"Libby Loo" wrote: >> "(David P.)" wrote: >> > >>> >http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=MMSI1 > >> > >>> > MARCONI MEDICAL SYSTEMS, a division >>> > of Philips Medical Systems, was created >>> > in 1999 out of Picker International, Inc., >>> > then a leading manufacturer of medical >>> > diagnostic systems. Picker International >>> > began in New York City when... > >> >> [nothing] Farm Journal editorial, December 1938, Philadelphia, PA Will Not Work This magazine believes, in case you are in any doubt about it, in the system of production control by price, with production based on the hope of profit, commonly but mistakenly called capitalism. And this for two reasons: first because in theory it is as moral a system as any other, and much more just; and second because in practice it is the only one the civilized human race has found workable, after five thousand years of trial and error. The theory of the opposite system, which is Socialism or Communism, is not wicked or immoral--on the contrary it would be a good thing if it worked. The difficulty is that human nature is so constituted that it won't work, and never can until human behavior is profoundly changed. Some candid Socialists admit this, but argue that human nature is changing, or has changed, or would change if given the chance, and that Socialism should therefore be put in force right away, or as fast as possible. These are the people who refuse to see or admit the hopeless breakdown of Socialist principles in Russia, the only place where they have been tried on a national scale. This inability to "see and admit," indeed, is the mark of the Socialist. If he were able to see all the facts of history, of human behavior present and past, and draw the plain con- clusions from these data, he would have to stop being a Socialist. It is the same defect in vision that has led the country into the bog of false policies in which it has floundered for more than five years. We are poor, unhappy, and go deeper in debt each day because the chief advisers of the government have been men who were Socialist and anti-capitalist at heart. Advisers who could see and understand human nature and human history were not welcomed; or if accepted were soon frozen out and replaced. Clever young theorists like Tugwell, Jerome Frank, Cohen, Hopkins, Corcoran, Jackson, Oliphant, and this new man Arnold, each with this one loose screw in his mind, have directed the nation's course, with what results everyone may see. Sounder minds like Moley, Hugh Johnson, Douglas, Sprague, Davis, one by one resigned or were dismissed. A few remain--Hull, Jones, Kennedy--but they seem to be without influence on the government's economic and social ideas. It is Hopkins, not Hull, who is listened to. What to do about it is hard to see. Most Americans distrust Communism, but their distrust is generally based on what they have seen of sit-down strikes and other forms of Communist violence. Probably education is the only answer. In time the mass of voters will understand that Socialism is wrong, not only because it destroys property, violates contracts and beats up workmen, not because it is immoral, but because its theories do not work. If farmers and the whole country became Socialists, still Socialism would not work. . . --