The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
Patton's Speech Highlights
31st Annual MFU
Meeting
Meeting
cONT'D FROM LAST WEEK
Most Striking People

Most Striking People
Here at home, well most every
body's for himself We're the mos
striking people on earth. The bigge
cattle farms and meat professors jus
pulled dilly. They pulled an excel
lent strike. 1t may be a very effective
strike. 1t may be effective two ways
In the long run it may have been very
bad public relations for Armour We
had capital strikes, all kinds of indus
trial strikes where industry is halting
goods and services in order to get a
little bigger cut for themselves. And
then we have some labor strikes, ma
turally. We are all evidently doing
everything possible to prevent abun-
dance from coming to the United
States. We're still talking, as I said, of
the Old New Deal We still look back.
We're still trying to drive into the
future at terrific speed by looking
into the rearview mirror. We're going
in the ditch if we continue to do that.
Most of our leadership in America is
not dynamic. Instead of talking about
rebuilding streets in our cities they
ought to be talking about rebuilding
cities and eliminating the novels, and
the narrow streets and the broken
down buildings. Instead of building a
new world they are trying to figure
out how we can finish destroying the
new one we have. We're planning for
scarcity and unemployment not abun-
dance. The Committee for Economic
Development the CED, which I might
say parenthetically is one of the more
progressive business groups, is just
sure that we've got to plan for a big
depression and see that we maintain
certain level, I would say probably
of scarcity. We've got a get-tough
policy at home and get-tough policy
abroad. It's part and parcel of the
same reactionary coalition of repub-
licans and reactionary democrats who
have gotten terrifically tough with
common people in this country by in
flicting initiation on them. AS matter
of fact the republican party is really
in control of this country but the
democrats still have the responsible
Iity. We do have real initiation and
quite obviously we are going to have
deflation.
Must Get Brotherhood Concept
What do you do? Well, l think
first we get the concept that people |
like us are building a dynamic new
world, the concept of thinking just as |
daringly as we know how to think, re-
building this whole America, rebuild |
ing the world if you please. We get |
basically the concept of world peace
instead of carrying in our minds the
virus of thinking that we're going to
have to have world war III sooner or
later We have to get the concept of
brotherhood in it's genuine sense. We
have got to begin, l think, by being
a little more brotherly with our
neighbors and those with whom we
come in contact every day. The con-
cept of abundance, not scarcity. Some
how we have to apply the dynamics
Of war to peace. If we should get as
frightened about the future in terms
Of peace about where we were going
to go off the brink as we did whether
Or not we were going to win the war,
there wouldn't be any question but
what we would win the peace. But t
somehow America, all of us, seem to {
nave no way of jumping the mental S
bridge or gap by which we can get II
IN understanding and get as deep I
ear if that's what it takes, to have {
he spirit and dynamics of winning {
he peace as we did winning the war. t
"The next concept, l would say, is .
hat we must be doing big things, not
mall things but gigantic things in
erms Of conserving our soil and re-
,aining the resources we have for
uture generations. We as farmers
re trustees of the two greatest values
n living We're trustees of the soil, :,
nd we provide 609o of Americas
population I don't know what greater d
rusteeship people could have than
hose two. We have in our hands or :
n our making the future generations
f this country and large slice of
he determination of the future of the L
yorld p
Must Stop Atomic Race |.
II would say as to action, first, that L
70 stop the atomic arms race, that we
ut atomic control and atomic energy u
nder genuine international control, q
nat we share the atomic secrets, all :
them, now, that we stop manufac- =
lring atomic bombs at the rate of L
90 million dollars a month now, that
re stop rafting sabres by not sending Is
-29s around the world, battleships to =
Ike dead diplomats home. Pass y
n about CONSUMPTION now to con- u
,ript profits on war goods whether IL
ley are made in peace time or in war "
me and to conscript everything in
le event of war. And if we begin to
onscript profits on goods manufac- VI
lred for war purposes during peace 81
me we will not have some of the re
nergetic quote experiments" end m
uote as the army calls it, going on. az
suggest that we set up permanent e(
eace Maintenance Board composed oil
! citizens from every walk of life, OF
man who represents the industrial of
orker, a white-collar person, farm re
:, people from churches, consumers pc
other types, all walks of life, small 10
Businessmen, businessmen in general, til
nd give them responsibility in pos
We terms for recommending to our tn
,vernment and to all governments bl
lie positive steps for maintaining tn
sace. Next | suggest that we put We
,ience under civilian control and ia