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Show INDEPENDENCE DAY On July Fourth, 177G, a step was taken in the long battle for human liberty which was probably the largest lar-gest advance that cause ever made in history. For on that day, the American people decided that the old restrictions that had obstructed their freedom were to 1e cast aside, and a new nation was to be born, based on democratic and republican principles, thus ending the rule of kings and tyrants. The Declaration of Independence, under which the United States proclaimed its birth as a nation, had effects ef-fects that spread all over the world. It inspired similar sim-ilar movements in many lands. When these foreign countries saw the United States winning a war through those principles, and saw it after the war gaining in power and progress, they were moved to promote democratic movements of their own. England steadily became more democratic, and democratic dem-ocratic ideas spread in Europe. South America was swept by democracy, and all the countries of that continent conti-nent eventually threw down the rule of kings and established es-tablished republican governments. These ereat changes would never have happened if the American people had not given the first successful ex.-tmMle on a big scale of the possibility of such government. gov-ernment. The philosophers had dreamed of human ireedoa lor centuries, but our people were the first lo make the principle of democracy a great practical force m the world. ; It is the sad fate to-day that many countries whHi had been democratic have come more or les vncW ! the power of dictators or partly so. Our people should I show their failh that this is only a temporary reac-t.on, reac-t.on, and hat freedom is bound in the end to triumph i K,,SthTiStlf-COleb,ration f their Independence I)a. I he celebration should show what democracy really means, that is calls for education, intellioence : generosity, and good citizenship. -eiiitoence, ' ' NAZI SLAVES The Nazi scheme of a new order in Europe con templates establishing what is practically sK labor" in the conquered countries. A slave is defined as Zr w YOUTII'S IDEALS t that as it come ftn oi ?Lt ShT SerVice' these high aims. "Shades of tL theM, it loses ; ose about the gr0 Sn? toftT t0 Avorth, famous Enoi,h poet Wllham Words" when youth gets out in tt T d ?enrice but - hard scramble. The emota 'Id; 14 finds life & a eye on the selfisl go d "an 1 f lf Tg keeP one' actions on human Sfe 'and crowd 6ffect of one' humble person off the road comPetor or ) It does not pay to fm-rmf- , . , S more money Pi,"g f One may |