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y ; uw pay purpose of devising new ways to spend welfare money so that more taxes will be needed so that more employees can be hired to devise more ways . . . etc. . They go to pay for organizing “pressure groups” and phony “societies” to clamor to Congress for socialized medicine and similar projects , . . as Mr. Ewing himself has

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admitted before a Senate committee. In short, they are 100 per cent wasted. . » ” - » .

SO INDIANA taxpayers were paying $3 in direct welfare taxes to the federal government for every $2 they got back, even before Mr. Ewing got irked at the state legislature and cut off that, too. ,! The state, and county governments, were raising $2 ~ more in local taxes. Thus it was costing the people of this state $5 for every $4 that went to public aid of the aged, the blind and the dependent children of the state.

$5 to buy $4 worth of food and clothes and shelter for the poor. . : . ..—... Not for the taxpayers. And not for the needy who live " on public aid, either. But the bureaucrats love it. In fact they've got some ideas for expanding it. The,'ve been pushing for years to get the same booby trap baited— with your money—in “federal aid” for schools, and “federal aid” for hospitals, and “federal aid” for farmers, and so on.

It is reasonable to assume that every one of those glittering projects would work exactly the same way. None has ever worked in any other way. Plainly Indiana taxpayers would save $10 million a year—or Indiana's needy citizens could have $10 million a year more help—if the federal government just stayed clear out of this picture, and didn't skim off that $10 million, for which it performs no service whatever, either to the state, or its taxpayers, or its poor. a Which is a good point to keep in mind, next time a Washington spell-binder turns up with a plea for some great program of uplift toward which “the federal government will pay half.” . ) So far it’s never been anything but our mcney with ‘which they paid us. - ate :

Leave It to Pros

Ce A PRICI AL handling of the sensational OSS murder casereflects little credit on the United States government. . Less than four days old—so far as disclosure to the public is concerned-——the case already is snarled with an incredible amount of international red tape, mystery, charges and counter-charges, and more than a hint of suppression. Seven years after the crime, the Defense Department accuses two ex-servicemen of murdering their commanding officer behind the German lines in Italy in an argument over arms for Italian Communist partisans. In best cloak-and-dagger fashion, the whodunit is en- &! riched with such ingredients as $100,000 in gold, parachute drops, a lone villa, beside a lake, potassium cyanide, a fe © woman and secret agents galore. For a crowning touch, it is alleged that the two accused men cut the cards to see who should do the killing—and the loser drew the deuce of spades. All this would make for engaging and diverting sum_mertime reading if it weren't for a few aspects of the case which have reared an ugly, nonfictional head.

» = . ” o # IN THE filrst place, though the Defense Department claims to have a confesison from one of the men, and though the whereabouts of both are known, there is nothing this government can do about it. The two are immune from trial in this country because of quirks in the military-civil laws in effect at the time of the murder. : They cannot be tried under military law because they have been separated from service. They cannot be prosecuted under civil law because our courts have no jurisdiction over crimes committed on foreign soil. Result is, both men are free and will continue to be so

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which is not yet certain, Both men have denied the murder charge, one of them apparently repudiating the “confession” which is dated Aug. 3, 1950. : Which brings up the question of suppression. True Magazine in a full-page newspaper advertisement Friday said it had broken the case on its own and that the Defense Department had disclosed the story only after it had learned that the magazine was going to publish it. This naturally raises the query: Would the Defense nt ever have disclosed the story if the magazine had not been coming out with it? Bs ” ” » ” = . A NEPARTMENT ennkesman explained that the “Himing was no more than a coincidence. release had been in preparation for several months, it was aid; the delay was because of the need for completing legal hat may be it is still remarkable that—after , : he Defense Department should

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Politics—

Taft—He's Way Ahead Of the Pack

By EARL RICHERT WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Taft-for-President people find the current party standing of their hero a prime example of the caprice of politics. Here is Sen. Taft, they say, way out in front in the 1952 GOP Presidential picture. He's so far in front that the antiTaftites are trying to coalesce and draft Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to stop him. He's so much closer to the GOP nomination now than he was in 1940 and 1948, when he made all-out campaigns, that there is no comparison. Yet this time he isn't trying

