Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1948 — Page 22
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tion returns, fewer than one Hoosier out of 400 agrees. He begs to rest . . . awhile, teach them tne
common principles of that t No freedom. of spesch It America? a a let Z human stability, cals Religion. Don yu Bettar look again, sary. . » = . No wonder . . . poor dear... he's so tired < Ra 22 Rial foolish thought, in this great THE SPEECH ITSELF was the usual demagogic ged wanis to just... reiaz . ; It is now time for.Christians to becom, drivel so beloved of the Communists who have made him ise.) ius le Worked Zor weeks embarrased with (he atheistic sng come heir fol. major: point was that government ownership of He colored . .. then he hid the eggs ently, are not throttled: ge Lar
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decision. Maybe we should not call it un80 now, dear kiddies, let us say
munitions plants would keep us out of war. He did not then—what eise-—can tbe: callea?
cab companies, 3 Some other taxicabs, irrespective of which company owns them, hayl crooks, prostitutes, and other “underworld” characters. All com. panies, barring none, employ drivers of very 800d character’ and other drivers of dubious character. Some of the heads of these csb
companies are men of fine character, while others are doubtful.
The bootleg taxi companies became ‘“bootleg” companies for the reason mentioned—
i $ * o_o mention the fact that such government ownership has not A sincere . . . ‘thanks to yout ali oY : kept Soviet Russia out of wars, did not keep Nazi Germany eo T20a E. YOURS : Why the Hub-Bub? out of war, and did not keep the United States out of war Most Jounguions who. stick strictly to theis By Jesion Fram Foy, City ‘prior 0 1018 when he said we had such government own- | Practicing on id datio usupliy fo ar; says 3 1 think Kenneth Hufford's exposure of the ership of arsenals and shipyards here. . TA BE - bootleg” taxi business has its good points Dusting off again the old pinkish party line fable of WE'RE FREE but while we are about it, let's look into other NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . ByE.T. Leech :
the “merchants of death” he charged that certain manufacturers—not named—had gobbled countless billions in profits out of the last war with the inference that the government of the United States had connived in this swindle —as indeed it must have if there had been any such. He neglected to remind his audience that while all this was “going on he was Vice President of the United States, next ‘to the top man in that very government, and that we heard no protest from him then. On the contrary, he appears
We're free to go from state to state, Or stay behind our private gate. We're free to own a home, or car, And wish aloud upon a star. We're free to window-shop the stores; We're free to close or open doors. The work we do is ours to choose; Success is ours to win or lose. We're free to take or free to give And, best of all: we're free to live. --VIRGINIA FORTNEY, 4730 E. Rleasans Run Pkwy.
Wallace Exposing American Reds
WHATEVER ITS evil effects, the Wallace Of the late ’30s. In 1941 the party<“membership campaign will serve at least one good purpose. was set at around one and a half millions. It will bring into the open the Communists ti der 16min, Before the J Sreat Raq Army and and their most active followers. It will reveal thoroughly developed, the Communists attempted the strength of the Communist conspirators and
‘revolutions in Hungary, Bavaria, Austria, Bulof the gullible non-Communists who fall for their 8aria and China. But they failed, and communism
: 3 : ; i discrimination against hauli to have done pretty well himself, financially, growing corn ¢ & fine. Ihen ult nig 0 wae on, praer to | Naturally, this a aie ed Perens to feed armies "Maybe it's only natural that people are And since nothing hurts conspiracy like eX- forces for th 4 : hub-bub about it? I simply don’t get it. J— . ' bled ally by blood relati orc e grand assault ‘that now menaces § vu * ® » a usually by relations. posure and examination, this is important. the world. Ask men who ride cabs, and again, I don't OF COURSE he talked a lot about “peace” and “de- 2. 2.0 . While alf Wallace followers are not Com- ; ean from this “bootleg” company, and they PUI mocracy.” It seems probable’ those words do not mean SPRING AND 'MAN OF HOUSE' | munists, all Communists and-fellow-travelers are How It Has Worked to Date the el] you that Ry aay to find out where : 3 : i for Wallace. They have to be; for his campaign THIS ASSAULT has been pressed both by th y uy a drink after hours, and the girl to Mr. Wallace what they mean to most of us here in Spring y here and houses bean ng ia Just position doesn’t vary an iota from the official Red Army and by internal teason : The Baitly | [ramps will be provided, too, so again why all Indiana. In a public speech a while back he expressed a on Dior anes tring Re Aor and ot Moscow line as revealed in its American mouth- gtates of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were he hu-bub 3 ou the booties Sompany. 