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Sound Advice

PRESIDENT TRUMAN gave Charles E. Wilson a terribly tough job when he appointed him director of defense mobilization. Labor-union leaders have made that job even tougher by constant unfair sniping at Mr. Wilson. They have tried to convince the public that he is a power-grabbing autocrat promoting a big-business conspiracy to dominate the mobilization program. We believed from the start that the President could not have chosen a man better qualified by experience, ability, courage and patriotism. That belief is strengthened by the speech Mr. Wilson has just made in New York, affirming that he has no intention of quitting his post of duty and that he means to see his job through as well as he is able.

r » Jd THE mobilization director acknowledged proudly that he did come from big business, as did some of his associates in what is to a large extent a very big business undertaking. But he and they, he added, now are “working for Uncle Sam whole-heartedly and completely and, if we do not, we should and will be fired.” Instead of grabbing for power, Mr. Wilson asserted, he asked for nothing except an official order setting forth clearly the authorities and responsibilities Mr. Truman walfted him him to assume. He gave a hopeful account of progress on the productiof« front. America's industrial machine, he said, is moving tow rd ability to double its productive “miracles” of World Wa? II. But, he admitted frankly, efforts to stop inflation have not been adequate to the danger. And he strongly supported the President's plea for stronger weapons against inflation, emphasizing particularly the urgent need for swift action by Congress on a tax increase of at least $10 billion. Price and wage controls, as Mr. Wilson said, can treat the effects of inflation. But the fundamental attack on that “cancerous growth” must be directed at its cause, 3 ich d - AB. * ” ” » - » ALREADY, he pointed out, inflated costs are taking 32 billion out of every $10 billion appropriated by Congress for armament. That, he continued, could soon make the defense program too expensive for the national economy to bear. And that will continue unless excess purchasing power is drained off by higher taxes. The mobilization director appealed to his fellow citizens to be content with reasonable profits and reasonable wages. He urged them not to hoard, not to thrqw away money on ‘hings they don't need, not to patronize black markets— and to understand the need for higher taxes. That is sound advice for us all. Congress, especilly, requires this powerful reminder of its duty to levy taxgtion that will keep the expanding defense mobilization on a pay-as-we-go basis.

Open Those Doors N Korea, Gen. MacArthur's hands were tied by political understandings in which he had no voice. Now politicians here at home are setting the stage 0 that he can be stabbed in the back. Senate Democrats are willing to let the General testify 1t a public hearing, if he wants it that way. But it is undertood that State Department spokesmen and the Joint “hiefs of Staff will be permitted to answer him behind losed doors. If the American people stand for such contemptible Jrocedure, we shall be greatly surprised. Many questions should be answered in the forthcoming “earings. Among them: When and why did the United States surrender its re om of action in the conduct of the Korean War? Since the MacArthur plan to end the war by knocking ut the enemy's bases and supply lines and destroying his ighting potential has been disapproved, how do the Joint “hiefs of Staff propose to end the slaughter? Would not a diversion on the Chinese mainland by “hiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists be likely to lessen the presjure on our troops in Korea? ;

"| could not answer them . .." MacArthur.

Our plans for defense of Western Europe having been widely publicized, why is the State Department unwilling to discuss our plans for defense of American interests in the Pacific? Or do we have any such plans? Winston Churchill has asked in the House of Commons whether the British government had anything to do with Gen. MacArthur's dismissal. If that can be asked in the British Parliament, why shouldn't it’ be asked—and answered—in the American Congress? If those questions are considered in closed committee sessions, the State Department will be free to play the game, at which it is so adept, of leaking information about ents favorable to its views and suppressing what it doesn't want the public to know. : But Gen. MacArthur has raised issues which can’t be buried that easily. And the news from the fighting front # demanding public answers,

