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THE NEWBERRY SUN. VEWRERRY. S. C.
Washington Di9cstj
Is U.S. Going Socialist?
It's World-Wide Argument
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—As congress sharpens its teeth for the
*True-Deal” program (The “true” being for Truman), some of the
gentlemen who have watched things going on behind the scenes in
Washington for a long time (maybe too long) have a habit of
blinking and saying in hushed voice:—
“Say, is America going socialist without knowing it?”
Long before the November election a number of European statesmen,
editors, professional politicians and others who are backing the various
socialist and socialist-inclined governments, including Britain’s, were
getting really worried lest a probable Republican victory should make
an emphatically capitalistic America less sympathetic toward left-of-
center regimes.
The Truman upset caused them to
whoop with joy. After they read the
President’s state of
the union message
on January S, and
after his appoint
ment of Dean Ach-
eson as secretary
of state, they pulled
out a chair on the
left side of the inter
national table, ex
pecting him to sit
right down and join
them.
What was prob
ably as much wish
ful thinking as any-
BAUKHAGE thing else caused
the official Social
ist party organ of France to hail the
administration program as definite
ly socialistic. Most of the rest of
the French press took about the
same view, even to the somewhat
lonely, pro-capitalistic Figaro which
said the message was "close” to
socialism.
The same view was taken by the
left-wing press in other European
countries—(I’m not counting the
Communists who merely rang the
old propaganda changes). However,
the independent Manchester
Guardian, long known as the rock
of liberalism and likewise as an
outstanding voice in British jour
nalism, took a different tone. The
Guardian always has been exceed
ingly well informed concerning the
United States and probably under
stands America as well as any
foreign newspaper. It said:
"Mr. Truman’s program is an
indication that socialism is not
the only path for the left. Its
goal might be called the insur
ance state. Its method the de
liberate shortening of the odds
against the weak. But without
abandoning the basically in
dividualist way of life which is
accepted as characteristically
American.”
Comment from the extreme right
in this country, in congress and out,
chose to see Skipper Truman chart
ing a course for the Ship of State
which veered far to the left of cen
ter, in fact headed straight for the
rocks on which free enterprise, in
dividual initiative, in fact all phases
of capitalism, would be sunk with
out a trace.
That, however, was not the opin
ion of the majority of the Repub
lican party, and, already signs are
showing that it isn’t the intention of
the majority of the Democrats to let
such a catastrophe overtake us,
even if they think the Skipper would
be willing to risk it, which they
don’t believe he is.
The alarmists point to the rather
startling suggestion on the part of
the President that the government
study production with a view is
offering loans to the steel, and other
industries for expansion of plants
and increased production.
If the companies refuse to co
operate, it was suggested the
government-owned steel plants
would be erected. That does
sound like a long step toward
nationalization of industry. But
other observers, both those who
consider the idea fatal to free
enterprise and those who be
lieve in such government-run
ventures as the Tennessee Val
ley Authority, consider it more
of a threat than a promise.
In that connection the recent con
troversy behind the iron curtain
which has finally leaked out in
specific and detailed form is inter
esting. One document consists of
reports of a three-day conference
of Soviet economists held last May,
the other is a study of Russian
economy during World War II, by
a member of the all-powerful polit-
buro. Both documents attack the
theories of Eugene Varga, interna
tionally known Russian economist
and former director of the World
Institute of Economics in Moscow.
Those ‘Anxious’
Russian Leaders
mysterious remarks, it might in
dicate that there is or was an
element in the Soviet leadership
which felt it was better to try to
get along with us.
The explanation of the contro
versy among Russian economists
is this: Soviet foreign policy,
specifically maintenance of the
cold war, is supposed to be based
on a belief that the United States is
headed directly toward another de
pression. This “bust” will so sap
our strength that all the Soviets will
have to do is to take us over with
little or no real military struggle.
(The revolt of the proletariat) We’ll
be too down and out to help anti
communist Europe. The anti-com
munist countries will fall easily into
Communist control. Then we can be
beaten largely by infiltration, fifth
column “action committees” and
other methods because there will be
general unemployment, discontent
and general chaos.
This belief is based on the
teachings of Marx and Lenin
that capitalism is bound to de
stroy itself because it produces
“boom and bust” cycles which
grow increasingly worse, and
therefore, it is impossible for a
capitalist country to try to do
anything permanent for the
masses to increase their stand
ard of living.
