The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Little Business Man
 Facing Difficulties
Promises of Help Only Lip Service" Says H. H. Hei- mann, Credit Mems Head-Firms Facing tiardships

Although the road of the smaller American business man has been hard during the past decade, it will be even tougher in the years ahead, declares Henry H. Heimann, execu- tive manager of the National Asso- citation of Credit Men, in his August Business Review released yesterday to the associations 10000 manufac- turing, banking and wholesaling members.
 'The attempts to help the small business man have become either boomerangs or mere lip service The desire may have been genuine but almost every action has made it harder for the small business en- terprise to survive" he says.
 Congress passes laws aimed at big business. Regulatory depart ments of government issue rules and regulations to control big busi- ness. A tax bill is enactedl with the main objective of reaching the earnings of big business but in it's wide scope it ensnares the small DuSlneSS man.
 Small Business Faces Emergency
 Big business finds 1t costly to comply with the many rules and regulations but big business can have staff to handle the multi plicity of detail.
 Not so with the small business man. His volume of business does not permit him to engage many specialists. He worries through, as best he can, about the details of all these acts and, sometimes, he has become discouraged.
 "Then a threat of war comes along. We decide to get on war basis. The spending of billions means volume placement. The small business man doesn't get many gov- ernment orders, not because the government doesn't care to give them to him but simply because there is haste and waste in an emergency and he is overlooked.
 "So the small business man, beset with priorities, sees his usual busi- ness curtailed. Non-defense items in which he usually deals are lim- inted as to production The rules and regulations he knows were in- tended to regulate and control his big brother in bushes have unfor-- tunately enveloped him.
 Some in the small business group say they need money at easier rates. The majority of small busi- ness men, who are efficient, are not calling for credit. They are willing to take their chances on straight bushes separations but they can't compete when they have to spend so much of their time studying this and that, complying with an ever- rising number of rules and regula- tions, making out an increasing series of local, state and government tax returns.
 Role of Small Business
 ''The value to this country of smaller business needs little If any argument! ar-viSioned men of big business agree to that as do most people in any walk of life. Small business implies the existence of economic democracy.
 And let us not overlook the fact that the more small business en- terprises we have the more difficult will be attempts at uneconomic control and regulation of business by government.
 There vii lbe considerable tax burdens in the years ahead. They will weigh heavily on the small bus mess man. It is no balm to the small business man to realize that his troubles come from an effort to save him. Good intentions offer little solace to the man who becomes so discouraged over the demands made upon business that he leaves the field of commercial enterprise. One certain way to make small busi- ness smaller, less attractive, is to establish more rules and regula- tons to control big business. Modern David vs. Goliath
 David felled Goliath with a stone from a sling shot but when he went forth to battle he was not re- quired to don a suit of arrpor that fitted Goliath. Left free to choose his armor and his weapon he came out victorious. The modern David in America. the small business man, asks no more.
 "This is not argument against the wisdom Of defense. it Es entirely de- signed io emphasize a sincere belief