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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
Dorothy Thompson

The Soviet Unions Battle for
the World is proceeding acorcd-
ing to plan.
The Baltic is under control.
Eight European states between
there and the Adriatic have all
been conquered and added to
the Soviet's military potential. A
firm base has been established
over half the territory of the
German Reich. And Great China
is about to fall, realizing the So
Wet axiom, "The VIZ in China
is the key to all problems of
the international front" This is
a view of China's importance
coinciding with American for
eign policy for generations.
which has consistently supported
China's independence from con-
troll by any external Great Pow
er. Japan's violation of this was
the cause of our war with that
country.
In Europe alone, 120 million
people and the resources of their
countries have been added to the
Soviet Empire. All the oil on the
European mainland is in Soviet
possession. The Middle East is
soil for every sort of interven-
ton. The conquest of China will
bring the total aggregation of
manpower outside the U. S. S.
R. to half a billion. And all this
has been accomplished without
the shedding of drop of Rus
sian blood.
The cost in human misery as
a result of this and other pro-
grams is limitless. At least 10
million destitute and homeless
refugees have been created in
Europe. Fifty-five million dis =
placed persons are in China, liv-
ing under indescribable condi =
tons. Half a million Arabs have
been rendered destitute and
homeless by the Israel-Arab
war. Ten million Moslems and
Hindus are in the same plight.
This makes IS to 30 million out
casts. Progress marches for
ward over corpses, and the cas-
ualties of "peace" exceed those
of the great holocaust.
The China campaign-directed
by a General Staff including
Russians but sacrificing only
Chinese blood, and made poss-
ible by the arming of 50 divi-
sions with Japanese weapons
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
Tucker Says u. S. May Become Greater
World Leader Than FDR Dreamed
By Ray Tucker

WASHINGTON, Dec. GAS a
result of the Truman election,
the United States has become the
world leader of every nation
save Russia and her satellites in
a way that not even Franklin D.
Roosevelt dreamed o. in his most
expansive moments.
1t is no longer a question Of
whether the U. S. wants to play
such role, with its heavy finan-
cial, military and diplomatic re-
sponsibilities. The task has been
wished and forced upon US by
the erstwhile great powers and
by the latest member of the in
ternational family-the new state
of Israel.
Whereas this country WIS once
only the arsenal of democracy
for the anti-Axis alliance, it has
now become the treasure house
and the diplomatic high COM
mand and the military rock Of
the anti-Communist universe.
BURDEN Foreign nations
have already begun to staff their
embassies and legations here
with their ablest diplomats, cin-
anciers and Army-Navy-Air
brass. an honor and responsible
ity once reserved for London in
the halcyon days of the Empire.
Washington has taken on a far
more solemn duty than even the
imperialistic Kipling conferred
upon the England of fifty years
ago. He said that London had
taken up "the white mans
burden"
The United States has taken up
the burden of all humanity out
side the Iron curtain" without
regard for color or creed.
To back out now from Truman
and Marshall commitments
would be to create world chaos,
as our State Department belated-
ly realizes.
There was no such expectation
when the secretary of State
made his historic June, 1947, ad-
dress at Harvard University,
which was then not recognized
even by the experts as more
fateful declaration than the
Monroe Doctrine. the Open Door
policy, or Woodrow Wilson's
League Of Nations. d.
FRIENDS The Truman tri-
umph 'ver Governor Dewey sig
nalized assumption of our new
role, according to European
spokesmen who have arrived at
Washington since November 2
with latest word of the foreign
reaction.
Conservatives oveseas, espec-
tally in England and France,
consider themselves closer to the
Republican Patty than to the
Democrats, especially as the
Truman Administration advocat-
es many of the projects sponsor
ed by the NAttlee-Bevin Labor
Government in England. They
had prepared to rejoice over .
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
NISBET
BY Lynn Nisbet

