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" FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947
Star Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
clude public terminals, tobacco stor
age warehouses, ship repair facilities,
nearby sites for heavy industry and
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets and
food processing, pulp wood production
and factories.
Emphasis on the region’s recrea
tion advantages and improvement of
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to-market and pri
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethentha!
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern Nortn
Carolina’s health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth ni
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City ao'1 County
governments.
GOOD MORNING
For my part, I am not so sure at
bottom that man is, as he says, die k ;i'r
of nature; he is far more its devastating
tyrant. I believe he has many u
learn from animal societies, older than
his own and of infinite variety.
—Romain Rolland.
Pomp And Circumstance
Princess Elizabeth, heir apparent to
the crown og Great Britian, yesterday became
the bride of Lieut. Philip Mountbatten and
the shriveling Empire was agog over the
nuptials. In London flags were fluttering on
all buildings, scaffolding had been raised for
stands along the way between Buckingham
Palace and Westminster Abbey, where the
ceremony took place, and barricades
created to held the populace and visitors
back. Nothing else that could happen, less
than outbreax of a war, could hold equal
interest with this marriage in London c-r,
for that matter, in the tight little isles.
Though the event was to be largely a
family affair, just about all the royalty left
in the world was in the Abbey when the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York per
formed the rites. King Michael of Romania,
King Haakon of Norway, King Frederik and
Queen Ingrid of Denmark, Queen Frederika
of Greece, Princess Juliana and Prince Bern
hard of Holland, Prince Charles — regent of
Belgium — King Peter and former Queen
Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Prince John and
Princess Elizabeth of Luxembourg, Prin
cess Eugenie of Greece and Don Juan of
Spain, were listed among favored guests in
the pageantry. Among the missing were
the exiled King Leopold of Belgium and
King Paul of Greece, who is recovering at
home from typhoid fever. Also the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor were absent.
In addition, among the guests were
the foreign diplomatic corps and the mem
bers of parliament, the Cabinet and other
dignitaries. Nothing like it has happened
since Queen Victoria wed Prince Albert, who
gave his name to a coat which enjoyed dis
tinction throughout the world for many
years.
Considering Britain’s economic situa
tion and political unrest, coupled with world
turmoil, the fact that the nation can pro
ceed' with the customary pomp and cir
cumstance accompanying a royal wedding
can well be accepted as evidence that there
will always be an England, as the war song
declared.
Misguiding Japan
A short time ago, a number of govern
mental bureaus combined to send a special
health mission to Tokyo to assist in the for
mulation of a new national health program
for Japan. According to Representative For
est A. Harness of Indiana, who Is chairman
of the sub-committee investigating publicity
and propaganda in the executive agencies,
“All members of this mission are well knowr
in the United States for their persistent agi
tation for a nationalized system of socialized
medicine to be acheived through a program
of complusory health insurance.” Mr. Har
less said further that “the real purpose of the
Mssion is not to assist Japan in working out
her basic problems in health and welfare,
but to force upon that country a compulsory
system of socialized medicine.”
This charge, coming on the heels of evi
dence to the effect that certain appointive
government officials of some importance
have been using public funds to promote
socialized medicine, is an extremely ser'.ous
one. Socialization of medicine—or any pro
fession or industry—is in direct opposition
to American principles and traditions. All
the available evidence including findings of
national public opinion polls, leads to the
belief that the great majority of our citizens
are opposed to it. Yet, if Mr. Harness and
others in a position to know are correct, an
American official mission will attempt to
force it in one form or another on Japan.
Is it not possible for our government to
lend its aid to promote public health prac
tices without seeking to socialize medicine?
Up To The Common Man
While there is little probability that Con
gress, at least during the present extraordi
nary session, will implement with legislation
President Truman’s proposal for price con
trols, there is no reason to doubt that Con
gress will closely watch price trends and
unless there is some evidence that they will
rapidly be downward-bound approve meas
ures for forcing them to lower levels.
To this extent we may believe the Presi
dent’s message is destined to have a definite
effect upon prices even though there is no
evidence of immediate and desired results.
The republican leadership in both
branches of Congress is divided on controls.
Senator Taft, for example, declares attention
will be given only the less controversial
proposals in Mr. Truman’s program. That is
to say, the joint Economic Committee of
which Mr. Taft is chairman will devote its
time to these matters. But this does not
necessarily mean that all republican mem
bers in either branch will be bound by Mr.
Taft’s decision, or even that the gentleman
from Ohio will not change his mind before
the special session closes or merges with the
regular session scheduled to start in Jan
uary. He has been known to do this in the
past.
