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Mission to the Vatican "HE PUBLIC should not judge whether the President is right or wrong in trying to establish full diplomatic ~~lations with the Vatican until he gives all the facts for “Nis sudden reversal of policy. Whether the new policy proves justified or not, we mink the President has gone about it in the wrong way. v creating a brand new ambassadorship only a few hours “efore Congress adjourned, he left the Senate no chance to wonsider the nomination, and left Congress no chance to ~<ercise its control over. appropriations for the proposed new mission. nt The President thus set aside the co-ordinate constitu‘onal powers of Congress, at least temporarily. That would > wrong at any time. It is particularly dangerous in a -sntroversy that promotes disunity. The President claims to be acting “in the national aterest.” Certainly the national interest requires a maxisum of national unity in this world crisis. When the chief ecutive deliberately causes division, as he has done in .2is instance, the burden of the proof is upon him to con“ince the public with facts that such a course is necessary.

” » » ” : » WHATEVER the considerations that influenced the President's decision, they must have developed over a period of gome weeks or months. They didn’t just happen to come

‘oa head on the afternoon that Congress left Washington."

There is no issue regarding Gen. Mark Clark personally he has earned the high regard of America. But it is not enough to say, as the White House does, “hat “direct diplomatic relations will assist in co-ordinating ‘ne effort to combat Communist influence.” That leaves un_.nswered such questions 4s the following: .~ Why could not such co-ordinating of anti-Communist ~ffort be carried on by the American Ambassador to Italy, “ho is resident in Rome a short distance from the Vatican? Or why could not the job be done through a personal “epresentative of the President, functioning as Myron “Taylor did during and after the war?

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- ” a: THE American tradition of separation of church and ‘state is fundamental. On this point we believe that Ameri‘pan Catholics and Protestants are of one opinion, and that both object to any undermining of that principle. American “representation at the Vatican city state, in our view, is not Ar undermining factor as such. It depends on how repreentation is arranged and for what purpose. If the purpose is to get American Catholic votes it is _espicable, and should be resented by Catholics as much as AY Protestants. If it is done to curry favor with the Vatican, ~it is unworthy. But if such a relationship could in fact— hich is not yet proved—contribute in some unique way "'n the security of this nation and the free world against + ‘ymmunist aggression and subversion, in our opinion it “vould be justified. ; . The President has raised an issue which divides the :conutry. He has done it in a way to produce the maximum { heat and the minimum of light. It remains for our citins to try to consider this problem as Americans, not as “>@tarian partisans.

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{uve a Nice Vacation : “T"HOSE MEMBERS of Congress who will be able to tak ‘a.rest as a result of last Saturday's adjournment ought “'n make the most of it. They will have a sky-high stack of -7ork when they get back Jan. 8. ? Actually, this session turned in a sizable performance —in volume. But Congress will return to Washington with any of the same vital problems hanging over and, un‘oubtedly, grave new ones. The international situation even may require President ‘ruman to call it back long before January. Meanwhile, some of the members will be up to their ~ars in projects ranking in importance with major ‘ogislation.

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o » » ” ” ” AT THE head of the list is the House committee inves‘igation of the scandals in the Internal Revenue Bureau, ust getting started. This agency quite obviously needs a enovation from stem to stern and it will be up to Congress “oo provide the elbow-grease for this job. Sen. Lyndon Johnson's preparedness subcommittee also 2as a massive job in watchdogging the defense spending vrogram. = A foremost issue in January is likely to be the President's “security information” order. The public's right to Aformation about its business is jeopardized by this order and Congress eventually will be constrained to lay down an jver-all policy. = The spending authorized by the adjourned-session far qutreached the taxes imposed. Congress will come back to 'n unbalanced budget and a decision on this unfinished usiness will be inescapable. Other high-ranking issues held over are statehood for fawali and Alaska and reform of the obsolete electoral ollege which should get prompt attention.

