davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

Sovietuose visi vel
Nubiedninti

III = rOJuJe StalinO
lsakymu, visi komisarai ir nro-
letarai Xxi vienam padaryti 10
kartq biednesniais. Vienu pa-
mo]lmu visi tureio ispildyti
lsakyma - atnesti visus savo
turlmus Xxi siol rublius. ir uz
lo senu rubliu gavo tik viena
rubli.
Ialp visi kurie buvo jau pra-
slgyvene rubliais, visi kurie is
tlklmai Stalinui tarnavo ir tu-
redaml geresnes vietas galeio
rubliu susikrauti (ypac kad
sovletuose mazai buvo kas pir-
ktD, dabar paliko vel palygi-
namai biedni.
zinovai tikrina kad Sis zygis
yra privertimas sovietu paval-
diniQ vel sugryzti atgal pro-
letariato gyvenima ir pasitike-
tt savo islaikymu nuo valsty-
bes.
Rusijoje infliacija buvo pa
siekus to laipsnio kad uz MAJ
nlekius moketa Simtais rubliu.
Rusai, kad ir komunistai. is
glrde gandus kad rublis bus
branginamas, griebesi pirkine-
tt ka tik ,galejo gauti. Tas pir-
kimo isisiubavimas ir dabar
tesiasi. Perka ka gall gauti ir
uz naujus rublius.
Nors sovietai skelbia kad SUI
naujais rubliais kainos nupige,
taciau jeigu turejes 10000 rub
liu komisarukas liko tiktai SUI
l tukstanciu rubliu, tai kad ir
pirks ka uz maziau rubliu, Wis
tik jauciasi kad is jo Stalinas
ateme 5000 jo uzdirbtu rubliu
isanksto uz visa tai ka parduos
pigiau naujais rubliais.
SIOJE SALYJE saldyto mai
sto laikomo sandeliuose kiekiai
pasieke rekordo: Gruodzio l d.
uzsaldyto maisto tureta 4,8OO,-
100000 svaru, arba apie 20 mi
lijonu svarQ daugiau negu tu-
reta menuo pirmiau.
AMERIkA mokes tarp 80 ir
80 nuos. visu kastu kokie susi-
darys islaikymui Britu-Ameri-
kos zonu Vokietijoje bendrai.
W tai Amerika gauna is An
glu tam tikras privilegijas Bri-
tu bonos kontroleje.
Amerikai atsieis po apie 800
milijonu dolariu metuose pra-
dedant 194S metals. Britanijai
moketi dalis bus apie $121,-
100000.
Amerika ir Britannia sutiko
supirkti 10000 tonu zuvies is
Islandijos, kuri bus parvezta
Vokietija Britu ir Americas
zonu zmonems maitinti.
KOVAI SUI maisto kainomis,
PREF. Truman pasizadejo vie
Sal paskelbti zymiuosius sales
grudq ir kitu pragyvenimo rel
kmenu spekuliantus.
Vienas ir pats pirmiausias is
tokiu spekuliantu pasirode Ed
win w. Pauley, vienas is auks-
tu valdzios istaigu sekretoriu.
Jis verciamas is tos vietos
rezignuoti.
! WESTERN Union TELEGRAPH
darbininkai, $4,000 skaiciuje,
nusitare sustreikuoti Gruodzio
| z3 d.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19
PARYZIUS atmete d

PARYZlUS atmete dar
dvi Maskvos oficiales notas
kuriose sovietai protestuo-
ia prizes Prancuzijos ares
tavima ir isvijima sovietu
rekatriacijos komisijos. Ia
komisija landziojo tarp Ru-
sQ pabegeliu agituodama
juos gryzti, ir ware komu-
nistine propaganda Pran-
cuzijoje prizes vyriausybe.
Gruodzio 13 Prancuzija
isvijo dar 9 sovietu narius
is savo Sales.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19
DAUG miliionu dolariu bus

