Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1951 — Page 14

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“In ‘Good Faith’

y [N HIS statement purporting to explain his iron curtain order for government-wide censorship of information, President Truman said: “It may well be that experience under the order will indicate that it should be changed. In that case, 1 will be glad to change it—and I will be glad to give consideration to reasonable suggestions for changes that are advanced in good faith.” On the face of it. this is a fair enough proposition. But the deadfall lies in the fact that Mr. Truman will be the final arbiter of .whether any suggestions for a change are made ‘‘in good faith.” Evidently he is persuaded that a large part of the criticism that has risen over his executive order is basically nolitical, or in bad faith. He couldn't be further wrong in that.

THE OPPOSITION comes primarily and almost solely from the newspapers of the country speaking for the American people who are in danger of losing their rights to freedom of information. This apprehension was

who took part in a forum at Northwestern University last month. They formally stated: ; “The fundamental right of the people to information is being steadily undermined by the growing practice of secrecy in government on national, state and local levels; ‘the growing tendency of public officials to feel that they are not accountable to the public; that they may sedl or impound the public records; that they may divulge only such information as they think is good for the people to know; that they extend military security into the areas of news which have no bearing on the nation's security, as shown by the dangers in an executive order issued within the week." These editors are not acting in bad faith with the public when they ‘strive to expose the corruption in the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and the Internal Revenue Bureau, or manipulations in the Agriculture Department. They - would be—and have been—just as arduous in ventilating the scandals of a Republican administration. ¥ ~ - - EJ Ld THEY have no quarrel with security regulations as such, and for the purpose of keeping military secrets out of enemy hands. But what they fear is a greatly expanded government censorship of news at the source in that mystical name of “security.” Our own thought on this matter, which we hope to develop later, is that the responsibility for passing on the secrecy of information should be left wholly in the hands of the military. It has trained men objectively through two wars and between wars to spot and properly classify the information which would jeopardize the country’s safety if it got into unauthorized hands. These specialists could be furnished to such civilian agencies as are likely to handle military matters, rather than arm a whole new lot of inexperienced political office-holders with supreme authority to preserve the interests of vested bureaucrats. But for the moment, it would be helpful in the controversy if Mr. Truman would disabuse himself of the idea that any “in good faith.”

Rayburn’s Anger Misdirected

HAIRMAN CLARENCE CANNON of the House Appropriations Committee got a dressing down last week from Speaker Sam Rayburn because appropriations bills were moving too slowly. Only a little more than a sixth of the total budget has been finally appropriated, although action on the remainder of the spending program is in the late stages. Mr. Rayburn is reported to have complained that Mr. Cannon's committee indulged in prolonged hearings. But these hearings led to some relatively important economies. The committee cut about $3 billion out of these bills. It isn't Mr. Cannon’s fault that the Senate has added back this amount, and then some. The veteran Missouri Congressman retorts that one of the reasons for the delayed action was the scuttling of the single package appropriation plan. Mr. Rayburn was a chief scuttler, “Never in history has there been so much confusion, waste and delay in appropriations,” Mr. Cannon says." r - » ~ ~ ~ THE OMINBUS appropriation bill was used for the firet time last year. It didn't work perfectly, but it worked well enough to save the taxpayers money. For the first time in 18 years, the administration budget was cut—about $2 billion. When all appropriations ‘are lumped in a single bill, appropriations committeemen—and all members of Congress—know at all times just what they are doing. This piecemeal business creates confusion, encourages sneakers

in these bills and invariably winds up in more spending, not less.

What's That He Says?

HAROLD STASSEN has accused Owen Lattimore, former State Department consultant, of advocating recognition of Red China at a 1949 conference. Mr. Lattimore denies this. The nearest he came to such a position, he says, was in a question he asked. The question, as revealed by a transcript furnished Professor Lattimore by the State Department, was this: “Couldn't we couple recognizing the new regime in China with a number of positive steps in Asia as a whole. showing American initiative and desire to get*things done in the improvement of various situations . . to show that . the United States is not against changes in the status quo as such, but on the contrary, is anxious to get the most progressive and liberal settlement possible?” k We heard him the firgt time, . | .

