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/*V; ‘i\‘ ' • a Month aigaas# «.> • *& v v.f ;' 4*C ,tf“ > - *- ■ in Which " aeriviti«f;oX^be Administration daringits : jforiabie A*. possible In economic wilderness to ; *iVwfiicK'4M:'6a[4iffotoi«i'li^«jto8eIv«»‘ loot while ft Way glul twtf pSi?**#*.- rW cited the toautfura J ’ tion of toddbtri^^ixitof; l»«iotty:aa'. that planning r:t Mg necessarily the one step toward escape. ;■, We we changing out cpmeption of thesttuatiou. It ^pnpya^^^eissi^pift'itoe economic wilderness i " in *WO» the county found itself helplessly Jos!*, hut. 1 permanent res^ |.;^W^ge%^no.wi|y'^-■■; Igto-sfCtefe If not the purpose. : ‘0: £majn&im Very liver ®* th^jpeophi indite make them-aa comfer* ;' '•' table as possible *Wbil© decision as to the future-was af^ed.’There^ es»; cape.:fe to the Old way „wa* harbored to many, 'minds, the writedown conception .was that a way, ^ fi ii new ;and bettervecoapniic system, rather than,. Daekte the ol£ system of ^dog eat dog”, might he . And «pr ebnceptioiPtB still that of ;«* trang-. fornWd econoWicjBystem, bnt of one appearing hot *r. throngh^m exodug frote the economic, wilderness but* as stated 'jOnt modified conception 'Accords with ' President :<moB«ee»lht ; but evolution country^ economic. salvation. _ The habttftarijm-pf a Wilderness te a slow" process, as & that; Of eyolhtiom • Habilitation involves evolution, but more. It is to be a directed evolution.' Robinson Crusoe’s -first care .was to secure imihediafc necessities i bis first hope to es cape froW'tbrfelaBd^ Reconciliation-tepermanent abode gradually came, and -with -it a- deliberate plaik-. ning for the future. But bis plans matured as the events directed, and may "be said to have evolved. And those plans were as far as possible-in ^accord with 14®.. former conceptions of what was desirable in a’ mode. of life. That is, there was no abafidomrieht Of In- • stincts. But the turning point was bis acceptance of the new’ state" of affairs and a readiness* to adapt; himr j self to the possible, and the possible to fils greatest' well-beine. : •* * K- ~ - ~ ■* 7 ‘ The Ameridm people when they awoke to the fact that they were. In. the midst Of*, an unexplored eco nomic wilderness, were fortunate in having at hand a plenteous reserve of food and clothing. The piente ousness of this very reserve, unfortunately, was due to the very cause whieh had transformed What -bad been formerly conceived as a happy economic state into the wilderness of our figure. That cause was the . monopolization of the wealth and the credit of the American people' by a few; Yet both were at hand. to be appropriated by the people, either by violence (revolution) or by more gentle means. - .• The Greatest. Discovery of the Ago. The latter method waa made; possible by the dis covery of the age—the adequacy of government credi it, a credit which comprehends all individual and cor porate credit That discovery wgs to the patty* the equivalent of Crusoe’s domestication of the wild goat t’nnationalized, the people1* own "reservoir of credit'*? as Mr. B. W. Price characterised H in,#» article in the State’s Voice at a time when few of us knew what he was talking about, bad been corraled by the banking fraternity and other capitalists and had been turned, like a herd of wild goats, upon the fields and other domains of the masses. The beast that was formerly an agent of destruction by nationalisation * becomes the tame goat which is to sustain the Crnso© nation during its wilderness sojourn^ ' *« ' Thus far that newly recouped national reservoir, at. credit has been drawn: upon *very freely to prevent starvation during the exigency exiting.; But from. the very beginning, it- is evident-President Boosevdtt was combining emergency relief - with ; habilitatlon < measures. The Tennessee/ Valley development is the most miportantand -ffcr>^*»t»k*<'K«*f; the' ;*Paerfc»klngs ;* - P ’•-* * . "V, N.. * ■ ; tpafford employment and at thesamer'time td lay - - foundation of plenty with security for hundreds of thousands of citizens in the coming yearsand for future generations! .The Fenderlea development, at our doors in Pender connty. ig one'of the* smaller pro visions vfhich make for immediate sustenance of httHdA-g ind for the comfort and security of the oc cupants’ of the small domains preparing... a: -Utter So';.,s>"■ f ,v ,r V*/*. “w . Pender lea Is one of thefirst of thousands of such ; communities which can and., should appear at the. “open sesame” of government, or national, credit Yet ^either the exigency of the time or a possibly too scrn>; pulous regard for,. the interestof capitalists who had monopolised Jthe wealth and credit that belonged to the whole people under conditions' which the New Deal npetdiscredits hag prevented the direet and im mediate employment of the government credit. ‘Tbit government has borrowed funds to io in direct relief k and indirect what it could do without recourse to borrowing and .paying interest. The billions it has’ borrowed .would • have .been inaictiye and” practically non-existent without the government loans.: 5Br«h those who now flinch at the idea of inflation would ^ have had no adequate reason to fear the issue' Suf ficient currency to financd both the charitable and the constructive ^l|ogram pf the. Deal, not o: Without a oent oi jCihe govern-; lA hn' noM Vdlt menV but instead of a <leb£$f?S»lions to.be paid by /. ii •nstead of ndebt -* billions acith? bhildfngs as save rentals-and investments such as. the iluscle Sboal s development, andj others contemplated in' the Tennessee Valley.- . " -r; Ji--i * .. - , 1 .The existence, of the accumulated capital hoards andthe instinctive regard for tested rights and the disturbance which would accompany a disregard of •those rights, however tyrannously acquired, Jfrtti ’ doubtiess long clog the free rfnd direct flow of nation al.' credit. But evolution will probably take care of that matter in the long run. If the New Deal really develops into an effective square deal the *ew win not again absorb the creations of. the.whole people to both their immediate and continuous pauperization, while time will serve to dissipate, ip other, the accumulations under the old regime. ^ £ Th* New Evolution the Reverse of toft UM* •Evolution in the economic scheme is .no new pro cess. The evil of the old was that it evolved without social direction. Indeed, social experience was so limited as not to permit that knowel^ge which ^ahme could have justified an attempt at the direction df the evolution. In the beginning of American colonization, wid in great areas of the country until years not very «<* home -a. .e.f-^nt Oa the farm on which toe writer was reared the home was, fully T^percent self-sustaining. were more' fully self-sustaining than the hom^s. Gradually it was conceived to be and exchange, specialties, directly about way, for specialties produced perhaps * ^5® j sandmiles W***' *** ^ cotton it exchanged, perhaps by. way of Bawpe, ..-ts for western bacon. It becanie toe insane pnatte* ofindiaHne!* com munity, state, and* toe nation- to attempt to **1 more, than it would bay, and thus togrowrrieh ad toe ^ *pauperisationof ^^Th^nation practice successfully till it had drained other nations ^gdd to the white and toen loanedm. pr<^ses^ pay in non-existent gold toat dtoer natUmen^^ more. The end of toe rope has been reached. Even, chttink toe value oftoe dollar to almost half in terms -of gold could not -induce non-existent -#dd to «nr shores for gMde Individuals ahd' corporations suc till-top***' ,wis inevitable."' Yef it-is;doubtful^f one to a hu*K dred of the popdlatien understands that it is tospes* sible to create a; <«hdtt?bii^|h-^hicboadi^y ®0«> from every other ttmo he tUTui^s taer^y °^«i *$M »4ifMki^ 4^tf ^eqa»t£ * impossible to perpetuate an exchange of y^a» inV ttore than l»f..fuia^es.jM*r*Jth.;. ' fKSateS af “*■**• ****»>»*»* ja HtoViS? thV-°^ of mOD5y i» dwulation Jn"t4 vartow* eom^ea maintained tbe in^ Jdea ionger thar. ’ would otherwise havtf lived; whil^ between tbevarf-' «ds producing events ofourowri^uiitry;the fictioH’ *M**^a«ve^ mknj SMee b^tbe comlng upon ithe: market of wsdu*** hitherto not 4i» demand/ Ttxxm the timber supply of the south became a sacrifice to' the low-price value of* cheap sdntheru. productsaadf flSe high-price value of ^ foods for/wbidh thfjrl were In01vI4ual and, was, $a<r* a^d thousands of miles, pagsiagthrougb several hands> ; *?<■& W witl> freight costs, and .profits heafiing. n», against the real exchangers,.. .. ..\* , i-.V-'r Evolution in-Re?eij*MSe»r...,.--,- t : /-«'{■ ' ;It Ut Manifestly the purpose- of the administration ’ to the fona^r aadiy uiidteected .ev<flutidhihte‘r& - verse gear. The; Xalley ofctflc Tennessee develbpmSeirt > - and Pendrlea, at the extremes; itiustraie the aode '^f’ ;thareverse evbbitiohary'dirction::’ Again homes and > ’"c6'n*n*K3itttes tarfe to/ be made Gifts' practically every county, every considerable to^n^ tvttl <•* have'its furniture 'factory sufficient^®* supply tbo ♦ needs of its pedpie.. To-dayftbe''Average famtiy canr-; not convert a surplus of goods hr of'brawn into, the* * cash- sufficient to pay for* furniture built a ‘ thousand > ’ miles distant and accumulating handling.and "trami-*’' . portation and profit charges -every, mile of that^dbisr . tance, while -the goods from, which' hd'baigbt hopet*** secure the funds must go, through a similar - proeeSaU before reaching:Ae-;'constBnl^'f??7^^'^^i*^>4ii2Jli '■ j - Exchanges at Homo. ^”-4^r It bright not be the manufacturer of “the furniture^ himself who would want aporberr aiged by a farmer* In the community, hutwitb the community producingf' practically, all' if n^.edS except tropkai produce ahd ’ that. otherwise made impractical of production, "soinff^ ' body in that community would need, the bog; and the • price Of that#hog could - ultim^t^ly;'gd'lP^rd^ ^ chase of the desired community-tttanufactured bed or ’ lounge, and not half, of it foF a-half-dozen handlings;' three or four profits, and'hundreds of miles of,(fans-* , portation.' -In’ short; the. man needing the' 'furniture;. would get it, aS fully half the families in North Car . oliha are not now; doing, for; believe it'is trite that1 . In many a county there, is not.a comfortable chair or' bed in half the.homes. . :Juat as the present, high jurfce of' electric equipment . and current-forbid the:general-use of electricity an# , the lack of general use«eee§sitates high-priced, cur- . ! rent, .so does the; distance - of a«*nal hundreds, of mil«»:f . of. stfdie^betweeir .maker-amp. potential buyer and tea , times as f*r hi a re*md*lmut Wdy lh . the Whang*, . Off €t*e goods of ene> for thea* qf the other forbid both.. the production o£ for example, tbo furniture and. Iff; % purchase by the would-be bSiyeo,.. -- . • The new process is toprodnce-hirgely self-sufficient ? communities. The madness for tfgreat^ idties. must . cease to exist In as faraspossible even the Individ* ual must . become setff-sufficfjmt., ISO President .4 adopting the Ford .idea giyei* r expression several t years ago, would see. industrial, plants and agriaultmv ,; ah communities side by side, -with - the family through its work on. the. farm and 4a the factories becoming practically a» self-sustaining as the. average Southern .. flgngy was sixty jearo ago,ci VAt. the .earJier dater 6ie . community, craftsman wjjuJjd- make the furniture .that , could not be satisfactorily produced by the house* J •& (ContinucdonPsge Two) - *a*y**g*: " sarti^ ’4 *rWv«jp*y v-rt 'vjp* * tp;
The State’s Voice (Dunn, N.C.)
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