Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1947 — Page 14
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THEM COME TO SEE US
SECRETARY MARSHALL has acquitted himself well on " his mission to Moscow. The Soviets should be convinced by now that we aren't going to pay $10 billion or any lesser sum for their consent to a unified control plan for If here are to be any more meetings of the Big Four, it should be left to Russia to initiate them. And our-par-ticipation should be predicted upon definite assurances that Premier Stalin is ready to talk business with us. ‘Mr. Marshall has made it clear to the Soviets that we aren't having any more Yaltas or Potsdams, much:less an- ~ "®other Munich, and the Kremlin may require some time to ponder, and to adapt its policies to, that hard fact. i Meanwhile, we hope that Secretary Marshall, on hig return, will sit down at his desk and conduct his future
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tiations abroad to his deputies. And pressing business demands his presence in this country. » . ® % - * Que occupation policies in Germany, Austria, Japan and Korea, and our relief activities in Europe and Asia should be brought into harmony with the-“Stop-Commu-nigt-Aggression” program in Greece and Turkey. LatinAmerican relations require attention. The state department itself needs to be purged of disloyal and discordant elements. We haven't had a full-time secretary of state in Washington since the end of the war, and a firm hand will be needed at the helm for a long period. Anyway, our Presidents and secretaries of state now have gone to Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, Moscow, London
got the feel of things now, he should be able to entrust nego- |.
Hoosier Forum
"| do not agree with = word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
and Paris. Some return visits are in order. Transacting our business at the home stand may get better results than | sitting in the other fellow’s waiting room. | Our latchstring should be out to all comers, but our | position in the world is such that we can write our own ticket, and the time is here to be doing it. :
A REAL PEACE CONFERENCE
T= farcical proceedings at Moscow provide convincing evidence that the Council of Foreign Ministers is not the proper vehicle to bring understanding and stability to . troubled Europe. ~The Soviet veto consistently has killed every constructive proposal looking toward settlement of pending problems. © But where the Big Four powers have failed in their negotiations, perhaps a general, democratic conference of all allied nations willing to attend would succeed. That possibility should be considered seriously. The Soviet Union and its satellites undoubtedly would boycott such a conference, which would exclude from its jurisdiction areas controlled by the Slav-Communist bloc. But wishful thinking will not change that situation. Europe of the Axis days presently is divided into two rival spheres of influence, and two years of effort to break down the iron barriers between them has failed. Freezing the present occupational zones where they are is not to be desired, but if that is inescapable we must . accept things as they are. A strong peace offensive by the democracies, however, eventually might break the log jam * which an appeasement policy hasn’t as much as budged.
ITHOUT the embarrassment of Russia’s exorbitant reparations demands, we would be free to offer peace terms to Germany, Austria, Italy and the enemy Balkan. states which would pull the Jug from under the Communist movements in those countries. The Soviets then would find their position difficult, if not untenable. An allied agreement immediately releasing all prisoners of war outside the Soviet Union also would put the Russians in an awkward position. Rumors are current that hundreds of thousands of Germans and Austrians have died from mistreatment in Russia's slave-labor camps. This may explain Russia's reluctance to release those who survived and who might bring back the whole ugly story. We hold some of the best cards, if we play them right. Isn’t the right way an Allied peace conference, where all nations that declared war against the Axis could meet on an equal footing, dedicated to draft a peace based upon the principles of the Atlantic Charter? We have tried the Russian way. Why not the Ames ican way?
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A GENUINE jewel of consistency comes from President | Truman's council of economic advisers, which has been | urging price cuts hy business. Chairman Edward G. Nourse asks congress to slash |
to take back $77,000 of its appropriation for this fiscal ear. The taxpayers will save $110,000. That's welcome. Even more welcome is the example set by a federal agency voluntarily reducing government | costs—by economic doctors willing to take the same medi- | cine they prescribe for other people. Business should cut the prices of its goods and services wherever possible. But, until Chairman Nourse spoke up, federal department and bureau heads seemed unanimous in the attitude that it's outrageous for congress _to try to the price of government.
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ERE’S THE G. 0. P. LEADERSHIP?
DER the legislative reorganization law congress is #7 supposed to decide on the general limits of, the budget Feb. 15 each year. : The house of representatives voted for a $31. 5 billion et on Feb, 14.
