Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1949 — Page 10

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Telephone Ri ley 5851 Give LAght and the Peopls Will Pind Thilr Own Way

Wallgren, a Good Fellow, but—

T is unusual indeed for a committee of the U. 8. Senate to vote down a former Senator, for any job in the executive department. Sénators have fraternal feeling for each other, and generally believe that anyone who has belonged to their “club” is gaod enough to handle any other job, anywhere, anytime. If the likeable Mon C. Wallgren, former: Senator from and Governor of Washington State, had been nominated for any other' administrative post, his confirmation would have been automatic and almost unanimous. But President Tru-

man tried to do too much for his close personal and political friend when he named Mr. Wallgren chairman of the National Security Resources Board. He caused the Senate Armed Services Committee to take a close look both at Mr. Wallgren's qualifications, and at the law Congress

passed a couple of years ago creating the NSRB.

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legion, and of an importance whieh transcends both friendThat board, meaning the chairman, is |

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Truman do?

Used Car Bargains

The chairman is the only active member of NSRB. Other members are ex-officio—the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor. Their regular jobs keep them busy.

» AY ~ . » » THE POWERS and. responsibilities of the NSRB— which might have become those of Mr. Wallgren—are

ship and politics. charged with advising the President on all things that should be done in peace to prepare for war—co-ordinate civilian economy with military requirements, stabilize prices, mobilize industries and manpower, build up stockpiles, relocate plants and populations, regulate production, iransportation and economic activities. " That's a big job. i" As Sen. Byrd observed, it called for a man of the caliber

of Bernard Baruch.

Which was something Mon Wallgren wasn't. So the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly

resolved that, although Mr. Wallgren was a good fellow, a loyal and patriotic citizen, and a man of integrity, nevertheless the job called for a “man of wider economic and industrial experience and competency.” :

So Mon Wallgren will not be confirmed. What will Mr. He will not appoint Bernard Baruch. Mr. Baruch has sinned—he refused to serve on the Democratic National Finance Committee. ;

Economy, Too—Maybe

EFENSE SECRETARY FORRESTAL has ordered a}

m2rger of the three separate public information sec-

tions heretofore maintained by the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. This move, which he says has been considered for a rumber of months, seems to have been forced by | congressional protests that rival service press agents have been giving out important military secrets.

Anyway, it's a good move. It should give the defense

department sensible control over release of information.

And it should help towgrd genuine unification of the armed

services by curbing the publicity battle they have been

waging against each other.

THE promise is made, too, that the merger will bring | substantial savings in personnel, office space occupied and |

facilities now duplicated and triplicated. Let us hope so. Some 502 persons are now engaged in military information

the field. That number, certainly, can.be drastically reduced. So the taxpayers may get a break—unless, as much too often happens in such cases, those publicists if any who are dropped by the armed services turn up promptly on the payrolls of other government departments.

WOMETHING encouraging has happened in the used car

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In Tune With the Times +, . Barton Rees Pogue CLASSICAL UTTERANCES

A thing is classicgl when it is of the highest rank. The following remarks made by men I know and made in my presence alone strike me as being in high brackets. The first was by an old man, uneducated and afflicted ‘with a broken voice, We were slowly creeping up a long hill behind an old bay mare drawing a buggy. Just as we neared the top a dim coal-oil light pierced the darkness. It came from his little house by" the side of the road. This house was worth perhaps a hundred dollars—not much more. He said to me: “The light shines out of that window to me brighter than any other light in all the

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We were looking at some new automobiles. I spoke of wanting one in place of my old one. He likewise expressed such a desire. And then he said: “IT have the money to buy one, but the people I live with and work with all drive old cars and I feel if I bought a new one it would grieve them.” This last classic came from the lips of a man nearing death. He was a farmer preacher, uneducated, but once a man of driving power. He said: “I never could preach much; but it was sweet to try.” ~BARNEY ANTROBUS, Crawfordsville.

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PINE TREE ON THE HILL

A rugged warrior in armor you stand A-top a wind-blown hill; Resisting the wrath of the elements With ever a marvelous skill.

To defeat the ages’ chase, You grasp the lightning in your fist And hurl it back into space.

With equally sheer delight you croon

To the murmuring waterfall; As gently touched by the sweet. soft wind Or the sunlight's dancing call.

Oh, what majestic strength is this That makes you so supreme? Is it your patient persistency To live, and think, and dream”

~JUNE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis. * % o

STRANGE!

