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Protesting the Public
used to take unfair advantage of the public through double-meaning, evasive clauses and other irregularities. ~~ The best insurance against the few who might use
As part of its official duties, the department has been
discrepancies. ee As a result of these surveys, Insurance Commissioner Frank J. Viehmann has suspended the operations of four insurance companies and four agents in the last pending investigation of their methods.” ~~
3 » » ” * .- MOST ‘recent action was the suspension yesterday of a fire insurance company for 60 days pending a full inquiry into the firm's failure to file a schedule of its rates or a declaration of its policies usually hidden in the “fine print” ‘sections of contracts. : ; Commissioner Viehmann also charged that the firm's rates appeared “excessive.” ; ! : This kind of crackdown is a commendable service for the customers who have a right to expect protection against unfair practices. wo 9 It will go a long way toward preserving the public's
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that always follow the letter of the law in their dealings with other people's money.
About Owen Lattimore
the left-wingers in and around the State Department is the appearance that he is pulling. names out of a hat and doesn’t know what to do with them. *
too often loses sight of a more pertinent objective and places unnecessary stress on whether such persons are Communists. ;
other day that one of the hardest things to find in these times is a man who will admit that he is a Communist, It is better, he said, to set up a persevering watch to deter“mine how closely a man’s opinions coincide with the party line. :
” ” . ~ . ” WE THINK this formula could be more closely applied by Sen. McCarthy, particularly in the case of Owen Lattimore. It would produce weighty evidence that this State Department adviser on the Far East rarely has had a thought that would trouble the Kremlin. : He was among the first of that coterie of left-wing experts to underwrite the idea that the Chinese Communists were simple agrarian reformers, : In his 1945 book, “Solution jn Asia,” Mr. Lattimore wrote that the Asiatic peoples did not intend to become the victims of “imperialism” again, and that the Allies must understand their drive toward self-expression and cooperate by helping them. “These people,” he explained in an interview, “may not be able to read or write, but politically they are mature.” ; : Once--an adviser to Chiang Kai-shek—on President Roosevelt's. recommendation—he later turned on Chiang
1945 book was described by a sympathetic reviewer as an “appeal to ‘Chiang to set free the democratic forces which have proved effective in Northwestern China.” : Those “democratic forces” were, of course, the Communists—and a year later Gen. Marshall was in China on an abortive mission to work out a coalition between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists.
wrote off the Nationalist cause, paving the way to our present debacle in China, it accurately reflected the thinking of Mr. Lattimore, om “wrote: “Sound (U. 8.) would avoid prematiire or excessive strategic deployment in the Far East.” That has been made —our-poliey: Sra RE Again: "U. 8. policy should aim to increase the ability of countries in Asia to do without Russia.” That too—the suggestion that a potential Tito could ‘be built up in Red _..China—has been made our. policy. coo, = And again: “For the problem of recognition of the “new government of China, the United Nations offers the “ideal avenue to a solution, If I". a'majority of non-Com-
..» "vote to seat new. Chinese representatives (meaning Communists) to the United Nations, the United States should ‘not vote against that verdict.” fo i on po——— ow pp nn ———————— > - y > AND THAT also has been made State Department policy. Only last week it was announced that we would abide by a majority decision in giving the Chinese Reds places in the United Nations. Which wouild be recognition by the back door route, despite the fact that we still recognize the Nationalists as China's legal government. RE ~ What real differénce would it make if Mr. Lattimore, and the others responsible, had the purest of intentions? * Molotov himself couldn't have master-minded an American Far East policy more to Moscow's liking. :
Another Example of Need for Reforms
JNCREASING health hazards in the suburban and rural areas of Marion County due to inadequate inspections and lack of upified law enforcement point up again the need for consolidations of public services into a metropolitan district here. La oy Like many other county - government : agencies, the Marion County Health Department, when it was created , more than 100 years ago, was never intended to perform
- we have now out ir the county. e . *. It is another example of the need to consider thé mer. ‘of many separate and overlapping functions of local into a unified, metropolitan district operation
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HE complications of insurance are such that they can be
them that way is the Indiana Insurance. Department. ..........
looking into the operations of some firms and finding some
six weeks
confidence in the vast majority of reliable insurance firms -
ONE of the weaknesses of Sen. McCarthy's case against "7 Rather than concentrating on end results, the Senator
“Thomas F. Murphy, the Hiss case prosecutor, said the -
one BML denounced -him--for- dictatorial” tendencies. And his - Though trampled in the dust I rise
LAST YEAR when the State Department's white paper NATIONAL DEFENSE .. By Jim G. Lucas
Air Force Stymied 1
WASHINGTON, "Mar. 16-“The ‘Afr Force has run up against some of the same roadblocks which have stymied.the Navy. : services came out of World War II with ambitious— and costly-—blueprints of World War III's weapons, Both wanted the atom bomb. Each: wanted a primary responsibility to in- =. J*
More recently, in the January Atlantic, ‘Mr. Lattimore ”
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Dispute Over King's Return Causing Wide Division ' WASHINGTON, Mar _and Marshall Belgian king crisis.
