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. The People Get Ready to Speak oh THE 27,787 Marion County citizens who registered for the ; primary elections this year hold in their hands the balance of power over all parties and all factions. Apparently they are getting ready to use it. _ This registration, nearly four times as great as in 1948

“when an important presidential election was on, breaks all records for primary election interest in this county, Even in a general election this many votes would have decided, one

way or the other, almost any election we can recall in Marion

County. : Most of these citizens, it soon became clear, hadn't voted in 1948, some had not cast a ballot in many years.

Why, then, for an unusually colorless primary in dianapolis, had 20,000 or so folks who didn't vote in 1948 decide they wanted a voice in affairs this time?

Times staff writers asked scores of them. . Edwin C. Heinke yesterday reported what they said.

: THEY said, in a voice that was all but unanimous, that - they want to vote: : Against “taxes and spending.” Against “socialism and communism.” They were not much concerned ( : ; “ded Foncerne about the individuals those parties will nominate. They spoke of economy, and better administration at the local level. But their thoughts seemed to be beamed mainly at the national scene. =

citizens who ‘haven't voted in years, came the expression “*it's time for a change.” . ” ” » . ” » ”

THIS may or may not foreshadow such a change. Cer-

“ far°too small to be taken as a conclusive poll, even though it was a random cross-section. : Traditionally voters turn out in unusually large numbers only when many people are dissatisfied with things as they are. And here in Marion County we have registered the largest number ever eligible to vote in-a primary, and obviously in a thoughtful and appraising mood.

“ Seeds of Treason

k MORE than three million words of testimony were taken R in the Alger Hiss case. They were rushed into print on a day-to-day basis during the two trials and the congressional committee hearings at such a tempo and with such a conflict of interpretation and emphasis as to leave the public gasping. Out of this welter of words—and smears—has comé a clear, sequential restatement of the complex developments in the most important espionage case of American history. It is a book titled “Seeds of Treason,” by two industrious - reporters, Ralph De Toledano of Newsweek and Victor Lasky of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, a ScrippsHoward newspaper. : : The frightening thing about this book, beside which . the paradox of Alger Hiss fades into insignificance, is the picture it presents of a government which so consistently rejected or tried to suppress evidence of the great Communist conspiracy against our way of. life. WHO IS more guilty, the authors ask, the man who passes documents to -a Soviet spy ring, or the man who, for whatever reason, sponsors the culprit?

Uncritical aéceptance of Russia and the consequent immunity of Communists in our government has been a cancerous. growth in White House administrations since 1833. Just to cite one case, there is the Russian-born Nathan Gregory Silvermaster.,

A Civil Service Commission report about him was

been a member and leader of the Communist Party and very probably a secret agent for the OGPU." Yet from August, 1933, until March, 1946, he moved ~ steadily up in government service. Why? For one thing, he had a stanch friend in Lauchlin Currie, adviser to President Roosevelt. Silvermaster was never transferred from one job to another, which would have given the Civil Serv- = ice Commission a chance to refuse him clearance, but was

THE PRIMARY aim of Communists in those early days was infiltration and the influencing of public policy. Yet the Roosevelt ‘and Truman administrations persistently - closed their eyes and showed no real determination to root the Communist elements out of the government. Then when the Reds altered their objective to espionage for Russia they were entrenched. : . ) The Amerasia “stolen documents”. affair was another case in point. The Justice Department seemed to drag its feet and there was never any public trial of the six persons arrested. And pro-Communist influence in the State De- : partment’s Far Easterndivision was never uprooted. Our subsequent China policy succeeded in turning over half of Asia to the Communists.

