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January 25, 1940
(It Was Thursday)
State highway commission to
file protest against government
charges for autos merely passing
through Urater Lake park.
Otto Caster, Phoenix, an
nounces candidacy for demo
cratic nomination as county com
missioner. Medford Craters baseball team
may. enter Oregon State league.
Miss Laura York to speak at
county primary teachers' council
meeting Saturday.
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at Central Point elects Iva Cop-
pinger president,
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 25, 1930
(It Was Saturday)
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member of Willamette university
debating team,
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of
New York foreseen as demo
cratic candidate for president in
1032.
Closer cooperation between
city and county urged at Pomona
meeting of Grange.
Eugene high defeati Medford
in basketball here, 42 to 28.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 25, 1918
(It Was Tuesday)
More than 400 invitations out
for dance sponsored by seventh
company of slate militia at arm
ory. Lorine Grigsby, Eagle Point,
and Lewis E. Smith, Medford,
married by the Rev. L. L. Sim
mons at Eagle Point recently.
Lack of sidewalks in vicinity
of Jackson school to be discussed
by city council.
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Red Recognition
Los Angeles, Jan. 25. (U.P.)
Publisher Col, Robert Allen Grif
fin has urged full-scale U. S.
recognition of communist China
as a "fighting chance" of saving
that nation from the Russian
orbit.
Griffin, publisher of the Mon
terey, Cal., Peninsula Herald,
told an Occidental college grad
uating clays yesterday that any
other course would be "prior
acceptance of total defeat."
The former associate director
of the economic cooperation ad
ministration's Chinese program
said there was no proof that Mao
Tie-Tung's government would be
"permanently a toll-member of
the cominform or that China is
fixed In the orbit of Moscow."
"We can say that so far as
China Is concerned, tomorrow is
another day," he said, "and that
we are prepared to face It with
new methods patterned to work
towards the old objective, which
is a free independent and friend
ly China."
Washington, Jan, 25 (U.R)
Karl R. Bcndctsen, former San
Francisco attorney, was nominat
ed today by President Truman
to be assistant secretary of the
army.
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Editorial Correspondence
New York City, N. Y., Jan. 22 Well it'g all over!
The Hiss verdict is guilty on both counts and we must con
cludes somewhat regretfully that "Alger Hiss is one of the
greatest actors since Edwin Booth and one of the greatest liars
since Ananias."
We must also grant this: Alger Hiss remained a great actor
and liar to the end.
Mr. Hiss maintained the same air of self-assurance, dignity
and stoical calm when the jury's fateful verdict was announced,
as he had for the 40 days his inquisition lasted. As far as he, his
reputation, his future, his place in history is concerned if any
it was a death sentence. With that one word "guilty," all he had
accomplished, all he had done, all he had hoped for, fell around
him In ruins.
Yet, as far as anyone in that courtroom could determine, Hiss
was no more disturbed or dismayed, no more crushed or cast
down than he had been since the trial started. Outwardly he left
the courtroom in the same quiet, unassuming way, with the same
perfectly self-controlled, fluid-flow drive and self-respecting man
ner, maintained last November when he entered it.
e e e e e
No man could have appeared more relaxed, more self-assured,
more poised and content last fall than Alger Hiss when we first
saw him with Mrs. Hiss as they walked down the steps of the
U. S. Court building in Foley Square to face the swarming squad
of news camera men.
As far as Hiss was concerned there was not the slightest
change as far as his demeanor goes when again with Mrs. Hiss
he walked down tne same steps yesterday atternoon, again to
hail a taxi and escape from the reporters with a calm and pleasant
voiced no comment.
Wa can't sav the same for
She did not break down, there were in public, at least no
tears: but she had lost that Mona Lisa smile, and it seemed to take
everything she had to maintain an appearance of outward calm.
There was, however, a discernible tension, of great effort. One felt
that at anv moment, the strain
haps the firm grasp of her husband's hand alone was holding
back tne emotional nooct mat weuea up wunin.
e e e e e
Not so with her husband.
Say what one will about him and plenty will be said his
powers of self-control, his calm under fire, his maintenance of
perfect ease and poise in the face both of personal disaster and
extreme provocation add up to something most extraordinary.
