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Complaints From the People

POLITICAL parties and candidates, if they're sincere in their promises to-represent the will of the people, would do well to heed complaints from a cross-section of voters in Marion County. “These expressions of dissatisfaction with the trend of some government functions are listed in today’s Sunday Times report on a postcard poll among new voters who registered recently for this year’s elections. Almost unanimously they regard high taxes as the

most important political issue and they. are looking for

action toward elimination of excessive spending by govern-

ment agencies. a » o n - ”

THEY are also dissatisfied with the lack of service in local units of government and are convinced that the taxpayers should be getting more return for their money. It may mean the beginning of a new awakening on the part of more people in the management of government. And this mass participation in public affairs, if expanded and continued in the future, could accomplish a great deal in the adoption of long needed reforms throughout governmental operations.

McCarthy's ‘New Look’

T HAS seemed to some of us that Sen. McCarthy was supporting his charges of Communist influences in the State Department with more noise than evidence. But it also has been apparent that a surprisingly strong segment of pub-Jic-opinion was-rallying to -his-support.

Was the Wisconsin Republican: beating. the Gommu-

: nists at their own game, simply by outshouting them? - Or

“was he the coincidental “beneficiary of a ground swell of public resentment against official indifference to a very real menace to national security? Whatever the explanation, we are convinced that Sen. McCarthy himself is a factor to be reckoned with since hearing him present his case before the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Be nN HIS speech was loaded with tough, pertinent questions which could not be laughed off. He was equally adept at answering questions directed at him. Asked why he hadn't named the Communists in the State Department, he said he would name names when the department's files were opened to him, adding: “If those files proved that McCarthy was a liar, they would damn well be opened tomorrow.” That challenge may have to be answered the next time President Truman takes the stump. It's whistle-stop language. : The Senator cited the case of a man who, he said, was investigated 11 times by the State Department loyalty board before finally quitting and taking up active Communist Party work. . “Eleven times the President's loyalty review board lacked the guts to order the man fired,” he charged. That, too, is whistle-stop stuff. NARS. SEY. ARR SNA sienna wi THERE was the case of George Wheeler, now attacking American foreign policy from behind the Iron Curtain. Why was this man cleared for highly important State Department work in Europe? Why, indeed? 2 Dr. Philip C. Jessup has just been appointed head of the State Department's high policy board, which will map our cold-war strategy. : “Why does he always join Communist fronts? Why not anti-Communist organizations?” Sen. McCarthy asked, submitting photostatic evidence that Dr. Jessup has been a member of five “fronts.” Joe McCarthy will not be alone in questioning this appointment, particularly when it is recalled that Dr. Jessup gave a character testimonial for Alger Hiss as late as last year. Whatever he may have lacked to support his charges at the outset, Sen. McCarthy is picking up new ammunition and finding new targets as he goes along. It isn't all just old stuff, either, but material reflecting

on persons Now i the integrity of the government itself unless it is rebutted to the public's satisfaction. )

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It's Still Marcantonio

HE House of Representatives voted 330 to 0 to approve the award of posthumous decorations for.the 10 Amer-

And Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New York was one of

“the 330. ’

Heretofore, from the viewpoint of Uncle Joe Stalin, Rep. Marcantonio's record in Congress has been spotless. He has followed the Communist Party line with fidelity and agility. He hasn't hesitated to stand out as a lone dissenter in the House—notably on American preparedness measures in 1940, when Russia was in partnership with Nazi Germany. ~ » ~ , 8 J n BUT this year is different. Rep. Marcantonio faces a tough. fight for an eighth term in the House. There are many Communists and fellow travelers in his New York City district. But there also are many patriotic Americans —and Marcantonio needs support from them if he is to be re-elected. rT He barely squeaked through two years ago, when he ran for the first time as a candidate of the American Labor Party alone. In all previous campaigns he had Republican or Democratic Party backing. . o Party-lining is more Enpopular this year than ever before. And Rep. Marcintonio, as a politician of 22 years’ experience, knows that very well. Now is the time when he needs credit for casting a patriotic vote—and he doubtless tan be confident that the Communist Daily Worker understands his predicament and will refrain from criticism. But rest assured that the change is in the times—not in Rep. Marcantonio. b

