Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1948 — Page 10
The Indianapolis Times
YW. "WALTER LECKROND "HENRY W. MANZ RO HOWARD
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Vate Due on Congress, Too REPUBLICAN Senators, in caucus, voted to consider only those recommendations in President Truman's message to the spesial session Which. could pass 3 hres: point test
ONE: The legislation must be emergency in character. TWO; It must contain a problem of national importance. THREE: It must be a program which can be proeessed properly within the time available to an emergency session. Then the Republican Senators called up the anti-poll tax hill as their first order of business—a measure which does not meet any one of the three requirements. © Emergency in character? The poll tax has been 3 political football since reconstruction days. A problem of national importance? Only seven of the 48 states have poll taxes. A measure which can he processed properly within limited time? The Republicans—as well as every newspaper reader—knew in advance the Southern Democrats had organized 8 filibuster against the bill which may endanger the whole special session program.
NOW 8 the Republicans who are playing polities. - The President wants to saddle the with responsibility for high prices. In retalistion, the Republicans want te widen the breach between the President and the Diziesrats, sud ave vaing the anti-poll tax
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Hididy y have widened the dispute by challenging 5 eapture control of the Berlin police. i gin Begin bhi crisis hag grown worse. It is just as serious as has been indicated by the frank statements of Mr. Bevin, Secretary of State Marshall, and our Gen. Clay on the spot.
ALLIES gre not war-mongering. By their firm attitude in Berlin they ave trying to discourage Stalin from provocative use of force which so easily could flare into war. At the same time they are opening wide the door for peace. Today or whenever Foreign Commissar Molotov will express allied readiness to ego otiate on the German disputes—provided Stalin removes his gun from our head and puts it in his pocket. This may seem contradictory—as though we are going soft in Moscow just as we are getting’ tough in Berlin. Actually one supplements the other. The retreat from Berlin under duress would invite further aggression and prevent a peaceful settlement. To remain firm in Berlin but refuse to negotiate also would prevent settlement, The best, perhaps only, chance of peace is to he both firm and reasonable. The only legitimate question which can be raised against this dual allied policy, it seems to us, is where we should talk. 1f it is to be another four-power conference, such as Stalin desires, there is danger of repeating the bitterly deadlocked Moscow and London conferences which made matters worse. It probably would be safer to carry the issue directly to the United Nations now, rather than as a later and last - step, as the allies plan. -Sinee the allies already have decided to risk another round of big power talk first—if Stalin will put away his gun—we can only hope the situation does not get entirely out of hand before the United Nations is allowed to function,
A ‘Little White House’ Evo members of Congress, a Democrat from Kentucky and a Republican from California, home states of the _ two vice presidential nominees, are joint authors of a hill * for. an official residence for the nation’s No. 2 man. It’s a sound proposal—something that should ‘have been done long ago. + California provides Gov. Warren an official residence, ; 3nd if be shangee Jobe a8 4, Temi of the election he will take a phen when he goes to Washington. He d to go house-hunting at the same time. e en the gubjeet of housing, the folks at be SYetlooked: either. por So should
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THE HOUSING SITUATION The “patter of little feet” in the hall Penetrates our thin plastered wall; Children’s voices, the little dears, Come sprinkled with catcalls, snears and jeers; Radio music, swing and hillbilly, Ti 2 in the A-yem drives me silly. With all rooms filled, above and below, Our landlord should be rolling in dough; There! s one vacant Hace. and rm smphatic.... raving mad @ ren He § —ou Ek JYAN, Tndlanspolis.
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"| Spies Using UN?
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WASHINGTON, July 31—The threat to United States security by foreign agents using ‘the United Nations as a cloak 1s far more here are willing publicly
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the Attorney General, and Marcellus C. Shield, hat of the House Appropristions Committee) too make a report. No committee ever Me secretary-general Arks A wir, Arend indicat: i that e activities of In ations personne - i be investigated by the United States.
We Can't Keep 'Em Out
THE FACT remains, however, according to testimony before the Senate, that “several hundred” foreigners who otherwise would not have been admitted into this country because they were considered subversive risks have been let in as employees of the United Nations. Diplomats are granted a privileged status in the posi to which they are accredited. The host governments, however, are not entirely defenseless. If they have reason to suspect
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that an enemy of any grade .is abusing his privilege, his recall can be demanded. No reason need be given. All that is necessary is to inform the offender’s government that he has become persona non grata, and home he goes. But the position of delegates to the United Nations is quite different. The fact that the United Nations happens to be located on American soil is incidental. The United States is merely a member like the others. It has no more to say about the entry and exit of United Nations diplomats than if the United Nations were located in Europe or Asia.
LABOR IN POLITICS—
Truman and AFL
By Fred W. Perkins
WASHINGTON, July 31—Pressure is building up inside the AFL to force that group to fndorse candidate Truman in the presidential race.
A strong element in the AFL's 14a e for Political Education was described oritatively today as pushing for a hy from the federation’'s policy of staying out of prestdential contests That has been broken only once, in 1924, when the AFL supported the La FolletteWheeler Progressive ticket.
One reason given for’ the pressure is the aggressive campaign started by the Wallace crowd to bite off a big slice of the labor vote. Left-wing laborites of the Wallace party have a candidate for the White House. Neither the AFL nor the CIO has made an official choice.
The CIO is well along the road toward declaring for Mr. Truman. In Milwaukee recently Jack Kroll, director of the CIO Political Action Committee, told a gathering that President Truman was getting a becoming “new look,” and that it might be “the plain people of the United States “~ve found another ¢ham-
pion.” A little befcic, Mr. Kroll was in the * lead of the Eisenhower-or-Douglas movement.
