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‘Why Seek Ye the Living... ?’ INCE this is Easter Sunday, there is no harm in hoping “that the weather will be fine. It is not, we think, irre‘ligious to suggest that it is pleasanter to go to_church when the sun is shining: £5 Good weather, after all, goes well with Easter Sunday, which is a day of hope. Things being as they are in this world, it is pretty tough to be hopeful when one’s Easter bonnet is drooping damply. : It would be good for the world in general and Amerfcans in particular, however, to pay special attention to today’s gospel.

. . ” . LUKE tells the story of how Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary, the mother of James, went to Christ's . gepulchre to anoint his body and found he had vanished. They were greeted instead by an angel of the Lord, and there was in his words a kind of sorrowful scorn for the lack »f faith among ordinary mortals. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” he asked them. There is no better lesson for the peoples of 1949 than the admonition of that Angel of the Lord, standing in all his shining glory in a dark Jerusalem tomb, and prociaim-. ing that men would always find Christ among the living. Peace, too, is for men of faith—forward-looking men. It will never be found by seeking it among the dead issues

of wars long past.

‘Keep Our Powder Dry (CONGRESS has authorized $5,580,000,000 to continue the European recovery program for the next 15 months, and the House has voted a $15,000,000,000 appropriation — ~ $630,000,000,000 more than President Truman asked — for : We believe in both these programs. But we think both appropriations skould be cut enough, at least, to cover the cost of arming western Europe. id bos * Findings of the Hoover Commission task force which surveyed the domestic defense budget indicate that there must be a lot of fat in that $15,000,000,000. Paul G. Hoffman, the ECA chief, while favoring the full amount authorized for European recovery, has said that falling prices may make some savings possible.

» ALL three programs — domestic defense, European recovery and arms for western Europe — have to do with the so-called cold war. We are not likely to win that war, and prevent a hot war, by going broke. Tho best Way a. keep aur powder ds i» to maistuis solvency in the government, to avoi . ing tion and to preserve economic health — all of which points "up the need for a balanced budget, next year and in the years to come. x Ga : Meanwhile, future requests for funds should be better documented than was the case with the present military budget. Herbert Hoover and his colleagues have done a great Service by exposing the careless way that budget was thrown together.

Mr. Taft to the GOP 5x SEN. TAFT of Ohio gave his Republican colleagues sound advice, we think, when he told them that blind opposition to all social-welfare legislation would, head their party for political suicide. se “If you deny the Republican party's interest in the welfare of the low-income people of this nation,” he said, “there soon won't be any Republican Party.” But Mr. Taft made it plain that he was not for trying to _ outdo the Democrats with gaudy promises; nor for making the American people wards of the government in Washington: not for saying “me too” to President Truman's program, which he believes would create a “welfare state” and * lead to “complete socialization.” ; 3 = ® » » ' HE ADVOCATES federal aid to housing, health and education, for example, but wants to avoid federal controls and regimentation by making the states and cities primarily ‘responsible for its administration. And, recognizing that _ the Federal Treasury is not an inexhaustible well of funds,’ ‘he proposes relatively modest expenditures. "Sen. Taft has never been one to seek an easy road to political popularity. He is not doing that now. His proposals

undertake major responsibility for planning, directing and financing everybody's welfare, through a handout program run from Washington. His contention is that Republicans cannof save their party or the free-enterprise system by ignoring the legitimate desire of millions of peoples to enjoy more of that system’s benefits, by fighting all social-welfare proposals of the Democratic Party and offering no alternatives, by insistingstubbornly that the federal government should not concern itself with such matters. ng And in that contention he is right.

Good Man Needed = R more than three months now the United States Atomic Energy Commission has been minus a member. * The law says it shall be a five-man commission. But since Dec. 21, when W. W. Waymack resigned, it has oper“ated as a four-man commission. And the four remaining members are overburdened. * Obviously, President Truman is having difficulty finding the right man to succeed Mr. Waymack. The job is one of the most difficult in the government. The commissioners are responsible not only for the

~— ufacture of the stuff that goes into atomic weapons, our : first line of defense, and for nonmilitary operations in the y atomic fleld. : i : \ .' Mr, Truman, with a" fine sense of propriety, ignored

es political considerations. stions. when he nominated the first fiveWe hope that he soon will nominate to complete the

