Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-03
The Crisis of Peace
OppOrfMnity or Catastrophe
By OSWALD F. SCHUETTE
By OSWALD F. SCHUETTE
PART n

victory over our enemies, the proclamation of
peace will open to them this unprecedented
opportunity to earn an independent livelihood.
The opportunity will be preferred place,
not in a breadline or on an unemployment
relief list, but as properly equipped partners
and pioneers in the new empire of the West.
From the standpoint of individual financ-
ing, for instance il should be possible TO
assume that each soldier will have saved $500
and that his family-possibly from war work
will have saved another $500.
With 81, 900 in cash, any one can now go
to the FILA and buy $4,000 home. There
FORE it should certainly be feasible to promise
the returning soldier that his $1,000 will en-
able him to buy at least a $4,000 home, or
farm. or shop or whatever enterprise he
wants to undertake in this great western
empire.
On that basis, 10 900 900 soldiers-or SOL
diers and war workers-would create an
immediate demand for $50 1000, 100000 worth
of capital goods, enough to create flow of
consumption to carry our war industries into
the production of peace as flow OF water
into a lock carries a ship through canal.
A L The same time sucn Tue OF ehuoWeu
"A and preferred immigration to the West
would make possible its widespread, modern
industrialization and the speedy, healthy
development of its great natural resources.
No inventory is needed here to catalog the
resources of that western empire. The mar
velous natural riches of the trans-M Mississippi
states constitute an imperial domain that is
the undsputed envy of every civilized nation
on the globe.
The same campaign should attract the
attention of the families of the soldiers TO the
opportunities which the West offers TO the
men who carried the burden Of the war. 1t
should also appeal to the war workers, who
like the men in the trenches-should respond
to such an inspiration, to speed up their war
war opportunities.
1t should require no special planning to
interest the western states themselves.
The fact that the project for new indus
trial empire in the West is being advertised 10
so many millions of our people will, of itself,
create in these western states new inspira-
ton to inventory, to organize, and to proclaim
their rich resources. This part of the work
will be done by state governments, by munich
palities by chambers Of commerce, by rail-
roads, by newspapers, and by radio.
AS result there should develop move
ment of truly imperial dimensions with indi-
vidual and detailed plans that will attract the
attention of pioneers of settlers, of investors
of enterprising men and money everywhere
VET it must be set down that no single west
ern state and no small group of states can
solve this problem for itself. The three great
states of the Pacific Coast, for instance
California. Oregon and Washington-with all
their wealth and their new war born indus
tries, can do no more than Texas and its
neghbor states.
Each, alone, may cause momentary tide
TO flow toward its resources. But this tide will
not alone suffice to absorb the unemploy-
ment which peace threatens TO bring to its
war factories.
Only the creation Of an empire Of truly
continental size, capable of absorbing 10000,
900 men and 100, 900 900 900 dollars, can give
the project the dynamic momentum necessary
to meet the crisis of peace.
Only in that way can an empire be Gre
ated that will overcome all economic uncer
tainties and all political controversies, and
turn the eyes and hopes of America to the
boundless heritage of it's Golden West.
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