The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-10-19
There Are Many Things Still Undone

It took considerable imagination and daring the
President Roosevelt to authorize the expenditure of two billion
900 000) for experiments which resulted perfection
of the atomic bomb When he designated members of the
mttee which supervised this tremendous undertaking and
handed to group of American scientists to
lceed FDR did an unparalleled thing!
Consider what would have happened had the experiments
not been blessed with success?
How the Pegers and Kens and Lawrences and their k
of the kep press would have reviled hm Since the
perments vista for mankind which
our minds can today scarcely envage-the
keep quiet this 1t high
pmen to the late president that they have been silent
the subject
This leads consideration should neglect If
such undertaking prove successful in not
similar method be used in times of to work out
problems which could be undertaken affordng great employ
ment seeking provide boons instead of bombs for the
pies of the world today and tomorrow Even if they should
mt always efcacous they would still explore unbroken
fields that private enterprise will touch with 10foo
pole because private enterprise cannot because of its
nature operate in really big wayuness functions at
profit
Take the field of medicine What is more needed than
remedy for for the cod Let the
enter into the investigation of such pepeng enigmas
with the zeal that did in hunting out the mysteries of
the atom Private efforts these matters have been small
be trivial They resemble nothing much whisper
against the hurricane If they prove the end to be fruit
likely by accident by design Why
competent scientists make thorough Investigations and
we're until the problems are solved? Place responsible
mee charge of the ob-as Roosevelt did in the bomb
experiment authorize them to the job to completion
without thought of dollar expense.
seek here not to identify any all of them the
to be selected is important that the
now how shown in the atomic investigation, and apply
it to gigantic problems that mankind but which will
not be developed by profit-conscious economy.
cite another example. Is there anything hdeous
than the cobweb effect of telegraph telephone and power
transmission lines country and in cities Not only
this omnipresent wires unsightly dangerous
and inefficient In world where we are likely
be confronted with unprecedented unemployment
largely due lack of planning because the Roosevelt haers
abolished all planning commissioner ought to try and
cover providing employment.
wires metal condus beneath the ground wherever
possible In such nation this would be gargantuan
but would be equal it. Think of the employment
such job would entail Mines would to provide the
conducting copper we'll the conduit Trans
continue open employees and smoke
would from chimneys Payrolls would be maintained
that should constitute unemployment compensation
heck.
When the job completed there would be more
service windstorms floods breaking down
lines The sky would be blue and the streets
highways would longer be Uttered with poles Certain
would huge chunk of money and it unlikely that
enterprise would wish enter upon such ambi
program That would restrict profit Then let the fed
government othe job employment program. IT,
the work DONE it desirable to give the
why should not, nation, donate such
power sites which of nature belong all the
e give them franchises permit them monopoies at
nominal fees permit them to exact rates which are