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THE House of Representatives has voted, 337 to 37, to ~ give its Committee on Un-American Activities a $200,000 working fund for the rest of this year. The amount is twice as large as®¥ie 147 dppropriation; That overwhelming roll-call vote is impressive evidence of strong feeling in the House—reflecting, we believe, feeling throughout the gountry—that investigating and ex-

posing un-American’ activities is a proper and highly necessary duty of regs. % But we know at'many of the 337 Congressmen who voted the committee more mioney are not satisfied that

this duty is being done as ably as it should be. ‘Rep. Ellsworth B. Buck (R&N. Y.) spoke the sentiment of a lot of

his colleagues in bth parties when he said: . “I favor the priation because I believe the committee could perf a real service to the nation. I hope,

however, that in the future the committee will gain its publicity from jobs well done rather than by shouting from the housetops before jobs are even undertaken.” The committeé now is assured of ample funds. What it needs, and what the House ‘should be equally eager to give it, is some new members of high ability and sound judgment who cad help it to avoid blunders and to make its work fairer and more effective.

J A Chennault’s; Warning SEND China arms or face World War IIL. That is the al"ternative seen’'by Maj. Gen, C. L. Chennault, retired Flying Tiger commander, who flew from Shanghai to testity before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. urging military supplies and advisers to help Gen-Kai-shek defend our loyal ally against , he agreed with the other American , Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer. 3 That makes it virtually unanimous except for Gen. Marshall, and even he maintains that the United States is in fact now supp. Chiang with planes and munitions. If h,

“We do not Gen. Chennault exaggerates the strategic importaribe of China to the peace of the world and to our own securify. Secretary Marshall admitted to the House committee thie other day that Red conquest of Manchuria—now t complete—would make our position in d our hold on Japan precarious. | Gen, Chennault is hopeful that prompt American military aid could save Manchuria within six to 12 months. Whether that is top optimistic or not, unless we get started soon, Manchuria, North China too, will be lost. To give C ! military aid, asthe State Department proposes, would be a rathole operation. Munitions and military advisers also are essential,

United by Ideals

HIRTY-SIX years ago today the Girl Scout movement . was born. For 36 years the organization has grown in Indianapolis and Marion County under the strong bond of high ideals to a membership of 5279 girls and 1597 adults. : ; Today there are 41 Senior Troops, 149 Intermediate Troops and 114 Brownie Troops. They are taught how to meet the problems of life. Their sinews of character are made stronger by a well-conceived coursé of training. The Girl Scout movement has answered a social problem well. - As it trgins, it provides social contacts in.a healthy atmosphere. It fenches by practice and by the example of the leaders moral and physical soundness. Those who decry what is happening to womanhood are not talking about women who had Girl Scout training. For Girl Scouts make good citizens, good wives and good community neighbors. ; .. We congratulate “the Girl Scouts on their 36th birthday and commend them highly on their product in Indian. apolis and Marion County-<blue-ribbon womanhood, capable of and generous in giving us able community leadership.

Why Not, Mr. Martin? ALMOST a full year has passed since the Republican Congress submitted to the States a proposed consti: tutional amendment limiting the tenure of future Presidents to two terms. «Thus far only 19 state legislatures—New York's this week, became the most. recent—have ratified the amendment, while 36 must approve it to make it part of the U. 8. Constitution. Speaker Martin of the National House of Representatives has just complained of the failure or refusal of many other legislatures even to consider this measure. He says they are obstructing the will of the people. Well, we think of ‘another, much more urgent measure which would have ‘become law long ago had the people’s will been allowed.4o prevail. Public opinion polls have shown repeated majorities of 70 per cent or more for Universal Military Training. And a Universal Training Bill was approved, eight months ago, by the House Armed Services Committee. But that bill is bottled up in the House Rules Committee, which has an eight-to-four Republican majority and is bossed by Speaker Martin's friend, .Rep. Leo Allen of Illinois. Mr. Allen is using his power to prevent the House from acting on it. Why isn't the Speaker's great influence being-used to give the will of the people a chance on this one?