~nearly as hard. ;

Sen. Taft is actually a reluctant, prospective candidate,

” = = “HE'S doing so well now, when he doesn’t particularly that I told him he shouldn't lift a finger,” grinned one Taft man who went through the other two campaigns when the Taft forces for months ahead of convention were trying to lariat every possible delegate. Sen. Taft's position today on the Presidential nomination is like that of a businessman being urged by his friends to take a school board presidency. He'd probably take it, but he isn't going to seek it. One of ‘his closest friends sald he thought Sen. Taft had lost “the Presidential bee” forever at the Republican convention in 1948 where he was beaten for the second time after waging an all-out campaign for the nomination. ” ns = HE KNEW his overwhelming victory in the Ohio Senate

‘race last fall would thrust him

into the Presidential picture again, and immediately thereafter he issued the following statement: “I am certainly not a candidate for the nomination. I am not going to run for President. I don't say I wouldn't take the nomination if it were offered to me, but I shall make no campaign to get it.” That remains his policy. Whenever supporters go to him with ideas for doing this or that to enhance his prospects, he always tells them, “I'm not seeking the nomination.”

~ ” » PART of his lack of interest is attributed by friends to the fliness ‘of his wife When Mrs. Taft is in town, the Senator turns down many speaking engagements so he can be with her in the evenings. When she was in the hospital here, the Senator at breakfast with her and rea the newspapers to her in the morning, dartéd baca Ww : Hospital at noon for lunch and returned in the evening to dine with her and again read the newspapers. Mrs. Taft's {llness has heen a severe blow to the Senator. There is no question, say close friends, that he has much less zest now than four or eight years ago for the presidency. He is older, ‘(63 next th) and he la well awaras of thé crushing strain of the presidency.

” = " FOUR years ago at this time a full-time publicity man was on the job, preparations were being made to open campaign men bushes

find that the state had not progressed in its

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — This week the House overwheimingly resolved that U.S. trade with Czechoslovakia

should cease until American Reporter William N. Oatis is his Prague prison cell where he has been. held

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Meanwhile, Sen. Herbert O’Conor (D. Md.) urged President Truman not to receive the new Czech Ambassador, Vladimir Prochazka, for the formal presentation of credentials untii American diplomats in Prague are permitted to interview Oatis.

House

CONTROVERSIAL bill providing $135 million for housing around defense installations finally cleared the House and went to conference with the Senate which acted some time ago. As approved by the House, the bill will allow the government to do virtually everything it wanted to do for defense housing except contribute to school construction costs. The bill contains authority for the government to insure another $114 billion in home mortages, on top of $9 billion now insured by FHA.

Postal Rates

POST OFFICE Committee recommended a whole series of rate increases aimed at making the Post Office Department self-supporting and providing

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t arses sn TEI sna i . 4 ’ ‘Hoosier Forum—‘No Change ! “| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to-say it." MR, EDITOR: maintain just that. 1f every state had sunk to

On my way home from vacation this year, I stopped off in Thdianapolis for a few days. Being a native of the state of Indiana and having lived in Indianapolis for several years, I was anxious to know what had happened to the old home town after 20 years absence. What I saw and heard, took the heart out of me. One of the most prominent headlines was the fact that the state had decided to publish the names and addresses of those unfortunate aged, blind and otherwise indigent people who were in receipt of public assistance along with the amount of assistance they receive from the state. This, to me, represents the lowest that any state has sunk in the freatment of its needy and unfortunate people, to publish their names and addresses so that they might be held up for public ridicule and further exploitation. we, eee AFTER’ 20 years, it was discouraging to

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ried? gsoeial thinking beyond those concepts held 20

years ago- by official Hoosierdom. Indeed, if anything, I might even say that the thinking had dropped down to those concepts held in the Middle Ages on such matters. Being in work for the blind in this state,” made it my business to interview some of the blind people and was mortified to find the conditions so putrid and the gross neglect and mistreatment of your unfortunate needy people. I have recently learned that the federal government has shut off federal funds to the state on categorical relief and sincerely hope that the people of Indiana reverse their thinking and that the legislature is recalled to repeal the anti-secrecy law, 1 am enclosing 2 cents to ask that you forward it to the state treasury, this amount isn't much I know, but when a state sinks as low as Indiana has, and with all its natural, Godgiven resources, is unable, or unwilling to care for its people any better than it does, 2 cents would mean a lot.

