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The First Hoosier Justice

HERMAN MINTON was a logical choice for the appoint. ment to the United States Supreme Court President Truman announced yesterday. He is a long-time personal friend of the President, He has been from the earliest days of the New Deal an ardent and sincere New Dealer. He comes from a strategically im-

portant state that has never before had a native son on that |

bench. All those are good political reasons. other, and better, reasons for his selection.

But there are

After a brilliant term in the United States Senate, Mr. |

Minton has given eight years of able service on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals—a bench inferior in jurisdiction only to the Supreme Court—and he brings with h#m to his new post more actual judicial experience than any of ‘his colleagues had when appointed. He has built, on that bench, a record of hard work, and impartial interpretation of the law which commends him more highly than any political achievement, no matter how brilliant. We have often disagreed with the political views of Senator Minton, criticize the judicial opinions of Judge Minton, He is a man clearly of the stature of his incumbent colleagues on the nation’s highest court, and one we are confident will fully measure up to the tradition of ability of those other Hoosiers who have gone from Indiana to hig government office. B srr

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ECA Funds for Communists |

rani A DEAL nowcooking in the British-Crown Colony-of Heng.

Kong would use Marshall Plan money to finance com-

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But we have never found occasion. to...

mercial transactions between American business firms and

the Chinese Communists, ac¢ording. to a Hong Kong dis patch. or Ee The plan calls for creation of a United States commercial company, using ECA funds, which would underwrite

barter,deals with the Chinese Reds, . A capital fund of $50

million would be drawn for that purpose from the unexpended ECA China appropriation. Norman Meiklejohn, acting China ECA director, is reported on his way to Washington to discuss the deal with the State Department. es

Congress voted this money to assist Nationalist China

in resisting communism. Now, at a time when the Nationalist government is fighting for its life, and with some success, it is proposed that munists. 7. LI on — ® nw “WHICH "side of this fence is the U: 8. government on, anyway? ; :

rh The Senate Appropriations Committee has just voted -

‘$75 million which can be used as military assistance to the - Chinese Nationalists. Vice Adm. Badger, former commander of the Far Eastern fleet, has said that this money, properly applied, would stem the Communist advance. ‘But a joker attached to the proposed appropriation requires that the money be used only when the President sees fit. And, if he continues to be misled by the pinkos in the State Department's office of Far Eastern Affairs, we may be sure he will do nothing more to prevent the rest of China from being swallowed up by Moscow's fifth columns. But surely we aren't going to complete the cycle and now put our money behind the Reds. Or are we? If the State Departmerit has its way the answer probably will be yes. A joint American-British agreement to do business with the-Chinese Commiinists is oné of the things under -dfscussion right now between Secretary of State Acheson and Britich Foreign Minister Bevin.

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The Changing Indiana Scene HATEVER else may be said about the climate and complexion of the Indiana scene, it has the stimulating quality of variety and change. - : sizzling heat of summer changed. into the chill of autumn, bringing-with it a whole new look for the Hoosier landscape as well as a change in the people themselves. Not far from Monument Ciréle the “fodder's in the shock,” the leaves have suddenly turned to brilliant hues and frost is just around the corner hardly before we finished mopping our brows from summer heat. Most of the signs point to an early fall and perhaps: - but no one can tell if winter will be on us ahead of schedule, maybe even before the famous “Indiana summer” casts its spell of June in October. ' ws” Indiana is never monotonous.

Another Fine Appointment

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has established an enviable record by his selection of outstanding statesmen for Republican membership on our bipartisan delegations to the United Nations, — Warren Austin, Sens. Arthur H. Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles have served with distinction in these positions. The high standard is maintained with the appointment of - former Sen. John 8. Cooper of Kentucky to the delegate post vacated by the resignation of Sen. Dulles oo * Mr. Cooper was a captain in the U. 8. Army in France and Germany in the recent war. Later he helped to reor‘ganize the German judicial system in Bavaria. He then served two years in the Senate and it was a matter of ‘gen- “+ eral regret that a most promising career was terminated by his defeat last year.

