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Show THIS BUSINESS & J SUSAN THAYER WU speak with confidence of the Future, Fu-ture, how much more hopeful should we be, here in the United States. Not only because we are an ocean away from the actual conflict but because this country of ours was founded for the sake of those "better days" as they were visioned by our forefathers 2 00 years ago. With our representative democracy democ-racy and our free enterprise system, sys-tem, we have already come nearer "THE LONG AND BETTER DAYS . . ." than any other nation to those "better days" of which great men in every age have dreamed. The highest standard of living the world has ever known . . . education educa-tion for a larger per cent of our young and those precious privileges privileg-es of being able to say what we please ... to write what we think ... to go to the church we believe in, has made this land of ours the envy of the world. Yes, we have endured 10 years of "hard times" during which, for the first time in our history, we have failed to advance our standard stand-ard of living. But our country is A great man stood before the microphone the other day in a city scarred by bombs. Fires were raging rag-ing at the docks of its historic river and there was a threat of greater bombing in the night to come. The man spoke calmly, courageously coura-geously to the people of an harassed har-assed empire. He told them of the situation as it stood that awful day and warned them of the impending im-pending danger of an Invasion. There was no effort to minimize the rightfulness of the ordeal be fore them. Yet there was no sign of flinching. He called upon them to remember remem-ber the greatness of their past and to realize the significance o the battle they were waging. Then in closing that magnificent speech, Winston Churchhill turned for a moment from the horror of the present conflict and, looking toward to-ward the future, spoke confidently confident-ly of "the long and better days that are to come"! If the Prime Minister of Great Britain, in such an hour, could still rich in natural resources . . . still under-populated . . . and we still have that genius for invention, inven-tion, production and organization that has built up the greatest industrial in-dustrial system ever known! When the world finds Peace again and Industry can once more devote itself to the production of the myriad items that make the life of the average man and woman wo-man easier and more beautiful and our power as a nation to an increase of individual opportunity, then indeed those better days will come nearer! |