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week. He told them just how far they could go. They'd better not cross that line into Indo-China, he said sternly, or they'd feel the weight of the U. 8. big stick which he waved so threateningly. And then, after his challenging speech, Mrs. Ruby Smith, American, paid a call-on Mr. Acheson. She is the wife of Navy Chief Petty Officer William C. Smith of Long Beach, Cal.

EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago her. husband and a Marine sergeant disappeared into Red’ China. They never came back from a training flight out of Tsingtao where our naval forces were temporarily stationed. For 18 months Mrs. Smith has not heard from her husband. Neither has the State Department, which at last report was still trying, and asking British help, to gain the release of Petty Officer Smith and his companion. A letter from a missionary late last year indicated the two men were still alive and prisoners of the Chinese Communists. : Mrs. Smith asked Mr. Acheson if he couldn’t use the ~ weight and power of the United States to free one American from the Chinese Communists. And for once there was a look of helplessness on the Secretary's ordinarily impassive face. He couldn't talk tough then.

The Denham Issue HERE is much opposition in Congress to one of the 21

dent Truman last week. That plan would, in effect, reorganize Robert N. Denham out of his job as General ( Cc ounsel of the National Labor

~:Relations Board. (NLRB).

made it so in 1047, through the Taft-Hartley Act, on the . theory that the NLRB's prosecuting and judging functions should be separated, not combined in the board's members as they were under the Wagner Act. Though Mr. Denham and the NLRB members are all Truman Sppointees, they have 8 disagree freueny and gpenty: RR AR SNe MR. DENHAM has charged that the roard and many of its employees are “saturated” with the spirit of the Wagner Act and are reluctant to conform, in letter or spirit, to the Taft-Hartley Act. The board has announced intention of curbing the General Counsel's powers. And numerous union officials have demanded that Mr. Denham be fired. Mr. Truman's plan wouldn't precisely fire him. It would just abolish his independent office and transfer his functions to the NLRB members. That would dispose of Mr. Denham's job. But it would not dispose of the issue which Mr. Denham has raised. : Whether the NLRB’s judicial and Hrodiedting functions should be recombined is one question. There are arguments pro and SOR, ans ] Congress = should. consider them on their “merits: st sha sin

WHETHER the NLRB'’s members are out of sympathy ‘with the law which it is their duty to enforce, and are not making a sincere effort to enforce it as Congress intended, is a very different question. Congress should ‘dig out the truth about that, no matter what it does about Mr. Truman's reorganization plan. ‘Mr. Truman's own attitude toward the Taft-Hartley Act is clear. He dislikes it and wants to ‘wipe it off the books. But, unless and until Congress repeals it—which, plainly,

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ley Act will be the law of the land. . As such, it should be honestly enforced. If it is not being honestly enforced by the present NLRB members,

now exercised by Mr. Denham are added to the great powers already in the hands of the board.

Who Hired Them? REDIT should be given.to Undersecretary Peurifoy * for separating 91 homosexuals from the State Depart-

ECRETARY OF STATE ACHESQN 1 talked tough to the Jhinese Communists. in. his. San. JLrancisco-. speech. Jast. SFP Price SUpports- wRd-goes Riong WH Ee

government reorganization plans submitted by Presi- —

“The General Counsel's office is independent. oT >

“Congress has no present intention of doing—the Taft-Hart-—

some or all of them ought to be replaced before the powers.

a Farm Program

~ Favors Price Supports but Opposes Brannan Plan .

" WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 Dear Boss—Could

it .be that Agriculture Secretary Charles F, Brannan is purposely fouling up the present farm laws (piling potatoes to make the pro-

‘gram look preposterois) so that he will have

smoother sailing for the Brannan plan in the

1950 campaign?

That question was raised here this week by

Rep. Falph Harvey, New Castle Republican,

a successful farmer who learned first-hand how falling prices ruined farmers financially after World War 1 ‘ A pioneer member of the Indiana Bureau, Mr.

Farm Harvey favors their plan for federal

100 per cent in opposing the Brannan plan. . This week-end he told why in a speech broadcast from station WHAS in Louisville, Ky. He was supposed to debate Rep. Thomas R. Underwood, a Kentucky Democrat, but when the-time came to talk it was learned that Mr, Underwood isn't for the Brannan plan either.

