| Show i Released bv by Western Newspaper Union ROAD or OP GERMANS HERMANS WILL WILLBE WiLLBE BE DE A LONG AND HARD HAlm ONE mm Germany is today not a nation It Itis ItIs ItIs is but a o disorganized mass moss of some humans It is 15 without law other than the orders and edicts of ot Allied military commanders without law enforcement other than that of the GI Joes of the Allied armies without courts other than those presided over by military am officers cers directly or indirectly Such Is but what of tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow row of next year and other years of the future Four armies representing na nations na- na nations of radically differing ideologies I occupy the four sections of Germany I into which she has been divided The only announced purpose of the four tour nations is that of stamping out the last vestige of Pre Pre- Presumably Presumably sum ably each army will use its own methods of accomplishing that pur purr pose Presumably each army will introduce the ideologies of the nation na nation tion it represents in the making over of the German people What the final result will be or fir when that result will be accomplished can be only a guess A phenomena of the situation Is I the request of the German communists that clement of the German Grman people who suf suffered ferN most from the wrath of Hitler and who oho ho would be ex ex- expected to accept Russian Ideologies gies gics They ask for the establish establish- establishment establishment ment of a private enterprise system with a profit motive That Is American democracy not Russian communism Will tiR they get that in the Russian oc d zone one Time only can canan answer an Today the commanders of those Allied armies trust practically no German In Germany There are none to whom they are willing to pass uncontrolled civilian authority How flow many months or years will pass before those GI Joes can be relieved of their police posts How Howlong Howlong long before those army orders give way to laws enacted by the German people How long before those Al Al- Allied Allied Allied lied officers are replaced by civil civil- civilian Inn ian judges Again time only can answer For Fr Germany the road to the future will be long and hard It means a 1 education re-education of the peo po people people starling starting particularly with the small children It means the Implanting of ef new Ideals the creation of a 1 desire for tor a different differ differ- different different ent way of life It means mean the obliteration of the Ule makes right theory that has been a basic principle of Germany With four tour different types of teach teach- teachers ers with a curriculum fixed by four differing ideologies can a unified Germany be the final result Time only can answer In the meantime the GI G Joes of ot four tour nations will continue as the corner policeman HIGH U. U S S. S STANDARD OF LIVING un-o fo WORLD TO MAINTAIN our American standard of living and increase that standard as much as Ill possible is the greatest service this thi country can render the peoples of a the world We have established standards to which other nations can and do aspire Our standard of living is based on all the tile income of our farmers and the wage scale paid to our workers To 10 force the American farmer and the American worker into competition in our home markets which represent represent sent 50 per cent of ot the markets of the world with the income and wages of the low standard nations would mean lowering the income of ot our farmers and the wage scales of our OUI workers It U would reduce Ameri Americas America's Americas cas ca's buying power and In the end result in lowering our standards without helping any other nation Our Om greater technical skill and better machinery will not offset the cheap wages of the Orient and most mo t European countries I The he world needs a standard to strive for and America sets that standard WHAT IS your farm worth I 1 asked an Iowa farmer acquaintance i That depends de wads on what you ou place value he hC replied As an Invest Invest- Investment Investment I ment on which to pay dividends I year ea l' l in and year out it Is worth a alot alot I Ilot lot less than I 1 could sell it for right now As a home for myself and I family famil as representing a way of at life we wc enjoy enjo it is worth far more than any an one would offer and It is not on the market That farmer knew idealistic values and his farm paid dividends on such values to himself and his family To them the pleas pleasure ure are of living as they the wish to live e has a greater gra tr value than dollars e MANY A CASE of at disposition is diagnosed as nerves PRESIDENT TRUMAN lAN was right in saying sa the representing of Ameri Amen America ca en in the council of at was the most important post of o American ap appointive ap- ap appointive offices As that represent representative ent alive etive the lion Hon Edward R R. becomes the voice of the nation na in hu world affairs second only to the President It is a high honor that carries with it a great responsibility THE BEST REST INTERESTS of o many manya man a community would be served by a revival revisal of at the old Massachusetts l ducking stool for tor town gossips |
