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Alden H. Hadley . . . “THERE will be a symphony playing today when they bury Alden H. Hadley . . . a symphony of trilling runsgand soft notes that few ‘ears will catch. But it will be there . . . the symphony Mr. Hadley loved all his life. Few will see the players and fewer will pay any attention to them . .. for they are just birds, and birds are everyday things. Li But to Mr. Hadley, “just birds” were his life's worl « +. something to study and enjoy and get others interester in. Something to give children and adults alike happines: and enjoyment. . His work was outstanding. Director of education for the National Audubon Society in New York City for many years... and later, since 1941, lecturer for the Indiana State Conservation Department and author of many oustanding books. ‘ Indiana has lost a good friend, but has profited greatly by his work. :

Closer Than They Seem HE North Atlantic Pact, so far as this country is concerned, got its start in a Republican-controlled Congress in 1948, On June 11 of that year the Senate voted 64-to-4 to adopt the Vandenberg resolution urging that this country Join with other peace-loving nations to make certain that “armed force shall not be used except in the common interest.” ; Two months ago a ‘great debate” was touched off when former President Hoover made a broad attack on the Truman administration's foreign policy. The debate has been going on ever since, mostly among Republican leaders, occasionally joined by Democratic spokesmen.

IT HAS finally narrowed down to two proposals before the Senate Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees. One, offered by GOP Leader Wherry and supported by Sen. Taft, would forbid the President to send more land troops to Europe until Congress has adopted a policy “with respect thereto.” The other, offered by Democratic Sens. Connally and Russell, would let the President decide whether to send troops to Europe, but require him to consult in advance with congressional leaders and the military, and also make sure that our Allies were doing their share of building up defenses. Yesterday Mr. Hoover presented the final argument favoring the Wherry resolution. He strongly opposed the movement of four more divisions to Europe and made it plain that he does not want the decision left to the President.

FROM the terms of the two proposals, ‘it is clear that the opposing sides are not as far apart as they seem. Nor, for that matter, are the Republicans themselves so greatly divergent in their views. As Sen. Lodge recently pointed out in listing 16 points of substantial agreement between the two parties: “In all truth, there are no fundamental principles which divide us. There are (only) questions of degree and questions of method.” There is nothing, he added, to justify the impression either here or abroad that the Senate is split right down the middle between the globalists and the retreatists. Congress can't be blamed for its doubts, and its determination to get at the core of the matter. It has seen the State Department, in its post-war conduct of foreign affairs, toss away all our opportunities of bargaining with our Allies and would-be Allies.

” = - WE DO not believe that the decision “to "send more troops to Europe should be left solely to Congress, or even subjected to possibly dangerous delay while Congress debates. Neither do we believe that the executive branch of the government should make any basic strategic decisions without full consultation of the military and Congress. Since the prime consideration is nothing more or less than the defense of America, it should not be difficult to bridge these two propositions. +Clearly, a policy will have to be worked out that we can live with and abide by for years to come—as long as the crisis lasts. The “great debate” has helped to develop the essential outlines of such a policy which can have the united support of the American people.

Compromise, Maybe RESIDENT TRUMAN has asked government financial authorities to develop a plan to (1) Restrain expansion of private credit and (2) Maintain a stable market for government securities. This seems to mean that he hopes for a compromise settlement of the controversy between the U. 8. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board over the interest rate on government bonds. Treasury Secretary Snyder, heretofore strongly backed by the President, wants to keep the interest rate from going above 21% per cent. In order to do that he has insisted, the Federal Reserve System must continue to support the market for government bonds at present price levels by

buying from commercial banks all that are offered for sale and that find no other buyers.

~ ” on d MEMBERS of the Federal Reserve Board contend that the policy advocated by Mr. Snyder compels the Federal Reserve to pump up inflation by expanding private credit. They argue that, when banks sell government bonds to the Federal Reserve for cash, the cash becomes the basis for many times its amount of bank loans to private borrowers.

