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San Francisco Now that the Western Allies have demonstrated to themselves, as well as to the rest of the world, that they can do business without the Russians, perhaps there will be a gradual lessening of international tensions. Much of our-difficulty with the Soviets has been of our own making. But when his sounding board was taken away from him, Gromyko was just another frustrated man. : Our government and its principal allies have courted Moscow's favor so persistently, and often so abjectly, that Stalin and company have acquired an exaggerated sense of their own importance. We had even talked ourselves into a position where Moscow had the last word on all questions left outstanding by the termination of the late war. That was a far cry from the days when the Russians stood hat in hand, begging for American recognition. But it's still the same Russia. If all this foolishness is behind us now, as a result of the success of the San Francisco conference, it is a great gain. Settlement of the German, Austrian and Italian problems should proceed without further hindrance or interruption. . If the State Department and the British Foreign Office have the sense to give the Soviets the silent treatment whenever possible, the Russian attitude may be found of much less concern to us than it has seemed to be.

» » ” » - THE MAN who loomed largest over the peace conference was not there. Gen. Douglas MacArthur laid the groundwork for the San Francisco achievement by his statesmanlike administration of occupied Japan. To get on with his monumental job, the General had the wisdom to put the Soviets in their proper place at the very beginning of the occupation. And he kept them there, the State Department notwithstanding. John Foster Dulles’ painstaking diplomacy made the most of what Gen. MacArthur had builded. Early in his work of drafting a treaty he recognized that Russia was not ~ interested in an honorable peace with Japan. ‘He didn't hesitate and he didn't appease. With great skill and patience he consulted with our other war allies, and finally accom- * plished what had seemed impossible, a draft treaty which, in advance of the conference, 48 nations agreed to sign. Not often in these columns recently have we had an opportunity to comment favorably on Secretary of State Dean Acheson. We are glad here to say that his performance at San Francisco left nothing to be desired. With the treaty Mr. Dulles had handed him and the procedural rules the delegates adopted, Mr. Acheson presided over the conference with tact and forcefulness that was applauded by all except the Russians, Poles and Czechs. The parliamentary bruising administered the latter was all to the good.

WE TRUST the example of San Francisco will also indicate to our diplomats that there is much to be gained by

spoiled by too much attention until he has become the world’s No. 2 problem child. That is a rating far beyond his desserts. He tried to wreck the conference and it should not be forgotten. t ° On the other hand, the Philippines government deserves the best from us. Only an administration of great courage would have signed the Japanese treaty in the face of the bitter public resentment because of the refusal to include in that document a provision for the mandatory payment of fixed war damages. The Japanese certainly should do everything within their means, now and in the future, to show their appreciation of the Philippines’ attitude. Indeed, the place in history of the conference itself will be determined by Japan—not by the United States, which sponsored the policy of conciliation, nor by Russia and India, which for their separate selfish reasons, sought to prevent an agreement. The magnanimity of her conquerors will be repaid in kind only if the rejuvenated Japan, now resuming its position as a free nation, becomes an exemplification of . the spirit and understanding which dominated the settlement of this disastrous war. rin

You Take Your ‘Choice’

HEN the federal income tax was imposed in 1913, it was a pretty radical thing, then. “It marked a new era in the history of American finance,” says the history book. But, shucks, it was nothing! All it did was take one per cent of your income over $3000 ($4000 if you were married) up to $20,000. And if you made more than $20,000 and not more than $50,000, you paid two per cent on the income over $20,000. And so on up to the few who made more than $500,000-a year—they paid six per cent. That's all there was to it. If you took in the money, from whatever source, you forked over a pittance to Uncle Sam. - Yield from the tax that first year—a little more than $71 million. Millions, that is. .

» . UNDER the Present law, you first figure out your normal tax—after miscellaneous exemptions and deductions. Then a surtax. This gets you to the “tentative” tax. And from this you work out the “actual” tax. Now comes the Senate Finance Committee with a new plan. : After you have completed the foregoing arithmetic, you take 11 per cent of the tax you owe and add that to the ~ total. Or, you compute eight per cent of what you have left after your tax total: You may pay, as a new tax, whichever is the least. - 3 In other words, if eight percent of what you have left is less than 11 percent of what you pay, then, bless you, sir, you have your choice of the lesser amount. It's been a long time since 1913, hasn't it?