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termination with the brave response:
Side Glances—By Galbraith
$88,000 from the council's budget for next fiscal year, and |
. |“WALLACE MERELY STOOGE [FOR FELLOW TRAVELERS" | By Edward F. Maddox I cannot understand the censor-
| ship policy of American editors who give wide publicity to proCommunist propaganda, fill their |
"We Should Be Proud of Clean. Improved State Capitol Building"
By HERBERT F. MITCHELL, 538 S. Harding st. Seldom in reading articles pertaining to the state house management do I find anything encouraging to the men who give their finest thought and all of their energy, to improve conditions of those working within the walls—and of the public in general, who necessarily find it obligatory to visit the buildings in which the state of Indiana places all operational activities. I believe it only fair to thank those responsible for many and vast improvements, so recently obvious. ; The Tims will espisin in an Study the newly reconstructed entrance on Capitol ave. look Bdtor's Note." Are around the second, third and fourth floors, admire She Soericlons: take muzzled to. appease Mostow? A joy over the wonderful beautifi-|
cation of all entrance doors, stroll “DONT BE MISLED recent contributor to the Hoosier
- Forum put Henry Wallace and around the wonderfully improved BY BELL PROPAGANDA Tryvge Lie in the same political
and Henry Wallace and deny | American citizens the right to voice | their views in defense.of American | principles. Maybe the editor of
By B. C. G., Indianapolis . y gorunds, glance up at the never- During the past few weeks our [ee Maybe Sat . Why before cleaned windows. Folks, we’ : .. Mr. Lie was acceptable e |representatives have sought 0 Communists. Mr. Editor, you have
should be proud. To the superintendent 6f buil ings and property, Harold C. Shulke, telephone monopoly. should go credit for his courage and 'cent wages and adequate conditions.
& negotiate a new contract. with the given the opponents of President We seek de- Truman's aid the Greece, Turkey and other nations menaced by Communist agress, free access to the Hoosier Forum. Now will you give Instead it seeks '0'an American citizen, who favors {take from us the few conditions we Mr. Truman's policy of -aiding now enjoy. ‘nations menaced by Communist Wages in this vital industry are aggression, the same right to voice far too low. Average wages are| his views in your paper? $43.19. This is less than the na-| Well, Henry Wallace is merely the : tional. average for manufacturing stooge and spokesman for the felBY L. Patton. Saviertnille iiss} workers. The thousands of tele- low travelers of the Communist 0 ean resis! 2 pang {phone operators average even less, line, so why give his Red propaand sympathy as he follows the siarting rates run from $21 to $29. |ganda any special notice? Henry wretched trek of the handful of It normally takes eight years to! | Wallace was fired by Mr. Truman Jewish refugees who escaped Hitler's reach the top level of $36 to $39. for his pro-Communist attitude crematory, only to find themselves| A. T. & T. is rich. Last year it and now Mr. Wallace is demonnow prisoners of the world, without earned a net of $215 million. It strating by his actions that Mr. country, without home, without pays a $8 dividend on millions of Truman had good reason to ask for future. shares. .It laid off 185000 of us his resignation from his cabinet. ‘ This handful is all that is left of in depression to pay this dividend.|Mr. Truman had the misfortune to the millions that faced Hitler's cam- (It treats its officials well. Its presi-|find his administration packed with paign of intolerance, torture and ex-|dent will receivé a pension of over| radical left - wingers and fellow $90,000 per year after he retires. The| travelers. “I am a Jew. I want to live a Jew|Bell System is a monoply and conand I want to rear my childrenitrols this industry. It has an|Nations was also packed with the Jews.” obligation to the whole community|same element. No wonder Russia Certainly the undaunted spirit of to provide model wages and condi-|.qn get by with almost anything— these people is something that de-|tions. This union seeks to better|por stooges are everywhere. Henry serves to survive in the world. Yet| conditions now. Help us to force Wallace is seeking to turn England we find them prisoners on the[the telephone trust to bargain in against the friend —the United barren island of Crete, not wanted good faith. It is with regret that States—which has saved England by the British Empire, not wanted|we halt telephone service. Our twice in 30 years from subjugation by the United States, and denied the |union wants a reasonable and peace- | by Germany and which is now the | home promised them in Pales'ine. ful settlement. Any stoppage willl ony nation which can save EngThey look vacantly at the ocean be because a haughty corporation 15g France, Greece, Turkey, China and the bare rock around them,|denies us justice. If the “voice with | Korea, and all of Furope and Asia wondering how much more heart-|a smile” is gone for awhile we ask from Communist ag ion and break, misery, torture and despair a your indulgence. Don't be mis- totalitarian slavery gress cruel world will inflict upon them. |led by the propaganda of the Bell Henry Wallace is laying Stalin's Why are we Christians if it is not monopoly. Remember we are your game. He is ry Bo at ah to help such unfortunate souls as neighbors and seek only a square | American spokesman. Did Stalin
on J these? , deal. | and communism lift a finger to help France or England when Hitler attacked them? No. The Communists had a pact with Hitler |then. England and France had better wake up.
