Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-05-16
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INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES
! RAISE LIVING STANDARDS
During wartime the government
: turned to the laboratories main
tanned by industry for those secret
weapons that; played so large part
In our defeat of Germany and Japan.
For that period of national emergen-
4 y only wars needs were consid-
cred by these laboratories. From
them came every effective device
other than the atom bomb. The de-
velopment of that called for great
er expenditure, and higher degree
of scientific knowledge, than could be
supplied by industrial research Or
CARNATIONS.
In peacetime It Is the indus
trial laboratories that provide
the advancement, the ever
increasing standard of living, we
enjoy. They have taken much
of the hard labor and the long
hours out Of farming. They have
found new uses for farm prod
ucts, which means a better level
of prices for those products. By
the invention of the internal COM
bustion engine they have put all
America on wheels, and Gre
.ated millions of jobs. They put
refrigeration, automatic wash
ing achines, hundreds of cleo
trical appliances into our homes.
From these laboratories came
the perfection of radio and tele-
vision, and countless other gadg-
cts that have made life easier
and more comfortable.
During the last session, and again
at this session, Of congress, the law
makers have considered establish
,ment of scientific laboratories to be
operated by the government for the
purpose of accomplishing those
things that have been done by in
,dustry. 1t would add another large
and expensive bureau to an already
unwieldy government machine, and
put thousands, many thousands, Of
additional bureaucrats on govern
ment payrolls, without accomplish
ing more, or as much, as now Is
accomplished by private industry.
THINGS PEOPLE WILL BUY
The purpose of the privately
owned Industrial laboratory is to
produce those things that can be
sold to the people. The urge back
of their efforts is profit. Govern
ment operated laboratories would
produce not profits but votes. They
would be but another cog in the
wheel of partisan control, which.
carried to a conclusion, means to-
talitarianism.
What we need, if anything, is
less discoura cement on the part
Of government for the research
carried on by privately-owned
laboratories. The action Of the
department of Justice in the case
of the Aluminium Company OF
America provides an example.
That company operates large
research laboratory, the ex-
pense of which is charged as an
operating cost. The government
brought suit against the COM
pany to materially limit that re-
search. The ease dragged out for
period of some three years, at
cost of many thousands of
dollars to both the government
and the company. In the end
the company won. We, the tax
payers, paid for prosecution Of
that case. We, the cOnsum-
ers, paid, Of necessity, the cost
of the defense, included in the
price of every aluminium stew
pan.
Under our competitive economic
system the best interests of the
American people will be better
served by the research of private
industry, backed by profit urge,
than by any vote-purchasing bureau
to benefit whatever party may be
in power Private industry has done
a remarkable job. Competition takes
care of the public interest.
LAST LINE AGAINST REDS
IF AMERICAN ldeologleS, our
governmental and economic sys-
tens, our constitutional liberties are
to be saved, it will be because of
the sane, hard-headed sense of the
American rural people. They repre-
sent the last line of entrenchment
to block the advance of Russian
totalitarianism. These rural people
take seriously the values America
offers. They are not so engrossed,
as are the people of the cities, in
"having fun" that they have no time
to think of the future Of their coun-
try. The leaders of our rural peo-
pie are the editors of their home
town papers. Those editors are
known to, and respected by, the men,
women and children of the town and
farm homes of their communities.
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