Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1951 — Page 20

in Prague,

HOUSE Foi Afr Gite bs proved the fake trial and conviction, in “of William N. Oatis, the Associated Press

experts here. The State Department fant saying to American businessmen: “You can’t buy any more stuff that. the Czechs.” But the effect is practically

breaking off.the The depagement made desatiment sasply is which igre | aman to sell commodities here for one-half the duty spoked on products from . countries nat. included in : te agreement.

ALTOGETHER, 30 countries were in the but Czechoslovakia is the only Iron country. (The agreement was made prior to the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948.) calling off the agreement, so far as Crone is concerned, the State Department, in effect, is doubling the duty on everybought from that country. t means the price

go up. And since we buy practically nothing

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We buy more anything else. We also . relatively large quantities of glass products (glassware, beads, ete.) costume Jeweiry and hops (for beer), But similar products an be bought elsewhere, or

Thom Be harerages have been buying we have been ro a This 1s a relatively small item, but it will do for {llustration. We have been buying assorted fruit cordials and liqueurs from the Czechs—strawberry, raspberry, apricot, peach, blackberry and cherry cordials, anisette, creme de menthe and creme de cacao. All 2 Wich tan be bought elsewhere, As a matter of fact, 3 buy much more in

The Ball and Chain

favored-nation” lst, meaning duties on imports fromy that country are half the duties which now will be imposed on Czech products, So the Czechs probably can't compete when the tariff on their products doubles. 4 The only item in this line the Czechs supply which apparently is not available elsewhere is slivowitz. This is a plum brandy which originated in Poland but also is made by the Czechs. Under the strict controls imposed by the Commerce Department, U. 8. exports to Czechosldvakia graduaily have been reduced to a

de e Pact will Cut Dollar Flow To Commies

negligible amount. In May, last month for -

which the reports are in, we sent them only $66,000 worth of stuff—mostly stains,

But there are no import controls and the

By Talburt

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Czechs have been selling us commodities at the rate of more than $20 million a year, right up until recently, (June and July figures on imports are not yet compiled.) * & 0 #

AMERICAN dollars are important anywhere, and the Czechs, no less than other pationals,

are anxious to get their hands on as many as °

possible. According to the free Czechs in exile here, they use these dollars mainly to buy from other countries the materials necessary to the buildup of their war strength—iron ore from Sweden is a major item. 3 The end effect of the new State Department policy, it appears, will be to deprive the Czechs of most, or all, of these dollars,

Hoosier Forum:

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right

the committee picked out the least specific, the Tos Prong, of 0 x muon Deve \ It is a slap-on-the-wrist kind of resolution. It uses paying Ee ie ala’ Department's dé 4 strong words to deplore the imprisonment of Mr. Oatis. But cision 19 break oft rig Sonesesions gu. Caseh b it doesn’t propose the stiff retaliatory action Feccuimende products, ne rte Thank : uying from Jig Tom gl Ce. ih # x uproar over the jprisonment of Willian ¥. - yz OATS ap Rg gis the ey yng do a at : Sewspapere at this country. e was Ame - jailed because the Czech Communists—correctly, up to now , CHINA . .. By Roger Stuart -

thought the; could get away with it. i cough thn an Amer U. S. Educates

from Czechoslovakia that we can't buy just as well somewhere else, there would be no post

/ It is enough that an American citizen, going about his legitimate duties, should be subjected to gross indignities.

to say it."—Voltaire,

ill J. P. Courts?’

MR. EDITOR: Last week Judge Alex M. Clark of Indian apolis Municipal Court 4, attacked the Justice of Peace Courts of Indiana and advocated that they be abolished and their cases assigned to Municipal Courts and Magistrate Courts. Judge Clark contends that the J. P. Court system set up by the Constitution no longer serves any useful purpose to justify its existe ence. If he is referring only to Marion County that is one thing. If he is referring to the entire state that is quite ‘another. Let the judges tell us how many rural counties have available Magistrate Courts.

