Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1948 — Page 12
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Truman's ‘Turnip’ Session would like to think that something constructive might come out of President Truman's “turnip” session of Congress. But the odds are heavily against it. When Mr. Truman used the announcement of his special session call as the kicker in his acceptance speech indictment of the Republicans at the Philadelphia convention, he deliberately made the floors of Congress the first battleground of his campaign. That removed any possibility of a bipartisan approach to the problems which he will submit for consideration. By demanding that Congress do something about high prices, the President is asking for a legislative miracle. And he expects to saddle the Republicans with responsibility for present living costs if they fail to accomplish jt. We say miracle, because we do not see how inflationary
. trends can be curbed by limited price controls and ration-
ing without the removal of farm price supports and drastic reductions in public spending and wages. The President isn’t asking for any of these things. - Indeed, Mr. Truman is happy to claim full credit for high wages while blaming the Republicans for high prices. Yet the two are Siamese twins.
» LJ ~ » . » REAL reductions in public expenditures are not in sight, unless we are to abandon the Marshall Plan and our national defense program. Neither of these things should be done, nor is it likely that anything of the kind will be proposed. On the contrary, increased inflation is in prospect. By asking for new appropriations for housing, health and education, as well as price controls and rationing, Mr. Truman may get his appropriations but not controls. In that event the inflationary spiral will con to climb. Instead of putting the Republicans in the hole on high prices; the President's “turnip” session may further split his own party--if civil rights issues are used to drive a deeper wedge between the Truman administration and the angry Southerners. / It is even probable that if racial legislation is pushed to the front the rest of the President's program may receive no attention at all. Mr. Truman's challenge to the Republicans to enact their 1948 platform pledges into law in advance of the election must have appealed to him as smart politics, when he made it. Lo Je Le But it may develop that it would have been better to have left “turnip day” merely to planting turnips.
been ed by Gov. Dewey's admirable statement, If the Republicans follow his patriotic lead—and if the Democratic administration continues to €o-operate on this basis—the presidential campaign will not divide America on the Russian hoy : Gov. Dewey, after noting that American diplomatic lapses at Yalta and Potsdam failed to spell out our Berlin status, states correctly that our rights have now been confirmed by usage, acquiescence and reason. His policy is the same as that expressed by Secretary of State Marshall—we shall not surrender our rights under duress but we seek a peaceful settlement. This agreement is neither accidental nor a sign that the Republican candidate is rubber-stamping the State Department. The Marshall policy was matured in consultation with the chief Republican foreign experts and Dewey advisers, Chairman Vandenberg of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mr. Dulles, a frequent member of American delegations in international negotiations. Such a joint party development of foreign policy is essential of course not only to prevent disastrous campaign division of the nation, but also to obtain defense and diplomatic teamwork between the White House and Congress
and to provide continuity regardless of whether there is & | “proposes
change in the White House. ; We commend to every campaign orator and every cany didate, high and low, this Dewey example: ’ “The present duty of Americans is not to be divided by past lapses but to unite to surmount present dangers. We shall not allow domestic partisan irritations to'divert us from this indispensable unity.” The word is “indispensable.”
‘Ray, Tito r HEN 2000 Yugoslav Communists opened ‘a party congress this week in Belgrade they shouted Tito's name in rhythm for five minutes. As an old high school cheer-leader, we are a little dubious how that would sound. It needs either a ‘‘sis boom bah,” or simply *'Ray- Tito” and a tiger. Then there is the matter of cadence. Repeated rapidly it would be tongue-tiring and perhaps too remindful of a machine gun. . Taken slowly, it still needs a cumulative effect, like for instance “Ti-to-tal-i-tar-i-an!” In any case the Yugoslav version probably went better than if the 2000 delegates had sounded off for five minutes with the dictator’s real name: It's Broz, and don't ask us how Yo pronounce it.
Britain's Bipartisan Policy -
OST of us probably think that bipartisan foreign policy applies only to this country. But the British House of Commons’ aproval of the European Recovery Program by a vote of 409 to 12 shows that a similar policy is operat-
ing in the United Kingdom.
