“The nation needs all men, but it needs each man. ...”  “The whole nation must be A team, in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted.”

Read and discuss President Wilson’s “Message to the American People,” of April 15, 1917.

What organizations existed in your community to secure teamwork for war purposes?

Show how boys’ and girls’ clubs, or the School Garden Army, made cooperation possible on a national scale.  Is this true in peace times as well as in war time?

Is there greater or less need of national teamwork today than during the war?  Explain your answer.

What evidences are there that the teamwork of our nation has not been as good since the war as during the war?  Why is this?

Show how universal military training might increase the national spirit What arguments can you give against it?

Should or should not the food administration of wartime be continued in peace time?  Why?

What does it mean to you to be an American?

READINGS

In Long’s American Patriotic Prose: 

Van Dyke, “The Blending of Races,” p. 4.

De Crevecoeur, “The American,” p. 38.

Webster, “Imaginary Speech of John Adams,” p. 77.

Brooks, “The Fourth of July in Westminster Abbey,” p. 89.

Van Dyke, “The Americanism of Washington,” pp. 135-137.

Jay, “Unity as a Protection against Foreign Force and Influence,” p. 139.

Webster, “Liberty and Union Inseparable,” p. 158.

Lincoln, “Gettysburg Speech,” p. 181.

Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” p. 183.

Whitman, “Two Brothers, One North, One South,” p. 201.

Wilson, “Spirit of America,” p. 266.

Roosevelt, “True Americanism,” p. 270.

Wilson, “Conscription Proclamation,” p. 283.

Hughes, “What the Flag Means,” p. 288.

Eliot, “Five American Contributions to Civilization,” p. 310.

Lane, “Makers of the Flag,” p. 314.

McCall, “America the Melting Pot,” p. 320.

Wilson, “To Newly-Made Citizens,” p. 322.

Gibbons, “The Republic Will Endure,” p. 340.

Eliot, “What Americans Believe In,” p. 361.

Abbott, “Patriotism,” p. 362.

In Foerster and Pierson’s American Ideals: 

Wilson, “Conscription Proclamation,” p. 175.

Wilson, “Americanism and the Foreign-Born,” p. 178.

Alderman, “Can Democracy be Organized?” p. 158.

CHAPTER VIII

A WORLD COMMUNITY