At 48, Mr. Cooper is the.youngest person thus far ap-

pointed to a regular delegate's post. The ranks of our elder | : 4 ; : 2 i. Republican Senators have hit hard at this” conflict between the current debate over

statesmen are growing thin. -More men, even younger than Mr. Cooper should be called into service of this kind, to gain experience for the tasks ahead in the expanding demands

of our foreign service,

the money be used to help the Com-

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‘PUBLIC JOBS . . . By Marquis Childs

. Taking Fees as Pleaders For Special Interests

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 Now. that the 5 percenter investigation has subsided, the black * headl'nes called forth by this momentary sensation are receding into memory. 1f anyone in Congress had the courage to go into it, there is a far more obvious example of the use--and ahuse--of official Influence right on the doorstep of Congress, That is te growing custom of members of Congress making themselves nothing but special pleaders for special interests. -This has gone so far tnat lawyer members even defend the right tc take fees for services rendered.

These fees are, of course, above and beyond the f

congressional salary of $12,500 a year plus a $2500 tax-free expense allowance, J This situation was highlighted by an invident last spring that récelv little attention. Rep. Earl Chudoff, Democrat of Pennsylvania, appeared. in Federal District Court representing a client charged with sending obscene literature through the mail. The judge was James P. McGranery, former Congressman from Pennsylvania and former assistant to the Attorney General.

Violating Law

JUDGE McGRANERY told Rep. Chudoff he wiiuld be violating the law in appearing in court.

Rep. Chudoff replied that other members of |

Congress had appeared in Federal Court under similar circumstances. “You are. right,” the judge was quoted as

replying, “and I don’t care to mention names;

but that’s no reason why 1 should allow you to do the same” One-of the names which the judge may well have had in mind was that of another Pennsylvania Congressman, Francis E. Walter, Democrat, now serving his ninth term in Congress from the 20th district. In a sharply contested campaign last fall, Mr. Walter's Republican opponent, Roy James, brought out that the Cols gressman had represented stockholders in a ~Suit-again¥t the Périnroad Corp. and the Pennsylvania Railroad. That suit was, indirectly, the outgrowth of a congressional investigation Into railroad holding companies. - Some months ago Federal Judge George A, Welsh awarded Mr. Walter a fee of $170,000 in the Pennroad case, a re-

duErion Tro $175,000. :

In thé campaign last fall Mr. Walter said -4n-reply to Mr. James that as one of the counsel for the Pennroad stockholders he had succeeded in recovering $15,000,000 from the Penn--sylvania Railroad. Congressman Walter is also

reported to have acted for a group of slate companies in ‘his district when they were charged with violating the anti-trust law.

Evasive Double Talk

. THE question of whether it is illegal for a member of Congress to defend persons charged with violating the federal law or to serve as truktee-in bankruptcy for a fee was put up not long ago to the Department of Justice, . The

~ reply that came back, signed by Peyton Ford,

assistant to the Attorney General. was full of evasive double talk. But after citing various laws covering the matter, Mr. Ford in a memorandum said; “In the absence of a judicial determination of. the question-it-is not possible-to ‘deny -that

" & violation could result”

— Mr. Walter is now on.a congressional junket in Europe. 1 cabled him asking for.his com-

ment “and he répifed saying that when he re- |

turned in the middle of October, he would tell me the “truth.” The Pennroad case is, of course, a matter of court record. This is far from being an isolated case.

When Rep. Herman P. Eberharter of Pennsyl-

vania was nominated to be a Federal judge, one reason given by the American Bar Association for opposing his confirmation was that he had acted as attorney for a bidder in a WPA contract while serving in Congress.

Power and Influence

IT 18 not hard to see how the lines of power and Influence are interrelated.: Mr. Walter is the ranking majority member of the House Judictary Committee, : urge the nominatienanit confirmation of a federal judge. But if he were to appear in court later before that federal Judge- representing a

He might in all honesgy |

Within a comparatively short time of a few days the

client, the most righteous Judge in the world would have a hard time convincing the publie he was nt Influenced in favor of the friendly Congressman. or ’ H is not a matter of one political party or | .another. In both the Senate and the House. the

abuse of influence has become serious inquiry.

FEDERAL POLICY . . . By Earl Richert

Tariff Conflicts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16— Sometimes U self into a position where he lays down a {and nullifies it with the other " That's what we have to a Department working to. lower trade Department maintaining flat of commodities

Tariffs ‘or no tariffs, the Agriculture Department let any butter, cottonseed, cottonseed ail. lard, flaxse

oil,

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trol imports of fats and ofls

| taining embargoes on these commodities; import licenses

Big Surplus.

