Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1949 — Page 10

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; Marshall to Acheson

“HE President in announcing the retirement of Secretary “of State Marshall called him “the outstanding man | of the World War II period,” President Roosevelt, Wins- _ ton Churchill, Henry Stimson, Cordell Hull ‘and Gen. Hisenhower rated him tops. And Congress and the public, . regardles of party, gave him virtually unlimited éonfidence. "All of which he earned as the key military man of the war. “= ‘We think he served with distinction as Secretary of | State also. We say this despite our belief that a civilian A “ghould hold that office, and despite our opposition to his weak China policy. His net achievement has been high, against terrible odds. ~~ ida |. Though he was not alone for a firm policy toward Russia, perhaps no other man could have convinced so quickly a war-weary and economy-minded White House, “Congress and public of the need for stronger diplomacy * backed by ‘expensive foreign economic aid and military vearmament. The fight is far from won. :But to the extent that the Truman doctrine and Marshall Plan have stopped Soviet expansion in Europe and the Mid-East, more credit is due Gen. Marshall than any other leader. ...

pas ». a.» DEAN Acheson as Secretary of State will have special qualifications. As an international lawyer by profession, as Assistant Secretary during the war, and as Under Sec- | petary and often acting Secretary” until a year and a half ‘ago, he brings unusual. experience to the job. He worked with Secretaries Byrnes and Marshall in hammering out © our present foreign policy. That he is a man of courage © was demonstrated when, as Under Secretary of the Treas- _ ury, he was the first ranking New Dealer to split with President Roosevelt on. a policy issue. But Mr. Acheson's effectiveness at the State Department will be determined largely by his influence on the President. He has the advantage of being liked and re- _ gpected by Mr. Truman. But he lacks the tremendous ~~ public following of a Marshall or a Hull, or the party strength of a Hull or a Byrnes, which helps a Secretary "of State to counteract selfish pressure applied to the White House by interested groups. : Bo remy » . THIS is particularly pertinent in the case of a Presi: dent as casual about the conduct of foreign relations as Mr. Truman, whose slips often defeat his good intentions. If the President wants to make. high policy pronouncements Off the cuff, he should have ished an amateur instead ‘an Acheson as Secretary of State. If he thinks a Vines ____gan'Handle Stalin ‘better than an Acheson can, he should have shifted the Chief Justice to the State Department. °. - In short, the President having chosen a new Secretary of State should let him be that.

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. Billions for Defense, but . . . ? THIS country doubtless needs an “earth satellife ‘vehicle ~~ * program.” Fantastic as it sounds, the idea of send- _ ing up a small man-made moon, equipped with scientific instruments, to circle our globe endlessly seems more than theoretically possible. And it migh* serve military purposes of crucial importance. - es If the thing is going to be done some time, by some country, America had better do it first. Our existence could depend on that. “But this country does not need, and can not afford, three earth satellite vehicle programs, each operating independently of and in competition with the others. We welcome ‘the indication, in Defense Secretary Forrestal's , annual report, that the three such programs now being carried out separately by the Army, the Navy and the =. Air Force are to be “integrated” and freed from duplications or triplications.

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’ . » YOU may wonder how three independent programs ~“for-dotig ‘the same sort of research and development job esocould have gotten started in our national defense estab- = lishment. It was possible, we think, hecause the three great military services, which by law. are supposed to be unified, are in fact not unified. , : : The ancient jealous rivalries among these services go on almost as fiercely as ever, despite the order of Congress that all three must work together as one team for one common cause, the national security. And the matter of the three independent earth satellite vehicle programs is only one example, and still a comparatively small and inexpensive example, of the way ~ these rivalries waste money, manpower and resources. The Forrestal report points out that each of the three ‘services—Army, Navy, Air Force—now involves more money, employs miore people and buys more materials "than any other government agency or any private business “In the United States.

+ ——THIS-is-necessarily-s0.—The-state of - the world, the threat of Soviet aggression, compel us to keep and butid ~~ gtrong defenses. We must do’ that if we hope to prevent another war or to win another waz. if it is forced upon us. But we must not invite disaster by squandering our ~~ The main theme of Secretary Forrestal's report is a . , plea for authority to enforce genuine unification of the ‘armed services. We believe it should be granted. We . believe the heads of the services must be sternly required | to practice co-operation and stop their’ competition for _The American people are willing to spend billions for

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Emotion like a lover's tune; No matter if the words rhyme well, - A song blends with a lover's moon. The sorrow for a love that's lost The printed.word may well portray, But many silent tears are tossed To hear “My Darling Nellie Gray.” -

Our childhood homes are scattered wide, It's of no import whence we roam, There's still a longing can't hide To see “My Old Kentucky Home.” No eulogy can word the praise Of an old friend out life's last door, But an old hymn of better days Recalls to us what he loved more.

