Show Let Competition Decide How big is is big-and big if you fit the definition are you necessarily bad Once again Congress is trying to legislate a yardstick to determine how big a business can grow before it is considered and big therefore bad To some thoughtful people the whole idea is bad A bill hill Introduced by Sen Philip A A. A Hart D D. Mich would create an Industrial Reorganization Commission a a new agency to reorganize roughly 40 percent of Amer ican lean industry Presumably it would start on the big firms using slide rule measures of sales earnings and prices J It would rip apart those successful organizations which have been liven responsible in great measure for the highest standards of living the world has ever known because of f the economies of scale large-scale production tion This would not only raise prices still more at home but would make international inter national competition even tougher worsening our balance of payments and killing many job opportunities American business firms grow big because I their lower lower- 1 cost products are preferred in the marketplace by the I people Lets Let's let the consumers not the Congress decide when big becomes becomes' bad r |