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Show H r JLooking B fL M Ahead ftjZ Dr. George S. Benson NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM earyrkansas NUMBER 1 IS FREEDOM In preceding columns, we have discussed the first four or five unique elements in American capitalism's Wealth Machine, whose production of goods and services has outpaced out-paced all the other economic systems of history. The first four elements: (1) Freedom to Dream and Try to Make Your Dreams Come True; (2) Freedom Free-dom to Compete with the Dreamer; (3) Automatic Screening of Management; (4) High Investment in Machine Tools for Production. Element 5 is Personal Freedom for Employees. We are able in a private enterprise economy to keep freedom for employees. They ' i ' m can go to work where they choose. In Russia there is no such freedom. People work where the Government places them. In Socialist England, though it has not yet been used fully, there is a Control of Engagements Act passed in 1946, and immediately applied in the coal mines, which gives the Government the power which is exercised every day in Russia's totalitarian system: sys-tem: the power to allocate jobs. When Socialism is functioning func-tioning 100 per cent, all workers work-ers must be controlled; the Government planners must make the work assignments. There is no employee freedom. Right of Choice In the American free enterprise enter-prise system, our employees have the right to choose where they shall work and what they shall do. They are free to organize into unions, and to bargain collectively for what they believe to be their best interests. They have freedom to quit one job and seek another, freedom to quit working work-ing as an employee and start a business of their own. Many of our titans of industry came up through the ranks of employees. em-ployees. Nobody, it seems to me, should be more interested in the good health and progress 6f the private enterprise system sys-tem than the employee. Our nation, thanks to its enterprise system, is the only place in the world where a man on hourly wages has been able to own his own home, to own an automobile auto-mobile (and usually two), a radio, television set, a telephone, tele-phone, a refrigerator and so many other luxuries; and at the same time send his sons and daughters to college. Booklet Available Yes: Employees in the American business and industrial in-dustrial system should be its greatest supporters. It offers the best hope for their children, child-ren, the best standard of living and the greatest promise for the future. It is the only sys-1 tem built on the foundation of individual freedom. And when all the other attainments of mankind are weighed in the scale of value, freedom individual in-dividual freedom is by far the greatest. American capitalism's capital-ism's Wealth Machine is fueled on freedom of individual opportunity. op-portunity. The story of the Wealth Machine now is available in an attractive little 6-page booklet entitled: "The Wealth Machine." Because our Na- young militant Americans. Once they do understand our system, what makes it work, and how much more of the good things of life it produces than does Socialism or Communism, Com-munism, we can leave the future in their hands confident that the heritage will be preserved pre-served and passed along. Today we cannot have that confidence. But isn't it our own fault? Haven't we, the parents and teachers of America, defaulted on our responsibility re-sponsibility to teach an oncoming on-coming generation the great principles which have meant so much to us in our lifetime? tional Education Program is a non-profit service institution dedicated to bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life, we can mention in this column (and in this newspaper) that the price of the little booklet is 10c. It has been prepared especially to help our younger generation and our business and industrial employees generate an enthusiasm enthus-iasm for our system. Under Attack Our system today is under widespread attack mainly) instigated and directed by World Communism's agents within America. Probably a million young, non-Communist dupes have been drawn into the conspiracy's campus and street "demonstrations." Tens of millions of youth, who do not clearly understand the workings of American capitalism, capital-ism, are "on the fence" neither joining the revolutionaries revolution-aries nor defending the American Ameri-can system. For America to be safe, for our present generations to pass along to future Americans the great heritage that has permitted per-mitted us to remain free and to prosper as no other people has prospered in History, we must recruit to the banner of American capitalism 50,000,000 |