» » » » » . SUCH THINGS, we agree, are the real meaning and message of the Hiss case. ; And, as the authors summarize: “Hiss is one man caught in a tragedy of arrogance and self-deception. But there are those who aided and abetted him In their blindness; and their nanie is legion. Instead of crushing the seeds of treason, they scattered them in the “The Hiss-Chambers drama can be a curtain-raiser of new steadfastness. ‘Or it can be the last whimper of a

a 3 i tired and demoralized world.” :

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§ They were disturbed and uneasy over “the way things - ~—i-AFe going." Aguin-and-agaim, from these new voters, or from

tainly the sampling of opinion it wag possible fo.take was

Voter in Home District

©. WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—Dear Boss—If you are a woman with what is usually a man’s first name and a member of Congress in addition to that, you are apt to be let in on masculine matters normally reserved for men only. - Such is the case of Rep. Cecil Harden, Cov-

of the season, : Right now Mrs. Harden's ab

i... ret, y, - - Paul R. Squires, is busy with a legislative IT : __-of the Sixth District. Hé began the business by «=

sending out a questionnaire to 4000 names selected at random from the Terre Haute tele- _ phone book, do : Questions cover such matters as federal aid for education, foreign policy, civil rights, the Brannan farm plan, present farm plan, compalsory health insurance, Taft-Hartley Act and universal military training. -

~—Space—for—-Comments-

AT THE end of the sheet. there is space reserved for comments from the polled constituents. The signature on the letter accompanying reads: “nL 2 Cecil M. Harden, M. C. It was that sometimes misleading first name which. brought this letter in reply: “Mr. Cecil M. Harden—Dear Sir—1I receive your letter a few days ago. I am afraid I don't quite understand about the $ “am going to give a few points on the situation as I see it. “First of all—the civil rights program—the way I see this is that there are a lot of men out of work that have large families, homes to keep up and can't get work. Why? Because women have stepped in and taken their ‘rights to. work’. I do not mean a woman can’t work but I do

know there are women working when they -

.should be home taking care of their home and families instead of taking some poor man’s job. “TI know of some places_where the wife and -hushand_both are working and I think there should be a law passed that if a woman doesn’t

have to work let her stay home where she be=

- longs. If I had my way.no married woman with “I have al \ and’its situation: I have nothing against women

but sometimes I am ashamed I am one. They are always trying to act like a man. ‘ !

‘Women Taking Everything’

“IN-OLDEN days women were jist women, but now you can't tell one from another. Men

are supposed .to. be the head of everything:

When God created Addm he put him over Eve. But as I see the situation women are taking everything and even wearing their pants. They are even trying to run for office. I look for one up for President before long. I don't even believe a woman should be given the right to vote. “They always, have messed up things and always will as long as the men stay weak and let them . . . .* ; The letter contained other criticisms also and then concluded: ? | “I also hope I haven't said anything to hurt . anyone , , .." ; ” Mrs. Harden answered: : “I want to thank you for your reply to these questions and your additional comments regarding the status of women found me an interested reader, for, you see, Iam a woman myself.” 7 .. Explaining that as a mother and thrice a grandmother she felt’ she had a considerable stake in preserving American freedom for future generations and could be as competent in doing 80 as any male, Mrs. Harden continued.

Women Cast More Votes

} “THERE are nine women in the House of Representatives. There are 426 men. One woman is a member of the Senate, along with 95 men. Yet, women cast more votes in our elections than do men, handle more money, and actually outnumber men in this nation. : “Personally, I sincerely believe we need more women in Congress, in our state legislatures and In our city and county governments. I do not expect we shall see in our time a woman President. In fact, I am not sure that I want to see a woman President and I am inclined to belHeve that that is one place which by rights should remain in the hands of the opposite sex. “I appreciate the fact that you believed, when you wrote your letter, ‘that Cecil Harden is a man. The name is, I realize, confusing, but . it is my own and many besides yourself have :made the same unintentional error.”

“In gddition to her congressional duties Mes

Harden is Republican National Committeewoman from Indiana. ‘ .“ : , TIS SAID That the American woman 1s’ conceited

enough to think her own little world revolves around her. She is (bless her) and it does (more power to her), ~t

—B. C., Indianapolis

CONGRESS . . . By Roger Stuart

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and a be 5 Cs In any event, the Truman message met with cold reception and there were authoritative predictions that no such measure would be enacted this session. Obviously the Brannan pian is gétting nowhere fast. It was first proposed a year ago and last June a Democratic

ei Congress beat down a move to give it

a trial run. It has been consistently

. snubbed during the.present session of the

same Democratic Congress. We should think that Mr. Truman, in view of these constant rebuffs from his own party, would take a new and hard look at the Brannan plan before trying to make it a major issue of his 1950