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Indiana Legislators Don’t All Follow Fair Deal

WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—Dear Boss—With

“the May primaries in the offing, maybe you would like to have a press gallery report on how our six. freshmen Congressmen have conducted themselves, as all are seeking renomination. As you know, all are Democrats. But they also are Hoosiers and so, with the possible exception of Rep. Thurman C. Crook, South Bend, they are not 100 per cent Fair Dealers ideologically. They know that old-line, Jeffersonian Democrat Gov. Henry

Harry 8. Truman lost the state to New York Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for the Presidency. Mr. Crook has no opposition

Rep. Crook in the Third District Democrat primary. He

labels himself as “educator, legislator and farmer.” He has strong labor support and often puts labor's viewpoint into the Congressional Record. He is a member of the Postoffice and Civil Service Committee and made an impassioned plea against cutting Postoffice Department budgets so that service will be curtailed.

Not Scared SPENDING federal funds either at home or abroad never scares Mr. Crook. His career here can be summed up by these lines from HM.8. Pinafore: “0 he always voted at his party's call and he never thought of thinking for himself at all” Quite the contrary is true of Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis. He has his own ideas on nearly all major pietes of legislation. If they do not coincide with those of the Democratic leadership he couldn't care less. ’ The man whom Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.) dubbed “the Hoosier Lincoln” has made a greater impression on the House than most first-termers and you can find those who say it has been good or bad in about equal numbers. He is a potent member of the Labor Committee.

Voted Against Leadership A CONSERVATIVE Democrat is Rep. Edward H. Kruse Jr., Ft. Wayne. He voted against the leadership quite often and says that in doing so he believes he is representing the conservative Fourth District. His political mentor 18 Virgil TM. “Skits” Simmons, who has prospered as a lifelong Democratic political

leader. Mr. Kruse is on the important Agriculture Subcommittee of the Appropriations Com-—

mittee, oo . Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson, out deals the Fair Deal on some things, He is an outspoken Townsend planner. But he voted for butter against aleo. Like Mr. Crook, both he and Mr. Kruse are thopposed in the primary. An outstanding young war veteran, who served in the Army while Mr. Kruse was in the Navy, Rep. James E. Noland, Bloomington, has the blessing of the Seventh District Democratic organization, despite his open opposition to President Truman's compulsory health insurance plan.

Knows the Law REP. WINFIELD K. DENTON, Evansville, veteran of two world wars and dozens of political campaigns, with long service .in the Indiana Legislature, is a highly respected member of the Judiciary Committee, He knows law and politics and has fitted into the House picture like an old hand. - Almost as Fair Dealish as Mr. Crook, he did vote against oleo tax repeal and thus protected his Eighth District farm support. As freshmen Congressmen go, the half dozen Democratic newcomers from Indiana stack up very well indeed. Like Hoosiers everywhere they gather together a great deal and for the most

“ part have listened to the advice of Rep. Ray

Madden, the Democratic. -dean from Lake County, who is a member of the powerful House Rules Committee,

Running for Senate AT LEAST two of the freshmen, Reps. Jacobs and Walsh, are running for the Senate

as well as for the House in the sense that they “rare active dark horses against the nomination

of Alex Campbell, Ft. Wayne. That either will win the Democratic senatorial nomination seems unlikely. Should a House member be selected, Mr. Madden might have first call.

BEHIND THE SCENES . . . By Peter Edson

Mayors in Hot Spot

Apr. 22—-8everal of the big city who have been crying for federal help in their fight organized crime syndicates now admit privately they idea they were stepping into a political hornets’ nest. The mayors

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Conflict in Far East Policy

WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—The State and De-

fense Departments. still. are poles. apart.on FAL...

