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Wo Favot Sway Us; No Fear Shall Awm"
From First Statesman, March. 28; 1851
THE .STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHABIES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
wwi dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. '
Baruch Postwar Plan ;
i There is no need for a post-war depression.
! , The Bernard Baruch report constituting a
' blueprint for the change-over from war. to
peace the first such official government doc
5 ument dealing with what has in separate lo
T calities been called "post-war planning" on a
- comprehensive nationwide scale contains some
: 30,000 words but those eight words provide the
i key. They set the goal, they assert the possibili-
ty of its achievement; and if one studies them
a few moments, they reveal also the "fly in
the ointment. t '
Not that there is any purpose to find fault.
Some readers may recall, though it was soma
months ago, that this column pointed to the
urgency of T over-all planning. The plea was
that i congress "get busy", or someone else
would. Congress seemingly has been to busy'
with immediate problems to "get busy" on
this one, and someone else has. But it's not too
'l late; this is only a preliminary blueprint. Con
gress still has opportunity to fill it in, to se-
; lect or substitute.
Passing over ! its not-quite-pertinent lang
uage, the eight-word statement is wholly cor
rect. There is no necessity, no inevitability of
" a post-war depression. The nation has tackled
a bigger though in some ways simpler job than
the depression of the '30s and has solved it.
Things have been jammed through and : the
devil has taken some of the hindmost, but the
war is being done; victory though distant is
in sight.
Given the same determination and zeal and
comparable leadership, the job of avoiding
another depression can be done. But since the
subject of depression has been brought up, now
is a good time to point out and declare that the
last depression wasn't solved, that the solutions
proposed and put into execution didn't work,
that other solutions will be necessary. Go
ahead from there if you like and add that other
leaders and planners should be given the job.
There is no purpose, no temptation to find
fault with the specific though broad recom
mendations of the Baruch report. Orderly ter
mination and settlement of war contracts; or
derly disposition of remaining war supplies;
government loans to help business change ov
er to a domestic production; unified government
machinery ' to - deal with the human , problems of
demobilization; -planning - of worthwhile ( not
boondoggling public work for use if needed);
termination of price and priority controls just
as soon as, but no sooner than the need lor
them ceases; enactment now, well in advance,
- of a vpost-war tax program to business- men
will know what taxes they face and plan ju
cordingiy. - j
If our typographical style permitted, we
would capitalize that last item. 1 .
An exeellent blueprint, "as blueprints .go;
there may be some omissions but we'll not .go
r into that, 2for they may be in the report, which -'is
not yet .Available here. .Anyway there's Just
one fly in the ointment, it's bound to be there
and we haveslight hope that anywhere in the
kit is there a ladle to dip it out 'without 'spoil
ing the compound. It's this: r ; : ' r " ' - -Solving
the war -problem has been possible
because everyone in the nation has wanted it
The War Mew
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By KIRKE L. SIMPSON "'. ,
, Copyright 144 by the Associated Press f
Russian and allied hammers are beating at .both
i ends of the staggering Nipponese-nazi axis this
'' February weekend in strident confirmation of
forecasts that 1944 will see the crisis reached in
Europe and possibly in the Pacific. i ; . '
Somewhere the evidence of massive allied pow
er by land, sea and air dominates the war news.
And everywhere the clear signs of dwindling Ger
man or Japanese resources in men, ships and planes
to meet that ponderous and growing threat arc
. Just as plain. - ,
In Italy, Anglo-American victory , in the second
sound of the "battle of Rome was clinched on the
Anzio beachhead. The third and: final round fore
cast by the allied field commander, Gen. Alexander,
opened at Cassino. V - . ... "''. ? .
The bombs of allied air power that overwhelm
ingly dominated the Italian skies and the roaring
guns of allied ship and shore batteries were over
- - coming nasi advantages in position and short in
, terior communication lines. That indicated . that
collapse of the enemy front across the narrow pen
insula would not be greatly delayed bitter as the
fighting is.- . .. . i .