It might be said that any other approach would be looking a gift horse in the mouth. Yet 215 abstentions on the ~~ Vote reflect Britain's embarrassment at accepting more aid - And thus again admitting her self-sufficiency. This feeling, translated protest, might have hindered Britain's
into active even mors.
In Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue YOUR HOMETOWN
Your old Hometown may be a vast Metropolis . . . & million lights May spread their beams afar And climb to dizzy heights,
Or maybe home to you is just A village or a country-side, Where down within its weeded heart Your father and his father died.
If so, your life is planned for you, And if you stay and do not heed The wanderer’s call of untrod roads, Then you are blest, my friend, indeed. --BETTY ABBETT, Indianapolis.
oH FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY
He, who does no good does harm. . . . There
hind a president's desk. . . . Politeness is so beautiful that even the rude admire it. . . . Birds that fly highest don’t always fly farthest. + « « Many a man has lost all when he “lost his temper.” , . . If you must speak evil of someone, wait till you are alone, D. GEISE, Connersville.
® 6 0 MORNING TRUCKS The highway, like a ribbon, A black and winding ribbon . .. Reaches out into the dawn and seems to have no end; An anxious world is waiting, A tense and restless waiting, For the trucks that ride the ribbons Ere the morning sun ascends. ~RUTH RIOCKLEP, Crawfordsville.
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EARLY MORNING BUS
Every morning just as regular As the mornings roll around, With the same old bus and driver, ” The same old crowd is found, ’ Talking about the weather, A regular topic they discuss, As they ride along together On the early morning bus. .
Here the laborer, and office man, And the man that runs the store, Have ridden years together, : And look forward yet for more. e learned to know each other
As they've traveled to their labors, They never act like strangers But like brothers, friends and neighbors. OTIS SHIRK, Muncie. * ¢
OLD RHYMES MODERNIZED
Early to bed, and early to rise Would give us more time to DDT the fies.
Never put off till tomorrow The we can do today, Unless it be of course Some of the things we say. ~MILDRED LB YOUNG, Indianapolis.
TOLERANCE To err is human; men are born Of imperfection, and so live, Yet mine is not the right to scorn, My only right is to forgive.
Each human weakness I'll allow
WORLD AFFAIRS— ERP Slowdown
By William Philip Simms WASHINGTON, July 27—Failure of the 16 Marshall Plan nations to co-operate among themselves as fast and as fully as they promised, is slowing down European recovery. Unless they change, according to word from Paris where Paul G. Hoffman, Chief of Economic Co-operation Administration, is conferring with European leaders, success of ERP ‘may be impaired. For maximum effect the plan requires that {ts beneficiaries help each other. Nations with surpluses must sell them to nations in need of such commodities. American taxpayers are supplying billions of dollars—but they can't supply all the goods oh well. At least some must be procured elseere.
Must Solve Currency Situation nT OBSTACLE to trade within Europe is
currency situation. Fluctuations have been wide and wil. More than a year has
have the Marshall Plan, and still they have
done little or nothing to stabilize their ourrencies.
annually to facilitate trade among European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. in European currencies, countries would use European currencies, at ex-
change rates to be agreed upon, backed by our American dollars.
tend to interfere in their internal affairs. The hope and expectation here
stored.
export position regarding this fuel. Timber is critically scarce
tories, railways and so on. enormous forests,
cumulate in the Russian zone.
lations of the 16 ERP countries. must look to one another for help.
before the scheduled four years run out.
tion rathole.
is more peace behind a peasant's plow than be- |
Dewey Statesmanship .. = = | | mn nn nash love. USSIAN hopes and French fears that American bipar- |... eave {hie faults to Him above. | R tisan faneign policy will fall apart over Berlin have | — PY SUTHURMAN D. GEISE.
