Automatic Age

WHO IS A GREAT AMERICAN?
By JAMES T. MANGAN
Advertising Manager, Mills Novelty Co.
F you were born in the United
States, or if you have been
given your citizenship pa­
pers, you are an American. You
can be that kind of an American,
“an American who just hap­
pened” without even trying. But
if you truly cherish your citizen­
ship you will want to live so that
people will say of you: “He is
more than JUST an American,
he is really a GREAT Amer­
ican !”
Who is a great American ? Are
Washington, Lincoln, and others
of similar stature the only great
Americans? Not at all! Each of
us right now can think of a man
from our town or community, a
great American whom we love
and respect because the spirit of
service burns in him so brightly
and so individually!
Last winter I talked with the
director of an institution which
gives social service to poor chil­
dren. The institution has three
buildings and a large staff of
paid workers. The d i r e c t o r
proudly showed me the figures on
the number of service hours it
rendered in the course of a year.
That same afternoon I passed
a certain corner on the south side
of Chicago. Vacant lots on each
side of the street had been
flooded by somebody, and about
a thousand children were skat­
ing.
I did some rapid figuring to
discover the number of social
service hours being yielded by
those two frozen ponds. I hap­
pened to know the man behind
the ponds, an American man who
every second or third night
dragged a hundred and fifty
pounds of hose out of his base­
ment to do the flooding.
He, and men like him, are
what I like to call “a great Amer­
ican.” He is not a poser, not a
politician, just a plain citizen
who believes in giving off social
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service as his own individual
duty. And in this skating pond
project alone he delivered to his
community more social service
hours than the big professional
institution—and it didn’t cost
anyone a penny!
I don’t think it ever occurs to
this man to shout, “I am an
American!” His life and his ac­
tions do that shouting for him.
He doesn’t need a flag in his hand
to make him an American, but
when the flag flashes before his
eyes, brilliant and glorious, no
heart in all the world feels a
truer love or a greater pride,
than this, the heart of a great
American!
I salute him and thank God I
know him!
DEFENSE BOND QUIZ
Q. In what denominations
are Defense Savings
Stamps available?
A. Ten cents, 25 cents, 50
cents, $1, and $5. An
album is given free with
first stamp purchase to
mount stamps of 25
cents up.
Q. In ivhat denominations
are Defense Savings
Bonds available?
A. You can buy a Series E
Bond for $18.75, $37.50,
$75, $375, or $750. The
prices of Series F Bonds
range from $74 to $7,­
400; Series G Bonds
from $100 to $10,000.
NOTE — To buy Defense
Bonds and Stamps, go to
the nearest post office, bank,
or savings and loan associ­
ation ; or write to the
Treasurer of the United
States, Washington, D. C.,
for a mail-order form.
SONNY DUNHAM (Bluebird B-
11148)
Throwing Pebbles in the Millstream
(Ft-V)
Bar Babble (Ft)
Lazy movement makes it the num­
ber for lazy summer days.
EXPANDS ROUTE
RAYMOND SCOTT (Columbia
36149)
Where You Are (Ft-V)
Keep Cool, Fool (Ft-V)
Top side bears watching. Number
2 contradicts the title.
In the wake of better busi­
ness, Frank Robertson, Clinton,
Okla., operator, has been buying
new machines for the expansion
of his route.
The owner of T O W N HALL DINER, East Hartford, Conn., has found that his customers are
enthusiastic about Pla-Mor music. They are delighted with the beautiful tone of the Pla-Mor
W a ll Console speaker, Packard's Model 600.
AUTOMATIC AGE
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