Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1950 — Page 46
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Russia and the UN
D NATIONS’ circles are in a quandry because Russia refuses to participate in proceedings of the Security Council and other United Nations agencies as
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- The Russians that should be transferred to a contesting delegation from the Red regime at Peking. They threaten to continue their boycott until this is done. Some of thé nations which continue, as we do, to recognize the Nationalists as the govern‘ment of China, are said to be reconsidering their positions on the theory that Russia’s abstention from United Nations activities is impairing the organization's prestige. ” . » wm » - » SUCH reasoning overlooks something even more vital —the issue of the United Nations’ integrity. The Russians should not be allowed to impose their will upon other members of the organization simply by taking a walk and playing hard to get when a majority decision is not to their liking. If they are, taking walks will become a Soviet habit. And when the United Nations can be intimidated by such tactics its usefulness will be ended. . . - ” ” EJ WESTERN representatives would become mere witnesses at sessions of Soviet appeasement. The United Nations and its agencies operate under democratic procedures. The Russians must become accustomed to these procedures if they expect to be active members of a peaceful world community. Patience with their lack of experience in deliberative processes should not _ be. carried to the point. of conforming. to. their theories of totalitarian government. :
Blue-Ribbon List
RESIDENT TRUMAN may have hit upon a solution for one of the.troublesome personnel problems he has " faced since the end of the war. He has often complained that many desirable and qualified persons have turned down high federal posts, either because the pay is too low or because they disliked to take the searing critcism that frequently comes from Congress or other sources. To lift the proverbial bushel off such luminaries he has ordered a committee of his “little cabinet” to draw up an elaborate roster of men and women who are fitted to take any of the 200 or so high-level jobs he fills every year by appointment. These include specialized posts, as well as the Cabinet and diplomatic corps, but not the judiciary. ~ . . » ~ ~ | IT IS noteworthy that the index will be strietly “unpartisan” —knowledge rather than political background will be the chief requisite for getting on this blue-ribbon list. Information on the persons whose names go into the master list will come from regional government offices, state and local governments, colleges, professional and trade _ groups and from Congressmen. Thus a wide range of selectivity is possible, and the honor of getting into the final catalog of names may do ‘much to overcome the reluctance of some eminently qual-
3° Oh © ontend China 's i cpt esentation
job. We wish Mr, Truman well in this plan.
Insuring the Future (CITIZENS of Indiana: will have another opportunity this_ year to add new strength to the foundations of security during the U. S. Savings Bonds drive, starting May 15. -
Participation in purchase of bonds has a. two- fold par
Pp stabil Lr “his commit ity PR 8 feguard agai st forces ra “ing to uproot the free institutions of demorcracy and the - American way of life. - » » : ” . - IN CALLING for volunteers to aid in the drive, Gov. Schricker, as honorary chairman, aptly summed up the significance of the bond effort when he urged workers to: “Awaken the minds and hearts of our citizens to their responsibjities in the maintenance of our free, democratic way of life and alert them to the value of thrift for their own independence.” - - - - Reaching the bond goal of $17, 875.000 in Indiana this _year will be another big step Seward insuring the rights-of - free men in the future..
EN. PAUL DOUGLAS (D. nL) has waged and lost another gallant fight in the cause of government economy. He tried to cut some of the pork out of the $1.6 billion rivers-and-harbors bill, already passed by the Senate. Time after time he moved to eliminate from the bill projects in various states, including his own, which he considered undesirable, wasteful or unnecessary to undertake at a time when the government is already spending far beyond its income. Such conduct is not popular in | the Senate. It isn't considered clubby for a Senator to object to his colleagues’ pork. . & So nobody, except Sen. Douglas, voted for any of his economy amendments. All of them were defeated. And then the huge pork-barrel bill was passed, 53 to 19. Sen. Douglas lost that fight. But he added to his already considerable stature in the eyes of citizens and taxpayers who admire courage and fear the consequences of reckless spending.