-the-others;-is-cause-for deep concern
cratic survival than its mere size would indicate,
Helped Others
IT LED Europe in post-war recovery. It kept a freer economy than
ity helped others. » It has been in“the van of t
union,
And it has had a relatively high degree of
labor peace, permitting maximum. production.
Latterly, however, it has begun to feel the * economic strain. It has lost the advantages of a seller's market when it was one of the few who had things to sell, and is pinched by the “general trade diMiculties Which amict the rest of
Europe in a world buyer's market.
Fans the Flames
NOW at this critical moment, when all Belglum's strength is needed, the old Leopold dis-
pute flames up. And the “advisory” election last
Sunday, being .inconclusive, fans the flames all
the more.
The dangers of disunity are not only general but specific. They touch national recovery and
security directly, Industrial labor is mostly anti-Leopold, and
inany factory towns went heavily against the
king in the voting.
The Socialist Party leads the opposition.
Even though labor does not carry out its threat of “general strikes if Leopold returns, industrial stability and production will suffer,
Two Nations Sie DISUNITY is more disastrous to security in
Belgium than fn most countries because it is realty “two nations=—ths Ditch-speaking ¥lem-
ings and the French-speaking Walloons, The split over Leopold is largely along that
line—while 72 per cent of the former voted for
him, only 40 pet cent of Wallonia supported him. In mixed Brussels, he Jacked a majority. So
...his_57-per-cent majority - in -the- country as a
whole cannot create loyalty in the two. of the three, national districts. which rejected him. - Most Belgians recognize the need for a monarchy as the best, perhaps only. way of holding the different national, linguistic, religious and social groups together. =
the exiled Leopold instead of bringirg them together has driven them further apart.
By s0 doing he has injured not only the . monarchy and. Belgium. but -also-the interde-—
pendent nations of the democratic alliance against Red aggression,
ANTICIPATION
Jt's just around the corner... Lift up your chin and smile, Our feathered friends are coming back And a little ‘while 3 . The earth will wear new vestments Of green, and skies of blue Will open up their windows To let the sunshine through. The fey clasp of winter's hand May linger for a while, But spring's around the corner, Sa lift your.chin and smile,
TRUTH 2
I am the stimulus that inspires The confidence which man desires In trust and faith; I am the light Exposing wrong, defending right— The subject of undying quest, The-bar-of-justices’ welcome guest—-" I am the sinew, blood and hone... “That Moulds and marks Tife's corner-stone.
To stand unscathed: Truth never dies, Cu =-Florence Hinchman, North Vernon
‘TIS SAID
That some of us are doomed to be amateurs
in everything we do while others £0 on to fame
and fortune. ‘Same difference at the end of .the road.
Both
sure its ability to wage offensive warfare. - The Navy's plans were. built
i oy Geir
Mar, 16—The Atlantic Pact Plan have been weakened by the
- Whether Leopold III returns from exile or abdicates is not—as such—the business of the Allies. But the fact that this internal Belgian issue is dangerously dividing an ally, whose unity is needed for the recovery and defense of
~~ Belgium 1s a key country strategically and
economically, - Its-well-being is vastly more tms— portant to the Western world and to demo-
st of its neighbors even under its Socialist premier. Tts financial stabil-
: een in“the van of the movement for. .. __ _._ ... “EUropeitimtégration, striving with its Duteh and Luxembourg neighbors for an economic
But rightly or wrongly, justly or unjustly, -
_._—B. C, Indianapolis.
a pane!
EUROPEAN RECOVERY . .
