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If We're Attacked, Blame The Rules Committee N the past, we haye had a lot to say about the House

Rules Committge, and particularly its chairman, Rep. | Leo Allen (R. IIL}. Its refusal to permit a vote on the Towe Universal Military Training Bill—now winding up its

108th day in 8 committee pigecnhole~is undemocratic and unfair. We do not believe any group of men has a right under our form of government to set themselves up as little dictators. Now we learn the Rules Committee is blocking another piece of legislation, also vital to our national security, For the same number of days—108—it has refused to permit a vote on legisistion which, among other things, would speed the guided missiles ‘program and strengthen our This blockade, like the embargo on UMT, cannot be justified. It has prevented construction of a new jet fighter base at Ft. Yukon, improvement of the big long-range bomber base near Fairbanks, expansion of our garrisons at Anchorage, Fairbanks and Adak. ; If we thought it would do any good, we might point .out to Mr, Allen and his committee that Alaska is 26 miles at its nearest point from Russian Siberia, We might argue that Russia has jet fighters in the Bering ared and sub. marines based only’ 550 ‘miles from American thrritory. ‘But we don't think it would do any good. We know Mr. Allen and his Rules Committee. We can only wonder how long the American people will tolerate this sort of |

Harriman as ERP Ambassador PRESIDENT TRUMAN has named Becretary of Com‘mérce Harriman as roving ambassador fof the Euro-

pean ‘Recovery i It is a good choice, 3 wh Pucker up your lips, son, cut loose on a tune, the old mansion. At the windows back of his home-spun idealist unconcerned with clever shifts This is one of ‘difficult and thankless jobs for | 1¢ keeps py face a-shining like the month queic are brickered draystis Nie alts tading 3 Heart oth Eni Chk i ¢ nih i 8 fof June; marble fireplace. e ma which the perfect man is never available, it indeed he | You are worth a million, then some dollars | Grant Wood's rtrait of hiz mother, an angular art 0 nig : t exists. Though Mr. has fewer critics than mu * more— woman painted against an expanse of Middle THAT 18 & question always with an mall of ala 58 : in public service, th Manly little fellow, years of six and four, Western sky. pit Tau ing amyition. Ja. : - 5 : : em ~BARNEY E. ANTROBUS, Both A Aral lak out of "While he gets a lot of assistance from the able, X Hs OG = Gal pe inistrati official =p Beta l2 ist outside. He sits hunched down in determined men around him, it is clear that Mr. Republi any adm on ; e Jus Wallace is a shrewder and more calculating poli- . t. If ANS ha ‘GOP politician they COPY CATS his chair, the familiar look of inwardness, of self- ticlan ® than he appears to be on the 8 for the post. 1f they cant. bh hgh vo more | COPY Cals strutting down the avenue. contemplation, on his 1408. or some this man fs DWight McDonald, who made a thorough study want an outside businessman. wan ° | Cats with claws, but two legs, It ia hard to rea of Mr. Wallace's writings and speeches before

hard-boiled than the rather quiet, soft-spoken Secretary ‘ ra business. For that: rea-

man ch was held against him by oliticians and diplonidts when he first olitica] office and foreign service. asador, in addition to business knowlis diplomatic experience and skill Mr. Harriincon in Moscow when that was our most diffioults foreign post, and he was our able ambassador in London during.s csucial period. To be effective the ERP envoy must be known Kbroad as having the personal confi dence of the President——another Harriman qualification. "As for hard-boiled qualities, if Btalin could not push him around we are not ‘worried about his holding his own elsewhere. Actually, ERP will succeed or fail not by ulti- : A persuader will get far more

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matum but co-operation. done that a tablethumper, ; Mr. Harrinian also hag more specific qualifications.

before it was proposed officially by. Secretary Marshall, and his Harriman Committee—on which Mr, Hoffman served<-made the best study of it: Finally he understands “-the Russian. issue, being one of the first. officials to face

the facts when appeasement was still the popular policy.

