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Cotton Picking. ..in Indianapolis? TNDIANAPOLIS will be host, for the next day or two, to a distinguished group of business leaders from Texas. re here because somebody invented a mechanical | picker—a marvelous devige that will pick more cotton than dosens of levied bending over the sunscorched rows of plants, and do it faster and better dnd

What's that got to do with Indianapolis? More than you might think. Right now some two or three million workers in Texas Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and Arkansas cotton by hand, and live on what they get paid it. It will take only a relative handful of workers same job, once that mechanical marvel gets into the cotton fields. . That will mean two or three million people out of jobs some other kinds of jobs are opened for them.

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n the most simple kind. They've never learned to work in factories, or at trades, or even to do much farming beyond the growing of cotton. A couple of million people who can’t earn a hving can become a serious problem anywhere. That may still sound like strictly the South's problem. But it isn’t. If they can’t earn a living where they are these people "will drift northward in vast numbers—to Indianapolis, or - perhaps to Chicago or Detroit or elsewhere. : Then they become our problem. They are unskilled— often unschooled—not ready to handle the simplest kind of _ industrial jobs. We haven't housing for them, or work for ‘them at anything they know how to do. The central North ~just isn't in any position to absorb that many displaced

"Ron oC TEXAS business leaders, famed for their ability to see Siwha 's ahead and be ready for it, don’t want them to leave “the South anyway, for the soundest of business reasons. + They see in these millions an invaluable asset to the ‘South—potential producers, and customers and good citigens. All they need, these men feel, is a little old-fashioned “American “know how,” such as we've had to learn around "here because we found very little cotton to pick in the past. : For some years now, Cleo Blackburn and his associates g have been teaching just that to very “ much that same kind of folks who have already come here. _ Showing people how to live in our environment. They've * done ft so well that Flanner House is nationally, and even “internationally, known. L Bo essentially this visit is to see how Indianapolis deals “how Flanner House's successful methods can be adapted to "the needs of Texas. We welcome our Texas neighbors. Partly because “we're proud of Flanner House and happy to share its “achievements with others. And partly because we hope a “ little of the kind of thinking that sent these Texans up to * visit us will rub off and stay with us.

Support for MacArthur

: REFUSAL to permit Gen. MacArthur to bomb bases where the enemy was gathering his strength “to kill, our men,” was “an unfair restriction and an unrealistic approach to a military and strategic problem,” in the opinion of Lieut. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer. All the “political implications” that might be connected with a military commander's mission should be appraised “before the mission is assigned, he said. But once such an # assignment has been made, Gen. Wedemeyer added, “there “should be no restriction whatsoever to the employment “of his forces.” . If this policy had been followed, there would have 1 no occasion for the MacArthur controversy. 3 To contend now, as Secretary of State Acheson and : the Joint Chiefs of Staff do, that bombing enemy bases In Manchuria might provoke Russian intervention, raises questions which should have been disposed of before the

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responsibility of President Truman, his Secretary of State “and his Joint Chiefs of Staff. : Gen. Wedemeyer also supports Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, in ¢ favoring a naval blockadé of the China Coast. If our Allies will not join us in such a blockade, we . should go it alone, he said. 3 Gen. Wedemeyer, who was U. 8. wartime commander

{of ‘the China theater, told the Senate committee investi-

gating the MacArthur ouster that. we should support . Chiang Kai-shek now because he is the “best vehicle to | Accomplish what we are striving to do.” : “If he were not, if some other leader emerged who had character and ability and who inspired his peeple | with loyalty, I would support that man,” he added, “and I would do it now.” gat. cn a an 8 . THIS IS the testimony of a man who knows Chiang ‘and China from first-hand experience, which Secretary i Acheson does not. Indeed, of the other witnesses who view, only Secretary Marshall spoke from any first-hand

knowledge, and he was in China only after the war.

