Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 January 1950 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 1950.

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weoKly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic New«esner in Delaware County Watered as second class matter January 15, 1923, *t the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of taas-ch 3. 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 27, 1950.

Why Republicans Back Militarist Policy One of the curious political features of our times is the extent to which the Republican Party, strongly antimilitarist in the prewar period, finds itself associated more and more with the military point of view in this present postwar period. The reason is probably very much more accident than conscious design. The Republicans were in opposition before the war and are still in opposition today. Before the war the Democrats were taking the initiative in building the armed strength of the United States, and therefore the Republicans, in order to be different, were forced to oppose the building of armed strength. In this present period the Democrats have taken the initiative in demobilizing and in curbing the influence of the military in public affairs. Again, if the Republicans are to be different, they have to follow the contrary line of representing the military point of view on many a public issue. One example of the prewar Republican position was the overwhelming opposition of the Republican delegation in Congress to the fortification of the island of Guam in the mid-Pacific. In February of 1939 an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the fortification of Guam was defeated. House Republicans divided on that issue, 15 being in favor of the appropriation and 138 against it. Another example was the vote in June of 1939 on an aircraft procurement program of $37,000,000. On the division, five Republicans favored the program while 122 voted against it. The net result of these two, and many similar incidents in the period ledaing up to World War II, was that the armed services came to look upon the Democrats as their benefactors and friends, and on the Republicans as their opponents. Today the situation is almost diametrically opposite. Republicans who opposed fortifying Guam in the mid-Pacific before, are in favor now of putting the United States into the island of Formosa in the far Pacific. In this case the trend in the party is to favor going further than the high brass of the Pentagon wants to go—more militarist than the militarists themselves. Of course the inconsistency is just as pronounced on the part of the Democrats, this being a reversal of roles on both sides. Then take some of the other examples. On Capitol Hill, Republicans have become the particular sponsors and defenders of the air force. That branch of the armed services has consistently fought for its famous 70-group formula. The President has consistently opposed them, and has laid down the law for a top limit of 48 groups. Republicans have just as consistently given aid and comfort to the air force case, and kept the 70-group formula politically alive. Republicans are the Washington spokesmen for Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s views about the Far East in general, and China in particular. Republicans provided the political backing which made it possible for the military occupation authoritie sin Germany to halt dismantling of German industries. Finally, Republicans are the last hope of the unofficial group at the Pentagon which still agitates for militray control of atomic energy. It is to be doubted that a majority of congressional Republicans ever would vote to turn atomic energy back to the military. But there is more sentiment to be found in that, direction among Republicans than among Democrats. The long and the short of it is that the Republicans, being in opposition, are the natural resort of all persons dissatisfied with administration policies. Those policies call for gradually cutting the military budget. So the military turns for comfort to the opposition. It is perfectly natural. It probably would be true in reverse if the position of the two parties were reversed.. But it is a political fact of the day that the Republicans are getting themselves more frequently associated with a military point of view than is customary for them.—Christian Science Monitor, Russian Inventors Who invented the electric light? If you say Edison, you’re wrong—it was a Russian named Yablochkov. Who devised the telegraph ? If you say Morse, you’re wrong again —it was another Russian named Yakobi. The radio? No* it wasn’t Marconi—it was still another Russia nnamed Popov. How about the first successful flying machine? If you answer “the Wright brothers” you’ll have to go to the bottom of the class—a Russian called Mozhaisky flew like a bird near St. Petersburg 20 years before the Wrights took off at Kitty Hawk. These, and similar revelations, are disclosed by Edmund Stevens in Christian Science Monitor. He found them in a Soviet magazine called the Uiterary Gazette. They show, he says, one of the ways the Soviet party “woos Russian national pride. The move corresponds to a vital need of Russians to vindicate their self-respect and destroy the residue of an old sense of inferiority. It also increases the Russian’s confidence in their capacity to, catch up with and outstrip the rest of the world technically at the present

