Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1948 — Page 22

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: ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

Thursday, Apr. 1, 1948

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Momentous Conference HE ninth Inter-American Conference which opened in Bogota Tuesday has been called the most important in hemisphere history. It probably is. For its main problem is to strengthen hemisphere solidarity weakened since the war. Certainly the necessity of close unity among the 21 republics, if they are to achieve security and prosperity, should be obvious to all. Several forces have been operating against unity. The most spectacular, of course, has been Soviet penetration. Communist propaganda has played upon traditional LatinAmerican distrust of the colossus of the north. In addition to these out-dated fears of Yankee imperialism, the Reds have capitalized on real economic abuses and dire poverty in many of those countries. While joint protection against Soviet infiltration and security against military aggression are therefore major problems before this conference, they cannot be solved independently of the basic economic problems with which they are intertwined. Most of the Latin-American countries are cursed with unbalanced semi-colonial economies, resting on quasi-feudal control of a single export crop or raw material subject to foreign price fluctuation, and det on imports for manufactured goods. United States orders and dollars subsidized these weak economic systems to the point of artificial boom during the war. But since the war their boom dollars have run out, and they have been unable to get their share of Yankee-manufactured goods. Now, with the European Recovery Plan and the United States rearmament program getting top priorities on our goods and dollars, our southern neighbors see themselves frozen out just when they most need co-operative help. : J The seriousness with which Washington’ views this interlocked problem of economic and political stability, military security and hemisphere solidarity, is shown by the top men sent to the conference. Despite thg fastbreaking crises in Europe, the Middle East and Orient, which require the presence of these men in Washington, Secretary of State Marshall, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, Secretary of Commerce Harriman, the head of the Export-Import Bank, an Assistant Secretary of State, an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and sundry other ranking officials are in Bogota, or going there. © Four things must come out of this conference unless it is to fail. An organic pact of the Inter-American system —in effect a hemisphere constitution. Organization of effective Inter-American councils, mutual security and defense as foreshadowed by last year’s Rio conference. on peaceful settlement of disputes, including pending territorial controversies of three republics with Great Britain. Provision of United States _ goods and credits, presumably through the Export-Import Bank, for Latin-American countries in such way as to strengthen instead of wreck the European Recovery Program and our own rearmament plans, We need Latin America no less than Latin America

needs us. Here is a challenge to United States leadership |.

~and leadership does not mean attempted dictation at x A um———a———— Butter-Side Down a democracy, the impossible sometimes takes a little longer. It's been two weeks now since 16 members of thé dairy-controlled House Agriculture Committee blocked a move to allow 435 elected Representatives of the people to vote on whether the excessive margarine taxes should be repealed. There remained one way around that milk-bottleneck and the friends of housewives who can't afford current butter prices took that course. They set out to find 218 Congressmen who would sign a petition to force the taxrepeal bill out of the Agriculture Committee and bring it to a House vote. Early this week they had 175 signatures —only 43 short. By next week they seem certain of victory ~for another 30 or 40 Congressmen have said they’d sign up if their names would put the petition across. The only thing they fear is that the Republican leadership will clamp last-minute pressure on individual members to keep the issue under wraps during an election year. We'd like to remind the GOP leaders that housewives who have to buy and color their own margarine can also read, and votes can be spread as thin as high-priced butter.

They're Against Both Sides Gov TUCK of Virginia has applied the red paintbrush to the proposed anti-poll tax bill. He told the Senate Rules Committee that it was instigated and largely supported by Communists. : Maybe so. But we would like to point out to the governor that any feeling about this matter on their part has nothing to do with the political philosophy of present-day communism. Communism, Soviet style, would be just as opposed to unrestricted elections as to poll-tax elections—probably more so. For, in Russia, they have a one-party system, but with unrestricted voting. In newly-conquered Czechoslovakia, on the other hand, the Communist government is going to restrict the vote to those who have not shown themselves unfriendly to the new regime. So you see, governor, the Reds have restrictions and unrestrictions. But in neither case, of course, does the vote of the people for a picked slate of candidates have anything to do with the government's operation. Our native Communists are certainly mischief-makers. But their mischief in this case has nothing to do with Communist ideology.

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Little Stella Take an umbrella And wear your galoshes When it sloshes, The ones with the zippers, To cover your slippers; And keep your little mittens As soft as little kittens, As dry as your eye Till the rain goes by. ~MILDRED C. YOUNG. Hh © @ Foolproof fishhooks are always turning up on the market—and the fishermen continue to bite.

