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Show YANKEE THRIFT TURNS THE TIDE Real prosperity can be brought about again in this coun- try only by a revival of "old fashioned Yankee thrift and individual in-dividual initiative". This is not opinionated theory but a hard fact, and the state of Connecticut is taking full advantage advan-tage of it. While the rest of the country continues on a "witches' hunt" for Utopia, Connecticut is determinedly pursuing pur-suing a course of progress. The incumbent governor was elected on a platform pledge to establish a "friendly government" friendly to business, industry and labor. The state budget has been balanced, without resorting to new taxes relief rolls have been halved factory space is at a premium 160 new companies com-panies moved to Connecticut in 1939 alone and employment is higher than in 1929. The state has found that "there is no substitute for a good job in private industry". No effort was made to "steal" industry from other states, or to use high pressure methods. Labor standards were not sacrificed. In fact industries which move across the boarder in search of "cheap" labor are not welcome. Sweatshops have no place in Amerioan life. Politicians who claim that private enterprise is a "worn out" system!, have only to observe Connecticut to have their claims shattered. The only thing that has momentarily "worn out" private enterprise is constant baUyhoo, indiscriminate indis-criminate legislation 'and excessive taxation deliberately directed di-rected toward destructive ends. America's millions of unemployed un-employed can learn a lesson from Connecticut. By contrast they can see the damage that constant political persecution has clone to the private institutions by which we all must live. Where there is individual opportunity there is progress; where there is no individual opportunity there is no progress. pro-gress. M |