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Telephone RI ley 5551 - Give Light and the People Will Pind Ther Own Way

Wallgren, a Good Fellow, but—

T is unusual indeed for a committee of the U. S. Senate to vote down a former Senator, for any job in the executive. department. Senators have fraternal feeling for each other, and generally believe that anyone who has belonged to their “club” is good enough to handle any other job, anywhere, anytime. If the likeable Mon C, Wallgren, formeér 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 Truman 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. ee] 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.

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

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~~ In Tune With the Times

‘Barton Rees Pogue

CLASSICAL UTTERANCES

as being in high brackets, The first was by an old man, unéducated and afflicted with a broken voice, We were slowly creeping up a long hill

as we neared the top a dim coal-oil light pierced

haps a hundred dollars—not much more,

to me brighter than any other Nght in ‘all the world.” The secend was by 'a man of near forty. 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 sald: “T 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.

Stirred by one resolute purpose and aim— 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.

legion, and of an importance which transcends both friendship and politics. That board, meaning the chairman, is | 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, transportation and economic activities. That's a big job. 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 -4Valigren will not be confirmed. What will Mr. Truman do? He will not appoint Bernard Baruch. Mr. Baruch has sinned—he refused to serve on the Democratic National Finance Committee.

Economy, Too—Maybe [DEFENSE SECRETARY FORRESTAL has ordered a morger of the three separate public information sections heretofore maintained by the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. This move, which he says has been considered for a number 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 toward 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 activities in Washington alone, to say nothing of others in 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.

Used Car Bargains

SOMETHING encouraging has happened in the used car. 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 bar_gdins on almost every lot. . Cars which only last year brought from $1700 to $1900 are now tagged as low as $1295. And the new cars which find their way to the used car lots carry no write-up in price.

What has happened is that the new cars are catching up with the waiting lists, lowering the pressure for used cars. There was a time, right after ceilings were removed, that anything with wheels would: bring afantastic price. Not sotoday. Buyers are selective. They buy only quality. “ Because used cars have had the reputation for being unreasonably high priced, a good many people have stayed away from used car lots right at a time when real bargains are beginning to appear. We have it on good authority that the used car market has had most of the water squeezed out of its prices and dealers thinning down their stocks, sometimes at losses, to get all or part of their money back. : -

Bill Cissell—Chattel

A MAN named Bill Cissell died destitute.in a Chicago hos- ~ pital 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.

It is nice to know, however, that the White Sox have .

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, vi, AX ‘ 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 allles must “be of substantially U. 8. design. We do not want to pay for arms of no military value to ourselves.”

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. 8he had equipped her satellites with some

Russian small arms, but there {s still much German and Czech stuff behind the iron curtain. It will be years before the Soviets get off the horns of a supply dilemma as sharp as ours, military men believe.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—Harry Truman nize what He gets out of this Congress as any he asked for in his state of the union message ago.

may shift from one measure to another betwe summer adjournment. * On the South's side there will be leadership F. Byrd (D. Va.), Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.), (D. Ga.) and Ga.) A. Taft (R.

Stymied by Alliance” MOSTLY

ance which has stymied both President Roosevelt and Pres!

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most recent filibuster, - This may happen—Iif the Republicans and

the Senate floor within the next few weeks.

Act.

administration bills as they come along.

On their side, administration leaders believe in Senate Democratic ranks can be wiped out

early to say they're whipped.

Part of Program

cation will be passed.

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leaders on the north Atlantic Pact.

the Democrats probably will close ranks and tration

amvangdd to pay Bill Cissell's fubieral expenses, «|

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| "A thing is classical when it is of the highest rank. The following remarks made by men I know and made in my presence alone strike me

behind an ‘old bay mare drawing a buggy. Just

the darkness. It came from his little house by the side of the road. This house was worth perHe said to me: “The light shines out of that window

It looks easy on paper, military men say,

SPLIT IN CONGRESS... Charles T. Lucey

Truman's Plans Fade

On the word of leaders who know their Congress best, it will not represent absolute zero for him—but he may think it does. There is na 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

especially on labor legislation, Allen Ellender (D. | On the Republican side there will always be Sen. Robert

in recent years the GOP-southern rit

Truman has worked negatively—it has batted down administra-

tion projects as they came along. Now and then it has worked afMimatively as it has on the compromise which smashed the

the votes they think they have—in writing a new labor bill on

lieves it. has the votes to give the administration a considerable mauling and thus hold onto much of the present Taft-Hartley But mostly it will be a case of following an opposition rather than a positive pattern in trying to amend or water down

still hope for much of the Truman program. They think it's too

A | . GOP leaders agresthat-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 legislation in about the same © category. They believe bills on housing and federal ald to eduAffirmative bipartisan action is forecast. by Republican But from southern Democrats theres are mutterings against some specific proposals for providing arms and munitions to Western Europe.

