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HENRY W, MANZ Business Manager

Thursday, May 24, 1951

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Give IAght and the People Willi Find Their. Own Way

What Are the Facts? PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S message to the ‘Democratic meeting in Denver t81d leaders of his party it was their duty to learn the facts about this nation’s. foreign policy and get them to the people. The party leaders might be helped if Mr, Truman would explain where and how those facts can be obtained. If he knows, he is doing a remarkable job of keeping that knowledge to himself, ! Last Friday, Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern affairs, made a speech which was widely understood to be an announcement of new policy. He called the Chinese Communist regime at Peiping a Kremlin puppet which could never be recognized as China's legal governpent and implied that any effort to overthrow that regime w receive American support. ;

Secretary of State Acheson now insists that Mr. Rusk’s h reflected no change in the American attitude toward Ohinese Reds and the Chinese Nationalists.

” » ” J J n YHT AS recently as December, 1949, the State Departwas at the point of recognizing the Peiping regime Mr. Rusk called “not the government of China’ bebause it is ‘not Chinese.”

Mr. Truman has said repeatedly that there has been no obange in China policy during his administration. But In 1946 he personally urged Chiang Kai-shek. to form a coalition with the regime which, according to Mr. Rusk, is “not Chinese.” Since then, moreover, Mr. Truman hes denounced communism so vehemently that he surely would not now advocate surrender to it. Yet that's what he did when he sent Gen. Marshall lo tell Chiang Kai-shek thet American assistance would be suspended unless he called off his war against the Reds. In friendly foreign capitals the Rusk speech was interpreted as a forecast or announcement of a change in government's policy toward China, and the State Department has been busily denying these interpretations. A dispatch to the Times of London from its Washington correspondent says that most observers in Washington now are convinced that there is no new policy, that Mr. Rusk blundered, and that the State Department's policy-planning - staff had no advance knowledge of his speech.

» ~ ” ” » » “IN MOST capitals,” the British correspondent adds, “it would be impossible to accept the explanation that the whole episode was a blunder. But it is not impossible in Washington. The State Department has seemed lately to be moving in the direction which Mr. Rusk has described, and the mere fact that he himself thought that he said nothing new is an indication of what developments have been going on, in his own mind, at least.” When the diplomatic correspondent of the Times of London must go to such lengths in an effort to explain the gyrations of American foreign policy, consider the plight of Chicago's Boss Jake Arvey and his Democratic National Committee colleagues to whom Mr. Truman has assigned the duty of explaining that policy to the voters.

Where It Hurts

SINCE the Voice of America is a State Department operation, it is constrained to be very high-minded and ethical in its broadcasts to the Iron Curtain countries. By contrast, radio free Europe can swing from the floor with bare knuckles, and usually does. It is sponsored in New York by a group of private American citizens. Its anti-Communist programs are beamed to Czechoslovakia in the Czech language. : Recently it's been making the Czech Reds and their - Russian masters mad as hops by resorting to gossip-column techniques—naming names and denouncing informers and native Communist agents among the Czechs.

» » ” FOR INSTANCE, it tattled the other day on a blonde in Bratislava, identifying her, describing her—‘about 170 centimeters tall’—and telling where and how she works. She seduces young men and then blackmails them into collaborating with the Red secret police, said the broadcast, look out for her. And so on, with other traitors—a cafe manager, waiters, students. It's a form of terrorism which has been used by the Communists themselves, and the Nazis before them. Now that it’s turned on them, it's hitting where it hurts. So much so that the Czech government has protested to the U. 8. Embassy in Prague—it says radio free Europe is “warmongering.” In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the protest was under study. It should remain there, and the Voloe of America should try to work out an equally effective

technique. Principle in RFC

'M not certain what he did was illegal, but I'm dead sure it was improper.” e W. Stuart Symington, new administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., said that. He was explaining why he had fired the manager of the government lending agency's Minneapolis office. According to Mr. Symington, the manager learned from an Agriculture Department employee that the government was seeking space to store dried eggs and powdered milk; passed the information to a friend; was given 40 per cent of the stock in a warehouse company organized by the friend to rent space to the government, and got more than $35,000 profit in the deal. “Any other RFC official found involved in a deal of this character—that is, making money aside from his salary

