Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1947 — Page 22

The Indianapo PAGE 22 Thursday, Oct. 16, 1947 ROY W, HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President Editor iS

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Why Stalin Fears Marshall Plan

STALIN has clarified the issue of American aid to Europe. He fears the Marshall plan so much that he not only boycotted it but brought his revived Comintern out in the open to sabotage it. He is accurate in judging the Marshall plan the best barrier against Soviet control of Western Europe. He knows hunger and chaos are his essential allies, He knows that a recovering Europe will never go Red. And he knows that Europe is so far down that she cannot recover without American food, fuel and machinery to help her help herself, .

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. nn : yn.» THERE are two smart propaganda methods to prevent such American aid. Stalin is using both. One is to frighten-Americans into thinking that help will be futile— that Europe is going Red anyway. The other is aimed to convince Europeans that American aid means enslavement to “Yankee capitalism.” : These Communist lies about alleged American con- | trol of Europe th.ough dollars and food are making some | headway, and for that reason our government by its acts and words should be careful to keep the record straight. On the record, the United States is not trying to impose its form of government on any other nation. It is not interfering in the internal affairs of others, It is defending the right of others to self-government, The obvious proof that we are not trying to impose our system is the aid we have given the Socialist governments of Britain and France. This infuriates Stalin. In his new Comintern propaganda he classes the Socialist leaders of Britain and France with American capitalism, And he is accurate at least in that, because the issue is not capitalism versus socialism but the right of each country to a free, democratic choice, This right we accord to communism no less than to socialism, If we were trying to overthrow communism in Russia, we would not have recognized the Soviet government years ago and we would not have helped it since, In our book, any nation has as much right to go Communist as capitalist, provided that is the free will of the majority— something that did not happen in Russia where a small minority seized power, and has not happened in any other gountry. While we do not oppose communism as such, for those who want it, we do oppose Communist penetration and aggression, On that specific condition we recognized the Soviet government, which gave its pledge not to interfere in offr country, Stalin has broken this pledge here and in every country where his agents operate. In weak countries close to Russia, he violates this pledge by military aggression as well as through fifth columns. » » » ¥ ~ » AMERICAN policy from the beginning has been* based on the assumption that the American system and Russian communism could both exist in the world peacefully. But Stalin was not willing to live and let live. He is more interested in Russian expansion and Red domination than in peace. The only American “interference” in the internal affairs of others is in protection of those majority rights to which Stalin is pledged but which he destroys. We insist that American relief shall not be used for partisan purposes, as the dictators.use it. We insist that reconstruction funds be used for the agreed purpose, not wasted by corrupt or inefficient officials. That is not enslavement but liberation—a brand of | help with which the Commies cannot compete. No wonder Stalin fears it, "¥

Austria Is on the List

USSIA is tightening her stranglehold on “liberated” Austria, strategic key to the entire Danubian-Balkan area. She illegally has removed four high Austrian police officials for refusing to obey Moscow orders and replaced them with Communist puppets. At the same time she has banned from her zone Austrian newspapers published in the American and British zones,

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WILL SHE LOVE ME, MOTHER?

“will she love me, Mother? My little son asked Before ‘he started to schoo] that day. Will she love me, Mother If I am good, And always try to obey?”

“Will she love me, Mother If I try real hard To do the things she wants me to, Will she love me, Mother If I am good? Love me, almost fs much as you?”

“Of course, she will love you,” I replied, “Because you will be good, Teachers always love little boys Who do the things they should.” ~JEAN CAMPBELL WOOLDRIDGE, e* .% 9 AT THE RISK OF SEEMING out of Tune With the Times: X For years have scorned farmers’ protests that chickens and cows could not adjust themselves to changing hours, Now 1 am definitely no longer a chicken nor, I hope, was I ever a cow--but neither can I. After giving standard time almost two weeks’ try, I still wake up at 6, which ought to be 7, and am deep for sleep by 8, which ought to. be § (or should they?) Count me in with the rural population when the subject comes up next year, ~DOROTHY KNISELY. » We're beginning to believe that the hens have found out how much masons are paid to lay bricks, Pe oo

As the last faint vestige of warm weather dallies, Over the hills and through the valleys, New beauty comes into view for miles, As mother nature “also” changes her styles.

