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CONTEST RULES
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Write letter of 150 words or less to your
favorite paper about any subject of national interest. If you need more than 150 words to
express your views, divide the material into two
or more letters. Letters must have been published
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entry. FIRST AWARD, $25 cash plus 10 six-
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six-month subscriptions for all other letters published by FF NEWS.
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submit as many slogans as he wishes in this competition.
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national interest which you feel would be suitable for use in our Monthly Poll? Facts Forum
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ENTER ONLY THREE QUESTIONS IN EACH
CONTEST. Questions will be judged for their
current interest, fairness and conciseness. Keep
questions "unloaded." Questions must be worded
so that they can be answered Yes or No.
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LETTERS to the EDITORS
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First Award
DEADLY ENEMY
To the Los Angeles Times:
George Meany has often found himself
at odds with management, and management has frequently been disturbed by
and with the new president of the AFL-
CIO.
However much they may have differed
at times with Meany, the majority of
businessmen have no doubts about his
patriotic devotion.
Meany addressed remarks to the New
York Rotary Club which deserve the attention of everv American, especially
those weighing the possibilities of profit
from trade with the Communists.
He said: "Communism is the deadly
enemy of the businessman, of his associations and his freedom. There can be
no free enterprise without freedom . . ."
Obviously, trade with the United
States is desirable from the Moscow-
Peiping standpoint. Responsible labor
and management leaders should recognize, with Meanv, that such trade would
help build the propaganda and war machine with which international communism seeks to destrov our countrv and
the freedom of its citizens.
Walter E. Ditmars
16 Arbor Street
Hartford, Connecticut
Second Award
NO CELEBRATION IN LITHUANIA
To the Des Moines Register:
On February 16 Lithuanians all over
the free world celebrated the thirty-
eighth anniversary of Lithuanian independence, but not in Lithuania itself,
because in 1940 Soviet Russia occupied
Lithuania.
During the czarist Russian occupation
foreign landowners bled Lithuania.
Thanks to America's President Wilson's
declaration of freedom for all nations,
February 16, 1918, Lithuania proclaimed
her independence.
On Julv 12, 1920, a Moscow peace
treaty recognized Lithuanian independence and self-rule. But thev broke all
treaties and, on June 15, 1940, the Red
armv occupied Lithuania and the other
Baltic states — Latvia and Estonia. These
were thc first victims of the international
Communist terror.
Russians imprisoned, deported to Siberia's concentration camps, and killed
more than 65,000 Lithuanians during th'
first year of occupation alone. Today
there are onlv one-third of the Lithium-
ians left. Sooner or later the same tliii'S
is going to happen to all countries conquered by Communists.
A. Valiuskis
1832 Greenwood Drive
Ottumwa, Iowa
Third Awvd
INCOME TAX A TEMPTER
To the Omaha World Herald:
Millions of Americans will surely In"*
up T. Coleman Andrews (former Unil
States Commissioner of Internal ReVCj
niie) in his stand opposing the feds'!
income tax. It is hard indeed to si|tii'r'
the idea with the Constitution. Basically'
it pen ih/;.s mid ttivi and incentivt.
Taxes today constitute a verv imp"''
taut item contributing to the "cost <*
living."
When olhrr costs of "overhead" get to"
high, a corporation or individual can o
something about them and still carry "'
by intensified efficiency, but the onlv *n
the tax-take can be reduced is to opera"
less efficiently.
Like the sales lax. it is an easy way'
raise huge sums of money and thereto1;
tempts those empowered to spend it wit
reckless abandon.
L. L. Henders^
Corning, Iowa
U. S. GIVEAWAY AID BOUND
TO BOOMERANG
To the San Diego Union;
Page 60
Internationalists in Congress presc"1
consider donating $1,300,000,000 of &
payers' funds to Egypt, for building
dam Iii store water used in irrigating &
ton lands.
Nehru lias already received $350 **
lion American dollars for dams and rtf
gatinn systems, and is now receiving)
like amount in cash and goods — railr"'
locomotives, freight cars. etc.
The reason given for contributing tM
astronomical sums of money to Egypt,1 .
India is that thev might otherwise sub"
lo (lommunist control.
It now appears certain that county
who have received billions of Amertfg
taxpayers' dollars are leaning toward '
Communist camp; so the inevitable <*j
elusion is that these billions have I
poured down a rat hole.
Facts Forum News, August, 1
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