Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1949 — Page 10

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The Security Program -

™ $1,130,000,000 requested for the first year of the ‘Western Europe arms program is so much less than had been anticipated—some advance guesses were as high as $2 billion—that opposition to the appropriation is likely to be less than had been expected. We hope that this proves so. This money should be voted, and soon.

step toward world peace and stability. But without the arms to back it up, the agreement would be just another Maginot Line of false security, and would be so regarded by the Russians. ~The money sought to continue the Greek-Turkish program which brings the total to $1,450,000,000, also is vital to the general security arrangement against Communist aggression. However, $400 million of the over-all request ‘is provided for in the President's budget, and we believe the total sum should be brought within that framework. That can be done by reducing the funds requested for European recovery and our own military establishment. .

.® nn » . ss » THE time is here to put a ceiling on our cold-war expendi ‘continuing program which no longer should be treated on a crisis basis. A study by U. 8. News and World Report puts the cost of the cold-war outlays at $4,498,000,000 for 1948, at $7,--700,000,000 for 1949, and at $11,601,000,000 for 1950. We cannot continue to increase these expenditures by such ratios. The Russian problem may be with us for a genera‘tion or more, If we are to take that problem in stride, it must be brought under budgetary control. ¥ This need is accentuated by the fact that there will be

‘Asia, and particularly China. Sooner or later, the State De- “ partment will be forced to recognize the need for a consistent woyld-wide policy, and when it does, that, too, will de- , mand money. ~~ These needs must be balanced, one against ‘the other, “and all of them against our ability to pay. National solvency 18 our Dasie security, and that must be preserved.

Forthright Governor

1G% . SIDNEY McMATH of Arkansas is said to be a rising man in politics. : ~ He is rising in the fleld of statesmanship also. . Speaking at the initiation of nearly 1000 new members of the American Legion st Memphia Tenn., he said: : ~-“We witnessed the other day in Congress a bill ir-"| < tended fo 'profide 's blankit, pension Tor all Veterin of World War II. I for one am proud that the bill was defeated. “Our national economy will not be able to bear such an expense. The majority of veterans do not believe they _ are entitled to a pension merely because they wore a uniform in the last war. We did a job that was our duty, yes, our privilege. Let us have adequate aid to widows and orphans of veterahs and for wounded or otherwise incapacitated veterans but not blanket pensions. . “1 believe the effectiveness of the American Legion as a force for good would be-destroyed if it became a pressure

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its public men. We believe that people generally, including the veterans, will like it.

Paul Revere—Irate Businessman

ONE hundred and sevénty-four years ago this week, when the farmers at Concord fired the shot heard ‘round the world, the hero of the day was a man named Paul Revere, It was he, of course, who rode through “Middlesex village |

coming. Longfellow glorified Mr. Revere in his famous poem, but he also did him a disservice in picturing him as a kind of amiable adventurer whose greatest contribution to his country was his midnight ride. It might be well to remember that Paul Revere first of all was a skilled coppersmith who didn’t like the way the British were ruining his business. by their crippling taxes and export laws. As such, he was more than a man on a fast horse on that New England midnight. . He was one of America's first crusaders for the principle of free enterprise—which covers the right to bargain - collectively as well as the-priviiege ¢ of making a profit on a copper teapot. ’

Paul's Problem .

WHEN a Swedish concert audience objected to a Communist theme song in Paul Robeson's repertoire, the Negro baritone explained that he no longer could draw the line between his'art and his political convictions. : . There is an easy solution for that problem. People who don’t want politics with their art don’t have to buy tickets to his concerts. And, if music lovers desert him, - there's no law against Mr. Robeson hiring wal and sing, dng for free.

