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Show A HATED WORD Words are curious things. They do not mean today what they meant yesterday, they may not mean tomorrow what they mean today. This generalizing leads us to one specific case the word Capitalism. The way this word has been criticized one would suppose it stood for something some-thing slavish and criminal Thus a perfectly good word ,a word of long lineage and respectable . uses, that cannot be expressed by any other name, has come to stand for the greed and trickery of selfish, power seeking individuals. indi-viduals. When any of us save money and invest it in some productive pro-ductive enterprise, we are capitalists. capi-talists. The man who produces no more than he uses is a sloth. The man who refuses to put his surplus to work lor himself and others is either a fool or a miser. The vho 'JvOiks, .laves slid invests is a capitalist. This leads to but one line of reasoning. reason-ing. Capitalism has been the main cog in the development of civilization. We grow, we improve, im-prove, in the exact ratio of our production above our consumption. consump-tion. The reason we have reached our present civilized development de-velopment is because most of us are capitalists, it may only be to the extent of a War Savings Stamp, but we are capitalists , just the same. Capitalism may be denounced by the Reds but there rre many today who continue con-tinue to believe that a good sized dose of capitalism is- what Bolshevism Bol-shevism needs today. |