Show x i LOOKING AHEAD j I f BY GEORGE GEORGES S BENSON Harding 0 College Siang Arkansas An American Dictatorship Just the idea of ot dictatorship in I America shocks us Yet a learned I European professor from the University University University Uni Uni- of ot Zurich Dr Emil Brunner Brunner Brunner Brun- Brun ner told a group of scholars in Amsterdam that all the Western nations are headed directly toward totalitarianism This may ha e come as a surprise to American citizens who are arc part of this great Republic and cherish its democratic institutions tu That was what the professor said He w. w wi-j wi thinking of our democratic ways yet that is what he said The professor knows that Western nations have their legal He knows of their long standing standing standing stand stand- ing convictions about freedoms Nevertheless he said these countries countries countries coun coun- tries are arc on the way toward totalitarianism totalitarianism total total- not because they like dictatorship but because wherever a social evil is to be cured th they y appeal to the state for hel help Power Over the People If It the people keep calling on the state for help the interference of government in the daily lives of ot peo pea people people pie will certainly increase This way of ot solving problems through the state is dangerous as Dr Brunner warned Thinking perhaps of the dangers today confronting Great Britain he spoke out Once the economy is nationalized a totalitarian ian state is there whether one wants it or not Our British friends may not beable be beable beable able to admit that their nation has gone totalitarian but many earmarks earmarks earmarks ear ear- marks of the dictator state are there The government holds power over the people that cruel kings strove for and could not gain Yet these powers were handed over to the government in legal parliamentary tary fashion The government can cantell cantell cantell tell individuals in England where they must work and what they maydo maydo may maydo do for a living Despots of the Dark Ages held powers no more despotic An Honest Lawmaker I The Congressman for our district Representative Mills came home recently Not up for election this year our Congressman did not have to buckle down to a barrage of questions questions questions ques ques- and give political answers Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of ot promises he gave our people people peo peo- in the face factual factual factual fac fac- pie some straight straight the talks He told us that if we want lower taxes well we'll just have to stop asking for more and more govern govern- ment mente You cant can't keep on begging the government government gov gov- for this and that and not expect to pay the bills our Congressman Congress Congress- man told us If It we cant can't learn any better than to go to the federal government government government gov gov- with every little problem that confronts us then we will see government grow until we are arc engulfed engulfed en en- gulfed by it it We must get away from the common idea that it if we get something from Washington we therefore got it for nothing It Depends on Us Those beliefs among us are exactly exactly exactly exact exact- ly the kind of thinking that could spawn a dictatorship World history is full of examples of both big and little Caesars who handed out promises promises promises prom prom- for power The professor is is right The state way of doing things the the planned economy method method method-is is dangerous It encourages helpless helpless- ness It dulls initiative It thrives on waste It taxes the people and cares nothing for debt It could ruin our nation The only way to avoid this ruin Is to get our minds clear about it We can determine that the Amer American lean ican way of work thrift self con and enterprise will carry us through When each individual is free to work worle out daily problems that confront us we have millions of ot people doing things right The Theother Theother Theother other way we would have only a n nha ha handful of men directing a dictatorship dicta dicta- dictatorship in a planned economy that would make us slaves of ot the State and take our freedoms one by one |