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If Mr. McGrath Wants a Job—

TTY. GEN. McGRATH has asked Congress to ‘stick to

legislating and leavé the job of hunting subversion to

the Justice Department. = ~~ But Mr. McGrath weakened his case by adding that “up to this time, I do not feel that we in the administration have failed.” The Attorney General should take another look at the record. : Evidence against Alger Hiss was presented to the State Department in 1939. It was suppressed, without action. If the case had not been reopened 10 years later by a congressional committee, Alger Hiss today would be a trusted confidant of the State Department.

That is count No. 1 against leaving subversive hunting

- " » . MR. McGRATH may say that the Justice Department wasn't at fault, because evidence of the Communist spy ring was not passed on to it by the State Department. But he can't find that excuse for the Justice Department in the Amerasia case, which is count No. 2. “+ More stolen documents were involved in the Amerasia case than Whittaker Chambers had ‘hidden in his pumpkin . patch. If all the facts in possession of the government at that time had been made public, the betrayal of China might have been nipped in the bud, and China today might be a free nation. But very little of the evidence in the Amerasia case was made public, and even less was presénted-in-court. The reasons why the whole story wasn't told never have been revealed. But even at this late date Mr. McGrath could Ac dd” something about it, if he would, - A good beginning Vwould be to ask the FBI to show him its files on the case. » Then Mr. McGrath might ascertain why the Amerasia case was hurriedly called up one. Saturday morning at a ~ special session of Federal Court and disposed of by a few slaps on the wrist. =» ” - ve ~ » AFTER HE proves his good faith and freedom to act by reopening this case it will be soon enough for Mr. McGrath to ask Congress to let him take over the job of -purging the government of Communistic influences. Until he does that, Congress has no choice but to continue its investigations, unless the administration congents to establishment of a new agency which could do a more thorough job than Congress is equipped to. do. Because, if it hadn't been for Congress, there would have been no action at all, except against some of the small fry like Judith Coplon, who was operating in the Justice Department itself. :

The Family Doctor

HE progress of medical science in the last few yéars has resulted in a tendency toward specialized service, ob- ~ securing the tradition of the old-fashioned family doctor of general practice. . Hence we are glad to note a state-wide movement in Indiana to emphasize the value and growing need for physicians equipped with the philosophy and training for genBS ey An inérease in the family doctor type of service would go a long way toward providing better medical attention for more people. - ” - . LJ ” - NEXT Wednesday the Indiana Academy of General Practice, comprised of more than 500 Hoosier physicians, will meet at the Indiana University Medical Center here for its second annual program to revive the standards of family medical service. It is a worthwhile step toward improved standards of medical care for a large mass of the population that can’t all be served by the various types of specialists.

Disillusion in Shanghai RO-COMMUNIST feeling in. Shanghai has changed in recent months. The Chinese there no longer stage “liberation” parades. Many have gone underground to work against the Reds. Optimism among foreigners has been reversed and all are eager to leave. “._ That is the story told by 92 Americans and other foreigners who have reached Hong Kong from Shanghai, after traveling overland to Tientsin to get outside the Nationalist blockade. Experience. is a great teacher. When Chiang Kai.shek’s Nationalists held Shanghai, the business community, foreign and domestic, turned against him and prayed for the day when the Communists would take over so that “business as usual” could be resumed. . » LJ IN THAT wishful period the Chinese

» ” . . Reds were not

erelo pogarded..as-Areal’. Communists... ven. some reasonably. .

well-informed people in this country held that view. Meanwhile, .again pointing up the effectiveness of the Nationalist blockade, the State Department has announced ‘“Zhat it is too dangerous to attempt to evacuate American officials through the port of Shanghai, and that resort will be made to rail and other routes to Hong Kong. It could be that Chiang Kai-shek isn't quite the dead duck we had been led to believe.

Afghanistan Mission . HEN Sen. McCarthy first attacked Dr. Owen Latti- * more, the State Department was quick to expiain that the gentleman had no connection with the State Department. He was in Afghanistan on ‘a mission for the United ~,, Nations, the State Department said. It didn't reveal the " nature of that mission. : :

But, looking through a copy of the New York Times for Mar. 13, we found an item that did reveal it. And what"

- do you suppose Dr. Lattimore was doing in Afghanistan?