The point that deserves emphasis is that
because pressure from back home is grow
ing, the members in both branches are more
aware of current inflationary tendencies and
the encouragement of these tendencies is
given by the ascending price spiral than
they have appeared to be in the past, are
more liable to take the reins out of the hands
of Senator Taft and his particular group on
Capitol Hill if there is no indication that
business in general and labor in particular
have no intention of remedying the nation’s
economic illness without specific legislation.
Inflation is no more welcome to republi
cans than democrats. The great masses of
voters, sometimes disrespectfully called col
lectively the common man, feel its pinch
grievously and independently of party af
filiation. And in the last analysis it is this
common man who rules Congress whenever,
in the aggregate, he uses his collective in
fluence to force Congress to do something
for him.
It is he who will make the final decision
on inflation. Very definitely he wants it
brought to an end. One commentator puts
the matter well when he writes: “Congress
cannot casually turn aside the President s
recommendations and at the same time calm
ly watch prices continue to rise during the
next few months.”
Britain’s Object Lesson
The Briitish municipal elections, in which
the Conservative party made startling gains
and the Labor party suffered equally start
ling losses, may indicate a sharp change in
the attitude of the rank and file of English
people toward the principles of socialism
The Labor government cannot blame this
reverse on the austerity program Mr.
Churchill and the other opposition leaders
have said time and time again that austerity
is necessary to the economic salvation of
Britain, and so it has not been a major politi
cal issue. It is much more likely to suppose
that legions of British voters have come to
the conclusion that socialism has failed to
live up to the claims made for it, that social
ism is sapping the resources and energies of
the nation at an alarming rate and that,
under a government which puts the attain
ment of a complete socialist state before any
other consideration, the sacrifices of austerity
are in vain.
If that is becoming the British point of
view, it is built solidly upon logic. Britain
has socialized her vital coal industry—and
production is much less than under priyate
ownership, and there has been no noticeable
change in worker dissension. She has social
ized the Bank of England and other instru
ments of domestic and international finance
—and her economic position worsens daily.
She is threatening to socialize electric power
and other basic enterprises—and this has
caused widespread fear and uncertainty
which have contributed • to her economic
doldrums. The Labor government has creat
ed an enormous, self-seeking bureaucracy
which has strangled English enterprise in
red tape and mountains of regulations, and
it has been guilty of monumental failure in
the administration of British affairs at home
and abroad.
If, as the municipal elections indicate, a
substantial proportion of the British people
are weary of socialism and regimentation,
it is an object lesson for this country. Free
enterprise, whatever its faults, is the only
system yet devised which permits maximum
economic development of a nation and still
assures the liberties of the people. That is
one fact we must never forget.
The nation simply will no longer stand
for the continued concentration of financial
control in a few hands and in one place.
—Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland industrialist.
* * *
Congress should appropriate funds to carry
the nations of western Europe through the
forthcoming winter. Give them also enough
to provide for the planting of their 1948
crops and after that let them paddle their
own canoe.
—Rep. Harold Knutson (R) of Minnesota.
» * *
Our national welfare demands a national
policy of “Stop, look, and listen.”
—Ernest T. Weir, chairman,Rational Steel
Corp.
As Pegler Sees It
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK — If the working-people, the
wage-earners, of the United States, have
sufiered any loss through the adoption of
the Taft-Hartley law, the blame must lie
with the great, greedy bosses of the union
movement. They had the power to reform
the unions, to stop the persecution of indivi
duals, and the harassment of communities
by unnecessary and oppressive strikes. They
could have abated the robbery of millions
of workers through assessments for causes
in which they had no interest, for expen
sive insurance and for undisguised rackets.
But, throughout the Rooseveit administra
tion, they refused to drop their selfish poli
tics and answered every criticism and warn
ing with the monotonous cry of “labor
baiter.” , ., t
Actually, the only important baiters ol
labor during those years were not the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers nor any
of the journalists or candidates, but some of
the presidents and vice-presidents of unions,
Jimmy Petrillo by now has convinced him
self that he actually does serve his “boys
but, a few years ago, he openly smirked
about his holy mission and the enormous
proportion of Saturday night saxophonists
in his American Federation of Musicians.
