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Show THE AMERICAN WAY NOT FIRED AT JUST FIRED $Jl$ By Georf PeckmmJ.kj IF anyone were to ask me to sum up in one sentence the difference dif-ference between a Communist-Totalitarian Communist-Totalitarian State, such as Russia, Rus-sia, and a Republican Free State, such as the U.S A., my answer would be: "In the Totalitarian State an official or individual who makes an honest mistake, GETS FIRED AT; in the Free State he JUST GETS FIRED." Anyone looking at the newspaper news-paper shots of Gromyko as he was about to sail recently for his "beloved" Russia, could see that the Russian delegate to tlu UN was worried. He had reason. Gromoyko knew not to what lie was returning promotion or the firing squad or even worse, slow death in a slave labor camp. For, if he had made one slip while in America, or what was considered a mistake by the despots des-pots who rule Russia, he was returning re-turning to his doom. Perhaps he-was he-was wondering if he had overlooked over-looked just one opportunity to say "No" or one chance to walk out on the UN when a decision was going against Russia. Well docs Gromyko know that in Russia you GET FIRED AT for just one mistake, real or imaginary. imagin-ary. As this is being written, Mrs. Oksana Stcpanova Koscnkina, Russian teacher, is recovering in a New York city hospital from injuries received when she leapt from the third floor of the Soviet Consulate in New York. Mrs. Ko-senkina Ko-senkina knows that in Russia they GET FIRED AT. When Mrs. Kosenkina finishes testifying before the Congressional Congres-sional Investigating Committee, for which she has gladly accepted accept-ed a subpoena, we shall know why she risked death rather than be forced to return to her "beloved" Russia. My Guess is her testimony will reveal she dared to say something to her Russian pupils complimentary to the United States; that she has been threatened with dire punishment pun-ishment for this "horrible" mistake. mis-take. At any rate, Mrs. Kosenkina, who- is an intelligent person, knows the difference between a Totalitarian State and a free one. She seems to prefer the latter. She positively docs not wish to be returned to Russia TO BE FIRED AT and has so stated she would rather stay in America Ameri-ca where YOU JUST GET FIRED,. i i i IT required courage for the Russian school teacher to leap from the Russian Consulate third story window, or did it? Perhaps Mrs. Kosenkina was choosing- the lesser of the two evils, having decided to risk quick death here in America rather than slow, tortuous death in Russia. There is a lesson in this episode epi-sode for us. We must keep America Amer-ica a land to which Americans will always be happy to return. We must remain a nation in which perpetrators of honest mistakes are JUST FIRED NOT FIRED AT. We must bear in mind that Socialism So-cialism and Communism arc brothers under the skin, that the only difference between them is in the pace at which they propel a nation into totalitarian dictatorship. dicta-torship. We must rid ourselves of the false notion that we can indulge in a bit of Socialism I without traveling the whole road to slavery. You just cannot indulge in a slight touch of Socialism So-cialism any more than you can have a slight touch of smallpox. Every time we put government into another electric power business busi-ness or any other business, beat the. .drums for Federal Housing, plump for free medicine or free any-thing, we are moving America Ameri-ca just that much closer to the day when, makers of honest mistakes mis-takes will be FIRED AT NOT JUST FIRED. The Congressional Investigating Investigat-ing Committee has already brought to light that our nation's capitol is honeycombed with Communists and Communist-sympathizers. Communist-sympathizers. Shoking as that is, therein docs not lie our greatest great-est danger. Our gravest peril lies in the millions, of our misguided mis-guided citizens, who while they despise Communism, favor the ideologies of its twin brother Socialism. These millions must be taught that the socialistic i schemes they endorse, if adopted eventually- would make this glorious free America of ours, a nation where honest mistake-makers mistake-makers are FIRED AT, RATHER THAN JUST FIRED. |