REASONING is that since it has 1

prices,

chances of disposal of the surplus

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November through March & pound pn all other butter above the quota.

That concession was supposed to benefit Australia and New Zealand which have their flush production season while we have our slack one. But neither they nor any. other country are earn-

: The Agriculture Department’s holdings of domestic butter total 72 million pounds.

ing dollars by selling butter here now

Results Kept Secret

. . . REPORTS from the recent trade conference at Annecy, | France, tell.of a Danish request for a quota of 50 million p d of butter in the U. 8. market. Results of the conference are kept secret pending ‘official ‘announcement, and fit Whether the request or any part of it was granted. But it would '

do Denmark no good in the present situation.

State Department sources say foreign officials naturally are © aware of this state of affairs and are highly dubious of conces-

sions granted on items now flatly embargoed.

All we can tell them is that we hope some day. the domestic surplus problem will be cured and the tariff concession will: be

worth something.” one official said.

the farm-support and tariff policies in extension of the reciprocal trade law.

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ncle 8am works himpolicy with one hand-

large extent today with the State barriers and the Agriculture embargoes on imports of a number

tallow, sunflower seed, soybeans, soybean oil, rice, peanuts peanut oil, peanut butter or cheap soaps come into this country

It does this under the power granted it by Congress to conIt doesn’t say anything about mainit just doesn't grant

early $200 million tied u alone in flaxseed and butter purchased to hold .up domestic a

It" just doesn’t make sense to permit Imports which would further depress, the domestic fats and oils market and lessen

} The embargo on butter, for example, cancels out #ffect of the reneva trade agreement under which the butter tariff was low- | ered from 14 to 7 cents a pound: for not more than 50 million | pounds to be sent to the U. 8. in thé slack production season of The tariff was maintained at 14 cents,

is ‘not known

They contend’ it is much more honest to have a fair tariff than to use embargoes or quotas to shut out foreign goods. "Quotas are a far greater interference with free trade than |

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IT MUST be great to be able to “sense” a story, lay your plans to get all the right angles on it, and then go home to prepare a polished bit of journalism. .

I thought I had just®he yarn the other might

after leaving New Castle, heading home via Indiana Highway 234, the route follows Highway 38, but then there is a fork which sends that road veering slightly to the northwest and permits 234 to continue

~straight for a few miles.

Shortly after passing the junction and being primarily concerned with watching an approach-

ing storm, I wasn’t paying too much attention

to the immediate countryside until it dawned on

- me that something had happened to the mail-

boxes I was passing. Each one seemed to be topped by a strip from which was reflected back to me-the name of the family using the box. Harold Huff, Hattery (?), Delmer Wesley, Katherine Harris, Laurence Ratliff, L. W. Harris, John T. Good; each name bounced out of the gloom to announce itself as I rolled into Kennard and .out the other side. Other names winked out, M. R. Moore, Glen Williamson, H. J. Williams, Agnes McCaslin, Homer Garriot and Garnett Riggs. But the string suddenly stopped. How come?

Names Stopped

area? It certainly seemed that that was the reason the names had stopped appearing so revealingly in the night. Perhaps there was a store in Kennard that had done a real job selling luminous mailbox identification. By now I was immediately north of and passing Shirley, -but there wasn't a trace of a glowing name to reach out to me through the darkness. Whoever the salesman was, he had stopped working. before he reached Shirley. Soon I began to lay plans for a story built up around the brother peddler who had left his

mark by recording farmers’ names on the blank ..

Barbs— oT

SOMETHING new will be added to United States politics if the Republicans can win with ‘Save Your Money” as a campaign slogan. > 2 ACCORDING to the Communists there can he no genuine “People’s Government’ unless it carries the “Made in Moscow” label, * Se O ’ BUYING a pet Communist named Tito may be no bargain for Uncle Sam.

