Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1949 — Page 14
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National Defense ‘Chaos
.is disharmony, lack of teamwork, ‘waste. a exvagance in our military establishment, and coni unification of the armed services has not been accomplished, the Hoover Commission reports. "I brief, nationsl-defense measures suffer while our Yaioy admirals and generals fight for power ang position. AR gly Plots, W which would seem more startling than it does but for the great accumulation of previous information that supports the Hoover Commission's findings. The_consequences of this throat-cutting have alarmed everyohe except those responsible for it and their factional
supporters, in the SOvErnment and out, who have been egg. |
of
ing them on, To correct this. dangerous situation, the commission would make the Secretary of Defense boss of the establishment in fact as well as name. That should be done by all means. Then, if order isn't brought out of chaos, the answer will be a new Becretary of Defense. Discipline and control can't be achieved without” fixed authority and Yesponsibility.
IT RECOMMENDS that the secretaries of the Army,
“Navy and Air be reduced to undersecretaries and be made
accountable to the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary would gain more direct control over the three services, through sppointment of a chairman for the joint chiefs of staff. These proposals make sense, too. A tough guy will be needed in that chairmanship—one who won't stand for any more foolishness. It's the job Gen. Eisenhower is now undertaking on a temporary basis. The Hoover report emphasizes that inter-service rival. favor of teamwork and that the
-piosmust. be discarded in , new setup must be held rigidly accoun untable to Te Presioent,
Congress and the people. : a striking example of what happens when teamwork is wholly lacking. The Navy, is holding what
- it describes as its “biggest peacetime war games” in waters
off Puerto Rico. Mock atomic bomb explosions are featured. And the Air Force isn't there. It was invited, but mage excuses,
We will not have: a sationaidetenss team until all sha i
jor maneuvers are team operations, instead of rival shows with each service trying to outbid the others for appeopee ations and public favor, ; The Hoover Commission has pointed the wey But
‘Congress must act upon its recommendations beforg there
will be any relief. That can’t be done too-seon. ~
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Tragic Farce ! THE confessions of the Bulgarian Protestant Sergymen to treason and espionage are not convincing Ti many good reasons for believing they are faked. Throughout history tyrants have wrung such ‘phony
‘confessions from vietims by torture. It is a black art which |.
the Red secret police by long experience have brought to fiendish perfection, The hysteria of these broken ministers on the ‘Witness
. stand reflects their treatment in prison, Their testimony :
is so similar, and fits so completely the accustomed crime thriller of Red propaganda, that it sounds like a worn phonograph record played over and over. ° What do these clergymen know of technical military secrets, and how could they possibly have gathered such Information in a police state?
But there is more than circumstantial evidence that
the trials are-travesties; We have direct proof that the socalted confessions are filled with lies. Several American “churchmen were not in Bulgaria at the time, and all of them deny the charges, - The complete absurdity of ‘the faked confessions is typified by testimony of Pastor Ziapkox that he talked with Bernard M. Baruch in Paris during the 1946 Bulgarian
peace conference. Mr. Baruch was not even in Europe in |
1948, and has never had any contact with Pastor Ziapkov
anywhere or any time,
Those Who Live by the Sword MARSHAL TITO'S Communist Party organ has published a long list of accusations against the neighboring
state of Albania, charging violations of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity. :
The Yigoslavs assert that shots have been fired across
~ the border, illegal arrests have béen made, armed patrols |
have crossed their frontier, and an Albanian naval vessel has entéred their territorial waters.
Why, when Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria ganged up against
" Greece. “But we don’t see what the Yugoslav can do about
it, unless they want to go to war. If they take the case to the United Nations they can’t enter the court with clean hands, for in the Greek case they refused to recognize United Nations jurisdiction over an
\dentical situation.- i “ * %
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Hey; Snag, What's in Ezra Pound? ZRA POUND, who besides being under indictment for treason is in a mental hospital in Washington, wons $1000 prize for the best poetry published in 1048. He calls his book the “Pisan Cantos.” Our Washington staff writer, Andrew Tully, had a look at some of the verse in it and it is crazier than you would think. It's all about glass-eyed wymmes, speccato ‘maggots that shd, eat the dead bullock,” with occasional senseless interjections such as “hey snag, what's in the bibl’ and “hulle Corporal Casey) double x or burocracy?” Shades of Shelley and of Keats, the Brownings’ and all the other immortals enshrined as poets. Evidently they - toiled in a narrow medium, using only words that made sense and thoughts that were clear, resounding and beautiful. If Pound's stuff is poetry, then something new has och added— -and it sounds like spezzato to us.