Adolph Seidensticker |
R a great many years Indianapolis. citizens, when they talked of mail service, thought of Adolph Seidensticker who had become almost a tradition as the city's postmaster. His death ‘yesterday removed from the community an outstanding figure in many other phases of government and civic affairs. He was once prominent in the state _. legislature and the state government as a member of the ~ Board of Pardons and was # leader in the Democratic : Parti for nearly a half Seng: :
WALTER LECKRONE “HENRY W, MANZ Business Manager
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DBAR ROS ..ty Den Kin Civil Rights in Campaign Talk
Dixie Democrats Using Party Line on Issue
WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—Dear Boss—It was way back in February 1948 that President
Truman sent his exciting civil rights message
to the 80th Republican Congress. They did nothing about it and he campaigned and won that fall by cwmiling it .a “do-nothing Congress.” That civil rights proposal contained these uests:
Establish a permanent commission on civil .
rights, a joint congressional committee on. civil rights and a civil rights division of the Justice Department. Strengthen existing civil rights statutes.
Provide federal protection against’ lynch- ©
' ing. Protect more adequately the right to vote. Establish a Fair Employment Practice Com«
mission to prevent unfair discrimination in em- ......
ployment; : » Prohibit discrimination in interstate transportation facilities, Provide home-rule and suffrage in presidential elections for the residents of the District of Columbia. Provide - statehood for- Hawaii and Alaska and a greater measure of self-government for our possessions.
Equalize the opportunities for residents of
the United States to become naturalized citizens. ‘Settle the evacuation claims of JapaneseAmericans,
Essential Rights IN his message asking action on them the President said: “The position of the United States in the world today makes it especially urgent that we adopt these measures to secure for all our people their essential rights . . . “We know that our democracy is not perfect. But we do know that it offers a fuller, freer, happier life to our people than any totalitarian nation has ever offered. “If we wish to inspire the peoples of the world whose freedom is in jeopardy, if we wish to restore hope to those who have already lost their civil liberties, if we wish to fulfill the promise that is ours, we must correct the remaining imperfections in our practice of democracy.
“We know the way. We need on]y the will.”
~Nething Happened
DURING his successful re-election campaign two years ago the President asked for a Democratic Congress to implement these civil rights demands. He got it. What ‘happened? Nothing. One of the reasons why nothing happened is being clearly spelled out now by the kind of campaigning the Democrats. are doing in Dixie. An outstanding example is Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama, one-time Democratic New Deal whip. He is trying to lure Dixiecrats back into the Democratic fold in his state by showing them that it is the Democratic Party which prevents civil rights legislation from being enacted. He cites the various committee hairmar ships held by Southerners who sit tight on civil rights bills and shows that if they were not regular Democrats they wouldn't have such power in this 81st Democratic Congress.
Must Keep Power
IN a radio speech Apr. 12, Sen. Hill concluded: “If our group of Southern Senators is: to continue to defeat these rights bills, we must keep the power and influence we hold as members of the Democratic Party. IT also warn that the Republicans are committed to civil rights.” So there you have it. Tall talk from President Truman and ‘double- -dealing by the Dixie Democrats. You win but you don’t get anything.
PRAYER
Help us dear Lord, to see most clear The kindly deeds of friends so dear, The finer things bring uppermost, And let us neither brag nor. hoast.. “Or one small thing we may have doné A battle fought or victory won, Grant may our eyes be ever blind To things.impure and deeds unkind. Just help us search in hidden places The finer things with virtue's grac : =—Anna E. Young, 8547 N; DeQuincy S
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says the armed forces
of the military purse strings.
At the same time, he told congressional leaders, the Army, ‘than before any
Navy and Air Force are better * savings were made, “Savings are important in
“ready to go”
~ment. today. .puts it this. way we
Always the men from Mars, pilbtings.,
will show a net savings of about a billion dollars by Aug. 10 when he will finish his first year in control
i" "million and the Navy $30 mil-,
_BRITISH-FRENCH. ALLIANCE
Key to Peace in
PARIS; Apr; 21—=There probably are a couple dozen formulas for peace in Europe, but the one which is seen by some high officials here as the real key is friendship between France and Great Britain. There has been much talk of union between Germany and France. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has urged French-German talks looking toward a United Europe. He drew
‘support from Gen. Charles du Gaulle among
others. But wise Frenchmen say it cannot be done that way. Too many men of France, they insist, remember 1870, 1914 and 1940-—they know the Germans’ amazing capacity to make war and they know that as a nation France cannot stand up to Germany. Germany began her re-
+ covery from World War II a couple years later
than the rest of Western Europe but in many ways she has made amazing progress. Frenchmen fear that even with the best safeguards the eventual result of attempts at close political co-operation between France and Germany might be the gobbling of France.