Even his enemies in the press room and there were many of
them hand It to him on this score.
One of them maintains this unusual poise only proves he
lacks the sensibilities his manner and bearing suggest, and thus
explains the man s mendacity and treachery that Hiss could only
have done what the Jury declares he did because he has the
cool nerve of the amoral personality, and at heart is really the
criminal type.
Mebbe so. But we can't and we don't believe many who
sat through the trial, will accept this diagnosis.
.
Frankly, we are stumped.
The Hiss trial Is over, but the mystery lingers on. In one
direction your correspondent agrees with Whittaker Chambers
who, when interviewed dointj his daily chores on his Maryland
farm following the verdict said, with customary complacence:
"I do not see what else the jury could have done."
After the evidence presented and the story told by Chambers
which in its main contentions was never refuted we agree.
The only hypothesis that made sense in view of the evidence
and particularly the typewriter, was the guilt of Mr. Hiss.
Nothing else added up nothing else was at all convincing.
We admit our SYMPATHIES were with Mr. and Mrs. Hiss
and still are. Throughout the trial we tried to arrive at some
reasonable explanation based upon their innocence, but had to
admit when the trial ended, the attempt had failed.
And yet the mystery remains. The feeling that people like
Mr. and Mrs. Hiss (for if he is guilty she was surely an accom
plice) could ever have done what the evidence nroves thev did.
still refuses to jell In our consciousness. We could not credit itl
when the trial started, we can t emotionally now. It all remains
unbelievable. .
But there are the facts, most of them unrefuted facts. And
while there Is no doubt the chief, and practically speaking the
only witness against the Hisses, Whittaker Chambers, perjured
himself Innumerable times, was a pathological liar and admitted
it; yet there was at the end of the trial a great doubt that he did
NOT tell, in the main, the truth about Alger Hiss, in THIS case.
e '
And that is what convicted Hiss the doubt that Chambers
In this particular Instance was lying. And the strength of that
doubt made any REASONABLE doubt of Hiss' guilt, difficult
it not impossible.
So at last we find ourselves In agreement with former Senator
John Foster Dulles a rare experience.
Dulles, who appeared against Mr. Hiss near the close of the
trial, on being informed of the verdict said:
"The conviction of Alger Hiss is a human tragedy.
"It Is tragic that so great promise should have come to so
inglorious an end.
"But the greater tragedy Is that seemingly our national
Ideals no longer inspire the loyal devotions needed for their
defense."
"SEEMINGLY" yes.
But perhaps sometime in the future when, not only a clearer
perspective but more of the facts of the case have been obtained;
it will be realized that what SEEMED to be true as of today,
was not completely true.
In other words, It may be found disloyalty, the calculated
desire to injure and betray one's country were not the compelling
motives in the Hiss (nor the Coplon) tragedies of this post-war
era. It was rather a strange susceptibility to Communist propa
ganda that convinced so many of our most intelligent and sensitive
young people, that not only was Communism the "wave of the
future,' but that to advance the cause of Soviet Russia (partic
ularly at the time Hitler Nazism threatended to conquer the
world) would be to ultimately benefit and perpetuate the cause of
free democracy everywhere.
As World War II approached and Soviet Russia was for the
first time recognized by the U.S.A., it is conceivable that Alger
Hiss was not the onlv subordinate in the State Dpnnrt
other upper branches of the government who swallowed this
Soviet propaganda bait, hook and sinker, agreed with Whittaker
Chambers that the end justified the means, and that to make
missian resistance to xsazi uermany stronger would be to make
in the end, American democracy stronger and thereby more
secure.
We said "PERHAPS."
In other words it mav become nlr-nr In timo that tho roi
vllllans in these shocking adolescent dramas, were not the Hisses
and the Coplons, but the Whittaker Chambers and other Soviet
spies and conspirators, for they sowed their propaganda poison so
cleverly, selected their victims so skillfully, and followed out in
structions from the Kremlin so faithfully that thev won sensational
success in the most unlikely quarters, convincing not one but
many groups of American youth, that to give aid to Soviet Russia
clandestinely while not exactly cricket, was not morally wrong,
for the net result would be to destroy Nazism, and advance the
cause of human welfare and betterment, not onlv on the other
side of the Atlantic, but this.
