The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 14

't X. BfAKlr Evening F.aglr. Friday, Not. 4, 1949 Tho State of the IWttlon The Berkshire Evening Eagle Published every -weekday afternoon except holidays by the EAGLE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 33 Eagle Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Looking IJaek trartl 50 Years Ago I Robert Wilson has re- signed as superintendent of the Lee Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school.

Dr, Henderson, who has been practicing in New York State, has opened an office in North Miss Augusta Frederick of Berkshire Business College has taken a 1 position at the Pon-toosuc Woolen Company office. James McIntyre, former chef -at the Maplewood Hotel, has gone to Boston where he has a similar position at a club.i 11 rk ttih trace It Mtrr and with pabluhing Interroptian to th Wetern Star, later th Berkthir Star, a weekly established in Steckhrtdge in 1JW. Marine te Lrnoi in lit! in a oaelldatiea It became tb Berkahire Star and Ceantr Republican. After It sale in 1839, It be- known a th Berkshire Journal, eonioiidatinf Telephone: 7311 Telephone 7317 Basinet Office Hoars; 8 AM to 5 PM except Saturday afternoon and Sundays The Associated Pres is entitled exclusively to the nse for republicstlon of 11 new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Editorials Thoughts on There will probably be little cheering over the decision by' theU.S.

Court of Appeals to allow, the release of the 11 convicted Communists on bail. In view of the jufys verdlc the. opinion is common that no sympathy is due conspirators who plotted to overthrow our institutions In the interest of a foreign power. Benefiting by the laws they were seeking to destroy will strike many as something of a paradox. This feeling will apply with double force to the three who are hot even citizens, and who face deportation proceedings.

Nevertheless we can derive satisfac- The defendant was tried before a (court of five Army officers with no legal knowledge. The judges permitted the prosecution wide latitude, and allowed evidence based on opinion or on remote hearsay as weH as the introduction of a propaganda film containing imaginary incidents. They appeared to feel' that defense objections, made for the record, wasted time and smacked of insubordination. The Army tried to block appeal 'to the Supreme Court, which disclaimed jurisdiction and referred the matter to MacArthur for, review. However, two of the Supreme Court tlon from the1 strength of a democratic Murphy and Rutledge, dissented 25 Years Ago Miss Elizabeth Veronica Goodfellow, Colt Road, and Charles William Ramsdell, Wahconah Street, are married at Notre Dame Church by Rev.

-Levi J. Achim. For the fourth successive presidential election, New Ash- ford files its returns to the world first. In co-operation with The Eagle and The Associated Press. Its vote, 20 for Coolidge and 4 for Davis, is given The AP at 7.01 JAM, beating the 1920 record by 37 minutes.

The Eagle provides coffee, doughnuts, cigars and candy for the Ida Margaret Schiidpp -and Christopher Johri Hall, both of Dalton, are married at St. Agnes' Church by Rev. Dr. P. H.

Gallen. The attendants1 are Miss Mary Hall and Edward Schnopp. 1 Dr. W. J.

Mackey is elect- ed president of the Stockbridge Speed Club. 10 Years "Ago George Hashim, this city1, Is playing left guard on the Wil-liston Academy football team this fall. -i The Womans Board of Mis- slons of the Hinsdale Congregational Church, will observe its 70th anniversary Nov. 10 Mrs. Samuel Ross Swift has been president 27 years.

i J. Herbert Finnell, for several years foreman at. the Roger Smith Hotel barber shop, Holyoke, has taken a position at the shop of. Patrick F. Fallon, North Street.

Toelaif ed talked with som? we realize how close I we. stand to the brink of blizzards, 10 below, and that healthy out-doors glow we so admire in others. Winter -sports centers are stirring from their long summers nap, and reports spate of visitors, hiking. over the bare slopes with a pe- I culiar and frosty gleam in their eyes. BousquetsL and Catamount! even report out-of-state cars pull- Ing up and the passengers surveying the lay-outs witlAa come-hith- er-later look.

