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Show - i J MILLARD v nmnxTCLK. DELTA. UTAH New 'Year of Decision' Arrives for U.S. ( s America Alone in Struggle . To Save Western Ideologies By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. ' WASHINGTON. Cartoonists and others have titled 1948 "the year of decision." It is a pretty good title. The only trou-ble is that America's most important decision has already been made, and nobody seems to realize it. We know that the British empire has broken up, but, aside from the fact that there is some grumbling about loaning money to the British, it doesn't seem to concern us very much. In the current issue of the United Nations World magazine, the British historian and author, D. W. Brogan, has an article entitled "The British Shed No Tears for Their Lost Empire." In it, he says: 1. "... in the nineteenth century, the progress of English prosperity 2. was in close as- - 3 r'fv 6. - ,.y h 9- fi - ! j lasJ sociation with the spread of a gen-eral political and economic religion of all sensible men. The Bank of England, free trade, parliamen-tary government all increased their range of in-fluence together. And the English looked on what was largely their Temporarily, at least that much of the carefully-planne- d Soviet pro-gram failed. But new steps are be-ing planned. A part of the pattern of communization is Communist alli-ance with the left-win- g The Reds cooperate with the non-Red- help them bring about their objectives, then slowly domi-nate and absorb them. One method used by Reds to get rid of left-win- g resistance is to help a reactionary government into power. Such a reactionary govern-ment suppresses the and pushes those surviving deeper into Communist toils. That is where the Wallace third party fits into the Kremlin design. The Reds hope it will split and weaken the liberals in this country, increase the fric-tion between them and the con-servatives as much as possible, aid the conservatives to get into power. Then when the reaction sets in, the conservatives will be thrown out, and the well-org-ized Communists can take over easily. Greece is a testing point in the Russian-America- n struggle. The only way in which the Communist internal aggression there could be checked was for Britain and the United States to step in and actually direct the Greek government. That was done. Much as any country dis-likes having a stronger one run its affairs, the United States, as a choice of evils, is the less unwel-come to the Greeks, especially when we come bearing gifts without which the government knows it cannot re-sist the Communist organization. When one talks with the "exiles," the refugees from the Red terror, one is appalled by their attitude. Recently I spoke at length with a former foreign minister of one of the countries now firmly in the jaws of the Soviets. He assured me that today, if there were a free election in his country, not 1 per cent of the people would vote to support a Red regime. He said these "satellites" are not satellites at they are as much a part of the Soviet Union as the Ukraine or Outer Mongolia. The secret police paralyzes all independ-ent action. work -a- nd their I Baukhage profltand t0Und it good. They were satisfied with 1! what they had accomplished. "It is natural enough, today, when J; this world situation has changed to take pretty calmly the decline in the favored historical position of Eng- - 1 ' land. If the spread of English ideas, practices and profits has ceased, 2 why worry unless you are Eng-lish." 2 "Unless you are English." And yet the people who ought to be doing the worrying are the Americans. c We are taking over where Britain left off, and the job is a bigger one than England faced. But, the aver-- gr age person in this country will say in horror: "You talk like a Commu-- i; nist! America's whole tradition is Of course we had 1 a wild period in South America, and i ( In our salad days as a nation, we somehow acquired what we called i 1 Texas although the Mexicans, at Hie J J time, thought it was a part of Mex- - i J: ico, and then, there's Hawaii. But J those days are over. See how i c promptly and politely we returned c tne Philippines to themselves, and , took our marines out of the banana plantations where they didn't be- - , . long, and the other day even aban- - doned our bases in Panama. Don't tell me we're going to establish a ! second British empire! ! We aren't. The spirit of live and j let live is just as strong as it ever ! was in this country. Unfortunately, j however, what Brogan calls "the ' ! spread of a general political and economic religion of all sensible ' s men" suddenly encountered a force that threatened to destroy it when ! the Germans marched into Poland i j and the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. took all America could !It and more than Britain . afford, to stop that force. And today, another and stronger j I force is gaining power, and ' there is nobody to stop it but the I United States. When a British official in London s , ' said "every means short of war" would be used "by the British and American governments to keep . Greece within their own strategic and ideological orbit," it didn't ! make much of a ripple outside of i Washington. But it was a statement of tremendous import, for it means that the Truman doctrine was not just a phrase, that its implementa- - tion is now certain. It means that the people responsible for the des-tiny of the United States know that J the year of decision is here, the de- - cision having been made not in Washington, but in the Kremlin, just as the decision to fight Japan was