Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1950 — Page 12

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HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Monday, Sept. 4, 1950

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President Editor :

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Indiana’s Century of Progress ~~ #THE Indiana State Fair, attracting many thousands of Hoosiers and visitors from far off states every day, is more. than a traditional exposition of agricultural achievement. : It has become an enlightening milestone measuring the * ~ tremendous progress in our way of life during the last 100 yesrs. = 0 The many thousands of exhibits, far surpassing previous years, are a reflection of the long road Indiana's civilization has traveled since the first State Fair nearly a century ago. i It shows how the farming industry has been trans-

~ War days to a new era of scientific production with machines and crop development never dreamed of when the first Fair was held. i hoy ~~ In this the annual Indiana exposition mirrors not only _ the life and times: of:the State but the advance in enterprise and the standard of living of the people through the years. w > r - » » = »

AMONG outstanding developments in recent years has

young people of the soil. These club activities, reaching into every remote community of the State, have formed a solid foundation for future progress in the farming industry by teaching youth, first hand, the basic principles of better agriculture. od, The incentive for youth in agriculture is reflected in | the record number of 4-H entries. Their livestock exhibits alone total 6278, nearly 600 more than the record 1949 entries with an all-time high of $22,000 for prizes.

Their Labor Is Ours J ABOR DAY week-end is a time for loading the wife and the kids in the car and heading for the country.

from some relatives; for getting to a ball game, or sitting at home with the television set. ; © - A time for enjoyifig the last big week-end of the summer, and a time for steering the vagrant thoughts of + youngsters in the direction of school. ~~ It’s an American holiday that could well be universal. American because it developed from the idea of an Ameritan 68 years ago that working people should ‘have_ their own holiday “at the pleasantest period of the year.”

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~ substitute. Maybe that’s because their undérstanding of labor is as broad as the Biblical passage which says all of Adam's sons and daughters must earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. ~ Labor Day as we know it has no class or other angle. This week-end American employer and employee are each having a good time and neither feels that he’s poaching “on the “other's holiday.” ~~ ~~ TTT But we would be callous and ungrateful if in our enJoyment of this holiday we forgot those of us who cannot enjoy it—the Americans who are fighting in Korea. There can be no relaxation for them, no pause for reflection on the blessings and rewards of hard wark that made this holiday possible for their countrymen. - 0 * x» ’ s & = UNDER terrible, sometimes almost insufferable conditions, they've got to stay on the job and keep pushing

Americans at home today. In spirit we can share their gigantic task only by dedicating ourselves with the same fortitude and determination to their own goal—victory and peace. A peace, in the words. of President Truman's Labor Day statement; “that will mean even greater rewards not only for our own workers but for workers everywhere.”

Match Him With Malik

more fun out of autocrating a labor union or composing nasty notes to his arch foe, AFL President William Green. Disturbed by the suggestion that unions join in a nostrike pledge, John L. has ripped off a four-paragraph dilly in the form of a “memorandum” to Mr. Green. “You know, Bill,” he says, with sarcasm thick enough —4o-carve, “I am ever distressed when I have to disturb the calm placidity of your ordered existence.” ‘" x = x = = AND then: ‘The press chronicles you as plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a ‘no-strike’ pledge. I am sure that you will pardon me when I suggest that the Mine Workers (Lewis' union) are not yet ready for you to sell them down the river. Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We'll do our own nostriking.” This is strictly a club fight, and we want no part of it. But we think it's a shame that Mr. Lewis wastes his awesome talent for invective and verbal blood-letting on the quiet and bespectacled Mr. Green. Isn't there any way we can sick him on Malik, or Vishinsky ? : ~~ What a star performer he would be at United Nations.

