Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1945 — Page 10

he Indianapolis Times PAGE 10 Monday, May 21, 1945 ‘ROY W: HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE |

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RANKIN WRONG AGAIN ALBERT DEUTSCH, a reporter for the New York newsA piper PM, has been cited by the house veterans committee for contempt of congress. . . His offense is that he refused to tell the committee the names of five employees of the veterans administration who gave him part of the information he used in articles criticizing veterans” hospitals and care given their patients. Mr. Deutsch says that the employees gave him the information on condition that he hold their names in’ confidence. He was right in refusing to betray that confidence. The press would be impossibly handicapped in the performance of one of its most essential functions—namely, the exposure of wrong. conditions in government—if reporters could be compelled to reveal all their sources of information and thus lo expose those sources to retaliation. : y=» ; * = = WE ARE NOT SURPRISED that Rep. John Rankin of Mississippi, chairman of the veterans’ committee, led in this attempt to punish Reporter Deutsch. Nr, Rankin has shown himself far more interested in shieldifig the veterans administration and its hospitals from 1 jticism ‘than in learning whether the criticism is justified. He also has been engaged ia-a-long.and bitter feud with PM. But : what he; or we,or anyone may think of PM has nothing ‘to do with this case. Al ; We are surprised that as many as 12 other members of the committee were unwise enough to follow Mr. Ranins lead. : Ke “oe house of representatives should dismiss this, cita“tien for contempt promptly and emphatically. ‘And if it desires to protect congress from public contempt, it would do well to give the veterans’ committee a new chairman. and some new members, and instruct them to find the truth about conditions in veterans’ hospitals instead of harassing those who charge that conditions are bad. =

TRUSTEES AND SELF-RULE

Most AMERICANS must have been surprised to read that the United Stafes delegation at the San Francisco security conference is split on the issue of eventual independence for colonies. If there is such a thing as a traditional American doctrine, this is it. Our history and our - democratic ideals determine that. And we are living up to it in the case of the Philippines. While sharing this typical American ideal, however, ~~ some of our Golden Gate delegation think it is not worth a

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Fork in the Road

By Howard Vincent O'Brien

AFTER TWO WEEKS listening to the conflict of opinion in San Francisco, ‘and ‘being struck by the similarity of what ‘is going on there to what went on in Greece 2000 years ago, I resolved to consult the writings of Thucydides, historian of the Peloponnesian Wars. . After a fruitless search of metropolitan bookstores, I found what I wanted in the village bookshop, in Carniel-by-the-sea. (No. 58 in the modern library —and a lot of book for 87 cents.) ‘ We have increased the size of wars, and we would hardly call a force of 300 men an “army.” But

have changed since Athens and Sparta fought for Attic dominance. The warring city-states of Greece could and did unite in their common fear of Persia; but their union dissolved in peace. They never learned—and the world has not learned in the centuries since—that no nation can profit permanently at the expense of other nations,

Individuals Are Moral, Nations Are Not :

THEREIN is the great dilemma of the United ‘Nations. The peace of the world—indeed, its very existence—demands-an amount of altruism and unselfishness which’ no nation has ever “manifested. What makes this great effort to establish a moral world so confusing, is the fact that only individuals are moral—nations are not. Naticns are organisms that obey only the laws of their own being. Thucy=dides believed that nations were moved by nothing but self-interest: and there has. been little evidence,

‘since, that he was wrong.

In essence, the struggle at San Francisco is to persuade powerful nations to relinquish some part | of their power.” But human history suggests thaf | a nation can no more relinquish power than a dinosaur could shed its scales: : When the last oration has been delivered, the last definition of words has been "agreed upon, and the last paragraph has been written into the new charter. of world organization, I'm- afraid that the anatomy of nations will remain substantially unaltered,

