Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1948 — Page 12

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Don't Blame the G-Men

MANY CITIZENS tell us they afe puzzled by the Washington controversy over whether the government, under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, has done all it could _or should to catch and punish Communist spies. That isn’t surprising. The issue has got so mixed up in partisan politics that it's almost impossible to see the facts clearly through the clouds of campaign dust. * The House Committee on Un-American Activities charges Administration failure to prosecute pro-Russian

ity and trying to force the department to act on “hearsay and suspicion” rather than “evidence and proof.” .

be certain what the truth is.

must mean that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn't pg its duty.” That, were sure; would beran. dn... ‘justified and unfair conclusion. A The FBI is under the Department of Justice. But it is, as its name implies, an investigating agency, not a prosecuting agency. J. Edgar Hoover and his G-Men have authority to get evidence against persons suspected of | —y federal laws. And we have every reason to believe that they do that job with great efficiency. "They have no authority to say what the Department,

no power to decide whether it shall or shall not be placed before 4 federal grand jury—no right to determine who 5 & peoatouti That the duds * sponsibility of the attorney general, not of the FBL and when the full truth about the Communist spy con ‘comes out-—and that probably won't be, ‘the political eampaign ends—we believe Apo -hhogs a infavotally Upoa the diligence and viglance of J; Edgar Hoover and the G-Men. ;

Stalin's Atom Trick

RUSSIA'S latest proposal to outlaw the atom bomb is a trick. But it is a slick one. The subject is so technical that the world public cannot to see through the Soviet Jropaganda whless On its face the plan presented to ‘the Assembly ">

~~ Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky is plausible. It : eR Xhat th Sacarity Councll and 1

+ tions Energy Commission prepare two treaties, one outlawing atomic weapons, the other providing for international control of atomic energy. Both would be signed

on ~and- become. effective. simultaneously. under the Security | ~~

Council. Actually this is the same old sabotage by which the Soviets have blocked atemic control for more than two years, though it is dressed up in somewhat new form. The essence of the American Baruch Plan, which has been accepted by all nations of tha Atomic Energy Commission except the Red bloc, is to turn over atomic energy to effective international control with no veto. Stalin always has insisted on the veto, by which he could prevent international control—or even inspection—in Riissia. He still does." As Mr. Vishinsky says: “The American Plan excludes the Security Council (in which the veto operates). Within or without the Security Council--that is the basic question.” Under the Soviet Plan the United States would give up its present leadership in atomic development and destroy "its bombs. In exchange it would get a Soviet signature on two treaties. Stalin's record as a treaty breaker does not make that a safe bet. . Even though Russia were as reliable as she is in fact untrustworthy, many months would be required to set up an adequate world-wide international system of umestion and control over atomic raw materials and man Until such an effective control system oh was In ~ operation it would be suicide for the United States to destroy its bombs, which are now the world's best peace ce.

$6000 or Less

MARION County Builders, quite commendably, have volunteered their efforts to solve two major national probJlems—inflation and the housing shortage. . As a recent meeting they voted to try to produce an acceptable house for $6000 or less. For those who have been looking longingly, but in vain, at the too-small houses priced from $8000 to $10,000; this is good news. It means

ith food and fuel, and automobile prices, to mention a ‘ew, being what they are. - Hip we like most abotit the builders’ vesohition is to help our homeless find decent places in which to Ive at pies they ca aflord 0 pay. : -..]f everyone else made a similar effort, we'd probably

downward.