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Allied Pact Warning
WASHINGTON, “Mar. 2—The long shadow cast by the deci- - sion taken hy Norway and the United States is as yet hardly | ~~ ~~ & Only. with events that are expected to flow from this decision will its far-reaching consequences be realized both here
Wal Wiirdad by the Bollingen. Foundation, |
“The paige Times | :
Tin Xone’ With, the Timor
Barton Rees Pogue
"WONDERFUL HALF
: witetbest is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made!
Youth shows but half , , .’ t ~ Browning.
: Git 1 throtgh the fairground” and across the
track
* " Running away and not looking back, 1 Running
to water and woods and Through summer sun and sudden ‘showers, Spending our lives in indolent hours . Down at the swimmin’ hole! -
Up in the hay-mow, Aippity-fop, *
- W'rying to learn the Sie back- drop; 9
Running big shows and ten pins, Making two boys into Blamese twins, : Doing parachute-leaps and barking wr shins, Up in the old hay-mow!
Youth may show us only half—.
Walker's goats and wobbly calf Vil
The best of life may yet be mine, But Hinchman's woods and Brandywine, And the boy 1 was are quite divine—. What a wonderful half is youtht) -
~BARTON REES POGUE, Upland. > » 9» ..
INDIANA, MY NATIVE-LAND.
It has ever heen a source of great happiness to me that I was born in America on a Hoosier farm. I afa glad that I know the eall of willl birds, the names of weeds and frees, of crawling,
“creeping things and the smell of new-mown hay. I'am glad that I have hoed potatoes, stripped: sane and made sarghum taffy.” 1 am glad that-{_.
I have waded in a brook; caught sunfish with a willow. pole,- dnd fried them over“an open fire. I am thankful for the love of books which came to me from my father, and for the day that he
. stood firmly that I go to the unjversity. I am
_ of the wise and the foolish virgins,
‘apparent.
. bers of the still-nonexistent Atlantic
thankful for the country scheols I taught, for
‘the church out there where I learned that fit
rains on the just and the unjust, and the parable in short, I am happy that life has come to me as it has. Because of it, I have learned to know I can view 3 beautiful hill with reverence for the ages that made it. With equal joy, can I behold the prairie and know it bears me out in quiet contemplation of any good purpose. I love the hills and flat lands of Indiana with a love I cannot explain, I may go afar, but if I have my will, I shall re-
turn, I want the land which gave me life and rpartared-me-1o-ho-my- final. resting. place.
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~BERNICE H. EZRA, Lalayette. * + 4
“HIS ABODE = =
God lives in the wind, The air that mankind breathes, Pérfumed with blossoms, tree and vine; ©. With tang of sun-kissed sheaves.
God lives in the sight © Of valleys, woods and rills;’ His vestments are the royal clouds That robe the purple hills.
God lives in the song. Of birds, and bells, And rhymes; “Of carolers, of choristers, : 7G pealing vesper chimes:
“God lives in the touch Of warm, caressing hands Forever serving, giving mueh Of love that understands.
God lives in the taste a and wine, e¢ happiness . ot ot fellowship divine.
~.God. lives in the sun, .. Reflected on the land, And sets ablaze the spectrum rays ..shed from his prism—man, ~—RUBY 8. BUTLER, Franklin. * + 4
THE WILY GOOSE
There are fox and geese on the old school ground, Runping wildly ‘round and {round, Cutting through the circle on rubbered feet, Clapping, shouting—who will beat? 0, you funny, wily little goose-miss, 1 saw you tumble just to get that kiss.
"—FELLEN FRY, "Groanvend:
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and in western Europe.
But it is not too early to bring home to Americans the responsibilities this country must bear for Inducing Norway to join the To join, it might be added, before the alliance has taken a definite form or been accepted by the participating
Atlantic Alliance:
nations of western Europe:
The declaration by the State Department that arms from the United States would go only to countries in the-alliance appears to have been the clinching factor with the Norwegians. this declaration was a prolonged campaign of persuasion on both The Swedes were given a clear intimation that unless they quickly made up their minds to come into the alliance, the U, 8.-would have to decide that Sweden was stra
Norway and Sweden.
tegically indefensible. Note of Warning
FROM one American who knows Scandinavia well has come Lithgow Osbofhe; U, 8. ambassador to Norway from 1944 to 1946 and now head of the American Scand}navian Foundation, has made available to several Senators a memorandum setting forth cogent reasons why the State Department should hesitate before disrupting the unity achieved by the
a note of grave warning.
