The Washington times., 1936-07-06

QuSJTlOuS HuSG ulNlue Will VAAS
lazy and with the spendthrift.
Step by step, all the incentives
which have, for centuries, I'M.
PEELED men and women to toll and
save and deny themselves are be-
ing destroyed. The masses are be-
ing taught that the Government
owes them living.
Most dangerous of all is the sub
tie appeal to beWildered youth.
This is the time of the year when
the high schools and the universe
ties are pouring out young men
and women by the hundreds OF
thousands to face the hard prob
lem of life.
There never was time in the
history of America when youth
needed more to rely upon its own
sturdineSS, its own initiative, its
own strength of character than
this very day. That is the very
stuff of which America IS built
individual initiative, asking no
favors, but ambitiouSly determined
to forge ahead on its own merits.
But, now they are told, the youth
of the country, that Uncle Sam
should take care of them.
What will be the effect of this
new doctrine upon the character
of American citizens? What has
happened to the character OF
American citizens that they adopt
and welcome such doctrine? AS
DR.. Jacobs remarks:
"The fountains of the great
deep have been broken up, not
by the order of Townsend, or Of
Thomas, or of Sinclair, or Of
Olsen. These men are but white
caps, riding its rising flood,
which is drawn almost equally
from all parties. Unless a bull
wark is built up at once, strong
enough to resist that flood, its
mighty waters will Overwhelm
us.
"Nine wise, old men have tenn
pOrarily stayed the waters Of
that flood. But they are old
men, unhappily, and they may
be replaced by death or by de-
crees of Congress and the Presi-
dent.
There is a phrase-'rugged
individuaIiSm'-which used to
stand for all that is good in
American character-fOr manli-
ness, courage, independence,
self-reliance, efficiency, industry,
frugality and strength. But in
this day that very phrase, which
more than any other set of
words described the fortnight
ness of American endeavOr and
ambition, has become a sheer in
the mouths of the Messiah Of a
lunatic millennium.
PERSONAL MATTERS
1--WE find ourselves today in
the midst of a war declared by
Government against business
and industry; Of politicians
against business; of predatory
groups organized against the in.
dividual citizen. Three centuries
of hard and unremitted toll, Of
self sacrifice, thrift and frugal.
ity, but a tough, strong, indie
pendent race of rugged individ-
ualiSts' have built the happieSt,
richest, safest, freeSt nation on
earth.
we find ourselves asking if
the Americna people have lost
their nerve; something seems to
have departed from the char.
acter of the people as a whole,
something that endangers the
fundamentals of society and the
preservation of liberty itself.
Eve seem to have lost the
passion for individual liberty,
patriotism of the sort which
sacrifices for the country and
scOrns public charity, which
once marked our people. 1t
seems to have been replaced by
kind of whining dependence
on governmental support, by an
attack against the successful
and a strange unwillingneSs to
pay an honest price for pros
perity.
"The great problem which
confrontS every citizen in this
campaign is not so much pO-
litical, economic and financial,
but a problem of the human
soul. 1t is a problem Of the
restoration of the courage, the
patriotism, the independence,
the willingness to suffer and
endure any sacrifice which
made the United States of
America what she is.
"TheSe are matters, submit,
which every voter should take
with him into the privacy of his
election booth. What can re-
store the self reliance, the in.
dependence and the faith of the
people? Unless these things are
restored, there will be no happi.
ness"
Copyright, 1886. by King Features
Syndicate IncN