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Community Welfare Insurance HE personal welfare of every man, woman and child in Indianapolis will depend, directly or indirectly, upon the success of the 31st annual Community Chest drive to raise $1,472,760 to support the activities of 49 agencies. The combined budgets of thesé agencies is $200,000, more than last year but the Chest has expanded to include two more units in a necessary program to merge all charitable campaigns.
» ” IF the people of Indianapolis and Marion County go-operate in this campaign for a higher goal it will be a big step toward consolidation of all welfare financing and eventually into a single program for more efficiency and less cost. ii The services provided by these 40 Red Feather agencies are as necessary to the welfare of every citizen of the community as the distribution of food, police and fire protection or any of the . other provisions for emergencies that make life in a metropolitan area possible.
o ” ” LJ ~ » ‘WITHOUT the services of these agencies, working
24 hours a day in some instances on personal emergency cases, the community would suffer from increased juvenile delinquency, more, broken homes, higher publie costs for the needy and the danger of a general breakdown in the morale of a large segment of the city’s population. Raising the full quota required by these Community Chest agencies will mean valuable insurance against preventable tragedy in thousands of Indianapolis homes, perhaps in your own.
Another Red Mask Is Off VW HETHER the Chinese Communists are bluffing or not, we soon shall see. ot In a bristling statement broadcast from Peking, Premier Chou En-lai implicitly warned that he might throw -his Red army into the fight on the side of the North Korean Communists. He said: : “They (the Chinese people) will not tolerate foreign aggression and will not stand aside should imperialists wantonly invade the territory of a neighbor.” In the face of that threat, United Nations forces— primarily, the South Koreans—plunged across that artificial boundary, the 38th Parallel, and for all practical purposes the “invasion” is on. Presumably the decision was made on the spot by Gen. MacArthur, and with United Nations approval based on a Security Council ‘resolution of June 27 which authorized a
“crossing of the border if such action was required by mili-
tary considerations. It is a decision weighted with the gravest of possibilities ~both military and political. But there could be no other, It would be the height of folly and the negation of a brilliant.
~ ly successful campaign to stop now at this imaginary line
and let the Korean Reds reorganize to make war again.
” ~ = , . . - MEANWHILE, even df it serves no other purpose, the Chou En-lai statement throws into sharp focus and gives forewarning of the nature of the enemy we have in Chinese communism, It couldn't come at a better time. Lately there have been strong indications that both the United States and Britain were at the point of taking a new and benevolent look at the Chinese Reds. Last Friday, the United Nations Security Council dedided to invite the Chinese Communists to this country to hear their complaints’ about an American “invasion” of Formosa. ; : ; Rejecting all efforts of the Chinese Nationalist representative to veto the move, Sir Gladwyn Jebb of Britain, as council president, handed down a procedural ruling which had the effect of letting the Chinese Reds, for the first time, get a foot in the United Nations door. The U. 8S. delegation did not distinguish itself in opposition.
THE very next day, Chou En-lai, ignoring the council decision, started sounding off. He warned that he was still
determined to “liberate” Formosa; that the United States
was Red China’s “most dangerous enemy”; and ended with a strident admonition that we keep out of North Korea. By now it must be evident even to the most wishful thinkers in our State Department that you can no more do business with the Chinese Reds than you can with their Moscow masters.
Trust the People (OFFICIAL Washington seems to be getting jittery about the attitude of the American people “after Korea.” = Administration spokesmen are warning the public not to relax. : Their theme is that the people will-invite national dis-
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NATIONAL POLITICS . . .
By Charles Lucey
Control of Congress at Stake
WASHINGTON, . Oct, 3— Thirty-six handsome
" mahogany Senate seats are on the .block as
Democrats and Republicans battle for a congressional control that may point the way to the presidential race of 1952. Twenty-three now are occupied by Democrats, 13 by Republicans. Here’s the lineup across the country on the races that look hottest:
Ohio—With Sen. Robert A. Taft the defending titleholder, you have to give this top billing in the nation. A half-pint of smart political man
- named Joseph (Jumping Joe) Ferguson, now .
Ohio State Auditor, is the Democratic challenger. Organized labor has made Mr. Taft one of three chief targets and is pouring all the money and effort it can get its hands on into the job of defeating him. Once it seemed Mr. Taft would win handily. Now it's thought the decision may be fairly close. Both sides claim an edge. ’ Illinois—Senate Democratic Leader Scott Lucas against Ex-Rep. Everett M. Dirksen in a close one. Mr, Lucas is backing away from such Fair Deal nifties as the Brannan Plan and the administration’s compulsory national health insurance program. Mr. Dirksen has been stumping Illinois for 20 months while Mr. Lucas has
lost to Mr. Henning in the Democratic primary, may put his oar in.on this one. ; Iowa—Republican Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper is opposed by Albert Loveland, ex-assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and this is one place where the Brannan Plan may cut a figure. The GOP counts this one safe but Democrats believe they have a chance.
