Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1947 — Page 10

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Doubletalk

'ERE is the comment of Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, who has been free in hurling vitriolic charges against his political opponents, on the allegation that his political associate, Sheriff Magenheimer, had used jail labor on a personal work project. “It is my understanding’ that Sheriff Magenheimer had a, great many difficulties to overcome when he became sheriff. Among them was the problem of cleaning up the | jail, and he’s done a good job on that. . . . It may be that in using men in his custody to perform work on his own prop- | erty, the sheriff was not wise. = “But so far as | know, it is not yet illegal to he unwise.”

Mr. Stark, you have something there,

Dewey's Foreign Aid Proposals |

Go: DEWEY in his foreign-affairs address supporting he Marshall Plan for American aid abroad made several rn suggestions, Go IE His inclusion of China is exceedingly important. The | economic emergency is at least as great in China as in| - Europes and the military. threat. of. Red. armies. is more im- | mediate. , If the "administration persists in ignoring this | fact, as, A has been doing, it will run into trouble. ‘ i yreover, the governor is wise in warning against any | discrimination as between friendly socialistic and freeenterprise nations, of which few remain, As he says, “so long as human liberty is maintained as a principal objective of a government, that government is our friend.” Whether a representative government has, or has not, nationalized some of its industries is none of our business. | Conservative leaders in Europe have made clear that they, no less than Socialists, would resent any anti-Socialist riders on American aid as dangerous foreign interference in their internal affairs. And of course that is precisely what Moscow accuses us of doing.

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HOUGH it is not our business how our friends run their domestic affairs so long as it is done legally, it is our duty to insist that: American aid be spent for pledged purposes and produce promised results. . Not whether an indus-| try is nationalized, or whether American methods are used, | but whether'it is getting the maxinium of production from | American aid—that is the test we must apply step by step. Fe In this connection there is wide disagreement as to the ‘hest American agency to administer the proposed program. Some say it should be the State Department, others want the | Commerce and Agriculture Departments to share the responsibility, still others propose a new independent agency— some desiring a bipartisan board, while others would have one man and limit the board to an advisory capacity. “Governor Dewey wants a bipartisan board, with reconstruction loans—as distinct from relief grants—administered by American businessmen. > Certainly able businessmen should be used for the business part of the job. But, while this program is at once | humanitarian and commercial, it also is a matter of high- | est diplomatic and security policy. We are inclined to agree that a bipartisan agency, the | gmaller the better for efficiency, is preferable to the un- | equipped and already overloaded State Department or to a cumbersome interdepartmental body. But even with a bipartisan agency, the overriding policy decisions within the |

law laid down by Congress must be subject to the President and his Secretary of State. Nothing can be done constitutionally, and nothing should be attempted in the name of bipartisan congressional control, to curb the ultimate responsibility and authority of the chief executive in administering American. foreign

policy.

Molotov and the Bomb

MH® MOLOTOV'S speech on the 30th anniversary of the Russian revolution includes the usual charges of Américan impefialism, the boasts of Soviet progress and

coming capitalist collapse, and the ‘usual hints that Moscow has the atom bomb. Whether the United States or Russia is the aggressive power threatening peace and freedom, the world will judge.

It is judging—not by words but deeds. Anyone who is not clear about the verdict should consult the votes of the world as registered almost daily in the United Nations

assembly,

If the Soviet economic system is flourishing and America's collapsing, it is strange that most of the world turns to us for aid——yes, even Soviet satellites tried to get in on the Marshall Plan until Stalin ordered them out. If Russia is. 80 prosperous, how strange that its people must be prevented by an iron curtain from learning how much better other peoples live, : When Mr. Molotov. savs the secret of the atom bomb “has long ceased fo exist,” he is stating the obvious—but | in a way: calculated to make people believe Russia has it. | Maybe but if Russia had the elaborate : industrial | equipment and technical facility to make the bomb, ive doubt that she would be so eager to publicize the fact. Whether or not Russia has the bomb or even more terrifying weapons, American policy must be the same, We must do everything in our power to preserve the peace so constantly jeopardized by Russia, and meanwhile be fully prepared in military superiority for war if it is forced | upon us.

