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adi ing With the Enemy : ‘assistance to governments which sell sfategic goods the Soviet bloc, ordered by President

Congress provided an “escape clause” i - With-the-Enemy Act under which the Se could permit exceptions to avoid working p ships on friendly nations. But it was notjcontemplated that this relief clause would be usei to n ify the law.

| | The United States is giving away billins in money

31 8s are likely to accept this view whe are asked for the foreign assistance prograjs. ,.. Our economic strength is our principalreliance for ‘survival in the struggle against Communi§ aggression. hen we divide that strength by sharing it wih the enemy

new funds

tions embargo was voted against shipmen s to Red China, only the United States, the

gthis country has suspended the shipment of {ll goods to 16 Chinese Communists. Other United Natid ve delayed action while deciding individuall{ what may tbe classified as “war materials.” It seems olious from ~ “this that most of them expect to go on doing sof ! with the Reds. : : A naval blockade, such as Gen. MacArthurhas urged, if approved by the United Nations, would en| all legal - business with the Chinese Reds, and might seriogly curtail _ their war-making capacity. But our timid State I . compromised by asking for the milder and léss s : embargo on war materials out of deference to tj | which did not want to go all the way with us | off supplies to the Red aggressors. Z | | It was under these circumstances that Congsss voted to ban further American assistance to nations wii

Congress has been circumvented by the NationallSe

Ef _more stringent restrictions may have tobe voted J the desired results. = ; ronment to safeguard the national interest. Bit when ign capitals appear to'have the last word on oy policy

cisions, Congress has no other recourse.

Town YORK CITY can be so disillusioning at time with Mrs. Roosevelt and the United Natiole

. But look what happened. Three lovely ladies a Pakistan, relatives of United Nations delegates, vidted a | suburban department store wearing flowing nativl cos- . tumes. They were promptly picked up by detectived who | suspected they were “gypsy shoplifters.” + Profuse apologies have been offered, and presunk _ the it cident has been settled. But it must have been ac . ‘embsrrassing—for that smart international capital . ‘is New York.

Douglas Climbs Again 1 J BILL DOUGLAS of the Supreme Court is taking ~~ off in a couple of weeks for another of those mountdn- . climbing jaunts on the edge of the Iron Curtain. $ Each year he does this, Moscow goes into a swivet shd calls him a “spy,” “Yankee imperialist,” “warmonger,” ad

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| +... But this year it will be interesting to see whether ~~ @6t8 the full treatment. For at the moment Justice Doug 8 something of a heroic figure to the American Commies ihe dissented from the Supreme Court opinion which uphef the conviction of their 11 top leaders.

The Fabric of America | bi SCIENCE, which often seems to ignore humanity in its | developments, occasionally hops back to our side of the fence for a brief stay. +. Results of an experiment conducted by two physiciang at the National Cancer Institute show that the paramecium, [2 minute one-celled animal, dies in great numbers whey placed in a paradise of copious food, ideal temperature and ho enemies. Conversely, the doctors reported that colonies ‘of paramecia living under normal troubles and windfalls - keep going strong. = These medical men weren't content to leave it at that. vIn their report, they stated belief that what is good for paramecia is good for humans, too. They said that ups and! downs, good times and bad, are apparently beneficial to the human race.

” ” =» - ” “WE MUST expect change,” said the physicians. “It Is the primary law of the universe. Nothing stays the same. Until a man is able to realize that your death and mine are as essential for progress as is his birth, he is not tally mature.” °° ; This may come as a shock to admirers of Omar a Persian gentleman whose “jug of wine, loaf of thou” quatrain’ won him immortality (with the : ig L Sranslatod satranndinary), but a 's dream and ado in its viewpoint. poe

DEAR BOSS... By Don Kidnay Congress Deaf To Speedup Plea

WASHINGTON, June 18—It takes more than a stern speech from President Truman, citing the need to re-enact controls which expire June 30, to keep Congressmen and Senators from taking their customary long week-end. In his Thursday night speech the President 3 pointed out that there are only a few works ing days left for Congress to act and they should get busy. Here is the official record of congressional reaction to this speedup plea, It js taken from the Congressional record for Friday, the day after the White House

broadcast: “Senate recessed at 1:49 p. m, until

noon Monday, June 18, when it will continue on H.R. 3880, independent offices

Rep. Halleck . . . "Debate limited." appropriations for 1952.”

House Record

AT THAT the Senators spent 17 minutes more on the job than the House members, Both met at noon and here is the House record, “Adjourned at 1:32 p. m. until Monday at 12 o'clock noon,” On Monday, viz. today, the consent calendar is taken up, so that a member not interested needn't be back until tomorrow when the new tax bill hits the floor, That bill will be under a “closed rule,” which

«allows no amendments by members to the

measure as drafted by the ways and means committee. Long-week-enders need only be here for the final vote. As Rep, Charles A. Ha Fleck, Republican Rensselaer, puts in his weekly letter to second district constituents: “Debate will be limited, academic.”

