Show tj I Holding Their Own TN THE present state sate of mind of oC Americans s it is IN 1 difficult to believe that oratory is lS going to change existing situations materially Speakers for the administration will achieve about their maximum effect if they hold the loyalty of those forces which already arc are in agreement I With them On objectives and policies Speakers for the opposition can scarcely hope to do better bettel J than hold hoid the opposition together As to those uncertain souls in the fringes the the of readers and those in minor groups who for t the e most part are arc agin just about everything it is barely possible that some converts may be made But the law of averages will vill operate for both major contenders for favor Javor with approximately equal al force and anci so windy speeches harsh words and nd perversions of truth are wholly unlikely to affect an outcome that is already in the cards 1 That is wh why the address of President Harper Sibley of the United States Chamber of Commer Commerce Com Com- mer merce e makes good reading Temperate fair conciliatory and constructive President Sibley detaches himself from bickering and invective to arrest thoughtful thought ul interest in the big national problem How we shall set ourselves to the task of bringing into full play the resources we have I at our command To Americans Republicans Americans Republicans and Democrats whose Americanism is unshaken by hysteria 1 preached in the name of political economic and social under many strange brands President Sibley addresses a paramount question question ques ques question tion to which there can be only one answer Is the characteristically American principle of economic freedom to be maintained or is resort to be had to government controls I Only a deluded few a stricken panic-stricken and unstable company which can claim neither Understanding understanding understanding un- un of nor allegiance to basic Republican can or Democratic principles can look with any hope whatever to government controls which would woul impose any form of dictatorship This is the antithesis of representative and popular gover gov- gov er eminent ment and to it Americans will neither DOWnor DOW bow nor submit There is no such thing as a dictatorship dictatorship dictator- dictator ship that recognizes individual liberty or indiVidual individual indi- indi S vidual right Neither great party would dare propose to Americans that they surrender these J Government can only remain a symbol of authority authority au- au Jr in jn the United States enacting executing p r k and and interpreting the law of the land as willed i 5 by the people It may not control but only umpire 1 J Uncle Dan Dart Roper secretary of commerce 5 was in his his familiar role His address before belore the chamber s session ss n was masterly in neither thought nor utterance Of the ten for 1 business which h he urged only two were outside 5 the realm of platitude and generality which even had no glitter Intelligent b business siness should and therefore is is' studying how v to solve the problem 5 lem of technological unemployment as he urged To fail to do so sois is s business suicide which business business busi- busi S ness and industry long Jong since recognized It knows we cannot go on with half the country S at t work and the rest on the dol dole and made t. t work paid for out of taxes Business is is making 5 every effort to get social S cial responsibilities placed where they belong to study and and- urge governS governmental govern- govern S mental economy t P President c ident Sibley spoke in the role roie of the good citizen pointing the way to a united ri n national na- na S effort to get the United States back on its f 1 feet calling for cooperation rather l tha than the nothingness do-nothingness of or a negative milk milk- i f c water and nonpartisan program |