‘GAG RULE’ .

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changes suggested in his order are not made

By Earl Richert

aco s ‘Straw Man’ Sets A Hot Fire Under Harry Truman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--One night in March, 1948, a 44-year-old newspapérmian walked to the speaker's microphone in a huge ‘banquet hall here to receive one of Journalism's highest awards from the hands of the United States. Mr. Truman was not béaming as he handed the $500 check and certificate of the Raymond Clapper Memorial award to Nat 8: Finney, then Washington correspondent for the Cowles Publications In’ his usmally frank man rer, Mr. Truman told Mr Finney he enjoyed” the évent about as much, as he would enjoy a good kick in the pants For Mi the award special

Finney had wo determined by a committee of news 1 exposing a plan w «dministration to clamp a security lid*on gov

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ernment information, including that which might cause embarrassment, : This. Mr. Truman. told the diners -at the White House Correspondents’ Association's an nual banquet, was the first time<hé had ever been asked to give-a prize to someone who or a straw than and then knocked him down He pooh-poohed the Finney expose by saying it was only a plan cooked upeby some assistant secretary, The implication of what the PYesident said was that the suggested security “gag” rule for all govern ment departments never had the ¥ slightest chance of being put intd effect But two weeks ago, the President put into government departments “just

such an order as Mr. Finney drew the “Bronx cheer” for writing about. And, says Mr. Finney with no trace of

sm Ugness: “The upshot of what he (Mr. Truman) has done now shows it was no straw man.” Mr. Finney. now editor of the editorial page

Ho, Hum!

expressed. by a group of 40 editors from over the caumicy

POP TAKES A TRIP .

9—-No matter how oid

Okla. lington Railroad. He trains were one of his great joys. Flying machines he regarded as items of no importance skittering in the air like autumn leaves and occasionally smashing against moun tains in a big splash of black headlines He had no truck with ‘'em:- when he traveled he chose a Pullman car. So when he and my mother decided to pay us a visit here on our beaten-up acres outside Washington, he got out his timetables as usual and started figuring train connections.” Mother, who is 76, put a stop to that, . She said this time she intended to bounce across the country in no railway coach. The time had come, she added, to go modern in an airplane. Father put up an argument, but you know what happened. He got two tickets on American Airlines flight two leaving Tulsa, Okla.. Monday afternoon at 4:45 p. m. He was certain no good would come of this. 2 Father is an honest man. He arrived here a few hours later, right side up, and he reported what happened. He'd hardly climbed into that flying machine when the captain came back. shook his hand, and welcomed him .-aboard Nice-looking young fellow, too. Capable, kind of There were two stewardesses aboard, one brunette and one blonde. Both of them as pretty as an Oklahoma sunrise. The blonde one an nounced that the plane would Ay at 18,000 feet at a speed of 300 miles an hour

SIDE GLANCES

railway; its

“He has my diary and says lots of follows will, Paya dime. = : to read their names in it!"

-«iusk he got to wishing for a dining car.

By Galbraith

" AND ANYONE. WHO SAYS my Y AOMNSTRAT 0 «15 EXTRAVAGANT iS NOTHING BLT A NAS FBBER, sO THers /*

. By Frederick C. Othman

I's @ Woman's World, Dad—

MCLEAN, Va, Oct. vou grow, this stil is a woman's world. You can ask my father. He's 80. All his life until his retirement to Henryetta a few vears ago, he worked for the Burloved this

Father got set for his ears to go haywire because he'd ‘read about that. Nothing happened. The dark-haired girl explained that the ship was pressurized. Father said he got to worrying about those 18.000 feet between him and the railroad track below. So he kept his

saves on the two pretties, who pampered him with pillows and magazines and orange juice The four enginex droned pretty loud. A good ieal louder, he thought, than a Jocomotive Mother said he should throw the switch on his visible hearing aid and tune them out. He

iid and all he heard the rest

of the way was a pleasant hum :

admire the

Mother kept insisting that he «unset shining pink on tne clouds below. He

took a look finally and the funny he said, he didn’t seem high at a

thing was Along about He was hungry as sin and no fiveng-mac hine sandwich would ease his pangs. Then, said he, one of the dangedest things he ever saw happened.

