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: 2Defeatism, the Enemy EN. EISENHOWER'S speech to Congress yesterday was more of an inspirational sermon than a report.

He spoke from his heart on a subject that lately has ‘been troubling.all of us—fear and defeatism. “It would be false and idle,” the general acknowledged, “to say that there does not exist (in Europe) in many strata of society, pessimism bordering upon defeatism.” But on his recent tour of 13 countries he found “evi"dence of a rejuvenation, a growth of determination, a spirit to resist, a spirit again to live the lives of free men, to ‘hold their heads up in the world, to do theif part and take ‘the risks.” For that we can be prayerfully thankful, and hope that this “evidence” is soon translated into action, as plans for

the defense of Western Europe against Communist aggres-_

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gion take shape—with American help. Enémy propaganda, Gen. Eisenhower said, had tried to make the Whole job appear hopeless.

“LET Us ot. buy too freely that enemy propaganda,” lie added, “or the propaganda of someone who wants to defeat our peaceful, our sane, our utterly just purposes.” “Let us not forget the strength of America, its great . people, its productive capacity, its great capacity J for leadership. ” * But, he warned, “our sysien must remain solvent as we attempt the solution of this great problem of security— we have lost the battle from within that we are trying to win from without.” Though he urged our European Allies to have faith in America, he wisely observed that the true defense of a nation lies in its soul—"‘we must make | sure that the heart and soul of Europe are ripe.” That pronouncement need not be confined to Europe. Much of the free world today, we think, can be likened to a man thrown into a hypnotic trance by the sight of a coiled rattlesnake. : While that man remains paralyzed by fear he is an easy victim. If he would cast off the spell and pick up a stout stick, the snake would be likely to crawl away.’

- » nn » - io MANY nations are afraid to support economic or military sanctions against Red China because they feel helpless before Russia's huge war machine. The Syrian dele- " gate to the United Nations spoke the thought of such nations when he said it was absurd to believe the United Nations could be as resolutt in dealing with big aggressors as with small ones. : * Again, it was generally known that French Premier Pleven came over to urge President Truman to go slow on » rearming Western Germany. The French and British admit their need for German manpower if they must fight Russia. But they fear a Russian attack would become a ~ certainty, and be hastened, the moment German rearma.ment began. 7 The spell of this fear must be broken if they are to pick up the stick before the snake strikes. 2 This same fear of bringing in Russia is one of the _ reasons our government has not encouraged Chiang Kaishek to attack the Rods on the Chinese Imginlang,

IT HAS Kept Gen. MacArthur's hands tied in Korea. It has prevented him from striking back at the enémy in *. Manchuria. : Wars aren't won by faint hearts, half measures, or . strategic withdrawals. Gen. Eisenhower was given the difficult task of awakening Europe to its peril. But it would seem presumptuous to ~ expect an America which accepts defeat in Korea to be ‘hailed in Europe as 4 potential deliverer. If Korea is aban“'doned to the Reds, the repercussions will be felt throughout the world. Yet eventual defeat there seems certain unless Gen. MacArthur is reinforced. ~~ We must conquer fear before we © communism. If we cannot do that in the Korean crisis, how can we . . hope to succeed with the larger job in Europe?

The Byrd Budget

EN. ot bh of Nags doesn’t deal in generalities when it comes to suggestions for trimming the federal budget. President Truman in his State of the Union message - called for cuts in nondefense spending, but the administration budget’s figures bore little resemblance to his preach- *. ments. We Sen. Byrd now has accepted the implied presidential

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slashing the $71.6 billion Truman budget to $62.5 billion. “Agencies all over the government,” the Virginia Democrat warned, “are again attempting fo increase their expen-. : ditures on the ground that they are contributing to national { defense.” ° : All the major socialistic programs of recent years— socialized housing, socialized medicine, price supports and federalized education— he said, were being put forward by ‘the Truman administration as “imperative” ‘to defense.

CENTERING his fire on domestic-civilian items as opposed to defense needs, he pointed out that the Truman budget would increase these expenditures by $1.3 billion over the current year. Cut it in half, Sen. Byrd urged—from $9.8 billion to $4.9 billion. He would reduce funds for public assistance from the $1.3 billion asked by Mr. Truman to $862 million, on the ground that high employment in defense would sharply reduce demands for public aid. / He would cut “agriculture and agricultural research” . items from Mr. Truman's $1.4 billion to $825 million, saving $604 million. Eliminate the $238 million asked for price-support, supply and purchase programs of the Commodity Credit. ¢ Corp. : Likewise, the $90 million the President wants for business loans through the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Halve the $12 million sought for museums and libraries. And so on. These are only some samplés. The éntire “Byrd budget” will repay close study by economy-minded = members of Congress who are determined to carve the fat - out of nonessential federal] spending. :