made, not in Washington, but in the office 'Of one squat little man now . awaiting a death sentence in.Tokyo, I . one Hideki Tojo, former premier of Japan. There Is a desperation about the attitude of these men who fought the losing battle against the Kremlin. They say there is absolutely no hope for Europe unless the Russians are driven back to their old borders, and the Balkan states, Poland and Finland are freed of Russian domination. They say there is only one thing that will have ef-fect: A threat by the United States to use force. When the quotation of the London official which I mentioned, stating that the United States and Britain were committed to "measures short of war" came over the wires, I was reminded of the conversation with the former foreign minister. He had said to me: "If the United States threatens to use force now, the Russians will pull out of Eastern Europe They cannot afford war now. They fear the United States. But in a few years, mere threats will not suffice. The Russians then will be ready to fight." And this force moving against the "political and economic religion of all sensible men" is moving not only in Europe. All along Russia's pe-riphery, the red tide is rising against its frontiers, in the Middle East, in India whose gates Russia has threatened for centuries, in China, Korea, in the islands adja-cent to Japan. j Partisans Succeeded i i In Soviet Sphere Today it is fashionable to make I i funny cartoons about the "third party" announced in December by i Henry Wallace. Yet that third party J fits neatly into a plan to wreck our f i way of life, the plan, another part j of which was the careful coaching i by the Kremlin of the "partisan" fighters in World War II. The parti- - k i I sans were formed, first to help beat 111 down one of the Soviet's enemies, j ' J but they also were groomed to de- - !' stroy representative government in f ' their respective countries. f10 i The partisans were most success- - ful in the countries nearest Russia, f" in territory where the Red army, in 01 '! the guise of allies fighting a common I: I1 enemy, gained a foothold which they kept when peace came, and which ! was used to put their trained ig l i stooges into power. I Ji In Italy and France, they were un- - I i able to capture completely the parti- - 1 Ji san or resistance movements. But i they did get a grip on both countries , "i which neither France nor Italy i1 dared throw off until the United ' States made a tacit condition of aid. The expulsion of the Communist ."u parties from both governments. . ......... ..,:r-x:W""- ? man farm to forest v . KrSSl rote in the concerted effort to J"'11 Presbyterian church, scenes, taken at the Alpine " acreS" The which operates a forest of acres b.rn show t ma(Je ln dairy herd (left) in front of the modern sawmill (right) neips better agriculture while the navinir nroposition. SMALL TOWNS, U.S.A. Revitalized Country Church Plays Social, Economic Role By EARLE HITCH WNTJ Features. on the road to decline, the country church is being small rural co-mmit revved an integral force for the principle that where the community drives thfchurch also thrives, all denominations are back-In- l a widespread campaign to revitalize the country church. Without in any sense departing from the Christian aims of saving souls and preaching redemption, the churches simply' are adding an awareness of social and economic responsibility to their mission of sal-vation. The concerns of the entire community home, family, farm-ing, health become the concerns of the community church. Particularly valuable and instruc-tive as models or demonstrations for study are the I I community plans Rural America being carried out At Stake by missions of the Presbyterian and Methodist No. 4 churches in the mountains of Ken- - In a Series tucky and Ten-nessee. The Pres-byterian projects are at Morris Fork and Wooton, Ky., and at Alpine and Big Lick, Tenn. The Methodists have community missions at Frakes, Ky., and Sevierville, Tenn. A larger community project at Blue Springs, Tenn., represents the combined par-ishes of the Methodists, Disciples of Christ and Presbyterians. Diverse Projects. All have much in common, but ln some things each in unique. Blue Springs is the oldest mission, and its area is the largest some 400 miles square. It has seven churches and four preaching points at neigh-borhood centers, a cooperative store, an energetic training pro-gram in public health and a con tinuing series of adult education v who has supplied the leadership which has made Big Lick a better place to live and work. Promote Health. One of Big Lick's finest public services is its community health clinic. There is a building specially constructed for it, in a grove ad-joining the church yard. A graduate nurse Is stationed there to aid in guarding the health of the people and to assist in emergencies. Big Lick also has a soil conserva-tion program, and is carrying on adult education and demonstrations in fertilizing, crop rotation, better livestock breeding, introduction of new fruits and plants, and good for-estry management. Homemaking and home decoration, health and child care are studied by the wom-en. There is also a study of the co-operative movement, and commit-tees are developing plans for future cooperative undertakings, possibly in marketing of home crops, proc-essing and a credit union. Big Lick has its own machinery pool, includ-ing a tractor, a hammer mill and a saw mill. Build Own Church. Wooton community, under the ministry of Benton Deaton, has a fine community church and play-ground, built by the people them-selves. In the recreation center the