As Others See Us

RR Rn THE DOCTOR AND THE DICK

In the ledger, of the ages, writ by Futher Time

and go; Keep your heart-fires glowing, they will burn a ho . : Through the world’s tough cuticle, right into its soul.

“In Tune With the Times

In days of golden memory, . Dwelt a.doctor and a dick. Theiformer's name was Watson, Who saw every Sherlock trick.

He knew the “V. R.'* on the wall, The needle in the arm (7); The slipper Persian, the 'baccy shag, The gown upon lean form.

He saw the ladies moan and weep, Saw Sherlock's heart wide open, s He knew that Holmes would never leap, Would never ever rope ‘em,

He saw the cases come and go, And forgot to tell us many; What we wouldn't give fer them Would be a million times a penny.

And so, with story, treatise, quip, Pius quiz and illustration, We study them: The doe, the dick, Sherlockians of the nation, ~J, N. WILLIAMSON,

*Vietoria Regina, whose Initials Holmes patriotically shot with a revolver onto the

wall, ¢ ¢ A California girl speaks 17 languages. How does she ever keep a secref in all of them? * + ¢

"HOW ABOUT IT, NEIGHBOR?

Is the record of your labors, your every deed and mine, Will you be ashamed, my neighbor, at what's written there of thine? Remember, you can't alter, neither jot, nor change a line But you can amend the ledger, by acts and deeds sublime Will we be ashamed, my neighbor, when eyes . that are divine, Shall read the record of the ages, of your deeds and mine?

" =~MARBSHALL E. HELLES. PR How do the bands in a parade know they

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Greatest American BS By A. B, Brown, 1116 N., Ave, City ‘May 1 pay my humble tribute to whom consider as pre-eminently the greatest Amen ican In all its history? 2 & And the passing of time tends to confirm conviction that his death was a national calam. ity 3nd an international catastrophe. - "The date of his passing marks the begin, ming of national and imsinationsl beginning o ee the hope that the United

lead the way to a universal t make a dream of “one world” tote

reality. ; § The voice that could rekindle of hope and courage in the untold millions of depressed, distressed pressed people here and dll aver the could by the “turn of " confound eritics, rout his enemies and A. na te his way of thinking all in one minute “fireside chat,” is forever .s the great soul of him still marches on after the names of the cowardly dared not attack his good name he but now try to besmear and besmirch his mem. ory has passed into the limbe of : fore otten things the memory of “Fr Delano Roosevelt” will still be a living force for good in the hearts of decent men. ¥ . I doubt that his like will ever pass this way again. * v4

Spring Overflow By Mrs, Foy N. Wade, R, R. 3, Box 442-H, Oily Several years age J. K, Lilly Jr. built a loves along the east bank of Eagle Creek, near Traders Point. = Every spring the waters of Creek back up, because of this levee, into. homes of people in Traders Point causing damage, - We want to know why he do this, 1 thought a law forbade any one building a levee or dam causing water to back up onts other peoplé’s property. i but it does no good. «Nature inte for the waters of streams to spread out ever the low lands in this time of floods, and if this leves was not there the water would spread out inte Mr. Lilly's fields, It would not do any damage

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Shabby little fellow, with your hungry eyes, God is looking on you from the farther skies; Large this world and kindly, if you only know Who if is that's brother and who it is that's Je

On the hunt to woo.

Women cats fluffing out their curly hair Cats jealous of their prestige,

Knowing what they wear, Funny cats bothering to keep within a ‘| the old days. Cats following a pattern, ‘mold. if ~ Outward) To fashion's slavery sold.

Women, much 1ike cats, as everyone will say, Soft, sweet, and purring, yi But with claws tucked neat away.

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Rubber bathing suits are showing again. Ab, “will he alte’Sa Selon but on the hesch.

