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12 Another Round Ross Valentine i Chinese Drama: Confucius vs Stalin Udjuumd (Eintts-iBtepafrfr John Stbwajr Bzyjn J87J-ISU Dars Tennant Bctan President and Publisher VkBGZNm Dabney Editor SCBSCXimON BATES Da a4 Sunday Ik DaBr ma Ik IUlb-fATABL IN ADVANCE ITr Ita IX I Ma Sil-vO t)M SAuO SETS 1109 400 If) X-SO 7 AO EM EM 71 UTABUSHT? 1W: PBXUbrt mn OrtMt Er at jiu hjn Jojtj tL nr iujmI Nm fctar4 P- vfL ge ririrri hm ur MBtU Of IUC AbjOUTld PKt'A wwa BATES aacw-Mty -auit-a la im wt hr mtueatlo -f 4114 to Wtoneiw lc meter 4 at ui latii ui BOW Aa nta nMteaJi in imri TKUWjNK T-I5I a fintou-4n: Thursday Aopit 11 1X9 My) has been to the Chinese a funA-xnental ideal of human conduct Confucius was born 551 yean before Christ His political writings sang the praises of the feudal order as the natural stratification of human society (which may explain why the recent congress of Chinese intellectuals was ordered to the idea of Although the modern economic structure is certain to destroy the last remnants of that system Confucianism as Ling Yutang has said hold its own as a system of humanist culture as a fundamental viewpoint concerning the conduct of life and That system of humanist ethics is diametrically opposed to the Communist system with its ultra-Prussian coercive methods Xn his Am-forties Confucius who held that means were more important than the end had this to say: fLTDE the people with governmental measures and control or tegulato thhn by the threat of punishment and the people will try to keep out of but will have no sense of honor or shame Guide the people by virtue and control or regulate them by 2i (the Golden Rule) and the people will have a sense of honor and When Baron Kang Chi asked bins whether one should jwt "kill off Ith Communist-Fascist term is liquidate 1 bad citizens he replied the need of a killing off people? If you desire what is good the people will become good Asked about government in general by Tsekung he said: must have enough rat there must be a sufficient army and there must be confidence of the people in the When asked which two objectives be would dispense with if necessary he replied: would go without the army first Next I would rather go without enough food for the people There have always been deaths in every generation sinew man lived but a nation cannot exist without confidence in its he counseled with poetry" Stalin is wooing the poets of China But as Robert FYost has said is the opposite of I doubt whether Stalin's fly-by-night barbarian propaganda can erase the Con-fucian Influence from the minds of th Chinese War Contract Probe Needed: Chickens Home to Roost arc coming home to roost in connection with wartime contracts contracts let tinder a dangerously weak act of lMi which contained provisions against which solemn warnings were issued The late Refusentativs Din SAmancLo of Richmond told his fellow-Congressmen time and again when that act was passing through the national legislature that it would almost certainly result in widespread fraud United states Comptollek-Gevekai Lindsay Waskxn took a'timilar position Despite these clear danger signals the lawmakers proceeded to eliminate safeguards that had protected the government for three generations An act of 1872 passed in the wake of the corrupt Grant administration and designed to prevent the government from being by insiders was changed to permit such gouging With the backing of Comptroller-General Warren congressman Satterfield tried unsuccessfully to restore the section which would have prevented commissioned officers or officers or employees of the Federal government from accepting employment with private concerns less than two years after the end of the war for the purpose of prosecuting claims against the Federal Treasury But the act was passed In its weakened form and ve are now witnessing the dire results Citing the act of 1944 as a major WHEN was one-and-twenty" at-" tended a Chinese theater in This pilgrimage was undertaken with some boon eom-panionsvaa a lark and we seen left amused and confused by the to us unintelligible antics behind the footlights The audience of Chinese however had followed each swish 'of sword or fan each posture of the actors in their stiffly brocaded Oriental costumes with intense interest The music which to our Western ears sounded discordant and all but tuneless had like the action of the play conveyed precise symbolic meanings to the Chinese and though their clothes weiw like those of the curious handful of white patrons realized even then that these surface con- cessions to an alien environment were meaningless In spirit these yellow people were in the heart of China watching and listening to something that 4000 years of civilization had made a part of their flesh and blood I recalled that experience and those impressions