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Price in Marfon County 3 cents a copy for daily sng 100 city of Berlin was presented to the Senate by : Week. ally only 29 SUnSer only 00 Math recs moans Sen, Karl E. Mundt (R. 8. D.) as an argument daily and Sunday $1000 a vear dally $3500 a vear

for stepping up Voice of Americg

Shirking Duty as Citizens

payers shirk their responsibility in government every election year by their failure to register and cast ballots. The legal deadline for new voters to register or have old listings transferred to new addresses in order to vote in the May 2 primary is Apr. 1, only 17 days away. Many thousands of citizens whose daily lives are af-

we have, will ignore this vital function of citizenship.

to the polls in primaries of previous years, less than onethird of eligible voters will select the candidates who will run on the major party tickets next November.

= = ~ » » ” THIS means that a vast majority of taxpayers would turn over to a small minority of voters the important responsibility of picking the candidates who will run all government functions here the next four years. : And that minority of voters going to the polls, of course, are for the most part the “controlled” ballots of political party machines. - : et Thus, more often than not the only choice of candiCates you have on the November ballots are those handpicked by the political bosses. : Many of these are capable and responsible administrators but too often party organizations put onthe bal- © ots unqualified or incompetent candidates on a political “deal” to strengthen party machinery rather than to strengthen the administration of government. It is the duty of every citizen to get himself registered --in-the-next 17 days-and-cast a-ballot-in the primary.

The Ugliest Crime HE post-war increase of rape cases in this country is ~ becoming one of the most pressing social problems of our time. ; Every 24 hours an average of 44 cases of rape are recorded in police department records throughout the United States. | But even more shocking, and a fact that does not always show up in the cold statistics, is that most of the vietims are children, often under the age of seven. r » ” . = - ~threats to the peace of mind of America’s parents. Something must be done, yet the problem, as SecrippsHoward Staff Writer Andrew Tully points out, is not one for the law enforcement officials alone. You, too, as an ordinary citizen, along with our law-makers, medical experts, educators and parents in general, should be vitally . concerned with its solution. . But for a clear understanding of the problem, which ‘should come first, we think you will want to read the series of articles by Mr. Tully which are now appearing in The . Times. “i E : 7

OST of the 21 government reorganization plans which - President Trumian has sent to Congress are closely in line with recommendations of the Hoover Commission.: Thirteen of them would center authority in the heads of Cabinet departments and federal regulatory boards or commissions, This responsibility is now scattered among many subordinate officials. Two others would move bureaus into the Labor Department, where they seem to belong. Five more are designed. to promote better governmental housekeeping by

_ceral Services Administration. =. 5.» =” » » » ALL these 20 are sound in principle. They should save maney and increase efficiency, And a detail in only one of them appears likely to create serious controversy. This is the proposal to undo a Taft-Hartley Act provision which made the National Labor Relations Board's ..generdl counsel an independent official--the President's plan—12 would abolish the position. of general counsel; held since: “1947 by Robert N. Denham. - red Mr. Denham and the NLRB members have been. in fre: ~ quent, open disagreemeént aver policies. . Union leaders hive -demanded his removal, which Mr. Truman's proposal would ‘accomplish. a i Some members®of Congress doubtless will take excep. "tion to that. It was not specifically recommended by the Hoover Commission, ‘and there may be valid objections to combining in the NLRB, as before 1947, the functions of . prosecutor. and judge. pe . : Yet one of the Taft-Hartley. Act amendments advocated by Taft himself, and passed by the Senate last year, calls for an end to the general counsel's independent status. So the President's plan, as it affects'Mr. Denham’s job, may be less drastic than it seems.

a a * 8. 8 : PERHAPS most important of Mr, Truman'siplans is No. 21—to abolish the five-member independent Maritime Commission and transfer its functions to a three-man Mari. . time Board and administrator under the Commerce Départment. © : Hd ; He says it will be “a long step” toward integrating the many government programs affecting water, air and highway transportation, and certainly the Maritime Commission —has been seyerely criticized by the Hoover group and others. __ Congress, of course, should study all 21 plans carefully. But, if it finds in them no more serious faults than are now ~ apparentyit should permit them to go into’ effect—as they Will, 60 days hence, unless House or Senate vetoes them. These plans and those previously adopted, -aceording to My. Truman, will carry out about half of the Hoover Com- . Action on the balancé of that program

