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POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947.

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT 4 Democratic weexly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware Count! Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, *t the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3. 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncine, Indiana, Friday, September 5, 1947.

Looking at the Gold Hoard Foreign Minister Bevin has baffled and confused everybody with his bland proposal that the Upited States “redistribute” the gold hoard it has squirreled away at Fort Knox. He must bear the heavy responsibility for stirring up the money cranks all over the world, who will now come forth again with their hardy panaceas for solving all our troubles by dodng something about money. We suspect that Mr. Bevin got something off his chest on the spur of the moment and that no more will be heard about it. Certainly this country, which bought the gold it now possesses with dollars, is not going to give back the gold so that it can be bought again. The very idea of that affronts the sensibilities of our Treasury officials, and Congress could work itself into a fine frenzy of righteous indignation on the subject. XXX While we are at it, however, it might not be a bad idea to ask ourselves just what good our gold hoard is doing us. We now own about three-fifths of the world’s stocks. In theory this vast buried treasure represents “backing” for part of our currency. But nobody can obtain gold by exchanging currency for it. The backing is more theoretical than real. And we possess about twice as much gold as we need to “back” the currency at statutory ratios. The major significance of the gold hoard is not as a monetary device but as a device for avoiding the consequences of our policy on imports and exports. Since the early ’30s we have made it a rule to buy gold at a fixed rate from anybody who wanted to ship it to us. Thus any foreign nation or trader who wanted to obtain a supply of dollars could do so by shipping us gold. We buried the gold, and printed the dollars with which to pay off the shipper. At the same time, we made it a policy to sell foreignefs more goods than we were willing to buy from them. The result was that all our foreign customers together came up each year with a shortage of dollars. The dollars they could earn by shipping us goods always ran below the dollars they needed to buy our exports. xxx Ordinarily there would be only one end to this process. Facing a chronic shortage of dollars, our foreign customers would eventually have to cut down their purchases of American goods. But our gold policy has helped avert that consequence. By buying gold with printed money, we enabled foreigners to,, overcome their dollar shortage. So we could continue to export more than we imported. Does it make sense? Gold is valuable up to a point, but when one country captures so large a portion of the total supply, the law of diminishing returns may set in. What we have really been doing is to exchange some of the products of our toil and some of the natural resources of our continent for an inflow of gold which nobody can use. Would it not be healthier if we exchanged more of our products for the usable products of other nations—for products which could be consumed and enjoyed by our people, and pould contribute to the lifting of our living ..standards? This is the purpose of the reciprocal trade agreements policy, now under attack in Congress. That is the purpose of the International Trade Organization, recently set up at Geneva. If we can muster the conviction to change our trade policies, then our gold policy will cease to be the absurdity it now is, and will no longer generate such corollary absurdities as Mr. Bevin’s proposal.—Chicago Sun.

The Need for Production Everywhere around the world today the crying need is for the production of food and useful goods. There is% shortage for two reasons. During the war the efforts of industry were put into the making of armaments and things which were used on the battlefields. The lack of civilian goods for civilian consumption became acute. The supply has not yet caught up with the demand. Also, during the war, and especially in Europe, the surplus wealth was destroyed by the conflict. Factories were bombed. Transportation systems were battered to pieces. Farm machinery became old and bosolete, if it was not carried away by the Nazi invaders and conquerors. Cattle which should have been saved for breeding purposes was slaughtered to meet food emergency. Business abroad which was disrupted by the war has been short of capital to refinance itself. Millions of people in Europe have been so buffeted about since 1939 that it is not easy for them to muster the spirit and the energy to do good work or clear thinking. This latter situation is something which it is not easy for Americans to understand since we have not had a comparable experience, although our own situation during the war was far from comfortable. The fact remains that the United States was not invaded and it was not bombed, which was a tremendous advantage over the

