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Show The Observations Of Mr. Jones There is a crisis in the affairs) of the United Nations General Assembly in session in the New York City area. In all of these gatherings since the close of the World War the. Russians have prevented carrying out what Secretary of State Marshall called call-ed "a general program for rehabilitation re-habilitation of the respective European Eu-ropean economics." The United States has gone far beyond its own responsibilities to restore the peace of the World. Who is there in our country that would ever have suspected that the British Government would be on the verge of collapse? After all, the United Nations was created as the fundamental organization to do just one thing and that one thing was to establish estab-lish the peace of the World. A good many people are giving giv-ing up hopes. But in the judgment judg-ment of the writer of this short piece for family newspapers throughout the United States, let me suggest that there is no hope that Russia will ever support the great World effort to outlaw wars. I believe that the only road to peace means rejection of Russia. And as a writer who attended some of the sessions of the League of Nations in Geneva, Gene-va, I can understand why Americans Ameri-cans distrust Russia. It has been very well said that there can be no foundation except to "base peace upon justice." jus-tice." John L. Lewis is raising the roof in trying to tear down "the iniquitious Taft-Hartley statute." Apparently Mr. Lewis is getting off on the wrong foot. The American Federation of Labor and the CIO are cooling off in their opposition, waiting to learn how the new labor law works. Apparently wage workers are engaged in a period of "watchful "watch-ful waiting." Several million members of labor unions believe they are protected in their positions, and that they can earn more money in the course of a year by staying stay-ing on the job than by going on disorderly and disastrous strikes. All of the 2,088,966 Federal employees, including the President Presi-dent of the United States and Members of his Cabinet, Justices Jus-tices of the Supreme Court, and all clerks and employees of the United States Government, have signed affidavits testifying that they do not belong to "any political po-litical party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of . government." That pledge is a bomb against Communists in the United States. . A lot of big cities, including New York and Washington, have set up conference committees to study traffic problems. The other oth-er day your correspondent was in a New York City taxicab and he asked the driver how he managed man-aged to miss so many cabs that were headed straight for him. He answered, quickly: "I watch the other fellow and I am always sure that I have good brakes." He demonstrated this by bringing bring-ing his car to a quick stop as a pedestrian was grazing the front of his cab, crossing the street against a red light- It's so everywhere! The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on a lot of speculative spec-ulative business enterprises that have been zooming. The variety of these new get-rich-quick institutions in-stitutions is way above the average aver-age of former years. A tireless newshawk in Washington Wash-ington figured out that it now takes nearly $3 to buy a bushel of wheat, and $2.50 to buy a bushel of corn. It seems that the Government wants to increase the number of dollars in order to weaken the value of dollars so that there won't be enough of them to go around. Figure that out. It is too big a puzzle for us ordinary folks. The United States Department of Justice has instituted an antitrust anti-trust move in the building and material fields. It appears that most veterans are unable to get loans to build new houses. Besides this, the cost of a new house is so high that it would take a life-time for a good' family to pay off the mortgage. ' i The situation wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that rents are going skyward almost al-most in sight of the White House in Washington. Folks of small means should be mighty careful. Home building is traveling through inflation. |