* He denied Secretary Acheson's testimony that military ers were convinced in 1049 that a Communist conquest posa was inevitable. Moreover, he said he had and repeatedly” recommended Americanthe Chinese Nationalists now on Formosa of communism in the Far East.” And the Senators that a truce at the 38th

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& DEAR BOSS... By Dan Kidney

Isolationism Is Very Dead

Hoosier Farm Bureou

Official Speaks in Rome

WASHINGTON, June 13-«When an Indiana Farm Bureau man speaks up for “land reform” in Rome during the midst of the Italian elec tiong. it makes isolationism seem a bit unreal.

That is exactly what occurred this week .

when Under Secretary of Agriculture Clarence J. McCormick addressed the 12th session of the Food and Agriculture Organization, a worldwide United Nations affiliate, Mr. McCormick 48 a first class dirt farmer,

who still operates the “home place” in Knox

County and was president of the County Farm Bureau from 1945. He has been Under Secretary of Agriculture since last July and specializes in FAO, During World War II, when Claude R. Wickard, now REA Administrator and another Indiana dirt farmer, was both Secretary of Agriculture and War Food Administrator, he never tired of preaching the theme. “Food will win the war and write the peace.”

A New Twist IN THE gray word of today, with neither peace nor allout war, Mr. McCormick gave a new twist to the old Wickard thinking. He pointed out the need for increased world production of food now, as well as in the future, but Also stressed security for farmers as a necessary element in getting big production. In the rural towns and villages of Italy, +failure of the government of Premier De Gasperri to carry out long-promised land reforms is a major factor in the Communist campaigns. The kind of “reform” that Communists demand, collective farms and nationalization of all fand, is not the kind Mr. McCormick has in mind. He is all-out for the family type farm, such as he himself owns back home in Indiana.

Security Program : . SPEAKING as the principal U. 8. A. delegate to FAO, Mr. McCormick Eaid that while longrange programs will not be neglected, his government proposes to channel most of its immediate objectives to “defense of the free world.” Outlining President Truman's mutual security program, as presented to Congress, combining military, economic and technical assistance, Mr. McCormick stresses the importance of agriculture. “Agriculture has a vital stake in mutual security of freedom-loving nations,” he said, “pecause agriculture has such a vast contribution to make toward that mutual security. Our agenda reflects many of those contribu tions. “I believe one of the foremost can come in the field of land tenure which we are to consider. Land reform in its broadest interpretation deeply affects mecurity in the world today, and is definitely among the problems we must ' face up to in looking ahead to the future,

A Broad Outlook

“IN MOST. countries, including our own, economic progress and political stability are closely related to the prevailing system of agricultural economic institutions. n many areas present unsatisfactory institutional arrangements are a source of persistent discontent and unrest. This “has been recognized in U. B. domestic policy, and more recently emphasized in our foreign policy as {illustrated by farreaching land reform in Japan and support of land reform measures in Formosa and South Korea, “We in the United States regard land reform in the broad terms of improvement of all economic and social institutions surrounding farm life. ‘We believe it must be concerned with improvement in opportunity of agricultural land ownership and security of tenure, with problems of land rents, with taxation of agricultural land or income from land, with ‘agricultural credit and producer marketing. In our broad definition of land reform agricultural technology, physical problems of land utilization and development, conservation of resources, methods and levels of productivity, and problems of rural industries are also included insofar as they are relevant to the institutional problems I have enumerated.

Greater Security “WE FAVOR: efforts to imo: ove such agricultural economic institutions wherever possible, in order to lessen the causes of agrarian unrest and political instability, and as a key to increasing rural standards of living. We believe that’ objective can best be sought by improving the position of the farmer on the land to the end that he may have greater security of tenure, and incentive to increase production and conservé resources (including the utilization of technological advances suitable to each economy), and an equitable share of the output from that land. “We recognize, of course, that specific land reform measures will have to be evaluated in relationship to the conditions peculiar to each region and country, and that the individual cultural patterns of many countries may have differing constructive contributions to offer toward the same basic objective, “In support of this policy which we as a nation have affirmed, the United States government intends giving encouragement and assistance to land reform when and wherever it will substantially contribute to promoting the objectives I have enumerated.”

