Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1951 — Page 22

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. Since the Korean War started, we have shut off the direct shipment of arms and scarce materials to Communist countries, But up to now we have continued to be painfully soft about the loose way some of our Allies giving: material aid and comfort to, the enemy. . = /f

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enough, directly and indirectly, through our Allies, through so-called neutrals, through our own laxity. This bill makes it mandatory that we shut off any - kind of help to any nation, friendly, neutral or unfriendly, which supplies the Russian bloc with “arms, ammunition,

implements of war and atomic-energy materials.”

In addition, the bill gives the President power to shut off help to any country doing any kind of business with the Communist countries. But the President may make an exception, if no war or strategic materials are involved, providing he is persuaded that depriving any country of aid would be “clearly detrimental to the

security of the United States.” # & =»

THAT'S what the bill is all

Lig S which provoked Congress to act. -

There may be some delicate guestions involved in any program to erect an iron wall against the flow of trade to Iron Curtain countries. But those questions become academic in the face of the peril now faced by

the free world.

about—the security of

We are in a fight, on many fronts, with Soviet aggression. We have no choice except to defend ourselves. On that basis, it is imperative that we give the Communists

- the back of our hand at every opportunity.

they have been doing to us—often and hard.

Scandal at West Point Al THE way up to President Truman,

military command has been stunned by

at West Point.

That's what

the country’s the scandal

Ninety cadets, most or all of them in the upper classes, have been fired from the country’s top military school for cribbing the answers to examination questions. Bad eggs are found in any basket. From time to time, West Point has expelled one or two cadets for violating the strict code of honor which has been the backbone of the

institution for 150 years.

» But Tever before has such a wholesale dismissal been

carried out.

It is a smirch which West Point will be a long time living down, although it will make for a more respected

and wholesome institution in the long run.

For West Point is the builder of officers. When the lives of millions of Americans in the Armed Forces depend on the military leadership, there can be no compromise with

tavegrity, character and ability.

WHETHER or not the football team, as reported, has been “wiped out,” may be a popular highlight of the scandal. But it is incidental to the purpose of the drastic action taken by the West Point administration and high Army command.

Except that the implication of so many football players,

who are described as the ringleaders in this mass cheating, leads to thé suspicion that the Army's extraordinary emphasis on football in recent years adds at least a shade of

background to what has happened.

Stellar football teams may be considered a stimulant to student morale, but a system which recruits cadets primarily for their athletic ability is a system at conflict with

the purposes of the institution. By breaking this scandal and revealing it

to the public,

the West Point superintendent and the Army high command

accented their own courage and integrity.

The Man in the Middle

N this welfare crisis that's shaking Indiana there's one

man for whom we feel a lot of sympathy. That's Governor Henry Schricker.

We suspect he's getting more heat than anybody. We can imagine the frantic calls from local welfare officers, from needy old folks, and others who depend on public charity to live that must be pouring in on him. We can sort of visualize his own worry about the situation that confronts Indiana, because he’s a man prone to look at any problem in the light of the human beings involved in it. And, of course, Gov. Schricker is not in the slightest degree .to blame for whatever happens. He's done every-

thing in his power to keep this dispute from crisis stage.

We're pretty sure he doesn't approve of

reaching this

hiding public

business behind a veil of secrecy. We doubt if he”thinks much more highly of the federal law that’s at the bottom

of all this than many of the rest of us. do.

But there's a

very practical question staring him in the face, namaly :

“Where's the money coming from?”

That's a question. that's going to bother the tax-payers state, too, and the people waiting for their relief

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oA dy : 3 a MR. EDITOR: &, =! : Now that the Legion's State Convention is past, perhaps we of Indianapolis can settle back to normal. : Some may think I am anti-Legion for saying what I have to say. “ This is far from the truth. I know for a fact the Legion has in the past and at present is doing a great work for the,good of the nation. It, as an organization, has\earned the respect and support of all loyal Americans.

WALLA WALLA, Wash.— Romeo A. Martin failed to come in from centerfield at a game in Kennewick, Wash. He was a member of the Washington State Penitentiary team.

somehow worm their way into such organizations which certainly reflects on all, making them appear to be a bunch of nit-wits, drunks and law violators. Such as throwing objects from hotel windows on those below, men and women. openly drinking on the streets, especially on Sunday then tossing their empty cans and bottles on the streets. . -

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LET Mr. Average Citizen of Indianapolis even look like he wants to drink on the streets and he finds himself in jail or on the state farm. Just who do Mayor Bayt and Police Chief Q:Neil think these hoondiums are that such un-

A baseball team which hails . from Walla Walla Is shy a centerfielder all at once. : The gent could pound the ball in manner gala, And at the same time was no slouch on bunts.

