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£ i ce tae ; a i : WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—Ernest Willlam Mc- “But this has not happened. He has stanch- - BOY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Farland; the chubby-cheeked Senator from Ari- ly supported such administration measures ag

¢ ; President Editor Business Manager zona, has held the once-powerful post of Senate have reached the Senate floor. And as a mem. ——— 4 Thursd Aor. 5. 1951 majority leader for three months now and most . ber of the Interior Committee he cast the dePAGE 26 Urscay, Apr. o, of his colleagues give him a big “E for effort.” ciding vote which brought the Alaska ang lished daily by indianspolis Times Publish pas about the best that can be said of the Hawail “statehood | bilis ob Se S gor) Bites, ped Owned and published daily by a : ormance to date 3 any o Uiieed Press. Marland bi Postal Zone o | Wemver of of the amiable, unas- elect him leader are opposed to statehood for

fce and Audit Bureau of Circulation im Jeader ‘ave opm nd tv stutenood Top would decrease their power in the Senate. Sen. McFarland also supported the adminis.

tration’s position on the troops to Europe issue,

suming man who was elected to fill the leadership post vacated by the de-

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Mexico. daily $1.10 8 month. Sunday. 10c & copy feat of the colorful in some cases opposing his most influential : ey 555) Scott Lucas of Illi- backers, such as Senators Walter George of Telephone RI ley a5 nos. Georgia and Harry Byrd of Virginia. »

“Sen. McFarland, unlike Sen. Lucas at thig same stage in his leadership career two years ago, is) showing no signs of stomach trouble. He's still easy to get along with.

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in control, the situa- **- he's got a tough job tion in the Senate today is no different than was expected. The administration has no control whatsoever and the so-called administration leader, Mr. McFarland, actually has only a handful to lead. In this situation it is doubtful whether a brilliant, dynamic man in the leadership post could do much better in getting the administration’s program through. The significant thing is that Mr. McFarland is now regarded in fact as the administration leader. Since he was elected primarily with the suprt of Southern, antiTruman Senators and Hover the opposition of so-called administration Senators, there was general belief that he would be-a “tool” and “ally” of the Dixiecrats.

COMMUNISTS IN U. S. . . . By Frederick Woltman Believe Editor May Be a Red’

NEW YORK, Apr. 5—Public school systems, economists, social scientists, etc., broke last - the state and federal governments and private week with the resi tion of a director. He agencies throughout the nation for years have is Dr. J. Frederic Dewhurst, economist for the

-~ ! With the Senate ‘ } : The Great Debate bol in divided 4 Toe Used fo Hard Work jobs,” the Senator WHEN the North Atlantic Defense Pact was before the Stats fo 47 Repunik says matter-of-factly. “It has its ups and -

downs. I feel no need for rest or a vacation because I'm used to hard work.” z Often, the Senator pulls the old saw: “Troublé is my middle name.” But he always grins when he says it. 3 Southern Senators say Sen. McFarland is more conciliatory to those who differ with administration policies than Sen. Lucas was. "One said: “McFarland goes around asking for help where Lucas acted as if he expected it.” Democratic Senators who opposed his elec= tion as majority leader say that Sen. McFarland has gone out of his way to treat them fairly: His colleagues have learned, too, that his word is always good and that he holds no bitterness toward those who disagree with him. “For a guy who's got the deck stacked “ against him, he’s doing all right,” 'said one Democratic Senator who vigorously supported Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming for the leadership.

