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DAILY REPUBLIC, Tuesday, Feb. 24.1948 Page 4 Demo Bids To Wallace Futile, He Won't Return No Rest For The Weary Some Sidelights On The Parade Of News FAMILIAR RING Marshal Bulganin's warning to the Russian people that "the situation in which we are living compels us to be In constant fighting preparedness," has a familiar ring. Almost identical warnings have been directed at the American people by military leaders in this country, the major difference being that in one case the element which compels preparedness is and in the other case it is But both are based on fear, suspicion and distrust, which makes international peace and good will impossible. GOOD ADVICE Says the Atlanta Constitution: "Let us go after communism and quit confusing it with any effort to improve the general welfare of our people. And let us quit smearing everyone'who doesn't agree with our opinions as Let us study the enemy and know him for what he is." That is good advice.

But, like so much good advice, will it be ignored? TROUBLE ENOUGH Striking a nostalgic note, the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader suggests "It would be nice to have the economic virtues of Calvin Coolidge in the White House today." Isn't Truman having trouble enough without being forced to live with a ghost in the White House? "UNMITIGATED FRAUD' In an outspoken analysis of the bill introduced by Senator Pulbright to repeal the federal tax and license fees on oleomargarine, the Washington Star calls these levies an "unmitigated fraud on the American people," and adds: "The taxes are a conspiracy against the people between a special interest and the men elected to make the laws. It has no place on our statute books." And that applies to state as well as federal margarine taxes. TAKING FREEDOM LIGHTLY After a long and bitter struggle to achieve their liberty only 30 per cent of Bombay's voters went to the polls. This leads the Milwaukee Journal to suggest that "Apparently they don't think any more of freedon than do Americans." Conflicting Reports Create Confusion Has Russia put out "peace feelers" in an effort to end the cold war? Secretary of State Marshall says no. There is no basis for such rumors, he declared last week.

Rep. Francis Case says yes. "If you read press reports that a high-ranking Russian official has not approached a high-ranking United States official to discuss ways of ending the cold war, don't believe them," the South Dakota Congressman advises. "On unimpeachable authority, under circumstances where only the truth need be told, I am told that did happen less than a month ago." The net result of these conflicting statements is to leave the average person in a state of complete confusion. What can you believe? If a high-ranking Russian official did contact a high-ranking United States official to discuss ways of ending the cold war, is it'likely that the Secretary of State would not be informed of that fact? Is it possible that a news conference, at which the Secretary of State, through reporters, provides information to the American people on the activities of their government, is not considered a circumstance "where only the truth need be told?" Was Marshall's disclaimer a "policy statement" designed to prevent publicity which might result in a breakdown of negotiations to end the cold war? Could it be that Rep.

Case has information on such a potentially important development foreign affairs which the Secretary of State does not have? Those are just a few of the many THE DAILY REPUBLIC AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published at Mitchell, South Dakota. Six Days a Week Every Evening Except Sunday and Holidays Published by The Mitchell Publishing Company. W. Ronald, President; Ronald Vice President: Hale Raber, Secretary; E. M.

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IBTt questions which present themselves as a result of the strangely conflicting reports. Whatever the facts may be, it appears that the American people will have to await further developments as a basis for determining them, and their effect upon U. relations. Rep. Case has declined to elaborate on his assertion, and if the State Department is shielding secret negotiations it may be assumed that agency will remain silent until it feels that secrecy is no longer desirable or necessary.

Rickey's Lesson For Brotherhood Week Branch Rickey, who defied a deep- grained tradition of prejudice and intolerance by signing Jackie Robinson, first Negro player ever given a chance in organized major league baseball, has provided an appropriate thought for the current observance of Brotherhood Week, Speaking recently to the students of Wilberforce State university, a. school for Negroes in Ohio, Rickey said: "I believe that racial extractions and color hues and forms of worship become secondary to what men can The denial of equality of opportunity to qualify for work to anyone, anywhere, anytime, is not understandable to me. "The American public Is not as concerned with a first baseman's pigmentation as it is with the power of his swing, the dexterity of his slide, the gracefulness of his fielding, or the speed of his legs." America needs more men like only in baseball, but in all walks of who have the courage to defy intolerance and prejudice in whatever business or profession they may be engaged, men who will accept and recognize an individual for what he is and what he can do, regardless of his race or religion. Many give lip service to the ideal of democratic brotherhood, but not so many are willing, or have the courage, as displayed by Rickey, to put that ideal into practice in their associations and relations with individuals of other creeds and colors. Wallace Can Only Diffuse Liberals we lose, united we win," is as true of political as military action.

