Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1950 — Page 16
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| No short-Cuts to Peace SCIENTIST ALBERT EINSTEIN, Novelist Lovia Bromfield and 14 other men of science and letters accuse the United States of paying lip service to disarmament while actually discouraging such a step. dis
“Officially pointed —opressutatives of the United States tell the world that the United States wants disarmament and only Russia stands in the way,” they say. “Yet other American officials do what they can to discourage disarmame: Quite true, and quite properly go. There is no 'sleineiit of bad faith or inconsistency in that. So long as Russia ' stands in the ‘of disarmament there can be none: Disarmament would release vast wealth and energy which could be devoted to productive pursuits. That would be welcomed by all men of good will. But in the midst of a crifde wave no one suggests abolishing police departments. as
FORMAL" disarmament would play * directly into Moscow's hands, for armed mobs under Russian fifthcolumn instigation could overthrow unarmed governments much more easily than the Red Army could accomplish " the same thing through the formalities of war, and without * the attendant risks to Russia. Most of the Soviet conquests since 1045 have been accomplished by assassinations, intimidation and the revolutionary techniques of the Communist fifth column, without actual use of Russian troops. * Most of the peace-loving nations of Western Europe let wishful thinking lead them into unpreparedness between the two great wars, As a ‘Tesult, they were easy victims © of Hitler's armored legions, Dr. Einstein and Mr. Bromfield both" Tived' in Europe - during the period of this fool's paradise and should have ; ‘profited by that experience.” “Apparently” they did rot."
Saving an Issue
AN OLD controversy between members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the board's independent general counsel, Robert N. Denham, is in the \ Mr. Denham refuses to bring charges against em- * ployers in the building industry who grant .union shops without Taft-Hartley Act elections. The act prohibits the closed shop, in ‘which none but _tinjon members may be hired. It permits the union shop; - in which’ non-union members may be hired but must become members within 30 days, if a majority of the - employees affected vote for it in a NLRB election. ‘Mr. Denham contends that . constant shifting of workers from job to job in the building trades makes the holding of such elections iupractieal,
CHAIRMAN HERZOG and other NLRB members maintain that the law should be enforced as written, with no exception for the building industry. This controversy, and many others concerning the Taft-Hartley Act, could have been disposed of long ago if President Truman and his supporters among unjon leaders had been willing. - Last June 30 the Senate voted, 51 to 42, for a large number of Taft-Hartley Act amendments. They were proposed by Sen. Taft, himself, to meet specific criticisms
of the act. Hoe.
FOR almost a year thon amenduients Pave gathered dust in a House Labor Committee pigeonhole, kept there by Mr. “Truman's influence. The House, which doubtless would have passed them, has never ‘been given a chance to vote on them. Why? Because Mr. Truman and the union leaders don’t want rensible modification of the Taft-Hartley Act. They want to keep that law intact on the hooks as apolitical issue.
Recognizing Red China WHEN IT became apparent that the Chinese Reds might possibly be something more than simple agrarian * reformers, our wishful thinkers in the State Department took off on a new approach to recognition. They speculated that Chinese communism was really Titoism—that we ought to give it a big hand and maybe some day it would be a powerful movement defiant of ‘Moscow; and of course an implacable foe of the Nationalist government which we had written off. r Even after Mao Tse-tung, ‘the Chinese Red boss, left for Moscow to sign up. as a full-scale puppet, Secretary . of State Acheson was predicting “the Chinese people” " would rise in wrath and drive out the Russians because _they were annexing four northern Chinese areas. Theory — was we ought ‘to be patient, if not nice to the hoped-for Chinese Tito regime.
” > Load » IT DEVELOPS that the Peking Red government has supplied a convincing answer. Eight months ago Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav government offer@ to recognize the Peking ~ regime, hailing it as “an independent China.” wenn. dn. veply, Peking launched a series of attacks on Tito, reaffirmed its strong loyalty to the Soviet Union and now, as a clincher, has let it be known that the Yugoslav recognition bid has been flatly rejected. : Tito thus has been put in the same category with
smunists last January-—and has suffered the acute embarrassment of being ignored ever since.
