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There’s Always Two Sides
Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe, like his
eminent father before him, has a streak of philosophy
in him. In his column one day recently he gave forth
with the following observations which we consider
well worth a careful reading and study:
An Amarillo man, who belongs to the Committee
for Constitutional Government, has asked that the fol-
lowing be printed:
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging
thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the
strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot help the wage-earner by tearing down
the wage-payer. HP*
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more
than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of men by in-
citing class hatred.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed
money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking
away a man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they could and should do for themselves.
Much or most of all of the above is sound philosophy
or common sense. But you can answer most anything
such as the above. For example:
You cannot bring about general prosperity unless
there is general opportunity for the thrifty.
You cannot strengthen the weak if the strong are
permitted to take unfair advantage of the weak.
You cannot help the small men by giving the big men
all of the best of it.
You cannot help the poor if the rich are permitted
to hog most of the surplus as fast as created.
You cannot help the wage earner by paying him
starvation wages.
It is difficult to keep out of trouble if your income
isn't sufficient to afford the reasonable necessities of
life.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by cult-
ivating class snobbishness.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed
money if the man who borrows money isn't given a
chance to make enough to pay back what he has bor-
rowed.
You cannot build character and courage by taking
away a poor man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by undoing them
when they are trying to do something for themselves.
Understand. I am for the capitalistic system and
think it is the only plan, for the present, that will
work.
But don't think there haven’t been abuses in the
capitalistic system; don't think that some or many of
our rich capitalists haven't accumulated great fortunes
by unfair business tactics and paying the lowest pos-
sible wages and squeezing the last dollar out of the
public. Selfishness always has been rampant; it is hu-
man nature to seek and grab off the best of it.
Fortunately, most of the business men and the in-
dustrialists are honest and fair. They recognize there
have been wrongs in the past. Some of our most decent
businesses now are our largest businesses On the av-
erage, those who have succeeded haven't done any-
thing that others, now howling for unfair advantages
themselves, wouldn't have done Men were thrown out
into this world of ours and told to sink or swim and
some of those who swam too well submerged a lot of
other good people
But the hope of our people is business decency and
fairness The pendulum is now swinging too far; most
of the abuses in business have been cleaned up. But
some of those who have come into power have too
much power. They have gone mad and have lost their
reason. Some have reached the point of treason. Busi-
ness has been stopped; some of our misguided labor
and political leaders should be stopped.
No business should be permitted to mistreat those
in the employ of that business. This provision should
be inculcated in the administration of our government
and it should be maintained wisely and fairly.
And no set of men who work for any business
should be permitted to mistreat any business or busi-
ness men. No group of men by political pressure or
by the result of political ambitions, should have the
power of increasing and decreasing wages Arbitra-
tion and reasonable thinking and acting and saneness
must prevail in this country or our present form of
government is gone.
Our country has been strong enough to survive ram-
pant individualism. It was carried too far.
Our country must be strong enough to survive col-
lective and political bargaining which is being carried
to ridiculous, dangerous extremes.
So endeth the observations of Gene Howe, the Tact-
less Texan.
By HENRY MeLEMORE
LONDON, England—The name of
John L. Lewis will live forever It
will go ringing down the long cor-
ridors of Time. Long after those of
us who inhabit the earth today are
gone and forgotten his name will
be familiar to school children He
will have a prominent place on page
42 and 77 of the history books of
tomorrow Teachers will ask the
children who John L. Lewis was
and they will know, just as they
will know the background and deeds
of other men who stood before the
world and defied the country they
belonged to.
The children will stand by their
desks and tell the teacher that John
L. Lewis was a man who defied his
government when it faced a tre-
mendous crisis; a man who scorn-
ed , the laws that governed his
countrymen when his country was
at war with enemies who sought to
conquer and destroy it. I hope that
Mr. Lewis takes pride in this, that
he feels the letting down of his
country is but a small price to
pay for a page in history
If you think I am being rough on
Mr. Lewis, that I am bitter and
biased all by myself, I onljcask you
to come to England and talk to the
soldiers who are bearing arms An Air Force man told me what
against the enemy. I wish you he thought should be done to John
could talk to the boys who are L. Lewis. "Pust take him and fly
handling bayonets not picks and see
how they feel. Above all I wish
that Mr. Lewis, who seems so sure
of himself and his power, could
come to England and address the
men whose safety he has threaten-
ed by his defiance of the President *
and the War Labor Board.
