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we Stole the 89 Secrefs? .

= TINY SMITH, Scripps-Howard staff writer, reports from Washington that at least 89 top military, industrial and sciéntific war secrets of the United States have been revealed to Russia through Corhmunist spies. % The list of stolen secrets, published Thursddy in The “Times is an ‘astounding one. It includes information, pot *Jonly about the atomic bomb, but also about other Amer‘dean explosives, , jet propulsion, chemical research, “plans for defending this hemisphere in the event of another war, and much else vital to future security. : But there can be no doubt as to the list's authenticity. r. Smith compiled it from official government documents Ad ‘this country and of Canada. Indeed, he asserts that it * covers only part of the secret and restricted information which Russian agents have obtained and transmitted to | Megson ‘in he ost seven years,

i ' ATTORNEY ‘GENERAL CLARK and his Department of Justice are now engaged in a word battle with the House ‘Committee on Un-American Activities. |. _ ent. alfirins that, Tor "political rexsons; the : ttee is trying to force it "to presecuts dertain persone-.}. _ ‘on Russian espionagé charges. The department says that * ‘the facts available to it do not warrant such prosecutions, and that the committee has provided “absolutely no competent proof”'that the charges are true. It adds: “It is patently absurd and unbelievable the Depart“ment of Justice in cases of this character would fail to institute. prosecution, were the requisite evidence available.” + 1 Well, a great many persons must have taken part in the 5 Communist espionage Sctivity that | that Hole and sent to Russia -—at least 89 _top American war “ Does Mr. Clark mean to ay tha is Doprtment of

A ek bat wonld just prosecution of any of these persons? ‘Surely not. 3 I a ; ‘©. But, ifthe Department of Justice has been properly ; diligent evidence against the persons who took | part in ‘stealing the 89 secrets, we think Mr. Clark should veassure the country. - He should say how many and which “Jones of those persons, if any, his department has prose37swed- and convicted, :

‘Dewey Statesmanship

: GY: DEWEY'S foreign policy speech at Salt Lake City Thursday was on a high level of statesmanship. away tive midst -of world -erisis- it, is-- risky business. to... : ‘bring this subject into.a domestic political contest. But this ‘cannot be avoided because, as he said, world peace is the ‘greatest domestic issue facing our country. American ' +lvoters have a right to know—and so does the world—what. our policy will be if there is a change in administration. * - It will continue to be a bi-partisan policy of friendship and firmness, but with more attention given to China and far. eastern. situation, according to the Repub- + Jican candidate. That addition is important. The menace of Red aggression in Asia is no less grave than in Europe. “The danger js greater to the degree that President Truman and Secretary Marshall have failed to face it effectively. “We agree with Mr. Dewey that the United States must have a “two-ocean foreign policy” as well as a two-ocean Navy. * The Dewey policy toward Russia is now operating in * Paris. The decisions of. Secretary Marshall have been “matured with John Foster Dulles, the Dewey representative "in Paris and presumptive Secretary of State, and with Sen. > “Vandenberg, Republican father of the bi-partisan foreign “policy,

- a8 EE . THAT POLICY was accurately summarized by the Re- . publican’ candidate last night: “We shall deal with the Soviets as with all other nations in a spirit of friendship and «fairness, but we should make it perfectly plain that now or hereafter wo do not intend to be bullied or bluffed.” While i, hoping that Red “cruelty and aggression will yield to the * spirit of fairness and justice,” he recalled the Munich exMperience of 10 years ago and pledged that there will be no « appeasement-—which “can lead only to slavery or war.” v He led his nine-point program with unstinted support for the United Nations and the European Recovery Plan, “favored a. demilitarized Ruhr serving a European federa< tion, followed through with emphasis on rearmament and ..- American prosperity as the basis for peace. * "The main thing for Stalin to know is that under a Republican President there would be neither appeasement ‘nor disunity. Mr. Dewey has made that clear.

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‘Fine Combination -

3 FA FEW days ago the Ford Motor Co. reported that its assets now exceed a billion dollars for the second time . since Henry Ford started it, in 1903, with a paidnp capital .- of only $28,000 oa This appears to indicate that the company’ 8 31-year-old president, Henry Ford II, has inherited much of his grand- + father’s business genius. Young Ford this week was before the country in an- ; other role. As president of the Community Chests of ". America, he spoke in Washington, D. C., at the opening of the 1048 campaign for. funds. He revealed, we think, a keen sense of social responsibility and a genuine desire to "help those who are victims of misfortune and poverty.

