The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-30
.BORAH ADVOCATES
NATIONAL POLICY
OF CONSERVATION
Quit Helping the War
Makers of Europe

vention of the International Adj
vertising Association, urged the
necessity for American concentration
on domestic problems, the conserva-
ton Of our natural resources which
are being recklessly and heedlessly
debauched by the short-sighted greed
of private owners, and the futility of
our Exclusive effort to aid Europe"
Waste OF Oil Resources.
Borah laid particular emphasis on
the "orgy of production" in the oil
fields and Of the shameless waste of
this important resource of the nation
in many oil fields which are being
damaged OF ruined through careless
or hasty drilling operations. He
pointed out that in a report filed by
the Federal Oil Board last Septem-
Der, the statement is made that the
known oil fields of the United States
hold oil sufficient to supply this
country for six years, and probably
no longer.
GAS the world is now organized"
said Borah, coil is an essential ele-
ment of national power, an indis-
pensable factor in national security.
Without oil in these days, a nation
faces economic vasalage."
He indicated, somewhat cautiously,
that the oil interests would have to
set their house in order and stop the
alarming "saturnalia" of reckless
competitive production for profit if
they wished to avoid governmental
control, having previously exposed the
impotence of the government which
had already admitted its inability to
control the national brigands.
Speaking of the damage caused by
the Mississippi flood, amounting to
approximately S4OO,OOO,OOO and the
misery and desolation Of the people in
the flood areas, Borah points to the
waste in national wealth, the waste
in Human suffering, Encouragement
and the breaking up of the plans of
lifetime" and concludes that Eve,
as a people, as nation, should turn
our attention to the working out of
an intelligent and permanent national
program, a national policy" to solve
these problems which involve the well
fare of the nation.
Squirms at Government Control.
But Senator Borah's humanitarian
impulses begin to squirm little I'M
comfortably over the possibility of
government control of the basic in
dustries. at is not so easy to deter
NINE" he says, "our course, or what
tits wise to do as a government, when
it comes to dealing with the problems
which oil, power and coal present. l
venture the opinion, however, that
the extent to which the government
shall take part in these matters will
depend primarily upon those who own
and control these industries. Govern
ment dominance or control or gov
eminent ownership will depend very
largely, if not wholly, upon the action
and conduct of those who own or are
in. control of these things. If waste
continues, and reckless exploitation
prevails, if the people are charged
unreasonable prices, the government
will have no alternative; it will have
to go as far as is necessary"
Senator Borah feels that the great
war is responsible for the DETECTION
of our attention, as a government and
as a people, from our domestic prob
lens to the problems of reconstruc-
ton and sterilization which confront
Europe.
Helping the Warmakers.
"Under the present policies Of
Europe" Borah stated, cancellations
of debts and loans will serve but little,
if at all, in reconstruction--they
seem more in need of great military
establishments and strengthening
of the war program; we are not help
ing the people of Europe but the war
makers Of Europe. The present pol
icies do not mean peace, do not mean
reconstruction.
"The history of Europe during the
last thirty days has in it every ele-
ment of strife which preceded the
years before the war. The premier
of Italy in a public speech declares
that he is on the way to creating an
army of 100000 men, to the build
ing of a great navy and to the re-
construction Of an air force second
to none in the world. What are these
things for?
"The break between Great Britain
and Russia, the assassination Of the
Russian minister in Poland the exc
cutions in Russia, have made Europe,
mentally and spiritually, if may use
the terms, an armed camp. Last Sum
day week the premier OF France,
at Luneville, delivered a public adj
dress stepped in bitterness and intol-
erance. In the fact of such speeches
Locarno becomes a flimsy piece Of
organized hypocrisy. The league con-
venes in an atmosphere Of dissension
and strife"
Keep Up the Sustaining Fund
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