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ol e of the five permanent seats on the nk bylds ois Security Council, The other permanent members are Britain, France, Russia and the United States. Dr. T, F. Tsiang, China's chief delegate, has just assumed the chairmanship of the council, under the policy . of alphabetical rotation. He was ‘educated in this country and is a friend of democracy. Recently, in remarking that the United States had become “the teatest Jower the world has ever seen,” he said: - “This is the most importan world situation today.” ek Torts is to be supplanted by a Chinese "Communist, subservient to Moscow, may depend on United
over China's place on the Security Council to ‘the Combe munists. lo
".. ” » . JAPAN has come to be regarded as a bastion against communism in Asia. Are we going to be a party to trans~ferring Japan's arsenals and war-supporting industries to Communist China? =~ It is time that a declaration of policy come from the House on these issues. White President's last official statement on this subject, on Dec. 18, 1946, supported a compromise with communism and the formation of a new government in which the Com- * munists would be represented. Is that the official American. tion today? No one seems to know. _ | oe taightan; Stuart, our ambassador to Chie. -& naive; pottering ‘old gentleman, has given consistent service to the Communist-coalition idea. But wholly apart Ee it competent 1. present 3 rest power in one of the world’s trouble spots.
This elderly missionary’s complete lack of training in
ed ant vee wine “lv ou aude tower that government? j These questions must be answered, end soon. ~--The-State- Department encourages the view that we have written off China as a total loss. But it isn’t that simple. ‘Asia has half the world's population, and China is the key to Asia. That can't be written off, by blacking out an important part of the world jou somebody’s inap,
1 fo to do in Europe? i A 4 Stop Backward —
overnment agency for helping labbr and re to work together instead of fighting each other Li doing a fine job.in the public interest. ’ En eri 0. tha Tac tal “ Cyrus Ching, Ra patient, wise, understanding -and fair-
and manigement; But perhaps an even larger part is due - to the fact that the mediation service is an independent
agency.
"this agency of independent status and make it an adjunct of the Department of Labor. Mr. Ching told a Senay committee why he believes the proposed change serious mistake. "Effective mediators, he said, must be above any sus-
unions or to employers. It is not enough for them to consider themselves impartial. They must have a “known, rec- _.. ognized ANd asknoyiedged reputation for impartiality.
Ang THE Department of Labor, as Mr. Ching pointed out, is mot, and by the very nature of its duties, cannot be impartial. It represents the interests of labor. Its head, Secretary Tobin, is frankly and vigorously partisan to unions. He enforces certain laws against ¢rgployers, and advocates legislation which many employers oppose. Mediators appointed by and responsible to him could not be above susVy: picion of partiality. ; E. All that seems 50 obvious that it is difficult to ander stand why Secretary Tobin is so eager to have the media- ‘ tion service under him. For that move would not help the interests of labor, and it would do harm to the public interest. In Mr, Ching's words: “It would seriously damage the effectiveness of gov-
terribly important job of strengthening our industrial de_mocracy by promoting sound practices and usages .of collective bargaining and minimizing and Preventing labor
disputes.”
Anxiety ir
AN interesting poll—in case you're still a believer—has been taken among 5000 residents of New York City. They were questioned about their fears, and they gave the biggest vote to inflation, Communism came next, with 44.1 - per cent, but the Russians only scared 1.6 per cent. War - got a 10.6 fright rating, but so did politics and politicians, 4AR3 the Atoms bomb distuched the minds of only 18 per
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paw. Mr. Riley once If communism Isn't of any conoern to us, what are we.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation. Bervics — =the
Fw the Times!
Barton Rees. Pogue i BALLAD OF JOHNNY APPLESEED
The western sun on an apple tree : Set a heart and a:soul aflame, And Jonathan Chappel dreamed -a dream And into the west he came,
~The forest black and the river deep,
Were never barriers to him ¥£ he couldn't walk, he'd crawl he trails, = If he couldn't wade, he'd swim
And he led his rack-boned, sway-backed mare, With her legs as thin as reeds; On her back she carried the leather sacks Bulging with apple seeds.