Roger Babson says “conflict is the stairway by which civilization climbs.” We must be on an escalator, " agin : : Headline: *cientists study how to "keep Soviet from capturing moon.” The Russians must want to “li rate’ Gn a ee

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| FooLER Ry ii McFarland Czech Purge Is Party Line Zag

_ WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — The so-called “shakeup” of the Communist government in «Czechoslovakia is purely a switch in the Moscow party line.

“In no sense does the “shakeup” have any

of the makings of a break with Moscow, On the contrary, it is evidence the Kremlin is tightening its hold on Czechoslovakia. These are-the opinions of free Czechs in the United States and other observers familiar with

the inside of the Communist machine in Czecho--

slovakia. It boils down to this: > *

WHEN THE RUSSIANS took over control of the countries now inside the Iron Curtain, in

no instance did they trust local Communists to .

, run the governments, Moscow-trained outsiders were sent in to take positions of power and to keep the local party organizations on the right line. This plan, believe, failed. So the Communists have changed their tune. The new party line is to drum up nationalist spirit in each country, to make it appear that all the feverish production is not intended to help Russia but to develop each country individually. But the bosses still are in Moscow. Free Czechs say the five-year plan Russia imposed on Czechoslovakia has been a flop, that the industrial production in that country for Russia’s war machine has fallen far short of the goal.

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THEY ATTRIBUTE this to a general dragging of the feet by Czech workers who resented being pushed at a faster and faster pace to produce for Russia. To offset this attitude, the Communists now are emphasizing the ‘“‘nationalist” angle—that all this production is strictly for Czechoslovakia’s good, not Russia's. The ‘same line apparently iz to be followed elsewhere. At the time the Kremlin was shaking up the Czech government, the top Commie in France, Jacques Duclos, was sounding off in the same vein. ‘ > This party spokesman, frequently the bellwether for shifts in the party line, made a long speech to the. central committee of the French Communist party in which he mentioned Russia only once—but talked loudly about “independence” for France and a strong “rational policy.” Wd

THREE of the Communist big shots in Czechoslovakia who have been downgraded by the shakeup are not Czechs or Slovaks. Rudolph Slansky, who was lifted from his key spot as.general secretary of the Czech Communist party, is a Jew. Bedrich Geminder, “ousted” deputy general secretary, is a Sudeten German. So is Josef Frank, retired from the Czech “politburo.” Still in the government iz one “foreigner,” Foreign Minister Vilem Soroky, a Hungarian. The rest are Czechs—but Moscow-directed Communists. > * : PRESIDENT KLEMENT GOTTWALD is Moscow-trained. - And his son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, minister of defense and now a bigger . Wheel in the Czech setup, is “absolutely reliable from the Moscow point of view,” the free Czechs say. : It's all an act, to seduce the Czech industrial workers into believing they are working for Czechoslovakia instead of the Kremlin. It's intended to make the Communist rule in CzechoSlovakia look like a Czech rule, not a Russian rule.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

Suing for Sioaiyse. an Indianapolis lady charged her husband “failed to properly provide food or meat.” He is a butcher. The rich have breast of guinea hen, The poor just plain pigs’ feet. - Some folks have round steak now and then, But she claims life's not meet, Their wedded bliss is just a stew She tells us in a pout. Their married life he’s butchered too— He just won't hash things out!

