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Niggardly With Gen. lke?
HERE js something small and spiteful in the demands of Chairman Andrews of the House Armed Services Committee that the Army recall military personnel
assigned to Gen. Eisenhower, now that he is a civilian,
Gen. Eisenhower has heen given an aide, a WAC warrant officer secretary and a sergeant-chauffeur. Certainly, ‘there is evidence he needs them. Despite his retirement, he will be consulted frequently on matters of national defenge. He will remain at the call of his country. His advice in all matters affecting the security of the United States will be
of great value for several years. Moreover, Gen, Eisenhower will receive considerable correspondence directed to him as a former chief of staff.
It is only right that the government provide the personnel
to handle that correspondence. That cannot be related to his duties as president of Columbia University.
Gen. John J. Pershing, who led us to victory in World War I, still maintains an office in the Pentagon. Although Gen. Pershing has been confined to Walter Reed Hospital Vor several years, his aide still reports for work there each
tnorning. It is a gesture which reflects credit on the Amer-
people. “It isn’t pleasa quently is niggardly in its dealings with the leaders who led us to military victory. The attempt to take Gen. Eisenhower’s aides from him comes close on the heels of a disclosure that three four-star generals and three four-star
admirals who contributed greatly to our success in World
War II will be demoted by one-star rank July 1. We do not believe either move will set well with the American poeple. Stabbing in the Dark
Iw a on Tariffs—are holding secret
! 2s hearings. on the bill for a three-year extension of the Recip- :
batted. And the only citizens invited to testify are certain jErpartas Siok U8 Whim seem \o bo Shiesy ex. |
of these hdasings. But the subcommittee’ chairman, Rep. B. W. Gearhart of California, has. dismissed them thus: : “I can't see that any useful purposé would be served to for a bunch of ladies’ sewing
ironing naments repre by he St Dope. |
gi Gearhart's utterance should be long remembered. It typifies an arrogant attitude toward tariff-making and
in the past, has done their party—and the country— grievous harm. An attitude which, if the Republican majority in Congress assumes it now, will do far greater harm in the future. <
THE FACT is that spokesmen for many farm, labor, busifiess, industrial and consumer organizations asked for the right to attend the hearings. They wanted to tell why they agree with the State Department that the reciprocal trade -program should be continued without crippling ‘amendment or limitation. Denied that right by Mr. Gearhart’ 8 obvious contempt
‘for public opinion, they are to have a substitute oppor- = “tunity for: public-expression. In Washington; on-May 14; the Citizens’ Committee for Reciprocal World Trade will
"conduct “the people's hearings” on RTA. These H
“will be open. The press can report them. And all members |
of Congress will be urged to attend them. ‘The “people's hearings” will help to dramatize the issue. Through them more citizens will learn why full ex-
pre TAH BENE PECTpYOLAY TRIAS PRO HI 18 SasentIaY “to”
America’s efforts for prosperity and. peace. And why this country simply cannot afford to fail or falter now in its . long-time leadership of a world movement to lower trade barriers by mutual agreements among nations. But what ought to rally overwhelming support for the program are the secret hearings dictated by Mr. Gearhart and other high-tariff Republicans.” They are convincing evidence of a desire and a plan to stab reciprocal trade to
death in the dark. Men of good intentions do not fear the TOP SECRETS
light.
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= an ety. public Yutinesn. BLY the public is not allowed to attend them. The press is|
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____From the grime and smoke of the city.
men--members of the House Ways and |
JT was on May 3 a hundred years ago that the rail link |
between the Ohio River and Lake Michigan was begun at New Albany. The name of the road is not easy to recognize. It was the New Albany & Salem. But the name
now is as familiar as. Washington St. It is the Monon.
It wis a great event. Most of the people had heard of but had never séen the “Iron Horse” and its promise of coming to their communities was greeted with great enthusiasm. It was six years after the breaking of ground before the golden spike was driven six: miles south of
Greencastle at 4 p.m. June 24, 1854.
The Civil War was vet to be fought. Panics were yet | to sweep the country but the grandfather of the Monon
lived through them all.
Strategically planned in a day of water commerce to link the Great Lakes with the route to the Gulf of Mexico,
thé railroad has sérved Hoosierland well,
And we in Indianapolis are glad we live off the historic line which took over for the stage coach on the overland
route from the river to the inland seas.
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\organization combating juvenile delinquency.
