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Evening star., 1946-06-01
Soviet Military Power
By George Fielding Eliot

There is tendency in this country
to over estimate the present military
resources of the Soviet Union. This
tendency is helpful to the Russians as
they sit with the western powers
around the council table. Consequently,
they do all they can to encourage it,
They talk of their great strength, they
repeatedly state that they are not going
to be intimidated they hint at dire
things which may occur if they do not
get their way. But their actual military
situation does not justify overconfi-
dence
Partly, of course, this is due to self
delusion. The Russian political leaders
get their military advice from the
chiefs of the Red Army. quite naturally
And the chiefs of the Red Army, still
little flushed with victory and justly
proud of their accomplishments, may
be expected to have very natural bias
in favor of the methods by which that
victory was attained They may be
expected to think in terms of great
masses of men, of guns and of tanks,
supported by numerous tactical avia-
ton. Well aware of the defects of the
Russian transportation system, they
may likewise be expected to think in
terms of buffer states and friendly"
neighborS, which means in Soviet par
lance controlled neighbors, in order to
gain more time for an inevitably slow
mobilization.
But it is likely that this obsolescent
military philosophy is being called into
question even now by forward looking
Russians and will be increasingly ques-
toned in future. 1t might be interest
ing to imagine that the little handful
of men in the Kremlin who really con-
troll RuSsia's destinies have called in
non-Russian expert, perhaps one of
the captive German generals, and asked
him for cold-blooded appraisal of
Russia's present military position.
think he would say something like
this.
Gentlemen, your military position
at the moment is not encouraging. You
have lost many millions of the flower
of your young men. You have younger
requirements, but they are not yet
trained, many of them have not yet
reached military age. Your manpower
position will improve; in five years it
will be much better; in Is years it
will be infinitely better. But now it is
bad. Your industrial situation is like
wise suffering severely from the shocks
Evening star., 1946-06-01

President Truman's political future
is behind him, If you can believe some
of the more ardent New Dealers and
their allies in the CIO and the AFL,
not 10 mention A. F. Whitney and AL
vanley Johnston of two railroad broth
erhoods which went on strike. They
don't want him renominated by the
Democratic party in 1948. Some of
them do not want him reelected, if he
is renominated. He committed the un-
pardonable sin of cracking down on
some labor leaders.
If not Mr. Truman for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination, then
who is 1t to be? The late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, during his long
tenure of office, did not build up any
individual followers to presidential sta
ture in his own party. He abandoned
Henry A. Wallace to the tender mercies
of the Democratic National Convention
in 1944-and Mr.. Wallace was not re-
nominated for Vice President Secre-
tary of State Byrnes, who was given
many important jobs to do by Mr..
Roosevelt. was turned down for the
vice presidential nomination-after he
thought he had the go sign from the
President.
Mr.. Wallace had the backing of the
CIO leaders for the vice presidential
nomination in the 1914 convention. He
was effectually stopped, however, by the
party leaders in the big cities of Chi
cago, New York and Jersey City, by
leaders from the Southern States-ex-
cept Senator Claude Pepper of Florida
and from some of the Western States.
The CIO still favors Mr.. Wallace-but
the CIO does not yet own the Demo-
cratic party, though it is doing its best
to gain control
Mr.. Wallace, until the recent ad-
dresses of President Truman attacking
labor leaders and strikes against the
Government, was publicly supporting
Mr.. Truman for reelection in 1948.
After the President made his recon-
mendation to Congress for legislation
permitting the draft of workers who
strike against Government operated
plants, Mr.. Wallace was asked by an
inouiring reporter whether he still in
tended to support Mr.. Truman for re-
election. mo comment" was Mr. Wal
laces reply-according to the published
reports.
Mr.. Wallace was never elected to any
public office-except when he was hand
picked by the late President Roosevelt
in 1910 to run as the Democratic vice
Evening star., 1946-06-01
The Need for immigration