passed since the 18 European nations agreed to |
. In an effort to help, the United States now to allocate approximately $300 million |
The idea 1s to create a “counterpart fund” | Instead of dollars, the |
Even so, some seem inclined to look the gift horse in the mouth, Apparently impressed more by Moscow's cries of American imperialism than | by Washington's patient assurances, some members of the European economic council want it in writing that the United States doesn’t in-
is that, barring goods with a “military potential,” Eastern and Western European trade can be re- |
in Western Europe, so scarce that steel props have had to be used in place of wood in mining. Such substitutions take away steel from shipyards, facRussia has
Grain—especially wheat—is short in the west, largely because the enormous quantities once available in the Danubian basin now ac-
Apparently, writes France's new Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, in La Vie Financiere, Europeans don't realize the sacrifices U, 8. tax- | payers are making to aid Europe under ERP, | or the danger that these sacrifices might cease |
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Western Europe wants coal, timber and | food. Eastern Europe has these {n abundance. A fourth of the total imports Western Europe is asking from North America, according to a | Marshall Plan report issued in Paris, used to come from countries now in the Soviet sphere. |
. Wr Won't Go for Operation Rathole | { NOW THAT Poland has taken over German’s Silesian coal fields, she is in a favorable
Vo hear, the’ Soviets.
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U. S. AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs
Dewey Seeks to
Make It Clear
He Backs U. S. Policy on Berlin
WASHINGTON, July 27—In the balance precariously held between peace and a final showdown with Soviet Russia the events of the past weekend must weigh heavily. The net result will be known in the headlines of the days to come. On one hand was the strange conventiqn and final public rally of Henry Wallace's third party. Wallace's demand that the United: States get out of Berlin will be exploited to the fullest by the Russians. It was exactly what they wanted to hear from an American. s The peril in such a statement is obvious. Deceived about the state of American public opinion by agents—who oo. Sompened to send news 1 16 hedr, the Soviets od take 3 "speech as evidence that the country is not
behind a resolute stand in Berlin.
calamity that so long has been dreaded. . At the same time that Mr. Wallace was haranguing his followers in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Gov. Thomas E, Dewey was meeting at Pawling with Sen. and John Foster Dulles on the momentous subject of Berlin. Mr. Dewey's desire was to do everything
" possible to avoid rocking the boat in the present
Of Empire
Even if the cold war prevents restoration of | East-West commerce, our officials say there is considerable room for improving the trade reThese nations
It is not interfering in Europe's internal | life if Mr. Hoffman reminds the 18 nations that while we do not intend to meddle, Congress won't keep on appropriating billions of dollars if it thinks the money is for an opera-
|v The Empire's salvation, he
delicate situation. He wanted to make it clear to the world
& that there is no difference between the Repub-
lican and the Democratic position on the basic fssue of not yielding tp Russian force in the blockade. In every speech, Mr. Wallace and the lesser lights at Philadelphia brought out the name of Mr. Dulles, linking it with that catch phrase, “international banker.” The response—Iloud boos and angry hisses— was each time as automatic as the response of a doorbell when you press the button. Mr. Dulles, Mr. Truman, the international bankers and “the generals” are back of the “get ‘tough” policy. So the Wallaceites proclaimed. Boo! Hiss!
Dulles Was Against ‘Getting Tough’
THERE IS an irony in this that may some day be revealed. When Mr. Dulles was called to Washington last week for consultation on Berlin, he threw all the weight of his influence as Mr. Dewey's chief adviser on foreign policy on the side of new .negotiations with the Russians. Those negotiations, in Mr. Dulles’ should begin informally in Moscow. And after exploration at that level the foregin ministers of the four powers should meet to discuss all phases of the German deadlock. In other words, Mr. Dulles came down hard against the “get tough™ policy, which seemed to be heading straight toward disaster.
view,
Acting on. that deception, they could bring about the.
Arthur H. Vandenberg -
Since Mr. Dulles’ meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Marshall a great many things. have happened. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military commander in Berlin, has come back for consultations. The President and Secretary Marshall have both declared the chances of peace to be excellent. Charles Bohlen, State Department counsellor, has flown to Berlin reportedly to initiate new negotiations. .
Mr. Dulles has consistently opposed the kind
. of centralized German government urged by
Gen. Clay and ‘adopted at the conference of, the western allies in Berlin.
Privately, Gen. Clay refers to Mr. Dulles in strong lan e as a friend of France who is ; obstructing the reconstruction of Germany.
