Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1951 — Page 28

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Bayt Should Be Nominated

“IT isn’t often that Indianapolis gets to see how a pros-

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merrier ne . This vear unusual circumstances have placed Phil Bayt in that office a few months before election day. We have had, thus, a rare practical demonstration of how he would conduct that office. Sort of pre-election try-out. He has approached the city's problems, which are many, with vigor, with good judgment, and with sound common sense. He may have stepped on a few political tbes, but he has declined to play political games with .the city’s interests, even with this early referendum at the polls right ahead of him. He has, in fact, worked so diligently at ‘his job of being as good a Mayor as he knows how to be that there hasn't been much time left over for political campaigning as it is ordinarily done around here. * We believe his record has earned the indorsement of Democratic voters. “" ‘We trust he gets it at the polls next Tuesday.

Their Own Censors?

'ENATORS who have heard Gen. MacArthur's testimony “+ before the censors worked it over, and who have had access to secret and confidential documents bearing on the issue, report they have found relatively little disagreement between the General's views and those of the Joint Chiefs of ‘Staff. «2 They were in general accord on Korean War strategy. #"" They agreed that it was in the American interest to have Formosa in friendly hands. Secretary of State Acheson disregarded this military estimate in holding that the island was of no strategic value. Not long ago he was willing to discuss turning it over to the Chinese Communists. ~-» When the Joint Chiefs recommended against giving Formosa to the Reds and seating the Reds in the United Nations, as conditions of a cease-fire agreement in Korea, Secretary of Defense Marshall overruled them.

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“THUS if the Senators want to find out what the Amer- __ idem policy is and how it was arrived at, the men to be called td the stand are Secretaries Acheson and Marshall. “ ‘These two cabinet members appointed the two censors who decide how mifeh of the testimony before the Senate committee shall be given to the public. Will they be allowed to ‘censor their own testimony? To be more explicit, if they = are asked embarrassing questions, will they be allowed to delete these, as well as their own answers, simply by holding” that matters of military security are involved? : If the two key men in the situation can hide behind any #Gch hocus-pocus, this examination of American policy in the Far East will become a farce. * “Some pertinent questions are likely to be quite embarrassing. : : For example, when Gen. Marshall was on the way to pis ill-fated mission to China, he stopped at Tokyo and called on Gen. MacArthur before proceeding to his destination. But, although they were old comrades in arms, and glthough Gen. MacArthur was a recognized authority on the Far East, Gen. Marshall did not discuss any phase of his vital mission with him. _... Did Gen. Marshall feel that Gen. MacArthur's views. wolild be of no value, or was he under‘irstructions from the State Department not to consult Gen. MacArthur?

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“THE ANSWER to this question might go far to explain gome of the vagaries of American foreign policy. + Other questions undoubtedly will be asked about the alleged secret agreement between Secretary Acheson and the British Foreign Office which gave Britain the green light to go ahead and recognize Red China. “" The behind-the-scenes negotiations in the United Nations, where the United States delegation failed, or pretended to fail, to win support for immediately military and economic sanctions against the Chinese Communists, also should be exploded, through both Mr. Acheson, and Warren Austin, the chief U. S. delegate to the United Nations. a "Nothing less than the truth, and the whole truth, will gatisfy, for we are paying in blood for the breakdown of : American diplomacy. j

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Postal Politics

EMOCRATIC and Republican administrations alike have made a joke of the. Civil Service [Law which says that Yace, creed and politics have no part in the selection of postmasters. : Postmasterships are regarded as political patronage. That fact makes possible job-selling scandals, such as have been exposed in Mississippi. It discourages hope of promortion for merit among rank-and-file postal employees. It Yampers postal efficiency. . President Truman and Postmaster General Donaldson ‘gre again asking Congress to raise rates and cut down the huge postal deficit. The rates, inciuding those on newspapers and magazines, should be raised. “si. But Congress also should remove the blighting hand of politics from the postal service. « » ~ " . ~ o ” "BILLS to do that are now before the House and the Senate. They were recommended by the Hoover Commissib. They would put effective teeth into the law against pélitical appointments. They face strong opposition, however, because many Senators and Representatives don’t want to give up their present power to “advise in the selection of postmasters. And because they would take from th2 Senate its ancient prerogative of confirming or rejecting appointees, - This legislation needs support by public opinion. The . people's right to more efficient: postal service outranks in importance the vested interests of politicians. The people should let their Senators and Representatives know that - they want the Hoover Commission's Post Office bills report£d out of committees and enacted into law + :

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YAKIMA, Wash.—Apollo, a park swan, saw a flirting wild duck, zoomed into a high ten-

sion wire, and fell to "the ground in a dead faint. He is all right—but somewhat more placid. 2

Apollo's fortunes went awry, The poor guy had no luck. He is no longer flying high— Although he meant to duck.

