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While Calhoun Historical Society members were recording donated
items, a doorknob reminder was found from the Presidential Election of
1952. It reminded Americans to vote to keep the freedom. The reminders
were taken to each home by members of Boy Scouts Troop 83 of
Grantsville. Doyle Elliott was the scoutmaster.
This was an era when relationships between the U.S. and Russia was at
a crucial point. Incumbent president Harry S Truman decided not to run,
so the Democratic party nominated Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. The
Republican candidate was war hero Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who won by
a large majority.
The front of the card carried important guidelines for voting in
1952, and they still hold true 56 years later:
VOTE AS YOU THINK,
THINK WHEN YOU VOTE.
TODAY’S YOUTH COUNTS ON YOU.
USE YOUR FREEDOM TO
VOTE!
The back of the card carried a credo of American Life
that we still hold in our hearts today:
CREDO OF . . .
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
POLITICAL AND
ECONOMIC RIGHTS
WHICH
PROTECT THE DIGNITY AND
FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL
1. Right to Worship God
in one’s own way
2. Right to free
speech and press
3. Right to
assemble
4. Right to
petition for grievances
5. Right to
privacy in our homes
6. Right of Habeas
Corpus--No excessive bail
7. Right to trial
by jury--innocent till proven guilty
8. Right to move
about freely at home and abroad
9. Right to own
private property
10. Right to work in
callings and localities of our choice
11. Right to bargain
with our employers
12. Right to go into
business, compete and make a profit
13. Right to bargain
for goods and services in a free market
14. Right to
contract about our affairs
15. Right to the
service of government as a protector and
16. Right to freedom
from arbitrary government regulation and control
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
designed to
SERVE THE PEOPLE
Fundamental Belief in God
To maintain the American Way of Life
and pass it intact to Succeeding Generations
is the Responsibility of every True American
KEEP YOUR FREEDOM –
VOTE!
One million Boy Scouts went house-to-house. One million posters
and 36 million Liberty Bell door knob hangers were distributed in the
“Get Out The Vote” campaign. |