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Plan Stressed

Mohsignor Says Bottom Standard Of Living Must Be Improved

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—Dear Boss: This

Owhat niished ndianapots Times Publish. mg Cop ats W Maryiand Si. Posial Zone Member of | week I (and several hundred others) had lunch-

eon at the National Press Club with a man who doesn’t believe in that old copybook slogan— “There is lots of room at the top.” He not offly doesn’t believe it, but in his afterluncheon speech termed that lots-of-room-at-the-top stuff “the biggest lie ever told.” This is how he summed up the case against it: >

gest lie ever told, for exactly the opposite is the truth. There is lots of room at the bottom and

to mike the bottom fit to be there.” Sounds heretical, doesn’t it? Bit our speaker was a Catholic monsignor, which should be sufficient guarantee of his orthodoxy. Certainly he is nq Communist. Should the House Un-Ameri-can Committee suspect him for attacking one of our great go-getter slogans, he is beyond their jurisdiction anyway. :

Self-Owned Security MSGR. M. M. COADY is a Canadian. He is the man who carried the co-pperative idea throughout the maritime provinces of Canada and lifted a whole down-at-the-heel community into the self-propelled and security of the now famed co-ops of Antigonish, Nova Scotia: Re As extension director of St. Francis Xavier University, Msgr. Coady spread the techniques of co-operation through his adult education programs until more than 100,000 now are participating and their incomes and living standards have increased many fold. These farmers and fishermen now own their own businesses co-operatively and the Antigo nish movement is under consideration by the U. 8. State Department and United Nations as a pattern for the development of under-developed areas under President Truman's four-point program, The courtly title of monsignor rests rather lightly with Father Coady. He is an humble man with the weather-beaten look of his own : people, reminding one that Jesus chose his 12 apostles from among such fisherfolk, His kindly eyes lit up when he said seriously that he considered the rise of the U. 8. A. as the

greatest historical force for good “after the birth

of Christ.”

Social Blacksmiths “THERE are two tragedies that face our time,” he warned. “One is that this good civili-

- zation might pass away and the other is that

the people everywhere might not get the opportunity to develop their great potentialities. “The danger comes from: the great social blacksmiths of a new order who are forging rings for people's noses so that they tan be for“ever enslaved. What we need to fight them now is positive action in the realm of social ideas and ideals, We must mobilize In zones that are big enough to be significant—yet small enough to be manageable.” . Antigonish is such a zone, he sald, and explained In detail how democratic action in the field of economics has brought about a better way of life there, Within a decade there has been built up, in a 4000-square mile area, 450 credit unions, 210 stores, a $10 million annual wholesale business and a $3.5 million dollar fishing corporation—all owned by the workers. “The things we do will determine the kind of people we will he,” Msgr, Coady concluded.

Different Problem

HE admitted that urban living poses a somewhat different problem from the one he has helped solve at Antigonish-—because “farmers and fishermen are more philosophical” than city folks. The co-operative idea of men working and owning together will work here halso, he insists, Another speaker at the luncheon wis Sen. Hubert Humphrey, “who needs no introduction,” according to the invitation sent newspapermen by the Co-operative League of the U. 8. A., which sponsored it as part of a three-day meeting here, The former mayor of Minneapolis looked like a city slicker alongside the monsignor. He launched into a Fair Deal campaign speech which would have been more fitting for the Americans for Democratic Action of which he is national president. Luncheon managers had to cut him off so that those present could get back to work. He hadn't reached the subject of co-operation—but

| he certainly proved he is a great “liberal.”

Barbs—

A TENNESSEE man was not his brother's keeper. He turned him in to the cops for a $100 reward.

~ eo ole IT'S OKAY for a doctor t6 add 10 years to your life if the bill for it doesn't take away 20. : ® ¢ & ; IN selecting hair shampoo, remember that you use it in the eyes as well as on the air.

