The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-12
Charles Stewart Says
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Columnist

Director Milo Perkins of the Board OF Eco
nomc Welfare sticks to his contention that
right now, with the war still raging, is the
time to plan intensively for satisfactory
world peace, with not "a hourss waste of time
after the present conflicts end If strife con-
tnues for another decade, as some forecasters
predict there'n be plenty of time to map out
program.
Milo is emphatic, however, that International
mankind mustn't permit itself to be caught
off base again. Peace. as it's been expressed,
broke out in 1918. Neither World War No. Is
belligerents nor its remaining neutrals w Ell e
prepared for it, and economic troubles fol-
lowed that were about bad as the war.
So far this particular country was con-
cerned. over-production, so-called, was what
raised hades.
We'd been producing essentially for
purposes, which skimped us on consumer
goods, and it took us a few years to catch up
on the latter. AS soon as we'd done so, though,
we'd so increased our general output that we
had plethora, and unemployment resulted.
1t seems funny that too much should mean
too little for the poor consumer cuss u t
that's what it amounted to.
The other ex-belligerents' consuming
classes, being skinned down greatly cl er
than we were for lifes ordinary necessities,
were desperately anxious for our excesses,
but hadn't the money to pay for EN-
Milo's notion is to get this compile alton
Strengthened out all around.
His aims to give customers to the big pro-
ducers and surveyors to the would-be GUS
toners.
The ideas okay. The producers peacetime
production, after the war, will be enormous,
but how about the sknaed-out consumers?
Perhaps the answer is that they'll have to
have lot of credit Well, it'll take quite an
optimistic bunch of creditors.
Thereu be some politically governmental
|readjustments also, to be effected
There won't be any great difficulty in con-
nection with them in Europe, outside Germany
The Italians, and all the rest, to the south
westward, will fall in line without niue h
bother. They're naturally democratic, barring
their dictators Gosh knows, as to the Ger
mans. It's anybodys guess how in general
they'll acquiesce in Herr Hiter's overthrow.
Far be it from me to say that there aren't
civilized Germans, but the proportion of 'em
is speculative as a permanent proposition
due allowance having been made for 1914 and
more recently.
Pleasant terms ought to take with Russia,
for quite awhile anyway
Japan is the meanest of the bunch-and I
say it, though I've lived in that country and
have had some good friends there The heck
OF Japan is that it isn't ruled by its govern
ment, but by its militarists "a cuckoo bunch
who don't represent the empire-neither the
Mlkado nor his people nor any of EN-
furthermore, we don't understand the
Orient
One of the stories I've noticed is that in
order to make final conditions with China the
Occident has got to end a-territoriality
there.
That is OF say
We Had To Accept
Take city like Shanghai Some genera
tons ago we wanted a trading post there
'Phooey!" was the then Chinese imperial gov
ernments answer. China isn't going to DO.
lice that place and provide it with local
government generally. You foreign devils
have got to accept the responsibility That's
how We acquired those responsibilities.
We accepted 'em because they were wished
onto us.
The same things recorded of suleiman the
Magnificent in Turkey.
Left over from him, I once encountered the
| same thing in the Ottoman Empire.
Gosh knows whether or not Milo Perkins
can pull off what Suleiman fell down on.
And Confucius ?-another celebrated econo-
| mist!
! All right Milo Perkins and Confucius are
| and were economists, too
| They both fiZzled.
Milo hasn't had a chance to do SO yet.