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Time for Determination

HE TRUCE talks scheduled to be reopened in Korea are hardly calculated to rouse any quick hope of a real peace. Merely shifting the site of the talks to another village six miles south of Kaesong offers little encouragement. For the negotiators are still confronted with the primary question of where to establish an armistice line. The Communists, who have shown no signs of yielding since the discussions began last July, still insist that the line be along the 38th Parallel. The Allies, determined not to give up hard-won ground, want the cease-fire along the present battle lines. yt As the argument proceeds on this point, the Communists have substantial advantage in knowing that we are committed to a policy of limited war. They know that we will hit them only within certain boundaries. It is this costly, indecisive course that troubles many Americans. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Texas Democrat and chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, voiced this rising alarm in a speech prepared for delivery to a Dallas luncheon meeting yesterday. : = = " ”

SEN. JOHNSON, an administration supporter, said

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the day is fast approaching when the policy of pulling our

punches will no longer serve the ends of anyone except our enemy. Regardless of the outcome of the truce negotiations, . he said, we all know now that Korea js only a beginning. That “our true enemies are not the raggdil peasants of North Korea or the bewildered myriads of China, but the leaders of the Soviet Union.” We have been “battling a slave—but letting his master go scot free.” Though the American people have an overwhelming desire for peace, Sen. Johnson foresees a time when we will have had enough of indecisive fighting—enough of battles without victories, endlessly drainitg away our life blood. He sees it as the duty of Congress members to express the growing feeling that we are not content with delay, with retreat—and waiting—while American casualties pile up at the rate of more than 100,000 a year. Lest the Soviets forget, he reminds them of the words of Capt. John Parker to the ragged colonials who faced the British forces at Lexington in 1775: “Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” It's just as appropriate in Korea today.

He Cost Us Plenty

US HALL is back in the pen, where he should have been all the time. This notorious Communist took it on the lam more than three months ago, while he was out on bail, pending an appeal on his conviction as one of the Red leaders advocating overthrow of the government by force. It cost more than $1 million to convict Hall and 10 other Communists. They and their lawyers used every trick in the book, and then some, to keep the trial going 11 months. When the Korean War broke out, the government proposed locking them up, without bail. But Supreme Court Justice Jackson rejected this plea and let Hall stay out on $20,000 bond, along with the others. : When Hall and three others jumped bail, their bonds were forfeited. But that $80,000 is a pittance compared with what it has cost to round up just Hall—the others still are at large. . ; Nobody has any accurate estimate of what this international manhunt has cost the American taxpayers. But any authority connected with the case will agree it runs into the millions. ~ » » ” . » IF THEY had any sense of humor, the Russians would get a laugh out of this. We spend a million to throw some of their agents in jail. Four of them skip, and we spend more millions to track them down.: Not counting the embarrassment. : They lose one expendable agent and a paltry $80,000 put up by American fellow-traveler suckers. So one gracious bow to the alert Mexican police, who nabbed this Hall, and another to the patient American taxpayer.

In Siberia there is no bail, and no escape.

Mr. Truman's Friends

F ANY man can vouch for the old saying that friends sometimes are more dangerous than enemies, the President is such a man. ; Mr. Truman's intense loyalties to his friends are well known. And all too offen reciprocated by indiscreet and unwise acts causing the President embarrassment. One of the President's most conspicuous cronies, George Allen, is treasurer of a proposed fund to build a memorial library in Missouri to Mr. Truman. Another would-be crony, Sen. Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, circulated a letter asking “50 or 100 good friends” of Mr. Truman te contribute to the million-dollar fund. Mr. Truman promptly and crisply disowned. the solicitation. Another case of being singed by too-warm, unthinking friendship. Sen. Anderson's fund-begging letter went so far as to argue for the donations as a substitute for paying Income taxes. Instead of paying the government 80 cents out of a dollar income, escape the tax by generously giving the whole dollar to the memorial library. And at

a time when Mr. Truman is pleading with Congress for more and more taxes,

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GROMYKO wants “normal relations” established in Japan. He means the Stalin plan to make all Yellow races Red. ~ » . ” » ~ ; HOUSE members voted themselves $1500 for office equipment. It could include adding machines, in case the income accounting plan slips through.

