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Show Looking 1 Ahead Slfew j, Dr- George S. Benson NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM . Searcy, Arkansas . who had unique dreams and pushed them to fulfillment to make America the world's wealthiest country, the envy of the world. But Henry Ford could have become a monopolist had not other Americans envied his success and, with the freedom granted through our American way, set out to compete with him. The right to compete is the second vital factor in the American system's incomparable incompar-able production of goods and services. Jerusalem, I noticed heavy iron rings, and asked: "What are those?" My guide said, "Those are the rings where Solomon used to tie his Arabian horses." The horfce was Solomon's fastest means of private transportation. trans-portation. It remained man kind's private means of transportation trans-portation until the time of Henry Ford, at the turn of the 20th Century. Then, because a man could dream, and create, and build within the private enterprise system, Henry Ford put the horse out of business! We have had enough men FREEDOM TO DREAM Is anybody telling the college campus revolutionaries and their dupes (reported to be 700,000) about the productivity of the American system which they are dedicated to overthrow? over-throw? Is anybody telling them about the much lower productivity produc-tivity and the much lower living liv-ing standards of people living under Socialism and Communism; Commu-nism; and how comparatively few families living under such systems can send their boys and girls to college? The facts about our system and the Socialist - Communist systems utterly destroy the phony harangues of the entire Left-wing Left-wing crowd. But are our youngsters being given the facts? The answer is, generally general-ly speaking, NO! The Communist-controlled radicals and their following and above all, the nearly 7,000,000 college youngsters who have not joined the revolutionary revo-lutionary "movement" must now be given the facts. Every freedom-loving American can help in this challenging task. Facts Need Airing There really are no mysterious reasons why our private enterprise enter-prise system out-produces the best of the Socialist system by two or, three to one, and the Communist system by at least four to one. But the reasons are not well known, they are not being emphasized in our schools and colleges; they are not being talked about widely enough. The key element in our system is, of course, individual in-dividual freedom. In my little new booklet entitled, "The Wealth Machine," I list as the Number 1 element: "Freedom to dream your dreams and try to make them come true." If you were in Russia today and should decide you could make an automobile for half the price at which they are now listed, would you be free to try it? Not on your life! And you wouldn't even talk about your dream. Russia has not only a Socialist economic system, owned and operated solely by the government, but, in addition, a Police State dictatorship suppressing the individual's freedom to act upon up-on his dreams. You could be banished to slave labor or quietly executed in Russia for even talking about a better way of doing things than now is being done by the "glorious" state. Henry Ford's Dream Now contrast this to the American way: When Henry Ford, living in our free enterprise enter-prise system, dreamed of an automobile to sell for $500 in the early I900's, he was free to try to build and sell one. And he did. The $500 in those days was the price being paid for a carriage and a team of horses. The day came when Henry Ford was selling three million Fords (Model-T) a year. His "Tin Lizzies" revolutionized private transportation in America. This was bound to happen in a nation where people peo-ple are free to dream and try to make their dreams come true. We see results of this freedom on all sides, contributing contri-buting constantly to better living. liv-ing. Good-bye Horse Carriage When Henry Ford dreamed up and produced the Model-T, the horse had been king of private transportation since the days of Solomon. When I visited Jerusalem, I went down under the city and there saw the quarries where Solomon had taken out stone to build the great temple. Since the city was resting right over that quarry it was necessary to leave tiers of stone here and there to support the streets and the buildings above. In those tiers beneath the city of |