Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1951 — Page 10

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COMMUNISTS have stolen the spotlight on the "of their invasion of South Korea by the Soviet Union's willingness to discuss an ‘at the 38th Parallel. The suggestion came ih a latement by Russia's United Nations Delegate Jacob

Phony Russian peace gestures are so commonplace that e is a general disposition to treat Mr. Malik's proposal caution. Jt may have been made in all seriousness, —with a larger-objective in view. The Korean War isn't going well from Russia's stand- . At the end of a year's hard fighting, in which trecasualties have been sustained, the Reds have driven back into their own territory. They cannot to improve their military situation without bringing yubstantial air power into the fight, which only Russia supply. Russian intervention of such scope would involve e risk of a direct Allied air attack on the Soviet Union “reprisal, ~ * 0»

IF MR. MALIK really means business, Moscow may calling a halt to this pointless war in the hope of slowing lown western rearmament. If that is the strategy behind the maneuver, the move is a shrewd one. The desire to scale | down armament costs is so great in most countries that pny excuse is likely to be seized upon. But if other nations permit themselves to be deluded such a ruse, the United ‘States must not. . An honorable settlement in Korea is highly desirable, such a settlement would contain no promise of general peace. There can be no assurance of that until the United tes is strong enough to challenge Communist aggression never and wherever it asserts itself. We will be in that ition soon if we let nothing interfere with the rearmament program now getting under way. It might be suicida] curtail that program until a position of ressonble curity has been attained. There is accumulating evidence that Moscow is disd by the measures the United States and our Allies : ave taken in preparedness to enforce world peace. The “of that effort would doom Russia's hope of con. the rest of the world by easy stages. That is why da in recent months has stressed the the exclusion of almost everything else.

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at no time or place has the Soviet Union relaxed against the free world through an aggressive mn. Burma, Malaya, Indo-China and the Philip“under rent attack. Communist agitators are a peaceful settlement of the Iran oil of Barve are being waged by Moscow itself

nce From Florida

[EN the Kefauver Crime ‘Investigating Committee plunged into its assignment, it wasn't long before it d that one of the racket centers of the United Sts was Florida. i The Governor of Florida is Fuller Warren, whose open- | semblance of surprise at the revelations of the committee, the Miami Crime Commission and Miami ewspapers is a wonder to behold. { Mr. Warren has had three “urgent” invitations to before the Senate committee, now headed by Sen. O’'Conor of Maryland. He has ignored all three. TY his last reply fo the committee, the Governor sent : HD set denying everything. He didn't

BUT Sen. * 0'Conor thinks he does know soinething. Marea. the committee's recent report, filed while Sen. Kefauver was chairman, directly accused the Florida Governor of having tangible racket support in his 1848 election campaign. Now the committee has cracked down on Mr. Warren. It has slapped him with with a subpens, ordering him to Apes in Washington July 9. . In dealing with governors and similar VIP's, this and other Congressional committees normally use a more genteel method. They invite these people to appear, while gany others are commanded to show up. i Gov. Warren has flouted this courtesy. He has for2d any special consideration to which his office may be d. “The committee is well within the proprieties in g him to testify under oath.

‘Scrap of Paper’?

E in the Western nations are well aware of the na-

mist measures on the issue of taking over the ped Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.

the World Court the issue was none of its busih nd main er eae ie cAI g, | bound legally to respect its juris-

| may decide it needs the Coult, or the

irrational flaunting of its own extremist stand it in good stead.

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DEAR BOSS... By Dian Kidney 8 sion What Is That?

Halleck Turns Out to Be “I Will, | Won't’ Boy

WASHINGTON, June 25—If, as Emerson

said, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of amall minds,” we have some big minded men in the Indiana congressional delegation, ake the dean, for instance, Rep, Charles A eck, Rensselaer Republican. When a CIO

Neal Edwards came here to lobby for strong price controls, Mr. Halleck, who arranged the meet ing, said that there are other inflation "curbs also available. Among them he mentioned “pay-as-you-go” taxation, Next day he voted against the tax bill This apparent inconsistency was clearly spelled out In

Mr. Halleck rn inconsistent.

publican, Ft. Wayne. It begins by pointing out that he favors creating a small defense plant corporation. This is strongly supported by Mr. Halleck, although both the freshman and the veteran Congressman are ardent spokesmen against “increasing bureaucracy.” Ag a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Mr. Adair then cites his support of the Rankin bills which d the House with out a roll-call and wo cost the taxpayers many hundreds of millions. Such measures have been the life-work of the committee chairman, Rep. John Rankin, (D. Miss.). Writing about the way they slid through the House, Charles Lucey of Scripps-Howard had this to say: “In private tonversations in House lobbies, members expressed opposition to these measures adding big new expenditures the very same week that the House was passing a bill laying an additional $7 billion in taxes on Americans. “But next year is an election year and nobody likes to vote against the big veteran organizations.”

