Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1948 — Page 10

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om Cher cab ound deta prin “Moreover, we should think it

a productive capacities of Russia and lite states—the only direction from which aggres-

be traced to their But even total figdown into how

aking The ruth Inks now pretends it isn’t there, If the committee was less than fair in charging the Attorney General with responsibility for the “growth” of communism, it may be said he had invited such a reprisal by attempting to have it appear that the committee's activities had interfered with his own investigation. That was pure baloney because he had control of all of the major s a full year before they told their stories to the homias committee. Now he has the rest of the campaign explain why be failed to act.

Decadent Five-Day Week

FFICIALS of the Communist government in Czechoslo- * vakia have “suggested” that Cmech factory workers ighange from a five-day to a six-day week. “5 “We could-produce more, the Czech Minister of Indusir told a Communist Party conference, “if we would “Woluntarily decide that no free Saturday should exist in the fAve-year plan. Don't you think it is a crime against our building endeavors when we do mot work 52 Saturdays a year? : This is a little disillusioning to us. As a hasty, often ~~ careless, reader of the Dally Worker and other Communist throwaways we had assumed that if America and other democracies had the five-day week the Soviets naturally “would have a four-day or even three-day week; that if our workers had chicken every Sunday the Soviets would have turkey with, of course, pie formerly in the sky. It turned out surprisingly different when we looked it up. Tn} Russia, where the work day theoretically is subject ul state control, pre-war hours were seven a day 0 on log of rout 11 ot 70 1940 the work day was oft. stepped up to eight hours and the rest days reduced one in seven, When Russia got into the war an 11-hour wis made mandatory. Then after V-E Day hours worker dropped to eight a day and 48 a becoming standard under ‘the constitu-

week is among the ) EE Sark d into the Soviet fold. And

sor

In Tune . With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

= A MIDSUMMER DAY-DREAM

(OF THE CITY DWELLER)

oung be “et” The Jaz: house-wite susp buns are & Pleasyry al a treat, With a flavor that you never can forget.

The tomatoes now assume their red and rosy hue {

Superb, “hs summer F pup and crushaw,

The tender cabbage heads are bursting right

Hi rwit for heir. tin In a salad or a slaw, :

“Bweet-'taters” just for the digging can be had at any time, The pimentos turn to red and gold beneath the summer

Oh! the country’s loudly calling, about this time year, And I fain would quickly answer it once more. Did 1 say the country’s calling? "Twas & mistake 1 fear, It's my wife, for me to hurry to the corner grocery store, W. 8. WICKLIFF, New Castle, * % 4

MODERN PROVERBS

Walking in paths of ignorance is like stumbling through a cemetery of open graves in pitch darkness, . , , Study carefully the roadmaps of progress, and listen not to idle gossipers who have never been over the highway of life. . . . The wise shall inherit respect, but the reward of fools shall be disgrace. , . . Drink water from the well of wisdom and understanding, and trust not the drink that gossipers sip. +++ The ant should teach us lessons of industry, thrift and perseverance. . . . Waste not your time arguing with fools, but counsel with wise men and they will welcome your words. . . . Help water the garden of your neighbor and he will share with you the vegetables of prosperity.

++» He who ha his his shall have food for winter, but he who in poolrooms during the harvest shall wind up in the poorhouse. +++ A tip from a wise man brings happy living.’

+ « « A cheerful greeting from a neighbor is like a drink of cold water on a hot we

He who is hotheaded Is sure to pop-off fool-

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THE BROWN COUNTY SAGE. *

PERCEPTION

Give me no greater purpose than to

uNLEss. | co ALONG

he all en crogked--My dong oo that it For it came from out Be. heart,

Which runs. away with me,

And T will follow after, Even in my song, For my heart can not be running Unless 1 go along. DAISY MOORE BYNUM, Lyons, » ¢ 9

BE A BOOSTER

Don’t fail to act if you have a chance, I'm sure you won't go wrong, If someone's doing a thing worthwhile Try to boost him along. It will give him new zeal, And cause him to feel His efforts are on the right line. If you go as you should It will do him much good, : To slap his back, and say, “Fine.”

