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Show AMERICANS ARE TO MODEST What We Need la More Self-Asaer-tlon, Says Mr. Bangs. What wo Americans need, now that we have pased out of the swaddling clothes of provincialism Into the full dress trousers of a world powerful natlonhoodf is a little raoro self-asM-tion. For a long time we have held the view that, like some motorists, we are to coy with the horn. We are plunging alons on the Highway of National Greatness without sufficient ly notlfing the rest of the world of our presence thereon.and merely because be-cause we have mnde modesty a habit, out of respect no doubt to the teachings teach-ings of our fathers. What the time really demands Is more of the honk and less of the gumshoe in our triumphal tri-umphal progress through the boulevards boule-vards of effort to tho heights of achievement, for dofh it profit a man to progress triumphantly with never a blast from acclaiming trumpet? It was qulto a relief to read the other ot-her day, printed beneath a picture In an esteemed contemporary the simple kgend: |