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Tuesday, August 29, 1950 ~
Mohs or llir Mow
There are ominous signs of a wave of hys
terical repression of liberty in recent actions
of a few self-appointed extirpators of com
munism in the United States.
Police chiefs in Birmingham, Ala., and
Knoxville, Term., took it upon themselves to
jail or expel any Communists found within
the city limits. This is easily said, but how
is a police chief to decide just who is a Com
munist?
Birmingham made the problem simple by
defining as a Communist anyone who “cir
culates or distributes any printed or writ
ten matter purported to have been issued
by or over the name of such Communist par
• ay or any branch thereof.”
Which means anybody, including the
^United States Post Office Department ap
parently. who hands a copy of the Daily
Worker to somebody else, or who even pass
es along a document somebody thinks is
"Communist.
t Nor was that all. Birmingham also decided
^that anybody is a communist who is found
in a nonpublic place in voluntary commu
, nication with any person or persons estab
lished to be or to have been a member of
■.such Communist party." This means that
’ anybody who talks to Louis Budnez in Bir
mingham is a Communist, so long as it is not
on the street, that is. . . .
Certainly communism needs to be combat
ed. inside as well as outside the United
States. But it should not be attacked bv us
ing the Communists' own methods of force
and violence.
For when that happens, the mob rules. A
malicious whisper; and the result can be a
murder. And the experience of the past in
dicates that far more of the innocent than
of the guilty are the victims. Any personal
enemy can be disposed of simply by label
ing him Communist. Any champion of an
unpopular cause becomes a "Red."
Getting rid of communism is far too ser
ious a mnlbr to be handled vigilante style . .
Indeed, communism is not suppressed but
breeds in the lawless atmosphere of the
lynching party. If violence triumphs over
justice, democracy perishes. St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
ff o All Are To Ultimo in Karra
Milwaukee Journal *
We aren’t doing well in Korea. Our forces,
undermanned and under equipped, are still
being pushed back. Our soldiers are dying
needlessly in many cases, it seems.
Whose fault is this?
A lot of people seem to think they know.
They blame the President, the Stale Depart
ment, or the military. Tiny blame our in
telligenee services. Some blame Congress.
Republicans blame Democrats and Demo
crats blame Republicans. Certain sections of
the press are trying to find a scapegoat.
It seems to us there is enough blame to
go around, with a share for everybody, in
cluding the American citizenry.
The President may not 'have been out
spoken enough in warning of the military
menace of communism, or in demanding big
enough military expenditures. The mili
tary may have failed to prepare for the kind
of opposition we are meeting in Korea. The
intelligence services may have been misled
about the possibility of trouble there. Con
gress certainly has not been generous in vot
ing funds to strengthen southern Korea.
This is not to say that past mistakes should
not be studied or that negligence, if proved,
should not be punished. It does mean that
recriminations of a superficial and political
nature are valueless and that those who in
seaselessly fighting dulge in them should be
scorned. There is tough fighting to be done
in Korea without senselessly fighting a
Ktong ourselves about errors of the past.
HHBHKIBiPw SSiJehV * >.
School Day*
School days are at hand again and if ever
thrrp was a time for the youth of the land
to study, that time is now. Even since last
fall, problems have become more complicat
ed at home and abroad. Confusion lurks in
the land. Doubt and hopelessness is creeping
forward.
It is a situation demanding concentrated
and serious thought, While statesman and
leaders grapple for a solution who knows
but what the problems of the land and world
will be solved by a younster entering school
for the first time?
Surely, there’ll be time for some play, but
it is indeed apparent that the prime need
today is trained minds.
It is to hoped that Martin County child
ren and those in every school in the land
will not take their studies lightly this 1950-51
term, that all members of the school team
will work and strive to go forward with de
termination and weapons of knowledge to
meet and soive the ever-lasting problems,
that, in the task, they’ll receive the support
of all the people.
A Pound of Sugar or a Human l.ife?
Galax (Va.) Gazette
Those so-called citizens of our country who
would be quick to assert their so-called pa
triotism but, at thes a me time, belie such
claim by persisting in the thoroughly un
patriotic practice of needlessly hoarding
many necessities of life should stop and take
stock of themselves. They should take time
out to give a few serious thoughts to the
matter of supply and demand in the light
of the scare-buying wave that is now sweep
ing over our country. If they will do this
they will undoubtedly see the injustices
that such hoarding is working upon their fel
low Americans at home who are not in po
sition to take advantage of every opportun
ity to smuggle ten, twenty, twenty-five or
maybe a hundred pounds of sugar, or twen
ty-five or fifty pounds of coffee, into their
kitchen pantries.
