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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943 students have had to swear they intended to be teachers and have had to take degrees in education when they knew they would not use this training. This has been a misuse of the students' time and a waste of tax money. A PRACTICAL PEACE PROGRAM. The House has voted to renew the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act.

Thus it has avoided creating the impression abroad that the United States means to shirk its duties in postwar rehabilitation. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER Dtcembtr 12. lVt Publuhei by The Pulitzer Publishing Co. There are ample courses in the liberal arts and social sciences at Carbondale to occupy any boy or girl for four years. Senator Crisenberry's substitute Telephone Mam Address 1111 Olive St.

proposal will make them available. On that basis. Southern Illinois State Normal University can grow THE POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM as demands are made upon it by the region for which it is the cultural center. MORE CRIMINAL CODE MONKEY BUSINESS. The operations of the Committee on Civil and Criminal Procedure of the Missouri House of Repre twWlPvK' APT mm0m I know that my retirement wilt take difference 1st It cardinal principle) tba-t It will always fight for praffresa and reform, ltrcr tolerate Injustice or corruption, always right demagosaea of all parties, ever belong to any party, always oppose prtTlleged class and public plaaderers, aever lack sympaty wltk tke poor, always rental devoted to tke pablle welfare) aever ke satisfied wltk merely prlatlas aewst always be drastically Independent! never ke afraid to attack wronar.

whether ky predatory pla. toe racy or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PIL1TZER. April 10, 1K7. The victory, however, was none too reassuring.

Several nullifying amendments offered by the Republican minority were beaten back only after a hot fight, and the law was re-enacted for only two years, instead of the customary three. Whether the battle for the amendments especially the one which would give Congress veto power over any trade pact which the State Department might negotiate will be pressed in the Senate remains to be seen. However, if such a crippling amendment is enacted, we might just as well wipe out the law altogether. In such changed form, it would be virtually useless. And, if it is thus nullified.

Congress will have taken a long, long step toward World War III. Without a doubt, American generosity will go to the aid of stricken peoples all over the world, once the war is over, but no country can be maintained very long "on relief." It must be put back on its own feet. It must be enabled to restore its agriculture and its industries. It must achieve a very considerable degree of prosperity. This calls for the restoration of international' trade on a reasonably free basis.

Nations must be able to exchange things which they can produce cheaply and abundantly for those products which they lack and for which they can produce domestic substitutes only at great cost, it at all. If the Atlantic Charter's promise of free access to markets is thus sentatives are something to behold. Weeks ago, after stalling around, the committee killed the Bar Association bill to authorize the State Supreme Court to modernize rules of procedure and practice in criminal cases. Since this revealed the present Republican House to be as reactionary as its Democratic predecessor in this important matter, press and public alike were sharply critical. To remove the stigma, the House under the urging of Speaker Elliott, called for further consideration.

Further consideration necessarily had to start in the committee presided over by Representative Far-rar, a foe of, criminal code reform. He let time pass and then finally appointed a "subcommittee to draw up a substitute." With a knowing wink, he said he didn't expect "an early report." The question immediately arose whether members of the subcommittee, among them Representative Hartwell O. Crain of St. Louis County, were willing to -allow themselves to be used as Farrar's LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A Dry Takes Us to Task. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: THANK you for your editorial of May 11 concerning the trend toward prohibition.

It is most revealing. One could hardly expect a newspaper which profits from advertising of liquor to take any realized, the hope for prosperity everywhere-would be greatly enhanced. It would be a great stride toward full production everywhere production not merely for national needs, but for world needs. other stand. 1 am grateful to you for pointing out certain facts relative to the rapid advance of dry legislation.

In view of these facts, it would seem that you contradict yourself when you stooges. In self-protection, Mr. Craln, ranking member of the committee, called it together In Chairman Farrar's absence and the recently-killed meas It, on the contrary, nations are denied markets and resources, if tariff walls are built so that goods ure wag reported out for passage. cannot be bought and sold at reasonable prices. But and here is the joker the bill was amended then each country will have to plan to make itself self-sufficient, no matter what the cost.