Polls Apart s 'VE mentioned before how the Russians grab off ~~ our slogans and political terms, and pervert them - to their own designs. We named as many as we could think of—but we should have waited. For now comes the capper. They've Just defined “free elections.” ode = Ik means voting that is free from contests, according tp an editorial in a Communist newspaper. Way they look at it, two tickets would only create confusion and pracforce a man to make”a choice. The Russians, of do riot believe in forea

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___ formed from the primitive and crude methods of pre-Civil been the growth of 4-H exhibits entered by hundreds-of -..

“Indiana can be proud of its achievements in agriculture. :

~ A time for picnicking, or grabbing a free meal or two

- AMERICANS have never cottoned to May Day as a

~ghead if “ever again they are to enjoy the common lot of =~

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AMERICAN WAY . . . By William H. Stoneman

U. S. Not ‘Sold’ to All Europeans

PARIS, Sept. 4—U. 8. government informa-‘tion—-services-are being criticized for their fail=:

ure to sell Western Europe on the United States °

and the “the American way of life.” They have failed, it is claimed, to rally Europeans to support the United States and its policies, and to admire the United States, in the dynamic manner they deserve. Veteran American observers on this side of the pond will go along with the charges. Some of them are so convinced of the inefficacy of U. 8. official propaganda in the free countries of Western Europe that they would gladly see it stop altogether, ; At the same time they have a number of explanations for our failure to “win friends and influence people” which serve to exonerate our propagandists of charges that they are worthless and to excuse. the French and other continental peoples for their refusal to love us as they should. \ The countries of Western Europe are able to make up their own minds about the United States and Americans without being told by us

how to do it.

Hollywood films, a hundred flashy American magazines, two first-class American newspapers printed in Europe, and hundreds of thousands of personal appearances by American tourists permit them to weigh our side against the Communist or anti-American nationalist picture of America. ' .

Not Such Hot Stuff

THIS mountain of animate and inanimate Americana is bound to make our official propaganda look like two cents.

seereThe” American “way of life, as envisaged by

many of the people who talk about it most, is not such hot stuff for Europeans as many Americans seem to think. It is one thing to boast of the fact that the average man, in the United States, is given a

better opportunity to live freely and decently

and to develop his capacities, than the average citizen of any other country in the world. It is another thing to flaunt refrigerators, television sets: and automobiles in the faces of the European masses who are persuaded that the population-natural resources ratio of West-

ern Europe and its colonies simply will not per-«init-them-to-enjoy-such-material prosperity:

Since they cannot have it themselves they resent. it. : Europe is still inhabited by a number of nationalities which have pride in themselves and their own ways of life, even when they don’t includé many mechanical gadgets.

One distinct difference between the United

States and the countries of Western Europe which appears to be ignored by many Ameri: cans is the European class system. The most important part of Europe, as far as any sales campaign for America is concerned, is ‘the European proletariat, coupled with the peasantry and the lower middle-class. These people do not -all cherish the idea of

“hecoming railroad presidents and bankers What ‘they cherish most of “all, their highest hope, is

the promise of steady employment and the most modest necessities of life.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

- . COPR. 1980 BY 1. SERVICE, WC. T. M. REG U. & PAT. OFF, : _ “Officer, will you please watch my car while 1 go in the station

aad pay a couple ai old parking tickets?"

A very large proportion of these people are

“Socialists, whén they are not Communists, and

they believe in what are sweepingly known in the United States as “socialist institutions.” At this moment the United States is identified in the minds: of countless Europeans with an attempt to suppress or repress socialism of the Social-Democratic British or Scandinavian type. That impression has been strengthened by the rugged treatment handed Britain and Nor-

way—Western Europe's only two ‘completely

Socialist governments—by American government officials. Those governments are admittedly the only two which have been demanding sacrifices of their people in order to gain national self-sup-port. They are also the only two which are obviously and unquestionably ready to fight Russia. It also happens that they' enjoy a greater measure of public support than any other two governments in Europe. =. . Openly Critical THUS both they and the people who support them are resentful of the openly critical attitude toward “socialism” which is constantly beIng voiced by the American ambassadors to those two countries. Many individual Americans have damned their country and their fellow citizens in the eyes of Europeans by their behavior during visits to Europe. Most Americans who come here are modest, serious people who act like decent citizens and deal with Frenchmen, Englishmen and other local fauna as fellow human beings. But the annual trek to Europe includes a lot

of people who have too much money and too few...