Progress Will Be Less Than Hoped For

THIS DOES NOT mean, of course, that no progress

will be less than the over-optimistic hoped for. The juridical body, which will emerge™ from this conference, will probably ‘not differ very much from the League of Nations; but it will differ from and be an improvement upon its predecessor to the extent that it will have a much clearer understanding of the difficulties that-beset a league of nations. Meanwhile, UNCIO will fade from the headlines; for we shall be occupied with more immediate problems. First among these, I think is that of postwar employment. Sooner or later, we shall have to make up our minds whether we wish to pursue our | old policy of restricted production and maintenance | of price; or whether we have courage enough for free competition. : A test of“this will be our attitude toward low-_ cost housing. People like Henry Kaiser are ready to supply the housing at lower cost and higher quality than hitherto has been known. But they are blocked

and the reluctance of the building-trades unions to ease their restrictions. : Ee We are at a fork in the road between old and new concepts of capitalism. If we stick to the old road, I think we shall find ourselves well on our way to collectivism. One thing is sure: The choice | cannot be much longer delayed. .

WORLD AFFAIRS—

disagreement with Britain and France. Those two colonial powers have been induced to accept the phrase “self-govern- | ment” of trust areas as a long-time aim of the proposed new league. But they object to adding the word “inde- | pendence” as proposed by the Chinese, Russians and others. = = » - » ” THE AMERICAN STRADDLE produced such a bad | reaction among small nations; as well as among some United | States delegates and advisers, that Secretary of State | ‘ Slettinius had to make another explanation. -He said our | government favors eventual independence for all such territories on two conditions: First, that the people want it. Second, that they are capable of carrying the responsibilities that go with freedom. Smee this is the official policy of the United States now, as always, there is no adequate reason why we should try to prevent the conference majority from writing it into tne proposed charter. a Anyway, isn’t the British-French differentiation between “self-government” and “independence” pretty thin? Certainly there are free peoples who, for security or other reasons, prefer a status short of separate independence. But full “self-government” is the right to choose—otherwise it is a phoney.

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SOME SHOULDN'T WORK

KATHARINE LENROOT, head of the children’s bureau in the labor department, says that wartime employ-

ment of a million boys and girls aged 14 and 15, and of two strife, they have fooled everybody, worked in harmony |

million others aged 16 and 17, has brought back “many of the old abuses of child labor.” Some people talk of post-war “full employment” as if it must mean jobs for all the persons now employed, plus jobs for all those who return from military service, Miss Lenreot’s figures indicate that these people are setting their. sights needlessly too high. Certainly a great many of those three million children should not have to work in peacetime. Miss. Lenroot, indeed, believes that no child. under 16 should be employed in any occupation during school hours or in any manufacturing or mechanical plant at any time. We agree. : This country, after the war, will need enough good jobs for adults so that economic necessity won't compel young children, or their mothers, or aged people to be wage earners, whether or no they want to work. That means a lots of jobs. But if we remember that it shouldn't mean a job for every human being now working under wartime condi-

“tions, we may avoid, scaring ourselves with the notion that |

adequate employment is an impossible goal,

WHILE THEY KEEP FIGHTING

: THE seventh war loan campaign is under way. And ‘just as the nation’s military and naval strength is being concentrated in the Pacific, so the home front's dollars must be marshalled to support the same war, ‘The temperate manner in which the majority of Americans greeted V-E day is a good sign that few have

~ forgotten that there's still “a war on” The lights are on again, sone of the restrictions have been ‘eased, but ¢ major business of this nation will be waging war il the final papers are signed in Tokyo, =~

, that the casualty. lists have not

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Consultants - By Peter Edson

SAN FRANCISCO; May 21. | Real story behind Secretary of State | Edward R. Stettinius’ announce- | ment ‘supporting ‘the inclusion of | . the United Nations Charter of four amendments for - the protection of human rights is that these provisions were insisted upon by a group of over 100 unofficial U. 8. “consultants,” representing 42 national, religious, patriotic, tarm, labor, business, educational ‘and peace organizations. Among the leaders in the movement to put a

Economic Council of the United Nations Organization were Dr.- O. Frederick Nolde of the Federal

| | Council of Churches of Christ in America and Judge

Joseph M. Proskauer of the American Jewish Committee, : : The work of this consultants’ group has been pretty much behind the scenes at San Francisco, but its effectiveness is best: shown by its vigtory on the "human rights issue which had been previously considered and then drovped by the state department as something too difficult to attain. None of the consultants’ meetings have been open to the public or the press, but behind closed doors they have had a number of spirited sessions,

