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ROY W, HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY. W. MAN3 President Editor Business Manager

PAGE 20 Sunday, Oct. 7, 1951

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Stalemate in the Statehouse -

EMPERS have risen pretty high in the argument over public welfare, and it begins to look now as if nothing much is going to be accomplished by the special session of the legislature. : i The House voted to stand pat on the right of Indiana to run its own welfare program and passed a set of bills which forthe most part are necessary if that's what Indiana is going to do. The Senate, though, has taken a different view of the problem, and its only action so far is an attempt to back away from the situation for the next two years. Senate views seem unacceptable in the House, and House views are given less than an even chance of getting past the Senate. If the deadlock continues for a few more weeks the session will end just where it began, with federal funds cut off, no state funds appropriated to replace them, and the whole cost of welfare thrown back on the counties, which under existing law have no escape from meeting them.

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THE BASIC issue is still exactly what it was last win-

ter when the original action whs taken—whether the people of Indiana shall govern Indiana or whether federal bureau-

crats shall do it.

There is little doubt about the sentiment of the people of Indiana on the subject.

But the immediate, practical, question before the

Assembly is how to cope with the situation created by the

federal bureaucrats’ retaliation against Indiana.

Just winding up this session in a deadlock with nothing done is not the answer to that question. Forty days of jockeying for party political advantage won't solve the state's problem, either. Leaders of both parties, in both Houses of the legislature, ought to be able to bury their, partisan differences long enough to find a solution that will preserve the state's sovereign integrity and maintain the necessary care of the needy which all parties agree must be maintained. Neither political party, we believe, is going to win any real advantage out of blocking such a course. . If there are any real statesmen in the Indiana General Arsembly, here is their chance to prove their worth.

Teuman Iron Curtain

TO PUT it in a most charitable way, President Truman is all mixed up on his own plan for controlling government information for the press. y He wants voluntary censorship—then again he doesn't. At one moment he is saying in effect that the Defense Department is no final and safe authority on what might go in newspapers, that the ultimate responsibility lies with the reporters or publishers. Then in the next breath he is saying it's safe to publish any military infgrmation from “responsible” and “qualified” officials. The President complained particularly about maps and an article printed by Fortune Magazine showing the location of atomic energy plants. But the magazine says the information was furnished by the Atomic Energy

Commission, the text and maps cleared for publication by

that agency, and that the commission itself bought 500 reprints of the article for redistribution. Same way with the Matador, a guided missile. The Pentagon furnished photographs and diagrams—and Mr. Truman was painfully surprised that the newspapers published them, even though he had admitted the Matador was one of the “fantastic weapons” he had spoken about in flan Francisco.

° » ” ” # - ~ ONE FACTOR Mr. Truman overlooks in the complex business of giving out and withholding news is the small army of press agents that hangs out at the Pentagon. Each service has its own “information” experts constantly competing with the other services for headlines. The Army lands on page one with a super weapon and the Navy is sure to follow with a super ship, the Air Force with a super plane. After all the build-up,- helped by

Mr, Truman himself (although he doesn’t seem to remember.

it), the Matador story was a natural—not only for page one, but as an example of competitive zeal among the ‘services, » If, as Mr. Truman incredibly maintains, 95 per cent of our secret information has been published, he can blame no small part of it on military press agents pulling out all the stops for some particular service, or individual. One way to safeguard against such. leaks is to fire a lot of these Pentagon publicity zealots; or, if they're in uniform, shift them into more useful jobs. If they don't know when they're risking national security with their hand-outs, they're a costly and dangerous gamble.

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INSTEAD, Mr. Truman proposes in hig executive order to widen the security control system to other agencies. He contends these civilian agencies need the same authority to give out, or more likely, to Suppress news, Which means that still another small army—this time, politically . appointed officials—will be armed with the power to conceal what they choose, and with no provisions for a check or review of their decisions. For a further note on—

How Silly We Can Get

—in censorship, take the case of Army Secretary Frank Pace’s scheduled speech for next Tuesday at Galveston, Tex. ° : Six hundred persons are due to attend, but at Secretary Pace’s request it's to be off the record to reporters. There II be no screening—anyone who buys a luncheon ticket can attend, including the reporters, but they can't . write it up. : Hg ~ Why? Well, as it's explained, 99 per cent of the

secretary's speech may be all right for release, ‘but

1 per cent might be restrictive.”

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but it would be dangerous to read it.

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IF BLOOD is the price, they have paid in full. If blood is the ransom, will you deny them? * That is the question being asked thousands of - Indianapolis women—mothers, wives, sisters, relatives, friends and colleagues of the men who left to bivouac in Korea. The answer is being recorded this month on the scroll of Times’ Minute Women who each donate a pint of blood for our Armed Forces. The citizens of our country, as a whole, have failed miserably to support the physical needs of our fighting men overseas, when it comes to supplying” a bloodline to the frontline. It's understood that we are terribly concerned about spiraling inflation, which may deny us the new homes, washing machines, new automobiles and comfortable bank accounts. These guys in Korea do not, of course, have those worries. They have a new home every time they move. They dig it. They have helmets and rivers for

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MR. EDITOR: . I have heen berated many times in the Forum for stating that relief was being used as a political racket.

