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THE JACKSON SUN: JACKSON, WEDNESDAY, JULY, 19, 1950 WANT ADS 7-3333 PAGE FOUR Let's Be More Realistic In The Future Washington Merry Go Round A By DREW PEARSON Established Is 1848 Published by Th Sua Publishing Company, Baltimore and Market Street, Jackson. Tenneaeea. MRS. CLARENCE E. P1UFOHD President (ED NOTE Drew Pearson column today takes the form of a letter to his 17-year-old stepson on some of the ideals we are trying to champion in Korea.) Washington.

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Chicago. New York, Atlanta. Detroit, Dallas St Loul-- Charlotte Memphis San Francisco. Los Angeles Complete files of this paper may be seen at any of the above offices where The Sun's friends are always welcome. the peak of idealism and unselfishness and power for good ever before seen in the world.

We have reached it, but we can lose it. Great empires have come and gone in the past. They have fallen because they got too soft or too crass or too powerful; because they used their power for materialistic conquest and based it on armed might. They put selfishness ahead of idealism and they fell. We can do that, too.

In fact, some of us were beginning to think more about our stomachs, our dividends, wages and prices, how many automobiles we had or our neighbors had than we did about the problem of peace. And it was not entirely surprising that Lieut. Donald S. Sirman of Philadelphia, when captured in Korea, told Communist newsmen that he enlisted in the Air Force because he "got paid and would like to build a cottage in Philadelphia." So perhaps some of us needed Korea. We needed it to keep us from getting too soft, too selfish, too materialistic.

But, above all, we needed it to set an example of world unity against an aggressor. Free Man's Burden I think what you boys who are just approaching military age must remember is that the Korean decision had to come sooner or later A nation cannot live alongside another nation which constantly threatens war. And a free world cannot exist with one nation bullying, arming, threatening to invade any peoples who do not bow to their political creed. In a way, what we especially you are assuming is the free man's burden the obligation of free men to keep the world free. There was a time when we could go our own way in this country, protected by two oceans, and not worry about the rest of the world.

But that day thanks to the atom bomb and long-range airplanes is over; so what happens in one part of the world, like a contagious disease, affects us here. That is particularly true of freedom. This has got to be a free world. And I don't think one free nation can live as an island surrounded by nonfree, police-state nations, all armed to the teeth. So, since this clash of free nations and the police-state nations was inescapable, it is better to get it over with and in such a way that we can build a new international police force, unhampered by vetoes, which will guarantee lasting peace.

Stopping War Seeds Maybe you remember my telling you about some of the international conferences I have covered as a newspaperman where I could literaUy see the seeds of war planted see them with my own eyes, and watch them grow and incubate, with the rest of the world watching, too, but powerless to stop the impending crisis. Well, this time we have not been powerless. We saw the impending crisis and we moved to avert it. I think it's important for you and the other boys approaching military age to remember this; also to remember that no country in the world today has our unselfishness, our courage, our idealism. And we've got to keep it that way.

So this Korean war, distant as it is, tough as it is, unwelcome as it is, may be the great turning point in the year 1950 midway through the century when we can. establish a world police force and a world authority to put down all wars in the future. Those are some of the great things which the boys of your generation can look forward to. You are a lot smarter than my generation, and you can succeed where we failed. Love from.

The Old Man. Telephone 7-3333 All Departments Pegler Speaks His Mind Winchell In New York By WESTBROOK PEGLER Doys may soon have to go off to a strange and distant battlefront called Korea. So I have been wondering how you, who will soon celebrate your 18th birthday, and a lot of other boys around that age must feel when you have to grow up, go to school and plan your lives with a sword literally hanging over your head. I know a little bit about this, because I was in college when we entered World War I. That, however, was the first war America had fought in a long time, and to most of us it was a glorious and exciting adventure.

We did not know at that time it' was to be but the beginning of a series of wars. So we enjoyed the parades and all the national enthusiasm, and I remember vividly how disappointed some of us, whe had been picked for officers training camp, were when the Armistice whistles blew. We even kept on drilling, hoping the news was not true. Useless War? However, the boys of your generation are a lot more sophisticated than we. And the country has now seen two great wars in quick succession, followed by a cold war which has broken out.

in. a bloody, disastrous defeat in Korea. So all the glamor, the novelty, the excitement have worn off, and in a way I don't particularly blame the American lieutenant in Korea who said: "I never saw such a useless damned war in all my life." I can well understand how this war, fought 8,000 miles away in a strange land, in the defense of strange people, and against tremendous odds, can be considered useless. Yet, I don't think I'm a Pollyanna when I say that the year 1950 may go down in history just because of the Korean war because it may stop war in the future and lead a new era of world unity and peace. There are some people abroad who call us "Uncle Sap." And there are some people here at home, like the Chicago Tribune crowd, who caU us that, too; say we are impractical fools to be giving our money, our food, our steel, and now our life blood away to other people.