Symington added. : His attitude is admirable. The mess which the RFC got into, and which Mr. Symington is Jaboring to clean up, could have been avoided if his predecessors in the management of that agency and other responsible government officjals had adhered to his principles that, illegal or no, _idproper conduct must not se tolerated,

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DEMOCRATS . . . By Earl Richert

Draft Truman Plan Debated

Party Leaders Want Him To Run Despite Gallup

DENVER, May 24 All signs pointed to the launching of a strong “draft Truman in 1952" movement here as Democratic leaders from the Midwest and Far West opened a three-day

party conference. . Party leader. after party leader said they wanted . President Truman to run again next . Vear, and that they would draft him even .if he didn't want to run. ' “i

“The only way he might stop a draft would he to make the nomination of some other man himself.” said Jake More, the Iowa state chairman. “And I doubt if even that would stop the draft.” “I can see mo one in the picture but Mr. Truman,” said Idaho National Committeeman Dan J. Cavanagh. “He's the man I want.” Several party leaders said they were sure that Mrs. Truman'w ed the President to quit

and go back to M#Ruri. But they thought they could so appeal to his party loyalty that he would consent to run. No One Else “AFTER all,” said one party big-wig who

asked that his name not be used, “we have no one else. Fstes Kefauver and Paul Douglas (Senators from Tennessee and Illinois, respectively) aren't ready. And a lot of our liberal elements wouldn't like Gen. Eisenhower even if he is a Democrat. Labor is the backbone of the Democratic Party and we've got to choose a man they'll support.”

Mr. Truman is popular with the party leaders of the Midwest and Far West. He swept practically all of it in 1948, carrying such states as Colorado and Iowa, which Franklin D. Roosevelt had failed to win in his last .two elections

After such a performance by Mr. Truman, the party leaders naturally want him at the head of the ticket again despite what the Gallup Poll says about the President's current low ebb of popularity, And, after 1948 they have no fear of the Gallup Poll.

A Little Hint

BUT Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, a veteran party wheelhorse, hinted he also feels that the President isn't too popular at the moment by saying:

“After all, he’s running now against ‘Mr. Perfection." Just wait until the Republicans nominate a man and the two can be compared.” The Democratic leaders have an almost blind faith in Mr. Truman's ability to sell himself to the public from the back platform of a train, They think all the current criticiem about China policy and Gen. MacArthur, the RFC and mink coats, etc, would be washed out overnight if Mr. Truman got on a train and went out to talk to the folks.

The President indicated he may have such a plan in mind in his letter of greetings to the conference. The President asked the party leaders to help in getting the facts about foreign policy to the people and said that. he hoped to get a chance to see some of the reople in person before too long.

‘Plenty to Tell’

“WHEN 1I get the chance I'll have plenty to tell them,” the President said. Today's sessions are to be devoted to panel discussions of national problems. Tomorrow the Democratic National Committee will meet to select the site and time for the 1952 Presidential Convention. Although a Pennsvlvania delegation will make a strong bid for Philadelphia. it is likely that the Democrats will follow the Republicans’ lead and pick Chicago as the convention city. The time will be soon after the GOP conven-

tion, which will open on July 7.

Barbs

Too much dancing is likely to affect the heart, according to a doctor. Too much sitting out is sure to! * o> oe Crime is caused by glands, says a scientist. With second-story men, it must be monkey glands. Hh Bb ” A Florida man without kin died alone in his 24-room house. Just the place for a family with one child.

SS a : Being locked out at night is nothing compared to a piano player who forgets his keys.

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Anyone can be proud of making his mark— except when it's in red ink.