Eastern policy, ~~ AR : Their latest disagreement involves shipment: of steel from Western Germany to the Chinese Communist regime. German High Commissioner John J. McCloy, with State Department approval, recently announced that he had authorized sale of 15,000 tons of steel to the Chinese Reds. 3 The Munitions Board has protested. A Defense Department official said the protest was classified top.secret. He said he understood it was “still under study at the State Department.” The Munitions Board is responsible for the nation’s stockpile of strategic and critical materials. : There is a strong suspicion on the board thta anything sold to the Chinese Reds eventually may turn up in the Soviet Union. More than half of Russia's rail system was destroyed by German bombers in World War II and the system has not yet been rebuilt.

Russia Needs Steel

MOREOVER, the Soviets are engaged in an expansion program, and only recently completed double-tracking the trans-Siberian railroad, their only link with China, Russia needs steel badly, and our reports are -that Soviet-made rails are of poor quality. Munitians Board sources say there is another angle. In recent months, Communist China has shipped a large quantity of lead, zinc, tungsten, coal, iron ore and other war materials to the

-Soviet Union. She probably would have shipped

more except for inadequate transportation. Thus, any expansion or improvement of rail lines in Communist China is a direct assist to

“the Soviet stockpile program-—which is bigger

and more ambitious than ours. Russia also is reported to be buying all of China’s production of certain materials which are not considered strategic and critical but which in the past have gone to the United

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States. Apparently, she. intends to act as middle

man-and-offer them to this country only if we

tigree to lift or ease the Russian embargo.

ORIGINALLY, Nationalist China ordered

--400,000--tons “of rails from. -Western- Germany.

When the Nationalists were forced off the mainland,. the Munitions Board objected to shipping the raiis to the Communists. supported by the British. Germans complained that the British were interested in filling the order themselves. State and Defense Department differences over China policy came to a head early this year when the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that military missions be sent ;to the Nationalists to help prepare defenses against an anticipated Communist invasion of Formosa. Secretary of State Dean Acheson opposed that plan in the National Security Council, President Truman upheld him. The Joint

: Chiefs, however, still feel that their plan is sound. They have been impressed with recent

reports of Nationalist defense plans. Mr. Acheson recently revealed that he was giving serious thought to the possibility of sending surplus wheat and rice to famine stricken areas of Communist China.

Opposed in Pentagon AS A military measure, some Pentagon officers oppose that. They point out that Russia has recently established airbases in China, a move not too popular with millions of nonparty members. . Moreover, they say, the Chinese Reds have made the mistake of garrisoning South China with North China troops. They feel we should

encourage, rather than eliminate causes for .un- .

rest in Red-held territory. As long as Russian and Chinese Communist officials are confronted with home-front troubles, they won't be free to devote all their time to planning the anticipated invasion of Formosa, these sources explain,

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‘Sign of Good Living’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City

It is said and with a good deal of truth that a good grandfather is worth one minister, two parents, and 12 -school teachers in trying to bring up a boy. : There is some deep secret that a good grandfather knows and nobody else knows. A little boy, hanging onto his grandfather and digging in with all the force of little hands and feet, defying anyone to pull him away from that good mysterious friend, his grandfather, is a good wholesome sign of good family ving. . I wish that all children had good grandparents for they contribute a good deal to their grandchildren that we can’t understand or explain.

‘World Needs a Satirist’

By Charles W. Burton, 911 E. Maryland St.

We are entering an economic collapse which is the result of taxation far beyond the ability of the American people to pay. This is to try to stabilize a war-weary bankrupt world and to prepare the necessary equipment to fight another war that will mean annihilation of man from this earth. . The Bible tells us “blessed aréd¥the peace makers for they shall be called the children of God.” Where are the peace makers? Are they holding the olive branch in one hand and the atom bomb in the other? Has the world gone so far away from God that it doesn’t know where defense stops and offense starts? ’ “What the world needs today fsa satirist like the great Charles Dickens who awakened the

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What Others Say

people of the world. to. the. social, injustices. of...

