Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1948 — Page 20

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» and. the Mundt Bill

HAVING bess and ru th Sasa Devey dba abn. think

whether the Communist Party should be outlawed, we Gov. Dewey had the edge. Messrs, Stassen and Dewey agreed that Communist A country are directed from Moscow, jective is to overthrow free governerties and bring the countries undér the aml menace peace, that something must be 6 about the Communist Party in the United States. . Mr. Stassen is for outlawing. Gov. Dewey believes it to drive the Commies underground, yhere they'd be more dangerous. 4 Most interesting was the debaters’ difference of opinion on the Mundt Bill, pending in Congress. Stata thinks the Mundt Bill goes too far in some

A y citing the bill's authors to support his position, that it wouldn't. He has some doubts whether the

» coud be accomplished by existing laws, if en‘he thinks, if we understood him correctly, that would let the Communist Party exist as a political a he ‘members: being free: to- preach Communist. polit--| and economic theories; but that party officers and memsubject to criminal penalties if found guilty f aivoeting or compifing eswblish In the U. S. Aa totalitarian dictatorship controlled by a foreign government. }

hulif eomuniah out Into the open, where it san be dent with by methods in harmony with the American tradition of freedom for thought, belief and n, while curbthe ratorial activities: of the Commu-

, whether the bill has been debated dah Haid which stasiad work ou if ofp ast | the Senate will pass it, but take enough a ake that its provisions are constitutional would present no actual menace to American

ind Sa pant Zug Turing the Dumber control BY Sha Asma: and less véto authority by any big power, than contained in the present Charter. But we cannot agree | those who demand a major surgical operation on the

r reasons are practical. Much as we deplore the pres-

none. If put under the surgeon's knife now it would ae a er aired Roms exports, and of ! Jute to the sikustionincluiing Seorsiaer on

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To force drastic reform of the Charter now is the most direct way of driving out the Soviet bloc. Eventually that will be necessary if Russia continues to sabotage United - Nations decisions and to misuse the veto. But it is premature. European democracies are still too far from re- ... covery and American deferises are not yet adequate for a final showdown with Russia. + A showdown now would not isolate Russia but’ 3 would the United States. The Arab bloc is opposed. So is ‘France.and several middle-sized powers. And Britain is not . yet ready. A United Nations consisting of the United States . and some small states would not be a United Nations--no matter how perfect in form or pure in motive. Actually the worst failures of the United Nations to date are not structural but functional, These cannot be x Sorsectod bY Charter amendatelti, 'h Sass. iff point 1s the | ; =r Palestine fiasco, compounded .of Russian intrigue, British..|. Y obstruction, small-nation evasion and American irrespon-

TH THER - More More. important: for the moment tha “basic Charter: vevision, and certainly more ‘berg-Marshall proposal.’ That bipartisan plan favors vol‘untary agreement to restrict the veto to decisions involving tise of force or sanctions, and regional defense pacts under Article 51 such as the inter-American system and the West European Union. Even the moderate Vandenberg-Marshall plan will get little foreign support unless American prestige in the United Nations can be raised from the all-time low caused - by the Truman aff 3gaip-suagain-gone-apuin Palestine policy.

They Eamed Their Stars

_ JAIRMINDED Americans will agree with Sen. Raymond (R. Conn.) that the scheduled demotion of three Bo generals and three four-star admirals July 1 is “mean and petty.” They will applaud his decision to introduce legislation sparing them this undeserved humilia- ~ tion in the closing days of distinguished careers.

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with those who delight in taunting the “big brass” But an injustice is an injustice, no matter who is involved. And there can be no moral justification for taking "yank and prestige from such men as Gens. Mark Clark, Thomas Handy and Courtney Hodges; Adms. Raymond i Ppguance Thomas Kincaid and Henry Hewett, | The law never intended that. The Officer Petsonnel Act of 1947 was drafted to set up a system of promotion by merit. - For reasons of its own; the House added amend: ménts limiting the number of four-star generals and ad"‘mirals after July 1, 1048, Those amendments had no place in the law, But because time was short, and the general ses of the law were good, they slipped by.

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What Sen. Baldwin proposes to do may not be political.

Sen. Baldwin says this nation cannot in good conscience |

With the Times | RR HOUSECLEANING HINT Now Sranditis thotight she'd done so well t ba walls ; , . and such he) looked with pride at what she'd done And though it wasn't much She felt that soon she'd watch. the birds Yes . . . she could live outdoors, She left the ceiling to Gréndpa And", , . I think she left the floors! . Then Grandma stepped down off a chair : "Twas hours it seemed . . . she said Before she landed in a heap : On a floor . . . as hard as lead! ud Yes . .. Grandma sits out in her yard But her arm... ig in a sling.