MANY thousands of Marion County residents” and tax-

fected one way or another by the kind of local governiént

~neoUnless-more citizens register and vote than have gone

= THIS appalling situation-has become one-of the gravest

transferring functions.to.or.from-the- recently created Gem" } won PRICE SUPPORTS “By Frank R. Ford =

Housewife

ment competition wit

Cupation,

lin occupation forces. -

After relating how the Eastern Zone Communists have set up printing plants to counterfeit ; —Western Zone money, the Gl deseribed-a-huge——— mass demonstration rally held ‘in the Western = Zone to celebrate Stalin’s birthday. :

Shouted ‘Internationale’

DECLARING that he was “shocked” at the Germans’ behavior at the birthday celebration, : : he related how a vast auditorium was packed to La the rafters and the whole mass shouted out the < ~~

. “Internationale.”

Max Reimann, leading German Communist, spoke, He attributed to President Truman a quo- i tation said to have appeared in a New York newspaper at the time Germany attacked Russia in World War II saying that they ‘should be permitted to bleed themselves to death” and then the U. 8, A. and other nations could take

over,

“After Reimann’s speech, the Red curtains ‘were parted and-a huge portrait of Stalin was revealed,” the GI report continued. “The audi~ ence went stark, staring mad, leaped to its feet and began yelling (and I do mean yelling) the

‘Internationale.

“Such a commotion you have never heard. I must confess that the man who had painted the portrait was a genuis. He had combined the loving father with the stern man of destiny and the kindly elder brother so well that I was confounded. That portrait artist could have made Gargantua look like St. Cecelia.”

‘Nazis Reconverted

SINCE many pre-war Commies turned Nazi, ft wasn't difficult for them to be reconverted, the GI indicated. But another factor luring them is the threat of punishment when the Commies take over Berlin, if they don’t join up now, he said. They have done a good job of selling the ono dl@e that. they will take. over, according -to-the-

GT's report.

“I frankly do not think the German nation dependable enough in character to be trusted very far,” his report concludes, “As individuals they seem to me very shifty and treacherous, and I see little reason to hope that they will be ‘a strong front against the anslaught of com--

-munism from the East.

“The moral degradation left by the Hitler regime is painfully in evidence in every phase of German private and political life. So, I am concerned with the effects of Russian threats to the .. Germans—causing the Germans to knuckle un- —

der out of fear.

Stay in Berlin

“I THINK, insofar as the Germans are con- — cerned, we have the duty of letting them see our firm intent to stay in Berlin (this is the place where the whole European issue will be fought out with the Russians, and we are in an unhappy position there) and in the rest of Germany. If we lose Berlin, we have lost Germany and.

Europe.”

‘Voice of America .makes friends with its broadcast and much U. 8. information gets behind the Iron Curtain according to refugees from there, the GI reported. But he believes, with Sen. Mundt, that it should be vastly stepped up and improved as “our best guaranty of preventing the present cold war from becoming a hot war.”

MY: DAILY PRAYER

May I keep-faith with Him who knows

“My-every-act and deeq,”

In that I. may not hoard my hate ern NOY. SOW a, careless. seed...........

Though grief and sorrow be my lot

Through all my earthly miles,

May F forget the shadows cast and

And cherish only ‘smiles.

May furrows deepened on Wy face

By tireless time's sure hand Heap not upon the. soul of me Discordant contraband.

Through changing. days. down. through the years; -

While my life's song 1s sung,

My prayer-is, may 1 always keep

My heart forever young.

eds Woo Germans Report on Commies’ Mass . ‘Meeting Given to Senate =

WASHINGTON, Mar. 15-Dear Boss—A GI's view of what goes on in the “house-divided”

This GI presented the Senator with ‘a. firsthand account of how the Commies carry on in the Western Zone of the former German capital where U. §. troops are part of the Army of Oc

~The report was written by Otto Kundert, who recently returned to his home in South Dakota after spending several years with the U. 8S. Ber-

ree Alen, 1830. EK. Calhoun St;

broadcasts =

in mid-1952,

Treasury about $13 billion by the time it ends

In other words, this defense measure—designed to prevent Western Europe from being dominated by a series of brutal Communist regimes—will cost us as much as it cost us to fight 90 days of the late war-—which was -de-

signed to uproot and destroy a series of brutal Fascist regimes.

