Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1948 — Page 14
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‘Why the Army Needs Men
. THERE we some Republican Congressmen who are doing ! their best to prove Presidept Truman was on the beam when he called the present Congress “the second worst” in ‘history. One of them is Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri. In a speech before the House Rules Committee against “reporting out the draft act for a vote before adjournment, Mr, Short said that in peacetime “our generals”—he made no exceptions—are “chiefly interested in pay and promoi Hon, stars and braid and rank.” a lenardla Wat the draft he chargol, belaid “the big: % ger the armed forces, the bigger the rank.”
was thinking of Congressmen's jobs—as well as those of - the generals, who he said have a “vested interest” in the Army... y - The Congressman said he hadn't been sleeping well, 50 worried was he about the draft law. His mail has convinced 2 “the bill was at once “foolish” and “dangerous.” He was asked if he thought the committee should deny House members a Shance to vote on the question. Yes, he -out, I'm afraid some of my colleagues WOR't bh Pack ‘in Congress next year,” he ad-
pon this it would 5 seem a that Mr. Short feels that Con gressmen, too, have a vested interest in their jobs—which they should protect by ducking votes on controversial issues, ; Fortunately for the Country, the members of the committee did not all subscribe to Mr. Short's “safety first” policy. ‘The vote was 6 to 4 to report the bill to the House for action, where. all members must stand up and be
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THE DRAFT is needed because under the volunteer _ system we are not getting enough men to meet our overseas bligations.
0 An emergency exists now because Congress failed to pass a universal military training law months ago, as the Armed Services urged. - Congress has approved the policies which have determined our, Jresent military requirements. Now it has to provide the manpower to carry out its commitments. That can be done only by facing the hard facts of the situation—and not by denouncing our generals ar ducking roll calls.
De_Gaul ists, , Reds and Ex-Nazis 4 d 'S Nationalists have. "joined hands th Communists to prevent ratification dy the Paris this week of the six-power power pact to create a West German state. In Germany right wing Nationalists as well as Communists are also the plan for a new state.
crisis. That has happened repeatedly In France and Ger: | many.
Gen. ‘De Gaulle when in power collaborated with the Reds he professed to distrust, and he was quick to spek a + deal with Stalin. Now, while he condemns the Schuman middle-of- the-road government for radicalism, he co-oper-ates with the Reds to overthrow it.
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_.. ___. munists switched to the Nazi Party, just as many Nazis in » defeat swung to the Communist Party. All of this is blessed - by Stalin, who uses Hitler officers in lis Germ army. And other ex-Nazis as agents in the Soviet Zone 0 Germany. Of course objections to the proposed West Geran
\ .._state of the French left-right combination and of the GerEe Can Jeft-right are the exact opposite.
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gives too much authority to the Germans and provides a dangerous degree of centralization. = - ‘ Germans complain that the ARTeCmEnt, g which they did not participate, divides and dismemnbers Germany without giving any real power to a central government even — for West Germany alone While the French Reds and the Gépman Reds (each with aid of nationalists of their respective countries) work opposite sides of the same obstructionist street, Stalin pushes his plan for a revived Reich as a Soviet satellite
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fe UNDER this three-way pressure from France, Ger- | many and ‘Russia, there has been some wavering by British "and Americans. The British commander is trying to-out- : bid the Russians in currying German favor, Our own Gen. t * Clay has announced that the Western powers will not force 3 ‘their recommendations for the new state on the Germans. ae In our judgment far too much time has been wasted in tB setting up a West German state. : : It should have been done at least a year ago, after
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: / split. + + Delay plays into the hands of the Reds. 1 we wait to ex please both German and French nationalists, nothing ever i will be done. Taye
jock : The gix-power London agreement should be put. into a effec
8. Gold-Plated Vocabuldry Ri JH L. LEWIS, complaining that the court forced him resume wage talks under a Taft-Hartley law provi‘sion, had this to say: “The intemperate judicial sanctions - _ imposed upon us were uttered upon the premise of an op- ; pressive and iniquitous: statute,” We sometimes think that the miners’ dwindling. wifaie ight last longer if their president could ‘break himSaagunt habit of using nothing bu ten-dollar
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As I go driving through : The countryside, y And wee women busy with their chores, Feeding the chickens, Putting the milk away, And gathering fruit: for supper, I think of those other days When my mother, . ® Brave and calm and beautiful, Did those very things For five small ‘children. And when I hear, Upon the evening air, The ore Inmet 1 of the children, As they To start the glowing Phearthire; "I remember how we hurried To fill out baskets 20 Su Sui baskets 5 tis Jargsik popeos bal, Which she had promised To the one who brought in The fullest basket. =JUKE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis > & o “God has given us memory so that we might we roses in December.” 3 ot —~SIR JAMES M, BARRIE. * & o
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The world today quite generally Admits its chaotic state But we're dreamers. each and every one, And prefer to trust to Fate.