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VIEWS OF A SHUT-IN

I think when God created me He had a certain plan; He wanted me to understand The charity of man.

For many years he gave me strength Topwalk as others do; He helped me find the joys of life, His wondrous gifts to view.

The beauties of nature He gave to me, And following up His plan, He gently tucked me in my bed To view my fellow man. BF CLARK. ®* 4 o . Don’t rave when the spring rains come. It'll just be a lot of pester, *

NOBODY HOME

The way matters stand I have no doubt The best thing about a house Is a way to get out. -—F. P. M. ® © o Don’t walt for the fishing season to open. Drop a line nat ATi mother and dad. * ’

MY PICTURE

In after years when I'm away, And you perchance are here, Here's my picture to remind you— That all is well, my dear.

Sometimes when clouds are hanging low, -And light just won’t come through, Remember, somewhere ‘round the bend There’s sunshine there for you. © For the world is full of sunshine, And God is always near. . And the moon that rides the heavens Is always shining, dear.

And roses rare will scent the air With fragrance all anew, 80 cheerio, and fare thee well— My picture, dear, to you. (Dedicated to my daughter) ~H. T. JOHNSTON. * & +

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THANK YOU DEAR

The kindly spoken—Thank you dear, Should not be hard to say To someone who-—the same as you— May need a lift today.

—MARY R. WHITE. > . ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“NEW YORK—Art of Brewing Will Be Taught in Night School”) All hail Mr. George F. Pigott, Who for knowledge makes them drool, As his order turns the spigot In a New York City school.

There'll be joy in their confinement As to homework they adhere, Who'd find fault with this assignment— “Brew yourself a keg of beer.”

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bad over here as over there.

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JANESVILLE, Wis, Apr. 1—Running for President of the United States must be just about the hardest thing that anyone can do. The miracle is that there are men who still seek the office, with its overwhelming burden of responsibility. . Here is Harold Stassen of Minnesota, who for two and a half years has been in the midst of the presidential marathon. He stands on a platform in the gymnasium of the YMCA here in Janesville, a look of serious intentness on his squarish face. Before him are some 300 citizens who have come out to hear the candidate. At improvised tables set up on wooden trestles, they have eaten a hurried lunch and now they sit listening with something of the speaker's earnestness. This is a time of critical importance in America’s history and you sense it in the seriousness of the audience in this typical American town. The candidate talks about the overshadowing question of our day, which is the threat of the “materialistic ideology” of communism to the American way of life. If our society continues to be a dynamic, successful society and if we make a real effort to tell the world the facts, then we can win through without the tragedy of a Third World War, the candidate says. At this, the audience breaks in with warm applause. You have the feeling that they have been waiting, perhaps a long time, for someone to speak these positive, challenging words. .

Avoid Boom-and-Bust CANDIDATE STASSEN goes on to say Amerfca’s strength must be translated into a determination to avoid a boom-and-bust cycle—to show the world that we do not intend to have a crash and to fail. He insists the United States must stop all shipments to Russia of materials that can become part of a Communist war machine. Again there is applause, When the candidate finishes his extemporaneous talk, the floor is open to questions. They come thick and fast. A trade-union leader asks Mr. Stassen's opinion about the Taft-Hartley Act. The candidate gives the background of Minnesota's labor-regulatory act and then criticizes three phases of the Taft-Hartley law, This is a meeting in the oldest tradition of

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Latin America Eager For Long-Term Security

| BOGATA, Colombia, Apr. 1—The long-term outlook for | security in Latin America is every bit as serious as that in Europe | | i 1

But there is this vital difference: Europeans are saying that dollars alone will not save Europe or China, and delegates to the Pan-American Conference are saying that arms alone cannot

What is needed, they say here, is an Inter-American plan providing for hemispheric co-operation, not merely for the common defense but on the whole broad economic scale. And not for

strengthen themselves against attack from without, only to col- |

1 | | ALMOST WITHOUT exception, delegates here express grave anxiety over the economic depression now prevailing in most of | their countries. The dollar famine about which Europe complains | 80 bitterly is equally serious down here. It is true the food situation is better. But inflation, high prices and traditionally low | purchasing power for the masses makes for conditions almost as | Communist propaganda therefore falls on fertile ground. The sort of leftist civil war which today places Costa Rica's capital in | the hands of Communists might easily spread to other countries. |

signed at Rio last September is, it would not be worth much if the

MERE CO-ORDINATION of hemisphere defense alone, delegates feel, won't do the trick. Nor will a paper understanding calling for the study and control of subversive activities. There must be an Inter-American project which will get at the roots of the