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Saving All ‘Around

S it stands now, a good many folks are saving, the poultry we don't eat on Thursday eats on Friday the grain we saved by not eating the poultry on Thursday, This is ‘known as. the circular type of saving, “or going out where, we came in, } di > .

The Indianapolis Pimes!

. replaced the extreme right-wing regime. been rejuggled in the interest of greater efficiency. A comprehensive

In Tone ‘With the Times

Donald D. Hoover.

oy ONE RELIGION FOR ONE WORLD

“THE MOST IMPERATIVE WORK that les ahead of us is that of learning to live together in Ae thal 1s Tit, the mre shacnce: of War, but creative co-operajion for our mutual benefit. | Religion ought to be a unifying force among men, but actually it has been a dividing force, among men. It has raised impassable barriers between them. Some of the most bitter quarrels | of history, some of its most terrible wars have | | been religious wars. The most intelligent members of the different faiths are discovering that, despite differences, they have a great deal in common, particularly in the vital matter of those great ethical commands and ideals which are essential to harmonious hiufnan living. To do justly and to love mercy are the common heritage of mankind and will continue at the living heart of the one religion which is in the making. ~—E. BURDETTE BACKUS. * 9 »

The little girl at School No. 80 who described her home economics instruction as “homemakin-

omics” had something. ; * o ¢ JUDGING

I'm thinking about the people We meet in life today. The ones who are prejudiced intolerant, And wonder what makes them that way?

I try to look into myself And see what my feeling is there And although 1 see intolerance I also know that I care.

I care for the ones who must live + With dim hope of relief from this plight No heritage of honor or wealth Or born of a race that's not white,

They did not ask for their lot “Twas given -to them by our Lord. «-Shnuid-we-judge different than He Who loves that less fortunate horde? «gE E R ’ > % 4

DEAR BOSS .

In spite of the sentiment there seems to be |

against long skirts, you can still see an awful lot of them. w= Why all the ado over Europe's dollar short-

| age? I've experienced a dollar shortage for years and no one ever worried about it. PT > DISENCHANTMENT

He eyes were captivating brown, Her face was fair to look upon, A being gracefully divine And I desired to make her mine.

8he charmed me ecstatically, Captured me and said not Nay, When 1. with heart aflame Entreated her to take my name.

Greater love cannot be said Than loving hearts by love fed, But nature has the master call And man must eat to love at all

My wife. my love, my pretty Adaire, Woe is me, woe is me, 1 find need of a meal that's square. I can't cook, neither can she! ? -F. P. MYERS. * 9 4 A health article states that pain strikes the body at the weakest part. Don't go around complaining of headaches.

trative,

Twenty of the toughest questions that could be devised were sent to the 530 members of Congress, the 48 governors, 100 top federal gov- | / ernment officials and 100 leading business, labor and trade association representatives in Washington. The same questions were also sent to the 700 U, 8. daily newspaper editors now receiving this column. To date—two weeks after the questions were sent out-—40 per.cent have replied. This is regarded by professional poll takers as a good return and a fair sample. On the basis of answers thus far, these main

trends can already be observed:

1. Purther American aid to Europe is supported, seven-to-one.

four-year plan to put Europe on its feet. .

3. The Marshall Plan is given a two-to-one chance to succeed | 4. Five-to-four say don't scrap United Nations—make it stronger. 5. Universal military training is supported, three-to-one.

On domestic issues, these are the highlights: Six-to-one say the Taft-Hartley bill is

favored by more than two-to-one.

‘Yes’ or ‘No’ Answers Were Sufficient

IN TAKING THIS POLL, the.questions were framed so they could Many gave conditional answers, however, and their replies are highly enlightening. The poll was made anonymous, but a number of replies contain sighed statements They will be analyzed in later columns.

be answered by a simple “Yes” or “No.”

on spec ific fssues.

1 “not too tough.” 2. There is two-to-one opposition to the return of price control. 3. There is two-to-one support for extended rent control 4. Only one in three thinks voluntary rationing will succeed. 5. Tax reduction, by the next regular session of Congress, is

IIR PAT

Here's a BreView of 1948

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Present inflationary prices were d major factor in ousting Republican. regimes in the principal Indiana cities and putting in the Democrats. That conclusion was expressed here by Majority r Charles A. Halleck, who came back to the

capital for a pre-special session meeting with Speaker ~ Martin.

