Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-21


THAT'S why your government
Il for many months has been
laying plans, and studying the
problems OF the near future
preparing itself to act so that
the people of the United States
may not suffer hardships after
the war, may continue con-
stantly to improve its standards,
and may join with other nations
in doing the same.
They are even now working
toward that end. the best staff
in our history-men and women
of all parties and from every
part of the nation. / realize that
planning is word which IN
some places brings forth sneers.
But, for example. before our
entry into the war it was plan
ming which made possible the
magnificent organization and
equipment of the army and navy
of the United States which are
fighting for us and for civiliza-
ton today.
IMPROVEMENT through plan
L ming is the order of the day.
Even in military affairs, things
do not stand still. An army or a
navy trained and equipped and
fighting according TO a 1882
model would not have a safe
reliance in 1914
And if we are to progress in
our civilization, improvement is
necessary in other fields-in the
physical things which are part
of our daily lives. and also in
the concepts of social justice at
home and abroad.
I am now at this naval base
In the performance of my duties
under the Constitution. The
war waits for no election. De-
cisions must be made-plans
must be laid-strategy must be
carried out. They do not con-
Germ merely a party or a group.
They will affect the daily lives
of Americans for generations 10
come.
WHAT is the job before US in
w 1914?
First, to win the war-to win
ii fast. to win il overpowerlngly.
Second. TO form worldwide
international organizations and
10 arrange to-use the armed
force of the sovereign. nations
of the world 10 make another
war Impossible within the fore
seeable future.
Third. 10 build an economy
for our returning veterans and
for all AmericanS-which will
provide employment and decent
standards of living.
THE people of the United
L States will decide this fan
whether they wish TO turn over
this 1914 job--this worldwide
iob-to inexperienced and inn
mature hands. to those who
oppose lend lease and interna-
tional cooperation against the
forces of aggression and tyr
amy. until they could read the
polls of popular sentiment: or
whether they wish 10 leave il
TO those who saw the danger
from abroad. who met il head
on, and who now have seized
the offensive and carried the
war TO its present stages of sue
cess. 10 those who. by interna-
tional conferences and united
actions. have begun 10 build
that kind of common under
standing and cooperative eX-
perience which will be so neces-
sary in the world TO come.
THEY will also decide this fall
L whether they will entrust
the task of postwar reconver-
sion 10 those who offered the
veterans of the last war bread
lines and apple selling and who
finally led the American people
down 10 the abyss OF 1882; or
whether they will leave II 10
those who rescued American
business. agriculture. industry.
finance and labor in 1888 and
who have already planned and
put through legislation TO help
our veterans resume their nor
NAL occupations in well or
dered reconverSion process.
They will not decide the ques-
tons by reading glowing words
or Nplatform pledges the
mouthings Of those who are
willing TO promise anything and
everything - contradictions. in
constituencies. impossibilities--
anything, which might snare a
few votes here and a few votes
there.
THEY will decide on the rec
i ord-the record written on
the seas. on the land and in
the skies.
They will decide on the rec
ord of our domestic accomplish
ments in recovery and reform
since March 4. 1888.
They will decide on the rec
ord of our war production and
food production unparalleled
in all history, in spite of the
doubts and sneers of those in
high places who said II could
not he done.
They will decide on the rec