It will have to plan for autarchy. And autarchy does not so as to require legislative approval of any rules the Supreme Court draws up. In other words, the same old veto power, the same old right to strangle, the game old blackjack would be in the hands of the mean prosperity. Instead, it means a Spartan life It leads to the discontents which lead to war. Legislature.

When and it the Supreme Court pro Sumner Welles summed it up: "Naturally, it is posed changes, Missouri would be right back where our own prosperity that interests us most, but mod it started outside the closed door of a legislative em history has made it clear that no producing and committee run by the lawyer bloc. tradine nation not even the United States can be prosperous in a starving world, any more than a Technically, Senator Donnelly is right in for legislative review of the State Supreme great merchant can be prosperous when his customers and sources of supply are bankrupt. Further Court's revision of the civil code, now under debate in the State Senate. Yet he knows precisely "One thing that the United States "never wants to see again is prohibition." The" evidence is to the contrary. Why don't you speak for yourself, John? Perhaps the implications of the splendid words of Joseph Pulitzer, which supposedly form the platform of the Post-Dispatch, are broader than you dare to follow.

"Always fight for progress and reform" and "always remain devoted to the public welfare" are high ideals. Is your, idea of fighting for progress and reform that of upholding the one Industry which above all others damages the public welfare? You give the impression that you believe the situation now is more tolerable than it was under prohibition. I'm afraid you haven't much of a case. If you think you have, not present it? In regard to your question in which jou refer to prohibition "sneaking up again," you display profound imagination. Perhaps you were thinking of how the full-fledged liquor industry sneaked in through the door of 3.2 per cent beer.

Or perhaps you were considering the integrity of an industry which grandly promised that "the saloon shall not return." Prohibitionists will heartily commend your warning that abuses under present liquor laws must be curbed. It seems, though, that "to check the spread of dry areas" is a very superficial motive for upholding the law. Dry forces seek to uphold existing laws, even though those more, the world will not be securely free from war the effect of the exercise of such review: it will until it is prosperous and fruitful." be cut away point after point until nothing is left. It is infinitely preferable that criminal code re Absolute free trade, however, is out of the question, tnless such a policy were simultaneously form be enacted by the Legislature; such is funda adopted by every nation in he world, and unless mental democratic practice. Yet when the Legislature will not act, other'means must be used.

That is why the conservation amendment and other meas ures were adopted by popular initiative. BEWARE OF POLITICAL TERMITES! Since Mr. Crain assembled the committee in Farrar's absence, he could be the people's hope in this situation. Or he could be part of the com such variable factors as wage standards were eliminated, the most generous nation would be the most victimized. It is tp the practical problem raised here that trade treaties offer a practical solution.

The agreements are one of the tested products of the depression. In 1932, our foreign trade had fallen to 30 per cent of what it was in 1929. Then, in 1934, Congress decided that it might be stimulated by lowering tariffs wherever it was clr that we would benefit by such action. This idea worked. Between 1934 and 1940, our trade with some 30 countries that entered into reciprocal trade treaties increased 36 per cent.

Trade with other countries Chinese and Their Institutions For Moderation in Anti-Strike Laws mittee's well-oiled machinery. Which is he? MR. KNOX PRESENTS A CHOICE. Are Treated in Four New Books laws are not ideal from their point of Secretary Knox seems to be of two minds, or three, about the significance of the North view. If the wets had displayed sim (THe I Chins a rrmorryr' hj Oltofi Vmey.

John Day Nw York.) Mirror Pi Public Opinion liar Americanism during prohibition, the ouestion of repeal would never have African victory In terms of opening the Mediterra AO We Are and All We Haw," by GerHMtm Bills to forbid walkouts arc natural result of coal crisis, but Chicago paper warns against going to extreme; like medicine, such laws may be dangerous if overdose is given; miners' traditions and attitudes must be considered in dealing with this problem. From the Chicago Daily Tsjetfs. arisen. GEORGE W. HESLAR, nean to Allied shipping.

