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The Need for Arges Ward

ANGUS WARD is a clear-headed, courageous diplomat of the old school, accustomed to reporting honestly and intelligently just what he saw and heard from wherever he has been stationed. : It so happens that throughout his 25 years’ service he has been at posts in or pear Communist Russia. There can not be the slightest doubt of what he thinks of communism, whether Russian, Chinese or any other brand. But, for his honesty and independence he is to be shelved. Don’t be fooled by the State Department's glib talk about rules and “existing openings.” Angus Ward is being sent to an obscure spot in Africa because he's rubbed the fur the wrong way on the be-nice-to-Russia boys still sheltered n ths State Department. <

They can't forget or forgive him for snarling up their little plan of recognizing Communist China last year. His arrest and 13 thonths’ detention by the Chinese Reds at Mukden exploded such public indignation that recognition had to be laid aside. Now they are toying with the idea again and it wouldn't be helpful to have the well-informed Mr. Ward around. ti ~~ Ttisn’t the first time the old heave-ho has been administered. Joseph Grew, Stanley Hornbeck, Eugene Dooman and others, who also were experts on Asia or on communism, have been eased out for messing up the dreams of the Redtinged office of Far Eastern affairs. Alger Hiss, it may be recalled, was a key man in this division from 1939 to 1944 when China's “agrarian reformers” were getting the nod from our government.

- a ~ - » » QUITE apart from the callous treatment about to be handed to Angus Ward, The Times believes it would be a serious mistake and against the national interest to hide him away in Nairobi, Africa. There are too many trouble spots in the world today where genuine experts are gravely needed. They are needed to set aright the miscalculations that have piled up the burdens for us in the cold war. All around the rim of the Communist world—in Germany, Austria, Italy, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Formosa—there is a very pressing reoglirement for the brains, ability, experience, courage and understanding, with which Mr; Ward is so well equipped. In many of these places now are consular officials one to four grades junior to Mr. Ward, comparatively new in service and of such meaningless backgrounds as “teacher,” “grain inspector,” “information specialist” and the like.

. ” = # * . The eminent qualifications of Mr. Ward surely cannot have escaped President Truman's notice. Mr. Truman had a long private talk with Mr. Ward soon after his return from his China ordeal, and subsequently raised him in rank to a Class I officer with an increase in pay. And by now Mr. Truman must be aware that the State Department has been filtering the harsh and damning reports about communism that have come in from clearsighted diplomats such as Mr. Ward, on the scene and able to size up various crises as they matured. We must have such men in their proper fields today. Mr. President, it is still not too late. You can save Angus Ward from an ignominious assignment and avail the country of his desperately needed services.

We Need More Sewers VWHITE RIVER, below Indianapolis, has become a stinking cesspool. Whole communities are nauseated, and endangered, because the biggest city in Indiana dumps thousands of tons of raw, untreated waste into the stream every day. The hopeless and futile strike into which city sanitation workers were tricked by.their own leaders has done them no good, but it has brought the city’s sewage crisis into -the open again. ... ‘Engineers tell us the city" plant now is treating about 65 per cent of the sewage that reaches the plant. : © That, they say, is slightly better than it was doing before the ‘strike began. It isn't very good. But the cate] in the statistics is that only part of the city's waste matter ever gets to the sanitation plant at all. The sewers just aren't big enough to handleit ... so it flows direct into the river. Even if they could carry it to the plant, the plant itself would be too small to purify it.

2 THE SEWAGE disposal plant we “have was built a “Quarter century ago, for a city not much more than half “our present size. : £ Rapidly growing sections of homes and industries, in“Side the city limits and just outside, make demands our present system is completely inadequate to meet. Indianapolis must, and rather soon, Sndertgse. a com-. ‘plete rebuilding job to expand sanitary facilities . . . even if the city doesn’t go on growing. ; Ti : The pollution of the White River is just a symptom rand only one of a number of symptoms . . ..of a situation {serious enough to blight the whole future of this community.

