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LOOKING
AHEAD
BY GEORGE S. BENSON
PresideHtxXardiitg College
Seareg, Arkansas
HISTORY
Most of the things that really
matter in your life and mine are
• events that took place before we
were bom. Whether we are rug
ged or frail, rich or poor, happy
or miserable result in large part
from decisions and struggles that
somebody made long ago. The
old saying, “Life is what you
make it,” is partly true. Life is
what you make it from what you
had to begin with.
Of course men and women are
free moral agents and can do a
I great deal with their own lives if
they will, but the past influences
every generation. It affects every
body more or less and has more
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to do with some people’s lives
than they do themselves. In or
der to take from the past what
helps us and avoid what hinders,
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men have to study history and
learn its good from its bad.
A PATRIOTIC DUTY
American history, and I don’t
mean a sketchy catalog of wars
and elections, should be required
study in every American school.
How can the youth of th© United
States be proud of this country’s
success and prosperity without
some knowledge of their back
ground? Decisions and struggles
out of which our institutions have
grown will tell the important
; “why” of America’s power in the
! world.
Many encouraging stories have
come back to America from the
European theatre of war recent
ly. Not one of them has shed
more hopeful light on America’s
future, however, tnan a feature
article in the New York Times
relating that American soldiers in
foreign lands are calling for
! books on American history. They
! want to know what makes them
i different from people they see
| over there.
j WHAT DO WE HAVE?
The article quoted a Pennsyl
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vania buck private as saying,
“Something in our history makes
us different. Why aren’t we
taught about it at school?” It is
my sincere hope and belief that
i this soldier’s children will be
, taught more about it at school.
At least I hope we don’t have to
wage a foreign war every quar
[ ter of a century so our sons can
1 go see how comparatively poor
I other people are.
Our fighters have begun to
j realize that something goes on in
l America which encourages and
promotes better living than peo
ple in foreign countries can en
joy. Farmers’ sons in the invasion
can’t help but see that France, i
for example, has fertile soil, fav- j
orable seasons, and abundant
crops but poor people. There’s a
reason. It’s a long story but an j
interesting one.
AN EDUCATOR'S JOB
Undoubtedly Uncle Sam has
some tall, blonde fighting men
who used to say, proudly, “My
grandfather came from Prussia.”
! But when they get back they will
be ready to add, “Leaving that
past-blighted country was the
smartest thing he ever did. It
| gave him a chance and me too.”
! History shows how taxes and
customs and castes keep many a
noble race of people hungry most
of their lives.
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I wish I might plead with every
| honest teacher to help keep the
United States an oasis in this
desert of human oppression An
impersonal objective, attitude is
admirable until it points toward
slavery. If however, it forbids
telling students that representa
tive, constitutional government is
better than dictatorship, or that
a successful, economic system like
Private Enterprise is better than
communism, let’s tell the truth
even if we have to be unortho
dox.
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