Diverse Elements Achieve Harmony INCLUDED in their group are such diverse ele-

tion of Manufacturers, American Legion, Rotary and | Kiwanis, Protestant, Jewish and Catholic societies, :- Parent-Teachers, League of Women Voters. While it was generally feared they would be in continual

| and may really contribute largely to the success of { the conference, Most of their sessions have been in a reserved | lobby of the Opera house where plenary sessions are | held, though a few meetings have been at the Fair- | mont Hotel, which is U. 8. delegation headquarters. At morning sessions the consultants have been ‘threshing out things among themselves, Dr. James [ T, Shotwell of the Carnegie .Endowment for Inter-

as to what went on and get their reactions.

sultants first emphasized: their views on greater protection for human rights written into the charter. action at first, then John Foster Diilles. delegates were not impressed and decided make a fight for these principles,

But the not to

Stettinius Was Impressed AT A SUBSEQUENT meeting of the consultants Secretary Stettinius appeared. | quent preacher, led off with a demand for better safeguards to human rights. He was followed by

entation of the case. Others among the consultants voiced their approval in no uncertain terms. position was that while they did not expect the American delegates to win every point, they did expect their delegates to get in there and fight for what they considered right. Secretary Stettinius was impressed and said so.

directly to & meeting with the other American delegates and their official, technical advisers who were considering other amendments. © Stettindus immediately made the proposal that the‘ question of

Roosevelt's Four Freedoms and the protectioft of human rights for all people, regardless ‘of race, language, religion: or sex, be reconsidered. : |. This action was taken and the American delegation went on record in support of the four human

the causes and consequences of war seem not to |

Commission on Human Rights in the Social and | Each time we have made an il-

1 we are yet entitled to an honorable | tween Nazi aggression and perse-

_| FOR FUTURE PEACE"

ments as A. F. of L. and C. I. O;, National Associa- |

| national Peace presiding. At afternoon sessions.rep- | resentatives of the American delegation have been | appearing in turn to keep the consultants informed |

It was at these afternoon sessions that the con- | having |

Dean Virginia Gildersleeve got. this re

Dr. Nolde, an ¢lo- !

Judge- Proskauer, who made a profound legal pres-

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Leaving - the - meeting of the consultants, he went |

amendments incorporating the principle of President |

rights amendments—a statément of principle in the | imble, giving the géneral assembly the power to |. assist in attainment of these freedoms, and the cre‘ation of a commission to promote thefi world-wide L

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fpress.. You get straight goods from Simms and Denny. Let us have, more of their straight-from-the-| | shoulder reporting of news. The | American people are being subx . | jected to a flood of highly colored Each month 10% of income in |propaganda from American colwar: bonds (still owned) . 1lumnists and radio commentators, Each time full quota purchased . {with a left-wing complex, who are | in bond drives (still owned) .. 1!lashing us with the well-known : _|soap box technique to influence ! Peductions { public opinion to favor and con-| { Each 5 times we have “griped” .. 1!done the peculiar left-wing policies | Each time we have criticized our of Stalin in Poland, and Tito and, oiallied o.oo 1,Stalin in Yugoslavia. So we need | Each time we have cheated on |Some straight news, | gasoline or tires ..... .. 1] We Americans have reason to be i { proud and confident of President 1 | Truman’s record in foreign policy, |to date, and Mr. Churchill's forthi right statement. concerning condi- ! BS | tions in Europe is indeed heartenEach time we have, without ne- | ing to all who hope for justice, | cessity, surrendered a month's | freedom and real security for all purchase of war bonds 1} peoples from all kinds of barbarous Is this schedule unfair? Certain- | cruelty and despotism. Mr. Churchlly! Let each of us try fo niake out |ll's blunt statement that there is {a schedule that is fair and see if no differentiation to be made be-

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|cution of the small nations, and any other power which practices the same. atrocities and Injustices | | against those same peoples, ‘is a} timely and forthright challenge to 'all would-be world dictators. The democracies had just as well face these issues now, because if ignored and condoned in Europe, they will soon break out in Asia and finally will have to be met as a successor to Nazi Fascism, as a menace to peace, freedom and se-

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| “HOPEFUL SIGN

By The Watchman, Indianapolis | The changes in diplomacy, which | the - Watchman predicted would | come ‘with German surrender, are taking place. | The British and American policy is “stiffening,” says Ludwell Denny, | who by the way, is one of The curity from violent aggression and | Times’ best columnists on foreign | Subjugation by force and violence. | affairs, and together with Mr. Wil-| The stiffening of British-Amer-{liam Philip Simms, makes a team | ican diplomacy is a helpful sign of {which deserves more space in our Nope for fufure peace.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the -

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your right to say it.”