At his press conference. Ballwin, Mo. Methodist Parsonage. the Secretary of the Navy said at first that Nazi Chiang Kal-fihrk. (The John Day Nw Yerh.) "We Chlncie Women, by Mme.

Chiang Kai-shek. (The John Day York.) Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. (The John Day New York.) What Hlmmler Would Do to Lewis. To the Editor of the Post-Diipatch: planes would undoubtedly try to keep Allied vessels from using the route, "but they won't be able to ston us." Then he declined to predict how long it China a democracy? It has an abso would be before the route could be used at all I THE letter-writer, Heck," seems to think the country is going to ruin, simply because the mine owners and the Government do not yield to John L. Increased only 22 per cent.

Naturally, when we set out to reduce tariffs, we did not do so on a one-sided basis. We Americans are better traders than that. We agreed to cut rates on imports as much as 50 per cent the limit under the law In return for comparable reductions in the rates levied on our exports. For example, when we reduced the impost on Costa Rican bananas, Costa Rica cut its tariff on American steel furniture and both countries were obviously better off for this exercise of common sense. Furthermore, we granted and received most-fa lute wartime ruler.

A large proportion of its people are illiterate and could not Then he admitted, in response to questions, that so AS night follows day, "no-strike" bills in Congress follow the last coal crisis which, by the way, started out as the same old vernal "crisis" that used to come as soon as householders no longer needed coal, and the fish began to bite in the rivers and creeks of the coalfields. Every poll taken shows that the American Lewis' demands. The WLB was created to take care cf labor problems, and why not let it do so? It is high treason to defy the Wherever there is a substantial minority who do not subscribe to the belief or emotion back of a law, the effectiveness of the law ia doubtful, and its irritating and debilitating effect upon civic, social and economic efficiency is a certain by-product. The coal Industry is a case In point. Always somewhat Isolated by the geographical layout of the coal "provinces," people of those regions also Jiave ancestral backgrounds that have developed traditions and attitudes not so widespread elsewhere.

Miners' Freedom Is New. Our older mining people are largely de President and all other branches of Gov ernment during wartime. If John L. vored-nation status in connection with these treaties. That means, simply, that whenever one of the signatories grants a tariff or quota concession to a third Lewis was a citizen of Germany, Himm-lers secret police would have him hanging to the sour-apple tree in short order.

ONE WHO KNOWS. long as the Axis holds Sicily, the enemy air threat to convoys will remain fairly high. In other words, maritime traffic on the Mediterranean is still more risky than on I.ake Michigan. EUROPE PREPARES FOR LIBERATION. Continental resistance to HJtler's armies of occupation has long been burning like a smudge.

Now it is bursting into glowing sparks. Soon it will burn as an all-consuming flame. In the days following the Nazi conquests, exiled governments warned their peoples against the futility of revolt. Hitler's killer, Hlmmler, could put down threats ruthlessly. True, there were patriots people favor action to end wartime strikes.

For all we know, they would favor laws forbidding all strikes. Congress may pass such laws. Kansas and Colorado have re-enacted the same kind of no-strike laws that they enacted after the public got "fed up" with unionism run wild in the period of World War I. A law declaratory of the generally accepted American doctrine, recently restated by the President, that no citizen in Government employment possesses the right to strike, may now be desirable to clarify any scended from men of Durham, in England, Urgent Appeal for Hospital Aides. To the Editor of the Post-DUpatch: IN the Mirror of Public Opinion you reprinted an article from the Cleve and from the Welsh and Scottish mining nation, the other also receives the same benefit.

And the State Department, with increasing experience, has developed further refinements. Obviously, it is the proper agency for negotiating these treaties. Congress, while it does have tariff-making power, simply cannot conduct the necessary negotiations. It has the right to set certain general stocks. Newer and more numerous mining read names on ballots if universal suffrage were provided.