| - Editor's Note: e: No, no muzzle, " » » “VOTERS SHOULD KNOW CANDIDATES’ PLATFORM” By East Side Veter, Indianapolis When the candidates for mayor
were introduced and allowed to {speak at the luncheon last week, {John Schumacher was the only 'man who presented a platform. Election day is a short time away.
| Every conscientious voter needs to {know what a prospective mayor |stands for and intends to do. For | what are the other candidates waitling? Mr. Schumacher’s platform shows thought and foresight. Those [10 points are timely and pertinent. Indianapolis has a large enough population to be a big city so let's nominate and elect a mayor who will make the necessary changes to. really “put Indianapolis on the map” as a progressive, clean, safe and pleasant city. From all I have seen and heard 50 far it seems to me that ‘John | 8chumacper will and should be the [Peoples choice, ;
DAILY THOUGHT
accomplished. Definitely this type a single issue. of effort is worthy of unyielding support. Thanks a million, keep up! the good work, Harold.
DESERVES TO SURVIVE ”
Jenate voted for a $33 billion budget March 3.
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holding meetings, . 4Congress hasn't olicar 6 in contivl in both
n'the question of how large the budget shall |
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THE BIGGEST fish ever caught around here was the one hooked by William Hein in 1897, just below the dam at Broad Ripple. Fortunately Mr. Hein's account of the adventure is still a matter of record. It's as good ws anything in the Odyssey and & darn sight more believable. | “I just had a common pole,” said Mr. Hein, “and a line with a crawfish on the hook I wus usin’ all day. I hadn't any luck since mornin’, for the city folks wuz trampin’ up and down the river and yellin' around and ‘tryin’ to keep their kids from fallin' in and I thought I'd wait a leetle for things to quiet down. thinkin’ I could eet a bass or somethin’, maybe, when I started to pull up to see if my bait wus all right. ; “I give the pole a leetle yank and the hook wuz caught. pulled the pole down close to the water to get fit thinkin’ the hook had got snagged on a log and pulled a leetle to get it loose, maybe, but it wouldn't come loose. “The water was about seven feet deep and I was afeared I'd have to break the line. I didn't want to do that for lines cost money.
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“I LAID DOWN the pole and caught the line with my hands and began pulling real easy. I felt it give a leetle as though I had hooked a piece of log and wuz draggin’ it through thé water. Thinks I, ‘well .I-guess I'll get my hook all right if I be
saw _as ‘thie water got shallerer that I had what looked like a piece of log about four feet long. “I wuz standin’ at the edge of the water and leanin’' over, pullin’ as easy as I could. I had out still about 12 feet of line and could see the log plain now, for the water wuz only about two feet deep when, all of a sudden, the darn thing gave a flop and sent the water five feet high. “Then I knew it wuz no log at all. It must be alive and I wasn't afeard of nawthin' alive I ever
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seen in the water, so 1 laid the pole oh waits down the river about 10 feet and jumped in. I waded in between the thing, that is between it and the deeper water, I could see plainer then and it hadn't moved after that one big flop. “I wuz within six feet of it when it moved a Iétie toward the shore and wus in water only 18 inches deep. I knew I must be quick, so I fell forward and grabbed the thing with both hands, By liek I got one hand on its gills and wrapped both of my legs around it. Then begansthe fun. ‘. “There we were, the fish and me, in ho more than a foot of water and me layin’ down with my legs wrapped around it and it fightin’ like a shark In deep water. I couldn't use one hand at: all, for, it wuz in its gills and for a few minutes it was nip’ and tuck, i
Flounderin' in Water
“SOME FELLER came along the bank just them and seen me flounderin' around in the water. He thought I had a fit, 80 I guess, or wuz hooked on a line or somethin’, for he grabbed the pole and triea to pull me out. I yelled to drop the pole and help me, but he just stood still lookin’ like a durn fool. “Finally gfter I wuz tired out I got the other hand In its other gill and I knew I had him, 1 rolled over on top of him and got on my knees. In a minute I had him dragged out.” No doubt some of the old-timers remember the monster. For the better part of a week it was exhibited in a barrel in front of Henry Smith's restaurant on N. Illinois at, in that part of town called Lo Levee. The? fish was a Mississippd river ad cat weight ing 33 pounds and not an ounce less.” It was four feet long with a mouth thAt measured eight inches across. As for its whole head, it had a circumference of 18 inches. Nothing more wicked ever came out of White river. Even more amazing was the fact that Mr, Helin was a midget of a man weighing only 87 pounds. Except for his full beard, he might have been taken for a kid. It's immaterial to me whether vou believe the story or not. It's true.
