Detroit evening times., 1945-11-07
By SAMUEL CROWTHER
PART III

Until this nation decides the nature, quality and
- quantity of freedom it wants, the present confusion
is bound to grow and shall find ourselves sucked
into whirlpool of initiation out of which may
chastened and free, but more likely will emerge into
nazsm communism adapted to the American char
acter and dressed up with American names.
For, as things now stand, the government has
tanned sufficient powers to up the economy of
the country in vally important sectors, but it has hot
enough power to clean up the mess 1t creates.
Therefore it must wholly in and take full control
of everything it must declare that the dis
mantle all of its controlling and propaganda bureaus and
turn the management of the productive economy of the
nation back to the propreors and workers to fight out
and adjust their grievances in the broad sunlight of free
public opinion
YINE difficulty that stands in the way of applying plain
horse sense to the present situation the enormous
vested interests that want the continued with all the
features dropped but with the torrent of freshly
printed money continuing.
These not the old vested interests of the top hat
and big watch chain
The new vested interests are the millions of bureau
Gratis who will lose their jobs government becomes the
servant of the people;
The politicians who depend on the votes of these
bureaucrats of their relatives and of their friends to
The newer labor leaders, particularly in the CIO
uniOns whose power depends upon the dues of members
forced into their ranks by work and the support
of the politicians elected by the swollen bureau
And finally those businessmen who afraid of
what may happen to them in a competitive economy
where only work and merit would count
These vested interests with myrads of press agents
have for long been beating the tom tom of the brave
world that to follow the that they today
the prisoners of their promises.
They must act though they were trying to make
good their promises pass into oblivion. They must
pretend that government given clear space can per-
form the Indian rope trick.
GONE of these fools who will speak any piece
- handed to them and knaves who know that
what they advocate benefce will destroy every
tige of human liberty and dignity, but the ma jory
just perpexed and mudded souls who find themselves
parading with outfit they never intended to join
The center of present trouble and the cause
of of It IS the Office of Price Admnistrafion-not
office, because it IS about tOeU managed as
such a thing be-but a barrier to freedom, and
progress and gentle introduction to state control
that must become rigid that of communism
1t is being represented benign institution which
not only prevents customers from being overchged by
wicked manufacturers and merchants but also the
way of hodng the line against the black forces of
initiation.
There is some evidence that the administrator and
large number of fellow citizens believe that price
troll doing what it pretends to do and the whole is
in the public interest.
THAT is THE INNOCENCE ON WHICH THOSE
WHO WOULD DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE ARE
BUILDING. FOR THEY KNOW THAT A GOVERN
MENT WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL PRICES IN
PEACETIME HAS STARTED DOWN LANE THAT
HAS NO TURNING.
(COntinued Wednesday,