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Show Letters... Free Enterprise To the Editor: As an immigrant to the United States from the wholly government govern-ment controlled and collectivized nations of Europe, namely Holland, Hol-land, and, after seeing first hand, the way other nations treat their economic woes, namely Mexico, it never ceases to amaze me the way American newspapers and the American news media in general, knock the most successful success-ful economic system on the face of the earth. Where do you get the guts to kick free enterprise around? (Park Record, "The Housing Situation," 11476, pg. 20). While the rest of the world is choking in the muck of myriad forms of collectivism, we get to watch the spectacle of the American free press hand the whip to the master. What you suggest or imply is that Uncle Sam should step in and tell landlords and developers what they can sell or how much the charge should be. When the time comes that they agree with you, you'd better watch your presses, because you will be next. Your assessment of the housing situation in Park City is correct. Your article was well written, housing in Park City is atrocious, but in the name of all that is good, don't put the blame on the most majestic, rational, and life-giving system man has yet devised. Smitry Dear Smitty: Thank you for your impassion-ate impassion-ate and interesting letter. We would like to point out, however, that we neither suggested nor implied that Uncle Sam should step in and tell landlords and developers what they can sell or how much the charge should be. Though that is obviously one possibility, a better one, we feel, would be for individual property owners to examine their values and determine whether there might be some more important than the almighty dollar for example, the atmosphere in which they wish to live, and the type of people they wish to be surrounded by. If the collective answer (made by individuals) is that money matters more than anything else, then at least the City's soul (collective and individual) will have been sold by choice, not accident. |