Marquis Childs
Loyalty Probe Causes Deep Concern
"WASHINGTON, April 21.—The other day, a dele- { | gation of the American-Civil Liberties union from | New York called cn Atty. Gen. Tom Clark to ex- | press their deep concern over the loyalty investiga- | tion which was initiated by executive order of Presi- | dent Truman. | Their fears are like those of many Americans who { realize that a Kind of gestapo could grow out of this | attempt to root out disioyal employees of the government. | After the order was issued, President Truman is { reported to have said: “Well, that should take the { Communist smear off the Democratic party.” It may have that effect. But it can cut two ways politically. If the loyaty search develops into a vast {and costly witch-hunt, it can alienate independent and liberal voters, and it is on these voters that the | President's chance for re-election depends. Mr. Clark is acutely aware of the thorny problem that has been dropped into his lap. It is his responsibility to determine standards in that part of the | program which has the most ominous possibilities of abuse by any future gestapo-minded administration
Extreme Reactionaries
IN THE SECTION of the order defining standards, one of the recommended tests of disloyalty is: “Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic assocation with any foretign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons, designated by the attorney general as totalitarian, Fascists, Communist or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the comag of acts of force or violence to deny other pereir rights under the constitution of the United remy or as seeking alter the form of governmen. of the United States by unconstitutional means.” Language as broad as that could be subject to almost any kind of interpretation. Following this precedent, a left-wing administration might in the future find the National Association of Manufacturers to be a subversive organization. Or an extreme reactionary in the White House might have his attorney
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NEW YORK, April 31.—T used to have an itching foot and a keen eye for other people’s pastures. But since reading a handy brochure put out by the New Haven railroad, I'm not going anywhere, at least nowhere in the eastern seaboard. Too risky. . As you may have suspected, a long and catty squabble has beén in progress between the railroads and the airlines. Each has been trying to insinuate | that travel on the other 1s a death sentence—one by violence, the other by boredom. The train technique is to smirk and hint indelicately that the plane traveler, even if they don't actually have to pick him out of a peak, is a 10-1 bet to be grounded by weather. Along these lines the New Haven R. R. has just oversold a point. They have made such a firm argument against travel in these parts that I wouldn't even dare use the New Haven R R.
Sky Ripped by Lightning E RAILROAD has issued, as a propaganda weapon, a little booklet called “rain, fog and snow chart for ready reference in planning business trips.” This title is splashed across a violent tableau depicting storm over New England. The sullen sky is ripped by lightning, cresshatched by driving rain, or it could be sleet. Inside, against a backdrop of blizzard over New England, a headline leaps from a forked flash of lightning to say “uncertain Weather one out of three days. . . ." Then there is a chart showing what lousy weather we had in New York, Hartford and Boston for three years. Rain is a blue square, snow is red, heavy fog is green and black is reserved for a combination of snow, rain and heavy fog. Result is a checkerboard of angry colors. As far as I can make out, we had very little but rain, snow, fog, smog, sleet, hail, gale, blizzard hurricane ‘and electric storms for -all of New England in
WORLD AFFAIRS By Wi
WASHINGTON, April 21:~Unless peace is soon concluded at, Moscow: or elsewhere, with Russian cooperation if possible but without it if necessary, the results to both the United States ‘and Britain will be disastrous. This is the inevitable conclusion drawn from an exhaustive study of Britain's plight as set forth in a special edition of London's widely circulated weekly Post. The government should have undertaken the job of spelling it out to the people, it says. But “if the government does not put the situation fully and clearly to the country, the papers must.” So, withdut mincing words, the ‘Post does it.
