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ERNSE FISCHER, Austria's most widely known Com: ; ‘munist, backia, Vienna from. a meeting of Communist “* leaders in Berlin, has reported that the central point in : A world politics is not Berlin but China. ~*~ = ovr MThe. world event which overshadows all else,” he said, | vig. many thousands of miles east of Berlin, before the gates of Natiking, China, where the rotten regime of Chiang Kai-shek, and with it the foundation stone of America’s imperialistic foreign polity, is breaking to pieces “under the hammering of the victorious people's army.’ "This view is being echoed by Communists and their thizers throughout the world. : si China, M Mac Tse-tung, the. Communist tenders is “calling - fora union of all revolutionary forces under an _ “anti-imperialist front headed by’ thie ‘Soviet Union." The _ ultimate purpose, of course, is to direct those unified revolutionary forces against the United States. ._» ” # WHEN China falls, then “Malaya, Indonesia, Burma, - jam, Viet Nam and the Philippines” must be “liberated,” __ according to Hu Yuh-chich, leader of the revolutionists in

Malaya. hat “would this mean to us and to the rest-of the free

or J. Raymond Walsh, speaking at a recent Commu- _ nist-front rally in New York, said: : “ATI Honor and respect to the Communists who are leading the Chinese revolution. In six to 12 months, when Chiang Kai-shek is dead . . . and the liberation forces have - taken over in China . ‘and all the colonial areas in Asia also have been liberated, then when the representative of the Soviet Union in the’ United Nations rises and says he “speaks for more than half of mankind, we Americans will have to hang our heads in shame.” . This remark was greeted by “tremendous applause,” it was

The White House and the State Depaiiuen hate. a everywhere except in Asia, the largest con- [| Jlieye Must we wait for that until Russia’ speaks for * “amore than half of mankind?”

Mr. Truman \ vs. . the Butcher 0 how much we » should pay

dont oh ho was & ich man when he ack ofc, said it cost “that Congress ought to_ take. better care of Mr. Truman,

. osbly out of delicsey. however, the “exsFresident eglocted: fact. It is that Mr. |

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the other day what President Truman did with all those 2 Bata peotie gave him, the attache replied: “He wears ‘em, of Sourse”. oy

COMMITTEE of lawyers and doctors in New York A State has proposed legislation to recognize alcoholism as a disease rather than a crime. They would have hosclinics and farms to which chronic and compulsive | cotild "Be “eértified. We “hiope- that the- suggestion. . and: that. aspresds. It is recognized ‘tha evil ‘can’ be coped with better | + at its source than in its’ consequences. It is also generally po JO today that. alcoholism-is a medical and psychiatric p

treatment of alcoholics is little better than the old practice of clapping the insane into mad houses and exhibiting them for the public's amusement. Alcoholics Anonymous and psychiatrists cap point to some notable successes with the problem drinker. We have never heard of any similar successes achieved by throwing the drinker in jail. It is time for our state and local governments to abandon such archaic measures and begin giving intelligent attention to the serious and persistent problem of alcoholism.

Footnote in History

the Wright Brothers’ original plane came to its ¥ final resting place in the Smithsoniap Institution in Washington yesterday, one man: of historic mission not present at the ceremony was A. W, Drinkwater, the old at the Kitty Hawk, N. C., Coast Guard station who first flashed the news to the world. .... We recall a pleasant visit several years ago in Mr. + Drinkwater's home in Manteo, N. C., where he displayed the file of newspaper correspondents’ dispatches ~ he had tapped out in Morse code telling of that first flight

that one incredulous editor. had wired back a order to his reporter to get off the battle. ave tai Ju” sid Mr. Drinkwater (and no hosHh was ever so nan d), “how the airplane started.