We've faults and so we must admit, Also excuses built to fit, But other's faults that we may see, It seems we treat most diff'rently.

—H. E. DROLL, Kokomo.

MILITARY JOB... By Jim G. Lucas

Arms Problem

~WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—In: the Pentagon, North Atlantic defense plans have moved from the “if” to the “how” stage. That will keep some lights burning all night for months to come. Defense men know there will be a North Atlantic pact including Denmark and possibly Sweden and Iceland in addition to Norway, Canada, France, England, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Once the pact is signed, the military's job begins. So far, the U. 8. has discussed military supplies in generalities, Our contribution has been measured in dollars. Before the pact means anything, the military must break that down into tanks, guns, planes, nuts and bolts.

No Solution in Sight

THE FIRST problem—and a solution isn't in sight—is arms standardization. There are as many kinds of arms as armies. Each has its own weapons—the result of tradition, experi‘nce and geography—and wants to keep them. A change would mean not only retaining of troops but a change in staff thinking, which might be even more difficult to bring about. Melvin M. Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatic, Inc, says the arms we furnish our allies must “be of substantially U. 8. design. - We do not want to pay for arms of no military value to ourselves.” It looks easy on paper, military men say, but standardization is more difficult in practice. It took the United States, Great Britain and Canada 40 years to get together on a standard screw-thread. Russia has an arms standardization problem, too. She had equipped her satellites with some Russian small arms, but there is still much German and Czech stuff behind the iron cur-

tain. It will be years before the Soviets get off

market. It's something the public apparently has not |

found out. Used car prices have come down to the point where, in comparison with new car prices, there are bargains on almost every lot. Cars which only last vear brought from $1700 to $1000

Co ) ) ) ) _ | the horns of a supply dilemma as sharp as ours, activities in Washington alone, to say nothing of others in | ’

military men believe.

SPLIT IN CONGRESS... Charles T.

Truman's Plans Fade

WASHINGTON, Mar, 21—Harry Truman never will recognize what he gets out of this Congress as any close kin of what he asked for in his state of the union message only a few weeks

ago.

On the word of leaders who know their Congress best, it will not represent absolute zerp for him—but he may think it does. There is no notion, among Republicans or anti-administration southern Democrats, of formalizing.the coalition which has taken the Truman forces to the cleaners in recent days. active and formidable on many issues, though,individual Senators may shift from one measure to another between now and mid-

summer adjournment.

On the South's side there will be leadership from Sens. Harry

~ world.” The second was by a man of near forty. |

Stirred by one resolute purpose and aim— mT

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—Fifty-one Republican Congressmen, sparked by Rep. Robert Halle of Maine, recently sent a letter to President Truman asking seven pointed questions about U. 8. policy on China, The letter was never answered, so Mr, Haile has now made it public.

of his seven questions: Does the U. 8. consider it has met its obligations to China under the Potsdam and Yalta agreements? , , . What does the U. 8. government intend to do to make Russia meet its obligations to China? , ., What is present U. 8. policy toward China? ... To what extent is it based on the Wallace report .of 19844 and the Wedemeyer report of 1947? . . . What changes are contemplated on present policy toward China? . . . Does the administration intend to support elements in China which are resisting subjugation of that country by Communists? . . . If the Chinese government brings the matter of Communist aggression before the United Nations as a threat to the peace, will the U. 8. government support its action? These are all good, tough, leading questions. There is no use suspecting the motives of the 51 Republican Congressmen who asked them. They are genuinely concerned about the Chinese situation.

Politics Involved Also THERE is, of course, a domestic American political angle to this business. All Republicans from Gov. Dewey on down.have used the Chinese issue to beat the Democrats over the head and to cause them as much political embarrassment -as possible. That's all right, too. It's politics and fair game. But in this process an amazing amount of misunderstanding has been built up about U. 8. responsibilities to China. Also, an amazing amount of misunderstanding in China has been built up about U. 8. responsibilities to China. It has been generally assumed by people

«hipped on this Chinese question that the United «States has guaranteed for all time the inde-

pendence and integrity of China. The United States has fostered the independence of China ever since the founding of the “open door” policy in the 1840's. But it did this as much to protect the rights of Yankee traders and American missionaries in the for-

eign concessions of China as it did for the good of the Chinese themselves.

