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Evening star., 1949-03-01

War II. Only 10 per cent re-
manned when that country was
liberated. Between 1945 and 1948,
thanks to the liberal policies Of
the Benes-Masaryk regime, many
of those who had fled returned
to their homeland, so that at the
time of the Communist coup a
year ago the Jewish population
had increased to about $4,000.
Last fall Jewish leaders were
called for consultation in Prague
and were told to take steps to
evacuate as many of their people
as possible-promptly. The Czech
government was willing to give
them not only exit visaS. which
are now so hard to obtain, but
also special rates either to the
American zone of Germany or to
Israel.
Jews Take Hint"
k The Jewish leaders demurred,
observing that not all of the
Czech Jews might want to tear
up their deep roots in the coun-
try and start life anew in other
lands. Premier Klement Gott-
wald replied that unless they took
advantage of the generous" offer
of his government, he could not
be responsible for any pogroms
that might result.
The Jews took the hint" and
today, according to available re-
ports, the Jewish population in
Czechoslovakia has diminished by
about 10 per cent.
Anti-Semitism is growing by
leaps and bounds in Romania,
despite the fact that Ana Pauker,
the Romanian foreign minister
and actual representative Of Mos
COW in Bucharest, is a Jewess her
self. When approached by friends
of the Jews about persecution Of
their race, she replied that the
Evening star., 1949-03-01

you don't know Henry McLemors.
it, this old city is the mother of
mystics and even fabulous New
Orleans is out-dated, though not
outdone, when it comes to Mardi
GraS.
A costume was the cause of
my downfall on each occasion.
In Tampa I allowed myself to
be outfltted as cut-throat pir-
ate. complete with cutlasses, eye
patch and a beard that Capt.
Kidd would have envied.
Like Citizen from Mars.
Here in Mobile I got rigged
up in an outfit that was supposed
to make me look like citizen
mot in good standing) from Mars.
There is something about get
ting into costume which causes
all the mischief in my being to
double up it's fists and beat the
be-daylights out of my few vir-
tues and send me rampaging
forth to become a plain nuisance
that only the Northwest Mounted
Police would know how to deal
with. I am quite sure that even
if my costume were that of an
angel, with bright and gauzy
wings, the last pin would no more
have been pinned. or the last
snap snapped, than off I would
go to act very unlike an angel,
even fallen one.
. Fortunately. I am not the only
man that putting on a costume
seems to rob temporarily of his
Evening star., 1949-03-01
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, u. c. Ali
l.,

mind. In Tampa, along with 800
other pirates" I sailed about
Tampa Bay on a schooner, then
effected a landing in the heart of
the city. and rode on float that
was viewed by half a million folk.
My comrades were just as daffy
as I. Most of us were no longer
youngsters. but that did not stop
us from climbing so feet in the
rigging as if we were seminal
naval cadets, crawling out on
yardarms that would have fright
ened a cat wearing sneakers. firing
pistols and cannons, and yoWling
and bowling louder than ever did
the real pirates who sailed the
Spanish Main.
Visits State Fair.
One of my last acts was to visit
the grounds of the State fair,
which was then in progress and
with the help of several dis
Tampa businessmen,
beg the people who operate the
giant cannon that shoots human
bullets, to fire me out into the
night air. The cannoneers were
not enthusiastic about the plan,
for which I am indeed grateful.
Reports are still coming in as
to how I performed as a man from
Mars. I have it on good authority
Evening star., 1949-03-01
On the Other Hand
Vice President Does Not Intend to Let
Party Blink or Squint' at Pledges

ton. Mr.. Barkley's dissent was
vigorous, but to no avail, since
the Republican majority sup
ported Senator Vandenberg.
That question is coming up
again and this time Mr.. Barkley
will make the ruling.
In the Louisville speech, he
said:
I'm these days Of worldwide
Illustration. when struggling peo-
Piles are seeking the realization
of self-government and the demo-
cratic processes, no political party
and no government and no N-
ministration can afford to blink
or squint at it's commitments
solemnly made to the people, who
are the source of all power in any
democratic government. OF all
the nations in the world, the
United States can least afford to
look with disdain upon its obli-
cations, or its commitments or its
processes, in working for the well
fare of the people"
Not a Sectional Party.
He also said:
"It has always been my feeling
and conviction that the Demo-
cratic Party was and is a national
and not a sectional party. The
election on November last has
done more to confirm the Demo-
cratic Party as a national and not
sectional party than any other
election in our history.
But being a national party does
not relieve us of the obligation to
further the welfare of the people
of every section Of the country
and to take into consideration
their peculiar problems, moral,
economic and political, in order
that we may continue to be not
only united party, but united
nation, in the elevation of the
standards of applied democracy
as we have enjoyed and pro-
claimed it.
1--WE cannot, therefore, claim
that we are a perfect democracy
so long as there are any among
us who may be compelled to fight
for that democracy, but may be
denied the right to participate in
it when it has been preserved"
Evening star., 1949-03-01
SpecialLegislationa atStake
Labor Among Groups Put on Spot by
Civil Rights. Filibuster Fight