1 preference for what he called the “industrial democracy” | in the car, there will be no place in the house piece, The Daily Worker. This makes it certain taken over by military invasion. Poland, Hungary, | ‘companies who don't Eo ry : today in Russi d advocated changes in our | to hang them. And it might also be a good is . : th t of the American le Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia were | cutting in? After all, they are advertis they have today in 8 Ab Ang idea to bring home a few ready made ham- | “Rich Will give the rest of LAS (ArH People seized by puppet national governments trained | aren't they? Iam a white person Who believes tt so own Bill of Rights to make our Constitution conform to the |. burger sandwiches just in case. Boo ance to Ko Ee amano ts see which DY Moscow, and backed by the strength of | in the old adage, “Live 6 BeTshn Who Telieves i : . — ussian occupation forces. Czechosl ! dps Soviet system. And peace, in his lexicon, appears to mean $50, I X..C of their associates and fellow unionists follow the cage of EE a a on SYakia wil 3 lee 7a fy ls only “a peasement’—nothing more. 3 : party line. School administrators and students o,f the Red Army. The P bli P : J . y_P {il recall. ‘wh idered Tomorrow is just another daze when you | and parents will be able to learn the same thing Uprisings in France and Italy, fomented by ublic Fays hee It was Henry Wallace, you will y wi 0 consiae have no idea What you are working toward. as regards teachers. Government officials and (Communist minorities which gained power over | By C. M. Jacoby, Lebanon, Ind. the Munich deal a triumph of enlightened diplomacy and : voters will secure invaluable knowledge about trade unions, falled—but perhaps only tempo |. 1 just read in The Times about John L. who insisted, right up to 1040 that, of course, we could do ON THE VINE Publis employee rarily. rete habia EE eh a with s A oF ’ by Hitler HeaVy gobrd upon the vine It would have een In more dimeuit 5, Bet The important thing to consider in all, these Lewis’ demand for $100 a month pension for business with and a Europe enslaved . ' this information without a political campa. n
cases was the vital role played by secret conspiracy. That's why America benefits from a security standpoint by anything which helps bring the plotters into the open, as the Wallace campaign is doing. Of course, this is not an unmixed blessing. The Commies would not risk disclosure of their identities and strength if they did not think that the possible gains justified that price. They are trying, along the lines followed in other countries, to break up the chief liberal party so that it will become ineffective. On its wreckage they hope to build a closely
his miners and an appeal for the people to help. Why should his men be any more entitled to a pension than anyone else? If miners get the pension, all other unions will ask for pensions. People are carrying all the debts they can stand. I don’t feel like I owe John L.'s men any more than the public owes me a penny extra on a bottle of milk for an insurance fund.’ Two years agb I got my arm broken and lost six months work. I never asked John L. or anyone else to pay me anything extra. If I had they would have said, No.
Sun like gold, air like wine, Blessed fruit of sunshine, Nestled in your leaves entwined. ~MARCELLINE BRUCKER. * Se No question a youngster asks is silly— unless the parems sans answer it. *
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which one candidate was openly advocating the policies of Russia. In this respect the Wallace third party should prove useful,
Reds Depend Upon Minority Action FOR TIME and again it has been shown that the Russian fifth column is more deadly even than the Red army. : And in all the spreading territory controlled by the Kremlin this has always been accomplished
by minority action. ’ ‘ There were only 200,000 Bolsheviks in 1917
Just as he now insists that of course we can do business : Stalin and a Europe enslaved by communism. It was this same Henry Wallace who ordered the little d and the corn plowed under, back in the Thirties, because he believed you could feed the hungry by destroy- * ing food; who now professes to be the champion of Amer- _ jean unions, although nearly all unions have openly repuIdiated him; who believes we should not help the suffering a of war-torn Europe; and who now pratties of the
rights of the “common man” and in the same breath makes excuses for the Communist enslavement of millions upon millions of human beings. . » ¥ ; INDIANAPOLIS listened to what he had to say courteously, as is our Hoosier custom, but we can't say the community was very much impressed. Peace? Of course we want peace. But all Mr. Wal‘Jace has to offer is the kind of peace that has come to 'Poland—and Czechoslovakia—and Latvia—and Lithuania . ==and Esthonia—and Finland—and Bulgaria—and * Rumania. :
Here in Indiana we want peace without chains.
