Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1949 — Page 12

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Telephone RI ley 8551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Let's Hear from MacArthur : GEN. KNOWLAND'S suggestion that Gen. MacArthur be ; be invited to give Congress his views on the Far Eastern situation is most timely, in view of the confusion from Sec- * ‘retary of the Army Royall’s Tokyo visit.

troops from Japan, the man who knows most about the

before final decisions are made. And there is reason to believe the General's views have been given little consideration by the State and Defense Departments, . Earlier this week, 51 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to the White House asking pertinent questions about our position in the Pacifio, one of which was, “What is the present American policy toward China?” Indeed, what is it? Congress and the people have a right to know. . » » THE same Congressmen urged President Truman to appoint a high-level military, economic and political commission to re-examine American policy in China in the light of the recent Communist victories. This constructive proposal contains no hint of partisan bias. However, since the Royall incident, new questions have been raised and the - inquiry should be broadened to include a survey of our posi-

Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Alaska. * Unless the President has a better answer to this prob- * lem, he should act upon this friendly suggestion. It is time to bring the Far Eastern situation into the open for public scrutiny. ' If Mr. Truman chooses not to do this, Congress should take the initiative and make an independent survey. The issues involved are too vital to American security to be left J. Leighton Stuart, the elderly missionary who is doubling as our ambassador to China.

~ Stalin Outsmarts Himself 1 Nations Security Council was one of those little things that reveal a lot. It will be healthier for Stalin if he does not miss its signficance. = : ; On the surface the debate was simply about Triste, the * long-disputed Adriatic seaport. But it showed the deeper change in the international tide which has occured in the two and a half years since the western powers naively believed Russia could be trusted to co-operate for peace. When the satellite treaties were drafted in the fall of 1046 most of the mixed-population hinterland of Trieste * was given to.Yugoslavia, and the. Italian port itself was constituted a “free territory.” But the Reds, wanting the whole hog instead of most of it, sabotaged the settlemént. They promptly turned their share into a terrorist police Fy ‘and vetoed appointment of a ne “governor of the * frdd territory. After more than a yedf of that, the western powers last March finally urged treaty revision to return - . NOW Stalln, with one of those too-slick tricks typical of his operation, proposes appointment as Trieste governor of a Swiss gentleman whose nomination he rejected when wit was submitted long ago by Britain. Much to the surprise ‘of Stalin's spokesman in the Security Council, the American, British and French delegates replied that their governments were no longer interested in the Soviet-sabotaged settlement; that Trieste must be returned to Italy. ~The net of this is that Stalin has outsmarted himself. By acting in bad faith in a compromise agreement favorable to Russia, he has convinced the western governments that no joint four-power operation is possible. Of course the same Soviet treachery has wrecked fourpower administration in Germany and Austria, and prevented American-Russian co-operation in Korea. Stalin still has to learn it is easier to destroy international faith in Russia than to restore it.

A Hearing for Dr. Condor: Un-American Activities publicly accused Dr. Edward U.- Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards, _ of being “one of the weakest links” in America’s atomic security. : reeves That charge, if untrue, did Dr. Condon grave injustice. “Its plain implication was that he was an untrustworthy * “etistodian of atomic secrets vital to national safety.

Standards is a branch, held Dr. Condon to be a loyal public servant, and he has remained in his important government scientific post. But, though he demanded a chance to answer the charge in a public hearing, the House Committee has never given him such a hearing. ~

Committee on Un-American Activitiese has passed from Republicans to Democrats. The Committee's new chairman says that Dr. Condon can now have a hearing if he will ask for it again. Dr. Condon says he does not consider it up to him to ask again; that it is the committee's own affair if it wants to “repudiate” the charge by continuing to deny him a hearing. But he stands “ready to answer any questions they ever want to ask me.” _ PC That leaves the matter in completely unsatisfactory * status. The issue is not one of exclusive concern to Dr. Conlon and the House Committee. It is one of considerable

whether atomic secrets to which Dr, Condon may have access are or are not safe.

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Deep Freeze TE : THB Soviet government, which hd ‘been claiming that 7. Russians invented practically everything since ‘the . wheel, now declares that an sailors discovered - Antaretica 130 years ago. And it vows that it “will never give up the right to dispose of territories discovered by Russian sailors.” The cold war isn’t ¢old enough for the Kremlin. Now

i i wants tg squabble over the South, Pole. - «

Surely, if the administration plans to withdraw our | military and political situation in that area should be neard |

The Commerce Department, of which the Bureau of.

~..cofitern to the American people. They have a right to know |

tion in the whole Pacific area, with particular reference to |

almost unnoticed Trieste incident in the United |

» ” . . ” ” “.- ALMOST 12 months have gone by. Control of the

“In Tune ‘With the Times

- Barton Rees Pogue NOT ALWAYS BEST ~

You may be sorry, my friend, You may be wishing an end Of the consequent day; - The good of this hour, may, tomorrow, Seethe with trouble and sorrow, It may be regret that you borrow And can never repay.

