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2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thurt., Dae. 22, 1949 MAO, STALIN TAL K Two Men In Moscow May Be Laying Plans Shaping Second Half Of Century By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON UP) Two Important, well-dressed men are now chatting in Moscow. Ons of them, Joseph Stalin, having a birthday, his 70th. And the other, Chinese Mao Tze-tung, the world's No. 3 Com munist, traveled, he said, clear across Asia by train to help cele brate the birthday. - But It is reasonable to think that while they're sipping tea they're discussing something more important than blowing out can dles on a cake. It seems more than a coinci dence that the Chinese began his Imlwi win Mb OIMK W01 Witt. fatnlii h) 0U1. No other heater but the beautiful QUAKER 3210 is equipped with quakertrol ... the marvelous device that cuts fuel cost . . . delivers mor heat by creating its own controlled ' draft regardless of chimney condition. ' Yes, the QUAKER 3210 is (he kind of wortfrM heat you have always wanted. 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Williams of Fay ette, Ala., looks over the Ingenious machine that he designed to process gladiolus bulbs. The "bulb snatcher" counts the bulbs, sprays them with DDT and grades them for market. The 16-year-old farm boy is hailed by bis neighbors as an electrical wizard be cause of many similar labor-saving devices he has built Johnny is one of six winners in Westinghouse's 4-H "Better Methods" contest events of the first half of the 20th century, now coming to a close, the two men in Moscow may be laying plans that will shape the second half of the cen tury. f or, li any one ining sianas out In the past 50 years, It's this: The western capitalist world has lost ground tremendously to Communism and may lose a lot more in the next 50 years. Indeed, as the second half of the century draws near, the most Important questions the world faces are these: How Much More? How much more of the world will Communism gobble up? Where will it stop? can It be stopped? Will the Communist states pull together or break up and quarrel ampng themselves? Will there be a war between the Communist and non-Communist worlds? Will capitalism win? Or, if Communism should le crush ed, will capitalism remain or will it slowly change into socialism or something else? If you just look at the number of people brought under Commu nism, then the last five years are more Impressive than the previous 43, as tnis win snow: When this century began there wasn't one Communist govern ment on the face of the earth. Communism then was only a the ory. Bu 1917 the Communists had tuken control ol Russia. And Russia remained the only Communist government until 19 45, or the end of World War II. But then the picture began to change repldly. Now under the thumb of Communism are:Czech oslovakia, Poland, North Korea, China, Albania, Bulgaria, Hun gary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, So viet Russia, and Eastern Ger many. The population of the world Is about 2,246,000,000. Of that total one In every three or about 777, 000,000 people is living under Communism. It breaks down this way: Alban ia, 1 million; Bulgarls, 7 mil lion; China, 462 million; Eastern Germany, 17 million; Hungary, 3 million; Rumania, 16 mllliqn; Russia, 211 million; Yugoslavia, 15 million; Poland, 24 million, Czechoslovakia, 15 million; North Korea 9 million. So, as the second half of the koeid liL.l',. f s '--i Y: w J century opens, the first big ques tion to be faced is this: Where will Communism push next? The western European coun tries, backed by the United States, stand as a bulwark, at least for the time being, against any Communist desire to move west to the Atlantic ocean. And in China the Communist government of Mao tze-tung would seem to have its hands full for a while in straightening out affairs in China which it has just taken over. Leaders Ey. Asia But the southern fringe of Asia, not now Communist, may look like a resaonable soft touch to Stalin and Mao Tze-tung for the next move. Along the southern edge of Asia are four countries with a total population of around 461 mil lion people: India, 400 million; French Indo-China, 27 million; Thailand, 17 million; Burma, 17 million..- . . With pressure from Communist China, and from Communists within those countries, the last Indo-China, Thailand, Burma might seem good spots for a push. At least Stalin and Mao Tze-tung will probably consider tne problem wnue standing around the birthday cake. India, with its vast population, may seem too big a nut to crack any time soon. But the point is: Since Communists loolo .ahead 50 years or 100 years or any num ber of years, the two well-dressed men in Moscow are probably having some very interesting talks which wjll affect all of us. TWIN METERS RULED OUT WASHINGTON. 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