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'S'T FAGS A THS NASHVILLE BANNES TUESDAY MARCH 18 1947 What Doos It Taka To Mako Him Take Notice? am Aa I 17 SNot Russia Democracy Not Red Ism Is the Workers Republic By RUSS HILL THE adjoining column we reprint with sCajTjbatf 55S5nmrt ernes Corbett was asked wist Nihrilli Oldest Newspaper PwiiM April 10 1878 JAMES SIAHLMAN Pr dat snO Pablttbse fcCBUbriEO VEBT AJPTEENOQM SXCAPT 6UNDAV At Brox)wy nt Effrentft Anu NMhviUe Tnn Latered At to Pot Gflk et ButanUa Turn OeeooiI-dM mall matter -X'Vt was tbt most important thing to io fo become champion ho promptly ropliod: Fight one more round" That typifies tho spirit that mads this nation It is therefore characteristic of ovary man in tho nation who has made anything of himself THIS HOT RUSSIA IS THE WORKER'S REPUBLIC Hero any em ployo can become tho president the ham pionot fie largest corporation provided he is willing to tight one more round any time A little hunchback immigrant bof Stein mots became tho electrical wisard of Scho noctady Pupin a six-year-old stowaway landed in America without a dime or a friend but be XtX QH-P- f'rPupfy 45 A BIBLE THOUGHT But theu whan jheu grayest antar Into thy ctesst ond Whan thau haa ahut thy door pray ta thy Father which la In aacrati and thy Father which aaath In secret ahall reward thaa eptrily St Matthew 1:6 came a groat scientist Karl Scburx a refugee from Prussian tyranny became a general a senator and a member of a Presidents cabinet V- IN permission as fine an editorial as we have seen on the subject of "Americanism" It is at once a definition of that in which we as Americans believe and an arraignment of that oose thinkingwhlch develops the Communist mentality It wasnt written as an editorial but as an office letter from Ruse Hill president of Rexair Inc and Parry-Martin Corporation to his employes It is an old-fashioned heart-to-heart talk betweep Americans the kind we need these days to dispel the fog of dangerous nonsense that all too often obscures the truth end subverts our thinking "This not Russia is the workers republic! Yes there are Americana that need the reminder Of that also that its the democratic system not the Communist system that has dignified WORK as the means to an end and rewarded it with blessings incomparable and untold ECONOMIC Communism Is the will the wisp which lures men and NATIONS onto the rocks where political Communism hovers to pick their bones clean Economic Communism is the seductive dream-stuff that numbs the mind and the conscience of amateur: theorists lullSj the unwary into slumber and opens the gates to the rapacious element invariably accompanying it in political dress It exploits Indolence and ignorance It scoffs at rules of personal conduct and public principles It debases the1 idea of individual initiative and penalizes all ambition that is not party-born That is its history Wherever it has budded then flourished as the fore-runner of its political coup detat To defeat political Communism it is essential to beat it first on the economic field That represents surely no great problem to America whose democratic economy provides the greatest blessings and the greatest opportunities under the sun Those selling America and democracy short In any such comparison are so obviously on the lunatic fringe that their argument is debunked before they have epoken a syllable All that is necessary is to point out the facts the route to further achievement of individual and national destiny and one great point the point of the profound personal meaning of this America of ours is eloquently driven home by Mr Hills heart-to-heart talk with his employes Urtf Carnegie landed at the ige of thirteen without money or friends and ultimately distributed millions for public libraries better education and international peace Ford without money or influence built a business which in 33 years had a gross in come of over thirteen billion dollars and its employes 34 billions These and countless jothers in this nation fought one more round the requirement of a winner They had to A study made by Ayer and Son shows the starting wages of the heads of fifty of the country's largest businesses One started work at 150 per week eleven others for less tbap $5 per week 43 started under $10 per'week tl began at between $10 and $25 Only seven started above $25 per week The average starting wage for all 143 top executives champions -was $1340 per week There were many one more rounds" between those starts and the top One mors round this week and every week will eventually put you in the championship class no matter what rung of success ladder you now occupy Keep swinging You have the stuff and ibis is still America 'i'X A OUR PRIOR AUTHORITY STILL NEEDED IN JAPAN TT7HILC General MacArthur praaanta strong ca for the course which ha suggests le early negotiation of a peace treaty with Japan an and of military occupa- tlon and assignment of the Japanese demoo-ratlxatlon task to the United Nations wisdom still admonishes for caution and will guard against precipitate action Ys General MacArthur Ip on tha scene and knows that scene with all its ins and outs What haa been accomplished thus far In Japan is a tribute to his leadership and to Americas initiative in doing what has been done in Striking contrast to the chaos of joint occupation in another enemy state Germany But that still does not justify what much of America will regard as a precipitate step The recommendation just made obviously was formulated in