Detroit evening times., 1945-02-27
BEHIND
THE NEWS
BY Paul
MaIIon

A lawyer businesspan
who is a government official
listened 10 A group of the
learned and wise among his as
Sociates. discussing W h e I h e T
Stain won the Livadia confer
encc, whether leftist totalitar-
ianism tquast-c communism will
sweep Europe, what our own
postwar future is, for more
than an hour before he broke
in Ia say:
81 think communism or some
similar disintegratiOn OF our
system is ahead of this country
in the next 50 years.
1T is inevitable, furthermore,
that our people will soon sweep
aside this coming communism
in whatever form it takes, as
soon as they experience H..
They will fight to get out Of it,
and To restore seiBdness in
values all values - IN ney,
morals, religion, literature, art,
economics. They will return To
common sense for many genera
tiOns thereafter"
NO ONE present disagreed.
~ A religious leader noted the
same symptoms in his line of
work as the banker found in
his. On the religious side, the
decline of popular faith in
soundness Of moral values was
evident.
The banker noted that the
American Bankers Association
does not oppose the side of the
Breton Woods agreement which
proposes giving money away for
rebuilding the world, but only
the foreign exchange part.
Mr.. Roosevelt currently wants
the Johnson act repealed, so
that restriction may be removed
against giving the peoples
money 10 nations which have
not seriously tried to repay US
from the last war. Last time
bankers made these loans
and the individual investors lost.
Now all seem to think il will be
an improvement to give the
money out of our treasury and
make all the people losers.
I HAVE found doctors and
Il nurses so diSilluSloned by
wrongs they see in medicine
that they are coming 10 well
come -secialized medicine. even
though they know il means that
communal system will cause the
end of all except the purest SCI
entific ambition in medicine,
that doctors will have to become
politicians to get ahead in their
profession.
l found abused religious and
race classes of our people deslr-
ing 10 tear down our civilization,
thinking thereby their condition
would be improved. not realizing
that with all It's defects it has
afforded them the best haven
their people ever had in all the
history of the world.
HERE we are then-the youth,
IL the serviceman and their
families suffering confusion and
lack of hope along with the doc
tor, nurse, Negro, the worker,
the religious man, the business
man, the banker.
What are we going TO do
about II? Sit around and await
the fulfillment Of this mass of
Encouragement?
No we'll ordered nation would.
The problems must be attacked
and solved. Confidence in our
future must be restored.
This nation was even more
discouraged II years ago at this
very time. A fresh, braSh preSi-
dent-thiS same Mr.. Roosevelt
arose on the Capitol steps and
said there was nothing TO fear
but fear.
He thought he could do the
Job and he did enough Of 1t 10
get the country out of the base
ment.
But behind him there must be
built up in this country popu-
lar following for what every one
who can think, realizes is simple
common justice and soundneSS.
Sounder leadership must rise TO
the top in all classes to promote
the things we know TO be good,
10 make class SurlineSs. hatred
and greed less popular, less con-
doncd. 10 promote A national
teamwork out of our foolish
StrifCS.
A LEADERSHIP inspiring
"A confidence in postwar recon-
version must be established in
Washington. l understand eX-
Justice James Byrnes is now
back in favor at the White
House and is To become in
creasingly a greater power and
influence.
There are mon among the
workers who are not of the
lIillman stripe, among the
clergy who do not want 10 COM
promise with com mum s m,
among the Negroes who know
what is wise and Just, in buSi-
ness who know this foolishneSs
cannot last, among bankers who
know what sound values really
are. doctors who will stand for
fairness and Justice 81 tbnr,,