PARTY LINE . . . By Frederick Woltman

FACT £iND { RVESTiGATION

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LAWN MOWERS . . . By Frederick C. Othman If You Want to Save Your Money Just Keep Your Big Mouth Shut

McLEAN, Va., June 13—8Sometimes I think I ought to keep my big mouth shut aboui my rural troubles. Every time I write a piece regarding life in the country it costs me money. Take the one of a couple of weeks ago about my balky, putt-putt lawn mower,

It was a eimnle, sad little item about the triumph of machine over man, meaning me. I strained my back yanking the rope, but that pesxy engine wouldn't start, All it would do was go, boom, in my face. So the mail began to arrive from the presidents, Pice preeidents, and sales managers of lawn mower factories. All over AS this land are’ lawn - mower corporations. There must be 15 times as many grass-cutter plants as there are auto firms. Mostly they seem to be concentra‘ed in Missouri, Towa and Indiana, but there also are many of them in New England, Pennsylvania, and even in Florida. The general manager of the Miami Lawn Mower Co. said the trouble with gasoline lawn mowers was the men who owned them. He said women never have trouble. with his product. They just use it to cut the grass. But men, he said, look upon lawn mower engines, presume themselves to be master mechanics, and create chaos with their monkey wrenches, I must admit there is some justice in this. The urge to take apart a one-cylinder gasoline engine to see what's inside is hard to resist. Most of the other lawn mower tycoons urged upon me the purchase of their own machines, which ranged In price from $69.50 to $1500. They recommended gang mowers; reel mowers and rotary mowers. Some said a two-cycle engine was the only thing. Others said what I needed was a four-cycle motor. All I wanted was an engine that would run. So there I was contemplating my mail on « the subject when up rolled a large red truck from a tfactor distributor in Maryland. It was loaded with lawn mowers of all types, all new, all full of gas, and all ready to cut grass. The driver said I needed a lawn mower. He had ’em. There wasn’t much answer to that and, anyway, in times like these it is a pleasure to see a man actually searching for business. I recetved him cordially. He hauled off his truck a big, orange-colored gadget with four rubber wheels, such as nobody

SIDE GLANCES

End of Red Hierarchy May Disrupt Party

In McLean ever saw before. This had a kind of upside-down engine on it and no blades. _ Where these should have been was a big, round steel disc with four notches. So he started her up (I was pleased to note that even an expert had some little trouble with the choke) and away he went, vaporizing the grass. Dangedest thing I ever tried. That disc was whirling so fast it whined. Didn't cut the grass’ at all. Knocked off the top of each sprig and then chewed it up into a green powder. It took tall weeds in its stride and shot out sparks. when it hit rocks. It cut forward and also. backward. The man said it was perfected in Europe and had been manufactured in this country only since 1948. He said it was the first improvement in grasscutting since the invention of scissors. So he gave me’a whopping big allowance on my old mower and I wrote him a check for the balance. If you'll pardon me now, I'm going to

pulverize some grass. If I can get my new machinery started, that is.

TWO STEEL GUITARS

TWO STEEL guitars were interlocked . . . in rapturous melody . . . and tender notes that rode the breeze . . . enthralled the heart of me s « » the surging strains like warm romance + + « told me the story of . .. an island where the palm trees sway . . . and where two lovers love . . . the picture painted by each sound... that made me drift and dream . . . was something sent from heaven , . . or at least so did it seem . . . for there I was on silver sands + « » beneath a tropic sky . . . sharing vows with someone dear . . . while driftwood passed us by . .. and all because two steel guitars . .. were locked in melody . . . and tender notes that rode the breeze . . . enthralled the heart of me. «By Ben Burroughs.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb,—While the mayor was signing the payroll voucher of patrolman Tom Cowan, the officer was putting a ticket on his honor's overparked car outside city hall. This, we opine, was a major mistake, We can’t think of cne any vaster. A copper at times can be too wide awake, And bring on himself quick disaster. It’s all very well to sling tickets about, But, brother, it’s time for a prayer: The minute you find you've been handing them out, To a mayor who doubles as payer.