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HENRY W. MANZ

Friday, Oct. 12,-1951

"hope has long since fled . .

DeaREOs ...By Ser: Kidney Halleck Proves Political Power

Wins Battle to Push : . Jenner Amendment Through

WASHINGTON, Oct.. 12 Halleck Rensselear political power in the House by shoving the Jenner amendment to the: tax hill through The ninth-termer from the 2d District was majority leader in the Republican 80th Congress, And he has readily accepted the jest that he was and is “leader of the majority” in the Democratic ‘81st and present one ‘Here was a chance to prove it. It took some doing, but he did Chairman Walter George (D. ® Ga.) of the Senate Finance gE Committee accepted the amendment made by Sen, William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) when the tax . bill was in the last hours of dep he Senate , Rep. Charles A. bate in t 1e § ena ¢ It was late Halleck 4 at night and the Georgian alieck .. . eS wanted to be done with the bill chance to prove and hurry it to the Senate-

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Fails of Final Action

TWICE BEFORE the Jenner amendment, which vitiates the Social . Security secrecy clauses and restores federal grants in-aid to Indiana without repeal of the 1851 publicity law had been similarly accepted in the Senate, Each time it failed in final action

With time growing short (Congress expects to adjourn next week), Mr. Halleck decided that the tax bill amendment was the only way to restore the $20 million of Indiana funds cut off hy Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing. He had already got,the Ways and Means Committee to schedule hearings on the matter. Then he got them to postpone the hearings and went to work with the tax bill conferees. With such old-timers as Sen. George and Chairman Robert. L. Doughton of the Ways ana Means Commniittée to work on, the going at the outset was tough, He got an assist from Mr. Ewing who aroused the ire of the entire governors conference with an arrogant speech on the subject. They came down hard for abolishing secrecy. Meanwhile, Mr. Halleck used everything he “could muster against the custom of not tacking riders on tax bills that do not bear directly on taxation. . 0 He confessed that, in the ordinary course of events, he would he on the side of the tradi-tional-procedure men. But this was different.

Tosses in Sponge

WHEN MR. DOUGHTON became convinced that Mr. Halleck had mustered enou2h votes on both sides of the aisle to recommit the tax bili, if the Jenner amendment wasn't in it, he threw in the sponge. So did all the other conferees. The vote approving the Jenner amendment became unanimous. Now it is up to the House and Senate to adopt the conference report. In the House. the two Democratic Congressmen and Rep, Ralph Harvey, New Castle Republican, were the only ones to vote for the tax bill on passage. With the Jenner amendment in it, Mr. Halleck intends to lead the Republicans in support. ing the bill. This he considers only a token payment in gratitude. A single freshman Republican from Indiana is balking against the plan. It isn’t Rep. Charles B. Brownson. Indianapolis. but Rep. Shephard J. Crumpacker Jr., South Bend. “I'll not vote for a tax bill, with or without the Jenner amendment, until I see some signs of the government returning to sanity in the matter of spending.” Mr. Crumpacker said. Another Republican freshman who had opposed the original tax bill remarked: “I am going to vote for the conference report with the Jenner amendment. That is a small price to pay for taking our State Chairman Cale Holder off the hook.”

LOOK TO GOD

WHAT can I say to those of you... who’ suffer day by day . .. what can I do to help vou drive . . . the dark clouds all away . . . what words of real encouragement . .. can I pass on to you... so that with hope and newfound faith . .. your heartaches may subdue ", for it is hard to talk of hope-. . . when . and it is near . . to smile when faith is dead . . . but try at least to realize . . . that where there's life there's hope . . . so turn yolir eyes toward your God ... and you'll no longer grope . for He will soothe your anguish and . . . He'll ease the sharpest pain . . . and you will know a peaceful heart’. . . though life is filled with rain. —By Ben Burroughs