Yes, old Apollo blew a fuse, He's finished now with love. And all he does is sit and muse: “I Aud-o-bon a dove!” x

ACCORDING to the Greek legends, Apollo and Aphrodite (Goddess of Love) were children of the same father, but different mothers. Evidently, this Yakima Apollo was suddenly taken with the idea that he was his namesake's stepsister. ; But he went a step farther than he should have. However, the mythical Apollo was regarded as the god of healing. so this modern highflyer of the same Apollation should recover .fairly rapidly. Next -time this bird should know enough to wait until the duck season opens. We quail to think what might happen should he continue these little flights of fancy. It might well be his swan-song. His tension is high enough as it is. ~ " = ANYWAY, to get back to Aphrodite (and that is a long way back), her lovers were Hermes, Ares, Poseidon and other Greek gods. We alwavs thought Hermes was a lightweight typewriter, Now we know why so many bosses like to keep a lightweight typewriter (blonde preferred) posed on their knees. If she happens to know stenography. so much the better. That will make the old boy a little dictator, too. Although a couple of fellows named Hitler and Mussolini could have told him that's not all it's cracked up to be. ~ ~ n AUNTY COMMY SAYS: 8ee where the Fast (German Reds have hanned all fairy tales, Including Cinderella Probably dont want those Comrades to he getting anv silly notions that people are supposed to have shoes'” - ~ n THE Tennessee Btate Highway Department has announced plans for improving 4.8 miles of highway between two Summer County communities— White House and New Deal. Wonder if they are figuring on making it into a one-way road? y " n MEANWHILE, the United Nations {is experimenting In this country with an international system of roadside warning signs. A wood-burn-ing locomotive, for instance, would indicate a railroad crossing. For a narrow road ahead they might use a picture of Frank Sinatra. And anybody should know that a likeness of Fave Emerson meant soft shoulders. uu .8, WASHINGTON officials have been debating whether there should be an increase in the price of ‘the rubber which provides the basiz of the elastic in ladies’ corsets. / For anybody's money, that's one instance where they had darned well better stretch a point! . .

Neely (D. W. Va.) to “turn the trick. Only

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

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to Germany after spending a vear at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Lantz and attending Monticello Hi g h ~ . School. ~ he : Title "of the. pamphlet iz “Preparation For Tomorow —-A German Boy's Year In AmerSE mrt i The youth came here, with a group of 50, under the auspices of the American Church of the Brethren in co-operation with the U. 8. Military Government in Germany. , " : ‘48 8 PURPOSE of the program is to provide trained democratic leadership fof the Germany of tomorrow the State Department explained. It also is designed to combat the antiAmerican propaganda of both the Nazis and Communists. His year in Indiana converted young Taucher to the point where he would have liked to have become an adopted Hoosier for life. Instead he has gone back .home, as agreed, to tell what he learned of mechanized farming methods and the democratic American way of life in the home, church and school. Scenes from his year in Indiana are illustrated in the pamphlet by photographs from the Lantz family album. It is for sale now by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 25 cents.

CONGRESS ROUNDUP . . . By Charles Egger

Democrats Slam the Senate Door On Gen. MacArthur's Testimony

WASHINGTON, May 5--In the Senate this week as Gen. MacArthur set forth in detail his views on what U. 8. policy in the Far East should be, Republicans tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully to open the hearings to the public. Democrats, however, fought off the Republican effort, although © at one point in the parliamentary scuffling it took a short but effective filibuster by Sen. Matthew

one Democrat, Sen. Pat. McCarran of Nevada, joined the Republican drive. The General's testimony, therefore, was given only before the combined Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees and any other Senators who wanted to attend. and the press were barred. Only censored versions of the testimonv-—gone over word for word by a military security officer—were released from the committee room. ? The censored transcript made it clear, however, that Gen. MacArthur believes there are only two choices in the Korean conflict—the present “half-war” which could go on indefinitely at the expense of more and more American blood, or the forceful policy he advocates, including the use of Chinese Nationalist troops, bombing of bases in Manchuria and a blockade of the China coast.