Senate for ratification in July, 1949, no less an authority than Secretary of State Acheson gave absolute assurance that nothing in the treaty contemplated sending American troops abroad, as some Senators had feared. This may not have been a case of deliberate misrepresentation to gain a temporary point. But Mr. Acheson left himself open to such a charge when he neglected to square himself with the Senate on subsequently changing his position. Some months ago, when it became known that President Truman planned to send troops to Western Europe as part of a North Atlantic Pact army, several Senators

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between the White House and the Republican members of Congress during the 80th Congress, to degenerate into a state of apprehension and distrust. 4 The “great debate” on American foreign policy has been a reaction to this neglect. , 5 Now the Senate by a majority vote, has declared it ty be the sense of that body that congressional approval ust be obtained before any more ground troops are cahsigned to Europe beyond the four new divisions presently committed. That is the parliamentary situation as this is written. Such action, to be sure, is not binding on the President. But behind the demand is an implied threat gt future appropriations for the North Atlantic army may be denied if the demand is ignored, which will be true whatever the final outcome of the Senate contest. 5 There is no reason why the controversy should be carried to this extreme when the damage that has been done can be so easily repaired by getting together and talking things over.

# FEELINGS. are being relieved by a blowing off of steam and a showing of muscle in the Senate. But when this is all over, patriotism should rise above partisanship afid personal feelings should be submerged in the interest of national and world security. This is a must, for there i serious business at hand. £ Ours is not a one-man government, and the Senate hs a right to be consulted on arrangements with other niitions which have the force of treaties, as the agreement fir formation of the North Atlantic army does. But the Senate is not so constituted that it can operate as a military general staff and it should not attempt to so perate, despite the bungling at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. : '¥ The present year and the one to follow may be a eucial period. Since we must have the same President gad the same Congress during this period, it is incumbent of both to pull in their horns and learn to work together = their predecessors have in previous emergencies. Now is the time to bring out the olive branches.

Only Temporary UR Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Snyder, is suffering #:- from an embarrassment of riches. His balance sheet, as of the end of March, shows a government surplus of around $5.5 billion for the first nine months of the current fiscal year. ‘ ... Tax receipts poured into the Treasury last month at such a rate that fiscal estimates made by Mr. Snyder and President Truman only three months ago now look cockeyed. So Mr. Snyder has been constrained to tell Congress

that the government can get along for a while with only $10 billion in new tax revenue—that the $6.5 billion second part of Mr. Truman's tax program can safely wait until next January.

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MR. EDITOR: . I have lived and paid taxes, county, state and federal, all my life and some how: feel I have a small part in ownership of our county property. Are our roadgraders lost? I live 4900 West and North of Washington St. Our streets are falling apart. We are trying to get to work mornings and home nights. This-winter freeze ruined all our streets. Anytime I go outside Marion County I sce graders busy and all the roads are showing improvements. I have my first time to see a grader at work in Marion County. They have done nothing to any of our streets

this year. When do we get a break? Next elec-

tion day? . —Homer R. Foxworthy, City.

‘You Make 'Em, I'll Eat 'Em’

MR. EDITOR:

So “Carrje Nation” Fairchild has shut off the telephones, and the bookie joints. When will he cut off phones of the high class gambling joints, the brokerage houses? That's what I want to know. Had his nerve, he did. After all, those bookie joints paid their phone bills, didn’t they? I'd get me a good attorney and make him look sick if I were in their shoes. Another thing. So the old dolls think I want them to stop baking cakes. Not so. You make ‘em and I'll eat '’em. I'm not for stopping the ladies from doing anything they want to do. What I'm against is letting a lot of old fuddyduddies keep me from putting a $2 bet on a horse. That's my meat. Another guy likes the dolls, another the beer joints, and likewise do I. I like ’em all, and 1 think their cutting off my liberty, my American privilege when they say I can't put a $2 bet on a pony. Sure I mind my own business, because I believe in “live and let live.” They're trying to turn us men into a bunch of “cake bakers.” —Tom Duncan, City.

‘Let MacArthur Fight’

MR. EDITOR:

What is Gen. George Marshall talking about when he speaks of the “apathy” of the Amerian people? Who cut the draft? Who ties Gen. MacArthur's hands behind him, in the name of “political and military” decisions? Yes, who? Certainly not the American people. I have a son in Korea. He is with Harry's police force. Went over there in July with the first troops of the First Marine Division, and I know a lot-of other parents who say, “Let MacArthur fight this war.” The American people want to end this war in Korea and get our boys home. They do not want to keep a war going on over there for years. Truman says that he is going to let MacArthur make the decisions, and the minute he makes a decision, bingo. He's punished for it. I say. let MacArthur make the decision. He will get our boys out of Korea faster than these politicians in Washington. .A Reader, City.