~MILDRED CATHLEEN YOUNG, ©“ 2 A politician turns statesman when he concludes that his holding office isn't the most important issue confronting the country, > 9 2

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“In tune with the Times," With its colorful rhymes, Makes better reading Than columns of crimes, It's good for the spirit, In this day and age And we don’t care a bit If you print a whole page. ~IMA RHYMESLEN, ® & % It's a fine idea to stop buying things you can’t afford, but who wants to quit eating? ® & @

SOUR GRAPES IF YOU WILL

How exquisite! Cried the first visitor to the exhibit, Such imagery! ? Such imagination! Then the second visitor, whose thoughts on art Were still inchoate (and remained that way, incidentally), Pelt that it would be safe enough to say How exquisite! ‘ Buch imagery! Such imagination! . Which he did, Bo did the third visitor and the fourth And so on, Subsequently the picture Which represented a large brown egg perched on top of a pink Cat who was holding an electric light bulb and a razor between Her paws Was sold to a man for lots and lots of money And was hung in his home Where it was exclaimed over for awhile As being the dernier cri In something or other, DOROTHY LYON, 4

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IN WASHINGTON « « . By Peter Edson Rent Decontrol Gets Hot Again

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—The fight over rent controls is warming up again, this time from about 750

The Wolcott housing bill passed by the last Congress, which extended rent controls until Feb. 29, 1948, also provided that Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon should appoint five-member advisory boards to federal rent administrators in the 603 defense areas still having war-time ceilings on rents, Members of the boards were to be recommended to Creedon by the various state governors. To date, about 550 of these boards have been Some 750 will probably be appointed as many of the defense areas are being broken up locally along ward, borough or suburban lines. The law specifies that each board must be made up of representative citizens. no hoard shotld be weighted out of balance by haying a majority of tenants or landlords. Complaints on this point are flocking in. In Detroit it is claimed that the advisory board has too many real estate agents on it. In Chicago the claim is that too many aldermen and ward peliticians have been named to the boards.

Recommendations by December CREEDON HAS ASKED all local advisory boards to make their recommendations to him by midThat will give him time to prepare a report for Congress on whether rent controls should be extended beyond next Feb. 29. Fach board is empowered by law to study its local situation and make recommendations to the housing expediter on three things:

ONE: Whether or not rents in the area should be

The intent was that

TWO: Whether or not rents in the area should be

THREE: How to handle the hardship cases. Within 30 days from the time these recommendations are sent to Washington, the expediter must approve them or notify the local board why they cannot be approved. If a board recommends that rents in its area should be decontrolled and the expediter thinks they

overcome by new construction, or that there are ample vacancies. v If the local board recommends a general rent in-

crease for its area, it must prove that the landlords | — {| New Dealers squandered billions of dollars of our

are not able to meet expenses and show a profit at existing rates. All these 750 local advisory board reports will be raining down on Washington within the next month or so. Then's when the fun will begin. are in already. That from Louisville, Ky. recommending a general 5 per cent increase for all tenants, started an awful uproar. But since the local board evidently justified its recommendations, Expediter Creedon felt compelled by law to approve them, His OK of the Louisville boost is expected to spark off even more fireworks than did the local board's recommendation,

Looks Like Extension =

IN THE MEANTIME, Sen. C. Douglas Buck of Delaware and Rep. Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, who saw the present rent control law through the last Congress, have both indicated that it will have to be extended beyond Feb. 29, if the housing shortage is not relieved by that time. In spite of all the new houses that have been started this summer, that's as good as saying that rent control will have to be continued. Sen. Buck has introduced a new note into this tune, however. He says there may have to be some adjustment so as not to discriminate against those tenants who have “voluntarily” agreed to take a rent increase of up to 15 per cent, in return for a year’s lease, This voluntary rent increase provision of the new rent law hasn't been going very well, either. In July, first month under the new law, only 3 per cent of the 15,700,000 tenants in housing under rent control availed themselves of the privilege of paying more rent. In August another 3 per cent signed up. A report on September is due soon. October may run higher, as that's the traditional moving-day month. But, at the rate of 3 per cent a month, only 18 per cent of the renters will have signed up by the Dec. 31 deadline for such agreements. The other 82 per cent are apparently thumbing their noses at the

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Hoosier Forum. “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to sey it." .

It Costs to Get Bureaucratic Aid By John Alvah Dilworth, 8161; Broadway Tax in itself is only a minor item in the high cost of living. But when combined with those who wilfully evade paying their fair share of taxes not placing Farm Bureaus, who brag about a $30,-

‘ 000,000 annual business and who compete with

private business and enterprise and others who should be on the tax list, on it; unequallization of tax and city, county, state and federal spending for votes, through bureaucracies and otherwise, is a much more important factor. I would say the fourth cause of our high cost of living. However, the demand of the people for the federal government to intervene in problems of every community and every class is the underlying cause of government bureaucracies which are fast destroying “home rule” and representative govern ment—democracy in a republic.. Yes, democracy which everybody, nearly, proclaims his devotion to, , is fast fading away while we blame the bureauerat instead of ourselves for wanting something for nothing. Nature has endowed citizens with suf—grasp and sweep of intelligence - to demand that local elected administrative and legislative officials handle the multitude of local problems dumped upon congress. This is food for thought. . Furthermore, taxes to service bureaucracies and ~ the bureancrat and pay the interest on the debt . must eventually, so “why not now,” come out df

