Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, April 3, 1947
New Doctrine To Realign World
Truman Draws Battle-I.ines
Against Red Expansionism
By BAUKHAGE
A ttain t and Commentator.
WM' Service, 1616 E ye Street, N. W„
Since that day thousands of words
Washington. I). C.
have been spoken and printed in
WASHINGTON. — When H arry thousands of cities all over the
Truman enunciated what the Wall world, about that message which
covers a little more than four and a
Street Journal, a
half pages, typew ritten (on both
p e r io d ic a l n o t
sides of the sheet since w artim e
given to poetic l i
economy s till is practiced at the
c e n t i o u sn e ss,
White House). In many odd corners
called
•'Democ
of the bazaars and m arket places
r a c y 's M o n ro e
those words crackled like tiny elec
D o c t r in e , ” he
tric sparks.
p io b a b ly didn't
realize the m u lti
And everywhere thoughtful. Intel
fa r io u s e ffe c ts
ligent people In foreign countries—
thereof.
those who had always looked upon
America as a nation whose political
At this w riting
neither congress
and cultural outlook was most sym
nor the country
pathetic to their p olitical and cul
has quite recov
tu ra l outlook, but whose economic
ered from
the
theories pointed further to the rig ht
than th eir own socialistic leanings—
impact of those
Baukhage
pondered. These were people to
words read w ith
the matter-of-fact, undram atic. un- whom Soviet Russia was p rim itive ,
oratorical, cracker-barrel diction of harsh, cruel in its methods. Never
a m atter-of-fact, undram atic, unor- theless Russia's economic theories
atorical, cracker-barrel man. When differed less from th e ir own than
I heard the President read them, did the economic theories of the
standing there, calm and confident, United States, whose civilized,
at the lectern of the reading clerk frien dly and humane characteris
on the house rostrum , looking up tics attracted them. They found that
from the text only occasionally with they must choose. They must say to
that bird-like tilt of his head, as the Russia or Am erica: ’ ‘W hither thou
television cameras purred gently goest, I w ill go; and where thou
from the opposite gallery, I fe lt a lodgest, I w ill lodge: thy people
little worried. The cabinet members shall be m y people; and thy ways
seated in the well, the senators in shall be m ine."
the first rows of seats, the house
Perhaps never before In history
members crowded into rows behind had a great nation so certainly
them —all seemed almost glum. 1 divided the sheep from the goats,
d id n't realize the solemnity of the the friends from the enemies. The
message which held them in a re President’s plan is more than a
strained silence. Only thrice was m oral question. It involves more
there applause after he began to than abstract principles of political
speak. Before and after there was economy or social philosophy. It
plenty and it was evenly balanced, sets forth with shuddering sim p lic
it was bi-partisan, not weighted ity to the wavering nations of the
heavily on the side of the adm inis world the warning that they must
tration party as it usually is when a run w ith the hare or ride with the
President speaks.
hounds; they must have no other
When the speech was over it was political god before Demos—the
the same. The senators left in si sp irit of the people. E ither m a jo rity
lence; there was little or no com rules in your house or your house is
ment. As Senator Lodge said when ruled out of bounds.
a radio man plucked at his sleeve
In other words, cabinets and cabi
and asked if he would submit to an net makers, premiers and pro-con
interview : ‘‘I can't think TH AT suls w ill no longer dance to the
fast.” Even the fast and sound K re m lin ’ s tune if they expect Uncle
thinkers wanted tim e to think lei Sam to pay the piper—or the
butcher or the baker.>
surely and deeply.
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Practical Instructions
For the Home Nurse
THE TEACHER PROBLEM
WASHINGTON School teachers
have gone on strike in Buffulo, St.
Paul and severul other cities, with
more strikes brewing elsewhere.