~ WHY, HE WAS there discussing Point 4 aid—how to spend the money President Truman has asked Congress to vote. for under-developed areas as a ‘'stop-communism” measure. 7 We suggest that Mr: Truman read some of Dr. Latti-

“more’s books, and then tell us whether a man who holds Dr.

* Lattimore's views as to the cold ‘war is the type the’ Presi-

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“Taking Credit For Prosperity

President Truman May Be Challenged on Statement WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—Dear Boss—Presi-

‘dent=Truman proposing to-take all the credit

for prosperity can well be challenged by both the Republican 80th and Democrat 81st Congresses. Leaders of the federal goverment's legislative branch can just as well say that they brought about prosperity by refusing to enact the Truman program. For that is exactly what happened. \ vi : ; The President told his first press conference at the White House since he returned from Florida that things are in fine shape after his first five years as chief executive and that he intends to take credit for it. If the federal government had a’ great deal to do with prosperity though, it certainly wasn't — br —about-by 's Fair Des promises into law. The GOP congress did exactly the opposite. So the President stumped the country crying that the 80th Congress was ‘“do-nothing.” The people re-elected him and gave him comfortable Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. But the 81st Congress has turned out to be a superdo-nothing so- far as the President's program is concerned. "And he plans to take the stump again this year, although he isn't up for re-election until 1952. a

Little of Program Passed THUS the President taking credit for good times now is about like the man who said he saved a fellow's life—shot at him and missed him. Oleomargarine tax repeal, which hasn't even gone into effect yet, and a middle income housing bill, with the co-ops cut out, are as close to the Fair Deal program as this Congress has come so far. Nor’do they have any intention of doing more of what President Truman wants domestically before adjourning to go home and run for re-election. Only in foreign relations has the Truman administration won congressional support and that was done on a bipartisan or “unpartisan” basis as Sen. Arthur H. Vanderberg (R. Mich.), who probably deserves more credit in that field than the President, calls it.

86 it may be well to review what President

Truman didn’t get done. It is all spelled out clearly in a simply written pamphlet distributed by the Democratic National Committee and entitled “Democratic Platform 19248.” The subtitle is “A Program of Progressive Liberalism.”

‘Progressive’ Program

IT starts out by bragging about all the New Deal accomplishments under tre late FDR. No mention is made about that [‘progressive” program not having been expandéd a bit since 1938, a fact which still holds true. On the domestic front the program promises curbs on inflation which President Truman asked of the Republican 80th Congress and didn't get. These he hasn't asked for lately. Then there is this gem: > “We pledge the continued maintenance of those sound fiscal! policies which under Democratic leadership, have brought about a balanced budget and reduction of the debt by $28 billion since the close of the war.” Instead the President has asked each session of the Democratic congress for deficit financing of an unbalanced budget and that is one thing that he did get. : Repeal of the Taft-Hartley law was a presidential promise which put all organized labor on the Truman bandwagon. The law still stands without even an amendment. Upping the minimum wage to 75 cents was passed, but that too was bipartisan.

Only Promissory Note AN expanded and increased Social Security program still remains a promissory note and compulsory health insurance a thing that kept Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing out of the cabinet.

ane Bederal aid. for education. is. in. the House ice.

box. It has been promised by the Democrats for years, but is as far from delivery as their civil rights pledges on antilynching, poll tax repeal and FEPC. : That the Democrats have done all right for themselves during these years of large promises and no deliveries cannot be doubted. Al you seed to do is count the new millignaires in their midst, or those on the way to making a million based on their Democratic connections. Maybe that is what President Truman means when he says he is so successful. If so, his attitude might be fittingly described by these lines from Oscar Wilde's play, “Lady Windermere’'s Fan”: “He thinks like a tory and talks like a radical, and that's so important now-a-days.”

WAR PLANNING . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Production Squeeze

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—War mobilization planners fear that industry may not be able to move into high gear fast enough

if war comes suddenly, .

NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs

New Republican

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—The Republican National Committee is taking satisfaction from

publicity release proclaims that - the figures mean the defeat of Sen. Scott Lucas by his Re-

" publican opponent, former Congressman Everett

Dirksen. ; The Republican vote in the country towns of Illinois was the largest on record, according to Chairman Guy George Gabrielson. And Cook County, the stronghold of the Democratic Party, fell far behind the hopeful predictions of party bosses. The Democrats dispute this claim. Understandably, the Republicans are eager to find reasons for rejoicing. But it’s possible that these hosannahs may be a little premature. Primary elections are notoriously unreliable indicators to what happens in the fall. In the primary in 1948, for example, the then Republican Senator, C. Wayland (Curly) Brooks, together with another Republican candidate pdlled more than 700000 votes in the Republican primary. ‘In the Democratic primary Paul Douglas got 550,000 votes. Yet in November the total for Mr. Douglas was 2,147,000 and for Brooks, 1,740,000. ’

GOP Optimism

THERE are, however, factors in Illinois that

, lend color to the. Republican optimism.- A Re-

publican victory in that state is possible and for reasons that may have very little to do with the larger and noisier issues of foreign. policy and communism in government. These last are the issues that Mr. Dirksen, who has now reverted to his old isolationism, is thumping as

“day after day he travels from town to town. ~The hard-boiled saying about people’ voting

with their pocketbooks has in it’ a degree of truth. The pocketbooks of the Illinois farmers are being hit by the decline in farm prices of the past two years. The same thing is true in other states with critical election contests. Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan has been talking about this for months, but leaders of his own party in Congress do net seem to realize the seriousness of the situation. In speech after-speech Mr. Brannan has pointed out that farm prices have on the average dropped 23 per cent in less than two years. The farmer is still paying within 5 per cent of the price level of two years ago for what he has to buy, according to Mr. Brannan. . _ For individual crops the drop is much more

Emergency Operation

dent wants employed to scattgr our money around the world. -

The bottleneck, they say, would be in machine tools. Without

them, mass production is out of the question.

All effective

mobilization planning assumes there can be no effective war

potential ~ without a factory production system, and there can be no effective factory production system without machine tools. . - = »

THE United States came out of the war with a reserve of

tools. - Many can be operated by semiskilled labor. The only

high degree of skill required is in the installation of the tools.

or in periodic resettings to make certain that the work remains within = specified . tolerances. The Army, Navy and Air Force retained many tools which otherwise might have been scrapped. The General Services Administration is custodian. Its latest Inventory shows 43,500 on hand. However, several years may elapse before they are processed for

preservation, - = .

MEANWHILE, planners say, the machine tools industry is operating at 25 per cent capacity. Its labor force has been so reduced that a man must have 13 years’ seniority to work. u A recent survey indicated it would take at least a year after any. act of war for the machine tools building industry to

reach the rate of production which the National Security Resources Board considers necessary. 'And the peak of ma- - chine tools production must be

. reachgd before other manufac-

turing

can make speed. . One

source in close touch with the situation said: “The machine tools building

industry is not ready to meet

the frantic demands that will be encountered at the outset of any war.” : s = .

ANOTHER mobilization - tater put-it-this ways oo

“It is questionable if the rachine tools building industry can reach the desired production in even one year. It may ‘take.as long as two.” At one time, the National Security Resources Board's machine tool plans called for the creation of a skeleton “future WPB" recruited from industry

.on a consultant basis.

They provided that such a

standby War Production Board would be the only -

(WPB) agency to deal with industry if war came. It would be em-

powered to make decisions in

conflicts between claimants of machine tools, government tools, second-hand tools and accessories, Channels of authority between the Armed Forces, the Munitions Board, the WPB and industry were to be worked out by the consultants. Should anremergency occur before those plans were ¢ompleted, it was provided that World War II plans would be used. ; ” - . THAT plan was advanced by Arthur Hill, the board's first chairman, and Ferdinand Eberstadt, a former WPB official.

President Truman and Dr.

