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tHUMDAY, OCTOfiEH 21, 1A4S ---- CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. CENTRAL PODO. OMGON ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE PAPERS I During the last few years, there has been an increasing amount of discussion of some of the textbooks used in high schools and universi ties, along with the character of the teaching. The textbooks in question, for the most part, are used in teaching economies, history, sociology and kindred subjects. And the criticism has been based on the fact that in a great many instances they produce—either by direction r- indirection—the impression that the capitalist system of economics i all wrong, that we have a great deal to learn from commun'sm, social ism, and the other ideologies, t at the American economy has about reac'ed maturity and is becoming static, and that, as a consequence more and more of the primary ec n- omic functions of our society mu t Le directed, controlled, an /or owned by the government. This criticism would be unimport ant if it came only from those with a particular axe to grind, who are unwilling to see anything taught or pirnted which is not in consonance with their ideas. However, it has appeared in many leading maga zines, including the Saturday Eve ning Post, many newspapers, and it has been voiced by distinguished where. This particular work en- well as plain statement against the educators, public officials and dorses socialized medicine, govern American system the students will others. Young people, they say, are ment ownership of the utilities, become a part of once they finisn being given a highly erroneous idea high school or college. of what has happened and is hap price fixing, interest-free money for It is likely that much more will pening. The shortcomings of capi housing construction, and attacks talism are being played up, and the private insurance and banking. It vices of communism are being seems to go a good deal farther, for example, than does Henry Wallace played down. This is, obviously, a very touchy with his Progressive Party plat subject. It has a direct bearing on form. According to the Chamber academic freedom, which is certain of Commerce in question. “The ly as important as any of the other authors have done a capable and freedoms. The American people yet adroit job of undermining the don’t want their offspring to be principles of private enterprise, yet given instruction which is heavily concealed this propaganda among weighted in favor of industry, la the words so that the text must be bor, agriculture, or any other special completely studied to understand By Charles L. Egenroad group. It is certainly necessary its full implications." In other words, it is a very subtle job. that students be given a clear and Washington, D.C.—The United objective understanding of the The problem is not a simple one. States never needed its security principles upon which all the econ- It might be put this way: At a cer- bolstered any more in its history omic and social systems from the tain staSe °f education, economics than it did when Harry Truman farthest left to the farthest right arc students should read such complete attempted to pull the sneak play based. The problem is to keep the ly opposed works as Marx’s “Das with “I like old Joe” Stalin. truth, whether or not it is distaste Kapital,” the great bible of com ful to any group, and to winnow the munism, and Adam Smith's “Wealth prejudices and the subtly worded of aNtions,” the gerat bible of lais- sex-faire economics. There can be inferences. no doubt as to the position of these A number of interesting exa writers, and the reader knows that mples of the textbooks in question he is being treated to the ideas of could be cited, One of them is an men of fervid conviction, who wece economics treatise which was frank propagandists for principles adopted by the Armed Forces In- which have nothing in common. stitute, and which caused quite a But, say the critics of many current stir when it was discovered-that it textbooks, that is an entirely differ followed something very close to ent thing from using, as the basis the party line in dealing with such of a course of instruction, books matters as government ownership which are supposed to be complete of basic resources, government con and objective, but, to the contrary, trol of credit, and so on. It was are strongly biased by inference as then found that the book is in standard use in a long list of dis tinguished universities, and the Institute had naturally presumed it to be a good text. It is a long W’ork, running to about 1,000 close ly printed pages, and much of it, of When feet burn, «tine. it,' . n..’ course, is purely factual, The con- feel as if they were celli: g ri, t elusions reached, most of which are the flesh, get a small b r;L- of M unfriendly to the free enterprise Emerald Oil and rub well on f t . idea, caused the stir. anklei morning and ni;;! . fora fevd.i A real discovery for t'vj.jii Is » A Chamber of Commerce in Ore have found blessed re! _f. Moon gon is now making an issue of an Emerald Oil is easy an-.! plea-; other book which is standard in use—stainless—money back i isfied—good druggists every«!. r that state’s high schools an 1 else- B hingií G vern ir T' omas E. Dewey and Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg promptly calried the turbulent in ternational waters with sound con firmation of the cooperative policy toward Russia to which we are pledged with Britain and France and other western European powers, A strong saving factor in the situation created by the Truman-to- Vinson-to-Joe double-cross combin ation was Governor Dewey's posi tion of being the nation's overwhe lming choice for the next President of the United States. The New York Governor had long before made his position clear on the international picture, and Secre tary of State George C. Marshall knew as he flew back to this coun try that fate had made it imperative for him to take a stand against his own President. He knew that if he could block the Truman blunder, which he did, that the solid foreign policy bu'lt up through bipartisan effort would be saved for a President after Jan uary 20 who is pledged to make that policy strong and who keeps his pledges. It must be disconcerting to Secre tary Marshall and those with whom he is working toward trying to bring peace out of a chaotic situa- tiion, to be forced to depend upon a President who in four months reverses his European policy with- out as much as consulting with his Secretary of State ‘ On last June 12, while Mr. Tru man was cavorting about the coun try on a “non-polictical” trip, he said in a speech at the University of California that there would be no two-handed “deals” between this country and Russia. He went even further to say: i.. I I "I said before and I repeat i tion of a I now: have The door is always open fe: I within a • President to be), but came five-o’cl< ck whisker of honest negotiations looking towai putting the Supreme Court of the genuine settlements. The door is United States in with it. not open, however, for deals l e tween great powers to the detriment of other nations or at the expense of principles.” Four months later, almost to the 1 day, Mr. Truman was caught in the act of preparing a two-handed deal with Russia. It was on that same “non-pohtieal trip"—in fact, just four days after he pledged no two-handed deal with Russian—that Mr. Truman said in a train platform speech: "Thank God the forgein policy of the United States has not gotten into this brawl” (meaning the cam paign, of course). Yet, he was the one who not enl attempted to get it into the "brawl" (if that is what be believes the elec RE-ELECT Harris Automobile Liability F"S WORTH Republican for AND Fire Insurance CONGRESS LELAND CLARK FOURTH DISTRICT 1.Inn, l.«ne, Douglas. Jackson, los "phinr, Coos. Curry Countie« Phone IRIA TN. Baiti«*« Medford, Oregon NEW & REPAIR WORK Paid Adv Committee El1 •« h I. b \i (.) cgon tor CongreM nt ck. Trigg.. 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Demands Unreasonable I'hese employ«*« have had subatantial raise* during and since the war.Their average week ly earnings are higher than the average weekly earning« of workers in manufacturing indus tries. They have more job aecurity than the average worker in American industry. They also enjoy paid vacations, a retirement sys tem and other advantages more generous than the average worker receives. The railroad industry must serve not one but many groups—producers, businessmen, ship pers, passengers and the general public— night and day, every day of the year. These unions are proceeding in utter disregard of this important difference between railroads and other industries. Industrial plants can be shut down over weekends and holidays, but freight, mail, express and passengers must continue to move. Everybody uho enters rail road employment knows this. In rontrast with the demands of these 16 unions, which add up to the equitalent of 48c sn hour, the Conductors and Trainmen recently settled their wage request for an increase of 10c an hour. On Septemlier 18, 1948, the leader* of these 16 unions began taking a strike vote. Hut the threat of a strike will not alter the opposition of the railroads to such unreasonable demands! They want 48 hours pay for 40 hours work —in itself a 20% wage increase. They also demand a minimum of 12 hours pay for any work performed on Saturdays, and 16 hours pay for any work performed on Sundays and holidays. On top of all thia they want an additional increase of 25c an hour for every employe! You’d Pay the Bill! 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