Show I THE AMERICAN WAX w r IW DO YOU EXPECT US TO ANYWHERE K 9 THAT WA IK I r INDUSTRIAL t tr 51 PROGRESS f Nit f Q M r s N. d l ry ll r rt t I lE S v I. I 66 1 R fl W 1 r mw y tb II w w I i K V 1 I Getting Nowhere Nowhere Fast Fast Who Makes The Gains I The radicals' radicals classic complaint against capitalism is us lis that it tends to concentrate the wealth and income of the nation in the hands of a relative few at the expense of the many That ancient cliche is still in use Yet the truth is that just the opposite has occurred The greatest gains in late years have been made by people in the lower and the middle- middle income groups As an example in 1941 there were families in the bracket last year there were more than And in 1941 only about families families fam fam- I had incomes over while last year the total reached almost Last summer a survey vas was made to find out what classifications classifications classifications class class- of people were better or worse off than in 1930 after making allowance for changes in taxes and living costs Such representative labor groups as coal miners railway workers etc were all aU better off and by a wide margin But typical groups of executives and stock and bondholders were vere worse vorse off No economic system in history has done as much as our free enterprise capitalism for the so-called so common man The radicals are trying to hide that fact |