Show Canadian U S Colleges E e Offer Plan for Prosperity Two Schools Offer Prescription for Post Post- PostWar PostWar War Depression In Pamphlet Entitled The and the Peace By Neus Analyst and Commentator ServIce Union Trust Building Washington D C COut COut Out of the part of the world farthest farthest est from the literally and figuratively has come an interest interesting ing international prescript on for the cure of the v world orld s post war head the ache spell of depressIOn that we have to be ready for forThe forThe The formula Is summarized in a 43 page pamphlet that I wish every ery everyone one could read The title I lb The and the Peace The embel cover IS an earthy brown broom with rig ng rows of gold golden golden en gram grain sheaves fat porkers and trucks It IS a report made jointly by the Universities of Minnesota and Mani Manitoba toba It has nothing to do with de- de departments departments of state It has no official status beyond the fact that the AmerIcan and Canadian governors asked their thelI respectIve state to do the lob Job It Is a splendid down brass to-brass tacks example of the recognition of the common interests of two important areas on op- op opposite op sides of an international boundary line lIDe The gIst of the report Is thIS I Western Europe must arrange greatly to its imports of wheat lard and pork after the war II Canada and the States must reorganIZe their thelT automobile e producing industries so that a maXI maXImum maximum mum employment In CanadIan fac factories tories can be maintained cost of autos be reduced to CanadIan buy buyers buyers ers and American car output in ID increased creased III AgrIculture in the prairie provinces prO of Canada and the central northwest United States must con along the lines lIDes of agricultural tural specIalIZation developed out of necessIty during the war warThe The Connection Now at first glance tl ti e a connectIon lion tIon between these steps may not be ev dent dent but the report makes the whole effort clear elear and also shows how the program can be car reed out There Is nothing new or revolutionary m in the methods dis discussed cussed nor In the reasoning con concerning theIr results but a striking assemblage of data gathered and arranged m such a manner that it offers what appears to be a logIcal program of action In the first place the report shows how bow domestIc economic polIcies the ones I 1 brIefly summarIZed In Inthe inthe the three po above are m in fact fact international polIcies It demon demonstrates demonstrates strates w v th figures and explanation that sound and strong Internal economIes m in Canada and the United States must have important effects on the external world Examples offered to prove thIs m in elude the figures whIch show how the rIse and fall of demand m in Can Canada IIda ada and the United States affected other parts of the world up to and after the depression hit us In 1929 In le leis s than three decades lID im imports ports m in the United States of ten dIfferent es increased from to 1 million dollars worth Take silk the yearly aver average average age on of sIlk bought by the United States from 1901 05 amount ed to 45 mIllion dollars In 1929 it had Jumped to million dol dollars dollars lars But when the depressIOn struck It fell to mill on dollars in 1932 The total Imports of the ten corn com commod mod ties dropped from 1 mud mil lion hon to million dollars and you youcan youcan can imagine what happened In the producing countries when these markets dIsappeared One interesting point brought out Is that m in thIs perIOd of expanding trade both Import and export in whIch Canada and the UnIted States shared the MUTUAL Interests of the two countries greatly IN INCREASED INCREASED CREASED and their thelI competitIve in ID interests declined Industry Predominant The report shows how agriculture ture has ceased to be our greatest source of wealth how Industry has become pre eminent emment and to main tam tam our agriculture a healthy con condition of industry must be main mam tamed quoted The old statement Is quoted ed Tell me the amount of factory payrolls and I w will l tell you the price of meat and butter The plans for our own agriculture are fairly simple of I the same type of specialization now going on The plan for Europe Is Ismore ismore more complicated but since the quest on of whether the people of western Europe eat lit It all for the nett few yeas yea's depends largely on what bat RussIa the United States and the other gram producing countries do these countries may be able to get western vestern European countries to todo todo do what we want According to the M hi nent planners an arrangement should be made whereby western Europe for fora fora a perhaps period 15 years would absorb our surplus wheat heat pork lord and other farm products Pro Product Product duct on of these products would be stopped in western vestern Europe and re resources resources sources saved would be put to of ef use The producing countries would assist m in ng Euro European European agriculture to thIs changeover The producing countries would also agree to reduce certain tariffs so that the Europeans can pa pay for the agricultural products they absorb with goods they can make Of Of course there is the tough spot As for changeovers in agriculture It Is pointed out that they are not new Minnesota 1 was once the great gleat est eat wheat producing state m the country That IS no longer true MIXed farming has greatly ill in increased creased Diversified farming rose in Denmark and Improved the stand standard and ard of her these people changes come about automat tally cally because the new type introduced pays bet bet- better better ter SImilar changes It IS ImplIed could be brought about by ukase too Unfortunately space do dolls s not per permit mit a detailed revIew of this flus report but qUIte as Important as ItS actual content are the forces which at ed It m the first place It brings to our conscIOusness the mutual Inter Interests interests ests of thIS country and our northern neighbor which are plain to any American familiar WIth Canada and her people but whIch many m in both countrIes Ignore Again Agam It shows how groups in ID two to separate coun countries tries can get together and work out steps mutually beneficial and I 1 ke I-e WIse advantageous to the whole world The most Important thing of all however is the emphasIs on the fact that domestic problems are ire fre frequently international problems DIary of ofa a Broadcaster Let me tell you of another crazy rumor story that I heard today It Itis Itis is so old that It has wh but people up and down this land are listening and believing It it A rel rei able otherwise hardheaded man told me that an acquaintance of hIs w wife e had a friend or relative who had a letter from her boy a prisoner m Japan The boy said that he was vas being well welI treated and then ilien made a reference to hIs stamp collection He had none so the ilie remark got the people to they thinking repeat repeated repeated ed it then the FBI or somebody took the ilie letter steamed off the stamp and under it was written written- Well before the man finished tell telI telling mg ing It I saId I know what was under They It-They ye ve cut my tongue out How d d I guess Well I heard that story a dozen times m in the last World v war at But to make sure I made a few inquiries simply to check the pro pro- procedure procedure In the first place prisoners of war don t use stamps They can t write d to their next nett of km kin The messages all alI are relayed through the Intern at onal Red Cross anyhow Before we got into the last war I Iv Iwas v was as sItting on top of a FIfth avenue bus In New York read ng an article by Day Dav d Lawrence whIch reported how the department of justice had run down a story to the effect that sweaters knItted for the Red Cross were sold to soldiers The bus stopped stopped-a L berty Bond orator was making a speech speech-I listened He was telling the same story that the department of justice had run down and found It had absolutely NO basis whatever Remember thIS before you repeat these charming fantas es Enl st ment In the as fine a corps of American women as were ever gathered together has been slowed down by a cheap and d story made out of whole cloth and passed from one drooling lascIvIoUS mouth to another |