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Cm lis T es SHORT ROAD. ro FRIENDSHIP © vo. iBy Peter isagor The, Indignapol ihe A Deadly Enemy, Now Finds self 2

‘Germany, Once

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2-The long effort to redeerh Germany for the West has been sharply dramatized by the latest act of leniency by U. 8. occupation authorities. The freeing of Alfred Krupp, Nazi steel magnate, and clemency toward other war criminals, including the 88 participants of the Malmedy massacres, reveal at a glimpse the distance Germany has fraveled as a former enemy. Officially, of course, the leniency is based on a legal review of the cases which presumably adjudged the sentences as too severe and made in the heat of postwar passions. But it représents, competent sources agree

privately, efforts to remove all sore spots in

relations with the Germans. The war crimes trials have been bitterly resented in Germany.

Rearmament Program

' UNITED STATES High Commissioner John -

J. McCloy has been extremely active in efforts to bring the Germans along in Europe's armament program and was undoubtedly mindful of the chance to ease the problem. But officials here stoutly deny that the clemency for Krupp, whose war plats powered the Nazi war machine, and the others was directly related to the defense program. It is pointed out that reviews of the war trials were set in motion long before lina to

DEAR BOSS . . . Dan Kidney

Pay Attention

To Homer, Boys

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—80 far as the Republican forces of senior Sen. Homer E. Cape~

‘hart are concerned, junior Sen. William E. Jen- |

ner can go right ahead being boss of the GOP Party organization in Indiana and run for Governor in 1952

_ After-he won reelection in 1950, with the largest majority

of the state, there was talk that Ben, .Capehart would proceed to take over the party reins. Anti-Jenner men, who had this in mind,

came of it, as the organization of the Republican legislature with Jefiner supporters proved. Sen. Jenner so mpared with en, Jenner, who had .. . Homer's a factor Deen both a minority and majority leader in the Indiana Senate and later State Republican Chairman, Sen, Capehart doesn’t have the “know-how” to swing such things. The man who prevented the nomination of Sen, Jenner for governor in 1948, then Gov. Ralph Gates, still is Republican National Com-

.mitteeman, but he had little active part in the

1950 campaign. The two Senators had ganged up to prevent him becoming National Republican Chairman, so he sat it out in his law office at Columbia City. Last week, Mr. Gates attended the Republican National Committee meeting here and entertained the two Senators and nine Republican Congressmen at a Mayflower Hotel luncheon. He said he had no more formed a new political partnership to advance Sen. Jenner's plans for the party, than he had with Sen. Capehart. He likes them both equally it appeared. Thus there are no apparent roadblocks to Sen. Jenner's gubernatorial plans at this point.

Clear 'em With Homer.

THERE are some things, however, that had better be cleared with Sen. Capehart. Among them are these— ONE: Should Sen. Jenner decide he wants the governorship, Sen. Capehart will be vitally interested in who the party convention selects as his junior colleague here, should the Republicans win again. TWO: As he was in 1948, Sen. Capehart would like.to again be the “favorite son” candidate at the national convention two years hence. At least he' would want to have .eontrol of the delegation from Indiana. THREE: In any case, he wouldn’t want that delegation pledged in advance to Sen. Robert A, Taft (R. 0.) or any other candidate, FOUR: If it were possible, Sen. Capehart would take either first or second place on the national ticket. FIVE: If a Republican is elected President and Sen. Capehart remains where he is. now, he would want to have a lion's share of federal patronage. As a practical businessman, who has turned to politics, Sen. Capehart doesn’t intend to let any of the life-long politicians give him the business. That was proven when he had a separate

organization collecting thousands of dollars to °

renominate him in an unopposed convention last year. He didn’t turn the balance over to the state committee until long after the last roll was called. Wise in the ways of the business world, Sen. Capehart is getting wiser daily in politics. He is a factor that the “Jenner boys” had better take into account.

What Others Say—

WE plan one big improvement for next year. We now have mechanical pitchers and mechanical ball retrievers. But next year we also plan to have mechanical batters. Then we'll be able to dispense with the players.—New Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Fresco Thompson. ;

SIDE GLANCES

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use German manpower in a. European army ‘were formulated. “It was a conjunction of circumstances which the Communists will probably attempt to ex- ~ ploit to the hilt,” one official said. In the ¢ “of this latest develop- _ ment is the fact that Germany has become a prize in the East-West struggle. Even before the Russians showed they had

no intention of co-operiting toward a peace not be too °

treaty with Germany, the “let's peastly with the Germans” attitude was prevalent in several quarters. Some of it came from’ those who felt the war crimes had set a bad precedent, particularly should this country be on the losing ead of a war. Others felt the Germans might be

useful if trouble developed with the Soviets.

Still others believed: that the key to European peace was a unified Germany, economically sound but militarily toothless. And that-a “too beastly” air might turn it toward communism.

