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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
WHAT ABOUT ITS EFFECT
TODAY-NOT 1860?

Even if the GOLFERS tour de
force, however, were more brilliant
and imaginative prophecy of the next
war and its aftermath, its real mean
ing would, of course, lie in what was
being said about the present rather
than about the future, in the impact
it makes upon the thoughts and emo
tions of Americans and other people
today rather than in 1860. From this
standpoint the editors and Mr.. Sher-
wood may be right in placing a very
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
Pondera County Flu Has
Quarterly Convention

Pondera County Farmers Union
held their quarterly convention in
Conrad, Wednesday night. A pot-luck
supper was served at $50 p. M, fol-
lowed by reports on the GTA con-
vention which was held in st. Paul
last week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
Golfers War For UNIHOPE-Unj


j. Music ordained Presbyterian
the Fellowship of Reconciliation leading pacit
earlier date June 815l, will recall
Must Choose
GOLFERS October 27
which below the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
SHOULD EXTEND OUR LOVE
BEFORE-NOT AFTER

For what is the evidence that this
experience of enlightenment and re-
pentance and healing is going to take
place? There is none, surely. For
if we truly loved the Russian people
as these authors tell us we do and
shall and if we were repenting of our
past mistakes and crimes as profound
ly as they assume, is it not obvious
that we would be seized by a con-
Stunning passion to make the Russian
people feel this love we bear them
BEFORE exterminating millions of
them? And is it not likely that we
could somehow convey to them the
existence of so great love? But in
view of what we admittedly did with
the opportunity given after World
War l and after World War II, how
can we persuade the Russian people
that after World War III, we shall be
TRANSPORTED?
How can we persuade ourselves of
it? How do the GOLFERS authors
persuade themselves of it? The ans
wer is, they do not. Arthur Koestler
plainly gives the answer-and what
an insight it provides into our capa-
city to deceive and be deceived and
into the depth of our dispair-in the
paragraph with which he closes the
article which began with the prop
hesy that ''the shaken self-confidence
of our civilization" was to be restor-
ed. He writes as from Moscow, Au-
gust Is, 1860: 81 must have caught
some kind of fever in the gnat-in-
Tested swamps, for last night | was
plagued by nightmare. I dream
ed that UNIHOPE only existed in
my imagination-a dream born out
of Illustration and despair, and that,
in reality, revengefulness, rapacious
greed and blindness of the heart have
made the victors repeat the plumbers
of the past and throw away human
ity's last chance of salvation. I woke
up, drenched in cold sweat, among
the crawling bed bugs"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21

peoples of Africa, the Middle East,
India, Southeast Asia and Latin
America is going to be such that
there will be no serious interference
with the flow of raw materials from
these countries and no troublesome
political developments in these re-
gions.
Serious as these matters are,
they are not nearly so basic and
tragic as the final point in COL
LIER'S program, viz, the assump-
ton that the victors in World War
Ill are not going to make any mis-
takes nor commit any crimes
against peace. The Denver Dec
laration" is going to be better than
the Fourteen Points and the Allan
tic Charter-and it is going to be
observed.
ALWAYS THE LIBERALS" LEAD
US INTO WAR
1t is we'll, incidentally, that this
reference to these documents faith
cred by the liberals of other days,
should be made and that we should
have in the forecast of World War
III Denver Declaration" an unin-
territorial recognition that certain
types of liberals are playing and are
going to play the same role as their
predecessors. For in the modern per-
iod it is always these liberals who
lead people into war. Everybody
"knows" that conservatives are for
war and that liberals are for peace.
1t is, therefore, when the liberals tell
them that every honorable means to
keep peace has been tried and now
we have no choice but to resist force
with force, that the people go along.
This is what such participants in the
GOLFERS symposium as Robert
Sherwood, Walter Reuther, Allan
Nevins, Arthur Koestler ct al, are do
ing now.
But the people must be convinced
not only that eve have no choice but
to fight" but also that THIS time,
once the war is over, WE are going
to be free to choose; and we are GO
ing to choose light and not darkness,
reconciliation and not revenge, peace
and not more war Ironically, it is
the prophets who discourse most elo-
quently about how the peace was
and criminally BUNDLED in
the past who are best able to con-
vince the multitudes that at the close
of the next blood bath, they will ex-
perience a psychological and spirit,
ual revolution and will build a new
world. AS Jeremiah long ago la
mented: ga wonderful and horrible
thing is come to pass in the land: the
prophets prophesy falsely, and the
priests bear rule by their means; and
We people love to have it so: and
what will we do in the end thereof?"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
A NOTED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER ANSWERS GOLFERS