Had a Good Meal

THOSE two pretty girls started hauling out of a cubbyhole up front a banquet for every body aboard. Father said he had soup, salad, a slice of ham half an inch thick, potatoes with cheese on top, string beans, ice cream, cake and coffee. Where this provender came from, he said he couldn't even guess He figured he'd spill a good deal of it on his best necktie, on account of the bumps in the air. Oniy there weren't anv. He said it as like rolling slow in a streamliner on a newly hel sted track

Even so, said father, he was prepared to jump, in case of emergencies. Then a horrible thing Rappenied . He fell asleep. Next thing he knew mother was nudging him to take a look at the Washington Monument in its floodlights far below The flying machine, my father has concluded is here to stay, while a woman always gets her way. A good thing. too, he adds, gallantly

POLITICS .

WASHINGTON, Oct, 9 The Washington meeting of Repub lican leaders from 21 eastern states was most revealing though not for the usual reasons. It was revealing for what it did not develop, rather than for what it did. No new platform was unveiled. No new party line was put forward which would guarantee the Grand Old Party a victory in 1952. Neither was any one candidate in particular plugged as ‘the man who’ could lead ‘the Republican forces to the White House.

Republican spokesmen seem agreed. This was that the Truman administration was terrible and should be thrown out of office. But this idea Is no longer news, coming from this particular source. Otherwise, speakers at the public sessions of the meeting skirted all around the principal issues without ever coming to grips with them. New York's Congresswoman Katherine St. George put her finger on this point in her ‘luncheon talk to i She 300 national committeemen

—and. resumed. her This time she was persistent,

“vessels not under

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of the Minnsapoiis Star, says he is just as worried about the security order now as he was when he

first discovered it hatching. -t “It's not because these guys (gowétnment .

officials? are stinkers,” he said. “But a guy on the operating level of government just naturally thinks of using security rules to relieve himself of émbarrassing situations.” Mr. Finney said there isn't a high-ranking officer in the U. 8 who doesn't know how the security rules were abused during World War Il. -ko cover up embarrassing situations and for

"personal convenience

He said he had been told that shortly after V-E Day in Europe the military wanted to send a number of officers home to the U. 8. for short visits with their families. ‘Knowing that such a general exodus would cause a howl

RED AGENTS?

By Dick Thornburg

among Gls, it was arranged to send them home on top secret orders, and. newspapermen dis. covering -their presence eouldn’t say anything about it « Sen.- Thomas Hennings (D. Mo.) recently told the Senate that he knew of one high officer during War II who had an unimportant document labeled top secret so he could. travel trom Washington to the west, coast at. government expense to visit his son and daughter-in-law.<Top secret.documents must be carried by messenger Purpose of secret everything that supposedly could lished, threaten the security of the nation “What you'll have now again’ predicted Mr. Finney, "is the same situation as in World War 11 when everyone knew about -the A-bomb hut the American people.

the President's order is {0 make if pub-

Tass Reporters Have a. ‘Queer’ Version of What Is News

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 Employees of Tass the Russian "news’ agency, claim to be news paper reporters. But sometimes the information they seek falls more into the category of military secrets rather than news Tohn Rudy, public relations director for the National Federation of American Shipping, re calls such a case Abolut a week after the Korean: War started he.said, a girl emplévee of Tass telephoned to inquire about -ships in the Pacific. At first, Mr Rudy said, her questions were general, but they svoh became specific

Called Back Again

“HOW many American ships were in waters near Korea?” she asked. Mr. Rudy stalled off her questions, saying he did not have such information at his finger tips and most of it was secret, because many of the ships were under orders of the Military Sea Transport Service. The same girl called back a few days later guestioning.. Mr. even though Mr

Rudy again mentioned that the information was

classified.

