-I ship cargo I are arc still on the statute books Almost Almost Almost Al Al- most all allar war ar statutes infringe to some degree upon time peace-time rights tights of citizens It Is never easy to get getmen getmen getmen men in power to let go of the right to dictate to the people after the war necessity for such dictation has passed I We Ve are preparing for war We WeI believe we wc may have to fight to save I democracy We must b beware are n lest we lose it in trying to sa save sae e it ft |