What you have to ask yourself is whether ~ this defensive measure was necessary? ——— Would Western Europe have gone Commie ‘if there had been no Marshall Plan? Different people will give different answers. Nobody can say for certain what would have happened to Western Europe if there had been no Marshall Plan. - ' In 1947, however, it seemed about an evenmoney bet that France and Italy would go Communist in the 1948 elections.

Desperate Crisis

BUT there is no question at all about what “ would have happened economically and socially.

It. is absolutely certain that the 275 million

crisis,

A yn A SARA AE

Europeans who benefit today from the Marshall Plan would have gone through a desperate The $8.5 billion of Marshall aid which they have received during the first two years of the plan has prevented that crisis. . ~~ Considering the seriousness of “the political ™" risk 44nd the. certainty of economic and social chaos, it seems reasonable to conclude that our peaceful preventive economic war against communism, at a cost of $13 billion, was a neces-

sary and altogether justifiable defense measure.

Some is being wasted and misspent but none of it will be spent on killing people and the

wastage.is a mere trickle compared to the main

stream.

80 the answer to the question: “Has the abou 1£ —-Marshail-Rlan- prid2i-shoutd:fr-1my -opion> "that "thers “Has been any.

be a resounding ‘‘ves.”

Now fer question No. 2:

“Is the Marshall Plan being run properly?”

My impression of ECA officials is th “are generally competent “and “in"'many’ cases

that “they

Loses

MAMMA is a stout fighter but she can’t whip the government.

It's been nearly four

years now since Congress knocked OPA

in the head and it was hastily assumed that the federal government had abandoned price-fixing as official policy. : . : “oo... JL Was optimistically predicted-that Mamma, the all-American

housewife, would take. over. with. her. own: time-tested system of

price ¢ontrol: She would view

with fishy =ye *he mounting price of, for instance, butter in.~ «oh ALALOR 10 Papas paycheck Around Teena: Sraimlomtnivm ride which she had to stretch over .

the week's dinner table, If the pricé got more than she couid afford, Quit buying butter and the con-

"SEUENT decline Tn sales would ~~ ceeded In giving away anoth

bring prices back in line. : 2, 8” - » THIS was just another ‘way of saying that the economic law of supply and demand would take care of retail prices. Well, the OPA butter price had been 67 cents, plus a 17cent government subsidy, a total of 84 cents; But butter was a rare dish dat the grocery. On the black market the price was near ‘$1, and #& climbed to about that. figure when the market was set free. ‘Gradually Mamma got in her licks, Retail prices declined to a low mark of around 67 cents last summer. But then it developed that the govern-

. ment hadn't really abandoned

price control at all, but. had merely shifted to an Indirect method. : And, whereas OPA had been

“to hold prices down,

this alternate method had been designed very successfully to” hold prices up. -

» ® - THE Department of Agriculture, by authority of Congress, which had both created and abolishéd OPA, bought up IT3 million pounds of butter last year, for $70 million, and put it in storage. Ee ~ As a result of this

govern hth

started back up and is now

she'd just ~

. which are denied to hungry

housewife, the butter price

This is the slack season for butter. production. The governmenf has.been able to sell 12 million pounds of its hoarded butter at cost. It has si

20 million pounds, and expects to get rid of another 20 million

- somehow or other before grass

grows in the pastures and the

peak production season for

butter comes round again.

» . » THAT will leave 60 million pounds in storage with more millions of pounds pouring in, Butter keeps in storage from Six to 18 months. Within the year this vast pile of butter will start to spoil. The smell of this spoiling butter will mingle with the tench of decaying eggs stored in a Kansas cave, with the unique aroma provided by mountains of rotten government potatoes, the more dainty smells of cheddar cheese, powdered milk and other edibles

people in an effort to beat the

~law of supply and demand and

guarantee high incomes to farmers. 8 HOWEVER excellent the original inteiitions, this system has degenerated into a method

of open. bribery,

It is unfair to biame - the Democrats or even the New Dealers exclusively. Some of have, indeed, tried to the stench actually con-

rar

taminates the air from coast to coast. i But some of the most vigorous exponents of economy and common sense -in government

rise in righteous indignation

when anyone suggests that

“they get their hands out of the public purse. . : ES - ” . 8

THE end is not in sight and

EUROPEAN RECOVERY . . . By William H. Stoneman Marshall Plan Benefits Seen

PARIS, Mar. 15—As defense measures go, the Marshall Plan has been a red-hot bargain, You don't buy national defense for peanuts. World War II cost the U. 8. Treasury $330 billion and it cost the American people more than 330.000 dead. : The Marshall Plan is due to cost the U. 8.