Target of Labor
COLORADO--GOP Sen. Eugene Millikin 1s the third of labor's big targets, and he has his hands full trying to keep Democratic Rep. John Carroll from grabbing his seat. His job is tougher by reason of the recent death of ExGov. Ralph Carr, who was seeking the governorship again and was sure to give strength to Mr. Millikin's fight. Both sides are the edge and either could be right. It's ene of the big ones because Mr. Millikin is’ Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman and one of the GOP’s big thinkers. California—It’s . the former actress, Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, against Rep. Richard Nixon, for the seat now held by Sen. Sheridan Downey. Mrs. Douglas is a good campaigner with a liberal record. Mr.
had to stick to his Washington job. The on-the- -
scene Illinois
Tagged as Isolationist
~-MR. LUCAS will have to come out of Cook County (Chicage) with a walloping good margin churned up by the Democratic machine, and that's complicated by a Chicago crime scandal at the moment. The Democrats tag Mr. Dirksen as a dreary isolationist. Connecticut—In a state which rocks back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, Sens. Brien McMahon and William Benton, both Democrats, are in a rough brawl to save their political lives. Ex-Rep. Joe Talbot is Mr. McMahon's— GOP opponent. Prescott Bush is Mr. Benton's challenger, The Senate race is all mixed up with a real political rhubarb in the governor's race, in which Gov. Chester Bowles is trying to retain his job. New York—Democratic Sen. Herbert Lehman is opposed by Ex-Lt. Gov. Joseph Hanley, in a race overshadowed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's bid for another term at Albany. Mr. hman is a great vote-getter but if Mr. Dewey wins big he might pull Mr, Hanley with him.
Pennsylvania—Gov. James H. Duff, the handsome big redhead at Harrisburg, is out after the seat now held by Democrat’ Francis J. Myers. This s the seat the Republicans are most cocky about winning, the cne the Democrats least sure about holding. Indiana—Republican Sen. Homer E. Cape-
‘are cagey about calling
hart is opposed by Alex Campbell, once an as- _
sistant U. 8. Attorney General, Neither candidate is likely to stir much excitement in the national picture. > ~— Missouri-—Republican Sen. Forrest C. Donnell is facing a tough opponent in Ex-Rep. Thomas Henning. Mr. Donnell {s another of labor's three chief targets for defeat. Mr. Henning will carry St. Louis and Kansas City but Mr. Donnell, the ulous honesty amounting almost to eccentricit an, whose favorite
SIDE GLANCES
“If we don’t go through with our program now, we will rg
be in mortal peril.” ;
SECRETARY of Commerce Sawyer asserts that the .
coutitry must be resolutely prepared for long years of serious shortages, heavy taxes and problems of inflation. The American people deserve from their government
~ something more, and something better, than these pep talks.
” They deserve to be trusted. ; bi "They are fully capable of understanding that if the fighting war ends for a time in Korea—and of that there
. is, as yet, no certainty-—it will not mean peace and security
have been won, They realize their danger. : “They deserve, from the men who make up their government, an example of resolution and courage. SO FAR, they have not had that in full measure. ° They have seen only a slow-starting, slow-moving pre_paredness program which would take years to reach its adequate goal. ;
They have seen inflation getting in its deadly work and determined government action 'to
without prompt The American people can be trusted to follow: courage- .
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by Ex-Sen, Worth Clark, who now is getting a rough going-over from GOP farmer-lawyer Herman Welker. Among Mr. Welker’s publicized assets is a friendship with crooner Bing Crosby, who put in a plug for him in the primary race.
~Both sides are making claims in this one.
Bitter Fight
OKLAHOMA—Rep. Mike Monroney beat Sen. Elmer Thomas for the Democratic nomination, and is opposed now by Rep. William Alexander, Republican Oklahoma City preacher, Mr. Monroney, one of the ablest Democrats in Congress, is running in an ordinarily Democratic’ state, but has a bitter fight on his hands. Maryland—The hope of the Republicans, whose candidate is John Butler, is that the whitewash charges against Democratic Sen. Millard Tydings, growing out of the investigation
of Reds in the State Department, will give them
a chance.
SONG AT TWILIGHT
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munist infiltration ¢f the Republican Party. Naturally, why would anyone want to infiltrate a dead body? Not having been in office for nearly 20 years, and pursuing policies which will assure their
Twenty organizations participated in the planning and execution of the survey, the first of its kind in this country. We hope to provide this same service again next year. :
PRICE SUPPORTS . . . By Earl Richert
Are Farmers Turning to GOP?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—Are the farmers—
been required in the past. But in this case, the marketing order (which governs marketing of potatoes) was put into effect because farmers representing more than ‘two-thirds of the volume of production had
a sizable majority voted against. Why this refusal by potato farmers to avail themselves of government price supporis? “They were voting agains imentation,” said a spokesman for the Amer-
_jcan Farm Bureau Federation.