Democrats Divided

THAT points up how President Truman’s support of the plan has divided the Democrats in Congress. There are far more members of both the House and Senate on the Democratic side .who prefer to follow former Agriculture Secretary Clinton P., Anderson, now a Democratic Senator from New Mexico. With Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) Sen. Anderson coauthored the present farm legislation. It has Republican support from those who were for the Hope-Aiken bill in the 80th Republican Congress.

Dwelling on the history of post-war farm legislation, Mr, Harvey pointed out that it was almost the unanimous expression of Congress that farmers would not be put through the economic wringer after World War II, as they were following World War 1. During the war price floors could be established without controls in order to obtain all-out farm production, but in peacetime (even including cold wartime) controls are necessary if price supports are to be maintained, Mr. Harvey explained. Both the Hope-Aiken and Gore-Anderson bills provided for them. This had been the prewar program also.

Out-Promised GOP

PRESIDENT TRUMAN in his re-election campaign in 1948 “aggressively attacked this program and in effect out-promised the Republican legislation,” Mr, Harvey declared. While organized labor took credit for the Truman victory, it was the farm states vote

that really put hifi over the “Election Telurtia. Tne

‘disclosed. Now he still has the never-tried Brannan plan for his 1950 campaign to retain and strengthen the Democratic majorities in Con-

gress. But Mr. Harvey doesn’t think the farmers

will fall for it. Here is how Farmer-Legislator Harvey describes the Brannan plan: “In effect the Brannan plan would let pro-

duction of the farms be sold at whatever the: Ss RT REE WOUTEY PRY The Tarver wold ve rem

“bursed by the Congress out of the Treasury to: make up the difference between what he received and what the Congress thought would be a fair price. “This has an appeal to city folks or consumers for they have visions of cheap food. To the farmers ft does not appeal for they know that they would be placed in the position of coming to Congress each year for the major portion of their income,

Ask Congress for Wages

“TO REVERSE the situation, it would be very much as if you were to say to labor, go ahead work without regard to wages or hours, take whatever your employer is willing to pay and come to the Congress at the end of the year and we will reimburse you to whatever we think would be a fair wage.” TAFIET, MY. Harvey “once “was confronted by a Muncie manufacuring and business group who asked why he didn't favor cutting the farmers off from all governmental protection. He pointed out that a contributing factor making this impossible was the protection manufacturers receive, such as the government buying a half million pounds of Danish butter so that the Danes could get dollars to buy tractors. - With both General Motors and BorgWarner plants big factors in Muncie industrial life, they got the point of the illustration. All of which recalls the old description of the federal government as being “a big cow that

évervone wants to milk and nobody - wants to feed.”

GREEK ELECTION . . . By Marquis Childs

Spirit of Democracy

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—From the tone of some of the com‘ment and some of the news reports it would be assumed that democracy had suffered a setback in the recent elections in The fact is, exactly the opposite is true. The Greek people have shown that in spite of all the horrors of war, the Nazi-Fascist occupation and then civil war in the past

Greece.

decade, the democratic spirit Is still strong. It is a small

American Defeatism

uring his speaking tours of the 10th Dis: ment of the. valuable American. aero-naval base

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‘WAIT-AND-SEE’ . . . By George Weller Defeatism Seen in U. S. Policy

NEW YORK, Mar. 18—Defeated both mili- The Soviets are eager to pinch out all tarily and economically in China, the United - splinters of resistance to Chinese communism, States is now drifting uncertainly between especially Chiang. : contradictions in its Chinese policy. The White House has been unwittingly playUnofficially, the State Department calls the ing the Soviet game by itself undermining new policy * “wait-and-see.” Chiang’s waning prestige. President Truman, in The “waiting” is based on a desperate hope a move as pointed as a slap in the face, rethat China will quarrel with the Soviet Union, its largest and most useful friend. The “seeing”

China, Li-Tsung-jen, the day after he had

{s limited, for the Chinese Communists are been ordered out of office by Chiang, who apsystematically squeezing out, arresting or ex- pointed him. pelling American businessmen, diplomats and i - Contributing to Reds

~~fF-positions were Teversed in-the- Far Fast, “the Soviets would studiously encourage all splinter movements which weakened enemy, The United States discourages them instead -and thereby contributes to Carnet unity.

