Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-31
MARCH
OF EVENTS
BY Benjamin
DeCasseres

ONE Of the ways TO conduct
" a smear against Ameri-
cans is in the misuse Of words
and terms.
There are, for instance, the
deliberate perverslon OF the
meanings of such perfectly good
Americanlsms as America first,
nationalism. rugged individual
ism, lsolationlst.
An American firster is now
"smeared' on those who ara
for the l.. s. a. first, on those
who believe that we should
think first OF our own WE'LL
being, on those who think IN
terms Of our As states and not
IN terms of IS other lend-lease
gougIng nations.
There was (and Isl an Amer
lean First Committee which vas
suspicious. 10 say the least This
was a case IN which the words
America first were used as a
Trojan horse. Just As Al least
dozen organizations exist
under notwithstanding names
that are working as Communist
organizations whose object is,
like Fascist organizations, 10
~ orr hrnVt tNtc
TfIE smear that Is put on
L the word natlonallsm seeks
10 convey that a nationalist
American il a cross between
Northumberland and wage
SLAYER. Now 4 nationalist ~
one who rejects all sly or open
devices 10 ally Us with any gov
eminent which will take away
from US one iot Of our national
sovereignty and independence.
Every real American IL
nationalist II he isn't, he isn't
a good American
The fact that certain groups
are using the word NATIONAL
isl should not deter any Amer
lean from proclalmng himself
nationalist any more than
because the Communist Daily
Worker spreads the American
flag an ~ pa ges Would-ea4se
\ real American TO haul down
his flag.
II WE owe anything 10 any
L body in this country from
George Washington down ths
line II IS our rugged Indlvldu-
alStS' The Very essence ot
Amcrcanism is rugged lndivld-
uah>m II Is the very opposite
of ablect slavery as We see 70
on view IN Russia. Germany
and Japan.
The SIN great Americans.
Washington jefferson Emer-
son Thoreau. Lincoln ard
Walt Whitman, we're all expo
nentS in their lives and IN their
writings of rugged individuals
ISM.
As TO 'isolationist.' IL
"A doesn't mean anything AZ
all America has been an inter-
national doormai for 80 years.
II never was lSolatlonist nor
Is any human-belng. not even a
saint m a desert who has 10
deal with some humans for his
food.
Don't be- scared by the
"SmeaIerS II YOU are fear
less American YOU Will he IN.
aShamedlN an American flrsier,
a nationalist, rugged indivld-
uallSt IN the same sense that
YOU viii not allow your neigh
hors 10 poke INTO. or to order
your private life.
I Els keep thus the Aev
IL World Lets live up 10
that word New after the war
We have been the New World
ever since II was dlScoN cred
We have been the New World
ever since the adoption Of the
Constitution
ST John CreNeCoucr G735-
1879. who came from Francs
and settled here A. a New York
State farmer IN famous letter
about America and Americans
called the American a new
man. He saw hun IN the maxi
lng He saw something new
politically and socially under
the sun
Yes. We are a new kind OF
person, socially and politically.
But there Is A movement IN
this country composed NJ mix.
ture OF InternatIOnalS,S, reds,
pnkS ColleCtIVlSts and other
such medieval reveTslonS 10 put
u hack INTO the old world. 10
repatlcrn US 10 European and
ANatlc ilIo, and 10 destroy our
uniqueneS>.
We who desire "a remain this
"new man of CreNecoeurs are
called horSe-and-buggy Amer.
cans, "ISolatlonlSts. old fogieS,
"FasciSts, etc. by the alien
minded crew who now seem TO
be officially CoCk-of-the-walk.
THERE is prepoSterous idea
i abroad that a liberal ls
necessarily A person who advo-
Gates "Cradle-to-grave' security
for the masses.
That's the way Hitler, Musso-
IVt 4 ant,, and Cfaitn attained