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Bad Roads’

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

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‘Good News, Taxpayers’

MR. EDITOR: : Well, it took a newcomer to politics, State Treasurer William Fortune, to come up with a first class proposal to bring state government to the people. His proposal would not only bring state government closer to the people on a jocal level, but would also give the taxpayers a break in being able to go to one office in the local community in regards to all of their tax problems. . I, like Mr. Fortune, believe the proposal is worthy of further investigation. The plan, if put into action, would no doubt bring in greater revenue for the state, give the people greater service dnd do the job more efficiently and tertainly at a lower cost to the taxpayers. Such a proposal made by Mr. Fortune is refreshing in this day of more and more bureaus and it is certainly deserving of every consideration by our state officials and the next General Assembly. Congratulations to William Fortune and let's have more suggestions from this fine young state official. —E. L., City.

‘Police and Politics’ MR. EDITOR:

My husband is a police patrolman. We are young and he is ambitious to succeed in a job he loves. I would rather he did something else ‘with better pay and better prospects, but I am ambitious for him to get where he wants to go and will stick by him. ! When I read that Eddie Rouls, who has climbed the ladder my husband wants to climb, is going to be forced out for no reason except politics, believe me it makes me very unhappy. My husband says Rouls is a good officer which is the best thing one policeman can say about another. Now suppose my husband, who is a Democrat by the way, gets promoted to a higner rank. Will he be broken back when a Republican gets in office? What kind of a business is he in, anyway? —Worried Wife, City.

BEAUTIFUL AS LOVE

+ NOTHING so great, so wonderful . . . so fine and high above . . . nothing in this world of ours . . . so beautiful as love . , . wealth untold or nature's glow . .. can't hold a candle to . . . even the real little things . . . that glorious love can do... for with it I can be a king . .. of all that I survey ... and when true love'is in my heart... I go a happy way ... with love I ride a silver cloud . .. my hopes are in the sky . .. and all because of love I've found . . . the dark clouds pass me by . .. the secret of real happiness . .. the reason for this life . . . the magic thing that sees us through . . . our heartaches and our strife . .. for there's nothing so great, so wonderful . . . so fine and high above . nothing in this world of ours . . . so beautiful as love. —By Ben Burroughs.

been buying and recommending a series of low-priced educational booklets called public affairs pamphlets. To date, their circulation has reached a total of nearly 17 million. Unknown to most of these sponsors, the editor of the pamphlets is a man with a long record of past Communist affiliations. In the last year, individual School boards and superintendents over the country began to make inquiries about the editor, Maxwell S. Stewart. They queried both the pamphlet’s publishers, the Public Affairs Committee of New York and expert sources on communism. As a result, the publishers, a non-profit body, started an inquiry of their own last year. To do the job, they commissioned an outside research group, Friends of Democracy, Inc. of New York, which specializes in exposing Fascist and anti-Semitic as well as Communist movements. A 117-page report was submitted documenting at least 40 Communist Party line enterprises which Mr. Stewart’ publicly supported or permitted to use his name. Fourteen are listed as Communist and subversive by the U, 8S. Attorney, General.

Report Rejected MYSTERIOUSLY, the Public Affairs Conimittee rejected the report, although it is paying the cost, said to be several thousand dollars. A storm that has been brewing for months inside the committee, made up of 28 ‘professors,

TROUBLE AND MONEY . .

