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TELEGRAM Bc*/rlirr WIRE SERVICE RECEIVED A f WASHINGTON WU J006 PD SANFRANCI SCO C A L IF 3 112^A $48 DEC I MARRINER EC CLES MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD PM 3 I| FEDERAL RESERVE BLDG COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF C A L IF O R N IA BOARO OF GOVERNORS IN V IT E S YOU ADDRESS P A L ^ ^ p U g j ^ SYSTEM LUNCHEON MUTUALLY AGREEABLE DATE ON FORTYCOMING COAST V I S I T . SUGGEST T O P IC " CONTROVERSY BETWEEN RESERVE BOARD AND BANKS’* PLEASE WIRE COLLECT W IL L IA M L HUDSON ASST EX EC U T IV E SECRETARY. 3 08P. TELEGRAM BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WASHINGTON December 3, 1948. William L. Hudson, Asst, Executive Secretary, Commonwealtn Club of California, San Francisco, California Regret unable accept your considerate invitation address your Club as I now find impossible make trip to Coast on other speaking engagements which I was favorably considering desired will be glad consider invitation during expected trip California late March or early April Marriner S. gccles OFFICIAL BUSINESS GOVERNMENT RATES C harge Board of G overno rs of th e F ed eral R eserve System If COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS, SAN FRANCISCO, 19 TWELFTH FLOOR OFFICERS President . . . JUSTICE HOM ER R. SPENCE Resident . . . DR. M. R. GIBBONS, SR. p ir y ................. A. H. MOFFITT, Jr. Treasurer .....................J. K. MOFFITT Chmn. Executive Comm. . PAUL C. EDWARDS Executive Secretary . . . STUART R. WARD Asst. Executive Secretary . W M. L. HUDSON DOUGLAS 2-4903 FOUNDED GOVERNO HENRY J. BRUNNIER HILARY H. CRAWFORD M ON RO E E. DEUTSCH JUSTICE MAURICE T. DO O LIN G PAUL C. EDWARDS C. J. HAGGERTY JAMES A. JOHNSTON ROBERT LITTLER 1903 RS IRVING MARTIN RICHARD R. PERKINS EDGAR E. ROBINSON ALBERT A. ROSENSHINE MAX THELEN E. T. THURSTON RAY B. W ISER December 9, 1948 Dear Mr. Eccles: We are sorry to hear that y ou will be unable to make your planned trip to the Pacific Coast this month, but our Program Committee wishes to extend a cordial invitation to address the Club on a mutually agreeable Friday in March or April. We w o ul d appreciate hearing from you at the earliest possible moment, so that a suitable date m a y be arranged. C CordLLally yours, illiam L. H u d so n Asst. Executive Secretary WLHims Mr. Mariner Eccles, Member Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve Building Washington, D.C. Study Groups NlSTRATION OF JUSTICE ^rladsell a g r ic u l t u r e Samuel H. Greene ATOM IC BOMB Dr. Russel V. Lee AVIATION Beniamin Rey Schauer DigitizedJustice for FRASER CITY PLANNING http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ David D. Bohannon Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis DELINQUENCY Justice A. F. Bray H IGH W AYS & TRANSPORTATION Chester C. Fisk LEGISLATION & ELECTIONS Judge Albert C. Wollenberg PACIFIC OCEAN PROBLEMS John Earl Baker ECONOM ICS Otis Marston IM M IG R AT IO N & AM ERICANIZATIO N J. C. Russell LIQUOR PROBLEMS Stanley A. Weigel PROPAGANDA INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Walter M. Warren MINERAL INDUSTRIES J. B. Newsom INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS NatJ. L. Pieper M UNICIPAL & COUNTY GOVT. Clarence E. Todd LATIN AM ERICA T. Harper Gopdspeed NATIONAL DEFENSE Cyrus C. Washburn EDUCATION Chancellor Tully C. Knoles FORESTS A N D RECREATION Bestor Robinson GOVT. EFFICIENCY & FINANCE Warren H. Pillsbury PUBLIC HEALTH Delger Trowbridge PUBLIC UTILITIES L. M. Perrin LUNCHEON PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pr. Morton R. Gibbons, Sr. December 13, 1948. Dear Mr. Hudson: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 9> extending to me a cordial invitation to address your Club on a mutually agreeable Friday in March or April. I will not be able to give you a date until some time in January, as it is too early at this time for me to know just when I will be in San Francisco. My trip will de pend on some other meetings which I am expecting to attend there, and the dates for these have not yet been set. They will, however, be held the latter part of March or the first of April. I will advise you as soon as these dates have been decided. I trust this will be agreeable to you. Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccles. Mr. milliam L. Hudson, Assistant Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Club of California, The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, 19, California. VLE:ra COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS, SAN FRANCISCO, 19 TWELFTH FLOOR OFFICERS President . . . JUSTICE HOMER R. SPENCE V J P % sid o n t . . . DR. M. R. GIBBONS, SR. S l L ^ r v ................. A. H. MOFFITT, Jr. Treasurer .....................J. K. MOFFITT Chmn. Executive Comm. . PAUL C. EDWARDS Executive Secretary . . STUART R. WARD Asst. Executive Secretary W M. L. HUDSON DOUGLAS 2-4903 FOUNDED GOVERNO HENRY J. BRUNNIER HILARY H. CRAWFORD M ONRO E E. DEUTSCH JUSTICE MAURICE T. D O O LIN G PAUL C. EDWARDS C. J. HAGGERTY JAMES A. JOHNSTON ROBERT LITTLER 1 903 RS IRVING MARTIN RICHARD R. PERKINS EDGAR E. ROBINSON ALBERTA. ROSENSHINE MAX THELEN E. T. THURSTON RAY B. WISER January 1 0 , 1949 A I R MAIL Dear Mr. Eccles: This is to follow up our telegraphic exchange of December 3, and our letter of December 9, to w h ich y o u replied under date of December 13, 1943. We most certainly are looking forward eagerly to hearing from you what Friday noon during the "latter part of M a r c h . or the first of A p r i l " you will be available to addrees the Commonwealth Club. Awaiting your further word with interest, and with best wishes for the New Year, I am, Stuart R. Ward Executive Secretary SRW:ms Mr. Marriner s . Eccles, Member Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve Building Washington, D.C. Study Groups C liSTRATION OF JUSTICE rladsell AGRICULTURE Samuel H. Greene ATOM IC BOMB Dr. Russel V. Lee AVIATION Justice Beniamin Rey Schauer http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ CITY PLANNING Federal David Reserve Bank of St. Louis D. Bohannon DELINQUENCY Justice A. F. Bray H IGH W AYS & TRANSPORTATION Chester C. Fisk LEGISLATION & ELECTIONS Judge Albert C. Wollenberg PACIFIC OCEAN PROBLEMS John Earl Baker ECONOMICS Otis Marston IM M IGRATIO N & AMERICANIZATION J. C. Russell LIQUOR PROBLEMS Stanley A. Weigel PROPAGANDA INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Walter M. Warren MINERAL INDUSTRIES J. B. Newsom INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Nat J. L. Pieper MUNICIPAL & COUNTY GOVT. Clarence E. Todd LATIN AM ERICA T. Harper Goodspeed NATIONAL DEFENSE Cyrus C. Washburn EDUCATION Chancellor Tully C. Knoles FORESTS AND RECREATION Bestor Robinson GOVT. EFFICIENCY & FINANCE Warren H. Pillsbury PUBLIC HEALTH Delger Trowbridge PUBLIC UTILITIES L. M. Perrin LUNCHEON PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dr. Morton R. Gibbons, Sr. February 3, 1949• Dear Mr. *•ard: Replying to your letter of January 10, relative to your cordial invitation for me to address the Common wealth Club of California on a Friday noon during the latter part of March or first part of April, I find that it will be possible for me to address your members on Friday, April 8, Kindly let me know whether or not that date is agreeable to you. I trust the delay in advising you of a definite date has not too greatly inconvenienced you in connection with making up your programs. I want you to know that I appreciate the patient and courteous consideration you have shown me in waiting so long for my decision. Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccxes. Mr. Stuart ft. ward, Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Club of California, The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California. C la ss of S e r v ic e This is a fulWate Telegram or Cable gram linless its de ferred character is in dicated by a suitable symbol above or prethe address. c' %I bL- WESTERN U N IO N 1201 SYMBOLS D L = D « t Letter NL=Night Letter LC = Deferred Cable NLT=Cable Night Letter JO S E P H L. EGAN PRESIDENT Ship Radiogram The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is S T A N D A R D T IM E at point of origin. Time of receipt is STAN D A R D T IM E at point of destination 0B17 O.SFDO 99 NL PD=SA-NFRANCISCO C A L IF 14= 1949 FEB !4 3' 11 Cp MARRINER S ECCLES= MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE BLDG WASHDC= T H IS IS TO THANK YOU FOR AND CONFIRM YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR INVITATION TO ADDRESS COMMONWEALTH CLUB AT LUNCHEON ON FRIDAY NOON. A P R IL 8 » GOLD BALLROOM. PALACE HOTEL» LETTER OF FULL DETAILS FOLLOWS» THANK YOU MOST HEARTILY* STUART R WARD. E a ECUTIVE SECRRETARY= 8 http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ ( TH E Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis C O M P A N Y W IL L A P P R E C IA T E S U G G E S T IO N S F R O M IT S P A T R O N 8 C O N C E R N IN G IT S S E R V IC E COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA The Hotel St. Francis, *an Francisco, 19 Twelfth Floor Douglas ¿.