manners and, in all too many cases, flashy automobiles. . ] The bad impression they make is reinforced by the. “well-being” of American government employees over here. The extensive use of ‘counterpart funds” of the Marshall Plan to pay exorbitant rental allowances to ECA employees is one of the things that has helped to make the Marshall Plan a joke among ordinary European citizens who are

* expected to be grateful to all Americans for the

benefits which the Marshall Plan has brought them.

You simply cannot expect a Frenchman, who

Is. drawing. down. 27. cents-an-hour;- and trying

to support a family on it, not to be furious when he sees American clerks and minor functionaries, often mere youngsters, living in the snappiest houses in the neighborhood and driving around in fancy new cars.

Unpleasant Impression ALL .of..the excellent-public- relations-work carried out by ECA cannot overcome the uns pleasant impression and the humiliation felt by ordinary Europeans when they see. our people wallowing in well-being. - . A good first-step to be taken in improving our publie ‘relations in Europe would be to abolish all of the canteens and special commis-

‘to’ mike them 1ive as other ordinary human beings live in this part of the world. ;

, saries run for the benefit of Americans here.and..

A little experience in simple living might be

good for them,

assets outweigh his liabilities.

when the Secretary took office

Mr. Acheson get some of the credit for it.

on = » FOR instance, said. the spokesman, the Secretary of State’s job is to “build up areas of strength and resistance to Soviet encroachments. Mr. Acheson has done that.” Moreover, the spokesman insisted President Truman never had reversed the Secretary on any important foreign policy. The policy: on Formosa, he said, remains as it always has been—to keep the island out of unfriendly hands pending its dispostion with a peace treaty . with Japan. : 7

LE. IT WAS pointed out the Seventh Fleet was sent to For-' mosa solely to protect the flank of our troops in Korea. The question in Formosa, the spokesman said, was “ “how much we were willing to pay to keep it. out of unfriendly hands.” When American t landed in Korea. he salt “Formosa’s price went

Tun the risk of war with the

The spokesman, a man authorized to speak for Mr. Ache- - son, pointed out his belief the free world is stronger than it was

in January, 1939, and insisted

up--we then were willing to ~

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" do not agree with a word that

u say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Truman Made a Mistake’ By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St...

Président Truman seems to have

mistake in suppressirg Gen. MacArthur's opinion on what to do about Formosa. Gen. MacArthur, being the military representative of the United Nations, was within his rights to express his opinion on military affairs, publicly or privately. Such action gives other nations the impression that the United States is taking “the roll of dictator of world affairs. Gen. MacArthur's message expressed his own opinion and not the opinion of the United States government, nor that of the United Nations, and no-one was better qualified to express such an opinion. In doing so he was only doing what has been done by most executives in eyery department of our government. i Gen. MacArthur's statement appears logical and was given without reservations. You could take it or leave it.

* + & WE HAVE to admit that the General has - handled the affairs in Japan with less bungling than has been done by our government officials in Washington in handling the affairs of the

United States and without any fanfare on the part of Gen. MacArthur,

made a

The President seems to be a very vindictive

person and slow to admit any of his mistakes, made

He, no doubt, has tion -of “his to rectify any such mistakes or admit them. OU. Ship. of state if drifting -on-a-sea of une certainty without a rudder and mistakes are to be expected. No one can be sure of what action to take in a period of uncertainty, but too much egotism on the part of anyone is not the best show of valor. The advice in The Indianapolis Times’ recent editorial “to quit meddling’ in the affairs of others” was good advice, especially the affairs ~of the United Nations, as the President did in

mistakes in his selec~

this case. : ‘Send 'Em to Russia’ By Thomas Siwik Sp > I would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy to those people here and in other cities who are followers of the socalled great Communist life. h

They seem to think it's one “great big-

picnic where there's nothing to do but eat, drink. and be merry. If they think they like that sort of life, why not put them in a box, tie it with a ribbon and send them to their wonderful life in Russia? pu

Do you think Stalin would reward them

for their great admiration of him when they arrived?

