The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-07-13
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By RULMALLoN

.ore;on minister warned that the
small nations would not accept
nostwar domination by the Big
Eo,,r and State Secretary Hull re-
nlied in 800 vaporous words that
al nations would be equal in their
sovereignty" -asr:...
This world has been wandering
ground in words, stretching them,
redefinine them, for decade up to
This war. Streams of words poured
from various energetic people. We
had such things as "technocracy
4 man wrote book about how
we deceive ourselves with words,
only he wrote it from the stand
point of how other people could be
deceived with words. It was Stuart
Chase, the New Deal economist,
and he dug out of obscurlty a new
word for his idea "semantics."
he warned his fellow radicals
AGAINST calling such things a. the
taxation insurance spending
scherne Of the New Deal by any
RIGHT name. and ! think he o1igi-
nslly devised the philosophicallY
false and realistically unprov-
able phrase Social security.
which like most other things.
Ne have In name only.
I am not trying to be philoso-
pher, only to tell you the difficulty
confronting me in attempting to
transfer to you the news behind the
news. Here is the Dutch minister
who says he will not take domino
ton by greater powers. We all
know he always has.
Always Controlled
The financial and whole eco
nomic life of his country always
depended on the greater powers,
and / mean always, because history
will not reveal an instance in
which the Netherlands controlled
its own affairs without outside di-
recting influence.
Mr.. Hull replied with words
equally altitudinous, and just as
far off base, saying the sovereign
ty" of Holland would be kept pure
II these same words wee
piled 10000 miles higher. me
average intelligent man in the
street would sill know the Meth
srlands is q small country.
Great Britain is an empire of
greater bulk and authority. that
the United States is a rich and
powerful nation. that Russia is
rising influence which will prob
ably dominate Europe The
words we read in the news.
therefore. merely deceive US
from the fact that we already
know. cannot be changed.
So also with Spain, the French
Committee of Liberation, the Rus
sian situation, or whatever else
there is in the news of either inter
national or domestic consequence.
A columnist makes a speech in
New York to the French emigres
demanding that De Gaulle be re-
cognized as the government OF
France. Is De Gaulle the govern
ment of France?
He is Politician
He is politician who escaped to
London, failed at numerous bellig-
Grant enterprise S, fought the
French political elements we freed
in North Africa, made a private al
lance with Russia and then an
nounces himself as the government
of France. Anyone can see that.
He is only a French politician
who has succeeded in mastering
the other French politicians, all
of them in exile and away from
their people. To recognize him as
government would, in justice
and simple common honesty, be an
act of cheating the people OF
France who cannot yet express
themselves. ~. "a IT,. -. --.... ..|.
With Spain? Our people have
been deluded into believing the
Spanish civil war was a cause OF
democracy against Fascism, and
that FaScism won. Anyone can see
it was a war of Communism
against Fascism, one dictatorship
against another, neither of which
we want, all far from democracy.
In domestic politics. we also
delude ourselves with words.
Leftist covers everything
from revolutionary communism
to liberal idealism. which are
opposites. Communism means
dictatorship, ruthless direction
OF the individual. while liberal
ism means freedom of the in
dividuaI.
The only way we are going 'tc
solve any of our difficulties is tC
get out Of words into facts. Pres.
sure groups can deceive us, but
only temporarily. Truth is an OBJ.
Stlnate, inevitable leveler. It will
INSIST on being dominant in the
end, no matter how many words
are heaped upon.
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The G. I. Bill of Rights has beer
passed allowing up to SO week:
WIthln two years of unemployment
compensation at about $40 a week
so that veterans could lay around
Ior that length of time, although
Oh course, the problem is to gel
people back to work.
only if the nation is working
ana producing can it hope to sur.
we, because, after all the talk
ABOUT gold, initiation, wage-hours
etc, work is the only constructive
economic factor which can gener.
ate successful country.