Right now, winter sports operators are busy mowing the grass, I which were assured' makesbetter skiing. Proprietors at Catamount in Egremont are crowing that theyve added two tows, and with 11 have the most in the world. Hope In TN MY in France, who profess 1st principle within the port the as I do, united, wishfully assured. For we in the Socialists split the discontented majority a The can he peasants Unless the long the of their anti Tontorrotv of European Moderates Depends Upon -Success Applying Liberal Principles to Whole Economy government, that is not afraid to allow its most inveterate enemies to go 1 ree on bail." Furthermore, there is some force to-the contention that the restriction of the freedom of those whose opinions we detest may at some future date be called' in precedent to violate the rights of citizens whose loyalty is not in question. We sometimes live to regret acts perpe- trated when the jpubfic is in a highly egiotional state, and wish, we had hewed to the line of justice and law, regardless of the character oi- the victim of severity.

A case in point isjrought out by the suppressive efforts of General MacArthur in Japan toward The Case of General Yamashita by S. Frank Reel, a book published by the University, of Chicago Press. General Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya," was tried, convicted and hanged for atrocities committed by the Japanese in territory where he was technically, but not actually, In command. Mr. Reels book, a sober factual analysis, comprises a damning indictment' of i American justice in an important case.

By Walter Lippmann ROME. preceding article I noted the fact that continental western Europe particularly Western Germany and Italy -men the liberal rather than the Social-' have now a small ascendancy anti-Corrimunist coalitions that sup governments. But no one who believes, that only a. liberal Europe could be prosperous and free, can afford to think that. the success of the liberals is He can say only that success is possible.

I a4 must remember that the liberals (ire ascendant because the Communists, ihe and the left Christian Democrats ha ve vote effhe wage earpers and of the peasants. There is no solid libera in any of the large nations. There is slender liberal plurality. It would disappear quickly If the breach between the Communists and Socialists were liberals can never forget that the breach healed and that the wja'ge earners and can become united against them. liberals can achlcvej a real majority masses of the people by the success liberal measures, it is) most probable Soviet Plans To Flood West With Gold, Build Atomic Power Chain By Marquis Childs 1 FRANKFURT, Germany.

TITHILE no one I outside the 14 men who 1 cojnprise the Politburo in Moscow can make any positive' statement about Russian policy, the following Is, I believe, a new and important indicator of Soviet inten- tions. It has been checked and rechecked in, several capitals with sources close to the confidential reporting from behind the wall of Russian secrecy. Such cold-war tactics as the establlsh-'ment of the East German state are obvious enough. But back of these day-to-day headline tactics is la long-range strategy to overcome the United States by methods short of a shooting war. This strategy has1 two major objectives.

One la to flood the West with massive quantities of gold, mined by slave labor. The idea Is to undermine the value of America's vast gold hoard at Fort Knox and thereby to spread financial and eco-' nomic chaos. The Russians have recently made major new gold discoveries in th? Siberian Arctic. They may be even more important than any of the gold finds of the past decade that have been exploited by forced labor. The exploitation of the new finds is to be on a scale far greater than ever before.

In Siberian gold mines worked by forced labor an estimated 100,000 Slaves have died and been replaced, according to those and they are very few who have escaped. Thousands of additional recruits are now being sought and It is believed that the wholesale arrests Jn the Czech purges will provide raw material for the secret police charged with the task of shipping an evei Increasing number of carloads of human beings to the gold mines, i From time to time in the past Soviet couriers and even Russian diplomats' have been exposed smuggling gold through diplomatic channels. The gold was presumably being supplied to Communist agents abroad. In massive amounts from the mines now being opened, it would have the more ambitious objective of knocking the props out from under the American financial system. The second objeqtlve Of the Soviets strategy Is even more ambitious and far reaching.

Thegoal Is to create a chain of atomic power stations stretching across the Soviet-Union and linked together In a great power grid. Russian planners believe that this will produce by far the cheapest power in the 1 world.1 It will, therefore put Russian industry in a position of tremendous advantage to outproduce the rest of the world. Russian scientists, working with German physicists and chemists brought to I the Soviet Union at the end of the war, believe that Russian atomic development has reached a stage at which such a chain of power stations can be seriously planned. Since Russia has no major electric power grid system and only limited petroleum resources, there is no possibility of eco- nomic loss through Such a chain of peacetime power stations would also have an enormous war potential. iThe contrast with America is striking.

