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Show Released bv Western Newspaper Union. CO-OI'EKATIVKS ORGANIZED FOIt IIL'MAN RIGHTS WISCONSIN was the first state to enact legislation providing for the "one man, one vote" form of corporation, cor-poration, under which a large portion por-tion of the state's co-operatives are organized. When enacted the law was con.-,idored radically socialistic. Shortly after its enactment I had the opportunity for a conversation with the promoter of the idea. He was an Irish born, but naturalized, American citizen. A professor on the faculty of the state university. A disciple of the elder LaFollette. Uncouth in appearance, but with a mind as sharp as a needle point, I well remember the explanation he gave me of his basis for the idea. He said; "The American government govern-ment is a big, a very big, business. It is operated by selected officials of those who own the business, the citizens citi-zens of the nation. - Those selected ofllclals, the President, senators and representatives, are picked on a 'one man one vote' basis. Those who have millions of the national wealth have but one vote, as do those who have practically nothing. That system works. v The same thing will work In any other corporation. The man who has 100 cows has one vote, the man with but one cow has one vote." In Wisconsin it Is optional to Incorporate under the law, or the older established one of representation by invested invest-ed values, but where it is used 1 understand It has worked. I cannot visualize It working as a basis of organization for our large industrial corporations. Ho classed It as representing human rights as opposed to property rights. Emery Reves, considered the keynoter for the world state proponents, pro-ponents, insists the only way of preventing international war Is the formation of a world government govern-ment to include all nations. He bases his claim for the effectiveness effective-ness of such a world government on the federation of our states. What can such a federation of nations accomplish that UNO cannot accomplish? We can have a world civil war quite as easily as a world international war. We demonstrated that in the eighteen eight-een sixties. WE NOW HAVE 15 government bureaus concerned with the problem prob-lem of housing. On the claim they are not doing an efficient job congress con-gress is considering the creation of another. The bill, however, does not provide for the elimination ol all, or any one, of the present inefficient in-efficient bureaus. That is how government gov-ernment grows. A WORLD-WIDE FEAR of utter destruction may prove a preventive preven-tive of war. INFLATIONARY PRICES mean - but the decreased purchasing power pow-er of money. We have better than a 50 per cent decrease now. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES cannot always be measured by what it costs. It is what fundamentals the teacher puts into the mind of the student that counts. ' PAY DEDUCTIONS AND EFFECT UPON PRICES WHAT COMES OUT of the pay envelope before the worker receives it? There are four main deductions, deduc-tions, and, in a limited and decreas- ing number of instances, a fifth. The employer must deduct 1 per cent of each wage for social security, and another for unemployment insurance. insur-ance. To these the employer must add an equal amount, which to him is a part of his business cost. The employer must also deduct from each weekly or monthly payment such portion of the worker's pay needed to cover the worker's federal fed-eral income tax. These deductions are made on demand of the government. gov-ernment. On demand of the union the employer deducts such dues, assessments as-sessments and fines as may oe charged against each individual worker by his union. In such cases as still exist where the worker is purchasing government bonds on a payroll deduction basis the employer employ-er takes out that payment. Deductions from the pay of the worker as a collection method meth-od on the part of government or the unions means an added expense for industry and distribution. dis-tribution. That expense is added add-ed to the cost of doing business, and we, the consumers.- pay it as a portion of the price of the commodities we buy. It is a phase of the regimentation with which we are being inflicted. II is unAmerican. The unions, in demanding de-manding the check-off system as a means of collection, refuse to recognize recog-nize the honesty and integrity of their members. Such a system if as unAmerican as would be the deduction de-duction of payments due on installment install-ment purchases. There would be more "take home money" in the pay envelopes if the check-off system sys-tem vws discontinued, and the cosl of commodities would be tess fox all of .is. |