Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
MIR. LyttletOn
Speaks Up
BY f. F. TOMPKINS

BYE F. TOMPKINS
TN GREAT BRITAIN, well as in this country, it is
leftwing strategy to strive to impose state socialism
upon the people by manipulating the war effort
Because of the necessities of production, the
of both countries have gone into business
an enormous scale.
Both governments have made themselves the owners
of huge factories
Both governments have invested huge Of money
in established private industries.
Millions of men and women are employed in these
plants producing articles for which the government is
the only customer and for which there will be virtually
market when the ends.
What is to become of these enterprises and of these
workers after the war?
DY MERELY pretending that they-and they alone
ID know the to that crucial question: the left
wingers equipped themselves with potent weapon
to effect revolutionary social and economic change.
They assert that full employment can be provided
the postwar years only by maintaining peacetme pro-
duction on the same wastefui level production,
and that this be accomplished only by the government
Therefore, they argue, the government must remain
in business operating the plants controls
and acquiring many more plants
In this country, outside Of Congress- governmental
official has tried to expose the fasity and faacy of the
left-wing program
However they order things better in England:
And England authoritative voice has been raised
1t is the voice of Mr.. Oliver Lyttleton the minister
of production in Prime Minister Churchills cabinet.
A t HAND is a recent issue of the Times of London
n which prints a news article on Private Enterprise
in Change to Peace"
The article is subheaded "Mr. Lytteton's Advice"
and, in the of British newspaper reporting, it
says:
"Speaking at Aldershot last night Mr.. Oliver
LyttIeon, minister of production, dealt Dith of
the problems of the transition from, to IN
industry and the maintenance of full employment
"He said that they must try to secure that pockets
Of unemployment do not When= the amount OF
work to be done exceeded the supply of Workers to
do it.
"Some people thought the that the
government should apays buy everything all the time.
"That simply Would not do.
"He lDould remind those Uho fried to dToU lessons
about control and state ownership OF industry
from the that the cost taxpayers some H.
OO0 900 pounds day.
should end in a rise of prices Whch Would destroy
much of the uaue of ones savings and Wages
estate ownership and state control Were not the
ansWer.
at lay, in his belief, in the state CREATING CON
DITIONS IN WHICH THE INITIATIVE, The
KNOWLEDGE AND THE ENTERPRISE or PRIVATE
FULL PLAY.
"By that means alone could the necessary Hexibi
ity and the taking of risks be secured
"No central machine, hoIUeUer much 1t tried TO
deUolUe its responsibilities to Others could command
all the infinite variations OF knowledge and knoU hoU
that necessary to make the Udst number OF indus
tries Dhich prosperity depended york efficiently
and in competition with others IN competitive Worid
vx7HAT Mr. Lytteton had to say TO THE BRITISH
w PEOPLE applies even more forcefuly TO THIS
COUNTRY.
For America has VASTLY MORE TO GAIN than
any other country by maintaining the free enterprise
system-and VASTLY MORE TO LOSE if that system
be destroyed.