* You can’t look ahead and foresee How things will array, ‘

BLASTED LOVE

You bombed my heart, And scattered far the Jihoes, Like rose petals in a Miting wind; And then you claimed no part.

You took my peace, And left me stormy, hungry love, Devouring as a strong consuming fire; For which no hope to find release.

You made me hope, For answering waters of delight To flood our lives abundantly; But left me desert drought with which to cope. ~JosKruiry Jos, Westfield.

COMPENSATION

Although I never reach my aim, 1 shall not fret about it; For pleasures known along the way Could not have been, without it! —ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Terre Haute. ® © ¢

BLUE MONDAY

The toast is burned black, the coffees is pale, The tom-cat comes in with burrs in his tail; Baby is. screaming, the twins Talaing Cun, And father informs: “I must make train!” The dog throws a fit, the telephone shrills, The mail-man arrives with dozens of bills, The wash-lady leaves—her feelings are hurt— And father is wearing his only clean shirt. Oh, wits is the man who sang: “Home, Sweet ome” “And vowed to return, though far he would 2 *

Writing today of that long-ago bliss

He would say: “Monday was never like this!” ~LAVERNE BROWN PRIUE, Plymouth. ® oo o IT'S HOME

It's just a little cottage, Scarcely meriting a glance : + From the folk who come and go Along the street.

With its well-worn paint and dormers,

Its queer,pold ells and corners, And the porch that bears the scars Of many feet.

But it's home—I dearly love it, And the plot of ground around it, And the small rooms fairly bursting At the seams,

For my heart finds sanctuary & In the love within its portals, And the light of heaven’s kindness "Round her beams. " - ~—OLGA ADAMS, Peru. ® & Oo -

THE CONTEST RACKET

‘The contest rage has swept the land, It sure does keep us guessin’; A fortune to some lucky man If he could just devise a plan To help us win, some 30,000 grand, In just one easy lesson. —ATHA A. PINNICK, Bloomington. ® ¢ 9

BABY, YOU'RE DARLING

I wonder what the future Is holding for you—

You're mighty pretty! Your skin is so fair, And look at those curls In your golden hair!

Your ears so dainty, - Just like little shells! And when your are laughing, It sounds like bells! ‘

Baby, you're darling! - But I'll have to leave you, For you see, darling baby, I've diapers to do! —DOROTHY M. COOK, Indianapolis.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—It's easy—oh, so easy—to slip into a situation where some public official does our thinking and decides our personal problems.

Suppose Federal official had suggested that you might

not be allowed to build a house, even if you

had the money, the lot and the desire to to so. What an uproar there would have been, “It's my money,” you would have shouted: “What I do with it is my business. I made it and nobody's going to tell me I can't spend it for a house, or for anything else that's decent and legal.” Yet no such uproar was created the other Ly Housing Expeditor Tighe Woods that the Government may have to discouraging the building of single-family dwellings by tightening credit and insurance requirements on such construction. Such a policy, he said, should be established temporarily unless the supply of manpower and building materials can be considerably expanded.

Example of State Planning

Mr, Woods told the Senate Economic Committee that “a muiltiple-unit apartment build-

ing can be built faster, cheaper and with less

material than the same .number of singlefamily homes.” . This is just one example of what state

" planning can do to individual liberty. If the

family which wants a single dwelling can be prevented from building it, a natural next step would be for government to tell that family what kind of dwelling it can occupy. For example, how many rooms—for obviously it is

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY DIFINITIONS, 194 at—One who wants a budget cut in Albany. Republican—One who wants a budgst wit in Washington. <

ANOTHER thing the Republicans could learn from Lincoln is how to get elected. LE J

HENRY A. WALLACE has something he calls “A Budget for Abundance.” Most Americans already Buve had an bundaneeof Henry.

COMMUNIST governments should quit being us. They think that pinching preachers and closing churches can keep God from spying on them. - ® ¢ » MOST nations are like individuals. They don’t seem to be able to stabilize their currency. ® @ o TELEVISION has about as much chance of keeping teen-agers home in 1049 .as family-size pool taples did in Dad's day.

A NATIONAL ISSUE . . . By E. T. Leech | Danger Seen in State Planning

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going to upset housing plans if a small family uses too much space. They have the perfect result of that sort of planning in Moscow — where the square inches of space in a room, the renting, the occupancy and the moving in and out are all matters of government regulation. But, you say, that couldn't happen here. Well, it can start to happen—and apparently without any public outcry or surprise. For the acceptance of government dictation over private decisions is already well advanced.

