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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Thurs.. Oct. 21. 1954
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PRESENTED BY
LANE COUNTY VOLUNTEERS FOR FREEDOM
The Honorable Nelson Dilliworth, State Senator of California, said it thus: "We should
be afraid that Socialist and Communist material and propaganda is not matched, answered,
and exposed. If it is not, our way of life in this wonderland of the world will go by default
through a series of persistent half truths and outright lies against the American Institu
tions that we hold dear."
... truck drivers m the
Metropolitan area end-
E employer group
Khe union demand for
I . ...hniir pacKage in-
pi-011 f
1 . ..mnanv officials pre-
Q the settlement will
Pi. fees by 10 to 15
F . -kins- rnm.
fcii 20 out of business and
.cturlng firms will
irea to avold tne ln'
intes.
GREETINGS
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FREEDOM
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IS GET PEP TALK
htolan, chiet economist
urged the drivers
L ik employers a good
fcrk and to cooperate in
ty possible to increase ef-
tA as iu HiiiiiMiv.
of the wage increase,
employer predictions of
I nf tne increase, jvaii'o"
Mild not be "so disas
, the strike would not
bed so quickly."
northern New Jer-
t, employing about 1,000
(tontinuea io uum ut
mi for the firms' resist
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m addea i-ceni-an-nuui
they would nave io pay
tiip no between wages
and those in New
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tity. At the stare or tne
84,1)00 anvcrs wei e uui,
m FROM PLEDGE
nlkout ended officially
oseph M. Adclizzi, chair
Ihe area-wide employer
jng committee, announced
of the area's 3,500 firms
tleased from a pledge to
lie demands of the strik-
L International urotner-
Teamsters.
her, a majority or me
take the solid employer
Monday, the first work
le strike, and signed in-
contracts with the union,
oby Trap'
sts Train
BTER SPRINGS, W. Va.
It police searched Thurs-
the person who rigged a
fbooby trap" which blew
kith a tram hauling coal
itrike-bound mine, killing
Bur of the crew.
Ian Robert Nicholas, about
Bolair, was buried alive
lday beneath a carload of
he jumped from the loco-
tender and three cars of
car "drag" which over
ice has been spasmodic
(! United Mine Workers
the Haust Coal and Coke
kntor of three unionized
nines and a non-union
or surface mine in this
pain was hauling the first
coal from a Maust mine
kridse. dynamited Oct. 1.
Itaced.
officials were not avail-
kit in the past they have
bed knowledge of any of
puts of violence.
II I . a
anuS GETHER-Pianist Liberacc looks
Rr fii!g y" hP. ,S ",,",nickcd eomedtan Victor
Boige backstage at the Golden Theater, New York Citv
during an intermission in performance of Borec's one
man show "Comedy in Music." Borge is starting the
second year of his show which mixes piano playing and
comedy. Liberace is on a personal appearance visit
to New York.
Seven Sheppard
Jurors Selected
flRGUARD WANT ADS
MING RESULTS
CLEVELAND WThc Shep
pard murder trial appeared
Thursday to be picking up speed,
DUt indications were it would he
another week before testimony
starts.
With seven jurors tentatively
selected out of the necessary 13,
including one alternate, the sex
tinged trial of Dr. Samuel H.
Sheppard moved into its fourth
day.
Defense Counsel William J.
Corrigan an'd Fred W. Garmone
probed the sex angle repeatedly
in questioning prospective jurors
Wednesday.
They wanted to know if the
veniremen would be prejudiced
against a person who might have
engaged in illicit love.
The name of Susan Hayes, 24-
year-old hospital technician,
came up with increasing fre
quency. INTIMATE ROMANCE
The auburn-haired beauty, ex
pected to be a main prosecution
witness, admitted to police she
had an intimate romance with
30-year-old Dr. Sheppard when
he was in California last March.
Dr. Sheppard, a boyish-faced
osteopath, is charged with first
degree murder in the bedroom
slaying of his wife Marilyn, 31,
on July 4. He says a mysterious
intruder killed her.
Miss Hayes' name came up at
Prince Due in U.S.
NICE, France OB Prince Aly
Khan was en route to New York
by way of London Thursday to
settle "once and for all" his dis
pute with former wife Rita Hay
worth. Aly said red-haired Rita
has been delaying a settlement
regarding their child Yasmin.
one point in questioning by Gar
mone of Mrs. Louise K. Feuchlcr,
eventually seated as a fifth juror.
Garmone asked Mrs. Feuchlcr
several questions about whether
she had seen published pictures
ana stones about Miss Hayes,
and lor the first time was not
met with objections from the
prosecution and Judge Edward
BIylhin.
one of Garmone's questions
was:
"Susan Hayes made a state
ment to a reporter during her
travels here from California
about the fact that she had been
intimate with Sam Sheppard. If
you read that quotation by Miss
Hayes, would that cause you to
become prejudiced?