-4.903 Executive Secretary ...Stuart it. ward Asst. Executive Secretary . Wm. L. Hudson February 14, 1949» Mr. Marriner £>. Eccles Member Federal Reserve Board Washington, D. Dear Mr. Eccles: We are pleased to confirm herewith your engagement to speak to the Commonwealth Club of California on Friday, April 8, 1949 at luncheon in the Gold Ballroom of the Palace notel. Our members will have been advised that the subject upon which you will speak is "Controversy Between Reserve Board and Banks". After many years of experience, we have found our members most appreciate presentations that are not too formal and that stick closely to the subject assigned. By the following schedule our luncheons are arranged to give the speaker the maximum amount of time, 43 mintues: You will be welcomed at the endtranee of the Gold ballroom at 12:10 p.m. You will be introduced by the chairman at 12:45* You will begin to speak at 12:47. Meeting will adjourn promptly at 1:30. Your address will be recorded and will be broadcast by transcription by Radio Station KLX at 6:15 p.m. on the same day as talk, and at 9:05 a.m. the following Sunday. If you care to furnish a full copy or just the highlights of your address to this office not later than the preceding Tuesday, the Club will distribute advance releases thereof to the leading newspapers of Central California for publication after your talk. This is entirely optional with you. he look forward with pleasure to your appearance at the appo nted date on our Commonwealth Club rostrum. Sincerely yours, P.&. Will the topic given in wife of Stuart R. »ard, ecember 3 Controversy Between Reserve Executive Secretary. Board and Banks" be satisfactory? If not, would appreciate being advised as to http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/topic earliest possible date. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Memorandum for Information of Speakers Commonwealth Club of California Topic: .Bm cd...ancl..JBank^?._____________ Time, Place: 12:10p.m. Friday, -.A p.r.il ..8.A____, 194.9., Gold Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. (Market at New Montgomery St.) Length of Talk: 43 Minutes (12:47 to 1:30 p.m.) Manuscript: A manuscript is not required. The Club will appreciate a copy for its library and will supply press releases to papers if manuscript or high lights are received several days in advance at Qub office (Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco 19). Loud Speakers and Broadcast: Two microphones will face the speaker on the rostrum. One is for the loud speaker in the room, the other for the radio broadcast. For best results, please stand close to microphones and direct your voice between them. (Moving from side to side, or dropping voice at end of sentences, makes perfect reproduction impos sible). Broadcast: Broadcast is by transcription by Station KLX (910 on the dial) at 1:05 and 8:15 p.m. the same day. The Code of the National Associa tion of Broadcasters prohibits language not conforming to “acceptable standards of good taste.” Name of Club: The correct title is "Commonwealth Qub of California" COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS, SAN FRANCISCO, 19 TWELFTH FLOOR Executive Secretary . . Asst. Executive Secretary DOUGLAS 2-4903 STUART R. WARD W M. L HUDSON FOUNDED 1903 m 9 tfc. Marriner S. Eccles February u Member Federal Reserve * Washington, Dear MemoVuutHm Mr. Eccles: We are pleased to confirm herewith your engagement to speak to the Commonwealth Club of California on Friday, April 0. 194.9_________________________ at luncheon in the Gold Ballroom of the Palace Hotel. Our members will have been advised that the subject upon which you will speak is "Today’s Challenge to Democratic Capitalism" "Controversy Between Reserve Board and Bankgw______ After many years of experience, we have found our members most appreciate presentations that are not too formal and that stick closely to the subject assigned. By the following schedule our luncheons are arranged to give the speaker the maximum amount of time, 43 minutes: < • < 1 i¥ nm— ^ ^ ....— T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _—r n rirt-M i You will be welcomed at the entrance of the Gold Ballroom at 13:10 p .m . You will be introduced by the chairman at 12:45. You will begin to speak at 13:47. Meeting will adjourn promptly at 1:50. Your address will be recorded and will b e broadcast by transcript ion by Radio Stati on K E X at 6:15 "p. mT~ orPthê same day as talk, and at 9:05 a.m. the following Sund a y . If you care to furnish a full copy or just the highlights your address to~Thïïï™ôfTicF^ot^l^eF^^^3!