Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-06

Clayton w. business, in
Fountain dustry or COM
merce." SO the cat is out of the
bag.
Congress is for price control,
but only on conditions the mech
anism to control prices is bossed
and administered by those whose
selfish interests impel them to
fight any real attempts to con-
troll prices.
To entrust persons qualified
by experience in business, indus
try or commerce" with the job
of controlling prices is like call
ing in an undertaken to render
medical aid to dying man.
WAR ON PROFESSORS
This spiteful exhibition of po-
litical ham-stringing is part and
parcel of the war that is being
waged against professors, the
orists, visionaries and starry
eyed dreamers in the govern
ment. At least that is the way
it is put by the apologetic press
which performs journalistic con-
tortions in justification of con-
gressional monkey business.
There is. however, an ominous
significance under this ridicule
of learned men which must be
brought into the open and eX-
amined carefully.
For as long as the New Deal
has functioned in America, the
public has been constantly in
cited to distrust and despise men
called into the government serv-
ice from non-commercial back
grounds. The so-called brain
trust" and "brain-trusters' have
been editorially lampooned and
scoffed at year in and year out.
This poking of fun at men of
knowledge and mental training
has been effective to the point of
creating a national and strongly
held belief that the government
is ridden with laundering, in
competent and foolishly idealistic
professors mumbling in their
boards.
THE FEAR OF IDEAS
Behind this barrage of buff
foonery, the tycoons of business,
along with their political and
literary aides, have been craftily
waging a war against ideas and
men with ideas. In their cramped
and commercialized minds, moth
ing is so fearsome as the thought
that the government might some
time be dominated by persons to
whom intellectual honesty and
scientific research has a stronger
APPEAL than wealth, property and
economic power.
These mentally money-bound
powers in the business world
have therefore willfully nour-
ished the cockeyed notion that
nothing but evil can come from
Inducing men of learning into
governmental affairs.
Knowing, as they do, that pro-
icient scholars are generally on
the side of justice, truth and
honesty, they have spared no eff
forts to play on the ignorant
fears of the illiterate-and so to
arouse hatred against the learned.
A FASCIST TECHNIQUE
Fear of knowledge. when en-
pioyed politically, is an out and
out Fascist technique.
The Fascists have nothing but
contempt for the values of intel
lectual honesty and humanitari-
an Justice. They teach the glories
of blood and Drawn, racial SUI
premacy and militar. bravado
which are all at odds with the
process of mental growth. In this
fashion, they discourage and re-
tard the natural development OF
reason and logic. Sane and rea-
sonable men, who think and who
have ideas, are natural enemies
of financial greed and Fascism
1t is not strange, therefore, to
find the reactionary clique IN
Congress punching at the pro-
fessors and doing their damndest
to blackjack America into ac-
cepting a government of busl'
ness, by business and for busi-
ness.
The virtues of truth, honesty
Justice, logic and reason cannot
be bought or bribed-and Sc
business always wages wal
against them.
gun to whirl dizzily with all tbs
problems and deficiencies he has