these ornaments and the ring of bases
around the globe with which we are
going to win the war may be pro.
vocative in effect or that the fear
they inspire may, in spite of the
purity of our intentions, have a bear
ing on the behavior of the men in the
Kremlin and of our friends, the Rus
sian people. There is no hint either
tory of the United States and other
western nations which may account
in some measure for Russian behavior
things like Hiroshima, for example,
There is the little matter of our hav-
ing twice bungled the peace; but as
have already pointed out, the Col
lier's authors assure us we are not
going to do that again. AS Edmund
Taylor, head of the Planning Board
of the Office of Strategic Services
during World War II, pointed out in
RICHER BY ASIA, when nations
or individuals get into conflict sit
uations, each always wants to cure the
other of his delusion: eff only he
would be reasonable, there would be
no problem at all"
'UN-SUBTLE PROPAGANDA"
There is no space to dwell on sew
eral other items listed above which
constitute un-subtle propaganda for
the current White House-Pentagon
State Department line. The American
people are strongly urged to support
Tito, and Stain is given notice that
an attack in Yugo-slavia will precip-
itate about war against Russia and
it's satellites. The building up of a
movement of emigres from Commu-
mist countries trained for eventual
sabotage activities in their home lands
is envisaged. The idea that this time
there must be no delay in launching
about war the moment "the incident"
occurs is stressed. "This time the U.
S. was ready and willing to strike i'm
to strike with the
most terrible weapon of ALL" Round
tn clock atomic bombings of strategic
centers, but not of the Russian peo-
pie, occurred "for period of three
and 16 days" after the out
break of war. Nevertheless, our air
force was inadequate and at first in
ferior to Russia's. We are also warned
that we are neglecting civil defense.
The psychological need the Ameri-
can people feel of knowing, on the
one hand, that their forces are going
to be plenty tough and thorough and
that, on the other hand, they will ex-
ercise a restraint of which the en-
envy will be incapable is also met.
Moscow is going to get A-bombed all
only after lot of Rus
sian military installations and stra-
5egic centers with fewer people AND
after several big American cities
nave been A-bombed. The commits
sion appointed by the National Coun-
Ill of Churches Of Christ in America
md headed by Bishop Angus Dun
If Washington regretably gave the
cad here. 1t declared that atomic
bombing by the US. might in certain
Eases be justified-"in retaliation,
With all possible restraint"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
NO HINT OF "POLITICAL
HORSE SENSE"

There is no hint here either of the
political horse-sense or Of the humili-
~ and pity and awareness of the trag-
ic involvments of all the men who
make policy in the world today which
Darlington Moore, Jr. suggests in a
rview in recent issue of THE Ma
TION in which he calls for "a sharp
perception of the forces operated by
? worldwide power-struggle. These
forces transcend both Russian and
American society and limit closely
the choices open to the leaders of
each" A similar awareness of the
complexities of the issues before the
nations marks George F. Remnants
recently published AMERICAN d.
PLOMACY: 1900-1950.
On the other hand, the Golfers
brain trust asks us to believe that
we have no choice.
Except for building more arm
aments which, we are asked to as
sumo, will have nothing to do with
bringino on the war but will enable
us to win it, We can only sit and wait
until the Kremlin exercises the ca
pacity for choice with which the Lord
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-12-21
NOW DO THEY KNOW WE'LL
WIN THIS ONE?

