Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1951 — Page 14

ERT ISON, party leader of the British sts, has head of the British Foreign Office, boot easy to tell whether policy statements from flice are designed for home consumption or are aimed ‘some diplomatic objective. ~ Both purposes apparently were being gerved by the Foreign Office’s unwarranted interference yesterday in the current negotiations at Madrid between the American and Spanish ‘governments, Adm. Sherman, chief of U. 8. Naval operations, is in the Spanish capital to discuss matters of mutual interest with the Franco government. Just as these discussions were getting under way, the British government announced it had advised the United States that it opposed both admission of Spain to the North Atlantic Pact and establishment of any direct military relations between Spain and past members, E ¥ LJ 4 5 » » ~ : AS A member of the North Atlantic. Pact, Britain has a right to object to inclusion of Spain or any other country in that alliance, But the Foreign Office oversteps the bounds when it questions the right of the United States to enter into additional military agreements outside of the pact. We have done so in the cases of Greece and Turkey, and should do so in the case of Spain. British objections to a Spanish alliance are based on political rather than military grounds. They stem principally from Britain's desire to improve her political position in the Mediterranean area at our expense. The American Sixth Fleet, now on station in the Mediterranean, is the greatest naval force in that sea. It includes two carriers, two cruisers, 15 to 20 destroyers. neveral submarines and support vessels. Britain would like this fleet placed under British command, through appointment of an over-all commander for all Allied sea forces in ‘hat area. Spain is opposed to this. So is Greece. The reasons are obvious:

BRITAIN'S at Gibraltar, ‘which Spain believes should belong to her, tnd at Cyprus, a Greek island, which Greece wants restored to her sovereignty. | The prestige Britain would gain by over-all command cf the Allied fleet in the Mediterranean also would improve her bargaining position in the current controversy with Egypt over the Sudan. Such extrancous issues should not be permitted to complicate the already difficult task of planning to meet any Communist attack ih this area. Britain should be sO informed in blunt words. Our fleet is in the Mediterranean to protect friendly nations—not to drag ancient British chestnuts out of the fire. For that reason, and because the projected Mediterranean fleet will be predominantly American, it should be under Amer ran command.

The Unions Look at Publishing NMA/E have from Woodruff Randolph, president of the International Typographical Union up on North Meridian St., a prospectus of one of the several daily newspapers the union proposes to launch soon. This one looks pretty good. It is tabloid in form, with short, well edited concise news storizz, closely departmentalized by subjects, and typographically well-designed. ~~ It is planned for Texarkana, Ark. “Others are proposed for Meriden, Conpms Allentown, Pa, and Monroe, La. All will be owned and operated by ITU, as publisher. The American Newspaper Guild, union of the mechanical ‘workers in newspapers, has an even more ambitious project in the works, and hopes to produce soon a national daily newspaper, owned and published jointly by some 15 major unions. :

ALL OF THESE are designed to be newspapers of general interest and general circulation, and not in any narrow sense organs of the unions which publish them. They promise, as all newspapers promise and nearly all fulfill within the limits of human fallibility, to offer complete, truthful, and unbiased news coverage. We wish them all success. Union publishing ventures in the past, including a number of tries by ITU itself, have generally been shortlived, costly financial failures. We recall only one that reported as much as a break-even on expenses, and that one appears to have made a “profit” by running as a temporary monopoly in Pittsburgh while all other Pittsburgh newspapers were closed by strikes, and by paying wages to employees for only 10 days of the 34 days. it ran, a situation very few Publishers ever experience.

THESE NEW ventures, we trust, are on a sounder ‘basis. There is no reason we can see why a union cannot own and publish a newspaper just as well as anybody else with capital to invest and the “know-how’’ to make income at least equal expense. We warn them, though, it isn't as easy as it looks. Quite a disturbing number of established U. 8. newspapers have been forced out of existence in recent vears solely because there was more money going out than there was coming in. “7 At best these union ventures will restore healthy newspaper competition to some communities which suffer because

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And at worst, it will give the unions themselves an understanding of the problems of publishing newspapers that we doubt they could get in any other way.

Old Friend Returns

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DICTIONARY STUFF

By Frederick C. Othman

As We Said Before—It Seems Everybody's Confused by Words

WASHINGHFON, July 17-—-Today I bow low and grovel before Ralph W. Button, the New York Department store executive and expert on regressive taxes. As for. Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D. Okla.) who gof me into this embarrassing predicament, he can go eat an un-