THEY DON'T LIKE LEWIS
Do you know what the soldiers
would do? I'll tell you. They would
kill Mr. Lewis. That's a rough
thing to say but they Would. They
would pull him off the platform
and beat him to a pulp. They'd
drown his rauccous voice with mad
cries of their own They’d tell him
he doesn't know what war is, that
he is living in a dream world — a
dream world of power, bushy eye-
brows and sabotage—but as sure
as I am sitting here writing this
story they’d kill him. I have talk-
ed to too many of them not to
know how our army feels about a
man who challenges the govern-
ment and says “I am above other
citizens, and have a right to make
demands while living comfortably,
warmly and safely.”
McLEMORE
him here to our
base and make
him a tail-gun-
ner. Stick him
back there and
let him handle
himself when
the Jerries come
in shooting and
let him know
that not one of
the Americans
in the plane
would help him
If he got hit right in the head."
"PUT THEM IN UNIFORM"
Another soldier who had been in
Africa told me what he thought
should happen to Lewis and his
striking miners. "Take every other
one and bring them over here. Give
them a gun and make Assault
Troops out of them. I figure that
after they had stormed a few hills
with machine gun bullets and mor-
tars knocking them off, they would
be glad to get back to the mines
and that Saturday night pay."
A gunner on a Liberty boat said.
"Let Lewis and his strikers work
for what we do and get a torpedo
under their feet. The coal mines
are rough all right but they are no
rougher than the Atlantic with
dive bombers beating your brains
out and subs taking shots at you."
A fighter pilot said. "They oughta
hang the man and forget him. Ev-
ery day we go up we don't know
If we are coming down. We don't
mind it because we are fighting for
our country but to hell with those
jerks who want to make money
when there's a war going on. Why,
not put Lewis and his strikers on
a private s pay, send them over here
and let them get a taste of dying."
I can say without fear of contra-
diction that the American Army
considers John L. Lewis a man who
should be thrown into a concentra-
tion camp and given nothing better
than bread and water until the war
is over. The soldiers just can't
figure out why the government
that not only expects but demands
of its fighters a willingness to face
death, should pander to a civilian
who. by his actions has proved that
he puts his own power above the
survival of his own country.
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Factors in Length of War Considered
By THOMAS M. JOHNSON
NEA Military Writer
WASHINGTON, May 22 — In-
formed observers are neither blind-
ed nor deafened by the astounding
promptness of the Afrika Korps’
collapse the instant its back is
turned to the wall.
What impresses them more is how
long it took to get it there
Now, surveying all the ponderable
elements, military and economic,
that compromise grand strategy,
they say: "This is still going to be a
long war. That is the real lesson
of Tunisia."
Conquest there gives us a firm
footing on the southern moat pro-
tecting Hitler's "Fortress Europa"
—but on that moat's southern bank.
We must still cross the moats—the
Mediterranean and the Channel,
still force the drawbridge and Port-
cullis — Italy and the Balkans.
France and the Lowlands, before
we storm the citadel. Germany
dred as experienced and probably
better led, supplied by railroads and
roads forming a network of interior
lines.
We and the British must skirt
those interior lines to supply our
hundred-odd “fronts" the long, hard
way, by ships. Of bottoms there
are never enough. Submarines are
delaying our moves. Though this
year the Allies build 25,000,000 tons
they will not fully solve the supply
problem To have solved the big-
gest production to history is won-
derful. but we must get the pro-
ducts where they are needed-and
when. There can be no invasion
without supplies — 10.000 different
kinds.
And invasion, In prevailing Amer-
ican miltary opinion, there must
be Some Americans and more
British still hope bombng will blast
German morale until it cracks like
that of the Afrika Korps. But in-
telligence reports indicate that
POWERFUL DEFENSES while bombing has good effect, ea-
Its outworks are defended first by pecially upon German railroads. It
shorebased aviation, which has is not exactly devastating industry,'
proved formidable against warships particularly the many plants to
or transports, then by myriad sub- hitherto inaccessible regions Al-
marines, then by fortifications in though our new fighters will great-
successive belts whose strength ly help escort heavy bombers,
varies but adds up, manned by the bomber production is less satisfac-
world's most formidable army ’ tory to us than improving antiair-
which can oppose to our perhaps 25 raft defense is to the Nazis. Con-
experienced Allied divisions, a hun- servatives believe they won't be
bombed out this year, or next.
Nor starved out. The occupied
countries will be starved to the epi-
demic-line, to weaken them last
they help an Allied army of liber-
ation and to keep the Germans
strong. Nor her oil shortage, though
It is becoming rather serious.
