Milford chronicle., 1947-05-23
J. E. JONES, Washington CORRESPONDENT

j. E. JONES, Washington correspondent
who frequently has a letter in the Chronicle,
recently made this statement: "In the Opin-
ion of this nOn-partisan veteran" Washing
ton correspondent, Herbert G. Hoover was d
first-class President of the United States.
When he was defeated in 1882 he promptly
congratulated the successful candidate and
invited Franklin Delano Roosevelt to come to
the White House-and in the same month as
the election Mr.. Hoover offered to accept any
suggestions that Mr.. Roosevelt wished and
would recommend. FDR spurned the offer.
President Truman took an entirely differ
ent course in letting down the bars when he
invited Herbert Hoover to come to the White
House and discuss the difficult problems
that have faced our country in these post |
war times. Mr.. Hoover was sent to Europe
to investigate the food shortage crisis and
his report was approved and put in force
by President Truman.
Now, the next and final item on the pro-
gram was formal notice from Mr.. Truman
that the former President in all of his future
visits to Washington will find his headquar-
ters ready in the Blair House-which we
all know is a fine old mansion where the high
est officials of all nations are welcome as the
guests Of the United States Government"
This one act of Mr.. Truman stamps him as a
man of mild manners-and lack of vindi-
catlveneSS, which was characteristic of the
late President Roosevelt. May we have more
of the Truman type of public officials
~AoNS
GREAT PUBLICITY has been given
government development pro jects. The
Tennessee Valley Authority, to take one ex-
ample, has had it's wonders aired in news
papers, magazines, motion pictures and ra-
dlO time and time again. 1t has been praised
to the skies as great social and economic
project for bettering the lives of the people
in it's area.
But too few persons realize that private
enterprise is also vital civilizing force
The New York Herald Tribune recently ran
two long feature articles on the regional de-
velOpment program which is being carried
on in West Virginia by private interests
and financed by private capital. 1t is re-
markable story of cooperation by all seq
ments of the population for the common
good.
The association which guides the move
ment is backed by large electric power COM
pany, which provides most of the financing.
1t also provides technical experts, to quote
the Herald Tribune, "to assist in association
problems anything from designing a play
ground to offering data on hybrid seed. The
job OF these men is to help improve the area :
to slip into the role of statesmen of electric
power or appliances -. The power company
works with more than 1,500 other industries,
business establishments, state, county and
community agencies, and farmers organiza-
tions'
The association is interested in develop.
ing and aiding anything which will contri-
butte to the well-being of the territory. II
seeks to raise farm income, to spur industrial
production, and to stimulate land and water
conservation. People of all kinds are work.
ing together to achieve these goals.
This is American enterprise at it's best
1t is an example of community and industrial
initiative, self-reliance, and determination
1t is vast project-but it isn't run by polit
cal appOlnteeS and it isn't subsidized bv the
Federal treasury. And it is obtaining superb
results.
A NEW GENERATION of Americans i
now coming to maturity which has no per
sonal memory of the time when capitalism
was generally accepted and taken for grant
ed 1t is vitality important that those VIII
DelleVe In tree econOmy-and in the free so
clety which rests on it-should make thej
Deilef more conscious, more principled an
more artlculate. The public at large shoul
study the competitive capitalistic economy
, they should discuss it and pool their ments
resources to defend it.
1t is useless to consider the phantom es
preston that "it can't happen here" or owe,
look the lnfiltration into our country of Con
{ munlsm, and the naturalization movement
E in England, France, Argentina, Spain an
5 elsewhere. Unless we break through sue
: Illusions and such smugness we shall be
Y mortal danger of losing by default 1t is we
that not all should freely discuss the adval
v tages to all classes of our society, includin
n organized capital and organized labor, to d.
velop and increase the great advantages "
n possess for the purpose of making this
f greater and better nation than it has ev,
v been before in all history.
e S1oN~S
I THERE WERE 1O,28O,OOO people
Q work on farms throughout the country {
q May l, about the same as a year ago. Il
Bureau of Agricultural Economics reporte
i A late season and unfavorable weather we
!; l. largely responsible for keeping farm emplo
ment at the 1916 level =. There were abo
100000 fewer operators and unpaid me1