Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1949 — Page 20

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Marion County, ts "for dally or 8 vd by Carrie: daily and , 300 a weak, a | 350, Sundyy on. a nie Jn Wndisba.

$1.10 a month, iay, bo 8 copy.

—— " " n L(Y . Dangers of Censorship YENSORSHIP and, control of the distribution of comic books in Indiana as proposed in a bill recently introduced in the Legislature, might seem a good thing on the surface as a protection for the morals of children. ~ It has been argued that in some instances the “blood ‘and thunder” type of comics have had bad effects on impressionable youth. But where could the line be drawn officially by a board as to just what is “bad” or “good” for children to see and read? Probably no two persons could

If “objectionable” material is censored out of comic ‘books, what is to be done about the “blood and thunder” reading that can be found in many of the classics in any library and even in the public schools? ‘So, the net results of any censorship program for comic books likely would accomplish nothing of any real value to society, - -- : - z,

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one. law, would be endless, reaching out into any or all

important bulwarks supporting a free society in democracy. Thus, any proposal to enact a comic book censorship law should be considered with grave misgivings in relation to the dangers of such a precedent in future law-

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The Marshal Stalin Plan Tw IMITATION is the greatest compliment, then wé can discount Stalin's opposition to the Marshall Plan and bok ti latést copy of it. Or rather we should say his copy it, for of course he could not reproduce

80 we doubt that his latest effort to compete with or ~ Buropean Recovery Plan will be any more successful than

try at killing it. For one reason Russia herself is ; short of most of the machinery and industrial ets which Stalin now promises to supply to his desneedy satellite states. Moreover, any such recovry must -be' & two-way street of mutual benefits, Stalin's way—he always takes and never gives : his new plan for sharing with Eastern Europe propaganda value until he fails to pay off. of his already oned satellites may’ bargained for. 3

Russia but with industrialized world, as in the past. Neither the Marshall Plan nor a Stalin phony change that basic relationship for long.

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y er to Remember

Rev. Peter Marshall, chaplain of the United States and pastor of the Washington church where braham Lincoln used to worship, is dead. Born in Seotind 46 years ago, he had lived a busy, useful life. His prayers at the opening of Senate sessions were gems of wisdom and pungent eloquence. One day last year, when a controversial issue was before the Senate, Dr. Marshall prayed: “Give us the courage to be either hot or cold, to stand for something lest we fall for anything.” And on other occasions: “Save us from hot heads that would lead us to act foolishly, and from cold feet that would keep us from acting at all.” “Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith.” “Save us from : a little of what we know to be wrong in order to get a little of what we imagine to be right” “Show us what we can do to make this world a better place to live in, that the down payment made by 300,000 of our men may not have been made in vain.” “Help us to see that it is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to sueceed in a cause that will ultimately fail.” ‘The last words the Senate heard in Dr. Marshall's pleasant Scottish accents were spoken en Monday this " week, and that prayer deserves to be remembered through many sessions yet to meet: “May Thy will be done here, and may Thy program be carried out, beyond time and circumstance, for the good of America and the peace of the world. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Progress in the Philippines

HE United States takes just pride in the accomplishments of the young Philippine republic. Hence President Elpidio Quirino's speech at the opening session of reporting a balanced budget and the restoration of order in the rebel areas of central Luzon, will be read with satisfaction in this country. It is no small accomplishment to have balanced the books ‘80 soon after the war, in a country that suffered as severely as the Philippines did from invasion. President Quirino, who succeeded the late President ' Manuel A. Roxas last April, undoubtedly deserves great credit for the degree of recovery his country has achieved.

of President Truman before our recent

of a censorship bill |."

expression. ** Freedom of speech and the press is one of the most }.

for predominantly agricultural Eastern |.

Mr. Quirino’s present position is comparable in some

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1 TRIED A SMILE

ROSE LEAVES Rose leaves A : Our dear little daughter, so quiet and staid, Her strong little hand In a stronger has laid; We are trying to gmile, but 'tis hard you will When you've learned our darling is going away; Rose leaves today. ' ng y

Rose leaves that fell from the bridal bouquet Are strewn on our doorstep, and over the way, Rose leaves so gay. The bridegroom is waiting, the honeymoon shin-

ing; may It shine clearer and brighter all the rest of the way; : Rose leaves today, ’ ~JEAN AMBERSLEY SHATTAN, Indianapolis, ® 9% 0 :

WRENS' WRINKLES

What is comfort to some is to others shabbiness. Who, to be happy, would trade eyes? . .. Which is the more delightful—a cool drink beneath the palms or a warm toddy before the open fire? ... . Jennie Flick, who works in GigBikheimer’s department store, says she can find anything a customer wants when he doesn’t want it by looking where it wouldn't be if he did want it. . , . Doc Dooper says that old, re-

tired men shouldn't take up horseback riding

right when they have plenty of time to sit down; they never get by just by the skin of their teeth. «+, The milk of human kindness sours when not pasteurized with A

‘==LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis. * ¢ ¢

WOE IS ME

The sky is black, the clouds hang low, My saddened heart is full of woe, No sunshine in the world I see,

INDIANA'S CHILDREN

Fair to the hearts of Hoosier folk trails

whi’ thd bali of springtime lows,

For many miles upon her knolls, With gold and scarlet covered shedves Which bring the tourists out to see The Artist's masterpiece of leaves.