. Well, she wanted to know, how about private the Military Transport Sery ice” How mandy were in Korean waters” What What. tonnage” What cargoes” When built” How many ships did the have a-building? How many ships were being built abréad?

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Hoosier Forum—'Police Work’

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right te say it.

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MR. EDITOR:

Open letter to Police Chief. John O'Neal: I am writing to thank vou and the men of your department who served my family and me so promptly and efficiently Wednesday

morning of last week. Like many people, I did not call for help until I felt {t was the onlv solution. TI had tried to convince the drunken boy who wanted in our house at 2:30 a. m. that he lived eisewhere He demanded entry and aroused and terrified my mother and youngster. To ‘add to their fright and anxiety, my wife had been hospitalized the previous day and it was necessary for me to-leave them in the house while I went te the neighbors to telephone the police.

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WHEN I returned. I found he had broken a pane in the back door and was in the house While it was not difficult to get him out again the family was quite upset by the experience The police arrived promptly and handled the situation .thoughtfully. They listened to what I had to sav and talked with the boy. With out even touching him, they persuaded him to go to the station with them in the police. car Because | was impressed hy the consideration shown this voung man and by the excellent service given, I am =ending a copy of this letter to the Editor of The Times, who is in terested in accurate and complete information about civic affairs — Merritt Gilman, 1%; E. 34th St.

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‘State's Rights’

For quite some time I have wanted to con,

gratulate you on vour fine editorials, Let us hope and work to see that our papers are Kept free. Now that we have taken a firm state stand on this welfare issue. I hope we win out and show them Indiana will protect her states rights

Budy. said.

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Mr. Rudy failed to answer her questions, saving that would be a job for the federation's researcher. He later instructed the research man not to answer any such questions for Tass, Also he consulted the Navy, which advised him not to give out stich information.

Tried to Pump Secretary

another employee of called and asked the

A SHORT time later I'ass, this time a man, same type of questions. 1bout military supplies being moved to Europe, Mr. Rudy didn’t angwer his questions, either, Recently the girl from Tass called Mr, Rudv’'s secretary and tried to get shipping information. Mr. Rudy had warned his whole office. so no information was forthcoming. All during that period, Mr: Rudy said, no American reporter ever inquired about American shipping in the Far East. Mr. Rudy said the subject was raised once or twice in social conversations He ‘had With American reporters, Bit ds soon as le mentioned that the information was classified, the American reporters shied from the subject 1 Tass had been in the news lately because the American Society of Newspapers Editors urged that Tass employees be barred from the congressional press galleries The standing committee of correspondents refused, contending that the principles of a free press could not be upheid by expelling the Tass employees.

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‘How to Handle Traffic’ MR: EDITOR: Quotation from a front-page news item of Oct. 7 “The new lights will break up the traffic flow. glowing it down. . . , The plan calis for the lights to be installed at close intervals to slow down traffic.” ' And there is a nutshell forecast of the fact that Indianapolis traffic will continue to be a probiem traffic despite one-wav streets, “walk” signs, and doing away with streetcars (whose course through traffic was completely predictable; in favor of those steliar improvements: gasoline and trolley busses that dart in and out of trafic and cut out into the flow from curb positions, Hh 4 b> IT SEEMS inconceivable that the city has never learned that you handle volume traffic by keeping it moving, getting it out of the wav. Instead. we slow it down. impede its progresz stop it at. every other corner with traffic lights installed at ‘close intervals’ and then we stand and shake our heads in bewiiderment, unable to understand why traffic jams ensue My family came to town in 1872. Our basic concept of how to handle trafic hasn't changed since then —Robert W. Osler, 514 W. 43d St.