The union did nothing for them. It merely
preyed upon them., compelling these clerks,
students and carpenters, men of a hundred
occupations, to buy membership under him
and pay their dues and fines and submit
to his tyrannical discipline so that they
might earn a few extra dollars on week
ends
Jimmy’s powers are really terrible. Other
union bosses have the same powers, but
Jimmy’s are written out for him in an
article of his constitution which permits him
to rule absolutely by whim, subject to no
challenge or appeal. The cruel gangsters of
the Hodcarriers’ and the Operating Engi
neers’ unions and some of the machine poli
ticians of the teamsters exercised pratically
the same despotic authority but they had
to go in for subterfuge and terror, not that
this emoarrassed those who ruled by these
methods.
Jimmy s was uie oniy union wno&e loung
ing fathers had had the gall to spell out
the proposition that unionism was a tota
litarian racket and it was significant that
his most alarming excesses began after he
hired Joseph Padway as his general counsel.
1 paid my respects to this parasite on the
body of American labor when he died a few
weeks ago but I have always been willing
to add that the most arrogant of the dicta
torial profiteers in American unionism was
also the cleverest shyster in union law. Pad
way was not necessarily a fine lawyer,
although he did have his points. He handled
a class of clients who always had a great ad
vantage under law and could pay off judg
ments, if they lost, by the painless process
of levying assessments on the faceless peo
ple who carried the cards and did the work.
This gave Padway an advantage over law
yers for the other side. I say it was signifi
cant that Jimmy really started to go to
town only after he hired Padway, because
Padway was the legal adviser of the entire
American Federation of Labor. His ruth
less thinking directed the great A. E. of L.
in many of its policies throughout this time
and his guidance was that of a man with
absolutely no regard for the community.
So, in the end, and in time for him to see
what he had done, the Taft-Hartley law
was adopted. Padway collapsed in the seiz
ure that took his life as he bellowed to the
convention of hJ misguided client, the A. F.
of L., that the l»v meant slavery.
There is no question that Padway and
William Green, John Lewis, Philip Murray,
Dan Tobin, Petrillo, Reuther and Fay, the
merciless thug now securely filed away in
prison at last, were strong men in union
ism. The criticism of these bosses is that they
either misused their strength, meaning their
force of character as well as their follow
ing in goons, to oppress the real workers of
the United States, or failed to use it in the>
interests of reform. Green could have been
a great American by now, or Murray, or any
of the others, who had been wise and hon
est enough to say, five or six years ago,
“the union movement must make peace with
the people and the law of the United States
and serve the community in which it lives.”
But they missed their opportunity and
now the whole lot of them are reduced to
howling to the rank and file worker that
he is a slave in chains and bleeding from
the blows of the knout. But the worker
looks at his wrists and sees no bands and
he takes inventory and finds no wounds.
un me contrary, ne ueguimug iu icor
ize that he can now appeal to the govern
ment to protect him from his union .This
is a new freedom that already has stirred in
many men of the teamsters’ union a spirit
of revolution against Dan Tobin, president
for more than 30 years, a longer reign than
most kings have enjoyed. It is dawning on
the rank and file that they have rights under
unionism which they never even dreamed
of in the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt un
der the Wagner Act, unmitigated. The ma
jority of the union members are of such an
age that they began working under Roose
velt and never knew any other condition
than the denial of fair trials under law, the
large arbitrary fines and assessments, the
expensive suspensions and the blast of a
whistle in the mouth of some criminal rac
keteer, calling out a thousand American
citizens without a strike vote.
The majority of the union workers of to
day never realized that they actually had
rights. But they believed, because they had
been raised that way, that unions were a
private government unto themselves with no
responsibility to the nation or the various
states.
This is where unionism under Roosevelt
and the new deal tricked and oppressed
American labor and finally so provoked the
people, including labor, that they turned on
the bosses.
And this is where Senator Taft, whatever
his future, showed honesty, force and integ
rity to the chagrin of other candidates for
the republican nomination. On his western
trip, Taft was saluted with picket signs
calling him a rat. This was an organized
display of the brutal vulgarity of an element
which for so many years had enjoyed a
warrant from Roosevelt to boss and abuse
not only American labor but whole areas
of homes and industry and to vilify decent
men for daring to fight back.
Quotations
The time has come when we must count it
a privilege to be among those who would
be as bold in the pursuit of peace as we
were daring in our recent months of battle
for survival.
—John L. Sullivan, secretary of the Navy.
* » *
I am convinced there would be infinitely
greater assurance of production volume suf
ficient to check inflation Tf taxes were re
duced at the coming session of Congress.
—Earl O. Shreve, president, U. S. Chamber
of Commerce.
* * *
American imperialism wants to dominate
the universe. .