Wesssaasssensnaressnenet

Let him

It is enough that the rights of one American individual

were trampled and reviled. But much more is at stake.

The vaunted power and prestige of the American nation Common justice, as we know it, was

were made a joke.

Red Students

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Taxpayers are footing the bill for hundreds of Chinese students, engineers and scientists in this country whose political beliefs and attitudes toward the United

tell us how many rural counties have Municipal Courts which are ready to absorb the business of the J. P. Courts. The Circuit Courts of most of theke counties are already loaded. Shall their dockets be congésted still further by dumping all the cases of J. P. Courts into them

made a mockery. The long arm of the American government, traditionally respected for its protection of legitimate American interests around the world, was defied. The public and Congress have been rightfully outraged.

States are undetermined. Some after accepting U. 8. financial aid, are returning t8& Red China to serve the Communist government. The State Department, which administers a program providing for the expenses of about’

« + + » minor cases which will delay adjudication of important cases?

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THE judge declares the cost in Municipal Courts or Magistrates Courts will be less. Less

” ” » ; . ” . IN THAT light, the mistreatment of Mr. Oatis and the other insults heaped upon Americans by the Czech Communists call for something stronger than laments and

cautious diplomatic complaint. _ |

The State Department tried all that, ‘and got a snarling

rebuff from the Communists.

Now the department has. taken A much. more effective - : rail trade with

ftep. “It “has moved, in “effect, to Czechoslovakia.

There are few things the Czechs can use more advantageously, in building up their end of the Soviet war hine, than American dollars. ‘Through Commerce Department controls, we have cut off direct export of waruseful materials to all the Russian satellites. dollars are just-as useful-—because they buy war materials

elsewhere.

The State Department's step will have a much more signal effect on the Czech Communists than harsh words.

A CONGRESSIONAL resolution doesn’t compel the Executive Branch of the government to carry out its recomBut an expression of the sense of Congress

mendations. usually has that effect.

If Congress passes a strong, specific resolution on the Oatis case, it will spur department officials to faster and more telling action. And it will serve official notice on the Communists of the force of public opinion in this country.

Money for Arms

_ (GENERAL EISENHOWER was sent to Europe to head the rearmament drive, and Congress. should not let

him down.

The money should be appropriated to carry out the * program which has been agreed upon. Any sizable reduction in the amount needed might pull the rug from under the whole Allied effort. That must net happen. Care should be taken, however, that this money is epent for the purposes for which it is intended. Congress can and should provide sufficient safeguards to insure that. Appointment of a congressional watchdog committee might be useful in getting compliance with these conditions. The present year is likely to be the crucial period in this situation. We hold-the initiative at the moment #nd should not lose it. The Soviet governments cannot be too happy about their economic outlook and can be expected

3000 Chinese here, says it does not know how many may be Communists. A spokesman conceded, however, that some of the 658 who already have returned home since the program started late in 1949 have proved to be Reds. He said there was no way of determining the exact number. One group of U, 8.-trained Chinese, some of whom had been here for 10 years, returned last

{ nonth $o-Red Chink via Hong Kong: Traveling —

at the expense of the United States; all declared they were going to ‘serve the .people”—the Communists.

Eager to Return LEADER of the group, a graduate of the University of Michigan, told newsmen that he and hig colleagues had learned “with joy” of the “progress and reforms” now being achieved by the Reds. Each, he sald, was eager to “return to the motherland to serve the people and learn from the people.” The Chinese students still remaining in this country, like those who have left, originally came here as beneficiaries of various public and private student exchange programs which, taken together, comprise the State Department's exchange of persons program. The latter includes more than 30,000 foreign students from 125 countries currently studying on 1200 American campuses, The continuing emergency aid to destitute Chinese students was started in 1949 after China had fallen to the Communists. In that year the Economic Co-operation Administration made available to the State Department $500,000 with which. to pay for tuition, room and board and return transportation of any Chinese student who needed it. Since then, no additional Chinese have been brought here. Nevertheless, the program has been continued. Until this spring it was mandatory for these visitors to leave the country when their academic work was finished. Then Congress ‘approved legislation permitting those who did not care to go to Red China to stay here and seek employment.

