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An Atlantic Security Pact

ORT THE 125th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine the inter-American defense treaty becomes effective and our DO Ct teat starts negotiations for a North Atlantic “defense pact linking the United States and Canada with the Western European Alliance. "Russian aggression has destroyed earlier assurance of automatic peace after Axis defeat. The American people, traditionally opposed to, foreign entanglements in peacetime,

own fate is bound up with that of other free peoples. This was recognized last spring by President Truman and by the Senate's Vandenberg resolution promising American support for the Western European Union. Since then, those five nations—Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg—have perfected a general staff organization. - Now they have presented to Washington a working draft for United States-Canadian military associa“tion with them. If all goes well a treaty may be ready for ~ submission to the Senate in late January or February,

CERTAIN barriers exist. Whether action is blocked will depend as much on the intelligence of the American public as upon the sincerity and skill of the negotiators. One barrier is Communist propaganda that this is an American imperialistic plot to attack Russia and enslave theworld. Presumably the American public has learned by this time to ignore such lies. A second obstacle is fear that the proposed pact would evade and therefore weaken the United Nations: A few here still need to be informed that the UN charter specifically “encourages such regional defense organizations; and-that- ~ Soviet sabotage of UN enforcement agencies has left the

security. A third trouble factor is west Europe’ s desire for automatic American war action whenever an alliance member is attacked. This is prevented by our Constitution, which ~ empowers only Congress to declare war. Ifthe Europeans. are interested in results rather than in words they will accept the inter-American treaty formula that an attack on one. is an attack on all.

THIS general pledge, plus the President's ability to use designated limited forces for collective defense, should be sufficient. ‘Any military pact is worthless unless there is a blic will for defense when the test comes. In our judgement the negotiators and-public should be | less concerned with theoretical differences and more with several practical considerations. For example, rivalry within the Western European Union in which some want American help without self-help and at the expense of others. Also =. the necessity of ‘apportioning limited American military _ supplies to Europe in such a way as not to deprive China of help, much less disarm our own forces. Finally there is the need of bases in Denmark's Greenland, in Iceland, Ireland, ~ Norway, in Portugal's Azores and in the Mediterranean to - make any North Atlantic defense effective. ; These are the fearfully real factors than can make or break the Proposed security systent

I d Lieutenants an 3 OFF expanding yl ‘will need some 20,000 new first and second lieutenants. According to Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist, deputy director of personnel, many of them will be chosen from the ranks, selected for qualities of leadership rather than for the amount of book learning they have acquired.

na and he educated himself,” says Gen. a It's a’ fine idea to give ‘more young Americans. the. chance to become officers even ‘though they haven't gone to colleges. From George Washington on down, this coun‘try has had many successful military leaders who never darkened the doors of a university.

To NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST; Tor instance, may 1 _not have known mich about grammar. But the way he practiced his “git thar fustest with the mostest” strategy, proved that the Confederate cavalryman knew plenty about the art of warfare. However; boys;-don’t throw away your school boiks, ignore. -has.not.become an asset. The Army isn't proposing to commission a lot of lieutenants simply because they have had little formal education. Capacity to learn still is, and always will be, a most essential part of’ capacity to lead. And that's true whether the learning is done on sonie elm-shaded campus or in the stern“school of hard knocks.

Still Sound

BEFORE the election there was much talk about a proto pension former Presidents of the United States—at, say, $25,000 a year—and perhaps to make them, honorary members of the Senate. ~The thought, at that time, was that poor Mr. Tramian was going to be out of a job pretty soon, and oughtn’t to have to scrabble for a living. ‘We haven't heard so much about that proposal lately. > “Post Mr. Truman,” as things turned out, will have plenty of problems in the next four years, but personal unemployment won't be one of them. And Herhért Hoover, who continues to be the only living ex-President, doesn’t need a pension and doubtless wouldn't accept one;

BUT THE propesal is still sound, ‘and we hope the coming Congress will enact it into law. . There will be many ex-Presidents in yedrs to come, and ~ none of them is-likely to have been able to save much ‘money out of his official salary.” Some of them may be men of independent wealth; some will not. All of them should be enabled to live out ‘their lives in dignity and without. financial Worries. And the experience of every ex-President |

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RENOVATIONS

Fall housecleaning can have some fine points ~=p0-I-have learned. Cleaning the old trunk, filled piistly with school books and school annuals, my little old autograph album came into view, It had often beén removed, dusted and returned to its resting place, but this year, somehow, its blue cover of simulated leather beckoned. Time and space melted as the book was opened and I was lost in reverie.. Scrawled there, a quarter of a century ‘@go, were many, many things. There was the nonsensical thyme from the adored violinist who rode a “bicycle (the rhymester became my husband some years {ater). Teachers’ philosophical words were woven like ribbons throughout the pages. Each page brought a mémory which brought another memory. = Time mounted though I remained oblivibus. Near the close of my little book; Perilee had penned:

“Make new friends, but keep the old; : The new ones are silver, the old ones are gold.”