Mr. Dulles a Man of Paradox
GEN. CLAY'S resentment of Mr. Dulles grows out of the latter's consistent advocacy of a policy that would avoid a centralized Germany, Mr, Dulles is in favor of a federation of western Europe to which the individual German states could belong. He also has consistently sfavored internationalization of industry of the Ruhr. A year ago in Cambridge, England, sddressing a world church group, Mr. Dulles suggested that military men were too influential in making American foreign policy. When he returned to this country, W. Stuart Symington, now secretary for air, wrote him about this criticism. In the correspondence that followed, Mr. Symington included a long memorandum from Gen. Carl Spaatz, then chief of staff of the Air Forces, on world policy.
Mr. Dulles replied by saying, in effect, that he thought this proved his point. He proposed that the correspondence be made public. Nothing further was heard from Mr. Symington. Mr. Dulles is a man of paradox. He is head, as the Wallaceites like to proclaim, of the largest corporation law firm in the world. But he is also chairman of the Federal Council of Churches’ Commission on Peace and he has worked unstintingly for what he believes to be the way of peace. . The words of the statement issued by Mr. Dewey at the end of his conference with Mr. - Dulles and Mr. Vandenberg were carefully weighed. The desire was to avoid any criticism of recent policy in Berlin that could be seized on by Moscow, while emphasizing the need for continuing negotiations. But the final record will show where Mr, Dulles has consistently stood. And his position will be seen to have little relation to tiic one that the Wallaceités have for their own purposes so conveniently assigned him.
FIGHT FOR UNITY ...
By FRED HUBBARD SYDNEY, Australia, July 27 —A drive to maintain Empire economic unity—' ‘now threatened by America”—is under way here in Australia, as well as in New Zealand. Sir Donald Simpson of London's Empire Industries Association, is currently here charged with starting the ball rolling on behalf of Britain's manufacturers. Part of Sir Donald's mission, he says, is to ask leaders of both Australia and New Zealand for help in maintain ing preference for Empire-pro-duced goods. He is also here, he says, “to warn the people of the danger of the recent Havana Trade Agreement.”
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HE CHARGES that the agreement limits and seeks to stop Empire preference— “which America wants.”
If the U. 8. is successful, he warns, “its mass production will kill all secondary industries, create unemployment and lower primary production prices in Empire countries.”
adds, lies in its remaining an economic unit so that it can compete with the United States and with Europe.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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‘Encourages Policemen
By M. L. Jacobs, Kingsley Drive. 80 do I acclaim the splendid police work of Officer Badgley in the Erk case. I do not know
him personally, nor do I know the woman who °
by her knowledge of law. outwitted the very law that .is trying to protect her and others
MEN
men, ed only by the supreme law of God, 2 ® & me
from accidental deaths and the like. “%
Judge Haerle acted with the utmost imprudence in dismissing this case, and I take it that no court is too big to be criticized, barring none. : Why the high and mighty attitude? The judge is human the same at you or I, and is subject to mistakes as are we all. However, we do look to a judge to uphold
the law and not look for “loop-holes” to throw °
cases out of court: For instance I overheard this not so long : A woman of prominence got a sticker, and her man Friday told her not to worry, he could get it fixed for her. "I inquired how, and he said “Oh, judge so and so fixes things like this for me all the time.” So why shouldn't the judges’ judgment be up for scrutiny and praise where deserved also condemnation where undeserved. In closing a word.to the poor policeman who
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was trying to do his duty, and his fellow -
officers:
Don’t let the Erk case discourage
you. This case will make even the high and :.
mighty afraid for a time, so go to it irrespective of the “Who's Who” in Indianapolis.
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‘He Knows Them Too Well’ By Irving Jones, R. R. 8, City ‘
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Comes now Henry Wallace asserting that the i
accusers of certain Communist leaders are.
guilty of political maneuvering, which statement
refuses to concede the possible guilt of the accused Communists, regardless of what evidence
there may be against them. ¢ If Henry Wallace knows these Communists
well enough to declare, in this manner, them
not guilty, prior to hearing the evidence, he knows them too well ever to be the President of these United States. ° g
* oo ‘Die Hard, New Dealism, Die’ By William Krantlein, Greenwood. : Jud Haggerty says in The Forum the people will render the verdict this November. What do you say, Jud, let's wait and see what the
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people’s verdict is. If the Republicans win, will |
you accept their verdict quietly? Received Friday's Times a little late. Assume the presses were held until Mrs. Walter Haggerty’s letter for this week was received. Keep writing Mrs. Haggerty. Die hard New Dealism, die hard! I'm enjoying every throe
of it. ® & 4
Wants Comics on Front Page By 8. J. Steinmetz, Crawfordsville, Ind.
