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Show YOUR COMi'ETITOlt THE GOVERNMENT. The report of the special committee commit-tee of the house of representatives which has been investigating government govern-ment competition with private business, busi-ness, is a surprising document. It shows that government competition competi-tion extends to the amazing total of 232 different businesses which are legitimately of a private nature. They include the fields of transportation, manufacturing, merchandising, farming, farm-ing, banking, printing, architecture and even amusements. The government govern-ment operates cleaning and pressing establishments, sells serums and other medical preparations, makes paints and varnishes,, conducts a warehousing warehous-ing business, and so on through a long and amazing list of activities. In most instances, this government competition can not be met by pri-i pri-i vate concerns. No business has the prime advantage of government tax j freedom. None is able to conceal its I deficits through treasury appropria-I appropria-I tions. Few are large enough to exert the purchasing power of the government. govern-ment. When the government steps in ' to any field of business a certain part of that field is definitely lost. Every added item, of government competition, by reducing the profits ! of private industry, diminishes the ! government's source of taxes and ' adds to the tax rate of what is left. I So far, government competition with the bulk of businesses has been on a comparatively small scale. But once . such competition starts, its growth is simply, a matter of time. The com-1 com-1 mi tee's facts are immutable and j they show vividly the need for a thor-j thor-j ongh reorganiz'ng of government to 1 t:ike it out of the field of business, in I the interests of economy, efficiency i and opportunity for our citizens. |