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Show Page 2 , THE UTAH STATESMAN Friday, January 16, 1959 THE UTAH STATESMAN NATION: That Old Commie, Dogma A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government" the distinguished of world affairs, describes an important interpreter of H. V. WRIGHT, Editor Communist dogma. Writing in The Wall facet "It is a basic Communist .Associate Editor Street Journal, he says: Mrs. Madge H. Fairbanks.. that social protest can only be justified Editorial assumption Mrs. LaVerl Neilsen countries. Social inequities are in Editorial Mrs. Janet Schoenhals to be automatically eliminated under ComLori Rytting ..State Central Committee supposed while capitalism is expected to generate .Womens Division munism, Miss Diane Thomas a continual outpouring , of critical revolutionary litrt Miss Mary Gardner .................................................. erature." The Kremlin, of course, goes to great lengths Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt to assure literary conformity to the Communist Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879 ideology. Leading Communist writers, so long as per year Subscription rate they retain their rigid orthodoxy, are pampered in all 421 Published weekly at Church Street the material ways.. Their works have vast circulaSalt Lake City, Utah tion and their royalties are great. Special privilege is dealt out to them with a lavish hand, as it is to top Member Utah State Press Association scientists, military leaders, and others who perform major service to the state. Member of At the same time, the is in for nothing but trouble. Punishments run the National Editorial Association gaunt from refusal to publish his work to imprisonment and even to execution. 1959 Vol. 13; No. 1 January 16, Despite this, Mr. Chamberlin writes, the basic Communist assumption concerning special protest William Henry Chamberlin, HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher non-Commun- ist 91-0- 0 non-conformi- NATION: Just Starting For The 86th The Eighty Sixth Congress of the United States is in business. In place of the traditional preliminary shadow-boxin- g and jockeying for position, members of the Republican minority rushed into battles over party leadership in both houses. In a thinly-veile- d warning against rough tactics by the Republican members. Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose 77th birthday marked file be- bare-knuckl-ed , With Senator Everett Dirksen of niinois victorious over Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper for. Senator Knowland's former post as Floor Leader, the Senate conservatives gained stature in the gathering storm over filibuster rules. k The surprising victory of Rep. Charles A. over Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., for leadership of the House was a different story. Here, in this battle between conservatives were no ideological differences. Mr. Martin, dazed by the turn of events, noted it was his "first defeat in public life in 50 years." The purpose of the change was to provide a more aggressive leadership in a stepped-u- p effort to keep the augmented Democratic foe divided or non-partisa- Hal-lec- off-balan- 9t 9 ginning of his ninth term in his how traditional post indicated that he'd be nice if the Republicans were. To a hushed House, he observed n as we're portentously: "We'll be as allowed to be." There will, however, be partisanship in the new Congress, and it is likely to become more violent than any the Capitol has seen in this century. But it will not be the partisanship of Republican versus Democrat. It will be the show-dowor the beginshow-dowof the between conservative versus ning radical in which party lines will be obscured at very least. It will be a battle in which the followers of Senator Harry Byrd and those of Senator Styles Bridges can fight shoulder to shoulder in what may h be a effort to save the nation from economic dissolution and from socialism, the e Communism that sees some sort of goal in human degradation and global misery. n, . n, last-ditc- kid-glov- has been knocked into a cocked hat. Indeed, there is accumulating evidence that the true angry men of the present time are in the East, while literature of .social protest in such countries as the United States and Great Britain is at a very low ' l-vi- ; ebb.". The affair of Boris Pasternak and his remarkable novel, "Doctor Zhivago," has a cast of brilliant, worldwide light on the situation. Pasternak once enjoyed very high standing in the Soviet literary firmament, with all the rewards that go with it. Then came "Doctor Zhivago" and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Within Russia, Pasternak was denounced in terms applicable to the most depraved criminals. He was forced to decline the award after accepting it in a warm and grateful cable to the prize committee. The reason was that Pasternak dared social protest to indulge in social protest of Russia's masters. As against certain policies an example, he wrote: "Collect! vigation was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure, and it was impossible to admit the failure. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and Judging for themselves and forced to see what didn't exist to assert the opposite of what their eyes "... , . told them." Mr. Chamberlin cites other writers in the police states who have spoken out in agner, at tremendous risk. Then he turns to the free world. 'He says: "Meanwhile the novel of social protest in the West has withered on the vine, not because anyone would be boycotted or put in prison or subjected to organized abuse for writing such a novel; but because the material no longer exists. The 'Okies' who figure in John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' are now substantial citizens erf California. No one could honestly write a novel like Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' about the well organized packinghouse workers of Chicago today And what is true of this is true in large degree of England, Italy, country, France and other Western nations. The point, as Mr. Chamberlin sees it, is that "Communism looks more and more not like the wave of the future, but like a dim memory of the past." He finds that, contrary to Marxist dogma, Communism is the creator of the most extreme injustices, tensions and dissatisfactions. He writes at the end: "To be sure, the combination of mass propaganda and police state controls inhibit the open expression of these tensions and dissatisfactions. But this situation may not last forever." ..." ieytilaWe 7im Once fyaih! LADIES, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE INFORMED. LET US NOT BELIEVE THE ' THINGS WE UNDERSTAND THE LEAST. t m 0 HIGH ON THE LIST OF BILLS WILL APPROPRIATION BILLS. MANY OF THESE BILLS WILL BE CONTROVERSIAL IT WILL BE OUR OPPORTUNITY FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING IF WE TUNE IN ON STATION K U E D EACH THURSDAY EVENING FROM 8:00 P.M. FOR THE "CITIZENS LOBBY PROGRAM - A PANEL DISCUSSION OF PROBLEMS BEFORE THE STATE LEGISLATURE. BE ... o YOU WILL BE PRIVILEDGED TO SUBMIT COMMENTS OF QUESTIONS TO STATION KUED TO BE ANSWERED BY THIS PANEL FROM 9:00 to 9:30 P.M. o INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS AND RELATIVES TO JOIN YOU IN FRONT OF YOUR TV FOR CHANNEL 7 PROGRAM "CITIZENS LOBBY." ' r Utah Jederatfoh - y cf Women Republican Club |