Oratory with flowing words. May laud our country as we doze, Then “Stars and Stripes Forever” heard Will make us tingle to our toes, . The reason we prize music best: We learned to love it, you and I, When in our mother's arms for rest, ° 8he hummed to us a lullaby, ~-LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis. .* :

‘CHARLES LINDBERG

‘Ihe Spirit of 8t, Louls beckoned Lindberg And whispered, “Son, the sky is shining bright, 3 . Let's go, and all the good in this vast universe Will guide our airship through the darkest

night.” “I'm ready,” said this hardy, brave young Norseman. ! “Flying through space, for us,” hath many charms. Ee Why should we fear since God is 'round about us,

And underneath the Everlasting Arms!” : -JEAN A BHATIAN, Indianapolis. “ *

FAITH VIOLATE

Tread softly here beside this doleful pyre A precious faith in friendship has been slain; A faith which old acquaintance thought secure But until now untried, unproved for pain,

What poignant grief awaits the trusting heart When forced to own a friend's perfidious deed;

_.The beauty of affection turns to dust

Which buries deep what once was God-like

creed, ~JUNE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis. a9 4% CUMBERED _-

So many things to do! I have no time to go apart And search the corners of my heart For little thoughts of you. ...

80 crowded are the days! I cannot rest beneath the trees And live again in memories, Or wander quiet ways,

Small duties press me so! There is not any time to weep And so 1 bake and sew and sweep, And wonder if you know.” MABEL Newaan. Oakland City.

YEAH . .. WHY? Why do we tell about our dogs Just why do we take the time? For you can see only your dog And . , , I can see only mine! MINNIE BOURGOYNE-RODEFER. i ¥ * 9° : CRYSTAL BALL Americans need have no fear i In 1949 Of any foods becoming scarce, By chance or by design. According to the latest news From Washington, D, C. There'll be more food available For. home and 'cross the sea. Dread malnutrition will decline, If each receives his share Of all the natural vitamins Our storehouse has to spare; Bananas, meats and frozen food Plus citrus fruits galore, - Canned fish and dairy products, too— Enough—and then some more, Bt there's one little item that: scaped this brigh* forecast How large will be the “lettuce” crop To pay for this repast? JOHN M. MONTANI, Indianapolis. * ¢ ¢ : »

JUST A ROSE

Just a rose—a red flower— ” But it came at an hour : When my spirits were low, And {it lifted my eyes To clear skies, What a magic you throw, _ Little rose, little rose.

E ANNA HOSEA, Indianapolis.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—-Near the end of President Truman's message to the new Congress he sald, “Every segment of our population has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.” If the program which the President outlined was his conception of a fair deal for every citizen, that might be a good name for the Demo-

It certainly wasn’t the old New Deal. It went way beyond anything Franklin D. Roosevelt éver. thought of. Also, there were only. a couple of points in the message that the President hadn't promised previously, during his campaign. So it wasn’t “new.” : The President broke away from his text at one point to mention that he had previously asked Congress to approve the St. Lawrence Seaway project five times. There were a lot of other things in that message the President has asked Congress for five times or more. The convenient thing about the message is that here they are all wrapped up in one package, with a check list. It's enough to keep the 81st Congress busy for its full two years. : “ Plenty of Criticism Ahead THERE will be plenty of: politicians and others who will claim that the Truman program doesn’t offer them a very fair deal, or that it is just a fair deal—not a good deal. The President's tax program, to raise another $4 billion a year, will be criticized as “soaking the rich” and “persecuting business” -—phrases

The President made no mention of raising taxes

vetoes. He listed so many separate items—some 60 in all—that he didn't have time to go into details on all the issues he mentioned. * Consequently, there will be plenty of reading between

Barbs—

-A NEW suit sometimes makes a man a credit to his tailor—and sometimes a debit, wo a =n “SINGING is said to hasten convalescence— that is, if you're the one who is sick. # ® » ” - EVERYBODY learns something every day— and a lot forget it (he next. Fal LEARN ‘all the ropes of your business and there is less chance of your being tied down, » » wn - A CHIROPODIST says more men than women suffer from flat feet. Well, women always have been known to take better care -of their Jogs. ~~ J ~ » . A COUPE has no back-seat driver and often

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crats to try to give it—"Truman's Fair Deal.”

on lower income brackets to offset the tax cuts: made by- the last Congress, over Mr. Truman's

White House Program ....By Peter Edson

Truman Tops FDR’s New Deal

“which may have a familiar ring to some ears.

private enterprise.

the lines of his message, trying to interpret what he may have had in the back of his mind that he didn’t put on paper. For instance, the President's new eight-point anti-inflation program picks up seven of the 10 points he advocated in his message of a year ago. The three points dropped are: Authorization to induce the marketing of. livestock at weights which represent most efficient utilization of grain. Authorization to increase the production of foods in foreign countries. Authorization to put in consumer rationing on products in scarce supply.

