Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 January 1943 — Our Freedom Is Priceless [ARTICLE]

Our Freedom Is Priceless

By JOSEPH E. DAVIES

Former Ambassador to Russia and Belgium . (Written fer the Treasury Department In connection with the Retailers’ “SAY YES’* campaign to complete the nation's 100,000,000 partially filled War Stamp albums.) j.. j What I myself saw in my four years in Europe gave me a new realization of the priceless right* which we here enjoy. No secret police can in the night whisk us away, never again to be seen by those we love. None of us can be deprived by any party, state or tyrant of those precious civil liberties which our laws and our courts guarantee. None of us can be persecuted for practicing the faith which we found at our mother’s knee.; None of us can be persecuted, tortured or killed because of the fact that an accident of fate might have made us of the same race as the Nazarene. No American can. be placed by any party or government in a regimented vise which takes from him or her either freedom of economic opportunity or political religious liberty. What would the millions of unfortunate men, women and children in Europe give to be able to live and enjoy such a way of life? Well, in this war, those are the things in our lives which are in jeopardy. Our boys are dying to preserve them for us. Then we can do no less than to “say yes” and fill those war stamp albums. It is our duty and privilege to help the secretary of the treasury, Mr. Morgenthau, in his magnificent effort to do the tremendous job of getting the money to keep our boys supplied with the weapons with which to fight our fight. Surely that is little enough for us to do on the home front. U. S. Treasury Department