Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1945 — Page 12

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THINK, SENATORS! 5, : RESIDENT. TRUMAN has given his word that authority to negotiate with othér nations for further tariff reduction would not bé used to trade off the welfare of any segment: of American industry, agriculture or labor. The house. of - representatives has voted -for such authority in passing the hill to extend the reciprocal trade | agreements law for three years. =n A 10-to-9 vote of the senate finance committee—seven | Republicans and three Democrats making up the majority has struck such authority out of the bill. And Repub- | lican senators, with a few notable exceptions, seem determined to vote to keep it out when the bill.goes before the senate this week. We urge these Republican senators to think what. it is they are proposing to do—and then to reconsider. They are proposing not only to saddle on their party blame for opposition to a measure for American leadership in promoting world {rade and prev enting post-war ecohomic strife. They are proposing also to have the United Stales senate cast a vote of “no confidence” in the President, at a moment when the world’s best hope for future peace calls ! aloud for evidence that, in World aflairs, the President and the senate can act with confidence in each other. CONCERNING MR. CLARK AY HEN President Truman nominated Tom. C. Clark for U. S. attorney general two weeks ago, we applauded the nomination, saying that Mr. Clark's record in the justice department encouraged belief he would enforce the anti-trust and other laws vigorously and fairly. = ° : Yesterday we carried an article telling oft Some of Mr. Clark's activities as a private lawyer before he joined the justice department—activities not widely known outside of Texas. - Mr. Clark, as a private citizen, had every constitutional right to refuse to disclose his private financial affairs

was just a Texas political foray anyway. But the sources of Mr. Clark’s income and the nature of his employment as a private citizen are matters which the U. S. senate judiciary committee, quite properly intends to learn about

officer of the nation. en It is not unusual for a lawyer's income to rise and fall from year to year, but a frank statement by Mr. Clark— _assuming as we do, thag At would be satisfactory—would clear the air of rumors and whispers that might otherwise plague Mr. Clark for years to come.

RULE OF HONOR HE President, as well as the members of congress, diminished nearly two-thirds by wartime income tax, is grossly inadequate. The cost of living in the White House is too high for a man of moderate means. : However, a presidential salary boost can't become effective before January, 1949. The Constitution says that

been elected,” Quibblers might point out that Mr. Truman was not elected President for the present term; but,

er raise if congress attempted to give it to him. The Constitution does not forbid members of congress to increase their own compensation during the period for which they shall have been elected. Perhaps the framers thought it superfluous to say that congressmen should not do for themselves what* they cannot do for a President. But here too, we think, ‘a Yule of honor is clearly indicated and should apply, even though it is unwritten.

MOVE THE SURPLUSES

STUART SYMINGTON, the St. Louis businessman whom President Truman has named chairman of the surplus war property hoard, is taking one of the toughest jobs in Mashington. His record justifies hope that he can handle it. Surpluses sold promptly, while other goods are scarce, can bring fair priceés.and help greatly to hold down inflation. If they keep piling up as they liave been doing, the taxpayers will recover less ‘money from them and they will loom over post-war markets, a menace to production and jobs. Mr. Symington has shown himself aggressive, ener-

country a fine service.

GOOD PROGRESS EXT fiscal year's budget for the office of war informa-

tion is getting Avithin telescope sight of whatsit ought to be. -

to 42 millions. it 35 millions. to make it 18 millions.

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"to the senate committee. His friends say the investigation |

want

before acting on his confirmation as chief law enforcement |

should have a salary increase. His $75,000 a year, now |

a President's compensation “shall neither be diminished | nor increased: during the period for which he shall have |

being too honorable to seek personal advantage through | any such loophole, he would, we are certain, refuse an earli- |

First, President Truman cut it from 54 million dollars I'he hotise appropriations committee made And now the house has voted, 138 to 128,

REFLECTIONS—

Russians Edward J. Meeman

ONE CRITIC SAYS that we should try to understand Russia. Indeed we should. . Another critic says that Britain and the United States should ree frain from acting together in international aflairs because that will make. Russia “suspicious that an Anglo-American front is being formed against her. 1f we will do what the first critic suggests, if we will really understand Russia, we will see that the

| advice of the second critic is not good.

