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PAGE 8 Saturday, July 14,1945

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OUR LEAGUE DELEGATE'’S POWER ROM the hearings on the United Nations Charter; it appears that few reservations will be introduced and that these have little chance of passage. A possible exception is Senator Bushfield’s reservation to define the funetions of our league council delegate so congressional approval would be required each time U. S. troops were used. ‘But we doubt that this proposal will get far unless the public is completely confused as to the issue. Technically, the powers of the American delegate are a domestic rather than an international matter. The Charter itself leaves such matters to the individual member nations. This would be necessary in any event because the

types of governments and their constitutional processes vary so widely. Therefore this Bushfield proposal is prop-

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STICKER— A Do You Know Him?

By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, July. 14.—Want to Know why that picture of a bushy- -haired, middle-aged gentleman whom ‘nobody recognizes-happens to appear on the new $5 auto use tax stamp? Is it because ‘the man, Manning,” is good-looking? Nope. Because his mustache makes him appear dignified? Nope. Because he was in some President's cabinet? Well, you're getting warm. * Actually, the answer is in two pants. The first is a printing matter. The previous auto tax stamps bore pictures of the Liberty ‘Bell. It looked fine but the internal revenue bureau discovered it was easy to counterfeit. And the bureau wants to have a monopoly on tax stamps. ”

Do You Remember? SO SOMBEODY in the bureau recalled that, in 1040, it was decided to honor former secretaries of the treasury by engraving their likenesses on future issues of excise stamps-—each in turn, starting with Alexander Hamilton. When the auto tax stamps were considered it was Daniel Manning's turn. Hardly a man now alive remembers the day and year when Mr. Manning took office. (Or when he got out, for that matter.) . Mr. Manning served as secretary of the treasury for two years (1885-87) under Grover Cleveland. Born in Albany, Mr. Manning became successively a newspaper reporter, an authority on New York state politics and a publisher. He played a big part

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| In breaking up the notorious Tweed ring.

Resigned After Two Years WHEN MR. CLEVELAND became President, he

erly a subject for separate legislation—if any—rather than a Charter reservation, Apart from legislative mechanics, however, it would | be neither just nor expedient for Charter supporters to | evade this subject during the ratification debate. The issue is fundamental. Any failure to meet the Bushfield arguments promptly and fully may arouse public suspicion needlessly. » = » $ ” » ¥ THE MINORITY will try to present the question in this form: Are you willing that the war-making power be taken away from congress and given to our league delegate? Obviously the public answer to that would be, and should be, no. But that question has no relation to the real issue. It is based on misconceptions both of the Charter and the U. S. Constitution. Under our Constitution the President is in executive charge of our foreign relations and armed forces, and congress could not delegate those powers to our league representative even if it desired. Under those constitutional powers various Presidents not only have committed the nation to sundry foreign policies, but on more than 70 occasions ‘have used American armed forces for police ‘duties abroad without a congressional declaration of war. It is true that the American delegate on the league councimust be able to vote on the emergency use of force, without in each instance consulting congress—otherwise quick action to prevent aggression and war would be impossible. But it is also true that the American delegate would vote as instructed by the President and could veto use of

American forces. The President would be within his constitutional powers in using troops for police purposes, as in the past. But he would require congressional appropriations and a congressional declaration of war before the United States could join in.a general conflict. s = = 2 = = THUS THE present basic powers of the President and of congress would not be essentially changed by Charter _ ratification. They cannot be changed anyway without first changing our Constitution. If that is made clear to the publie no bugaboo should arise over this issue.

THE NEW CAR PROSPECT

ON'T be misled by the war production board prediction that automobile rationing probably can end next January. It doesn’t mean plenty, of new cars on the market then. Not by a long shot.

The industry has permission to build about 245, 000 cars in what's left of 1945, if it can get materials and labor. If that many are built they will be rationed to essential drivers—police forces, doctors, nurses, etc. Then, perhaps, rationing will be lifted and, so far as the government is concerned, everybody will be free to shop: for new cars. That’s all the prediction means.