#1 . Purdue Did It SJNDIANA is supposed to be the state where sports means basketball. Maybe so. But this week we suddenly find ourselves with the two greatest football teams in the world. Right here in Indiana. : Every autumn Saturday afternoon for the Mst five years one or another of the nation’s top football teanms has been aimed at Notre Dame. Beating the Irish was the one sure road to college football greatness. In 39 tries not one had managed to do it. Since Dec. 1, 1945, Notre Dame hadn't been beaten. Well, it had to Bappen some time. But when it did . . it took another Hoosier outfit to do it. : Indiana this tek congratulates Stu Holcomb and Purdue for a great victory, - Ki A victory which doesn't in the least dim the luster of Frank Leahy and the Notre Dame teams which have run up tie most imposing record of football history. oni Fo Jes to twvs Js a rigagbare 9 the family though

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STALIN MEETING Stassen Seeks to

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-If Stalin grants Harold Stassen the interview he's seeking, it would be a repeat performance of a now almost forgotten meeting in 1947. The time was April. Mr. Stassen was on a 60-day tour of nine European countries, expenses paid by the Ladies Home Journal. The Council of Foreign Ministers, including then Secretary of State Marshall, was meeting in Moscow, making another of a series of attempts to reach a permanent settlement with the Russians.

Mr. Stassen breezed into "Moscow, settled .

down in a hotel and sent word to Stalin he'd like to see him.

Questions Rehearsed

AT about 5 a. m. a Russian awoke him with -

the news that Stalin had consented to an interview that.night at 11 o'clock. Mr. Stassen had rehearsed his questions. “I had long ago decided,” he wrote in the Journal, “that it would clearly not be proper for me to take up any of the current points of direct issue between our governments such as the items then being negotiated by the Council of Foreign Ministers, as 1 did not in any way represent the government of the United States and a discussion of this kind could very easily confuse the situa-

* . tion and embarrass our government.”

But Mr. Stassen hadn't come all the way to Moscow with a writing assistant just to discuss “superficialities,” and so he adopted this line of discussion: The ability of capitalism and communism to co-exist in peace, The chances of ending the deadlock on international control and inspection of amc en- , and The possibility of reducing Russian press censorship and promoting a freer exchange of information.

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By James Daniel

Repeat Interview

Stalin received the Stassen party with Molotov and a Russian interpreter. While the interpreter was interpreting, Stalin doodled with a blue pencil on a note pad before him.. After 40 minutes Mr. Stassen made as if to go, but Stalin said; “We Russians respect our guests.” So Mr. Stassen decided to stay 40 minutes more. Back at the hotel, he noted pleasurably that the elevator operators’ and waiters couldn't do enough for him and his companions after Pravda mentioned that Stalin had received the *‘eminent leader of the Republican Party in the U. 8. A, Mr. Harold Stassen.™ Secretary Marshall was given an “informal” fill-in on the interviéw. The U. 8. newspaper men in Moscow were called and met Mr. Stassen. One now in Washington recalls “he didn’t say anything out ef line, but there was a sort of general feeling of a young man beyond his

_ ‘depth, either naive or publicity seeking.”

The main body of the interview—Stalin's assertion that it was possible for communism and capitalism to work together and Stalin's opinion that an agreement on atomic energy would be reached—was reserved by Mr. Stassen

_ for release three weeks later in Washington.

Compared Statements RADIO Moscow, quoting a line-by-line comparison by Tass of the Stassen and the Russian notes on the interview, accused Mr. Stassen of alterations and omissions.” Mr.

nomic systems of the U. 8. A. and the U. 8.8. R. are different, but we didn’t wage war against each other and the U. S. 8. R. does not propose to.” Tass said Stalin had said: ‘The economic systems of the U. S. A. and the U. 8. 8S. R. were different, but they did not fight each other but collaborated during the war.” Not a word about Russia's . intentions.