That Henry Wallace is performing a disservice to the very cause he espouses is to be found in his division of the liberal forces. This is the conclusion from the many reactions to the victory of his candidate for Congress in a New York City district. Senator Barkley, minority leader in the Senate, spoke for especially but effectively when, upon hearing the news, he exclaimed: "Well, 111 be damned." Not even Teddy Roosevelt could achieve a third party victory for the progressives whose cause he espoused. Senator LaPollette's candidacy in 1924 only added to the margin for President Coolidge. To be sure, President Truman has provided grist for the Wallace mill.

He has engaged in political decapitations of progressives as ruthlessly as the Russian dictator has in physical eliminations. He cannot hold the liberal vote by talking liberal and appointing conservative. (Latest example is his surrender of the Securities Exchange commission to Wall Street, which the commission is supposed to regulate. Most serious, of course, is the encouragement Wallace gives Russia, wittingly or unwittingly. Stalin understands fully as well as did Hitler how to capitalize appeasement.

Hitler referred to the Chamberlain group as "fools" after the Munich conference. To deal with a government that, by the record, will -yield only when forced to do so, as if it would listen to reason or friendliness, is to be as unrealistic as Russia is realistic. So, much more than liberalism calls for a united front for unyielding front, a front as hard as that of Russia. Our very existence demands it. THE SHOW MUST GO ON Magazine Digest: A small boy had received a turtle with the name "Tommy" written on its back.

Every day after school the boy played with Tommy till bedtime. One day, however, he found the turtle floating on top of the water in its bowl. The heartbroken little boy could not be comforted until his dad took him on his lap. "Now stop crying," said his father. "We'll use my silver cigaret case for a little coffin for Tommy.

Well bury him under your window and place a white picket fence around his grave. You can invite all your little friends to the funeral, and afterwards well have ice cream and But when they reached the bowl, Tommy was swimming around, just as alive as could be. The small boy looked up at his dad and said: "Let's kill him." By MARQUIS GUILDS Washington, D. appeals to Henry Wallace to come back to the Democratic fold are as futile as the mooing of a cow that has lost her calf. These appeals may, of course, be merely in the line of i strategy to demonstrate! that there is still a wel-J come for Wallace the party he has de-1 serted.

But if they are made! with any hope that wanderer will return, then they show! a complete lack of un-f derstanding of the! Wallace nature. First, last and always, Wai- Margins lace is a visionary. As a visionary, he can promise the moon. He can promise a paradise on earth, as he does every time he speaks And is more, he can believe in his promises. One often hears: Is Wallace sincere? The question is irrelevant.

The visionary always believes his own visions. It is hard to imagine Wallace deliberately resorting to guile and deceit As a result of several earlier columns on Wallace, a number of letter writers have accused me of saying that only Communists would support him, That Is almost the exact opposite of what I said in January, when I expressed the opinion that Wallace had probably dealt the President's chance for re-election a mortal blaw. He will get the votes of those who want to express their dissatisfaction and disillusion. They will have as many reasons Dewey Backers Hay Shift To Vandenberg In Case Of Deadlock By DREW PEARSON Washington, D. report on the political battlefront is that Governor Tom Dewey will swing his supporters to Senator Arthur Vandenberg if Dewey gets caught in a convention deadlock with Senator Taft and can't get the G.

