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Russians Strive To Destroy Residue
Of Old Sense Of inferiority
Who invented the electric light? If you say Edi-
son, you’re wrong—it was a Russian named Yabloch-
kov. Who devised the telegraph? If you say Morse,
you’re wrong again—it was another Russian named
Yakobi. The radio?' No, it wasn’t Marconi—it was
still another Russian named Popov. How about the
first successful flying machine? If you answer “the
Wright brothers” you’ll have to go to the bottom of
the class—a Russian called Mozhaisky flew like a bird
near St. Petersburg 20 years before the Wrights took
off at Kitty Hawk.
These, and similar revelations, are discussed by
Edmund Stevens in the Christian Science Monitor.
He found them in a Soviet magazine called the Liter-
ary Gazette. They show, he says, one of the ways the
Soviet party “woos Russian national pride. The move
corresponds to a vital need of Russians to vindicate
their self-respect and destroy the residue of an old
ense of inferiority. It also increases the Russian’s con-
fidence in their capacity to catch up with and outstrip
the rest of the world technically at the present time.”
It is, in other words, an example of the kind of morale-
building propaganda the government is now feeding
the Russian masses.
Moreover, it is an example of how the Soviet
bosses will use any untruth or half-truth to serve their
ends. A story has been going the rounds concerning
a British Communist who went to a meeting of Russian
Communist strategists in Moscow. He was perplexed
as to how to argue some idealogical point or other in
England. The Russians gave him an answer, to which
he objected that it wasn’t true. The Russians looked at
him with amazement—and then burst into gales of
laughter over such naivete. It is said that the incident
was described to the top Russians, including Stalin,
and that they burst into laughter also.
This story may be apocryphal but it has a point.
Communist thinking holds that the end justifies the
use of any means. If a lie will work, it is told. Words
are‘twisted out of all semblance to what they mean to
other nations. That is touched on in General Walter
Bedell Smith’s revelations of his experiences as Am-
bassador to Moscow, which appeared serially in the
Saturday Evening Rost and are now out in book form.
He, Secretary Marshall, and other Americans, he says,
“Naively assumed that the word ‘democracy’ meant
the same thing to the Politburo that it did to us.”
Events proved that nothing could have been more
wrong. The Russians gave ‘democracy’ a new mean-
ing which suited them, and thus managed to give in-
terpretations to international agreements which were
the exact opposite of what the W$ had intended. This
policy is one of the principal reasons for our failure to
meet the Russians on common ground.—Industrial
News Review.
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WHY BE THRIFTY?
sible to get money in all these
ways, but they are not the right
ways. This country was not
built by those wishful thinkers
who are ever looking for the
guick dollar.
A Thrifty Nation
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Night — 7:30
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MONDAY nights of each
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Visiting brethren fraternally
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Ben A Franklin’s old wisdom:
‘‘A penny saved is a penny earn-
ed” had a great part in building
America. In fact, it made
enough sense to become a part
of America. Our thriftiness cc>n-
tributed wonderfully to building
this land of ours, and the folks
who saved their pennies had a
lot to do with it. You can count
over most of the great companies
that serve us so well today, and
behind nearly all of them you
will discover a history of sav-
ing and thrift that fade the
original idea possible.
But I say that saving money
was one time a good philosophy.
That is because it was practiced.
It would be just as good today,
and would go a long way toward
creating the jobs and opportuni-
ties upon which the future of
this nation must depend—if the
philosophy of caving were put
to more use. But saving and
thrift have today fallen into dis-
honor. Today ,the man who
thinks of saving his money and
then investing those savings is
likely to be called a foolish man.
Penalties on Thrift
People who know facts can
call such a man foolish. There
are two reasons for this attitude.
First: it is nearly impossible to
save money. Government taxing
policies and government discour-
agement of private thrift make it
a well-nigh impossible feat for
the few people who have “in-
vestment size” incomes to save
anything at all. So why try?
Second: there's not sufficient
incentive to invest. Heavy corp-
oration and income taxes make
earnings from investments • so
low that very few of those who
do save will take the risk involv-
ed in putting new money into
industry.
The people of this nation are
rapidly forgetting what those
habits of personal thrift, of lay-
ing it up for the rainy day, have
meant in the growth and progress
of the nation. And this is true
despite the fact that a dollar of
private investment is 14 times
more elective in creating jobs
than a dollar of government
money. When money is put in-
to business it goes to work, bene-
fitting everyone. Bqt money
taken from business and investors
is a great drag on the whole
nation’s welfare.
America was built by dreamers,
however. We can give most of
the credit to those practical men
and women who had ideas. It
was either their own hard earn-
ed dollars or the savings of others
of like courage, that made those
dream scome true. If there was
any gamble, it was simply the
risk they dared place upon their
own ideas and abilities. They
ha dthe necessary courage and
vision. They had enough incent-
ive to engage in enterprise. In
a word, that is the philosophy
of free enterprise.
Jan. 30 Ceremony
To Dedicate Gift
Of Texas CROP
May America’s philosophy al-
ways* be thus. We must jcnow
and understand the meaning of
thrift. More than that, we can-
not afford to penalize those who
would save money, by any na-
tional policy or practice. Sav-
ings put to work, in the form of
capital for new and growing en-
terprises, must continue to be
our best insurance for prosperity
and full employment. My hope
is that we shall become a nation
of thrifty people. This would do
much to preserve our nation.
On Teaching Thrift
I am seriously concerned lest
our youth grow up losing sight
of the importance of thrift. This
week (January 17 to 23) has
been designated “National Thrift
Week,” and it seems to me this
is a good time to pause and do
our bit toward the preservation
of thrift, bot hby precept and
example, can have a lot to do
with America’s future.
