NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS. OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948
SECTION 2 Page ONE
Expose of Communism by Former
Party Member Reveals Purpose
Of Total Erasure of Capitalism
. . By RELMAN MORIN
AP Foreign Affairs Anavst
A man who once "wat the most devoted Communist In the
United States" has written a book about Communism.
It may poison your dreams, If It does not prevent you from
sleeping entirely. Nevertheless, it Is an Important book because of
the man who wrote It, and because, in many respects, it is like a
key to a secret cipher. It will help you to decode the strange, unpre
dictable, and often contradictory tactics of the Communists.
The book is called "The Whole
of Their Lives." I Charles Scrlb
ner's Sons.) The author is Ben
jamin Gitlow.
Gitlow was the head of the
American Communist party in
1929.
He made three trips to the
Soviet Union on official business
of the party. He knew Josef
Stalin personally. He rose to this
eminence because, for many
years, l.'j was a whole-souled be
liever in the movement and more
important, because he had char
acter and brains.
For the same reason, he says,
he no longer is a Communist.
Gitlow disagreed with and de
fied Stalin on a matter of prin
ciple (he is one of the few men
who lived to write the story of it )
and he says that caused him to
break with the entire movement.
Would Destroy Capitalim
Therefore he would appear to
be what a newspaper reporter
calls "a reliable source" on the
question of communism. Let's see
what he has to say about it.
Question 1 Do you doubt that
American Communists and their
Fellow Travelers get direct or
ders from Moscow? On page 204.
describing the birth of the Ameri
can Communist party in 1919, Git
low says, "Stalin tuuk over the
American Communist party lock,
stock and barrel, in the middle of
May, 1929, by a series of decrees
promulgated by him and read by
Molotov." On page 54 Gitlow
writes, "In 1919 the American
Communist party became a
branch office of Moscow. Moscow
made the decisions governing the
actions of the American commu
nists." Question 2 Do you wonder
sometimes, in the light of Soviet
pronouncements, whether the
American system and the Russian
system can get along together?
Gitlow says, "From the days of
Lenin to the supreme ruler,
Stalin, survival of Soviet power
and Communism is held impos
sible unless capitalism with its
political and social structure is
destroyed. It explains why the
theory of world revolution has
never been abandoned and why
the Soviet government at great
expense and effort maintains and
supports communist parties in
other countries."
Policy Never Stable
Question 3 Does it puzzle you
to see the agreements made at
Yalta. Tehran and Potsdam so
bandly disavowed by the Soviets
today? Gitlow has many state
ments on Communist integrity.
Here are two of them! "Commu
nist policy is never simple. It is
always complex and paradoxical.
A momentary policy is always
tied up with a long-range basic
policy. This accounts for the many
twists in the party line." And
again he says, Communist lead
ers may with Impunity break one
day the solemn pledge they made
the day before.
Question 4 Why are the labor
unions so important to the Com
munists? Gitlow writes, para
phrasing Stalin himself, "with
out support in the unions the
Communist party cannot make a
revolution. Getting control of the
unions is, therefore the number
one task of the party. By getting
control of unions, the Commu
nists mean getting control of
those unions In the decisive, the
basic industries of the land, the
industries upon which the econo
mic life of the country depends."
You may have wondered too,
how the Communists are able to
capture young people, boys and
girls in their teens, and bend
them to the will of the party. The
stories that explain it are numer
ous in this book. They make
shocking reading.
These are all the statements of
a man who helped to organize the
Communists In America, who
knows the dialectic of the party,
used its tactics, and was an inti
mate of its orthodox leaders, as
well as having been one himself.
They are the words of a man
who was on the "Inside." And they
are worth reading in the attempt
to understand the problem that
confronts us all.