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—The award of the week for blocking and tackling and general all-

from Nevada, Sen. Pat McCarrane Althoiugh the competition has been keen, Sen. McCarran came through in splendid form, leaving the field far behind. His outstanding achievement is in bottling up the proopsal to change the displaced persons dct. For nearly four months as chairman of a subcommittee supposed to consider the matter, Sen. McCarran has done nothing. In spite of repeated pleadings and proddings, no hearings have been held and none have been scheduled. Sen. McCarran is now in Nevada, presumably telling the 75,000 voters of that

Senate, how hard he works in Washington. The latest prod came from five Republican Senators, Ives of New York, Ferguson of Michigan, Smith of New Jersey, Morse of Oregon and

quite exceptional for that cozy club; the U. 8. Senate, when they wrote to Mr. McCarran to ask him gently and respectfully but nonetheless firmly to get a move on,

Jenner One of Helpers

THEY might have added, of course, that the indifference and unconcern of the two Republican memb@s of the committee, Sen. Donnell of Missourl and Sen. Jenner of Indiana, have helped Mr. McCarran. The only members of the group who seems concerned is Sen. McGrath of Rhode Island, and his attitude toward Mr. McCarran is that of a swimmer who encounters fn the surf a stinging sea nettle. Better let it alone if you don’t want it to sting you again. While the voter's memory is notoriously _ short, it can hardly have been forgotten what an Important issue this was in the campaign Jast fall. West Virginia’s Chapman Revercomb had bulldozed the Senate into accepting restric tions in a displaced persons law aimed at Catholics ‘and Jews. # As a result of those restrictions, only 14,468 DP's hive come in since the act was adopted last June. GOP Candidate Thomas E. Dewey refused to go into West Virginia to speak for Mr. Revercomb, who was defeated. Sen. McCarran’s stubborn sit-down is pointed up by what the House is doing. A House Judiciary Subcommittee has approved changes that would correct most of the injustices in the present law, eliminating the requirement that

round obstruction must go to that stout citizen

state, who have three times sent him to the

Saltonstall of Massachusetts, They took a stép

CONGRESS . . . By Marquis Childs or Blocking Tactics Choke Senate

30 per cent of persons admitted must be of an agricultural background and 40 per cent of Baltic origin. Majority Leader John McCor-

mack has made it virtually the first order of

business to push for a more just law. The House group approved moving the “cutoff date” from Dec. 22, 1945, as it is in the present law, to Jan, 1, 1949. This would make it possible to admit those who have fled from Iron Curtain countries to refugee camps. since the end of the war. :

Bad Example to World :

THIS country is setting a miserable example to the world. Smaller countries—Sweden is one —have taken in refugees in far greater numbers in proportion to their populations. Thousands upon thousands of victims of war and dictatorships have spent years behind the barriers of despair’ in overcrowded camps. _ If the Senate would act, the Displaced Persons Commission in the State Department is prepared to increase quotas rapidly.’ Beginning in July 16,000 persons a month would come in. Award winner McCarran has another claim. He contributed his share toward stopping the pay of Reclamation Commissioner Michael Straus and Straus’ assistant, Richard Boke. Mr. McCarran was helping his friend, Sen. Sheridan Downey of California, whose special and passionate mission it is to purge Mr. Straus and Mr. Boke. Pointing out that his committee—~Judiciary could demand and get FBI reports, Mr, McCarran proposed that three Senators be named to call on President Truman to renew the request that the White House furnish such reports to the Un-American Activities Committee, covering particularly Mr. Straus and Mr. Boke.

Laughable Trivia

THIS, it should be noted, was just after the Un-American group had turned over to Mr. Downey a supposedly confidential report on Mr. Straus. While the report contained such trivia és to be laughable, it was nevertheless an example of how careless committees are with confidential documents, thereby confirming the President's judgment in refusing to turn over FBI reports. : 3 The House is enjoying an Easter recess. . Unless the Senate means seriously to blast aside

- superstition.

the deliberate road blocks, that body might Just as well follow the example of the House | and take a long holiday.-' !

Hoosier Forum

“1 do not ‘agree with a werd that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo sey W."

The owner actually doesn’t save money when he drives his customer away. The not argue about the charge, bu

customer may he'll mark the place off his list.

‘Jot of thin slices of buttér go into a pound, n

matter how much the pound costs, A restaurant doesn’t lose pad of butter or a refilled glass of water or cup ¥ coffee. Many wouldn't for them, but who do will be back if théy get them with a smile. § Help, and food products are plentiful now. Once again the customer expects old-fashioned courtesy. The druggist-who throws out a bunch of small items unsacked, or tosses forth a sack sullenly when the customer requests it, letting the buyer sack them himself, isn’t saving money.