Among those to whom Mr. Truman made his request .

were representatives of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and Defense Mobilizer Wilson, whose duties include direction of the war against inflation. . Whether the President has set them a possible task is a grave question. Certainly it will be a tough job to reconcile two viewpoints which, up to now, have appeared irreconcilable. But if Mr. Truman is willing to modify his own previous position in the interest of seeking a sound compromise,

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RED CARPET STUFF : «+ By Frederick C. Othman Want to Get Fat?—Take a Trip

To South America on a Plane

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 28—I could hardly enjoy the scenery on the way down here for worrying about the red carpet problem. The landscape is something to see, too. For thousands of miles down the west coast of South America the countryside looks from above like a pan of giant chocolate drops molded by a drunken cook. I never did see so much vacant real estate. The red carpet situation is something else.

When 1 clirpbed aboard a Wational Airlines plane at Washington, D. C, there was a red carpet stretched from the gate to the door of the ship. There also was a man keeping a close eye on it. He said one afternoon when the firm first started pampering the customers with this touch of de luxiness, four passengers were strolling down the crimson broadlgém when-—whoosh! The wind from a nearby ship roaring on the take-off got under the end of the carpet, which started to fly, thereby bowling over the customers and wrapping them neatly in the rug. They weren't hurt, but neither were they happy. Since then the company has been bolting: down its carpet solidly for each departure. So fine. I changed planes at Miami for the long haul south and walked over another red carpet to a Panagra DC-6 with green and yellow trimmings and away we soared across the Gulf of Mexico. At Tocumen Airport in Panama four hours and 1500 miles later another red carpet was waiting. Only it was black. The Panamanian in charge of red carpets for world travelers somehow had managed to roll it out upside down, with the red facing the asphalt. What happened to him I hate to think. I strolled inside and ordered a dish of strawberry ice cream. This was a mistake. My ice cream never had seen a strawberry, or a cow, either. It was pink, cold, gooey, and tasteless. From there on I did my eating in the flying machine, where the food was superb,

DCAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney

‘Doc’ Sherwood Wants Cash to Fight Reds

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—What the All-American Conference to Combat Communism needs is a million dollar budget in the opinion of Elmer “Doc” Sherwood, Indianapolis public relations

counselor,

In any case, they should have half ‘a million and he intends

From Panama to northern Peru this trip is a blank; when the beautiful Peruvian stewardess tucked me in with a pillow and a blanket I fell asleep and didn’t wake until she returned with bacon and eggs. The sun was rising across the Andes, which were powdered with snow, while directly below were those chocolatecolored bumps rising heltéer-skelter-from a vast expanse of sand. ~ ’ An hour and a half "after the eggs, the Latin lovely in the gray uniform was back with a chicken sandwich and soup. One more hour passed and she returned with cocktails. I had two, with cherries in ’em. : She appeared immediately thereafter with a light lunch consisting of a lobster cocktail, a filet mignon, an asparagus salad, French pastry, coffee, and a vintage Chilean sauterne. Or see South America in a flying machine and grow fat. s

Magnificent Job

LIMA, Peru, loomed directly ahead in the fog; we slid down through that and rolled up to another red carpet (right side up) in front of Limatambo Airport and all I've got to say is let us North Americans do no more bragging about our airports. Lima's is a magnificent job of yellow marble, picture windows, soft chairs, muraled walls, bronze rails, and crystal chandeliers. It includes shops, restaurants and a bank. Only thing the Peruvians forgot was a shoeshine stand and perhaps they did that on purpose. There's no dust in an airplane. And that brings us to Santiago, where I strolled down a final red carpet in the bril’iant afternoon sunshine, feeling a little foolish with my North American overcoat over my arm. It is late summer here now and if you'll bear with me tomorrow I'll tell you about Mrs. Trygve Lie, who sits up while her husband sleeps as a good wife should.

