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TO ME THIS IS TREASON."

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The above is part of an interview given to a newspaper by U.S. Congressman John Lyle, of Corpus Christi, Texas. This young lawmaker climbed out of a foxhol'e in Italy in 1944 to serve in the House of Representatives in Washington. Evidqntly a remarkable fellow.

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His election at that time made national news headlines, because he was fighting with the 536th Infantry Battalion, was a veteran of Anzio Beachhead, had won the purple heart for battle wounds, and came out of the war a captain. Ffe was elected to Congress in absentia, beating a popular and wealthy incumbent, Dick Kleberg. He knows a lot about war that he learned at first hand, and should be something of an authority on the subject. Being a man of high intelligence he is in position to view our present situation from wide angles.

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In the interview quoted from at the head of this piece, he made another positive statement of direct interest at this moment. He said that he has so far supported American aid abroad, but that he will have a hard time voting this year for the $5.8 billion for military and economic aid to foreign nations. That idea will find strong support from thinking citizens. He wants to see an audit showing just how those nations that have been sitting under the money sPout supplied by American taxpayers, have been spending every dollar of it. ***

Under the political regimes of the past many years, such a suggestion would have been considered heresy. But perhaps the time has come when the people who sweat for that cash should know what goes with it. That suggestion would no doubt meet strong approval throughout this land. If the nation were to vote pro or con on that suggestion, there would hardly be enough votes against it to be worth counting.

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As a matter of fact, how do you think, dear reader, this nation would vote if given a chance to decide the question of continuing or discontinuing these billions for foreign aid, particularly the economic end? The major objection to economic foreign aid in the past has been on the wildeyed and irresponsible methods employed, rather than on the principle of the thing. Armies of men rushing about in many foreign lands begging folks to accept our cash, has not been a highly respected activity among those who pay the bills. Let us hope that those days are gone.

Rep. Lyle made anoth.JJ; point in his printed interview. He remarked that when it comes to sending billions abroad without even demanding an accounting of the money, Congress makes the appropriations with singular willingness, but when it is asked for funds to help finance more and better schools for American children in the defense-crowded areas of THIS country, it takes the strongest possible persuasion to get the bill through. The Congressman is a strong advocate of looking after things at home, especially the children.

That point is food ,", ;"; tlorrgtt. How easy it is to throw billions around in some directions, while in other, and better directions, we are tight as popcorn. Just the other day $'e were reading a speech about the inconsistencies of many people who criticize the high price of farm products in the markets. He said a man will beef till he's black in the face about paying 22 cents for a quart of fine, healthy, life-giving milk and then pay 25 cents for a swig of beer and never open his trap about the price.

The last paragraph t" ", l",rl"e a digression from the interview of Congressman Lyle, which we will take up again right soon; after the next paragraph, in fact. The comparison of the milk and beer attitudes brings to mind another we read recently. It's one of the latest television jokes. "Indiana Phone News" has this one: "Television's wonderful. Years ago it cost 25 cents to see a cowboy movie at a theatre, and now you can stay home and see the same movie for $350." ***

Back to Congressman Lyle. If we who sit on the sidelines can do nothing else about it, we can at least urge our lawmakers generally to follow his advice, and demand an accounting and an audit from all those who get our money in future, and state plainly: "Don't forget to report exactly what you do with this money, and if it isn't good you'll never get another dime from us." Would that be asking too much?

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And here's another thing he said in that interview, published in the Houston Post. He said that wars should be fought economically, and not simply with guns and blbod. i Taxpayers should love the young man for that, too. President Ihe seems fully in accord with that opinion, judging by his efforts to cut down expenses in various large ways. The old theory that war must be conducted wastefully and no questions asked about the price of things, is likely to be discarded in favor of an effort to get the maximum for the money, within safe bounds.