O. P. nomination himself. Despite repeated dis-1 avowals of White House I ambitions, will have, strong! "silent" backing at the! Philadelphia conven-l tion particularly! among the so-called I WiUkieites in G. O.

ranks, most of whon are now supporting Dewey, but who are Drew Pearsem ready to swin? to Vandenberg as their second choice because of the Michigan Senator's broadgauged stand on foreign affairs. Those close to Vandenberg. however, insist that he does not want the nomination. The Michigan Senator will be 64 years old next month and feels the presidency would be too great a burden, though a recent physical checkup showed him to be In good shape. Vandenberg is also upset about the health of his wife, who has been ill.

He left a Lincoln day dinner early the other night to rush to her bedside. Inside betting, however, is that Van- denbere can probably get the nomination, and that he will accept if a deadlock convention drafts him. TRUMAN ON COMMODITIES On the day before President Truman held his press conference on commodity prices. White House Assistant Clark Clifford rushed over to the Council of Economic Advisers and reoucsfd a detailed analysis of the market break. "The President wants to read it to the press," he Informed Chairman Edwin G.

Nourse. Nourse worked his staff overtime preparing the statement, but Is still wonder- Ing why it wasn't publicized. Inside fact is that when Clifford placed the report on the President's desk, Truman informed him in nettled voice that he could do his own talking to the Dress. MERKY-GO-ROUND Talking to friends the other day. Speaker Joe Martin confided his real views on the Marshall plan.

"If we keep on the way we're going," he snorted, "it (the Marshal! plan) will cost us $60 billion and we will be broke. Then we intent as well turn the country ovar to Russia. Virginia's Senator Harley Kilgore, longtime champion of G. is working on a plan for a supreme court for the armed order to bring fairer court- martial. Any G.

I. could appeal his court- martial sentence to this supreme court. as there are friction and frustrations in this difficult period following on the most terrible war in history. But it is also true that the zealots and the manipulators around him are for the most part Communists or so completely under the Communist doctrine that they are cheating the party out of its dues. These manipulators know where they are going.

Their real goal is 1952; 1948 is merely setting the stage for the larger struggle that they anticipate during the next four years. They see that struggle in the following terms: The Wallace. candidacy will promote such condifence among the professionals who run the Republican party that in June they will nominate a pre-Hoover troglodyte of the type of Senator John Bricker or Speaker Joseph Martin. Because of the Wallace protest vote in key states, the troglodyte will win. His victory will be the signal for a further spurt in the inflationary boom, with the stock market spiralling along with all other markets.

Then wiD come the bust The troglodyte in the White House will talk balanced budget while unemployment and social disorder mount That will be the opportunity for the shrewd manipulators, either through the new third party or through capture of the Democratic party, to come to power. If the crisis should deteriorate into violence and bloodshed, the manipulators are prepared to exploit that, too. That Is the moment for world communism. It is doubtful if Wallace, the visionary, thinks In such realistic terms. But the so-called realists around him furnish one of the forces propelling him onward, the Democrats may keep the light in the window burning, but In my opinion the odds are a hundred to one that Henry will not come home.

Bushfield's Friends May Back Democrat For Senate Position By E. J. KARRIGAN Aberdeen American-News: The possibility of a South Dakota Democratic Senate candidate entering next fall's general election contest bearing the blessing of some of the Republican diehard backers of Sen. Harlan Bushfield was being considered in political speculation this weekend. The Democrat mentioned in this speculation is James M.

Magness of St. Lawrence and Miller, a former state senator and a prominent South Dakota auctioneer. Magness told the American-News that "quite a number" of Sen Bushfleld's friends "have encourage me to become a candidate." (Sen. Bushfield and Magness are neighbors In the St. Lawrence-Miller settlement.) He said similar encouragement to become a candidate has been given him by some of the Democratic leaders of the state.

Magness said that while he has not reached a final decision he is inclined to think he will not be a candidate. First Indication that Magness, who served in the state Senate at the 1933 session, was a possibility to succeed Sen. Bushfield came at a "closed" meeting of Democratic party officers at Mitchell Wednesday night. The meeting was primarily to discuss methods of raisins Democratic campaign funds at the project Jefferson-Jackson dinner, but Magness was as a likely candidate after Brig. Gen.