when I read of the attempt now made by Russian-directed Communists to enlist the poets of China in a campaign of propaganda touting the ology formulated by a German-Jewish small-town lawyer's son who tried to graft harsh Prussian discipline to an rqualitarian distribution of the world's Whether or not the literati tor this propaganda job are and fellow travelers or outright Reds China has now become a stage cm which 1 the forces of Stalinized communism and ancient Confucianism will be locked in battle for years to come Some say this will end in a compromise an indigenous hybrid the economics of communism imposed upon the ethics of Confucianism do not see how that is possible CONFUCIANISM which Westerners often think of as a mere potpourri of aphorisms and ijoral maxims (Confucius Robert Ruark Marx modified and adapted to serve the imperialism of a Muscovite culture which until now has been considered by the disciples of COntuous and Lao-tse Two thousand years of tradition of art and literature had rigidly crystallized the character of culture when the primitive forefathers of the European Slavs descended from the forests of the Vistula and Dniester into the Balkans Now these comparatively homogeneous tribes have blended with 169 distinct ethnic groups to make up the polyglot peoples of a Soviet Union determined to conquer the world Will a nucleus of 600 intellectuals and artists be able to the Moscow-Marxian philosophy to 400 million of their countrymen? Will the Chinese who despised Western materialism and chafed under its arrogant presumption of superiority accept The Chinese of all classes revere their ancestors as quasi-deities Can a conscripted army of and dispel and destroy that ancient heritage and substitute an alien creed calling for fanatic devotion to cause? 'Wishfully thinking the Kremlin puts its faith in the persuasive powers of Karl Maix no lesa wishfully thinking the West is betting on Confucius and Lao-tse Make It 200! TTIE ringing of bells and the sounding yr reason for the conditions that have been 1 of sirens at 1 yesterday meant Voice of the People more than simply that Richmond had set a traffic safety record It meant that good traffic planning good law enforcement and co-operation on the part of motorists and pedestrians had saved lives Richmond has a right to be proud and gratified that 100 days have passed without a traffic fatality Certainly commendation Is due the city's Department of Public Safety for its work in the field of traffic engineering and for its law-enforcement activities But a big share Resolutions on the Death Of Dr Luther II Foster Editor of The Times-Dispatch: The committee set up by the State Board of Education as its advisory committee on the Norfolk Division of Virginia State College would appreciate very much if uncovered Comptroller-General War-ben declares tfiat fraud and waste in wartime contracts have cost the taxpayers millions On the basis of a he Mints to more than $115 million worth of by Army officers and government employees who had been hired by contractors was mentioned by Mr Warren in the course of his expose In sddition to the fset that such practices were made possible under the art of 1944 It placed rtringent limitations on the General Accounting Office and made termination of contracts negotiated solely by government agencies final where fraud Is Mr Warren states that some federal agencies have not only failed to co-operate with the General Accounting Office Letters will be held to SOO words except in extraordinary eases Unused letters without postage wiU not be returned Names must signed but need not be published except when circumstances require it joy of dropping the first atom bomb Surely there must be a Better way to settle the differences between these two great countries! There Is It is to be found In the life and teachings of the world's first internationalist one whom millions throughout the world call their Lord and blaster: one who said ye into all the world teach all nations teaching Well Here We Go Again Jesus Our country has the greatest opportunity any nation has ever had to give this idea to the world You will never destroy communism through persecution you will never get peace through war What did we get through our surrender" Two very sick nations dumped into our lap to be nursed back to health and strength by us And what for? In order that they get back at us some day So the vicious circle goes on until civilization is destroyed unless we come to our senses and reverse our method of approach to other nations Let them know that we believe the world is the field 'that we are members one of another Get behind every effort at world federation Do all this in the spirit -of love and we will have peace world-wide and enduring peace (Rev) GEORGE MAYO Hague of the credit goes to motorists who have used care in their driving