Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-24
Bureaucracy PeriIs
Our Rights NOW

Our Rights NOW
THE American Legion, as National Commander Waring
said in his recent Freepor speech which The Detroit
Times and other Hearst newspapers are printing in
nstalments civilian organization with military back
ground
Until very recently its entire membership Of one
million men were veterans Of the first World War.
Eventually it Will embrace many millions of the
veterans of the present war.
Thus the primary bond between its members is their
comradeship in which gave them the task OF
repelling the foreign enemies of America.
But the major task Of the American Legion itself has
always been civic rather than milary-the essential
and continuing task Of rcpcling enemies WITHIN the
country
Mr. WARING does not merely look beyond the war for
wi renewal Of this major function of the Legion.
He sees the insidious danger of undermined
democracy NOW
Our fighting men have taken the job of
repellng the enemy who has stormng from with
he says
I'VE take the task of repeIing the enemies
that BORE FROM WITHIN.
God forbid that we become lacking in aertness
on the home front that, while fighting
seas, we by Indifference permit the loss of our
cherished freedoms and liberties at home
Our total war effort must not he permitted TO
become the cloak of advancement for newanged social
and the spread of freak dealogies the chief
purpose of which is to uprOo those most cherished
possessions of ours-indivduaT initiative and private
enterprise
TT is good to have an organization Of the American
Legons great power and prestige alert to this danger
and on guard against it.
But the Legion alone is not big enough for this job
its leaders and membership we'll
Unless the American people a whole recognize
the evils of bureaucracy RECOMMENDATION and dictatorship
which have begun to flourish under the pretense and
our men are fighting will not survive this war
is not theoretical or even future danger which
confronts u.s. Mr.. Warning
1t is real and it is with US NOW.
ION every hand we have encrOachments rights
self-governing citizens and high estate as
sovereign citizens" he asserts
"Some of them necessary in the effort others
have absolutely no relation to the war effort"
Typical of these encroachmens, says Mr. Waring,
is the purported $4,000 income limitation imposed
by bureaucratic edict against the will of Congress-an
imposition which is "communistic in its tendency and is
unAmerican 1t would be repugnant to every principle
of American independence 1t would stife individual
initiative and ambition scute private enterprise, close
the horizon of opportunities, exclude America from the
land of promise"
Also typical is the attempt to subiugate the Amer
lean press to the will of federal bureaucracy through
destruction of the Associated Press Of this Mr. Warng
says:
1T is loaded with dynamite that may explode
suddenly to hatter of most precious assetthe
freedom of our press This suit is the entering wedge
have the gathering dissemination news declared
public service. That may sound all right to lot of
people. But here's the danger. If the collection and
dissemination of is declared public service, the
government will move in then to regulate and control it,
IF that happens the freedom of press is gone
-. If YOU remain apathetic while this attack
freedom of the press is going you will let
American DNB crop up here right in your midst
IT is to be hoped every American will read Commander
L Warnings comprehensive constructive and patriotic
appraisal Of our purposes and duties in this war.
Our fighting will take care of enemies
abroad, as he assures us and as we all know.
But the safeguarding and preservation Of what they
fighting for is the vital task of all the of US
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