Show NEWS ball 14 BY released by western newspaper union WAR experience HAS DEFEATED SOCIALISM washington they say mr churchill churchil blundered when he claimed socialism would bring a gestapo t to the british rob the individual W of his rights and make him a slave to the state t te at least the political elpe experts say lay it in chorus here and abroad As fia OT they see it church uran is the man who won the war and 1 should have iun run for reelection on that platform I 1 wonder the very day he spoke a british spirited province in canada voted on socialism in 0 ontario a straight out socialist movement churchill called the cooperative commonwealth federation had wa won IS astonishing success last time gaining 34 seats more than a third of the provincial parliament the program was government ownership of banks insurance companies railways and certain heavy industries this was to be the new rising political movement of the postwar canadian w world 0 rid but it was nipped far below the bud and in tact fact frost killed when the people of industrial du Ont ontario irlo where labor Is strong cut its power to an insignificant 6 seats in a parliament amen t of go 80 votes AU ali canada is furnishing another test of socialism and you can check the results but it cannot win in the british labor center of ontario it cannot hope for much anywhere outside the radical far west farming arming provinces in britain the labor party leader mr atlee answered churchill directly defending the theory of socialism against the ideal of private enterprise for private profit while churchill may have taken political license with the gestapo deduction he did not exaggerate the basic issue which has been atlee laid do you want socialism or free enterprise the war experience ot of people has riot not been favorable to socialism the lack of competition among sellers has destroyed the interests of the consumers today and government management has nowhere been satisfactory to the people unless a buyer buer can walk out of a store and go to another to purchase what he wants he can never be protected as to the quality of merchandise he buys or as to price no matter how much the government regulates it every man land and woman has found that out to his great discomfort during this war riot not from books book or propaganda but out of his own dally daily experience in living competition Is the only thing which protects the consumers who are all the people government ownership and operation is as noncompetitive as a trust a cartel or a business monopoly once any single torce force gets the power of exclusive operation the buyer must accept the terms where competition is most active the buyer Is best protected consider the service the public gets on those western railroads where some ire bemoaning the parallel lines it is much better than upon eastern roads which control a monopoly of travel this Is true of the buying of all goods or services it is true of hotel accommodations of buying ciga aciga of renting a house or buying a dress it if one power government or private owns au all the business or is in control of the operation for or any reason the public interests are not inot well served of course they attribute our experiences to a shortage of ghods or help that is true but the economic effect has been the destruction of competition the consumer could be told what to buy and at how much he could not get it across the street cheaper or better in my opinion government ownership Is in the public interest only when it Is in itsell itself competitive compe titine competing with private interests to 1 I serve the public better consider the two canadian railroads one private and one government owned the public gets much better service e than it if the gover government rim ent owned both and railroading became a business of 0 government bureaucracy having political directors decide policies economically socialism cannot generate businesslike business like competition in a competitive economy a a av greal portion of business develops from from tha necessity laes sity of one concern to get ahead of another this stimulates tea interest in products and sells more of 0 them the very incentive of competition adds to national income I 1 suspect churchill who was never much of a 4 politician may have seized upon the most popular valid issue he could present the labo jabot leaders who took up a proposal 1 to go halfway to communism h have certainly not chosen the best time |