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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 13, 1950
Truman Discovers Stalinism
Shortly before ending his vacation at Key West, Presi
dent Truman outlined his views on Russia, declaring that
Premier Stalin is no longer a real communist and that
Stalinism has replaced communism in Russia.
Mr. Truman asserted that Stalin is pursuing a course
denounced by Karl Marx; has established a totalitarian
regime similar to that of Hitler based on special favors
for bureaucrats ; a secret police ruled state similar to that
of the Hitler-Franco-Mussolini group; rules Russia along
the lines of czarist imperialist tyranny with an economy
based on slave labor.
The brief newspaper dispatches carried in the press of
the Truman statement, are supplemented by a fuller ac
count in the United States News & World Report.
In forming his opinion Mr. Truman applied three tests
based on the Marx doctrine as follows, says the magazine :
Test No. 1 finds Russia passing. That's the test of whether
the public owns the means of production and distribution
the land, the factories, the mines, the machines, the farms.
.Marx's idea was that all those assets should be publicly owned,
that production should be for use and not lor prom, nussians
can engage in swapping of goods, can buy and sell personal
property. They can own houses and furniture. But they can
not own any land and there aren't any corporation stocks to
buy or any private businesses that employ the labor of other
persons.
Test No. 2 concerns who gets what. On that, Russia fails to
live up to communism as originally taught. Marxist doctrine
holds: "From each according to his ability, to each according
to his needs." But, when this was tried in Russia, it turned out
that many people wouldn't work if they knew they would be
taken care of anyway. So the slogan was changed to read:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his
work." There is great irregularity in wages, some get large
salaries, others mere pittances. Piece work and speed-ups is
the rule, real unionism banned, so in sharing of goods Russia
is no longer communist.
Test No. 3 shows Russia failing again, by the standards of
Marx. Under communism, said Mar.:, the political state would
"wither away." After the workers had won out in their "class
struggle" against owners, he predicted, a "classless society"
would evolve and freedom would prevail. Instead of withering
away, however, the Russian state has become all-powerful. A
huge bureaucracy has been built up. Every important ques
tion must go up to the top for decision. Secret police watch
for loyalty to Stalin, dissenters are sent to slave labor camps.
Only a single ticket Is offered at elections, that is chosen by
a 12-member politbureau.
Mr. Truman could have learned all this by studying the
recent history of Russia, before he went to Potsdam, The
enforced famines, the nation-wide and area-wide and mili
tary purges, the starvation concentration slave camps in
the Siberian Arctic, the infiltration and domination of
neighboring nations under the Iron curtain of secrecy and
the assassination of opponents were all a matter of record
but he evidently didn't, for in his 1948 Oregon campaign
he referred fondly to Stalin as "Good Old Joe."
Yet Leon Trotsky emphasized and protested all these
Stalin discoveries of Mr. Truman long before his purge,
exile and assassination, and had Marx, still been alive, he
would have met a similar fate. At least so the socialists
assert.
Preserving a Reputation
A couple of weeks ago three huge maple trees by the
old high school building on North High street were cut
down. The reason given was that the trees had become a
menace.
From tima to time it becomes necessary, admittedly, to
remove trees. Roots occasionally break-up sidewalks.
Limbs become weak and thus dangerous.
But no one has come forth with any logical reason why
the city shouldn't replace trees, in the parking strips,
which have to be cut down.
The city park advisory committee should determine
what kind of tree is suitable for shade and for the climate
here. Then a city-wide planting program could be worked
out to replace those trees which have to be removed or
to fill vacant parking strips along the streets.
Salem's reputation for having beautiful tree-lined
streets is suffering. The park committee should act to
preserve that reputation and to see that it is broadened
with the growth of the city.
State Championship
It was only fitting that the Salem high school debate
team should have been given a testimonial banquet to
; honor members for winning the state championship.
Whenever a Salem high school basketball team wins
state honors, the city shows the winners a big time. When
the basketbnll sqund copped the championship at Eugene
last month, for instance, both the school and city gave
the squad members a lusty pat on the back.
But what tbout the non-athletic teams, like the debat
ing team ? When that team wins state honors, the accom
plishment is the same in its field as is the basketball vic-
tory. City recognition, as extended Tuesday night by
local Toastmaster and Toastmistress clubs, is only proper.
Kentucky Colonel Is a Jackass
Miami, Fla, April IS W) A Jackass (lew from Miami to
; Kingston, Jamaica today.