PARIS, Mar. 16—The saddest joke in Western Europe today is integration. The economic integration of non-Communist
Europe has been preached like a crusade by :
“American Marshall planners. It has been proclaimed by them as a fundamental truth and-—in their less cautious moments—a serious condition to further American aid to Europe. : 5 Paul Hoffman, Averell Harriman and Dean ‘Acheson ‘have all backed this 20th Century Utopia as if it were a practical proposition. Because economic integration or anything approaching it is not attainable without political unification and because every aduit European “knows it, the American campaign has failed— and worse,. : By asking for -the political equivalent of the
_ ‘moon made of cheese, the American ECA chiefs
have failed to put across a lot of concrete demands which are perfectly reasonable and need to be enforced. : . ‘They have failed to elimihate *“‘dual pricing,” they have not prevented Marshall funds from being used for duplication of production facilities, and they have not been able to secure reasonable fiscal and social reforms out of governments when they are obviously necessary to “combat communism.”
Fooled Public
THEY have made themselves and the United States look ridiculous or amateurish in the eyes of Europeans whose respect we Americans require and deserve. Finally, they have fooled the American public into believing that they have been “let down,” “robbed blind” or “led down the garden path” by the governments of non-Communist Europe. : By this date countless Americans are .convinced that Western Europe has proved its un-
weno Willingness to. make-even- modest sacrifices for
the common weal because it has failed to integrate, . Like a good many other $10 words, integrate is a little hard to define. But the idea roughly is this: The 17 countries plus the Trieste area, which receive Marshall aid, have roughly 275 million inhabitants. § Those 17 countries have separate economies, just as they have separate governments. Because those governments are responsible.
SIDE GLANCES
. By William H. Stoneman
_Trade Unity Plan Termed Joke
for the protection of their economic establish‘ments, they protect their industries and their agriculture by tariffs and other import restrictions.
encourages inefficiency in production.
___This, say the ECA. people, restricts trade and
or
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al Rights Congress and its defense of a Commu< olis Council meeting. TL eg Ae : os knows that a Commus American, than do loyal Americans. Therein lies the difference. And therein lies the fact that makes Banks’ letter pure bunk. ,
the Civil Rights Congress or any Communist sympathizer, to cite a single instance in which the CRC undertook to defend an anti-Commu-~ nist or nonsympathizer. : : : I challenge Banks or the Civil Rights Con- - gress to cite a single case in which they have undertaken to defend any anti-C unist from any of the unconstitutional le n adopted from the Communist Daily Worker and passed by Congress, Specifically, I recommend the defense of millions of American workers, Commu-
nn Dist and anti-Communist alike, who are having: ge tax ‘deductions ‘extracted from t p day, as a departmental regulation which is un-.
constitutional and is unlawful delegation of the power to levy assess and collect taxes, ¥ What has the local Civil Rights Congress done to defend Communist and anti-Commu-nist citizens alike, from the unconstitutional and. discriminatory emergency cigaret tax which.
was levied for one year, but has been permitted
"to continue since?
If you can break down all of these barriers |
and create one great market, of 275 million people, then you have efficient mass production, free competition, low costs and consequently greater prosperity . . . as you have in the United tates, :
On this hypothesis the ECA demanded last ~
November that the 17 countries concerned should proceed immediately to make plans for
_ the “integration” of their economies.
Played ‘Yes’ Men
SERIOUS European economists were thunderstruck by the fact that Mr. Hoffman could suggest such a scheme. . Less serious economists and politicians played “yes men” to him and laughed at him behind his back. . : : Here are some of the reasons why integration is not as reasonable as it looks: ONE: Every ome of the 17 governments concerned’ is responsible for the well-being of its own people. Not a single one of them can, will or should be expected to risk wholesale unemployment by agreeing to the abolition of certain industries or forms of agriculture. Neither would we, i TWO: Economic unification becomes theo.retically possible only when you have extensive political unity between two countries. Otherwise the parliament of one country may suddenly run out on any deal that may be made. Obviously, it is not possible for us to unify non-Communist Europe politically,
long Term Policy
THREE: Before you can have elose. eco-
want instead of integration—you have to have
» a high degree of agreement on fundamental,
long-term economic policy. A nation like Norway, or the United King--dom, whose government follows a nolicy of full employment, cannot collaborate intimately with a country like Italy or Germany which-has a deflationary policy, with millions of unemployed. To accuse Europe of letting us down because it has not “Integrated” is like looking down on
By Galbraith
What has the local chapter done to defend Communist and anti-Communists alike from the upconstitutional act of a State Supreme Court usurping the rights reserved to the peole, when it togk upon itself to veto the 3 to 1 Pe for'a City Manager for the city of Indianapolis, to placate politicians who exalted them to their high office? rads : What has the Civil Rights Congress done to secure justice for two women who were mur dered by a sex maniac? In other words, I accuse the Civil Rights Congress of being an apparatus intended only to defend Communists and sympathizers from the righteous justice of patriotic anti-Commu--nist citizens, By their acts, not their tongues, we" will know them. ;
‘Hoodwinking the Public’ By An Interested Reader : : -In reply to Oscar Banks in his so called defense of the Civil Rights Congress, let me
..B8Y..that my. opinion. is..that he is trying to
“hoodwink” the public even more than the people he is referring to in his letter, He tries to imply that his group defends the lowly forgotten people of the country, when Bekually it is just a means of advertising, and the name before the public. — =~ __ So they defend Cohen, the local Communist leader, as being denied the right to speak before the rent control hearing? Did any Communist of this or any other locality ever stand before
a public gathering and do anything but de.
