Show GENERAL sl HUGH HUGHS S JOHN JOHNSON SON washington D 0 FOR WHAT what Is needed by our war mind ed cd men la Is some slogan of high pur pose like make the world sato safe lor for democracy that one ona Is just a little like offering cheese to the mouse caught in a cheese baited trap he want any more cheese so the trial balloons are going up on another one union now I 1 wrote a piece on the ballyhoo for or a federation of english sp speaking mk peoples in it I 1 used the expression union now and said that what is now proposed is to unite us with the british empire under something like the articles of confederation under which the 13 colonies fought the revolution which means of course in addition to union now war now mow I 1 argued that all the articles made was a league of nations proved by both of them and the later international league to be futile and unworkable that column drew indignant denials including one from clarence strait the author of union now new these denials complained that the proposal Is not to entangle ours with the destiny of other nations in any futile league no sir we are going all the way into an united states of earth in which america Is to be only one state among many bound not by weak articles of confederation but by a document decumen like the constitution of the united states the distinguishing features of that tha t constitution are no secession control in a of interstate commerce all foreign relations taxation and spending the right to make war to keep troops and ships 0 of f war and the denial of those rights and controls to the several states including the U S A all ali right it if I 1 misconstrued mr streit I 1 am sorry but I 1 misconstrue the others and I 1 misconstrue mr streit very much they say and so I 1 think does he that this is only an eventual result right now all we need Is articles of confederation with these other nations but as in and after our revolution as soon as the war is won under the new confederation we shall create with them a rea real i federation on the plan of the amerlean american constitution and rub uncle sam out as an independent entity it is all consistent first these people sell us into a war when it necessary and without waiting for mr hitler to sell our country down the river they want us to do it ourselves we commit national harl hari karl kari dilute our strength with the weakness of the world and dissipate the wealth and advantage our fathers fought and labored to create here to the four winds of heaven and the five continents onearth of earth government CONTROLS so my old buddy leon henderson told the lumber industry that 50 a thousand was an outrageous price for southern pine that 25 was enough that it they get the price down he was going to do something about it and then stamped angrily not only out of the room but out of washington I 1 think leon was about per cent right on his facts and intentions that somehow this tendency toward soaring prices must be socked every time it sticks its head up and that exactly as in world war I 1 it has already started amon among g other places in wholly unjustifiable fl lumber prices but to control this danger government has got to get in step wath ath itself leon must have forgotten that he was not back in his old days when government could talk to industry as a unit and tell it as leon frequently and properly did to police and discipline itself and in the public interest to purge its membership of improper practices he could do that then because made such joint action by government and any organized industry lawful it Is lawful no longer leon should hwe hae a little talk with thurman the latter mr arnold is trying to put industrial gents in jail least getting grand jury indictments against respectable citizens tor for potential felonies tt if they act as an industry to do tor for example what leon cornman commanded ded the au lumber im industry to do it is and has been declared by all our courts to be just as flagrant an offense to the antitrust anti trust acts tor for industrial gent gents to combine to put prices down as to put prices up the former practice has proved to be the most effective weapon of the big fellows to slaughter competition of the high cost production of little fellows in business there I 1 Is a b basic al a fault here which h tried to solve no other nation condemns outright all industry wide agreements as combinations in restraint of trade all other industrial countries condemn only such agreements as are a ra not in the public interest that is a realistic recognition that every principal contract in business win is in some respects a restraint of trade the formula was that such codes should not be reg regarded aided as violations r of toe the sherman and I 1 clayton acu icu act |