Hoosier Forum *! do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Support Good Books’

_ ALLIED DEFENSE . . . By Charles Lucey

U.S. Aid Giving

STRASBOURG, Alsace, Apr. 5—Americans who believe in the Marshall Plan as a way to stop communism could spend a few days here along the Rhine and feel good at what their tax dollars are doing. : In Alsace and adjoining Lorraine is perhaps as great a concentration of basically important Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA) recovery projects as will be found anywhere in Western Europe. An area almost flat on its back economically at the war's end has been derricked to its feet and is on its way to a major contribution toward a stronger France. Marshall Plan funds are being translated into Rhine River hydroelectric power projects which will help remedy one of the great basic weaknesses in the French industrial structure.

Little Credit to U. S. :

DO all Frenchmen know what America is doing”. Do they think Americans are wonderful for doing it? The answer is no: ] ECA funds flow to the French government rather than to Frenchmen individually. Many Frenchmen suspect the U. 8. and its motives and believe—this is the Communist propaganda line —that ECA is a means of the U. 8. getting rid of surplus goods. And for many French minds the idea of just giving something away is hard to believe, anyway. a : But there are millions of Frenchmen who do understand what the U. 8. is doing and appre-

ciate it. Here in Alsace men say with deep con- *

viction that if it hdd. not been for America .: Erance..would be -Communist-ruled- today And the basically important. fact—so manifest in the recovery of an area such as Alsace—is that “France is_being made stronger daily in such a manner that as a U. 8. ally against Moscow she becomes sturdy’ rather than weak and dependent, ot A good place to see how American dollars are strengthening France is at the Alsatian potash mines, second richest in the world, at Wittelsheim. er — About $4 million in direct ECA cash has gone

A quoted as saying that an sonorwheiming amount of testi: | J afte hed Diiatmnnm ~~ mony indicates beyond reasonable doubt (he had) for years WJ TVTHISNIEC BUSINESS

WASHINGTON, Apr. Congress’ adjourns, much of President

will get approval of anywhere near all of his appears doubtful,’ :

“At the start of his first elective term, in

5—With about four months to go before ( Truman's program still carries the tag: Unfinished Business. That he

legislative program now January, 1949, which Mr. Tru-

down for the. - called for a

SIDE GLANCES RMAN ARN... By Bruce Bi lI _ 4 Explosive Issue

into the potash mines, important for fertilizer to raise French agricultural production, for making explosives and to build up French export trade. ; A few miles away, above Mulhouse, American steam shovels and trucks are mucking out a giant new channel actually changing the course of the Rhine in a vast hydroelectric development.

Great Power Link

BUT today $23 million of funds obtained by the French government through sale of Amer-ican-given goods to Frenchmen—the so-called ECA counterpart funds—are ticketed for the second great power link at Ottmarsheim. , Here in the Strasbourg shipyards 120 largé Rhine barges are being buflt with U. 8. fina cial aid that includes but also preceded Marshall Plan heip. Near Metz in Lorraine the French are starting steel milis— costing $133 million. Toward this—the largest single ECA project anywhere — the U.S. is putting up $49 million in direct cash and additional help in" so-called counterpart funds. Mostly this will go to buy modern American equipment. So it goes over much of France. Alsace there is no sign of boondoggle or leaf raking. :

Cold to U. S.

THE U. S. has sought diligently and ably to get ECA information to the French people

“rand “the “papers “carry “much abotit ““Ié “Plan

Marshall.” It is still possible to hear that some Frenchmen are cold to U. 8. aid or divided in their sentiments about America. French governments, often trying to ‘hold on for dear life, sometimes haven't been eager to’ give full credit to the Ur 8S. But the true measure of how the Marshall Plan is working lies in the solid projects which are giving basic new strength to France and buttding-a-stronger-atty for the two nations are together,

By Hiram Lackey, Martinsville, Ind. Many would like to write a book and be remembered forever. Few can. I could write one more poor book, a time waster, a dust collector and detract from the good names of all books, But let us rather appeal to all people below the heights of supreme genius to join ‘in a most noble literary service: Support the best writers, worthwhile books. Te from our splendidly educated clergy, there is a prayer group composed of

