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oot vo: qatar rosie iy defife 19 Wptivh u sievla) Josition thers, aa President Truman assured the United Nations. It would be reassuring to the American people, ‘how ever, if the President had stated with equal clarity and firmness that this country does mot propose to let that

reason why we should be mealymouthed about it. We've gone beyond the point of safety in our appease, concede and surrender policy. ; . ss = = ’ . = THE United States was at war with Japan for three yonrs Sud wl welts, Sghtmg most of git Sime

to liberate other people’s property. Russia came i the

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__ war six days before the Japanese surrender and two days

after we dropped the big bomb on Hiroshima. Today, as a legacy of that war and blunders of American diplomacy, the Kremlin gang through its puppets holds Manchuria, the mainland of China and more than half of Korea. We have a trusteeship over Okinawa (area 485 square miles) and a few smaller islands, commonly classified as atolls. E On the face of thal record we do not have to defend ourselves against charges of imperialism. Yet we see fit to do it and sometimes so-strénuously that we may seem ‘to protest too much. That's because of an odd guilt complex the State Department has developed and fostered. ® & = = o =

WE would like to see someone running the State De-

partment who would borrow a few pages from the books

of James Monroe, John Hay and Teddy Roosevelt, when American diplomacy was red-blooded and faced the world

_ unashamed.

If we don't get someone like that on the job’ pretty

* soon we are going to compromise ourselves right off the

map. Meanwhile, we are borrowing trouble by dragging the other fellow’s chestnuts out of the fire. When we -are supporting French colonjalism in Indo-

China why should we be reticent about asserting the legiti-

mate interests of the free world in a friendly, or at least neutral, Formosa? Our own security should be the primary aim of Ameri-

can foreign policy but the people running the show for us never seem to think of that. ~

Praying for Malik TT 0 Russian United Nations Delegate Jacob Malik in the hope that he may be moved to change his ways and accept

grandmother, of Hamden, Conn., and Miss Adelaide Hartpence of Wilkes-Barre, Pa: They have written friends passing along the idea apd are getting an unexpected amount of favorable acceptance, In addition, they have written to Malik. Reminding

“him of his position of responsibility and power, they have

told him that “millions of Christians are praying that you may be guided to realize that responsibility and use that power for ihe 0d of mankind.”

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1— President “Truman's request for more than $139 million to. construct “war-safe” buildings for essential Bren workers -outside the Washington bomb taiget area has been turned down temporarily by the House Appropriations Committee. Plans “for such buildings and estimates of

their cost had been on My: Truman's desk for -

several days. They were the result of a co-oper-ative study by several ‘government agencies, -including the Defense Department, the Budget Bureau, the National Security Resources Board

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Labels GOP as

Ysolationist’

Rep. Madden Charts Course of Democrats’ Campaign Attack

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—Dear Boss—How Hoosier Democrats will respond to GOP charges

“of admifistration fumbling of foreign policy

until the U. 8. A. stumbled into the Korean War, / was demonstrated in the House by Rep. Ray > Maden; Gary Democtsl 4nd dean. of the

liam E. Jenner (R. Ind) last May as having‘ been delivered by “a distinguished Republican Hoosler sta statesman.” He labelled it “isolationist” and indicated that his party will try and make ‘that label Stic ai a3l. Republican cyptitates \a She. tate.

v the United Nations and our foreign “policy in the same manner as they did 30 years ago. When the United States, the world’s greatest power, refused to join othér nations to work for permanerit peace, the League of Nations was destined to failure.

‘Only Hope for World’

oY present’ Unitéd Nations organization, althorgh in its infancy, is a direct descendant of Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. The United - Nations, like all great world movements, has and will continue to endure difficulties until it is firmly established. “United Nations will survive ‘because it is the only hope of a war-torn world and the only haven on the globe to which the world can look for permanent peace. United Nations will grow stronger and stronger for generations to come. It will accomplish its survival in spite of the malicious and misleading attacks on our foreign policy by selfish isolationists who are trying to ride into political power by breaking , down the efforts of free nations to unify against Communistic dictators who seek to rule the world. “These isolationists are carrying out the same political pattern which they used in 1920 to defeat the League of Nations and elect Warren G. Harding President of the United States.

