The Jamestown Journal, Volume 77, Numbers 17-52

PAGE TWO THE JAMESTOWN JOURNAL Thursday, December'30, 1954 JAMESTOWN 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 ELOISE McNAMEE News Editor 4-9031 i . Bless, 0 Lord the people who read this prayer.! Grant that they may be used in Thy service today. Give j unto each one a measure of Thy strength and of Thy spirit,1 that they may shed radiance of the light of love. In ■' Jesus' name, Amen. i NINES DEFEND CAPITAL . . .. U. S. army's Nike antl-aircrafi guided missile station at Lorion, Va.. 'm one of 16 Nike bases ringing Washington. Missiles, shown In Bring position, attain speed of 1,500 mpta. Editorial Features With only one day left in the year of our Lord, 1954, we see the year ending with the United States not involv­ ed in a "shooting” war We are involved in a cold war. Not only internationally, ; ........ but right here within the borders of America. OUR ; ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------- --------- AMERICA, we as citizens of America, under a system of { Government which is now the oldest continous government Ihand in the Bloody Univis Lens Strike in 1948. Snarling in the world, have reached a standard of living that is the jand spitting at policemen and others trying to control envy of the world, under free enterprize, the people, all of Ithe brawling strikers. It was brought out by Arthur Strunk, the people of the United States have a greater purchasing iaa undercover man for the F B I within the Dayton Corn- power—have more, buy more, possess more, and use more, jmunist party, that John Ober had attended communist More food, clothing, housing, cars, furniture, appliances, jmeetings while in his uniform as an officer of the Armed and everything else—than all the people of all of Europe iForces. Again they were not asked nor was it brought out and Asia combined. ;how he happened to be attending a communist meeting In every way our political liberties exceed those of jdressed in uniform. It was brought out in the 1952 Ohio any other country. Political liberty is the foundation of jbearings that either the U, E, or the communist party was all other liberties including religious liberty. There are putting John Otyer through the University of Cincinnati several peculiar processes of American political affairs [Law School. that make this difference. First and basic, is the guaran-| John Ober testified that he first was introduced to tee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to every ‘Communism at Antioch College. citizen. A guarantee of life unless guilty of capital offense < Arthur Strunk also identified other Yellow Springs against other citizens. A guarantee of liberty, unless prov-!and Antioch men, namely John Romer, James Metcalf en guilty of serious offense against law and order. A guar- Jand Norton Anthony Russell, of whom Russell and Metcalf antee of the opportunity to provide for ones own happiness jbave been subject to indictment for contempt. Metcalf in establishing a home and improving it, in marketing the |refused to name any one he had known at Antioch connect- products of personal labor for personal gain and to keep jed with the communist party. He stated he had dropped and enjoy this gain. jout of the Antioch group in 1946. Evidently his commun- We have no commissors, no secret police, no supreme fistic activities did not cease with, his Antioch introduction, politburo, but we do have opposition political parties and jAs Strunk testified Metcalf was a dues payng member and the right to criticize and oppose our government politically. J that he had seen him at several communist meetings, and However we do not believe that these political rights, even that Metcalf’s assignment was to distribute the Daily under the First dr Fifth Amendment, include or ever were intended to include the right so called to conspire to over­ throw our Government. LIBERTY does not include any right to conspire to destroy that same liberty. In contrast, no Russian is permited to own land He cannot have a jury trial. The Russian cannot choose his own job. He dares not absent himself from work, nor does he ever strike and live to tell of it, Letters to The Editor There are no picket lines. The Russian is not allowed Ibis protection. Workers in Yellow Springs. (It might be interesting to know who subscribed to the .Daily Wodker such a short time ago), Professor Metcalf refused to answer questions c/h moral grounds, To whom does a LOYAL American owe their moral support, their country or their communist associates ? ? ? Romer refused to answer on grounds of the 5th amendment, Although he had been listed as being a dues (paying member. Russell claimed the First Amendment as to employ labor, He has no right to travel without per­ mission. He is not allowed to own jewelry. He has nothing to buy it with, and besides, it is a crime, There have been others connected with the com­ munist party and having subscribed to Communist Front Organizations with in the past few years, connected with A Russian is forbidden to ring a church bell, (how -;Antioch, yet under the guise of free speech and free inq- ever within the last few weeks, out of one corner of their >uiry or organizations holding meetings in the OPEN they mouth they are telling the outside world they are easing jhave been defended by Antioch officials, religious restrictions, out of the oother corner it is a differ - 1 Others in the vicinity named by Strunk at the Dayton ent story inside Russia). He dares not converse freely with {hearings were Bess and Gene Rinehart, He stated that a foreigner without witness. 