Mrs. Feuchlcr replied, "No."
Later, Corrigan tried the same
line of questioning with another
prospective juror and was halted
by the judge.
CORRIGAN OUTRAGED
Corrigan was outraged. He
whirled to face the judge and
shouted at the top of his voice:
"I know they're going to bring
Susan Hayes into this courtroom.
I know what vidence they have.
I know how Susan Hayes has
been blasted in the papers."
The blowup came after Corri
gan asked Melvin C. Holliday
whether "the fact that he (Dr.
Sheppard) had any affairs with
another woman would bias or
prejudice you in this case?"
Prosecutor John J. Marion ob
jected, and Judge Blythin sus
tained him on grounds that Miss
Hayes was not an issue at this
time.
Corrigan refused to ask any
more questions and Judge Bly-i
thin seated Holliday as the sixth
juror. A seventh, Mrs. Anna W
Foote, was also seated.
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Volunteers for Freedom is born of need, a terrible need for education by the thousands of people desiring to vote
intelligently. By reason of an occasional letter to the editor Edith Phetteplace was called upon to speak to some thirty
women at a private residence. Their lack of knowledge and their thirst for information was a factor in introducing this
citizenship project.
It is a most grave decision the voters of Oregon are called upon to make in November. The issue goes far beyond
the candidates themselves. It is what they stand for that is.vital. The issue is shall we abandon the Constitutional form
of Government and substitute the Socialist form?
Though we as an organization are starting with but limited funds we are hopeful that some way, somehow, the funds
will be forthcoming to perform this necessary citizenship education project.
The project simply is this to pass on to the people information on the American way and the Socialist way, to
pass on to the public the plight of nation after nation that has taken the Socialist way as Russia, England, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, etc.
Then and only then can the people of Lane County vote intelligently!
Mert Foils
CLIP and MAIL TODAY
CREED of the
Lane County Volunteers for Freedom
I BELIEVE
In Freedom Under God that man has certain unalienable rights and that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In the dignity and Importance of man that the State should be the servant, not
the master, of Its Individual citizens. In the American principle that whenever any
form of government becomes destructive of individual liberty it is the right of the
people to alter it.
In the Bill of Rights and the Freedoms it guarantees under the Constitution of
the United States.
In the economic principle of free enterprise and the ownership of private property.
I THEREFORE PLEDGE MYSELF
To recognize that "external vigilance is the price of liberty" and to be alert to
any external or internal force which threatens my Freedom.
To take appropriate counter-action in the areas of my influence against the anti
Freedom, anti-God forces of Communism and collectivism.
To do all in my power to pass on to my children and to coming generations
United States of America blessed with new economic strength and moral vitality,
honesty in government, and the principle of "Freedom Under God."
MEMBERSHIP
Annual Sept. to Sept.
LANE COUNTY
VOLUNTEERS FOR FREEDOM
Mert Foils, Exec. Secy.
350 Fairway Loop
Eugene, Oregon
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ing ( ) $100 Master
As one who subscribes to the Freedom Creed here
with and is willing to further citizenship education by way
of radio, newspaper, and leaflet'l hereby offer my help by
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Excerpt From
Harding College Letter
March, 1953
ALL ABOARD FOR RUSSIA!
Authentic information now is coming out of the Soviet Union, from
behind the Iron Curtain, giving striking evidence of the complete failure
of Socialism's key promise to provide, a paradise for the wage earners.
That was Karl Marx's rallying cry and it has been the bail dangled before
the wage earners by all Socialists in America and abroad since Marx wrote
his Communist Manifesto.
Socialism's rosy promise to the wage earners, ironically, has failed
most miserably in Russia, the very country which holds itself up as the
perfect example of 100 per cent government ownership of the tools of
production and .distribution. And it has had 35 years of trial and error in
Russia, under the most rigid application, of pure Socialism, to prove its case.
DOCUMENTED FACTS
Anxious to get some concrete documentation on the failure of the
Socialist economic system in Russia to raise the living standard of the
wage earners, I wrote our State Department in Washington, requesting
authentic facts from behind the Iron Curtain. They have supplied the
facts, and the picture they paint of the workers' plight under government
ownership of the production and distribution facilities ought to convince
any American that Socialism is the worst possible way of life.
Before we look at the facts, let's examine the Russian economic system
to be sure we understand-that it is a Socialist system. Marx, the Socialist,
founded Communism; he emphasized that a Socialist economic system
would be necessary. Under it, the government would own and operate the
facilities of production and distribution. Later, he thought, the state
-would "wither away," and there would be no government, only "social
control." So for 35 years Russia has been a Socialist state.