This will require improved agriculture and industrial methods throughout most of the Americas. Also, more and cheaper consumer goods, better housing, water conservation, hydro-electric power, more and better roads to markets, irrigation and other

Secretary of State George C. Marshall fully understands the broad nature of his mission to Bogota. He proved that by bringing along Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman, Chairman William M. Martin Jr., of the Export-Import Bank and other economic and financial ex- | perts, as well as the usual diplomatic and political quota. But dovetailing the three phases of the conference won't be de easy. First comes hemisphere defense. The second is—to quote aT Secretary Marshall— “The prohibition of foreign-inspired subversive activifies directed against the institutions and the peace and security of the American republics.” Third is the economic, and of the three this will likely prove the hardest. - For it will require a lot of hard sense on the part of both the United States and Latin-Americai—more indeed than either has

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Stassen Pushing in Wisconsin

candidate for the highest office, voters face to face, giving ready questions as they come. It is reminiscent of a similar campaign four years ago, when the late Wendell Willkie tried to take the issues ‘to the voters of Wisconsin, knowing that the outcome of Wisconsin's primary would cast a shadow far beyond the boundaries of the state. But there are major differences between Mr, Willkie in ’44 and Mr. Stassen in '48. Mr. Stassen has the backing of powerful political forces in Wisconsin, including Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Mr. Willkie ‘was going it alone, with virtually no encouragement from any politician, and the completeness of his defeat in the primary was a blow from which he never recovered.

Primaries Are Tricky

HOW MUCH headway Mr. Stassen is making, no one can be sure. These presidential primary elections are tricky affairs. But something is happening in Wisconsin. The surest evidence of that is the fact that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York has been persuaded to make a last-minute change in plans and come out here for two days of speech-making.

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That is a remarkable decision for the man who’

preferred to hold himself aloof—willing but not too eager. To be sure, there's a third candidate in this primary race. A mythical candidate, one might almost say. Gen. Douglas MacArthur is in Tokyo, 6000 miles away. Yet the legend of his prowess and the glamour of his purple personality exert a powerful sway over the imagination in a troubled time. Maybe, says the uncertain citizen, we'd better have a strong man, a general, in the White House so we can show those Russians we mean business. And so potent is that appeal, compounded of fear and uneasiness, that the general in Tokyo may sweep this Wisconsin primary election. : That is something that has little to do with America’s political traditions. It has little to do with the candidate who stands in the doorway of the YMCA gymnasium, smiling and shaking hands. Candidate Stassen has two more meetings in two other towns and also a radio talk scheduled for the same day. He must move on. This is hard work, and at times it must seem thankless work.

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

We have enough committees now. Inaction only encourages Arab incursions and bloodshed. This is further evidence of U. 8. fumbling and faintness of heart.—Rep. E, Celler (D) of New York, commenting on UN delegate Austin’s request for another Palestine committee. ® > ©

If both parties could get together on a tax cut it would be better than to make a partisan issue of the matter. will be made to persuade President Truman to drop his opposition.—Sen. Alben Barkley (D. Ky.).

; Rent control is a step toward the communistic state. It's in the same class with fair employment practice legislation.—Rep.

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If another war comes the government may draft women and children along with the men.—Maj.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, U. 8S.

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Congress is still hostile to labor unions. of modifying the Taft-Hartley Law. union power extends over into taking spite out on the Department The House has cut its appropriations for Women’s Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the office of Secretary Lew Schwellenbach.