‘Cutting Expenses’ IN HIE LETTER, Mr. Adair followed his eéspousal of these measures with a paragraph entitléd “Apropos vernment Spending.” It reads: “The following apt quotation was tossed out during recent debale on the government's present spending policies by one of the economyminded members of the House: JThey have jerked the bung out ‘of. the pork’ barrel and thrown it away.” The next item is in support of “cutting expenses,” as opposed to raising taxes and a tee minority report is cited. Mr: Adair wasn't there to vote on the tax bill, but he had paired himself against it. 80 did Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Reptiblican. Both were back in Indiana when the bill passed the House last Friday, 233 to 160, ‘Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle, was the only Hoosier Republican to support higher taxes at this time in an effort to pay for de‘fense and curb inflation.

Government Spending

IN HER weekly letter, Rep. Cecil Harden,

“Covington Republican national committee-

woman from Indiana, had this to say about her voting “nay’: “Arguments in favor of heavier taxes do not hold with me. They are only partially true, The number one way to bring the budget into balance and hold down the cost of living is not increased taxes—it is decreased spending by the federal government.” Republican State Chairman Cale Holder had written each member a scathing letter denouncing the bill, He called it “criminally stupid.” This is the Sen. William E. Jenner GOP Party line. :

What Others Say

IT is generally agreed that it would be more dangerous to allow Japan to have adequate forces of her own for her own security than it would for them to work collectively with a security force contributed to by other countries. ~John Foster Dulles, U. 8. ambassador. * 9 NEVER forget that our freedom for which we struggle and fight is meaningless without

~Bishop Hazen 9: Werks, of Methodist church . + MORAL re-armament is changing the world by giving it a new ideology of peace within a world-wide classless society. ~=Max Bladeek, former Communist official of Western Germany. * * @

THE psychiatrist, like the plumber, may find *

his most difficult task is that of repairing the damage done by those who first tried to analyze the trouble and repair it themselves. Dr. James Tucker Fisher, psychiatrist, ¢ & ¢ THIS is our riskiest hour in a land of calculated risks. That is why we are cacheing a stockpile of arms so ample . , . that an aggressor anywhere will count ten before he speaks—and then bite his tongue before he

speaks at all. Tine Johnston, economic stabilizer,

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By Galbraith Tow

MICE OR FINANCES?

By Frederick C. Othman

Well—Even if the RFC Folds | Got My Money's Worth, Friend

WASHINGTON, June 25-—Congress now has before it a bill to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and Congress is in an eéconomizing mood. I have my fingers crossed. I'd hate to see this mightiest lending agency in the world go blooie and its black marble banking rooms : turned over to mice. In the last couple of. years it has provided me with more incredible pieces for the paper than any other government institution. Mostly these cost me money. as a taxpayer, but I figure I'm one citizen who got his money's worth, i: My favorite story. concerned the government’s loan to a rattlesnake farm in California. This was so long in coming that all

the snakes starved to death. The enterprise

went Bankrupt and the government foreclosed. At latest report we taxpayers still were proprietors of a snakeless snake nursery. I also was pleased with dispatches about the RFC financing a gambling den in the Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nev., and putting up the money for a Chicago punchhoard maker to build a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. This hostlery just happened to be the place that a White House executive assistant spent his vacations on the cuff, That was the beauty of the RFC from my viewpoint. One thing always seemed to lead to another. I remember doing a bitter item about the RFC slipping a few hundred thousand to a Kansas City juke-box factory. My thesis was that of all the things I did not care to finance, it. was juke boxes in saloons, which I prefer to be quiet. This outfit went bankrupt, too. The RFC then sold it to somebody else and discovered, after the deal was signed, that the purchaser was a black-market crook on his way to jail for evading $100,000 in income taxes. In Florida the RFC lent money to a hocuspocus corporation that was going to manufacture a4 device that eliminated carbon papers in typewriters. The leading organizer of this was one of those Florida sheriffs with the big smiles, who later found himself in the toils of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee.

I could go on and on, and with your permission, I think I will. We taxpayers financed through the RFC a cactus farm in a part of Texas where cactus ordinarily grows wild. We put up the dough for night clubs, bowling alleys, the Gold Front Bar of Sheboygan, Mich, and an assortment of breweries and distilleries.