RUMORS-Capitol square in
Raleigh is fertile source of
rumor and quasi-political gos =
sip, without benefit of fact; but
it amt a circumstance to what
goes on around capitol hill in
Washington An occasional visi-
tor to the national capital soon
learns that if he wants to find
most of what isn't true about
North Carolina he must spend a
few hours among the Carolin-
ians in Washington.
FACTS-For instance, your re-
porter learned during one day
Qast Thursday browsing around
congressional offices n d the
press club that:
l. R. Gregg Cherry, retiring
governor of North Carolina, has
been offered and accepted
very important post in the next
administration. erry said
Saturday he hadn't heard about
it, but the job would have to be
a mighty good one to interest
him.
2. Senator-elect J. M. Brough-
ton has had an awful hard time
completing his office staff. He
was supposed to have had every
thing all fixed for Charles Flack.
chief clerk of the utilities COM
mission, to become his adminis-
trative assistant, when for soma
unknown reason he and Flack
had a fight, rumor being it was
a genuine fisticuff, and so that
deal was off. (Senator Broughton
could not be contacted, but
Flack said he was glad to hear
his Washington friends had not
forgotten him, and the report
was very Interestingly
8. Governor elect Kerr Scott
has a mess on his hands, be-
cause the organization that con-
Quoted his primary campaign
and followed through the general
election has been shot all to
pieces by internal friction and
personal jealousy. So, since the
new governor was going to fire
everybody now in appointive Of
ficial position, and since his
most faithful supporters are torn
apart, he will wind up with a
bunch of incompetents to help
him during his administration as
governor.
RALEIGH-Some of these ru-
mors had been heard around
Raleigh, along with others o f
perhaps as great significance {.
There may be some grain T
truth in all of them. but un =
doubtedly the grapevine news
system has distorted them out
of proportion to real fact or val
ue.
DISCORD-It is no secret that
there has been disaffection in
the inner circles of the Scott
camp. There was friction and
jealousy m ong the primary
campaign headquarters staff,
but it was successfully kept from
public knowledge! Since the Nov
ember election it has been more
noticeable. In many respects the
situations in national ane. state
circles are similar. In both cases
the succesafU candidAte = -
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
ImnS Soviet Unions Battle For The World Proceeding According To Plan
Points Out Baltic Is Under Control
And Other Gains Made By Communists

captured by the Russians--is the
key to the conquest Of all East
Asia. Everywhere in East Asia
are Chinese colonies, which are
centers of Communist infiltra,
ton, and which with the con.
quest of China will come direct.
ly under Chinese Government or.
ders. National and racial slo .
gans accompany Asiatic bolshe.
vism and echo the Japanese "As.
ia for the Asiatics. Southern
Korea is in imminent danger
But the Empire being created
is directed by white men-Ru,.
ian Slavs.
Non Slavs apparently con.
stitute a large proportion Of So-
Wet troops being assembled fac.
ing the West. Underground rs.
ports from Poland declare that
the city Of Lwow. in the area
annexed from Poland by the So.
viets and reluctantly granted to
Stain at Yalta, now is exclusive.
ly garrison city from which
every civilian has been evacuat.
ed. The occupying troops are sx.
clusively Kalmucks, Mongol no.
mads from southeastern Russia,
Polish underground intelli.
gence also reporls that orders
are being discussed for the evac.
uation Of Wroclaw formerly
German Breslau), and its recon-
stitution as a garrison city on
the Lwow model, .hough with
what troops is not reported. This
city is 202 miles from Berlin.
Roumania, with its Black Sea
frontage, is the only East-Euro-
pean state Theoretically sealed
against all Westerners. What
military measures are there can.
not be ascertained.
There also is a German Army
in being, certainly existing for
reason understandable only on
Stalin's thesis that Communist
governments always must be
covered by military force.
Such a government has Just
been set up in the Soviet sector
of Berlin, speaking for 4 united
Berlin and all Germany. It re-
ceived assurances December 2
from the Soviet deputy comman-
der in Berlin that the Russians
would give it "all the help and
support required to carry out is
functions.
Time is not on the side Of the
West. The sands are running out
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07