1-Ie has no freedom of speech, iboth paid dues for several years and that Gene was very no freedom of religion. He can vote—must vote—‘but there jactive but later dropped out. The Rineharts were not is only one tgan on the ballot, for each office, to vote for. ’called to testify and there were rumors of mutterings that That is Communism. YET in spite of all these known facts, Strunk had not told the truth in accusing the Rineharts, the new and novel propaganda from Russia has so infected (however Strunks’s testimony was not new, as earlier in an- the thinking of great numbers of our citizens that our'other hearing, John G. Mitchell stated in testimony that basic institutions of law and order are now questioned, (“Eugene Rinehart was chairman of the communist party and even held up to hatred and contempt, !of Montgomery County at the same time he, Mitchell was Today the Communist Kremlin is conquering great la member, also N. Anthony Russell was an active member. nations(with the pen of propaganda; nations it could never j Mitchell also stated that when he came out of the take with the sword. army, Bess and Gene Rinehart were still on the books al- The professions of education are especially under jthougli Gene was not active, attack. ' ! From the testimony given (and not disproven) within Currently the Gommunist Party is operating in Ameri- 1 the past two years, there can be no doubt of the presence ca through front organizations. Some 5,000 of these front |of a communist menace in the community organizations have been set up in America under Com-j We can see how loyal Americans can be induced by munist direction and control, Hundreds of the larger ones the liberal bait of the communists to join some of these have been identified and published by the Attorney Gen-jfront organizations igorantly, out of sympathy for the era! of the United States, and by Congressional and state underdog they claim to want to help But if they remain investigating committees, ^ jin these fronts after their true character is exposed and It has been non-communists organized under the con-‘'published by the Attorney General and'by the National trol of communists that have overthrown Czechoslovaki and State investigating committees, they are without ex- and a long list of Old World republics. The Communist cuse. Do these people who upheld the Communist Party or Party is only the handle of the dagger that draws the life -‘its fellow travelers propose as a substitute for all the corn- blood of free governments, The long sharp blade is made:forts and standards of living of the United States of up of non-communists stupidly participating in commu- JAmerica, the wretched existance in Russia? ? nist - controlled front organizations. | It is long past time that all Americans get out of these Communists boasted that they would make non-com- communist front organizations, To the Editor; Journal Hearld: There are many different relig­ ions in the various nations of ttie world, but never until NOW, has there been found a nation, to take a stand upon a DENIL of all re­ ligion. It is appaling that Russia repu­ diates what we term as Christian­ ity, Communists deny the supreme objective of man's destiny------God. They recognize no religion. To this writer it is inconceivable that e GLORIFY the Soviets as a great nation. Joe Stalin was the world’s greatest tyrant and mur­ derer. The Communist philosophy has lanted its roots in our Govern­ ment; In our organizations; In the United Nations; and In our educa­ tional system, and its philosophy is n complete OPPOSITION to th t philosophy on which this great na­ tion was fo unded. It is of the u t­ most importance, that wc Ameri­ cans realize, that there was no "Christmas Spirit” in Russia, for Communism deny the whole beauti­ ful story, of the Child of Bethlehem. Very truly Roy P. Martin George Gobel On Polio Show munists overthrow the liberities of the Czech people and they did. Not only that, but they have the same organiza­ tions communist - controlled in this country. Patiently they A citizen of America who will not take a clear-cut stand in defense of America against the Russian “World Conquering” communists is unworthy, and does not de