Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1948 — Page 14

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Combatting Communism Here THE Communist Party in the United States is a menace { to the American people, not because it advocates unorthodox and unpopular political doctrines, but because it is an arm and agent of a foreign power. It is part of a world-wide conspiracy, directed from Soviet Russia. Its present purpose is to undermine and ‘weaken our country. Its ultimate aim is to establish here a Soviet-dominated dictatorship. In the event of war, it would undertake to serve Russia as a ruthless fifth column. Our goverament, by official policy, is opposing Communist aggression in other countries. It is our government’s right, and duty, to combat the Communist conspiracy here. How to do that effectively, by constitutional * methods—by methods in harmony with our. tradition of

problem. Now, from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has come a thoughtful, useful contribution to solution of this problem.

Rll .-_ 8 : THE COMMITTEE'S so-called Mundt Bill does not = ropose- to outlaw. the Communist. Party, to. make member ship in that party a crime, or to forbid the preaching of “We are seeking rather,”

communism as a political theory. say the authors of this bill— “To strike a body blow at the

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exposed, and its foreign the movement in the United States, standing alone for what it is, will be overwhelmingly defeated. ¢ - “We are willing to permit the theories of communism and democracy to clash in the open market place. of polit- | ical ideas in America; but we insist that communism not be -- allowed to have the unfair advantages in this conflict of I" ‘he unrestricted use of illegal means, the cloak of secrecy - and fraud, and the assistance and direction : . on « vn THE BILL would make it a crime to attempt, by any method, to establish in the United States a totalitarian dictatorship under foreign control. It would require the Communist Party to file with the attorney general each a list of its officers and members and a detailed finanand evasion of this requirement could be heavily penalized. : op It would require organizations designated as “Comi ‘munist fronts” by the attorney general to list their officers, ¥ ’ is of necessity long and complex. We hope Congress will not rush this measure to adoption, as some of its members

. Time should be taken to study it carefully, to consider i if enacted, it will be constitutional and can be enforced PB fi v. Y. ; : : PL A. the screams of the Communist Daily Worker that the Mundt Bill would mean a “police state” in America

people who worship and serve the most complete and ... brutal police state in the world, are a cynical false alarm.

Stopgap Palestine Plans

“UNITED NATIONS: is turning toward some. kind. sense OF StODEAD agreeraent on Palestine. At Lake Success this week the United Then the British came forward with a definite short-term proposal. : This will not be popular. Nothing ever is that applies to Palestine. Almost always the Jewish agency ison one

Fre nor the- Arabs speaking for an entirely united group of xe: their own people. Similarly, the so-called neutrals in the tt United Nations are pulling in different directions.

United Nations can achieve a permanent settlement before £3 the May 15 termination of the British mandate. This is a § matter of deep regret to all friends of the United Nations > and of peace—even though they are not prepared to write off the United Nations as a failure because it has not solved such an old problem in a few months’ time. : If no over-all agreement is forthcoming before May i Eo. 15, a stand-by arrangement would be far better than : nothing. The alternative is worse civil war in Palestine AR certainly. And probably large-scale invasion by the neighi boring Arab nations in support of the Arab majority in ) Palestine. That easily could precipitate intervention by the ! " large powers, and possibly world war. { 2 ‘ . no» FE § IT IS PRECISELY these explosive international ele : ments which have held up a United Nations settlement— i 4 whether by partition, as recommended by the assembly .£° . last November, or by trusteeship as now under discussion, { i or by a federated bi-national state. ; Partition was not carried out because the security council was unwilling to enforce it with arms. No kind of settlement now can be enforced without’ arms, and a United Nations majority seems to be loath to use forcé for fear of its bloody consequences—outside as well as inside Palestine, While this may explain, it canpot justify United Na- : tions evasion of responsibility. Pending a final settlement, b+ a clear duty rests upon the United Nations to represent ‘international authority and to insist on an Arab-Jewish = + truce. : ‘Since a neutral constabulary should be formed for 5 Jerusalem, at least, if not for all Palestine, the United 7" Nations should hasten the creation of such a protective

