THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves The Last Column THURMAN ARNOLD'S powerful indictment of monopoly capitalism in this week's issue of The Progressive brings to a close one of the most important series of...
...Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, will tell us about the prospects in his field...
...This is only a fragmentary notice of what we've lined up for months just ahead...
...Abe Fortas, the undersecretary of the Interior, will explore the land problem...
...I have been greatly alarmed," he wrote, "about the new tendency in The Progressive...
...As a matter of fact, this is about the first time that we have been warned about getting involved in too much "uplift...
...L. F. Watts, of our Forest Service, will tell us how the war has used our timber reserves and how we're fixed for the future...
...agriculture in Congress, will analyze the outlook for farmers in articles written exclusively for The Progressive...
...We intend to devote a great deal of our space in the months ahead to analyzing every important factor in the postwar problem, and we have enlisted the services of some of the foremost planners and doers in America to give readers of The Progressive the best possible preparation for postwar realities...
...Thus, Howard Tolley, able chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics...
...No Narrow Road Another criticism we've had in connection with our "educational and uplift stuff" is its lack of "singleness of content," as one critic put it, demanding to know why we confused our readers by presenting "the contradictory views of Chase, Kaiser, and Maverick...
...Mentioning this reminds me of a letter I received the other day from a subscriber in Philadelphia who made an interesting observation...
...Well, in the first place, the views of writers for The Progressive are not contradictory, but rather complementary...
...There's a real point here, and nobody knows better than the Editors of The Progressive the difficulty of striking a balance between preaching and cussing, between scolding and exhorting...
...Fundamentally, their goals and aspirations are the same, and more often than not, their means and approaches are similar if not actually the same...
...We make no effort to exact total conformity from the men who write for us...
...We're going to emphasize, as never before, the possibilities for social and economic reconstruction in the postwar period...
...Six of the most provocative analysts of our day—Stuart Chase, Henry J. Kaiser, Walter Reuther, Maury Maverick, William D. Herridge, and Judge Arnold—have explored the vastly challenging field of postwar economics for readers of The Progressive...
...Joseph O'Mahoney, who was chairman of the famed TNEC investigation, and Rep...
...Best Possible Preparation Although Judge Arnold's article ends the present series, it doesn't, of course, end our absorption in the subject...
...James Patton, president of the National Farmers' Union, and Sen...
...The Editor Reserves The Last Column THURMAN ARNOLD'S powerful indictment of monopoly capitalism in this week's issue of The Progressive brings to a close one of the most important series of articles we have ever published...
...There is room for wide, often basic differences of opinion among men who are united by an overriding desire for political democracy and equality of economic opportunity...
...Their judgments have been far from unanimous, of course, but through the six articles ran a single, dominant theme—America can win the peace if we quit paying lip-service to empty slogans and unite behind the monumental job of harnessing men, money, and materials in a program of all-out production and abundance...
...Jerry Voorhis, the hardhitting California progressive, will present specific proposals for grappling with the problems of industry and labor...
...For a look at the prospects in housing we've lined up John B. Blandford, boss of the Federal Housing Administration...
...You are better and more readable as critic and crank...
...M.H.R...
...That last, mouth-filling clause comes pretty close to sounding platitudinous, but no one who has read with care the views of these men—an economist, industrialist, labor leader, public official, publicist, and jurist— can escape the conclusion that it can be done—that we have the manpower, the resources, and the skills to achieve an economy of abundance for all, and that we need only the will and the vision to translate our potential into reality...
...Richard Russell, Georgia, one of the most distinguished authorities on...
...Wendell Berge, chief of the Anti-Trust Division...
...Too Much Uplift...
...In the explosive and revolutionary era in which we live, there are no fixed blueprints for the perfect society nor is there any narrow road to progress...
...Seriously, though, I like my educational and uplift stuff as much as the next fellow, but don't get so involved in preaching about the good that you forget how to cuss out all the bad that is still with us...
...Most of the time we're called cranks and common scolds...
...Watson B. Miller, vice chairman of the Social Security Board, has written an article for us on the vital problem of rehabilitation in terms of human values...
...You are getting much too constructive to suit me...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 29