~ SINCE it is evident that we are dealing with no Tito in Peking, we ought riot to let down our guard for even a moment in the fight to keep Red China out of the United Nations. Last week there were indications that France might ~ switch her vote to favor admitting the Chinese Communists. : We hope France will vot listen ©. the Handishments of United Nations Seiretury. General Trygve Lie, ‘Whose
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‘The big question in the mind of Dr. Robert F. Bacher, former member of the U. 8. Atomic n one of the world's ‘best informed scientists on atomic energy, in
| whether the hydrogen bomb will add anything
to the military potential of the United States it already might.-be. with asisable
Dr. Bacher thinks that .the nation must great and the radius of flash burn effects 20 give sareiul sitention to this subject because times as great, concen on the production of hydrogen It seems that the hydrogen bomb could bombs will mean the production of less fis- no more destruction than 25 n bomb could do : ‘slonable material that might go into atomic perhaps po more than 10 bombs. "Moreover, bombs_or_nuclear. a von have -no-mile poses, : i Spe itary value. a DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Minton to Face Fall Sessio n
Hoosier Justice Adds New . ~ Honor fo Long List WASHINGTON, June 14—Dear Boss: When Dr. Sherman Minton, New Albany, Ind, returns to the bench of the United States Supreme Court this fall, he will face as’ busy a session as the one which terminated with considerable fire-
works on June 5: That title, “Doctor,” was added to Associate
he I IY an Ty EE of Toes degree from his alma mater—Indiana University, His law education included also a Yale scholarship won at IU. His political education embraced a term in the United States Senate, where he was a seatmate of President Harry Truman. y Before leaving for his Hoosier home on a high. hill overldoking the Ohio River, Justice Minton went to the White House to bid the President good-bye. He could have told him that, As the last appointee to what now is called the * court,” he (Minton) really turned ina oe, quantitative performance. He led all the nine justices in the number of opinions, although the freshman on the court.
Some Challenged
THE QUALITY of some of them was sharply
_ challenged by Associate Justice Felix Frank-
furter, former Harvard Law School dean who contributed so Many smart, some say smart aleck, young men to the dynamic days of the New Deal, - As a Senator, Justice:Minton was New Deal whip. After serving on the U. 8. Court of Appeals at Chicago by appointment of the late ‘President Roosevelt, he came to the high court,
future
Nash mt would che be 10 fr ee as
a ot 8 i rior should be made behind closed doors. The sepend upon how his decieion, ‘may depend upon decision, made ang oaeried ow. j
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through the Truman appointment, completely : iE
“THE Judge wrid no longer an advocate: On the final day of his first term of court, Justice Minton joined his colleagues in a series of civil rights opinions which held: That separation of races on railroad dining cars violates the Interstate Commerce Act, that staté university postgraduate and professional schools'muet admit Negro students unless really equal educational facilities are available, and that Negroes, once admitted, must be treated equally with white students. The court refused a writ of certiorari to those Hollywood writers who refused to tell Congress whether they are Communists and they went packing off to prison. It gave the tidelands oll-to oll to Uncle. Sam.dn.. cases from Louisiana and ay with Justice Minton giving a minority opinion on the latter's state rights because Texas joined the Union as a sovereign nation and not a territory which became a state, : Earlier in the term, the court had refus to intervene in Georgia's unit election system and the contempt-of-Congress convictions of Communist Party Secretary Eugene Dennis and others who had tangled with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. It had affirmed the $1,420,000 fine against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for contempt of court in the 1948 coal strike. Picketing, wiretapping and search without warrants were other matters the high court dealt with in what some lawyers consider a novel manner,
Loyalty Finding Next
BUILDING A TESTED body of law on how the government can protect itself from subversive infiltration and not violate the personal rights guaranteed by the Constitution will be certain to take considerable time of the justices when they mount the bench for the 1950-51 term. F Three appeals involving such matters already have been accepted for argument. They are Dorothy Balley's attack on Federal Loyalty Board orders dismissing her from a government job, and the joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and the National Council for AmericanSoviet: Friendship. fight against the attorney general's “subversive list.”
Did President Truman have constitutional
and statutory authority to issue an executive order setting up the loyalty program and its review board system? Did the President and the attorney general have power to compile a list of’ “subversive” organizations? That black list was compiled when Tom Clark of Texas was attorney general. He is now an associate justice of the Supreme Court. He
will not rule in the matter, but Justice Minton
will.
SIDE GLANCES -
«Britainy-who offered recognition tothe Chinese Come msgid b.
How is isgit you charge me $200 for an inlay, but when you take "it out you say the gold | is worth nothing?"
