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Show Correct Capitalistic Abuses The capitalistic system, practiced and wellnight worshipped in the United States, has nothing to gain in refusing to face facts which reveal its weakness. That it has defects is apparent to all of us vho are not so blind as to believe that we see the milen-nium. milen-nium. That responsible leaders of the system, as it is, openly admit ad-mit its weakness and hope for improvement im-provement is a sign of strength. Daniel Willard, for example, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroads, spoke his mind very creditably when he recently told the Wharton School of Finance, Fin-ance, at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, that a system "under which it is possible for 5,000,000 o: 6,000,000 willing and able-bodied men to be out of work and unable to secure work for months at a time, and with no other source of income, cannot be said to be perfect per-fect or even satisfactory." Declaring that finance and commerce com-merce in this coutry is based entirely en-tirely on the principles of the capitalistic cap-italistic system, Mr. Willard asks pointedly, "of what avail would be your studies concerning the details or that system if the system itself should collapse?" He then expressed expres-sed confidence that "a way will be found to perfect and preserve it." Utterances such as this, coming from a man who heads one of the most important railway systems of the country, are encouraging to those who are hopeful of better times. It is a sign that capitalism, or what is good of it, will endure, and that the abuses, at present a part of it, will be discarded. |