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(“BEVERLY HILLS, Cal~=Too Much Decor Driving Husbands Wild.”). ¢ “Darling, bring me out my slippers, “And my old, well-seasoned pipe, “And my housecoat with the zippers, “While I tell you of my gripe: “Burn those doo-dads to an ember, “Throw that bric-a-brac away, “And I'll love you in December, “As Idid way back in May,”

IN WASHINGTON , . , By Peter Edson

‘Off-Record’ Muzzled Truman's Best Speech

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—There's altogether too much good news’around this town being put “off the record.” For instance:

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AS cities grow old, they begin to puff a little climbing the stairs of time, They grow neavier with population, too, Their burdens accumulate. They get to the point where they need exercise of the imagination. They start in a center and grow, for one reason or another, in almost any direction. Sometimes the direction, changes. Sometimes it is the mode of transportation or a shift in

“+4 the industrial districts. But they do change,

very city's problem is to make its changes in the right‘direction. There is seldom full agreement on what the right direction is. All sorts of ideas are thrown together, and out of them there must come decision, step-by-step. ; While the decisions for city changes are and must be made on the home grounds, it is well to give the experts a hearing, * Decision to make a survey of Indianapolis May 15, 16 and 17 by a panel of national .authorities on community development was reached at a meeting sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and attended by Mayor Feeney, city department heads and businessmen. It means three days of intensive study both by examining the city and its. problems and by weighing tne reports and ideas of the city's department heads. The city is in no way obligated tc adopt any of the proposals of the Central Business District Council of the Urban Land Institute which will make the survey. But there is nothing to lose and possibly a great deal to gain by looking af another architect's blueprints.

A New Civic Theater

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most illustrious names in the world of arts.

the hearts of at least two generations.

good news to learn that one of our foremost comassets, the Civic Theater, is to be rebuilt next year. And it is still better news to learn that it is to be dedicated to the late Booth Tarkington, one of Indiana's |

The Indianapolis Civié Theater, fcunded as the Little in 1915, {s the oldest community theater in the , more than adequate testimony to the place it has

The best speech President Harry 8, Truman ever made in his life was an “off the record” talk of some 15 minutes before the closing session of the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention here in Washington. More than 200 editors were present, 100 Washington correspondents and 500 other guests. They all know about it and are telling their friends about it. But not one line of the subject matter has so far busted into print or on the air. Mr. Truman had previously been on the record and on the air in a short, set speech to the editors about the need for his santi-inflation program. He read from a manuscript somebody else had written. It was cold headcheese without pickles or mustard— important, but flat, dull and nothing you could sink your teeth into. When the President went ‘off the record” he dropped his lecturing attitude. He talked slowly and naturally. He had poise, pause and emphasis. He made sense. His audience applauded him wildly half a dozen times. Everybody left the big banquet room not only impressed but enthusiastic.

Could Well Have Been Released

THE SILLY PART of this whole performance is that there wasn't anything the President ‘said “off the record” that couldn't have been put on the record, It would have done the American people good to hear it. It would have made perfect material for Voice of America broadcasts to Communist as well as non-Com-munist countries, It would have made bigger headlines than the President got for his anti-inflation talk. It would have done Harry Truman a lot of good, personally and politically. But under the unwritten rules of newspapers and radio business, "off the record” remarks of an official are not printed or broadcast in any way. The real purpose pf “off the record” statements is to keep writers or commenta®® irom putting out incorrect information. If “off the record” statements were used, they might embarrass congressional or offigia! relations, might reveal information of value to a potential enemy, or might ball up some delicate diplomatic negotiations not yet completed.

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“OFF THE RECORD” press conferences are also called t] brief correspondents on news coming up for future release. This provides background so reporters can write intelligent pieces. “Information for background” can in general be used, with or with. out being credited to the source, as specified. “Off the record” remarks therefore do have a real usefulness at times. Where the system goes wrong is that much of the material given “off the record” might just as well be put “on the record.” In the first place, as in all other businesses, there are a few bad actors in press and radio work who make a specialty of bréaking the rules by disclosing “off the record” information. In one form -or another, most “off the record’ dope gets printed eventually. Secondly, the “off the record” practice operates as a kind of peacetime censorship. It was never meant for that, Itswas intended to provide a gentlemen's agreement unde: which governmens afi~