WASHINGTON, June 14—That "pride and joy of Messrs, Truman and Brannan, the Brannan farm plan, has become an issue in— of all places—a Republican primary. . The locale is North Dakota. There Sen. William E. Langer's Nonpartison League faction of the Republican Party has a full slate of candidates running in the June 27 primary in support of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan's controversial ‘farm program. Among the objectives of the Langer faction is the defeat in the primary of North Dakota's other Republican = Senator, Milton R. Young. Sen. Young belongs to the anti-Langer faction in the Republican Party, the Republican tsar izing Committee.
Young Takes Middle Position
BEN. YOUNG'S position is between the Brannan plan and the flexible price support program urged by the American Farm Bureay. Federation. He favors some parts of the Brann plan and opposes others. He supports high, rigid farm price floors, His opponent, T. H. H. Thoresen of the Nonpartisan League, has indorsed the Brannan. plan, If Sen. Young wins, he will face the Brannan’ plan again as an issue in the November election. For the North Dakota Democratic Party has indorsed the Brannan plan in its platform and the Farmers Union is virtually running the Democratic side of affairs, The Farmers Union is the only one of the three major farm organizations to support the Brannan plan. The Democratic Senate nominee will be Harry O’Brien, a state senator and newspaperman.
Tells Senate About It
SEN. HARRY LANGER was so pleased
with the Nonpartisan League's support of the Brannan plan that he took the Senate floor to tell his colleagues about it. “ “I am happy to announce to the Senate,” he said, “that I have been informed that every s.
By Galbraith
This time it is the basing point bill which Mr. Truman must sign or veto. It involves a kind of economics so complicated that it has been almost entirely ignored in the ress,
; THE measure, passed by the Senate by a vote of 43 to 27, permits manufacturers to
the freight charges from a
"in which the major part of the industry is concentrated. Thus, all buyers must'pay ‘the same price whether they are 2000 miles away or right next door to the factory. Those in favor.of legalizing the basing point/ system say that all the hill does is approve a practice already wide2 Spread in indus , and_thereby it .ends' legal and other confusions. Most’ ® respectable and seemingly disinterested propénent of the bill is Sen. ~Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D.
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TO VETO OR NOT . a : Basing Point Repealer Puts Truman on Spot
as fy "This Because it egrat Bechite Jt dlskiniegrates with to half as much in years.
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candidate intlorsed by. the Nonpartisan League on the Republican ticket is actively supporting the Brannan plan.”
Sen, Langer, who will not be a candidate for re-election until 1952, is speaking for Nonpartisan League, candidates. He is filling speaking engagements for the faction’s
governor candidate, Frank A. Vogel, who is ill. |
Anti-Langer forces say the North Dakota senior Senator is active because he fears he will be defeated in 1952 unless the Nonpartisan slate gets control of the state government.
Legislature Split
GOV. FRED G. AANDAHL, head of the anti-Langer faction, is running for Congress and is believed almost certain to oppose Sen. Langer in 1952. Mr. Aandahl has been governor for six years. Control of the North Dakota legislature has been split,'the Aandahl forces controlling the Senate and the Langer forces the House. Only five Democrats are in the North Dakota legislature of 162 members. : Winning the Republican U. 8. Senate nomination has been the same’ as election in North Dakota, with but one recent exception. That was in 1944 when Democratic. Governor John Moses defeated Sen. Gerald Nye. Mr. Moses died shortly after he took office and Gov. Aandahl appointed Sen. Young, who was elected in 1946 to fill out the unexpired term.
Memo to Congress: The Post Office Department operates with the same general organization it used 114 years ago, in 1836. oh The Hoover Commission Report recommends a reorganization plan that would place the postal 4 service on, a business-like basis. :
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“we “ever knew.
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. By Marquis Childs
medical science to withhold from man any would contribute to his physical well being. We have among us many who Samp all movements for the well being of man as related to his economic, financial and political position as istic and sometimes communistic. Sociology and history are closely allied with science and economics. Man's rise through
dom has been aided tremendously by science
' and economics. Freedom, science and eco-
nomics are so closely: entwined that none can work successfully without the others, This can be proved by history. Galileo, Socrates and many others were put to death because of their advanced ideas which, if enjoyed by the public, would" grant them freedom in certain respects and detract from the power of the theological and political leaders. In our generation the advanced ideas of Franklin D. Roosevelt are constantly being assailed just as have advanced ideas of all ages, which make great changes in the lives of great numbers of people. It's perfectly natural for people to have different opinions, If true, the ideas, methods or reforms that ‘are contrary to the ideas, methods or reforms of another class’ will grow ever stronger, until they will be thought good by those who formerly opposed them and be universally adapted in the future just as has happened in the past. The social changes that have been made. by our government will in a few years cease to have opposition and be considered good by: all whether or not they border on socialism. It matters not whether they are Republican, Democratic or Soclalistic, so long as they are
.good for and promote the general welfare of.
