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Confession of Bankruptcy

HE State Department has asked Congress not to indorse any plan for international co-operation or any other venture in foreign relations beyond supporting "the United Nations’ machinery as it-now exists. Yet the department's only answer to the contention that this machinery has proven. inadequate to deal with existing world tensions is that ‘study’ is ‘being given to suggested amendments to the United Nations charter, de-

signed to strengthen the organization. fa . a8

THAT offers small encouragement since the department has disapproved the Douglas- Thomas resolution which would allow the United Nations General Assembly to act upon a two-thirds vote of its membership, including at least three of the five great powers. As long as Russia can hamstring it by the veto, the organization is powerless to deal with any situation in which Russia is involved. Meanwhile, all that seems to have resulted from the highly touted Bangkok conference, which was supposed to produce a new Far Eastern policy, is the hint that the United States will extend “friendly support” to states in Asia- which may desire such assistance. “Friendly supMo of ser ens Arveriont Va pavers wines, os " ” " ” ” - AS TO this general confession of moral and political we can do no better than to quote from a

“Our plead-and-whine foreign policy constitutes the sole important menace to world peace.” We need to stand on our rights and dignity as decent people... But we are doing our damnedest to convince these Reds that we are a craven lot. We'll keep on forever paying the ransom. We'll never call the cops. We finally convinced the Kaiser, Hitler and the Japs of this very thing.

“We simply follow the distinguished example of Neville

Chamberlain, who sought to keep his miserable hide in one piece a few years longer by bribing Hitler with the lives and properties of his friends. He donated only a few countries at a time, whereas we toss in continents. But even so,

"Chamberlain soon ran out of real estate.”

That's the proplem in-a-nutshell. Suppose we do spend a few more billions under the President's Point Four pro- ~ gram? Where do we go from there?

Stabilized Employment

NOTHER sign that Indiana's structure of commerce is

building on sound foundations is the report of steadily

increasing employment after a slight dip a year ago. Employment estimates by 122 Indiana firms show an increase of about 1500 industrial jobs expected in the state during March. And last week there was 22 per cent less unemployment in. Indiana than the same week a year ago. By contrast, these reports show that Indiana is better off economically than other areas of the country where unemployment has been rising. It is another indication of healthier conditions due to Indiana's balance of diversified industry and agriculture, giving the state sounder foundations to weather recessions. Continued peace in labor- -management relations will be

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T WAS, as Mr. Truman said, “a most

* remarkable Sates at which he 7 spoke ~in

Washington’ day night.

And it was an’ a. ad effective :

political speech that Mr. Truman delivered. " The cheers of the 5200 Democrats assembled to hear him, at $100 a head, indi-

‘cated that they felt they were getting” their money's worth; in-oratory if not in

edibles. The President, in his other role of party chief, sounded the keynote for this

year's campaign to hold and strengthen.

Democratic control of Congress. ‘It's true, he said, that present government spending is large. He wishes it could be cut enough to balance the budget immediately. A But that's “out of the auestion.” Just think of what the Democratic administra-

tion is doing and plans to. do to maintain

peace, progress and provide for the general welfare of all our citizens. The cost of all

‘that is irescapably great. ie

eo o FOR a man who professes such -unshakable confidence in the strength of his

own party's position, Mr. Truman devoted "a remarkably "big share of his speech to

attacking, ridiculing and sc orning the Republican opposition.

But there's much truth in what he said -

on that point, and the Republican Party’s leaders might: profitably take it to heart. They have too often stood for '‘negainaction.” offered affirmative programs of their own. They have overworked such ‘scare words” “welfare state” and “socialism.” .They have trumpeted warnings of disasters that haven't happened—yet. They have failed to convince most of the American people that Democratic. programs en-

danger their freedom. * 4

YET it seems to us undeniable that *

Democratic programs have encouraged more and more pressure groups to demand larger and larger benefits and bounties from the public treasury. And there have been Democrats of high standing who believed that that sort of thing could have no good end. The dinner addressed by Mr. Truman was given, ostensibly, in honor of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, neither of

‘whom could be present in person to speak

for himself. : It is, however, a matter of historical record that Mr. Jackson took great pride in an achievement which Mr. Truman is unlikely to emulate. Mr. Jackson, as

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Though 1 never looked into his face Or clasped his kindly hand, I've stood beside his resting place And tried to understand. How, as a boy, the firelight dim Played over the crudest tool, That served as battered slate for him Who could not go to school. How, as a young man, he should feel That justice must prevail, And set his shoulder to the wheel Nor thought that he cauld fail. Though hard he worked, and great the odds

achieve domestic "prosperity and

They have too._seldom.

