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| "ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

. Better Safe Than Sorry

“(ON the theory that Russia can’t mount a’ sustained sea

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‘When Hitler invaded Russia, they predicted the Soviets

“yet; But we don’t know they haven't. ~

* This “new weapon” has infinite possibilities, and we have ~~ .- yet to find an adequate defense against it.

~gunik and we lost the Philippines. That should be a warning

“Rit why wait for a crisis? We should have an invasion- |

around a centralized command. That is the basic theory

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Telephone RI ley 5551 Give L4ght and the People Will Find Thew Own Way

(SCRIPPS ~ NOWARD

or air attack against continental America, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have vetoed suggestions for a unified defense command inside the United States, ._ i . That is a momentous decision to base on incomplete information. =~. Our. military leaders in the past haven't won any medals estimating military potentials of the Soviet Union.

would fold within 60 days. We know how wrong they were. “We don't believe the Russians have an atomic bomb,

Their navy is far inferior to ours. But they have a powerful submarine fleet, possibly the best in the world, and submarines always have meant plenty of trouble for us.

> r. - THE SOVIETS have a well-disciplined fifth column in this country. It presents a new problem, one-our military leaders didn't have to deal with in either of the great wars.

We underestimated Japanese air power, and had no unified command at Pearl Harbor. So most of our fleet was

against wishful thinking now, particularly where the security of the Uinted States itself is concerned. ~~ A bad guess about that could be fatal. . In times of crisis a unified command becomes essential.

day program that will move at the touch of a button, built

of our unified dgfense establishment. ae The decision of the joint chiefs is subject to review by Gen. Eisenhower, now on temporary duty as principal military adviser to the President. We hope he vetoes the veto.

Just Punks Ss WHEN Bill Doolin’s gang held up a Rock Island train ‘at the Cimarron bridge in western Oklahoma, back in the pioneer days, the bandits got gold. It was the pay-

for.a mint with their loot. in But when the ultra-modern and latest train robbery occurred on the B. & O. in West Virginia Wednesday night, the youthful bandits went to Washington, D. C., and sought out a pawnshop, of all places. Pawnshops, wherever they may be, are regularly checked by the police. The Dooling kept the gold.’ The 1049 variety were quickly captured, and disgorged.

“So we are compelled to restrain our nostalgic impulses toward the historical parallel. Rather, we must agree with

Dr. J. M. Prendergast, medical director; of the, Chryster— = = zm #

Cdrp., an eye-witness, who described the B. & O. robbers as’ “to young Plinks.” 2 #

" * THEREFORE, this is no time to tarnish the reputations of the old-timers by drawing likenesses—though we must confess that the spectacular cop-and-robber affair does conjure up many names out of a past when train and bank robberies were a profession in the West and when the trains that were held up didn’t have diesel engines, air conditioning and club cars. . But the Dooling and the Daltons, the Yeagers, the Jameses and the Youngers, Dynamite Dick and Tulsa Jack,

”

“Rattlesnake Jim and Arkansas Tom and Henry Starr—

they wére a different breed. And we'd ‘even include Al Jennings—he who later turned evangelist. As for the Washington police who so quickly rounded - up the punks, all credit. But they didn't have the problem that used to confront the Chris Madsens, the Bill Tilghmans, the Bat Mastersons, and other U. £. Marshals in those days of long, long .ago.-

A Project in Citizenship 5 +7 (GIRL SCOUTS in Thdiatiapolis and elsewhere in the world

today are observing the 37th anniversary of their organization. Character building as provided under programs sponsored by Girl Scouts was started in Savannah, Ga., with 12 members back in 1912. Today 1,300,000 girls between seven and 17 are participating in Scout activities all’ over ° the world. wi: ’ ' Girl Scouting in Indianapolis has expanded to such proportions in the last few years that it-has outgrown -wdult leadership. As part of the anniversary observance, a call has been issued for more adult workers in order that new troops can be formed for girls now waiting to join. Volunteers who offer to serve as troop leaders will make valuable contributions toward improving the citizenship of this and future generations of .young people.