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BESIDES 2 cents sort of represents standards of human values as they are in this state, if, as a result of this barbaric action by your state legislature, your streets are filled by these who must beg to keep alive, I trust that your infamous and cowardly police force will retain its regular practice of throwing them in prison or jail, not knowing what else to do. Any community can well be judged by the welfare of its people. Your standards might be understood or expected behind the Iron Curtain, but completely out of place in a civilized nation. We have wastelands of Korea supposedly to . ;

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fierce words on great sword of sway . pranced . . . as commands that should do . . .

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same things over and over . . blind, etc., would suffer from the loss of federal

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of life wouldn't be worth fight-

When I lived in Indianapolis, I was a con-

The Times. I sincerely hope

that your newspaper will exercise its civic re-

do what it can to wipe out the

disgrace of its state lawmakers.

. Dinsmore, Brooklyn, N. Y.

‘Welfare Fears’

In answer to the editorial in last Sunday's Times titled “Who Gets Hurt by Ewing's Wel-

h to say that it is small wonder

that recipients have been worried after reading

earing mews broadcasts tell the . how the aged,

he conflicting writeups, etc.

Why. oh why, would not recipients be worWhat have they had until the last few -days to allay their fears? ‘The ‘last two paragraphs of the ‘editorial states, and I quote, “Only from the needy ang. the aged who believe the Ewing dispute means they are going to lose the little allowance that is all they have to live on. Wonder who told them it was?”

That isn't true.

r for one. I was told by the

welfare visitor very shortly after the Legislature

secrecy law and these were her

“I must inform you that if federal funds are withdrawn from Indiana, about 50 per cent of the total, that checks to

which amounts to

probably be cut in half.” When

I asked how soon that might happen, in reply she said it could happen in from 30 to 60 days after federal assistance is withdrawn. no way of knowing how many others were thus

I have

for one was. Recipient (Nearing 70), City.

aia LITTLE WARRIOR

A WARRIOR on a rocking horse . . . sent

their way . . . he wielded his wood . . . and many heads did

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if in answer to . . . the harsh hit the air... on just what he upon the warrior’'s head was

placed . . . a spangled paper hat... and on his chest were rows of medals . . . and woe betide the enemy . . . did not run I'm told . . . when he charged on to battle . . . little warrior brave and bold.

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—By Ben Burroughs.

J. Hugh O’Donnell is on vacation

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ROUNDUF sal By James Daniel esate k Cut Trade With Czechs

‘a surplus for paying wage in- ind

creases to postal ‘em Among changes recommended’ Ordinary 3-cent letter would take a 4-cent stamp. Airmail letter would take 8 cents instead of 6. Postal employees - would get an 8.8 per cent raise, except that nobody's increase could exceed $800 a year.

Baseball

CELLER Subcommittee wound up hearings on proposals to exempt baseball from “anti-trust laws by hearing Rep. A, 8. Herlong Jr. (D. © Fla.), former president of the Florida State League. ‘Rep. Herlong said Class D leagues are losing customers because of broadcasting of major league games.

Next-of-Kin

HOUSE passed a bill, previously approved by the Senate, whereby the government would issue lapel buttons to immediate relatives of servicemen who died in World War II or in subsequent wars or ‘periods of hostilities.”’

President

PRESIDENT TRUMAN told an American Legion headquarters dedication that all good Americans should “rise up and put a stop” to character assassins and scandalmongers, some of them in Congress, “who are trying to divide us and confuse us and tear up the Bill of Rights.” President named no names but sympathizers sald he meant Sen. McCarthy, who promptly demanded and got free radio time td reply.