We were silent partners in beauty parlors and, for a time, in the St. Louis Browns’ baseball team. We dropped $37 million in pastel- -colored houses ‘of enameled steel and, while we're on the

Dollar Still

WASHINGTON, June 25 — The Washington answer to any international question that may arise still seems pretty much the same. It is: “Pour a hundred million dollars or so into it, then hope *.’ that will make everything okay. For a while, at least.” This is true whether the answer is cooked up by the White House and State Department down town, or by some great brain on Capitol Hill. It is true of Republicans and Democrats alike. Most ‘recent examples are Franco and Tito — Spain and Yugoslavia. If there is any

world who hasn't been able to milk the American eagle, or have ‘millions of dollars thrust upon’ him, the U. 8 hasn't heard of him. Peron of Argentina is bailed out for $125 million, as a State Department project to promote good will, » »

- THE CHIEF Republican criticism of the Truman administration policy toward Nationalist China is that not enough aid was’ given to Chiang Kai-shek. All he got was a couple of billions. A new U. 8. fo Joniey toward- the Middle recengly Teporien in this Rg

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DIPLOMATIC NOTES .

subject of pretty colors, 0 us not forget the * pastel mink coat turned up by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) in his continuing investigation of the RFC.

Might Save Cash

THE SENATOR'S still grinding out reports on what he discovered, but he believes the RFC should be continued under the new management of Stuart Symington, the veteran governmental trouble shooter. He thinks it won't produce so much news for me henceforth. Former President Herbert Hoover believes the corporation should be abolished forthwith. So does Jesse Jones, the Houston banker, who first headed it. And se do a number of influential Senators, headed by Harry S. Byrd (D. Va.) who sponsored the bill to do away with this busiest of money-lending establishments. That might save us taxpayers some cash, which would be welcome, but I'd surely miss writing those dispatches about high finance among the bureaucrats.

Hor SPOT... By James Daniel Canada in Stew

AboutRed Trade

Debate Over Use of Flag y

Explodes in Parliament

WASHINGTON, June 25 — The Canadisn Parliament is in a row over the use of the Canadian flag on ships doing business with Red China. The deal was secretly approved by the Canadian Cabinet two months before war started in Korea. It has never been renounced, despite its exposure by anti-administration members of Parliament. After World War II, Canadian shipyards built nine merchant vessels for Chinese shipping firms, then operated by Chinese National« ists. Canadian banks put up the money and the Canadian and Nationalist governments guaranteed the banks against loss on the investment, Fate of two ships is not known, but seven were delivered to the Ming Sung Industrial Co, of Shanghai. When the Nationalists started losing the war, the Ming Bung Co. started doing business with the Reds.

Refused 2 Ships

IN MARCH, 1950, the company established a subsidiary in Canada and applied to the Cannadian government for permission to put seven of its ships under Canadian registry. The argument advanced was that the Chinese Nationalist government appeared to be in danger of extinction and the company wanted to protect Canada’s investment in the ships. The Canadian government refused to grant Canadian registry to two of the ships engaged in Yangtze River traffic, entirely within Chinese Red territory. But on Apr. 17, 1950, it granted permission for five ships to fly the Canadian flags. These ships were based in the British Colony of Hong Kong, and traveled between Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao and Canton, in Red China. The only restraint upon the cargoes the ships carry out of Hong Kong is the varying standards by which the British define war goods. There is no restraint at all from Macao. In permitting the five ships to fly the Canadian flag the Canadians had to waive one of their laws which requires Canadian ships to be officered by Canadians. The government has refused to make public the details of the waiver or say who holds the $12, 750,000, in mortgages on the ships.

A Russian Captain?

DISCLOSURE of the Ming Sung deal resulted from a letter by an official of a ship's

.captain and engineer's guild in Hong Kong.

The letter charged that one of the ships is captained by a Russian. The government subsequently produced a Jetter from the Hong Kong manager of the Ming Sung interests denying this was true, The government said it had no knowledge of the nationality of the ships’ officers but at least there were no Russian names on the list submitted to it when it granted permission to register the ships in Canada.

FISHING FOR JOY

I LOVE to go a-fishing . . . In a brook or ocean deep . . . and try my luck at catching bass . . . or trout that run and leap . . . I like to sit on boat or shore . . . with great anticipation . . . and make a little strike or two .. . that fills me with elation . . . but more than that eso I feel a thrill . . . by casting ‘a line « « « into a cool and bubbling stréam . . . or way out on the brine . . . for after all is said and done . .. to’ gain real peace of mind . there's nothing that beats fishing . . , it's a bleasing to mankind. ? : —By Ben Burroughs.

‘The Big Thrill’

MR. EDITOR: The Times printed one of the best stories I've read in many years in the Friday edition. I'm talking about the one written by Andrew Tully. He tells about a kid in a cerise colored, satin sports shirt meeting the President of the United States. It's refreshing to see someone in these days honestly thrilled. Our pace of living is so fast that we've become hardened to things that once were considered valuable experiences. . “president of the United States? So what? All that guy can do is dip his hand in my pocket and take out more cash.” That's our attitude toward almost everything now. It's not refreshing, it’s not even enjoyable.