By William Jacobs

Workers Seek More of Profits

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 9—-The CIO United Steel Workers will base thelr coming demand for a wage increase chiefly upon their claim to a greater share of profits resulting from increased productivity in the industry. They will use industry figures to show an, increased output per man hour. ‘And they will contend that the increased productivity is due chiefly to benefits derived by the companies from plant improvement and modernization and rescheduling of jobs.

Draft General Terms

THE wage-policy committee is meeting to draft, at least in general terms, the demand of ihe union that some 1400 basic steel and metal fabricating companies raise wages as soon as possible. i ; Other factors besides pr&ductivity will enter into the negotiations. Philip Murray, union president, says the cost of living will have to be taken into comsideration. He has always opposed tying wages

to the cost of living on the ground hat such

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an arrangement would prevent ‘the steelworker from ever improving his standard of living. However, ‘Mr. ee has received

. ‘many letters and telegrams from individual steelwork-

ers in the field which, he says have pointed up the hardships caused by recent living-cost increases. x Union leaders also will emphasize the “prof--itability of the industry.” They Will. produce industry figures to show that it made about twice as much money during the first six months of this year as it did in the corresponding pe-

riod of 1949. Arrange Other Issues

MR. MURRAY hinted that the union will ask the companies to discuss such non-wage issues as the union shop and pension programs. The contract can be opened only for wage negotiations, unless the companies agree to broaden the nature of the talks. Mr. Murray said that only two major “steel companies—the U. S. Steel Corp. and the Bethlehem Stéel Corp.—have not agreed to his sug-

. gestion that wage negotiations be moved up

from Nov. 1 to this week.

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fawolution, you'd think it was something excifingl” for fhe year.

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rent gouging? Three couples, two with their children, have wa apartments in a beautiful, modern home with everything furnished, the entire home turned over to them to live as daughters in the home, and each of these three

DEAR BOSS .

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. By Dan Kidney

Argues GOP Friend of Negroes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—Dear Boss: A na- . tive Hoosier who took both journalism and business administration at Indiana University has - just completed a campaign pamphlet designed to show that the GOP and not the Democratic Party is the real friend of the Negro. He is Val J. Washington, native of Columbus, Ind., who has been assistant to the chairman of the at ‘National Committee at headquarters here since 1946. After graduating from IU, Mr. Washington entered Chicago Republican politics and served four terms on the Illinois Commerce Commission. He points out that the first Negro to come to Congress since reconstruction days was Rep. Oscar Depriest of Chicago. He was elected on the Republican ticket, while Mr. Washington was active in politics there. That district now is represented by another Negro Congressman, Rep. William L. Dawson, a Democrat. The other Negro in the House is a Democrat from New York City, Rep. Adam C. Powell Jr, but Mr. Washington points out that it was Gov. E. Dewey who gerry-

mandered the 22d New York District to make

the election of a Negro possible.

Five Negro Candidates HE POINTS out that while Congressmen Dawson and Powell are the only Negroes on the Democratic ticket in this , the GOP offers five Negro candidates. They ‘are Archibald J. Carey Jr. who is running t Mr. Dawson and Elmer A. Carter against Mr. Powell. ; The other three all have white Democratic opponents, Mr. Washington pointed out. The

Hodge, Cleveland, and Sidney i St. Louis. “You can trust them, along with their ‘Republican colleagues, to carry on an all-out fight for civil rights,” Mr. Washington said His pamplilet will be distributed to all areas where there are Negro voters. It is entitled: “Civil Rights Double Talk, the Egg That Truman Laid, 1950 Edition.” It charges that President Truman promised to establish a permanent commission on civil rights, a joint congressional committee on civil

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rights, a fair employment practice commission, federal protection against lynching, home rule and suffrage for the District of Columbia. It says that he also promised to prohibit discrimination in interstate transportation, strengthen existing civil rights statutes and protect more adequately the right of everyone to vote. Accom panying this list of promises is the picture of a big egg with this in red letters: “Truman delivered nothing but a goose egg.”