, be a pretty fine combination in one called by destiny to be a . foremost. captain of American industry. Young ‘Henry Fond seems to have that combination.

. Peace Through Disunity ?

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oh ON WEDNESDAY In The Times, , Marquis "Childs labored to build a case against the “+ Belect -Committes..to, Investigate th Communications that committee, Lam glad to have the opportunity offered by the Indianapolis Times to point out the errors of ‘the columnist’s arguments. To Times readers who are familiar with Mr, Childs’ philosophy, itis hardly” necessary to point out that he generally follows the New Deal line. He ordinarily subscribes to the belief that the solution te all problems must be sought in some government bureau or agency. I think “he is arguing in that vein, although frankly, his comments are a study in confusion. He starts tn defense of the FCC but winds up inh a per suasiye argument of the very Viewpoint of my

* * MR. CHILDS describes the efforts of my committee as a “calculated attempt to block the channels of communication against’ any viewpoint slightly unpopular”; and as a “deliberate effort to shut out any. voice even a shade left of center.” Obviously, Mr. Childs either hissy entirely the point of our inquiries, our reports, and our “general aim; or he makes the most violent and unwarranted assumptions. He is merely knocking down straw men of his own ereation. Mr. Childs dismisses my committee's inquiry into the Port Huron decision with the glib assertion that we attacked the Commission ' because it merely reaffirmed the clear provision of the Communications Act that broadcasters “do not have the right to censor political talks. What he carefully avoids telling you is that the Commission in this opinion apparently denied broadcasters any gant to restrain a > ‘Fernaries- may: oer

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‘manlike job of reporting, Mr. Childs would have told you that any broadcaster, restrained by a. federal ruling, might be fully lable to civil and criminal prosecution under the laws of the states. & ¢

"THE SIMPLE fact is that the FCC, ation cently or otherwise, placed broadcasters in an impossible situation by this decision. If they refused the air to a political speaker to libel, : slander or defame another; they faced the pos- ) sible loss of their license. -- Rinee-the federal licensing authority literally ‘holds the power of life and death over ‘broad- * casters, this is merely anbther way of saying they faced the loss of their business. But. if, Svs as rntro arm : ances to go through their" Fn. ones, - faced the unhappy prospects of civil or criminal | prosecution. My committée actually brought relief to the “radio industry in this impossible dilemma. ‘And Mr. Childs should have repqrted that we did so_through, the co-operation of FCC Chairman, Wayne Coy, who agreed to accept our recommendations pending some definitive action by Congreas. ——— — Surely Mr. Childs would not undertake for a moment to deny to newspaper publishers the right to deny space to the type of matertal here in question. I assume he desires to keep radio in private hands in America, rather than make it an instrument of the state as it was under Hitler and Mussoligi, and as it is on the Communist side of the

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Barfon Rees Pogue _A SURLY. BREAKFASTER -

A Aly breakfaster, today, Tramped down the stairs-and banged his chair, Then frowned upon the playing dog And reprimanded, didn’t care.

But, oh, his disposition changed When with a shrug his mother said, “We're having such a lovely meal, But you'll have castor oil instead.” «OPAL McGUIRE, Dupont. ® ©

SIGNALS

1 can see the smoke curl high, As it reaches up the mountain To a cabin near the sky From a homestead in the valley With a friendly message saying, “I'm happy as I wend Up this hillside with a greeting From a neighbor and a friend.”

LILLIAN BECK, Terre Haute. * o>

HORSEFEATHERS

- We scurry about like frightened sheep, We buzz like botflies on the wing, Harvesting horsefeathers, day by day, Forgetting how to play and sing. . .

Of worthwhile chores, we say “Manana,” We'll do 'em some other day; The most useless thing we seem to do— "Tis so with me, and how 'bout YOU? —=A HOOSIER GADABOUT, Nashville.

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of excitement into which Mr. Childs has worked himself. I cordially invite Mr. Childs to cite a Single item from the record to support his wild assumption that the committee would deny anyone—athelst, Communist, voodooist, or anyone -the right to air his philosophy. It's hard to determine just what Mr. Childs is defending. He even admits that the Commis-: sion in its Scott decision is “inéxpert, rele-

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impartially. among all sides on controversial questions, but because it here again seeks set standards for the contents of broadcasts. In the Scott decision, the Commission gratuitously, and in the most vague and ambiguous, terms seems to assume the right to dictate to broadcasters’ what they may and may not put

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THE CAMPAIGN GRIND

ABOARD \g & TRAIN, Oct. 2— Nothing in the world is remotely like the

campaign caravans. affairs forum, a-:gossipy small-town sewing

unique and completely and unmistakable American. The tpixture on the Truman “train is especlally rich and flavorful of all past campaigns, As: the underdog, the President is battling morning, early morning, noon and late into the night to carry the campaign into the camp of the enemy. In the last two cars, occupied by the President, his family and the secretarial staff, they are proud of rigors endured and weary, dusty miles covered. At Eufaula, Okla., the President made what was computed to Be his hundredth speech of the trip, which must surely be some kind of record.

