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CURE OF ILLS TO DEFEAT REDS
Arnold Toynbee, British historian who ranks
among the world’s great in his field, had a very per
tinent thing to say the other day to all men living in
the free world. Arid it tied in with something Presi
dent Eisenhower said in his inaugural address.
On a CBS television interview, Toynbee was dis
cussing the dangers to western civilization. He didn’t
stress the obvious external threat—Russia. He empha
sized the free world’s internal weaknesses. These, he
said, are the real peril.
What he meant was exactly what Mr. Eisenhower
meant when he said on Jan. 20 that the Communists
“feed on the hunger of others.”
It is the Reds’ great hope that free men will fail
to deal a full blow at poverty and its accompanying
social ills; that they will not find among themselves
the kind of unity they need to meet these difficulties
at political and economic levels; and that they will fail
to approach these problems in a way that will offer
promise to Asiatics and Africans as well as westerners.
In other words, according to Toynbee, social in
justice, disunity and the lack of understanding between
western peoples and the African-Asiatic groups are the
vulnerable spots in our armor. Here the Communists
will probe for their own new ground, advancing as
disease advances in a weakened part of the body.
Though we do not plan to do so, we of the West
might perfectly balance Russian military power. And
yet we still would not be free of the Red menace. For
the Communist idea, as the President ^nd Toynbee have
pointed out, fattens on our failures.
Since the goals of justice, unity and understand
ing among all peoples seem far from attainment, isn’t
Canada Moves To Cut
Income Taxes 11 Per Cent
OTTAWA,, UPi — Canada’s gov
ernment announced a new budget
yesterday night to cut taxes an
estimated $361 in 1954. It included
anil percent drop in the income
tax and reduction in corporation j
levies.
The new program also:
Reduced the cost of legal cig
arets to 35 cents a pack by lopping
four cents off the federal take
immediately;
Eliminated a 10 percent sales
tax on newsprint for domestic
consumers only (no help for U.S.
papers);
Removed radio license fees;
Trimmed an estimated $1,000,000
a year in import tariffs on manu
factured articles, most of them
bought from the United States.
ALLIES BEAT OFF REDS'
SMOKE SCREEN ATTACK
SEOUL, UP! — Outnumbered Al
lied soldiers, fighting in the haze
of Communist smoke shells, beat
off two Red attacks on a western
front outpost in a bitter, bloody
clash early Friday.
The Reds attacked behind a
curtain of more than 1,000 rounds
of punishing mortar and artillery
fire. Some were smoke shells that
hampered Allied observation and
cast a thick haze over the area
for hours.
In the relentless Allied air war
U.S. B-29 Superforts roared to
within five miles of Manchuria
in the early morning hours and
dumped 110 tons of bombs on a
Red communications and supply
center.
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Skywriting Plane Crashes
And Sets Fire To House
HAWTHORNE, Calif., UH—The
pilot of a skywriting plane was
killed, a house was set afire and
two housewives required medical
treatment as the craft crashed
shortly after it had taken off
Thursday for San Francisco.
The dead flier was Joseph Scott
Stocker, 31, Hammond, Ind., a
former captain in the 1st Marine
Air Wing of World War II and
Korea.
The impact of the crash de
molished the plane ancj most of
the one-story house of Mrs. Bettq
Shepherd, 35„ who suffered leg
cuts. A neighbor, Mrs. Betty
Klock, 30, became hysterical after
the crash and also was hospital
ized.
Judge Folta Dismisses
Complaint of Trio
Who Flunked Bar Exam
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 16, UPC-The
petitions of three law students for
admission to the bar despite fail
ure to pass examinations conduc
ted by the territorial board of ex
aminers were dismissed in federal ■
district court here Saturday.
Judge George Folta said in a
written opinion charges in the
petitions were “devoid of merit
or based on conjecture.” He added
neither the petitions nor the ac
companying affidavits were suf
ficient to warrant any inference
that there existed a scheme or
conspiracy to flunk the men.
