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Show (F LOOKING 4fTf AHEAD 6 y hBY GEORGE S, BENSON I Start). Jriaitai (best estimate) of their money to the steel workers' pension fund. When we consider the price boosts on other all steel implements, the coal miners' t pensions and others wHich are also directly reflected in higher retail prices, we can see an accumulating ac-cumulating problem. Those in the working consumer group not pensioned will seek relief or recourse. But where will they go? Right now some are turning to the political security medicine men and that is dangerous, dan-gerous, as can be witnessed in Russia and England. There are also the problems in the area of small business where employe groups will naturally try to follow the example ex-ample of their counterparts in big industry. The problems I here have a hundred angles. If we are wise, our citizenry will not let the political hullabaloo rush us and trap us. It took nearly 200 years for Americans to establish freedom. We can well afford to spend considerable consider-able time on this second great goal security. Rushing into f" it too fast, without calculating 1 the costs, might wreck our economy and bring insecurity to all. OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM This period in world history may well be recorded as the era of the Great Hullabaloo for economic security.. Future historians his-torians will never be able to relate, however, that the politicians poli-ticians of this or any other day discovered a magic formula for making everybody - healthy, wealthy and free "at the sound of the gong." The bedrock motivation of all mankind But how? What road? From Jamestown to Yorktown, America's Amer-ica's historic freedom road was two centuries long and costly. Because of that freedom we have come a long way on the security road. Who Pays Is Important In the area of big industry, where the present headlong drive for pensions and other security se-curity benefits is concentrated, there assuredly should be pension pen-sion and life and medical insurance in-surance programs soundly" calculated. cal-culated. Employes should contribute con-tribute from salaries and wages to programs in which they participate. par-ticipate. No person has the right to demand a secure old age, medical and hospital service serv-ice and life insurance, unless he is willing, while able, to contribute to the cost. When a company is obliged thru pressure of one kind or another to pay all the cost without any corresponding increase in-crease in productivity or decrease de-crease in production cost, then the public has to stand the bill. My neighbor has just bought a good $2.95 axe at the hardware store. When the recent steel price hike, brought on by the pensions granted last December, Decem-ber, is extended to the retail price, the same axe will sell for at least $3.25, the store owner told him. Files and many other steel implements already have gone up, the hardware man said. Consumers Pay the Bill So those who buy axes will be contributing about 20c each j realities of life block fulfillment fulfill-ment of any such political pipe dream or promise. Economic security simply can't be spooned out of a bottle like patent medicine. And it isn't a gift to be bestowed without strings attached. It's something to work for, something some-thing that can be had only when and as it is produced. Behind the economic security of every man, every family, every group, must be somebody's productive effort, somebody's thrift, somebody's some-body's conserved wealth. The government can only give to one man what it takes from him, or another, or both; for the American kind of government govern-ment doesn't produce wealth. Security at a Price There are two notable nations na-tions today in which the government govern-ment is providing for the economic eco-nomic security of all the people. peo-ple. These are, of course, Britain Brit-ain and Russia. Any American worker, middle man, executive, execu-tive, school teacher or lawyer night go to either country and obtain politically - guaranteed economic security full employment, em-ployment, old age pensions, free medical care, etc. But who wants to go; who in America, indeed, wants that kind of security se-curity at the price demanded? And yet we must do more I than merely reject the danger- , ous palliative of the political planners. We must set labout calmly and unhurried to find a road along which we can travel safely toward the goal of economic eco-nomic security which is a basic |