Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1948 — Page 12

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Trieste Is Italian “H American note to Russia proposing a May conference to return Trieste to Italy will influence the Apr. 18 elections. Since the Western Powers suggested the Trieste shift three weeks ago, Italian Communists have been on the defensive and probably have lost ground. * Now Washington, London and Paris are reminding the Italians that Russia, their professed friend, has not even to the proposal. Whatever Stalin does he will o either his Yugoslav puppets or the Italians. He has quarreling over territories. But they are safely in his sphere and can't get out, while Italy is still free. Stalin's effort to use his Yugoslav ‘stooge, Tito, to get the Italian Communists off the hook, has failed so far. Tito suggested negotiations to swap Trieste for Gorizia and other territory. Rome replied that both Trieste and Gorizia were Italian. Since then Tito has been denying he . ever made that sour suggestion, and has been looking for a better way to trick the suspicious Italians. Though the Western proposal to give Trieste back to Italy is clever timing in the midst of a critical Italian election campaign, it is not an unscrupulous reversal of policy. To barter Trieste and wreck a peace treaty for Italian votes It would rise up to curse us in all future treaty enforceix aes SME Re : . | THE ITALIAN ELECTION campaign is the occasion but not the cause of the Trieste The policy itself recognition of Italy’s just claims, which were comproprovision for a free state of Trieste has

Russia has blocked appointment of a governor and _ prevented operation of the international machinery speified in the treaty. Yugoslavia has violated the treaty and stolen part of the free territory by converting it into a agoslav police state. All of the civil rights guarantees been destroyed, including free press and free elecFor the Western Powers to condone this treaty violation by Stalin and Tito, and leave Italian Trieste to the terrorist rule of alien dictatorship, would be a betrayal of peace and justice. It should be returned to Italy as a matter of right. That this can be proclaimed by the democracies at the moment the same Red dictatorship is trying capture all Italy by election trickery is a happy, though 0 of Stalin's perfidy in Trieste. -

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Sock the Scalpers [ANY people learned a lot of Had habits on the home came out of shortages, meat coupons and buying restric tions.» i;

stooped to being on the buyer's end kept pretty quiet. Good people did without scarce items. The other kind lined the pockets of the chiselers. : 1t has even touched Indiana's favorite winter sport— basketball. Yesterday Judge Joseph M. Howard in Court 3 fined an Indiana man $100 and costs on a charge of trying to sell tickets to the state basketball tournament for $25 each when thousands of high school students had to miss the games. The decision will be appealed. But right now we're lining firmly up behind the judge for his strict atti-

tude against

. We have an unbounded faith in amateur sports. We commend the judge for his insistence that they be kept ' clean. Se

Face—Jap and Otherwise THERE'S one little by-product of the Wisconsin election ‘which we believe should not go unnoticed. Gen. MacArthur ran second in the voting, and Japanese editors immediately began debating whether he had “Jost face” in their country. To an Oriental “face” is an intangible quality as peculiar as it is valuable. It is something deeper, far more important, than reputation or even character. It has to do with one’s ability to | on to his pride; it's close to vanity. * Now Gen. MacArthur has been accused of inordinate vanity, but as an American he well knows he hasn't lost face at home. We don’t keep score that way. As for the Japanese, there may be a few quick guesses by their editors that Gen. MacArthur lost face but their masses are not apt to forget that Hirohito lost a war as well as much face And then came Gen. MacArthur with a new concept called democracy in which there is little to-do about face. It's still his job, teaching democracy in Japan, and even at this time he did not pass up the opportunity to drive home a truth when he made this statement: “One of the things which has made our country great is that men may thus freely speak their minds and fearlessly record their individual viewpoints. ‘Let us always preserve it that way.” We hope the Japanese grasp the point that democracy is something in which you can hold on to your face at all fimes.

Another Campus Casualty A MONTANA State College student, married, a father, and a veteran of 36 air combat missions, was killed by a college employee in an incident growing out of a campus society initiation. This is only one of many tragedies connected with collegiate pranks which are part of our academic history. But the circumstances make it particularly regrettable. We aren't against fun. But it would seem, with a more mature student body in America's colleges, that this would be a good time to curb the senseless, dangerous exof hazing and initiation in favor of a little more conon the serious business of education in a serious

by . oan and British Orice on a windy day

‘Nobody likes under-the-counter deals. Even those who :

I paused Is not all life like this?

