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Friday, October 4, 1946
The Road to War—Not Peace
(Rocky Mountain News)
In bidding for Russian co-operation, Henry A. Wal
lace proposes that we reduce our military appropria
tions, stop building lbng-range bombers, turn our Pa
cific bases over to the United Nations, drop any claim
to a voice in the affairs of Eastern Europe, abandon our
“safety first” policy on the atomic bomb, and offer the
Soviets a loan with no strings attached.
Admittedly, this would top all previous bids for Rus
sian favor. But would it buy peace?
And what if it failed to buy peace? Having tied our
own hands and turned the other cheek, we would be sit
ting ducks for an attack and have little left to resist or
repel it.
Our experience has been that agreements with the
Soviet Union are worth little when they stand in the
way of Russia’s ever-expanding program of aggression
and aggrandisement.
Too late we found that the concessions we made to so
called Russian “security” at Teheran, Yalta and Pots-j
dam bought little in return, and that an inch, we had
conceded in any direction could be expanded into a mile
by Russian interpretation at any time the Soviets cov-j
eted more territory, more spoils and firmer, more last-;
ing controls.
Appeasement has never pacified a dictatorship with
aspiration for world conquest, and international Com
munism has confessed such ambitions on countless oc-i
casions. '
The peace-loving nations looked the other way when
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, hoping that that vast
territory would satisfy the Jap urge for expansion. The;
payoff came 10 years later when the Japs hit us below!
the belt at Pearl Harbor.
The Jap adventure encouraged Mussolini to overrun
Ethiopia in 1935, and again the law-abiding nations of
the world stood by and let might prevail over right.
Then the totalitarian march was on. Hitler sent his
armies into the Rhineland in 1936, and in 1938 he in-1
vaded Austria. Britain and France bowed to the Nazi
dictator’s will at Munich, and Czechoslovakia was gob
bled up. Instead of “peace in our time,” this continuing
appeasement policy brought war, With Germany, Italy
and Japan joining hands against the free world.
We do not intend to attack Russia, and Russia is not a i
real threat to our security unless we make her one by
weakening ourselves and building her up.
We learned long ago that sinking our own battleships
was not the road to world disarmament. We still need
a police department to maintain law and order, in this
city, in our own nation, and in the world.
Understanding with Russia can be achieved, if we
are patient, but it will not come until Russia finds that
we do not intend to be pushed around.
Until that day we must keep our powder dry.
That’s That
(By BRUCE GUSTIN)
Former Secretary of Commerce Wallace and Senator
Pepper of Florida are “all dressed up with no place to
go.” They were primed and ready to take the stump for
the Democratic party in the 1946 Congressional cam
paign. But they have been blacklisted as party-sponsor-i
<ed speakers. They should have expected that. When
they wandered off along the Communist party line they
became liabilities, not assets, of the Democratic party.
At a New York rally, Wallace and Pepper attacked
the administration foreign policy. Before the rumpus
ever that quieted down, Wallace was booted out of the
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cabinet. Pepper has told reporters he would rather see
Wallace in the White House than President Truman. So
the Democratic national committee has left both Wal
lace and Pepper off its lists of campaign speakers, and
Congressman Sparkman of Alabama, chairman of the
Democratic speakers bureau, has announced his com
mittee will not sponsor speeches by either in this cam
paign.
Wallace is now free to devote his time to campaigning
for “one world,” whatever that is. “I do not believe in
two worlds,” he says. “I have continuously and whole
heartedly advocated the principles of living in one
world.. We cannot have peace except in ‘one world’.”
That is about as clear as mud.
The decontrol board used good judgment in refusing
to re-establish price controls over dairy products. The
only way butter and cheese prices can be brought down
without creating more and worse shortages is by in
creased production. This country’s experience under
OPA regimentation shows clearly that price controls
discourage production and create shortages. Look at the
meat famine. That is traceable directly to restoration of
price ceilings. No problem of shortages has been solved
yet by any bureaucratic system of price controls.
