Show EFFICIENCY EFFICIENCY-AT AT THE I EXPENSE OF LIBERTY In a recent address Edward Howard Griggs of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences s commented on the many mic advances made in Italy under under under un un- un- un der the dictatorship of Musso Musso- lini He then said It will take Italy a hundred and fifty years to LO get that freedom sh she had before Mussolini if sn I gets it back 1 thInK that is a tragic price to pay for economic efficiency That is the point of view that should govern ou our r thoughts and and our actions in these ok som times Lunes Plato wrote that the way wily wilyo o get bet the most efi efficient type L J. government was to appoint a i tyrant and give him unlimited Juwer ewer ower and a free hand At varS var- var lUUS S times in world history that thai as been done done and and in exchange for efficiency the peoples of the nations subjected to tyrannical rule have lost all freedom ah all liberty all that the great humanitarians humanitarians hu hu- hu- hu have fought for Victory over economic adversity was dearly won Today all over the world there is an undoubted trend toward toward toward to to- ward dictatorship Of all the great nations we only with the exception of England ha have ve been at all successful in maintaining democratic principles And there is great danger that in our haste hast to better our lot economically we will perr permit the weaken weakening ng or destruction of those principles in seeking peeking efficiency in inthe that that i n the she routine of living we will ili lose our frE freedom Nations cannot be gov governed now precisely as they were a century ago but ago but the basic principles prin of individual industrial and governmental conduct that thai obtained then are as true as they ever were wore Ne- Ne Ne essary essary change can cart be ue effected 1 not at atUle atthe the Ule expense of those principles rut Jut with their sid cid id |