Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-04-01

NTH Mr.. Barsch that thsfs4Ajecf ca
it aoas ssstsrol for the AtSgNt&e to To-
EDLPOps or THE Alta N11C MONTHLY
War was once DESERVED N Pm
siz;s most profitable industry. $50.
It neeSs only scaAt eIsminAf,n 9
history to learn that ether ceueayfe
were open to the same indies
The methods Of the Robber, hArssn
do not pass With the sfsd Of ,fswe9
ism. Annexation BY conquest 1td -
cease. Bnt when America. entsfcd tn
World War President Wilson Aatbere'
O. doctrine that shall alwSyA gcveSl
ns--that never q foot OF toYrsthr.
wonld be added to our boundaries b.
fierce
So, as America has taken the lsal
toward making impossible nstiona
profit through war, it too may ot
Americas privilege 10 point the va,
toward making Impossible indiVidua
profit through war. To take the prom
cut OF war is TO take "A long step TO
ward creating an economic detesta-
| zion of war. The experience OF the
| United States in the World War ar
2 IDS a basis for the belief that the
| y IN herein discussed is practical. In
feet. it Is more than belief--!t IS
certainty. although not widely Known.
The world is such a busy place. and
the radius OF human activity has been
so greatly enlarged because of modern
n yentions, that IL is not strange that
there are hut few people who are con
rersant with what was quietly bnf
effectively taking place in this conn
Nv in the mobilization and use Of its
material resources in Tire World war
a process that wo"Id have eventual
" eliminated all improper profits
Strength is given to the public ad-
vocacy OF Industrial mobilization made
Nv both President Harding and Presi-
dent CooIidge-Mr Coolidge az re-
Gently as last October In his Omaha
speech to the American Leeion--by
She fact that the plan they advocated
a. n part Of the regular national war
g,encies had once been set up and
rncesrfully operated under the War
industries Foard
Preceding the Presidents recent
clear exposition Of this subject, some
Fc"I.re ni public interest had been en-
>c-derrd hy an EXCELLENCE Of letters BE-
vn.n Owen y. Your@ tof Dawes n|an
'>,,,eN. Isl behalf Of the Walter Hines
",se St'hNol OF International Rela.
tic AZ, and the writer The cns:re-
srnnle rce resulted in the establish
:, ent &c 'cctr-cs al the Page School
-. Johna Encsins sInive"sityl on this
~.ync t'rf vinnHl~ tha "ldntic M0Gfh.
n, prfss<st An article by S'sley Hudale7
son, who nnintGd or hat Europe saw
o~eet strides toward peace In the
..nerican id~a of liking the profit
nj ~ war in q syst Amstic way His
hne.c reference was ~ the plan OF the
~'nr Inaa.tt;es Road
The resources of, country mtEbt
w., reterreN 10 as the Ave Ms: an
nan power: Ht2l money: t1A main
,e"ance orr alosssl f<lEe fnateyiall re
:nsreay ,;neiBdiRg raw maaterfRt h,
.an"facrrriRe fSr'j'iies. transpaTfa-
sinp. fuel s,Hl 10 gel: aUH tS) patGa'e.
T6. irlteli'Yeyet Vi:h witch the tsrst
n,uia nrs as-stied sn.i co tsTd,NGtNd as
y whc,e wiAI deAasssinA el1D Atsh. the
@orsIostef sss eeEpM1niis. ~ ~
La the MNr eRerseaey .stssasSy No.
cane eeidespt to those mo vese
sha,s~d with the resppnssAllisy j. 81
rgchi;iz,ng the rss0uYGee t&SA thoSe
..s a inst se0tiynnBt cIbeAg the Isso'
Oh hss inst .esOsttoer INK E'rsssstseEiNg
pisssat Il he wiilfulf and proslt aaaaAln1
might. be tiRnolantsry: ,hnt-bwhateser
liz. fornl. there was jpst DETERMINE,
tioE 1t ehonld cease, So 1T became
.rcassary to Ok prices Who're the sup
nv was limited.
Wherever the government created y
shortage BY its demands. prices were
fixed, not only for the Army. NHvv AMI
he Allies, but for the civilian popnia-
ION as we'll And in sddtion to Nice
'jxing on war essentials tsucb as etae(,
wool. copper, and so fcrthl, the bal
sn-e, after the war program had been
filed, was rationed or distributed ac-
epr,ling 10 the priority needs Of the
yarious. Civilian demands. In other
words. where the price of the product
of an industry was fxed that industry
had 10 deliver the part which the gov
erament did not need to the civilian
population, not in the way the indus
,ry chose, but as the government di-
rSG$ed. t .ss 14a "a
1t must be remembered that. HAeu
the war came there WAS no adequate
preparation, Indeed. il, is doubted by
the hest authorities whether amy et-
fective forpl OF preparation then
known would have hesn'of much avail
in view of the'widespread aIsd .ehgulf-
iag res,slts Of the war ana tAe lack. sSt
knowledge. OF the various Instruments
OF destruction which were btasnG de.
,!sed and which Ii became necsssAry
TO combat
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competing one with another fog mate.