Close Alliance
BUT let France and England first ‘form a firmer union than they have ever managed in the past, say Frenchmen. Together they then could welcome Germapy into a close political alliance. Here would be the nucleus of Western European Union to pull together the strength of 270 million persons to stand off the threat of communism from the east.
One of the ablest men in the French. ov ern-
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“In any given crisis we Frenchmen can on ways be fairly sure how Britain will react-*it will be just about the same as France reacts. But we never could be sure of how the Germans would react.” From the tip of Cherbourg peninsula on the north, right through Paris and on to the French side of the Rhine stretching up to the Swiss
border, Frenchmen are reminded constantly to«day of what war with Germany has meant over
the years. ; In Alsace au along, the Rhine are fortific a-
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sean RAR OHA Wars.
~='No rise of aed is-so placid that it may not
vi SERVICES . . . By Jim G. Lucas. $1 Billion Savings
WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—Defense Secretary Louis
SIDE GLANCES
Johnson
“Sharp Reservations ~~
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hide gun turrets. And just across the river from the Maginot line, stretching mile after mile, are the jagged, dynamited remains of Germany's old Siegfried line. Town after town still bears the marks of shell’ and bomb." a In such atmosphere, impossible to escape in the day-to-day rounds of ordinary living, some French leaders say it is just about out of the question for Frenchmen easily to forget how Germany has overrun France three wars in a row.
Weak Powers
BUT, looking north from here across the English Channel, the problem of how to narrow the gap in French-British differences is no easy one, either. It is easy to find Frenchmen today who regard England with much suspicion, and who are not at all unhappy that World War II left England—even as it left France—a ‘weaker, vastly less dominant power in world affairs than it had been in other days. But many both here and in England are convinced today of the extreme urgency of closer British-French ties. But the corollary of close political co-opera-tion is close economic co-operation, and the progress toward this end, under the Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA) and the Office of European Economic Co-operation, has been only fair. Many officials agree the steps taken in a couple of years normally would have taken a couple ,of decades—but the need to strengthen Western Europe is great and urgent and hence there is criticism because of failure to move even faster. ,
PAUL HOFFMAN, ECA Administrator, has
insisted that progress toward union must be
swifter. But the British have sharp reservations with respect to the European currency payments union which today is the heart of drawing the ECA hations together in economic co-operation. They have ties to a- British Commonwealth which often seem to conflict with Western European Union.-
Some officials here believe that if closer eco-
‘nomic’ ahd: political ties do not grow out'of the Zeer. 13 nat, ins RL
chance may be lost t for years.
By Galbraith
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probably publicans to be found anywhere in the nation. Over the past years we have operated on a one-
.. party system, Republican, and we are proud of
it. We want good government. But during the recent years a problem has been arising. It reached a climax this year. The list of Republican candidates announcing is too sprinkled with incompetents. Of course there are good candidates out for some offices. but you can get an odds-on bet they won't win. The awful truth is dawning on Montgomery - County Republicans that ‘one-party, Republican rule here could become as corrupt as one-party Democratic rule in Kansas City. We have begun to ask ourselves: Who is it that gets these undesirables nominated and elected? Why aren't
“the good people that come out for office winning
the “nomination? Why don’t more good people announce for office? : If we can't elect decent officials here at home where we know everybody, how can we expect to elect decent officials in Washington, What is government coming to? If .we can’t protect our local party from political gangsterism, how can we expect the national party or ganization to be free of political gangsterism?
. How can we condemn political rottenness in
Washington and condone it here at home? How can we continue to teach good governe ment in our schools and then present to the young students the spectacle of the kind of people we are nominating and electing to offices? ; Here in Montgomery County we are up against the proposition: Can we continue to be good regular Republicans and still be good citizens? We don’t have to worry about what is happening in Kansas City, it's happening to us: right here at home. The question is can we recognize our problem and whip it?
‘Taxpayers’ Gettysburg Address’
By V.D. T.