But someone hit a long, long drive to center, A chance our agile player couldn't flout. No fielder ever chased’a ball :

“intenter,” ~~ lawful acts should be condoned? And so for him it proved an Could it be the gréat Mayor had November easy—“out.” © in mind? If this is a sample of law enforce8» ment under the present administration, then : is returned +o power in NoMAYBE our fast-stepping 03 Delp us if it is returne P ;

y vember, fade-away artist's name goes

hand-in-glove, but he should not be confused with either Pepper Martin or Romeo Montague. The Old Pepper Pot was a terrific base-runner in his day. But even he never attempted to steal home from centerfield. As for the Romeo of the Verona All Stars — he never really got to first base. Even if his career hadn't been cut short before he hit the bigtime, the chances are he'd be waiting for Julie yet. (Some say the guy just wasn't any good in a pinch.) Imagine any young fellow needing a ladder to make a “play.” The Walla Walla wizard knew better than to stage any balcony scenes or grandstand plays. Like Fred Astaire, he simply figured out a few quick steps of his own. Of course you can't condone the prisoner's base action in trying to make a home-run when everybody was off guard. Or vice versa. That sort of thing never makes a hit. It's singularly unfair. Smacks too much of double-dealing. Even so, the Walla Walla wanderer could still be a triplethreat man, if he is apprehended by fall. Provided, of course, Washington State Fen has a football team. In which case, Ole Speedy might come to'a good end. Nothing ever seems to stop him. Although they could try a blocking guard. Meantime, we'll bet Bill Shakespeare is getting a terrible misquoting all over the Evergreen State. As warden, guards and state cops split the air with: “0, Romeo, Romeo!

the co-operation and win good will of all our citizens it is high time they clean their own house and make the average citizens glad to have had them in our midst instead of thanking God they're gone. -—Arthur M. Bowman, 26 S. Capitol Ave.

‘Fools’ Laws’ MR. EDITOR: We see in our newspapers creaming headlines “Ewing Defies Indiana Laws.” What shall we do, fall on our faces in shame or stand up on our two hind legs and fight? Voters who sent this Republican controlled General Assembly to make our laws are asking these questions,

The Republican controlled General Assembly lawed the people out of $20 million because the majority couldn’t read or count above 10 with their shoes off. I suggest we start a kindergarten at the taxpayers’ expemse using a 6-year-old as instructor for this is the average intelligence of the Republicans we voters sent to make” our laws. In the meantime we may

Where

AUNTY COMMIE SAYS: “The District of Columbia Motor Vehicle Bureau better go easy on their plan to make it . tough for Russian Embassy attaches to get drivers’ permits, in retaliation for stringent regulations imposed on American Fair 1s fair. But, aftér all, them Reds én have to give a lot of folks the old run-around!”

Ld ” n GUESS the Defense Department knew a thing or two when

HOOSIER FORUM—"‘Legion’

“I do not agree with a word that vou say. but | will defend to the death your richt to say it.”

But, it is a crying shame that a few heels -

If the Legion and other organizations desire ;

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military . . intelligen ce. Mr. Lattimore es is, , denies charge a former newspaper executive, He and Mr. Latimore, director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, at the time were associated with the Institute of Pacific Relations which the committee is investigating. :

Last year Mr. Lattimore was named by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) as the top Soviet agent in this country. Mr. Lattimore denied the charge, and he and Mr. Barnes also denied the accusation contained in Mr. Barmine's testimony. ’ Mrs, Hede Massing, former Communist spy, testified that she had lined up two State. Department officials—Noel Field and Lawrence Duggan-—as spies. Later, she said, she and Alger Hiss, then with the State Department, quarreled over who should control Field. Hiss

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‘Too Many Drunks’

MR. EDITOR: Answer to Irate Citizen about the Legion. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the silly members of the American Legion. There

are so few who act like gentlemen. It is bad enough to see our drunks on the street at anytime, but when the members of the Legion come to town, the drunks really show up. I was on a bus Saturday night. One of these “honorable members” was on the same bus. He was so drunk he was asleep most of the time. When he got off he almost got hit by a car. It seems to me they could find a better way to spend their money and time. A glass of beer never hurts anyone if he leaves it at a glass. Why not arrest every one who is drinking too much. Help clean up the city of drunks. I wish we could hear from more of our citizens. —Another Irate Citizen.

‘Obnoxious Shorts’

MR. EDITOR: Your little note at tHe conclusion of the letter, “No Shorts in Public,” aroused my ire. Can’t a good woman express her views without having mud thrown at her? Ri I agree with this ‘“false” person 100%. It seems the women of today have lost all decency and modesty women ever possessed. Nothing is more obnoxious to me than a woman, I can't call her a lady, in shorts and halter with a cigaret in ‘her mouth. There was a time when women were respectable persons but not in this day and age. -—A Reader, City.

ROSE OF MY LIFE

ROSE of my life, if you should lose . , . your beauty and your glow ., . . it would never matter dear ... for I love you, you know . .. and if the fire of your hope . . . perchance should ever wane . . . I would kindle it anew Ls + ».and make it burn again . . . for deep within me there exists . . . a real and ardent love . . . that makes me live for you alone . . . my dearest turtledeve . . . and I want you to be assured . . . that I am yours to share . . . all your joys and all your sorrows . . . gloomy skies or fair . . . and so it is, rose of my life + «+ « when your hair turns to snow . . . you will bloom more radiant ., , . for I love you, you know. --By Ben Burroughs.