and to pe- you will publish the enclosed reso-destrians who have been careful cross- lutions on the recent death of ing Richmond streets President Luther Foster of Most of the rules of safety are aimply Virginia State College Knd Norfolk YOUNG mon sense As long as Richmonders rvl on the streets with due regard Dr Luther Hilton Foster Jn this matter but they have belittled for their fellows the fatality-less days snocKing situations that have been should continue Whereas our esteemed friend Richmond has bested its own safety and coworker President Luther commanded brought to light1 case has been called to my he went on which the settlement resulted in an underpayment to th eontrector In other words all errors or inaccuracies were In the contractor's favor not the A broad Investigation of this whole matter has been promised by members of the United States Senate and such i Mr Barucli9s Advice Was Ignored Parker La Moore iit the Scripps-Howard Newspapers record but there must be no traffic deaths here for another 12 days It the national record among cities in Richmond's population class set by Providence is to be exceeded We want to beat Providence but far more than than we want to save lives And not stop at the 112-day rec- ministrator and educational states- invntlgatlon indd It fht 72 7' wortS hta BIS league Itaces WIKHEKMS DjinMsasTSSJt hve and Whereas the foregoing qualities which distinguished our late lamented friend and counsellor were recognized throughout the na- ning streak they can hardly be expected to repeat this year since they have been struggling to stay in the first division It appears that the Brooklyn eAh 1 St- Lou Cardinals pill North China and will enter the South win in that league with the 1948 World's First instead of riving away our money he favored using part of it to buy up nonperishable raw materials from needy countries to be stockpiled both for peace and war needs Our reserves of In France the petite amie is the accepted social custom since it is recognized that a great percentage of marriages are made on a cash-and-carry basis Between the cafe and the cutie around the comer the French bourgeois uses his home base -largely for complaining about the cost of food Let'us look now at the romantic Spaniard at home and in Latin America Latins are the greatest conversational lovers in the world but it is about nine arts conversation and one part per-rmance The boys sit at the comer bodega and whistle at the ninas sabrosas but a lot of them would run like thieve if the girl whistled back They are great osiers but with the chips down I will back any tow-head from Minnesota against a squadron of grrasa-pMed UcHy-cks with sideburns AS FOR married love in the pure Latin concept as soon as the ring is on the Anger the formal romance ends The Mamacita runs the household accounts and provides as many heirs as the Papacito thinks he needs in his business but when he is looking for fun it ain't in his own house The Britisher is iargely a more moral man in the frisky sense but when he is in search of companionship he finds it in the pub at the cricket field in his club Anyone who has ever been to 1 London knows it strictly as a man's town with Its shops and amusement tailored to a masculine taste I realize there are some pretty sweeping generalities here for which fault the opposition and there are some fiery Englishmen and some faithful Cubans and some ardent French husbands and some Italians fun of zing and zipperoo But I will stack the average American against the average anybody for consideration of his lawful wedded spouse FOR one more boring time I see some undistinguished French dame with an ax to grind in the papers has launched the old space-grabbing standby that Americans are lousy lazy lovers inept husbands and gauche knee-pinchers who do all their pinching in the night dubs I have wondered for many years just how this base libel began and why it continues to be popular I have wondered also why we dignify the senseless remarks of visiting spongers as to the vanity of our women the flabbiness of ur men and the stuffiness of our central heating It just must be the old American love for tooth-marks on the feeding hand American men says this Lili dame who is hustling space to sell some new and doubtless ridiculous fashions know less about love than high school boys in France What American men? Clark Gable? Joe Di Maggio? Sonny TUfts? Cite me three French high school boys name and address who are expert in boudoir dawdling and maybe I can beat the bushes around Kansas or Texas and come up with three of our own who can spot these prodigies 10 points and still run a dead heat American men spend all their time in night dubs says Lili whose last name nobody has bothered to print What men spend all their time in which night clubs? How many people do you know who can afford to spend