The remarks of the young Texas Congressman are well in keeping with some opinions that we read the other day by one of our favorite newspaper columniists. He was writing from Texas, and he said he found much less confusion in Texas than in other places he had been on the subject of some vital matters of the moment. He said that Texas is one place where there is no doubt or confusion in anyone's mind about divided allegiance between the U.S. and the U.N. There is no division there, he says; it is all U.S. *** i<- * {€

He said that there are two other matters concerning which Texans are agreed and firmly resolved. They have no difficulty in trying to think of the right hyphenated word to use to describe any man who hides behind the 5th amendment when asked whether or not he is a Communist? They also know exactly what ought to be done about nations that trade with the Reds while the Reds are fighting us and killing our boys. Those are two questions, says this writer, that are completely settled in Texas.

A couple of years ago several Americans of distinction were discussing the atom bomb, and one said to the other: "Why do you doubt that Russia has the atom bomb, and the know-how to use it?" And the other replied, tersely: "WE'RE HERE, AREN'T WE?"

Because, as we heard a sp€aker say not long ago: "In considering the situation that exists between the United States and Russia, keep THIS thought in the front of your head: if they had had the same advantages over us that we have had over them for years past, including atomic $reapons and what to do with them-WE WOULDN'T BE HERE.''

Sometimes we are irr"ul"a*tolemporize with this communist thing. Whenever you find yourself feeling kindly to the Commies, remember what President Robert G. Sproul, of the University of California said: "To Communists, no act is a crime which is committed in the name of Communism."

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Every sin, no matter how fearful, if committed in the name of and for the binefit of Communism, carries with it its own forgiveness, its own justification.

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Witness the letter Stalin wrote to Kalmer, in which he said: "To choose one's victim, to prepare our plans mi- nutely, to stake an implacable vengeance; and then to go to bed. There is nothing sweeter in the world." Put that measuring stick on any question that arises about the danger of Communism here at home. Stalin was laying down the law, and, as the street saying goes, "he wasn't just chomping his gums." {<{.*

Rupert Hughes, famous author and orator and militant crusader against Comrnunism here at home, tells in his speeches about the time Stalin'.allowed millions upon millions of Russians to die of starvation, because there were too many of them. He sSys that a river was fooded by heavy rains in that part of .the land where the millions were murdered and that eye witnesses reported seeing that river jammed from bank to bank with human corpses, like a log jam. And Mr. Hughes also tells of a young Russian girl who publicly remarked that it was silly to vote in an election where no choice was allowed. The next morning her corpse was found on her father's porch. ***

Frbm here to the end of this piece there will be some happy thoughts. "Always leave them l'aughing when you say goodby," sang George M.' Cohan. We never read "Letters to the editor" that appear in the daily press, although now and then someone mails us one. The other day we got this one; clipped from some newspaper: "Dear Editor: After years of deep and serious thought I have determined what is wrong with this world. There are too many women, and they talk too much." (Easy to guess what his trouble was.)

Paul Crume, columnist in Dallas, Texas, tells about a homely philosopher named Pitchfork Smith who used to live there, who utt6red this spl'endid and logical philosophy: "Look at the map and it shows you that there's six times as much watbr as land on the face of the earth. Any fool can see that the good Lord meant a man to fish six times as much as he plows."

"The liori" says a roving story "started out through the jungle one day feeling high and mighty. Every animal he met he demanded to know 'Who is the King of beasts?' And in each case the frightened beast replied, 'You are, O lord of the jungle.' As he went along and they all said the same thing, the lion got prouder and prouder. Then he met an elephant and asked the same thing. The elephant wound hls trunk around the lion and threw him high into a brush pil'e. The lion, bruised and sore, got to his feet, and as he limped away he said to the elephant: 'You didn't need to get mad just because you didn't know the answer."t

Gene Reynolds Visirs North

Gene Reynolds, San Francisco, who covers Northern California for Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, made a recent flying trip to various company mills in Oregon and Washington. Among others he visited the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company mill at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, where he got his start in the lumber business back in 1917.