““'statish” “and

President, paid off the national debt and

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greatest of dangers... . We must make our choice between economy and liberty,

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-accumulated a treasury surplus to be disTOUTED EF ETATER * And it was Mr. Jefferson who said: “1 place economy among the first and most important Virtlies, and public debt as the

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or profusion and servitude, If we can pre-

vent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of -

ang for them, they win be happy. n

Dinner Ended With the Usual Toasts

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

A LIRY RAT we

By Marquis Childs

How Far am Security Go?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—The case of Klaus Fuchs has produced another of those grave

~shocks that since the end of the war have shat-

tered the complacency of the Western world. Here by general agreement is a man of amazing brilliance of mind who now confesses to practicing systematically over a period of seven years the rankest kind of treason.

Such a shock inevitably produces a reaction -

of fear and dismay. Why, we demand, can’t the regulations and the laws be enforced to prevent this. kind of thing from happening. The strictest kind of secrecy enforced by the military under wartime powers did not prevent a Fuchs case. But it is importaht to remember that the pursuit of absolute security brings its own train of evils, The sum total of those evils is dic-

~tatorship in the pattern of Soviet Russia or Nazi

Germany. In a case that is beginning to receive national attention there is a reminder of these

been given a hearing on the issues nor has she been informed of the charges against her,

The case was carried to the Supreme Court. ~ By a 4 to 3 decision the power of the Attorney

General to’ exclude Mrs. Knauff without a hearing was upheld. - Two of the three justices who voted in the negative filed notable dissents, Justice Robert H. Jackson said: “Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name. The menace to the security of this country, be it great as it may from the girl's_admission, is as nothing compared to the menace ifitherent in procedures of this pattern.” 2

Little Left to Secure IF IN the pursuit of security we are to make ourselves over in the pattern of the totalitarians, then there will be little left to secure, since we

~ will have destroyed our precious heritage from

the past: Surely a secret hearing on the charges in

‘-off-street parking problem,

re “I do’ not agree with a word that , but | will defend to the death your rig Hg | Ay ‘City Needs Museum’.

By Fred Bennett, Manual High School Pupil.

Indianapolis needs more museum facilities so that other phases of ancient cultural material

~ may be observed along with art treasures al-

ready at hand. -- Perhaps a small zoological garden could he

constructed near Holliday Park which would aid youngsters in getting aecquainted with animals seen only in books in Indiana. This would prove a boon to education. Though many a theory has been advanced on the current

here is another two-bits’ worth. Instead of just off-street parking, for which there is no room, why not under-street parking? This plan has been tried in some cities with good results. Here's a chance for slum

Mr. Bennett :

clearance and downtown civic construction to

_coincide, could be torn down and a group. of enterprising

" business men could capitalize on a large, mod-

ern hotel. Such a structure could draw even larger crowds to Indianapolis. Other such areas could be cleared and a large civic auditorium built in a centrally located area, A good zoning law could prevent a lot of id conditions conducive of slum areas: Perhaps before we high school seniors are graduated from college some of these improvements will have been made.

‘More Double Talk’

"By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind.

