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The Indianapolis Times

Ee HENRY W. MAN3Z Business Manager

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER :LECKRONE President Editor

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Give IAght and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

UN Must Face Up to It

OW THAT both sides have submitted their disarmament plans, neither acceptable to the other, it is clear that the United Nations will be put to the severest test in its six years’ existence. For it must begin all over again to try to resolve the political conflicts that divide Russia and the Western world and furnish the basic causes.for the arms race that no one wants. More than ever this appears a hopeless task. But it would be naive indeed to think that the way to start is with concerted disarmament, even by easy stages: Armaments are not the primary cause of wars. Rather, it is the deeper political conflicts which impel nations to use their armies as instruments of national policy. International communism has chosen this course, and we have no other choice but to meet it.

INDEED, “as "Secretary of State Acheson emphasized yesterday, until a peace settlement has been reached in Korea, the United Nations will urgently need the maximum contributions in armed forces and in other means from every loyal member state. The American spokesman, in a skillfully prepared address, went on to indict Russia for withholding a peaceful settlement in other areas of the world. In Germany, for preventing unification. In Austria, for blocking a peace treaty. In Italy, for barring that country’s entry into the United Nations. For jailing William Oatis without a fair trial. For “crushing human freedom” all over the world. Russia’s Foreign Minister Vishinsky said he spent the night laughing at the Big Three's disarmament plan and peace proposals. But it must have been the sickliest kind of hollow laugh as those barbs sank in. “The record of the past year,” as Mr. Acheson said, “does not reveal a single action by the Soviet Union that indicates it is willing to co-operate with the rest of the world in abating tensions and the danger of war.”

= x = = = = WELL, now we know where we stand. The Western democracies are still facihg an implacable foe. The myth that Vishinsky would come to Paris with a “soft” front has been laid low. His counterproposals on Korea all but killed any remaining hope that the armistice talks would be productive. The United Nations was frankly told by the sponsors of the Western disarmament plan, America, Britain and France, that it could not go into effect as long as aggression continued in Korea. In the weeks and months ahead, Korea and the whole Far East will be a testing ground as Russia maneuvers for seating Red China in the United Nations and other concessions to call off the war. The United Nations will be risking its own destruction, as well as world peace, if it drifts down appeasement street in Paris.

Payment for What?

DURING the recent special session, our legislators charged $43,560 as extra compensation . . . they voted it for themselves. Every one of the 149 members will publicly favor saving the taxpayers’ money. Some of them will even lead you to believe they worry about it day and night. Nobody twisted their arms. Nobody told them they had to accept that extra compensation. Fact is 44 of them were so worried about taking the taxpayers’ money they disapproved of the measire on the floor of the House and Senate. But only four of those 44 backed up their ‘‘sincere convictions” by refusing payment. ; The rest of them took their checks and kept mum about their favorite subject . . . the taxpayers’ money . . . along with the remaining 105 members who registered no disapproval at all. When Sen. Harold Handley, La Porte Republican, heard about the first three men who turned their pay back, he said, ‘Those guys must have holes in«their heads.” Wonder if he meant us—the taxpayers—too?

Counterfeit Bromide

WILLIAM GREEN, the AFL president, and other union politicians keep saying “labor” was taxed more heavily by the recent increases in federal levies than corporations. Mr. Green, and the others, should take a closer look at some plain tax facts. Corporations are taxed up to 52 per cent on so-called ordinary income and 30 per cent more on excess profits. ‘But corporations aren't actually taxpayers. They are tax collectors. They merely transfer taxes to the government. The money comes from the consumers—there is no other place to get it. Corporations soaked by high taxes take it out in lower wages for their employees, lower dividends for the stockholders and higher prices for thei customers. > Didn't Mr. Green read of the recent price increases granted by the government on items directly affected by the new taxation? These price increases were granted solely because of the new taxes. . The consumer pays, whether he comes from “labor” or anywhere else. And Mr. Green ought to quit hitting him ove: the head with these phony cliches. He has enough trouble.

A BIRMINGHAM dispatch reported Sen. Taft made a bid for Alabama's GOP convention votes, but it failed to

. say how much.

SINCE IKE'S visit, the Taft managers may hire an astronomer just to watch the stars. NEW DEMOCRATIC National Chairman McKinney lost Ms home town of Indianapolis to Republicans. Looks like another Truman appointment failed to get confirmed.

ECONOMIC STABILIZER Eric Johnston is always around rapping inflation, but so far it has refused to take the rap.

THE KING'S speech from the throne at the opening of

the new Conservative Parliament hinted that he may have to bock the crown jewels. :

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DICTATORSHIP AND LIGHT . .-. By Ludwell Denny.

