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In another column we are publishing the Compulsory
Military Training bill as it was introduced in Congress,
together with a short summary. The bill was passed in
the Senate on Tuesday. This bill is especially drawn for
the present and provides that if not continued by Con
gress it will become inoperative in 1945. However, we
feel that it would be an especially good thing to have a
law requiring all young men to receive three to four
vears military training before reaching 25 years of age.
It would contribute a great deal to better health, better
discipline and better morale, and of course, in times of
emergency would contribute greatly to the armed
stfengtb'io the country.
! Special Privileges Must Go
THE jrole of labor in national defense is a topic which
is causing much thoughtful discussion these days.
' And labor's best friends have come to the conclusion
that it, no less than capital, must make sacrifices in the
interest of liberty. j
No longer can we afford costly industrial tie-ups,
1 while labor leaders and management wrangle and get
nowhere. No longer can production be deliberately
slowed down to conform to the ability of the least eflic*
ient workman. And no longer will the public approve
, a legislative policy which, in effect, starts with th^
premise that the manager is always wrong and the work}
er always right in industrial disputes.
The tragic experience of France contains a hard les
son for America. In France, working hours were not
increased until the last moment ? and that was largely
responsible for the nation's incredible military weak
ness. Politics pampered the worker-^?and politics thus
made defeat inevitable.
This does not mean that the worker is to be exploited.
It silSaply means that all factors in our society must give
up special privileges ? that no man can escape the neces
sary sacrifices. That is the first step toward security.
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Experts Survey The Farm Problem
FORTUNE recently held a "round table" meeting for
the purpose of surveying farm policies, from a straight
business-like, non-political point of view. Twenty-two
agricultura^ejmerts were invited to attend, of whom the
majority were real "dirt farmers." The experts talk
ed, argueji and analyzed ? and produced a number of
highly interesting conclusions. /
They pointed out that failure of export markets is
hurting farmers, and that agriculture needs assistance
to get back to some sort of parity level. They then made
live definite suggestions for improving the farmers' lot:
A public policy of soil conservation; better farm market
ing^ajid reduction of erratic fluctuation in prices; elimi
nation of interstate trade barriers and discriminatory
commodity taxes; lower costs of food distribution and
improved marketing facilities; new industrial uses for
farm products.
The suggestion concerning lower food distribution
costs is especially important ? for it is here that the re
cent legislative trend has been most inimical to farmet
consumer welfare. Our lawmakers have gone the limit
in discouraging efficiency and encouraging waste, with
consequent higher prices and narrowing market^. We
have legalized price-fixing ? we have levied punitive
taxes-?we have burdened progressive retailing with a
mass of restrictions which tend to increase prices, to
freeze prices, or prevent price reductions. And the fai?
mer, along with the wage-earner, has inevitably suffered.
' ' The Fortune round table turned the spotlight on the
fallacy of legislative polieieS whi<& handicap or prevent
normal production and distribution.
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More Deadly Than Bombers
WHEN a bomber of a warring nation destroys impor
" tant industries and kills helpless people, it causes
public consternation and determination to correct the
evil.
Minor news items in Oregon in two days reported
denrh and destruction by fire which puts th^ average
bomber to shame. For instance, three children were
v trapped and burned to death in an upstairs bedroom in
their home and a neighbor was injured in attempting
th(?ir rescue. Fire swept through and virtually destroy
ed a logging community comprised of homes and an
abandoned sawmill. Another blaze destroyed a seed ex
perimental plant and canned milk to the value of $15)0,
000. A fourth fire swept through a railroad siding at a
cost of $75,000.' "A fifth fife burned a sawmill at a ebst
of $40,000, leaving 80 employes jobless. j\
That'll better than the average record of death uild
destruction caused by a modern bomber, and yet it itr
simply the report of the fires in one sparsely settled
slkftte for two days. Multiply that' record by 48 states
?u|d increase it in proportion to pop\iljKtion,*a!id yojr have
up fdea of what th<? enemy, Fire, jw^eosting this, nation,
if^ombers caused uauiJi dajjjtep, the loss :wonla^e
blazoned in tii^heudJjne*'
While insurance covtflrs some ojf the material loss- train
fire, it cannot replace the 1O,W0 Uvea that it wipes out
annually, or the thousands of jobs that ire destroyed,
loss of business, or priceless possessions. .