But there was a man named Jesus Christ who, in effect, was also called Uncle Sap. He, too, was branded an impractical visionary; yet His teachings have formed a goal toward which mankind has been struggling ever since. And I don't think I'm too optimistic when I say that our country, with the Marshall Plan and all the other help we have given our neighbors, may have come nearer a practical fulfillment of the Sermon on the Mount, by one nation among other nations, than at any time since Christ taught that great doctrine 2,000 years ago. U. S.

Reaches Peak As yon know, I am considered quite a critical newspaperman. I do not hesitate to point out the faults of our government and our country. But, despite all these faults, I very deeply feel that our country has just about reached Sweden Will Find It Hard To Remain Neutral. Sweden's reply to the United Nations on the Korea question was regarded, inevitably, as a touchstone to show on which side of the fence the Swedes intend to stand. No one worried about the Danish Government, which has been equally tardy in replying.

The official reason given by the Danes was identical with the Swedish namely, that they wanted to consult with the parliamentary Foreign Affairs-Committee first. Everybody assumed that the Danes had declared their position, once and for ail. It is questionable, though, whether the Swedes view their own actions in the same light as the other western peoples will. To the Swedes themselves, their foreign policy line is this To support the UN, and not get involved with any power bloc. On the Korea question, they evidently were confused at finding the choice seemed to lie betwen doing both or neither hence their hesitancy.

The solution that seems to have been found is to pay lip service to the UN, and continue doggedly along the neutral road. Hitherto, the Swedes have been able to get along quite nicely in an out-of-the-way corner of the world, without attract ing undue attention to their doings. They have been able to exploit to advantage the historic balace of power in the Baltic area between' Russia and Germany. Even if Sweden remained neutral in two wars, no one was particularly upset. It happened to suit both sides.

This convenient state of affairs ended -with the emergence of Soviet Russia as the dominant power, not only in the Baltic, but in all but the western edge of Europe. The counterweight of Russian expansion aims had shifted from Germany to the other side of the Atlantic. The Swedes undoubtedly would have liked to go on being neutral but they are finding it more and more difficult. Many more than formerly now find it shameful, and still more are giving up the idea as hopeless. But this swing has still far from crystallized in political action.

It is a question whether Swedish political leaders themselves are not lagging behind public opinion. At any rate they seem nonplussed. Cotton Crop May Run To 12 Million Bales. There has been a good deal of guessing as to the size of the 1950 cotton crop with plantings trimmed about 30 per cent below last year's level. On the basis of present plantings federal farm prophets are saying that the crop will amount to about ten million bales.

They are making this estimate on the assumption that the per-acre yields will be about average. However, estimates of, private cotton men who have surveyed the situation are for a crop of twelve million bales and they base their estimates on the theory that yields per acre will be above the average. As one looks over the cotton crop in West Tennessee, he is led to believe that better than average yields will be had unless the boll weevil steps in and does considerable damage. The West Tennessee crop is regarded as typical of the South as a whole. Farmers in Dixie are said to be putting more commercial fertilizer in their cotton fields this year than last.

This, of course, will tend to increase the yields. There is incentive to get the best yields wnen one notes that cotton is selling for 39 cents and 40 cents on the present market, this being the highest in three decades. Lots of folk don't know enough to learn as much as they lead their friends to think they know. It's funny families no longer keep family albums and it was funnier when they did. NEW YORK, July 19 The Rev.

James M. Gillis, a priest of the Paulist Order, greatly devoted to the personal and spiritual welfare of Negroes on the west side, is a courageous editorialist who has often put himself on the right but unpopular side of important issues i in recent years. In some such cases I have joined him and have found it more satisfactory to be in his company, one of a corporal's guard, than to be a member of a howling, cowardly mob. I am sadly amused by hullabaloo raised by crass professionals for the pro PEGLER government are not in Moscow but in Washington. He was referring to the New Deal and the Fair Deal and their Communist and Marxian proteges in government.

"The bonafide patriot," he wrote, "loves his country so much that he will not permit even its defenders to destroy it. "Perhaps for years I have been the recipient of communications from the committee for constitutional government. It sends out pamphlets and sometimes books in defense of American liberties. What I have read seems to me as genuinely American as the Declaration of Independence. But now it seems that the administration in Washington has come down on the committee with an inquisition which seems to me a violation of a basic American right: and the right to argue, to persuade one's fellow Americans to join in a protest against the trend toward excessive interference of the state in the affairs of the citizen.