Now, however, along comes Var
ga, introducing a new argument. He
argues that by adopting measurer
which he describes as “state so
cialism” any major depression in
the United States can be prevented
or at least postponed for 10 or 20
years. If this thesis were accepted
by the Soviets it would be wiser to
cooperate with the United States
and other non-Communist coun
tries, rather than to take for granted
that our economic system as well as
theirs is going to continue for some
time. On that theory it would be to
the Soviets’ interests, for the pres
ent at least, for the Kremlin and the
White House to play ball.
What are the measures of "state
socialism” Varga is talking about?
The various social and welfare
proposals like expanded social se
curity, national health insurance,
federal aid to education, under
takings like the Tennessee Valley
Authority and the many other re
forms which started under the New
Deal, and which President Truman
now urges should be carried for
ward or expanded.
In the early part of the Presi
dent’s state of the union message
he announced in popular language
the underlying theory of his ad
ministration. He said:
“We have rejected the dis
credited theory that the for
tunes of the Nation should be in
the hands of the privileged few.
We have abandoned the ‘trickle-
down’ concept of national pros
perity. Instead, we believe that
our economic system should
rest on a democratic foundation
and that wealth should be
created for the benefit of all.”
Whether or not the majority of
the people have rejected that theory
remains to be seen. There are still
many people who believe that no
country can be prosperous unless it
is strong at the top and that it can
not be strong at the top, that busi
ness and industry cannot prosper,
unless free enterprise have the
widest liberty possible. That capital
should be encouraged by the in
centive of profit to take risks and
challenge competition. That govern
ment interference destroys the ini
tiative which has made the country
great. That once business is un
shackled by federal bureaucracy,
the benefits flow (not trickle) down
and spread out to benefit the whole
people.
The National Association of State
Chambers of Commerce, one of a
hundred business organizations tes
tifying against a bill which would
would permit the TVA to build a
new steam plant at Johnsonville,
said:
This controversy, according to
Walter Lippman, may be the real
basis of President Truman’s Kansas
City statement that there were
"certain leaders” in Russia who
were “exceedingly anxious” to
reach an understanding with the
United States. Even if the row
among the economists wasn’t the
inspiration for the President’s
". . . this government can
not continue much longer
to aid in the growth
of tax-exempt or govern-
ment-owned enterprises, thus
narrowing the nation’s tax base,
without throwing greater bur
dens upon the remainder of the
taxpayers and without gradually
strangling free enterprise to
death.”
CAN-CAN "GIRL” . . . C. Robert
Jennings, Eufaia, Ala., is dressed
for his role as a chorus member
In Princeton university’s annual
Triangle Club show, this year en
titled "All in Favor.” He is of the
class of ‘51, a Culver graduate,
active in crew and tennis and a
member of the editorial board
of the Princeton Tiger magazine.
He is wearing the costume of the
can-can number, one of the high
lights of the show.
TOGETHER . . . Mrs. Cara Cor-
tazzo, 107, is shown with her
great - great - granddaughter,
Sharon Patricia George, in Wil-
merding, Pa. Mrs. Cortazzu was
born New Tear's day, 1842, in
Italy.
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER . . .
Representative Sam Rayburn,
Texas, ousted as speaker by Re
publicans in 1946, takes over his
old job again after being elected
on a straight party vote of 255
to 160.
BULGARIA’S NO. 1 RED . - -
Prime Minister Georgi Dimitrov
looks so much like Russia’s top
man in the Kremlin that in his
big mustache, he is often mis
taken for the Red chief. But he’s
big man enough in Bulgaria,
where he is Stalin’s right hand
man.
PULPIT TEMPEST ... An or
dained minister at four, Marjoe
Gortner raised a tempest of crit
icism when he performed the
wedding ceremony for a Cal
ifornia couple. Supporters said
there was no age limit on min
isters, the ceremony was legal.
However, it was ruled illegal.
DON’T BELIEVE IT . . . There’s an old saying that the "camera never
lies”, but that you can’t always believe what you see is amply demon
strated here. Seaman apprentice Robert Bradford of Chicago apparently
is supporting Italy’s famed leaning tower of Pisa with his own two
hands, but it’s only camera magic. Bradford is a member of a naval
unit visiting Italy.
"INTRODUCTION” . . . This photo, made some time ago, seems
prophetic in view of the resignation of Secretary of State George C.
