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~~ One objection raised is that it is very general. That is its virtue. To try to fix details of post-war organization, "when the world situation is in rapid flux, is an academic rather than practical pastime. Anyway, that is beyond the Senate's function. Details must,be left to the foreign negotiating agency of government, which is the executive. A second objection is that the senate should accept the Fulbright concurrent resolution passed by the house, 360-t0-29. It is unfortunate that the senate’s jealousy of special constitutional function in foreign policy should prevent congressional action on the same measure. But that is one of those things, and has to be accepted as the price of senate action. Moreover, a concurrent resolution would ‘have given more opportunity for obstruction, » » . 5 AS for the two resolutions, there is little difference. The ~~ senate subcommittee adds a “complete victory” clause, which the house took for granted and which is not strictly the post-war subject. The senate subcommittee also spells out the “free and sovereign nations” reservation, a la Republican Mackinac declaration and American Legion resolution, which is inherent in the Fulbright provision for United States participation “through its constitutional processes.” On the main issue of whether the United States wants to co-operate in an international organization “with power to prevent aggression and preserve the peace of the world” ~—to use the senate words—both resolutions are in _agreement with each other, and in turn with the Mackinac Republicans and with Secretary Hull's ‘statement’ of administration policy. That represents a degree of unity as to general goal which seemed impossible a few months

_ Fortunately, public pressure overcame the cautious

decision of the president and senate leaders;-and-the advice. of Mr. Churchill ts: avoid-risk-of:senate-debate. and-dis.. :

agreement. Public demand produced the Mackinac action and the house action, which made the president and senate leaders move. Democracy is functioning effectively,

WHO PAYS FIDDLER CALLS TUNE ANOTHER thing about that proposed $300,000,000 federal subsidy for public schools— ; To stop some very effective criticism of the legislation, a provision has been added stipulating that the federal government shall have no power to prescribe courses of study. But would that actually stop Washington from running their schools? Not for long. The first federal farm subsidies were without strings. . But it wasn't long till Washington was telling farmers what w to reap, : The first federal relief grants permitted state and local governments to distribute and spend the money. Remember FERA and CWA? And remember how quickly they were followed by WPA, under which Washington told what leaves were to'be raked and what ditches dug, determined what workers should be employed, at what wages and for what hours, and even tried to dictate how the workers should vote. 5

tell them how to vote. : It’s as inescapable as the law of gravity: Who has the holds the power. Many public schools are closing use of the inability to hire teachers at the prefailing low salaries. But the solution i$ not in turning to Washington for subsidies. Much better that the people dig Jo | to their own purses for money to hire teachers ~that is, if the people want to keep control of their own

schools. _ : | . AE CHINESE HAVE EARNED IT SVGRESS should act quickly on the president's request for a | of discriminatory immigration and citizen. bans against the Chinese. The house immigration te reported out the repeal legislation. president does not exaggerate in saying this is nping the war and establishing a secure Aare our allies, ; our enemies than any other ot been able 18 help them much—bed bec our of Far Eastern bases supply route to China,

can do is to remove the insult of these

An employer was required to Pay premium wages to workers for hours t he would arrange to employ adat normal rates; } When the war program began and the danger of inflation was foreseen, the -Roosevelt administration quickly moved to avert inflation by controlling prices through means which were, in part at least, plainly confiscatory. Wages, of course, are the greatest fac-

tor in all prices but it was thought better to pay inflation wages, and having squandered money by the billion, to try to get some of it back by individual taxation, .

Time-and-One-Half Retained

and double time was deftly shrugged off and, although thére was work enough now to give every available hand as much as he or she could stand, this “dangerous money” was deliberately set in motion, and, as it was spread around, prices began to spin out of control. : Union leaders and bosses share the guilt for setting this trap for the workers under their command for it was essential to their politics to delude them. The taxation plan has faltered as the workers, one guess ahead of the treasury, discovered that there wasn’t jail room enough in the entire republic to accommodate delinquents by the million who had always thought of the income tax as a sock-the-rich device. The next experiment was the checkoff, or Victory withholding tax, and now the treasury is proposing to abolish that and thereby exempt altogether from in. come tax billions of dollars of “dangerous money.”

Too Late Now to Make Change

IT I8 TOO late now to change, for the govern ment is committed both economically and politically to the extravagant wage scale, A reduction at this

of fix In too many areas and, moreover, would create

“Fesentment out of the war industries higher pay than they ever got before and enjoying an illusion of prosperity. The time for honesty and courage was when the inflation began and the best that can be done now is A series of patchy measures which may somehow stand off the worst consequences, In justice to the administration's economists it may be said that they washed their hands of the mess and gave it to the politicians early in the game.

No serious attempt ever was made to explain how prices could be kept {n control if wages were touched only by a “formula” which soon began to dwindle and by now has into the archives, However, at the back of the whole mixup is the old radical theory that a people can spend themselves rich and that the rich will be always with us, even after they have been taxed out of existence as a class; Wages are the source of the inflation, such as it is

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to date, and will be the cause of the disaster if it comes, : -

We the People By Ruth Millett

THE OTHER DAY a secretary, who like most people is working i harder at her job these days than when her office was fully staffed

You might examine your own see if you are imposing upon others yourself.

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IF YOU are a housewife, are you still asking your husband, though he is working harder than he has In years, to do your last-minute marketing on the way home from work? Or asking him to 3 bill on his lunch hour

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latedate. would throw wages and prices painfully out ; People WG aFe-GraWINg-

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“FOOTBALL GAME IN CENTER OF STREETS” By T. BE. Dresden, Indianapolis For the first time in my life I have found myself in a city where they have a football game in the center of their most prominent streets. I notice you have many yellow lines painted on your streets un-

start.out. from the pavement okay and then instead of going to the right, they all meet in the center of the street and start pushing and shoving and finally getting half of them out into the center of the street on all sides, : In watching it at first it looked like a football game, but then I

saw it was really people striving to get across the street, Why on earth don't you paint signs on your streets, “Keep to the right,” and then train your Hoosier folk to walk that way. I don't believe there is a city in the United States where the people need training on how to cross a street correctly as, much as the people in Indianapolis seem to need it. I can't imagine what it must be like during your Christmas holiday rush—-how do they make it— surely there is someone in authority

correct this and perhaps save some lives. ¥ . 8 8 “LEAVING JOB APPLICATION WON'T BUY BONDS”

My son has been in the military service for the past nine months and I am expecting him home on a leave now at any time, I will be glad to see him, but T am

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