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. By Frederick C. Othman

The Postum Bo ys Can't Talk Mean About (shhhh) Coffee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—With plenty of sugar and cream, Postum isn't bad. Not bad at all, though I am no addict to it. I am a coffee man, myself, and hence I think I am a fair arbiter in the current dispute between’ the General Foods Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission. = A good deal fairer, come to think of it, than the commission, as I hope to prove in a minute. This Postum is made of toasted wheat and allied grains, Then it's ground until it looks like coffee, and boiled like coffee . for the benefit of thcse who insist that the genuine article’ keeps ‘em Tule awake nights. Fair z= ig enough, because a lot a of people feel that way. So the peddlers of Postum issued a series of advertisements saying Postum was one drink that caused no divorces, business failures, factory accidents, juvenile delinquency, traffic What

can claim this? Even milk ‘causes accidents, on account of the way those cows kick when you try to milk them on the wrong side. These Postum ads weren't denouncing milk, or even tea. Just some vague and dangerous drink they didn’t mention. The Trade Commissioners, who are smart fellows and not easily

" faken in, pondered those displays and wondered

what drink the Postum makers meant. Whisky? Couldn't be that because the tortured people in the ads were -Svinking some steaming black

By Galbraith NATIONAL DEFENSE . Public Compliance Can Put End to Controls

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—To understand fully the seemingly tight wage and price freezes announced Jan. 26 and the thaws which began appearing on the following Monday, it is necessary ” to understand Eric Johnston's philosophy. The new head of the

Economic Stabilization Agency

Congressional 1 » mittee. Not much attention was

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paid to it then because the news was lost in the more sensational freeze orders which came a few hours later. Eric Johnston's main thesis is that “Wage and {price controls cannot be effective long.” Experience in the last war backs up this statement. When people got tired of controls, they found ways to evade them. This was just as true of consumers as it was of producers and distributors. On wages it was just as true of employees as of employers. Finally the whole system broke down. For all these reasons, ‘Mr. Johnston says, “We must get. rid of controls at the earliest possible moment.”

trols are going to be lifted systematically, one or two a day, till they're all gone. What ‘it implies is that wherever the controls are found to be unfair,

stuff. Hot buttered rum? Nope, the people were taking the fluid from a cup: The commission concluded that the Postum proprietors were sneering at coffee. So they got the lawyers to draw up formal stipulations, - which they mage the General Foods Corp. sign. Forevermore, swore this mighty corporation, it will refrain from saying or even hinting in its advertisements that drinking coffee ‘causes wives to hit their husbands, sleepy carpenters to bang their thumbs with hammers, nervous motorists to wrap their machines’ around telephone posts, or harried householders to lose their homes to noncoffee drinking loan sharks. The commission went too far, Coffee is the cause of a great déal of household discord. The trouble is that the female sex brews it too weak. This causes husbands to become belligwerent and that, as the Postum people used to claim until stopped by their Uncle Samuel, does the divorce rate no good.

What Now, Men?

THE commissioners should be interested to know that my own bride, who is perfect in all other ways, makes coffee that looks like strong tea and tastes like rusty water tro a steam radiator. I have threatened to beat hér and also to consult a divorce lawyer. She looks me in the eye 'and laughs. What, Mr. Commissioners, should I do now? As for the coffee-causing foreclosures, as charged by Postum, I wouldn't doubt it. I long have been a user of concentrated coffee powder which cost a year ago 89 cents per large jar. ‘The same jar today, and not full all the way to the 2 either, cost $1.56. That's the kind of thing that leads to delinquent mortgages. My only esgiusion is that the Federal Trade Commission was nervous, irritable, and suffering from sleeplessness when it issued this order. Been drinking too much coffee, probably.

. By Peter Edson

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toward building a friendly atmosphere for Germany's participation.

May Depend on Courts

AS FOR the restoration of Krupp's property rights which were confiscated at Nuernberg in an order reversed by Mr. McCloy, nd hard explanation is available here. Officials say Krupp will probably be coms pensated when his properties are finally broken up into smaller firms under decentralization laws, But that may depend, they say, upon the German courts. For Krupp’'s holdings were confiscated by Hitler in 1943 and the title is clouded. “In sum, the actions toward Krupp and the war criminals are a measure of what has happened since 1945 and the state of the “cold war” with Russia.

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Let's Be Fair’ ; ‘

MR. EDITOR:

While visiting here in your fair city I have read your daily forum every day and wish to congratulate you on such a great public service You are rendering. I would like to reply to a letter which ap-

peared Wednesday in the Hoosier Forum en-

titled “Telephone Rates.” The writer of the letter evidently does not understand fully the

on telephone business.

