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Show Truman Draws Battle-Line- s Against Red Expansionism By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 1616 Eye Street, N. W., of the party, Eugene Dennis. What are the Communists after? Washington, D. C. new Kiplinger magazine, pubThe When WASHINGTON. Harry Truman enunciated what the Wall lished in Washington, says in its WNU Service, March issue: Street Journal, a periodical not given to poetic Demo- called cracys Monroe Doctrine, he probably didnt realize the multifarious effects heaven-on-eart- thereof. At this writing neither congress nor the country has quite recovered from the impact of those undramatic, cracker-barrcracker-barr- I el diction of undramatic, matter-of-fac- t, el h, full-fledg- ed words read with the matter-of-fac- t, a As spelled out in their own words, American Communists have three major aims in the United States : The revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the capitalist state, a Soviet form of government under a dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally, the Communist a collectivist economy leading to a classless society. Of the three aims, their first is revolution. Not merely change, but revolution, planned, led and controlled by the disciplined Communist minority. The liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by revolution. (Editor Kiplinger says if you want chapter and verse for his authority for the above statement, write to him at 1729 G Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C., and he will send them to you.) It is not likely, however, that the party will be banned by law. Not because congress loves the Communists. But even that ardently anti-re- d group, the committee on activities, doesnt approve of wiping out the party. An anonymous member of the committee recently pointed out that if the party was broken up, it would simply go underground, where its devious ways would be harder to follow. A worm on the surface is worth two dozen underneath the soil, as any early FBI bird will testify. unor-atoric- al, man. When heard the President read them, standing there, calm and confident, at the lectern of the reading clerk Dn the house rostrum, looking up from the text only occasionally with that bird-lik- e tilt of his head, as the television cameras purred gently from the opposite gallery, I felt a little worried. The cabinet members seated in the well, the senators in the first rows of seats, the house members crowded into rows behind them all seemed almost glum. I didnt realize the solemnity of the message which held them in a restrained silence. Only thrice was there applause after he began to speak. Before and after there was plenty and it was evenly balanced, not weighted it was heavily on the side of the administration party as it usually is when a President speaks. When the speech was over it was the same. The senators left in silence; there was little or no comment. As Senator Lodge said when a radio man plucked at his sleeve and asked if he would submit to an I cant think THAT interview: fast. Even the fast and sound - thinkers wanted time to think leisurely and deeply. Since that day thousands of words have been spoken and printed in thousands of cities all over the world, about that message which covers a little more than four and a half pages, typewritten (on both sides of the sheet since wartime economy still is practiced at the White House). In many odd comers of the bazaars and market places those words crackled like tiny electric sparks. And everywhere thoughtful, intelligent people in foreign countries those who had always looked upon America as a nation whose political and cultural outlook was most sympathetic to their political and cultural outlook, but whose economic theories pointed further to the right than their own socialistic leanings pondered. These were people to .whom Soviet Russia was primitive, harsh, cruel in its methods. Nevertheless Russias economic theories differed less from their own than did the economic theories of the United States, whose civilized, friendly and humane characteristics attracted them. They found that they must choose. They must say to Russia or America: Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people; and thy ways shall be mine. Perhaps never before in history had a great nation so certainly divided the sheep from the goats, the friends from the enemies. The Presidents plan is more than a moral question. It involves more than abstract principles of political economy or social philosophy. It sets forth with shuddering simplicity to the wavering nations of the world the warning that they must run with the hare or ride with the hounds; they must have no other political god before Demos the ' spirit of the people. Either majority rules in your house or your house is ruled out of bounds. In other words, cabinets and cabinet makers, premiers and will no longer dance to the Kremlins time if they expect Uncle Sam to pay the piper or the butcher or the baker. pro-consu- ls Commie s Aim At Revolution Life Insurance Increases in U. S. On the average, there were over life insurance policies per family in the United States at the end of 1945, it is revealed in a survey by life 4 insurance companies. In amount of life insurance owned, the average per family was $4,000 at mid-ye1945. The average 1945 protection per family was more than 20 per cent larger than that of 1940 and was 2 times the 1920 protection average. The 1945 average per family of life insurance owned was nearly equal to the 1945 average income per family, the average per family of national income in 1945 being $4,300. In 1920, the average protection per family was nearly 50 per cent below the average of national income per family. This gap was narrowed in the ensuing years, until in 1927 the protection average exceeded the income average. In the years of depression that followed, the protection average went as high as 2 times the income average. In 1943, as wartime incomes expanded, the income average again topped the protection average. ar al ... THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO a restaurant not to market. But he had nothing on the little piggy who went to market. Oscar wandered into a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. No one knew where he came from, but chef Frank Tornabene, holding a meat cleaver behind his back, seems to know where he is going. And just when pork prices are going up, too. WHOOPING CRANE This illustration of a Whooping Crane was supposed to accompany some remarks on that fast - disappearing species of American bird life that appeared in this column recently. Unfortunately the picture, like most of the originals, went astray. Since that article appeared, two national magazines published stories about this magnificent bird, whose whoop is becoming fainter and fainter every day. One article estimated that only a hundred specimens were still alive and The other article whooping. placed the number at 29. Says the Fish and Wildlife service of the department of the interior, which is conducting a survey of and these, the tallest (man-sizmost beautiful of American birds; fewer than 40. have been counted. They are in the coast region of southern Louisiana and Texas. e) Recently when Secretary5 of Labor Schwellenbach urged that the Communist party in America be banned by law it brought forth an emphatic protest from the secretary-gener- NOT ONLY ENGLAND . . . Europe is not the only place buffeted by heavy seas. At Redondo Beach, Calif., the angry surf returned to the onslaught again, crashing over the cement walk and cascading into living rooms of waterfront homes. Photo was taken after the wild waves had calmed down to a great extent. Women at extreme right is shown shoveling debris away from her front door. EMINENT HOMEMAKERS . . . Mrs. Fred Dittman, Highmore, left, and Mrs. Louisa F. Rehfeld, Warner, who have been selected by South Dakota State college for the award of Eminent Homemaker 1947. Mrs. Dittman is the mother of 12 children, all of whom are making high places for themselves. Emil, the oldest, is a chemist on the atomic bomb project. Since her husbands death, Mrs. Dittman moved from the farm, but manages to operate one of the largest home gardens in the state, in addition to active work in church, garden and community organizations. Mrs. Rehfelds husband died in 1936. Although the farm was nnder heavy mortgage, she managed to pay If ill debts, educate and raise six children. MARGARETS DEBUT . . . Ma garet Truman singing in her rad debut with the Detroit Symphoi orchestra. Critics, generaUy, sa that the Presidents danght showed promise of developing in an opera singer after further c perience. |