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PAGE 8 | Saturday, Oct. 25, 1947 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Pen

ive Light and the People Will Pind Thew' Own Way

Why Minorities Control

ACTOR ROBERT MONTGOMERY, who fought fascism

and is a valiant opponent of communism, testifies that pro-Communists in Hollywood are “a small minority.” We believe that is true. . Yet he and other like-minded witnesses agree, in statements to the ‘Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities, that this small minority exerts an evil influence out of all proportion to its size, : The Communists, Mr. Montgomery asserts, never have been able to dominate the Screen Actors Guild. Another member of that organization, George Murphy, estimates that less than 1 per cent of its membership is Communistie. But he, Mr. Montgomery and Ronald Reagan, the SAG's

. president, all say the few Communists in it are a constant

menace. As Mr. Montgomery explains, they are organized and thoroughly disciplined. They show up at meetings with a complete program, and are tireless in working to put it through. The Screen Writers Guild, on the other hand, is “completely dominated” by Communists and party-liners, according to one anti-Red member, Morrie Ryskind. Another, Fred Niblo Jr., calls the SWG the “spark-plug and spearhead” of pro-Russian activity in Hollywood, and tells of efforts to smear and harass him because he stands for Amer-

" ican ideals. A third, Richard Macaulay, testifies that anti-

Communists who speak up in meetings are subjected to “a constant program of intimidation by a well-organized claque.” All this is an old story, in a new setting. In most American labor unions, if not in all, Communists and their sympathizers are a minority, usually a tiny minority. Yet a considerable number of unions are under Communist domination, and a great many more are in constant danger of it. i

Why? Because the Communists are organized, disci-

_ plined, always active; because they know exactly what they | "- want to accomplish; because they go to meetings with 8 __program, and are willing to stay until they wear down op-

by abuse, intimidation, parliamentary maneuvers OF any Othiéf weapon that serves their purpose. . = If the great majority of pro-American union members are willing to be equally active, tiréless, vigilant and deter‘mined, they can save or rescue their organizations from Communist control. Mhat, we believe, is a duty they owe to themselves, their unions and their country.

You Don't Have to Buy 'Em

- J3EEF and pork are high priced.

#80 are caviar and Cadillacs, Under the circumstances, we limit our consumption of the embalmed Russian fish eggs. Many a healthy, happy citizen never tasted the stuff. And so with Cadillacs. It's possible to get about in a 1989 Chevvy or even ride the bus. , But beef and pork—per capita annual consumption in this country is up to 1556 pounds, or 80 more pounds than in 1987, Here is one key to the secret of high prices. Back in the old days, before the new enlightenment, a family which couldn't afford didn’t buy. Cadillacs on a Chevrolet income produced remarks from the neighbors about certain people being headed for the poorhouse. Usually the neighbors were right.

And let no one introduce any rabble-rousing hokum

about ill feeding. Beef and pork are not the Sole sources of cplories and vitamins, of proteins and carbohydrates. Healthful, balanced diets are easily possible with little of them, or none for that matter. It's just a matter of preference. Like some people, including the Russians, going for caviar, All of which points up President Truman's plea for meatless days,

i The feeding of hungry Europeans isn't the sole consideration, We do not have—obviously from the statistics— enough beef and pork to go around. So eat a little less—one dhy less anyhow——and help spread the supply, incidentally helping to hold the price down. :

It wouldn't hurt anyone who can afford to gorge him- |

self on dollar-a-pound steak to cut down on the other days, too. .

20 Years Later

NEXT week, at Key West, Fla., a ceremony will be held |

dedicating the birthplace of U. S. international aviation. From that spot, Oct. 28, 1927, Pan American Airways flew its first mail and passenger plane across the narrow Florida straits to Havana, Cuba. Twenty years later, that airline spans the globe, touches all continents. And it is only one of a large number of international airlines, which together fly scheduled trips oyer 500,000 miles of routes, . Twenty years later, a flying wing, with a spread of 172 feet, fully loaded weight of 100 tons., powered by eight jet ehgines, is being put through its tests. And there are bombers, already tested and ready for use, which can fly from anywhere in the world to any place in the world, non-stop, * Hold onto your hat for what's likely to happen in the next 20 years.

Tough Assignment

[ENGLAND has resumed the export of Rolls-Royce auto- + mobiles to this country, and that seems to intensify an already puzzling question. i How are Americans going to help Britons build up their

. dollar balances by buying $19,000 cars and drinking $7

h, and still avoid being cursed by most of Europe as capitalists who live in selfish, sinful luxury while the rest of the world goes hungry? =.

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d hopefully. “Yeah, like putting the butcher knife on the floor and havin’ her fall out of bed on it with a nightmare,” said the fitth assistant seript-writer. “I got it—1 got it—I got it,” shrieked the assistant director. “Let's have the killer a mad Russian planting an A-bomb under the kid's bed thas stark realism if I ever had it.” He patted his back gleefully. “Yeah,” the producer said slowly and not half so loudly. “That'd be more in tunes with the times.” MOVIE GOER. * *

INDIANA HILLS Indiana hills are calling, Though I am far away, The peaceful, sloping valleys, Are in my mind today,

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . .

Mirror of U. S. Reflects Our Indecision Abroad

By MARQUIS CHILDS LONDON, Oct. 35--Robert Burns wrote about the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us. For Americans at this particular moment in history, that gift is supremely important,

is coming up. But Europeans always measure our off-again-on-again performance alongside the vast economic power for good or evil that

|. is today concentrated ih the United States, This is a fact which,

as Americans, we are too often inclined to forget. Europe cannot forget it. Europe take, or fail to take, will determine the direction of history for a long time to come. The Communists know it, believe me! And not along the Communists! The conservatives and the moderates, who stand to lose most in any catastrophic change, are watching our’ backing and filling with the kind of breathless fear that would be; inspired by watching a tight-rope walker over Niagara Falls,

We Still Argue Fundamentals

CONSIDER THE PRESENT MOMENT and what led up to it. In early May, Britain's Forelgn Secretary Ernest Bevin began

in France would be critical by early fall. Bevin knew it would be even more acute than in Britain, ' Similar and yet more staccato warnings came from France and the continent. The three-alarm fire bell was ringing six months ago. Yet the firemen are still arguing. They are arguing not alone about

whether or not it should be put out, or whether we can afford to put it out. That is not an exaggeration. One of the Congressmen returning from Europe showed me an editorial from his home-town paper agreeing that if Europeans wanted to go Communist, we should let them go Communist and see how they liked it. Having done a conscientious job of study in Europe, this Middle Western Republican knew what a Communist Europe would mean to America, and he shook his head grimly over the editorial. Ernest Bevin knows the reason for our hesitations and indecisions. He ‘knows that under our constitution, when the Congress is held by one party and the Presidency by another, it is all but

Europeans understand that an undertaking entered into by the ~ President doesn't in any way bind the Congress. Hence the rotary movement, round and round and round, reflected in, dispatches from Washington. From this side it sometimes seems that Americans have a feeling’ of frustration at not being able to move decisively, And as a compensation for their frustration, they go after the scapegoat of communism. To Europeans it does not look.as simple as that. They fear that the continuous ‘stream of “communism” can end only in inevitable war between two blind giants. France is a good illustration of what this means. Every upset, including the recent strike on the subway, is put down to tne France

machinations of the Communists. Actually, in there are

very grave economic strains which put & heavy burden on all wage~

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Food and Fuel for Europe

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25-Debate on whether the United States can afford to furnish Marshall Plan: aid to Europe is apparently headed for long and bitter

This is indicated by preliminary and entirely un-

put at 95 million short tons for the next four years. They scale down from 45 million tons in 1948 to seven million in 1951. . American coal consumption this year will be 625 Peak U. 8. coal production was 684 million tons in 1944. That makes a surplus of 59 million tons productive capacity from which to fill European needs. It is 14 million tons greater than

The money to pay for this coal will have to be advanced by the U. 8. taxpayers. With the credit of so many European nations in such shaky condition, it

is impossible to expect the American coal industry to carry the importing nations on the cuff for four

Seen from this side of the Atlantic, our uncertainties, our divi- | sions, our fumbling hesitation, our timidities have quite a different | look. Back home we say: “That's just politics, and an election year |

nows that the decisions we |

to tell U. S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas that the economic condition |

how to put out thé fire. Part of the argument is on the level of |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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3 The petroleum situation is just the opposite. Europe produces little of its own oil. It will need -to import 172 million short tons during the next four . years. Practically all of it is going to have to come from the Caribbean, thedMiddle East or Indonesia. The U. 8. is now a net importer of petroleum This in spite of the fact that U. 8S. production

on National Resources, prepared by experts . ihoy will need 88 million short tons from 16 U. 8. government agencies, working under

Europe's Need Takes Management TO SUPPLY EUROPE with the additional one or two million tons of wheat indicated will take not only four years of perfect crop weather but also considerThe whole thing points up the necessity for the present conservation drive, In reducing Europe's import grain demand, one of the most effective measures’ would be an increase in shipments of fertilizer, Europe and North Africa have ample supplies of phosphates. The shortage is in nitrogen. For every ton of nitrogen sent to Europe, the grain yield could be increased by 12 to

‘Caint Spell, but Sure Can Vote’

By Ann O’'Nymous, City

of wheat in the |.