Political Capijtal

SOME SENATOKS and Congressmen made

and will be largely

"a bit of political capital out of the Truman

speech. One of the most bold efforts along this line was made by Rep, John V., Beamer, Republican, Wabash, Usually the mildest member of the five GOP freshmen from Indiana, Mr, Beamer took the floor to say: “Not in idle curiosity but with deep concern I ask the question: Who wrote President Truman's political speech on controls that he gave over the free air waves last night, Thursday, June 147? “Russian communism is an example of complete controls—controls over even the lives and destinies of the consumer—and it was the consumers that the President so loudly and hypocritically proclaimed himself as their champion. And then he says that we are fighting communism.

Wars Hike Prices

“THE CONSUMERS-—and I am one of them ~-ask how can he be so inconsistent? Does he propose to adopt Communist regimentation to fight communism? It this another deliberate attempt td bring this country under the domination of the principles of socialism and communism? “Wars and preparations for war make high prices-—and this is Mr, Truman's war, not the consumers’ war, Had the President worked as diligently for victory and peace as he works for regimentation of our society, we would have more opportunity to return to normal thines— and the workingman's dollar would be worth more than the few pennies it now represents.” Mr. Beamer and the other GOP members are quite likely to vote for renewed controls, along with the Democrats, as Mr. Halleck told the Indiana Farm Bureau men on their recent vigit here: “The Republican 80th Congress voted out controls and we got voted out at the next election.” He meant his party of course, as Mr, Halleck now is serving his 9th consecutive term. Often a long week-ender himself, he is tolerant about the wait-until-the-last-minute methods of tha Congress. This week-end he had a very good excuse, His son, Charles Jr, was graduated from Williams College.

What Others Say

MANY PEOPLE were (once) horrified at the thought of spending $500 million a year to» build up the (Chinese) Nationalists. Now we're spending $500 million a month in Korea to try to save us from the Communists who replaced the Nationalists. —Rep. Walter Judd (R., Minn.). * & ¢ I DON'T think that any nation backing United Nations action in Korea could object to a program that would insure that no Allied soldier in Korea should be the target of a bullet manufactured in the free world. -—Ernest A. Gross, * > » EMOTIONAL factors involved in battle wounds may be deeper and longer lasting than the injuries themselves.—Dr. Douglas Noble, consultant psychiatrist, U. 8. Navy hospital, * b> » ) WE'VE GOT to hold in one place (Europe) and fight in the other (Asia) because we are not ready to conduct a global war. —Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Ore.).

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Want a Trunk ?--Write Your Congressman—He Gets 1 a Year

WASHINGTON, June 18—Congress now is in the throes of worrying about the statesmen with the 30 brassbound trunks, the 10,000 calendars the Representatives ordered so. they'd know what day it is, and the lady who labored

in a beauty parlor when she should have been folding documents for oil the lawgivers. 2 These items and | others as peculiar | come under the head of government, economy in. Having snarled at every federal department for wasting money, the House Appropriations Committee finally got around to Congress’ own expenses on Capitol Hill. This turned out to be embarrassing.

First off, there " was the matter of the $10,000 to buy each Congressman every year a good, stout trunk. This has been going on since the early days of our Republic. A one-term Congressman only gets two trunks, but a fellow like Rep. Adolph

J. Sabath (D. Ill), who's been on the job since’

1906, so far has received 45 big, congressional portmanteaus. The question is what does he do with ‘em? ’ Rep. Fred E. Busby (R. Ill.) conceded that a Congressman could use a few trunks in which to store his speech-making clothes in moth balls.

“But I just cannot reconcile myself to the fact that a man who has been here for 30 years should have 30 trunks,” said he.

Calendars with handsome pictures, of the U. 8. Capitol on them turned out to be another mystery. There are 96 Senators at work, but they ordered up 5600 calendars from the government printing office at a cost of $1921.46. That's better than 50 calendars for each Senator each year and what he does with 'em is the problem,

The 435 representatives didn’t need so many calendars per capita. They demanded only 16,600 calendars at a cost of $3748.74, or around 20 calendars per man. Nobody knew for sure where all these calendars went. Rep. Walt Horan (R. Wash.) thought maybe his colleagues could tell the day of the week without quite so many. : The case of Miss Margaret Greenwell, who spent considerable time administering permanent waves at the Katie Dunn Beauty Parlor when apparently she should have heen on the job in the House folding room, drew lengthy attention from the gentlemen. The evidence there had been an investigation) indicated that during 33% days when she did not report for work at the Capito) she was

