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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light ana the People Wili Fina Their Own Wap

to have flattened

out the Soviet filibuster at San Francisco, why was the Soviet Union invited to this conference in the first

place?

The Russian contribution to the war against Japsn

was infinitesimal.

Whether the Soviets sign or do not sign the pending

treaty is of no consequence.

It wasn't necessary to invite them to put on a show at San Francisco to convince anyone open to reason that

the Russians have no desire to co-operate of the free world.

with the nations

In the light of Russia's part in the Korean War, the presence of a Russian delegation at a peace settlement

with Japan is an absurdity.

That is not the case, however, with respect to certain

other nations which are being called up

on to stand up

and be counted. India ducked the issue altogether, so we know where Premier Nehru stands, if a showdown comes—

on the fence.

a ) 2 EGYPT is kicking up a fuss about keeping American troops in Japan, because the Egyptians object to the

presence of ‘British troops at the Suez Cahal.

"are utterly unrelated, but the hair-splitters

The issues can be discarded

along with the fence-sitters. In building up a solid front + against Red aggression we have no money to waste on

guibblers or the faint hearted.

J. R. Jayewardene, chief of the Ceylonese delegation, sounded the real keynote of the conference when he said the pending treaty provides freedoms “the people of the Soviet Union themselves would dearly love to possess.”

That is the sole issue at San Francisco: to secure it. Feridum C. Erkin of Turkey said

Freedom and how

his government

would sign the treaty because it “is in complete harmony

with the policy of peace pursued by thé

Turkish govern-

ment.” Recalling that his country was one of the first

to declare war on Japan after Pearl Oresmuno, the Costa Rican Ambassador, +was proud of the opportunity to sign “exactly as it is.”

Harbor, Rafael said Costa Rica such a treaty,

8 2» : a 88 THESE are the kind of people who enlist for the

duration!

Did the Russians offer us any help after Pearl Harbor?

No, they asked us to help them by estab

lishing a second

front in Europe. And they waited until three months after the end of the war in Europe before going to war with Japan. Then they came in only when they were convinced Japan had been so weakened that they would not be

confronted by a counterattack.

nations. If they are ignored for a while

they may learn

it pays to behave. But in any case the less we have to

do with them the better.

Today and Tomorrow

F Y American public had not been conditioned to such things by the very frequency of them, it probably would

be standing on its head in alarm over nouncements. Recently, the Navy let a contract for of a submarine to be powered by atomic

some recent an-

the construction energy.

Now the Air Force is ordering the development of -an airplane which will fly, it is said, at incredible speeds ahd

for incredible distances on atomic energy.

President. Truman, in an off-the cuff speech in San Francisco, hinted darkly of new and “fantastic” weapons

which he implied are so devastating he have to use them.

hopes we never

The ink scarcely was dry on the front pages which heralded these prospects when Dr. James B. Conant, the

scientist-presideit of Harvard University, belittled all three

super sensations.

He virtually dismissed the atomic age before it is started by forecasting the early harnessing of the sun's

energy—a power of inexhaustible supply, sion and wider <adapiation;

DR. CONANT—correctly, it seems to

cheaper conver-

lle that

both good and evil are inherent in these astonishing scien-

tific possibilities.

It is inevitable, for instance, that solar energy, when it «

becomes commonplace, will be used for the prosecution of

war, and doubtless for other mmfamous pu

rposes. As well

as for improvements in medicine, agriculture and commerce. It is history that the blessings cf scientific discovery

frequently go hand in hand with the evils

thereof.

So perhaps it is enly reasonable that aRnouncements of such vast portent do not evoke from the general public

-—or even, in fact, from the world of sc

jence itself—the

paeans and exultation which might be expected. Besides, these things lie in the future, even though it

be the near future.

And the world now has its hands full of the present. .

It cannot safely be diverted by the shape may come,

of things which

Moreover, the Russians, as soon as they hear of these things, doubtless will claim they already have them.

SEN. BRICKER told Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston to “quit bellyaching.” Does the Senator want to drive the

man from public Jite?

FREEDOM may be on the way back} in “Yugoslavia. Peasants are treating Tito like the American’ Farm Bureau

+ feats Truman. =

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By Ludwell Denny = =

U. S. Has Stake in Greek Eleciion

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—The United States and the Allies have a big stake in the Greek

national election next Sunday. Security of Gen.'

Eisenhower's Hight flank depends on a reliable Greece. America began to challenge Soviet aggression four years ago with the Truman doctrine, which was provoked by Stalin's grab for Greece. Washington since then has tried to build that strategic country into a bastion against Red con-

materials, economic and military aid and experts, have been used for that purpose. Success has been greater, than many expected. The socalled civil war, in which Stalin used a small number of Greek Reds and a larger number of Baliian satellites, has been won. Today there is probably. no country in Europe with more determination to stand against Communist attack. @ This is true of most of the parties contesting: Sunday’s election. So the next government in Athens will be anti-Soviet and proAmerican. If that were all, there would be no concern in Washington over the results. Unfortunately, however, more is needed in Greece than good will and strong hearts. Se-

gv ery Mr. Papagos «oo Greek idol?

