The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-20

views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many OF his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
Of making people Think
BY WEsTBROoK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, by King Features Syndicate.)
In his moist and martyristic hour of self
sympathy at political demonstration in New
York, Henry Wallace said he felt no bitter
ness but that men represented issues and
that all of us would have 10 stand up and
be counted.
Well, bitterness is out of my line, too, but
the issues do involve exciting differences
of deep belief and sometimes voices rise
in a way to suggest to the neighbors that our
people are arguing things out with ball-bats
and tire irons.
In approaching the subject of employment
after the war, Wallace adopted trick of
the new deal ideologist which was cribbed
from Hitler in the first place. 1t is the trick
of tossing off some fantastic proposition and
then assuming that its soundness has been
conceded without contest by the other side.
Thus, some years ago, President Roosevelt
referred to one third of a nation in-fed, ILL
housed and ill-clothed and Immediately, be-
cause he had said it, this dramatic concept
of more than 100000 gaunt and ragged
hovel-dwellers became, like the perfldy OF the
Treaty of Versailles, a political fetish. Again,
some pTOpdRdQu1St GSlllIldlSO Oh dIUltIdIl1y
decided that some few thousand Americans
controlled all but about 5000 of our wealth
and, again, like Hitler similar charge against
Jewish exploiters'' in Germany, this became
a by-word.
Wallace cried to his totalitarian friends in
New York, to whom he gave final credit Tor
Roosevelts fourth election, that the one out
standing issue in the, campaign was set forth
by Roosevelt, 60, 900, 600 jobs Then, granting
himself the wisdom o. this figure, he contin-
ued, Il repeatedly emphasized the need for
getting the 100000 jobs Later in h e
speech he mentioned the 60000000 jobs for
third time.
So, by now, in certain proportion OF the
public mind, the proposition Is accepted that,
after the war; six-thirtesnths of all our people,
almost half of us. must have steady. employ
ment. ..-.: 3t+.. *
But Roosevelt and Wallace surely are not
in favor of child labor so we must cross the
children under 10 and thus raise the proper
ton of adult, employable women whom they
would permanently remove from the homes
to work for wages, many of them in defemin-
ling surroundings and at masculine taks and
in male garments. We have plan afoot, also,
to maintain a large Army and Navy after
the war, composed almost entirely OF able-bod-
led males, SO, again, up goes the proportion
of women in jobs.
If we include among those who will be I'M
available for these jobs the elders, above ~
years, the prison population and the unem-
finding so, OO0, 900 employed workers among a
total Of probably no more than 100000 eli
gible, and women.
Without bitterness but on the basis OF his
wife's autobiography, it may be conceded that
Roosevelt is personally unfamiliar with the
normal American method of establishing a
home when two young persons marry. Nor
t6n hush cots fha
vides the money to establish the home, us
ually modest apartment or house. The wife
stays home, bears the children, cares for them,
instructs them and makes sacrlflces Tor them.
When the Roosevelts were married he was
still student and his mother bought them
not only town house but an elaborate sum-
mer place, both completely furnished. It was
a matter of years before he undertook to be
the provider and even then the family for
tune was still behind them. Thus subsidized,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was able to have her
family without having to go to work for
living. Wallace, also, came of background
of wealth SO both he and Roosevelt may be
excused their ignorance OF the family eco
nomic problem of young Americans who mar
ry without money or with only a few hundred
dollars for the furniture or down payment
on frame house in the suburbs
In this plan for 100000 jobs there seems
to be no provision for the preservation of the
American home and of the integrity of the
family unit. 1t appears to count on the regu-I
lar employment for wages of the young wives
and mothers and to suggest either unfami
liarity with the customary way some idea,
not yet revealed, that here, as in Russia,
the children should be mothered by public
agencies which, being political, doubtless
would teach or, in the fashionable word of
the day, "indoctrnate them after the man.
ner of the communists and the Nazis
Unquestionably, this relationship between
husband and wife makes for jealousy, en-
Wy and divorce. At best, in the past, it has
given the wife excuse not to concern her.
self with the homely but essential duties of
housekeeping and to postpone or forego moth
erhood Often the motive for this dual job
holding has been mere luxury and women
have competed not only with men in holding
jobs which they did not need but with other
women who thus were denied their chance
to marry because their suitors, in competi-
ton with working women, could not earn
enough to undertake family responsibility.
The Rooseve1t-Wallace plan appears to hold
that henceforth as many women as men shall
be Job-holders, a proportion which obviously
threatens the home and the birth-rate and in
vites some public mothering service for such
children as do impose on their working moth
ers for the favor, of birth.
Wouldn't 100000 workers, mostly men, be
able to do the work and business of that
wonderful new world of the future? And if
it is necessary for both wife and husband,
mother and father, to hold jobs in order to