In 'jhe United States the tendency is to play down the possible peacetime use of atomic power and to insist that such use can come into being Only in the remote future, If at all. i Electric utility interests are naturally concerned lest cheap atomic power should supercede a vast investment. One of the reasons the Russians have continued to oppose any form of inspection in the United Nations discussions of I the control of atomic energy is because of their plans for an atomic power Under 1 inspect: on the location of each atomic plant would be known to the Vest and would become a target In the event of war. Named to direct Russias long-range cold-war strategy is Hela, Vagaj the brilliant Hungarian-born economist and planner. Varga was in disgrace) for a time because he' ventured to predict that America would 'not undergo an Immediate postwar depression.

This was directly contrary to Communist doctrine at the time. Varga went down, on his knees before supreme authority. Moreover, i he Was proved right In his' analysis. Therefore, according to these reports, he has been raised up again'and given, one of the most important assignments in the Soviet Union. In effect, his immediate job is to help bring about a depression in America.

Since his earliest youth Varga, has been, a Com-1 munist revolutionary, participating in the Bela Kun revolt which succeeded briefly after World War Success, even approximate success, In his new undertaking would put him In a position of extraordinary power In the Soviet dictatorship. Humor Preoccupied A A Erskine Johnson In his Hollywood col- umn reports that someone asked Bob Hope why his Cleveland Indians finished third in the" baseball pennant race. Im not quite sure, sridBob, but I think, ft was because we were autographing until July. i NT Divide and I In; Manhattan, two ex-convkfts who Iiad joined forces to rob pretty Eleanor Joly were nabbed by police came again to make Separate social calls on her. Time.

I i Full House I A little girl had a birthday party. From accounts it wax highly successful, At least, one would gather it was from the Report she gave her friends. It was swell 19 out of 12 came." Wall Street Journal. It attract more attention than just a atationarr 1 trade unionism plus labor parties In weakening1 the discipline of Industry. The liberals, if they of class prejudice, must pay equal attention to the other side of the picture: To the fact that so much of the industry of Europe is publicly subsidized, is administered monopolitically, and is proy tected not only by international cartels, but by monetary- controls.

1 i 1 Any attempt to apply, the liberal principle to the working class alone will almost certainly a disastrous failure. Yet there Is a most serious possibility that something like this may be attempted that In the name of liberalism the protective systeni may be dismantled for the working class while the propertied classes continue to protect themselves against the rigors and tlie risks of competition. There is a good ideal of double talk about economic freedom There are powerful Interests like the barons and King John, mean by. freedom only their own freedom a license to the cartels and monopolies to continue to be subsidized but not regulated or broken up by th? state. The inner crisis of liberalism will, I believe, develop on1 this issue on whether, to put it i bluntly, the liberal principle! is to be applied to the whole economy, to business as well as to labor.

The genuine' liberals of whom there are some with considerable influence in all countries will attempt an liberalism. They are preparing to bring in measures to reform the tax laws and the corporation laws in order to liberalize qnd to make honestly competitive the industries which are now so monopolistic, and in the American sense of the word so unenterprising. They have a hard road ahead of them. 1 The American influence- on the outcome, though not decisive, will be considerable. As.

long as Marshall aid continues in its present, form American officials the European capitals and in Washington can determine the use of th? large counterpart funds of the local currencies earned by the European govern-" ments from the sale of the goods which the American government provides. These counterpart funds are a ve ry important influence in the economy of France, Western Germany and Italy. It Is most important that the American this Influence1 should know clearly and firmly between and that pseudo-liberalism, masquerade of reactionary officials who wield hqw to distinguish genuine liberalism which? Is often th In th sant year with Aryu. which had rt-moTed from PittsBeld to Lenox, becoming thod th Journal and Argu. In 1838 the name wa changed to th Massachusetts Eagle and in 1842 th paper wa moved to Pittsfield.

In 1852 It became The Berkshire County Egl which continued until 1892 when the weekly became a daily aasuming It present name SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER 35c per week $13 per year BY MAIL (First Pour Postal Zones) One year Six months Three months One month (Each zone equals about 150 miles) 4 ela iMitliieeeietoti) i a a a a a $13 00 6 50 3 25 1.20 i American Justice from the majority opinion, and assailed the conduct of thl trial. They were appalled by the wide departure from any, semblance of a trial as we know that It was, declared Murphy unworthy, of the traditions of our people. The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realizations of the boundless and dangerous implications- The. truth- of Justice Murphy's words were proven at the trial of Japanese Admiral Toyoda three years later.