—curity requires political and economic stability.

It also requires administrative efficiency. These have been lacking.

"Views On News

By DAN KIDNEY A PRO-COMMUNIST French Senator is said to have been eaten by his cannibal constituents in West Africa. Probably got tired of having him eat off of them. Ss SO BEST THING to measure the progress of Korean peace talks is a fever thermometer. @

> So THAT JAP peace treaty is designed to help us cut down the cost of winning World War IL

PEARERARRRRNRNNAARRRNRNRRNRNTRRRRRETERANER

“- HD oO MOSCOW has its own university scandal. Students have been swapping lamb fat for sheepskins.

SS oO WITH ALL that experience in investigations, any member of the 82d Congress who is defeated should be able to get a good job with the FBI.

> SS SENATOR WILEY wants the Senate to set up a Permanent Crime ‘Commission. Nothing like showing confidence in the future, =

SRT : IF “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” we must be enjoying a low standard of living. living. > © & HEADLINE-—"India Faces Crisis on 4th Birthday.” Got to be a “major power right quick. > > 4

SERRE TRIES ENR RARER ERR RRR RRR R REE IRENANS

By Galbraith’

As long as Gteece is torn by internal feuds,

national weakness will more than offset the -

theoretic agreement against communism. When that disunity splinters the many parties into even more rival factions—as in the year and a half since the last election—responsible government is impossible. In such a dizzy succession of shifting and powerless coalition cabinets, the already low standards of administrative efficiency sink lower and chronic corruption spreads. As a result, the country which is so democratic in spirit becomes far more democratic in practice—the victim of its overgrown individualism and inability to pull together.

Political Interference?

THIS -election has been called in an effort to get a cabinet with enough support to govern -—which recent cabinets did not have. What makes this election different from the last is that a new leader with a new party has entered the lists against the old line politicians, and that this new man is a national hero hitherto above politics. Field Marshal Alexander Papagos became the Greek idol in the war against Italian aggression. More recently, when the Reds were winning the “civil war” against a Greek army rotten with politics, Papagos stepped in and almost miraculously made it a superb and victorious fighting force. This summer he resigned because of alleged political interference by the ng. Then he entered. politics with his new “Greek rally.” It is billed as a super-party to restore Greek unity on a patriotic basis of self-help

‘to match American aid, social reform, clean

government and defense of world democracy. The politicians whisper that he is a potential dictator. Noboby knows.

2 By Talburt :

‘ permitted manufac-

WHO'S WRONG? .

By Earl Richert 4

Senator: We ead More Rubber; Industry: We Have Too Much

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—For some time now

rubber industry officials have been saying that before long we're going to have rubber “running out our gars.” “The big rubber problem in 1952,” said w. J. Sears, executive vice president of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, “will be what to do with all the rubber.” The National Production Authority apparently sees things somewhat along this line, too. Only a week ago it removed all government restrictions on the use of natural rubber latex,

turers to increase sharply their inventories of natural and synthetic rubber, and indicated that by the first quarter of 1952 the manufacturers might be able to get a1 the rubber they need. Yet this week Sen. Lyndon Johnsén's (D. Tex.) preparedness subcommittee reported on the seriousness of tne rubber situation. It severely criticized mobilization officials for paying too much attention to industry needs and too little attention to reaching the natural

Sen. Johnson « + . he wants more

rubber stockpile goal.

Who's wrong? ’ Sen. Johnson's critica’ report is based mainly on one cold fact: We don’t have behind lock and key our scheduled stockpilé of natural rubber.

‘Rubber Pearl Harbor!

WITH 95 per cent of our natural rubber coming from Asian countries subject to quick conquest by Red China, he thinks a “rubber” Pearl Harbor is possible at any moment, And the mobilization officials should work fast to

. complete the natural rubber stockpile, letting

U. 8. industry be pinched somewhat more in . the meantime. i Industry officials say that Sen. Johnson's report—the preparation of which was started

JAPANESE TREATY .

last. springs-is quite a bit behind the times. , They claim we now have Snopigh natural rubber on hand and en route to fight an —_— five-year global war. Said President John L. Collyer of the B, F. Goodrich Co. on Aug. 10: “A stockpile of crude rubber has now been accumulated which, to-

gether. with private industry working stocks . :

and stocks afloat to this country, is adequate to meet military and essential civilian requirements of the United States for a five-year war.” Size of the government's natural rubber stockpile goal is a secret.

