It Won't Be Long No*

For about thirteen years now the business men of the United States have been asking that pathetic question"How long, O Lord, how long?" And the answer arrived when they counted the votes on November fifth. And then, it seemed to come singing and surging across the land, and it said-"IT WON'T BE LONG NOW."

There is every reason to believe and fe'*' to deny that not later than January of the approaching year "there rvill be some changes made," that rvill put business, and free enterprise, and the good old American system of rvprk, and thrift, and energy, and honesty, back in the saddle where they have been missing for more than a decade.

There is every reason to believe that our planned economy will go out the window in a rush, and with it the emergency bureaus with all their regimentation, their rules, their regulations, their restrictions against the natural laws. When the new Congress meets all someone has to do is offer a simple resolution to the effect that the war is over and all war emergency matters are at an end, and it wouldn't be at all surprising if that's what is done.

What a joyful thought. It;ill be the end of an egotistical, arrog'ant, cynical, punitive, impractical government that has lasted all too long. Government by personal whim, government by caprice, g'overnment by interpretation, gov- ernment by- directir-es, administered by economic atheists and industrial illiterates, is about at an end, "and none so kind as to do him honor." Burning rvith a quenchless lust for political power, it has lasted long. To most business folks it seemed forever.

We shall not attempt here to detail the treruendous changes that are certain to take place. That OP-\ and all other things of the sort will go and go at once, no one can doubt. That we rviil have new legislation correcting the outstanding evils of New Deal laws, is likewise certain. With new faces in those Senate committees which have succeeded in stifling every House efiort at correction and justification, it is a good bet that soon all men w-ill again be equal before the law, just as they once rvere. Employers as well as employes must be made equal under the law and the Constitution ; and each must be held responsible for his acts. We used to have one set of laws for all men. We rvill again. The iaws of logic will come back.

Get ready, folks. This nation is going back to rvork, the law of supply 4nd demand is coming back into action, and practical thinking by free men "vill replace screwy rules and philosophies by bunglers who have no idea what it is all about.

Won't it be fun to be free ?