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Show 'Jovcrnment Must Not Bt Taken For Granted : The average American citizen tak-?s his government too much for granted. Lewis E. Pierson, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, warns the people that "we are drifting noie and more to legislative action under presure of special groups eco- j inomic, religious, social or sectional -?;id are forgetting the fundamental principles on which this country was lounded." Referring to great deficits created under governmental operation of industries in-dustries during the World War period, Mr. Pierson said: "The real disaster to American rights was the encouragement which these government ventures gave to the growth of bureaucracy and to the blurring blur-ring of the sharp lines between the pure functions of representative government gov-ernment and the rights of a free and progressive people. "The greatest responsibility of A-meriean A-meriean business to our government, is the duty of recalling government to ihosc great and dignified purposes for which that government was created." |