The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-31
THE PROFESSOR AND THE BoGEY MAN

Probably you have seer, the advertisement thot
shows soldier addressing noessoge 10 the folks
back horne asking them TO keep America Just as It
wos when he LETT until he returns. Perhaps you
thought thot the message expressed heoIthy nor
mol sentiment But didn't effect Prof. Robert s..
Lynd thot woy No Prof Lynd found in It the domn-
inc proof that big business is campaigning to holt
our democrotic progress in the Postwor period
In cose the professors reasoning seems q little
unceor il should be explained thot business or
CONNECTION pod for this advertisement, and presuno-
ably approved It's dangerously reoctlOnoY sentiment.
Thot wos enough for Prof Lynd the Columbia Uni
versjty soclooSst ond outhOr Of "MddIetown." It
moved him to tell on audience OF New jersey edu-
cotors thot 10y preventing from learning the les
sons OF this wor, the post depression, ond the Mo-
tionoI Recovery Act Administration, they the spon-
sors Of this odl ore dshonorng the decd while they
ore dying
Nov tbot seems to US TO be going it bit strong.
We don't think thot nony OF our soldiers ore dying
for social reform or PROT Lynds conception Of dem
ocrotjc progress" We don't believe thot these SOL
dcrs think tnot the American woy IS not 50 hot, "
os Prot Lynd claimed elsewhere in the same speech.
The America which the soldier in the cd wonts pre-
served IS the America Of todoy It IS the America
Of the O-yeor-oId New Deal which is the only Amer
ico which most Of youngsters in uniform rener-
Der clearly. It IS the America which Prof Lynd and
millions Of his Ike-mInded countrynoen have cheered
and supported
But there seems to be tendency todoy among
some Of the old New Dealers, including Vice Presi-
dent Wallace, 10 talk os if big business" we're as
powerful O DOGGY mon os il wos in the lush, flush
dogs Of Hordng and Coolidge Prof Lynd and others
seem resentfu thot their conception Of democratic
progress and social reform had 10 be interrupted TO
prepore for war and to fight it They don't seem TO
like the szobIe port thot big business" hos had TO
ploy in orn0no this country ond ITS allies
Greet Bnton is moving toword national econ
onoy Ponned ond run by big business cortets" soys
the professor "ond the United Stotes can follow her
to the foscist union Of government and business At
present looks like labor will get the runoround from
both, because the Arercon Federation OF Labor hos
pledged return to free enterprise"
Free enterprise, big business and foscism seem
TO be loosely synonymous in Prof Lynds mind, OIL
though he might discover evidence thot the first two
hove~Hot olwoys prOspered so we'll at the hands Of
the third
Prof Lynd would have us toke our lesson from
RUSSO - not the Russo which is fierceIy and hero
iooy defending It's horeIond not the Russio of the
Moscow agreements, but the country where cen
troIized economic pIonning FOR the welfare OF the
people has been accomplished, even though there is
no political democracy"
We feel thot il IS tribute rother than dis
respect, 10 Russo TO venture the guess thot the Red
Army IS not fighting prmorly to make the world sofe
for worldwide application Of centralized economic
bio business" nd