Marshall. Secretary Marshall is pointing to Under-Secretary of State
Dean Acheson as if introducing him. In announcing Marshall’s resigna
tion, President Truman said Acheson had been named to succeed him.
The post of undersecretary will be filled by James E. Webb, budget
director.
NO HOOKEY PROBLEM . . , No scholar is likely to play hookey from
the Sam Hughes public school in Tucson—at least not during "go
western week”, for school is more fun than a three-ring circus. Pupils
don western garb, as do teachers, and the curriculum for the week
includes lessons in rope spinning, technique of handling a six-shooter and
other cow country folklore.
RUGGED VOYAGE . . . That’s what seems in store for Oarl Madrid,
44, Chicagoan enroute to New Orleans aboard a raft which he made
himself, and which is powered with an outboard motor. Madrid was
uncertain as to how long it would take him to complete his journey,
but said that when he reached New Orleans he plans to live aboard his
raft and do some writing.
RESOLUTION TROUBLE .
With the new year well in its
stride, Mr. Elmer Twitchell today
reported that his new leaf turning,
so bravely undertaken a few days
back, has run into a stone wall. To
day he found himself picketed a;
unfair to organized leaf turners.
*
Mr. Twitchell claims that he had
hardly turned over a new leaf be
fore he was cracked down on, with
heated contentions that he could
not turn over a new leaf single-
handed, but must put on from one
to three helpers.
•
It seems that even the Leaf
Turners are organized. Mr.
Twitchell was notified almost
immediately after making bis
brave New Year’s resolution
that (1) he has violated the
rules by not submitting his new
leaves for a vote, that (2) in all
cases where more than two
leaves are to be turned the work
must be shared and that (3) he
must pay extra for this assist
ance.
“I got notices from the American
Federation of New Leaf Turners,
the Committee on Organized Good
Resolution Makers, the National
Association for the Substitution of
Good Habits For Bad and the Na
tional Association for the Substitu
tion of Good Habits For Bad and
the National Federation on Changes
in Personal Conduct," said Mr.
Twitchell, “all asking where I got
the ide& I could turn a leaf on my
own.
. >
“All my new leaves were ruled
null and void and I was notified
they would remain so until I agreed
td turn them all over again, using
two helpers—one to assist in the
actual work of turning over each
leaf, the other to assist in the daily
work of keeping each resolution.
This second helper insisted on the
five-day, 40-hour week, which would
leave me with no outside assistance
in keeping my good resolutions
Saturday and Sunday.
• /
“Furthermore, I am at my
weakest in keeping resolutions
between 6 p. m. and midnight
and would have to pay overtime
for all help after 4:30.
*
“Well, I argued that I had always
done my own new leaf turning,
boy and man, and could not afford
help; but I was picketed in no
time as unfair to organized makers
to good intentions. I appealed to
the NLRB and it sent up a commit
tee last night to go over the whole
matter. I made a poor impression
before it because, in the confusion
and excitement, I had forgotten
what new leaves I had turned over
and was all balled up.
♦
“I don’t know just where I stand
today, but I think I am licked. I
just heard a jurisdictional dispute
has cropped up. Somebody has
claimed that I lack jurisdiction in
my 1949 resolutions. It looks bad. I
may forget the whole business and
go back to my 1948 habits.”
• • •
Shudda Haddim is still moan
ing low because he missed the
recent Tropical Park $2,386 daily
double, with Sue’s Special and
Little Mattie, the latter, winning
at $254.70. “And I have the
hunch!” he weeps. “I trip over
the bathmat that morning,
which I know means sumpin’.
But I dope it out to mean Mattie
Girl, which comes in a bad
third and I miss Little Mattie
entirely. I tell ya racing is
crooked!”,
• • •
Te Gotham Bugle & Banner
Something of a wonder man in
his way is Irving Caesar who
reached the bights of a Carnegie
hall appearance the other day with
his program for arousing the in
terest of the small fry in tolerance,
safety and health through songs.
Caesar had a new idea and he
stuck to it. It may bring him a
fortune. Hope so . . . One of the
first jokes ye old ed everheard in
a theater was that old crack, "You
look like the feller who once sold
me an Essex,” and darned if Phil
Silvers didn’t use it on his video
show a few nights ago . . . Dunn-
inger’s last mind-reading feat was
to read the headline being written
by a Philadelphia editor almost 100
miles away and he did it! . . But in
greeting Bobby Lunn as a prelude
to the stunt he called him "Jimmy.”