If this gives him indigestion it serves him right, He's got a little regression coming to him. Mr. Button, you may remember, was testifying the other day before the Senate Finance Committea about regressive taxes. These, said he, are bad. Sen. Kerr said there was no such thing. Mr. Button said, “yes, there was, too. The Senator, acting like a professor who'd just written an enclyclopedia, assured him that regressive was a word having to do with the return of the libido fo infantile objects of attachment, This is high-faluting language meaning that when folks grow old they like to think about their ehildhood. This embarrassed witness Button. Not having his dictionary with him, he wasn’t sure what to think. This struck me as funny and I did a piece for the papers suggesting that he leave the gobbledegook for the bureaucrats. Oh, oh, I guess I'll never learn. ‘What made this dispatch worse wag the fact that I consulted a collegiate dictionary, lent me by a senatorial secretary (who'd better burn it) which confirmed Sen, Kerr's definition. 80 I lauded the Senator as an erudite man and

hinted by indirection that Mr. Button was trying to impress people with big words he didn’t understand. No sooner had that item hit print than I was flooded with communications, some hy wire, from people all over the land, who suggested that if anybody was ignorant, it was Sen, Kerr and reporter Othman. Amen, I am a dope. : The Senator will be interested (if not

pleased) to learn that my bitterest communications came from constituents in Oklahoma City, his home town, What some of them had to say

about him and his knowledge of words no family newspaper would print “It is easy to see that Othman is buttering up Kerr so that he will be in solid with

the Kerr administration in 1952" said one of my more moderate correspondents in Oklahoma. Another said that after studying all the dictionaries in the public library on the subject of regression, he was as confused as his own Senator. That, he =aid, was going some.

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I did a little dictionary studying, myself. This word regressive has too danged many

meanings. In some dictionaries it means what the Senator tlaims, but mostly it seems to indicate that Button is the smartest. My Roget's Thesaurus says it means balky. Remember that, hey, Senator? But the most horrid definition (from the viewpoint of Sen. K.) is in the =econd edition of Webster's International Unabridged Dictionary. It starts right out to define regressive taxation. “A form of taxation upon incomes in which the tax rate decreases as the amount of the income increases,” the big book says. Me, I'm soaking my head. If a certain Senator wants to join me, I've got an extra bucket.

STATE DEPARTMENT . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Harriman Bois Up Gloss

On Forced Notirommot of Grady

TEHRAN, July 17--The efficial American gloss put on the forced retirement of U, 8, Ambassador Henry F. Grady got a brisk polish- . fag by presidential envoy W. Averell. Harriman before he dipped into the Iranian oil crisis.

U. 8. Secretary of State Dean Acheson jockeyed Mr. Grady into unwilling retirement through a combination of an erroneous leak and a “clarifying” White House annoucement. But Mr. Harriman says the situation was just what the White House announcement says it was: That Ambassador Grady, before coming to Iran more than a year ago, asked that his assignment be limited to a year or less, and that the announcement was merely compliance with Mr. Grady's . wish. Overlooked was the fact that Ambassador Grady, up to his ears in a futile effort to settle the British-Iranian oil dispute, before. Mr, Harriman was sent here, had no.present or recent intention of retiring. Mr. Harriman's explanation of the Washington leak that cut the ground from under Mr. Grady ‘was that Assistant Secretary of State George C. McGhee, in private testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had touched upon Mr. Grady's original wish to stay in Tehran not more than a year. The implication was that the foreign relations committee leaked that already outdated arrangement.

Circumstantial evidence, including Mr. Grady’s own references td lack of support from

Mr. Harriman + +. Same song

Washington and London in his oil settlement .

. By Earl Richert

POLITICS .

efforts, suggests that the Abmassador was forced into retirement either because his efforts offended the British government or Mr. “Ashe son. Mr. Grady, who now is superseded by Mr, arriman as a peacemaker in_Iran, has had o fall in with official presenta®on of his case, Mr. Harriman, as a long-time friend of the Ambassador, has been reciprocally paying tribute to the work Mr. Grady has done, “Everyone in Washington feels Mr, Grady has done a fine job,” Mr. Harriman said,

Washington Declines to Answer ONLY TWO days ago Mr. Grady told American correspondents that Washington had declined to answer some of the messages with which he had been urging steps for a temporary British-Iranian working arrangement to keep Iran's oil flowing to free nations. Mr, Grady's activities have trod heavily on British official sensibilities. Mr. Grady is keeping a stiff upper lip. On the record, his position is that the White House wants him to stay on for months if necessary, and he wants to avoid embarrassing his government at a critical time. Just when his tenure will end is not known. Mr. Harriman’s indicated tactics in Iran-—a combination of persuasion directed chiefly at the Iranians and the dangling of a great economic aid program-—are just about what Mr, Grady has been trying to do, with little suecess, When Mr. Harriman landed here and startéd talking about his hope for an amicable oil agreement based on mutuality of interest, it sounded so much like the Mr. Grady of a few weeks ago that one correspondent remarked, “This is where I came in.” :

What Are Mr. Dewey's Plans?