DAUG milijonq dolariu bus
isdalinta ivairiu sios SALES is
dirbysciu ir bizniu darbinin-
kams sias Kaledas pavidale bo-
nu ir kitokiq premijQ.
Xiii sake, kompanijos moke-
damos bonus apeina mokejima
valdziai taksu uz tas sumas.
Tas tiesa, bet tos sumos pa
sirodo darbininku ineigose il
darbininkai uz savo gautas di-
desnes sumas vistiek turf mo-
keti taksus.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19
ZYDAI PalestinOje |

giasi atkakliai kovai uz sa-
vo teises prizes Arabus. Ten
pasikartoja saudymai, bet
tikima ivyks ir astriQ susi-
kovimu dideleje skaleje.
Amerikos Zydai nutare
sukelti 1895, 100000 zydu
reikalams 1913 metams. TV
pinigu daugiausia teks Pa
Iestinos gelbejimo tikslams
- ginklams ir tt.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

JOHN L. LEWIS, maine
riu unijos vadas, istrauke
United Mine Workers ir
Amerikos Darbo Federaci-
jos, pasekmeje nesutikimu
kokie iskilo Spaliu menesl
San Francisco konerenci-
.joje.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19
UNITED NATIONS q

sedyje sovietu atstOVas pa
reiske kad U. N. gales gy-
vuoti pasekmingai. Refs
kia, patyre kad toje orga-
nizacijoje kitos valstybes
leidzia Maskvos atstovams
visus kolioti ir izeidineti il
komunistine propa g a n d q
varyti, sovietai nori y. N,
dalyvauti ir toliau.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

ZYDAI nori pavadinti
savo valstybe, jiems skiria-
ma Palestinos dali, Naujo-
il Judeja.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

VALDzIA plecia maisto
taupymo programa; dienos
be mesos, be kiausiniu pa
liekamos ant toliau; svars-
toma suvarzymas didesnio
grudu sunaudojimo.
Salye norma ivesti sava-
nori gasoline racionavima,
taupymui gasoline.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19
SOVIETAI Wis gauna

SOVIETAI Wis gauna IS
Americas 'pozeminiu budu'
lend-lease pagalba, kaip ta
iskelia Senatorius Bridges,
apkaltindamas State De-
partmenta uz siuntima Ru-
sijon visokiu Americas is
dirbiniu.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

Beveik kekvenoje Lietuviq tremtniu stovyko Voketo
je yra kuks dainty gydymo tasymo kabinetas kur fl
zina nuslpusu trentniq dantys przurim aisom pagal
galmybes Tremtniu svekatos rekaams truksta vastu,
nstrumentu, stiprnancio masto r kitokiu rekenu Au
kokte r siuske aukas BALFui 105 Grand Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

Britai padare SUI Maskva
sutarti gavimui grudu is
Rusijos duonai, o Rusams
duos maSineriju.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-12-19

WESTERN Union TELEGRAPH
darbininkai, $4,000 skaiciuje,
nusitare sustreikuoti Gruodzio
z3 d.
Trys gelezinkeliu darbinin-
ku unijos balsuoja streikavimO
klausimu.
Evening star., 1947-07-06

Marty Marion quit minor league team when they refused
give his girl pass for Sunday doubehe4der The girl
Mary Dallas now Mrs. Maron), This famous baseball
couple met at high school football game Married in 1887
Evening star., 1947-09-08
Constantine Bro,Dn