THE TOILERS
.In 35 years under government ownership, here's what our State De
partment reports: "Soviet workers have to put up with whatever labor
conditions their one and only employer (the state) dictates. Wages are
fixed. So are prices and working hours. Labor discipline is strict and any
breach of its numberless provisions is severely punished. All jobs are
frozen. Leaving the place of employment without the express permission
of the management is punishable by imprisonment for from two to four
months; or, in defense industries, up to eight years."
Of course there are no labor unions, and no right to strike. Since
1938 every worker has been required to have a "labor book" with de
tailed data on his employment history. "This internal passport," the State
Department reports, "enables the boss to control the worker effectively
at all times. To sum up: Labor is defenseless against the monopolistic
employer the omnipotent state. It is hedged in by punitive legislation.
It is under constant pressure to increase output.
THE PAYOFF
The $64 question is: Has the sAeat and toil of the Soviet worker, not
to mention his loss of freedom, been compensated by a better economic
life, a higher standard of living? The answer is a big NO! There has
been, no improvement in the living standard since the Socialist government
look over all private property 35 years ago. Today the Russian factory
worker must work nearly an hour to earn enough to buy one pound of
potatoes. Under privately owned, competitive enterprise, the American
factory worker does it. in two minutes. All food items present similar
comparisons. Housing is another example. As many as three families live
in three and four-room houses or apartments in a poverty-stricken
atmosphere. The clothes of the average Russian worker are pitifully poor.
Instead of the state gradually withering away, as Marx promised, it
gets more powerful and brutal. A powerful bureaucratic class has grown
up. In it are Selected members of the Communist Party which numbers
only 6,000,000 members. These rulers live richly, The other 194,000,000
Russians are economic slaves. This is full socialism in practice govern
ment ownership. The facts should alert all Americans, especially wage
earners, to resist further government encroachment into the realm of
production and distribution. That is the road of economic slavery.
G. S. B.
Excerpts From
"Where Karl Marx Went Wrong"
By Samuel B. Pettengill
(The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.)
The remedy advanced by Marx was to preach the gospel of hate, of
the class struggle, of the redistribution of wealth, of the confiscation of
property and its ownership and management by the state which always
means the politicians. But greed and exploitation arc not cured by
socialism. Stalin and Molotov live like oriental potentates, giving state
dinners that would make Nero and Caligula green with envy all this in
the name of the down-trodden proletariat!
Greed, however, was not the main reason for the conditions which
Marx described. If all the wealth of the owners of the mines and mills
had been redistributed to the workers, it would have relieved their con
dition but slightly, and for but a short time. '
So, the class struggle, as the remedy for these conditions, was wrong.
What then, was the real trouble, and what is the true remedy?
LOW PRODUCTIVITY AT FAULT
The REAL trouble was the low productivity of the workers. And, as
workers can be paid only out of production whether in England a cen
tury ago or in Russia today wages must be low and hours of work long
when production is low.
James Watt, the inventor ot the steam engine which revolutionized
the modern world, and those who followed him in the competitive struggle
to make a better engine and sell it for less, did more to take women out
of the coal mines and off the tow paths of the canal boats, more to take
children out of the factories, than did all the Socialists and Communists,
and politicians of the world combined.
Yet' Watt's name would be unknown today if one of these despised
capitalists, a man named Matthew Bouiton, had not risked $150,000 on
Watt's invention. Would he, by the way, dare take that risk under today's
taxation?
THE PROFIT MOTIVE
Let us say that James Watt and the man who financed his project
were not humanitarians. Let us say that they put their brains and money
together in a common enterprise for the profit motive. What of it? Was
the result good or bad? Did they take the women out of the coal mines?
or did Karl Marx, with his gospel of hate and the class struggle?
What did the profit motive do? It made Watt and his partner, and
all who followed them, work to make better engines and to offer them at
a lower price to get the market from their competitors.
Was the result good or bad? The profit motive is just as honorable
and useful to mankind as is the wage motive. Both do definite good.
The wage motive prompts men to become skilled and efficient so they
can produce more and earn higher wages; and because they do, all man
kind benefits.
The profit motive prompts men to make better tools and to cut costs
in order to sell cheaper; and again, all mankind benefits,
THE ANSWER
No, my friends, Karl Marx did not have the answer he lifted no
burdens from human 'backs. The answer is not in the class struggle. The
answer is in competitive free enterprise. The answer is in the co-operation
of inventor and investor; in the cooperation of the manager and the
worker with his know-how. The answer is to substitute slaves of iron and
steel for the strength of human backs. The answer is constitutional liberty,
which sots men free and says that what any man honestly makes is his
"to have and to hold."
Wages can be paid only out of the product; and tho larger the pro
duction, the higher the wage. The more money that Is Invested in horse
power and equipment the more capital that is put to work the less will
children and women and men have to work at killing toil. The true remedy
for our troubles is more capitalism, not less.
Pd. Adv. Lane Co. Volunteers for Freedom, Mert Fotte, Secty.