Arizona state miner., 1926-04-10

history to learn that other countries
were open to the same indictment.
The methods of the Robber Barons
did not pass with the end Of feudal.
ism. Annexation by conquest did not
cease. But when America entered the
World War President Wilson fathered
a doctrine that shall always govern
us-that never a foot Of territory
would be added to our boundaries by
force.
So, as America has taken the lead
toward making impossible national
profit through war, it too may be
Americas privilege to point the way
toward making impossible individual
profit through war. To take the profit
out of war is to take a long step to-
ward creating an economic detesta-
tiOn Of war. The experience of the
United States in the World War af-
fords a basis for the belief that the
plan herein discussed is practical. In
fact, it is more than belief--it is a
certainty, although not widely known.
The world is such busy place, and
the radius of human activity has been
so greatly enlarged because of modern
inventions, that it is not strange that
there are but few people who are con-
versant with what was quietly but
effectively taking place in this coun-
try in the mobilization and use OF its
material resources in the World War
"a process that would have eventual
ly eliminated all improper profits.
Strength is given to the public ad
vocacy of Industrial mobilization made
by both President Harding and Presi-
dent Coolidge-Mr Coolidge as re-
Gently as last October in his Omaha
speech to the American Legion-by
the fact that the plan they advocated
as a part of the regular national war
agencies had once been set up and
successfully operated under the War
Industries Board.
Preceding the Presidents recent
clear exposition of this subject, some
degree of public interest had been en-
gendered by an exchange OF letters be-
tween Owen D. Young (of Dawes plan
fame), in behalf of the Walter Hines
Page School of International Rela-
tions, and the writer. The CORE
spondence resulted in the establish
ment of lectures at the Page School
(of Johns Hopkins University on this
theme. Previously the Atlantic Month
IN printed an article by Sisley Huddle-
ston, who pointed out that Europe saw
great strides toward peace in the
American idea of taking the profit
out of war" in a systematic way. His
basic reference was to the plan OF the
War Industries Board.
The resources of country might
be referred to as the five Ms: %
man power; (2) money; (3) main
tenance or food: (4 material re-
sources Gncluding raw materials,
manufacturing facilities, transporta
ton, fuel and power); and (5) morale
The Intelligence with which the first
four are directed and co-ordinated as
a whole will determine the fifth. the
morale of the community.
In the war emergency it early be-
came evident to- those who were
charged with the responsibility ~of
mobiliZing the resources that there
was a just sentiment among the peo
pie against profiteering. Profteering
might be willful and profit making
might be Involuntary; but. whatever
its form, there was a just determine
tion it should cease. SO it became
necessary to fix prices where the sup
ply was limited
Wherever the government created
shortage by it's demands, prices we're
fixed. not only for the Army, Navy and
the Allies. but for the civilian pOpula
tion as well. And in addition to price
fixing on war essentials (such as steel
wool copper, and so forth), tho bal
ance, after the war program had beer
filled, was ratiOned or distributed &C
cording to the priority needs of the
various civilian demands. In other
words, Were the price of the product
of an industry was fixed that industry
had to deliver the part which the gov
ernment did not need to the civilian
population, not in the way the indus
try chose, but as the government di
rected.
1t must be remembered that wher
the war came there was no adequate
preparation Indeed, it is doubted by
the best authorities whether any eff
fective form of preparation ther
known would have been of much avail
in view of the widespread and engulf
ing results of the war and the lack ol
knowledge of the various instruments
of destruction which we're being de
vised and which it became necessary
to combat.
Our own Army had several division:
competing one with another for mate
rials, transportation, housing, and so
forth. On top Of that there prevailed
the demands of the Shipping Board,
with the slogan that ships would win
the war, and of the Food Administra-
ton, with the slogan that food would
win the war. Further, there was the
Railroad Administration with it's need
for material and labor, and finally
there was the feverish quest for labor
and supplies on the part Of the muni-
tion makers-all competing for labor