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2 it wilh the. death your right 16 say it." “A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER emp - ps : - ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W MANZ Feed Foon - : ‘Beat Bosses With Votes’ : FF President - Edito Business Manager : rr : Ee : By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Drive, Woodruff Place PAGE 22 Thursday, Feb. 16, 1950 ECA Projects Fall Far 0 TCR Be 7 IN =~ Headlines in The Times Jad, oot Politen) " * Behind Growing Population fr al 5 x i er round 1n ONDed and biished daly by Jndianapolts mg peng ROME, Feb. 16-.A substantial series of What I would like i Ss is Who 1s Sshung ice and Audit Rérinpe- Hwa er Alljaney erv reclamation works is being carried out, with whom? The story goes In p ut

“RoW the Times are heitng-drawnin- both-parties;— — leaving no opportunity for the pot to call the .kéttle black. But to answer my own question, the whole show is just a frame-up for the political bosses to fight you and me. It is a tug-of-war for power. No one is in the fight for the benefit of Mr. John Q. Public: They are in there feathering. their own nests, scheming and conniving to see who can get the most out of the taxpayers’ money. 1s that what we voters and taxpayers want? If it is, you ‘ean rest assured you will get your money's worth. If it is not what you want, there is one good reliable remedy. That is to go to the primary early and cast your vote only for candidates who are not backed by any bossed faction. Vote only for independent candidates. But be sure to go to the primary. If you wait for the general election, you will have no choice but to vote. for the errand boys of the bosses. Only at the primary do you have opportunity to beat the bosses at their own game. It is much" more important to go to the primary to be sure the right candidates get nominated. Then if you miss the general election, you will have the knowledge that you have done your part to try to give us clean, un¥ssed candidates. It makes little difference which party label a - bossed - candidate runs under—he -i8 bossed against the people. There are no bosses ‘for’ the people. Just remember that. There is nothing to fight over when a candidate is “for” the people, If you keep this well in mind, you owe. it to yourself and your family to see to it that you and all eligible voters of your family, as well as - \

nthe farm sections of Italy, Visitors are reminded, how ever, that it is “hardly a drop In the bucket.” Executives of the Economic Co-opefation Administration admit that these projects are far from keeping pace with the growth of Italy's rural population in providing new land. Newspapermen were shown several of these drainage and irrigation developments between here and Naples and beyond. They are financed from the Italian counterpart fund of the ECA —TItallan currency. paid in by Italians buying “supplies and equipment provided by the ECA, and then spent by the Italian government under U. 8. approval. 2 Probably they would not hesstarted if they had to be pald for by the ECA itself. The task ‘of rural rehabilitation in southern’ Italy is just ‘too Immense.

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ONGRESS should respond Rly to President Truman's call for action to stop abuses and waste in the veterans’ education and vocational training program. : This program, as Mr. Truman says, has done much good. It also has cost a great deal of fazpayers money, most of it well spent. But, four years after demobilization, that cost is still rising at an alarming rate. It is estimated at $1,933,000,000 this fiscal year and, unless the present trend is halted, at $2,754,000,000 next fiscal year. » - - ” . . THIS “startling growth,” according to Veterans Administrator Gray and Federal Budget Director Pace, is largely in trade and vocational training. And, their report to Mr. Truman makes clear, in far too many cases the training is doing the veterans no good. Such training is given by some 8800 private schools, operated for profit. Almost two-thirds of these schools were established since Congress passed the GI bill of rights in 1944. Congress set no national standard for such schools to meet. It left to the various states the duty of certifying schools eligible to take part in the program. * Under the circumstances, it is not strange that there have been grave abuses—that many fly-by-night operators have wasted their time and taxpayers’ dollars on “training” = of small value or none at ail . x» : . =» : AMONG corrective steps, Mr. Truman recommends that Congress: Prescribe by law, or authorize the Veterans’ Administrator to prescribe, eligibility standards for the states to apply to schools.

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Can't Support Population

RURAL poverty will necessarily continue. Time was when emigration to the Americas drained off surplus. adults, and disease did its part. But Americans recently have shown Italfans how to raise more children to maturity, and now the country can’t support the growing population. The two millions of unemployed are the direct result and more millions are coming on. This is the cloud which hangs over the whole of the ECA job here. Nothing can be done about family limitation In Italy, and It would be no business of thé ECA in any case. About all we can hope for is that the money America pours in will increase farm and city production, raise confidence and ‘iold commu- _ nism under restraint for the next few years, Maybe eventually the income from. oroduction will get ahead of the population increase,

your neighbors and friends, get to the primary, even if they don’t get out for the general ge election, >. “Beat the bosses” should be our slogan: for the coming primary and its corollary will be better services for less tax money.