One score and 18 years ago. our fathers Brought. forth upon this nation a new tax, cone ceived in desperation. Now we are engaged in a great mass of calculation, testing whether that taxpayer-—or any taxpayer so confused, and so impoverished can long endure. :
We are met on Form 1040, We have. come ...
“to dedicate; #Farge: portion-of- our income toa Rat “resting place with those. men who haveg spent their lives that they may spend our money, It is altogether anguish-and torture that we should-do this. But in the legal Sense we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who computed here, have gone beyond our
~power to add and subtract... Qur. creditors will
little note nor long remember what we pay here. The Bureau of Internal Revenue will never fors get what we report here. . It is for us taxpayers, rather, to be devoted here to the tax return which the government has thus far ignobly spent. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from those vanishing dollars we take increased devotion to the few remaining; that wé here highly resolve that next year will not find us in a higher tax bracket. That this taxpayer, cajoled. shall figure out more deductions; and that taxation of the people by our government shall not cause our solvency to perish from this earth.
What Others Say
I DON'T see why television should handicap reading. The wide variety of subjects televised should stimulate interests in those subjects, thereby increasing and widening reading habits, —Dr. Clyde Hissong, director of education in Ohio.
I'M not going to quit. There is a kick or two left. I think the boys in the union will stick
“along with me. They know how to hang to‘gether.— Labor Leader Harry Bridges, on his
perjury conviction.
-“WE must realize that the continuation of our
prosperity ‘and » well-being depends on likeminded nations being able to maintain their freedom and democratic institutions.—Secre~
tary of State Dean Acheson.
. TERRITORIAL government should be ene dured no longer -than is necessary to show that the people of the territory are loyal citizens . . and capable of self-government. That time has come.—Gov. Ingram Stainback of Hawaii.
IT. is quite likely that there will_be some -
form of cold war— maybe a hot war—in ! the next Grn Teed AEA CL ideologies Harold Stassen, versity of Pennayivanis,
BATTLE OF ASIA . . . By Clyde Famgworth Invasion of China?
- HONG KONG, Apr. 21—Chinese Nationalists now could ine vade South China and capture Canton, according to the best available estimates of the general situation. But it's doubtful that they could hold that mainland position against the Come
munists’ potential counterdrive. Uncertainty oftheir
eir--tenure;-rather-than of theif ability to
win that foothold, is one of the
‘into muscle . .
and of themselves, because each dollar -we-do not spend means a healthier national economy,” he-reported to the Armed Servfces and Appropriations Com-
Sittees.. of. AR House gad
Senate.
A BREAKDOWN of defense economies will appear in Mr, Johnson's semiannual report, now being printed. Early this month, however, the Secretary sent copies of Chapter IV--dealing with savings-—-to Capitol Hill, Mr. Johnson said the savings
totaled $1,592,000,000. Some was spent, he said, to “convert fat into muscle.” But he
promised that by Aug. 10 he will have $1 billion of unspent cash, “During World War mm» he told Congress, “a speedy vietory, even at the expense of efficiency and economy, was the primary concern of the military services . . . the costly habits which grew up during that war, however, have no place in dey 3 Rliary.
“THE military establishment as it existed before Congress created the Department of De-
_fense on Aug. 10, 1949, was
still suffering from costly warborn spending habits. It was like a fat man-—and like a fat man was in poor condition until the fat could be transformed . even if large additional amounts of money had been added to the budget, large percentages of it would have failed to buy added military strength.” Despite—or because of--his economies, Mr. Johnson said he .
had given the Air Force $150
-
-eurbing civilian travel, million by “closely examining” —
lion for more airplanes. has increased the marine budget 200 per cent by giving the Navy ‘another $79 million.
TNAVY air lela vere
given enough extra mohey to fly 700,000 more hours. The National Guard got another $5 million and the organized reserve $16 million to modernize equipment. Army materiel purchases were increased $41 million, new signal equipment for fhe mobile reserve, $17.5 million for heavy ordnance and $7.8 million for modernized portable bridges. Mr. Johnson said the Navy savings had added . another carrier to the active fleet. Today, he said, Navy ships are
.manned by 67 per cent of war- ! p
time crews; a year ago, it was 61 per cent. The Army, he said, has 4400 more fighting men— through elimination of clerks and typists — despite ‘a _cut of 20,000 men in over-all strength. The Air Force today -has enough trained men for 52 groups in its 48 groups, he claimed.