“WHOM. CAN WE TRUST” By S. Sgt. John D. Hughes, Camp Atterbury Thought that you might be interested in the welcome my two buddies and I received to your fair city while en route to Camp Atterbury last Saturday morning. First of all,

station to the Greyhound bus station (a distance of only several blocks) and got clipped by the cab driver for 75¢. (He claimed that the the rates were 25¢c each for the] ride). In “our trusting innocence | we paid. ©... Gis Next we found that we had about | three hours to wait for our bus to Edinburgh, so we thought we would try to find a place to relax for a few hours. We spotted the so-called Servicemen’s center from the bus|

POLITICAL SCENE—

‘Blackout

| By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, May 21.-On

| freedom in the access to and ex-

change of information’ may rest | much of the success of all the plans for international co-operation being

‘| formulated: by the diplomats. That's why + the

numerous controversies now going on in Europe about admitting newspaper correspondents into this and that area are as important to everyoody else as they are to the press. It's the fight of everybody who

wants to make this a little better world.

We are offering a good example now at San Francisco in the United Nations conference which is open to newspaper correspondents from all over the world. But San Francisco also has its moral about the reverse side of the picture, which leads us back to Europe and the need for access to informas tion there, Tie:

No Access to the Real Truth FOR SEVERAL DAYS at San Francisco, for ine stance, the Polish issue was uppermost.” There were plenty of partisan explanations from one side or the other. But nobody had access to the real truth about Poland. The best place to find out about Poland is in Poland. But newspaper correspondents are barred, Whatever secret information the various foreign oftices may have about Poland does the public no good in making a judgment. But if there were alert reporters ‘there, digging about, the public might be able to judge the issue. It is the same way with other countries in Europe where a news blackcut is imposed, where things cere tainly are going on. : There are some issues before the San Francisco

| conference that revolve about what thres men said

to one another, or agreed to, at the Yalta conference, One of them is dead now. The other two are keeping their counsel, which isn't much help to the rest of us, Reporters were not admitted to the Yalta confers ence. If there had been reporters about it would have helped perhaps in the present situation. Tha is ‘something in the past about which nothing can be done now. . But it Is most important that some thing be done about it:in Europe—and quickly.

'It May Be Too Late’ EVENTS SHOULD be reported adequately; lest we wake up some years hence and discover things were’ done in the hectic time soon after the war was ended, as after the last war, to pile up troubleaAnd it may he too late to do much’ about it. 2a Reporters know now what to wath, They have a background, for instance, in how the Nazi spirit was built up, how its military machine was created. The threat may come next time from somewhere else, They know now, too, how economic policies in Europe, as well as ours here, contributed to war, They can watch for signs there. . They know now how the Nazi government backed its big industrial interests in making ti2-ups with ine dustry here and elsewhere so that when war came we were handicapped ‘in production of strategie materials, as were some of our allies. These were the so-called cartels. - Somebody ‘ Will try to recreate this type of international business which exists oute side of law. The others were created immediately after the last war. 7 It is essential that there be reporters around to watch all this—and soon, :

‘No Relation to Military Secrecy’ IT WOULD APPEAR that our military officials have been too timid in representing the interests of the American press and people, too reluctant to move in actively to open up areas to American newspapers men, too quickly to censor broadly without judgment, Some of that censorship severity, without reason, I saw in Europe. They held back things for reasons of military secrecy that seemed to have no relation to military secrecy. Consequently, the American

station, but we couldn't get in as| people never found out the stark truth about many

the door was locked. Someone was working in: the washroom, and| when we asked him to admit us,| he asked us what we wanted and | gruffly said that the place was | closed and to go away. We finally! wound up by sitting in the bus station for the remainder of the time, after being up all night on the “train, ‘

