Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1949 — Page 10

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- Kangaroo Courts, Again? Irs been quite a while since we've run across an old7 fashioned justice-of-the-peace shakedown of the kind that * used to be so nauseously familiar. We'd been thinking, a little too optimistically maybe, that “constibules” and “squires” had quit smacking out of “town motorists with $18.50 for “costs” which they split Al themselves and $1 fines (suspended) which the state didn't get for questionable traffic violations. an Now we're not so sure. The constables who came to Indianapolis this week and collected “fines” that had never been assessed for ¢harges that had never bebn tried, at the behest of a justice «of the peace up in White County, under threat of arrests probably were at least technically guilty of backmail them- . selves, & crime considerably more serious than any traffic a " No» Fa a |

rE =" "CHANCES are they behaved as they did out of just

duties, and perhaps the justice-of-the-peace who sent them . + was equally uninformed. At léast we'd prefer to beleive that. Just the same, those cases should be taken before a * ‘Marion County grand jury and indictments sought, and the question formally settled, once for all. 4 Most of the justices of the peace are now, and have * always been, good upright, well meaning citizens of their respective communities. A few have engaged in practices that have brought a stigma upon this whole system of minor "“Jocal courts, and if such procedures as this one are ignored

_ there'll no doubt be more of them. ) “Indiana wants no curbstone kangaroo courts. And the «time to stop them is now.

. The* Senator Wants Out

EN, STYLES BRIDGES of New Hampshire wants out of his job as neutral trustee of the United Mine Work- + ‘ors’ welfare and retirement fund. He has asked Federal Court in Washington to examine * 11g] his actions during his trusteehip, to order a full account““Iiig of the fund and then to discharge him from further responsibility. “+ The Senator would have been smarter not to take the fob in the first place. He might have known that a “neutral” between John L. Lewis and a coal operators’ representative would suffer many headaches. 4 LE . nn ~~ BUT THE accounting and the examination of his actions for which he now asks are much to be desired. They ;_should reveal why the benefits for which Sen. Bridges and i '. Mr. Lewis voted-so nearly exhausted the miners’ fund in 12 that payments had Ao ihe, suspended. Bridges has stated, all of his $35,000

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connection With his duties as trustee. ~~ The miners are entitled to this information. So is the public. The union-levied tonnage tax for the fund is added “to the price of coal and paid by the public. Indeed, the «money any employer contributes to any union welfare and . pension scheme comes from the public. "No mystery about the operation of such schemes should ‘“ he tolerated. All of them should be subject to some constant, vigilant form of public supervision. ey

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' Fact-Finder Jessup : WHEN the State Department decided to abandon China * to the Communists it prépared for that action by publishing a “White Paper” which purported to review the history of Chinese-American relations.

tions have been pointed out here. Its conclusions as to the military situation were not shared by such authorities as . Gens. MacArthur and Wedemeyer or the admirals who had - commanded American fleets in the Pacific.. Nor were its

" . vealed. Presumably most of the work on it was done by _ the same group in the State Department's Office of Far 1 Eastern Affairs who had followed" a pro-Communist line * since the war ended. Its “editor,” however, was Dr. Philip “C. Jessup, a Columbia University professor : #ny first-hand knowledge of the subject. Then "eon CE I DR. JESSUP has now been assigned to visit Communist and other areas in the Far East on a “fact-finding” 5 which is expected to lay the groundwork for a new {American policy in that part of the world. j % © It séems late in the day for Dr. Jessup to become interested in getting first-hand information. But, if he {s accom: ¥ on his tour by the same persons who helped him » the White Paper, he won't lack “guidance” in drafting his second report on China, the Far East and "7 A new “Committee to Defend America by Aiding Non- - "Communist China" has been formed. We sympathize with

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Communist governments. Within & few hours after he had presented his credens to President Klement Gottwald, the American embassy , Samuel Meryn, who had been in jail for three weeks : with espionage, was free and on his way out of the

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complete ignorance of the law, or their own powers and |

That document's many omissions and misrepresenta- |

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RFC Loan Probe

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—The prospect of a’ red-hot Capitol

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LONDON, Nov. 12—Spain will remain unfinished business on the cold war agenda when the Paris three power conference closes. : European defenses will continue lopsided a while longer for lack of adequate Weptern Mediterranean bases, = This is one major subject which British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Secretary

