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WEDNESDAY, FTB. 7, 1945T
WILLKIE ON
YOUTH GUIDANCE
You may be a Demo
crat. You may be a Re
publican. You may have
voted for Mr. Roosevelt or
Mr. Dewey or Mr. Thom
as. That is your business,
certainly none of ours.
But regardless of poli
tics, the posthumously
published book from the
pen of the late Wendell
Willkie is worth your
reading. It is called, “An
American Program.” You
can buy it for 25c. Here is
one paragraph from the
book:
“The principles of self
preservation no less than
those of humanity demand
that we place squarely
upon society the respon
sibility of making the cit
izens of tomorrow healthy,
energetic and educated.
We must begin the mo
ment the war is over to
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see that every child in
America grows up with
the basic necessities of
education, good food, ade
quate clothing and a de
cent home. We whose faith
is in a freely competitive
society have the special
obligation of seeing that
all “start fair”, physically
and mentally, as well
equipped for the race as
their natural endowment
permits.”
Children are our coun
try’s most natural re
source. We talk about
planning for the post-war
world. Well, it’s the chil
dren of today who will be
the post-war world of to
morrow.
So Chairman Bob Proc
tor and his Eagle’s Na
tional Youth Guidance
Commission are now on
the right track when they
encourage Aeries to be-1
come active in helping
youngsters, preventing de- 1
linquency, enforcing pa
rental responsibilities, and;
strengthening the influ-1
ence of the true Christian
homes. But Eagles’ Aeries
and other interested j
groups cannot do this job ■
alone. It will take state
and federal action to
realize the Eagle goal of
a chance at a real child
hood for every American
child. — (The Eagle Mag
azine).
EUROPE AND
AMERICA
Americans are still a
provincial people. They
know their own western
world, but tend to go as
tray in Europe and Asia.
1 Just now a little matter of
“orientation” is especially
important in Europe,
where Americans are
fighting a strong enemy
and trying to re-establish
peace and order. Not only
arms and men are needed
there, but keen judgment
and a broad understand
ing of history. Americans
back home need to master
them, also.
One strange thing about
the American attitude is |
that, though this nation
was born in revolution, its
citizens often seem to
think that other nations |
have no right to revolt, j
Dorothy Thompson speak- j
ing from long familiary'
with Europe, writes truly:
“A government is un
popular if it is unwilling
to recognize that there
has arisen in Europe a vast
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demand for change, and a
complete distrust of the
old personalities, dynasties
and organized interests
which have already dem
onstrated their failure.”
Strong popular govern
ments must be allowed to
establish themselves three
and crooked or backward
governments must be
ousted if the continent is
to be regenerated. In such
procedure it is reasonable
to assume that European
statesmen know more
about requirements and
procedures than Ameri
cans can know. Experience
has shown this notably in
the case of France and de
Gaulle. The same truth
doubtless holds true in
Italy, where Italians of
known ability and pre
sumable honesty are not
allowed to assume the job
of regeneration.
The strong and rather
arbitrary methods that
Churchill is inclined to use
in Greece and elsewhere
cannot succeed more than
temporarily. It is a time
when statesmanship re
garding foreign affairs is
more needed at Washing
ton than ever before in
our history — or Europe’s.
— (Fairbanks News-Min
er).
VOTES OF
FRENCH WOMEN
By a recent decree, the
French provisional gov
ernment, as it now calls
itself, has granted to
French women, who thus
have it for the first time
in history. They will
vote in the municipal elec
tions next February, and
in the all-important na
tional elections to be held
as soon as the French
prisoners are returned
from Germany. This in it
self amounts to a minor
revolution, for the politi
cal supremacy of the male
sex has been one of the
strongest of French tra
ditions. The whole ten
dency of the famous Na
poleonic code has been to
strengthen the sovereign
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ty of the pater familias.
On this point the Emperor r
himself is said to have in
structed the compilers of
the code. “Make sure that
the fathers govern their
families; then I can make
sure of governing the fa
thers.” France clung to >
this tradition long after
almost every other, coun
try in the Western World
had accepted the princi
ple of equal suffrage.
Anyway, it will be in
teresting to see how the
thing works out, and par
ticularly whether French
women of the fashionable
and intellectual sets will
now abandon their salons
and take to the stump,
after the fashion of their
sisters in the United «
States. — Fairbanks-News
Miner).
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