Mrs. Walter Haggerty in one letter to the Forum tells us we could burn our ds, and in the next letter tells us they are the safest and best investment on earth. All of this double talk is, of course, in the “best traditions of the planned economy of both the New and Fair Dealers who believed we

—seould have prosperity by destroying things,

Under the Roosevelt tutelage beginning in 1932, we plowed under corn and cotton, killed pigs and calves. By 1940 this mania for destroying things

became so great that he lead us in a useless,

futile, war which not only destroyed our substance, but destroyed the lives of our young men as well, We are taking the same road under the Fair Deal and are beginning to destroy eggs and potatoes. It will only be another step to wheat, corn and livestock, and we have made plenty of progress toward a Third World War which seems likely to break out anytime. Mrs. Haggerty also tells us that we will cone tinue to be prosperous as long as 60 million people buy bonds, which indicates the New Deal concept of economics of a continued ‘prosperity by going deeper in debt. She also tells us how the money: bags of the country would like tomy all the bonds and then raise the interest rate. : The facts are the extremely rik men do buy government bonds and can probably get all they want. This does not mean necessarily they are a gilt-edge investment. It does mean that they prefer to invest money in bonds rather than to risk private investment under conditions where laws are being made by crackpots and -any profit made would be taken by high income taxes. Neither would there seem to he any reason for millionaires to want to raise the interest rate on government bonds because they would merely collect the extra interest and turn it back to the government in the form of taxes.

‘No False Statement’ By C. R. Massey, Speedway, Ind. This is an open letter to J. K. Bailey. Mr’ Bailey stated in his letter of Feb. 11 that the $91.91 given as the average telephoge workers’ weekly pay “is ridiculous and misleading.” Please note the telephone ad you read, Mr,

Bailey, and don’t overlook the two words “top

men” average $91.91. The Telephone Co. released the payroll record as it was in your contract. It made no false statements, as you want to believe that it did. All that the CWA (CIO) did that the company didn’t do was to combine all people in the plant department, including those who just started working, from the lowest salaries to the top salary,

necessary to- maintain Indiana's strong position in the nations’ economy.

Hocus-Pocus

ANY members of Congress would be happy to find some way of balancing the government’ 8 budget without enforcing drastic economies or raising taxes. That's understandable—especially in an election year. But they shouldn't fall for the so-called Mills plan. This plan, brought forward a couple of years ago hy Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and other Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, is now said to be gaining favor. — Under present law, corporations wauld. pay federal

faxes on their 1950 in®omes in four quarterly installments,

due in March, June, September and December of 1951.

” on o o ~ ~ ~~ THE MILLS plan would make them pay those taxes earlier, half jn.March @nd half in June of 1951, That would crowd & full year's collection of corporation income taxes into the last six months of the government's next fiscal year, which will end ‘on June 30, 1951. In thosé 8ix months the government would collect $5 billion or so more than it expects to collect under the present

That few could understand, He was a man ordained by God To save our precious land. Those kindly hands drew tight the bond That made our nation whole, on Then he slipped into the Great Beyond To rest his weary soul. But his eternal words live on and on, - This nation knows their worth— “Government of the people, by the people; “For the people, _ Shall not perish from the earth!" —Ruth M. Coffin, 1801 N. Emerson Ave.

n FRIENDS AND FLOWERS

Friends and flowers are kindred things Richness in possession each one brings.> Some. by. their fragrance ease all care thers so refreshing by . .. just being there. The world would be desolate without any flowers

creme CHEEE WEATY souls And banish dark hours...

But what of a world the Sage contends What would it be . . . devoid of friends? ~ —Anna E. Young, 3547 N. D&Quincy St.

ARMY ENGINEERS . . . By James Daniel

A $15 Million Dam

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18--The Army Engineers are putting the finishing touches on a $15 million reservoir near Denver which was designed ‘to hold a flood five times as large as any flood of |}

evils, Mrs. Knauff's presence could not have endan- . gered national security. This-was what her atFled to England Torney Kept pleading for, but such a hearing was

A GERMAN girl working for the American Military Occupation, named Ellen Raphael, married Kurt Knauff, a naturalized American of German origin who had fought with American armies, Mrs, Knauff’'s family had been exterminated

by the Nazis and she had fled to England where -

she served with the Royal Air Force. Her request to marry a GI was cleared by. seven investigating authorities, inciuding counter-in-

telligence and criminal investigation officers in i

_ the occupation, before if was granted. “

In October of 1948 Mrs. Knauff came to this country. On her arrival she was taken to Ellis

Island where she was informed she would not be admitted to America because her admission ~ would be prejudicial to the security of the United Mrs. Knauff, with the aid of her hus- *

States.

band WHo cate Trom Germany, began a Tohg

legal battle. In the course of that struggle she never has

SIDE GLANCES

never. granted. Mrs. Knauff has expressed the belief that out of malice and’ jealousy among employees in the occupation of Germany secret charges were preferred against her, and on the basis of those charges she has been denied the right granted to every other GI bride. - Sen. William Langer, Republican of North Dakota; has introduced a bill in the Senate which, if adopted, would cancel the exclusion order against Mrs. Knauff.

