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Show Enterprise Creates Employment Governor Edward Martin, of Pennsylvania, says that "only enterprise can create employment." employ-ment." The statement is perfectly correct, cor-rect, but it should be noted that the Governor did not say that "only private enterprise can create cre-ate employment." The delay in production, caused by strikes and other troubles, has postponed the buying spree that economists expected to be in full sway six months after the end of warfare. However, employment employ-ment has held up better than forecast, although the prediction is still freely heard that several millions will be added to unemployment unem-ployment rolls by the middle of next summer. Thereafter, full production is counted upon to give employment employ-ment to all those able and willing will-ing to work in the United States. Private enterprise will be turning out the goods and services that the people of the nation want. Buying power will be upheld by the immense savings accumulated accumulat-ed during war years. Prices, it is hoped, will be held down by adequate controls, which, if effective, ef-fective, will spread the buying era and tend to prolong full employment. em-ployment. These facts should not blind those of us who prefer private enterprise to the obligation that rests upon American capitalism to provide employement and to produce goods. Neither labor nor management, if they know what is good for them, will long tie up the economic machinery of the nation. After all, American capitalism, cap-italism, with private enterprise, is not for the exclusive benefit of a few capitalists and those employed em-ployed by them. It becomes more apparent, day by day, that an economic was is in the offing between capitalism and communism. The victor in the struggle will not be the system sys-tem with the best excuse for nonperformance, non-performance, but the one that produces more abundantly to improve im-prove the welfare of the people whose lives and forutnes are affected af-fected by the system itself. |