Nothing personal, you understand.
The jackass was Kentucky Colonel, a sturdy 1,100-pound
specimen from the Bluegrass country.
lie made the trip aboard a Pan American Airways cargo
. Clipper, traveling the 589 miles In about three hours.
It was believed to be the first International air trip ever
' made by a jackass human beings not included, of course.
' Kentucky Colonel was sold by Owner Henry Graddy of
Versailles, Ky., to the lamician department of agriculture for
: $1,500. The jack will be available at stud for mule breeders
on the British island.
He was champion jack at the 194$ Kentucky state fair.
Kentucky Colonel was happy about the whole thing. His
only comment: "Hce-Haw."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Roll Call of Men Furnishing
Ammunition to Sen. McCarthy
By DREW PEARSON
Washington No matter which side of the McCarthy-state de
partment dispute you are on, it's important to know some of
the factors behind the energetic senator from Wisconsin. Sup
ported by a conglomeration of backstage interests, including one
or two government figures, here is a roll call of the men who are
giving him am-
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
munition: f vk
1. The Kuom- t
intang lobby Jp?
It has millions .
to spend, once ' JTti
n i r e a ijeiense
Secretary Louis
Johnson, in
cludes the pow-1
erf ul brothers-1
in-law of C h i - j
a n g Kai-Shek,
Dr. H. H. Kung
and T. V. Soong. More about
this lobby later.
2. William J. Goodwin A
former Coughlinite and Chris
tian fronter, he is paid $25,000
Drew Peanon
KRISS-KROSS
Be Careful Who You Ask
To Ride on Bandwagon
By CHRIS KOWITZ.Jr.
A true story ...
Cast: Two long-time friends . . . Scene: Local coffee shop.
Scene opens with one of the men sitting at counter ... a few
minutes later second man, a prominent local businessman, strolls'
In . . . second man sits down beside his friend.
C o nversationi.
soon turns to?
politics . . . see-!
nnH man mn-K
lions name ofM
certain c a n d 1-1.
date for certain '
office . . . talks
favorably of I
candidate . .
tells what
good man he is.
Then second ch, ,,, Jt.
man attempts to
Mueller isn't just day-dreaming.
Mueller, while in Los Angeles
several years ago, assisted in
the building of some Indianapo
lis cars ... he knows what the
speed-buggy business is all about
. . . and he thinks he can put
Salem on the map with a first
class race car.
All Mueller needs is some fi
nancial backing . . . he'd build
the car himself . . . claims it
get his friend to crawl onto the WOuld attain top speed of 220
bandwagon and support said miles per hour . . . Mueller
candidate . . . first man says, would like to call it the "City
"No, sorry, can't do it. I'm al- of Salem."
ready committed." . . .
Second man says, "Oh, by Josephine Albert Spaulding
the way, who is running against had a two-fold purpose in ap
my man?" . . . first man replies, pearing at a Marion county dem
"Me." ocratic rally at St. Paul last
' . , . , night . . . Mrs. Spaulding, a
Moral: If you re going to cam- "... , , , . u
candidate for state house of rep
paign for a candidate, at least rcsentauVes, took the stage to
find out who is opposing him. speak on her political platform,
along with eight other demo
An entry from Salem in the crat,ic candidates . . . then later
. , j r j, on in the evening she appeared
Memorial day Indianapolis race s the ,eature etertaIn . . ,
. . . that's the aim of Allan Mrs. Spaulding has been one of
(Jimmy) Mueller, 43, who lives the top soloists-in the Willam-
at the Salem YMCA , . . and ette valley for years.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN ,
Moscow Maneuvers to Put
United States on Defensive
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
IW) Porelin Afltlri Analystl
This is no time for Uncle Sam's citizenry to lose tempers and
restraint in connection with the mysterious Soviet-American air
incident over the Latvian coast.
True, there are highly aggravating elements in the situation. But
this is a bad moment to rock the boat. The matter should be
pursued with
urday when the American plane
was fired on and "turned to
wards the sea and disappeared"
but it wasn't until yesterday
(Tuesday) that V i s h i n s k y
brought the matter to the atten
tion of the American authorities.
Why the long delay?
It looks as though Moscow,
not knowing what had happened
to the American plane after it
was shot at, had waited to sec
what action America might take
but then, sensing that the U. S.
plane might be lost, the Soviet
a $1000 campaign contribution
to popular Sen. Styles Bridges,
then chairman of the senate ap
propriations committee. Bridges
appointed Clark to go to China
to make an impartial survey.