What Others Say—

THE best way to help the farmer is to help him find the way to the market at less cost and with more efficiency. Government aid in marketing, in lowering the cost of transportation and in finding new uses for farm products is the way to prosperity with freedom.

—James A. Farley,

SIDE GLANCES

Post Office Blues Mr. EDITOR:

Once too often I have heard it said, “Boy you mailmen sure have it made, with sick leave and a vacation every year.” Now for some facts to enlighten you taxpayers. We mailmen are some of the lowest paid labor in the country. Taxi and truck drivers and even ditchdiggers all are paid more than yofir mailman. I amr going on my third year in the postal service and all I make is $1.41 an hour before taxes.

* The mailmen are among the lowest paid group

in Civil Service. . I have a friend that is employed in Civil Service at the Naval Ordnance plant. We both have the same education. He receives $2.05 an hour for running a machine. He enjoys a steam-heated building in the winter and air conditioned in the summer, for this he gets 15 days of sick leave and 26 days of vacation a year. Most all other Civil Service employees receive the same benefits, while I, and the other men that deliver your mail in this zero weather, get 10 days of sick leave and 15 days of vacation a year. After the President and all the other bigwigs in Washington get a raise to meet the higher cost of living, they cut down on the Post Office to save money. For us little men there must not be any high cost of living. We can live on nothing. The Post Office Department is fast becoming a disgrace to its former standards.

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THE people that live in the mile square downtown get their circulars three times a day, while you people that live outside the “magic” square get your mail from Korea once a day. All those advertisements you get through the mall are paid for with your tax money. On first class mail the Post Office makes a profit, yet they cut you down to one delivery a day so that you can receive your advertisements and yet not show too much of a loss at the end of the year. In trying to fool the public we are now supposed to deliver all the mail in the morning before we eat lunch. They don’t care about the fact that most of us carriers go seven hours before we eat our dinner. Most mailmen eat at 5 a. m,, then we are not supposed to eat dinner before 12:45. . We start work between 6 and 6:30 a. m. That's a long time when you are out walking. Our boss comes in at 8 a. m. and eats at noon (four hours between meals). In the Army when the Pvts. didn’t eat the officers didn’t eat, but in the mail service things are different. If this is what you taxpayers want then You can have it because I have had all I want. We mail carriers have done all we can to

IN DANGER . . . By Earl Richert

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

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improve the service. Now it is up to publie. sent if something isn't done before long yo! will probably get one delivery a week. I do not like to bite the hand that feeds me, but I am getting tired of low pay, long routes and sweat-shop practices. The claims that it wants to increase the living standards of labor, yet they practice the same thing they preach shouldn't be done to employees. Dissatisfied Taxpayer and Mallman,

Letter to Eve MR. EDITOR: ; Regarding Boone County farmer's wife—

_ “Don’t Blame Eve’'—

My statement containing, “In matters of affairs public and international, women are

even more stupid than men,” was meant to apply to people of the U. 8. I didn’t blame women alone for ths present mess. They didn't get nationwide suffrage until after men's fatal error of 1917. Democrat and Republican politicians didn’t get interested in the proposition until several years after off-brand parties began advocating it. Women expressed their gratitude to the champions of their cause by voting for the parties that denied them the privilege since the republic began. Perhaps Eve is to blame for that. If people fail to vote and vote wisely in clearly defined referendums that is no fault of freedom or democracy. In the Dark Ages people

humbly beseeched the king for peace and re-

forms. The modern U. 8. method of electing Individuals from the high money brackets and then entreating them for legislation is not far removed from the old method. o 0 BH SATISFACTORY results are about the same. Economic compditions and election laws now practically exclude from elections any but rich people's parties and candidates. Farmer's wife says: Pacts and alliances have given us peace and security for a while . . .” When did the U. 8. government engage in any official peace-time pacts or alliances prior to the present North Atlantic Pact? The Monroe Doctrine ‘operated successfully up until 1917 without any alliances, | Finally, Boone County farmer's wife says: “The North Atlantic Treaty is another attempt to stick together and hold what progress we have made” I leave it to other readers to decide if what we now have, as results of meddling into European and Asiatic wars and international affairs, is desirable progress,