Tradition of Liberty NO ALIEN has a “right” te.come to America -although GI brides have had a special status in this respect since the end of the shooting war. But one of the great traditions of this freé nation is symbolized by the lady with the lamp held high in New York harbor. If that tradi_tion of refuge to those who have stood. up. against -autocracy, as Ellen Knauff and her husband: dig) 1s broken off, we shall ‘all be the poorer for:it.

“By Gal braith ARMY IN YUKON... By Jim G. Lucas — Defense Weakness

YUKON TERRITORY, Feb. 18—The Russians have at least 40 well- trained divisions in Eastern Siberia, U. 8. and Canadian inn officers believe, That would pu pl-approgimaiely: By

system: And that would be enough, or nearly: enough tor -

offset the federal budget ‘deficit for that fiscal year.

» o ” ” ” ” . SEN. GEORGE, a real fiscal expert——calls the Mills plan “dubious.’ ' It's worse than that. It's dangerous hocuspocus. As Sen. George says, it might diminish future corporation tax collections by forcing many companies to pay out, In moved up 1951 taxes, reserves they should use for business expansion. Certainly, over the not very long run, it would not add one cent to the governments revenues. It would: merely create a brief bookkeeping illusion of progress toward budget balancing. And; while thé illusion lasted, it would discourage efforts to cut spending and encourage reckless demands for more spending.

France Falters.

ABINET crises, punctuated by the usual parliamentary vote test, are more common in France today than revélutions used to be in Latin America.

Things have got so bad that Premier Bidault oeri his government together with string, bailing wire and threats that another” cabinet collapse means an end w western solidarity..

If ‘this goes on much longer, it looks like a new general election will be the only sensible solution. The present instability in French government is a travesty on the democratic process. A sounder. political alignment. is sorely

needed. Frenchmen have got to realize that splinter parties

based upon fine. theoretical distinctions dre.a luxury out, of place in the hard 1 reality of 1950,

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record on the—stream:

——The- projeet- -s-eaHed the Cherry Creek Reservoir: an official of the National Farmers Union, calls it Spam Dam.

Ben Stong.

pr se” Te says. Tits al replace Kenwood “Dam. Mr. The Army. engineers dis. Stong says. the inspiration agree. They' say the dam, came!from a “coterie of conwhich is ‘three miles long, 140 tractors around the Army feet © high. and four times Corps ef Engineers, who bulkier than the great pyra- wanted construction business. mid, is required to preserve This particular area is semi-

Denver from the danger of a flood that never has happened but could occur,

- ” ” . ESLIE A. MILLER, former Wyoming governor who

‘héaded the Hoover Commission

Hp force on water projects, cills ‘Cherry Creek an “inconsequential stream . . . that occasionally causes relatively minor damage in portions of Denver.” In 1875 the creek and the

South Platte River, which it flows into within the Denver city limits, overflowed and

washed away some buildings, a church and the city hall After 1912 th® creek was deepefied and confined by concrete walls. During the depression the city and the federal public’ works administration built an $800,000 reservoir upstream for. flood control. This structure, Kenwood Dam, was designed to withstand a flood more than twice as big as any ever experienced. - be

. JUST before Ye war, a property ownsefs -agsociation was formed to seek a federal appropriation for a new ‘dam to

arid, but subject to summer cloudbursts, The Army engineers made a study of the past Cherry Creek floods: and found none that justified Dam. But in 1935 a cloudburst

“had occurred on the adjoining

watershed of the Republican River in Kansas, burst, they said, would have washed out Kenwood Dam—if

. it had occurred on the Cherry

Creek watershed. In such case, they decided, Denver would have been disastrously flooded.