Where God had held the wilderness dk And there a clearing had made, = This planter of apple seeds would pause ° And plant, with a stick for’ a- spade,
By rivers and streams and in Valleys. wid, He planted the apple seed. 4 And he prayed to God for a peopled land, And the apples that men would need.
The trail ran out for Johnny one aay, In the west where he loved to be And folks came far to lay him Away In the shade of an apple tree. :
The trée has lived through the changing years, © Its fruit ever round and .tart; 3 And folks declare it's because the Toots,
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Bome of Johnny Appleseed’'s apple seeds were planted in Indiana, so it seems quite the thing to do just now to stick our thumbs in the aifm+holes of our vests, throw out our chests in real pride as Mrs. Shartle elates about .
INDIANA APPLES
We hear of prunes in Oregon, And Georgia's famous peach, Of California’s dates and figs That grow along her beach;
In Florida they raise the orange,
The lemon and
banana, . But most folks like the apple best
That grows in Indiana.
We've apples yellow, red, and brown, We have them almost black;
For color and variety
There isn't any lack.
We have them sour, we have them sweet;
We have them in between; And there's one joker in the lot That's ripe when it is green.
We eat them raw and eat them cooked; “We make them This ples p! We store them in the cellarbim =~
For. winter, if we're
‘We make them into Jelly, the
Best you've ever seen, And let the kids have lots of them For fun on Hallowe'en,
We grind them into cider, and We cook them into sauce; To utilize an apple, one Is never at a loss; We see them at our county fairs, on little sticks, With candy coating making sweet
~The many bites and lcks: . \ . We make them into dumplings,
And use them just to stew; We bake them and we fry them, And make apple butter, too; Oh, myriad are the uses for Our goodly apple crop, But I can’t think of any more, ‘80 now I'd better stop. :
=-MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville. CS AE a
There is another Indiana fruit some one
should write about. No human plants the seeds
of this fruit. It is propogated by the forces of
nature. I speak of the delicacy that out-of-state people call The Indiana Banana . . , the paw his readers with a fine description of this fruit. He called them “pop-paws.” Look for his word pjcture in the
~ twelfth stanza of “Up and Down Old Brandy-
wine” in his book, Songs of Summer. The press and radio cdn use no more than two lines from the Riley pdems, so I can’t quote the description
-for.you ...- that would require four lines.
~It seems a shame-that such restrictions have been placed on the use of the Riley poems. His memory certainly would be greener if he could be quoted more often. -B. R. P.
POLITICAL CONTROLS ...ByE.T. Leech Danger to Business
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—There!s a saying that “a good
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a IN ASIA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth
U.S. Plans Test of Chinese Reds
SHANGHAI Feb. 3 — The United States State Department will put international com-
munism on probation in China—not to see if © it is communistic but to see how international
it is. That is why U. 8." Ambassador J. Leighton
4 Stuart remains in Nanking and Minister laws
staff and prestige, however, will remain in
"Nanking, a city now almost within grasp of Communist columns,
It was a happy coincidence for American diplomacy that accomodations in Canton were so skimpy that the Chinese Nationalist govern-ment-—or what's left of it—would not think of asking why our ranking diplomat, the elderly, scholarly Dr. Stuart, chose to remain in Nanking and send Mr. Clark to Canton.