A bit far fetched?
Possibly.
But we mlllht call to mind
who, we feel sure, would not so
Please page Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh!
R.W.R.
Man Admits Trying
To Kill Wife With Car
Boise, Ida., Jan. 25 (U.P.)
Police Chief George Haskln said
today that Carl Cannaday, 29,
Boise, admitted In a signed state
ment that he tried to kill his
wife by running her down with
an automobile.
Cannaday's wife. Rose, 21, was
In St. Luke's hospital here. Hos
pital authorities said x-rays are
to be taken to determine the ex
tent of the young woman's in
juries. She was reported in "sat
isfactory" condition.
Army Plant Crashes
Near Missouri' Town
Mexico. Mo., Jan. 25 (U.R)
An army plane Identified as an
L-5 Stlnson crashed In heavv
fog near the north city limits o'f
Mexico early today and state
highway patrolmen said the two
occupants were killed instantly.
Wednesday, January 25. 1950
Mrs. Hiss.
might prove too much, that Der
one well known American rnnnl
regard it.
Isbrandfsen Ships
Plan To Run Blockade
Honk Kong, Jan. 25. (U.R)
Agents for the Isbrantsen line of
New York said today that two of
the line's ships are planning to
run the nationalist blockade into
communist-held Shanghai next
month.
The ships are the Flying Inde
pendent, due here Feb. 2, and the
Flyinf Clipper, due here Feb. 18.
Shanghai is listed on the sched
ule of both ships and so far there
have been no instructions to the
contrary, the agents said.
The agents. A. P. Pattison Co..
are booking cargo for Shanghai
on both ships but no passengers.
San Francisco, Jan. 25 !UR)
The Marine Exchange reported
the Greek steamer Koslis Lomis
went aground at Sansum Point
on Vancouver island. 22 miles
off Victoria, B. C, early today.
Cross town
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CetlsSCiiillis ewt L
"OF COURSE I didn't tell you this was going to be a Western
picture for the same reason you didn't tell me the one we
saw last week WASN'T."
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On the Side-8 E v Durl I"
(Distributed by King features Syndicate, lac)
You should leave aman to guess
by your blushing
And not speak the matter so
plain;
'Tie man's part to woo and be
pushing
'Tis yours to affect disdain.
That you're In a terrible taking
By all these sweet ogllngs 1 see
But the fruit that can fall with
out shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me,
Montagu.
"Trust a woman or an epi
taph before you put your faith
in critics.' So advised Lord
Byron. I do not share His Lord
ship's cynicism as to critics. As
theatrical fan of lone standing
1 have put my faith in drama
critics for many years. I have
relied upon them to guide me to
tne good shows and steer me
away from the bad ones. They
have rarely failed me. However,
some of the current crop of Man
hattan drama critics have me
slightly confused. Trying to fig
ure out whether they consider a
show good or bad is like bat
tling with a crossword puzzle.
Their reviews bring to mind that
ditty of the yesteryear titled
"She Wouldn t Say Yes and She
Wouldn't Say No. For example,
in reviewing the musical show,
"Dance Me a Song," one New
York drama critic concludes his
Californians Ask
Soil Conservation
Washington. Jan. 25. (U.R)
Three members of the California
legislature have appealed to their
state congressmen to help get
bigger federal appropriations for
soil conservation work in Cali
fornia.
Ten congressmen from Califor
nia farm areas met yesterday
with Assemblymen Francis Lind
sey and Tom Irwin and Presley
Abshire, state senator, who com
prise an interim legislature com
mittee on soil conservation. The
congressmen pledged their help.
They are members of the Cali
fornia delegation's agriculture
sub-committee. Its chairman,
Rep. Jack Anderson (R., Cal.)
said the meeting was attended by
Democratic Reps. Cecil White,
Clinton McKinnon, Harry Shep-
pard and Clair Engle and Repub
lican Reps. Hubert Ccudder, John
Phillips, Thomas Werdel and Le
roy Johnson, and Ernest Bram
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Prediction
To the editor: Last week I
wrote you of what I knew about
New Orleans. This week I would
like to tell you of what I know
of Koscinsko, Attala county,
"Miss-e-sippi." I should know
because my wife was born and
raised there. I lived there a
short tfme. My brother-in-law
was sheriff of that county.
