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After the Italian Election x Italy's two-day election, which ends this afternoon, democratic forces can lose decisively but they cannot win with finality. : If they lose, Stalin will control Italy, flank France and Western Europe, and threaten the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. But if anti-Communist parties win at the polls, they still will face Red drives for power through strikes and possible civil war. It is all the more important that Americans understand this disagreeable fact because of their natural elation over forecasts of a Communist “defeat.” All sides in Rome seem to agree that the Reds have lost votes during the“closing weeks of the bitter campaign. Stalin’s rape of Czechoslovakia and pressure on Finland have frightened some Italians vho otherwise might have voted Communist. Russia's rejection of the Ameri-can-British-French proposal for return of Trieste to Italy has been a blow to the Reds. So has Russia's repeated veto of Italy's application for United Nations membership. American ships loaded with relief supplies which would stop with a Red victory, enactment of the Marshall Plan, and letters of warning from relatives in America have turned more Italians away from Stalin's party.. ~All of these factors have cut into the Red vote. But they may not have reduced it below the 40 per cent danger point at which they could demand fifth column seats in the new cabinet. And even if they are adequately blanketed at the polls, Stalin's henchmen are in good position to ‘cause trouble. As long as there is large-scale unemployment in industrial areas and extreme poverty among the landless peasantry, and as long as rampant black-market and inflation victimize the middle class, Italy will remain ripe for Stalin penetration. Foreign relief may swiag the balance in one election. But soon or late the Communists will get Italy unless democratic government produces better results in decent living conditions than’ De Gasperi cabinets have" given the people to date, » 4 The best this election can do is to give democracy an-

Air Power Is Not Enough () VERWHELMING approval by the House of Represen- ~ tatives of a 70-group Air Force is a long step in the right direction. It is the first in a long trek back to national security. 1f we stop now, we deceive ourselves,

~An Air Force of the size and striking visualized by the President's Air Policy Commission—the Finletter Board—is required. As soon as we can get it we must have an air arm which, the commission says, “will be so powerful that if an enemy attacks us we will be able to retaliate with the utmost violence . . . seize and hold advanced bases from which we can divert the destruction from our homeland to his.” There is reason to believe the | Air Force authorized by the House will fill that need. But air power alone is not enough. The President's commission points up the necessity in war to seize and hold bases. That involves manpower—Ilots of it. Gen. Spaatz, foremost air strategist, says those who think we can win a war with bombers alone delude themselves. We must have Universal Military Training and a revival of Selective Service. Each is part of the pattern, each is important to the security of this country. Gen. Bradley says Russia has 170 divisions, twice as many as we had at the peak of our drive in World War II, A 540,000-man army is not enough. Nor is a fast-dis-appearing civilian reserve, and a National Guard at onethird its authorized strength. We are on our way. But we can't afford to loiter along, the road to peace and security.

Dollars Working for Peace

OU hear a lot about people cashing their war bonds to make payments on automobiles, homes and fur coats, but there's a brighter side to the picture. Fact is, there are $2 billion more E bonds owned by the public than on VJ-Day. The E bonds are those familiar little nest-eggs which hatch in 10 years and bring you $100, for example, on a $75 outlay. : Treasury officials acknowledge their amazement at +the way bond sales have held up since the last Victory Loan drive of December, 1945. Evidently Americans have got into the bond-buying habit—a thrifty habit which at the same times serves as a forceful antidote to inflation. A new drive is under way. It's known as the Security Loan campaign. It's intended to add billions more to family savings on every level of American life. And, as President Truman said in opening the drive, every dollar invested “will be a dollar working to win the peace.” For we know now that world peace depenas so much upon a sound, strong and expanding American economy. So, now is the time to buy more bonds. Put your tax savings in bonds, and all the other cash you can spare. It will be working for the welfare of your family and for your country.

Atomic Coincidence

. EDWARD U. CONDON, the Bureau of Standards head who has been attacked as a weak link in our

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OUR COUNTRY CHURCH

(In honor of our little church = “New Berry” near Paoli) ; This little church—this quaint old church That sits by the road of man : "Tis the handiwork of Christian love Achieved by God's great plan.

Each piece of frame—each smallest part Was carefully put in place. The love of God—the peace of soul Bhone on each Christian's face. ; :

But now these saintly souls have gone Their forms no more we see We gently laid them near the church They loved so reverently.

But as we gather here each week To worship in God's way, We feel the presence of these souls, The same as yesterday. =NORA BREEDEN STROTHER.