FROM the Brockville Recorder and Times.
Opponents of any resumption of i'm
migration fail to take into account the
fact that there is an immense amount
of hard and perhaps rough work to be
done in this country and that the
established population seems increas-
ingly disincfined to do it. Many, many
men are needed for work on the farms
OF Canada and few of the unemployed
in the towns and cities can be induced
to undertake it, even at the more at
tractive wages that are current. Many,
many men are needed for work in the
woods Other men are required for un-
skilled work associated with the con-
struction trades. If we are to complete
all the construction projects that have
been planned, there is going to be
great shortage of unskilled labor be-
cause people who had taste of WE'LL
paid industrial occupations are scarce
ly interested in that sort of work.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Turn In Munchuriu

The recent capture OF Changchun,
capital of Manchuria, by the Ma
tional Army has yielded important
psychological results in the struggle
between the National government
headed by Chang Kai-shek and the
Chinese Communists. This capture
followed hard on the sweeping vic
tory gained by the Nationalists at
Szepingkai, some sixty miles to the
southwark, the Communists being so
shattered in this battle that they
were unable to reform to defend
the capital.
Thus the pendulum of war in the
Manchurian theater has swung
sharply in favor of the Nationalists.
That is all the more notable when
1t is remembered that the Commu-
nists caught the Nationalist forces
that had been rushed to Man.
churia, following the Russian evacu-
alton, at great disadvantage. Fur
thermore, those Communist forces
had acquired abundant arms and
heavy equipment from japanese
military supplies left in Manchuria
and either given them by the Rus
SLAMS or left so that the Communists
could take them without difficulty.
The early successes of the Com
munistS, eliminating in the capture
of Changchun from a skeleton Ma
tionalist garrison in mid-April, Gre
ated grave doubt as to the ability of
the National government to retrieve
the Manchurian situation. However,
in what appears to have been major
test of strength, the Nationalist
troops have bested the Communists
and have regained control over the
southern part of that vast province,
which is the most developed and
economically the most important
OF course, this does not necessarily
mean the end of the factional strug-
gle, which has spread beyond Man
churia into much of Northern China,
where the Communists are likewise
numerous and powerful. There are
also the attitude and actions of
Soviet Russia to be taken into con-
sideration. Favoring the Chinese
Communists as Moscow pretty OBJ
viously does, it may be that it will
not stand idly by and see them gen.
orally defeated.
Nevertheless the vigor of the Ma
tional government and the ability of
its troops tend to show it's continued
capacity to more than hold its own
In both the military and political
field. That may make the Commu-
mist leaders more amenable to a
new agreement which General Mar
shall is now negotiating, and the
Chinese themselves have begun to
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Chest Federation

With the signing of incorporation
papers by representatives of six
Community Chests in the Washing
ton area the long advocated and
highly desirable Federation of Com
munity Chests has come into being
in time for the next campaign.
Through this move the private relief
agencies of the District and of near
by Maryland and Virginia areas will
join forces in peacetime-as they
did to large extent in time of war
for the purpose of raising and dis
tributing funds for the needy and
otherwise underprivileged elements
of what has become an integrated
metropolitan community.
The advisability of such a CO.
ordination of Community Chest
drives and activities has been ap-
preciated by Chest officials here and
in the suburbs for several years, but
there were a number of practical
obstacles and some sectional preju-
diceS to overcome. The War Fund
drives helped greatly to smooth the
way for the peacetime consolidation.
Those campaigns showed that it was
not only practicable but eminently
sensible to pool resources and en-
ergies for the common good. Con-
flict and confusion resulting from
overlapping and competitive drives
were obviated. the annoyance of
double solicitation in the case of
contributors working in Washington
and living in Maryland or Virginia
was eliminated and a more intelli-
gent analysis of the needs of the
whole area was made possible.
Under the federation plan, Wash
ington, Alexandria and the counties
of Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery
and Prince Georges will mobilize
their chest forces into one great
campaign organization for one con-
be asked to give to the limit of it's
ability and the money raised will be
allotted according to the respective
needs of the communities. The long
view fairness and unselfshness of
this charitable principle have been
conceded by the Chests which have
banded together for their own and
the public's advantage. Many de-
tails remain to be worked out, of
course. Technically, the new organ
ization is still regarded as expert
mental" The next campaign will
be the real test If all the COM
munities do their full share without
stint, there is no reason why the new
federation should not be an over
whelming success.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Letters to The Star
A Mother Asks Some Questions