ÎSl!3l!®5©3-SS Tuesday, the Club will distribute advance releases" thereof to the leading newspapers of Central California for publication after your talk. This is entirely optional with you. We look forward with pleasure to your appearance at the appointed date on our Commonwealth Club rostrum. P.S. ¥ill the topic given in wire of December 3 "Controversy Between Reserve Board and Banks" be sattegactory? If not, would a pp r eciate/aavTsed as to topic earliest possible date. Stuart R. Wèfrd, Executive Secretary. TELEGRAM B O A R D OF G O V E R N O R S OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM L E A S E D W I R E S E R V IC E WASHINGTON febru^ry ¿.1, 1949. larhart - kan Francisco, Calif. Appreciate your delivering following message to ¿*ir. Stuart *»•. ward, Executive ¿ecret^ry, Commonwealth Club of California, ^otel ot. Frcjuci ocfcii F X 'c iilC lo C O * "Regarding address April 8 topic nil! not be 'Controversy between Reserve Board and Banks'. 1 nope it' can be left open permitting subject own choosing wiich may not be decided until just before appearance.M M. S. Iccies. TELEGRAM LEASED /-»RE SERVICE RECEIVED AT WASHINGTON 1949 FEB 21 PM 3 49 WA67G2JWASH L89 SF 21-1241 BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF I Ht FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM crn c q d a a d tv E C C LE S, BOARD REURTEL FEBRUARY 21 MR. STUART R. WARD STA TES IT IS * E N T IR E L Y AGREEABLE FOR YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR SUBJECT AND TO LEAVE T IT L E OPEN. IT IS T H E IR CUSTO^/TO PR I VS33& PRIN T ANNOUNCEMENTS ELEVEN DAYS AHEAD OF M EET IN G DAY. HE WOULD A PPR EC IA T E R E C E IV IN G A SUBJECT HEADING BY THAT T IM E . EARHART. Fe d e r a l R e s e r v e San B a n k of Sa n Fr ancisco F r a n c is c o 2 0, Ca l if o r n ia March 7, 194-9 Dear Marriner: Inasmuch as you are to talk at the Commonwealth Club on April 8th, I thought you might be interested in knowing that Walter E. Spahr is appearing before the Club on March 11th and speaking on the subject "Back to the Gold Standard". Kindest regards. Sincerely yours, C. S. Earhart, President. Mr. Marriner S. Eccles, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington 25, D. C. TELEGRAM BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WASHINGTON March 29, 1949* Mr. Stuart H. Vaiti, Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Club of California, The Hotel St, Francis, San Francisco, California. Title address will be quote Today*a Challenge to Democratic Capitalism unquote M. S. Eccles OFFICIAL BUSINESS GOVERNMENT RATES C h arg e Board o f G overno rs of th e F ed eral R eserve S ystem OFFICIAL JOURNAL Vol. XXV OF THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco 19, California, Monday, March 7, 1949 Friday Luncheon Meeting No. 10 Palace Hotel "B a c k to the G old Stan d ard ” by WALTER E. SPAHR Executive Vice President, Economists’ National Committee on Monetary Policy f Chairman, Economics Department, New York University, f Noted Economist, formerly at Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, etc. Author “It's Your Money/' “The Silver Scandal," “This Thing Called Inflation,'' “The Case for the Gold Standard," “Allied Military Currency," and many other economic works. $2.00 a plate John Howell, Quarterly Chairman Friday, March 11th, 12:10 p.m. Palace Hotel Broadcast 6:15 p.m. Friday and 9:10 a.m. Sunday— KLX (910) Civil W ar? Invasion? Or U. S.-Russ W ar?— Held Korea's Options F R I D A Y F L A S H E S — FEBRUARY 25th From Address by GEORGE TAYS, Ph.D. Formerly with Intelligence Section, XXIV Corps, U. S. Army “ WHEN ROOSEVELT made his fateful sell outs at Teheran and Yalta, offering to divide Korea at the 38th parallel, he did not know that as far back as the 1880’s, the Russians had had designs on Korea, and had built up a sphere of influence down almost to the 38th parallel. — President Truman, equally ignorant of past Russian interests, insisted Russia should enter the war against Japan and occupy half of Korea. The Russians gladly accepted. — When the Koreans heard the 38th parallel had been designated as the dividing line, they became apprehensive because of the historic Russian interest. — Within three weeks after both occupation forces had lined up along the 38th parallel, the Iron Curtain dropped . . . and Korea was cut in two, economically and politically. — Resulting excitement of the Koreans was brought to the point of revolt by news from Moscow that the three great powers had de cided to establish a 5-year trusteeship over Korea. — All the politicians, Rightists, Moderates, Leftists and Communists, remembered trustee ship under Japan, as well as a long list of broken promises by other nations in the past, including the United States. —They were getting ready for general revolt in January 1946, when the Communists of North and South Korea received word from Moscow that they must accept the Tarty Line/ — The Communists came out for Trusteeship. The Nationalists, enraged, turned against the Communists and the revolt collapsed. — Roosevelt and Truman fully expected the Russians to help establish an independent na- **'JTTB0 *QZ oosfotreoiii ireg otuoexres 001? q.