Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1948 — Page 12

Indianapolis Times

ALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

free nations. ‘Wise men long have dreamed of a United States of The dream was never translated into fact be-so-called practical politicians and nationalistic forces sorts had vested interests in keeping the continent . As a result, the history of Europe has been a sucof wars, threatening the collapse of Western civili--

_ Within this generation the challenge has come three : -from the Kaiser's Germany, from Hitler's Germany and flow from Stalin's Russia. None of these agents of destruction created the situation. Each took advantage of the s and rivalry of others to impose conquest and

And three times the United States, has gone to the resthe disunited States of Europe. This time even all ngth of America may not be sufficient to save them. r the expenditure of upward of $20 billion the ' to help them, and an additional commitment of almost billion for the Marshall Plan, it is clear that little can be ( d unless Western Europe unites in self-help. oy - . yn AT dire peril has forced a start. Sixteen Eunpnatfons are co-ordinating their economies. More imfi i .

convention of the Democratic Party—after that d approved the President's civil rights prodecisive majority. En 2 fair and honest way to appeal from that decias to take the issue directly to the people—particuthe people of the South. It was for them to say

‘views were best reflected by the nomiparty or by the handpicked ticket of the sojecrats. Obviously, however, the e in not willing to let the people decide this question.

by arbitrary action, President Truman has be rived of his rightful and legitimate place on the ballot in favor of the Dixiecrat candidate. e Dixiecrats’ names will appear under the old and

~ rooster. If voters in Louisiana want to vote for the Democratic Party's candidates, they will have to write in their names, plus the names of their electors. It is inevitable that thousands, thinking they are voting for the Democratic candidates, will find their votes counted for the Dixiecrats. This action discredits the whole Dixiecrat movement because this dire, dirty work at the crossroads will be resented by every believer in fair play, North, South, East and West.

Who Owns the South Pole? AMERICANS can be proud of their government's attitude oe rd ownership of Antarctica. Instead of joining in the old rivalry of conflicting national claims, the State Department has offered to get together with the seven disputants to work out the most effective form of international This is particularfy far-sighted statesmanship because our government, if it chose to do so, probably could assert better national claims than other” countries. A Connecticut Yankee, Nathaniel B. Palmer, in 1820 was first to ar rive in the South Polar region. And Americans, such as Adm. Byrd, have been active in exploration there. ; International control is desirable for several reasons. It would eliminate old sovereignty disputes. Because nationalistic pride is so deeply involved, any settlement short of internationalization might easily cause more trouble than it would cure. And only through internationalization can scientific research and exploration of the earth's most forbidding continent be carried on adequately. ~The American proposal has received little support ‘abroad, so far, Nations with formal claims include Argen- ; Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and United Kingdom. Russia, Belgium and Japan have

haling interests. Chile has formally objected. The Lon. don foreign office has not turned down the principle and is. the door open for discussion, hut without en-

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THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

We're living rich and we're living high, _

For butter's a dollar a pound.

‘Do you want beef for Mulligan stew, Maybe a steak for dinner, too? Oh no, my dear, it’s not for you, For steak is a dollar a pound.

Does baby need a Sew dress today, To wear to chyrch or out to play? Just sew her up in a feed sack gay, For gingham's a dollar a yard.

«BINA T. SARVER, Crawfordsville. * & 4

WHAT'S YOUR HURRY?

When I hear anyone say . . . “What's your hurry? Did you come after fire?” I am reminded of a story, my own mother used to tell us children. When she was a little girl there was a neighbor who lived across the clearing. In those days a fire was most usually kept going in the cook stove and one day the neighbor boy calmly asked to borrow some . . . fire! He had a shovel to take it home with, putting ashes then live coals , , . then more ashes then he... hurried home! With the fire!

«ANNA E. YOUNG, Indianapolis. > + '

~ RESIGNATION

My candle scorned the lonesome night; I hailed The , passing moments as they stole With noiseless tread to cheat my hungry soul, Yet near-by heights I sought remained unsocaled.