And Suggests Some Answers
To the Editor of The Star:
And why shouldn't we "view with
alarm? Motion pictures advertise in
our newspapers "the young lovers who
kiss and kill"-"a woman should get a
man first then want him!"-"she
played for nigh stakes in land with
out lava caressin' and carousin'
special =" to name but a few of
the choice bits of bait designed to
lure moviegoers. Can it be possible
that there is no connection between
these lurid and sexy shows and the
appalling increase of juvenile delin-
quency?
Does the current educational trend Of
"individualism" and freedom of ex-
pression"-With its censure, for instance,
of using the word sir" etc, when
speaking to adults or persons of au-
thority-have. no connection whatever
with the fact that high school boys in
this city actually have beaten officers
Of the law and stoned their own prin-
cipal?
Also, by what human right do we
put into the hands of 16-year- -olds
what amounts to an instrument of de-
struction-the automobile, to ride def
ant and headstrong like Phaeton in his
fathers chariot?
These are our children, America We
are told land often by themD that
we owe them all they can get out of
us! What we really owe them-for
themselves, for us and for the coun-
try which, by the grace of God and
many fine lads, still is ours-is good
training!
We should make a concerted stand
against these sensational and demoral-
Hing motion pictures; against the lack
OF discipline at school as we'll as at
home, with its resulting lack of respect
for authority and the rights of others,
and against the continuance of that
law which gives children-without legal
moral or financial responsibility
questionable right to drive automo-
plles! A MOTHER.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Objects to Labor Draft

To the Editor OF The Star:
You can present a man with a cer-
tificate of election, but you can't make
him think.
Never before has the truth of that
statement been SO clear.
Slavery ceased to exist in this country
before Senator Claghorn and most of
the members of the House were born,
and, even if We do have to show people
who come from Missouri, no Pendergast
can change it.
What, then, is the cause of the
confusion?
The confusion, apparently, lies in the
assumption that the right to strike
includes the right to prevent anybody
and everybody from working.
No man can be forced to work. He
may quit his job at any time. regardless
OF his contract. But he may be held
liable in damages, If any result.
Groups of men cannot be forced to
work. They may quit at one and the
same time without being charged with
conspiracy. But, does that give them
the right to hang on to job at which
they refuse to work?
The right to work is as much of a
right as the right to strike, and once
that is acknowledged, we won't need to
run amuck and it is running amuck to
consider, or even threaten to consider
the Army and the Navy of this country
as penal institutions. 1t is an insult
to the Unknowns we guard over in
Arlington, and the thousands who sleep
amid poppies or under coral sands.
During World War I, it was my privi-
lege to visit all corners of my own State
and parts of three or four other States to
point out the call of duty. I met thou
sands of people, but not one Of them
ever indicated that the call to the colors
of this Nation was disgrace. The
drafted as well as the volunteers went.
Each carried with him an idealistic con-
ception of freedom and democracy-in
camp, on the march, in action
Now, however, our Representatives
vote to make criminals of decent citizens
and to besmirch those at whom we
waved flags few months ago.
Humbly, say that no ballot of mine
has ever, or will ever support such a
policy
Unfortunately, those of us who con-
stitute the Government in election years
have not the power to endow those to
whom we intrust administration with
the ability to think. DICK NODAK.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

