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Kick the Right Places

HE Post Office Department, a huge government-owned business, is operating at a loss of over half a billion dollars a year. Postmaster General Donaldson is under attack for trying to reduce that less by ordering cuts in residential mail

deliveries and other services. He says the cuts will enable

the Department to get along with 10,000 fewer employees, Congressmen demand investigations of the order. The Letter Carriers’ Union denounces it. Users of the service complain. : "Criticism of Mr. Donaldson is unfair—especially criticism coming from-Congress: The House Appropriations Committee had told him that he must save money wherever possible and had suggested just such service cuts as he ordered.

. ” . WHEN a private business institution is losing money and wants to reduce its losses without cutting services to its customers it can do one or both of two things. It can raise its prices, It can step up operating efficiency and economy. ; The Post Office Department should do both of these things. But, in order to do either of them, it must have authority from its board of directors. And its board of directors is Congress. Congress fixes postal rates and fixes them, in the cases of many services, far below cost of those services to the Department. Congress writes the rules under which the Department must operate and determines the wage rates it must pay.

Congress can, and should, vote an adequate increase of

postal rates. In general, users of postal sérvices—including newspapers—should pay enough to cover costs of those services. : : : - 5, SR A wenn lil lft CONGRESS can, and should, act to carry out the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. These would put the Post Office Department on a modern, businesslike basis; give it an efficient accounting system, so that it can more accurately determine the costs of its various services; take the appointment of postmasters out of politics; reduce its annual deficit by an estimated $200 million. But Congress is cold-shouldering the Hoover Commission's recommendations. And Congress shows no sign of willingness to vote a fair and adequate increase of postal rates. You probably won't like the effects of the Postmaster General's service-cut order. : But don’t kick Mr. Donaldson. Kick where it will do some good. Tell those who represent you in Congress to get busy and do their duty toward the Post Office Department.

Russia’s Challenge QECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON'S review of Russian-

American relations was a somber but realistic estimate

of the current world situation, in which the United States is on the spot because we stand between the Kremlin and Russia's plans for world dominion. There is, as he said, no single or easy way out of this situation. - Ea pi : But neither is there occasion for panic or undue alarm. Civilization has been threatened by barbarism before without succumbing to it. We must meet this challenge, as

‘strength and resourcefulness.

» » ” IN DOING this we must stand firm all along the line, in Berlin, at Trieste, in Greece and Turkey, in the | Middle East and the Far East. We must do this until the " Russians abandon their present schemes of aggression. : Aggression, as has been pointed out, means not only armed attack but propaganda warfare and “the secret undermining of free countries from within" by Communist fifth columns. If there is to be that total application of our faith and unity which Mr. Acheson seeks, he must convince the American people, by more forthright action than hereto-

fore, that the fifth column in the State Department itself

has been completely eradicated.

Moreover, wishful thinkers must abandon any idea

that Russian aggression can be appeased by peace missions to Moscow and friendly gestures to communism in other parts of the world. This thing is wholly evil. There can be no compromise with it. .

. : Te Tw ® raspy 2s AVOID the worst if-we ean; and te defend our ~ selves if we must, our Army, Navy ang Air Force must "be preparéd for any emergency. An attack could come quickly, at any moment. We believe the administration understands this and “18 making prepafations accordingly. re nt " Our friends abroad will be encouraged by the evidence of our determination to uphold the cause of freedom.

Governments entertaining aggressive designs may -be dis-

couraged by the knowledge that they will embark upon such adventures at their peril.

Col. Everett L. Gardner

EW Hoosiers have spent as many years of their lives in the interests of government and civic progress as Col. Everett L. Gardner, who had been director of the Indiana Employment and Security Division here for many years. His death removed from Indiana an able government executive who had served in many civic capacities in his native Monticello and later on the Indiana Civilian Defense Council, Committee of Veterans and the Indiana War History Commission. : z

Loss of his counsel and influence in state government

will be keenly felt.