all their time in night clubs and how many night clubs have we per capita? Enough to hold all the American men? TRENCHMEN says this him marry for companionship been to France? Frenchmen have made a career of sitting at sidewalk cafes strictly stag ogling the passing fluff and they don't go home until they sweep off the sidewalks whenever they please quered a geographical minds of 400 million Chinese must now be Invaded to those regional gains now of copping the Ameri- can- League flag in competition with the New York Yankees and the Boston Sox the shaping of educational pol- shaping well armed as some of the legitimate governments In a pushbutton wir the underground would become the Soviet shock troops In future Congresses there is likely to be a demand for a predetermined ceiling on our foreign Erograms so that all of them can brought within a sound budgeting system Occidental Orientation St Louis Star Times 1 MEWS NOTE: Dr Christian A Volf' founder of the International Hearing Institute says that strategic metals such os tin zinc and copper were seriously depleted during the war and the need for replenishing them had become apparent But the idea adopted We have embarked upon a modest stockpiling program but we are paying cash for what we get The soundness of the original proposal is obvious now that we are having some difficulty in re icies by several foundations boards and other authorities wield-Ited ing large influence in education Bums have a lot of young and human welfare and stars who are performing amazingly Whereas President Foster had Yesterday afternoon Robinson always manifested keen interest was leading the league in hitting runs In the progressive development of batted in number of hits triples and Norfolk Division of Virginia State stolen bases and was second in run College and had exerted himself This calls for a composed of writers musicians artists and theater managers The nucleus of this army 600 strong met in Peking the other day for an Intensive two weeks course of Indoctrination The now familiar Moscow blueprint will be followed to the letter From this nucleus owed to the letter rom mis nucleus scored and dniiM-a -Per only recently with great diligence newing contracts for uranium ore babies and intoxicated persons can 0 the uv toward the expansion of the di- needed for the atomic energy pro- walk eastward better than west- educatlonal cells" will radiate through- out China charged jib metamor- wu second only to Robinson in runs phosing the minds of millions bedin Two Brooklyn pitchers N- MuratinV ownM and could have been gram The major sources of sup- ward and that intoxicated per-ply In Canada and the Belgian sons will peacefully enter a station Congo are principally British- wagon facing east but not one tied faring west Westbrook Pegler we He is not drunk who facing west -v on theadminitration The inteHectuals chosen for this task combe and Branca were leading the Norfolk Dillon of vSiSa on long-term contracts-if informed that henceforth their league in games won and lost and New- state Colleire in meeting as- been so quick in tun lnt will he unless em- 111 meeting as- without oetl were will be unless turning loose our money without Yellow Dog Contract combe was second in strikeouts St sembled officially records its deep Louis has a well-balanced dub But its sorrow in the passing of our individual performers don't come up to friend Luther Hilton Foster and talents employed In the service of propaganda It will be their Job they were told to "defeat imperialism feudalism and bureaucratic and to replace those concepts with "socialist To what extent they can hope to succeed in this herculean assignment is a getting anything for it BRITAIN received a $3750000-000 loan from us in 1946 and has got more than $1000000000 more under the European Recovery Program Some of these dollars would have been just as useful to Britain if we had received uranium hi return for them And the deal would have been mutually beneficial As it is we are negotiating new contracts or trying to apparently without any relation to our expenditures under the Marshall Plan Can rise alone upon request But drunk is he who faring east Cannot stand motionless at least On streets that are the best policed The paddy wagons all head east For drunks are bound' to fight arrest When asked to enter toward the west The babe who has just left his nest Had better crawl when going west Until hii shakiness has ceased better toddle toward the east How can a babe in diapers dressed Know which direction is the west? the foregoing In the American League the Yankees Di Maggio has been the sensation of both circuits since he got back into the game in late June His sparkling (play combined with that of the old reliable Hekrich has counted heavily in the showing of the New Yorkers Yet the Boston Red Sox' now battling the Cleveland