The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27

and to foreign policy the short section covering his domestic economic program has not yet received the serious attention it deserves MT Roosevelt began by talking of "a second bill of rights 'an American right on this would be the right to useful and lremunerative job" Others were the right to de- cent home to good education, to good medical care to social security to reasonable farm income. The Federal Government must see to 1t that these rights become realities"
 Now no one will deny remuneratve job, de- cent home, reasonable income, and highly desirable They are certainly the legitimate aim of everyones endeayor for himself. But if we make it the direct duty and function of the Government to provide all these things, then going perm anently extend the scope of American government and of governmental domination over all our lives and activties-far beyond it's historic province.
 It is worth examining, also, the indicated program by which these rights" to be made realities ; The President to accept unquestoningly the un realistic slogan about 60000 900 jobs He also accepts without analysis the slogan of full employment" He moves from this the implication that it is the duty of the Federal Government to see to it that the level of demand and purchasing power by private con- sumers" after the is sufficiently high to replace wartime Government demands"
 How is all this to be done? Our policy is, of course to rely much possible on private enter prise to provide jobs But the American people will not accept unemployment or mere makeshift work" The implication here is that if mass unemploy occurs must be the fault of private enterprise
 and not say of unsound governmental policies which prevent private enterprise from functioning. The President then puts forward the remarkable proposal that the Government should share part of the risks of loss from private ventures-whch would mean that all of us would have ta pay for the mistakes made by individuals seeking To increase their own profits
 "Our full employment program" continues MT Roosevelt requires the extensive development of our natural resources and other useful public works He then talks of constructing thousands of arports of overhauling entire national highway system, of great housing projects of expanded Social Security program health and education programs. On the other hand, i've must after the is over reduce or eliminate taxes which bear too heavily on con- sumption" #
 This program implies, on the one hand, Govern ment spending a scale far higher than that even of the prewar deficit period and the other hand substantial lowering of taxes from present levels The probable result of this would be indefinite continuation of deficits on top of our unparalleled war debt. How, under such circumstances, could imitation be kept under any sort of control? The President optimistically believes that Through program of this character maintain a national income high enough to provide for an orderly re- trement of the public debt along with reasonable reduction" It precisely such expectation that disappointed all during the decade before our eptrance into the
 The question must be raised, indeed, whether it is not precisely the opposite program which we need today If the present military crisis, and the pros pec of the proongaton of the war are great enough to call for National Service Act, they not also great enough to call for tightening rather than relaxation of the present wartime tax program?
 Trying to kinde the fires of idealsm in the world today is comparable to trying to light candle in cyclone.