children of the neighborhood have a place to enjoy their games and the whole community has its picnics and outdoor religious gatherings. Wooton owns a cooperative truck, which provides transpor-tation for the farmers who want to send things to market, and have things bought for them in town. Very few of the people have cars, and their usual means of travel is by mule back. Wooton also has a circulating li-brary, the beginnings of a demon-stration farm, and a training course in handicrafts and cottage indus-tries, for both men and women. Similar work, especially in health, soil saving and better farming, is going on at Alpine, Morris Fork, Frakes and Sevierville. The pro-grams vary according to local needs and the resources that can be put to use. if ' 1 I - COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE . . . One of the leading churches in promoting community develop-ment is Calvary Presbyterian church (above) at Big Lick, Tenn. The church was built by people of Productive Enterprises. For example, the parish at Alpine is the owner of a forest of 1,500 acres and a farm of 100 acres. A trained forester and an expert farmer make those enterprises pro-duce earnings, and furnish exam-ples for other farm and woodlot owners. The Alpine program is in charge of the head of the mission, the Rev. Bernard M. Taylor, and Mr. Taylor has made the mission responsible for developing the com-munity's full resources through the activities of the citizens themselves, and their labors are being reflected more and more in better health and living. The same can be said of the com-munities at Frakes, Morris Fork and Sevierville, all of which have vastly improved their ways of living because practical economic plans for conserving the land and finding more useful employments for sur-plus labor have been made principal aims in the community plan. The pastors, of course, have not neg- lected their religious duties. They simply have added economic con-cerns to their other responsibilities. The next article will tell of the im-portant community development plan now being carried on in five counties centenng around Tupelo, Miss. The lupelo plan is one of the most ambi-tious that has been undertaken any- where w the unfolding rural life move-ment. the community, which consists of only about 50 families. Landscap-ing was done by the pastor and farmers. classes in current problems, such as farm machinery repair,-soi-l conser-vation and home decorations. All this represents the life work of a great country preacher. He was Paul A. Doran, who went to Blue Springs in 1917 as a divinity school graduate, and died there three years ago after 28 years spent entirely in that community's service. One of his many lasting serv-ices was his homestead plan. He made home buying his personal concern. Through small loans from a nominal sum held in trust by him, the minister made it possible for 20 families in his community to become owners of their own farms. The pastor at Big Lick is both ardent and articulate in behalf of better rural living. He has known country life from childhood and he knows how to farm. He can run a tractor, plow a contour furrow and help in the saw mill. He has organ- ized a Big Lick homestead project to aid young men get established on the land, and 27 families have been assisted in buying farms since 1940 This pastor is Eugene Smathers' who has written and preached ably about rural economic problems and ,,W -I- T -- W1' NxV r V- - - I I M THEY WON'T LAND ... In Philadelphia at a rally of the marine corps reserve, Gen. Clifton B. Cates (right) , new commandant of the marine corps, took occasion to announce that no leathernecks are scheduled to land in Palestine. He also dismissed the sending of about 1,000 ma-rines to the Mediterranean as "routine." With General Cates are Fleet Adm. WiUiam Halsey and James H. Duff, governor of Pennsylvania. Method Sin, Making Sink En! ' ANYNE modern sink enl easy to follow pattern ' low. 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The nation's economy, he said, is operating on borrowed time and infl-ation- ridden Americans are oper-ating on borrowed money in a situa-tion flirting with depression. Millions of persons in the lower income groups, his report pointed out, now are keeping the inflation carousel whirling by liquidating their savings, reducing their current savings and by extensive use of con-sumer credit. "Such use of savings for current living expenses is an ominous sign for the economy as a whole." Without stopping to consider any possible political aspects of the President's economic report, Amer-icans could take it as a sober, realis-tic picture of what lies beneath the relative luxury in which many of them are existing now. Exhaustive and complete, the eco-nomic survey presented figures no-table in that they: Showed for the first time that 1 . "real purchasing power" of the American masses basic factor sup-porting U. S. economy has declined 8 per cent since the first quarter of 1946, and that 2 Millions of Americans are living on their savings accounts and borrowing money. Almost of all families and more than one-ha- of families earning less than $2,000 yearly "held no liquid assets in 1947." Then Mr. Truman tied in these facts with his administration's pro- - serious danger of atomic attack will exist." On that premise the group recom-mended that the government start now to spend on the air force in 1948 'l.3 billion dollars more than the 2.85 billion currently scheduled for this calendar year, and that in 1949 the total be raised still another 1.3 bil-lion dollars. For actual air strength the com-mission said that by 