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Show Copetey .Beloiras to People EDITORIALS By C. N. LUND This Country Belongs To The People 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 and not to the greedy few who have taken it over Prosperity Prosper-ity and happiness may be the lol of all.and must be once war is overcome. The power that created this couDtry did not create it for the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Power Pow-er Companies and other monopolies; he created it for everybody ev-erybody to enjoy according to their needs. He did not make it so or intend it to be so 'hat the few who do nothing noth-ing should have everything and the masses who do the work have nothing. The soldiers returning from the war must be given homes for which they are fightiDg but have not. If there is not a better system coming after this war then we had better let 'er sink. But there is hopesufficient hope to put heart into the people, to bring their dead hopes frem the grave, and to put their fears into the grave instead of their hopes. You bet the country belongs to the peop'e 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 bo cast aside and be looked upon as relics of barbarism. I If America's Dream Is To Come True. j 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 tha t all, in varying degrees, shall be capable of wanting to share in it It can never bp brought into a reality by cheap people or by "keeping up with the Joneses.'' Thpre is no'thing 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 wa-i born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it that is because he ros ; above the poverty, ignorance, lack of ambition, ambi-tion, sbiftlessness of character, contentment with mean things and low aims which kept so many thousands in the huts where they were born. If we are to make the dream come true' we must all work together, no longer to build bigger, but to build better From the Epic of America. |