On Wisconsin ’ experts missed again. The political dopesters were practically unanimous in predicting that Gen. MacArthur would sweep Wisconsin. They meticulously listed the reasons why that would happen: He had on his side ' the most formidable line-up of influential state politicians. He was a “favorite son” candidate. The people were turning in an hour of crisis to a military leader. Some of the same guessers four years ago guessed -that Wendell Willkie would win in Wisconsin. We suspect political observers devote too much of their time talking with each other, and too little talking with voters. Harold E. Stassen's astonishing victory, the prognosticators will now rear back and tell us, makes him a front runner. They were low-rating the Minnesotan a month ago after Gov. Dewey defeated him in New Hampshire. Now it will be said that Gov. Dewey's failure to capture a single delegate in Wisconsin, which he carried overwhelmingly four and eight years ago, has dealt a mortal blow to the New Yorker's presidential candidacy. The fact that Gov. Dewey, on the same day, picked up 90 delegates in New York State will not make much of an impression on the experts, for they deal more in intangibles than in arithmetic. It's the great national quadrennial sport, there are many political rivers to cross before the Philadelphia conventions, and it's a long time till November.
Duties as Well as Rights REP. LEO ISACSON, member of the Communist-con-trolled American Labor Party of New York, is mad at the State Department for not giving him a passport to go to Paris to attend a conference of supporters of the Greek guerrillas and their rebel government. These guerrillas are enemies of democracy, and of the U. 8. government. Mr. Isacson is a member of that government. It is reasonable to bar him from consorting with these enemies in his official capacity. Yet he protests that his civil liberties have been violated. This is to be expected, since no Americans holler any louder about their own civil rights than the Communists and fellow travelers. It might be well for Mr. Isacson reflect that, as a member of Congress, he also has some os.’ a
Setting out to try a stick-up, This much sadder, wiser man, Thought a partner he would pick up, To help carry out the plan. But his error was a whopper, Naught but grief it did entail, For his new friend was a copper, Who just hied him off to jail.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Argentina Still Clinging To Role of Lone Wolf
BOGOTA, Colombia, Apr. 8—Argentina still seems to be clinging to her old dream of heading a powerful Latin-American bloc against the United States. the formula.
ment that had communism by
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ment or other
This view, expressed to the writer by more than one delegate
to the Inter-American Conference here, explains to some extent why Argentina opposes almost everything that tends to strengthen Inter-American action. For the stronger the unity of the republics, the less chance there is of one state of dominating another. Argentina, it is said here, actively is seeking to organize a “third force” in the Western Hemisphere. It would be against both capitalism and communism. But it would borrow at least some of the trappings of totalitarianism,
Gave Asylum to Axis Agents
DURING WORLD WAR II Argentina followed a somewhat |
similar policy and apparently for the same reason. That is, while she disclaimed any Fascist tendencies, she gave asylum to Axis agents and was generally unfriendly to the democratic allies. She openly expressed the conviction that the allies would lose the war, and she remained ‘neutral’ despite various PanAmerican pledges of solidarity. If things had turned out the way Argentina expected, Germany and Japan would have shorn the U. 8. of all power. The victors would have levied an indemnity which would have kept us in bankruptcy for generations. the same, as would Brazil.
Argentina almost certainly would have become the dominant |
power of the Western Hemisphere.
What Will Argentina Do Now?
THERE IS widespread concern here lest Argentina pursue a similar policy now. Certainly there are many who believe she plans to remain ‘“neutraly in the event of a Third World War. Should tne Kast and West tear themselves to bits and out of the shambles Argentina might hope to take leadership over this hemisphere. But playing with any “third force” in times such as these is dangerous in the extreme. Most other delegates here know that. _ President Benes attempted to steer a course between the East and West and, it is pointed out, Czechoslovakia is a Russian colony and Dr. Benes a prisoner. In Italy the moderate parties are split and the danger of a Communist victory in the elections of Apr. 18 is admittedly great. In France there is also a “third force.” It, too, is anti-Com-munist, just as Argentina claims to be. But the failure of democratic forces in France to join hands has the government in constant danger of being overthrown and weakens its efforts to keep the Communists from seizing power. Argentina's apparent detérmination to play a solitary game here, and to form a “third force” of her own within the Inter-
American system can hardly fail to weaken the defenses of all |
the Americas.
Killed by a’44c Check
“Killed by a 44-cent check” 's the verdict, in effect, on the
death of A. Y. Almalel, a Filipino soldier of Manila, P. 1.
charge. In view of his long army service, he anticipated a substantial amount. But when a check for only 44 cents arrived, he was so shocked he went insane. he recently died.