OTTIS SHIRK, Muncle. * ¢ ¢

HER HAT

Her hat'made everybody laugh The freakiest to be seen. And--she wore it out on Easter day— Not on Hallowe'en!

MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson.

HARD TO HITCH... By Jim G. Lucas

Unified Armed Forces Still Far From a Fact

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-Better unification of the armed forces is being sought by two groups, each tackling the problem

from a different angle,

Defense Seeretary James Forrestal sees it as a problem in human relations. Admirals and generals, he says, must aceept unification in principle before it works, He concedes there are loose cogs in his machine. But as he sees it, structural flaws are less important than the attitudes of his men. Until their team loyalties are greater than their service loyalties, he believes

no legislation or reorganization can do the job. The Hoover Commission on approachest it as a mechanical on Its Armed committee, headed by Ferdinand Eberstadt ing several university presidents

know whether Mr. Forrestal’s machine could have worked In

the first place.

Pep Talks by Brass Hats

‘MR. FORRESTAL last week:called 300 Army, Navy and Air Force officers to his office. Gen. Omar Bradley of the Army, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg of the Ajr Force and Admiral Louis Denfeld of the Navy made ‘pep talks, phasing unity and’

urging their subordinates to pass the word squabbling is out.

It was reported Mr. Forrestal “ordered” harmony. loyal, high-ranking officers believe that was an unfortunate approach. One commented that they Were instructed to “start

lo each other, aud no bk dark. hi ranal. sequently iss rule” because he has tried to enforce

governmental reorganization of New York, includ-

been accused of employing harmony by ol

PRISON BEHIND IRON CURTAIN .

. By E. T. Leech

If They Love Russia, Why Don't They Return to Their Utopia?

PLAIN, Svirvday American citizen ta BIA to “the man in the street”

‘has a way of giving short and simple answers

to complex problems. He arrives at them by some sort of intuition based on common sense. Therefore they often prove right. This ordinary citizen cuts through the myriad words and elaborate theories which have surrounded the discussion of Communists in America, and comes up with one simple question: ! “Well, if they like Communism so well, why don't they go to Russia?”

How to Explain Red Americans?

THAT, ACCORDING to more scholarly students, is far too simple an answer. It doesn’t really explain, they say, why some thousands of American citizens have come to serve Russia above their own country. So the scholars come up with a lot of detailed and qualified explanations. But now, after all this long debate, the light is beginning to dawn on us that the man in the street really had the best analysis when ‘he asked his simple question. It has become clear that slmost no Communist in America wants to live in Russia. It is equally clear that millions now living under Communism ‘are desperately anxious to escape, Yet, if the Rugsian system is so good and the American so bad, why is this the case?

No Barriers to Departure

AMERICA DOES not put any barriers to the departure of its citizens. They can move to Russia if they want to, and take their money and possessions. No American who does so need fear that the relatives he leaves behind him will be tortured or imprisoned because of his going. Russia operates exactly in reverse. Her borders and those of the countries she has seized or dominates are guarded like the walls of a great penitentiary. If any do escape, it is with the knowledge that their loved ones will become hostages persecuted in retaliation.

And if the fugitive is caught, he will pay for:

his flight with slavery or death. Yet thousands try to get away, and occa-

. sionally a plane or boat load of them succeeds,

And there is no reverse trickle. The American rmy had to set up commissions to protect AT persons from being forcibly returned to Russia and her satellites, The DP's threatened to kill themselves rather than go back to Russia. Here in America, some alien Communists recently have been picked up for deportation. They are using every privilege and technicality of United States law to avoid the glorious opportunity of living under Communism. In the early days of the German invasion,

Armed Forces Subts, wants to

down the line that Many

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Soviet subjects surrendered: by millions to the invading troops. Whole populations were transferred by Russia to keep them from going over to the invaders. Great numbers did get away and fought in the German armies,

There's Something Sadly Wrong

WE HAVE seen the sensational cases of two Soviet teachers who don’t want to return to Russia. One preferred suicide, and jumped from a window of the Soviet conuslate in New York. And another fled with his family to escape embassy agents. All this evidence supports the conclusion of the man in the street that there's ‘something wrong with Communism which even those who preach it secretly realize. Otherwise, why do they refuse to go to Russia? And why do so many obviously want to escape from Utopia?