Yes, we should iinderstand Russia. We: should understand that Russia is a nation of kindly people. much like ourselves. We should understand these 200,000,000 Russians are admittedly x the Communist pafty, which is composed of only 6,000000 or 3 per cent of the people, and that the Communist party is actually under the:absolute control of Ye will and even the whim of one man — Joseph Stalid. We should understand - that these kindly Russian people have nothing whatever to say about their government, and that government is anything but kindly—it is a ruthless; murderous despotism. which thinks and acts in a manner utterly unlike ours. During the war we thought that by being nice to Stalin and deferring to his prejudices, suspicions, and wishes, we would make a good fellow and a friend out of him. That was indeed a good attempt to make. But it didn't work and we should face the fact-that it never has worked and try another policy.

Broken Words

AT TEHRAN, Stalin agreed with President Roosevelt to send his armies straight to Berlin while we were driving through on the Western front, so as to end the war quickly. But he broke his word and

| while the British and Americans were engaged in a

superhuman struggle on the Western front, sent the Russian armies in a roundabout way through the Balkans so as to establish Soviet political influence there, thus diverting to non-essential use the equipment we had given him with the understanding that it was to be usea only to fight Hitler. At Moscow he gave Cordell Hull his word that he would co-operate in a genuine world organization; word. ; ; . At Yalta he again made a promise to Roosevelt and Roosevelt believed him—that he would cooperate with U. 8S. and Britain in establishing democratic governmerits in the eastern countries of Europe. Again he broke his word, he set up governments and threw. us out. | Every time. we have sacrificed our own interests | to please Stalin we have lost. We yielded to his | demand that we desert our faithful anti-Hitler ally, | Gen. Mihailovitch, and give our arms to his man

| Tito instead. Had wesfollowed our own interests,

| as Stalin so consistently does, we would have given i Gen. Mike our arms and help, and today we would | have a solid wall of support in eastern Europe joeteny of seeing Tito defy us with our own arms.

Stalin Doesn't Want Us WE OUGHT to be like { the barkeeper had thrown three times, - finally realized: me in there.” Stalin doesn't want us, or { our ideals. He only wants what we can do for | him. We only make ourselves ridiculous and weak by kidding ourselves that Stalin talks our language. Co-operation, truth, honor, fair dealing—these words are not in the Communist lexicon. They have told many times—this is one thing they tell us which we ought to believe. Russia needs-reconstruction and we should help. | We want human well-being “everywhere. But let's | get payment in advance. Gold won't. do. Let's get Lack some of our dwindling supply: of metals which we so generously -lent to Russia in her hour of peril. ‘Let's collect on that promissory note that | we should have a part in setting up truly demo- | cratic governments in Austria, Poland, Rumania and ether countries. : ; : Stalin isn't’ bashful about looking after what is dear to him. Why should we be? If we are to preserve Western civilization we dare not deceive ourselves. We dare not -indulge in the | escape of wishful thinking. - To keep our ideals, we must be realists.

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: WORLD AFFAIRS—

Veto Trouble

i By Wm. Philip Simms

SAN FRANCISCO, June The battle of the veto is nearing its fihale, so far as San Francisco 1s concerned it is now ‘quite clear

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that it will be renewed with Increased fury “at future United Nations meetings. As of today, the Big. Five have practically won their fight to impose a veto on almost all peace-

aving activities except the right of petition and discussion. Few concede the little 45 much chance to change the outcome here The right to amend the charter at future sessions, | therefore, assumes more importance than ever. But | this right, which the small nations so much desire ‘is | still not assured. It has been written into the pro- | visional draft, but not finally approved, hence is |

| subject to major revision or worse. As it now stands any one of the five great powers could veto any change in the charter even though every other member of the United Nations was for I specifies that it can be amended by a vote of a general conference. The catch, that any alferation will come into force ratification by the -permanent members of

it I rue two-thirds

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ur Council, plus a majority of the smaller te Whi mea of course, that by the simple, negative act of failure to ratify, any one of the big five could block a proposed change

| | . ' ‘Little 45' Are Angry NO ONE who sat in on the week-end session of the committee on voting procedure was left in the dark concerning the abiding resentment-of the little

