Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1948 — Page 4
‘last June rather than ly He lived in honored love of his people, but actu-
Whether Mr. Masaryk was & r Mr, Benes died a natural death
Beties was that he trusted Stalin. cofild be a bridge between East 8 pledge of friendship and gave
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s who do likewise, that “it's the latest style An payer trist of those environs ex-
ood people are jaded. They've tried everyreefers, It's the only way they have left to get out of romance.” ‘
A Goel, romance is what Hollywood sells us poor dumb would not want to impose our layman's apwe're beginning to get a glimmering of under-
have to part company, though, with that Hollywood when he says that marijuana smoking can be 4 slled—that it is not habit-forming. We recall overhearing a conversation. A man was # complaining that he couldn’t sleep at night, He said that 2. - he had insomnia so bad that he couldn't sleep even when it yas time to get up in the morning. His companion told him he should try sleeping tablets. Our friend said he didn't want to do that because he didn't want “to get into the bit.” “But they're not habit-forming," said his compan-
fon. “Tknow. I've been taking them, myself, for 20 years.”
Good News to Us Tas ” ‘Indiana Automobile Dealers Association has cleared L all new car dealers in the investigation of questibnable used car financing practices. This is good news '£ While we never felt the new car agencies which have c@nsiderable stake in their franchises would indulge in sharp practices, we are glad to see them get a clean bill of health ftom -such a high-principled organization as the state alsociation, 5 And we hasten to add that there are many reliable used * dealers who put their good names above all else in ine with the public. 3 It is for the protection of both the public and the honor‘able dealers that The Times insists upon seeing the business bared of much of the unsavory inuendo and the fringes of moral ‘laxity which we feel sure have characterized some the transactions.
end a Day at the Fair DAY the gates’ opened for the 1948 State Fair the usual thousands in attendance. tely the fair is much more than large attendance. It exhibition of the agricultural wealth and excellence of here the fertile soil and ideal climate produce the'nation's food. . ~~ = | know our state thoroughly, to get the broad feel of cultural stréngth, everyone should attend the fair. ild do this to see how. big an ear of corn we How fine a cike our farm. wives can turn out, our roduction of meat animals, and to witness ew-found methods of increasing yields. na adequately uniess they apAnd the place to appreciate it , or anytime in the next week.
Changed Minds
! Are ing to the statelessness which Iwks thelrexbetor
way they can get any stimulation isto |
In life can there be?
Flowers and a bluebird, Wind o'er the lee ‘ Is good philosophy ‘ For you and for me. A, pal and a comrade, A drink at the brook, This is high lviing, f With a smile ‘and a book.
~PEARL PUTCHESS WESTFALL, Spencer.
THINK WISELY TODAY
Today is God's day. We can make each hour a stepping stone that leads to the dawn of a clear tomorrow, or, we can clutter the hours with wrong thinking until we know only inhormony. : We are like a clock. God holds the key, When we lose sight of His standard of timing we get out of rhythm, and the mechanism becomes rusty. Only by wise thinking and clear doing can we make the needed adjustments. =LRlIAN BECK, Terre Haute.
THAT WAS THE MATTER
Unconscious he lay on the station floor, ’ A prisoner just t in, The captain looked and sniffed at him, But found no sign of gin.
“He hasn't been shot,” the captain said, - “Nor knifed, for I see no blood. And he's had no blow. Say, I'd like to
. now Where the devil came all that mud?
“I bet he's been drugged—that's the matter with him?!" Bald the officer on the beat: “By golly you're right! Exactly right! 1 drugged him a hundred feet!” «0. EARL EAST, Bloomington. * 5 &
- MISTER KILOWATT
What ever would we do Without a “man” like you?
You help us with our work’ ‘ You make our coffee “perc.”
80 . . . we get thru’ . , . and go struttin’ ‘Cause all we need do . . . is press a button!
“MINNE BOURGOYNE-RODEFER, Liberty.
White Russians Run Out on Reds
By Clyde Farnsworth SHANGHAI, Sept. 4—Russia's new and uncertain citizens—sobered by the Kosenkina case ~are resigning their citizenship in Shanghai at a rate of about 40 a week, according to the Russian Emigrants Assoglatien. i Bome of them are taking Chinese citizenship. tirs before Moscow started its “come all is forgiven” drive among White Russians after World War 11. Buch official announcements as the following are a familiar sight now in Shanghai's Englishpress: “I, Kyrill Maksimoviter Zaitseff, declare that I returned my passport to the Soviet consulate and therefore do not consider myself a Soviet citizen any more.” 4 The Russian Emigrants Association, representing more than 5000 anti-Communist. Russians here, is registering the turncoats but for the present, does not readmit them for fear of subversive agents among them. The association's officials, however, are certain most of them honestly changed their minds about the Soviet Union. et Besides Shanghai's White Russians, there are related organizations of 500 such expatriates in Tientsin and 250 in Tsingtao. SHanghai's association has been granted quasi-official status by Chinese authorities and issues a kind of passport identification to its members. x : Association officials disclosed there are about 1800 Russians in Harbin, principal city in Com-muriist-dominated Manchuria, who have refused Soviet citizenship and who therefore now are outcasts. They have been deprived of all civil rights by Chinese Red officials and live a miserable existence, dependent on the secret charity of Chinese friends, Moreover, they are subject to Jared repatriation to the Soviet Union at any me, 2 : According to best available information, between 4000 and 6000 Shanghal Russians who accepted Soviet citizenship under Moscow's post. war blandishments have been repatriated via Vladivostok.
