| Show GRASSROOTS Rr 1 Population Is Salvation of T Today's aday's s Civilization i By Wright A. A Patterson THE HE FIRST WEEK of December 1951 will mark the end of 11 years that I have been writing this column Through those eventful 11 years I have on many occasions recalled the content of that first column but I have never reprinted it It contained a prophecy made to me by Arthur Balfour whom during World War I I considered the most capable the most discerning discerning discerning discern discern- ing of ot the British statesmen The time tune was the day that marked the close of that conflict conflict conflict con con- In November of 1918 The place lace was a parlor In the Savoy Hotel on the Strand In London In that parlor we listened to the wildly hilarious Londoners millions of them y expressing their Joy over the J close of f the war Balfour put putdown putdown putdown down the window that he might make himself heard and then i 1 said to me mc 5 S Today we English and all aU the others of the al allied world are crazed with joy over the ending of ot the war They do not realize that 2 the world faces a more serious problem now than at any time during during dur dur- J ing the last four years We know what has happened in Russia we know that France Italy and the Balkans are on the verge of Bolshevism in England we are arc seriously affected and in the great grea t cities citie of America the virus Is working Within a com comparatively short time v we e will be engaged in another glob global a struggle that will mark t the D end o of civilization in n Europe Eurol as we ha have 0 known mown and enjoyed it Our hope of hav having tzg it returned d to us lies in the rural po population of 01 America the people people peo peo- pis of oj your towns your villages ages and farms arms They are the safest sanest People in the world today 1 If f America America Amer- Amer ica ca stays out o of f that com coming tzg conflict those people of rural America will bring our civilization back hack to us within one ons or two Iwo generations I If f America joins in that conflict she sho will lose her civilization and it will wi take centuries rather than only gen gen- generations generations to get it back It was a startling an unbelievable statement but I have lived to see much of what Balfour said come cometo cometo cometo to pass There was that second global war more destructive more terrible than the first one Considerable Considerable Considerable Con Con- portions of Europe are today living under the blighting influence in influence influence in- in fluence of ot Communism England has turned to socialism and France and Italy are on the verge I have lived to see the victorious Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party dominated by the socialistic New Deal and this followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by the even more dangerous Fair Deal We are moving toward socialism at an all too rapid pace Since that first week in December December Decem Decem- ber 1940 with that Balfour prophecy prophecy pro pro- before me as a text I have endeavored to convince my rural audience the people of the villages the towns and the farms of of the dangers in the trend of the socialistic socialistic socialistic social social- left I have hoped to cause them to realize reaUze their part in the saving of the nation and the world civilization For us the destruction will be pc marked by personal and na na- ional bankruptcy caused largely by the effort to meet the demand of those seeking something for nothing With the coming of bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- there will be nothing from which to provide that something that is expected I 1 have seen that second and 1 greater conflict come and the Hitler Hiller legions destroyed But with that conflict there was destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- much of the European civilization Poland and the Balkan Balkan Balkan Bal Bal- kan states states' have been enveloped within the destructive folds of Communism France and Italy are on the verge England has gone socialistic and we in the United States have followed followed followed fol fol- lowed the New Deal and then the Fair Deal Doal along the socialistic trail My feeble efforts a as well as the efforts is of many others of greater great great- er ability and with larger audiences audiences audiences audi audi- have been outweighed by the something something nothing for nothing provided through doles to the farmers for not planting or high food prices They proved more effective than mere words and they have followed followed followed fol fol- lowed the Pied Piper of socialism until we are now standing on the brink of ot the precipice Because the Jeffersonian Democrats of the south refused to follow the socialistic tic program we are still sua on that brink We have one last chance to escape the abyss That is the next national elec elec- tion If we at that time defeat the forces of destruction we can turn turnback turnback turnback back from that socialistic brink |
