Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04

W SOIll6 WOIIHy TO So
ciety in return. But the highest public SER
vices are not always those most amply re-
warded in money. For the most part great
scientific research work carried on by various
departments of State and Federal govern
ment is in charge of highly trained men and
women whose salaries are quite ordinary if
not meager. And for the love of this work
many of these scientists persist in their en-
deavors through life hoping for no large
monetary returns. Educators, preachers, and
many others who devote their lives to SER
vices they believe to be for the good of 9TH
ers, always have found their remuneration in
money less than they might have hoped to
achieve in other callings. And always the
woIthiest students have been those who
sought culture for itself and regarded money
as of secondary Importance.
THE FINAL ROAD TO TROUBLE
Sincere but unthinking people who be-
lieve Big Government means more security
for all, are the most dangerous group in the
United States
These socially-minded folk believe there
is a middle course between American capi-
talism and socialism.
What they don't know is that Big Gov
ernment is only one step from. socialism,
which in turn is only one step from the bot
tomless plunge into total communism.
Real security comes only to folks who
are willing to work for it. People who look
for it in WaShington's pork barrel will never
know the meaning of it.
In the United States there are many who
think communistically and act in Russia's
interest without even realizing it. Among
these are the dissatisfied the incompetent
the frustrated, who regard the first flight
down to the Communist dungeon as way
of wiping out their own feeling of made
quacy.
More dangerous are able, unscupulOus,
unbalanced people who hope to ride to power
on the cOattails of colectiviZed power. The
paper-hanger of Nazidom was one That
pOrtly pOpinjay- -Mussolini-wa another.
The breed has not died out.
Another mistaken group comprises the
so-called do-gooders, who want to cash in on
the progress already made, and take credit
for distributing the proceeds.
What they completely ignore is the fact
that you can't distribute the parts of any pro-
ductive machine and expect it to produce
anything for anybody. The end of their pro-
cess is the rationing of poverty and despair
COllectivism promises security. What it
delivers is an inferior model of the sort of
security any penitentiary in this country has
to offer.
The convict has security. His enemies
can't get at him. His friends can't poster
him. He gets three meals a day, bed, and
roof over his head.
Real safety lies in daring hands, 1t still
takes a resOlute and tough-minded people to
use freedom and opportunity to earn security
for themselves.
FORECASTING THE PRICE TREND
Will commodity prices go up? Go down?
Stay where they are?
A national weekly recently asked so lead
ing economists, connected with business, la
Dor, governmental, statistical and education
al institutions to forecast the price trend for
the balance of the year. Twenty-six thought
prices would continue upward; IA said they
will remain about the same, and the remain
ing ten believe they will be lower by the years
end. .,
Averaging the answers, the cOncensus is
that prices won't change substantially one
way or the other. That may be disappoint-
ment to the consumer, who has watched his
dollar shrink like wool in water, but is is
completely understandable. Spending by
government business, and the individuals
goes to higher and higher peaks. The vast
sums being spent for foreign aid and mill
tary purposes will further strain the supply
demand balance. And millions of Americans
have higher standard of living than they
ever had before.
So, when you go shopping, don't expect
to find lot of bargains soon.