After 31 years, the Constitution drawn up for it still awaits adoption. By such yardsticks China is not a democracy, yet Crelghton Lucy answers the question In the title of his excellent little hook with an emphatic affirmative. Democracy, after all, Is something bedsides mechanics. Thomas Mann defines it simply as "that form of government and of society which is inspired above every other with the feeling and consciousness of the dignity of man." Applying this test, the author finds China ranking high among democratic nations. For the Chinese have profound respect for the sanctity of the individual.

They participate Intimately In local affairs. There Is communal sharing of property and responsibility. There is ancient tradition of human rights "so, natural that freedom of speech and religion and domicile are taken for granted. Crelghton lJcy does more, however, thea raise and answer a question as to democracy in China. He takes up the matter of a Pacific charter and shows America readers that they will have to do more than they have done to enjoy full measure of Chinese confidence.

One thing, the author says, is to remove the Oriental Exclusion peoples are mostly Irish, Slavic and Italian. But from whatever origin, if they came from Old World mining regions, they are in France, in Norway, in Czecho-Slovakia who found till conscious that miners, like sailors, were not possessed of full economic free dom until very recent times. In one way or other, they were held to their Jobs. Hence the immense psychological impor tance of a union contract In the coal fields. questions of how to enforce this restriction and distinction.

Certainly opposition to such a Inw will be negligible if it is seen to be necessary. Problem of the Lawmaker. Does it follow from all this that general Federal or state "no-strike" laws are now desirable? If the simple question of right or wrong at any given time determined whether "there ought to be a law," government would be as simple as a children's To the miner, a union contract is not mere' ly a deal for a joh it is a badge of free the tyrant's uniform so hateful that they could not control their anger. They truck out and not without cunning. German lomniHiiders did not sleep In beds ot roses.

But always the broadcasts from London counseled restraint. With the culmination ot the. North African campaign, all this is changing. To the people of The Netherlands, to Frenchmen, to Norwegians, the call to action has gone out. This i's the time to prepare the way for the Allied Invaders, to make ready to join them as they breach" the walls of Hitler's Fortress of Europe.

It may or may not be coincidence that Eduard limitations, as it did when it restricted tariff reductions to 50 per cent, but it should not have the right to make a hash of each and every treaty after all its details have been carefully worked out. What foreign country, unless it were a downright mendicant, would want to go to all the labor involved in working out a complicated series of concessions if it knew that our negotiators had no real power that Congress might take back every promise they made? No good purpose can be served by giving such veto power to Congress. It would only open the way for all manner of pressure groups to get in their blows against a sound trade policy, against one of dom. To that feeling must be attributed the lensr-time strength of unionism in American coal-mining. As was proved in World War I.

there are methods to deal with the peculiarities of land Plain Dealer, "How to Help the Hospitals." "The greatest problem of hospitals," it. stated, "is shortage of trained personnel." Then it cited the great contribution that volunteer aides are making in the emergency, reporting faithfully for duty and doing whatever they are asked to make possible the continuance of hospital services. In St. Louis, volunteer aides are performing a magnificent service in the hospitals through the Office of Civilian Defense and the Red Cross. They are well organized, they serve in large numbers and their devotion represents one of St.

Louis' proudest war contributions. In addition to the hundreds now enrolled, more hospital aides are badly needed for daytime and week-end service. Volunteer ranks, too, are affected by the man-power problem as more go into paid jobs. While these numbers thin, the hospitals' personnel needs grow. therefore, urgently appeal to the women of this community who can spare the time to volunteer their services as hospital aides.

They may apply and will be interviewed hy the Volunteer Service Department. Health and Welfare Section of the Office of Civilian Defense, 613 Locust street. E. G. STEGER, Director, Social Planning Council.