Question of Soviet Control
“THERE is no question that Chinese Communists are Communists,” said one official of an American mission which once popularized the phrase “agrarian reformers” for China's Reds. “They're Marxists, But there is a reasonable question still to be answered, how tightly do they fit into the pattern of international communism as we know it in Eastern Europe. In other words, are these people going to become a satellite of the Soviet Union or will they
retain_thelr own national identity and inde-
You get the idea in Nanking that the United
States officially will try to be as forgiving-and.
easy-going as it can in relations with the Comthey establish control over Central China, which is likely ‘to be soon. “We must adopt a policy toward this new regime that is based on facts and not on talk,” said one official. “We must forget words and wait for deeds. We must remember that at the beginning we will be ‘dealing with people’ who have just won a great victory. “We must’ not be disturbed by their talk (about American imperialism and other. propaganda). We must walt
the Principal part of his staff in Nanking to -
SIDE GLANCES
await the Communists, amounts in effect to the first de facto recognition of the prospective regime. That's better, official reasoning goes, than to have the embassy “come crawling back” after ‘the Reds and their coalition have established a regime. ’
De Facto” Regime.
THIS phrase “de facto” is Latin and ogals
istic. It means “actually” or “in fact” as 'distinguished from “de jure” which means “by law” or “legally.” One of the realities of international relations is that de facto regimes usually become de jure if they last long enough. Depending upon the swiftness of the Communist victory in- China and the effectiveness
of the Nationalists’ last-ditch resistance, you °
may for some time see a de facto regime under
. a Communist coalition and at the same time a
de jure regime under either acting President Li Tsung-jen or President Chiang Kai-shek. Despite the collapse of the Nationalists’ military power and morale along the lower Yangtze and the split in the Kuomintang, the Nationalist government political party, between the diehards "and the ‘peace-makers, there is likely to be at least nominal resistance to the Reds in South China or Formosa for a long time. The greatest shortcoming of acting Presi-
+ dent Li in his futile negotiations for peace with
the Communists has been that he has little but himself, a féw followers and perhaps some troops to surrender to the Reds poised on the north bank of the Yangtze,
Little to Offer PRESIDENT LI cannot even offer the Reds a geographical position in Nanking and Shanghai as a bargaining point since they.can have that virtually by reaching out their hands. The impossibility of Li Tsunhg-jen’s position as the present nominal head of the Nationalist
government is illustrated by the Communists’
latest demand upon him for delivery of President Chiang and other “war criminals,” failing
which Lt himsell was threatened with punish- ".. ment as a “conniver.”
The- Reds might as well have asked LI to reverse the flow of the Yangtze River,
By Galbraith |
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Recs tiers 200 words or less wang sabi. Jct wien which you are familiar, Some letters "used will be edited but content will be prewerved for bate he People Spuak i Boonton
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Views on School Aid By Rep. Andrew Jacobs My attentioh has been called to'an artis’ appearing on the front page of The Indianapolis —Pimes of Jan. 28. ©. This" artelle conveys She. tuupression that T° - expressed animosity agains . schools, # This impression was a a Although not exclusively, “occasioned by attributing to these words!" “I would favor using federal funds, to buy their school plants and put them out of blsiness.” I never uttered those words. é At no time did I express any animosity or criticism of schools, Neither do I know Bishop Oxnam, nor did I know he was to speak until after my statement was made, nor
| «did I read his speech or concern myself about it,
Nor did 1 confine my remarks to Catholic schools, When I said that the old argument against public s¢hools was a charge of social. ‘ism, I had in mind a printed letter from ChaYles
Hanover College. I do oppose any public funds being allocated to parochial schools. This incident and the
subject is, is sound.
