Detroit evening times., 1945-08-14
By THE HON. HERBERT B. NAV
Governor of Utah

tOration of the old freedoms.
THEY WANT BUSINESS TO BE FREED FROM
GOVERNMENT REGULATION, LABOR FROM Gov
ERNMENT REGULATION, THE FARMER FROM
GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION, AND THE AVERAGE
CITIZEN FROM RESTRICTIONS WHICH ARE NOT
COMPATIBLE WITH FREEDOM AND LIBERTY
Though they have all been willing to temporarily
submit to whatever regulations necessary in order
to win the war-they concerned over the fact that
many federal officials believe and advocating that
national should extend into the postwar era
the controls and authority exercised by during the war;
The American public does not want any such regula-
tons when peace They, therefore, will sustain
this conference in what 1t does to reestabish old
ancestral phlosophy-that that government is best
which governs least"
DURING the period of the the several states have
- maintained enviable records. They have faithfully
and efficiently carried out the tasks assigned to them and
have proved the effectiveness OF state control over pro-
grams of national scope.
The people, through their state and local govern
mens have made magnificent contributions to the war
program They conducted salvage drives They built stock
piles of rubber paper, scrap iron and other essential
materials.
They organized the ratonng machinery They directed
the fund drives eliminated trade barriers in order to
enhance motor truck transportation organized farm labor
groups created state guards planned and set up civilian
defense units and trained themselves so as to meet the
varied emergencies of
All of these activities and many others were per-
formed mainly through voluntary service and without
apprecabe cost-and they performed efficiently
and we'll
WHILE the nation has been expendng large sums of
w money civilian projects, many Of which have
been carried by the states at small portions of present
costs the states have maintained sound and healthy
financial positions.
They have reduced their overall indebtedness by
% per cent since 1940
They have invested in government bonds than
four billion dollars Of state funds during the past two and
onehaf years and have created unemployment compen
sation totang in excess of six billion dollars In
q
mulaed in other funds by them TO provide employment
opportunities for returning veterans and to give security
TO their citizens when peace comes.
THE RECORD MADE BY THE STATES SINCE
PEARL HARBOR is ONE OF EFFICIENCY AND
ACHIEVEMENT.
IN THE light of the above people are giving less and
less weight to the contention of many theorists that
control and authority over American life and industry
should emanate from Washington and that the states
should be required surrender many of their cherished
constitutional prerogaves to federal agencies before
their citizens allowed to partake of the fruits of
gressional legislation
Men and women are discovering that the right Of
Tree agency is a component part of Amercanism. and
that without il government takes the complexion
of an autocracy.
Freedom and Amercanism synonymous To the
citizens who through the providence of Almighty God
have been permitted be born in this land TO the imm
grants who have adopted it thfrhomes and to for
egners who, while struggling under the yoke of native
magistrates carry in their hearts dreams of the
world the two terms have the same meaning American
ism is freedom
II Is the JnlS IdtnerS lett thelr native lands 10
find for which the of the revolution fought
obtain which record of struggle and privaton by the
founders of nation written.
WITHOUT FREEDOM INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM THERE is NO AMERICAN
ISM
| 1NDER this conception of government, the United
- States has grown from toerng union Of 13 states
to the most powerful nation earth within the short
period of about 80 years
During that time all classes of people within its
borders have enjoyed greater prosperity security
less fear and larger degree of justice than have the
citizens of any other nation.
This has come because the people have controlled
their affairs.
Ii would mean much TO the citizens of the nation
during these trying times if they could be assured that
when peace comes the administrative responsibility for
working out the postwar adjustments will he put on the
shoulders of public officials whom the people elect and
who respond to the ma ority will
1t would be tonic to all of us if could be made to
feel that IN the years ahead government by the people
will continue in this nation and that system of control
from Washington will replace the simple yet effective
processes that have kept men free
knowledge Test
SABINA CONNOLLY