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Show the master of tke Manhattan explained when Kis ship ran' aground a few miles up the Palm BeacK coast a few years ago-it just happens that he employs none. This crusader from the ranks of the underprivileged, so-called, should have anticipated that query and thought up a Letter answer than "it just so happens." Perhaps his background gives him a one-sided view of what discrimination discrimina-tion is, and without which all things would be acceptable to all persons. Discrimination evidently may not be between but always al-ways against. So if you marry a red-headed gal you are discriminating against those with black hair; or if you marry mar-ry one with white skin, you discriminate against those with black skins, and his commission could investigate you and your motives, drag you all over the nation for the inquisition, or to any territory and try you under the self-onstructed despotic des-potic rules so characteristic of New Deal commission, without with-out benefit of court or jury. Every limiting immigration law must be discriminatory by the senator's understanding. They specify just how many may be admitted to these shores from this land or that land, with some nationalities excluded. That's discrimina- but the men who are managers of lJre-mer's lJre-mer's votes will automatically elect President an d : eP senatives of the people, and there wil b n the elections since union heads P - ship. govemment-thus we come toout-anci ou the Paducah (Texas) Post (Independent) says. With strikes in major industries ClZ im-of im-of the nation, the rights of labor have -Jabor portant question. Whether a minority of has the rights under our democratic form o f gove mm ea t abridge the rights of the majority, is the asked by many. We believe in unions and organized but when communities, towns and cities are 8 in public utiliies-when telephones, telegrams ntco nlel packing houses etc., have to discontinue serv c Jbe cause of strikes and the lives of communities are disr e ed by labor, then it is high time hvsl do We need new labor laws and it is up to Congress to give ThTcXburg (Illinois) Labor News (Labor) says: Pending Before Congress is a bill, "kdi lsse would be one of the .most important ZZ! the economic ills of the South. I his measure, by Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, would make il legal to pay a wage of less than 65 cents an hour to workers engaged in interstate commerce. f the substandard wages paid to a great majority or Southern workers are the root of the South s economic Directly they have kept a large proportion of the Southern population poorly fed, poorly clothed and poorly housed. Their secondary effects on the life of the South have been to keep the farmer poor by undermining the market lor his products. They has distorted the South s economy by disregarding dis-regarding the manufacture of finished goods in Southern states . . . . tion "against. And the men who made the Constitution put it in right away that nobody but a native-born American can be president-how terribly wrong it is to fix it so that Joe Stalin can't be our President. Or Hirohito, or Franco. For a long time many persons sought to make folks Christians by law. And if you're a Christian, you're discriminating dis-criminating against the Buddhist. But back yonder, you d either be a Christian, and often a particular kind of Christian, Chris-tian, or they'd lovingly burn you. Every day was open season sea-son for the heathen, who was anybody you didn t like. But finally they had to give it up as a bad job. That's the fair practice act all over. It will revive the iollv custom of killing off all other fools. A matter of choice "- 1 EDITORIALS OF THE WEEK The Ouray (Colo.) OURAY COUNTY HERALD (In-dependent) (In-dependent) says: AREN'T WE A BUNCH OF DUMB BUNNIES? Freedom loses to bureaucracy when bureaucracy holds out a basket of groceries. It has happened throughout history. his-tory. People fight and die o throw off the yoke of a strangling strang-ling authority, build up independence and prosperity and greatness, and then government steps in and offers to relieve re-lieve the common man of his responsibilities and he falls for the same old bait and drifts back to serfdom. Socialistic government is not for the masses but for the few people who put it into operation and then carry it on. The people are always slaves under a socialistic government. govern-ment. They receive what is handed to them, work at what they are told to do and generally are deprived and depressed as the ambitions of the leaders expand. Accepting socialism social-ism is to be kept like a horse and worked like a horse. As Iong'as everybody has his hand out for federal money, we are going to see the public debt grow. Official Washington, as has been the case for the past twelve years, stands ready with a scoopshovel to pitch funds out of the public treasury to every pressure group and to spend on every foolish enterprise that will make votes. The United States government is the biggest business the world has seen, and it is run by a reckless bunch of spenders who have no conception for sound business principles, princi-ples, budgets or balanced spending. We are headed for the greatest smashup in our history. Can it be averted? The idea that we must have the federal government put a roof on the henhouse and paper the back bedroom is what makes the national debt grow and prosper like a mushroom. mush-room. This idea, too, is what is peopling every village and town w ilh little government salary collectors, whose business busi-ness is to tell us when to put the baby to bed and milk our cows and what we can plant and how much. Washington is filled with experts who couldn't successfully suc-cessfully run a roadside peanut stand and we are asking Washington to take over our businesses and run them-at least, we are allowing Washington to do so. If we want a new city hall or a bandstand, we ask Washington for the money, and a bunch of these same Washington experts come along with the cash to tell us how to spend it and dictate dic-tate what the building should be like. Washington money for pensions, for roads, for little business and big business, for subsidies on farm produce and for every other imaginative purpose, and we don't realize real-ize that all this cash must come out of our own pockets and that we must pay back two dollars for every one we receive. Aren't we a bunch of dumb bunnies? or preference under this bill is riot allowed Americans respecting re-specting whom they