EUROPE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Same Old Story—Reds Can’t Agree With West

ARIS, May 24— Chances of Allies either

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AH, SCIENCE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Crumbless Crackers Cheer Cheese and Cracker Chompers

WASHINGTON, May 24—About the only costly thing around the house is my bed. The theory is that if anybody's going to be comfortable it might as well be me. I have the best box springs. The firest mattress. I have a neon light for reading purposes. This makes my face ; look green, but nobody's looking at me when I am deep in a murder story. On the night table I have a radio ¢lock, which wakes me to music. It also turns on the coffee pot on the bottom shelf. So I have my coffee before I get up and if my hand is shaky, that doesu’t matter, either. My new-style electric blanket is guaranteed not to blow up, no matter what's spilled on it. One thing I could not solve: Crumbs in the sheets. A cheese sandwich before my dozing off always resulted in a scratchy night, I finally had to give up eating in bed. This I missed sorely and so it is with pleasure that I announce the bedtime discovery of this generation: The nocrumb cracker. ,

The scientists of the Sawyer Biscuit Co., of Chicago, have produced after years of research a formula for baking crackers that cannot crumble. Break one in bed because of an ill-

fitting piece of cheese and the break is clean,

like that of a steel casting. These crumbless crackers soon will be on sale across most of the land at regular prices and I predict that going to bed will be a real satisfaction for us nocturnal gourmets. About the only bedtime luxury with which 1 have not vet experimented are periscope eyeglasses, whereby a fellow flat on his back can direct his eyes comfortably at the ceiling and still read a book that rests on his stomach. The eyeglasses hend the light rays, thus obviating twisted necks, eyestrain, and numb hands. This

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invention, unfortunately costs $19.50 per copy and I still am debating whether to invest. Pajamas are something else. They can stand improvement. They are inclined to bite. I'm always losing the cord inside the waist band. The hours I've spent fishing for the string with a fingernail file I hate to calculate. I also have some pajamas with elastic waists. You can't lose these, but in my opinion they are too tight.

Nightshirts, Bah

THIS problem--I--took -up--with-my favorite haberdasher, who said he had just the thing. He sold me three nightshirts of what he called 20th Century design. These reached only to my knees.. Otherwise they were similar to nightshirts in the mailorder catalogues. I tried one at once, but woke in the middle of the night, smothering. My nightshirt was twisted around my neck like a nopse. Since then-I have compromised by wearing the coats only of my pajamas. These don’t contain so much cloth to choke a fellow. Over the years, however, I have accumulated a good many pairs of pajama pants in new condition. Someday I'm going to meet a man who sleeps only in pants and we'll make a trade. If you'll excuse me now, I'm going to bed. I'm hungry. :

PAUSE IN PARADISE

I PAUSED to drink of Mother Earth . . . where flowed the gushing spring . . . I listened to the crickets call . .. and heard the gay birds sing . . . I feasted on the berry bush . .. and rested near a tree . . . that further beautified the place . . . and also shaded me . .. I looked upon the fleecy sky . . . that covered all the

earth . . . and when the sun shone through the trees . . . the wooded dell gave birth . . . and beams from heaven studded all . . . the emerald

grass nearby . .. reflecting in the mirror stream «+. the wonder of the sky . .. and I, amid this beauty, thought . . . how dreams could not compare . . . with all the glory that I'd seen . . . while I was passing there. —By Ben Burroughs

By Galbraith

Hoosier Forum "1 do not agree with a word that you say,

but | will defand to the death your right to say it."—VYoltaire.

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‘Poor Commission’ MR. EDITOR:

According to the Sunday Times, Lawrence W. Cannon, present member of the Indiana Public Service Commission, is seeking a life-time appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission. . : The present Public Service Commission, with Cannon as a commissioner, has failed to carry out the legislative intent of the creation of that commission, and instead has directed nearly all of their activities in the interest of railroads and ‘utilities, which result in action against the

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During the past two years of the Schricker administration . the .Indiana Commission has continudlly granted rate increases, amounting to millions of dollars taken from the people of the State of Indiana and into the coffers of the utilities; have given only scant attention to the need of the people of the state, but have given great weight to the positien of railrpads and utilities. By. their orders they have shown they are more concerned with the railroads increasing their already exorbitant profits even though ft means that an Indiana businessman may have to close his business for lack of transportation. > ob