"Impartial" Survey '
Clark, however, was by no
means impartial. He had been as
sociated with Tom Corcoran,
chief representative of Chiang's
brother-in-law, T. V. Soong, and
who was paid a fortune by the
Kuomintang crowd. Clark took
with him to China Eddie Lockett,
formerly with Time magazine,
llnuf a noHlinitir man Pnrf nf
, ' ' ,. their expenses was paid by the
lobby, wines and dines congress- chinese nationalists, despite the
men, deluges editors with pro- jact that tney were supposed ,0
paganda on China. be working for tne U-S. senate
3. Ex-Congressman Kersten of and American taxpayers.
Wisconsin defeated for re- clark and Lockett came back
election, Kersten is McCarthy's vigorousiy recommended more
chief backstage sleuth. For a m for Cni Unfortunate
time he occupied room 316 in ly according to Gen. George
the Congressional hotel where Marshall and the state depart
he placed so many phone calls i ment white much o this
attracted the attention of hotel and other m sent to chi
employes The hotel bills were either went into private pockets
paid not by Kersten, but by Mc- or went in tne lorm o materiel
Larthy. ... to the Chinese communists. The
. communists did most of their
Newspaper Friends fighting with U.S. munitions,
4. Newspaper chains Two soid them by nationalist war
newsmen formerly with big lords, This is part of the gr
chain papers are attached to Mc- now coking up Senator McCar
Carthy to write speeches and thy
statements. That's why his state- NOTE Money to Chiang
ments make good news copy, mignt not nave gone down the
usually hit the headlines. One rathoie if chiang had followed
newsman is George Walters, General Marshall's earlier ad-
formerly with the Chicago Tn- vice to bring opposing Chinese
bune group The Scripps-How- Ieaders into a coalition cabinet,
ard chain also give their bless- or if the U.S.A. had sent a small
lng- NoJ?e J ,these men appear army of military experts to vir-
on McCarthy s senate payroll, tUally reorganize the Chinese
nor do the four ex-FBI men he army and make sure our muni-
once hired So someone else tions were not bought by the
mU bf J ? J8,.6 b,U- - communists. The latter course,
5 Alfred Kohlberg Big im- however, was resented by Chi-
porter of lace hankies, does a ang and would have been a sup.
business of $1,500,000 a year erhuman task.
wiin inina, ana aamus ne unan-
I 11 Tn
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
You Can Learn a Lot in a New
House Among New Houses
By SAUL RETT
(Substituting for Hal Boyle)
New York VP) There is a kind of round-robin, self-multiplying
lunacy about living in a new house in a neighborhood of other
new houses.
Knowing nothing about such things, we moved into one across
the river in New Jersey. Like our neighbors, we came from big
city apartments.
ces his American China Policy
association a pressure associ
ation partly out of that busi-
Coughlinites Aid McCarthy
The Kuomintang lobby has
i,a mat UUM , .... ry ,
ness. Kohlberg is close to the f . gniiniie-ex-
Kuomintang lobby, hates Owen tA l1? . ? BCathh"-
Lattimore and believes anyone mollg lts frlenas 18 .Rbe,rt :
not a rabble-rousing anti-Red is T.s',a?0W fu"d" '"d!ctmen
automatical a comm,,nist for violation of the lobbying act,
6. Old-line career diplomats """-"; " -"usu-
Most are loyal to Acheson. But ? s br.okeI' "? .,b"ylngT s'Ivef'
nn or f, Aimti. There is also William J. Good-
ists sore at thp new hlnnH in wm- tne Pai( Kuomintang lob- little wire but no tools. I chris-
Now we would
live!
So we rushed
out and bought
expensive tools
and work bench
es. Why, I don't
know. Maybe
it's because in
out apartments
we never did
anything more
than install a
light bulb. Now, we would prove
we were resourceful.
build anything.
So far, not much happened.
Harry, who lives across the
street, did fix the axle on his
daughter's doll buggy. Used a
decisions to make in a ' new
house. 1
Finally George broke the
gloom.
"So what does he save by
making his own screens?" he
said. "A lousy $35. He ties
himself up. Can't do anything
else. I'd rather work on some
thing bigger."
Sml Pelt
jected into the state department,
byist.
