Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1946 — Page 16

IT'S OUR BUSINESS, because of the importance officers of Gen. MacArthur's

the regular army will play in any plan to main Nonsnor o. H.Q. stat sections both ate agaressive

world peace, to scrutinise the methods of selection of °0lonels whose |

occasion no surprise. The constitution this country guarantee a fair trial to every . But the efforts to prevent a trial for Sgt. been so determined, and have come from such

, that it did seem a little doubtful, up to yes- “

tion system makes dubious the ability of the nation tion and 141 have been relieved from active duty. to capitalize on the many highly competent nem. Of the remaining 761, reductions are seheduled for professional soldiers who rose to high rank because 297.

ping all the silly melodrama with which the army they Gould moet the requirements of War ah 4 com: A umber of hase generss rose from fog

surround this case, and the high-handed procedure United States department of justice thereafter, you yme down to this set of facts: gt. Bauer, born in Germany, became a naturalized of the United States in 1935. In 1939, while we officially at peace with Germany, he visited that coun‘on business. He says, and no one contradicts, that he prevented from returning here, and had to join the man espionage forces in order to get out of the country. Was a very common occurrence in ‘those days, and are numerous well authenticated similar cases. Sgt. thereafter enlisted in the United States army, and ‘for three years. 8" 0» ; | appears to have made a full revelation of his past to ®=% the army officers who received his enlistment. At no me did he engage in any espionage, or any other work t the Nazi government in this country. He says he did « The army which investigated him for months says he did not. The FBI, which also investigated, says he did not. No charge of any offense at all ever was placed him.

petitive basis. These men either hold no “permanent” besauss of demonstrated + + « « Gen, Eigen Tank or have such a low rank that they eould not hower was one of these. It is to be hoped that os afford to remain in the army in peacetime. out-moded system of promotion will not, as it could It also means that many highly competent if carried to the ridiculous extreme, thrust any upyounger army officers who rose to high rank by sheet 'and-coming officers whe made good in time of the ability may have to revert to their permanent ranks country’s greatest need bask into a position subordiof captain or major. hate to someone who couldn't make the grade in war,

REFLECTIONS . .. By Jim G. Luss = =~ Are We as Peace-Loving as We Say?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 —Lagf Sunday, in a could love. the small church in upstate New York, the said: ! “The men who fought this war don't glory in it. They hate war,” a That's what we say. That's what we think mean. But it isn't true, We are more war-minded than we know, v I asked myself: “Do I hate war?” And I had to answer: “I don’t,” I had to go on from, there; J} may secretly love war! Self-examination shocked ‘me. . I suddenly was aware of something I hadn't known about myself.

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other fellow miope thag himself, if minister only for a minute, an hour, a .day. You don't forget that in war you saw men whe loved life give their lives for you. a ta ‘ I didn’t know that kind of living before I went we to war. I havent known it since. I miss it. The absence of it, the brutal contradiction of it, in peade makes it the Marder to forget. We have returned tc a world at peace. It is a world of dog-eat-dog. Probably it has always been like this. Probably it hasn't changed much. Probably we Haven't, either. Because we've taken up our Places in this world, We are living by its rules. But not particularly liking it. We can’t forget that ence we knew-—and Wwere—men who lived and died by other rules. Living on that plané for an hour, I am dissatisfled with anything less. William James says the world, in peace, must find the moral

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There has been no : served in the armed forces of other nations. How

g doctrine that he forfeited his citizenthe service of the German goven at war, though not at war Ee he proposed to deport him,

such zeal about deporting others

And Take an Active Part"

By Charles R. Behrman, Indianapolis

To every returning serviceman, my advice, first of

disouss your served in some war, “They will not understand you and will Angd may brand you as a “crackpot.” But do discuss and ‘grievances with another veteran. He. speaks your

. language.