Instead of seeking out ourselves And getting at the roots, We choose to passively réflect On what peace constitutes.
Content we are with delégates While we relax and view With an.ever so disceining eye The fallacies of “the few.” :
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. When he lives on the road marked “love,” ignores-the material this for that. And strives for his merit above
Only then can we know this security plan Which we now vainly aspire to It could be achieved if solidly backed By an earnest and valorous YOU. JACKIE 8S. * < The pessimist is the fellow who sees the cloud to the silver lining. ® © 9
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By Marquis Childs
Gives Stassen ‘Least Chance’
WASHINGTON, June 16—Of the three leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Harold Stassen is given the leas: to capture the grand prize at Philadelphia, rs rule out even the pos-
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ought to ‘be peddied by- ‘politicians -365-days a year, with a guarantee that they get their money back if folks ain't satisfied with the results. But Buck Baughman, the Democratic county chairman, argues that the Old Rooster variety of politics has roosted in Brown County for a hundred years and is “tops” as an elixer’ of life. He points to Uncle Jimmy - Tilton, who ‘will be. 98 years old next January, as a sample of what Democratic principles will do
for a feller, BROWN COUNTY SAGE.
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‘Experienced observe: sibjlity of the No. 2 place for the big, broadshouldered farmer's son from Minnesota. = For one of Mr. Stassen’s burning ambitions this would be a bitter anti-climax to a campaign as remarkable as any in American political history. Few men have gone so far on 50 limited
a career in public office. Largely by his own heroic endeavors, Mr. Stassen lifted himself to a point at which he
threatened to run away with the convention. It was gn achi¢vement that took nerve, resourcefulness, endless energy, patience and great self-
" discipline. All these qualities Mr. Stassen has as
a counterpoise to his vaulting ambition. “His ardent backers reject vehemently view of the calculating professionals who he Mr. Stassen a chance. . They point to the passionate partisanship of the Stassen delegates. With this core of unflinching support, they insist the Stassen managers can’ maneuver in a deadlock to bring about a victory for their hero. In my opinion. Mi. Stassen’s big chance for the nomination was in his original approach. That was to build himself up as an independent, taking a stand of his own regardless of Lhe views of party regulars.
Mistaken in Changing Tactics
IN THIS way he might have accumulated such strength in popular and delegate following that the convention could not have turned him down. That was the role he assumed when he returned from his service with the Navy in the Pacific at the age of 38. A delegate to the con-
By PAUL GHALI PARIS, June 16—American tourists grriving’ in Paris this summer undoubtedly will be Impressed at the “cheapness” of everything. The only way the French government can think of to check increased wage demands at this crucial time is to keep ‘the eost of living down, ~..-What.the American tourist will. not realize— . when pricing French goods—is that the French-
“man's salary is-onty hatf what he needs to meet"
current, prices. And that even these prices are showing an upward trend. In fact, rising living costs shown by May indices are cdusing considerably, alarm lest. France be forced to use too many Marsheil Plan credits for petite goods. The intention of European Recovery ‘Program representatives is that most of the credits allocated to this country shall go into profit. ‘returning enterprises. ? Present economic conditions are obviously |
ference in San Francisco that shaped the United Nations, he increased his stature as a public figure of independence and integrity.
+- Following a carefully plotted course to cap- -
ture the presidency, he made his voice heard throughout the nation. What he said about American responsibility
“what his potitieat tage
working against this realization, however.
to win the peace was in accord with what most Americans were thinking. With only a small organization and paying his own way in part by lecturing and writing, Mr. Stassen made remarkable progress. Visiting
‘western Europe and Russia, he showed his de-
sire to learn at first hand the problems his country faced. : A year ago, he began a change in his tactics. This was shown In his declaration that no nation in Europe carrying out nationalization or socialization of industry should be given Marshall Plan aid. He was thus to the right of Sen. Robert A. Taft, who recognized that such a provision would make the program unworkable, In his discussion of public housing, Stassen
. ‘was fuzzy, seeming to'evade a stand on the part
governmeht should play.