Brooklyn Dodgers have volunteered their r help t to an Our go. to Leo Durocher, who has been having
By WILLIAM H. NEWTON on ; Scripps-Howard Staff Writer of TRIESTE, May 6—This is potentially one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world. Sudden explosion of a bomb or hand grenade in a crowded square—or an ill-considered act by a troop commander—could set off a chain of events that might plunge the world into war. Theré are Itdlians, Slavs, Americans, British and Yugoslavs all confined in the tight little aren, the free eniiony of Trieste. Trieste, . .» . = ACROSS THE BORDER, which is about the sapie As saying across the street, is a Russian-equipped- Yugoslav army. Yet there. is peace in Trieste—which continyed even over the tense May Day period. The reasons why suggest a formula which if it can be applied to dll of Western Europe’ in time may stop the march of communism short of war, There are three parts’ to the formula:
oy Keg of Triste Could Point Way to Balk the Reds
fcan and British combat troops to guard against an. invasion’ 1
from the outside.
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The second is an intelligence system which provides {nforma- :
Hon of py or Fascist capab Turope whare wil in vance. ta is one of the few places in where military intelligence really functions. The third and by no means least important part of the formula is the presence of an alternative to either communism or
fascism, to extreme left/wing or extreme right-wing government.
“The military government here is trying Successtully: to provias.
The first is sufficient police power to maintain law and order -
and protect the legal government against a Communist “coup” such as took place in Czechoslovakia, The efficient western.
trained civilian police force provides that. It is backed by AmerI ———————
In Tune With the Times
LIFE'S CHECKERBOARD
Life is so much , , , what .we make it, Though at times it takes much skill To avoid the wiles of Stalin And the cunning of his will,
We must move with studied caution Watching . . . closely . . . everywhere, Lest we find that we are cornered And are in the tempter's snare.
We can more than match his movements For we have the right of way, Christ, our King, will ever guide us Crown us with His love . . . alway!
3. . in our daily living _ We endeavor . ; . to-end-strife He will lead us to the King Row on the Checkerboard of Life.
ANN E YOUNG:
Willie Shuggs sez ar to his Aggers a good cook is a food comedian on account uv him ticklin' a feller’s palate.
~CATFISH PETE. ® <
HOMESICK
1'd like to’ go home to my mother
that. * There's freedom of speech, press and assembly, Efforts cons
tinually are being taken to provide food, employment and decent
standards of living. WE e— cima BUT NEITHER » side is permitted to exploit N rvoratie 1 freedoms as a means of everthrowing the government. unists wanted to demonstrate on May Day and were
You Pays Your Money, Takes Your Choice”
gence officers in several extremely “sensitive” areas are or appear to be almost shockingly ill-informed, Many aré picked accord to rank Tather than capability,
. Program which is just beginning to get under way is designed to © provide the alternative to extremism of either left or right by increasing the standard of living of the average man, Once it gets into operation the formula may work for Europe “as it has in Trieste in recent days. Until it" three ways, however, any precipitate act in any number of places
©. could explode into a war.
That's the danger in yarope today.
Hoosier Forum
"I. do not agree with-a word: that you sey, but | «i detand Yo the death your right Yo say i."
Suggests Santa Claus for U, S. . By E. J. Rocker, P. 0. Box 712, City.
Have the American: people back home been forgotten by their Let's be Santa Claus from now on to the American people and not to the European Red fakers. People should go to the polls and vote e against all the old faces in Congress to be re. placed with new faces. ‘Your forefathers who pioneered this country @ and didn't get loans from European aid or a Marshall Plan. A Congressman should always remember the American family at homie and look out for the American home affairs and not foreign airs, After all if we give England a 4-billion-dollar loan so easy, why can’t some.
to take care of our old age American pension for the American people. This fund could be used to give the old age . and the sick a decent benefit of $100-a month and make his future look bright instead of the poverty pension that all states pay at the present time. ® & 9
to function tn a1
“My unsteady steps when just a wee miss, The bumpy | and the bruises, were healed with
In A ia only babes understand. + "1 see Mother tonight, her hair silvery white,
As I take her hand, to shield her from harm,
In my feeble way I try to repay
May 1 spend every day to keep sorrow away,
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Out to the country, away
I'd like to go hore for a day.
I'd like to be seeing the cattle Coming up the lane once again;. And I at the gate awaiting, All free from -heariache--or--pain,
I'd like 45 be seeing my mother . Waiting with a smile at the door, While dad with a grin stood behind her “To welcome and comfort once more,
I'd like to just visit with homefolks While quiet evening shadows fall; Then dreamlessly sleep as in childhood, Safely where no harm could befall.
* But loved ones are gone and the old home ‘Is sheltering strangers now, : And there never more can I see her, -Or feel her dear hand on my brow,
~MAUD (MAY) SPAHR. > @ :
An Ohio jndge contends that most people ean be trusted. But folks would prefer that they pay cash, rn + 2%
~MY DEBT TO MOTHER :
Were. guided by Mother's firm hand.