advance of the policy announcement with respect to Greece and Turkey constituting a broader dhd deeper role in world affairs for peace enforcement We Cant have TWO foreign policies one for Europe and the Middle East and another dissimilar one for the Far East or Asia proper We won the war with Japan at too great a cost to permit risk of undoing that victory by failure to follow through with a program GUARANTEEING its permanency Certainly wisdom' dictates caution in a matter which could invite relaxation of our responsibility in holding Japan against chaoa within and encroachment from without bearing in mind that Communism is poised to grab Japan too if permitted to do so Less than two years is a pretty short time to have accomplished all that we set out to do with respect to Japan and while eventually the United Nations may be able to take over the job in that quarter there are no signs that it is presently able jto do so We repeat that the MacArthur achievement as administrative leader in Japan is a remarkable piece of work a credit to him and to the nation assigning it to hie hands It is doubly remarkable la comparison with the lack of progress in its contemporary field Germany But at least until tha over-all world picture has improved until the situation on which our present policy has a distinct and Vital bearing haa stabilised in definite promising form it will be dangerous to sever our priorities of authority and responsibility in the Japanese quarter Of All Empires British Served Best two wars to make Great Britain a dependent of the United States This ecohomlc policy Britain rejected in favor of a political alliance with France and Russia and the United States The Russian Revolution the Incompetence of France in a modern world and the overwhelming economic altrength of the United States weakened the British Empire Sehtlmentally Canada Australia Nsw Zealand and the Union of South Africa supported the mother country Sentimentally tha United States has maintained England through two wara and the intervening period to the tune of tena of billions of dollars of direct and indirect aid Today's Talk Pioneers Needed Veterans Hitting Trail To Alaska By Upton Close ETERANS are hitting the trail to Alaska Army a population of only 73000 of whom 40000 are white and 33000 America unless we settle thesis has ample grounds GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS rtST went Eire then Egypt with tha Suez Cana in danger Now India has gone and the British power in China centering on Hongkong and Shanghai is lost Fearful of American public opinion Great Britain deserted Spain which means that her position in the Mediterranean is in peril for that position is wholly dependent upon Gibraltar and a friendly Iberian Peninsula Just as Britains seapower in The Southern Atlantlo Is dependent upon a friendly control of the Azores And the organization of the Arab League by Franklin Roosevelt waa a fierce blow The final blow Is Greece If Greece is withdrawn from tha British sphere of influence in favor of the United States or Soviet Russia it means that Britains authority in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean is gone Turkey Palestine Iran Iraq Egypt and the Suez Canal Britain's so-called lifeline to India will be In other hands which may be merciful or unmerciful Thus the role of Empire wends its way Of all Empires tha British sarverbest harmed least gave man most Its passing will be mourned when the full meaning of It is realized (Copyright 1MT King Features Syndicate) By GEORGE 80K0L8KY rE British Empire consisted of two generalized categories of nations Those that had emerged as independent states capable of conducting their own affairs Canada Australia New Zealand the Union of South Africa and Erie 2 Difficult and pesteroua areas that are often in turmoil always a drain upon England and the focus of other nations anxieties and ambitions Tbs second category Includes India the Malay States Borneo the Dutch East Indies (ostensibly part of the Netherlands Empire but actually British economically) the Congo Egypt the Sudan the Near East (in fact moat of the Arab world) 8pain Portugal and Greece and spots here and there upon the earth's surface It is a curious complex of nations lacking homogeneity in any respect including a multitude of races and religions and a variety of cultural and political developments It was held together not by adoration for the British Crown but by the Pound Sterling The British trader engineer and entrepreneur was for several centuries unequalled by any other He opened mines created great plantations for the growth of raw materials set up markets and evolved the banking shipping insurance communications and marketing facilities to keep the wares of the world moving in all directions Whereas the Pax Romana was a product of military force the Pax Britannica was financial industrial and commercial rREE nations in the Twentieth Century combatted Britains power: the United States Germany and Japan and of these the United States was the strongest and most effective During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries England held a virtual monopoly In the formation of capital for the development of the world's resources and the marketing of wares But in the Twentieth Century the capacity of the United States to form reservoirs of capital became so much greater that even Great Britain became a borrower of American capital The American dollar replaced the Pound Sterling as the principal currency of International