Now a committee from tne state legislature headed by a Democrat finds this is true although many of us have known it for years. The only way to clean up the entire mess is to take it out of politics entirely and let each county take care of its own. Taking it out of politics drastic steps. The least deserving of all relief clients are the ones who try to put the township trustee over-a barrel. —————— :

requires some

They call them up over the phone or tell.

them outright if they don't get more relief or coal they will work against them in the election. Probably the trustee's opponent has already promised them extra relief if he is elected. . “ bo AFTER all there iz no reason why any

“persons who are dependent on the taxpayers

and not capable of taking care of themselves should be allowed to vote. I see no reason why they should be allowed to vote for someone

Who promises them a pension or a dole which

comes off of the people who have to work to pay for their dole.

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washing, jeeps, trucks, tanks and legs for transportation, $10,000 life insurance in-

demnities—all for free. The price of a sirloin steak on your dinner table makes no difference at all in the content of a C-ration. J As you belt through a bargain sale, a soldier belts through enemy lines. Often he is not as crowded as you are—he's picked off by a lone sniper. Through our government you are giving these men the best in leadership, training and equipment. But the imponderable is the wounded man on the battlefield. The ransom for his life may be pints of whole blood or plasma. Who will give it? Are Americans so busy, so worried over other things, so anxious over the outcome of home affairs they will not heed a simple plea? “Send us blood.” If that is the attitude of the citizenry, let the women of Indianapolis rise to leadership. Let every Modern Minute Woman answer the challenge to humanity. Call LIncoln 1441 to pledge your pint of blood. The life you save is one of your own.

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On the other hand it =zhould he understood there is no disgrace for anyone not able to work to receive an old-age pension. Neither is it a disgrace for a worthy widbw to receive help or any family who is in distress. There is a stigma, however, on people who refuse to support their parents, if able to do so. Likewise there is a stigma on men who do not support their families and on the common chiselers who are the least deserving and always seem to be able to get the most help. C. D. C., Terre Haute.

‘Let 'em Come Home’ MR. EDITOR:

Would some one be kind enough to tell me

why the principals of some schools make the children go to the library to get reports? Many of them have books at home to get reports. The children leave school at 3:15 p.m. and get home at 4:30 p.m. or 5 p. m. and us mothers are getting supper. Monday night and Tuesday night, my child was at the library until 5 p.m. I was so upset I cried. TI cried because 1 didn't know what happened and supper and men folks coming in.

“Tt 1s not right. Maybe the school gets a reward,

I don't know. ~A Mother, City

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By J. Hugh O'Donnell CONGRESS ROUNDUP . . . By Charles Egger .

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Time for Tax Collectors To Sweat a Little Blood

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—This week in Congress the investigation into activities of the men who collect the nation's taxes began to warm up in both houses. John B. Dunlap, internal revenue commissioner, told

a House subcommittee that income ‘tax returns of the bureau's top employees were . being checked. But he emphasized that it would he psychoJogically bad tf all employées were required to fill out a committee questionnaire dealing with their out-

side business Sen. Moody connec -~

«+. Gray market.tions. Many would quit, he said. The committee indicated it would go ahead anyway. The committee also heard additional testimony that James P. Finnegan, former collector at St. Louis, had outside sources of revenue. 3 Meanwhile, the committee said James Smyth, suspended as tax collector in northern

California; will be called to testify. And Sen. Blair Moody (D.

{ ** Mich.) asked for an investiga-

tion of the internal revenue bureau’s intelligence unit at Detroit. He said the investigation was needed to crack the gray -market in steel. Sen. Moody, chairman of a subcommittee investigating the gray market, said one special agent at Detroit: “had a close

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many people in the steel business, some of them df questionable background.”

Atomic Weapons

A BIG expansion of the atomic weapons program’ was urged by Defense Secretary Robert Lovett and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They made their request to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. No details were revealed. Their urgent recommendations were submitted shortly before President Truman revealed that Russia had exploded another atom bomb.

Death Payments

BOTH HOUSES passed a hill to establish a $5 million fund to pay death benefits to service-

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President man's close friends will tell you that despite evidence to the contrary the President does not intend to run again next

SOME of

year. Maybe not. But we notice he's still keeping his leg muscles in trim with those brisk early morning walks. Speaking to the National A=ssociation of Postmasters recently. Mr, Truman said if ever he got retired from the Presidency he was going to get him one af those new light ‘motor scooters -which have heen developed for postmen in suburban areas. . There may be some folks in Republican councils who'd be happy to buy him one. With supercharged engine, - » » AT LEAST Hollywood insists on keeping the movies clean. Recent momumental announcement from the movie capital tells us Jane Russell is taking her first bath before

' the cameras,

I've pondered, Maw, for many

years, On what life's work I'd favor. J've thought about a few careers; :

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ho longer wrack my brain,

There's now an added factor,

~T'wanna be an actor’ All else can just go down the drain— -

men who have lost their lives in Korea.