Blames Republicans

“THE greatest help Stalin has had to dis-

. credit the United Nations, Marshall Plan and

American church women have started praying for |

THEY ae not discouraged because ‘they have had no

answer from the Russian delegate. It's not surprising that” Malik “should ignore these - Joma. And it's not Hels that he will pe swayed in the

him jira! for peace. H probably recognizes no higher authority than the But, of course, there is a higher authority, and if/these peace prayers of American y is comforting to think there’ can “hardly be a veto by Russia. The point - is, we think, our world does run on spiritual laws as well as natural laws. And our diplomats have just about reached the end of their worldly resources for

- keeping the peace. Whether one ‘prays for Malik, or the

Politburo, or even our own leaders, it is in itself that affirmation of faith which may: help us most. i ’ ‘We Are Just Too Nice RUSSIA'S Joseph A. Malik has added a new item to the

United Nations agenda: “The unceasing terrorism and

mass executions in Greece.” That puts the Kremlin gang in proper perspective. The Greeks have been. executing criminals adjudged “guilty of treason, murder and indescribable atrocities. But these are not crimes in the Kremlin's eyes when committed by people who call themselves Communists. Communists believe they are above and beyond the law. They are taught to lie under oath, to inform against their own relatives and friends, and to resort to murder

other efforts to thwart communism has been the American Communists and certain Republican isolationists.” Mr, Madden then paid tribute to Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R. Mich.), John Foster Dulles, United Nations Delegate Warren Austin, Sen. Wayne Morse, (R. Ore.) as Republicans. who put their country ahead of their rE Dury in supporting the bipartisan foreign pol “He predicted that Sen. bare s leading a majority of the GOP away from iso- _ lationism “will be recorded as one of the great "examples of unselfish statesmanship of this century.” ’ “In the coming campaign,” Mr. Madden warned, ‘“The American voter must give solemn thought to the statements of the designing politician who, in his effort to win votes, will magnify our war sacrifices and second Ss everything, including all international problems since Pearl Harbor. ) ‘Must Be Ignored’ “WE NEED unity now to carry through our bipartisan program for permanent peace. The demagogue and the professional politician, without any program of his own, must be: ignored and rejected. “We must not repeat the ition of the 1920's or our future generations will forever condemn our lack of foresight.” Nor did Mr. Madden fail to defend domestic expenditures. He blamed their ballooning on wars past, present and future. Without that

with the inflated national income, he contended. “Republican politicians and some subsidized radio commentators fail and omit to tell the public that the coct of running the federal government. in 10 years has only increased approximately $2,635,000,000, while our national income. in 1949 increased .$143,653,000,000. over 1940,” Mr. Madden "said. is . .

‘For American Youth’

“I HEARD a prominent Republican in a

national broadcast say that the annual cost of

- operating our government increased 30 billion dollars annually in 10 short years. He failed to «mention a word about war and -defense expenditures.” In concluding ‘his Democratic i Mr.

“Madden listed all the social legisiation passed.

during the Roosévelt-Truman administrations. He said he did so for the “information of American youth.”

or anything else when it will serve Moscow's interests.

Stalin himself was a bank robber dnd fugitive from jus-

_ tice before his rise to power. Since then he has had” wany

of his earlier associates murdered.

~ ~ - WE HAD a little. taste of what life is like under that kind of gang rule when Al Capone was operating his little empire in Chicago. Only he mowed down the opposition with machine guns without bothering about. purge trials or forced confessions. Among the 52 non-Communist governments represented in the United Nations there ought to be one delegate with the intestinal fortitude to ask Mr. Malik to answer for some of Stalin's crimes. But that, might not be according to protocol.

* ‘Sentenced’ to Death om LABOR DAY week-end will mean the death “sentence” for at least a dozen Indiana residents if the holiday slaughter on the highways equals previous years.

