Show grassroots wagon day pioneers set pattern for U so S ASA S A BOY I 1 lived in a small village anear near the center of iowa through the town ran a typical iowa dirt road which started at the mississippi and ended at council bluffs it was a favored route for the lumbering conestoga wagons that provided transportation for westward bound pioneers eis those pioneers were journeying into a wild country infested by marauding ma savages they were braving the dangers of a massacre if caught outside the protection of our woefully small but valiant regular army some of the wagons would stop tor for an hour or more in the town or spend a night at the edge of the village when they did to so we kids were on the job to welcome the youngsters who were living beneath the canvas coverings of the wagons we wished that we too might be going on an such an adventure the parents parent and children riding those cone were bound for or what was then an unpopulated land west of the missouri river there were but few towns other than those built around protecting army posts through that western land the union pacific railroad had been completed to serve an anticipated population other lines were in the process of construction as the population advanced westward it was a new and unproven country the new homes of these westward moving pioneers would be shacks or more often sod houses they would enjoy none of the then known conveniences those were the conditions existing within the lifetime of thousands of those pioneer children and some of their parents what a change they have witnessed within that lifetime today we travel in a few hours aboard palatial trains or mammoth planes distances it took those con estogal weeks or months to cover today in that country there are many large and moderately large cities and thousands of prosperous rural communities that afford market and cultural centers As we travel through the broad and prosperous states of the west we see the well built and well kept farm homes now occupied by those pioneer children I 1 saw as they passed through iowa we see great barns and many thousands of cultivated acres from which comes the food tor for the people of a prosperous nation natio nand and relief for the hunger of those in foreign lands there today we see our america an america which was developed within the lifetime of many now living those pioneer parents and children traveled westward in in conestoga co estoga wagons played a large part in the building of the america of which we are proud in no other land on the round globe has such a transformation occurred no other system of government ern erm ment pent no other system of 0 economics has so encouraged progress or offered such opportunity to the individual what possible legitimate reason can be advanced for a change LESSON FROM YOUTH dad gave son john a weekly allowance on condition that dad could say what john could or could not do with that allowance that was regimentation whenever our state or local governments or our indi f citizens accept aid from the federal government they subject themselves to the same kind of regimentation as as did john the federal governments bureaucrats will tell you what to do and how to do it the people pour it into the federal treasury as taxes and the government pours a portion of it back as subsidies to local governments or to individuals it is not something tor for nothing somebody must pay the cash to the recipient they surrender that freedom of action that is their american birthright it constitutes a step on the road to socialism or communism what the nation needs is a full return to that local sell self government and that individual initiative guaranteed us by the constitution like john we are better off when we earn our own allowance and do our own planning russia would like to have all of germany on her back she could use the people in labor concentration camps engaged in war work for russia general macarthur has pro proposed business as usual tor for japan despite the efforts of his bis socialistic civilian assistants if a republican congress Is to be elected next noven her 11 the present session must do more than now is indicated toward fulfilling republican promises in the matter of effecting government economies Gov governor enior warren of california stated at a press conference that his views on national policies are democratic with the exception of favoring tax reduction possibly he is seeking nomination by both parties as he did in the last election for the governorship of california socialism the seizure and operation of industry by government can operate only under a bureaucratic totalitarianism and is a long step toward communism |