"The ostensible purpose is to investigate expenditures relating to any attempt to influence directly or indirectly the passage or defeat of any federal "That wording might include hundreds of pieces which I have written. I am exercising my right as a citizen to communicate an opinion to others and to ask them to join with me in opposing the encroachments of big government upon our individual liberties." Father Gillis said he might be regarded as a lobbyist because he had recently commended a book of facts, figures and arguments crying out that our government was following the road which Great Britain is treading to its ruin. Yet this committee for constitutional government has been vilified in the most abusive language and Dr. Edward A. Rumeley, its executive secretary, has been branded a "hate-monger" by radio and in print by a notorious professional hate-monger.

I confess that I have had no opportunity to read this committee's literature but I am The Cinema gicians: Dana n-drews and Gene Tierney give "Where the Sidewalk Ends" its gamut power "The Good Humor Man" has Jack Carson offering some tutti-fruitti buffoonery, but many of the quips have frozen beards "The Eagle and the Hawk" shows John Payne and his six-shooter being mowed down by Rhonda Fleming's ex-shooting "Marshal of Heldorado" its hardly worth a polished insult. The Airistocrats: "Correspond dents' Scratchpad (CBS) is a welcome item. The newsmen submit behind the scenes information which helps you decipher the jigsaw of current events A. Godfrey's Wednesday nlghter was one of his aces Joan Davis, a superior femmedian. was heading the Hooper only 3 years ago.

Today she is a Summer replacement The midnight jive caca-phony on some stations sounds like a jukebox calling its mate. You can get better music dropping a set of dishes The Hit Parade is better on radio than on teevy Another addition to Girle-vision is a blond charmer named Marion Carter. Reminds you of Jean Harlow Have you heard the recording. 'Pudgy, the Whistling Don't. Sometimes we wonder whether editorialists, read their front pages For example: Several opinion-makers finally confessed that the Communist atrocity in Korea convinced them Russia is a criminal aggressor intent on world conquest Incredibly enough, it took the Korean war to convince them, albeit Russia's rape list includes China, Poland.

Romania. Finland. EstorHa. Latvia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. sure that Father James M.

Gillis is not so naive as to have been deceived nor so evil as to endorse any message inciting men to hate their fellow man. Mobilizing Rubber Industry of U. S. With the federal government deciding to reopen synthetic rubber plants in Louisiana and Texas it is unfortunate that there was not more specific word from Washington as to the primary reason for this action. Unfortunate, too, is the fact that there has been a run on tires and other essential rubber products, the shortage of which was felt acutely during the last war.

The fact is that the government has been planning for some time to reopen some of these synthetic rubber plants and many of the natural rubber industries have favored it. Throughout the cold war there has been a feeling this nation must hedge positively against being caught with Far Eastern sources closed. Besides the supply motive, idle plants do not develop technological improvements. The United States already consumes nearly as much rubber as the rest of the world combined. In the last 10 years its families and households have increased 25 per cent, and there is no indication the trend will not continue.

From these facts alone, some insurance of future supply was necessary. Moreover, the rubber market lately has been erratic. Last December the price in New York was 17 cents a pound now it is around 34 cents. Immediately postwar it followed a jarring zig-zag to a peak in June of 1949, then fell off sharply. Better supplies, even if synthetic, are seen as a stabilizer the industry needs badly.

As the St. Louis Globe-Democrat very well points out, Korea merely speeded the decision. No chances could be taken whether the conflict proved to be short or long. If Communism undertakes other thrusts around its Asiatic perimeter, as seems probable, the Malayan peninsula would be a likely target. And the curtaining of Malaya, which produces about" one-third of the world's tin and half of its natural rubber, could be disastrous to our war production.

Hiking synthetic output should be regarded merely as a wise precautionary move; certainly no cause for frantic hoarding. Florida reports a fast track and a clear field as the Senate Crime Commission goes to the post in the biggest handicap of the year, the all-out gambling investigation. The Seers Society is a bad repute. Not since the polls missed the boat in "1948 have so many experts been wrong as the authorities on the Far East. Grabbing At Bankruptcy By GEORGE SOKOLSKY Interpreting World News By DeWTTT MacKENZIF.

foreign Affair Analyst tection of "minority groups" who, in the United States, enjoy more right, respect and, not "tolerance," but affection, from the rest of the people than they ever had anywhere else in the world. And incomparably greater comfort and opportunity than the American Negro who has been "native" for more generations than any other group except the Indians. It is necessary in all such professional exploitations of dormant differences to create Mardi Gras monsters so as to maintain an illusion of bigotry and a fear of impending persecution. They burn their own fiery crosses to keep the clients of their solicitude frightened and ever-ready to put up money for their salaries. As I have said.

