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Show THE AMERICAN WAY I ifJ 3 DISLOYAL f; sM MINORITIES George Peck , There are some Americans (thank God they constitute only a small minority of our total population) whose only thoughts in time of war is how many dollars they can make out of the suffering, bloodshed and anguish an-guish which armed conflict inevitably in-evitably visits upon mankind. These comparative few not only risk their own necks thereby, but endanger the lives and liberties liber-ties of the many, many patriotic citizens. It is true that we are not yet actually engaged in an all-out war, but since the shooting started in Korea, there have been some American businessmen business-men who already have given evidence they are thinking only of profits and not of service to America. Their selfishness, their lack of patriotism jeopardizes the "American Way'.' under which they do business. And also, unfortunately, there are some American wage-earners who, despite the grave emergency, emer-gency, are still obsessed with the unsound idea of extracting the utmost farthing in wages for the least possible work done. Then there are some American Ameri-can politicians who, in these troublous times, are still playing play-ing to the gallery, giving more thought to how many votes they can garner next November than to the country's welfare. When the situation calls for statesmanship, statesman-ship, they resort to petty politics. pol-itics. If the "bad" boys among the business fraternity wake up some unhappy morning to find a foreign invader in possession of their businesses, they will have only themselves to blame. If the greedy-wake earners answer their alarm clocks some forlorn morning to find themselves them-selves no longer free to work when, where, and how they choose, but forced to toil long hours at starvation wages under un-der the lash of a foreign dictator, dic-tator, who but themselves will they be able to censure for that loss of liberty? If the American politicians, who continue to play politics as usual, wake up on morning, November siy the voters have "B0no8tlJ' to find themselVesg0nuetba! then indeed justice0! been served. W111 haV( These minorities am businessmen, wage ear8 U politicians apparently es' M yond redemption. L1 U their patriotism, hunff 3'8 i 1 ism and altruism fall ' ears. Perhaps they can V" ' ed by appeals to thefr JH ! selfishness, with whlrhS 1 frailties they seem t Hr' richly endowed iof a Surely, their selfkhr, decent motives fa !?ess. all dictate to them that 4'Sh- b time for all-out effort i 's sacrifices, all-out exDenV11 4 capital, labor and s'tUre a on behalf of America S"?farif fail to recognize Th?.' f if dent truth they are fonl 6 as money-grabbers and a seekers, because thev t Y- ' risk of selling them eyivesVh; " the river, while thev I do' triotic citizens with tho 8 ;sl If even the se fs?, !a' not deter them from Ee their own necks and? ours, some way mult M to make them toe tt K: ' is a crying shame that ,; " hour of Americas curbs and controls forced upon all of us 9 I the greed and avarice t few who comprise the ' ' minorities. ese d f |