Milford chronicle., 1947-07-11

home and helping to make it possible else
where"
1t has often been observed that this coun-
try does not possess anything resembling a
monopoly of the worlds material wealth.
Other nations have natural resources and an
industrial potential which are comparable to
ours. They, too, have the riches which would
make possible high standard of living for
their people. But the United States has been
almost alone among the powers of the world
IN developing these resources fol the benefit
OF the ordinary man and woman. The very
essence OF democratic capitalism, as we know
1t, has been to make our material wealth work
for the benefit of us all-and to equitably
share the rewards among all producers.
We have not reached perfection. But no
where else on earth does the ordinary man or
woman receive so much in return for his or
her labOrs. Nowhere else on earth does oppor-
tunity to go ahead exist on so great a scale
The leaders of American industry today were
the clerks OF yesterday. 1t is perfectly pos
sible that the American president in 1852 or
1886 will be someone who is unknown to the
country at present. That is the heart and
soul of what we term the American system
Opportunity to go to the top is open to ALL
and mans rewards are commensurate with
his contribution to our society
This is what American freedom stands
for. Free enterprise, upon which all the
other freedoms rest, is not a vague thing,
without significance to the masses of the
people. 1t is living, breathing principle
which stands Squarely between us and dicta-
tOrShlp, StatlSm, or some other form of Op-
preston. The idea that government is the
servant, not the master of the people, was an
almost unique conception when this country
was fOunded-and the power of this vast ma
tion is its monument. The perpetuation of
our democracy, and it's defense against all
enemies within and without, is the greatest
contribution America can make to troubled
world in which whole nations have sunk into
tOtalltarian slavery.
5000
SOME TIME AGO, in replying to a ques-
tlonnaire in connection with the National
Transportation Inquiry, tthe Railway Busi-
ness Association recommended that trans
port coordination should be extended further
by regulatory policy which will assure
competitive equality between various forms
OF common carriers; that all commercial car
rlerS be permitted by law to operate other
forms OF transport within reasonable terri
tOrlal limits, and that all commercial carriers
should be placed under regulation by single
government agency. These recommendations
were approved by large number of news
papers, and by experts on the Transportation
question.
1t would seem that some such doctrine as
this must underlle our future transportation
policy II the carriers are to keep abreast of
the needs of the nation. The time has long
passed when any carrier could be correctly
regarded as a complete entity, not connected
with other forms of transportation. That is
literally horse-and-buggy concept of the
transportation machine. Nowadays it is COM
mOnplace Tor both passengers and cargo to
use rail, water, air and highway carriers in
the course of journey. Each offers special
and valuable services, all of which are inter-
related.
Regulation by a single agency, such as
Che interstate commerce Commission, is the
only logical course. There is no need for du-
phcatlng regulatory commissions, with their
resultant confusion of decisions. Further
more only single regulatory body, with jur-
lSdlctlon over all the carriers, could establish
policies which would apply fairly and with
equal weight to ALL
Coordination of transportation is a long,
term program, on which Congress should be-
gin work at the earliest opportunity. We
must have policy which is geared to the
complex world of the present-not a policy
based upon conditions that existed genera
tiOns ago.
LIE COMMUNISTS TACTICS have de-
feated every attempt that has been made to
re-establish peace throughout the World.
While the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria.
Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet
Zone OF Germany, are under Communist rule
today, the rest of the world includes about
twenty substantial nations as against the
seven insane Communists listed above.
There are plenty of radicals and rattle
minded people in the United States, but in our
OPINION the existence of Communists in our
midst is exaggerated. This general impress
sion perhaps exists because number of Com
munists and sympathizers have wrangled
their way into important positions in the Am
erlcan government, where they have, in real
lty, acted as spies.
Our own people are apparently almost
hopelessly divided in their opinions as to
whether the United States is being we'll gov
erned or not. That means that people in
moderate circumstances and +bo 1o+,, ;,soo.1