—Montgomery County Farmer

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Reciprocal Trade Law Doomed?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — The vehicle of Cordell Hull's dream of world prosperity through freer international trade—the Recipro-

cal Trade Agreements Law—is in the gravest danger of its 16-year life. Some Senators, including such influential Democrats as Joseph O’Mahoney of Wyoming and Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, already are pronouncing it dead. Strangely enough, there is no drive to kill the law. But what's happening seems likely to produce that result. “Protectionists” are out to write into the law what they regard as adequate safea guards against damage to American industry through Sen. Anderson tariff reductions. Their «.. it's dead strength in the present Congress seems to be such that they can write most, if not all, of what they want into the bill to renew the law after June 12, its expiration date. -But the administration doesn’t have to accept what it regards as an “unworkable” law and most likely won't. A presidential veto likely could be sustained. This would let the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Law expire on June 12. The administration undoubtedly would prefer this situation to an “unworkable” law since all trade agreements already in effect would remain untouched. This would apply also to any agreement reached at the current tariffcutting negotiations at Torquay, England, if it became effective before June 12. ? The administration at some later date could seek a revival of the law. State Department officials say no major tariff revision conferences are contemplated for the next three years anyway—the period for which it is proposed to renew the law. The House in passing the trade renewal bill early this month adopted four amendments which Secretary of State Dean Acheson has said would make the law “unworkable.”

By Galbraith

deep freeze.

“And what the House did to the bill will seem mild to what the Senate will do if it ever gets to the floor,” said Sen. Anderson. Several Senators think the bill should be dropped right now to save time and debate, since it seems so certain Congress will not pass a renewal bill acceptable to the administration. The Senate Finance Committee is now holding hearings. Why this situation at a time when foreign imports are not depressing prices of domestic products and creating unemployment?

Narrow Margin

IN the first place, there is only a narrow margin between Democrats and Republicans in Congress and Republicans always have been “protectionist” minded. In the second place, says O. R. Strackbein of America’s Wage-Earners’ Protective Conference, many legislators only a yeaf ago got a look at what effect foreign imports actually have on domestic industries in periods of nearnormalcy. He cited the glassware industry as an example. S The ‘“protectionists” themselves were astounded at the large vote rolled up in the House for the restrictive amendments. These would: ONE: Restore the “peril point” provision adopted by the 80th Republican Congress whereby the tariff commission would determine the point below which tariffs could not be cut without damaging U. 8S. industry; TWO: Automatically cancel tariff concessions on farm products unless the imports sold for more than the government support price; THREE: Require the Tariff Commission te investigate all complaints of allegedly damaged industries and reeommend action (higher tariffs) to the President or report publicly its reason for denying the claims; FOUR: Deny the benefits of all future tariff concessions to Russia and its satellites (not including Yugoslavia). The administration is fighting vigorously against the amendments dealing with farm products and requiring investigation of all complaints from industries claiming damage.

DEEP FREEZE . . . By Charles Egger

Congress Backs Away "From RFC Letters

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The red hot case of the hundreds of letters Congressmen wrote to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. in behalf of pending loans has cooled off considerably. There’s a good chance it soon may be put into a political

The case began last Friday when the Fulbright Committee

to help them get it he said. As one-time Americanism director for National Headquarters of the American Legion in Indianapolis, Mr. Sherwood stopped here following a conference with Dr. Daniel A. Poling in New York City. Dr. Poling is chairman of the Ex“ecutive Committee of the AllAmerican Conference to Combat Communism. : Mr. Sherwood talked to him

about national plans for promotion. He was accompanied by former American Legion Commander George L. Craig, now an Indianapolis attorney.