Her eyes have grown dim with the years; Her tottering steps hold no fears,
The love that she showered on me;.
Naught but smiles on her dear face to see. +==LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. > * ¢ & :
What a tame name spade is for a spade when dad is ordered to get busy in the _ garden. : $e 2
MOTHERS ETERNAL = Sweetest: my:-memories sing, Tells about an apron string; Me on one end and, on the other, . My Tong departed, lovely mother:
Ra a Ee .
v Val, POW o * ¢ 9 The later people turn in the “Tess hey “turn out. ® % ¢
(“NEW _YORK—Controller Sees Dig in National Biscuit's Profits.”) Though most businessmen are worried, .. .. By. diminishing return, Tn this field no one is flurried; A good dip they never spurn.
Although other ventures weaken When their earnings start to droop, Here's one product which they're seekin’ i T6 put deeper: in the soup!
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| NATIONAL AFFAIRS .
. By Me Quis Chil ds IPR ON WPS VC BUC. Bl me COO. 4
| Chinging. at Minimum Wage Act
WASHINGTON, May 6—In this era of-flood-tide prospesity it is MY to remember the past. Perhaps that is because so much has happened in the ’ a. years between 1938 and 1948. From 10 million unemployed to 60 million jobs. That is the jump in a single decade—the decade that saw America’s productive capacity nearly doubled in order to win a global war. In the new era, the New Deal of the '30s is customarily referred to in sulphurous language. The phrase is uttered as though it had been the slogan of the Deyil himself. The young who have come of age in the war
decade must have an odd impression of that dim
and distant day. Their more vociferous elders
would have them: believe -that- a sinister figure
named Roosevelt sent his cohorts about the country to clap decent citizens into jail. The chains rattle and the Shoat of Roosevelt is something 1 to scare babies. wi That picture ih slightly distorted. TRAPS of cougse, that the distortion is useful to those wouldochip sway the: reforms of the New - Peal. - They -are hard at work with their little pickaxes on one stratum in particular right now. But before going into that, I would like to put down one point about the New Deal that = conveniently ignored.
«Floor. Was Put Under. Wages...
THERE WAS, IT IS TRUE, a deep and very “real strain of idealism in the New Deal. In spite of the smearing and the sneering, 1 had a broad humanitarian base. Year after year, 10 million Americans had no ‘way to earn their daily bread. And millions of their fellow citizens felt that this was unjust and unfair even though they happened to be more
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| favorably circumstanced.
Basic to the concept of the New Deal was the theory’. that purchasing po power. should be got into
PATS TRE
the hands of the unemployed the underpaid so that they could buy the pint of industry. One of the last pieces of so-called New Deal legislation was the minimum-wage act or, as it
1s officially known, the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The act put a floor under wages. It provided that workers, except for those in certain exempted classifi¢ations, should not be paid less than 40 cents an hour. The floor was pretty low, or so it seems when measured in terms of today's buying power. But
"the principle was there.
Two Proposals to Change Law NOW TWO PROPOSALS have been brought forward to change this law. One, introduced by a group of Democrats in the Senate, would raise the minimum rate so that i}, coud be fixed by industry committees at from
cents to §1. The amendment also would increase .
the number of workers covered by the law. The other praposal comes from Sen.. Joseph
“Bal of Minnesota. Tt would raise the mintmom |"
wage to T0 -cents—<but with so much businessgovernment red tapé that those most familiar with the working of law’ say it would have little effect on the wage side. Wage and Hour Administrator William R. McComb has testified that the Ball: amendment
‘would remove from the-provistons of the law many
workers now protected by it. In other words, it would chip away at the floor under the national wage level, There is no guarantee that this flood-tide of prosperity will last forever—and here lies the danger of chipping away at laws that were intended to make the free-enterprise system work, “No one denies the danger of excessive state
control. But there is also peril in taking off all the brakes and letting the mashing run wide open downhill.
Why He Doesn't Sign His Name ~~ By-Cr Pi Ci Mr. A. B. Brown cannot understand why some people do not sign their names to articles
in the Forum, so I will try to explain. We once had free speech in this country, but under the
actual practice. Two classes, however, do. One is rich enough to enjoy free speech and the other is poor enough to enjoy it. ~The people in between only enjoy it as long as they agree with the New Deal If | they happen to belong to a labor union and oppose the New Deal they are liable to get kicked out. If they are in a small business and oppose the New Deal they are liable to have their life made miserable by some of political parasites that are supposed to inspecting for almost everything. Yes, Mr. Brown, let us have our Constinil tional right of free speech again and we will sign our names. LS SE
Sanity—Or Sentimental Delusion?