We Can Be Needled

THE state of Brandenburg, in the Russian zone of Germany, has banned multi-colored wool sox on the grounds that they are “too American.” We don’t often agree with the Russians but we sometimes feel that, regardless of nationality, these rainbowchecked sox, the product of knit-happy women, are getting -

Mr, Acheson said, by the total application of faith, unity,

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Seen for UN

But Organization Has Not Guaranteed World Security

WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—Today people were taking stock of the United Nations on the fifth anniversary of the San Francisco Conference which launched it. Their despair or hope now will depend largely on what they expected then.” And, as usual, the truth probably will be somewhere between the detractors and apologists, If the United Nations was expected to guarantee world security and peace, it has failed. If it was expected merely to provide a democratic forum for peaceful nations and for the public isolation of ' war-mongering aggressors, it has succeeed. Moreover, its vast humanitarian and technological efforts have succeeded. Actually, nobody who followed the San Francisco maneuvers of Foreign Minister Molotov could reasonably expect that Russia would cooperate with the democracies,- much less be

- bound by the United Nations charter, ; co AJ-0f-the- elements..of discord, which have ...... ... .. .......

flourished since, were present there either in incipient or full form.. y

Veto Power

THE United Nations was emasculated from the first, as the price of Russia joining at all. She would accept nothing which might curtail her imperialist expansion effectively. 8he insisted ‘on, and got, a set-up by which she could misuse the veto ‘power to prevent Security Council action at any time. She demonstrated at San Francisco her intent to use the United Nations to protect her conquests by insisting on recognition of her satellite dictatorship in Poland. -If she would not honor her democratic pledges as a member of a wartime alliance, surely there was little chance of her doing so after the armistice. The five-year trail of Stalin's sabotage of democratic peace only confirms what was known by all except the wishful-thinkers at San Franciseo. ji That is: There can be no security guarantee from the United Nations as long as one of its two most powerful members is an active aggressor.

Better Than None

"WHAT THEN? Does it follow that there

should have been no United Nations, or that

now it should be allowed to die in futility? Many of the disillusioned, who expected the impossible in the beginning, think so. : “But most of ‘those who understood what was happening at San Francisco are as sure now as ther—even more so—that even a Soviet. sabotaged United Nations .is better than none. World opinion and home opinion are powerful forces for preventing war and, failing that, of winning war when it comes. That opinion is of supreme importance when the aggressor uses propaganda and fifth-columning as major weapons. : In the long run, whether it is to be peace or war, the democracies must depend on an

informed public opinion for defense against this,

world conspiracy of tyranny.

Nations Informed

FOR that reason the world forum provided by the United Nations is indispensable. The issue is whether Russia or America shall be fsolated, whether the great company of nations will stand. aside and say this is a quarrel between giants which does not concern them. If that happens they will fall to Russia, as so many others have fallen. For America cannot save those of Europe and elsewhere who are too stupid or too craven to defend their own freedom. As long as there is a United Nations—in which Stalin breaks his covenants with them as well as with us, threatening their security even more than ours —they cannot say: “We didn't know.” A stoplight does not always stop a criminal, But it helps. . )

RECONCILIATION

Behold, I 'came to you tonight, My heart was free from care And in the refuge of your arms Ilost-my dark-despalr.

My love for you made me forget Life's sorrow and its pain, And when the storm cloud’s disappeared, Sweet peace came back again.

“CANA TTNtFY To Understand That I must wait awhile. The shadowed past will fade away, And leave me with a smile. :

CAMPAIGN ISSUES . . . By Marquis Childs

Vote Test in South

he WASHINGTON, Apr. 25- Next week. primary elections are eing held in Florida and Alabama that will be watched as closely as the national election in the fall. The outcome can result of the congressionsl

‘mean almost as much for 1952 as the contest in November.

The hottest primary is in Florida, where Sen. Claude Pepper

is in a fight for his political life. Opposing him is Congress-

. of the chief advocates for the

. a great number of cases he will,

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Charles Lucey

TWABHINGTON, Apr. 25 — In two Weeks Harry Truman will be railroadi.ug it West at

_ the start of a six-month American criss-crossing

that seems sure to make him the campaigningest .

President in history.

They say this trip will be non-political-—or

anyway, that it will be no more political than his memorable swing to the West Coast in mid-summer of 1948. But that jaunt in fact

was perhaps the most effective political trip

Mr. Truman ever took—it proved that if he did not have the majestic oratory of his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, he had a homey, back-platform folksiness that paid off in votes for Democrats. y In 1948 and earlier, at the height of national resentment against war-time controls that swelled up in the 1946 campaign, Democratic Senators and Representatives weren't eager to have the little man in the White House come into their states.