pulled and hauled by these groups
and who has signified his con-
version to their views by acts of
real political daring such as the
civil rights report, will watch their
struggles with unusual interest. If
they weaken they can hardly ex-
pect sympathy there.
The new cloture fight also will
put up against the guns the
Northern hypocrites against whom
the Southerners are understand
ably bitter. Through the years
the Capitol has seen many mur-
ders of civil rights legislation
committed by gentleman's agree
ment, North and South, in the
safety of closed committee rooms.
Up-coming roll calls on cloture
will be public and can be easily
parsed to determine where each
member really stands.
COP Votes Needed.
Obviously. a cloture-civil rights
victory will require Republican
votes to Offset the 20 to % South
erners whose ranks will be aug
mented by some four or five
Democrats who insist unlimited
debate is a sacred principle. Tru-
man leaders understand that Sen
ators Hayden and Mcfarland of
Arizona, Kerr of Oklahoma and
Hunt of Wyoming will thus vote
with the South.
Last spring, 18 Republican Sem
ators signed a petition for cloture,
and most of them are still in the
Senate. Senator KnoWland, who
has pressed the cloture fight in
the Rules Committee. expresses
confidence that there will be
plenty of Republicans to. make
up all Democratic defections.
One decision the President has
not yet made in the matter: He
does not say whether he favors
cloture by majority or by two
thirds. Both will be offered. The
civil Fighters prefer the majority
rule; the chances are at this point
that they will have to be satisfied
with two-thirds.
Evening star., 1949-03-01
On the Record
Truman Seen Using Oldest Demagogic
Formula in Attacking Special Interest

informed?) and also prints full
page ads Cor have our eyes de-
ceived us?) voted for President
Truman in order to have all def
initions of the rights and respon-
sibilities of trade unions repealed.
That is not the attitude of "the
people," but of a powerful and
numerous section of them.
The farmers. by and large,
voted for the President because
under a system of supported
prices they. are enjoying excep-
tional prosperity. They. too, voted
according to a special interest"
All groups identify the national
welfare with their own interests
and democracy works out as the
balance between pressureS. No
body ever quite gets his own way.
Controlled Editorialists?
The concept of controlled"
editorialists also fits in with no
picture I recognize from nearly
a generation of journalism. The
President has just had a run-in
with Drew Pearson. What "spe-
cial interests" control Mr.. Pear
son? What special interests" ap-
pear at the editorial conferences
daily held in every newspaper?
Actually, of the pressure on the
political writer-apart from his
own limitations, convictions, and
prejudices-the greatest is the
risk of unpopularity. In an age
of organized pressure on news
papers from groups in the pub
lie, the temptation to the col
umnist or commentator is to in
tellectual and moral timidity. Of
fend a single powerful group, op-
pose some popular fallacy, and the
ak will fall. THE people" are the
arbiters, but "the people," in ef-
fective action, are by no means
disinterested.
Nor is the Government disin-
terested. Its interest is to turn
writer's into it's own propagandists,
and break the necks of its critics
by exposing them as instruments
of special interests"
These interests, however, are
always, curiously, unnamed. They,
too, have votes.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1949-03-01

that the Mobile Mardi Gras folk
have declared their intentions Of
erecting a radar screen about the
city in order to be able to inter-
cept me and shoot me down in
case I decide to visit Mardi Gras
next year.
Also. the city has placed a
bounty on the scalp of the man
who invited me to Mobile. He is
Pat Moulton of the Waterman
Steamship Co., and he is now
said to be on one of the Water
man boats, outward bound for
Kobe. If caught, he is to be re-
turned to Mobile, chained to q
Camellia tree in historic Bienville
Square, and f1ogged, not with a
cat O. nine tails, but a cat o. fifty
tails, which is nearly six times as
painful Five and five -ninths as
painful, to be exact.
Distributed by NcNaught Syndicate, Ine.l
Evening star., 1949-03-01
This Changing World
Jewish Leaders Convinced Communism
Behind Iron Curtain Is Anti.Semitic