Just Too Good—For Us THE New York Daily Worker is incensed because Fred M. Gillies, whom Gen. Clay has picked to revive steel production in Germany, is a works manager and vice president of Inland Steel, which last year reported a 30 per cent increase over its 1947 profit. . : : “An idea of what German workers face under his impending rule as steel production boss in the Ruhr is evi-

dericed By Ms published statement that he expects to jack up Ruhr steel production to 10,700,000 tons within six months time, although the military government in Germany expects that tonnage to be achieved only by 1051," the Communist paper observes. A If a production man did a job like that for the Soviet Union, “Uncle Joe” would give him the Order of Lenin and make him a commissar. : ~

Want to Bet They Will?

| [AST week was the 16th anniversary of the New Deal,

now retinted as the “Fair Deal.” And people in the nation’s capital cleaned their.spec-

. tacles and looked again at a story in their local papers

‘which quoted Democrat Clarence Cannon of Missouri, chair‘man of the House Appropriations Committee, as follows: "We can't go on spending more than $40 billion a year have to cut cut and then cut some

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In Tune | With the Times | Barton Rees Pogue MARCH WIND

I heard a March wind crying cad} Andfelt the rain; ~I knew the wind was sighing .. For Spring again!

: on 1 heard a March wind walling, And knew the snows In the! sun was failing, As winter goes!

I heard an old wind weeping, - A trembling seer— “Awaken! All things sleeping— New Spring is here!” ~PAUL K. McAFEE, Michigantown. * %

~ ' WREN'S WRINKLES Criticism conditioned in evil is generally anonymous. : . . One with his head in the clouds may be looking for the silver ining. . .. Some folks must think that rules and regula--tions are related to yardsticks and watch

than tears. . . . Imagination is necessary; but don’t ‘be so imaginative as to imagine you can Imagine the contents of a girl's imagination, .'+ + Doe Dooper says it's not just. the babies : +i. 14, a man has a woman's intuition he also has her for his wife (or a mother-in-law). ... . Toi job: People with nothing to do trying to mind their own business. . . . “Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.” --Talléyrand. . . . Children can't be angels: none has that kind of forebears. ~LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis. e # 9

) IE_| WERE HE

You say, “I'd do it thus, if I were he.” You'd use a way more sensibly sedate. You'd live his life by doing differently Those many foolish acts you've grown to hate. . ,. In short, you'd banish weakness plus defects, From every fault you'd suddenly win free, If you were only wilful weakling be.

These people we for ridicule select May counter-criticize with their, “If I were ne,” May see the actions, which we deem correct, As dull and lacking gay diversity. Our lives, to them, could seem a futile waste,

A-dreary -burden-lacking their good taste; fo

And they might raise a brow at you and me And say, “I'd do it thus, if i were he.” : . =H. E. DROLL, Kokomo. 0. O

WHEN ROSES ARE IN BLOOM

They's somethin’ kind o' meller g In the sunshine here today : Thet sort o’ starts a feller Jes’ a wishin’ it wuz May, Er ’long in summer, airly, - When the bees b'gin tb zoom; The world’s a bustin’, n'arly, When roses air in bloom!

Up yander in the ellum .. A redbird splits his th'oat In song as though to tell 'um The airth kin shed her coat;— I'll {in’ him in the chorus, An’ fergit the winter's gloom: — Or summer's waiting’ for us When roses air in bloom. -~MARVIN THEODORE 01Y, Seymour. ® .

A LITTLE BIT

le. You can do a lot of eating ols With a little bit of cooking; 4 You can do a lot of seeing Something Wrong

With a little. bit of looking. ~ROSE ELLET BOUSE, Indianapolis.

“IN RETROSPECT

A streamer of the sun slides through the narrow glass, A ribbon bright and warm but not so very wide; This stingy window bargains with the light As if it, too, were penny-wise and citified.

No sound of laughter stirs this sad, uneasy place— : : Only the sullen mumbling and the restive beat Of trekkers on the busy walk below, Only the rude and jumbled jargon of the street. vy 08 . . .

And as 1 sit here in this little spot of sun ~ame,-1-think of -one-thing-~only. one:

The pink-cheeked clover and sorrel running wild. ~-NORA ASHMAN, Indianapolis.

