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It Can’t Be True!
A friend across the road tells me startling news. The story’s long, if you have to give the contents of a full page advertisement which appeared in one of Washington, 1). C.'s dailies Monday.—ft- -concerns the - -s-h+pplng - problems^of a certain company in waters 21 miles out from Nationalistic China.
The startling part of the news tomes when my friend informs me that the government owns a shipping line which carries passengers and freight. That can t he true, 1 remonstrate, for that would he against private enterprise,-and, sir, that’s contrary to America. Read of the fight our forefathers put up in. order to have this nation free for a man to enter business, meet competition, and ear n his lit ing ther eby, protected by the government— •not in competition to the place where his taxes; would pay for
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