Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03


a great moral crusade for the cause of democracy.
THE President somehow-perhaps deliberately
l. missed his cue and his letter to Jones was so
raw that it dripped
And so Wallace, without the help of buildup,
had thrust upon him the impossible task of ration
alizing theft in terms of the upft. If he believed
what he said that does not change the situation
The program that Wallace set out as new and
progressive contained a few new words but no
new ideas Practically everything in it had already
been tried out by the New Deal and had failed.
The same ideas were tried out under the Ger
man republic and resulted in Hitler coming In as
trustee in bankruptcy
The Wallace proposals were offered as an
elaboration of series of rights" which some one
put into one of the Presidents campaign speeches
and which he duly recited.
They boil down to the old story that, if only
the right attitude be taken, wages can be raised
without raising prices and these extra wages will
provide purchasing power which will keep every
body frantically. employed, that enough-ca can be
taken out of the goods purchased by the employ
ment to support those who cannot work; that
every one can get high price for what he buys
that all workers will be guaranteed their wages
by the year regardless of whether there are any
customers for their goods and that in some fashion
ends can be made to meet.
LIE FURTHER specified that the President
IL should at the time of submitting his annual
budget to the Congress, also submit what is now
called lob budget"
This would be a forecast on whether the per-
feet state going to work perfectly and If not,
provision would be then made for putting on the
federal pay roll all those who might be unem-
ployed
Mr.. Wallace did not set out just how he would
use the assets Of the RFC to accomplish his pur-
poses.
1t is noteworthy that those who are working
themselves into fever over getting hold of the
REC and, of course without disclosing whether
they are working for the Roosevelt or the Hillman
faction-have nothing at all to say on how these
reforms, as they still call them, that have already
cost countless billions and have failed are to be
made successful simply by the of more billions.
They feed out the Wallace stuff as pap for
boobS.
They are wildly charging that those who OPP
pose Wallace are against the advancement of the
common man and would block the noble purposes
Of the President
That is the same old smear.
TT is further noteworthy that those who are
l. marshaing behind Wallace are all beneficaries
of the New Deal-office holders who got elected by
patronage votes labor leaders who have been
especially favored by New Deal benefactions and
war contractors who have been built up as busi-
nessmen by press agents paid out of war contracts.
The surface issues are full employment aftef
the war at continuously high wages, the promotion
of small business, the promotion of agriculture
and the prevention of all future business slumps.
None of these are honest issues and with none
of them are the insiders really concerned. Take
them in their order:
THE maintenance of employment at level
of $4,000, 900. 1t is now the fashion to hold a
self-evdent truth that because unemployment ap-
pears in depression the mere providing of jobs
will cure depression and that if private industry
cannot provide the jobs, the government will. No
one is permitted to ask how the government can
provide the jobs or whether government policies
are not the prime causes of unemployment. Gov.
Dewey made campaign issue of providing jobs
and the President topped his figure by offering
6O,OOOOOO jobs That is the scientific basis of that