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Wednesday December 11, 1946
America Is Strong
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
NO PEOPLE has ever been destroyed from outside.
They may be defeated and conquered by a foe.
But if their spirit is firm and their love of liberty pow
erful, they will rise again, often stronger, as their will
to live reaches new heights.
Those whose spirits are rotten disappear.
The Roman Empire died of spiritual disease rather
than of assaults by foes.
Its family system was shattered.
Its great men were not devoted servants of the people
but political leeches who lived upon the body politic,
robbing the government and its citizens, giving them
selves over to vile luxuries that weakened mind and
spirit and left the Romans degenerated for any barbar
ian to kick.
The France of Louis XIV was devoted to luxury on
top and a declining standard of living among the people.
By the time of Louis XIV, France was in revolution.
“Let them eat cake” is no answer to spiritual decay.
The same was true of Czarist Russia.
It would never have fallen into the hands of the Bol
sheviks were it not so decayed.
The court was foul. Such a creature as Rasputin ruled
the minds of those who ruled the people.
The inteligentsia, who should have led the people,
gave themselves over to degenerate mysticism. They
were arrogant without the excuse of noblesse oblige.
The people were ignorant and embittered—and hun
gry. The Bolshevik, a tiny minority, seized the power of
government because there was no strength, no vigor, no
spirit to resist them.
Anything was better than what the Russian people
had, and, preferring order to freedom, they chose the
worst that was offered them.
America is still strong.
The people are both vigorous and vigilant.
They refuse to be forever tricked and fooled.
They are capable of asserting their independence
They still love liberty and believe in the rights of man.
They are still capable of voting unsuitable officials
out of office.
Willing to make every sacrifice in war, capable of
granting government great powers over them in time of
stress, they spring back with youthful resilience when;
the time comes to assert their rights and their freedoms.!
Such a people cannot be destroyed.
Such a people cannot be conquered.
Such a people cannot be fooled for long.
Such a people will survive wars, depressions, and!
even the excesses of inflationary prosperity.
They will survive bad government.
But neither they nor any other people can survive the!
corruption of the spirit of man.
It is moral not physical failure that kills a people.
It is lack of vigilance over the fundamental freedoms
that kills a people.
It is lack of vigilance over the fundamental freedoms
that kills a people.
It is fear of insecurity rather than fear of slavery that;
kills a people.
It is the willingness to sacrifice a glorious and contin
uing civilization for some petty, immediate advantage
that kills a people.
As long as the American people remain the guardians
of their liberties, the masters of their government—this
will remain the strongest, the greatest nation on earth.
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Crime By Seapei
(The Denver Post)
WHEN THE BLACK BOOK against the Nezis is com
pletely filled, the most appalling crime will stand out as
jungleland degradation of human dignity—and with it
horrifying degradation of the medical-scientific world.
All through World War II, reports slipped out about
the morbidly conceived experiments which German
medical men were carrying out supposedly in the name of
science. Thousands of helpless, hapless slave laborers
prisoners in the concentration camps, war wounded
were the victimized guinea pigs. Now, what most read
ers suspected all along has been verified. The whole sa
distic, immoral series produced not one single scientific
gain.
The Journal of the American Medical association de
clared editorially this week that “not the slightest good
has resulted to mankind” from these depraved ventures.
“The inhumanity of these German physicians has stir
red horror and disgust among physicians of every othe^
nation in the world,” the Journal says.
On Dec. 5, twenty-three of these Nazi exnerimenters
went on trial in Nuernberg. At least seventy, perh
more, were involved in the experimental tortures—most
of which ended in agonizing death for the victims. The
American Medical association undertook a painstakin
investigation of the whole series to provide scientific
conclusions for the U. S. Secretary of War. Its commis
mission was headed by Dr. A. C. Ivy, vice president of
the University of Illinois. The findings will be available
to the prosecution at Nuernberg.
When these bizarre and insanely conducted exoer
ments are added to the terrifying mass murders of the
concentrtion camps, human kind can only shudder in
sickening horror. One asks: What sort of moral decay
could prompt such fiendish actions in the name of any
thing, let alone science? Much time and new generations
must come before the world can forget the full black
ness of the Nazi record.
