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Friday, May 4, 1945.
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For Economic Peace
This blood-soaked world will never free itself
from the scourge of war unless it first achieves
economic peace. That has been said so often
in the past few years that it has almost become
a cliche. But it is the deepest of all ihe truths of
war and peace, and so far has received noth
ing more than lip service.
Up to this moment there is no economic peace
no respite from economic war, in the plans that
have been formally discussed among the Unit
ed Nations. No spirit of economic peace can be
found in the predominant attitude of business
men, at home or abroad. None can be seen in
the response of the general American public.
Millions of our boys are fighting to free the
world from Nazi and Japanese tyrannies, both
of which, starting with military rule and racial
murder, have been striving to fix a master and
slave status upon human society. Tens of thous
ands of these boys are dying for our freedom.
Their blood, so far, has sprouted no seeds of
economic peace. The tears of their loved ones
fall on the stony ground of cartelism or ruth
less rivalry for market.
We have witnessed, at Rye, N. Y., the holding
of an international business conference which
the Senate Kilgore Committee properly called
''a gathering of broken-down European big bus
inessmen” plotting the revival of the cartel sys
tem. Our Government sponsored the gathering.
For weeks ,at Chicago, an international air
conference staged a running fight between the
advocates of international competition and sup
porters of national monopolies. The Americans
stood for competition, but for what purpose?
Back of the demand of some of them was the
hopeful expectation of the “Globalonev Com
pany” that Congress would back it, first in
crushing foreign competition and then in es
tablishing an earth-encircling monopoly of its
own.
We in America observe the plans of British
business imperialists to revive their domination
of smaller countries for purposes of exploita
tion ,and it shocks our moral sense. But what
of ourselves? We observe the plans of Ameri
can businessmen to seize British foreign trade,
reducing British workingmen to penury, and
it seems to be merely the orderly working of
the laws of nature. The vast super-modern in
dustrial plant which the U. S. A. has built for
war purposes must be used to expand the for
eign trade that is so necessary to our prosperity.
Thus we reason.
But if our British allies discuss postwar con
version of American raw materials into goods
for the recapture of their own markets, without
which they will starve, that seems little short
of treason.
In the arena of international politics, espec
ially where war and peace are concerned. Am
ericans have moved ahead a long way from the
old chauvinistic cry of “My country right or
wrong.” The country has to be right, in the so
ber thinking of most of the men and women in
it, before they will consent that a single life
shall be sacrificed for the sake of national pol
icy. We no longer assume, without supporting
evidence, that our government is right whene v -
er it clashes in political policy with a foreign
state.
How different it is in the economic field. Let
the slightest hint be given of an economic
clash between the U. S. A. and a foreign gev
Viiifiienc, and the chauvinism which is vanish
ing from the political field bursts out in full vig
or The impulse toward such a response is not
confined to business imperialists. Countless
political progressives, countless men and wo
men who believe in economic peace at home as
the basis of human welfare, wdll rise instinct
ively to support the U. S. A. in foreign economic
policies which would outrage ther if applied
between state and state in this country.
So, tno, -with the government itself. Men-who
have shown high statesmanship, in lowering
tariff barriers by '■international agreement', are
"Tibi, “mcapable. of acting as diploma, ic fronts for
monopolistic cartels.
What is the reason for this anomaly? Is it not
because the peoole as a whole do not yet see
that this w'orld is now one world economically,
just as it has become in a political and military
sense? Is it not also because wre have not yet
fully accepted the new realities of human wel
fare here at home?
The American people are learning slowly, in
the wake of infinite suffering, that commerce
must be regulated among the states so as to raise
the standard of living of all the people, in all
sections of the country. There must be work for
all, a decent living for all, a universal restraint
of the powerful who misuse their power, or
the entire people will pay through the break
down of our domestic economy.
With this lesson no more than half learned,
we are required to learn another and more dif
ficult one—that lasting prosperity and lasting
peace require the extension of this policy
tnroughout the world. Prosperity and peace, or
poverty and war—these are the alternatives, and
they travel in pairs.
The selfish monopolists who expect to win
the coming peace would manage the world’s
resources to insure inordinate profits to them
selves by limiting the supply of goods or hold
ing up prices. The cutthroat competitors would
ruin their customers in the process of destroy
ing their rivals. Either of these systems, or a
combination of the two, will lead to domestic
upheavals and new world wars.
