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million for bomb shelters. The committee said this was ~ $250 million too much. Anyway, it said, Mr. Caldwell didn't ‘have any “adequate” plans for these caves. “The confidence of the American people in a civil de- ~ fense program,” said the committee, ‘cannot be won merely by making large appropriations.” Po : THATS a common theory in Washington — whatever the problem is, spend your way out of it. ~~ We don’t know how many bomb caves could be built for $250 million. Apparently, judging by the Appropriations Committee report, the Civil Defense Administration doesn't know either. = wy

But it wouldn't be enough to hide all of us. Building bomb shelters for even a few of us would take a powerful amount of money, scarce materials and manpower. ©

‘So the House Appropriations Committee told the Civil Defense Administration to spend its ‘money on more practical things—Ilike an attack-warning system, training and instructions for the public, and most of the money (850 million) on storing up medical supplies. * The public obviously isn't too scary about Russian bombs. Even Mr. Caldwell complained of the lack of interest in his program. : But the public, often more sensible than some of its leaders in matters of emergency,’ probably leans to the sound theory that the best defense is a good offense—that the best way to protect ourselves is to build up such military might that no aggressor will risk starting a world war.

Freedom Isn't Restricted 2 lly SEVERAL years, the United Nations Economic and Social Council has been working on a proposed international treaty on freedom of information. oo When this work began, the basic idea was to present to the United Nations an agreement which would encourage the free transmission of news and opinion the world over. “But it wasn’t long until some counties began writing sq many restrictions into this code the™Ireedom in it was “reaching the vanishing point.

free development and distribution of information, and raises so many possibilities for state control «f information sources and services, that the United States has denounced the whole plan. Walter Kotschnig, the U. 8. delegate, said he didn't think this pact, even if adopted, would interrupt the traditional American freedom to publish and criticize. But he said the United States does not want Lo see other peoples “subject to such limitations.” Other authorities think that if we ratified such a treaty, even our freedoms would be impaired. The purpose of this covenant is to suppress information, not spread it.

NOW THAT ‘the State Department has taken a stand on one such treaty it is confronted with a logical follow-up. For the proposed “Covenant of Human Rights," as written by the United Nations Commission on Human ) Rights, contains some of the same restrictions in its sections dealing with information, The United States can no more =zubscribe to this kind of oppressive document than it could to the one Mr, Kotschnig has just rejected. Freedom cannot be imposed on any people. But restrictions can be. And every restriction is a shackle on freedom. The United States Constitution cays, simply: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition e Government for a redress of grievances.” The basis of all freedom is a lack of restrictions.

Matchless Nam II

THAT hopeful firebrand, Gen. Nam 1I who heads the : Communist negotiators at Kaesong, is an incessant - cigaret smoker-—as his pictures have shown. But it appears that he has had trouble keeping his cigarets lit, since he habitually uses a curiously shaped | cigaret lighter resembling ane grown shark's tooth. 3 Recently, after giving th a lighter, he's been ~ trying matches made hina. No go. They sputter out before he can t up. So now he has taken to American matches which he apparently swiped from the conference table. They've been fine—work every time. This, no doubt, will be accepted as a sordid bit of wo Lrickery whieh=-11 all other excuses Are éxhaustea good as any for stalling the truce talks

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~The draft as it now stands put so many clamps on a,

T per capita debt than we have. Our administration tells us that the same amount will be asked each

year for a period of three years, making a total of around $25 billion.’ 8

Paints Gloomy Picture

ALTHOUGH most returned travelers tell of

how men, women and children in other countries would Illke to come and live here if they could, Mr, Bray painted such a gloomy picture of Sue present plight that they should be scared y. He held up his own 7th district in Indiana as a horrible example. “In my district,” Mr. Bray continued, “there are people living in hovels, needy aged, those whe are ill and those that do not have enough “Then, too, there is a scarcity of hospitals. We have many bad roads. We have schools that are totally inadequate to train the children who must enroll this fall. “Yet in rough figures, the government is asking each of the 11 counties in my district to contribute on the average approximately $2 million this year to give to foreign countries. On a three-year basis, that would mean an average $6 million per county,

