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This advertisement came from the March 1952 edition of Capper's Farmer. The ads text reads:

Will they inherit socialism?

You wouldn't want to leave a socialistic America to your children. Most Americans wouldn't.

But you may -- without realizing it. For socialism wears many false faces. You can't always tell it at a glance.

It's socialism, for example, when the federal government takes over for keeps the rights and responsibilities of its citizens on any pretext.

It's socialism when the government steps onto and takes over a business or industry.

It's socialism when people urge you to give up the freedom to run your own life and let the government run it for you.

Today in America, there are people who would like to see an all-powerful federal government own and operate our railroads, our medical profession, our electric light and power companies and other businesses and services.Perhaps they're not all socialists, but what they suggest is socialism -- even though they never call it that.

And they'll have their way unless you act now. Here's what you can do: Start thinking of your future and your children's. Exercise your rights as a citizen. Discuss this danger with your friends and neighbors. Use your ballot wisely. And above all, learn to recognize socialism behind the many false faces it wears.

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America's business-managed, tax-paying Electric Light and Power Companies* publish this advertisement to expose some of the many disguises behind which socialism operates in this country. * Names on request from this magazine.

Electric power is the key to U.S. production strength. We need more and more of it to produce more steel, aluminum and other materials, and to make them into more planes, ships, tanks and guns.

America's electric light and power companies have planned ahead to have enough electricity ready on time to meet forseeable demands.

They'll have it ready...if their suppliers can get the steel and other materials they need to finish the new power plants, new lines and equipment they've started.

• "Meet Corliss Archer" -- CBS -- Sundays 9 P.M., Eastern Time.
• Look for the "Electric Theatre" on Television.