» » ~ AMONG detailed savings, he listed: $78.8 million by dropping one-year enlistees, $2.2 million by closing recryiting stations, $80.4 million by reducing personnel to an agreed 1951 level; $11.3 million by storing up automobiles and trucks; $169 million by closing unnecessary camps and bases; $373,000 by $36
military travel orders, $1.9 mi!lion in flight pay by dropping pilots, $2.6 million in fuel bills ¥
He antisub-
including $10 millipn for -
~—GOPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. WC. T. W. NEG. U. 8 PAY. OFF. "If we could just grow about a foot we'could stop our dishwash-
ing and baby
because of the smaller fleet, $10 million in overhauling ships by using sailors instead of civilians, $1.4 million: by cutting the number of attaches to the State Department.
= = s SIX million dollars in cables, telegrams and long distance calls, $306.7 million in aircraft, $34.4 million in ships; $4.6 million in weapons; $9.5 million in ammunition; $4.2 million in guided missiles, $13.4 million by combining Reserve and National Guard armories; $17.1 million by changing research projects, $330,000 by cutting pub relations staffs, $3500,000 in field exercises; $156.5
‘workers,
included:
sitting and get basketball scholarships!”
million by firing 157,000 civilian $25.9 million oy changing industrial mobilization plans, and $256.4 million in public works. EJ s ” SOME savings resulted from price drops, he admitted. These Fuel, $26.3 million; food and clothing, $44.8 million,
.-and printing and binding, $2.2
million. However, he said the Defense Department had absorbed a $157 million increase; principally in wages, awards, freight and passenger rates and operation of the Berlin airlift, withqut asking Congress for more money.
main reasons holding the Na-
—tionalists back: -Another-is the -
invasion of Hainan. - WHAT the Nationalists need most to do—and could do most
«easily if given. American help...
is to support a series ‘of strategically placed mainland “islands” of armed resistance to the Communists, and devel-
‘op and integrate guerrilla war-
fare with their trust to the mainland. On a large scale such a counter offensive might not only turn the tables on the mainland, but might also forestall any effective attack on Formosa, the seat of the Nationalist government and- its principal base. Unquestionably, Chiang Kaishek and his generals have made such plans—for military planning must cover a wide range of possibilities — but without American help they are not likely to be fulfilled. - 2 ” WITHOUT American help Nationalist efforts likely are to be reduced to a bare struggle for survival, and that probably would be doomed to failure in the long run. Or at best, Chiang may have to gamble prematurely with a limited offensive into South China or elsewhere to exploit popular anti-Communist sentiment before it is liquidated by
starvation, hopelessness or armed force. ° 2 gs 88; CHIANG, who closely. fol-
lows American reaction to the struggle. for China, understands that support of decisive character is not likely to develop in the United States until or unless one or more pf three things come to pass:
ONE: Demonstration of Na-
tionalist power and determina
tion to return id the China mainland, -
TWO: A major defensive
victory by the Nationalists in i the Chusan Islands or on Hai. nan or Formosa. .
‘THREE: Undisguised inter vention by Russia to insure final victory for her Chinese Communist Puppets. Point one offers strong te tation to at least a limited of. fensive. Now that the people have been given-a bitter taste of communism, the situation in South China is particularly encouraging to the Nationalists, © ym KWANTUNG, Kwangsi and - Fukien provinces are regarded as the “soft underbelly” of Red China. Kwantung and particularly its Pearl River Delta re. gion includes People and ter. rain highly suited to a Nationalist comeback with strong guerrilla assistance. ” s =
BUT unléss it appeared that such a thrust could carry far beyond and hold against an inevitable concentration of Red Armies, it would be a hard gamble. no longer afford to gamble and lose. The greatest chance of suecess would be to deliver light arms, ammunition and other supplies to thousands of guerrillas in Kwangtung, Kwangsl and Fukien so they could strike at Red flanks.
The Nationalists have aip
transport sufficient to maintain 100,000 guerrillas, but they have no surplus of arms and ammunition to give them.
The Nationalists can
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