Milford chronicle., 1951-08-03

allow bureaucracy and political planners to
swat mosquitoes with a patchwork of price
and wage controls when the swamp of Grip
ping Federal debt and unbalanced economy
needs draining? The politicians may not adj
NIT it, but price control cannot solve any
thing - all it can do is create more and
worse problems. Only a free, supply-and-
demand economy can lead in the fight
against imitation by giving US peak pro-
duction.
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NOT A HELP
Many housewives and some businessmen
are asking for more price control because
they never did understand how OPA price
ceilings caused the shortages, Illustrations.
deceits, discOurtesies and waste of time from
which they suffered. Some blamed the de-
generation on the greed of merchants who
were supposedly taking unfair advantage of
wartime shortages and wartime needs.
Others blamed the weakness or incompetence
Of government officials. Only in the later
days OF the OPA, after few business or
CARNATIONS had belatedly put the facts be-
fore the people, did any considerable num-
Der OF housewives and wage earners begin
to suspect that price ceilings were not after
all help in keeping down real living costs.
One wonders how the people and political
leaders can believe that OPS will not in
evltably follow the pattern of OPA Men of
high abilities with the best intentions on
earth may administer the control laws. They
may bend over backward to be fair. Yet. bv
its very nature, rigidly enforced, all-encOn-
passing price control must always create
black markets and shortages. 1t must al
ways be a brake on production, which in it.
self creates more initiation. And it weakens
competition on both the production level
and the retail level if it is continued long
enough. To put the situation simply it's
easy to pass law and say that such-and-
such must sell for some prescribed price and
not penny more. But the fact remains that
no man will make an article, and no man will
sell it, if the price is too low to pay his ex-
penses and leave him some kind of profit.
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mo WITCH HUNTS
The American Communists and their fell
low travellers have trained their big guns on
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This
is perfectly natural-it was FBI evidence.
painstaking gathered and sifted over the
years, that led to the conviction of the eleven
top Communist leaders. FBI evidence was
also dominant factor in the Hiss, COplan
and other such cases. The Communist STRAIT
egg is to try to sell the idea that the FBI
is the sworn enemy of civil rights and lib
critics, and that it is little different from
Hitlers deraded GestapO. The primary
danger in this is that some sincere but un-
informed and misguided people outside of
the Communist ranks have fallen for the
red line, and are honestly concerned lest
the FBI turn America into a police state.
The fact is that the FBI has leaned over
backward to protect the innocent and to
scrupulously avoid anything that might
even remotely resemble a witch hunt. In
the FBI's report on its activities during the
last fiscal year, this paragraph appears:
1.-THE FBI is concerned only with acts, not
thoughts; with deeds, not beliefs. So far as
the FBI' is concerned a man may think what
he likes so long as his thoughts are not
translated into action by engaging in either
criminal or subversive activity" That is
basic FBI policy, and it is rigidly adhered
to. Of necessity, more and more of the FBTs
resources and manpower are being utilized
for work relating to the activities of the
Communist Party, USA. Today the FBI is
as vital to our security as an army, navy or
air force.
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