Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1951 — Page 10

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Call for Leadership

HE American people are still Jaiting for President Truman to provide the leadership which the times and his office impose upon him. The people have desperate need of a firm basis for faith in the competence, the courage, the integrity of their government. Mr. Truman is not providing that. . He is making almost no discernible effort to halt and reverse the spread of confusion, doubt and suspicion. This is a time of peril, a time which calls urgently for brave, able leadership by a strong, sure sense of direction and purpose. The administration is conducting itself more like a rabble than a team.

” ” a ON ONE day this week Gen. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense, publicly deplored national complacency and warned that the country was in greater danger than it had been last November. - On the same day Director Wilson of the Office of Defense Mobilization said we ‘were getting so strong that soon no nation would dare to attack us—that already our progress ought to scare any enemy. .. What could the people believe? ra With legislation for universal military training and service facing serious trouble in Congress, the Defense Department this week suddenly reduced its April draft quota by half. How could the people, how could Congress, believe that the need for more trained military manpower is as great as Mr. Truman's administration has been "saying? When the Fulbright committee charged that “influence and favoritism” had run wild in the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Mr. Truman called its report “asinine.” Now the committee has proved its charges, and involved in them men officially and politically close to the President. But Mr. Truman has never demanded that these men answer the charges.

= » ~ s s HOW CAN the people be sure that Mr. Truman is determined to expose and punish corruption in government? The government's battle against inflation is going badly. Mr. Truman waited too long before admitting the necessity for price-wage controls. He has merely dabbed, not slashed, at nonessential government spending. He has called for, but he has not fought hard for, pay-as-we-go taxes. z : How can the people have faith that measures taken under Mr. Truman will ever stop inflation?

We find no pleasure in saying these things. But we °

believe they need to be said. Our earnest hope is that My. Truman will recognize the dangers of drift and dodge in time.

‘Behind the Traitors

THE names of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell have been added to America’s roll of infamy. A New York Federal Court Jury has found them guilty of betraying their country as spies for the Soviet Union. * Their heinous crime—conspiracy to commit espionage in wartime—could be punished by death, and many Americans must feel that the extreme penalty would not be inappropriate. With Klaus Fuchs, the British atomic scientist, and Harry Gold, the Philadelphia biochemist, they took part in the theft and delivery to Russia of A-bomb secrets— secrets of a fearful weapon which may be used against their country and the lives of their own relatives and friends. ’ The enigma of their case, like that of Alger Hiss, is a stern challenge to our educational system and particularly ‘to the institutions in which they enjoyed well above average “advantages. Presumably, although it was not a direct issue in their ‘cases, they had fallen under the influence of communism. But what is it in communism that can sweep aside the influence of home, church and school and lead its dupes or devotees to serve the interests of a distant, alien enemy? # Obviously, this is an evil about which we know too little ‘and are doing less. A few traitors have been brought to ‘Justice. But they can be nothing more than almost accidental hints at the real extent of a vast and diabolical "conspiracy against our liberties and lives. And there is small reason to believe that the almost purely defensive measures thus far devised have more than barely begun to deal adequately with this menace.

Hurrah (We Hope)

ON'T look now, but the federal government may be right at the point of saving $16 million for us taxpayers.

It’s one of those things we've got to take kind of easy. Least little jar, and there goes our money. This is the pitch: The 81st Congress voted a $16 million pork outlay for fancy Reserve Corps armories to be dotted around the country. Nice big buildings where the Army Reserves could get together, hold dances, smokers, minstrel shows and occasionally drill. That was before Korea. Apparently oblivious to the fact that a war had broken out and that Reservists were being called up by the thousands, the Defense Department was doggedly pushing ahead

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Then somebody caught on. Singularly enough, it was a Congressman and a Reserve officer to boot. Rep. Charles B. Brownson of Indianapolis boldly said Indianapolis could go without a proposed $750,000 drill hall because there were not many Reservists left to use it. : Then he went a step further in his one-man campaign. Maybe, he said, it was that way all over and the Defense Department didn’t need to spend any of the $16 million total. Now, belatedly, the Defense Department concedes there might bé some truth in it. At any rate, Assistant Secretary 'W. J. McNeil has written to Mr. Brownson that the whole works will be held up for “further study.” Hurrah for Rep. Brownson. Hurrah for any other Congressman or community which in these times might turn its bask on tempting gobs of federal pork. iL

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Josephine Baker Raps the Reds

NEW YORK, Mar. 31—-The Commies came near ensnaring Josephine Baker, American-born singer and current sensation here after 25 years in Paris. It would have meant feathers in their little Red hats. Her well-wishers in Harlem came to the rescue in time. A Dbig-hearted gal, Miss Baker had agreed to appear at a rally in Harlem for Willie McGee, of Mississippi, facing execution on a rape conviction. Nobody told her it was a Communist-American Labor Party deal. Or that she'd share the platform with Paul (Negroes - will - never - fight Russia) Robeson. For no apparent reason, the Daily Worker about the

