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estion for Mr. Nehru . 1 [IER NEHRU of India has not co-operated with the * 7 United Nations in its efforts to settle the dispute between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two countries to the brink of war. “But Mr. Nehru has been free with his advice on a - matter of much less legitimate concern to him-—the war settlement between the United States and Japan. Mr. Nehru's country was saved from eventual subjugation by Japan because Japunese aggression was defeated by the might of American arms. The present government of India was not then in existence and India played a small part in the war, and that only as a reluctant auxiliary of the British Empire. : Yet’ India’s premier not only wants the Japanese peace t--aty redrafted in accordance with his views, but also ¢ esumes to name the signatories to that document. One of his nominees is Red China, which was not at war with J “un, Another is the Soviet Union, which was in the war for three days, and has ignored an invitation to participate in the peace conference. Needless to say, Russia will not be guided by Mr. Nehru's advice in this matter. Nor will the United States accede to the demand regarding Red China. Indeed, it is ¢ matter of small moment whether India itself is represented at the San Francisco conference. Premier Nehru could make a substantial contribution to world order by sitting down at the table with the Premier of Pakistan and settling the Kashmir controversy k-fore that situation gets beyond control. At the moment Mr. Nehru seems determined to start a new war in Asia before the last one has been settled.

Smears in Politics ARYLAND'S new Senator, John M. Butler, and that rough man of Congress, Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, have been roundly spanked by nine of their colleagues for the kind of campaign they ran last year against - former Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland. oe - . The Senate Rules Committee, 9 to 3, has approved a report which says the Butler campaign organization violated Maryland election law in several respects, But the main complaint seems to. be based on a tabloid throw-away put out by the Butler headquarters, showing Mr, Tydings and Earl Browder, notorious Communist, in the same picture. The picture, of course, was a phony—it was a “composite” job, and said so, in fine prnit.

» # THIS WAS a spectacular campaign and Mr. Tydings, an old warhorse in the Senate, was badly defeated. So badly defeated that it is doubtful if the propaganda against him, in however bad taste, had much of an effect. The issue was the whitewash joo Mr. Tydings did in the investigation of the Amerasia case by a committee he headed. Maryland voters, like those elsewhere, are smart enough to debunk innuendo, pure mudslinging and the reckless charges which characterize so many election campaigns. They also are smart enough to know a real issue when ‘they see one. And they had one in Mafyland. For the Tydings committee brushed off a chance to crack open the Amerasia case, a case in which there were strong suspicions of a “fix"” after important, secret docu- ° meénts were stolen from government files. For that, the Maryland voters unseated Mr. Tydings.

w 8 - u o CAMPAIGN tactics of the ‘despicable ‘backstreet’ type,” as the Rules Committee calls the Butler propaganda, are inexcusable in any circumstances. But politicians the country over. persist in using them in every election. If the, Rules Committee can clean up this kind of behavior by the changes in the law it has suggested, more power to it. But let it not imply that the Maryland voters were taken in by such irrelevant ridicule.

Paying, Always Paying UR PRINCIPAL statistician, the Census Bureau, is telling us something most of us know—if we've been feeling our wallets lately. The Census Bureau says government-—federal, state and local-—last year took away $360 for every person in the country, man, woman or child.

Of course, everybody didn't pay that much. It's an

average figure. The breadwinners, on the whole, paid a lot more There are two striking facts about this simplified statisti~

One is that nine years ago, just as we were getting well into World War II, the comparable figure was only $171. In nine years, the cash outlay for government has more than doubled. @

THE OTHER stunning fact is that Uncle Sam has been hogging an increasing proportion of the tax collections. He took T0 per cent of the total last year, according to the Census Bureau, : State and local governments, in some instances, have been increasing taxes this year. But the federal government expects to collect, in the fiscal vear which began July 1, $7 billion or $8 billion more than all government collected last year. : Such statistics will get worse and worse until the public—or somebody-—convinces government officials, especially those in Washington, that there is a difference between necessary spending and spending just for the hell of it.