Toward Dictatorship

LITTLE instances like this show how right Gen. Eisenhower was when he told 4 forum at Columbia University that America can fall under a dictatorship without a shot being fired. Gen. “Ike” explained that he wasn't talking about the violent type of dictatorship coming from traditional methods of seizing power. What he bas in mind is the gradual dictatorship of bureaucracy, resulting from “the constant drift toward centralized government.” “There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through . . . readiness to accept paternalistic measures from the surrender of our own responsibilities, and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives.” Gen. Eisenhower warned, as a final danger:

Drift ot Central Government

“There’ll be a swarming of bureaucrats over the land; ownership of property will gradually drift into that central government, and finally you will have distatorship as the only means of operating such a hugh organization.” The drift has already started. It is evidenced every day by little proposals, like that one about discouraging single-dwelling construction. This issue of protecting the le’s personal rights to make their own decisions and run their own private affairs probably is our great domestic problem. Yet politicians—particularly Republicans — keep hunting for a strong issue that will appeal to the people. Gen. “Ike” certainly gave them one.

Barbs—

UNCLE SAM is beating us all to it with spring cleaping. Don’t forget to take care of Your income tax. . » © AN INDIANA man, hit on the head with a hammer, lost his voice. Radio crooners beware! * oo © LOW-FLYING planes are blamed by a farm-

er for his hens laying fewer eggs. A stand-up ‘strike

IRON CURTAIN . . . By William Philip Simms

‘Cavemen Dictators

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Most people believe the Iron Curtain is something new—that it was invented by Soviet Russia. It isn’t new. Russia didn't originate it. It is the oldest political and social device in history, and one of the most

It dates back to primitive. men.

H. G. Wells—In his “Short History of the World" —points out that the first human group was the family. The Old Man was the

boss and his clan had to toe the mark.

Suspicious of anything they did not understand—which. meant everything that was new to their savage experience—these primitives (1) kept strictly to themselves and (2) used violence |

to keep others at a distance.

It was the first caveman dictator, therefore, and his followers

who invented the Iron Curtain. oe

Killed Strangers

confined to “Treaty Ports.”

Japan did not abolish her Irén Curtain until around 1880, though slight cracks began to appear about the. time of Commo-

dore Perry’s visit in 1853.

. Like Stalin and his Politburo today, Nippon's despots did not want their subjects to come In contact with the free world out- |

side. They might get id¢as. ©

Hidetada, one of Japan's 17th Century rulers, for example, was afraid of Christianity. The masses seemed to take to it with ' avidity whenever foreign priests exposed them to it, so Hidetada - reacted to the “menace” about like Stalin does to free speech, free .

préss and freedom of religion.

He started a purge. Foreigners were rounded up. It became a capital offense to embrace Christianity or to have anything

whatever to do with a foreigner.

| Stalin's Iron Curtain : UPWARD of 200,000 foreigners and natives perished in that

one liquidation.

Stalin's Iron Curtain differs little in principle from that of Medieval Japan. Like Hidetada, Stalin is afraid he i his job if his subjects are allowed to think and act for themselves. Thus, while boasting of Soviet “advancement” and accusing the West of reaction, the men of the Kremlin themselves are the ‘most reactionary group of dictators in the world today. ‘° The United States has offered to share the atomic secret

NOT ONLY did they do their best to keep their people from having a look at what lay outside, but tortured and killed such strangers as happened to stray into their neck of the woods. Some countries have tended‘to follow a similar policy. China was such a country until modern times, Until well into the present century she contrived to keep “foreign devils” pretty well

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Keep letters 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 Freedom.

‘Socialized Industry Issue’

By M. G. Kuhn

After hearing considerable discussion pro

and con on rent control, I feel that there are only two issues involved. The first is whether or not the government is, step by step, going to socialize all industry and business, and the other is that the parties involved harly get a chance to open their mouths, If the government intends to continue in so-called slum clearance and finance large scale living quarters for the er paid workers, the average small real tate owner might as well tear ‘down the ngs and open parking lots or hope to depend entirely on his ‘old age pension which will be coming-out of the pocket of the younger | generation. When the government builds living | quarters which will rent without profit, the in« | dividual business man will cease to erect homes | and ts unless they are already con | tracted for with payment guaranteed. . [ Under the present rent control which allows | about two-third of the actual rental values on | the older buildings, the owners have no other | choice than to let them stand as is and rot | to the ground. The rental fixed on the older places is about half of the newer built homes | having about half the accommodations. The situation is apparently being worked | out in the following manner: The fight for | rent control is being conducted by any member | of the legislature who probably owns his own home and lives in a furnished apartment in Washington, on which there may or may not be a ceiling price and for which he has suffi. | cient salary to pay, The other element in | favor is the renter who vais A place to live in right now, adequate or no no repairs or upkeep the renter will eventually be worse off than ever as the present structures rot down- and he moves into the government constructed building which the government may not build. * ¢ ¢

