The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05

A thing OF ShredS and patches,
OF fiscal bumps and scratches,
And monthly bills to pay.
With apologies to Gilbert and Sui
livan, l modernize Nanki-Pooh from
the Mikado hoping there will be no
reprisals. For sometimes I think
it is time the bourgeois who seem
to be SO unpopular (until the guns
begin to shoot and the taxes are
levied deserve a word or two.
And SO on n Washington sum-
mel day recently when I was wax
ened by the birdsong in the neigh
boring invisible elms l had a sur
prise that pleased me. AS l opened
the door and reached for the milk,
the morning papers and the rent
bill. my sleep-dimmed eye caught
a cheering headline:
HULL DEFINES OUR POSTWAR
PROGRAM
WANTS RAW MATERIALS
TRADE FOR ALL
4iob was llG u1Sl llOpe1ul HES
sage for the average guy, that my
weary eye had met in a long time.
You may recall that in this year
Of our discomfort, n of these col
umns began this way: There is a
peace-machine in Washington, all
oiled and ready to start the moment
the last gun is silenced in Europe.
From it may come a plan which the
democracies can offer to the world
as an alternative to the ~totalitarian
way Of life"
And at last the good. gray and
stubborn gentleman in the state de-
partnent trotted it out to hold up to
the struggling world; a promise in
stead OF a threat, a hope instead of
a
Two hours later a philosophical
Communist friend was shifting at
it as we walked past the treasury
building. Back to the old ORDER"
he said contemptuously.
Half an hour later a genial con-
sentative was laughing at it-'Give
me good high tariffs" he said, as
if he were contemplating a slice of
juicy roast beef.
Perhaps, as an old-style bour-
geois, l should have agreed with
that, but l am a bourgeois, new
style. I don't know anything about
economics but l know what l LIKE
like to think that Secretary of State
Hull is right when he say that the
seeds of var take root behind any
artificial barriers which keep people
from getting their share of the
earth's bounty.
Five Points in Program.
Mr.. Hull's program is the one he
has lived by since his early days in
congress and the five points"
which he outlined to the world are
his credo-no extreme nationalism
which would enforce excessive trade
restrictions; non-discrimination in
International trade relations; raw
materials of the world available to
all nations; international agree
ments to protect the consumer coun-
tries and their people: International
finance run so that all countries can
develop their essential enterprises.
II these conditions were explained
to the middle-class people Of the
world today. in Britain and Ger
many. in France and Italy, in terms
of the kind of life Mr.. Hull believes
his plan would bring. and if those
people could be convinced that such
a plan would be carried out, I'll
wager they would turn their guns
and battle for these five points un-
der any honest leader.
Unfortunately there were, once
Upon a time. IA points which Wood
row Wilson offered as the basis of
peace in 1918. And all those little
points we're broken off short by the
gentlemen in Paris who thought they
had a better scheme.
They made a peace which we
learned to our sorrow. was just a
thing of shreds and patches"