The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-11-05
Plenty Of Jobs
Seen After War
Role Of Privdte Enterprise
Stressed BY Chase. In Study
For 10th Century Fund

New York, n. Y.-The nation must
rely primarily on private enterprise
and the stimulant of the profit motive
for creating and maintaining full EN-
ployment after the war; but these
should be supplemented with a pro
gram of public works and government
expenditures to provide needed facili-
ties and services for taking up the
slack in employment, according to a
| report of Il study on postwar recon
struction, made public by the Twen.
tieth Century Fund.
The report prepared by Stuart
Chase, warns against any ill-advised
attempt to oyertuln the economic Sys-
TEN in order to achieve the goal of full
employment.
I'VE have an enormous private bust
ness machine already functioning," Mr..
Chase says. 1T would be the height of
folly to tear it up by the roots. Even
in the war, while most producers no
longer have to think much about push
ing their sales, and many important
decisions have left their hands, their
organizations are still in being and
most of them will be after the war.
'We should use them. Employ the
profit motive as widely as possible.
Encourage business men to do all they
can, and to take responsibility wher-
ever they can. The critical point is TO
have in the Federal Government con-
ming tower control charged with the
duty of plugging any gaps in the front
of full employment.
"If private business men do not want
to undertake mass housing except with
government financing, then arrange the
financing. If doctors are unable to take
care of all sick people on the orthodox
fee basis then make it possible to help
doctors take care of all sick people
If private business cannot absorb all
the unemployed-and it probably can
not-keep the great public works pro-
grams going side by side with private
business"
Urging a new and wider concept of
public works, Mr.. Chase suggests that
they include mot only physical things
that are built, but also services rem
dered in the public interest and ad-
ministered by the government"
I'VE can put the unemployed on the
dole, or at ralling leaves, which would
mean that we had won the war and
lost the peace" Mr.. Chase declares
"Or we can challenge our citizens with
the greatest, most splendid, most up
lifting series of public works which
any civilization ever dreamed Of"
AS examples of public works he has
in mind, Mr.. Chase mentions the re-
building and decentralization of cities,
the tanning of mighty watersheds like
that of the Tennessee, improving the
nations forests on perpetual yield
basis, restoration of graSSlandS, intn
grafton of the nations transport syS-
ters, libraries, mu seums $, research
laboratories, universities and other
public buildings.
Room can be found in such projects
for all the manpOWer we have avail
able" Mr. Chase holds. when tech
noiogy again gives u surplus of man
power-aS it surely will-then hours
of daily labor can come down, vacation
periods grow longer"
AS Il portent of future developments,
Mr.. Chase points to the experience of
the miracle man of the West Henry
J. Kaiser.
Here is a private business man who
has won the reputation, his fortune
and the gratitude of the whole nation
almost solely in the field of public
works." Mr. Chase continues. His
first great achievement was Boulder
Dam. Then came Grand Coulee, Shasta,
and the Golden Gate Bridge Now he
is making ships to government order
at a speed never matched before, and
he wants to build sky trucks with
which to win the war
IL think there is some kind of moral
here for those who insist that public
business is good-or vice versa Mr..
Kaiser shows us how Il business man
can cooperate with the public interest
to the greater glory of both. If we had
another score like him they could re-
build the whole country i'm towering
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