Senate

AN INVESTIGATING committee continued to dig into the business dealings which the national chairmen of both political parties have had with the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Republican National Chair-

.man Guy Gabrielson testified

that he tried to line up the presidency of the New York Stock ‘Exchange for a former RFC director.who had handled RFC loans to Mr. Gabrielson’s gas company.

Mr. Gabrishon «+. Some hot stock.

But Mr. Gabrielson said the

-attempt-- was made. aller. the

former director, Harvey Gunderson, knew that he was not to be reappointed to his RFC job. Mr. Gundergon had handled’ loans “totaling. $18.5 million to Carthage Hydroeol, Ine, of which Mr. Gabrielson is president.” %

Price Controls

A DEFENSE Production Act amendment, which President Truman had called “an eco-

nomic booby trap.” was scrapped, and a modified vere “sion approved. The original amendment per- . mitted manufacturers to add increased production costs since the start of the Korean War to their prices. The new amendment directs the Office of Price Stabilization to consider such increases but denies the right of appeal except in “hardship cases.”

Oppose Bowles. * IT LOOKS like hard going for Chester Bowles’ nomination as Ambassador to India. The Republican Policy Committee: vafed to oppose confirmation of the former OPA boss.

Security Order SEN. JOHN W. BRICKER (R. 0.) asked for quick action

on his bill to repeal President

Truman's new order on secur. ity information. The order au- _ thorized civilian agencies to withhold information they believed would endanger national security. Sen. Bricker said the order was “an insult to Congress, the world's best press and a free people.”

Jessup Hearing

SEN. JOSEPH McCARTHY (R. Wis.) continued his fight to block confirmation of Dr, Philip C. Jessup as a U. 8. delegate to the United Nations. Sen. McCarthy has charged that Dr. Jessup had “an affinity for Communist causes.” Dr. Jessup said the Senator's

duced documentary evidence designed to refute them. In support of Dr. Jessup, Warren Austin, chief of the United Nations delegation, said he was a Joyal American who had served his country well.

Medical Aid

A BITL to set up a five-year, $300 million program to aid medical schools and students was pigeon-holed.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Author Raps Jenner For Bad Language

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Indiana’'s Sen. William E. Jenner and Wisconsin's Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, both Republicans and World War II veterans, are cited as exemplars of the degeneration of Senate debates in the

current issue of the Saturday Review of Literature. “Hdt Words on Capitol Hill” i= the title of the leading article written by Claude M. Fuess, educator and author of books on Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz and Calvin Coolidge. ~ » ” IT BEGINS by citing Sen. Jenner's attack nn Gen. George Marshall, in which the junior Senator from Indiana called him “a living lie” and “front man for traitors.” There follows similar examples from Sen, McCarthy's speeches. : “These recent oratorical explosions in Washington,” Mr. Fuess writes, “and others*like them, have focused the attention of thoughtful citizens on what is called privilege’ and its current abuse, = “Since the days of ‘srarling thersites’ and the vitriolic Marcus Tullius Cicero, iftemperate language and personal invective have been tolerated as unavoidable accompaniments of political discussion. 5 RB 5 “HUMAN nature is human nature, and even statesmen occasionally lose their selfcontrol in the heat of debate. “Within the past year, however, the epithets employed on the floor of Congress have often exceeded the bounds of good taste and have disturbed fair-minded members of both parties.” Charges and invective, such as hurled on the Senate floor by Jenner and McCarthy are

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inte prepared speeches not made in the heat of debate — the SRL writer points out.

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CITING examples from tha past, when fistfights have occurred on the House floor, and the histérical justification for making members suit-proof in regard to slander, Mr. Fuess continues:

“It is understandable, although perhaps not excusable, . that legislators, .inflamed by passion or righteous indignation, should be unable in the heat of debate to refrain from insulting an opponent. “But this frontal abuse, although deplorable, is quite dif-

ferent from berating a vietim .

who is not present to retaliate and cannot even legally call -his traducer to account for lonse talk. “If a Senator asserts that another Senator; sitting in the same chamber, is ‘disloyal’ he must rigk the consequences in the form of indignant denial or counter charges or even of possible attempted chastisement, % w ” » “BUT if the same Senator makes precisely the same allegations against a newspaper columnist or a college profes sor, the latter is virtually helpless.” : _....The writer, concludes, how- ° ever, that it is better for decent citizens to suffer from such indignities than to curtail the practice of free debate. He points out that colleagues show their contempt for such diatribes by leaving the chamber. And that a final remedy

always lies in the voting booths. “Actually,” Mr. Fuess ad-

vises, “the only means of se-

ways a potential menace is through the verdict of public opinion. :

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