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Right, Mr. Fulbright RESIDENT TRUMAN wants to move the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC) into the Department of Commerce, ! He proposes to do that by a reorganization plan which | now before Congress. He says the move is an essential art of his program for aiding small business. > Other parts of that program would broaden the RFCs “relax its ¢ al requirements; increase ; ‘maximum time for repayment of business loans from to 15. Democratic Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas now urges ‘Conto veto the President's reorganization plan. And he tes excellent reasons why it should be rejected.
£ oa. yo” » FOR ONE thing, it is directly counter to the Hoover n's recommendation—that the RFC be placed the Treasury Department. For another, there is, as Sen. Fulbright says, a grave - on whether the RFC should continue to exist anyin the government. The Senator asserts that Mr. Truman's proposal for er, longer term RFC loans to small business is really 8 proposal for subsidies, and should be frankly recognized ds such. 4. On this subject, Sen. Fulbright speaks with high guthority. He has been doing a magnificent job of investiatime REC lending practices.
THE $37, 500; 000 Lustron loan, for example. And the 9,000 loss on a loan to a potted-cactus company whose valued by an RFC appraiser at $98,000, turned Toh to be worth only $4514. And the $20,000 loan to the 0 of -a-combination restaurant and snake farm, o ‘Snakes died while he was arguing with the governat aba bow to build a new house for them. And others, s and odorous. Sen. Fulbright's findings certainly do not justify conce that broader RFC lending authority, under the
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T 4 i ONE OF THE RFC's directors, Harvey J. Gunderson, Bas just told Congress that government lending is not the r to the problems of small business. The RFC, he already has “about the most liberal lending policy $ is possible . . » go any further, and the loans will cease be loans.” ~The real way for .the government to help small busiin, M added, is through revision of the tax and inv investment, of more private
sense. "And so does Sen. Fulbright's call
mmittee completes its work and submits carefully recommendations as to what role, if any, this government lending agency should play in the future.
: ! ; Wallaceism in Britain RIME MINISTER ATTLEE has disclaimed the British Labor Party's manifesto on foreign policy as a statesent of Labor government policy. i The Labor Party rejected all proposals for closer Euroeconomic unity until the countries concerned have socialism. But the Labor government, Mr. Attlee the House of Commons, stands ready to co-operate toward economic integration “with other governments that fold different economic views.” : This reveals an unusual situation within the British nt itself, for Hugh Dalton, who made public the Sabor Pérty’s manifesto, is a member of Mr. Attlee's cabinet. »
: A SOMEWHAT similar situation oviioned in the United States when Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Commerce, advocated a foreign policy position directly concting with that of Secretary of State Byrnes. + President Truman ended that family row by demanding 4nd accepting Mr. Wallace's resignation. Premier Attlee, However, is in a more difficult position, since Mr. Dalton presumably spoke, not merely for himself, but for the Labor Party. And there is a strong possibility that the Labor Party has started Something the Labor government can’t stop. + The party's « manifesto was based on opposition to French Premier Schuman’s plan for a European steel-coal pool. The Communists, who are represented in most conti-
_flental Bisopesn parliaments, also oppose that 2.00 ‘ " »
BRITISH Socialists have followed yp the manifesto By calling for a convention to organize a united front against the Schuman plan. This, if formed, seems almost certain fo result in a Communist-Socialist coalition, on that particylar issue, in France and possibly in certain other countries. ! The French government would then find small comfort in Mr. Attlee's expressed willingness to cooperate with “governments that hold different economic views.” ¢ The British Labor Party, which has denied any intenon of forming a third force as a bridge between right and left, may have done just that by calling on the Socialists gf Europe to unite against the Schuman plan.
Ride "Em, Kansas City O much has been written, and so much more sung, about = the up-to-dateness of Kansas City that it is hardly surprising to find that lively metropolis of the Midwest whoop—4hg and capering as it rounds out a neat 100 years of * The 1849 gold rush, which passed that way, left no doubt in the minds of 700 pioneer settlers on the mudbanks the Missouri and the Kaw that they were nursing a town destiny, and sure enough they were. : A year later they incorporated, oddly retaining the ‘fame of Kansas though they were. in Missouri, and from that year onward Kansas City's history has been vibrant A often spectacular, B We salute Kansas City as it gallops past its 100th into its second century, proud of its eventful past mir Over With soufijence fot the future.