The reports of desperate economic
conditions in Western Europe, par
ticularly in Britain, France and
Italy, are being fully confirmed by
Evening star., 1947-09-08
Legion Vote to Outlaw Communist Party
Seen as Actual Aid to Nations Reds

slightly more than Is per cent In
France. However, it should be
borne in mind that both in Italy
and France economic conditions
following the war provided fertile
soil for communism.
When one turns to those coun-
tries more directly in the Russian
orbit, the record is not more i'm
pressive. In Hungary, even though
Red soldiers occupied the country,
less than IS per cent Of the people
voted Communist, even after Mos
COW had engineered a coup d'etat
to set up a Communist government
Balkan Elections Not Free.
In the Balkan states, where the
shadow Of the Russian bear dark
ems the political vision Of the
people, four states have voted pro-
Communist - Rumania, Albania
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Only the
naive, however, would regard these
as free elections" In Greece, al
though the late King George II
was something less than 8 hero
the people chose him rather than
communism.
Historically, 1t has been possible
to impose communism only on those
militarily weak countries where both
the standard of living and the
spiritual fortitude Of the people
have oegenerated to such a degree
that they have become desperate.
Although the economy of many
nations aside from Russia Is at its
worst in all history, there is not
a single one to which one can
point and say, these people have
voluntarily chosen communism in
their desperate search for economic
security"
That we, as q Nation, should be
concerned with the obstructive at
titude of the Soviet Union toward
world peace, and that we should
regard with doubt the ominous mill
tary machine that the Soviet gov
ernment has perfected, is proper.
But hysterical outbursts about COM
munism only react on the hysteric.
Hysteria weakens both morally and
intellectually The Russians can
never impose communism generally
by force any more successfully than
we could impose democracy in the
same manner, If we were foolish
enough to try.
When one compares the gradual
acceptance of democracy, follow
ing the American and French rev.
olutions. with the revulsion to COM
munism since its conception, one
can find comfort in the proven
fact that while Iberatarian ide-
ologies need not be forced, totali-
tartan ones cannot be maintained
except by force. And in the end
force is selfdefeating.
(Copyright. 1947)
Evening star., 1947-09-08

The crops in Europe have been
bad. England has relied in the past
on imports to feed her people; her
agriculture has been a negligible
portion of her economic life in
the last 100 years. But even the
limited quantity of foodstuffs pro-
duced on the island Is far below
expectations.
The European governments seem
willing to do everything in their
power to obtain Americas support
on the basis of helping themselves
before additional assistance can be
given. But these governments-par-
ticularly those of France and Italy
are handicapped politically by
Communist activities. The Rama
dier government has just won a
thin political victory" with the
aged premier receiving vote OF
confidence by small margin from
the National Assembly. 1t is posi-
BILE that when that body reconvenes
in November the members attitude
will be different.
New Elections Due This Year.
The Italian parliament has a pro
visional status and new elections
may be expected this year although
Premier de Casper Is endeavoring
to postpone them until sometime
next year. Their willingness to CO.
operate fully with the United States
Is handicapped by an increasing
discontent on the part Of the work.
ing classes, including the white-col-
lar workers.
The cost of living is spiralling to
fantastic levels in Western Europe.
The fact that our essential COM
modities are rising, too, makes the
situation even worse. A bushel Of
wheat which costs $265 in Chicago
today will cost the governments OF
Europe at least so per cent more by
the time 1t has been handled and
transported overseas: Hence the cost
Of bread is bound to rise proper
tionately. And bread is one Of the
main staples Of the Europeans.
An additional burden is that with
the crops bad in Europe this year
the farmers in France and Italy
Evening star., 1947-09-08
Man to Man
Bv Harold L. Ickes

The American Legion at its re-
cent convention adopted resolu-
tion that, in effect, proposed that
help be given to the spread of COM
Evening star., 1947-09-08
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER g., ls47.