“of State Dean Acheson are not mentioning in

public and can't settle in private yet. The main reason for evasion of the issue is the domestic political situation here and in France. The British Labor Government, reel ing under the worst postwar crisis and facing a general election , dares not risk a party split with its own wing which demands a permanent boycott on Fascist Spain... The shaky Paris cabinet would destroy the moderate coalition of Frendh parties

BUT despite local political factors here and in France, the Big Three are well aware that their Spanish policy has fafled. All three are casting about for a more effective policy for use when domestic politics permit, This doesn't mean they dislike Spanish fascism any less or trust Franco any more. But

such sentiments are luxury which governments

in a cold war don't afford, The allied distrust of Stalin did not block the temporary Soviet. Western alliance “when Hitler became the common enemy. : Dictatorships in Turkey, Portugal, Latin America and elsewhere do not prevent relations

with the democracies for mutual benefit, And

Tito's totalitarianism doesn’t bar limited alli ald so long as he is fighting the larger MosCOW menace. Shorn of hypocritical propaganda and diplo~ matic double-talk the postwar test was: First, whether Franco was a threat to the peace; second, whether his dictatorship was stable; third, whether it could contribute materially to the allied defense against Russia,

Threat to Peace

IN the early postwar period Franco could mest none of these tests. He was a threat to peace because of his anti-democratic and antiUnited States fifth columns in Latin America and elsewhere and because Spain was a hotbed of German and Italian war criminals. His regime was unstable, challenged by large Republican and monarchist oppositions. Then he was not a potential allied asset, but a heavy lability, Now the situation is changed. Franco remains the same ruthless tyrant. But his capacity for international mischief is less. His (fifth columns no longer threaten the democracies

“ because he desperately needs their help, especi-

ally U. 8. financial and technical--aid. His German and Italian refugees are less important than the new Nazis and Fascists operating in Germany and Italy today under allied noses, His regime is relatively - stable now, The Republican movement in exile has fallen apart in factional feuds and lost leadership back home. The Monarchists have been outmaneuwvered. More important, the impoverished Spanish people who hate Franco hate civil war even more—they are not rising against him.

World Changed

FINALLY, the world situation has changed. |

The threat of war is greater. Russia has atom ‘bomb. She has China. She has tightened her grip on her Eufdpean satellites and has just set a Boviet warlord over Poland. “The creation of the East German puppet state to challenge the Bonn republic has completed -the split. down the middle- of Europe. Tito's defiance of Moscow invites counter attack before Red revolt against Russia spreads among the other stooges, a i In these changed circumstances, allied diplomats and general staffs are ready to drive a hard bargain with the Spanish dictator for his bases whenever British and French domestic

“| politics permit. It will not be with any naive

notion that he is “lovable”’—as some U, 8. Senators say—but that he is a tricky customer in trouble who has something to trade which the Atlantic Powers need for defense,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

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.. On their first anniversary, She sought to make him happy. And so ma gave the nursery a bouncing boy for pappy.

Then feeling that the little chap, Perhaps should have a brother, She darned near ruined poor oid pap:—

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AID TO BUSINESS .... By Charles Lucey

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YUGOSLAVIA . . . By Marquis Childs

‘Russ Will Not Go to War'—Tito

(‘This is the second of two articles of Marquis Child's exclusive interview with Marshal Tite of Yugoslavia.) ; ais

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 12-Marshal Tito receives most of his visitors in & huge, high-ceilinged, walnut-paneled office at his private villa on the outskirts of Belgrade. To the left of his desk is a more than life-sized bust of Lenin in dark bronze, which stands on a high pedestal, As he walks toward you across the length of the room, your first impression is that he is shorter and more stocky than his photographs make-him-appear. He {8 dressed in-a business suit and wears an unobtrusive tie. He walks with the measured gait of a man who has lived a great deal out of doors. His speech comes in quick, almost abrupt, sentences and so fast that the interpreter is sometimes flustered. In his manner is both authority and assurance, : “The cominform. blockade today,” Tito “has absolutely no effect on Yugoslavia. It did have effect for six or seven months, hut now it is meaningless.” -

Won't Go to War

. THIS WAS a reflection of the quiet confidence that Yugoslavia's supreme boss showed

"throughout the interview. He repeated what he

has said several times before—that Soviet Russia will not go to war to destroy a government

