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Show The Communist Holiday Fails August" 1 was to have been a Com-muist Com-muist "holiday." All over the world, in the great cities, special details of police were on duty to keep order in case of demonstrations by the radicals radi-cals on behalf of the "exploited" and "oppressed" wage earners. August 1 came and nothing happened. happen-ed. It was merely another day. The Commuist demonstration was a flat and pathetic failure. In this country, coun-try, especially, the workers seem content con-tent to ride about in their automobiles, automo-biles, live in modern homes, attend high-grade amusements and work for good wages under the best of conditions. condi-tions. It is from sources other than communism com-munism that danger threatens American Ameri-can ideals and traditions. The slow encroachment of local and federal socialism that has placed our government govern-ment in competition with various lines of industries, all the way from printing envelopes to carrying freight and doing a banking business, is insidiously in-sidiously undermining the doctrines of individualism and personal liberty. As the politician is exalted, the private pri-vate citizen is pushed down. Such a tendency constitutes the greatest menace to democracy and free government. |