When you house clean in the Spring! =ANNA E. YOUNG.

“* An Australian woman has a double width . thumb, Possibly from constantly putting it down on hubby's Attivies, ® ¢.

COB HOUSE Jonnny built a house of cobs All brightly red and white; For someone now his dear heart throbs To share this homey site.

Well, there is: Jane who, next door, Makes lovely pies of mud He'd say hello and ask her o'er, And maybe cook a spud.

When she got in to bake a ple, She started first to frown, Of this and that to fuss and cry, - Then kicked the -cob -house down.

Observe, dear friend, this simple plan— A house all made of cobs Is safe enough for any man Whose heart never throbs. GEORGES. BILLMAN: ’ * An Oregon man on — pancakes every morning Tor 25 years. He certainly believes ..Aek one. good, ra. Ar3erven. another. iain

ABOUT LOVE

The king of all emotion, The kiss of heaven, The light that burns pure and tireless. The priceless devotion That. frees as it ties— The inspiring leaven “That touches all hearts, - Blending joys and sighs. The hope of the world, the wireless Message from time's beginning That lifts beyond all sinning, “The portal of the skies : Making true the same below as shove; : This is life, creation, this is- Love! Ie inti VIVIAN. WODTEX RIERAON,

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‘NATURE'S MAGIC

1 1is Srd-10-bebiond that one month sav: The lovely pear trees were capped with snow,

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But now, blossoms nod to the bright morning sun, hey nod to me too, two thousand and one, r'm at the beauty of the pear blossoms fair, But ere long, I shall help in gathering the pears. : < orn ©. YOUNG. doctor successfully removed a whistle a The lad Hiety didn’t AN OLD MORRIS CHAR you graced that living room ith yous grand though shabby air,

wi knew the multitude of goings on In that humble home you shared.

You might be unfavorably compared - With tokens of more sumptious living, “But they could not rival you in giving ~ Comfort; Peace and moments" rare. po

. Big enough for two to occupy til dawn— You had a whiff of each new perfume nn the ladies staying: there, x ou knew tears, the secrets and the kisses, “You cushioned a host of stolen blisses, . Grown wise and old you are my favorite chair!

==VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON. People who view ngs with alarm. usuall hings with . y

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Begin to See Our Way

WASHINGTON, May 20—The United Statés, Britain and France not only are willing but eager to-make an-all-inclusive peace along the lines proposed by Joseph Stalin and Henry Wallace. . This, it was repeatedly pointed out to the writer, is not just propagandd, Krem-lin-style. It is a matter of official record. The Slalis-Wallaes roposgls hasieally ate following. - wiypear ha ponies ONE: “A geacial reduction of armaments and prohibition of atomic weapons.” For nearly three years, now, the United States and the United Nations have been trying to get together on that with Russia. The United States took the initiative right after Japan surrendered. Through the United Nations it offered to place the entire atomic problem under international control. But Russia blocked very #tép. THe United Nations atomic coms mission confirmed this on Monday when, by unanimous vote—except the Russian—it suspended further efforts as useless.

TWO: “Conclusion of peace treaties with Germany and Japan and the evacuation of troops from those countries.” America, Britain and France have met with Russia time and again, ever since the war, with a view to doing precisely that. Russia, however, has vetoed any settlement that did not deliver Germany and Austria into her hands like Poland and her other satellites. Every important vote of the Big Four was the same: Three to one, Russia being the “one.”

THREE: “Evacuation of troops {from China and Karea.” " “on Phe answer -to- No. 2 above applies. equally to No. 3. FOUR: “Respect for the sovereignty of in-"

* dividual countries and noninterference in their domestic affairs.”

If the United States ‘and ‘Western ‘Europe set great store by sayihing at all, it is this. On Aug. 21, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill came out ara the "Atlantic Charter. America and Britain, they said, “desire no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned. They respect the right of peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live. They wish to see sovereign ts and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.” The official record proves that at Yalta, Potsdam and elsewhere America and Britain: sought to induce Russia to honor the same Yet, while paying. - idea, she has completely and repeatedly igoores tin Yrgetice. E

: “The inadmiseibilny of military bases United Nations.”

out Europe and Asia—in Poland, Czechoslov: ia, Bulgaria, Hungary, * Jugostayia; bania, the Baltic States, outer

firth columns are still working in Greece, Italy, France and other countries. =:

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and uses it as a club, has Due merous exclusive trade’ agreements with her neighbors.

lp service to the | .

