The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-11-03
Looking Ahead
by George S. Benson President.
Harding College. Secrecy. Ark.

erican heritage. Some men have
been working for a generation to
destroy the productive ability that
America has built. Communism
hates freedom of opportunity,
hates competition, hates private
management, hates the idea of
private investment in tools. Pro-
pagandists of this sort started
working hard in our country right
after World War I, and they were
bent upon the destruction of all
these things, one way or another.
Expertly directed, these pro-
pagandists did not start out by
telling people they should be
Communists, nor did they tell
people to overthrow the Ameri-
can way of life. But they did
begin, very shrewdly, to lay a
foundation that they hoped would
bring things within a generation
to the point wher they could pub
licly advocate the overthrow of
our way of life. They have des-
perately near succeeded. The
threat is serious.
Experts Testify
j. Edgar Hoover is better quail
fled than anybody in America
to speak on this subject. He has
said: Zone of the two major
problems facing this nation is the
subversive propaganda aimed at
the destruction of our way of
life" General Marshall has sum-
married. it this way: I'VE are fac
ed with the danger of the actual
disappearance of the Western
civilization upon which our gov
eminent and our way of life are
based"
Another great American, Presi-
dent Eisenhower Of Columbia
University, wrote last June: I
firmly believe that the army OF
persons who urge greater and
greater Capitalization of authori-
ty and greater and greater DEEPEN
dence upon the federal treasury
are really more dangerous to our
form of government than any ex-
ternal threat that can possibly be
arrayed against US" He is exact
" right, for that is how the Am
erican system car be brought to
decay.
Power-And DissensIon
Woodrow Wilson, another great
thinker, declared out of his great
democratic soul: ''The history OF
liberty is the history of limitation
of governmental power, not the
increase of it. When we resist
concentration of power we are
resisting the process of death, be-
cause the concentration of power
is always what proceeds the de-
struction of human liberties" We
have seen this power grow, in our
time.
At the same time the propa-
gandists in America have center
ed their attack upon private pro-
fits, upon the profit system, and
upon competition. To accomplish
their purposes, they have tried to
drive a wedge between employers
and employees. They have Great
ed so much dissatisfaction that
they have jeopardized our pro-
ductivity. They have created an
tagonistic attitudes toward man.
agement. They have led many
honest but unthinking people to
believe that profits are immoral
One Crisis To Go
So well have these attackers
laid their plans, it is my firm be-
lief that if we should now be
thrown into a serious national crl-
sis-either another serious war OF
any considerable amount OF un-
employment for any considerable
length of time-somebody would
then be able to run for president
and others for congress on pro-
misses to nationalize our indus
tries. These candidates could pro-
mise full employment and high
wages and be elected.
In other words I think that we
are lust now one national Crisis