Editor's Note: After checking with Merlin M. Dunbar, Indianapolis attorney, who was present - at the conversation to which Mr, Jacobs’ letter Tefers, Mr, Jacobs presents. this recollection ot ‘what was said: ° MR, DUNBAR: “You stated you were against federal aid to parochial schools, that you were Spposed even though the Supreme Court had transportation facilities for parochial rm you might be in favor of lunches as a
It is added proof that my position
matter of a health program; that if the-paroe +:
chial schools needed help and couldn't run them you'd be in favor of taking them over and have ing the public take over the physical aspects
and paying for them and let the public schools,
run them. Is that about right?” MR. JACOBS: “Yes, I think it is. That's the way I remember it." The Times is happy to correct any misunderSanding that may have been created As to “Mr, cobs” position or the | Important issue
“Conver Comic Books’ By V. 8, Upland, Ind. : Concerning The Times’ recent editorial, “Dangers of Censorship,” there is no one who 80 ardently desires to keep the freedoms of America shining and unt ed as I. Yet for “fhe 1ifé of me I can't see how filling the minds of little children with sex and vulgarity and filth (in comic books) is going to preserve anything. That which leads to the breakdown of ° family life and juvenile delinquency certainly does not preserve freedom. .To me your argument (against censorship) is about as sound as Af you were to say that in order to preserve our freedom, we must open our jails and let our law-breakers roam at will, After all, America is fundamentally decent. She was founded on such principals and ideals. And a surprising number of people wish to keep her that way. This “blood and thunder” of Ifterature you are talking about in school doesn’t lead to crime and disaster. It pigeonholes crime for just what it is worth. Children recognize it as one of the “untouchables.” «+ There is a vast erence in that type of reading and the type t is flooding our marKets. It is time somebody drew the line. T am surprised that a great newspaper wouldn't be proud to step into the breach.
What Others Say—
JUDGING by the election results, I do not believe that any nation associated with the United States in the search for universal peace and prosperity need fear that our country will falter in her course of aid to democratic peo-
ples in every direction—materially, morally and militarily. William L. Batt, president SKF Industries, Ine,
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I THINK we (Republicans) .ought to com
pete with the Democratic Party on how to give the best service to the people in their problems, I don't think it is. any good to tell the Josie that they haven't any problems.—Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R.) of Massachusetts,
"NEW ILLINOIS RULE . . . By Marquis Childs
Hope for Reforms
SPRINGFIELD, II, Feb. 3—With the inauguration here the
J. Lynn, president of the board of trdtées “of :
—eeThe. ‘Truman administration’s labor bill would deprive |
be a
_ picion, however unjust, that they are partisan either to
ernment mediation. It would be a step backward in the -
executive is a man who can make prompt decisions—some of them right.”
“I TONY OT “thew Are right, he's An “excellent, EXecltive. And |
if only a few are wrong he’s a business genius; The keynote is promptness. Business has to move fast to succeed. , ; That's why private business always has done better than the political kind. For government can't move fast; it is sur-
rounded with restrictions and rules that make for slowness. Also, |"
it too often gives-jobs as political rewards to those who don't know the business they are supposed to run. Private business often makes hasty decisions that are wrong. But itis able to correct them speedily; ‘so most of them are overcome. It operates by a fast trial- and-error method ‘which, on the whole, gets results. It was this knack for doing business fast which saved America and the world in the war. The free, mass-production
industry of America changed almost overnight into the arsenal of democracy. Tee §
Industrial Daring
SURE, it had government impetus. But the vast plant and khow-how and industrial daring had already been created. They had been developed by free citizens trying to get ahead-—yes, trying to make a profit, ‘ Our whole business system “is one of quarterbacking on the job, and calling plays to meet immediate conditions, It has given America a much different business structure from any other in the world. Proof of this lies in the fact that under the successive strains of war and peace, the whole world has had to turn to our business system for. help, Whatever its shortcomings—and of course it has them--it delivers more of better quality at lpwer prices than any other, While paying the highest wages for the shortest work week under the best conditions. Also, by taxes, dividends and pay rolls, it finances the world’s most expensive government. It pays profits directly to millions of owners of its stock, and Indirectly to many more
millions who have savings deposits, insurance policies and other
forms. of saving or investment. Anything which might slow down or disrupt this system would endanger the welfare of practically every man, woman and child in pur country.