Of course, all honest Americans who have
been tempted to indulge in such unbridled
selfishness will mend their ways when they
have taken time to imagine themselves in
their more unfortunate neighbors’ places
And their neighbors may be the folks across
the street or on the adjoining farm—or the
Gl's fighting and dying for Old Glory on the
rugged Hill of Korea.
In an editorial that appeared Tuesday in
The Roanoke Times, Mrs. Randall C. Rob
erts, a Sacramento, Calif., housewife, and in
cidentally the wife of Sgt. Randall C. Rob
erts, reported missing in action in Korea,
was quoted as a “guest editorial writer.” In
our opinion, this California woman's re
marks should put to shame all hoarders who
read them and re-kindle in their hearts a
zeal for their country and all it stands for
that will turn their energies toward helping,
instead of hindering their fellow citizens. We
are taking the liberty to quote Mrs. Roberts,
as follows:
“From time to time since this war broke
out. the hoarders have made the headlines.
"I wonder if stuffed stomachs and nylon
dad legs will win this war. Have the people
of this nation forgotten World War II so
soon? Can you trade a pound of sugar or
coffee or a pair of nylons for a life?
"Do you know what it is to have a loved
one lost? Do you know what it is not to be
able to sleep for gnawing anxiety as to
whether he is even alive? If he has food?
“I know what it is. I am the wife of the
boy who was listed as the first Saeramen*
tain missing in action in Korea.”
For all hoarders everywhere, more words
of condemnation and righteous indignation
for their conduct jn this time of national
crisis and danger should not be necessary.
Strike In High Placet
The public has a knack for condemning
the common worker’s strike, and accepting
strikes the high places.
Mining and petroleum companies recently «•
went before the House Ways and Means
Committee, seeking exemption from a rene
gotiation bill that would provide for the
recapture of excessive profits on war con
tracts. R. G. Dunlop, president of Sun Oil
Company, reminded the committee that the
World War II renegotiation law exempted
the industry.
And then to put forward a clinching ar
gument, the companies claimed that to sub
ject them to such a tax would discourage
production.
The worker, possibly ill ndvised in his ac
tion, calls for more pay or no work; the oil
companies call for tax concessions or no oil.
Rut it is queer that the strike in the high
places Ls accepted without question.
It matters not how long we live but how.
-Bailey.
Lack of discipline has filled our jails,
crowded oar poorhouses, and littered the
lowlands of life with many men that might
have made good.—Hubbard.
Randolph Scott's
Hevadan' Raw
Randolph Scott is really on a I
rampagp as he crashes through
lawless Nevada in a searing West
ern that pulls out all the action
stops. His new movie, titled “The
Nevadan" and photographed in
CinecoloE, is undoubtedly the
greatest adventure drama of this
great action star's career. Scott’s
enactment of a Western hero is
along classical lines. Nobody can
stare down an opponent the way
Scott can or look down the cold
steel of an enemy’s gun barrel
with such icy disdain. Or ride or
fight like Scott.
If the patrons of the Watts
Theatre come to see their hero
put on as how in his Columbia
outdoor epic, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, they will get
what they pay for—and more. For
in this raw rugged story of a
tough U. S. Marshall on the trail
of a ruthless desperado who has
cached some $200,000 in golden
loot, Scott has satisfied their most
voracious appetites for unstinting
action. At first Scott engages in
some preliminary sparring with
his tough customer, Forrest Tuck
er, but thpn finds George Mac
ready, a ruthless rancher, is also
out to possess Tucker’s ill-gotten
gains.
a11 me parin'* converge oui in
the hills where Scott teams up
with Tucker against Macready
and his war party actuated soley
by feeling for self-preservation.
In the ensuing gun fight, Tucker
and Scott come out on top, aided
by an assist from Dorothy Ma
lone, Maeready’s beautiful daugh
ter who has finally seen her fath
er in his true and evil light. The
struggle to gain gold is reduced
to the common denomination of
a ferocious fight between Tucker
and Scott, whose fury causes a
mine to collapse on the combat
ants in the devastating climax!
