Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1946 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

THE A.V. C. CONVENTION : WHETHER or not you agree with all the thinking of YY {he American Veterans Committee—and we don’t— there is no doubt about the admirable methods they used in their first national convention. The delegates, including representatives of a small but vigorous. membership in Indianapolis, met every issue openly, debated it thoroughly, and voted democratically upon it. As in every organization which shows the slightest tendency toward liberal thinking, the Communists were on _ hand, prepared to bore in and make it a part of their American propaganda mill. Much of the early suspicion of A. V. C. has come because of the presence among its organizers of a goodly number of these left-wingers, both the professional agents of foreign powers and the native crack-pots who used to be known as “parlor pinks.” Once assembled in convention the veterans delegates promptly set “them on their heels. It appears that for the present, at least, they have been stopped in their efforts to take over this group. : ‘An interesting angle of the convention action was its refusal to admit to membership veterans of the “Spanish Republican army,” recruited by Communists in this country for service in the Spanish civil war. - They were on sound ground there. Those men who joined the Abraham Lincoln ‘brigade are not even citizens of the United States. The federal court here in Indianapolis decided that a few weeks ago in its ruling on the Bauer case.

DON'T CHEER YET THE ‘senate's 49-to-16 vote for the bill to reorganize

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your right to say it." — Voltaire. +

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will defend to the death

congress and make it more efficient has created some dangerous. optimism, Many citizens assume that it's now safe to expect an eagy victory in the house 3 representatives, It is true, we think, that a majority of the house members—probably - a large majority—favors this bill. Most representatives know, as well as most senators do, how greatly Songress is handicapped by its old-fashioned methods, its cumbersome procedures, its overlapping and conflicting and too numerous committees, and its lack of adequate, independent facilities for fact finding. It is also true that Rep. Mike Moroney of Oklahoma -ean do as fine a job of piloting the measure in the house as did Senator Bob La Follette of Wisconsin in the other branch—if he gets the opportunity. But that's the trouble. ” " . . . " J EGISLATIVE machinery in the house is pretty tightly controlled by men who owe their power and promi‘nence to the present system and are not eager to see it changed. : __A little enthusiastic help from Speaker Sam Rayburn, for instance, would go far to assure success for the con.gressional reorganization plan. But Mr. Rayburn is very, very cool on this subject. : So, we think, it is very much up to citizens who want a more efficient congress to make their voices heard. If they don't, there is real danger that the bill won't reach the stage of debate in the house, Or that only those parts of it pertaining to more pay, more office help and retirement benefits for congressmen will be enacted, while the urgently needed reforms and improvements are buried.

FISHING. FOR CHAOS, NOT PEACE THE Communist Daily Worker screams “Trotsky” at Max Eastman. We don’t know yet what it will shriek at Herbert Hoover. But these two very divergent individuals, one in New York, the other in Brazil, say the same thing as to what the Communists are after. It is that the party line is not peace but trouble. ™ _. Mr. Eastman, lifelong radical, quotes what he calls Stalin's equivalent of Mein Kampf. Mr. Hoover, lifelong conservative, refers to his immediate observation in his world travel at President Truman's request to report on the food relief and famine problem. Says Mr, Hoover in Rio de Janeiro: “The universal party line of the Communists in every country is trying to break down the provision of food for hungry people and then produce chaos where they can fish in troubled waters. “In Brazil as well as in the 37 other countries I have visited wherever there is a Communist press, and that is in most of them, that press has attacked this effort to provide food for the hungry working people of the world, alleging the food was to be used for political purposes. “In Latin America it also takes the form that we are trying to take food from the people when our only purpose is to provide food.” . . » » » ”~ » AND now let's hear from Mr, Stalin about fishing in ; troubled waters, and chaos instead of peace as an instrument of Russian policy. From “Problems of Leninism,” that Rscian L equiva of Mein Kampf, and from certain ‘speech, es by in and certain quotations of i i ‘relevant to the subject: ¥ : lesa ly him “It is inconceivable that the Soviet republic should con‘tinue to exist for a long period. side by side with imperialAst states—ultimately one of the other must conquer.” : “The scientific concept of dictatorship means nothing more or less than power which rests on violence which is pot limited by any laws or restricted by any absolute rules.” “Every time treaties are made concerning the realign‘ment of forces these treaties are called treaties of peace.

and always the signing of these treaties is accompani n ways the panied b # lot of clap-trap about peace.” y

ing, withholding and coloring truths.”

different thought.”

