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American people have coughed up Billions of Dollars to subsidize a piezyunish world trade, in protection and direct first aid to shippers. Labor has tossed in his all inelading his shirt. Rather than produce for home use , Dom- estive consumption, the American people are trying to torzm the so called surpluses and products of speed manis down the throats of foreign customers- that thin serawng line. It's all for defense to enlarge the sale of our com- modifies the world over. yessir, we're sticking out 50 mil- lion dollar export. But (as it happens sometimes) the life of a battleship of is several years, the value of foreign trade almost equals the cost of the protection offered. Thus it is the foreign purchaser pays for our exports once ( when he doesn't welsh or be put in a doghouse) and American people pay a second time in the east of mili tary or naval encouragement. I mean, all the people here shell. out hard cash to sub- sidize the special rockets of the few. Must be something special in the line of clay, those transmarine shippers that pose the hat among these among the populace? We have heard much lately about the 'death slow- ness" of democracy . How true it is? They are slow to war and quick to \ pezze- that's why they prefer democracy. They have no cause for war. Democracy however is too slow for the economic royalists and, in as much as they do not propose to go to war themselves, they prefer dictatorship; total- itarian or by gentleman's agreement__so as to make the common people jump around lively.

Empire builders have come to the end of their rope and it looks as if their holdings will suffer foreclosure __not only the few garden spots wrenched from Ger- many, but all of them. Quite a haul, hey. This can be understood when we consider the discomfiture of our own inland empires once capitalism had ran its its course in the golden west and further expansion and