As IT returned to my dusting, refreshed by memory, I couldn’t help breathing a prayer of thanks for the opulence with which I've been blessed. —MEREDITH .R. HASKETT,

An’ peace is in the evenin’ air An’ quiet all aroun’, . . Mighty soothin’' time fer me, = Say—'long 'bout sundown.

N en twilight comes. a slippin’ in An’ night begins to fall, An" Mother Nature's children Answer to each other's call; Seems a feller gets more thoughtful,

Indi: 1 o + a Tdisnapolis x SUNDOWN REMEMBER? There's a time, s1y--"lohg "bout sundown You SAID YOU An’ endin’ of the day, COULD LICK Spee edit

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will defend ‘to the death your right to say it." EE —————— a ——

Keep lefters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pre. | served, for here the People Speak in Fréedom. |

‘Peace on Earth?’ By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois “About 2000 years ago a babe was born in Piléstine, a short distance below Jerusalem. He. was born in a manger in a stable, His family had comeé-to their home town to pay a special tax that had been laid on everyone by Caesar, who had conquered the country after Solomon and other kings“had bled the people white by their extravagance. So the land was in slavery to the Romans. The only ones who had much were the tax collectors and the officials of the temple, who paid graft to the Romans to hold their offices. The people were always looking for a deliverer. . Shepherds reported that they ‘had seen and heard angels singing “Peace on Earth” the night the babe was born. But when He had grown to manhood He told ‘some of His followers® that He had not come bringing peace, but a sword,

knew ‘that it would take centuries for mankind to .accept a religion of peace and love, for all men are born greedy.” Today, after nearly 20 centuries, the oil and other riches of Palestine are keeping the armies -of many nations sitting along its borders; and religions are moving heaven and earth to keep their grasp on Jerusalem. So-called Christian nations are talking of the use of arms for this purpose. And it is prophesied that Jerusalem will be leveled with the ground, as was’ the temple. Will that be the beginning of peace on earth? Or just another grab for world domination by greedy humans?

‘Some Streets Need Repairing’ | By a City Motorist. !

My work requires driving over many miles

With God's blessin’s all aroun’, An’ our disposition mellers, Say--'long 'bout sundown. GORDON OLVEY, Noblesville.

° CN BUTTONED UP FOR WINTER

There's a cricket in the. closet singing “‘plink, plink, plink,” And a whistle in the chimney, warning, “stuff up every chink!” -= And the spider by the basement stair, industriously spinning Inthe bar-of slanting sunlight palest gold and thinning, thinning, Ties the coal pile to the ceiling with a web of gossamer rhyme Oh, the world is getting snugly buttoned up? for wintertime!

In the country, In the tity, on the village corner,

Slips the frosty oie of warning that a season's =. on the brew “Woodfolk move a little faster In the grove and river run; Old folks, hunkered down in sweaters, hitch their chairs out in the sun— There's a snug anticipation in this seasoned pantomime When the world is busy getting. buttoned up for wintertime! ESTHER KEM FHOMAS, Columbus. > *

ROSES IN THE SNOW

Where are the flowers I Toved 80 well, Cradled in grasses lush? Where is the songbird's serenade, Breaking thy syening bh hush? could they be except in swift flight, ng before winter's blow? And where can YOU be, are you searching, like me, For roses in the snow? — FRANCES COLE BROWN, Indianapolis. [A .

MAN OR BOY? - As a man I hate to admit - At heart I'm still a boy, "But every time we shop I stop Before a new mechanical toy! eo==R. F. MAPLE, Richmond. ¢ & 9

gu ~~ STAR-AT-DAWN.-This morning dawn raised the Sir of ) the night and looked out upon the world -to see a single star winking in the graying tresses of the night. ‘So is your love for me a star at dawn, a jewel that ,Slasps the blue-gray cloak of life. ~— VIRGINIA FORTNEY, Indianapolis. ‘¢ @ .

oe GRATITUDE God loves a cheerful giver; All nature proves it true; Then. I am sure. that He must love “A grateful receiver; too ~—HAZEL Dn, New. Castle.