Lucey SIDE GLANCES

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Peter Edson

U. S. Policy on China Confused

Heré—in condensed form—are the highlights

The so-called Nine-Power Treaty of 1923 was supposed to guarantee the sovereignty, independence, and territorial independence of China. But when it was violated in 1931 by Japanese invasion of Manchuria and in 1937 by Japanese invasion of China proper, the other eight powers couldn't do anything about it. They didn’t. do anything about it till Pearl Harbor came along and the U, 8. was attacked. Then the U. 8. went to war to protect itself and to defeat Japan. Liberating China was secondary.

Jap Losses Heavy in China INCIDENTALLY, the Japs lost a million and a half men in eight years trying to defeat China. Is there anyone in the U. S.—Republican or Democrat—willing to send a million and a half American troops to China for eight years to defeat the Chinese Communists? Is there anyone in the U. 8. ready to advocate sending a million and a half or 10% million men to make Russia live up to its Potsdam and Yalta agreements with respect to China? This would involve making Russia return sovereignty of Manchuria to the Chinese Nationalist government. It would involve making Russia live up to its 1945 treaty promising to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Chinese government. How do you do that? Any impartial and independent commission going into China today would probably have to find the country so torn by civil war that {ts report would undermine what little strength the Nationalist government has left. This Nationalist government has proved itself so corrupt, so weak and so inefficient, that it is now almost beyond support. It has lost more battles through its own ineptness than it has for lack of American ald.

Peace Efforts Failed THE United States used {ts best efforts to bring peace to the warring factions when it was invited to do so by both Nationalists and Communists. When, by bad faith on both sides, those peace efforts broke down, the United States could only withdraw from the situation. As for presenting this case to the United Nations, the Nationalists themselves have backed down on making charges of Communist aggression. The question of U. 8. support for charges that don't exist therefore hardly enters into the picture.

strated in {its cities and towns.

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Keep leti¢rs 200 words or less on any sub. ject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

’ Farmers Make Lows ; A City Dweller. : By To Ny Nelghbors: 1 suppose you know that most of the population of Indiana is concen And, of course, you must realize that these people pay most of the taxes. But, do you know who makes the laws for you and men to live by? The farmers and their representatives, Who is to say whether the City of Indianapolis is to have Daylight Saving Time or Central Standard Time? It seems to me the citizens of Indianapolis should decide—not farmer legislators. We pay for the government of this state but have practically no voice in making its laws. Neighbors, why do you allow such a condition to exist? Did you read »bout the “sneaky” way the legislators got around passing any legislation for re-apportionment so that you and I would have more voice in our state govern ment? Well, I read it, and tactics are not what we want; we want yesulla, and some way or we- are going to get them, rey ind income taxes was not the 3 way the people wanted tO get bonus money either—they wanted a sales tax—but the farms ers figured they would “get hurt” more by a sales tax, so naturally they made into a law the lesser of two evils—for them, of course, Nobody thought of taxing their co-ops, which do hundreds of thousands of dollars of busje ness each year—without taxes. The same thing is true of our federal gove ernment. Congress passes laws for the benefit of the farmer. Certainly, it seems to me that this can’t go on forever.

———¥ou city—folks-better wake up before you

selves worse off than the farmers have nd yy put you—"behind the old eight ball.” You pay the bill so you'd better have more voice in the laws that are passed. eo © @

. ’ ‘Veterans Need Pensions ” ‘orld War I Veteran, Knightstown, Ind. By Dos like to reply to Jack Hays, Indiana State Council of the American Veterans Come Be I am a veteran myself, I have particularly noticed this organization knocking what the other three or more organizations have been trying to build up. Yrs organization seems to be against the pension bill for veterans over 65, which is called a wasteful and grandiose scheme’ started by a vote-grabbing politician. - It seems this man doesn’t realize the hard. ship a man goes through when he is past 50, particularly at the present time, and especially too, if he is from 50 to 75 per cent unemployable. It seems practically everybody is able to get some sort of assistance with the exception of World War I veterans. Then when such a bill comes up, there is someone there ready to knock it. If this bill really was not needed, it would not have been put up for passage as a law. I really don’t think this matter as a whole has been considered deeply enough. It also should be remembered that organizations with several million members and as much as 30 years old favor the measure while a small organization only five years old is trying to buck matters. We Americans who fought for our country need just as much assistance as the foreigners do. ® o> ¢

