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Show mm Helejsed by Western Newspaper Union. CHANGING 'CLASSES' ON U. S. SCENE WE REFER TO America's lower chwses or to our middle or upper classes. Possibly there are such classes, but if so, the personnel oi each is constantly changing. The push cart peddler of today is the merchant prince of tomorrow, or the merchant prince of today is a mendicant men-dicant tomorrow. There is opportunity opportu-nity for all and the place of each is determined by his ability and his energy. Those who win must carry car-ry others upwards with them. Those who fail after having won what they lose has not been destroyed but is passed along to others. All any real American really asks is a fair field and a fair umpire his government to see there are no blows below the belt. He wants a chance to battle bat-tle his way upward. A LETTER FROM A READER says he is tired reading about the war and wants to forget it. If all the people of America felt that way it would ensure a peace treaty dictated dic-tated by the Huns, the Wops and the Japs and we would soon grow tired of the conditions imposed. OBLIGATION OF WRITING A LASTING PEACE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are hoping the peace following the close of this world conflict will be a lasting last-ing peace. They hope as they did in 1918, that this may be the last world conflict. Granted the Allied Nations win, as they will, America can come nearer dictating the terms of peace than any other one nation. America is probably the only nation that would not write a "hate" peace. To ful- nil the obligation that will be ours, America must do some serious thinking think-ing between now and the end of the conflict. A book, "The Problems of Lasting Peace," by Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson gives us a foundation on which to think. They do not attempt to say what the peace shall be, but they do give us an analysis of the historic peace treaties of the past, and their results, and do make some general suggestions. Among these is one that seems especially worth while. It is that the peace making be divided into three distinct stages. The first would settle temporarily problems on which there could be no delay. It would include tl Immediate re-establishment of national sovereignties as they existed before Germany invaded invad-ed Austria, and the establishment establish-ment on the part of the Allied Nations of an international police po-lice force that would insure compliance com-pliance and the temporary maintenance main-tenance of peace. The second would provide fur a "period for the rebuilding of political life and economies recovery." re-covery." The third would settle thus "long-vices problems which require re-quire a cooling off of emotion, deliberation and careful development." devel-opment." That it is not possible to write a lasting peace is ampiy demonstrated demonstrat-ed by the treaty of Versailles. Then tiate, and the desire for revenge and impendence dominated the peace conference. The same will be there again if the final peace is written by this generation at least before those who fought the war and suffered from its destruction nave had years in which to forget. The new peace, if it is to be permanent, per-manent, must provide for the establishment estab-lishment and maintenance of representation repre-sentation government and personal liberty for people of the Axis nations na-tions and their satellites. It can-lot can-lot be on a basis of punishment tor the vanquished no matter how great their lives may have been. Hate, revenge (?) cannot have a place at that final peace table and ;hey will have if the final peace ;crms are prepared immediately aft-;r aft-;r the end of this world conflict Former President Hoover and am-iassador am-iassador Gibson have laid for us a foundation on which to base our .(linking which should lead to a unl-led unl-led American demand for that kind )f peace structure that will mean '.he end of wars. We have very seriously needed a place to start and 'The Problem of Lasting Peace," provides that in a protected way. TO EACH OF US SHE WAS more Jian steel, and guns and planes. She was an American, and she died is other Americans have died and -ill die for the nation she so proudly represented. The aircaft carrier Lexington lies buried in the Coral sea, but her death was not in vain. CHINA SAYS 1,000 PLANES would save her and defeat the Japs. Ac-:ording Ac-:ording to what WPB tells us that s less than one week's production )f our plane plants. AT THE NEXT PEACE CONFERENCE CON-FERENCE there will not again sit i French Clemenceau to block a Uagnainnsous settlement of world iffairs and through a demand for lverage lay the foundation for an-jther an-jther war. Without a Cle'.ienceau the Atlantic charier will have a :hance. |