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SLEEPING CONSCIENCE
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Tomorrow is our national day of Thanksgiving:.
Wliat have we to be thankful for?
In these troubled days with active warfare in the Far
East, a cold war throughout the rest of the world, political
scandals at home, and an agitated and confused people, we
might question whether we have reason for thankfulness.
Some people will be thankful for what they describe
as prosperity. We have national income of unprecedented
proportion. We have high living standards. We have little
unemplovment. On the surface we should be able to give
thanks for national prosperity. Yet we know, if we will but
stop and think, that it is a false prosperity a prosperity
which exists only because we are living beyond our means,
borrowing money against the future that we may spend it
freely and extravagantly now.
Normally we could give thanks for our national leader
ship. But it is questionable today whether such thanks are
warranted, when we have a leadership fattening on graft
and corruption, associating with crooks and gamblers, us
inir nolitical nowers for nrivate ends. Then, too, we have sua
picion that certain elements are trafficking with subversive
forces aiming at the.destruction of the principles upon which
our government is founded.
Thankful For Power To Change (
If it is a dark and dreary picture we paint on this eve
of Thanksgiving, it is only to bring into proper focus the one
factor for which the American people should be extremely
thankful. That is the fact that we still retain the power to
brine about change to direct our own destiny.
JIanv Tieonle throughout the world today live in fear.
Day and night their ears are attuned to the dread footsteps
which herald approach of the secret police. Jt is not neces
sary that such people commit an offense against the state.
They may be deprived Of liberty or of life itself at the
whim of political leaders, -who may need a horrible example
to intensify the fear in which the party is held by the masses.
No man can claim rights or privileges.' He lives only so
long as his political dictators permit. He has no recourse
to justice, for justice does not exist in a police state. So
he is in constant fear of torture and death.
We can be thankful that, as Americans, we still have
left certain freedoms denied to many millions of other peo
ples throughout today's troubled world.
We also have it within our power to weed out the graft
and corruption within our government, to change our lead
ership and to alter our policies. By the simple stroke of a
pencil we can achieve a revolution which in many other
countries could be produced only by bloody warfare.
Can Be Thankful For Ideals
We can be thankful that clean government still is an
ideal In this great country of ours; that some people, even
though they may prove to be in the minority, cling to
the traditions upon which our nation was founded. We can
be thankful that there are millions who will continue to cry
out for political honesty, for constitutional government.
These voices may be drowned In that clamor for special
privilege and selfish personal gain, but they cannot
be stilled so long as we avoid the police state.
We can be thankful that we still champion the cause of
freedom. That despite ur national sins, we still cling to the
Christian doctrine of the dignity of man, and that we are
willing to risk our fortunes and our lives that we may carry
the t"rch of liberty to oppressed people throughout the
world. ,
Wj decry our loss of moral fiber. We are troubled by
evils confronting us at home and abroad. But we can give
thanks to Almighty God that we still are a people dedicated
to the cause of humanity and that we have within our-hands
the power to change from sinfulness to righteousness, if,
and when, our national conscience is awakened.
TWO DRUNKS FINED
Fines of $50 each were levied in
district court against two persons
who pleaded guilty Monday to
drunk charges, according to Jud'je
A. J. Geddes.
They are Robert Lee Roy, 38,
Drain, and Wilbur White, 20, Sutherlin.
Fulton
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Lewis Jr.
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
out of this one. I've got i copy of
the Time memorandum, also, and
just for the record I'll keep tabs
on what Linen does about pub
lishing it in conjunction with what
McCarthy has to say. I didn't pil
fer it from Time's hies. It wouldn t
be worth the effort, if Time's files
are as incomplete as indicated.
McCarthy didn't pilfer the mem
orandum, either, and that is what
makes Luce and Linen act like
quacks. Somebody on Time's own
staff dredged the memorandum
out of the files and sent it to the
senator. The slaffman couldn't
stomach Time's story with the
references to Duran. Luce and
Linen know it but not who did
it. It may happen again, and that
is what makes them nervous.
Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
On KRNR, 4:00 PM.
And 9:15 P. M.
(Continued from Page 1)
answer our charge that they
butchered thousands of our prison
ers of war with a counter-charge
that we butchered STILL MORE
THOUSANDS of their prisoners of
war tne result wiu be to cause
millions of people throughout the
World to UlSBKLHSVH BUTH STO.
K1ES.
That's about the long and the
short of Mt. Such Is propaganda
and propaganda is an inseparable
part of modern war.
Is that true only ot modern war?
Of course not. Propaganda has
always been a part of war. The
basic purpose of propaganda is
trickery, and it has always been
known that if you can trick your
enemy you will have him at a dis
advantage. That was the purpose
of the Greeks when they left the
wooden horse outside the walls of
Troy.
Propaganda, If you can get it
believed, is useful in gaining al
lies for yourself and in preventing
your enemy from gaining allies,
it always has been used in war
and it always will be.
The point is that in earlier cen
turies communications were slow
and inefficient, It took a long time
for news (true or false) to travel
by word of mouth. Modern com
munications arc fantastically swift
and well organized. Within a mat
ter of minutes. statements
(whether truth or lies) can travel
ALL OVER THE EARTH.
That is why propaganda is in
creasingly useful in war.
lous speed and efficiency of mod
ern communications makes propa
ganda THEORETICALLY more
useful now than ever before.
Notice, please, the word "t h e-
i y t ,n,nk P"haP' propa
ganda may be defeating itself here
in our country, and in other en
lightened and sophisticated coun-
. i-rraonauy, im finding it
practically impossible to believe
iii amicmeni mat has ANY po
litical implications. I just put it
down instinctlvr.lv . nrn....j.
and let it go in one ear and out of
uie oincr.
