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North Atlantic Pact THE DRAFTERS of the 20-year North Atlantic Security Pact have done a good job. The final text has been refined by months of negotiations. *It represents the combined best judgment of the principal democracies of Western Europe and North America, of major opposition parties in the various parliaments and Congress, as well as of the eight governments. This historic document—the first trans-Atlantic regional peace-time alliance — has been forced by necessity. It is the price of survival-against Soviet penetration andaggression, which already have conquered Eastern Europe and part of Asia. In answer to that threat the North Atlantic democracies propose to band together in mutual aid and defense to safeguard their common civilization and liberties. Armed attack against one would be considered an attack on all, who agree to resist forthwith. Such is the treaty—obvious in intent, clear in commitment. "Nw : EE ITS CLARITY, however, is smeared by Communist propaganda. And its nobility of purpose is distorted by the short-sighted isolationism and neutrality naivete of | minorities here and elsewhere. So, to prevent confusion, the public should understand what the alliance would not do, as well as what it would do. It would not permit any foreign power or powers to order Americans to fight abroad. That authority remains with our government. Ch It would not infringe the exclusive right of Congress to declare war and to determine the extent of defense by control of the purse. The treaty says it shall be ratified and carried out according to the respective constitutional processes. In joint resistance to aggression; each shall take “such action as it deems necessary” to restore and maintain security. It would not break with American precedent. Its principle of collective security was established by United States adherence to the Inter-American Security Pact and to the United Nations. It would not set aside or undermine the United Nations. It is a specific fulfillment of the United Nations charter provision for regional defense systems within that body. It definitely strengthens the United Nations by citing and reaffirming the charter’s peace principles and the security council's primary responsibilities. Tt would not force Russia into a counter-alliance destructive of co-operation and peace. Stalin long since created a totalitarian alliance of aggression, in violation of his international agreements and of the United Nations, and | has prevented the Security Council from acting. The North Atlantic defense treaty is not provocative—it is in response to continuous extreme Soviet provocation. It would not apply in any region in which Russia's legitimate interests would be challenged. It covers only the North Atlantic and member territories and occupied areas in Europe, French Algeria and North America.

DEAR BOSS . . By rn Kidney vr Halleck Leads House Revolt

“Predicts Truman's Fair Deal 1 Program Will Not Pass ~~

WASHINGTON, Mar. 19—Dear Boss: Harry 8. Truman has a right to squawk when he has a Democratic Congress in which a Republican minority leader-in the House—Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer—wields more power than the President of the United States. Our Charley is one of the principal chefs who cooked up the GOP coalition with the southern conservative Democrats which is strong enough to cause him to openly predict that the Truman fair deal program will not pass, When this coalition kept the filibuster alive in the Senate, until they were ready to compromise and quit,’ freshman Democrat Reép. John. R. Walsh of Anderson cried out in anguish— “The common man's mandate of the last election—to enact legislation that would benefit all rather than a privileged but articulate few —was cynically ignored ..-. ..the Tories And Dixjecrats wif Block civil rights, Taft-Hartley repeal, extension of rent controls, a higher minimum wage, universal. coverage of social security, increased Social Security benefits, crop price support measures, much-needed housing laws, inflation control and health legislation.”

“Ready to Stop Truman TO SUCH a tirade, Mr, Halleck might well shout.“Amen” and mean it literally—"so be it.” Nothing would suit him better. He still thinks the 80th Congress—which President Truman termed “do-nothing”--was among the greatest in U. 8. history ’ It was a Republican Congress and Mr, Halleck was the majority leader. Right now he is willing to settle for the sort of coalition which checkmated the Truman program in the nominally Democratic 79th, however. While laying his roadhlocks, Mr, Halleck takes enjoyment in“fRunting the administration leadership for its failure to get the Truman program passed. He took the House floor and answered a defense of the congressional slowness made by Rep. Percy Priest (D, Tenn.), majority whip, like this— “In my opinion this attempted apology for the record of the 81st Congress to this date is nothing more than a smoke screen to cover up the fact that none of the pledges made to the people in the last campaign, as to what would be done in this Congress, have as yet been carried out . . . :o “I hazard this prediction, from what I have been able to see around, that very few of those pledges are finally going to’be enacted into law.”

