Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 23, 1944 <*•<*• fhs N ews B ehin the Nn »itsss« By P aul M allon w (J. S. Sailors Receive Expert Health Attention J ASK MS { -Gl et ANOTHER A General Quiz ^* ^* <*• <*• <*• <*• <*• <*• <*• ft. (t. ft. fh. on i w I J | rv J The Queationa W ashington. D. C . BRITAIN'S BANKRUPT STATES One of the most important docu­ Released by W estern N ew s p ap er Union. ments bearing on the postwar world soon will be issued by the British H O N E S T D IF F E R E N C E S government in the form of a White NEW YORK. — Luckily the non­ Paper. It will be a survey of Brit­ sense of American political cam­ ain's financial position and a frank paigns generally evaporates as fast admission that she is bankrupt. as the ballots themselves, which, The White Paper will tell in detail once counted, lose their value and how British investments throughout become waste paper. Only sub­ the world have been liquidated to stance survives. Falseness cannot pay for the war and will come to endure the calmer atmosphere of the conclusion that, if the British reasoning and acquire permanence Empire is to continue free trading, In the closing of the campaign she must have outside help. some hasty people on the radio, for The alternative to free trade and instance. suggested Dewey or free competition, the White Paper Roosevelt should be impeached for will say. is a system of barter, re­ something or other which was not stricted trade and cartels, such as clear in the speakers excited minds, that practiced by Germany after and at the other extreme 1 heard the last war. International cartels, the all too reasonable suggestion of course, have been blasted public­ that now the election is over the ly by President Roosevelt and one losers should give in their view­ British corporation. Imperial Chem­ points to the winners. "The issues ical Industries, already has been Aircraft naval doctor (left) perform* emergency appendicitis operation on young tighter pilot at sea. are decided" and now "we must all prosecuted by the justice depart­ On board ship and ashore, the Gobs receive the best of dental eare. Upper right shows a naval dentist and work together." Neither course is ment on a charge of conspiring with assistant eliminating a sailor's toothache, while lower right shows one of Uncle Sam's fighting tars getting a likely to be followed this time. The the Du Ponts before the war to con­ close trim at sea. The grinning seaman belongs to crew of submarine patrol. frenzied few will quiet down gradu­ trol the world production of certain ally from impeachment thoughts as chemicals. they come face to face with new According to inside word from the developments. It is equally in­ diplomatic corps, the publication of evitable that the genuine faith of Britain's frank survey of her bank­ people in certain truths and ideals rupt financial position will coincide at the moment I am writing this, is with the secret conferences now tak­ not going to be turned around for ing place here between Lord Keynes the espousal of opposite ideals after and U. S. officials regarding the re­ election. newal of lend-lease. With the war in Europe nearing But there was a surviving sub­ stance developed during this cam­ a close and with U. S. forces now paign—a substance which could be getting a greater proportion of war as important to the future of the supplies direct from the United country and the world as the out­ States, British war needs for lend- lease are dwindling. However, the come of the election. British have proposed, in Lord BOTH PROMISED Keynes' private conversations, a new Both sides promised the same type of postwar lend-lease whereby things in great instances. This the British could resell goods to for­ agreeable residue of the debate is eign countries in order to reestab­ what the country has the right to lish their export trade. expect from the victor, indeed what Keynes Proposal it must insist upon. The mutual Word leaking from the diplo­ promises were basically these: matic corps is that Lord Keynes Jobs. Dewey promised them to all now proposes a total lend-lease and Roosevelt promised 60.000,000. allotment to Great Britain of 6'4 Indeed they both promised the billions for 1915, of which 3H method of furnishing them—free en­ billions could be reexported in terprise. Both promised against the British trade. Most of this would Communist and Socialist way of fur­ be in the form of American raw nishing them (free enterprise clear­ materials which the British ly disavows socialistic methods). would process into finished goods Both promised a high-wage, and then sell. The British do high-priced economy with fair not propose that finished Ameri­ employment practices and M r. can products be given them for Roosevelt even defines his liv­ reexport, but only that they get ing wage as applying only to "a lend-leaaed raw materials to re­ fall work week" in rejection of Every day Is play day for Jimmy, Judith and Barbara and the rest of their American playmates. In vive their crippled industries. previous trends toward less Europe,' it is a