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The Filibuster Fight
CTING on orders from President Truman, administra. © tion leaders in the Senate have started.a finish fight to curb the use of the filibuster. This fight, in our opinion, should be won. A soul minority of the Senate's members should not have power to thwart the will of a large majority. i When as many as two-thirds of the members wish ~ to close debate and vote on a bill which has come before
rule, do have—the right to do that. But, under an interpretation by Sen. Vandenberg when he was presiding officer, this rule cannot be invoked to close debate and so end a filibuster against a’ motion to bring a bill before the Senate, y : Mr. Truman wants the rule ‘amended so that his civil rights bills can be brought before the Senate despite ‘the ; _ opposition of southern Dembdgrats who threaten to filibuster © against a motion for that purpose. : The southerners, 20 or so in number, say they are determined to talk indefinitely, if necessary, to prevent such a motion from coming to a vote. Meanwhile, the Senate could transact no other business, and the whole machinery of Congress would be paralyzed by a filibuster to preserve filibustering power.
THE President, having decided to meet the issue head on, is risking a great deal in this fight. His whole legislative program could be delayed for weeks or months, and the southern Democrats could become so embittered that they would join with Republicaria to defeat most of that pro-. gram. The battle might end suddenly in victory for Mr. Tru~man if a majority of the Senate, voting on a ruling ex: pected late this week, should reverse the Vandenberg interpretation. But the ‘present prospect is for a long and bitter le. We have grave misgivings about some aspects of Mr. "Truman's civil rights program. Certainly the Senate should i not pass any part of it without debating it thoroughly. ———— do et Yee ove tht the Senate should be preven even this or any other proposed . Jogislation i twits oh the senators wish to consider : se of a filibuster for that purpose, would be rous . and undemocratic. It would create a precedent Tuga in some time of crisis, could enable a handful of senators to
_ block legislation absolutely and: urgently essential to the nation's Salty,” :
Challenging “Religion and Patriotism
: RELIGIOUS kin by Red dictatorship, now raging © in Hungary iand Bulgaria, is not new. Neither are revelations from France and Italy that their Communists wwould side with Russia in war. These developments are significant precisely because they are part of a permanent and mounting Soviet conspiracy ‘against religion and patriotism. Destruction of religion has been a major purpose. of the Russian revolution from the beginning. The church is allowed to function only as a puppet of the dictatorship and then only in a limited way. In the satellite states of Eastern Europe the dictators move as rapidly as they think they can get avay with it. The travesty trials of terrorized Catholic and Protestant. churchnien in Hungary, and” of Protestant leaders in" Bulgaria, were foreseen .Jnonihs ago by the Victims themselves.
e ndianapolis Times” Tuesday, Mar. 1, 1949 | z
. poets wrote nice ‘poetry about him.
the Senate. they should have--and, under a 32-year-old [-
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In Tone With the Times |
an ‘Barton “Rees Pogue _ MARCH IST
farmers hired their help for. the coming ‘crop year.” The “hired man” was an important figure, too, on the farm then: Many of the early At that time the “hired man” usually was single. He got
.around quite a bit of evenings and week ends,
and brought in considerable news for mealtime
conversation. Sometimes he ma the farm- _ er's. daughter. Once’ or twice, I Knew, where the farmer died, the “hired man, ‘after a re- © spectable waiting period, stepped in and mars ried the widow. - Some of the farms boasted two “hired
men.” More than one, however, placed an burden on the “wimmen folk.” In the the “hired man” got his board--that
eet
wanted it noised around that she didn’t know how to cook or-that she was” stingy, so she
cooked well and plenty. He also got his’ bed and a room. It might have been in the attic, « but. it was his. The “wimmen” also did his
washing, ironing and some mending. All of this t much work for them. “The “hired man” had to furnish his own “horse and buggy,” but the farmer fed theforge free. The farmer generally had plenty of young horses and could have furnished a “driver” now.and then, cheaper than feeding one, but that he would not do, Farmers in
‘those days were funny about other people driv-
ing their horses, - I remember my Arst date. A much older
* cousin of mine ani T went out to see a couple
of girls. Ten o'clock came and T was ready to 2 a. m. before I could get my cousin started
- homeward. Father didn't say a word to me: -about. being out late, but-hew-he scolded me for
‘keeping his best driving mare out. so late! Wages? Oh, that wasn't so imp
of wages until the crop was all in. ~—GEORGE 8. BILLMAN, Anderson
* ¢ 9 : gy - MYSTERY A ring of shining fingling keys What use for all qf these?