Reciprocal trade agreement legislation is an issue on which

ust about what it wants. But there will be determined from the GOP side, nevertheless, to write in restrictions. - There's a broad guess that some Social Security extension | much

WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—Fifty-one Republican Congressmen, sparked by Rep. Robert Haile 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. « ’ Herein condensed form-—are the highlights 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, 8B. policy toward China? . . . To what extent is it based on the Wallace report of 1944 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.

hipped on this Chinese question that the United States has guaranteed for all time the independence 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 foreign concessions of China as it did for the good of the Chinese themselves.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Peter Edson

U. S. Policy on China Confused

It has been generally assumed by people

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 ft. 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 sec-

ondary.

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? 1s 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 its . repo ould undermine what little strength the Na alist 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 aid.

Peace Efforts Failed THE United States used its 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, .

| To My Neighbors: "most of the population of Indiana is concen«

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject 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’ By A City Dweller. y % I suppose you know that .

trated in its cities and towns. 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 Day=

"light 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 legisla~ tion for re-apportionment so that you and I would have more voice in our state governs ment? Well, I read it, and tactics are not what we want; we want results, and some way or other we are going to get them. Increasing gross income taxes ‘was not the way the people wanted to get bonus money either—they wanted a sales tax—but the farme

“sgrs 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 busj>— ss each yedr—without taxes. ne The oo oe thing is true of our federal gove ernment. Congress passes laws for the benefit of the farmer. Certainly, it seems to me that s can't on forever. Alon city folks better Wake up before you find yourselves worse off than the farmers have already put you—"behind the old eight ball. You pay the bill so you'd better have more voice in the laws that are Jassed. @

. . y ‘Veterans Need Pensions By World War I Veteran, Knightstown, Ind. I would like to reply to Jack Hays, Indiana State Council of the American Veterans Come TI ee I am a veteran myself, I have particu- . larly noticed this organization knocking what the other three or more organizations have been trying to build up. This 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 unemploy+ able. 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 pig foreigners do. “>

‘Menace of Bad Driving’

By James Brandlein, 4040 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 these drivers from the streets, traffie would be speeded up, revenue would he ine creased, and brakes jn 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. !

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

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COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF,

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give the adminis-.

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will be enacted “but that it will not go as far as the administra. |

On at least two issues any possibility of favorable action, as leaders see it now, seems remote. These are bills providing for a national system of compulsory health insurance and au-. thority to impose price controls. But there could be a new bill providing authority to allocate scarce materials—though leaders believe the steel situation is much better than it was when con-

There is talk—and an active move afoot via petition being pushed by administration adherents—to pledge Congress to stay in seasion deep Into summer to consider civil-

DEFENSE STRATEGY ...By Philip Simms

Spain’s Key Positi WASHINGT®N, 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 internationat incon-

The 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. : This makes France, Spain and Portugal important. and Portugal occupy more than half of Europe west of the Rhine, with 232,000 square miles as against France's 212,000.

Franco-Stalin Record

SPAIN is ostracized largely because of Soviet objections. The Kremlin pretends to be horrified over Franco's “collabora tion” with Hitler.

With overwhelming

Spain

Breifly here are the records of Franco and

Stalin, in August, 1939, joined hands with Hitler to divide up Europe. Stalin was to have Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, half of Poland and other loot. attacked Poland from the West, the Red Army from the East and met at a pre-arranged line about midway. Stalin and Hitler 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 division

Hitler could take the rest, The Nazis

Franco, Winston Churchill says in his newly

published memoirs: _ . -. “He thought only of Spain and Spanish interests. Gratitude to Hjtler and Mussolini for their help never entered his head .

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 useless.” Moreover, Franco “could have allowed Hitler's forces to traverse the Peninsula,

: beseige and take Gibraltar . .. and occupy Morocco and French

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North Africa.” ” i ‘Yet, despite Nazi pleadings and threats—since revealed in German records—Franco did none of these things. Instea . “By subtlety and trickery and blandishments of all kinds * adds Mr. Churchill, “he succeeded in tiding things over and keep~ ing Spain out of the war to the inestimable advantage of Brit

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