Made the Others Voice Views
HE catered to powerful grazing interests in the western states. On public power he said one ‘thing in one region and another thing in another part of the country. Now, of course, a politician running for office must be granted the right to a certain amount of double-talk. But Mr. Stassen’'s strength and his hope of success lay precisely in that he was an independent spurning the tricks and strategems of the clever politician. What he failed to realize was that no matter how far to the right he turned, he could never win over the Old Guard regulars in his party. “By publicly spurning Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey ‘and invading Mr. Taft's home state of Ohio, he
alienated two men who would wield great power even though they themselves might not capture the homination. Jomentum of Mr. Stassen’s original approach, getting out and talking to the voters,
~ answering .their questions, carried him a long TUway.
But as a quick-talking, changeable self-sales-man he began to lose some of the support he had won from the mass of independent voters. He began to look more like merely another politician and less like the independent spokesman for millions of Americans who ‘want to see an able leader in ‘the White House, no THATtEY
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Regardless -of the outcome of the « convention in Philadelphia, the country will be in Mr, Stassen’s debt. If it had not been for his ag paigning, we should have had eve
ssive camJess opportunity than we have had to see the athel con tenders. inaction. He forced them td".get out into the country and to say somcihiag ahout their views on national and international issues. That in itself is a real achievement and, ironically enough, it is’one of the reasons why the Old Guard means to shut him out.
LAUDS WOMEN AS— Politicians
By RAYY MITTEN - WASHINGTON, June 16 Women are born politicians, one of the more publicized of them in Congress contends. “From the time she is born woman is a politician,” says Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, liberal California Democrat. “At home she must be housekeeper, mother, teacher, , and sometimes even jury. What is government but |. housekeeping on - large | « scale?” . - These views of Mrs. Douglas are set forth in an article she wrote for the . forthcoming publication,” “Woman's Man: ual.” She had it inserted in the Congressional Record. n » » IN HER home, the Congresswoman writes, woman “meets problems of civil rights, of fair play, of discrimination. In her community she meets . problems of housing, of delin- | quency, of Playgrounds and nurseries. { “She nie these problems | and must al with them in ‘ concrete terms. Consequently women come to public life, not. As raw recruits, but as seasoned politicians. =~ - “They're not apt to make
quite the "sam istak Js is en ni 1 ht TOA MAR dr ” “ SR weno, 6/6 J Increasingly larger numbers "Your fafhar thinks they're some he of exotic wild flower he | oy . : ow Rie Avtsidentaly developed in his ggrden—don't tell V In y ent aft : Sy ., a him m they’ re. Li .
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Families Without Homes By Fredric O. Rusher, City. It seems almost impossible for a man with 5 y to find a home. He is informed: Nj Sides allowed. This phrase has become a by. d throughout America. ove all iknow and understand, that it is 3 ° strict rule among most a; t owners and those who rent rooms; that no children are ale’ lowed, There is a reason for this, that is—if you are minded. An apartment house or a renteg There is no for a child to play in. They run up and down the halls and disturb other roomers. You can't make a prisoner out of a child. They must and have a yard of their own, The fact still remains that children have thy Citizen doesn’t want fo build homes where children allow and the father of the family cannot afford to build one--or he cannot make proper contracts to build one—there is only one solution to this child-without-a-home situation, Let the government take the reins and build homes adequate for families to rent. After
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home for five consecutive years, this would uals y the family to buy homes on a rental 8.
oon! ese homes should be bussed for ordinary citizens as well as GIs, since it seems that everyboy is having trouble finding homes. ¢.¢ Ld ‘ :
Urges Firmness With Russia By E. P. Egan, 701 Markwood Avy, City. Most competent obsqrvers. Se tat that x the eaty
World War they would have prevented the second World War. And in the light of events-—-ag France has always been on the receiving end of German military might—it could be they have acquired what might be regarded in some quarters as super-natural i powers of insight into the German ‘mind. The Ruhr valley, being almost solid coal and practically inexhaustible, is in itself the answer to industrializing Germany.
