The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-11-29
Americanization Campaign
 Goes Over Big in Wrangell

The remainder or the evening was given over to Captain Dancey who crowded a world of thought and in- cident into the space of one hour. He thanked those who had cooperated with the Legion, in making the pro- gram the success that it had been, with particular reference to the or chestra. the management of the Star land Theatre, and to the Wrangell Sentinel as we'll as to MT Carl Stoeck- el. He regretted that 1t would be nec- essary for him to go on ts Juneau but promised to return on his way South, and give Wrangell another meeting. when he will tell the story of his escape from the Germans. The Northwestern arriving a day late deprived the committee of one day in working out the program schedule.
 Taking up the question of Ameri- canization. Captain Dancey traced the course of events through the war and into the rehabilitation period. He deplored the universal tendency to manifest a spirit of indifference towards those things of a worth while order. It seemed to him that very few people did thir own think ing and that they founded their con- clusions, not in a study of the prob lem. but. more so. in their hopes and fears, their loves and their hates, their likes and their dislikes and their resentments.
 The serious conditions that were growing up in America. today, con ditions that were largely, the re- suit of apathy andy indifference on the part of the people. and, yet, con- ditions that threatened to tear down and destroy that precious ideal of Americanism planted by the builders of the Republic, were pa raded in an alarming yet convincing order by the speaker who drew from his wide experience and knowledge of these conditions for his fund. With an earnestness and sincerity that won the whole hearted sympathy of his audience. Captain Dancey appeal ed for a return to American ideals and the principles for which millions of good lives had been sacrificed and all as a warning against impending disaster.
 Bolshevism and Communism were held up as danger signals and the speaker featured this department of his effort with incidents drawn from his experiences in Russia, incidents that served as a stinging rebuke for those who were seeking to spread the gospel of the Soviet in America.
 ''If they ever come to you and start talking Bolshevism, or Radical ism, or any other kind of ism. ask you to do one thing. and that is. to tell them that you are an American. It is the strongest argument you can use against these men who are always seeking to destroy with no suggestion of building up or recon struction.
 Pride in ones self on the basis of the espirit de corps. as 1t was known in the army, discipline as the essen tial to good citizenship. efficiency as the groundwork of permanent build ing, and loyalty. as the fundimental in all things, and. the whole elabo- rated and improved with fact and in dent, that was his argument for better citizenship.
 l "One hundred per cent American ism has been employed as a slogan and camouflage by men whose very motives were not above reproach. continued the speaker. but let me tell you just what an one hundred per cent American is. He is the man who stands loyal to the flag. loyal to the American constitution, loyal to our system of government and loyal to American ideals and the moment a force, be 1t alien or not. seeks to tear down and destroy those princi> ples and ideals. he uses his strong right arm as a weapon to strike in their defence"
 | T know that there are men who will call this capitalist propaganda. If you appeal for a better under standing between the nations, these same men will describe 1t as French propaganda or British propaganda or something else. If you appeal for an improvement of political condi tions, they associate you with propa- ganda for one of the political parties. You cannot please these men. But. they can call it what they may. the fact stands that Americanism is Americanism. and that is what we must have. today. if America is to go 7Non TJ0,,od 0n oot po0aY