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Show Tuesday, June 15, 1948 Throttling of Small Business Can Kill Democratic System Old Net Wf By BAUKHACE Newt Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON. Over in England, where the majority voted to accept socialism because they felt the capitalistic experiment had been a failure, they are finding that you cant vote yourself into a prosperity any more than you can vote yourself into morality. 400-year-o- ld There are still a lot of Briton who think they have been voted out of the frying pan into the fire. Prime Minister Clement AtUee, in a recent report to the Labor party, admitted that conversion into socialist democracy was a long hard task, longer than they had imagined. democracy." He warned that a society changed by u ratie method apt to lose the habit ? of democracy. suppose be meant by that that socialism had to coma by evolution, which is an ancient axiom of the more conser- ndtmoc vative socialists. Communists say it can come only by revolution. AtUee also said that socialism was a way of life not an economic theory. That will be questlond by some people. He added that socialism demanded a higher standard of citizenship than does capitalism. Some people will quarrel with that too. Many will say that it isnt that capitalism doesnt demand a higher standard of citizenship, but simply that capitalism (or any other known system, for that matter) doesnt always get it - Capitalism falls, when H .does fail, not because there 'Is anything wrong with free enterprise or competition, but because some- times the standard of morality or standard of clUsenshlp if yon will, running the system, bogs down. Then free enterprise is shackled and eompeUUen destroyed. The anti-tru- st laws were passed to punish people who tried to check free enterprise by killing competition. Those . laws wouldnt be needed, government Intervention wouldnt be needed. If the standard of morwere high ality, of citizenship, enough among the people who con-trol enterprise. Long, before, the war, and incraasingly - ta when shortage began to appear later, big business began crowding smaU buainesa out of existence. Because of war conditions and the powerful influence of big business, the email buyer couldnt compete. He wasnt able to get the raw materials, SmaU business is the keystone of capitalism. According to the Committee on Economic Development, S3 per ' cent of the business unite In this country employ SO people or business units of less. Those course arent limited to manufacturing firm they Include the roadside botdog (tend, the band laundry, the tea room, and the country store as weU ei the business men producing manufactured Stems on a small scale. If this M por cent af a capitalists country bnaineaa lan't prosperous, capitalism cant In fact yon cant bare capitalism when big Industrial groups monopolise business any more Qian yon can have it when the state monopolises business. What it happening to amall business today? It cant compete. Big buainesa ia making big profit, paying big wagea (regardless of whether the pay of the workers is equal to cover high prices dr not). Small buainea can't afford to pay the big wage, and the smaU town merchant la not making taie and profits because the consumer in his company havent the money to spend. A recent issue of the KIplingef magazine mad a survey of conditions in small towns as reported in a thousand letters from small businessmen, teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, housewives, working-me- n and working women bi those one-wom- ' euo-cee- d. tako-hom- e The set af the surrey was that there waa n definite letdown In boainee after January of this year, ' and that the people sue--' veyed believed that there la a further letdown In prospect. There is evidence of redaced con aumlng power which ia the first sign of a depression. A sign that the wealth of Ihe nation la getting out of the buyer hands. Now thats a pretty gloomy picture and not wholly subscribed to by commerce department people ' her. They will tell you that busi- ness everywhere, large end small, showed a tendency to level off after January of this year, that ther was a definite weakening In the first quarter of the year. But they believe that wee a temporary trend, that its over now, that business will reverse Itself, and that the ' general trend Is now upward again. They make no differentiation between large and small business in their prognostications and studies, and they feel that the trend for all business now is up. But listen to what the people surveyed by Kiplinger say: A food wholesaler in Iowa: Bread sales are extremely high, also flour sales are good and the sale of roiled oats is good, as people apparently are filling up on these nutritious foods in preference to more expensive items. We are selling A baker In Ohio: fewer cakes and pies. Women are doing more sewing at home, with clothing prices so high. An Illinois businessman said: The local high school decided to have a night school on sewing. The first registration was 135 women. Young woman in Wisconsin: Im not the only working girl in this community who doesn't have the new look. Illinois farmwoman: We planned to buy some new furniture, but the price is too high. I am making slipcovers. Even electrical items, dreamed of by housewives as an necessity, are not selling weO. Said an Iowa dealer: The edge Is definitely off on' hard goods, such ay refrigerators, washers, radios, stoves, etc. Prices too high. A traveling salesman covering the - small towns finds the going J cover New York state tough: and 1 am working twice as hard tor half the business." Many little signs of hard times were reported by Kiplingers survey. Examples: I am feedA Texas housewife: time since flrat the for ing tramp before the war. Collections are eff A deacon: nt our church. Mere A lean company mas: borrowing from small loan companies. A village cobbler: My shoe is business good. repair As the Kiplinger