Little Warmth THEY thought he would cost them votes. Sometimes when he did go into their areas in a hopeful attempt to drum up a few votes [or himself, his own party people gave him the respect due a President but little warmth to go with it. It's different today. Democratic National Committee headquarters here say there are requests from all over for the President to put in his oar between now and November—and in The trip beginning May 7 is only a beginning—a bit of road work for the bigger battle ahead in late summer and fall. Before he's finished Harry Truman will take on Sen. Robert A. Taft on his home grounds and will raise the Democratic banner in many other states from coast to coast. It is regarded as certain now that he will take a personal hand in the election campaigns in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missourt and California. That means a cross-country swing again in the fall, and it's as plain as day that he isn't going to cross all the other states in

bludgeon against other Republican candidates

It's fairly ordinary for a President to stump across the country in his own behalf in presi-

SIDE GLANCES

between. without. swinging. the presidential .

Candidates Seek Truman's Help

dential years, But for & President to-do this - in off years is extraordinary. Democratic politiclans say they doubt that any President ever has made a mid-term appeal of the breadth and vigor to mark that by Mr. Truman this year. Trip Through East “THE President, according to present plans, will do a pretty fair job of campaigning on the eastern seaboard, too. It seems fairly sure now he'll go into Connecticut, where the Democrats will be trying to hold their present two U. 8. Senate seats and the governor’s chair. Going through New York makes most probable a presidential appearance in behalf of Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, up for re-election. He'll speak for the Democrats in Pennsylvania, too. : : . "The full itinerary of the first Truman trip hasn't been announced, but the President himself has said he might speak 50 or 60 times. Actually there will be only a few formal speeches, but in a cross-country swing it's an old American custom for the folks to get down at the station to wave flags, sing and cheer the President on. Harry Truman isn’t the man to pass up a handy audience. He'll know more about that rear platform than any flagman does before he's back in Washington at the end of 10 days.

Scheduled Speeches

ON May 9 Mr. Truman will speak at the dedication. of Kortes: Dam in Wyoming, cn May 11, at the dedication of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, He'll stop in Williston and Fargo, N. D.,, and on May 14 will dedicate a new international headquarters building of the Credit Union International Association in Madison, Wis. The President will speak May 15 at a Democratic rally in Chicago Stadium. That rally itself, lasting three days and built around such

. items as a public meeting of the President’s

Cabinet and a strategy session of the Democratic National Committee, will be one of the most spectacular political sessions ever seen in. an off-presidential year. ... The Republicans have been taking the Democrats apart in the off-year. elections for a long time, but the Democrats won't let it be dong easily this year.

By Galbraith

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wil defend fo the death you right fo say it" ‘We Must Have More Harmony’ By Elaine

Americans speak of threats from foreign nations, and ideas and theories ‘alien to our democratic type of government. But I think ‘the greatest thing we have to fear is the atti tude of the people of the United States themManagement condemns labor for their de mands, not realizing they are often just as unreasonable in their attitude toward labor, Labor, on the other hand, continues to demand more and more of management. Such ‘practices as ‘“feather-bedding” for instance,

| placing fireman on diesel trains—are excellent

reasons for management, and the section of the public aware of it, to be angry. Labor and management must begin to see a little more eye to eye. People in positions of power must begin to live up to their responsibilities, and stop manipulating others’ lives and property for their own benefit. A country that is such a hotbed of conflict in itself cannot.

‘Great Public Benefit’ By Dr. Chas. F. Bernheisel, 323 8. Grand Ave, As a reader of The Times I: want to express my gratitude for publishing the series of articles by Carl Henn on alcoholics, The articles have been a powerful attack on the liquor interests and a fine Christian testimony to the general public. I hope that they have convinced some, at least, of the liquor people of the destructive effect on human character of the habit of drinking alcoholic beverages and at the same time have given a great hope to drinkers that there is a way out of the slavery of drunkenness into a life of victory and freedom. I am sure the articles have done a great deal of good and I hope that Mr. Henn may be persuaded to prepare another series. You are doing a great public benefit in exposing crime in high places and low and I hope that your efforts will stir the officials up to permanent and continued efforts to clean up the dens of iniquity and make our fair city a pleasant and safe place in which to live,

‘Praise for Mrs. Roosevelt’ By Stephen R. Van Raalte, 3820 N, Dearborn St, sAfter reading the “Hoosier Forum” for years _and noticing various articles, pro and con, it

. has always seemed very strange to me that no-

body ever speaks some words of praise and

“gratitude for the writings in the -column, My

-Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. . This one woman has spent so much of her valuable time and hard-earned money in the interests” of the working man and has tried to keep him well informed.

