ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-07-06
SPEAK FOR DEMOCRACY
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Editors Note: Miss Evans Buche High School, Akron
of the four winners the recent Voe Of Democracy
held with the annual meeting of the Cham
the United States Her penetrating words
are in keeping with the ideals and principles
effect thoughts of the millions of and
children affiliated with Americas Fraerna Socefes)
am American.
Listen to my words, Fascist, Communist.
Listen WELL for my country is strong country, and
my message is strong message.
am American and l speak for democracy
My ancestors have left their blood on the green at
Lexington and the at Valley Forge
the walls of Fort Sumter and the fields at Gettys
burg
the waters of the River Marine and in the shadows
of the Argonne Forest
the beachheads of Salerno and Normandy and the
sands of Okinawa
. i. the bare, bleak hills called Pork Chop and Old
Badly and Hearbreak Ridge.
million and of my countrymen have died for
Freedom.
My country is their eternal monument
They live in the laughter of small boy he
watches circus clowns antics
and in the sweet delicious codness of the first bite
of peppermint ice the Fourth of July
in the little tenseness of baseball crowd the UNI
pire calls Batter Up"
and in the high school bands rendition of STARS and
Stripes Forever" in the Memorial Day parade
in the clear sharp of school bell on fall morning
and in the triumph of sixyear-old he reads aloud
for the first time
They live in the eyes of an Ohio farmer surveying
his acres of corn and potatoes and pasture
and in the brilliant gold of hundreds of of wheat
stretching the flat miles of Kansas
in the milling of cattle in the stockyards of Chicago
in precision of assembly line in automobile fac
tory in Detroit
and in the perpetual red glow of the nocturnal sknes
of Pittsburgh and Birmingham and Gary.
They live on in the voice of young Jewish boy saying
the sacred word from the Torah Hear Israel the Lord
God and the Lord One. Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy soul and with
all thy mind"
and in the voice of a Catholic girl praying: Hail,
Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee
and the voice of Protestant boy singing: "A mighty
Fortress is God, Bulwark failing :"
An American named Carl Sandburg these words:
IT know Jew fshcrier down Maxwell Street
with voice like north wind blowing
stubbe in January
He bangles herring before prospective customers
evncing joy identical with that of Pavlova
dancing
His face is that of man terribly glad to be SELL
ing fish, terribly glad that God made fish, and
customers to whom he may call his from
pushcart'
There in the soul of every human being that
cries to be free America has answered that voice.
America has offered freedom and opportunity such
no land before has known fshcrier down
Maxwell Street with the face of terribly glad to be
selling fish She has given him the right to his push
cart to sell his herring Maxwell Street.
She has given him education for his children and
tremendous faith in the nation that has made these
things his.
Multiply that fishcrier by 100000 O,000-16O, 100000
mechanics and farmers and housewives and coal miners and
truck drivers and chemists and lawyers and plumbers and
prestsa glad terribly glad to be what they terribly
glad to be free to work and eat and sleep and speak and
love and pray and live they DESIRE they beeve
And those 16OO0O0OO Americans those 100, 100000
free Americans have roast beef and mashed pota-
toes, the yield of American labor and land;
/. automobiles and telephones,
safety and bathtubs,
orion sweaters and aureomycin, the fruits Of
American initiative and enterprise;
public schools and life insurance policies the
symbols of American security and faith in the FUTURE
laughter and song-than any other people
earth!
This is my answer, Fascist Communist!
Show country greater than country, show
people energetic, creative, progressive-bigger
hearted and happier than people, not until then will
consider your way of life
For l American, and speak for democracy
Cnr;n&uSe Esknne social program being planned
SVVlVIy k1lIS for the months September