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x 5 . dye 3 4 ST © U. S. Corp. Has New 3 . - . . . Public Relation Troubles FST By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON, May 5 — Big U. 8. 8 Corporation is having public relations trouble again, -This' time it's over «the announcement ft will cut prices by $25 million a year. Last February, the corporation was in trouble pecause it raised prices by $28 million a year. President Truman, his Council of Economic ‘Advisers, the Departments of -Justice and Com-merce-all jumped on that. I as a whole was told that raising prices was bound to lead to new wage demands which, if granted, would lead to another round of the inflationary spiral. wey tve-steel- masters went home to lick their burns. And now, two months later, when they are right in the middle of negotiating demands from the CIO Steelworkers’ Union; they: say they'll cut prices, but they won't raise wages,

Right in the Middle Again

THE CONSUMING PUBLIC Is caught right

ments of steel makers and’ steel workers. In such circumstances; one “way out-is to turn to supposedly neutral sources such as Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Commerce surveys, . ; Strange as it may seem, BLS figures indicate the steel industry may have a case. But, through either poor public relations or poorer public understanding, this story has not been put over. Steel prices cover many things, from semifinished slabs and billets to tinplate. A fair gauge is the composite finished steel price, Since August, 1939-start of the prepared ness drive—this composite finished steel price

by $18.75 a ton. This raised the price from . an average of $46.22 a ton in 1939 to $64.79, or 40 per cent,

There's a Steel Shortage

‘freedom for thought, belief and expression—is the great | has gone up in three or four principal raises

cost of food has gone up 145 per cent, of farm ‘products 180 per cent, and of all products in the BLS wholesale price index 110 per cent. Steel, with a 40 per cent rise, has had less In the same period, scrap for steel has gone up from $16 a ton to $40, or 150 per up fiom $2.62 to $6.17 a ton, or 135 per cent. bor has gone up from 85 cents an hour to $1.52, or 80 per cent. The entire cost of living has gone up 70 per cent in the same period. ; : : re is another angle to this thing, too. One reason steel prices haven't gone down

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Barometer of Industry

billion. Last year it made profits of $390 milL lion after taxes, or over 8 per cent. Producing

$3 billion to enlarge U. 8. 10 million tons a year. If the industry could earn the same $4.50 a ton on this new produc-

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CONTENTMENT

The world can fake away my money, Material things and such; They don’t amount to much. - Things that bring true pleasure Shséuld be treasured very high; Those that bring contentment Are things money cannot buy.

Don’t take away my battered felt, My soft-soled shoes so fine; Don’t take away my fishin’ pole, bobbér or my line— : ‘tobacco and my bait can, My corncob and my pride, Old Shep, my true and faithful friend, Forever at my side. .

Don’t take away the old oak tree - By my favorite fishin’ spot, The friendly shade beneath it And the restful grassy plot Where a man can do reclinin’ And heave a satisfying sigh And dream sweet dreams of yesteryear While the stream flows murmuring by. gAMBS PHILIP SHERIDAN. = When'- the whele family decides to join pop on a fishing trip, guess who gets hooked?. i y “ RAMS: —

A VISITOR

While sitting in my garden, One afternoon in May, I saw a little fairy . Dressed in. bright array.

Humming very softly, .

Slipping away-quietly, Back to its retreat. «ALICE M. SCHEFFLER.