An Editorial . Flooded With

Turpentine By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-—Along with potatoes and eggs, the Agriculture Department is knee-deep in turpentine and rosin. Bo far this year, it has poured out more than $8 million in loans to turpentine and rosin producers to hold up prices, In return; it has acquired what amounts to a first mortgage on two.million gallons of turpentine and 90 million pounds of rosin. Just how much the government will end up with cannot be foreseen but it is certain to be a sizable quantity. The producers can redeem their products by repaying their loan plus three per cent interest. Some of them will do so. The government wound up last year owning some 2,300,000 gallons of of turpentine on which similar loans had been made It paid an average of 60.8 cents a gallon for last year's turpentine and it is now trying to gell this to foreign customers for 0 cents a gallon. "The law prohibits such price reductions to domestic buyers because it would disrupt the home market. So far, 570,000 gallons of last year's surplus have been sold abroad at the 40-cent price. It is one of those price-support operations which the Agriculture Department is doing on its own volition under wide permissive powers granted by Congress.

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Spontaneous Rebellion :

By Charles Allen Gaylor, 836 Sanders Si. City, The slogan “Boom or Bust” of goldmining days still seemingly exists in the minds of some rapacious groups of men A verbal battle is raging but few facts have been advanced in regard to the high prices of meat, milk and other basic commodities. In my opinion, this controversy would never have been if the producer and consumer would have made direct contact. The broad-minded consumer 1 willing to pay reasonable prices for food and the farmer, upon whom we must all pend, 1s willing to accept the same for his prodé

uct: They each are dependent upon the other, , this controversy has not been be-

tactics between intermediate groups, who are trying to justify their existence by supposed service rendered to farmers and dairymen. *~ Piracy means unauthorized The rise and fixing of milk prices without consulting the farmer and the appropriation of this money for advertising purposes without his consent seemingly justifies the name “piracy? Farm and dairy owners state that the Milk * Associations were supposed to be run by them but they never tell us anything, we never have a voice in elections, they charge us for management and the only service they ever render - to retest milk for butterfat content. Ir an! Am forms the forpiation of

just two-cent rise in milk prices. The Milk As sociation advised tHe consumer that the supply, demand and the high cost of feed in milk production is the reason for the new milk prices. : This claim is preposterous, First, becauss the farmer was never consulted or notified of any change in milk prices; second, because there is an abundance of grass and green foliage which at this time of year supply 20 po cent of the feed in milk production; ®third, supply of milk is great because of the abun« dance of feed and Saveranls wether

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Julietta - Boilers ut 3 By A. J. Conway, Cityl :

In an artice abpearing in sa ltus of 3 local newspaper entitled on New Julietta Boilers,” Mr, Ayres, president of the Board of County Commissioners, stated the board will request ne County Commission ers to grant $61,367 to be used for the purShase of two new boilers at the Marion County ome Mr. Ayres states that the leaks have developed in the tubing for the second time year, and also states that the bollers are (wrong type) for the institution, and that last repair job cost $1800. He also goes on state that the boilers were installéd at the 4 in 1941 by the previous administration and they have given us trouble ever since, The taxpayers of Marion County, an are beginning to realize their property as sabotaged and that Mr. Ayres has not stated all of the real reasons for these boilers bécoming so deteriorated and defective that it n becomes necessary to relegate them to the seri pile after being in service for a period of only eight years. This type of boiler is in service in many plants throughout the state, and, if given ordinary care and maintenance in operation, it can be expected to give good service for a period of 25 years. From all indications these boilers have been abused and neglected from the time they were installed. Would it not be proper for Mt. Ayres to speak up and reveal to the taxpayers that these boilers have been subjected to serious overheating, either as a result of low water condition or an excessive accumulation of scale on the tubes and drums? Conditions of this kind are attributed to gross negligence on the part of the officials at the institution. There is not a boiler manufactured that