Now I will predict that those
two gangsters will never see the
judge. Not with those hillbillies
down there. 1 will be willing to
stake a bet that they will have a
neck-tie party for those two guys.
Kindly let us hear more of the
news from down there?
W. H. TELL.
jryJ FLAKES
by Roland Co
iMmtiiMiiitMiiiHiaiHifiiil
II.I.IIII.IIIIIMIMMIIIM
review with this summing-up
sentence: "It may not be as en
tertaining as it seems."
As It Was.
Today I had a glimpse of the
sports page of a New York news
paper dated September 1, 1899.
At that time there were twelve
clubs in the National League.
What club do you think was
leading the league on that day
and date? Why, sir, none other
than Brooklyn. At that time the
Brooklyn team's nickname was
not the Dodgers, but the "Su
perbas." The line-up of the Su
perbas on Sept. 1, 1899 was as
follows: Fielder Jones, cf; "Wee
Willie" Keeler, rf; Hughey Jen
nings, lb; Kelly, rf; Daly, 2b;
"Bad Bill" Dahlen, ss; Casey,
3b; "Duke" Farrell, catcher;
Hughes, pitcher.
Auto History.
Do you consider yourself well
informed on automobile history?
All right, tell us what was the
lowest priced car ever sold in
this country? Incidentally, in
1938 one automobile manufac
turer announced his Intention of
putting on the market a three
wheeled car, which would go
sixty miles on a gallon of gas
and have tires guaranteed for
one hundred and twenty-five
thousand miles! This unusual
automomobile" was scheduled to
sell for three hundred and fifty
dollars. The war stymied the
manufacturer's plans.
Asking,
Queries from clients. Q. Do
your Horses & Women experts
believe short hair-dos more at
tractive for women than long
hair? A. The majority of our
H & W experts favor long hair
for females. They maintain it is
more feminine and has a greater
male attraction appeal than the
closely clipped style. Q. What is
the origin of the expression "Pin
his ears back"? A, Your query
baffles me. Q. You are trying to
think of a feminine niglit club
entertainer whose height is six
feet, seven inches. Isn't that Lois
De Fee? A. No, sir. Lois isn't
that tall. I think she is about six
feet four. Incidentally there is a
non-professional, a teen-age fe
male of Spencer, N. C, named
Melba Overcash, who is six feel
seven inches tall. Melba plays for
her high school basketball team.
In a recent game she scored forty-five
field goals and twelve
free throws!
Stogie Department.
"Only two flew hotels, the
Statler in Washington and the
Shamrock in Houston, Tex.,
have been built in this country
in the past ten years." That's
what Paul Reese, the genial sales
management genius of Atlanta,
Ga., recently stated. Ray Brady
of San Francisco demands Paul
forward him immediately one
stogie carefully wrapped. Says
Ray: "The Mapes Hotel, Reno,
Nev., was built within the past
ten years."
Southpaws.
There are over 50,000 left
handed golfers in this country.
That's what E. T. Miller, of Bal
timore, claims. He should know
as he is one of the officials of
the National Association of Left
Handed Golfers. Mr. Miller also
says the southpaw golfers have
a magazine all their own. He
further states the reason there
have not been many champion
southpaw golfers is that natural
ly lefthanded players were talk
ed into being right-handed play
ers by their instructors. Ben Ho
gan, says Mr. Miller, is naturally
a southpaw. And there are many
other outstanding golfers, some
of them champions, who are left
handed but play right-handed.
Education Speed-Up
In Germany Planned
Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R)
The United States plans a step-ped-up
program of education in
democracy to beat a resurgence
of nationalism in Germany.
Its plans were tdiscl03ed by
John J. McCIoy, U. S. high com
missioner in Germany, in a re
port to the American people last
night.
"It is my intention to re-invigorate
our whole program in
this field," he said in a radio
address. "We shall use all our
power and resources and they
are large to help the schools
and universities, the trade unions
and churches, the press and
radio."
He said this will help "en
courage the best Germans," and
nut down the nationalism evi
dent among both extreme right
ists and leftists in western tier-
many.
Administration Willing To Advance
Only Economic Aid
Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R)
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
said today the administration is
willing to advance economic aid
but not arms to Chinese na
tionalists on Formosa.
