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Show jiBaiile CreekS j! Breeze H BY K. B. Next Tuesday, November 7th is Elction day. In spite of the heated heat-ed and vitrolic arguments and the tons of mud thrown by the oppos-, ing candidates, there emerges but one issue. Will America continue to survive as a free democracy? The present national administration adminis-tration has been without doubt, the most wasteful, insufficient, and irresponsible in the 175 years of this nation's history. In the face of the billions spent for national defense since V-J day, the outbreak of the Korean War found us pitifully weak and almost al-most totally unprepared. Economists Econom-ists tell us that only one dollar out of every seven ,was actually spent for modern weapons of war. The rest went for salaries, food, extravagance, and waste. If we are to survive as a free nation, the incoming congress must work unitedly with that one purpose, of national survival, in mind. There must be no idea of "politics as usual." The first duty of us all is to vote. Whom we vote for is of secondary importance. Certainly any one of the candidates has native intelligence enough to know right from wrong. Any one of them knows what he should do to save this country from the communistic com-munistic curse. Our second, and most important duty, is to let our representatives know in no uncertain terms, what we expect after they are elected. Bitter experience has been taught us that politicians respond to nothing but pressure. Small minority min-ority groups have been able to further their own selfish interests by exerting united and constant pressure on Congress, at the expense ex-pense of the people as a whole. The immmediate month; and years to come are the most vital that this country will ever face. We MUST present a solid front to the communist aggregation. Vote? Yes by all means, but after the election we must collectively collect-ively exert such universal pressure pres-sure for the cause of right and justice ,that no politician will dare repudiate the promises he has made, nor his obligations to the cause of free democracy. |