Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1948 — Page 18

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Better Than a Mission-to-Moscow

PRESIDENT TRUMAN continues in his well-meaning way to jeopardize bipartisan foreign policy at home and Allied unity abroad. At the Miami convention of the American Legion yesterday he tried to alibi his misbegotten plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to see Stalin although the Russian disputes are before the United Nations and we are pledged to act only jointly with Britain and France. Doubtless the President's purpose was merely to offset the almost unanimous objection to his plan from Secretary of State Marshall and the press on down. Certainly he would not wittingly revive the blunder from which he has been saved. And yet the net effect is to resurrect the fear of our Allies that the United States is capable of running out on them and the UN and of making a separate deal with Stalin. :

. r . ry » . FF MOREOVER, this is further provocation to Gov. Dewey and Sen. Vandenberg to cut loose in campaign oratory on Truman irresponsibility in a foreign crisis. Hitherto they have refrained for patriotic motives from - tactics so tempting poitieatly but so disastrous to the national interest. .. "The | bipartisan policy, 1 now more “important ‘than ever for and peace, “could hardly survive such a knockdown hight in the closing days of the campaign. So we trust the-Republican candidate will continue to show statesmanlike restraint. In fact at the time the President was bulling the China shop again in Miami, Gov. Dewey was trying to cement Allied unity and bipartisan policy through his foreign representative, John Foster Dulles. In Berlin Mr. Dulles an. nounced that our t across the Soviet blockade was “above partisan politics,” thereby assuring our Allies and warning the Russian that Mr. Dewey in the — White Houte w Would 1 not retreat in the sold ar...

oo" MEANWHILE, the United Press reports ‘that Sours. . tary Marshall has co-ordinated an over-all political-eco-nomic-military defense plan for Europe for the coming months, to which Gov. Dewey has agreed in principle. This

ropean Union, while keeping the diplomatic offensive and pushing ‘the Marshall aid for self-help economic recovery there, Such bipartisan strategy would be as constructive as the Vingon-mission dispute is destructive.

Ag game

Control Follows Federal Aid

Sh soon after he became president of Columbia ty, Gen. Eisenhower said this: : " dier stands on the question, I am opposed to federal money in higher education so long as there is one single iota of federal control coming with it.” Gen. Eisenhower went on to make it clear that, in his opinion, there can be no federal aid to higher education without some degree of federal control. The government at Washington, he said, has no right to pass out tax money without exercising Some form of Supervision over the way the money is used. That, of course, is true. Universities and colleges—and public school systems and other institutions in many states ~-are up against grave financial problems these days. It's a strong temptation to look to Congress and the Federal Treasury for help. And the Democratic Party's current _ platform promises federal aid for education “to be administered by and under the control of the states.” But the promise is misleading, we think,.in that it is designed ta take the people of the states believe they can accept federal aid and still retain complete control of their own schools. The fact is that wherever federal money goes federal control will and must follow—only “a single iota" at “first, perhaps, but Sventunlly and inevitably much more.

Don’t Ask Too Much, Harold

AROLD L. ICKES never has been one to downrate ‘himself. So it is no surprise that he complains to the newspapers and the radio, via the mimeograph, about “the press” he got for his latest appearance ‘on the air. Thursday night I made a speech,” he writes, “about Thomas Dewey. —I think ri-Was-2-00d.5p000h You should have heard it.” —'. Then he goes on to say that he “looked in vain through some of the great American press to find any mention.” “There was hardly any,” he chides. Further on, he states his purpose. It is to call attenHon to a forthcoming broadcast from Great Falls, Mont., ‘on_Friday evening, Oct. 22, at 10:30 p. m: (EST), over ao than 400 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-

requests that the public be thoroughly apprised. There you have it, Harold. No charge. But with all du gard or your igh seme of selimporiace and your —...vast love for the lens and the limelight, don’t ask us to | - underwrite the size of your listening audience. Great as you are in your own estimation, and with all admiration for the really smart crack you are able to pull about once in four years—like “the barefoot boy from Wall ~ Street”—we can't insure you against give-away shows, hill"billy bands, and other comedians. You will have to get, not louder, but funnier, oftener, to capture all the ears in this our land of eaterprise and free competition.

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involves $3 billion of lend-lease for rearming the West Eu-

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{ from me, but you cannot escape. For the mark

‘With scarlet flounces, streamerettees galore,

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In Tune | With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue EXPLANATION

Those queer saucers had some folks in a dither at one time but this lyric explains all, should they ever show up n. The kittens in the skies have flying saucers, I never thought a cat would come to that; A spool of thread and a full lunch basket With wings on, ought to please a cat, { The kittens in the skies spin their fying saucers ) And do the tricks of the story-book cow; They catch a nap a-tisket-a-tasket And go ‘to sleep in Heaven's haymow, They play with the ‘clouds that tickle their toes and dream, There's no one around to spoil their fun or | spill their dish of cream, | They watch the stars with eyes that twinkle, And grow up so fluffy and fat, The kittens in the skies have flying saucers, I never knew a cat would come to that. ~OLIVE BODE BROWN, Fountain City.

