Missing Leader
STANiSLAW MIKOLAJCZYK
?" IT HAS BEEN announced In War
saw that Slanislaw Mikolajczyk
(above), leader of the opposition
Pulish Peasant Party-"disappeared"
several days ago from the Polish
crpital and has fled the country.
Mikolajczyk, an outspoken critic of
the Russian influence in the Polish
regime, had been under fire within
h.s own party. (International)
Of the 41 members of the 1947
University of Nebraska football
squad, 22 are Legionnaires.
Auto License Examiner
To Be Here Two Days
Each Week In Future
Charles D, Lindsay, state high
way patrolman, has announced
that a State Auto License Examiner
will be stationed in Sylva at the
courthouse on Thursday and Fri
day of each week beginning,
Thursday, November 13. Prior to
this date he has only been here on
Fridays.
All operators of motor vehicles
whose sir names begin with A
and B are required to have an
examaination and a new license
issued prior to December 31. Those
operating in this class after Jan
uary 1, without having passed their
driving examination and having a
new license, will be subject to ar
rest.
A new group of the alphabet
starting with C must begin tak
ing examinations after January 1.
63 MILLION BUSHELS
N. C. CORN
As harvest of North Carolina's
corn crop progresses, a produc
tion of 63,278,000 bushels is indi
cated to be in prospect. This is 7
per cent larger than the previous
record crop of 58,924,000 bushels
harvested in 1946.
The production of peanuts in
North Carolina this year is es
timated at 350,400,000 pounds,
compared with the 1946 crop of
272,875,000 pounds.'
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The Company is more than 50 years old, writes all forms
of group and life insurance in addition to health, accident, and
hospitalization insurance and has been doing business in this
state for a number of years.
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President? Harding College
B Searcy. Arkansas
The -'Camel" Method
Once the camel gets his head into
the tent, he soon has his entire body
inside. This old saw lends itself to
some modern applications, but it fits
none better than the current Eng
lish situation. Socialism is indeed
like the camel; it does not stop at
part-of-the-way measures. To put it
into a good old Southern expression,
it's simply "whole hawg or nuth
ing.
A striking feature of the British
"Crisis Bill" which recently be
came law in that country, was a
clause giving government the au
thority to take possession of any
industry which it might pronounce
inefficiently managed. Actually,
what this means is that no industry
in England is safe from government
confiscation. The threat will always
be present, for the excuse of "ineffi
ciency" could be trumped up at any
time.
Invading the Tent
For five years 1 have contended,
in this column and in public ad
dresses, that no country could oper
ate successfully with a "half-and
half" economy. If it's partly gov
ernment managed and partly pri
vate enterprise, pretty soon Social
istic schemes find excuse to invade
and take over. The present English
government is proving my conten
tion. It's the old "camel" process.
England is a country that long has
been known lor devotion to the free
dom of individuals. Yet, within two
years after she started her program
of nationalizing major industries, it
was found necessary to pass a law
giving the government power to
seize any industry it may choose on
the excuse of "inefficiency."
There's a lot of leeway there. An
industry might be inefficiently man
aged from the viewpoint of produc
tion, or even from the viewpoint of
non-cooperation with the govern
ment.
Camel Becomes Boss
Another striking feature of the
Crisis Bill, as reported by the Asso
ciated Press, was that it gave the
government power to tell both men
and women where to work and what
to do. This includes women from 18
to 40 years of age who have no chil
dren under 15, and men from 18 to
50 years of age. This loss of free
dom of individuals has been un
thought of heretofore in English
speaking countries.
Control the Beast
It is my earnest conviction that
England avoided this conscription
of her industry and her people just
as long as possible. These steps
must have been taken reluctantly,
for she long has championed all the
freedoms that we hold dear. There
is only one conclusion to be drawn:
these dangerous and drastic steps
cannot be avoided under a govern
ment managed economy. Once the
camel's head is in, there's no keep
ing him out of the tent.
Every free American must take
this as warning. If we want freedom
to work at the job we chopse, where
we choose, and to bargain for our
wages?then we do not want a gov
ernment managed economy. If we
want th* right to own property and
to operaie a business for what profit
there is in it, then we must stay shy
of government managed economy.
The British experience tells the
story.
Words of the Wise
Nothing is so infectious as es*
ample, and we never do great
(?ood oe evil without producing
the like. ?(La Rochefoucauld)
The U. S. Department of Ag
riculture has announced a price
support program for hairy vetch,
crimson clover, and Austrian win
ter peas of the 1948 seed crop.
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