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right about such things, predicts huge and growing

«federal deficits for the next three years uplns tits Congress . make a supreme effort to cut government spending, -

After consulting government fiscal experts, he esti-

~inates a deficit of $3,800,000,000 in the 12 months beginning "July 1, 1948; of $7,500,000,000 in the next 12 months; of $9,600,000,000 in the next.

“These estimates; he says, are “more likely to.be ex- | -

qovded than reduced.” They include no provision for more

ple foreign spending than already has been authorized. Or for

“ raising the pay of federal employees. Or for increased

., spendi

g on a new farm program. Or for bigger outlays

on rivers and harbors, flood control pfojects, etc., or for

any other proposed activities. a . With the government debt already $251 billion, Sen.

bs Byrd believes a string of such deficits in peacetime would

‘destroy public confidence in the government's ability to . finance its obligations.”

And he sees only two ways to

‘avoid such deficits: Either drastic economy now or tax in-

‘creases next year so burdensome that they would “shake + the private. eterprise system to its very foundations. "

" that when. |

8 promised they got control of Cohgress they would enforce drastic

"economy. That promise has not been kept.

x Senate to cut $4,500,000,000 out of President Truman's - budget. The reduction actually made was less than $1 billion.

Last year‘the House resolved to cut $6 billion and the

"This year the Republican majority, eager to get at the

pleasant job of lowering taxes, passed an early resolution to trim $2,500,000,000 from the

President's budget. Speaker

Martin still says they'll do it, but doesn’t say how or where _ the trimming will be done.

“that all the ‘economies now in. proswon't total m re than $400 million. And in this he is

“Senate “Appropriations Committee, who said last week: “I am trying to shame my Republican colleagues into carrying out the economy they promised less than three months

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JUST AFTER Mr. Reed said that, the Senate voted to

add $102 million to a House appropriation of. $606 million for rivers and harbors, flood control and similar projects. You see, it's a campaign year, and Republicans and Democrats alike relish the prospect of distributing pork from an ‘ample federal barrel.

~ things that aren’t absolutely essential, this

But campaign year or no, Sen. Byrd's warning is time- \ Unless the government stops pouring out money Yor

ed for a serious crisis, and it's not far of ® A

‘Stalin's s Face. in Finland

TALIN is having his troubies in Eastern Europe. In his puppet states the people are restless and his economic

colonial system is not working well. In the semi-satellite areas-of Finland and Eastern Germany his Communist agents are losing ground. And his latest effort to pressure the Turks has backfired.

All of this would be discouraging at any time. But it

must be extremely embarrassing in thie midst of the Moscow peace offensive. Stalin is trying to convince the world" +=in notes to the United States and statements for Henry Wallace—-that Russia is not interfering in those “inde__pendent” nations of Eastern Europe. So at the moment

is not so easy for him to use his customary ‘rough-stuff

discipline on them:

Little Finland is a case in point. Since Czechoslovakia

went the way of ‘Stalin's other western neighbors, Finland

has been the only one left with even a semblance of freedom. When Stalin this spring ordered her to sign the usual pact of enslavement, she balked. Since he already held strategic bases there and was in military position to occupy the country on short notice, he let off the stubborn Finns with

Stalin could afford to do this anyway, because he had

ment she had to work for him on terms amounting to serf-

dom.

And although his Communists were only a small

“minority; they held ‘the key position in government The Red boss, Yrjoe Leino, was minister of interior and in control of police.

The Finnish Parliament has now unseated Leino, nomi- |

nally for illegal acts in 1945 but actually to curb his present fifth-column preparations. Of all the countries living under the Soviet gun only the Finns have had the courage to defy

Stalin in this manner—so far.

Appointment of a fellow

traveler as Leino's temporary successor is not a sufficient

face-saver for Stalin, as the Communist protest strikes .

show.

withstand if it spread among satellite countries.

This is the kind of precedent which Stalin could not But ap-

parently he will have to stand it, in Finland at least, for the duration of his phony peace offensive in the. west. That

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ay be briefer than planned.

uspicion Confirmed IRST it was secret hearings. Out of them caine the Republican bill to renéw the Reciprocal Trade Agreeents Act for only one year and to cripple it with amendents. And now Republican leaders, with the help of the

Rules Committee, have decreed that the House of Representatives shall debate this bill for only three hours and can consider no proposals to modify it.

