Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1947 — Page 14

BIG JOB JS AT HOME ~~ . YT is unfortunate that Gen. Marshall must pack for a trip % to Moscow to discuss German and Austrian settlements, almost as he hangs up , ment. Ho was to take the oath of office in the White House today, but inclement weather delayed his plane in Chicago. He is due in Moscow March 15. a © Secretary Byrnes took office under almost identical circumstances, and thereafier spent more time in London, Paris and Moscow than in Washington. He could not give. tnuch attention to the state department itself, which during fhe war had become a house divided, as it still is. \ We have no consistent, co-ordinated world policy, and we will not have one until the department is reorganized, iented and rejuvenated. Roo The a position is confused in various parts of ¢he world, particularly in the Far East and Latin America, because of biased, “off-the-cuff” policy-making by the too-independent geographic cells into which the department is divided for operating purposes. This confusion is compounded by feuds and intrigues within these divisions, and between the divisions and their representatives in the

field.

© The practice of using sections of secret and confidential foreign service reports out of context as weapons of office politics has become so notorious that state department “leaks” are the subject of invidious comment in every foreign capital. : *! Quite apart from this bad situation, which neglect is pot improving, the department is not geared to cope with fhe problems of the post-war world, and its personnel weak-

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Besses are as glaring as its deficiencies in organization. : ‘. 8 B® s 8 =» I SSENTIALLY, we need a team, and teamwork. We have “4 been trying to operate through a secretary of state who Bas had to do business out of a traveling bag. { Gen. Marshall won renown as the master organizer who put together the gréatest fighting machine in our history. ew, if any, Americans should be better equipped for a | g in the state department. Most vital of all, should be able to instill in the department an essential y to authority and the nation, and a prevailing spirit that will be American and proud of it. #¢ As William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor, has remarked, “what amazes foreign diplomats _in Washington most of all is the feeling of national inferiority which often seems to underly this country’s relations with foreign powers.” Nowhere is that feeling more apparent than within the state department. * +. Obviously, if our salesmen do not believe in their product, they will do a poor job of selling our ideals to others. .' | If Secretary Marshall must go to Moscow we hope he can state the American position on the pending settlements | and then leave further duties there to trusted assistants for a while. For we can’t help feeling that the big job to be done Here at home urgently needs his personal attention. It is altogether probable that we would get better results in the field if we were operating from a firmer, better established base in Washington. ; The new secretary of state has been retired from the &rmy, preliminary to the ceremony scheduled for today.

“REORGANIZED CONGRESS”

SENATOR BREWSTER of Maine is spreading himself rather thin. - He is a member of the senate finance committee, which will have a lot to do on budget and’ tax matters. He is a member of the senate interstate and foreign commerce committee, which handles legislation affecting land, sea and air transport and communications. And he has been suggested for chairman of its subcommittee to investigate what's eausing all the plane crackups.

And, if senate Republican leaders have their way, which seems likely, Mr. Brewster will be chairman of the special ..Sena¥e war investigating committee, which is to continue its work of uncovering frauds in war contracts. It is argued that this special committee is justified because members of the. armed" services committee, which might ‘logically assume jurisdiction, are too closely and uncritically tied to the army and navy for a really tough investigation.

There may be enough merit in that argument to warrant making an exception to the general principle of the La Follette-Monroney act that standing committees should not be weakened by assigning their chores to special committees.

ness committee. So far as we can see, it's primary purpose i§ to give Senator Wherry of Nebraska a chairmanship. They had a small business committee in the last con- . gress. It was just a boondoggle. Almost any legislation - handled by the labor committee, the banking and currency committee or the finance committee would affect small business. Theres no more reason—beyond the political reason . —for a small business committee than for a big business committee. : If the senate goes on with this policy of creating special ttees, what's to prevent a special committee for oil, for wool, another for silver, ad infinitum.. And soon

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iE Gideons will go down in history as a group of busi‘messmen who bring the Bible to the attention of thou- | who otherwise might never see it. They place Bibles | rooms, on planes, ocean liners, in hospitals, prisons | posts: Yesterday, 3000 Gideon Biblés were he use of voluntary religion classes for Inon release time from the public schools, | ' the Scriptures the Gideons ever