4ldu OCcA I4ldhAIlk 4IAeuO6 WIN
COP. representatives.
In the early days of the cam
paign. when a Republican land
slide seemed certain, the word Of
a Dulles, Vandenberg and Austin,
all G.O.P.-ers, commanded more
respect in European chancellor
les than the declarations Of Pres.
ident Truman and Secretary
Marshall.
LEFT European Labo, So
cialist and Left-of- -Centsr groups
were downhearted at the pro-
spect of Republican win. Had
the United States moved toward
the center or toward the right,
in contrast to political shifts in
England and on the Continent, it
might have endangered their con-
troll Of the governments.
A Dewey victory, according to
these spokesmen, would have
cheered the Communists every
where. Despite the agreement
on a bipartisan foreign policy.
Stalin's agents were ready to In
terpret a Republican return as
an "imperialistic and capitals
tic" gesture. They would have
boasted that the United States,
more particularly the voters
themselves, had deserted the
little peoples" of the world.
INTERPRETATION A Dewey
Administration would probably
have pursued the same basic for
eign policies as the Truman re-
gime. But it was a key fact to
European peoples and politicians
that the Missourian had fallen
heir to the mantle Of Roosevelt,
still magic name overseSt, and
that he had made himself the
champion of the little people"
even more than Roosevelt had.
They sensed, AZ somebody has
said, that F.D.R. was with the
common men, but that Truman
was Of them.
Rightly or wrongly, that is the
Interpretation which the world,
including Moscow. places upon
our national election, especially
the defeat Of numerous Republi-
can isolationists md conserva-
tves on Capitol Hill.
ALLIANCE A series Of post
election events reflect realization
and admission Of the altered re-
lationships resulting from our
top and hot spot in the interna-
tional sun.
Although preliminary discus
sions Of North Atlantic military
pact had been talked Of before
November 2, It was not until At
terward that a top-brass confer
ence at Washington for imple-
mentation Of the alliance was
announced. Senator Connally.
who succeeds Senator Vanden-
berg a. Chairman Of Foreign
Relations Committee, expects
that the proposal will 81 received
cordially"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
Most Americans Like Comforts
Rather Than Back-To.Nature Life

Rather Than BaCk-l O-l\atIlre Lie
There are many Americans who like to get off the
beaten path and travel into strange undeveloped
areas and live the life of primitive man.
This is interesting vagary of the modern
mind, but, after few days of roughing it, the aver
age American is ready to get back to the comforts of
civilization.
So far recorded history reveals there is no in
stance of considerable migration of people from
highly-developed into regions that Wild
semi-barbaric and undeveloped.
Army Finds That Rain-Making Attempts
Aren't Worth The Effort And 1t Quits
Some months ago the people of the country
vastly interested in processto rain by sprin
king dry ice on clouds.
1t is worth noting that the United States Air
Force, which has conducted experiments for nine
months has to the conclusion that the process
"snt worth the effort The experiments did not
produce rain in amounts sufficient to be significant.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07

Modern Education Sometimes
Loses Sight OF Main Purposes
The people in section usually can be counted
upon to give generous financial support to their school
system and the cause of education in general.
For many years, they have been convinced of the
economic value of education While there was time
during the depression years. when education failed to
insure profitable employment there is general recog
milton of the fact that education improves an lndvl-
dual and makes more efficient human being
There has been, perhaps failure to understand
clearly that education is not an end in ITSELF but
means to complete living for the individual
Some teachers, in fact, have become enthusiastic
over methods and improvements in the educational
system that they have lost sight of the fundamental
purpose Of education Itself
Teaching technique has been perfected to a con-
siderable degree the distribution of intelligence has
been increased and the knowledge of human beings
greatly advanced through the ages Nevertheless,
there sometimes to be something of a failure
to develop the wisdom necessary to make intelligent
individuals to apply knowledge neligently to the
problems Of living itself.
Some modern psychiatrsts attribute many of the
mental ills of the present day to the disparity between
abstract knowledge acquired and education as to how
to it in the art of living. Because with all our In
teligence few of know how to live and therefore,
many suffer physical breakdowns.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

being and become servant. TO
Hfe
Romans
daily quotations suggested by the Rev.
pastor Church Of God in Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-07

The China campaign-directed
by General Staff including
Russians but sacrificing only
Chinese blood, and made poss-
ible by the arming of 50 divi-
sions with Japanese weapons
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30
Sayings Worth Repeaiing:-
DIXIE (c) RATS"