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Why. wonder what made this country great, There's no need to argue, brother, ‘ It was a boy named Bill and a girl Nan . That thought the world of each other, ~ =F.P.M., Indianapolis.

HOGVER REPORT . . . By Marquis Childs

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WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—The Hoover Commission has released one after another of its monumental reports analyzing the departments that make up the colossus of the federal gov- | ernment. In these thousands upon thousands of words 18 a chart | -for reshaping the government along more efficient and eco-

nomical lines.

But one report has been held back thus far. It is so charged commission apart. what is moré, its release may ~arry the controversy into Congress and thereby perhaps undermine much of the great potential good Inherent fn the Hoover Commission reports. f The report that has stirred so much feeling deals with re- | volving funds and business enterprises of the government. The section in-the report.that is stirring such sharp differences con-

with controversy that {t has torn the

cerns the federal development of public power.

Public Interest Keen

IN THIS column I want to discuss the Hoover Commission's stand in relation to the future of public power. As the campaign of last fall proved, this whole question of the development of great natural resources.is one in which the people have the keen-

est interest. : >

The commission originally hired the firm of Haskins & Sells ’ to prepare a task: force report on public corporations and par-

ticularly on public power,

Their point of view is naturally that of privdte utility opera- | tion, The recommendations contained in their task force report . were for the most part directly opposed to the tenets of public power development as represented in TVA and such great west. | Their report recommended-that “wherever feasible power produced at government-owned hydroelectric projects be sold at the bus bar.” This would mean that'power produced by the gov ernment at very low cost would be turned over to the dam for

transmission and sale by private utilities,

Along with. thi ‘went a recommendation that “the rates for the sale of electric energy generated at government-owned hydroelectric projects be not considered as a ‘yardstick’ for comparison with the rates charged by private industry.” The “yardstick” approach. has been back of TVA and the other big dams, the theory being that if the government could produce low-cost power, then the private utilities would have to follow along and

reduce their rates, ;

Attacks On Public Power

THE Haskins & Sells report also proj

Reclamation. ! .

Both in the Haskins. Sells report and in another task force report limited to water resources projects, prepared by A. B. Robconsulting engineer, there are thinly dis-

erts, & Cleveland, Oho, guised attacks on the public power concept.

"Chis happy change has come about principally through the creation of a new type of Republican Policy Committee and a brandnew Zommittee on Public Information’ This latter group is now talking about hiring a topnotch public relations man. to direct a $200,000-a-year ‘campaign to tell the country just what Republican policy is on every issue that comes up, and sell the voters on it. These developments amount to almost a revolution in the conduct of Republican affairs in Washington. - _ When the 171 Republican congressmen elected last November came back to Washington at the turn of the year, they were a pretty dispirited bunch. They had lost 75 of the 246 seats they held in the 80th Congress. About 60 of those seats had been held by congressmen who thought they didn’t run the slightest risk of being re-elected. Their chagrin at defeat was ter-

: THOSE who came back realized fully that something ‘was wrong and that something had to be done. In the Senate, a small group of self-o. styled liberal Republicans tried to stage a pro~ test against the old guard by nominating Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., to run against Robert A. Taft for the minority leadership. That proved to be a futile gesture. Also, it split the party. House Republican leaders decided the job had to be done some other way. ; "First Republican caucuses on the House side fumbled around, but finally produced -a constructive suggestion to abolish the old Steering Committee and set up a new Policy Committee. Previously the Steering Committee had been selected more or less by seniority. Nobody ever knew exactly who was on it, and it never functioned as a policy-making group. Usually the various committee chairmen made their own policy in their respective fields. In setting up the new GOP ‘Policy Committee, it was decided to junk this antiquated machinery. The new committee was based o graphical distribution. Excluding the De jc solid South, the U, 8. was divided into eight

Republican congressmen from each of these districts were told to meet and select a specified number of members for the Policy Com-

MINORITY PARTY . . . By Peter Edson

Push GOP Opposition Program

WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—Gradually the Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to be getting orgahiagd as an effective mi-

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x one reason the GOP made such a poor showing |

mittee. The average was one for every i2 GOP Sonpresamien Three more members were elected publican Committee on Committees. Then five party leaders were made members ex-officio to complete the roster of 22.

