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Give Light and the People Wilt Fina Thetr Own Way

CRY-BABY CONGRESSMEN Two sentences in congressional stories in this week's papers reveal a deep-seated trouble in our government. One said a Virginia congressman, having written. to the army- about food supplies, and having received no reply, threatened to “ask President Truman to intervene.” The other said influential members of Congress, bitterly assailing army manpower policies, threatened to take their complaints to the President. ; This is a refrain we are hearing from Congress—one we have heard over the years—far too often. Representa_tives and Senators say: “We'll take it right to the President . ..” or, “I'll tell Mr. Truman . . 2 or, “We'll get the President to change this...” Congress should always remember that it is a part of our three-part government. It is the legislative branch, making the policies the executive branch is to follow, appropriating the money the executive branch is to spend. If Congress doesn’t like a particular policy, it can change it. If it doesn’t approve of the way its policies are administered, it can change that, too. Congress should stand on its own feet. It has ample facilities to investigate, | demand records, question’ administrators. It has the power to make and enforce changes. Congress can do whatever a majority of Congress wants done. Therefore, it's not very encouraging to see individual congressmen go crying to “papa” in the White House when things go wrong. o Only by using its constitutional powers in the public interest, by carrying its own share of the load of government, can Congress win and keep public respect and conEL fidence. The country expects it to use its powers—not to ---—go-weeping on the White House steps when things go wrong.

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NEWS BLACKOUT THE Potsdam conference ended as it began-—in secrecy. The ban on news coverage of the negotiations exceeded all reason. Nothing is more alarming in the post-war European trend than the continued news blackout over large areas. There is no justification for this whatever, except when military considerations are involved—which means the Jap war. Russia is responsible. Wherever she controls there is no free flow of information. This is true not only in her | ‘own territory, but in the vast regions occupied by her armies or governed by her puppets. : Explanation is not altogether clear. The natural conclusion is that many things are occurring which Russia has reason to conceal. There is some evidence to support this in underground and indirect reports of purges, deportations and other violent measures. It is possible, however, that such reports are exaggerated, and that the main reason for the blackout is simply long Russian habit. Whatever the explanation, this is undermining European reconstruction, allied unity, and American confidence.

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“ +ADDRESS UNKNOWN— “" 1. pm} Hitler's Cash By Marshall McNeil

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~ and his publishers in Munich. It is made up of royalties on American sales .of Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, But, if congress follows recommendations of the alien property custodian, neither Hitler, nor his heirs, nor his publishers will get this money. The Hitler book royalties pose the question of what to do with enemy assets. .A final program of proposals to congress will not be drawn up until reparation conferences now going on in Moscow are completed.

Hitler Got Royalties

MEIN KAMPF was. published by the Franz Eher Nachfolger ‘Verlag in Munich. In 1933, a contract was made with Houghton Mifflin for its American publication. Royalties were payable through the American agent, Curtis Brown, Ltd. to the German Verlag and continued up to the time when foreign funds. were frozen. The German publishers’ interest, in which the interest of Hitler is involved, was vested by the custodian. Since that time, all royalties have been paid to that office. : James E. Markham, the alien property custodian, has some pretty firm views about what should be done with such mone¥, and the returns from all vested enemy property. “In conjunction with the treasury department,” he told a senate committee, “we have prepared a series of proposals. “The agencies will join in recommendations to congress that American creditors who have claims against any person whose property in this country has been taken should be paid on an equitable basis to the extent of the vested assets of the debtor permit. “It is further agreed to recommend that plans for. ultimate disposition of the funds realized from vested German and Japanese property should make no provision for any return or compensation, direct or indirect, by the U. S. to the former owners.”

Hold 195 German Concerns

THE ALIEN property custodian has taken over 165 businesses in. which Germans were interested, These include manufacturing, wholesale and investment companjes. Their total net worth was $164,000,000 when the alien property custodian took over. The book’ value of the German interests was $116,500,000. Most of the remaining interests were the property of Americans. Custodian Markham has placed 117 of these enter‘prises in liquidation, “since they serve no useful purpose in the American economy.” These were primarily wholesale companies which formerly imported German prodticts, and other businesses incapable of standing on their own feet. The remaining 78 companies have been continued as going -eoncerns, . » es el RE nae Our government wasn't very smart about German pusiness concerns in the U. S. seized in the last war. Many got back into German control.