There are no walters, 80 the man
agement, In q valiant effort to carry
on, just lays out the food on long
tables and lets the guests rustic for
themselves. There are more Amer
ican tourists in this hotel than we
have seen any other place since we
left home. The strike has brought
us all together. and it's like one big,
happy house party. We wave and
call to one another as we toll up
the stairs and stop to pant on the
landings.
No Surliness in Lima.
Unlike strikes in America, there
is no note of surliness in Lima. The
cops haven't been called in, no one
has had his head Dashed. and the
papers aren't filled with ringing
editorials pro and con. Actually,
Lima has taken on the air of city
during fiesta.
At the height of the strike, word
came from Madrid that one of the
greatest bullfighters. Manuel Ro-
driquez. had died This celebrated
matador appeared here last year.
and was far and away the most
popular man in Lima. He was to
have come to the Lima ring again
this year, and when word of his
death reached this city, it far over
shadowed the strike.
Thanks to the strike. the men,
women and children of Lima had
ample time to pay tribute to the
memory of Rodriguez. They pa
raded through the streets, carrying
great wreaths with which they all
but smothered the city's monuments.
One daily paper devoted an entire
issue to the skill. courage and
artistry of the matador. A Lima
citizen told me that he was happy
about the strike-that without It
the citizens would not have had
time to pay proper tribute to the
greatest bullfighter ever to appear
here.
Wish I had known this strike
was going to happen. I would have
brought along bellhop's uniform.
I could have picked up enough
money to pay expenses.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1947-09-08
On the Record
Social Democracy Is Seen Threatened
By Failure of British Government

responsive to the advice of the
know-it-all agricultural commits
sars.
Pensioners and salaried middle
class people have been ground into
genuine austerity, where their in
comes barely cover rationed neces-
sites. But the whole of the work
ing class, the farmers, and most
businessmen have more money In
their pockets than they ever did
This vastly increased spending
power raises demand in the face of
drastic shortages, and the combi-
nation adds up to unwillingness to
work.
Spending power more than covers
rationed necessities and there is
nothing else to do with 1t except
to purchase freedom from toll. This
inclination to leisure-enhanced
since so much Of ones time, espec-
tally the time of women, is taken
up standing in queues and filling
out forms-reduces production. It
Is to be counteracted by continuing
to keep up and even increase spend
ing power in higher wages and
bribes, while driving labor into
needed occupations and exhorting
it to harder work by alternately
glowering at and fiattering it-as
Mr.. Bevin did last week.
Gold Proposal Preposterous.
Mr.. Bevin's speech was made
more preposterous by the hint
that all would be well If only the
United States would redistribute its
gold. The latter is either dema-
goguery-to soften the fact that
only harder work will save Britain,
while finding a scapegoat for the
British government-or it reveals
an incredible ignorance.
|. At any rate, the whole policy
does not make a grain of sense.
There was gross lack of foresight
in both Washington and London
when the loan was negotiated. I
don't suppose that responsible per-
sons in either government will be
fired. There is simply no limit to
the tenure in Office of fools spend
ing other peoples money. But there
is not even hindsight In Whitehall
today.
And 1t is politically very serious.
Two years ago British democratic
socialism was hailed all over Europe
as the wave Of the future and the
answer to both reaction" and COM
munism. If. as is happening, it
proves to be the answer to nothing
to be merely shaky seat between
the two stools of imitation with
high purchasing power and austerity
then European social democracy,
on which both Britain and United
States have been basing their hopes,
simply will fall into contempt.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1947-09-08