ASHINGTON, July 17--Republican politicians here—after weeks of studying and analyzing—Tfeel sure of only one thing about Gov, Thomas E. Dewey's current trip to the Far East: There’s some long-range political plan behind it. 2 None of the leaders here

profess to know for sure what it is. Each has his own idea.

But there is unanimity in the belief that the two-time GOP presidential nominee is preparing for something he sees ahead-—not just to be a better - informed citizen on Far Eastern problems when he returns to the practice of law or to his dairy farm at Pawling, N. Y At first, there was some opinion among Republicans _.here-that the stage was being set for. the re-

Mr. Dewey

...long range

placement of Secretary of State Dean Acheson

with Mr. Dewey. A move of this sort by President Truman has been feared for a long time by the Republicans, because it would put them “in a box” on criticizing State Department and foreign policy. - Rut the Dewey-for-Acheson speculation has faded under the reasoning that Mr. Dewey would be unlikely to jeopardize his standing in the Republican Party for what might be a short term as Secretary of State under Mr. Truman, Now the dominant line of speculation is that Mr. Dewey is preparing: himself to be Secretary of State in an Eisenhower cabinet. (Gov, Dewey has announced his support of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the 1952 GOP presidential nomination.)

Hoosier Forum—‘We Need More

MR. EDITOR: I expected lots of fights on the one-way streets, The only thing that is wrong with them

is they aren't long enough, nor are there enough of them. I was born and raised in Indianapolis and have lived here all my life, but, even if I hate to believe it, for a large city it has the poorest traffic situation I ever saw, People just haven't grown up with the city. Even little towns all around here have better conditions in traffic. I suppose people will be fighting over Meridian St. 1 think it was a wonderful idea. You can drive to town or out in about half the time. It should be like that all the way {rom the canal, I don't see why we don’t have our bus stops in the middle of the block like they are downtown and all cross walks should be there too. That would stop the conflict of right turns, 1f thev can do that in other big cities, we can too. —Just a Reader of Your Paper, Cify.

‘Labor and Taxes’

MR. EDITOR: Some of the hot shots are now telling us that there is more danger or something in the money of the workers than there is in the piled up by the big boys who never move a muscle. We have heard this same old blather ever since the blue eagle was hrought over here from Italy to befoul our government, At that time the nropaganda was put out that the small firms that did not care to join in the strait-jacket activities of the NRA were

By Galbraith PARTY LINE .

‘Who Done It’ Dad Is Really a Mystery

NEW YORK, ‘July 7 Dashiell Hammett, BE oa of the “private eye” mystery, pre-

sents that great political enigma: The rich and sugcessful guy who gets himself involved with the Reds. Charles Chaplin is another, It's hard to say just what makes them tick. And that goes for the author of “The Thin Man,” “The Maltese Falcon” and the “Sam Spade” stories who has just achieved a measure of selfwelcomed martyrdom. The book, movie and radio writer was given a six months prison sentence after the cat got his tongue on matters pertaining to the bonding of the four top Reds who skipped bail, The questions were aimed -at apprehending fugitives from justice. But Hammett, although a trustee of Civil Rights Con-

whether he conspired or assisted in their flight. Even declined to identify. his Inftials on the bail papers. ’ Hammett had been working - : closely with the Communists

chiselers and what not. The government claimed it was going to run out such crooks. It did run out a lot of independent merchants and manufacturers, The hig chain stores and other billion-dollar businesses were coddled because they paid taxes in large amounts. Then excess profits taxes were nailed on big business, but no one seems to know what an excess profit is unless it be subsidies and big prices paid to certain people by taxing the others. <> “ »

INCOME tax rates were finally fixed so that those who made nearly a million dollars had to pay about all of it to the government to finance

A SMILE

THERE is more beauty in a smile , . ., than anything I know . .. for smiles can make the heart feel gay . .. and drive away our woe ... a smile can change our outlook and . . . give meaning to our life ..., and it e=n radiate real joy . .. to those who have known strife . a smile is like a blooming rose . . . that thrills us through and through . . . and it can pave the way to romance . .. and a love that's true . . . a smile costs nothing . . it is . . . as priceless as the moon . . . for it can change the wintertime . . . into the month of June . .. and so I cherish all the smiles . . . that ever come my way . .. and with the help of God I will... keep smiling day by day. —By Ben Burroughs.

