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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. STATE SOCIALISM FOR UNITED STATES? CANADA IS VERY DEFINITELY HEADED for state socialism, which is but a slightly modified form of communism. As a means of capturing captur-ing the farm vote the Canadian communism com-munism will not, for the present, include in-clude a socialization of the small, one family, farms. It will include government ownership and operation Df all transportation and other utilities, utili-ties, all industrial manufacturing, and a strict regulation of merchandising. merchan-dising. Sometime between now and next March 25, Mackenzie King, the Canadian Cana-dian prime minister, must call for an election of members of the Canadian Cana-dian parliament. That new parliament parlia-ment will select a prime minister and fix the policies of the government. govern-ment. There seems hardly a chance of preventing the socialists from securing se-curing a majority in that new parliament. parlia-ment. They are led by M. J. Caldwell, Cald-well, a theoretical school teacher and labor agitator, who has captured the imagination of the workers and small farmers of the Dominion, and he has carried the recent elections in contests for seats in provincial parliaments. Are we headed In the same direction direc-tion as is Canada? It looks as though we may be. We have not, as yet, given a definite name to the "ism" for which we are seemingly heading. head-ing. Some call It "New Dealism," though the President has asked us to forget that name. That we have a start on the road to some form of state socialism is evident from a few facts: The federal fed-eral government today owns more than one fifth of the industrial capacity capac-ity of the nation, with an investment invest-ment of considerably more than 20 billions of dollars; the government owns nearly one fourth of all the arable land in the nation; the government gov-ernment owns an Interest in, and has a voice in the management of, a large number of banks; the government gov-ernment is operating well over 60 business corporations, financed with government money and competing with private business; through OPA, WPB and WLB the government controls con-trols Industry, merchandising and labor. la-bor. Under such conditions it is but a step from what is left of the American Ameri-can free enterprise system to that form of communism Canada (calls state socialism. ... POLITICIANS MUST WORK TO BE SUCCESSFUL , MORE POLITICIANS, both men and women, are willing to aid the cause of their party by talk than by work. They will make speeches but they will not ring doorbells," though ringing doorbells produces more votes than speeches when election elec-tion day comes around. Jim Farley was rated as a successful suc-cessful politician, but his success was due more to work than to talk. I was sitting in his private office one day, during the '36 campaign, when the receptionist announced a caller. Jim instructed her to have the visitor wait for two or three minute, min-ute, and suggested that I remain. He called for the card on that man. It was one of half a million, but so filed it took only a moment to locate it. The last entry on that card noted the recent birth of a son. After glancing at the card Jim told the receptionist to send the visitor in, and met him with extended hand at the door. "The man I wanted most to see," said Jim to his visitor, "but firs! tell me about that boy." No number of speeches could have changed that man's vote. He was for any one Jim Farley proposed as a candidate. The half a million of those personal cards meant work in compiling and keeping them up to date, but it was work that paid dividends in votes. ... AMERICA ITSELF ON ELECTION DAY WHEN WE VOTE do we perform that duty of citizenship as members of a labor union, a farm organization, organiza-tion, a corporation director or stockholder, stock-holder, a Methodist or Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran? Do we vote as a Jew or gentile, a German, or Italian, or Russian, or English oi French? Do we vote as anything other than as an American? Unless our Americanism comes first, unless un-less we are willing to vote for the best interests, as each of us see those interests, of a majority of al) of us, we can say farewell to our Republic. That America is the first interest of its citizens is the foundation founda-tion on which the Republic is built. Minority rule has no place in a Republic. Re-public. N SHOULD THE RECONVERSION and demobilization plans not work out as it is hoped they may, should there be a delay in converting to peace-time production, resulting in unemployment and bread lines, there is one element in our population that will not be found in the lines of the hungry. That is the farmers. They will twe food for themselves and their families; they will have shelter, shel-ter, and the wood lot will provide heat. That is what the farm way of life insures, and it is a valuable Insurance. |