Editor's Note: Views expressed in this article are those of the writer, George Weller. His background as a reporter qualifies him as an expert who can offer helpful testimony to the debate now in progress about U. 5, foreign

policy. One argument motivating the leftist- defeatist - - drift is that the British have wooed Communist The “wait-and-see” policy is a $3 billion China to save their investments and we must do

hangover, with nobody to supply cold towels ‘but ~the-taxpayerr-aiready wrung dry: It is simply a policy, of inertia and looking for a new lead. Insofar as there is any leadership, that leadership comes from the two anti- -. Chiang groups in State Department and White House. The old and anti-Chiang group is'actually emerging, insisting that Red China is an “economic democracy.” The new anti-Chiang group, headed by the President himself, is simply soured by experience. Academic leftists like the Mongolian expert Owen Lattimore do the talking.

so to save face with them. Another argument is

to, get Japan off our worldwide breadline. Actually, the British have recognized Communist China as much to save Hong Kong's trade as to keep their Chinese investments, which are doomed anyway. Hong Kong's trade has risen 38 per cent in the last year. The United States, had it not panicked in -the first wave of defeatism in North China, might have e made a Hong Kong of Tsingtao, and balanced off Russian Port Arthur, Japan's natural market is China and its natural source of raw materials is Manchuria. But Japan can carry on such trade without either’ Japan or the United States recognizing the Communist government of China.

Reds Need Trade

THE Chinese Reds need the trade as much as Japan, for they want an alternative: to the

THIS group has taken over American defeaiism at the point where Gen. George Marshall left it with"the withdrawal of the United States Marines from the Tientsin-Peking line, and where the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered, prematurely and unnecessarily, the abandon-

of Tsingtao. By a wild irony the United States, having given up ‘Tsingtao with millions of dollars of Pacific, military surpluses to a phony - “Communist threat,” now officially demands that American ships be allowed to enter Tsingtao and sell to the Communists without being bombed by the official government ef China. The long, uncritical love affair of the Rdose-velt-Truman administrations with Chiang and the Kuomintang Party is ending in a feud, equally irrational and complete. It is the object of the American left to transform this disilly-

intercourse before the war, recovers of its own volition is as good an index as any of whether the Chinese Communists are really free of the Soviet “Union.. So far the overwhelming balance of Manchurian trade has gone to the U. 8S. 8. R. The Chinese anti-Communists, both proChiang and anti-Chiang, are stronger now than the Communists were a generation ago. If not choked in a manure of dollars like the Kuomintang, they may become strong. By keeping alive all anti-Communist movements the United States can provide a haven for a native liberal anti-Communism which ‘may ‘some day free

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‘Era of Great Frustration’

By Ruby Karnes, 1632 E. 10th St. These are interesting, days. The future wit - designate them the days of the great frustras tion before the great change. Change is bange ing at our door with a sledge hammer, not tap= ping with a tick hammer. Pick up the earth (it resembles a worm eaten, chicken-pecked apple) and look it over.

“_ All over there is the “patter of satin coming down _ You cannot pul

hobnailed boots going up.” your pencil point on an untroubled spot. . Even in this boasted land of freedom Yestordayerats, Dixiecrats, De ts, Republicats and Radiobats fill the air with a roar trying to drown out the .peep (to you a rumble) .of the Protestocrats. All you need to do to get the smear brush swiped across your face is to pro-

test something.

What causes the present world-frustration? Marx Joe Stalin-or-Henry Wales lace. They are only ‘the fruits of the tree. It is

| fear of thé future. This fear arises out of discon-

tent. The discontent grows out of the uncer. tainty of what to eat and where to sleep tomorrow. Assure everybody three squares a day, a home (not a garage) and security in his - clining py and all the radicalism you can imagine could not make one man change his mind or his party line. What to do.about it? Don’t ask me. The dam has already burst and the flood is rolling—to where, I don’t know. I didn’t start it. I'm only telling you about it.

‘Race of Murderous Fools’ By Ira D. Fields, 1327 Broadway Recently 15 persons were killed in a burning plane and two of these were little children sitting in. their own home. I actually pray évery

night for protection when planes roar over our ,

place. It seems we have developed into a race of murderous, moronic fools, I sometimes wonder if there ever will be a resurgence of good old-fashioned horse sense again. How desperately we need men like Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, They would immediately put a stop to these terrible holocausts of large mumbers of human beings, being consumed in flames. Big business’ love for the dollar has completely deadened all pity for the care of human lives, and the lover for this almighty dollar is universally hurling all’ mankind into chaotie destruction, Also we will never stop auto killing until the manufacturer reduces the size of the

* auto-gear to’ a maximum speed of 35 miles per

hour, The future will prove the above statement to be true.

