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Show Released by Western Newppuper Union. FREE SPEECn HOLDS US TOGETHER THROUGHOUT our more than 150 j-ears as a nation we Americans nave constituted an ever-growing family. Not always a happy family out always with a family spirit that tvould brook no outside interference In our inner family quarrels. We Eght among ourselves, get into each other's hair, kick each other on Uic shins, until a third party attempts at-tempts to step into the picture on the side of either contending faction, fac-tion, when, as a family, we forget our petty disagreements and unitedly united-ly turn on the intruder The keystone in our structure of government is our right of free speech. With that right we lam-oast, lam-oast, to our heart's content, the acts A these we have selected to govern ' as. Wc divide into family factions of those who approve and those who disapprove. We exercise our family right of criticism and our differences are represented by parties between which we divide. Our arguments and 3ghts are a family privilege. They oegan when the nation began. They will continue so long as our Bill of Rights continues. So long as these internal arguments argu-ments and lambasting criticisms represent what each faction believes to be for the best interest of the family as a whole, the family will ronlinue to live and prosper. When either major faction forgets the interests in-terests of the whole and centers on the advancement of a minority in the family, when the interests of the farmer, or the worker, or the representatives repre-sentatives of wealth, or any other j minor faction of the family, is pro- moted at the expense of the family j as a whole, the family will disintegrate disinte-grate and die. It was such disintegration caused oy the promotion of the interests af minority factions at the expense of Hie whole that so weakened Trance and caused the French family fam-ily to fall an easy prey to the Germans. Ger-mans. The French family has not yet united against the common enemy. en-emy. In the face of peril to the whole it insists on continuing its family quarrels. Each faction of the family persists in putting its petty Interests above the interests of the whole. Should that continue it will mean the end of the French family. Should the same thing happen jn America, should any one, or more, af the minority factions of the family fam-ily persist in securing advantage.'' that would prove detrimental to the family as a whole, the American family will disintegrate and die. We :an continue to fight among our-lelves our-lelves over ways and means of promoting pro-moting the common good but, if we are to live, we cannot promote the telfish interests of minorities in the American family at the expense of the whole. STOP SPENDING LEAKS RIGHT AWAY ALONG IN 1917 and '18 we wailed at the terrific cost of war and wondered won-dered how we could pay the war oills. We sent up quite a howl about waste and after the fighting was aver congress investigated. That investigation in-vestigation demonstrated that, to some extent, our howls had bees justified. There had been waste, inexcusable in-excusable waste. World War I, from the time we entered it until June 30, 1921, 2 Fears after the fighting ceased, cost js the now seemingly insignificant jum of $25,729,000,000. That, in reality, real-ity, was but a bit of loose change. In the present conflict we art-spending art-spending real folding money. We aave been engaged in it for about two years, and have actually spent, as reported by the treasury department, depart-ment, up to August 1 of 1943, the enormous sum of $110,853,000,000, with an additional 9& billion paid 5ut by the Reconstruction Finance corporation, which we also pay. To all of that" congress has added appropriations ap-propriations of ' well over 200 billion bil-lion more that is now in the hands of the spending agencies. In the expenditure of such vast lums, there is bound to be some waste. It would be well to find the leaks now, and stop them, rather than wait until it is all over, as in (Vorld War I. Waiting until it is all over, a 10 per cent leak would mean a loss of a sum equal to the increased in-creased taxes the treasury asked, tt would take less effort to find and stop the leaks than to induce John Q. Public to dig down into his pockets for another 10 or more billions of taxes. It would also be more appreciated by the voters at the elections of 1944. That was an inducement to congress. BUYING WAR BONDS demon-atrates demon-atrates our faith in the future of America. - WAR CONDITIONS have stopped much of the winter migrations of the Pas and Mas of the northern states farms to favorite vacation spots in the South and West. The armed services or war industries have taken tak-en the Johns and Wills of the farms, and the Pas, regardless of the hard labor of the summer and fall, must keep the farm fires burning and the livestock fed through the winter months. Willingly they lay their vacations va-cations on the nation's altar of sacrifice sac-rifice that the Hun and the Jap may be defeated. |