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Show Let's Start Defending "Free Enterprise" AN EDITORIAL public. "No titles of nobility, no inherited rank or caste to buck against; free schools, free libraries, scholarships and a helping help-ing hand for the poor boy on the make. LAND OF OPPORTUNITY "And here's a true story of an Irishman, named Cotter, who was a section foreman on the Chicago and E. I. Railroad. Rail-road. He and his wife lived in a tiny cottage on the side of the line. There they raised four boys with the smell of the Iron Horse in their nostrils. At an early age they left home to shift for themselves in this free and fortunate land. "Years later, when Mrs. Cotter died, her funeral was held in the same section house. The big locomotives hauled four private cars loaded with flowers to her funeral. From each of the cars stepped one of her four sons eahc a high official offici-al of the greatest transportation system on the globe. "And there is Bill Jeffers, of the Union Pacific, president of a great railroad upon which his father drove spikes as an immigrant lad from Ireland. "Call the roll! Tell the story of this worker's republic. Don't tell me that things have changed. Didn't we workers in this republic in 1944, outproduce the entire world, friend and foe, in the munitions of war? "A worker's republic. 25,000,000 homes and farms, at least half fully paid for; more automobiles, telephones and gadgets gad-gets than the rst of the world combined; more money spent on our public schools than the rest of the planet spends; 75, 000,000 life insurance policy holders; 45,000,000 with something some-thing in the bank; 80,000,000 who bought Uncle Sam's bonds. Some republic ! "That's America. That beats Russian Communism three ways to breakfast. STERILE INTELLECTUALS "Why should we go around pitying ourselves? Why should we catch an inferiority complex from the sterile intellectuals in-tellectuals of Union Square, New York? "Yes, I'm leery about this 'worker's republic' over in Russia. Rus-sia. If it's so hot why don't they let us see it? Why do they exclude our news reporters? If your were a housewife and gotyourself a new icebox wouldn't you be glad to see the neighbors streaming in to see it? Or, if you were a farmer and raised yourself the biggest pumpkin in the state, would you shoo the photographers away? "But this repubic over here, we can see it. It works. It was built by workers. It belongs to workers." R. J. Wilkinson in DEVELOPMENTS THIS IS NOT a political organization of businessmen but employers "small business" men to be specific. You are a mighty important part of this country we call U. S. A. These United States are NOT as well united as they were mainly because of the boring activities of certain individuals in government, labor, colleges, schools, factories and "finishing "fin-ishing plants" who want to force on the Amercian people a "new order" a "planned economy" planned after the system now in Russia. We don't know whether that system is good or bad. So far no one has been allowed to look in on the original and return to tell much about it. We have no quarrel with Russia and moreover we don't want one. Their system probably fits the conditions they have and the people who live there better than ours might. This much is CLEAR: American businessmen are going to start fighting back against these crackpots who want to make us over or else face certainty that this Republic that we have grown up under is going to be torn apart. It's no longer logical to pussyfoot the issue. It's 11:59 P. M. right now. If you don't believe this read your newspapers Detroit De-troit Pittsburgh etc. These tie-ups are not just a few honest American laboring men seeking an increase in take-.home take-.home pay. - American businessmen, big and little have got to STOP letting communist leaders carry the ball. Stop letting laboring labor-ing people their own employees, be mislead into selling the nation down the river; Whatever it takes we must put in It'smore important to our businesses than checking off invoices in-voices or trimming windows it's fundamental. ' We believe there is some real food and fortification in the following statements for the businessman who wants to talk sense and defend himself and the U. S. A. against these enemies of our free enterprise system. Samuel B. Pettingill of the COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT GOV-ERNMENT says. "When I hear talk about a 'workers' republic' re-public' I rise up and place in nomination the United States of America. Where and when have workers ever had a better republic than this home grown one of ours? Where on God's footstool have so many people, for so many generations, had a better chance? "Talk about workmen! Five of our Presidents were born in a log cabin; five were sons of farmers including the present pres-ent President; three the sons of artisans or mechanics; three the sons of country pastors. One was past twenty-one years of age before he could Tead or write. "Here on American soil railsplitters have turned into Presidents; privates into generals; gobs into admirals; shoemakers shoe-makers into Senators; newsboys into Governors. LOOK AT THE RECORD! y "Yes, a worker's republic. A little hunchback immigrant boy by the name of Steinmetz became an electrical "wizard"; another, Pupin, a six-year old stowaway landing in America without a dime, or a friend became a great scientist; Karl Schurz, refugee from Prussian tyranny, became a general, a senator and member of a President's Cabinet; Knute Rockne brought here when two years old, became America's great-. great-. est football coach; Bill Knudsen, another immigrant, became a big man in the biggest company in the world; and today, the mayor of our greatest city; Bill O'Dwyer, was born in old Erin. 'It was a workers' republic. It was not a lazy man's re- |