Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

up has proved irresistible to those
who have swarmed to Washington
under the New Deal. We must have
men in government who have the
strength Of character to resist the
inevitable temptation toward petty
tyranny. We must have men In
ONCE who believe that the preserva-
ton of individual rights and free
doms Is more important than the
exaggeration of their own power.
Finally, We must have new point
of view toward the relationship be-
tween government and the people.
The role of government cannot be
the purely negative one Of correct
ing abuse, of telling people what
they may or may not do. Govern
ment must be the means by which
our people, working together, seek
to meet the problems that sire too
big for any one of us or any group
of us to solve individually.
Must Be Helped
The industrial worker, however
capable and energetic he may be,
cannot in our modern society assure
himself by his own unaided efforts
continuity of employment. Even the
largest industrial corporation can
not maintain employment, If the
country as whole is undergoing
a depression.
Yet, If there Is one thing we are
all agreed upon, 1t is that in the
coming peacetime years we in this
country must have jobs and op-
portunity for all. That is everybody's
business. Therefore 1t is the ousi-
ness OF government. But how?
Where are we going to find jobs
for every one who wants to work?
Certainly they will not be found In
government itself. If all of us should
60 to work for the Government,
then our system would be no diff
ferent from Communism or Fascism.
There can be jobs for all only if
business. industry and agriculture
are able to provide those JOBS. There
are no clever shortcuts to this
goal. 1t cannot be achieved by
some ingenious scheme concocted
by social dreamer in a govern
ment bureau. The New Deal pulled
rabbits out of hats for seven wears
and ended up In 1910 with ten mil
lion still unemployed We will
achieve our objective only if we
create an economic climate in
which business. industry and agri-
culture can grow and flourish.
Wants Enterprise Rewarded
Our small businessmen, our farm
erS, the men who run our offices
and factories and stores and mines
must know that government wants
each of them to succeed, that gov
eminent stands ready, not to hinder.
but to help. I am concerned only
that our people shall have jobs, and
people cannot have jobs if business
men are afraid to 60 to work. If
management Is afraid 20 manage,
II farmers are afraid to produce.
We want the enterprising men and
women of America to make a sue
cess of their endeavors because that
Is the only way we can have a going
American economy in which all our
people can find work at decen. pay.
We have seen in the war what
can be done when American tech
nical and management skill Is given
chance to do job. All that was
necessary was to give American en-
terprises the green lights in oraer
to bring forth miracles of produc-
ton. In the same spirit, American
business and American industry can
be given the green light for peace
time production. Then We shall
see peacetime miracles as We have
seen wartime miracles.
Ihere Is much that government
can do. Our repressive tax laws,
which now operate to penalize in
cent1ye and to put brake upon the
kind OF enterprise that makes Job
opportunities, must be drastica,ly
revised. We must have the kind of
taxes that do not discourage. but
encourage men to start new bust
nesses and to expand old businesses
At another time, shall discuss this
question Of taxes in detail.
Revisions Necessary
Government regulations which
discourage and wear down pro-
ducers in every filed must be revised
The whole atmosphere of studied
hostility toward our joe producing
machinery must be replaced.
More than this, we must have
laws that are sufficiently simple and
clear SO that men can know what
they are allowed to do. Most of
the laws passed by the New Deal
and the regulations under them are
so involved and complicated that it
is impossible for even the ablest