. By Frederick Woltman

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This line comes from Republicans who have been in. the Dewey camp for years, “Don’t forget,” said one long-time Dewey man, “that the governor has never taken his eves off the White House. And he plans far ahead. “He could be Secretary of State in an Eisenhower cabinet for eight years and still only be H8—still plenty young enough to run for President.” Republicans here who formerly were Dewey-for-President men claim that the New York Governor has no intention of seeking the presidential nomination next year, as he has stated. “Why if he even toyed with the -idea, Herb Brownell and Russ Sprague (two of his former campaign managers) would get on a boat and take off for Europe,” said one of the former Dewey leaders. “He knows he's out of the pic ture in 1952.” :

Front Maneuver? BUT pro-Taft Republicans arent so sure, Having been blitzed by the Dewey forces in the were SUPDOTLing John Ww. “Bricker), they’ re disposed to think that Mr. Dewey is using Gen. Eisenhower as a’ front to maneuver the nominatton for himself. “Suppose he gets a powerful coalition working for Eisenhower,” said one Taft leader, “And then the General says he won't run. Don't vou think Dewey would think he was next in line?" But members of the old Dewey. crowd say that this is not correct—that Mr. Dewey is all out for Gen. Eisenhower and believes he can be nominated and elected President. “Dewey,” said one of his former supporters, “certainly would be entitled to a cabinet job under Eisenhower. And this Far Eastern trip should help qualify him for the top one (Secretary of State).”

1-Way Streets’

fancy vacations and police actions. Billions have been spent on a United Nations that has about wrecked the world with such foolishness as a $25,000 candle of peace while they have listened to the Russians cuss the USA while they dump millions of Chinese inte Korea to kill Americans. : But the government experts now say they must take that money cut of the pockets of the dumb workers. They will spend it and cause something called inflation. Just where is the line to be drawn? If the government lsafers can have a lot of free. money to squander on yacht trips and other nonsense, why can't a guy who works to pay his rent and other bills save a little bit? Stalin

keeps his subjects in squalor.. Is that what they want here? —Stan Moore, 28358 N. lllinois St.

What Others Say—

OUR policy lacks a basic, absolute morality. Power-grabbing and hypocrisy, sensationalism and softness will never change Communists, We must have an absolute and firm standard.— Ernest Scharnowski, chairman of Berlin Trade Union Federation. one AMERICA’S number one need iz for the uncommon man (who hag) the capacity to

think, the capacity for imagination and the capacity for faith.—Grove Patterson, editor Toledo Blade,

. gress bail fund, refused to gay .

violent revolution for which haired and immaculate” the 11 were convicted. politely declined to BE All the while this talented Americans to FBI terror-raids author was cleaning up big . was fighting. fascism,” said dough. His anhual®income re- the Daily Worker: No. higher ported to exceed $100,000. He tribute (Communist - version)

created serial shows as ($5000-a-week), “Fat Man” ($4000) and “Thin Man" ($6800). The sponsors included reneral Foods, H. J. Heinz Co, Wildroot and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The Hammett “Thin Man" pictures were box office hits; his novels, detective story best sellers, . What _ percentage of his

such popular network “Sam Spade”

*“ heavy rovalties went to Com-

mie causes remains a secret. The author liked to flash $100bill contributions at rallies and meetings. Hammett always manages to Keep his social beliefs out of his books. Nor did he let them interfere with his practice (frownedupon by the Radio Writers Guild) of retaining the ownership, profits and name credit

of his radio titles while others

do the writing—for a small percentage of the total take. Meanwhile, the Commies grew positively lyrical over

Author Hammett's refusal, dn’

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to answer questions in court.

could ‘have been paid than the headlines: “DASHIELL FINEST STORY. “Author Himself Is Hero in Refusal to be Stoolie.” As mentioned before, it's difficult to analyze the Hammetts and Chaplins,

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COMMIES, it turns out, can be awfully choosy about where they go to prison. They don't expect to be sent to just any old pen. It's gotta be cool and modern and conveniently located. So the CP's furious because the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to give specially favored treatment to Eugene Dennis and his six co-bosses who did not jump bail. “It is a brutal; gruesome picture,” says Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, ong of the 21 indicted. : " Dennis and John Gates, Daily Worker editor, went to Atlanta; Irving Potash to Leavenworth in Kansas; John Williamson to Lewisburg, Pa. “Thi is an act of sadistic

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ing to Miss Flynn. “Atlanta and Leavenworth are hell-holes of old prisons, far away from families and calculated to make it difficult to see their loved ones.

“Sending Dennis and Gates

to Atlanta Prison is a political act of reprisal against those in prison for those who are not. They are to be held in dungeons as hostages. This will fool no intelligent worker." Sending Irving Potash ‘to a barren, horrible place, out on the hot prairies of Kansas,” a “hell-hole of a prison,” says Liz; “isa threat to progressive

labor.” > » » » IIES fed behind the Iron Curtain: The U. 8, Army is breeding

“murderous bacteria” on a landing craft near the island of Kodyéto off the Korean Coast, says the June 1 issue of “For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy.” This is the Cominform Bulletin published in Bucharest, the final authority of the world Coms munist movement. According to this newest Red fantasy, a medical team of 38 American scientists, “criminals of bacteriological warfare” are using captured 8 mane as guinea pigs; alse “torturin and’ as AL riaoser hy us 2 Bundroa* :

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