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‘No Rail Strike T WAS obvious that the United States, now of all times, “¢ould not afford a nation-wide railroad strike, such as President Truman has averted by his order to seize the rails. 5 - Economically, a strike of any duration would seriously affect the cost of living for all of us. Militarily, it would sap our strength which no one can say for sure is equal
. to the demands now made or about to be made upon it. Psychologically, a paralysis of the rails would clinch’
the argument of the Russians that our free system is on its last legs and encourage them to believe that one more Communist aggression would topple it. So, President Truman had little choice but to orde the Army to seize and operate the rails for as long as takes to settle the rail dispute.
” r » ” » " ~ THE unions. pay gain a few more pennies or dollars
“in refusing to accept the pay increase offered by A
presidential fact-finding board, and precipitating this step. With an election coming up, Congress and the President will be sensitive to pressure from the rail unions, After all, Congress gave them a retirement plan before it enacted a retirement system for the rest of us.
And we won't be surprised if the Interstate Commerce
“Commission later fixes still higher freight rates and passenger fares, The public will pay and pay-—directly in the higher charges and indirectly in added taxes to
transport government goods and personnel, and the added cost of all merchandise that moves over the rails. There are limits to the use of economic and political power in so vital an industry as railroad transportation. In most countries today the rails are a government monopoly, and union activity is discouraged. In some unhappy lands we can name, a strike call, such as the trainmen and conductors isssued for Monday, would alert a “people's” firing squad. But we can still be thankful that in our free country: the Army can take over the railroads without usihg guns.
Issue Is Foreign Imperialism
A GENIUS for calling things by the wrong name sometirhes seems a major American affliction. We're suckers for slogans.
We cling to an apt phrase long after events have
~ demonstrated its basic fallacy.
Woodrow Wilson said -we fought to make the world safe for democracy. If so, we've been losing steadily for more than 30 years, As a matter of fact, we fought then and since, and are fighting now, to make the U. S.—and incidentally the world-—safe from imperialism. It was the Kaiser's imperialistic aggression which got us*ints tha first world war, Tojo’s and Hitler's which got us into the second.
Until the attack on Belgium, we weren't particularly
concerned with the Kaiser's form of government, one way or the other. Nor did we pay much attention to Tojo's domestic policies, prior to Pearl Harbor. We
detested Hitler's abuse of fellow human beings, but we
dealt with his government as a friendly power until he _
threatened us. Uncle Joe Stalin headéd one of the ° ‘great democracies’ ax recently a8 Potsdam and Yalta. ” . n » ” nr
WHEN N one country is at wat with another,
destruc-
Ht is CREW a fact that ‘variations, or even conflicts in forms of government never started a war yet, nor are. they likely to. Germany under Hitler was even meaner than under the Kaiser, despife radical change in the form of government. , The central fact in both cases, as with Japan at Pearl Harbor gnd with Russ wow: “Been the desire wm r st and the belief in its. probability, «us cpm is perfectly plain that communism is not the primary cause of the present crizis with Russia. frightened. by
If we were mainly eommunism, we never would have
Russians as brothers and allies to the extent of giving them our shirt during and after the last war, * We started quarreling with Rusgia- when she refused
+ to stay inside her own borders, when she offered obvious evidence that she intended to conquer and enslave the.
world including, eventually, us » » » : ~ ~ ” BUT, in the face of all this. saving democracy
we. continue to talk of to our own people which is bad enough, but also to the Asiatic millions who have no political background to kyow ihe difference— In the case of our own people, this outmoded propaganda line emotional eonfusion which helps the Russians. The situation must be much worse in Asia where countless millions live in sich dire poverty that'a whole hide and enough food to stave off bitter hunger are the end and aim of existence, Though these people may not savvy fine ideological distinctions, from generations of experience they understand invasion, conquest, robbery and slavery. So do the
creates
+. Europeans who, even in the traditionally democratic states,
are entangled in Marxian systems little different from theoretical communism itself, ‘Though our political differences from all of these menaced lands runs as far as from white to black, our ‘ situation as to danger from imperialistic identical; and anti-imperialism in this dangerous hour,
should be our watchword
The Russians, who make us appear immature children when it comes to the higher techniques of propaganda, seem to understand all this perfectly, They are telling the Koreans and other Asiatics that
‘the “Wall Street imperialists” want to conquer them | " make them our slaves. . : ue a
OY W HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY w. MANZ President Editor Manager
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joined’ with them to fight Germany, never wonld have treated the —
aggression is.
important to every American—Iis being waged here over the question of cheap money. At stake is the purchasing power of the . dollar-—whether to hold it at or near present levels, or permit it to decline as it has in years past, Opponents in the tussle are the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department. The Federal Reserve Board has just issued what amounts to a declaration of indépendence
from the Treasury. It raised Interest rates fo
tighten the money zupply— thus moving to protect the purchasing power of the dollar, Now the Trehsury for years has favored a ¢heap-money ‘policy so it could handle the na-
get money more easily for its deficit financing. The Federal Reserve Board, despite much
grumbling, always has gone “along with this
policy—up to now, ’ That's what makes the Federal Reserve's
present action so surprising. And it Feflacts.
the hoard's concern over inflation. President Truman at his press conference yesterday decline®®comment on the growing impasse.
