Show t I I Prevailing P r eva i I i n 9 Opinions 0 pin i on 5 I I- I Comment of the Am American rican Press Yes and No American opinion on li policy with i its discordant clements elements ele cle- dc- dc ments of or idealism and and canny provincialism is notoriously hard to follow or interpret The tribulations tribulations tribu tribu- lations of an n American statesman mirroring the many many views of ot his f fellow citizens on such matters never never were vere illustrated more aptly than by Secretary of State Hullin Hull Hullin Hullin in his recent address to a group of visiting European students We should strive said our boss diplomat to ascertain what the fundamentals of world conditions conditions con con- and remedies are avoidIng avoiding avoid avoid- ing extremes either ultraconservative ultraconservative ultra con or ultra conservative We should be whenever that is advisable and radical whenever that is necessary necessary necessary sary sary but not be chronically extreme extreme ex ex- in either We then could avoid extreme nationalism and extreme internationalism and practice both to the extent necessary sary flary to promote the domestic and the tho mutual welfare of or the people of all the nations I That this is sound doctrine almost almost al al- al most everyone will vill agree though the suspicion intrudes that there is in it considerably more sound than doctrine On a rereading we weare weare are arc reminded of Lesson III m in 4 Learning the Slide Trombone In Eight Easy Lessons It would be bo easier casler to whistle the tho Hull formula formula formula for for- mula than o play it Detroit It-Detroit Detroit News The Tho Tax Threat The he letter which Pre President ident I Sloan of General Motors sent to stockholders with their quarterly quarter quarter- ly dividend checks provided an excellent a and d probably y not unIntended unintended unintended un un- un- un intended example of how v corporate cor cor- cor taxation polI policies les ies may pr pro produce duce unc uncertainties that adversely affect business Tho Thu dividend was Vas not a as big as asIt asIt asit it might have been said Mr Sloan I in effect because lecause tho the federal administrations administration's administrations ad ad- mini ministrations ministration's policy polley of taxing bigness In corporations made it the tho p part pirt rt of wisdom to build up up G. G M. M reserves against contingencies contin contin- IThe l I The effect Is in any event that thata a proportion larger than usual of this corporations corporation's ea earnings is i r it likely will remain idle a liability liability ity to the community This same money had the uncertainty not existed presumably would have gone to tho the stockholders and through them into the channels of trade Or some o of 0 it might have gone as working capital to enlarge G. G Ms M.'s already considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able plant expansion program It happens that the admin administrations administration's stra- stra tion's policy of graduated taxation of big corporations is one about which we ye arc are particularly dubious The tendency of big business units to grow and grow has its alarmIng alarmIng alarming alarm alarm- ing aspects but it seems to us these may be dealt with without tax penalization of big business business' superior efficiency However the complaint that shifting tax policies Invite uncertainty uncertainty un un- un certainty applies equally to all sorts of corpor corporate te taxation We Ve have maintained all along that the period of ot reco recovery ery from a depression depression de de- de is the last in which tax reform of any sort should be attempted attempted at at- at tempted and that those who clamor for an immediately balanced bal hal budget at a time when that means impossibly heavy tax increases should have their heads examined Detroit Detroit News War in the Pulse If lf you wish to know how v nationalist nationalist na na- na tion list feeling is wor worked ed up p arid and wars are arc m made d read letters by champions of ot England vs Italy and vice versa J Perhaps we mako make a mistake mistake- in encouraging or permitting these exchanges Yet they seem to us valuable because the they demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate demon demon- strate so clearly how Ufo the minds and emotions of all of us work To o an side off reader I who being be be- be ing irig British by ancestry takes the virtues of England for granted or orho who ho being Italian by ancestry rests secure in the glories of ot that race ace the letters are merely Interesting Interesting Inter Inter- I esting and amusing All the good that each side says of its country and race is true And why say the tho bad why make mako Insidious comparisons But what fun it itis is to slang away at the other fellow until your blood pressure rises and you arc are ready to back your words with blows Well We'll have hav no more wars when IQ 1 f r names and fight In other words when we cease being bad little boys San boys San Francisco News Babes in the Wood So far faras as Director Robert Fechner Fechner Fech- Fech ner ncr is concerned the million half American youths in C C C camps are to be treated as babes in the wood Having recently rejected educational educational educational pamphlets dealing with such modern problems as technological technological technological techno techno- logical unemployment and strikes Fechner now has approved a new safe and non-controversial non set for C C C C. use And feeling that any subject might bring on a discussion a special book of Instructions in instructions instructions in- in has been prepared telling telling tel tel- ling hug camp Instructors how to thwart controversy y It suggests that when dangerous danger ous cus issues arise the subject should be bc postponed forgotten or forbidden After fter various methods for such dissembling dis die it then suggests that frankness and honesty will help Surely the frankness and honesty honesty honesty hon hon- esty tactics should be the only course pursued Youths of t the ago of the C C. C C campers r uld r be avid with curiosity about the tho world of today To provide them with facts in their quest for knowledge and to direct their at attention attention at- at n to the responsibilities of democratic citizenship should be bethe bethe bethe the task of the administration It should not r resort so t to censorship that shuts out discussion I If sonie some of ot the young men have Ideas considered dangerous they should be convinced and not co coerced coerced coerced co- co into changing th them them San San m.-San San Francisco News Freak Sentences In a traffic case a young woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man is sentenced to be In bed every night at 11 o'clock for the next six months We Ve find no fault faul though we we doubt the courts court's c ca capacity ca for making certain that Its order Is consistently obeyed Fre Freak lc sentences are one of ot the th-e rosier aspects of law enforcement where brightness and light are sorely needed If It sentencing a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman woman to toan an 11 o'clock bedtime bedtime bedtime bed bed- time for having havin erred in traffic is consistent with public policy w see ee n no reason why whys why young j i tJ i C shouldn't be condemned to drink buttermilk or whys why a housebreaker or should not be punished by a stern stern order to toca ca weave vc daisy chal chains s. s Our Idea is to make the tho administration administration administration admin admin- of ot justice so beautiful that everyone will have a positive yearning for It What more could e. e iua it t t 1 ii |