The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Dr.. Buell. Says Initiation Danger
Greater Thon Hitler

IL Is more Important 10 VIII Tic wal
inside than with Hitler" said DR.. Raymond
Leslie Buell.. editor Fortune magazine, in an
address at the sixth annual session of the
Delta Council at Delta State Teachers Col
lege at Cleveland Friday, May 80.
Dr. Buell. was speaking of the war ag-
ainst initiation which he said was a greater
evil than Hitler. Because he believed that
the new legislati>a increasing commodity
loan rates would hasten initiation, DR.. Buell.
said he doubt d the wisdom of such legis-
lation.
This p ted writer said that at the end
of this VIZ prospects for the reduction Of
Internal Jnal trade barriers and for a world
wide onomic expansion would be greater
than or a hundred years. This expansion,
he stated, would be impossible if America
permits her domestic prices to get too far
out of the line with world prices. It will
be too hard for us to lower our domestic
prices
The new legislation will set the price
of American cotton at about 16 cents COM
pared to 8 cent cotton in Brazil. This dis
parity DR.. Buell. says, will make it impos-
sible for the u S. to lead worldwide re-
covery after this war is over. Instead, as
he said, we will he forced into two-price
system, competitive subsidies for foreign
trade, embargoes against cotton imports, and
increasingly drastic production controls at
home The result of this would be the
totalitarian economic system.
Another war inside which America
must win is the war against disunity both
at the center in Washington and in the coun-
try as whole.
The disunity at Washington is mani
tested in widespread confusion. High Of
ficials publicly debate each others recon-
mendations. as to tax and fiscal policies.
Several different agencies duplicate each
Others efforts. The Office of Production
Management has no real authority. All of
the authority is in the Presidents hands but
there is no responsibility attached to it. Thus
chaos abounds.
He pointed out that Prime Minister
Churchill has vast power but he also as
sumes responsibility for his actions. He con-
suits frequently with Parliament and is dir
ectly responsible to it. At any time Par
lament can vote the Prime Minister out of
Power. Here in America we can do moth
ing about our chief executive until the next
election.
The disunity in the country as a whole.
DIR. Buell. said, was because large number
of our citizens seemed more interested in
the redistribution of the national income
than in meeting common danger, and as
long as our national leadership does not show
acute concern over strikes, wasteful expend-
ture, or initiation, it is hard for the country
to take the foreign situation seriously.
1t is the responsibility of the national
leadership to remove the fears of both CAPT.
tai and labor and create a new unity. Labor
fears that business will make too great pro-
fits out of the war and use the emergency
to smash unions. Business fears that taxes
and wage increases will be used to destroy
the private enterprise system.
Whether this country goes to pieces at
the end of this war, Dr. Buell. said, depend
ed not upon events five years from now but
on events in the next five months. If we
avoid an unmanageable initiation that brings
misery to every group; if we institutionalize
the vast powers centered in Washington
that are now much too personalized; if we
hold national conference of farm, labor
industrial and public leaders and make CO
operative attack on our mutual problems Sc
as to bring about real unity of spirit and
purpose, then the resources of this Country
can be rallied for a successful rearmanen.
effort.
Excessive partially for one foreign ma
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