The George Polk Murder

! murdered in Salonika, the Communist press charged that he had been assassinated by sagents of the Greek : cho ist” government. Staktopolous, the “finger man” in" the case, his trial that Mr. Polk had been murdered by

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The North Atlantic Defense agreement is an ossential

a dangerous gap in our security front as long as we ignore

group for the purposs of conducting raids on the American

That was truth-telling such as this nation needs from :

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HOUSING +. By James Dimiel i New Rent ay Helps Tenants

' More Dwellings Brought Under Federal Control

WASHINGTON, Apr. 25--Rent control officlals here are getting reports from around the country that the new 1949 rent law may have helped more tenants than was anticipated when the jaw was Strongest indication of this comes from _ Cleveland, where local. rent officials ‘estimate 20,000 dwelling units, either Mecontrolled or never under controls, have been “Drought under regulation. Milwaukee also reports a considerable num-

+-ber of recontrols, and officials of the housing

expediter's’ office here say other eltiongmpy be _ In the same situation.

Houses Decontrolled

THE 1947 law permitted landlords to obtain “voluntary” increases up to 15 per cert by giving tenants a lease running to Jan. 1, 1948. If one

Swailing covered by it was automatically decontrolled. The landlord could charge whatever rent he could get and didn't haye to report the decontrol to his area rent office. This year Congress decided to recontrol those earlier lapsed-lease accommodations. Govern~ ment statisticians said that on the basis of in- - complete figures they estimated 17,000 units had up decontrolled. Cleveland claims 10,000 ‘such cases in its own area, suggested that the statisticians’ figures are conservative, " The statisticians estimate that 40,000 units are recontrolled by a provision of the 1949 law which plugs up a loophole in the 1947 and 1948 acts. When these laws were written, the real estate lobby was contending that there was a large amount of housing which was being kept vacant because the owners were not attracted _by the legal rerit they could collect.

Uncontrolled Rent

CONGRESS provided that any dwelling not rented for two years could be put on the market at an uncontrolled rent. . This year the housing iter said a survey of the country disclosed that the main beneficlaries of this provision were persons who owned two or more houses, evicted the tenants of one of them-—under the standing provision that allows a landlord to take possession for his own occupancy-and then rented their old house free of controls, The 1040 law also contains a provision recontrolling residential hotel accommodations in

though, to rents charged during the wartime control period.

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

APRIL IN INDIANA

Down by the creek in a lonely wood The violets grow, And a redbird sings in the solitude.’ How sweet is Spring's brief interlude ' When the air is cool and the leaves are new Abd the ground is a carpet of green and blue . Where the violets grow!

Spring beauties cluster in one white spot Like a patch of snow, And a nearby hillside gleams with” gold Where buttercups blow; The lacy fern and the redbud tree— Oh, I cannot tell what it means to me And I cannot say how it seems to be At this wild flower show!

After a winter of barren fields And dreary sk The senses reel from. the kiss of color On jaded eyes, And the mystic silence of all-around Holds the wondering heart spell-bound: The soul's strange yearning finds release In beauty here, and a deep new peace On the spirit les. ~~MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville. BL 2 .

SHORT, SHOTS

Time softens every sorrow, As we grow older we forget the hardships and trials of life, and remember only the sunny days and happy ways that sweeten the evening with golden memories . T've always wondered if a hotel could serve a meal if they ran out of parsley ..., Only very special angels make the flowers, and only superperfect ones put the perfume in them . .. Lazy, ignorant and prejudiced people are never free . Asked which looked older, the man or the wife, the diplomat replied: “Each looks younger than the other.” Bweet magic of another spring— The willow’s green, and glad birds sing— The sun is warm, blossoms nod— Behold! The everbirth of God! ~FRANK B. FLANNER, Indianapolis.

of these leases lapsed before Mar. 31, 1948, the

Chicago and New York, without rollback,.

FORCE FOR PEACE

Brighter Future Seen for UN

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Apr. .25—There is still life in this United Nations baby. Crowds of people have been flocking into Lake Success and Flushing Meadows at the rate of 1000 and more a day. They come to see the UN General Assembly, Security Council and their subsidiary organizations and committees in session and at - work.

