Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-23

Our Tree enterprise, WIN no government
aid except the patent laws. created and ex-
plotted thousand things that have changed
the face of the world and the life of every
body in fittings like the submarine, the
iron battleship, the airplane, the conveyors
that made possible the tank and revolution
airy farm machinery; the telegraph, the tele-
phone, the cable, the monograph, the moving
pictures, the electric light-theres no end to
the miracles.
1t was rather funny to hear Vice Presi-
dent Wallace the other day preaching the
glad evangel that after the war is over this
government of ours will come to the rescue of
American invention and science and save
them from being dominated by big corpora
although, in another speech he said
that the corporations, which he approves
every third Thursday. are 90 per cent honest
and beneficial.
The government, Of course, will not be
big corporation; it will simply be all corpora
tons in one with change of name, but
retaining all the evils and getting rid Of the
economy, the efficiency and the competition.
The government will substitute all the glories
and benefits of a gigantic new bureaucracy.
They will have to start in on the Russian
alphabet, however, to give it a name; for
our alphabet is completely exhausted.
What a pity it is that our struggling in
ventors of other days did not have the benefit
of missionaries and priorities and executive
orders and price fixing from Washington,
d. c.
Thomas Edison began life as a boy selling
peanuts on the train before he became
telegraph operator at an obscure station. He
might have amounted TO something If he had
only had few Utopian professors to band
age him in red tape. Even Henry Ford might
have accomplished something if he had been
aided by a benevolent despotism deep in the
big heart of the District of Columbia
With the help Of the bureaucrats, Hugh
Cooper might still be working on the Keokuk
dam and the dear old Dnieper would still be
flowing, unvexed to the Black Sea. But
Hugh Cooper was only a Minnesota boy who
overcame impossible obstacles and record
breaking foods and finished the dam in good
season. under private contract.
Just at the finish, he ran so short of
money that he had to mortgage his house 70
get the necessary dollars. If We had only
had our present conditions, he could have
gone TO Washington for the money and have
spent years filling out papers. If he had
lived, he would be waiting yet.
Our American Communists are silent
a \
In repayment, they want to teach US what
they consider the A C's of government.
Communism is the oldest failure in the
world It was the first form of government,
the primeval effort of half-savage men to get
along together. 1t has been tried thousand
times and has never succeeded. A hundred
wears before the Bolshevik revolution COM
munsm was tried in our country; it was
tried over and over again bv various groups
They did not have the advantage of
boodshed, exile and famine but they always
collapsed, as communism has already col
lapsed again in Russia. For Stain has been
wise enough to keep inchng to the right and
slowly infltrating capitalistic methods of in
centive pay big rewards, emulation and COM
petition.
Capitalism is an ugly word for beautiful
and fruitful way Of life-a life in which the
humblest; in which the poorest may become
the richest
From Is little starving colonies on the
edge of wilderness, our America has grown
to its present sublimity. Yet these malcon-
tents these impudent marpots would have
us throw away all its grandeur and its goodli-
ness. Their fantastic visions are not in
spired They are the pink elephants of de-
lirium tremens.
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