The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
Anomalous Arnold

AS
speeches of Thurman Arnold patterns of paradox He
presents the perpetual enigma of man who says in one
breath that thing and right and fine And if we
take his words at face value as sincere ne must nave
loose screws in his mental machinery
Theoretically least he damned capitalism in his able
book The of Capitalism yet whenever he turns
loose with speech from public platform he lauds it to the
heavens He admits has faults principally evidenced by the
gigantic trusts which it has brought being which it
check but aside from that he speaks ardent
believer in its efficiency and desraby as an economic system
and plan
Apparently Arnold has analysed the nevtability Of
the progress of small profit making operations into larger ones
and compuson competitive system to crush Compel
ors ruthless struggle for survival which takes heed of
the rights interests of Others inherent in such system
Arnold it seems would like to make of it humanitarian sys-
by freezing its progress by eveing it out at certain
point the point at which ceases to be constructive and be-
gins to manifest tendencies to Swallow competitors and
thereby smooth its path to greater development and power and
He utterly ignores the fundamental precepts by
which it must be guided If it tries to do otherwise is
In recent speech before the Massachusetts Federation
Woen Clubs he depored the operations of the international
said eve need guard against only thing and
that is to prevent the dominant groups who in the past
strced production from again getting CONTROL and the
power to shut down that production after the war"
That's simple isn't it? But Arnold doesn't say just how
going be done under capitaistic profit
system free enterprise system whatever call the
order under which political life nation is at present
operated He didn't explain why the prosecutions of DUPONT
Imperial Chemicals, the German dye trust and the Standard
ONaz cartel by the Department of Justice have been
pended for the duration
Arnold also doesn't explain how the great industries shall
be compelled continue produce after the if there
not sufficient buying power to assure profitable operation
the going compel the industries operate at
maximum capacity loss? Or the government going o
substitute industry with gifts of capital and profits and thus
producing goods? Does he consider that sensible
plan? Can't he wipe the dust of silly ideastc optimism from
his glasses that he look piece down the road and
where such proposals must ead Does he think that the
p through their government will continue forever to pay
profits to nominal of industries which they the people
themselves are maintaining? Perhaps they might
while but not for very long Mr. Arnold have too high
for the intelligence of the American people to believe
that they will continue to do any long period
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nomica considerations will themselves defeat such plans in
the long
Perhaps devoting too much time discussion of
the vaporings of Thurman Arnold However, it be
sidered justified by the fact that after ALL he occupies
ton of prominence and leadership and too people
posed to his uerances which the surface brilliant and
focefuy presented The people of this country must begin
think anacaly and realistically of the future And Mr.
Arnods speeches. of them at least do not contain
realistic advice to guide their thinking.