___. WORLD AFFAIRS—

Movie Quota By Charles T. Lucey

Fo WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — An ~ important foreign trade row is threatening because of barriers being raised by France against U. S. movies, according to government sources. The French are proposing to limit the showing of American films to a point where film men say they cannot operate on a sound economic basis in France. They're serving notice that they'll pull out altogether rather than accept the French terms. The row is sufficiently serious that the state department is trying to find an amicable settlement. If the French persist, it might be regarded as violating the trade agreement between the two countries. The point of legal right may be the chief club in U. S. hands. Numerous complaints are being received from U. S. businessmen against restrictive trade practices abroad. Government officials admit it is difficult for an American businessman to understand why, if he has a customer abroad who wishes to buy his product, a foreign government should refuse to grant him an import license.

They Haqard Their Yankee Dollars

BUT it is happening in many cases, officials say,

Our government is well aware of this. Therefore, for | many weeks Washington has exerted continuous pressure | on Moscow to live up to the Yalta agreement, under which | the United States and Britain were to have equal and joint control with Russia over the liberated areas. - This demand —including freedom of the press in those walled-off coun- |

tries—was high on the list President Truman took to Berlin. |

HE WAS TRAINED

N nearly every disaster, some one person rises to the | emergency and, by quick thinking and brave and prompt action, saves some lives. There were a number of brave | and quick-thinking persons in the tragedy of the Empire | State building last Saturday. But one of them stands out. He is Don Malony, a | coast guard hospital apprentice. Don was nearby when the bomber hit. He knew intuitively, it seems, just what | to do and how to do it. | He rushed into a nearby drugstore, and with only a | brief word of explanation, commandeered supplies—band- | ages, medicines, narcotics. Then he dashed into the Empire State building and worked his way up afoot, administering | first aid as he went along, to everyone he saw in need of it. | No doubt Don is just naturally a quick thinker. And | brave. But he knew what was needed, and what to do, because he had been trained in the coast guard. morals can be written to Don's story. One of them is that | military training for all young men, in peacetime, can and often will pay a practical dividend. -Far fetched? Don Malony wouldn't figure it that way, ...

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Js 1790-1945 HE United States Coast Guard is 155 years old today. Numerically one of the smaller branches, of the armed, services, it yields to none in the importance of its work of | the courage of its personnel. Today its fighting men have | reason to be proud of their present accomplishments and | their distinguished tradition. ~The Coast Guard has spearheaded all the great invasions of this war. Its men have fought submarines, per- | "formed rescues at sea with boat and helicopter, guarded | ‘ports through which supplies flow, supervised the safety equipment and training of merchant ships and’ seamen, maintained navigational aids, and carried out many other | unpublicized but highly necessary duties. ad ~ And in the invasion of Japan the Coast Guard will again be in the van, guarding the swift landing craft through | fire and mines, directing traffic, evacuating casualties. | me the country salutes the nien and women Guard on the anniversary of the founding h them for their contribution to

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because these governments—Britain and France, for example—{feel that with their limited supply of American dollars only the most essential things should be bought. A government official decides what is most essential. The nub of the movie dispute with France is this: The prewar U. S.-French trade agreement permitted 188 U. S. films to go into France annually—flims in which conversation is “dubbed in” in the French language. The French “government recently has felt it is understood, that 55 per cent of all French movie theater time should be reserved for French movies It was left to the French film industry and the U. 8. industry to work out an arrangement. The French industry proposed drastic cutting of the number of U. 8. films. : U. S. producers agreed to accept a cut from 188 to 108. This was on the basis of 12 movies each for eight U. S. companies and another 12 for independent U, 8. producers. The Americans have distributing organ-

izations throughout France and they contended. this was the lowest figure at which they could continue to

operate.