Elementary Democracy A GERMAN “senate,” meeting in Frankfurt, has shocked = the Bizonia officials by holding a meeting behind locked doors. The principal reason for the shock seems to be that the group of 16 members was set up to teach the Germans democracy

We would suggest the Allied authorities at least get members together and instruct them in that ancient and ctice of democratic procedure, the “leak” of

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SPRING CLEANING

Do we always stop to think 3 When spring cleaning time is here And we find so many objects To be taken out for air—

That there's one thing to remember About our thoughts and inmost minds They must never . . . get as dusty As our own venetian blinds!

‘In our mental storehouse . . . often

There How about the grudge we harbor That's a source of worry, too?

80... when cleaning out the corners Let's combine with other trash

{ _ All those petty things which grieve us

And ...consume with fire...to ash! — -—~ANNA E. YOUNG. SN ¢ o : The average woman spends a year of her life looking in mirrors, according to a statisticlan. And a lot more time looking in shop windows. : ® 9 +

MEN AND WOMEN

Woman called the weaker sex In achievement so abound As to indicate it soon may be The other way around. -F., P. M. eo o %

An Illinois man tells of birds pecking the paint off of his car. Maybe the thing has gone to seed. ® ¢ ¢

MEMORY QUILT

Mmm! Finished my quiit today and I'm proud. Just can't help reminiscing aloud. There's a giggle and thrill in this small bit of gray, . It was the blouse I wore when I met him that

day. This diamond-shaped velvet of rich golden brown ‘

best” gown. Rose-printed taffeta inset with lace J Could mean only “grandma,” the model of grace, Seems to me I hear church bélls; organ notes peal, This strip of white satin, at my wedding I kneel. Two darling soft ribbons, one pink and. one blue— ) Bring baby days back—our Tom and our Sue. Oh,-I could go on indefinitely For here is a life of memory. Mmmm! Finished my quilt today, and I'm

.. proud, Just couldn't help reminiscing aloud. «~~MEREDITH RODERICK HASKETT, 1502 Ruth Dr. * oS. : A Minnesota man admitted writing 120 rubber checks. Lay the offenses end to end and they should rng ~ ong stretch.

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I can hear the thundering rain Splashing on the window pane, And the wind so very bold, Tells me of the coming cold.

Oft’ when I'm in bed at night, Myriad stars are shining bright, ° Winking down as if to say, “Soon will come a sunny day.” --BESSIE CLARK. : * * 77K’ college professor says fish don't hear. They've been turning a deaf ear to our line for years. so ;

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“LOS ANGELES-—Harvard doctor says Baldness Means Virility—Sometimes.”)

He agrees with Artistotle's Views on strength with balding pate; Then, our joy he quickly throttles, With the word he adds too late.

Ah, these brief but gay deceptions Fqllowed by such quick dismay— For the last line reads, “Exceptions Are occurring every day!”

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death-angel's wings. It was last June.

I saw him in Czernin palace in Prague: hotel when the phone rang. It was Jan. come over. I was set down at my destination.

Planned to Stay Day or Two

was a tin of English cigarets.

“Not at all, old boy.

represented at Paris.

Sending a Strong Delegation

thusiasm.

“You consider it important, then?” “Important!” he exclaimed.

on its feet and this seems to be it.”

I suggested. .

by taking part in the talks at Paris.”

with Molotov and received the ultimatum.

memory. .

upon him, he

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Death Wasn't Sudden For Czech Liberator

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 — I spent the evening with Jan Masaryk just a few hours before he first heard the rustle of the

For death did not come suddenly to Czechoslovakia's foreign’ minister when he threw himself from his window Wednesday morning. He began to die soon after

I had just finished dinner and gone up to my rooms in the He wondered if I could Grabbing a taxi, I was soon climbing the zig-zag road leading to the heights above the Ultava where, on a crag higher even than the Hradcany castle of the Bohemian Kings,

Jan met me at the door. of his apartment. He was in pajamas.