“the returns in thé Illinois primary election. ~A

Optimism Rising

precipitous. The Department of Agriculture estimates the decline in the price of feed grains and-hay -since-the-high-peint of -January,-1948;-at 47 per cent. This means corn, which is’ the major crop of the farmers of Illinbis and Iowa.

Big Price Drops

THE decline for the same period in the price of eggs and poultry is put by the department at 37 per cent; for meat animals 31 per cent; oil crops.” including soybeans, 40; dairy products, 24, and food grains, which means wheat, 32. These are dramatic changes and they are particularly dramatic when they are contrasted with the. promises President Truman made in

“thé 1948 campaign.

You can make a pretty good argument fo the effect that those promises in the Middle West carried the day for Mr. Truman. Don't forget that the Democrats triumphed in normally Republican Iowa, contrary to the beliefs and expectations of almost everyone. Of course, these changes are not nearly so drastic as those that occurred after World War I when there were no price supports. From May of 1920 to June of 1921 average farm prices dropped 53 per cent. In the election in the fall of 1920 the Democrats were turned out of office and Warren Harding gave ‘his amiable blessing to normalcy and isolation. This is a precedent which may or may not have a bearing on what is in the offing for us today. Twenty-three per cent is less than half of 53 per cent. But, on the other hand, the - farmer of today has become accustomed to stable prices sustained by government subsidy. It takes little imagination to see the consequences that would flow from a victory for ‘the “Reépublicans™ resulting from the votes of disaffected farmers, The isolationist faction would be certain to claim it as their own. That trend would be confirmed in the party.

Government Stalemate ~ YOU can imagine Sen. Robert A. Taft returning from a triumph in Ohio in. the full flush of confidence prepared to cement his hold on both policy and the 1952 nomination. Such a victory would not, of course, reverse American foreign policy automatically, since. the man in the White House would still be a Democrat. But it could produce two years of stalemate. And whether the farmers, whose votes brought it about, would gain is an open question. If 1920 is any precedent, the answer is no.

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The federal government is taking every dollar they can get, the state and other taxing units are doing the same, and taxpayers say itis

we were told that expenses and taxes would be” cut. What did we get? More increases in salaries, more tax on the automobile and truck

"and a law for a new appraisement of property

that is anything bit fair, equal or just. The county assessors say they are compelled to carry out the instructions given out from ‘the Statehouse. : This increased registration of voters spells one thing. There will be a protest vote cast against all those on any ticket this fall that had anything to do with this new appraise ment of property in Indiana. People are more tax conscious today than they have ever been. Look for surprises in the

_ coming elections. The people want tax relief

and they are going to get it.

‘Gave China to Reds’ By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind. When Alger ‘Hiss was being investigated as a Communist spy, Harry Truman said the whole thing was a red herring. After Hiss was proven to be a liar, Dean Acheson said that Hiss was his friend and he

would not turn his back on him. Little wonder, .:

of course, that Sen. Tydings, who uses the same bootjack as Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson, has used every possible means in the current spy investigation to whitewash the administration and shellac Sen. McCarthy. The latest person named by Sen. McCarthy as a top Soviet spy is Prof. Owen Lattimore, who, of course, along with administration officers, denies the charge. However, at this late date it would seem to. make but little difference whether he was or

~—was-not:H he-wasn't,-he might as weil -have-

anyway. Re However, why not give Prof. Lattimore the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he wasn't a Commie after all. Maybe he merely gave China to the. Reds because he ‘wanted to outdo President Roosevelt and President Truman, who gave all of central Europe to Joe Stalin.

been one, for he gave all of China to the Reds

‘Screen Immigrants’ By E. E. Grant. Hitler's “cold war” started some six years before shooting commenced. We did not call it by that name in the early 1930s. Totalitarian technique under the Nazis has been repeated and made much more efficient by the Soviets, With the Hitler gang we paid in GI blood. As to Nazi and Soviet spies in U. S. A, Why are such aliens admitted? The late Dr. H. H. Laughlin of Carnegie In« stitute was Congress’ foremost immigration expert for over a quarter century. He insisted all immigrants should be screened eugenically. He advised demanding life histories of blood relatives, otherwise denying admission. He declared that, since we already have sufficient labor, we would be better off to admit no one until we had time to bar the Al Capones. One like Capone extracted $100,000,000 annually from commercialized vice. Can we not afford to wait till we screen? EI .

