The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-21
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922.
COMMUNISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL
 GOVERNMENT COMPARED

Under constitutional government like that of the United States, where individual enterprise is given every opportunity and ev- cry encouragement the advantages are Ill striking contrast with the discouagements of a communistic plan of government such as now exists in Russia. Americans take so much delight in recording the attalnments of those who start out in life with no ald ex- cept their own individual ability and energy that one might almost reach the conclusion that there is little opportunity for the son ot a wealthy family. The attalnments of those who rise from modest surroundings are so widely heralded that there might almost be an m presson that the young man of wealthy an tecedents stands little show of making sue cess by his personal efforts.
 The fact is, however, that under the as surance of equal opportunity winch consul tntional government affords, where property rights are respected and protected, there IS practically no limit to the success that may be attained bv either the rich or the poor. In the last few years, two young men of well known families have attained national prominence entirely through their own ability and efforts notwithstanding their families were possessed of unusual wealth. One of these young men IS John Hays Hammond, Jr., who has invented many devices in connection with wireless control of seacraft The other is Sherman M. Fairchild of New York, who has attalned worldwide distinction by inventions in aerial photography.
 So far as gaining a livelihood is con- cerned probably neither of those young men needed to do any work whatever. They could have gone into some line of business where their invested capital would have brought them a sure and steady income instead of career that required the most eXacting person al attention As result of their efforts, they have contributed to the world's store of scien- tific knowledge and have benefited mankind for all time to come.
 There would have been neither encourage ment nor opportunity for either of these young men under bolshevistic form of government. Having their money taken away from them would have hurt them least of all. They were using not their money but their brains A com munistic government, exercising the right to nationalze everything, would have undertaken to tell them in what occupation they should en- gage and probably would have set one of them tilling fields and the other bearing a rifle in a soviet army. If in their spare time under a SoVlet SoVelnllelC Cltey created lnVenlloHs which would be of benefit to the world they would be denied the special rewards of their efforts, for the government would have con- fiscated their rights and their property. Under such a system there would be no inducement whatever to put forth the effort necessary to discover the~methods by which new and more valuable use could be made of wireless trans mission or of optical devices.
 These illustrations serve to emphasize the truth that it is not only the man of property who gains advantage under a constitutional form of government but every individual who has the desire to work, to create, and to enjoy the rewards of his energy and ability.
 It puzzles wcnen good deal, that they have the vote to understand how their personal friends be their political enemies.