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same time started plugging Miss Baker. But then the «..blewup backstage phone at the

Strand started ringing—calls from Harlem to tell Miss Baker she was being exploited for a Commie affair. She blew up, canceled her appeararmce and notified the newspapers. Then who should show up backstage but Vito Marcantonio, former left-wing Congressman. “He demanded to know how come,” according to Curt Weinberg, the singer's publicity director. “I answered Miss Baker would have no part in any political rally. “Marcantonio stuck out his jaw. ‘You ought to be ashamed,’ he said. ‘You and I've got to live in this town. Next time, watch out.’ And out he stalked.” ¢ & @ LAST-MINUTE, official CP reaction to the Kefauver Senate crime investigation: “The Costellos are peanuts compared to the Du Ponts, General Motors, Fords, Morgans and Rockefellers. . . . The $87 billion ‘defense’ program fs a major source of wholesa'e corruption of the nation.” & Hb LIKE a woman scorned, the Communist Party has turned on two of its favorite movie stars, John Garfield and Jose Ferrer. In the late '30s and '40s actor Garfield added his glamour to a long string of Commie fronts. By 1949 he seems to have shifted, hailing the Marshall Plan for “killing communism in Europe.” Actor Ferrer got into the fellow- traveling act later; and stayed in, so far as public avowal’s concerned, until a House Un-American Activities subpoena landed in his lap a couple

» of weeks ago.

Their records failed to mitigate the Commies’ fury. “Sorry Spectacle of Garfield, Ferrer” was the way the Daily Worker headlined it becayse Garfield said, “Communism threatens our country”; and Ferrer swore “that I am not in any way an encourager of any Communist Party concept or objective.” “Now,” said the Daily Worker, “the Garfields and the Ferrers are doing the heiling, allying themselves wih all that's degrading in our country, co-operating to bring about a third world war...” Looe ody A THE Communist Party has given the old heave-ho to another Red wheelhorse, Sam Don-

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By Galbraith

chin, formerly Sam Don. He'd been national committeeman, the party's educational director and managing editor of the Daily Worker, lately

serving as a commissar at party headquarters,. .. cracking the whip on the Daily Worker editors -

upon orders.of the Politburo. Just what Sam's crimes were is hard to fathom from the expulsion notice. “Donchin’s orientation,” {t said, “is to try to undermine confidence . . . to create division . .. to mobilize for attacks against the line and leadership of the Party . . .” The indictment freely flung around such expressions as ‘“careerist,” ‘“demagogue,” “hypocritical coverup of his white chauvinism,” “petty-bourgeois.” “factional clique,” “Wall Street's imperialist drive to war and fascism.”

Evidently Sam stopped knuckling under.

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By Ed Kenedy

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TV Might Serve as Good Check | On Lawmakers in Washington

NOW that the coaxial cable is back to carrying its regular daytime programs Kefauver gags are wearing thin—let's take a look at the serious side of the recently televised Senate Crime Commission hearings.

Aside from shots of Virgina Hill in her

quivering mink and the manicure of Frankie Costello, televiewers got a real inside view of one facet of government in action. In this case the government was well represented. The Senators and their Chief Counsel in New York, Rudolph Halley, gave a good account of themselves before the cameras.

Channel Allocations

ON THE basis of their presentations, gov-

ernment stock soared in the eyes of many. If all important government issues took place under the watching eyes of TV cameras, . wonder if all our elected officials would come off as well as Messrs, Tobey, O'Conor and Kefauver? » a The Federal Communications Commission is still in a hassel about TV channel allocations. Educational representatives are pushing hard for a certain number of channels to be reserved for their non-commercial purposes, Perhaps the government and the educators should get together and®come up with a number of TV stations set up ona minimum cost basis to carry telecasts of Congress and various important committees in action. During oft seasons the station could serve other purposes of the educators, Every newsman who has ever covered even a few sessions on Capitdl Hill must confess to himself that some jokers do ‘turn up as the elected representatives of the people. When the law making body of the United States in session, elected representatives have been seen in the Jaliowed chambers dozing, eating apples, reading the comics and paying little attention to bettering the country. Even worse, perhaps, great numbers of them stay away altogether at times, showing up only when absolutely necessary. How much apple chewing and sleeping would

