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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
RUSSIA’S BIG MISTAKE
WASHINGTON. — If the Soviet
government had deliberately set out
to make mistakes it couldn’t have
made more than it has piled up in
the past year. In the one year that
has passed since V-J Day, Russia
has won the ill will of her neigh
boring countries in Europe, has lost
virtually all her friends in the
United States and lias turned most
of the world against her.
In considering our present
strained relations with Russia, this
is all-important. It indicates that
time is running on our side, that
Russia’s own policies are playing
into our hands, and that war can
be avoided.
One year ago Soviet Russia was
considered the great savior of the
woild. In Europe, the Russians
were given credit, far more than
the United States, for liberating the
occupied countries, were even
hailed by some as the pioneers of
a new world order. In the U. S.,
most Americans had a genuine ad
miration for the heroism of the
Russian people and looked for
ward to a period of friendly co
operation.
Today that good will has vanished.
In all of Russia’s satellites, with
the possible exception of Finland
and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet is
extremely unpopular, even hated.
Romania and Bulgaria would bolt
Russia in 9 minute were it not for
the Red army. Hungary and Aus
tria, which Russia hoped to win
over, voted overwhelmingly against
the Soviet. In France the strong
Co. nmunist upsurge now has hit
the downgrade. Even in Yugoslavia,
where Tito is supposed to be su-.
preme, the Russians are not popu
lar.
Most interesting fact is that the
countries nearest the Russians
usually‘dislike them most. Thus in
more distant France, there is more
pro-Soviet sentiment than in the ad
jacent Balkans.
Finally, in the American-British
zones of Germany, Germans are
fearful lest the western allies even
tually evacute and Russia walks in.
• • •
U. S. STOCK GOES UP
Thus the world has turned against
an aggressor nation. Thus also, the
world has turned toward a nation
which has no selfish axes to grind
and which is attempting to co-oper
ate with the rest of the world.
This is what Secretary of State
Byrnes has sincerely tried to do at
Paris; and as far as this observer
could ascertain, his patient, fair-
minded policy is paying dividends.
Part of the world, once ready to
sing Russia’s praises, has veered
toward the United. States.
Therefore, the No. 1 point of
American policy should be to
work things out within the family
of Rations; to put Palestine and
ot^p- controversial problems under
the United Nations; not to let the
British drag us into separate al
liances. This is our greatest dan
ger. If we oecome the tail on the
British kite, we can he euchred into
war with Russia — exactly where
the British foreign office irrtperial-
ists want us. But as long as the
smaller independent nations of the
world are convinced of our unsel
fish motives, as long as we re
main aloof from both sides, our
strength as a world leader is secure.
• • •
TENSION INCREASES
However, this alone may not head
off war with Russia. As this is
written, censored diplomatic dis
patches from the Far East report
three days of rifle skirmishing be
tween American and Russian troops
along the Korean border. This is
the first time U. S.-USSR troops
have deliberately fired at each
other. Another censored dispatch
from London reports the British
general staff meeting daily to plan
strategy for defending the British
lifeline in the Near East.
In other words, certain belliger
ent elements in Russia are quite
willing to risk war now; and cer
tain elements in England believe
a showdown is better now than
later. In a charged atmosphere like
this, one spark can cause tragedy.
However, this observer’s experi
ence in watching foreign affairs con
vinces him that seldom does any
nation provoke an incident if it
knows that incident means war; thus
the best way to prevent war is to
let a prospective belligerent know
he will get it in the neck if he
sticks his neck out.
In other words, if Russia knows
categorically and definitely that she
will be at war with us if she be
comes an aggressor against the
United Nations, then the chances
are 100 to 1 Russia will risk no war.
* * *
COULD HAVE STOPPED HITLER
To illustrate: If Adolf Hitler had
known he would have been at war
with France and England when he
sent his troops into the Ruhr and
Rhineland he never would have
given them marching orders. As it
was, fearing war, he gave them two
sets of orders, one to advance and
the second to retreat if the French
resisted. Likewise, Hitler never
would have sent his troops into Aus
tria if he hadn’t known the Allies
were unprepared. He was right as
later events proved. '
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RepjVit&i
in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
WNU Correspondent
WNU Washington Bureau,
ISlf Eye St.. N. W.
Atomic Bomb Must Be Outlawed,
Or Civilization Is Doomed
'TP HE President’s committee,
-*■ headed by Sen. Carl Hatch (D.,
N. M.) which observed the atomic
bomb tests at Bikini, and the mili
tary evaluation board of the joint
chiefs of staff have submitted their
first report on these naval experi
ments in atomic energy.
After reciting the results of the
two blasts, the President’s commit
tee tersely said: “The tests at
Bikini strongly indicate that fu
ture wars employing atomic bombs
may well destroy nations and
change present standards of civili
zation.”
