Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-11

Of antitrust laws to break up mo-
nopohes and provide opportunities
for small business enterprises.
2. Measures TO uphold the right
TO collective bargaining. fair wages
and hours, healthy and effective
working conditions. responsibility In
organiza ton and sharing in man
agement
3. Measures to maintain the fair
share of the farmers in the benefits
Of an expanding economy with OPP
portunity for higher standards of
living and greater security
;. Plans for Services and Security.
See separate text
4. Plans for action by State and
local governments and regions
We recommend:
l. That Governmental planning
programs be decentralized, as far as
adminiStratively practical to the
States, counties, cities and appro-
pirate regional agencies. Only in
this way can we keep our postwar
planning and action programs close
TO the people
A. Regional Development.
It is OF utmost Importance in the
interest of national growth and
prosperity that the development of
the >everal regions of the United
States Including Alaska and Puerto
Rico should be encouraged in every
practicable manner. Some specific
ways and means of accomplishing
this purpose have been set forth in
various reports by the National
Resources Planning Board. notably
in the recent memoranda upon the
Southeast. Northwest and Arkansas
/ Valley regions.
In order to carry out the fore
going purpose of regional develop
ment in the national framework
the National Resources Planning
Board urges that the several re-
gions take such steps as may be
necessary. in such form as NAV be
appropriate to the particular region
| and which such Federal partici-
patton. as may be desirable in the
particular region. Forms of region
al organlza ton, methods of financ-
ing, and types of planning will
| naturally vary from region to region,
but it is essential that the develop
ment Of each region proceed in WAYS
| conducive to the welfare of its
people and consistent with the bal
anced advancement of the Nation
as whole
In view of the present emergency
arising from the changing of a
peacetlme economy to a wartime
basis and the necessity of reorgan-
lzlng again on a peacetime basis,
the National Resources Planning
Board recommends that the several
regional programs varying with the
needs Of the regions now center
around the sterilization of employ
ment and investment in the post
war period.
The National Resources Planning
/ Board further recommends that
every effort be made to coordinate
the numerous decentralized field
" services of the various agencies tC
the Federal Governmental order tC
render them capable of dealing most
/ effectively with the problems of the
regional economy and regional life
The objective might we'll be Il
achieve such a distribution of the
I services Of Government that eacf
! American. irrespective of where he
happens TO live and work, will share
as fully as is possible the fruits. the
opportunities. and the promises OF
our national resources and oul
/ democratic system of government
/ To this end it is recommended that
! IN line with an earlier Recommended
ton of the National Resources Plan
ming Board, the various departments
and agencies of the Federal Govern