And shopping is as far as most of the people who want new cars are likely to get for a long time. ® = = z = x 8 Tne WPB HAS authorized production of about 450,000 autos in the first three months of 1946, and hopes to boost that figure as materials loosen up. The second and later quarters of 1946 should see further increases. But production at a rate, say, of a million cars every three months —which isn’t much higher than in such depression years as 1936 and 1937—can hardly be reached until late next year. And not then if the Japs are still fighting. Even a million and a half new cars every three months, or six million a year, probably wouldn't meet the demand for quite awhile. Because no passenger autos have been built for three and a half years, while many millions of old ones have worn out and ceased to run. So, just because rationing may be lifted in January, don’t count too much on buying a new car soon thereafter. And meanwhile take good care of your present car, if you have one.

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS

(CONGRESSMEN have their tender moments. They've passed a joint resolution to modernize and béautify the house and senate chambers. Cost is figured at about $1,446,000. Domes are to replace the skylights, now bleakly girdered with steel to prevent cave-ins. Other projected improvements include indirect lighting, cushioned chairs, better air conditioning and acoustics, art work on walls. Contemplating such grandeur, what do our lawmakers remember? They remember snuff boxes for the senate and gobboons for the house. Snuff is mighty fine for colds. And as for those chaw targets—well, scrap 4nd plug have ‘chewed themselves a niche in some of our best places. ~ Certain congressmen remind us of some of our judges. Many’s the time His Honor ducks behind the bench a moment, to reappear judiciously wiping his chin. If ‘the r is good enough for the bench, we fearlessly claim

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appointed Mr. Manning as secretary. of the treasury. | Poor health compelléd him to resign after two years. So much for D. Manning and. how he happens to be gazing through your windshield. Here's another | stamp oddity: Dewitt .Clinton, whose hand-to-head photograph has appeared on tobacco stamps ever since 1876, was never in a cabinet. The tobacco tax was started in 1876, and that was the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Erie canal, which Governor Clinton had been instrumental in putting through. : With a combination like that, there was nothing to do but to put his picture on the tobacco stamp. Apparently nobody ever thought of replacing him.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS—

An Old Story

By Henry J. Taylor

NEW YORK, July 14.—“Victory | —a sweet word,” said Hitler after | the fall of France. “A sweet word, indeed,” echoed the German people. Yet now in Germany you hear Germans everywhere say, “Thank God, Hitler is gone.” The day Hitler's ‘death was reported a blond German woman, standing on the doorstep of her bombed-out house near Essen, used these words to me. I asked her when she had Wimed against her country’s leadership. “When I learned of the terrible conditions in the concentration camps,” she replied. At first, her statement sounded impressive. But, when examined, her statement was an admission that she had been for the Nazis until the very end. The horror camp revelations occurred only a few weeks before V-E day. A waiter in thé Baden-Baden Casino, still wearing his long-tailed, starch-fronted. outfit, told me how glad he was to see the French occupation troops arrive. Now any ‘German who is glad to see French troops arrive any place is a strange German indeed. But the waiter thought such.expressions, would win him better treatment, so he did not hesitate to spin his yarn of welcome to the allies. A postman in Frankfurt said he had moments when “he did not. want to deliver a letter because it had Hitler's picture on the stamp.” But he admitted that he had been a Nazi party member for 11 years.

Offered Same old Excuses

“r HAD TO BE, you know,” he said, “but not by choice.” His son? Yes, he was a party member, too. _He had joined three years ago. “The youth movement was important,” explained the father. “He couldn't help it.” From the grass roots to the top layer of officials, | Germans are following the same formula, They are merchapdising the idea, so agreeable to” dur ears: “Three cheers for the downfall of Hitler.” When I saw Goering in his detention quarters near Augsburg the essence of his attitude was to put all blame on the fuehrer and bark out the idea of good riddance of bad rubbish. He offered the eXtuse that he had had a final clash with Hitler—on April 22, 1945. But wasn’t this a little late? For over 20 years Goering stood at Hitler's elbow. Until] his-own skin was endangered, Naziism did not disturb him ‘so much that he refused to accept the designation as deputy fuehrer under his chief. It is amazing how successfully Germans beg off each time they lose a‘ war. You would not think they could get away with it.

Kaiser Was Disavowed AFTER THE LAST war Germans everywhere pointed only to an egotistical war lord and his Prussian crowd, just as they point now to Hitler and his ‘Nazi crowd. The--Germans disavowed the Kaiser and, by implication, this whitewashed the German people—who would have ruled the world like cocks-o’- | the-walk if their Kaiser or their Hitler had won. There were anti-Nazis in Germany, of course. But they did not exist on any such scale as the Germans now pretend. As everyone who has been to Germany Knows, a “good German” will -be scrupulously honest in personal dealings, love his family, educate them, and | carefully raise each child to/ adulthood.

be restrained by his conscience in what he does. the German. has.a. blind spot, German people have an inherent right to mastery for the good of the world, and whenever his nation accumulates the strength to demonstrate his belief, he follows this conviction.