TWO ISSUES in American politics seem never to get settled. They were the biggest problems when we were trying to get a government. Time and events have answered many other questions, but not them. For weeks they held up the drafting of the Constitution. They threatened to keep it from being ratified. One of them was tested by the Civil War. And now they are issues in the 1948 tial campaign. One issue is that of state rights. The other involves the relations between the executive and
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States’ Rights, Executive Power on Griddle
legislative branches—that is, President vs. Congress.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Western European and American diplomatists seem anything but
conferences. One quoted Winston Churchill's speech at Fulton, Mo. : “What is needed is a settlement,” said Mr, Churchill, “and the longer this is delayed the more difficult it will be and the greater our dangers will become.” And, it was pointed out, the Moscow-Berlin talks settled nothing. At best, they merely lessened the tension created by Russia’s effort ‘to kick the Allies out of the German capital. If Russia yielded on the Berlin issue, these diplomats say, it was only because the Allies met her force with greater force. She ylelded because the Allied airlift defeated the Red blockade. >
90 Days May Tell Tale
THE TEST, therefore, is yet to come. It may come in the next 80 days, at Paris, Secretary’of State Marshall will attend the United Nations General Assembly which meets there Sept. 21. Britain's Foreign Secretary Bevin and the French foreign minister also will be on hand. The test will be whether the Big Four representatives can resume German peace negotiations where they left off 10 months ago and carry them on to a successful conclusion. As to that, there is considerable doubt here. There is nothing to warrant the belief that the Kremlin has changed its policy one iata. That policy is to create a “united” Germany which,
DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney
‘Here's Man Will
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 —Dear Boss—On T week I attended a press conference with a man w 8. Truman will win in November,
To Bet on Truman
The conference was held at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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ANYTHING BUT JUBILANT . . . By William Philip Simms | Moscow-Berlin Conferences Eased Tension but Settled Nothing
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at a signal could be transformed, as Czechoslovakia was transformed, into a Soviet satellite. The three Western Allies want a united Germany too. But they want it to be free, selfgoverning, self-supporting, democratic. Russia, said John Foster Dulles upon his return from the last Big Four conference, seemed perfectly willing “to take a chance on rebuilding a powerful Germany which might again be a powder-keg in the middle of Europe.” That is, if such a Germany took orders from Moscow.
What Kind of Germany
WHAT THE Allies wanted, on the other hand, were “political institutions which would train Germans to think and act individually and not be mass followers of some fanatical leader. We wanted to see authority grow from the bottom up, and not imposed from the top down. We felt that Germany would be more apt to be peaceful under a federal system like our own—where there are checks and balances through states’ rights and an independent Judiciary, competing political parties and trade We wanted a
could move about freely.” Russia vetoed such a Germany.. So the Big Four's last session adjourned without plans to meet again. That was last December. Last Spring the Soviet membér of the Allied Control Council in Berlin took his cue and broke up the meetings there. Four-power rule in Germany, he said as he stalked out, was dead. The blockade followed. .
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Ancient disputes are still fresh in thes
The revolting Colonies were jealous of their
Confederation
who feared it. : > Out of this state-rights fight grew several
compromises. The best known was that which
based House membership on population, but gave all states equal strength in the Senate. The Sénate was intended as a sort of checkrein againgt legislation on a basis of population. This fear of central government caused careful inclusion in the Constitution of those things which the federal government was allowed to do. As a result, the state governments rethained strong, and many of our chief political changes since then’ originated with and were first tried by the states. The fear of a strong executive was even more intense than the dread of losing state authority. It had its roots in the Revolutionary War. The Colonies had revolted as much against dctions of the British Parliament as of the British king. But after the war King George IIT became the symbol of all against which
America had fought.
Bucking an Old Tradition
THIS FEELING has persisted. Suspicion of too powerful an executive has been intensified in recent years by the example of dictatorial rulers abroad. So Mr. Truman is in the position of bucking an old tradition.
Under our first government—the Articles of Confederation—there was no executive. Congress carried on the Revolution. It was a faulty and awkward system, which the Constitutional Convention was called to amend—but not to replace.
Yet so great was the fear of monarchy that the first discussion of a supreme executive by that body brought expressions of fear that even an elected chief magistrate would turn into a monarch or tyrant. Again, Hamilton was at odds with the rest. He preferred a king; but knowing that the people, would never accept one, he strove for a strong executive.