“WE cannot live ‘isolated in relative wealth

and abundance. We cannot ignore the urgent problems of other peoples or threats to their independence.—President Truman. - OB CHINA is in the process of dying. China is not going to come back in two years or 10 years or 20 years.—Publisher Manchester Boddy, contestant in the California Democratic Senatorial race, oS AS of this date, the civil defense of our péople from atomic attack seems to be nothing more than a buck passing operation of the first magnitude between top federal agencies.— Mayor Elmer E. Robinson of San Franéisco. DD

LITTLE do people realize that Europe's preservation is in the interests of the whole world.—West German Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer.

* SUMMERTIME

Wonderful summertime, For you I long, Lovelier than the most’ Beautiful song; Sweet as the flowers And blossoming trees, Forever the queen of My best memories;

So pure, so refreshing, S

You make your return, Renewing, reviving and Filling each yearn; What word could describe All the glory sublime Or the exquisite charm Which is yours—Summertime. —Connie Hummel, Indianapolis.

PRICE SUPPORT . . . By Earl Richert

New Potato Surplus

. WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—Perpetual motion has nothing on the government's potato-buying program to hold up growers’

It goes on and on, unaffected even by the seasons. The government now is buying 1950 crop potatoes in Florida, while still taking 1949 crop potatoes off the market in Maine and

being used as pawns in a national major party fight. The rackets’ probe proposed by Sen. Estes Kefauver was supposed to help the mayors’ cause. But “authority for this investigation. plus bills which would prohibit -stfipment of gambling devices and sending of racing news across state lines, have developed into a party row in the Senate. ” » ~

EDWARD G. MILLER JR.,

assistant secretary of state for

~odnter-American. Affairs, wW-a-8.-

born in Puerto Rico, where his family had been in the sugar business. On Mr. Miller's recent visit to the island, the mayor of the little sugar mill town where he was born pre“sented the Hof, Assistant Secretary with a fighting cock. Not ‘being able to take the scrappy little rooster with him on his official swing around South America, Secretary Miller was puzzled over what to do with it. Finally he decided to dedicate the bird to charity. Hereafter, whenever it fights, all bets wagered must go to, worthy causes. And it will all be done under the high sounding name of, “The Edward G. Miller Jr., Memorial Gamecock.”

” LJ v THOMAS K. FINLETTER, new Secretary of the Air Force, - was offered the chairmanship of Civil Aeronautics Board several years ago, but wouldn't take it. This was just after he had completed drafting the so-called Finletter report on aviation preparedness, “Survival in the Air Age.” Finletter turned down the CAB job because he didn't consider it important ‘enough.

” ” » HAWAII'S Constitutional’

Convention, elected by popular vote on the islands to draft a constitution in preparation for statehood, is really a good cross-section of the territory's cosmopolitan population. Twenty-seven of the delegates

Now they fear they're ’ . are Caucasian, 20 of Japanese

descent, 11 Hawalians and five Chinese. Only the Filipino population won no convention seats. ‘By océupation, 16 of the delegates ate lawyers, three court officials, seven educators, four dentists, one doctor, nine pineapple and sugar men, three real estate operators, two insurance agents, two tax consultants, three. ranchers, six store owners, five county

Supervisors, two labor leaders, and four holisewives. Twenty‘nine are Republicans, 23

Democrats. 2 ow om STATE DEPARTMENT is working hard to have Senate restore’ House cuts in authorizations for President Truman's Point Four Program. Original request was for $45 million for first year. House cut it to $23 million, specifying that $10 million should go to present Institute . of Inter-American Affairs and Inter-Departmen-tal Scientific and Cultural Cooperation programs, Government has been carrying on these technical assist-

ance projects since early in the -

war. But this will leave only $15 million for new Point Four programs and’ assistance to underdeveloped countries through the* United Nations. Point. Four planners say ft

isn't enough for a start.