Here is how. our leading Republican from Rensselaer sums it up:

Top-Level Reflections

“OUR PARTY HAD most of the big city governments in the state. And when prices went sky-high they had to raise wages and pay the increases for everything the cities _had to buy. “The result was a governmental cost boost which had to be reflected in taxes and naturally made the citizens sore. Where we replaced Democrats it was for the same underlying reason. The people are discontent because of the increased living costs and they were determined to throw the ins out. When you asked the voters what the Mayor could do about prices, ‘they admitted that he was powerless, but any: way they were determined to register resentment. This was not reflected in the 10th district congressional race, however, where we held the only seat up for election.” Mr. Halleck admitted that when such cities as Pt. Wayne went Democratic, it is a time for GOP stocktaking. What the party's tactics should be price situation he demonstrated in yardint the West Virginia Republicans at Clarksburg last night. ,

newspaper editors.)

(Editor's Note: This is the first of four dispatches, analyzing results of Peter Edson's poll of government officials, business Loader snd

By Daniel M. Kidney ;

SETI TI a STA

The fact that he was invited there by Waiter Hallanan, who is in charge of arrangements for the 1948 Republican national convention at Philadelphia, may or may not have some significance. At any rate, the Majority Leader laid down what may be the GOP party-line on prices. Summed up it merely passes the buck for the high prices from the 80th Congress to President Truman. Unbiased and non-partisan observers may find factors to blame in both places. President Truman shouldn't have vetoed .the first OPA extension bill, because the one he finally signed was not as good, Mr. Halleck told the West Virginians. That was in the nominally Democratic 79th Congress of course. Then he accused the President of violating the spirit -of the law by decontrolling commodities in short supply in an effort to help the Democrats win the 1946 congressional elections. Meat was the major item of decontrol, but Mr. Halleck didn’t mention that as such. “The instantaneous result of President Truman's incompetence was skyrocketing prices,” Mr. Halleck charged. “The industrial machinery was thrown out of fear and oug people are now suffering high prices.

More Halleck Figures of Speech

“THAT ACTION of Mr. Truman was a black vulture of inflation. He turned it loose.” So there you have a preview of the 1948 “who-dene-its” which will be turned loose on the voters | who: probably will be so, busy trying to meet their bills that they won't have time to listen.

DAN BIDNEY.

Here Are Answers to Twenty Tough Questions

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—To get a line on congressional adminis- | - business and newspaper editorial opinion about the main | - foreign and domestic issues facing the coming special session of Congress, this department has just completed a nation-wide poil.

year? Yes, 60 per cent. No, 38 per Plan? No, 59 per cent. Yes, 38 per 36 per cent. No answer, 14 per cent.

cent.

2 per cent.

cent. Yes, 48 per cent. No answer, 2 Yes. 30 per cent. 8. Do you now believe the Taft-

per cent. Yes, 13 per cent.

gress? Yes, 69 per cent. 68 per cent. 11. Do you think the Marshall Western Europe? Yes, 58 per cent. per cent: 86 per cent.

Europe? Yes, 67 per cent,

WORLD AFFAIRS , . . By William H. Newton

ATHENS, Nov, 8—American aid has prevented the fillapse of

Greece,

You can hear all sorts of criticisms, like that of a young Greek in | Salonika who told me he wouldn't believe America was really giving | Greece anything until he actually had some “gold. dollars” hand. Or the well-publicized story about Greek farmers using Ameri-

can canned milk to paint their barns, :

Greek Aid Program Working

NEVERTHELESS it is apparent that despite early defects the It has given a tremendous boost to the morale A moderate government has The army command has

program is. ‘working. of tHe Greek government and the people.

tax program is being pushed by the government.

And the attitude of the man in the street has changed from de-

spair to hope and confidence,

One straw in the wind-voluntary enlistments in the Communist- | led guerrilla army have ceased and the Communists now are forced | That doesn't add to their popu-

to conscript peasants at gunpoint. larity.

Greece would never willingly join the Soviet bloc. © As a result of American aid the Greeks are now convinced that nobody is going to

be able to club them into it.