The petitioners were Thomas
Fink of Anchorage, Russell E. Ar
nott of Port Nome, and Russell B.
Hermann, Juneau.
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Toynbee’s outlook basically a dark one?
He doesn’t think so, and this is the real kernel of
what he had to say. He believes that the very reverse
of what the Russians hope for will happen.
He believes that the magnitude of the external
Communist threat—military, political, economic, idea
logical—will prod and goad the free world into sub
stantially curing the weaknesses the Reds feed upon.
He believes this has already begun to take place.
For the Communists this would be the complete
irony, to press their cause so strongly as to arouse the
free world to progress which in the end will rob that
cause of its strength.
Yet that is the prospect as Toynbee sees it. Plain
ly communism has no great inner force of its own. Its
pull upon men is relative to their distress. If western
men do the great things they are now embarked upon,
this vaunted magnet of communism will one day no
longer be able to attract a pin.
Eric Jackson of Golovin
Vacations In Japan
After Fighting in Korea
WITH THE 25th INFANTRY
DIV. IN KOREA — Cpl. Eric M.
Jackson, son of Mrs. Hilda Jack
son, Golovin, Alaska, recently
spent a five - day vacation from
Korea on a rest and recuperation
leave in Japan.
A member of the 25th Infantry
Division, he stayed in one of the
finest hotels in Japan and enjoyed
many luxuries unobtainable in
Korea. The leave is part of the
Army’s policy to give the fighting
soldier a rest from the rigors of
combat.
Corporal Jackson arrived in
Korea last May and is serving as
an automatic rifleman with Com
pany L of the 35th Infantry
Regiment.
A 1951 graduate of White Mt.
Vocational Boarding School, he
was employed by Libby, McNeil
and Libby in Alaska before enter
ing the Army in April, 1951.
ALLIED BOMBING OF U.N.
TROOPS FEB. 2 CONFIRMED
SEOUL, Iff)—The U. S. Eighth
Army Friday officially confirmed
that warplanes “presumed to be”
Allied mistakenly bombed U. N.
troops behind their own lines in
Korea Feb. 2.
The bombed unit was the ad
ministrative headquarters of the
U.S. Seventh Division’s Second
Battalion, 17th Regiment.
A brief Eighth Army announce
ment said there were eight cas
ualties.
U.S. Fifth Air Force and Eighth
Army officers declined to com
ment on the Army’s terse an
nouncement.
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Magnuson Speaks
For Rail and Road
Link to Alaska .
WASHINGTON, UP)—A commis
sion to study the linking of Alaska
with the States by railroad and
another highway was proposed in ,
Congress Wednesday by Senator
Magnuson (D-Wash).
“Until a railroad or adequate,
direct highway to Alaska is built,
or preferebly both, we are taking,
in my opinion, wholly unneces
sary security risks,” the senator
said.
“Even in the absence of risk
such a rail line and such a high
way should be constructed to open
up new treasures of mineral
wealth, enhance the mutual econ
omy of continental United States
and Alaska, develop new indus
tries, and bring new opportunities
to Alaska.
The present Alaska highway, he
said, would be of less value to de
fense and security “than the citi
zens of Alaska or the United
States have a right to expect.”
Concerning a railroad, he said
diesel-electric locomotives have
widely replaced steam locomo
tives, and oil to operate them now
is being produced in nearby areas
of Canada.
Price Controls Lifted from
Milk, Cosmetics and Coal
WASHINGTON, UP> — The gov
ernment Wednesday lifted price
controls from milk, butter, ice
cream and other dairy products.
Drugs, cosmetics, coal and most
service charges, such as for auto,
radio and television repairs, also
were freed from controls.
Price Stabilizer Joseph Freehill
said the items decontrolled in the
new list affect about 10 percent
of the articles used in making up
the cost of living index. He said
the OPS still retains full control
over about 13 percent of the items
and partial control over about 3.5
percent.
Freehill estimated that more
than $25 billion worth of goods
and services based on an annual
business volume was affected by
Wednesday’s action.