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WHEN I was a.kid I can remember meeting President Hoover. He shook my hand and I didn’t wash it for a week. I can also remember sitting in a church in the exact spot where President Lincoln sat. I wouldn't let my mother send my pants to the cleaners. In both cases, I

- suppose, I thought I had retained a little bit

of something that once belonged to these two great men. And, what's more, I had associated with Presidents. At the end of his story, Mr. Tully says: “I'd like to be you, Cerise Bhirt, just for that moment.” And I think I'd like to be standing right behind Mr. Tully, that is, if I had an old beat up nail to prod him with.

~=0ld Fashioned, City.

By Peter Edson

Rules U. S.

Hoosier Forum——‘Cerise Shirt’

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‘Too Far to Walk’ fo

I wish to protest the removal of the New York St. bus. I work at the United Christian Missionary Society at 222 8. Downey. I rode the New York 8t. bus from New York St. and Gladstone Ave.s about two blocks from my house, then I walked two blocks after getting off the bus. .

Now I have to walk four blocks to Washington St. to get a trolley, get off at Downey Ave. and walk fliree blocks to the Missions building. The bus drivers tell me to go down town and transfer which would take about one and a half hours, when I only need to ride from 4200 east to 5300 east. It seems to me that busses should run' east on New York and west on Michigan. ]Jt's too bad we don’t have another bus company. -—Doris Hocking, 429 N. Gladstone.

‘Trucks on Boulevards’ MR, EDITOR:

There seems to be a complete disregard of the city laws prohibiting trucks on houlevards.

. This seems to be particularly true of Washing-

ton Blvd. I have sometimes trailed trucks from 34th St. north to the canal. The trucks are not always small grocery delivery trucks which vou would <expect, but rather tractor trai'er. trucks. Twenty years ago when I moved to my Washington Blvd. address I hired a small truck to carry some odds and ends. The truck driver was stopped because he didn't enter the boulevard at the closest side street. It seems that even the few remaining signs are in the same state of decay as the ordinance.

~-Washington Blvd, Resident.

Foreign Policy

other embryonic dictator in the-

involves a proposed billion-dol-lar cash and loan outlay for 10 or a dozen little. countries at the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Communist or Fascist — it doesn’t seem to make any difference, Tito is the former and Franco is the latter. But each i in line to get his hundred million.

SEN. PAT McCARRAN of Nevada is the backer of Spain’s Dictator Franco for his hundred million. Sen. McCarran was elected as a Democrat. But there is no one in the Senate who is more opposed to most Truman policies than he. And whatever one may think of Sen. McCarran’s principles and ‘methods, there are few if any Senators who have more power and influence incgetting what they want.

Last year, for instance, Sen, McCarran got an amendment tacked on the Foreign Aid bill, requiring the U. 8. government to loan Franco $62.4 million. Eight months later, the Franco government had not signed a. single contract to borrow any of this money, Sen. McCarran therefore called to his office Herbert E, Gaston, president of Export-

‘Import Banig-Paul R. Porter

whole $100 mil

of the Marshall Plan staff and William B. Dunham, on the Spanish desk in the State Department. There, in the presence of Spanish Ambassador, Senor Don Jose Felix de Lequerica y Arquiza, Sen. McCarran demanded an explanation on why no money had been paid out to Spain.

The Sénator’s reason for this unprecedented action, attempting to'bawl out American officials before the Spanish ambassador, was simple and direct. Sen. McCarran said he wanted to Introduce another measure to give Spain

$100 million more this year. .

But he was having trouble perhis colleagues on the Appropriations Committee to grant more money, when Spain hadn't closed any deals for what was made available to her last year. Convinced that the delay in getting the money was not the fault of the American government, Sen. McCa then offered to speak to Franco, “because he's a good friend of mine,” and hurry him up. f 8 8B

ON MONEY for Tito, the United States fortunately does not have to fork over the this year, Under. a three

worked out, Britain will furnish 23 per cent of it, France 12 per cent and the U, 8. 65 per cent. This will be a grant.

. Yugoslavia isn't considered a

good enough financial risk to make a loan to, yet.

PURPOSE of the gift will be to build Yugosiavia's economy and balance her foreign trade within the next year and a half. Tito's government is by no means solvent today, It owes money to Britain, France, Belgium, Western Germany, Greece, Austria, Egypt anes a $12 million loan to the U. 8. Export-Import Bagk, among others. Yugoslavia had a bad drouth fast year. The U. 8. gave Tito 560,000 tons of grain to help it over the hump. But exports, mostly minerals and lumber, fell off. This year’s crops look better, and” Yugoslavia may be able to export some surplus food to her western neighbors. Yugoslavia is delivering some and baiixite to the

copper, | 8, and western Europe on

contract, and hopes to Increase, But she still needs a big list of strategic imports— ton, wool, chemicals, hides, leum products and ex-

geal just - “plosives for her army.

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