The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-06
Significance of MussOlini's
Fall Not Entirely Apparent

This should be the basis OF our
postwar recovery plan. Russia,
North Africa, Latin America. Den
mark, Norway and Holland may
provide a good deal OF food. II be-
comes more apparent. however. thar
We shall have to iced. as we'll as
help clothe. several hundred mil
lion people outside OF our own be-
ginning with North Africa, Sicily
aud Italy. For two or three years.
we may be obliged to produce much
more food and merchandise than
ever before.
Small-Town Opportunities
Henry Ford may live 70 see re-
yival OF his ideas for small factories
and processing companies located
in towns near raw materials and
foodstufts sources. When S0OOO,OOU
war workers aud 100000 service
men are demobilized. the larger
cities will feel the effect OF unem-
ployment and depression the mos.
Plant owners and labor will ilght
over wage and production schedules
Just as they did in 1881. Hun
dreds OF large city plants may be
idle. Il IL possible for unemploy-
ment 10 reach new heights unless
people return 10 their birthplaceS
during the postwar period.
The smaller communities hold
the KEY to solving the problem. The
total population OF small towns e1-
ceeds that OF our large cities. II the
businessmen, bankers, editors,
farmers and other leading citizens
OF our small cities and towns can
get together and operate, by them
selves or through government loans
small and efficient plants they can
absorb the unemployment slack. /
anticipate that 70 per cent OF post
war unemployment will be taken
care of by existing consumer goods
plants and by reconverted war
plants. Taking care. however. or
the remaining % per cent OF unem'
ployment may spell the difference
between the American way OF Nv
ing and more drastic planned
economy.
World Markets Important
One OF the biggest battles at the
Peace Table will be over the ques-
ton OF tariffs. shipping and ar
routes. whether we can long COM
pete with certain other nations in
the cost OF manufacturing goods. in
the cost OF growing and processing
foodstuffs, in wage rates and III
shipping costs remains to be seen.
Foreign trade competition will be
unprecedented after the War. To
gain an edge on this. We can at
least, while the War is on, assure
ourselves OF SURPRISES far and be-
yond our own needs. Foreign de-
mands for our goods and services
will be great and we must be pre-
pared fully to meet them. To do
this may require temporary lower
standard for wages and living lot
all groups. This would be better
than unemployment.
No other nation is so fHndament'
ally equipped to expand as we are.
Control OF the postwar world mar
kets would put us at the head oil
the Peace Table regardless OF any
question as to whether we, England
or Russia had done the most to
knock out Hitler. But we can &C
complish little without the indus
trial development and help OF So
900 900 consumer.producers OF the
American rural hinterlands. In the
hands OF this group-rather than
our large cities-lies the physical
salvation OF much OF the world and
certainly the winning or the losing
OF the coming economic battle on
our own postwar home front,
Advice TO Young People
Several conclusions may bs
reached from the above analysis.
The chief one is that those now Nv
ing in towns and small cities should
stay where they are and not seek
the large cities. Those now in the
larger cities should plan to get
back to their home towns Just
as soon as the war is over. Follow
ing World war II the best oppor-
tunities for both young and old
will be on good farms and in spirit
ually minded small communities.