“Tax Problems Old = Swi

By John Gardiner Wood, Guion Road, City

“Taxation without representation is tyrare ny,” cried. Patrick Henry long years-ago. You

___can see from this that taxation problems, hid- - den —and-otherwis

are notHIng new. We -are-still paying-for two-world-wars-and will be paying for some time to come. Why? To take care of veterans who were injured, many of whom are still in hospitals and to take care of their widows and children. No doubt some would let these people go uncared for just so they could have reduced taxes. When I was a little boy some 40 odd years ago, I was told about the hidden taxes in a loaf of bread, a bar of soap, 80 why all the

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It is to prejudice the “people” s ‘minds ‘without

* giving the right answers why. there is heavy _

taxation at this time,

‘Springboard for War’ By Charles Williams, 557 Sycamore St. Terre Haute, Indiana It was predicted a year ago that labor unions in England and France would go on a strike if their respective govermments were to enter another war. The unions in’ France are striking in protest against shipments of Atlantic Pact arms and ammunition and military aid to French troops in France and French Indo-China, : I am neither a Socialist nor a Communist, but it is obvious that these labor unions feel that this country intends to make France, England and Germany the springboard for an atomie war and let these already war torn countries face complete ‘annihilation.

What Others Say—

THE Republican Party has failed, not in principle, but in selling that principle to the people of America.—Sen. Robert A. Taft. SN . ABOUT ‘the only freedom that we (Deme ocrats) have limited is the freedom of Repube licans to run the country.—President Truman, : ‘ eS ANY mother is just as deserving of a pension as Gen. Eisenhower.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of an old-age pension movement. .

UNEMPLOYMENT . . . By Bruce Biossat

Industry Must Grow

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—-Heavy unemployment used to be considered one of ‘the hallmarks of depression, but that day seems to be passing. According to government figures, some 4,700,000 persons were out of work in mid-February. Offhand that sounds like a pretty sizable pool of jobless, but the economists don’t view, it too seriously. For the whole country,

the population to . absorb this

. Jnent payroll. : “But now that: the ‘appropriate: Senate committees have interested themselves in the subject, they should go further and learn how so many perverts happened to congregate in the State Department in the first place, how many of them remained for how long on the payroll after their abnormal-

“{ties were discovered, and who was responsible. = - - . -

THE TAINT is not removed by merely getting rid of the queers. Public confidence in the department will not be restored until the responsible officials themselves are given the boot. 2 There may be some jobs which can be handled satisfactorily by men and women of abnormal sex habits, but - certainly not in the diplomatic service or in any other agency’ . entrusted with, our nation’s security. That is true not alone because of the’ emotional instability of such people, but also because their practices “make them such easy targets for blackmail by the agents of foreign governments.

_ candle Against the dark sky of : ~ » . HERE; moreover, is the answer to the defeatists and the old-time isolationists who go on demanding to know why America is wasting its substance In foreign aid. Without

nd. military, Greece would toay be walled off behind the Iron Curtain and any elections would be solely of the “ves, or ele” variety for purely propaganda purposes. Perhaps this. victory could not have happened if it had not been for an assist from Marshal Tito who sealed off the border between. Greece and Yugoslavia. Thereby the Greek rebels were prevented from retreating .beyond the reach of the Greek armies and recoup--ing their strength, But, nevertheless, it is a victory for American poliey.

Closing a Sordid Chapter PE : THE parole of D. C. Stephenson, the Ku Klux Klan Dragon ve 8r sarést number of ~~ who once said: “I'm the law in Indiana,” closes a sordid Ww o er och Sladen. chapter in the history of Indiana politics, i left-of-center parties. Except Stephenson served 25 years of a life sentence in con- aoe mal Hs these parties nection with the death of an Indianapolis girl during one y - of Klan leader's psychopathic orgies. There have been many legal arguments that a life sentence on a first degree murder charge was a technical exaggeration of justice. -. Aside from the legal technicalities, we see nothing further to be gained for society in keeping Stephenson in The punishment has served its purpose—amexample = "jctionary forces. = would-be dictators that the people of Indiana will paign. according to reliable re-' e the depraved type of political ruthlessness that Port a ages ed to pose here gustter of 3 stay ag. para’ ot Sai Bat

the Greek people voted against. - They were repudiating the re- - gime of Constantin Tsaldaris and his Populist Party under which so much corrgition has been reported. The Populists represent the most narrow and.

