New Harmony High School - Jester Yearbook (New Harmony, IN)

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gf! E J E S T E R New Harmony, Inclfiaim ''' 'l'H' nuuInI1I1mI1ununnn11nnnnnI1111I1I1lmmnmnmmun E the loving and worth the living in, by helping it to become better in every way-broad, noble, Christian, imperial, progressive and free. Patriotism, pure and undeiiled, is the handmaid of religion. Love of country is twin to the love of God. The instinct of love of country, of patriotism, dwelling in every human breast, is the abiding and unchange- able source of every nation's strength and safety. The spirit in the citizens, that originating in love of country results in obedience to its laws, the support and defense of its existence, rights and institutions, and promotion of its welfare is called patriotism. The government of the United States is based upon the equality of all men before the law. It is our chief duty as American citizens to prevent this equality from being turned to wrong ends by designing men or lost through dissension and ignorance. Americanism means to America, America always iirst: America, not above all, but before all in the minds and hearts of those who profess al- legiance to America. lt means the first thought of the rights, interests and ideals of America, that America shall not, without some better reason for doing than has yet been advanced, bankrupt herself in order that some insolvent nation may be saved from financial disaster, the protection of the lives and the property of American citizens abroad as well as at homeg means the preservation of an obedience to the American Constitution and form of government: means a return to well settled precedents and policies, which made this nation the richest and the greatest and the happiest on earth long before the new freedom was thought ofg means return to the more economical and common sense methods of conducting the national government: means the protection and development of American indus- tries and American resources. Our task as Americans is to strive for social and industrial justice, achieved through the genuine rule of the people. Although America, like other countries, is made up of many different kinds of people, she is the only one to have a government whose national motto is Out of many, one. Out of many races, religions, classes, na- tionalities, groups-one people, out of many states-one union, indivisible, now and forever. we mmm: IllIIrlI1IIlxllunlllnlllluuulE Page Tliirty-tlirce

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T H E J E S T E R New Harmony, Inclzaina El --------'--------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------'---------------'-'---, El his fellows, by shaping public opiniong by showing office-holders how they can be citizens rather than politiciansg by willingly sacrificing when duty demands: by using the wealth or powers that God has given him for the benefit, the advantage, the bettering, or the salvation of his fellow-men. The true American citizen has since the foundation of the republic given endurance and permanence to the national fabric. We must remember what citizenship really means to us. It is two- fold. It means allegiance and protection. We give our allegiance and the country in return grants us full protection. It is for us to see that our allegiance is freely and gladly giveng for the privileges of citizenship are great beyond calculation. There are four different kinds of allegiance: 1. Natural allegiance-that which arises by nature and birth. 2. Acquired allegiance-that arising by denizenation or naturaliza- tion. 3. Local allegiance-that arising from temporary residence, however short, in a country. 4. Legal allegiance-that arising from oath. American citizenship gives us civil and religious liberty: it gives us freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of mailsg it makes every man's home his castle into which no one may enter uninvited: it gives us the rights of citizens and voters into whatever state in the Union we may remove, seeking a new home, it secures to us the protection of the United States wherever in the wide world our feet may wander. How precious, then, should be this birthright. How low and mean and base is it for any one of us to barter that heritage, that is to place personal wants, personal safety, personal comfort and personal pride above this right of freedom, which our fathers fought to secure, to establish and to maintain. Our naturalized citizens have the same rights as a native citizen. Naturalization is the act of adopting a foreigner and clothing him with the privileges of a native citizen. The power of naturalization is vested exclusively in Congress by the Constitution and cannot be exercised by the State. A foreigner after living here hve years can take the oath to be true and loyal to the government of the United States and this makes him a citizen and makes citizens of his wife and all his children, who are not yet twenty-one years of age, giving them all privileges that a natural born American has, save one, that is he can never be the president of the United States. ln a free democracy like the United States the units composing the political body are properly designated as citizens, while in a constitutional monarchy like Great Britain are referred to indifferently as citizens or subjects. Patriotism means doing one's best toward making his country worth E1nummmnnnmnm ,,,,,,,,,E lm ge Thin ty-two

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