Greene County Journal, Volume 78, Numbers 3-10

PAGE TWO GREENE COUNTY JOURNAL Thursday, February 17, 1955 GREENE COUNTY JOURNAL Published Every Thursday By the GREENE COUNTY PRINTING CO., INC PUBLICATION OFFICE: Grove St., Cedarville Ohio. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Cedarville, Ohio, under act of Congress, March, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.50 per year. Single copy 10c. M. R. PRUITT ................ ............. ........... Managing Editor Phone 6-1711 ELOISE McNAMEE......................................... News Editor 4-9031 ATOUGHHOSTOHARNESS Bless, 0 Lord the people who read this prayer. Grant that they may bo used in Thy service today. Give unto each one a measure of Tlry strength and of Thy spirit, that they may shed radiance of the light of love. In Jesus' name, Amen. Editorial Features ANTIOCH UNDER PRESIDENT GOULD CONTINUES TO FLIRT WITH THE COMMUNISTS. Dr. Dirk Struik, former mathematician and science, historian at the Massachusettes Institue of Technology, spoke before the Civil Liberties Commitee at Antioch Dec­ ember 14, 1954 at 4:30 p. m. on “ The Struggle for Acad­ emic Integrity” (Faculty Lounge). At 7:30 p, m. he cle livered an address to the Math Club on “ The Struggle with the Infinite.” On December 15, 1954, he spoke before the Y. P. A. on the “ Economic Factors in the Development of Sciences,” at 9 p. m. in the Birch Lounge. We need not remind our readers that the Y. P. A. was acknowledged by the College as being financed, controlled and directed by the Communist Party in the United States. In these talks Struik maintained that the United States is a “ Police State;” that “ Marxists should teach Marxism fh Colleges-” Dr. Dirk J. Struik was identified as a Communist Party member by Herbert Philbrick, the F.B.I. under­ cover man, in public,^hearings before the House, Un-Am­ erican Activities Committee, July 23, 1951; by Dr. Wil­ liam T. Martin, a former Communist, head of the Mathe­ matics Department at M.I.T., Who appeared in public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Com­ mittee, April 22, 1953; by Isador Amter, another former communist, who is a professor at M.I.T. who also testified before the Committee, April 22, 1953; and finally aiso by Dr. Norman Lcvington, a former Communist, who ap­ peared before this same Committee April 23, 1953. Re- fe.rnccs for the above information is U. S. News and World Report, August 7, 1953, p. 45. The daughter of Professor Struik, Gwen Struik, was a student at Antioch College in 1952 and graduated from Antioch in 1954. Apparently Gwen Struik wrote a letter to Everett K. Wlison, professor of Sociology at Antioch College, asking his cooperation in connection with a De­ fense Committee, ogranized to raise funds for her father’s defense. The Defense Committee was composed o f 67 names. (List is available). Everett Wilson, making some minor changes in the Defense Committee’s statement, submitted his appeal to 95 names of Antioch faculty and assistants for approval. Apparently this petition for help to defend a Communist was not submitted to all of the 95 names, because some­ where aong the line the petition was with drawn. On September 13, 1.951, Professor Struik was indicted under the law of Massachusetts on charge of advocating, advising, counseling and inciting “ the overthrow by force and violence of the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the government of the United States.” Members of the Gommunist Party are incompatible with the requirements of our Democratic educational pro­ cess. Teaching involves ones total personality, a free and an objective mind, integrity of purpose, tolerance of evi­ dence and a kindly benovelent aild understanding atti­ tude toward all human beings. The Communist attitude calls for fixity and finality of belief, intolerance of anv evidence that challenges that belief, a hatred of the going order of society, and met­ hods of subterfuge and deviousness. Their minds are re­ gimented and enslaved and the belief in Communism makes otherwise competent teachers inbomporte'nt to teach. It is not a free thinking way life but rather a con­ spiratorial way of life. These people should not be per­ mitted to infiltrate, and sabotage our American Educa­ tional system and those that aid and abet them are them­ selves suspect, your Washington inclusive BY ROBERT TAYLOR Week In Wash ington With George Bender EISENHOWER SEIZES WORLD INITIATIVE President Eisenhower’s action in’ Washington, the administration’s bold stand in the disposition of our Fleet and Air Forces in the Formosa Straits, and our determined course before the United Nations have combined to re­ assert world leadership for the United States. We have made it clear that Uncle Sam will not sit quietly along the sideines whie the Communists pick o ff one by one every area which challenges their aggressive thrusts. This is the basic premise underlying the detailed activities which have taken place in the past few weeks. The optimistic hope that we may avoid a third World War is based upon the knowledge that Red China has a limited steel production, that her armed forces have no striking power comparable to the strength which can be massed against her by the Western Powers, and that inter­ nal conditions within China do not lendUi^mselves to any prolonged military effort, ' • Nevertheless, the Asiatic tinder box is highly in­ flammable, If we are to avoid