Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
Scars of Business as Well as Of Battle
Borne by Truman, Scion of Humility

other presidents when he entered business he went
broke.
1t is hard for man escape the lessons that expert
ence has beaten into him.
Among the ingrained instincts of Senator Truman
the early horror of mortgages and their costly up
keep He realizes that government is smothered
under mortgage Of nearly three hundred billion, with
annual interest charge of six billion
president TRUMAN knew from childhood the drag
of paving interest and the dread of foreclosure.
must realize that nations be quidated just well
farms.
Young Harry Truman tried to make a success of
small business He learned at first hand the obscure
drama of merchants fe-the necessity for borrowing
money buy stock the horrors of watching the
sary customers walk past the windows with indifference,
then watching the creditors drop in and the employees
demand their weekly wages on the dot.
The pay roll is the inescapable nightmare of the
businessman. Harry Truman woke from his final night
mare into the dodrums of bankruptcy
Far too many of our most eloquent speakers and
writer's orators commentators and spelbinders have
never experienced the tragedies of the busnessmans life
Poets do not write of them but the agones and the
-heaFthfeaks are there
YT,O LITERARY men and mad rcformers, businessmen
are greedy vampires sucking the blood OF the tolers
Anybody who employs anybody is save-buyer
The pay roll is nothing but honor roll on which
the writer's names are included.
Meeting the pay roll from inside the cashiers window
sordd matter that does not interest those to wnom
the word businessman is a term OF abuse
But a nation is business A is business.
Peace is business The laws Of supply and demand,
obligations winning and holding cusomers-they all
apply to governments and make or break them
Now all of sudden we have q President who Is not
only battescarred veteran but also btsnessscarred
man.
And so the new Presidents first appointment TO
post where he will have control of billions OF dollars vas
not sarrveyed dreamer whose idea of being liberal is
to spend millions on barren ground. The man is
banker and of all things whom Jesse Jones calls
the best man imaginable. The revolution is here
ONCE more we have for our leader one humoy oorn
~ one who has known poverty high hefesb dis
appointments Importance of pnching pennies to make
dollars talk Once plain man is at the head OF
plain people.-He is one Of
In democracy of equals. such AS ours was meant 10
be the leader IS not divinely anointed king not an
inspired demigod who says "Go here! Go there. IT is
who order YOU from high but one who says The
best path lead that way fellow citizens Let us
60 there together
The most striking and original meaning OF the word
American" that highest pride was the great
of recognizing the pride of others and their nights
TO the reverence due TO human being who reveres
a certain something in himself and finding IT in every
other denzen of earth finds it majestic and supreme
while lowy, and level, and equal
So there sublimity in the close of President Tru
mans first speech to Congress
IL ask only to he good and faithful servant OF my
Lord and my people"
II is not only the househoders and the employers
who are driven frantic nowadays by the servant problem
The governments of this world find nothing difficult
to find than good servant There have been too many
fuehrers caudlos. dctators and supermen.
Once more in the day of Washington the Amer
lean people have a servant.
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