Evening star., 1944-10-17

labout as cheaply as we could create
an agency for them when they are
out."
Mr.. Roosevelt was quite upset. In
fact, he spoke about reckless
words, based on unauthoritative
sources =" and last Saturday he
handed out from the White House
a letter from Gen. Hershey in which
the general said the idea was all
his own.
Part of His Duty.
Now, is Mr.. Roosevelt quite accu-
rate when he calls Gen. Hershey
his own appointee, unauthoritative?
The fact is that the director of Sc
lective service Is charged by Law
with the duty Of helping to get jobs
for returning veterans. If anybody
in the country is an authority on
that subject, he Is the man.
Now, where did Gen. Hershey get
this idea Mr.. Roosevelt calls "unau-
thoritative"? I'll tell you He got
| 1t from another one of those white
House" releases put out by Mr..
Roosevelt himself. Moreover, it
was submitted by Mr.. Roose-
| velt's own uncle, Frederic A.
Delano, chairman of the National
Resources Planning Board. 1t was
the report of the conference on
postwar readjustment Of civilian and
military personnel, appointed by the
President.
This discussed the pros and cons
lof speedy rehabilitation. After
saying that good reasons exist for
desiring rapid rate of military
rehabilitation, the report goes on
to say that despite = compell-
ing reasons for rapid military de-
mobilization, the prospects of eco
nomic and industrial dislocation at
the close of the war are so grave
and the social consequences are so
far-reaching that a policy of or
derly, gradual, and, if necessary
delayed military rehabilitation has
been strongly advocated. The fol-
lowing reasons" it goes on to say
nave Dcen advanced.
Feared Depression.
Rapid demobilization might throw
into the labor market large num-
bers OF men just at the time when
the industries might be least able
TO absorb them. 1t might Gre
ate unemployment and depression
Those in the services" this report
continues. will constitute the only
large group of persons over whom
the Nation could, in the event OF
economic crisis, exercise any degree
Of direct control. =" Then il
says: The economic and social
costs OF retaining men in the serv-
ices would be less than those in.
volved in dealing with an unem.
ployment depression through civil.
ian relief. - ."
So this idea of keeping men ir
the Army for fear that they wont
get Jobs after the war was in 9
report made public last year by Mr.
Roosevelt himself. The New Dea
has had it in mind right along.
Now let my opponent try to pas:
the buck to one of his assistants
They can slip and Squirm in thi.
New Deal but when my opponen
uses the word Justification, as h,
did on the radio in the teamsters
speech, 1t comes home to haunt him
Remained Silent.
And let me add that as long age
as last April, Mr.. Roosevelt re.
mained silent while his director O.
selective service in a public speech
In New York said he saw no purbost
In letting men out of the Army Int
some kind of WPA." do not SET
any such purpose either. Our fight.
ing men ought to be brought home
from the armed services at the ear.
hest possible moment after victory
and to jobs and opportunity. AND
that will be done when we get new
an honest and a responsible admin
istration in Washington.
The truth is that the New Deal
has been afraid all along that when
the time came to let men out of the
Army there would be no jobs for
them-that 1t would be case OF
back to normalcy under the New
Deal with 100000 unemployed.
When the New Deal took office
on March 4, 1888, the world wide
depression was already nearly four
years old. In its first seven Years
it had more power than any Gov
ernment IN our history. 1t spent
nearly So billion dollars. Yet the
official figures of the League of Ma
tlons prior to the outbreak of the
World War show that among the
major nations of the world the
United States had almost the poor
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