Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03


/ am glad in this connection
to have the opportunity to say
before city audience that we
face no more important problem
these days than that of restor-
ing farm income.
Political opportunists are seek
ing to divide the farmers and
people, particularly wage earn
Iers. in the cities. But there are
no isolated problems in the Ma
ton today. The farm depression
does not stop at the city limits.
In towns where farm implements
are made the unemployment sit
uation is no less serious today
than it is here in Detroit. And
unemployment in the city means
Ia worsening of the farmers
market.
And 1 must say. too, that we
overlook at our peril the current
creeping price imitation which
has brought the cost of living to
the highest point in our history.
Imitation cuts the value of the
dollar-the value of our insur-
ance, our Government bonds and
our social security. The millions
who live on fixed incomes are
the worst sufferers, but we are
all the victims of imitation be-
cause we are all consumers.
Like the unemployment in the
automobile industry, imitation
offers stern warning that too
much of our current prosperity
has been borrowed from the flu
ture on the easy payment, buy
now-and-pay-later plan.
Opportunities for Expansion
Most basic of all-behind the
problems of unemployment. I'M
used farm production, imitation,
too many who still have too lit
tle-iS the necessity of Seizing
upon the great new opportuni-
ties for expansion of our econ
omy which are opening today
before us.
Attenuation and atomic energy
are among the great promises of
the immediate future. They will
supply the production resources
which will mean jobs for the two
men and women who are
each year now entering Ameri-
cas- work force.
But we must be careful that
those new instruments of pro-
duction are used for the gen.
eral welfare. There will inevitably
be temporary descriptions of en-
ployment in some plants, the
displacement of some workers by
the new machines. These work
ers and their families must not
be asked to bear the whole cost
of Society's general advance
ment.
So we must insist upon ex-
panded programs of unemploy-
ment insurance, worker refrain
ing, guaranteed annual wage,
and other programs aimed to
share equitably between BUSH
ness, the consumer and the dis
placed worker the transitional
costs of chronological change.
Bold invention is needed as much |
in the social sphere as in the
sphere of technology itself.
Aid to Education
Beyond all this-beyond this
basic job of eliminating poverty,
of balancing and perfecting our
prosperity-lies the more excit-
ing Job of turning our abundance
to the greater purposes which it |
can and must serve.
While our Nation has grown
larger and richer, our educa-
tional plant has become more
Anticipated and inadequate. Our
schoolrooms are overcrowded.
The quality of our education is
beginning to decline. And the
number of children going toI
school increases each year.
The Republican administra-
ton utters pious words and
holds conferences. But when a /
bill for Federal aid for our chill
drens' education finally came up
this summer in the House of
Representatives, an overwhelm-
ing majority of Republicans
voted against it.
The new America means, to
me, an America where there
are adequate schoolrooms and
enough skilled teachers for every
American child.
CriticizeS G. o. p. Voting
This will require Federal as
Sistance to the States. Such al
program was defeated this year
in Congress when 81 Congress-
men voted first to add an amend
ment to the school DILL which
they knew would defeat it, and
then turned cynically around
and voted against the bill itself
Every one of those 81 was a Re-
publican. Their action cost De-
troit two badly needed new
elementary schools.
The need for more teachers,
fully trained. is, if anything more
acute than the classroom needs.
mean to propose, too. in fuller
detail during this campaign, a.
program for Immediately in
creasing our teaching force by a
federally supported scholarship
program for young men and
women who are competent to-
teach. We do this kind of thing
to meet the demands for defense.
The need for education is today
just as real and just as pressing
The new America means, to-
me. an America where we fight
sickness and disease the way we
fight WARRIOR in both cases the
stakes are life and death
I shall propose, again in fur
Their detail later. a new attack