During peace time we Americans did a great deal of sleeping on our rights and privileges. We knew so little about the rest of the world that the current war maps were revelations to us. The average American knew little about his own country, much less having knowledge of the South Pacific, North Africa, or the Aleutians. Though war has done much to awaken Mr. Average Citizen to a study of the earth's surfaces, and the returning service men will be able to spin "yarns" on a war with the proverbial "globe trotter."

Yes, we have become awakened to a new world about us in a geographical sense. But, have we become awakened to our new responsibilities, our new abilities? Has Mr. Citizen awakened himself sufficiently to realize that a New World socially and spiritually must arise out of the present debacle? Surely, we have all rationalized our presence in the melee, and justly so, to an extent. But, have we paused long enough to meditate upon ways that we might have employed to avoid it, and try to profit by our past failures?

Every American should know what the aims of our country are in this war, and what our country plans to do in order to avoid another. It is true that most of our attention right now must be directed toward victory, but when that has come, shall we drop again into our smug complacency?