Qn a number of occasions we' have
observed here -that while the Soviet
Union has great military power, it
is in. fact — no real threat to
the United States today unless we
surrender out of misquided fear.
And even in terms of military
strength, the United States can
destroy Soviet military potential
five times over within 24 hours, and
defeat any Soviet attack even if
they should strike first.
Thus,, the danger to the liberty
and independence of the” American
people is hot primarily military.
Nor is there any real danger — un
less we permit it to happen — of
the Russians overtaking, much less
surpassing, the free-enterprise sys
tem in this country. If, that is, we
will just let free enterprise continue
to be free. i
In an editorial some weeks ago,
we discussed a report by an assist
ant to.. the President who had
analyzed the relative economic
Strengths of Russia and'the United
States.' In order to equal the Rus
sians we would have to do the fol
lowing :
Destroy three-fifths of our steel
production, 'two thirds of ottr oil
production, and 95 per cent of , our
output of electric motors. We
would have to abandon two-thirds
of our hydro-electric power, cut
out 90 per cent of our natural gas
production, rip up' 14 miles out of
every 15 miles of our paved high
ways — if we wanted to be equal
with the Russians in these things.
We would have to tear out two
thirds of our railway tracks, sink
eight out of every nine of our
ships, scrap 19 out of every 20
cars and trucks rolling on our
streets and highways. To be equal
with the Russians, we would have
to cut our standard of living by 75
per cent, destroy 40 million tele
vision sets, tear out nine out of
every ten^ telephones, and put more
than half of all of our workers
presently in industry back on the
farms.
In scanning die October issue
of a publication called “Population
Reference Bureau Bulletin,’’ we
note that more than 38 million
Russians work on farms, while 36
million work in industry. More than
SO per cent on farms — yet there
is a food shortage in Russia! In
America, only ten per cent work on
farms,
Now this may surprise you —
as it did us: Nine-tenths of the
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food produced in the United States
is produced by -ten per cent of the
tamers'. In other words, if $0 out
of every hundred fanners left their'
farms, we would still produce more
than enough food for our peoplb!
American agriculture, like American
industry, is so far ahead of the
Soviet Union that it is ridiculous
even to compare them.
The Russians aren’t kiddipg them
selves about all of this. We re*
cently ran across a quote, from the
July IS edition of Prank, the offi
ficial Soviet newspaper; which ac
knowledged that Soviet industry is
less than half as efficient as that
of the United' States. This is be
cause most of it is done without
any machines.
During last year’s Presidential
campaign, a great deal was said
about the respective “growth” rates
of Russia and the United States.
The statistics frightened a great
many people including, frankly, us.
This year, however, it was acknow
ledged that the Russian , growth
rates referred to during the cam
paign covered the period of 1948
through 1953, when Russia was re
building after the war. If you want
to take the growth rate from 1917,
when communism took over in Rus
sia, through 1956 — the story is
quite different. During this period,
Russia’s growth rate averaged 1.2
per cent. • The growth rate in the
United States during the same per
iod averaged 2.3 per cent.
In other words, for nearly half a
centuly, we’ve been growing at
a rate almsot twice as fast as Rus
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There is no reason for Americans
to tremble at the suggestion that
this nation should stand up to Rus
sia. Nobody knows better than the
Russian leaders that America, for
all of her faults, still possesses the
potential superiority and ability to
defend around the world. But this
is no time for faint-hearted sur
reder, and certainly not for the
cowardly cult that whimpers "better
Red than dead.”
American who have been history’s
principal beneficiaries of freedom
now need only to recognize their
responsibility to stand up for it.
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People are nof afraid to lose
their lives, but they are afraid
to lose their licenses. — Conn
ecticut Police Captain, William
A. Cruber.
With that terse summary of its
reasons, the Connecticut state po
lice department recently instructed
all its officers to patrol the high
ways in unmarked cars.
Undoubtedly there will be cries
of “foul" from those who regard
highway speed as a sporting prop
osition rather than a matter for
regulation to save lives. But these
are hardly worth considering under
: ;
any system>of logic. For they al
ways envision a game • with the
most lopsided rules: The driver is
permitted to cheat whenever he
thinks he can; police must always
remain neon-marked and unable to
sneak up on him when he is cheat
ing.
This is a different matter from
those small - town hidden speed
traps and quickie fines that are a
legitimate aggravation to motor
ists. The rules are plainly printed
througout the State of Connecti
cut. And unmarked police cars
merely serve to make the law-en
forcers seem even more ubiquitous
to would-be-law-breakers.
Other states and nations ought to
consider making every square-jaw
ed motorist in a neat, dark car
a potential deterrent against reck
lessness. —■ Christian Science Mon"
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