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WASHINGTON, Apr, 28-The Democratic hit-back-at-MacArthur campaign was being implemented today by the malling of more than 50,000 copies of a tabloid newspaper to party workers all over the country. The four-page paper, published. hy the Democratic National Committee, was headed: “Why the President Relieved MacArthur; The Official Record.” In a signed article, Democratic National Chairman William M. Boyle Jr. explained that the publication was necessary because the Republican leaders in Congress and some sections of the press and radio “have resorted to an almost unparalleled misrepresentation in an effort to make political capital out of this exercise of a proper presidential authority.” / He said he had ordered the widest possible distribution because he knew there were many areas in the country where it was difficult for the citizens to get the full facts, Contents of the tabloid were restricted to official statements and newspaper editorials and cartoons. furnish party workers with an official handout on the Democratic side of the argument. Nothing personally derogatory to Gen. MacArthur was printed. The tabloid carried the address President Truman delivered on Apr. 11. after he had relieved Gen. MacArthur and the official announcement of the firing, along with the documents released by the White House to show why the General was fired. Included was Gen. MacArthur's now famous letter to House Republi- " can Leader Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, Newspaper editorials included were from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the New York Herald Tribune, the Buffalo Evening News, the Raleigh News and Observer, the Milwaukee Journal, the Atlanta Constitution, Denver Post, the Minneap-

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olis Tribune and the New York Times. Cartoons reprinted’ were from the Baltimore Sun, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Bacramento Bee and the Milwaukee Journal, Most prominent space was given to the Post» Dispatch editorial which said the real issue is

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NEW YORK-—-The latest equipment for defense against atomic radio-activity is an “alarm clock” which will go off at whatever dosage it is set

lagen eo opr i RT SR Er *" Bclence, it seems, has now done it again, : Just hark to this startling disclosure: — - Alarms which will tell the exact moment when We've had too much atomie

exposure.

Now let them work on a project worth while: — When cold winter dawn sheds its thin glow, What this country needs is a clock versatile Which throws itself clear out the window! Ed ” - IT WASN'T bad enough to have to get up to turn the darned clock off every dawning. Now they have gadgets which turn on the radio! So you have to wake up to the darned thing—as well as listen all day. ” . ~ A HUNGARIAN clockmaker has developed one for the Voice of America that's a lulu. Every hour it displays portraits of Joseph Stalin and a reproduction of his voice says, “This is Joseph Stalin. It is now officially 12 o'clock.”

That's the last word. In cuckoo clocks! ” # »

BUT daylight saving should be more timely than ever this year. No one can save anything else. And it will give folks an extra hour to sit in the sun and absorb a few free vitamins. We aren't able to latch onto many now-a-days that are free. a 8 8 BUT those seven American gals who lost out to a British actress in the contest to fill the role of Lady Godiva in Coventry’s June pageant, shouldn't have too much to worry about.

If the price situation keeps’

up over here they'll be wearing less than the winner. Or the horse!

WHH'H may be one of the reasons those Paris stylists are favoring “mauve orchid” lingerie and girdles for this Spring! ” ~ ” NOW A former Georgia governor has quit his job as a consultant with the Office of Price Stabilization. Said he'd been carried on the payroll for 12 weeks at $53.48 a day, but did nothing. Maybe the whole country might be better off if we paid some others twice that amount —just to make sure they did nothing! ” w . AUNTY COMMY says: “That Russian offer to send 50,000 tons of wheat to India in exchange for raw jute should be okey with the Boviet youngsters. “Last year Russia sent 50, - 000 tons of wheat—in return for castor ofl!” :

A NEW YORK minister recently declared that the average citizen Is “undeniably involved in the widespread revelation of evil; that thoze who watch television erime inquiries may be indulging in self-right-eolsness.” Could be. But up to now we haven't been able to cash in on It like those Kefauver Quizz Kidst } a,

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Senate Committee Plans to Close Most of MacArthur Hearing

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28 — This week in Congress the savage debate over U. 8. foreign palin t= the Far East was nearing ita-eli=--

oféign Relations and Armed Bervices Committees set Thursday for the start’ of - their inquiry into that policy and the events leading up to the removal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The General will be the first witness. Republicans demanded that th hearings be opene to the public but Sen. Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.), who will preside at the sessions, said testimony for the most part §/. 2 would be taken in fa LZ closed session. He gaid Gen. MacArthur and other witnesses could make public statements if they cared to. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) was leading the GOP attack against the administration. He charged that the State Department wanted the Chinese Communists to win the civil war in China, and he declared that the Joint Chiefs nf Staff were under the control of the Truman administration. This assertion, said Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) was ‘‘dangerous doctrine” tp spread. All members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including the chairman, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, will testify before the investigating committee,

Crime Probe

THE CRIME Investigating Committee was voted a continuance until Sept. 1. Sen. Herbert O'Conor (D. Md.) will replace Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) as chairman. After Sept. 1 the committee's investigative powers will be turned over to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. An additional $100.000 was voted to finance the extended investigation.