High school and college history classes from

New England and the Middle Atlantic states come in chartered buses. Women's clubs and adult study groups come in caravans, The NGO-—or hon-governmental organizations like Rotary and the League of Women Voters—which have taken a fatherly and motherly interest in seeing that this UN brat is brought up right, send’ official delegations to inspect. Individuals, honeymooners: and families of tourists commute or drive out in their cars despite the fact that these temporary UN headquarters sites are hard to reach, Anyone willing to find his way through tunnels, Brooklyn's unmarked highways and the Long Island railroad trains to get here demonstrates adequately his fighting interest In the success of world organization and world peace.

‘No Dead Pigeon

WHEN the UN organization upped stakes and awayed to Paris for the General Assembly meeting last fall, it was feared that the American public would lose interest, permanently, The frequently-expressed opinion that the UN dove of peace was a dead pigeon gained belief, But today the interest has bounced. right back. Meetings of the various UN bodies open to the public have been playing to packed galleries. True, seating capacity for the public is under 1000 and reservations must be made in advance. But demand for seats is heavy. This United Nations show has to be seen to be appreciated. It compares most favorably with the performance by either House of Congress. For one thing; there is always a full attendance of delegates. They stick to business, too, instead of roaming all over the place or sleeping in the cloakrooms during the proceedings.

During speeches in the Security Council— where there are no instantaneous translations available through earphones-—some of the delegates may read reports, converse with their advisers, or leave the room while statements in languages foreign to their own are being made. But in General Assembly and Committee meetings where simultaneous translations are available, the delegates keep on their earphones. They listen, and they make copious notes so as to answer intelligently the points of other speakers.

By Peter £dson. Te

United Nations speeches are better than the speeches made in Congress. They are shorter, for one thing. They are better prepared. They go right to the point, don't waste words, don't ramble all over the lot. There is no orating for the gallery, for home consumption or to the rows and rows of empty seats, which is the number

one scandal and shock for every tourist that

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THE average Se of the UN delegate

‘is probably higher than the average congres-

sional I. Q. Nations hand-pick their best men, their best diplomats, for UN duty. In Congress you take whoever is elected. Sometimes, unfortunately, that isn’t always the best-qualified | man, The ‘crowds still like to come on days when Gromyko throws a veto or when Jake Malik and the Russian satellite stooges let go a blast at the Wall Street imperialists. But the dele gates and the public are now learning what to expect from these sources and how to take it, They're a good bit like filibusters in the U. 8, Senate—spectacular, maybe, and dramatic. But windy, meaningless, and just as stupid as the long chain of Russian vetoes. When the U. 8. Congress is able to clean its own stables and get rid of all such performances, then will be the time to start criticizing the United Nations for not being able to accomplish anything. Until then, don’t make the mistake of selling UN stock short. The thing is working. It will improve. Give it time,

Many Frustrations

It has been four years since the United Nations conference at San Francisco, where the UN Charter was adopted. Getting the outfit going has been slow and discouraging work. It has met with many frustrations. But it would be wrong to write this experiment off as a total loss and say it can never be made a success. The UN Security Council, General Assembly, Social and Economic Council and their various commissions now have only 3000 employees on the payroll. Their budget is $43 million a year. Add another $30 million for the 12 specialized UN agencies. < The total of under $75 million a year is only one-half of one per cent of the $15 billion which the House has just approved for U. 8. defense next year. If the world ever got around to spending that much for peace iu any one year, think what it might do. ~-

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oct with which you are familiar, Some letters’ “used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

“Thanks for Editorial’ » Marios L. Donnellan, Mooresville, Ind. accept our thanks for the recent edix torial: ¥ “Why ny Bonk Ye the Living * is the kind of editorial that will greatly help to achieve the greatness that has been y thrust upon her. It is pr 4 interesting to observe editorial comment across the nation on the subject of world peace. MW We like to pride ourselves in getting at the bottom of things and then putting them into production, We have done this with pretty much everything we have ever tried. Just now we AIS fusing 8 it with this thing called world

pea ‘We will have ‘arrived at the road which leads

in terms of pious platitudes and learn to accept ‘religion for what Tt really is: a two-fisted science and art. When our editors and engineers begin to talk about the love for the science and art contained in the Ten Commandments, we will be definitely on the road that leads to world peace. When America puts religion into production we shall accomplish peace. + World peace is a spiritual thing. It is only through the love of spiritual realities that we shall find peace, first for ourselves and then for the world. Eve: since the beginning of creation, it has been calculated that love should rule the world. This torch of love has been offered to America that she might accept it, and by each and every one of us doing his own little part, peace can be a reality. It is the spiritual might of America, rather than her financial or physical might wherein