At last, I think I clearly comprehend-— Success, in worldly sense, is not my goal; The thing desired is not the highest end For just an average aspiring soul; For effort, faith and constant hope transcend The vaunted gifts the fickle gods control, =CASP = BUTLE R, Kokomo.

TO THE PUTTER-OFFER Don’t put off today, What you will not do tomorrow, Especially when it be Ret g things you borrow. ~MILDRED ©. YOUNG, Indianapolis.

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ERE TO STAY— No End in Sight For Cold War

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sépt. 14—Western European and American diplomatic circles are convinced that the cold war is a permanent policy of the Kremlin and that even if agreements are reached in Moscow and Berlin, Russia won't keep them, ) Here is what some of the best-informed are saying: ! Russia, like pre-1941 Japan, is opportunist. Russia, therefore, probably will do what Japan did, namely, follow a policy of watchful waiting, meantime carrying on a war of nerves against the west. ; Japan's militarists hated the United States. They openly accused us of blocking their conquest of Asia. If it weren't for the United States, some of them were frank to say, every-

‘Including the martime province of Siberia would quickly be included in Nippon's “new order.” But they hesitated to go to war with the United States. They would bide their time. Sooner or later the Uniteq States would find itself at a disadvantage. They foresaw World War II and were sure the United States would be involved. Then would come Japan's opportunity.

The Mistake the Japs Made

THE EVENTS of 1039, 1940 and 1941 were made to order for the Jap imperialists.’ Sure enough, the United States was being sucked into the European war. Public opinion was divided. Many Americans were strongly opposed to war, across the Atlantic or the Pacific, When the Navy held annual maneuvers in the “Hawalii-Aleutians area, pacifists protested that we were staging “war games in J 's front yard.” Also there were strikes, sitdowns and anti-war picketing. ‘ + Japanese agents interpreted these manifestations as signs of American paralysis. Since we were almost totally unprepared on’ land, sea and in the air, they reported back to Tokyo, this was the time to strike. Pearl Harbor was thé result. The Japanese imperialists felt certain that before the United

be able to occupy and consolidate all Eastern a.

Diplomatists here fear the Kremlin may be harboring similar plans, adjusted to present day conditions.

U. S.: Must Continue Spending

THE UNITED STATES quickly started disarming after VJ-Day. To remedy this will take time and money-—several years and many bilHons of dollars. At the same time, the United States is spending billions annually in Europe and Asia, on occupation costs, the Marshall Plan, military aid to Greece and Turkey afid so on. If Russia keps up her cold war these huge American expenditures also will have to be kept up indefinitely. Unless they are kept up, Europe and Asia will collapse and Russia will pick up the pieces. Soviet Fifth Columns are working and waiting. Eventually—so Moscow openly predicts day after day—the United States will collapse. It can’t keep spending at the present rate forever. Then, when the ‘bust’ comes, Amrican aid stops, re-armament is curtailed, and unemployment with all which that means brings social strife—that would be Russia's time to strike. By then, too, she expects to have plenty of

thing south of the Amur River in Manchuria— .

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—In this moment before the kickoff there is an unnatural glow of optimism In the Democratic camp, and this goes not merely for the professional optimists immediately around the President. It has infected even the realists who, up until'now, have taken a dim view of Mr. Truman's chances for re-election. The encouragement comes not so much on the positive side. . The handicaps of the Truman campaign still loom large as the Rocky Mountains. Instead it comes from a hope that the Republicans can throw away what has seemed an almost certain victory. This small flame of hope was fed by Harold Stassen’s Detroit speech. The Democratic National Committee plans to distribute thousands of copies of that speech in Iowa and in other predominantly agricultural areas.