RFC Boss

THE banking and Currency Committee approved the nomination by President Truman of W. Btuart Symington as administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Mr. Symington told the committee that the President had given him a free hand and that he was “beholden” to no one for the job.

Donald Dawson

DONALD DAWSON, President Truman's personnel adviser, was asked by the Fulbright Committee to show up May 10 to tell what he knows of favoritism and political influence in

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tigating federal job-szelling in Mississippl. Some Senators thought the White House assistant also should be called before that committee.

‘Senator Moody

BLAIR MOODY, newspaperman, was sworn

in to succeed the late Sen. Arthur H. Vanden-

berg (R. Mich). Sen. Moody is a Democrat.

House Red Probe JOHN GARFIELD, movie star, told the UnAmerican Activities Committee that never been a member of the Communist Party. Marc Lawrence, another Hollywood actor, said he had signed a Communist membership card in 1938 but later withdrew. He described his association with the party as a ‘hideous mistake.” Two others from movieland, Morris Carnovsky and George Willner, refused to answer questions.

Grain to India THE BILL authorizing a $290 million lnan to India for the purchase of wheat and other grains was cleared from the Rules Committee and is expected to be voted on next week. The Truman administration had requested that the grain be provided as a gift. It's needed to help stave off famine conditions in India.

Appropriations ADDITIONAL appropriations, totaling $6.4 billion, were voted for the armed services and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for the fiscal year ending June 30. However, the Appropriations Committee recommended a $65 million cut in the AEC's $2.2 billion budget request for the new fiscal year. Deep cuts also were recommended for the Veterans Administration, office of the President, Civil Service Commission and other independent agencies, Floor debate also began on the Interior Department's appropriations. Although final action was not taken, reductions $9.450,000 were ordered in amounts earmarked for power projects. :

President PRESIDENT TRUMAN asked for a stronger Defense ‘Production Act, including stiffer controls. To help control food prices the President recommended that the parity price of each farm crop be fixed at the start of each marketing season and remain in effect for a year, instead of being adjusted each month. Mr. Truman also asked for stronger rent controls on residential buildings, credit controls on sales of existing houses and rent controls on commercial buildings.