Watersheds, Ads,
Tax Base Topics
At Toastmasters
Talks ranging from advertis
ing, water conservation, and
story telling to political Issues
were featured on the program of
the weekly Toastmasters Club
meeting Tuesday night in the
Umpqua Hotel. Byron Powell pre
sided as toastmaster,
Jim Turk, News-Review adver
tising manager, pointed out that
competition is the lifeblood of
America and that advertising Is
the life blood of business. Were
it not for mass production, the re
sult of competition and mechani
zation, we would be paying $1200
instead of $200 for a refrigerator,
and $50,000 instead of $2,000 for
an automobile, he declared.
Advertising, in effect, he stated,
is the efficient projection of Ideas.
In its simplest form advertising
is done by everyone, in their
manner of dress, their general ap
pearance and their actions.
Through business advertising
thousands of unknown customers
who could not otherwise be con
tacted are reached. He expressed
the hope that when people read
advertisements' they would stop
to consider its importance in
holding prices as low as possible.
Water's Importance Cited
"Know your Watershed." was
Bill Benecke's topic, in which he
emphasized the importance of the
conservation of water resources
as one of the major steps In pre
servation of our timber and pro
ductivity of the soil.
Water actually is of more value
to us than timber, he said. Our
pure streams provide us with
water for normal use, for our
lawns and flowers, for irrigation,
for hydroelectric power, and last
with our fishing and sporting ac
tivities, he stated. Without water
we cannot have our forests.
The rapid development of our
timber resources has to some ex
tent upset the balance of nature,
and what we do today in develop
ing our water resources will have
much to do with our future, he
said. Conservation is a relatively
new word. One answer to conser
vation, he listed, is regulation, but
If we don't want regulation we
must take definite measures to
watch the type of cutting of our
timber, provide roadside a no
streamslde strips to prevent rapid
runoffs, and protect our soil from
erosion. Water comes from the
land. We must protect our water
and water resources. It is not
necessary tn act fast, but rather
wisely and In an orderly manner.
He advocated we support good
watershed management.
Phil Harth, third speaker, em
phasized the Importance for a
public speaker to have a good
story at the tip of his tongue
whenever called upon for re
marks at a meeting. For his talk
he told several Interesting stories.
New Tax Base Favored
Stressing the need for revision
of the six percent tax limitation
law to meet Inflation and popula
tion growths. Leroy Inman urged
adoption of the constitutional
amendment which would permit
counties, municipalities and tax
ing districts to Increase their tax
base. Inman defined the proposed
law, up for vote In the Nov. 2
election, which would permit es
tablishing a new tax base after
the legal Voters have authorized a
tax levy In excess of the six per
cent limitation for two successive
years. The new base would limit
the base -to the average of the
total amounts levied In the year
of such election and the two years
Immediately preceedlng it. The
six percent law, he said, was origi
nally adopted to prevent poorly
managed administrations from
establishing budgets in excess of
the abilities of the taxpayer to
pav, Dut does not taxe into con
sideration population growths and
Inflation, and as a result extra
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ACCUSED Evangelos Veivanas (left), (till at large, and
Gregory Stalttopoulos (right), under arrest for the past two
months in Salonika, are charged by the Creek government with
complicity in the slaying of Ceorge Polk, Columbia Broadcasting
System correspondent. Staktopoulot, a Communist newspaper
man, is held with his mother, Anna. Actual shooting was done,
according to the government, by a top Communist, Adam Mou
ides. I AP Wirephoto via radio from Rome)
monies must be voted in most
cities or districts annually.
Glen Clute, table topics chair
man, had as his topic early recol
lections of childish pranks and re
sulting punishment. Jim Oakley
was general critic, and individual
critics were David Daniels. Jerry
Sheldon, Bob Harvey and Tom
Coates.
Broadcast Row
Leads to Slaying
RAVENNA, O., Oct. 21 UP)
A farmer who prefers Come
dian Jack Benny to a give-away
prize program on the radio shot
and killed his tenant. Sheriff
George Shields reported today.