time.” It is, in other words, an example of the kind of morale-building propaganda the government is now feeding the Russian masses. Moreover, it is an example of how the Soviet bosss will use any untruth or halftruth to serve their ends. Communist thinking holds that the end justifies the use of any means. If a lie will work, it is told. Words are twisted out of all semblance to what they mean to other nations. That is touched on in General Walter Bedell Smith’s revelations of his experiences as Ambassador to Moscow, which appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post and are now out in book form. He, Secretary Marshall, and other Americans, he says, “Naively assumed that the word ‘democracy’ meant the same thing to the Politburo that it did to us.” Events proved that nothing could have been more wrong. The Russians gave ‘democracy’ a new meaning which suited them, and thus managed to give interpretations to international agreements which were the exact opposite of what the West had intended. This policy is one of the principal reasons for our failure to meet the Russians on common ground. Letter To The Editor 1710 South Liberty Street, Muncie, Indiana, January 21, 1949 EDITOR, POST-DEMOCRAT 916 West Main Street, Muncie, Indiana. Dear Editor: You are to be highly commended for publishing the factual and logical article on the Chinese situation by Congressman Andrew Jacobs, which appeared in the Jan. 20th issue of your paper. Congressman Jacobs is to be congratulated for his courage in stating the truth about a difficult situation. I have read extensively on the issue, and wish to say that Congressman Jacobs’ article is among the finest things which I have seen on the subject. We Americans can thank Heaven that our President and our Secretary of State had the backbone to stand pp to the Hoovers, the MacArthurs, the Tafts, et al who tried to push our country into an imperialistic war which would have won us the hatred of four-fifths of all the peoples in the world, and run the risk of destroying mankind from the face of the earth. At long last President Truman seems to have realized that Chiang Kai-shek and his regime are in the first place not worth saving and in the second place beyond redemption. How much better off the world would have been had he realized that back in 1946. He had at his disposal plenty of information to enlighten him on the corruption, the totalitarian nature and the inefficiency of the Chiang regime. The Stilwell papers, the Marshall report, and the Wallace report which was made in 1944 and kept covered up until last week, all furnished ample grounds for believing that no amount of military or other aid which we might give to Chiang would succeed in forcing the Chinese people into accepting him as their ruler. Had our Administration acted accordingly we would have had many more friends today, and would have had the some, four to six billions of dollars, which we have poured down the Chinese drain in an effort to force the Chinese people to accept Chiang and his corrupt regime, and democracy would have been in a much better position in the world today, and the world would have been farther along the road to peace. The following two sentences from the Wallace report substantiates most of what Congressman Jacobs said in his excellent article : “Chiang at best, is a short term investment. It is not believed that he has the intelligence or the political strength to run post-war China.” It now appears that Rep. Jacobs along with President Truman and Secretary Acheson have all awakened to the prophetic truth contained in those two sentences. How much better off both America and the world would be today had that been the case four years ago. Another deeply prophetic statement contained in the Wallace report follows: “The leaders of post-war China will be brought forward by evolution or revolution, and it now appears more likely the latter.” That just what has happened in China, despite the four or six billions of dollars the U. S. has spent in an effort to prevent its happening. Had our leaders had the vision to have seen the truth of the revolution and of bringing about a change in China without all the blood and suffering, and China today might have been in our camp rather in the Russian camp. The absolute assinity and skulduggery of the Tafts, the Wherrys, the Bridges, et al who would have pushed us into war in an effort to secure Chiang on the island of Formosa was manifest the other day when they voted down funds to help the Southern Koreans in their fight against the Communist in Northern Korea. This proves beyond doubt that the opposition which has been trying to get us into war over Formosa is more interested in opposing the Administration that in settling the problems of the world and saving both democracy and peace. While commending the Democrats for not allowing the hot headed Republicans to push us into war over the status of Formosa and dictator Chiang, I am sorry to note that the same group seems to be succeeding in pushing the Administration, including Secretary Acheson, into recognizing Fascist Spain and its dictator who was placed on the throne by Hitler and Mussolini. This appears, to me, to be an inconsistency on the part of the Administration. Allow me further to congratulate you for publishing comments on the Sunday School lessons by Dr. Foreman. His comments are excellent and I enjoy them very much. Sincerely yours, C. L. ARRINGTON.

SCRIPTURE: Acts 8:4—11:18. DEVOTIONAL READING: Romans 3:21-30.

Unto All Men Lesson for January 29, 1950

r# M ARK TIME, Christian Soldiers,” is not a Christian hymn. The word is “Onward, Christian Soldiers!” The cofnmand was given' by no less a person than Jesus himself: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them . . . teaching them . . .” (Matt. 28:19, 20) Do you know some one in the church who says h e doesn’t believe v i n missions? Such a man does not take Christ seriously. If you do believe in _ Christ then his Dr. Foreman commands are for you to obey, not to ignore.

When Men Delay TTP TO NOW, the church has ^ been playing around with Jesus’ command. Very few denominations are actually putting any large amount of money or manpower into obeying Christ’s command to go into all the world. One fairly typical American denomination contributed last year to all benevolences, that is to all causes not in their own local congregations, the sum of $9,137,065. That sounds like a lot; but divided by the total number of members it boils down to $14.03 per member for the year, or less than five cents a day. And of course not all that big sum of five cents went to missions of any sort. Yet that denomination gives more per capita to missions than most others do. When a man who gives less than five cents a day to carry the good news of Christ into the wide world sings “Onward, Christian Soldiers!” or prays “Thy Kingdom come!” how much does he mean it? Not a nickel’s worth! Or tafce the question of manpower. This same denominatiof

tends out as missionaries, every year, as many men and women as are sent by some denominations three times its size. And yet, even so, th*e total number of ordained ministers in that denominatio»j who are foreign missionaries isj only 4 per cent of their total num- 1 ber of ministers. “Go into all the world,” said the Master. “Four per cent of us will,” we reply, “the rest of us will stay at home.”

