Show A NEW LESSON AN AM OLD TRUTH one lesson may be learned from this wan if it is well learned victory will be permanent and the fruits of peace will bloom eternally it is this real progress can only come from the labori labor of free men how HO w often we have heard that simple statement anathema to dictators it is anathema to them because they understand better than we ourselves exactly what it means they know that their kind have slim pickings in a land of free men because free men will work to meet the demands of free men in a free country government is merely an onlooker demanding little except the power and wherewithal to enforce fair play our whole system of free enterprise is founded on the demands of free men in a free country when you as a private citizen demanded radios you got them when youl you demanded horseless carriages and the gasoline to run them you got them when you electra 1 city you got it the same Is true of a thousand other luxuries and necessities which have been as corn com mon as dirt you expressed your demands by buying a new product the instant it was put on the market by some enterprising ual you continued to express your demands by looking tirelessly for the best at the cheapest price millions of businesses and industries have successfully striven to bring the miracles of science and invention to you the citizen they are the same private enterprises that you have often booed bloed and kicked around these many years here is where you mr citizen may learn the most precious lesson of this war private enterprise Is serving you no longer it is serving our government so that our country may survive in a world where most governments have directed the labor of the masses for many years toward nothing more productive than military power the same years that american enterprise devoted to giving you a richer fuller life in this world struggle we are of necessity building a gigantic government ern ment a gigantic military machine our free enterprise system is busy catching up with the slaves of the dictatorships until the war is terminates terminate teB ld successfully you will do without the pampering that you have received from tree free enterprise it will probably do you good while you are deprived of many of the products of industry you will learn leam what free american enterprise did for you in the past if the lesson sinks in deeply enough you may even learn that if you ever want free enterprise back you will have to make it possible toi fok it to tg come back the requisites of its return are few but they will require the same toughness that is required to win the war first the evil of uncontrolled bureaucracy will have to be crushed second the burden of taxation will have to be equitably distributed tri buted and a long range program adopted to save this country from bankruptcy third and most important is the realization that we can not maintain representative government without free enterprise that unless free men can direct their energies to the betterment of life for other free men as in the past they will automatically be directed to the building of big government A permanent big government with millions of employed emp loyes would spell the end of free men free enterprise ter prise free opportunity representative government the end of the things that millions of american men are preparing to fight and die for in every corner of the world |