. 1 . . ‘ : \ nation £ t iomination y ig Fers getic, resourceful in business. He will need such qualities | haoon #sainst. dommation b the grea! powers) ; ex : : me-described it a blazing.” to overcome the obstacles—a cumbersome law, red tape Senator Connally began the proceedings by an’ elo ; Ae " i »” i Lit PH Al h ‘ i v= official ineptitude and timidity—to faster disposal of sur- | Quent appraisal of the Big Five's war efforts, and a plus war property. aid ation of the Russian pirit of magnanimity” in | . modifying their position on the veto. ‘But hé*made DO at 1 y « ' 10 } \ ‘ He needn't expe to escape criticism Whatever he t plain ‘that no more concessions. are to he expected. does, some people will call it wrong. But he can do the He was followed by Australia’s fiery Herbert Evatt. | No amount of eloquence, he remarked pointedly, could

which was whether or not the joint statement of the sponsoring powers really

| conceal the real question

guaranteed that the processes of conciliation could | a single great power. - The whole | he said, has now become so con- |

{ not be blocked by voting procedure fused that it would take an opinion of the International Court of Justice, to tell what it really means. The Golden Gate atmosphere, he indicated, is filled

veto- could be regarded as authoritative. Each delegate would have to interpret it for himself.

It ié barely possible that OWI, with a lot of its made. | 1roubles Just Beginning-

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with conflicting interpretations Senator Coftinally, in effect, admitted this was true. Not only that, but no interpretation of the |

work eliminated and a lot of its fancy money-wasting phictices abandoned, could spend 18 million dollars with some

: are revealing. They mean that the new League of good results. Or, at least, without doing any great harm.

Nations’ veto troubles are not nearing an énd ‘but

But the probability seems so low that we stick fo oir opin-] are. only just beginning. The little 45 are hot going |

to take their licking lying down.

date itself. We hope the senate will agree.

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ion that OWI ought to be given just enough money to liqui- |

was already” i observe: with -s

Fin ig out train windows for drinks of milk furnished | ‘Red Cross. What was that muttering we used.to unsubstantiated charge “he'll be a strange anddiferent boy when he | EL iaiy ud a yy AY to Ly, iy: one:

tion now "approaching completion here, these things |

' However, Washington, and London may feel about it. the “little nations—especially the democracies—do |= — ; : ‘mea not regard the right-of petition As a toricession. They. | ‘ Ga. 5 : \ 7 op eanay hy I. came to San Francisco under the-impressfon that that : ) oe Even now.’ their? spokesmen : Stiutn fe ’ ie feeling, they may be denied full ! NEWS pictures show returning overseas veterans eagerly | discussion’because any one of, the Big Five can veto | +d | ! : crowned with : : investigation, And without investigation—such : f : : i it | as the : anf : [TED Emam | Lytton . Commission undertook in ‘Manchuria—only | | ; a ue : : can be brought without, of | the Big Five. And, finally,

H : ° : oosier Forum “THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE” By Sgt. Henry F. Butler, Army of the U.S. With the race relations clinic now in session in Indianapolis, it may| be timely to set down a few reflections on the race problem that oc-| curred to me the other evening. A great many of us live Simul-| taneously in two worlds—one of]

{reality and one of monstrous lies

which often seem more real than reality. When people argue the question of which race is superior, they| jare arguing something that started | with a monstrous lie, and their ar-| {gument might as well be about something in the Land of Oz so far