Our young folks must be taught
that there is no such thing as
“easy money.” We cannot afford
to educate this generation that
the best way to make money is
to go into politics, mary into it,
win a radio “give away,” find a
new “racket,? wait for a rich
uncle to die, win the sweepstakes,
or live on the dole. It is pos-
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TAYLOR, Texas—Texas’ gifts
to the Christian Rural Overseas
Program (CROP) will be among
those dedicated in national- cere-
mony in New Orleans, La., on
Monday, January 30.
Invited by National CROP
Cabinet to head, the Texas dele-
gation are Governor Allan Shiv-
ers, Honorary State Chairman,
and Daniel Russell of College
Station, Chairman of the Texas
CROP Committee.
The dedication ceremonies will
be held at the Port of Embarca-
tion. It is being sponsored by
civic and business leaders and
CROP Headquarters for the oc-
casion is being established at
International House.
Elmore R. Torn, State CROP
Director, has announced that
based on contributions already
received and those reported the
gifts of Texas people to this
church sponsored overseas relief
work should approximate the
equivalent of 150,000 pounds of
raw fiber commodities and 1,-
500,000 pounds of food commodi-
ties in bulk.
For economy reasons, commodi-
ties are shipped to port only in
carload lots. Overseas it is dis-
tributed by church personnel
actually living in the refugee
areas served by the program.
Those in direst need are given
preference, it was stated.
Miniature boxcars, represent-
ing individual and county gifts
fyom the 35 CROP states will be
dedicated. Then they will be
sent with the actual shipments
of the commodities to identify the
origin of the gifts, it was ex-
plained.
One of the most influential fig-
ures in Texas history during the
first decade of the 19th century
was Aaron Burr. ' He is credited
with being the determining spirit
in a deal resulting in the loss of
a 30 mile wide strip of territory
off the eastern side of Texas. Also
it is said that but for his influ-
ence our boundary war with
Mexico might have started m
1806 instead of 40 years later.
Until 1819 no definite eastern
boundary was established for
Texas, though the Spanish occu-
pied territory to the Arroyo Hon-
do about 35 miles east of the
Sabine. Three years after the
Louisiana purchase the United
States and Spain, unable to reach
a boundary agreement diplomat-
ically, marches their armies into
the disputed territory. The armies
drew up facing each other across
the Sabine. War seemed inevit-
able. But insteao of war a com-
promise treaty was signed in
which the territory between the
Sabine and Arroyo Hondo was
recognized as neutral. General
James Wilkinson, commander of
the American forces, and Lieut-
enant Colonel Herrera, com-
manding the Spanish forces, sign-
ed for their countries. Aaron
Burr, in effect, sat at the treaty
table as a frightening ghost. His
actual whereabouts at the time
were not definitely known. But
the West was filled with alarm-
ing rumors about his plans for
carving an empire in the South-
west. Because of his1 unpredict-
able past all sorts of speculations
were afloat in regard to his de-
signs of conquest. Because no
one knew his strength or what
he was up to, or what side he
might fight on, both sides feared
the consequence of his forces
combined with the enemy. In
the face of this fear, both sides,
it is said, were satisfied to comp-
romise.
There seems to have been a
curse on this whole deal and the
men connected with it. Ultimate-
ly the strip was lost by Texas.
Then the neutral strip became an
outlaw empire whei’e neither the
laws of God nor man were fear-
ed, and for a time almost dis-
rupted traffic in and out of the
Southwest. And the participants
in the treaty all, in time, fell
from high places of position. But
Burr was the most unlucky of
them all.
Among Burr’s many bad breaks
he had lost the office of President
of the United States after 30
ballots by ONE vote. He turned
to the West, a land of schemes
and empires, where al the turn
of the century, many westerners
favored joining the revolutionary
parties of Texas and Mexico and
setting up republics that later
would probably become a part
of the United States.
To say the least. Burr was the
victim of bad timing. He bought
an estate of 400.000 acres of land
near the Texas frontier. Then a
settlement of Spanish - American
problems was reached which
satisfied the Westerners at that
time and took the fight out of
the agitators of war. They now
needed no military leader — Burr
nor anyone else The subject of
war momentarily became unpopu-
lar. With warmongers turned
peace makers, the Burr legend,
whatever it was. also became un-
popular.
Damaging, rumors began to
circulate against Burr. He was
dangerously ambitious, disap- _
pointed; he was going to take i =
Texas froip. Spain! He was go-
ing to make a new republic out
of the United States territory in
the West.
The cards were stacked against
Burr: At another time these
rumors might have done no dam-
age. But now his arch enemy,
edThomas Jeffemon, who had de-
feated him for the presidency by
only one vote, was in power.
His one-time military supporter
and friend, United States Army
Commander Wilkinson, about to
be exposed for his duplicity with
Spain, turned on Burr, obviously
to cast a virtuous light upon
himself.
Burr was tried for treason.
Nothing was ever proved against
him; but he was doomed to a
lonely exile in his own country.
And then in his last days came
the irony of all ironies: It was
30 years after vhe war scare in
Texas territory. News came to
the paralitic, tottering old man
in his homeless exile in New
York of another adventurer, who
had gone into the Texas territory
“carved an empire” and made
his name the toast of the Anglo- *
Saxon race. The name was Sam
Houston. Burr could not have
missed the irony of it. We can
picture him propped on his baggy
pillows with a beam in his sunk-
en eyes, and through his ever L
smiling lips comes the words:
“I was thirty years too early.” y
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