Herbert Hoover \(/arns America

Former President Herbert Hoover, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, made a speech at Palo Alto that made top headlines. He quoted the preamble to the Constitution which reads: "Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." We can best do this, he said in splen_ did terms, by turning aside from the ',back road to collectivism" we are norv traveling, and ceasing to be a nation of wasters and spendthrifts. He showed how far we have gone to make every citizen a slave of the state. He used the following illustration:

The average American spends 11 days of his working year paying the obligations of former wars; he spends 24 days in the year paying for the present "cold lvar', ancl for national defense; he spends 12 days paying for othe" Federal expenditures; he spends 14 days paying for state and local government costs; thus he spends 61 days work out of each working. year, just to pay his taxes. That, remember, does not include all the hidden taxes he pays, and he pays them every time he spends a penny. Mr. Hoover spoke only of his un-hidden taxes.

The present burden is bad enough, he said, but worse things are threatened, because further spending now pro- posed by the government and being thrust upon us, lvould add 20 more days a year the avcrage man 'rvorks, not for himself, but for the government. That would make a total of 81 days in each year that a worker would work just to pay his un-hidden taxes. "We are on the last mile of collectivism through governmental collection ancl spending of the savings of the people," said Mr. Hoover.

His message closed with these words that should be taken home today to every sincere American patriot: .,A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents. We dare not see the birthright of posterity to individual independence, initiative, and freedom of choice, bartered for a mess of a collectivist system. My word to you, my fellow citizens, on this 75th birthday, is this: The founding fathers dedicated the structure of our government to ,secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.' yet as spendthrifts we are on our way to rob posterity of its inheritance. The American people have solved many great crises in na_ tional life. The qualities of self-restraint, of integrity, of conscience, of courage, still live in our people. It is not too late to summon those qualities.,,

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