That means the House must either pass the bill as is

~—one-year limitation, crippling amendments and all—or refuse to pass it and, by so doing, doom the Reciprocal ~ Trade Act to die June 12,

-We have suspected from the first that the real aim of

the high-tariff Republicans was to kill reciprocal trade, re-

§ Saint of io ianatrous efit, ia death would have on Recovery

Program and on hopes for pros-

HENRY W, MANZ Business Manager

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By JIM G. LUCAS, “Serippe-Howara Staff’ Writer

WASHINGTON, May 26—If some nation drops an_atomic

bomb in the United States, what. do we do? Every American would’ like to know the answer, including Russell J. Hopley of Omaha, Neb. It is Mr. Hopley’s job to determine an answer. He I director of the Office of Civil Defense Planning. Mr. Hopley has rounded up a salt of experts. His deputy is Clem D. Johnston of Roanoke, Va., a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce. His executive assistant is Barnet W. ‘Beers of Williamsville, N. Y., chief of civil defense for the strategic bombing survey. in Europe and Japan.

Assembles Staff of Disaster Experts aR

Long of

HE HAS CORRALLED men like Dr Perrin H.

Johns Hopkins University Medical School; Frank C. McAuliffe

of Chicago, president of the International Association of Fire

) - 44 ~~ Chiets: Dr. George Lyon, EhieL of taalosctivity control at BCI: INIA'S. Sen. Byrd, “who has a long record of 7 eng

R. T. Schaeffer, disaster relief expert for the Amreican Red

Cross, and Chief John D. Holstrom of the Berkeley, Cal., police -

department. Mr. Hopley hopes to have a civil defense plan by August. Then he will draft legislation for Congress. If it's a good plan, he'll start setting up a permanent civil iis organization. —-- Meanwhile, Mr. Beers—who studied effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘atomic-bomb blasts “first-hand—had some 1geas

: Experts 4 Already Making Guesses - On How to Cope With Disaster

minimize the mutual help and mobile reserves.

4t-1s- valuable toa potential enemy.

of his own. Mr. Beers: dstimates, for instarice, that atomic

“bombs dropped simultaneously on 37 large American cities would ki about 555,000 people in all those cities. The death list would . in" Japanese cities" 3 population is

be less than that our

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i so, says, those 37 cities would have 30 million ro paige We'd have to do something about them Uninjored of the danger of radioactivity, — Beers assumes well b have no warning. He says a public ing system must not be neglected but it's still a future — We must concentrate now on pre-raid preparations and post-raid operations. Civil defense, he says, is “organization of the people to Celects of enemy

“Considering the effect of the atomic bomb," he says, “it takes a high degree of optimism to believe the general public can be educated to resist the shock of an atomic explosion so that all could rationally analyze the situation and, as individuals, act accordingly. “No information should be suppressed from the public unless

to when the entire populatiori could best receive and take seri-

ASTOR UIE involves: selthelps

However, the decision as

iy geal ring 10 condi under emergency nition

Colt will De essential to trai and organize at an earlier date great humbers-of key men-—so dispersed that their leadership will ‘be avaliable at once, in any situation, among. all groups of survivors and in all adjacent areas.” Mr. Beers likes idea of mobile feserves as used by Germany in world War IL hem” strategically 30. they: cou ee. i them EY ‘80 Ab could rush:

battalions and fo the support 0 “hard-hit eities. Tw Methods Might Be Used

IF AMERICAN CITIES are atomic-bombed, says there .are two probabilities. The first involves an atomic b dropped from the air, axpioging above ground. That was the Hiroshima

and Nagasaki method.

The second involves an atomic bomb exploded in a body of water—a river, lake or reservoir—adjgosnt to a city, “Anatomie: a-sizable body. thousands of tons of a water into the air to fal somewhere — and probably on the city it was designed to incapacitate,” he said. In that case, Mr. Beers said a "new situation is created.” Standard operations—involving handling of flash burns, debris,

fires, wreckage and violent disaster—might not work. Some other

plan would have to be ready. ~All this, Mr. Beers-said, is “merely an educated guess.” It is up to Mr. Hopley to find an educated answer,

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THE ONCE CHURCH

In the church where once I sat. > | Stalks a sturdy grey-eyed. cat.

On the carpet once so clean Mildew makes the color green.

Doors and windows broken down, Our church a shambles in this town.

The people who on church days came Where ate they, are they to blame?

They're on the other side of town Gorging some new Ism down.

were not strong enough to know could conquer, Love could grow,

And bowed down to Might's plies,

Their Bible is in a dusty nook, Their Faith is hanging on a hook. ks

In the church ‘where once I sat Stalks a sturdy grey-eyed cat. =MARY 10VISE CORY A eastern woman is. going to marry i a man who broke her nose in an arguient. : Just give-her- StU 98 ren. pirat

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On a vacant lot soon | Or stand in an alley And bay at the moon.