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Economy Hopes
Congress Buries Move To Cut U. S. Personnel
g Vanish Again
Reserve oF ET rR
and also
notes within the . next two. months, has expressed his displeasure by saying he wants interest rates on government securities held at their present low levels. Mr. Sny: yder has announced the Treasury will _ offer $13.5 billion in 13-month notes be: the low interest rate of 134 per cent early this fall. Becauge the Federal Reserve cannot permit A Treasury issue to fail, it will provide a market, if necessary, for the Treasury's notes, But its action serves notice on Mr, Snyder that he cannot expect to continue selling government securities at such a cheap interest rate, Involved in all this are the marketable gov‘ernment certificates and notes held ‘hy banks and Insurance companies, not the Beries E, F,
ine 4nd cus inventories and exporting and nng goods, Also, the Federal Reserve has let the market price of short-term government secugities go down. In effect, this (1) gives investors In these securities a higher rate of interest, (2) the amount of
buy.
"Do |, or Do | Not, Get What | Want?"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26--Dear Boss—“Conferees kill threat of heavy U. 8. job cuts,” savs i EN. “a headline "in the “Washingion News. ~ That ~~~
doesn’ t mean defense jobs, will be wholesale cutting of that three-layer payroll cake which is made up of Old DealNew Deal-Fair Deal governmental agencies all piled up on each other.
The News’ government columnist, John
Cramer, justifies the paper's heading with this
—-Qpening-paragraphi—
“The threat of heavy personnel outs Tn the agencies is dead today,
non-military federal killed and “buried yesterday by House-Senate conferees who completed action on the longdelayed one-package appropriation bill.” The bill coming from the committee’ conferences does contain some plan for the administration to save $500 million, but such governmental expense trimming reportedly is frowned upon by President Truman. He supports, however, an even greater Korean War and preparedness tax increase than the Congress is likely to approve. :
A Perfect Pattern
80 IF it is customary for the feet to follow * the head, U. 8. citizens who are operating on a get-all-you-can basis are just “doing what comes naturally.” Washington is providing the perfect pattern. = Perhaps the best spokesman for the administration in such matters is Hoosier-born Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing. Two plans "have heen offered to Congress to mmke his group of agencies into a full Department of Health and Welfare, but both were turned down, The House tossed out the first plan last vear and the Senate the second in this session, Some Senators and Congressmen hiamed both defeats on the fact that Mr. Ewing was slated to become a cabinet official under them. His fight for compulsory health ‘nsurance has —hrought the doctors’ lobby down on him and his anti-segregation speeches the southerners. Naturally, Mr. Ewing takes a dim view of the American Medical Association lobby. But there are some which he does approve and he wants these to keep working for more federal funds war or no war, It was in addressing one of these groups that Mr. Ewing dramatized the fact that the administration has no intention of curbing its domestic program in wartime. A
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Aid to Education
THAT speech was delivered this week before the 33d annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers at Detroit. Boiled down,
he advised them to keep lobbying for federal
ald in Washington and a billion a year for buildings from state and local governments. “We need federal aid to education, so that children in every -last corner of the United States can have at least the minimum of educa-
~tlonal..oppertunity--which-ali~children deserve”
Mr. Ewing told the AFL teachers. : “We need a program of scholarships and
——dnsured student loans, so that these opportuni-
ties can be continued right through the Eoljege years. We need to stieng J. Leg ; . i Ct oh }
vided hy the Office. of Education, as part of the federal security agency.’ At the beginning of World War II, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr pointed out that education alone doesn’t save a nation.
heen “more education per square-head” than in any country in the world, -he said. But the qualitative part of the curriculum didn’t con-
srs Mir Bier Fi HOt TRE teachers “He
only dwelt upon the guanitative« and-bggerdputidings:-That no wartime sactifice” 6f Fair Deal <o0cial goals should be ‘made was spelled out clearlv hy the FSA administrator Bo vou get a raise to he taxed away by supporting a peacetime government ; “wartime prices and believe you are getting: All it takes is faith,
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“better and better.”