Sen. Neely . . . turned the trick

The public

Crime Report

THE CRIME investigating committee's report struck hard at William O'Dwyer, former

mayor. of New York City and now U. 8. Ambassador to Mexico. The report said Mr. O'Dwyer had contributed to the “growth of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism” in New York. Also criticized in the report were Govas. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Forrest Smith of Missouri and Fuller Warren of Florida. The Investigators recommended a comprehensive legislative program to combat organized crime, including a federal commission to co-relate federal anti-crime activities with those of state and local governments,

RFC

DONALD DAWSON, President Truman's personnel adviser, agreed to testify hefore the Fulbright committee investigating favoritism and political influence in the Reconstruction Finance Corp. He is scheduled to appear May 10. Mr. Dawson's name has been mentioned frequently in testimony before the committee, but heretofore he has ignored the committee's invitation to tell what he knows. Meanwhile, W. Stuart Symington assumed

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9is new office as administrator of the RFC. Herbert Hoover, who as President helped create the RFC, and Jesse Jones, who was on the lending agency's first management board, urged that it be abolished.

Bigger Marine Corps

A BILL to double the size of the Marine Corps—raising its authorized strength to 400,000 officers and men—was passed and sent to the House. >

Appropriations

THE 90 per cent reduction ordered by the Aouse in appropriations for the Voice of Amerjca was backed up bv the Senate Appropriatione Committee. The committee also slashed the $403 million request’ for civil defense spending to $84 million. The house has voted $86.7 million.

Beef Order

THE Agriculture Committee asked for immediate repeal of the Office of Price Stabilization order designed to cut retail heef prices 10 per cent bv fall. Committee members said the order would curtail production and could result in a beef famine.

House Taxes

A WITHHOLDING tax on dividends and interest payments tentatively wae approved by the Ways and Means Committee. It was estimated that such a collection® method would increase tax revenues by $330 million a year. The committee also voted to continue the present depletion allowance on oil and gas. Treasury officials had asked that the 271, per cent allowance be reduced to 15 per cent.

Spending Bills

AN 11 per cent reduction in the Interior Department's appropriations was ordered. That's the deepest cut yet in spending bills. Most of the reductions were in requests for power and reclamation projects. Appropriations for 27 other agencies were cut 10 per cent. Biggest reduction—from $25 million to $1 million—was ordered for President Truman's emergency fund. Only 5000 low-rent houses . were approved for construction next vear, although the Truman administration had

asked for 75,000.

President

PRESIDENT TRUMAN asked for $60.8 billion to pay for defense in fiscal 1952. He said the huge expenditure might avert “another and more frightful global war.” Tt would raise defense spending since the Korean War to $108 billion. *

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- Hoosierland Teaches German Youth What Democracy Means

WASHINGTON, May 5-—-When the State Department wanted to. show how more than. 500 German boys and girls are being taught democracy here, they selected Indiana as the proving

In a 54-page slick-paper pamphlet. just issued, they tell the story of 18-year-old Ernest Hermann Taucher, who has returned

- - Ld ERNST'S American adventure begins when he arrives with the group at the Brethren Service Center, New Windsor, Md. From there he was driven to Indiana in the family car of Mr. and Mrs. David Stoners Anderson, who had taken Raimar Yon Platten, one of ‘the group, to their home for a year. ' Describing his arrival at Meadowbrook Farm, the Lantz nome place, Ernst wrote in a German newspaper: “There Twas received like a member of the family. I was asked to call my fos‘er parents by .their first names.” : This type of intimate family living grew throughout the year. The German youth was completely enthralled by the manner in which the pastor of the church and teachers in school treated him without the standoffishness, which the Ger-

man authoritarian discipline demanded. ~ » » THE abundance of clothes,

food, farm machinery, at first had him quite overwhelmed.

Post-war Germany still was suffering In 1950. What was once his fairly prosperous

family, now-lived in two rooms. They were supported by a school-teaching mother. Roosevelt High School in Monticello seemed a snap for him, after the long hours and hard courses he had been pursuing in a German agriculture school. He soon saw that there was a Jot of living to be learned in the extra-curricular activities, the pamphlet reports. Within the year Ernst had become 2a member of the Boys Athletic Association, the Agriculture Club, the glee club and the

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school. Outside school he was active in the 4-H Junior Leaders Club, He attended the international dairy show in Indianapolis and the livestock show in Chicago, . » ~ “ERNST was putting down roots in this American earth” the pamphlet writer comment= ed. “Roots that would make

his removal more difficult and

painful.” When he had his final-fare-well party and a look at Washington and New York, with the group with which he had arrived, Ernst bade goodby to Mr. and Mrs. Lantz at the plane which took him home, “Fas the rest of us German

“students—will do my best to

help get a better friendship, a better understanding, between the people of our two nations, by telling them the truth about the Americans,” Ernst wrote, “About the personal freedom of the individual which is

_not to be found in any other

country of the world. Democracy should be the aim of any people along with true Christi anity.”