are building them and seeking places of power in Govern-(serve a place in the community or the country which loyal ment, . _ iAmericans make possible Those who support or sympa- WE not only have them in the United States, we have (thze with the communists are just aiding and abetting, them here in the state, HERE in our own community. This -treasonable conspiracy against our liberties, has been proven through Un American Acitivities Com- j Now it is a)so another common mistake to insist on mittees in the past 2 years. When our committees have . perfection in every one who challenges communism. You attempted to expose communists, too many liberals have , will not find perfection this side of Gloryland. The men served the communist cause by rising to defend the com -:and women who are staking their all in the fight to pro- munists. , . !tect American freedom are human men and women, and Here in the Antioch - Yellow Springs area each time ' sometimes their errors are shown up. But remember they investigation was mentioned the hue and cry of witch - are errors on your behalf, they are on your team, hunt, seeking political power, beating drums etc, Would go , To match the communist-front organizations and help up.^ Time and again we heard it said “no subversives or rout out those hiding behind free speech, etc, we urge activity at Antioch, yet in hearings witnessess testified every service club, every lodge, and every civic and veter- they received their introduction to communism at Antioch1ans organization to make a 1955 resolution to join up in College, all under the guise of free speech and free in- this the greatest fight of the age. Get into action to pre- Gobel. <. in Dayton DAYTON—George Gobel, tfce television co.iudinn of the year, vnll headline a four*hour Polio Benefit Show lit the University of Dayton Fieldiiousc, Sunday afternoon, Jan, 10, AH proceeds wit" go to the polio fund drive. Tickets, priced a t $2, *2.50, *3, and *5, are now on sale at the Central Ticket Office, Billmor* hotel lobby, Dayton. Ted Weems and his orchestra plaa a number of the country’s top stage, television, and night club acta ar^ included on the four-hour show. query. At the recent Dayton hearings, Bebe Ober demurely testified that she first became interested in communism serve your homeland from this enslaving despotism, pre­ tending to offer benefits to make suckers out of us, and trust that the truth and the facs of America will win ou at Antioch College, under the tutorship of Herb Reed, j in the contest for the control of the lives and hearts and One of the most notorious Communist organizers in the minds of America United States. In the September hearings Bebe and her husband John testified. Bebe hesitantly told of belonging _ . „ to the U. E. Union and of working at Univis Lens. What CATSKILL (N. Y.) MAIL ■*y*i she didn't tell as she wasn’t asked at this hearing that she !, ,4 ; nfw ^or dividing lines on highways became one of the most hardened vicious communists on Is claimed to last longer and remain brighter than ever became one of the most hardened vicious communists on before. We’d like to see the same hold true for the drivers, FIGHT POLIO! sEpukmioAid/ //> " m a r c h O F D IMES J A N U A R Y 3 - 3 1 IT’S OUR GOOSE Small businesses in America are marked for destruc­ tion by the Administration's reciprocal trade program, members of the cotton textile industry told the Govern­ ment’s Committee for Reciprocity Information at a Wash­ ington hearing to consider negotiations at the upcoming world trade pow-wow at Geneva. Further, the industry has served notice that it will demand a Congressional in­ vestigation of how and why our Government leaders drew up a list of "expendable industries” for trade concessions to Japan. Adoption of the program would be a death sentence to textile mills employing a million and a quarter wage- earners, to millions of American cotton farmers and to nearly all small US factories producing importable com­ modities, according to R. H. Jewell, of Chickamauga, Ga., who appeared as witness for the American Cotton Manu­ facturers’ Institute. Mr. Jewell jiointed out that “great, super-efficient mass-production industries” such as auto manufacturing and iron and steel, are not on the “expendable” list, or are “very tenderly treated”, and while the big fellows are very generally^for free trade, the little fellew in industry can not possibly compete with imports made by labor that is paid one-tenth or one-twelfth the American scale. Still he says, it is largely the products of these small manu­ facturers that are proposed for the Geneva bargaining conference with Japan. Mr. Jewell wondered where the Small Business Administration would find its loan appli­ cants in the future.. President Eisenhower has said repeatedly, and with emphasis, that his Administration and its overall program are devoted to the interest of all 160 million of us