Benes, President of one of the doughtiest of Europe's game, like hop scotch or mumble-the-peg. Statesmen would only have to pass a law against evil as soon as it reared its head, and life would be one grand, sweet song. Unfortunately, experience tells us that government is not simple, and that the effects of laws are not simple. Laws are like certain drugs administered as specific cures for certain diseases. Many of these drugs are sure cures for the diseases, but they may also injure the patient unless administered with extreme moderation.

little democratic states, is in Washington just when Winston Churchill is making another of his visits the coal industry. Production in World War I was substantially equal to demands. All output records were shattered until World War II, when more coal than ever is coming from about half the former number of mines. President Roosevelt alluded to this in his speech demanding that the men return to the pits, and we are confident that the question is in competent hands under Harold Ickes. the few really concrete programs that we have worked out for the realization of that more prosperous, more serene world which is the heart's desire of every man the universal war aim.

to the White House. It is clear, however, that he Act, which refuses Chinese the courtesy of the quota system given to all other immigrants. Nor can we afford, he warns, to ignore the profound sympathy in China for self-government for the 350,000,000 people of India. The second and third books are 50-page collections of the speeches and writings by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in the first year of the United Nations war, that Is, since Pearl Harhor.

Chiang's title comes from that moving, heroic message which he sent to President Roosevelt, the day China and the United States became allies: "To our now common battle we offer ill we are and all we have to stand with you until the Pacific and the world are freed from the curse of brute force and has brought the latest reports on the nature and extent of the help that invading troops may expect from the underground forces in Central Europe. WARNING ON COAL. Yesterday's chilly weather should have emphasized In a sense, Benes is the spokesman for all sub the warning sent outby Joseph R. Eastman, direc Danserg of Black-Market Meat A IMea for the Children jugated Europe. He represents all those victims the Nazis who are preparing to strike for their tor of the Office of Defense Transportation.

Next winter's coal supply should be ordered immediately, liberty. The Germans may still butcher many a he said, if the railroads are to haul it. From the Chicago Sun. UNDER the guise of "contributing to the war effort." too many employers are patriot, but they are now acting in desperation. They know what is coming.

Those who fail to fill their bins are taking chances Schicklgruber's Invincibles. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: IT is very gratifying to find that the Afrika Korps is just as invincible as the armies Schicklgruber sent against Russia, ROSE 3. SCLAIR. on a cold nouse next winter, feopie in ot. have a further interest in early coal buying since it is now possible to obtain smokeless fuel.

Thus, a full bin in May will mean not only warmth, but also another season free of bituminous blackouts. A WISE COMPROMISE FOR CARBONDALE. The failure of the key bill in the move to a University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale hiring children In violation of everything decent and, incidentally, of prohibitive statutes. Recent reports of Federal agencies dealing with this problem disclose an alarming rise in the number of youngsters neglecting their schooling for paltry wages. In Illinois, Mrs.

Jewel Organ Coleman, superintendent of the Women's and Children's Division of the Labor Department, has announced a campaign against Increasing violations of. our child labor laws. This fight should be vigorous and unceasing. Enforcement must be strong, with the enforcers trained and willing to halt all violations. Parents should be far-sighted enough to realize that temporary wages earned by their offspring never will compensate for hours snatched from the classroom and the playground.

Above all, employers should realize the great harm they can do. Not one in 10 who From the Philadelphia Record. DO cattle no longer die on farms? Strangely, there seems to have been a sudden end to undulant fever. Bang's disease, other afflictions and even old age. Once farmers lost a certain fraction of their stock to such causes.

They still do, as a matter of fact. But Where's the evidence? Where are the diseased carcasses? The answer is: On dinner tables here and elsewhere in the country. Before meat became scarce, animals dying of so-called "natural causes" were hauled off to rendering plants, processed into fertilizer and other industrial products. Not now. That carrion has a dollars-and-cents value to a small group of profit-crazy social and moral bankrupts.