‘Menace of Bad Driving’ By James Brandlein, 4049 Weaver Ave. No wonder there are so. many automobile accidents in Indiana. There are still a few drivers who persist in disobeying the law, or they don’t know how to drive a car. Here are a few ways they can be identified: They have the habit of driving in the center of a double-lane highway or street. They make left-hand turns from the right-hand side of the street and vice versa. They usually use no hand signals but if they do, it's probably the wrong one or too late. Some drivers invent their own hand signals. They are entirely different from anyone else's. Some of these drivers can't even read English. When they come to a stop sign, they think it says “park.” If the police would, enforce these laws or remove thesé drivers from the streets, traffie would be speeded up, revenue would be ine creased, and brakes in my car would last longer. : ’

What Others Say—

YOUNG Republicans should run for every available office from dog catcher up, or give their active and real support to some worthy Republican candidate. . .. Our party has better leaders and better principles, but we have absolutely failed to present them to the grass roots and precinct level.—Ralph E. Becker, chairman, Young Republican National Federation.

By Galbraith | DEFENSE STRATEGY ...By Philip Simms

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Spain’s Key Position WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—8pain’s absence from the Western European and North Atlantic defense lineup is widely regarded here as the most glaring of all existing international inconThe United States and Latin-American countries, at least, are expected to seek a remedy. . Portugal—invited to join in the Atlantic defense treaties made public here today—has protested against Spain’s exclusion on the grounds that it not only weakens the pact as a whole but Portugal's position in particular. : Military experts agree that if Russia attacks, nothing short of the Rhine could stop her first thrust. land superiority, she should be able to overrun Germany and the low countries in a matter of days.

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‘By: Seripps-| WASHINGT nard M. Bau Presidents fro ‘up to but ne Truman, advil day to go slo until they kn world is going Addressing Conference o said that unr were settled “ ors, governors are prisoners ernment. ' Thi because we | alarms.” Mr. Baruct not to get pa ture,” but, he ever your ¢ should be po over-all decis should hold sc in reserve. I those last break the can ‘Mos “You are t all groups, an the squeeze be ing costs, wi seek relief by come, New rare as source Some of tht Baruch said are: “How muc are to go t8 tl how long? . upon contin new commit aid and arma what must be Must we cont! of the burde other nation greater shar Almost fou out, “have p feat of Germ still there is hanging thre penetrates. ev make up oul about this th possible for n private-irndivs to do.” Uncert The same ing to Mr. E - country’s eco “Dire predi voiced that : minent. Th countered b; ments that ne Some warn to prevent d the real dan, tions of a c: that was to “All remen ended. Impr: tistics were ous governm there would | unemployed. these proph had to be mq —more mons incentives in taxes. As yq slashed by a reductions g porations. Lost “To -make in 1948 ther: cut, despite for armame! through th more than § the governr financial po: ing the infla have plague “Whether lowered or what is deci ing. That ! of our probl ernment con military est: matters. “Nothing « cept as it is strategy—a lack.”

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are now tagged as low as $1205. And the new cars which | D.Ga) and, eapeciaion ® a sution. Allen Blnaicorge | and Portugal occupy more. than halt of Eurone. west of the 31 Grade A I find their way to the used car lots carry no write-up in price. | Ga "on the Republican side there will alw es ‘ Rhine, with 232.000 square miles as against France's 212,000. 308 and mo ur What has happened is that the new cars are catching up | A. Taft (R. 0.). _— Franco-Stalin Record Puttertat Ne with the waiting lists, lowering the pressure for used cars. Stymied by Alliance SPAIN is ostracized largely because of Soviet objections. Tora) plant). There was a time, right after ceilings were removed, that MOSTLY in recent years the GOP-southern Democrat al- ) it Her Bren Pre a ode ot vance and u. S. S anything with wheels woilld br ing a fantastic price. Not so lance which has stymied both President Roosevelt and President Stalin: } ’ ¢ the records of Franco an - WASHINGTO

ment expenses

today. Buyers are selective, They buy only quality. rent fiscal yes

Truman has worked negatively—it has batted down administra- Stalin, in August, 1939, joined hands with Hitler to divide up

pared with a Because used car - ; , tion projects as they came along. Now and then it has worked Europe. Stalin was to have Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, half ; C a 8 have had the reputation for being aMmatively as it has on the compromise which smashed the of Poland and other loot. Hitler could takh the rest. The Nazis Exsenses- § , uhreasonably high priced, a good many people have stayed most recent filibuster. attacked Poland from the West, the Red Army from the East Receipts 2 away from used car lots right at a time when real bargains This may happen—Iif the Republicans and southerners have and met at a pre-arranged line about midway. Stalin and Hitler Surplus :

‘Cash Bal : the Jotes they think they have—in writing a new labor bill on Public Debt 2! the Senate floor within the next few weeks. The coalition be- Gold Res,

lieves it has the votes to give the administration a considerable

then announced Poland had been wiped from the map.