Harry, whose brother-in-law,
I think, is an engineer, talks a
Fix or better game than the rest of us.
He blames everthing on the
house settling. Cracks in the
wall, doors that don't fit, stairs
which creek it's all settling,
says Harry.
Harry can also be annoying.
KV I
ra3r -J
digni tied re
straint until we
know just what
has happened.
We can pro
ceed with confi
dence that we
are capable of
handling any
thing we mav
be called upon
In HauI with '
Soviet For- 'm" M"ke",l
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin
sky, pursuing his usual strong-
arm method, has used harsh decided to take time by the
language in charging "a gross forelock and beat Washington
violation of the Soviet frontier to the punch.
(Latvia) by an American mill- The idea would be , t Un
tary plane. He declares this ce Sam on the defcnsive. The
h.. -f j uooawin, wno collected soo.-
to McCarthy 000 from the Kuomintang lobby
in two years, was not such a
. . . 8od friend of the Chinese be-
Chinese Money fore he t on the
Of these backstage McCarthy shortly before Pearl Harbor he
helpers most powerful is the wrote a letter not unfavorable to
Kuomintang or Chiang Kai-Shek the Japanese, and critical of the
lobby, financed by U.S. taxpay- Chinese; while, on Oct. 25, 1941,
ers money supposed to have just a few weeks before Pearl
gone to China for relief. A treas- Harbor, Goodwin wrote a let-
ury department survey of for- ter to Senator Connally of Texas
eign funds two years ago mdi- defending Hitler
?nLellhat abUt $20?'WI0 f "Why should America destroy
In neynw.mth Umt- Hitler?" he asked. "As between
T, h officials estimate the tw0 natio we are th vi
t has doubled since then due iators of international law, not
to the exit of nationalist funds Germany "
from China before the commun- Goodwin has been coming
"v"- ' . , , down to Washington from New
Mr ; yb- 1 aP T Part of York alst every week for
w L yS fmrClai, backmg- more tha" tw" yea". buttonhol-
(i!" 8'" friend y coopera- ing congressmen, and spilling
tion w,th the Kuomintang lob- vitriol agaii.st "crooks and
AmtauITS bT,Z' thieves" in the slate department.
Ambassador WHHam C. Bullitt, Now he is putting ?e same
w r . - t TiT1, accusations in the mouth of
SC,1,rJ Waho. Alfred Senator McCarthy, whose cham-
n V Senator Bridges pi0nship of the nazi murderers
Tr ?,amPS 6 a"d KnW" at 'Malmedy indicates that he
nn nf3 , u and Goodwin have several things
One of this lobby's neat by- in common. -
Cllrl rrhinantn10X;Senaur These are some of the .
nnlHi ? t , makB sta8e fi8ures hdPi"g ipire one
Lr I Z y lmpa"al su"e of the most spectacular and ir
and then recommend more U.S. responsibie senate tirades since
tened my new bit by installing a The other night he came over
and said:
"What're you going to do
about the hardware on the win
dows?" "Nothing, why?"
"That push-out gadget, I un-
clothesline for my wife.
Most of the men on the street
intend to finish off their base
ments. But this work is at a
standstill, too. I started mine derstand, wears quickly. I'm
and then had to rip up a whole going to change them all for the
wall because the water cut off roller type,
valve was covered up. That "Oh," I said, and worried
made everybody on the block go about it the rest of the night.
slowly.
The otner day a man came
around taking orders for screens.
Most of us ordered them. Then
a disturbing rumor went around.
My wife told me about it. "I
hear Al (fellow two doors down)
Next day, I toured Harry's
living room.
"Say,". I said, "notice that
little dip in the floor near the
wall."
It was a very, very slight dip.
is making his own screens," she Matter of fact, we had to get
said
The implication was obvious.
Al was talented. Al was enter
prising. Me a helpless jerk, I
had to buy my screens. Seems
down on our knees and roll
marble to prove it to Harry.
Still, he kept his poise.
"Just settling," he said.
'Fellow I know says it could
other wives broke the news to mean the main beams need shor
other husbands. One Sunday ing up."
morning, the buy-it-already- "Nonsense. It's Just settling."
made husbands met outside. It was six hours later, past
Al and his disturbing work midnight, when Harry came
were discussed. Bob thought knocking on my door sheepishly,
about cancelling his order. "What do you think I ought
Harry said it was too late. Phil to do about that floor dip?'!
grumbled there were too many "Watch it," I said.
money for Chiang.
