Evening star., 1937-12-06

JIG oouIlicIH HAIL VI lIlS western
will echo over the ether
waves at 1890 pm. (E. S. T) on the
sixth Brave New World" program Of
he Federal Office of Education, which
more than 80 radio stations are VOL
rebroadcasting from the At
lantic to the Pacific Coasts over the
Columbia network.
The republican governments of 81
affiliated American re-
of one dominion" of the
democratic British Commonwealth,
which is a republic in everything but
name and perishing imperial tradi-
tion-stretch from the cold and quiet
water Of Hudson's landlocked Bay
over the fertile plains and
great plateaus of the white man. over
the magnificent mountains of Mexico
and the tropical jungleS of the golden
Isthmus (but recently traversed by a
group of three young Brazilians, on
foot and by American motor-a trek
of 10000 miles,; they extend over the
steaming river valleys of the Magda-
lena, the Orinoco, the Amazon and
the lovely Plata; they embrace the
grand cordilleras of Colombia and the
high Andes of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
and Chile; and eliminate beyond the
fertile alpine valleys and cleaning
lakes of Chile, and the fat pampas of
the Argentine, in the cold and stormy
waters of treacherous Tiera del Fuego,
which points toward the frozen silence
of No Mans Antarctica.
Consent of the Governed.
In all this vast area of earth-from
the 55th parallel of north latitude to
the 55th parallel of south-reServed
by Nature for mans richest theater of
life, and by history for the slow un-
folding of the grandiose moral drama
of democracy, governments rest upon
the idea of the consent of the governed
If not always upon the shoulders of
peaceably and properly elected Off
ciab. The governments of these 200,-
100000 free people rest, moreover,
upon a specifically American theory
of constitutional democracy and pop
ular sovereignty, which has no other
claim to legitimacy than the abstract
moral claim of the "inalienable"
natural rights of civilized men and ma
by their own intel
lectual and physical efforts from theo-
cratic and monarchical control-to
justice, liberty and self-government,
by bitterly contested but
ultimately successful political, military
and economic revolutions aiming to
enfranchise the mind and the indi-
vidual :. Let no man forget it!
This is certainly portentous politi-
cal and historical fact; and one whose
contemplation ought to give cooling
pause to the ardent propagandists of
monocracy, absolutism. Fascisrn, Com
munism and the several latter-day
variants of totalitarian etatism in
Europe, Asia and America! The au-
gust geographical sweep and poten-
tial power of the galaxy of American
republics and of the Pan-American
epos ought to remove any propagated
doubts concerning the vitality and
longevity of political democracy; for
a knowledge of the brave story gives
the reply valiant, if not the lie direct,
to ignorant or impudent assertions to
the effect that liberty is "capitalistic
corpse" or bourgeois superstition"
Unfortunately and inexcusably,
that vital knowledge is frequently alb
sent from the cheerful minds and
superficial thinking of those who are
the principal heirs and beneficiaries
of the democratic revolutions of the
18th and 18th centuries, which were
the enlightened outcome of the fear
full religious conflicts of the 18th and
18th centuries in France, Germany,
England and the Netherlands, and in
particular of the rise of Professionalism
and of the Dutch Republic-the lineal
of our own, of the French,
the Swiss, and the rights of man"
Little Conception of Forces.
Most North Americans, predisposed
as We are by our educations to believe
that the history of America and of
freedom, if not of the world, began
with the Declaration of Independence,
the surrender of CORVALLIS, and the
"treasonable" convention at Philadel-
phia Gas the Tories termed it,, have
little conception of the historic forces.
moral and material, which conditioned
and produced those dramatic events:
and still less apprehension of tho cost
OF human liberty and America in
dependence, and of the facts hat
they were precarious by-products of
European history and international
politics, or imperialism. Most of us
do not even know the names of the
South American equivalents of Con-
cord, Boston, Philadelphia, SARATOGA
and Yorktown.
Most Of us have, perhaps, hazilv
heard OF Simon Bolivar, the Liberia
tor" the Venezuelan Colombian pa
triot and architect of South American
revolution and of Pan-Americanism
But how many of us know the dra-
matte story of Bernardo OHiggins.
the hero of Chile's revolution, and of
his friend, Gen. Jose de San Martin.
the great Argentinian military leader
and organizer of victory, and of the
citizen armies of Argentina, Chile and
Peru-the Baron Won Steuben of
South America?
How many Washingtonians know
that an impressive equestrian statue
OF San Martin stands in Judiciary
Park beside the old red brick Pension
Office? How many of us know the
dates and place names of the epoch
making battles Of San Lorenzo, where,
fresh from Spain, he defeated the
Spanish viceroy of the Argentine in
1913, and of Chacabuco and the Maipo,
in Chile, which he fought and won
against the feudal tyranny of Bourbon
Spain in 1921, after crossing the An
des in winter, while on his victorious