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FAME

You pursue me over roads rougn with obstacles; falling, getting up, dusting yourself off, stumbling on, until you reach my side. You clasp my hand, and find it filled with thorns; you search my face, and find it but a mask that hides untold unhappiness; you turn

of my hand will world to see ) . ~VIRGINIA FORTNEY, Indianapolis. | * * o

| LIKE TO KNOW

1 like to. know what people pay For many things they buy--But not the price they're apt to say And never bat an eye.

ever be upon you for the

The day they celebrate —- But not the years they tell to me And never hesitate,

For folk, whose age i= never true Stretch how they spend their dough.” Are sure to fudge an inch or two On things I want to know. —-GEORGE 8. BILLMAN, Anderson. ¢ ¢

DRIFIWOOD

Humans are funny, as funny can be;

NEW LEADERSHIP .

Revamping of gee Party Seen in Dewey’s Campaign

WASHINGTON,

Hoosier Forum

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Keep letters 200 words gy less on any subject with which you are f . Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom, Full Dinner Pail Issue By C.D. C.

I recall quite vividly the McKinley, Bryan presidential race of 18906, As I recall everyone had definite opinions about such, things as tariffs and the comparative value of gold and silver. Quite. often arguments ended ia fist fights. The Republican campaign slogan was the full dinner pail and in a torchlight parade the pail was so big it was usually placed on a wagon. The Republicans won and for many years after largely because they reminded the people of the money panic and hard times under Grover Cleveland, a Democrat President who was cursed with a Republican Congress. Forty years later the same thing occurred under Herbert Hoover, a Republican who couldn't get a Democratic Congress to do the same thing they did when Mr. Roosevelt became President, However, a new crop of voters has now grown up who can't remember the depression just as they eventually did after Cleveland was President and I fear Mr. Truman's predictions of dire calamity if the Republicans are elected is falling on deaf ears. The coming election at best is a quiet one probably because comparatively few people wanted any of the candidates for President. Mr. Truman of course is wearing himself out in a hammer and tongs campaign. He usually has good crowds who evidently think he is a pretty good fellow but have already decided we

need a change. On the other hand Mr. Dewey is taking things easy while he talks about such harmless things as national unity. He is the prosecutor type, who keeps a few “aces up his sieeve for-an-emergency. He is now. in the background, licking his chops as he . watches Mr. Truman wear himself out and

. By Marquis Childs

Oct. 20 — Watching the

a united American people going down the road

= | ‘getting ready to close in for the kill in November which seems pretty good political strategy. Furthermore, the less talking he does the |" fewer enemies he will have if he becomes Presi- | dent next January.

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‘Where Are Savings?’ * ‘By Ross McIntyre, 2745 Sherman Drive In this column Mr. Edwards recently be-

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* it's evening, Harold,.it's- bound: to. be. p..m.)... He..|. Joriestals per-man costs-it-will- total $750. million. 1f it includes

From cradle to grave—inconsistency. They struggle to live {or they know not what,

| Just groping and seeking an easier lot. worry and hurry and strain every nerve;

Crying for service—but never to serve. Whatever's their destiny, nobody knows; Life comes in mystery—in mystery it goes.

~—RUBY 8S. HINSHAW. * 4 ¢

AT THE BALL

It's time for Mrs. Maple Tree's fall clothes,

a smtim——

She favors brightest hues, from head to toes; |

She'll stress the New Look for she has, you see,

A million yards of fabric, all tax free!

Long her. gown, sweeping. the forest floor, All her limbs bedecked in red and gold, £he’ll sally forth, quite confident and bold!

And when comes that big shindig. the Autumn

She'll be the gayest dancer of them all! corn meRUTH. M... COFFIN, . Indianapolis. ~ * 0

TOO MUCH FOR GRANTED

Suppose the sun would never rise— Day after day, to our surprise And though we had more time to sleep, We'd carry lights or have to creep; There'd be no fields for us to reap.

With all our bustle and our stir, We take too much for granted. sir. When we take time for study deep On all th: blessings that we keep,

Dewey team at work in the campaign, the observer is bound to wonder why all this painstaking effort from one end of the county to the From “the weginning the odds have been so heavily in favor of the Republican candidate that a few speeches broadcasc nationwide from a few key cities would have sufficed. Then the man who fully expects to be the next President .of the United States would be free to concentrate with his team of able ex-

perts on the tremendous problems that will con-

front him immediately on taking office. He is 80 obviously the confident champion in this contest and with an almost too easy victory before

| him,

On Jan. 20 he will be faced with the issue of rearming ‘western Europe. He will shortly have

“18 gO to Congress Tor a few “appropriation for

European recovery in. which he firmly believes. He will presumably begin the “pushing and

prodding” toward a western European union.

