| Show Truman Draws Lines Battle-Lines Against Red Expansionism By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Comm Commentator Service 1616 Eye Street N. N W. W Washington D. D C. C WASHINGTON When Harry Truman enunciated what the Wall WallStreet WallStreet WallStreet Street Journal a periodical not a u given civen to poetic 11 11 U. C c e n ti called v racy's Monroe Doctrine he probably didn't realize the multi farious Various effects thereof At this writing neither congress c 4 nor the country has quite recovered recovered ered from the Impact of those Baukhage words read with the matter fact un un- oratorical cracker barrel diction of ofa a of matter-of-fact cracker barrel man When I heard the President read them standing there calm and confident at the lectern of the reading clerk on the house rostrum looking up from the text only occasionally with that like bird tilt of his head as the television cameras purred gently I from the opposite gallery I felt a little worried The cabinet members seated In the well the senators Inthe In Inthe Inthe the first rows of seats the house members crowded Into rows behind them them all all seemed deemed almost glum Clum I didn't realize the solemnity of the message which held them In a restrained restrained re re- strained silence Only thrice was there applause after he began to speak Before and after there was plenty and it was evenly balanced It was bipartisan partisan not weighted heavily on the side of the administration administration administration adminis adminis- party as It usually Is when a President speaks When the speech was over it was In si silence silence sl si- the same The s senators left lence there was little or no com com- ment As Senator Lodge said when a radio man plucked at his sleeve and asked If U he would submit to an Interview I cant can't think THAT fast Even the fast and sound thinkers wanted time to think leisurely lei lel- lel surely and deeply Since that day thousands of or 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 ahaU half hail pages typewritten on both sides of the sheet since wartime economy still Is 15 practiced at the White House In many odd corners of the bazaars and market places those words crackled like tiny electric electric electric elec elec- sparks And everywhere thoughtful Intelligent intelligent Intel intel- people In foreign countries countries- those who had bad always looked upon America as a nation whose political and cultural outlook was most sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic to their political and cultural cultural cultural cul cul- tural outlook but whose whose economic theories pointed further to to the right than their own socialistic leanings leanings- pondered These were people to whom Soviet Russia was primitive harsh cruel In its methods Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- Russia's s 's economic theories differed less from their own awn than than did the theories of the United States whose whose civilized friendly and humane characteristics characteristics tics attracted them They found that they must choose They must say to Russia or America Whither thou I will go and where thou I will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy ways shall be mine Perhaps never before In n history had a great nation so certainly divided th the sheep from the goats the friends from the enemies The Presidents President's plan is more than a amoral amoral amoral moral question It Involves more than abstract principles of political economy or social philosophy It sets fort with shuddering simplicity simplic simplic- ity 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 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 cabinet cabinet cabi cabi- net makers premiers and proconsuls proconsuls pro con will no longer dance to the Kremlins Kremlin's tune if they expect Uncle Sam to pay the piper or piper or the butcher or the baker S Commies Commie Aim At Revolution Recently when Secretary of Labor urged that the Communist Communist Communist Com Com- party In America be banned by law it brought forth an emphatic protest from the secretary-general secretary of the party Eugene Dennis What arc are the Communists after The new Kiplinger magazine published published published pub pub- In Washington says In Its March issue As spelled out ont In their own words American Communists have ha three major alms aims In the United States Stales The revolutionary overthrow overthrow overthrow over over- throw of capitalism and the capitalist capitalist capitalist capi capi- state a Soviet form Corm of government government government gov gov- under dictatorship a of the proletariat and finally the Communist Communist Communist Com Com- on heaven a collectivIst economy leading to a classless society Of OC the he three alms aims their first is revolution Not merely change but full fledged revolution planned led and controlled d by the disciplined Communist minority The liberation liberation liberation libera libera- tion of the he working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected effected effected ef ef- ef- ef 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. N W. W Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington 6 D. D C. C and he will send them to you It Is not likely however that the party will be banned by law Not because because because be be- cause congress loves the But even that ardently red anti group the committee on un Ameri can activities doesn't approve of wiping out the party An anonymous member of the committee recently pointed out that if U the party was broken up It would simply go underground underground un un- un- un 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 e e Life Insurance Increases in U. U S. S On the average there were over 4 life insurance policies per family in the United States at the end of 1945 it is revealed In a survey by life insurance companies In amount of life liCe insurance owned the average pe pel family was 1000 at year mid-year 1945 The average 1945 protection per family was more than 20 per percent percent percent cent larger than that of 1940 and was 2 times the 1920 protection average aver aver- age 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 In 1920 the average protection per family Jamily was nearly 50 50 per cent below the average of national income income in in- come per family This gap was narrowed narrowed narrowed nar nar- rowed in the ensuing years ears until in 1927 th the protection average exceeded exceed exceed- ed the income average In the years of depression that followed the protection protection protection pro pro- average went as high as 2 times the income average In 1943 as wartime incomes expanded the income average again topped the protection average e e |