Bather Gillis suffers over the physical squalor of the Negroes in his neighborhood. I have walked there with him and the pleasant greetings and acknowledgements on the sidewalks and from doorways reveal a mutual sensitive feeling that I can't describe. There are some who pretend to believe that they elevate the Negroes by taking some prosperous individual to dinner at a prominent place. Many Negroes and white citizens have let themselves forget that the Roosevelts' housekeeper during the long regime wrote that Eleanor eliminated the white servants and installed a Jim Crow policy whereas the Herbert Hoovers drew, no color line. What good would you do the Negro in his teeming, strident slum in Harlem or on Father Gillis' own San Juan Hill by taking some well-paid dancer, politician or boogy-woogy musician to pick at a filet mingon in "21." What would that prove except that you were a show-off, inviting publicity? Father Gillis took up the subject of the hounding of selected organizations by the Buchanan committee of Congress which has a mandate to investigate persons and societies who try to "promote or retard legislation." Mr.

Buchanan soon learned that he had a bear by the tail. He purposely overlooked certain societies which cry out against "discrimination" and warn of "persecution," as they have a legal right to, but which deem it necessary to create hateful prejudice against individuals who refuse to accept their arbitrary judgments against individuals, candidates and political propositions. In executive session, he and Charlie Halleck, of Indiana, one of the Republican minority, and John Rankin, Mississippi, a Democrat, fell into jovial colloquy and decided to ignore all religious groups. Buchanan had been criticized for overlooking one of the most aggressive examples and Halleck said that if they went into that one there would be a yell for inquiry into Catholic political activity. And both put it to Rankin that this would lead them to Baptist activity.

There are many Baptists in Mississippi. So they followed the line of least difficulty and picked on outfits which disdain to put religious Insignia and profess to be consecrated to the constitution. Father Gillis wrote that he agreed with Albert Jay Nock that the most dangerous and potentially the most successful enemies of our original and traditional form of made whatever money he did make except out of the purchasing power of the people. In Dubinsky's industry, a cold and rainy spring can cripple the finances of the manufacturers, contractors, and storekeepers and reduce the earnings of the workers. Manufacturers have been known to go broke because style tastes suddenly changed.

Nobody "made their money with" Dubinsky's union, except the union bureaucrats who get salaries whether times are good or bad. There is nothing that David Dubinsky can say against this argument, except that he does not like it, which he will undoubtedly do the next time we meet. Secondly, he knows, as well as I do, that the turnover among firms in his industry is large for many reasons, the principal one being that they are small business mert with shoestring capital. It is the policy of the United States to encourage small business operations, but most union leaders prefer huge corporations, as they are easier to handle. So Dubinsky asks: "Can you visualize a firm that has been in business twenty or thirty years and has accumulated a (severance) fund of $2,000,000, or $500,000 going out of business?" Precisely how is such a fund to be accumulated without raising prices? How is such a fund to be handled! The small firms engaged in the cloak and suit business do not deal in figures of these dimensions.

Certainly no such company can set it up as a reserve out of current operations. Is it to be set up before or after taxes and what becomes of all the "dead" money lying about out of circulation? How is that to be used in the national economy? It does not seem sound to set up a permanent two percent severance pay reserve. It luoks like another grab at the earned dollar, a grab that will increase bankruptcies. The real danger is that as it will be so dangerous to stay in business, few wiU take the risks attending such industries. Every once in a while, a labor leader comes up with a notion that sounds good at a convention and then is forgotten in the hurly-burly of normal affairs.

These leaders are, of course, politicians who have to lease their constitutents, just like -anyone else does who spends a cou pie of weeks telling the people of his great ideas and then letting them lapse in the hope that they will be forgotten. Sometimes, but rarely, one of these fellows is sincere and then we get into real trouble because he manages to implement his ideas by action, to the detriment of the country- For instance, Oscar Ewing must be a sincere person. No one with a doubt or a of humor could pursue his fanatical, biased, unbelievably unrealistic ambitions to prodce a socialized medical and educational system in a free country. Congress keeps battening down Oscar Ewing ideas plans and ambitions, but he continues unabashed and without abatement. From time to time, Oscar Ew5ng is able to move into the realm of action.

