Show I I Released by Western Newspaper Union I WHEN WilEN THE TIlE WAR IS OVER OTHER PROBLEMS LEI IS BEGIN WHEN THE WAR IS OVER as it will be sometime then what It is the job of the national resources resources resources re re- re- re sources planning board to answer that question That board is headed by Frederic A. A Delano as chairman with Prof Charles E. E Merriam and Prof George F. F Yantis as vice chairmen They are proposing plans for preventing the customary depressIon depression depression de de- de- de which has invariably followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed each war ar The board estimates that by 1944 workers will be employed and that there will be no one without a job in the United States It estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates the national Income for 1944 19 at That would mean exceedingly high wages Of the 60 employed it Is that will be working at war jobs and on civilian pro pro- After the war the board proposes plans to continue jobs at high wages for all of the by having government finance industry so workers may be paid until the people people peo peo- pie are able to purchase the excess of civilian products such employment employment employ- employ ment will crea create te It is a good plan on paper But what will we use for money At our present rate of expenditure if ii the war continues until 1944 America will be in La the financial hole to the extent of all of Can we provide another possible 50 to 75 billion bUllon to finance that period of transformation from war to peacetime peacetime peacetime peace peace- time production If government finances industry government would acquire a financial financial finan finan- cial cia interest in industry That is state capital capitalism sm That is what they have in fascist Italy It means the end of the American system of free competition the competition the end of the American Ameri Amen can way of life llie Possibly a plan can be evolved that will do a practical job but personally personally personally per per- I should like to see it worked out by men with practical experience in industry and finance rather than by the theoretical economists economists economists econ econ- of our universities With so much at stake we cannot afford to try something just because it sounds good S S S SMORE MORE NEEDED IN INDUSTRY WITH ALL OUR American industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial capacity we cannot produce sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- suf- suf tanks guns airplanes ships and war equipment of all kinds to keep the fighting democracies supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied and at the same time equip an American army of a few million men Shall we stop our supplies to England while we equip our own army an army we could not transport transport transport trans trans- port to and land in Europe if we had it The best service we can render the fighting democracies is isto isto isto to keep our manpower in our industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial plants S S S FROM I THE F FARM I EVERYTHING ING ACCORDING TO Wheeler McMillen len len and and he knows if anyone does- does future American prosperity will come from our farms Farmers have produced what all aU of us eat and wear In the future they will produce much of the material that will be used in industry The products products prod prod- of American acres are now going to our industrial plants and that is but a start From the farms the scientist and the industrialist industrialist in in- will secure products from which to make many commodities and make possible that tha t increased American factory production from tram which prosperity is born The six six- I year-old year science of is re responsible responsible re- re I for it all re-I re SUPPLY BIG PRICES UP THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT DEPART DEPART- I MENT tells us that American farmers farm farm- ers produced more food of all kinds in 1941 than for for- any other recent year that we have on hand now enough grain to feed the tRe nation for two years if no more were produced in that time that our stocks of butter butter butter but but- ter eggs cheese beef and pork are far Car above normal In spite of such conditions food prices to the consumer r go up p by leaps and bounds and other departments departments depart depart- ments of government are predicting predict ing lag food rationing for America in another year Docs Does it mean I that advancing prices are but the forerunner of that extreme inflation we so much fear S S S SONE ONE LEND-LEASE LEND order placed recently was for pounds of canned chicken for England It takes a five pound five pound chicken to produce produce pro pro- duce a pound one-pound can That means less chickens for American Sunday dinners but perhaps they us the necks S S S SNOT NOT BY FORCE AMERICANS AS A PEOPLE will never consent either during an emergency or at any other time t tany to any system that forces them as Individuals individuals In in- to pay for the privilege of working There are in the United States something over wage earners Much less than one one- third of them belong to labor un- un ions To force Corce those who do not notto notto notto to pay tribute to a super government government govern govern- ment meat in order to have a job jab Is not the American can way |