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MIDDLE EAST . .. By Ludwell Denny

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—With the United States, France and possibly Turkey supporting Britain, Egypt may have a harder time than Iran in tearing up treaties, And even Iran, before the end, may have to backtrack.

iT TAKes BUT ONE LITTLE SNOWBALL—

TAX BUSINESS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Everybody Seems Confused—

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—The U. 8. Treasury is directly across the street from the White House. When President Truman sits on his balcony, Honest John Snyder, the money man, can lean out his window and go yoo-hoo. at the boss. Only he never does. 'Tain’t dignified. This is the only possible explanation for the little mixup over Jimmy Finnegan, for seven years the nonchalant collector of internal reyenue at St. Louis. The sworn evi--dence shows that while Secretary Snyder was urging Finnegan to resign his £10.000 job, President Truman was pleading with him to stay. | Looks like what [iN Pennsylvania Avenue needs is a smoke-signaling system. Finnegan claims he tried and tried to hand in his resignation because the strain of his three-hours-a-day tax collecting (some days) was beginning to tell on his body and brain. The President; Matt Connally, his secretary, and assorted bigwigs at the Treasury, including Snyder, begged him to stay on, he said. This was hot the way our good, gray secretary of the Treasury remenibered it. He told the House Ways and Means Committee there had been so many rumors of monkeyshines in the St. ‘Louis collector's office, that he informed Jimmy to his face he'd have to quit. Well, sir, this small conflict on the Avenue of Presidents gave Finnegan the heebies. He worried about it for seven months before he finally got out of the tax-collecting business. Now his regime is uncer investigation by an assortment of federal agencies, including Congress, and Jimmy's sitting in the lawmakers’ sanctum with "his mouth open in amazement most of the time. He never knows next what the gentlemen are going to say about him. So there was Secretary Snyder in the hot seat; he looked calm and also collected even though his high stiff collar did seem a shade too tight. Chairman Cecil King (D. Cal.) made a little speech about how Finnegan collected taxes in

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his spare time, if any, and devoted most of his efforts to his law practice. He told how Finnegan had testified he knew nothing much about the tax-collecting business and he asked: “Do you think, Mr. Secretary, that the govarrment should pay $10,000 a vear to men like this who have no competence”

Big Business

FINNEGAN, the long-time, big-time politician in St. Louis, flushed scarlet. The secretary replied with a soft answer. He said tax collecting suddenly had become such a big business that the Treasury had had to hire a lot of agents in a hurry. Naturally there would be a few among them who were not so hot. Ulp. went Finnegan. Secretary Snyder went on to say that a great majority of his collectors were honest, upright men and that ‘he was weeding out those who regarded tax collecting as a soft, personal touch. He said. in fact, that he would be delighted to send all hands a questionnaire prepared by the committee on how much money they had, and where they got it. This document went on to demand that each agent list all gifts received by him, such as hams, television sets, polaroid cameras, and World Series tickets. It also wanted specific information about his ability as poker player and hoss race bettor. Next week: San Francisco. Shenanigan's in the collector's office there, too.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

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Nothing's less use than a ring on one's finger When boy friend's both agile and spry,

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And leave without saying goodbye. .

What young ladies need is a lasso or padlock To snare 'em before they can run. And where that's too late they can give 'em a bad shock And stop 'em quite dead —with a gun,

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“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend io the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.