Biggest Burden on President THE TROUPERS in the rear cars take pride in reports they have received from the Dewey rival caravan is sald to be making. Why, the

Dewey crowd doesn’t even bégin until 10 o'clock. The morning is counted lost when the President has not made Toir or five talks by that our.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms French Want Meeting Of Big Four Ministers

PARIS, Oct, 2—A conference of the Big Four foreign ministers—perlips before Christmas—is regarded as a possibility. The French would like to have such a econfefence. ish and Americans don't rule it out, but they: could hardly be said

France is 100 per cent with the British and Americans on the latest United Nations moves including citing the Soviet Union before the Security Council.

France clings to the hope that the East and West may yet It was this thought—or this | hope-~that inspited the comparatively mild identical letters from . the three western powers to the Secretary General of the United Nations requesting the council to tackle the Berlin blockade.

‘French Admit Berlin 1s the Key Spor

THE FRENCH admit that Berlin is the spot where the most y go on to say, it 1s difcan be settled, militarily, economically or politically; apart from the broader German dis-

. Furthermore, the French recall the Kremlin has shown a keen desire to renew overall German discussions. Also that the Western Powers have never ruled them out. What they have done is to refuse full debate either on Berlin or larger issues under duress ~—that 1s to say, as Tong as Moscow keeps up the blockade. The French see as clearly as the Americans or British that by her behavior since the war—especiaily in Berlin—Russia has made a showdown inescapable. They admit a show of Weak-

cil suggests the Big Four have anAifts, the blockade, Just possibly it

This writer sees, fio possibility of, the ‘West wavering. But if’ the Kremlin can read the meaning of events and will hold qut | "its hand, the west will respond in kind, providing it is glen that the 's: other id the usual knife.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

COP. 1948 BY WEA SERVICE. WO. 7. M. REO. U. 8, PAT. OFF, "No, no, | don't. play bridge—as district attorney | can't afford * to get mixed yp i in any dordtly SONNET” of

By Marquis Childs

Truman Going Along Confidently, .| Ticking Off 100 Speeches on Trip

It is hard, grueling work for almost every one concerned. The No. 1 burden falls naturally on the President himself. Doggedly, determinedly,” he grinds away. Sometimes he stumbles over the words of his written text. Sometimes his voice breaks, but he plows along, an earnest man doing what he conceives to be his duty. ! The endurance test for the secretarial staff is almost as great as for the President, except the aids do not have to appear before the public. Often, however, they must work through the night .after the Président has finally signed off.

The Question: Does It Pay? : THE INEVITABLE question in view of the expenditure of such prodigious energy, to say nothing of the money cost, is whether any concrete, tangible result is produced by. this strange ritual, or is it merely a kind of ceremony like the rain-making rites of certain Indian tribes, which we solemnly and wearily go through every four years? In the view of such experts as James A. Farley no votes are changed in the last four or five weeks of a campaign. Poll-taker Elmo Roper is of the same opinion, and he decided two weeks ago that it was futile to take any more presidential polls since’ the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The President, for a variety of . reasons,

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‘on the air. ‘My committee holds that when the Commission undertakes, either explicitly or imfetly to dicate - ha.contents or cin it assumes an Hu - has absolutely no basis in law.. We believe, and I am sure Mr. Childs ‘will -3R0 A Congress lated intended the FCC to have on @ Hy-limited and police the air waves. - Because the air 18 public property, I think everyone will agree ra time and space upon it should be divided equitably and impartially. None will 1 wi

space and time impartially. * © *

© BUT WHEN ‘the Commission abuses its authority .and seeks, no matter how subtly or indirectly, to tell station owners what they shall ‘or shall not broadcast, we do indeed have thought policing, which my committee charges. Mr. Childs defends the. Commission on the ground that it did not, in either of these decisions, actually cancel station licenses; and that

it did not actually lay down clear, ‘positive and

binding rules. That begs the question. The FCC does not have to wield a meat ax to exert pressure and influence upon broadcasters, Because the power to license is the power of life and death, the broadcasters: must ‘be sensitive even to the slightest implication

* on the part of the Commission.

