Milford chronicle., 1950-12-08

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on guard against them:
More drinking drivers hncausa y
Christmas holiday festivities.
BAD weather, with icy roads usuall
prevalent in many sections.
o increased travel in hours of darkness
IOr holiday shopping and trips hom
More driver-fatigue and speeding amon,
those making long drives home for tn
holidays. -''0 AO1 Nli
o-GreaCer danger to pedestrians. especial
IN cities, due to Christmas shoppin,
actlVlty, particularly at night.
0peeulng and the use of alcoholic bever
ages are the primary causes of highwav az
cidents. A drink taken before divine co, soC
become a toast to death on the bio6wo+, s,,
motorists cannot be reminded too often dnT
ing the approaching Christmas HOLIDAYS that
they must not mix drinking and driving, n
enough OF them take to heart the No I
Sa!ety rule OF the rOad-"If you drink. don't
drive. II you drive, don't drink"-noanv
lives will be saved. Drinking breeds sneed-
ing and reckleSsneSS. Both are major killers
on the road. Every driver should be made to
realize this month that his own life and the
lives OF members of his family and others
may depend on his 100 per cent observance
5000
A REAL MONOPOLY
Donald R. Richberg, who was promi-
lent member Of President Franklin ROOse-
VeltS hrst administration, and who wrote
much OF the labor legislation of that time
has published an article in the University If
Virginia Law Weekly in which he CHARGES
tnat Iabor's legislative aims have changed
greatly in the past 25 years, and that "wpI
are seeing IN the United States the hurried
transformation of a labor front into a So
clallSC party" He then says, "The labor
!eaQerS OF 1850 are seeking, first. to to es-
taoilSh union mOnOpOlies of all work oppor-
Gunltles and, second, to subject all EMPLOYERS
: ana employees to comprehensive regulation
Oy union labor laws and by public laws en-
acted by a labOr-cOntrOlled gOvernment-aIl
supposedly Tor the special benefit of unioniz-
eo workers." The power which tho lohor
rulers have achieved is not vet fuliv unJoy 49,
stood by the American people The closed
Shop mas given them an air-tight labor mon
opoly IN the big industries, and in many
small enterprises as well. The practice of
nuuSCIy-Wlde bargaining has further exs
0anded their authority. Their revannnc oro
enormous, and their expenditures ara not
,egulated or controlled in anv wav In 10
lays typical union, the rank-and-fio NOW
1eIS nave little or nothing to saw as tO ToI-
cy' Ihey take and follow the orders the
1oSseS give them. This labor nonOpoIv is
20 eLeaI Chfeat to free, representative gov
5ItnInenC y as now exists. In the noroo of
rights for labor" the rights of avo1.I,o,,a
Else nave been preached time and time ago;T
themselves. "Oi Ming people
Icing The LID ON THE TEAKETTT z
IL is pleasure to report that not all eyov-
L1inent officials think that slappinO on 49,
III S more artificial controls is the cnro foI.
lnat1on and kindred problems. Econo,o;o rio
.aolllzer Alan Valentine recentIv said "Tno
1sIng dlrect price and wage controls ;s 1iIro
eng the lid on the teakettle. # NAV he
7ceSSafy, but the lid will blow off in time
= neSS you also turn down the flame or move
: AeCCle' ANY direct controls must +hnro-
re Oe accompanied by more fundaran+oI
'4 edSureS 10 cure Initiation. We place orr
- ~ 1: 1;Ope IN 1nolrect controls" 1t has been
10 ume and time again in the future tbof
nCfols deal with symptoms. NOT VIII
uses ana that they are, therefore fore
Oiheo TO failure. You can tell a rnanufoc-
!er ne can charge only so much for Qoxoo
lhg-Out he can't and won't nroduco - jf
= = price makes profitable operation innOsc-
It. on can tell the retailer that his caII;no,
ice must be so and sO-but that won't dc
Z consumer any good if the article in nnec1
'n then becomes unobtainable, Con+roie %%oI-
npiy dry up the channels of production and ND
strlOuton. Establishing artificial tfIo+ fo+
ices. undermines competition on both the
and retailing levels. And
ey take the incentive out of business. Mr.
slentlne spoke of more fundamental roea.
res to cure imitation" Number one in that
tegooIry must be air-tight government econ
~ the end OF wasteful adventures into ma ~.
maj socialism la England, and the kind
ally belp fight imitation. Direct controls Tai
the answer to nothing. O''
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REMAINS? e
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