Show nn l LOOKING AHEAD q t By By George S S. S Benson President Harding College h p tr Searcy Arkansas I I sj J Take Your Choice r.- r. w f Where Wherever er people gather ather to discuss tl the e problem problem of the nt isms there is usually disagreement on which constitutes th the e n. n worst threat to American liberty Socialism or Communism Ex-Communists Ex and almost invariably all persons who have hav haver e r taken active leadership in fighting Communism on head-on contend contend con con- tend fend that international Com Communism is by far the greatest threat t to our liberties t Recently Ive I've talked at length with Ted Kirkpatrick rr fr the former FBI special agent who recently edited the antiCommunist antiCommunist anti anti- r II Communist publication Counterattack with Matthew Cvetic who was a Communist nine years for the FBI Dr J. J B Matthews leading American authority on Communist infiltration infiltration infiltration Louis Budenz former member of the American Communist Communist Com Corn politburo and Ed Gibbons editor of Alert the Pacific r C Coast Communist anti-Communist newspaper All consider international Communism as represented in the world-girdling world organization b tion headquartered in Moscow and its powerful Fifth Column in America the greatest danger confronting America Whittaker Whittaker Whit- Whit taker laker Chambers who worked in the Soviet underground here rl does too Pinpointing the Blame The tragic loss of our major ally China to the Communists Communists Communists Communists' Com Com- which the partisan bi-partisan Senate Judiciary Committee i has traced directly to Communist influence inside our government government govern govern- government ment strengthens the opinion opinio of these men Even so the fact remains that for Communism to conquer our nation our industrial production must first be badly crippled and our people must be weaned away yay from their acceptance of the basic principles of our way of life In other i words their will to to fight for those principles must be weakened if the Reds hope to win Its It's my conviction that our nations nation's protective forces force have at last been sufficiently alerted against the Fifth Column Column Column Col Col- to prevent wholesale industrial sabotage The gravest danger from the Communists therefore is in the Communist propaganda aimed at the minds of our people and which seeks gradually to swing us first into an acceptance of socialistic m measures and then into full Communism by evolution or revolution Therefore Socialism which is the first traceable step of a nation heading downhill is a menace so serious that its threat cannot be separated from that of Communism Communism Communism Com Com- itself Twin Tumi Dangers For years Ive I've said that Communism and Socialism ar are twins Siamese-twins interrelated inseparable Socialism is defined as government ownership or control of the means of production tion and distribution In economics Communism requires exactly the same thing The social philosophies or credos differ at least on the surface Some styled self-styled Socialists accept accept ac ac- accept the idea of God Communists dont But every Com Corn ComI Communist Communist I al Ive I've ever come across speaks of Socialism as the basic philosophy of Communists What are the signs of the growth of the Socialist idea in our own nation There are many Earl Browder Communist Communist Com Com- Corn Corn- leader who was booted out of the party for harboring questioning thoughts about Stalin says the folIo following wing measures are necessary in this nation in order for full State Socialism r or to eventually take over r r tr t to Steps Toward Communism f. f o of fc J f Government deficit financing manipulation of bank reserves reserves requirements insurance of bank deposits guarantee of mortgages control of bank credits tinkering with the currency currency currency cur cur- rency system regulation of installment buying price controls controls controls con con- price support for farm products agricultural credits loans to business corporations social security systems i for workers various benefits for veterans government housing housing housing hous hous- ing juggling of the tax structure organized government-organized foreign foreign for for- foreign eign loans stimulated war armament production on a large scale Can a nation employ these measures and still not have full Socialism It certainly can for a time Ours has The grave danger as Browder and all Socialists gleefully affirm affirm af- af r firm is that all of these measures measure are giving the government F f more and more power and control in the nations nation's economy k t As it takes control the people lose it in exact ratio That's a simple mathematical fact When the government largely controls the economy it is a Socialist government That's Cr Craf af also a simple fact And still a third fact is that human liberty has never survived in a Socialist State Stalin would say to Americans Take your choice Communism or gradual Socialism well we'll get you either way Our choice should obviously be Freedom a breaking of governments government's control over our economy |