She people. 4 We have. a
and is making bigger profits than it ever made. The working people have more homes, more automobiles and are living better than ever before. This is not caused solely by social reforms of the past 20 years, but it could . never have come about without them. Call: them socialistic or what you will, they cannot be anything but good so long as they do good. It's a truth that should be evident to the least
observing that they have done and are doing
‘Senseless Complacency’
H. E. Martz should use his doctrine of preaching “good for evil” on the Communists for a change and see how they take it. It seems that Mr. Martz is one of those blind guides who can see no evil inv communism. My Bible says, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Communism is based on hatred, brutality, oppression and cruelty of the lowest degree. If the Communists and their friends will turn from their evil way and abandon the anti-Christ doctrines of hatred and bloodshed of Karl Marx, the danger of war would cease
at once. It is the Communists that are making " war in China, Korea, Indo-China and all over
the world. Mr. Martz should preach the gospel of peace to ‘the war mongering Communists. Convert them to Christianity and the danger of war will. cease. Don’t try to. dupe our great Christian nation into senseless complacency in the face of the greatest menace to our Christian civilization.
What Others Say—
THE income tax in the hands of reckless and irresponsible bureaucracy is the most deadly danger to the American system of government, and the liberty whieh it is designed to
safeguard.—Rep. Frederic R. Couder Jr. (R¥,™
of New York.
SOMETHING must be done to prevent our holidays . from becoming days of horror dedi-
cated to a shameful waste of human life. — {Ned H. Dearborn, president, National Safety
Council.
ADMITTEDLY the United Nations is an imperfect organization, but so long as this forum remains open, there are cracks in the Iron Curtain through which some of our ideas will penetrate.—Gen. George C. Marshall.
BRITAIN and France must stand together, primarily united in Europe. United they will be strong enough to extend their hands to Germany.—Winston Churchill.
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WASHINGTON, June 14—Once again a struggle is being waged around the White House over an economic issue that casts a much longer shadow than is generally realized. Once more the telegrams and letters are raining down on the Pres"ident who must, when all the memoranda are written and the arguments reviewed, make the final decision. g
gressional career fought the “trusts” ahd the rise of monopoly .concentration and gigantism in finance and industry. On the other side are most of the Democrats who follow
have argued long and with thorough and skilful documentatiod that such a measure would - destroy price competiand shoot the anti-trust
s » ¥ HE opposition takes on an
. interesting geographical col
oration. Senators from the South and West who want to attract industry and end the levy of the freight rates that keeps their states in a semicolonial status lined up against
“bigness” and the theory of -
inevitable concentration in the East. One of the active opponents of the easure was Sen. Russell
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~was-with-respect-to- the
gas “bills in millions of households :
wicked corpogations that were squeezing the poor folk back in the canebrakes. One of the most effective speeches against the basing point. system was made by Sen. Lister Hill (D. Ala.). L » ». SEN. ESTES KEFAUVER (D; Tenn.) also did a thorough job on the opposition side. As in the fight-on the Kort natural gas bill, Sen.
Hubert Humphrey (D. Minn.). The economic issue.on the basing point bill is nothing like as clear and simple as it
bill. The same opposition, with
the exception of many of the Southerners, declared that pas-
in northern Cities,
DURING the period when
the some kind of pulling and’
hauling was going on over the
Kerr bill, the predictions were
- that the President would in
ul Douglas (D. TILY carried" a heavy load, and so did Sen.
, O'Mahoney is for the bill can
This time the advance in‘dications are for a veto, and they could be just ss wrong as in the other instance, The sameé_groups that opposed the Kerr bill are now urging the President to turn down the basing point measure, Among them are the trade unions, farm organizations, and some small business as--sociations. They have thus far succeeded in producing a Nolume of protest much greater than the favorable mail and telegrams, ;
' BUT there fare influential advocates who want Mr. Truman to sign. One of them is
ony, Jd . -~
Sawyer. And the fact that Mr. PARTLY CLO hardly be ignored. . CloupY - That ancient story about the farm hand who did fine at every kind of hard and demanding task until he was put to sorting good potatoes from the bad may apply to the Job of President. “It's the decisions that really get vou down. And the President’s own party is so split that) he can’t ordinarily fall
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