1942 the U. S. should command a total of 12. "H) first-lin- e planes, plus more than 8,000 held in reserve. Although it was extremely un-likely that the air policy commis-sion's recommendations would be adopted in toto by this or any other peacetime congress, the report put realistic emphasis where emphasis belonged. Everyone has been aware that air power is mandatory if the U. S. is to have any degree of na-tional security in an era of feverish atomic-bom- b production, and the commission has succeeded in put-ting that awareness on as factual a basis as is possible now. OPEN CITY: Jerusalem Since apparently nothing can stop the quasi-civi- l war between Arabs and Jews in Palestine, that coun-try's harrassed government has done the next best thing and re-quested both factions to spare the holy places of Jerusalem from any depredations they might carry out. The Palestine government asked the Christian, Moslem and Jewish religious communities to declare Je-rusalem's ancient walled area an "open city." That plea couldn't stop the blood-shed but it could preserve the re-ligious relics sacred to all three of the world's main religions. Meanwhile, transportation was being made available to evacuate any of the 1,500 Jews still living under Arab siege inside the walls. They are the remnants of 4,000 nor-mal residents of the area. Which Way Judea? posed policy to beat the inflation rap. If inflation, he said, is "per-mitted to run its own course, it will break with destructive force." And in order not to let it run its own course the President again urged adoption of his n program limited price and ration controls. That way, he indicated, lies a new, greater economic era for the U. S. embodying maximum employ-ment and solid and lasting pros-perity. I X, , I hri ! AIR STRENGTH: 'A-Da-y' 1953 How important is it that the U. S. have a potent, efficient air force? Virtually a matter of life or death, thinks the President's air policy commission which recently reported on the status of the nation's air strength. Immediate and substantial en-largement of the air force for "sur-vival in the air age" was urged by the commission; and January 1, 1953, was set as or the ulti-mate date when the U. S. might con-sider itself relatively secure against atomic attack. After the commission intimated, it will be anybody's ball game as far as airborne atom bombs are concerned. "The air force is hopelessly wanting in re-spect of the future . . . when a Moshe Shertok, head of the Pal-estine Agency's political depart-ment, now in the role of liaison official to U. N., ponders one of the many enigmas partition of the Holy Land has thrust upon him. He said the Jewish agency soon would ask U. N. for an interna-tional police force, arms and funds to enforce the partition agreement. $64 Quesfo; The issue facing Clifr farmer of King City, Mo" ' er to tear down his rh cost of $64 to ferret ott store of honey between t Even at present high pn :or says, one can buy a k ,ks for $64. is 're FROM SNAIL FEVER TO MALARIA Plan African Disease Safari' Armed with microscopes instead of h guns, naval medical scien-tists are preparing for a new sor' of, African safari on which they will study some of the diseases native to the dark continent. The navy medical group will ac-company the African expedition be-ing sponsored by University of Cali-fornia, hence will have the duty of providing medical service to the university paleontologists and an-thropologists who will cover most of Africa this year seeking traces of primitive man and apes. For their own purposes the navy doctors will study such native dis-eases as African sleeping sickness. bilharzia or snail fever, plague, scrub typhus, yellow fever and malaria. They also will scrutinize a number of parasites which inhabit human beings, for instance the par-ticular form of hookworm in Mo-zambique, Portuguese East Africa. To pursue their studies the group will have to trap and shoot animals which are the disease carriers. Among these are the rodent-carrier- s of bubonic plague, the zebra, deer, gazelle, elan and possibly lions, tigers and leopards which are be-lieved to be reservoirs of African sleeping sickness. Most of these animals have not been used in research by American medical scientists before because animals which are potential disease carriers are not allowed to be im-ported. If they should escape captiv-ity they might introduce an entirely new series of diseases into the United States. There are particular regulations, for example, against the fruit bat, a known carrier of malaria, which, if once established here, would ' de-stroy citrus fruits. esoe x The fruit bat, however, is highly regarded by medical scientists as a good laboratory animal because it is easily raised in captivity. It is possible that certain phases of the malaria cycle now entirely under-stood could be worked out through study of it. Blind Girl Becomes Expert Elraitfier LE SUEUR. MINN.-Des- pite the handicap of being nearly blind 21- -j year-ol- Elaine Heintz can knit as fine a sweater, scarf or mitten set as any seen in exclusive shops. Her needles click with the speed oV a professional craftsman. Miss Heintz. whose vision when she was stricken with spinal meningitis at the age of 5, has made With the help of her sister, Rath-enn- e she began looking for mar-kets for her work at Christmas time, ihe search was unexpectedly suc-cessful, and she sold 00 of her knit- ted P1eces to Le Sueur residents. Her specialty is colorful potholders. M,1SStH4tintZ ac(Juired her knitting Siih, I Minnesota Braille and ug S0h001 m Faribault, attending her first classes when sue was only seven years old. |