matter did not interest her in the
least because she was good Com
munist and recognized neither
race nor religion.
The Romanian Workers Party
passed a resolution January 81,
1949, demanding that zionism
among the Jewish population be
combatted. 'Zionism," declared
the resolution, lis an attempt to
divert the Jewish working class
from it's struggle for its own in
terests." 1t added that under
the guise of Zionism the bour-
geoisie is preaching the unity of
the Jewish working masses with
Jewish exploiters.'
Official quarters believe that this
resolution" might be precursor
to some drastic anti-Jewish move
ments, which can be fostered
easily in Eastern Europe. The
Czarist governments of Russia
used to organize pogroms when
ever the domestic situation be-
came very bad. in order to divert
public attention from the real
causes of trouble. The same
method may be used now in the
countries behind the Iron Cur
tain.
Pact of Religious Persecution.
According to Western observers,
the drive against the natives of
Jewish faith in the satellite coun-
tries goes hand in hand with per-
secution of the Catholics. as evil
denced in the trial of Cardinal
Mindszenty, and of the Protestant
denominations, as shown in the
present trials in Sofia.
But while these demonstrations
had to be spectacular. to intimi-
date the millions of Catholics in
Hungary, Poland and other sat-
elite states. the persecution OF
the Jews is being conducted with
more concealment.
This is due not only to the fact
that few Jews remain in those
police states, but also because a
number of sympathizers with
U. S. S. r. policies remain among
the Jews in America and Western
Europe, where still lives the old
myth that communism permits no
racial prejudices.
Only those who keep closely
posted on developments in the
U. S. S. r. know that since the
purge of 1886 the Russian Jews
who played a dominant role in
the Bolshevik revolution have
been Systematically removed from
important Offices until today not
even show Jews" like Maxim
Litvinov, former Soviet foreign
commissar, remain in leading po-
SitiOnS in Moscow.
Evening star., 1949-03-01

ula at the Jef- Dorothy lnompsoh'
Day dinner.
THE special interests are fight
ing us just as if they never heard
of November the second. For
them. campaigns and elections are
just preliminary matches
the fight in the Congress is the
main issue with them" These
special interests work
through their lobbies and pres
sure groups, through the editorial
pages and columnists and COM
mentators they control" while
"all we have on our side is the
people" :"
When, however, one tries to
identify these special interests"
versus "the people" few facts
interfere with so simple an align
ment. THE people didn't speak
in unanimous chorus November 2.
In fact, not quite half of them
voted for President Truman and
the Democratic Party-to be
exact, 4912 per cent-and ALL
per cent voted for Gov. Dewey,
while the rest voted for minor
candidates. There is nothing in
the American governmental sys-
tenn which disfranchises for four
years 1.-The people" whose candi-
dates and parties lost in the elec-
ton.
TotaIitarian Pattern.
The disfranchisement of polit-
ical minorities is a pattern, not
for democratic government but
for totalitarianism. In the Amer
ican system, campaigns and elec-
tions are preliminary matches" :"
The legislative power remains in
Congress, where alone the people
are more or less proportionately
represented. And since all the
people did not vote for the Presi-
dent, his party or his program, 1t
is not likely that in Congress,
where they are proportionately
represented, his program will go
through without modification.
The special interests" boil
down to those people who don't
agree with the President.
Actually, the President waged
his campaign by as calculated an
appeal to special interests" as
we have ever seen. Organized
labor, which also maintains
powerful lobbies Cor are we mis-
Evening star., 1949-03-01

raise m o n y. Lo"ei hehe''
Nothing much in the way Of a
speech was called for. Every
body was happy over the election
result and wanted only an op-
portunity to let off steam. Eight
hundred Democrats had paid $50
each for the privilege of hearing
Mr.. Barley extol the virtues of
their party and tell some good
jokes at the expense of the Repub-
licans.
They heard instead a very seri-
GUS speech devoted largely to
reminding the Democratic Party
of the responsibility it has as
Sumed and the pledges it has
made to the American people. Its
significance lies in the fact that
it was made on the eve of the
great battle beginning this week
in the Senate. This is the battle
which will determine whether the
Democratic Party can meet its
responsibility or whether it must
succumb to the terroristic tactics
of a minority group determined
to have it's own way. 1t is the
battle to outlaw the f1libuster as
part of the legislative process.
Barkley Views Well Known.
The Vice Presidents views on
this subject are well known. He
has said his say more than once.
The last occasion was less than
a year ago when, as minority
leader, he took issue with the
Senate's presiding officer, Senator
Vandenberg. He pointed out the
essential absurdity of the prece-
dents solemnly offered by Senator
Vandenberg to justify a ruling
that cloture could not be applied
to the discussion of a motion, but
only to debate on bill or resolu-
ton; in other words that there
was simply no way of ending the
discussion of meaningless mo-
Evening star., 1949-03-01