a major conflagration, everybody entering the danger area, must wear asbestos suits and, hard as it may sometimes be, he must avoid any appearance of being a fire-eater, fire-spouter or oil-pourer. THE AMERICAN WAY WHAT ATOMIC ENERGY CAN'DO FOR MANKIND We have been told all too frequently what atomic energy san do to mankind. We know less about what this tremendous source of power can do for us, Our Atomic Energy Commission tells us that its re­ search has now extended the frontiers of science to some mighty homespun areas, A plant has been developed which will preserve potatoes for two years without spoilage or sprouting. This device exposes the potatoes to a brief at­ omic radiation period at a cost of $3.60 per ton, and saves the property. A new tiny radio-active device weighing approxi­ mately one ounce provides anticancer radiation equal to .he amount which could be produced by twenty million dol­ lars worth o f radium, Hose for women which will never wear out can be manufactured through new processes, On a scientific level dealing wtih research problems, he Atomic Energy Commission reports that radio com­ munications using Very High Frequencies are possible over ong distances; that new atom-smashing power units of more than six million electron volts have been attained; that new energy production is apparently attainable be­ yond our person imagination, | So, if you arc looking for some new opportunities, get i out your Geiger Counter and join the folks in Colorado, 1New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, California, Florida and Pennsylvania who have found uranium, COOKING W ITH ! MICROWAVES j Peek into the future nnd consid- i er the electronic oven. With it you can fry fish fillets in 30 seconds, bake potatoes in 2 minutes, broil | lobsters in 3 minutes. Left-over* spaghetti 'is steaming hot in 15 seconds, A roast takes only 20. minutes, | Tliis oven cooks with microwwaves. i A magnetron tube which looks similar to a radio tube does the work. There are no fumes or soot in tiie oven. Housewives can cook the food right on the dinner plates j and remove them with their bare j hands only the food gets warm.1 Accidentally “cooking’ your hand by putting it in the oven is im­ possible the unit automaticaly cuts off when the oven door is opened. This new wonder stove should appear in the stores late this year. CHANGING TIMES. WHO’S BOSS? It will be some time before Americans—or Ruslans, either, for that matter—can be sure Just whoss cucceeded Georgi Malenkov as top dog of the USSR and the Red World Conspiracy. While former Stalin stooge wore the boss’s mantle longer than many expected, and the toboggan with tho customary Communist admissions of guilt and Inefficiency, It Is Interesting to note that he retained his place in the Presiduim ol tho Central Committee and more remarable still—his head, Ho was also put in charge of Soviet power plants, which should be a nice, comfort­ able Job during those long Russian winters. While tho title of Premier was hung on Marshall Nikolai A. Bulgan­ in students of Russian intrigue were quick to identify him as a front for Nikita 8. Khrushchev, frist secretary of the Communist Party. But, with tho appointment of Mhrshall Georgi K. Zhukov to tho post of Dcfcnso Minister, and President Eisenhower’s press conference prniso of Zhukov and reminiscences of their wartime friendshipswhich re­ minded newsmen that General Eisenhower had once described Zhukov as a man ho could do business with the question of who’s who would seem to remain uncertain. Tho President, while indullng himself in his stroll down memory lane, recalled that he had been directed by the Government to invite Zhukov to visit the U. S. ,that his plane ha been put at the Russian’s disposal and General Eisenhower’s son detailed as the visitor’s aide. This pleasant comrades-ln-arms reverie was Interrupted by a reporter who asked if the Zhukov Invitation remained open. The President re­ plied that he had not thought of it since entering his present office, that he could not very well issue incitation without consulting his advisers He added that 'this would be a remarkable thing at the present state of affairs, but Z certainly wouldn’t hesitate to talke it over with my people If we found It desirable.” Americans should remember, however, that they do not celebrate Valentine’s Day In the USSR, and that whiic the Kremlin scene-shifters were at work in Mtoscow, icy viened Foregin Minister Molotov amused a laughing, applauding audience by hurling new defiance and stinging taunts at the US as leader of the “aggressive’’ Western nations, In the matter of hydrogen weapons, he said, it is not the Soviet Union but the United Staes ha is in the position of laggard." The US must withdraw, he said, from Formosa and the Formosa Straits. US *re3l- tance” to Red China’s recognition by the UN can no longer be tol­ erated,” he declared. Who Is running Russia today may not be nearly as Important as who will be boss next month or next year. And in that speclation, don‘t leave out Molotov. LEGISLATURE GETS “MULTIPLE LINE" INSURANCE BILL { The Great "Liberator” \ U. S. FACES MAJOR DEBATE ON TARIFF Tho Crtnffroas will be hard at, work during tho next few weeks on (ho knotty question of Tariffs. By whatever name they are called, “ Reciprocal Agreements” , “ Duties", or “ Tariffs” the problem of deciding how much to charge iin­ coming goods covering some 8,000 specific items is difficult to solve. Our present policy has been described as a gradu­ ated program by which we reduce tariffs in return for con­ cessions to American trade by the favored countries. These agreements are negotiated under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act giving the President the necessary auth­ ority to work out a mutual tariff reductions with ouf friends. Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signed in 1947 by our Government and twentv- one others, concessions on more than half o f the world’s traded imports were set up. Our Tariff Commission h is fixed “ peril points” below which tariff rates cannot bg reduced without disturbing our own economy. And reduc­ tion below this point requires an explanation by the Presi­ dent to Congress, At the same time, our trade agreements carry an “ escape clause” allowing Uncle Sam to withdraw any concession if the lowered tariff rates involved threaten serious dislocation to an industry. This was the clause used Hast year by President Eistnhower in raising our tariffs i on Swiss watches by 50%. A new proposal by the President is coming before *Congress. It will provoke a major debate with widespread j interest already evident throughout the business and labor j community. !OUESTION o f t h e w e e k I The Supreme Court says Baseball is a snort, but iBoxing and the Theatre are businesses. What’s politics? Rep, Robert L. Johnson Rep, Robert L. Johnson (R) Me­ dina, ha* introduced a bill in the Ohio Legislature to authorize "Multiple Lino” insurance policies, Ohio ia the only state that does not already hare some form of multi­ ple line powers. "Multiple Lino” enables fire companies to write casualty insur­ ance and casualty companies to write fire insurance. Don McVay, chairman of the Stock Company-Agents Conference Committee, reporta that more than 90% of the Ohio insurance industry favors the Johnson bilL HIt allows consolidation o f several policies into one, saving time and money for both homeowners and agentst It makes complete home protection eas er to understand and to buy,” McVay says. John W, Love, economist for the Cleveland Press, had this to say about the "Multiple Line” pro­ posal! “Hie Johnson bill should pass, There is no sense in Ohio holding to so antiquated and peculiar a pos­ ition among the states In a field which marches along as insurance doe*." T HE recent report of the Com mittea for Economic Develop, ment, an authorltaUve group of business executives, pointing out weaknesses in the federal budget system and describing the budget process in Congress as "splin­ tered,” also highlights an Increas­ ing tendency to go outsldo the budget for money for public serv­ ices which does not show up in the budget itself. This practice was first tried In this administration when the Treasury went to tho country banks urging them to taka Com­ modity Credit Corporation notes oft their hands at a time when the expenses of the government was crowding the constitutional debt limit. Now President Eisenhower pro­ poses to set up a hundred billion dollar federal corporation for the issuance of revenue bonds to build roads, which will not show up in tha federal budget, but which some senators, 'tiding Senator Harry Byrd, of . ..ginia, say will cost the taxpayers more than $11 bil­ lions In interest if they are paid oft on schedule in 1987, The committee named by the president to draw up his road bill asks (1) continuation of the regu­ lar federal aid to highways at the rata of $623 million a year, and, (2) expenditure during the next ten yean of $25 billion for the so- called interstate highway system, or a total expenditure on the two programs of $31 billions in 10 years, This would build, according to tha estimate, 40,000 miles of in­ terstate highway, or about 1 per cent of all public road mileage and would average about BOOmiles per state. For this tho commit­ tee recommends borrowing $20 bil­ lion at 3 per cent interest and col­ lection of $5 billion in fees from filling stations, motels, etc., oper­ ating on these highways. Senator Byrd says if the 30-y.ear taxable bonds recommended can be sold* at 3 per cent and if paid oft on schedule, the last maturing in 1987, the Interest would cost more than 11.5 billions, or a cost to the taxpayers of $1.55 for every dol­ lar borrowed. There have been other attempts in the past of taking capital ex­ penditures out of the budget. But these attempts have been on self- liquidating projects such as power dams, irrigation projects, etc. There have been several attempts to set up revolving funds for this category of government expendi­ tures, and let the collections from revenues pay them out over the life of the project, taklrg the amounts out ol the budget nnd thus out of tho taxable areas, This has been suggested, for in­ stance in the case of the TVA which annually pays back millions of dollars into the federal treas­ ury, but must go back to congress each year and ask for appropria­ tions, starting from scratch. For* Instance during the past four years, alone, since June, 1950, the TVA has paid into tho general fund of the treasury a total of $67,418,000 and in addition has re­ deemed $30,000,000 In Treasury bonds, or a total of $103,418,000, Yet this Is ono side of tho TVA I which Is seldom heard from when that agency is forced to go befors congress and beg for funds witft which to operate. 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