New Britain herald., 1923-08-30
CITIZENSHIP MUST
Reach HIGH PLANE
Bar Association Is Urged to
Work to This End

BY The Associated Press.
Minneapolis, Aug. 30.-Condition
demand continuation and extension Of
service on behalf of better citizenship
| In the United States, r. E. l.. Saner
of Dallas, told the American Bar as
ISOLATION today in giving the report
of the associations committee or
American Citizenship. Mr. Saner said:
at is stated on competent author
ity that there are 100000 radicals in
this country who are clamoring for a
change in the nature of our govern
ment from its present form to one OF
various degrees of communistic state.
1t is said there are 400 newspapers
and periodicals that represent similar
views, and that are read regularly by
100000 people. 1t is also said that
$4,000 900 was spent during the past
year in behalf of Red propaganda.
I'VE submit that the time has come
when members of the Bar should be-
stir Themselves in a unified effort to
meet this challenge. Such unified ac-
tivity has, as a matter of fact, been
already too long delayed.
Thinking men see at the present
time the issue being very clearly
drawn In our country between stabil-
ity and radicalism; between the forces
of real progress and retrogresson: be-
tween government under written
constitution as established by our
fathers and a government by the
mob-or if you please, the proletar-
lat; and the conservative influence of
the American Bar is solely needed
and should by all means be exercised
to its fullest extent in meeting this
issue"
Success of the Bar associations
service towad better citizenship will
depend largely upon avoiding con-
troversial subjects on which citizens
may properly differ, insisting on basic
and essential matters, UNFOLDING the
constitution of the United States, and
ito maintain in their full integrity the
basic institutions of our government
as conceived and established by those
who wrote our constitution and trans
mitted it to us as a sacred trust for
ever to maintain and defend" the re-
port said.
The activities of the committee in
the past year included efforts to have
state laws passed to require the
teachings of the federal and state con-
stitutions together with the princi-
pies and ideal of government in the
public schools and colleges There
were no legislative sessions in some
states, but "a states now have some
such laws, In five states the bills
presented failed to pass. Conserva-
tism of school authorities was one
difficulty encountered in having such
bills adopted, the report declared. The
committee recommended that work
along this line continue.
THE schools of America should no
more consider graduating student
who lacks faith in our government !
than a school of theology should |
graduate minister who lacks faith in
God" Mr. Saner declared.
1T should be borne in mind that
the service which is incumbent upon |
us is primarily one of education. Such |
begins with our children in |
our schools and should extend Itself
so that every adult citizen in our
is reached. The foundation
work, however, is to be done in our
school. The committees work should
De organized, therefore. first of all so
nat in some way direct contact is
made with all our schools and COL
eyes and thus stimulate a better
raining for citizenship than has been
he case heretofore"
The report closed with recommen-
iations that a section of the American
5ar association on American citizen
hip he established, and that sufficient
unds be provided for it to carry on
is work