Indians for the runner-up position have he greatest aggregation of individual stars Their Williams was leading the league yesterday afternoon in batting runs doubles and home runs and was runner-up to his teammate Stephens in runs batted in He was tied with Di Maggio and Pesky two other Red Sox players for most hits Stephens also was runner-up to Williams in the home category This is a collection of league rivaled only by that of the Brooklyn agreed to outlaw war? It failed shares with Virginia State College the State of Virginia and the nation at large the great loss thereby sustained CHARLES DUKE Chairman EUGENE DIGGS WINSTON DOUGLAS A FOREMAN LOUIS I JAFFE HARVEY JOHNSON YOUNG Peace Be Achieved By Preparing for War He Says Editor of The Times-Dispatch: It seems to me that If this country really wants peace then the best way to get it is to work for peace and not for war as we have been doing since we stopped firing at one another Why not revive the Kellogg-Brland Peace Pact in which some 50 or more nations Marshall Plan money is being Until his years have much in- rlE Issue of Justice for June 15 announced on page five that the loan of $1000000 to Israel pledged on June 8 by the general executive board of the International Garment Union President David Dubinsky an nounced In the editorial judgment of Mr Du binsky and Mav Danish his this was news of minor importance Its rata five triviality is indicated by the fact that although this million-dollar loan by thousands of overworked underpaid American women some getting only $25 a week was announced on page five There was on page one a two-column picture of a stirring event The captain of this picture said: a Great It showed Eleanor Roosevelt and two members of the union in broadcast from the Roosevelt shrine at Hyde Park" The Roosevelts constitute a holy family in the pagan theology laid down for the faceless masses The paper Justice un-blushingly refers to the highly commercialized grave museum hot-dog stand parking and postcard concession at Hyde Park as a which actually means place of holy Any legal obstacle to the lending of American money to a foreign nation by individuals or societies may have been surmounted by a clever little dodge Th union will lend the money by purchasing bonds to be issued by a New York corporation A proposal to do exactly the same for Spain would be savagely opposed Senator Soaper Says: Finland is put down as an A-l credit and character 'risk by the World Bank a judgment supported by the outstanding record in two fields: bravery rand bookkeeping Xn the South a city fireman resign to become an evangelist and with hi background is in a position to tel the unrepentant in store VtaC-PBESDENT Bakkley gets to kiss' a lot of the girls but apparently with no ulterior motive as he running for Governor of Alabama TIE Garment Workers Union which Imposes a yellow-dog contract on the American workers who are its members or subjects has decided to lend $1000000 to the free independent sovereign nation of Israel for the stated purpose of building homes for citizens of that State The union bosses gave $250000 outright to similar causes last March TMs all belongs to the American citizens who live in the bid degraded relationship of yellow-dog under the union They were not -consulted They first learned of their own generosity in the present case through the union publication Justice This paper published twice monthly Is largely devoted to the glorification of two principal officers David Dubinsky and Luigi Antoni ni Their subjects pay for this compulsory adulation of these two fuehrers The content and complimentary slant of Justice are under the overall direction of Dubinsky himself whose name stands at the top of the masthead Justice sometimes carries five or six photographs of Dubinsky in ostentatious poses and circumstances AS HITLER did Dubinsky contrives that his self-actuated publicity shall show him in benevolent roles as though he were actually riving his subjects which in fact they more than earned In some cases they not only earned their fuehrer's largess but were short-changed in the calculation of their benefit checks Moreover even when they have earned their for which incidentally they are expected to make a meek and degrading show of gratitude they may be gypped for refusal to give up a pay to any political religious or other project through which Dubinsky endeavors to glorify himself at their expense In that case the subject who rebels Is told that he Is not in good He therefore cannot have the allotted portion of the vacation money which he has earned But when he thinks of carrying his rebellion further he discovers that he is debarred from doing so because he unknowingly signed away his rights long in advance by signing the yellow-dog contract which constitutes the application for membership used for cobalt production