The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-29
If. r. OUTLINES BIG
POSTWAR JOB PLAN
Continued from Page One)

he picked Senator Gerald Nye R
ND) Gerald L. Smith, and the
Chicago Tribune for targets.
AS the President rode across the
green turf that has seen many
stirring football game, he heard
thousands of Threats declaring
1--WE want Roosevelt" an or
ganized roofing section for the fav-
orite team.
Floodlights played on the chief
executive from the top OF i'm
pressive fluted colonnades and an
electrical stars and stripes wav-
ed from the football scoreboard.
Crowd Yells
The crowd yelled Justify when
Mr.. Roosevelt declared men and
women in the armed forces are
coming back to "the best possible
place on the face of the earth-to
a place where all persons, regard
less of race, color, creed or place
of birth, can live in peace, honor
and human dignity-free to speak
and pray as they wish-free from
want-and free from fear"
Something apparently was wrong
with the simplifying system, and
Mr.. Roosevelt's voice was scarce
ly audible much of the time to re-
porters working on the stadium's
playing field.
And midway in the address, peo-
pie were observed making their
way out of exits at the far end of
the stadium.
But the mention of sixty million
productive jobs brought out a hea-
Wy hand, and so did a statement
minute or two later that never
again must we in the United
States attempt to isolate ourselves
from the rest of humanity
The promise to remove wartime
controls over wages and salaries,
coupled with declaration that col
lective bargaining between unions
and employers must determine
pay adjustments, produced a re-
sounding volley of cheers.
So did the mention of veterans
growing apples instead of peddling
them on street corners.
He proposed:
Congressional creation of a per-
fair employment practices
committee.
Crop Insurance
A genuine crop insurance pro-
gram" for farmers and continual
ton of a policy of giving them a
chance to own their own land
with veterans growing apples in
stead Of selling them on street cor
ners.
Expansion of the Tennessee Val
ley Authority idea into similar de-
velopments for the Missouri, Ar
kansas, and Columbia river basins.
Special capital and credit for
small business, with every facili-
ty to buy government-owned plants,
equipment and inventories.
For business large and small,
encouragement of plant expansion
and replacement of obsolete equip
ment, with the depreciation rate
on new plants and facilities accel- |
Grated for tax purposes.
Strange Campaign
Amplifying his point that this is
the strangest of political cam
paigns, Mr.. Roosevelt asserted he
had listened to various republican
orators urge the people to throw
out the present administration and
put in the republicans. In effect
he said, they say just this:
CHOSE incompetent bunglers in
have passed a lot of
excellent laws about social securi-
ty and labor and farm relief and
soil conservation-and many others
and we promise if elected not to
change any of Them
"And they go on to say: These
same quarrelsome, tired old men
have built the greatest military
machine the world has ever known,
which is fighting its way to vic
tory, and if you elect us, we prom
Use not to change any of that, eth
err.
Therefore, says these republi-
can orators, it is time for a
change
"They also say in effect: Those
inefficient and wornout crack-pots
have really begun to lay the foun-
dation of lasting world peace.
If you elect us, we will not change
any of that either, but they whis-
per, we'll do it in such away that
we won't lose the support even of
Gerald Nye or Gerald Smith-and
and this is very important-we
won't lost the support of any isola-
Cofok