This "reporter, as one who wit
nessed the Bikini experiment, is
firmly convinced that unless there
is a change in thinking, a veritable
revolution in the minds of the Amer
ican people regarding the future of
atomic energy, and specifically the
atomic bomb . . . unless there is
an end to our monopoly of this tre
mendous force, we may keep our
secret for a few short years, but we
shall gain the hate and envy and
suspicion of the entire world.
There is no alternative . . . either
we share the secret of the atomic
bomb and not only outlaw it inter
nationally as a weapon of war, and
outlaw war itself, or we surely are
headed toward a third world war
of annihilation. This nation and no
other nation can protect itself
against atomic power merely by
outlawing it as we have outlawed
poison gas. There is a defense
against poison gas. Within a few
years other nations will have mas
tered the secret of the manufacture
of atomic bombs, and against these
bombs there is and there will be no
defense.
No matter how holy we may be.
in our determination not to use this
absolute weapon aggressively, we
will continue * to reap the distrust
and suspicion of every other nation.
We have used it against Japan. Why
would we not use it again? Such
is the reasoning of worried realists
everywhere.
The Baruch report to the United
Nations, without question, should be
adopted. And the United Nations
should ban the bomb, and to keep
it banned, should organize an inter
national inspection or police force
to make certain there is no evasion
afoot.
'Golden Rule' Cited
Speaking on the atomic bomb and
atomic energy recently, Secretary
of Commerce Henry Wallace said:
“We have all heard of the golden
rule. Some of us say that it is a
beautiful ideal, but not very prac
tical. I say that Christian morality,
not as practiced during the last 1900
years, but as Jesus himself taught
it, has finally become the most
practical thing in the world.
“The golden rule means that we
look at things from the other fel
low’s point of view as well as our
own. If every nation in the world
could, for one week, drop its selfish,
hateful, maneuvering and adopt the
golden rule, we would work out an
international moral code that would
permit us to use atomic energy
safely so as to unlock for us one
door after another to abundance
and joyous living.”
The scientists and physicists who
discovered and successfully manu
factured the atomic bomb are the
most international-minded people in
the world. They have real interna
tional co-operation and internation
al thinking. International peace will
not come until the rest of the peo
ples of the world have this same
feeling of co-operation. Scientists
are aware of the horror they have
created in the atomic bomb . . .
they are aware of the danger of the
Frankenstein boomerang . . . and
no group has been more vocal than
they in urging that their secret,
now our secret, be given to all the
nations and that international con
trol for protection be set up in the
United Nations.
The committee report pointed out
that the bureau of ships is studying
the results of the Bikini tests and
says, “undoubtedly they will point
the way towards changes in ship
size, design and structure.” The
report further says that such
changes in ships can offer increased
immunity from flash and blast ef
fect, but such changes will not pro
tect manpower from the catastro
phe of deadly gamma and neutron
radiation.
This reporter believes that once
atomic energy is let loose in war,
there will be no need for navies.
There will be nothing for them to
protect, no cities, no navy yards,
nor harbor installations. Neither
will there be any need for armies.
For war with atomic bombs will
mean a war of extermination of
civilian populations. The wisest
minds now working in our military
establishment can see no adequate
defense, not even much chance of
minimizing the terrible destruction
which would ensue even by going
deep underground.
STANDARD OF LIVING RISES IN U. S. . . . This photo-diagram
shows how the average income of American families has risen and
how the incomes have been more equally distributed since the semi
depression year of 1936 to the postwar year of 1945. The figures show
that millions of families have joined the middle income group, al
though 70 per cent still fall below the S3,000-a-year mark. In the
lowest brackets the total has dropped nine million families.
PISTOL-PACKIN’ BADGETT QUADS . . . The seven-year-old Badgett
quadruplets, Galveston, who have been accorded high honors by the
governor of Texas, who has named them official Rangerettes. The
girls, in high boots and full “Rangerette” equipment, do a little
target practice on the Galveston beach in preparation for their newly
appointed honor. Left to right: Jeraldine, Jeanette, Joyce, and Joan.
The girls are in the second grade in schooL
TWO AMERICANS IN FRANCE . . . Seeking the peace and quiet
of the French countryside on a Sunday, away from the heated peace
conference at the Luxembourg palace in Paris, U. S. Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes and the American ambassador to France,
Jefferson Caffery, found themselves in the village of Joy-En-Josas.
Caffery (left) and Byrnes (right) are shown with Leon Blum, former
French premier, and his grandchild.
PALS NO LONGER . . . Marshal
Tito, Yugoslav chief of state, is
shown here (left) with U. S. Am
bassador Richard Patterson Jr.,
when they were on a hunting trip
together at Ruma. Patter
son’s outspoken blast in connec
tion with Yugoslav air attacks on
unarmed American transport
planes may have ended a beauti
ful friendship.
GREETINGS, IKE ... A charm
ing Panamanian girl, dressed in
native La Pollera costume, is cap
tured by the warm and friendly
smile of genial General “Ike”
Eisenhower during a temboritO
dance while on visit to Panama.