The label# tell: one unlocks ah His precious store of bonds and svocks;
That hides some trinkets; this “The Nest'— (His paramour’s apartment.) Keys - - For all his life's dark mysteries Except the most bewild'ring part, THe seutet of bis Ioneiy heait, Sey —EAN BOYD HEINEY. ® & 5d
IT SURELY DOES Ignorance has his champions in churls © , . -Swinish is their disregard for pearls. ; - ==HIRAM LACKEY, Martinsville, * 9%
WELCOME ROBIN REDBREAST Welcome, little Rabin Redbreast! You tell us spring is on the way, You sing of blue skies, , . and budding time . You make me light-hearted Soday! i
Ten me, little-Robin Redbreast N Did you migrate from a colder elime? Or are you a very rugged little bird That stays here,all the time?
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You go bobbing along, little fellow . ‘Pecking here and there on the frozen earth . As though you hasten to make it mellow— Is that why you're overflowing with mirth?
You sing cheerily, cheerily, cheerily! A lusty little tune at early dawn. You hop merrily across the winter green And peek at my cookie crumbs on the lawn!
Come nearer, friendly little robin, In your pretty waistcoat of bright hue! Please hop upon my windowsill, I'll help you bid winter adieu!
time . Welcome, little harbinger of spring! —MILDRED C. YOUNG, Sodfisnapohs, : ®* ¢
As a boy It seemed fo me — That time almost stood still, A year was an eternity,
March 1st was always an a day on ‘the farm when I was a boy. It was the day
to say gbout 21 hearty meals per week. No farm wife :
t-—15 dollars per month, I think—it was the job that , counted! Some “hired men” never drew a cent
- “And this one opens wide the hold . That guards his store of sl ol. : Keys to his office desk; the chest
A cheerful duet, little Robin Redbreast! A First little bird on the wing +, eo pt We'll both sing of blue skies .
, and budding
were taught, when babies, t themselves?
go home. for I was getting sleepy. But it was |. a
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POLITICS IN JAPAN .
. By Marquis Childs
Spy Report Nivea Deepens
WASHINGTON, ‘Mar. 1 — Far from being cleared up, the mystery surrounding: the Japanese spy report grows deeper and darker.
It is now in the stage of denials from all hands. be ‘That i8 not enough. Sen. Lister Hill of be
- Alabama and “others in Congress who were "stirred by this strange document to demand an inv should follow through. A thorough’ Inquiey by a Benate ora House committee is in order, ——- Col. George B. Eyster, aiputy a chief ‘of the Army public-information division, has
refease of the report was a “faux pas.” In my
dictionary, faux pas is defined as “an error, .a
slip, especially a breach of good breeding.” Most Americans will feel that release of the report was a lot more than that. For the first
time, so far as the record shows, a military
branch of the government saw fit to denounce an American citizen as a spy of a foreign pow; and without any proof to support the c g
gad BT Denies Releasing Report IN TOKYO, Maj. Gen. Charles chief United States intelligence o East, has admitted fyll responsibility for ‘the “secret” report but has deniéd releasing it or
Aliougiivy
hat it was a secret. intelligence for military personnel. Even-consider: are curious fe based for t! convicted files. 1 accep h
in this light, however, there es of the document, which’ is most part on the statements of ~ viet spies as related in Tokyo police e first place the report, contrary to intelligence practice, editorializes about government policy in China, implying that <8. policy makers were duped. In any thorough inquiry, more should be toon about Gen. Willoughby, who has had a
Barbs :
"INSTEAD of being helped out, most of the unemployed want to be held in—to a job, - |
to stand up for
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said that
er in the Far ,
Quite _
. communism.
-thur's Japan,” :- general’s.aides in Japan try to shelter him from
_ distinguished career in the Army. He came
from Germany at th age of 18, the son of Baron
“'T, Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach and an Ame
mother, Emmy- Willoughby, and enlisted in the regular Army. In 1918 he had his name legally changed to Willoughby, He has written several authoritative books used as texts by the Army
‘at various training levels, =
A adened: 10 cover occupation policy in Japan would be extremely useful ‘Most people, including many
by Gen, MacArthur personally? By the Army? State Department? .