Lack of Control? ALTOGETHER, 3380 individuals have been given financial help under the emergency program. The sums accorded each have varied between 8500 and $1500 a year, depending on the amount of money given them from other gources including college scholarships. Since the original ECA grant was made, Congress has voted two separate appropriations boosting the fund. The first of these amounted to $4 million and the second to $6 million. The program now has enough money to last through next year, according to the State Department. For some time there has been criticism of the lack of control of exchange students in this country, both Chinese and others. Last fall, for example, the Institute for Research in Human

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COSMETIC?

By Frederick C.- Othman

Tax Collector Sniffs at Sen-Sen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Remember in the - long, long ago when you smoked your first forbidden cigaret? And then chewed Sen-Sen in the hope of fooling your mother? This product, you may recall, came in a small envelope, price 5 cents practically anywhere, It consisted of tiny black squares that tasted spicy on your tongue. As these particles dissoI'ved they gave your breath a perfumed, licorice - like aroma which, in itself, was enough to inform vour mother you'd been up to no good. Happy day. That's why the Sen-Sen problem appealed to the dignified gentlemen of the Senate Finance ComThey‘re sentimentalists, every one. They know ap well as you and your mother that Sen-Sen {8 no cosmetic. All they've got to do now is prove this to Uncle Samuel. Lester H. Smiley, whose breath was appropriately aromatic, was the man who brought back their childhood misdemeanors to the statesmen. He represents the American Chicle Co., which makes Sen-Sen, He has devoted the last 23 years of his life to selling Sen-Sen. An interesting career it has been, too. The trouble is that the government has con-

, Sldered Sen-Sen since July 1, 1862 as an aro-

item? Many of them stopped selling Sen-Sén altogether. The big chart on Mr. Smiley's office wall, where the odor of Sen-Sen is all-prevailing, took a disastrous drop. Mr. Smiley's been whiffing Sen-Sen’s dilemma at Congress ever since.

Quite a Tale

BACK in 1949, he said, the House passed a bill giving relief to Sen-Sen. The Senate never got around to it. Now Sen-Sen’s exempted from tax in-.the bill currently before Congress and Mr. Smiley hopes, with an aromatic sigh, that the Senators will make no changes.

How Sen-Sen got to be a cosmetic on the government's books made quite a tale, as Mr. Smiley told it. Back in the horse and buggy days, when men smoked big black cigars and drank~their whisky straight, there was an enormous market in this country for breath sweeteners.

Mostly these were imported and mostly they were small pellets of highly-perfumed substance with a coating of silver-colored candy. They were sold in fancy packages at fancy prices. When this country needed money to fight the Spanish-American War it slapped a penny tax stamp on all cosmetics, including these silverplated aromatic cachous. Sen-Sen has no silver, but it remains the nearest thing in America today to a cachou. Just don't call it a cosmetic is all, Mr.’ Tax Collector.

EXPECTANT

THE man walked nervously about . .. with eyes that shone with fright . . . he looked as if he had not slept . . . a single wink all night

better justice in bigger courts.

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to the defendant perhaps, but probably more to the taxpayers. The bigger the court the more it costs to operate it. It is an advantage to the police officers and to the public generally to have a system of minor courts conveniently located in rural areas, If a state police officer or sheriff picks up a

trafic violator 20 miles from the county seat”

which would serve justice better, a local court or a trip all the way to the county seat? Which

As more convenient {or Aown marshals; 3, Ro. :

Courts or ‘county seat, courts? ™ Judge Clark contends the people would get

extent perhaps. You would expect a Cadillac to ride better than a Henry J. but more people can afford Henry Js. than Cadillacs. Furthermore, corruption in big courts is not unknown. Even federal judges have been found guilty of doing wrong. Is it not true that the. State Excise Police recently complained about the Marion County Mégistrated Courts manner of operation? “ nH

