Show Our Country I Every American should and be probably is-concerned is about the future of his country And it is is appropriate that one is concerned today f for r the Ow United States system of gO gOr government r ment and the functioning of our society is experiencing a crisis THE THE CRISIS RISIS which which is worse in some ways than that of the thirties during the depression has been produced this time by an unpopular war a generation of undisciplined children the dont don't say no to junior generation racial differences and discriminations among the melting pot US U.S. U. U S S' population and a well weIl organized and financed communist plot to overthrow the U. U S. S system of government by revolution and chaos exploiting all these conditions That conditions inside America today are tragic cannot be denied An Englishman a German or an Irishman arriving arriving arriving ar ar- riving in the United States today for a visit or to make a new home can hardly believe the scene which confronts him ON MANY l COLLEGE campuses there are thousands of heroin addicts Crime and drug addiction in cities like New York where he might arrive are at a scandalous level Violence is every everywhere Television is rotten with violence and sadism Millions of young people are smoking marijuana Militants rights crusaders communists and anarchists are rioting throwing bombs lighting fires disrupting both education and government processes THIS TIllS IS A grave crisis measured by any standard and President Nixon and Vice President Agnew are doing their best to stem the tide of misguided lawlessness But many are doing their best to discredit them and the country's system 01 ot government and courts and calling for tion Even William Douglas of the Supreme Court seems to condone revolution in his latest book What we are now experiencing as a result of the chaos is a turn tum to the right by the majority inevitably and naturally naturally nat nat- enough because the majority supports the President and believes in the American system IN GERMANY AFTER world war I the same sort of street scenes prevailed as militants communists and fascists- fascists roamed the streets and struggled to gain control of the state Hitler followed and brought order There will be no successful revolution in this country Communism hasn't a chance The TIle nations nation's future however does hang in the balance as between a continuing democratic democratic demo demo- democratic cratic society as we have enjoyed it in the past and a more repressive society with majority backing if the revolutionaries revolutionaries revolutionaries and militants continue to public sentiment sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment and defy the majority will THE GREAT test for us and all-and many Europeans and others in homogeneous countries think we might fail itis itis itis it it- is whether the diversity of races which make up our democracy can achieve and maintain a degree of harmony and sustain the lawful pr processes esses of democracy Hungary Austro-Hungary fell apart under the stress and crisis of military defeat a once-great once empire of diverse races Will this country dissipate its strength its union in the developing crisis like the Hapsburg monarchy in 1919 THE FUTURE for America depends upon the actions and counter actions of all Americans so many of whom today fail to appreciate the many blessings of the American American Amer Amer- American ican Republic and attack its imperfections with such vehemence violence impatience and radicalism |