Treaties are signed defining the elements of a future war

i “We must be ready (quoting Lenin) for trickery, de-

and must write in a language which rows , hate, revulsion, scorn and the like to-

int is not far-off when a revolutionmeric that will be the beginning’ im as a whole. It is essential | st party should be capable of

"Service Man's Being a 'Psycho’

Shouldn't Bar Him From Jobs"

: By Ex-Navyman, Indianapolis There is one serious phase of service disability on which I do not believe the veterans are getting a square deal. I was born here in Indianapolis and I'm hoping you will print this and that it may get

some results.

Next month I will have been out of the navy two years, having been discharged because of psychoneuroses, or “war nerves.” There are a lot of veterans just like myself. Isn't there some way that people can be stopped, through education of otherwise, in the way they think of a “psycho” case? When we came home, we thought it should be fairly easy to get a job. I have seven years as a paint contractor. But there are many people in this town who just won't hire a “psycho” if they know that to be the reason for his discharge from the service. To give an in- faith to the world by this action. stance closer to home, my own|I can't see how the other natlons mother evicted my family and my- can say anything but “yes.” self from her home because of my goof of being a psychoneurotic. I suppose “I'M WAITING TO SEE 1 am hard to live with, and perhaps WHO DEMOCRATS NAME” difficult in some phases of employ-| py Independent Voter, Indianapolis ment. My object in writing to The Times is not to cry on your shoulder about my own case, but to direct public attention to a problem that is serious to many of us. After all, our being “psychos” should not brand us as not entitled to what rehabilitation is necessary to make us productive members of our community.

» » > “ATOMIC ENERGY SHOULD BE A TOOL FOR PEACE” By Pacifie Velersn, Rockville 1 knew Bernard Baruch would come up with an answer on con-

trolling the atomic bomb. There's an elder statesman that was given the run-around by F. D. R. just because he was objective and refused to be taken in by the rush and hurry of New Deal flim-flam-mery. 1 believe many of us who served overseas and saw what war does, and particularly those. of us who saw what happened at Hiroshima and at Nagasaki, will agree that a world agenéy with plenty of power to enforce its decisions should control atomic actlivties. Anyway, if this world is to be worth living in, we should regard atomic energy as a tool to be used for peaceful pwposes, I'm scared to contemplate what would happen if it was used otherwise. . _ More power to Baruch and “his plan to rid the world of the fear of atomic destruction, which is what your writer in New York said about his plan. We're proving our good

at the recent G. O. P. state convention here was anything but American. It was a waste of money for the delegates to come here just to confirm the selections of the state committee, That: could have been done by mail. As it was, the delegates contributed nothing, because there was no deliberation and, if the newspaper accounts are correct, everything had been decided on weeks ago. I can't agree with those who criticise the Republican candidate for senator, Mr. Jenner. After all, he was in the service and also had had experience in the senate for a short time before. He is young and probably would be more able to stand the high pressure of today’s congress than Mr, Willis is. However, I'm not going to make up my mind as to whom I will vote for until after the Democratic convention. I never voted a straight ticket in my life and my inclination this year is to vote for the Republican. Maybe I'm really: just voting against the Truman administration. However, the manner in which Mr. Jenner was nominated leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I'm waiting to see what kind of a man the Democrats put up. I believe I am objective in my

independents voters, will vote for the

national questions. | newspapers to tell us that.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

It seems to me that the manner in which candidates were selected

voting, and like thousands of other

best man. But first I have to know who is who and how they stand on the important national and inter It's up to the

* “REST OF EUROPE HUNGRY LONGER THAN GERMANY"

By R. 8. L., Indianapolis Chaplain Kuenzli's letter from

Wiesbaden, Germany, pleading for food for the German people strikes a peculiar note in view of the chaplain’s omission of a kind word for Allied Europe, which is in much worse shape than Germany. Whoever the chaplain is, he cannot have seen and compared the ricketic. and tubergular children of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland with applecheeked German children. Hardly a year has

passed since the occupation of Germany. The Nazis occupied Allied Europe for five years, but the cries of the hungry then were muffled by the conqueror. This is not a suggestion to “let ‘em starve.” But there is a logical system of priorities in feeding Europe which must be followed. "Dur friends should be fed first, and our late enemies afterward. It is evident that feeding the nationals of Allied Europe has only just started. Only a year has passed, and yet there are those already forgetting that the harvest of famine in Germany was sowed and reaped by the German people who supported the Nazi conquest. If Germans are hungry, they have not been hungry as long as the French, the Belgians, the Dutch and the Poles. If they are hungry, it is because they themselves stripped Europe of agricultural machinery and transport, If they are hungry, it is because the sullen, mirthless and bitter young meh who were demobilized from the Wehrmacht a year ago refused to work in the flelds to save themselves and their women, and staged a sitdown strike in the mines. ° A generation of twisted children is growing up in Europe, but not yet in Germany. There has been hunger in Europe for six years, but in ‘Germany it is only beginning to take off the excess fat. . " . “DOGS ARE SMARTER AND MORE FAITHFUL THAN CATS”

