Show I 1 LISTE IV jimei a AR A M RF C S 1 by dr george S benson NATIONAL PROGRAM searcy arkansas the simplest and yet one ot if the important lessons all americans should learn about our way of life Is its economic advantages our school children especially need to know just how much better oft off they are materially than the children in the nations of europe and asia knowing the facts acts ot of our advantages over people who live under other systems gives us good reason to resist the expansion of socialism in any form and it builds up our immunity to the left wing propaganda which seeks slyly to undermine confidence in III the amerlean american system the left wing propagandists and their dupes are constantly attacking the profit motive which provides the impulse in our system they seek to undermine our respect for it in subtle and indirect ways they try to persuade people that it operate in the best beat interest of all the people yet the facts are that the average american work workman an produces two times as much per man hour as a man in a similar job in switzerland or sweden or belgium three times as much as a workman in england atter atler nine years under Soi calls in and five times as a much as the communist worker in russia rus sla tills this unmatched productivity gives elves americans their higher living standard and it continues to make life better in 1800 1900 there were people in america for each car today there are three and one halt half persons for each automobile just 30 years ago the ratio was one washing machine for every persons ver sons today there la Is one for every 47 persons savings accounts in 1920 averaged per person today they average 1437 our private enterprise economy with it profit motive and compete tive live market ni arket Is tile the central factor in n our 0 ur prosperity it operates on the he fundamental idea of private ownership own of the production and distribution facilities the only other kind of economy provides for government ownership or rigid government control of these facilities this latter kind has been operating era ting in varying degrees in the european L ur countries whose living standards are so 80 far below our own and in russia under communism human lethargy and the red jeopardize our amerlean american way of life and our future prosperity american citizens need to be awakened and the facts about america need to be repeated over v and over again to all ages where ever people gather |