Our aid program is being administered by Dwight Griswold, an aggressive, plain-spoken man, former Republican governor of Nebraska,

who has’ little regard for diplomatic niceties,

Mr, Griswold believes the Greek government should effect certain reforms, notably to enact strong tax laws and balance the budget. ‘And he is perfectly capable of figuratively jihgling America's $300 million worth of ald to Greece in his pocket until the government acts. It may

not be diplomatic but the Greeks get the point.

American officials here agree that the Greek army has not done well in handling the guerrilla problem. The officer class is ridden with politics and divided into cliques. There's been a tendency on the part of some officers to show up well in parades but to avoid the battlefield. However there are indications that a more determined

spirit is beginning to develop.

re are many difficulties involved in applying America’s highspeed way of doing things in a poor and somewhat backward nation ;

.such as Greece. But progress is being made."

“I think that if we had not come to Greece this country would be ld says. And, despite Sime SSWKES S54. SSUMGKS Bare, Shas Jus abut, She answer,

under Communist contrpl- today,” Mr. G

per cent. No, 32 per cent.

Here are the questions and the percentage totals on replies to date: Do you approve of holding a special session of Congress this

2. "Should this session be limited to consideration of the Marshall 3 Or should U. 8. high prices be taken up? Yes, 50 per cent. No,

4. Do you favor return of some form of price control? No, 65 per Yes, 32 per cent. No answer, 3 per cent. 5. Do you think prices can be brought down without reducing 2. A two-to-one majority say they would support a $15-830 billion wages at the same time? No, 50 per cent. Yes, 48 per cent. No answer,

6. Do you think there is danger of a recession in 1948?

7. Do you think voluntary rationing will succeed? No, 67 per cent. No answer, 3 per cent.

No answer, 1 per cent. 9. Do you favor tax reduction at the next regular session of ConNo, 30 per cent. 10. Do you now favor extending rent control beyond Feb. 20? Yes, No, 29 per cent. No arswer, 3 per cent. Plan will succeed if it aids only

12. . Do you think the U. 8. should stop further aid to Europe? No, Yes, 12 per cent. No answer, 2 per cent. 13. Would you support a $15 to $30 billion four-year plan to aid No. 27 per cent. 14. Should such aid be in the form of a repayable loan? Yes, 50 | No answer, 9 per cent. 15. Or do you believe Europe can never repay, and therefore out- |

cent. No answer, 2 per cent.

cent. No answer, 3 per cent.

cent.

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Hoosier. Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but |

will defend to the death your right to say i"

‘Need Less Political Bunk’ By Average Voter, City I have been reading about the government's

putting all of America on relief. It looks to me like the old New Deal with a coat of fresh paint. What we need is more honesty in our government and less political bull. - A I am a Democrat and was born one and am for my country first, last and always. It isn't the Communists that will ruin this country, it's rotten politics. Whatever happened to all the investigations? What did it do to feed highpriced eggs td Hogs ernment is hollering. “meatless, eggless and chickenless days” about to save grain? Don't they know while they are alive they must eat and

. Brain is their main food? Or do they think we

can put green goggles on them and then feed them sawdust for grass? If our government doesn't get back: to attending to its own business, leave private business and the farmer alone, it will be too bad when the reckoning comes. - There is one thing certain; a government or an individual can’t buy friendship. > o ©

‘Youth Has Too Much to Say’ By Josephine Buck, R. R. No. 1, Westfield In contemplating the letter on keeping up with the Joneses, parents are not supposed to. If your children rule you instead of you ruling them, you are lacking in parental discipline. Youth of today-have too much authority, too

much spending money, too much indulgence by.

fond parents and too much wrong knowledge. An education is as nothing when applied as a

veneer to a dull brain. Often a good steady job is -

better for a youth than a continued schopling under a romping attitude. And youth when earning should learn to pay board. Men are continually telling me their wives have never learned home managing and thrift. Isn't that the greatesj knowledge needed for as girl. Shouldn't Mother be able to instruct. Women tell me their husbands lack stability and the urge to carry the earning load. Shouldn't Dad help a boy to see his future ‘Yesponsibility. Why throw out complaints, you only show your

foolishness of attitude. Loving your children is training them.