magazine puts The folks in the small towns it: Their incomes are harder up. havent gone up as much as the prices they pay. In other, words, according to the survey, the wealth is getting out of the hands of the consumer. And whether this survey or tho commerce department's optimistic prediction ere more nearly correct, (congress abolished the small busi-nes- a Section), this much at least can be said: You can redistribute the wealth by the socialistic intervention of government. That kills capitalism. Or you can redistribute It by permitting full end free competition-competit- ion on the part of the producers of raw materials, competition on tha part of labor, (an expensive item), competition on the part of processor. Industrial or labor monopoly, as 1 said .before, will kill capitalism in the end as effectively as the Communist with hi little red hatchet. after-the-w- -- -- Even Riutiant Get Reoriented This Item was passed along to me A high officer In one by a friend. of the armies which fought against Russia was visiting this country, end told thi story: Recently in Berlin, he was entertaining a high Russian officer stationed there. It was a farewell party as the Russian and his wife bad been, ordered to return to Moscow. The host remarked that it was nice that the Russian could take his wife back from the rigors of occupation life in Germany. The Russian had dined well, and perhaps waa indiscreet. Anyway, be confessed that he was anything but pleased; that he was dreading the period he and hi wife mutt pas In the camp. Then be explained that every Russian, before be waa allowed te return to the Soviet Union, had to pass through a center, and be indoctrinated with just whst he should say to bis friends and relatives. I repeat this item because it come to me in a direct, intimate manner; not a part of any organised propaganda. hood and motherhood, grateful for By KATHLEEN NORRIS men and women that boil down to the simple question: Are you strong enough to take it? If the answer is yes, then the difficulties, the problem, the worry can turn Into actual advantages. But if the answer is no, this is the one thing we cant take, the one situation we cant face, then of course the thing ends in shrinking away, in failure, in confusion. We see all about us the broken, wavering, unsatisfied lrves that began thi Everything trying problems during the remaining years of her life. When difficulties challenge us success or failure depends upon the frame of mind with which we tackle the obstacles. me of all this is a letter from Laura Davis. She is a Texas girl, extremely pretty, athletic, clever and the possessor of a comfortable little income In her own right Well, then, what on earth can be wrong? The trouble ia that the ideal man ia in love with her, they are engaged, everything is or was in line for a wedding, and now Laura is losing her hearing. Fred, the prospective husband, was driving too fast one night, there was one of cur 50,000 annual motoring accidents Freds arm was broken, one girl was killed and Laura, apparently only badly bumped, presently developed a hardness of hearing which turned in a few months to actual deafness. in the first place, Laura, away. Youll take your trouble with you, and add to it other troubles of homesickness, loneliness and an Infinitely enlarged dose of self-pitWhat you are facing is only what 10,000 gallant American boys have faced in the past few years more than 10,000. more than 100,000. It wasnt their fault. They loved life as you do, and their young strength and bodily But some lost hands, perfection. some arms, some eyes, some never will breathe comfortably again, and to many, the boys who fell at Bataan and on the Normandy coast are the enviable ones. Well, you - cant run Heroes Are Forgotten These boys form our new army of heroes. Wo forget them, we rarely think of what they sacrificed and what they suffer, but when you Join their company you- - will find yourself in the group of the least unfortunate. Yes, to most of them mere partial deafness would seem a disadvancomparatively simple tage. Weigh that handicap against your numerous blessings: Youth, health, beauty, comfortable means tfnd you will find the scales still far down on the right side. So the situation comes down to that question that we all mast be asked before we go very far in this puizling life. Are yon strong enough to take It? Are you woman enough to go courageously on into happy wifehood and motherhood, grateful for the Innumerable Joys still left you, patient under the undeniable trial of your af- fliction? Science, .that has made such miraculous strides in this particular line, may' yet rel.eve you of it entirely. Whether it does or not, m time you will see Fred face his hard moment, whatever it may be, you will see your, children put to the test, you will discover that a mere physical disability is not the most serious thing that a woman may have to face as the years 'go by and that our happiness, our our success or failure as individual women depends upon the attitude we take when the inevitable challenge arises: Are you strong enough to take it? More people EVANSTON, IIL. should read for pleasure instead of F rtd, th prospectiv husband , The magazine set Intelligentsia: has the giggles over the Jokester who had the New Yorker. movie critic a his chump. John (of that mag) was summoned to the phone foe other Sabbath evening, told to move his radio closer to the receiver and was asked silly questions for a Inquiz contest, which it wasnt. siders (who pulled the gag) still are in stitches! ' At the National Press club a thought things never would look any cheerier until we came np with another FDR. When Roosevelt was alive, sneered a Repub, everyone in Washington was miserable. I know, said our hero. But the rest of the country waa for practical purposes, according to Jean H. Iiagstfum, assistant professor of English at Northwestern university. Hagstrum said there was an increase of 10 to 15 per cent in the nations reading during 1947. but a decrease in the reading of fiction. The danger is that people look jupon reading more and more as a utilitarian function, he said. nfkUES BIG '"fVnJtsi Yodora checks Manhattan MursU: The sign in Delancey street delicatessen: "Patrons Who Consider Our Waiters Uncivil Should See the Manager. . . . The upside down ad In the subway trains, which has all the chumps twisting their necks. . . . The sign on the dance hall: Most Exclusive Place in Town. Everybody Welcome. . . . 