/
than it is today.
The attempted suppression OF an
idea, however fallacious that idea
NAV be, always has the opposite
effect. The Legionnaires had ap-
parently not read their histories
understandingly. If they had thought
at all, except the small controlling
group that works seriously while
the great mass indulges in its annual
l. high jinks, their thinking was not
logical.
It has long been automatic that
it is impossible to kill ideas with
bullets. The Legionnaires who
thoughtlessly adopted their reso-
luton might well have consulted
Secretary of State Marshall and
Gen. Wedemeyer, to say nothing OF
others of experience and insight,
who could have advised them that
the only way to fight communism
effectively is to improve the eco
nomic and social conditions that
stimulate its growth.
Better to Face Enemies.
It always is preferable to face
ones enemies. The thought Of out
lawing the Communist Party is self
defeating. On the contrary, it should
be encouraged to nominate candl-
dates, to have its press and to hold
it's meetings. Thus it would show
how pitiably weak 1t is in this
country. It's leaders realize that
unknown strength is exaggerated
strength. One may suspect that this
suggestion of the Legion to drive
the Communist Party underground
is not diSpleasing to the Com
munists. I suspect that, if it had
been left to the Communists them
selves, precisely such resolution
would have been adopted.
During the 80 years of its exist
ence, no country, other than Soviet
Russia, has adopted communism
voluntarily and even there 1t is
probably only a well-organized mi
nority that has managed to obtain
control of the government. Wher-
ever free elections have been held
in Western Europe following World
War II, the Communists have failed
to achieve a majority.
In Great Britain, in 1945, almost
400 Laborites were elected, and
precisely two Communists. In Bel
gium and The Netherlands, the
Communists received less than IS
per cent of the vote; in Finland. not
one person in four voted the Com
munist ticket; in Denmark not one
in five; in Czechoslovakia, only one
person in three. The Communists
received approximately II per cent
of the vote in Norway and Sweden,
almost 20 per cent in italy and
Evening star., 1947-09-08

IL. usually Une blIld SIlUphccpcis
have pretty tough day Of it, open
ing their stores at 8, closing them
from noon until 4, and then re.
opening to $50 or thereabouts.. Now
/ they don't have to open them at all
and everyone is free to stroll the
streets. haggle over lottery tickets
and admire the pretty girls.
Tourists Garry Luggage.
Here in the Gran Hotel Bolivar
one of South Americas finest hotels
the workers are having the time OF
their lives. The second the strike
was declared the benhops, maids
ETC.. scampered home. changed into
street clothes, and came back to
the hotel to watch the tourists
mostly Americans, shuttle for them
selves. I was outside the hotel when
busload of tourists arrived, laden
down with luggage. Not knowing
that the strike was on. they stood
by waiting for help in getting their
baggage into the hotel.
The hotel workers, who only a
few hours before were highly
efficient, stood about giggling and
laughing and nudging one another
as the visitors tugged at heavily
laden grips and trunks. You have
probably heard some high-class
cussin' in your life. but none to
match that turned loose by a big.
middle-aged American when he had
to wrestle his trunk up the stairway.
Every llama between here and Ecua-
dor must have blushed and put his
paws over his ears.
Meal times are really funny.
Evening star., 1947-09-08
This Changing World
Marshall Plan May Be insufficient
To Remedy Europe's Grave Condition

are refusing to sell at government
fixed prices. Wherever the price
ceilings are enforced and the black
market effectively suppressed the
farmers raise just sufficient crops
for themselves and prefer to leave
the rest Of the land fallow. This is
the real cause-and not the lack
Of modern farm implements-for
failure Of the agricultural cond!-
tions to improve in these countries.
The lack Of food and fuel due
to poor exploitation of available
resources causes the rank and file
Of the people to regard the govern
ment in power as responsible for
their suffering. The Communist
agitators take advantage of the stu
alton and point to reports from the
U. s. s. r. and its satellites telling
the people of Western Europe that
only a change in form of govern
ment and adoption Of the Com
munist system will save them from
starvation.
Reds Expect to Take sOver.
Maurice Thorez, the French Com
munist leader, and Palmiro Togn-
atti, the Italian leader, expect to
come to power within the next few
months by gaining sufficient adher-
ents among the masses. They tell
the farmers that under Com
munist administration the state
would provide not only the seeds
and cattle but also prices which
would permit them to purchase all
their needs from the state.
They tell the industrial and white
collar workers that under a Com
munist administration the peasant
would be compelled to cultivate all
his land. And they support their
contentious by reciting from the
Soviet reports what admirable re-
suits collective farming produces.
Men who are worried and hungry
do not bother to investigate the
truth Of these reports. They have
no means of knowing that the Rus
sian and satellite workers and
peasants are even In worse shape
than those in Europe.
The danger of collapse Of the en-
tire system in Europe is fully recog-
nized by American authorities but
there Is little that can be done about
it. It would be foolhardy to attempt
to siphon out Of this country vital
foodstuffs and raw materials when
the American people themselves are
beginning to tighten their belts be-
cause of the unexpected and spec
tacular costs of living.
When Secretary Marshall made
his offer to assist Europe last June
none of the American economists
who were advising him foresaw any
major difficulties in this country.
Neither did they foresee that in
spite of the tense situation the
working classes in Western Europe
would continue to ask for higher
wages and lower prices and at the
same time be reluctant to work
more hours than the Communist
dominated unions prescribed. The
Marshall offer is still available but
it has become highly doubtful that
lit can be of any use.
Evening star., 1947-09-08
By Dorothy Thompson