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GERMAN RECOVERY Ruhr Dispute Developing Into One of Hottest European Issues

__ WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—When an {rresistible force meets an tmmovable body; the resuit-is- - —a-collision. of disastrous magnitude. movable body in this instance is FrencH public opinion and the forcé that begins to seem irre- ~ sistible is the intention of U. S. policy-makers to hand back the great industrial complex of the Ruhr to German owners. ) The wrongness of this policy can be judged not merely from the French reaction but from <-the wide. protest that it has stirred here. As one result of that protest, Secretary of the Army . Kenneth C. Reyall has ordered an investigation to determine why the office of military government in Germany reversed specific orders ‘to de-cartelize the industry of the Ruhr. - This investigation should be useful in showing who actually makes.these vital policy decisions and why. No one seems to. want to take responsibility, and it is unfair to put the blame i on, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who is on the hot spot trying to-make western Germany ne ———

But whether de-cartelization ever can be made effective is a serious question. ‘Certainly, if the controls are handed back to the old owners, or their scarcely disguised deputies, the -- cartels will be re-established.

International Control ‘THERE IS considerable opinion in this country for putting the industry of the Ruhr under international control, western Europe having a dominant voice on an

raised against such a board, and it would seem to have validity, is that German workers would ..ork for foreigners, It is just here that the lack of imagination -——yes, the bankruptcy—of American policy is glaringly apparent... Control by.an international | board made up of delegates named by governments is not inevitably the alternative to turning the Ruhr back to German owners. One possibility now being put forward deserves serious consideration. the Ruhr industries under a trusteeship, not to* governments but to some international organ‘jzation such as the International Co-operative

of co-operatives in every country. These cooperatives—in Scandinavia, Great Britain, South Africa and many “I owner-operators of “large industry. The alls" ance, ‘which is a thoroughly democratic organi

trade of - the eo-operatives. The im-

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By Marquis Childs

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The spokesman for the Naive alliance in this country is Murray D. Lincoln, president of the Co- -operative League of the U. 8. A. Mr. Lincoln, who is also president of the co-operative organization, CARE, which has’ sent so many millions of food parcels to Europe, is urging the co-operative solution for the Ruhr, Repeatedly, the co-ops have demonstrated that they can employ the best technical brains | in complicated enterprises, such as the manufacture of electric light bulbs and the refining -| - of petroleum. The technical management in the Ruhr has continued to work for military gov-

German co-operatives would have representation in the international co-operative alliance and in this way they would have a voice in the top direction of the Ruhr. Russian co-operatives also are represented in the alliance but they have no veto power as they go in the United

Against Deep Instinets SUCH A trusteeship for a period of 25 or 30 years would be in accord with the political - temper of western Europe today. It would not give the Communists a propaganda weapon as present American policy has done. Gen. De Gaulle beable to make political capital

To turn the Ruhr back. to Germain ow nership without any real safeguards is to impose Amer-

ican policy against the deepest instincts of all Europe. We would be assuming responsibility for consequences that might lead directly to a

of Indianapolis streets every day and from this close-up viewpoint it is becoming more apparent every month that our thoroughfares are getting into terrible condition. Some of our streets are getting so full of chuck holes and bumps that my car is being shaken to pieces. It seems to me that with all the gasoline tax money coming in and other revenues available for city street repair we could get some of these pavements repaired, especially the worst spots that are actually dangerous to drive over,

a long time now because we knew the war caused a shortage in materials and manpower te deo the job. But -there-isn't much excuse from here on and motorists of - Indianapolis will expect to see some of these worst spots fixed up soon.

What Others soy

IF ECA (the “Marshall Plan”) succeeds, it “must have the co-operation of American work.ers and of European workers, If the workers lose faith in the program because they do not understand it, they have it within their power to undermine it.—Paul G. Hoffman, ECA administrator. -

> > @ IT IS difficult to “elieve that sustained high employment with rising living standards can evolve basically from the economic conse quences of a great and destructive war—Alfred

| SF @ . IF you're gonna ‘be a folk singer, you've got to know the folks.—Burl Ives, folk Mnger: . od 3 GIVEN proper care in his infancy and youth, a child born today can live 100 years.— Dr: Edward L. Bortz, American Medical Assos Nor would ciation. ¢ & CAPITALISM is thé goose that lays the golden eggs. My advice to ‘organized labor is: Grab all the eggs you can but don’t kill tke goose.—Max Eastman, author, editor and former Soclalist révolutionary. > > @ IN A DYNAMIC society such as we have in America, virtue does not inhere in stability, but

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STRATEGY IN- ASIA vr By Clyde Farnsworth. ‘Formosa Seen as Refuge for China

SHANGHAI, Dec. 6—Formosa probably will become the principal and final refuge of the Chinese Nationalist government ir it

~4--Withdraws. from Nanking,

~ Ornily thé off chance of “making: 4 : “strong “stand. or ‘delaying Kai-shek’s withdrawal to the large, rich and well-developed istand

would hope to direct a continuing struggle against a Communist or coalition regime. There are several reasons for the choice of Formosa but none more compelling than the dependence of United States Pacific strategy on the island chain facing the Asiatic mainland— even at a sacrifice of potential positions on the mainland itself.