' More Revenue Must Be Found

‘hausting junketing from state to state?

THERE WILL be the large-size task of re-

~ organizing the government—the biggest and

fanciest housecleaning” that Mr. Dewey has promised audience after audience. The tax revision" he has urged will in itself be a Herculean job with the prospect that more ‘tax revenue must be found somewhere. So why not curtail this superfluous, exOne obvious answer, of course; is the desire to control the Senate, which necessitates going into states such as Minnesota where GOP senatorial candidates are in trouble. But an underlying and even weightier answer is in the Dewey concept of the campaign.

together. Briefly, this is the Dewey concept. In the 18 years since 1932 the Republican Party has

—been—stigmatized—as the party of reaction. A

whole’ generation has grown up hearing the party identified repeatedly with the depression.

Not Identified With Past /

AS MR. DEWEY is at pains to point out, the public opinion polls showed before the June convention at Philadelphia that only two Republicans could defeat Mr, Truman. They were Mr. Dewey and Harold Stassen. Both are

younger men who have never been identified

with the GOP of the past. Mr. Dewey's task, as he conceives it, is to copvince the rank-and-file voter that the GOP is a Torward-106Kking party and that “there are" good Republicans: as well as good, Democrats.

In short, he believes his mission T&“Scarcely less ~ “Joe” and his hard-heeled boots.

than ‘to restore the two-party system in the traditional American sense, it is to convince the independent voter that he, or she, has noth-

ing to lose and something to gain by a Repub- |

lican administration.

"A ’ a aegis ] New Leadership in Party IN OTHER words, he means to reshape the Republican Party. As a clear indication of this, his closest congressional co-operators in the campaign are such men as Sen. Baldwin, Sen. Lodge, Sen. Ives and Rep. Harter. They are the men who have helped to give the party a new leadership in foreign policy and they have not been reactionary on domestic policy. This would seem to mean, then, another task for Jan. 20 and after. And certainly the refashioning of the party will not be the easiest

Hoover |

| moaned the fate of old people left destitute. He cited the low wages of the 30's as an excuse. But what difference! I, personally, know men who made a minimum of $48.00 per day throughout —the late war who «today have | nothing but their weekly wages to keep them from starvation. When questioned as to where | these fabulous wages went, and why today they have no savings, they become vague. * oo @

‘Not So Much Marx Stuff Now'

By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois

Some of the libraries are not making such a big show of the Karl Marx nonsense as they | did a year ago. They do not have a lot of big placards stuck up all over the place, telling the | - public about all the latest biographers of crack-

“rpot-Marx; andthe growing pains -of-the-new.

masses and. the brave new world under “Holy

lang-haired college teachers will not be so keen | on telling the pupils about the glories of the promised land, as found under the Soviets.

| responsible for the OPA being put out and high .

| peices. But if Harry Truman would tell the | truth, he would admit he has made the United States the poorest President we have ever really had for he has spent a lot of money and caused a lot of needless blood shed by his blundering and then got nothing settled either. Now Harry Truman, put the figures on the slate so we will | know where we stand for once. This enormous

Some of the

The climb we face is not too steep. —LUIS B. WRENS,

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DEFENSE COST ... . By Jim G. lucas Armed Forces Face

Financial Trouble

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—Military men wonder how President |

Truman can reconcile his directive to Defense Secretary James Forrestal to expand the reserves with his statement a few minutes later that he —ould hold next year's military budget to $14.4 billion. The new program Mr. Truman wants will cost lots of money. He directed Mr, Forrestal to ~rganize all reserve units and establish “vigorous and progressive” training programs. The Secretary iu must report progress within 60 days. The September report of Brig. Gen. Wendell Westover, executive for reserve affairs, reveals that organized reserve class A units have only 30 per cent of their equipment and class B units, 25 per cent. Before an expanded reserve can be trained. military circles say, equipment must be found. }

Can't Get Equipment

|_.___THEY SAY it is impossible to get that equipment from the

regular Army without interfering with its mission, at home and

abroad. The only alternative is to buy it—which could cost more |

than has been appropricted for reserves since the end of the war. In the fiscal year 1947, fiscal 1948, they got $26.8 million. This year, they got $52 million, Together, Army and Air Force Reserves got $125 million. At the same time, the National Guard was given a $256 milllont appropriation. The Guard has approximately 230,000 officers and enlisted men. The Army orgahized reserves have a roster -of- 286,000 officers and 456,000 enlisted

Next year's reserve appropriation —etili ‘under study fn Mr.

Forrestal's office—will be “somewhat larger.” If it is based on

funds for equipment and armories it might run over a billion.