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“By. Aineew Til = Truman's iy Yor ‘War Safe’ B Buildings Turned Down’ In House

__(NSRB) and the Bureau of Public Roads.

A final decision on the number. and location of the ew buildings has not been made. But,

gr contrary reports,” none was planned any ~—farther a Vashington than nearby Virginia and Maryland. :

Plans provided for the dispersal of at least 10,000 workers from buildings in Washington. Workers involved were listed as employees of -

the Defense Department—including many who now are stationed in the huge Pentagon across the Potomac in Virgm— and certain other

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OLD AGE BENEFITS .

workers whose jobs would be related to an - emergency. situation. . "Included in the amount. asked 4s a ‘sum

of an “ The whole idea of the plan is omé of scatter essential personnel than to move

__them from one place to another.

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. By Peter’ ES

Questions on’ Social Security

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1-—Questions are pouring in on Washington about changes in the 8ocial Security Law just passed by Congress.

Main drift of the questions is: What can I get

out of it? How do I go about getting it? When do I get it? How much does it cost me? There are 480 local Social Security offices scattered about the United States. Look In your telephone book to see if there's one in your town. It should be listed as “Social Security Field Office.” Or it should be so listed under “U. 8. Government.” If there is no Social Security Field Office in your city, ask at your local Post Office for the office of the: closest ‘place where you can get information. Your- local Post Office will also have available application blinks for Social Security cards and numbers. If you are. eligible for Social Security benefits and if you don’t have a card and number, apply for one. If you once had a card and Jost it, apply for a duplicate. If you were once employed on a job covered by Social Security, then'changed to a job not covered, and are now eligible for coverage under.the law, make sure that you still have your old card, or apply for a duplicate.

Payable After Today

~THE. THREE. receiving Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance benefits won't have to do anything to get the new, higher benefits which will be payable today.

One class eligible to receive new benefits will

include some 750,000 people who did not have

sufficient insured time under the old law, but ‘who will ‘have sufélent employed time to qu al-

ify under the Tberalized’ provisions of the new

law. Under the new law, anyone 65 years old is eligible for benefits if he has worked in an industry covered by Social Security insurance for six consecutive quarter-years (a total of a

‘year and a half) between 1936 and today, and

if his earnings averaged. $50 a month in these six quarters.

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offer compared ‘with the offer peasants. No matter that this appeal in other areas turned out to be a lie.

1 wouldn't ever find out unless I went South, to.the country of peasant revolts, and saw for

myself. So I went. ¢ Co 5 EJ ”. ~ I SAW Italian girls, as

young as 8, plodding along with ‘a pound load .of rocks on their backs, for nine hours a day—to earn 30 cents. A doctor in Amalfi said children become beasts of burden at 4 or 5. .~ He called over a little. girl of about 10 and gave .me a quick diagnosis: “You see Lhe structure here,” ‘he said. “It takex about five years of such work to throw out the back;

‘deform the pelvic area and ‘bend the leg bones.” 3

to malnourishment.” ~ - . oN Lipart island

> fo Yellow. "pumice work 10 hours: a day

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It is important to you that you - - get: the same number that you had before.

Tuca, the hotel waiter, said.

for credit under any other government pension system. Social Becurity Field Offices want to hear from. any of these people now made eligible

. for benefits, 80 that they can file claims.

New Starts

. IN ‘addition to these starts for old cases, there. will .be an estimated 9,700,000 people formerly not under the law at all, who may make new starts. Included will be the follow ing groups: ONE: Non- farm, _self - employed people, 4,700,000. Doctors of all sorts; veterinarians, funeral directors, lawyers, accountants, professional engineers and architects are excluded. TWO: State -and local government employees, 1,450,000. Their states must elect to come under the federal Social Security system. THREE: Regularly employed, non-farm domestic workers, one million. They must work 24 days or more every three months (two days

a week) for the same employer and must earn

‘million. people. who. are. now...