They butcher it and palm it off on an unsuspecting public through devious black-market channels. Here is a mad-dog practice, Imperiling the health and life of our citizens at a time when their well-being is of critical importance to the nation's existence. One man, a Bristol (Pa.) farmer, has been arrested on charges of hauling a diseased carcass, cut up butcher fashion, into this city. Make sure you aren't sold this "corpse to muster a majority vote in the State Senate at Springfield has opened the way for a sensible solu An American "Cliveden To the Editor of the Post-DUpatch I THINK the disclosure which your correspondent made regarding the "Mystery House on Street" is more shock-rng than a possible illegal manipulation with war contracts. Is this to be an American brand of "Cliveden The Fascist ideology of this clique seems to be evident, if you hear "the host" admit that "politics is his big job" and secrecy was necessary, because "once the President is renominated, his election is a foregone conclusion." It js not that this group is opposed to a fourth term others are, too but the secret scheming to defy the possible will endless perfidy." To read the words of these great leaders is to be impressed again with the eloquence, power and achievement which go with their deep conviction and great sincerity.

In the sixteenth century, Wu Chng-n. Chinese poet, wrote into a novel of great proportions the legends which had been handed down from the seventh century about a pilgrimage to India by a. monkey possessed of magic and extraordinary wit. As translated and abridged by Arthur Waley, it becomes a Eay fairy tale, with charm and excitement. There is nothing like it in English, but Paul Bunyan, "Alice in Wonderland," "The Arabian Nights" and "Pilgrim's Progress" suggest its character.

Or, to quote the introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador: "Freed from all kinds of allegorical interpretations by Buddhist, Taoist and Confucianist commentators, 'Monkey' is simply a book of good humor, profound nonsense, good-natured satire and delightful entertainment. It has delighted millions of Chinese children and adults for over' 300 years, and thanks to Mr. Waley, it will now delight thousands upon thousands of children and adults In the English-speaking world for many year to come." IRVING DILL1ARD. tlon to this problem.

Senator Crisenberry, sponsor SENATOR CLARK NURSES A GRUDGE. Nursing a two-year-old grudge like a Pike County feudist, Senator Clark has blocked Senate action to continue Lieut. Gen. Ben LeaT in his rank to fulfill a new and undisclosed assignment. Gen.

Lear, who is eligible for retirement. was recently appointed acting chief of the United States ground forces when Gen. McNair was wounded in Africa. The services of this distinguished soldier are highly valued and the question of the continuance of his rank should be a. pure matter of Senate routine.

Two years ago, however, Gen. Lear disciplined some soldiers who, while marching by a golf course, shouted "yoo-hoo" at some girls In shorts, and for this was widely criticised as a martinet. Nearly everyone except Senator Clark had dismissed the incident as a minor episode in (Jen. Lear's long career a career to which he has since added fresh laurels in the training of troops for overseas service. Under all the circumstances.

Senator Clark's personal vendetta is both childish and absurd. of the project, is well advised in accepting the cue What he now proposes is that the institution at Carbondale be allowed to grant liberal arts and voca tional degrees, instead of degrees in only professional education courses. This change does not ask author ity to give courses leading to professional degrees of the people is definitely utterly undem law, medicine, dentistry, etc. It does not contemplate ocratic. a separate board of control, as didhe original plan.

It is good to learn from this very hires children is in an essential industry; youngsters cannot replace older and experienced people in most war jobs. Whatever the man power needs of the nation, laws regarding attendance at school and child labor must be enforced firmly. Unless we do this, we endanger the safety of those on whom the future of our way of life largely depend. The Carbondale problem can be solved on this source that all the more-prominent per basis, and the University of Illinois and the Legisla sons who might be Republican candidates, such as Mr. Willkie.

Mr. Dewey meat." Patronize only reputable stores, buy the meats that have worthy names behind them. Insist on the inspection stamp, shun the fly-by-night and back-alley shops. ture should join in working it out. What has been and Mr.

Bricker, "won't play ball with wrong at Carbondale is the fact that thousands of this group." F. S..