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T 1S most unfortunate that there should be a party- io © division between the Democrats and the Republicans on
“the issues of the Korean War and Far Eaptern policy, for
partisanship should end whére national security begins. «Butawhen all 13 Democrats. present: voted against holding public hearings on the induiry into Gen. MacArthur's ouster, with all 10 Republicans voting for open. hearings, it is easy to see which party is willing to let the people have all the facts so that they can reach their own decision. That was the vote when the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services were confronted by this issue yesterday. : This decision will permit the Joint Chiefs of Staff to appear and explain the American policy in the Korean War behind closed doors. This policy Sen. Taft hds compared to that of a football coach who orders his team to kick each time it reaches the 50- -yard line. But each drive to the ~88th Parallel costs Américan ‘lives, and each retreat from’ that line costs more American lives.
‘WHAT is this policy intended to accomplish, and will what we expect to accomplish be worth the frightful price
in American blood we are paying for it?
‘ This is & question which should be answered where every American citizen can hear the answer and: all that can be said in support of it. Every citizen also is entitled - to hear Gen. MacArthur's reply to these arguments. "These hearings should be open to the public because the people who are paying for this war with blood and treasure want tu know. what. plan or. purpose, if 4 any, is behind the seemingly aimless slaughter. : The Democrats have voted to deny the people this right. Do they dare to go to the country on this issue in 19527
The RFC's Future. [7 STUART SYMINGTON, whose appointment by * President Truman received unanimous Senate“ approval yesterday, takes office today as administrator of’ the .Reconstruction Finance Corp. That means that the big government lending agency has been placed in trustworthy hands. Mr. Symington has ability and integrity. He can be depended on to stand vigilant guard against the favor-seekers and influence-users whose operations on the RFC, under its former board of directors, have been explored by Sen. Fulbright's ‘investigating committee. But the vote of confidence given him by Senators of both parties does not imply agreement, .in or out of Congress, that the RFC should stay in business.
HERBERT HOOVER, Marriner Eccles "of ‘the Federal Reserve Board (who seldom agree on anything) and other
‘authorities have contended;.in current hearings before the
Senate Banking Committee, that the agency has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. . The government is preaching the necessity of tight curbs on public and private credit in order. to combat inflation. It seems grossly inconsistent for the government to keep the RFC alive for the purpose of extending credit to enterprises unable to borrow money elsewhere. In any event, Mr. Symington will be gravely handi-
capped in attempting to {restore the RFC to public
confidence unless there is a marked change in President Truman’s hostile attitude toward the Fulbright committee's ‘influence and favoritism.”
A WEEK AGO, Sen. Fulbright oa Donald S.
Dawson, one of the President's top administrative assist-
ants, to let the committee know by Apr. 30—yesterday— whether he would consent to testify. Mr. Dawson's name has come up again and again in-various phases of: the investigation. Mr. Dawson, Who had ignored a previous milder invitation, did not reply to that request. Instead, he referred it to Mr. Truman. And Mr. Truman, according to a White House spokesman, still has it “under consideration.” If he keeps it ‘under consideration”—if he does not tell Mr. Dawson to testify—the public will be justified in concluding that Mr. Truman doesn't want the whole truth about the RFC to be known.
Style for the Veep
GRAVE question is before the Senate Appropriations Committee: Shall Vice President Barkley's governmentowned 1950 limousine be traded in for a brand-new model? Senate Secretary Les Biffle has proposed the deal, which ‘would cost $2500 cash in addition to a dealer's allowance for last year’s job. Now, of course, it's vastly important that the Veep should ride in style befitting the dignity of his office, No one, surely, would propose .that he travel between his Washington apartment and “the Capitol in an ordinary taxi, as he could for an outlay of $1.50 or so > per round trip, including tips. But this is a time when the government is exhorting ordinary citizens to help fight inflation by avoiding unnecessary spending. It's also a time when many ordinary citizens must avoid what might otherwise .be considered necessary purchases if they're to have enough money deft’ to pay their income taxes. ' So, despite Secretary Biffle's solicitude on behalf of up-to-date transportation for the Vice President, a lot of ordinary citizens are likely to feel that Mr. Barkley might, without, undue hardship, be ablé to get around in that 1950 limousine for another year or so. \
Sporting of You, Tovaritch RUSSIA has announced that it will take art in the 1952
. Olympics in Finland. That is, if the international ath“fetie organization will admit the Russians. ©
It will be interesting to see wh fibig the Krémlin may. come up with to explain away inevitable defeats. The Reds have got more than a year in which'to concoct their fanta-
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BRITISH SHOWDOWN .