‘Policy on Every Issue

THIS Policy Committee has been in exist. ence ‘only a month and so far has taken definite action on only one thing. It has recommended a decrease in excise taxes on transportation and a few luxury items. But the plan is to have this committee shape and state GOP policy on every issue that comes up. There is no intention, however, of making the Policy Committee decisions inding on all Republicans in Congress. Every congressman will have absolute freedom to vote as hessees fit. When the Policy Committee reaches an agreement on any issue after full discussion in minority caucus; the next job will be to make this policy clearly understood by the country at

Republican congressmeél now belleve that |

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“Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub ject with which you are faniiliar. Some letters

used will be edited but content be Sree. ‘served, for here the People Speak in F

. Ty yihis ‘Handicaps of Two Party System os Bowman, 2831 N. n St. Loe » The much. talked of two-party system has its drawbacks as well as its merits. The two: system is mostly responsible for our donothing legislative bodies, When there » a Congress composed of members of our two great -parties, it becomes a house divided against itself; and publi¢ “welfare is put aside: Regardless of what a party advocates, the meme bers of the opposité party are against it. Eve ervthing possible is done by each party to keep the other party from fulfilling its campaign promises regardless of the benefit .to the public welfare of such legislation. Party members are .more loyal to their party than to the people who “elected them. Their sole purpose seems to . be party welfare instead of public welfare. . This condition of affairs, coupled with thosp promoting the cause of special interésts, puts public welfare in the background. ‘This-is 2 mostly to the personnel of the members wi get elected to these bodies. Many of them are professional politicians concerned more abot thelr own interests and the interests of the party and the special groups they are serving than they are in the interests of the public, Voting on bills without even reading thei. or hearing them read proves this assertion. - Every Congressman who has been guilty of such tactics should be eliminated from holding public office when he comes up for re-electiofi, The political maneuvering in our presérft state legislative bodies has been a disgrace to the State of Indiana. But the voters witl-have a chance to rectify that mistake in the next general election, and they probably will be governed accordingly. * <¢ 9

| What Is American Way? | By K. L., City.” Hi | Since when has it become un-American to | be “good samaritan” to our own people? We feed and clothe foreign peoples with our taxes but when we want to solve human problems at’ home, our people are told “it is the American way to settle their own problems.” They are “free; -they-are told, when they are in need. The national budget does not bother anyone when it comes to war materials. Every year we Junk billions of dollars worth of goods to make way for up-to-the-minute planes, etc. You cannot ‘pound character inte ill people, nor can you cure them by flag waving. The world is more complex now than ever before. We must learn to live together in this “small world” and+tb do this we must through collective effort work together to settle human problems, As to what you call “gimmies,” you must mean the veterans, polio patients and all {ll people who are cared for from the federal and charity funds raised. None of these people choose to be ill. Shall we let them out to “settle their own problems” the “American way?” Why bother - having any government at all, as in many ways we are all “gimmies” from tax moneys? . inn To many, a major illness is a financial catas-. trophe. By. collective” effort through nominal taxes we could do away with begging in theater lobbies, on the streets, etc. Or is begging this way, instead or socially organizing and solving | a problem. the “American way”? If not social-

| ized medicine, what? No one cares what it's called Just so the ill are taken care of.

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“that consideration be given to abolishing the reclamation fund. originating out of the sale of public lands, is one of the sources of money for Irrigation projects constructed by the Bureau of

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understand the party's cahdidate Dewey's campaign vagueness may have been partly responsible. This uncertainty has carried over into the present Congress. For instance, on the one major issue thus far decided in the House—extension .of reciprocal trade agreements—the Republicans voted almost solidly against it. But they never did make clear to ‘the country why they voted as they did or what the party pol-

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individual recommendations which may or may/ not ignore

Public Information ~

, TO CARRY out this assignment on future issues that arise, the Republican Committee on Public Information has been appointed. On it are Republican leader Martin, Auchincloss, of New Jersey, Boggs of Delaware, Brown of Ohio, Case of South Dakota, Ellsworth of Oregon, _Hall of New York, Halleck of Indiana, Jensen

Thus far the committee has been concen- . trating on trying. to find the right man to run its” public relations program, : - But the naming of this new-type Policy Committee and the Public Information Committee to publicize policy deéisions are probally the best political news in Washington, where the. need for a strong and vocal opposition to th majority has long been felt.