There remain two points in COL
LIER'S contribution to the psyche
logical warfare aspect of the cold
war, which require some comment.
One of them has to do with the as
surance that the United States is 60
ing to win World War III. At the
start of a war the people on both
sides have to believe that they are
going to win, though in general out
of every two or two hundred nations
engaged in war, about so per cent
fail to emerge as victors. Some OBJ
servers, including military authorities,
have suggested that in modern war
the percentage is 100. How then do
the GOLFERS brain trusters know
that we are going to win this one?
They point to Americas vast pro-
ductive capacity, assuredly valid
point. They assume that the Amer
lean people will prove to be efficient
and able to "take il" and here, too,
we can agree. One still wonders
whether the cocksureness which the
writer's seem to feel is warranted.
No reference is made, e.g. to the pos
sibility that the Soviets may have
IdHGdoClC new WCdPOllo do Jul I'LL
itary claim to have, and in despera-
ton may resort to them. Nor do
recall any consideration of the ca
pacity of resistance demonstrated by
the Russian pople when their own
soil is invaded which proved fatal to
and to Hitler. Further
more, the forecast of victory is bas-
ed on the assumption that all the
Western European countries, includ-
ing the Scandinavian, Western Germ
any and Italy, are going to be firm
and reasonably well equipped Allies
at the outset and will remain so und-
er the pounding they will get in the
early part Of the war. 1t seems to
me significant in this connection that
no prediction is made as to how far
The Communist forces will get into
Western Europe. In any event, this
whole assumption as to the Western
European picture seems to require
more substantiation than is provided.
1t seems to me the same may be said
IF another tacit assumption, viz, that
Evening star., 1951-08-22
Sticky Wicket

It is easy to understand the stunned silence
that must have settled in the club bars all over
what is left of the empire. Any previous losses
of face pale before the defeat of the British at
cricket by Americans 1t happened in Korea
so far from the playing fields of Eton as to be
perhaps mitigating circumstance-but the fact
remains that the United States Marines licked the
British 29th Brigade by 20 runs.
While the thing is not like to worsen already
frayed relations between us and the British, 1t
might be well for our Mr.. Acheson to drop a
note to their Mr.. Morrison explaining that it
would be perfectly okay with us if the British
when discussing the matter, want to say it was
not Americans but Marines that did the deed
That might take the sting out of it little bit
The Marines would be the first to tell them that
there is great difference between an ordinary
American and Marine. Unifcation or not, the
Marines are breed apart, and practically every
body, even President Truman, admits it. To be
defeated at anything by Marines is, no shame
It's practically inevitable. Nobody criticizes a
man tangling unsuccessfully with flood or fire.
Leathernecks are just such an elemental force.
It's no reason for Growing on the one hand, or
despair on the other.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
Letters to The Star

both doctors and patients fail to exer-
else budgetary vigilance. Most CHI con-
tracts are based on minimaI yearly fair
cost mathematics. Each year these eSti-
mated costs have been less than the
infiationary reality. Not only have basic
costs risen, but the risk incidence has
assumed adverse proportions. Three
factors are responsible for this adverse
actuarial experience: Doctors are not al
ways budget-minded in ordering drugs
and laboratory aids. Cheaper drugs are
equally efficient. Second, too many pa
tients use disqualification as a convex
ience. Any stay in the hospital beyond
absolute minimal need for the emer-
gency is breach of good faith. In six
months, it cost CHI $500, 900 because the
average hospital stay of its subscribers
increased approximately one-third OF
day. Third, we are using scarce hospital
beds for cases we ordinarily would treat
at home if the patient lacked insurance.
If we use hospital beds for cases we
could treat at home, medical and sur
gical emergencies are deprived of their
fair chance to live. Patients have no
moral right to demand mere convenience.
The habitual deficit spending of ire
Sponsible politicians is poor example
to follow. Group disqualification can
only remain solvent if we do our part.
This means doctors must become budget
minded and patients must limit their
expectations to reasonable minimal
needs. Anything less is self destruction.
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. d.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
Two Ambassadors

