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Show n n Not Politics 'f1- jAOrylfUJ By GEORGES. BENSON J' 1 Presidant of Harding Colleg ,L- V k. lCttd Searcy.Arkansas t I m kif'M THE KIWAN1S CLUBS of the United States recently launched and sponsored an educational program pro-gram for the purpose of pointing out to all Americans this: America is what it is because of Free Private Pri-vate Enterprise. We have the only economic system that can exist under un-der our Constitution. Any time America's business system comes to wreck, our Constitution is ready for the ash-can. It was heartening to hear what Kiwanis did, for Kiwanis is no political po-litical organization. It is, however, completely patriotic. Its members are men of all political faiths. Their weekly salute to the flag and their lusty singing of "America" is : not lip-service. They are not al-! al-! ways in perfect harmony but they ' are solid on American fundamen-! fundamen-! tals. They want victory on the honre front. ' To Keep THERE are basic , Freedom principles upon which I the United States was j built from 13 backwoods settlements settle-ments to a power that towers over (not just the world) all history. These are not in politics. Founda-: Founda-: tidn stones of self-government are too- big to be called bones of contention. con-tention. The American Constitution is not a political issue. It's a vital American issue. To precisely the . same extent, Free Private Enterprise is a fundamental fun-damental American issue and not political. Why? Because the American Amer-ican Constitution provides for no other. Open competition is just as .ruly an American liberty as free dom of speech or the right to worship wor-ship God as conscience dictates. All are fundamental and welded together. to-gether. For national safety and stability sta-bility we depend on them equally. Deliberate WHERE government Legislation controls men's work, their trade and their property, it means government by countless bureaus, and government by bureaus is not the kind our Constitution Con-stitution calls for. We have such a government now, in a year of emergency, emer-gency, but if it becomes permanent it will require a new constitution. A few amendments would not do the trick. It would mean complete departurs from what made America great. Politicians with good intentions often disagree. Good citizens all want the United States to retain its position when the war is over; the most influential of all nations. Just the sama, all wanting the same thing, they disagree about methods and argue. Such disagreement and discussion is wholesome until it makes us forget what we all actually actu-ally want victory on the home front. , Under the American Constitution, Constitu-tion, laws must be enacted by elect-" ed representatives of the people. Accordingly,- a new constitution permitting legislation by appointed bureaus would make every congressman con-gressman a powerless figurehead. It would be impossible to do American freedom a more damaging damag-ing disservice than to degrade fundamental fun-damental American institutions to the level of political issues. |