lot of most of European countries. But the causes are less important than the results. The world is short of food and it is short of goods-. The only remedy lies in production. The United States is doing a good job on production. It is true that we have had labor troubles and bottlenecks and shortages of some vital materials. We have not had favorable weather for the growing of corn, and the hauling of crops to market has been hampered by a lack of freight cars. But on the whole we can be proud of our achievements. This country has a tremendous industrial and agricultural capacity, but it cannot feed and clothes and fuel the world. The other countries are going to have to junk their phony political panaceas and get down to hard work, too. Demagogues do not mine coal; or grow food, or manufacture shirts and pants, or produce steel or refine oil. Neither do the men and women spend their time standing in the public squares listening to the demagogues. Politics will not cure the situation. But production will.—Journal Gazette. A World of Trouble Anyone who takes the trouble to look around the world today, will conclude that it is in a mess. One reason for this is that every so often the most highly developed nations burn up their surplus wealth in a great war. Then, in poverty and chaos, they have to start all over again, practically from scratch. The destruction and disruption of war is responsible for a great part of Europe’s trouble. But there are other causes. Europe is cut up into many separate states. Most of them are divided by ancient rivalries and hatreds, by differences in language and cultures, by trade restrictions and lack of uniform transportation systems. Few of them are anywhere near self-sufficient when it comes to providing themselves with the sheer necessities of life. They must import food or starve. Ofttimes the common people are exploited by a ruling class, who gather in most of the wealth and are not inclined to spend it toward the education of the masses. Lack of good schools, plus a controlled press and radio, creates a political and social condition which is faidy static and far from productive. Perhaps We hear more about the troubles of Europe that those of any other continent, because our cultural background stems largely from there. But life in Asia is a welter of confusion and turnmoil. That continent lags centuries behind Europe, especially in the outlying areas. The people are truly puppets of fate and they have little or no idea about improving their conditions. The fact is that large parts of Asia are practically a closed book to Americans. We just do not know what goes on there. We do know that China is torn by a civil war and that its official life, especially on the lower levels, is ridden with graft, corruption, exploitation and incompetence. Little respect is shown for the rights of the peopl'e, and little, if anything is done for their welfare. India has departed on her new venture in freedom with a large part of her teeming population knowing practically nothing about freedom, because they never enjoyed it. She is divided by religious differences and by a caste system. There will be much strife and bloodshed during the next few years and her progress along the path of modern enlightenment will be painfully slow. The world is full of danger spots today.— Journal Gazette.

Common Sense In Economics One of the most encouraging things to happen in Europe in recent months was the decision to lift industrial ceilings in the American and British zones of occupied Germany. The decision is belated, but welcome none the less. It may be said without qualification now that the attempt to reduce Germany to a pastoral economy was a great economic blunder. The basic reason was, of course, to obviate any future German aggression by removing its steel production and other war-making potentials. That goal can still be achieved. It is one thing to keep a highly industrialized region from turning out tanks, guns and military planes, and quite'another to pauperize a continent by denying it the hard goods it ordinarily receives from that region. If the United States should be occupied by an enemy which ruled that our Pittsburghs, Garys, Detroits and Fort Waynes should become agarian communities, the effect could be no more devastating than the original setup in Germany. In 1946 the Allied Control Council set a 5.8 million ton limit on German steel production. It now has been increased to 10.2 million tons over the protests of France which holds a justifiable fear of a resurgent Germany. But a pauperized nation is just as dangerous to the stability of the European continent as a warlike one. Such a. people are susceptible to political chaos and communism. Not only has steel production been increased, but limits were raised on heavy machinery, machine tools, passenger cars, cement, chemicals and optics. This will not, in itself, assure economic recovery for Germany and Europe, but it will help tremendously. It will bring an increase in basic rations and may mean the difference between widespread disease and generally improving health.