By Galbraith

up to this point, commission recommendations had carefully avoided palitical

But the real outburst came from forthright Sem. George Alken, Republican, of Vermont. Like most congressional mem‘bers of the Commission, who carry a half dozen jobs, had not got around to reading the task force reports.

, Mr. Alken

“we will stir up such a row that all our recommendations will . be ignored and the work of the Commission will go for nothing.” After a long and Ditter argument a tentative compromise was agreed to, The commissioners are to be free to

their

position.

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> Views on the News By DAN KIDNEY WHO says thé Communist party line. is the same all over the world? In New York City the Commies are screaming for a “fair trial” I $d THE House passed a bill to “strengthen the intelligence service” by a vote of 348 to 4. Mayhe

the four should have a special bill to strengthen their own intelligence. ; * @ @ bis

PEARL BUCK urges schools to abolish home work. Most parents feel that their children are handling that. *L © o . WHEN President Truman was awakened by & 17-gun salute at Key West, he went right back to. sleep. Probably just showing what an old Army artilieryman thizks of Navy shooting. LB

eee REP DANIEL-A- REED RNY) has in ‘troduced a bill to restore the gold standard. Most people are satisified with any money the income tax man wil} take, - : >. & : 5 THE Sountry could help its natural shortage by building a Big Inch the U. 8. Senate. 2 8 Pipeiine. 1s

; *'e 9 PARAGUAY will hold its scheduled “free election” in April. The Army is ready. y —————" . " em sp a——

DEFENSE DEALS . . | By Jim G. Lucas °

Victory in ‘Defeat’

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—Uncle’ Sam's diplomatic “defeat" a Yeap ago by a small Central American republic which doeshit even have an army is paying dividends today in negotiatio a North Atlantic Pact. y ® ™ goo] Smaller nations . usually are uneasy about entering. into “military alliances with bigger powers, They fear that bases, once given away, can never be recalled. : ai In this case, however, several smaller nations—Luxembo the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway-—are negotiating a pa with the world’s greatest military power and have shown signs of fear or reluctance. Norway—not originally included-w *

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literally invited herself in.

Asked U. S. to Leave " =

COMPETENT sources say a diplomatic incident involving the United States and Panama early in 1948 may be the reason, Here's what happened: In 1942, Panama gave us 134 bases outside the Canal Zone, to be held until “one year aftér a definite. treaty of peace™ Dae was Rio Hata, on which we spent millions building a Base. : : * One year after V-J-Day, Panama asked us to leave. Whe dla Jot agree with Panama's interpretation of the treaty. Affer 5 months’ negotiation, the Panamanian president agreed to-a new one. However, the National Assembly overruled him and turned it down. : - Promptly—with no display of {ll-feeling—~the United Staths pulled out. In effect, we said: Okay, it's your country, and you can do as you like, If you don’t want us, we won't stay -

APPARENTLY, that incident is more reassuring to o countries than any written guarantees we could give. Obse say those countries are convinced now they can deal with the United States in good faith; that we will respect their integrity. Undoubtedly, the United States could have retained Hs Panamanian bases by applying pressure. Loss of Rio Hata wasg— ‘and still is—a military handicap. But our prompt acceptance of the Panamanian decision—at a time the North A Pact had not been discussed-—may be worth now several times what it cost us, a Pact negotiations will enter a new—and more delicaté— phase. An Informed source said representatives of the United . , States, Canada, Britain, France, Norway and the Benelux ‘powers probably would agree then to invite several other nations into the pact. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said they already had agreed on the list. He did not name them, but’ a Serial invitations will go to Italy, Denmark, Portugal This source said invitations had to bé¢ handled The United States int: of pressuring ‘others to sign. Copies of the pact—which makes clear the

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