Chairman Tom Connally, (D.,
Tex.), said the secretary told
the senate foreign relations com
mittee that he was "agreeable"
to extend until June 30 the avail
ability of about $106,000,000 in
China aid funds now held by the
economic cooperation adminis
tration. Without congressional
action, they will revert to the
treasury on February 15.
Agreement Seen Changs
Cnnnallv said that about $28.-
000,000 of the funds appropriated
by congress for China last year
could be utilized for aid to For
mosa. Acheson's agreement to ex
lending economi! aid appeared
somewhat of a change from Presi
dent Truman's recent policy
statement on Formosa. Mr. Tru
man said that only economic as
sistance already provided by con
gress would be available. But
Acheson said the administration
will yield to the extent of per
mitting extension for using the
funds.
There was no indication that
Mr. Truman's policy against di
rect U. S. military intervention,
arms aid, or military advice for
Formosa had been altered in any
manner.
Western Union Rates
To Change February 1
The Western Union Telegraph
company has announced that
new rates will go into effect
Feb. 1, 1950, to "insure equal
charges for equal distances and
eliminate present inconsistencies
in this respect."
The new schedules filed with
the federal communications com
mission will completely revise
the company's interstate tele
graph message rate structure.
The commission said that in
Western Union's present rate
pattern as many as four or five
rate zones may overlap, so that
different rates apply between
pairs of points the same distance
apart. Also, rates in the western
Dart of the country are higher
than those in the east in rela
tion to distance, according to the
FCC.
Under the new schedule, the
rate mileages are determined by
air-line distances between cen
ters of rate blocks 50 miles
square. It will do away with the
present overlapping rate zones,
and message telegraph charges
will be the same between equi
distant points. Changes will in
volve some increases and some
cuts in rates.
Commie Junks Sunk,
Nationalists Claim
Tapel. Formosa, Jan. 25. (U.R)
Nationalist communiques claim
ed today that more than 80 Chin
ese communist junks and ships
were sunk or captured in air and
sea raids along China's eastern
coast within the past 24 hours.
An air communique said 50
beats and junks were sunk in a
raid on Chapu, on the northeast
shore of Hangchow bay south of
Shanghai.
A navy communique said na
tionalist warships raided the
Hangchow bay area and nearby
communist-occupied islands, cap
turing seven large craft and sink
ing 23 others, i
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All Washington Eyes Test Hearing
On Unfair Trade Practices Act
Olympia, Jan. 25 (U.R) Attor-
nery General Smith Troy and
Washington's retail trade world
are keeping an anxious eye on
an action testing the constitu
tionality of the state's unfair
practices act,
Basically, the case involves
whether or not the state can
legally prevent a retail store
from stimulating business by
using "loss leaders." A loss lead
er generally is known as an
item sold below cost to attract
customers to the store, with the
idea of making up the loss on
that item with the increased
volume of total sales.
Hearing February t
The question will be heard
To Nationalists
Acheson also told the commit
tee that the highest Chinese com
munist authorities had been ap
praised in advance of the "ser
iousness" with which the U. S.
would regard seizure of U. S.
consular property at Peiping.
The warning was unavailing. The
communists seized consular of
fices and the U. S. in return or
dered recall of its personnel in
China.
The committee also discussed
the administration's request for
reversing the house defeat of the
$60,000,000 Korean aid bill.
Connally said Acheson was not
prepared to comment on a senate
proposal to write aid for south
ern Korea into a pending mea
sure extending availability of the
China economic funds.
Although the secretary was de
scribed as "not adverse"" to ex
tension of more economic aid to
the nationalists on Formosa,
Connally said the question of
spending $75,000,000 in arms
funds for China and that "gen
eral area, was not discussed.
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Winston Churchill opens the
Conservatives' campaign for the
big British election next month
with a warning against "another
plunge into socialist regimenta
tion." ... He calls for a "return
to free enterprise to win us back
the glorious ascendency that
marked the rise of the British
empire." ... He declares that
socialism is the weakest defense
against communism and is being
discarded ip the rest oi the Brit
ish commonwealth and in most
of Europe."