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‘Now Listen, Alex'—

MR. EDITOR: : 6 Once again it is election time A time when

every able bodied person should make use of his rights as -a free American by casting a vote for one candidate who will be elected Mayor of Indianapolis, for the next four years, I had thought I would vote for Judge Clark for Mayor, but after reading the paper about how he is bringing a confused Senator in the person of Joseph McCarthy to campaign for him and bringing up national issues, I changed my mind. . 3ringing him here alone, Judge Clark will cost vou over 10,000 votes and if you don't think so. watch the results election day. I thought the judge was a better politician than that. The Senator, Alex, is not coming here tn talk in favor of you alone. He is coming here to try and nominate Sen. Jenner for governor of '532. He's the busboy from Bedford, you know Another shameful issue that will hurt the Republican Party will be the shameful welfare bill. Who can /we blame when we the working class will have\to pay double taxes next year, Nobody but Sen. Jenner. And I want to say now they ought to make every Senator who voted for the bill to pay half the taxes, See how quick they would gripe I'm going out on a limb, but win or lose, I'm predicting the election of Phil Bayt for Mayor. He'll be elected on his fine record. I helieve the people will give him another chancs to show them what he has done and can do. I have to laugh up my sleeve when I think about Jenner and McCarthy, because that is what is amounts to. —Bud Kaesel, City,

‘Democrats’ War’

MR. EDITOR: Evelyn Walton thinks your paper has be. come a carbon copy of other Indianapolis papers and ‘is wondering if it isn’t falling into Joe Stalin's propaganda machine.

—lo.No. doubt Evelyn's worries are due. 40. the |

fact that you sometimes, criticise Harry, the Henchman of old Tom Pendergast and the Fair Deal philosophy of war, confusion and corruption. However, Evelyn favs she ‘is not going tn be misled and confused and she says the Demon cratic. Party and. its fine program -are good enough for her. Now, it seems to me that it is a crying shame that Evelyn and her Fair Deal friends who like the Democrat Party so well, can’t spend tha next winter with the boys over in Korea right around Heartbreak Ridge No doubt there are plenty of boys who would be willing and very glad to trade places with her. However. I guess the majority: of peopie are like Evelyn. They must like war or thev wouldn't Keep voting for the Democrats who have to have war to make their philosophy of government work. ra : C. C., Terre Haute

‘Start a Crusade’

MR. EDITOR: . Why doesn’t The Times take up a crusade of its own? The time and effort spent in opo posing the Star in its welfare fight could well be used on other government reforms. There's the U. 8S. Department of Agriculture for instance. What a savings to taxpayers if that federal bureau could be abandoned. Our Purdue University gives scientific help to our farmers. So it iz in other states as well. With modern equipment, fertilizers. and crop insurance there is no need for socialistic federal subsidies. Start a fight and fight to the finish . . , just one socialistic practice. Do it as well as tha Star is doing. Then I'll believe vou're an Amer"ican newspaper. A Reader, City.

‘Welfare and Thugs'

MR. EDITOR: Of course I was not in line with those whom vou interviewed on the welfare anti-secrecy law. But may I add this, and I hope you will publish it. = If welfare records are open to the public such as giving the names of all, especially the aged. blind and handicapped, it will make them easy victims of thugs and holdupmen. Don't our lawmakers realize that our aged and handicapped people will be afraid to be on the streets or even in their homes alone. All thugs will have to do is locate their homes and fall in on them. Thugs are just as crafty and more so than we . If the welfare board knows who the chiselers are. cut them off and not upset the whole stats of Indiana. —Mrs. lda Mae Kennedy, City.

ENGLAND ... By Parker La Moore

Fight Upsets

oo, ® . Political Campaigning LONDON, Oct. 12 — Egypt's demand that Britain

evacuate the Suez zone and the British-Egyptian Sudan, coming only a few days after the last British oil tech-

The antiforeign fires lighted by nationalist officials in Cairo and Tehran are getting out of hand. Now that they threaten to destroy the Allied defense system in the entire Middle East, it is no longer a question of what will happen to British interests alone, If Iraq and Jordan should follow Iran and Egypt in defying treaties, as some of their nationalists desire, Turkey would be isolated and the way opened for Soviet domination of the vast area which flanks Europe on one side and Asia on the other. Turkey under normal circumstances is sympahetic -to the Mideast nationalism of which she herself is a product. The United States by tradition and in policy is opposed to imperialistic control. And France, stil smarting from her exclusion from the Middle East by rival British interests, might be expected to give Egypt at least tacit encouragement,

” » » BUT THE larger need for defense against Russian world conquest is dwarfing those policies. Turkey's survival is at stake, and therefore she is de®rmined not to be isolated for 29 Stalin kill. The United States must have a well-estab-