Study of Production THE other seven requests—for authority to fix prices, allocate scarce materials, control rents, regulate credit and so on—are all back in again. The eighth point, which the President tacked on, is one that will probably cause more discussion that anything in the whole message. It calls for an immediate study of production facilities for materials in short supply. Then it asks authorization to make government loans to expand production, or for government construction of such facilities if action by private industry falls to meet the need, — ‘This will probably be interpreted in some quarters as a direct threat that the President wants to nationalize, say the steel, housing or electric power industries. That is perhaps an extreme interpretation, for Mr. Truman says elsewhere that “the greater part of the task must be performed by individual efforts under our system of free enterprise.” But if does throw a direct challenge to IH it doesn’t produce, the government will, says Mr. Truman in effect. There will be plenty of criticism that the goals set by the President are too high. In housing, he wants a million more low-cost rental units than the 191,000 now authorized. Last year's Taft-Ellender-Wagher bill called for only 500,000. Mr. Truman doubled it. While the message seems to bé plain spoken on everything conceivable, a lot of issues weren't mentioned by name. When the President said domestic markets for.farm products should be expanded, he may have meant something like revival of the food stamp plan.

Civil Rights Program THE PRESIDENT said he was still for the civil rights program he advocated last year, without naming the separate controversial points. Usually only four are remembered-— anti-poll tax law, anti-lynch law, abolition of Jim Crow laws and a permanent FEPC. Actu“ally, there ‘are half ‘a dozen more: Home rule for the District of Columbia, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, citizenship for Guam and Samoa, more self-rule for Puerto Rico ‘and the Virgin Islands, admission of Orientals to U. 8, citizenship, settlement of ‘war claims by Japa-

. ‘with little children. :

nese-Americans, and creation of civil rights offices in government. ‘

“1 do bh will defend to the death ject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pre= served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. ‘Some Teachers Unfit’ By a School Patron — While on the subject of teachers’ pay and how they are underpaid, etc, give a little Discuss

‘thought to those who are overpaid, ] those who are unfit to teach or even associate

The group who form so largé a part in the lives of our children should he only the best, Any person emotionally unstable should be barred, even if willing to work for nothing.

. At a South Side schoal last week, a lower

‘ grade girl very happily and proudly brought

to school her tmas doll, a common practice in many schools for a day or so after Christmas, An enraged teacher snatched it from her hands and crashed it against the blackboard and shattered the doll's ead. Then before the room of frightened children, she scolded .the heart-broken. and sobbing little girl. Imagine the psychological effect this scene will have upon these children. Too, it is not the first sign that this “teacher” has displayed of her utter 'nfitness to associate with: children, She should and probably shall be forever banned from our. public schon A

"| Hits Wait-and-See Policy

By B. 'T. Mao 3 ; As a Chinese student, I was pleased to see your editorial “While China Totters,” which wisely pointed out the foolishness of the waite and-see policy of Washington. Hypnotized by the Chinese Communists’ propaganda which is widely spread In this country through Red or pink groups, many people are thinking wishfully that, by stopping the China aid, they can win the favor of the Chinese Communists. They are entirely ignore ant of the fact that.the Chinese Communists have been using, and will always use, “Down with the American Imperialism” as one of their slogans. Aid or no aid, the United States is an imperialist all the same in the éye of the Chinese Reds. = Moreover, everyone knows that the Chinese political system is matterning itself after the

_ American system and the Communists after the

Russian. Nothing is more self-destructing than Yeaving your fellow democratic ‘country alone in its days of hardship. Nothing more encour to Moscow and Communism. — With all my heart I wish: Washington would pay more attention to pur voice. ® © o

‘Auto Horns Misused’ : By a Reader — _ The misuse fo the auto horn in this city is becoming increasingly unbearable, The selfish, frresponsible driver is allowed to go merrily on his way, callously destroying the peace and quiet of people, without fear ot restraint or punishment by law enforcement agencise. This menace to the health and well-being of the com= munity is serious. Why people put up with is can be referred to only as a perfect example fo patient longsuffering, or inertia.

Let the city’s anti-noise ordinance be en-

forced. If such law is not comprehensive enough, let is be amended, 0 that these offenders may be promptly ma prapenty dealt with.

= 3 ’ By C.D. C. : It is my opinion that the boys who fought the war deserve a bonus, and the money should be zaised in ysuoh & way. that the ones who stayed at home will have to pay most of it. A sales tax or an increase in the gross income tax does not meet these requirements.

