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Show Who Will Speak For Democracy? How many of us ever take the time to think, or to speak, on the meaning and the blessing of our democracy this free America of ours? We take such things for granted. grant-ed. But not so with someone from beyond our borders. As, for instance, 17-year-old Gloria Chomiak, who was born in Canada Can-ada of parents who had fled from Russia. She wrote, in a prize-winning essay, in part: "I speak for democracy, because be-cause two generations back my ancestors could not; because if I do not speak for it. if many more do not speak for it there may come a time when we, too, will not have the right to do' so "We who believe in democracy democ-racy cannot trust to our living it alone. We must stand up, and speak, and be heard in its cause." |