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Show WRITER STATES GOVERNMENT CONTROLS LIVES Government is controlling our lives more and more, Joseph H. Spigelman declares, not because it is growing stronger but because the people's need for protection is becoming gTeater. Spigelman puts the blame for the loss of individual independence independ-ence not on the government but on uncontrollable forces of prog-ess prog-ess industrialization, urbanization, urbaniza-tion, advances in science and education edu-cation and, most important, an aroused public opinion. The public, increasingly concerned con-cerned with human rights, Spigelman Spigel-man writes, no longer accepts the impositions of property owners, but looks to government to protect pro-tect the interests of the weak. He adds that business, although constantly con-stantly complaining about government govern-ment controls, has become dependent depend-ent upon them as a guide' to the public's wishes. Labor, too, expects government to help it retain its power and the sympathy of the public. Our governmental bodies are also swayed by a multitude of other pressure groups. The author constructs a picture showing that the government intervenes in-tervenes in the affairs of the individual indi-vidual because it cannot help intervening. in-tervening. But he emphasizes "not until government finds protection pro-tection against pressure upon it, will the individual have protection against the government and the consequences of its errors." |