“1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

(Times reaglers arg invited [IT DOESN'T to express their “views in | MAKE SENSE” these columns, religious con- By Mrs. War Wife, Indianapolis troversies excluded. Because | This is a letter received from my of the volume received, let- husband in the Pacific, who will! ters should be limited to 250 [soon be 39 years old. : words. Letters must be “Have just learned that a man, signed. Opinions set forth jover 29 is too old for duction. here are those of the writers, {1 doesn't mage serise 10 me. What and publication in no wa about we men who are 38 and older? and : Y | “Things have certainly happened implies agreement with those these past two years but I feel it| opinions by The Times. The |has been -10 years. There are so Times assumes no responsi- |many things I don't remember and | bility for the return of manu- [many 1 never want to see or re-| scripts and cannot enter cor-

| member again. respondence regarding them.)

“Thousands will be returning | home after spending many months lover here. I don't feel bad about, [that part of it at all but I feel lke |as any correspondence with reality 4... bo this common enemy. Up|l have’ paid a big price and will] is concerned. And since Arguments), now there has not be an actual continue to do so while other|

fover things remote from reality VeX| war against this enemy, except by YOunger meri have been out of it and infuriate people much more|

than do discussions of demonstrable | facts, the question of racial superjority is potential dynamite

on babies at birth and even before the child is born it can be struck

The -enemy 1 speak of is disease I 1ry not io let It get me gown. It) | Especially contagious: diseases. We ye to ie about it I could 1 ! ® - + “bp come very bitter | Any society plagued with droughts, should all take part in this war, 2g lice, rats, pedMugs, cancer, venereal Sich 58 we have taken part against disease and a host of other afflic-|t1€ 8Xis.

Itions certainly cannot afford the)

cause I have been working 12 and 16!

Ve spéak of our freedom in de-| “When 1 hear the bombs ex-|

luxury 0 ‘ef whe mocracy, but can there really oe | places can {luxury of bloody argument over whe : ploding and see our planes shower- | p

{is superior. There is too much work freedom as long as we have the fear {to be done, too much’ need for co-iand dread of disease among us? operation. If peaple of" different] “What can I do to help combat creeds and colors can work together disease?” This is a question asked and help each other in time of flood by millions of people.-We could asx lor similar emergency, they can work | our government to finance a war on together and help each other now.. disease, the same as they financed Whether we want to believe it or|a war against the Axis, and co-oper-I not, we are living in an emergency. ate with the board appointed to] | Human society is facing just about make the laws governing this fight its last chance to survive bv learn- | It is a known fact that contagious ing to behave sensibly, justly and diseases are spread through contactdecently ; ing or associating with diseased per- | God knows here is work to be sons or their clothing or utensils idone in Indianapolis. There are used by them. f ; | houses. to be Eros. vards to ve id “ oem . |he can’t teach another his job on | cleaned le to be piven a ow will we open a front of to-/a six-month deferment, then he Clea up. peop:e Bien a 1a] war ‘on disease?” There is only should be president of his company Sefiee Y me ide. Thee fo ie one answer. To put diseased persons 0 % c rork to be done here soitals. sspecy set). : that there should be no time for iB a Tol ALITTLE OF THEW | discussion of meaningless questions. |inis way the spread of disease will OWN MEDICINE" | this city becomes, as it sould be- be checked. While diseased persons By Carrell Collins, Indianapolis come, the best possible place {orig pe grouped together for con-| Although you disagree with my iboth whites and Negroes to live, the giant treatment, until they are views, I hope I still have the right |race question here as a source of | cured. to express them. iExitauon will gradually wither ad} “How will we tell who has these After seeing the human skeleton : diseases and who hasn't?” By sub-|in last night's Times and the mitting several times yearly to com- | U. S. Signal Corps pictures in the plete test for all contagious dis- | theater, if our G. 1. Joes and our. | pases. officers can't retaliate, please tear “How are we going to build enough |up that Geneva scrap of paper hospitals to put all diseased persons and let's play fair to our own men separate?” “And where will we find |Py giving those German murderers enough doctors and nurses to treat|and Jap heathens a little of their all of them?” own medicine. is one more common enemy of man-| We could draft men who would he| I may be hard-hearted but all kind. This.enemy takes a larger to-|chosen for their experience, ability that gang understands is. a bull tal in lives than the Japanese and education and give them the proper whip or an iron heel. Their conGermans combined. It has no re-|training to fight all diseases as a |trition only comes when they are spect for individual persons, it picksigood doctor and soldier. cornered like rats. Also, while I