Reserves Near Bottom of List

provi INL BREECT, Mr. Truman's. order. junks priorities estab: . lished. by. the. general a and sets up the Presidents.

been near the bottom of the st. “The

their mission would be to support the Army and National Guard. In an order outlining their role in that plan, Maj. Gen. H. R. Bull,

director of planning, on June 25 warned that priorities would have

to be set up. Reserve units not needed in ‘support of the Army and National Gen. Bull said, 311 Rave 50 be equipped ana pro. vided with other facilities on a lower scale Mr. Truman's order, however,

The Mr. Forrestal that he ent an “active, capable high-ranking ofcer” to head the reserve proA That apparently means someone other than Gén, Westover, an Albany, N. Y., businessman on active duty, or Brig. Gen. John E. McConnell, head of Air Force reserves. As one-star officers, neither has enough rank to issue directives. The President also * ted” that Mr. Forrestal “assign an adequate number of young and vigorous officers” as reserve

That concept explains the appeal to unity--the warm, vague generalizations that embrace

Army reserves got $23 million. In |

Hereto- |“

. Side Glances—By Galbraith

odem. 1948 BY-NEA SEAVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, "Your bus is so big you think you. can go around sideswiping

Barbs— * I will not permit the use of so deadly a social weapon in the

present impoverished and emaciated condition of Japan.—Gen. |

MacArthur, U. 8. A,, banning for second time a nationwide strike in Japan. ded

An artificial ci sels was deliberately manufactured to stampede Congress and the people into accepting military training and conscription.—Henry A. Wallace. ® * Women no longer work just for “pin money” or “something to do.” Eighty-four out of 100 women now work to support themselves or others.—The late Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach. * * &

Before the year is out. Congress will draft the sons of the ‘

mothers of this country. We had better draft the doll#rs now and keep taxes where they are.—Rep. A. 8. Monroney (®) of Oklahoma. i a

Truman and

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It is eagle tha that the foreign affairs of our ir government are in Marshall.—Rep. ;

of the jobs to be undertaken even with a massive November victory as a lever,

| circles of the western nations.

debt can néver be paid by us or our children's | children either in their life time.

MILITARY TENSION ce By James Thrasher Russ Strategy Seen Behind ‘War Scares’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—Our three defense departments are now wondering whether they can get by on the budget for fiscal 1850 that Mr. Truman has limited to $15 billion. They also seem uncertain how they will apportion the sums they get. The confusion is not due to service rivalries, if reports on the budget discussions are correct. The principal trouble is that the defense heads do not know what sort of a war to prepare for, or when to prepare for it. The world’s war-fever chart has recently shown some sharp hises and falls. The Berlin situation grows tense, and up it goes. A few quiet days, and the fever subsides. All this is bound to produce uncertainty in the .top military But the question—and it's one

| that doesn’t seem to have had much public discussion—is

| Lorg-Range Soviet Plot

whether the uncertainty may not be part of the Russian strategy of economic, not political, war.

THIS I8 only a question, not a certainty. that the Soviet government has millions under arms and mil-

| lions more available, or that it is working in closest secrecy to

perfect new and terrible weapons. The western countries cannot ignore these factors or fall to prepare defenses against them, At-the same. time. it. is possible that all the Russian accusa:

| tions and professed fears and provocative tactics are part of

any ear you Tke=syou saw what happened io Hitler!” |

| a long-range Soviet plot to gain a number of Communist objec-

tives with a minimum risk of conflict. Perhaps Mr, Vishinsky, with “his ‘screamings, thumpings. and apoplectic countenance, it coolly carrying out a well-prepared program. Perhaps his mis-

sion to Paris is simply to create morg turmoil, with, no thought

of negotiation, ‘Possibly. the Russian leaders are saomewhat in this vein: We are not in-shape for-a long war, but the United States will not launch a “preventive” war, But the more we accuse the Americans of planning aggression the more the western world will think that we are arming furiously to protect ourselves or to strike the first blow.

Ripe for Revolution : THAT being the case, they—and particularly America— would arm more furiously in return. Money meant for the Marshall Plan would be diverted to armaments for America and western Europe. Finally the Marshall Plan will fail. | And Europe, on the verge of financial, industrial and moral collapse, will be ripe for revolution and communism. The above Is just a guess. It may be wrong, but it is not

- impossible. And since it is not, it presents & problem which the

heads of western governments have doubtless considered. That problem is how to build up a strong and safe defense and still not impoverish the free world by squandering vital goods and

. money on an unnecessarily big war machine. *

One immediate way to tackle this problem, is for the representatives of free governments in Paris to stop trying to match Mr. Vishinsky in insult and vituperation, thus perhaps playing Aree

into his hands. Another is for the heads of govern ments to strive even to counter

with calmness as well ‘as JArmness. .

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