A roar and then a blast, A A gust and everything a man holds dear is

There they go!" Through the wind of time. And I remained so still, Something in my eye.

Now how pleasant and calm it is The holocaust has quieted.

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The moon is like a baby sitter Watching She probably would have the jitters

But I wonder if she has as much fun

As the baby sitters of the little ones

The price of gas, oll and fires makes going broke a short " by au. *

When you get too familiar on shortqunotice you're likely not b benoticed for long,

Things New life is taking hold From out of death-—it shoots its hope.

spring bonnet? We suspect the *

. ("WASHINGTON-—White House balcony finished; Truman is ready to try it out.”)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Leigh White Fifth of Iraqi Starving From Bread Shortage

ing for lack of bread.

{nhabitants is the basic cause of demonstrations, strikes and riots that have become almost a daily occurrence here since the Saleh Jabr government was forced to resign last January.

price in the last month from 4 to 7 cents. The basic dollar wage of unskilled laborers today’ buys only four pounds of bread on the open market, whereas in normal times it bought 15.

about the high cost of living, the basic $1.50 wage of unskilled laborers still buys 10 pounds of bread, although it normally bought more than 20.

What Caused the Shortage

bination of three factors:

dan to support the Arab army in Palestine.

skilled workers, artisans and members of the small but growing middle class. :

production of wheat. owm population with better than a subsistence diet, as well as export wheat to Syria plagued with social turmoil.

Grain Supply Insufficient

usually have been—they will not change the fact that the country's grain supply is not sufficient to feed more than four to five million inhabitgnts. The only effect of wage increases to date has been to raise the price of bread.

East will have to increase its own wheat production or. face eventual starvation. :

their efforts to assist the Iraqi Government in going ahead with | its plans for a Tigris-Euphrates Valley Authority.

Joan to Iraq if its government agrees to carry out the $250 million project in a manner acceptable to American irrigation experts. ican assistants until Washingto problem in a manner acceptable to the Arab League.

influence over the hungry poor in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul and Kirkuk, A :

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BABY SITTER over the little stars If they were as little children are.

Watching over her little charges

All the little Joes and Marges. : == MILDRED C. YOUNG. *

THE LASTING SMILE

Always as gay as he could be, the trials of life,

Even through For what's the use, as he could see, Of frowning in the time of strife.

And when his life came to an end, The smile still lingered on; It traveled swiftly friend to friend, And never has quite gone,

So, like his smile, his spirit's here To live on through the years; This man who seldom shed a tear, Helps smile away our fears.

His body resting 'neath the sod Shall ever peaceful lie; He gazes on the face of God, Whose smile shall never die. ~BESSIE CLARK. ¢ ¢

WASHINGTON, Apr. 13—Bloody revolution is part of the fabric of Latin-American politics. But such revolutions do not just happen suddenly and for no reason at all. They grow out of long-smouldering resentments and conflicts, sparked by leaders whose aims and ambitions are fairly well known. Over the ashes of tragic Bogota is a towering question mark. Were American officials sufficiently well informed about the explosive potentialities in Colombia? A number of other related questions oie i] occur, but that one is paramount. PASSING BY ; For the first time in its history, this country 4 : has a Central Intelligence Agency. The Agency, under the direction. of Admiral R. K. Hillenkoetter, has its own staff of agents. In addition, it co-ordinates the intelligence reports of the Departments of State and National Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although outsiders can know almost nothing of its work, the hopeful impression prevails that Washington is for the first time equipped to jearn what is about to happen well in advance of its happening. There is evidence, however,

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in some instances at least, the kind of knowl: been stirred—repose Library of Congress.

Sy ag We Gimmy. } Usually Pop-Gun Anti-Climax b ONE OF THE CIVILIANS entitled to receive Who set the price on the good wife's new | “5,3 read the intelligence agency's top secret re-

mad hatter. ports gets a lot of laughter out of the privilege.

He has become accustomed to the kind of ‘anticlimax that bursts with the fury of a child's popgun. a Here is an example. A heavily armed mesgenger Of the Intelligence Agency arrives with a top-secret document. It can be delivered only into the official's hands. The seals must be broken in the presence of the armed messenger and the official. If the official should decide to take it home and read it overnight, being a busy and hardpressed man, then an armed guard would have to patrol his house during the night. He ex-

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

With his portico completed, Mr. Truman seeks repose. But his aim may be defeated He may never even doze.