: am hot in the collar, what can Side Glances=By Galbraith

ing -the Japs I am very thankful | that 1 am this short distance, or

knows when that will be. I don't {want to go through another two vears of this hell” 1 wonder how this letter affects

{who are so essential that their companies havent found anyone to re-

vears. If a man is so clever that

n ” ” | “CAN THERE REALLY | BE FREEDOM?” By Mr. aid Mrs. James T. Miller, Indian- | © apolis i | Some people ghink that when the

Japanese are beaten that all our! enemies are conquered, but there

any nation accomplish toward {peace while Russia “walks in and takes possession of defenseless small nations? : At least ‘two men were human | enough to walk out on them--more | power to them—but 1. hope our {perverted sense of justice don't | court martial them. ” » . “WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOME”

By Mrs. P. K., Indianapolis After the war 1 think congress should pass a law to put the mothers back into the homes and make more jobs for those good Afherican boys who made it pos-

| are.

What is more to the home-

| |harmony of the home nestle right in mother's lap. She is the artist who models the clay; she is the | lone who can stop’ juvenile delinquency with a little loving care, kindness, a helping hand, a warm breakfast, instead of an. ice cream-

ner store.

DAILY THOUGHT _, The simple inherit folly: hut the

hasn't

‘handle that assortment of strange

; lall and at home with their families. | monly known as politicians. “] am maay letters behind be-|

ihours every day. |

!should say, safe distance from them. | | “It looks like I am doomed for! the duration plus and God only!

those all important younger men, |

place them in the past three or four!

|sible for our homes to be as they

{coming child and the tired father |than the sparkling whiteness of a | tablecloth, a fragrant bunch of flowers, a well-prepared meal? To me, ‘children’s security, peace wnd

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, June 12.-It taken President Truman

long to find-out how hard it is to

horses® which travel together under * saddle blankets all reading “Democratic party,” but . are constaritly rearing up and charging off in all directions. Thus far he has done a remarkable job by occasiongl, gentle words and by frequent lumps of sugar. . But'there are signstof trouble ahead. : The basic difficulty, of course, is that the Democratic party is not really one party at all.’ It'is a4 conglomeration of parties of divergent purposes. They range from the Southern wing which has more in common with regular Eastern Republicanisnt on some major issues. than it does with New Dealism, clear across to the C. 1. O. and the left wing which abhors nearly everything that the Southern conservatives stand for. r

In Between Are Other Elements : IN BETWEEN are lots of other elements, including the big-city machines at which both the Southerners and the New Dealers are inclined smugly to look down their noses. But they grab them to their hearts in election years with embarrassed explanations. » . How the late President Roosevelt held this conglomeration together for 12 years is somewhat of a miracle and Should inspire an essay for posterity on political finesse. Affer the Chicago convention last year there were those who predicted that the party could hang together for only one more national election. This conclusion was based on evidence-at hand =the left wingers shouting down the Southerners and conservatives in their corner, and the Southerners conducting revival type of meetings in the evenings, singing Southern songs, and listening to rabble~ rousing talkers who predicted the end of the repubb= if. the left wingers weren't rooted out—or sent back to Russia. . . With the help of the war, Mr. Roosevelt somehow held the party together for that election, though’ it was too close for the comfort of some politicians who are in business year in and year out with the Democratic party.