Vladimir Prochazka, an old Communist hand
in Czechoslovakia and the newly arrived ambas-
Sador to the United States from that country,
has tentative date with Secretary of State
AcheSon tomorrow. The date may be changed
but the interview is part of the protocol
followed by new ambassadors waiting to present
their credentials to the President of the United
States. Presumably it will take place soon, if
not tomorrow
We have an ambassador in Czechoslovakia.
One of the things that he has sought to do is
to visit countryman who lies in CzechoSlo-
vakian Jail and talk to him, find out the state
of his health. his treatment by his captors and
perhaps to bring some message to him from his
loved ones at home and take message to them.
The prisoner is William N. Oatis correspondent
of the Associated Press, tried and convicted as
a spy under the laws of Czechoslovakia that his
excellency, the new Czech ambassador, helped
to write. His crime lay in seeking to write the
news as he saw 1t. Our ambassador in Prague
has been denied the privilege of visiting
Mr.. Oats in Jail.
Mr.. Acheson, it seems to The Star, might
find it highly appropriate to remind Mr.. Pro-
chazka that as long as the American ambassador
is kept waiting to visit Mr. Oatis in Jail, the
Czech ambassador will be kept waiting to visit
the President OF the United States at the
White House.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
This and That

Liking and not liking is one Of the
great mysteries.
Some read Shakespeare. others dislike
him.
The great Leo Tolstoy regarded Henry
James, Sr., father Of William James, the
philosopher, and Henry James, the
novelist, as one of Americas greatest
writer's, in his own right.
Most readers today who try to fathom
any of the elder Henry's works will
throw up their hands, he is one Of the
most difficult of writer's to understand.
A scholarly man has written whole
book trying to explain Henry, ST., from
which most readers will rise still non
plused.
If misunderstanding arises between
printed page and living person, it is
no wonder that misunderstanding takes
place between person and person.
How often every one Of us has met
some one, to have an instant reaction:
"I don't like him." or 81 think he is a
very fine person." and so on.
Often we discover that our first judg-
ment, If favorable, has been mistake.
Even more often we come to find that
one we seemed to dislike instinctiyely
Is in reality friend.
This has happened so often that in
time, if we are sensible, we tend to dis
trust our first judgments.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
BY Charles E. TroceweN
M. F. M.

Then there is the person who, for no
obvious reason, one never trusts.
Most often this is mutual.
Science says it is due to chromosomes,
or something.
Some persons have round ones, and
others have square ones, and never shall
they really meet.
Whatever the truth Of this, the ex-
planation points to the very blood, and
study of the blood is complex; blood is
complicated, not the simple liquid people
used to think.
Blood is so complex that it well may
be that the explanation of this thing Of
liking and disliking others lies right
there.
It may be that old Templeton Jones
has some mysterious quality in his blood
that carries right over on paper. If we
present him correctly, this is bound to
happen, and is in itself guarantee
that we have succeeded.
Templeton Jones, no more than any
other human, is all sugar. He has some
spice in his makeup, some vinegar, even.
The sweet and the sour of life shine out
of his honest countenance, so that those
who meet him, whether In real life or
on paper, feel that they know q real
person. There Is no guarantee, explicit
or implied, that they will like him. Not
even God can guarantee that for any
living thing.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
Rule by Majority?

In Prince Georges County our demo-
cratic form Of government has taken
body blow. At a hearing Of the liquor
license board, August 16, license was
granted to a prominent political fgure
of Suitland, Md. The decision for the
license was made unanimously by the
board in spite of protests by the COM
munity involved.
In a count at the hearing, 81 people
opposed granting the license and IT
favored it. In the 81 were delegations
representing five local organizations,
the Suitland Elementary PTA, the
Suitland Junior Senior High PTA, the
Baptist Church and the Christian
Church and Suitland Citizens Associ-
alton. Because the proposed location OF
the liquor store was less than 500 feet
of the elementary school housing 700
pupils, and across the street from a
nursery school, and in the heart OF a
busy traffic intersection, parents and
home owners felt a duty to their chill
dren to protest. The new million-dollar
junior senior high. which will house
from 1900 to 1,700 pupils, and the
churches are also within short dis
tance Of the location.
In spite of the majority protesting.
and in the face of numerous signatures
opposing a liquor store at the cross
roads, the board saw fit to provide IAN
opportunity for a growing community
to buy liquor more conveniently"-for
getting that there are two on-and-off
sale establishments a half mile in each
direction on Suitland road.
It seemed the board was acting more
like a liquor salesman than as an i'm
partial judge as to what community
desired.
1t is a sad state of affairs when
conscientious citizens, in the majority
too, are not permitted some say in
what they want in their community.
Somewhere our traditional rule by
majority is, being weakened.
Suitland Citizen.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
BETHESDA.

