We have as yet no universal schooling even in the rudiments of reading and writing of the English language to serve as common basis for common knowledge.

We have a lack of ethical unity in many basic problems of the family, the industrial order, the type of tax-supported schooling, and the ideals of patriotism.

These conditions seem to make it more difficult to become a first-class American citizen than to achieve political competency in any other government on earth.

Even with the confusion in countries abroad, even in the European tangles of feuds and suspicions and the horrible weight of starvation and physical weakness of the Old World, we may yet, if serious in our judgment of American life, soberly acknowledge the greatest difficulties of all political adjustment which lie within our own political life.

Such acknowledgment is not to any true American of the older stock and the more noble patriotism a confession of discouragement or an apology for social failures in our common life.