In that "sober afterglow he was acquitted when it was shown that he had no knowledge of the crimes committed, though he was in command. 1 No onecan justly criticize the conduct of the, trial by Judge Medina. Ana there may be little rejoicing-over the release of the 11 Communists. But the treatment proven subversives receive here inx contrast to that given untried suspects in Communist countries represents the difference between freedom and totalitarian tyranny. i or nbt.

Even if he does not, his attacks on capitalism which is saving him from his Enemies," would have a very hollow look. 1 Yugoslavia, insignificant as it is, is one of the most powerful allies we "could have in the cold war. Its defection has caused more worry in Moscow thanAhe Berlin airlift; the influence of Its successful eflance Is spreading aHthrough the satellite countries. Tosupport a powerful ally is only common. sense.

In Brief. I A salute is due the League of Women Voters for its now traditional candidates forum, so well established after s4ven years that it's a brash nominee who dares to be absent from its revealing give-and- take. And 'Mrs. Orin P. McCarty is as efficient as chairman as she is on the' tennis court Doris M.

Sylvester, a local girl who made good in the big city but prefers to come1 back, will strengthen immeasurably the Family Service staff Danny Rush and Ralph Otis, Lor we love them both, but when the announcement is made on the same day that both Danny and Ralph are returning to the rack's, of the federal and state tax baby its getting colder-outside ifs clear why C. D. Jacksop of Lenox resumed cello lessons this summer after not touching a bow since college. He was tuning up for a seat on the Boston Orchestra board Mrs. Vera Victoreen Fielding is the brain behind the comprehensive school building program publicity.

She is an old Eagle news gal, leaving iri 1940 to raise a family for whom she now wants to reserve schckl seats To have three candidates for office ls always confusing to the voter because then he is, unable to select the lesser of two Free Press. Human nature can do anything even' reverse the law of gravity. It is much easier to pick bp a girl than it is to drop her. Power County (Idaho) News. Now that prices are flattening somewhat, possibly a joint will again come to mean beef instead of juke.

Springfield UnioiL objections. The first is that whil? Titos opposition to the system is "enormous importance, his dislike of ours The opening of the. last ink in the is of no importance at all. We have Wilbur Cross Parkways in Connecticut aggravates the mouthwatering -envy Massachusetts motorists feel tf or the facilities of other states. Pennsylvania- has a toll highway from near Pittsburgh to Carlisle, now being' ex-tended te the Delaware, on which the speed limit is 70 milesjier hour.

New Jersey is set to build a similar road to connect with -it. New York is working on a half-billion-klollar super-artery to run from Nyack'to the western boundary of i the' state. New York alreadyj has Several parkways like the Taconic, cloverleaf 1 intersections at widely sep- arated points, ancjl anyone from Pittsfield who has occasion to drive to both New York and Boston is thoroughly aware of i the contrast in time and ease between. thePre-erenCe or us, whether he means to Catamounts also getting a newKthat the Socialists and Communists will once again form a united opposition. That could happen if the popular standard of life were to fall while the benefits and the profits of recovery were, largely pre-empted by the propertied classes.

Sufficient discontent based ora sense of injustice and unequal sacrifices could heal the breach which Communist, tactics have caused. The breach could also be healed if, as is not-at all impossible, the Communist Parties of Western Europe hould begin to take the Tito line that is to sky to rebel against Russian domination vvhile remaining Communist. oad, bulldozed through, by th own of Egremont, to obviate the ormer double-dogleg approach, he N.Y. and Mass, state line cuts the canteen. This presents some interesting' problems ij dispensor licenses.

Frequently at.thisseason, come upon articles lost in the snow the previous winter, Records show innumeiole car picked up iiylhe grass, once in a w'hile a wajeh, and of course false of workmen teeth whiyn always ttirn up lost. A couple of years hgo, someone who manufactures sk) costumes finally wenyskilngdiimself and found out how it was. Since then, skiers get pers bn the pockets, and losses ave dropped off. Russell Bousquet, whose father runs the big South Mountain Road ski 'tenter, isnt too optimistic about early though. Hes see too many open winters, like 1937 and 1938, and last year.

