Detroit evening times., 1945-08-28
FOLLOWING is the teXt, in part, of
Il radio talk by Rupert Hughes:

ANNOUNCER-Ihe Natlonal Broad
casting Company presents Rupert Hughes,
soldier, novelist, historian and humorist.
HUGHES-The main problem now ex-
ercisng the world is; How much power
should be given TO government and how
heavily should the people lean on the poll
ticians?
And il ought never to he forgotten
that government is not a divine body of
miracle-wOrking gods. Government is
group of POLITICIANS that happen to be
i'm control.
In spite of the mountainous debt that
fills our sky as we come out of this war;
in spite of the solemn fact that it has got
to be paid off and heavy interest on it
paid while it is being paid off; in spite of
the fact that the only way to pay debt
is to retrench in outgo and extravaganza,
in spite of all that history and cold mathe-
mates have told mankind from the year
one on there is tremendous movement
to add to the debt instead of paying it off;
to take on new obligations instead of
cleaning up the old ones
If you don't believe in government
control or in government power to pro-
vide full employment, you are branded
reactionary.
But the believers in government pro-
vision of full employment are the real
reactonaries
THE government provided full employ
Il ment in ancient Egypt.
The pyramids are the monument of
how it was done
The pharaoh simply called his people
out in gangs of hundred thousand or so
and put them to work in quarries, cutting
out great blocks of stone. hauling them
across the burning sands with rope, build
ing ramps and dragging the stones up into
their place, then polishing them till they
shone like mirrors
The pharaoh fed them-just enough
to keep them from dropping dead of
starvation.
What few clothes the Egyptians wore
were apparently transparent, anyway, so
clothes didn't matter; and housing was
slmple-the sand was soft and warm.
The pharaoh saved them from all wor-
ries.
He PROVIDED THEM WITH Sc
CURITY FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.
The GRAVE CAME EARLY BUT
THEY GOT 1T.
The Romans did the same thing with
their famous highways.
They entertained their people with
gladiatorial mass murders.
They fed them bread and circuses.
The Roman republic became the Ro-
man Empire.
When modern theorists and socialists
advocate government guarantee of full
employment they call themselves forward
looking. Yet they call for a return to the
practices of the ancient Egyptians of the
time of Cheops, or, as they called him in
his day, Khu-Fu.
He built his pyramids and took
fatherly care of his people about $500
years before Christ, or nearly five thou
sand five hundred years ago.
AND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO
BACK TO THE PRINCIPLES OF GOV
ERNMENT CONTROL $500 YEARS
OLD CALL PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE
THEM REACTIONARYi
lust how is the government going to
- take care of everybody?
If you ask that, they have an easy
answer The usual answer is reforestation
and public highways. How simple,
The people who advocate those things
don't expect to work on them. They SIM
ply recommend them for others.
Reforestation means going into re-
gions where the greed of man or the greed
of such forest fires as have been raging
in Oregon for weeks have denuded the
great mountainsides of their timber.