IT IS readily admitted that there are evils in the J. P. Courts. What branch of government has evil failed to invade? Does Judge Clark propase 10-abolish mayors because mayors in large cities, including one of our own state, are under a shadow of improper conduct? Does he propose to abolish the office of President because the aids of a President have peddled favors? Why is it that whenever a township official in the state goes wrong the press and officials of the state's large cities immediately cry, “abolish the office”? They make no such cry when graft or corruption stalks their own municipal government. Taken as a whole Indiana rural government, including township government, is probably less corrupt than the government of Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and Gary. Until you put your own “houses in order we question whether you are qualified to serve by self-appointment as reformers of rural government. Judge Clark complains of the fee systems. The fee schedule for rural counties has not been revised since 1913, Whose fault is that, the J. P. Courts’ or the legislature's? It is worth noting that during this period the legislatures have placed the J. P.s in large counties like Allen and Lake on salaries with allowances for clerk hire and office rent. rie a» LN

“THE proper: approach to evils of the J. P. Court system is correction not abolishment. Let the legislature establish qualification for the office. Let the legislature revise :and modernize the 30-year-old and obsoléte schedule. Let J, P. procedure be studied and rewritten by the legislature. Every dictator and despotism in history rode to power on centralization. Strong local government has been the bulwark of American liberty.

To a certain

‘Relations, after devoting considerable study to the exchange of persons program, declared that “damages to United States interests which may result from the influence of an embittered for- watar, hair eign national who returns to his own country are too lightly assessed.” The research group, whose study was made through agreement with the State Department, particularly condemned the theory that any exchanges, if left to their own devices, all even-

to do what they can to break through the barriers being e“ected against them, But they cannot do that if the Allies raintaih a united front. We cannot claim a victory in Korea, but neither can t'uss'a. And the Soviets cannot gloss over the fact that t :¢ first major Communist aggression -has been fought to a Ain till on grounds of its own choosing. That fact must

“Such does not appear to be the case,’ the instifute's repoft declared.

3/08 GLANCES . DPE

ernments where Soviet might has been accepted as Ee, omnipotent. Thanks to our initial defeats in Korea, we discovered our unreadiness to fight any kind of a war before if was too late. But our rearmament effort must not be relaxed now until we have attained a position of genuine security. That goal will not be realized until we have the strength to carry a war back to an aggressor faster and with more force than he can mount an attack against us.

By Galbraith

Egypt's Folly

THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council cannot afford to sidetrack Biitain's complaint against Egypt's blockade of the Suez Canal. Egypt contends that it is exercising the right of a belligerent in refusing to allow tankers loaded with crude oil for the refineries of Haifa to pass through the Canal lo Israel. That contention is an absurdity. . Egypt remains in a nominal state of war with Israel only because the Egyptian government won't admit to :ts people that the war was lost two years ago. The blockade is a policy of spite and cowardice which is a part of a senseless program that is disrupting the economy of the whole Middle East. : - + Israel is forced to get oil for its Haifa refineries from Venezuela because it cannot get Middle Eastern oil. That Israel because it deprives them of a profitable and

suffer from the suspension Ardy, states and nothing -

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restorative, hair dve and tooth wash. became then and has been ever since a cosmetic, This didn't much bother the Sen-Sen moguls until a few years back when the federal started taxing cosmetics cluded. The candy store owners and the cigar be provoking grave misgivings «in all of the satellite gov- tually see the good aspects of America. stand proprietors, who'd retailed Sen-Sen for said the-hell-with-it. Why should they keep special tax records for this oné nickel

matic cachou in the came class (and I quote) as every packet, enclosure containing any essence, extract, toilet

box, bottle, pot, phial or other

pomade, hair dressing, hair Sen-Sen

at 20 per cent, Sen-Sen in-

DEAR BOSS .