exceptional people who were devoted to their work and trying to earn their pay, As bureaucracies’ go, the ECA setup is undoubteédly an efficient organization. The same can be said for its European counterpart, the OEEC organization of the 18 coun-

will defend to the death your right fe sey B"

=F *Questions of Teen-agers’

By A. G. Schneider, 504 W. Dr, Woodruff ' The Times is to be complimented for publish- ; ing the letter of Ruth E. Mitchell, of Greenwood, about to graduate from high school, as well as several other wonderful letters from teenagers recently published. More of these letters "should be published, to let skeptics realize that QUE teen-agers’ beads .are not. filled with stugr ¢ nonsense.’ Te “ : “Ruth really poses some questions that are TTT dImcult to answer. And the adults of this gen- ". ww, eration should hang their heads in shame that “* a condition should exist in this most wonderful : nation of the world, under which children graduating from high school and facing an uncertain world, should have such questions enter their heads.’ ‘ Had we adults preserved this nation as it was handed to us by our ancestors, and lived by the golden rule of the Constitution, such ~~ questions would answer themselves. But we have strayed so far from the Constitution that various government bureaus and agencies do not dare to go to court to defend their acts, lest their acts be declared unconstitutional. Witness the Vivien Kellems fiasco in Connecticut. Miss Kellems is defying the Internal Revenue office daily and they are afraid “tor have “her in court for her “trial by “jary, * guaranteed under the Constitution. That's the kind of legislation and “public servants” that we have been having during the past generation, Unfortunately,” fn” her limited experience, Ruth has not been able to gather sufficient facts about thie acts of certain people, to draw the fine lines of discrimination necessary when grouping people together. I doubt if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Theo. Roosevelt would be happy over the company she placed them in. There certainly is no comparison between them and FDR and President Truman and Lewis. On the other hand, if she had used their names in connection with real, unadulterated Democrats ® such as Jefferson, Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, et al, I hazard the assertion they would have applauded from their tombs. We are travelling through a period in which greedy, self-seeking minorities are striving day and night to wrench us away from the Constitution. And it behooves every teen-ager to study and re-study that document, to know Just- what rights are guaranteed to you—and thep stand firm for them. And when it comes toyour day vote, don’t vote for a party, or a popular individual, Vote for principles alone. It is the independent voter, not affiliated with any party, who elects all officials. And don't wr forget-that-no-government-=whether it be Socialist, Communist, Nazi eall it what you will— can guarantee you a job that you do not earn by merit. freedom from want without effort, Any government or administration that sets itself up as more potent than God, undertaking

Io reverse God's program, is doomed to destruc n. : :

tries which benefit from Marshall aid.

We would venturé three criticisms: ONE: The ECA suffers from the defects of It has its careerists and backstabbers, and it is drowned in documents. Everybody is always “in conference.” It is probably overstaffed. Americans and 468 non-Americans in European

all bureaucracies.

ECA headquarters in Paris.

" Drive Flashy Cars TWO:

the point, anyway.

pig-headed.

ECA officials. were undoubtedly responsible to a large extent for the bear campaign against sterling which finally led to devaluation. had decided that devaluation was a good thing in itself -and that was-the-end-of “the-argument; Thresent y They have preached “integration of European economies” as though. it. were Christianity. ure * reportedly observe peas result, members of Congress have been led ture spare ships reportedly observed. to regard “integration” as not only essential— which is open to serious doubt3—but as a practical possibility for the near future—which is

demonstrably foolish,

No Dishonesty

ONE thing deserves to be said of the ECA

organization.

We have never heard of anybody who knows anything about the Marshall Plan even. suggest a baker, MM. P.. British. Secretary =—of Ste 165 =" Bem dishonesty or sharp . = . practice in the distribution of its funds. If there have been mistakes, they have been hanest mistakes, made by honorable and high.minded people‘ the Marshall Plan. is being run... Johnson; Texas;

properly.”

