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Show V I War in Europe has given a tremendous impo- 1 tus to. the cause of democracy. A war In which H this country might be involved w ith a European H , nation has been seized upon by some as a pre- H text for increasing the jMiwers of autocracy H which already exist too strongly in some of the H executive departments of the government. Such B proposals as those for commandeering private H s enterprises under the plea of assuring a supply H of war material for the nation can mum only H ' the aggrandizement of a few bureaucrats who H1 know next to nothing of tho business which they H so blithely purpose to take over. This nation H has prospered nnd grown strong because the in- H dividual has been left free to develop his own B, ideas and to make his own way. We shall ham- H per ourselves incredibly in any wnrfarc which H may arise if we try to substitute for individual HI initiative and enterprise with their rewards for ! 'J tho ambitious and tho diligent nny scheme Hj i whereby a nine hundred dollar clerk takes over H u nine million dollar enterprise. |