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Show GRASSROOTS Enemies Call Average Thrifty Citizens 'Capitalists' By Wright A. Patterson WHO are the capitalists of America Amer-ica the communists and socialists social-ists howl about, and if it were possible, pos-sible, would destroy? Among them are the farmers, with large or small holdings. They are engaged in productive pro-ductive enterprises as individuals with investments in plants their farms and in tools their farm implements. Another element of the capitalist class are those owning rental properties, prop-erties, whether it be one small cottage cot-tage or a considerable number of rental units that are providing homes for people. Then there is that vastly larger number who are stockholders in business, large or small, and in transportation facilities. This class consists of many more than four million, all of them American capitalists. cap-italists. Among that four million are many thousands of workers, classed as both workers and capitalists. This class of capitalists by its investments provides the tools of industry, and creates the 60 million jobs of America, as well as providing pro-viding for their declining years; they do not have to depend on something for nothing for those years. All together the capitalistic classes In America, Including the several millions of life insurance in-surance policyholders, represent repre-sent by far the larger portion of the 150 millions of American people. They are the people who make of America what America Is. They are the peo ple the socialists and communists commu-nists seek to destroy by taking from them that which they have thriftily accumulated, and leaving for these thrifty Americans Amer-icans only a place on a park bench, where they, too, could hope for that something for nothing to be passed out by the government. The question today to-day is: Do we want the socialists social-ists and the communists to succeed suc-ceed in their nefarious plans? Those who would replace our American free enterprise system, that has made possible such a number num-ber of thrifty capitalists, whose combined investments have provided provid-ed 60 million jobs, and give us instead in-stead the ideas or methods of socialism so-cialism or communism, are not seeking the best interests of our America. The free enterprise system does not provide something for nothing, but it does provide the was and means of providing for ourselves as individuals if we are willing to make the needed effort and most of us are willing. Neither will socialism so-cialism or communism, and they are much of the same kind, provide something for nothing. The business Institutions of the nation, both large and small, are making a real effort to impress upon the people that our free enterprise en-terprise system is dangerously threatened. I was reading today the 39th annual report of the Lumberman's Mutual Casualty company in which the president, James S. Kemper, devotes a chapter to that subject. In it he says: "The cunning of the Kremlin must be met by candor and courage in Washington, that men in the mass must be countered by an abiding faith that, with God's help, men are destined to be free. Private enterprise can and will provide right direction in America, and in so doing hold high the torch of liberty for the world to see." Before the senate committee investigating in-vestigating the firing of MacArthur, Secretary of State Dean Acheson was a reluctant witness. He did not wish to talk about the mistakes, or worse, he had made in the far east, but the committee was insistent and out-voted him. Out of it all the people have learned the contents of the secretary's note to our diplomats diplo-mats in foreign nations, in which we wrote off Formosa as a part of our foreign policy. Acheson said that note was a phony. As the politicians see it it is better bet-ter to levy more taxes to provide for more unnecessary spendings, and it will be more profitable, in votes, than to reduce government payrolls and spend less. The increasing profits of corporations corpora-tions the papers report are more than offset by the decreasing value of the dollars earned. 0 The infirmities of age is something some-thing we cannot avoid. |