could be expected to give service under these conditions. > ¢ ¢

Where Justice Lies By Larue Spiker, 167 E. 11th St. City

I wish to express appreciation for the publication of Sherley Uhl's excellent story v8 lished in the Aug. 19 Times on the efforts which Arp being made to extradite John Ware of Muncie to Arkansas.

The facts, as you present them; clearly win"

» the sympathy, and should win the support, of

every Hoesier for Mr, Ware and his successful efforts to be a good citizen. The deprivation of his life in Axkansas. his unfortunate attempt to protect his right

- to hold property, the fine steady life he andl

all, should make the people of Indiana of an opportunity to be his fellow citizens. I do not know a great deal about extradie tion laws, but it is very clear where justice lies,

Mrs. Ware have built for themselves in Indians: Pp

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simm Closing of Consulates Shouldn't Worry Reds

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-Russia can still command th services of 18 consylates in the United States despite the closing of her own offices in New York and San Francisco. Czechoslovakia maintains consuls at New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, San Franeiseo, Los Angeles and the Canal Zone.

i Poland has offices’ in New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit and

.

Yugoslavia has consular agents in New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago, and Hungary is represented in New York and

While the State Departannt lists a: Bulgarian envey extrao dinary and minister plenipotentiary and ‘twe Secretaries of le gation, and two Romanian ministérs and retaries and attaches, -there are ne consular Pepresentatives from these countries.

and eight counselors, sec.

Withdrawal Meaningless.

THE WITHDRAWAL of the Soviet consular officials from this country, therefore, is without matic or political sense. . i Mepning In apy Sve : tiple It Moscow needs the services of & con on the .services of its satellites’ offices. Sal general, it on : nd iton curtain is in aay positon to refuse to do the wading of

American intelligence sources om

“gag er RE the fight ‘the 70-group Air Force, over r Which Be oe Rt Barrer W Stuart Symington and his

him, ongres: ,” they threw their geripts and launched into enthusiastic discussion of e T0-group pl an,

Belipves He's Made Progress

DESPITE SUCH incidents, Mr. Forrestal believes he has made progress. There have been recent consolidations which, he says, would not have been accepted nine months ago. Mr. Forrestal says 90 per cent of the matters taken to Congress were upon por his ey in advance, The other 10" per cant made Rm fog her. record. - |

BO he Tesover Colnmission epost Tepors from the Eber

S57, 8 000 4 & Pav. ore, "Oh, | still love him, but we decided not to keep steady company till he's through medical school in about ten years!"

stadt Subcommittee in November. So far, Mr, Eberstadt and his group have shown a keen interest in proposals to reorganize national defense on a Structural basis. This would set up under secretaries for personnel, logistics, planning, etc. for the whole defense department. The Eberstadt group also is worried about duplications. For instance, it has trouble distinguishing between the duties of the

Munitions and the National The Munitions Board to Mr. Forrestal; the Becurity Board to the They handle essentially

same tasks. Wo a & :

European and firmed, and last March this writer reported the details of a

“underground railroad” connecting Moscow with every

of the globe.

Can Switch to Puppet States

IF SOVIET agents abroad get in bsd wi ve to which they are accredited ph have tu go 2 he Be Tom switch to one or the other of her puppet states. : For this there is a special office in Moscow, accordi Allied Intelligence. From there secret lines of communica extend around the world. There is branch agency in fron curtain capital — in Warsaw, Bucharest, Sofia and gn This new. ld-wide system has been pertected, itis Heyed, because in times of international tension such as Moscow wanted to be prepared for possible diplomatic

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