Bous-quets have been going since 1933, and'except in rare cases, dont Expect solid winter before Christmas, praise be! Bousquet did mention one. winter that opened with! a terrific Thanksgiving blizzard, but Here those of us ih Ar of European- socialism and would like the liberals to" Succeed must be ompur guard. It u411 mot do to fix our attention solely on the welfare measures which cost more than these countries can afford, and on the taxes and regulations which discourage' the private formation of capital, encourage hoarding and the. flight of erica who are critical incentive to enterprise full employment plus vested Interests. capital, and destroy th -and on the effect of Letters Advise? Delay he isnt looking for anything like I xo th Editor of the eagle: that this year, and frankly, neither Would it not be more logical are we.

Iwhen building materials and labor are so high to build additions on man whoseems to knowk our present school buildings since just described home as a place there is plenty of! land to do so and where a fellow can say anything also put up some! temporary build ings until building prices come down to earth Mt will cost the City three times as much now as at some -later date; Also I have noticed that pressure groups now so active have r- i i never 1 mentioned the Catholic Monday night. Especially the black- Lchools They win absorb a large A yisitor t0 th Plas-1 number of these children who will ant Valley Sanctuary says their pet I be ready for school, fox is getting more and more like Vote no 01? thl5 gchool teferen-dog. He wags his tail when dum or you awfully sorry spoken, to. No, he doesn bark but he you get your tax bill in 1950 oh those teeth! -I win Vm I mi II1LI3C leculi -I 1950 will be a I southern and eastern trips. And now Connect: cut has completed a parkway from its western to its eastefii edge on which driving is A motorists dream.

-Some of these highways are toll Toads, some, are not. This may be important, but it is secondary The principal fact Is that other states have built them and 'i that Massachusetts still 'lags. Plans for7 Ja north-south parkway bypassing Bos-; ton are, we believe, In process of being drawn; but an east-west traffic artery is stiH largely In the realm of the imagina- tion. 1 The state lack of highways calls for continued action. present projects represent Only the beginning.

Whether amortization of the necessary bond is- sues will be financed by tolls or' by an- other cent in the gas tax is a minor mat-r ter. However steep state taxes are to-I day, we believe state motorists would be willing to pay a little more If they could get some' really first-class roads- Gas for the Planes i Of Yugoslavia The decision of the United States gov-1 ernment to ease the barriers to exports Yugoslavia and to permit ship ment of such important prod Jcts as gas-; ojine and lubricating oilsis a extension of its previous policy. It is an indication of a recognition yol realities. Tito, squeezed by the shutting off of supplies he used to get from the Comin-form counfries, Is faced by a serious economic crisis. It is to our interest to 'keep Tito in business.

Therefore, while we are not giving him all aid snort of 'war, we are selling, him products that are as essential in war as in peace. There have been Ind will be more objections a minority that Tito is no more friendly to. our than Stalin. Which situation is ironic since it will be a repeat performance of our extreme isolationists playing footsie again with die U.S; Communists just as they' did between August, 1939, and 'May, 1941. The isolationists will, of course, argue we are compromising with sin, compounding a felony, and giving' aid and comfort to an enemy of UjS.

democracy. 1 There are seeral answers to these of it. So lets pinl ourselves down to the question: Can we get ahead of Russias suspicion," fear and hate? We have nevegone this in just the right way and we certainly have 'much toundo before Russia could regard any move of ours without question. We must face the certainty of being We must purposefully give up much of the armed might for which we are! now suicidally bankrupting ourselves, and in which, rather thanj in God, we trust. 1 And we mustturn our vigorous attention and many of our unearned i material advantages in thfr direction of making the world a better place to five in all nations, Including Russia and her following.

i- 'I We cannot -do it all, but we 'can do enough to earn and establish unshafkable confidence in our universal good will. Suppose we1 reverse our present appropriation! of $24 billion for arms and 11000 as much, $24,000,000, 1 for the support of I the! United Nations! Might not such a course afford a genuine protection against hostile attack? CAROLINE GOODYEAR. Great Barrington. Lost Wallet I to thofcditorxdf THE EAGLE: 2 Two weeksfego I my'wallet. advertised inTthetpaper askln for its return.