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MR. EDITOR: I'm going to “haul off” and say that the only just taxes we have or ever will have is a tax on incomes, I may have “hauled off” and hit some old Fuddie-duddie a hard blow right between the

eyes by saying this but I hope it will awaken him to the facts.:If these old Fuddie-duddies had paid an income tax all their lives, there would be no need

It was not until about 21 years ago that we had any tax on incomes at all. During Woodrow Wilson's administration (and he was a Democrat) we even had to amend the Constitution of the U. 8. tax incomes. Little wonder these old Fuddié-quddies that have worked and saved the first dollar they ever made hate the Democrats. . A nice guy with a bloated salary could sell his home, move into an apartment and become entirely tax free, : Little wonder he amassed a large fortune. \ A home ig a liability and should be tax-free. We cannot honestly tax a liability. Mrs. W. H,, City

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‘Another Treaty We'd Liké to See Signed

CLOSING A DOOR . .. By James Daniel - It Took a Long Time, But Tass Wore Out Welcome in Capital

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 Communist Russia’s phony press agency, Tass, whose agents would be denied press privileges under a move initiated by the standing committee of correspondents accredited to the congressional press galleries, has been a long time wearing out its welcome in this country,

As early as 1930 Tass drew an unfavorable mention from a congressional committee. The Fish Committee, a predecessor of the House Un-American Activities Committee, noted that the Washington corréspondent for Tass and the correspondent for a private press organization feeding pro-Communist propaganda to U. 8S. labor papers, were the same person.

But the committee merely recommended that

the news dispatches of this correspondent. who enjoyed the. privileges of the press galleries, should be scrutinized by somebody for “revolutionary tendencies.”

In 1934 Tass played a central role in an investigation by the Bulwinkle committee into .

charges by a Dr. William A. Wirt of Gary, Ind. He said that at a dinner party here he was told by a Tass correspondent and five second-level bureaucrats: * Sb “WE BELIEVE that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is so strong that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the Kerengky of this revolution.” (Kerensky was the mild reformer who came to temporary power after the ousting of

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HOOSIER FORUM—Back Taxes

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‘What's That Again?’ MR. EDITOR:

Well, what do you know? Darling Homer is crying again about his little amendment. Seems nobody wants it and many people sven 80 so far as to call it “terrible.” - Actually it's much worse than terrible, It stinks all the way through and it's perfectly obvious why Homer thinks it's so good. Let me tell Homer that he should go back to the NAM and tell them their little plan didn't work. < Our poor boy wants to allow sellers of everything to hike prices as long as they can prove that the prices of the materials put into that “anything” have been hiked. Now, from the story Homer tells us this is going to -stop inflation . . lead to lower prices and a healthy U. 8. economy. How in the heck any man in his right mind can figure that one out is beyond me. But then, who said Homer was in his right mind when he wrote that law! Rose Petal, City.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— Foreign Secretary Herbert 8. Morrison of Great Britain, who's in town for the Big Three talks, has gained two notable enemies in a lifetime of politics. One is Winston Churchill and the other is the Communist party. Mr. Churchill and the Communist party being such diverse elements, this has taken a bit of doing. but Mr. Morrison has managed it. He is hated by these two enémies for different reasons, of course.

Morrison's aggressively honest character — the qualities that make him ‘an easy man to dislike at the same time they win him the staunchest of friends. ‘ Mr. Churchill's dislike of Mr. Morrison is primarily personal. To the former Tory prime minister, Mr. Morrison typifies the Labor government, which has taken over from the old regime. Mr, Churchill feels Mr, -Meorrison just hasn't the back--ground to govern. (To which, incidentally, Mr. Morrison has rantiad “T wasn't horn to rule, . but I've got used to it.”) Cw SECONDLY, however,’ Mr. Churchill feels Mr. Morrison is

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the Czar and Bolsheviks.) Five members of the House served on the committee that investigated Dr, Wirt's account of the evening. In the end, the three Democrats reported that there was no evidence that anybody in the government plotted its overthrow and that Dr. Wirt's charges were not true. The Republican minority charged the Democrats with a whitewash. They said Dr. Wirt a prominent educator-—had been smeared and bullied by the committee chairman, :

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" THE DEMOCRATS, according to the Republicans, refused to call any witnesses except the six others present at the dinner party— which was given, incidentally, in honor of Dr. Wirt, with the Tass man appointed as his personal escort for the evening. The Republicans particularly objected because the Democrats said that Tass was the