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advice and not assuming to do so he is called a philanthropist. W. H./ Coleman's name should go down in| history as Indiana's great humani- | » . . “GEORGIA MIXUP COULD HAPPEN HERE IN INDIANA" By BR. 4. V., Franklin The state attorney general says the situation of two governors claiming power at once isn't likely to happen in Indiana. But it could, as Victor Peterson's story in The Times pointed out. Indiana law, like Georgia's simply provides that the retiring governor shall serve until his successor is qualified. It has no more provision than the Georgia law as to whom shall succeed if the elected governor should die before taking office. It seems to me that the state | legislature should act to end all | possible dispute, by specifically pro- | viding that in case of the death of {the - elected governor - before his inauguration the elected lieutenant 'goverfior shall succeed. | a = n | “POLL VETERAN OPINION a MILITARY TRAINING” By J. B. Cleece, Indianapolis ;

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY C. I. O. counsel joined in the John L. Lewis contempt suit by filing a brief with jhe supreme court and the newspapers. The brief didn't disclose how much contempt the C. 1. O. has for John L. # . »

justices have been fighting lately, it looks like they must be wearing boxer shorts under those black robes. # ” ” Congress is going to investigate the airline crashes. Maybe they will try to repeal the law of gravity. » ” . London ~ dispatches said that Henry A. Wallace had agreed to visit England “in prineiple.” That may be better than “in person.” ” » - G. O. P. presidential candidates are busy now giving their views on budget cutting. As 1948 draws nearer they will shift over to

threats. . - - in Moscow. ¥ield Marshal Montgomery came away with an $8000 sable coat from the classless world.

“most.” If the law makers were as sure as you appear to be, they would pass such a law. But they know that a great many organiza-

militaristic manner of the Legion and like groups who would expose

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fool yourself nor try to fool gullible | readers by employing the old ad-|

vertising frick of stating that “most all that is what we do not want for | iversal. military boys of 17 and 18. Poll the veterans | (training” with the emphasis’ on |

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gets of the poor drivers and you speed demons can have the streets.

The law I'm proposing would require everyone who carries an umbrella to get a license as a safe umbrella carrier. Tests could be given to determine whether a person carrying one of those lethal wet-weather weapons has all the safety rules in mind that would prevent tearing other people's eyeballs* out, knocking their hats off and gouging them in the ear with the rib of an umbrella. And I might add that women are the worst offenders. Especially when two are huddled under an umbrella’ and jabbering away. They don’t care where they walk, they're oblivious of everything and everyone on the sidewalk and don’t seem to give two hoots where they're going as long as their hats are dry. Blind umbrella carrying is. very dangerous. The city which is moving to do a lot of good with respect to gambling, cheating, political conniving, and horse betting should take cognizance of stupid umbrella carriers. +

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“UNIVERSAL TRAINING IS GOOD DEFENSE INSURANCE” By Pacific Veteran, Southport ’ { I read with’ interest the state{ment of the American Legion official in the Forum stating that the majority of people favor universal military training. I believe he is

From my own personal experience, I have seen the price this country has paid because it wasn't | prepared, and that applies not only

| I have seen regimentation, too, in !|Japan where every schoolchild !||wore a military style uniform and '|had his name sewed on his blouse. |The sponsors of universal military '| training don't want that kind of regimentation. They want every {male trained to do his part if he has to. . | One thing about that kind of a program is that there wouldn't be exemptions for people whose parents had full, or deferments for occupational ‘reasons. There was entirely too much of that in the last war. At times, it looked to us boys overseas like a slick kind of draft-dodging, and we didn't like it a damn bit. Universal training is. good defense insurance.