‘Fime to Do a Little Thinking’ By W. H. Richards, R. R. 4, Box 650. ; 2 How-long will the American people permit R such potato business as was reported in an editorial in The Times recently? The government bought 160,000 pounds of potatoes from a farmer at $1.45 per hundred pounds, then sold them back to him at 1 cent a pound, the purpose being to keep the price high over the counter to the consumer, Why should we have an election this year? Why not go to the insane asylums and pick

Better Farm Service

» . AN improved agricultural extension service Is likely to be more effective in helping the farmers than even the reclamation, in the opinfon of Harry McClelland, ECA chief of food and agricultural work in Italy. "Another direction of rural improvement will be In breaking up the big land holdings of the south and distributing them to peasant own-

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

By Peter Edson

ers. Labor union” leaders in Rome gay this ¢ ! t th ‘ho seem most insane. and declare Bec Enact penalties for failure by schools to report prompt- would be the prime preventive for communism out those who see : . pe " them elected by acclamation to fill the offices brir ly when veterans discontinue or fail to attend courses. (Lax- The ane 2 man he ne: land, os To Soh ate meena Sarmahtieandangy OT our polbital Pures — = or + munis svt SHIN £2. wr LOTS. n TA uestio “It 18 “even possible, a8 the potatoes lve = = ~ity in such-reports-now-causes overpaymenta-estimated at "parhaps ons greaf estafe in 20 is efcient— man's and Secretary of State Dean Acheson's _uestion was prefaced by-the- Bip 1 TI hol t y » 3 : $ 8 f Sen. McMs 's speech, there ha - ; " x $1,300,000 a month.) In ihe Maman ve Jere Te in Dome recent press conference statements seem to have 2s 3 Yes): of ey Malnsa more effort the farmer might sell them again to the govern- ey Continue present prohibitions against schools which cently had left Rome or Naples to go back to Biven the impression in some quarters that the should be made to reach agreement with the ent Bri 8 peDRE! hrs S08 prot. Srnd have been in existence less than one year and against use their land, It’s high time. But in the main, the door has now been slammed shut on all new Rusgng iii £9700 question, ' to see if there is not a better way to vote than X ‘ “D understand your. remarks to mean of funds for hobby and recreational training. Je Juridowners fo. vothing to help ‘se. peas- negottations with-the Russians: SyoDoul Rhderstand. your Dossibility of any either Repubiican or Democrat. With our im- a - FEN Ba By tesiel th me Gn merely live on But ‘this isn’t the picture at all. Secretary such negotiations with the Russians?” mense facilities to produce, owned collectively soll. Bo € rent money from the ruined Acheson says it is a bad misunderstanding of : - by the people to. be operated for production an

ESTABLISH by law a basis for T.determining “custom- ——— ary cost of tuition.” Sustain the Veterans Administration’s 2th to bar “excessive, unrelated and unjustified” course changing by

Those steps are urgently desirable. And certainly Congress should stand firm, as Mr. Truman urges, for the present deadlines—July 25, 1951, for beginning and July 25, 1956, for ending courses taken by veterans under the pro-

HEN the battleship Missouri got stuck in the mud the Navy promptly convened a court of inquiry. The court has not yet reported its findings. But any. officer or officers it may hold to blame for what happened _to_the mighty “Mo” certainly will not be rewarded with

As Columnist Bob Ruark: ungrammatically observes: “We don’t pay our bigger brass to run no big ships on no

How about the State Department ? During the Communist appeasement period, Acheson was regarded as head of the State Department group which thought it safe to trust Russia. He vouched for: Alger Hiss. And, for his naivete and misplacement of confidence, he has been rewarded by being made Secretary

Dean

~ Acquire Land

TWO new pieces of legislation permit the peasants to acquire the land in an orderly manner, but little progress has been made. Communists try to incite them to simple seizure and nonpayment. No visitor who talks with resident Americans familiar with conditions south of Rome can escape the feeling that the peasants have a deep grievance, giving the Communists

a case,

The big owners belong to the party in pow-

tion, is a strong force for improvement. It may even start an agricultural revolution, one which might get the better of the population increase and eventually, in an indirect way, -even. hold the population itself in check. But all that won't happen by 1952 or by the end of the decade.