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Barton Rees Pogue “MY CHRISTMAS STORY

I would like to tell a story, a Christmas Eve story, on myself, one in which ch I was almost “mortified to death death” because I was forced to . sleep that night in my necktie—and it wasn't a Christmas tie, either. Sleeping in one’s neck tie doesn’t seem now so much to be “mortified” i by Br i le

at or would be with a “Storm nt” or. his sleigh, Which, course, open. The sleigh won. It was drawn by y Old Crave, his horse of ancient vin-

The church was crowded and the festivities well worth the long trip—we thought. But

of a’ walk, the pull was so heavy. W

“hours ln. getting home. It was so cold I was is

“"Hearly frogen stiff. My folks had long been in bed when I reached home, The fire in the wood-stove was out. The drinking water bucket by the stove was partly frozen over, and Little Joe, my pet rat-terrier, had found repose in my father's felt boot and wouldn't even budge. I finally lit a “coal ofl” lamp, the match held precariously in my fume bling fingers. Off came my hat and overcoat. Off came my suit coat and vest In record time. Off came my shoes, but my necktie—“nothing doing.” My fingers were. too. cold and numb to untie it. I dropped my trousers to the floor, heaved a heavy nightshirt over my necktie, dress shirt, underclothes, socks, and literally dived into and between two thick feather beds, _to dream of “sleigh bells in the snow” (in pic"ture books), and “bored to tears” that I had to sleep in my necktie! Fk x =GEORGES. B BILLMAN, Anderson,

THE GIFT OF GIVING The gift - ; Of giving gifts Is something fine— It brings the giver joy, “And lends a satisfaction ~~. Most divine! : The Light xe or

Christmastime = More brightly glows— : When chimes resound to praise The Christian Love each sacred

Le Invoking: peRee. HAZELL DANNECKER, New Cust.

FIGHT IN CONGRESS... By Charles T. Lucey

More Foreign Aid?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Operations of the Economic Co-

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“Performance mn Me. Hom up such an ECA ied. with an. as he has since midyear. They say it is not astonishing that mistakes have beeri made but that so few have been made. They doubt whether rion om W Xo QuE of ty's _- $5 billion 8. enterprise could have gone forward with so few

Program fo Be Defended

UNDOUBTEDLY there will be some shooting at ECA, perhaps from the Republican side, but Sen. Arthur H.’ Vandenberg, (R. Mich.), retiring Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, is expectéd to be a stout defender of What, Mr. Hoffman

has accomplished,

Sen. Vandenberg’s position is understood to be that every questionable detail of ECA operation should pe laid on the table but that ECA's tremendous contribution to Western European civilization should not be obscured by what are termed relatively

minor detours.

‘Because ‘the last Congress authorized and appropriated for ECA only on a one-year basis, although Sen. Vandenberg had sought to get a four-year authorization, the whole broad policy i e before Congress in January, ’

question of foreign aid will.

Present ECA funds will run only to April 1.

A logtmate factor of hazard to ECA in is coming conre sional test, the possible cost of or support of U, 8. entry into the Ab North Atlantic Pact with Western European nations. They say that strictly speaking the two matters are separate, yet funds for both must come from the same U, 8. pocketbook. Hence Congress might ‘wel reliable figures on total military and economic expen it is unrealistic to deal with one without knowledge of the other.

some leaders say,

Running Into Trouble

HERE the necessity of doing something about new funds for ECA by April 1 runs into trouble. The North Atlantic Pact is not Foreign affairs leaders doubt such a pact be concluded and ratified before the ECA deadline while thinks in terms of possible military expenditures, «Hence there is talk now that it might be wise to finance ECA. operations for April, May and June with a billion-dollar Reconstruction ‘Finance Corp, Loan, to be repaid subsequently out of

even on paper yet.

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affairs leaders are ready to Te tn top foreign affairs leaden and they say the overseas ald program is certain to be extended. Recent disclosures of the resale of aluminurn shipped to Eng.land, Belgium and The Netherlands seem certain ~cism in Congress. “A fight over the share of foreign-aid supplies to- {= be sent abroad in U. 8. ships seems likely. There may be attempts to censure Mr. Hoffman for a wh oy statement on aid to Spit

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Two considerations being weighed by those ready to fight for to see North Atlantic Pact military funds voted at the expense of ECA; they fear some Con- | gressmign who never liked the foreign-aid. idea may use detull

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_PACIFISTS’ LAMENT

. By Jim G. Lucas

Lobby Fighting Atlantic Pact

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—The Letterhead Lobby, claiming: credit for blocking universal military training, has turned its attention to the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact and Western Union military alliance. The United States, Canada, Britain, Francs, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg have started talks at the State Department about the Atlantic defense alliance. Representatives of the Western Union powers have given Undersecretary Robert Lovett the terms under which A they would like to have-the U. 8. as a

The ‘Letterhead Lobby is a group of pacifist organizations with interchangeable boards of directors. It claims several million members and has fought all phases of the defense

Frederick Libby, head of the National Coun-

-¢il for the Prevention of War, led off the new drive in the latest issue of his publication,

“Peace Action.” “Last time,” Mr. Libby wrote, “it was called

Lend-Lease and ‘aid short of war. This time North Atlantic Defense ~~

Pact and Western Union. We start out with a contribution of $1 billion to $9 billion. We are told this will keep the Russians from the Atlantic.

