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(Cohtinued from page 8) much was said of "English haters.,' We have plenty of them in all walks of life. We have had them since Bunker Hill. Our most famous and most violent English hater was a great man-Henry Clay. For Clay to mention England, was to revile her. And he was doubly effective because of the brilliance of his personality. In all Ameri, can history we have produced not a handful of men so attractive personally. I have always wished I might have known Henry Clay. One of his contemporaries thus described him: "To come within reach of his speech is to love him. He is dramatic, emotional, impulsive, humorous, loving, courageous, reckless, convivial, and profane.,' What a guy!, ***

Personally I am utterly and absolutely opposed to lending money or aid of any sort to any ',istic" government, British or any other. "socialism is thi substitution of the rights of the state for the rights of fian; it is a rejection of liberty, of freedom, of hope." TFat is Socialism. And Communism is many times more objectionable, being all those things, and vile and vicious besides.

Naturally, our British friends sometimes grew caustic over our long delay and hesitation about lending them the billions. They took sly pokes at our crass commercialism, as they saw it. They even dragged our Statue of Liberty into the thing. The cleverest, if most caustic, remark that appeared in the English press during the time the jury was out regarding the loan, was printed in the London Sunday Dispatch. It was titled-'.The Statue of Liberty"-and ran like this:

"I wonder is freedom stilt holding the lightOr is she iust calling*the*waiter?"

It was enormously reprinted and quoted abroad. They were "'telling us off," as they put it. And, coming from a nation that repudiated her previous war loans and recently traded her democratic form of free government for the sad mess of pottage called Socialism, the opinion seemed a bit off the beam. Freedom is still holding the light in this country (even though threatened from within from many sources) all right; but who is holding the light of freedom now in Socialist England?

Congress found time to make the British loan before adjourning. But failed to find the time or the courage to do something about our labor laws. Too close to election. Sound thinking on the part of both labor and industry and government can scarcely evade the truth that if Congress would repeal the Wagner Act, the Smith-Connally Act, and the La Gu,ardia-Norris Act, and write a new, fair, comprehensive, equitable, practical, and American type of law covering the whole subject of labor regulations, they would have conferred on labor in particular and the nation in general the greatest possible gift within their power. For we are not coming out of the gloom of reconstruiction into the sunshine of industrial peace and national prosperity until we get rid of these misshapen and badly balanced laws, and substitute one that is just, sensible, practical, and fair to all concerned. Everyone knows the truth about this. But we Uo *"orTrt;

I read a letter the other day that seemed chock full of truth, that said in part concerning the American people: "They want to give all their resources to the world, and still have a plentiful supply at home. They want the government to help pay for their food and lodging, but they don't want to pay more taxes. They want employers to increase wages, but they don't want to pay the increased costs. They want to see full employment, but they make it impossible for anyone to create jobs. They want jobs, but they don't want to work at them. They want more pay, but if you mention producing more for that greater pay, they get mad. They want to be, free, but they approve of bureaucratic dictatorship." Some thoughts there to mull over' * * *

Last issue I talked some about American orators. Dur_ ing the life of F. D. Roosevelt there was much discussion about his speeches and his "oratory." Recently the Washington columnist, George Dixon, printed an interview with Judge Sam Rosenman, Roosevelt's chief adviser and speech writer. It was an interview that would probably never have been printed had Roosevelt lived. Rosenman said that frequently the President would say to him-.,Get me up a speech"-4nd that was all he had to do with it except to read it over the air.