Business Threatened
svc a danger exists. It threatens business in various ways, but especially in its present ability to make prompt decisions. This ‘danger is the rush toward all sorts of political controls over business decisions, so. that they can't be made until after delay and debate. _ Certain CIO leaders, in particular, are pushing schemes for an elaborate system’ of political’ controls, and for public subsi dies, federal financing and even government opération of plants. Part of their schemes calls’ for a National Industrial Production Board, to supervise America’s busin life, Under this board would function Industry Couneils, com tatives for unions,
ement, consumers and Sovernment, These Supet-Gabating |
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COPR. 1940 BV NEA SERVICE. NC. T. WM. ROG. UW. &. PAT, OF,
“I hate to be bundled up in all these clothes, too, but | have fo do a few little things to kesp my parents happyl™
each industry--such things as production schedules, expansions,
technical changes, financing, price programs, wage and dividend.
rates and other basic policies.
The union bosses, itical power--not to mention
through political } strike threats—undoubtedly hope to influence the representation
and decisions of the consumer and government members, Tho owners, Jn host, would he Telisved uf err ownership
functions. However, they . would retain the wrong decisions get to keep the losses. =" . Decisions, under this scheme; would become a ma of debate and delay and There would be no seizure
Somprante, of property—merely of the right to run it. - The tragedy is that workers Cnsumers ‘would: alse ‘Decome victims of a scheme supposedly devised ‘to help them.
|. By slow and cumbersonie and poorly run business, they would
lose both jobs and savings. And America would lose the unique industrial system which has made it strong. . ..
What we would get, In brief, is a variety of ‘the sort of
“state operation hie haa layed havoc: with business in-other of : Beg here i new rules andycontrols i: 40080 3 an olan » make the.
risks—and in case of | &rimina
other day of Adlai Stevenson as governor, a current of hope went out across the prairies and through the towns and cities of this ost .popular. state in the union... It. is-the-hope-for good and |= government of a people who have endured much In recent But no one knows better than the keen-minded new governor -is: ihe job-he-has undertaken. -And-no-governor, it
might be added, has taken office’ here in Springfield with a
greater determination to clean house and end the graft, corruption and inefficiency that have aflicted this state. ~ Gov. Btevenson’s majority of 575,000 was the greatest given any candidate in Illinois’ history. That is one reason national attention centéfed on him the day after election. “Then, too, the public always ‘likes the drama of a David standing up to a Goliath. That is. clearly Gov. Stevenson's role —in-the-face-of deeply entrenched - interests; political and private, that prefer to see things as they are.
Loopholes Open for Graft
THE ‘NEW governor's inaugural address was ‘a remarkable document, It was temperate, moderate, frea of any noisy pare tisanship.. But it went to the heart’ of what is wrong with the hodgepodge of state and local government; criss-crossing, dupli-
cation, leaving every kind of rat hole for the crooked and the )
inefficient and those who benefit from their crookedness. That is the state constitution, which is a strait-jacket making . reform and change almost impossible. As was said recently, the only way in which the constitution squares with the facts of mod —.arn life is in its definition of the state boundaries. Gov. Stevenson proposes a constitutional convention to con sider a thorough revision of this 78-year-old document, which has not been amended in nearly 50 years. Such a convention presumably would end the conflicts of authority and make mod-« ern, efficient government possible. But because of the technicalities specified in connection with the popular vote necessary to approve such a convention, it will be difficult to bring it about. The voters of Illinois proved that they could get angry and indignant enough to throw out a cynical and corrupt administration with such an outpouring of votes as had never been seen.
Needs Power to Make Changes 3
NOW THEY must show suficient interest to ive new governor power to make essential changes. Other states in re-
words that we speak about democracy and, equality of opporr in taking the initiative, the states are showing one of the
| great advantages of the federal system of government,
The laboratory test here is whether Gov. Stevenson can restore something liké decent and reasonably economical gove érnment. "That certainly would be novel in Mllinofs..atter the holocaust of the Dwight Green administition, Given his own background in public/life, in Washington during the war and then later in the United Na Nations, plus the dis"
., tinguished record of his family in this state cer earliest “day onward, it was inevitable ie ter his vietary th t Gov, Btevendate for 1952. : ; :
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