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On Christmas morn when you awake, What aspect will old Santa take?

What will you find within your sock?

Will it delight, or will it shock?

Will it with all good things be filled

Because you've done what you have willed?

Or will it flat and empty lie

Because you've passed your duty by?

Good friend, real gifts are always won

Not by your wish, but what you've done.

"The world knows a" lra* J it" ""t otars. Great wars and great battles mean nothing, save for the ideas behincl them. It matters little which army wins unless an idea has been established or destroyed. After the centuries, what do Charles V or Louis 14th count, save to make a date? The world scholars Erasmus and Voltaire grow in increasing fame. They were the first to bring pure scholarship into the world arena. They asserted the dignity of learning, the right and power to challenge kings, institutions, and governments, to make direct appeal to the universal instincts of man. When these two great scholars had done their work, the mind of man was free, and permanent tyranny, spiritual or temporal, had become a thing impossible."

-Judge H. M. Garwood.

Those eloquent words of the brilliant jurist were spoken about thirty years ago. Despite his optimism, the question of whether or not permanent tyranny had become a thing impossible, is still unsettled. The creatures in the Kremlin have been busy for many years trying to prove that tyranny, both spiritual and temporal, is still in there pitching and, in their opinion, definitely a possibility.

General Omar Bradley said: "We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants, and ethical infants."

General George E. Stratemeyer, who was commander of the Far East Air Forces during the Korean War, and who knows a lot about the Far East situation, told a Congressional committee that "if I had the power to do it, I would sever diplomatic relations with Russia and every Communist satellite and I would kick them out of America."

He concluded his t."tirio"l, ,,Jr.n .n impromptu sermon on Americanism that should be memorized by every patriotic American. He said: "Our country today, to my mind, needs nationalism, patriotism, Americanism like it

BY JACK DIONNE

never needed it before in its history, and it should be taught right from the time a youngster goes into kindergarten. We should have reverence for our flag, we should have reverence for our Constitutional Bill of Rights, and our school children should be taught that. For some unknown reason today they are forgetting to teach American history and those things like they used to, at least like they did when I was a boy. I was taught at West Point, 'Duty, Honor, Country'; I think that motto could well go to all redblooded Americans. We need it today." ***

A splendid declaration. One correction occurs to me. He speaks of "some unknown reason" why these things prevail. If you will study what goes on from one end of this nation to the other right now, the reason will cease to be unknown. Those who love old-fashioned Americanism and patriotism are battling with all their power to hold its place against the inroads of internationalism, one-worldism, and the other foreign cults that seek to re-make this nation into something entirely different from its original concepts. It is a battle grim and great. Don't allow anyone to belittle to you the seriousness of the threat. We must take up active cudgels to preserve the United States we love, or we may lose it from within, as Abe Lincoln warned. Complacency is the short road to ruin. You don't think, do you, that General Stratemeyer's impassioned plea for Americanism was an idle speech? He spoke from his heart, about things he knew'

Our children should talk America, sing America, learn America, and have the love of America so deeply implanted in their hearts and minds that the seeds of foreign philosophies can find no soil in which to grow. Let every watchful American spread the advice of General Stratemeyer freely and prodigally.

The Los Angeles Herald-Express uses a remark quite frequently in one of its columns that appeals to plenty of Americans. It says, "In every election, be sure that the United States has a candidate."

That suggestion will J; : lot of careful thinking. Teddy Roosevelt once remarked that "Americans learn only from catastrophe, and not from experience." Lt. General Ira C. Eaker once said: "Our apathy and lethargy in the past have permitted the Commies to do a better job of selling slavery than we have done of selling freedom."

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It was Edna St. Vincent Millay who said: "Let us be