a next four years. The demand scales down from 26 hafto: show where place fer . Warm in front, and cold behind. : “direction of Interior Secretary J. A. Krug. million tons in 1946 to 20 million tons in 1951. About | our kiddies to play. Our busy streets is full ov “for walks so pleasing, > 2 : a third of this is expected to come from the U, 8. | childern riskin there necks and lives and limbs And the grand old folks I knew, THE TONE OF THE KRUG REPORT is that the ,the U. 8. at from eight to nine million tons a year. em. All the play stuff practicaly has ben takin Before we had the modern ways. U. 8. can furnish al aid needed, without strain on The Krug report says that in the year ending last | in and thet’s the only place with enuf space fer its resources. A check-up against stated requirements June 30, the U. 8. exported nearly 12 million short | em off the streets. Why dont some of these ~T. J. PIERS. in the European report shows it may not be so easy, tons of bread grain and flour, Sixty per cent, | candydates fer mayer come down and see what 2 44 , Also, the Krug report takes no account of the finan- or about seven million tons, went to Europe. It is | we need in W. Indianapolis and theyll make more There was an old codger named Taft, cial drain which a four-year, $20 billion aid program believed that this year's exportable surplus will be | freinds then by crowin about what has bem done, Some persons think he is daft, might make on U. 8. economy. A report on that about the same amount, Ever 1st class city has subways under ther RR He cried, “Gut! dowiy ‘on the eats, . | phase is due by Nov. 1 from the President's Council This year's record U. 8. wheat crop of 40 million | tracks, whether Repubiclan or Democrat. And More especially the meats,” of Economic Advisers, under Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, short tons is about six million tons higher than | most cities I ever lived in also had better lighted Somewhat skin to witchcraft, If all the U. 8. had to furnish was coal, the any previous yield. All this extra wheat might have | streets and more play space fer the kiddies than But when Mr. Taft eats alone, problem of European aid would be easy. The 16- been available for export if the U. 8. corn crop had W. Indiapolis can boast ov, He doesn’t gnaw on & meatless bone. nation coal requirements from the United States are not failed. But with a short corn crop, more wheat Please excuse the spellin ov this letter. I aint

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BACKGROUND . . .

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earners. The surprising thing is not that strikes have occurred but

| that there have been so few.

The London Times, hardly a pro-Communist newspaper, in a long editorial on stop-gap aid, had this to say: “While the peasants have grown richer, the workers have grown steadily poorer, and this at a time when their representatives have claimed a large share of the responsibility for government. Where

| pricts have risen uninterruptedly, wages have remained or have

impossible to carry out a positive foreign policy. Bevin and informed |

been held within fairly narrow limits. This widening breach between wages and prices has caused widespread discontent among the working class.” : Those harsh economic facts cannot be brushed away merely by crying eommunism. Substantial aid from America would help more than anything else to remedy thecause of the strikes and the discontent. i

Plethora of Platitudes

AS HEARD FROM THIS SIDE of the Atlantic, the cry for a crusade against communism—it has something of that shrill sound as it echoes across the water—goes oddly with American military policy. That policy appears to be one of slashing economy endangering even minimum military security, Policy on such trouble spots as Palestine has an evasive ‘wordy sound that commits the United ‘States 0 nothing but platitudes. ~~...)

Business Expert Says: Don’t Bail Out Europe

By WILLIAM PHILIP \ NEW YORK, Oct. 25—Our biggest blunder in the war—a blunder

| that changed the course of history—was when we failed to take Prime | Minister Churchill's advice and send an army into Yugoslavia.

So declares Lewis H. Brown, wartime consultant to the U. 8. chief of ordinance, in an exhaustive report on Germany and Europe and how to get them “off the backs of the American taxpayers.” Mr. Brown, who spoke in Indianapolis Thursday, undertook the mission at the suggestion of Gen. Lucius D. Clay, V. S. military governor in Germany. The report, originally confidential, is made public today to give the American people a better insight into the problems ahead. Mr. Brown is chairman of Johns-Manville, Had we sent an army into Yugoslavia in 1943, the report indicates,

| “neither the United States nor Europe would be in the mess we are in

today. We would not be shoveling out billions to keep the world from collapsing. We, instead of Russia, would be in Central Europe ari the Balkans, and the iron curtain would be far to the east instead of across the heart of Germany. 7 All Europe except Russia would be tied to the west, crops would be ample to feed the continent and industry would be turning out

Supports Marshall Plan

INSTEAD, WE COMMITTED OURSELVES at Yalta and Potsdam

to a policy that could lead only to the present crisis.

. We turned over Yugoslavia, Poland, Eastern Germany, the valleys of the Danube and the Balkans to Russia. That is Europe's food belt. We agreed to wholesale population shifts such as the world never before had seen. We allowed the division of Germany into zones, assented to the application of the Morgenthau policy of Germans under, and to the enforcement of a “level of low that today Europe has to depend upon the U. 8. for vital History, however, is full of portentous “ifs,” and latest and perhaps most fateful of all, it still remains an Two basic objectives guided the report. The first was many must never again be allowed to become a militaristic second was the restoration of German production to the instead of being a burden on American taxpayers, the coun self-supporting and contribute to European recovery as

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