By Galbraith

‘Hoosier Forum

"do not agree with a werd that you say, 51 ort wih defend to the death your right to say i." Voltaire. ;

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“‘Children Need love’ ~~

MR. EDITOR: an ‘Eagerly have 1 read every article on teenage troubles in The Indianapolis Ties. An equation must have two sides, We've heard from one gide, the teen-agers. Now Jet's hear from the other . . . parents, grandparents and guardians, i do 'n Being a grandmother, I try not to be outdated. I would like to suggest since this {s the turn of a new century that our present rules that the teen-agers must be reAred under be altered. Many adults, as well as the teen-agers, think it smart to wiggle out of a wrong by telling a falsehood, going into a store and taking a small article and laugh about what he pulled over on the grocery man. * ie

EVER hear this little story? Two boys raised in a small’ town went off to éollege. They returned at the closes of school and went to the little store Where they had spent their pennies during childhood. They said to the storekeeper, “We want a yard of pig's feet. The storekeeper went to the ice box, wrapped up three pig's feet, %eturned and handed the package to the boys. They asked, “Did you give us a yard of pig's feet?” The storekeeper of many years answered, “Yes, three feet make a yard.” Youth thinks it smart to pull stunts. The JAD is the answer to their stunts today. Society caters to those who snatch another man's wife or vice versa and deprives the children of par

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¢ & @ MONEY and fame seem to be the prime factor.” Hollywood takes the lead in influencing the youth, especially girls, The gambler sheds so much inflyence on the boys, big cars, well dressed and plenty of money, that it's an incentive, Love, as Dr. Shibler, city schools. superintendent, states, is ‘what the child needs and many of the strict rules at home that the youth complains about is prompted by love for the child's future. The dives the youths are lured to, unknown to their parents, are almost always the scene of something dreadful. Yet, the par ents are blamed. Some one asked why did MacArthur haves such a brilliant mind at his age. Reading farther down in the story it was revealed he never drank. That would be a good psychological placard to place in every school, ~Jeanne Seymour, City

‘A Fine Series’ MR. EDITOR: The series of articles run in The Times on juvenile problems dramatically and tragically point up the great lack of understanding on the part of parents and other adults, too, of the mechanism and maladjustments of human behavior. The Times is to be commended for digging these facts out and bringing them forcefully to the light. © For many years now, pyschiatrists, péychol« ogists and other specialists in human behavior have been trying to keep up with the growing tide of maladjustments. This left them little time to devote to preventive education. Now it is realized that enough specialists cannot be trained simply to help ‘with problem solving. From now on the main emphasis must be on prevention. The first step toward help

is the adoption of an open mind toward ‘such © personality maladjustment symptoms as delin- ©

quency, and other forms of misbehavior, —Walter W. Argow, Executive Director Indiana Mental Health Society,

‘Cab Prices’ MR. EDITOR:

In your article of last Sunday, June 3, there § was a mention of stepped up gouging by taxis

cabs, double-up fares and discriminating selec tion of customers. We cannot answer for the industry but we are certain that it does net apply to our drivers, In spite of the decrease of avatlable manpower we have maintained our standards of employment and discipline. Complaints are at present at a minimum. We received one overcharge complaint cn race day but, because of the lack of identifica tion supplied, were unable to locate the offender, On thes other hand our supervisors at the track overheard and received far more than the usval number of compliments on our service and the behavior of our drivers. ? Our business depends on the good will of the public. It will always be our aim to improve that good will by maintaining the highest standards of service possible. We appreciate your comments on our business both good and bad and hope that in the future our own actions and those of our drivers will deserve good com-« ment only, Thomas R. Kackley, President, Red Cab, Inc.

What Others Say

EVERYBODY seems to take pride in bee lieving that his town is the number one (atom) target in the country.—J. K. McElroy, of Nae tional Fire Protection Association, * ¢ © THE treatment of neuroses by means of care bon dioxide inhalation is an extremely effective . . « safe procedure.—Dr. Abraham 1. Jackman, neuropsychiatrist, Chicago VA Hospital.

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* the Smith Act.

