Show Socialist Planners Held e Real ea Enemies Of American way of o life The most dangerous enemy of the traditional American way of life is not the Communist declares John T. T Flynn but the American counterpart of the British Social Social- He denies he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask he calls National Planning These Socialist Planers are enticing us down the dark road that has led many European nations to their doom The same forces that ruin ruin- ruined ruined ruined ed Germany Italy France and Britain are repeating their work of destruction upon our economic and political organisms re re- recognized recognized cognized for what they are arc and pm p.m. The party will stopped they will destroy this country From Flynns Flynn's book The Road Ahead we read We Ve are much further along the road than we suspect If we vc do not abandon that fatal road we we shall inevitably per per- perhaps haps in less than a decade be in the condition the British now find themselves in Summarizing the results of the British Socialist experiment in ex ex- exorbitant exorbitant prices oppressive oppressive oppressive sive taxation and bureaucratic rule Flynn emphasizes that the similar movement now infiltrating our social institutions should not be confused with what we have long known as the Socialist party It is a different modern movement led by different men under wholly different banners This modern Socialism means state control of the entire econom econom- economic ic system While it will not take takeover takeover takeover over every farm mine shop ana ann factory it will operate the basic functions of credit power fuel transportation and insurance The Th e rest of the economic system may be kept in private hands but must be operated according to state plans under supervision and com com- compulsion compulsion of government bureaus Just as this system fastened it- it itself self on Britain by a movement that tha t avoided calling itself Socialist so it is being promoted in America by persons and organizations that tha t never use the word Socialism They call their system the Plan ned Economy The Thc spearhead and the central l planning and propaganda machine of the National Socialist Economic planners in this country is an or or- organization organization organization formed in January 1947 the Americans for Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic Action ADA advocates advocates' balanced production targets for forthe or orthe the whole economy and price allocation inventory and credo crede controls Such phrases are ac ac- actually actually ac- ac actually a costume of words for Socialism While disclaiming any status as asa asa asa a political party ADA has spread through 48 states with over 75 full fledged chapters and stu stu- student dent groups At the moment it is backing socialized medicine without using the word Socialism That word the author points out will not emerge until the country is so far along the road that it cannot be disguised from fromI even the most ignorant I Each Socialist proposal such as federal invasion of the fields of banking electric power and medi medI- medicine cine is promoted as if it were just a single reform unrelated to all others But the fact is that each is intended to liquidate some sector of the private-enterprise private system tem tern and expand the aim of Social Social- ism |