relations Great Britain fought back with the Sterling Bloc and Empire Preference and the cartelization of products but British political policy conflicted with British economics From the standpoint of Great Britains economic empire it would have been wise during the Four-Year War (1914-18) for Great Britain to have been in alliance with Germany and Japan Such an alliance would have made Germany and Japan industrial areas dependent upon Britain's financial strength True in time they would have sought financial independence but not in as short a time as it took A LAW IS LOST IT IS UNFORTUNATE that Nashville does not have today the added weapon for law enforcement which the bill for confiscation of "numbers" cars would have provided It is unfortunate that the bill was misplaced and didnt reach the Speakers desks before adjournment The misfortune overtaking it could have been avoided had the Davidson County delegation sponsoring it presented it earlier in the Session instead of waiting until the closing hours The chief clerk of the Senate was not responsible for the oversight as ha was away on account of illness at the time of its occurence Rather it looks like a combination of circumstances including the last-minute scramble at adjournment time Bad judgment was shown In the timing of the measure's introduction Merited legislation deserves better than last-minute treatment as hindsight shows in this case Nashville needs this law It would have provided an effective deterrent to the numbers racket subjecting automobiles used in the racket to confiscation and sale As it Is authorities are deprived of this weapon for at least two more years We hope our legislators time their activities better next time or check their bills a little more closely from the floor to the Governor's desk native Divide that total into Alaskas area 586000 square miles and you get about one person for every eight square miles We Could Lose It This formula as a matter of fact doesnt give an accurate picture because a third of the population is concentrated in the eight largest towns (from Wrangell with 1162 to Juneau with 5729 inhabitants) Between these settlements lie stretches of wilderness which can best be appreciated perhaps by reading Jack London's Cali of the Wild areas where you could dog-sled for a week without finding a man-made scar on nature's face If there is yet among us the hardy soul who is annoyed at the sound of his neighbor's axe Alas-ka is just the place or him Even our most sparsely settled state Nevada where every individual has a square mile to himself is eight times as populous as the land that God forgot" Texas with 6415000 persons crowded into 267-000 square miles Is 200 times as thickly settled and Rhode Island with 713000 on a strip of ground equal to 25 by 50 miles Is nearly 5000 times as densely settled as Alaska There are students of history past and future who warn that ws stand to lose that rich and strategically tempting stretch of North contractors recently began advertising for them to go to Fairbanks and Anchorage to build $59000000 worth of Army installations One Seattle Washington firm Birch Johnkon and Lytle is recruiting 3000 luring them with offers of guaranteed housing and subsistence at normal government rates plus top wages and transportation to and from the point of hiring Journeyman carpenters steam fitters electricians truck drivers heavy equipment operators mechanics and machinists are especially wanted as are project managers building construction superintendents and equipment purchasing agents and maintenance superintendents Will Be Snspped Up The offer doubtless will be snapped up by many a former GI The unfortunate thing about it Is that the trek to our last frontier is only for jobs rather than to build permanent homea One of the most urgent needs of this period is the settlement of Alaska as the weekly newspaper Army Times has been saying in a year-long campaign to rouse public sentiment and Congressional action This land of great beauty and fertility capable of supporting perhaps 10 to 20 million people with many a gleaming city claims temple or Structure' no mat ter how wonderfully designed or arranged can in any way surpass this body -of ours It Is a wonder of wonders And When prop erly cared for does its work methodically faithfully and In superb fashion Dr William Osier in one of his inspiring addresses ones stated that "the sensations of ths first few hours of the day are the best test of its normal state" If you arise to the breaking day with vitality and enthusiasm you may well know that all is working naturally and good Too little is taught In the publio schools about this wonderful body of ours Every human being should know everything about the working of his body he should know every organ its location and its functions And he should have an inward reverence for this body of his It is amazing the way it will stand abuse yet It is far more amazing how it will respond to care and kindness Thoughts of high and healthy character havs an effect upon the body as nothing else Clean thoughts keep the body clean end how appreciative it is! Keeping It lit a state of constant health enables the mind to dismiss all worry and map out a course that wlU not only assure personal happiness but success as well The motto of ths YMCA of a healthy mind in a strong body Is the foundation of spiritual abundance The well knoWn statement that "as a man thlnketh so is he" em phaslzes a fact that shuld be burn ed into the consciousness of no all