' our pockets much larger than if we operate on

the “down to earth” principle of local self-govern-ment. Let every class, desperate minority, group, trade association and union, state and town keep their problems at home because, as T interpret it, bureaucrat orders supersede any law opposed to it. The bureau or bureaucrat, as I understand it, enacts, enforces and sits as judge in interpreting its orders, When people stop thinking for themselves, or they try to get something for nothing, there is always someone willing to goose-step forward and do their thinking for them and get the money via higher taxes. What can, shall and will we do

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Truman and Feeney By Harry Clay, Brightwood

Well, well, 100k, who's talkine economy. Nobody

. else but President Truman and Al Feeney, Just

a few short years ago Roosevelt and his erack-pot

tax money and piled the greatest debt the world has ever known on our backs. They destroyed

Thev plowed under They killed off millions

millions of acres of cotton wheat, corn, oats and rye of pigs, cows and sheep. They pid millions to farmers for not preducing. And now Mr Truman has the gall to ask us not to waste but save all we can. And there's Al Feeney urying to make a mountain out of a mole-hill because the Republicans want to hire an architect for the proposed new City-County Building, For 14 years these two men watched Roosevelt and his braintrusters waste everything they could get their hands on yet I've never heard of either uttering even a feeble protest against it because about three million Democrats had good government jobs with nice fat salaries for doing practically nothing. Consise tency thou art—Oh what's the use. A New Dealer never learns anyway. : . *> SD

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‘One Force Can’t Hold Back’ By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois St.

There's one old boy who tells them all just when they have to go; he tells the same to ev'ryone, be that one high or low. His bony hand will come to rest upon a Prince's brow; and when it does, you know the rest. There's one less Prince right now. He mows the ranks in battles grim and takes them out in chunks; and then, at times he slips around and eds some royal punks. It matters not to old man death what name is on the door; he walks right in without a knock, and does his little chore. The mighty and the ragged bum don’t have a word to say, they lie and watch the old boy come and send them on their way. He keeps his schedule on the dot, no matter where you live; you don't call up and put him off, no matter what you give, So Kings with crowns and racketeers with all

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WORLD AFFAIRS... By David M. Nichol Doubt Russians Have Secret of Atomic Bomb

BERLIN, Oct. _16-—-World fears that Russia has perfected an atomic bomb of its own are unfounded. This is the opinion today of American experts here who are in a position to know. These men's job is to seek out and utilize German technical resources in, terms of scientists and engineers. They are under no illusions about Russian ability to design weapons of modern war on a par with those created elsewhere.

These acts in violation of Austrian rights and Allied agreements follow fast upon Soviet sabotage of Big Four | treaty negotiations and Russian defeats at the United Na- | tions assembly on the Greek issue. They fit in the pattern, | on which Russia has been working for many months, for permanent enslavement of Austria. leaction of the Austrian population against Red army terrorism, and attempted legalized theft of Austria's major factories and natural resources, have prevented Communist

Party growth by which Moscow hoped to absorb that country. Therefore Stalin is driven more and more to strong-arm methods. Stalin's determination to retain military control of

Eastern Austria, if he cannot get the entire country, - was fairly clear when he rejected a treaty at the foreign ministers’ conference in Moscow last spring. The conduct of his negotiators in the Vienna conference, which has just adjourned after meeting continuously since May, confirms that suspicion. Though the treaty issue will be pressed by the United States and Britain at the foreign minister's conference in London next month, chances of settlement are slight, Apart from Stalin's incentive to block an Austrian treaty so his troops can control that country, hig military hold on Romania and Hungary also is involved. The United States and the Western Allies at the Paris conference last year agreed, as a price for Stalin's acceptance of those treaties, to let him keep troops in Romania and Hungary on the phony excuse of protecting his supply line to the Red army in Austria. So the continued Soviet military occupation of three countries, rather than one, is .at stake, Austria is surrounded on three sides hy puppet states of the revived Comintern. She obviously is high on Stalin's grab list along with Greece, Italy, France and Korea—prob-

But—on the basis of data obtained through secret pipelines—they believe Russia's atomic achievements are short of the stage where a | test explosion can be produced in the near future,