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a-year director, an auditor, a publicity man, two secretaries and ‘a messenger. Headquarters is in the first floor
tRFC in its present status until his investi. 5 The Guard now claims a membership of about
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AMERICAN GUARD
By Peter Edson
Voting at A Increased
(Second of Series) ANDERSON, June 16 — When the organizers of the Anderson American Guard decided to launch their good government movement to clean up local political conditions, they nh the cost of educating the voters and g public interest would be about one dha E Jer ea head. Madison County has a popula-
meant a budget of.
tion. of 100.000. That. "$100,000 About ‘a 15-month a Gatober, 1949 to December, 1950. This would carry them through the May, 1950 primary and the November election, Actually, young C. O. operated on something less than that. He estimates costs will be about $75,000. Most of this has gone for printing, newspaper advertising and radio time.
the Guard's executive director,
(Chuck) Harbaugh, says it has
The Guard's staff, in addition to the $12,000-,
includes a research director
of a big old frame house a few blocks off Main Bt. It has a neon sign to make clear its location and its open operations.
2500 Family Units,
THE dues were put at $5 per family unit.
4000 in about 2500 family units, That means about $12,500 from memberships. The Guard decided it would take no money from corporations or business firms, But several individuals
- have contributed $1000 apiece, others $500, $200,
$100, $50, $20, $10. It was decided to organize from the bottom up, instead of from the top down. There are 65 precincts in the 14 townships of Madison County. The average precinct had about 600 to 800 voters. In a few rural areas, the township was the precinct. In the city the precincts took in 10 to 20 city blocks. The organization was never carried down to the ‘block level, though that is planned for the November election. But there were neighborhood organizations, with one Democrat and one Republican in charge of every unit. And for every precinct there were Democratic and Republican co-captains. In 11 of the rural precincts, there were dirt farmer captains. But in the city i. was the, women. who did a lot of work. They held meetings at 9 o'clock in the morning, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 8 o'clock at night-—in schools,
Memo to Congress:
The Army tore down a camp in Alaska which cost $16 million. It shipped the lumber to Seattle where the Department of Interior took it and shipped it back to an Alaskan point 10 miles from where it was originally. : Bo More" integration of public servites be-
tween bureaus would prevent duplicating operations and save the taxpayers money.
SIDE GLANCES
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churches, private homes, over the back fence. meetings were open. The big job was educational, and it was aimed at the May primary. What were the officers to be elected—what did they do? What were their salaries? Flow long were they elected for? What did a Congressman do, a circuit judge, the prosecuting attorney, the state legislators, the county clerk, recorder and Sonia THioners the trustees. peace, constable? Next, who were the candidates? Their names,
their records?
Voters’ Manual
HERE the American Guard decided to publish a “Voters' Manual’ It is a 56-page pamphlét. I'm told that when the Guard took the copy for this manual to one Indianapolis print shop, UAW-CIO headquarters in Detroit called up- the printer and told him if he took the: job, he would never get any more union business. He passed it up. But another union shop took it, and the booklet came out with a union label. Some of the candidates refused to submit ileal data for the Voters’ Manual. Of 40 candidates who failed to make such response after three invitations, only six were elected. One other statistic offered is that of 18 candidates indorsed by the CIO-PAC—15 Demoerats and three Republicans—six were nominated and 12 were defeated. : The CIO union papers blasted the American Guard at every chance. Shop and local union
newspapers criticized the Guard and radio time .
was taken to critigize it. The Guard claimed it indorsed no candiThere may have been But the effort was made
dates of either party. some cheating on this.
to keep the whole campaign bi-partisan.
The information collected by the Guard was turned over to educational leaders, meeting directors, telephone assistants ard correspondents appointed for each of the precincts and smaller units. °
Heavy Vote
THE result of all this awakening of public interest spoke for itself in the primary election last May. Fifty-six per cent of Madison County's elegible voters went to the polls. This was higher than any of Indiana's 92 counties. In the 1948 primary the turn-out in Madison County was only 33 per cent of the voters. The Anderson American Guard is now preparing to do a similar educational job for the November election. One of the major efforts here will be to set up voting machines and dummy machines and teach the voters how to split a ticket. The idea is to get the voters to vote for the best candidate, regardless of party.
What Others Say—
WE are quite optimistic that we will find better co-operation from the Germans than we found: after the last war.—~Maj-Gen. J. P. Hodges, American chairman of the Western Allied Security Board.
ON the informational front, we have fought lying propaganda of the Communists . . . with the truth and nothing but the truth. ECA Administrator, Paul Hoffman.