Give-Away Hits $135 Billion

“WE HAVE already given away and loaned roughly $135 billion. Of course a portion of this was for lend lease but a goodly part has gone to countries that are our enemies and are helping to kill our American boys. It is difficult to figure just how much we have given away. For instance much ammunition that was supposed to be given to Nationalist China was instead dumped in the Bay of Bengal. ‘Indiana’ share of the $115 billion, plus the $2 billion for which the administration is asking, would average approximately $33 million for every county, That is more than the assessed valuation of some of my counties.” The man from Martinsville cited the Lenin prophecy that the U.S.A. will spend itself into bankruptcy and the numerical spread of communism that has gone on while this foreign spending program has been in effect.

Give Nothing but Love

HE CLOSED by saying he really wants to help other countries, but left the next impression that he can’t give them anything but love. “I want to make it clear,” Mr. Bray con-

‘cluded, “that I am in favor of helping ‘the ‘pesples who need help in the world. I am in fa-

vor of helping: them: to help’ themselves. That is the American way. But this entire plan is too unrealistic and impractical. “Today we are being asked to vote $5 billion for this year alone to be given to foreign coun: tries generally. Yet the burden bt indebtedness stares everyone of our citizens In the face—a burden greater than is given to any other people on this earth. “All of this givesaway program sounds to me like more of that ‘America-laster’ propaganda, I cannot subscribe to it.”

What Others Say—

I HOPE you (college students) will find out all about how the government operates. But T've been trying to find out all about it for 60 years—and I still have a lot to learn. — President Truman. Sd STALIN IS known the avorld over for his mustache, but not for hisSwisdom.—Marshall Tito, of Yugoslavia.

DEFENSE . . . By Marshall McNeil

Industrial Sabotage Is Key U. S. Problem

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—An obscure bureau you probably never heard of is planning ways to protect our great industrial strength from a break-down by sabotage. The bureau, operating under: the colorless title of

" Hugh J. Strong, who

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DOGS AND CRIME . . .

By Frederick C. Othman

How to Housebreak a Puppy—

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The Senate's quarter-million-dollar crime investigation came within a hair of ending with sworn, evidence by an ex-cop from New Jersey on how to housebreak a puppy. This was anti-climax such as to confound a novelist. My only .. cop pmuo ooo i regret is that Sen. = $F EEL um Herbert R. O’Conor (D. Md.) stopped

used to be one of Newark’s finest, justas his testimony about the training of pedigreed dogs was getting interesting. You may ask what this has to do with perhaps the most 8 p e ctacular -inquiry into nationwide gambling ever under-

taken by Congress. Estes Kefauver

Well, sir, let me tell about that dog... you:

The Senators these many months have been putting the finger on highbinders all over this country. The evidence at times has produced the most exciting shows ever seen on a television screen. It .also has landed several top

gangsters in jail. Sa ; ; So Senators O'Conor,- Ester “Kefauver «ant

Co., were ‘finishing their months ‘of labor by looking into crime in Northern New Jersey, where, they indicated, 2a murky situation has existed for a long time. . The principal witness

_was Abner (Longie) Zwillman, one of the rich-

est hoodlums of them all. Only Abner was on the missing list. At iast reports he was yachting off the New England coast. Sen. O'Conor said he doubted if vachtsman Zwillman would dock until the crime committee was no more, Still and all, the Sena‘or said, he intended to learn all he could about Abner. He called a number of New Jerseyites, who Knew Abner as ex-bootlegger, gambler and politician, but their evidence #was what you'd call inconclusive. To the witness stand then came the portly, florid-faced Strong, who identified himself as an employee of 20th CenturyFex Film Corp. the mayor of Kinnelon Park, N J. a one-time detective on the Newark force, and a dog fancier of note. Sure, said he in a peculiarly soft voice, he knew Abner. Met the latter in the long ago when he was trailing crooks in Newark's third

