Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-09

ness. That Is what I tell them, but
I wish you would come out and say
something about what you are going
to do to make jobs
Mr.. Willkie Il am very glad
that question was asked. Jobs must
be created at their source. The
source of jobs is the market for
products, and the farms, factories
and stores of America. AS matter
of fact, jobs arise from production
and from markets. Our markets
are still ineXhaustible. No one can
seriously believe that Nation of
our resources has reached its peak
with the annual income of the aver
age American family less than ST.
200 year. Surely the minimum
needs and desires of our people
demand that our industries and
farms shall increase and not de-
crease in their productive efforts.
The trouble is that all during the
eight years of the present admin
lStratlon We have not been produce
ing enough either to employ our
available workers or to satisfy even
their minimum needs and desires.
The New Deal has frankly discour-
aged the growth of production. We
must reverse the process and en-
courage production. That is the only
way to create employment. Or, in
other words, to satisfy the peoples
needs. The only way to create and
distribute wealth.
We need all manner of new enter
priSeS in America, enterprises which
will employ many men and many
women. We can bring those enter
prises into being by permitting in
dustry to function once more, by
removing the brakes which have
held it back these past eight years.
Those brakes are Government en-
nifty toward and competition with
industry, uneconomic and punitive
taxation: too much red tape in the
regulation of business: too much
arbitrary power vested in the hands
of bureaucratic agencies; uncer-
tainties of the future value Of
money, created by the Presidents
power to devalue the dollar, also by
reckless spending; fear of the arbi-
trary exercise of personal power by
the President, as evidenced by his
attempt to purge Congressman and
pack the Supreme Court, and par
ticularly his attack upon commodity
prices in 1887.
Many Americans are willing to
take risks and expand old enter
prises and build new ones if they
have any assurance that the Gov
eminent is going to play fair and
abide by established rules of the
game. If, however, the Government
is constantly changing the rules and
calling fouls, industry will not play
the game and it is not given a
chance. That is exactly what has
happened under the New Deal. 1t
follows as the day the night that if
the unnecessary and unfair restric-
tons imposed by this administra-
ton on business are removed, eX-
pansion of enterprise and the crea-
ton of new enterprises will be so
great that jobs by the millions will
open up almost overnight, improving
our national economy and benefit
ting all of our people by con-
stantly rising standard of living.
Mr.. Root-Here's a very simple
question, Mr.. Willkie. But from
reading the correspondence which
has come to you, you would be sur
prisec how many people appear not
fully understanding it. 1t is this:
Why is it that you in your cam
paign are making the third term
such an issue?
Mr.. Willkie Mr.. Root. the
third term is much more than a
mere campaign issue. AS matter
of fact, it goes to the very funda-
mental principles of government.
Almost $50 years ago Thomas JEFF
ferson, the founder of the Demo-
cratic party, after serving two terms
as President, became so entranced
with the enormous poWere under
our system of Government that
rested in the Presidents hands that
he declined to accept a third term.
He was the most popular man in
his time. and he could readily have
secured his own reelection. Shortly
after he retired from office he felt
said that any man who should seek
a third term should be overWhelm-
ingly defeated as an example to
future aspirantS for a third term.
Ambitious Advisers
Urge Hold on Power.
The reason Jefferson, and may I
say also every leader of the Amer
lean democracy from that time to
this has been of the same view, is
because they have all realized that
the power of a President, particu-
larly popular President, to per-
petuate himself in Office is very
great. I am not speaking of the
motives of individual men, I am
speaking of the forces that come
into being. Every President is sur
rounded by men more ambitious for
the continuation of power than the
President himself. These men, if
there is not a tradition against the
third term, will seek to have re-
elected for third term the man
with whom they are associated
There is no argument that can be
advanced for the election of a
President for a third term that
cannot be used with more persua-
sion of President for a fourth or
fifth term. The argument used
for the election of President for
third term is that he has more
experience than a man who has not
served in the presidency at all. OBJ
viously if this is true, any man who