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Wednesday, April 18, 1945
POLITICIANS NOT
REPRESENTATIVE
(Ketchikan Chronicle)
Nobody wanted the
streamlined primary bill
but the people. And the
people don’t get it.
The Alaskan house of
representatives turned
thumbs down on the blan
ket primary measure,
thereby putting itself on
record as just another re
actionary, non-democratic
group of non-representa
tive lawmakers bent on
furthering the whims of
politicians.
Hope springs eternal in
the human breast and so it
was natural to expect that
we had done better in
choosing legislators than
in the past. This must not
have been so.
To add insult to injury,
the lower house has indef
initely postponed the com
panion bill to place elec
tion of party committee
men and committeewomen
as well as to the national
party conventions in the
voters. The party machines
saved this prerogative for
themselves again in this
move recently.
The blanket primary law
was not perfect but it was
a step in the right direc
tion. The other measure
should have been a “must”
at Juneau. No wonder
many persons hold with
the anti-statehood crowd,
for they have seen their
desires go glimmering be
fore the sordid schemes of
the politicians and self
seekers. It was nice some
34 years ago to have an or
ganization or “enabling”
act to set up our own legis
lature. Apparently it takes
more than on act to enable
us to have our wants felt
in the proper circles.
WHAT DUMBARTON
MEANS
With all that has been
written about Dumbarton
Oaks, probably most
Americans do not under
stand it yet. Clarification
is therefore necessary, now
than the San Francisco
Conference to implement.
A clear statement by Sec
retary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., who bears
direct responsibility for
1 handling this important
| diplomatic effort, was car
! ried in a recent Associ
ated Press dispatch. These
are the main points:
It is a plan for assurance
of world peace, drafted last
summer and fall at a place
called Dumbarton Oaks, in
| Washington, D. C., by rep
resentatives of the United
States, Great Britain, the
Soviet Union and China,
after long study and ad
vice sought from experts
in many lines. There are
four vital points:
1—World peace is possi
ble only through the ef
forts of peace-loving na
tions, united for that pur-j
pose, acting as equals, ■
through a General Assem
bly and a smaller Security
Council. A Charter of Or
ganization is provided to
implement the plan. It
aims to prevent and sup
press wars, and assure
peace, by close association
and cooperation. The main
responsibility for peace
rests on the Security Coun
cil. The Assembly is re
sponsible for political and
social conditions favorable
to peace.
2— The great powers, in
cluding France, through
their industrial and mili
tary resources, must bear
the main responsibility of
preventing and suppress
wars. An International
Court of Justice will be
provided to settle disputes.
3— Continual effort will j
be made to build peace.
The United Nations In
ternational Organization
operating as a General As
sembly will be the highest
representative body in the
world. There wiil be a
strong Economic and So
cial Council, elected by the
General Assembly of all
states. Also an Interna
tional Labor Organization.
4 — Progressive reduc
tion of armament will be
sought.
Obviously this is a plan
with immense possibilities
for the welfare, and per
haps the salvation, of the
whole human race.
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MENTAL HAZARD
Driving a golf ball over a pond
requires a type of skill altogether
different from lifting it across a
like-size of green grass. I don’t
know golf but men who play well j
have made me understand the
difference. They call it a mental
hazard, and life is full of them. A
mental hazard seems to be some
thing that offers a threat but
presents no actual hindrance.
Observation makes me believe
that the magnilure of many world
problems, currently discussed inj
print and on the air, creates a
mental hazard. Utter bigness
causes people to turn their
thoughts away from facts that
concern them vitally. Post-war j
planing is a good illustration. Itj
is something that needs the seri-l
I
ous attention of millions of think-!
ing Americans.
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Like Seeing Ghosts
I have heard several intelligent
people recently talk as if post-war
planning might be something out
side of their world; a Job for some
mysterious committee of mental
giants or supernatural beings.
Actually, only a small part of
post-war planning needs to be
central planning. It is a job for us,
all and the sooner we start it the
more promptly prosperity will fol
low peace.
People who imagine they see
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ghosts are harmed as much by
them as if they really existed.
People who get alarmed at a big
undertaking and run away from
their part of it, are in much the
same class. Planning is for every
body with a job, every firm with
a business, every family with a
farm. Things are going to be dif
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ferent soon, and we will need to
be ready. I
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Millions Unemployed
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Spec tres of unemployment
shaped in the smoke of war are
scary enough to frighten even the
wizard statisticians who know
how to tame wild figures. That
streetcorner estimate: “20 million
without jobs,” is probably 25 per
cent high. America has 40 million
people working now at jobs they
can keep after the war. After the
war, however, 55 million will
have to work if the nation pros
pers.
The difference is 15 million.
This many will come from our
armed forces and from war-baby
industries; too many to be idle.
Fewer job-hunters than that made
1932 a very bad year. But (not
counitng the jobs that will die
with the war) our industries are
using 40 million people now and
should use 55 million in peace
time. It does not divide exactly
even, but call it a gain of one man
in four.
Intelligent Guessing
Men who won the war, men
from uniform and men from mu
nition plants, are returning to
peace-time pursuits and we must
have work for them. Anybody can
plan on a one-man scale. The easy
way is for each of us in his own
shop or office to figure out about
three things that might happen to
his business when peace comes.
Then line up there “could-be”
post-war changes in 1-2-3 order,
the most likely one first.
Step No. 2: Plan what’s best to
do in each of the three cases. Try
to make plans justify four work
ers where three work now. No
body can plan for you. Nobody
knows your business like you do.
When war ends every man should
have quick access to his own de
liberate thinking, and be ready to
welcome peace. It is an idea for
small business, but small, firms
normally, employ 85 per cent of
America’s workers.,