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to go in old age, now know what is in store for us at Julietta, . Young people should read those articles so they would Bt x thankless toward the aged who tried something for them, but were forgotten when they became helpless. Tt is time for pur Politicians, and others ta pay attention to co in institutions for children and the aged. We spend billions to send a lot of parasitic hot-shots to foreign countries. Just a few pounds of meat would

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better spread out in fron gotten pauper, with no future but grave, than it would dripping on overfed favorite sons and heartless in public office. Pardon me, but I ha hungry. : . * 4 ¢

The Way It Should Be By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City. There is no one in this country or any other country entitled to a living that does not render a service for that living. There are many who have inherited enough money from their ancestors to provide them and all their relatives with enough that they. might live in comfort without turning a hand. Such people are parasites and are undeserving and fortunes left to relatives should be returned to the state and used for the helpless, This, Brother: is my argument against “Free enterprise.” If a man just loves to make money and that is his prime purpose in life, very well, let him make it but let him also learn how to spend it, He can't take it with him. There would be less hogging and dogging and one wouldn't have to look very far for a place to spend it. I don’t believe in giving money for that never does any good but leading the.way when one is in a rut and helping them back on the road is a good investment if you never get paid back. This, brother, is democracy the way it should be lived. * ¢ 9

Why? By Mrs. Earl B. Gardner I've been interested in conditions in the Julietta Home and Central State Hospital. When I tried to get patients taken care of, I found more. red tape and questions and signing of

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spapers involved than their care was worth,

Why should we worry about the poor of Europe, 'when we could improve conditions here? ¥ Also, why can’t we have a state law to license the chiropractors? They can do more to cure nervous people and keep them out of the insane hospitals than medicine.

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; By Dale Thomas, City

In your Quiz Master colimn of Mar. 29 you misquoted the Bible, The question asked who said Sunday was made for man and not man for Sunday, Your column said this quotation was from Mark 11:27. Sr: It reads “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Webster's dictionary states that Sabbath is the seventh day, or Saturday. Sunday is not mentioned once in the Bible (other than the first day of the week). > > ¢

Ideas for Julietta By I. M. :

I read the articles on Julietta. So far as food is concerned, there seems to be plenty of it but no one in charge who knows food or how to serve it. : A good woman cook might be the answer. Is there any reason why the old people can't be given a breakfast of cooked cereal? Milk seems to be available, Potatoes and gravy would be better for dinner. : * © *

Bring '’Em Down By R. L. Frank, City.

For weeks the papers are full of how much wheat, corn and other commodities have come down. That's all fine and good. And what happens on the retail level? Nothing. When things went up, bakeries and dairy firms were quick to raise the prices on account of higher costs. But when these very things come down these firms think they can get the same price as before. They playthe customers for suckers and as long as they do not kick they charge what the traffic will bear.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Appraising Congress Job for Psychiatrists

WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Trying to appraise the record of the present session of Congress at this half-way point is a job for a psychic or a psychiatrist. In theory, Congressmen know what the people back home are thinking. So if you can feel the pulse of Congress, you should know the sentiment of the country. It is a tough-minded Congress. and Southern Democrats in revolt, there is no restraint on criticizing President Truman. Expenditures Subcommittee under one-man-grand-jury Homer Ferguson to investigate the Truman administration all through

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Strong Fear of Communism

CONGRESS is scared silly of Communists and communism. It seems more afraid of them at home than abroad. This shows up not only in the 337-t0-37 House vote to give the Un-American Activities Committee $200,000 for a year's probing. reflected in the really rugged going over which government | employees get on their loyalty tests. Anyone whose second cousin | ever visited Russia or spoke to a known Communist is suspect, as Dr. Edward U. Condon of Bureau of Standards and Hamilton Robinson of State Department's Office of Controls recently

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In the fear of communism, proposals to strengthen civil liberties in the U. S. seem hopelessly stymied. There is striking disregard of the general public welfare. The single possible exception is that taxes will be reduced. There is little interest in price controls, keeping rents down or housing. This was to be an economizing Congress. trim the President's $39.7-billion budget by $2.5 billion. projected economies can, therefore, be wiped out by one big order for new airplanes. : President Truman and Secretary Marshall have taken the lead to provide aid for China. It would be wrong, however, to say that Congress is strongly international-minded.

Fate of UN Legislation

THE INTERNATIONAL Trade Organization charter being drafted at Havana faces a tough reception. The same is true on extension of Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, Congress has declined so far to approve participation in the Organization There is frequent mistrust over the number and

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Still ahead is a big pile of unfinished business; Federal aid to education, national health legislation, Social Security law revision, and proposals to change drastically present policies on control of public power, natural gas, railroads. : Writing of a new farm policy was begun last year by Rep Cliff Hope of Kansas and the House Committee on «Agriculture. That effort seems sidetracked in favor of a simple year's extension of present farm policies. : “

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