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Show lIPlGENERAL ! Iy J HUGH S. ' l f-(u WNUSovM , A United Fawn Washington, D. C. 'FOR WHAT?' What is needed by our war-minded men is some slogan of high purpose pur-pose like "Make the world safe for democracy." That one is just a little like offering cheese to the mouse caught in a cheese baited trap. He doesn't want any more cheese. So the trial balloons are go-. go-. np "Union lng up on aiiuni- Now." I wrote a piece on the ballyhoo for a federation of English speaking speak-ing peoples. In it I used the expression ex-pression "Union Now" and said that what is now proposed is to unite us with the British empire under something like the Articles of Confederation Con-federation under which the 13 Colonies Col-onies fought the Revolution which means, of course, In addition to "Union Now," "War Now." I argued ar-gued that all the "Articles" made was a league of nations proved by both of them and the later international inter-national league to be futile and unworkable. un-workable. That column drew indignant deni- -als including one from Clarence Strait, the author of "Union Now." These denials complained that the proposal is not to entangle ours with the destiny of other nations in any futile league. No, sir. We are going go-ing all the way into an United States of Earth, in which America is to be only one state among many bound, not by weak articles of confederation, con-federation, but by a document like the Constitution of the United States. The distinguishing features of that Constitution are no secession; control con-trol in a superstate of interstate commerce, all foreign relations, taxation tax-ation and spending, the right to make war, to keep troops and ships of war and the denial of those rights and controls to the several states including the U. S. A. All right. If I misconstrued Mr. Streit, I am sorry. But I didn't misconstrue the others and I didn't misconstrue Mr. Streit very much. They say, and so I think does he, that this is only an eventual result. Right now all we need is "articles of confederation" with these other nations but (as In and after our Revolution) "as soon as the war is won" under the new confederation, we shall create with them a real federation, on the plan of the American Amer-ican Constitution and rub Uncle Sam out as an independent entity. It is all consistent. First these people sell us into a war when it isn't necessary and, without waiting for Mr. Hitler to sell our country down the river, they want us to do it ourselves. We commit national hari-kari, dilute our strength with the weakness of the world and dissipate dis-sipate the wealth and advantage our fathers fought and labored to create here, to the four winds of heaven and the five continents of earth. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS So my old buddy Leon Henderson told the lumber industry that $50 a thousand was an outrageous price for southern pine, that $25 was ennnuh v. i n ... enough, that if they didn't get the price down he was going to do something some-thing about it-and then stamped angrily not only out of the room but out of Washington. I think Leon was about 100 per cent right on his facts and inten-tions-that, somehow, this tendency toward soaring priceg must bJ socked every time it sticks its head But to control this danger, government govern-ment h tQ get ta J rn tself Leon must have ( that he was not back in his old NRA dy-W government could talk to industry as a unit and tell it as Leon frequently and properly did membership 0, tapper pSc mentand any organized industry h" Ida'veTimie tZ "t as anTndus ray to do fn Pie, what Ie 'or exam- ber' TTffJT bfpn , . and has been declared by all r, J " has tocombleateXrtetX,,, Put prices up. The form n Bs to "as proved to beX T weapon of the bie foil efTective ter competition rfchtSaugl, auction of little fcalol There is a basic fa'i.lt v, NRA tried to solve L foa condemns outright 7n , " na" wide agreements Tll" in restraint of trade"" industrial countries cnnH hr such agreements as B Z t 0nI Public interest." rlT, 0t cognition that e J a 'cahstic contract in business ia in T'1"11 fPects a restraint of t ' d ---rmanrdXriri |