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Show I and SMALL JiltpJ I business m&$m What Is tlie Alternative? I There is an old saying around Washington about seven economists econ-omists holding a discussion and arriving at eight different answers. an-swers. Similarly today, there are many viewpoints on the current economic control plan known as Phase Two. While some are appalled that the nation has ever had to take this course in view of the American tradition of individual enterprise, this viewpoint is not one for discussion dis-cussion at this time. But there are many conflicting conflict-ing opinions and viewpoints on whether or not the present plans will work. The man in the street as well as the man in the ivy tower, or in the executive execu-tive suite, all hold different opinions. Great arguments can, and are being advanced, that the cur- , rent control system will work. Other equally as valid argu-ments argu-ments are made that the system cannot possibly work. But in all the dialogue and rhetoric that has been and is being launched, there is a most pertinent point omitted. That is the question of what are the alternatives if the present pres-ent program does not work? (c)Nallinal h'eileratlun (if Independent Bu!ne Obviously, for the U. S. to resume the inflationary spiral it was on would mean ruin for many, perhaps for the entire nation. And it cannot be dismissed with a shrug that perhaps the present plan will not work. But so far, no one has come up with an alternative plan. The nation's independent businessmen have for some time protested to the National Federation of Independent Business Bus-iness that spiraling costs had gone beyond all limits. It is unfortunate that the action on controls had to be taken on the eve of a political year, because everything then becomes politically suspect. But so far the present plan is the only one the nation has and it should be supported by the people until such time as it may prove that it is not going go-ing to work. However, rather than carping carp-ing over the present program, it would be far better if people everywhere, seriously start thinking what would be a feasible feas-ible replacement for the present pres-ent program in the event it is not successful. S3 |