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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY. HERTFORD, N. C FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1946 'l 1AGE THREE 1 I'. loo;ii;;g at 7Asiii;;gton By HUGO S. SIMS, Washington Correspondent ' Wants Western Hemisphere Under American Control Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg, of 'Michigan, discussing the relation ; ship between the United States and the new world security organization, suggests that this country accept, in 'connection with other American na tions, "the exclusive responsibility for any armed forces required to : maintain peace and security in the Western Hemisphere." This suggestion will undoubtedly meet with the approval of the people of this country, who, as the Senator says, do not want "any other armed forces to enter this area." Moreover, in view of the general approval of re gional associations among the na tions of the world, there seems to be a solid basis for the realization of the Vandenburg suggestion. Immediate Dislocation ot Economy Unavoidable The sudden ending of the war with Japan will produce, within a few months, considerable unemployment mthe country. Reconversion Dir ector John W. Snyder predicts that the figure will reach five million with in three months and might go up to eight million by the spring of 1946. Mr. Snyder says that "there should be no mincing of words" and admits that the cancellation of war contracts will cause an . "immediate and large dislocation of our economy". The fact that the Army and Navy have cancelled about $30,000,000,000 worth of goods will indicate the magnitude of the shock. Release Of Controls Answers The Doubters On the evening of August 14th, the President of the United States read the Japanese surrender message to newspaper men in Washington. Less than twefity-four hours later, the voluntary news censorship was discontinued and publications and radio stations were advised of their freedom to print or publish any facts they picked up. Within twenty-four . hours, the ra tioning of fuel oil, gasoline, blue point foods and other cdmmodities was ended, but controls were kept on scarce articles until increased production can bring supply more closely in balance, with demand. Within the '' same twenty-four hours, the War Production Board gave industry almost a free hand to produce for peace-time. Of four hundred controls, it ended 360 and an nounced that the remaining forty will continue only temporarily. These facts give a definite answer to the doubts . of some Americans who professed a belief that the Gov ernment was attempting to regiment industry and to take over direction of private life in the United States. Aggresive War Declared Crime Against World The Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928 outlawed war as an instrument of national policy but made no attempt to determine how guilty individuals and nations should be punished. This omission, it seems, has been covered by the establishment of an international military tribunal to give a fajr trial to Nazi war crimi nals upon the basis of a new inter national code of law, combining the procedure of the United States with that customarily used in Europe. The tribunal has been set up by the agreement recently signed by re presentatives of the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia and France. It will establish individual responsibility for the crime of at tacking international peace. The declaration is considered a IS YOUR CAR ONLY PARTIALLY INSURED? 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The sentence will be subject to review by the control council for Germany, which will have the right to reduce, but not to increase, the severity of the sentence. Procedure will follow more closely the judicial systems of Europe rather than that of the United States. Mr. Jackson says that he did not see fit "to insist that these prisoners have the benefit of all the protection which our legal and constitutional system throws around the defendent." The fact that judicial systems of Europe, from Russia to France, lean to the State rather than the indivi dual contrasts strongly with the American custom of giving every ad vantage to persons accused of crime. However, since the Germans under stand .the European system and have employed it themselves, there seems to be no barrier to its use. Bravery Of Fighting Men Is What Really Won War The United States should retain1 bases in all areas of the Pacific "ir respective of cost," as "a compara tively inexpensive form of national insurance," declares a House Mer chant Marine sub-committee after a thirty-two thousand mile inspection trip to the Pacific. The committee had in mind strate gic military factors but did not over look the possibility that the retention of various islands might open up economic possibilities which would permit them to pay a large part of the cost of their maintenance for naval and military purposes. Full Employment Law Is "Must" Legislation Says President Truman President Truman has given his endorsement to the full employment plan, calling it "must" legislation. Hearings have already been held on the proposed legislation. On July 30 and 31, sponsors of the measure appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee and, even without the presidential endorsement, the hearings would have been re sumed as soon as Congress reassem bles. The purpose of the full-employment bill is to assure "a useful and remunerative job" to everyone able and anxious to work. This is the an tithesis of the belief that the nation must have depressions. Economists realize that the widespread suffering and the social and economic costs in volved in depressions constitute a dangerous strain upon American society. ' Under the plan generally discussed, the President is required to submit a "National production and employ ment budget" to Congress at the be ginning of each regular session. This is to include: 1. The estimated size of the labor force desiring employment. 