Thank Yeu, and Keep Coming Mr. 1948 drags his long white beard out of the picture at the end of the year, Indianapolis will have

_ That's a lot of people to be nice to, but we like it. We strangers, Sspecially when they're Hoosiers. And

reason, it. we can be forgiven for blinking at dolar sign, is that they left some $2 million earned outthe city in or hotels Festaurant, cab eompanied and

Newspaper editors, like other citizens, find it hard to

espionage agents against whom, it says, there is abundant evidence. The Department of Justice and its head, Attor- | _ ney General Clark, accuse the committee of seeking public- |

/ But some of our friends seem to believe that, if espion- | age activity on behalf of Russia has gone unpunished, it | -

ot-Justice. shall. do with. such evidence after. they get it— |

“United Na- |

‘shelter for those who. cannot scale the inflation. mountain.

stop. runaway. {uflation. in_its tracks and start it gently |

Or will the house I built appear to be

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Barton Rees Pogue iain: 8 AR

PAW ‘SEZ Paw Katy-did , . . he sez to Maw Lan sakes . . . we gotta do

Sum fancy steppin’ . .. you an’ me’ ‘To bring the frost thets due!

We better git fo yéin' o Fer the days are whizzin’' by An’ we dunt want no blame . . . becuz No Katy-did . . . did try To tell the fokes that on the way Is Autumn-and her clan, So hurry Maw! Let out yer screech! An’ 1I"11 squeak all I can! _=-ANNA x YOUNG, Indianapolis

FIRESIDE. PHILOSOPHY

It's little use for soldiers to win a war as long as politicians lose the peace. . . . When a man admits that he is wrong he proves that his heart 1s right. . . . The “ten hour day” consists of eight hours “of work and two hours of punishment. . . . No one is in a better position to obtain justice for himself than the one who deals justly with others. . Yes, people are funny —I once saw a man buy a nice leather “bill fold” and have it charged. . . . The man who lives on the level avoids a lot of ups and downs. . . . It seems that every nation wants peace—the biggest plece. . . . When prosperity goes to a man’s head he's poorer than he was. ~THURMAN D. GEISE, Connersville. . * o {

VALUES

One cahnot make a garment of gold cloth When all she has is sturdy calico, But the workmanship may be true and fine And the colors lovely as the rainbow.

“One cannot drink wine froni a silver cup .. When _he owns but a Jatierd Jue 9 of Sn

One may not speak in an eloquent tongue; But supporting, trustworthy, gentle hand Laid confidently on a brother's arm Is a language that all can understand. ~ELLEN FRY, Greenwood. * o

COMPARABLES -

I watch the leaves as they come down, And, though it's early in the fall wo gnd-no wind -stirs-that-eng-can tell, - : I cannot count them all

"So furtive are the hours of pom ERE RS

en br SCHR ne It quite dismays the mind to view ; The compound of a year.

—NORA ASHMAN, Indianapolis. v 5

GRANDPAPPY My Granddad was quite a gay blade with the ladies. I know because he told me. One time he escorted -his favorite lady to a picnic. He was dressed fit-to-kill, and wearing a brand new straw Katie with ten dollars for expense money stuck in the hat band. A boy fell from a swing into the river, and presto, Granddad to the rescue; he dived in and saved the boy, but the new hat, and the ten dollars sailed jauntily down the river, That's my Granddad! —DOROTHY dh PABK® Indianapolis.

“THE BEFFER WAY:

The things that come to us Bong planned,

By demand, Never stand

Like the things that come , Without thought, | _Unwrought, - Unsought! BARTON Bes Joeur, Upland.

MY HOUSE

My house 1 put on firm and solid ground Then wandered, aimless, past its boundary, And there, aroused by sentient questing, saw The outline of mirage awaiting me; If 1 were but to wander far enough Could naked eyes look back with clarity And broad perspective, sensing the mirage Distinguished from my house of sanctity —

”

A mere mirage—and you, reality?

—ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbus. * © o

EGO SUM

When I am thinking of myself I mostly am just “IL” And now and then when I'm called “you,” To feel like “you” I try. But it's certainly surprising And a shocking thing to me When I learn that some third person Has thought of me as “she.” W. L. J, A

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Hoosier Forum

FIVE YEARS AWAY .