Here are significant facts be- t
hind the byplay: Kohlberg gave
the harum-scarum days of Huey
(CopyriBht 1950)
constitutes an unheard of vio-
charge now against him is that
lntion of the elementary rules he has been scouling Sovict ler.
oi imernauomu law. ri(ory For what purpose? WnXf
' . , , ,j to prepare for war against the
The tale as Vishinsky unfolds Soviet Uni o CQUrse
it is that last Saturday "a four- .!. .
engined military plane of the '" " PIctufe was
B-29 type, a Flying Fortress, 'he igBcstion Monday in two
bearing American identification ?,Pe"haf newspaper, that the
marks was sighted" south of " ,
Libau (Lepaya), Latvia. When " '? ' "
to reconnoiter Soviet territory.
the plane penetrated what Rus
sia claims is Soviet territory, a
ni!,t n Cm. It fiaUlA nianoi
demanded that the American iven bV the papers,
plane follow it to a nearby air
drome. Then
The source of this suggestion
The idea that America would
be scouting Soviet Baltic terri-
Driver Was a Little Squirt
Rochester, N. Y April 13 P) When a large truck passed
Mrs. Eleanor Corona at a corner, the driver leaned out, pointed
a water pistol and squirted her face, she reported to ponce.
OPEN FORUM
Women Live Longer Than Men
To the Editor: Shortly after the completion of the "census
taking" that is now progressing, we will no doubt be informed
that "women live longer than men."
However, considering all the findings of all the scientific and
intellectual wizards, none of them has ever informed us that "the
secret" is which the women have
Th Amorinnn nlnnp not onlv tory with a bomber seems to
failed to compiv with this de- border on the absurd. Such an
mand but opened fire on the operation would be inviting
Soviet plane. Owing to this, an trouble,
advanced Soviet fighter was
forced to open fire in reply, aft- Speaking of Baltic territory,
er which the American plane there is an interesting point in
turned towards the sea and dis- volved in Moscow's claim to Lat
appeared." via. Russia occupied Latvia and
That's the Soviet story. By the other Baltic states in 1940
peculiar coincidence the U. S. and incorporated them into the
airforce headquarters at Wies- Soviet Union. However, the
baden, Germany, had been United States never has recog
searching for a missing U. S. nized this transaction. So that
plane a navy version of the even If the missing American
B-24 bomber over the Baltic, plane was over Latvia, it wasn't
This plane was unarmed, it was over Russian territory officially
said, and had a crew of ten. so far as Washington is con
That may be the unfortunate cerned.
craft which encountered a flight In anj event we have a dip-
of Soviet fighters. lomatic fight on our hands. And
Vishinsky, as already suggested.
An extraordinary aspect of has made a move calculated to
this situation is that it was Sat- put America on the defensive.
kept, why women live longer on Sunday" what they are think
than men. ing about, and they will most
It is generally understood that often give the answer: "Oh,
women have the same amount nothing." Surely that does not
of brains as men, also are like- mean the lady's mind Is a "per
wise' intelligent. However, it feet blank." It means the lady
appears that the women are is allowing her mind to rest
smarter than men for the simple which is good sense also the rea
reason that the proof of these son why "women live longer
facts are that men are continual- than men."
ly mulling something in their BRYAN J. ENGLISH,
minds, while we can ask any 4213 N.E. 9th Ave.
lady "six times a week and twice - Portland 1 1
Going in Debt Figured by Hour
To the Editor: Your recent article stating that the Marshall
plan had cost us taxpayers S500.000 an hour for two years led
me to calculate the national debt of approximately 258 billion
on the same basis.
Going into debt at the rate of five hundred thousand per
hour, we would have to keep that up for just about 60 years!
Ouch!
SAM J. HARMS
379 N. Cottage, Salem
Gymnasts Keep Fit for U. S. Tour
iS
Seven members of the Danish Gym Team, a group of 36 boy and
girl amateur athletes, perform in unison a difficult handstand on
Chevrolet.! being used on a 20.000-mile. 11-month motor our of the
United States. Members, carefully selected by competitive tests
In their native Denmark, appear under the auspices of churches,
colleges and YMCA's.
Appearing in a 2-Hour Performance
Willamette University Gym
Friday, April 14, 8:00 P.M.
This Announcement Courtesy of
Douglas McKay Chevrolet Co.
510 N. Commercial Salem