S 9 High Cost of Medicine By L. G. Merrell, Shelbyville, Ind. cop ng Svan, er of af ere * thing for me as “painless medicine.” I think I would be unfair to speak slightingly now, or try to be “personal.” I guess I have heen lucky, for 1 have managed to pay the doctor, At one time 1 paid the doctor at the ‘rate of approximately $75 an hour and a room was $10. But I paid it at 10 cents per hour wages. That Was 8 fw yee De no sunt chan, some, I " But od data I got from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. show that people in a southern state die almost twice as fast as people in a northern state. Why? There's a grim ghost in that. I say that millions of Americans don't have medicine. I say that it ruins or wears out millions of others trying to pay for it. If we could be “individuals” in this, it. would be better. But war shows that we can’t. Parents are not asked for permission when America is hunting for soldiers. And that is the mdin point. We shouldn’t let manhood just die out. And we shouldn't trust the matter to the. AMA. Medicine is sort of like diamonds; it commands such a high price that it is selfishly best to have it scarce. That Sossrt Susi Tent, or safe!

‘Blind Treated Badly’

By Bud Kaesel, City

are treated on the streets and on trolley pusses, For example, the other night a blind man’ was waiting for a trolley. Some big woman came running up for the trolley and shoved this blind man and. almost knocked him under the trolley. I ficked him up and helped him on the trolley. What is the matter with people?

What Others Say— ]

MOST of our housewives are so wasteful of. their time and energy that no modern industrial concern in its right mind ‘would want them on its payroll.—Gideon M. Vargas, industrial engineer. ® &

BY keeping too much information secret we may retard our own development of the atomic bomb. . . ., We should weigh secrecy and democracy; we can’t always have both.— David E. Lilienthal, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission. eo 4

WOMEN have recently been placed at a disadvantage; man can now travel faster than sbund.—Edward Artin, author, in the Saturday: Evening Post.

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® & o I BELIEVE this country has reached the saturation point by way of taxation.—Formes President Hoover.

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"I ssa Congress is ‘doing what you wanted ‘em to, Mr. Perkins ~—now you won't have to go to- Washington and tell them a few things!"

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spection like we and others are willing to do.

Yet, mortally afraid of the atomic bomb th freedom, and light. ere:ls, however, one vital difference between Stalin's Iron | the Atlantic Pact.

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Curtain and Hidetadd’s, Hidetada was willing to let the rest of | the world alone. Stalin isn’t. Stalin seeks to tise the area behind | ‘his Iron Curtain as a secret base from which to expand clear

Hidetada was a.kind of hermit, Stalin is an Imperialist and

About the only thing the frée countries can do about it all, therefore, Is to organize a common defense in what is now called:

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. MANY undesirables t Bastéry Hurope Dave basa Fsoveq without fuss. Inquiries by and Army intelligence have resulted in man rted, voluntary withdrawals. ' y unrepo A Communist member of the Hungarian tion, Miss Margit Odeschalchi, was hastily recalled. by od iiiun, Muay Several wecks 440 without explanation. ' ’ . ambassador, Josef Winlewics, wif another member of the embassy } i

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EMBASSY SPIES . . . By Tony Smith.

Diplomats Probed WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—More diplomats from the Russian satellite countries soon will be handed their walking papers. as the result of intensive spy investigations by government agencies, responsible sources. ‘ Civitan and military authorities have been checking their activities for many months. . John G. Florian, first secretary of the Hungarian legation, who was ousted last week, long had been marked for expulsion, His record is well known to American officials. The State Department gave no reason for thé action, declaring Florian “persona non grata.” f A spokesman for the department smilingly said it was “pure _coinciderice” that the first secretary’s ouster happened to follow the expulsion of two U. 8. diplomats from Budapest.

Excuse for Ouster HE WAS partly correct, according to persons who know of the investigations. the Americans with espionage and ordering them to leave merely provided a convenient time and proper excuse for the Florian ouster. My. Florian was reported to be the political boss of the Andrew Sik is the minister. 7 Nearly all the satellite embassies in Washington, it was said, will be touched when the big crackdown comes. assembled on Communists engaging protection of diplomatic’ immunity would fill several rooms. However, there are touchy diplomatic questions which must be considered before Uncle 8am yells “thief,” one official explained.

They said the action of Hungary in charging

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for delicacy is recognized by the investigators, it out, but not by the public. The disclosure of embassy officials who have broken with their

Communist bosses is increasing pressure for official action,

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The Hungdérian legation here is the second satellite diplomatie headquarters designated as an espionage center by former attaches. The Polish embassy was described last week by a + | former military attache as the headquarters of a Russian-directed

Lt. Gen. Izydor Modelski, who broke with the

Warsaw government in Septernber, made the charge and detailed | the activities of the embassy in an interview here.

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