If exhortation could save Britain
all would be well, for Mr.. Bevin is
the Billy Sunday of politics. Un-
fortunately, however, oratory is no
Evening star., 1947-09-08

EUOOuCt Ol uOC~
trinaire attitudes divorced from
realism and common sense. Some
Americans and many Britons saw
it, but the latter did not include
the chancellor of the exchequer
Hugh Dalton, who publicly declared
that the convertibility clauses in
the American loan agreement would
not be used to any great extent by
the holders of sterling entitled to
do so. The reasons for that bland
optimism were never given, and
Mr.. Dalton was just terribly wrong
The loan could only have given
Britain a real leg up If 1t were
used to purchase capital goods or
raw materials to be worked up and
sold at profit, thus to replace
British capital depleted by the war
The convertibility clauses, which
took no account Of the worldwide
demand for dollars in contrast with
the weak demand for sterling, dis
sipated a large part Of the loan to
totally unproductive expenditures
by citizens of other than British
states.
Purchasing Power Increased.
Internally, now, Mr.. Bevin threat
ems to save Britain by more of the
same medicine which has been kill
ing her. ..
Since the socialist government
came into power its policy has been
compounded of controls, rations, re-
strictions, priorities-all adding up
to "austerity," and all counteracted
by imitation. :.
The wage policy Of the govern
ment has been to increase purchas-
ing power, as though the crisis of
Britain were one Of overproduction.
The farm policy has been to buy
greater production by giving farm
ers and farm workers ever-greater
cash inducements, while threaten
ing appropriation of those not
Evening star., 1947-09-08

o&~N
foresight and nc
justification fol-
increased ener-
gy in doing the
wrong things.
The British
crisis is partly
Of American and
partly of British
manufacture.
he on d J.
tions attached
to the British
! o a n by ur-
S e es W e r e
rlinoIIs and the
-->L,,a% - I&o
Evening star., 1947-09-08

information re-
ceived by the
State Depart
ment.
Unfortunately
nobody can see
any constructive
way to alleviate
Europe's tragic
c ir cumstances.
It is feared that
even the Mar
shall plan may
act as no more
than a pallia-
tive because OF
the unforeseen
rise in prices in
t1,ic country
Evening star., 1947-09-08

n1un1S1n. InlS is
all the more
curious because
he delegates
were unanimous
ly opposed to
communism. But
their resolution
recornnae n d 1 n g
the outlawing Of
the Communist
P arty in the
United States, If
given effect, will
result in en-
couraging t n a t
| d e o gy and
m a X in 6 1t a
Evening star., 1947-09-08

make him feel
p e r t e c tly a t
home.
A strike. A
great, big, dandy
strike, with 80
per cent of the
inhabitants of
this city taking
a 24-hour siesta
each day.
No one Is
quite sure what
the strike Is all
about, but one
thing is sure
t he Peruvians
are crazv about
Evening star., 1947-09-08
McL..emore-
Is Victim Of Strike
Which Ties Up Lima
By Henry McLemore

LIMA, Peru.-What do you think
they are having in Lima right now?
Something to warm the cookies
of the heart of any American and