An 'Era of Good Feeling’ THE PARTY got a sort of new lease with Mr. Truman, who didn't inherit the hates of his predecessor. He was nominated for vice president because he had , built up no important antagonisms. He had been in congress and made friends with conservatives, and he had been inclined always to be a regular organization man, which sits well with politicians, There was an ‘era of good -feeling” which; incidentally, seems to be waning. The names of people who hadn't been in the White House for years— Democrats as well as Republicans—were found on the appointment list of the President and still are. But the tempo of these times is swift. And the new President had to make decisions. He has not hesitated to make them and, when he makes decisions he is bound to step on somebody's toes in the Democratic party because of its conflicting elements. It's impossible to satisfy everybody on any issue.

Truman Has Hewed to the Line MR. TRUMAN has fooled lots of people. They didn’t take it too seriously when he announced he would follow the Roosevelt program. They thought he would straddle and be easy-going. Thus far he has hewed to the line. In so doing, naturally, he has riled the Southerners on such issues as a permanent FEPC and federal compensation for those whe lose their jobs in reconversion. Nor has he been entirely soothing to. ardent New Dealers. : They are skeptical about the influence of Bob Hannegan, Democratic national chairman, who in the interest of trying to hold the shaky party together is active in rewarding organization people, those comThe New Dealers are worried that the big economic interests they have fought for so long may get back into the picture in key jobs. » They know that the wrong people in the right undo progressive statutes. That happened to the Woodrow Wilson reforms. Mr. Truman's job is neither easy nor simple.

IN WASHINGTON— -

‘More Duplication ‘By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, June 12. —Duplication of services by at least two government agencies will continue after the war, judging by “advance notices” of the | heads of both organizations. : . | Both Secretary of Commerce Wallace and Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants | Corp., have plans for aiding small business. Both profess to be particularly interested in helping busi-ness-minded war veterans. : Each is on record as anticipating that his organi-

| zation will serve as the logical “helping-hand’ agency for these vetérans. Both, according to the plans they have an-

| nounced, intend to do precisely the same job for the same businesses. And each may be expected to ask congress for the funds to carry on the twin active ities. in a letter to Senator Wagner (D. N. Y), made public today, Secretary Wallace. explains how his department plans to make “full employment” & reality ! and why it must be enlarged after the war.

Will Provide Information THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, the letter | says, will assist business “by providing information

accounting and finance. Such information is useful to all businesses but I think it can pe especially helpful to new and small enterprises which cannot and do not have their own comparable sources of data.” The letter adds that “during the next few years when many returning servicemen will be trying to establish businesses of their own, I believe it is particularly necessary that the department of commerce be equipped to help these men get started on a sound basis. Most of these new businesses will be small; they cannot come to Washington for advice and in= formation. We must make services available in the field throughout the country and accessible to small business.” < All of which Is alinost word for word what Mr. Maverick said a few. weeks ago—but in connection with his own agency, the Smaller War Plants Corp. Pointing out that the 8. W. P. C. has been designated by the veterans administration as an agency 10 process guarantees on business loans to veterans, Mr. Maverick added that his agency estimates more than 700,000 servicemen “have definite plans to reenter or establish businesses of their.own.”

Require Technical Guidance pS AGENCY. he said, would help them. Over and above loans, he declared, these veterans “will require technical guidance in the businesses they choose to start. Without such help, thousands of veterans will surely fail, and their business mortality may prove both a personal and national catastrophe.” * In March Mr. Maverick issued a 40-page booklet describing his agency's technical advisory service. In a section titled “Plans For the Future” the booklet

reservoir of ready, to manufacture new products flow of ready to utilize new processes and new rials for the small manufacturer. As these are developed, Information on them is to be disseminated through’ the 8. W. P. C. district offices” ~~

Maverick explained, a close working relationship with schools and colleges would be maintained. *¢ © Mr. Wallace said the same thing.

me,” he declared in his letter to Senator: Wagner,

“that there is a significant gap’ heie that tbe de-

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bearing on management problems of production, sales,’

“The 8. W.°P. C. research foundation will cua A d

In giving ifs assistance to’ small business, Mr. -

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