and dislOcationS of war. You are still
able to turn out great numbers of
tanks and guns, but you are not pre-
pared to turn out long distance avia-
tion, nor do you have a flourishing
electronics industry.
I'm fact, this is your basic defect
almost everywhere, lack of air power
and of sea power, and consequently
lack of strategic mobility. The one
answer which your land power can
make to air power or sea power is to
overrun the bases of these types of
power, which both require support from
the land. But you must be able to do
this quickly enough to avoid irreparable
injury to your own vital centers. In
these days of atomic warfare you can
not hope to do that.
X KS X
Your situation will improve with
time. You will acquire the new weapons
for yourselves. You will be able to
train the army of technicians you will
need. You can build warships and
long range planes, you can acquire
rockets and guided missiles. You can
conquer the secrets of the release of
atomic energy. But when you have
done all this, you must still remember
that for all the foreseeable future,
there is no military security save in
a swift and overwhelming offensive
AS long as the principal powers of
the west, and notably the United States
and Great Britain, retain a well-armed
and well-dispersed position of offensive
readiness, you will do we'll never to
think of carrying matters to the state
Of armed conflict with them
"You should, therefore, if you desire
military superiority for your future pur-
poses, seek to divide these two powers
one from the other, and to weaken
them in every way. Criticize their
armaments programs as being threats
to peace. Cry out in indignation if one
OF them seeks an air base anywhere
outside its own frontiers. And chiefly,
hope with all your hearts that pres
emily they will relax, will go back to
their comfortable dreams as they have
so often done in the past, and neglect
their armaments. Then, if you are of
mind for war, your opportunity may
come. But for that you must wait.
You are in no state for war at present,
gentlemen, believe me-"
That is about what an important
military expert would tell the men of
the Kremlin-if they were to ask.
(Copyright, 1946.)
Evening star., 1946-06-01

what the object OF this unexpected move
is and it is equally impossible to deter
mine the ultimate destination of the
five divisions. The iron curtain has de-
scended over that area of Czechosloyakia.
American and British representatives
cannot move about in portions of that
country which are earmarked as strate-
gic zones.
Equally important movements of
troops from Poland to Southeastern
Germany are reported by civilians who
have managed to escape recently from
Soviet areas. The details given by them
appear to dovetail with other informa-
ton available, but an actual check is
impossible, for no foreigner can pene-
trate the Russian iron curtain. The few
adventurous spirits who have tried it
have never been heard from again.
According to reports from Athens,
Russian troops of undetermined strength
have arrived on the Greek Bulgarian
border. Their presence in that critical
area is explained by the fact that the
roads are bad and the Red ARMY has
sent its own engineers to supervise their
repairs. 1t is recalled, however, that
Bulgaria claims access to the Aegean
Sea, and this can be satisfied only by
the annexation Of Greek territory.
Definite information regarding the
movement of Soviet and satellite troops
is difficult to obtain. There is no liaison
whatever between the military intelli-
gence services of the western and east
ern Allies.
The secrecy surrounding the Red Army
has now been frightened further. The
American and British military missions
in Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest are
virtual prisoners in those capitals and
cannot move even few miles without a
permit from the Russian military COM
mand, which is not liberal with travel
ling permits.
The situation is equally unsatisfactory
in Belgrade and Warsaw, where our
military and naval attaches have been
placed under the closest surveillance by
the Russian and local secret police Any
unauthorized native who talks to Amer
ican officials risks his life.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

government notoriously subservient
to Marshal Tito. All this raises the
question of whether the diplomatic
recognition extended by Washing
ton and London in return for pledges
which the Tito regime has not
lived up to may not perhaps be
withdrawn.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

John Wilson believed that steam
is a tyrant. Yes, and what about
electricity then and this latest
marvel, the fission of the atom: Is
power in its latest, largest sense to
dictate to man or shall it be the
other way round? Everybody knows
what the answer should be, but
nobody seems to know what it
will be.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

sound new note of optimism re-
garding it. It is to be hoped that any
such agreement, If made, will be
kept with better faith on both sides
than the previous one has been.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

Voltaire was not religious man,
but he should have been one-con-
s1dering that he said that God had
granted his only prayer: 20 Lord.
make my enemies very ridiculous!"
Evening star., 1946-06-01

One way to find out how old a man
is perhaps might be that of asking
him if he can remember when there
were Tabbard Inn Libraries scattered
over the United States.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
PordonubIy Yes!