Addressed Dixiecrats JUST to help see that they will not be, Mr. Halleck flew down to New Orleans this week and addressed a group of Dixiecrat businessmen warning them that the Truman program means socialism if not communism. They ate it up. “The basic conflict today is not the historic differences between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party ever details of government,” he told the southerners, oy “The basic conflict today is between two distinet philosophies of government. The one emphasizes the government, the other emphasizes the individual. The one advocates more government control and regulation, the other advocates more freedom and opportunity for the individual, The one is a philosophy of state socialism, the other a philosophy of real Americanism. “Whether we are Republicans or whether we are Democrats, whatever our political faith, our creed, our race or religion, above all else, we are Americans (exclamation point).

A Common Love “WHETHER we, are from the North or the South—from Louisiana or Indiana—we have a common love and devotion, and that is to these United States and to the principles of freedom and justice for which she stands. And we have a common task. That is to preserve and to make secure -those cherished principles that make this country the one great hope of libertyloving peoples everywhere.” During the 80th Congress when the Republicans and anti-laber Democrats were passing laws the CIO and Americans for Democratic

INSTEAD OF fearing that this treaty goes too far, | Action didn’t like, Mr. Halleck would say that

the public should worry about its inherent weakness. All | treaties are pieces of paper. Historically, peacetime military alliances are treaties at their weakest. Most of them have aroused false hopes. Few have stood the test. The reality of a defense alliance does not exist on diplomatic parchment. It exists in the will of the people, or not at all. Its effectiveness is measured by the joint manpower and fire ‘power capable of discouraging the aggressor or, if attacked, of destroying him. | Without {hé public will to defense, and without the weapons to win, an alliance is bluff. And of all things in a |

war-threatened world bluff is the most dangerous. Today no European member of our proposed alliance has modern weapons for even a small force, much less one capable of stopping the huge Red army. None except | Britain has even a semblance of a modern air force, and | that one is nothing to boast about. i The value of the North Atlantic Pact will depend on the | speed with which our allies with our help can create an | adequate ‘unified defense without going either militaristic | or bankrupt.

Civic Theater Expansion

ONE of Indianapolis’ oustanding cultural institutions for 34 years. has been the Civic Theater. It has brought to the community the best in entertainment of the legitimate stage at low cost. Like many other institutions of this rapidly growing city, the Civic Theater has reached the point where public demand for its. services has overtaxed its facilities. Directors of the theater project will launch a campaign tomorrow to raise $85,000 to expand the building at 1817 N. Alabama St. and provide a parking lot for patrons. The remodeled building will be rededicated as the Booth Tarkington Memorial Theater in memory of the famous Hoosier author. ! The theater has been self-supporting through all the

the Congress had been given a mandate to do so. He constantly called the Congress “the real representatives of the people” and indicated that President Truman was just a political accident

‘Smart Politics’ WITH President Truman elected entirely on his own and the 80th Republican Congress replaced by the 81st Democratic one, Mr. Halleck takes a dim view of that mandate now ing up with the southerners, he feels that the GOP job is to try and prevent President Truman and his Democrats from doing anything they. promised. Then he will campaign on the failure he has helped cause. That is called “smart politics”—even if it seems smart aleck.

considerable opposition from

Nations. .

| This new world government would have a single citizenship, | with its own legislative, executive and judicial systems, its own defense forces, money, customs and postal systems. It will be argued that if the 80-odd countries of the world cannot now run a successful United Nations organization, it is hopeless to expect that they could get along under a central govern=. | ment ‘as a federal union of states, But this very idea has been growing for a long time and “We feel that now is the critical time to launch this movement for a federal union of mations that sign

the Atlantic Pact,” says Justice Roberts.