11G0A|1s
Dear Sir:
IT saw by the paper that reader
didn't like Templeton Jones. Now.
do not like him, either. and I wonder
why.
''He is urbane, civilized, educated, OBJ
viously a man of good heart. but now
and then would like to give him good
swift kick. s.
"This feeling worries me, because
feel as if should be fond OF this low
able man, with all his honesty and peca-
dilloS.
"Please survey the character OF your
friend, and tell me what it is about him
I do not like.
Sincerely, E. L. D."
Templeton Jones is such a complex
character that it is difficult to analyze
him.
The good man is shocked, himself, at
the idea that any one doesn't like him,
but not dumbfounded, since he rather
expected it.
Probably his wisdom is why some per-
sons do not like him.
He strikes them, as such characters
always do, as being just bit too wise.
Columnists often do. They seem TO
think they know everything" some one
says, and that is the great sin.
Evening star., 1951-08-22
By Hugh Humphrey

DY TODAY'S inflated standards, she
- would be little more than schooner
or ketch. Certainly there is nothing
in her time-faded picture to suggest
the elegant term yacht, as now applied
to sleek bluebloods of polished brass and
cleaning mahogany. But she was tops
in yachting raving beauty under full
sail.
Just 100 years ago today. this Ameri-
can sailing vessel proudly wearing the
name of her country made q splash in
international yachting history by max
ing waves for Britannia to rule. The
yacht, of course. was the good ship
America. She established reign of
American supremacy challenged often
but never successfully.
BY 1851, the young United States Navy
had outgunned and outmaneuvered the
best fleets of England and France.
Bulky, awkward European merchant ves-
sells had Yankee Clippers speed past
them en- route to Liverpool, Havre, and
Hong Kong in the race for world trade.
But the British still held superiority in
yachting, an established sport in their
islands long before Amereica entered
the field
Yankee sportsmen turned to yachting
as new means of competition. AS rae
ing caught on, clubs were organized,
among them the New York Yacht Club
founded in 1874.
New Workers wanted a racer capable
of standing the long, rough voyage
across the Atlantic. Commodore j. B.
Stephens of the club commissioned an
Aekn
George Steers, to build such yacht.
Following the general lines of the United
States pilot boat, an unorthodox craft,
Steers constructed an 85-foot, two
masted vessel and launched her in 1851.
Christened the America, she was sailed
by Commodore Stephens to Havre,
Evening star., 1951-08-22
Federal Puy Ruise

have been reading about the reasons
Congressman give for advocating fiat
pay raise for Government employees, and
for not making it retroactive to July /.
wonder whether they have a clear
understanding Of some Of the 1mplica-
tions of their position?
They say the purpose of the raise is
to compensate for the increased cost Of
living, and that it is primarily lower
grade employees who need raise for this
purpose-hence their opposition to
percentage" raise.
AS crude generality. this reasoning
is, of course, quite correct as far as it
goes. But why not go all the way? Let
us just pay all Government employees the
same flat salary. Surely this is the only
fair thing to do according to the stand
ard of thinking now prevalent in the
House. Who can seriously and honestly
contend that this is not the logical ex-
tension of the principle of the fiat pay
raise?
On the otner question, it is said that
it would be too expensive to make the
raise retroactive to the beginning OF the
fiscal year, July /. If the pay bill had
been passed before July /, as 1t should
have been, 1t would doubtless have been
made effective on that date. In that
case, the cost would have been the same
as what it would now cost to make It
retroactive to that date.
We now have situation where the
longer it takes Congress to make up its
mind, the more money the taxpayers
save Cat the expense of the Government
workers.. What a wonderful incentive
for stalling! And I might add, what
complete disregard for elementary prin-
ciples of fairness.