A small matter of direction Has the Chief down in the mouth— His veranda lacks perfection; “Suh,” the darned thing faces South!

amines the document and finds it is: a copy

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . . Stiffen Internal Security Defenses

that the cloak and dagger atmosphere cloaks, edge that an earnest reader could obtain in the .

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of a report printed in London and available to a fairly sizeable number of readers. It is understandable that a brand new fintelligence agency cannot achieve perfection overnight. Years of experience and development are necessary to round out such an organization, At one point, however, a matter of elementary co-operation would bring a decided improvement. This is the point at which internal security and foreign intelligence meet. | Under the law, the FBI is responsible for internal security. This covers sabotage, with all its new and terrifying possibilities in bacterial and atomic death. But the authority of the FBI ends at the water's edge where central intelligence and the Army and Navy take over,

Tokyo Call Monitored

.. CO-ORDINATION is not good. I have learned of specific examples of where it has failed and where the failure could be serious. During the war and in the events that led ‘up to war, the Army and Navy tended to treat the FBI like a dubious stepchild. For example, the Navy has specific information about the

landing of two enemy agents in New England. '

This information was not passed along to the FBI for 10 days and then only in a vague and

form, although detection and capture

of the agents was the job of the FBI. A glaring example came to light in the Pearl Harbor investigation. The FBI in Hawaii, and the FBI alone, monitored a telephone call from Honolulu to Tokyo on Dec. 6. This revealing conversation, with its thinly disguised references to .a major event to come, was passed on to both - Army and Navy commanders. It was ignored.

The very fact of an arbitrary separation between domestic security, on the one hand, and foreign intelligence and security, on the other, is dangerous in the face of. the threat of world communism. That jealousies should hamper cooperation is fantastic at this moment in history. Military policy-makers say the field of internal security is “under study.” There is little time left for study. We need, and quickly, an efficient, mature ageney that can bring together all sources of information and analyze them promptly. The kind of explosion that occurred in Bogota should not come as a surprise.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Apr. 13—A million Iraqis are slowly starv-

The gnawing physical hunger of a fifth of this country’s

‘Small round khubas of flat Arab bread have increased in

In neighboring Iran, where workers are also complaining

THE CAUSE of Iraq's desperate bread shortage is a com- |

ONE—Last year's drought combined with a plague of locusts. | TWO—Increased exports of wheat to Syria and Trans-Jor-

THREE—Unimproved living standards, since the war, of

The only solution to the problem is to increase the country's Until such time as Iraq can provide its

and Trans-Jordan, the country will be

Glances—By Galbraith

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EVEN if demands for higher wages are granted-—and they

"They tried to cross a radish with an onion and they're waiting to see what it looks like when it comes up!"

The American and British governments have acted to

In a world mow chronically short of wheat, the Middle | Slogans denouncing the Egyp

This is why American representatives here have renewed

The International Bank has approved in principle a sizable

But the Iraqi Government is unwilling to accept Amern has solved the Palestine

of their tribal chiefs.

The Communist Party meanwhile is gaining considerable | election. A few “c

the Communist Pa.

Although the anti-Communist Istiglal, or Independence Party still dominates the opposition to the Saetaker government o Mohamed Es Sadr, the Communist character of many recen ameliorate the situation temporarily by persuading the interna- : tional emergency food commission to divert another 10,000 tons bread riots has been unmistakable, of wheat to Iraq. But our representatives here are convinced that no permanent result will be achieved by taking wheat away from one hungry country and sending it to another.

It is difficult for observers here to doubt, for example, that the Communists had a good deal to do with last Saturday's hunger march in which members of the student union shouted tian Government, no part of the Istiglal's intention to confuse police strikes in Cairo and Alexandria with its pre-electoral campaign in Baghdad. The date of the forthcoming elections has not been decided, but American representatives here are doing their best to make certain that the election will be a fair one. That the conservatives will win is a foregone conclusion since three-quarters of the members of the Iraqi Parliament come from rural areas where the fellahs ‘vote according to the orders

In urban areas, however, the istiqlal has a good chance of winning the majority of seats if the government permits a free |, ommuists” may also win but, since is illegal in Iraq, they can only win as they dofn the United States—by disguising their real intentions. % * x

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Yes, Craig is Indiana’s choice » post—National Commander of Ae op n—and there is no division of purpose between World War I and II veterans, no idea of wresting control, but to work for the good of the Legion, for God and Country, Community, Stale ang hs Nation: and any one of the 314 n of our on me; port this statement. -. ; bership WIR sup