THE HISTORIC Supreme Court ruling which upheld the convition of the 11 Communist leaders in” effect outlaws the Communist Party. But don’t count on the thou sands of future indictments that have: been widely predicted for members of the Communist Party. As a practical matter, wholesale prosecus tions are most unlikely unde: At best, the government will limit itself to other Communist leaders still at large. By lopping off the upper Communist hierarchy, it hopes

fere with the recruiting of new

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to disrupt the party and inter-

members and the conditioning

of them to switch their loyalties to Russia. . The party has long since set up a two-platoon system. When Eugene Dennis and his i0 buddies go to jail, a second team is ready to take over as a substitute politburo. It, and perhaps some state and district CP officials, will be the main objects of grand jury attention. : Almost entirely overlooked in the Supreme Court decision was a precedent-setting ruling of far-reaching consequences. The 11 were convicted of conspiracy to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government. This the Suprage Court afirm ed. But the

dition to the conspiracy provision of the Smith Act, it epecifically upheld the constitutionality of another section.

This section not only makes it unlawful to help organize any society that advocates forcible overthrow, but also makes ‘it a crime to become a member of or affiliated with such a society, knowing the latter's objectives to be such. Thus, except for innocents who don't know What it's all about, membership alone in the Communist Pafty constitutes criminal activity.

“munist Party 1s a criminal

conspiracy. Prosecuting them is another matter. Proving affiliation, even in the absence of a party card, need not be too difficult. The chief obstacle lies in proving the Communist Party's revolutionary aims. Legal experts agree that despite the Supreme Court decision separate proof must be established in each future trial. That was the toughest part of the government’s case against the 11, It required the introduction of thousands of pages of . writ-

ings by Marx, Lenin and Sta- -

lin, party pronouncements and speeches of CP officials. The dearth of expert witnesses would in itself limit prosecutions, Hence, the Jus-

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COPR. 1951 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

"I took off twelve pounds on my diet—didn't you. notice this swimming suit is too large for me?

tice Department will concentrate on the leaders. ” ” ” THE Communist Party, meanwhile, Is working itself

into a frenzy of self-martyr-

dom. vl 7 It calls the 11 Red .leaders “frame-up victims” whose sole their advocacy of

peace and progress and their opposition to war and fascism. The party is demanding a rehearing. (Most people just petition for a rehearing.) The Communists have started a nation-wide drive to flood President Truman with telegrams and letters, urging fing him to force I St Ans

Independent labor unions are putting up a stiffer fight than

in World War II against what

they call “regulation without representation.” A House Labor Subcommittee will hear objections from nine spokesmen today to the AFL and CIO monopoly of labor representation on the Wage Stabilization Board. The independents will argue that their interests frequently conflict with those of competing AFL and CIO unions, whose representatives sit on an agen¢y that “now has authority to approve, reject, delay or arbitrarily modify all agreements

between the independent un=-

fons and employers.” The independents have organized a National Independent Union Council, with headquarters here. It is intended to provide a central body that can speak for all the independents—something that has been lacking and a factor in their inability to win - full recognition. » » » DON MAHON, president " the National Brotherhood o Packinghouse Workers, is sec retary of the National Couneil and will lead off testimony hefore the House subcommittee, Other scheduled witnesses are J. G. Crenshaw, Peninsula . Shipbuilders Association; H. J. jon, Independent Téle-

“phone Datons: Bengt Bollnow,

Central States Petroleum Une fons; Sam Powers, Lamp Workers and Automotive Parts Unions; John J. Gnilewek, Sheet Metal and Steel Works ers Unions; George Ross, Council of Nylon, Rayon and Plastics Workers Unions; Are thur Kane, New Jersey Federa~ tion of Independent Unions; Arthur Sorensen, president Federated Unions of America. The National Independent Union Council, which correeponds in general purpose to the AFL and CIO but lacks even their loose authority over participating unions, was organized five weeks ago.

. » » LARGEST of the independ. ent unions, the United Mine Workers, is not a part of this group. The mine workers’ president, John L. Lewis, prefers to ignore the wage control system and everything else concerned with federal regula tion of labor unions. There also are independent railway unions, and nearly a dozen unions which were expelled from the CIO on ¢harges of being Communist - dominated. Mr. ‘Mahon said that in ordinary times “the independent “infons are able to protect themselves by dealings with their employers. But when federal regulation steps in we have to recognize our need for

spokesmen for organizations that are opposed to us.” t