I subscribe to your excellent paper. day my day is spoiled, I picked up the paper
Each
and I read War, Murder, Graft, Gahmbling, Etc.+ .
Today I picked up the paper backwards and the comics were on the back page. I read 'em and felt fine. didn’t seem near as bad. For the good of the
I read the front page and it
paper and the people at large, may I sincerely . suggest that yeu print the comics on the front
page and the news on the back.
LABOR IN POLITICS—
A Labor Party
By Fred W. Perkins
PHILADELPHIA, July 27—The Progressive Party convention closed with a challenge to the
right wings of organized labor to join up—or *
risk the chance of playing second fiddle. “Now labor has a party of its own,” said Albert J. Fitzgerald, who as president of the leftish CIO United Electrical gVorkers served as permanent chairman of the convention.
Alaska
who recently retu ka. said they ha There isn’t en take care of th sent t0 Alaska . They ct
geveral mont Omar Bradley, cl nounced the hur large numbers of to Alaska from West Coast. They were sen permanent GArl d force tro ly the air fo oe reinforce cially announced estimated at fron men. These are pow have to star Gen. Collins sai
built houses whic the large major much longer. Those who ren trained infantry not be organized Their principal make certain the the gasoline, fo ment needed to o] Not Enoug
Mr. Gray said $76,038,000 to sp this year. But f id, would hardl racks and housi ay begun — 8 hen money ran ing can be comp Much of it, howe ntil next year. “Our goal is to he head of laska,” he said. Gen. Twining Dames Atkinson, askan air com eed $2.5 billion truction to take arrisons. Const laska are 300 | han in the Units onstruction sea: han four mont! ear. . Three Years Gen. Collins sa hree years at th ouses for the hctually needed i f Congress pror
A he money the n
department says fleclined to estim: D{ money or the t would house.
Gen. Collins als Winter maneuvers ka for the last he discontinued. ™my's expansio by the draft—m practical. Instea my will concer raining personng th the possibili ent north next 3 Alaska is rega 8 the crucial poi: ar. Many
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This new party, he said, “is open to every ’
man and woman in the labor movement. It's our party.” : Fitzgerald's Statement
REFERRING to the political split in the CIO, when the Fitzgerald union led a revolt of
a dozen leftish units against the policies of CIO ;
President Philip Murray, Mr. Fitzgerald said: “There are ‘still some who don't see it our way. They told us to wait, to play it smart, to stick with the Democrats or to play with the Republicans, There were some master minds
who told us, ‘By staying out of either party,
labor can call the turns on both’ “Other labor strategists said, ‘Labor can
take over the Democratic Party’. You see how
they took it over a couple of weeks ago, when they had to swallow injunction Harry (Truman) as their candidate. . “And some were so far gone that they joined with the worst enemies of labor—the Byrds and
Dixiecrats—in mad pursuit of a general whor *
the Taft-Hartley Republicans had vain.
courted. Can't they take a hint?”
Door Open for Wallace?
THIS statement by Mr, Fitzgerald pointed up what has become increasingly obvious here —that if the CIO and AFL continue to straddle
the presidential issue they play ‘into the hands :
of the Wallace people. Until or unless these labor organizations state their presidential preference—it would probably have to be Mr. Truman—they leave the door open for the very active and large
labor committee of the Wallace party to make
political raids in the more conservative quarters of organized labor. Whether the right wing of labor will be frightened off by the Communist label freely placed on the Wallace following is a question: But it collides with an old political axiom, “You can’t beat somebody with nobody.”
Still unanswered is the question whether
the fight wil become so bitter that it will bring about an organic disruption of the, CI0—with the left wing unions going off by themselves. Mr. Murray doesn’t want that, nor do leftish leaders. They fear to get out the protective cloak of the CIO economic matter-.
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