Wilmington High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Wilmington, MA)

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THE UNITED STATES: A PRACTICAL SUCCESS Because others have demonstrated the superiority of the American ideal more ably than I could hope to, I will not go into the undeniable loftiness of our spiritual achievements. And because the Constitution very lucidly explains our civic rights and duties, I will not attempt to detail those privi- leges unigue in the world today and in the past. Rather I WOuld like to point out the tremendous advantage of physical comfort that our so-called inefficient democracy has gained us. To take a specific example in the matter of automobiles--without which no American feels himself complete-- we are incredibly richer than citizens of a totalitarian state. Especially since the recent war began, gasoline and cars are g used only by the highest officials. The idea of the average citizen's owning a car as he does in America would seem incred- ible to the average European, even in peace time. I read recent- ly of a group of Nazi tourists in this country who, having seen a factory surrounded by innumberable cars, were unable to believe that the cars belonged to the workers. They expressed the opinion that the cars had been put there solely to impress foreigners! In a like manner consider the matter of the radio--over which we alone can get uncensored news of airplanes of which we are the foremost manufacturers, and of all the products of American in- genuity and inventiveness. , Especially in the matter of food are we more fortunate than others. In the belligerent countries food is strictly rationed. Particularly in Germany the food problem is serious, not because crops are bad, but because in their mad desire for power the Germans change farm products by miracles of chemistry into arma- n