These men, he insists, could not have been "puling softies."

Mr. DeVoto, blames severel agencies for the fact thet
some of our youth are a bit reticent in offering to sacrifice
their lives for their country. First, he blames our felse pro-
phets, who up until nor heve been presching what they term
"misteken doctrines." Now they about-faced end sdvise our
youth to sacrifice their lives for the American way of life,
"Surely we heve hed enough wernings thet American fascism a
come in es the Seawectaiten of fescism," Mr. DeVoto warns uSe
Really, do our youth ectually know fine these false prophets
just whet the glory of sacrifice might mean, he says.

From our Americen literature for the pest ten years re
were told thet our American wey of life reas an irretrievable
blunder--thet the game wes up--thet American treditions, recial
stocks, institutions, ideesls and symbols vere corrupt end stupid ae
tany intelligent men who hed sccepted such teaching," Mre DeVoto
continues,"could naturally find no décorum in dying to seve such
a country." Mrs DeVoto's éclution is not to’ burn such books but
to "repeir the errors and expose the lies."

Down our femilier Mein Streets, inhabited in no small
pert by members of the American Legion and their families we can
still find the seeds of our hopes for the future. trhere is no
denying it," he seays,"the companents of our new democrecy, the
seeds of its future, the liebility of failure, end the determinants
of triumph are the people who live on Main Street and belong to
the American Legion."

From its beginning the Americen Legion has worked for

Americenization and for the strengthening of defenses, but Mre