. he puffed upon a cigaret . Naught but smoke ., ,

was soiled must: sure confess , man I saw... was waiting for ,

the littla one be late ,

soon wilt and fade.

~—By Ben Burroughs.

By Dan Kidney

. that soon was . and didn’t even listen to . . . the folks who loudly spoke . . » his beard -was long .

. a little gift from heaven that . . . I'm sure he will adore . . Jama bit afraid. there will be nothing lett of Pop ..

. ‘his tie «and I

+ that all in all . , , this was in one awful mess ... I do suppose you've guessed by now ,

+ + this. guy . but should

. for he'll

Wake up Hoosiers. liberties, protect your local government. —Earl Dawald, Justice of Peace, Geneva

What Others Say—

PUBLISHERS don’t know from one day to the next what price they're going to pay for their raw materials and we, who work for them, bear the effects.—Samuel B. Eubanks, former

If you would protect your

executive viec president of American Newspa-

per Guild.

Hoosiers Kick Around Welfare Football

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3There are just two parties “playing: politics” with welfare payments in Indiana-—Demo-crats and Republicans, And if the so-called Jenner amendment is ever adopted by the Congress it will be because Rep. Charles A. Halleck; Rensselaer Republican, rates highly with such southern Democrats as Chairman Robert L. Doughton (N, C.) of the House Ways and Means Committee. This amendment, or the Brownson bill, would wipe out the secrecy provisions of the Social Security law and legal-

, ize the $20 million grants-in-

aid to Indiana that have been cut off by Federal Security Administrator” Oscar ' R. Ewing. ” o ” z MR. EWING's long antieipated action was deeried in ad vance on several occasions by Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.),-who twice got his amendment approved by the Sénate. He called Mr. Ewing a “bureaucratic dictator” and contended that ‘the 1951 Indiana law making welfare payments public does not violate the federal statufes as Mr. Bung ruled.

, the Jenner amendment

at once to contact Ways and Means Committee members and prod them intp action. “Jack Ewing may be a topnotch lawyer, but when he dragged in the fact that Democratic Gov. Henry F, Schricker vetoed the law and it was passed by a Republican legislature he was pointing up the politics - in this picture,” Mr. Halleck said. Democrat Mayor Phillip L. Bayt got into the act by wiring both Indiana Senators and Congressmen asking them to vote for the Jenngr amendment. This gave n. Jenner another chance to blast at Mr. Ewing, which he promptly acted upon.

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SEN. HOMER FE. CAPEHART {I PVE who has Decome the elder statesman since his re-election for a six year term last’ year, merely pointed out in replying to Mayor Bayt that he had already voted for the Jenner amendment twice and action must come in the House.

This pointed up the fact that :

wiring Sen. Jenner to. be for :

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look a point, particularly if it is obvious. With the Republican dean, Mr. Halleck, going to bat for the Jenner amendment, the two Demoerats in Congress from Indiana are saying that “Mr. Ewing could not have ruled otherwise.” They are Reps. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, and Ray Madden, Gary. The latter pounced on the Ewing ruling to point the finger of blame at Sen. Jenner, who is slated to be the GOP gubernatorial candidate next year, Ww . es ” ” “IF THE blind, aged and dependent children are made to suffer because of these funds being cut off, which was the point made by Mayor Bayt in his telegram. Sen. Jenner is to blame,” Mr. Madden said. “He controlled the 1951 Republican legislature and they

© were warned in advance that

the publicity law would be

contrary to the federal

statutes. Mr. Ewing could do nothing but’ uphold the law. But the Jenner boys were out to pull a slick trick apd now - do not’ want to face. the Son-

“and shouting that the guys who stole the melons are really running away down the road. They want the Democrats to take the blame for their dirty work.” Since Mr. Halleck saws wood and doesn’t join in such tumultuous shouting, he may not make the grade as a senatorial candidate on the Jenner ticket next year. In fact, this week Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson told a radio reporter that he understood the Indiana ticket fs to be Jenner for governor and Gene Pulliam, Indianapolis publisher, for Senator.

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