Show AND ALREADY COUSIN JOHN LIKING IT ANY TOO WELL by DON HEROLD LD its easy enough to be a professor on the subject of some far distant land like the moon A friend of mine once said 1 7 I like henry wallace because hes 20 years ahead of his time I 1 replied that its the easiest thing on earth to be 20 years ahead of ones time the hard thing is to get something practical and useful and beneficial done TODAY I 1 Soma socialists lists are always talking about next year or a five year plan or the moon or the millennium all very remote but we dont have to wait to see what socialism will do to england even now england has made a flop of it the socialist record of accomplishment ment in england is already an allaround all around sorry story take coal in 1948 more mine miners rs helped by more modern equipment produced 9 milli million 0 n t tons ons of coal less than that produced pro d u c ed by miners in 1941 the last year of investor owned mines in england by raising prices the english coal industry made a small profit in 1948 but its loss since it became socialized has been 90 million dollars the electric power industry in england has been socialized for about a year and a half it takes many more workers to operate it than it took when the industry was investor owned last winter the planners decided to increase income income by having a higher rate in winter when people want more electricity than in summer yet industry under government ownership is barely making a profit john bull any too happy about being shot to the moon yet many fuzzy here want us to take a similar ride what do you say we wait and see |