Standard of Living “LORD LYTTON, Sir George Schuster, Lord Forrester and others contribute to the symposium, and Sir Henry Banbury sums: it up. The nature of the British crisis, he observes, is entirely new. Never before has Britain had to export more goods than she imports. If she doesn’t, he says, “Our standard of living must be reduced even below present levels.” But Sir Henry makes. it, evident that Britain cannot lift herself by her. bootstraps. “International co-
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general rule that an association advoeating world government was subversive, x Realizing these fearsome possibilities, Atty. Gen. Tom Clark is seeking some way to assure the public that a fair test will be applied in determining which are totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or subversive organizations. One plan now under consideration is to name, on 1 wholly non-political basis, a committee of three or four men of distinguished reputation and careful judgment. They would be asked to check .and to approve or disapprove the findings of the department of justice. The list of disloyal organizations would then be yiven out. In that way anyone would know that his membership in one of these organizations would subJect him to dismissal from the government. Mr. Clark is also aware that there are decisions of the supreme court which hold that mere membership in an organization is not enough to prove that the individual was subversive: it must be shown that he embraced the doctrine of the organization. There are also the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ magnificent words in his dissenting opinion in the Rosika Schwimmer case: . If there is any principle of the constitution that ‘more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought-—not free thought for those who agreé with us but freedom for the thought that we hate ™ :
Can't Ignore Canada THE PROBLEM in the loyalty search will be to distinguish between fredeom of thought and outright disloyalty. The tragedy is, of course, that fear has driven ys 0 such lengths. We in this country cannot, however, ignore what happened in Canada. There, through the revelations of a Soviet agent, it was discovered that government employees in responsible positions were handing out secret and confidential information. But to find that needle of treason in the haystack of government is’ a painful and almost impossible undertaking. It is'‘one, moreover, which jeopardizes the liberties that we prize.
REFLECTIONS « + « By Robert C. Ruark Propaganda Travels a Bit too Fast’
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1048, 1944 and 1945. A clear day, depicted in white, crept into the chart once or twice a month, but obviously uncomfortable, fled to make way for a combined hail-and-snowstormi. “When you've got to get there” says the R. R., _ indicating that no one in his right mind would wany to go to Boston except in case of direst emergency, “take the train. Notwithstanding the uncertainty of the weather your trip can be planned with greater reliability if it is on the New Haven R. R.”
Got Emergency Rations Packed? THIS SORT of hesitant prose tells me that the New Haven people have succeeded in scaring themselves, like. little boys telling ghost stories on a ‘baleful night. You catch a sort of valiant resignation to the worst. ‘You very likely won't get through, old man,” the N. H. R. R. is saying bravely: “But by god, sir, if anyone can do it, we can. Have you got your emergency rations secyrity packed?” I'm convinced, New Haven. What you have just sald, in your gloomy chart, is that New England is no fit place to visit, and that there is little point in coming to New York, because you'll probably be snowbound all the time you're there, anyhow. I hope, however, that everybody doesn’t feel as I do, because if that's true, then you have just put yourself out of business. An awful lot of chamber of commercers are going to be more than mildly
"annoyed at you for smirching the reputation of their * fair cities.
If the tourist trade to New York and Cape Cod and those quaint’ little towns in ine and Vermont goes to pot, it's your fault, New Haven raliroad, with your voice of doom "and your lightning-sundered skies, } “Bo, leaving you with that thought, New Haven R. R., I hope.you won't mind if T just rush off to a hot bath and ‘three aspirin. Merely looking st your charts has started the sniffles again.
liam Philip Simms
Chaos Forecast Unless Peace Is Signed
a team, each delivering a full day’s work at the patticular job designated as most helpful to the national effort. Second, the world must be induced to buy more British goods. This presupposes expanding foreign. markets such as the Far East would be if Asia's enormous potentialities properly were developéd. Which brings the story back to the opening thesis, namely. that early peace is vital to Britain's revival, Otherwise, the United States eventually will find if necessary to go to her aid with new credits much as it is now doing in the case of Greece.
Ease National Problem
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world market in which the products of the natigns are exchanged,’| Sir Henry says, “would greatly ease our indeed, it is probable that it can be permanently solved only in that way.” In other words, Asia and the rest of the world quickly must return to even better than normal. if Britain, then ourselves and dem cies everywhere comeback. If: the present chaos*contifiues, first Britain, then ourselves and genineragies §rerywherse will hit the toboggan. | Chaos aids communism. ‘This may be ‘the secret Wo year Blibuster against
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