Are Farmers Shying at Dewey? PASSAGES of the Stassen speéch are to be underscored in an effort to convince farm voters

that the Republicans are opposed to the present policy of price support for major agricultural products. Passages in the speech will be linked with a statement Mr. Stassen made in.an interview in Albany when he blamed high “food prices on Mr. Truman's Secretary of Agriculture. -

This seems at first glance to be clutching at straws. There is, however, some reason to believe that farmers are suspicious of. Gov. Dewey's attitude on farm prices. Statements made In past years, when Gov, Dewey talked to city audiences about high prices, are remem‘bered in the farm belt, where phenomenal prosperity is bolstered by support programs that may this ysar cost lhe government several billion dollars. g ’ In opening his campaign at Dexter, Iowa President Truman will stress the gains to agri3 culture during the last 168 years, beginning with the New Deal's AAA program. As:now planned, he will openly charge that a Republican Conpg a Republican Président would modify or even do away with the support program and put a period to farm prosperity.

Omitted Talk of Amendment ANOTHER SECTION of the Stassen speech has been under close study by Democratic strategists. That is the section dealing with the Taft-Hartley Law. In typical campaign fashion, Mr. Stassen credited the law with wage increases gained since its passage. . While he generalized about the need: to subject all labor-management laws to study and possible change, he sald nothing specifically about amending the Taft-Hartley Act. Because of this omission, in the view of those

POLITICAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Campaign Still in Pep Talk Stages As Coaches Warm Up for Race

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helping to plan the campaign, Gov. Dewey will get no avowed labor support other than the recent pledge of the Building Service Union, which has only 175,000 members throughout the nation. The root cause of the timid flush of optimism in the Truman camp is the active support of a large majority of organized labor. Again the realists have no illusions. It is not so much that the labor bosses—and perhaps the rank and file, too—are for Truman as they are against Dewey. The conviction has spread among union héads that there is nothing to be gained from Gov, Dewey. They are convinced that management will be firmly entrenched between the Republican candidate and organized labor, even though Gov. Dewey might prefer it otherwise. Therefore, as they see it, they have nothing io lon in going all out for the Democratic cket. -

Charged Forced Attendance HOW FAR the leadership reflects the views of the ordinary working man and woman. is

another matter. Mr, Stassen made 'a telling point when he charged that union bosses had

Detroit on penalty of a fine. , James Ho: of the Teamsters Union in Wayne County, sent a letter to all the 55,000 members in his jurisdiction saying that each man not present and counted would be fined. ’ The objective of the President's Western trip will be to convince the farmer that, like labor, he has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by a Republican victory. It is hoped that the small cloud of suspicion on the rural horizon can be blown into a major threat which will persuade farmers with a record crop that they must not change things in Washington.

It's All Preliminary Pep Talk ALL THIS, of course, is before the game has actually begun. The flush of hope may be due merely to the pep talk that the coaches are giving each othef under the stadium before the whistle blows. In a single farm speech, Gov. Dewey may blow Democratic hopes: for the rural vote sky high. _ - Asked for something more tangible, the Democratic planners point to the latest Gallup poll in Missouri, the President's home state. This shows that the President's strength has risen to 53 per cent of those expressing an opinion, with 36 per cent for Gov: Dewey. If the undecided vote was distributed in the same proportion, Mr. Truman would have 59 per cent, Gov. Dewey 41. But the skeptics raise an eyebrow since, in 1944, when Gov. Dewey was running against the champ, he got 48% " per cent to 51% for Roosevelt.

Dewey Target Deals—

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By CHARLES T. LUCEY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg's “united against aggression” bipartisan statement was seen here today as a sort of calm before a storm of forthcoming attacks by Gov. Thomas JE. Dewey upon many phases of President Truman's foreign policy. The statement, made after Mr. Vandenberg had conferred ith Mr, Dewey at Albany, was beamed squarely toward Moscow. It was not sought by the State Department grappling with the critical Berlin situation but it was warmly welcomed. The inspiration lay with Mr. Vandenberg. Republican leaders have long been aware that a row over foreign policy in the coming presidential camipaign might seem a sign of U. 8. weakness of disunity, although there is a wide area of foreign policy

outside the bipartisan agreement where the GOP is free

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te lash the Democrats, and will, The Vandenberg s ment puts these attacks in\perspec-

tive, The Senator warned that regardless of internal cone troversy “we shall not be in

