Evening star., 1946-12-14
Letters to The Star
Two Readers Reply to q Criticism
of American Capitalism

Your heading Brackets Capitalism
With Fascism and Favors New Deal
to John j. Motleys letter published In
The Star, December II, surely fits.
Il Is hard to understand how an
organization Of American Veterans can
agree with Mr.. Motley He says they
are backing the New Deal in the strug-
gle against communism and capitalism
as has been practiced I assume he
means capitalism as we know 1t in
America. We may call 1t capitalism,
and the word has been used by all Left
sided people who do not believe in our
system of free enterprise, and would
destroy it, and do mean the New
Dealers. If Mr.. Motley would put more
thought to what capitalism really is in
America. he would not agree with any
ism" which would change that system
which made us the greatest Of all
nations
Capitalism is word which has been
used by the Leftists to deceive the peo-
pie, and they have talked about it as
being monster. They have classed
our large corporations as such. The
truth is that nearly all our large corpo-
rations are owned by thousands of the
people, thousands of little people. In
reality, our system of capitalism is the
only system which can keep men free,
and keep our constitutional form of
government, which makes government
the servant Of the people and not the
,,Soc CT ic oay IN
become too big. However, would much
rather see American capitalism become
too big, than Government outgrow
itself. The New Deal philosophy is the
reverse of all that made us great. The
New Dealers tell of social gains. What
are they, except for labor leaders? They
tell us. we earn more money. There is
more coming in, but much more going
out They use red ink instead of black
to show balance.
Our struggle today is to free America
from what the New Deal brought upon
us. To do that, we must keep to the
Right. A. T. DAILY.
To the Editor OF The Star:
After reading John ]. Motley's letter
in the December IL Star, would like
to point out shat Mr.. Motley does not
seem to have very clear idea of COM
munism and capitalism. Communism
advocates strong government control
of everything and discourages private
enterprise.
I believe am safe in saying that the
recent New Deal came closer to this
than any other administration in our
history. Our rotten capitalistic sys-
tenn" as the Communists call it. has
been the backbone of this Nation ever
since the Constitution was drawn up
and 1t has served us well.
struggle between Communists and New
Dealers. In fact. they seem to 60 hand
in hand. LAWRENCE F. HUDSON.
Credits Victory to British
To the Editor of The Star:
The Anglophobes, carrying on the
Hitler Goebbels- -Mussolini line. are get
ting more and more space in the Ameri-
can press. But the Anglophiles and
those like myself who merely are inter-
ested in Justice and appreciation of the
English invariably fail to make the
columns of the newspapers.
In the meantime, the American press.
in keeping with its traditions of the not
taking sides until after Pearl Harbor,
continues to forget to remind its readers
Of what we owe Great Britain outside of
Fire.
Some of these rabid Anglophobes are
clever "smoothies." Take Ebert Blumen-
stocks letter. He points up half-truth
in Goebbes' most subtle manner to
reflect on England's part in the late.
unlamented war. A masterpiece OF
"damning with faint praise"
Russia probably did make a whopping
big contribution toward winning the
war. But the credit for saving mankind
and the world Gncluding these United
States from Nazi domination belongs
to some As, 100000 Englishmen and sew
eral million Anzacs.
Despite Mr.. Blumenstocks argument,
on June 10, 1910, Russia was in no posi-
ton to invade Germany and take Berlin.
Proof of that is that one year later,
June %, 1941, the Nazis found the Rus
slams woefully unprepared and gobbled
up thousands of miles of Soviet territory
with lightning speed. Between those
two dates, the only thing between turn
ing the world dncluding the United
States Of America) into series OF
Dachaus and Buchenwalds was perhaps
not more than 100000 determined
British bank clerks, merchants, coal
miners, mill workers and assorted MEM
bers of the nobility. Those courageous
sons of "perfidious Albion" were as
poorly armed as any army that took
the field against the Nazis. In fact,
review of the history of those critical
times indicates that the forces of
democracy had only three weapons:
The Raj, the British fleet and Churchill.
Britain was invaded by the Luftwaffe
and how! Only the RATS super dis
play of raw courage and superior intel
ligence repulsed the invasion. At least,
out Of respect for those splendid, brave
young men who cheerfully went to death
so that America as well as England could
be saved from the forces OF militant
intolerance, we should dof our hats.
Since the Raj won the two battles
of Britain. have felt that personally
owe my life and my present enjoyment
of life that is only slightly and
temporarily curtailed because of a vic
torious conflict.
If the British had not held out in