We Must Not Repeat IN OUR GENEROUS American spirit, we think

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{THEIR ENVIRONMENT" | By W. L. H., Indianapolis I have been following the con-| troversy between “dog lovers” and | { “dog haters,” and the letter written | by A Night Walker, captioned “Methodist Hymn and Swift Kick for Noisy Cur,” which appeared in!

| “DOGS REFLECT

| the Forum column July 5, prompts|

this letter. My work is not of the manual but | of the mental type. Many evenings | {I cannot relax after an exception- | {ally trying day. Consequently, my | wife and I do considerable evening walking. We are not bothered by dogs during our nocturnal ramblings —thank goodness! . , . but we do re-| turn home to be kept awake until tht early hours of the morning by a neighbor's lonesome dog which is tied up. in the yard. Several times] it has been necessary to call upon] the police to intervene so we coul

I am a dog lover, and if housing] conditions were such, I would own a nice dog now. In the years I have] handled dogs, owned dogs and observed dogs other than my own, I have learned one simple fact: A dog's behavior reflects the characteristics of his master. or his master’s family. | An adult's characteristics ‘are formed. when a child; likewise, a dog's characteristics are formed { when it is a puppy. A well behaved child and a well behaved dog from a well behaved | family. Not that I am comparing anyone's. child to a dog, but they | both reflect their environment and rearing.

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EJ n . “THERE 1S A $64 QUESTION” By C. D. C., Indianapolis According to a news report, the OPA has decided to enlist the sup- | port of the public to. make price control more - effective. They are asking the public not to criticize and to help in every way possible to| aid them. This seem$ like a good policy for any government ncy to follow and one that might work out fairly well if the public gives] them proper support. However, without referring to any particular government agency, there is a $64 question that I would! like to have answered. Suppose, for instance, some hypothetical government agency would’

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d | consumers. get some sleep. '

‘By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis

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

POLITICAL SCENE—

1By Thomas L. Stokes

(Times readers are invited iets of the individual to live as to express their views in Rel ite Hin to : these columns, religious con- leven en-GommmARC. Yroversies excluded. -Bocagre | e0iS 2nd the Golden Rule, 1 be) : . {lieve that if we were sufficiently | of the volume received, let-

oe |intelligent that is all the law we fers should be limited to 250 | would need for self-control. They | words.

y Le t t ers must be are so perfect that none of the people | signed. Opinions set forth who clamor for fiat changes can | here are those of the writers, suggest any changes. I believe in| and publication in no way |the constitution of the United States) implies oF reement with ‘those

| with its self-corrective measures, opinions by The Times. The

{which is sufficient to control the Times assumes no responsi- | state's encroachment on the people's bility for the return of manu-

| rights as individuals. a There are two great forces at| scripts and cannot enter €or- work in the world, and they seem respondence regarding them.) to be far too equal in the United States. do the following things: Intimi- | One foree is those people who beate and insult the farmers and|lieve in living as individuals as our

producers, penalize and bedevil the forefathers did, including those jobbers and packers, bulldoze and who “came from Ireland in the 18th {vilify the grocers .and lie to the century.” These people believe that! | they can work out their own securThe question is this: If such a ity and are willing to stand or government agency as this did ac-|fall on their own merits. tually exist, would they ever be| The other force is those people able to get any support from- the who believe that if we mass together

| public? | and live like so much beef under a

an» “TWO GREAT FORCES AT WORK IN WORLD”