"Germany's hour is not yet," say
those who add up these factors.
"Perhaps 1944— late—but also, per-
haps. 1945.".
JAPAN'S 1,000,000-SQUARE-
MILE FORTRESS
Nor Japan's. She, too. holds the
citadel of a fortress the outermost
of whose million square miles we
barely touch from Australia. For
reconquering it the Antipodes are
an unsatisfactory base—remote, still
underequipped and under-manned
—many of whose supplies travel
7,500 miles China is even farther,
blockaded. Its many soldiers piti-
fully under-equipped Alaska is
nearer, but not fully developed, and
handicapped by the Jap Aleutian
foothold Siberia, nearest of all.
will remain neutral certainly until
HUter is beaten Any major mili-
tary blow may nave to await that
consummation plus greater super-
iority by sea and especially by air.
More promising than costly island-
hopping is attack by large air-borne
infantry and artillery forces—which
need much training and many
planes and gliders.
By more air-power and better
bases we can best support our sub-
marines in whittling Japan's preci-
ous shipping and cargoes of iron,
tin. oil, rubber and food from her
pirated empire Given time to ex-
ploit and fortify that empire, she
believes she can hold on and tire
us out in its whiteman-killing
jungles. Her army, like Hitler's,
is still more experienced than ours
and at least as well led. It has had
no Tunisia. Japan is bedecked
with posters: This war will last
one hundred years." And indeed,
if Hitler’s war lasts two more years.
Tojo’s may last another two, to
READING
The WILL
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THE WAR Today
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Determination of the Allied war
council in Washington to speed
the movement of war materials
and other sup-
plies into China
is a godsend for
that hard-hit
and long - suf-
fering country.
This presum-
1947—given the time needed to ably will in-
transfer forces from Europe, volve an exten-
So say those who scan war’s pon- sion of the
derable factors, military and eco- American Job
nomic. Yet war is conflict, not of of transporting
mathematical formulae, but of hu- stuff by air
man beings, and the winner is often over the dangr
old General Imponderable. His erous route MacKENZIE
strategy turns upon questions like across the
these: The Doolittle raid nearly mountains between India and
drove Japan’s excitable people China.
crazy. How about getting bases and The celestials have been ham-
equipment to repeat It—time after strung for lack of arms and
ture of unoccupied China must €
be shot as full of holes as a sieve.
Things are bad, and Inflation Is
running through the country.
The Chinese need equipment
right now to protect themselves
against the Japanese offensive ,
aimed at the great rice-growing *
area in Hunan province, which is
now partly in Jap hands and
partly in Chinese.
Involved in this Nipponese
drive is a city which the Chinese
have been very anxious to get 0
back—Ichang. This is the most
important city on the middle
Yangtze and Its possession by the
invaders has been of great value
in military operations.
I was told In Chungking that ,
the Chinese felt if they had air •
time? Germans may crack, their
backs once to the wall. How about
more surrender-propaganda among
them?
But unless enemy morale cracks,
it still looks like a long war.
Pulpit
Dr. T. 8. Knox,
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Genesis 32 26 and
Keep 'Em Hoppy
The pressure of diplomacy must be letting up. We
see in the news columns that the State Department
has embarked on a campaign to make sure that its
employes are happy. Preliminaries inclued a two-page
mimeographed questionnaire inquiring what the boys
and girls want most.
Suppose, in answer to specific questions, the men
ask for more money, more fun, and “more women in
your life," while the women vote for travel, and nylon
hose
Are Messrs Hull, Welles and Berle prepared to ne-
gotiate a compromise by which both men and women
can satisfy their yearnings?
Finland's
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
STOCKHOLM May 22 - (By
Wireless) — The Germans' most
effective propaganda, and about the
only German line that has any ef-
fect in this part of the world is
that they are fighting to save
Europe from Russia
Nothing up this way makes sense
unless the fear of Russia is kept
in mind It is the basis of most
of the indifference to our side that
exists among a limited number of
people in Sweden and particularly
It is the key to much of the trouble
with Finland
PLAT GERMAN GAME
The Finns are playing the Ger-
man game, although they are not
fighting actively now and a kind
of tacit armistice exists Ye the
position of Finland cannot be sum-
marised simply by dismissing It
as pro-Nazi. Our relations with
Finland are bad They have been
Fear of Russia Deep-Seated
CLAPPER
on the point of
a break for
some time, and
recently th e
thread w a s
ready lobe
snapped when a
sudden post-
ponement came.
Just about the
tune the Rus-
sian - Polish
quarrel explod-
ed.