. By Marquis Childs

Top Advisers Label Vishinsky’s

ONASAN CARAS

A-Bomb Claim Transparent

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of power politics being played out between the

USA and the USSR, Andrei Vishinsky resorted

to a bold threat when he hinted before the

United Nations in Paris that Russia already has

the atom bomb. On the basis of the latest confidential /in-

' formation, top level advisers here are convinced

the Vishinsky threat was a transparent bluff. The latest information comes from Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, who flew from ‘Moscow by way'of Berlin and Paris to report on the current phase of the crisis with the Soviet Union. What Mr. Smith told the President and the joint chiefs of staff here in Washington was, in essence, as follows: It. will be five years, perhaps even longer,

' before Russia can produce atomic bombs in . sufficient numbers to make war. This is not, + DOWever... because of - lack. of the scientific

knowledge to produce atomic fission.

The Russians Lack Technology

WHAT RUSSIA lacks is the technology and the production that America has developed in the years before World War II and particularly under the stimulus of the war. In his talks, Mr. Smith was most emphatie on this point. Thousands of heat compressors, thousands

Of precision instruments, a far-reaching industrial complex are ‘essential to Hass" ‘Production cists;

of atomic bombs. Only the United States has an industry on that scale and the thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands, of experts on every level to staff it. The Russian deficiency in these matters cannot be made up overnight. But, as reported by Mr. Smith to the President, this advantage should not be taken by American policy-makers as justification for the kind of moves that might force a war. The Ambassador to Moscow urged a policy of pacifcation that would stop just short of appeasement as represented by the surrender of Berlin to the Russians,

To Channel in 30 Days

MR. SMITH based his argument for caution on the éxtreme weakness of Western Europe. The Russians have in the Soviet Zone of Germany completely equipped troops and transportation to move on. a moment's notice. The best advices indicate that they would reach the channel ports of France within 30 days at the outside. This is a fact conveniently ignored by certain influential Air Force generals who talk brashly of a lightning war to last 30 days or, at the most, three months. Such a war would be conducted by small Beets of high-speed planes

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centers. ‘Even a clear-cut victory would be meaningless so long as Western Europe was occupied by Soviet ‘troops supporting Communist governnients in Western European capitals. Such governments would come into power as Soviet troops -approached the borders. No country of Western Europé has any force in being to resist those troops, a fact well known both in Washington and in Moscow. This is the perfectly obvious explanation of the French reluctance to proceed actively with

‘the Western Defense Alliance. What to do when

the invaders come is the whispered fear of many a gathering in France. Hope Lies in Lapse of Time YET, as Ambassador Smith made clear, the chief hope lies in the precious time essential bulk of ‘the ald must come from this coun What Mr. Smith reported, with respect to Russia’s cHief deficiency in the race for atomic weapons, bears directly on the present effort of the House Un-American Activities Committee to whip up an atomic spy scare. Ever -since Hiroshima, leading scientists have been saying that the scientific know-how is the tommon property of nuclear physicists, and Russia has some first-rate Duciesr physi“the world. ~ Once Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves released the Smythe Report telling the steps leading up to the successful discovery of atomic fission, there were few “secrets” for Russia or any other nation to discover.

Hard to Teach Nucleonics WHEN HE was here recently for the cen-

-{ennial meeting of the American Association

for the Advancement of Science, Prof. Harold Urey of the University of Chicago remarked wryly to a friend that he spent his waking hours trying to pound some knowledge of nucleonics into the heads of his graduate students, and with not: too much success. Yet the hys-teria-makers assumed that a stenographer visiting the Polish Embassy could disclose an atomic “secret.” Prof. Urey also said that if the ‘entire Atomic Energy Commission were dropped into the Kremlin in Moscow, it would probably retard the Russian drive rather than advance it. This was his way of saying how little even the most conscientious layman spending 18 hours a day on the problem can learn about atomic energy. The Russian lack, it should be remembered by the nervous spy hunters, is America’s extraordinary industrial machine. .