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By Dick Turner
SECURITY TIGHTENS
By Peter Lisagor
Immigrant ‘Loopholes’ Plugged
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — The - uneasy awareness that subversiveg might slip into this country and get lost, is moving the government to plug up some friendly entry portholes. This lies behind the action to require Cubans benceforth to pick up a visa if they want to ‘vacation in Miami or visit points north for 29 days or less, Native-born Cubans, since the war's end, have been able to take off for the U, 8. mainland without a visa. Quite a few have managed to lose themselves, find jobs and try to make permanent arrangements — whieh, of course, was illegal. It also was a headache to immigration authorities who had to ferret them out for deportation,
Post-War -Rush-Foo Much 2
THE reason the State Department waived the normal visa requirements for Cubans was that the post-war rush to visit the U. 8. was too Hugh, for the consular Offices in Cuba to
/ JISTrA go mitted the od rotary of uly to waive the I provision in case of an emergency, With blocklong lines of Cubans waiting daily for visas, the consular boys deemed the Situation an emer=BONCY— cn All that was necessary for the visitor was to fill out an ‘entry. form which he had to present on his departure.
was’ ative Cuban, could enter this country With : ta of trouble if he needed. ng.visa... CTRRIEFAtTOn Authorities say thev. doubt if many chose this route. In fact, they add that when they picked up the errant ones, they usually found them operating elevators or doing jobs of that kind. “PHOT Only ¢ Hrs ation people reported, overstayed {heir eave,
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Immigrant Cubans took oad. visa T
FRENCH ALSO OBJECT .
Since the visa was waived, some 75,000 Cubans have come. and gone, But since Korea, the fear that Communist subversives might intensify their efforts to beat the immigration check pointed up the necessity to ¢lose all gaps’ i
Political Links Studied TO GET a visa, State Department and immigration officials report, means that the political
complexions of a prospective visitor will be
~ scanned. . A man with an unsavory shade of pink or red would be caught up. Officials here emphasize that the move is in ‘nO sense a punitive measure against Cubans, but represents merely restoring the legal rules.
mene Amother-- possible channel for an tux: of
subversives, it is pointed out, is the Mexican border. No visa is required there, either. But
to’ get a border crossing card, the native Mexi- «
can gets his fingerprints taken and a check of sorts is ma ge. -
OWevSE, is Bat the boys who ‘ignore the entry ports and sneak across elsewhere. Immigration people ‘cuFrently reassure themselves with the thought that migratory workers and -politically innocent - peons--make this . journey.
Canadians Allowed to Enter
as A NFBOTIY WhO Proves His Canadian citizen. ship can enter across the northern border for 3
2 ViSite. He-simply-AHs-out-a-form-which-he-muw ~ present to immigration authorities pon his ld parture, The 29-day limit resulted from the Alien Registration Act requirement that anybody who Stays for 30 days or more must register. The Cuban action followed an inquiry made by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was largely concerned over security precautions. . -
for commercial and curbs Bins i for a flock of things
makes the securities more desirable for income, if -such secur- =
ities which: the Federal Reserve would have to Finally (4), reduced buying by the Fed-
“ative “stay-at-Homes” and “make all the money”
illegal
garded as Mr. Snyder's. choice, Marriner 8.
Becles, former chairman disagreed with the
Treasury's policy and was demoted, for advocating steps the Federal ] is taking. - The Federal Reserve’ Board is
f sufficient taxes to cover government expenditures and the
- stopping of the creation of bank credit (which is new money). The board has announced it is prepared to use all means at its command to restrain further expansion of bank credit.
Defending Legion By Mrs. Catherine C, Kirby, 390 E. 9th St, Apt. 201 TO DOWNTOWN OFFICE WORKER —
By what right do you criticize the American
Legion? You are one of the great unappreci-
louses, You are one man or woman who I would like to see in the Korean mud along with a few others. Maybe, and I wish you eould, rather hear bombs, etc, than the laughing bunch of men who are enjoying what they fought for I would suggest to you that you take your vacation and visit the Kremlin, the next time
our boys are in Indianapolis, and if you do, We
© Will replace those welcome “signs with ones
which read, “Good riddance to you.” ood Po
IT'S TOUGH, isn't it, not to get pinched even at 10 feet? And who asked you if you
approved of the new Legion Building, anyway? The only thing you and your kind would ap-*
prove of, would be something for your own pockets, God Bless the American Legion, and I, who saw Indianapolis come from a mud hole, along with a hundred thousand others, welcome you with open arms. Come back.