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World War IIT, with President Truman trying Ruy to avert it and Gen. MacArthur recommending a corse which would be in effect a declaration . Tec of war, Trumanites Worried WA PRO-TRUMAN Democratic leaders are wore battle i ried about the apparently overwhelming pro a MacArthur tide, (“Thank heavens the election Way it isn't tomorow,” said one.) ings, als But, like the President, they feel the tide ro will turn, and they hope that the tabloid being inflation oy { distributed now will enable party workers to Den nt turn it. & The President is known to have been partice en Trun ; ularly encouraged by the support he is receiv- hearings ¢ 4 ing from Democrats in Congress. Democrats Rey Po who never once opened their mouths when the by wha! Chai B Republicans were lashing out at Secretary of 9 airman Boyle State Dean Acheson a few months ago are “blow tl oo» the full facts making hard-hitting speeches in behalf of the to capit President's position now. ic] There was particular appreciation at the Suki White House for the impressive speech against bs) ist the MacArthur policy made this week by Sen, sam a 5 J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.), a man who only Wy a few weeks ago had the administration reeling agi with his investigation of the Reconstruction get Mir Finance Corp. eentrol o ’ exchange. 8hort Its purpose obviously was to SO LITTLE TIME there's n I WISH that I could erowd into . . . this 30 ni lifetime that I know . . . all the things of which Democrat I've dreamed . . . the places I might go . . . if Committe this were possible to do , . . I'd bid you come $75 billi along . .. and we would start our jonrmey .., pou a with a light heart and a song . . . we'd travel thinks it’ to a far off land . . . where all was bright and tle is nof gAY . . . where joy and happiness would be , . , wave of a part of each new day . .. we'd play in flowery wii gardens . . . and live in a wooded dell . . . and jue now of my love for you dear . .. I'd never cease to ,tell , . . but I'm afraid, although I'll try ... te touch off weave this dream of mine . . . we it’s promise will never know . . . for there's so little time, —By Ben Burroughs. MacArt MacAR' ERNE IEEE RENEE TREE RONeRITRITINRIRANRRT ERIE RITERIIIRIIIeneeReIIRtIIIYY looks as : Russell | Hoosier F ‘War'| i : can keep :rmoosier rorume-= ar decides i "| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend i Poy BR M . gn at open : to the death your right to say it. : out all 12 aT er a STO FISTS Tea A ae] ments inv MR. EDITOR: security. ‘Once again as a spectre from the half-forgotten pazt the Most FR insidious poison of German militarism is raising its ghostly, members hydra-like head among the decadent ruins of a once might They arg matin. Fhe prouna, gireaay wei soWH With (He Seeds Of natred, recung nd distrust, fear and above all, ever pulsating Teutonic desire for be laid a world domination, is ripe for : at Mag cultivation, and as in 1871, ” r. Ru 1914 and 1030 the CFOP MAY yong ‘Why would genuine he'll Tet well be watered and thrive on , ot. stoop to such low tity with the nectar of the sweat, blood, levels” No matter what one’ General ¢ and tears of a dozen non- Ns 2 ently dos Aryan and hence “inferior” opinion may be relative to made ear peoples. Harry 8. Truman's dismissal of Note: The war-weary world, pre- Douglas MacArthur, why Georgia occupied with all the trials TOUd a normal intelligent, as privs Y American citizen boo the man and tribulations, with all the h Russell 1 hidious effects of the struggle 4... represented the Presidency ings. He for these United States? he had of conflicting ideologies, past : pay. Mr. and present, is too engaged in Maybe the “boo-ers” are the personal more pressing affairs to note real Communist threat in the but frie the fanatic ranting of a dozen United States. People who objective embryo Feuhrers, who as yet never rise above the booing Mr. Russ lack only the necessary fol- level probably are not capable to mak lowing to again fan the flame ©f governing themselves in a MacArth of the jingoistic spirit of the free world. Freedom never versy. Germaniec- people. meant harsh disregard of one's ~~ i» fellowmen. Hits W. AGAIN, as after World War 128 MORE ‘1, the Germans are being af- SURE, ours is a great coun- ‘American forded an opportunity to re- try. We can boo, we can he eration is arm. Today, however, they disrespectful, throw paper, price cont have found staunch allies in garbage on our highways, spit, develops two old enemies, Russia and and be wantonly unconcerned will have America, who actually believe about the rights of others, but enough =a with all the naivete of children, such actions blight freedom, count. Mi that it is they who use the Men worthy of freedom must ministrati German people to their ends act like free men. Certainly controls, | when the facts are actually to it 1s better to he good man- Look fc the Sontrary: : nered from choice. ft comes v, under J ice 2 the USSR and the AUspiens of 1 Speniy booing Stalin would give J once mighty German war ma- irs wy might lose one's This is chine again Is molded and [ic op Po 20 be glad the boo. urged by formed and slowly regains its ng of Truman cost no one his wants te vaunted powers. Once more the NcCK: but can’t we be men and loopholes. sound of hobnail boots is heard yomen of dignity because that upon the cobblestones of Ger- A What we desire to be? We Ponder man streets, Once more the >nould never be guilty .of de- : mighty factories of the Ruhr lInquency where good taste is WASHI beich forth their steam and °Oncerned and required. Other what * smoke. Once more the junker Countries have long called us Charles totaling caste slowly regains prestige. heathen, uncultured, unedu- offer Ge Our leaders would do well cated. It is just such disregard loughby h to heed history’s lessons and ©f 800d manners as all booers intelligenc reconsider before they create are guilty of, that has caused years. He a Frankenstein that may help these countries to speak dis« sial figure destroy us in the event of a * Paragingly about us. he sets 1 third Srent_tondier. ar. Servioe f —Robert F. Wiggs, Ey operations 1422 Broatwny I DON'T believe the great who servi Jieast of America is inclined to in Far E oing, else she would never ‘Booers and Reds’ have reached such greatness. hid

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