Recently, David Dubinsky came up with a notion tnat is original and harmful. Dubinsky is a shrewd, keen manager of one of the most successfully operated unions in the United States. In his industry, which deals mainly with women's garments, it is impossible to raise wages much, because women have a nasty way of not buying when prices become unreasonable. Many of their purchases are postponable and therefore the price factor is extremely important. That affects wages.

So there was a convention of Dub-insky's union and like every other labor leader, he had to make a speech promising heaven-on-earth, which is one of the reasons why we are in so much trouble. As long as heaven stayed in we were fairly safe, but the moment politicians, educators, demagogues and even some of the clergy started to shift the locality of perfection, they scattered confusion into the lives of normal people. Brother Dubinsky's proposal is that no firm may go out of business without the consent of his union because "they made their money with us." 1 In the first place, it is to be presumed that both the employer and the worker made his money or lost it because the customer bought or did not buy goods. It is a little difficult to trace how a manufacturer It'll be the early chestnut, not the bird, that gets the worm this fall. Press Comment people formerly obeyed the Nationalist government, and now obey the Red regime, doesn't necessarily mean that they approve of either.

As a matter of fact the ordinary people never have participated in their governments. Asia as a whole is just starting out in political education. The usual attitude ts one of sufferance. The rank and file accept what fate hands them but their loyalty will go to the ideology which gives them the better things of life. China with its 500,000.000 people has offered Communism a great field.

Most of this huge population lives by farming, and the number of people is too big in relation to the land available. Generally speaking the farms are less than two acres in size, and these are worked by hand rather than with mechanical equipment. Even at the best such little farms couldn't produce much, but that is only part of the Chinese peasant's burden. He has been loaded down with taxation, exacted not only by the provincial government but by the war lords in control of his part of the country. Some of the war lords have been taking as high as 75 per cent of the peasant's livelihood, in cash or in crops.

Communism has met this situation by promising a redistribution to land; rule by the proletariat; and national sovereignty. Those aie fine phrases and are likely to cav-h on, until the comman man finds out that he has ben bilked when it may be too late for him to ef a change. So democracy must back its iJleo, logical campaign in Asia with von- crete programs for a new wprM. And naturally this will mean continuation of the material help which the western world already is giving the Orient We can crush Red aggression in Korea and other parts of Asia by force of arms, but we shall have failed of our real purpose unless we also demonstrate to the underprivileged millions that our democracy better meets their needs than does Communism. For after all, this is an ideological war we are fighting, although that fact sometimes gets obscured in the smoke of military strife.

Of course the western world on the whole recognizes the totalitarian evils of Communism. We know that it aims at fierce regimentation of the people. However, the primitive masses of Asia, who are treadirlg the paths their ancestors trod centuries ago, don't know what the Red ism really means. They only know what Bolshevist agents tell them: That Communism is the savior of downtrodden humanity, that it will take lands from the rich and give to the poor, that it will heap their tables with plenty. These specious promises are fascinating to underprivileged folk.

I've spent a lot of time in the Orient and can tell you from personal observation that there are in that part of the world untold millions of peasants who. never know anything" but hunger. Naturally they think with their bellies. And broadly speaking it is on this basis that the ideological approach must be made to them. They want to know what democracy will do to improve their lowly lives.

Let's take a specific example China, which currently is under control of a Communist government, and previously was ruled by Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist regime. And here let it be pointed out that regimentation doesn't mean popular support. The fact that the I 1 I I I I I I OUR SMART MOSQUITOES (Nashville Banner) American mosquitoes masculine gender, that is just don't go in for heavy courting, mayoe or are tone deaf, or just naturally suspicious "of amplified sirens, or something. At any rats, they have baffled the psychologists of entomology who rigged up a trap for them based on love and the hot seat. The contrivance was supposed to emulate the caU of the female of the species immensely magnified, and lure all the males in the vicinity to an electrical booby-trap.

It worked in Cuba, whose mosquitoes may be somewhat dumber; but up in Essex County, N. it failed miserably. It called and called, but nary a skeeter did it lure. That is news when a mosquito, so to speak, won't The Association for the Advancement of Science may take this up at its next meeting. Who's for importing some Cuban mosquitoes? See where a man dug up a 30-year-old auto in Wisconsin.

And some poor motorist is still probably wondering where he parked. Smart people watch their money so closely they manage to keep all their bills paid. In a Tennessee town a man was arrested for wearing no clothes. It's hard for the men to get away with it. Daily Thought And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him.

Leviticus 24:19..