First the Writer maintains greater volume, and the mass production makes for reduced prices. As an éxample he points to chain stores. With all the mass production chain stores have they still charge 89 cents per pound of coffee. ob

. SECONDLY, he maintains the telephone company installed the dial system to eliminate thousands of hello girls and so greatly increase profits, But he has failed to take into consideration the huge defense program the telephone company is starting and the company must stand the expense not the government, In all fairness to the telephone companies compare the strikes and the wages which now exist bétween your local telephone company, ‘and the chain stores. If Mr, Hogan feels the greatest evil of the telephone company is a monopoly and he feels keen competition would change the. picture I would like to ask this one question. Television today is one of the keenest in competitive business and yet your television sets are high in price. Take a look at the milk industry and milk is high in price and continues to rise. Consideration must also be given to the fact that in the manufacturing of telephone equipment steel, one of the highest of all commodities; is used in the manufacturing of telephones. Steel and copper today as has been since the war is very high in price, «J. R. Cornell. Bad Road Condition MR. EDITOR: Much has been said lately concerning the efficiency of the State Highway Department. I would like to both commend and criticize this department. Road No. 34 is kept in very good condition by the men as far as’the Hendricks, Marion County line, in Hendricks County. Two weeks ago last Sunday when the heavy snow fell late in the evening, by 10 p. m, the road had been well scraped. Last Sunday morning they had a good covering of sand over the ice and it really helped the driving to and from Indianapolis. * & 9%

MARION COUNTY still had done nothing by late Monday morning. There is a stretch of highway extending from Thompson's curve just west of Speedway, to Eagle Creek that is pro-

tected from southern winds and sun that is .

always slick long after the rest of the road is clear.

In the past year, I have seen a great num- ~

ber of accidents along this stretch and would

* like to know if something couldn't be done about

it. The Highway Department never puts anything on this until a great number of accidents have happened. Again I ask, can’t something be done in

~ Marion County?

—John C. Cretons, Brownsburg,

THANK YOU MOTHER

. THE lessons that my mother taught . , , still linger till this day’, . . though many many years have passed . .. and ¥ + « +» she taught me to know right from wrong + + « and how to wear a smile , , . in face of uny obstacle . . . because it was worthwhile . . . she showed me the real meaning of . . . a thing we call fair play . .. and that if I would practice it . . . I'd have a happy way . . . then too she taught me how to pray ... and look to God above . . . for hope and strength to do the right ++ + and live in peace and love . . . the lessons that my mother taught... still linger till today + « « for they are lessons of the heart .. . as wise men rightly say.

~By Ben Burroughs

Johnston, “we can cure the inflationary fever and return to ” a sound body politic.” °

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causing more inflation instead of less, they will be modified. Price and wage controls are considered essential now to prevent runaway inflation, says Mr. Johnston. There “is high degree inflationary fever. If it is allowed to continue unchecked, it will adversely affect the welfare of the American people. The objective of the controls is to stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar, with a fair relationship between wages and prices. When this stability has been achieved, ‘controls can be removed. Before this can be done, however, the fundamental

. causes of the inflation must be cured, says Mr. Johnston. He °

says. can be done, first by increasing production of goods and s 8. If there is an

abundant supply of things, prices should come down #utomatically. Second, the supply ‘of money must be kept in line with the quantity of production and with the quantity of goods

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SINCE the start of the Korean War, Mr. Johnston points olit there has been a $6 billion increase in the supply of money. There has been an $8 billion increase in credit. And the turnover of demand deposits is higher than it has been in 13 years.

To cure thése causes of inflation, it will be necessary to keep controls over the private supplies of credit. And it will be necessary to balance the federal government's budget for as long as two or three years in a row. What this implies primarily is that there must be heavy féderal taxation. But’ all these drastic measures are needed to restore confidence in the dollar, ” Mr. Johnston says this is primarily the problem of the American people. It is not just

_the problem of some tempo-

rary bureaucrats in Washington. If the people understand

the necessity for wage and

price controls, they will live up to them. No controls can be effective unless people realfor their own best interests. But if full compliance is - obtained, then, says Mr.

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» » » SOMETHING of this same philosophy seems fo be guiding Mr. Johnston's boss, Charles E. Wilson, head of ODM — the Office of Defense Mobilization, Back of the various orders which have gone out from the National Production Authority — limiting the use of natural rubber, copper, aluminum, nickel and tin—is not just a desire to shut down civilian production. These orders are regarded as temporary. There .is hope that eventually the orders can be lifted. It may take some .time" before that can be done. There was an admitted failure to stockpile these scarce metals after the last war, It will take 18 months or so to get full production of airplanes, tanks and munitions needed for de-

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The idea is that if no war comes, the country will be in a position to keep up production for defense, It will also

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of copper, aluminum or whatever is needed to keep civilian goods production going full tilt. Then controls can be taken off,

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