OPINION ... By James Daniel

Polling Perils

WASHINGTON, May 5-—-A new way of 4

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today by Archibald M. Crossley. Head of the poll that bears his name, Mr. Crossley said he thought pollers would do a public service if they published their results in two sections. ” -——= In one group of figures, he would give the. actual results of questions put to a crosssection of voters, ~~ Then he would have another column giving the poll-takers' estimate of how many voters on each side would take the trouble to express their attitude ‘at the ballot box. The present practice among opinion polls is to combine the information and the estimate, A tiny section of the public, carefully selected as to age, sex, education, economic class -and geography, is interviewed. # * © THE RESULTS are then tabulated, core’ rected by the poll-taker according to any other factors he thinks might influence voters’ pref. erence--and finally presented to the public as a guide to how an election will turn out. All a public opinion poll shows, Mr, Crossley sald, is the attitude of a group of voters. It is no -guarantee they will vote the way they say, although some pulse-feelers now are beginning to ask additional questions amied at separating the voters with strong convictions from those who have only casual opinions. Other pitfalls in the way of interpreting polls as election’ forecasts is bad weather, which plays hob with the turnout in rural sections and the eléctoral system. he In the past 10 years, the aversge margin

. Was 3.9 per cent-—enough to make the difference between victory and defeat in almost any

The steel industry — =

in the middle between rival claims and state-

IN THIS SAME PERIOD, the wholesale

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“tion, it would amount to $45 million. On a $3 billfon investment, that would amount to only 1.5 per cent, No capitalist™ will bother with that. i price issue, 8 wage-| ce " ’ § it all mixed up with psychological, factors. Steel is considered the number one barometer of industry. If it sets a pattern for price reductions that other industries follow, that’s all to the . -But- what's needed may be not so much a cut in steel prices as in clothing, furnituge and,

above all, foods. —... Wage-increase demands. can’t be waved away until the cost of things people wear and eat

is down. Timing psychology also enters the picture. General Electric, having cut prices twice, is In

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follows its leadership are in a bad position.

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» a = 8 good position to resist demands creases, U: 8. Steel and the rest of the industry that

. for wage in-

They raised prices when there was a demand for cuts. When they cut, ithe reduction was $3 rhillion 1éss than the previous raise: Furthermore, the steel industry cut when it was right in the middle of negotiating demands for “substantial wage increases.” . “The steel industry as a whole can argue its - head off that the time has come to stop rising costs—meaning wages. : ot . It can claim-—as has been claimed for U. 8. Steel Corporation—that its nt price cuts are equivalent to 5 cents an hour for all of its ~ employees. . The trouble with that argument is that people don’t eat steel.

End—and Beginning for Gen. lke

ASHINGTON, - May 5—The script of the Eisenhower drama beats anything that Hollywood could possibly dream up. We

_ National Affairs By Marquis Childs

longer judgment of history. But it is a fact that, both within the services and among some thoughtful civilians in the coun-

try, the question of Gen. Eisen-

come now to the place that says, “Transition from military to civillan life.” -

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house on the edge of the Parade Ground at Ft. Meyer,- Va. The view is off toward Washington in the misted distance. Here the Eisenhowers have lived during and since his tour of duty as chief of staff. : ; Outside, a line of soldiers stands in military formation. A

at his side. They step into a waiting car. Slowly the car drives past the line of ‘soldiers as the|cloud general stands at salute. . . . . x THIS is the tnd and the beginning. Few lves have been so crowded, so full of stress and glory. Yet there is the that the new. phase

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strain and suggestion

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greater drama.

can way of life or giving them

_Congress seems to have an-|smokes —

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The latest transition in Gen. life takes place against a background of change} ss 8 = .. ..|and uncertainty on the world -~Here-is the solid red brick stage. That gives to it. & symbolic importance above yond the human interest. ~~ At the moment that he steps into a civilian role as president of Columbia University, Armed F “are in ‘he middie of a grave crisis. . » ” » BETWEEN the political pulling -and hauling of an election comes out briskly, with his Wife year and--the lack of any 3 y unification of the armed servfeces, confusion and uncertainty the whole issue of defense and national security.