NEW YORK, Apr, headquarters

it is sald to be bullet-proof—is the focus ef the hopes and the fears of millions of Americans, Mr. Wallace's private office is in what was once & smallish bedroom on the second floor of

‘ saint, endowed with all the virtues, and for others 2} devil, prophet of evil, determined to destroy the the safe, the secure. ashington visitor, seeing Mr. Wallace in this new setting, is how little he has changed since

5 ‘yes. His hair, is nearly white, The “wrinkles around his eyes have deepened. ight. But in spite of

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~ THE 3XME HOMELY expressions come into his talk. He refers to what “the folks out West” i (Or what he thinks they're thinkHe speaks of, members of his family as “Sister Mary” and “Brother John.” Questions and issues that annoy or disturb him he brushes aside, as a hard-working man would brush away a gnat buzzing around him. The influence of the Communists on his campaign, the intentions of Russia in the world, these are extraneous to the stream of his talk, which

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Wallace Criticizes Russia in Book

starts and stops and starts again.

23—Henry Wallace has his’

: the last survi man- Above all, Mr. Wallaee is a symbol. To the ow you Jekety son. keep your lon of ne days of & jo wealth on lowe: Pari clever Re around him vip ary directing bis 'oward crowds come . Wallace is the No, 1 political campaign for the y ; : : : Ho Avis You. 4 YO A of ue 3 this brownstone. ro useful symbol. 2

to the fields. ; A few years ago the levee broke and he had it rebuilt higher. Why is one man permitted to do such a thing to us? I know we eould file suit in civil eourts but that would cost a lot of money. < ‘ fos ; Every spring we must clean mud and trash out of our homes, i .

The Big Bird

By Jeanne Seymour

What impresses the

these changes, he even looks is carelessly tied necktie goes off in different directions. "He talks exactly as he talked when he was Vice President and when he was Secretary of Commerce—the same slow formulation of ideas and sentiments, painted generously with a broad

The question that arises js to what degree he lends himself-—consciously and - deliberately—to their purposes. To put it another way, how much of him is calculating politician and how much ig

writing a book on the third party candidate, found that he had said almost everything on every side of every question. Expediency counts for much more first apparent. In his new book, “Toward World Peace, Mr. Wallace criticizes some things about Soviet Russia. He did the same at the $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner here when he stressed the importance of a middle way between communism and fascism. 3 4 This is distinctly a mew tack. It contrasts sharply with Mr. Wallace's refusal during the past two years to voice any criticism of Russia or even to listen to criticism. . He says what he has said often before—-that he is in the race to stay. The nomination of Justice William O. Douglas or Gen. Eisenhower instead of President Truman would make no differ ence because, as he puts it, the Democratic Party is committed to war. : Soon he will leave to speak in lowa and Kansas.

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ain the sky is causing us to look upward i's large mysterious shaped bird seen in Belvidere, Ill. Last year it was the saucers. California announced through the columns - of the paper that we had a far-reaching and searching light to detect any object in the sky, Use it, keep it in use. a Let's reason with ourselves. Let's ask ourselves a few questions, From where did this bird come? Do the zoos have such a bird? Is one missing? How long could it thrive in this country? Let's wonder a little. Wonder if a plane couldn't be designed with wings to flap and feet droop like a bird coasting. = Americans let's not forget the statement made by Russia, ‘and I quote: “We have the stuff to make the atomic bomb and brains to make it. Wake up, America, the bird-like plane may be seeking the vital places of Sur Sxissnos to destroy, .¢

Make It Legal “°° By Mrs. Iva Arbuckle, 2816 N. Olney St., City | Why do we have to be back number in thé licensing of chiropractors? We are one of fiye states in the union who won't grant them. Could it be possible all the other ones are wrong. We are losing good citizens to other states because they believe in constitutional rights. : : : My husband and I got relief from a chires practor after our M. D. said he could do no more for us. ‘ Now if it comes to this we are going to make a good fight. You know we have a way of doing things also. If other states have made it a legal permit why not ours. rs *