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served, for here the People Speak in Freedom, Old Story

| BY Wp re the writer has | king of rophecies, e come’ Ir a remarkable as to be almost un. | canny. I have a copy of “The American Revos lution, 1763-1783." copyrighted in 1898, by the British historian, W. E. ‘Lecky, edited by Prof. J. A. Woodburn of ada University, and printed in New York by D. Appleton & 928. oo. ho aval. a few words and dates were changed, Would Yon 0 have been written two rs ago instead-o yo ne wt oud of » wm, Congress, with the warm approval of the great body of people, determined to enter upon a course which the more sagacious men In America knew to be little better than insane. It imagined that it could regulate all prices by law, and maintain them at a level greatly below that which the normal operation of the law of supply and demand had determined. Laws with this object were speédily made in all the states. The prices of labor, of fgod, of every kind of manufacture, of ‘all domestic articles, were strictly regulated, and committees employed to see that these prices were not exceeded. | “The measure, of course, aggravated the |- very evil it was intended to diminish. Goods | that were already very rare and greatly needed | were carefully concealed and withdrawn from | sale lest they should be purchased at prices | below their real value. In most cases, the law | was disregarded, and sellers continued to sell, | sometimes secretly, sometimes openly; at prices | higher than the law permitted, charging an | additional sum to compensate them for the risk | they fncurred. Mob violence directed against 1 the “engrossers; “moi and. .forestallers' combinations of the moré ert merchants

potent; and in September, 1777, John Adams wrote that in his sincere opinion the act for

state, and introduce a civil war.” Obviously modern visionaries do not invent, they copy—and tallures. i successes. % .

Gold Backing

By G. W. F. In order for any ‘nation to have a stabilized government; it must Wave a stadilized currency. * It is necessary for nations, in order to exist, to fia an established trade. Hs n' RNR LRT It is ideal, becafise, first, it cannot be counters feited ard it is indestructible. Being 19.6 times as heavy as water, large values can be trans. ported in a small space. The only near element in specific "gravity is platinum which is always two or three times the value of gold. It cannot be ‘cornered, if there is. a free market; there are too WARY holders and too many producers. Free gold would check the deterioration of | currencies. Most important is that demand is always about equal to-the ‘supply. It is not gold that is becoming more valuable in terms of goods and services; it is the paper money of the promissory notes of the government, dis counted by their unchecked expansion. There are more than several free markets in gold, the largest Paris, where gold is $55 per

ounce. A UnNiversal free market i establish nations securely and peace and confidence would reign throughout the world. The people and not the government sholild’ control their own money. Unless the people can exchange their paper money into gold coin, they have no way of preventing the government from printing all the paper money it wants to print. * «0 @ Now, Mr. Fairchild—By J. W. J. A statement in The Times by the Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney, Fairchild accused the Democrats of intimidating the gamblers for donations. As a former Republican working on the County payroll, were just told they were taking one week's ‘pay for campaign funds. Which they did. After the ‘state of affairs” of this fair city has been in for the last five years should any Republican cast slurring remarks upon the Democrats? Maybe if the Democrats could make $300,000 in mistakes they too, would have plenty of money to finance a campaign. Does it occur to Mr. Fairchild that the money taken from Republican

publican taxpayers’ pockets? I am sure Mr. Fairchild knows that if any

tration in Indianapolis should be on the receiving end. We, the people of Indianapolis know that a newspaper cannot fool the people as was proved when both Democrats and Republicans elected Al Feeney for our Mayor.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen Armed Forces Sly ‘Screwball’ Weapons

Oct. 5—~Whenever the international situation gets particularly crucial the services start dusting off the

WASHINGTON,

ideas for weapons which verge on the’ scréwball.

these screwball ones suddenly become very practical.

And some of | When |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

STRATEGY OF DEFENSE . . . By Wm. Phill Simms ‘Spain Becomes Key In Military Planning

PARIS, Oct. 5—As the dangerous Berlin dispute comes before the Security Council,

tions between Spain and the Western European nations and | the United States will improve soon. pe

there is reason to believe that réla-

prides; r denuoaintions. and; 1. ‘legal punishments, were all insufficient and im:

employees comes out of ‘both Democrat and Re«

the idea of an atomic bomb was propounded many important people labeled it just plain nutty.