‘NO CONFLICT’
WASHINGTON,
accord with instructions from President Truman to consider only evidence furnished by the FBI. Mr. Richardson said he respected congressional commit
“superhuman. work.” .. said the rule that loyalty ~ board evidence was to come only from the FBI had been laid down to prevent the filing of complaints by; “every Tom, Dick and Harry” who might have a. personal grudge.
MR. RICHARDSON also sald that there was no conflict between NewYork federal grand jury action in indicting Mr. Remington for perjury and the loyalty board's early action in clearing him. He pointed out that the in- . dietment “was based upon evidence he was a member of the _ Communist Party in the late
a 1830's and thereforg that his
fade statement to the contrary to SOP. 1990 OY 0 SESH, ALIN 6. MEd - ' the grand jury was false. "Certainly she's boy crazy, and | was the same way at her age. te ald ye Richardson, a stat bow | fappenad:to marry youl fore a 4
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No Bo eed Movement for Jacobs
WASHINGTON, June 16—Dear Boss—There
is no united front in the Indiana Democratic congressional delegation for their freshman colleague, Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, for the U. 8. Senatorial nomination, When Mr. Jacobs enters the arena against Alex Campbell, Ft. Wayne, at the Democratic
State Convention in Indianapolis June 27, at be “neutral”
“least two of his fellow congressmen Will "¢heering on the Campbell side, . One is the dean of the Congressional Democrats, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary, who has been named permanent convention chairman. His first district delegation is frankly Campbell-
' for-Senator.
.- A fellow freshman who cannot support Mr. Jacobs is Rep, Edward H. Kruse Jr. He comes from Ft. Wayne and like the fourth district
boy makes good. That means Mr. Campbell, not former U. 8. Sen. Samuel D. Jackson. Ardent supporters of the Jacobs-for-senator boom-or-bust-are first term Reps. John R. Walsh, Anderson, and James E. Noland, Bloomington. Mr, Walsh arranged for the Marion Ly. t
Mrs. Eva Lou Spencer, Fifth District vice chairman, will preside at the meeting. Dr. T. J. Costello, Anderson, Mr. Walsh tried unsuccessfully to oust, has been invited. He is a McHale man and strong for Mr. Campbell. Frank M. McHale, Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, was the pioneer in backing the Campbell candidacy.
Native of Perry County BECAUSE Mr. Jacobs is a native of Perry County, he is expected to have considerable ‘southern Indiana support. That county is part of the Eighth District which is represented by Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville. Mr, Den-
ACHESON EXPLAINS
WASHINGTON, June 16—Secretary of State
Acheson's explanation at Dallas of why the
United States and its Allies must win the co war was probably the best rounded and most effective of his séries of policy statements to
date. That policy of security through united strength is making headway, But it is obstructed in varying degree by widely different groups. Those include the appeasers, the talk-it-overs, the old isolationists, the new isolation ists and the preventive-warmongers. The real appeasers in this country—apart from Reds and fellow-travelers—are probably a very small group. Until a year or so ago that group was large enough to have some influence. and double-crossing of appeasers in Eastern Europe and the Far East, apparently have convinced most Americans that this is the way to destruction.
_Few Toy With Isolation Idea
THAT also has diminished the group which once thought all would be well if someone only could talk with Stalin. Likewise the old isolationist group has almost disappeared. The idea that what happens abrpad does not concern us, our prosperity, our freedom and our survival has been disproved so ¢ompletely by two world wars and this postwag period that few toy with such a delusion anymore. A new isolationism has taken its place. This admits our security stake abroad. It admits that Russia is now a direct threat to us. It even proposes that, after public warning, we fight Russia when and if she is guilty of another major aggression abroad. But it would
. By Charles Lucey
district ‘chairman,- whom"
But Stalin's continued aggression,
> ation: is dedicated to seeing that a home Paign:
ton may be a little lukewarm, however, as Mr. Jacobs backed Willlam KE. Steckler for federal judge when Mr, Denton was a candidate for the appointment. Mr. Steckler is now the judge, but he also was supported by Mr. McHale. Mr. Jacobs’ chances of getting the nomination admittedly depend greatly on how much
help Gov. Henry F. Schricker supplies from his
atthe Statehouse. +e pitch in with all of the vigor of his Republican prédecessor, Gov. Ralph Gates, it might be that Mr. Jacobs can win handily,
Active for Jacobs
‘SUCH STATEHOUSE men as Hugh Vandiver, member of the State Probation Commission, and Gov. Schricker’s labor commissioner, Thomas Hutson, are active in the Jacobs cam--But-because-of his personal approach-to-Taft-Hartley and union democracy, there is no
union labor unity behind Mr. Jacobs.