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” ” ” ~ ” ” BY the time Congress goes back to work, it should be ipparent whether or not the weakened economic controls ctually can hold the line against inflation. And the protram for universal military training should be ready for sdoption, * The vacationing Congressmen will have plenty to think bout while they are home fishing—whether it be for fish “voles. President Truman, too, will have plenty on his mind. +0 Republican Congress could have given him less heed an the first session of the Democratic 82d Congress. {hat ought to give him the pause that is not refreshing.

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.. DEMOCRATS used to stand for a tariff for revenue aly, but lately some seem to be standing only for revenue.

CONGRESS is going to keep the 3-cent stamp as a * puvenir of the old 100-cent-dollar days. :

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HOW GOOD IS OUR AIR POWER? . .. No. 2-.

How Far Can We

TOKYO, Oct. 23 -A Communist convoy in Korea loses an . average. of 8!, per cent of its trucks esery run Thus. if the Reds need 1000 truck§ at ‘the front they must leave Manchuria with nearly 1100. _Moreower, the Air Force says. it no longer is .possible for enemy. trucks to refuel in the ‘forward areas for eir return trip. They

haven't been able to maintain fuel dumps south of Pvongvang. Red trucks crossing the Yalu River now carry 50-gallon gasoline drums to get home. One machine-gun bullet and that truck becomes a “flamer.” “ Hp » “WE'VE peen geiting more flamers lately.” an Air Force spokesman said. “Their losses from now on will be higher.”

Top: Air Force men believe the Reds’ transpertation losses are more than they can bear for any leagth of time. Since the start nf the war in North Korea, the Reds have lost 450 locomotives. 35300 hoxcars and 25.514 trucks. Those are the ones that burned or exploded. Their destruction was witnessed by at least two airmen and verified by photographs. Many times more have been damaged or listed as probables. The Reds still have locomotives, and trucks. They're being brought

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PRESIDENCY . . . By Ludwell Denny

What's Behind

Vatican Move?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23— Diplomatic and defenze reasons plaved a part in the President's that the United States should have a representative at Whether the decisive

certainly deciginn the Vatican,

those reasons, or domestic politics,

were factor is anybody's guess— nobody but the President can Know his motives precisely. The President invited the political interpretation when he withheld the nomination of Gen. Mark Clark as ambassador until too late for Congressional action at the session just

closed. But if his tim-

ing was political, it probably was bad politics. .

escape Congressional hearings and debate. The bitterness is like-~-ly to be greater in January--after three months of frustrated partisan public dizcussion--—-than if a Congressional decision on confirmation and appropriations could have heen reached one way or the other, as soon as the issue was raised. :

Apart from the questionable timing and method, which infuriate Congresg and Protestant spokesmen, the hope that American representation at the Vatican would help the President politically at home seems very far-fetched, 80 much so, indeed, that it. would not be characteristic of party leader Truman's usually astute political maneuvers. Clever politicians avoid if possible raising religious issues nationally—at least in the open —hecause what makes votes on one side will lose votes on the other. It is said in Washington that the President reversed American foreign policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel to get Jewish votes, and is now making a similar move to win Catholic votes. Actually, how-

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ever, there were few Arab votes to lose, while there are many more Protestant voters than Catholic. :

Catholic Voters

MOREOVER. there are many Catholic voters who resent attempts by politicians to “buy” their. votes by a show of favoritism to their church. They believe in the American principle of separation of church and state. And as members of the minority, they have added cause to fear the politician who deliberately raises church issues which result in national disunity at best and bigotry at worst,

But regardless of whether the President's

main motive in reviving the Vatican represen-

tation issue was political or not, it is a fact that some diplomats and military men recommend such representation. Their reasons include’ ' ONE-—-The Vatican has the widest. the best, intelligence service in the world, which will not be shared unless there is an American official there. TWO Though Vatican and American foreign interests are not identical and often conflicting, there is mutual interest in preventing Communist aggression and subversion and therefore necessity for facilities of close co-operation in

that common task. THREE--While the Vatican emphasizes peace, which is equally desired by the United States. more vigorous Vatican support is needed

in European Catholic countries for rearmament and the North Atlantic defense effort, which an American representative could stress FOUR —There is strong anti-Americanism in some Catholic political circles abroad, which the Vatican might counteract. But, even admitting the validity of these factors, the¥ do not prove that a full ambassador could do the job any better than a personal representative of the President, similar to Myron Taylor during and after the war. They do prove, however, that the President had no legitimate excuse for suddenly springing this issue as the congressional session wasg«losing—all these factors have existed for many months.

