Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-17

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WASHINGTON, Feb. live
w are faced with world revo-
luton as we'll as a world war.
twill netbe over when the war
is over. We must plan our way.
II is not a new revolution, not
alone a political revolution, but
a revolution of ethics and Gull
ture.
1t started unnoticeably back
in the revolutionary PHILOSOPHERS
of NietZsche and Freud, as well
as Marx.
While Marx is the glorified
prophet of the ant-democratic
societies which have sprung into
being in overwhelming scope
since the last war. Nietzsche and
Freud are the nonpolitical re-
SocialiZers whose So-called en-
fightenment iured great masses
OF people away from their ethics
and social ways and plunged
them into this dazzling mate
rialiStic era i'm which we are
now cropping our way toward yet
indiScernible solutions.
The Soviets first brought
these revolutionary theories into
practice in a way which aims at
every foundation Of our historic
democratic way Of life
/ SAY this now without criti.
Il cism, as pure state
ment of fact, for we must dis
card both criticism and preju-
dice il we are TO see where we
are now, or where we are going.
The Communist experiment
has not drfted into socialism
in Russia, but, on the way. il
inspired such counteracting,
initiating systems of single
headed materlaliSm as faScism
in Italy and naZism in Ger
many.
fdSCIym or naZlSm VIII be
stamped out or chased UNDER
ground as a hunted minority.
But Russia is apt 10 come out
Of this war the dominant nation
Of Europe and Asia, and, in my
uprUT0U, III the following years
she is apt 10 become the great
est nation on earth.
DUSSIA would be the last
IL nation on earth 20 be
swayed in her policies by emo
tionaliSm. so we must look at
these things as coldly and as
straight as she does. And we
must get our people TO look at
them the same way.
This is the greatest revolution
in the history Of the world
and its PHILOSOPHERS have en-
eFeaetfed Upon this hemisphere
into your mind and mine. We
have borrowed greatly from
tho toialtarianism this revolu-
ton breaches as its first COM
mandment.
We have inched our demo-
cratic way closer and closer to-
ward centralized federal gov
eminent controls IN various
ways. even toward socialism
little. and certainly we-by our
new laws and federal actions
are far down the road toward
establishing that the state is no
longer the creature Of man, but
the man IS the creature of the
state.
To meet the revolution. the
government seems 10 have pri-
marlly in mind some kind of a
new social security and labor
union democracy for postwar.
THE cure for unemployment
Il IS employment - not insur-
ance.
The cure for old age need is
n good wage and a stable coun-
try in which savings are pro-
teCted 1872 not a tax collection
scheme which drains money out
ri pockets m a volatile economy
whore initiation and rising or
falling prices make social gecur-
ity insecure.
The fundamentals Of security
are not in government tax res
ervoIrS but in economic stabil-
ity which protects employment,
wages. prices, leisure, private
insurance.
This is middle class country,
unlike Europe and Asia where
there are only two classes. the
very rich and the masses Of
very poor.
In this nation, our superior
democratic way of life has lifted
the average standard of living
so that our average middle class
person has an automobile, a
radio, electric comforts. a home,
etc, beyond the hopes of the
average European or Asiatic.
This, / think, is the funda-
mental thing wrong in Washing
ton. They have forgotten or
abused the great middle class.
THERE are only two organl-
IL cations Of people getting
rich out Of this war-the labor
unions and the churches. This
is because neither is subject TO