IN Churchill's matchless oratory
it was undoubtedly more thrill
and was probably more convinc
ing, but reading the dispatches
telling of the speech leaves one
a little let down.
It sounds like free enterprise
is being as badly sold to Britons
as to Americans.
I HAVE the feeling that in this
country too many opponents
of the welfare state are against
it because it is BAD FOR THEM.
They are like the salesman
whose strongest argument is that
HE WILL MAKE AN AWFULLY
NICE COMMISSION FOR HIM
SELF if he can only, talk the
customer into buying the mer
chandise. Any expert on salesmanship
will tell you that is wrong. The
customer doesn't care a hoot
what it will do for the salesman.
The customer is solely interested
in what the merchandise that
is under consideration will do
for HIM.
If we are going to keep free
enterprise in this country, we're
going to have to convince the
kind of people who HAVE THE
MOST VOTES that free enter
prise will be better for them
than the creeping socialism we
seem to be headed for.
If that isn't done, free enter
prise is a dead duck.
HERE'S an interesting dispatch
from China:
"Nan Han-Chen, a member of
the COMMUNIST People's Bank
of Nanking, recently told a group
of officials that North China
farmers are paying at least 20
per cent of their TOTAL PRO
DUCTION in taxes.
WHO WANTS
MONEY?
(YOU'D BE SURPRISED) that 4
out of 5 who apply not only
WANT IT but GET IT.
And that's the way I like to see It . . . because after all
"Money" Is my only merchandise and lending "Cash"
my only business . . . and money is generally needed,
for one thing or another. Then again I do like to say
"yes," in fact I say "Yes" to 4 out of 5 and whether
It's a small loan for a few weeks or a larger loan for as
long as 20 months you can depend on one thing my
sincere desire to say "Yes" and to make the loan Your
Way. If you do need "Extra Cash" for any worthwhile
purpose stop in and let's chat about It ... of course
if you're in a hurry just pick up the phone and call me
and I'll try and arrange it the same day.
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Phone 2-4433
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Lie. S-211 M-217
February 8 In Benton county
superior court where Safeway
stores of Kennewick is charged
with selling cigarettes and short
ening for less money than Safe
way hd to pay for the items.
The Unfair Trade Practices
Act, passed by the 1939 legisla
ture, among other things out
laws the sale of goods below cost
in retail stores. But during the
11 years the law has been on the
books it never has been strictly
enforced.
Troy, long interested in en
forcement of the law, wanted
another test of its effectiveness
and he appointed a special as
sistant attorney general to bring
the action in Benton county.
As Thurston county prosecutor
in 1940, Troy was the first to
get the new law before the su
preme court; The high court de
clared the law constitutional in
a five-to-four decision,
Court Overruled
However, about a year ago the
Pierce county superior court de
clared the law unconstitutional
despite the supreme court's
ruling. The Pierce county court
felt because the supreme court
personnel had changed, the
court's ruling also would change.
But the question was not heard
again in the supreme court be
cause the parties involved agreed
to have the appeal dismissed.
In the case now before the
Benton county superior court.
Safeway admits selling cigarettes
and shortening below cost. But
Safeway insists the law is un
constitutional and should not be
enforced.
Regardless of who wins the
case, it seems -certain the su
preme court will have to rule on
the issue again.
The Washington Retail Gro
cers' association, made up mostly
of independent grocers, looks up
on the unfair trade practices law
as a protector and has been
strong for its enforcement.
Independent grocers are in
clined to feel business techniques
such as loss leaders are available
only to chain stores because
smaller stores lack the large
sales volumes.
News
"He added that it takes the
taxes of 30 farmers merely to
feed and clothe one soldier, ex
clusive of ammunition."
THE dispatch is interesting, I'd
say, because it indicates that
in China the commies are going
to have quite a job in convincing
the Chinese farmers that COM
MUNISM IS GOOD FOR THEM.
Under the circumstances de
scribed in this dispatch, it looks
like in China the communists
are for communism because it is
GOOD FOR ' THEM. I wouldn't
blame the Chinese farmer if he
were skeptical of the communist
arguments. - - ,.
ANYWAY, if we're
going to
a"-
keep free enterprise over
here, we've got to make it per
fectly clear that free enterprise
Is better for ALL THE PEOPLE
and not just better for business
people.
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