What Others Say

. . . The thing I'm worried about is the little boy next door with a sling shot.—Comediene Gracie Allen, MR. ACHESON must go. He is a bad security risk.—Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry (R. Neb.).

IF ‘you move the 82nd Congress as- far to the left of the 81st as the Sist is of the 80th, you'll get repeal of.the Taft-Hartley law and socialized medicine and all of the rest of the socialistig program.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.) of Oho. SN

ONLY one man can protect the people from - greedy interests—that man is the President of the United States.—Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.) of Illinois, on the Kerr Natural Gas Bill.

SENATE PROBE . . . By Tony Smith

py Evidence

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. Wis.) has given the FBI more than 200 papers containing information

charges of communism in the State Department. included documents, affidavits "and

: ’ John R. Steelman, acting=~ IN ADDITION, the Re-

board chairman for the last 18 months, vetoed it. i Today, however, the boar has a tentative control order for the distribution of machine tools in wartime. It is similar to the general preference order used by WPB in the last war. It presumes that 70 per cent of “each month's production will go to the‘Armed Forces, 5 per cent to... other government agencies and 25 per cent to the civilian economy: Distribution of machine tools within

. the Armed Forces will be de-

Jenaiihed . by the Munitions

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sources Board has issued “phantom orders” to 300 manufacturers for 100,000 machine tools worth $750 million. “Those orders will go into pro-

duction as soon as an emer-

gency is declared. . Manufacturers are instructed to acquire raw materials,

- plant space, skilled labor, etc.,

and be ready to start at a moment’s notice. : : There has been some talk of modernizing World War II tools now in our industrial reserve. Budget limitations so far have mafle that impossible,

The bundle memoranda of all types.

letters,

It was said to dwarf in size and im-

portance the material Mr. McCarthy presented on the Senate

floor during a four+hour

speech on Mar. 30.

This became known after it

was learned that the FBI has presented fresh information to

ing one of the principal targets of Mr. McCarthy's accusations. There was no assurance that {it * contained

.material turned over by -~MeCarthy. however. ....... ’ — os a = THERE was no way to determine whether the information was forwarded for possible prosecution or to inform Justice Department officials on the progress of the FBI investigations. . FBI Director J.- Edgar Hoover told a Senate subcom= mittee two weeks ago that normal procedure was to start sending information to the Criminal Division when FBI investigations reached a point where it was possible that

- the criminal -diviston- of - the -

Mr. I holden.the person.he named. to... J , make rash statements under oath.

providing the Senator can pro--

. prosecution might result. He '

testified before the Tydings

Subcommittee, which is considering Sen. McCarthy's charges.

There is no regulation governing the FBI's action. Mr. Hoover is free to send what he likes to the Criminal Division

for any FTeason, including prosecution. , 3 = = - MOST of Sen. MetCarthy's

material was turned over to FBI agents while the Senator was a patiefit at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Mr. McCarthy was admitted to the hospital for treaiment of a throat ailment shortly after his Senate

The hospital transaction

made it plain that Mr. McCarthy withheld much of his material in the Senate speech. . _ Some Senate colleagues suspect that his long talk was a deliberate ruse to mislead those he ac-

.cused.. They point out that his

object may have been to em-

This would pave the way for perjury prosecutions,

duce the evidence he says exists.

» = = - THE additional MeCarthy

data apparently was ‘raw mae

terial” gathered from scores of sources. Some of it was volunteered anonymously, Other portions were said to have been solicited by Sen,

. McCarthy's supporters.

On the whole, itz greatest’ value was understood to be the “leads” it.provided. Only painstaking investigation will determine whether they lead to the kind of proof it will take to back up Mr. McCarthy’s charges. ~ ” - UNTIL this is completed, the FBI and the Justice Department will not make a final evaluation, it was understood, In the meantime, there ap-

pears to be no disposition to

treat the . Senator's . informatiori ‘any differently than the material the government receives from other voluntary

sources. Mr. McCarthy declined te or comment on the of his material

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