Across the Pacific the Truk nerve center of Jap
anese insular outposts guarding the roads to the
China Sea, the Philippines and Tokyo itself had
been brought under American fire. , I
What Prime; Minister Churchill long ago pre
y dieted, the supreme challenge : of American sea
power, confronted Japan in waters she has con
trolled nearly three decades in treacherous de
fiance of her peaceful pledges. I
The Pearl Harbor tables have been turned on
her in a surprise American attack.
It was in Russia, however, that the battle reached
Its most critical stage for the foe. The whole Ger
man northern , flank began toppling with surren
der of the Staraya Russa bastion, A forced nazi
. retreat from the Lovat to match the disastrous
fight under red army mass attacks from Leningrad
J and the Volkhov was in progress. I '")
The Pskov gateway just south of the Peipus
lake chain along the Russian-Estonian border, the
' only escape hatch westward for German troops
manning the falling Lovat line, was in grave peril
of being closed behind him. . .
Only one of the half-dozen railroads that fan
out north and east from the critical communica
tion center dominating ; German - battle logistics
north of Neve!, the P&kov-Staraya Bussa line, was"
. still in German hands." It was gravely threatened .
along the whole 100 mile nazi retreat span bu Rus
sian forces surfing down from the north between
the Peipus lakes and lake Ilmea." : l
- There is no line of refuge for the foe anywhere
east cf the Pskov transportation . bottleneck. To
reach it with heavy forces funneling back from the
lC3-miis long Lovat front without terrible losses
ii men and abandoned equipment would take a.
flnterpreting
solved. Everyone has been in agreement on the
main objective. Disagreements, on other things
have been overshadowed. Getting the job done
has involved some giving and obeying of or
ders, but it hasn't. seemed totalitarian because
most everyone has been anxious to obey.
Disagreement ' is the flyj In the ointment.
There is a ladle available to remove it: contin
uation of federal power; totalitarianism. Am
ericans don't want it. Devising another ladle
that is, perpetuating teamwork such as has pre
vailed in wartime, without compulsion is the i
real post-war problem.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
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(Distribution by Kins Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction in whole or in part strictly, prohibited.)
WASHINGTON We are pfaced "with world
revolution as well as a world f war. It will not be
over when the war is over. We; must plan our way.
It is not a new revolution, not alone a political
revolution, but a revolution offethics and culture.
It started unnoticeably back in
the revolutionary philosophies
of Nietzsche and Freud, as well
as Marx. t - : -. . .
While Marx is the glorified
prophet of . the anti-democratic
societies which have sprung in
to being in ever-widening scope
since the last war, Nietzsche
and Freud are ihe non-political
re-socializerg whose so-called
enlightenment lured the great
masses of people away from
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their ethics and social ways and plunged them into
this dazzling materialistic era in which we are
now groping our way toward) yet indiscernible
solutions. -p
The Soviets first brought these revolutionary
theories into practice in a way which aims at every
foundation of our historic democratic way of life
not only toward the abolition of capitalism, but
the uprooting of our conceptions of moral justice
which'were founded on the ten commandments and
Christian teachings. "
' I say this without criticism, but aS pure statement
of fact, for we must discard both criticism and
prejudice if we are to see where we are now, or
where we are going. j- j" :
Today, weighed truth is the scarcest article yet
: unrationed or has it been rationed by censorship?
The .communist experiment rhas drifted into so
cialism, in Russia, but, on the way, it inspired such
counteracting, ' imitating systems Of single-headed
: materialism as fascism .in Italy and nazism in Ger
many., - , .. .
i . Fascism jor nazism -will be stamped out or chased
underground as a hunted minority. But Russia
is ept to come out rf this war the dominant na
tion of Europet and Asia, end; in my opinion, in
therfoUowing-years, she is apt'to become the great
est nation-on -earth. T
Russia would be :the last nation on earth to be
swayed in her-policies by emotionalism, so we must
look at these things as coldly and as straight as she
. does.. And e must ,get our people to look, at them
.' the same '.way. ' ..fi
This is the greatest revolution in the history of
: the world and .its rphilosophies have encroached
upon -this hemisphere into your mind and mine.