paternal government, by some manner or means the political planners will give us better fare. One of these forces is in tune with | Michael J. Hennessy, I defy you natural laws and one of them can to point out a single instance where | Wreck our civilization. . You can I have. spoken against improved BUSS which ‘is right and you are conditions for any group of people at liberty to live on either side. or where I called anyone a Commu-| Counting relatitves in the army | nist or a reformer. {and navy does not establish thie I have seen improved conditions| |quality of Americanism. So let's in their steady and natutral pro- Not ‘wave a flag over that issue. The gression for perhaps as long as you issue is whether your grandson and have, and I have a fairly good im- mY grandson will inherit an Amerpression of why and how we have ica that our forefathers passed to improved. |us, or whether wé are too weak to This country advanced because jt{Carry on. was stocked with people who were . 8 9 not afraid of work. Because people | POOR TIME TO were free to work out their prob-| RAISE HIGH SALARIES” lems as individuals they found By W. F. H., Crawfordsville ways and means of doing more work| In the Tuesday, July 3, Times I with less effort and in less titme. |note what J.L.F. of Beech Grove The only way people can have has to say about that $2500 nonmore is by producing more, and |taxable salary the senators and conthat was just as true in 1945 B. C. gressmen voted themselves. as it is in 1945 A. D. As that is a|’ Mr. J.L.F. tries to vindicate them natural law, Tories and Communists, | for doing such a thing by saying and all the things you think I am| |everything is higher than when that don’t change it. salary was allowed. What if it is— Whether you believe it or not, What about thousands of whitewhat I have written is a matter of [collar men whose salaries are noof your judgment, but if you have|where near that amount and are followed my writings at all you will| working for the same wages they know- or at least you should know |got before the war? that I have continually upheld the | What about thousands whose in-

come isn’t more than $800 to $1200 a year with large families, who have to make-up this extra by taxation. Let us do a little figuring—sup-

Side Glances=By Galbraith r vik iT

too well of all people to blame the Germans as we should. In international affairs we're open-hearted, open-minded, and open-handed. The Germans are | exactly the reverse, We must guard against repeating ourselves and .giving the Germans the benefit of the doubt to which they have never been entitled by their history or performance. To the average German the prospect of a greater Germany releases his flood of hopes. It makes him abandon tolerance, moderation, respect for the rights of the weak, justice and morality. It clicks his heels. It lifts his arm in salute. It polishes his cartridge belt. It makes him poor. n purse and leisure, but rich in pride—a worthwhile exchange in the minds of -most true Teutons. Hitler did not create a new threat to Europe and ‘the world. He harnessed an old’ one.

To The Point— AN OHIO woman asked a divorce because her |

husband talked in his sleep. It might have. been the only chance he had.

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pose these congressmen have to pay $150 a month rent, and $4000 for living expenses, which would be’ an enormous sum, they still have a $4200 nest egg out of $10,000,

on from $800 to $1500 a year, would think they were in Heaven if they were just getting one-half ofthat nest, egg, $2100. No, Brother J.L.F., you are all wet. Any man that cannot get by on $10,000 a year should step down and let a man have the job that can live on that sum. Why pay the OWI, you call the expensive racket, $45,000,000? Why do these senators and congressmen allow such a thing? They are the ones in the saddle making the laws and running the government. 1 am with you, J.L.F, on that score; take the red tape and graft out of this government. They could raise their salaries and our tax would not be more than half what it is. I think this is a ‘poor time to raise high salaries, We need more men like Governor Green of Illinois: They wanted to raise his salary and he said he would not accept it.

DAILY THOUGHT Be ye therefore ready also! for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.— Luke 12:40.

‘FROM the. looks—not the lips— Ls {= the oll, Werlovtes, <MeDoting|

...The-poor. people, trying to get by!

PAC Policy

WASHINGTON, July 14. ~Lots of people, including some* highplaced politicians, have been curious § about the future of the C. I O's Political Action Corimittee — the P. A. C. This is the. efficient organization which played an important, if not decisive, part in returning Democrats to power last November, That curiosity is now satisfied, at least in part, | as the result of a meeting here of the C. 1. O.-P. A. C.| high command headed by Philip Murray, C. IL o.| president, and Sidney Hillman, P. A. C. chairman. Although the C. I. O. and its P. A. C. plunked | solidly behind President Roosevelt for a fourth term, it is taking a more independent attitude toward President Truman, It is a sort of ‘“you-prove-your-self” attitude. : _ P, A. C. sefved notice on the President and congress with six objectives which will be used as a test.

