Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-28

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Miss Thompson are her oWn
and not necessarily those OF The
Detroit Times
I SAID the other day that the
4 reason for our fears was that
we don't know where We are go
irg. So a lot Of people wrote IN
and said, Well I suppose you
know. II you're 50 smart tell us.
That's fair enough. so am
going 10 try
Briefly, I think We ought 20 use
this war to prove once and for all
time that war is hooey that all
the historical causes for it have
disappeared, that the age of inn
periallsm has passed. and that the
age of power for humanity has
daWned that We. the American
people. have the answer. and We
the generation alive in 1871, are
in on the greatest revolution of
all human history. and therefore
in some ways the luckieSt genera
ton ever born.
TNiERE have been all sorts of
l. slogans used 10 rationali2e
wars but behind them is the plain
fact that most of them have been
for markets. That's one of the
things that this war started to be
about. and that's what our left
wing friends mean when they say
it's Just another imperlalist war.
But IN the course of the war. we
are going TO learn something if We
keep our eyes peeled-every last
one Of us. and every last nation
namely, that il isn't for markets
but for a way of life and that our
markets are in our own back yard,
and that our own back yards are
every one else's.
TIVE reason we've got this war
Il is that the human race always
learns its lessons in the most pain
full and possible way. 1t takes
war TO wake people up 10 the
facts of life. When people are
scared they throw their prejudices
out of the window and decide TO
save their lives instead of their
money.
NOV, what we are going to learn
~ from this war is this:
IF we would produce for peace
the way we produce for war, we
would all be rich as CroesuS-al
of us-the whole world round.
When people produce for war they
do things that make sense-in the
economic field. When they pro-
duce for peace, they forget what
they learned, and act like other
ing idiots.
When we all know that-Ger-
mans and Italians and japanese
and Frenchmen and Englishmen
and Americans-then we can quit
this war and all get out of each
others back yards, shake hands.
give each other a sheepish grin.
and have a perfectly wonderful
time.
THiE lend-leaSe bill makes us
l. produce for war and there
fore produce on a reasonable
basis.
It's reasonable, because when
people produce for war they for
get everything except that they
have got to do something together.
They forget, for instance. that
they cant afford" things.
Imagine what would have hap
pened if the President had asked
$4,000, 100000 TO rehouSe all the
people in the urban and agricul-
tural slums. or provide butter for
all the folks who never see it.
Or regular suits of clothes, in
stead of uniforms. Apartments
instead of barracks: shoes instead
of boots; tractors instead of
tanks.
What howl there would have
been! How many people would
have screamed. Where will we
find the money!"
With Hitler's face at the win
dow. nobody asks that question,
and so we do find the money.
which. Of course. is socially
created.
A LOT OF people are going
n around this country moaning,
What did we get out Of the last
war? Nothing but unpaid debts
We got nothing but unpaid debts
because We insisted on having
debtors, There was man in the
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hired the money didn't they p
They didn't. They hired things.
Now we've got q man in the
White House who isn't going TO
let US make money debtors. Hes
going to give Cor lend or leasel
things, not symbols of things. and
thus prove once and for all time
that il is more blessed 10 give
than 10 receive and that Jesus was