‘ In some dame’s lap. ©, —GEORGE 8, BILLMAN,

Burning candles at both ends » no way to

BEST OF *ERIENDS

The sun and the moon are the best of friends And in their lovelight they meet. Though Old Man Sun is a brilliant king

The lesser light of the modest Queen Moon,

- ORK-—British-- Designer mends Beautifying Homes—With Junk.”) This good lady here from Britain,

Says that second-hand junk's fittin', any home;

Will bring many men to tears, As they think of their wives buying | Brand new high-priced junk for years. i

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FOR GOP NOMINA TION—

West Europe Likes Vandenberg

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON, May 26-—If the Senate decides to: pigeons” hole the controversial MundtNixon anti-Communist bill which roared through the

House by a five-tp-one vote, the issue may become a dead

gress at least. But there wii remain the question of what laws there are now on the books for use against Communists, and how . effective they are. GOP presidential candidate Thomas E.

Oregon debate with rival Har» old E. Stassen. Gov. Dewey gave 4 quick run-through of some 27 existing laws which he said were able to take care of the Commie situation ‘without the Mundt-Nixon bill. Stassen claimed these laws were not effective. The record seems to indicate he was right.

~ » . THESE ACTS apply to individuals and organizatiohs in general, not just to the Communist Party and its members. Almed more specifically at catching Commies—and Fas.

Act and Voohis Act of 1940. The Communist Party never

Act. Several days before the Voorhis Act became law, the Coscmunist Party changed its constitution and solved its ties. Since 1935, the. Communist Party in the United States has not. openly advocated overthrow of the U. 8, government. bv Toree nd. violence,

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Dewey raised this point in his | naturally have to be better

| than the men.

cists—are the so-called Smith

registered under the Voorhis | ,o. of her liberal convictions

legally dis- |

WASHINGTON, May 26— Someone the other day went tothe trouble of typical member of the House

of Representatives by averaging out ages, weights, heights

and so on. The result was a pretty average middle-aged individual. It may be because the aver-

House stand out in distinguished contrast to the great gray mass of males. Because

- the prejudice against women

in high office is still a factor in American politics, they just

Ladies Tops

I BELIEVE a statistical average of the awareness, -the ability, the intelligence of the seven women as set against the 425 men in the House would show that the ladies have an overwhelming advantage

Two of the women members Are engaged just now in extremely contests. One is M Chase Smith of Maine; a Republican, and the other is Helen- Gahagan Douglas of California, a Democrat.

In 3-Way Fight

BECAUSE she had the courand refused to swallow ‘the

third-party line, Mrs. Douglas | is in the middle of a three-way -

fight in. her district in Los Angeles. The Wallaceites tried to

. make her take a stand against

the European Recovery Pro-

gram and when she sald no, ‘they entered a third-party can-

didate against her.

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interesting political argaret

_|_could attend. .the Philadelphia. convention and.

Gov. Dewey, Sen. Taft, Harold E. Stassen and other leading GOP presidential possibilities | ...are all highly regarded, Mr, pointed out, -has" ‘made “a ‘splendid -record as . Bovernor of New York. Sen. Taft has done the , same in the Senate. | seems to be an extraordinarily able young man. That Sen. Vandenberg appears to top

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Dewey, it is

Mr. Stassen, they sav,

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Mrs. Douglas is running in both the Republican and the Democratic’ primary; which fs possible under California law. At the same time, with the

primary June 1, she is fighting on the floor of the House _ Tor the issues she considers most important. . First on the list would come

He is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—to foreigners

speech back January, 1945, for example, is still recalled in diplomatic circles here and abroad. Whatever the United Nations might or might not do if and when it was organized, he said, the United States might at once sign a “hard-.and-fast” treaty vith its major allies to keep | «Germany and Japan permanently demilitarized. In any event, Western Europe and the nonCommunist world are almost as much interested in the coming presidential elections as ‘we are.

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inflation and the.cost of living. Mrs. Douglas was one of the little band in the House to stand up against the Mundt Bill to outlaw communism in America — a bill that, in the opinion of many, would coerce all independent thought. In Maine, Mrs. Smith is in a .contest that {is equally tough. She is running for the seat in the Senate made vacant by the retirement of Maine's elder statesman, Sen. Wallace White. In the primary, equivalent to election in Republican Maine, she, has. two formidable opponents. They are Horace A. Hildreth, present governor, and Sumner Sewall, a former governor.’ Being a Republican - from Maine, Mrs: Smith is considerably more conservative than Mrs. Douglas, a Democrat. But with her conservatism |- 80s a sense of responsi which is a lot more por standpatism. .

