Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1948 — Page 10
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GECRETARY of State Marshall's grim address to the : ~ United
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Marshall-Bevin Warnings
Nations Assembly, immediately following Foreign
Secretary Bevin's similar statement to the House of Commons, is warning to Stalin that the democracies will not
Together these two are the clearest statements yet made i firmness in the face of Russian intimiand
trails all other areas, but it has made
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long strides in industrial development and in other respects. Its relative position has improved greatly. And all Americans should hope that this improvement will a rapid pace. :
continue at
For economie progress in the South is vastly impor-
tant. It means higher living standards, better homes, better health, better schools. It means a lessening of the antagonisms and intolerances that thrive where there is poverty and ignorance. It means greater respect for civil rights and human rights, i i
In a favorable atmosphere of prosperity, we believe;
the people of the South can be encouraged to find a surer solution for their own peculiar and difficult problems than any that can be imposed on them by federal laws.
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ROSPECTS seemed fairly bright, last week, that this country would be treated to the ennobling spectacle of a
death battle between a boa constrictor and a North Caro. lina mule.
Carnival man Bill Page was bragging that his 20-foot
serpent céuld “break the back of the strongest animal in no time.” Farmers in the vicinity of Walnut Cove, N. C., were reported ready to wager $5000 or more on “Moby * Dick, the kickingest mule in Stokes County.” A New York bookmaker offered to handle all bets, and a Philadelphia
to manage the affair. But now, appar-
ently, it's off. The mule's owner, Martin Luther Mitchell, has refused to have anything to do with the fight, and the boa has been withdrawn from public exhibition.
_ ‘Oh, well, maybe the country can get enough excite-
ment out of watching the mortal combat between a donkey and an elephant in the political arena.
Flunking a Kindergarten Course : ox a day when President Truman was heading west from
‘Salt Lake City, the Communist Daily Worker an-
nounced that the President would receive a delegation of left-wing union officials at the White House. * With all the agents that the Reds are reputed to have in Wa
you'd think that one of them could at least
journalists informed on such a nonsecret
at the same
SETTLE IT NOW—
In Tune With the Times
The grace to see the good, dear Lord, And tell, that all may see; grace to hold my tongue, dear Lord, . And leave the rest with Thee.
~~BINA T. SARVER, Crawfordsville. ¢ & 9
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United Nations, which the stacked against the Boviet Uhion. 5 ) the little nations want the Berlin dispute brought before the United Nations now--that is, unless the Big Four quickly reach an agreement. As they see it the longer the delay the worse matters will become and the less influence the “third force” will have. The West's latest approach to the Kremlin is not to result in lifting of the block. ade. en the West will be faced with the choice of taking stronger measures, or backing down. - It is generally admitted that the present arrangement, under which the U. 8. and Britain are su ng Berlin with food and fuel by air, is impossible as a permanent arrangement.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS . ... By Marquis Childs Are Political Loyalty Inquiries Impairing Rights of Individuals?
GTON, Sept. 25-—American have become increasingly concerned with the rights
of ‘the individual and the preservation of basic
American freedom must soon come forward with a plan to ye those rights :
"If the present drift continues, the structure’
of American freedom may be seriously ime’
ment of ; that the whole issue of loyalty and disloyalty had now become hopelessly tangled in partisan politics. That statement has needed saying by someones familiar with the controversy for a
=! time.
. Hebert, who can never be accused af even New Dealisin, has sat as a member of
overwhelming 3 the committee was political, They were not so much interested in getting the facts as in making a case. : : At the same timé Rep. Hebert saw politics President Truman's charge that the Un-
this. up was the Jonthnight state ' . ¥. Edward Hebert, i
the Canadian espionage case. ; Canadi
American hagsings were merely a “red herring.” This is the kind of offhand oversimplification
of which the President frequently is guilty, .