Twentieth Century Fund, who resigned after the committee turned down the report. Meanwhile the committee declines to make public either the 117-page report or a reply by Mr. Stewart. So far as it could be learned, the editor has never publicly renounced his past associations. The background of their editor, however, came to be of concern to some public school authorities because about one-third of the pamphlets are purchased or recommended by school boards in many states. As recently as two months ago, Mr. Stewart was listed as a consultant by the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, termed Communist and subversive by the Justice Department. For years this committee- had been propagandizing - for Soviet aspirations in the Far East. It now espouses the Communist line on the Korean War, calling the United States the aggressor. Until 1949 he sponsored the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, foremost proSoviet propaganda agency in this country, also on the Attorney General's list. Others on the list with which his name was linked included the American Russian Institute, American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, Friends of the Soviet- Union, American League Against War and Fascism and National Committee to Win the Peace. He has written for the Communist magazine, New Masses, and Soviet Russia. Today, proSogjet periodical.

. By Frederick C. Othman

Big Shot Blues in the RFC

WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—If I were one of the five directors at a big walnut desk on a thick green carpet behind the black marble facade of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., I'd be looking for a job. These gents, including the ones who had nothing to do. with loaning money te snake farms, gambling joints and jukebox manufacturers, haven't a chance to stay on the federal payroll. And I'm not even thinking about " __ the natural royal pastel mink now gracing the shoulders of a White House stenographer.

One way or another, the unhappy quintet of government bankers has less than three more weeks of riding in federal limousines. You may remember when the committee of Sen. J. Willlam Fulbright (D. Ark.) wrote a report calling the management of the world's greatest bank incompetent. Four days later the President said this report was asinine. In andther four days he sent to the Senate again the names of the directors for confirmation. A week later he sent up his reorganization plan No. 1 to bounce the “directors and replace them with a single executive.

This automatically goes into effect on Apr. 21 unless the Senate votes to reject it. Sen. Fulbright thinks it is a good idea as far as it goes. Sen. Homer Capehart (R. Ind.), on the committee, figures it's a no-good schemg. He says if the RFC doesn’t get a more thorough

going over than that, he'll vote to abolish it. A’ gQod many Senators, incidentally, think that's the best deal yét. Lock the place up. : So there were Senators Fulbright and Capehart expounding their theories before the Senate « Executive’ Expenditures Committee, What they had to say, I think, makes quite a piece. "x The RFC, began Sen. Fulbright, is an okay’ institution; only thing wrong with it are the men in charge. “If it is to be run as it has in the last few years by a board of directors I consider mediGeter he continued, “I would be for abolishing it. “Some people want to keep the RFC in a state of suspended animation until November, 152 3 A harritle example of Demacragjc initude. From that viewpoi it w 5 ge point it would” serve The Republicans chuckled at that : Democrats smiled. Sen. Fulbright id. vo ge

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money to open a He said that was a the public interest, He went on to sa ous able and consci the RFC, but that th have been ignored by

Hapless Directors

THE GENTLEMEN: discussed the problem of the hapless directors for hours, whereupon Sen. Capehart, who used to manufacture juke boxes himself (without the aid of the RFC), posed a question to Sen. Fulbright: “If President Truman sent up to us the names of five good and able men to be directors, men that we could confirm, wouldn't that solve all the problems of the RFC?"

“Uh ... itgwould go a long way,” replied Sen. Fulbright V . y ?

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ably will wind up this fiscal year next June 30 with a surplus of $3 billion or so instead of the $2.7 billion deficit forecast SIDE G! ANC ES

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PRESIDENT’S DINNER . . . By Peter Edson

Washington Bigwigs Highly Insulted

WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—The U. 8. Secret Service came darn near to wrecking friendly relations between La Belle France and

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» . =» » - n YET IT IS Mr. Snyder's duty to argue that Congress

must act speedily on the first part—the $10 billion part— stars, low white fleecy clouds, on the other side of the street,

of the President's tax program, It isn't an easy job, but the fact is that Mr. Snyder's argument is sound. - The danger is that Congress won't be convinced by it—won’t believe that it’s still urgently necessary to vote higher taxes. that Congress will conclude it’s no longer essential to cut down hard on proposals for nondefense spending™® Congress, then, should study the other side of the Treasury's halance sheet. = This shows that, despite the war in Korea and the defense mobilization program, the government actually has spént very little more in the last nine months than it did in the same period a year earlier.