‘A Political Issue “AN IDEA of this kind can't get any place until it is a political issue,” Justice Roberts continues. “Now, with the text of the Atlantic Pact announced, it is a political issue. I have been committed to this idea for eight years, but I have been holding back on it until people could begin to ‘My senator is for it’ or ‘My congressman is against it’ and they could begin arguing about it. That is exactly what we want. We want people to talk

about federal union.”

years of existence but revenues from the low-cost membership fees have nof been sufficient to provide for expansion to meet increasing demands of patrons. A donation to this fund is a contribution to an important cultural institution that will pay big dividends in community progress.

That Was Faith

HE nicest story of the week was about the 12-year-old Chicago Boy Scout, visiting in Philadelphia, who caused a sensation when he unlocked Independence Hall -

with a souvenir key his grandfather had given him several

years ago. It's a good thing for this world, where faith is not al-

ways rewarded, that things like that can still happen. We

had a key, too, when we were a kid—the “Official Key to the City of New York.” Had our parents been less skeptical, we are sure we would be sitting pretty today in a Manhattan penthouse, with charging privileges at the Stork Club and free tickets to all the shows, il Ls

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Last year a Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by a majority of the United Nations, and an eminently respectable committee of citizens headed by Justice Roberts, former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and former Undersecretary of State Will Clayton have today practically adopted his “Union Now."

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' ATLANTIC FEDERATION... By Peter Edson

The growth of this movement which Justice Roberts now heads up as president of the Atlantic Union Committee is interesting to trace. Since World War II there have been a number of similar movements like R. L. Whitehouse's “World Republic,” Robert K. Hutchins “Federal Republic of the World,” Cord Meyer Jr.'s “United World Federalists,” Ely Culbertson’'s *Citizens Com

Antedating all these is Clarence K. Streit's “Union Now" and his original proposal for a world “Bill of Human Rights.” Both were considered. somewhat Utoplan if not downright crackpot when they were first presented in France in 1038, Streit for 10 years before had been a correspondent covering the League of Natiohs, He saw first hand the old League's failures and weak-

LAST Jan. 23 Roberts, Patterson and Clayton called their first meeting at the Wendell Willkie memorial Freedom House in New York. With them were Streit, Hugh Moore of Americans United for World Organization, Herbert Agar of the Fight for | Freedom Committee, publisher Gardner Cowles, pollster Elmo | Roper and Walden Moore, secretary, formerly with U, 8. military government in Germany. These nine chipped in the original seed fund to set up their Atlantic Union Committee, now grown to.18 directors and a council of nearly 100 public-spirited citizens, Earl E. Hart of Cleveland, formerly secretary to Justice Harold Burton and Harold Stassen, has been named executive director. Within the near futurs the committes will conduct a drive for

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WINTER PARK, Fla. Mar, 19—When you take a local plane from Miami to almost any other point in Florida, you are likely to see a lot of this state. ne: It gives you a chance to see the extraordinary development of this state. North from Miami you fly over mile after mile of hotels, beach

clubs, tourist courts, private homes, all shining

and white in the sun. Then on the West Coast the pattern is repeated. Spreading out from the Tampa Bay

- area are more miles and miles of beach resorts,

pleasure-domes magnificent and humble.

Measure of Wealth

MOST of these hotels and houses are occupled for less than half the year. That is a measure of the wealth of this country. This vast investment is dedicated to winter vacations or to the winter homes of those who retire to live out quiet lives under the sun. Nor is it dedicated entirely to the “decadent rich,” as the Moscow radio would put 9t. The motel, the drive-in, the hamburger stand have made a Florida vacation available to income groups pretty far down the line. Nothing quite like it ever has been seen before. On the shore of the Black Sea in Russia the Czar and a few of the members of his court had winter pleasure palaces before 1917. Those palaces, or what is left of them, are now available to a very few of the top elite in the Soviet hierarchy when they are in need of a rest cure. The existence of this fabulous winter playground doesn’t prove, sometimes has been said, that all's right with our world on a new acme of perfection.

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THERE are fewer moving vans on the roads these davs, and fewer new neighbors to talk about. ’

® > . A PRISONER escaped from an Oklahoma jail disguised as a barber. Probably talked his way out, > 2 PEANUTS are said to be a good substitute for meat. What we want to know is what's a good substitute for peanuts—at the movies. LE WHEN people get full credit for what they do, they don’t need credit for what they buy.