Ameri­ cans. And certainly nothing could be more at variance with this viewpoint than the present cynical division of American industry into categories of “large” and “small”, and marking the little fellows for slaughter on the rickety altar of a half-baked plan for stabilizing the world by mak­ ing all the concessions ourselves, and requiring none from countries whose trade controls and cartel operations are far more restrictive than what is left of the American tar­ iff. Even the bureaucrats must have heard of the fable of the goose that laid the golden egg. Why, then, are we so busily sharpening the axe for immolation at Geneva? BOTH CAN’T BE RIGHT In earlier times there could be no better news, after the shooting had stopped, than word from Washington that our armed forces were not only to be drastically re­ duced, but that the rate of reduction would be step­ ped up ahead of the original time table. Under present tensions, it is just plain confusing. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, in announcing the speed-up as a shift in the Administration's “levelling- off” program, and a result of the President’s belief that threats of war are receding, said the 400,000 man reduc­ tion would be accomplished a year ahead of the orginal plan. Further, he announced that draft calls, presently at the rate of 23,000 a month, will be cut back in February to ten or eleven thousand. Under the new plan the total manpower of the armed forces will drop from the present 3,218,000 to 2,940,000 by the end of next June, and to 2,815,000 by June 30 ,1956. The Army will be cut from 1,343,000 to 1,000,000; the Navy from 692,000 to 650,000; the Marine Corps from 222,000 to 190,000. The Air Force, on the other hand, will be increased from the present 961,000 to 975,000. This accomplishment, Mr. Wilson said, will leave the armed forces in d “flexible position”. It was, he thought, a sound decision. The Secretary of State, on the other hand, who seems to be concerning himself increasingly with military mat­ ters, told his post-Paris press conference flatly that the Kremlin’s objectives remain unchanged and danger of war undiminished. Mr. Dulles said our military cut-backs were the natural result of technological advances rather than any change in the world outtlook. It seems odd that Mr. Wilson, who has been dealing with technological ad­ vances all his working life—-as an automotive engineer and executive—-would leave it to a lawyer to think of that explanation. . But, in case you are not impressed with the Admin­ istration view that world morals are improving, or Mr. Dulles’ suggestion that we can be better defended by ’ewer pien, you might consider the cut-back in manpower and the draft as diversionary. It could be intended to dis­ tract public attention from the new reserve training pro­ gram which the Administration will shortly present to Con­ gress . . . and which, incidentally, could provide the first defense system in the history of the Republic that would je fair to its young manhood. instruments of the 'people'. This is balderdash. Govern­ ment grows on what it feeds on ; every Government agency and its functionaries are hungry for more appropriations and more power; they, too, are 'interest'*’’ Moreover, the sins of private enterprize can be and are corrected by law. The sins of super-government, once a certain point is reached, are beyond and law. The people, more and more, take what is offered and do what they are told. That is the way free men become slaves. Mod- ren history groans with examples of it. , It was said long ago that any people get the kind of government they deserve. They also get the amount of freedom they deserve. We Americans are not immune to these truths. Opinions of Other Editors MONTROSE (CALIF) LEDGER •ay*: So Americans-—especially Republicans—are finding the responsibility for the anti-McCarthy campaign living squarely at the doorstep of the President and his friends. And with it lies the dead 1952 promise of anti-Commun- ism. One thing is evident. While many Republicans are shaking their heads sadly as the President congratulates Senator Watkins “on the Very splendid j o b he did aS chairman of the committee to censure McCarthy, other Republicans are seriously searching for a different man to carry the party standard in 1956—with a renewed platform of anti-Communism. CHAREROI (PA.) MAIL *ay«: The propaganda war goes on with unabated fury but we believe the Soviets finally have tripped. An announcement in Moscow is to the effect tnat Russia not only is providing all youngsters with an edu­ cation— “many parents in capitalistic, warmongering America can’t afford it’’—but that the youngsters are delighted* , The announcement says: , , „ “Russian children love their schools. They look for­ ward to the end of their vacations.” . . ( Now who in all this world, hncluding the Russians, is going to believe a statement like that?