The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-30
The End of Lend Lease
These Days5Ny f gEo I" It: gozohsRi

the highest number OF Americans
available for jobs is 100000. II
my figure is correct. and | have
proved that 1t is, and II Congress
accepts the fake figure OF go. ZOO, 900.
then we shall always have 10000.
900 unemployed on paper. and the
Left-Wing politicians will have
ostensible cause to shrek for vast
ing the funds OF the American PEG.
pie on unnecessary and proligate
projects. That is the scheme.
And now l receive a circular let
ter from two publishers. Simon and
SchuSter. Inc, and Reynal and
Hitchcock, Inc, announcing that
both will publish a book by Henry
Wallace using the slogan as a title.
Sixty Million Jobs. The idea, OF
course, is to flood the country not
only with the book but with the
slogan. Textbook is timed to accel-
crate public opinion for the opening
OF Congress. II has nothing 10 do
with scholarship. scientific investi-
CATION, full knowledge OF the sub.
ject II is a public relations, like
an actress bathing in a tub OF milk
fo- = press notice.
Some time ago, received let.
ter from an old classmate, 81 Sead-
Ter. advocating that | support the
slogan. 10000, 900 jobs. So l wrote
81 asking him to give me some
statistical data showing that there
are 60.000.000 Americans available
for his 6O,OoO.O00O Jobs. To this
he replied:
THE figure sixty million Jobs
was originally estimated by greater
authorities than either OF us, notab-
ly Franklin d. Roosevelt and Henry
Wallace. This figure has had gen.
eral acceptance in the country. and
I do not believe that anybody as.
sumes these things can be meas.
ured with a great degree OF accura.
cy."
This Is the best answer have
ever seen on the subject. II says
in effect that nobody can measure"
whether there are $4,000, 900 Jobs.
but that because Roosevelt and
Wallace decided on that slogan. Il
Is all right. This statement IA
made in spite of the fact that hun.
dreds of dollars are spent to main.
tain accurate statistical data in the
Bureau OF the Census, that payroll
data is available both in the Bureau
or Labor Statistics and the Treas
ury Department, that the Social Sc
|Arity Tax provides accurate pay.
data, that the National Indus
trial conference Board, The Brook
ings Institution and the National
Bureau Of Economic Research an
alyZe the data for statistical accura.
cy. What can be more accurately
measured than actual employment!
After admitting that his reason
for using the fictitious slogan. go.
100000 jobs. is because Roosevelt
and Wallace hit on that figure.
Seadler refers me to a book in
which ". the author points out
that hesitancy in government
spending at the conclusion OF the
last war was the direct and imme-
date cause for the collapse that
brought chaos :"
In other words, this is a scheme
to spend the public money, to be
profligate with the wealth OF our
nation, to tax earnings until each
tax becomes a capital levy. to
achieve revolution by the whiting
process OF eliminating private re-
servoirs for investment in enter
prise.
| am very grateful to 81 Seadler
for making it all so clear to me.
He has confirmed my worst suspi-
cions-the very worst Of which Is
that these great social minds seek
to destroy our family structure by
creating the environment in which
mothers are forced by circum-