LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Dissents on Cable From ISAAC ROSENFELD To ths EtUtori Though i agree with the bulk or the statements contained in The New Leader's "Cable to Bevin" (Jan. 25, 1947), I...
...Krug "feels qualified to predict that this country is in for the most prosperous decade in the history of the world...
...25, 1947), I deny that the Labor Government is carrying on an "unflinching struggle for human liberty, social justice and national independence throughout the world," because I consider Palestine to be part of the world...
...They never will get it through the pay envelope...
...All of his optimistic sunshine has not served to dispel it...
...Harry Scheeman, in his "Promises Men Live by," says it is not "by chsnce that they have occurred, nor will it be by chance they will continue to recur for a long time to come...
...A further evidence of the tact that people are "hard up" is the fact that buying on "credit" is breaking all records...
...Language Is a major weapon...
...Industry won't make goods that it can't sell at a profit...
...The Communist Quillings everywhere, since the end of Hitler, have appropriated nearly all the terms which had positive value for th«lr democratic opponents in order to present themselves as proponents of democracy...
...He also points out the immense demand for housing, and for replacement of everything worn out during the war...
...2. It aaakea clearer til* dlroeesaeari .of trao Liberaiiaua from the pathrtlcally eMfuawd, ionfaalng and dangerous *£ineralism" of the Wallace school...
...Editor's Note:—This letter is but one of many of similar views received in the past week by The New Leader...
...And th* latter lav* let fall Into dlsuso th* many derogatory terms applied to the Nar.is which could be effectively carried over to the labeling of Communists...
...The only question is, how soon the storm will break...
...3. It further solidifies the growing unity of the Non-totalitarian Liberal community following aa it does the formation of the ADA and Common Cause, Inc...
...New York City...
...Krug does a splendid job of showing the silver lining...
...He is in position to know and does know the vast potentialities of our production power, as well as the almost unlimited needs and demands of our people...
...I see the tornado .coming—but I know of a "storm cellar" where I think we could find shelter...
...As a prevention of depressions, he sees new industries—manufacture of new chemicals, plastics, television sets, more planes, and the possibilities of atomic energy...
...And loan companies are advertising their "distress" loans more than ever...
...Prices always keep ahead of wages—and there are a lot of people whose incomes are "fixed...
...The scarce things are mostly luxuries, and if the people bought them, they could not buy other things that they need...
...inspiring "Cable to Betin* Aa I view Its significance, the "Cable" aerres three distinct aad worthwhile purposes...
...Wallace, with a "Magnificent homili.y" nartared by an aggravated Meaviaaie complex has, so to speak, accepted a mandate from God above to lead the masses of "common men" below...
...Storm Cellar Optimist From C. R. PETTES LOOKING at the domestic scene (which cannot actually be separated from th* world outlook), the object that looms biggest is the storm cloud of "depression," ' which every honest speaker or writer has to acknowledge is hanging over ua at tht present time...
...I am happy to associate myself with your "Cable to Bevin...
...The New Leader eotrld do a lot mors than it dot* to aduaat* Hi readers In thes* matters...
...Even such brilliant optimists as Secretary of the Interior, J. A. Krug, own the existence of the cloud, as evidenced by the very title of his article in the November issue of Reader's Digest, "What Are We Scared Of...
...I have reason to know that they are living on current income, and most of them have difficulty in 'making both ends meet...
...As for your assertion that "the policy of the Labor Government cannot be considered imperialistic by any stretch of the imagination"—I don't 8c4...
...I might have said "meat" —they can't afford to buy it now...
...The present British Government is imperialistic for a fact...
...indicate that they are using their credit for necessities, not luxuries...
...Hard times" follow "good times" with rhythmic certainty...
...Red Wing, Mian...
...Who wouli want to...
...As I see it, that condition exists today—if the goods were placed on the market...
...1. It articulates, eloquently and cogently, a ?cry important body of Liberal oplnloa at a erftleaJ Janet ara in AngloAmerican ivUtlena vis a tie Soviet atonwla...
...Goods are being produced that much faster than the people ire buying them...
...Government reports indicate that "savings" are in the hands of the few...
...Backs Our, Cable to Bevin From MuRRAY BARON To the Editor: I HASTEN to applaud your tmesis* rahlp of the timely ana...
...And it does one's heart good to view tho glewing picture which he portrays...
...But there still hangs the cloud of "depression...
...Attention: New Leader Semanticists from CHARLES BIEDERMAN To the Editor: InSTEAD of labeling such sick individuals as Tito, Thores only as "tyrants," "traitors," etc., would it not be more effective also to apply the term "Quilling" to them, putting the emphaslr on a term which has a particularly qtfcrrlve psychological meaning...
...He also says: "When men have solved this problem of the business cycle—and ^ho dare say it cannot be solved?—it is a safe prophecy to make that most of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that now harass ua will be bad dreams in a human past...
...Whenever that condition exists, the factories are closed, men are fired—the downward trend begins...
...Most people haven't any...
...So far as 1 can see that's too short a time to be interesting — if we must expect catastrophe at the end of it...
...New York City...
...The masses haven't the money to buy at present prices...
...Who csn deny the truth of ms statements...
...If you like it, I'll tell you about it...
...Ho will continue to flounder about—bat your action focuses upon him and his followers an important and reactive section of public opinion...
...I am not a pessimist...
...And nearly every advertiser of furniture, clothing, etc., is stressing the idea of buying on credit more than ever...
...They just haven't got the money...
...What causes depressions is lack of purchasing power in the hands of the people who want the goods and the services...
...Recent reports from the Department of Commerce indicate that manufacturers have 18 Vi billion dollars worth of merchandise in storehouses—increasing at the rate of half a billion a month...
...And, so far as I know, there is no reputable economist, either of the "scarcity" type, or the "abundance" type, who does not agree that th* "business cycle" is an unavoidable accompaniment of our capitalistic-profit system...
...I contact a great many people who earn less than $3,000 a year...
...Long Beach, Calif...
...And government figurer...
...Since 1796 this country has had 33 of these cycles...
...True, some things are "scarce"—people would buy them if they could get them...
...Incidentally, why not find well-trained scmantlcians to writ* articles regularly on the subject of language and Its political manipulations I Th* Communists and th* Nasls ar* not careless on ^hls score...
...I am a "practical optimist...
...Even Mr...
...Ten years—and then what...
...how the imagination is involved...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 5
