Evening star., 1943-10-14
Free Enterprise Key
To Postwar Progress,
Wallace Declares

by the Associated Press
Vice President Wallace sketched
for Senators today a postwar
world of helicopters, television,
light metals, plastics and new
foods, but cautioned that free,
private enterprise must be main
tanned If the Nation is to realize
the full benefits of broadened
Industrial frontiers.
Appearing before a Senate Mill
tary Affairs subcommittee, Mr.. Wal
lace Endorsed the principles of a
chronological mobilization bill under
consideration by the group.
out of our laboratories, both
Government and private, are coming
flood of discoveries" he said.
When the veil of secrecy imposed
by war Is lifted our people will stand
amazed at the array of inventions.
A new world is being fashioned"
Then, reverting to theme he
stressed in recent speeches at Chi
cago and Detroit, the Vice President
said free enterprise, necessary to
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the Nations industrial resources, will
be "shackled and restrained if re-
search is dominated by small num-
ber of large corporations and car
tells"
This condition has already barred
small businessmen from many of
our industrial developments" he
continued.
The application of modern science
should not be the exclusive domain
of great corporations and cartels,
who can, If they desire, restrict and
suppress new inventions and scien-
tific information to suit their own
interests instead of the public in
tereSt
Small business cannot support
the large and costly laboratories
which are necessary for modern in
dustrial research, To fill this need
Government must make available
these facilities"
Proposed in Bill.
Such Government sponsorship
of research is proposed in the pend
ing bill, drawn by Senator Kilgore,
Democrat, of West Virginia. 1t calls
for establishment of an Office of
scientific and technical mobilization,
with wide powers to finance and en-
courage scientific developments and
to carry out such projects itself. 1t
also would have authority to mobi-
lize scientific and technical man.
in, 1f 4.
patent rights and licenses necessary
for proper prosecution of the war.
Nh. Wallace not only agreed that
there should be a central technol-
ogical authority of the Federal Gov
ernment, but added:
Every business and institution
should have full access to all pat
ents and research findings which
have been developed at Government
expense. The Congress has pro-
vided large sums of money which
are being poured into Federal. uni
versity and industrial labora tories.
1t is the intention of the Congress
that this money be spent for the
benefit Of the general public, not for
the exclusive benefit of a few cor
porationS.
Would Use Enemy Patents.
likewise, those enemy patents
seized by the alien property custo-
dian should become the property of
the Federal Government and be
made available to all business"
Mr.. Wallace declared every State
should have a technical information
center to distribute information and
to initiate local research projects.
He said that only because of the
chronological discoveries of the
Agriculture Department and the
State Agricultural experiment sta
ship food abroad at the rate of TO-
600 900 900 pounds a year and at
the same time give our own consum-
ers the best diet they have ever had"
Outlines Postwar Free Enterprise"
Mr. Wallace thus outlined his
views with respect to the role of free
private enterprise in the postwar
world.
If scientific discovery is to be used
to repair the ravageS of war and to
create a society in which full en-
ployment and full production are
maintained, we must open the door
to technology for all our people.
- In aviation. in housing, in med
icine, and in a whole range of new
industries we shall have the chance
to find new opportunities, to create
better conditions of living. and to
release the dynamic energy of dem
ocratic society.
TO stimulate new enterprise.