Bevan Caught’ Between Red Kiss Of Death And Tories
"LONDON, "May 1— Aneurin Bevan, leader of the leftists who resigned from the British Labor Cabinet, . probably “won't help the Con‘servatives in their efforts to unseat the government this week, but he will continue to under-+ mine the British- American alliance and -British armament. He is reviving the spirit of clags warfare which destroys national unity. and international co-operation. oe The Conservative’ motion to censure the govérnment-—which could result.in its downf#il —will be debated in Commons today. It picks up the Bevanites’ charge that the rearmament program. approved in. February was based on estimates of production which were not accepted by ‘the ministers concerned.
. By Ludwell Denny
This puts Mr. Bevan on a spot:
cerity.. And if he. withheld the leftist votes
“needed by Prime Minister Attlee to defeat the
Tory motion, it would convict Mr. Bevan of
ary theason in the eyes of Labor. generally.
This probably would prevent him from capturing the Labor Party at the fall convention, also from beconting the opposition leader—if
' the Toriés won this year—as a step toward. a And.
possible Labor election victory next year, At would keep him from the" premiership. The three who resigned from the government
--Mr. Bevan, Harold Wilson, president of the”
Board of Trade, and John Freeman, parliamentarv secretary of the Supply Ministry—say they won't pull down the government. . This’ how-
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HEAP BIG WAMPUM
Lawgivers Make
By Frederick ¢{ Othman
Big Thunder
About Indians and Bureaucrats
WASHINGTON, May 1—The subject was
Indians and how long, oh, Great White Father,
must the House of Representatives put up $65 million ‘a year to care for the noble Redskin? So it turned out that the Indian Bureau had 13,127 employees in charge of Indians; plus an unnamed number of Indian experts it in-tended--to hire from time to time at $100 per day. Wowie! For a while the chamber sounded like a battleground of the Comanches and the Sioux. Rep. George H. Bender, the ' Indian expert and .Republican from “Chagrin Falls, “ Ohio, charged that Indian Commissioner * Dillon Myer was an incompetent. _ Rep. James G. Fulton (ID. Pa.) said the way he calculated it, there was one bhureaucrat for every 34 Indians. -And Jet us not forget the $100 per specialists, he said, plus 227 new which to haul them around. Rep. Clarence Brown, another Republican and Indian authority from: Ohio, suggested that per- . haps the administration quickly could. convert a lame duck Congressman into a $100 a day Indian expert. Several other lawgivers claimed that the Indians were being bled by crooked lawye¢ vs, while Rep. Frances Bolton, a third Ohid Republican, .said she had been in the Navajo country, where the great need was more and better horses.
“But what did the-Indian Bureau. do?” she
day sedans in
cried. “Built a capitol building at a cost of $8 million.” ° 3 All this’ time Rep. *Usher L. Burdick (R. N. D.), who knows more about Indians than
anybody in these parts, the Indian Commissioner included, was squirming in his seat He
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Brew up with the Sioux. language. “When they come in here and are going to shoot all the lawyers,” he said, when he. found he could keep silent no longer, “I have to object. I have been a kind of innocent and inoffensive lawyer for a long time.” : For 70 long years, he continued, he lived with the wildest Indians on the American continent. And for 70 years they've heen getting nowhere much under the system installed by Congress. He nouncing his fellow lawmakers, when Rep. Ben: F.. Jensen (R. Ia.) said he'd sure like to see Rep. Burdick talk in the Indian sign language. Rep. Burdick did so, with Indian gestures. “And now I would like to ask the gentle-
He: speaks their
man what isc the name the Indians baptized “him?**-Rep. Jensen continued. :
“The Indians have always had too much respect for me to make me a chief of their tribe,” snapped Rep. Burdick. “They only do that with the sucker who gives them some money.” Rep. John F. Rooney (D., Brooklyn, N, Y.), who knows nothing much about Indians and even admits it, wondered if the gentleman from North Dakota kindly would explain in. words what all those Indian signs meant. Rep. Burdick said they meant the heap big chief wanted to buy some merchandise in a stare.
