The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-24
Teamwork For Progress
Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The National Association of Manufacturers pre- sents business plan for recovery It is foreward- looking program, based upon firm confidence m the ability of American industry achieve and to protect national prosperity if it is freed from uncertainty and excessive governmental restriction
 The manufacturers program embraces criticism expressed implied of several Rooseveltian policies expresses such criticism with restraint and reason abeness which accurately reflects the sensible phoso- phy stressed earlier in the week in Lammot du Fonts address to the conventions: What has been done, wisely unwisey, is behind leave it there. This is time for post-mortems.'
 So the association sensiby refrans from indulgng in what Joseph P. Kennedy recently called belly aching" It looks ahead, not backward. We believe such attitude reflects not only the judgment of the leaders of American business, but of the vast ma jority of ordinary folk who, producers and con- sumers really make the wheels of industry round
 This does not mean, of course that everyone will necessarily ndorse all the proposals in the manufac- turers' program Specifically, there is for wide differences of opinion to when governmental regu laton becomes excessive In asking for relaxation of such regulation it is important remember that generally speaking such controls have been imposed to cope with serious abuses. Sometimes they may have provided a mistaken an inadequate remedy But to sweep away all control might well bring back evils which would far offset any immediate gains
 In short social progress cannot be reversed any more than the scientific and mechanical advance ment of industry itself. It is more possible for the social structure of advancing nation to be geared down to the economic philosophy of century or more ago. than it is for todays shops successfully to operate with engines which adequate in the days of Watt or Corliss Too often the demand of back to the good old days would if carried out mean a harvest of chaos.
 It is encouraging. therefore. to find the manufac- turers association laying it's sights on the future rather than the past though mindful that industry is building today on the sound foundations of past experience" But, more important, "it is opening up new worlds through research and invention There are no limits to this progress Industry does not be- ieve that have passed the last economic frontier
 Neither, of course has this nation passed its last social frontier Enlightened leadership in business government will recognize the urgent necessity of keeping social advance and economic progress in an effective and mutually beneficial partnership
 The National Association of Manufacturers it seems to us has made important contribution toward safeguarding such teamwork
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