_Jacques Duclos, French Communist sec
retary.
* * *
The German people must understand that
they cannot create an independent and uni
fied Germany out of sharp contrast be
tween the big powers, but only out of the
still possible unanimity among those big
powers. _Theodore Plivier, writer.
* * *
Nationalization has prov^ a faiJiUa‘ .
—Winston Churchill.
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The Reuther Victory
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By STEWART ALSO?
WASHINGTON — It is diffi
cult to overestimate the real
meaning of Walter Reuther’s
overwhelming victory at the
United Automobile Workers’
convention in Atlantic City. For
the Communists have lost their
last chance to dominate or deep
ly influence an important seg
ment of the American labor
movement. In so doing, they
have lost their last chance to
dominate or deeply to influence
the whole American political
left. For without a solid, unas
sailable base in the labor move
ment, the communists ire re
duced to comparative political
impotence. And this in turn will
have a profound impact on the
national polticial scene.
Only two or three months ago.
there existed a serious possibili
ty that the communists might
extend their influence to unions
to represent about half the mem
bership of the entire CIO. Yet
with Curran’s recent victory ini
the maritime workers, and 1
Ruether’s success this week, the
whole communist position in the
CIO is threatened.
It is threatened, for example,
in national CIO headquarters.
The hand of CIO President
Philip Murray, who detests the
communists, but who has hesi
tated to move against them for
fear of splitting his beloved CIO
from top to bottom, is strength
ened. So is the hand of James
Carey, CIO secretary treasurer,
and Reuther’s chief ally at na
tional headquarters. And the
position of CIO counsel Lee
Pressman, the communists’
friend at court, has thus become
exceedingly precarious. Reuther
has never troubled to conceal his
sentiments towards Pressman.
One close observer of the CIO
has remarked that it would sur
prise him if Pressman lasted
three months.
Bringing In The Sheaves
By PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON — Houston
Harte, Texas newspaper pub
lisher, sends in a report from
his San Angelo Standard and
Times that gives the best pic
ture yet of what’s happening
down on the big wheat farms.
The big operators come rejoic
ing, bringing in the sheaves, all
right. But they aren’t sending
those sheaves to market. First,
in the hope of a price rise and,
second, because they want to
beat the income tax collector.
From a third to a half of the
wheat raised in the Texas Pan
handle is still being held on the
farms, say Mr. Harte’s report
ers. The little town of Vega,
Tex., population 500, is said to
be rolling in dough. Eight fami
lies alone raised from 50,000 to
200,000 bushels of wheat apiece.
Putting the average at 100,000
bushels, it represents a potential
gross income of $300,000 at to
day’s $3 a bushel price.
But, since the income tax laws
are so rigged that the most a
man can keep and show a profit
on is around $29,000, these big
farm operatofrs are selling only
about 10,000 to 20,000 bushels.
This nets them maximum return
after taxes. Any wheat sold over
this maximum would net them
only about 25 cents income on
the bushel.
.wie rest ui me crop is Deing
stored on farms or warehoused
until 1948, which is another tax
year. Every empty building is
said to be stored with wheat.
Wheat - filled quonset huts line
the railroa.d tracks. Two big
new elevators are being built in
Vega to hold 75,000 bushels.
This Texas situation is appar
ently true of the entire wheat
belt, right up to the Canadian
border. When Tom Campbell of
Montana, biggest U. S. wheat
farmer, was in Washington re
cenlty, he told -President Tru
man that he was holding 600,000
bushels of wheat*.
The U. S. Department of Ag
riculture Crop Reporting Board
says that, as of Oct. 1, over 628
million bushels of wheat—nearly
half the 1947 harvest of 1.4 bil
lion bushels — were still being
held on farms. This is the latest
report available.
These big farm operators, who
are not selling their wheat now,
are, of course, playing a smart
game. Planting weather
throughout the w i nter wheat
belt has been too dry, which is
bad. Next year’s crop may be
much smaller than this year’s
all-time record high. Ifrfhe next
crop is off, the price jp bound
to be higher. So the farmer who
holds has everything to gain and
nothing to lose.
It has been generally report
ed, and the belief is widespread,
that it is the governments’ crop
loan policy which is responsible
for today’s high wheat price and
for much of the wheat hoarding
on farms. Commodity Credit
Corporation reports'indicate this
isn’t so. It is the tax law—not
the farm loan policy — that is
principally to blame.
As of Oct. 1—again the latest
report available—CCC had made
loans of $37.75 million dollars on
20 million bushels of 1947 wheat.