But the new congresi has failed
even to consider the fuct that Jani
tors and charwomen In muny cities
are paid more than the teachers
responsible for training the next
Treating Wounds
generation for an atom ic age
Several bills providing federal
HEN Junior’s hand is cut
funds to increase teachers’ salaries
open by a rusty nail, better
have been Introduced—perhaps the
call the doctor right uwuy—there's
best and simplest being that of Ver danger of blood poisoning.
mont's outstanding GOP senator,
George Aiken. Others have been
M e a n w h ile , clean»« the wound th orou gh
w ritten by Democrats Green and ly w ith »uap und w a te r. T h en pour III
M cGrath of Rhode Island and Me- enough p ero xid e to dig out a ll those
a rtic le » of ru»t and d irt, and »oak Iho
Carran of Nevada, and Republican
and in a hot, strong rpso in » a lt solution,
T aft of Ohio. On the house side
iiu r b o o k le t N o 111 r o n tu ln a 40 page» of
Democrat Pace of Georgia and Re helpful ad vice shout home nursing C o v
ers nursing of contagious dl»eu»»s, c a re
publican Welch of C alifornia have d u rin g pregnancy, after op eratio n», in
entered bills. In addition to a drop- em ergen cies. A m u»t fo r ev e ry hom e!
23 cent» (c o in ) fo r “ I'r a e t lr a l In
In-the bucket b ill by Rep. Sterling Send
» trn rtto n lo r the H om e N u rs e ” to W eekly
N ew spap er N e rv lre , 241 W . I7 lh H I., N ew
Cole of New York.
Y o rk I t , N . Y .
P rin t n a m e , address,
But the GOP leadership ap
booklet title and N o . Hl.
parently thinks that the labor
situation—even though we have
no m ajor strikes— la more an
emergency than Insuring the
uninterrupted education of the
nation's children.
In both the house and the senate, !
education and labor legislation are !
handled by the some committees, i
and the two chairm en—T aft of Ohio
Healthful Fresh Fruit Drink
and H artley of New Jersey—have
Makes Purgatives Unnec
not bestirred themselves about edu
essary for Most People
cation, even though T aft does have
his name on two bills relating to the
Here’s a way to overcome constipa
m atter.
tion without harsh laxatives. Drink
T aft has appointed Aiken chair
juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in a glas-
man of a subcommittee to handle
of water first thing on arising.
education. But because the fu ll com
m ittee Is heading into weeks of
Most people find this all they net '
w rangling over labor laws, Aiken
-stimulates normal bowel action da\
probably can't schedule hearings
after day!
before A p ril. A subcommittee has
Lemon and water is tood for yoi
been appointed on the house side,
lemons arc among the richest tourer
but no hearings are scheduled.
of vitamin C, winch combats fatigui
• e .
helps resist colds and i nlections. The'
MISSISSIPPI VS. N. Y. TEACHERS
supply valuable amounts of vitamin
Never before has the federal i Bi and P. They pep up appetite. The>
government made a regular appro- I a lia lin iu , aid digestion. Lemon am.
prlation for educational expenses ! water has a fresh tang too-clears tin
However, Senator Aiken points out j mouth, wakes you up, starts you going
that 60 per cent of all Americans
Try this grand wake-up drink H
today arc liv in g In states other than j
mornings. See i f it doesn't help you
those in which they were educated,
Use California Sunkist Lemons.
proving that education is an in te r
state or national problem.
Aiken further points out that edu
cational standards vary so widely
that in M ississippi the average ex
penditure per pupil per year in 1944
was only $42.25, while the average
In New York state was $185.12 His
b ill would insure expenditure of at (
least $100 per pupil per year in j
each state.
Chief opposition to such a hill
is from southern senators, who
fear It m ight require their
states to spend “ too m uch” on
Negro schools. For the b ill spec
ifies that the $100 average for
each pupil must be maintained
for each school d istrict.
Aiken’s com m ittee on expendi
tures in the executive departments
plans hearings on a b ill by T aft and
Senator F u lb rig h t of Arkansas call
ing fo r establishment of a new cabi
net post—secretary of health, wel
fare and education. While Aiken is
anxious to proceed with this bill, he
is more anxious to see increased
teachers’ salaries.
• • •
try this If you’re
GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY BOGS
Whether he intended it or not, j
President Trum an's trip to Mexico I
did more for the lagging good neigh- i
On ‘CERTAIN DAYS* Of Mouth-
bor policy than anything since !