SEVEN: “In the framework of the United > sy CLYDE of countries which suffered from the war.” Ro: Shin Rt, Hs Ooty Boasts agreed: do ‘that with Question now-.is: Does Stalin want a eon ported to ha UNRRA. Amusican xpayers put up tees: ference or just more delay? ith the Obin i the civil war | 's Little Helpers == x ria eric | Mamma's Little He pers oor | Daw. a a ER i still hamstrun J oy ‘ ; Washington. | : > ing “advice” te

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A DANGEROUS LAW?

Mundt Bill Called Too Broad

FIRST OF THREE ARTICLES

WASHINGTON, May 20—The House of Representatives has approved a piece of legislation the like of which has never been seen under the American form of government with its guar. antee of freedom to speak, freedom to worship and freedom to vote. It would give to the

Attorney General of the United States powers

so broad that he could regulate and coerce the thought of millions of Americans, . In its first test, the Mundt Bjll won approval

by more than seven to one. It the votes of those very Representatives “talk loudest

In this and two following dolimns, I want to analyze that bill in relation to the problem of - freedom versus security. The Stassen-Dewey debate has helped to put the issue in the forefront of public interest. But even so, most Americans, distracted by the problems of living in a period of searing inflation, are hardly aware of what is at stake. It is high time, in | my opinion, that they understand the issue,

Pattern of Intrigue Clear

IN THE HAYSTACK of fact and fiction that the House Un-American Activities Commnittee has put together, the pattern of the conspiratorial Communist intrigue is clear enough for anyone to see. It has been spelled out many times before, perhaps most clearly and authoritatively in the report of the Canadian Royal Commission that investigated the conspiracy directed by Soviét agents to steal secrets from the Government in Ottawa. Such a conspiracy is illegal,

immoral; it

of faith. and. cons,

cahatters ak the: . fidence that hold a society together. Therefore,

-88%8. Rep. Karl Mundt. of South. Dakota, there. ought to be a law.

Rep. Mundt's intentions are cléar enoughi =

This is an evil and we can abolish it by law.

A Threat to Independence IN MY OPINION, the bill threatens the

under the domination or

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“or all” of the tests, then

»Cormmunist political organisations; the BRT sets —— Facial strife

NATIONAL AFFAIRS By Marquis Childs

spiracy but to end all independence of thought in this country. The bill, in Section 4, provides that it shall be unlawful for any person “to attempt in any manner to establish in the United States a totalftarian dictatorship, the -direction and control ed In, by or any foreign. government, foreign organization or foreign individual.” It goes on with even more specific language and provides penalties mciuding imprisonment up to 10 years. Under the bill, “Communist-front organiztions” must register with the attorney general and publicly make known, in a variety of ways, the fact that they are Communist-front organigations. The bill sets up four tests to determine whether a “front” is “under the. control of a

- Power for Attorney General

THE FOURTH TEST is “the position taken or advanced by it (the front) from time to time on matters of policy.” If it fails to pass “some “it is reasonable to conclude” that it is a front organization and therefore subject to the law. This conclusion can be reached if the attorney general decides that the front's views and policies are in general adopted and, advancéd because such views or policies are those of a Communist group. One of the “methods commonly used” by.

forth, is “the inciting of economic, social and" and

see how the power granted to the attorney general-could-be-stretched ‘to-cover any organ--ization or individual advocating change. Here is the essence of the danger, “The power granted the attorney general would not have to be stretched very far to cover organi-

like to ‘work seven days a week, straight time

: The colossal mistake of of Safet “Wid Mayor Feeney In pFONIDICING, The MmoRaT~

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ists at places removed from fields and the . ; worsening situ . i There are fe ’ report of Rus China's Red a mation comes sources and 1 Chinese officia Russians of su Need |

The ultimate cult proof of t Nationalist cs advisers. Thus ists lack such they had it th shout about 1 lations being these days. The reparted advisers in Shs coincided wit} 10,000 fresh from the ] Kwantung Pen ria, and loss o of Weihsien on “Nationalist” that the Rus tually were pre “on Weihsien, 1 "tion at the 1» Peninsula. Its the Nationalis sula from V where: Tsinan, tal, is situated. Reports Se Chinese inte sald Russians v tzekow, at the low River in N tung. Reinfor plies for Dare are. sald to be larly by sma round-trip cou miles from ‘the Peninsula. The Soviets - hold on Kwa air-and sea f¢ diplomatic dou ways “recogni tionalist sover well as the rest Manchuria. In such a si simple -for the as many advi with Chinese forcements an the Gulf of Ch

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® Le ade” Hoosier Forum “| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend fo the death your right fo say i."

