Show A j r ro r pa pi Finding the Issue T HAT UT gov go e government ownership will be one of the live hc issues of tho the forthcoming forthcoming- presidential campaign is is indicated i in tho stand taken by former Senator Jonathan Bourne Bonnie Jr as compared with the attitude of the tho present present pres pres- ent cut administration The issue has been e n created by the emergency of war 11 but the future futuro course courso of the tho nation has nas not been determined until the issue has been su submitted sub sub- to the people As this case is argue argued before the public the tho proponents of government go ownership will endeavor en en- deavor to stand on tho the war record of federal control i Poss Possessed of greater freedom than private management management management manage manage- ment the record should l excel if government o operation Approaches in auy measure the tho efficiency of private te op op- oration The the public government and numerous s state slate ate utility commissions would have e emitted a great grent howl if private managers had dared to ask for a 25 23 per cent increase in freight rates If they had bad attempted to arbitrarily arbitrarily ar ar- ar enforce such au an increase they would have ll been forever ostracized Likewise if private managers had attempted to silence regulatory bodies hodies and set aside asido the thc 1 trust laws la they probably would have won a place in prison m instead of a record for efficiency But as Senator Bourne points out tho the record of private and federal operation is not the thing tiling which concerns concerns con con- cerns them most The big hig point in in the tho issue is that it vitally affects the affects the thc future futuro of every individual inai in the United States Establishment of government ownership is tho the first step in ill the formation of a n bureaucratic form of government go If there is anything that the American n people ople pride themselves on it is their individualism the their 1 freedom to enter the tho competition of the day and win or lose Jose cm on their merits They derive great satisfaction from S the fact that the government go der derives its strength from the people S Tho rho history of American railroads is a a. story of in individual in- in di enterprise and industry Had government own- own prevailed in the beginning the great west would have bare still sUll been locked in ill the vault in which western re resources resources resources re- re sources were held lucid hidden fo for foe so many years The fhe development devel devel- of the west followed the railroads ls s and is still following the toads railroads Tho The foresight of progressive individuals i took railroads where they could not pay par their theirl way for years Now it is proposed to destroy this initia initia- t live tive to make not only the unsettled regions but the peo peo- pie Jc as a whole dependent upon the government for 1 Ilo progress ess and development Jf If government ownership ended with the flue railroads rail rail- k roads perhaps American initiative vo could sur survive yo the S handicap The ilic tendency of tho the movement j is 5 toward 4 bureaucracy and ana if it is desired by hy the people it will not notS S stop there 1 IC C the tIle movement is not opp opposed sc in the beS beginning be be- S ginning it it will not stop short hort of the Ule complete y of all industry American initiative cannot last a bureaucratic form of or gon government nt an and this is the thin thins for the public lo to decide as government gO ownership 5 is offered S 5 1 S 1 Pi I ten 1 |