. " We have boTTOwedgreatly frort: the tota
this goverranent jireaches as its first comandment.
We 'have .inched our democratic way closer and
- closer toward centralized federal government con
trols .in various Ways, even toward socialism a
little, and certainly we--by our new laws and fed
eral actions are far down me road toward estab
lishing that the istate is no longer the: creature1 of
man, but the man is the creature of the estate.
To -meet the revolution, the; Igovernment seems
to have -primarily in mind some kind of a neV so
cial security and labor union democracy -for post
war. . . .'4'-;:".- ii.fi ;
" The- eure for unemployment j is employment--:not
Insurance. The cure lor old age need is e.good
wage and a stable -country in iwhich savings are
PTOtected--not a tax collection scheme which
drains money out of pockets in a volatile economy
-where , inflation and rising or jXalling .prices make
social security insecure r fi '
- The 'fundamentals of security are.not in govern
ment tax reservoirs, but in economic .stability
which protects employment, wages, prices; leisure,
private inimauue. $ -
This is indole class country, unlike- Europe
and Asia-where -there ere tonly tww ri the
very rich, and the jnasses n4 very poor.tm ihis
nation, cir TOperior democratic way rjf ;Ufe has
lifted the everage standard of tllving -so that our
average middle close person has an autamohile,
radio, electric comforU, m :home,,etx, beyond the
hopes of the average European or1 Asiatic.
This, I think, is tthe fundamental -trd
in Washington. They iarvego
great middle class. v - 5 ;.
There are only two OTganirattnra jrf people jpet
ting rich out of this war-thgr lahnr minrg gnfl
the churches. Thiris. because neither is tsubjrt
to taxation. No other: wealth can ;possibly spring
up under the 90 per 'eent excess: profits tax."
I am not afraid nt what this -wealth wOl do to
the church, but what It-will do to the force and
power of-the : labor-union leader is a problem to
warrant the attention of all ' including the union
man- . .:rV.: ': I p . .
There must be a new birth of fliberalism founded
on justice in government for the average (middle
class) man, and an international5 liberalism founded
on the same principles of Christian and demo
cratic justice. .:- - v, ; : I ,s ;. .
" The old professional liberals have gone over to
totalitarianism. They like subjection of man to the
' stated Just as long as they can run the state. The new
deal Is burrowing its head In ithe slums and its
j hand in the ballot box toward continuous reelec
uons. v fi , , .
Where then is leadership for liberalism to spring,
if not from the press? You knov your communities
as perhaps no other citizen knows them. You deal
with the public, jrith an business, with the workers.
,lbe pohticians, the churches; the bankers. Your
business peculiarly fits you to understand the dif
ference betwejQt a man-made state and a state
mde Y"venly to compare your news
paper with Ravda r the Voelkischer-Beobachter
; or the Populo Romano. " ' . ; 5 ;
Good leadership can not be coasemtfve or re-"
actionary, r.m fact, bound by any labels in this
revolution. It should be sympathetic to the inter
ests of an groups, analytical of the propaganda
causes. of all, and strive only to be just and sound
la the interest alone of the great mass averse a.
Today's ffiadlio Pofogirainnis
KSL&t SCKOAT 13M Kc
SAO lanriratth "oursonM.i
SJO CospcL r
S. -00 News in Brief. f
9 XS Music. 1
9 :30 Popular Salute. . I
lO.-00-.World In Review.
10:1V Moonbeam Trio.
10:30 .Hit Tunes of Tomorrow.
11 K)0 American LttUtaraa Cburcb.
JWT OIIIIITt ASM..