. lished Allied base in the Suez

zone if war comes. And France is afraid of the antiforeign frenzy already rising in her North African territories with the help of Arab nationalists in Cairo. ; 80 the Cairo “government probably blundered badly in timing its attempted cancella~ x |

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tion of a British base treaty involving all-Allied security. It figured this was the time to act because ‘Iran had Britain on the run, and because the British themselves. were divided in a bitterly partisan general election. But that is not the way things are working out—at least not in the first stages. The effect “of the British election campaign is to stiffen London policy. Winston Churchill, Conservative leader and probable next Prime Minister, not only has committed himself to a firmer stand if elected. The Egyptian affront, coming on the heels of the Iranian defiance, and British public response to Churchillian taunts, have forced the Labor government to stand against Cairo’s threats, n =u n OF more importance, Cairo acted after it had received official notification that Britain with Allied approval was submitting on Oct. 10 a proposal for joint British-Egyptian-Al-lied control of the disputed

Suez base. By deliberately jumping the gun, the Cairo government in effect broke

faith with the Allies as well as with Britain. Thereby it weakened its position a lot. Even if Egypt did this merely to get a Sudan bargaining club in negotiations for Allied control of the Suez base, to which she will ultimately subscribe, she has created Allied suspicions of her trustworthiness. That is not the best basis for joint defense of the Middle Fast—or for legitimate Egyptian aspirations Sithep,

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"I know I'm over my allowance, Dad—but you're still saving plenty on me while I'm a $600 dependent!"

What Others Say

THE DEFENSE Department defines it (‘small business’) as any plant that in Itself and affiliates employs not more than 500. I have also heard that a small businessman is one who is

not big enough to maintain a representative in Washington.-

~8en. John Sparkman (D. Ala.).

WE ARE not mere sponges or plankton afloat on a tide. We are rational beings, capable of charting the tide and navigating it, and’ even diverting and directing it. There is no dialectical or

technological substitute for the creative individual.—A. Whitney

Griswold, president Yale uU. v

GENERALS IN the United States are talking too much. It is up to the politicians to talk, not thes.generals. Take Eisen-

hower. He doesn’t say anything, and he is regarded with high

respect by the Europeans.—Dr, Barnett R. Brickner, rabbi, Cleveland, 0, -

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nicians were withdrawn from Iran, is forcing both polit-

ical parties to revise their original campaign programs, Winston Churchill's Tories had planned to make the cost of living and the widening gap between imports and exports their major issues in seeking a change in government. The Socialists were stressing their accomplishments in the foreign policy field and presenting themselves as the peace party. This peace claim took on the flavor of appeasement when oil men returning from Iran charged they could have stayed in business there if they had had the backing of their home government before the situation got out of hand. :

” » » + NOW EGYPT'S declaration that it is tearing up the 1936 British-Egyptian treaty has added fuel to the flames. Prime Minister Clement Attlee has been silent on the new Egyptian situation but Mr. Churchill quickly recalled that he had predicted such a development a week ago, when the government announced that it was pulling out of Iran. In a strategic sense, the British are in a better position at Suez and in the Sudan than they were in Iran, Their troops are in possession and Egypt does not have the forces to drive them out. There is fear here, however, that the Egyptians may close the Suez Canal to movement of supplies to British garrisons, which may force the British to resort to an airlift to supply them, But to the man on the street, the Egyptian develop-

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heard is, “It wouldn't have happened if Winnie had been in there.” . » » .

SECURITY of the Sues Canal is regarded by most Britons as essential to maintenance of the lifeline to their empire, and a threat to Britain’s position there is regarded far more seriously than the more material loss Britain apparently has sustained in Iran. The British Foreign Office has indicated there still is time to repair some of the damage done to British-Egyp-tian relations before the Egyptian Parliament takes any irrevocable step. But the denunciation of the treaty has provoked such jubilant celebrations in Cairo that the Egyptian government might find it difficult to reverse is position, even if it were willing to do so.

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