“Gumble for U. S. Aid

GEOGRAPHICALLY, Formosa. is part of that istand chain and China’s continued control of it might be regarded as of vital concern to the United States.’ Withdrawal to Formosa, instead of into the Chinese interior, would be a fair gamble for more American aid. Withdrawal into

abandonment of the Nationalist government because of {nacces< sibility—as nearly proved to be the casé in the alliance against Japan. Chiang didn't have Formosa to fall back on when the Japanese forced his government to flee to Chungking. Formosa was a Japanese possession until victory over Japan when, by virtue of the Roosevelt-Churchill- Chiang: declaration at Cairo, the island returned to Chinese sovereignty. '

Awaits Allied Peace Treaty ALTHOUGH Chinese sovereignty there still awaits the seal of the allied peace treaty with .Japan and although some Formosans dislike the island's new status as a province of China there's not likely to be any adverse reaction to its seléction as a citadel of Chinese resistance to communism.

racially Chinese except for some 150,000 hill-dwelling aborigines, The island is agriculturally Mek, _criss-crossed with Bund roads and railways. At thik point nearest the

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than 200 miles from the Fukieli province coast. There is no doub

off the southeast coast of China. From there his government _ :

~the interior, as in the war with Japan, might result in virtual

The Formosans, who’ probably number about 7,000,000, re

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Side Glances By Galbraith

“The Communist sweep witl-alter-the direction and timing. of Chiang, | L. > .

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that Nationalist strategy calls for the preservation of as much :

coastal’ frontage as possible and an attempt ‘would be made to secure Fukien as a mainland bulwark for the island citadel. It may be a long war. Chinese don’t reckon time like Americans. In the blackest days of the struggle with Japan, Gegneralis-

. simo Byars said,” “We will win If it takes a Bundred years.”

Recently on good autheriey, I Have heard ‘that ne. sald, it again.

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. REPORTS of folks “swallowing safety ‘pins,’ aren't: the end..of it. themselves are pretty hard to digest.

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mas present. It's rapped as a gift.

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in adaptability to greatly accelerated social change.—Dr. Charles 8. Johnson, president, ge _ University. eR a 8

The tales | kind ot American character that President True man exemplified in the last election, American high schools would be making their nation Those in-bald- | ypjted Nations grew strong enough 16 do $0.— Dr. Robert C. Clothier, president, Rutgers UnlYersity. , $.

> “IT WILL always | from the types and kinds of training that will give them a decent chance for survival in battle, Many of ‘the crosses: standing in" Tunisia. today sare’ witnesses to this truth.—Gen. ower,

‘MAJORITY REPORT ...By Fred: W. Perkins

Last Taft-Hartley

Defense Prepared

WASHINGTON,

Dec. 6—Con Hartley gressional backers of the Taft

law will have one last chance to make a “majority ree

F-port™ on how good they think that statute is, _ make the most of it. rabid

“Tie Congressional Jolnf Commitice on Labor: - Relations, Taft-Hartley * ‘watchdog,” was EET final report ‘next Mar. 1, but if it waits that long the statements of the present committee majority will become that the minority—and probably anti-climactic because by Mar.

Congress is expected to be well along in consideratio » tute labor legislation. 1 E ny Sapet)

Collecting Data on 7 Points SO THE joint committee's staff is busy coll t - tended to prove these points, among others: Y: fo fog gata fe ONE: That since the law was enacted over the President's veto in June, 1947, union organization has not been hampered, that mémbership has increased. (The U.S. Bureau of. Labor Statistics estimates total union membership was 14,974,000 at the end of 1946; currently, 15,600,000.) ; TWO: That “government by injunction, " as feared by union leaders, has not developed in an alarming way. (Federal courts have granted six of the “emergency” type at the request , of Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark on instructions from President Truman; three of the type that is up to the discretion’ of the National Labor Relations Board Counsel, one against General Motors Corp., one against the International Typographical Union (AFL) and one against the’ United Mine Workers: about 15 against. union secondary boycotts, which are obligatory under the law. if a case is proved in court.)

No Flood of Damage Suits

THREE: That the forecast flood of damage suits by employers against unions has not developed. (Of the 30 such suits filed, several were by unions against "poye; and several by, unions against other unions.) “FOUR: That jurisdictional strikes (which. Mr, Truman ‘has called “indefensible”) are now notable by their absence. Jurisdictional disputes, according to the committee, are now be. ing settled among unions before the public becomes aware of them. FIVE: That “union security” has not suffered despite the

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