Give Martin ‘A’ for Effort

HE Internal Revenue Code allows tax deductions for property losses not covered by insurance, if caused by “fires, storms, shipwreck or other casualty.” : > When Martin Rosenberg's house suffered £1800 worth of termite damage in 1047, he decided the law covered his loss and so deducted the item from his-income tax. The U. 8. Tax Court disallowed the claim. It said sev- . eral cases established that “other casualty” had to be a _ “sudden casualty.” ; : We are left with the tantalizing thought that if the termites just a little speedier at their work, Mr. Rosen-

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LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager

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ASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Congress | paring to make another try at abolishing the Electoral 3 ? This’is the antique institution left over from the days of the founding fathers by which we elect Presidents and Vice Presidents. Under this system, groups of “electofs” meet weeks after each presidential election in their state capitals and cast a solid bloc of Electoral Collage votes for the candidate who carried their state. - This system is held to. be obsolete and useless, and “dangerous” because of the possibility

ITUTION . . By Kerriit McFarland : SON s Aims Another Death Blow At Electoral College

Eatin’ High on the Hog

that the nation-wide popular choice for’ President might not get a majority of the Electoral College votes. But it is set up in the 154-year-old Constitu‘tion and an amendment must be ratified by 36 Jf the 48 states. Action to set this process in motion has been started in both Houses of Congress. The Senate Judiciary Committee has recommended to the Senate a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to erase the Electoral College. The House Judiciary Committee has voted

JOHN Q. TAXPAYER . . . By Frederick C. Othman Sounds Like the Colonel Caught A Big Sucker—On Dry Land

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—The question seems to be whether a federal official on govern-

“ment business with expenses paid ‘by us taxpay-

ers has any right taking time to catch himself a fish. I'm a generous fellow, myself. Let him waste a few days at the x end of a fishing pole, is" my theory. This should make him feel better and maybe he'll work Larder for us when he gets back to the office. A rumber of Congressmen disagree. And that's one of the reasons” they've got an Air Force officer, Lieut. Col. Leon P. Howell, on the hot seat now. They claim aumerous other things that he fished when he should have béen serving us citizens, The (Colonel started out denying every-

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thing. Said his enemies in San Antonio, Tex, were trying to besmirch his good character, These enemies uséd to work for him when he was manager of the Veterans Administration regional oftice in San Antone. They charged him with assorted monkeyshines, mostly on the tricky-track side, and the select committee of Rep. Olin E, Teague (D. Tex.) threw the book at him I'he Congressmen figure that if numerous brass hats are accepting favors from business men, working out deals to favor their friends and wasting their time besides, then the cost to the taxpavers may be horrendous First they took up the house that Howell bought in 1946 when he was veterans boss in Houston. They said he paid only $13 600 for it when other veterans in the same subdivision were forced to pay $17,000 for the same kind of bungalow

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“After smelfing Hom frying fish, I'll never semplain-igei. about s and tackle!" :

The Colonel, who was clad in tan seersucker mufti and a smile, said he was stung on that house. The builder never did finish it. No won: der he got it cheap. And could he help it if inflation enabled him to ‘sell the place a year later at $19.000?

80 Col.-Howell moved to San Antonio, where the Congressmen charged him with doing assorted favors for one of his ‘pals, J.-T. Hord, a retired Army captair® They said the Colonel helped the Captain get disabilitwpay they didn't believe he deserved. Untrue, Col. Howell insisted.