Added Many Restrictions
MOST OF THE delegates disagreed with him, At first they cautiously considéred an executive committee of three—in brief, a presidential board. Later they agreed on a single executive, to serve seven years and not be eligible for re-election. Only after much discussion and compromise did they agree on a President who would serve four years and could be reelected. They put him under a lot of restrictions. He could not originate laws, nor spend money except as appropriated by Congress. The whole executive machinery through which he works was created by Congress. The Constitution does not even mention a cabinet. Congress, because it was intended to be closer to the people, was clearly intended ahd created to be dominant. Only over a long period and after many changes and s les has the executive branch gained its present tremendous powers. In periods of showdown, Congress has usually won. It’s an old, and still unsettled, battle which has found renewal in the 1948 presidential campaign.
Hoosier Forum
I do not agree with.a word that you say, but |
will defend to the death your right to say it."
What, Again? By South Sider
One of the things the Republicans didn’t force President Truman to drop was rent controls. And we poor people appreciated it. Everything else drains our pockets until we can hardly afford enough to keep body and soul together. Now I see where the real estate lobby in Washington has put enough pressure on Tighe Woods, housing expediter in Washington, and local real estate boards, to jack rents up a notch. They almost got away with it here not long ago and were defeated. But I didn’t think for a moment they would quit trying. :They never quit. And they know how to wind the housing boards around their fingers. What are we going to do? We can't pay higher rents. Where is the money coming from? We don’t have enough to keep food on our tables and gas in our cars now? eae I appeal to The Times, the common man’s newspaper, and the local rent control board to
do everything possible to hold rents where they
are.
OVERRATED? . . . By Marquis Childs Spy Hunters Ought To See Our Country
DENVER, Sept. 4—Driving through the West, you get a powerful impression of people at work and at play. In spite of the ordeal of the war, in spite of inflation and
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fis the White House and the man who thinks Mr. Truman will win is the President of the United States. 3 He quite likely will be in Indianapolis, and (or) elsewhere in Indiana this fall, and if he Keeps his present confident look he may make Hoosier Democrats feel that their gubernatorial candidate, Henry F. Schricker, i8 not the only hot-shot on the ticket.
What Makes Truman, Tick -
ITS A LITTLE difficult to understand just what makes Mr. Truman tick this way. Surely the polls and the gloomy opinion of downhearted Democrats, which daily must be received by the Democratic National Committee, couldn't account for it. But he stood up before the Washington press corps and discussed his campaign plans from Labor Day in Detroit to election day in Independence with so much smiling assurance that you came away feeling that here is at least one man in America who figures his re-election is in the bag. He feels the same way about a durable peace. Pointing out that it. was the. third anniversary of the signing of the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri, President Truman said he felt certain that peace will be permanent.
Will Let Himself Be Seen
ASKED IF that was based on the recent four-power discussions concerning Berlin he said he had no comment. So as far as the reporters were concerned his peace hopes are sup- . ported by the same secret but seif-convincing evidence as his conviction of being re-elected to the presidency. Apparently the Truman campaign is to be based on the idea that if people see him they will love him. He expects to give everyone a chance. Being the President he is assured of a decent reception. Of
and egg-shampoo treatment which Henry: A. Wallace received down South, Mr. Truman smiled and said of course not, He added that he expects to receive a cordial reception id the South
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On that point there can be large areas of agreement. As
to his re-election, however, his assurance would have found lit-
aI oy rhe press re capend no majority of ashington co! - ents feel today that Gov. Thomas KE. Dewey will be the next President of the United States, 8 }
postwar overcrowding, you have the sense of a nation moving forward with vigor and confidence. Then you read the headlines. They convey the idea that -Russia has this country by the throat; that the nation is in deadly peril from a conspiracy into which many Americans have entered. rs That idea is, in my opinion, false. To spread such an idea is to do a disservice to the country. The moving spirits of the House Un-American Activities Committee and the agitators allied with them seem never to have thought how their behavior reflects on the country itself. They behave as though Americans might actually be persuaded in large numbers that Russian communism was superior to the American system.
We're Better and We Know It
THIS IS, of course, absurd. Our way of life in this country offers infifiitely greater rewards, both on the material and the spiritual and intellectual side, than Russian communism. And the great mass of the American people have the common sense to know : I believe if Chairman J. Parnell Thomas and the other men who seem so frightened would get out into the country, away from the over-heated atmosphere of Washington, they would recognize this. They would see America in the #ull tide of road building, of home building, of work, of play. Certainly what hal been unfolded so far does not Justify this fright. I do not mean by this to doubt that Soviet Russia has an espionage metwork in this country, But there is an agenc authorized by law to protect the country from treason and sa tage. That agency is the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover. A ' . But I believe a healthy thing would be to get Chairman Thomas and his fellows out {nto the country. Seeing so many busy, active people, they could not long cling to the illusion that seems to motivate their fears; that is, that Americans are about: to fall for communism. A
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