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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE this haze, as it were, descends like fog until even the hills surrounding the village are barely visible. Now, small, white flakes of snow are seen drifting lazily down from the gray sky. You pull up your collar and start for home. As you near your destination, the air is a whirling mass of snow. The ground is white and each footmark is obliterated by a soft carpet almost as soon as made. This scene was in America, where the soil has not been disturbed and ruined by bombs and artillery shells, where children play without fear of enemy planes overheadg the America of freedom and libertyfloving people. Freedomfloving, we say. Freedom for just ourselves or for every person, no matter what may be his race, creed or color? In France, with our Armed Forces, Thanksgiving was just another day. The snow was deep on the battlefiield and was crissfcrossed with the ruts and tracks of trucks and tanks. There should have been another set of tracks there, the tracks of an ambulance. But there was not. Someone forgot! Perhaps they did not buy that extra war bond, or perhaps they did not give their share to the Red Cross campaign, because they had to go to the movies twice a week. Was that person you? The snow on the fields was, in some places, soaked with scarlet, human blood. Someone back home forgot! Perhaps they were in such a hurry to get to the Spring Style Show that they did not take time to drain the grease from that frying pan.. If they had, that soldier might have had that extra bullet to stop the enemy before he- well, you know. Was that person you? A Belgian peasant and his family were slaughtered by the enemy before our troops could move ahead. The army couldn't make that offensive they had planned because they were short of shells and gasoline. Again someone in America forgot! Someone was so interested in his own welfare that he joined the strike for higher wages down at the munitions plant when he was already earning more than was necessary to support himself. Someone else applied for extra gasoline to visit a sick friend . When they got it they went to the lake on a fishing trip. Was that person you? The boys at the front had no place to go for relaxation behind the lines. Some' one back home did not give to the War Chest Drive, because they had to have a new fur coat, the one they bought last year being out of style. Was that person you? Let us go back to that small town in New England. In the morning the ground was covered with a thick blanket of crystalfwhite snow. Even the poorest twig on the elm tree was ridged inchfdeep with pearl . It was a peaceful and joyous moming. It was,-until a certain telegram came to one of the families of the town. It was one of those telegrams that read thus: The War Department regrets to inform you that your son--etc. The town was shocked. Miss Van Guilder expressed her sympathy to the mother. Did she ever think that she and her club might have been indirectly responsible for this mother's grief? They should have been at the hospital as nurses' aides, or at the Red Cross Sewing Center working for a good cause. They and many other Amerif cans could have done something, but they did not. Can some of us, then, truly call ourselves Americans? The answer is no , not until peace, freedom, safety, justice, and all the other fundamentals of our democratic government have been brought to every person in the world. When this has been ac' complishd we may truly and proudly say, I have done my part. I am an American. -Ray Lawrence
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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE This time the State Department, through an intensive educational campaign, is making sure the American people thoroughly understand world organization for world peace and what our participation in it will mean. Americans are faced with the greatest opportunity that has ever confronted a gen' eration in the history of our nation. Failure to grasp this opportunity might well mean calamity to generations to come, to our nation as a whole, and perhaps to the entire world. Grave dangers will overtake the American people in the World of Tomorrow if they do not seriously begin to accept their responsibilities of citizenship today. Attention is being brought to the fact that great changes are taking place in the world and education should contribute to make those changes benencial. Unless social thinking can more nearly keep pace with scientific progress which continues to be made year after year, how can we prevent unemployment and also wars which will be inf creasingly destructive? But if we greatly increase our efforts to develop our social thinking, if we devote more time to studying, discussing, and attempting to understand the changes and problems which accompany progress, we can achieve greater comfort, wellfbeing and security than mankind has ever attained. It is the choice of Danger vs. Opportunity-to give more time to the study and discussion of the great national and international problems of our day, which is our great responsibility. In our country, we all hope that in future, all young people will sacrifice for their education, to preserve this nation with a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Then, this democracy shall never perish from the earth. Are You An American Autumn had come and it was the last of the season. Thanksgiving was only two days away and the families throughout the town were busy planning for the holiday. The village market had a display of turkey gobblers in its showcase. The frosts had turned the once green fields into brown patches, ridged and inter' mixed with bleak trees, bare and tall, silhouetted against the late autumn skies. The nights were cold and in the morning the ground was hard under foot. Last night had been typical, but the morning sky was not clear and bright as it had been other days. Though the people of the village went about their work as usual, Mother Nature was going to enter another phase of her cycle. Along in the latter part of the afternoon it began to grow dark. If you had walked through the streets you might have seen the lights in the house on the corner where Miss Van Guilder was having an afternoon game of bridge with some other members of the local Lonely Hearts society, a local group of those quaint exponents of the feminine world that had not been successful in finding their life companions, and had finally given up, satisfied to take up a more dignified life. From a hill on the outskirts of the township you could look far into the mountains of the next county, and the hamlet below looked peaceful and calm. Light breezes scurried among the treeftops, and looking toward the neighboring mountains you notice that the more distant ones are beginning to fade from sight. As you keep looking
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