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4 Rice Said Key To Success In Indonesia War on Reds Editor'i Note: Following it the third and final dispatch in the series dealing with th three great prizes in the ilrug gle between East and West, India, Iran and Indonesia. Vacuum Cleaners SERVICE & REPAIR ALL MAKES Dust Bags, Filters etc. t Phone 2-4998 By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Rice is the key to the success or failure of the war against Communism in Indonesia. As In India and Iran, other great prizes In the world struggle be tween the d e m o c racies and Commu nism, Commu nist successes there are bred on hunger. In Indonesia, as in other nations of the Orient, the key to existence is rice. For the Westerner, whose chief knowledge of the East In- I &t.:iL..l I'hil Newsora We Have EVERYTHING For Your Garden! MORCROP Fertilizer 10-lb. Packages to 100-lb. Bags FREE DELIVERY! GARDEN TOOLS All Types HAND MOWERS POWER MOWERS STAMPER Cr GOFF BROS. 225 West Main Phone 2-2939 BACKS ESTES Senator Paul H. Douglas, a "Northern liberal," indorses Senator Estes Kefauver for the presidency at a Wash ington, D. C, news conference. Douglas said the people are for Kefauver. dies comes from pictures of lush Balinese beauties surrounded by tropic splendor, It is difficult to think of the fabulous Indies in terms of poverty. Particularly so since Indone sia is one of the world's richest countries in natural resources, including vast supplies of tin, oil and coal, along with copper, gold and silver. .Chaotic War Years However, in the family of na tions, Indonesia is new, having gained independence from The Netherlands only in 1949. Prior to that time there had been years of chaotic wartime occu pation under the Japanese. So an inexperienced govern ment has had to wrestle with the administration of a nation com prising more than 3,000 islands spread over some 735,000 square miles and inhabited by people' speaking 17 languages and near ly 200 dialects. Internal communications are sketchy and the Indonesians realize they must Improve se curity conditions before they can hope to attract foreign cap- g&dy 'air ill 11 in HlffiStpOrtifci-." Check and double check is' the motif of Westport's ' "Giddy Ginghams" for Spring, and a matching scarf comes with every pair for a doubly smart finish to your dress. You'll find "Giddy Ginghams" in com binations of white with green, red, black and checks. includes gaymatfhiiig kerchief with , erery pair ar' (i Main and Bartlett Sta. Phone 2-6428 The House of Finer Shoes Congressional Quiz Queiuont and Aniwera on What Goes on at tha Capital. Furnished by Cons resslonal Quarterly New! Featurea. Q. How big a share of de fense contracts have been going to small business? A. In the 19 months follow ing the start of the Korean war July, 1950, through January, 1952 small business has receiv ed 20 per cent of the value of all "prime," or direct, defense contracts, according to the Mu nitions board. In addition, small firms won many subcontracts from larger companies filling military orders. The government defines a "small business"- as one employing fewer than 500 persons. Q. Are there many lobbies for small business? A At least five were active in 1951. Those filing financial reports required under the Fed eral Regulation of Lobbying Act: Conference of America Small Business Organizations, Chicago; National Federation of Inde pendent Business, Washington, D. C; Small Manufacturers Emergency Committee, Washing ton; National Associated Busi nessmen, Washington; and Na tional Small Business Men's As sociation, Evanston, 111. Q Why did Sen. Carl Hayden ask the Senate to defeat his own resolution in ihe vole on inves tigating Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy? A Hayden (D.-Ariz.) was try ing to get a vote of confidence for the subcommittee studying a proposal to oust McCarthy (R. Wis.) from the Senate. He did this by proposing that the Senate discharge the subcommittee from its investigation. The 60 senators present April 10 voted unanimously against the Hayden resolution, thus in favor of con tinuing the probe. Q What's ihe difference be tween a "union shop" and a closed shop?" A Under a union shon agree ment between labor and manage ment, employees must join the union within a snecified time after they are hired. But in a closed shop, workers must be union members before they can be employed. The 1947 Labor Management (Taft-Hartley) Act forbade the closed shop in future contracts. Q Have campaigning sena tors been going on record on roll-call votes? A Of the four senators with announced White House ambi tions, three fpll helnw th cham. ber average of 89.8 per cent for ine iirst tnree months. Their On ital to help develop their nat ural resources. The government of Indonesia under President Dr. Ahmed Suk arno has followed a policy often puzzling to the west. Middle-of-Road Course In world affairs, Indonesia has attempted to follow a middle-of- the-road course between Com munist nations and the democra cies. Internally, the government has been vigorously anti-Communist. For example, since last Aug ust, some 1,200 Communists or fellow travellers have been ar rested and about 200 still are be ing held. The dragnet missed a man named Alimin, an opium addict trained by ' Moscow and Peiping in Communist Ideolo gies and considered the most ln flujn'ial of the Indonesian Commanlst leaders. At t ie moment; Communist or left wing supporters hold about 30 seals in the Indonesian Parlia ment and are not considered a real threat except for their ob structionist policies. Unions Influenced They have their greatest in fluence in the trade unions where it is estimated they can control an estimated 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 persons. They pose as ardent nationalists, but their re lation to Moscow is well known. Government leaders believe the Reds have no chance of breaking down the philosophy of "adat" which holds to tradition or custom. Government officials take the sensible view they can lick Com munism by 1 eliminating its "reason for being" that Is, by improving the social and econ omic "structure, which in turn means the position of rice, its price and availability to the people. for linoleum'" GLTEG3 Wednesday. April 23. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Waitresses Perform Midwife Duties; Baby Said Healthy, Normal Chicago U.R Two waitress es served as midwives when a young housewife collapsed on a busy street Tuesday and gave birth to an 8'i-pound baby girl. Mrs. Vera E. Windle, 21, rush- The Record percentages, as com piled by Congressional Quarter ly, were Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), 67, Robert S. Kerr (D. Okla.), 33, and Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio), 79. The fourth, Rich ard B. Russell (D Ga.), went On The Record 100 per cent of the time on roll-call votes. 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