Show THINGS ONE OMI by li it M hofer one of my earliest eail lost recollection ns as a child la is seeing our family cow which broko into the barn bain and ate hoi her till fill ot of barley barle when she was found silo alie was inflated beyond nil all hope ot of saving there Is quite a d laila between that poor cow and tile the actions of la millions illions of our oui citizens who havo have been gorging at the federal Feil cial treasury Tie asui for 01 a good many cars now As a nation we ve have not yet et reached the critical condition 0 of f the cow covi but we are aie headed that way wa as the result of 0 gorging our keles on public it finds ads and using the federal treasury Tie asur as an endless grab big bag to finance every track crack pot idea every loafer and every aei political project that seem to momentarily moment ally please the whim of some presure group we have begun to inflate as the cow did dut but there theio Is still time to sie save ourselves oui selves it if we take our nose out of the fe teed c d sack which the cow failed to do shareholders in man mail corporations are aie now complaining or of i reductions deductions ions in dividends on theli their savings salci gs and in many cases of the total elimination of 0 dividends taxes a large part of which have awe gone for peacetime waste and political experiments are aie taking the dividends which would otherwise be going to the people strange as aa it may seem those who have favored all of tile the economic and social reforms of th alio 0 past decade without giving any an thought that they were the onas ones who ho toi for the most part aou would id pay for to such reforms leto ims are the ones who ard aie complaining about the lost dividends the new tax tat bill now before congress Uon giess would virtually wreck the ability of many of our industries to operate on a future sound basis of building up reserves and paying pacing dividends congress Con giess like tile tho ca cow vi and tile the people has its nose nos e in the teed feed sack and unless it curbs its 10 destructive e attitude toward tow 11 d business his nation and the lie peo people pie will find themselves sundered oun dered as the cow did |