They'll Miss Mickey Mouse

THE French are understood to have insisted that That's where the argument is now, with government officials interested

the figure must be even lower.

in some kind of peaceful settlement.

The money exchange situation is said to be a | factor in the French wish to buy fewer U. 8. pictures. '| But it is suggested on this side that there may be A lot of | other reasons, including energetic efforts by British

and Russians to get into the French film market. If they do, the French film industry apparently doesn't

| want this invasion to be at its expense, but rather

perhaps at the expense of Americans who have heretofore had a sizable share of the market. The deadline for the threatened withdrawal by U. 8: companies is Sept. 1._ Some .trade officials here expect a difficult situation in numerous countries on U. 8. imports. They foresee an enormous market for our goods. But with governments . preventing their people from buying these goods because, nationally, there” isn't enough dollar exchange to go around. Yet these countries will be pressing to export goods to America to build up dollar balance. The U. 8. has quantitative or quota restrictions on only a few items, but the import license system has been more widely used in other countries. Under the trade agreements program, the government has succeeded in getting these restrictions whacked down in many cases. Bw :

So They Say —

THE WRA (War Relocation Authorily) officials | |

have so often acted arbitrarily and ‘without regard for local public opinion in their management of alien Japanese that their rulings are now generally under suspicion.—Ontario, Cal, Daily Report. 4 co > .. » : WE HIRE war veterans only, and if th abled, that doesn't matter. If a man

¢.—-Our holding $22,666 which, in normal times, would be paid to Adolf Hitler, or his heirs,

POLITICS Ideologies

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4¢.—Here in Washington, as. elsewhere in the country what was once popularly called “ideological warfare” has proken out again, with name-call-ing, phrase-making, slogans and all the furbelows. It is only natural. It went on all during the Roosevelt administration until the war! It was only postponed by the war. For the complicated prob= lems of modern society which provoke it are still with us, we discover, as the clouds of war begin to lift. The New Deal didn’t solve them. It only alleviated some of them. “Ideological warfare” is a mouth-filler. But all if means for current purposes is the conflict between advocates of various philosophies .of government, They disagree on how we should deal with such essentials as providing jobs, homes, protection of savings and security in old age.

Communists Are 'Red' Again

A NUMBER. of surface signs bear witness to the renewal and sharpening of the conflict. For one thing, the American wing of Gommunism has pitched out Earl Browder, the apostle of co-operation with the Roosevelt administration after war broke out—much to the New Deal's embarrassment in the last election. The party has returned to its old policy of aggressive infiltration for world revolution. “Communism” again offers a convenient target.

For another, the victory of the British Labor party, with what it might mean in fundamental changes in the approach of government to economio and social problems, has aroused controversy here like nothing that has happened since the New Deal assumed power, Harold J. Laski the philosopher of change in England, has come to occupy a position similar to that which Felix Frankfurter’s enemies carved out for him here during the New Deal hey-day.

Perhaps another such figure will emerge from the still active ‘but less influential New Dealers who have remained here, They are growing restless under what they consider the “conservatism of the Truman ad ministration. This is another sign of the times, and no doubt will raise up a champion. Perhaps Henry Wallace will do to fill this role. The atmosphere about this city, ‘particularly since the British election furnished a text, the talking, pondering and ‘planning, is reminiscent of the early New Deal. ; =

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“HAVEN'T USED MUCH GAS HUNTING DOG POISONER” By Mrs. Cornelia Carel, 702 Soniefset ave: Why shouldn't we be concerned about the welfare and safety of our dogs. Don't they protect our home from burglars and peeping toms? After all, our police force has other things to do which are far more important, such as raiding gambling houses and checking on auto tax stamps. ; I know of no man who works eight or 10 hours a day who takes a midnight stroll. The majority of those who walk the streets late at night are of dubious character anyway. Maybe we keep our dogs because of people like Mr. Night Walker. 2