THIS commissioner, together with his colleagues on the commission, lack the fundamental attitude to consider matters of public interest, and it would indeed be a tragedy to the nation if Cannon should be appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The :appointment of the members of the Indiana Commission is a political one and there have been hundreds of complaints registered with Gov. Schricker concerning the action of these commissioners in their lack of consideration of the public interest. Under the reorganization act in 1933 and amendments thereto, which this writer and Gov. Schricker helped pass as members of the Legislature, the responsibility for such incompetent commissioners rests upon the shoulders of this Governor. Numerous people, Including the undersigned, attempted to point out to this Governor that this commission would be disastrous to the Democratic Party, and the result of the last election certainly indicated just that. The action of the Indiana Commission and the Governor of this state has probably made the utilities, railroads, Chamber of Commerce and the Bankers Association quite happy, bu¢ at the same timé has caused great resentment among the people of the state, including tens of thousands of Democrats.

—Ray C. Gilbert, State Representative,

‘Poor Philosophy’ MR. EDITOR:

The death of “Gen. Coxey” on the same day that Harry Truman made his frantic, whining appeal for the American people to follow his misguided leadership reminds some of us with gray hair in our heads that the philosophy of the Democrat Party has never worked as a peace-time economy. In peace it has brought only depression, distress or a worse alternative of war and disaster. Grover Cleveland was, however, an honest Democratic President although his philcsophy of government caused the country to £o to the dogs. However, let it be =aid to his everlasting credit, he did not try to solve his economie problems by taking us into war as his three Democrat successors, Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman, did. “Gen. Coxey” was something of a political crackpot at that time who believed that fhe money panic or, as it is now called, depressinn could be cured by printing greenbacks which is gimply printing-press money. Theoretically, the printing of greenbacks. like socialism, looks fine on paper. In actual practice, both have brought every country to disaster that has tried them. The obvious reason, of course, is that the economy of the .country is run by politicians instead of competent ¥nessmen. —C.D.C., Terre Haute

‘Just Taxation’

MR. EDITOR: . Concerning your main editorial on “Don’t Blame the Taxpayer” in last Sunday's Times, I wish to say that our assessor at least is one who made three calls here last year in a dutiful effort to comply with requirements of her job. I also believe, as you stated, that our system of assessment should be revised in that the assessor should be properly trained to evaluate property. I know that the assessment of property, such as a flat rate of $25 per room, is not a correct one and if evaluation is properly considered with a reduced rate of tax a more just tax distribution could be had.

—John B. Dux, 2510 Brookside Ave.

CHINA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Reds Bed Jet Planes At 2 Canton Airstrips

HONG KONG, May 24—The

out of the government—will be summarily dismissed,” Mr. -

Russia and the Western powers reaching agreement on armaments and European disputes

are nil unless Stalin unexpectedly reverses his position. This is clear from Andrei Gromyko's latest statements to the Foreign Deputies Meeting here to arrange an agenda for a conference of Big Four Foreign Ministers. After 11 weeks of talk the two sides are farther apart than ever. The so-called agreement to disagree—that is agreement to present a ‘split agenda” in effect listing the points which each side wants on the agenda and letting the foreign ministers decide—it almost meaningless, Because, as Gromyko emphasizes, even this agreement to disagree is only tentative and conditional on inclusion of a Soviet item which is completely unacceptable to the Allies, . ‘ That is Russia's insistence on inclusion of the North Atlantic Pact and American foreign bases.