.1 hadauite a sum of money in and -some family pictures I can neve I said in the ad tliat thenqney wasnt necessary, but, I fidped the person who found It Would have the decency tqsend back the wallet, minus the money, but with the pictures, perscmal papers and receipts, W'hichwere very important to me I and of no, value to the finder. Whyjls it that people who find otheg peoples belongings arent honest enough to return the same? Thee is Someone higher up who will punish that person and his conscience wlll give him no. Think it over. MARTHA E. TODD.

Pittsfield. V- Not a Fair Judgment To the Editor of THE EAGLE: reply to Mr. Segals letter of 29 criticizing the behavior of school stiidents at! an afterperformance of Hamlet we as senior high school pupils would like to point out that there were student from several high schools present. Mr. Segal may be judging alLthe students by the actions of maybe six or seven.

From our point of view attendance was a must and onethat gave us much pleasure. Lejiox pu pils were eager to take advantage of the chance to see a 'fine picture both for its entertainment and its educational values. We enjoyed Hamlet very much. Adults ask, What is this younger generation coming to? We of this younger generation ask, only that you jljdge us'by out actual be havlor. We of Lenox4 High are confident that our behavior was beyond reproach.

-t i MARY ELLEN FARRfNGTON, JACQUELINE BAILEY. Lenox. Postal Pay BilK To the Editor of THE EAGLE: In diSpatchesublished on Oct. 23f frorp Washington regarding the phstal paybill, signed President Tpumann the previous day, it was erroneously reported that the bill provides a five-day increase in an-ripal and sick leave for post office employees. I No such provision is contained in the I bill as finally signed, into law.

The annual leave remains at 15 ays and the sick leave 10 days. The bill provides for a $120 ln-creaseannually, and longevity pay based on previous years of service, and will date from Nov. 1, the first pay period pfqllowing enactment into law. As secretary ofxthe Massachusetts branch of the United National Association -of Post Office, Clerks, I wish to thank on behalof the members, the people-for- the support given them in thejr efforts to obtain a cost-of-living adjustment. J.

KELLEY. Boston. 1 -jotr-i crucial year. The first male pinvup calendar is coming out soon, with! 12 of America's nest-built men pic-1 ittslieio. tured.

Its for the femmes bou-1 doirs, and a nlde way to torture Ovprrnmini Evil your spindly husbands, ladles UVertoimn0 What, asks' an old campaigner, i3 1 th Sditor of 11118 EAaLE: so rare as a well-done restaurant I Long ago someone tried to start steak? 4 When In Rome, the I the Idea that one could overcome Santa Cecilia Orchestra will do as I evil with good! Isnt that a crazy LeonardBernsteia says. The Tan-1 notion! When a Russian super glewood leader Is to direct them I atomi bomb has wiped out. Greater there during Holy Week. New York City, 1 for instance, are o- we to overcome it by perhaps A COUt te LTrN0ta SScM fellqw who borrows youripot to know it was poisoned and cook your goose in. I jf wouldj only put more diattblical ideas into their heads.

No it Time was, hen about this sea-1 wouldnt work. We ought to have son youngsters I were bundled pro-1 Et ahead of them! But what do testingly into flannel underwear, lyou mean. 'got ahead of them? Adults who can remember back I Would it (really be mud better for that far may be pleased? to hear I u3 have been the first to strike? that the dratted things are turn-1 Wouldnt the. wholeWorld be down ipg up again, but with the tables I on us, well turned. Part of Education Lets take another look at that Week here will be.

flannelgraph I noil11 about oercommg evil with 1 rrAArf Wkaf ami ora uO displays, -m certain schoolrooms. I souu What evil are we talkji? bomb in itsbif about? The atom It could lie on the shelf do no harm. It is the suspicion, fear and hatred, men to. destroy each Heres the pitch. Flannel is stretched on a frame, and the kids cut out contrasting colored pieces to slap on, making pictures.

Fric- I otlwr with whos well knows isnt evil forever and spirit of impelling it that IL 1 obviously this spirit could be over come with good if we got ahead worn them RICHARD V. HAPPEL. x. i A.