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Show The Road Turns Within the past four months the entire future of the American people peo-ple has been revolutionarily altered. alter-ed. Few realize the full extent of fundamental changes which have been set up by law and which are being now put into practice. Our habits of government, of industry, cf agriculture, of social responsibility, responsi-bility, and of almost every description descrip-tion will be readjusted to a different differ-ent day, unless the forces of reaction reac-tion can block tlie completion of what liberalism has started. ' Looking back, it is probably no pxafrgeratiGK to say that the A-l.v:. A-l.v:. -can social ana Economic structure struc-ture was c.cser to n gigantic catastrophe catas-trophe il'is.n almjsi anybody realized. real-ized. , -. The legislation passed at the special session of Congress permits a radical readjustment of our entire en-tire lives and if this power is wisely wise-ly and safely administered by the executive agents with whom it im been lodged, the America of the future, will be developed upon a pattern entirely unlike that which any reasonable body would have thought possible up to the earlv months of 1933. The American people will be tested during the coming years. To successfully, and wisely plan, society soci-ety (as the new legislative measures meas-ures have begun to provide for) will require a degree of average intelligence in-telligence applied to government which we have hardly been fortunate for-tunate enough to have enjoyed previously. The great number oi farmers, laborers, and ordinary citizens will have to practice a temperance of desire or else inordinate inor-dinate greed and selfishness may cause the entire project to be misapplied and ruined. The old familiar capitalistic system sys-tem based on a theory of as little lit-tle government control as possible and as much economc freedom for competition as possible, has departed de-parted from this country, never to return. With the complete helplessness help-lessness of our financial and industrial in-dustrial organization to correct the abuses which brought about the economic calamity frcm 192& to 1933, it was necessary for the government to step in and take a decisive control to avert a common disaster to all. Even the big business busi-ness men, historically opposed to government interference with business, busi-ness, were so terrified and Impotent Impo-tent that they welcomed the strong arm of a powerful authority to bring order and hope to a,' disorganized disor-ganized and broken-down economy. However, government having taken the necessary steps to save our situation, it will by necessity be compelled to continue in control con-trol to avert a repetition of the same disaster. Various industries are now preparing suggeted rules for submission to the government and while there is much opportunity oppor-tunity allowed the various industries indus-tries to regulate their own future conduct, still the final decision as to what shall be permitted and what shall be prohibited rests entirely en-tirely snd completely with the government of the United States. Hereafter profits, products, prices, hours of labor, and practlcal'y ev?ry detail of tr.-idc and manufacturing manu-facturing will be conducted in accordance ac-cordance with the general rules promulgated and prescribed by the government itself. The purpose of this program and its hope are happier lives for the millions of people who must "arn their livelihood and provide for the necessities of life through participation partici-pation in industry and agriculture pursuits. The government has realized re-alized finally that after ' disaster ccmes it cannot allow its citizens to starve. Millions of dollars have been spent to prevent this within the past few years. Every government govern-ment has to assume this responsibility. responsi-bility. Government is no good whatever if. it lets its people starve and the agencies of government would be foolish in the extreme to underwrite so great an obligation without controlling and safeguarding safeguard-ing the social group so that such disasters will net occur if intelligent intelli-gent planning in advance and social so-cial cooperation can prevent them. |