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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949
How to tune a piano!
The piano is out of tune. So we'll chop it up. Then we'll get a tin horn instead.
Sure, these men are crazy.
But they're using the same kind of thinking a lot of people have been using on the American economic system lately.
Our American way isn't perfect. We still have our ups and downs of prices and jobs. We'll have to change that. But even so, our system works a lot better than the second-rate substitutes being peddled by some countries we could mention.
It works better because of a few simple things. We are more inventive, and we
know how to use machine power to produce more goods at lower cost. We have more skilled workers than any other country. We believe in collective bargaining and enjoy its benefits. And we Americans save—and our savings go into new tools,new plants,new and better machines.
We can make the system work even better, too: by all of us working together to turn out more for every hour we work through better machines and methods,
Because of this, we produce more every working hour...and can buy more goods with an hour's work than any other people in the world.
more power, greater skills,and by sharing the benefits through higher wages, lower prices, shorter hours.
It's a good system. It can be made better. And even now it beats anything that any other country in the world has to offer.
So—let's tune it up, not chop it down.
THE BETTER WE PRODUCE THE BETTER WE LIVE
PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE of The Advertising Council by:
EVANS CLARK, Executive Director, Twentieth Century Fund BORIS SHISHKIN, Economist, American Federation of Labor PAUL G. HOFFMAN, Formerly President, Studcraft Cooper.
PUBLISHED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST BY;
THE PURE OIL COMPANY