‘Pedestrian Has Right-of-Way’

By Charles Knight, 2178 Gent Ave. One of the things most needed in Indianapolis is a more unselfish attitude among the motorists, We need a plan that will make the motorists aware of the natural law that the pedestrian has the right-of-way at all intersections where there is no traffic control lights or signals. It would also be a help if motorists could be made to realize that the nervous hurry and scurry to get somewhere is very dangerous.

What Others Say

IN ITS present powerless and defenseless position, Europe will always be a danger to the world. The European Council must become a European Parliament that holds real power and leadership. — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Western Germany. : = aba I HAVE no reservations or doubts concern= ing the loyalty of officials at the top level in the State Department. If I had, I would not now

associate myself with them.—John Foster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to State Depart ment. : . > D>

I SHALL present my views to the administration as objectively and independently as I can, and in the spirit of what I shall conceive to be the sole interest of this country.—Former Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R. Ky.) recently appoint ed U. S. ambassador-at-large. od Sb * IF WE accept such glittering panaceas as the belief that a world organization capable of preventing war can now be created, we are pre paring the way for our own destruction.—Cole

NO. person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the information required.—President Truman, on 1950 census.

FREEDOM CRUSADE . . . By Bruce Biossat

= =| Truth =| rut : - WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—Communist Czechoslovakia has ordered the United States Information Service closed down in that country. It's another demonstration of how embarrassing the truth is to the Soviet Union and her satellites. In nie case, the Czechs declared our information officers spread “untrue reports inciting the public agains ’ democratic order.” P Bainst the penis charged that Joseph Kolarek,

Embarrassing

They also soned statesmen believe that

man George A. Smathers of Florida's Fourth District. What gives this mortal combat a special fillip of irony is that Rep. Smathers was once Pepper's protege and pupil of the special Pepper technique of spellbinding. . - » cans RIEORES from. Klorida..ins .. dicate that the pupil now excels the master. Rep. Smathers is leaning heavily on charges he repeats in speeches day after day that Sen. Pepper is a Red and a friend of Communists. Observers-—-hesitate to guess the outcome. The belief here is that Sen. Pepper's fate turns on the size of the Negro vote. If as many as 85.000 Negroes are registered and go to the polls, most of them, it is thought, will vote for Sen. Pepper and supply the margin essential to win: There is an irony in this, too, inasmuch as Sen. Pepper has been trying hard to disclaim the Truman civil rights program which Rep. Smathers wants to tie around his neck. The Negro vote would presumably go to Mr. Pepper on his Fair Deal voting recora and because he is less hostile io equal rights than his opponent. } » ~ . THE campaign has moved into a brass knuckles and long knives phase exceptional even for the fervor of a Southern political battle. The Smathers camp is circulating widely a’ pamphlet entitled “The Red Record of Sen. Claude Pepper.” On the red, white and biack cover is a news photograph of Sen. Pepper that makes him ° look NMke a cross between a startled alligator and patent medicine salesman. - Spread across twa pages is the reproduction of a photograph of Mr. Pepper yith Paul Robeson, Ne- _. gro 8 r who has been one

Communist Party and Soviet Russia. Another photograph shows Henry Wallace with his arm around Mr. Pepper. . » - WHAT gives this pamphlet special interest is the announcement -on the title page that reads, “Compiled and pub-

~lished-by--Bloyd (heed: ats wgf torney (former special agent,

Federal Bureau of Investigation).” Sen. Pepper's backers in Florida are indignant at what

they say is a clear implication

that the FBI has a file on Sen. Pepper and that these

documents came out of the file.

