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(Continued from Page 6) your soul is so small that it would rattle around in a peanut shell, it may get overlooked altggether. Who knows?

Because nobody approves of too high taxes, actual illustrations of how high taxes have become are always interesting. One of our great American railway systems issued a financial report covering the past five years. According to that report that railroad paid out for taxes $208 for every share of its common stock dtrring the five year period; and its dividend rate was $6 per share. Therefore in five years time the owner of a share of common stock in that road collected $30 in dividends, and paid out $208 in taxes. The tax rate was almost seven times the dividend rate. Our forefathers filled Boston harbor with British tea because of a tax rate far less than that. Such a tax rate would wring tears from the eyes of a usurer-but not from a Bureaucrat'

Only suckers will work in this country, if the tinre comes when all the cradle-to-grave "gimme" propositions now threatening us, become law. There are many such irons in the fire, and if their sponsors should put them across, our citizens would become practically wards of the state, shielded from most of the vicissitudes of life by the strong and friendly arm of the federal government. What they would lose in exchange in the shape of strength, virility, independence, and usefulness, is easy to realize. One of the foremost of these do-good propositions is now before Congress in the form of a report just made by the Advisory Council of Social Security. This is a 17 man committee headed by Edward R. Stettinius, recently Secretary of State, and appointed by the President to make such recommendations as they think are needed.

The report of this g-; rr"O"" recommendations for 22 new ways of broadening social security. There are at preser]t 32 million wage earners under the Social Security umbrella. The new plan would increase that number by some 20 million, including farmers, farm workers, maids and domestic servants, self-employed people, employees of non-profit organizations, all government workers, members of the armed services, and even railroad employees already covered by their own retirement system. The plan would raise the Social Security tax on both employers and employees from the present one per cent to two per cent, and would guarantee every citizen an old age free from financialworrY'

Add to this the various and sundry other "gimme" schemes, socialized medicine, etc., for giving the citizen something for nothing from the government, and you would have a Utopia from the cradle to the grave, in which only suckers would willingly and deliberately work for a living. Why work, when Uncle Sam is ready and able to carry your load?

The government would then take care of us all. And when you say all, you mean ALL. The weak, the lazy, the dishonest, the worthless would be placed on the same plane as the strong, the active, the honest, and the worthy. Every man could put his trust-and his weight-on good old Uncle Sam, and quit worrying about the future, about thrift, and saving, and working, and being useful. Every man would become a ward of the government, dependent on that government for a secure future, regardless of anything and everything. What would become of the virtues and characteristics that made America, and how we would develop strong men and women on which to build our abiding national future, the do-gooders never state. Why try to do something for yourself, for the nation, for humanity, when the government takes care of everything, and as the old song goes, "drives all care away"? Where will our future strength come from, when the government puts a premium on weakness?

According to Historian lfarry Elmer Barnes, more than a hundred years ago a French scientist by the name of Berthelet said: "Within a century we'll know about the atom. Then God will come down with His white beard, swinging a bunch of keys, and say: 'Closing time, gentlemen.'" ***

Heard two men in a coffee shop talking about Russia. One said: "Do you suppose Russia has the atom bomb already?" And the other answered: '1Of course not! We're still here, aren't we?"