‘Remember the Depression?’ By S. R. House, P, 0. Box 727, Indianapolis
Congressman Earl Wilson's memory must be
about like Sen. Capehart’s memory. Just read that Capehart had 35 cents and lived a few days on green apples during the depression. But since the Democrats got into power he has made a cool million dollars. What I'm wondering is if Congressman Wilson remembers the depression, or is he too biting the hand that feeds him? £ “Grapes of Wrath” by Steinbeck and the book, “Salem Witchcraft” by Cotton Mather, ‘have a lot in common. I would like for Con-
. gressman Wilson to read each to refresh his
mind, and he will know why I, like thousands of others, cannot again be led around by oap box orators. President Truman, to be sure, gets paid for his job. Mr. Hoover, so I have heard, did not take any salary for one year while he was President. Mr. Hoover got. $75,000 per year, and we did not have but little income tax then, and after the depression hit us. the $75,000 for
“one year as President would have, and was,
about enough to buy a whole county. Mr. Hoover did buy 2000 acrés 6f land near Bakersfield, Cal, for his two boys. (I voted for- Hoover once.) - ; > hB I AGREE with Congressman Wilson that if we control the price of a shirt, we should control the cost of making the button holes. The best way to do this is for every individual in the U. 8, to receive the same wages as a buck private in the Army-—for duration of a war. All of Congress should do as Hoover did: Not take one cent for salary. Congressman Wilson can phone most any executive sales manager, anywhere
sions, and it is generally believed that the same cause brings about most of our wars.
SHAR WINGS REE atl y
1 THINK girls should dig their men for all they're worth . . . even, darn it, when I pay
for it.—Joan Blondell, screen actress, whose 15- _
year-old son has just begun.to. show an interest
. in the fair sex.
- ¢ + @ IF mortgage and consumer credit. is ap «-priately-tomited: now it will be in "a “Detter position to play a. necessary and desirable role
.Wwhenver adequate productive capacity. is once...
“more available to meet consumer demands.— . M. Evans, federal reserve governor. o> WE aren't afraid of war and we are doing everything to avoid “it. But let nobody think we are afraid . . . not we, but the imperialist aggressors must fear war.—George M. Malenkov, deputy premier of the Soviet Union. *'
. By William H. Stoneman
‘West Germans Balk at Raising New Army
PARIS, Aug. 26
friend the Wehrmacht.
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TOO obvious even for a Ger-
man politician to miss was the fact that this little favor was about to be granted the Germans not because of their blue eyes but because the Western nations needed more troops
than they seemed able to scrape up in. their ,own countries,
The French, %ho oppose the revival of German militarism at almost any price, were heartily amused today to read of the manner. in which the bullheadedness of their allies
their old enemies had’ clashed.
» » ~ IN BONN, Germany, ‘Chancellor Konrad Adenauer yestetday performed a neat back. somersault and protested loudly to the press that his recent request for a federal police force of 60,000 men didn't mean that Germany was prepared to have a new Wehrmacht.
— West Germany today had the United States and Britain right over the barrel. . Defying past experience, their consciences if any. and protests of their French Allies, the American and British governments have obviously heen getting ready to resurrect their old
- At the same time, Dr. Kurt Schumacher, leader of the Social Democrat opposition, was voicing resistance to the creation of even such a force. . 1 West.” DR.SCHUMACHER ex- » pressed an attitude which is believed by most observers to
the speech of Sen. Sherman, one -of his Republican advisers, in which he called for use of German -snanpower in defense of West Europe. In Bonn itself ‘High Commissioner John J. Mo ously nettled by German stubbornness, insisted fo the press that “Germany will be incorporated in the defense of the
‘THE real solution to this
any clearcut table AY. the number of divisions which would be required of each country for West European defense. : : The deputies have been concentrating so far on the finan- “ cial aspects of rearmament and the manner in which the production of necessary arms would be distributed among the industries of countries belonging to the North Atlantic
loy, obvi-
in the “Unftéd States and learn the cause of depres-
and the new-found pacifism of
be shared by the mass of West German people today and which has been repeated to British and American officials until it might have been expected to permeate to Washington and London. : “When we are given real guarantees in the form of sound concentration of West ern Allied military forces on the eastern border so that the German map sees some,/pros-
! pect of successful défense - -
then we may start thinking of our contribution,” he stated. 8 8 % YET simultaneously, In Washington, Secretary of supporting
, State Acheson was
- Germany with “some” — if not
ng.
stalemate may be to increase Treaty. the size of the Western gar- » rison in Germany by five or six iT 18 divisions, bringing the total to about a dozen and providing applied “much” — prospect of successful defense. There is no evidence that the question of German rearmament has yet been considered formally in London where the Council “of Deputies of the. North Atlantic Treaty is meet-.
government memoranda.
~ ~ » ” ALTHOUGH the proceedIngs are supposed to be strictly secret, it is understood here in Paris that the deputies have-
Bot, Yet Tad tia, fo draw up to 18 months.
understood American Representative Charles Spofford has not yet the heat to other countries to step up their defense programs as recently ouflined to the United States in a series of
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One specific Ie which may be produced by the British in the next few days is- that all members of the * North Atlantic Treaty should immediately increase their term of conscription te two years. It now varies from nine
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