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Immediate service. a c e G o I J f People of Inherent Good Taste , MORE from GLENMORE MORE lisle... MORE qdiiy... MORE enjoyment... ! GlcRipre i tumicrr y ; IOWI.OD B Via i" 8 j I PM 1 Glcnmore ITttlCKT IlitlT Irery drop distilled and bottled by GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Louisville, Kentucky GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Subscribe to the Chronicle The Key Question A delegation of Russian farm officials is making a tour of Iowa farms for the purpose of observing American farming methods at first hand. What they would like to learn, principally, is what makes American farms so productive. The Soviet collective farms have proved prov-ed incapable of producing anything any-thing much except shortages, and Russia is in desperate need of something comparable to America's Ameri-ca's chronic food surpluses. At the same time, some American farmers are touring Russia in order to see how they do things over there. The Russians had the misfortune of arriving in Iowa just in time for a spell of humid summer weather, wea-ther, and, since the climate of their country is mostly cooler and drier than that of Iowa, that alone was enough to dampen their ardor. However, they went ahead and toured, and they did show amazement amaze-ment at the amount of labor saving sav-ing machinery they saw on American Amer-ican farms, and at the compare-tively compare-tively small number of hand laborers labor-ers employed. "Where are the workers?" is one of the questions they asked, not quite grasping the import of the fact that in America nearly all the really hard tasks are done by machinery. They had expected ex-pected to see labor battalions, housed in dormitories, working in the fields from dawn to dusk, as it is done in the workers paradise. They also picked up a smattering of knowledge on the use of com-merical com-merical fertilizers, milking machines, mach-ines, and so on. Now, while this exchange of delegations del-egations is the sort of thing that a certain type of egghead is sure to call "a fine example of friendly intercourse between the two peace loving democracies", I am willing to go on record as saying the effort ef-fort will probably come to naught. The most that can be hoped for Is that the Americans in Russia may pick up a few helpful hints on how to prevent surpluses, while at the same time learning how to work the hired help to death for low pay. The fact is, the Russians just don't want to adopt American methods. What they want is to get American results through Marxist methods, and that poses an incongruity in-congruity they will never be able to resolve. It won't do them any good if their officials learn exactly how American farmers do things. Russian peasants already know how to farm; or at least they did before the revolution. Even today, while the big collectives are failing to meet their quotas, or "goals" as the semanticists express it, re ports are that the small plots the farm workers are permitted to work for themselves are producing fine yields, for their size. Self interest in-terest is a prime mover even a-mong a-mong Soviet farm hands. The question the Russian delegation del-egation should be asking, if they could do so without danger of being liquidated immediately upon their return to Russia, Is not How do American farmers do things, but WHY do they do them. That is the key question in economics. Given a reason for doing something, some-thing, an incentive, a motive based on self interest, people will figure out a way to do it in short order. They will get results. They will work effectively. The trouble with collectivism is that it gives the effective, ambitious worker no reason rea-son for doing his best. The results to be gained from the extra hours, or the fine workmanship he might like to practice, are lost to him in the collectivization of all effort. The Communist Manifesto says, "It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. "According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work". That is as fine an example ex-ample as I know, of the Marxist genius for getting things backwards. back-wards. It is in their collectivist society so-ciety that that applies. It may have applied in pre-capitalistlc societies, such as the feudal; but it does not apply in th? free capitalistic cap-italistic system, which is the one iy,a tarvivts would destroy in favor of their cock-eyed Communism. Commun-ism. In the capitalistic "bourgeois society" in which we live, production produc-tion not only of farm products, but everything else, is high, because each individual in it is working for his own self interest. If we rule out monopoly, which is as much at variance with the principles of free enterjiri.se as Communism is. even though it does creep in once in a while in some business, labor union, and special privilege legislation, leg-islation, each individual in the free-enterprise society is working for himself. This is just as true oi those who are employed by big corporations as it is of small entrepreneurs en-trepreneurs and farmers. The main thought occurring to any man before be-fore he takes a job is. "What's in it for me?" In our free society, people fall into types of employment employ-ment and enterprise according to individual temperament and ability; abil-ity; the principle of division of labor works out naturally with private ownership, trade, and ex- Over By Dick Morrison change. Whether a man works for the Whatsit Gadget Corp. on the assembly line, the B & B gang on the railroad, or opens a haberdashery haberdash-ery of his own, he has in mind, chiefly, getting the most possible for himself out of the deal. That, in any line of activity, he finds it necessary to serve others in order to get something for himself, only indicates that in our society the sum total of such efforts results in the greatest good for all. That is thirty eight years after the revo- reason not qlear :ln Communist writings, her family" revered the Romanoffs., . Her father- had "equipped his farm with the most modern American Ameri-can threshing machines, tractors, etc., on the market in those days. When the revolution came, the Bolsheviks, in their unreasoning hatred of "capital", burned everything every-thing - buildings and equipment. They "liquidated" the Kulaks, except ex-cept fur a few who were fortunate enough to flee the country. Ever since then, the Communists, through their dogged adherence to the fallacies of Marxism, have prevented Russia from rising above the starvation level. Only now, the economics of Adam Smith, and it is right. Under it, a nation of people, each working in his own self interest, will, in the aggregate, become a wealthy and powerful nation; whereas a nation of people each working for some purported collectivistic effort will achieve nothing more than misery, and starvation, the inevitable result of denial of the individual incentive. The objection to collectivism a-bove a-bove quoted from the Manifesto, and denied therein, actually does reveal the Achilles Heel of Communism. Com-munism. During World War I, the American Ameri-can government, seeing a great need for foodstuffs as a result of widespread destruction, offered to pay $2.00 a bushel for all wheat offered for sale. No one was ordered order-ed to produce wheat. No great pretense of collective effort, in the interest of the brotherhood of man, was made. But American farmers produced great quantities of wheat. wh-eat. The incentive was responsible that offer of $2.00 a bushel. Today, To-day, the government wants to develop de-velop uranium ore. It offers a fixed price, and everybody and his little brother is out prospecting for uranium. A collective tffort, or a dictatorial order to produce uranium ur-anium wouldn't have been nearly as effective. The world is full of examples which prove that the incentive, based on individual self interest, always works, where dictatorial dic-tatorial orders and collective effort do not. While the two examples just cited were part of a government program, the rewards to be found in the free markets are even more important to our progress, for it is they which produce the wealth which supports government programs. pro-grams. Years ago, when my grandparents grandpar-ents were living in Hollywood, one of their friends was a middle-age lady from Russia. She was a member mem-ber of a Kulak, or prosperous farm family. Among other accomplishments, accomplish-ments, she could speak five languages, lang-uages, and her English was more perfect than mine. And for some lution, they are sending a delega tion over here to see what makes American farms productive. They might, also, look back to the methods met-hods of their own Kulaks. But until they forget the purely procedural approach, and look into in-to the psychology of human nature, na-ture, stop asking HOW Americans do it, and inquire into the question quest-ion fo WHY they do it, with emphasis em-phasis on the principle of "enlightened "enlight-ened selfishness" which makes capitalism work, they won't learn anything that will do them any good. But when they do that, they will find the only salvation for Russia lies in the abandonment of Marxism. Postscript Unbelievable as it may seem, there are some very few straws in the wind which hint that the Russian Communist regime may be cracking up. You can often get a better idea of elections results from the betting bet-ting odds than the predictions of the politicians concerned, and, like wise, you can a ft en get a good hint of things to come from the financial markets. So it is Interesting to note that bonds issued by the Imperial Russian Rus-sian Government are looking up n bit. These have been in default for thirty eight years, yet today there are speculators who will buy them, at a price. nr From 1916, when they were worth par, these dropped steadily until 1939, when the Nazi-Soviet pact was entered into. Then they went up to around 25 on V-E day, in 1915. The end of the Korean Kor-ean war found them selling at about 1 3 4 cents on the dollar. Today they will bring eight cents. People who find uranium stocks too conservative may find Imperial Russian bonds the ideal speculation. specula-tion. A counter revolution, or a change of policy by the Communist government could make them go up. ATTENTION Any One Interested In Cutting" Posts Within the next 3U days, the Forest Service expects to initiate a reseeding project in the 8-Mile area. Anyone interested in cutting posts from the proposed reseeding area may do so without cost by complying with tthe following pro-ceedure: pro-ceedure: 1. Get permission from the Forest For-est Ranger. This can be accomplished accomp-lished by calling at the Forest Office or the Ranger Station or by mail or telephone. 2. All trees will be cut at the ground line and the unuseably portion may be left on the area if trimmed so as to lie close to the ground. MIJ4.ARD. COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah. Thurs. Aug. 11. 1955. 3. To be obtained pie for local use. by local peo- 4. The cutting areas are confined to those areas planned for reseeding. reseed-ing. (This information available when you obtain permission to cut.) Cutting may begin at once and all interested are urged to do their cutting as quickly as possible. JoIiaiiSGii Ltamily M eot For Hcumota Members of the Johansen family met in Mount Pleasant Canyon, Sunday, August 7, for a reunion. A dinner, program and games were part of the day's activities. Attending from Delta were: Mr. and Mrs. Auer C. Jensen and family, fam-ily, Mrs. Ruth Steele and daughter, Sharon, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Soren-sen Soren-sen and family and Mr. and Mrs. Derral Christensen and family. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Renstrom, Provo. Mrs. Waiora Wallace and Mrs. Theodosia Melville, former Deltans now in Salt Lake City, are on their way eastward by bus and will attend at-tend tthe Hill Cumorah pageant in New York. Cards this week were received from them, by Mrs. Wallace's Wal-lace's nephew, William S. Bassett, and Mrs. Melville's daughter, Mrs. Leigh Maxfield. Mrs. Barbara Ashby and children, child-ren, Delene, Joan and Sonya, spent the past week at Dugway, visiting by Forest Ranger Mrs. Ashby's sister and husoand, Margaret and Eldon Jensen. 4 v- V : v; Higher Skills mean Better Jobs 1IW MM Bin' I M Barbara latimr, Jan1 Sprout, Nathan R. Larn. Rart Florvnct P. Evans, instructor. Thts thrt students rvcantly won Grvgg awards for passing tho official 160-word tst. Thir goal now is 173 words a minutt. 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