‘three Beapdinavian countries,
White the die seems to have been finally and fatally cast, the Oshorpe memorandum is important since it underseores so heavily the significance of the step that has been taken. For that reason Mr, Osborne persented two points. for
excerpts are printed héve, Immediate and urgent consideration as follows:
“ONE: Withdrawal of our opposition to a mutual ScahndiIn view of the rugged democratic character of the Beandinavian peoples and their unquestionable ideological sympathy with the West, an independent position for thém In fact, the more ‘neutral’ such a defense pact is, the more it works in our favor in that it furnishes less
avian defense alliance,
seems unimportant.
provocation to Russia,
“TWO: A statement that any western European democracy or group of democracies which is prepared to defend itself against aggression will be eligible to receive military. supplies. should the Scandinavian countries be treated worse in this respect
than Turkey, Greece or Korea”
Doubtful Wisdom
“THE high degree of unity of the northern demgeracies is one bf the bright spots in present-day Burope. It is one of the corner- " stones on which the reconstruction of the continent depends. Its disruption would be unfortunaté for us as well as for Scandinavia. ring one or two more memact seems at the Dest doubt- . |
To destroy it now for the sake of se
ful wisdom and at worst extremely dangerous,”
Regardless of the official terms of the pact, the grave moral . responsibility of the United States, as Mr. Osborne points out, can hardly be overstressed. That responsibility is to the ny of Mam people who for four years endured the sinister tyranny of ant
occupation,
" Soviet Rissa the RFemlii Treas | 00 one may: predict with.any certainty. Their. reaction may well
be one of fear, prompting them te take
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DELAYS IN CONGRESS .
. By Peter Edson
Labor Reform Program Stymied
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 — The Democratic administration should now be plenty worried about its labor reform. ogram; stymied. The case against the Taft-Hartley Act has
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from 40 to 5 cents an hour is confysed by a number of side issues dragged before the House Labor Committee. Broadening of Social Security laws to incfease coverage and benefits has run into tax program difficulties which mean delay. The National Health Insurance bill is scheduled for hearings but is given little chance for passage*this year. Only -positive action which the admipistration can feport at the end of the first two months of this session of Congress is House . passage of a bill to outlaw payment of qvertime on overtime. EY
The Senate Labor Committee's original in-
tention to rush through repeal of the TaftHartley law and passage of the substitute Thomas bill was. defeated. The full month's extended hearings have now been completed, but it is doubtful if the extra testimony any Senator's mind one iota. It only confirmed past prejudices. -
mpromise ayne Morse of Oregon ssible compromise in his proa_labar bill of his own, based
REPUBLICAN Sen. posal to prese
- on modification of the original Wagner Act. If
Sen. Morse can carry along with him sSens, Alken, Ives and a dozen other liberal Republicans, they may be able to, offset a corresponding “number of conservative Southern Democrats expected to vote for retaining the more stringent provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law. Whatever bill the Senate finally passes is going to be hammered out on the floor after a long hard fight. There will obviously be another hard battle in the House; It is doubtful if any new labor law will be ready by April when the
first big union contract negotiations are sched-
uled to begin, Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin's 16 points of opposition to the Taft-Hartley Law were supposed to head.up the administration's drive for repeal, but somehow they did not click. Labor union representatives dwelt on these and other objections based on their experiences under the 18 months -eof Taft-Hartleyism, but -they
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made no particular impression. For one thing, most Republican “Senators stayed - away from committee hearings when witnesses were testifying against the act. Thus Wayne Morse was the only Republican who heard Gerhard P. Van Arkel, former National Labor Relations Board general counsel, tear the Jaw apart by citing instance after instance in which it had hindered instead -of promoted
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peaceful settlement of labor Qisputes by collee- -
tive bargaining.
‘Judas Betrayal’
ON THE other hand, supporters of the TattHartley Law made effective presentations, even
though they were blasted by Sen. Morse for “a |
Judas betgayal of the capitalistic system.” There has been no apparent conspiracy ‘or concertad attion to oppose amendment of the Taft-Hartley Act. But all interested organiza-
tions, following the lead of National Association
of Manufacturers and U, 8, Chamber of Comefce, have been heading the same way. A “Committee for the Pregervation of the Taft-Hartley Act” has started to out releases. Chairman of the committee is William Ingles, Washington registered lobbyist and labor adviser for Inland Steel, Allis Chalmers, J. ‘I. Case, Falk Corp. Foremen's League for Education, American Mining Congress, American Hotel Association, and National Association of Electric Companies.