Hoosier Forum

Most of these dogs have been poisoned in their own yards and I know of no one who puts poison in| their garbage can. Therefore few | if any have died from eating out of ~arbage cans. Mrs. Servies has a lot to le about people. Many have narro twisted, evil minds and would not hesitate to poison someone's little puppy. She also has a lot’ to learn “bout our police force. 1 doubt if ‘hey have used much gas in search| of the dog poisoner. : ” » »

“DON'T BLAME YOUR COUNTRY IF YOU FAIL” By James R. Meitzler, Attica Says Mr. Earl D. Hoskins, “I| changed ahd started. living to aid | others and to look for good in all things and perscns. Yes, we have a dirty back yard Mr, Meitzler.” Rather a contradiction, Mr. Hoskins. You see the good in Russia, {the bad in your own country. If we had a government .like Russia, (no matter how much evil you saw | here, you could not utter a word {about it under penalty of being liquidated. That is the thing I object to, that and forcing their rule on other people. I have no objection to your defamation of the country you fought for -if you so desire. That is the citizens’ right in America, but not in Russia.

You say I know nothing about {the poll tax. ‘Mr. Hoskins, I began paying poll tax when I was 21 and receiving $6 for a 54-hour week and kept paying until I reached {the 50-year limit. By that time I was paying more than poll taxes. Last year 1 paid $103.60 property

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

and Mussolini, We do believe and events bear the proof of our system that. .no.government. could be centered in a one-man or a one-party system and succeed for more than the period which necessitated it. So we demand a close-co-operation of both, of all political parties in China and all the democracies until this is an accomplished fact, and in the meantime, such strategy to that end. The complete defeat of Japan is imminent. If they have the underground factories, why. aren't the planes in evidence? And if they have their mountains fortified against invasion, who doesn’t Gen. Doolittle give these hideouts the same going over Hitler's got—and which they abandoned so hastily for fear of being bombed in so completely it would take years to dig out. They {left the loot and gold they had accumulated from over-run territory.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times -assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

election who never contributed one cent in taxes to their country. Their ballot counts as much as mine. For although you have to show a| The allied policy must pay no attax receipt to get an automobile tention to the same lies which imwithout one. mediately preceded the Nazi surIndiana thinks the right to drive render: Amend the peace terms by a car is more important than the a stop clock which gets tougher, beright to vote. Those persons who ginning with Hirohito and so on in give up that right rather than con-|rank and proceed to put it in prac-

stand mercy and they have trained the Jap human monkey with a trigger finger; so beginning at the top is the strategy. » tJ » - “CAN'T STOP RACE PREJUDICE BY PASSING LAWS” By C. D. C., Indianapolis Something like twenty-five years ago I became engaged ‘in a violent argument in a Sunday school class, with all the other members of the class against me. It was over a law that then was in the making known as prohibition and was supposed to cure most of the national ills that

then existed and make this nation a modern Utopia. I did not drink liquor myself but my argument was based on the fact that any law could not be enforced for any great period of time unless it received popular public support. The law was passed however and ironically” enough the temperance cause received a setback | from which it is never likely to recover. Only a few days ago I got into an argument with another group over a law that is now in the making and seems likely to be passed, and | my arguments were much the same {1 still believe that any law which does not receive popular public sup-

their country certainly place nd value on it. : But the gist of Mr. Hoskins’ dis-| paragement of America is that on account of his color he receives only $45 a month, when he is worth more. Many white men claim they are entitled to better jobs and better pay and all have alibis. The color line is as good as theirs no doubt. Still there are. colored men who are better paid than whites. America is not responsible for anyone's color. It's up to you, Mr. Hosins, to better yourself. Don't blame it on your country if you fail.

» ” » “BEGIN AT TOP ON JAP WAR CRIMINALS” By E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave. If the. shakeup in the Chinese cabinet means such policies’ as will better co-operate with Stalin for the prosecution of the war, well and good. If it is because of internal policies, then the Chinese should be warned that the allied powers have nothing to contribute to a civil war, and that such national policy must wait the defeat of Japan, The great democracies have no sympathy toward a one-party government, acquiring power by an army at its back as witness Hitler

Side Glances=By Galbraith

port cannot be enforced. The law is one which is known as the fair employment practice act.