While this sounds like a lot of
money and a lot of wheat, it is
only 1.5 per cent of this year’s
1.4 billion bushel crop. In years
past, the government has made
loans on 500 million and 600 mil
lion bushels. The average of the
13,000 loans made so far this
year is for $2750 on 1581 bushels
of wheat, obviously no big farm
er operation.
As a matter of fa<ct, the big
farm operators are now so well
fixed financially that they don’t
have to rely on government
loans. They do their own financ
ing, and thus save interest !
charges.
Off the record, Department of
Agriculture officials will a d mit
frankly that the big wheat farm
ers are afraid of government
loans. What they fear is that the ■
government might Seize any
wheat against which it has ad- .
vanced money, by calling the
loans before due date.
What the big farm operators
really want is a return to the
certificate plan of May and
June, 1946. Under this operation,
farmers who marketed their
grain were given a certificate
receipt. This certificate oould be
exchanged for cash on demand,
at the market price prevailing ]
when the certificate was turned. '
in. If the market price was up, <
the farmer stood to gain. If the i
price went down, the farmer i
was guaranteed as a minimum !
the price in effect when he sur
rendered his grain for the cer- :
tifioate.
Furthermore, the Bureau of
Internal Revenue gave its bless
ing to an arrangement whereby,
if the farmer did not choose to
cash in his certificate until 1947,
the income from the sale would
not be taxed until 1947. In short, ;
the deal was so rigged that the
farmer had everything to gain
and he couldn’t possibly lose.
And that is apparently all he
wants now.
The CIO-PAC., the CIO’s poli
ical instrumentality, which has
always had a distinct commun
st flavor, will also fee1 the im
pact of Reuthy;’* victory. R. J.
Thomas, bumbling former
president of the U.A.W., who has
consistently accepted commun
,st support, has been treasurer
of the PAC. Reuther is now ex
pected to replace him. There is
no doubt that he will firmly
quash the PAC’s sprinkling of
communists.
Again, communist control of
the biggest communist trade un
ion base, the United Electrical
Workers, is seriously under
minded. Carey, former U.E.W.
president and leader of a move
ment to oust its communist offi
cer's, will receive support from
Reuther. Moreover, Philip Mur
ray’s steelworkers are expected
soon to follow the U.A.W. lead
in signing under protest the non
communist affidavits required
by the Taft-Hartley law. This
will leave the electrical workers
as the only major CIO union
without recourse to the National
Labor Relations Board, since a
number of its officers could not
sign the affidavits without risk
ing perjury charges.
rm it 1 J *_1 _
J.I1U& Llltr cict.ui^aJL
will be subject to raids both
from the A F of L’s manchinist.s
and from the steel and auto
workers. It seems unlikely that
the vast majority of non- com
munists in the electrical work
ers’ rank a«d file will long agree
to pay such a price for the lux
ury of maintaining communist
officers. And if the communists
lose the electrical workers, they
lose their last great labor base.
Thus the whole internal bal
ance of power in the CIO has
been overturned, and will be
overturned still futher. The
impact of this overturn on the
national political scene is made
obvious if one recalls the speech
made by Henry Wallace before
the electrical workers’ conven
tion in Boston last September.
Carey’s attempt to displace the
communist leadership of his old
union had been swamped by the
powerful communist machine.
Wallace proceeded to devote
much of his speech to the hor
rors of “red-baiting,” and con
gratulated the union on not al
lowing itself to be disrupted by
;uch “false issues” as Carey had
raised. Wallace thus placed him
self squarely and unequivocally
in the CIO’s minority pro-com
munist camp.
The overwhelming rank - and
file support for Walter Reuther
las now threatened the very
existence of that camp, and has
What AlcohoT
D°es To Body
By whuamaToSu^
Alcoholics become ill«,
cessive indulgence, or
failure to eat while
The chief chronic corj ®*'
from alcohol affect the T”*
spinal cord and liver ^
Action of alcohol'Upon
body can be likened to an „?*
anesthetic. Although au ,
sometimes considered ^ ° 15
stimulant, its chief effect &e '
depress the nervous system V
first result is a feeling^
hilaration, which follows re , *'
of restraints. The face vj ast
flushed pulse is full ana gj
mg and the victim breas
deeply.
