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HOMER DURHAM by Connie Collins Head of Political Science Department, University of Utah Tt is quite apparent that historians of 1 Individual enterprise as the main- the twentieth century will be able spring of all human activity; any Fish 'n to record that the private business individual at work. Chips enterprise system, in that century, met 2. Individual enterprise in the eco- its toughest, roughest competitors in At Their nomic sense as an individual pro- big government, big labor, and with prietorship, such as a farmer, Best! itself. doctor, lawyer, salesman, or Inasmuch as the coming (and clos- owner of a store. ing) weeks of the 1950 American Con- 3. Corporate, large gressional elections will emphasize scale proprietor- ships such certain of these issues, a few thoughts as General Motors— Want to discover how good "fish "big business"; about "private enterprise" may be in- 'and corporate, n' chips" can be? 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This book FREE ing the American economy and its to Era readers. Fill out ized and directed, whether in coupon below, the problem of survival in today's political then place in envelope or paste on economic or political sphere. Our world. Why? There are fewer units penny postal and mail today! politics as well as our economics is to take over and to control. It would open to those with individual initia- be relatively easy (speaking in the tive. administrative sense) for the govern- ment to socialize the American auto- mobile industry. If it bought out Some Useful Distinctions. Gen- eral Motors, Chrysler, and Ford, it would take the bulk of the industry. A dozen top officials could In the American economic system it be named to replace is useful to distinguish between the C. E. Wilson, K. T. Keller, following: (Continued on page 675) 602 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ! . ! 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