So the disgrunted disappointed Dixie pulled
the Democratic and formed
Gratis They have held white supremacy
Governor OF Mississippi president
Just like a bunch a party. being have
their own they just won't play
The situation would actually pfu
These actually Negroes
be given equal employment education franchise
other rights which might them o mngle with whites
The whole world has they
the
Their hopeless say they worthy
Of the attention being they
anyway. the
great
Not only would deprive fellow rights
selves internally Ignorance
the product of warped and twisted personality
In a way 1t their fault Their feelings opinions
bred childhood pre-
especially he will his
Perhaps would face the world with open
conceding perhaps
listen philosophers and how insignificant
viewpoints perhaps they could
They conceive they pos
sby problem
like these who caused the the persecution
grief the world has they all
changing world
They changing world defeat
and be lost DETROIT TRIBUNE
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30
Weeks Guest

be respected at all times and ev-
cry where. To acknowledge these
rights takes nothing from any one,
but shows the working of a true
democracy,
In this enlightened age and in
the country that is setting the pat
tern for others to follow, 1t seems
tragedical for men that we send
TO Congress to resent and oppose
the fundamentally civil rights
bill. Civil rights are the most com
mon rights of all rights and there
is nothing to fear from each and
every one having his rights.
We doff our hats to President
Truman who has proved to be the
Daniel Of the century. He has
stood by his conviction thought
he has been assailed on every
hand. We believe he fits the place
as president and has the moral
courage to stand for what we all
know is just
States rights are mentioned in
the constitution, They have the
right to make their own laws and
regulate their internal affairs so
long as their law don't conflict
those of the federal government.
Our way must conform to that
OF the constitution which is the
chart and guide that have made
this country a peer among the ma
,ions OF the earth. II is what the
flag represents and have been car
ried to all parts of the earth. and
millions of black boys and white
boys have shed their blood that
the civil rights of all men should
not be abridged nor denied.
The rift just ended in the ma
tional convention over these rights
will be known the world over
even among those we say are a
menace to peace of the world
How can we set the pattern for
the world when we are badly di-
vided at home?
Our way should be the way Of
brotherhood among men. T II {
Holy scriptures are our guide and
chart With God there is nc
great nor small He is greatest
that serves the best in conformity
! TO the viii of God
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30
Here and There
Continued from page one


Crater Little Rock; Shorter, Phi
lander and Arkansas Baptist Col
lege Bishop w. A, Fountain, the
new prelate of Arkansas has made
announcement that he plans to
make Shorter College a four year
senior "A rated college and he
also stated that he plans TO
strengthen the Seminary by plac-
ing strong man as Dean at its
head. This announcement should
be greeted with great applause for
too long Shorter College like Ark
ansas Baptist College has suffered
for the want of attention. Like
the Baptist College it has been re-
duced 10 political machine by
church politicians, Let us hope
that a strong. religious educator,
if he is not alread one, will head
the institution and the great Rich
ard Allen Church School will GO
forward instead Of backward PHI
lander Smith College, supported
by the Methodist Church, sas been
moving by leaps and bounds I'M
der President Harris. Philander
seems to have been able to pass
through great crisis which evident
- is due TO the type of president
as DR. Harris has so efficiently
demonstrated Then there are the
white Methodists who are behind
Philander Smith and ii may be
that Shorter and Arkansas Baptist
would do we'll to place white
Christians on their Boards of
Trustees. (This may be fight
ing statement)
Let us hope that both Shorter
and Abe VIII JON Philander
Smith in the onward march ana
fill a very definite need as de-
nominational colleges. and take
again their rightful places as great
institutions of learning and an
swer the challenge of the present
age. These colleges are needed and
they must fill a definite need in
their existence, Most persons
realize the basic and tangible
values in having institutions Of
higher learning within a commun-
ity but some do not realize that
many intangible assets also accrue
to community through the pres
ence of such institutions.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30