There is no reason why Germany should nuot go back to work to help itself recover. Twice in this century Germany has destroyed the peace of the world. We owe her no debt of gratitude for that. Neither should we ship our own natural resources to aid her recovery while her own coal and iron ore lies untouched. Our responsibility to Germany, the conquered nation, is great but not so great as our responsibility to ourselves. German industry must be policed constantly to prevent a resurgence of military schemes. Still, during this time the major share of reviving the country falls upon the American taxpayer. —Journal Gazette.

President Truman in Rio Brazil gave President Truman an all-out welcome in Rio de Janeiro. A crowd estimated at 1,000,000 people saw .him ride in a parade through the city. These people were generous with their applause and shouted “Hail Truman” and Viva Truman” until they were hoarse. Shredded paper wafted down like snow from the office build- f ing. It was,'by all accounts, a great occasion. President Truman has demonstrated again that he is an excellent ambassador of good will. He is naturally a friendly man and his broad smile is contagious. His trip to Rio should do a lot to boost the stock of the Good Neighbor Policy. We need peace in the world and especially in our own hemisphere. Anything which contributes to peace is welcomed by all mankind. The world is sick of war and the common people everywhere wish to avoid it, if they can do so without losing their freedom. It Was good to know that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, president of the United States Senate and the most influential Republican in the field of foreign policy, was in Rio with Secretary of State George C. Marshall to greet the President. It was a symbol of American foreign policy is a bi-partisan or non-partisan affair. That in itself is a notable achievement. It is something which President Woodrow Wilson was never able to attain in the days of the League of Nations. —Journal Gazette.

Gen. Ike’s Impatient Backers Some people in Washington who think they would like to hitch their political wagon to a star have organized the “Draft Eisenhower League.” What they want to do, of course, is to draft the General for President of the United States. The members of this League strike us as a little impatient. Gen. Eisenhower is still Chief of Staff of the United States Army. While he holds that position it is a disservice to both him and the Army to project him into politics. This is especially true since he has not given his consent publicly. Next year Gen. Eisenhower will leave the Army to become President of Columbia University. After that it will be more proper to urge him for Chief Executive of the United States. Does he have any ambition to be President ? We can only point to his statement made on July 4 at Vicksburg, Miss. At that time he said: “I have answered so many times and so definitely, from my viewpoint, that it finally achieves this sort of thing (discussion)— it is always talked about. I wouldn’t have the effrontery to say, T wouldn’t be President of the United States’—no ohe has asked me to be. So the way I figure, it would just be plain effrontery to say anthing like it. “I do say, flatly, completely, and with all the force I have, I haven’t a political ambition in the world. I want nothing to do with politics.” Since Gen. Eisenhower enjoys a high reputation for truth and veracity we have to believe that he had no political ambitions at that time and wanted nothing to do with politics. * Like anyone else, he might change his mind. In the the meanwhile, in view of his statement and the fact that he is still Chief of Staff, we do not think he should be embarrassed. The man to watch to see whether Eisenhower does change his mind is Roy Roberts, head of the Kansas City Star. If Roberts begins to beat the drug for his fellow Kansan, it will mean something. So far Roberts has maintained a discreet silence. It is generally conceded that he would be the real leader of a bona fide Eisenhower boom. No on£ questions the ability or the character of Gen. Eisenhower. He enjoys real popularity with the American people. But he has spent most of his life up to now as a professional soldier, and we believe that a great majority of Americans do not favor a professional soldier for President, no matter how greatly they esteem him.—Journal Gazette.

Hemispheric Solidarity There will be criticism of results from the inter-American conference in Brazil, but it appears that certain benefits must derive from it. Its critics may say with some justification that the inter-American defense agreement points up the sphere-of-influence policy and by-passes the United Nations. As a matter of fact it is only an adjustment of the Monroe Doctrine and one which was recognized at the organization meeting of the U. N. in San Francisco. As to its bypassing the U. N. the defense agreement can only aid hemispheric solidarity without exercising any negative force upon world solidarity. One large factor of the new agreement is the permission to suppress aggression any-

where in the hemisphere. This is doublebarreled. Not only does it serve notice to any “foreign” power bent on conquest of our unity, but it also will deter Latin American republics from warring on each other. The United States is the only first rate military power of the hemisphere, so it is our lot to make the defense plan workable. Sister republics may become stronger thru uniform military equipment, as suggested by the U. S., but it seems the real strength of the agreement lies in the amity achieved by nations of the New World.—Journal Gazette.