.._._ In my opinion, a lot of money could be

saved by thoroughly overhauling and combin=" ing the welfare agencies. I don’t claim that all people getting ald are not deserving It, but a lot of them are getting it that don't need it,

What Others Say—

WORLD attention is now directed towards the fight of the Chinese democratic army which has scored nt victories despite the help given Nanking by the United States . . . The world scales are now tipping in favor of Premier

the forces of democracy.—Communist

Georgi Dimitrov of Bulgaria. ® % 9°

THE youth of this country should really know what a great thing our government and the Senate are, especially in these times of subversive movements. I wish they could see and know what I have.—~Carl A. Loeftler, re tiring as secretary of the Senate after 59 years. , ns aoa 3 i - WHEN the atomic war is over, and the final dust has settled, and the immense hush of a wilderness falls across vast areas of the earth, the future will neither care nor long remémber who was responsible.—~Raymond B, Fosdick, retired president, Rockefeller Founda

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TRENDS OF LABOR...By Marquis Childs

Power of Unions Hit

_ WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—No decision of the Supreme Court

Side Glances

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PRODUCTION NEEDS ...By Tony Smith ~~

Challenge for Steel

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for many years has stirred so much discussion and controversy as that upholding laws adopted in Arizona, Nebraska and North Carolina outlawing the closed shop. Coming from a court labeled New Deal by bitter critics of the Roosevelt administration, the decision caused tremendous surprise.

In a sober, careful opinion, Justice Hugo L. Black found that state legislatures were entirely within their powers in passing laws specifying that an individual need not belong to a trade union in order to take a job. The only dissent came from Justice Frank Murphy and that in the instance of the Arizona law,

Every union executive and organizer should read Justice Black's opinion and, equally important, the concurring opinion of Justice Felix Frankfurter, been slurred more than anyone on the court by a smear bund, has given a penétrating analysis of the rights of the individual in relation to the power of mass organization. It throws a re. vealing light on the struggles of ‘a society that seems to be move Ing toward greater and greater centralized authority.

Question of Power

ABOVE ALL for ‘the leaders of the mass unions with their 16,000,000 members, the Frankfurter opinion should cause soul searching. For the opinion raises the question whether, with the great power that they now wield in American life, the unions should rely upoa the “power io compel rather than to persuade the allegiance of its reluctant members.” .

ei Blain truth Js that unions in this country, or many of | them, have pu much relldnce on the force of law to

build and hold their membership, Historically, you can see why

sistance of the loyers to any unions at all, But it is nevertheless the big weakness of American trade unionism, The prime. example is John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers, which operates through the closed shop, the check-off and total domination from the top. . Trade union managers now have political power that 20 years ago no one in this country remotely dreamed of. President Truman has asked the Democratic Congress to repeal the TaftHartley Act and that probably will be done.

Power Can Be Revoked

PRECISELY here at this peak of power the union managers

r. Power held by law can be revoked by law, ustice Frankfurter points out that the two

Lol An _countries where industrial democracy is most advanced, Great

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_. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10--Uncle Sam has had some experi ence along the line suggested by President Truman-for expanding In fact, the government still is cleaning up the details of its wartime venture into the steel business. Just a few years ago the U. 8. owned 6 per cent of the nation’s total steel ingot-makirig facilities. But it did not operate the plants, It hired private industry to do that. Now the War Assets Administration is turning over to private industry—through sales and leases—some 285 rp and steel plants and other facilities, They were built during war when the Allies were desperate for steel. The cost was roughly $1.5 billion.

More Production Needed i

TOTAL wartime construction of steel-making equipment by both private industry and the government increased the country’s steel-ingot capacity by 15 million tons. Administration officials now contend that another 10 million tons capacity is required to meet domestic demand. President Truman threatened that the government would get directly into the steel business if private industry failed to step up production. Uncle S8am’s experience in the steel business shows: The total cost of increasing America's steel-making ty from 81.6 million net tons of ingot in 1940 to 95.5 tons in 1045 was nearly $3 billion. The government footéd about 50 per cent of the cost, private industry the rest. ; But, since that time construction costs on new steel-producin plants have skyrocketed. . ‘ War Assets’ disposal job has been carried on steadily since the end of war without sacrificing production, officials said. So far about 120 disposals have been made to private interests, about a fourth of them by leases.

One-Third Original Cost . SALES PRICES have béen running about one-third of the original cost for the steel plants and facilities, . : The most recent transaction was sale of a government-owned blast furnace and by-product coke oven at Houston, Tex. and several other facilities at Linden and Jacksonville, Tex., to the Sheflield Steel Corp. The total sales price was $7,150,000. The original cost to the government was about $18 milton. Not all of the government-owned facilities for producing steel are disposable as independent operating the 285 facilities are so classified.

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