‘Alarming Comment’ “ALL THE calculations made by the mills indicate that the most to be expected from

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tary a $9 billion militdry contribution by us to the .

five Western powers is that they can hold a defense line against Russia at the Rhine. This they could do for six months.” Mr. Libby says It “is an alarming comment on the state of morality to which we have ad-

- vanced that this proposition is received by the

public with but little reluctance.” If we enter such alliance, he warns, “don’t be surprised if the Russians consfder it directed at them.” This unfortunate; he says, because the Russians have béhaved—“Soviet troops have not:

Side Glances

moved outside the borders agréed to three years ago.” As an altérnative he demands that Congress: ONE: Evacuate Germany with the Russians. TWO: Reoffer the Marshall Plan to all Eu-

~ zope, including Russia.

THREE: Reconsider the draft. “FOUR: Reconsider the 70-group Air Force plan. FIVE: Change the “stiff-necked position we

—have taken on atomic control” and “offer a more

equitable plan than the Baruch proposal.” James Finucane, associate editor, charges that in World War II “we outdistanced all the conquerdrs of history in sheer, colossal, indiscriminate destruction. We did all these detestable thifigs with the idea they would bring vic~ tory. Success went to our heads, Mesmerized

by the dizzying heights of success, we Kept

making atom bombs.”

‘Wreng and Selfish’ MR. FINUCANE says there is “something fundamentally wrong : and selfish about our post“War actions.”

“We. justify them on the Zrounds of security

against Russia,” he said.” “Let's admit it. Security. for, America alone, or with a group of American ’satellites, is a delusion. . . . We must revise our outlook and henceforth make -all economic and military decisions-in the light of how they affect the security of the world, including Russia. is convinced we are not going to launch a preVventive war, no one will be secure.” He charges we observe Air Force Day “with---put remorse; -praising youth - and - adventure, never thin of the women and children whom they, and , burned alive. in "Dresden and

He ays/the draft is intended to “make it possible t more hordes of Americans will

Supt from’ the North American continent to

chastise and terrify the world” = uz

“Until Russia feels secure and

_ modern home.

pT GY 4, will defend fo the death your right fo say it."

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need help. - Let us open.a new frontier on Federal efforts on housing. ‘Shce the introduction of Social Security the government has collected some $7 billion . dollars that would finance a million homes, costing $7000 each. The man in the street has subscribed for his share of this fund, considering-that this is a trust fund, along the line of endowment insure ance. Let us get a clear idea of the value of this fund and put it to work at productive labor by

creating wealth and employment. Let us deposit -

these funds with local building and loan associations in the territory in which it was earned, and use it as a means of creating moderate. priced homes for the class of citizens above __ mentioned. “Thére has been a yell’ vy ‘Washington pave rollers that every American is entitled to

fcan is able to pay for it, but these same payrollers thousands of Americans living in shacks, Slums and trailer camps, and if they are entitled to move, no one has made dat possible. Much has been said about slum clearance, No one ever lived in slums from choice; it was, and is; a case of necessity. Adopt the plan sug-

-- gested above ard lack of income by slum own-

ers together with the tax assessor will make slums unprofitable, and they will soon disappear. Let us create wealth instead of sharing the ealth and give the home-seeket an honest

‘Our Festival h Awful’ BY B. F. H. I met an acquaintance the other day and asked him how he was doing. “in “Okay,” he said, “or I will be as soon as this Christmas season is over. It's awful. We take the loveliest festival we have and turn

it into a rat race, and I don't know why we

do it.” I wonder how many other readers feel the

same way about Christmas. It's hard enough .

+10 pay for the presents you really want to give. And by the time you figure out how you're going to pay for those presents, you no longer want to give them.