It is not enough to recognize this truth in the
abstract. It must be the foundation both of Am
erican domestic policy and of the international
economic agreements which follow this war.
From now on, throughout the w'orld, there
can be but one motto:
“Live and let live,” revised to read: “Live by
letting live.”
To live, then, will mean to live in decency
and with dignity, as befits a human race w'hich
is so nearly the master of its particular atom
of the universe.—Irving Brant in PM.
Out Of Bound*
Disturbing reports are coming from parts of
Germany where foot-tired infantrymen have
visited and reportedly found major industrial
factories almost unscathed after years of aerial
bombardment. The doughboys, reaching one
town where a big industrial plant with its laby
rinth of sheds, had turned out millions of dol
lars worth of chemical products for the enemy
war machine, are asking with concealed sar
casm how Allied airmen could have shuttled
over the industrial area for three years and left
several big factories still operating.
There were rumors, possibly unfounded, that
intimated the factory had six Englishmen on its
board of directors. Then there is a story about
an American-owned factory that had escaped
the bombings virtually unscathed.
The foot soldiers, after plowing through tor
ment, were skeptical about what they found in
those areas, and declared then and there that
if the Ruhr escaped there’ll be a stinking stink
raised.
The boys, while skeptical, accepted an air
man’s explanation which declared that there
were far more important targets and the boys
then agreed to wait and see what was found
in the Ruhr
Social progress makes the well-being of all
more and more the business of each; it binds
all closer and closer together in bonds from
which none can escape.—Henry George.
The rules which experience suggests are bet
ter than those which theorists elaborate in their
libraries.—R. S. Storrs.
Too much cannot be done toward guarding
and guiding well the germinating and inclin
ing thought of childhood.-—Mary Baker Eddy.
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Since it costs only about 10 cents
an acre to troat peanut seed before
planting to obtain better stands, no
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While the returns from seed treat
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Garriss suggests that growers im
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State College Hints
For Farm Homes!
By RUTII CURRENT
Honey and peanut butter make a
favorite combination for filling sand
wiches and spreading on toast. Mix
honey and peanut butter just before
using, because the mixture soon
hardens. The popular flavor and
high-quality protein, energy value
and B-vitamins of peanut butter
make it a good food in soups, main
dishes, and desserts as weli as in
sandwiches.
One thing is certain, say nutrition
ists. Going without breakfast is a
bad start for the day. It’s been found
that workers who skip breakfast
get less done in the first working
hour than those who tuck away a
good meal before work. As the morn
ing goes on, the hungry ones grow
less efficient. After lunch they do
better: then they slow up again
What happens to those workers hap
pens to homemakers, too, and to ev
eryone else. It’s especially true for
children. A child who eats a good
breakfast has a better chance to do
well with studies and games.
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A GERMAN WAREHOUSE filled with
liquor is raided by a crowd of lib
erated Russian, Polish and french
civilians after its capture by Amer
ican forces. As crowds below wait
with outstretched arms, companion*
from an upper window toss bottles
of booze to them. (International)
An orator, or author, is never suc
:essful until he has learned to make
! his words smaller than his ideas.—
i Emerson. _
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"Maybe it will look right if I stand on my head,” said Alice
Alice couldn’t seem to understand.
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply,
drew one flipper across his eyes, and
began again.
“This line is the cost of living going
up—and that line is the cost of elec
tricity coining down. Now do you
see?”
“No,” said Alice, doubtfully, “why
don’t they go together? One of them
must be upside down.1’
Sobs suddenly choked the Mock
Turtle.
Alice was eager to please. “Maybe
it will look right,” she said, “if 1
stand on my head!”
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There is an Alice-in-Wonderland
flavor to the simple facts about
electricity.
The average price of household elec
tricity has actually come DOWN since
war began t—while the cost of most
other things was going UP.
There has been no shortage of elec
tricity—the basic raw material of oil
war production—though most other
important war materials have neces
sarily been scarce or rationed. _*
That record is the result of careful
planning and hard work by Amer
ica’s business-managed electric com
panies. And it is your assurance of
plenty of cheap electricity for peace
time job production—and for all the
new electric conveniences you’ll en
joy after the war.
U.l*. says the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistic*.
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