+ “I KNOW you won't mind all this informality,” he said cordially as he led the way to easy chairs and a table on which “But this may be the only chance I will have to see you. Both of us are leaving tomorrow—you for the Marshall Plan Conference at Paris and I for Moscow.” “Don’t let me interfere with your packing” I said. (He had a British way of talking.) It's all done. I'm only going to stay a day or so, you know.” I asked the foreign minister if Czechoslovakia would be

"SHE MOST certainly will,” he replied with evident en“I, personally, won't be able to go for I've been a bit under the weather lately and am due for a short leave. we're sending the strongest delegation we can muster.”

“It's the most important thing ° since the end of the war. Help is imperative to put Europe back

“There's some talk about the Russian bloc boycotting Paris,”

“Czechoslovakia,” replied Jan, “isn’t tied to the East or to the West, She has important interests in both camps. one of the freest democracies in the world and I feel we can contribute much, not only to our own benefit, but to all Europe,

Late that night I filed my story. But it was delayed. By the time it arrived in this country it was useless—killed by evénts. For within a few hours after our talk, Jan had had his meeting Molotov had told him to withdraw his acceptance to the Paris conference. For Jan, that was the beginning of the end and he knew it. It was the beginning of the end of Czechoslovakia’'s freedom, the great heritage handed down to him and his people by his father. | Jan's father was Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’'s George Washington. : Dr. Masaryk devoted his life to the creation of a free Czechosiovakia and his son could not béar to see it strangled again so soon after liberation from the Nazis. And almost certainly he felt that he could not lend his name even by silent conseént—to any such betrayal of his father's

The Prague radio said, after his death, that half of the text of a speech Jan was to have made last night, was found on his desk. His friends can fill in the picture. The Communists had ¢losed in so, half-way through his speech, he flung down his pen. Refusing any longer to carry on the masquerade which was being leaped from the window to the rocks below.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Is China Another ‘3-Alarm Fire’?

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—It often seems as though this country were fated to go on repeating a pattern of error—and this when the margin for error has been. reduced to the vanishing point. Consider China. No one disputes that some kind of positive action by America in China is essential, but when it comes to the proper approach to that vast chaos-ridden country, then the pulling and the hauling begin. > We see furious partisans of China—American partisans—rushing into action. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer embraces China at the strategic level. The missionary crusader, Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota, embraces an idealized China ‘on a high moral level, “ Thesé volunteer policy-makers proclaim that the Naflonalist China—the China, of Chiang Kaishek—is essential to us. We need that China, they say, in accents ranging from the urgent to the shrill and hysterical. They are not, of course, the only partisans to embrace China. There are others with a more practical and profitable motive whose self-interest is too obvious, The parallel with Greece is striking. Just a year ago, President Truman went before Congress to appeal for aid to Greece and Turkey. His appeal was couched in much the same terms used today by proponents of aid to China. It was a three-alarm fire. Greece was essential to the United States. Greek democracy must be preserved at any cost—to us. Given the political situation in Washington, with an opposition Congress containing a hard core of old-time isolationism, perhaps this approach was necessary. But the effect in Greece was most unfortunate.

Royalist Press Attacks U. S.

THE POLITICIANS in Athens, who are as sharp as they come, understood how we had committed ourselves to them. In proclaiming that Greece was vital to American security, the government had attached no conditions to the aid to be given. - Consequently, it has proved extremely difficult to bring about any changes in the regime in Athens. After prolonged and patient prodding by the American aid administrator, Dwight Griswold, the liberal leader Themistocles Sophoulis was accepted as premier. But what this change really

, faith, Otherwise any U. 8. aid

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meant in the way of wider acceptance by the Greek ple is still a question. Some observers believe” Sophoulis is a prisoner of the Royalist Party of Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. Today the Royalist Party press attacks the United States in almost the same language used by the Communists—as imperialist intruders. It is more or less spelled out that the U. 8. needs Greece more than Greece needs us. No one should be surprised, since that's what President Truman

in effect told the Greeks a year ago.