La Verne Saunders of Aberdeen had been mentioned as a possibility. It was suggested at this meeting that Republican support would be necessary for the victory of any Democrat and it was hinted that Bushfield forces might be friendly to Magness. Observers familiar with Sen. Bushfield's line record discounted the possibility that he would encourage anyone to support a Democrat even though he might be extremely bitter toward Rep. Karl E.

Mundt of Madison. CONVALESCENT Pearson's Weeky. London: Judge (to plaintiff in compensation claim): Now show the court the effects of the accident upon you. The plaintiff got uo and. with infinite pain hobbled across the floor.

Judge: And now, to show the court the awful result of that accident, show us how you used to move before the accident. Plaintiff thereupon took a hop, skip and jump across the court. He lost the case. TROUBLE FOR CULTURE Sioux City Journal-Tribune: In Chicago culture has collided headon with the facts of modern life. First the symphony conductor is fired.

TTien the school teachers threaten to strike. It is entirely possible that next they will discover a dice game in the art museum. (Editor's Note: For any contribution accepted for this column, by anybody, anywhere, Sl.OO will be paid. No names may be used in any of the articles, but each must be based on actual happening and must be signed by the name and address of the author, which will not be published or revealed. Address contributions to Eavesdropper, The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.

By ANYBODY A landlady met her tenant on the street and stopped her to ask for the rent, which had not been paid for several months. One word led to another and the finally said, "I don't know when I can pay you. but next month we are moving Into a different house." The landlady shook her fist at the tenant and said. "Don't you dare move out of my house until you've paid me the back rent I've got coming." A resident of Mitchell city was hailed into municipal court recently on a drunken driving charge. It was reported that he had driven off the street, across nine railroad tracks and ended up with his car stalled in a cinder pit in the Milwaukee yards.

In telline his story, the man reportedly said, "I thought-1 was still on the street, but It seemed to me it was a little bit rough for South Sanborn. At an automobile dealer's office, a fanner was waiting. One of the salesman asked what he could do for him. The farmer pointed at the dealer, who was talking with another man. "That fellow drove up in that truck outside," said the farmer.

"I bet he wants to trade it in. Ask what the dealer wants for it The salesman reported to the dealer, who said: "Well, I haven't taken it In yet, but I guess I will." The salesman reported to the farmer, who said: "Tell him 111 take it, whatever he wants for it." A well-known Mitchell citizen, lying in a local hospital, was approached by a Junior Chamber of Commerce member, who asked him If he wished to fill out an application for an absentee ballot for the special city election. The patient looked up, somewhat surprised, and said, "One of the big reasons I came out here was so I wouldn't have to vote on these hot issues." A Sioux City man at a Mitchell hotel was talking. "I heard a speech at Sioux City by a Lincoln man who had been with a party that toured South America in an airplane. He had statistics about families in both North and South America.

He said that the children in the poorer families had the lowest I. Q. The richer the families, the less children and the smarter they are. He said that, the way things are going, it won't be long until this is a nation of morons. Guess it won't make much difference whether we're blown up by atom- bombs or not." Marxist Socialism Abandoned, Russian Economy Capitalistic By GEOFKRET CROWIHER New York Times Magazine: Stalin's recent currency decree whereby all holdings of Soviet rubles lost from two thirds to nine tenths of their value excited a great deal of attention throughout the world.

This latest stroke illustrates once again how far the realities of economic life in Soviet Russia have strayed from socialist theory. Stalin is not beinf inconsistent with his socialist creed because he abandoned it a lone time ago except for purposes of propaganda and abuse of bis opponents. The basic economic principles upon which Russia Is run today retain contact with their socialist origins only in one all the means of production (no longer all the means of distribution and exchange) must Belong to the state. But in all other respects than this Russian economic principles are much closer akin to capitalism. The Trotzkyists call the Russian system state capitalism.