Now, I don't have the slightest | objection to anyone making an| honest living operating a taxi, but| I can’t help feeling a bit resentful | towards those who will overcharge servicemen. I personally believe | that something should be done | about it. And the next time I have it happen to me I shall report the | driver to the provost marshal, I| also resent being turned away from | a servicemen’s center by asking us what we wanted and then being told to go away. I have a good home and resent being turned away like a common bum. I would like-to know whether or not this place is operated for the benefit of servicemen or just as a racket. Most of us are far from home, family ‘and friends, and if we can't trust the public carriers and pro- | fessed friends of the services, whom | can we trust? » » .

“SO A PIGEON IS A DOVE?” By Rergy Vere, Indianapolis So a pigeon is a dove, is it, J. 8.? And a sheep is a goat? Well, the pigeon and the dove are somewhat related, being co-descend-ants of the rock pigeon, now extinct, But there is a vital distinction, The evolution of the pigeon has been: controlled by man; that of the dove by Mother Nature. And the result is exactly what one would expect. Have you seen a dove scrabbling in the gutter for filth, or cluttering downtowh buildings and monuments? Or asking some misguided soul to feed him corn? No! And when he sings—ah, there is the true hallmark of his independence of man, No doubt, to most, the clear, bell-like notes of the turtle dove is pure corn,” while the dying-calf - gutterals of the pigeon is red hot boogy woogy or something. Maybe you think so, too, J. 8. But the dove—bless his little heart—knows better. We abhor the pigeon and adore the “dove because the latter is a clean, = self-respecting fellow who takes care of himself and his own, and because the pure beauty of his “corny” little song delights our beauty-starved soul.

things that happened. If they had, some laxity along the home front might have been avoided. Now that there is peace in Eurove, and political matters, are again becoming important, the military mind should not be predominant. That is not the field of the military man, He should have no control over political news. E News must flow freely inio and over Europe as well as back this way. The distribution of OWL magazines, without adequate day by day news from regular American sources, is not enough, as President Truman has now made plain. The Germans and others ought to know wha: is going on in the outside world. They haven't known.

IN WASHINGTON—

Prophecy By James Thrasher

WASHINGTON, May 21.—Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo chose an appropriate setting to divulge a story that the Wilson family had kept secret for 21 years. The time was the close of the second world war in Europe. The place was San Francisco, where a world congress i8 attempting to forge an instrument for lasting peace, and where Mrs. McAdoo told to Peter Edson of NEA Service a hitherto unknown story of her father, the first world war President, The day beforé Woodrow Wilson died, Mrs. Mee Adoo said, he told his daughters that it was right that the United ‘States had not joined the League of Na« tions in 1920. He was reconciled to the fact that, though our entrance into the ‘league which he had conceived would have been a great victory for him, it would not have worked because “deep down in their hearts the American peoplé didn’t really believe in it.” Some day, he prophesied, this country would join a league of nations because it really wanted to—and then and then only would it work.

Why Did Story Remain Untold?

THAT STORY makes comforting reading, and also rather startling news. It is comforting for the ad mirers of Wilson know that he did not go to his grave the embittered, heartbroken man that history has pictured him, and that he came to credit popular feeling rather than a senate conspiracy for our aloof ness. Knowing this, we can be sure that he met death with more happiness and peace of mind than has been believed. ho But why, one wonders, did the story remajn so long untold? ' Why was the country allowed to believe that a villainous “little group of willful men” in the senate had denied the wishes of the people, sabotaged us into isolationism, and helped to precipitate the second world conflict? : : President Wilson's statdre would not have been decreased by revealing what Mr, Edson has called "an impgrtant new footnote to history.” But the record of Lodge and the rest in the league debate, though

as it has now become. Aftér all, it is not a light thing to accuse even dead men of having hastened such a conflict as this which, though half finished, we are still fighting.

Prophecy Is Penetratingly Correct : IT.18 not too Serial that America a I 0 Tha Ones ority Amerie too much evidence ,that down ra. acAdoo's belated revelation a welcome one. And her father's

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