Looks to Women BECAUSE THEY are cioser to the tasks of daily living, women: can have ‘a more immediate sense of what a law will do in actual practice. Congress

members, particularly if they had the qualifications of Mrs., Smith, who is now serving her th term in the House, and of

changes to “‘an (2) that it comes from those who are already headed backwards to the days of Smoot-Hawley tariffs, low wages, ridiculous prices products, and rich pickings for those who con. tribute most to the GOP campaign funds—the

Days as we have ‘he's turned up a

bob up if, and when, he runs for another office.

‘Hoosier Forum "1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it."

Don'tE Taken In By E. J. Conger, Crawfordsville, Ind. Before any voter allows his mental poise to

canard that “anybody can beat

Truman,” he should examine its parentage, and

he wil Ss (1) the canard ything to beat Truman,” and

when administrations never in.

terferred, and there was plenty of “free enter. prise” among major combinations of capital. As to statesmanship, dent's record to that of his opponents, and guess who of ‘the latter would have done as

compare the Presi.

Their “labor law” Proves strikes, in my opinion;-living costs-are cut takes on big incomes, and they have done nothing to relieve housing or curb inflation. ' et Saat Dial, and they have ‘elect

going -uphill;-they have

They say history does not repeat feel, but

‘the Old Guard 1s

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is “always the

Adang.- Jonesboro, Ind. - Commander, prt oy Dépt., G. A. R.

The Grand Army of the Republic, Depart. ment of Indiana, has sent the following letter to Mayor Feeney:

the action you and your Board taken relative to the Memorial

Day parade, you so. far have heard from many individuals, numerous veterans’ organizations

the General Memorial Associa. County.

“Now, we would like for you to hear the sentiments of the oldest living veterans of this great Hoosier state, and the thousands of members of their five allied organizations here in Indiana and Indianapolis. We feel that the --action taken is not only unpatriotic but it is indeed ‘disgraceful “Therefore, on ‘behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, and members of all organizations allied with the Grand Army of the Republic, we respectfully request that since it is too great -

city police to handle traffic for

this occasion, that you solicit the assistance of . Col. Robert R. Rossow and the state police, or verhaps Maj. Gen. Ben H. Watt, commanding

38th Division of the. Indiana

National Guard, or Howard H. Maxwell, State

lie ws we % one of the most important of American groups. Adj. Gen., and by so d For each in the sphere is supreme. By William Philip Simms He has demonstrated real initiative in that ohlotting these patriotic citizens Tom have “Each beams brighter because of the other— - body: More than once when White House, this parade.” As it is with love's sweet dream. WASHINGTON, May 26—Sen. Arthur H, State Department, Treasury, Congress, the ERP ® ¢ o ~—MILDRED CO. YOUNG. Vandenbe y nations and American public opinion all seemed ro osioeiiont) * © & Sndenbers...of Mickigan would asst 40. have pulling in different directions, he stepped in as Hot Potato? : , the edge on the Republican nomination next a sort of one-man steering committed. By Emil FOSTER S FOLLIES month if the 16 nations of Western= Europe & * y Emily G.

Mayor Al Feeney is still nursing his fingers _. rial Day parade dilemma. a man who knows his political primer from cover to cover, I am surprised he let his fingers get burned with this hot potato. There are two sides, and they're. both ‘In my “bodk; he would have

For

“been: a he'd simply forgotten there was

a Memorial Day and let us have our Memorial had them in the past. Now -

political issue which will surely

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Beats T-H?

By FRED PERKINS

WASHINGTON, May 26— The quick and confusing end of the coal strike threat brought proposals to enact a new law to avert such. future emergencies.’

gency section, like that in the Taft-Hartley Law, to the Rail Labor Act. Others would bring the rail unions under the T-H Act. ] A rail labor expert comes * forth with the opinion that “whoever. makes such a proposal doesn't understand either act” He says: ONE: Neither law prohibits strikes. © They postpone work stoppage. TWO: A strike is legal under the Taft Act uiter 80 days; a : we der the Rail Act after 90 Gays.

IN THE pe cking house strike, the President's fact: finding board indicated an emergency. .. The strike went on. No injunction was asked. But if it. had been asked, after 80 days the strike could go on. Railroad case—In Dec. 1947, rail mediators advised no settlement was possible. No strike

oT bsusut dsiays R110 days e wall period ‘to A Pan compared to the 0 days of the Taft Att in this instance the Rail Act proved much stronger. “It is important to remember that both unions obeyed the

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