- Front for Operations MR. INGLES is, in fact, the whole “‘committee.” He merely .picked this name to ‘have a »front for his Washington operations, in which he is given considerable latitude by the companies that retain him. Associated with him in this enterprise is ex-Congressman Gerald A. Landis, Indiana Republican, who-served on the House Labor Committee till he was defeated for re-election last November. Another ex-Congressman who has taken up cudgels to defend the Taft-Hartley Law is exCongressman Fred A. Hartley Jr, Sen. Taft's co-author. He has been retained as Washington representative of Tool Owners Union, Ine, which isn't a union at all, but an association of shareholders. Mr. Hartley will swing into action in time to lobby when the labor law is taken up -by the Rouss...
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| AMUSEMENT. REVENUE. . By Earl Richert Cities Seek New “ey -
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—You folks
admission taxes, In Pennsylvania 166 communities have imposed mission taxes since the legislature twe years : » Pittsburgh and Philadelphia collect a on amusements. : Washington state also has repealed its admission Ax. cities and counties specific authority ts enter this 8 * than 60 Washington cities now impose such taxes. Because gasoline taxes form a major source of state goverds ment revenue,
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‘Direct Primary Law’ y By W, C, Reece, Shelbyville. ~The people of Indiana ought ‘to-hgye & reg. primary law, but that law s not ‘he _fined to the ‘nomination of a few officers, ' : should take in the judges of the Supreme Oorirt. and all the state officers, members of the Jun ) Service Commission. : These officers and th acts affect the people.of Indiana more than others and the people ought to have the to nominate them. A primary law thit requires the voter 10 ‘register his political affiliations 30 days before the primary will reduce the primary to no val as many people” will pot trouble to go to primary to vote. The primary ballot should be printed on one : sheet much in the same manner as the sta
There is no doubt that the politiclans he’ want to continue to hold public office want fg. rétain the convention system: and it looks like that they will have the convention system.: AS the present bill stands it is not & free primary and the people do not want it. They prefer to vote as independents in the election and not Ld . into a hog-tied primary. We don't want the kind of primary law that the politicians have cooked up in this state. Just: tet it die and two years from now pass a free primary law that will let the people say Who shall run for office. 2 » ¢ ®
‘Health Insurance Needed’
By Harley F. Legg, 2318 W, McOarty St. Today we hear and read much of the Amer jean way of Ife. “Free enterprise” is the name many give it: Any encroachment on the Amers fean way is cegarded as socialism and une American. Therefore the “draft” of our youth into the armed forces, the compulsory education of our children is un-American. What? You say thess are for the national}: ! Bodo L i aiso-claim that national compulsory health insurance fs just as much for this nation’s good, I Jas the Blue Cross plan and in spite of this I stil pay out an average of $5 a week for. doctors’ fees and medicines, The average family cannot do this so they must, do without medical care, Wake up, America¥ist We do more than this - for the peoples whom we were at war with a few, years ago, and yet we allow our children to suffer and be ravaged by disease, for to help them by national law would be un-American... . Could -it be that Uncle Sam would catch up with doc on his income tax? This is Brotherhood Meek. and we are our brother's keeper, Hee it or not.
® ‘End Segregation’ By Mrs. Ralph K, Smith, 2158 Shriver Aves One is moved to stop cheering for ‘iN “favorite basketball team and cheer for The Hey editorial, “School Segregation Should ‘The edjtoridl finds no justification : for running two publie school sysiems in Indians, one for Negro children and the other for white children. It gives abundant reason for the Indiana Senate to enact into law the bill which proposes to end the ‘two systems, I wonder how anyone can work for, hope for, or desre one ‘world while supperting two such school systems, The suggestion in the editorial white _ehildren might be injured more by nar: Wha 3s " than Negro children is‘one to ponder, injured more may be debatable. That both injured is undeniable. I hope the Senate congider this and enact House Bill 242 into law. I am grateful to The: indianapolis Times for the editorial,
What Others Say— "in
OUR greatest opportunity and challenge toe day is the peace of the world, We had world leadership thrown at us 30 years ago, and we ignored it.—Sen. Estes D. Kefauver (D.) of Téar nessee. % ® oo ¢
1 HAVE been graduated at a comparatively _ early age to the role of eider statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician who 1s no jonger a candidate for any offics=-Gow, E. Dewey. of New York,
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‘games are just too juic a sour "| Uncle 8am to pass up. . i Juicy urce of revenue for
City officials ‘throughout the
such formal request
he said, “we don’t. have that much room under
It is n the field of admissi drive is now under way to asp that tha Senge
10 leave admission taxes solely to city governments.