Rubber on Hand

BUT industry officials say anyone can read monthly "Commerce Department data and fig-

“ure out how much natural rubber the govern- - ment has on hand.

As of the moment, they say, the U. 8. owns about 730,000 tons. And 64,000 tons of natural rubber is in the hands of private industry—for a total of 794,000 tons now in the U. 8. ‘ Another 152,000 tons now is in the pipeline, much of it in ships which it is presumed the U. 8. Navy could get into port in case of war. This, added to present stocks, would give the U. 8. a total of 946,000 tons of natural rubber on hand. Our synthetic rubber production, now running at the rate of 920,000 tons a year, is expected to rise to 1,020,000 tons by the end of this year. (Present consumption of both natural and synthetic rubber is running at an annual rate of 1,217,000 tons.)

Rubber in Sight

AS THE industry has it, the government estimates it will need 5.5 million tons of rubber at the most for military and essential eivilian requirements for a five-year war. If use of natural rubber were limited to the same extent as during the most .severe period of World War II, only 16 per cent—or 880,000 tons—of this 5.5 million tons would have to be natural rubber. And the industry now: sees 946,000 tons of natural rubber on hand or in sight. Hence, their assurance that the rubber situation is in good shape—particularly with the expansion and technological improvements in synthetic rubber. And Mr: Collyer is urging the government to stockpile 200,000 tons of syn-

_thetic rubber.

. By Oland D. Russell

Reds Plan All-Out War in Korea?

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—The American delegation to the -peace conference here is puzzled by the failure of the Russians, so far, to link up the Korean truce talks with the prospective Japanese Treaty signing. There have been strong reasons to believe that Moscow purposely stalled the Kaesong negotiations in order to strengthen Russia’s hand somehow in the war of nerves now being played here. This could have been achieved in either of two ways: Russia could have signaled her Far Eastern puppets to sign an armistice on the eve of the conference opening and then pose as a staunch and reliable peace-maker to win Asiatic friends here. Or, by holding off the armistice she could pose the threat of loosing a world -war if the Japanese Treaty were signed. It is too late now to use the first alternative, 80 American observers were watching carefully for any hint in Andrei Gromyko's tirades that the Korean fighting was to be renewed on an all-out scale.

‘Preparations for War’

GROMYKO did not mention the Kaesong stalemate, but for whatever threat it may hold, or whatever blackmail he may be building up, he said this: “The driving of Japan into military blocs provided for by the American-British draft treaty cannot but cause anxiety on the part of states which are really interested in safeguard-

ing and maintenance of peace in.the Far East.” And again, as he summed up Soviet objections to the treaty, he said: “The American British draft is not a treaty of peace but a treaty for the preparation of a new war in the Far East.” If it was his intention thus to scare off the treaty backers, it was as complete a failure as ‘his earlier efforts to snarl up the conference on rules of procedure. For the rest of the nations went down the line endorsing the AmericanBritish draft.

Not Exhausted? CHARLES E. BOHLEN, the State Department’s chief expert on Russia, was understood to have cautioned the American delegation against too firm a conclusion that Russian strategy had been wholly exhausted. Mr. Bohlen is reported to have reminded the optimists that the Kremlin still could order new conference moves by the Reds, or as a last resort reopen the Korean War on a major scale if Moscow feels that Mr. Gromyko suffered a real defeat here. The American delegation has been holding frequent strategy huddles, There was some talk that a detailed reply to the Gromyko proposals might be issued by the U. S. delegation, but it was withheld on the ground that it might only give Gromyko a.new chance to make trouble and lengthen the conference. Only a major development _which could be cooking in Moscow—is likely to relieve the Soviet delegate from his helpless predicament here.

Hoosier Forum— ‘What's That About Mac?’

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

MR. EDITOR:

I read in the Hoosier Forum a letter from Mr. W. 8S. Powers where he sees the need of Big Mac as President of the U. 8. with such men as Sen. Robert Taft and Herbert Hoover to back him up.

Well, Big Mac needs a lot of backing, even more than either Taft or Hoover can give him. Remember when he backed down with the Army behind him, leaving his men to take the brunt of the Jap attack to save his own neck? Do you think that kind of a man is suitable timber to be President? He must not remember the '30s when Mr. Herbert Hoover was pretending t6 be President that only a chosen few had jobs at all and the rest were on soup lines and apple stands on the corner. Does he remember Mr. Hoover saying $1.0C a day and a lantern was good enough for a working man? As for Sen. Taft what has he ever done for the working class? Just tell me

.one thing. The Taft-Hartley Bill helped labor a

lot, didn't it? Personally, I think the present administration has made mistakes, but with all their mistakes they have the working class of people in mind, -not the millionaires. If Mr. Powers likes the Republicans so well, he should come to Indiana. In closing, may God save us all from another Herbert Hoover.