The Congressmen also accused him of helping Hord stick the government on pay for GI students in a string of schools that Hord established in Texas. The Colonel said he did no such ‘thing. The evidence was complicated and I'm glad I'm not the judge making a decision on it, The matter of the fish was more easily understood. S

A Little Fishing

REP. TEAGUE had a schedule of the Colonel's travels on government business. This showed, for instance, that he and his wife left San Antonio on Mar. 14, 1949, in a government sedan for an inspection of veterans housing. They returned four days later. The Congressman’s document said they spent 57': hours with friend Hord in Rockport and only two hours in three other towns, : On Aug. 17, Howell flew to Brownsville. Tex.. on another official inspection trip and, according to the charges, devoted four days as a contestant in the Rio Grarde Valley fishing rodeo. Again in May, 1950, he spent his time on an official journey fishing at Port Isabel and in August did a little more fishing. This time he won the championship in the sailfish division of the International Fishing Tournament His fishing. the Colonel said he'd have to explain later. He said {t would take comsiderable time

NEW YORK, Aug. 11—The Civil Rights Congress, the Communist Party's bail fund and legal defense affiliate, ts ‘one of the worst frauds and most mischievous fronts the Reds ever palmed off on the American publie, Yet. over five years’ ence, it has succeeded in:

ONE-—FEnsnaring and exploiting an astonishing assortment of prominent persons, including “Protestant bishops, judges, university professors, movie stars, lawyers and Henry A. Wallace. TWO-—Tapping rich donors for funds, including the Woolworth 5 and 10-cent store fortune. And, THREE--Pulling the wool over Uncle Sam's eyes so the government missed the boat by

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the Lobbying Act. This last Commie achieve-

York World-Telegram and Sun, a S8gcripps-Howard newspaper, today, The Civil Rights Congress in 1947 registered under the Lobbying Liaw and filed statements of receipts and exenditures with the clerk of the ouse of Representatives. ss 5 La 2 A QUERY by this newspaper disclosed that’ since 1947, the CRC failed to file a single sub-

to take similar action ahd the House resolution probably will be officially reported within a week or 10 days. Both resolutions propose to keep the electoral vote, but “purely as an automatic counting device.” There would be no meetings of electors after each presidential election. The electoral votes would be divided among the candidates in direct proportion to the popular vote of each in the state. Sh Each state would continue to be allotted one electoral vote for each Senator and Congressman. As it is now, a President and Vice President are elected by the House of Representatives in case of a tie vote in the Electoral College. Under the plan proposed in Congress, both the Senate and House would take part in decid-

ing the election, but only if no candidate re- .

ceived 40 per cent or more of the total electoral vote. In that case, Congress would choose between the candidates with the highest votes. This plan was approved last year by the Senate, 64 to 27. But it was defeated in the

House, 210 to 134. Sponsors hope to push it through both houses

“this time.

Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.), sponsor of the present resolution, said he would favor holding up Senate action until the House passed the resolution. It takes a two-thirds vote in both houses to submit the Constitutional amendment to the

states.

The resolution had a bare two-thirds in the Senate in 1950. It was shy 156 votes in the House. : o In urging the new system on the Senate, the Judiciary Committee sald the Electoral College “has never functioned-as contemplated by the framers of the Constitution,” and that all reason for it “has long since disappeared.” It has’ “degenerated into a mere rubber stamp, the Judiciary Committee said, and an “Inaccurate” one at that, since it does not prefect the ular vote in any state. the states don’t even print the names of the electors on the ballot. > The Judiciary Committee said’ the proposed dystem would discourage the present tendency in both parties to nominate candidates from states with big electoral votes. “The counting procedure,’ the committee said, “would be legally uniform in-all the states. No longer would millions of voters be disfranchised and their votes appropriated to the candidate against whom they had voted. Every vote for President would count.” The proposed amendment, the committee added, would eliminate any possibility of the popular choice failing to obtain a majority oi the electoral votes. This has happened three times in American history. In addition to Sen, Lodge, 27 other members of the Senate signed up as co-sponsors of the Senate resolution, The House resolution was introduced by Rep. Ed Gossett of Wichita Falls, Tex., who since has resigned from Con-

gress.

LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins Johnston on Another Hot Spot

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Economic Stabilizer Krie Johnston is on a hot spot over the

“new pay-control policy recommended to him last

week-'by the wage stabilization board. The question before Mr. Johnston is whether to risk the danger of a new inflationary spiral inherent in the Wage Board plan, or to rely on price controls under the new law which the Truman administration condemns. Will that law work well enough to keep prices fairly stable? Mr. Johnston's authority extends over control of prices as well as wages, and the new policy gets into both fields.

Higher Pressure THE “ESCALATOR” plan adopted unanimously by the 18-member Wage Board—labor and management joining with the public members—would make it certain that wages in general will rise with increases in the cost of living. Higher wages, an important part of production costs, would be expected sooner or later to create pressure for. higher prices—thus boosting living costs, which is likely to give another upward shove to wages. . : . Wage Board Chairman George W. Taylor said, in explaining the new plan, that if prices were kept from rising there would be very little movement in wage levels. So it all depends on prices, and some authorities say that would put the whole problem strictly up to Price Stabilizer “Mike” DiSalle if Mr. Johnston chooses this fork of the urmcertain economic

road.

‘Unfortunate Statement’

MR. EDITOR: An open letfer to Chief O'Neal: I have just read, with astonishment, your statement. on Page 3 of The Indianapolis Times, Aug. 3. It does not seem to me that you are expressing the opinion: of a large share of the fine citizens of your city when you hint that the deportment of the soldiers of our division has caused your police extra trouble, > : What sort of trouble have the soldiers of this command been getting into after 1 a. m., that they could not get into before 1 a. m.? You also state that our soldiers are and have been the victims of unfortunate liaisons with “floozies.” I have been in your city many times in the past 11 months. I have been in_mgny places in your city. I have yet to meet a young lady that I would termi a “flpozie.” Perhaps I have been overwhelmed by the kindness and consideration afforded by the fair damsels in Indianapolis. However, I think that your statement is an unfortunate slur on the characters of the young ladies in your community. Besides, we who are in a command position here like to think that our men are old enough and wise enough in the ways of the world and in the customs of the service that they would not of their own volition violate the rules of good conduct. A. soldier's free time is his own, and God knows some of them deserve a lot more than they receive. —James NM. Hess, 1st. Lt, Inf, Camp Atterbury.

‘Keep 'Em Red 'n’ Cream’ MR. EDITOR:

I see by the papers that Indianapolis Railways is going to change the color of its transit vehicles from red to green. I would like to-make a protest. IT have been in several other cities including New York and Chicago and nowhere have I seen a color scheme on transit vehicles I liked as well as Indianapolis Railways’ red and cream In the first place I don't even like green. In the second place I think red ifs a much more

PARTY LINE . . .By Frederick Woltman

John Q. Public Duped by Commie Congress

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Hoosier Forum—‘Gls in Town’

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

It was learned that even the management members of the Wage Board voted for the new plan, contending that it offered the best chance of giving a fair break to employees if prices kept going up. The AFL members, whose unions do not deal in escalators as much as CIO unions, had doubts about it, but did not resist. The public members were for it from the start of the lengthy board discussions.

Objections

THE NEW plan was not fully made public because of possibility that Mr. Johnston might not approve all details of it.- It proviles that downward fluctuations in living costs “need not be reflected in reductions of wages below those in effect” at the time unions "an mployers adopt an escalator provision. This disposed of objections by some of the labor spokesmen. One question that has been raised concerns the effect of general adoption of the escalator plan on tHe traditional methods of wage bargaining between unions and management. The present emergency may last for. years and require continuance of controls. Some authorities have forecast a possible 10 years. Will an ‘automatic escalator hahit” be formed? Another question is the effect on existing long-term labor contracts of a proposed section. It provides that contracts which do not contain the escalator clause may be opened every six months to adjust wages to living costs. y

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cheery looking color than green anyway. And cheer is what we need more of these days and times. ; So, please, you fellows out there on W. Wash-

ington St., won't you reconsider and keep the . . bright looking red and cream instead of chang*

ing to that dreary green? —A Straphanger, City.

