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Show EDITORIALS THE DALE SYSTEM TI.e Waulcegan (Illinois) NEWS-SUN (W. Republi-can) Republi-can) says: . . . And there is still another view to be had. The United Unit-ed States Employment Service is paying a weekly dole of $20 to thousands of unemployed workers who are satisfied to accept $20 a week for not working because if they work, the income tax deductions make their carry-home pay for working only a few dollars more than the dole. The longer the unemployment dole continues, the longer the income tax remains prohibitive and the vicious circle will continue. One is hard pressed to realize that the America of individual indi-vidual initiative, in which our forefathers built a great nation on the foundation of their demand to the right to work and earn an honest living, could sink to a nation harassed by workers who refuse to work, or who insist on government payroll jobs that are no longer needed, while private industry indus-try cries in vain for help. , But at the moment politicians "are scrambling frantically for confirmation or repudiation of what the Gallup poll is saying. Grand Rapids (Mich.) MICHIGAN TIMES (Republi-can) (Republi-can) says: There is not much doubt about Henry Wallace s intentions inten-tions of seeking the New Deal nomination for President in 1918. The Communists are grooming him for the nomination nomina-tion and about the best thing that could happen would be for him to beat Harry Truman for the chance to run. Wal-lace Wal-lace would be even easier to beat than Truman. There are still more people with brains in the United States than dumbells. Lusk (Wyoming) HERALD (Republican) says: WHO'S CALLING WHO A RADICAL The Democratic press would have the citizens of Wy-oming Wy-oming believe , that the Republicans are calling all Democrats Demo-crats "Communists" and "radicals." Such is far from the case. We are not even cfelling the Democratic candidates of Wyoming such. What we are saying is that the New Deal and Democratic Demo-cratic administration of the past 14 years has allowed "Communism" "Com-munism" and "radicalism" to infiltrate the country more and more than ever before in history. ' And because the Democratic party has had to make great concessions to powerful labor leaders, and the "radicals" "radi-cals" now infesting many unions, the party is unable to rid itself of the disease. lhe Democratic press says that the Democratic party on the blackboard the first day of school. Some of the pupils pu-pils (the writer was one of them) had never thought of doing do-ing them until that teacher put the idea into their heads, and then you know the rest. There was more bread sold than ever before when the government said "go easy on bread," likewise sugar and everything ev-erything else. There must be laws and laws should be obeyed but Americans will not be told by appointed bureaucratic bureau-cratic officials what they can eat, drink or wear. The answer is we are no longer taught temperance in the schools, temperance in all things. People need good reasons reas-ons and enlightenment rather than harsh commands. This should begin in early childKood. stands for individualism. Ye Godsl where is the individualism individu-alism under a system that allows a single labor leader to dictate dic-tate when a man shall work, when he shall not, what he shall and shall not buy, to what extent he shall utilize his individual ability, and what he shall be paid. Where is individualism when a single labor leader, as in Pittsburgh, strangles a city, mocks the courts, and fans his nose at an agency of the U. S. Government? We know of Democrats-good Democrats-right in our own community who are going to vote against Democrats that are now powerless to remedy this situation. They are g oing to vote against Joseph O'Mahoney, against Lester C. Hunt and the others because they see that somewhere this trend in America must stop and they see that even good Democrats Democrats with high prestige, like Mr. O Mahoney, are powerless to stop it. WAYNE (Ohio) OBSERVER (Independent) says: AMERICANS WILL NOT BE BOSSED Americans are queer. They will submit to hardships willingly if necessary, but when they are told they cannot do this or that, or cannot have this or that, they show the very youthful attitude of "I'H show you" if they think the demand is necessary. When this wrriter was in school .work, and wanted his pupils to read a certain book he would tell them it was a good book but would rather they would wait until they were older before reading it. That book was afways in demand. When prohibition was in vogue many. people who had been total abstainers made their intoxicants and it was thought the smart thing to serve the forbidden drinks in the home on social occasions. Tha t s when women started to use the stuff and black markets in cheap poison substitutes prevailed. In the pre-prohibition days a woman was seldom seen in a saloon but you see what that start has led to. During Dur-ing prohibition it is true fewer drunks were seen on the streets but they could be found in plentiful numbers in the homes of the society groups as well as the more humble citizens, be found in plentiful numbers in the horns of the society groups as well as the more humble citizens. Yes, American adults are just children grown up. You tell a 5-year-old he must not touch this or that, and that's just what he will do as soon as your back is turned. We once knew a teacher wlio put a long list of "Don ts' |