From the Springneld Republican
Lady Astor, on her arrival at New
York, told her interviewerS that she
didn't like glamour girls in politics. Was
she forgetting herself?
Evening star., 1946-06-01

What is so wet as a day in May?
Then, II ever in 1s46, the skies open
and down comes what scientists call
Precipitation"
Evening star., 1946-06-01
And HowIino!
San Francisco Chronicle,

From the San Francisco Chronicle
Never. according to census estimate,
were there so many babies in the Amer
ican population. Posterity, it seems, is
just around the corner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-31
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"a By Elmo Scott Watson
By Elmo Scott Watson
Venturesome Historian


FRANCIS PARKMAN, the famous
! American historian, born in Bos-
ton N 1923 and educated at Har-
ward, underwent terrific hardships
to gather material for his books.
One of the most famous of these
was his history of the Oregon trail.
In order to get thorough under
standing of the people and country
he was to describe, he lived among
the Sioux.
Some historians have said he was
"entertained" by the Indians. but
tortured" might be a better word.
The Oglala Sioux were the fiercest
savages of their day. AS Park
mans hosts they would tell him
stories of how they killed their en-
emies by holding them down in huge
fires with poles until they burned to
death.
The hardships he underwent
brought him i'll health from which
he suffered for the rest of his life.
Yet, besides writing many famous
historical books, he became over
seer of Harvard in 1868, professor
of horticulture in 1869 and from 1875
to 1888 he was a Harvard fellow.
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-31
1915 Precipitation Tops Average;
Rainfall Aggregates 37.75 Inches

Precipitation in the Bluffton area
during the last year was slightly
greater than the 40-year average,
reaching an aggregate amount of ST.
rs inches during the 12-months period.
Monthly average for the year was
3.15 inches, somewhat higher than the
1914 average of 2.99 inches.
Heavy snowfall in the early part of
1915 contributed to the years aver
age, with 4112 inches recorded by
weather observers. This is almost IL
inches more than the 40-year average
of 306 inches.
June was the wettest month of 1945,
with precipitation of 6.42 inches.
September with 5.23 inches of rainfall
stood second.
July % was the hottest day last
year, with the thermometer reading
reaching a maximum of 96 degrees.
January 2 and December 16 were the
coldest days with the mercury dipp-
ing to five below zero on both occa-
sions.
Maximum and minimum tempera-
lures for the year missed established
records for the area by wide margins.
The hottest mark for the locality was
set in August 1918 when the mercury
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-31
Bluffton College Chapel Audience
Hears SenOrita From Venezuela

Oranges as large as grapefruit and
large, beautiful orchids that cost only
20 cents are common in Venezuela,
Senorita Adela Rodriguez, a home
demonstration agent in that country,
told Bluffton college students at a
chapel meeting last Wednesday.
The comely South American teacher
spent two days on the Bluffton college
campus to study the handicraft pro-
jects developed by Prof. J. p. Klassen,
of the art department.
In this country for further training
in the Home Demonstration field, SEN
orita Roderiquez visited two educa-
tional institutions in Ohio-Bluffton
and the Ohio State university.
In Venezuela, she told her chapel
audience, bananas are plentiful and
cost only one cent for half a dozen.
Flowers, such as gardenias and or
chids, are plentiful.
Courtship in South American coun-
tries is carried on differently than in
the United States, the speaker said.
A young lady is not permitted to take
a prospective bridegroom into her
home until after he has accompanied