THE GREAT PILOT

I HAVE a wondrous pilot who . . . directs my ship of life . . . a pilot who knows all

the ways . . . to steer through pain and. strife . . . a helmsman who can take me through + + « the most relentless storm . . . and guide me to a harbor that . . . is always snug and warm . . . this pilot who controls ‘my life . . . Is deep within my heart . . . and when I need Him most of all . . . He gives my hopes a start . . . for just as long as I have faith ... in God to see me through . . . I'l always come up smili and . . . my ‘dreams will a come true. —By Ben Burroughs

‘Soldier OKs Mac Ouster’

MR. EDITOR:

A recent letter from a friend of mine, James H. Berg, lately recalled to active .duty in the United States Navy. will be of interest to those persons who would like to know how the mems bers of our Armed Forces in the Pacific area feel about the dismissal of Gen. MacArthur. Quartermaster First Class Berg is stationed at Langley Field in the Philippine Islands. :

I quote. from the letter as “follows: - try ~ “Among the troops the action was lauded as a very definite step in the right direction. I imagine that #n the States the Republican press is taking advantage of this to say that the boys feel lost and leaderless. The situation is precisely to the contrary. I would say that 90 per cent say the President was right in removing him. We have many Marines here, sent from Korea with frost bite and battle fatigue, and they all say that they would a hundred times rather go back to Korea under Gen. Ridgway than they would under MacArthur. The Navy personnel who served under MacArthur never had any love for him in the first place. and most of the soldiers héaved a big sigh of relief when he was dismissed. 5 » » “MY THEORY on why it was necessary for his removal is this: He wished it so. Thinking from a politician's standpoint, it was a very- logical thought for him to have. If you remember, he interfered with United States foreign policy before. That was when his victorious troops were almost to the Chinese border. He was i a national hero, and wished to become a national martyr in order to increase his political advantage. However, when his troops were in retreat, and many people . were blaming him, he made no foreign policy statements which would give the present administration an excuse to recall him. As soon as the tide again turned in his favor, he returned to making

contrary statements, and in making MacArthur's recall certain, ” ” 8 “NOW WHEN MacArthur

runs for President, as he will, he will be the ‘liberator of th¥

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_ Pacific.’ ‘the hero of Korea,

and ‘the man who was crucie fied by unscrupulous politicians.’ That makes pretty good

campaign material in my book, and I think he has planned it that wav. For to consider him a soldier is unwise. He is probably one of the smartest politicians of our time. I doubt if too many people realize that, for they are inclined to think of him as the grizzled old warrior home from the fray, when he is neither a warrior nor grizzled. He i= instead, probably one of the best propaganda and public relations men that we have ever seen.

—Walter H. Lange, City

MR. EDITOR: I am writing now bhécause I believe all the letters I have read “on the Truman-MacAr-thur question do not ask the

question that probably is_the

most important issue in the whole mess. That is, is this country to be run by one man,

either a civilian or a military man, or 18 it to be run. like we were all raised to believe, like a true democracy? What good is it to have free speech, if what you say can be ignored completely? Why can't we hold an election on the fir< ing of MacArthur and give both sides a chance to speak on the issue. I.et the people have their say. Let them decide who is following their will and who. is not. That would be a true democracy in action, . If the firing of MacArthur can stand without allowing the people to make their choice, then I can't see where. the American government is any different than the Russian government, except Wwe are allowed to moan about it. But for how long?

—An Ex-Democrat, City.

4 . . Real Religion’ MR. EDITOR: 1 want to express my appre. ciation for the series of articles

recently run in your parer “Wake Up or Blow Up,” by

Frank G. Laubach. In them real religion and real states manship are tied together,

Here is a breadth of outlook and depth of insight growing out of rich experience which is notable. His argument is simple, but compelling. Four-fifths of the world is in need. They are determined to rise out of their misery. Russia promises to help. But it is America which can really help. We have the resources and the-technical skill. We must go to their sides and help them. We must help these people to help themselves. He is right when he says: that “America has been

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of supposing that only arms and bombs are decisive.” Our real No. 1 enemy {8 not Russia, but hunger, Let's think about spending our money on war on sickness, on better

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