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s Manchuria. and Siberia. But replacements recklessly brought ‘in. during daylight hours recently —have taken brutal punishment. They're still coming, but in driblets. Until recently, an average night's sighting was 3000 trucks. On an average night’ twothirds—or, 2000 trucks—would be brought under attack. An average of about 50 would be destroyed or badly damaged “At that rate’ an Air Force spokesman said; “we destroy all the trucks the Reds have allocatéd to Manchuria-North Korea traffic every 15 days. There's only one place to get more. But Russia has other irons in the fire - she's hurting.” But we have aerial supremacy. If we sight 3000 trucks in one night, why don't we destroy them? : There are several reasons. One is our limited number of planes. Another is the fact that convoys black out as soon as thev're spotted and night raids are not as effective as daylight raids. Then. a night raider may spot two convoys at the same time. He has to make a quick choice, The other convoy may never be picked up again. Wo & ANOTHER reason—and candid about it—is that time you shoot.

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TAXES . .. By Frederick C.

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Jim G. Lucas

“The whole thing is cumulative,” an Air Force spokesman said. “The Reds, militarily, can't afford the losses they're taking. It's no Jonger possible for them to replace their losses, much less do anything about a buildup. Nevertheless. supplies get through. Five bridges control the Red transportation net, 1f all five could be knocked out at once the Reds would be paralyzed. / oo ow o> ; WE ATTACK bridges frequently. But hundreds of Koreans and Chinese have been conscripted to repair bridges and rails and build bypasses. A bypass is a make-shift, single-track affair, easily rebuilt and usually good for only one or two crossings. The Reds—with their vast reservoir of human labor—can rebuild them as fast as we knock them out. When all bypasses are knocked out--as sometimes happens —supplies are ferried across by junks and small boats to trains waiting on the other side of the river. Most trains run only at night, hiding in tunnels by day. It's almost impossible to-wreck a tunnel. You can close both ends with a bulls-eve bomb hit, but its always possible to dig out again. The great bulk of the enemy's supplies come from Mukden by way of Antung and Sinuiju. We've tried to destroy the Antung bridge across the Yalu and failed. It is a massive, steel,

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And All Because of Dad—

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 For many a long and happy vear, old man Boorky was the village blacksmith of Worcester, Mass. He shod horses and patched whiffletrees with satisfaction and profit to himself. He sent his sons, Morris and Harry, to college. Morris became a metallurgical engineer, Harry a mechanical engineer. They came home, expanded their father's, smithy in numerous

themthe the Steel

and found selves by 1942 proprietors of Massachusetts Treating Corp. After all, as Morris. said, if it hadn't been for their dad, there never would have been any cor-® poration. So they made him an officer of it at a handsome salary. Their business hoomed during the war and everything was fine until 1942, In came a tax collector “He said we owed £39 419.11 in back taxes for 1942 and 1943" Morris told the House subcommittee investigating the taking ways of assorted tax collectors. “He disallowed the salary we'd been paying dad : “So we told him, he'd better examine our books for 1944 and 1945, because dad was still on the pay roll.” This the collector eventually did. old man Boorky continued to draw his salary, and the revenue agents kept on insisting he had no rights to it. They finally slapped a lien on the plant of the corporation, charging that it owed $108,000 in back taxes. = “You've got to bear in mind~that my brother