THAT’S THAT By bruce gustin
to
Taxes in 1944 and 1945 ate up
nearly one-third of the total in
come of the American people. That,
according to a survey by the In
stitute of Life Insurance, is what
the people paid to maintain gov
ernment—federal, state and local.
The total tax bill in each of those
two years was around 50 billion
dollars, or an average of more
than $1,300 per family, and it is
about the same this year. In 1940,
the tax take in the United States
was nearly 13 billions or less than
$400 per family. Considering the
way taxes have skyrocketed, it is
no wonder that living costs and
1 prices are so high. One of the most
important items in the cost of liv
ing, and one nobody can escape,
is taxes.
In spite of the enormous in
crease in the cost of government, it
isn’t worth that much more to the
American people. One of its most
important functions is public pro
tection. But it has fallen down or.
that job scandalously. It has failed
miserably to maintain industrial
peace and protect them against an
epidemic of strikes, the worst of
which is the coal stoppage.
What kind of a game is Presi
dent Truman playing? The logical
thing for him to have done in such
a national emergency as the coal
strike was call a special session
congress. He snouiu have reco
mended to it the enactment ol
comprehensive and long-range
I oor program which would put
i smp to industrial anarchy. T
, vote in the Nov. 5 election a
! public opinion polls made it pli
mat is one of the things the ovi
whelming majority of the Ame
can people want. A special sessi
of Congress was the Presiden
c.iance to win for his administi
lion the political credit whi
omerwise will go to the comi
Republican Congress for cleani
up the labor mess.
Hut instead of attempting to 1
capture the public favor he h
lost, President Truman seems to
making a bid for the labor suppc
his administration lost in the N
vember election. His idea seems
be to leave the labor problem
toe Republican Congress ne
year. Then, in the 19-R1 campa:g
he will be in a position to appe
lor the support of union leaders <
the grounds that he did not pr
mote a Congressional program
spoil their racket.
Tnere may be no legislative s
iuLion of the coal strike problei
liut enactment of a fair and sa
labor policy to protect the pub!
and stop irresponsible union lea
eis from cutting the throat of c
gunized labor undoubtedly wou
hasten an end to the coal walkoi
The suggestion by Senator Ft
bright <Dem.) of Arkansas th
Congress outlaw strikes and pr
vide for compulsory arbitration
labor disputes in industries affec
ed with a public interest suen ,
coal mining, oil, steel, transport,
tion and public utilities is commc
sense. Contracting on an industry
wide basis should be banned,
should be made impossible for *
John L. Lewis or any other ind
vitlual to exercise the power 1
freeze or starve or strangle tY
whole nation.
Attorney Padway, general coui
sel for the American Federation <
Labor which is backing up Lewi
said “there need not have bee
any cessation of employment
the government had complied wil
the terms of the contract.” But tl
dispute over whether the goveri
ment complied with the terms
the contract is a matter for cou
determination. That is a goveri
mental function and duty. In a
rogating to Ivmself the exclush
right to decide that the goveri
ment had violated provisions <
the contract, Lewis usurped jud
eial powers. If he really believf
the government was not living i
to the terms of the contract, 1
had a remedy—court action to o
force provisions of the contract.
Anti-trust laws should be ma
applicable to labor as well as hr
ness monopolies. The Clayton a:
Norris-LaGuardia acts should
repealed. The closed shop shoi
be outlawed. The Wagner ;
should be revamped to prohi
unfair labor practices by un;c
as well as by employers. L-al
| contracts should be as bindi
upon unions as upon manageme
Senator Ferguson (Rep/»
Michigan has an excellent id
He would establish a system
federal industrial courts to han
labor-management disputes. T
would involve Congressional <
actment of a labor code, defin
the rights of all parties, and dot
ing unfair labor practices by 1
ions as well as by employers,
he says, “the economic power
the disputing parties” should
be the deciding factor. Gove
ment of law must apply to la
organizations if there is to be
dustrial peace in this coun
Such a condition as now exist