+The stores permitting sales people to talk

among themselves and glare at the customer can’t blame the times for slack periods they may feel. : ¢ oo

‘Fog of Superstition’ By S. A. Jackson, Vernon, Ind. In a recent lecture a prominent member of an orthodox church said that the mounting tide of “atheistic secularism” must be stemmed in the United States in order to prevent the rise to power of a form of totalitarianism “equally as terrifying” as communism, naziism or fascism. It is evident that what terrifies this gentleman is the fact that the power of orthodoxy to enslave the minds of the people is rapidly decreasing. Scientific knowledge together with the influence of -such men as Voltaire, Spencer, Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Andrew D. White and many ethers is gradually, but with ever-increasing speed, dissipating the fog of This fog beclouded the. minds of all primitive peoples, and continues to do so for those who know too little about science and the writings of our greatest thinkers. The church failed to stem this tide when it was only a tiny stream, It is now a mighty

river. Tee

Housing Situation Chaotic’ By Jessie Foulkes, 2040 N. Capitol Ave. : I am glad to know that we finally have a Mayor who recognizes the housing situation as

“ being chaotic. My hat is off to Mayor Feeney

for endorsing the Housing Conference on April 23 .

We should all applaud the American Veterans Committee by attending this conference on housing conditions. Let's pack the World War Memorial on April 23. Maybe the Mayor will listen and do something. At least, we can

hope. After all, it has been four years since .

VE-Day and the housing shortage is worse than it ever was on that day of victory¥

What Others Say—

WE must continue {» strive toward supremeacy in air power, both as an instrument in defending this country from the horrors of war and as a deterrent to any possible aggressors.— Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of

Staff, : * ¢ 9 I ALWAYS did say Shakespeate was a good script writer.—Sir Laurence Olivier, on receiving the news that his production of “Hamlet” had won the Motion Picture Academy Award. *

BUILDING peace is very much like waging war in one respect. You cannot always be winning victories or launching great offensives.— Dr. Jaime Torres Bodet, director general of UNESCO. : * ¢&

WOMEN here (in America) try to dominate men in business, society and at home. . .. American women want independence yet they want to be treated as if they were helpless, and you can’t have both.—Paul Henried, motion picture actor. . ® ©

TODAY we find that the social, economic, and political climate generates inténse fears, gnawing anxieties in millions of people. It is the fear of war, fear of loss of savings due to runaway inflation, fear of loss of job, fear of depression and the fear of the future.—Dr. Julius Schreiber, practicing psychiatrist.

DICTATORSHIP . ... By Peter Edson

It wants in the North Atlantic Pact.

Shady Spanish Deal

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—As Franco Spain prepares to push ita casé for removal of the United Nations diplomatic blacklisting, a good chance is afforded to examine the Spanish economy. Spain also wants admission to United Nations subsidiary organizations. i ) And it wants a U, 8. loan. If Spain is to be admitted to this full partnership,

it is just as well |

| Now Where Will He Park It? | |

WORLD POLITICS . ... By James Thrasher

Peace at Any Price

- WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—More than 300 Ame: open letter, have urged the Senate to turn down an lantic TreAty. They have called upon the President to open negotiations for a direct settlement with Premier Stalin. The pact, they hold, will only make the present situation more critical and

will not satisfy those who want the federal government to -|-

expenditure of a billion dollars a year, but also for the mah-* |

side of the Iron Curtain, . There have been several disturbing indicators, right out in the open. The $25,000,000 six-month loan which Chase

worth 105 per cent of the face of the loan. This gold had to be deposited in London, not Madrid. That would indicate Spanish credit is none too good. One refison for lack "of business confidence in the Spanish government may be found in the recent dealings of Juan March, who 1s Franco's financial genius, By a bogus bahkruptcy proceeding in a rural Spanish court, March has moved to seize control of Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co. (BTLP) and to harass its dfiliated Compania Hispano-Americana de; Electricidad (CHADE).