American aid, beth economic ~

- Equally significant is what."

..matic representatives in Athens

wawvere throwing: their weight bes

hind Tsaldaris. believe ‘that sentatives in the Populist ated.

They came to American repreGreece wanted regime perpetu-

~ » - ‘THEY may taken. But this points ap a weakness of Americans executing policy not alofie in Greece but throughout Europe where American aid is being distributed. Too often our diplomats tie themselves up with

the tired remnants of a discredited past. They get out of touch with the real aspirations of the people. Behind the Populist regime

. In Greece wily financial opera-

tors pulled some awfully funny business. They -succeeded in getting their capital out of Greece and then they worked to undermine the Greek economy by deals that contributed to the serious Greek inflation.

have been mis-

At the same time Greek ship.

owners were operating without bénefit of taxes paid to any country. A ship owner of another nationality with worldwide sources of information told me the other day about

one Greek operator who ifi the

past 10 to, 15 years has put away free of taxes $130,000,000. According to my source. this operator has Argentine citizenship, he lives in New York and

he operates & Greek fleet of .

merchant ships. Nice work if

you can get it, as the old rs ing goes. ; :

. than done.

“sentatives

politicians who have tolerated

and even encouraged corrup-

‘tion. American officials have been too timid about attempt-

ing to stop the cruder forms of piracy. This is, of course, easier said But it is not too much to ask that our repre- - abroad - at least know and understand those who speak for true democracy in the present-day world. In Greece there is a %ink between the two nations that

should make this task easier.

That is Athens College. The college is one of those examples of American

fine AMERICANS in Athens have . goodwill toward and interest

considerable part by voluntary contributions from this country, it has been giving young Greeks the Kind of challenging high-school education that represents the best American ideal.

. . ” IN the contest between East

" and West this sort of thing is -one of the major assets on

which we can build. Freely and without any ulterior mo‘tives Americans have again,

and again shdwn' a genuine -

and a practical interest in the democratic aspirations—of free peoples?” ‘Surely it is not too

. in. many’ basic fields. studies support their confi,

_ unemployed represent around 7 - ~ percent of the Tabor force: Lews

than half the total have been out of work. for as long as two moriths. Most of these are people moving from job to job. - ® 8 . THE picture isn't so rosy, of course, in certain specific areas. Latest federal data show 43 “distress” regions where unemployment is at least 12 per cent. Only 39 were in this category the previous month. Yet despite these black spots and ‘the rather high national total of jobless, the outlook for business is "not bleak. Most experts today are predicting prosperous activity for the remainder’ of 1950 and perhaps

* ‘throughout 1951, too.

» = = PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S economic advisers maintain their general optimism even though they believe United

. States unemployment may go

to 5.5 million this summer and possibly. keep on rising into the fall and winter, They are banking on the continuance of heavy demand Market

dence. Not the least encourag-

ing factor is the uninterrupted

rise in the United States population. It's on this that many businessmen found their plans for expansion. - J

N = a i THIS very gain in popula-

tion, however, accounts in part

for the paradox of swelling unemployment in the midst of

steady stream. “To aggravate this problem; industry now is stepping up. its productivity, That is, the output per man. Productivity rose pretty constantly in the de-

. cades up to World War II, but then slacked-off—In-the-first —

post-war years, it was down below pre-war levels. But in 1949 it picked up again. ABout 3 per. cent fewer workers were needéd to turn out approximately the same goods and services as were produced in

"1948,

® 8 = IF THIS productivity trend continues, and that is cone sidered both likely and desirable, then more and more

goods will be made by fewer

and fewer workers in the years

ahead. Obviously that can only .

add to unemployed rolls unless . industrial expansion offsets this factor. ' So, while economists are cheerful, they are also keenly aware of the need for promoting industrial growth to make

* job room for the millions of

new workers and technologically ‘unemployed. » » .» AND there is even talk of restoring some kind of pumppriming WPA at an early date, to cushion the effect of the often painful adjustments necessary. i We've only recently been introduced to .the idea of un-

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