«ret[«re3 '3 *0 '¿W ( Continued on next page) 46 THE COMMONWEALTH ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Club Asks Approvol of Proposal to Number Measures by Lot THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALI FORNIA has called upon members of the Cali fornia Legislature to end the present arbitrary numbering of November ballot measures. A letter addressed to all legislators pointed out that the number assigned a ballot measure may give an ufair advantage or disadvantage to that proposal. Attention was directed to the results of a Commonwealth Club study of twelve years ago that “in the three election years of 1932-34-36, lowest-numbered measures averaged several hundred thousand more votes than the highestnumbered measures.” Further, a check of the recent 1948 election showed the first five measures averaged 400,000 more votes than the last five. In 1946, the first five measures averaged nearly 300,000 more votes than the last five. The Club's proposal, approved by a 665 to 79 vote of its membership, is to determine place and number of a ballot measure by lot instead of the present law requiring arbitrary numbering by the office of the Secretary of State. Such a procedure would remove all taint of suspicion from the process. Rightly or wrongly, no one can dispute that suspicion has been directed at the numbering of amendments in recent elections. “We respectfully urge your support of mea sures in the present session to end arbitrary ballot numbering,” the letter addressed to legis lators said. A number of such measures have been intro duced, including S.B. 96 (Miller and O’Gara), S.B. 97 (Salsman), and A.B. 228 (Collins). A partially similar measure, A.B. 1456 (Dunn and 35 Co-authors) would divide ballot mea sures into two groups: Amendments submitted JhjL f o m m t m w & j c d i k . Published every Monday by the Commonwealth Club of California Office, Hotel St. Francis - Phone DOuglas 2-4903 San F r a n c is c o 19, C a lif . F ou n d ed 1903 "Get the Facts” — Founder Adams Entered as second class mail matter at the San Francisco post office, May 11. 1925. Subscription rate one dollar per quarter, included in monthly dues. Editor, Stuart R. Ward; Managing Editor, Wm. L. Hudson. KOREAN CIVIL WAR? (Continued) tion. The Russians decided not to cooperate and, three weeks after the occupation forces took over, all economic and political relations between North and South Korea came to a stop, as well as most social contact. — People were allowed to go from North Korea to South Korea, but only Communists were allowed north. Incident after incident took place along the Parallel. — The attempts of the U. S.— U.S.S.R. Joint Commission to establish a united Korea failed. The Russians carried on an incessant propa ganda by every means at hand against the United States. — When the Russian army entered Korea, it entered as a conquering force, with all guns blazing, and in full armor. It made the Ko reans believe that the Soviet Union had won the war against Japan single-handed. — The Russians set up a native ‘Korean Peo ple’s Committee/ trained in Siberia, to conduct a Communist government backed by Soviet arms. — What Japanese plants the Russians wanted, they stripped and carted to Siberia. The others were operated with Japanese technicians. — The Russians lived off the land and treated the Koreans like slaves. Whoever did not like it was deprived of his ration card, his property confiscated, and he was either shot or ordered to cross into the American zone. — All political parties, except the Commu nists were liquidated or pushed underground. Hundreds of political leaders in North Korea, of Christian and other faiths, were arrested and by the Legislature would be in one group, ar ranged in the order of submission by the Legis lature; initiatives and initiative constitutional amendments would be in the other, arranged by lot. OFFICERS OF THE CLUB MORTON R. G I B B O N S ..........................President r a y b . w i s e r ................................ Vice-President e d m u n o b u t l e r .................................... Secretary JAMES K . M O F F IT T .................................. Treasurer EDGAR e . ROBINSON . . Chmn. Exec. Comm. st u a r t R. w a r d . . . . Executive Secretary WILLIAM L. HUDSON . Asst. Executive Secretary GOVERNORS OF THE CLUB A. F. BRAY, HENRY J . BRUNNIER, HILARY H. CRAWFORD, MONROE E. DEUTSCH, MAURICE T. DOOLING, JR ., PAUL C. EDWARDS, JAMES A. JOHNSTON, ROBERT LITTLER, A. H . MOFFITT, JR ., RICHARD R. PERKINS, EDGAR E. ROBINSON, ALBERT A. ROSENSHINB, JOHN F. SHBLLBY, HOMER R. SPENCE, MAX THELEN, EUGENB T. THURSTON. THE COMMONWEALTH jailed. In North Korea all opposition was silenced or liquidated/ — While the Communists obeyed the Russians implicitly, the Koreans o f other political per suasion hated the Russians passionately because they had fostered Communism in Korea. — What few Communists remained, were un derground. However, the Russians trained Korean Communists in Siberia awaiting the Day. — When that day came, they entered Korea with a full-grown Communist government ready for action. Not only did they soon dominate all North Korea, but began to infiltrate all phases of life in South Korea to undermine American efforts to create a democratic Korea. —At first, Koreans of all political faiths thought Korean Communists were agrarian communists, but were Korean patriots first. —They soon discovered that Korean Commu nists, like all others the world over, were Rus sian Communists first, last, and all the time. —The North Koreans who lost their ration cards and had to go into the forests to eat pine bark or roots, soon discovered that Com munism was a diabolical instrument of en slavement. — In South Korea, with thousands of Russiantrained North Korean communist agents in filtrating throughout that section, stirring up strikes, committing sabotage, arson, murders, beatings and rape, most people consider Com munism an insidious system of mental seduc tion—a clever scheme to trap the mind and rob ¿he spirits of men of all that is decent, honest and generous, in order to achieve its vile ends. —That objective in South Korea has been to bring dissension between the Koreans and the Americans, which it nearly succeeded in doing on several occasions. — The Leftist provisional government set up by the Japanese did not want to surrender its authority to our military government, and it took General Hodge about three months to ease it out. That did not sit well with the politicians of the Left. — Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge had orders to set up a democratic regime in Korea, and he did so even against the vocal opposition of the Commu nists, as well as the quieter but more potent ob jections of the Rightists. — South Korea became engulfed in turmoil, be cause the Communists did not like us and tried to sabotage all our efforts at setting up a (Continued on next page) 47 S. F. Streetcar History Seen as Prime Exemplar of Unfair Competition THE HISTORY of San Francisco streetcar ser vice exemplifies in superlative measure the "op position, retardation, and unfair competition, well-nigh piratical, that goes with municipal ownership and competition, after pioneering by private enterprise,” Carlos B. Lastreto, retired world trader, said recently before the City Planning Section. He told how 90 years ago two companies pioneered from North Beach beyond South Park; private companies in the next several decades ran lines over the hills to the foot o f Mason, the foot of Hyde, to Cow Hollow, to the Cliff House and the Ocean Beach, “when the land west of the cemetaries was open country/’ The Stockton Street Tunnel, he said, was pierced at private expense but “ the Municipal Railway stealthily appropriated the free rightof-way and got the cream/* Lastreto said the Market Street Line pioneered ample service west of Twin Peaks with lines around both sides and over the top. The tunnel was bored at expense of private owners who had peti tioned for Market Street Line service but “ with totalitarian spirit, the Municipal seized the tunnel right-of-way and occupied the strategic places in its competitor’s territory.” Though the Market Street Company had long before run its Castro Line over the Market Street hill, the Municipal Railway, with its out side tracks, “robbed the Company of the pa tronage it had built up,” Lastreto stated. “ Later the taxpayer had to pay no small amount to have