EX-NAZI ENLISTS . . . Renato
Caravelli, 19, shown at Philadel
phia where he enlisted four weeks
after returning from Germany
where he fought for his Nazi
enemies throughout the war—
against his will.
CHEMISTRY’S HIGHEST . . .
Prof. Roger Adams, University of
Illinois, one of leading organic
chemists, who has been awarded
the Priestley Medal of the Amer
ican Chemical society—the organ
ization’s highest award for 1946.
TENSENESS IN TRIESTE . . . The politically tense situation in
Trieste, bone of contention between Italians and Yugoslavs, snapped
when a hand grenade explosion put a period to pro-Italy demonstra
tion protesting international administration of the disputed zone.
Ten persons were wounded in the explosion. The photograph was
snapped at the height of the turmoil, as a policemrn tried to subdue
one of the demonstrators.
DOUBLE-DECKER . . . Elbie
Fletcher, first baseman of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, and his six-
year-old son, Bobby, team up to
spear a couple of high ones as
they enjoyed a pop-and-son frolic
before game against Cincinnati
Reds.
THE PSYCHIATRIST AND
THE WORLD
("Psychiatry may play an important part
in world peace. United Nations World
Health Organization is told."—News Item)
Doctor (looking at the battered
world) — Now just relax and be
perfectly candid with me. I want
to find out what’s the matter with
you.
World — Can you find anything
th=it ain’t?
Doctqr — It’s all a matter of psy
chiatry, I think; just a matter of
reviewing your past life.
World — Reviewing my past will
be no help, doc. It only makes me
feel worse.
Doctor — Just leave that to me.
Now we’ve got to find out what has
made you act the way you do. Did
anything ever happen to you as a
child? Did you ever fall out of your
high chair?
World — I couldn’t say for cer
tain. But I’ve been falling out of it
ever since!
•
Doctor — I ask that because I ob
serve many bruises on your head.
World — You should see the ones
in some other places!
*
Doctor — Was your home life
marked by violence at any period?
World — Sometimes I don’t feel
that I had any home life; it seems
that I was always on horseback or
on an army truck.
Doctor — Did you as a child feel
frustrated, unable to express your
self, balked in attaining your de
sires?
World — One time when I
showed up with gun powder, which
was really a lovely plaything, they
bawled me out sumpin’ awful. I got
licked for that, too.
Doctor — Clear as a bell! They
filleo your young mind with the
feeling of frustrations. Your
natural development was thwarted.
I’ll bet they even objected when
you played with poison gas.
» World — Yep. What a row they
made. I remember they said I
would come to no good end and
might even wind up as the kind of
boy who would throw atom bombs.
»
Doctor — Just as I thought! You
were never allowed to express your
self fully! You became an intro
vert, a duplexvert and possibly a
nincomvert.
World — Yeah! Ain’t parents
awful?
(This settles everything. The psychia
trist promises to fix him up in no time.
All he has to do is to let himself go, shake
off all inhibitions, regard himself as mas-
tei of his fate, take some new vitamins,
and come in every Tuesday between soars),
• a •
Four Years Later
("Guadalcanal invaded four years ago
this month.”—News item.)
From the dead of Tanembogo,
From Tulagi’s sandy graves
And through Lunga’s battered palm-
trees
And from shallow, fetid caves
Come the voices of our heroes
Like a challenge tensely hurl’d,
“What about them lofty speeches?
"How’s about that better world?”
Gaunt, gray ghosts of valiant young
sters—
Kids who made the sacrifice—
Stir beneath the palm fronds ask
ing
“Cancha make it worth the pries?
What of goods for which we battled?
What of dreams that made us glad?
And the world can merely whisper,
“Would we had the answer, lad!”
* * •
QUITE A GIRL!
“SITUATION WANTED — Young
woman, eager to be world citizen,
seeks work abroad, preferably on
continent. Secretary, script "writer,
radio actress, charm lecturer, fash
ion model. Attractive, educated,
alert to unusual. Box 425 Q.”—Sat
urday Review.
•
If she could only do the laundry
and give bird calls!
• • •
A West Haven, Conn., man, John Spah-
enberg, has developed the winner of a
chicken-of-tomorrow nation-wide elimina
tion contest. It weighs almost four pounds
at the age of 14 tveeks. Now if something
will be done toward smaller potatoes we
may get a good chicken pie.
• • •
Voice of Old Time Ball Fans
This makes us feel old, wizened
wrecks:
Those views of Tyrus Cobb in specs,
• • •
“OPA Raises Price of Bread”—
headline.
•
What goes? We thought OPA was
for keeping down the costs of liv
ing. First it authorizes the smaUer
loaf; now it ups the charge. We
have an idea for a profitable busi
ness: A detective agency protect
ing bread boxes in any home.
• • *
John R. Steelman has refused to
approve another wage raise for
lumber workers. His reply in effect
is “Knots to you!”
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• • •
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cotton makes 12 inch square, use heavier
for 16 inch. Pattern 532 has directions;
stitches.
Send your order to:
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, 111.
Enclose 20 cents for pattern.
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