AiffcVery biti^pn pays in -BQOl%Vay(or other when fire
stritew,: every citizen should lje vitally interested in fire
prevention, During dry somimer months every effort
tihofel&n| made ^o elittutiate fire hazards sold control fire.
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Tax this Tax Eaters " '
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UN^CJPAJt(,ij)ower utilities in Nova Scotia, Canada,
taxed in the future on the. same basis as
private utilities. The r?eson:.Xor that, in the words of
Angas Premier ef.'tifce Province, is that
"nothing is more unfair than tb? way public-owned
projects are exempt from taxation, although they iwe
carrying on. the same business as private oohcerns."
The Province, Premier MacDonald added, should be re
ceiving something like $75,000 a year in taxes from the
publicly-owned companies.
That should arouse considerable interest in this coun
try ? particularly among those who have regarded the
Canadian public systems as model enterprise^, and have
pointed with pride to the low rates charged. As all
students of the matter know, these low rates have been
the result of a policy of indirect and direct subsidization.
The plants were largely built with tax money ? they have
been given immunity from taxes ? and, in many cases,
additional doles of tax money have been necessary to
make up their recurrent deficits.
What is true in Canada is true to even a larger extent
in the United States. Tax immunity for publicly-own
ed business enterprises has no economic justification
whatsoever. It is purely and simply a political device
to conceal from the people the real financial facts about
the systems. In effect, all the taxpayers must help pay
the bills of the few who are served by public systems.
And the cost to the general taxpayer, in such large ven
tures as TVA, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, etc., runs into
the hundreds of millions.
A law to tax publicly-owned utilities the same as pri
vate companies has long been agitated in this country.
It has been supported by economists, a large section of
the press responsible statesmen, and thinking citizens.
With government seeking tax revenue as never before,
this vital "reform" should be immediately effected.
The advocates of tax immunity for any government bus
iness enterprise haven't a leg to stand on.
They should also be placed under government control
as to rates.
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What The Next President
Must Face
AT best, the presidency of the United States is one of
the world's toughest jobs. When a man takes the
oath of office from the Chief Justice and goes to live in
the White House, he accepts duties and responsibilities
which will be with him every waking minute of his time.
The next president will take on an even tougher job
than the great majority of his predecessors have faced.
He will take office in a time of world criftiS and national
emergency. And as soon as he sits down at his desk he
will have to grapple with problems whose solution is
known to no one. He will have to be prepared to deal
with changes and trends which menace all that the Uni
ted States lias created since the Revolution, and which
threaten the very foundations of our system of gov
ernment.
The next president's most immediate problem will be
that of national defense. It is apparent that we will be
able to produce little that is tangible, sq far as defense
is concerned, this year. It takes time for a great nation
to switch from a peace economy to a war economy. The
groundwork for a workable program is being laid now,
but difficult bottlenecks exist. And we start the de
fense program under the definite handicap of a $45,000,
000,000 national debt largely built up during the last
eight years. There is a possibility that the debt will
reach and perhaps pass the $70,000,000,000 mark before
w* are done. V ?
Even so, the defense problem, vital as it is, is perhaps
the simplest of the next president's jobs ? few question
"that we will find some way to produce and pay for the
guns and airplanes and battleships we must have. Be
fore jbim will T?e other problems, far-reaching and im
menfiely difficult, which miist eventually be solved. And
here are a few of them :
There is the problem of trade. Today Hitler domi
nates the continents-tomorrow he may dominate all Eu
rope. And Hitler does not deal in money, which means
dealing in gold. He deals, instead, in barter. His econ
orirp^ ?oe9 back to the most primitive of economic sys
tems. He says,' in effect, "I have coal that you need ?
you have machines that I need ? so we will trade them."
