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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. AMERICA'S STANDARDS IN WORLD COMMERCE AMERICA REPRESENTS AP PROXIMATELY 50 PER CENT of the world's buying power. In Amcr-lean Amcr-lean markets is sold one-half of the world's products. American wages are double the wages of some na-tions, na-tions, and several times the amounts paid in other nations. Our workers have shorter hours than do the workers work-ers of any other nation. Our 12a million people drive more automo-biles, automo-biles, have more telephones, more electrical home appliances, than do the 300 and more millions of people of all Europe, or the more than COO million erf all Asia. Our farmers enjoy en-joy better and better-equipped homes than the farmers of any other nation. 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 pos-Bible pos-Bible bv our American market Rnm of our theoretical bureaucratic ideal, ists believe we should throw open, on an even basis, our Americaa 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 in India, Africa Afri-ca and South America, would fix the selling price of such commodities as we produce and sell in our home market. We would sell shoes based on the cost of shoe production in Czechoslovakia; the factories of Europe Eu-rope would fix the price of our automobiles; auto-mobiles; France, Germany, Japan, India and England would fix the price of the cotton fabrics purchased in the American markets. American "know how" In agriculture ag-riculture and industry is superior superi-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 liv-ing standards of other nations. If, In our home market, we must compete with the cheap wages, the longer hours, the lower tiring tir-ing standards, of other nations, wr can da so onlv bv lowrrlnp American wages, Increasing American working hours and lowering American living standards. stand-ards. Under any program of opening our markets to the competition com-petition of all the world would mean disaster to our American farmers and workers, or the closing clos-ing of our industrial plants. Should the latter happen, (he American market would largely disappear; We would have seriously seri-ously Injured ourselves and permanently per-manently helped no one. The world needs a standard to which to strive. America has provided pro-vided that standard, and it has been accepted by other peoples as a desired de-sired goaL Let us keep America what it is as an example for other people and other nations. That would be the besi service we can render the underprivileged people of the world. . FEW, IF ANY OTHERS, have worked so valiantly and effectively at the Job of preserving American Institutions and rebuilding American character as Dr. George S. Benson. Ben-son. presiJent of Harding college, Searcy, Ark., and some 1.500 country coun-try newspaper editors who are cooperating co-operating with him. Dr. Benson and these editors have carried their fight for America directly to the rural people of the nation through the columns col-umns of 1.500 coopeteting newspapers. news-papers. Week after week, for the past two years, Dr. Benson's ringing ring-ing messages for a rebuilding of American character and the preservation pres-ervation of American Institutions have been reaching the people of the towns and farms. Dr. Benson and the rural editors cooperating with him have done more for the American cause than have any one or any group of our great industrialists. in-dustrialists. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF UNDER CONSTITUTION UNDER OUR AMERICAN constitution consti-tution the President directs the policies poli-cies of our armed forces as a civilian civil-ian executive in both peace and war, The constitution does not provide the privilege of a field command, of planning battles or strategy. The President can, and does designate results to be achieved, and names, with the consent of the senate, those entrusted with the achievement achieve-ment of such results. His position as commander-in-chief of the nation's na-tion's armed forces Is more nominal than actual. It was designed by the framers of the constitution to keP the armed forces subservient to the civilian organization of the nation. na-tion. To we civilians he Is our presi-dent, presi-dent, and not even nominally our commander-in-chief. A VOLUNTEER WOMAN'S or- : ganization in Los Angeles had ar-ranged ar-ranged for an entertainment for ! army and navy personnel and their ladies. When the date came the orchestra or-chestra that had been engaged re- j fused to play because the cooks w waiters at the hotel where the entertainment enter-tainment was to be held were v on strike. The women appealed w the army for musicians from w army band, but the army authorities authori-ties said they could not permit enlisted en-listed musicians to cross a PJCJte line. |