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Show LOOKING 1 p'0SPeI,,y By GEOHGC S. EENSON AHEAD President ol Harding College Searcy. Arkansas It r . spendthrift who wastes his wages will suffer for his own prodigal deeds, but it is the prosperous and thrifty in America who will finally final-ly pay for the blunders of public servants. We Borrow COM PARED to And Spend other countries, the United States is financially strong but, as a nation, na-tion, we are not prospering during dur-ing the war. Wars, by their very ' nature, are destructive and currently cur-rently we are spending money about twice as fast as our taxpayers tax-payers are supplying it. Sad to say, it is not all being spent for liberty and peace. Like the newly-rich newly-rich sharecropper, we have mortgaged mort-gaged our home and are squandering squan-dering the money. The executive department of the federal government has a monthly payroll of 650 million dollars. This sustains three million mil-lion employees; more than three times aa many as were feeding A TOILING tenant farmer with several children became suddenly wealthy. A forgotten relative in another state died, leaving him a desirable farm, well equipped. The family hurried to move and take possession but, after three years, they returned to their former for-mer diggings as sharecroppers. They complained that times had been hard; only one prosperous year. That was the first year, when they mortgaged the farm. It is not uncommon to hear people peo-ple say prosperous when they mean flush, but the words are not akin; the ideas are not alike. Squandering borrowed money is not prosperity. It is the enemy of prosperity. A thief in an underworld un-derworld den buying drinks for the house is flush, not prosperous. On the other hand, a thrifty farmer who builds a fertile field out of an eroded hillside is prosperous pros-perous although be jnay have no cash. Prodigal MANY prosperous Leadership people in America this year are doing constructive thingB, helping to hasten victory and safeguard a lasting peace. Some are wisely freezing their good incomes by investing in-vesting in war bonds which amounts to buying dollar bills at 75 apiece for future delivery. But others are only flush, foolishly foolish-ly spending cash for what they consider fun, buying baubles with little or no post-war value. Unwise citizens are not alone to blame. Our government has set them an unmistakable example, spending recklessly and wasting money on things that are worse than useless; downright harmful to human freedom. The foolish off that department when World War I ended. Government is pampering pam-pering many incompetents, doing them no permanent good. Moreover More-over siphoning off America's wealth to remote and desolate lands, through such extravagant mediums as Arctic pipelines, serves only to weaken America. Swiftly our national debt oi 175 billion dollars approaches' what used to be considered th value of the nation's real estate None of us can prosper in a bank-rupt bank-rupt country; taxes would nevel permit it. All patriotic citizen! have a grave, mutual problem and look to Congress for its solutioni This nation must now conserve iU financial strength in order to pr& vent insolvency at the close of tlw war. |