WASHINGTON, June 18 — Congresswoman Ruth Thompson of Michigan started a mild wave of protest the other day when she wrote in a news lelter to the papers of her district that the new revolving door in the ‘old House Office Building cost $7,750,000, and that it weighed 3100 pounds. Publisher Gerald R. :Herrider of the Manton (Mich.) NewsTribune, wrote down that taxpayers in his part of the country would be interested in seeing what a seven-million dollar door looked like. Cdpitol Architect L'avid

found that the door cost only $7000. Also that it weighed only 900 pounds. Actually, there are two of the doors. The other one went in Senate Office Building's main entrance. They are bronze, revolving doors, very shiny and beautiful. The cost ran nigh becayse a lot of marble dooring, also worn out, like the old doors, had to be replaced. ~ ~ » THE political campaign is really getting rough. Though presidential nominating con- . ventions are still a year away,

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the nastiest crack. Every new

engaged downtown in making beautiful ladies look more beautiful. William M. (Fishbalit) Miller, the House doorkeeper who is her buss when she's working for the government, said she'd agreed to rebate to Congress the salary she'd collected for those days when she was curling hair.

Nobody protested the $6175 to polish, repair and hire a driver for Speaker Sam Rayburn’s limousine. The gentlemen did. however, express considerable interest in the appropriation for killing Capitol bugs.

A Tough Fight

JOHN C. PAGE, the property custodian, said there were five kinds of crawling, flying things that chewed up Congressional sofas, rugs, apd documents, He was investigating all possible bug killers, he added, but he said the fight was a difficult one. It developed further that Congress produces better than 100,000 pounds of waste paper per month, which it sells to the highest bidder. This does not include 77,096 copies in the cellar of a book called, “Communism in Action,” or 83,790 copies of “Fascism in Action. Congressional authors of tnese apparently were too optimistic. Thought they'd be bestsellers. So the gentlemen have a basement full of books that nobody wants and T guess the quicker they become wastepaper the better.

FAITH IN GOD

- THE challenge has once more hégun . . . and I will meet its thrust . . . because my lips are blessed with prayer . . . and in my God I trust . . . whatever comes to pass I know . . . that it's all for the best . . . and with this thought in mind I strive ... to pass each mighty test . . . I force a smile where tears should flow «+. and when my luck runs low... I gain great comfort from the Lord . . . who eases all my woe . . . and so I travel through this life . . . of heartaches and of pain . . . with faith in God to see me through . .. when sunshine turns to rain. -By Ben Burroughs.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

SOUTHEND, England-—Attempted murder is charged against a man who rigged the bathtub with electricity and turned on the current when his wife got in. S8he was jolted out of the bath unhurt. Though their lives were charged with tension, She was still his wedded wife, And it passes comprehension That he'd try to take her life.

But he met with one deterrent Which destroyed his lethal hope. There was more than ample current, Quite a jolt, and yet—no soap.

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson Relox—$7 Million Door Just a Mistake

WHEN Mary Joe Shelly, former Navy WAVE lieutenant, was made director of women in the Air Force, wits coined this nifty: “Old WAVES never die, they just get WAFted into the Air

political campaign always seems worse than all others that have gone before. The next will be a lulu. Here are a couple of samples of stuff now flying around: * GOP headquarters circulates

campaign slogan invented bid Force.” Rep. Charlie Halleck of In- , diana. He says President Tru- van Shelly's

man should run for third ‘erm on the premise, “Vote for Truman. He kept us out of peace.” CI0-PAC counters with “Old

Republicans never die. They just seem that way.” a & nN But now the THERE are also copies of a faked circular letter being handed around. It goes like at the top jobs, this: given to outsiders.

“Dear Fellow Traveler: “We are asking you to make a contribution for a bust of Harry Truman to be placed in the Hall of Fame. . . , It will be placed next to the bust of Christopher Columbus, who didn’t know where he was going, didn't know where he'd been after he got back, and who went there on borrowed money.” ¢ f Tr Democrats are trying to turn this gag into a 'compliment with the comeback: Harry's the boy who Hlstovereq the real Ameri

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has the uniformed gals a little steamed up. She was not only an outsider, she ® ® » wasn't even a reservist in the WAVES. All three armed services have been claiming that oil they offered women a career, gals want to know how it can be called a career if they can't get a shot

SEN. ESTES KEFAUVER of Tennessee, chairman of the crime investigations, recently got tangled up on.a speaking - engagement in Kansas City, It wds arranged by Dr.. D. M, Nigro, who had been named in hearings before Kefauver as having tried to get bail for Gus ! h Gargotta, later freed on a robbery charge. Dr. Nigro is Kansas City head of Unico—which stands for Unity, Neighborliness, Integrity, Charity, Opportunity. Senator Kefauver was to speak before

APRIIRRINTHIRAT ERIN ERIRINRARRNIER

Hoosier Forum *| do not agree with a word that you “ay,

but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."—Voltaire.