Does Have Other Knowledges RUSSIA'S EFFORTS, they say, have been hampered because | America has bested it in the race to drain Germany of its atom scientists. . { This backwardness, they say, does not extend into the field of guided missiles or rockets. Apparently the Russians have located more technicians conversant with such weapons than the Americans. The Americans are, in fact, accused of not making the fullest use of Germany's scientists. For example, its foremost expert on “heavy water” essential for one of the two methods of producing fissionable material, has not been persuaded by the U. S. to share his talents, Annoyed by the procedure which has kept him an automatic prisoner because he was a storm trooper captain, he has refused to co-operate. Furthermore, Russia now possesses the former Nazl development base at Peenemuende. Before that area was demilitarized and turned over to the Poles, the entire rocket works there were dismantled and | moved deep into the Soviet Union. Germany devised an intricate air-bearing which continues to defy Russian efforts to reproduce it, according to reports filtering out of their Eastern zone. " Although it is not known what the Russians have achieved in this field, they have shown much interest in naval mines. One look at the map shows why. If Russia should have any designs In that region, they are helped by the fact that the shallow Baltic lends itself particularly to mine operations, Control of the Kattegat waters between Penmark and Sweden with mines would seal off the Baltic altogether. ‘The safety factor in the picture as it is seen by American experts is that, granted the possession of scientific brains, the Russians still have not achieved a technical level sufficient to produce demons of war in any formidable quantities, : yy » nn

U. S. Education Retards Science By RAY MITTEN WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Our scientific progress is being handlcapped by faulty schooling In the third of those three R's—reading, riting and ‘rithmetic, The President's scientific research board has warned that com- . mon arithmetic instruction must be improved if the country is to develop the large numbers of scientists it will need for security and advancement,

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mathematics instruction in the lower schools (grades 1 to 12),” the board's latest report states, £ 2 ; The arithmetio book, siys the board, is the young student's best

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unless he is shown its significance—what can be done with the formulas he memorizes. Recommending a study to improve mathematics teaching methods, the board finds these basic faults at present: Many grade teachers have no training to teach arithmetic beyond what they learned in elementary school. There is not sufficient effort to teach the meaning of arithmetic. Even pupils who master the mechanics of solution and get the right answers don't understand what they're doing. Present teaching methods try to cover too much ground. “It is better to teach a few thin for mastery than to spread the effort over a large number of goals, some of which are doubtful.” ' More teaching effort is needed for the majhematically nature

be kept alive.” ho “In high schools, the board found, too many teaches are prone to stick to old teaching methods rather than adopt improved ones, There is not sufficient effost to ascertain the aptitudes of indi-

landlords and taking a chance that Congress will extend the law beyond next Leap Year Day.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

their bloody jack can never buy a speck of time nor hold the old boy back.

BACKGROUND . . . By William Philip Simms

United Nations Should Stand Guard All Year

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Vishinsky’s hysterical behavior at Lake Success is widely attributed to a determination on Russia’s part either to bend the United Nations to her purposes, or to prepare a build-up for an eventual dramatic exit in case she fails. Vishinsky's billingsgate against the American proposal ealling for a “little assembly” to sit while the regular assembly is on vacation surprised no one here. ”

Russia bitterly opposes any such idea. Having sabotaged the security council with her veto, she is aware that the United Nations’ one hope is to make world opinion felt through the assembly.” But the assembly normally meets only once a year, and peace is imperilled in a dozen areas all over the earth—so that the United Nations must find a way out of its present futility or abdicate.

Not Nullifying Veto :

THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER strongly supports the American thesis. Article 24 says: “In order to insure prompt and effective actions. by the United Nations, its members confer on the security council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security . . .” : b : But, it is pointed out, the charter does not confer sole responsi-

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The word “primary” was inserted for a purpose. Obviously if the council falls down on its job—as it has notoriously done—the United Nations must do what it can to repaip the breakdown, Theoretically the charter could be amended. But this is not considered practicable at this time. However, Article 35 suggests at least a substitute. It provides that “Any mem ber of the United Nations may bring a dispute or any situation , . .. likely to endanger , . . the peace and security , . . to the atten tion . . , of the general assembly.” . All U. 8. now proposes is to create a standing committee of the assembly so that—for lack of a functioning security council—the nations will have some place to go with their troubles. Vishinsky charges that the U. 8. is trying to “get around” the veto for diabolical purposes of its own, But the only way to ‘abolish the veto is to amend the charter and the charter cannot be amended against the will of the B: Five. Thus Russia can nullify any effort to nullify the veto, It can be said on the best authority that the U. S. has three main purposes in proposing a “little assembly” to remain in session for as least a year—that is, until the regular assembly meets again in the fall of 1948.

Would Inform World

FIRST, because the security council simply is not func either as “primary” keeper of the world peace or in any way tive capacity the United Nations must have some agency or guard during this, the most dangerous period in modern history, Second, a standing committee of the assembly would give members at least a modicum of assurance of getting a hearing in case of need, also indicate that the United Nations had not entirely ceased to breathe, ; J : Third, such a committee would serve to keep peoples everywhere informed of what was taking place between regular meetings of the assembly. And few nations—not even excepting the Soviet Union--

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