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Show THjMERiaANjyA Y 1 CAPITALISM rtrP . By Geore Ptckmmbji;2i3 Very Often An Aching Tooth Does Not Have To Be Pulled It Can Be Filled. THE Communists, Socialists and kindred spirits would have us believe that CAPITALISM is doomed, in fact, that it is just about as dead as last summer's roses. They maintain that the Capitalistic System is in its coffin, cof-fin, ready to be hauled to the graveyard, there to be buried alongside of its predecessor Feudalism. They contend that CAPITAL-ism CAPITAL-ism was on the skids in the United States before the outbreak out-break of World War II, because, as they allege, it failed to solve the unemployment problem and end the depression. And now that the war is over, they see Communism sweeping the world and eventually engulfing these United States of ours. But they are wrong. CAPITALISM CAPIT-ALISM IS NOT DOOMED, It is. not going to disappear from the face of the earth, and most cer tainly not from the United States. Too many Americans know that it was under CAPIT ALISM that . America achieved prosperity, arid that if this country coun-try is to remain prosperous and to go on to even greater prosperity, prosper-ity, it can only be attained under CAPITALISM and FREE ENTERPRISE. EN-TERPRISE. They know that I prosperity depends upon the creation cre-ation and distribution of wealth, land that under the Capitalistic System this country has created and distributed more wealth to more people of all classes than has any other nation in all the world's history No nation has ever attained real prosperity except through industry and trade and these only can flourish under a free economy such as CAPITALISM. All the teachings of history prove that where private property proper-ty has been the most secure and enterprise the most free, in that place has existed the greatest degree of prosperity. Call it selfish, if you will, but man's greatest urge is the profit motive. It always has been is now and alwavs will be. True. there are limes when this urge temporarily weakens when man listens to the visionaries, the theorists the-orists and the social experimenters. experiment-ers. But no man-made laws will ever change it permanently for the profit motive is a biological urge. At the same time it would be foolish to fail to recognize and frankly admit that the Capitalistic Capital-istic System is far from perfect, that it has numerous flaws. But, I hazard the opinion that until someone comes along with some' scheme of economy that looks better, this nation is going to string along with CAPITALISM. So far, despite all the clamor of the Reds, the Nazis and the Fascists, Fas-cists, no plan has been advanced that even comes close to having as many virtues and as few faults as the Capitalistic System. AND now to hark back to the opening sentence of this, article. Did you ever have a toothache? A rather foolish question, because, be-cause, of course, you have. What did you do? You took 'that aching ach-ing tooth to your dentist, you had him examine it. Just because be-cause it was aching a bit, you didn't give up on that tooth entirely. en-tirely. Your dentist's examination examina-tion revealed a fairly sound tooth with a small spot of decay. You didn't tell him to yank it. You told him to remove the decay de-cay and fill the tooth. You knew that tooth had done a lot of service ser-vice for you, that it could do a whole lot more, and you wanted to keep it. So the dentist filled it. And so it is with CAPITALISM. CAPITAL-ISM. Now and then it may have a toothache. But let's be as sensible sen-sible about that as we are with our own personal toothaches. Let's not allow Capitalism's teeth to be extracted until we're awfully aw-fully sure they can't be filled. |