the moral, and spiritual life of the
entire human race.
A world federal system, ruling
the whole earth and exercising
interchangeable authority over its
unimaginably vast resource S.
blending and embodying the ideals
of both the East and West. liberat-
ed from the curse of war and its
miseries, and bent on the exploit
alton of all the available sources
of energy on the surface of the
planet system in which Force
is made the servant of justice
whole life is sustained by its uni
versal recognition of one God and
by its allegiance to one common
ReVelation-Such is the goal to-
ward which humanity, impelled
by the unifying forces of life. is
moving"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30
BY ROBERT d URR for CHS

invented or chosen from among
the existing languages and will
be taught in the schools of the
federated nations and races as an
auxiliary to their mother tongue.
A world script, a world literature,
a uniform and universal system
of currency. of weights and meas
ures, will simplify and facilitate
intercourse and understanding a
mong the nations and races of
mankind. In such a world society,
science and religion, the two most
potent forces in human life, will
reconcile, will cooperate, and will
tremendously develop The press
will, under such a system, whole
giving full scope to the expression
of the diversified views and con-
victions of mankind, cease TO be
mischievously m an ipulate d by
from the influence of contending
or public, and will be liverated
vested interests, whether private
governments and peoples. The &C.
onomc resources of the world will
be organized, its sources OF raw
materials will be tapped and fully
utilized, its markets will be CO.
ordinate and developed, and the
distribution of its products will be
equitably regulated.
National rivalries, hatreds, and
intrigues will cease, and racial ami
mostly and prejudice will be re-
placed by racial amity, under
standing and cooperation. The
causes of religious strife will be
permanently removed, economic
barriers and restrictions will be
completely abolished, and the in
ordinate distinction between class
es will be obliteratcd Destitutior
on the one hand and gross &C
emulation of ownership on tn,
other. will disappear The enor
nous energy dissipated and vast
ed on war. whether economic o
political. will be consecrated 4
such ends as will extend the rang
Of human inventions and technica
development, to the increase O
, the productivity Of mankind, I
the determination Of disease I
the extension of scientific re
search. TO the raising of the stan
dard of physical health, to tn
sharpening and refinement of tn
! human brain. to the exploitation
I of the unused and unsuspecte
resources Of the planet to the pro
longation of human life, to tn
furtherance of any other agenc,
that can stimulate the intellectual
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-30

A VOICE CRIES INTHE SOUTH


1t has been deereed that Ameri-
ca shall lead the world spiritual
ly; that the light it will reflect
shall come out Of the Palestine
the interpretive and administra-
tive headquarters of the worlds
greatest religion
In a little town called Haifa in
in Palestine is located the head
quarters of the Bahai World Faith,
which in my opinion, is the way
of life which must be reflected by
America if she is to lead the world
forward. It's Guardian Shogi Eff
fendi has this to say on "A Pat
tern For Future Society.
The unity of the human race,
as envisaged by BAHIA u llah
FOUNDER of the unifying World
faith) implies the establishment Of
a world commonwealth in which
all nations, races, crecds n d
classes are closely and perman-
emily united and in which the
autonomy of its state members
and the personal freedom and mi
tiative of the individuals that com
pose them are definitely and
completely safeguarded. This com
monwealth must, as far as we can
visualize il, consist of a world leg.
islature, whose members viii, as
the trustees Of the whole of man
kind, ultimately control the entire
resources of all the component ma
tons. and will enact such laws as
shall be required to regulate tho
life, satisfy the needs and adius
the relationships Of all races anc
peoples. A world executive, back
ed by an international Force. vii
carry out the decisions arrived at
and apply the laws enacted by
this world legislature, and vii
safeguard the organic unity of III,
whole commonwealth. A world tri
bunal will adjudicate and delive
its compulsory and final verde
in all and any disputes that ma,
arise between the various element
constituting this universal system
a mechanism OF world inter-com
munication will be devised, en-
bracing the whole planet free
from national hindrauccs N
restrictions. and functioning wit
! marvellous swiftness and perfec
regularity A world metropolis vii
act as the nerve center Of a worl,
civilization, the focus towart
which the unifying forces of liz
viii converge and from which il
encrgizing influences will radiato
A world language VIII either b.