Réd Strength Tripled IN THE last Japanese election the Comimu-
nists tripled their strength, the reactionary
right wing party gained a majority and.the middle parties, considered the hope of Demo-
* cratic government in Japan, lost heavily. Gen. MacArthur hailed this outcome as a triumph
for conservatism. - Few figures in American life have ever been
as complex, as puzzling, as remote from the’ -ordinary currents of debate and controversy-as the. general who riles over 80,000,000 Japanese. - " He has been accused of fixing his own policy
which today, it'is charged, aims at creating in Japan a base fof
Gen. MacArthur's, admirers. are fervent to the point ‘of idolatry, taking his purple ‘prose as gospel. In his fair and careful book, “MacArRussell Brines tells how the
unpleasant news,
General's Views Needed
THE general has not visited the continental
.United States since 1837. That is a very long
time in terms of what has happened. If Gen, MacArthur is eritical of U. 8, policy in the Far East, as has been reported, then it is important to get his views on the record,
At the same time the U, 8. position in Korea
“‘shoilld bé appraised. Many persons with experience there feel that the token force in Korea is
a waste of scarce military manpower for no
useful end
making war on Russian
“Hoosier Torum
5 rar). will defend to the death your right to say it"
Keep letters 200 words or less on aay sabe | ,
oct with which you are uni. Soma. ates letters | wed will be. edited hut costent. wil be pre- | “served, for here the People. Speak fn Fr reedom, |
‘Honeit Work for Health’ J
Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt, Philip Murray, and a Green are members of a commits “tee which describes itself as “heading up. the : drive for President. TUNA “health insurance program in opposition to the American Medical Association.” Mrs. Roosevelt could nave ‘given her “Hyde Park estate to the R MAD 85 & BUSING home, if she really were 80 interested ia welfare of the sick, Instead it, mecca Te tourists. Only one-third of the people can af« | ford to travel. She tould advise her followers of the desirability of good diet for the lencion - tion “of: good health, and tha, moral ob! of keeping this country free. 2 - Murray and Green have co ected ough union ry to pay sick benants and hospital bills for a long Te to come. If they, too, are coneerned about. the health of the common man,’ they should urge thelr members to do an honest Any's work as a means of maintaining good health. There Is no better curative therapy than honorable work, Workers who need money for doctor bills could be exenipted Som 8 paying
till be ainst their greatest problem, man the a Until man, the assumed, Somes man the Kuown. hire a Sh A Air oll and pd Bed ph “certainly 2 3a
eee ‘Not the American Way'
By M. K. 8, City Hal ast* Tob. i After hearing Town brosdeas 3 23 sincerely hope there are not enough “gim-
mies” in this country to let that Jawral ed medi-
|. eine booby trap, compulsory health tarted In Berton
ot id Min Raid gO ed A of 1
lier's magaszine, he gave in simple words the same kind of sound reaso that lies ‘back of our unselfish and -hard-wor medical Ry and women. hp nation’s strength is not in its treasury statements but in the national character of. its people.” So is the nation's health. What happened on that broadcast is &xact~ ly what happens when medical doctors are forced to defend themselves against clever politiclans and shrewd lawyers. The lawyers- win “the arguments, but it is the doctors who win the fights when it comes to saving human lives. | ® * ¢
‘Health Bill Dangerous’ " By Joe S. Kehrer People of Indiana, are we going to stand by while our lawmakers pass and impese Communistic laws on us? : Surely our State Supreme Court and our _U, 8. Supreme Foun ¢ don't uphold mh | laws as “House Bill 30.”
This bill that health officers can seize, arrest and fine you; even . come into your home without a warrant. “House Bill 39” is the most dangerous bill ‘I've ever heard of in our state laws, ; You have made a mistake, “la ” That bid 1s fine for Russia, but not Indiana, or ‘any of the U, 8, Our Governor dislikes these Communists very much, and I'm sure he, too, feels the way I do about this dangerous forerunner of communism.
have to fight this General Assembly. It was very convenient to pass this bill without reading
representing us explain such conduct?
What Others Say—
“IF THE Russians did obtain any American state secrets, they were justified in doing so be= cause all nations ind in spying.—~The Very Rev, Hewlett Johnson, “Red” Dean of Canter bury,” on current spy investigations.
