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 .
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A Chamber of Commerce in Ore­
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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
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every day and night of the year.
they must have «till further rate and fare
increaaea.
Railroads Run for Everybody—
Not Employes Afone
Although they know this, leaders of 16 rail­
road unions are demanding a five-day, Mon­
day through Friday, week for one million
railroad employes.
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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Summing up thee«* demand«, they mean that
the«e union leader« seek to force the railroad«
to give one million employes an annual raise
which would average $1500 per employe'
The total coat of thia would be no lee« than
U4 billion dollar« per year, which is more
than twice the expected net income of the
railroad« thia year.
You'd pay the bill, because if these in­
creased coats are forced on the railroad«.
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