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“Associated Press” of Russia. They said there

was a world of difference between a volunteer press service organized under the free press guarantee of the U. S. Constitution and the government-owned and operated propaganda arm of Russia. At the hearings, the Tass correspondent scornfully®referred to Dr. Wirt's part in the evening’s talk as an “unsuccessfully terminated monolog.” He and the five others present swore that during four or five hours only one person other than Dr. Wirt uttered a sentence. LS SINCE 1934, Tass agents in this country -- there are 19 now, 10 of them Americans—have been unable to muster the support of a majority of any congressional committee. - Especially since the aftermath of World War II destroyed the illusion of amity with Russia have Tass agents been getting the cold shoulder. Early last year Gen. George C. Marshall interrupted a foreign policy discussion before a House committee to nod toward a Tass woman sitting at the press table and contrast Russia's intimate knowledge of events in the U.S. with our relative ignorance of what goes on in Russia. “Certainly,” he said, “you do not see her prototype at such meetings in the Soviet Union.” A SEN. BRIEN McMAHON (D., Conn.), chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, once angrily refused to answer an off-the-record question about the H-bomb because a Tass agent was present. A month [before the Korean War began, a Tass agent was present at the press conference in which the results of the latest Eniwetok atomic tests were disclosed, {ncluding the information, comforting to Russia, ‘that gthe radiation after-effects of atomic weapons had been grossly exaggerated. Pentagon and White House information directors have lately fouhd ways of blocking Tass agents from some of the information given to other reporters. The stricter Pentagon policy started after former Defense Secrefary Louis Johnson got a call from other reporters one day that his candid and off-the-record comments on the state of the armed forces, made at a press

conference, had been taken down by a Tass man.

. By Andrew Tully

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of state through the perilous shoals which now menace it. “Here,” said Mr. Churchill, “is the new foreign secretary who shows to all the world that his main thought in life is to be a caucus boss and a bitter party electioneer.” ] < Yet, oddly enough, Mr. Morrison ance did an. excellent— and thankless —job for TV neton Charen. For it Jas 8 igerent fellow who

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As home secretary, Mr. Morrison not only was responsible for the internment of enemy and British Fascists, but had special powers to imprison without trial draft all Britons from 16 to 60 for 48 hours of air raid service a month. Yet, this job was done, Mr. Churchill, stung by Mr. Morrison's impudent attitude and his de- is _.a soft one. Mr, fiance of traditions, that ‘“‘there was no minister I | was gladder to get rid of.”

NEVERTHELESS, Winston Churchill grudgingly acknowledges that there is no official of the Labor government who is less likely to take up the Communist party line. "The Communists have made Herbert Morrison one of their special targets for for two major reasons. One goes back to the '30's when Sir Stafford Cripps was trying to get the Labor party to join a united front with the Reds. Mr. Morrison's scratchy voice was the loudest of those d against it. Such an al-

NEED . . . By Ludwell Denny

Treaty Depends

Victor WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 The Korean War will Have more effect than the Japanese “peace

settlement” on security in the Pacific and democracy in Japan.

If the Reds win in Korea, Stalin can tighten -

his grip on China, grab more of Asia and strain Japan's new alliance with the United States. Japan cannot exist long without Chinese and Asian trade and raw materials, and she will be

‘open to Stalin pressure if he controls those

essentials, Her defense would be difficult if Stalin controlled Korea and the Japan Sea. Only if the United Nations win the Korean war will there be a fair chance of the San Francisco treaties producing the desired results, At best and assuming ratification, the peace treaty restoring Japanese sovereignty and rearmament rights is a big gamble. She may use her new economic freedom in unfair competition against us. She may use her new political freedom to peel off the veneer of democracy applied go obligingly during six years of American military occupation: She may use her new military freedom to blackmail us, if not actually to fight us should Russia ever appear the domin ant world power. ¢ : oo oe oe THIS GRAVE GAMBLE is justified because it is the lesser of evils. The, alternative was to keep Japan under our military control, turning “friendship” into hatred, co-operation into sabotage, and encouraging her to turn to Stalin for “freedom” from us. That would destroy any hope of democracy in Japan, and any chance of a trustworthy American ally. . > In contrast, this treaty of reconciliation and liberty at least gives us the possibility that Japan will develop as a decent nation instead of another menace. A possibility but not a certainty. We have been forced into a premature blankcheck “peace” with Japan by the Soviet threat of another world war. The Jap menace, if it ever materializes again, is distant. The Soviet threat is immediate—and total. So we have no real choice regarding Japan—or Germany, or any other key nation. We must find allies where we can and fast, however uncertain they may be. v

