Milford chronicle., 1950-09-08

good service as you demand.
about more and more restrictions clanpeC
on us by government and governmental bu
feaus. Inc only place we can do anything
about lnfringementS on our liberties and
opportunities is at the polls. No man OF
Inc great majority of people in the Uni.
tea States don't want socialism which means
government In business taking away the op
pOrtunity of the Individual and his chances
to get ahead in the world as an individual
Congress is flooded with socialistic schemes
under such alluring titles as public housing
social welfare, farm subsidies, public power
Federal health insurance, government money
loaning, government gifts of money to public
agencies and other projects too numerous to
mention, which put the government into bus
mess and the individual out. And it is all
done with revenue taken from the individual
in the form of taxation.
Don't say you are not interested in voting
unless you are not interested in remaining
free citizen.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM NEEDED
In recent syndicated column, David
Lawrence says: Whatever the immediate
significance of the Korean war, a profound
effect has been produced upon the long-range
military policy of the United States Never
again can America depend on that narrow
concept of a One-weapOn strategy" Mr..
Lawrence then raises some very important
points about which all our people have been
thinking. Who is responsible for having
deprived the Navy of it's status as "feet in
being? Who took away from the United
States army its own airplane units capable
of operating always with ground troops?
Whose idea was it that land armies of the
United States could fight without "armOredl
Of Of
seas bases-fOating or fixed? Mr.. LawrenceI
is bitter in his condemnation of civilian orl
military officials for what he says is one of
the worst blunderS in all American history
1t is blunder inexcUstable because it de-
fed the plain lessons of history taught in
every naval or military war college in every
nation of the world for centuries past. The
price of peace is never inexpensive and the
price of survival always is economic dis
comfort and sacrifice" Tragically and in
excuSably the exigencieS of domestic politics
cut the ground from under national defense
at the moment when decisive strength was
needed. AS a result, thousands of Americans
will lose their lives. The kind of criticism
backed with facts that is now being leveled
at those in control of the military establish
ment is too serious to gloss over, or attempt
to muzzle with admOnitOry advice that it is
ill timed The confidence Of the people in
the wisdom of top military policy has been
shaken. Only honest correction OF mistakes
can restore that confidence.
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"PANIC BUYING" IN WASHINGTON
According to a bulletin of the National
Retail Dry Goods Association there is en-
couraging evidence that the wave of hyster-
ical buying which hit retail stores as a result
of the Korean situation, has begun to ease
off. This is good news to the hard pressed
Ill l~T I4rNI
nave been doing their utmost to maintain
stable prices and an adequate supply of f
gOOdS. The cOmmOn-sense eXpreSSiOnOf one
retailer is typical: "The retail buying rush I
doesn't do the retailer any good. 1t only
)OrrOws from future business. The cOnSun- q
r will have to consume this merchandise; u
he result will be diminished sales later. This Y
involves danger that some manufacturers
nay base their production on unjustifed q
and then may have to dump heavy H
It seems hard for some to understand e
simple but fundamental characteristics of K
he retail distribution system. 1t must move n
high volume of goods at minimum prices. o
It is geared to operate in flexible market =
his means a free market. 1t is built on COM 9
petition. Not only its efficiency but its abil-
ty to function can be speedily wrecked by d
centralized government control. The latter :
may be greater threat than scare buying.
AS the Wall Street Journal has put it:
The housewives, being sensible, seem to
nave quickly recovered. But in too many
cases the legislators are still bent on buying
Ill the taxes and controls available without
of need e. the worst of the
Justly -deplored panic buying is in Wash
ngtOn."
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