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K GEORGE S BENSON
President of Harding College
Soarcv. Arkansas
SHIP AHOY i
Up-stream from Niagara Falls
a short distance, the weather
beaten hulk of a wrecked yacht
lay for years in mid-channel. I
saw it once, clinging precariously
to the rough, stone river-bed while
the swift current lashed violently
at its decaying sides. A Canadian,
native of Welland County, told
me the story of the derelict, a
thriller if I ever heard one, and
worth repeating.
Several miles up the river, this
comfortable little craft rode at
anchor one night in quiet water.
The skipper and some guests were
sleeping peacefully on board
when, by some unexplained cir
cumstance, the boat came loose
from her moorings.- Nobody wak
ened for a long time. The boht
drifted with the current, which
was not fast at first but gradually
gained speed as it neared the falls.
Start Investigation
The keel was grinding on the
nodulated rock bottom before the
boat’s unsteady motion roused any
of the sleepers. Then they all got
active at once. Most of them had
no idea whal to do first. Some
actually began accusing one an
other and trying to fix the blame
for losing the anchor—this, with
the thundering cataract in plain
hearing, destruction only a few
seconds away.
The skipper was a man of ac
tion and presence of mind. While
his guests suffered panic, he went
below and blasted a hole in the
hull with dynamite. The crippled
craft took on water fast and set
tled to bottom in the swift stream.
Then it lodged! Days like months
passed before the handful of
frightened people could be
brought ashore, but no lives were
lost. Quick action saved them.
Paying the Price
Certainly the skipper loved his
boat and hated to sacrifice it. He
wished something might have
waked him a mile up stream
where life and property both could
have been saved, but he paid the
price of survival. America’s ship
of state is, this very day, drifting
down a channel toward a cataract:
the same channel through which
School News
1st GRADE
The first grad? gn ned a new
pupil this week, Linda Gail Card^
well. They also lost James Stalker
who is going to Kevilina whe e
his mother will teach this winter.
October first was th~ b **tb v
of three pupils so w? celebra'ed
with a birthday party fo" John
Moneymaker, Laura May Belt?.,
and Wanda Belt?.
3rd GRADE *
In health class we are studyiujl
about grains and cereals. Some of
the children brought samples cf
cereals and we learned how eacn
s grown and manufactured.
We are sorry to lost Joan Bell.
She departed Wednesday for An
chorage.
6th GRADE
Sylvia Bell, a member from our
class .left Nome to go to the An
chorage school. We are sorry to
lose her.
In History we are studying1
about the ancient Egyptians. We
studied about the Rosetta Stone,
which became a key to the Egyp
tian language. Our teacher has
seen the Rosetta Stone in the
British Museum in London.
7th and 8th GRADES
The 7th and 8th grades have
been having tests in all their sub^
jects this week.
We attended moving pictures in
the gym last Monday.
The School received several
films produced by the Britannica
Association from the Department
of Education, which were shown
to all the children last Monday.
Hospital Notes 1
New patients in the hospital are
Katherine Amarok, Mrs. Jack
Whaley. Charles Mendalook, Ma
rion Norbert.
Italy, Germany and Russia have
passed, and the one France and
England are entering now.
Numberless weak vessels have
plunged helplessly over Niagara
to a destruction nobody ever WRs
lived to describe. Just so, many
helpless peoples have been swept
through revolution to dictatorship
because they could not help them
selves. Even recently England
blasted the sturdy keel of a self
governing nation. The people are
thinking in terms of “security” so
freely promised, but their long
cherished liberty is damaged.
Figuratively, England’s freedom
hangs precariously in rough cur
rent. while brave souls are trying
to stem the tide.
We Can Save All
The United States of America
has drifted far but our engines are
still, in condition and the boat is
not out of control. Still there is
time for our leaders to save, not
only our people from revolution^
but the personal freedom our fore
fathers fled monarchs and despots
to obtain and fought desperately
to keep. The way to ruin is via
central planning, government
management, -direction, -control
-ownership.
Government ownership is full
concentration of authority — a
pretty name for despotism. The
trend is unmistakable, the tragic
course is familiar. It is time to
: turn back under power toward jn
| dividual liberty; freedom of fa^pC
( freedom of speech, the right to
j own property and the right to
buy and sell. While we have the
[ only large seaworthy yacht on the
river, it’s time for quick action.