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fair treatment be accorded citizens from every section of the Country. Further-
more, the regulations and directives issued under the wartime powers should be
explicit and based upon common sense. The. people have a right to expect clear
statement as to the purpose and object of the various efforts, in which they are
asked to participate. Our leaders will find that if they are frank with the
citizens, the latter will respond unhesitatingly in everything needed for our
Country's welfare..

As. an example of what adjustments can be made promptly and for the best
interests of the Nation, I might point to the example of the States when they
quickly removed impediments to transportation when we were requested by the
"War Department to eliminate. those barriers which were then hampering the
war effort. The States stand ready to take similar steps wherever needed to
insure the ountry's success. But there is one condition which should be imposed.
Only those State powers should be surrendered that are actually and directly
necessary to win the war. And secondly, it should be clearly understood that
the return of those powers from the Federal to the local governments will be
made at the end of hostilities. Thus, our dual form of government will be
maintained. '

In the present sessions of the Council of State Governments concentrated
action is being taken to gear the local governments into the war effort. Emer-
gency measures are to be recommended to the various States for adoption with
the end in view of having the State Governments ready to meet any emergency.
An Executive Statutory Suspension Act; a Emergency Transportation Act; a
revised Explosives Act; and Emergency Fiscal Legislation—all will be" the pro-
ducts of the present sessions so that effective measures will be available to the
States for their adoption.

One final but all-important subject might be mentioned. I refer to the
absolute necessity of planning now for the post-war period in order to insure
that the millions here in America and in the United Nations do not lose the
peace after they have sacrificed so much to win the. War.

Manifold considerations must enter into such planning. Nationally.

Internal chaos and strife in the Axis nations must be averted by inter-
national policing. Furthermore, the economy of these peoples must be managed
until stability in government is restored, otherwise starvation and despair would,
spread their cankers of unrest throughout the world. International trade must
be world-managed and definite steps taken for the education and unlifting of
millions in the down-trodden countries so that those human beings may be ele-
vated to a better civilization.

If ever there was an undertaking that called for local handling by States
and cities to support and round out international and National efforts, this pro-
gram of post-war planning does. A program of internal improvements, de-
signed to give employment after the war to the multitude of workers who might
be thrown out of employment, can be, and should be, projected by the States.
These must be a back log so that no economic unheaval, such as that following
the last war, will occur. -