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‘World Union Debate | §

WASHINGTON, Mar. 19—Ex-Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts’ newly announced “Atlantic Union Committee for a Federal Convention of Democracies” will probably meet with. isolationists and old America Firsters. ‘What the Roberts Committee seeks ultimately is a | central government tor world democracies within the United

membership and for funds to keep up its agitation for a Federal Union of Democpacies until it becomes an established fact. The Roberts Committee is aiming to achieve this goal by easy stages. It has set no year when it thinks world govegnment can be achieved. First step will be to build up public support for ratification of the North Atlantic Pact, Justice Roberts admits that mere discussion of the subject may be all that can be accomplished at this session of Congress. “Whether we could get action this year is still on the knees of the

There will be many charges that this proposal will make ° America surrender her sovereignty. “The United States can't -' yield any of its sovereignty,” says Justice Robérts. “We would A have to amend our Constitution before we could yield sovereignty. by And anything the first conference of nations might recommend would be sent back to the people for ratification. “Even if this conference should decide that a federal union could not be formed at this time, there would be a gain in having the United States take the lead in asking the other democracies

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It doesn’t help families doubled up in small apartments in the overcrowded cities of the north to know that a small percentage of the population can take a refresher in the south. It doesn’t even solve the problem of Florida's

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Capable of Anything

BUT what it does prove;—as though any proof were needed—is that this country.is capable of doing anything it sets out to do. We have the means but we are incredibly behind hand in finding new ways to employ the nation's resources to the full. While that was possible in an all-out shooting war, there are ‘many who have begun to shake their heads gloomily and mutter about inventories piling up and lists of the unemployed growing. It sounds almost as though they wanted to bring about the very thing they profess to dread. They seem to have no faith in the system to which they give lip service. To permit anything like a depression in this country would be the kind of folly that in the history of the dead civilizations of the past has borne the label suicidal. Millions of families need decent houses; millions of children need decent schools and decently paid teachers. Even the political means are at hand in the kind of low-cost housing bill that both major political parties profess to be for. A measure to lift the lowest level of education has similar support. Yet Congress is stalled on a dead center of inaction and embittered futility.

A Good Season

THE prophets of gloom find little to support their depression in Florida. It seems to be generally agreed that the winter season has been good, although almost everyone adds that money was not spent as freely as during the past four or five winters, Those years of the post-war boom could not continue, They were part of an urmatural, unhealthy period when black-market spenders helped to boost inflation. We are still suffering from the evils coming out of that time. Getting down off that dangerous peak of inflation without a fall is certainly not easy. But with a little common sense and good management by business and government, it should bé possible to come to rest on a plateau of high income and high consumption that will mean the fullest use of the nation's power and resources.

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NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

lke Asks War Plan

. WASHINGTON, Mar. 19-—Gen. Dwi AL ' . 1 en. ght D. Eisenhower has told the high command this country can no longer be without a national war plan and he is holding Army, Navy and Alr Force to the fire until they produce _one, it was learned today.

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‘Daylight Time Is Mixup’ By Godfrey Feld, 825 8, New Jersey St. ’ Why does everybody have to get up early just because the golf players want Daylight Saving Time? . Nearly everyone I've .talked to is against Daylight Saving. I'can see no good,reason, for changing the time. It's only natural to stay up later in the summer months, and the extra hour of cool morning sleep is-very good in summertime. Daylight Saving Time is such a mix-up— alone? *

‘Why Inquire Irito Past?’