Denton Lauds 81st Congress

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—DEAR BOSS: That the much maligned 81st Congress has to its credit some constructive accomplishments in home front social legislation was pointed out in

-—a-labor--address-today.

It was delivered in Evansville by Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Eighth District Democrat, who returned to his home town during the 10-day House recess.

The present Congress, where he is a fresh-. man member and seeking re-election, has passed the first progressive domestic legislation in a decdde, he told a meeting sponsored by Evansville unions. . Mr. Denton listed three laws in this field which he termed “outstanding.” They are: FIRST: Housing legislation providing for slum clearance. SECOND: Raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents per hour. THIRD: Increasing Social Security benefits by approximately 77 per cent.

10 Million People Added

EXPLAINING the latter, Mr. Denton. reported: : “The new law adds 10 million people to the 35 million already covered by Social Security provisions. These are mostly self-employed, farm workers and household workers. In addi-

tion, eligibility requirements have been modified

‘so that less working time is required by workers before receiving payments.” 4 He condemned the Knowland Amendment to this bill, which puts unemployment insurance under state control. He also attacked the TaftHartley Law and failure to get it repealed as promised by President Truman in his 1948 campaign. : Condemning the two Indiana Republican Senators and the four GOP Hoosiers in the House for not voting for Korean aid and now being super-critical of the war, Mr. Denton also lashed out at the 80th Republican Congress. Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, was majority leader in that Congress and never tires of relating its “accomplishments.” One of these was a tax cut.

“In the 80th Congress,” Mr. Denton said, “at a time when corporate profits were at ‘an’ all time high level, the Republicans passed a bill reducing income and other taxes by $5 billion. “Forty per cent of the income tax reductions went to individuals who constituted less than per cent of the population, while the reduction in estate and gift taxes went primarily to abouy 12,0000 of the nation's most wealthy families.

Cites Baruch Advice

“BERNARD BARUCH, an elderly statesman

and advisor of many presidents, stated that if this 80th Congress tax reduction bill had not been passed there would have been no federal deficit during the past two years and we would now have adequate funds to pay for rearmament and the Korean War.”

Organized labor knew what it means to fight °

Communist enemies long before the Korean War started, Mr. Denton told the unionists.

“You have been on the front line for years.

battling communism when some of the arm chair strategists of today believed it existed only in the Steppes of Soviet Russia,” he said. “You union members know the underhanded and dividing tactics by which it sought to achieve its goals. And to the eternal credit of your organization, you have long driven this subversive element from your ranks. “With this background, how galling must a law, such as the Taft-Hartley Act, be to you. This statute questions your proven loyalty to your country by requiring you to sign affidavits swearing to the fact that you are patriotic citizens.

‘No Penalties to Employers’

“NO SUCH penalties have been imposed upon your employers. And to add insult to injury, this law establishes machinery and procedures, enforced by the government, which have prevented some unions from driving communists from their ranks.” Referring to Gen. Eisenhower's saying that “the miracle of American production won the last war,” Mr, Denton declared: “This is a tribute to the skill, competence and industry of the American workers.”

AIR RAID STRATEGY . .. By Jim Lucas .

Only Military Targets Bombed

TOKYO, Sept. 4—Despite Russian propa-

~ganda- claims that we have bombed “tndiscrimi-"

nately, Navy and Air Force planes under Gen. MacArthur's United Nations command have spared Korea's major cities.

In Seoul, traditionally the heart and capital of Korea, public buildings are intact. The same is true of Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Both cities have been attacked and occasionally a bomb has miscarried but considerable care has been taken to bomb only military and industrial targets.