12:15 War Commentary. '
12JO Kata Mendelsohn.
1 :0O Filjn Favorites.
1 JO Young People s Church of Air.
saw lsia ox paradise
J:15 Voic of Restorattoa
1:45 -Vocal Varieties.
3i)0 Wtnsi of Healing.
J JO Four Square Chorea.
4 Bertrand Kirsch.
4:30 Bible Quiz.
S)0 Old Fashioned Revival Hour.
e.TO Tonisnt s Headlines. 1
6:15 Anita and Tom Boyer,
JO Shep Fields. t
7:00 f Bob Hamilton and Quintones.
T JO Lansworth Novelty sad Salom
'Group.
S. -00 First Presnyterisa ChuTca. -
. s JO .Music
S. -00 News Summary.
:15 OrcanaliUes
:30 .Back Home Hour.
10. -00 News.
lO .OVDream Time.
U0t4Sign Off.
KEX BN SCNDAT 11M Ks.
S . 00 Your War Job. i . '
SJO Xr. Ralph Walker.
S:44-Seasle and Trinity Choir.
9:00-,Th Quiet Hour. t
9 JO Music. '
t:45 Tha Moylan Sisters.
lOAOJohn B. Kennedy. f
10:15 News. !
10 JO Music.
11 .-0O Chaplain Jim. USA. ,
11J0 National Vespers. j
12:00 Life of Riley. "
12 JO Hot Copy. I
lO Al Pearce's Fun Valley.
1 JO Metropolitan Opera Auditions.
z:oowbere Po We stand?;
SJO -Musical Steelmakers.
. 3.0O Radio Hall of Fame.
40 Know Your Allies.
4:15 Dorothy Thompson
4 JO Be Alert.
8:00 Christian bdencs Profram.
o : 1 a rserenaae.
5 JO Walter Duranty.
5:45 J)rew Pearson.
6:00 Walter WincheU.
6:15 Basin St. Chamber Must.
:f3-vimnut cioier.
70 Gertrude Lawrence.
7 JO Look at the Future.
7:45 This Man In Guilty.
S0i-Choir.
8:15 Sports.
SJOr-Quls Kids
S.-OO Deadline Drama.
JO News Headlines and Klshllshta
:w-f or au uumamty.
19.-00 Music
10JO Tha Quiet Hour.
110-Concert Hour. .
SfOW HBC SCJiDAT C2f fee.
utwn patroL j 1
1 World News Boundusw
:1S Commando Mary. i 1
JO The Melody's the Thins.
70 National Radio Pulpitf;
"7 30 Words and Music. i
swm ma Church m Tour He
a JO Visiting Nurse of the Air.
-m-.i am uaroi sisters.
e00 Canreth Wells. Conuneatatar.
4:13 News In Advartlslnc.
ejO Stradivao i
-18 SX) A Layman Views the News.
ia:iS Labor for Victory.
10 JO Chicafo Round Table.
11:00 These Wm Love
;U 30 John Charles Thomas.' ' - '
tl3. -09 World News.- ,
?JiiJSPtoa"Cke' Commentator. , :
'U JO Tha Armv Hour. . i
1 JO Garden Talk.. - ! '
:.l:45-Memory KasaeL f
-fiBC Symphony Orchestra.
SAO-HNews Headlines and Hixhufhts
3:lS-Cathollc Hour. t
34 Wewsmakers.
, 4:00 Jacar Benny.
4 JO Sand Wason.
4 -55 Totn Raddy, News.
i:O0 Charlie McCarthy. f
J9 One Man's Family. " i
60 Manhattan Merry -Co-ftaund.
JO American Album oi FamUiar
Musie. .--,..:...- ...... 1 . .
7 -00 Hour f Charm. '
7 JO Bob Crosby & Co. ls
50 Tha Great Gudefsleeve. .
: oympnony Hour.
