Show national affairs quite olten often we see bee ironic references in the tha newspapers and hear from the lips of public speakers satirical statements about america the land of the free if one ona were to make up his opinions from the inferences of these statesmen and publicists he would come to the conclusion a almost immediately that there was no liberty lilt lift in america that we were entangled in a maze of rules and regulations which was waa hampering us in our everyday lives and that liberty js Is to be found if anywhere in the old world alone well let lei us con consider tot for a moment america has never neve rhad had a dictator OZ our government has been orderly from the first based on a constitution which has often been declared to be the model for tree free government anywhere there are dictators in europe and latin america in plenty but they are not tor for the united states on the first tuesday after the first monday in next november millions of sovereign american citizens will go to the polls to select an administration to govern them for the next four years they will select also officials to direct their affairs in the smaller political units either mr hoover or governor smith will win the election when the balloting Is over and the results are made public the victor will take his victory without boasting and the vanquished with his millions of partisans will accept the result in the bcd cd A spirit a which has always stood lor for me orderly constitutional government here Is the tha highest expression of individual liberty to tie be found on the face fageot of the globe today A new administration will be chosen to govern the richest and most moet powerful nn nation t lon in the world and the result will bo be accepted without revolution without gunplay and with but little bitterness after all the greatest liberty libarty must como come in a government like alke lus where the individual may rise rie from the lowest level to the tha highest hig best his suc BUC cess being limited only by his ability and his ha perr perseverance eherance eve rance I 1 equality and fraternity said a 9 noted british publicist british publicist recently flourish in america everywhere in a way that Is scarcely ever found in europe this Is true beyond any possibility of contradiction in what other nation does the son of the workingman had bad even a fair opportunity to gain the top of the ladder in most european countries there are still rules of caste and prejudice that divide the tha people into groups and out of hla his group the individual rarely rises unless in some rare moment of national crisis when he triumphs through sheer ability and necessity tor for the welfare of the nation in europe there are equal opportunities of course but these opportunities tuni ties are all confined within the one class granted a servant class or a laboring class the individual may have nix an equal opportunity within that group but out of that group he never moves upward except in rare instances but in america the situation Is far different here there are no class distinctions ions in spite of the efforts of the communists to create them the laboring man who thinks and saves becomes a capitalist and his son on may easily fly become a doctor or a lawyer in the very front rank profession the opportunities are boundless all that the young man or young woman has to do given good health and a reasonable amount of intelligence telli gence Is to appreciate the ability of grasping the opportunity before the tide has passed |