“JOY OF LIFE

Weary and bent with a load of care, The joy of life seems to fade. You hear no songbirds anywhere With stones the road is laid!

What care you? The stars are bright, The songs are young in your heart, » The New Year burns with a crystal light

To give'you another start.

So drink with me from life's sweet cup

And sense the lilt in your soul,

Find the paths that are leading up

now-famous

- the U,"8. government's position on doing business with the Russians. It was Connecticut Sen. Brien McMahon's speech . proposing his: $50 billion peace plan that started this. he said, “A fresh proposal for atomic peace, as dramatic as it is sincere, urgently desirable.” Sen. McMahon has been disturbed that.some people took this to mean that he was offering a peace “bribe” says this is a complete misconception, too.

five-year, In it

impresses me as

to the Russians. The Senator

energy everywhere for peace, and general economic ald for all countries, including Russia.

Support of President SECRETARY Acheson was the first high

official in the executive branch of the govern--

ment to comment on the McMahon plan. .The. secretary's comments were made after full con- - sultation with the President. indorsement. of all

qualified

By his later unMr. Acheson's

words, the President was put in the position of

giving full support to two sentences in the secretary’'s statement which apparently gave many

people a wrong idea:

“If we could reach our goal (peace) by agreement; of course that would be highly desirable and-the-simplest-and-easiest way todo it. But I think four years of experience have brought

‘us to the realization that that is not possible.” These words may have been responsible for

such headlines as Dramatic New Approach to Soviet,” stories, editorials and radio commentaries to the

Acheson Rules Out Any

and for

‘Misunderstood Me’

THE press conference transcripts show that Secretary Acheson made this answer: “No. You certainly misunderstood me badly. We have been negotiating with the Russians steadily on this subject until they “walked out on the six-power forum in New York. This thing has been going on since 1946. It isn’t that we are not making one more effort. They have walked out of the one place where discussions are going on.” This answer certainly does -not mean that the United States is unwilling to negotiate with the

proper place for negotiating on limitation of armaments and control of atomic energy are

understood to be the United Nations commis-

sions set up for those specific purposes, What has always been ruled out by the State Department: is two-way negotiations with the Russians on problems concerning other coun-

tries: ~-Left-wing-internationalists have agitated-

repeatedly in favor of having the two great military powers—Russia and the United States ——get together and settle all the world’s problems. between them. "This is no doubt what the Russians would like.

Subjects Limited

THE United States’ position today is that it will negotiate with Soviet Russia alone only problems which concern those two governments. Subjects suitable for such discussions would Include the treatment of American citizens in Russia, settlement of Lend-Lease accounts now long overdue, the return of U. 8. ships. But whenever the subjects to be discussed

for use instead of profits for an idle few, those who prodice all wealth could have plenty.

Surely a Socialist government would not put:

over any surh steal as this.

It is time to do a little thinking. 3

‘Some Fliers Reckless’ By Elsie Rayburn, Morningside Drive. Just how long will it take our lawmakers to realize the necessity for passing. a law with teeth in it to take care of pilots who fly their planes too low, I awakened this morning with a start. Heard one of the big planes coming

’ "er and they keep it from moving too fast. What he proposed was to spend the $10. Russians. It sim y ; ! § ! 8 ply restates what has been out of the east going west. It was flown so low Meanwhile the patient ECA, with its rebuild- billion a year on ‘three programs: President past policy. This is that there is a proper time that it De as. gong our one-story house and Ch th Crew Ing of houses, mills and local utilities, its in- Truman's Point Four program for under- and place for negotiating with the Russians or the telegraph wires, There is no excuse for ange e - — troduction of new methods, its work tn rectama- developed countries, development of —atomic anybody else, on every conceivable subject. The : : PREane

this carelessness. } Just last week I was in another city visiting and had pointed out to me the remains of a ‘house which had been leveled to the ground along with its occupants, The cause—one of these big planes which had been flown too low. Some pilots are very conscientious about these

-.things just like some -motorists.- We-have laws

to take care of erring motorists, Why not laws to take care of negligent pilots? A $100 fine or 30 days in jail would rid us of this danger.

‘Too Much Politics’

By A Taxpayer Indianapolis should have better laws for the

Zoning and Planning Boards and the Board of - Health.