Information from good sources is
that the Finns are genuinely
friendly to us on the whole Even
Marshal Mannerheim, who is re-
garded with extreme disfavor
among American anti-Fascists, has
a strong anti-Nazi strata He mak-
es it a point to speak French in-
stead of German to Natl liason
officials and he jealously keeps
the Germans hands off the actual
running of his Army.
Pro-German sentiment in Fin-
land exists chiefly in the upper
middle classes and in Industrial
circles And It la usually true that
any enemy of Russia is considered
a friend of Finland Also, there
are some outright native Nazis. In
the main, however, the strength of
pro-German feeling derives from
the idea of Finnish patriots that
Germany can save them from Rus-
sia
The worst situation pertains to
the Finnish secret police, whose
chief Is a small edition of Him-
mler He used terrorism on or-
ganisations and leaders friendly to
our side Anyone known to be
friendly to the Allies in an active
way is likely to be intimidated. If
not jailed on trumped-up charges.
Undoubtedly some of the tactics
of the Finnish secret police with
regard to friends of America in
Finland have had something to do
with the sharp attitude of Wash-
ington toward Finland
This attitude of the secret police
is not typical, however, of the at-
titude of the Finnish people to-
ward America In fact, the aver-
age Finn looks on America as a
real friend The Finns feel that
only America will be in a position,
when Germany Is defeated, to in-
tercede at all for them against
Russia's demands They believe
America might succeed in soften-
ing the fate of Finland at the end
of the war.
It is going to be difficult to sat-
isfy the Finns because they hate
the Russians with a fanatical fire
The coals never burn out from one
century to the next Nothing Stalin
could say would have the slight-
est effect, probably, as the Finns
would believe nothing out of Mos-
cow. We cannot expect them to be
reasonable, because they will not
be, any more than a child who is
afraid of the dark will be reason-
able about it.
THEY FEAR RUSSIA
The widespread fear of Russia is
one big fact in northern Europe
that America and all of the Allies
equipment of all categories They
have been waiting to get equip-
ped by the Allies.
But there’s a lot more to
China's troubles than that. She's
been asking for arms and hasn't
been saving much about food for
raiment.
The economic position is de-
pendent on the military situa-
tion with the Japs in possession
of most of the centers of pro-
duction and trade, it’s not hard
to see that the economic struc-
power they could reclaim Ichang
and thus open up Hunan pro-
vince with its badly needed rice.
For this operation and others,
they wanted between 300 and 500
warplanes.
Burma can't be invaded before
the end of next September, be-
cause of the monsoon weather.
Thus the urgently needed aid
will have to be handled by air
transport for a long time to come.
This presumably means that the
chief help for China to stand off
the present Jap offensive will ba
in bombers and fighter planes
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YEAH, SHERMAN WAS RIGHT!
5. / HEY, PHDIAS, HOW
t MUCH LONGER DO
2 YOU THINK THE
E I WAR'S CONNA /
LAST?
DO YOU THANK
THE WAR WILL
END SOON M
PHDIAS!
MY, PAD-
IS THE WAR
GONNA END
THIS YEAR?
MR. PHIDIAS
WHAT’S YOUR
ESTIMATE as
TO THE LENGTH
OF THE WAR?
LISTEN PHOCIS
I SEE THAT SOME
BIRD SAYS THE
WAR S GONNA
ENO N944-
WHAT S Tour .
OPINION?
OR, PHIDIAS!
