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Show THE AMERICAN WAYl OUT OF THE ETHER iWvV By Geori I Uv Things should be different now. The American people demonstrated dem-onstrated by their vote last Nov. 5 th that a change was wanted. It is to be hoped that this desire for something different was not only in respect to the political complexion of Congress, but that it includes also casting overboard over-board the naive notion, entertained enter-tained by too many Americans for too long, that Uncle Sam grows money on trees and owes his nephews and nieces a living. The slump which hit this nation na-tion in the early 1930's was un-' necessarily prolonged because of the gullibility of the American ' people. We became panicky, disregarded dis-regarded the teachings of history, his-tory, turned our backs on the good physicians, called in the "quacks" who prescribed their "something - for - nothing" medicine. medi-cine. For fourteen long years we have been nursed by irresponsible irre-sponsible politicians whose inefficiency in-efficiency has kept this nation flat on its back on a hospital cot. History had taught us that the unthinking citizen has always sought security at any price, while, on the other hand, the responsible citizen has made his own security through industry and thrift. That same history had proved to us that anything we get for nothing today, has to be paid for tomorrow or the day after, with interest. We knew that there never had been a Santa Claus for adults 'and we should have known that no paternalistic pa-ternalistic government would ever be able to pull one out of the hat for us grown folks. For the past 14 years, America Ameri-ca (once the world's healthiest nation) has taken the largest and most expensive dose of alphabetical alphabet-ical patent medicine ever swallowed. swal-lowed. We seemed to like the dosage prescribed and forced down our throats by the political nostrum peddlers we even clamored for more of it we closed pur eyes and minds to the fact that an inevitable day of reckoning would come, wh,en we would wake up with a terrifr is stomach-ache. Let's hope that what happened on Election Day means that we are coming OUT OF THE ETH' ER that it is beginning to dawn on us that we have been forging chains for ourselves and for the generations to follow, by selling ourselves into economic bondage that we are relearning the simple fact that a nation cannot spend its way into permanent prosperity, that no nation can continue indefinitely to spend beyond its income without ending end-ing up in bankruptcy. Let us further hope that by their vote on November 5th, the American people served notice that the federal government must go no further in its unfair competition with private industry, indus-try, to the end that buried capital capi-tal will cpme out from its hiding hid-ing place, rather than be driven further under cover.' Let us still further hope that the voice of the pepple on Elee! tlon Day signified that the thrifr ty, industrious fellow (who made America great) is no longer to be considered a loathsome 'Scrooge' because he insisted on doing for himself, manfully refusing to ask his government for a hand-out; that no more need he hang his head in shame as he moves among his fellows; that we have decided he's not a bad sort after all, and that, if it isn't too late, he's the man to balance the national na-tional budget, reduce taxes, keep the wheels of industry moving, mov-ing, buwness humming and all employed' who've gble and willing will-ing to work. ' By ignoring 'this stalwart chap, by spurning and despising him, by keeping him off the job for so long a time, we have made his task a mighty tough Que, but I, for one, am betting on him to make the grade. What makes me so confident that he can "deliver the goods," is the knowledge he has never failed to do so whenever when-ever he has been free and tin-hampered tin-hampered and given a real opportunity op-portunity to "strut his stuff." |