By Hos SW So 5. ovumts Ben 1
Omar Bradley wrote, “What You Owe Your Country,” in Col- - gris
I'm not radical, but I think we are going to :
it, wasn't it “lawmakers”? How can these people
vy
Power Plans B.
The India
" thority to issu in first mortg / 226 shares of alk stock. 2% Through th raise $10,148
All this follows inevitably from the Stalin premise ‘that the dictatorship is- supreme. Loyalty to-a higher being cat be countenancéd.” Any chiirch which does not sup-~ port the police state is dangerous because terrorist methods cannot be reconciled with Christian ethics, Statements of the Red French and Italian leaders, Thorez and Togliatti, showing that their loyalty to: Russia is greater than to their own countries repeat what they and others have said before. ne . ss 5 =» ra oF a THE timing of these latest moves to undermine re: “ligion in Eastern Burope and patriotism in Western Europe * is important, especially in connection with attempted Soviet intimidation of the Scandinavian countries. Following Stalin's failure to Jock the Marshall Plan and to drive the Western allies out of Berlin, he-is now confronted by a Western Union defense organization which is being broadened into an Atlantic security alliance. The
And I'd AWAY be little ’ "BIT
] But now that I am old and gray A. “Time does quigkly disappear, But it seems only yesterday, THat a week seemed Yke a year. ROBERT F. MAPLE. Righmond.
WASHINGTO! " Washington, the
hig record-breaking state budget. Presiden
Marshall Plan and the Atlantic pact net onlydiminish “his opportunity for conquest Ti" the West but: weaken his... hold on the ehslaved and impoverished Eastern Europeans. So there is an increasing urgency for him to tighten | his dictatorship in Kastern Europe, by breaking the church
French, Italians and others that the Atlantic pact. will precipitate war.
He knows how much the non-Communist peoples fear war, and-that many would like to remain neutral if they" thought they were safe from Russia, Hence the Thorez and Togliatti propaganda’ against the Atlantic pact, linked to the Communist line from Moscow and elsewhere that we are trying to trick Europe into fighting an American imperialist war. But we believe, and hope, that he net effect of all these Stalin n moves will be to unify the free nations.
Sure Fire
+ W5 KNEW we'd get it. It antedated the first Pat and. Mike story, or “That was no-lady, it was my wife,” |
, program on & pay-as-you-go basis, He wants to =| Lausche | Its the one about George Washington throwing the dollar, | time reduetion in the states three three major taxes, Yass. PPI the sales | 10 a “Do new taxes” ©, ‘mecross the” Potomac; ‘and the gag that a dollar went ‘| a on aS ane-nalt ta ures gat cant, bank £ud corpora. | Columbus. O iE i in those days. It -came over the radio. Rather | 1943 levels. He also is asking a new iain ak 10 thel el Feta. ) apt h Mevertheleods-..though ancient. AY, gupd yet cigarets. state liquor taxes roughly doubled and. increased on | to its assessmen me Facetracks. get 31% Suilen qed Ti Ino
peapie wants. More Services
A *iaaidi
| IT'S FOR new schools and roads, bigger pensions and re- | Vef payments, better pay for government workers, pay. checks and otherwise prevent Western Europe from uniting, - ToT for workers when they're off work because of {llness, govern. .
achieve his goal he must convince the Scandinavians, the |
Gov.
In Tennessee,
$13¢
decided how ta pay it.
