Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-03
Another Great DriDo

/ great drive IS beginning to increase employ
meaf. adjust vases and hours of employment and
return happiness. 4 sense of economic security and
~ soaabie measure Of prosperity to the American
people. Tie federal government has provided the
machinery. Tie public IS asked to cooperate. An
effort j. being made 10 invoke again that patriotic
spirit NAT vas behind the Liberty loan drives of
Word Var days. Those were great DAYS. How high
Is spIfI5 q Ire people rose, How they sacrificed.
How they gave. There was a fervor behind those
CAMPAIGNS that was the American spirit itself.
Everybody WHO had It freely invested his money in
United states Of America. Whatever Of disillus-
laaa.ent asax have come since that time may be for
astsn. Tat var fsusht to save the world for dem
asev turned 1Ht "a be somthing else again. Strange
is happened . Liberty bonds.
I'D. s fae. i that today We face a crisis, greater
ars ssatetS. The number of those unemployed
saltss saat Il the men who served their country
A4 Nar-The social consequences Of econ
H adjustment. can hardly be minimized, They
a4sa4 and country in he land and in
= go. .ateriand areas. War has its social conse-
We suffer from many of them today and
ITEM t5e consequences Of wars that are no longer4of
sa4res. D tAs oneoming generations. But those
.s consequences IRE not greater than the social
s leaess 81 i man made depression which
.rssEA leadership now is trying to end The
.a o. Nhse House today has become a great
s.ar 10. Thousands pray for him. Political
SIS whose theories Of economics and govern
raa counter to all those he expresses openly
admiration for him and wish his policies
NAleoasaass there are, OF course. We may be
mos. eha7ftahis toward them, since there is a varied
reae i1n 10 tile spectacle Of human distress and the
aev daal Il inst d mild term for what is in fact a
social revolution Of the first magnitude, whose
forces ar workinz all about US. President Roosevelt
znl the national administration work to coordinate
snd canssEactiFelY direct those influences. They ask
ta people to help and they will do 1t c~heerfully.
aaqs ~ were 1 nation dedicated to the quest for the
la4aF. Sometimes It became rather ruthless. We
ta= been terribly and ~tragically chastened and now
IRE To be put TO the test. 1t is a test Of the capa-
CT II Ire igdiYidual to arder his life, his action and
EhiakiHs - that out Of the veyations Of these
ines vii come 4 better order.
Re philosophy Of the new deal Is the result of a
asna6aS mandate from the people. 1t was given
November. Il was written in the terms of
Efaklia p. R5osevelt's majority, which left in its
Hsa Z disere6lted and confused minority, in in
4asss sadly betrayed by its leadership and
Il esh#r instances sadly betraying its leaders. One
trim III democracy had achieved to its ultimate in
s4s Interpretation Of the doctrine of laissez faire.
Aaafher succeeded it dictated to the proposition that
u i lard nf rich resource. producing too much of
a.Most everything we consume, there should be
more equitable division Of wealth and interpreting
faaF term II q new light. The test has now come to
fhA people TIE president himself has admitted we
lal MIKE mistakes. They can hardly be more
raAic ii their consequences than the mistakes which
brought us to the social and economic impasse we
fa# seek to solve.
President Roosevelt dramatizes this situation
N5sh the Utmost frankness and with no effort to be
racnlar. FL makes out Of the business Of every
Haa ordering fs own life In the interests Of the
welfare oE All oth4 men an intriguing romance. Each
eI ais succeeding frank talks to the people increases
taeF confidence in him. He makes it plain that
americans are bending themselves to the task of
building i new world order. 1t is to be achieved
without %bEoodshed, logically, by scientific adjust
laHnt. II il already working. He is asking a country
asraadv moving ahead from The gloom and depths Of
! seFere depression the principles Of the golden rule.
Everywhere it II admitted that we shall either do
tais Or w shall pay a penalty more severe than any
taat has Leen eNacted from us in recent years Of
confusion. distress and unhappiness.
Few have vet grasped the true significance of
she administration program. Because it is the most
4adacious thing in the history of all human relations
II il revolutionary. We propose in a few short
months % limit and order production in practically
every field. to regulate distribution Of commodities,
10 fix shorter hours for labor. to increase wages, to
end ruinous and unfair competition. The moral re-
adjustment which must follow this program, when
II i successful. Is greatly 10 be desired.
What a biz job it is. How cheerfully we should
approach It. What a tremendous field for patriotic
service. There is no skeptic so caloused he does dot
wish 1t success. There Is no patriot who can fail to
give 1t less thanfhe last full measure Of his individ-
nal resources and personal effort. The psychology
that was behind the Liberty Loan drives is well in
voked in the current dramatization effort for nation
al recovery.