The law is one which is supposed to prevent discrimination, mostly against Negroes. Now, I for one believe that there is discrimination against Negroes because of their color. 1 also believe if the bill

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becomes a law that the Negro race will receive a setback from which they cannot recover in the next 50 years. In the first place the law discriminates against ‘a group known as the employers, who are a minority and should have something to say -about the matter, Furthermore, any such law will in all probability revive such organizations as the Ku-Klux Klan and create a series of vicious race riots and may lead to the election of a party that will be elected on a platform based on race discrimination. It is my opinion the colored people can and will come into their own by evolution and education. However, they cannot do so- by the passage of a law any more than a man can lift himself by his own | bootstraps.

DAILY THOUGHT

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, 1 will not accept them; neither will 1 regard the peace offerings of. your fat beasts.—Amos 5:22.

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New Dealers Still Talk

THEN THERE foregathered here a multitude of bright and earnest men, young and old, who sat up until all hours re-making the world. The top places have been nearly swept clean of the New Deal element. But many remain in the lower levels, where ideas are discussed If not always put into effect, and they are talking again. As in the early New Deal days, the bookstors counters are piled high with books desinged to solve post-war problems, just as they were filled a dozen years ago with books that offered solutions for the depressions. They were: ephemeral works but pro vocative. : The reason that the “ideological warfare” has broken out again is because, basically, we are again faced with virtually the same problem. Then we wanted to get jobs for people Unemployment was the problem. Now we want to be sure there will be enough jobs for people®when the war is over: and the armies are turned loose. The unemployment of the depression, which we never did cure or solve—until the war came along. to do it for us temporarily—is being discussed again, - used as an example of what we must avoid. Over and over it ‘was used in the hearings recently on the “full employment” bill, : Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), one of the bill's sponsors, could now mention safely that there were still 9,000,000 unemployed in 1940, just before the war, though Democrats resented it very much when Tom Dewey mentioned it in the campaign last year. From now on you may expect to hear the words “Communist” and “Fascist” and “Tory” bandied about freely. \ But don't expect that to solve the problem. It didn't before. *

IN WASHINGTON—

Army Mail

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Should all Manhattan move overnight and leave no forwarding address, the New York postmaster would be facing a problem similar to that of 7 the army postal service during this redeploymen§ period. : Maj. Gen. Edward P. Witsell, acting adjutant general, used this illustration to point up present difficulties with army mail. He was urging co-operation by relatives sending servicemen Christmas packages this year. Overseas parcels must be mailed between Sept. 15 and Oct, 15. During that period last year the army postal serve ice handled 62,000,000 five-pound packages.

Army's Moving Days THIS YEAR's 30-day mailing period comes in the midst of the greatest mass movement of personne] in history,” Gen, Witsell said. : “Never before have so many men been on the move between continents, across the seas, within the theae ters of operation.” ! Using the “Manhattan moving” illustration, he cited how the army planned in advance to handle the mail for redeployed troops. “Suppose Postmaster Goldman of New York City were to arrive at his office some morning to be ine formed that the entire population of Manhattan had moved and left no forwarding addresses. Later he would learn that the people had gone to points throughout this country and the world at large, Anyone can comprehend the chaos which would ensue,

They Still Get Their Mail

“THE ONLY exception to this comparison is that the army does have plans for just such mass migra tions to get mail, : “In the main these plans are working well. We are delivering mail to men fresh off the returning boats from Europe; we are intercepting them for mail delivery as they pass through the Panama Canal, en route to the Pacific, we are delivering their mail at the reassembly stations, to. cite a few of, the methods. ' : , *What we seek this year in our overseas malling period is the co-operation of the American mailing public. With their co-operation we can keep the mails moving, we can maintain some semblance of schedules, and we can make a mighty contribution to the individual morale of every soldier who receives & package, a card, or a letter from home.”

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