Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1951 — Page 10

3 :

Monday, Aug. 13, 1951

_G¥ee LAGOA 808 the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

phen 1. Early

‘Ste : “QTEVE," said the voice on the telephone, “I have a

Got a peneil?” : : Steve had a. pencil. And he jotted down on a piece of scratch paper, like any good reporter, the exact words of the voice on tlie phone. | These were the words: - . “The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air and all naval and military activities on the island of Oahu, principal American bases in the Hawaiian Islands.” : The time was the afternoon of Dzc. 7, 1041. The voice 1 was that of President Roosevelt, and the pencil belonged to : Stephen T. Early, Presidential press secretary, who had been lolling at home, reading the Sunday papers.

ya Sal MR. EARLY died Saturday, after a long and exciting career 48 a newspaperman and public ¢fReial, with a splash of comfortable existence as an industrial executive in his later days. > His anouncement of the Jap treachery at Pearl Harbor was only one of a long list of momentous news events which first reached the ears of the American public through the competent offices of Steve Early. Mr. Early was 61. He died of a heart attack, a fate common to many who have lived and worked in responsible positions through America's dangerous years. - Few men ever tempted this fate more delibérately and more diligently. For Steve Early was a man of prodigious and brilliant labor. He was” ao press agent. To Presidents Roosevelt and Truman he was a wise and experienced counselor, a vigilant lightener of burdens, a faithful and square-shooting friend. In the public service, he was a patriot of the first rank, a get-it-done man of whom it was rightly and often said, “Steve can get things right if anybody can.”

. . . IN DEALING with the press, he played no favorites, spoon-fed none. He employed a biting but forthright tongue on the recalcitrant and the quibblers. “I never hesitate to say exactly what I think,” he once remarked. : E And that went for Presidents, cabinet officers or newspapermen. Because of Steve Early's persistent and even irascible faithfulness to that code, the nation gained a noble and enduring service. After the tremendous job he did in carrying out unification of the Armed Services, Mr. Early was awarded the distinguished service medal. No man ever did more to

earn it.

Year of Decision GEN EISENHOWER has told members of Congress that the United States must rush the building of anti-Soviet military bastions in Western Europe or “get out’. entirely. “The sure way to get half the results at twice the cost is: to drag this program out,” he said, because Hf we can't do this job in a reasonable length of time, it can't be done and we had better get out.” That appears to be a candid estimate of the situation. Moreover, time is an important element. The free world is much better prepared for war today than it was a year ago. If the rearmament drive maintains its present momentum for even one more year the danger point may be passed. But this may be the year of decision.

ALL ELSE must be subordinated to the production of guns, tanks, planés and trained manpower. Blueprints vl not discourage an enemy attack. Only actual strength, ready for instant action, will do that. The money needed to produce this strength, both at me and abroad, should be provided with the least possible delay. But Congress can and should insist that yur money be spent only where it will actually: contribute to the rearmament effort. = Sen. Taft is prepared to vote for the entire amount requested for foreign military assistance, but he wants Congress to make a substantial reduction in the fund for foreign economic aid. That is a realistc approach to the problem. To avoid any confusion of purposes in the pending program, the Marshall Plan organization and its overgrown bureaucracy should be wiped out. The emphasis must be’ upon military assistance.

Roan”

SUCH "economie assistance as may be required from time to time in special cases can be given special treatment. But nothing should be permitted to obscure the immediate need for guns, tanks, planes and trained divisions and aviation units. ; This is of a-necessity a short-range program, because it deals with an emergency. Because it is an emergency program, it must have high priority and almost exclusive treatment until its demands have been met. When the demands of the military situation have been eatisfled it will be time enough to deal with more idealistic considerations. But the problem of the moment is one of firepower.

Pay for Lawmakers

MEMBERS of the British House of Commons are finding it difficult to make ends meet on their present salaries,

in the face of a 30 per cent increase in the cost of living, according to a London magazine. That is not surprising. : A member of the U. S. House of Representatives is PEM $12,500 B year, prus a $2500 tax-free éxpense allowance. A member of Commons is paid $2800, period. ~The American Congressman is allowed $12,500 for sec- - retarial and clerical assistance, $500 for postage and other °° communications, and $500 a session for stationery. The British MP pays for these things out of his own pocket. wri our frugal British cousins grossly underpay their r we are unduly generous with ours, for it ch to live in London as it does

the better service?

