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Show POSTWAR TALK GIVEN TUESDAY Stanley J. Stephenson, manager manag-er of the Utah Manufacturers association as-sociation considered the future in his address "Beyond The Horizon", Hor-izon", delivered before the Lions j club Tuesday night. Parts of Mr. : Stephenson's talk follow: "We have all been chasing I rainbow the past few months and now we find to our utter dismay that we have lost the battle of hopes, illusions and delusions the victory of commentators, news writers, generals and diplomats-- and are locked in a deadly and ghastly struggle, the end of which is still as evasive as the rainbow's end. This raises the question - Will the travail of war and the awful-ness awful-ness of it's cost in human values lift our gaze to the horizon of new hopes based on the realties of life? There are those, and certainly America lights the way, who beyond be-yond the horizon see ideals which can make for a better world, but when Mr. Stalin laid the Atlantic Charter on the mantle as an ornament or-nament and the symbol of a dream, and Mr- Churchill atomizes atom-izes it to the point where it seems to be a "little bit of charm sprinkled sprink-led on the dust of harm", when the countries we liberate from one form of tyranny seem to be afraid of themselves and their freedoms rush right back in asking ask-ing not for freedom of the individual in-dividual but for the power of collectivism or stateism, it makes us all wonder if the war is to make the world safe for democracy democ-racy or to make it safe for a new set of dictators to throw away freedoms. Arc we going to have courage for democrac"? We should be blind indeed if we failed to recognize that over the entire world, including our own United States of America, the rights of individuals and I communities have been drifting as though drawn by a great vortex vor-tex in a channel to centralized one man government. Beyond the horizon then looms the big question mark while we willingly lend any and all privileges and liberties for the sake of bringing an early victory vic-tory are we going to be as eager eag-er to bring an early recovery of these liberties and freedoms in the wake of victory? Are we going go-ing to have the courage and stamina sta-mina to fight for the recovery and preservation of the liberties of democracy? We have talked a great deal ! about victory, postwar and the j new world, as though the war might end on a Saturday night and Monday morning the planners plan-ners would have Utopia blue printed and say to us, 'now start out with the new world'. Because of this illusory thinking we have completely overlooked and ignored ignor-ed some very basic and inescapable inescap-able facts. Beyond the horizon then, we see at least in silhouette, three choices for America. 1. If the planners intend for a completely regimented and con- i trolled economy to be carried out by the order of government that's Facisrn. 2. If these same planners, some j of whom seem to have a deep (Continued on page eight) o POSTWAR TALK GIVEN TUESDAY STANLEY J. STEPHENSON TO LIONS (Continued from page one) seated hatred for the American business system, conclude that American enterprise cannot longer long-er serve the needs of America and her foreign customers and, therefore, the government must take over that's Socialism. 3. The only alternative to the1 other two is for government to I act as the godfather to the American Am-erican way of free individual, corporate and social enterprise. Labor is missing the boat if it does not catch the vision that I cooperation with management involves in-volves something more than closed shop and special benefits j for the union. If we can't have the support of our labor friends in repelling the enroachment of government by compulsion, then they stand to lose more than all they have gained In the past de- Cade, and business will become; i static. The management of less than 'two hundred thousand Manufacturing Manufac-turing plant:; in America and the ! three million proprietors and ! j managers of diverse and sundry occupations cannot carry the bat-1 tie for industry's and worker's freedom alone, and the choice now rests with the enlightened leadership of organized labor to I determine whether we shall have I Ian economy of freedom or by I I compulsion. Beyond the horizon I see some- I thing more for America than the j symphony of a dying day I see1 1 the glory of a rising nation. We j have not and must not lose the ! i art of living happily together. ; Remembering that we hope to I leave the era of the "reatest de- structive forces in the world's : history to enter an era of peace j and reconstruction, we n alize i that it is going to call for the an- j nealing processes of friendship! I and a wholesome, sincere regard ( I for each other. |