Do fe m ale fu n c tio n a l m o n th ly d is tu rb
F ra n klin Roosevelt’s time.
ances m ake you feel nervous. Irrita b le ,
Thanks to the astute backstage
so wesk an d tire d o u t— a t such times?
guidance of Sumner Welles, Roose- j T h e n do try L y d ia E. P tn k h sm 's Vege
ta b le C om pound to relieve such sy m p
velt b u ilt up our friendship with
tom s. It 's ja m o u t to r th ls l T a k e n re g u
L atin Am erica. He made a special
la rly — P ln k h a m ’s C om pound helps
b u ild u p resistance again st such d is
pilgrim age to Buenos Aires and
tress. Also a g re a t stom achic to n ic I
Montevideo, and frequently cruised
through the Caribbean, touching at
Ecuadorean and Central American
cities; also visited Mexico and
acted as host to many Latin A m eri
can presidents.
W ith Welles’ exit from the state
departm ent much of this came to
an end. So also has ended the eco
nomic cooperation given Latin
Am erican neighbors.
6 6 6 STARTS RELIEF IN
Regarding this, Latin Americans
ÎT 6 SECONDS
have been especially bitter. They
complain that whereas during the
OH famous, prtserlptlen-typei
w ar they sold raw m aterials to the
4 « . for super-speedy relief |
from cold mlMrleo T ry I
United States .at stabilized prices,
C «U
Tablets, or.
foregoing any w ar profits, they now
«04
Liquid
Cold
Preparation
today-
cannot buy goods in the U. S. A.
Caution: Dao only
When they attem pt to purchase
ns directed.
here they find that European coun
tries have a p rio rity . We pay more W N U - 1 3
14— 47
attention to Greece, they complain,
than to neighbors close at h o m e -
neighbors which are much more im
portant to our long-range welfare.
What L atin Am erican diplomats
hope is that In addition to good-will
M ay W arn o f Disordered
tours, the U. S. A. now w ill loosen
K idney A ction
up economically. They want to buy,
Modern Ilfs with Its hurry and worry.
not beg, but they can’t even do the
Irregular habits. Improper sating ana
form er.
drinking— Its risk of expoaura and Infec
• * •
tion— throws hsavy strain on the work
of ths kidneys. They sro apt to become
MERRY-GO-ROUND
over-taxed and fall to filter excess acid
and other Impurities from ths life-giving
J. Edgar Hoover has locked in
blood.
F B I files several sensational stories
You may suffer nagging backache,
headache, dlsstneea, getting up nights,
on big c ity corruption, showing how
leg
pains, swelling— feel constantly
certain city bosses are tied up with
tired, nervous, all worn out. Other eigne
of kidney or bladder disorder are some-
crim e. U nfortunately this is beyond
tlmee burning, scanty or too frequent
Boover’s b ailiw ick, so he proposed
urination.
a sensational educational movie to
T ry Doan’s P illi. D oan'i help ths
kidneys to pass off harmful excess body
20th Century-Fox based on his files.
waste. They have b id more than half a
Cautious 20th Century-Fox turned '
eentury of publlo approval. Ars recom
mended by grateful users everywhere.
him down. . . . General Eisenhower
A ik pour nitiAbort
has ordered the bodies of all A m eri
can soldiers buried in the China
theater to be collected and shipped
home.
A
W
E
YOUNG IN YEARS ONLY . . . Tragic experiences, born of hunger
and privation, have left th eir m ark on (he faces of these children of
southern Bohemia. Barely a trace of childhood remains In their stark
expressions. These torn and tattered boys are among those being
helped by Am erican Red Cross in Its distribution of three m illion
dollars in supplies to Czechoslovakia.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Floods Ravage England;
Guard A-Bomb
Materials
♦-----------------------------------
BRITAIN:
Floods /Veir Peril
Bolivia are giving every assistance
to the rebels.
The war act gives the government
M elting of the thick blanket of
power to d ra ft men, property and
snow that brought great hardship to money, and to suspend any laws.
B rita in has swollen streams to flood The preamble declares that It was
stage. Many thousands of people in issued in accordance w ith "In te r
southern England are being forced national agreement signed by this
out of th e ir homes by rising waters.
country for defense of the continent
Some rive rs already have passed against subversive movements of a
the record high m arks of 1894.
totalitarian character,"
Com m unity kitchens are being set
According to news from Brazil,
up to feed refugees. Troops, G er
man war prisoners and volunteers the insurgents have won control of
are struggling to save w ater p u ri a ll the Paraguayan side of the Para
fying stations, gas and electric guayan-Brazil border by capturing
plants, and other essential services. the towns of Bela Vista, Pedro Juan
Others are sandbagging dikes and Caballero and Captan Bado.
Paraguayan government reports
riv e r walls.
