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Show The Observations Of Mr. Jones What Will We Do About Russia? The debate between Stassen and Dewey at Portland, Oregon ranks in importance with that of Lincoln and Douglas. Mr. Stassen said: "I have reached the conclusion that the objectives of Communist organizations organ-izations in the World are to overthrow free government, to destroy the liberty of men." He insisted that "the free countries must protect themselves against What has been called a 'cold war.' " Governor Dewey quoted Congressman Con-gressman Mundt as insisting that he did not favor outlawing the Communist party because he fcar3 that such action on the part of Congress "would only tend to drive further underground the forces which are already largely concealed from public view. . . What I want to do is to drive the Communist functionaries out iui me giuuuu, into ine open where patriotic Americans in every walk of life can come to learn their identity and understand under-stand their objectives." Mr. Stassen said that we lack adequate ade-quate laws to safeguard ourselves our-selves in the face of this menace. Mr. Stassen said he favored the Mundt Bill because it outlaws out-laws the Communist party. Governor Gov-ernor Dewey said the Mundt Bill was a measure directed against conspiracies to" establish dictatorship dictator-ship under the control of a foreign for-eign government. The Governor insisted that people calling) themselves Communists should be subjected to prosecution and sent to prison. He believes that the Communist party should be kept "everlastingly out in the open so that we can defeat it and all it stands for." He added: "Now, this outlawing idea is not new. It is as old as government. For thousands of years despots have shot, imprisoned and exiled their people and their governments govern-ments have always fallen into the dust. This outlawing idea is as old as Communism itself." The Things That Need To Be Done Profits in United States business bus-iness are certainly high. And every time these profits jump a little higher the labor leaders step forward with new demands for higher wages. And the managers of corporations corpora-tions are now complaining that the rise in profits are so shortlived, short-lived, no matter how large, that they do not cover the costs of things that need to be done. The strike situation is changing. It is the failure of unions to win most of the strikes they have been calling in recent months. New Supporter For Wallace "Uncle Joe," as FDR is sup-posed sup-posed to have called the Russian I tyrant, praises Henry A, Wallace for having made what Stalin termed a "good and fruitful basis" bas-is" for discussion and settlement of the differences between the United States and the Soviet Un-ioti. Un-ioti. Wallace has had lots of bad luck as the third party presidential presiden-tial candidate, and the indications indica-tions are that he is losing votes every day. Praise from Stalin will certainly not help Wallace's popularity. Educational Opportunities For All School-aid legislation, now pending. in Congress, is exceptional excep-tional in its safeguards against Federal control, according to a study released today by the National Na-tional Education Association. The NEA says further that "in the long history of Federal aid to education, which dates from 1785, no" Federal control has developed de-veloped except in the small ar eas in which provision was made for it. In the absence of such provisions, such control never resulted, and - where there are specific guarantees against Federal Fed-eral control, such legislation actually ac-tually strengthens State control and operation of the schools." Federal aid to education legislation leg-islation was passed in the Senate on April 1 by a vote of 58 to 22. The corresponding bill is awaiting action by the Committee Commit-tee ort Education and Labor before be-fore the House of Representatives can complete the enactment of the program, which appropriates $300,000,000 annually to equalize equal-ize basic educational opportunity opportun-ity in the Nation. Sound Policy The Chamber of Commerce of the United States which declares out loud that it is doing its level best in building a strong America, Amer-ica, says that in' line with this policy it stands for the following: "It is of crucial importance that Congress curtail government expenditures. This is the key to the problem of lower taxes, reduced re-duced debt, and a stable fiscal system. "There should be abolishment of all activities no longer needed," need-ed," drastic decrease In the number num-ber of government employees, contraction of many existing commitments and until taxes and the National debt are considerably consider-ably reduced, there should be deferment de-ferment of many expensive new undertakings even those of substantial sub-stantial merit." Hawaii Will Wait All prospects of the Territory of Hawaii being admitted as a State of the Union seem to have faded out of sight and the news from Capitol Hill in Washington Washing-ton is that the legislation for Statehood has been pigeonholed : for the present. |