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

STALIN'S confession that he is mak ing A-bombs shattered the “peace-loving Russians’ falth in his moving mountains. > > + THERE is some speculation in Wash ington as to whether Sen. Taft will seek the presidency--but not much.

But he wanted to know" ’

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other party Jeatery in

and will not be dictated to from Washington. —Mrs. J. Ehrgott, 6024 Crestview Ave.

HOMESICK

WHEN vou are far away from home . . . and and nothing seems to no matter what you do . . . vou do not need a doctor or . . . . and only one thing in the world your inf , , . to go back for awhile . . .

von are sad and blue . . .

ease the pain .

need a pill | . can drive away von need is juste, and see the your heart to smile . , . home sweet home . . . horn . . vou'll never feel forlorn . . rich or poor . .. place is quite so fair...

. By Peter Edson

GOP Leaders Agree Truman ‘Stinks’

f course it is very pleasant to meet old friends, to indulge in plenty of back-slapping and to tell each other that all i= right with the world and the party and that we are on the road to victory. ~ n ~ “WELL,” she continued, “this audience is adult and the facts are that we have lost five consecutive elections. We had better pause and reflect on why and how this happened. “Our party is divided, it is split in two just as much as the Democratic Party is split in two and no amount of cheering is going to change this fact. “In my humble opinion, the Republican Party has lost the

last three elections because it ° > has shied away from the main

issues and refused to face them, on account of cleavage in our own ranks. “The. Republican Party will never win an election and may become nothing more than a useless appendix to the body politic if it does not take a strong stand on the important issues facing this nation and the world.”

SOMETHING like this might be expected from some Democratic critie of the Republican Party, But ve it come direct from member

old familiar things . . . you need the peace of the place where you were . and It is there and only there . . . for whether you are heggar or a King. .. for home is everything. «—By Ben Burroughs

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of Congress, representing a particularly blue-stocking district in the East, it was a shocker.

It this message had any effect on her listeners in the

closed meetings of the Washington conference, it wasn't reflected in the later public sessions. At the dinner meeting, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee for 1952, seemed to emphasize the split that Mrs. St. George had mentioned earlier. In what were perhaps the topic sentences of his talk. Sen. Saltonstall declared: » » ~ “WE'VE got to forget those stand-pat attitudes that sometimes marked us in the edrlier days . . . I believe that in the

Republican Party we have had.

too many executives and not enough of those hard workers who ring doorbells, get mud on their shoes, make friends and win the confidence of everyday peaple. It is. our job to con-

. vince the voters that the GOP

of the 1920's ix dead and buried that. a revitalized Republican. Party Understands

GOVERNOR Byrnes of South Carelina wants the two-thirds rule restored to Democratic conventions so the South them just like

SOME married men will welcome the new draft call as the best way to peace.

. BRITISH church before-launching their campaigns After the election we'll pravers were answered

THE LABOR department has ordered a Texas supplier to stop serving Mexican agricultural laborers dog food. Bit they can still lead a dog's life,

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pletely disregarded a propared text for his talk and extemporized as only he ean do Ax an old-fashioned Fourth of July orator, there's nobody in Washington who can beat him.

He gave the Democrats the dickens for every sin from 1932 to date, and the well-

dressed crowd: of a thousand loved it and lapped it up with loud and long applause. . Bu = ~ AS FOR a constructive platform. however, the best that Sen. Dirksen had to offer was to hate the Democrats. But later Sen. Dirksen declared, “I savant no platform that has the ennervating weakness. of Me-Too-ism.” And thereby he revealed again the split in the party which Mrs. 8t. George mentioned. Sen. Roberf A. Taft of Ohio and ex-Gov. Harold E: Stassen of Minnesota were present. They were introduced by National Chairman Guy George

" Gabrielson, but not allowed to

speak. _ Sen. Taft got ‘the greater’ ovation. Nobody men» tioned, formally, the name of Gen, Eisenhower, ii any speech. But there was plenty > gossip about him,’ informal-

i There will be another relone; COP meeting in Seattle,

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