82D CONGRESS .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 The just-ended first session of the Democratic-controlled 82d Congress must be making New Dealers of the early '30s turn ever in their graves. For. hidden behind all the headline-making investigations and billions voted for arms and foreign aid, the Democratic 82d compiled a record of conservatism on domestic issues unparalleled since the Democrats took over in 1933, This Congress showed itself to be, in effect, the first “high tariff Congress’ since the one that wrote the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1931. It didn’t go so far as to kill Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade law. But it went much farther than the Republican 80th Congress in watering it down —g0 far, in fact, that only two of the Senate's 46 Republicans voted against the renewal bill on final passage. When Congress got. through with the trade. bill, it was were palatable to the Republicans than any tariff law since the reciprocal trade program was enacted in 1934, Lis na = AND Congress made Its ‘mood even more clear by writing into the controls law

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and I were educated as engineers’ “We knew nothing about taxes. lawyer.” i : They also went to see collector Dennis W. Delaney, the Boston tax collector. Years passed and nothing happened except threats. Morris said he, his dad, and his brother feared they'd lose their plant when in walked one Daniel Friedman, New York tax expert, And, as it developed. pal of collector Delaney. For $5000, which they paid him, he said he could get the lien lifted. He did. The records , showed that a couple of days later he sent $2500 to the collector. Then he came back to Morris and Harry and said for $10,000 more he could, get the government to agree that salary to their father was legitimate. Of course, he said, he'd have to split with some unnamed officials. That made the sons of the blacksmith sore. They tossed Friedman out of their office. A few davs later the lien was slapped back on their corporation, now they were really in the soup.

Another Agreement FORTUNATELY for them, Investigators were catching up with Collector Delaney's Fancy-Dan operations. President Truman fired him, a grand jury indicted him, and the Boston Tax office went under new management. 80 Morris and Harry made another agreement a vear or so ago to pay the Treasury $2500 a month on their back taxes, while the powers-that-be pondered the question of whether their dad deserves his salary. “We still think he does.” said Morris. “But at least we are beginning to see the light. And just the other night I was talking over our situation with my brother. Harry said {t certainly was a shame that one he other of us hadn't forgotten about engineering and taken a course in business administration.’ It certainly was.

. . By Earl Richert

How to Shock an Old-Time ‘New Dealer’

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Japanese-built structure and has taken direct. hits without visible damage. . _ If this were all-out war instead of a limited police action we'd probably keep after it. ‘But it would cost too much in men and planes, Manchurian anti-aircraft on the qpposite side of the Yalu car. fire at our planes with no fear of retaliation.

. or “Our alternative,’ an Air Force spokesman

said, "is to take as big a bite as we can of their transportation system where we aren't forced to fight against unacceptable odds.” That means destroying supplies en route, and systematically destroying their transportation

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THAT'S being done with as much alr power as we have in the Far East. But once trains and trucks cross the border they become a more elusive target. By traveling at night, by using coolie slave labor to repair tracks and build bypasses, by hiding in tunnels hy dav, by decentral. izing supply depots, the Reds have been able to get some supplies through, ; Actually the only sure way of choking them off would be to bomb their factories- -tn be sure that no more supplies are created. And we can't do that as long as our Air Force is forbidden to

cross the Manchurian border, } Sa Se Tae ries Hoosier Forum “| 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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‘United Nations’ MR. EDITOR When we think of the United Nations we recall that men are builders. From the substances of earth men have erected schools, homes, temples, hospitals, banks, laboratories, arsenals. Each building has heen fashioned in relation to man's thought and will, and accordIng to forces unseen and intangible the world has arisen on all sides. We are now striving to build for the earth a United Nations, and again we shall build fnevitably by thought and will. What type qf creation we manage ‘to establish will depend upop each man’s contribution to the buildin because each: great thing is built in time py public opinion; and for public opinion not one leader but all men together are responsible. What do we desire the United Nations tn

become” Shall we strive to create an edifice which will be for man as man . . . something kin to the school, the home, the temple; all

buildings that make for peace and order’ Or is our hope set only on arsenal and fortress? For according to our vision and hope we shall certajnly create, oe & oo

0 , . IF OUR desire is for the whole, one world . . that is, for the good of man as man .. then we must conceive of mankind az a brotherhood. We must realize that the nations are within this fact inevitably united, whatever may be their differences of class and kind. If man is to survive we must have a united world, a world worthy of survival. The United Nations must become the model pattern for that world. Each who has the vision must heip to create it Must it not be the duty of man to formulate clearly his individual and thought, in order that he be able to contribute his best to this international dream” If public opinion iz a mighty force, is not each man responsible for whatever he can add to it” Finally, if each man assumes his role of builder of brotherhood, will he not fashion the United Nations of the world? ~— Anna Johnson Lazarus, President, Theosophical Society in Indianapolis, 756 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place.

