. The Ladies' home journal. do withless than enough in the typical American hope of more to come. Further,in those foreboding days when Hitler was launching his attack on westerncivilization, the idea was conceived as an answer, by faithful reportage,to the dictators lies that democracies like ours were weak and decadent. Crime and violence are played up in the headlines. Political corruption andfinancial double-dealing stand out in the news. Movies have oftenportrayed an extremely callow America. And the self-interest ofdiverse groups, as described in print, has made America seem anation at w


. The Ladies' home journal. do withless than enough in the typical American hope of more to come. Further,in those foreboding days when Hitler was launching his attack on westerncivilization, the idea was conceived as an answer, by faithful reportage,to the dictators lies that democracies like ours were weak and decadent. Crime and violence are played up in the headlines. Political corruption andfinancial double-dealing stand out in the news. Movies have oftenportrayed an extremely callow America. And the self-interest ofdiverse groups, as described in print, has made America seem anation at war within itself. Rarely, in other words, do the head-lines, the news, movies, articles and books depict the reallyrepresentative American. The emphasis is placed on extremes,and little is published about the fact, as established by the Galluppoll, that the individual American usually sets the good of thecountry above his own selfish concerns. The backbone of Amer-ica—the average, self-respecting, (Continued on Page 278). Farmer Nels Handevidt and Richard Prattdiscuss putting in new modern bathroom. Louella Shouer gives ourfirst bride, Virginia Chase, tipson the art of linking pies.


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