Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1972

Pencil notes

1934

     What’s the matter with Mr. Roosevelt’s twenty-seven (or Is It thirty-seven) professors with all their national plannings? Hoisted from their professorial chairs into the seats of the mighty (or just behind them) and having incubated the N.R.A. and several other new broods of special-interest cocks all armed with Government spurs to liven up our economic Civil War, is it possible that their cogitations have gone slack and no bigger and better plans are in process of cerebration? My guess is that they are even now in a schematic huddle. In fact, my economic goose bone and other sound authorities give assurance that our National Planning is only a warming up exercise, a planning of production only and is soon to be followed by a national planning of Destruction in order to keep our economic forces in proper harmony and balance, and, it seems, this newer planning is not to be confined to the national scene. It has been found that War is a business activity, Nature’s crude way of adjusting conflicting interests and, like all national activities, must be brought under planned control.