Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 July 1938 — "See America First” [ARTICLE]

"See America First”

By RAYMOND PITCAIRN

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Oounttess Americans, m tbto to writtea. mw wither planning or embarked upon their program of nattonThh to an layßeni thing It haw pwrtomitor value at a time when dtoooanamawat and pamtoatom Rood wo much of the world. For America, ween and understood as has an Pa all wh» jprendnmjf Imdirla the"part sf In the fertile farms of the Wtslseipftl Vaßeor, to the productive Industrie* of the Bast, la the spreading ranches of the great Weet. it drama thee the story of the man who, by their own strength, their Wn energy, their own spontaneous ask) creative courage, harnessed the power of a ooottnent to build a free and mighty nation. Everywhere the tourists will see the Ansertoa which was made by the labor and thrift, the enterprise and the energy of our pioneers and thoee who m. mm . . m -i-W-vflWiKl. ■i si | where theyjsf see what can and sphto wTa"psnSVrtw' demanded only What a pity the oppreased peoples of Europe—who are taught that in order to advance, men must be the instruments and the dependents of the State -cannot see these things! What a pity the theorists who urge on our people a policy of leaning upon government and looking to the politicians rather than to their own abibttee for help and direction, will not understMsd America’s message! To all who really see America it tails the inspiring story of what can be achieved by the free spirit of a great people unshackled by dictatorial espr as si on. And dictators, or their admirers, who preach that progress depends on the gooee step of regimentation, or blind dependence on bureaucratic power, should relinquish the reins of authority for the steering wheel of an open roadster, and See America First.

send out on a limb, and right now our doughty Governor is doing his doggonedest to forget about it.