Evening star., 1941-06-29
Planning for Future
Vital, TugweN Tells
Virginia Institute
Says Failure Will Doom
Roce From MoInutrition,
Erosion or War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June
28.-Unless the human race learns
to plan for its future, Rexford Guy
Tugwell told the University of Vir-
ginia's Institute Of Public Affairs
tonight, it may be destroyed by
malnutrition, by soil erosion, or by
war.
Mr.. Tugwell, former Undersecre-
tsry OF Agriculture and now chair
man of city planning for New York
City, spoke on q program devoted
to discussions on the future Of the
United States.
Man is earthbound, soilbound,
seabound," he asserted, but no
longer in any simple ways which
any individual may determine for
himself. He has got to live with
others in a very social world. 1t
Is time he learned to do it and
made a virtue of his learning"
British Press Head Talks.
John Wheeler Bennett, director
of the British Press Service, told
the institute that Britain was en-
gagged in a struggle of liberty and
freedom against tyranny and slav-
cry, and that the inevitable aim OF
post war Britain would be economic
and social equality for itself and
all the world.
In achievement and sacrifice we
have found happiness, Mr.. Wheeler
Bennett declared. The British peo-
pie know now, in all its fullness, Tor
what they fight. When this war is
over We shall go forward to nobler
deeds of peace"
Invention VS.. Destruction.
Mr.. Tugwell warned in his ad-
dress that mans technology often
betrays before it serves, and SAID
that recent centuries have been
race between invention and de-
struction.
Before the white man came to
America the Indians had survived
for some 10000 years without IN
turing the source of their livelihood,
Mr.. Tugwell stated
The white man." he continued.
"in his 400-odd years has slaughter
ed his forests, has lost perhaps hall
his wealth in soil. has modified pro-
foundly the earth-water relation
ship, has established permanent llv-
ing in slums and has subjected
about two-thirds Of his descendants
to the half-life of undernourlsh-
ment. He has. it is true. created
some magnificent monuments and
has uncovered a wealth Of technical
possibilities. But it is far too soon
to say that his way of life has
been superior under the conditions
of our continents"
Mr.. Tugwell said that by process
ing foods, valuable minerals and
vitamins have been removed to such
an extent that the Nation was be-
coming undernourished until vita
minis were synthesized and the pub
| lie almost forced to use them.
Fitness Reduced.
THE svnthesizing Of vitamins and
the public forcing of their use came
none too SOON" he said. THE evi-
dence is convincing that malnutri-
ton reduced the fitness of young
men by 10 or IS per cent between
| 1918 and ls41. It seemed quite pos
sible that state of universal i'll
health might have been reached in
another generation. Then we should
have experienced the complete para
dox; the most highly technical civ
ilization would have found itself
! in the same state as the most back
ward. Puerto Rico. Oklahoma and
Mississippi would have been level
with New York and Illinois"
Roles of labor and industry were
debated this afternoon in a discus
sion presided over by Spancer Miller.
jr.. director and secretary of the
Workers Education Bureau of
America.
William Jett Lauck, economist
and acting chairman of the Ma
tional Policy Board of the American
Association for Economic Freedom.
who. was secretary of the National
War Labor Board during the World
War, and Earl Harding, member of
the Public Relations Committee Of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, spoke.