In making this calculation, ‘World War II veterans ‘will be given Social Security wage credits for the time spent in service at the rate ‘of $160 a month, tmless ms calcyiation is used

By Galbraith

STRUGGLE FOR LIFE -.

Poverty Opens Way for Red Gains in Italy

SALERNO, Italy, Sept. 1—Talk communism to a man in. Naples and you will be told that the “well-off American” hasn’t “the - faintest idea why communism appeals to Italy's common

. the cast-off fruit. 7

“Of course, it is not all pressure. Some of it is rickets, due ¢

: - “unger a burning sun, in clouds

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_to: regulation by state law...

_continuous—doesn’t absolve a

$50 cash wages per month. FOUR: Agricultural (canners, etc.), 200,000. FIVE: Regularly employed farm workers, 650,000. They must work 60 full days and earn $50 or more per month cash wages for three months, provided they had continuous employment. with the same employer during the pre-

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vious three-month period.

SIX: Employees of non-profit institutions, 600,000. Two-thirds of the employees of each

institution and their employer. must elect. to... 4m.

“take out coverage.

SEVEN: Federal government employees not

eovered by another pension system, 200,000. EIGHT: Americans employed by American employers otitside the U. 8., 150,000.

Full-Time Workers

NINE: “Employment in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 400,000. TEN: Full-time wholesale salesmen, fulltime life insurance salesmen, agent-drivers and commission-drivers - distri meat, fruit, vegetables, bakery products, laundry and dry cleaning, beverages other than. milk, . 350,000. ELEVEN: Industrial home workers earning at least -$50 a- quarter, if their work is subject

mate.on how many-of these home workers there might be.

These are the ABC'S of the new Social Se“curity law, in simplest terms.

. By John Barth

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Giovanni, my hotel porter, insisted America had nothing to - “share-the-land” appeal Communists

of pumice dust .. . for 40 cents. In Sicily, salt diggers get the same pay, but the sun is hotter ‘and -the ‘salt rips long "bleeding cracks in their skin. “ Neither would the American housewife recognize her counterpart here. ‘Women, besides being housewives and mothers, create a chain-gang effect as they carry 40-pound _ baskets of fruit on their heads down endless mountain pathe’-'then -slowly back uw». : . - THEIR sale nourishment during a. dawn-to-dusk day is a loaf of bread soaked in olive oil,

Naples.

Ages.

paperman, and -the eatable parts of

Pregnancy — which seems years. woman from work that would be done -in America by draft animals. ~Nean Paestum, sité of the famous Greek. temples, I watched one such woman fin--

Conism.

“ish her-day’'s work and then

walk two miles back to the village, burdened with a great’ bundle ‘of ‘wood.

‘absolutely opposed other issues by other individuals or groups.

their

There is no esti-

Total annual ‘farm produetion of the average down here comes to less than

» = A FEW families still own -~ all the great estates south of Under the ancient Latifundia Arpystem, despised tenant farmers ¢ estates—ofteéri- with the same iype tools used in the Dark

Despite its world-wide pub-~ licity the Rome government's land-reform bill is considered -~window-dressing among townfolk I've talked with. They believe the bill will drag on in parliament endlessly .and then meet a slow death at the hands of property-owning ‘members - and their controlled associates. In Positano, Nino Bardi, a well-known Communist newstold me it. would take about 60 trained local Communist leaders to ‘win over southern Italy within fhree Such are conditions. Real shocker to the American, however, is the calm approach of the Italian Soward

IT WAS Beit expressly a. « JORig Yayor—a non-Commu- ’

2 pet ch better: than ‘commu-.. nism is the Alnerjcan way of . Nee. . It wou

based his request to Congress for funds was. “polished up by the NSRB after being worked om

" co-operatively by the other agencies

involved. It-is the second plan to be worked out by the board. The President rejected the first. He did so informally at a press conference on Aug. 18, when he was asked If he was going to send to Congress a bill prepared by the NSRB

"and said no, he was not.