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Both Houses

SEN. TOM CONNALLY (D.

‘© 'Tex.), chairman of the Fbreign

Relations Committee, cmcked down on the Economic Qo-Op-

tory. His criticism came 'during discussion of a request for $375 million to provide economic assistance to Asia and the Pacific Ares. “The United States can't support the whole world and remain solvent,” Sen. Connaly told ECA Administrator Wiliam C. Foster. “You were put in to take care of Europe. Now you're chasing out to South. east Asia.” In the House, Rep. James Richards (D. 8. C.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, called for a reduction of $700 million in the $8.5 billion foreign aid bill. He said the reduction could be made without, hampering the program.

House

THE Foreign Affairs Committee cleared to the floor a mild resolution ¢ondemning Czechoslovakia for the imprisonment of American reporter William N. Oatis on phony spy charges. But some members demanded .a much stronger resolution than the committee had approved. After considerable wrangling Democratic leaders deferred until next

week a final vote on the resolu--

‘tion. At that time efforts will

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Appropriations ANOTHER appropriations bill—the third—was returned to- Conference Committee because the House refused to change its method of cutting personnel. The House insists that only one-fourth of em-

increasing, Defense Secretary

GHANCES of global war are

George Marshall told an Ap! propriations Subcommittee. He

Pace disclosed that the Army plans to call 430,000 men into the service within the next year. Most of them would replace reservists.

Baseball :

TY COBB led off for the baseball industry as a subcomse mittee began hearings to deter mine whether baseball comes under the antitrust laws. Mr, Cobb said the reserve clause, which binds a player to remain with a team until it disposes of him, was necessary to baseball. So did other baseball leaders.

Tyrus fr 1 Cobb « « « baseball needs it. Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. Ny Y.), subcommittee chairman, predicted at least two more major leagues—one on the West Coast, the other in the Southwest.

President

PRESIDENT Truman named Adm. William M. Fechteler, commander of the Atlantio ie late Adm, Forses: Sharman Naval operafions. -

Controls

THE FRESIDENT signed the controls renewal bill, but said it would lead to higher

prices. He said he would ask Congress to strengthen the ‘new law, °

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Capehart and Truman At Odds on New Bill

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), who chairmanned the special Basing-Point Committee in the GOP 80th Congress, controlled the time for proponents of a new measure dealing with

the basing-point Taw when it passed the Senate this week 42 to 34. Should the House approve the Senate. measure, the-senior #¥ Senator from § Indiana could § have something to debate with President Truman about in addition to price controls. For the President is fully expected to veto this bill, just as he did the basing-point law which came from the Capehart committee and was passed over that veto. This latest bill, which Sen. Capehart championed deals with price discrimination. It provides that “good faith” be accepted as a defense to a charge of price discrimination in restraint of trade and establishment of monopoly. Backers of the bill said it will end business uncertainties over price cuts made in good faith to meet a competitor's low price. The administration view is that it will wreck the

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anti-trust laws and permit big business firms to ruin many

small competitors. It was on

this basis that opponents of the measure sought to amend it. They were defeated. » = ” SEN. CAPEHART repeatedly referred to one section of the bill in an effort to calm their fears. It reads: “Provided, that a seller shall not be deemed to have acted in good faith if he knew or should have known that the lower price or more extensive services or facilities which he met were in fact unlawful.” This sounds like work” for lawyers. Sen. Russell B. Long (D. La.) asked If trying to prove that the companies involved had not acted in “good faith” would not be an impossible burden, He cited a Standard Oil of Indiana case as being the one which brought on the bill and said: “In this case would not the Federal Trade Commission, in its effort to protect the smalle er merchants, be in the posi tion of having to prove, first, that the price of the Red Ine dian Co. was an unlawful price; and, in addition that the Stand-

ard Oil Co. should have known the fact?”

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” EJ » SEN. .CAPEHART said he didn’t think so and then yield-

ed up the remaining time for debate.

Previously Sen. Capehart had this.to say regarding the Standard Oil of Indiana case:

“The Standard Oil Co, would have to prove that it acted in good faith. The burden of Proof would be upon the Standard Oil Co., under the proposed law. The Standard Ofl Co, of Indiana certainly knows the laws of the land. It certainly knows what it can do and what it cannot do 80 far as competition is concerned. 5 n » pe A “I AM not saying that it would not try to get away with something or that it would try to get away with something. But the point is that it could never make me or the Senator or any judge believe that it did not know the law, and that it did not know the net effect of what it might do in Detroit or anywhere else. That is why we placed in the bill the last five lines, which to my mind protect small business and big business and make the posed law worthwhile the bill does is simply to clear. up in the mind of everyone in America what he can do and

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