. ” ” 3 ACCORDINGLY, they outlined an $8 million project to tear down Kenwood Dam and build the present structure. The

assessed value of all the prop-

erty jeopardized by. flooding

‘was about $10 million in 1940.

The Army engineers say the dam is being finished for about $15 million: Now that the- reservoir is about ‘completed, there is a

problem of where to get some water for it to hold. Most of

the year, Cherry Creek can be crossed on foot without getting water: above the knees. . . The Bureau o! Reclamation

replacing Kenwood -

That cloud-

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) men across the Bering Straits facing Alaska. By contrast, Operation Sweetbriar, now: under way in the |

overtime which most plant’ employees get. AddIng these figures will probably give you an average of $64.64. Another wrong statement you made, Mr. Bailey, was that you said that $79 weekly is absolutely tops for any worker in the plant department. I know of other people in the plant who make much more than $79. You looked at the telephone ad, you didn't read it.

” ‘Era o/ Abundance’ By Charles W. Burton, 911 F. Maryland St. The voter and small taxpayer know that we live in an era of abundance of raw materials and the tools of production to produce the unlimited need for the aged or anyone else in want. The question is how to raise the money. Somehow money is found speedily for fighting wars, but money: voted for public benefit nearly:

the self-righteous taxpayers. Invariably the voter is held up as an ignorant fool who should’ not be allowed to vote.

_which_ is: $79 per. week, omitting: —_—

aOPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE WiC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OPP.

iH could be a better report card, Dad, but let's not worry about it so much that we get ulcers!”

is working up a project to divert water from the Blue River on the opposite side of the

Rockies,! by a costly tunnel, to . the South Platte River, thence

by an existing irrigation canal to the Cherry Creek Reservoir, , and thence by another canal to a farming area east of Denyer. -

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THE engineers have esti’

. ver sections of .the American

mated farmers will pay $11,000 a year for the irrigation water. Maintenance of the reservoir is budgeted at $22,000 next year. The original $15 million capital is not to be repaid.

~The Colorado and the Den-

Society of Engineers opposed the reservoir as unlikely to produce -benefits in proportion to its, costs, z

“sub-arctic, “involves only 5800 U. S. and Canadian troops—35300

with the Allied defenders of Whitehorse and 500 with the “aggressor.” J n ” . SWEETBRIAR —intended to develop arctic strategy for both countries—has served the dou-

ble purpose of pointing up our .

deficiencies. A couple of major “assumptions” had to be made before the battle for Whitehorse could be fought. For instance, we “assume” battalion of anti-aircraft. We don’t. we have an adequate radar warning system in this part of the world. It simply isn’t here. . . » x

THE Canadians are standdng the: weather better than the Americans. And Allied intelligence officers say the Russians unquestionably are as expert as the Canadians in arctic living. This gives them a psy“chological as well as pumerical advantage. - It’s not surprising, Rowever, that U. 8. troops are finding it difficult to endure the weather. We have no area in the United States in which we- can regularly train artic troops.

that we have one -

We also “assume” that

The Canadians seem to kiiow

show to take care of themselves

better. They -have had no se-

rious cases of frozen feet or frostbite. At last count we had .more than 25—invariably due

to carelessness, doctors say. -

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‘U. 8S. ARMY psychologists

“are trying to learn what kind

of Americans are suited for this kind of combat. Their guinea pigs are 1300 mountain troops from Camp Carson, Colo. The personality, attitude and physical characteristics of each man were charted in detail before he was sent north. A team of psychologists ‘will follow him into “battle” to 1éarn how he reacts and’ récord any changes attitude, temper | and persénality. Out of their research, they say, may come standards for selecting men for arctic war-, fare. Unless of .course .the Army—being the Army-—sends its best arctic fighters to Pan- + ama. » ~ . - unless it gets colder here—it was only 23 degrees below zero today— Operation 8weetbriar will le a lot of questions about arctic tos unanswered. These war games were to be played in temperatures 60 degrees below zero. “The Canadians held a four-day ‘dress rehearsal several] weeks ago when it was 57 degrees below, The weatherman keeps promising a cold.snap but the past

few days have seen the mer-

cury range from 10 to 30 below

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