Evening star., 1938-05-15
Proposes q Candidate
For the Presidency.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
In recent issue of The Star appeared
an article "Myron c. Taylor, former United
States Steel chairman, will study problems
Of civilization" which stated that Mr..
Taylor wants to help the United States
solve its pressing economic problems, to
help bring back and keep prosperity and
to help raise the standard of living and
keep it high for all the people He has
already formulated the germ OF an ap-
proach to corporate management and if
he can develop and expand his theories
to fit in with the critical knowledge based
upon his practical experience, his closest
friends believe he intends to devote the
rest Of his years to some form of construc-
tive service-but he won't decide until he
knows, one of them said.
Mr.. Taylor believes corporations should
invariably obey the law just as any other
person should, no matter what the i'm
mediate disadvantage might be- There
is no need for a corporation to practice
chicanery, and a corporation that does
cannot long succeed" Mr. Taylor Is
firm believer in relief for the unemployed.
Feeding, clothing and housing the public
Is an expression of civilization, an essential
to be protected, but to be better under
stood as to methods or objectives and what
gives happiness and comfort to the people
must be the concern Of all of us. The
greatest problem we have, although many
have not realized it yet, is how to protect
the standard of living. Can it be main
tanned? And how?
Mr.. Taylor divides this problem into two
parts. Protection against the destructive
effects of the influx of products of low
income nations by setting up adequate
Government barriers-"America self-con-
tained"-and re-establishment and ex-
pansion Of the home markets and con-
sumption for industry by payment of ade-
quate wages, and an approach to whatever
degree Of stabilization of employment
may best make for progress. We now
need to use the type of mind keen enough
to realize the existence of cooperative re-
lationships between productive enterprise
and the Nation.
Here is Moses to lead the Nation out
of its chaotic depression into a state of
happiness through cooperative relation
ships between productive enterprise and
the Nation"
I have known Mr.. Taylor for over IS
years. also his father, fine old gentleman
who conducted a tannery at Lyons N. Y.
Mr.. Taylor himself is high-class, Chris
tian gentleman in every particular a
| Quaker, educated to be corporation law
| yer, and he was a success at that. He
| entered the industrial field, and his early
ventures in that field were in Government
his courage to do things right and not
tolerate any evasion of law brought hin,
to the peak of success in the industrial
world, becoming chairman Of the board OF
the United States Steel Corp, a great in
dustrial empire, from which he retired
April S, 1898.
| Mr.. Taylor has been great leader, q
successful leader, because he has always
adhered to what he deemed to be right
Some years ago he gave his alma mater
Cornell University-a million and halt
dollars to found the Myron c. Taylor
Commercial Law School, where young mer
might be educated in the laws of common
sense. He IS interested in the develop
ment Of art and music, a vice president o1
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ane
he contributes literally to many worthy
enterprises. Mr.. Taylor has always beer
averse to taking any form Of political job
but here is man who IS not politician
but an experienced and successful lawyer
and industrialist, man who knows tn,
needs Of his countrymen and who coule
lead this Nation back to prosperity through
work. man who can be trusted in ever,
way, man who would see that the af'
fairs q this Nation are conducted eco