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WHILE THE JAPANESE treaty is no final victory for us, it is an initial defeat for Stalin. Whatever the ultimate effect of a rearmed Japan may be, now it is on our side. The American-Japanese mutual defense pact, permitted by the peace treaty, provides for the American bases which are the chief barrier to Soviet attack. This—more than all other treaty provisions put together—is what gripes Stalin. Even so, this American-Japanese military alliance will not be worth much if Stalin wins in Korea. The Japs are on our side now ‘not because they love us, or because they want to sacrifice themselves to Russian bombing for the greater security of America. They think we ean defend them, and that they are on the winning side. The same applies to other Asian nations which. have reluctantly signed the Jap treaty. We must win in Korea to hold what little support we have in Azia and the Middle East, and to cement the larger alliance we have in Europe.

What Others Say—

SPEAKERS have been (showering us with pearls of wisdom) for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, fit would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever heen used.—Benjamin F. Fairless, president U. 8, Steel Corp. “aS WE (the Republican Party) have got to get support from the Solid South and we can do this only by going to the South for cooperation, not by telling the South to come to us.—Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R. 8.D.). » Bb ob IT sghould be . . . clear why the State® Department and its international do-gooders at the United Nations are pushing the (proposed) Covenant on Human Rights toward ratification. It is . . . designed to stifle all criticism of the so-called Fair Deal.—Sen. John W. Bricker (R. 0.). hb a ‘I'M glad I've got protection now-—President Truman, signing bill giving Secret Service per manent legal status. 0B . THIS show-must-go-on stuff is a lot of baloney. The only reason the show must.go on is for the . . . manager.—Lipnel Barrymore, actor, . cdl EY'RE (self-important government officials) like all the ants caught on a log tnat's floating down a river. Every one of those ants thinks he's steering.—John A. McCone, Air Force undersecretary.

MY TWO GIRLS

I HAVE two girls, one big, one small . . . who mean the world to me . . . and when they greet me with a smile . . . my paradise I see . +» « It's wonderful to feel their kiss . . . whenever day is done .. . and when they hold me tenderly . . . I feel life's just begun . . . my girls work wonders on my heart . . . because they love me so... they have a way of cheering me . .. whenever I feel low , .. and with each passing day it seems . . . my love for them increases , . . and should they ever go away . . . my heart would break to pieces . . . because to me they're everything . . . théy bring me joy and bliss . .. for I'm in love with one big girl « +» « and one wonderful miss. —By Ben Burroughs.

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feel his power as home secre‘tary. It was during the short life of the Communist-Nazi pact when the Reds were pursuing a defeatist policy in Britain through its newspaper, The Daily Worker. Secretary Morrison merely suppressed the paper, as his job gave him power to do. »

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TODAY, Mr. Morrison exe: cutes a policy with the Communists which his critics feel Morrison dissents, naturally; he points out that his policy is to settle for an inch of progress with ” the Russians whenever he can't get a yard. But he insists he will never compromise with Moscow where it involves a breach of principle. | A vigorous 63, Mr. Morrison . is married and has a married daughter. He nfakes 5000 pounds ($14,000) a year as foreign secretary and spends none of it on high living; he and his wife occupy a semidetached. three-bedroom house in an unfashionable suburb of London. Mr. Morrison lost an eye in an accident when he was only three days old and this has re- - sulted in an odd habit of tiiting his fives him a

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