By W. C. Reese, Shelbyville A few months back I went to hear a speaker at 4 democratic gathering and he said that we, the people of the United States, must become international minded, The people were told that if we had Joined the- League of Nations that we would not have had world war

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1 bad always taken for granfed I hated war. Now

equivalent for war. Lacking that, peace Is inadequate. Lacking that, peace produces nostalgia for war,

Quit Kidding Ourselves IP, IN. the long run, we're going to do anything our task is al once simple and staggering. got fo forge a world of peace out of the same steel we forge a world at war. We've got to find William James’ moral equivalent. It's insane that war should bring out our best qualities and peace

bout the hundreds of American citizens who fought in| lo woo Bon g he civil war in Spain—on both sides? How about, £07 | ecistation ] Ho So Raman o & word palat. matter, the United States army and navy officers |voy ean ‘a8 “ changed. Commitments were made 0 fought in the Chinese army, against. Japan, for many Jat Wau © 5 Duin which we were at peace with Japan? Do lands, We became a world power ~ they lose their citizenship thereby? Yet, legally, they did

our worst, And yet it’s true, . I suspect that more of the millions who fought than admit it,

But when wars are over, day after day, easier to forget.

Learn New Living Code

YOU DONT forget that in war you found the only Christian brotherhood you ever knew. You don’t forget that in war you found complete generation we've proved we're not even a neutral-

selflessness. minded people when there's a first-rate scrap going You don’t forget learning in war that a man on. Let's quit kidding ourselves.

WORLD AFFAIRS ... . By William Philip Simms

Pull No Punches in UNO Inquiries’

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2¢,—Russis’s backhand slap at Britain following Iran's charge of Soviet interference in Iran's internal affairs, is regarded in United Nations circles as affording a preview of what may be in store for the UNO, and the glimpse is not re-

a5 peace-loving as we say, which admits we're not afraid to fight—oould even like to fight— . might have dissuaded our enemies in both world wars. It’s dangerous not te know our own minds. It's dangerous to go on piously teling the world we're 100 per cent peaceful, when we aren't, Twice in a

¢ . and ae ing the United Nations what Sgt. Bauer did, - Wh 8 n in the belief that it a trial will produce the real reasons pehind "rhe ara wa war gn to'drive this man out of the United States Ners Siationed in many’ foreign I Meiretly mn 35 aliens. We suspect it may also produce thao Shay ve Wiseied i faces ha ted to return No matter what he has done, he is entitled to a fair out] to the occupations they enjoyed he. ind open frial. Nothing he seems likely to have done is fore the war. Bu other soldiers any worse than the attempts to deprive him of that trial,

TION IN COMMERCE 1 maar fat ECRETARY HENRY A. WALLACE'S aids are reported |OF MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS" S jubilant, as well they may be, over the generous treat- [br me cuartemsn, Indisuspotis ment of the commerce department by President Truman's

Mr. Truman proposes that congress give the departnt $163,386,000 for next fiscal year—$70,291,000, or 76 per cent, more than it got this year. That, accord- [127 to Mr. Wallace's happy is virtually all he had |s inorder to do- for businessmen, large and small, he did for farmers when he was secretary of [° piney . I fo thus and so to you” 2 — LLL nL 3 4 E . . Z iff cuit, heerve, ¥ The thought will gratify some businessmen. It may irr Ei Jere) Wits ar others, who have nursed & base suspicion that Mr. iin, hers semen ess to believe ) < Y / e hopes : Jo io ts Is the thi for hem. Dut he 10. pinch of that adjoining res for hers q mare people, and so to contribute help-

had previously dene in eas Europe. y it was reported that Iran would appeal to the ie nation's problem of 60 million jobs. For example: If the

Moscow permitted it to get about that if she reign and domestic commerce will employ 408 “eeo-,

Russia would lay similar charges and possibly others. ta," at salaries ranging from $3640 to $8750, 99,816 a year.

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assuring, Under the charter, it is pointed out, any of the Big Five by its own veto ean block action by the security council, That, in the opinion ef the smaller nations, is bad enough. But new it weuld seem

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bu is Seeine as how a mixture of mot roved » trusts, and free enterprise dget is app » the bureau | iy, uals. and. fro system, is it not therefore time to I Saf} ibe bing} ot the big General t is struggli otors and demand the appropriagging through tion by the nation of all monopolies and trusts under the legality of the law of eminent domain of our national Constitution ?

