Evening star., 1944-09-08

what's wrong with the New Deal.
That's why it's time for a change.
The reason for this long continued
failure is twofold. First, because
there never was a worse job done
of running our Government. When
one agency fails, the New Deal just
piles another on and we pay for
both. When both fail, we pay for
third. When men quarrel, there
is no one in authority. to put a stop
to it. When agencies get snarled up
there is no one in authority to un-
tangle them. Meanwhile, the peo-
pies business goes to pot and the
people are the victims.
Cites WPB Quarrel
In Crisis of War.
Right in the final crisis of this
war, the most critical of all war
agencies the War Production Board
fell apart before our eyes. This
Is also the board-and don't forget 1t
in charge of reconversion and jobs.
Yet we have seen quarreling, dis
unity and public recriminations day
after day, as one competent man
after another resigned and the head
of the board was sent to China. We
have seen this happen in agency
after agency. The cost to the war
effort, to the country, can never be
calculated. And it's time the people
put an end to 1t, because nobody
else will.
When the WPB fell apart, so did
your chance under this administra-
ton for jobs after the war. For
now the New Dealers have moved
in, and their handiwork, their prom
Use for America is not jobs-but the
dole E,
The other reason for this long
continued failure-the reason why
they are now dismally preparing for
another depression-is because this
administration has so little faith in
the United States. They believe in
the defeatist philosophy that our
industrial plant is built, that our
task is not to produce more goods
but to fight among ourselves over
what we have. .--..
Have Not Begun to Build 9.j
Our Industrial Plant. af 1
I believe that we have not even
begun to build our industrial plant. |
We have not exhausted our inven-
tive genius. We have not exhausted
our capacity to produce more goods |
for our people No living man has
yet dreamed of the limit to which |
we can 60 if we have a Govern
ment which believes in the Amer
lean economic system and in the
American people.
This administration is convinced !
that we can achieve social security
only by surrendering a little bit of
freedom for every little bit of secur-
ity. That is exactly what our enc
mics thought. So their people first
lost their freedom and then their
security. I cannot accept that
course for America. I believe-I
know-that we can achieve real So
cial security only if we do keep our
freedom.
There can be-there must be-
jobs and opportunity for all, with
out discrimination on account of
race, creed, color or national origin.
There must be jobs in industry, in
agriculture, in mines, in stores, in
Offices, at high level of wages and
salaries. There must be opportu-
nifty and incentive for men and
women to go into business for them
selves.
The war has proved that despite
the New Deal, America can nightly
increase its frontiers of production.
With competent government Amer
lea can produce nightly. for peace.
And the standard of living of our
people is limited only by the amount
of goods and services we are able to
produce.
Cites Housing Failure |
Under New Deal.
The New Deal prepares to keep
men in the Army because 1t Is afraid |
of a resumption Of its own depres-
sion. They can't think of anything
for us to do once we stop building
guns and tanks. But to those who |
believe in America, there's lots to
do. Why just take housing, for ex-
ample. If we simply build the
homes the American people need in
order to be decently housed, it will |
keep millions 81 men employed for
years. After IL years of the New
Deal the housing of the American
people has fallen down so badly that
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