located on busy K

Na, Legion Branch Building in Washington Is Vastly Different :

a HIN , Aug. 13-—8taffers who coms here tomorrow from the National American Legion headquarters in Indianapolis, f6 join in the dedication ceremonies of the Washington branch office, will Be immediately struck with the vast difference in the new Legion building here and in Indiana. Both the state and national Legion headquarters located on the Indianapolis Plaza are of classic design and set in parklike surroundings. The new building § here is ultra-modern,

Street N. W., and surrounded by other offices and hotels. amid a never ending stream of traffic. Yet with all of its pragmatic modernism, the Washington Hq. has a certain beauty about it, if not the grandeur of the Indianapolis layout. It cost nearly a million and was built from the dues ot 3 sition Lagion- Truman . . . To Dedicate naires an million auxiliary members, Legion Branch. After World War I, the Indianapolis headquarters was erected by the state under an agreement to make it the Legion home headquarters. That arrangement stands and ‘the headquarters of the top command, including the current national commander, Erle Cocke Jr., remains at the Hoosier capital city,

Oakey In Charge

ASSISTANT NATIONAL Adjutant Jack Oakey is the resident Legionnaire in charge here. His offices are on the main floor of the new building, which also houses a well appointed office for the national commander and his consultants. There are seven floors and the entire top floor 18 an auditorium. The new building is made of Indiana limestone and tapestry brick, Thermopane glass ranges the entire seven stores over the entrance, where an opaque glassed door leads into the softly lighted lobby. There is a receptionist's desk and in the background the preamble to the Legion's constitution is carved and lettered in goldleaf on a green marble background. Unbroken facade of the K street side of the building, a 7-foot wall of Indiana limestone, ‘is relieved by a composite statue of a soldier designed to represent the fighters in all U. 8. wars since 1917, according to the official deseription.

‘The American Legion’

ABOVE THE STATUR in huge bronze letters is emblazoned “The American Legion.” The total effect is striking in its sort of gigantie simplicity. : The entire building is air-conditioned, two self-service elevators are set off in “Texas shale of centuries ago.” Also “natural shell formations add to the beauty of the paneling” according to the official description provided the press. The five floors between the ground and top house the economic, rehabilitation, Americanlam, public relations, legislative, un-American activities and medical sections, as well as the American Legion Auxiliary. President Truman, a life member, will forgially dedicate the new Legion building Tuesay. Hoosidrs will have an especial interest. since the construction was largely done while George Craig, Indianapolis, was national commander in 1950

To Halt Traffic

TRAFFIC ON busy K St. will he halted for the ceremony which will get under way with music by the U8. Army band j District Commissioner F. Joseph Donohue, general chairman, will introduce Rabbi- David

Lefkowitz, Shreveport, la. National Legion chaplain, who will invoke the blessing. Morton Downey then will sing the national anthem, after which Mrs. Willis C. Reed, Vinita, Okla, national auxiliary president and Com-

mander Cocke, Dawson, Ga., will be presented. He will introduce the President. who is scheduled for a 15-minute address Benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. William B. ‘Adams DC department chaplain, The district commissioners have designated tomorrow as “American Legion Dedication Dav.” At the street level of this bright nev buildIng 18 a Legion emblem in bronze with the opening line of the preamble to the American Legion constitution——“For God and Country.”

THE PRINTER

WHEN you read a book or paper... do vou

ever stop to think ... of the man who Is behind it . . . he who puts the facts to ink . . . he is truly skilled and learned . . . for he must

know many things . .. and his work is known to millions . . . read by paupers and by kings . I am speaking of the printer . . . man of type and man of words . . . man who sets the world before us . . . with the speed of winged birds . . . he's an artist of the ages . . . and with plates. of tiny steel . . . he creates the great impressions , . . that propel life's Ferris wheel . , . so I take this chance to praise him . man of grammar and finesse . . . who Is always in his glory . . . where there's freedom of the press. ~By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