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of badges. Then camé more police, and a band which led up to the Indlajavcity Light Infantry, commanded ‘by Capt. . It was a grand build-up for the presidential « drawn by six enormous Percherons, the prize exhibit of C. FP. Schmidt's brewery. If I remember correctly, the presidential carriage contained the President and Mrs. Cleveland and included the yenerable ex-Senator McDonald and Mayor Caleb 8. Denny (a Republican). Except for Mr, Denny, it was the most impressive turnout of Democrats Indianapolis ever had up to that time— and, indeed, of all time, the way things have worked out since then. Immediately following the President's carriage came the executive ‘committee led by Mr. Frenzel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—In the dispute over whether the senate should continue the old warinvestigating committee, the life of another special committee was also at stake. That was Senator James E Murray's small-business group, which has been both an econdmic and a political forum attract--Small business is a phrase to conjure with. It invokes the hopes and fears of small industrialists and businessmen who are feeling the pinch of bigbusiness competition. That is particularly true now, since the centralizing force of the war and the spending of billions of government money made the big boys bigger and more powerful. \

Newsprint Supply Investigated SHORTLY AFTER CONGRESS convened, Senator

charged States and Canada with fixing a uniform price. Shortly before the small-business committee's hearings into the newspaper business were to start, the Republicans ordered a halt. They pointed out that there was some doubt whether the committee

MONTREAL, Jan. 20.—I am thinking of taking out citizenship papers here, for a purely selfish reason. It's one part economics, and maybe one part spiritual, but basically it's selfish. It's easy to feel like a big shot in Canada today, especially after living in the United States, because of one odd thing: The consumer, the man with a couple of bucks in his pants, is regarded as a nice person who rates a run for his money.

Patronage Is Appreciated

FANCY THE FELLOW who comes to buy, clutching some limp bills in his moist paw, not stoned by the sellers. Nor insulted for his temerity in wishing to blow his dough. People who have things to sel are actually pleased to see a customer. After a little bit, the newcomer begins to feel he is living in a ~dream-—a prewar dream, in which the small consumer was a big guy. : Rigid “controls enforced here—all but a few of which are stil] in effect—~have maintained the cost of eating, sleeping and keeping warm within the reach of the average man. While wages are a bit lower, price of basic commodities is still so low that the $40-a-week Canuck {is richer than the New Yorker who makes $80. This is the land of the $2 white shirt—remember the $2°white shirt, man? This is the land where one may still buy a pair of good broadcloth drawers for a buck. A hundred dollars is the monthly rate for a five-room apartment, and the landlords who

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—~What amazes foreign diplomats here most of all is the feeling of national inferiority which often seems to underly this tounFtry’s relations with other major powers. Before and after Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam and other conferences, the United States often has forsaken or only waveringly upheld vital American ‘prin-~ ciples when attacked. Every time we have stood our ground there always have been some who cried that we better not “get tough” lest some other nation get angry at us,

Mr. Landon Dots Some I's

LAST WEEK IN Minneapolis Alf M. Landon, 4 former Presidential candidate, dotted some “I's” and crossed a few “t's” He sald time had come for Americans to rediscover America. For, “in the hands and hearts of Americans rest the spiritual force and the instruments of power to bring about world tranquillity and lasting peace.” : Mr. Landon recalled that midway in the war a lot ‘single-handed while we were doing nothing. - Without detracting from the part she played, he suggested that we look at the record. = = Between 1040 and 1945, we produced 294,000 fighting planes; 100,000 ships; 6 million rifles; 5 million carbines; 4,500,000 machine guns; 37 billion rounds of ammunition for those guns; 85,000 tank guns; 55,000 units of fleld artillery; 71,000 mortars. = ° | ‘By way of ail to Russia in a little over three years we sent her, by air or in our own ships and

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Ignominious Fate of Decorations

BY THIS TIME it was .3 o'clock in the afternoon and all that remained for Mr. Frenzel was to put the President and his entourage on the train for St. Louis, By this time, too, everybody was ready to call it a day. However, the day wasn't done yet. That nigh at 10 o'clock we had a heavy rain accompanied by a

