Show AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE As was inevitable the administrations partnership plan of electric power development was an issue in the recent political campaign and many people are undoubtedly confused conf used as a s to just what the plan involves in due to the quantities of political smog that have been thrown about it A clear and accurate explanation has been provided by one of the count rys leading newspapers the new york herald tribune it said it is plain that many more kilowatts are needed and that every one should have them at the lowest possible cost B but ut the attainment of this desirable end does not mean going to either extreme of public or private monopoly what the president proposes is teamwork where local enterprise can do the job it should receive receive every encouragement but where the burden cannot be adequately met otherwise government should stand ready to help the important matter however is that the people in any area are entitled to make the first decisions this concept insists that not all wisdom rests in the federal government that people back home know their problems best and that the soundest progress is always to be made by mutual helpfulness the goal is to develop all the electricity that the country needs but to do it without bureaucratic domination the philosophy this idea is certainly not new it is as traditional american as apple pie abraham lincoln once expressed it in these words the legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves the inevitable corollary of that is that government should not attempt to do anything which the people are able to do for themselves here is a principle which can never be repeated too often it points to the only way we can have the maximum in material progress and achievement without loss of liberty |