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| PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . By John Loveland Mystery of Names on Mailboxes

walls of the night for those late drivers whose only world at the time is that tunnel of darkness through which the headlights of their cars Yes, when 1 found that salesman, T planned; I'd find an interesting character--a pusher— someone who -could reatly sell: merchandise. Maybe I had missed a good bet by not calling in Kennard. This bird might be able to move a lot of my stuff, too. Yd I would find him, get a story angle: and sell him ‘some freezer supplies at the same time. Being so completely taken in by the possibilities for a good story from this little town, I almost began quoting from Thomas Gray and his “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.” That reverie was abruptly driven from mind about the place where the “lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea” because someone's calf had gotten out on the highway. . . 3

pull them at a right fast clip. . ;

Missed Veal Stew

REFLEXES, sharpened by _vears of driving over the reaches of unfenced Highway 10 through the Kankakee River country, pulled me around the beast before veal stew was in order, Tuesday 1 returned to Kennard. Did I find the glib one whose name I was sure would be on everyone's tongue? I did not. Few people

i “had noticed that their rural neighbors had HAVE WE-hit another township or trading...

dressed. ap. their mailboxes. . .. omni I called on John Harden, ‘the grocer, who assured me he had not lightened the night. He did tell me, however, that he had sold his store to John Kramer, who would take over the first of October. John Harden felt that after 49 vears in the same place he was entitled to sell out his neat store and take it a little easier.

Didn't See Plates

JOHN thought that perhaps the W. D. Springer elevator might have sold the nameplates, but while they try to supply many of the

needs of their farmer friends along hardware |

lines, they told me that they hadn't sold the

plates, . , One of their cilistomers came close, however, and engéd my search when he told me: -

“I didn’t buy any, but there was some fellow from New Castle out over the country selling those name-plates. I'm not out much after

| Hoosier Forum|

.be deprived of his personal income in any year.

+- Harry Truman's refusal to institute peace in the

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“1 do not agree with a word that you say. but | will defand to the death your right fo sey "|

‘Tax Is Weapon of Socialists’ "4 By Edward F. Maddox, City. mm 1 WOLF SL It seems to me that all reasonable and * 230 W. Wi

intelligent people should finally come to the conclusion that confiscation of all private property, which is the final objective of both socialism and communism, boils down to the hard fact that it is plain legalized robbery in the case of socialism, and armed robbery In the case of communism, 1 have suggestéd that the only recourse for the citizens of the United States to save our selves ‘from bang taxed into socialism by the income tax method, would be for Congress to set a limit on the amount any person could

If you will do a little research on the past history of the Socialist and Communist Party platforms, I think you will find that they are the main agitators and proponents of the Income tax amendment. We ought to know that the income tax is the weapon by which the Socialists can legally rob every American on the pretext of “social services, dire need and ' the threat of communism.” We must find a , remedy with all possible dispatch. 1t we put our whole national intelligence to the task of circumventing the Socialists and Communists from destroying our constitutional safeguards, I, for one; am certain that we can find a legal solution for checking the legalized looting of every citizen.’ There are, of course, certain legitimate and necessary social services which we should continue to improve and support, but we must never forget that the Socialists and Communists hate our capitalist, private enterprise system and plan and work fanatically to undermine our national solvency and to wreck the whole insti- v tution of private property and personal liberty, Congress passes the laws, and Congress must gave us from legalized robbery by taxation, or we are doomed to Socialist totalitarian slavery, ¢ ¢

‘Rule by Emergencies’ By Harrison White; City Communism, With its silent partner, anarchy, has thrived on our so-called national emergen- ) cies for the past 20 years. These emergencies.

were forced upon us to bring the New Deal into 0'C power and to keep it in power, to the end that \ J they take over the government of this country : completely. rer : THIS py

“Thé last. emergency -has been brought an by... “f° °C

world by refusing to declare the war status at : an end, thus: maintaining inflated war-time : prices on all commodities at home and abroad. It is the cause of the present English government crisis and the reason England is now ask« ing us for help. : Should peace have been declared at the end of the fighting, we would hot have had the Mar- . shall Plan and it would have been bétter for Europe and us, too, for we would be well on our way to a normal American life, As long as the countries of Europe who are patrons of the Marshall Plan do not outlaw communism, it will avail us nothing but injury to continue it., Communism is to the left of human balance and knows no virtue, Every breath communism breathes saps the liberty . and freedom from the people. Communism is ! an evil that embraces all other evil and uses. that power to promote and maintain itself. If constitutional provision is a handicap here, there should be a resolution put before the present Congress forthwith for a constitutional amendment, making communism a crime, We should not wait until the “Brannan Plan”

every farm house to keep an actual check on tne -- number of eggs the farmer uses and how many he sells to the traveling public. The Brdnnan Plan could well turn into the Soviet plan.

