Show CI Released by Western Newspaper pcr Union AMERICAS AMERICA'S STANDARDS IN WORLD COMMERCE AMERICA REPRESENTS APPROXIMATELY APPROXIMATELY AP AP- PROXIMATELY 50 PER CENT oJ ol the worlds world's buying power In American American Amer Amer- ican markets is sold one-half one of the worlds world's products American wages are double the wages of some nations nations na na- na and several times the amounts paid in other ether nations Our workers have shorter hours than do the workers work ers of any other nation Our million people drive more automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles have more telephones more electrical home appliances than han do dothe dothe dothe the and more millions of p people ople of all Europe or the more than million of all Asia Our farmers enjoy enjoy en en- joy better and equipped better-equipped homes than the farmers of any other na na- na tion Our standard of living both rural and urban is far and away above that of any other people on the globe All of these things are made possible possible possible pos pos- sible by our American market Some of our theoretical bureaucratic idealists idealists idealists ideal ideal- believe we should throw open on an even basis our American market to all the world To do so the cost of producing corn and beef in Argentine of wheat in Australia and Russia of cotton coHon in India Africa ca and South America would fix the selling price of such commodities as we produce and sell in our home market We Ve would sell shoes based on the cost of shoe production in Czechoslovakia the factories of Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope would fix the price of our automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles France Germany Japan India and England would fix th price of the cotton fabrics in the American markets American know how in agriculture agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag and industry is superior or to that of any other nation but it takes more than know how to offset the lower wages the longer hours and lower living living living liv liv- ing standards of other nations If in our home market we must compete with th the cheap wages the longer hours the Ule lower living living liv liv- ing tug standards of other nations we can do so only by lowering American wages increasing American working hours and lowering American living stand stand- ards Under any program of opening our markets to the competition competition com corn petition of all aU the world would mean disaster to our American farmers and workers or the closing closing clos cbs ing of f our industrial plants Should the latter happen the American market would largely disappear We Ve would have seriously seriously seri seri- injured ourselves and permanently permanently permanently per per- helped no one The world needs a standard to which to strive America has provided provided provided pro pro- vided that standard and it if has been accepted by other peoples as a desired desired desired de de- de- de sired goal Let us keep America what it is as an example for other people and other nations That would be the best service we can render the underprivileged people of the world S S |