By “Friend of Dog.” Indianapolis 1 see where a letter writer to one

keep their pets on their own prop-

“put out of the way.”

animal that had ever been truly domesticated. I think this is a very unreasonable proposal. In the first place, the present dog tax is adequate and an increase would work a hardship on many families and their children. Maybe some dogs do wander too much, but if they are not fierce and don’t harm other people or trample their property, I can’t see why they should be penned up in a yard. Of course, loud-barking dogs shouldn't be kept in the city, but in many homes as in ours where there are women only, our dog barks only when he hears a noise around our | house. It's a protection, my sister and I feel, and the fact he does bark would keep away intruders and, I'm sure, dogsn't bother any of our. neighbors on either side of

us, qh I too like cats, but don’t believe there is any comparison in their intelligence, faithftilness and comwith that of dogs. I wonder “how other Forum readers feel about this.

DAILY THOUGHT

Por if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and

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of the papers favors raising the dog tax to $35 for males and $80 for bitches, requiring dog owners to

erty by.strong chain or leash, and requiring night barking dogs be This man says he preferred cats as the only

: ~ ” ~ Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,

dd Security Affects Caliber of Jud

ITS OUR BUSINESS, in view of current controversies involving the judiciary, to be extremely vocal in our jealousy of the integrity of the judicial ermine. ‘We have today two outstanding examples of politics in the selection of judges. In the United States supreme court, a squabble is going on involving an ex-ku klux, klansman and police court lawyer named to that high tribunal for reasons other than his ability. In Indiana, we have a supreme court judge who was refused renomination at the G. O. P, state convention last week, to quote; leading barristers of the state “because of having written an opinion at variance with the views of a few partisan politicians.”

PURGE was successful . . . and such interference with the judiciary will continue to be successful so long as the public does not resist political domination of the bench, However, it seems unlikely anyone will do much effectively about either the purge or about protecting the bench from interference by politicians or by other branches of the government. The usual bills for nonpartisan selection of judges may be introduced in the legislature next January and February, and they will meet their usual fate . . . unless in the meantime the attorneys of the state take aggressive leadership in making the public that an unbossed bench is its best assurance of justice. A judge should not be subordinate to a county or state political machine. And one who makes decisions on any basis other than the law deserves impeachment and contempt. + Advocates of non-political selection of judges assert that under the present method there is not only the danger of interference by those to whom a judge

A.V.C. Rejects C

DES MOINES, June 18.—An inspiring miracle is perhaps a good description of the performance of the 850 world way II veteran delegates who, working day and night, created the permanent organization of the American Veterans Committee at the first annual convention here and charted a progressive course on domestic and foreign policy. These earnest youngsters will be heard from, and so will the others they enlist as they go home to expand from their present 80,000 membership and. exert their influence on affairs of their communities, the nation and the world.

Antidote for Cynicism THIS CONVENTION WAS something such as was never seen before by this writer in 25 years of covering national and state political and other conventions. It was a fine antidote for the cynicism beginning to spread again through America and the world. The youngsters had to go through the same mechanics of all political conventions. They worked all night long in caucuses, and in platform, constitution and nominating sessions. They had to learn as they wenv along. But never was there such sincerity, such intensity, such eagerness, and consequently, such unruly sessions as they felt their way, speaking out as they went. There were no high jinks, no drunkenness or disorderliness, no dropping of paper bags full of water from 11th story hotel windows, no parades—nothing but business. : They had no time or inclination for anything else, They got their job done by sticking to it for four days, though sometimes it looked as if they wouldn't. Altogether, they were a group of ruggedly individualistic, independent, thinking young men and women and deadly in earnest that this worst of all wars shall not have been fought in vain. It would have been a fine thing if mature politicians in congress and in state government could have seen it all. For these youngsters mean business —and not maybe. In short, an old-timer wants to

throw his hat in the air and shout: “Hurray!” But there were some few professionals here, a tiny come here to

minority with Communist leanings, confuse, to work their way in. They worked at it ceaselessly. They had the advantage of experience.