SIDE GLANCES

ward and cornering em in the back room of Pop Handler's saloon. That, he added, was where the third ward mob hung out. “But I am a fellow who does not smoke,” said Strong. “Does not drink. Does not hang around saloons. All I do is play golf on week ends.” For seven years when not running down

thieyes in the third ward, Strong said he spent

his time on the golf links. There he played many a game with Sidney Kent, the president

of 20th Century-Fox. They hit it off so well that Kent gave Strong a job in the movie busi-

ness, Nope, he said, since doffing his badge he hadn't seen Abner, and woudn’'t speak to him if he did. This was the moment for which the committee counsel was waiting. “Then why,” he demanded, “do the records of the telephone company show six calls from Zwillman’s home in 1946 to you?” “Ho, ho, ho,” laughed Strong. This was a good one. There was a Jersey girl named Mary Mendells he’d known for years. So she married Abner and, goodness knows, Strong wished her all happiness.

Something to Remember “SO THERE I was in the dog business as a kind of sideline,” he continued. “Real, pedigreed dogs, registered with the American Ken-

nel Club. And Mary bought one from me. Then

she had trouble.” ' =. Cm Ua er (RANA Jess offénsive-minded GI; and’ Ue aA NE Senator: “Yes Fe amid Seria : 1

Strong. “She kept calling me how to house-

. break this dog. I kept telling her. Now, house- .

breaking a dog is very. simple. All’ you go is... The Senator silenced the witness. - Future historians will evaluate the crime hearings. I'm going to remember the dog of the gangster's wife.

OUR SALVATION

WHERE bleeds a heart . , , there grows a rose ... . and where there falls a tear ... a million dewdrops rain from heaven . . . showing God is near . . . where pain and torture . . takes its toll . . . there beams a holy light . . , to help us bear our troubles , . . with an everlasting might . .. where sorrow hangs its silken wreath . . . there domes a ray of hope .. . to wash the sorrow from our hearts , . . time is the healing soap... for every real unhappiness . there comes a little prayer . . . to help us climb the ladder to . . ..a peace beyond compare. —BY Ben Burroughs.

By Galbraith

gin to look down our roses, let's take a look at the morals of us ‘‘nice” people. The way to do this is to take your courage in hand and call things by their right names, such as lying, cheating and stealing. Anyone who takes an ash tray or a towel, for example, from a restaurant or hotel, is stealing . . , that is the only correct word for it.” Anyone who gets a traffic ticket “fixed” is cheating: so is any one who knowingly makes out his tax assessment too low, If you work in a shop or plant and, unauthor« ized, bring material home for your own use,

you are stealing.

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I BELIEVE this is a universal practice, but that does not change anything; nor is it excused by saying that the company can af< ford it, or that it won't be missed. It's still stealing. Some big business deals involve lying, cheating and stealing, all three, but are considered rather clever. This shows how low our moral values have sunk. We admire crooks with good clothes, good manners and lots of cash.

All this may sound hard, but that is because our standards in values have fallen so low, The “nicest” people contenance most of the things above, and take them as a matter of course. How can ‘we expect our children to know any better, when we boast about getting by with something, or getting something for nothing.

If you champion the more honest viewpoint, you are called “Puritan” as a term of derision. Am I right in thinking that the Puritans did all right when they came to this country, several generations ago? . I never heard of them having many juvenile problems, either, or having to set up commissions or investi gations. I don't think we need worry too much about the Russians coming over and destroying our country as we know it . . ,

if we continue in our lax standards we will destroy ourselves much sooner thhn that, Luckily, most of us know right from wrong + «+» if we stop and think.

—Mrs. H. P. Williams, S, Meridian St.