Defend South's Position

ALL this is on page one of the pamphlet and inside are well-drawn cartoons emphasizing what the President could and did not do about Negro rights, There are verbatim reports from speeches of the two Alabama Senators, Lister Hill and John Sparkman, in which they defend the South's position regarding Negroes and these are headed: { “Here are the reasons you will never get civil rights under the Democrats . . . read what two prominent Truman Democrats say.” The quotation from Sen. Hill is taken from a radio broadcast made in Montgomery, Ala., April 12, 1950, when he was seeking renomination in the Democratic primary. It begins: “I am a states rights Democrat. I have fought the battle of states rights. I tell you it is the power and influence of your Senators and Congressmen that has made possible the defeat of FEPC and other so-called civil rights bills. They hold this power and influence as members of the Democratic Party.”

Against Civil Rights SEN. SPARKMAN'S was made on behalf of Sen. Hill at Mobile Apr. 17. It began: “We do not have to sarifice any of our convictions, I am against the civil rights proposals —always have been and always will be.” That an ardent drive for the Negro vote will be made in- Indiana was indicated by a

speech of Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) at Franklin. In it he urged that President Truman

name a Negro as one of the five members of the Subversive Activities Control Board provided under the new law which was passed over the Presidential veto.

By John W. Love

European Defense Is Confusing

LONDON, Oct. 9—The war in Korea gave a terrific jolt to planning for European defense, but the details of finance, production and supply are still bewildering, even to people working on the program, It Washington appears to be confused, Lon-

reguirem gradually being provided, but as yet it has pro-. duced no reliable framework upon which a program of equipping the combined defense force can be erected, Despite the extreme uigeney. more work must be done on the chart of boards, committees, staffs and agmimstrators,

Test of Ingenuity A GROUP of newspapermen has been briefed by American and British authorities. The impression obtained is that the attempt at simultaneous preparation for defense is one which tests human ingenuity more than any undertaking of the western” world has ever done. The North Atlantic Council and its agencies are trying to provide in a short time all the management that was achieved in the years of

war from 1939 through 1941, and longer. Un- —

fortunately, no start can be made wilh the framework which existed in 1945 because conditions are so different. Differences between i945 and 1950 may partly be summed up as follows: The war in Korea has made obsolete some military equipment. Much redesign in unexpectedly required. Its standardization is necesearily far off. : ;

. By Douglas Larsen

_ The British have a welfare program which the Lapor Party says it won't reduce, so their additional production must be afforded from higher taxes and greater productivity. President Truman's refusal to cut down in social outlays provides them an

example. They .. ‘also are nationalizing the steel industry and

have its difficulties to handle. Meanwhile, their SCONGMY 12 gravely menaced by new wage deman *

Spread Thin ; « ‘THE British have expensive forces not only in Korea, Hong Kong and Malaya, but also in the Middle East, West Africa and East Africa. They feel they are spread thin already. And they point out that since Russia could not run a general war without more oil, the burden of defense might first fall upon their Middle Eastern divisions, which are closest to available oil.

vIn place of lend-lease and the combined

boards of materials and production, we, now Have the Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA).

Fear of War

THE ECA can’t taper off its subsidies, even though business has improved almost everywhere in Europe. That's because the boom it“self springs from very abnormal circumstances —those of inflationary fear of war, So the ECA will have to swing over from providing srdinary industrial and civilian goods to handling the requirements from America of the European defense agencies as well as the

_ civilian needs not paid for by exports.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—U. 8. Customs agents now have ta +} © watch efforts to “smuggle out” materials under export controls, as well as catching efforts to smuggle in. Not only munitions; but also scarce raw materials and drugs, are among the commodities which smarties try country in violation of law. Typical was a recent effort to conceal

to ship out of the

WHAT frightens most ‘people in the Pentagon about getting a new Secretary of Defense is the possibility of starting all

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