Labor leaders, like some Democratic ones, feel that if Jacobs becomes Senator Jacobs he will follow a Jacobs policy and
not that of the Democrats or unioneers as such, independent voters may be attracted to him
for this very reasor. Should he win, it could mean resumption of the Capehart-Jacobs debates throughout the state. That is what Mr. Jacobs intends, and Sen. Homer Capehart, who will be the Republican nominee, is on record as favoring the idea. When Mr. Jacobs asked for a return engagement on the stump last winter, Senator Capehart said he would only debate again if Mr, Jacobs is the Democratic senatorial nominee. “I read that in the papers,” Mr. Jacobs said. “Senator Capehart was sending mo a letter regarding the matter. I never got it, but maybe it got lost in the shuffie with such heavy stuff as “The Story of Homer Capehart.” which he is sending broadcast” throughout Indiana with his franking privilege”
By Ludwell Denny
Why We Must Win Cold War
rely in such a war almost solely on American military strength, especially on planes and atom bombs. Instead of helping to arm our allies, it would create sufficient force here for world defense.
Foreign Bases Essential
THIS is plausible to the extent it appeals to the we-can-lick-the-world complex of some Americans, and to the extent it is based on the unreliability of some of our Allles, But it is
-.A dangerous fallacy in fact, because: We alone
could not create a large enough force.” If we tried, it would bankrupt us—and Stalin might win without firing a shot. Foreign bases are essential, and can be retained only by arming our Allies now. The reliability and morale of our Allies depends on helping them to defend themselves. At the other extreme are some Americans who favor a preventive war—“fight now ard get It over with.” This ignores many factors:
"We are not ready militarily. Most Americans
and Allies ‘would not support such a war. Moreover, a shooting war may not be necessary and is not inevitable. The purpose of present American policy is to prevent war, if possible, to win it if it is forced upon us. In the past bullies and aggressors usually have not risked war when they
- knew their intended victims were stronger.
Hope Rests in Strength
THE only war prevention now, and the only
"hope of enforceable peace by negotiation, rests
“loyalty board, committee officials.
in the capacity of the Allied democracies, under American economic and military leadership, to
achieve and maintain that superior strength.’
Anything that slows down that. preparedness imperils America and freedom everywhere,
President's Loyalty Board and FBI Testimony
June. 16—The President's Loyalty Review Board which cleared William Remington, $10,000-a-year govern-
according to
t r But, Mr. he editors of the newspaper,
the professors, that these fel-
tees and that some had done - But he
ment economist now indicted for allegedly lying about his Communist membership acted without studying all the testimony developed In this case by a Senate committee. The board chairman, Seth W. Richardson, said this was in
whether the employee is found
“presently disloyal.” Mr. Richardson said that whether Mr. Remington was a Communist in the 1930's not only was not disclosed in the “record submitted to the loyal-
ty board, but even If disclosed
would not necessarily have had “controlling weight” in-the board's decision in Fevruary, 1949.
MR: RICHARDSON also denied that Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer's request for Mr. Remington's resignation was a “flouting of the loyalty program and evinces lack of confidence in such a program.” He said the board was concerned with loyalty and had nothing to do with matters of “fitness, security or suitability.” _ The testimony of Robbins Wolcott Barstow Jr. fellowstudent of Mr. Remington at
Dartmouth, which was taken EE Sp: committee
investigating commit & Ll Sony Homer
Richardson sald he never saw it and thought other panel members who studied the Remington case had not seen it. 2 ~ ” MR. BARSTOW told - the committee in testimony taken Aug. 7, 1948, that Mr. Remington “was openly and admittedly at. college a Communist.” He said he remembered talk-
“ing with Mr. Remington in his
room and that “he presented the ideas of communism and told me why he believed in communism. “I remember questioning him about ‘Russia and he said that he feit Russia had demonstrated the success of communism,” Mr. Barstow testifled. -
” » MR. BARSTOW, who told the committee he had studied for the ministry at Hartford Seminary after
lows were Communists, and we took it for granted and we respected them for the attitude at the time and just made good discussion and argu ment.” ¢
IN A letter Sritten to Sen. Irving M. Ives (R. N. Y.) prior ‘the hearing, Mr. Barstow said: “As I told you, I don't know If BI 15 stil a Communist
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