Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
Letters to The Star
Capitalist Discusses Current
Issues With Soviet Russia

Issues With Soviet Russia
To the Editor of The Star
Does the Soviet government hold that
there is an unwritten rule in the UNO
Charter which allows mutual interest
between peoples to bring about political
and/or military unity only If the mutual
ity is socialistic? Is 1t presumed that
the USSR may maintain military alli-
ance, which does not extend to political
unity, with such state as the Ukraine,
but that the USA may not do likewise
with such state as Canada? Or is
she merely attempting Eurasian Mon
roe Doctrine, as unilateral as the Amer
lean model; that is, without invoking
multilateral action by the UNO for the
simple reason that only those who do
invoke such action can be met with a
veto and presumably deprived thereby
OF a right to further action unless they
are willing to wreck the UNO" In order
to act unilaterally?
II capitalistic nations that see eye to
eye on the kind of institutions they
think are best. proceed. with no military
pressure. to form Union OF Nonsoviet
Unsocialist Republics that happen to
comprise resources and populations
greater than those Of the Soviet Union,
is this an unfriendly act which must
needs wreck the UNO?
Must the rest of the world remain
deunionized except as 1t is unionized
under the Soviet banner? Is the UNO
to serve as Congress Of International
Organizations which maintains a ma
tionalistic, political open shop until the
nations can be organized by a COM
munistic COON squad or PAC? Under
the veto power upon. which Russia her
self has insisted, how can she hope to
prevent any such settlement of this
jurisdictional dispute as will obviate the
development of = united capitalist
front?
1t ought to be clear by this time that,
II = physical clash between these ideo-
logical crusades is to be avoided, civil
ization can no longer evade the intel
lectual task of resolving the issues that
are involved in the quarrel between the
capitalistic pot and the communistic
kettle as to which one Ii black.
Quotes Mr.. Dulles ON Security.
As John Foster Dulles sagely has re-
marked at Princeton recently: Self
interest is dominant human motive.
1t can serve as q cement which binds
men together in fellowship. 1t can be
n uuhf Re- to-.
the other. The art of peaceful states
manship is to find ways whereby the
welfare OF the members can be served
better by working together than by
working apart.
Let us apply that proposition to the
United Nations. 1t has two main or
ganst The General Assembly and the
Security Council. The Security Council
is designed to settle disputes. Every DO
htical body needs such an organ. But
We must not place reliance on that
alone. Such an organ can never, itself,
be the main reliance for order. 1t can
work successfully only as an adjunct to
other relationships which make fellow
ship Of positive value"
What human institution can serve to
make fellowship Of selfish value so as
to minimize policing to keep the peace?
Clearly such ends have been most
nearly accomplished by free, selflshly
competitive market and price system
operating under uniform monetary in
stitutions, that is, operating with q
money that does not shift In its pur-
chasing power from time to time and
place to place and so can be uniformly
saved and privately invested in prop
erty. In the agricultural area not even
the Soviet has been able to eliminate
private property in land, or stop free
and private sale of its products, entirely
But is 1t not quite clear that such a
monetary ideal is unaccompnshed In
tranationally, anywhere2 Imitation is
more or less rampant in every one of
the Big Three" Not even an attempt
at international uniformity has been
made, certainly not by the Breton
Woods proposals, for as the late Presi-
message, the fund and bank specifically
do not provide q uniform money sys-
tenn. Is not that ample reason for Rus
sian refusal to take these establish
ments seriously? Why should she join
in this Anglo-American financial FUN
mery-this false pretense of stabilizing
international exchange and setting up
the conditions of free, multilateral
trade as If with q uniform money sys-
tenn? Why should she do other than
observe" what's going on and object
to any military alliance calculated to
such areas as do not find such finesse
in finance OF positive value to them?
CAPITALIST.
Complains About Wage Increases
To the Editor of The Star:
Perhaps no economic question ever
has been rs generally misunderstood
and made use of for political advan-
tage as that of imitation.
Madame Perkins. when Secretary of
Labor, was very effective in establish
ing excessive wage scales in every part
of the country. One news report from
Washington stated that in a district
where the prevailing wage of carpen-
tiers was S. cents an hour, it was raised
by her to $50 an hour, and this
doubtless Is an indication of the in
crease of wages which was made the
country over. Such increases were made
easier by the unusual demand for la
Dor during the war period.
The administration at Washington
consistently has encouraged the de-
mand for increased pay for union labor