nounce “imperialism” and “capitalism” as being the cause of the present conditions all over the world? If we have to listen to this kind of talk
from. every. Communist -I--think--they—should
not only be thrown out of our local public buildings. but out of the country as well, Mr. Banks’ reference to Hitler attacking communism and thereby causing his own downfall, sounds to me very much like a. threat. Does he dare to threaten this country or our way of life? If he does, here is one, and there are millions of others, who are ready and willing to accept. his challenge. I not only believe that any Communist should be refused permission to rant about our “isms” before the public, but should also be refused the blessing of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, under the Stars and Stripes, which he tries so hard ‘to trample In the dust. cid
What Others Say—
IT looks as though , , . (atomic scientists) + + « have been able to work out for the first time the real reasons why our arteries get less elastic and why coronary thrombosis hits a great many of our older people.~Acting Chair-
man Sumner T. Pike of jtomic Energy Com- 1 ~-nomi¢-eolinboration==which 18 “WHE “We Peal MISSIOMg wom Tom mn ae
EXPERIENCE has taught us that paying money for things by way of Washington is not the way t6 save money. A dollar seldom travels to Washington and comes back whole.— Farm Bureau President AHan B. Kline,
TODAY we have no problem of preserving the Union; instead we have the problem of preserving the world and upon the solution of that
problem mas rest the fate of civilization itself, A. Jan. because. he cannot run.on his-hands;: cont meV Adial- Stevenson of TH mols; srr
POLITICAL RISE . . . By Radford Mobley,
.
‘WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—Indiana-born ~ Security Admint-
annoyance. -
Since the re
strator Oscar R. Ewing says he is getting tired of the tag hung on him here—*“Mr. Welfare State.” There is some reason for his
signation of Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford, Mr. Ewing has become recognized head of the little inner circle
ke ping,
By TOKY
the vastly increased functions of heavy populated areas as
around {ts $187 million supercarrier, The Air Force concendrated..on. an. intercontinental bomber, the first of which was to be the B-386. . ; .
» » NAVY hopes. were shattered
“= munist tountries im Europe, Latin Anierica and Asia should ~~ Yr R80 when Defensa Sec
retary Louis Johnson ‘cancelled the carrier. The Crommelin revolt, congressional: ‘investiga-’ tions. and the dismissal of Adm. Denfeld followed in quick “succession. Many Navy men still are convinced the deck is stacked. They argue that cancellation
means there. is a point beyond -
which they can't progress in developing naval weapons. The Air Force—or sor Navy men insist—can go as far and as " fast as it likes. ‘ That was how the Air Force interpreted the picture a year ago, too. But now, suddenly, it's not so sure. ; ~ ” ” IN Air Force plans, the Boeing B-52 was to have heen the B-36's successor. Maj. Gen. Frederick Smith told the House Armed Services Committee Llast fall it would be un all-jet, would fly at about 677-700 miles per hour and might increase the B-36's 10,000-mile range. . :
In recent budget hearings, an
Alr Force colonel told Congress the B-38 would start becoming obsolete in 1955. Presumably, it would be replaced ‘by the B-52 after that date. _ Last week, however, the Alr Force admitted it might never build ' the B-52, Instead, it
_niight ‘settle for a souped up
version of thé B-36. Convair ‘engineers suggested miodifications. which, they said, would give the B-36 a speed of 500
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“year ago.
