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Show Food Ff ThoMgM What the good, patient people who ride the busses have to stand, and do stand day after dav, leads us , to believe that they wouldn't kick if they were being hung The long waits in the snow and eold every morning while two, three, and sometimes four loaded busses pass the a by is unbearable. America spent five b'llion dollars for liquor last year. That sum, annually, will buy all the airplanes, tanksand battleships we need for some time to come, without extra taxs. C.V.Hansen If the real American dream is to come true, those on top financially, intellectually, or otherwise, have got, to devote themselves to the "Great Society," and those who are below' in the scale have got to strive to rise, not merely economically, but culturally. We cannot become a great democracy by gi"ing ourselves up as individual" to selfisness, physical comfort, and cheap amusements. The very foundations of the American dream of a better and richer life for all is that all, in varying i degrees, shall be capable of wanting to share in it. It can 1 never be brought into a reality by cheap people or by ' 'keeping up with the Joneses." There's a man in Provo who knows more about constitutional consti-tutional money and the faults of the system as it has been and is being run by the big financiers, than any other man in Utah. He is Geo. A. Startup. He has done and is doing a great work but he cannot perform miracles such as waking wak-ing up the dea 1. He is right. There is not an economic woe, nor any war, nor any depression, nor and condition of poverty but has come aboul because the government has given the money system over to the control of the banks There is nothing whatever in a fortune merely in itself or in a man merely in himself. It all depends on what is made of eaeh. Lincoln was not great because he' was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it that is because he rose above the poverty, ignorance, lack of ambition, ambi-tion, sbiftlessness of character, contentment with mean thing v and low aims which kept so many thousands in the huts where they were born. If we are to make the dream come true ne must all work together, no longer to build bigger, but to build better From! the JL?ic of America. ... .., . There is hope suffiorPnt hope to pujt "heart into the people, to bring their dead hopes from the. grave, and to put their fears into the grave instead of their hopes. You i bet the country belongs to the people and they are going to take it over by ballot after the war, that is what is left of it. The exploitation of man by man, the devouring of man by man in war and poverty must cease and be cast aside and be looked upon as relics of barbarism. This country belongs to the people who live in it even though many millions of them do not own a foot of it. The country is big and rich and all of it belongs to the peop e i L 39 I and not to the greedy few who have taken it over. Prosper- 2 ity and happiness may be the lal of all.and must be once ! war is overcome. The power that created this country did J I not create it for the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Pow- j er Companies and other monopolies; he created it for ev erybody to enjoy according to their, needs. He did not make it so or intend it to be so that the few who do nothing noth-ing should have everything and the masses who do the I I work have nothing. The soldiers returning from the war I must be given homes for which they are fighting but have I not. If there is not a better system coming after this I war then we had better let 'er sink. ( ! There are those who are whispering that Russia will even- j tually turn against the U. S. Don't let them fool you. Rus- I sia will not turn against this country unless something is first I I done in this country to alienate her, which would be a calam- I ity Our belief is that the Allies cannot win this contest j without Russia. She is making one of the most 'gallant fighs : ever made by a nation and giving proof of military stragety and genius equal to any ever made in war ! The article "Use liquor and ,'igarette Money for Defence" I published in the Progressive Opinion, Jan. 9th. should have! I more than just a passing thought. The suggestion ought toj be carried out. j |