By Josephine Buck, Route 1, Westfield, Ind.
ping of murders and rapings. Keep right on being kicked around by such, until you really wake up. You are so thoughtful of them having nice easy laws and pleasant hours spent —in nicé comfortable jails.
and finally after feeding them months we
not too uncomfortable prison.. Are murderers and rapers really human? Haven't they degenerated so extremely they are as rats and mad dogs? for even a short time. We had better put a little dose of fear on our devils else we all will be murdered in our beds. Yours for sanity instead of sentimental delusion, ¢ 4 oo
Thinks Jenner's ‘Had Enough’
- Evidently Sen. William Jenner feels that he went clear out on a limb when he adopted his slogan and battle cry of “Had enough.”
complish anything to stop the high cost of liv-
his_friends run him. for Governor., 1 see no. iridication, however, that he will -resign. He is playing safe at both ends. By each of the large cities in Indiana going | Democratic, in the last election, this indicates how the voters feel about the “Had enough” Bx of Jenner and the dictatorshi of Gov. eolléagues. “THe people slirely Nave “had” enough” ‘of the Republicans.
Praise for Senator Taft ~~, By William - A. Poe, 343 Massachusetts Aves ‘City. Senator Robert Taft is the most informed man in America today. The Democratic Party has not a man to compare with him in intel
ligence or forthrightness.
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...BylJimG. 6. Lucas
News Freedom
WASHINGTON, May 6—Rep. George Bender (R. 0.) today demanded that the Truman administration delay imposing certain proposed security regulations. He called them “sweeping restrictions on the free flow of news.” The head of any government executive department or agency would be given the right to classify as “top secret, secret; confidential or restricted” any material under his control. In addition, he would have the right to impose rach additional restrictions” as he might choose. Mr. Bender wrote Harold W. Moseley, tary of the Btate-Army-Navy-Air Force Co-ordinating Committee, that “the imposition ef -any such sweeping restrictions on the’ free flow of news is completely unwarranted.” . He pointed out that the House Expenditures Committee, of which he is a member, had held hearings on the regulations and had severely criticized them. He said he was “shocked that these proposals remain in substantially the same form as they were drafted before congressional hearings were held.”
Makes Everything Secret
«HE OBJECTED particularly to the definition of “confidential information” as anything which would “be prejudicial to the
injury to an individual.” “Under this definition,” he “said, “any department head could classify as confidential any information which he belléved would injuré him. Evidence of any administrative bungling could be classified confidential. Evidence of any corruption would, of course become ‘confidential.’
officers of the civilian sh Agencies of the government should seek it.” ~===An executive order prepared for President Truman's signature gives the security advisory board of the State-Army-Navy-Air
Force Co-ordinati Committ uthority to pn er ine proposed secur coe, a ner
pes retain would be.
interest or prestige of the nation or would cause unwarranted |
“Members of Congress do not have, nor do they want, any | such protective secrecy. I can see no reason why appointive |
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS... By William Philip Simms
European Union
WASHINGTON, May 8—Next Monday at The Hague a conference for a free and united Europe will convene Fyne the leadership 'of Winston Churchill. On both sides of the Aflantic there are many who believe it- may point the way--and the only Way=io lasting European recovery. Over here supporters of European ution include a wide range of leaders: Ex-President’ Hoover, Norman Thomas, former Sen: Wheeler, Gen. William J. Donovan, Allan Dulles, Sen. Fuibsight: former * Ambassador Bullitt, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the European parliamehtary union, and others, British Foreign Secretary Bevin's stand against a United States of Europe in London this week is not regarded as a blow at the idea itself. The British government is-on record in favor
| of It.
Mr. Bevin's disclairier: is seen, rather, as aimed against a a féderated “United States of Europe,” like the United States of America, which he seems to believe impractical,
Recovery Will Be Difficult Sr
IN WASHINGTON, & serious split between the Socialist governments of Western Furope and the conservative parties over European union would be regarded with concern. Realists of .all political shades are convinced thai Europe's degree of prosperity depends upan NOW: * At best, they point out, recovery will be difficult, hall Plan or no Marshall Plan, That is because the institutions upon which Europe's past weaith and glory were “gunded have been swept away forever. The case of Britaln—at its peak probably the greatest and lushest. of empires—is cited. She controlled & of the habitable globe‘dand a quarter of the earth's : feally she dominated most of what was left. Now all that is gone, Moo of Brians ormer colonia 100s are not -only great and independent Hatta, but compete evel? ith each other, Her Aational ay, the foodstutts and
‘tncome has ent re mata
_|..man. inttoduce..a. bill. 10. put. up. 2. billion. dollars
“New Deal you only have it in theory, not in
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