Evening star., 1949-10-09
To the Editor Of The Star:
Reader Worried About Everything
Including Who'll Win Series

Reader Worried About Everything
Including Who'll Win Series
I am confused. disguised. and wee bit
worried: otherwise. I would be one OF the
last persons in the world to air my personal
problems. Under existing circumstances,
however, feel that i am justified in spread
ing my cards on the table and asking John @.
Public What it's all about?"-meaning by
"it' the following Developments which in
dicate which way the national and inter-
national winds are blowing:
Cd The strikes in the major industries
coal and steel, which are actualities, and
others which are in the offing threaten the
economic welfare of the entire nation.
90 The Chinese situation"-in which we.
the great United States of America. blow
first hot and then cool. while Red Russia
garners the worlds greatest potential supply
of cannon fodder to be utilized against us
in a conflict which, obviously, draws nearer,
and always nearer, day by day.
90 The tendency which prevails IN high
places of our Government to deal with the
Communist problem" which is very real
problem that has grown from a mere zero
to gigantic proportions. with "kid gloves"
a. The squabble about who is to be who,
and why, that poses a three-way problem
in the national defense. Whats wrong
with the Navy is question that demands
immediate consideration. Its history and
its potential usefulness when the worst comes
to worst should not be disregarded by the
powers that be.
(5) The scrapping, for political purposes,
of the Civil Rights Program" just when
$4,000, 900 Negroes, 10000 Jews. 5000, 900
Latin Americans 100000 Asiatics (and
other persons "of color'D 1,000,0 900 American
Indians and 100000 f1rst-and second-gen-
Grafton Europeans have shown how freely
they will live and die for all Of us. Re-
member World War II? And the entire
world is looking to these United States OF
America to demonstrate to its satisfaction
that practical democracy is not mere
shibboleth designed for lipservice. alone
but a real, honest-to-goodness way OF liv-
ing that can be made to function in man
to-man intercourse.
High taxes are the least of my worries.
Common sense teaches me that the aI-too-
recent war must be paid for while we get
ready for the next war, even If I can't un-
derstand why nations can't get along without
trying so desperately to destroy each other.
Then, too, we have got to support our be-
loved enemies of yesteryear until they are
strong enough to again to assume their places
in the world as our enemies in the next war.
ITO the loser belong the spoils of war;" or
have got my history haywire.
Again confessing that I don't have the
slightest idea concerning what is going on
in this cock-eyed world of ours, and since
I am too old to really care what happens to
me, guess that will just continue to drift
with the destructive tide that threatens to
destroy the type of democracy that I thought
I was fighting for in World War I. That is
how feel when think about me; but when
I think about my two sons in the Air Force
and the one son have In the Army, can't
refrain from wishing that we had more
statesmen and fewer politicians in Washing
ton-but what can do about it? I'm asking
you.
I wonder, too, which team will win the
pennant. REQUESTED