—In north Korea, occupied by the Soviet army's 25th corps aggregating 200,000 troops, about 10,000,000 Koreans live under a new form of Asiatic communism introduced during occupation. Red Korea's “Tito” is Kim 11 Sung, 34-year-old, sparsely-educated guerrilla trained in the hard school of Chinese communism in Magchuria, In the customary interlocking directorate of Soviet power, Kim is chairman of the “Interim People's committee of Northern Korea,” fo which the Russians have given nearly all the functions of government, At the same time, he és chairman of the Communist party and also chairman of the “Democratic Fighting Front,” which is a merger between the Communists and the Chosun Democratic party.

Check and Double Check THIS LATTER PARTY began in the north as an independent but after the Soviet occupation it was immediately infiltrated by Communists. Its leader, Cho Man Sik, 66-year-old Y. M. C. A.-educated Presbyterian known as the “Korean Gandhi,” was thrown into house arrest where he rem today. Though Kim has been the viets' top choice since last December, they have a secondary check on his power through Moo Chung, 41-year-old Communist who fought in the Chinese 8th route army. Kim has been allowed only 2000 Korean paratroops. Kim and Moo are rivals for Soviet favor. The former represents the nationalist line of Communism versus the straight comintern type such as Moo's. As a double check on Kim, Moo has been given the post of vice-secretary of the Communist party, in charge of “purification.” Thus Moo can play Stalin to Kim's Lenin, \ Korean equivalent of the police bureau and the

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

SEOUL, June 18.

MILAN, June 18.—Although it's not yet known how extensive will be the powers of the president of the Italian republic, there are already a number of candidates for the post. The Christian Democrats, far {he largest party in the new assembly, do not have a clear majority. So the matter will have to be decided on the basis of a compromise between the largest parties. Strongest candidates are Ivanoe Bonom| and Vittorio Emmanuel Orlando, Bonomi has twice been premier of Italy, once before rise of Mussolini and once since his downfall, Orlando was premier at end of world war I and is last surviving member of the Big Four Who made the treaty of Versailles. Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George are dead, but Orlando, at 86, is still quite vigorous. Another possible choice for the presidency is Count Carlo Sforza, though the royalists hold him largely responsible for events leading up to defeat of the monarchy.

Majority Conservative SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PRESSING Premier Alcide de Gasperi to accept the presidency. There's no doubt he could have it if he wanted ii. But he's more interested in day-to-day politics. His party's vietory in the elections has greatly increased his authority, and his political abilities are dally becoming more widely appreciated.

straightway forgetteth what He's likely to give up the foreign ministry And take manner of man he was—James | over the minister of the interior instead. In Italy | 1:23.24. : these two ministries outshadow all others in im-

portance, .

The new foreign minister is likely to be Vice Pre-

mier Pietro Nenni or Giuseppe Saragaf, until recently

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Italian ambassador in Paris. Nennl has long been &

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fimes good men would not desert their private prac- |

been lawyers of distinction, .

REFLECTIONS . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By George Weller \ . . / . N h K 3 Little Russia’ in Northern Kore

N. K. V. D. is headed by Tchei yong Kon, Russian | Communist, who replaced the 3 Korean Gandhi as leader of the Chosun Democratic =

D. Hoover

owes his nomination. They say also that when a |

‘party goes out of office, the judge must go with it, =

regardless ot ability, Result has been that many

tices to perform this public service . . . and thus tpo |

many indifferent lawyers become judges.

Security of tenure would remedy this - ition, | as it has in the eden] bench ne hg og pointed for life. The federal! judges in Indiana have . . Benja leading member of the first state a ater vention; Jesse Lynch Holman, who read law with Henry Clay; Elisha Mills Huntington, who tried Indiana’s famous fugitive slave case; Caleb B. Smith who resigned as Lincoln's secretary of interior to become district judge here. Then there were David McDonald, Indiana university law professor and author of works on law, and Walter Q Gresham whose rulings in receivership law became basic in the statutes before he became President Arthur's post- | master general, and who returned to the bench after being secretary of the treasury for a short time, only | to resign to become Cleveland's secretary of ‘state.

Anderson Defied a President ITHIN THE MEMORY of the older I - day, there were William A, Woods, who AN yer -

elevated to the circuit bench; John H. Baker, one of

the state’s most popular judges and Albert B - derson, who defied President Theodore Roosevelt, whe the President attempted to exert political influence in the Panama Canal libel case, } Judge Robert B. Baltzell has kept u p the higl standards of the federal judiciary . . . a i Which is potent proot that security of tenure’ and reedom from politics create a body of jud are partisans only of the law, Nudges Who

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ommunist Influen

Their strategy was obvious. But they were lic

because the youngsters knew where they wanted to go.