sadly different story. Upper right shows four German children arrested in Aachen area One proposal is to set up a work. Both promised quick vic­ for firing on American troops. According to rules of war they may be shot. Lower right shows a guard of new postwar lend-lease court tory and a sound peace, and honor of Loutakhi, Greece, children lined up to greet the Tommies when the British troops crossed the Cor­ composed of one Britisher and nearly agreed on how. They said inth canal and liberated their village. They had been serving with the Greek underground. two Americans which would de­ they would continue existing cide which goods could be used military leadership for war, and for British trading purposes. would seek peace through the The whole plan will be submitted | Dumbarton Oaks arrangement to congress probably before Christ­ for a new League of Nations. On mas. one league point only did they differ, and then not as much as A R M Y ’S PREFABRICATED advertised. The most fervid BRIDGES Rooseveltian internationalists One of the great but little known (the Ball-Davenport minority) stories of the Western front is the said they wanted the American way in which army engineers got a agent in the league council to group of bridge experts together vote for war only by constitu­ nearly two years ahead of the Eu­ tional means, and that is actually - ropean invasion and designed fabri­ what Dewey insisted upon. cated sections of bridges which Behind these generalized agree­ would exactly replace specific ments, there now lies of course, bridges in France, Holland and Bel­ great prospects of change and gium. sharp irreconciliable differences on Through the European under­ both sides. On the Roosevelt side, ground, army engineers were able or rather the inside, it became evi­ to get exact measurements of the dent State Secretary Hull's health bridges which they knew would be might eliminate his sound search destroyed by the retreating Nazis. for unity on foreign policy, and t>e Each part was numbered, and spe­ administration's economic director cial assembly crews, trained in Eng­ James Byrnes definitely made ar­ land, rehearsed the job of putting rangements to quit before elec­ them in place. tion. If someone like Sumner Welles When the invasion came, these happened to get Hull's job, you can Premier Stalin, of Russia, is shown bridges traveled so close behind our readily see how the measure of in this radio photo as he. addressed advancing armies that they were fre­ unity so far achieved would fade the Soviet Union. He castigated Ger­ quently ahead of the field kitchens. away. If the radicals took control many and Japan as aggressor na­ And on arrival at a destroyed bridge of Byrnes' place, the change in tions. His talk renewed speculation its replacement was a matter of domestic policies would be equally that the Soviet Union will make hours. sharp. The changes through a new • • • available some of its resources to administration leadership by Dewey 9 the Allies of the Pacific war. Wheth­ H ILLM A N WOULD END PAC were more obvious and fully pre­ er this aid would Include full par­ Sidney Hillman didn’t advertise it sented. Four-year-old Dickie Shipman fell downstairs In his Seville, Ohio, ticipation, or would cover uses of but, during the last days of the No doubt the various self-seek­ campaign, he took steps to dis­ home a year ago, and although he has grown, he has been unconscious Russian bases has not been de­ ing classes will be interpreting band his controversial Political Ac­ or semiconscious since that time. He is being moved to Cleveland, where termined. Russia’s position In north- the general result for their own tion committee. The final decision leading specialists will treat him. At the time of his accident doctors cast Asia is even more vulnerable purposes by the time you read than Japan’s. will not be up to him alone, for the said that he could not recover. this, so it may be well to get whole thing will be threshed out at the truth in first: A Roosevelt the CIO national convention in Chi­ victory would not be a victory cago. But not waiting for the con­ for the purposes of any of the vention, Hillman sent notice to most minority groups which took lead­ of the 200 members of the PAC staff ership in seeking his election, that they go off the payroll before because they do not control j then. enough votes to accomplish such Originally PAC was set up as a a result. Such a class victory permanent organization, and there was not promised. Roosevelt are several schools of thought in- declared the winner, it was sole­ side the CIO regarding its continua­ ly because so many people were tion. One group, including auto afraid of the war and thought workers president R. J. Thomas, he could conclude it sooner or wants to keep PAC alive. Hillman, better. A Dewey victory would on the other hand, wants to shut up have reflected a demand for a shop, concentrate on New York poli­ change. tics, and also get his health back. There is less cause for the quad- renniel metamorphosis this time. MERRY-GO-ROUND Of course, the frenzied few man­