“that has refused “to submit to dictation by

Moscow. — 3 ‘Russia's position before the world would

prevent her taking any such step,” the marshal -

said. “It would put the Soviet Union in the

_ position of an aggressor, and that is a role she

cannot afford. : “Of course, border incidents will continue. They probably even will be stepped up. But that doesn’t cause us too much concern. Yes, “we have good nerves here. great deal of experience to harden our nerves in recent years." f As he says this last, Tito grins and his face has a look of a good-natured, slightly impish, small boy, Marshal Tito denied that there has been any marked increase in the number of men under arms in Yugoslavia. During the summer some troops were kept in service for a month or a Monty and a half longer than their accustomed uty, : “But that is over now,” he said. “We are confident because of our moral unity*and our strength. We are a peopie who estéem our freedom. That is why slanderous things said in the Soviet Union have had no effect. E

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“The effect has been just the opposite to that intended. Our people have been amazed that such terms could be used by a government like that of the Soviet Union, They have gone so far as to say that we are Fascists.” ‘The blockade, in the first instance, according to Tito, held up some aspects of the five-year plan, particularly the hydroelectric program.

Machines From America

“BUT NOW,” Tito said, “the handicap has been overcome by shifting the emphasis from large-scale projects to smaller units. The machines we hope to obtain from America will help speed up the program of industrialization that is our goal. The rate of progress will depend upon the rate at which these machines can be purchased and shipped. “We have great natural resources that we must develop. To do so we must mechanize in order to overcome our shortage in man power. There may be some delay in the capital investment phase of the program, but in other respects we may even surpass our goals.” “rr Tasked Marshal Tito if there was any chance that he would visit America in the near future, The suggestion of such a trip amused him. “There is too much to do here,” he said. “I am far too busy.” °° I pointed out that even the mention of such a trip would bring down on him the usual slanderous abuse of the Moscow propaganda radio. Again the marshal laughed.

“Such names do not bother me,” he said,

“but those who make use of such language will have to consider what it does to them in the “eyes-of the-world™ ~~ EE LD Even from a brief talk with Tito you get a sense of his tremendous concentration of effort

— and will,

Trieste Problem

I ASKED HIM if it were not possible to reach a bilateral agreement with Italy on the long, vexatious dispute over Trieste, which now is an international zone guarded by British and American troops. He replied that in view of far more pressing problems he considered this comparatively unimportant at the present time. “You do not need to keep your troops in Trieste,” Tito said. “There is nothing to fear from us.” While he may be the dictator over 16 million people of this country, Marshal Tito has none of the outward hallmarks of the dictators of the recent past. There is nothing about him of bluster or swagger or arrogance. : But at the same time you can sense. that it would be a pretty unhealthy business to get in the way of this man who knows where he is

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Bruce Biossat

Big Job for GOP

- WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—The victory of Herbert H. Lehman,

It stops unjustifiable secondary boycotts .It makes both employer and- union respon. sible for their contract. ! ) It stops jurisdictional of Is between unions. welfare funds.

prevents the misuse of union dues and It takes away ‘some of the power of labor

leaders over the rank ane file of labor.

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‘High Taxes Cause Strikes’ *

By William C, Irby Sr. : Congress has adjourned without even at. tempting to remove the main cause of strikes— high taxes and inflation. Hidden taxes take at least 25 cents and inflation takes at least 50 cents of the consumer's dollar, leaving only 25 cents buying power. : Congress can and should reduce taxes at least 75 per cent and could stop inflation if it were not too busy wet-nursing European countries to consider the needs of the people back home. Inflation is due to uncontrolled and unlimited power of the trusts and monopolies to fix exorbitant prices and demand that the people starve, freeze or pay. They should be controlled by the same laws money lenders, railways and other utilities are subject to. The law permits money lenders to charge only 8 per cent for ‘use of their money and railways and other utilities are required to fix their rates so as to give them only 6 per cent for use of their money. But the trusts and monopolies can fix prices to give

' them: 100 per cent to 200 per cent or more for

use of their money in production and there is no law to prevent them. = *y Require the trusts and monopolies to fix their prices so as to give them 6 or 8 per cent for use of their money in production and the consumer's dollar would increase in buying power from 25 cents to 75 cents—equivalent to 200 per cent increase in wages and incomes. [ SE

‘Lewis Ruining Union’ By H. E. Wilson

waohn. Li. Lewis is going to ruin the union as sure as two and two are four, His miners are

going to drop out and that will be the end of him. I think they are getting tired of his three strikes a year. He may not call them “strikes” but I would like to know what else they are. I am a railroader and we pay half of our pension and still do not get what he is asking. Why should we pay his miners’ pensions in the