Anyway, the one they've pulled off the shelf now actually |

originated in the Sunday supplements about 20 years ago, Every-

one at least once has seen an “artist's conception” of a floating |

airport in the ‘middle of the sea on which planes flying ‘across the ocean could land and refuel. That's the one they're working -on_sgain. with a “super secret” stamp on the details.

The whole idea of a floating sea base has come a Tong way, +

however, from the Sunday supplement version of it. In fact the floating sea base part of it has been discarded, if that makés sense,

| Navy Learned Plenty About Subject

AT THE start of World War II the Navy and Air Force -

spent. plenty of money on the project before it was finally abandoned as impractical. But a" lot of sound conclusions were ‘reached on the subject. First, It was decided that any

~ floating A ti ARCO base would be too vulnerable to enemy subs and bee and . . that it wouldn't be maneuverable enough to dodge attack. Then

the thinking switched to the idea of calming the water over an area large enough for a seaplane to land. The idea was for’ the plane to taxi up to a conventional ship in the calm area and refuel. ‘Tests with pil soon showed the impracticability ot ng the seas that way. Further ts, rev that the best way to a ANT MAE oa eT break thie cadence of the waves. At this point the details of the progress of that research become highly secret. It is known that large square objects floating in break up waves, however. That much was revealed before the idea was shelved. Now, however, several more details of a tia] plan to use the open ocean as an airplane base have come to light. The Navy has approached the robles by trying to improve the hulls of sea planes. This has been extremely successful’ tests with new hulls on fiylug Boats in ine ty to rough &

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the practicability -of such a base, with perhaps some wavedampening device. In addition to extending the time of operations of seaplanes,

"the new hulls ‘can be used on planes of the 500-miles-per-hour

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careful look at the possibility :

| with whom I have talked-here says -he-believes Russia ‘plans | to attack now. '

This arises from the fact that a powerful Red army is in the East ready and capable of crashing across Germany ‘to the Rhine in a matter of days. No -informed military man

But they agree it could happen. -Thus, the Security Counci} is not the only place where the Fast-West quarrel over Berlin is being anxiously watched. Delegates to the General Assembly are asking each.other what if Moscow remains adamant over the- Berlin deadlock and tries to take matters -into-her-own-hands: in

A deeply concerned general officer told me that the defense: oo |- position of Western Europe has never been so weak as now.

Theoretically, he said, any attack from the Hast should be stopped at the Rhine. Today, the best hope of the West would be to hold the line of the Pyrenees. It would take at least 50 divisions to hold the Rhine.

Spain Becoming More Important "TRUE,. five Western. France, Belgium, Hols.

Jand and Luxembourg—are ‘beginning to coordinate their forces.

It is also understood that Washington now fully realizes that renewed land-lease in some form is essential if the forces to be headed by Marshal Montgomery are to be effbctive. But it

18 asked, what good will these fine plans he if in the meantime

Russia smashes through Germany and France, leaving the West without bases from which to mount a counter-attack. This is why Spain is assum Resuming more and more importance in the defense outlook of the W Russia s the drive against Spain from the. beginning. At San Francisco, Spain was kept ‘out of the United Nations on the grounds that she had collaborated with the Axis, Yet official German documents published by the State

ment show that Russia did far more for Hitlerite ate than

Spain ever did. Russia gave Hitler the green light for war

| against the democracies in 1939 and remained virtually an ally

until mid-summer of 1941. Western Europe and the United States have gone Nong with Russia in ostracizing Spain. This is all to the good for Russia. For Spain ‘might now be a big help with the Marshall Pian, and without" S| as a base and the FUTOAues An i Una ot dntensc, the Hsq-Ariy Sould soop-etupy 411 01 Enupe.

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