in Africa and all we are getting out of that is an option to buy part of the output while British banks financed the deal with our money Mr second proposal was that we take an Inventory of our resources and determine just how much we could afford to send abroad without endangering our own economy When that figure was arrived at allocations could be made on the basis of need etc within that basis of need etc within that limitation But nothing like that has been done We are making new commitments almost by the day without much thought to the total obligation we are assuming Congress is beginning to be disturbed by this free-handedness which accounts for some of the objections to President arms program It is not to be questioned that some of our Allies need arms which they do not have the money to buy In most cases too money team Yet Boston is several games behind the Yankees who seem to have what it takes to win games in the pinch They were winning them regularly before Di AIaggio returned to the lineup for this idea a real chance to work? they have led the league from the very Whv not move forward and not beginning of the season They have backward? been similarly devastating since the and so did the League of Nations but the Idea that gave birth to them both did not fall but is stronger and brighter in the mind and heart of a peace-hungry world than ever before Why not give We are returning to the middle creased better stick to walking east Advice to all in every station: Be sure to check the rotation 20 Years Ago Today MAX FLEISCHER of Gordons-ville was elected president of the newly formed Association of Izaak Walton League Chapters of Virginia JOHN RUXTON WOOD of Dumbarton Clyde Lemuel Brothers of Richmond and Claude Lin-wood -Neale of Saluda members of the United States Medical Reserve Corps were commissioned first lieutenants in the -Medical Corps regular Army and assigned to government hospitals THOMAS DUDLEY STOKES died at his home PROFESSOR T- GREGORY of London economics expert who conducted a round-table on banking currency and exchange at the Institute of Politics Williams-town Mass said that the United States would a nail in the coffin of European if she raised her tariff as high as developments Indicated MR AND MRS CHARLES EDWARDS CABANISS of Petersburg announced the engagement of their daughter Mary Yancey to James Malcolm Bridges of Richmond son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Lee Bridges of aces attempting to coerce men's minds See the Roman attitude toward communism and the Atlantic Pact which is a re turn to the idea of an alliance to secure peace through preparing for war I thought our country was to be a haven for persons who Smith In the New York World-Telegram The Optimiet question which even those familiar with China hesitate to answer The shaped by a 4000-year-old culture dating back to the foundation of the Chung Kuo empire in the Yangtse Valley has proved proverbially inscrutable to Westerners Untouched by Occidental influences until late in "the fifteenth century it had preserved its identity because of its isolation and since then has shown stubborn resistance to the infiltration of alien ideas Such Western philosophies1 customs and religious concepts as have gained a precarious foothold have had a disintegrating as well as a effect No Chinese puzzle however restored heel permitted him to put on a uniform and begin belting the apple to all corner of the parks to say nothing of the rooftops surrounding them At this stage of the fight it appears to be a tossup in the National League between the Bums and the Cardinals with the odds favoring the former In the American League although the Yankees are still in front they could easily' be overhauled between now and early October Both races are among the most interesting of recent years wished to escape from just such spent for that purpose is some things It is ridiculous to think we will avoid war by preparing for war or by sending our military leaders to Europe to confer with the military leaders of our allies It simply intensifies hatred and breeds suspicion and becomes a mad race picion and becomes a mad race insurance against an attack on the United States itself If an enemy can be held at the Rhine for example he is not as close to us as he would be if he stood just across the Atlantic Moreover as long as there is free Europe we have potential bases -turope we nave potential oases Figuring that anv nubl'ritv Is mM cunninriv contriviri is more baffling between the USA and the USSR there which might prevent an SVnii! as to which shall destroy the most enemy from making the Western this question of how the Chinese his pr agent Smear me with an un- property and kill the most people Hemisphere an active theater of will react to the philosophy of Kabl substantiated rumor which Hsij have 19 privilege operations.