Own Loyalty Boards Active WHILE THE President made his “red her-
ring” charge, which has now been taken up } Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, his own a
were Junhiig a close race with the Un-Anieri-
Commit . 4lthough not operating in the same head-line-hunting atmosphere as the committee, the President's loyalty-testing system has appeared to be in competition with the Republican Congress in running down individuals with even faintly irregular or heretical thoughts, . ~~ These individuals, it is true, are not subjected “to the public and often irresponsible accusations that pour out of the J. Parnell Thomas propaganda mill. Rep. Hebert cited Dr, Edward U. Condon, head of the Bureau of Standards, as an example of one who had been publicly smeared and yet never given an opportunity to. reply to vague charges of disloyalty. / It is possible, however, that the secret pro-
cedure of the loyalty boards may have an even
more damaging effect. Unless the accused individual deliberately chooses to make his case public and expose his entire life and careér to view, he has no appeal even to public opinion. The latest government loyalty count showed
that a full investigation had been ordered in5421 cases. Of that number 883 resigned while the investigation was on or pending an appeal.
~This compares with 2,110,521 government em-
ployees clearad.
“To date deparfmental loyaity boards have
:found 54 individuals guilty of disloyalty. They
have the right to appeal to the top loyalty board and 21 of this number have served notice of appeals.
Employee Defender Was Target
LAWYERS who have represented some of the “disloyal” individuals, out of a sense of
public duty, report strange accusations. Charges
were brought against one government em.
‘ployee because he had contributed to a fund
‘to hire a lawyer for one of these accused in * The" accused | had been a classmate at college and a former professor requested the contribution, since the accused Canadian did not have funds for counsel. The
‘ Canadian was later acquitted of all charges.
The government employee was asked by his ‘other contributions. : ; © He replied that he had given $250 to the United Jewish Appeal. A board member then said: “Don't you know this shows almost too much zeal for the underdog?” A départment official saw the transcript with this exchange -and it was stricken from the record.
Farsay and Guilt by Association ALL SORTS of prejudices inevitably enter; guilty by association is a too commen conclusion: from the hearsay reports presented to the loyalty boards. The accused is not permitted to confront his accuser. Responsible citizens, deeply troubled over what such procedures mean should they be“come generally accepted, long have ‘been con-
* department loyalty board if he had made any
. sidering how the whole matter could be taken
out of politics, . . They have considered a commission, made up of men of unimpeachable integrity, who would in private review the question of loyalty and espionage and perhaps pass on individual es of those accused publicly by the Thomas ommittee or ‘privately by the administration loyalty system. i In my opinion, some such step must be taken. Men-of the caliber of, say, Justice Owen J. Roberts, who ‘came forward with an offer
“to review the entire blem, coul - io Fev problen : d not be re
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TOO PRO-COMMIE— = Workers Putting Skids on UPW
By Roger Stuart
WASHINGTON, Sel
months ago. It is building Union, which had jurisdiction over government workers before the UPW was The infant organ has spread across nine states and the District of ‘Columbia. it has more than 12,000 members, and expects to have at least 25,000 before January.
There Had to Be a New Union
“WE FOUND it necessary to form a new union,” William Mirengoff, one of the two cochairmen, explained today, “when our efforts to clean up ‘the Unitéd Public Workers from the Sus proved fruitless. The UPW was too pro-
A graduate of Brooklyn College, Mr. Mirengoff became a federal worker in 1940 in government printing office. He avy as a pharmacists mate in World II. After the war he joined the U. 8. Employmen Service, and later was an economist in the eral Security Agency. : It was in 1946 he banded together with dozen other UPW members in a movement to rid their union of leftist tendencies. : “We held several caucuses at the UPW convention in Atlantic City last May. It was our ‘Intention to try to outvote the leadership. But we were stymied at every turn. We couldnt get recognition on the floor. There was nothing
to do but start a new union.”
DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney
Side Glances—Bv Galbraith
Harness Stubbed Toe | ¢ Xp
IN WASHINGTON . ... By Douglas Larsen
'| Key to Food Prices
When He Probed FCC
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Dear Boss—Our Kokomo Republican Congressman, Forest Harness, who specializes in investigating and smearing the administration, fell on his face with his latest probe of the Federal Communications Commission. He started out to prove that FCC was trying to exercise “ “thought control” by an old decision which he claimed would give atheists the same time on the air as churchmen. But as FCC Chairman Wayne Coy, an old Hoosier himself, pointed out that was just stuff and nonsense. In answering the summation of the Harness hearings, Mr. Coy, one-time associate editor of the Washington Post, didn't fail to point out that the Harness findings were “distributed on Friday, Sept. 17, for release on Sunday, Sept. 19.”
Brought Editorial Rebukes
IN OTHER words, he charged Rep, Harness with being a headline hunter. ; But his headlines brought nothing but rebukes from the Washington newspapers. e Washington Post had an editorial which began as follows: a “The select committee of thé House which has been investigating the FCC has done a remarkable find job of setting up straw men and shooting them full of holes.” And the ultrg-conservative Washington Star had this to
say: “It is hard to follow the process of reasoning by which the Harness Committees indicts the FCC for what it calls ‘thought policing.’ That is one of a number of phrases which have achieved considerable: popularity with those who like to use words for their scare effect rather than their content. But actually it is a meaningless term when used loosely, as generally is the case.”
Not Hegdlines but Criticism
"THE STAR then concludes that this idea was ‘presumably thrown in for headline ses.” So Instead of getti the headlines, Rep. Harness really caught editorial he The matt as taken up by the preachers here last Sunday. While some clergymen appeared to protest the FOC ruling, Rev. A. Powe! Davies, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, cried out against the Harness
hearings. He assailed the report of the Harness Committee and made
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could be so dumb as te admire a girl of that type!"
the point that God can take care of himself and true faith in Him can triumph in any ‘radio debate with atheists. To rule atheists off the air would be “opposed to American principles” Dr. Davies declared. wea So the Harness report resulted largely in spankings for its
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In Tricky Parity System
‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — With a record harvest being brought in on U. 8. farms this fall it's logical for citizens t6 ask the government when grocery bills are going down. Up until now people have understood that during a war food gets scarce. And even after a war a generous victor will go along with feeding the starving victims. But now at last there's plenty of food for everybody at home, And there's more than enough to satisfy the market abroad. So isn’t it about time that U. 8S. citizens get a break?
It Was Henry Wallace's Idea
IT SEEMS that when Henry Wallace came to Washington with the New Deal the big effort was to lick.the depression. Roosevelt's Brain Trust decided that agriculture was one ‘of the basic industries in the U. 8. which had to be helped first if the rest of the country was to get back on the road to prosperity. Wallace then borrowed a new idea that had been kicking around for only a couple of years. He worked on it and came up with solution called the parity price formula. - The formula was based on the assumption ‘that ‘the farmer should always be able to as much calico fof a bushel of whea as he did during the years 1010 to 1914. *
Full Parity Would Be Too Costly
AT THE TIME it was obvious that the cost of making sure that the farmgr got 100 per cent of parity on everything he grew was far too expensive to try. So in 1938 Congress compromised and passed: a -law making it mandatory for the government to support the price of cprn, cotton and wheat at from 52 to 75 per cent of parity. : In 1941 Congress added tobacco, rice and peanuts to the mandatory list. And it increased the over-all support ‘price
authority to 85 per cent of parity. | Also in 1041 a law was passed
designed to ‘encourage the production of certain foods" for the
event of a war. It permitted the government to guarantee price.
supports on certain foods for two years aftér the war. ‘At the end of thix year the guaranteed support Bi the special crops was due to expire. This would have
the price to come down on these foods, including potatoes. But &
the last Congress extended all of the support programs for an ulna Yeu En or next couple of years then, in spite of o 1 LS 3 Bap. 2 sp verwhelming
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