Europeans Upset

A STUDY of reconnaissance photographs

Russia’s charges of indiscriminate bombing of non-military targets understandably has upset many Europeans. } The Soviets recently presented a North Korean protest to the United Nations listing wholesale civilian casualties in specified .cities. .-.Many. of our. Allies have lived through such attacks and instinctively react against the idea. But Gen. MacArthur's headquarters insist

when the Korean war is over and the final score is in, the world will know that we have pur. .

posely avoided such tactics. Our aim is to turn Korea back to the Ko-

reans with as few. scars of war as possible. «There will be enough as. it. is. cove pi vd We have knocked out. bridges. railroads,

tunnels and most of the North's bigger industries when we have attacked Korean cities on both sides of the 38th parallel.

Chinese Communists in ‘order: to protect our fighting men.” As for Mr. Acheson's ‘“repudiation” by Congréss—which passed the Spanish loan ‘over his protests — thé spokesman insisted President Truman and

their opposition to. it. we 8 ANYWAY, said the spokes-

man turns about on foreign policy, it is his own foreign policy he is reversing because he makes it; the Secretary of State merely recommends. Turning to the record, the spokesman: pointed out several

. boss’ ledger:

partment for which’ he gave ‘his boss either full or part credit. oE Seng He recalled that Mr. Acheson was “one of the architects” of the Marshall Plan—that he outlined its general form in a _speech in Biloxi. Miss., before Gen. George .C. Marshall's famous speech at Harvard. in

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THE spokesman pointed also - Military aid to Greece and Turkey. When

indicates we have “Had ‘considerable ‘success.

" nearby civilian housing areas were not touched.

ASSETS AND LIABILITIES . . . By Andrew Tully

Acheson’s Aide Says Boss Will Not Resign

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 —An official spokesman for the State Department declared Secretary of State Dean Acheson “posi--tively” would not resign—and gave as his reason that his boss*

the Greek-Turkish aid pregram was voted, he said, “the Reds held most of the-rural areas of Greece and threatpied ed the cities of Athens and Salonika. Now, he said, they have been INE UP both Japan and Westdriven out as a direct result of American aid, which Mr. Acheson had a hand in both as. Under-Secretary of and as Secretary. Mr. Acheson, the spokesman said, also carried on the “policy of firmness” initiated by . : Gen. Marshall in the Berlin Mr. Acheson ‘remain firm in -. blockade ‘which won the west a victory “that inspired the entire free world.” :

man, whenever President Tru- : ss = THEN he listed these other items on the credit side of his

The North Atlantic Pact, which is drawing the Western Democracies closer together and, more, setting them on achieveinents of the State Dé- he road toward mutual de- ‘ fense against Russian

‘The mutual defense assistance program, through the United States is sending arms to its European Allies. The “firmness and determination” with which the “State Department met the pro-. - ; : d¢ march of East German » youth on Berlin last May.

We have warned their residents in advance. =

Recently, Tor instance, we dropped warning leaflets over several large cities. The pamphlets were dropped several days before the bombs fell. ‘Leave Your Cities’ THEY read: “The United Nations forces urge you to leave your cities and go to the country

or to the mountains. Your city is one of those -

in which your Communist leaders have built war

factories and concentrated on military supplies

to be used in killing other Koreans.

“United Nations planes will destroy. all such military installations, including freight yards,

.communications..centers,.dock-installations; war

materiel factories and supply depots.

“The United Nations Air Force will do everything possible to protect innocent civilians from the war forced on Korea by the Communist traitors. Leave these cities.

‘Preserve Your Lives’ =~ “MANY others wisely have left the cities where the Communists have arms depots and war installations. Join them and preserve your lives so that you can help build a strong, free

Korea after the Communists have been driven out. ‘

harming civilians.” *

A freight yard was completely destroyed and

sistance to the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines,

8 = The State Department's painstaking program for build-

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