employ. And it covers all forms of governmental agencies, federal and state, including unions and your school board, which hires more than six persons, our school board could be forced to hire the competent offspring off-spring of Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, Pancho Villa, Al Ca-pone, Ca-pone, or John Dillinger, to teach your children. Any time a competent person asks for a job, and if you employ as many as six persons, you must not consider race creed, color, or ancestryyou have no choice, no preference. pref-erence. So to keep what personal preferences Americans still retain, it s worth a filibuster even when everything else is going to pot. The FEPC confesses it is designed to promote the general gen-eral welfare and tranquility. It puts that in to get it by our Supreme Court. But the only result that looms for it is more strife, rekindling of hatreds, and cultivation of kindred evils until the whole land is happy with viciousness and sweet with blood. ABOUT LABOR The TUJUNGA (Calif.) REPORTER (Independent) asks: Does the American wage earner want a pay check which compensates him personally in proportion to his ability, abil-ity, productivity and skill? Does he want that pay check paid to him personally, all of it, for him to spend as he sees fit? Does he want a pay check based on the productivity of a group of people, an average wage which makes no allowance al-lowance whatsoever for his personal skill and ability? Does he want deductions from that pay check for various government govern-ment activities, such as Public Health, Social Security, Public Pub-lic Housing, Loans to Industry, Subsidies to Farmers, etc.? These are the questions which every wage earner in America Ameri-ca must consider. Who are the wage earners or laborers of A.merica? Actually about 90 percent of us work for a living. Politicians draw wages, so do bankers, so do labor leaders, and so do laborers in industry. We are all paid wages to serve the The PALM BEACH (Fla.) SUN (Independent Demo-cici Demo-cici t J.C s ciy s ' ' A HARRY INSTEAD OF A MOSES This country is in a mess, a fix, a fine howdy-de-do, and with a Harry instead of a Moses. Mr. Truman would raise wages with no consequent price increase in the manufactured manu-factured product. It would seem that the President was not an observing pupil of the old political school at Kansas City where Boss Pendergast taught him. Teacher Tom never instructed that you could eat your cake and have it too. And then, with the whole nation in the grip of strikes, the Senate is pregnant with filibuster, which is a sort of strike. The Senate s delicate condition was induced by Senator Dennis Chavez, New Mexico Democrat, who saw the country on fire, so threw the inflammable Fair Employment Employ-ment Practices Commission on the red-hot situation. A bunch of boys in the Senate hate that bill, as they should, so they began filibustering one discrimination still left, thank heaven. So the fire still rages all over the land and the Senate filibusters. That's the picture as Denny would like to have you see it. But he could stop it in no time flat by withdrawing withdraw-ing the FEPC bill so the Senate could consider the state of the nation and do something about it. The President found it mostly apostate. Self-defense always is timely, and you can t think of anything else when such a deadly thing as the FEPC is pressing against the national throat. Denny tells the Senate he is battling for the underprivileged underpriv-ileged because he was one of them and reared in an underprivileged under-privileged atmosphere. It is understandable in that view that his personal youthful experiences now cause him to be over-zealous on behalf of those he lumps together as being discriminated against by employers. And for the composition composi-tion of his lump he selects Jews, Negroes, and Catholics, minority groups, he calls them. The FEPC measure would make it illegal for any one or any agency employing as many as six persons, to refuse to employ a person because of race, creed or color. He admitted ad-mitted on question that in his senate office he had the full limit of employees, including Mexicans, Greeks, Jews, but that "I do not happen to have any colored employees." Why he employs no negroes is just one of those things, as public, to produce, manage and distribute products and services ser-vices to each other. In any society certain controls become necessary for mutual protection. There are unfair employers who must be controlled by law. There are unfair labor leaders who must be made responcible for their actions by law for the protection of all of us. Shall we destroy employers and labor groups because some disregard the public intereset? Shall we place all authortity in a central government with power to regulate our personal lives down to the last detail? de-tail? Or shall we retain the personal freedom to speak, act, and go where we please in the traditional American way? The Lander (Wyo.) Wyoming State Journal (Republican (Republi-can ) says : Reading President Truman's speech of the State of the Union, one is impressed that the "state is ungood" and that there is very Iille "union" among its people. Whether we like it or not, unless present trends are reversed, America is headed toward Socialism. And we may say that President Roosevelt and his successor "planned it that way." Strikes are rampant among the people, and the solution solu-tion offered by our federal government is socialization of industry. It is no good ... The Charleston (Missouri) Democrat (Democratic) says: We fought nearly four years to make the world a better bet-ter place to live in and also to perpetuate the present system of government in the United States. At the rate we are going the struggle has not achieved its purported reason for being. Every increase granted in salaries to the highly organized orga-nized unions brings on additional increases for consumer products. Thus, the fixed-salary employe such as government govern-ment workers and white collar employes suffer decreases in wages. ' It follows that in order to better themselves, the latter class has the choice of joining a uniton to protect themselves, them-selves, or heeding the law of supply and demand, go into the skilled working trades and leave the white collar category cate-gory behind. ; If they leave their present types of employment then they will flood the skilled working categories until the unions will no doubt curtail membership when the jobs become too few for the workers available. If everyone joins the unions |