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Side Glances—By Galbraith’

Next month he will make a strenuous tour of the West Coast. Mr. Wallace, the dedicated man, the symbol, the shrewd politician, is

“Toward World Peace” by Henry A, Wallace will he reviewed on The Times Book Page to-

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

"I'm worried since your father took up interior decorating as a hobby=—he wants to paper the house himself, and he can't even put on his own necktie straight!”

radio in mutual respect and confidence. Finally, the truth hurts only criminals, and if the tradition of a free press means anything, it is that there should be full access to all sources of information and freedom to print it.

paper editors was the perfect example of this system gone wrong. Dealing with American peace objectives, the defense program and relations with Russia, it was a frank statement of principles that the American public and the world is entitled to know about. It isn’t too late yet to put such remarks on the record, The editors had two other demonstrations of this same thing at their Washington convention. In luncheon meetings, they heard Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and Undersecretary of State Robert A. Lovett talk “off the record” on national defense policies and relations with Russia. There wasn't anything they said that couldn’t have been put on the record, either. If most of the restrictions now placed on “off the record” material were completely done away with, the press, radio and the public would be a lot better off. : £

President Truman's “off the record” speech to the news.

cials and private citizens as well could operate with the press and |

Yes, You May : By Leanna Mitchell, 708 Spruce, City Here is one for your paper. I haven't read if and I don't think TI miss any of them. “Drive carefully—you may meet a fool." How true it is.

Defense Intelligence Needed in Hemisphere

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—An Inter-American Intelligence organization to safeguard hemisphere defense, this writer wad told in Bogota, will probably emerge as the most useful singe achievement of the Pan-American Conference. The need for such action was emphasized by the Colombial revolution which, on Apr. 9, exploded in the conference's face Practically every delegation ‘present admitted foreknowledge of something afoot, yet nobody had done anything about it. Had there been a competent, well-organized general staff functioning either in Washington or in one of the other American capitals, and had the information already in the hands of the

various foreign offices been pooled, the revolution at least might . have been less costly.

Millions Have Little to Lose

THE TOTAL NUMBER of card-carrying members of the Communist Party in Latin America, this writer was told by ont of the best-informed delegates at Bogota, actually is not large But south of the Rio Grande there are millions of people who have little to lose beyond their shirts and are ready to take fire at the first spark. Since 1942, however, when the late Constantine Oumansky —former Soviet ambassador to Washington—was sent to Mexico City, Moscow is said to have built up an extremely dangerof Fifth Column general staff in the Americas. Chileans who ha considerable information on the subject—say there are about 2 such leaders plus 12,000 to 15,000 “volunteers” ready to do 1h dirty work when given the signal, ; Only a few of the leaders are Russians. Many, however, came originally from the Slav states but mostly the rank and file self-styled Spanish “republicans”—Reds who fled Spain after the collapse of the Soviet-backed regime in that country.

Networks Directed From Chile

THIS ARMY of imported Communists is scattered throughout Latin America. Directed from Soviet and Soviet satellite em bassies in Chile, one group came close to plunging that coun into civil war last fall. The situation became tranquil, however after the ‘Santiago government severed relations with of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and ordered their envoys out the country. : "a “These were the only Soviet:bloc states recognized by US ve Chilean delegate told this writer, “We made a clean sweep had to because they were all working under Moscow.” These Fifth Columnists all seem to be employed and usUd'Y are difficult to detect. The majority merely show up when esliely Even so, they merge with the mob, The top men are free to Hite on from one country to another and are equipped with sate col country passports bearing different names. The huge Slay ih: onies in Latin America, estimated at well over a million mem : are a big help, con® The point now made at Bogota ‘is that internations?, fy munism is ‘well entrenched in the hemisphere and well well down to Cape Horn. The only adequate answer is an :

organized hemispheric defense. ta is expected to do something about it.

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