What Others Say

1 FEEL certain that the Atlantic Pact will contribute to world peace. The fact that an aggressor would ‘be confronted by the combined efforts of those 12 nations should he consider attacking any one of them, should exert a powerful deterrent effect.—George C. Marshall, former Secretary of State, on ~ ® * i

THE world Is tired of political fanaticism ... men who want to live together in peace. The kind of peace we seek cannot be won at a single

stroke or by a single nation.—President Truman.

that.” ; It must be great to be able to “sense” ‘a story, hit it just as you've planned, and turn out a’ polished bit of journalism. Buf then, on the other hand; it's rather pleasant to meet friendly people wherever you go, without having to plan it that way,

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AMERICAN foreign policy (is) a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the ‘Russians did, we did in reverse.—Archibald McLeish, former assistant Secretary of State and former Librarian of Congress. Z

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By Galbraith “U.S. RESOURCES... By Peter Edson

SIDE GLANCES

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Three-Way Fight

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—A new feud between Departments of Agriculture and Interior is developing over control of land and water resources in the Missouri valley. This was originally LK scrap between Army Engineers and Interior. They comproniised through development of the so-called Pick-Sloan plan. Now it's a three-way fight, Agriculture having introduced a number of , arguments the other two hadn't thought of. : * Last May at Rapid City, 8. D, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan announced a new 30-year, $8.5-<billion program for development of farming in the Missouri valley. It was to bé financed in part-by government conservation payments, the rest by private expenditures by the farmers themselves, on 350 million acres.’

Hold Back Water

IN oversimplified form, the plan’ Included encouragement in the building of farm ponds and water holes for range livestock, These reservoirs were intended to hold back water flow in small streams to stop erosion. By so doing, it was aimed. to prevent not only the silting up of streams, bit a resulting increase in electric power development at Missouri basin dams. Federal Power Commission endorses it, if it will reduce siltation at power dams. Army Engineers are understood to have

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opposed it because, by holding water on the land instead of allows OllL | ing it to flow into main channels, navigation on-the Missouri from * Sioux City to St. Louis may be interfered with. Interior Secretary ] Get more fo J. A. Krug blasts the Brannan proposal and in effect advises the - & S8UPERFL. Department of Agriculture to stay out of what has been consid- furp Onl ered Bureau of Réclamation’s exclusive business for lo these has Ju many years. . . ‘ \ Saver” Lr Brannan’s Pet Project . nace 10 BUILDING of farm ponds has been a pet project of Secretary i ver” com! Brannan's. When he was Farm Security Administrator, he devel- 2 FLAME's | oped a water facilities program for FSA borrowers. When he “Triple > ote eo became assistant secretary he extended the program through soil gives Tp conservation service. As secretary, he is trying to extend it to Se - wp to the whole Missouri basin. more!

What really seems to nave riled Interior, however, it that - Brannan proposed to make new studies of irrigation. To Department of Agriculture economists, looking at the national farm

tariffs have ever been,” said Sen. Taft, referring to the present | import quotas on sugar and the proposed quotas on ofl. | “Behind a tariff barrier we can have effective competition. If the barrier is right, it will not be high enougeto prevent. for-. | eign competition on a fair and reasonable basis.” Flaxseed presents an example. Soon after end of the war, | our government decided to spur domestic production of linseed oil by setting a floor of $68 a bushel under flaxseed. : 5 Domestic production boomed and today the government itself holds nearly A year's domestic supply of flaxseed and linseed » oil, with another bumper crop due. - : y The current price support of $3.99 a bushel is so far above the Worl J at not only has the U. 8. lost what it once held the ‘world ‘linseed ofl market but it has had to-place a flat | sources, as recommended by President Hoover's Commission om embargo on imports to save the domestic market. » ee © Reorgan 1 » ih 3 al - . i 5 y i

interest, it may have seemed a little silly to put water on dry land | and move people in on that land when there was no particular - need for their crops in that area. } . Cost of irrigation has been estimated at from $10 to $14 a year per acre. ‘In years when crops aren't so good, the farmers ' there could use more water. With irrigation, they might go in for vegetable and other “wet” farming crops. But several farm » experts have said it would take several generations to make this switch, and in the meantime there is no particular market for ‘| their crops. pa . : . ‘ "Once again, all this shows how government agencies with vested interests tend to monopolize those prerogatives, regardless . of what's best for the areas concewned. And again it points up . the need for unification in control of U. 8. land and water re«

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