Glances—By Galbraith

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controversy over the basic fact that America is united against aggression and against foes of freedom.” Gov. Dewey in recent months has ripped the hide off the . Democrats for “bungling” numerous phases of overseas af.

fairs, and his friends say now Icy:

n ¢ that potentially strategic continent.

atomic bombs of her own.

he unquestionably will hold

Mr. Truman and his party to strict accountability “for the mess we're in.” Much of the criticism will be aimed at Yalta, Potsdam and earlier conferences, and at alleged secret deals made by those in charge of foreign pol-

Mr, Dewey has criticized

failure to discriminate between “free peoples and those behind the iron curtain” in post-war foreign aid. . Mr. Dewgy takes off Sunday on his first campaign trip, a long swing to the Pacific coast, and foreign policy is consid-

school graduate of that year sald they books free all through grade and high school. I often wondered if some of our Hoosier taxes paid for some of them, and that was before I had three children. (I've lived in Indiana ‘41 ears). 4 y My oldest boy, now in high school, went te a county sehool in the 2d grade and had te buy almost $5 worth of books, mostly used

school year) has paid $12.50 this week as had to buy new ones. Last year he with about $8 as he got used ones. four years, though iihey eapmol poy used ones four years, though, they canno or ea en school and their book bill this I heard one mother say she just how they will get through this coming week-end as it took their grocery maney; and she is a working mother.

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TIME FOR FUN— We're Ripe For More Nonsense By Lee Casey IAM delighted to find the once-popular sport ‘of flagpole-sitting has been revived and that Ozzie Hamilton Osberne, after 53 days atop a tower at a Long Beach, Cal, amusement park,

“has broken the 49-day record set by Shipwreck

“Kelley in the 1930's. T'd like to see a lot of other nonsense re stored. We need more than we are having. Te my way of thinking, “Mother Goose” has been more beneficial to the human species than either “Macbeth” or “King Lear.” Through the newspapers and doubtless from the radio, to which I never, never listen, wé learn too much that is probably important but nonetheless tenses our emotions and dampens our spirits. The inspirational effects of my favorite comic strip are offset by pronunciamentos by John Foster Dulles warning® us that our relations with Russia are none too good, just as though we didn't already know that. .

Lost Love Found Again

80 THE return of flagpole-sitting is like the rediscovery. of a girl you loved and lost and found again, I'd like to see brought back other pastimes of the flag-pole sitting era, or at least their equivalents. As for myself, I never went in for guzzling guppies or swallowing goldfish and my sympathies were all on the side of the pleasant little creatures that maybe would not rather be gulped. ‘Yet that pastime, confined mainly to the so-called institutions of higher learning, was at least indicative of a carefree spirit that ie needed today. ’ So, too, with miniature golf. Doubtless it was foolish, although to me no more foolish than the full-size variety. But it was fun, helped pass a time that wasn't easy to pass, and did no particular harm to anyone save those who thought they could get rich quick by buying vacant lots. So, too, with the chain-letter craze, which like a lot of other nonsense originated in Den~ _yer, and 18 now. prohibited by law. It was sport while it lasted and might well be revived, with« out the monetary feature but perhaps as a means of exchanging good wishes and assuring good luck. .

Need Folly and Terseness

ERASMUS, one of the wisest of mortals, wrote his first book “In Praise of Folly’ Hs + understood the human thirst for more tham plain and frequently unpalatable facts. Ye meq folly ana we need terseness.

all the voluminous reports that clutter;

up the archives of the State Department on subject of communism, I wouldn't exchange the diglogue of Eugene and Willie Howard in one of their skits some years ago. : The larger brother—I forget which speaking, supposedly in Union Square, for a

“Come: the revolution,” he shouted, “you'll all have cherry pie!” = en : “But,” the little one replied meekly, “I don’t like cherry pie.” : i was the

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ered likely to be the subject of at least one major address.

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