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‘Ewing's Pet Plan’ :

MR. EDITOR: - The full-page advertisement on Shage 20 of the June 12 issue of The Indianapolis Times intrigues me. Upon‘reading the above advertisement, T cannot help but wonder who contributed the more labor in the makeup of the ad; the Treasury Department in beholf of U, 8. Saving Ponds or Oscar Ewing in behalf of his socialized medical plan, The head, “The Bonds I Bought for My Country's Defense Paid My $2500 Hospital Bill!” is a two-edged sword perhaps designed to serve a dual purpose. None of us will contradict the value of U. 8S. Savings Bonds, both to the government and to the purchaser. They are designed to, and do fill an important purpose in our national economy,

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NOW THAT we have established an agreement as to the need for defense savings bonds, let's look at the “typical citizen's” problem from another angle. He is glad to budget his income so that he may purchase a new car, a TV set, or repaint the old homestead. But, like most of us he neglects to budget a thin Gime for the cost of illness. This is a typica' situation. We now have a new weapon to fight the cost of illness for which most of us are unprepared. In our state we know this weapon as Blue Cross Hospitalization Insurance. This average citizen states in his testimonial that he is putting $12.50 per week into savings bonds. Suppose that he had ulilized $1.50 of the $12.50 for good hospitalization insurance. The interest received in the benefits paid for his illness would have been considerably in excess of the going rate for savings bonds or any other investment, leaving the $11 per week as an investment toward the future security of his family and himself, > L 2

IT IS without question that a catastrophic illness can threaten the financial structure of any family but it is also true that the number of family circles faced with a $2500 hospital bill are not as common as the flaws in Mr, Ewing’s pet project. The Advertising Council and The Indianapolis Times were no doubt quite pleased to receive the commendation of the U. 8. Treasury Department for running the $2500 hospital bill ad ywithout charge. I can assure? you that the hospitals of Indiana would commend you for running the next ad with the heading “The Bonds I Bought for My Country’s Defense Paid My Bills for a $2500 Car, a $400 Television Set,

and Two Pounds of $1.20 Government Subsi-.

dized Beef.” —Ralph M. Haas, Administrator, Culver Union Hospital, Crawfordsville.

‘Fear in the U. S.’

MR. EDITOR: Not so many years ago, a past-master at throwing sand in peoples’ eyes to confuse them, made the assertion that “there is nothing to fear but fear itself.” And immediately, because he happened to be President, he set out to make fear the very keystone of our national life. First he said that working people are afraid to wrestle with their own problems. They need the government to stick its nose into every act of our lives. He said people were becoming too afraid to grow old without the government holding their hands. He said labor feared its bosses, unless some political labor racketeer prodded them in the back and extracted a tax on the way. He said the farmers feared they could not survive unless the government stood by to wet-nurse them. as oie ly THEN his successor, vowing for political reasons to carry on this tradition of fear, has pointed out that we ‘fear Russia and therefore must bargain away our birthright and give Russia everything she demands, so that she will promise to behave . . , notwithstanding she has never yet respected a single promisé made to this country. We are told that we are afraid to win the war in Korea because that too might incur Russia's ire, so we must negotiate a peace with the Reds. Just another way to say give them what they want. So this proud nation, one which once could hold its head high in the councils of the world, has now become a nation of cowards, by presidential edict. Should we not be proud of such a national heritage? ~—A. J. Schneider, City

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WARMER weather is here but we still can use the spread of good cheer as a fine comforter. > &

TWO NICE things about dictating to a recording machine—it doesn’t talk back or smack gum! : * » TEN MEMBERS of a prison band in the east were paroled before their terms were up. Even in the pen, peace is a blessing. * ¢ ¢ OUR BUTCHER bill reminds us that every time a little pig goes to market we all have a cHance to squeal! > > » A TEXAS girl sued a butcher fue divorce.

We can’t imagine not wanting t~ have \ kutcher in the family.

the Unico group. When it was learned that Dr. Nigro's name had been mentioned in the hearings, Sen. Kefauver was given a chance to withdraw his acceptance of the mvitation to speak. But the Senator said he had had both Unico and Dr. Nigro investigated, and they were okay, So he spoke on schedule.

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SOVIET RUSSIA has already explored Northern Iran's prospects, drilled and capped the wells, then camou-

locations with earth. Confidential reports say the drilling was done while Russians occupied the area during last war, Native Iranian populations were -excluded from certain areas while Russians were there. After Russians pulled out, Iranians started investigating these areas, and uncovered well locations. Rigs, pumps and all other machinery had been removed, But cement caps on some wells indicated 20-inch casings had been used to start the hole, and drilling carried to perhaps 10,000 feet. If Russians moved in again, they could open holes, put pumps on J undations and start produec-

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