y Cd » VETERANS Administration is snarled up over its GI insurance dividend again. Original announcement was that 16 million vets would participate. Other veterans’ affairs figures, however, say that there are only 15,300,000 living veterans. There are 500,000 war vets still in service, so that would make a total of 15,800,000 eligible for insurance. Of this number, eight per cent did not take out GI insurance. That would reduce

the number eligible for dividends to around 14.500.000. Veterans’ Administration

- says it has enough money to

pay dividends to 16 million, but that approximately 2 million have not yet applied for what they have coming to them. If it turns out that there are only 14.5 million vets to pay off— which the other set of figures would indicate—there will be something over $175 million to redistribute as a second dividend some time later on. ; , nn INDUSTRIALIST Tom Girdler, - in Washington recently, was complimented on his.good health and excellent appearance. Though he is over 70 years old, he was told he looked much younger. Girdler smiled in appreciation. “It's this new suit of clothes,” he explained. “I looked at myself in the mirror this morning, and I looked so good I decided I better not go by. the State Department.” :

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= - » ACCORDING to a beauty expert, a rosebud mouth is .a thing of beauty. In some cases, when closed! ; =n = = HUMAN nature is: what makes youngsters brush their front teeth and let the back ones go.

= = ” THE same slogan soon will be as appropriate for gardens as for government bonds. Dig down! - -

» = = ALL some people save for a rainy day is the nerve to borrow an umbrella.

x = EJ GLASSES improve some people’s game, says a golf instructor. He means the kind you wear.

= = n WEATHER statistics for the past winter show ‘that the

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North Dakota at the rate of 500,000 bushels daily. And Florida purchases are bigger than last year — the 248.000 bushels purchased so

far being 50,000 more than at:

the same time last year. o ” os FLORIDA, incidentally, 1s the state whose potatoe growers don’t want government price suppofts, according to Sen Spessard L. Holland (D. Fla.). But the Senator explains that Florida growers “naturally are

program set up for the nation. Sen. Holland says Florida growers believe they would be better off with no potato price support because they are doing well with other vegetable and eitrus crops which are not supported. Agriculture Department officials don't think the bigger Florida purchases indicate that the government will have to buy even more potatoes in the country this year than last. - = ~ THE Florida crop is not under marketing agreements— which regulate movement to

market by grades and quan-

tities—while most other commercial potato areas will be. The agriculture officials think the general use of marketing agreements will reduce materially the cost of supporting the 1950 crop. The government now has bought 56 million bushels of 1949 crop potatoes at a cost of $62 million—almost enough to run the entire legislative branch ‘of the federal government for one year. 1 At the rate of current buying, it is estimated that another 10 million bushels of 1949 ‘potatoes will be purchased. = ” = DESTRUCTION to date of government-owned 1949 potatoes total about 5'; million bushels. Agriculture officiais

going to participate” in any

estimate that another five mil-.

lion bushels may be destroyed. Of the 50 million bushels of government potatoes that have

gone to useful outlets, 31 million bushels have gone for livestock feed. The rest has gone for export, starch, potato flour, and ‘to welfare and school lunch programs. Exports at the rate of one cent per 100 pounds have pro= vided an outlet for five million bushels. The largest shipments have been made to Venezuela. But many other countries have received shipments — Ceylon, Portugal, Liberia, Spanish Mo rocco, Panama, Belgium, Spain, Iceland, Bérmuda, en Ise rael and Hong Kong. ® x a NONE of the Florida potatoes .purchased so far have been destroyed. They have been used. for. livestock feed or have been given to penal institu tions. Florida farmers are recelving about $1.32 a bushel from the government, 60 cents a bushel less than last year. Congress voted last month to drop all price supports on 1951 crop potatoes unless they are made subject to drastic marketing quotas — which make farmers subject to heavy penalties for overproduction. A bill which would establish marketing quotas — and thus make potato growers eligible for price support next year-—-already has been approved by

the Senate Agriculture Committee,

= = SEN. CLINTON P. ANDERSON (D. N. M.) and other congressional farm leaders say that Congress has a moral commitment to pass the bill. Many legislators from potato areas are afraid that the measure will get caught in a jam before adjournment. Potato growers then would find themselves without price supports next year. The potato price support program has cost the government nearly $500 million since end of the war—more than all the federal income taxes paid in a . year by the residents of Indiana.

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