If Russia wants to convince anyone of her |
integrity—co-operation must begin right in the Bizonal terrain—and, of a necessity, immediately. Any further bickering with Russia must of a necessity be met with the unconditional demand or reciprocal data on armament—with - the ultimatum that America, Britain and France maintain a permanent military base in Germany which will be made as impregnable as it » humanly possible to make it. We should insist that the atom bomb not be declared obsolete until aggression abandoned. This goes for Korea and all Pacific bases. It
ing on bases not too remote from the shores of this nation. One phase of the peace SE ulty with Germany is ‘open to ‘question. Indeed it can scarely be enforced and that is restriction of possession of commercial and passenger planes restricted to her industrial necessity. A modern nation to be self-supporting must be in a position of Sop ite: With a.sanely realistic treaty and ntenance of strong military by the. U. 8, this would be entirely es
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‘Death Is Sill Inevitable’ By Mrs. C.K. L., City *
Medicine is making rapid advances in the
conquest of old age diseases. y has a good chance to live to a hundred if he obeys the rules of health and the advice of his doectors, 80 what? Death jis still inevitable. What are 10, 20 or 30 years of mortal life against the back drop of eternity? I remember the story a friend once told me about her parents. They believed in real Heavén. The father talked about death as if it were a journey across a state line, which would take him into some beautiful realm. One day the mother said to her daughter, “Papa is’ getting real put out with the Lord for holding him here so long. He's yearning for Hea” ven. ” “What has become of that old faith? It's been lost in the maze of scientific wisdom and theological argument. We prolong life for a few years.’ That's fine. But I think our society is sick because we refuse to contemplate death. I is merely'a part ut is. an event as natural and miraculous as birth; an door to something infinitely better than in wa can con-
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He's Proud He's New Dealer
By Edwin Thomas, 2417 Maple Ave. Terre ~ Haute.
“I'm giad to be a New Dealer. 1 think it 1s ;
they're talking about, It's sacrilegious the way they talk about the late Mr. Roosevelt. They say he bought our votes. During the late ‘30s, Grandpa got an old age pension, father and I were on PWA and my son and daughter were on ‘NYA. No one asked us to vote for him nor offered us anything if we did; With the help of these organizations, for. which Mr. Roosevelt is responsible, we managed to hold our family together. We only wish he were alive so we could cast our votes for him again and again.
WORLD AFFARS
« . By William Philip Simms
Urge Treaty to Safeguard Peace
WASHINGTON, June 16-—If Sen. Vandenberg's 1945 proposal for a “hard-and-fast treaty” to.safeguard the peace were fevived now it would just about double the speed of European recovery. So say diplomats here, Within the next few days France's Premier Robert Schuman is expected to ask the
dence on the six-power agreement on western) Sermany. was # thi IF HE FAILS, Frans may
storms which could play havoe with the whole European recovery program.’ For France is the keystone ” western
erwise,
France's. nightmare is the fear of a German comeback perhaps backed this time by the Soviet Union. This fear has been fed by the talk of making Germany self-sup-porting. | The. French readily admit that American daxpayers be drawn in. should’, not be. expected ‘to’ : » carry the Germans on their At. the same time fhey. recall that after World, War 1, it was’ mostly Ameri loans that started
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day are asking what will happen now when the coal - mines and steel mills of the Ruhr are put Int§ full production. The Germans got out of cantvol after World War I. + What and who is to prevent them from repeating at France's expense? Foreign Minister fought valiantly, at London, for strong international cop- . trol of the Ruhr. What he got compromise which he « 8 workable but which some Frenchmen-—how many remains to be seen—think othThe assembly is debating it now and the outcome will decide the fate of the Schuman government. The United
If there is such a war, the United States inevitably would
» SUCH being the case, it is Unitéd ~ States should take two steps at the earliest possible date: (1) Strengthen France, Brit-
States, it is is pouring . out billions to aid European recovery. At the same time western Europe's economy is 50 per cent paralyzed by fear of a
At that time, as now, Europe was much perturbed over the possibility of a German comeback. World War II, Sen. Vandenberg said, came chiefly because Britain -and France . failed to keep Germany from rearming. ». He the “justi- _ fled fear of another rebirth of German military tyranny in some future postwar era” as “the heart of the immediate problem which bedevils our” allied relationships.” . "ar, } -.“I PROPOSE,” said the Sen‘ator, “that we meet this prob lem conclusively and at once. .. I know of no reason why a hard-and-fast treaty among the major allies should not be signed today to achieve this dependable end.” % Our jnterests in this, he went on to say, are the same as Europe's. "It is simply unthinkable” that Germany be “allowed to start another war and in his view it was unthink- " able that we could stay out of “it if she did. ' The recent five-power pactof Brussels, the British-Erench and similar treaties growing w out.ot World yar IL, au ons
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German industries going agai. ain and the Benelux countries. .. examples of it could be And that it was these Indus- . militarily, And (2) place itself - done within the the United Natries which forged the weapons on record just as Sen. Vanden- tions and without’ giving : that w= ance in 1940, . proposed in - January, Russia and legitimate the peopl : hd
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