U. S. and Foreign Capital’

BOTH companies were organized by American financier D. N. Heineman of Charlotte, N. C. TP ix a 'Canadian corporation but has U. 8. and other foreign-capital.’ CHADE is a Spanish holding company which operates utilities in the Argentine. The wholé business is a complex corporate setup no doubt designed to take advantage of the several nations’ tax law loopholes. Only a public utility lawyer could understand all the interna-

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understand the Spanish action: with regard to these properties, On the one hand the Franco government is trying to interest American capital to come on over and invest. On’the other hand Franco's Juan March is trying to get control of foreign investments for his own profit. Ee JEuropean financial papers have been outspoken in their condemnation of this action. One Swiss newspaper says, “The Spanish government . ., has, . tolerated one of the greatest robberies in history.” This paper adds that Mr, March has publicly declared he hopes tomake §150,000,000 from this transaction. ° |

“Out to Make Millions

ALL THE foregoing may have to be discounted somewhat as looking after the interests of high financiers out to make a few millions. Something that does not have to be so discounted is ‘a recent unclassified U. 8. governmant report on operations of the Spanish economy in 1948,

pat the people work on farms or in forests. There is & small in-

hip & aan to bighly throughout | and ht " Aa

Thie Spanish Civil Wa of 1996-1939 wrecked the couniry. The

to know what may be expected from the Frarico government, | which controls everything in the tightest little dictatorship this !

National | Bank recently made Spain had to bé secured by bold bullion

tional high finance shenanigans involved. But even a dope can

In brief, it presents a picture of 28,000,000 people in an area’ slightly larger than California, which has 10,000,000 people. Over .

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World ‘War of 1039-45 made reconstruction impossible. Lack of fertilizer and short rainfall in the last two years have kept agricultural employment down. The short rainfall also reduced. hydro-

ting income,

“Depending on whether ond listened

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employment and thereby cut-

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to merchants and manu-

facturers or to bankers and government officials,” says the U. 8.

report, “the impréssion could be obtained that the whole busi-_

ustrial area near Bilbao on the north coast, a textile industry | NSS community was on the verge of bankruptcy or that there was centered around Barcelona. 0 of that, there is little manu- | occurring an orderly adjustment from a post-war speculative. | facturing. Per capita incomes is & year, average wage about | boom . .. the latter version was ‘probally a little nearer correct; | $224 a year. however . . . the seeds of a financial panic existed if the situation : were not carefully managed.” i le aan >

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‘more become the unwi ‘sub; of 1 5 2 mwiling ihjects Cominunist_qictatortion

may lead to wat,

One of the letter's sponsors, T. O. Thackrey, is a consistent Communist apologist. But the bulk of the signers, ‘ including Protestant bishops, several college presidents and deans, and other distinguished citizens, can scarcely be called either leftists or innocents. X They seem to represent a growing body of what may be “liberal fisolationists.” We may assume that most of them: signed this letter in good faith, even though the. document may have been mischievously inspired.

Ignores Evidence

N\ - THE LIBERAL isolationist is anti-Fascist and non-reac-tionary. But like the rightist isolationist, his policy is peace at any price. He resolutely ignores the mountain of evidence, both word: and deed, which proclaims Russia's aggressive intentions. He imputes to the Russian leaders the desire for peace that he himself feels. He seems to think that if we shut our eyes, hold very still and wish very hard for peace, the horrid specter will go away.

The liberal isolationist may recognize both bigotry and

‘Communist propaganda when he meets them. -But his recognition

does not save him from being an asset to both. He serves the purposes of the party-liners. He is also useful to that dwindling band which considers all foreigners to be lazy riff-raff—the “letthe Russians have 'em” school. ,

The signers of this letter have implied that they think Mr.

-Trumén does not want peace. They ignore all the provocations that

have made the Atlantic Pact \ consider the pact a deliberately aggressive move. This, ir re Wallace-Communist drum,

Who signed the letter might wish that it weren Not Whole Truth ~~ “CAPITALISM and communism not

only together in the sarhe peaceful world,” the open letter states. That is true. But it is not the whole truth.

betwen capt aliam ana Soummninn. It is between freed if - government and personal security on one- and semi-slavery, dictatorship and terror on the other. i em slavery

No country has ever chosen a Communist government in a free and unfettererd election. Yet millions now under hs governments. That is a fact must be faced. If peace is here to stay, so is communism. - go :

But that does not miean that we must sit by while millions

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