In fact, said Shields, it was an
argument over those programs
that led J. A. McDonald, a 76-year-old
widower, to shoot Jack
son W. Bailey, 68. yesterday.
This was Shields version:
Last Oct. 10, McDonald wanted
to tune in . the Benny show.
Bailey and his wife preferred a
give-away program. The Baileys
won the argument but a quarrel
followed.
The bad feeling continued.
Then yesterday the radio pro
gram incident came up again
and McDonald got his shotgun.
The Baileys went to a room
where thev kept a rifle but did
not shoot It
For his part, McDonald Insists
the shooting was accidental.
Shields' office said a charge will
be filed against him.
250-Lb. Lady Kills
Sweetie in Fight
CHICAGO, Oct. 21 UP)
James Noble, 35-year-old bus boy,
was slain Tuesday night and po
lice said his 250-pound blonde
sweetheart told them she shot
him as he struggled with a rival
for her affections.
Held without formal charge
pending an inquest is Anna Ter
ry, 23. Police Sgt. Charles Martin
said she had been living with
Noble in a South Side apartment
where he was killed. .
Martin said Miss Terry gave
this version of the shooting:
Noble returned home and
found her with Melvin Reener,
28, of suburban Morton Grove, a
former suitor. After an exchange
of words. Noble fired one pistol
shot a Reener but missed. During
a struggle Noble dropped the
weapon.
Miss Terry said she grabbed
the gun and shot Noble in the
back, then struck him on the
head with the gun butt as he
sank to the floor.
Harry C. Clair,
Early Northwest
Timberman, Dies
PORTLAND. Oct. 21. UP
Harry Cornelius Clair. 83. pioneer
timberman who followed the west
ward aprend of the Indnatrv from
Buffalo, N. Y., through Michigan
to tne racillc Northwest, died un
expectedly Tuesday.
A native of Moo res Hill, near
Towanda, Pa., he started logging
at Buffalo while in his teens.
later was at Saginaw, Mich., and
came here In 1903.
He was a stockholder In the
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company,
naa oeen associated with a num
ber of Pacific Northwest firms
and was a former president of the
Pacific Logging Congress. He re
tired from ?tive work In 1930
but had inspected some of his
timber holdings near Corvallis
only yesterday.
his first active work in the
industry here was as a partner
in the Washington Oregon Lum
ber Compan". Later he joined the
executive staff of the Twin Falls
Logfrmg Companv. later known
as the Clark County Lumber
Company.
Clair was Instrumental In or-
fanizing the Columbia River Log
caline and Grading Bureau and
the Columbia River Loggers Asso
ciation.
Survivors Include a son and a
daughter at Portland and a
daughter Helen I Clair at
Olympia.
Oregon's Higher"
Schools Crowded
With Students
EUGENE, Ore.. Oct. 21. tm
Oregon's six state institutions of
higher learning have 17.259 tu
dents crowding the classrooms
and the chancellor sees little
chance for a decline In the fu
ture.
The number of war veterans In
the colleges dropped off 1.095
from last year. Chancellor Paul
C. Packer reported today, but
total enrollment is off only 114.
"We need no clearer indication
than this that the numbers which
have overcrowded our institutions
of higher learning for the past
three years will continue well In
to the future," Packer said. "It
Is obvious that Oregon s swollen
population and the Increasinz
numbers of high school students
who continue on into university
and college work are taking up
the slack as the veterans com
plete their education.
In last year's record-breaking
total of 17.373 students there
were 9347 veterans. This year
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Frost, Shortage Of
Pickers Threaten
Rich Apple Crop
OMAK. Oct. 20. V-Omak
business men were warned yester
day that lour day or picking
stand between a $1,000,000 Okano
gan Valley apple harvest and dis
aster for many growers.
A shortage of pickers and ar
rival of frost during the late har
vest are blamed for the emergen
cy. Growers expressed fear that
the cold nights would start large
scale dropping of the Xr lit.
Growers also complained that
the open deer season also has lur
ed away some pickers.