To make everything still worse and more °

embarrassing, when you try to taper scmebody off with just a card instead of a present, that's

the time when said person comes in Christmas

Eve with a gift package. Personally; I find Dec. 25 about as depressng as Mar, I, except ‘nobody sings carols on ;

What Others Say

ALFALFA contains high quality proteins and some’ day -people are going to sit down to a dish of the stuff and like it.—Dr. Waldo Semon, Cincinnati researcher. [ eS PRICE control cannot achileve its purpose; “it runs in confliét to economic law, and there is no law that operates in a land that is so certain and so sure as the economic law, > Wiliam Groen, Jeiaent, AFL. or

1 SAY ‘that the — Union ry wg a ‘menace a:

to world peace, mor is she a menace to the security of the Western world.—Dr. Hewlitt Johnson, “Red” Dean of Oalterbusy. ®

WE have cut o— tie dangerously thin by inflation and an unwise tax system. The continued success and stability of our system dethose incentives.—Gwilym A. Price, presi-

dent, estinghowse Eiittrie Corp. * IT is | time the union of Europe was accomplish ~ Pope Pius XI “*

1 KNOW of yg one yy more Jportant’ to the future peace ofthe world than food. The work which FAO (the UN’s Food and Agrieculture Organization) does, or leaves undone, will have a great bearing on the story. of the “world~—President “Truman. -

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criticisms of the Hoffman organization for attacks they would be

They say there is no question that Mr. Hoffman would oppose further economic help to China if it became clear China was in Communist hands. They think he would make no instant decision to cut off aid but would wait a reasonable time to let the political

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But there is no filibuster that can ing off of what has been one of the South's tracting industry--a generous labor reserve. If the war between the South and the federal Bovernment grows hotter, that process May even be apeeed up.

Pressure in South

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 —1In the charming old city of ~ Bavannah, Ga., the southern governors have been meeting. They stand embattled, In a state of “slege, against thé irresistible tide

. That is the real meaning of the concessions they have made ~=to the shifting trénd of opinion. If the step they took the other ’ - day had heen made 10 years ago or even five years &go, and voluntarily, it would have been hailed ‘as'a major social advance. “What the" “Southern” goverrors® conference ‘agreed regional compact undér which the southern states will finance ; higher education for Negroes. .3600,000 to be contributed to Negroes at Nashville, Tenn, {harry ‘also i oh $355,000 for regional veterinary, schools at the University of 1 Georgia, Oklahoma A. & 'M. and Tuskeeges Institute

Equal Education

: THE UNITED States Supreme Court has held that the States. must offer equal... when they ask for such opportunity, ~ mot afford to set up a separate Negro ate Negro engineering school. tended by Negroes from all over the South is a workable com=

to was a" The largest item approved was Medical for

for Negroes... opportunities to... Obviously, each state canmedical

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The southern answer to federal ‘legislation is always: You must ‘let us do these things in our own way since you cannot understand our problem. But change seems to come only when there is the kind of pressure the Supreme out has applied. J For the South this matter of timing is states are at present on a kind of divide between the past and future. Great changes have occurréd and even greater changes are about to occur. Most significant of all is the shift in population that is taking place. During the war the southern states barely held population wise, while other regions showing extraordinary gains. . Reports indicate that the outward movement is continuing particularly among Negroes who are migrate ing to the North to join friends and relatives. It is here that the matter of timing comes in. This is a late date to be complying with the Supreme Court ruling. The time . now is to come forward with a board proposal covering the whole

Southern

ask for Some ECA congressional frietids pPpear to wish Mr. Hoffman | civil: ts issue; a proposal that would be within the frameures. as | had not made his recent Chisa statement, in which he pledged | work 6f the southern way of life. * continuance of aid even if the present’ government falls, provided . \ the essential freedoms were preserved. Civil Rights Program

FAILURE TO act will mean more federal coercion. " Presta -dent Truman is reported to be determined to push the civile rights program at the earliest opportunity, He is deeply conscious of the fact that the Negro vote in a half dozen states had a great deal to do with his re-election. Perhaps a filibuster by southern diehards in the Senate can block fof a time at least the measures the South finds most - noxious, That kind of deliberate .obstructionism has worked.

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