~—OPAL MeGUIRE, Dupont. rl

ODE TO A BLOTTER When my pen drips ink unwanted, On a spotless plece of paper, And I'm looking for a blotter To soak up the running caper; Somehow it's gone in hiding, Behind a book -or lamp, But it's there when I don't need it, Irritatingly undamp. wd. N. WILLIAMSON, Indianapolis.

REDS IN COURT . . . By Marquis Childs

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Free Speech Test Seen in Trial

° WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The trial of the little group of men who have directed the Communist Party in the United States is being watched throughout ‘he world. In a sense it's test of the American

of affected citizens on the one hand and willful idealists on the other hand could be drawn so far into the Communist net that they found themselves becoming traitors and spies almost without being aware of it. ; . « The pattern of training in Moscow for revolutionaries and saboteurs has been revealed.

| throw existing governments.

Right of Free Speech

WERE THE 12 American Communists carrying on in this pattern, and can the government prove it? That is the question the jury must decide. % The Communists are raising the issue of the right of free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has no taint whatsoever of communism, defends the right of Communists to argue their beliefs. With respect to the issue of free speech it seems to me important to make a distinction,

| Speech that is open and public, even including

public speech advocating revolution, is within the framework of traditional American freedom.

a, But speech that is secret and conspiratorial does not come under the protection of the Constitutional guarantee. : Atty. Gen. Tom Clark is confident that the government's case against the Communist bosses will not cut across the guarantees that are at the heart of American freedom. The indictments were returned only after the most thorough and exhaustive investigation into the

acts—as distinguished from the words—of the Communist Party in this country. The Department of Justice has more at stake than the outcome of the trial. Mr. Clark has asked Congress for a drastic tightening of the present statutes covering espionage.

Wire Tapping Question : ONE OF THE things Atty. Gen. Clark is

asking is that evidence obtained by wire tapping

be allowed to be introduced as evidence in the

+ federal courts. There is a great deal of con-

fusiori about the matter of wire tapping which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called a “dirty business.” * Wire tapping is net now forbidden by law. A great deal more of it goes on than the average citizen realizes. . While evidence obtained

the Clark to be carried on simultaneously.

Under the proposal outlined by the attorney.

general, wire tapping would be permitted only when in the interpretation of the ent of Justice the national security was involved.

Evidence-obtained under such a ruling from the |

attorney general could be introduced in: the federal courts. Under any other circumstances wire tapping by governmental or private agencies would be unlawful. Thus, if Mr. Clark’s proposal is enacted into law, the present wholesale snooping by the wire-tap method would be ended.

Backfire of Public Opinion

PRESUMABLY, in only a very few instances would an attorney general approve this technique, since he would be directly responsible in the event of a backfire with public opinion rising up in protest at an abuse of what most Americans, at any rate, consider highly unpleasant business. This will be one of the toughest decisions for Congress to take. A decision should be reached only after extensive hearings have reviewed the whole question of the right of free speech in connection with the threat of -the Communist conspiracy.

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Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub.

used will be edited but content will be pre-

served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

By LD, Uity After reading about the condition of our

country and about politics in general, I am wondering if our law-makers realize that there -

are cities and city people in the country. Every article. contains these words, or simflar ones;

“Ever mindful of the farmer and his support,

something will be done about parity prices” How long will this gift to the farmers go on?

It was py impression that “government” meant service "to all the people, not just certain favored

However, 1 am reminded of a discussion in which I took part several years ago when the

. war was ending and labor, perhaps I‘should

spell it with a capital “L.,” was “too big for its britches.” I mentioned that after

80 long. the American people would become fed '

the ones labor and the farm groups squeeze, will be remembered. Maybe they will remembes that we vote, too, se

‘Can Afford to Pay Tax’

By Ernest Counceller Jr., New Castle, Ind.

doubling gross income tax for a period of two

years. . I believe a citizen in this income bracket can afford to pay the extra tax, : I served four years in the service, two doe mestic and two foreign. I make around $2400 a year. And I'll wager the biggest majority of men who served during the war don't get $3000 a year in civilian life. And also in reply to “East Ananias Pays a Bonus,” I have some honest, hardworking friends that were at home in the factories during the war who will stand up and say that it was disgraceful the way the companies kept two and three men on one-man jobs. I do know personally that after the war management sure started cutting down on the number of men on a job and raising production when the payrolls started coming from them instead of Uncle Sam.

