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Show Time To Adjourn There will be many Americans to criticize the members of Congress Con-gress because of the adjournment, adjourn-ment, with much legislation left unfinished. The critisism is not well-founded. After all, the members of Congress, Con-gress, or most of them, face an election this fall and many of them have important primary engagements with the members of their party. Obviously, n democratic government is to be a success, a man in office must have time to do some campaigning. campaign-ing. It is surprising how much some people expect for nothing. Dulles Pessimistic John Foster Dulles is off to Furope, along with an American delegation, to create "common ideals and standards" amon;; the peoples of the world to assure as-sure future peace but he is a bit pessimistic about the enterprise. Mr. Dulles says it is a race between what his group is undertaking un-dertaking and catastrophe and, that if he had to bet right now, he would "bet on catastrophe." If peace depends upon the immediate im-mediate establishment of common com-mon ideals and standards throughout the world the nations na-tions might as well begin mobilization. mob-ilization. The idea that everybody has to be alike, in order to keep world peace, is a mistaken assumption. as-sumption. All that nations, and their peoples, have to decide is whether they want to rob their neighbors. If they can agree upon the principle that they will not use war for the purpose of taking what doesn't belong to them, they can differ upon everything every-thing else and still have peace. |