‘price of every ton of coal we buy? 1 believe

in unions, but things can be pushed too far: That is what John L. Lewis is doing. He has hundreds of people will suffer this year with the cold and many will go hungry. ~ What does he care? He gets his 51000 per week and all of his expenses. What does he care about the rest of the people and: his miners? If he cared he would renew his contract and put them back to work. I know one thing: That he is one of the best salesmen for ofl and gas heating, 4

What Others Say

IT is time for this (United Nations General) Assembly to make a renewed effoft to restore peace along the northern Greek border ahd fo re-establish normal relations between Greece and all its northern neighbors. Outside aid to the guerrillas must stop and Greece must be

permitted to bind up its wounds.—Secretary of"

State Dean Acheson. ? * A LARGE part of the Bundestag (lower house of the new West German parliament) is

still Nazi. — German Socialist leader Kurt

-of..people out-of work. and...

Hill controversy to start off 1950 emerged from announcement by Sen..J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) that he would urge investigation of Henry J. Kaiser's $44-million touch on the RFC. Sen. Fulbright is chairman of the Senate Banking and Cur

rency Subcommittee on RFC Affairs, and there isn’t much doubt -

he can force an inquiry if he insists on it. He's a man with strong ideas on what RFC lending policy should be and they ‘do not in. clude propping up individual businesses in prosperous times. But Henry Kaiser knows his way around Washington and he's no slouch before a congressional Investigating ommittee. Already he's pouring out sharp language in answer to Sea. Ful bright’s appeal to the RFC to stop the loan. 3 v

“Forceful Back-Talk

“LOW-DOWN . move," “tricky maneuver,” “stdol pigeons,” “unwitting stooges,” “ruthless powers” and “falsehoods and cow. ardly secretive manipulations’-this is a selection of some of Mr, Kaiser's fairly forceful back-talk to Mr. Fulbright. But the Arkansas Senator disagrees that RFC's “public welfare” policy permits making loans to individual concerns such as the Kaiser-Frazer auto plant at Willow Run, Mich. He objected to an earlier loan to the Waltham Watch Co. by the RFC. He holds generally that if such policies are to by there could ‘be almost no limit to what could be dong in baling out businesses which are in trouble, ; : . There's a possibility that if the Senate goes into the Kailser-

Fraser loan it might expand its inquiry into a full-scale study of’ over-all RFC lending policy, This has been done as recently as

1947-48, and there were some who favored ting RFC al-

liquida together, or at least putting it on the shelf so that it would operate only in times of national economic stress. :

Hashed Over Views Busy - THESE VIEWS are fairly certain to be ph se ly n to be hashed over again if Auto industry sources might put in their oar, too. Industry

people say Kalser-Fraser was given a sincere welcome whew the |

company first took over Willow Run after the war, but that use of guvernment funds fo shore up big Henry's outfit is something "The Kalser interests have tapped the government for num-

erous loans since Mr. Kaiser made a great war-time tion | companies, Permanente Metal Corp, for a maghesi t. It is for producing. ships, magnesium and other things needed to fight ow. A Sm. plan ‘that war, But they deny they've had a too.blg of all back in the federal till now, Another Kaiser company bor-

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\, for only a fraction of cost. The Kaiser steel plant loan

was $113 million. The principle on this has been knocked down to $06 million and the Kaisers have paid some $10 millions in interest at four percent, m0 32 ;

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Democrat, over Sen. John Foster Dulles, Republican, in the New York Senate race is of more than merely state concern, Leaders

“in both parties labeled ‘it ‘a “test of Presi Truman Deal” policies. - ye

Unlike many election contests, the issue jn this. ome was clearly drawn. Mr. Lehman was for the fair deal. Though he did not use the term “‘welfare state,” he made plain he believes in it. Mr, Dulles, on the other hand, pitched his whole campaign on his opposition to the “Fair Deal,” the welfare state and. what he Sally utaiisn".tos much government, x, es also made much of what he threat of communism in the Lehman ened said ar, Lehman had Communist support and that the Democratic program is moving toward the sort of state control the Communists

assault on the general “Fair Deal” philosophy. Side Issue :

THE only side issue dragged into the cam: i that of alleged racial or religious bigotry on the part ies a York which Mr. Lehman declared stamped him as Seger and

. statement conceding Mr. LehQuestion. 7: Sranted that the outcome was decided on that Signs for 1950 :

full capital of this triumph. It has been merely as an indorsement of the President’ hailed yet harbinger of things to come.in the 1950 t's policies but as a next ro her it actually tells us much time, and political tides change suddenly with erence © * O° Mr. Lehman's notice to the Re-

espouse. But hammering this tack was really a part of his basic

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