Pud Galimore tried to get Bo McMillin's old job, After bein’ caut in watermelon patches so many times an’ n' away safely, Pud figger'd he wuz fled to teach the best method uv open field runnin’ ever perfected. » tATTISE PETE.

EVERY DAY IN INDIAN

Every day in Indiana, . There's where I like to be. Singing songs near the piano, Where home is home to me.

For every day along the way, I know so many share - The joyful treat where folks can say Hello so cheerful there.

Knowing they are a world of fun I stop and chat a while, Enjoying each and every one With all their friendly suite. *

Where long before the day is through Or even time for rest, I think and say I know it's true “That our old state is best. ! --BOB LEVELL. > & @

. When is everybody going to get smart to the fact that a cowcatcher is put on engines to catch autos? ‘

* 0 @ TREAD LIGHTLY, FROST

Tread lightly, frost ... the buds are out. Forsythia is gold on hill ; ‘ = And every open garden plot. Oh, do not blight a tender thing And mar the loveliness of spring. The rose that blooms in sunny spot Is in your power now to kill, ; Tread lightly, frost ... the buds are out. =FLORENCE MARIE TAYLOR,

* 9° MY WISH Now I have wished for a lot : cof ‘oe every day. = It seems to make life more worthwhile

Just to... wish... along the way. Yes . .. I have wished for many things Of little or great note, But most of all I wish for now "Is... . a dandy little boat. «~ANN,

® ¢ Reckless drivers have started making Sunday 3 day of Nusting to Jest’

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“NEW BRIGHTON, 8, I.—One Hundred Years Old; Rough Living Helped.”) ; In New Brighton, Staten Island, Lives a man who's bright and gay, He will greet you with a smile, and Laugh a century away.

Herels his formula for living: — : “Smoke and drink at will, my friend.” But we feel, with some misgiving,

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It's Every Free Man’s Fight

THE FIGHT for freedom of information, of press and communication, is making headway in the world against Communist forces of censorship and suppression. It isn’t won yet, by any means, but it's making progress. = That the word brought back from the tions Conference on Freedom of Information at Geneva by the ¢hief American press representative, Erwin D., Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor. : : Reporting to the annual convention of the Society of Newspaper Editors at Wash-

: ington, Mr. Canham said the neutrals and middle-

ground nations are now a!l pretty much on the side of the American position of free interchange of information without censorship. The vital import of this will strike home to the great body of American citizenship which has

.seen two major.demonstrations in less than 28

years of the fact that drastic suppression of free publishing and: communication has been the im-

‘mediate forerunner of dictatorship, whether from

the right or the left.

india Put In a Joker

ONE OF THE difficulties of making the American conception of uncensored information prevail completely at Geneva, has been a joker put in by India. x The Indians, in the midst of their new attempt at democratic government. demanded that international penalties be imposed for what they called “incitements to war,” and for some other general offenses of the same character.

kind of limitation could be interpreted to bring about the very kind of censorship dear to the dictators, and against “hich the main fight for free information is being made. Mr. Canham reported that the United States would not agree to the Indian amendment, and that it did not present a danger which is likely to defeat progress at Geneva.

Defended by News Guild

IT SHOULD BE reassuring to that minority of Americans, who have had honest doubts about the validity of free press and speech in their own country, that the most eloquent defense of our institutions did not come from powerful editors or publishers, It came from Harry Martin, president of the newspapermen's trade union, the American NewsJaper Guild, who is a United States Representave, ; : “It would have done your heart good,” Mr. Canham told the editors, “when the Russian group quoted ad nauseam from Morris Ernst, the Hutchins Report, the Nieman Fellows and George Seldes, to hear Harry Martin hotly deny the charges of monopoly and capitalist control.” It is heartening to learn that this battle is going on with some success, and that it will be continued. Certainly no American citizen with even average intelligence should fail to see that it is his battle which is being fought at Geneva. If free information is not preserved where it now exists, and if its principles are not supported «and strengthened in all spots where they are threatened, the “cold war” will certainly be lost

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American way of life toming to a. race for life, leaving the other fellow behind? A

In our homes, our schools, our churches we run a race of impatience, in a hurry to get

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put on one contest after another in order to raise funds for this or that. In our over anxjousness to get things done, do = we lead our children to believe its all right to “Get the money, get it honest it

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Wouldn't it be nicer if we ran this race with a little patience and slow down at least to a trot so that we might enjoy some of the finer things. Can't we teach a little more honesty, 814 sympathy and good Will toward the human

These spelling contests always did get under my skin and and how many of us could honestly say we have never cheated? It would be an oddity in our American way of life now-a-days for some school girl to say: “I'm sorry I spelled the word, I hate to go above you.”