Listen to a person's words or read them in print and you sense the man or woman at once They are the expression of the Inward life and being it up Their for serious consideration without mentioning the veiled threat of the Stalin-ltes that Russia may someday refuse to recognize the deal in which we bought the territory in 1867 It is disappointing to find that few veterans have migrated to this beckoning new subcontinent A government land office spokesman says rich tracts are available for homesteading for the hardy and the experienced Some farms already cleared and developed also are for sale or lease by the govern ment in the Matanuska valley Will Pay Dividends That valley project by the way finally has come of age despite its unfortunate WPA beginning in which many of its original colonists were not well selected for the particular undertaking Some of the original settlers made the grade Others gave way to a long list of successors before one made good on a particular farm While the federal government spent far too many coon skins on the project it at least proves today that once a good Alaska farm is developed and in qualified hands it will render substantial returns Vegetables grow lush and bring a fancy price as do poultry and dairy products since Alaskans havs to Import most of their food The Army needs several million people in Alaska to develop communities roads railroads farms communication systems and power houses and to maintain these facilities The federal government needs several million more taxpayers to help carry the load of publio debt The 48 states need another member in the family and ths world needs the food and commerce which could spring up out of Alaskan soil Our government can well afford to pioneer In Alaska (CosTTlsht 1MT br John Dill Co Today In State History By WILLIAM BEARD The Peoples Forum THOUGHT FOR TODAY 'MIL MAZEY the Detroit labor leader when challenged to prove that a certain individual in his union was a Communist said "I can't prove you are a Communist But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck walks like a duck has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks Im certainly going to assume that he IS a duck Plain Talk ARCH 18 1909 Meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria New York trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund authorized the gift of $1000000 for a permanent endowment for George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville To seoure the endowment Nashville pledged $200000 Davidson County $50000 and the University of Nashville properties valued at $300000 raising the contributions to the $600000 upon which the gift had been conditioned the State of Tennessee having made a contribution of $250000 (Protected 1MT br Ths Oeorre Matthew Adame SefTlce) Close's attempt to pin the Communist label on Zionists That Jews are divided on Zionism as on other matters should not occasion surprise Are Christiana united on all issues? Do not Baptists Presbyterians Methodists Episcopalians and other religious denominations differ among themselves even on the moat vital questions I happen to belong to the so-called Reform wing in Judaism Probably not more than fifteen per cent of all the Jews in America belong to Reform congregations though the percentage in a city like That new telescope we read will enable us to look more closely at Mars to see if conditions are the same everywhere Disagree With Close To Ths Editor of ika BAiran: Mr Upton Close must a hateful kind of an individual to have written the sort of article which appeared In Tax Banner on March 12 Like any other American citizen Close is entitled to his opinions It is something else for a writer to distort facta and print untruths His statement that the Zionists plan to raise $215000000 is a false on two grounds For one thing Calls Halt To Soviet Interference By David Lawrence Nashville is considerably larger According to a poll taken several of It Their whole gamble has been that through their left-wing friends in America they could bring about such dissension and disunity as to weaken the American economic structure The Communists still hope that dollars and tax reductions will wean away from the President's stand a certain support jn Congress and that there will be a coalition of tax reductionists and isolationists so that the President will not be backed up The Communists have a surprise In store for them The resident and Secretary Marshall will receive the over-1 actors of the United Jewish Appeal whelming support of the Congress because lives are more precious the United Jewish Appeal is not a Zionist organization lb is a fund raising agency in which the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Service for New Americans are represented as well as ths United Palestine Appeal Its purpose is to enable the one and one half million remaining Jews in Europe to survive' Among the di- are representatives of all three months ago approximately 80 per cent of American Jews are Zionists 10 per cent anti-Zionists with the remaining 10 per cent not expressing an opinion Of course Jews differ among themselves! But they are united behind the United Jewish Appeal which is neither Zionist nor anti-Zionist but a tremendous venture In simple humanitarlanlsm Let men continue to differ in their views by all means but facts should be treated as such and not be distorted by half-truths and outright falsifications JULIUS MARK WASHINGTON March 18 President Truman has in effect notified the Russian