Questions for the People

Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those . . . who adopt the philosophy that 'I might as well get my share?' "Does the failure of your Government to stand resolutely as Theodore Roosevelt would have stood against the arbitrary demands of arrogant men . . . cause you to live and work less resolutely?

"Do you find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty?

"Do you permit the resentment of some in high places to legitimate criticism to embitter you into sloth and inaction?

"If you do, then you are merely parrying the blows that weaken your country. You are not beating them."

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