Christ‘ and the early church. Let's ring their. bell. Among them, Dr. E.- Stanley Jones, a + Methodist, has written: “The Way to Poise and Power; Dr: Frank C. Laubsch,-the Congrega-

: tiopalist, offérs us: “Prayer, the Mightiest Force

the World”; Dr. Glen Clark, the PreshyLy blesses us with: “I Will Lift Up. Mine Eyes”; Agnes Sanford, the Episcopalian, heals millions with: “The Healing Light”; Starr Daily and Pastor Roaland Brown, the Baptist, established peace, love and health with: “Recovery”; J. Rufus_Moseley, the reformed Niliness, blest by new thought, thrills us with the greatest gift -of God “Perfect Everything”—and makes it acceptable to-most churches: All denominations are represented. The money goes for charity. One person can work and thus make his.community a prayerful one. Let's teach America to enjoy prayer— make our nation a country of healthy souls—through excellent books—and prolong civilization,

‘Judging Civilization’ By Charles W, Burton, 911 E. Maryland St. The best way to judge a civilization is. not to ask if it has the finest buildings, the best radios, the swiftest airplanes, or the largest territory, but what amount of justice afid happiness and security it provides for the‘most people, If we have a true democracy and civilization we have economic security; good laws and morals and the facilities-for the growth and transmission of knowledge, manners and arts, It is an intricate and precarious thing, dependent upon a score-6f factors of which any one’

By Galbraith

gifted. writers .who_are doing .the works of

ATTIC AL

Mr. Truman gave the new : - 81st Congress ‘an ambitious The program collection of recommendations, Man had laid divided into 15 major cate- 81st Congress gories. The first session—the

longest in peacetime’ for 27

after moderate achievements

had been chalkéd up for thé =~

administration.

~ ” » IN the nine and a half months it was on the job last year,” the Democratic controlled Congress enacted close to 80 per cent of the President's foreign affairs program, much of which had been promised bipartisan support. In the domestic field, however, scarcely half was approved. So far in the session, action has been completed on only two important measures. One was a bill moving ‘the cut-off date for aid to Formosa from Feb. 15 to June 30 of this year, and making an additional $60 million -available for economic aid- to South Korea. Repeal of federal oleomargarine taxes was the other. .

" . . 2 PART of the failure to give Mr. Truman a more pléasing “box score” -can be #ttributed to. the fact that only minor bills, for the most part, have beén brought up for consideration in both houses this year. On the other hand, some major legislation desired by the President—including his co-operative housing program —has been rejected.

wr yeRraciended ast Oct oD er

series of civil. rights laws, re- .

peal of-the Taft-Hartley Act,

WEI OT eRe I ATT Wages.

low-rent

housing and slum clearance, extension’ of rent control, and federal aid to

education, | EE I - IN the field of agriculture Congress was asked to “improve” the farm price support system, provide-extensive storage space for crops under the Commodity Credit Corp. and extend rural ice.. Indorsement of the St. Lawrence Seaway also was requested, along with expansion of river basin projects and the establishment of a Columbia Villey “Authority patterned after TVA, © 7

” - ~ : THE President said the accomplishments: of the first session were “a remarkable record of achievement.” Actually, the achievements were

_considerably less than remark-

able. ; In the first place, Congress, in its nine and a half months on the job, had refused either to repeal the - Taft-Hartley

Act or tt _reinvoke the Wagner

Act, Civil rights legislation got nowhere. Of seven proposals offered, the House approved one—an anti-poll tax bill. The Senate. approved none.

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The Brannan Plan, designed =

“on. 1900 BY NEA SERVICE. Wc. T. 8. REO. U, & PAT. O07. . "Miss Krock, is kindergarteri worth while? I'd hate to study all the way up to college and then have the H-bomb bump us off!" :

to “Improve” the farm price-

‘support system, was put off.

