ORIENTATION CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE The idealogical struggle between statism and individualism in the United States will probably be intensified during the next few years. The rise of the P.A.C., the Jones-Wallace fight, the shower of statist postwar schemes, all point in the same direction. The struggle is essentially a struggle of leaderships for public acceptance. The advocates of statism are generally to be found in labor unions, primarily in the CIO, and in New Deal political circles. The advocates of individualism are primarily among busi- nessmen. It is common observation that the statist leaders are ideologically more articulate than the individualists. The statists possess high skill in dialectics and propaganda. Left wing groups have lots of "retailers" for their ideas--party workers, organizers, shop stewards, etc. These "retailers" are indoctrinated at "labor col- leges" and training centers where they learn the party line, organ- ization practices and how to foment strikes and other trouble for social action purposes. Under the New Deal, Washington has become a tremendous training center for statism, teaching many young bureaucrats the principles of semantics, and the techniques of infiltration and divide and rule. Businessmen, on the other hand, have been busy producing and dis- tributing goods. They don't know as much as they should about the principles of social action. Many businessmen take the social system for granted. There is great unawareness of the philosophical and sociological foundations on which competitive enterprise rests. Business collaboration in NRA is an indication of this. Garet Garrett argued this point in his article "Does American Business Want Free Enterprise?" The difficulty of forum directors in finding competent debaters to defend competitive enterprise is another illustration. Statist orators are a dime a dozen; the individualists either are too busy or they don't have the know-how. To help correct this situation, the competitive enterprise people might take a leaf from the notebooks of their opposition and set up an Orientation Center for competitive enterprise. This Orienta- tion Center would develop and offer a dynamic and highly compact one-week's course in the ideology of competitive enterprise and methods for local action in winning public acceptance for this ideology. The course would use lectures, explanatory talks with slides and round-table discussion.