I imagine there are manv, many
people who feel as I do about it.
That brings up another point.
I think it is probably true that
propaganda Is effective or ineffee.
live according to the Irgnorance or
re sopnisucanon ot those to whom
it is addressed.
If that is true, propaganda is
more useful to the reds than to Us,
for in the main their propaganda
is addressed to the ignorant, the
unsophisticated and the prejudiced.
In our case, I'm prettv sure,
plain, ruggedly simple TRl'TH is
our best weapon in the war of
words.
Propaganda, unfortunately, I s
also one of the mainstays ot poli
tics. If you can put out a discred
itable story about your political
opponent and get it believed you
have him where the hair Is short.
In politics, as in war, the fabu-l
Pfc. John Bishop Home
On 15-Day Furlough
Pfc John Bishop Is home on a
15 day furlmnh before reporting
run i.awion, wash., for over
seas assignment.
Bishop was graduated Oct. 20
from the teletype and telephone
equipment repair school at Kort
Monmouth, N. J. He is among the
first nine to be graduated in this
course in the I', s.
He traveled from New York to
San Francisco, and then took South
west airlines, to Kosvburg.
WASHINGTON In his reply to Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy, Henry Luce, the owner of Time magazine, says
both Time and the senator must try harder than ever be
fore to put "principles of fairness into practice."
Luce can say that again. Since
March of 1950, Time has used
more than three-score snide and
deriding adjectives in describing
the senator s fight against commu
nism in the government. There are
probably more, but I only Kept
score anyway just to give you a
sample of Time's "fairness." Here
are some of them:
Rash-talking Joseph R. McCar
thy:, pugnacious Senator Joe Mc
Carthy; loud-mouthed; wretched
burlesque: scarencad puDiicity;
desperate gambler; a fool or a
knave; weasel-worded statement;
vituperative smear; half truths;
wild charges."
As I say, these are only a few
of the words used by Time to
describe the senator's efforts. In
another paragraph of his letter to
McCarthy, Luce said:
"You conclude your letter by a
reference to those principles of
fairness which must be the basis
of a free America. You feel Time
has not lived u to those principles
in its treatment of you. Time feels
you haven't lived up to those prin
ciples in your campaign against
communism."
It may be nolcd here that in
in-fighling with the Reds in Wash
ington and elsewhere there is little
time or opportunity for sparring
in lace cuffs. The Communists use
every dirty trick in the book, with
such rapidity and such agility that
it's almost impossible to keep up
with them. Yet Time, instead of
saving its nasty adjectives for the
Communists, uses them all up on
McCarthy.
Luce wrote that Time, after ex
amining the available evidence in
the case of Gustavo Duran, came
to the conclusion that there was
not sufficient documentation to
support the charge that Duran was
a Communist agent. juayue so,
but Time did not say so. It staled
flatly that "Duran was clearly
anti-Communist." There is a dif
ference. If in Time's opinion Mc
Carthy's evidence is insufficient
to prove Duran's affiliations with
Reds, then Time could have said
so. Time said, instead, that Duran
has been a fighter against com
munism. There is no visible evi
dence of this fact. If Time has
it, let's see it. We've seen McCar
thy's to the contrary, and there
is considerable of It.
Apparently on the theory that
Luce is loo important to get in
a bare knuckled brawl with the
Wisconsin senator, Time fired a
double-barrelled reply to McCar
thy, having the dirty work up to
James A. Linen, publisher of Time.
Linen accused McCarthy of pil
fering Time's files to secure the
Time memorandum that has re
proved the slanted fiction that
goes under the name ot Luce jour
nalism. McCarthy has promised to make
public the Time memorandum that
calls Duran everything but "clearly
anti-Communist." Luicn wired the
senator: !
"You say you have such files i
and intend to publish them. My
only answer to your threat, then, ;
is to say that if that is your in-!
tenlion, I cannot prevent you from :
carrying it out. Because I am sure
you will not quote the files in their
entirety, I reserve only the pnve-i
lege of carrying on the quotations
as you make them to restore them
to their proper context and mean
ing." Let's mak a three-way stretch
Col. Lindbergh
Gathered Data
On Luftwaffe
PARIS bTI Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh visited Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering in 1935 at the
request of the United States gov
rnment to get information about
the expanding Luftwaffe, a forth
coming book on Goering says.
The book, "Marshal Without
Glory," will be published in Lon
don on Dec. 6. It was written by
Ewan Butler and Gordon Young,
British journalists who worked in
Berlin in the pre-war years,
"American service attaches in
Berlin, able and conscientious as
they were, could not furnish the
full picture of the rise of the Luft-
walfe which Washington, urgently
required," the book says.
"Perhaps, the War department
thought, "a private visit to the
creator of the German air force
by America's most distinguished
airman would provide the informa
tion which normal diplomatic
channels seemed unable to elicit.
"This hope proved to be fully
justified. Colonel Lindbergh re
turned to Washington with an ex
tremely full report of the Luft
waffe for which he was rewarded
by the enthusiastic thanks of the
American air staff. He has yet to
receive the thanks of the rest of
his countrymen, or credit for the
silence which he maintained during
the subsequent years.
PRISON TERM METED
Earl Arthur Batchelor, 54, En.
cinitas, Calif., has been sentenced
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9 rial not oaar, 1
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to two years In the state penitenti
ary after jury conviction on a for
nication charge. The sentence was
passed by Circuit Judge Carl E.
Wimberly.
PARENTAGE AT ISSUE
Eugene Perotti, 23, Eureka,
Calif., was arrested by MyrUe
Creek police to face Douglas
county parentage proceedings, the
sheriff's office reported.
District Judge A. J. Geddes fixed
bail at $1,000 and Perotti was given
time to secure legal advice.
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