Evening star., 1951-01-12

production effort than our fac
tories and mines. The demand
for farm products has increased
greatly since the Korean out
break. -.
In the face of these rising de-
mands, we now have low supplies
of cotton and wool. Our food
supplies, while entirely adequate
for the time being, will clearly
have to be increased. >.
Manpower. We cannot produce
in industry or agriculture without
the trained workers to do the Job.
AS the defense production job
speeds up, we will have to be in
creasingly careful about the dis
tribution and use of the skilled
labor we have available. We will
have to train more and more new
workers who are not now in the
labor force. Major emphasis
should be upon training and re-
cruitment Of unmarried women
and married women without young
children. Support should be ex-
tended to nursery schools as an
aid to mothers who want Jobs.
Additional shifts and longer
hours in some defense industries
are being encouraged. Industry
hiring standards are being re-
viewed, to provide suitable Jobs
for more workers.
Labor Management Steps.
We are already setting 1'p VOL
untary labor-management COM
mltteeS to work with the United
States Employment Service in the
principal defense areas.
1t is now quite clear that, Just
as in World War II, we will need
special legislation to provide hous-
ing and community facilities and
services for defense workers in
areas where adequate quarters are
not now available.
Health Services and Education.
1t is clear that we cannot neg
lect the education and health of
our people, without the most
serious results for long-run de-
fense effort. Obviously, we will
not now have available the re-
sources to build Or staff as many
schools and clinics and hospitals
III as many places as we hoped
to do in normal times. But the
quality of essential services must
be maintained and improved, as
fast as can be managed. E.
We cannot afford !. waste of
manpower, our most vital resource
AS a first step, we must obtain
more doctors, more dentists, and
more nurses. :.
At the same time. we must ex-
pand our local public health serv-
ices. They are essential to our
civil defenses, and to the main
| tenance of safe health standards
in our growing production CEN
/ terS.
/ Our public school system faces
the greatest crisis in its history
More than ever before, we need
positive action by the Federal
Government to help the States
meet their educational tasks.
Higher Taxes.
The Government has been NOV
ing ahead in several ways to sta
bilize the cost of living and hold
down imitation.
Taxation: We should make it
the first principle of economic
and fiscal policy in these times
to maintain a balanced budget
and to finance the cost of national
defense on "pay-as-we-go'
basis. Legislation should be
enacted, at this session of the
Congress, to increase taxes by very
much more than they were in
creased by the last two major tax
bills which the Congress en-
The new tax increases, now re-
quired, must press harder upor
every source of available revenue
Corporations should pay mucf
higher taxes. Individuals shoulc
pay much higher taxes. Excise
; taxes should be higher and more
extensive. Many loopholes in tht
tax laws should be closed. In thu
near future. after further consul