It is to the credit of the leadership, including

Charles G. Bolte, national chairman; Gllbert Hariison, of Los Angeles, one of thé founders; Franklin D.

Roosevelt Jr.,, Oren Root Jr, and some others, that 1

they decided to meet this issue head-on, without compromise, and quash it, They did. All liberal organizations these days have this problem. This one, unifke some of the others, decided to face it squarely.

The issue was raised over the candidacy of Fréd- || erick Borden, of New York, an official of the national

Citizens Political Action Committee, as vice chairman,

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It was not this connection, but his association

with Lawrence Noble, executive secretary of the New |

York A. V. C. that caused it. When Mr. Noble was

elected to that office, he was accused openly in the ;

meeting by his opponent as being a Communist.

Mr. Borden developed an issue within the or--_

ganization for himself when he took exception to an : editorial written by Gilbert Harrison, setting forth 3 A. V. C. principles. The editorial was a progressive Mr. Borden thought it was too conserva- = tive, and began a personal and letter-writing cam-

statement.

paign against Mr. Harrison.

For a time, the Borden candidacy threatened to | The leaders decided to stand behind Mr. Harrison's candidacy. Mr. Borden with- | drew, and his support immediately shifted to a socalled “unity” candidate, Norris Helford, also of Los § . Angeles—a familiar technique. 5 the race, Robert White of Washington also with- =

split the convention.

A third candidate in drew. In the showdown, Mr. Harrison won,

Off to Clean Start

THE LEADERSHIP RECOGNIZED the difficulty of their position, realized they would be accused of = But they decided to accept it forth-

“Red-baiting.” rightly, They were aware of forces which don't like

A. V. C. because of its progressive principles, and J they wanted no stigma of communistic influence to = confuse their position on issues of the day. The gon-

vention likewise defeated various moves of the party-

liners to get platform declarations that would be

harmful.

It was a hard, clean fight, and a credit to the or- i ganization, getting it off to & fine and healthy start. 3

and Chinese-trained

party. Like Kim, he was appointed by the people’s com- § mittee. Tchei and Kim got their battle training

together under the Chinese in the old Communist 1st J

route army in eastern Manchuria.

Almost all directors of the police and secret police 3 in Red Korea have been trained either in the Nanking §

revolutionary school, in the special military school § or ' with the 3

for Koreans in Communist Yenan, Chinese Communists in Manchuria.

The police see that the principal newspapers keep g Pheir articles bear such =

closely to the party line. fascinating titles as:

“World economic cycles have been falling since 1 the war ended and only the U. 8S. 8. R. is rising,” and 3 “How can we ever repay the Soviet Red army, which ©

has suffered wounds exterminating the defeated Japanese, in place of our peace preservation corps, which is inexperienced?” The Sovietized police require that all radios, shortwave trahsmitters and receivers, public address

systems and tubes must be registered with the com- |

munications bureau of the Peoples’ committee,

Few Freedoms Preserved

ON APRIL 25, the Soviet announced that “From

now on terrorists, traitors and, other malicious elements will be especially executed by hanging. Other offenders will be shot in order that their deaths may

be less painful.”

Nowhere in the list of Soviet Korea's aims are ] freedom of speech, assembly or movement named or |

recognized.

Randolph Churchill

champion of Socialist co-operation with the Communists. ‘Saragat, however, returned from Paris and, at a Socialist conference.in Florence which preceded the elections, pefsuaded the party to have a separate list of candidates. In the new assembly, theré will be a small but clear-cut majority for the forces of the right and center. The left consists of approximately 100 Communists, 120 Socialists, and 10 members of the Action party--in all, about 230. The right and center can muster some 200 Christian Democrats, about 40 members of the Democratic Union (the party led by four elder statesmen, Orlando, Bonomi; Francesco Nitti and Bernedetta Croce), 30 followers of Guglielmo Giannini’s Qualunque movement, 12 members of the royalist Freedom party, and 24 of Count BSforza's Republicans, This last party had only one plank in its platform-—creation of a republic. It is likely to

settle down slightly to the right of the Christian 7

Democrats. Thus the forces of the right and center amount to a little over 300 and have a majority of about 75

over the leftists. It is by no means certain that the |

Socialists always will vote with the Communists.

Right May Show More Confidence FROM THIS ANALYSIS, it's clear that Italy has nothing to fear from communism in. the immediate future. During the last two years, Italian politics have been bedevilled by the fear of communism which is almost as dangerous a political disease communism itself. . * Now that the Communists have been so plainly checked, one may expect to see the parfies of the right and center exhibiting more self-confidence than they have in the past ow ! on

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