We have a slaughter barn in our area that is not zoned for business. This place has a permit only for a garage but the Planning Board lets it operate. It is also a menace to health. The smell from slaughtering is horrible.Indianapolis would be a better place to live

” zs = = Where at length you may reach your goal! same effect. concern other countries, it is the United States’ and certainly a more _healthi 1 - ry —— ’ ‘ But after the secretary’s press conference re- position that these other countri hould bi ai Mer piace for our ¥ 7 . es shou e JOHN CARTER VINCENT headed the department's —Charlotte Brunker Kinney, 3736 Kenwood Ave. marks were concluded, he was asked one present at the negotiations. Children if our Planning Board and Health

Board didn’t play so much politics.

By Galbraith ASIA POLICY... By Clyde Farnsworth

Write-Off of China?

BANGKOK, Feb, 16-The. Chinese Nationalist “Bovernment, of es meron which must be used to it by now, is being written off again by the U. 8S. State Department. The present policy consultation among American Far Eastern envoys, their Washington boss, W. Walton Butterworth, “and

office of Far Eastern affairs when the decision was made to abandon China to the Communists He is now an am- "HARD CHOICE FOR U. Ss. + By Bruce Biossat-

bassador! . ‘Signals of Peril’

John Davies Jr. and John s. Service can claim to be Mao Tze-tung's original champions in the department. Even during the war, while Nationalist China was America's ally, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—This is a time of supreme urgency | ween Mp-Davies-aeted-as Gen: Stilwell s-unofficial- ambassador to D-America. Nol. since. Russian fighters buzzed-our-atriift-pranes {1-H the Red capital at Yenan. ’ over Germany have we had greater need to view the future with GPE ¢ courage and determination. Mr. Service backed him up in urging American military , support for Mao, the Moscow stooge. Mr. Davies has been or Harold Urey, atomic scientist, tersely expresses the pPpPo ) ao, ( ge. . - danger: “If the H-bomb is created there will be no ‘place to hide.”

SIDE GLANCES -

“He h has, however, named only four persons, only. one of

The Senator should either put up or shut up—either submit proof of his sensational charge or admit that it is

Department. The crew that ran our foreign policy aground: on a Red mud bank should be replaced with one that knows how to navigate safely, -

Let’s Face It

emy of Sciences, and the reading of 36 learned papers on the subject, have come up with some sad news.

there's not much we can do about it. Thére are no known chemical or physical agents that have any effect in promoting the growth of hair on the head of a man who has started

But there’ 8 consolation. Sone: of the scientists pointed out that, contrary to what you've observed in Oriental art - or in the harem’ scenes of movies, as eunuchs in actual life have plenty of hair and vir: ly peyer go bald. 21%

those fat characters

warning by telling us that not only Russian bombers but inno-

dreaded explosive cargo. » , HE. forsees a possible Soviet effort before the year is out to

split European Atlantic Pact.

nations off from us by mining

may strike any time at defiant Tito in Yagoslavia or at Finland, tiniest partner jn the Soviet Union's circle of compulsory friends. Adm. Sherman, chief Of naval operations, declares the Rus-

sives for possible against our island outposts of

A GOVERNMENT aviation research official reiterates an old story: Russia has a bigger air force than ours. Alr Secretary Symington goes ‘him several points better, asserting that Soviet dictators have the world's largest armed forces and are capable of a

-‘of America's 3 million square miles. | These signals of peril have

surprise attack upon any part

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OUR policy for dealing with

diplomacy are the only ones which impress Moscow. Let the meaning of that decision sink in. There'll be no more big-power meetings, no peace ‘treaties with Germany

tions are strong ‘enough to establish conditions that Russia must accept whether it wants to or rot. We do not have that kind of strength ‘how. Therefore it is clear we must set about get-

"need will force us to some hard

mean contracted civilian comforts. We'd better find out soon where those choices lie—and

-_ start making them. We can't

stand off a world-wide menace whilé enjoying. business - as usual. Our military and scientific experts must make the maddening decision as to the relative value of atomic bombs, guided ‘missiles,

; long-range : 5 bombers, naval forces and land :

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armies in a future war. We

"We can't assume any weap. |

on, including a hydrogen bomb,

would give, 'us decisive ad: = wy ‘vantage even if we had it ex-* clusivély. And. the story of Dr. Klaus Fuchs’ spying is a reminder that we'd better -not_ count on sole possession. ‘Spies “don’t go out of business just when the stakes get bigger. The way ahead is grim. To travel it we need calmness and unflinching courage.

buys less than three dress shirts a'year. But think of the other ways .of putting on a good front.