Willkie and Isolationism When Wendell' Willkie returned from his famous trip around the world, he retired to his mother-in-law’s home at Rushville, Ind., to write the book “One World.” Recently Gilbert Bailey of the New York Times staff visited Rushville to see if he could still find the roots of isolationism. He says he did find them. Mr. Bailey gives a brief resume of some of the old arguments he heard along with some new ones. The resume runs as follows: “Europe should take care of herself . . . The British always want something . . . Charity begins at hPme ... If Roosevelt had warned us in time we could have been prepared for war. We shouldn’t have honeyed up to the Reds in the first place ... If we are going to have another war, I’d just as soon have it over with . . . Sometimes I think we’d just as well send over a fleet of B-29 ; s.” Isolationist talk is based upon the idea that the world is as it used to be, which it definitely is not. That was what Willkie was saying in “One World.” He saw clearly the changes which modern inventions, especially the airplane and the bomb, had wrought. The world had become one physically, and he was afraid it would destroy itself, unless it became one politically and economically. He fought hard for his ideas as 1 long as be lived, but his useful life was all too short. His rugged eloquence would be of great value today. Many of us would like to live in the past, if that were possible. The 15 years before the outbreak’of World War I, were so peaceful and placid by comparison with what has followed since. Even today, after participation in two great armed conflicts, we do not know from experience what it means to be bombed or to be in the path of an invading army. We like to feel that we, in the Central West, are as safe as we ever were and that we can let the rest of the world go by. But experience does tell us that if another major war of aggression is started, we shall be in it, not because we like war, but because it will be impossible for us to escape it. World War III? The very thought of it makes us shudder. We are sick of war and al'l that goes with it. We are sickened, too, by the thought that in the next war, if it comes, we may for the first time be the bomb target for the enemy. Then, some people would learn too late that isolation is a dream and that isolationism is a dangerous and obsolete doctrine. Painful though it may be, we have to face the facts of life as they are.—Journal Gazette.

A Safe and Merciful Law Wisconsin recently passed a law which might well be copied in some form in other states. It is called the “sex psycholopath” measure and provides a means of combatting the growing rate of sex crimes. Under its terms the so-called sex deviates can be committed for an indefinite period of treatment and even segregated for life if they are incurable. It is a just law and merciful to those who spasmodically revolt against society. There have been cases in every community of the nation involving sex criminals who have records of many short sentences. It has been proven that prison terms often aggravate the abnormality of such people instead of curing them. The i*ecent strangling of a five-year-old boy in Chicago was done by a man who had just been released for a “minor sex crime.” The issue has been dodged for generations. In fairness to everyone it should be met. — Journal Gazette.

The Atom Works for Science “On behalf of the people of the United States,” President Truman announced to the Fourth International Cancer Research Congress that progress in the prodction of radioisotopes by the United States Atomic Energy Commission now permits limited distribution to qualified research workers in other countries of radioisotopes, principally for medical and biological research. “I know,” said the President, “that the representatives of the United States attending the Cancer Research Congress share my hope that the open, impartial and truly international character of medical research will carry over into the realm of other problems of world concern. The sharing by and among all nations of both the means ^nd the results of cancer research will reduce the loss of life and human suffering fro mdisease throughout the World.” The us£ of radioisotopes in medical research has been considered by many investigators to be the most important tool of research since the microscope. It meons that an ordinary atom can be made radioactive, and thus “tagged,” making it possible with the Geiger counter to trace its course through the body, to study the rate of its excretion and retention, to know in what organs it is retained and how it affects them. — New York Times.

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