] “By Peter Eon

| right grants-in-aid should be given? Yes, 40 per cent. No, 39 per cent. No answer, 21 per cent. 16. Would you make further aid to European countries conditional on their taking steps tp end Communist influence? Yes, 67 per cent. No, 29 per cent. No answer, 4 per cent. . 17. If the United Nations cannot solve problems before it, should the United Nations as now set up be abandoned and a new conference of nations called to form a new peace organization? No, 50 per cent. Yes, 41 per cent. No. answer, 9 per cent. 18. Would you favor making this body a stronger world government? Yes, 56 per cent. No, 23 per cent. No answer, 21 per cent. 19. Do you now favor universal military training? Yes, 73 per No, 24 per cent. 20. Do you believe we are now headed for “inevitable” war? No, 73 per cent. Yes, 25 per cent. No answer, 2 per cent. . The poll on presidential preferences will be reported later, '

No answer, 3 per cent.

No, 52 per per cent.

-Hartley act is too tough? No, 86

No answer, 1 per cent.

more exports.

No, 31 per cent. No answer, 11

BACKGROUND. . . By Marquis Childs

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, Nov. 8—Here, where the smoke from the collieries and the pottery works smudges the sky, is the front line in the new battle for Britain. one seven years ago when the Nazis were repulsed in the air and the world knew that Britain would stand. On the outcome depends the future of this country which for more than a century held economie and military domination over wide areas of the earth. The new battle of Britain is for more coal, more steel,

It is just as real a battlé as the

But because the enemy is in ‘this instance a future threat—of

declifie, decay, a kind of slow death—it is difficult to inspire the front-

change.

No answer, 6 per cent. ment.

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line fighters with a sense of urgency.

Ancient habits are “hard to

The pictures in peoples’ minds—the way they look at the world—persist long after events have radically changed the environ-

The Chatterly-Whitfleld colliery here is a well-run mine, Before | it was nationalized a year ago, along with all other coal mines, it was a profitable property: back sufficient capital to modernize the pits and keep the operation at a high level of productivity,

The private ‘owners, unlike many others, had put

Manager Popular {

YOU'D LOOK A LONG time before, you would find an abler and more energetic man than Ernest Cope, the manager.” Cope, who began | as a pit boy at the age of 12, was manager of Chatterly: Whitfield before nationalization. When the national coal board took over all the mines last Jan. 1,she was given charge of two additional collieries in the vicinity. + He works intensely hard and it is obvious that he has the confidence of the men. Most of the he knows by their first names Yet in spite of this favorable combination, 50 per cent of the miners fail to report for work on Mondays. week averages about 25 per cent. be got to work the full five-day week, or the new six-day week that begins Nov, 1, the quota of coal for this pit, and more, would come out of the ground. And that goes for most of Britain's mines. The reasons why the men do not work longer are many. They derive from a complex set of habits, from the ordeal of the war and from the swift currents of social changé that are everywhere in motion, Any easy explanation such as the coming of socialization may serve a political end, but it is not a valid explanation, Cope’ believes the chief reason for the high rate of absenteeism 1s the fact that the men can buy very little that they want with the money they make. In his strong north Staffordshire accent he says: “You put 2000 fur coats in the stores hére and you sell ‘em for a 100 quid ($400) apiece and you bring in some nylon stockings—then the men, will work. The wife'll sign up ® buy a coat and theyll have

3g00 miners at Chatterly- Whitfield

Absenteeism through the If the force now in the mine could

The government has made every effort to give mining communities first claim on the consumers’ goads that are available. The shops seem to be fairly well stocked. But the men out of the pits, who earn they money the hard way, feel that post-war prices are too high and

Last summer was the sunniest and the warmest tn the memory of man. The autummhas been exceptionally mild. The weather was an added inducement to go out into the.country, especially when farmers © Were paying $3 or $4 a day for helpers in the potato fields. ? In the old days, and particularly during the long depression, it didn't matter if in the summer months the pits ran on part time. sun and air were healthy for men living underground so lives. aie Shite Was Pit of the Jue See it matters today. It matters desperately wheth ot Une ie, Cor cul W the Ammon 1 his ew

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