Indians Are Indians .
“NOW WHERE was I when 1 got off the track?” inquired Rep. Burdick. “What was I talking about?” : Rep. Fred L, Crawford (R. Mich.) said he was talking about Indians and their right to own land in North Dakota. Rep. Burdick went on from there. Some other gentlemen got into the act and then Rep, Fulton said: * “But there must be some Indians who still want just to be Indians. Do you propose to force them to Americanize?” The gentlemen argued some more, ‘but I am pleased to report that they did take some decisive action. They decided $100 a day was. too much to pay Indian experts. They settled for $50.
B. Russell, (D. 'Ga.),
in ‘decades.
It would not be correct to say that Sen. Russell will be a reluctant chairman. He's just fatalistie. Heknows there will be screams of “whitewash ” and of “‘persecution and smear.” And they'll be directed at Him, °? ‘a heretofore popular, wellliked Senator. Regardless of the course and outcome of the hearings, a large portion of the ’ population of the United States and his home state is apt to
Sen. Tydings ... same story?
of boil with indignation at the sl way Sen. Russell ‘is running things. “°°
one,” says the Senator with a
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MacARTHUR ISSUE .
Will Reaction End Sen. Russells
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ever, is more important for Mr. Bevan's future than for the current political-situation and the rearmament program. oe Ld on
BECAUSE probably there will be a general election this summer or autumn, regardless of
whether Mr. Bevan precipitates -if or merely. waits for the Tories to topple an insecure gov-
ernment. And when the election comes Labor probably will be defeated regardless of what the Bevanites do about embarrassing the Tory motions In any case Mr. Bevan will continue to stir
»up.anti-American sentiment and make it harder for either a Labor or Tory government to get,
all out’ public support for rearmament,
This serious aspect of the situation: is largely’ . overlooked by Conservatives in their glee over
the Labor split. While Winston Churchill and Mr, Attlee have heen patting themselves on the back for different reasons, Mr. Bevan has been picking up support where it ‘counts — ‘among union and nacty locals. 4 large pars. ef the publis.ajready fs "¢ritical of America. cool on the Korean War
-.and-opposed-to-sacrificing free false teeth and
spectacles for faster rearmament. + So the fact that, Mr. Bevan is not yet. strong
enough to capture the party or the union bu-
reaucracy—to Mr. Attlee's relief —it doesn’t keep him from getting enough public following to cause trouble. In British, . like American democracy, the politicians: don't move far ahead of the voters. Mr. Churchill in office would have to temper policy to publié opinion/ just as Mr. JAttlee has been doing. Mr. Churchill's advocacy. of a big three meeting with Stalin personally, his patrioteering against the appointment of an American admiral for the Atlantic command and his boast that he fathered various welfare state measures all show ‘how super-sensitive he is to the voters’ prejudices. oe oN
MR BEVAN~isnit-a—clever-party-teader Hig =
uncohtrolled- temper, unharnessed ambition and
personal vanity, rob him of the’ patience and 3
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skill required for high office or statesmanship,
Nevertheless; as a- rabble rouser he has no
equal today -in Britain, - or. probably in‘ the
Western world.
* No matter what ‘party is in power, whoever controls the morale of .the British. unions will
dictate the pace of British preparedness if not"
of nominal: British palicy. Mr. Churchill, 1 War II, recognized thig in making Ernest Bevin
as Prime Minister in World
Minister of Labor, As Prime. Minister Mr. Attlee at the close of the war recognized it by making “Ernie” the most important man in the Labor
Cabinet, - Mr. Bevin's recent death left Mr. Bevan as
‘the most influential cabinet minister with the °
rank and file when they were beginning to
break away from the old Labor bureaucracy
which was more powerful in the government than in the factories. Mr. Bevan's chance of becoming Labor Prime Minister is less than his ambition.” But he has agood. chance of becoming a dominant voice Organize YAPOF, will. = Two missteps—following his mistake in re-_ signing .or_in_ pkrmitting himself .to be ma= neuvered out of the cabinet—may . turn his growing public against him, however.” i Ww cb FIRST, by leaving ‘the cabinet when it was
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under heavy. Tory«fire,- he has raised the ques-
- tion of his loyalty—a serious guestion in Labor
ranks. Second is the danger of his adoption by the Reds. His popularity is precisely becajse he's leftist without being Communist. Now the Reds and fellow travelers are praising him. He's aware of the hazard and trying to avoid the kiss of death, But it won't be easy for this demagogic political climber to keep to the left far -enough
. to challenge Attlee right-wing leadership effec
tively without appearing perilously élose to the Commie line. For that reason the deep ‘democratic spirit of the dissatisfied British labor rank and file may be his undoing.