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curity council to investigate Azerbaijan, charged the British with interfering in G her Charlie McCarthy, the Ukraine, in almost cal language, asked for an investigation of the in Indonesia. ;

. / Britain Accepts Probe ON LEARNING that Britain had accepted the proposed probes without demur, there was much gratification and some relief in these same circles.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churehil Need Tax Cut to Beat Unemployment

LONDON, Jan, 24~The British Labor govern- there will be danger of unemployment. He knows

aims. assert they fish because they had a job to They remained, they say, at interim government to maintain order pending dem "cratic élections as agreed upon by the Yalta, The United States, France and Britain arranged to send observers to watch the voting wi is to be by secret ballot and universal suffrage,

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lies at home to solve our own problems rather than those of Europe. J » y “J. EDGAR HOOVER SAYS COMMUNISTS COURT VET"

By Laura Helson, Indianapolis

Mr. Chas. Ginsberg is asking for a definition of Communism. Maybe the following excerpt from a speech given on Dee. 10 by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will satisfy him. “To the Fascist foe must be add. ed another, the American Communist. These panderers of dia~

2,000. the wheels of America ie budget also contemplates 30 “technical language rolling... on - 8," at $4800 each, for Secretary Wallace's own office, ) appears to have nome just now. Their function, r, will not be to make commerce, department lanmore technical—which would be difficult—but to It morh understandable. . Our best wishes to them, Nong numerous other interesting items, we find an nge for the weather bureau, from $12,540,000 this year 9,000 next. The boost is considerable, but we ¥ complaints about the weather recently, ||

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that this can be avoided only if t part of British

Wallace improves it, we think the country will con~ extra money well spent, gu a —————————

el strike looks like a tough one—a case of the ble force meeting the immovable object, are asking, “How will it end?” : don’t know,

oll make a prediction: ' the union will get 1815 cents—the figure

mies will get higher prices—thus cleaving Mm 10 pay. the wage increase, will pay more for steel and for everything ed prices will materially reduce the gains

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bolic distrust already are concentrating their efforts to confuse and divide by applying the Fascist smear to progressive police departments, the PBI and othér American institutions to conceal their own sinister purposes , . . “As 1 speak to you today, the big guns of the Communist party in the United States are aimed at return ing veterans, openly boasting that here is a new front behind which they can hide, They have selected & worthy foe, for the American Le~ gion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars are too experienced in fighting America's enemies to be hoodJiniked by these Communist swind. rs.”

am —— DAILY THOUGHT

What profit is there in My. blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise \thee? Shall it declare thy truth?— Psalms 30:9, .

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ment is planning to nationalize only four or five of Britain's major industries. Pive years from now, nine-tenths of all British industry and trade will till be operated by private enterprise, ' The Socialists, in order to justify their policy of nationalization, always decry what they call the “profit motive,” However, they are beginning to realize that, if ‘Britain is to maintain a reasonably high standard of living, privately conducted businesses must be given some chance of surviving, and this they cannot do unless they are allowed to make profits, It seems certain, therefore, a Sapesiiar Wi the exchequer Hugh Dalton, despite prejudices to the contrary, will find himself compelled,

Sos members of the cabinet are coming to realize that, if British private enterprise is to compete effectively in the markets of the world with the free enterprise of other countries, taxation must he reduced, The most influential of these cabinet members 18 George Isaacs, minister of labor. He has publicly declared in favor of early tax reduction.

Give Incentive to Expand . “IT 18 easy to see why Isaacs takes this view. He recently reported that, since the end of the war, over

in factories and offices. ‘Though there still

to rave shortage of manpower, Isaacs knows that,

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"sooner or later, when the Post-war

in his next budget, to reduce the burden of direct

5,000,000 additional men and women have gone back

industry which is privately owned is given some inceritive to expand. ! Take the ease of the London Daily Express. This has the circulation of any dally newspaper in the world. Its average daily net sale stands at the moment at the impréssive figure ‘of 3,376,686.

Taxes Are Many Times Net IN COMMON with other great national newspapers, the Dally Express is printed in Manchester

due to the outstanding newspaper flair and genius of Lord Beaverbrook. . At the end of 1045, the tal investment of the

Last year, the Express newspapers had a gross revenue of over 4,000,000 pounds sterling, and- their net profit was almost 1,000,000 pounds sterling,

Beaverbrook owns nearly B0 per cent of the capi- :

tal shares of this group of papers, but taxation has reached such fantastic levels that, after paying the income tax and surtax, Beaverbrook and the other shareholders of the Express newspapers received a net income of only about 38,000 pounds sterling. In one year, the group paid over 700,000 pounds sterling in excess-profits taxes alone.

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