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America Defined
By DcWitt Emery
Several years ago, after having spent considerable time in trying
to find a suitable definition of our American Way of Life, I asked several of my writer friends to write such a definition for me. Each promised that he would do so, but never did.
So, my friends having failed me, I decided to have a go at it myself. In simple, homey, downto-earth fashion, I attempted to express just what America means to me.
Apparently, my effort struck a responsive chord because it was widely quoted in newspapers and magazines, over the radio and from the lecture platform.
In this National Elections year it would seem to be a most appropriate time to repeat this definition: Our American Way of Life
Our American way of life is made up of many things, bathtubs and automobiles; big cities and small towns; farms and back yard gardens; mammoth steel mills and village machine shops; colossal educational institutions and the country school beside the road; churches and hospitals; railroads and air lines; chewing gum and ice cream; department stores and cross-road general stores; specialty shops and beauty par& lors; pool rooms and race tracks; Hollywood, Broadway and the High School play; laughter and sorrow; eagerness and despair and people—millions of all kinds of people—gathered together from all over the world, drawn by the magnet of Freedom, Opportunity and Justice.
Our American way of life provides each individual an opportunity to go as far and climb as high as his willingness to work, his skill, ingenuity and integrity will carry him.
Our American way of life recognizes that the individual hast the right to work when and where he wishes, the right to worship as he pleases, to speak his mind on any subject, to meet with his fellow men for any peaceful purpose, to be secure in his possessions and to have his day in a free court.
It also recognizes that the individual is superior to the State,
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