Show I WHAT WE THINK By FRANK DIXON There never was a time in the history of this nation it seems to tome tome tome me when there were so many big questions questions of vital importance Importance tance to our future welfare waiting to be solved Not only is there a avast avast avast vast number of questions affecting our domestic welfare but there is isan isan isan an equally large number affecting a our bur welfare in the matter of for for- foreign foreign foreign eign relations Among the questions we have at home to mention a few is the mat mat- matter matter ter of inflation Try as I will vill I can can- cannot cannot cannot not feel that this is a matter which will adjust itself and in time pass leaving us all unscathed I went through the other depression and andI I still remember the wreckage and the devastation left in its wake It required many years for some to recover from its effects and some never did Another danger I see sec is the la la- labor labor labor bor unrest the constant demand for more and more pay which in turn but adds fuel to the flame of inflation Labor says says' it cannot live liv livon on less and management says that labor costs being constantly in in- increased increased creased retail prices must be con con- constantly constantly constantly made higher and higher or orthe orthe orthe the retail business will cease to ex ex- No one wants to be the first to stop the rising tide Both groups say they are helpless helpless and and as they I stand by in their helpless helpless- helplessness ness the tide continues to mount I do not feel that I am an alarm alarm- alarmist alarmist when I 1 say that judgment day is nearer than anyone realizes I am amnot amnot amnot not attempting to pass judgment as to who is right or who is wrong Certainly if the condition is lead lead- leading leading leading ing to a crack up some one is wrong perhaps both sides I will illustrate with a story Two men were aboard a ship in th the middle of the ocean traveling to a foreign loreign port Suddenly the fire fin alarm sounded and great grgat gr at volumes volume of smoke billowed from the hold o othe of the ship One of the men came cam panic stricken to the other and hy hy- hysterically hysterically asked What shall w we wedo wedo do The ship is on fire and th the lifeboats have been destroyed The other looked at his friend in m man inan inan an annoyed manner and said Why worry It isn't our ship As to the foreign problem I Iam am amin amin in if favor of the plan but bu buI butI I do not feel that even the Mar Mar- Marshall Marsh Marshall shall sh ll plan carried out to its fullest is going to spare us from trouble on the part of Russia Heres why For years it has been the dream and the goal go l and the ambition o of Russia to control the Dardanelles This has become the national amb ambi- ambi- ambi ambition tion bon the national obsession Noth Nothing N Nothing oth- oth ing is going to stop Russia in th the Ultimate attainment of this ambi ambi- lion uon Slip Slie has no warm wann water out out- outlet let let no ort that is open the year yea J round found or J eral ral months durin dur g the he he y in m and oui o out of I Ithe the jt t. t be made over UK the he territory oj oil 0 rather other nations n This Thi up as bars Russia groin ex ex- expansion expansIOn to t ho he h status of a world I power does not want Rus Rus- Russia Russia sia Sla to have the Dardanelles be because cause with it goes the control of the Mediterranean and the control contro L Lof of Europe Northern Africa and the East This is the point on L winch Russia as long as she has the power to strike back will not yield and this is the point on which Eur Eur- Europe Europe Europe ope and the United States too if ii we continue to concern ourselves in world politics politics will not yield as long as ve we have the power to strike back This is the thing that caused L Russia to break her with sith viti Miner HILler This in my opinion is the power rower keg that will sooner or latex later set off the third world war This brings us up to the big ques questIon tion can we ve meet this situation L with an unsettled domestic situa situa- situation situation tion the demoralizing effects s ol of o a u depression and anil a depicted national I treasury |