9 JO Land of the Free.
' 9 as Musical Interlude. "
10O-Wews rtasbea.
10:15 Orchestra.
IS JS Sympbooetta. :
110 St. Francie Hotel Orchestxa.
iiw war news Roundup. ;
11.49 Mews. - ,
1230-20 aja-SwInc Shui.
KALE MBS StTNDAT I US Ka. -
AO Waaley HjmUo g-a.
, S JO Voica of Pronnetar. . f ,
9H0 Detroit Bible Classes
9 JO Early Mornina News. !
9N5 Al WUUamsT ,
190 News. .. i
1:1S Romance of the Hl.Waye.
ISJO-lookey HaO. .7
110 Pilxnra Hear. S
19 News. I
12:15 Voice of the Dairy Fanner.
12 JO Dr. Flovd Johneoa. . i
1 00 Lutheran Hour. " .
1 JO Abe Liocoln's Storrl -
lo Mu9lc. , . -i :
: JO Portland Bible Classes; -"
90 First Niifhter. : j
. 933-Uoton Ooae. I
S:4 Music- , (
4. -co OM Fashioned Revival Hoar
5. -0 Mrdlation Board.
9:45 Gabriel Beatter. - ! - - -
rt 3 Cleveiand Sympboay Dreh.
t TT Cedrie Foster; . .
! T:Ii r'usie of tie llasWs.'
. .TJ Unison UemoriaJ Church.
SJO Tack Benny. !
AO News. i
9:19 Rex Miller. i
9 JO Wings Over the Wast Coast.
10.-O0 Old Fashioned Revival Hour.
11 :00 Younr People's Church.
11 JO Concert j
KOIN CBS SUNDAY 959! Ka.
S.OO News of the World. 1
6:13 Munc. j
6:45 New Voices in Sons.!
7:00 Church of the Air. j
7 JO Wings Over Jordan. !
90 Warren Sweeney. News.
S. -05 Blue Jackets Choir.!
S JO Invitation . to Learning.
SOOr-Salt Lake Tabernacle.
9 JO Garden Talks. ' i
9:49 News. L
190 Church of the Air. j
10 JO Trana-AUanUc Call, t
110 Ceiling Unlimited. I
11 JO World News Today, j
II 35 Songs of America. I
12 .-oo Philharmonic Orch. Concert.
1 JO The Pause That Refreshes,
. 2:00 The Family Hour. r -9:45
Woman from Nowhere. "
30 Silver Theatre. I -SJO
America ta the Air.
4.-00 William; Sbirer, News.
. 4 as News.
4 JO The Whistler. !
80 The Star and the Story.
8:19 Talks, f
8 JO William Winter. News.
8:45 Stars ojf Today, i-
925 Nad Calmer.
90 Radio Readers Digest.
JO Fred Allen.
70 Take It or Leave It
t JO Adventures of the Thin Man.
90 Crime poetor.
8 J5 Bob Greene. 1
9 JO In Time to Come.
901 Was There.
9 JO We Work for Wisco.
190 Five Star FlnaL ;
ions Wartime Women;
10JO Horaca! Heidt i
10 JO Orchestra, f '
lt0-Orchesfra.
1130 Pha Harris Orchestra.
11:49 Orch. j
11:85 New
120-940 a.nv Musie and News
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Monday's Rarjio . Program's
7:15 Texas Bangers.
7 JO Memory Timekeeper.
90 Bible institute. ; . .
S JO News, j
SMS Was shoe ' ; -
J5 How DO You Say It
90 Boaka Carter.
9 as Woman's Side of the News.
JO Buyers' Parade.
9:45 Learn to Dance i
100 News. T
10:15 Curtain Cans. !
10 JO This and That. -110
Cedric Foster, i
lld5 Marketing with Meredith
11 JO Concert Gems.
11 :49 Melodyi Rendezvous. '
120 News. I
12 U5 Luncheon Concert
12.-49 On the? Farm Front.