Now, Greece is a small country in a key area. Its population is something more than seven millions. A mistake there was not irretrievable. A

grea) deal has been learned in the Greek experiment. y

S00 Million Close to Survival Line

CHINA, however, is another matter. Some 500 million peoples, most of them living close to the survival line, occupy the great expanse that is loosely called China. A mistake committing us irretrievably to the present regime could have the most disastrous and far-reaching consequences. While no such comparison can be valid, there is some reason to believe the Chiang Kai-shek regime is more corrupt and has less popular support than the group in power in Athens a year ago. Conditions must be attached to any aid given to Chiang Kai-shek. . Reforms must at least be undertaken in good will be thrown away. Not even in Nationalist China will it help to win the mass of the Chinese people. om i There are warning signs which must not be ignored. Some weeks ago, anti-British riots occurred in Nanking and other cities. The easy was to dismiss these as Communist-inspired. But the British did not try to disguise the fact that these demonstrations could not be so lightly dismissed. They came out of deep resentment of foreign exploitation and doubt of a government that seemed to lean on foreign support. The question of what can be done for Nation alist China should not be fought over in partisan politics. Of primary importance is the reconstruc. tion of that area where American interests are immediately, directly and vitally concerned— Western Europe. Anything that diverts attentio from that vital goal serves by that much weaken America’s position in the world.

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

The problem of high prices can only be solved in Washington. You know we are not at peace. Until we have peace, the ordinary laws of supply and demand and private initiative cannot function normally.—Berpard M. Baruch. * © @

This country obviously is not prepared militarily to meet even the immediate defensive demands of a major war emergency. —Lt.-Gen. Leonard Gerow, U. 8. Army. * @

A dozen Marshall Plans without the aid of private business will never solve the real problem of European recovery.—Eric Johnston, president, Motion Picture Rroducery Association. *

Women's organizations have at hand a ready weapon which they have not yet used to its full capacity-—the |

¢ + If present trends continue the United States in 10 to 20 years will be a “have not” nation as far as petroleum is concerned. —Kirtley F. Mather, protester of geology, Harvard University. & :

If the great powers, including the United States, fail to back the decisions of the United Nations, that agency for world peace : insignificance.—=Sea.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

‘Who's Who' in Cast Of Condon Associates

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—Dr. Edward U. Condon, National Bureau of Standards director, who is now on the Thomas-Rankin Un-American Affairs Committee griddle, has a strange story to tell about his relations with the other characters in this latest spy scare, Most important are Demetry I. Vinogradoft, Ignace Zlotowski and Helen M. Harris. a * Mr. Vinogradoff, now 70, is eniployed =i Bureau of Standards as adviser on relations with foreign governments and scientists. He came to the U. 8. after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. He had been educated as an electrical engineer. He was sent to this country as purchasing agent for the old Kerensky regime, the

Miss Harris an Americanized Pole

Mr. Zlotowski was single, and in Washington liked to step a © | out socially. On one occasion he escorted to Dt. Condon’s home, | for a dinner party, Miss Helen M. Harris. At that time and until last November she was secretary to the American-Soviet Beience Society. This was an organization started by a grant of $25,000 from-—of all places—the: Rockefeller Foundation.

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Well, 1 CAN Dance By North Sider. - i I'm a sign reader, incurably so. I twist my / neck at every “Fresh Paint,” “Danger, ja at Work” and “Keep Off the Grass” sign I gq Sometimes it makes my neck ligaments aon, Then I begin looking for a linament sign a drug store window. Don't think I'm gullible. I don't fall's