The Stalin-Hitler partnership continued until June, 1041, | when the two dictators fell out and fought over further divisioh

are beginning tg appear. . We have it on good authority that the used car market

has had most of the wate - : : mauling and thus hold onto much of the present Taft-Hartley - | of the spolls. - Local Tru deal thinni e wat r squeezed out of its prices and | 4. But mostly it will be a case of following an opposition | a Regarding Franco, Winston Churchill says in his newly — ealers thinning down their stocks, sometimes at losses, to rather than a positige pattern in trying to amend or water down ; al published memoirs: 5 No. 3 white get all or part of their money back. Sc administration bi.s as they come along. halle, , rR a “He thought only of Spain and Spanish interests. Gratitude No. 3 oatar

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On their side, administration leadefs believe the deep cleavage in Senate Democratic ranks can-be wiped out and that there is still hope for much of the Truman progFam. They think it's too early to say they're whipped.

Part of Program

) GOP leaders agree that part of the Truman program will survive. They agree there will be a rent-control bill but it will be modified. They put minimum-wage legistation in about the same | category. They believe bills on housing and federal ald to edu- ' i

‘to Hither and Mussolini for their help never entered his head . - _ | New No.’ 3

Aid to Allies

“NOTHING was easier than for the Spaniards to mount— or allow to be mounted—a dozen heavy guns in the hills behind Algeciras (whence) they could at any moment be fired and our “naval and’ air bases would become useléss.” Morsover, Franco “could have allowed Hitler's forces to traverse the Peninsula, beseige and take Gibraltar ,.. and occupy Morocco and French North Africa.” ; : : a alii Yet, despite Nazi pleadings and threats—since revealed in German records—Franco did none of these things. Instead-— “By subtlety and trickery and blandishments of all kinds,” adds Mr. Churchill, “he succeeded in tiding things over and keeping Spain out of the war to the inestimable advantage of Brite

ain. ' i 2nd other. democracies—to Russia's ad-

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COPR. 1940 BY MEA SERVICE, INC. 7. M. REO. U, 8. PAT. OFF,

Bill Cissell—Chattel

: MAN named Bill Cissell died destitute in a Chicago hospital .the other day and thereby provided the best ~ argument. yet against organized baseball's ‘reserve clause,” that clause converts a human being into a chattel which may be bought and sold for the duration of its usefulness. The Chicago White Sox paid $123,000 for Bill Cissell. back in 1927, but not a penny of that fancy sum went to him, It went, instead, into the coffers of his “owner,” the Portland Club of the Pacific Coast League. :

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will be enacted, but that it will not go as far as the administration wishes. On at as leaders

st two issues any possibility of favorable action, \ it now, seems remote. These are bills providing | for a nationd} systém of .compulsory health insurance and a | thority to impése price controls. But there could be a new bi leaders on the BOFh Atlantic Pact. But from southern Demo- | providing authority to allocate séarce materials—though leaders ‘rats there are mutterings against some specific proposals for | believe the steel situation is much better than it was when conproviding arms and munitions to Western Europe. } 2

Reciprocal trade agreement legislation is an | hich | 17010 EPS aaiced In Jaounry. : : egisiation an issue on whic There is talk—and an active move afoot via petition bein the Democrats probably will close ranks and give the adminis- pe B

pushed by administration adherents—to pledge Co ss to stay It is nice to know, however, that the ‘White Sox have . tration just about what it wants. But re will be determined in session deep into Fron to ol lee vo

cation will be passed. : Affirmative bipartisan action is forecast by + Republican

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: ts legislation. | dors to Madrid. On the other hand, they maintain normal dip J | : hy ; attempts from the GOP side, nevertheless, to write in restrictions. | But even Senate Majority Leader Lucas wasn't idea | lomatic relations with Mbscow and her satellites—that is, save k Le i expenses, Xs There's & broad guess that soe Social Security extension mych encouragement, : wh diplomats have been summarily kicked ou, /

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