- ~ ” THE House passed a water-

-ed down bill to extend Dis-

placed Persons legislation, but the Senate did nothing. about it. Expansion of social security

was passed by the House but got nowhere in the Senate. ... Mr. Truman's comprehensive

: national health program didn't

get out of committee in either house, . The Senate passed a measure granting federal aid to education, but the House took no action. :

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alarm the French.”

may determine greatness or decay. ‘ The economic factors are the most funda mental of all. Economists teach us that the more freely man can exchange the products of = - his_labor that much higher will civilization be . = - advanced. i : 1 ‘Thanks for Clear Statement’ N- By Howard -G. Lytle, Exec. Secy., Indlanapolis Goodwill Industries, Ine. After having disagreed with you so many times, I am more than happy to find that we see eye to eye on Sen. McCarthy. Thanks for a very clear statement of the issues in The. Times. . What Others Say— Here is IF IT (FBI) also had to pass judgment on fis own findings, it's efficiency would be. seriously impaired’. . . afid’lay a foundation for criticism of the bureau as a state police organization.— Assistant Attorney General Peyton Ford. THE prompt, complete and accurate answer«ing of -ati~official- inquiries made by census: of «x foe ficials should be regarded as ‘one of the requirements of good citizenship and an exercise In fundamental democracy.—FPresident Truman, THIS "isn’t ‘a job they (American people) have handed to me and that they can have a relaxed and amused attitude about.—Secretary of State Dean: Acheson. “THE nation’s defenses today are far better | Agnerica as Tong as” “than a year ago and getting better all the time. —Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. GERMAN ARMS . . . By Bruce Biossat ~~ § - WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—Winston Churchill for the second ‘time in recent weeks has proposed that the Germans be called on to aid the defense of their own country and Western Europe - against possible attack by Russia. - BOR He insisted that in his first comment he said nothing about 1 Depic “rearming Germany.” ‘But he added that he sees no reason why gibbo British, American, French and "8 = elt is German soldiers “should not YET such an objective may \ the — stand in the line together on very well be impossible. Ger- . penin honorable terms of comrade- ~many’s military value doesn’t 8 h3Balks “oghip fis part-“of “a ‘combined He“ In Her rank-and file man--- ———_ count system of defense." ' power but. in her industrial {14 Got ; 2 ® =» . + strength, her trained officers - [15 Amer THERE'S nothing particu- Corps, her highly developed 116 Sink ' ) military technology. It is these 18 Also larly new in Churchill's views. the West needs > Lp -- Many Western officials have The foot soldiers of Whom 20 Moe been saying for some time. ei- churchill KS ate Dot ro. 21 Thea ther publicly or privately, that ~~ ~0urcal Sea Be I yt Lik beer Germapy must be allowed to quired. The est as. plen ye ; gh br take part in the defense of the °rdinary military manpower, “Roug! — There's a big question, more- 24 Pittar West. ’ i over, just how well the German * 27 Nativ But Us an explosive issue. .coiien would Tight under * Finla Naturally the West, and es. foreign leadership in a cause 29 Corre pecially France, qoesn't wish to he has thus far showed no either encourage the rebirth of the Feat Interest in 30 Hypo! same German military might - 8r a force that twice carried the world ° “. THE uncomfortable fact is 81 Nicke Into war. A Germany Strong that the military know-how (symt enough militarily to stand on anq . economic strength the 32 Earth its own feet and throw its west really requires cannot 83 Endor weight whérever it chose is con- . actually be gained without al- 35 Seaso! sidered unthinkable. lewing Gerrhany to rearm in 38 Type 2:8 the very way we consider most 39 While WHAT the West wants -3 a: ‘dangerous. ; {40 Likely German force that could be There may come a time when 42 Shia incorporated into a general it-will be safe to permit Ger- i West European army and held man rearmament in the only 42 Rage he under outside control. Such a -' manner that will do the West 50 Godde force would stand, too, as a genuine good. But that mo- fata balance against East German ment doesn’t even appear to 21 combat units converted from ‘be in sight right now. : ol 2 Sn the so-called “people's police” It will arrive when Germany 33 Sum it in the Soviet zone of Germany. has unmistakably embraced 56 Off As one writer put it, the enough of the West's idedls of % y West is trying to “coneeive a freedom and democracy te - - VERT German army “which will im- = wish to identify itself volun- t Bnerv: press the Russians but will not tarily with the European fam~ i Panay

fly of free natio ns.