2. The estimated volume of invest ment and expenditures necessary to give the labor force employment op portunities, and .'!. An estimate of prospective in vestment and expenditure by private enterprises, consumers, State and lo cal governments, and the Federal Government. Should estimated investment and expenditure be less than the volume deemed necessary to provide employ ment, the President is called upon to recommend a program to encourage increased non-Federal investment and expenditure, with especial reference to private enterprise, and, if this is deemed insufficient to protide full employment, the President is re quired to suggest a program of Fed eral investment and expenditure to reach the level necessary to insure full employment. On the other hand, if the pros pective volume of investment and ex penditure exceeds the total necessary for full employment, the President is required to recommend a program to prevent inflationary economic dis location by diminishing the volume of investment and expenditure to the level that will assure full employ ment. There is nothing radical or absurd in the proposed production and em ployment budget. Critics insist that the estimates will not be accurate and that even if they were, Congress could not take effective action in time to arrest a threatened slump. These objections beg the question because they rest upon the premise that if it is impossible to cure an economic dis ease, the nation should make no at tempt to treat it. Supporters of the full employ ment plan insist that L is necessary to maintain a free-enterprise system that will projuce the standard of liv ing that a wealthy and self-respecting country should provide for its population. They intimate that the people of the nation, having seen full employment during the progress of two years, as a result of government spending, will not sit idle through a major depression, involving wide spread unemployment. They even in timate that, under such conditions, the people of the nation might turn against our so-called free enter prise system and demand more strin gent governmental controls. There has been a widespread idea that the nation will need 00,00(1,000 postwar jobs to avoid unemployment. This seems an over-estimate to Rich ard M. lioeckel, who thinks the cor rect figure is between 56 and 5(i piil lion, but he points out that this is about ten million more than the num ber of civilians actually working in 1940. It is, he says, close to four million more than the number of civ ilians employed at the wartime peak. economists come along with the suggestion that the number of em ployed depends upon the gross nat ional production of the nation. They point out that in 1944, when about 62,000,000 civilians were employed, national production amounted to nearly $200,000,000,000 with the Gov ernment spending about $95,000,000, 000 for war. Obviously, after reconversion, Fed eral expenditures will drop severely, probably to around $25,000,000,000 annually. This means that nther ex penditures and investments must to tal around $145,000,000,000 to give the nation full employment. These other expenditures and investments were less than $105,000,000,000 in 1944 and less than $98,000,000,000 in 1939. Seed Small Grain Crop At Right Time Plan to plant small grains on time or prepare to accept much lower yields per acre because of the delay in planting, say Extension agrono mists at State College. They point to the three-year rec ords of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Piedmont Test Farm, Statesville, to show that a delay of 30 to 45 days in planting will on the average bring reductions in yield varying from 28 to 57 per cent. Oats planted on November 15 yielded 26.4 bushels per acre for the three-year period as compared with 61.2 bushels when planted on October 1. There was a gain of 34.8 bushels per acre for 45 days difference in planting. 1 When the same test was made for .barley, the difference was 13.6 bushels j per acre. Late planting cut the yield i 33 per cent. With wheat the November 15 plant ing produced 18.1 bushels as compar !ed with 25.2 bushels per acre for the j October 15 planting. I The agronomists call special atten tion to the need for observing Hes Sian fly-free dates in planting wheat, as determined by the Extension en I tomologist, J. Myron Maxwell. For ;the mountains, these dates are Oc tober 1 to 15; 1'iedmont, October 5 to 24, and for the Coastal Plain Oc , tober 20 to 27. I Maxwell points out that these dates apply from west to east, and from j north to south. For example, wheat should not be planted in the north western section of the 1'iedmont be fore October 5, and in the southeast ern section before October 24. FOR ROOFING MATERIAL Of Tin, Asphalt and Asbestos Shingles VISIT mmm supply company v:..v.:m city, n. c. 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