- “I think they were voting Republican,” said another .farm organization spokesman, “The fear of government regimentation certainly was the No. 1 cause,” said a high Agriculture Department official. In previous years, potato farmers received government price supports without having to follow all the rules and restrictions of marketing orders which govern movement to market and size of the potatoes to be marketed. This year, after years which saw hundreds of millions of dollars lost on the potato price-
propping decreed that farmers must ) by marketing orders if they were to receive government price supports. ‘These marketing orders were voted down by potato growers in Delaware-Maryland, Long Island, upstate New York, Wyoming-Westérn Nebraska, Central Nebraska, Pennsylvania and California (except for the two northern counties). Approving was the lower New England area and New Jersey. Rejected Agreements HOW lo] has been the outcome is shown by these statistics: Farmers producing nearly 30 per cent of the country’s potatoes have voted on marketing agreements this year. And of this group of farmers, nearly 93 per cent rejected the agreements. Agriculture Department officials think though that the tide may be turning as a result
ficials. A few weeks agos this area also would reject the government marketing order. Other major potato growing areas, including Maine, are operating qunder marketing agreements set up in previous years,
More Spent This Year THE government, despite the smaller areas entitled to price ; already has spent $11.7 million potato. prices so far this year, as compared with $7.3 million up to this time last year. ; This is due, say Agriculture officials, to growing conditions, which brought large shipments onto the market. at the same time. There will be no potato price supports on next year's crop, by act of Congress.
OFFICIAL FEARS . . . By Ludwell Denny : Red Peril in Europe Growing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—In the midst of official fears here of American public indifference to rearmament after Korean victory, Stalin provides reminders of peril in central Europe. Violent Red
tria, are taken seriously here.
The of Allied concern is that two British Pattalions
ers charged the
Russian " with provoking the Austrian riots and with in--
timidating local police. The disturbances
lieved to be the start of a mounting series of similar violent clashes during the fall’ and winter. = :
Seen as Rehearsals
ALL-OUT Red civil war is not considered
probable—yet. The current displays are interpreted as rehearsals. Though long planned to follow the Berlin May Day demonstrations, they were and timed specifically to offset Soviet loss of face in the Korean retreat. Aside from Stalin’s need to buck up waning morale in East European satellite countries, he
his occupation zones of
Germany and Austria. demonstrations presumably
These are desgund 18 part to prevent any
backsliding in East Germany and East Austria by showing un-.. happy inhabitants that the Reds are still on the march. :
The end purpose, of course, is the ane openly
avowed by the Communists—to undermine the pro-Ally governments of Bonn and Vienna and w
By Galbraith SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES . . . By Peter Edson
Delay Seen in Test of Anti-Red Bill
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says that the Department of Justice must petition the new Subversive Activities
28; A WORD here about this board. The members will receive $12,500 a year salary. They must be appointed by the President and ‘confirmed by the Senate. There may be some difficulty in finding highly qualified men of proper judicial witch-hunters—to take the
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y the results are apt to be the opposite of that intended. The local governments are stiffening and the Allies are confirmed in their plan to increase, rather than withdraw, their occupation forces in central Europe.
No Surprise STALIN'S speed in starting trouble in central Europe—while Korea is still unfinished business, and a new Red military campaign is bein Indo~China—does not surprise Ameri can #. It is typical Kremlin strategy and was foreseen. Two aspects of the Red rehearsals in West Gerinany aad Vienna are of interest here. One is the reaction of the non-Communist populations, particularly labor unions, The other is the efficiency of local governments and police in handling these riots. ; : Tentative and incomplete reports are more reassuring on Germany than Austria. In the Ruhr, Hamburg and elsewhere, the attitude of organized labor and of the Socialist Party leader, Kurt Schumacher, has been gratifying. West Geéfman authorities were alert and forehanded, their intelligence system operated well and the police apparently did an excellent job.
Difficult Situation ’ IN VIENNA the situation is more delicate ‘and difficult. Popular fear of rising prices enthe small Red minority, and Viennese
courages ;«-police. fear of Red troops there almost invites . Communist violence.
“i AS & test of what can happen in the Austrian caplial he events of the past week must be as
hi Moscow as they are disturbing to
This may start a new daisy chain of litigation. Assuming that the courts do uphold the Subversive Activities Control of an organization, the Department of Justice must then start
. as imprisonment of from two to five years. Long court cases and appeals are sure to follow, i » a NO one has any idea of how many criminal suits may be filed under this law, if it is held to be constitutional.
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