-high wind. Next morning all the gorgeous decorations

- service which was acceptable

of the Model Clothing store including the life-sise:

wax figure of Grover Cleveland wers floating In the

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IN WASHINGTON... By Marquis Childs ~ Small Business Committee Is Forum

would be continued. Later, Senator Kenneth 8, Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican who weuld probe ably fall heir to the chairmanship, indicated that, while the «Republicans might approve a newspaper inquiry, it would take a somewhat different direction than the one planned under the Democratic majority. 1 On the positive side the committee was ready to present witnesses who would give the details of a plan for ificreasing the supply of newsprint. One of these was to have been Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug. He had prepared the outline of 8 plan for tapping the vast forest of Alaska as a source of newsprint. Considerable effort went into the Krug agreement had been worked out with the forestry to the department of agriculture. rif -

The plan contemplated not merely - wood-prilp

~—production in -Alaska but possibility that newsprint

as well would be manufactured there. Two large private corporations had shown definite interest in constructing wood-pulp plants to use the power produced under XKrug’s proposed Alaska authority. 8a % 3 ¥ B08 de 2 Banh} % Wes ® 3.4 FTC Report to Be Issued IT 1S POSSIBLE that the Krug plan will still be made public. The newsprint shortage is as acute

as ever. Big publishing firms are scrambling to buy

newsprint mills. Whether the: plan will. be unveiled before the

“small-business committee Is a question. No matter

what happens to that committee and the newspaper investigation, the federal trade commission report on newsprint will soon be made public.

REFLECTIONS... By Robert C. Ruark ~ Canada Has Not Forgotten Courtesy

have attempted to graft by charging a fat sum te deliver the key have been hunted down and hit with the book. . Cost of a single steak was as much as $4.50 in’ some New York restaurants when I left—you can get one just as hig, just as juicy, for 60 cents in Montreal. Meatless Tuesday is still as rigidly observed now as during the war, even by the gaudy cabarets and the better hotels. : * Apart from prices, the things that hit me hardest

was the courtesy, broad courtesy and spoptaneous .

friendliness which has survived war and shortage economic abnormality. Living in large American cities, I had mostly forgotten about courtesy. Taxi drivers, even, have not yet learned it is fashe jonable to be condescendingly contemptuous of the customer. . The blackmail potential of the tipping racket has not yet penetrated the Canadian border. A man is

not blackjacked loose from his hat and coat and forced

to redeem it later, at gun point.

Out for a 60-Cent Steak

IT IS DEFINITELY CORNY of me, I suppose, to enjoy this kind of life, but enjoy it I do. I'm going to leave you right now to go eat amother 60-cent steak, and on the way back I'll stop and buy another half dozen shirts. White shirts made of broadcloth. At $2 each, messieurs et mesdamés, and a big smile from the clerk goes with each one.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Mr. Landon Cries— Wake Up America

tanks; 3200 armored scout cars; 2200 ordnance vee hicles; 52,000 jeeps; 363,000.trucks; 35,000 motorcycles; 8200 anti-aircraft guns; 135,000 submachine guns; 343,000 tons of explosives; 105 submarine chasers; 108 torpedo boats; 7600 marine engines; $320 million in mac tools; $250 million in oil, electrical and other m ery; 3,688,000 tons of steel, entire ) and so on. Meantime we were providing the British with even 30 per cent more than this, plus, of course, “h Mr. Landon finds these figures impressive, For, he reminds, we also put 12,000,000 persons into our own, armed services and raised approximately $400 billion in taxes and loans from our people. “Wake up America,” he cried, “you don’t know your own strength!” . Purposely, he said, he omittéd mention of the atomic bomb. Nevertheless, here stands America, strong like no other nation before it, “unaware of its muscle, unsure in its leadership without which world solutions ‘are impossible.” ie

Our Role a Simple One

YET, SAYS Mr. Landon, we have a role and a simple‘one. “With our strength goes responsibility.” We must realize that this strength derives not from communism, fascism, naziism, socialism and not from any totalitarian system, but from a mighty, free, come petitive system called democracy. : Second, we must realize that we can no longer iso-

late ourselves; that everything: that happens anye

where on earth affects us. And, finally, that “the

‘task of rediscovering America is the task of esch

us.” ‘We must not undersell ourselves.

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