Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
EVERYBODY'S JOB


There is a new movement going on today
which, though not broadly publiclzed, holds
immense significance for every citizen. Defl-
mite headways is being made toward getting
the federal government out OF competition
with tax-paying private commercial enter
prise. Short of providing adequate national
defense, this is the most important thing
from the standpoint of keeping our country
the sort of place in which we want to live.
Recently "a synthetic rubber factories
were turned over to private industry f0I
net profit to the government of S35,O0O,OOO
A bill has been introduced which would get
the federal government out of the elty-run-
ming business at Oakridge, Tennessee, and
Richland, Washington, and save the taxpay-
ers 81 100000 annually.
An article in Time magazine states that
"in scores of other hooks and crannies OF
government, less dramatic ways have been
found to eliminate competition with private
business The defense department has shut
down "a scrap metal operations, bakeries,
9 laundries, a chain factory, caustlc soda
plant, cement mixing plants, tire retread-
ing plant garden nurseries and A ice
plants" The federal governments 4O,OO0,-
100000 investment in over 100 different
types of tax-exempt businesses is getting
smaller. It's heartening thing to see some
body patching a few of the cracks in the
foundations of our free enterprise economy.
As long as person earns his income
through self-employment or by working for
another private citizen, his voting decisions
are based upon what he thinks best for the
country or the community, and they do not
have a direct relationship to his means of
livelihood as when he depends on govern
metn employment for work.
To keep our political liberty and our rep
resentative form of government, the people
must maintain their right to make living
fhnrr ard To ,nilf Hnrof i'm
That means curtailment of government in
business, and that's everybody's job.
IHZo~<Z
PRESCRIPTION FOR INDEPENDENCE
Some members of the Hoover Commits
sion task force on power and water re-
sources spoke at the recent convention of
the American Society of Engineers in ST.
Louis And what they said should be read
and remembered by all the ts.xpayers-and
by, everyone who believes in free enterprise
and representative government.
One of them pointed out that the so-called
''yardstick" with which socialize2 plants are
supposed to measure the propriety of pri-
vate power rates is % inches long-not So.
The reason for that is the various subsidies
the socialized systems get at the expense of
all the taxpayers. These ran to at least S11O,-
100000 in 1858 alone 1t is estimated that,
if the rates charged for socialized power
were to accurately reflect all costs, they
would have to be increased 80 to 40 per
cent.
Another task force member said that the
federal government now has $4,000, 100000
invested in power plants and transmission,
systems-and that if a halt isn't called the
figure will grow to $4,000, 100000 Yet, he
went on, private enterprise has invested
S13,5OO00O, 900 in power facilities since 1910
alone and is prepared to invest any amount
needed to meet future demand.
He then made the most important point
of all, in these words: whatever authority
controls in one hand the power sources of
an industrial nation can, if it so elects, con-
troll all industry. For this reason it seems to
me urgent that local, non-federal organi-
cations be the ones to develop all of our
power requirements from whatever energy
sources =. coal, oil, gas, falling water, or
atomic energy"
That is prescription this country sorey
needs-if debt and taxes are not to rise un-
necessarily, and if we are to remain free
and independent people.
TRIESTE REDS ANGRY
The Communist party in Free Trieste
has followed the Moscow line on Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia since the latter broke
with the Kremlin. When Moscow called Tito
a so-and-so the Trieste Communists echoed
the sentiments Now, however, the Trieste
Reds are not willing to pursue the new Rus
sian line that the difference with Tito should
be forgiven and forgotten.
The official organ of the Trieste Com
munist Party has declared that the Russian
wooing of Tito has shaken our party as the
wind shakes our trees" 1t rejects Nikita
Khrushchev's glib suggestion that the break
with Tito was the result of the treachery of
Lavrenti Beria, executed chief of the secret
police
This points up fact often forgotten in
the speculations about the hold the Russians
have over their satellites. Differences of in
terest and aim exist and sometimes the diff
ferences are serious. So far the Kren1ln has
been able to minimize the difference and
through terror or persuasion prevent major
crack in their domain. But it may not always
be so. The fact that Austria, a conquered
nation, has become independent of Moscow,
and that Tito has survived his own revolt and
has thQ of ha b, 1toI