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By K. C. B, Washington, Township. Why do people use such big words and long

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Is it to impress others? I | contributors would write simply, avoiding long, involved sentences and words which have to

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ideas gcross better. I like your column of reader opinion, but please ask your contributors to unlimber, to take the starch out of their words, not to write “up” to readers but to shoot straight out and make their ideas more important than

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Then put it across briefly. Yours for shorler letters, with more punch in them, Let's have

This may get him in the end.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Hal O'Flaherty

Lines of U. S.-Soviet Issues Sharply Cut

MAIN POINTS of friction between the United States and Russia are becoming clearer as each side grows nastier in word and deed. .

the Marshall Plan goes into effect, it will cause a war. : American spokesmen have made clear that further Russian seizure of control, direct or indirect. in smaller countries, will lead to war. 80 far, neither government has attempted to lay down a line and announce that aggression beyond that line means war. Secretary of State Marshall refused to mark out a specific line and say that Russia could not go beyond it without a fight. Marshal Stalin and his immediate cohorts also have avoided the sharp definition of the line between peace and war.

Small Fry Had Their Say

HOWEVER, the smaller fry have talked aplenty. For instance, the Russian bravo of Berlin who put the United States on notice that if Europe recovers with American help, then Russia will go to war. : From the American side this big we have the statement of a high Air Force official that Rus! la has a far bigger air force than ours and therefore intends to go to war with us. President Truman's 1046 policy on Turkey and Greece was, in effect, a notice that aggression against those countries will cause war. Neither Russia nor America has made Italy a matter of war or peace. Russia complained bitterly that the United States had intervened in Italy's internal affairs, which was true. But our intervention was a minor affair compared to the elaborate preparation for Russia's intervention. This required years of training for Italian Communist leaders. They were schooled in Moscow and sent back to do Moscow's bidding.

Italiah-Americans Wrote Letters

THE UNITED STATES had its own ambassador make some public speeches, but far more effectively encouraged Americans of Italian birth to write and wire their relatives to vote against communism. This last move undoubtedly is the shrewdest use of naturalized citizens yet devised by Americans. It hurt the Russian-trained Italians such as Togliatti. Whereas, Moscow had trained but a few score Communist agitators of Italian birth and used them in the election campaign, the United States had the help of thousands, if not milHons, of Italo-Americans who wrote and wired friends and relatives. The effect of these letters and wires cannot be exaggerated. Use of well-known Italian-Americans, such as Joe DiMaggio, on the State Department's broadcasts proved to be an effective way of intervening in the Italian elections. Observers have

atomic bomb security, admits having talked about bombs | with a Bulgarian diplomat. But the bombs under dis- | cussion, he said, were loaded with DDT, not fissionable | atoms. § We don’t mean this as a reflection on Dr. Condon or a | doubt of his story or his integrity. But it is well known to physicists that the most effective way to distribute deadly | radioactive substances, without an explosive bomb, is al- | identical with the method of making that familiar

found these broadcasts penetrate deeper than anyone suspected into the public consciousness, penetrating the iron curtain. :

The Soviet representative in Berlin declared last week that it’

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"Every time we quarrel he brings home a box of candy as a peace offering—but there isn't much left after he gets through with it!"

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Quick UMW. Pension

® ® . » 3 Decision May Backfire WASHINGTON, Apr. 19—The great labor peacemaker and coal strike stopper, GOP Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire,

solution for the miners’ pension Sen. Bridges’ statement said:

“The decisions we as trustees make are not unchangeable. The opportunity to change them at any time is guaranteed . . . I must refer to the fact that my resolution, if adopted, would be a tentative agreement and the amount of this monthly pension is subject to any revision which our further study may indicate is proper. : Nobody wants to take away any of the glory now going to Speaker Joe Martin for solving the riddle of how to make the miners go back to work. Getting John L. Lewis and Hzra Van Horn for the coal operators to ‘accept Sen: Bridges as the third trustee was a master stroke. figuring how the Bridges settlement is going to work out say it leads to one of two things: ONE: The three trustees will have to cut down on the amount of the pension payment within a few years, ‘thus forcing Sen. Bridges to cross: his bridge when he gets to it, going backwards. TWO: 'Or else the 10-cent-a-ton royalty on all coal mined will have to be increased to from 20 to 40 cents a ton to keep up:

plan turns out to be not too good.