government that the United States wants the Soviet to stop intervening in various countries of the world by means of "such subterfuges as political infmratlon" This is a warning that while Communism and terrorism and coercion and denial of freedom of the press and of free speech are the prerogatives of the Soviets within their own borders they must refrain from such tactics In other countries This warning was coupled with a plain statement that continuance of Russian tactics may endanger the peace of the world The Truman message cannot be read as a simple exposition of the troubles of Greece and Turkey or merely of the needs for American economic and financial aid The message is a blunt challenge to Russia that she must stop her aggression and pay wholesome and sincere respect to the United Nations charter While a third world war wasn't mentioned and the message contained no threats its essence was that if Russia wants to upset world peace the United States is ready now for that challenge It might even be Inferred that America prefers to come to a showdown Bow rather than risk the drifting course which might leave Europe et the mercy of the Communists Appeasement is tabooed Plain speaking has taken Its place The crisis may come as a shock to tha American people but it is much better to have such things come out into the open where discussion can force all the facts to the surface than to allow the mouldering fires of Russlaii-American relations to go on 'as they have been heretofore If a third world war is to be fought It is better that It be fought Bow when American reserves are trained and an enormous amount of equipment can be turned into instantaneous use rather than to risk a showdown five years from now when the Army Navy and Air Forces have been demobilised and all equipment has been crapped 1 Bint It is reasonably sure there will be no war There will be Bone now or five years from now' if America is resolute now and faces Issues sqtiarely The only language the Communists respect is force and plenty agencies The national chairman Mr Henry Morgenthau Jr Is a distinguished American Jew who is not a Zionist The $215000000 figure was first arrived at by a commtitee of experts as the minimum amount necessary to rehabilitate or to resettle the Jews of Europe This sum was pruned down to $170000000 This is a huge sum to be sure but so is the need! The Jews of America hope to raise it with the help of numerous American Christiana whose hearts have been touched by the frightfully bitter distress in the midst of which the Jews of Europe through no fault of their own find themselves Closes reference to Dr Rablnowltch as "a prominent Canadian Orthodox rabbf' is ridiculous Rablnowltch is a physician who made quite a stir in Canada several months ago when ha delivered a bitterly Anti-Zionist address before the Canadian Club of Montreal Dr Rablnowitch is eta-titled to his Anti-Zionist views His charge that Canadian Zionist Jews are disloyal is altogether unworthy of notice by any intelligent person It to just as shameful as than dollars A stern and unequivocal course now will prevent war and make sacrifices of lives unnecessary though it will mean that more dollars from new tax rates will have to be furnished This can be done if the tax system is revised so as to provide proper incentives for business expansion in the next few years The President's message has been called precedent-breaking The Issue is the same as it was in 1914 and In 1917 and in 1939 and in 1941 The issue is human freedom and democracy versus totalitarian dictatorship The Russian people are as helpless today as the German people became under Hitler While not concerned with the form of government of any other country America Is concerned with the crusades and aggressive interferences in other countries by any totalitarian state The Soviet government has taken over all the Balkans and is about to overrun Greece and Turkey The United Nations is helpless to act because Russia can block action there So it remains for the Unltqd States to decide either to stand aloof and let Russia dominate the world or to stand athwart Russia's path of aggression and call a halL The President and General Marshall have chosen to make a firm stand Congress is asked to back them up If that happens Russia will hesitate and changS her ways for she is too wejak to fight a war or to want to provoke ths United States into a war Within a few weeks if not days after Congress backs up ths President ths so-called "war sca'rcs will vanish and for ths first tjme since V-J Day the international situation as a whole will take on ths pattern of taco Last Straw To The Editor of The Barnes: Communism is the last straw of dying civilization When a nation is reduced to a hand-to-mouth dally existence with the fate of want and starvation staring it in the face and with no signs of a change for the better life then in preference to charity it will ae-cept Communism Now the only cure for Communism is to give something better We have over 750000 abortions over 2000000 fatherless children and millions of homeless children with no future but a bare existence want and starvation high food costs and existence prices No law and any otner force will stop them from going Communistic Spend your millions or billions at horns Instead of abroad and you will keep it out of the A or else CHARLES 8CHENKEN 8ut yea tisven't Feed slsvln all day over this dinner wk tsk I steaji out ft the Jeep frees snd defrost pecfctfe of pees All you TI ir 1 J- A i i 7.