Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Russian Way
Wins Backing
Of wallace
Vice Presidents Address
Picked Apart by PeeIer
By wESTBROOK PEGLER

Wallace to the Congress of
American Soviet Friendship.
whatever that was. a week ago
Sunday. but Mr.. Wallace stands
in line for the presidency OF the
United States and might be the
nominee of the New Deal party
in 1914. so / just think we ought
to discuss his ideas.
It is hard and certainly more
than can do TO discuss the diff
ference between Russia's form
of government and ours without
drawing fire from those who in
sist that military cooperation
with this ally in a war against
a common enemy requires the
political and economic assimila-
ton of this country TO Russia.
That is called Red batting and
disruptiveness and the bravery
and sacrifice of millions of Rus
sian common people in defense
of their own homes and soil
which is sacred TO them are cited
to show what a dirty dog you
are for insisting that the virtues
of the familiar American way
out-value its defects and the
virtues of Russia's way.
NOV, Mr.. Wallace disparaged
~ the Bill of Rights of our
Constitution and said that Rus
STA and the United States both
have been working toward a
practical middle ground between
economic and political democ-
racy.
Political democracy is the Bill
of Rights democracy.
He said Russia had perceived
some of the abuses of excessive
Bill of Rights democracy and
had placed strong emphasis on
economic democracy.
He acknowledged. however,
that II economic democracy is
carried to an extreme, all power
resides in one man and his
bureaucratic helpers.
He thinks Russia has been
easing away from this extreme
or dictatorial phase of economic
democracy, which is a paradox
for you. and said:
I'm present day Russia, differ
ences I'm wage income are almost
but not quite a. great ~ In the
United States. The manager of
n factory may be paid 10 times
as much ~ the average worker.
Artists, scientists and out
standing writer's are usually paid
even more than factory mana
gers or political commissars.
THE chief difference between
the economic organization Of
Russia and that OF the United
States Ii that In Russia II IL
almost impossible TO live on
income producing property"
60 LET'S see.
~ Knowing something about
the political temperament of the
American life. we can be appre-
hensive that the manager of the
factory. getting 10 times as
much as the average worker,
would be chosen more for his
party regularity than for his
ability.
Harry Hopkins. for example,
would rank very high in title
and in income. although his rec
ord of achievement is so involved
in politics that il cannot be
valued at all.
What sort OF artists and out
standing writer's would be paid
more than factory managers in
our country if we were 10 adopt
that economic system which Mr..
Wallace calls democracy?
We have had little expert
mental experience along those
lines already, for the radical or
Communistic artists and writers
have been ballyhooed far beyond
their paltry merits by critics and
reviewers informally committed
to the Communist party line.
while worthier individuals Of
conventional American political
faith have been disparaged or
simply neglected.
A RI. theoretically. has no
"A more politics than science.
but every one in the American
arts knows that that has not
been so in practice here.
1t certainly is not so in Rus
STA where, AS in Germany, the
greatest writer of the age would
be recognized only as the guest
of honor at an execution IL he
were TO write contrary 10 the
prevailing politics and powers.
Mr.. Wallace does not state
clearly whether he desires that
II be made almost impossible
here. as in Russia, 10 live on
income producing property, but
there is a feeling in his remarks
that he sort of bankers that
way.
Yet. in our country, income
producing property is owned
largely by the common man.
who bought insurance by saving
during his earning years, which
in turn was invested in private