of coal. Bridges Revises. Formula

Sen. Bridges revised this formula to make the $100 a month available to a UMW member “who on May 29, 1047, attained of’ thereafter attained the age of 62 years and who

subsequent to May 28, 1946.” & Just how many of_the 400,000 coal miners will ultimately be eligible for this latest benafit won for them by Mr. Lewis, nobody

flight of B-29’s in Europe, and a sizable task force in the Mediterranean, there are further signs that the United States is learning to anticipate Russia's pressures and use power politics on a scale never before attempted.

It is one way to prevent a cold war from becoming hot

sven though it smacks more of the Middle Ages than of modern mes.

LITTLE QUOTES From Big. People

The United States’ greatest menace comes from within. I cannot see why we tolerate organizations which advocate the overthrow of our government by revolution.—Adm. William

Russia's challenge to the United States has taught Americans

some new tricks in the great game of power politics with its tortuous diplomacy, Even in the days immediately after the war ended, we were unwilling to meet the Soviets with thrust and counter-thrust inside the nations of Europe or the Far East. Today, we not only meet them but beat them at their own game. Americans had been doing this since the first settlers arrived and took on the red Indians. It was true in the jungles of New Guinea against the Japs. Now, Russians are discovering in He United States has the most powerful weapons of rection.

With a large naval force visiting Norway, an impressive

| Ing organization for the waging of peace.

Standley, U. 8. Navy, Ret, former Ambassador to Russia. * 9 9 ; Political or military domination of scientists would stop this country’s atomic energy progress dead in its tracks.— David E. Lilienthal, chairman, U, 8. Atomic Energy Commission. : *

If war broke out at this time the United States would be unable, militarily, to prevent Soviet Russia from taking over Europe. ——Secretary of Defense Forrestal. ¢ & 4 We must make the United Nations into an aggressive fightIt is not such an

Sr Banimiion today. It is, in fact, decaying.—Sen. Ralph Flanders

knows. There is no dependable age census on miners, They'll have to register and make application for the pension. Detailed rules and regulations will have to be worked out. *

How Much It Should Cost

LAST DECEMBER actuaries of the Social Security Admin istration made a study of what the miners’ pension plan might cost under several gets of conditions. One set of figures covered payment of $100 a month to men now actively employed as miners who retired on or after reaching the age of 60. : Raising the age limit to 62 would reduce these: figures = about 10 per cent, it is now believed. “On that basis, the cost © the pension plan is calculated on high and: low estimates, as follows: ¢ For 1048, or the first full year of operation, from 8000 to 12,000 miners would be eligible. ' The cost would be $15 million. : ; : ost By 1950, from 12,000 to 19,000 would be eligible. The co then would be from $14 million to $23 million. ’ In 1955 from 24,000 to 37,000 miners would be eligible, The cost would be from $28 million to $45 million. By 1960 from 36,000 to 57,000 would be. eligible and would be from $44 million to $68 million. to The present 10-cents-o-ton royalty is now pcuring money in the pension fund at a rate of $50 million a year. This is su to cover not only pensions, but also death benefits, health accident payments. under Assuming that half of the fund would soto pensions, 1950 tie above estimates the fund would be in red between and 1 .

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JOHN L. LEWIS originally wanted $100 a month paid to all miners aged 60 or over, who had worked in the mines 20 years. No limits were placed on when the miners had worked their 20° years or whether they were now or later employed on other jobs. -

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for the Civic to ‘be sponsor Beta Phi Soro The play, “T Li at 8:30 p. m. in ceeds will ben School, Gatlin} The school i tional philant} woven products displayed in | Mrs. Mark Wil Settlement Sch bers of the cluk will be ushers. Ticket sales Mesdames Wa gene Fife, Will Holdcroft, W. Dwight McCag

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Registration meeting of tl Conservation at 10 a, m, A zanine of th Mrs. T. E. Las at the morning at 10:30 o'clo Room. New 1 be introduced: The busines clude the min John Kundra and the electi and secretarymer Dolzall, n tee chairman, Russell’ Cushn othy McClam Bailey will rep Miss Jean EF “The Youth YWCA,” and will be modera cussion on “WI Recreation.” Garrett G. E versity recreaf speak at the se 12:30, p. m..h will be ‘“‘Recre nity Matter,” will follow. The council’ be July 29.

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