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‘The Real Danger’ MR, EDITOR: Thoughtful citizens everywhere in the United States who must have read with consternation

and alarm the stories that are being published today of the crimes and misdemeanors that are being committed by many men in high public office; men who have sacrificed their honor and disgraced the offices they hold for selfish vanity and monetary gain for themselves. The moral and social structure of our government is being undermined by these forked-tongued politicians and their sponsors, powerful interest groups who knowingly and wittingly sacrifice the good of the country and the rights of the people on the altar of self interest. This puts many innocent men under suspicion, especially our Congressmen, many of whom have been Impliesiad in these unpatriotic acts’... The people are beginning to realize that good results may be attained if they stop looking

By Frederick C. Othman

How to Stuff a President—

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—All over the place we've got ferns and incipient stomachaches for M. Le President Vincent Auriol of France. In a fern-banked banquet hall, I hear tell, President Truman fed President Auriol stuffed lobster, sliced cucumbers, beef with horse-radish and ice cream with maple sirup on it. It is not for me to criticize this menu, but it is my hope that the chief executive of France has a zinclined stomach. So his next eating date was with the members of the National Press Club, Hah. Those White House

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We rented ourselves some ferns, too. These we planted in the club library, after shooing

_ out a couple of members who customarily take

siestas there. We trundled in a portable bar and for M. Auriol we had champagne. The genuine French stuff, This cost like sin and it is my sad duty to report that the membership meets next week to consider raising dues to meet a sudden deficit. So M. Auriol hurried in, hatless, and with beads of dampness from a Washington springtime on his brow. Fact is, he hurried in a little early. You never did see such scurrying around by the management.

So he sipped from his goblet in our fresh, green bower and then we hustled him downstairs for food. Good food;-too. None of that fancy cucumberish stuff to upset a president's digestion. We gave our guest a chunk of roast beef medium rare, a roasted potato, some fresh frozen peas and for the fancy, Frenchy touch we served him on a paper doily a genuine piece of French pastry with imitation whipped cream on top. He ate every bite.

$6- billion for. its development.

to use the bomb, who number in the tens of thousands. Some 60,000 civillan construction workers are now being employed to enlarge the plant. When these additions are completed, another 10,000 to 12,000 will be employed to operate them. These employ~ ment figures do not include those who work in uranium mines. About 5 per cent of the scientific personnel of the country is now on atomic energy projects, more than in any other industry.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean points out that, thus far, the atomic energy development is negative, rather than positive. It is taking wealth out of the economy to make weapons, instead of producing energy to make greater wealth. The thing to look" forward to is the day when this process changes direction. That day may be speeded up by the expanding military program. A parallel, is offered in sm }

NATIONAL DEFENSE U. S. Pours Billions Into Atomic Race

Carson Lyman, the president of our little society, introduced our distinguished guests, most of whom turned out to be Frenchmen with names that Prexy Lyman had some little difficulty pronouncing. This did not faze him. When a couple of the honored guests failed to rise when their names were called, Mr. Lyman said: “Some of these people don’t seem to recognize their own names.” Applause. So then M. Auriol delivered a speech. He spoke in French, which none but our most erudite members could understand, but the State Department came up with printed translations for all hands. President Auriol was a pleasant, plumpish man in a gray striped suit and a necktie slightly askew. He used gestures and occasionally he'd stop to smile. While he talked in a language that meant nothing to me, I studied the translation and I am pleased to announce that he cannot have any complaints &bout the spoofing attitude of this dispatch. He used to be a newspaper reporter, himself. And something of a spoofer, too.

‘Noble Profession’

“I WAS just as indiscreet as you may be and sometimes perhaps even more daring and excitable when I practiced this noble and thrilling profession 40 years ago,” he said, according to the State Department. “This was especially true when in an irreverent article I made some pleasantries that were not according to protocol about the respectable beard of one of my {illustrious predecessors, which happened to be pulled unceremoniously in a street demonstration or.again When I fought a duel to impose respect for two old ladies who had worn trousers in a militant show of political equality between the sexes.” Fair enough. So M. Auriol then became serious and said, in effect, that France was standing four-square with us for freedom everywhere. The diplomats then escorted him out of our

. sanctum, with police in the rear, while we got

in touch with the florist and told him to come get his ferns before they ran into overtime.

By Peter Edson

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go on if the elected officials thought the folks back home who mark the ballots and pull the levers might be looking in? Most would break their necks to be present—and telegenic, too. 80 far the Congress has not permitted. tele-

casting of regular sessions, but when the cham.“

bers were redesigned recently provisions were

made for TV-camera locations and cable outlets, The project would be expensive by some

standards, but compared to the. pork barrel

patronage, wasted time and-wasted words it -

might eliminate, it would pay for itself in short order. Everyday sessions might have low Hooperratings, but in these critical times there's enough action in a week to insure widespread interest on some important point. After several years of such broadcasting of our government in action we suspect that the people might be calling for a different type of casting in some key roles.

