Evening star., 1943-11-17
A-l8 IHE EVENING STAR Wednesday, Nov II, 1943
Dewey Demands Curb
0nGovernnlent Power
In Postwar Period
Ey the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Gov
Thomas E: Dewey says concentration
of power in the National Govern
ment must be halted in the postwar
period and that means we must
stop leaning wholly upon the Ma
tional Government"
I'm the period ahead, the States
will be strong" the New York Gov
ernor told the 18th annual New
York Herald Tribune forum on cur
rent problems last night.
They alone will have survived the
war without overburdening debt.
>. They are untrammeled by
the WEAKNESS and defeatism that
comes from the repeated fumbling of
over-centralized government which
believed that this country was built
to saturation in 1882"
Gov. Dewey said that Government
must plan its policies in order to
create conditions under which pri-
vate enterprise spurred on by the
profit motive will plunge into peace
time production with all the energy
and effectiveness that it has de-
voted to war"
250-Billion Debt Forecast.
The nation, Gov. Dewey said.
would have debt of $3.50, 900, ,OO0,-
600 to 100000, 100000, but he de-
clared that 100000 900 people can
produce enormously and can con-
sumo enormously, provided tn e
channels of production and con-
sumption are kept free"
Paul G. Hoffman, president of the
Studebaker Corp. and chairman of
the Committee for Economic De-
velopment. said goal of between
55,O0O,000 and 5S,0OO,OOO jobs had
been set for the postwar period,
100000 to 100000 more than in
1910.
To reach that goal. he said, the
Nation must increase its gross ma
tional output of goods and services
to sl30,000 100000, one third above
l940
The task before us is not one of
going back to 1910" he said. 1T is |
not one of reconversion, but rather
one Of expanding forward to new
high levels of productivity which
would have seemed fantastic even
three years ago."
Mrs. Roosevelt Speaks.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. who
spoke on her trip to the South Pa
ciflc. said the younger generation
had been considered soft, but added.
I'VE are not going to find coming
home to US soft group of men,
She said that the postwar re-
habilitation would take planning
and a world point of view" and de-
clared that If the United States
makes the same mistakes we made
before, we'll have another war in
10, Is, 20 years. Just as surely as we
sit here this afternoon"
James Forrestal. Undersecretary
Of the Navy. suggested at the after
noon session that permanent man.
agement stats be created for all
major departments, possibly headed
by a permanent undersecretary.
1t is my experience that in the
Navy department. some klnQ OF
permanent civil servant, where you
call him a permanent undersecre-
tary or not" he said. would be of
great value to that establishment,
as we'll as to Congress and the Ma
ton as whole in affording con-
tinuity Of knowledge which would
be readily available to succeeding
Secretaries Of the Navy"
Representative Judd, Republican,
of Minnesota, urged increased ma
terial and spiritual aid for China
and the development of closer
political and economic ties with that
country He said that by changing
our immigration laws to put the
Chinese on the same quota basis as
our other Allies we prove more to
the Chinese regarding our ultimate
intentions than endless professions
of good will, or even than fleets of
airplanes.
Speakers today include Vice Presi-
dent Wallace and Wendell L.
Willkie, A message from President
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