Speech becomes loud and •
coherent. Foul language ht J
and stories are told which ^
der ordinary conditions, LS
be repressed. All effects M
heightened by the comaa™?*
ship of other persons who »?'
experiencing the same ‘ *
tions. ' re'-:'
In acute intoxication, there u
loss of nervous and muscub
control. Reaction time is gi0Zi
down and accidents occur fr0~
inattention and poor judgment
Any drinker may gct J
trouble in this phase, if he at
tempts to drive a car or wall’
in traffic.
AH awacK 01 delirium tremeru
can easily develop in a chronic
alcoholic. As a result of grea,
restlessness and depression," he
is unable to sleep and consumes
more alcohol. After a few days
the alcoholic sees and heart
things which are not real. I°m.
mediate medical and hospital
care is necessary, if a fatal
termination is to be avoided,
In spite of beliefs to the con.
trary, the stomach of the
chronic alcoholic is seldom af
fected. Illustrations often depict
the lining of the alcoholic's
stomach as bright red and cov
ered with sores, but this is rare
ly, if ever, seen. The appetite
may be lost, but the stomach it. j
self shows very little out of % i
ordinary when examined with a
special instrument.
Cirrhosis or hardening o:‘ the
liver develops in chronic alco-i
holies and moderate and heavy
drinkers. If an animal is denied
food and given alcohol at the
same time, cirrhosis of the liver
can be produced. Chronic alco
holics who do not eat while
drinking are more apt to de
velop this condition.
Excessive indulgence in alco
hol shortens the life expectancy,
but statistics show that the out
look for social drinkers and tee
totalers is essentially the same,
Moderate to heavy drinkers and
alcoholics pay the penalty for
their failure to practice self-con
trol.
SQUAR DANCE SLATED
EVERGREEN, Nov. 20-An ef
fort to raise funds to purchase
gynasium seats will be furthered
by the Evergreen Cixitan club
with a square dance in the gym
nasium Friday evening, Nov. 21.
Wade Horne and his string hand
will furnish the music and pro
ceeds will go toward the clubs
seat purchasing project.
clearly repudiated Henry Wal
lace’s strategy of a “united
front” with the communists.
Thus Reuther’s victory is me
greatest setback which the thirl
partv movement, sparkpluggel
by the communists, has vet re
ceived. Reuther’s enemies in me
U.A.W., now sunk without trace,
having consistently flirted wi
the progressive citizens ■
America, the party-line, thi.
partv organization which ,
provided Wallace with his main
platform.
‘ Reuther, like Carev, is a ft™
supporter of the anti - Wallace,
anti-third party, anti-communij
liberal organization, the Am
can for democratic action. It -
too early to say that the h,
party is dead. But certainly
democratic leaders who fea.
that Henry Wallace, by head J
a third party, would elect a r 0
a third nartv, would elect a T ?
wing Republican m 1948, can
take heart.
Yet the impact of Heuther
victory may extend beyon
oolitical fortune’s of Henry
lace. For although Re^her_h -
been described as the lea ^
the U.A.W.’s “right wing, •
views would be exceeding
horrent to the Union Lea u
club. Reuther’s victory, ana
increasing repudiation o
communists bv the C.O. a -
ing the groundwork for what -
country will badly need when t
present swing to the ri?h 1
evitablv reversed in tune; a "
itant, intelligent, non-com^.
Dollars, Also Truth
An Editorial From the S t. Louis Post-Dispatch
If Congress approves aid to
Europe, it should also make
sure that Europeans are fully in
formed about American pur
poses. Otherwise, as Sumner
Welles warns, the superior force
rf Russian propaganda may win
its objective. It may wreck, or
at least gravely impair, the
Marshall plan.
So far, the United States is
miserably losing this war of
ideas, because the Russian
forces outnumber American
forces many times over. In
France, for example, more than
1500 “Franco-Soviet Friendship”
centers pour out the familiar
Moscow charges that the United,
States is trying to dominate the
world and bring on another war.
Against that many-armed mon
ster of falsehood, the United
States has only a small, budget
pinched information office in
Paris. In consequence,
Welles finds that anti-Amf1"
feeling in France is nior •
ter, and more widesprea . ■
ever before.” For the
son, American Pop\eJeTa
waning elsewhere in
t., I*"
writes, “will prevail unless^
truth is made available ^
under present conditions, ^
only possible ant;?ot!' ’eCOno
Voice of America. An xej
my-minded Congress rneai ^
this information Pr°f ‘^y
was bad economy then.
prove disastrous u"le®s mPtly.
funds are restored P ssary
American truth is a “ .mrs
companion of American ^jrJ,e
The special session has ,X;ent
responsibility to Put. ^
information forces in the fie V