Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-12-31

va their schools the
youth, from the
grades through the
universities, have
PATTERSON been thoroughly in
doctrinated with
the theology of the state being the
master of the individual. Without
such training as background the
Soviet dictatorship would have fall
en- before this.
IN THE FREE America we boast
of and are proud of we permit our
children to grow up with only such
smattering of our ideologies and of
our ways Of governmental govern
ment that assures us the liberties
and the freedoms of the individual
as they may pick up at random.
In our schools the children are
taught many things other than the
three RS. In the kindergarten they
are taught, as they should be, to
play together, to rely upon one an
other, and to use their hands in the
making of simple playthings. With
these they could be taught respect
for the laws and the representative
of the law, the policeman, who is
their friend, who sees them safely
across the crossing
That kindergarten beginning
should be followed through all
the primary grades. Such train
ing should be the primer of
course in government and
American theology to be
taught in the high schools and
in the universities. In such
training there might not be as
much Of what we call culture
as may be had in tap-dancing,
dramatics and other frills that
are found in the curricula of
our schools of today, but it
would be building better
citizenship. 1t would undoubted-
ly reduce the present day
tendency toward delinquency.
A THOROUGH grounding for our
American children and our Amer
lean youth in high school and uni
versity soon would remove such
institutions as Red danger spots
where subversive ideologies are
born. For the little tots it would
create an appreciation of and re-
spect for law. For the youth of high
school and college age, knowledge
of the details of our American
form of government and our Amer
lean economic system would DEM
onstrate the opportunities that are
offered them.
Some Don't Know
q young lady newspaper writer
was preparing a piece regarding a
speech to be made by a man seek
ing a nomination for the United
States senate. She asked:
"Where and what is the Unit
ed States senate, and what does
it do?" She was university
graduate, turned out as a fin
ished product. She lacked the
very fundamentals of the job
for which she had been college
trained and she lacked the
foundation on which is builded
good citizenship. That young
woman was not rare excep-
ton. In a newspaper career
have found many that were as
ignorant as she in the opera
ton of government.
AN EMINENT surgeon, a man
with a national reputation, asked
recently: "Who determines what
taxes we must pay to the city and
county? Who determines for what
the money shall be spent? He knew
nothing about the organization or
operation of government. That man,
though university trained, could
not have real appreciation of the
government under which he lived.
If it is our province to fight the
battles for free government; if we
are to oppose the spread of COM
munism, the American people of
tomorrow must have a thorough
knowledge of the meaning and the
operations of free government. We
must have an appreciation of the
freedoms and opportunities that are
born of our form of government and
our economic system. The place to
lInpdTt SuCl detdiieu HUI lIldtlOIl
is in our schools, from the primary
grades through the universities.
On the morning of last November
3 we totaled up the score; ex-
pressed congratulations to the win
ners; slowed away all the cam
paign trappings and went to work
with smile as though nothing had
happened. That, Joe Stain, is the
American way; it is government
of, by and for the people. 1t is not
what you call democracy and we
want none of your brand.
Now what we have to trouble us
is what to buy Aunt Jane for q
Christmas present,