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The Prayer of La Hire: ,,Sir God, I pray you to do to La Hire as La Hire would do to you if You were La Hire, and La Hire were God."

(From "Maxims and Reflections of Winston S. Churchill.")

The great Britisher n"" O*" lfr.orrgt some tough spots in his amazing career, but it is doubtful if he ever needed to use the above "Prayer of La Hire', in his own behalf, substituting his own name as the principal of the prayer, any more than he does today. I'll wager he has growled that prayer deep in his soul many a time since the recent election that made him Prime Minister again.

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And if that brave and loyal man can use the indorse_ ment of one of his greatest admirers in making his plea to the throne above, I'd be glad to lend him mine. In the mad world in which we are living the success of one of its most worthy children in a desperate engagement against clouds of super darkness is of prime importance to each right thinking man wherever located. Every one of us, and our children, and our children's children, have a vital stake in Churchill's present drive to save Britain. A world without Britain would be a mighty sickly world to every American. Socialist Britain seemed more of a drag than an asset. But the sun shines again over there. Let r. pr"y.

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And we here in this favored land might do well to adopt "The Prayer of La l{ire" for ourselves. Never was there a land that needed prayers for guidance more than we do. "We need an awakening of the serious-minded among us to the situation in which we find ourselves,', writes Lynn Landrum in the Dallas News. And he continues: ***

"Profound sacrifices are ahead of us. It is touch-and_go whether freedom can hold its ground. Freedom has lost ground in the world since 1945. fn some ways we here in free America are less free than we ever were before. yet it is not the rights of freedom that should have our first thought now. The DUTIES of freedom have been too little stressed. Every free man owes a duty to defend the blessings which are his. Every free man owes an obliga_ tion to any man and to every man who struggles up today out of the bonds of oppression toward the redeeming light of liberty. If you are free, every slave is your brotheiin chains." ***

Robert Sherwood writes: .,The only defenses are still here behind the forehead . in the mind War begins in the minds of men, and it must end in the minds of men . . where God has put a light to guide them and where there is such a lttl, .; . there shall be no night.,'

November, 1951, has opened a new chap.tir in the history of federal taxation. It is the month in which the ever increasing federal tax bite will be felt more keenly by more people than ever before in history. The third huge federal tax increase since the Korean conflict started, became effective November first. Senator George, of Georgia, Chairman of the Senate taxation committee and generally considered the highest tax authority in either house of Congress, has said that this is the last federal tax increase he will agree with or assist in. ffe remarked that it was time to stop bleeding the people, and start bleeding the gov- ernment'

What will be the results of this invasion of the higher realms of taxation into our national economic life? Will the shock be stunning, or can we ride with the punch as we have the last two tax boosts? No one knows. And that means no one. Such things can only be learned by experi_ ence, and only experience will tell us whether or not our economy is stout enough to take this last deduct from our incomes without hurt. Chief Justice Holmes said that ..the power to tax is the power to destroy." And that greatest of economists, Adam Smith, said that when taxes are raised too high they "invoke the law of diminishing return." We must wait and see ,,what shall the harvest be." We have no history to guide us in this vast inflationary era into which *. h"u.

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Workers now have less take-home pay in their envelopes. Many of the things they buy will cost more, and they will have less cash to pay for them. So pay will probably go up, and costs and prices will go with them. The increased taxes will pour huge additional tides of money into our national financial bloodstream, and this makes inflation. Correction -this IS inflation, since all reliable authorities agree that infation is simply an over-supply of money. Some alleged economists insist that raising taxes relieves the people of money which might otherwise be spent for consumer goods.

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We Hcrve Reprinted

The MacArthur Editoricl

Responding to the requests of countless friends we have reprinted in attractive form as a pocket size folder our May first Vagabond Editorial on the Douglas MacArthur oration before the Congress. They may be had for the asking.