‘Congratulations to PD’

MR. EDITOR:

This is by way of congratulations to the Indianapolis Police Department in recognition of their exemplary pistol marksmanship as exhibited recently dowfitown, culminating in the sudden death of Willie Thompson, 828 Harrison St. - To my understanding, when four representatives of the department, hard pressed for breath and feeling faint in their gravy filled stomachs, were unable to corner a fear-bitten citizen of the town, they fired with solid .333 per cent accuracy into the body of a man who had ducked a previous traffic ticekt and ran awayv from them as they closed in that day. From what I've heard of police training, it appears that these men had not kept with the high discipline of that instruction, allowing themselves to be.dodged by a mere soul in search of sanctuary. So it was that the easy, lazy way was chosen with guns instead of football tactics. i Now, over in Korea, there is a crying need for men with such a Hvely residue of the spirit of the old west. Trigger-happy police officers could be guaranteed faster promotipn than the

certainly unlimited game. uy May I again commend these officers for their extraordinary “execution” of duty, and press that they reconsider their opportunities in a career where gun-slinging is looked upon with more completely uncompromised approval.

—A Soldier, City.

‘Public Is Stuck With Welfare’

MR. EDITOR:

The discussion of the welfare fund goes on and on, with very little done. The whole thing will be tossed in the laps of the taxpayers, as if we were not already bent with the world on our backs. If the money is distributed right, opening the books to the public wouldn't be a crime for certainly the blind, the aged and dependent cannot help their plight. Only the gossips will take advantage of the books being opened to the public. —Jeanne Seymour, City.

IRAN . .. By Clyde Farnsworth

Harriman’s Bound Up In Toils of Fate

TEHRAN, Aug. 20—Like a movie hero of the popcorn serials, handsome Averell Harriman is fighting for peace between Iran and Britain to thwart Russian foreclosure on the old Iranian homestead.

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Industry Evaluation Board, is making findings about our industrial systemgpwhich, its chairman believes, would be more valuable to an enemy than any other information he could possibly get. The board is applying the old adage that “for lack of a nail a shoe is lost,” ete. It searches for the real keys to American industry ' and arranges for their special protection. The board operates under the National Security Council, our top defense body. Its importance has been stressed In hearings before the House Appropriations Committee. Having spent only $33,000 in the last fiscal year, the board has asked Congress for $212. 000 for the current fiscal year, and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer has supported it with this statement: ~ » »

would like to say .. .! my opinion, there is , gram more impo defense of ;

few facilities of such vital importance that upon them depends the whole output of a particular segment of industry. Dr. Kurt Rosinger, board chairman, explained that there is one plant producing 92 per cent of a chemical essential in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and neoprene. * ” » ” “WHERE.” he asked, “would a saboteur find the most effective target? Up at the top where the largest manufacturer of synthetic. rubber has only 12.1 per cent of the capacity, or down . , . where this one plan® has 92 per cent of the capacity? If that one plant were blown up, or stopped from production, the entire industry making synthetic rubber would have been stopped.”

He was in the toils of fate again last weekend. Figuratively Mr. Harriman has been gagged, bound and laid on the railroad tracks with the

* whistle tooting in the distance.

He has been put there, not by a black mustachioed villian, but by his friends. It will take at least one more installment of the Iranian oil crisis to show whether our hero can extricate himself and carry on to victory.

” ” ” + OFFICIAL reaction to the British government's proposals looked bad. The only.plan which the chief British negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, sald he had to offer was one that would halve the profits from the sale of Iranian oil between the new National Iranian Oil Co. and the proposed British pur-

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att THT { keys to the final productive effort.” Some of these are chemical plants, some metal wor

ment” that might bear on the 50-50 deal which Iran pro.fessed to find unacceptable, It

get of the saboteur is the single any other Information that it

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position stated Ly to consider a “slight amend-

Mr. Stokes affirmed “most emphatically” his view and “that of my expert advisers, that our proposals conform to the nationalization law dnd ta the Harriman formula, which formed the basis of our negoe tiations.” ’ It was understood Mr. Harriman agreed specifically to the

¢ 50-50 deal on the ground that

any more generous offer would put the Iranian deal out of line with those of American companies in other Middle Fast oilfields,

An official Iranian radio commentary attacked the . eight point plan point by point. “It's surprising that the Brit. ish delegation expected the Iranian nation to accept this iniquitous proposal . . . the British proposal contains many other flaws and drawbacks

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