For the very reason that the Commisston

holds such tremendous and vital authority, my committee insists that it must lean over. back-:

ward to exercise that authority objectively and -impartially. If Mr, Childs will take a ha

second look at my committee's announced ob--

jectives and its efforts to date, I believe he will

be forced to agree that we aré seeking exactly .

the ends for which ‘he pleads. In fact,"he fluently argues the committee's viewpoint in stating that a majority of statio : and networks try hard to play fair and to every viewpoint a hearing, That is exactly the feeling of the committee,

we are confident the th the > radio industry tle Toraly given tne opportamite Sao}.

Ct “fait play feel Play if that the public interest will be much better served if alert public opinion rather than a federal agency determines the character of broadcasting. * &

~ A ‘WORD MORE about the Scott Decision.

Here Mr. Childs is amazingly inconsistent, He admits that the decision is “inexpert, irrelevant and wordy”; but at another point he states that the Commission “makes it perfectly clear . . .

"that the controversy ‘must be one of genuine

public interest” before stations are required to

"provide equal time for each viewpoint. -

Actually, there is nothing “perfectly. clear”

about the decision. It is a ty in vagueness and.

play absolutely mg - to grant time to atheism if time is demanded. If I thought for a moment that the question needed defense before the American people, I certainly could show that the existence of Divinity is not in controversy in America. I re-

peat that my committee has no desire to bar

atheists from the air, no matter how faulty or repugnant their philosophy seems to most of us. We insist, however, that station operators be permitted reasonable authority to edit their own programs.

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let the station operators grant the time voluntarily, and not bécause they féel themselves compelled to grant it in their own protection.

"l rm LL ‘will defend to the death. your right to say it."

Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub ject with which you are familiar. Sots 4 letters used. willbe. edited but content will be pre served, for here the People Speak in Fre

Skeptical?

By Fmma T.

The Communistic and Fascist war propa-

ganda which has been published in our free American press, beginning with the end of World War II, will eventually cause the true American to-become skeptical of just who is running this good old U. 8. A. of ours. The press is so contaminated with exaggerations, one way. or the other, that we know very little of the true situation which really exists. Let's do away with all these large headlines about some trivial event that ordinarily, before World War II, would not even be published. Soon after World War II the propaganda was that America would be in war with Russia by the year of 1955; but, at the present writing, the propaganda intimates we will be in war by 1950. Anyone can readily see this is sowing the seed for our next conflict. Why not co-operate just a little more with Uncle Sam by being really true Americans, and not let all this Fascist and Communistic

propaganda divide us Into different trains of -

thought. "My theory is our opponents do not relish the idea of a “shooting” war, as their main weapon and objective is turmoil, ¢haos and discord in America, and it is almost a certainty, the Fascists and Communists are enjoying to the fullest measure the publicity received from our press—and which they so eagerly crave.

LABOR REFORMS . .. By Fred w. Perkins Hartley Says Congress Didn't Finish Its Job

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—His imminent retiremeit t from the House gives Rep. Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R., N. J.) an opportunity to criticize his party's leadership in Congress because it didn’t follow through immediately upon enactment of the Taft:Hartley

He writes in a book published this week, “Our New National Labor Policy” (Funk & Wagnalls, $2.85), that no sooner did this controversial statute become law than the Republican congressional leaders . more legislation “to which organized labor could possibly object,” before the November election. The Taft Hartley Law was passed 15 months ago, Mr , Hartley asserts, because “the demand for. labor legislation was 80 intense in early 1947 that the Republican leadership could not have held back the tide even if it had tried. The situation in 1948 was distinctly different,” he. Rah. . HOY TegIsINtion” was still there; but not mgr. r as well recognized . . . Republican’leaders had an eléowin; sound legislative principlés were cast aside.”

How Law Can Be

+ MR. HARTLEY'S main recommendations are: “Congress should take away from labor its Sumunities x rah prosecution under the antitrust laws, with particular to nation-wide work stoppages,’ “A right-to-work statute, emphasizing the proper role kf peaceful picketing during strikes, “A clarification and an extension of the anti-Communist pe visions, with stronger penalties for non-compliance. “Establish in the’ law certain standards for internal procedures which - would promote further democracy \&

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“Clarity the ban ‘against political expenditures by wns A clearer definition of what constitutes proper areas Yor collective bargaining and to prohibit the National Labor Rel tions Board from enforcing Sompalacey, collective * Sagpiuing ow side those areas...

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