Show Another Public Enemy By RBI n RAYMOND IONO PITCAIRN National Chairman J Sentinels o of othe the Republic The Public Enemy No 1 I of our criminal records is growing short short- lived The stern hand of justice backed by an aroused Indignation males makes both brief and Inglorious his flash across the front page As with alL alI transgressors his way Is hard But there is another Public Enemy enjoying a softer more pampered life It is Public Debt national Debt national state and local Fed and pampered by politicians it has expanded in girth as the rest of ot the country pulled In its belt In discussing it one must talk big money Today for example the Public Debt of the United States government government government govern govern- ment exceeds Count Countin in hi the gross debt of all aU divisions of government in the country and the total mounts to many billions more Amon Among the enemies of the American Ameri Amerl- can people it probably ranks No 1 I because the public debt along along- with Its twin twin current current expenses of or govern govern- constitutes ant constitutes a claim on the earnings s and the property of every American citizen Both Doth must be paid I How By Dy whom The answer is simple By taxes taxes- whether i hidden hIlden or open open open clipped clipped from the earnings of every man or woman oman who labors of every family i that contributes Its strength its courage cour e and its spirit to the building and pres preservation of a free productive America This public enemy Is an insidious on one Ke lie leaves his calling card the card the tax bill with bill with comparatively few ol of his victims From the great majority of workers he pilfers unsuspected unsuspected- by increasing the cost of the breaf bream they cat of the rent bill they pay of the insurance premium they me meet t of the tools and c equipment they buy and amI of or virtually every other necessity in normal active American life For protection against the public enemy who robs us with a gun we wean can an turn to the police For relief against the enemy who uses the tax levy we must turn to lo the polls and there elect public servants pledged to the same reasonable economy that the farmer the business man or the housewife exercise America needs the man G-man type inI in public imbUe office as well as as- asin in crime I |