Evening star., 1945-01-25

ic IdhcS tIie OdIu as a WlCNeSS
ommittee today. --AP Photo.
competition and domination by
monopolies at home or abroad.
The right of every family to a
decent home.
The right to adequate medical
care and the opportunity to achieve
and enjoy good health.
The right to adequate protection
from the economic fears of old age,
sickness, accident and unemploy- :
men:
The right to a good education.
But the achievement of this
American economic bill of rights
will not come of itself. These rights
will not come to those who merely
sit and wait. Nor will they come
through merely pious repetition
Our forefathers had to struggle for
our political Bill of Rights; we will
have to struggle for our economic
bill of rights.
II we are going to make those
rights living reality we must mar
out vigorous and concerted
course. We must set as our goal
the implementation and fulfillment
OF the eight self-evident truths
which together constitute our eco
nomic bill of rights.
Cooperation Means Success.
The key to making this economic
bill OF rights part of the American
way OF life is as self-evident as are
the rights themselves. The KEY /.
the wholehearted recognition by MI
our people of the simple fact that
In America the future of the Amer
lcan worker lies in the well-beine
OF American private enterprise; and
the future Of American private en-
terprise lies in the well-beine OF
the American worker. The greatest
single thing that this war has dem
onstrated on the home front is that
when the American worker and the
American businessman and the
American farmer work together as
one team there are no limits on
what America can accomplish,
But to work together as a team
however. there must be a common
goal. In this war that goal has
been the deafeat of our enemies
In the shortest possible period of
time. In the peace to come the goal
must be the well-being of America
l am now going to outline to YOU
the type of program which I think
would make each of these economic
rights a part of our way of life
In your consideration of this pro-
gram you will note this striking
fact. namely, that to the extent
that private enterprise grows in
strength, the economic bill of
rights grows in reality-and to the
extent that the economic bill of
rights grows in reality, American
private enterprise grows in strength
Thus, all the measures which are
suggested in this program for the
implementation of the economic
bill OF rights are at the same time
designed to make American capi-
taatsm and private enterprise work
IN the same great manner in peace
as 1t has worked In war.
Must Aid Servicemen.
And I also want to emphasize
what the implementation of these
rights will mean to our service men
and women. They have given
the opportunity to work
out its destiny as free Nation in
q free world. The America to which
they return must be a land of eco
nomic opportunity in which they
will find not only jobs, but chance
for economic advancement and in
dependent enterprise in industry,
commerce, agriculture and the pro-
LESSONS. A grateful Nation can do
no less for her returning service
men and women.
The G. I. Bill Of Rights which be-
came law in June of last year, fol-
lowing a series of recommended
tons which the President made to
the Congress, is only designed to
fulfill the special needs of our men
and women in the service. The eco
nomic bill of rights is designed to
fulfill the needs which they value
most, yes, the needs which they
value more than life itself-the
needs Of America.
The first economic right is "the
right to a useful and remunerative
job in the industries, or shops, or
farms or mines of the Nation"
To assure the full realization of
this right to a useful and re-
munerative job, an adequate pro-
gram must provide America with
so ,000, 900 productive jobs. We must
have more jobs than workers; not
more workers than jobs. Only with
more jobs than workers can every
man be guaranteed a job with good
wages and decent working condi-
tions. This requires privatei enter
prise working at expanded capacity.
This necessary expansion of our
peacetime productive capacity will
require new facilities, new plants
and new equipment.
It will require large outlays of
money which should be raised
through normal investment chan
nels. But while private capital
should finance this expansion pro-
gram, the Government should rec
ognize its responsibility for sharing
part of any special or abnormal risk
Of loss attached to such financing.
Urges Guaranteed Credit.
Therefore, propose that the Goy-
ernment guarantee the lender
against the special and abnormal