“ I t is our worst disaster in 300 say that some of the rebel forces
years,” declares Miss Phoebe Cus- ! have deserted and surrendered to
ten, m ayor of the Thames riv e r town ' government troops. There were oth
er stories, denied by the govern
of Caversham.
ment. that some infantry, a rtille ry
Snow s till is ham pering transpor and naval units had refused or
tation in five counties of northern ders to fight the rebels.
England. These regions w ill have
to cope w ith floods later.
★ ★ ★ ★
¡GEORGIA:
A g ricu ltu ra l losses are already
immense and prospects are for j Tai mad ge Ousted
even more staggering damage.
M elvin E. Thompson, elected lieu-
Tens of thousands of sheep and cat ' tenant governor, is rig htful gover
Recently when Secretary of Labor 1927 the protection average exceed tle are drowning in the Midlands nor of Georgia, the
Schwellenbach urged that the Com ed the income average. In the years regions. It is estimated that three state
s u p re m e
munist party in America be banned of depression that followed, the pro m illio n fa rm animals died over the court has ruled, 5
by law it brought forth an emphatic tection average went as high as 2*6 w inter, kille d by snow and cold. to 2. Herman Tal-
protest from the secretary-general times the income average. In 1943, Most of the spring wheat crop is , madge,
son
of
of the party, Eugene Dennis.
as w artim e incomes expanded, the ruined. The potato crop in the fen- J Gene, w h o h a s
is
considered
destroyed. been acting as gov
What are the Communists after? income average again topped the lands
Planting
of
early
crops
is
fa
r behind ernor since his ap
protection
average.
The new K iplinger magazine, pub
schedule. In a country that has been pointment by the
lished in Washington, says in its
on short rations fo r seven years, legislature, was de
March issue;
this further blow is extrem ely seri clared a usurper.
“ As spelled out In th eir own
ous.
A tty. Gen. Eu
words, American Communists have
gene Cook has in
three m ajor aims in the United
ATOMIC ORE:
validated all bills
States: The revolutionary over
M. E.
s i g n e d by T a i -
throw of capitalism and the capi
Thompson
Rigid
Regulations
madge during his
ta list state, a Soviet form of gov
b rie f and troubled term. The most
ernment under a ‘dictatorship of the
In a move to safeguard the na
im portant of this legislation is the
p roletariat,’ and finafty, the Com
tion's supply of uranium and th o ri
white
p rim a ry b ill, but 150 other
munist heaven-on-earth, a collectiv
um ores, the raw m aterials for atom
measures also were declared void
ist economy leading to a classless
bombs, the Atom ic Energy comm is
society.
sion has issued a new and very stric t I by Cook.
The 33-year-old son of the famous
code. Death is the penalty for ma
“ Of the three aims, their first is
jo r violations of the rig id regula I “ Old Gene" accepted the verdict of
revolution. Not m erely change, but
the state's highest
tions, which affect everyone handling
full-fledged revolution, planned, led
tribunal and im m e
the
radio-active
ores.
and controlled by the disciplined
diately made prep
Communist m in ority. ‘The libe ra
The code sets up a licensing sys
arations to leave
tion of the w orking class from the
tem specifying that no one, unless
the executive man
yoke of capitalism cannot be ef
licensed by the commission, can
sion.
fected by slow changes, by reforms,
“ transfer or export from the United
“ We’ll be back,"
This illustration of a Whoop
but only by revolution.’ ”
States” any m aterial that contains
he told well wish
ing Crane was supposed to ac
as much as l-20th of one per cent
(E d ito r K ip lin ge r says i f you want
ers. “ The court of
company some rem arks an that
chapter and verse fo r his authority
of uranium or thorium .
last resort is the
fast - disappearing species of
fo r the above statement, w rite to
A fte r A p ril 1, anyone not licensed
people of Georgia.
Am
erican
bird
life
that
ap
h im at 1729 G Street, N. W., Wash
who obtains 10 pounds or more of
T h is
case
w ill
peared in this column recently.
ington 6, D. C., and he w ill send
raw uranium or thorium m ust report
be taken to the
Unfortunately
the
picture,
like
II.
