Show y OUR DUR aND t JD D AMERICANISM An official U. U US U.S. S my study his hAs been made of the ex experiences experiences peri and beh behavior Wor of 41 t l 0 J American soldiers who were captured d and held prisoners by th tho Chinese Communists in North Korea The study reveals a number of vitally important facts related t to the future security of our nati t. t One fact is that the Communists now at work zealously in fn every ever ever nation of the world have been fat far r ahead of America in the science of thought America ma manow may Y now be catching up but up-but but slowly One out of every three prisoner by the Communists Communists Com yielded to a serious degree to the clever Communist t brain washing conducted in the prison camps Major William B E E. E Mayer Army psychiatrist who m made de an exhaustive study of 1 1000 prisoner war prisoner cases concluded that tl o basic deficiencies in inthe inthe inthe the Americans who yielded were 1 la lack k of religious convictions and 2 1 the lack of understanding of the American political an and d I economic system A returning pr prisoner often made reference to the fact related related related re re- Major Mayer that he was given by the Communists a very intensive education about America a Communist viewpoint o of f history which evidently emphasized every possible defect in ou our r development and our attitudes and the soldier would confess that tha t his own knowledge of the American system system system-of of our history our politics our economies was economies was insufficient to enable him to refute this Communist version even in his own mind Concerning formal education in in American schools Major Mayer said It t doesn't matter a n bit how much mathematics or woodworking punch-press punch operating or rod hot building we teach in the schools if we fail to teach the duties and responsibilities of citizenship primarily then in my opinion education is not meeting meeting meet meet- ing the first requirement of a democratic society Many American schools in recent years have accepted this responsibility A wide spread demand among teachers and administrators administrators administrators for suitable American citizenship educational material led to the development by the National Education Program of our new integrated film series The American Adventure and eff effective effective ef ef- f tive techniques for using these films in the classrooms of America Religious conviction was the other basic character requirement which Major Mayers Mayer's studies found to be deficient in too many American soldiers A really convinced religious person whose religion had been a part of his whole life if his family were organized organized organ organ- along lines of religious training and the moral and ethical organ organ-I precepts precepts pre pre- precepts of such training training such such a man the Major found often was able to defend himself and his principles against the Red trine trine trine-Dr Dr George S. S Benson |