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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I Ca n you get it'.' I am not writing of dollars, but of people, of plain, j everyday commonpia'-e people, of th, ordinary run of American citizens J not of the ten talent nor the five talent, tal-ent, but of the one talent man. Can1 you get Into his class? He Is the big man of this country for there arc so many of him. Hl does the work and bears the burdens, and foots the bills Yr j will find him In the factories turning raw material i into finished products: you will find him on the farms tilling the fields and growing the bread of the world Yo'i will rind him running the trains. , and digging the coal and telling the forests. You win find him in overalls and old clothes and sweat, plodding! on da in and day out at common drudgery , But what would the country .do without the man of the hundred million mil-lion class- It would stare. It would be whipped It would have nothing' I to sell, and nothing with which to 'buy. He may not own the nation's' wealth, but he creates it. He was the 'hero of the war. for It was not the i I generals, but the privates, that turned' the title. It was the daring and the j initiative of the enlisted man w ho on 'emergency, became hi" own general ' He is the Idol of the politicians. They are all after him, for they know i that he carries the election He makes public opinion. He is the nation's1 backbone and brain and brawn and j heart and hope Just this common av-erage av-erage one talent, commonplace American Amer-ican citizen. As he goes. 30 goes th 1 nation. If he Is Industrious, the na-! na-! tlon is prosperous If he is patriotic the nation is safe. If he does his duty America cannot fall Everybody looks to him and counts on him. In time- of change and frenzied excitement Mid flloiy floats undisturbed because of the common honesty and love of lair pla in the breast of the average; American. Let us lift our hats to him He is not extraordinary, he is Just ordinary, ordi-nary, but he Is our chief citizen In! every' hamlet and city and country-' sldi from sea to sea. The breakdown of the one talent man Is worse than a failure to earn Interest It is the capital stock of, 'the world going to protest. |