Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
SINCE RATIONING is neither a sound

SINCE RATIONING is neither a sound
nor effective solution for threatened imitation
we must continue to try to solve our present
economic and political problems without sur
rendering our traditional liberties. This re-
quires that we accept our individual respon-
sibilities which 60 with these liberties.
Thus did an outstanding business leader
exhort business and industrial leaders at the
Annual Congress of American Industry. At
the same time he laid down a 10-point pro-
gram for business, managers and citizens to
help solve the problem of shortages and to
avoid additional imitation. The executive ad-
vocated:
l. Keep ourselves out of debt. 2. Avoid
speculation. g. Insist on a reduction in the
cost of Government. A. Insist that our for
eign trade be on two-way basis. 5. Con-
serve our spending at home. 6. Keep our costs
and prices down. z. Temporarily work long
er. 8. Control and reduce inventories 8.
Avoid waste, and 10. Increase productivity.
In addition to calling for reduction in
the cost of Government, he recommended that
Government render every assistance it can
to help people be more efficient by eliminat-
ing every regulation and law that impedes
production and distribution, and thus un-
necessarily raises costs.
The Government must cease supporting
special interest groups that require employ
performed or to pay excess prices for goods
and services.
For example, the 40-hour week is a herit-
age of the days of planned scarcity, of plow
ing under cotton, and killing pigs to raise
prices. 1t is job-rationing measure. The
penalty for extra hours of work interferes
with the rights of many, particularly of low
ef paid and unskilled workers, to earn a
better living. Today the situation clearly
calls for a reputation of these reactionary
and infationary policies.
1t is well for us to remember that our
American political philosophy after IT'S
years is still the new, liberal and revolu-
tionary philosophy in the world today. On
its record, it has developed the best political
organization ever known to promote the we'll
being of all the people. 1t recognizes the
rights of the Individual and is based on pro-
noting the initiative of the millions and not
the dictatorship of the few.
%S@&~S
IT is AN IRONICAL FACT that Amer
lean communists and fellow travellers always
scream to high heaven about their Constitu-
tiOnal rights when called to the witness stand
They fervidly embrace the projections which
the communist ideology, by its very essence
is determined to destroy.
They have, of course, perfect right to
do this-the Constitution was drawn to de-
fend the liberties of people of all political
faiths, all races, and all creeds. But there is
grim humOr in seeing it used as a defense
by men and women who would destroy it.
From the point of view of the individual
there is little difference between commun.
list, a nazi, fascist, or falangist govern.
ment. Every kind of totalitarian state is
built on the same set of principles. Every
one of them says, in effect, that the state is
supreme and that the individual is nothing
There can be no such thing as personal lib
erty-the right to do, think and speak what
one pleases. They are concerned with mer
and women only in the mass-as millions o1
slaves who may be used ruthlessly to adj
vance the purposes of the state.
In this country, the totalitarian forces
are small in number. But they are extreme
ly well organized, and they are adept at de
ceptiOn and deceit They are skilled at waV
ing the flag, and at demanding in the name
of democracy measures which would destroy
democracy. They are solidly behind every
project which would weaken free enterprise
which would increase industrial strife, anC
which would pit class against class. The Dor
ing from within technique has been detailed
and perfected by the advocates of the super
state from Marx on down. 1t is an esSentia
prelude to revolution and internal chaos
which permits STRONG man" to seize pow
er.
A nation can save itself from ultimat
dictatorship in only one way by aggres
sively fighting every movement which woul
in any way circumscribe economic and socis
freedom. There can be no such thing as
limited freedom. We will have all or none
The forces of totalitarianism count heavil
upon American blindness and tolerance a
an aid to their work. The American peopl
must prove them mistaken.
5000
WHY NOT PAUSE in weeping for starN
ing Europeans and Asiatics, to drop tea
and a prayer for our people right here 9
home who are as short of food as they are
foreign lands-partly due to the high cost {
living and shortage of food in our own boz
ders of the United States?