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Show THE CITIZEN 12 SPIRIT OF AMERICA IS FOR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP The best way to get a cross section picture of the United States, is to read the editorial comment in the country daily and weekly newspapers in the various sections. The country editor is the most independent writer and thinker in the publishing business. No one dictates his policies and his articles are not written up or down to meet the desires, opinions, or programs of stockholder or owners to whom he is held accountable. A recent scanning of the country press shows an astonishing volume of opinion in favor of downright first principle American policies. The New Britain, Connecticut, Record says: In the United States of America men and women are given the opportunity of living in their own homes and paying for them over a term of years while they are enjoying all the benefits of home life with their growing families. Contrasted with this, it is pointed out by the ambassador from France to the United States that in his country and most of the rest of the world, it is only after a life of deprivation and almost penury that a wage earner can hope to own a roof over his own head. The Burbank, California, Review quotes Ward Davis of Burbank, upon his return from a trip to Europe, as saying: The worst condition that you can find in America is better than the best that you can find in Europe. The Winslow, Arizona, Mail says editorially: It is logical that American labor unions should be sternly opposed to communism. The unions believe in organization that is orderly and in consonance with the welfare of the country. The communists on the other hand preach and practice disorder and disunion. Labor leaders have every reason to look upon communism with alarm and warn Amen- can workers against it. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, in a recent interview after returning from a trip to Russia, while pointing out that government seems to be orderly and industries operating, showed that all property and business is owned by the government; the people rent their homes and their farms from the government; standard of living of peas- . SEND IT TO THE LAUNDRY Distinctive Work Hyl and 190 ants is low and it is estimated that of the population earn bare necessities of life by tilling the five-sixt- hs EDITORS OF MANY FARM JOURNALS EXPRESS FAITH IN HOOVER soil. t The Java, South Dakota, Herald, in a leading editorial, says: We hear a great deal nowadays about this or that plan as a paternalistic scheme of government. The word paternalism means father. Paternalistic government is, therefore, a fatherly one. All must know of cases where the future of a child has been ruined because its parents have taken too good care of it. Paternalistic or fatherly government is about to do the same thing for the citizenry in general. It seeks to do, through the medium of the federal household, the things which the citizen should look after himself, and if paternalism of government is kept up long enough, it will do for the citizenry exactly what too much paternalism will do for the child in private life render it totally unfit to look out for itself. Of course there are a lot of good people who advocate bureaus at Washington for performing duties that the people should look after for themselves and there are others who advocate public ownership. Here are two of the first steps toward paternalism in government. The best way to avoid the evil is not to take the first step. The Walla Walla, Washington, Union runs a leading editorial showing the amazing number of fatal accidents occurring on Soviet railroads of Russia because of the negligence and incompetence of train crews or other employes. The figures published are in striking contrast to the efficiency of Americas railroad system. And so on throughout the editorial comment of the weekly and smaller over the nation. daily newspapers They breathe the spirit of Americanism and voice appreciation of the rights, the privileges and the protection which our people enjoy under our constitutional form of government. These independent thinking editors who have no one to account to but their local readers, seem not to have been bitten by the bug of experimentation and isms which would turn our government inside out with theories or practices which have nothing greater to recommend them than the desire of some minority group to try out hobbies on the people, at public expense. The country press of this nation is the first line of defense which holds Our Country safe from the inroads of experimenters who would undermine our constitutional govern- ment if given the opportunity. When someone stops advertising, Someone stops buying. When someone stops buying, Someone stops selling. When someone stops selling, Someone stops making. When someone stops making, Someone stops earning. When everybody stops earning, Everybody stops buying. Then the bread line. Athens, Illinois, Free Press. Register next Tuesday GEORGE MARTIN, of Farm and Fireside gives his personal views about Mr. Hoover as follows: Mr. Hoovers unparalleled capacity for the analysis of problems and for the exertion of the kind of leadership that ' obtains completion of undertakings as achieveevinced by his extra-ordinaments, is the best guaranty to farmers, that their interests will be advanced steadily and soundly in the event of a Hoover administration. He goes as far as anyone honestly can in reassuring those who are most vitally interested in the solution of Samuel R. that (farm) question. McKelvie, the Nebraska Farmer. He does not promise more than he expects to be able to perform. His discussion of the farm problem is T. A. practical and enlightening. McNeal, the Kansas Farmer. I believe Mr. Hoover has placed himself on record on farm issues so squarely and so fairly as to make him the logical candidate of all farmers. Dante M. Pierce, Iowa Homestead and Wisconsin Farmer. His support of the principle of adequate tariffs on imports of farm products is particularly gratifying to me as this is unquestionably one of the measures which must be adopted as a part of a general readjustment of the policies of our Government for the Arencouragement of agriculture. thur H. Jenkins the Farm Journal. Agriculture has a new leader. Hoover is his name. Behind him the farmers will march into the golden age of American agriculture. So we Samuel R. believe and so we vote. Guard, the Breeders Gazette. Mr. Hoover approaches the farm ry problem in the spirit of an experienced workman with difficult work accomplished and a more difficult but not insurmountable job just ahead. Chester G. Campbell, the American Fruit Grower. Farmers may well rest their faith in so efficient an organizer as Mr. Hoover when he promises to attack, in all sincerity, the economic problems of agriculture and to help secure prosperity and' contentment in that industry. John F. Cunningham the Wisconsin Agriculturist Mr. Hoover has analyzed the farm situation, discovered the causes and suggested a workable plan. W. A. Cochel, agricultural section, the Kansas City Star. To give the farmer the full bene. fit of our historic tariff system will put more money into the hands of the producers and will sound business and banking, will give the entire coun- try an era of general prosperity un- der a Hoover administration. Frank L. Platt, the American Poultry A STORY OF PROGRESS Four thousand, six hundred American cities and towns are now served by gas companies, and customers number 11,400,000, an increase of 350,000 in a year. It is in the memory of many living persons when gas was not a practical agency. Today it has more than 21,000 in- dustrial uses and is used for cooking in a great percentage of homes. The story of gas shows the gigantic progress that is made in America by anything worth while. PUBLIC utilities built the dams. The demagogues damn the utilities. Mlli:illllllll,llillllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIilll!lllllllllllllilllllilll1lllllllilllllllllllllll:lIIUIMl,ll':jj CIVILIZATIONS GREATEST CURSE Civilizations greatest curse can be conquered, says Mr. C. L. Bradford,. the man who discovered the Bradford Food Oils. Good health can be had by obedience to Natural Laws. We all exist mainly from food we eat. That food mostly comes from vegetation. All matter of the system can be found in vegetation. Nature receives these food Oils from vegetation, some of the oil possesses nearly all of the organic salts that are found in the human system. They are just as full of life as they ever were. 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