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Hoosier Forum—‘Let 'em Teach’ 1
'l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it."
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MR. EDITOR:
It was the late Mr. Boake Carter, news analyst, columnist and broadcaster who said: "The trouble with us is that we do not know how properly to evaluate people and situations.” The people and situations involved here are of
the. highly respected group, “the teaching profession.
Four or five decades ago the youth embarking on a teaching career - met with very stiff competition. The training years were strenuous. The yearly salary for beginners was $350. By taking post normal school work a gradual yearly increase .over. a period of seven years brought the salary up another $500.
Upon investigation recently, 1 learned that In January, 1912, the Russell Sage Fetindation completed a survey of general excellence of the work as done by the pupils of schools in 27 cities, including Indianapolis. Indianapolis received the highest rating. The teachers of those vears have always been justly preud of their part in ‘achieving this distinction. o> Ho WHEN, in March of this year, the State's Seneral- Assembly” révised the laws regarding teacher retirement. the minimum age was: fixed at 66 years with the proviso, which, if conditions merited their tetention, two more years of service ceuld be granted.-
Some 29 teachers of this age group are now to Be retired without benefit of the extra two years proviso. With an estimated shortage of approximately 170 teachers for the next school year, the retention of the teachers of ‘this age group could help considerably to minimize the shortage problem and the Ci would be substantially benefited. 2
Certainly since this retention i= entirely | with the members of the Board of School Commissioners and the superintendent, our citizens deserve the assurance that in the teaching profession, at least, an even keel will at all times be maintained by properly evaluated people-and situations.
—Anna A. Pich, 236 N. Hamilton Ave.
‘Machine Politics’ MR: EDITOR: 2 *
There are, as in all elections in this 4 Couples; two major parties. The Democrats and the Republicans. I will discuss the two principal Republican candidates. Cy Ober. Mr. Clark is a. young: man. He is only 35. His previous political experience is five years as city police -judge. The machine is backing Mr. Clark. It seems strange to me that such a powerful machine would back such a young man with such limited experience. It is for sure that it is not doing it out of the goodness of its heart so it seems obvious that there is a kickback .somewhere.
The other candidate is a gentleman with
* more political experience, Mr. Ober is 56 years
old. Previous political, offices were city controller, member of the Safety Board of Indianapolis, and the head of the Tax Adjusting Board in Indiana. He is a business man with over 100 employees under him. The machine is not backing Mr. Ober. He is backing himself, with the aid of non-political citizens ‘who are interested: in. good government for Indianapolis. Mr. Ober will have a free Hand
with which to make decisions without pressure
from the machine. —Harry Warren, George Washington High School
. By Earl Richert
They are Alex Clark and °
..not care .
‘Landlords Aren't Rats’ MR. EDITOR:
It is unfortunate that “Worried Mother” {Hoosier Forum, Apr. 26) feels so un-Christian toward landlords that she indirectly classified as rats that should be cleaned out in this country. That's'a good attitude to keep her looking for a place from now on. However, she can be encouraged, for a few more years -of rent control, rising taxes and costs in maintenance, will probably eliminate -landlords without recourse to rodent exterminators. Worried mothers may then stand in line to
‘find if they can meet proper requirements to
be admitted into the outer office of the Housing Administrator where they will be issued required forms entitling them to consideration for living space in government housing project No. 00000, after the legal-waiting period for clearance through Washington. A Le oo oo IT IS difficult to find the spirit of Christianity and the Golden Rule in your letter, Worried Mother. Landlords generally are just people that. have some work and savings invested and really they have no moral obligation to rent property to families having the most children if the landlord's best interests direct otherwise. During times when renters have had .the possibility of choice they invariably chose a location to their best interests, regardless of whether the rejected needed the money or not. .. Regardless .of any adverse conditions in which we as renters. or landlords may temporarily find ourselves, let us not succumb to derisive’ enmity, between any groups, promul-
‘gated by inimical powers to break down unity
in this great land of ours. We must be alert to dangers involved in landlord versus tenant conditions so keenly. amplified in rent regulations- during the past few years. : =A Vanishing Landlord, City
‘Danger of Fire’ MR.EDITOR: Again we read of a tours -year-old .being burned to death by playing with matches. If
is not enough to tell a-child he should not play ————=—-=
with matches, for that which is forbidden be-comes-the most attractive. It is better to take him on your lap and teach him the use of gs match and how to light one without any danger. JI ‘taught my son how to light matches properly and -he has lit thousands of them. He ifs 57 years old now and has never get himself or any house on fire.