By Mrs. F. A. Yates, 1837 Medford St. Why are the clergymen against marrying a . previously married couple unless they know all details of the divorce? It ‘seems to me that as long as the applica tion for license to wed meets with law require ments, that's all that’s necessary. This inquiring into the past isn't any of their business, since the judge of the court heard their troubles and deemed it lawful to terminate that marriage. It seems to me that the minister should want to help couples to unite in marriage and try to find the wedded te they previously missed. +

‘Aid for Mentally III’

By Ross G. Kitchen, Indiana Mental Hygiene Society The Times’ graphic articles pointing up the desperate needs of Indiana's mentally ill as well as those afflicted witth epilepsy, rendered a real service in-calling such conditions to public at tention. The next step is to show Indiana citizens what they can do. The article, “Pays in Tear for Law's Delays,” refers to the number of sick people whose chances for recovery are handicapped because of delay in receiving treatment, and concludes, “Like Patty, they have no lobby.” Individuals feel pretty helpless alone, but, joined with others, can be effective. The Indiana Mental Hygiene Society offers this opportunity to all Indiana citizens who really care about what is done for sur mentally ill. <> LN]

‘We'll Vote Next Year’

By Earle L. Lee, 3143 Hovey St No bells to the General Assembly, for there are many ways of selling people out, and the next election will doubtless prove that we, the people, know it. The veterans, as feared, will perhaps receive a costly bonus. I'm sure they will remember it in the election. We, the civilians, having voted for a sales tax to finance the bonus, were ignored by our so-called politicians, and we will remember that in the next election. After being deprived of our majority decision at the polls, most of us, willing to play ball, expressed our willingness for a withholding state gross tax, since the inorease, and were again overruled. Finally, so I understand, the present exemption of $1000 is in danger of being removed and, brother, will that be remembered in the next election!

> oo ee @ ‘Symbol of Mourning’

By Harry Clay, Brightwood Anybody wanna buy a battered white hat? It has that New Deal double-cross crease and is pretty badly soiled. If you don’t have the nerve to wear it in public since the legislature finished its wonderful job of raising sglaries and voting themselves expense money, théh you can put a black band around it and wear it as a symbol of mourning.

What Others Say—

I HAVE a hundred more novels I would like to write (but) the business details of my first book still take all my time. Nobody believes that, but it is true.—Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone With the Wind.” } > eo PERSISTENT attempts to put one group of our society against another for the gain of a selfish few are credting a dangerous national" Qisuaity which this country can no longer afe ord.—Charles E. Wilson, presi ¥ Ord Chall president, General

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IT IS apparent to all that the United States economy has been functioning quite well—not perfectly, by any means, but quite well. For a number of years, in fact, we have operated at more than usual capacity, more than our plant « . . was designed to carry. —Assistant Secretary of State Willard L. Thorp.

Gen. Eisenhower, now President of Columbia

University, came back for eight weeks’ active d , uty as principal military adviser to the Secretary of Defense. Actually, : will Te

He has had the full support of retirin C1 e 8 Defense Secretar James Forrestal and is expected to continue under his sceesaon, Louis Johnson. In effect, he has become our No. 1 strategist— an umpire to settle service feuds even if it means knocking heads

> With Gen. Eisenhower running thin " things, the* joint chiefs of staff —Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Adm. Louis Denfeld—temporarily have pushed aside routine command of the Army, Navy and Air Force to become a top-level policy

Full Time Job

THE ARMY is being run by Ben J. Lawt ins; Air Force by Gen. Muir Fairchild and the on won Arthur Radford. Pentagon sources say Gen. Eisenhower insists that day-to-day operations can be handled by deputies, leaving the top men free for strategy and policy. You'd be surprised, he has implied, how well things will get along without you. Those close to Gen. Eisenhower say he sees his job as helping Gen. Bradley, Gen. Vandenberg and Adm, Dentield write a national war plan which will “particularize in sufficient, specific detail” just what we must do if war comes. . On that foundation, he believes the military then can make

up budgets “not oh a guess but on precise! . EL precisely tn forces required

Told to Forget Figures

HERETOFORE, our M-Day plan has called for 8 division, 837,000-man Army; a 70-group, 400,000-man Air Force and a 14,500-plane, 500,000-man Navy and Marine Eisenhower has-told the joint chiefs to for they rent the result of a realistic study. e forces required may add up to an 18-division Army and a 70-group Air Force, or maybe something entirely differ. ent. Whatever it is, he believes, it will be based on an intelll= gent aay of the defense problems we face. ' . pparently an Air Force conclusion that defense against the B-36, that she won't hat Tard has but that we, on-the other hand, can strike with it against 70 stra tegic targets in the Boviet Union was

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