Dr. L. G. Almeda, a Manila surgeon, who performed an
autopsy on the dead soldier, says Almalel succumbed to the
effects of the mental derangement—caused by that tiny check.
when Lenin overthrew the revolutionary govern-
of the Library of Congress, it was estimated that the Russian Communist Party reached its peak in membership in 1933, when approximately three ers were enrolled. About half this number was removed through execution, imprison-
The only new thing about it is
Canada would have fared
collide, Russia and the U. 8. would
A Bataan veteran, Almalel filed for back pay after his dis- |
His condition deteriorated until |
ousted the Czar. In a study of the Legislative Reference Bureau to overthrow the American make this country another Moscow dictatorship. We can be thankful that few months we will have a to spot many of the enemy methods during the great purges )
Side Glances—By Galbraith
knit and tightly disciplined radical party directed by Moscow. Thus they would fashion a weapon
cover to engage in a political campaign.
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I have farmed for 60 years. I think on the Lewis plan I would be entitied to $300 a month. The consuming public can’t afford to pay the miners pension. Why not pay their pension out + | of the $13 million they talk about. during the next Unions must be reasonable and know when rare opportunity they are getting enough. Bear in mind the when they leave public pays the bill and when the public has no money, unions have no jcbs.
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson
Voice of America Gets Tough With Russians
WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—The Voice of America is changing. It's toughening up. It's getting results. The proof is that Moscow radio and Communist-dominated government broadcasting stations behind the iron curtain have started to scream their denunciation of all U. 8S. State Department Voice programs. “I have listened to quite a few Voice of America broadcasts in the Russian language,” said one Moscow announcer in a recent English program beamed to the U. 8. “It is not hard to tell from the contents that a handful of bitter enemies of the USSR run these broadcasts.” ? In between he tried to tell the Kansas farmer, the Pennsylvania coal miner, the schoolteacher in California that the Voice of America was trying to build up an entirely false picture of U. 8. life. According to him, there was a “r"nic” on the stock exchange, the U. 8. economic slump was begiuning: Communist attacks on the Voice of America are not confined to radio. The Communist press has taken up the cry in Pravda, Izvestia and others, telling the Russian people not to believe what they hear on American short-wave broadcasts.
Russian Denial Encouraging
TO THE MEN who direct the American information program —William T. Stone in general charge in Washington, Charles Ww. Thayer directing the Voice in New York—all this is encouragement. When U. 8. foreign broadcasting was moved into the State Department after the war, the policy was to build up a reputation for accuracy, fairness, dependability. . In the past few months this policy has been changed. Th shift began when Secretary of State George Marshall spoke i Chicago last December. In this speech Mr. Marshall called Soviet propaganda against the U. S. “brazen and contemptuous.” B® said it was time to call a halt, When Mr, Marshall came back
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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People
Russia has not acted in accordance with things said at my conference with Stalin. They have followed a policy of disruption, attempted infiltration everywhere and have caused Communist riots in France and Italy.—Harold E: Stassen. * © @ We may differ as to the extent and the method (of the Marshall Plan), but if we give that aid to Europe we will save the situation in Europe and save ourselves from another war.— James A. Farley, former Postmaster General. * So
Men used to have a safe refuge . .. in the corner saloon. ... But now, when he seeks comfort at his favorite saloon, whom does he find with feet on the brass rail beside him? Women. Dean Mildred Thompson, Vassar College. aS oS
So far President Truman seems to be getting more opposi- | tion from the Democrats than from the Republicans. Mr. Truman simply can’t win with such a strife-torn, broken-down organization.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O0.). edb
-A free, independent and peaceful, and friendly China is of profound importance to the peace of the world.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, U. 8 Army. rh
from the futile ‘Council of Foreign Ministers meet... 2. Londod last January, he was even more bitter, ; From that time on the Voice of America began to toughen When the Russians put out preposterous propaganda, it is nailed instantly by an official statement broadcast right back at the Russians. In one day, just before Secretary Marshall left fof the Bogota conference, he put out four of these blasts.
Russia and Satellites Counteract
RUSSIAN, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian and Yugoslav radios have started a campaign to discredit the Voice of America. » When the Russians devalued the ruble and the Americal press did such a good job in pointing out the differences i? standards of living between Russian and American workmen the Voice of America picked up the comparisons and broad them right back to Russia. That got the Communists’ goat. The war of words in the air is on, and it's hot.
As Greek Envoy Sees It
Adexandros Argryropoulos, Greek ambassador to Ching, be lieves Russia’s plans include the Far East as well as Europe. No amount of talking, the ambassador told reporters du visit to Manila recently, can stop the Russian advance in E and other parts of the world. ? Unless the United States and Britain toughen up their foreig® . policies, Mr. Argryropoulos warned, Communists will continue infiltrate practically every field of activity. the Soviet Russia is bold because “the U. 8.’and Britain, for the past three years, have only made feeble attempts to oust creeping Communist,” he added.
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