Wage Tax Proposed
In
MONEY "DEMANDS... ; By Earl Richert Sweeping Tax Boost
‘Mar. {From Sacramento to Albany to amble for more: taxes is on. The current move to delve deeper into Joe Taxpayer's pocket involves practically all’ government down to city councils; school | Boards and townships, There's no partisan politics in it. Gov. Earl Warren has just submitted the biggest state budget im California history--over $1 billion—<for the next fiscal year. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey wants $168 million in new taxes for
Truman wants $4 billion more in corporation and income taxes to balance the nation’s record peacetime budget and allow for payments on the national debt—also billions in withholding taxes for bigger old-age pensions and health insurance. All ‘this, including local tax-increase proposals, 4s for the purpose of putting out more ok ei service—which officials tHIAR
ment- SSubgiatand low-rent public housing for poor families, etc.” Mgnnen Williams of - Michigan wants to spend a { record a in his state Among other things, he wants to_ raise “old-age assistance payments from $50 to $60 a month and add $4 million to the pension fund for school.teachers, Gov. Gerdon Browning's legislature already has approved $30 rhillion for public education, an increase of Z- million over last year and $22 million for roads. Oklahoma is scheduling larger expenditures for free school books and, Washington has approved free artificial Hmbs. Ins diana is considering a veterans’ bonus of $150 million but hasn't
Pennsylvania is continuing a cent-a-bottle tax on soft drinks and is authorizing & state authority to sell bonds for public con struction to be repaid by later receipts. It probably win raise" the state”gasoline tax from 4 to 5 cents a gallon,
ALLRGHENY County (Pittsburgh) is proposing a wage tax to meet a $7 million deficit this year, Boroughs and townships in the county last year imposed 30 different taxes under special authority ‘granted by the legislature, The eity of Pittsburgh instituted a 10 per cent. amusement tax and the Pittsburgh school board imposed a “per capita” tax of $5 on every adult resident, California, Gov, Warren wants 2% § NSP
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‘broadened state
CAN'T you PA Just - hard the —
{falls hit the kids in towns where schools were { forced to close?
> ¢ HEAVY “snows have stopped some ‘auto drivers in the Midwest from going slaying.
SIDE GLANCES.
NE PY tifa wii
year-than last.
COPR. 1949 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T, M0 REO. UL 8. PAT. OFF. "f'd have returned these eggs sooner, but I'll bet you're getting - fod, up with me trotting over here so often bringing things back!”
pt la————y oe. ‘come-outgo "problem. The city is near the limit of its taxing power but, its costs still go up. It needs $80 million more this
There are some states and cities, however, that are able to buck the trend—at least for the present. Ohio's. Gov, Frank and New Javier's Gov, Alfred Driscoll are committed
For too long: Japan and the Far East have Deen, taken for granted. This is not fair to Gen.
MacArthur,” who may well feel that circum- | stances and the default of other authority have ¢ forced him to become a .kind of uncrowned
* emperor.
By Galbraith |
the CIO,
employees,
politicians.
Want to
> o RATHER than the red herring being on the hook, Mr. Truman is on the hook.-~Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R) of California, member of - House . Committee on Un-American Activities, ’ | rejecting President Truman's “red |" criticism of spy vestigations.
LABOR BOSSES . . . By E. T. Leech
A Fight for Power
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—S8ix ‘hundred thousana telephone workers are the pawns in the latest battle betwen the AFL and
Leaders of the telephone “workers, now independently union. ized, recently decided to join the CIO. Now the AFL has ane nounced .a nation-wide campaign against both ‘the CIO and the independent union for the right to represent them: Similar battles between the rival labor organizations are going on to gain members among. department store clerks, insurance company workers and many other types of white-collar
These fights between rival union leaders for control of great” L bodies of workers throw interesting light on a dangerous coridirah. MORIN. the Jinion movement. Obviousiy the welfare of the workérs' mvdived: A rior “the chief consideration, The telephone workers, for example, would have all the benefits of union organization and strength . meme
bers of either CIO or AFL.
Not Workers’
‘WHEN a group of workers has decided to join one organiza tion, then why does the other attempt to interfere? For in either organization they would be union membefs with the MYestigeg. of union representation.and strength, - The answer, of course, is that the welfare of the workers involved is not the real issue. These quarrels have to do with - power and dues, They are clashes between rival union politicians . who are fighting for personal position and financia] resources.
Union politicians are motivated by the same desires as other They want to
patronage and gain power. . Labor politiclans no longer are interested only. In | prosaic union matters as wages, hours and working cotiftitions. They have gained positions of great influence in the field of " public affairs, They -are busy playing local and national politics,
‘Welfare
their own jobs, increase their
such
Dictate
. THEY offer their advice — or issue their orders — on every kind of nafiojal and international problem. They want to dice tate the country's legislation and run its economy. : The more memNers “have in thelr treasuries, the greater is the power of the union
That tn why reel union fight each othe so bitrly for meinbers and
ee EE fo mors owe
Fwy they represent, and the more money they
herring”
business of the 1s
pletely execute ce wil