Designed to Prod Congress THEY ARE: (1) Generous wage adjustments to: meet increased living costs; (2) Amendment of fair labor standards act to provide a 65-cent-an-hour minimum; (3) Supplementary federal unemployment compensation extended to additional groups; (4) Adequate FEPC appropriations and a permanent FEPC; (5) Enactment of the Murray-Patman full employment pill and the Wagner-Murray-Dingell social security bill; (6) Prompt approval of the San Francisco Charter and Bretton Woods agreements without reservations or limitations. President Truman meets specifications on the last four objectives. Congress is moving promptly on the international co-operation objectives. But on other aims in the domestic field congress has moved slowly. Announcement ‘of the P. A. C. program at this time is designed to prod congress, which already is beginning to think of the congressional elections next year. ! P. A. C. proved potent inghe 1944 congressional | pfimaries, as well as the regular elections, The 1946 | primaries begin early next spring. i

Won't Affiliate With Party

THE ORGANIZATION'S announced politial attitude is interesting as it affects the President and con= gress. . It will give the President and his administration full support “to effectuate this program which was charted by President Roosevelt.” “At the same time it%hould be clearly understood that the P. A. C, will continue its function as an independent instrument, responsible solely to the membership of C. I. O. “Its judgments and its activities will be based solely upon men and measures and not upon any partisan considerations. It will act as-an independent nonpartisan political force and never as an adjunct of any political party ’ The new C. I. O. policy announcement is significant, reflecting mistakes now recognized in develop-

| ment of its pofitical program.

-Organization of the-P.-A. C.-grew~out-of the C.. I. 0O.'s experience in the 1942 congressional “elections. The C. I. O. woke up after those elections and found itself in an unfortunate, if not precarious, position in congress, with Republican conservative membership increased in the house so that an effective coalition | with southern Democrats was created.

Lost Bargaining Position

LABOR DID not turn out for the 1942 elections. | The problem was complicated by the movement of ' hundreds of thousands of workers from their home

states to war plants. Many were not registered. Many others, working long distances from their homes and | polling places, did not vote. i Labor was constantly threatened. during the next | two years in congress. The P, A. C. was organized ‘to get out the vote and did it most successfully in ' last year's elections. } But, faced with a generally: hostile congress, C. | I O. had turned so enthusiastically to President Roosevelt as a champion, indorsed him so far ahead of time, hat it lost its bargaining position. Consequently, since its support was taken for granted, it did not get the help in congress from the administration that it wanted. It's new political poliey would indicate that it learned a lesson from its past experience. It is taking a wait-and-see attitude toward President Truman. Its bargaining position is much better because of its demonstrated success in last year’s elections. It will be better prepared for next year's | congressional elections than it was in 1942.

IN WASHINGTON—

Amputees By Marshall McNeil

WASHINGTON, July 14.—The army is calling on the best brains of America—in uniform and out— to help provide better artificial arms and legs for wounded fighters. Amputees in hospitals throughout the country can be sure this is so. For big brass itself, in the person of Gen. Brehon Somervell, commander of army service forces, said so today. 1 “We told them they would be our first concern,” the general said, speaking of the wounded, meant it. They are our first concern. “The medical department has had a number. of triumphs in this war treating the sick and wounded. It has done outstanding work. wounded men, for example, has been outstanding.

“Now I hope there will be another triumph in our ||

new two-way project for finding better artificial arms and legs for wounded men.’ The first part of the project, Gen. Somervell said, provides. for “putting a good deal more steam” behind the medical department's present research and

development program. The army doctors have done |

a good deal, but they're likely to do more for Gen. Somervell said, “we're going to build a fire unde everybody” concerned.

Call on Civilian Brains THE SECOND part of the project has been as-signed-to the office of scientific and research develop= ment. This is the long-range program, and it has been put in the hands of Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg of Northwestern university. that the best civilian brains of the country will be called on for help, There is dissatisfaction ‘among some amputees over their contacts with what the doctors call pros thesis. ‘That word applies to the art of making, attaching and using artificial limbs. Gen. Somervell mentioned this with some pungent words regently when he spoke to commdnders of Americarf army service forces at Chicago.” Over-enthusiastic claims and publicity have led some amputees to expect too much from their artificial legs afid arms. Gen. Somervell hopes that the research and development projects he has ordered will yield re sults that will match the amputees’ SEpectatiovs.

Tests Driving Devige HE'S NOT leaving it just to hoping, however,

‘He sald there would be an “intense solicitation” to find ways to improve the appliances these wounded

fighting men need to resume normal places in civilian 4

life. Moreover, the general is looking into ‘these matters himself. This week he took a test ride'in anew car equipped with devices which are intended to permit a legless or aTmlesy man to drive Without great difficulty.

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