: essentially unfair. While Gen. ower became chief Eisenhower t have spoken Nov. 19, 1945. While out more forcefully, he could not

‘he was chief of staff, the Army dwindled in strength to its pres-

, How much, if any, of the blame now beginning may unfold evex for this rests on Gen. Eisenhower can be determined only in the

"FOREIGN. AFFAIRS . ... By William Philip Simms

Tobacco's Battle for Democracy —

WASHINGTON, May 5—In the;spent. While some $22 million a better world-wide medium of battle for democracy in Europe, was earrharked for additional exchange than the dollar or the which is the more important: newsprint, approximately $250 pound. Telling people about the Ameri- million was set aside for tobacco. | In the second test—as against plaints heard here is that our irene, QUATLET of A Dillon doar 0k Moxy tsut £e1ting itself told while. ongress deba {the Communist press rywhe wwored this question In Tavor of| whether to give the State Sid iia tobacco by a more than 10-to-1 {partment $28 million or $29 margin in one instance, and by lion for foreign propaganda, is still under disso

| ’ Nn. France and other countries lack arom cimmstminlirinfibellhe i . hewsprin —Thetr-- daily papers ‘in de<| FEW PEOPLE downrate - to- &

came * ¢lding how the initial $5.3 billion bacco. Most call If a great solace. | for European gecovery was to be' The American cigaret has proved| In London the rule is four

hower's responsibility is being | raised.

THE VITAL issue of adequate manpower for the services should Tigve been pressed much earlier, 80 the criticism goes. The chief of staff should have taken this issue to the country, If he had made a sufficiently forceful and persistent appeal, the country would at least have been prepared for the crisis when it came, the critics say. ‘There would have been. a of opinion to support the emergency measures now called for. This criticisms seem to me

and be-

Congress and to the the

have stemmed the tide of American reaction against all things - military. It was the inevitable reaction of a peace-loving nation after the fearfuf impact of the greatest war in history.

But one of the bitterest com-

At least one of the reasons is

De-| lambasts the United States daily. mil A our friends. In

normally appear with two to tour pages.

pages half the time and six the other half. With vital official national and international events to

Side ‘Glances—By Galbraith yj p . fx b's)

GOR. 1948 BY WEA SEIVIGE, We. 7.06 MOTIL 0 U OR.

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chronicle, there is little space left. Our share of that, at best, has to br whittled down to a few short bulletins. Om » » BEFORE the war the annual | (use of newsprint in -Britain aver|aged 60 pounds per capita of the | population. | In the United States it was 56 |pounds. Last year it had risen to’ 70 pounds in this country and dropped to a mere 15 pounds in Britain, And over there it is still dwindling. , This year, under the ERP, we propesed to give Britain more than four pounds of tobacco for

her population.

foreign propaganda agency received $8 million. For

asking $34 million. A Sepate committee has approved of a $29 million appropriation and the House committee is purrently proposing $28 million.

. . ” AMONG other things, of course, this agency would like to secure *|as n.ach pro-American publicity as possible in the European press. It won't get far in that direcs tion, ong as the

2 It would seem logical, however, ss |

| section of the hation except the Deep South or upper New England.” Wha

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"Why don't they teach us Russian instead of Latin and Greek? ; I'll have to Stalin and Molotov where fo get off!" . -

| Board medical

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| every official of the United States present our-

every man, woman and child of | -

| Navy 22% per cent. im; “an ‘arbitrary - ti, oo

Hoosier Forum—could not find a. chiropractor. anywhere who did not agree that “it is only right for all doctors to pass the difficult State 1 examinations.” But what “M. 8.” does not seem to know is that under -the existing legislation. no chiropractor has been allowed to take the examination in all of the 20 years this law has been in effect. The chiropractor is not asking that he be handed a license on a silver platter, ‘heise just asking that allowed to take the

of practitioners. = + : ; Those in power will tell you that no’ chiro. ctor has been allowed to take the State rd in all these years because the law states that the applicant must have graduated from an approved school—and that no school of chiropractic has ever been approved. This is certainly true but why no school has been a 4s a-point to question. . There is a school of chiropractic right here in Indianapolis wh teaches giving