—W. H. Richards, 1237 Central Ave.
DRUNKEN DRIVER
THE man who partakes of a drink . . . and then preparés to drive . .. is nothing less than criminal.’, . and he must cease to thrive . . , in short he is a murderer . . . who really does . about his fellow ‘citizen . . . whose city he must share .'. . he is the true grim ‘reaper of . . . a thousand lives each year . . . his slimy hands reach out to take ... the ones we love so dear .,.. I hope this little sketch of mine, . . will reach the eyes of some . . . who drive “While under the influence . . . of whisky, beer or rum . .. and that they'll stop and think a bit . . . of bodies bent and broken . . . because they choose to drive while drunk .. . and leave death as a taken.
~==By Ben Burroughs
Career?
“You just can't win on this
% WASHINGTON, May 1—"I'd give a third of my salary, and that's all I've got, if this cup could pass my lips.”
—Sen. Richard
“This cup”-is the MacArthur-Far East policy hearings which get under way this week with the Georgia Senator rapping the gavel and bossing the most sizzling affair Washington has seen
grim smile. “But it's my job and T'm going to go through with {t."” Sen. Russell, falls into the master-of-ceremonies spot because he is. chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: The hearings will be conducted as a joint operation of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. o ” ” BUT Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the foreign relations group has ‘“graciously” relinquished any chairman-
ship claims on this one to his
fellow chairman. Mr. Connally presided over the recent joint hearings by the same two committees on the troops-to-Eu-rope issue.
Sen. Russell doesn’t mention
it, but the fate of his former colleague, Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland, is
bound to be ? “fresh in his mind. §en. Tydings
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was chairman of the Armed Services Committee and, like Sen. Russell, considered unbeatable in his home state. But Sen. Tydings drew the chairmanship of the Amerasia hearings—an issue much less explosive than the MacArthur question—and the ‘‘unbeatable”
Tydings soon became an ex- “|
Senator. It was Sen. Tydings' defeat that elevated the Georgian~to the Armed Services Chairmanship. Sen. Russell, however, has one . advantage—he doesn't have to run again next yéar. His term lasts to 1955. o o » THE soft -voiced Georgia Senator already has taken an unpopular stand. He wants to keep the sessions closed to the public. Also, for security rea-
.. sons; he wants the transcripts
of the hearings censored byt the military each day befofe they are given to the press and radio. : “I'm convinced,” - he said, ‘that’ we'll not get all the facts and the whole truth in open hearings.” He has said that a public hearing would be granted to Gen. MacArthur if the General personally pequested it. He
made it plain, however, that the ‘request would have to come from Gen. MacArthur personally, not {rom ‘some
de. y §icnoun only .53, S8en., Rus11 is now the fifth-ranking
man in seniority in the Senate
and has had a fabulously successful political career. » o » THE son of a former Chief Justice of ‘the. Georgia Supreme Court and one of 18 children, Sen. Russell has been in public life continuously "since he was elected to the state legislature
at the age of 21. He was elected
speaker of the Georgia House at 30, governor when he was 34 and U. 8. Senator when he
was 35. He's been in the Senate since 1933. On the MacArthur-Truman controversy, he has kept a
‘close mouth since he will participate in the role'of a judge.
But his reputation for fairness
is such that. both sides are
happy. he'll be handling ‘the
hearing. “It” would ‘be: hard to find a Democrat who'll be fairer than
'. Dick Russell,” said one pro-
MacArthur ‘Republican.
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