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Read for Pleasure o Tho Press Box: The activities committee announced a year ago it would investigate Fascist groups in tha U.S. Nothing., as you auspected, has happened. they They cant even .decide-wha- t should do about Gerald L. K. Smith, the notorious soandso. . . . Stassen complains that Taft and Dewey are teaming up against him. The ones who really should worry are Jack Benny and Fred Allen. . . . Colliers (which points out your inaccuracies) spells Alice Fayes name It isnt an easy mistake to Fay. make, either. Her names been In lights for a dozen years since Wake Up and Live waa filmed In of the 1936. , . . The creators comic atrip, Superman," settled their case out of court for over $100,000. They will introduce an idea tn strips never done before. y. needy. What remind g proceeded p, had getting started? That means little to you. But to the conspicuously successful person it means months, perhaps years, of discomfort and sacrifice. It means going without all the things that, make living gracious. It means watching other persons in appar-enU- y easy successes, denying oneself petty extravagances, seeing one's loved ones unhappy and ' Jim Crouch recalls the time Ernest Truex played the title role in and a killjoy Rip Van Winkle, critic gave the star only this much pace; "Ernest Truex excelled in the sleeping scene. smoothly in their courtship until erne night Fred, driving too fast, smashed his car in an accident. lie broke his arm, one of the girls in the car was killed and Laura, as a result of the smash-ulost her hearing. She now feels that her entire life is ruined. M is s Norris diagnoses Lauras trouble as self-pitAccording to Miss Norris, Laura will face many more way. When you see a tremendously Important figure in politics, in letters. In fine and. benevolent living, it la easy to say, Yes, and did you hear the other day of the awful time he With a modem apparatus she can distinguish certain voices, but never in groups. Radio is lost to her, and in theaters she hears nothing. She has broken her engagement and descended into a very purgatory of despair. Not that anyone see it; she says she keeps everything serene on the surface. But she feels that her whole life is wrecked. She will not marry Fred; the darling little apartment with the balcony must be given up; she doesnt want to burden anyone with l deaf wife, who will simply be a pest to everyone, says her letter, "not hearing things and making mistakes and being a general My grandmother wa leaf, and as a child I used to put verything over on her, and think it was great fun, and now I am in he same fix." "My heart is dimply broken. the etter ends, "but at Freds request am writing you, assuring you that will abide by your advice. First lerhaps I ought to tell you that I ilwaya havp been considered as one if the of the group. It tas been Laura who made them ell ' augh, Laura who was the first to rasp the situation. With my hrar-ndependent upon a small mall me on a., black cord, you can magme how much fun I will be! want to go away, to live in some .ity where I am unknown, but that lust come later. Meanwhile, what hall I do"" on into happy wifeinnumerable joys still left you? DEAFNESS Laura Davis is 22, exceptionally pretty, independent and a good athlete. Shes in love with an ideal man but has broken her engagement to him because she doesnt want to burden him. good many THERE are ina the lives of to reach an agree ment with 16 lawyers haggling ove: very word in a labor controversy as it is to get into heaven with' 16 theologians haggling over how many angels can stand on the heed of a pin. Good pastures save grain, says Yea, department of agriculture. and around about foreclosing time, good grain will save pasture. W. C. Fields started on a bender In Hollywood and wound up with a hangover in New York. He was surprised to see John Barrymore at the Stork club. Whata the matter, asked didnt you know I Barrymore, was in town? 1 didnt even know 1 was! waa the retort. you woman enough to go. courageously, It's as hard - once enjoyed roaming through Broadway from midnight to dawn. He haunted saloons and theaters and hobnobbed with the inhabitants of the show world to gather material for yarns. He did what Bway colyumists are now doing. His name: Walt Whitman. . . . About a century ago, a New York scrivener turned out a novel that was a financial failure. As a result, be gave up writing and took a job as inspector of customs on the Gansevoort street pier. He held this job for two decades. Herman Melvilla never lived to see his novel become one of the great classics Moby Dick. . . . One of the struggling poets in Greenwich Village (at the turn of the century) managed to live by scrubbing the floors of a saloon. Years later he scaled the heights and became the English poet laureate John n f ( i&O At Yorker: A Brooklyn newspaperman We are engaged in a great ven- ture, Attlee said, W are trying to build up a great, free, socialist Olive Trees and Taxes Many year ago, when the Balkan province of Macedonia was a center of contention among Turks, Bulgars and Greeks, the Turks, in possession st the time, set out to make the province unattractive to rival They adopted the device oLputting up taxes on olive orchards to the point that forced the unfortunate owners of olive orchards to cut them down. As olive growing was an Important industry, the trick worked. mirouL I 4mmsUf . &4K ft L DQV VEAC57 , |