The Railroader’s Side Why Noy By a Retired Worker. Family h I don't think the coal miners and raiifoaders By DR. ERNE

could compare with Truman and Judge Golds. borough. I saw an article in the Forum by a Mr, Rusher. He wanted to pass a law making Sunday a double-time work day. I'd like to ‘know ‘how he and & 16t more people would

every day. Who does it? The President and Justice Goldsborough were two who thought they didn't deserve any more than 15% cents an hour increase. The companies write articles in the papers ‘running the railroaders down. They don't tell what hours and conditions the men have to work. A road crew might get on their engine -al-2:30- a.m. -and-not actually get -on paying —

time until 5 a. m. By that time 215 hours have elapsed and they have not received & What Pric ice cent for it. Housekeep Of course if Mr. Truman and his stooges - Most can levy an injunction on any: class of workers Ch oa hr

they might as well take all the freedom away

from the working man. neatness and

almost a dises , * os 0 because they Why No Parade? . To gca by tri By Fred Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave., City times, it almos they turn to sw much satisfact «-J00thers. or. wiy achievement .of 8 neat - room, temporarily, tl Roing well wit that they are with their mar:

Day Parade because. of the 500 Mile’ Speedway races not going to set well with x lot of reo -especially -with those who will never forget the Toved ones who gave their all that we may continue to enjoy the pleasures and liberties which because of their supreme sacrifice we still have. No city 1s so big that it can find any excuse whatever to prohibit any public demonstration

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THE MOVIE BUSINESS is having financial troubles. While babeball, football and other sports are drawing record crowds, movie attendance is 10 to 12 per cent below a year ago. Employment among actors, writers and directors is off 14 per cent—at a time when there is a manpower shortage in many

So the industry is about to start a great drive to win friends and influence film-goers, reports the Wall Street Journal-—which regularly does a better job of movie coverage than any of the hundreds of Hollywood writers. Hollywood, says the report, realizes it has a black eye. It has to sell itself back to the American public. As might be expected, its plans are super-colossal. All sorts of public relations schemes will be employed--including special films glamorizing the industry, a new type of “trailers” to vertise éoming productions, speeches, releases to women's clubs and a ban on salacious titles

A Plain Everyday Business

THE CAMPAIGN will even include emphasis of the argument that Hollywood is just a business community, where clean, ordinary citizens lead happily married lives. : ‘But in a two-column recitation of this elaborate plan to woo the American people, there. are two startling omissions. Nothing is said about producing more adult films which might appeal to minha, of people in a country where an ever-increasing part of the population has reached maturity and even old age.

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Square. - when’ Samuel Johnson, the. great

Hollywood ‘Makes Fishes Talk Like Whales’

literary director and dictionary compiler, tried his hand at fietion, Ojiver Goldsmith commented:

there are many

to adand pictures featuring noted

THE MOTION PICTURE fs “rily & great art. But it is the only one in which there is almost no recognition of the fact that

pictures, but rather sparingly. They have not been successful from the stand. . ard of measuring success in the film industry->mass box office

Didn't strike too rich-a lode; foundation of the house of f om, It gives zations proceeding in a wholly American way | of American patriotism. To be a goo One meets with that kind of driving a grant of almost dictatorial power that could to advocatesreforms that might not be popular What will the rest of the country think of one needn't ’ All the time on every road. be used not merely to check the Communist con- With the majority or with powerful minorities, | Indianapolis? housekeeper. ’ uties may ge . times. It's | Side Glances—By Galbraith ; MOVIES WOOING FRIENDS . ..ByE.T. Leech Nancy's frien

rough-housing the house is in der. And if n much, the hou uncomfortable the rest of the

“He makes all his little be almost afra

fishes talk like whales, Children rem That's what happens when writers of movie ads use adjec- ly the times tives save that Johnson was ponderous and they are glamorous. the cleaning j talked with t Trying to Please Everyone a walk. The

amount of cor The home that

Kinds of audiences—that the same work cannot - to live rather

appeal to everybody. Books are written for various some flow wins the quite limited. The same is true of music and Pajuting. But the es, movie makers try to appeal to a whole national audience. FER SE There is hardly any place for the film of limited appeal. Six Gen Billy Rose once wrote a plea for “arty. films that are too . grown-up for the popular picture palaces. Join Sar : How about an occasional picture that might appeal to theif Times | mental age? CRAWFORT To be fair about it, theré have been such ~~A. member o

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receipts. Presbyterian ( Had the same test been applied fo the other arts, the mater The latest in . pieces which have contributed the most to the of civiliza~ O. Ristine Jr tion and culture never would have been ho has bon | bapti : LE y Dr. R. G Why Millions Stay Away ‘The father dri RESULT of all this is that millions of adult Amer ~ § 10% Ia whem cans, who can afford {0 go to the movies, seldom, if ever, do. i on Due at the reat guitars) media of Moderne has si). 0 the

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