No Such Animal By Mary Pickard, 1824 Southeastern A There seems to be no one Td oo about fast time, except a few city papas. Clocks can be set ahead and fast time made by so doing but there just ain’t no such animal

set clocks up but God's daylight tim p EE toys Jayight time Jus eu't The railroad man’s wife was right when she said fast time made a mess of railroad émployee’s work, as trains run by Standard time. I, as a retired railroad employee's iow, As we had & siege of ghe meds. © e peop mail me a postcard stating choice of time, I will take them to our Feeney in person. : : : I sure do not like the “whoopin’ up” time, Let Majority Rule = = By Shatles W. Burton, 611 E. Maryland St,

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fojuatics fob the weaker minority, » know approximately 96 per cent of the population work for a living. This 96 per cent has lost confidence in the promise of their leaders because of unfulfilled promises, which were based on Godless optimism. Just two years ago the people who ply their trades for a weekly wage were asked for full production. They gave their best effort in their trades. Today ‘thousands are laid off and their savings evaporating in high prices.

Barren At By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham S8t., City.

the law is barren. There is no protection when the rental holder refuses to rent. ‘This is the unpleasant result of the Jaw. It is this loophole that is flooding the market with rental property for sale. This is the legal “purge” of ienants Pan pepping up evictions. - 2 ndoul y the existing rental shortage is not intended by Congress. It is time Jostage Supreme Court to take another ‘léok at this law, It may need some constitutional modifica-

Mion. A law of this character will weaken. our legal and constitutional system. Bd

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen

Capital Has Job Jitters Looking at Fall Election

WASHINGTON, Apr: 13— On top of a war scare and the general strain of confused living in the nation’s capital, the federal population has found a new cause for fitters. For the past 16 years employment conditions for government workers have been exceedingly stable. Now, however, thé chances of there being a flock of new bosses around after the election next November seem to be getting bigger every day.

The big question is just what will a new President meas to the 2 million or so federal employees,

Approximately .95 per cent of all U. 8. employees are now protected by civil service laws. The only way a néw President

could affect their jobs would be by drastically cutting down the size of the government.

~. . There has been talk of the possibility of legal gimmi Which ‘could be used. An agency sould ba sbolisnen by Fumi and immediately recreated under a hew act. This would void an employee’s legal status in that agency and they could all be fired. It is doubtful if a new President would try this. Included in the 5 per cent who aren’t under civil service are persons working for the Tennessee Valley Authority, assistant U. 8. district attorneys, members of commissions and federal Judges appointed for specific terms, county agricultural agents,

Top 2000 Most Worried

THE MOST important jobs with that 5 “ the ones which constitute the real oh a ny ne Srcrating administration, These ‘include cabinet posts, . nt secretaries and undersecretaries, most bureau and the top diplomats. i \ Shjefs aed that there are about 2000 such ke ercircle positions now in the federal government. oh oY endent usually knows the holders of these jobs personally. He helps select them. Some have to be approved by the Senate. They are the men he must trust to carry out his broad policies. Bh) duis Sally. the Roldérs of these 2000 jobs today who are abou possibilities of Pres: Truman's chan for F-Slastion, Their jobs are at stake. Ment 2 a e cause for job worries isn’t necessarily limited to the 2000, The top level civil service employees erly that a new his SF Sasistant secretary couldn’t legally fire them. But ave r authority take unpleasant fobs. Yak >

Giant Inheritance for a President

THIS WHOLE question by no means is a ‘of wo only to federal employees. In case of a J es fon it ‘would be the new President who would have the real worry i under the federal Government set-up as it exists today. He has to change the course of the giant, ponderous 2-million-man piachine which is Je. executivé branch of the government with elp of only men Ww robab ce in Eovernment service before. ep 4 BE hag Speen ere is a new President he will be stepping ique situation. No previous President te I organization to try to run in the first place, except Truman who was really ;not stepping into the job cold. And second, a new President have less help on his

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Members Pi Sorority an outdoor lish Theat Apr. 30 to | the campai National C: alumnae’s | Little Red | County Ce members 8S liver suppli ages and h

The Inc State Asser will have i tomorrow | tel. Mrs. A discuss “F tion.”

Broad PTA Tome

The PTA « School will 1 morrow in t Reed. of the speak on * ality,” and 1 mon will tal tion to Teac: New office the meeting tea and -socl The organ a book revi day in the si proceeds wil a public ad school. Rak will review (Byrnes).

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