The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-19

| Virgil Jordan, IN one OF the most
significant addresses heard in
this country in many years, said:
II think it Is one OF the great
est paradoxes of history that hay'
! ing beaten Germany We have adopt
ed, or are about to adopt, all her
basic economic and political ideas
Bismarck's social security plan.
Hitler's full employment plan, and
Schacht's schemes for controlling
foreign trade. which is Breton
! Woods"
Then he added:
I'VE must realize by now that
whatever the military or diploma
tic outcome OF the war In the West,
the essential economic and polite
al ideas of National Socialism have
conquered Europe even more com
pletely than the NaEi armies did.
| II is not merely that the Soviet le-
gions have overrun the Balkans and
| the Baltic countries and already
| turned out the lights OF an entire
| continent from Kiel TO Korea, but
| that in most Of the rest OF Europe,
in Italy, France. and England. no
Red armies were needed 10 destroy
economic freedom and civil liberty.
II had been done long before by the
politicians, businessmen and labor
unions of these countries.
Two documents recalled DR..
Jordan's words to me. One was
the Presidents first formal mes
sage, an amazing document because
it ignored the fact that for y years
the American disease OF unemploy-
ment was being cured by wasteful
spending. and the patient never got
well-infact, he grew thinner and
sicker every day So he got the
opiate OF war and thought that he
was doing well. But the war
squandered 1896, 00,000,0O0 OF hts
earnings and savings. cost him a
million and a quarter casualties.
loaded him with n debt OF 100000
100000 and brought him to the
same place that he started-unem-
ployment.
So, what is the proffered solu-
tion-a government charity OF $25
week for half a year. And what
is to be done when that half year
has gone? Perhaps a government
charity Of $50 week for another
half year. What does that do in
terms OF human dignity and human
decency? What does that do to
our moral institution, the family?
Ask Hitler. He tried all these
tricks.
Then along came Henry Wal
lace's masterpiece. 1t is possible
to find excuses for Mr.. Truman.
He has been catapulted by the
death OF his predecessor into a
stupendous task for which his pre-
paration has been inadequate. Ad-
| mittedly, he has on the whole,
done better than had been expect
ed. He had to make a choice be-
tween conservative craftsmanship
and the politics of reelection and
under our American system, re-
election cannot be ignored. Out
of the New Deal formulate and de.
ceits, four elections have been won.
1t would be expecting too much to
ask that that be ignored.
But Henry Wallace has been
around. He has been in the Ad-
ministration since 1888. He is par.
TALLY responsible for the policies
during u years not only did not
solve the problem OF unemployment
! but aggravated them, deepening
the social disorders in the country.
He ought to have the common
sense to know that a mere repeti-
| ton of methods that failed for 70
years under a decitful slogan will
not solve a problem that. in the
/ postwar emotionalism OF returning
veterans. may produce a political
upheaval OF major magnitude.
Wallace might fool voters: he will
not fool veterans. They will say:
cut the talk, produce the Job"
Henry Wallace has only one so.
luton to all problems-govern.
ment spending. He knows only one
way OF accomplishing anything
enlarge and increase the bureau.
| crazy.
II is curious that the New Deal
ers should he such Bourbon reac-
tionaries. They have learned no.
thing during their prolonged occu-
patton Of the Federal Administra.
ton. They have acquired no wis.
dom. They have not mellowed
with failure. When they started,
they believed that they could solve
all problems by government spend.
ing. They failed TO solve any
problem by government spending.
They now have no solution for any
problem except government spend