Show HE IS AN AMERICAN he hears an airplane overhead and if he looks up at all does so incuriosity neither in fear nor in tope hope of seeing a protector his wife goes marketing and her purchases are limited by her needs her tastes her budget but not by decree he comes home of an evening through streets which are well lighted not dimly in blue he has never worn a gas mask he has never been in a bombproof shelter his military training an R 0 T 0 course in college he took because it excused him from the gym course and it was not compulsory lie he belon belons belongs s to such fraternal or and clubs as he wishes ile he adheres to a political leal party to toe the extent that he desires the dominant one if that be his choice but with the distinct reservation that he may criticize any of its policies with mth all the vigor which to him seems proper any other as his convictions vict ions dictate even if it be hla his lif vision tion one which holds that the theory of government of the coun atry j y Is wrong and that its principles i should hould be lie he does not believe if his party bout out of power that the only way lit a which it pan come into power is through rough a bloo bloody dy revolution lie he converses with friends even chance chance acquaintances giving freely in 11 his opinion on any subject without fear ear lie he does not expect his mall mail to be bened opened between posting and receipt nor his telephone to be tapped ile he changes his place of dwelling and 2nd a does not report so doing to ti the police he has not registered with the polite police lie he carries an identification carfi card y in case he VIC should shou id ba the till 1 l of a traffic accident tle lie thinks of his ne neighbors fibers across i the ne international borgers borders of those to the north as though they were foreigners an fn IOU a state line rather than as of 0 those to the south rote ten 0 a as strangers since they speak langu language ae different from his he thilla thill ks 3 of them with the knowledge jt at there are now matters berice ant alce between tween his government eov emment theirs but of neither with an ec tancy of war lie worships god in the fashion of his choice without ae let t his children are with him in his home neither demov removed ed to a place of greater safety if young nor it older o ordered dered ready to serve the state with sacrifice 0 of f limb or life he has his problems his troubles his uncertainties but all others are not overshadowed with the imin iman ence of battle and sudden death he shoula scrugg struggle le to preserve his americanism with its priceless privileges he Is a fortunate man he is an american |