these tracks torn up.” “ In probably all these exploratory develop ments, private entrepreneurs graded and paved at their cost, but in many places the Municipal Railway evaded these expenses at cost of other city departments. For example, the construc tion of the 'B' or 'C roadbed was delayed un til streets had been graded by the City and by property owners.” Lastreto detailed how city officials prevented private owners from installing “ dangerous” overhead trolley wires but, when the Geary line was taken over, the city immediately stretched copper wires over the Geary Street slot. The Market Street line made track con nections to serve the 1915 Exposition, he said, but the City took this business away by ex tending the Geary line. Two suits resulted; “Judge Lawlor delayed action even when the Supreme Court issued mandamus, but the day 48 THE COMMONWEALTH S. F. STREETCAR HISTORY (Continued) the Exposition closed he issued two decisions, both against the City and in favor o f the Mar ket Street Railway/* Jitneys, too, Lastreto pointed out, were per mitted by city officials to compete with the private companies but not with the Municipal. The Market Street Company was forbidden to operate one-man streetcars but the Municipal Railway operates one-man busses. “ Speaking from memory, I have but sum marized some of the cases of a continuous, consistent policy, through all administrations, Republican, Democratic, Capital, Labor; of ob struction and antagonism and, later, unfair and killing competition . . . . It was the all-round killing antagonism that corroded the Market Street Railway to junk/’ KOREAN CIVIL WAR? (Continued) democracy. The conservatives did not want us either, because we insisted on treating the Communists in a democratic manner, while the Rightists wanted them liquidated. — No matter what we did or did not do, or which way we turned we were damned and reviled from all sides. — When the clouds of insurrection appeared, however, the non-Communist Koreans begged us to stay and protect them, until they grew strong enough to protect themselves. — There is no democracy in Korea because, like all Orientals, they have never had the train ing or traditions in it. It will take several generations before they begin to practice the rudiments of democratic government. We should not expect anything else, nor should we try to mold them into our image. — The two zones are now armed camps, await ing but the hour that must surely come when they must have a test of strength, to save 'face/ —Neither half of Korea can exist for long independent of the other economically. How ever, the two political ideologies are irreconcil able. — To unite Korea, one or the other must be destroyed, or surrender to the other. No amount of peaceful negotiations can bring that IN MEMORIAM P. B. HACKLEY Joined the Club October 20, 1925 Died February 19, 1949 SECTION LUNCHEONS St. Francis Hotel— Unless Otherwise Noted "There Is no such thing as selective freedom of speech" Tuesday, March 8th LIQUOR PROBLEMS—Speaker, Edmund A. Rossi. Manager, Wine Advisory Board. Subject, “ Should Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages Be Prohibited bv L¿w?M SPANISH GROUP OF LATIN AMERICA—Instruc tor, Don Ulpiano Borja. Subject, "Lección Trece/* Wednesday, March 9th BEGINNERS SPANISH (Principiantes)—Instructor, Don Ulpiano Borja. (Downtown Restaurant, 78 Ellis St.) IMMIGRATION & AMERICANIZATION—Speaker, E. H. Howden, Report Chairman. Subject, Sub mission of Final Report on “ What Should Be the Americanization Policy of the United States?’ * Thursday, March 10th GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY & FINANCE— Speaker, J. Rupert Mason, Retired Investment Banker. Subject, “ Municipal Tax Problems in Canada.** (El Jardín Restaurant, 26 California St.) Friday, March 11th AGRICULTURE—Speaker, Hon. Bradford S. Critten den, Chairman, State Senate Interim Committee on Water. Subject, “ State and Federal Authority in Planning Water Control and Conservation Projects and Timing on Construction.'* APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP I f no objections are filed with the Secretary prior to March 21, 1949, following applicants will stand elected: CROMWELL, FREDERIC, manufacturer, Richmond Pacific Iron Co., 1440 Montgomery St., S. F. By Chellis Carpenter. GOTAAS, HAROLD B., Professor of Sanitary En gineering, University of California, 175 The Up lands, Berkeley, Calif. By Francis S. Foote. PATTERSON, SYDNEY R., sales representative, California Casket Co., 2345 Bay St., S. F. By Engel T. Mayne. STARK, DONALD D., attorney, California Supreme Court, research attorney, 428 Vidal Dr., S. r. By Douglas L. Edmonds. WHITMORE, W. W ., adv. program supvr., The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., Rm. 428, 140 New Montgomery St., S. F. By Robert D. Ross. ORRETT, LEYLAND M., senior meteorologist, Pan American Airways, 772 Taylor Ave., Alameda, Calif. By Richard C. McClellan. EDMUND BUTLER, M.D., Secretary March 7, 1949 about. — There probably will be a civil war. If that happens, there will be a fearful and torrential blood letting. —The only alternatives to civil war are an in vasion by an American force into North Korea, bringing union by conquest, or a third world war between Russia and the United States which will destroy Communism. —The first alternative is possible but improb able. The second is quite possible and prob able. In any case the tinder box is there. It awaits but the match/* COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS, SAN FRANCISCO, 19 TWELFTH FLOOR OFFICERS DOUGLAS 2-4903 President . . DR. MORTON R. GIBBONS, SR. .....................RAY B. WISER . . . . DR. EDMUND BUTLER T re aslM r. .....................J. K. MOFFITT Chmn. Exec. Comm. . PROF. EDGAR E. ROBINSON Executive Secretary . . . . STUART R. WARD Asst. Executive Secretary . . . W M. L. HUDSON Yice-fi|*tìdent ?ecrC FOUN D ED 1903 G O V E R N ORS JUSTICE A. F. BRAY A. H. MOFFITT, JR. HENRY J. BRUNNIER RICHARD R. PERKINS HILARY H. CRAWFORD PROF. EDGAR E. ROBINSON M ONROE E. DEUTSCH ALBERTA. ROSENSHINE JUSTICE M. T. DO O LIN G JOHN F. SHELLEY PAUL C. EDWARDS JUSTICE HOMER R. SPENCE JAMES A. JOHNSTON MAX THELEN ROBERT LITTLER E. T. THURSTON April 12, 1949 Dear Mr. Eccles: O n behalf of the Commonwealth Club of California thank y o u most cordially and m os t heartily for the outstanding luncheon address w i t h which you favored our membership last Friday noon. do not exceed the m a rk when I say that your address on "Today’s Challenge to Democratic Capitalism" will be remembered long, and w i t h respect, for the courageous way in which you set forth some highly disagreeable— but highly vital— facts regarding our national life, facts w h i ch w e as citizens must face— and doubtless the sooner the betterl c I heard very many favorable comments from members as they left the room, and I am sure that you as a n exper ienced speaker did not fail to note your talk was listened to wi t h exceptional earnestness. Certainly y o u succeeded in making a lasting dent in what I label the "be nice and all will be well fraternity". A gain w it h hearty appreciation from all of us, I a m Sincerely yours, Stuart R. War Executive Secretary SEW: ms Mr. Marriner S. Eccles Member, Federal Reserve Board Washington, D.C* Study Groups DELINQUENCY ADi D| ECONOM ICS iTRATION OF JUSTICE ;dsell IM M IG R AT IO N & AMERICANIZATION J. C. Russell AGRICULTURE Samuel H. Greene EDUCATION FORESTS AN D RECREATION INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Walter M. Warren ATOM IC BOMB Dr. Russel V. Lee GOVT. EFFICIENCY & FINANCE Warren H. Pillsbury INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Nat J. L. Pieper H IG H W AYS & TRANSPORTATION Chester C. Fisk LATIN AMERICA Prof. T. Harper Goodspeed rRlWL AVIATION CITY PLANNING David D. Bohannon LEGISLATION & ELECTIONS Clarence E. Todd LIQUOR PROBLEMS Stanley A. Weigel MINERAL INDUSTRIES J. B. Newsom M UNICIPAL & COUNTY GOVT. A. H. Sagehorn N ATIONAL DEFENSE Gen. Edward M. Shinkle PACIFIC OCEAN PROBLEMS Prof. James T. Watkins PROPAGANDA PUBLIC HEALTH Delger Trowbridge PUBLIC UTILITIES L. M. Perrin LUNCHEON PROGRAM COMMITTEE Francis V. Keesling, Sr. May 12, 1949. Mr. Stuart it. Ward, Executive Secretary, Commonwealth ^lub of California, The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco 19, California. Dear Mr. Ward: Your very kind letter of April Ik deserved a prompter acknowledgment but I have returned only recently to my desk after my trip to the Coast. It is most gratifying to have your assurance that ray talk evoked favorable comment among various members. Again thanking you for your courtesies, I a» Sincerely yours, M. S.Eccles. ET:mnm Leave Ogden 11:4.0 a.m. Leave Salt Lake 12:30 p.m. (stop at Los Vegas) Arrive Los Angeles 3*50 p.m. Leave Los Angeles (Stops Arrive Salt Lake Arrive Ogden (Western Air Lines) 11:00 p.m. (stop Los Vegas) 1:55 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. at Los Vegas & Cender City) 6:25 p.m. 10:20 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 1:30 a.m. (Stop at Los Vegas) 6:30 a.m.
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