” - » $ THF. Western delegates are stressing the fact that this point 18 a Boviet afterthought which was not in the original proposal but introduced after the third week here. Nominally, therefore, Russia is in the position of blocking a Foreign Ministers’ Conference now even though the deputies have agreed on inclusion — though not the exact wording or order of all the original items proposed by“each side. Actually, however, Stalin's major purpose from the beginning has been to sabotage the North Atlantic Tfeaty Organization and prevent Western defensive rearmament, and to

achieve -th#t. by splitting the

meeting or in the Foreign Ministers’ Conference. Only difference is that the primary objective was faintly disguised in the original Soviet proposals stressing one-sided German demilitarization, and later was forced into the open by the Allies. 5 ~ ” THE whole issue is still whether Soivet militarism, treaty violation and aggression are the basic causes of the war threat, as the Allies maintain, or whether the Allied defensive NATO and rearmament is the basic cause, as Stalin insists, All other problems in the dispute are impossible of genuine settlement while this basic one remains. These include the problems of German unification, demilitarization and peace treaty, the Austrian treaty, violation of the Russian satellite treaties, and the Trieste clauses of the Italian treaty, All involve Soviet good faith or lack of it in keeping agreements and Stalin's insistence on a double standard of armaments—one for Russia and the satellites and the other for the Allies. For that reason the Allies can't accept inclusion of the Stalin is prolonging these meetNATO on the conference agen- ings. The British and French da in any form without ad- are inclined to guess that mitting = Stalin's propaganda Stalin is in trouble and still contention that the NATO is hopes he can get what he offensive instead of defensive. wants from a Big Four meetIf the NATO is a defensive or- ing, especiany if the Far East ganization under the United Nations, as it purports to be, then it is outside legitimate Big Four discussion the same as any Soviet defensive alli- UNEMPLOYMENT seems to ance, be a gréater problem than Stalin can easily get a For- , government reports Indicate. eign Ministers’ Conference if Many people are working only he wants one. But as of to- part-time and the tush days of day it's clear that he's in no overtime pay seem to be over. hurry. ; —Rep. J. Harry McGregor (R. Thére are two guesses why 0.). Han is

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conflict. goes his. way. The Americans guess he's prolonging these meetings and will go into a Foreign Ministers’ Conference, if at all, merely for secondary propaganda purposes.

What Others Say

THE god of war has been kicked away from the conference - table and we are now

‘able to sit down and do business. — Brig.-Gen. Frank. L. .

Howley, retiring American commandant’ of Berlin, on

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South China metropolis of Canton — with {ts two good airfields, White Cloud and Milky Way — has become a base of Red air power, according to trustworthy intelligence here. Jet fighters—probably MIG15s—are often seen in flight over the city ana many people in Canton assume they're flown by Russians, though uniformed Russians are never seen about the city. The fact that visitors are barred from the two fields and the occasional appearance of Russians on conducted sightseeing tours of the city add strength to that assumption, Russian “advisers” to the Communist administration of Canton, of whom there. are many, would not be inclined to go sight-seeing by the busload in a city with which they are already well acquainted. y " ” ”

BUT that would not hold for the inhabitants of Canton's newest and finest Western-style houses in the Tungshan area which is near the Milky Way Airfield. This field in Nationalist hands was a military airfield and White Cloud, a few miles north of Canton, was a civil airport. Now both are barred to outsiders. Moreover, sentries keep watch on the housing area where the Russians are believed to be quartered. It is generally assumed in Canton that the Russians are engaged in a big training program. A Chinese who gained entry to one of the fields by riding. with a truck-dniver friend told of counting “about 50 planes without propellers.” Unconfirmed reports in Hong

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Kong have mentioned also the erection of radar warning stations under Russian supervision not only around Canton but elsewhere in South China. Meanwhile, private Communist tips in Canton about the questionablé security of Hong Kong have lapsed since the Chinese Reds intervened in Korea. There are no signs of any hostile intention toward this British crown colony less than 100 miles southeast of Canton, except rumors here of fresh infiltration of Chinese hoodlums. The Communists themselves in Canton seem to rest uneasily in their new power. Household servants of Communist officials are usually armed soldiers. Guards with sten guns are on duty in restaurant dining rooms where Red big shots give parties. ” ” » THE Cantonese, who are always restive under any Northern Chinese authority, resent the new administration which is almost entirely Northern in its upper echelons, and is aided by Russians. Neither the administrators nor advisers speak Cantonese which is a separate Chinese language. Efforts to. move “nonessential” Cantonese into the countryside may have succeeded in thousands of cases but without making an appre-

‘ciable dent. Yet, fewer people

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