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» By Peter Elser
Gov, “on s Position on Public Power Is Raised in New York
nasa, July 81—Presidential canThomas E. Dewey's position on public poet policy is being smoked out by recent aevelopments on “Larry,” as the St. Lawrence Rivet, project has been nicknamed. 8 has come to light through the New York State Power Authority's filin ng of an application with the Federal Power mmission for a license to join with the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission in building and operating a $400 million, 2,200,000 horsepower dam and en grating § station across the St. Lawrence near sena, N This ol ‘was taken on Gov. Dewey's in-
ructions r the 8. Senate voted 57 to 30 st ra facation of the 53-year-old U. §.- St. Lawrence Seaway project treaty.
New York and Ontario's new proposal raises - a number of important questions in Washington, ana their solution may seriously alter present 8. blic power policy. ately, a show-down is in sight over Yhether sleet power generated at governmentt dams should be sold wholesale at the al bar to private power companies for resale @ profit to consumers, or whether such power should continue to be sold by the government directly to preferred customers such as municipalities, rural co-operdtives and industrial users. The private power industry has for years been trying fo block development of public power, p y rticularly by valley or regional authorities.
GOP Platform, Bewey Differ
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM adopted at Philadelphia, however, declared, “We favor progressive development of the nation’s water
TIMELY REMINDER—
Learn to Shop
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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resources for navigation, flood control and power, with immediate action in critical areas. . ..” Later the platform declared: “We favor a comprehensive reclamation program for arid and semi-arid areas, with full protection of the and interests of the states in the use and control of water for irrigation, power development incidental | thereto and other beneficial uses. . Lawyers may find a sharp conflict between states’ rights and federal development, and another distinction between East and West, implied in these two ea. . e St. Lawrence ey hd what anyohe you! eal an arid or semi-arid he = But the Jeyslopm RISE pre Fr ts Aa n the wrence is dt 3 Pro, promoting the rights and interests of a state. It is also somewhat at variance with power policy set forth by Gov. Dewey when he was campaigning in the Oregon primary. In hie Corvallis speech, he was quoted as Raving
said: . River a Sipment ghould, be on a 3 asis. uu arge scale, m e Pl > ects as those Tor the rates hoe Si Missouri, the Columbia and the Willamette are a Ratiral responsibility for the federal governmen
Private Power Foresaw End :
PRIVATE power interests in general were quite happy when the St. Lawrence project was sent back to the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate last February. Public Utilities Fortnightly crowed in its March issue that maybe this was the beginning of the end for “Larry.” This was before Gov. Dewey revived the project as a New York State Power Authority development. In a more recent issue, however, the Fortnightly, a house organ for the private power industry, takes a slightly different line. Examindustry, takes a slightly different line. Examinit finds that he favored “non-discriminatory” sale of St. Lawrence power to private utilities at cheaper rates than it cost them to produce power. That, presumably, wold make the St. Lawrence development more acceptable to the private power companies which face a shortage of generating capacity in the New York industrial area. In granting the New York State Power Authority a license to build and operate the St. Lawrence dams, FPC could conceivably specify how the power generated on the American side of the river is to be distributed, giving preference to certain types of consumers. When FPC finally approves the project, it will be referred to the State Department which in turn will hand the matter over to the International Joint Commission. By the time all this red tape is unwound, Gov. Dewey may be in the White House. In that event it will be interesting to see whether Mr. Dewey will continue to push the
New York state-private power interest above the federal | Interest.
You Better Wani—
Fair Profits
THE CURRENT issue of the CIO's Outlook is devoted to proving that a “mere handful” of persons contral this nation’s big corporations. About one out of every 20 adults owns corporation stock, the CIO’s Department of Research and Education reports. Is the CIO trying to make it appear that the American worker doesn’t have enough, insurance, savings accounts, after existing, to invest in stocks? The enormous investment in war bonds makes that silly.
. THIS BEPORET, in the midst
seems to be an attempt to suggest that the average Amerii can, having no corporate stock in his name, shouldn't worry if wage boosts squeeze profits out of company gperations. The CI 10's economists are smart, informed men. They Wh that every American has a direct stake in the | profitable operation of industry
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A Pleasing Refuge : oy FOR MOST mem Xs However and Jer ticularly those in the recall comes'3s something of a relief. "Back in the home district there E it iro for the ave Congressman. mercy of the Hoople about whom he Cialis 0 long and eloquently in the halls of Congress. They want to tell him, for a change, what they think. Or they have a favor to ask. | On top of this comes endless requests to speak at Rhis picnic and that rally; invitetiont which the candidate cannot refuse. He ls also the prey of a nn of solicitors for worthy causes who expect him to contribute generously out of a salary that is regarded back home 38 inexhaustible. So in the present interlude, Detare me elec tion begins, a at many members are at fin a ae in the capital. The sound effects of anger and denunciation are largely for political purposes.
For Some—A Serious Penalty
session imposes a serious penalty opponent a perfect opportunity to make back nome a the 1 Cube is sweating gut in Was| ; Rep. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is'an ge ample of one on whom the session imposes gevers handicap. He is ¢ Age: in & tf) ht to win the seat in fou a oF py Sen. Tom Stewart at the primary to be held enngssee Rep. Kefauver is a \iboral. He has pon sistently fought for the New Deal meas that have made such in his gi w That 1 ons i jose it at is one re of change ge trying fo ihe B teat = Their Bie Ed Crump i Memphis. bute rch has a omens ot &
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