12 SO Melody Time.
10 Walter; Compton.
1:15 Luncheon with Lopes.
13-MUSIC. I
KSLM MONDAY-1399 ate' '
"v 70 News. .'
79 Farm and Home Program.
7:is Rise n- smne.
7 JO News.
7:49 Morning Moods.
. 99 Cherry City Newsv
9 JO Tango Time. .
- 90 Pastor's CalL
9:19 It's the Truth. "
9 JO Music
100 Cherry City News.
109 Music
110 Cherry City News.
119 Music.
11 JO Hits of Yesteryear.
12 0 OrganaUues.
12:19 News.
12 JO Hillbilly Serenade. 1
12 J5 Matinee. j .
10 Lum and Abner.
1 2-Will Bradley.
1 JO Music. 1
1 :45 Spotlight on Rhythm.
20 Isle of Paradise.
2:19 BUI Roberts. j
2 JO Langworu string Quartet.
2:49 Broadway Band Wagon.
30 KSLM Concert Hour.
40 Round Up Revelers, j
4:19 New. j
- 4 JO Teatime Tunes. i
90 Music. -
8:19 Let's Reminisce.
SJO Music
60 Tonight's Headlines.
6:19 War Commentary.
' SJO 10-2-4 Ranch. ;
6:49 Orchestra.
70 News. j
7:15 War Commentary.
7 JO Keystone.
90 War Fronts In Review.
8:10 Lew White.
SJO The Aristocrats. ?
8:45 Treasury Star Parade. - '
90 News.
9:19 Szath MyrL .
9:49 Arthur Wilson. i
100 Swing. -10
JO News. j
KOrN CBS MONDAY 959 sTe.
90 Northwest Farm Reporter.
. 6:19 Breakfast Bulletin.
6-20 Texas Rangers. ' -6-49-COIN
Klock. j
7 d5 Headline News. j
7 JO Bob Green. News, i
7:45 Nelson PringU. ; '
S.-00 Consumer News. i
9:19 Valiant Ledy. i
8 JO Stories America Loves.
' 9:49 Aunt Jenny. j -
90 Kate Smith Speaks.
s 9:19 Big Sister - . . t - - ;"
9 JO Romance of Helen Trent."
: 99 Our Gal Sunday. -.
100 Life Can Be Beautiful.
- 10 as Ma Perkins.
10:30 - Pcinadme ftynn.
' 10:45 The Goldbergs.
110 Young Dr. Malone.1
11:19 Jovce Jordsob -
11 JO We Leva and Learn. ,'
11-45 News. , .
120 Neighbors. -lias
Open Doer. . V
12 JO William Winter. News.
12-49 Bachelor Children.
1:00 Broadway Matinee, j .
1-29 Air-Flo of the Air.; v
- 1 JO Science at Work. f v
; 10 Mary Marlln.
1:15 Newspaper of the Air. A
14 American Women. :
:; 10 News -
3:15 Lyn Murray. - ;
' SJO Songs. - "
S-4S The World Todays
-SJ5 Cnet Huntley. News. -,. -'
40 Stars of Today. -
4:19 News.
4 JO The CoioneL
80 Galen Drake. ,
S:1S Red'a Gang. 5
8 JO Harry riannery. News.
9:49 News.' " -
9J9 Bill Henry.- ;
60 Radio Theatre. -70
Screen Guild Players. - -7
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.-OS I Low A Mystery." .
8:15 Ed Sullivan Entertains
9 JO Gay Nineties. . ,
935 Joseph C. Harach.f -
9 .-CO Recreation.
' 9:30 Vox Pow .... f. '. , -
"100 Five Star FlnaL .
10:15 Wartime Women.
14 JO Jiuaie -
10-49 lieathmaa Melodies.
110 Dorothy Alien t ' Milton -Charles.-
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11 JO Orchestra.' !