PS JEET AND LOVELY. AS A MY ae GOES OUT TO EISENHOWER SMILE BABY = DON'T BE BLUE ALL MY LOVE HE HAS IN 52 BUT IN THIS RING FEARNQT HIS HAT

at rn

FLOWER

TAXPAYER BLUES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

It Seems We Paid the Colonel's Fishing Bill a Couple of Times

WABHINGTON, Aug. 13—Looks like I was a little too big hearted yesterday when I offered to foot the bill, as a taxpayer, of Lt. Col. Leon P. Howell's deep-sea fishing trips. Turns out now that I paid twice for his fish. And

that's getting a little fishy, The Colonel, you may remember, joined the Air Force last winter, about the time Rep. Olin, E. Teague (D. Tex.) be- sls gan to investigate his operations as regional manager of the Veterans Administration in San Antonio, Tex. 8ince then the Congressman has collected 2100 pages of evidence against the Colonel. Much of this concerns fish. Let us consider only one of Col. Howell's double-paid expeditions. onto. the briny. That was on- Aug. 17, 1048, when he flew via Braniff Airlines at taxpavers’ expense from San Antonio to Browns-

. ville, -Tex., to inspect veterans installations in

the Rio Grande Valley, After 30 minutes of talking to the. federal underlings who met hi mat the airport, he proceeded to Port Isabel, where he boarded the fishing boat, Sarah Sue, belonging to one H. L. Barber, president of the Valley Vocation Schools. Well, sir, there were five of these schools in the Rio Grande Valley, catering to Gls. The Veterans Administration paid their tuition, after negotiations by the Colonel. So fine. The Colonel and the schoolmaster spent three days aboard the Sarah Sue, looking for sailfish, We taxpayers put up the money for the Colonel's airplane ride, we gave him his regular salary, and we also -handed him $9 per day expense money. You'd have thought that was enough. But Mr. Barber turned into hie school treasury a chit for £165, for entertaining Mr. Howell. We citizens eventally paid that, too, It came out of the expenses of the school. Now let's listen a minute to the conversation between Col. Howell and Rep. Teague.

‘Official Business’

THE COLONEL: I was on official business. I had been directed to have good relations with school operators. That is why I made this fishing trip with Mr. Barber. The Congressman: And he collected $185 for entertaining vou. The Colonel: He should give it back. trip cost me abouf $100. The Congressman: Were you on government business, or on a fishing rodeo? The Colonel: Both. We discussed school business. It was official business.

That

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—Five out of six Washington press and radio correspondents think Democratic Sen, Paul Douglas of Illinois is the best Senator. Three out of four corre gs pondents think Wiscon- | gin Repub- 4 lican Joe MeCarthy the worst Senator. These are 2» ., highlights of - a poll conducted by Vv Pageant magazine, It shows BML aes onangs from a similar poll two, , . years ago. Then Sen. Robert A, Taft of Ohio was considered best Senator. In the new poll, he rates

both fourth best and fourth worst. Second and third best

Sen. Jenner

two worse

see and Wayne Morse of Ore- ~ gon, Second and third worst ~~ are Pat McCartan of. Nevada

The Congressman: There are a lot of people who don't agree with you. We found no place in the U., 8S. where another regional manager had so much business to take up, always on week-ends, always on fishing trips. That remark saddened the Colonel. “I was so shocked and so hurt that I couldn't sleep at night to think that I had been singled out on minor items like these,” he said. “And after I'd spent five years of good hard work.” It was sad, all right. 1 felt like weeping, too, but not for the all-expenses-paid-twice fisherman.

CANON ERAINRNAERARNEES

‘Welfare Funds’

MR. EDITOR: The politicians, most of them Republicans, voted to cut off the old age pensions. They took the bread out of the mouth of the poorest people on earth and the most helpless. They wanted puhlic ingpection of the pension rolls because ‘at next election they would have the old peoples’ names to promise them more and give them less, The federal law is constitutional in that it is a federal grant and to get the money Indiana had to comply with the conditions of the law. The House of Representatives in Washington may amend the law, but it is doubtful. Sen. Jenner is not a member of the House of Representatives.

OSCAR EWING is not running for office in Indiana, but the men who vote for this law that took the bread out of the mouths of the poor people of Indiana will run and there will be enough people to defeat every one of them as their name will be open for public inspection. The two newspapers that cried so much in Ine dianapolis and wanted to take a crack at President Truman now are not so keen as they were when they found that the Welfare Administrator was not bluffing. They have had their bluff called. Now they want to involve the Governor. Well, the Governor did not vote for the law and he is not to blame and if I were him I would let these fellows fry in their own fat. They would be there begging me to call a special session and they would have to place the law back just where it was, Don’t blame the. Governor or Oscar Ewing. Just hunt up the number of the legislator and ask him to explain your plight. He wanted public inspection, just write and let him know you are being cut on your pension because he voted to take your money out of your pocket. o& o oe

JUST WRITE to the two newspapers that wanted to cut your pension. They helped back up these members of the Legislature that voted to take your pension away. When your pension

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson Poll Spots Jenner Third Worst Senator

CE rr RANE RR RRR RNR NORPRO RRR RNR RRR RNR RRR RRR ROR ERES

Hoosier Forum—‘Poor Law’

'l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Why Is Harry Palsy With lke?