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F. {1 1825 Roosevelt Ave. City. : ville; That ‘waris-not best for us and I do say - that preparedness is the only solution for us {o

war, - One is to sacrifice our loved ones again by the millions. The other way-is the sure one to. victory and It is that we all and

selves to God.- Let him prepare us and lead us in everything we do or say. For God's arm is not shortened and his power Is not limited. He has never lost a vic. tory nor never will, The word of God says, igean ce is mine, I will repay thus saith the

Let the Lord lead us all of the way. And then we will save our dearest loved ones from terrible slaughter and death. We have sacrificed -80-much in these last two wars and. never got. . anything but sorrow and distrens, 3

Proposal for Palestine By E. Adelman, 2851 N. New Jersey St., City, - I hear that England isn’t eating good. The: are still rationing food, IOthing, toe Here's a solution. - : Th Let the Palestinian pioneers build up their land until it resembles CaMfornia in produce tivity. This will take about five years. Bit | the Arabs and other enemies must not inter. fere. They hamper production, - . Now when every obstacle: has been cone quered, simply take the whole population to Cyprus, or anywhere they see fit. The price of oranges will go down; an apple for every Briton and glory for Bevin, Attles and the rest of the statesmen of England. They are making better airplanes, better bombs, better mattresses, but they're not making hetiss British officials: -. King. III in was as good & man as England has today; I-believe he was better, ® ¢ 9°

Wants Messenger Parking Space By John Hancock, 5 2001 Lexington Ave., City. What's wrong with this city when a Western Union messenger is unable to park his car in an alley in the rear of one of the branch offices long enough to get a route of messages through the tube from the main -office without getting a sticker? . This would be prevented if we had a space for two or at least one car on Monyment Circle at the side of our main office at 18 N. Meridian. A month ago I visited Phoenix, Ariz., which isn't nearly as large as Indianapolis, where a parking space is made available. It is marked “For Western Union Motor Messenger Day and Night.” i , So »

Clean Up Vacant Lots By John Bonsett; 838 N. Emerson, City

or CleAR_ up GUE varant lots, They're covered with dead weeds m last fall; also paper, whisky bottles, beer bottles, and everything

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There's a law requiring these lots shall be kept clean and charged to the property holder on his tax list. Just south of East 10th St. on Emerson Ave, there is a Tot which is the dirtiest place in town. And on n St. from Market to New York

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PLANES . , . By James G. Lucas

Military Balance’ WASHINGTON, “May 5—Would military “balance” be upset if the Air Force won its fight for 70 groups—or has the military establishment 14-year-old balance formula already been discarded? Def. _ Becretary James Forrestal opposing the 70 groups contends ‘that such an Air Force would be too large for: the Army and Navy which complement it; The Air Force denies that. But its rebuttals have been buried in the voluminous testimony taken since the dispute flared into the open last March. \ According to Rep. Carl-Hinshaw (R. Cal), the disptite revolves afduiid’ a formula devel- of oped in 1934. It was evolved by the air pelicy board headed by the late Newton D. Baker who was then Secretary of War. Under this formula, Mr, Hinshaw says, the Navy was to get 40 per cent of the planes purchased and the Army Air Force 60 per cent. It was to apply only to_planes, ®* & &

MR. FORRESTAL argues that: contract authority for aircraft purchases as laid down In his: supplemental budget requests was distributed 40 per. cent to the Navy and 60 per cent to the Air Force, a “7 “This is the first time money; instead of planes, has been divided on a 40-60 basis,” says Mr. Hinshaw, who is co-chairman of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board. Consequently, Mr. Hinshaw told the Senate ‘Appropriations Committee last week, the Air Force can’t be blamed for upsetting a balance ‘which ‘&lréady had been discarded at the Pentagon and White House before the budge!

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