canoe receives
no more than
passing notice.
That seems to
be the case of
t h e Spe e c h
made Saturday
night in Louis
willie by Vice
President Bark
ley.
~ " dS O1lC Vi
those Jefferson
Jackson dim
ners intended
principally t o
Evening star., 1949-03-01

a strengthened
cl o ture rule.
Southern Sen
ators are fill
clustering clo-
ture because it
will end their
power to veto
civil rights leg
islation by fill
clustering.
After wasting
two months OF
the session, the
President and
his Senate lead
erS have got
Evening star., 1949-03-01

and wickedneSs
"a n d It h e
people, " repre-
senting every
body else and
virtue.
T he PreSi-
dent, who is
encountering in
Congress oppo-
Sition to un-
critical accept
ance of his
legislative pro-
posals, pulled
out this form
- - ILL., T@f
Evening star., 1949-03-01

as practiced in
Russia and the
satellite coun-
tries is def
nitely anti-Se-
mitic.
The plight of
t he j e W S in
Eastern Europe
and Russia is
almost as bad
as during Alt-
ler's time. There
were ne ar Y
400, 900 Jews in
CT echoSlovakia
Evening star., 1949-03-01

Fla, where I
went to help
that city cele-
brate its five
day fun fiesta,
"Gasparilla. F"
The second
time was here
in Mobile a
few nights ago
when I took off
as if aided by
jato and flew
into the festiv-
tiles of Mardi
Gras. In case
Evening star., 1949-03-01
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Evening star., 1949-03-01
Bv Constantine BrolCn

Factual reports from countries
behind the Iron Curtain are con-
vincing many Jewish leaders that
Communism in it's present form
Evening star., 1949-03-01
Bv Lowell Meifen

So many speeches are being
made by responsible Democratic
leaders in this year of jubilee that
occasionally one of real signif1-
Evening star., 1949-03-01
Bv Doris FIeeSOn

By UOrIS FIePSOn
The next test on civil rights
lies with the special interests
whose legislation is being backed
up behind the filibuster against
Evening star., 1949-03-01
BY Harry HononI AA~I onoro-
Makes 'Resounding'
Fool of Himself, Twice
By Henry McLemore

MOBILE, Ala.-During the past
month I have made resounding
fool of myself on two occasions,
The first time was in Tampa,
Evening star., 1949-03-01
By Dorothy Thompson

The oldest demagogic formula
is to present the Nation as divided
into special interests" repre-
senting the privileged few
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
Concordia College
Holds Conference

n",l,o.fe~ iran -lii states az
.,i n. annual meeting u The
C,nrnrdia collcgc Corporatien a'
Noorhcad. October y The dele
cate, Ii attendance from tho Mon
tana Circuit were Res I. F. lallel
son lie Timber Key. Norman lolnl-
,hon. Hardin. Mr Otis HAGEN. ~
ling Rcv /. N Hanson. ophein
Rev K \ Norman, Won ROM
Air. 4. +. Guam. Frazer NJ Y
Clarcncc Hanson. Weli t"ln'
Re, Oliver ZONES. l'airNiem W.
carl Holm. Ricicy Mr. Carr linA'-
Ter. Fairyicw. Rev NJ li"Nr
land, S%unburst Key. \ = ,,''''''q'
Fairfield. Mr. Paul Woll. ~
Bank Mr. ;. l.. Dahl. Fairfield
Mr.. Rcu Peterson, Ha,re. Mr. l'aig
Skaalnrc. Big SANDY Rev Ronald
Jensen. Reserve Key. Nels lari'on
Culbcr,,oi Mr NJ \. Hcrsiad
Scohc, MIR Oscar ClcmcnlNon
We,,hy and RcA Endcrson
plcnnWood. member u nominating
committee.
member, ii the Board ii III
r,r,.rs ior Coneordia COLLEGE wer,
.1..,,nd i, ,hc Corporation Assem-
~. Tbey we're 5. /. Dahl, Fair
aold lncv member Rev. Norman
R.nson. Scohcs. Cnew member al
~, Montana
I,rad uy;ds,cn stephen. Mimi
r..,lrc,cdA. Rev. j. +. Stolec. Hid.
h;,n N;nn. Gc-elcclcdl f. \
n,5n, o,tes \ -. tncw member
: C.rim.rud Bismarck. y y
oioc,rdl
IN < Brown. president q
,nrord.a college. ior his twenty
n;.L nres,nt,d hi, annual re-
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03