~Edward Castle, 1227 N. Gale St.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The Justice Department regards members of the Soviet news agency, Tas, primarily as agents of a foreign power rather than newspaper correspondents, a department spokesman said.

nfembers of the Tass staff here are registered as Soviet agents,

exempts bona fide newspaper workers. . The three are Mihail Fedorov, Russian chief of the bureau; and two American citizens. Lauresce Todd and Jean Montgomery... A fourth mber of the staff, Euphemia K. Virden, also an American citizen, i3 not registered as a Sov- - let agent, since Tass claims she is eHIployeR solely as a telefo typist and thus is exempt. However, Miss Virden is seen frequently in the capitol press’ galleries and in the State Department press room.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT . Believes Tass Reporters Are Red Agents

‘Tenant Trouble’ MR. EDITOR: On Aug. 29, page 2 of The Times, you have quite a piece about landlords overcharging. You have been asked to take pictures and write up an article about bad tenants. Why not do it?

I know a tenant who painted the hall and door to his apartment with red paint. He left the apartment like a hogpen. Please don't be so one sided. Put both sides of affairs in the paper. : —W. 8. Parks, Vice President, American Home Owners, Inc.

‘Animals and Heat’ MR. EDITOR: How dumb can you get? Farmers bring their cattle and other livestock to the Indiana State Fair and then watch them die with the heat. If a man has a valuable animal and just sits there and waits for cooler weather to come along he deserves to have his animal die on him. Maybe the chance to win a fancy ribbon and a few prizes is a greater desire than watching that animal stay hea'thy. I'm just a city boy and go to the Fair because I like to look

American Society of Newspaper Editors, in asking that

. By Andrew Tully

agency of the Soviet government—comes under the provi-

at animals and other good things, but I can’t see this. If I were a farmer I would say ribbons be hanged, I'm going home where I can get these critters out in the fields under some trees and near some. running water. And what's worse than that . .. these sheep farmers put covers over their’ sheep so they won't get dirty and spoil that fine wash job.

How would you like to romp around with a wool coat on and a cover to boot.

—Bob Crachet, Columbus.

MOMENT FROM. PARADISE

THIS is the moment of enchantment . . . this is the time that is meant for love . . . and in a twinkling we will venture . . . into a dream

that is high Shove, + this is the time that Is

most endearing . . . and to my heart it will always be . .. for a breath of deepremotion . .. real paradise you and I will see . .. this is the space between two lips. dear . ., . lips that are burning for a kiss ... and I am sure in a second dearest . . . we'll know the magic of true bliss - +» « moment of anxious longing waiting . . . fleet as the other moments do . . . pass with the breeze that is blowing gently . . , pass so my dreams can all come true.

—By Ben Burroughs .

However, Afanasiev also .

for home before lott

any action

He pointed out that three .

under a law which specifically .

congressional press privileges be withheld from Tass in reprisal for the jailing in Czechoslovakia of American reporter Willlam N. Oatis. « In explaining the Justice Department's viewpoint ‘on Tass, the spokesman quoted two sections of the law which exempt authentic newspapermen from registering. These sections provide exemption so long as the individual's activity is confined to: }

‘ONE—Gathering and re-

porting information which is reasonably adapted to being, and which he intends to be,

used by his principal purely for ~

n2ws ‘purposes and not for the purpose of disseminating political propaganda. “TW O—Broad casting or writing for publication within the United States concerning which the foreign agents regis-

tration . has previously been

notified in writi ing of. extem

or the mak-

J oral

sions of the law which say an

individual must register as a foreign agent if: “ONE—Any of the activities of the agent are performed for or directed by any foreign government or foreign political party “TWO—The. foreign principal’ is owned or subsidized in whole or in part by, or any of its activities are directed by, any foreign government or foreign political party.” Canada could advise the U. 8. that Tass’ aetivities are “directed” by the Soviet gov‘ernment into channels far removed from honest newspaper reporitng. It could cite the case of Nicolai Zheveinov, a Tass staff man in Ottawa, who in 1946" was named by the Royal ~ Canadian Commission as a key member of the Soviet spy ring whicn had been stealing atomic *Secrets from the _ Canadian

Soula be taken. n December, 1949, correspondent in Ottava Ta denied admission to the Parliamentary - galleries by a press committee because his credentials were not in order. Some delay was expected be-

fore the correspondents com- .

mittee acted on ASNE’s requent to toss Tass out of the Capitol’s press galleries. For, in addition to asking the Jus-

- tice Department to check on

Tass, the committee also has written Secretary of State Dean Acheson, asking for his® reaction. oo . o s MR. ACHESON was asked whether he would favor or oppose ejection of the Tass repre-

U. 8.’on a diplomatic passport. The answer to the second ques-

Ym, 1 Was learned, js this: . .As an of the

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