one I saw last week. It bounced at me rign off the side of a streetcar. It was a highly personal question. And it had the disagvant. age of not providing anyone to whom I might ¢ give the answer. Oh—the question? It way simply this: “Do You Want to Be Popular in 10487" : Of course I do, but I have never been popy. lar. I go into a store and the clerks, evey since the war is over, seem to walk in the other direction. I must have a sad and dis. couraging face, My money's good, I suppose as anyone else's, but I have no drawing power, Be a floperoo as a movie idle. (I guess ity {-d-o0-1). But this question popped right at me of the side of the streetcar not only left me with no one to tell my answer to, but it inferreq that I still belonged among the upturned clods ' a_freshly plowed field. It hinted I be able to dance better. It was, frankly, the first complaint I had ever had on my dancing. I went to college in the days of sparking heel-plates and bell-bottom trousers, the mah-jong and bunny hug. And I neve had a dancing lesson. But I went to all of the dances at the fraternity house. The boys used to take ime out into the corner of the dining room and try to teach me a few steps, . But if you want to feel a little silly, try dane. Ing with a man. You feel guilty about it, But the girls I asked to the fraternity dances never seemed to mind. The floor was crowded and there wasn’t much chance for fancy didoes (we sort of inched along very, very close together) and that seemed tq pass for dancing. Now I still go to.dances and joggle along like a plate of jelly in a sack coat and no one 5 . . Seems to mind. So, deep down in my heart, I don’t believe there is anything terribly wrong with my dancing... But I still don’t think Iam popular. And I'doubt if dancing would make much difference to the people ‘who look at my dead pan and then let their faces cloud up as if they wanted to break into a run, ' I can't stop reading signs and wish Some one would forbid their being asked, especially By those blue and yellow streetcars which wobble and rock down the streets like tugs in a squall, : . If anybody wants to ask me a ues wish they would not put it on a ey ion 1 . cannot prevent seeing, but would come right i up and let me have both barrels, right between \! the ears. That's a man's way. It's a little unfair to stick such a personal question on a rolling billboard to follow you all around the town. Maybe someone else in town feels the same way-—and maybe not. > © 9

A Man Should Marry Young By Josephine Buck, R. No. 1, Westfield, Ind. Beware of the dogs! | en are fast becoming doggie. Women are toys for an evening's pleasure. Can’ the ahs of their attitudes? % Sioy-ane y don’t want what they've tarnished and neither does anyone else. It is an overpowering war on our womanhood. Who is able to stand it? Why is it so difficult for a young man to choose a girl to marry and establish a home? Isn't a home and children the most : precivus of all our possessions? eve a man should marry young if he n to be kept safe from foolishness of being a rounder. A reasonable marriage should not

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When the Kerensky government was itself overthrown by

Stalin and their pals, Mr. Vinogradoft decided

he didn’t want to go back. So he stayed in the U. 8. and became an American citizen. . He got a job with Westinghouse Electric Co. in Pittsburgh, and in time became manager of their international engineering department. Dr. Condon was head of Westinghouse Laboratories from 1937 to 1945, and it was there he first met Mr. Vinogradof!. During the war, after he was pensioned by Westinghouse, Mr. Vinogradoff worked with U. 8. Army Air Forces.

War Disrupts Scientific Exchange

WHEN Dr. Condon was made head of Bureau of Standards in November, 1945, he took Dr. Vinogradoff on his staff to advise on relations with foreigy governments. The war had disrupted the international exchange of scientific information that has been carried on ever since the Smithsonian Institution first began it

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Early last year it became apparent that the Russians would not permit their scientists to communicate with the rest of the world. So a letter was prepared for Dr. Condon’s signature, notifying all foreign governments that as of Jan. 3, 1948, no scientific material would be exchanged with any foreign government that did not send like material to the U. 8. Russia did not reply. Since that time the lid has been on. : Dr. Ignace Zlotowski, the second character with whom Dr. Condon is accused of having associated, is a Polish physicist. He was caught in Paris at the outbreak of the war. Heé had been * working with the Curies in France. Not being able to return to Poland after Germany overran his country, he came to the U. 8. During the war he taught physics at Ohio State University and

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started blowing hot on its neck, the society went put of business. Harris was born in Poland of Polish Embassy in W

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