A CANADIAN VIEW
A Canadian View THE plight of the progressives in this 1944 Presidential campaign was succinctly expressed the other day by a Canadian—J. B. Goldstone, editor of the Manitoba "Commonwealth," a...
...The tasks of redemocratizing Germany's educational system, he urges, should be undertaken by the pro-democratic elements who are still in Germany, some of whom are in concentration camps and others who are not...
...This idea, like many of the other notions about America's crusading role in the war, has folded up as the harsh realities of power politics have unfolded recently...
...Duggan declared, "would simply invite another leader to accomplish in the future the task of unification which Bismarck performed in the decade 1860-1870...
...5. It sets up arbitrary and despotic control of production and distribution for the security of members of monopoly groups...
...Dewey] are now locked in mortal verbal combat, the chief objective of which is to annihilate each other's reputation with the American people...
...A Valuable Contribution IN the early days of America's entry into the war, when there was considerable enthusiasm for exporting the Four Freedoms, it was customary for some of the exporters to speak of America's mission to reeducate the people of the Axis countries...
...There are some, however, who cling to their grandiose hopes, more out of sheer desperation than anything else...
...Duggan realistically insists, is to provide "sympathetic advice and assistance...
...Propagandists for private organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers are conducting a cunning campaign to make "free enterprise" and "Big Business" synonyms instead of the antonyms they are...
...6. It enters politics, using money and economic coercion, and becomes a veritable state within a state...
...16 issue of The Progressive, "America Must Speak Up Now...
...If they keep it up, they will succeed— probably better than they imagine...
...He has been working in education on an international scale since 1919 and knows from first hand experience the complicated problems involved...
...The role of America, Prof...
...Prof...
...The strategy of the monopolists is to capture as many of the plants and as much of the materials as possible—in order to retire them, from production and competitive markets and thus assist in "stabilizing" the national economy on a basis of high prices, low output, and, inevitably, declining employment...
...In an address at the centennial banquet of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., in Chicago, Judge Arnold warned that all our hopes and plans for the postwar world would rje wrecked if we again allow monopoly to throttle production...
...We want to record here the best single-sentence interpretation over the radio of Sen...
...Duggan has this to say: "It is not only contrary to our fundamental democratic faith to impose our educational patterns upon any other peoples, it would be futile...
...Goldstone from his perch in the North: " We.have yet to be convinced that there is really an essential difference between the most powerful backers of either Roosevelt or Dewey...
...In his news analysis over the Columbia Broadcasting System, Quincy Howe summed it up this way: "The Wisconsin Progressives are returning to their historic position that American policy abroad" must be as democratic as it is at home...
...The Seven Deadly Sins IT IS fortunate for the nation that Judge Thur-man Arnold does not allow his judicial robes to immobilize him as a front-line crusader against one of the deadliest enemies of economic democracy— national and international monopoly...
...He listed "seven deadly sins" of monopoly, and they are well worth repeating here as an antidote to the efforts of Big Business to perfume the word "monopoly": 1. It proposes to consolidate industrial power by destroying existing individual enterprise...
...This is precisely the sort of thing that Judge Arnold had in mind when he pictured the monopoly stage of industrial development as "a period of caution, fear, and restricted activity...
...Judge Arnold, who was the country's number one trust-buster until he was kicked upstairs into the' Federal judiciary, struck out again last week at the menace of monopoly...
...Of the plan to police German schools, Prof...
...Stephen Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education and professor of political science in the college of the City of New York, specifically warned against such a program and the broader political plan to split Germany up into small countries...
...The two political gladiators [President Roosevelt and Gov...
...2. It prevents new enterprise from starting...
...B. Goldstone, editor of the Manitoba "Commonwealth," a weekly published by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation...
...3. It restricts production and raises prices...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., in the Oct...
...Observed Mr...
...La Follette's article...
...The whole question takes on critical importance as we near the beginning of the reconversion period when we start to change our economy from a war to a peacetime basis...
...was the subject of scores of newspaper editorials and radio commentaries around the country...
...Duggan's warning should be heeded by the small but vociferous group of educators who believe that the American way of life can be exported by bayonets and textbooks...
...Spokesmen for Big Business, in and out of the Government, are trying to disinfect and deodorize words like "monopoly" and "cartels" in order to combat public resistance to the creation of worldwide trusts when war ends...
...The Vansittart idea, Prof...
...7. It forms protective tariffs and makes foreign economic policies for the nation, the purpose of which is to prevent the countrymen of these monopolists from producing and distributing goods...
...4. It stops the introduction of new and more efficient methods in order to maintain obsolete ways of production in which it has vested interest...
...One-Sentence Summary THE front-page article by Sen...
...Fred Rodell and Ernest L. Meyer deal ably with one major critical comment in their articles in this week's issue...
...The disposal of a hundred billion dollars worth of Government-owned war plants, materials, and land can go a long way toward mapping our economic course for a whole generation...
...Their parties are both the parties of Big Business...
...Judge Arnold's warning is especially timely just now...
...Business Week," an organ of Big Business, admitted a while ago that in the case of Government-owned supplies which might interfere with the "normal" operation of markets, "the pressure will be greatest to withhold part of the goods from the market, destroy them, dump them, do ^anything but let the consumers get hold of them...
...There was a good deal of fervent and ill-considered talk about staffing German, Italian, and Japanese schools with American teachers and supplying them with American textbooks...
...Their campaign was dealt a telling blow recently when Prof...
...But it will not helji to solve any of the basic issues of the day...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 44