What Others Say—

PSYCHOLOGICALY we (Britishers) don’t seem to be cut out as hotel DI) Letars, There is a feeling that there is sometHing humiliating in taking in lodgérs.—Lord Silkin, of British House of Lords. . '

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY THE Democratic National Committee has long been suffering from an epidemic of Boyles.

o Bo b IF THAT Senate Ethics Committee wants to do something practical, it should recommend lie detectors for the 1952 cam-

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IN FIGURING family budgets, it is hard to estimate just how much taxes goes for keeping butter off the table. os

THE COMMUNIST Youth for Peace rally in East Berlin used nothing but wellaged war cries.

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KIPLING revised—" Oh stay away from Suez, where the best is getting worse.”

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NEW prosecutors usually ‘“quietly” begin an investigation on Page One. o> oo oe WITH high prices and high taxes, the capitalistic system should be safe—you have to be a capitalist to eat.

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ment was turned up by the New

sequent report, And nothing has been done about it. Meanwhile, the CRC's lobby-

ing drives in behalf of the Communist Party have been stepped up. Directed at pressuring Congress and the White House, they've been implemented by petition campaigns, mass letter-writing and tele-gram-sending, a constant flood

.-0f publicity releases, visits by

delegations to Washington and picket lines. At the same time a bail fund of more than $870,000 was raised. A. Justice Department spokesman passed the buck to the Congress: He said that it was not up to his department to. police the Lobbying Act, that it was up to Congress to request Justice to act and that no such request had heen forthcoming. Hence, no action. 80 now, after posting Communists' bail for years, the CRC refuses to help tha Department of Jusiice apprehend thé four Red chiefs who fled their prison sentences. It took an $80.000 loss in bail money. To avoid revealing the names of the bail fund contributors,

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its four trustees, led by mil-

lionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, went to prison for .con-

tempt. At this stage, they seem

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willing to stay there indefinite-

‘ly rather than co-operate with

the government. sv 8 THIS OPEN defiance of the courts may come as a surprise to the prominent and respectable initiators, sponsors and petition signers who gave aid and comfort to the Civil Rights Congress. Many-of them were probably innocents. A check should have shown the organization was a fraud at its origin, its name a misnomer. CRC was set up in April, 1046, in Detroit at a so-called Congress on Civil Rights. Its

purported aims included ‘‘safe-

guarding all democratic rights, combating discrimination, fighting domestic fascism.” On the initiating and sponcommittee were Col Carlson, - of Carlson's Raiders fame, John Garfield, Methodist Bishops James C. Baker and Francis J, MeConnell, Norman Corwin, the radio dramatist since attached to the United Nations and Ed-

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"ward G. Robinson. Also Sen, ,

Glen H, Taylor (D, Ida.) and Rep. A. Clayton Powell Jr. (D. N.Y.) Bs 8 8 8 ‘THE list was heavily larded with

Communists or tellow-

travelers, such as ex-Rep. Vito Marcantonio. One money contribution

came from the Woolworth fortune, via Frasier McCann, cousin of Barbara Hutton and grandson of F. W. Woolworth, founder of the chain, In 1035, he had shared a $13 million inheritance with two sisters Vincent 8heehan, the writer, became a .vice chairman; and Howard Da Silva and the Rev. William Howard Melish vice presidents of the New York branch, Despite its name, the Civil Rights Congress,. it soon became evident, was interested only in protecting the ‘civil rights” of Communists and didn't give a hoot for anycne unsympathetic to communism. Apart from deporiation proceedings, the CRC supplied hail or attorneys or both for virtually every Commie or sympathizer who ran athwart the law. Among them were Eugene Dennis, Leon Josephson, George Marshall, himself, the Holly~ wood 10, 11 directors of the socalled Joint Anti-Fascist Refu«

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