What Others Say—

I IMAGINE that in the Soviet Union there are some.people sympathetic with a more con- ] the we have so

far encountered. But it is difficult to say who

they are. . . . After all, my relations with the Politburo have been somewhat Nmited. —Gems Walter Bedell Smith, American ambassador to Russia. : * ¢ . »

THE center is the balance wheel of demoeracy. There is and always will be danger from the left and from the right, One side may advance and then the other. But neither must win. The center must always win if democracy is to endure.—Harold CO. Havighurst, dean of the Northwestern University Law School. * ¢ @ IF I had been caught (in 1941) with my planes on the ground (in China) as were the Air Corps commanders in the Philippines and Hawaii, I could never again have looked my fellow officers squarely in the eye.—Gen. Claire Chennault, in his nomi, “Way of a Fighter.” FROM the day he (the late Count Folke Bernadotte) arrived in Palestine he was a cone troversial figure, but even the weather is controe versial in Palestine.—Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations mediator for Palestine, praising the “honesty, devotion and fearlessness” of the assassinated Count Bernadotte.

M-DAY PROGRAM .. . . By Jim G. Lucas

Defense Plan Ready

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The emergency powers act of 1049 ~getting up the machinery to mobilize the nation’s economy for

war-—is ready for Congress.

It has been drafted by the National Security Resources Board and will be offered as stand-by legislation. The powers it gives the President can be used only if one of two things happens:

ONE: Congress gives the go signal.

TWO: The country is thrust into war before Congress can act. In that case, existence of a “state of war” is enough. A surprise attack on Washington, for example, might prevent

Congress from

Officially, the proposed legislation has not been sent to the White House. But it was explained at a special meeting there when Arthur Hill, first chairman, resigned several weeks ago. Presidential Adviser John R. Steelman is Mr, Hill's successor. Both he and Mr. Truman are familiar with the program and

dppPove it.

It will be one of the bulkiest measures ever to go to Congress, It covers 20 titles and sets up what is described as a “com-

pletely controlled economy.”

Powers for President

IT WOULD let the President:

Create new government corporations and define their powers; § build defense plants; set up priorities and allocations; by-pass ; anti-trust laws; requisition. anything the war effort requires; establish export-import controls; establish censorship; stabilize prices and wages; order employment controls; renegotiate con-

tracts,

Many of its powers were established by Congress during the war, Others—for example, employment control—were established by executive order. From 1039 until 1945, 137 war agencies were

“Now,” Mr. Hickey says, “wé know in advance what temporary agencies are to be created and how they will operate. Key men are being contacted throughout the country and kept

advised.”

If war comes, the National Security Resources Board would take over, Under it, there would be four key agencies—the OfMce of War Production; Office of War Transportation; of War Manpower, and Office of Economic Stabilization,

| SIDE GLANCES

COR, 1000.0 NEA SERVIOL. WC. 7. M. R00. UB. Mav. aoe “I'm scared, too, but don't call Dad! He'll be sore because we switched from the nursery tales to this murder program!”

By Galbraith

our system.”

practices.

country busy for two weeks.

“Phantom” orders are

dustry moving. horsepower motors and ball

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and aluminum are being prepared, Mr. Hickey says he wants to simplify paper work. In World War II, he said, printing forms took 10 carloads of paper and kept every job printer in the

The board is preparing mobilization plans by industries. Two hundred committees are at work. , =i

being placed, Contracts for 100,000 machine tools, worth $750 million, have been s a4 government agency such as the RFC will merely send out which will be a. legal “letter of intent” and start in-

Plans are being worked out

in World War IL The munitions board is dra a list of

igned. On M-Day,

place orders for fractional

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Sentiment for Repeal

HATCH ACT . . . By Fred W. Perkins New Vote Reforms?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—8en, Guy M. Gillette (D. Jowa) has accepted a “bequest” from former Sen. Carl Hatch (D. N. M.), who has just become a federal district judge in his state. The legacy is an assignment close to the heart of the tall, silver-haired Iowan-—the job of protecting, maintaining and strengthening the Hatch Act intended to purify politics in national elections. . \ ’ “I'm glad to tackle it,” Sen. Gillette said. “We are all cone cerned about threats to democracy from outside our country, But the integrity of the ballot box is the cornerstone of the democratic system, and anything that impairs the full and fair expression of our people at the polls is a far greater threat te

"By many of his colleagues Sen. Gillette is regarded as the logical man to take up the cause relinquished by Judge Hatch, He headed the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee which scrutinized the 1940 elections, and he sponsored legislation aimed at correcting abuses blamed on both parties.

Bill for New Reforms

BEN. GILLETTE'S first step, he said, would be to introduce his proposals of 1941. They. were not acted on favorably, he believes, because all action was directed toward winning the war, The Gillette proposals relate principally to: ONE: Multiplication of political committees that make a mockery of the Hatch Act limitation of $3 million on expendi« tures by a national political organization; and on a $5000 Jimit to sgntsittions by individuals, : Extension of federal authority to cover el tions, in whiclr the committee report showed Yr eimary op grant than in general elections. THREE: Prohibitions of scurrilous campaign material, politi« cal coercion of employes by corporations, abuses of congressional franking privilege, distribution of federal relief benefits by fed eral or local agencies

for political gain and other

they are shackled further political activity, the work so well by N repeal or neglect.

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