WHEN DO YUH
THINK 7
HOME FRONT
By JAMES MARLOW and GEORGE ZIELKE
WASHINGTON, May 22.-P-
OP Ai decision to abandon plana
to require grade-labeling of the
1943 pack of canned fruits and
vegetables marks the beginning as
well as the end of a battle
Advocates of trade - labeling,
who have been waging a long
campaign—brought to a head by
must deal with to their psycho- wartime controls, are ready to
logical warfare now, as well as to start anew
making peace If we start on the They maintain that for a con-
theory that everybody will be ra- sumer's protection, the label on a
tional. nothing will be accomplish- can or other container should
ed We must find a way to cush- show the quality of the con-
ion irrational tears The answer tents,
will not lie in anything Russia. OPA's compromise calls for in-
says. but In the extent of the voices of shipments of goods to be
agreements that Russia is willing marked as to grade, so this In-
to accept to insure that the small- formation would be available to
er countries can breathe Russia is the consumer through the store-
not likely to be thwarted to having keeper
security in the Baltic Next Monday a congressional
stable peace in northern Europe investigating committee headed
depends on how successfully this by Representative Boren (D-
conflict can be adjusted at the end Okla) will start hearings on the
of the war. Above all. It should whole subject of grade labellng-
be remembered that we are deal- not confined to food,
tag with a hatred which is several The main points of argument
centuries old and which could cool come down to this:
only slowly at best For grade labeling—
NOW OWI HAS GIMLET EYE
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — Working
newspapermen are betting that
moat future mistakes at the Of-
fice of War Information will be
the editorial chiefs, the Oregon-
tan was known to Portland press
club wags as “The Old Lady of
Sixth and Alder streets - Front-
page makeup was inviolate by
son: Ep Hoyt, the new domestic." long tradition Old - fashioned
director, is a tough, smart ex-
killed before they happen Rea-
copy reader
Copy desk men are the unsung
editors who make newspapers
make sense They edit the copy
turned in by reporters and mer-
cilessly whack out errors and per-
sonal opinions
It's been the concensus of cap-
ital scribes that OWI’s releases
were long on enthusiasm and
opinion and short on tight edit-
ing by a tough copy reader like
Ep Hoyt West Coast newspaper-
men who know Hoyt say the pam-
phlet Battle Stations for All " for
which OWI apologized, would
never have passed his gimlet eye
Hoyt is now publisher of the
Portland Morning Oregonian,
one of the top dailies on the Pa-
cific slope He skyrocketed to the
top Job on that venerable paper
twelve years after he was hired
as a copy reader in 1926 In the
time it took him to reach the
publishers office. Ep was a re-
porter. drama editor, night city
editor, executive news editor and
managing editor
He's still close to the copy desk,
though Ever since he began to
make policy as an Oregonian ex-
ecative Hoyt has insisted on a
cracking good copy desk
When Ep took over as one of
lengthy headlines and stories that
“slopped over" inside to run three
or four columns had made it re-
‘spectable but very dull
Ep gave the old lady a page-
lifting The sheet began to have
zing and bubble and bounce Con-
servative Portlanders gasped
when Ep slapped that AP wire-
photo of the Hindenburg airship
explosion over all eight columns
of the front page (It’s a Rose
City legend that in pre-Hoyt
days. It took an editorial confer-
ence to decide that it would be
proper to use a two-column head
when President Harding died 1
The blood transfusion that
Hoyt gave the Oregonian made a
new paper out of It Circulation
perked up Headlines and type
faces were modernized.
• - -
Elmer Darla, OWI director, is
a newspaperman who turned
magazine writer and radio com-
mentator Hoyt reversed the pro-
cedure. and was a successful ma-
gazine writer who abandoned
free-lancing to concentrate on
newspapering
Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg
publisher and freshman Con-
gressman from Oregon says there
isn't a newspaperman in the state
who doesn't rate Ep a reporter
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Price control doesn't mean any-
thing. say grade-labeling advo-
cates, unless accompanied,by cer-
tification that the goods bought
at a price celling actually come
up to the standards on which the
price was based.
Against grade labeling—
Manufacturers contend that it’s
part of a move by "radicals'' in
high places to wipe out brand
names entirely, with the eventual
goal of using only grade mark-
ings.
Part of this argument traces to
an experience with federal pur-
chase of soap for distribution
specified "no brand name "
We put this up to a man who
knows a lot of the ins and outs
of Washington, and he replied:
"If you had to decide on one
kind of soap to go to Puerto Rico,
would you pick out a certain
brand, or maybe several brands?
Or would you demand a certain
standard and dodge the respon-
sibility for building up the name
of one or more brands’"
However, he said that for many
years there have been persons in
government who hold to the
theory that carefully enforced
standards should replace brand
names entirely. These persons, he
said, figure that instead of spend-
ing money for advertising brands,
the manufacturers should reduce
the cost to consumers.
Their theories, of course, run
across the grain of the view that
competition among producers Of
branded products makes for lower
prices, better service and high
quality.
To be sure, manufacturers
sometimes as in the case of war
model rubber goods, decline to
put brand names on the products
... or agree not to . : . because
they say the war model isn't up
to the quality on which they've
built reputations
The argument which won the
OPA change of heart was that
grade-labeling of canned foods at
this time would require additional
labor and expense and curtail
production The canners agreed
that prices should vary according
to quality.
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DENVER May 22.—P—Noth-
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Levine of Chicago, say officers at
Buckler field
A staff car was assigned to take
him to Denver
The reason for all this super-ser-
vice: His wife gave birth to trip-
lets Thursday.
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