* • • When Men Obey |l S A MATTER OF FACT, even . the earliest church was slow to pay real attention to Christ’s command, Forward! Men are strange creatures. And one of the strange things about us is that we , often have to be scared into doing our duty. It took the persecution set off by the death of Stephen to move the , Christians in Jerusalem out along the roads south, north, east, anywhere to get away from the city of death. Everywhere they went, they told the story of Jesus. But at first it was all rather ! breathless and informal. “Why are you here?” one of these DP’s would be asked, as he was passing through Samaria or Antioch or Alexandria, perhaps in the bread-line, perhaps looking for a place to work, and settle down. “I’m a refugee from Jerusalem,” he' would say. “But why?” “Well, I’m a Christian.” “What’s that?” So the story would be told all over again, the good news about God's grace in Christ. So the church spread. Today, though an enormous part of the world’s population is still unwon, there are Christians in so many lands that the Bible—all or parts of it—has had to be translated into more than one thousand different languages and dialects. • • • ‘ Unto All Men ^NNE OF THE MOST interesting and surprising little books of recent years is called “They Found the Church There,” by li. P. Van Dusen. It is the dramatic story of how the American GI, to his great astonishment, found Christians in the most unexpected places. It is a tremendous mistake to think that the Christian religion is only for English-speak-ing peoples, or for Europeans, or for white people. It began among people whom most readers of this column would set down as “foreigners.” Christ can be as much at home in an igloo or a wigwam as he is in an American farmhouse or in an efficiency apartment on the city boulevard. He comes to all men, and as Peter found out, the Lord is no respecter of persons. >

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions, that he who loses anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer by the loss. —L’Estrange

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Love” is the subject of the Les-son-Sermon in all Churches oi Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, January 29. The Golden Text is: “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying 1 , Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee" (Jeremiah 31:3). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth” (John 4:46, 47, 50, 61). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “When the evidence before the material senses yielded to spiritual sense, the apostle declared that nothing could alienate him from God, from the sweet sense and presence of Life and Truth” (p. 303). “This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death” (p. 304). Denier, Gauge Key to Wear The mystery of what kind of hose to choose for dress, business and sportswear is solved when you understand the key words “denier” and “gauge.” “Denier” — the weight of the

Melchior, Traubel Highly Praise IU Symphony An appraisal by two of the ranking stars of New York’s Metropolitan Opera of the Indiana University School of Music and its student symphony orchestra has interested local musicians and music lovers. Lauritz Melchior, tenor, and Helen Traubel, soprano, of the famed Met, were high in their praise of the I. U. orchestra after singing with it in a concert recently. Melchoir, who frequently appears wih professional orchestras, said he could not recall having ever sung “with an orchestra that showed so much enthusiasm and musical feeling.” As for the I. U. music school, he described it as “an oasis in a musical desert.”

nylon thread used in fashioning a pair of stockings — shows how sheer the stockings will be. A fine dress hose of 15-denier thread is very sheer; 20-denier stockings are good for business and everyday wear. For heavier service — shopping, sports, or campus fun — a 30-denier stocking will be the best weight. Taken together with “denier,” stocking “gauge” indicates how closely knit stockings are. A 54or 51-gauge stocking is very closely woven, a 45-gauge stocking has slightly less stiches per square inch, etc. Once a wardrobe of dress, business and sports hoisery is stocked, a kit which keeps stockings pigeonholed can be as useful in a home as a filing cabinet is in an office. For this filing away in clear plastic pockets marked “date,” “play” or “day” is the purpose of a new stocking kit. This snaps shut to make a plaid folding case or unfolds its full length to be hung on the inside of a closet door.

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Notional Health (Continued From ^age One) this country, is a colossal success. At the start, the British medical association vigorously oppsed it. No doctor was compelled to enter,

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But there are people who are trying to give the U. S. government more and more control over American life. .Let the government start,” they say, "by taking over certain industries and services—the doctors, the railroads, the electric light and power companies.” Most of these people—like most Americans—don't want a socialistic U*. S. A. They have other reasons for government control. But when government, moving step by step, controls enough things, you have a socialist government, whether you want it or not. You'll be controlled, too. Then what freedoms will you be able to pass on to your children?

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