Talmadge
them to you.)
it to the commission w ithin 30 days.
court of last re
most of the originals, went
Use of uranium in ceramics, photo
It is not likely, however, that the
This was interpreted as Indi
astray. Since that a rticle ap
graphic supplies and other industrial cating that Talmadge intends to run
p arty w ill be banned by law. Not be
peared, two national magazines
products is p ra ctica lly forbidden, again in 1648, when a special elec
cause congress loves the Commu
published stories about this
since no fu rth e r supply of the metal tion w ill be held. Under the law a
nists. But even that ardently anti-red
magnificent bird, whose whoop
w ill be allowed after A p ril 1.
group, the comm ittee on un-Am eri
lieutenant governor can serve only
Is becoming fainter and fainter
can activities, doesn’t approve of
two years as governor.
every day. One a rticle esti
wiping out the party. An anonymous
PARAGUAY:
The supreme court’s m a jo rity de
mated that only a hundred spec
member of the committee recently
cision took the view that the legis
imens were s till alive and
Civil War
pointed out that if the party was
lature erred when It appointed H er
whooping.
The other a rticle
broken up, it would sim ply go un
So serious Is the rebellion in Para man Talmadge governor on Janu
placed the number a t 29. Saya
derground, where its devious ways
guay that President M orlnigo has is ary 14. The legislature, after a can
the Fish and W ildlife service of
would be harder to follow.
sued a w ar decree to mobilize the vass of votes cast, acted on the
the department of the In te rior,
A worm on the surface is worth
fu ll powers of the government. Reb theory that since Eugene Talmadge
which Is conducting a survey of
two dozen underneath the soil, as
els now are holding large sections had died before inauguration, that
these, the tallest (man-size) and
any early F B I b ird w ill testify.
of the little South Am erican coun there was no one elected to the of
most beautiful of Am erican
• • •
try . Government officials state that fice. Herman Talmadge was chosen
birds; “ fewer than 40" have
the revolt is Communist-Inspired, on the basis of a few w rite-in votes.
been counted. They are in the
L ife In s u ra n c e
coast region of southern Louis
They fu rth e r charge that Commu Thompson, duly elected lieutenant
nists In neighboring Uruguay and governor, was Ignored.
iana and Texas.
In creases in U . S.
On the average, there were over
4 life insurance policies per fa m ily
in the United States at the end of
1945, it is revealed in a survey by
life insurance companies. In amount
of life insurance owned, the average
pe. fa m ily was $4,000 at m id-year
1945. The average 1945 protection
WASHINGTON. — Although the of cattle, 26,100,000 m ilk cows, 56,- on January 1 were 10 per cent
per fa m ily was more than 20 per
cent larger than that of 1940 and was number of livestock on farm s de 901,000 hogs, 475,442,000 chickens, larger than on the same date a year
216 times the 1920 protection aver clined during 1946, the fa rm Inven and 38,571,000 stock sheep as of the earlier. W ith exception of 1942, they
age. The 1945 average per fa m ily of tory value of a ll livestock soared to first of this year. In addition, there were the largest January stocks on
2,773,000 record.
life insurance owned was nearly $11,252,000, a gain of 25 per cent were 7,251,000 horses,
W ith livestock numbers down, the
equal to the 1945 average income over the previous year and the high mules and 6,632,000 turkeys.
The value per head of cattle, supply of feed grains in relation to
per fa m ily, the average per fa m ily est total on record, according to a
of national income in 1945 being $4,- bureau of agricu ltu ra l economics hogs, sheep, chickens and turkeys livestock was more favorable than
300. In 1920, the average protection report. The drop in livestock num at the beginning of 1947 reached a year ago. The supply per unit of
per fa m ily was nearly 50 per cent bers was the th ird successive de new heights. The value per head of livestock reached record levels, 17
below the average of national in cline since a high was reached Jan horses and mules was somewhat per cent larger than at the begin
above a year earlier.
ning of 1946, and 8 per cent above
come per fa m ily. This gap was nar u ary 1, 1944.
The report listed 81,500,000 head
Supplies of feed grains on farm s January 1, 1942, the previous high.
rowed in the ensuing years, u ntil In
Commies Aim at Revolution
HIGHEST ON RECORD
Livestock Value Soars to Peak
WHY TAKE
HARSH LAXATIVES?
GIRLS! WOMEN!
NERVOUS
mu[.niuuirsi'sstt&
COCO
SUFFERERS!
e
That Nagins?
Backache
D oans P ills
ri