Show 11 aam I 1 NOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters FREEDOM OR SOCIALISM by OGDEN N MILLS former secretary of 0 the treasury E CAN have a tree free country WE W or a socialistic one we can not have both our economic system cannot be half free and halt half socialistic economic liberalism cannot function under tinder constant and arbitrary government interference evidence or of the resulting breakdown accumulates i daily A civilization built upon the private ownership of property cannot survive the destruction of the substance of ownership the conflict Is as irrepressible as was the slavery issue 75 years ago now as then compromises wilt will be suggested now as then they will prove illusory fundamentally antagonistic principles cannot ile be C compromised already we are suffering in from the attempt to do so the depression has been prolonged by the experiments borrowed from the fascist laboratory |