miles per hour, a ceiling of 50,000 feet and a 10,000-mile range. a :
THE Air Force said merely
that “no deeision has yet been
- reached whether the B-52 will “be-dropped from {ts present
position as the planned succes-
sor of the B-36. Studies are
being made . . .” The Air Force position differs slightly from the Navy's a “ago. The syper-carrier wasn't built because Mr, Johnson and a majority of the joint chiefs didn't think it fitted into our strategic plans. The B-52 may not be built for reasons of cash rather than strategy.. But it adds up to the same thing. The Navy had to concentrate upon improved Essex and Midway class carriers, The Air. Force may have to be satisfied with improved B-36's. - - » MR. JOHNSON intends, to hold his budget to $13 billion, allocating $2 billion for new Air Force planes. The RB-38 costs $3.5 million each. A B-52 may cost as much as $10 million, ‘Obviously, it will'be difeult, if not impossible, to build
‘many of that costly a bomber
with today's budget. To do so
-would mean no jet fighters,
troop carriers, or transports. It willbe a tough decistn. Allied grapd strategy calls for & United States strategic air force, © Great Britain is not considered a striking power.
., Her role is to produce jet fight-.
ers. Her air force ‘Is -counted on to defend England so it can
..continue. to turn out fighters,
Since the war, has
England turned out and put {nto produc-
tion only one light bomber, the
She
SOPR, 1966 BY NEA SERVE. B40. 7. M. NED. U. &. PAY. OFF.
"You'll spoil him, Mother, having everything so spick and span
when he dates me—he'll expect me to spend the rest
of my lifs scrubbing floors!"
“Canberra. The Canberra is considered a tactical bomber for’ the support of infantry. : ; ea FRANCE has’ a five-year plan for rebuilding her air force. But the French tell us it will be 1955 before they can defend their own ‘skies, even
“for a few weeks. France says .
she's not financially able to -
support ‘a heavy-bomber sir force. Pl : * That means, of course, that
Uncle Sam must continue to | better
range bombers—or the West. ern Powers won't get them. If Russia were pressing us, the situation might-be alarming. "Our defense officials, however, don't seem to be alarmed. They say Russia's best bomberis a Soviet version of otir B-29. If Russia had—or ready to build—a bomber com-
parable to our B-36, Mr, Johnson “probably would. consider. building
the B-52. As it is, he what he likes to call “suf-
ficiency of the hour.”
- duty. after he joined the law office - :of Charles Evans ‘Hughes at
group guiding the President's program. : Whenever medical insurance, federal aid to education, increased . Social Security or added unemployment ¢ompensation enters a discussion;
MYTTEWINES Thame inevitaply bobs up. TIT, ;
. » » o "WHETHER he likes it or not, this political-minded for-
“mer Wall Street lawyer is the
spearhead for the drive to make laws out of the President's welfare program. a He follows in the footsteps of President Rooseyelt's Harry Hopkins. He gets the same bouquets-and the same brickbats from those who like o
dislike the program. rit
One side says Mr. Ewing is deeply sincere -about it. He once wanted to be: a social worker, himself. The other side says he is aiming at the governorship of New. York, if not higher. : ; om. . THE truth lies somewhere between. Mr. Ewing has the
" Harry Hopkins quality of sin.
cerity about the over-all welfare program. Unlike Hopkins, he is a realistic politician from his Indiana days. -
His personality is complex. = . Once he was self-effacing to - the point he quit trial work as
a lawyer and retired to office This proved lucrative
No. 1 Wall St. ; - He overcame his handicap : as of Pelley, the
. got into politics in 1940, when he was named assistant to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, He wound up in 1947 as vice chairman. 2 pg a
+o PRESIDENT “TRUMAN brought” Mr. Ewing definitely -
into the limelight. Late in 1947
~ he made him Federal Security
Administrator, placing - under
_ him the many-fingered “Social ~~ Seelirity machine.
Mr. Ewing began to throw his weight around. Some say it was cleaning out the desadwood. Others say it was exer cise of the old spoils system. : At any Tate, he tightened strings of Social Security, U, S. Health Service, U. 8. Office
of Education, and various other agencies that watch health, rehabilitation, a nd medical services. ” *” r
RESULT is Congress has *. screamed about Mr. Ewing. It has refused to give his position. Cabinet'rank. But it recognizes Mr. Ewing as one of the most: important men about the White Hotise today and oe-.
_ casionally yields to his political |
As a Shiet sponsor of thé: . President's welfare program, Mr. Ewing seems willing to ~walt until: Corigress comes around to his viewpoint. .-:. He has yielded on several points recently. Chief of these is his assertion that the British Socialized medicine plan probs . ably would not work in the
“United States. The American
_ Plan, he says, is not socialism;
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