And I think they are right. tr it- Socialists have always taught that deflation, sound money, credit restriction and the like are all just so many tricks designed to throw PROGRAMS BY THE ASSOCIATED All Times CST Secretary of State George C. Marshall is scheduled to answer the questions in Youth Asks the ernment on ABC at 8 tonight. In the, program teenagers interview officials en functions and policies ol the government. Tuning tonight (Tuesday): NBC 7 Milt Berle; 7 30 Data with Judy; 8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly; 9 Bob Hope; 9:30 Red Skelton, CBS 7 Big Town drama; 8 We The People; 9 Studio One.

Robert Young in "Kings ABC 6-30 Green Hornett; 7:30 Town Meeting "St. Lawrence Waterway;" 8:30 Boston Symphony hour. MBS 7 Mysterious Traveler; 7:30 Detective yarn; 8:30 Zane Grey show: 9:45 R. R. Young on "Railway Progress Must Not be Wrecked." Wednesday programs: NBC 8 a.

m. Wwds and Music; 3 Bacsstage Wife starts 14th year; 7:30 Gilfier- sieeve; 9:30 Jimmy Durante show CBS 10:30 a. m. Grand slam quiz; 1:30 p. m.

Marriage for Two; 4 School of The Air; 6 Beulah Skit; 9 The Whistler drama ABC 9:25 m. Betty Crocker talking; 11 a. jn. Welcome travellers; 7:30 p. m.

Paul Whiteman records; 7 Mayor of Town: 8:30 Groucho Marx quiz MBS 10:30 a. m. Ben Alexander program: 1:30 p. Martin Blrck records; 3:15 Johnson Family; 6:30 Artnur Gaeth eom- ment; 10:30 Dance Time. the honest worker out ot a job and filch his meager savings from mm.

The basic tenet ot Marxism has always been the so-called "labor theory of value," according to which the only real constituent of the value of anything is the labor that went into it. But if this Is the test, then the successive five-year plans represent the biggest exploitation of the workers that ever existed. A larger proportion of the Soviet national Income than of any other Is devoted to capital construction of all kinds. But what is a higher proportion of construction but a lower proportion of consumption? If exploitation is defined as Marx defined it, then this is truly a gigantic exploitation. I do not condemn the Soviet system on this score; I merely assert that it is not socialist In its emphasis on the Soviet system seems to me to resemble capitalism in its heydey.

The Soviet worker is taught by the full force of' official propaganda to believe that the factories, the dams and the power stations belong to him. No doubt he gets a glow of satisfaction out of that belief. But it's just about all that he does get out of it. Capital in Russia does not belong to the workers; it belongs to the state. And that is a.

very different story. It may be that eventually the capital that the Russian state is amassing will begin to bring decisive benefits to the Russian worker. But if you want a prize example of accumulation of capital benefiting the standard of living of the worker, you will find it in capitalist America. Judged by this fundamental test, both America and Russia are on the same side of the fence. The real contrast with Russia is no.

to be found in capitalist America but in the semi-socialist democracies of Western Europe. There is another fundamental distinction to be drawn between the different sorts of economic systems. This is the difference between enterprise and unenterprise. An enterprise system rewards successes and punishes failure, an unenter- prise system does not rely on incentives to higher output and it exacts no penalty for inefficiency. The one is a carrot-and- stick economy; the other is a featherbed economy.

The one derives its motive power front the basic human emotions of ambition, greed, envy and few. the other from emotions (which may or may not be human) of nobility, loyalty, idealism and solidarity. There is nowhere in the world where there is a more oroughgo- ing and deliberate system of monetary rewards for productive efficiency. It is probably true that there is a greater inequality of earned incomes in the Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world. As for punishment for inefficiency, it may be true that the Soviet' worker has no reason to fear unemployment.

But that does not mean that there is no stick; to beat the worker who fails to respond to the carrot. The stick takes the horrible form of labor camps in Siberia. Looking at Russia and America as economic is, at machines for producing and' making allowance for the very primitive stage of Russian development, I can see many differences between them. But they stilljseem to me to resemble each other more than either one resembles the structure of socialist idealism. Thru 12 Freezing Winters NEQUINIWIER CHESTCOIDS The Quintuplets have always relied on Musterole to relieve coughs, son throat and aching muscles of colds.

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