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HOOSIER FORUM—'U. S. Corruption’;

for a Communist under every bed and take the political crooks by the heels, —Theo. B. Marshall, City

‘TV and Crime Probe’ MR. EDITOR: Just why should ‘people be made to testify before TV? I don’t think it is a fair or constitutional right. After all, a man is not guilty until he is proven guilty and because he is called on to testify before a Senate group does not seem to warrant making a holy show of him before everybody. Looks to me like there is a real violation of a citizen's rights here. Am I wrong? What do others think? I have no sympathy with wrong doers, but still think they have rights as long as they are citizens. I think the Kefauver Crime Commission had its unmitigated nerve in making people give testimony before TV. Let them give it in private before the committee, but not before TV even as much as I enjoyed seeing the different ones. —Tom Schmidt, City

MY UNCLE

I HAVE a favorite uncle who . . . is good as well as kind . . . and relatives like him are few . .. and very hard to find . . . he is a man of character . . . and always is the one . . . to help with good advice and more . . . when trouble’s on the run . . . he is unselfish and I'll state . . . that he will always give . . . without slight provocation for . . . his code is to let live . . . not only do I value him . . . for wkat he’s done for me . . . but also for the way he helps . . . the folks who are needy . . . I cannot say too much for him... and so it is I write . . . this little verse to try and show... my words carry real might . . . for he is more than just an uncle . . . he’s a true dear friend . + « who never runs when troubles come . . , but sticks until the end. —By Ben Burroughs.

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY GEN. McARTHUR might not have made those statements about Korea if his Commander in Chief wasn't on the inactive list.

> > 9 DICTATOR PERON explained that his new atomic energy setup is similar to sunshine, but some scientists seem to think he used the wrong planet. ¢ >

PERON and Evita are toying to make Argentina into the world’'s‘largest Mom and Pop store. > o

UNDER government operation, La Prensa can boost its circulation by paying the subscribers. Oo S'S NOW we know how gambler gangsters live—just like mine-run million-

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—With little fanfare, atomic energy has become one of the big businesses of the United States. Congress has appropriated and been asked to appropriate some

It has some 60,000 employees, 5000 of them on the government payroll. This does not include the military forces trained

the development of the diesel engine and pie The diesel’s first use was as motive power for submarines. From this, engineers learned how to build eflicient diesels for other commercial uses. Similarly, the airplane was at first useful only for military reconnaissance. As airplanes were improved for miltary flying, commercial trans-

port uses increased.

os o o TODAY, concentration in atomic energy research is on a land-based prototype of an atomic energy reactor for submarine propulsion and another reactor for aircraft power. Experience gained in these developments may contribute materially to the building of reactors that will generate’ power fof commercial uses. So the time may come when the Atomic Energy Commission will ‘be the big-

gest single producer of electric °

power, instead of the biggest consumer, Chairnan Dean puts

major emphasis today on the commission's effort to get hold of all the uranium possible, and to transfer it into fissionable materials. To this 'end the commission has recently increased the bonus offered for discovery of new ore deposits. Plans are also under way to increase production from lowgrade deposits. Pilot plants for the extraction of uranium from gold mine “tailings” in South Africa are already in operation. And similar byproduct reduction from superphosphate wastes is under way. On other new developments, the commission now operates on contract some 13 research tenters, utilizing the brains of over 60 leading universities and the best industrial laboratories in the country. It has

20 “Operation offices” or plants. n ” ”

RECENTLY announced con-

tracts to build new atomic energy plants indicate the extent of atomic energy program expansion, These include: ONE: The Rocky Flats,

“Colo., $45 million plant to be

built by Austin Co. for Dow Chemical Co. operation. TWO: Use of part of the Weldon Springs, Mo., srdnance plant for AEC engineering development. - )

THREE: Use of part of the Pantex ordnance plant, near Amarillo, Tex.

FOUR; .. The $350 million plant to be built by F. H. McGraw Co., near Paducah, Ky., for Carbide & Chemicals Co. operation.

FIVE: The contract with American Cyanamid to operate a new chemical processing plant at Arco, Ida.

SIX: The contract with Phillips Petroleum Co. to operate the materials testing reactor being built at Arco, Ida.

~ SEVEN: The huge Savannah River Development by the Du Pont Co., for which the initial outlay is $26 milion.

It was the report of the Russian atomic explosion, plus the Korean War outbreak that gave U. 8. atomic energy expansion its big impetus. Congressional appropriations for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, are over $2 billion. And for the next year, $1.24 billion has already been asked, with possibly more to come. The big question is whéther this is too fast an expenditure, or too slow. Should still more billions be poured into atomic energy development, to give this country a still greater lead in the atomic age?

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