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Monday, November 12, 1945 _
THE MONEY IS NEEDED. WHY?
The Treasury must meet the enormous obligations
incurred in the achievement of victory. Government
expenditures are being drastically reduced—and this
will continue. Despite this, however, the aftermath of
war carries grave responsibilities that must not be
shirked, and in facing this task every American’s help
is needed. Before the end of 1945, the people’s Treasury
must look to the people for further support.
ARMY AND NAVY COSTS
A substantial Army and Navy must be maintained
until order is restored throughout the world. It means
a fighting force to stand watching—and waiting—and
hoping, but still watching. It means occupation forces,
their equipment, supplies, their pay—small indeed com
pared to the value of their precious extra days away
from home, but all adding up to a lot of money.
The Army estimate is that as late as July 1, 1946,
some 1,400,000 of our finest will remain on guard over
seas, backed up by 1,100,000 in the United States; of
these, 200,000 will constitute a strategic reserve, 485,
000 will be operating personnel, and 415,000 will be en
route to and from overseas, or in the process of induc
tion or discharge, or in hospitals. That’s 2,500,000 men.
The Navy plans to discharge 2,839,000 by the end of
next summer, have only 550,000 in service by then—
but that’s a year away. The Navy still has a big job to
do. These are some of the reasons for the Victory Loan.
THE PEOPLE ACT
(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
There come a time in the history of even free democ
racies when the people should take the principles of
their government in their own hands and in no uncer
tain terms warn the executive, his appointees and Con
gress that in this country the people are the residium of
all ultimate power.
On the domestic front in the U.S.A. the time has come
for the people in mass meetings assembled everywhere
to follow the lead of the movement in Minnesota, where
there has just been formed the Minnesota People’s Po
litical Action Committee.
This People’s Political Action Committee is made up
of all groups of persons who are for the U. S. A.
Here are some of the sterling American principles
which this committee has adopted at its first meeting,
as reported by Representative Knutson in the Congres
sional Record:
After a preamble that avers it is necessary from time
to time for the plain people to “examine tendencies and
growing pressure groups who seek to control the gov
ernment” for purely selfish purposes, the platform out
lines these dangers that confront us:
“1—The increasing demand that business of the na
tion be turned over to politicians to administer and
manage.
“2—The accompanying growth of bureaucracy with
its withering effect upon individual initiative, ambition
and character.
“3—The continued belief in high places that public
spending in a panacea for domestic problems.
“4—The centralization of government in Washington
with its usurpation of rights of states and communities.
“5—The idea that the government ought to support
all citizens regardless of their unwillingness to support
themselves.
“6—The growing power of group organizations to in
wid» open
terfere with the individual freedom of citizens.”
In those six declarations we have the very core of the
sinister dangers that challenge our form of government
and way of life.
These tendencies that are slowly throttling us come
from Moscow, and even from Hitler’s and Mussolini’s |
recent slave states.
The Minnesota People’s Political Action Committee i
not only points out the evils that threaten us but it also
points to the cure, which is, mainly, to be found in a re
affirmation of the literal language of the Bill of Rights;
a government of laws, not of men; neither organizations
of business nor labor should be allowed to stifle the j
freedom of the individual; that government is bestj
which governs least (pure Jeffersonian democracy);:
keep the free enterprise system alive at all risks; a con
tinuation of the “American Way of Life,” militant op
position to the C. I. O.-Political Action Committee (the
Hillman international group).
It is such movements as these that hearten us with the
belief that the traditional, fundamental American soul
is still alive.
One of the provisions in the Bill of Rights guarantees
the “right of the people peaceably to assemble and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
We have almost forgotten that guarantee.
It, by inference, places the people — when they
“peaceably” assemble—above the President and Con
gress.
Minnesota has not forgotten that great right.
All our people should remember it.
Let us have a national People’s Political Action Com
mittee modeled on the Minnesota committee—and keep
the professional politicians out of it.
We have not voted “yes” on all the Socialistic legisla
tion that is being put through at Washington.
Therefore let the people speak out, using their con
stitutional privilege of protest in the Minnesota man
ner.
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JUNGLE FEVER
When a man loses the right use
of his mind, his friends put him in
a state institution, but when a
whole people start turning inbe
cile they commit themselves to the
tender mercies of government.
That, in one sentence, is what I
think about the so-called Full Em
ployment Bill, already passed by!
the Senate and scheduled for;
early consideration by the House.!
If our Congressmen saddle up-'
on government an obligation to
provide jobs for everybody, they
will be saying, “We represent a
commonwealth of incompetents,
unable to take care of them
selves.” America’s vast resources,
enormous productive capacity,
trained minds, skilled hands and
huge markets will be nothing if
our people lost their initiative,
self-reliance and self-starters.
Men Have Spinet
God in His wisdom metes out
privileges and duties in propor
tion. No man and no nation can
revel long in liberty and shirk the
accompanying responsibilities, for
human freedom is a gift from
above. Much responsibility for the
future of civilization hangs on the
American people; we may be glad
our liberties are many. This is no
time to flop in an armchair among
the old world’s decadent tribes.
What supports the idea that
government ought to (or can>
guarantee jobs for everybody?
Answer: Warped notions brought
to America by immigrants from
the backward lands of Europe
and Asia. Those “cases” can not
quit thinking that citizens must
serve the state instead of the state
serving the citizens. They actually
imagine that rulers can think bet
ters than other people.
Poisonous Insects
Foreign philosophers, earn e d
quietly through schools, shops and
playgrounds, have poisoned the
minds of American boys and girls
under their loving parents’ very
eyes. It is a matter that long ago
demanded attention. When our
soldiers landed on Guadalcanal
they met Japanese attack from
land, water and sky, and they
overcame it. But the tropical bugs
did more damage, and quietly.
Insects with bills like hypoder
mic needles, hardly big enough to
see without a glass, seemed like
irritants of small consequence.
But they turned out to be more
dangerous than the man-size ene
mies. Their noise was small, their
wounds were negligible, but they
planted a venomous pestilence in
the blood stream, extravagant of
life and ruinous to the morale of
those who survived.
There Is A Cure
How parallel to Guadalcanal
has been the defense of represen
tative, constitutional government
on the home front. The deafening
weapons of the Axis powers failed
to destroy this Republic. Ameri
can ingenuity, sharpened by hope
of achievement; American skill,
whetted by ambition to advance;
America’s power to produce, fused
in the furnace of open competi
tion: They wop the war. ,
These samethinks will not cure
the plague of poisoned minds
however. That’s another problem.
Helplessness, dependence on the
state and false economy are like
tropical fever—in the blood. If it
has penetrated all the way to Cap
itol Hill, if we enact federal law
encouraging the malady, then the
case is serious indeed. The fate of
the Full Employment Bill will de-^
termine whether the United States
is becoming imbecile. ¥