The admission tax is regarded as a natural for eiti can be imposed without driving Sw don't have such a lévy.
Treasury Won't Quit
BUT about all that likely will happen is for some more states to vacate their admission taxes in favor of cities: ‘The Treasury Department isn’t in the mood to get out of any
eliminate overlapping. The
ao lo nearby cities which , 4 gout 3 g
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The Ohio legislature in 1947 took the state ont f the | admission-tax field in favor of the cities. y every Ohio city of over 25,000 Result was ean {
population adopted 3 per vent:
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ago passed a home-rule
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there have heen consistent drives to have
a ghost th Sountry are clamoring for ‘the per cent tax on so they can collect that amount for their depleted an | American Municipal Association has made of the federal government.
Uncle Bam, according to a Treasury official, isn’t even toymg with the idea-of giving up a tax which last year netted ‘hima
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"Tells Repu Colleagues Vote for { WASHINGTON, - Sen, Arthur-H. V Mich.) ‘told his leagues today tha to end the Senate’ debate without fe
Bi aki ng a lo issue, Sen. J ony if a test vote is ts ators ‘should vote
“their own convic ‘they should not be
feeling of loyalty It was Sen. Vi
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year that a cloture be imposed only or ~not on motions up. It is this rule
‘tion now wants tt
“Administration ;
asked the Senate
proposed switch |
. that would permit
bate on any issue bill—by a two-thi Since Monday, ators ‘have spok against such a past, they have t: of the Senate's ru filibuster against lation. Sen. Russell B: 30-year-old son—o Huey P. (Kingfis expected to take 1 the Southerners sion. It was to speech. The elder Long, colorful filibusters history, once held hours and ‘35 min
Taxes THE TAX-WE Ways and Means peared to be in no take up Republics & reduction in exc Committee sour probably be sever the group.can ev GOP proposals.
-committee wants |
work: on Presi social security ai recommendations.
~1041 rates.” It s would encourage
“crease unemployr
federal revenues,
King R. T Made Sal
King R. Traub, ‘sity School of Bt and veteran of W been. appointed | sales representative of ‘the City Securities Corp. Mr. Traub, lifelong Indjanapolis resident and graduate of Shortridge High School, is a
He served overseas with the Corps of Engineers for nearly three years. City Securities
son 1s president. Economist 1 To Real Est
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tors, finan - members and bu ists, will address and guests on “ Climate in 1949 Abstract Co. is |
Dr. Nagle 1evington Kiwi Harty Nagle, c “American Activ 1ith District, An . & speech on tl Communism a ' Ica?” during the 15 in Jones Rest AVERAGE AU » ‘DETROIT, M average age of service is 9.3 ye:
eight years; R. statisticians rep
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“I'm going to let it ring a few times! Does he think I'm perched | federal government give up its cent: "ATdea-Nglf-por-gafton tax dng al vs Sele oor a here waiting for him te call?" leave this field to the states, a ——————_——— : : Ready to Make Deal . Ha Local Truck caleulated fashion, they might follow exactly the same course. THE Treasury Department, ®vhich last year received ‘nearly™ #0..3 red wheat, |
Why They could calculate that by
on America for immediate and The supply of arms from
net effect might be actually to ton in Europe.
the Norwegian border, they would frighten Norway into calling
Yet the government would feel under compulsion to respond to Norway's cry for help, As a consequence, arms urgently needed to strengthen western Europe would be deflected to the North. The
projecting their forge right up to
large-scale military assistance, this country is necessarily limited,
saeigthen Russia’s strategic posi-
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$500 milion -from. this fax has indicated it mi .on this suggestion, ll might. tal turkey would net the" federal government just: as. much. probably be a long time before any Ln deal is. oh ya ’ Recent ‘studies of liquor taxation have recommended ’ the federal government and the states continue their se paths on these takes. Tobacco taxes by states and cities have increased so within recent years that federal-state co-ordination now # impo¥sible, according .to- the Tr A recent Treasury Department study also found that” area Say of 4 conflict between- federal and state income taxes ‘Is. a8 appears at first x» t"~thus concluding that present situation is all right. igh ey ost. positive action toward sltmination. of tax sss ‘the states. i CATR
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