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ee THAT-however,-is-only-because alot of tremendously. > big bills haven't yet become payable. Defense spending, currently about $2 billion a month, is only twice what it was a year ago. But, as Mobilization Director Wilson has just » reported, defense orders are now being placed at a $52billion a year clip. . .... When deliveries on those huge orders begin next fall and winter, when the bills for them start coming due, Secretary Snyder's temporary embarrassment of riches will melt away fast. And if the government has to pay those bills with borrowed money, because Congress hasn't voted an adequate tax increase, inflation

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The dinner was for 30 assorted Supreme Court Justices, Senators and other bigwigs in the U. 8. government and their wives. For afterwards, . the French invited in some 1500 smaller fry. They were supposed to come at 10:30 p. m. «But the Secret Service, whose job it is to protect the life of the U. 8. President and the _ French President, too, when he’s on U. 8. soil, wouldn't let any. of the 1500 in until Mr, . home. And they were having such a good time that they stayed late, shaking the hands of some 600 people. : So, until pretty near midnight, 1500 of Washington's supposedly’ best people, all dolled up in white ties, tails and their best evening gowns, stood in line outside and waited to get in. Comparison to a line before a soup kitchen _ would be apt, if the folks hadn't been dressed up so fancy and if the free feed hadn't been French pastry and 6. .

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the United States the other night, and spoiling the Washington

t Auriol to boot. It happened at ench embassy. President Auriol

gave -a dinner there, in honor of President Truman:

The line extended all the way down the walk along the wide, curving driveway that led to the embassy and on for another block to Connecticut Ave, Oh my. The thoughts they thunk and the things they said. Traffic was jammed for blocks.

There were a lot of -diplomats from other embassies in the line, stove-pipe hatted, and with ribbons across their chests and medals on their and sald seriously that this was no way to promote friendly relations between nations. » ” » * MADAM PANDIT, the Indian ambassadress, finally gave up in disgust and started home. The line behind her moved up one step. Later she was back, however, for the word spread that diplomats—the top diplomats and their families, that {s—would be admitted. So they pulled their rank and pulled out of line and crashed the gate. Nobody cheered. Fortunately, it was a nice night, ne well-placed

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magnoliar trees just busting into bloom, a magnificent big silver birch silhouetted against the night sky, the bright lights from inside ‘shining a welcome to the little match girls and boys in line outside. But if it had rained a few drops, you might just as well have written, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization off as a bust and Jet the Communists have Europe. It was a bit childish. A number of people who thought they were smart, like Sen. Henry Cab Lodge Jr. cf Massachusetts, figured they

rooms. So they left their toppers and coats in their cars. That was their mistake. After the first hour they began to shiver. A few people crawled

"into makeshift pup tents pro-

vided by Army officers who wore full dress long capes. Women in evening slippers hegan to complain of cold feet’ ” ” a BUT at least 1450 of the 1500 stuck it out. “This proves,” as one wag remarked, ‘how much we really love France.” There were a few dozen curfous sightseers inh nice warm

spectator sports coats, peu up

laughing at the folk in the slow-motion conga line. Later they started roaming ‘around the embassy lawn for closer look-sees. As one group came over the brow of a small rise of greensward, the cry went up, “Here comes the Red Cross!” About midnight, a loud speaker started blaring out of the night, waking, the birds

= with, “Car for Vice President

Barkley!” “Car No. 666!" And 80 on. Fortunately, some of those on the inside were going home, to make room for those on the outside.

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move. By 1 a.m. everybody was inside. And boy was it wonderful. and worth waiting for. Vive “le President Auriol! Le Foreign Minister Schuman? Magnifique! Vive 1I’Ambassadeur Henri Bonnet, Madame Aurfol et Madame Bonnet— Tres belles. Vive les Paris dressmakers and vive le champagne, After a couple, nobody

was mad at anybody. France

was our most glorious ally and. the official visit was a diplo+matic triumph which binds the, two nations forever more. But as for the U, 8. Secret Service—