‘Pain In the Neck’ :

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Regarding vour editorial “Space Retween Trucks A line or two in vour Friday, Oct. 19. paper

hurts me to the quick which he principally pays for and_trucks largely monopolize.” Now. I am an owner and driver, and I feel that 1 pay my way. about $5 from Shelbyville to Chicago, on every day I run. This does not include property taxes on my equipment, income taxes, etc. Now, I realize that trucks are a pain in the neck. That's whyv I trv to be as considerate nf others as possible. Other trucks are a pain in the neck to me, too. In fact, 1 wish 1 were the only one on the road. But [ realize that trucks cannot support the entire cost of the road svstem, that the taxpayer cannot, or anyone else, alone. tl ! By the way. How about the car drivers . .. drunks, kids that carry no insurance and pay only $11 per vear in license fees, no property tax and no income tax” How good a road system would they support? i Any safe truck driver stays 300 feet behind unless he is making a bid to pass. which sometimes may take several miles before you have built up enough speed to pull out. This is more true if some hardhead has pulled out in front of you and made vour hair stand on end. —Earl W. Wright, Shelbyville

THOUGHTS OF YOU

I THINK of you when stars are bright , . . and rippling waters play . . you're in my thoughts most always dear . . . in nighttime or in day . .. when Mister Moon peeks through the tres . . . I feel your presence there...and just the very thought of you... will banish all my care . . . when soft rains fall and grass is green . and morning-glories grow . . . I think of you just as I do . . . through winter's ice and snow . . . I think of you and how I yearn... to hold you tenderly . . . I think of you and wonder If , .. you ever think of me. -—By Ben Burroughs

imports from friendly Western European nations. It, so far, has refused to repeal this law despite the vigorous proseven nations which are our military Allies. And the House, in about 30 last

tests of

minutes hill pound tariff on tuna fish -a blow at our to-be ally, Japan, “Can you imagine getting a bill like this through four or five years ago?’ commented the lobbyist for the domestic tuna industry.

The Democratic 82d also handed state's rights advocates a “significant victory, This was the approval, over the vigorous opposition of the administration and its supporters, of the Jenner rider on the tax increase bill. It authorizes state legislatures to pass laws making public the names of people receiving oldage assistance. $

gf "8 a REP. Charles Halleck (R. Ind.), former House majority leader, said this action’ was the first reversal of the trend

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years in Congress. Even the new $5.7 billion tax increase bill was an essentially conservative measure as conservative as any tax increase bill can be. “It was just about the kind of bill we would have written had we been in control of Congress” said one Republican leader.

There was no action on such old Fair Deal-New Deal standbys as aid to education, chmpulsory health insurance, the Brannan plan, etc, The Senate even turned down one health bill which had been expected to sail through easily—a measure to give federal aid to medical colleges so that more doctors could be trained. = » ” AND civil rights legislation was not even brought up, The biggest defeat for the administration on domestic issues came on the controls bill,

one got by ter Bowles of Connecticut who was confirmed as ambassador to India. And that was due to the Republicans. The Senate Republicans did the rare thing of deciding to make a party fight against Mr. Bowles' nomination. The Democrats responded by closing ranks and putting the nemination through easily. “All in all,” said one Republican leader, ‘“this Congress was little different from what a Republican Congress would have been. Certainly that is true on domestic legislation. And we'd have had to vote billions for armaments and more taxes, too.” ‘

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to knock out proposed rollbacks and ban slaughtering quotas on beef. So many regtrictive amendments were put in that administration leaders

say it.will be impossible to hold .

. the p#ice-wage line. . The Democratic 82d did no better for Mr. Truman on his

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