Ralph Forrey, a warehouseman
on the Growers' Committee, flew
to Seattle to confer with union
officials on the possibility of get
ting striking maritime workers
to Tend a hand.
Prices for picking have risen
from the early season 12 cents
a box to a record 14-to20-cent
range. Frank Hendrick. a Grow
ers' Committee inexperienced
flicker can make $15 a day. Hous
ng and meals are provided at
many orchards.
An Omak Committee met to
consider rloi'.ng of business hous
es. Omak and Okanogan high
schools were closed. Two Omak
warehouses closed yesterday in
an unprecedented move to send
their employes Into the orchards
to pick. They planned to pick
and pack on alternate days.
See The Display At
W. M. SANDALL CO.
there are onlv 8252, a decrease of
11.8 per cent. The total enroll
ment drop is .7 of one per cent,
however.
The state's facilities were de
signed for fewer than 11,000 stu
dents, Packer said, and although
registration next year may show
another slight decline there is no
indication tnat it win approacn
the figure for which the institu
tions were designed.
. "Our greatest need now," he
said. "Is to brine our faculties
and physical plants up to the
levels necessary to meet the
needs of the present enrollment
and to prepare for an even great
er registration which will des
cend upon us about 1955 and
reach a peak about 1960."
This year's registration at the
various schools compared with
last year s: Oregon state College
at Corvallis, 7418, down 63; Uni
versity of Oregon at Eugene and
the Medical and Dental Schools
at Portland, 6800, up 257; Oregon
college or education at Mon
mouth, 484, up 20; Eastern Ore
gon College of Education at La
Grande, 600, down 126; Southern
Oregon College of Education at
Ashland, 651, up 50: Vanport Ex
tension Center at Portland, 1207,
down 248.
In general, Packer said, enroll
ment Is concentrated more heav
ily in upper division classes.
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MARSHALL INSPECTS GUARD Secretary of State George C. Marshall (center foreground)
inspects an honor-guard of Creece'i famous Evionei in front of the Parliament Building In Athens.
At left is U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grsdy and at right is the Evxone company commander. While
Marshall was making his check ot U. J. aid to Greece, new,y-tramod break commandos went Into
action and captured two mountains in the Communist' "Free Greece" area. (AP Wirephoto via
radio from Rome)
NEW JET BOMBER The second tix-iet Martin XB-48 took to the air for its maiden flight from the
Glen L. Martin airport in Baltimore, Md. It will undergo tests at the Naval Air Station at Patuxent.
Md. The first six-jet bomber, built last year, is undergoing the second phase of exhaustive tests
at Wright-Patterson Field. The plane has a speed of more than 480 miles an hour and carries
bomb load exceeding 10 tons. (AP Wirephoto)
Would-Be Toiler
Asks Court To
End Dock Strike
PORTLAND. Oct. 20. (,P A
lumber mill worker who wants to
go back to work has filed a citi
zen's suit asking the Federal
Court here to order West Coast
Shipping to resume. ,
Arnold L. Couty, Coos Bay,
charged both the Waterfront Em
ployers Association and the CIO
Longshoremen unjustly obstruct
ed loading and unloading of ships
by the strike.
Couty said he was one of 1.500
Coos Bay citizens thrown out of
work as a result of the maritime
dispute. He said he was filing
the suit without legal assistance,
but explained he would welcome
the Intervention of any neutral
group as a participant In his com-Dlalnt.
"I'm not filing this suit against
I Individuals or officers, biV against
the organizations. I'm doing It
in the interests ot all the people
of the Pacific Coast," he said.
Couty explained he filed under
Articles One, Nine and Ten of the
BlU of Rights amendment to the
constitution. He did not elaborate
on what his arguments will be if
the court heara the caae.
The Bill ot Rights articles cited
provides for redress ot grievances,
right of the people to exercise)
authority not delegated to the
government and- exercise ot
power reserved to the people.
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