-Of course, we need the world’s best air force and the world’s best atomic program. These things constitute the “ropes” which we may use to drive the devils of hate from out the temple of love—which is peace. Too many of us do not realize the towering position of America in the world today. A spiritual man of importance in Canada has recently said: “The rise to power of America ranks in importance after the birth of Christ.”

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‘Gyped in Parking Lot’ By Juanita Peery, 2335 Lafayette Rd, 1 wish that something could be done about "the parking situation in this great city. As everyone knows, there are few available places to park, so we resort to parking lots for which we pay unreasonable fees. A couple of weeks ago we parked in a lot, . came back, and were told because we took our keys we were fined $1. The police have warned us all the time not to leave keys in our car, Yet this lot has a sign posted, “Not responsible for anything stolen,” Now I ask any person, is this fair? It seems to me as though some-‘-wone has figured out a ‘dollar off us “suckers. I called a policeman to find out if this sort of thing was lawful. He was very nice but said Li should speak to the city prosecutor, -who passed the buck on to the county prosecutor, who passed it on to a deputy. After about 30 minutes of this I was too disgusted to discuss it any further. I told them to “skip it.”

What Others Say—

IT ISN'T smart to let down in-the middle of a fight. In this first year of ECA's operation a momentum has been attained that must not be lost. The full effect of the achievement to date will be realized only if that momentum is maintained.—~ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman. * * 9

A * SOLVENT government, under livable taxes, is our first and indispensable contribution to the hopes of our people and the peoples of the world. —Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) of Michigan. ® & ¢

CLEARLY the Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war. It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur Plan in Asia.—Harold E. Stassen, president, University of Pennsylvania. os

THE FACT is that nearly all the difficulties of the United Nations have been°caused by one factor: Great-power disagrement outside the United Nations and completely independent of the United Nations.—Australian Minister for External Affairs Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, presi. dent of the UN General Assembly.

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WARFARE ...By Marshall McNeil

No A-Bomb Defense

WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—It would be difficult, maybe impos-

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

PROPAGANDA ...By Parker La Moore

A Red Murder Plot

WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—When George Polk, American

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to world peace when we quit thinking of religion

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Buon reporter, was found |

_ Siergroud And how did the Communist

sible, to detect an atomic bomb, either planted here, or aimed at us from the outside, according to an expert who now is chairman of the advisory committee of the U. 8. Atomic Energy Commission.

the first bombs at Los Alamos. Testimony he gave a congressional committee indicates somé basis, for the fictional plots of planted “~mbs developed by magazine writers. On Dec. 5, 1945, Dr. Oppenheimer testified before the Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy. Some parts of Dr. Oppenheimer’'s testimony which got rela-

because of renewed discussion of atomic problems. Sen. Thomas D. Hart (R. Conn.),

No Counter Measures?

SEN. HART! "Doctor; you gay there are ‘no gpecific counter measures to atomic weapons.’ I assume you mean-by that that there is no counter measure which would operate solely by reason of the fact that the explosive in the missile is one of atomic fission?” Dr. Oppenheimer: “That is precisely what I meant. The problem of counter measures against an atomic bomb i= tech-

any other ‘type of bomb. numbers of such missiles may be smaller, and their effect very much greater, and that the requirements of interception may correspondingly to be very much higher.” Sen: Hart: “Would you extend that opinion to the detection of the missile in flight also?” : Dr. Oppenheimer said he would, and added: “I can see no way by which a bomb can be detected to be an atomic bomb,

equally well to a block buster. You can learn to recognize its ualod oF 68 Ships, SUE. Wil) BO tuat Jnd of Sung: Dr. Oppénheimer was questioned by Sen. Eugerie Millikin (R. Dr Sp erie if there was any way of detecting the presence of a planted bomb.”

