Evening star., 1939-12-07

repreSSlVe CdXaClOn anu cCOIlOUl
from going to work."
work with a reasonable chance OF
not losing both its Job and itself.
Il say to you that both capital
and labor want work, that both de-
test idleness. We are going to get
exactly nowhere telling lies and
libels about one another. We have
been getting nowhere for seven
years telling lies and libels about
each other.
q" =" What keeps the unemployed
man out of a job?
THE New Deal has a committee
called the Temporary National Eco
nomic Committee. Its Tempo
rary National Economic Committee
this year reports as follows: The
American economic machine Is
stalled on dead center
After seven years of lending and
spending, seven years of printing the
pump, seven years of pushing the
accelerator down to the floor on
more and more public spending,
seven years Of warming up the cylin-
ders of the machine with more than
$22 900 100000 of new national pub
lie debt-after seven years what does
the New Deal repair crew tell us?
1t admits defeat.
ut says: The American economic
machine is stalled on dead center.
This New Deal repair crew
does not believe in this machine 1t
believes in public spending.
Does it believe in those absolutely
necessary. new, great adventurous
private enterprises that create
jobs?"
Fears Philosophy of Despair.
Mr.. Dewey said a survey by the
Young Mems Christian Association
showed 80 per cent of the young
men and women believe that ability
no longer offers assurance Of sue
cess in America.
THE philosophy Of despair is in
deed taking root. What the New
Deal means to them is that it would
have been better had they never
been born.
" The President has said we
have rendezvous with destiny. We
seem to be on our way toward
rendezvous with despair.
Fellow Republicans, as a party
let us turn away from that rendez-
vous. and let us start going in the
other direction, and start now. The
one ultimate unforgivable crime is
to despair of the Republic. The one
essential to the survival of the Re-
public is to know it will survive and
will survive into a future that is al
ways larger, always better.
Here is the final answer to the
defeatism of the New Deal. All his
tory proves it is wrong.
." Society has a permanent
deep-rooted obligation to its aged
its blind, it's sick, its unemployed
But it is not enough to say no one
shall starve. It Is a cruel illusion
to pass laws which are mere
promise without also taking meas
ures necessary to the fulfillment OF
that promise. The present admin
istration has thought it we'll enough
to make the promise. leaving the
performance to come from the saw
ings of the last generation, achieved
under Republican administrations,
and mortgaging the earnings OF the
next generation. which also will be
under Republican administrations.
Wants Rebirth of Enterprise.
"Our obligation-and I say ours
because the Democratic admins
tration has failed-is to start pro-
ducing the goods and earning the
money so that those promises can
be fulfilled. Our first task is to
sweep away the obstacles to that
fulfillment. There is only one source
of real money in any free country,
and that is private enterprise, the
enterprise of the farmer, the worker
and the businessman. It Is our first,
our primary, task to create the con-
ditions under which this enterprise
can go to work.
Until we first make up our minds
that this is our purpose, there is
no use discussing particular prob
lens.
" = There is force in America
that has been held in check which
once released can give us the en-
ployment that We need. It has
nothing to do with slick monetary
schemes. It has nothing to do with
slick economic panaceas. This force
is the energy of American enter
prise, great and small.
Fiscal "Quackery" Hit.
i" Government hostility, re-
pressive taxation and economic
quackery have kept this force from
going to work. Our firm resolve
must be to give 1t a chance and tc
encourage enterprise. Nor does this
involve tolerance of abuses in busi-
ness, or in any other element o1
society. Where there are abuses ir
business, it is the function of gov
ernment to correct them as they
| arise.
'But we can cure abuses in busi-
ness without creating abuses by
government.
%" Shall it be said that all We
can do from now on is to administer
the achievements we already have;
1 do not say no temperately. I say
no with resentment and anger. The
one thing I want to do In whatever
way I can is to help make thu
courage of eternal youth run once
more in the veins Of my party ant