John L. Lewis and his negotiat-
ing committee are to meet IN Chi
cago, Monday, Nov. 9TH. AT this
time all indications are that the
Illinois Coal Operators VIII be
willing to continue negotiations.
An early settlement in Illinois
is predicted.
President Murray, OF the ClO,
as well as president OF the Steel
workers made public the settle
ment with Bethlehem Steel. Free
pensions will run from SOS to 500
including Social Security at a cost
of about nine cents per hour per
employee.
A social insurance plan was al
50 negotiated. Employer and en-
ployec each to pay two ana one
half cents.
Meetings are now IN progress
with all leading steel producers
excepting U. S. Steel. But all IN
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
IN 81

stronger ~ u lh1f
Nvnaiar Flheri y Thomas
shairwar III the Senate
tanl,tra. 'rrl, about the
rr.cai the Tait-fiartle
Ns' although there may be agi,a-
- Z something about il next
Nn in New York and
81 C%<AliiorniA"
fl.iiy al, the senator pointed
N and, oi the Senate are
dire rs il, Vote this year ior
ia oll Ii the House should
au eptable substitute. a con
nev MORT would give the Senate
'her chmcN
iui i9il The senator believes.
be NOR, people on our
size
Iiat> Why all labor people have
eoi to sec 10 il that they register
nl vote. 9> they did in 1913. onl.
more -, then there will be enough
IN both houses OF Congress on "our
side
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
MORE RUBBER

Production OF synthetic rubber
in l04S was 90 per cent above the
minimum set by the government
to make sure the factories are avail
able ior emergency. Although the
price oi natural rubber. III the grades
used by tire manufacturers haN
declined 25 per cent, Synthetic SIN
was cheaper through most oi last
year.
This is in marked contrast 70
the situation alter World War !.
There was no synthetic rubber then
and the Dutch and British cartcllsts
boosted the price 10 such level,
that american users were '%gouecd
ont III millions.
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
THANKS AFL FOR AID

ST. PAUL-Eiler Jensen, rrcSi-
dent oi the Danish Trades Onion
Congress. told the 0Sth convention
that trade unions in the Scandna-
Wan countries think and feel the
same way as the AFL. lie thanked
The MI. Tor its support Of Mar.
shall plan aid iur Denmark ana
other European countries
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
Government Employees
Share in Pay Hikes

n,,n.n. c.onnm, mean, more Jobs.
ir,,ef liAinp higher production and
assumption ,prrad throughout the
,aun,r,
d, resulted target, from the effort.
81 ,he \lI ~ raise the legal MIN
mnn wage iron ~ to = cent, b,
,pnerr>,idual action. to amend 90,
,fumeni wage Laws, Ia raise ,alarir-.
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
WARNING!

DR.. Paul K. llawley. former vet
crans' administrator. warned the
District 81 Columbia Medical SOCIETY
recently that confidence Of the peN'
pie in the medical profession ma
been shaken.
we are being accused oi protect.
ine INSCRIPTIONS. doctors and Q
scliishncss in opposing public hcaltl
insurance" he declared. lie san
mi people will not tolerate a ST
nation in which medical care de
pends on ability to pay.
Montana labor news., 1949-11-03
SYMPOSIUM
ON PEACE

Aimlstice Day. Friday. Novem-
Der nth at o.4s p. NJ. OF KxLF
Open Forum sponsored by the
Silver Bow County United Nations
Peace c Conference Committee.
Rev. II. B. Ricketts, is president
Of the Butte committee. Speakers
Will be: Roy Barnett, president
Of the Butte Ministerial Associa-
ton; Mrs. Boris Young, repre-
sentative V. F. W. Auxiliary; Ed.
{. Vavter representative OF Labor
and Dom Gorslin, School OF Mines
Debate Team, Navy veteran, NAL
oring in geology. These speakers
will be introduced by Mayor
Thomas Morgan.