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A DOCTOR removed a whis--

tle from the throat of 4 2- year-

old lad. He must have been A : tweet little b oY. ;

SOME folk Would rather re-

: main single wh ile others would

rather knot. tf

have been reduced virtually to their inland positions on For-

Nationalists call the big writeoff.” -. n 8 ” TO MANY observers, ever, the Nationalist ‘position,

time and help Hainan might be *

considerably strengthened. But the Bangkok conference which opened this week includes no one in an appropriate position .to present such possibilities as factors in U, 8. poli-

First - Secretary Robert C.

retary of state and an eminent ambassador-at-large, each of them many years his senior. #48 0» r THE Bangkok cenference is a demonstration of pure state-

how-

craft at work in an area where

the - primary concern .of. ‘the

u. in is strategic deferise. ts only concession to- mili-

Pt fnterest in these ‘diplo-

matic deliberations ‘wasihe in-

~ bare announcement of how the . conference opened. :

Moyer who showed up here as an observer for the Economic

cent-looking tramp steamers Russia in this hour is to be mosa and Hainan since the Co-operation Administrations whom—Mr. Service—is now employed by the State Depart- which slip almost unnoticed in- funded solely on strength and U. S. State Department's white ~~ An observer, presumably, is y power. For these blunt tools of aper of last August, whith Someone who is seen but pot ment and none of whom Sen. McCarthy has identified as a to our harbors may bear the ‘ pap gu

heard. oo ” os ” F DR. MOYER is the head of the ECA Mission to Formosa and probably is .better versed

. | ai in, that island's economic po4 capability and will to resist ! p . 4 . J . sar But the dust he has raised Should not obscure the, ly ey harbors with atone 30 Japan Jo tisunman nto seems Stronger in Formosa enijalities than any other urgent need for a thorough house cleaning in the State - Rumors are rife that Russia and our friends among free na- than ever before, and given

It was he who recently dee

-nied secret reports to Washing-

ton of the imminent economic collapse of Formosa, and of direct expenditure of ECA ase sistance upon the Nationalists’

sians have a vast submarine ting it without delay. Other i Ly in Asia, F i bili L$ 5 “You've taken a whole album of pictures of the children with That 3s, unless you can pie- , F0rmosa’s economic possibiliWO hundred of th fleet in Asiatic waters. Mili- - wise our policy of power is a that . +i chs A r +h re ture our 32-vear-old Wp ties under a moderate assist- | undre the nation’s leading scientific" specialists, tary experts see submarines as string.of empty phrases, 9 Camere You 3a oe hsimas 5 hee diplomatic A TT to ' - ance program. after a two-day discussion before the Ni k Acad- prime carriers. of ‘super-explo- ® & = seem to be getting bigger very fast! “1 * = = e New Yor : HL TO OBTAIN the power we ) the Formosan government,

JUST whose secret reports those were that found publica-

trong, 5 our western shore. choices. Expanded . military must seek balance in our Barbs- FE Aga “tion in Washington at the‘time i Men, we might as well face it—if we're getting bald, Boy. strength almost certainly will - . strength. THE average American conclusions of an assistant sec- When the new ECA program -

for Formosa was penaing was never disclosed. But “they

‘cropped out about a mofith ago

when the State Department was sharply paring American personnel :on the .island. Although Mr. Butterworth had agreed _earlier. to issue communiques covering each day's deliberations first day of talks ended with a

here, the :

given a seat.on the State Department's high policy board = Another eminent - scientist, nol Deeded 2 far. PIR Jessup is secret. = } . | ey . . a 3 3ush, w at one unheede e cr i a 2 £20. 0 a SS A tA ree 8A Mr. Service has-been -made-American-consul-at-Caleutta. Re Vane tas Heh ary that tion to stave off civ izations ang Kai-shek and his stubborn clusion of the one lone observer : Tut " 2» . * = » the A-bomb or the H-bomb or ruin has risen everywhere. And followers is in the cards here. —a Navy captain—from the 2-v * SEN. McCARTHY, Wisconsin Republican, has charged any other explosive weapon is that call has been answered, by There also is a closer approach Deézense Department. hea that th © 57 C ) be f ) to keep it away from our’ Secretary. of - State Acheson, to the recognition of the ne man who might be ine ze at-there are 57 Communists and a larger number of per shores. with the full support of Presi- Chinese Communist regime. clined to give a minority report We sons of Fisetioal e loy alty now employed in the State De- Dr. Urey. underlines that dent Truman, The Chinese Nationalists on Formosa is Dr. Raymond