11 -45 Organist.
11-55 News. - -
Midnlght-4 0 Sm. Musle and News
KALE S3 PTOVOAY ir Cs.
: Dave VTest, Cowbcy.
7X0 News.
2:00 Ray Dady.
2.15 Texas Rangers.
2 JO Yours for a Song.
2:45 Wartime Women.
2 JO News. J
30 Radio Tour. f
: 1:15 Stars of Today. '
3 JO Lean Back and Listen.
19 Johnson Family.
40 Fulton Lewis, jr.
:is shady valley Folks.
JO MUSIC
49 News
a-vu ttainoow uenaezvous.
9:19 Superman.
9 JO Showtime
849 Gordon! Burke s
90 Gabriel; Heatter. s .
6 as Believe It or Ofot,
6J0 Paul and Jerry..
70 Gladstone. I
7:15 Peoples Reporter.
7 JO Lone Ranger.
-, 90 Serenade. ' '
I 9:19 NatT. Laundry.
' 9 JO Point Sublime. :
. 90 News, i
9:19 Salute to Our Heroes.
9 JO General Barrows.
99 Fulton Lewis. Jr. . ...
100 Treasury Star Parade
10-19 Music f , -
10 JO News.
109 Chicago Symphony. . -
II .00 Yankee: House- Party.
11 JO Learn t Dance, ;
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2COAC MONDAY 896 KS.
100 News.' I -'
las The Homemakers Hour.
110 School of the Air. .
11 :1 5 Familiar Songs. ,
11 JO Concert HalL -120
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12:19 Noon Farm Hoar. "
10 Ridin' the Range.
1 : 15 Treasury Salute. -
1 JO Variety Time.
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'! ftD lifted
c;c-r5, tr.i p:trc!ria rc::rvcs
half a continent away? If so we
are inviting the opposition of the
whole world and inviting a de
served disaster which usually
; falls to ambitious conquerors.
, (Continued from Page 1) '
. slons In 'the 'middle east, and
suggested' partial government
participation with "full diplo
matic backing, in foreign oil de
velopment Thu$ we see : that
"dollar diplomacy' is Sack In'
bolder dress than in the pallid
. days of Secretary Knox.
Now it seems to me that this
proposal of Secretary Ickes Is
extremely dangerous. First, it
can hardly be done in time to be
of value to this war. Second, the
participating : oil companies .do
not need government assistance
for "financing Jthelr Reoperations.
Third, the' scheme exposes us to
the charge of imperialism at a
time when we are supposed -to
be fighting f or !emocracy and
Just and durable peace. R
The purpose,! It is understood,
is to protect American supplies
in the future, rather than to sup
ply oil for the present war. But
in time of peace oil flows naturally'-
to markets, and ' oil wfll
come to us from -the middle east
when the price here Is attractive,
as it would be in case of reduced
domestic or nearby supplies. In
time of war foreign oil can come
only when the route Is protected
; Nby military force, whether, we
own a pipeline or not. The dis
tance of the fields of the. middle
east makes them; an insecure re
liance for future wars. From a
military standpoint we would do
much better to develop fields in
this hemisphere
As far as the companies are
concerned they ban finance their
own essential needs; but of
course would do so on a business
and s not a political basis. One
reason the fields. have not been
exploited more fully Is their
newness and lack of market
heretofore. j l
But the great' objection to the
government pipeline proposal is
that it throws the United States
into the caldron of imperialistic
diplomacy in one of the hot spots
of the world. Immediately we
collide with Great Britain, pos
sibly with Russia. Our very ac
tion invites reprisals. The future
security of the world lies in op
ening resources 'for international
trade on freer lines, not in. re
sort to power politics and grab
bing of resources.