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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith METAL PRIZE... sy James Daniel

" iis COPY 1960 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M_REC. U. & PAT. OPK i “Maybe | did say he was a nice boy—but this is the first 1 me:

knew he had one of those home-made jalopies = ~~ with a five-note musical horn!” =

record would be: taking more chances than Gallup in the

+ 1948 election.

It is reasonable to assume, however, that the end will be

ECA personnel lives too ostentatiously. They are given to driving flashy Amerjean ‘ears and Hving in apartments and villas which they rent for exorbitant prices, financed by generous rental allowances. They contend, perhaps rightly, that they deserve to live as well as they did back home. But a lot of them are living better and that is not They represent the United States in an effort to impress Europeans. with the value of the American way of life. THREE: Some top officials, are accused by responsible Europeans of being doctrinaire and

~The source 1s Cerro Bolivar, a small mountaf -. {eet high, .11..miles long. and-one mile wigs: 2 bout 200

‘Honest Interpretation’ By H. W. Daacke, Carmel, Ind.

The article “Britain’s Emergency” by. Ludwell Denny was a masterpiece of information that should be read and absorbed by people who insist on rejecting “British Socialism” into their articles on this subject. It is clear that this is strictly a Labor Party vs. Tory Party to any person that is not blased against Socialism. More power to- you in giving the readers an honest interpretation of world news.

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What Others Say—

. THE American Legion is an admirable organization, and I am sorry that it seems to have Bone off hailf-cocked in refusing to consider any change in the Veterans’ Administration.—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, on Hoover Com-

mission plan to “streamline” Veterans’ Administration.

DESIGN, construction and operation of the (flying) saucers indicate to me that a very superior intelligence is at work, Not only at

They

Work,” but present . within the disks. — Navy

WE may be nearing the end of the highway called the road of life, and drawing close to * that sharp turn downward when it becomes the highway of death . . , for all of us.—Sen. Millard E. Tydings (D.) of Maryland, forecasting “X-bomb.” : : UNLESS atomic energy can be effectively controlled, our civilization may prove to be. as fissionable as uranium itself. — Philip Noel-

commonwealth relations.

EACH of the three missile program of really worthwhile

(armed) services has a its own—but as yet no missile.— Sen, Lyndon B, warning” that Rissia is winning ~~ arms race, SEER

New Source of Iron

WASHINGTON, Mar, 15—8ome of the steel i S : . n your 1955 automobile is likely to come from a new source of iron oo which only geologists ever heard of until ‘recently, - peer

Comdr, Robert McLaughlin, reporting on minja-__. = E.

“TE FISes™ otit of a”

marshy. plain 274 milés inland from the coast of Venezuela.

Cerro_ Bolivar is ‘the U.S. ; : Steel Corp.'s prize in the hemi-... carried. over. La. Parviday-Drifl-“search for a new ng subsequently onfirmed the sourcé of ore to’ replace - the existence of a half-billion ton nearly depleted Lake Superior of ore of exceptional richness. ores on which the United

States Tose to industrial great-

DOSS,

® x ) IF the technical journals are accurate, Cerro Bolivar js a

mass of iron ore as rich as.

any ever located in the Lake Superior region, -and as large as this country’s biggest openpit mine—the Hull. Rust - Mahoning operation which now is scraped almost clean. . The story .of Cerro Bolivar goes back to 1945, when U.S. Steel decided to take one last look around the countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean for

* a new source of natural iron

ore, Our Lake Superior reserves were - down .to "about 1,290,000 tons. Other companies were prospecting in’ Labrador, Africa and the Caribbean. 3 - ~ n

cerns. The surveys showed

~ two small mountains which. . appeared to justify closet in-'

spection.

x gg 8. LA PARIDA seemed an un-

dignified .name-for-a-movntain-

destined to rank with this country's: -Mesabi Range. So U.S. Steel and the Venezuelans renamed.-it Cerro Bolivar —Bolivar's Ridge—or the Latin-American liberator, By 1953 the company expects to be bringing out 10 million tons of ore annually. It will be taken to its plants in the Birmingham, Ala. area and - probably to a new steel plant near Trenton, N.J, ‘Question now is whether to hujld a long railroad to the coast, or a short railroad to Venezuela's Qrinoco River and then dredge the river to the tidewater. -

» 2 - NEGOTIATIONS are. going on here for the U.S. Corps of Engineers tp undertake the

river improvement project. Ore boats as

nually from Venezuela, plus 10 million tons of

taconite concentrates. Other

companies are

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