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"The sheet anchor of the Ship of State is the common school. Teach, first and last, Americanism. Let no youth leave the school without being thoroughly grounded in the history, the principles, the incalculable blessings of American liberty. Let the boys be the trained soldiers of constitutional freedom, the girls the intelligent lovers of free men." ,< * -Qhsunssy Depew t*tf

Read the tolr paragraph over again. Never in our history was there a time when it was so vitally important that we grab that grand old Constitution, and hold onto it, and defend it, and fight for it if necessray-than right now. Mighty few of the present threats to the peace and prosperity of this country, are constitutional. That precious document is being stretched to cover things that should make Washington and Jefferson turn over in their graves. Let's get back to the Constitution'!

Ben Hill, of Georgia, once said: "I declare to you that there is no remedy for us but adhering to the Constitution, and if the Constitution is dead, then your rightsand hopes for the future, and the hopes of your children, are dead." Various of our girarantees in the Bill of Rights are hanging in the balance today.

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Remember the story of the Centurion who asked the Apostle Paul if it were true that he was a free man? And Paul answelsd f1i6-"!s3." The Centurion wondered at it, and said: "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." Freedom was something he had had to buy and pay for through the nose. And Paul proudly said to him: "But I was born free." * * :r.

In the years that are to come when t[ris question of freedom arises with YOUR children and THEIR children, will they be able to say-"I was born free"-or may they have to reply like the Centurion-"\ /ith a great sum obtained I this freedom"?-this is, if they still have freedom. That's a thought for every American to keep in the front of his head right now, and in the years*that are just before us.

The great English thinker, Edmund Burke, once said of those who advocate the socialistic state: "To them the will, the wish, the want, the liberty, the toil, the blood of individuals is as nothing. Individuality is left out of the scheme of things. The state is all." ***

We went to Europe to fight for human freedom, so we said, and we won the war. We say we won it, because without our aid the Allies must certainly have lost. And what do we find in Europe today, we enthusiasts for freedom and Democracy? Is there any liberty there? Search with your strongest magnifying glass and see if you can locate any! Is there any Democracy in Europe? Don't quibble, brother ! You know there isn't ! Again, as always, the famous remark of Francis Moore holds true. All that we get out of war is "taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt"'

The United States would do well to conserve to the utmost its dwindling resources, and permit private enter.prise to remain in the hands of men who have done things before and know how to do them again, to build the strongest possible econorny here at home, It would do well to stop wasting its substance subsidizing its own exports, and supporting foreign collectivism. Free ehterprise will provide prosperity and stability here at home if we will give it a chance, and if we will begin at once to recognize the fact that we have NOT a bottomless reservoir of all valuable resources, and use what we have left to the greatest possible advantage to sustain free enterprise in a world where there is little if *t*t"tJ outside our own land.

President Truman told a press conference that the idea that money we hand out to England would be used to finance socialism is "silly." Friends, shake hands with a very silly guy. The Socialist Party carried the British elections by great promises to the lower strata of society over there. They were promised less work, more pay' an easier life, and a lot of new social security gifts. The voters expect the party to make good on its promises. But those promises were based on the expectation of billions of dollars of free "Lend-Lease" from the good old United States. When Lend-Lease was terminated, those promises went up on the shelf with the cold pie. Facing the certain disillu-' sionment of the voters, Britain sent emissaries fying over here to ask for billions to take the place of Lend-Lease. If they don't get them, the socialist experiment in Britain is in one hell of a fix. They must get money some place to save their political hides ! It is my opinion that if that happens, the "silly" fellow is the one who says we would NOT be financing socialism; and in this case, socialism with a definitely Communistic fringe, don't you know, old fellow?

What a world of hocus-pocus is being handed out to befuddle the mind of the everyday American citizen regardin! the hand-outs Europe is asking for. The champand the one most used-is that we must hand out many billions

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