In my opinion the agitation
weakens the; position of the
. American companies by precipi
tating them Into ithe pulling and
nauling of governmental politics,
Their ' rights depend on ' conces
sions from, the j native govern
ments. ' If foreign governments,
aroused by the Ickes adventure,
apply pressures, these conces
sions might bejendangered or
annulled. Far better to let the
American companies work out
.their development along busi
ness lines than to have our gov
ernment messing Into a very del
icate situation, j - - - - - - - i
Is the government of the Unit
ed States going to step out on an
imperialistic policy vaster , in ex
tent than any dreamed of In the
dreams of expansionists of the
early 1900s? Are! We to hold (and
protect) airfields all over the
world, military phases. In all the
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y Rev. John V. Knight. Jr
counselor on tteugious ui,
- WUlametU jmlversityj !
I One of the greatest ; errors in
r modern' life is the failure to dis-
tingulsh between activity and
" progress. Experience teaches that
i they are not one or the same
thing. Nor does one! necessarily
; presuppose the other.! The work
i er who makes the most move
: ments : is not always the most
efficient. The busiest life Is not
j- always the most effective one.
The belief that the faster we
! move the more progress we make
I is true only if we are headed in
the right direction to begin with.
The wise man Is one who makes
: a habit of taking time out to ask
' himself, "Where am I going??"
Aiizio Prfess
Ban Protested
; .' . ! -.'.
By WILLIAM T. PfcACOCK
WASHINGTON, ' Feb. 19-VP)-The
ban on direct filing of press
dispatches' from the Anzio beach
head in Italy brought a protest
from War Information Director
Elmer Davis who declared the
public Is entitled to; the full
est and most rapid supply of news
consistent with military secur
ity." ,' h
The immediate mcllnation of
military authorities here, how
ever, apparently was to back up
firmly the decision of the com
manders on the spot. Asked what
he thought of the requirements
that news dispatches be sent by
courier to Naples for censorship,
rather than being transmitted
from the beachhead by available
radio. Secretary of War Stimson
told a press conference:
"My only comment on that is in
accord with my usual policy: Gen.
(Sir Henry Maitland) JW 1 1 s o n,
commanding- in the Mediterran-:
ean theater, is in the best possi
ble position to judge whether fac
tors such as you refer to affect
the operations in this theater eith
er favorably jor adversely. Tha
theater ' commander is j under a
great responsibility, particularly
at this tune." i ! I
Sasntvl
A
One-Minute
Letter
To Chronic-Worriers:
On the subject of worrying
Fm in the same classification
as President Coolidge put the
minister whom he j heard
preaching on sin, "He's against
it". In my judgment Worry is
responsible for more unhappi-
ness than Infidelity,! .hatred.
and even war. Worry Lis the
neglected malignant growth at
the root of personality. I am
against it' ; . . -" j
Worry does not solve prob
lems because it is not con
structive or realistic thinking.
Genuine worrying is never In
telligent Investigation,! it con
sists of mental nibbling on the
outer " edge of the problem.
About ninety percent of our
worrying has to do with future
events which never come to
pass anyway, therefore; it is a
futile waste of time. I t
According to my doctor
friends worrying is definitely
harmful to the digestive and
nervous systems. The chronic
worrier shortens his years, dis
sipates possible present happi
ness,, and wounds those who
would be friends, not to men
tion the agony, he mulcts on
relatives and loved ones. Wor
ry is an indication of lack of
faith, in God, in humanity, and
in Ourselves. 1 ;
Jesus attacked this human
weakness with all the strength
of his personality. Read the
closing verses of the sixth
chapter of Matthew which con
cludes with this' thought "Be
not therefore anxious for the
morrow: for the morrow will
be anxious for itself. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil there
of." S !
Having made all reasonable
provision for the future as we
are competent, let us learn to
live each day as we find it. It
is better' to be carefree and
trustful and occasionally de
ceived and disillusioned : than
be snug and certain in a casket
which we have achieved by
unholy worrying. i !
Sincerely yours,
XI. Irvta marrj. j iraisler.
First Presbyterian Church.
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