Politicians Debate Meaning

Of Truman Friendliness

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—For weeks now, veteran politicians in both parties have been studying the political portents of President Truman’s repeated laudatory remarks about Gen. Eisenhower. And out of the welter of conflicting con-

"clusions has come widespread agreement om

only one major point: President Truman does not envision a Truman vs. Elsenhower race next year. If he does, it's got most of the politicians stumped. They say that's not the way they learned the game. It doesn't make sense ta build up a fellow you expect to run against, The President naturally was expected to say nice thingd about the General In answer t¢ press-conférence questions. He couldn't do muel &ise concerning & man whom he had appointed to so many high offices.”

Disagreement BUT the President went much farther than necessary. He said laudatory things about the General that he knew would be thrown back at him if he found himself campaigning against Ike. Hence the conclusion of the politicians that Mr. Truman is sure he won't be engaged ix such a campaign. Which means, in their opin: ion, that one of the two won't be a candidata At this point there comes the area of dis agreement among the politician-analysts. The Conservative Republicans, most of then for Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O.), say that thi President knows Gen. Eisenhower won't be { candidate. He can keep Ike in Europe, if neces sary, they say. The pro-Eisenhower Republicans say that President Truman won't run if the General decides to. And perhaps the President has al ready made up his mind not to run again. Most Democrats say all they know is thaf the President is too skillful a politician to build up a ‘man against whom he might expect ta run and thus it is apparent that the President doesn't anticipate a Truman vs. Eisenhower race,

‘In a Mild Way’

“WHY, if they were greoming a man back in my district to run against me, I might say he was a nice sort of fellow, in a mild way,” said a Republican House leader. “But I'd be darned sure not to say anything they could throw back at me next year. Truman knows Eisenhower isn't going to run.” Mr. Truman's praise of Gen. Eisenhower has been building up, as the questioning proceeds in his press conferences week after week. Thursday's conference reached a high. The President said he was as fond as he could be of the General. He called Ike one of the great men produced by World War II and he added had shown that by giving him the most important job available for his abilities. “Now you don’t say those things and expect to be campaigning against the fellow next year,” said one Democrat. “Especially when you're on record as once having promised to help him get the Presidency.” (Gen. Eisenhower's book reported that the President told the General in 1845 that he would help him get anything he wanted, including the Presidency.)

RRR EER NASER NER r NR EERE ERNE R EE RRR AARON ERE RRERNRUS ROE N tae Ran RE RRe SFR ta sina

was cut it was not done in Washington. It was done right here in Indiana by the members of the Legislature that knew what the federal law required before Indiana could get the $20 million that the national government gent into Indiana tor the old people each year. We who went into every county and town in Indiana can again organize and tell the old people the truth ahout the matter again. Every Towsendite and every old age pension advocate, now is your opportunity. We got the national government to add the money to the state funds by asking for a national pension. Arise and shine and tell the people the truth. What we need is a national pension law that no state can vote . down, Vote for your friends in the next election. —W. Clay Reese, Shelbyville.

‘Power of the Law’

MR. EDITOR: The killing of the speeder should arouse some of the citizens to realize the growing strength of the city government inthis big town. The police, as exemplified by the patrolmen in this case, are given authority or at least take it to kill a man, with only evidence of speeding. How can we have justice or mercy among citizens when human life is stamped out so easily by the law. The man could have been shot in the leg and then surely apprehended. His license number and then identity could have been traced. On the other hand, the new chief should be

commended. for his action against some of the °

lawless hotel parties. The “no left turn” signs dotting the margins of Meridian St. are trouble makers, not in their reason to expedite trafic during the rush hour, but only in the fact that the free hour driver is held to obey them, and thus waste his time unnecessarily, Why not qualify them? Are we such victims of habit that we cannot remember when we can turn and when we can't turn? It would be nice if, when not bothering the common good, we could drive the shortest distance between two points . . . a straight line.

