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Show hf4; 41 ;' 11 With branches all over theWorld 11 'TpHERE's no business institu--A- tion more thoroughly American Amer-ican than the General Store. Yet, do you realize that America is not even self-sufficient enough to keep that General Store running efficiently and prosperously? For instance, its delivery truck was made in America; but 300 products, from 56 countries, went into its making. The telephone over which the orders come is American-made. But 18 of the tele-- tele-- phone's important materials came from outside the country. The coffee, the tea, the sugar, the tin in the cans, the cocoa and chocolate . . . these and many more of the things the store buys and sells came from overseas. Take them away and business languishes, becomes more difficult to operate. Take them away, and the community's com-munity's standard of living declines, de-clines, life itself becomes less pleasant. No country can build a fence and hide behind it these days. For lasting prosperity, as well as fot jf durable peace, we must coopetaU P with the rest of the world. Truly, planes, radio, rockets, have made of this shrunken earth, one world. a :'Vls Cooperation means getting ie) along even with peoples whose be- 5a liefs do not jibe with ours. It meaas contributing our share toward world order. It means making the r effort necessary to understanding. It means every citizen must accept the responsibility of making in- ternational cooperation work. You can do these things: (, First, get and keep yourself informed in-formed about the specific proposals pro-posals for peace and international cooperation which are now Before Be-fore us. Second, interest your Wends i T these questions. Get them cussed in groups to which ) belong. Third, write what you think w your Congressman and Senators, to your newspaper. Declare ) self. 1 ' 1 l PEPEBrTHEWAmml'cltll, ' j |