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Show (Keleased by Western Newspapw Union.) THE TOMORROWS OF AMERICA THE TOMORROWS OF AMERI CA will be radically different ai compared with the 150 years of ye terdays. We have changed our phllosophj of living, our way of life. Whethei for better or for worse, only tlm will tell. We are sailing a socialistic sea, but what specific form of socialism so-cialism is not yet apparent That the tomorrows of Amerlci will produce another Henry Ford ii improbable. Individual initiative will not be encouraged as It wai during the yesterdays. The effect such a course may have on our continued con-tinued increase in national wealth ii today unknown. During the 150 years of yesterdays, yester-days, government was supported by the people, it was the servant of the people. For the tomorrows, the people peo-ple expect support from the government; govern-ment; they are willing that government govern-ment shall be the master. Will it work? Only time will telL Within another year America will have a national debt of $100,000,000,. 000 or more. That is approximately one-third of the total of our national wealth. It is much more than the total of national income for one year. To what extent can government continue to support the people of America? To what limit can such a system be financed? Can, and will, government create wealth as the American profit system sys-tem has created it during the 150 years of yesterdays? The change from the yesterdays we have known, and under which we have prospered, to the question-! question-! able tomorrows has come to us Dangers Suira Man is never watch! against dangers that tt; every hour. Horace. I through a revolution which we asked I for and insisted upon, but which we did not recognize. By classes vo-! vo-! cations we have demanded special consideration. We have asked for and received class legislation to benefit one minority after another. Those of each class or vocation have considered only themselves, not the American people as a whole, and have been given what they asked for. We can look forward to the path of the tomorrows with trepidation, but with a hope, at least, that it may lead us to a desirable destination. It is a path we are to follow regardless. regard-less. TOOK BALLYHOO TO SELL LIBERTY BONDS THE UNITED STATES will offer us war savings stamps, "baby" bonds, and regular government bonds, the sale of which will at least partially pay for our own preparedness prepared-ness and our aid to England. Will the American people buy In any considerable quantity without an accompanying sales ballyhoo? The first World war was financed largely by the sale of government bonds, but that sale was effected only by a vigorous and spectacular sales campaign. The effort was to sell to the people, not to the banks. The government wished the people the Toms, Dicks and Harrys to have a direct financial Interest in the war, to have them feel it was actually their war and that they were the fellows who wanted to see the Kaiser properly licked. With spectacular showmanship the government put it over in the large cities for the first loan. It did not work so well in the country, where big parades, scores of "minute men," speeches and other spectacular spectacu-lar methods could not be applied. For the second and future loans, the government appealed for support sup-port to the country press. It proposed pro-posed to publishers that they sell underwritten un-derwritten advertising to local mer-chants, mer-chants, banks, churches, lodges and to individuals. Country newsDaoer publishers did that to the extent of I j more than 500,000 pages from the second to the Victory loan. In re- I sponse to that advertising, people of rural America bought Liberty bonds. The national treasury can sell government gov-ernment bonds by telling the banks how much each must take. But can ! it sell them to the extent of several billions to people of America without with-out arousing through some method an enthusiasm for preparedness and for aid to England? That is a ques- I'"' lu ngiana; mat is a ques- tion to be answered. My guess would be "no." We would all like to see the European Euro-pean dictators licked. We do not approve of them, but we should like to have some idea as to what the result of such a licking would be Will it result in a better world for all concerned, or will it be but a prelude to more rivalry, more selfishness, self-ishness, more greed, and in the end. mce war? What a we paying for, and possi-oly possi-oly fighting for? HAWAII IS AMERICAN A DISTINGUISHED California of-flcial of-flcial in a recent speech told of the import from foreign lands" of the P.neapple juice now consumed to billion and more dollars in fortifying fortify-ing that "foreign land" that it might protect California and the reTt or continental United States .f possible enemy. The "foreign Zd referred to i, the United Cii ntory of Hawaii. We do not "i from California or Iowa. j |