—M. W., City.

are Fates Kefauver of Tennes-

(Indiana's other Senator,

Homer Capehart, placed ninth on the “worst” list.) 8 & 7

IT never got out, but Illinois Democratic National Committeeman Jacob M. Arvey was given serious consideration for one of those three Illinois federal judgeships “nominated” by Sen. Paul Douglas. Boss Arvev had -backed Sen. Douglas for Democratic primary nomination In 1948, against Truman administration opposition. Mr. Douglas.won, Mr. Arvey was known to want the judgeship, though he heads a flourishing law firm in Chicago. He resigned his Cook Coury Demboade mathine: chairmanship after the 1950 elections. For Sen. Douglas to back Mr. Arvey for a judgeship would have been natural. But in the end it was decided this: would look too much like political debt paying. He compromised by pickin Cook County Circuit Co Judge Benjamin P. Epstein, brother of an Arvey law partner. The men Sen.

Association finally backed two of the Douglas candidates, William H. King Jr, and Judge Epstein, President Truman and Sen. Douglas agreed on the third man, Joseph F. Perry, Truman's other two nominees were Circuit Judge Cornelius J. Harrington and City Judge Joseph H. Drucker. un ” ~ SECRETARY of the Army Frank Pace once came home to find his wife and daughter Paula all tied up over Miss Pace's homework in arithmetic. Having been a Director of the

U: 8. Bureau of the Budget,

Secretary Pace took over, intending to breeze through the WENS aha. At the end of an hour, he took his coat off and at the end of two hours he took off his shirt and really went to

work. Next day he asked how

the teacher had felt about having all those problems solved. “Oh! Three of them were wrong,” said Miss Paula, “but the teacher said not te feel too

badly about it. They were - really fourth grade problems, grade.” 5

ie gh ls

stories on American Federation of Labor's annual cone vention. It will be held this Year at San Francisco, opening Sept. 17. Normally, about now, there would be rumors about President Willlam Green retiring. There have always been such rumors for the past 10 years or so. But not this year. The 78-year-old union leader, who has been AFL's president for 27 years, still loves his work and is hanging onta it. And the younger men be-

hind him have apparently given up hope he'll ever quit.

St tessa

WASHINGTON'S press corps is rapidly coming to recognize unsuspectéd talent in one of the freshman Senators, Herman Welker of Idaho. Here are a couple of his gems, from a recent.speech on the dismissal of the cribbing West Point cadets: : “I know how easy it is to make mistakes; I know how

easy it is for young men at West Point, from 18 to 21.

MOND Sportsce

E x=¢ We By (

By FR. ARMY’ stars car

Steve O football

Owens “say out and tha boys were “It was | system,” sa Giants’ Sa training ca Meanwhil ing for offi leges. Butt terested in Notre Dam athletic tr tried the G turned dow And som “crib” scan Bar Associ terday that the method ficials used formation scandal. The aca ‘Maj. Gen. says that | son to el abolish tt old honor Gen. In made in a with U. S. port Mag: there wi dence tha going on involve me officers.

HERE IN Newton Po: held the st Junior Base day. The 1 the title y victory over the state fir Terre Ha diana in the 7 tourney . ington, IIL includes te nois and M

AT CHES today 250 amateur cou long strugg National D pionships. Cricket Clu Defending crown is ti tralian cont Aussie team wich stayed ful partner on hand They're the entry. Aging ( 3illy Talbe can hopes. can team Tony Trab threat. Elbow-ha and Mrs. VN Pont aren't their-—-wome it up to fir and Doris are Nancy Patricia Ca

CELESRI their games Caddie Ass tourney in ( Working | Sam Snead, Demaret, 1 Big name n are Columb Harry (The umnist Ed J. Lausche Football Co: nis All-Ame wicz.,

THE INI letic Commi profit of § year 1950-i Pride says the commis: Pride said year amour penses came Plans for ance of He Jersey Joe will be mac

Cut Sidel Phils

NEW YO hander Rus

delphia P, sideiinea because

fered in a terday's G header. In the fir game, Meye base when Giahts hit First Basel Meyer and bag and Dar on Meyer's | The Phils’ lacerations don in his carried from er in consi was at first dun had bee

Shibe Pc To Hono PHILADE Gama aft of yester-ye Old Timers’ on Aug. 29. a three-inni regularly ¢ Louis Cardi A _ score greats have hand, inclu one-time 8 champion C Baseman J