Evening star., 1944-06-27


"A. P. Wirephoto.
then? We will have eleven million
men and women out of uniform. We
will have millions of war workers
whose war work has stopped. We
will have tens of thousands of busi-
nessmen whose war contracts have
been Cancelled.
What will those millions Of Amer
leans want? They viii want what is
the right Of every American to have.
They will want jobs. BY jobs, they
do not mean made. jobs-with the
Government as employer. That is
not what we mean either. They
mean money-making jobs in private
industry. Those are the kind of
jobs we mean.
They'll Be Exacting.
+ But these young people will not
be satisfied with just jobs. We win
not be satisfied, either. These young
people will want good jobs and
chance to get ahead. Hundreds of
thousands of them will want to set
up in small businesses for them
selves: to be their own boss; to
have their own farm; to own their
own filling station; to run their own
store, or operate their own little
factory.
We will see to II that they get
that chance. We can see to it be-
cause we know what it is that makes
jobs and opportunity. We know
that Government does not make
them-not the kind OF jobs the
people want and which we aim to
help the people to get. Govern
ment is nonproducing. It lives off
the production of others. Govern
ment-made jobs can be a crisis
necessity. But such jobs are not
good enough for the long pull. For
the long pull, the American people
want a highway, not a dead-end
street.
The belief that we have come
to the end Of the road, that q
dead-end street is all that we have
ahead Of us-that will not produce
jobs and opportunity either. That
belief Is defeatism. The fruit Of
defeatisn is an economy of scarcity.
We know what scarcity produces.
It produces scarcity-of jobs, of
opportunity, Of the good things
of life.
What Makes Jobs.
We know what it Is that makes
jobs and opportunity. We know
that private production makes
them. We know that our produc-
tive system going full blast can
| make enough of them. 1t is the
Republican party that has kept that
knowledge alive in America. We
have kept 1t alive against great
odds. And now the country knows
how important it is that the Re
publicans kept that knowledge alive.
For that confidence in our produc-
tive system and the know-how to
get that system into full-blast pro-
duction made the difference, when
war came. between life and death.
The same knowledge and the same
know-how will make the difference
when the war is won.
But we Republicans also know
that full-blast production and the
jobs and opportunity which it makes
can only come In a climate that
is friendly to production. A climate
that is friendly to production re-
quiries Government that Is
friendly to production. It requires
Government which believes that
our economic soil, far from being
worn out, is still life-giving; Gov
ernment which believes that those
who work honorably and well to
make that soil produce, far from be-
ing threat to our well-being. are
the hope of it; Government which,
far from penalizing production, en-
courages 1t; Government which
believes In an economy of plenty
because its aim for all the people is
abundance.
Parts Of Same System.
In such a climate, labor and man.
agement will not be set off-one
against the other. They will real
ize-Government can help them to
realize-that they do not represent
two different systems; that they are,
rather, part of the same system,
They will understand that they are
partners in that system. If, for any
reason, one partner fails both will
be destroyed. They will understand.
also, that such partnership sys-
tenn exists for more than profit; that
It's even more important reason for
existence is the increasing security
and well being of all the people.
With such an understanding of
their relationship to each other and
their responsibility to the COM
munity, labor and management can
reconcile their day-to-day differ
ences in order, together, to make full
production possible. 1t is a Re-
publican responsibility to foster that
climate and speed that understand :
ing. That we will do.
In such climate, also, the farm
Will no longer be set off against the
city; the city against the farm
FARMER and city dweller will come
10 see that they do not represent
two rival economic communities;
that, in fact, they are partners in
the same community Thev will,