Earlier in this review, Scott
was paid what we believe to be
ample tribide, and he deserves
every word of it. Miss Malone
who seems born to the saddle and
handles a gun as if it wern’t a
[strange object, is the girl whose
I beauty spurs Scott on to greater
deeds. Tucker who astonishes by
the amount of punishment he can
take, continues to take a drubbing
at the hands of Scott, but is a
mighty tough hombre, neverthe
less. Frank Faylen plays an ill
fated henchman of Mucready’s;
Macready makes an elderly, but
deadly, villian, and Charles Kem
per, Jeff Corey, Tom Powers and
Jock O’Mahoney are Western
characters who contribute to the
colorful procedings.
Gordon Douglas directed with a
sure eye for whip-lash action and
an awareness of the ruggedly
beautiful country in eye-filling
Cineootor. George W. George and
George F. Slavin penned story
and screen play of this Scott
Brown Production. Harry Joe
Brown wa* the producer.
The Hen And Egg
Deserve Respect
Look at the egg on your plate
with respect. It was a whole day’s
work for a hen.
Nature and the hen were not
thinking of us when the egg was
designed. The idea was to assem
ble enough of the essentia! foods
for growth and development to
supply a chicken with everything
it needed until it was old enough
to pick for itself. Nature being one
to do things right, the job was
finished off neatly with a wrap
ping which for germ-resistant
qualities has waxed paper and
cellophane backed right off the
map.
For many centuries human be
ings have been thwarting nature
hv reaching into the nests of mil
lions of hens and getting those
eggs as soon after they were laid
as they could. Nasty of us per- '
haps, but then we try to com
pensate by supplying the hens
with food, keeping off hawks and
animals, and providing incubators
which save the hens the boring
job of sitting around for weeks
at a time. So maybe we earn those
eggs.
But why should we thwart na
ture by getting hold of these eggs?
Why not get something else’ Well,
to get right down to it, we grab
the eggs because nature has done
an extra special job of ntitrition
in designing the eggs. It happens
that no matter how different the
members of the animal kingdom
look (and we admit a hen, a man.
and a liger are not much alike),
there are some things they all
need and the egg is an unusually
efficient arrangement of them. All
members of the animal kingdom,
'including us), need a great deal
of protein to build tissue and to
restore it when it breaks down, as
it does constantly. They all need
carbohydrates to supply heat and
energy, calcium to make bones;
iron for their blood, a smattering,
of other minerals which, though
small in quantity, have some in
dispensable work to do in body
chemistry, and they all require
vitamins for proper growth, and
for the health of nerves, teeth,
skin, and eyes.
Nature, having been an accom
plished chemist centuries before
test tubes were invented, has
managed to combine in a handy
package—about a tenth of the
day's supply of protein, a little
more than a tenth of a day’s iron,
some fat, some calcium, a pretty
good, dose of vitamins, and a dash
of phosphorous, one of the mine
ralsiwhicb is more important than
quantity would indicate.
Iriyfact, "an egg a day keeps
thevdoletor away" would be a lot
neaiMhe truth than that little saw
about vthe apple. If you're lucky
enough .to be able to get four, a
weeft.'ibe sure to eat them. It’s
trlfky-.trying to build up good niu
tritioh,, without them. If you can
have them r.ftener—just .go right
ahead, for though Humpty Dump
ty may not be much good at look
ing after himself in a fall, he is a
little power house as a body
builder. Anyway ,the place for
him isr.’t on the wall but. down
the hatch.—Can. Tb. Assn. San
Mag Service.
New Type of Clover
Makes Good Pasture
-■ <• —
Dixie Crimson Clover is a new
type of crimson clover that re
seeds itself. Some farmers refer
to it as “winter lespedeza.” North
Carolina Experiment Station
scientists say the Dixie clover,
like lespedeza, furnishes grazing,
hay, or a seed crop, depending on
how the farmer wants to use it.
It volunteers very rapidly after
being allowed to set seed the first
year.
Dixie crimson clover conies up
the winter months, and may be
grazed throug March. A combina
tion of Dixie crimson and Costal i
Bermuda glass has worked very
well on State College farms near
Raleigh. Nursing cows and calves 4
were grazed on the Bermuda from
late June until mid-September.
Dry cows then grazed the volun
teer crimson from mid-December
to April. The animals were in bet
ter condition on April 1 than sim
ilar cows barn-fed.
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