surveys show them to be adequate and
sufficient. See, for example, America’s
Capacity to Produce, published in 1934
by The Brookings Institution, Washing-
ton, D.C., and the findings of the
National Survey of Potential Product
Capacity, published in 1935 by the Viking
Press, New York.

Will the nation’s resources be so uti-
lized? That will depend upon public de-
mand, based on knowledge of America’s
abundance and arising from the tradi-
tional American conceptions of public
welfare, individual security, and educa-
tional opportunity.

America has three choices: (1) to go
forward to higher standards of education
and of living; (2) to go backward to
lower standards; (3) to retain the un-
satisfactory standards which came to
characterize the years of the depression.

Knowledge of past progress in our
nation reveals the energy, the resource-
fulness, and the sense of justice of the
American people. It is reasonable to be-
lieve that these virtues, responsible for
our national greatness, will carry the
nation forward to higher standards.

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