Senate SENATE passed, 59 to 10, the Army Engineers’ rivers

‘bors and flood control amend-

tors also rejected from Sen. John Williams (R. Del.) to hold up projects not essential to national defense.

Subversion wir McCARRAN committee again questioned E. C. Carter, key figure in the Institute of Pacific Relations, this time as to his views on a book on China which he recommended to Gen. Marshall. Mr. Carter sald he didn’t know then that the author, Israel Epstein, was considered by some as Communist, but has his doubts now.

Whittaker Chambers ... along, red finger

Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley also testified, naming persons identified with the institute whom they knew as Communists during their years as Red spies.

Ewing Pleas for Wide Use of Handicapped

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—How handicapped persons can be rehabilitated and employed has been under discussion here by the President's committee on National

Employ the Handicapped Week.

Keynote of the sessions was sounded by Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing. Outlining the problems involved, he closed with the customary plea for more funds for his department. In the speech, Mr. Ewing was critical of the use of mothers in the World War II employment program. That program was carried on by his fellow-

~ Hoosier predecessor, former In-

diana Goy. Paul V. McNutt. Besides his job as head of the newly created Federal Security Administration, Mr. McNutt was war manpower director. n » =

Wg a “THE han CLT housewives and mothers, the older people and the young people—thHese make up our reservoir of potential manpower that offers possibility of development,” Mr. Ewing said in his address, as an associate member of the committee. “In the last war, we learned that it was possible to carry the employment of home makers too far. Our mobilization program today may go on for many years; and we cannot afford to take the risks of broken homes, family separations, and childhood insecurities that the unlimited employment of married women might bring about. “That is one reason why we must place greater emphasis upon the use of handicapped citizens. Their numbers are considerable, and their capacity for work is enormous. If they are put to work, they will not create new social™ problems; on the contrary, they will be solving the very social problems which so often arise out of their disablement. ” ” ” “THESE are the simple facts that every American ought to know. This committee has the job of making sure that every American gets to know these facts. We must break down apathy, overcome prej-

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By Gene Feingold

wHOW CAN A GUY RELAX?

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udice, and spread the truth about the capabilities of handi~ capped men and women.” Citing the leadership taken in stressing employment of the handicapped by the Manpower Policy Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, Mr, Ewing said that FSA had revised its programs to meet national defense requirements, “In co-operation with organized labor and the American College of Surgeons we are now reducing the length of time required for injured worke ers to return to the job,” Mp, Ewing said.

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cies, we have inaugurated special programs for the rehabili# ‘tation of persons with epilepsy, mental iliness, tuberculosis and certain other” serious condi tions. In response to our rece ommendations, many public vo cational schools have opened their doors to’ blind students, thus expanding opportunities for employment of the blind.

5 ” 2 ‘THROUGH a more intene sive use of rehabilitation centers in our program, increasing numbers of seriously disabled persons, who for years have been confined to their homes or beds, are being returned to our labor force. In this connece tion, I would like to cite partice ularly the splendid cao-operatoin extended by the United Mine Workers of America in the physical restoration and ree training of injured coal miners for employment in other occue pations. Finally, we have strengthened the ties between the state vocational rehabilita« tion agencies and the state ems ployment services in the inter est of better service to the handicapped.” Other FSA programs to help the handicapped also have been stepped up, Mr. Ewing said. Then he closed with this plea for more funds: on s ” “EACH year more disabled persons have been rshabils tated, but the number who still need rehabilitation continues to mount. Advancements in medicine and other sciences are giving us new techniques and “know how” with which the job can be done better than before. But we need more money to fulfil these exciting possibilities. For three years there has been no increase at all in the amount of federal funds available for this vital job. “Every American must come to understand -how important our handicapped citizens are —or could be—to the national interest. We can no longer afe ford to overlook their produc tive potentialities. We can no longer allow ourselves the doubtful and lazy luxury of ignoring the possibilities of ine creasing our manpower supply through rehabiltation.” Maybe Mr. Ewing can transe fer that $20 million he is holde ing out on Indiana.

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