• • •
Speaking of horses, a horse
called Hash Night won a race in
Florida the other afternoon. The
chartmakers probably reported that
it showed plenty of everything and
looked like a repeater.
• • •
Architects report now that the White
House is a far greater wreck than we
had supposed and that it may cost 10
million dollars to make it safe for
occupation. That goes to show what
can happen with one piano and a lot
of movie people and night club pro
prietors dropping in.
Truman Answers Taft
W HEN MEMBERS of the nation
al labor relations board dropped
in to see President Truman the oth
er day, they found him seated al
his desk writing a letter in long-
hand. Looking up, he said:
“I’ll bet you don’t know whom
I’m writing to.” Then, without wait
ing for an answer, he added: “Sen
ator Taft.”
Continuing, Truman read Taft’s
letter, which went somewhat as
follows:
"As I leave for Europe I want to
send you my best wishes f or your
new administration.
“You and I have differed on
some things in the past, and no
doubt will differ ag^in in the future.
But I want you to know that in such
cases where we agree, I hope you
will call on me for whatever help I
can give you in the senate of the
United States.”
Looking up from the letter, Tru
man winked at the labor board
members and said:
"You know I don’t think that fel
low wanted Dewey to win, after
all.”
• • •
One-Man Lobby
Congressman George Bender of
Ohio, Republican, is the man who
gave his friends Christmas presents
of new brooms when the 80th con
gress came into power exactly two
years ago.
Today Congressman Bender
finds himself swept out of office
by popniar reaction to the Re
publican broom; so this Christ
mas, Bender who has a real
sense of humor, has been send
ing his friends a different kind
of Christmas present. It con
sists of Dewey campaign neck
ties, and sweatshirts featuring a
picture of the G.O.P. presiden
tial candidate, with the admoni
tion "do it with Dewey.”
Furthermore, the resourceful Ben
der has alreac’y found a job. He
has appointed himself a one-man
lobby for the American people, snd
plans to appear at all congressional
committee meetings to read some
interesting literature to the Demo
crats.
The literature he intends to read
will be: the Democratic platform,
» • •
Mushrooming Maryland
During the last year of the Civil
War, Gen. Jubal Early came within
a few hours of capturing the capital
of the United States. His troops ar
rived at a point of Wisconsin Ave
nue where now stands the Sears
Roebuck store, and if Jubal hadn’t
stopped for a round of mint juleps
at the farm new occupied by Eugene
Casey of Gaithersburg, Md., the
capital would have fallen to the
Confederacy.
Immediately afterward the Mary
land area which his troops occupied
just outside the city was captured
through peaceful politics by the
Democratic narty, and has remain
ed Democratic ever since.
In the succeeding years, it also
has become the second largest city
of Maryland. Actually a suburb of
Washington, D. C., the mushroom
city of Silver Spring ranks second
only to Baltimore in the size of
Maryland cities.
Silver Spring and sprawling,
densely populated Montgomery
county around it for a long time
were governed—and rather well—
by a Democratic boss, E. Brooi:
Lee, Then the Republicans, hungry
for power, two years ago persuad
ed local Maryland voters to install
a system of nonpolitical government
by council and county manager.
This has proved an important
experiment. One aspect also has
proved amusing. For, although
the county supervisor has given
the area the best, cheapest and
most efficient government in
years, the Republican commis
sioners now want to get rid of
the whole system.
Reason: Their brief taste of ru.
ning the second largest city in
Maryland and its surrounding area
has whetted their appetite for more.
« * *
Successful Experiment
This amusing aspect, however,
only helps to emphasize the effic
iency of the experiment taxing
place under the nose of the city
which governs the rest of the Uni
ted States. It is an experimert
which already has grown to 812
other cities of the U. S. A. and to
15 counties.
What’s happened In Maryland’s
Mongomery county is that school
teachers, once woefully underpaid,
now are better paid in some cases
than those in the District of Colum
bia. The measly sum of $12,500 or.ee
spent annually for school mainten
ance has been increased to $128,000.
The amount of new roads built ev
ery year has been tripled. The pol
ice system ha* been revamped and
modernized. Nurses’ salaries have
been raised. And the mushroom
are- which thrives on the edge of
the capital hag become one of the
most progressively governed in the
East
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