The task of the United States will be to either meet Hit
ler's terms, which would involve a veritable economic
revolution here, or to force him to meet our traditional
trade policy? which few economists believe he will be
willing or able to do.
There is the problem of agriculture, which is related
to the problem of trade. We have spent immense sums
in the name of farm relief, and it is apparent that we
have gotten little of dtirable worth in rettirn. Today
the problem grows graver, as oujUforeign markets dis
appear. There is a certainty that IJurope will want and
need more of the produce of op farms And ranches ?
btotthere is alfco the certainty that EoroprwHl be unable
to pay for it. Hie next president, sitting in hie ornate
Wffl httve to weir a-way trat, and whichever way he1
turns there will be gigantic; barriers between him and
success. ? j : v
There is the problem of Unemployment, coupled with
the problem of relief. The defense program will make
many jobs, but it does not look as if it will take care of
the millions of unskilled and little-skilled men and wo
men who today are supported in one way or another by
government. In some important lines there is a serious
shortage of workmen ? many willing hands reach out for
jobs, but they are not adequate to perform the tasks.
Training people for highly skilled work takes a long
time, and it also takes facilities which do not now exist
in sufficient quantity.
There is the problem of the American standard of liv
ing. Whatever we spend for national defense ? fifteen
billion, twenty billion, thirty billion ? must eventually
come out of the people's pockets. Perhaps fifteen per
cent of the national income will now be devoted to arm
ament, in addition to possible debt increases. That
means that we will have fifteen per cent less to spend for
housing, food, clothing, entertainment-r^all, the luxuries
and necessities. The next president will undoubtedly
attempt to increase our national income sufficiently to
make up for this ? but, so far as we can see now, he is
foredoomed to at least partial failure. It is almost uni
versally agreed that the standard of living must suffer
? that Americans wifl eat cheaper food, live in cheaper
homes, spend less for subsistence and for pleasure.
There is the long-range problem of the effects of war
and war preparedness on the entire economic structure.
The factory that is built to make shells is either worth
less when the emergency is over, or must undergo a
costly process. War-time booms, in ^ other words, pro
duce peace-time depressions ? and the bigger the boom
the longer and deeper the depression.
These are but a few of the problems the next presi
dent must face. It isn't an enviable job.
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TOO, IF It APPEARED HERE
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
This will be the 10th Sunday
after Trinity. There will be the
Early Celebration of the Holy
Communion at 8:00 A. M.? Church
School at 9:45 A. M., Morning
Prayer and Sermon by the Rec
tor at 11:00 A. M. . .
LOUISBURG BAPTIST
CHURCH
At the Baptist Church on Sun
day morning Rev. Forrest. Wearer
brought a challenging message op
"The Cross In Daily Life." He
will preach again on August 4th
here. ,
Dr. A. Paul Bagby, pastor., wJU
preach the last two sermons on a
series eatitted "The Heroic in
Christianity." At eleven o'clock
he will speak, on 'Other Calls fpr
the Heroic.", Jn, the evening, at
eight o'clock he will spe^f at the
Union Service at the Methodisti
Church on "The, Heroic ip Activ
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, Sunday School at, ,9: 45, 4- JYf,
LOUISBURG METHODIST
CHURCH
"In Earthen Vessels," will be
the topic of Mr. Phillips message
next Sunday morning at 11:00.
This sermon will be based on 2
Corinthians 4. 7 and on Van Dykes
story entitled, "A Handful of
Clay."
Sunday evening at) 8:00 o'clock
there will be the last of the July
Union Services with Dr. A,. Paul
Bagby, of the Baptist Church
preaching.
Church School and Epworth
League are at 9:45 and 7:15.
The Epworth League held a very
profitable Council meeting on
Monday evening at the home of
Jane Gray Perry, the newly elect
ed President of the Young Peo
ple's Division. Miss Perry suc
ceeds Miss Jane Fuller who has
served very capably for the last
twelve months.
Uruguay seizes Nazi leaders;
secret session hears plot details.
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? ? i .
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laundering
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