n n » MR. CRAIG is honorary chairman of the Executive

Committee of the Conference. The idea originated with him, when he was Legion head. There now are 60 fraternal, religious, patriotic, service clubs and other organizations of national scope included in the membership. Representatives from each have been invited to attend a two-day meeting in Philadelphia Mar. 9-10. The invitations are being sent out from Washington headquarters: by Miss Betty Perdue, who came to take charge of the office after being employed at the Legion headquarters in Indianapolis. W. C. “Tom” Sawyer, afi-

other former Legion Amer- .

fcanism director and now vice presidentiof Freedoms Foun-

dation at Valley Forge, Pa., is secretary. So far Mr. Sherwood has no official title with the organization, but because of his background he is an enthusiastic supporter of the program, Miss Perdue said.

” - = “THIS bringing all the diverse groups together to boost the American way of life can be the greatest thing that could happen to the country right now when we so badly need unity,” Mr. Sherwood maintained. According to a statement of policy, the All-American Conference will bring the program down to the community level with “appropriate course and activities” in schools, promotion of “know your America week” and other educational efforts to contrast American freedom with Communist slavery. It says: “The constituent bodies in the All-American Conference to Combat Communism support whole-heartedly the basic liverties which are assured by the Constitution of the United States — freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assemoly and freedom of religion, “It will continue to strive for equal justice for all “ditizens without discrimination on grounds of race, color, na- ~ tional origin, faith or creed.

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strate its moral and spiritual, as well as economic, superiority over sny totalitarian regime, whether it be Communist, Fascist or Nazi. “The” conference recognizes that its functions are informational, educational and advisory. : “The immediate, specific and united task of this conference is to unite in one All-American

org tion those groups of

good repute desiring to co-or-dinate their activities in a na-tion-wide crusade to defend and promote our freedoms and to expose and curtail communism in this zountry,” According to present plans the first day of the Philadelphia convention will be given over to “work-shops viz. small group meetings to discuss ways and means of carrying out the over-all conferdnce policies.

investigating favoritism in the RFC learned that the letters were being photostated and delivered to the White House. Angry committee members charged that the White House was trying to embarrass them and other Congressmen. They demanded that a copy of everything sent to the White House also be delivered to the. committee. The RFC agreed to do this. But today everybody concerned was backing away fast. Sen. J. William Fulbright, committee chairman, said he didn't think the letters were important, He added:

” ” ” “I THINK that whole thing was a phony issue brought up in a funny way Friday. I don't think there's anything in them. Of course, if the RFC wants to point out examples of improper use of influence, the committee will be glad to go into them.” T Sen. Fulbright said this particularly included a letter he wrote to the RFC in connection. with a’ loan application from the Jack Tar Courts of Hot Springs, Ark. He said he wrote the letter in long hand and couldn't remember exactly what he said, but if the RFC thought it was improper it should say so. The letter was written in 1948, ; : Sen. Fulbright's ‘apparent decision to do nothing with the letters is a change from his previous position. During last Friday's hearing he said he thought all the material sent to the White House by the ES . i

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RFC sheuld be made public. At the time Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) said that as far as he was concerned the material could be turned over to the press. Sen. Fulbright agreed.

uw n n THE RFC, meanwhile, said it was preparing thé copies the committee asked for. RFC Chairman W. Elmer Harber said the RFC might call the committee *today to find out when and where they wanted the photostats delivered. Mr. Harber said he had not looked at any of the letters and therefore could not comment on any possible examples of undue influence. The White House last week said that it knew of no {illegal influence being exerted by any Congressman and did not intend to make public the copies it had.

» ” ” THE letters were delivered to the White House after the Fulbright Committee's recent report - charging that some

"RFC directors had been re-

sponsive to outside influence. The report, which President Truman called asinine, also said Donald Dawson, the President’'s personnel adviser, apparently had exercised considerable influence over certain RFC directors. Mr. Fulbright said #t was not his intention to call Mr, Dawalthough the name of the White House official several times has figured in testimony before the committee since public hearings were resumed last week, =

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