Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions' 30th Annual Meeting, speech by Dorothy D. Houghton

And when I noticed what she was saying to her little baby boy, I couldn't believe what I heard. This is what she said. Oh, please, please, my son. Never grow up. And I couldn't help but think what happened when a great American dream. When every boy with a great help of his parents used to dream of being president of these United States. And now, a mother not wanting her little boy to grow up with such a fear of war. I gave a commencement address not too long ago. And the valedictorian was such a wonderful boy that I went over to him and I said, realizing how he could do in this world. Please tell him, what are you going to do in the future? And he looked up at me with great cynicism and said, walk future. A boy that doesn't have any plans for the future in this great country of ours, built on individual enterprise, where boy gets ahead according to his own ambition, his own intelligence, and his own ability, and then says, walk future?

What's the matter with America? I think they were going to have to make freedom a reality. I think we have a negative forum policy based on the fear of Russia and the satellite countries. Why don't we get a positive policy? Why don't we come out in a constructive way? We know there's no collaboration with communism. Remember, Chamberlain Buddhism Brawler? We know too that there is absolutely no appeasement who wants to appease them. And I don't think there's any containment of communism. I think it has to be destroyed. And I think that this virus has to be eradicated. And I can't understand why on earth that we're hesitating because it doesn't mean a World War III, because the struggle against communism is in the hearts and minds of mankind. We have such tremendous potential and powers in our military, and in our Air Force, and also in our sea forces.

But what about our psychological garrisons? I wonder what our potential is there. There's absolutely no way of telling. Our other potentials are so great that we even don't know our power. Let's think a little bit about the other, the propaganda. Let's have a struggle against communism that will be known throughout the world. It's nothing but psychological warfare, and our greatest weapon is truth itself. Oh, let's give to those millions of captured people. Let's tell them that we're work unceasingly for their liberation. Let's give the enslaved people hope. Let's give the neutral people pain. Let's awaken justice from her sleep. You know, justice is always pictured by a woman. And I never could understand why she has a bandage over her eyes. Let's lift it. Let's lift the bandage, and women who pay the great sacrifices and war. Why don't we come out with an everlasting crusade of Americanism, and the discominism, and the brave and courageous people that feel this way?

Let's go ahead. I think we have been too lacking in courage with our handling of the Soviet people. You realize they've taken 600 million people since World War II. You realize they have one quarter of the land area of this world. Did you know in our country their 47,000 who are registered communists in each one of the fellow travelers, numbering 12, all these things going right on under our noses. And so I'm hoping that we're going to take definite action, and that we're going to see to it that that happens that we don't crawl along, but we stand in our feet as men and women of courage and say that we shall fight them, and that we shall go on, that we shall have a line where they do not dare pass over. Now I did go to a convention in July, as lots of you did, and any similarity between any party and what I have to say is wholly coincidental. But you realize that probably we were at these conventions

that the young Americans asked these things of us, and I didn't feel too proud over our years of stewardship of our government. First of all, they asked for the moral tone to come back to the government. Second, they asked for individual enterprise to come once more, they're tired of being buffeted and regimented around. Third, they said, please lift the crushing barrier of taxation. What incentive does a boy have to get ahead in this world when so much of it has to be given to our government? And five, they said, let's have the spirit, as well as a letter of democracy come back to us. Those four things were asked for our boys, and do you wonder? Because even before Korea, one half of the houses built in America had federal guarantees. Twenty percent of all electricity was generated by our government. Fifteen million citizens live on government checks of one kind or another in our country. Then to the farm commodity prices are determined by federal action.

We now have, say, over 30 and 40 and sometimes 80 percent of our own income. The wages you pay, the prices you can charge, the payments that you must make, the hours that you can work, the interest that you can earn, the rent you can ask until recently, and the kind of houses that you can make, build, and even the debauchery of our currency has come about in these last 20 years. The dollar has shrunk to 52 cents. And if it keeps going down as fast as it has before, in 12 years it will only be worth the paper that is printed upon. They are now adding to their federal employees by 1,500 new federal employees a day. Of course, they said, continuously, that we're in the state of emergency. I don't believe you've ever had peace declarations World War II that way. And that state of emergency, they've left themselves in the American flag and say to anybody who tries to interfere or argue a traitor and an obstructionist.

It's time that we're waking up. See what's going on in America. And I hope that all of you are 100 percent red-blooded Americans if we could just make our boys and girls see that all they have to do to improve our country is to clean up their own community, to take part in their own government, and to feel that it is their own community, their own state and their own government. That's the thing that we want. And then we can all work together. Of course, we must remember that freedom has no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no arms to work, no voice to speak, except yours and mine. And all of us can create our own private pulpit, but we can't do it unless we believe it at ourselves. You can't sell a fort if you drive up to that man's house with a Chevrolet. You cannot, in any way, sell camels if you have a package of chests of fields in your pocket. Whatever we preach, we must profess and teach other people that we believe in it. This great in Maratha, this great heritage which we must preserve,

the land that you and I sold out, flying here yesterday, never did I see our country anymore beautiful. Coming over those mountains, led into the rich valley, in the sunset, with the moon coming up. The snow on the mountains, my hood, so beautiful. I always think the beauty is next to divinity. And again, there came to my mind, breathe there a man with soul so dead, who to himself has never said this my own, my native land. You who are the trustees of colleges and universities, may I ask you to give to your young people a reging epidemic of Americanism, that you were the same time since their global citizens. And no more.