The FBI here says that no such file exists. Mr. Leemis went with the bureau in 1942, was assigned to the Miami office with headquarters in Jacksonville in 1943 and resigned a year ago. The pamphlet points out that all the documents are a matter of public record. But the compilation was obviously done by someone thoroughly familiar with Mr. Pepper's record, since many of the photostats are from obscure and dreary left-wing publications that no ordinary person would know about or be able to locate. LJ ». - MOST of this record is from the years after the war when Mr. Pepper was bitten with the presidential bug and was being

courted by left-wing groups. :

These groups found that he could almost always be counted on for Madison Square Garden

rallies where salvos of cheers

and applause, carefully engi-

neered. greeted the Senator

from Florida. Part of the record is the out-

growth of Mr. Pepper's wartime efforts for Russian war

relief; efforts backed by a pumber of highly respectable citizens who could never be ac-

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COPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. "What right has Mr. Morton to try to kiss me? I'm Mr. Grant's - secretary!”

cused of being Red or proCommunist. . The campaign in Alabama is not so spectacular, but it is none the less important. Sen. Lister Hill {8 expected to win easily over his opponent, a Birmingham real estate man named Lawrence McNeil, a newcomer to politics. » » = THE real: struggle is over election of the State Democratic Executive Committee.

Seventy-two members in all are to be elected. The Dixiecrat organization, with the “backing of powerful financial interests both North and South, is seeking to control the committee. Both Mr. Hill and Alabama's other Senator, John Sparkman; are campaigning hard to foil the Dixiecrats. Sen. Hill

INC. T. M. REG. Uh §. PAT. OFF.

used the argument that, to de- - feat Civil Rights legislation, it is essential to stay in the Democratic Party. Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (Republican) of New Jersey promptly picked this up and made excellent propaganda of it in challenging the Democrats on the sincerity of their desire to enact civil rights legislation.

. » ” IF THE Dixiecrats are defeated in Alabama, there are many who ‘believe it will be a blow that will frustrate the organization generally in , the South. § : On the other hand if they win, it will be the signal for a renewed organization drive in every Southern state. At stake

are Southern electors who in ''52 might

throw sufficient votes to a Republican to decide

_ the election.

‘sort of faith.

U. 8. embassy press attache

““who operates the service, has directed espionage against.

Czechoslovakia. Ld ~ ” “THE Reds have gone farther. The A American correspondents in Czechoslovakia al-’

se Te2dy had been expelled, and _ now the native Czechs filling in for them have notified press

associations they will not be able to send out any more news. . . 8o the flow of facts both in

“and out-of “the country is to

be largely cut off. This development shouldn't shock

anybody who watches Stalin

and his pawns in operation. But maybe it will add fuel to an idea that's been getting increased attention in recent months. nC . » = » i. THE idea is that we ought to step up our psychological warfare against the Communists until it becomes a harddriving, relentless campaign that will make powerful impact not only upon them but upon our freedom-loving friends everywhere on the globe. . Being wholly without morals, the Reds have been able always to pour great vigor into their worldwide scheme to poison the minds of people with untruths and distortions. They've had the advantage that goes with fanatical de-

" votion to a cause.

= » Ed DEMOCRACY is a different It seems to inspire the crusading spirit only when ft is in serious danger. So the free nations haven't matched the all-pervading effort of Russia and her hoopjumping partners. Yet some of our molt sea-

we are indeed in the sort of

“peril” that” should Tead Us into’ a crusade. And they want us -

. to make our cause as militant as communism, if not more so. They want us to push the truth into every corner of the earth where it can possibly

Alter, And they think this.

should be done’ regardless of

“the towering obstacles we cone

front in many areas. . ~ » ” THE plan makes sense.

great The cold war cannot

“be fought and won “solely on ~

the fronts of economic recove ery and military preparedness, This is a contest of words, and words flow from Moscow and its way stations in a never-ending torrent. It's time we engaged the Russians full scale in the propaganda arena. To do the job means more money for our information services like the Voice of America, but there is

no help for that. Just as there |

is no help for the fact that we must spend upwards of $13 billion for defense in a peacetime year.

The antidote for Russian venom is truth. If we blanket the free earth with it, Moscow will find .it harder and harder to dam it back from the lands it controls.

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