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Show Small Investors , Now to be Heard i i By George Peck The American manufacturer who does not employ salesmen soon finds himself with little or no market for his product, no matter how good that product may be He must have salesmen or lobbyists lobby-ists to press the claims of his product pro-duct before the bar of public opinion, els his competitors will corral all the business. That is an essential part of the Free Enterprise En-terprise System and of American democracy. , Equally essential to our American Ameri-can democracy are the pressure groups employing salesmen or lob-hvixts lob-hvixts tn nrptyi thpir rlnims before ' terests, to join hands with it. Briefly, the purposes of this L?aue are we quote from its literature): "To build a nationwide nation-wide organization which shall vigorously vig-orously conduct activities designed to bring about fairplay for Investors, Inves-tors, Life Insurance Policyholders, Savings Bank Depositors. Homeowners, Home-owners, Small Businessmen and other property owners''. If you are one of the 64 million falling under one or more of the above categories, why not write the Investors Fairplay League to send you its literature? No matter how little you may have of stocks and bonds, of insurance and other possessions, pos-sessions, it might be -wise to employ em-ploy this organization as your sales-force to press your just claims. the Federal and State Governments. Govern-ments. It can only be 100 percent democracy, however, if all segments are adequately represented. Unfortunately today, there are large groups that have had no voices pleading itheir welfare at the Federal and State capitals. For instance, the interests of 15 million stockholders (most of them small) of American corporations, unlike . organized labor and agriculture, agri-culture, until recently have been almost totally unrepresented. , You may feel inclined to dispute the aforegoing statement, haying in mind that among others, the. National Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers and the United States Chamber of Commerce are very active pressure groups fighting for investors. This is true but the sad part of it is that their efforts are largely ineffectiual. Why is this? The answer is quite simple. Congressmen, State legislators and the public at large . erroneously consider that those manufacturing and business groups represent only the vested interests, entirely overlooking the fact that they really are pleading the cause of all the 15 million investors. in-vestors. It is patent because of this unreasonable prejudice that the majority of the 15 million investors in-vestors are not adequately and advantageously represented, and that if they are to be granted the hearing to which they are entitled, they must set up a strong pressure pres-sure group of their own. Therefore, as on (a very small one) of these 15 million stockholders, stockhold-ers, 'e were glad to learn of a new1' organization, The Investors Fairplay League, with headquarters at 120 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. We were much impressed with the c'bjectives and possible achievements ach-ievements of this association, and as the cost of joining it was small, w,e "decided, in our own selfish in- |