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Tuesday . July 22. 1917
failed at ions and the Oil Moguls
We till know the United Nations Organi
zation was set up to preserve world peace.
ms sponsors told us it could handle any in
ternational problem and should have a suf
ficient armed force to put down any revolt
against its authority.
But. according to the Associated Press,
represenlaitves of this country and Great
Britain, speaking at Lake Success, a delight
fully cool spot in New York state, insist that
the United Nations is not big enough to ‘‘ad
minister the rich oil resources in the Middle
East.” '
Only the oil plutocrats of Britain and the
United States can do that job. It means hun
dreds of millions of dollars in profits for
them.
It may mean another World War for Brit
ain and the United States. The oil moguls
are not worrying about that. Plain people
fight wars, but their representatives are not
eapable of “administering the rich oil re
sources of the Near East.” —Labor.
General H arris 1 gainst Militarism
General Merritt A. Edson, who won the
Congressional Medal of Honor during World
War II, is about to quit the “fighting Ma
rines" and take a job as chief of safety in
! reasonsr - giver T - . the
j change are really the important part of this
story.
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“I am returning to civilian life because of ,
the assumption of power by the military in
Washington,” said the general. "When we
have reached the point where the military
are directing, instead of supporting, this
country’s policy, we are far along the road
to losing what this country has stood for.”
II lial the H (trlil !\eeils
Erwin D. Canham in The Christian Science
Monitor.
From ail we have seen (in tins editorial air
trip around the world), one conclusion
stands out. It is that the world is desperate
ly wounded, seriously disorganized. There
is no visible pattern of progress. Anxiety
and uncertainty prevail almost everywhere.
And almost everywhere—indeed, every
where we have been—people are looking to
the nited States for help.
Obviously, the American people cannot
shoulder all these burdens. We cannot pro
vide the material resources that these na
tions seem to want. And if we should pour
out from our abundance a great new tide of
material aid, it would not be enough.
For far more than material aid, the world
needs hope; it needs encouragement; it needs
confidence; it needs what may accurately be
called a spiritual lift; it needs a change in its
present anxious and desperate thinking. And
the problem that confronts unwounded
America today, I believe, is how we can help
give this spiritual lift along with the ma
terial aid, which would then be a consider
able and sometimes even profitable invest
ment.
To Make Another Try?
Twice the Allies maneuvered around and
armed Germany, the first time in the late
thirties to make the country a buffer state
against Russia. Are we, after floundering
around for two years, now making ready to
duplicate that fatal step? There are rumors,
maintaining that we are about set and ready
to build up Germany.
If that is what we are making ready to do,
it is too bad that we did notjisten to Hitler
back yonder. We cou^d have joined him.
'I*.'- r,“ tritw*'}-:mfsawd' ittottsuffdSf*'
thousands of American lives, including those
of some of our own young men who used to
walk our streets.
I regret often that I have spoken: never
that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus.
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for the safely of lhe mission. Seen in this sequence of
"The Beginning Or lhe End." M-G-M's much-discussed
atom bomb slory now being shown al lhe Walls Theater
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Smokey Says:
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woods fire—be sure it's out.
Interestin'! Bits Of
Business In tfie US.
Prewar patterns of seasonal
buying by retail stores appear to
be back in effect, with the excep
tion of longer term buying com
mitments for durable goods and
staples . . . Gcru ral price levels in
about 10 per cent, with buyers
noting improved quality and
workmanship. . . . The federal
government has disposed of more
than $18 billion in war surplus
property since 1044. . . . RCA is
developing a transmitter using
television principles to transmit j
full pages of printed matter at a
rate of more than a million words ;
u minute. . . . Plant-wide shut-.
downs for employee summer va
cations are gaining in popularity
Some gas stations, will not be!
able to fill your tank every time
you need it since gasoline ration-1
ing to dealers has been put into!
effect in many areas. Shortage is j
caused bv record consumption,
[Tai ik'Uic»! i} due;; fleets. . . .
Women’s fur trimmed coats will
be more plentiful this winter
when manufacturers expect to use
fur in 40 percent of all cloth
coats reason? dropping of the
excise tax on sucli garments.
More Marry And
More Divorced
A report issued recently by
:he United States Public Health
Service shows that more couples
were married and more divorced
n 1946 than in any previous year
n the nation’s history. The ser
vice estimated there were more
han 2,300.000 marriages and 620.
>00 divorces last year. Marriages
increased about 680,000, or 42 per
•ent. over 1945. The divorce total
advanced nearly 120,000, or about
24 percent.
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