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Show VOL. XXIII NOVEMBER 4. 1950 NO. 52 News and Features oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. LAYTON, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH Gmma, 7 Gtmfyok' ... .. Early American settlers had to exercise constant vigilance to protect themselves against the menace oi the wilderness in which they were carving out their livelihood. When they walked abroad it was with a loaded musket in one hand because of the danger of attack from wild beasts and Indians. In these days the necessity to carry a gun has vanished, but the need for vigilance has increased. There is no threat from wild animals or painted savages, but a darker and more subtle menace lurks ominously in our midst, and, in a variety of disguises and forms, hisses jts challenge. The enemies of our form of government and philosophy of living seek to displace' and supplant the creeds of freedom handed down to us by our musket-totin- g forebearers. The early settlers had to protect themselves against the tooth and claw of wild animals and the arrow and hatchet of sav-ag- e Indians. For this purpose the musket was very effective, and it was always kept with-easy reach. The musket was the best insurance of survival. ever-prese- nt Q - The menace of today makes no physical attack but with stealth apd artifice deploys its weapons against our moral and mental existence. Its weapons are trickery, repetitious lies, misleading and constant effort to stir up internecine disorders and malfunctions that serve to discredit our half-truth- s, system. We no longer carry a musket, but we must go constantly armed, We must be armed with alertness to detect the .truth when we see it, and to turn aside falsehoods however artful their disguise. We must armor ourselves with a militant and active determination that clean government founded upon individual liberty prevails. The early settlers had their muskets we have our free vote. What the musket did for the settler, the vote will do for us. Had the settlers laid aside their weapons they would have perished. When indifference prevails upon us to lay aside our weapon, the vote, we will just as surely be destroyed. none-the-les- s. m REMEMBER TO USE YOUR VOTE ON ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 7. |