Design Not Frozen

DR. OPPENHEIMER replied that it would be most difficult. “The design of such a thing is not frozen,” he said. “The shape is not frozen. The active material which makes it an atomic _bomb Is usually not near the surface, and I think that just hy walking plong past a crate you would not bé able to tell that in that crate there was an atomic bomb. It wouldn't tick.” Sen. Millikin asked If devices that indicate radioactivity ‘would a. bo of any help,

would be so thoroughly buried inside a mass of other stuff that the evidence of radioactivity might be very slight. He thought it would be unsafe to rely on picking up radioactivity,

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nically the same problem as that of counter measures against’ It differs from it only in that the

or detected because it is an atomic bomb, which would not apply .

Dr. Oppenheimer said that the “active material” in the bomb |

tively little publicity at the time take on additional interest now |

At the 1945 hearing, Dr. Oppenheimer was questioned by

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‘been assassinated by agents of the Greek government, because

. would do anything. to injure its relations with this country.

“I'll sit here and try to make up my mind to oar to ride, Mr. Quimby! wouldn't even be-in this predicament if | hadn't bought this habit at a bargain!"

could be planted all over the world, and at the crucial moment.

touched off in che way or another. Dr. Oppenheimer. suggested. that the question be put to “I don’t want to give categorical answers,” he said.

Sen. Millikin, pursuing the point, said that in normal war-

fare we have mine-detecting devices which are rather effective “I was wondering if anything of the kind might \be available to- use as a defense against this particular i

if used thoroughly.

type of atomié bombs?” *- Dr, Oppenheimer: _ cellars of Washington to see whether there were atomic bombs; 3 hin my aon: apontant Joo » would be a screwdriver to open e es in t at maiking by, Swinging a little gadget, would aot sive 4 the int :

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radio reporter, was found floating in Salonika Bay, his arms tied behind him and a bullet hole in his head, the news came as a personal shock to me. I had left him only a few weeks before in Athens. And just a week before our last visit I had looked out upon that same Salonika Bay and reflected upon the history that had been written upon the waters of this ancient gateway to Macedonia. ; When the Communist press raised the cry that Mr, Polk had ¥

he had been trying to make contact with the leader of the Greek Communists, I found this difficult to believe. All loyal Greeks whom I had met had shown the utmost appreciation of the aid they had received from the United States, It séemed inconceivable that any friend of the Greek government

A Harsh Critic YET George Polk had been a harsh critic of the Greek gov. ernment. If he was not a Communist sympathizer, he certainly was much less critical of the Communists than he was of the Athens administration. I know, becaufe we had discussed the pros and cons of the case many times. Moreover, George Polk was 80 outspoken in his views that his attitude was a matter of common knowledge in Athens political circles. Now it has been established in court that George Polk was the victim of a Communist propaganda plot. This young man, regarded as friendly to the Communists, was murdered by order of the Communist high command for no other reason than the hope that his death would end the American aid program. This was the admission of Gregory Staktopoulos, one of the defendants. Two leaders of the Communist underground were the actual killers. The Communist press did its best to prejudice the trial long before it was held. It will 40 Rta best to discredit the findings

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Honest Trial BUT a distinguished American Jurist attended that tial, investigation of the killing for the American Overseas Writers Club. He was William J, (Wilda Bill) Donovan, war-time head of the OSS and a former assistant attorney general of the United States. At the conclusion of the trial, Mr. Donovan said: . : private capacity to say that I

“I think it proper, in attended every session of the and found it honestly and efficiently conducted with a fair and full opportunity for ‘the defense to. present its case.” - Raleigh Gibson, American 'Consyl General a’ Salonika, ‘official Americgn observer at the trial, comp the judicial officials. George Polk was murdered by the Greek Communists. And his murder was exploited bythe unists to injure Because Greece ts resisting

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