“Does that mean that it is dead?” he was ° asked. The President sald no, that it was still under consideration.

“ do not agree with a word that will defend to the death your: rig

yo) to say it

‘Uncertain Convictions’ ~

By Theodore B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St. I am aware that this letter may go only as far as the editor's waste paper basket. OK, he has freedom of the press, "However, I am, as many other thoughtful people must be, much perturbed by the freedom with which our politicians and many others use the name of God and call upon the will of God to sanction their actions and aims in their

_ attempt to gain the consent of the people. It

makes little difference what the issue may be. > ¢ o

OFTEN the issues are to , however, strive to get the will of God, or ‘imply that they have it. They seem to place themselves in a position in which they exercise the will of God and have Him sanction judgment. They seem to place God in a position of ‘uncertain convictions, unstable and acceptable to have His will swung as a pendulum to suit their actions. "It seems to me it would be much more the

"action of a professed Christian to find out

God’s will and get on His side than to practice

deceit and attempt to strengthen that deceit by °

having God sanction it.

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‘Danger in Restraints’ By H. E. M,, City In advocating rigid restraints on those whose views happen to be currently unpopular—‘whatever the underlying source of the unpopularity—we should ask ourselves what we are going to do when the same restraining “influence” gets around to us. And don’t think for a minute it won't. It is the nature and the history of the ctive philosophy that it should. Such a theory feeds on itself, and is in constant need of new vice

tims to keep itself going, else it will die out.

Today it may be “Communists” or someone whom it may please anyone to call a Communist, but tomorrow it may be ns or Kiwanians. Don’t laugh. It worked that way under Hitler, and doubtless does the same in present day Russia. Let us never forget that it was Hitler whe said: “The strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces its enemies to imitate it.”

‘We Must Stop Waste’ By Camille Grapin. Too black coffee without sugar, or light tea with too much sugar, are both a waste. Big institutions throw away tons of unused food. Clubs, restaurants, fraternities and picnie parties do not use everything on the menu. At home, saving is almost unknown. If the collections of metals: and paper were ‘profitable during the last war, why discontinue them? It is the duty of each one of us to limit his desires and to save. Otherwise restrictions will come sooner, and with them the black market. The needy once more will be victims of our extravagance and everybody will have to accept the point system.

. What Others Say— }

“ ANYONE who thinks managing a ball club is a cinch ought to have his head examined. You don’t know what worries are until you try running a team. Stengel, manager of the world champion New York Yankees. ¢ & < IF word came from Washington tonight, our plants could begin conversion tomorrow to the production of more than three hundred and fifty military items or classes of items. —Gwilym A, Price, president of the Westinghouse ‘Corp. Tw we ’ }

RETURN to the corner. ice cream store in the United States—Seoul City Sue, Communist propagandist, mn Jroadean: to Asmerionn. $roo ) 3 * . . I WILL . .. work on my farm. I will not go back - into the Democratic Party.—Hemry A.

Wallace, former vice president, on quitting Progressive’ Party. ; * < *

THIS (Korean) war is the direct result of the pro-Communist policy that dominated the administration through the Yalta and Potsdam conferences and even up to the present time.— Robert A. Taft (R., 0.); U.S. semafor. . ¢ * <$

AMERICA must be vigilant to recognize communism for what it actually is—a malicious evil which would destroy this nation.—J. Edgar . Hoover, director FBI. *. o %. "'I WOULD say it is better 15.0e a live sinner. . than a dead saint.—Dr. Elwood C. Nance, president of the University of Tampa and former Army chaplain.

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if our people could have this American way. But look all around you and you will see that we cannot have it. In the minds of the people, America — right or wrong — seems unable to break with the old

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# HERE in Salerno I discussed mys trip with an American ad

He stated that Aitficrn advisers have. made constant pleas to Italian capitalists to think in terms of large scale production ‘and low

to the old method of monopoly

markets, tall — tariffs, high _ prices, huge profits and few

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of profits, instead of sticking

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