The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-03-02
Whot's Wrong
With Woshington?-
As / See 1t

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BY PAUL MALLON
Noted Columnist and Political
Writer
Excerpts from an address before
the New York State Publishers As
sociation)
In practically any direction you
look in Washington, you find trou-
bic the grave trouble of slacken-
ing production and tightening man
power, trouble in the administra-
ton of farms and food problems,
unsatisfactory price management,
initiation, the conflict in the hand
ling of fuel and gasoline distribu-
ton, the trouble of John Lewis and
unsettled union and racial agitation.
the Owl sitting of news, the diff
Guilty of how to get Mr. Roosevelt
elected for a fourth term, the trou-
BILE of the Republicans with Willkie,
and the trouble with the critical
problem of postwar at home and
abroad. These are only few. They
are too numerous even to list in
full. The world has probably never
seen such trouble as Washington is
involved in at the moment. Nothing
is settled.
Recently, there has been lull
in both disclosures and discussions.
This may be due to the fact that
the new judicial front which Mr..
Roosevelt has erected in govern
ment-the Judges Byrnes, Vinson,
and Jones-is desperately sitting on
the lid. True, there have been some
improvements, but little seems
changed very much underneath.
Some progress toward solutions has
been made, but few problems have
been solved. The various admin
istrators-many Of them sincere,
Woodworking, sacrificing men who
are not popularity appreciated IN
view of the overall unsatisfactory
state of affairs-are merely tenn
porting and fighting with them
from day to day, striving often IN
conflicting and overlapping ways.
In effect, Mr.. Roosevelt has mere
ly put a judicial bench in front OF
the .perplexing and confusing ad-
ministrative struggle.
Managed Economy
When a housewife goes to the
grocery. she can mark the progress
of initiation as we'll as the Bureau
of Labor Statistics or any govern
ment department. When farmer
goes to the stockyards, he can see
the troubles of food distribution as
: clearly as Washington can see them.
When a citizen goes to the ration
ing or draft boards, he forms a
definite personal idea of how wisely
or unWisely the system is being
managed and no amount OF ma
tional publicity can have much ef-
: feet on him.
| think his experience to date
warrants one firm conclusion. Man.
aged economy in this country vii
not work. Even under pressure O
national desire for war unity aTie
self-restraint, it is not working. I'm
der the favorable cooperative tenn
porary suspices of war, 1t has no
/ proved satisfactory to anyone, no
even to its sponsors.
The business Of this country ].
i. founded on customs that nave peer
G adopted one by one from time Z
time in our capitahstic democratic
{, history during the course OF 10
G years. They involve CONSTANT.
changing price methods, productlol
: methods, distribution methods, tina
have come to make long rigit
: channel of methods built by time
From the grazing plains to the din
ner table, beefsteak travel
! through many hands along thes
customary ways. Now, if you dan
= up one end Of the channel, 1T vii
! overflow at the other. If you pu
J two or three dams in, you will hav
i a drought in some places and a
! overflow at others. And at ever
/ foot along the way you meet tn
c equation, the reaction OF the nu
: man being, his resistance and &c
. sire to advance himself and to max
= money. Trying to regulate that tloN
Il in detail by national overall reg
= ulation, in my orinion-and DC
= lieve in the opinion Of the peopl
e has proved to be an unmanage
i able task. | don't think totalitaria
n ways will prove to be SO popula
after this war.
World Revolution Ahead
ID We are faced with world revolt
ton as we'll as a world war. 1t
is not a new revolution, not alone
political revolution, but a revolt
ton of ethics, culture, and ever
religion-a revolution of our entil
At society. 1t started unnoticeably bac
in the revolutionary phllosophl'
- developed before the turn OF tn
: century, in the thinking Of Met
=, sche and Freud, as we'll as Mar
= While Marx is the glorifled proph
y y of the anti-democratic socIetl
ol which have sprung into beng
" overwhelming scope since the Ia
war, Nietzsche and Freud and OF
% ers Of their ilk are the non-politlc
resocializers, whose so-called e
4 4 lightenment lured great masses
"a q people away from their ethics al
60 morals, their social ways and ha
ali its Of thought, and plunged the
I1e into this dazzling materlallstlc e
es in which we are now cropping Q
way toward yet indiScenlble sol