Stalinism Couldn't Exist If It Accepted

‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—Stalin does not want to accept the American-British-French disarmament plan, and couldn't if. he would. There is an off-chance that he might appear

to accept it for discussion purposes, and. then sabotage it. But, “whether Stalifi's scuttling method is indirect or direct, the whole makeup of the Communist dictatorship prevents genuine co-operation with the plan described Wednesday night hy President Truman.

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APART from all other provisions of ‘the Allied plan to which Moscow disagrees, ene provision alone makes it impossible from the Red viewpoint, That is, each stage of the joint arms reduction ‘‘would be continuously policed by (United Nations) inspectors, who would report ny breach of faith.”

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Hoosier Editors Favor Taft

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) is the favorite presidential candidate of Hoosier weekly editors, but they think that President Truman will beat him in 1952. That is the upshot of a poll taken by Western Newspaper Union and made public here today by their Washington correspondent, Walter Shead. Mr. Shead is a former Indianapolis newspaperman and Democratic radio commentator.

The Indiana poll is part of the general pattern for the country as tabulated for the Pub:lishers Auxiliary. + There were 2188 replies received from weekly editors and the nationwide net was Eisenhower is their

3 personal choice for Sen. Robert A. Taft 195) Truman will be

+ + + backed in Survey elected. Taft will be the GOP nominee. Truman the Democratic candidate. Thirty-eight GOP delegations will be

pledged to Taft. Forty-two state Democratic delegations will be pledged to Truman.

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Replies From Indiana

SIXTY-EIGHT replies were received from Indiana editors. On their long-range forecast for 1952, 41.2 per cent” gave the election to Truman. 38.3 per cent to Taft, 16.2 per cent to Eisenhower, 2.5 to MacArthur and 4.8 undecided. Indiana was one of 30 states where Truman was predicted as the winner. Others were Arizona, California. Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Floria, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa. Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington. Editors in eight states predicted Eisenhower will be President. They were Alabama. Kansas. New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Five states, Illinois, Louisiana. Montana. Ohio and West Virginia, predicted the election of Taft.

Nevada Divided

NEVADA DIVIDED between Truman and Eisenhower and Rhode Island between Truman and Taft In Indiana the weekly editors polled were 48.5 per cent for Taft, 22.1 per cent for Truman, 13.1 for Eisenhower, 119 divided and 44 un-

decided. The divided group included personal preferences for- Indiana's own Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Vice President Barkley and Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia on the Democratic side. And votes for former Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota and Gov. Earl Warren of California were in the divided group on the Republican side. = Indiana was one of 14 states where the editors personal preference favored Taft. Thirty states favored Eisenhower in the personal prefer-

ence poll and four were divided. Percentagewise the candidates shaped up in personal preference as follows: . Eisenhower 30.4 per cent, Taft 271. and Truman 8.6. Undecided rated 6.8 per cert, Stassen 65

Warren 5.1, Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) 3.7 and

MacArthur 3 per cent.

Back Truman ,

PRESIDENT TRUMAN polied 91.2 per cent of the editors in Indiana who think the state's Democratic delegation will be pledged to him Only 8.8 per cent were undecided. Sen. Taft will get the GOP delegates from the state this time in the opinion of 80.9 per cent of the editors answering the poll. Undecided were 13.3 per cent, 5.1 per cent predicted a pledge to Eisenhower and .7 per cent MacArthur That Truman will be the Democratic nominee was the opinion of 97.1 per cent of the editors and Taft the Republican 74.3 National percentage for Truman's nomination was 94.5 and Taft 57.5. The Eisenhower GOP total was 28.1.

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The Soviet state is an absolute police. state. .

If. caniiot exist otherwise. Hear a here is no freedom of movement, or any similar freedom, in the Red empire. Access to information is not only denied to all in military matters but also in_basic economic facts; the possessor of such information can be shot for treason without trials This secrecy is essental to survival of the dictatorship—otherwise the slaves might use their knowledge to revolt. oe oe ow THE Iron Curtain is not an accident. It is not simply: a useful method. It has become a necessary structural part of the entire Soviet edifice, To perfhit United Nations inspectors to police Soviet armament would destroy ‘the Iron Curtain. It would rob the police state of its absolute powers. It would subject the Kremlin to international authority.

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That would be suicide for the dictatorship. _ At no tjme has Stalin .ever agreed to the slightest United Nations control over what goes on inside Rugsia. He would not enter. the United Nations until -he was given veto power to prevent any effective future United Nations en-

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THERE is abundant proof that Stalin intends to maintain his military superiority over the Allies as long as he can. Otherwise after the war he would not have continued to arm when the Allies were disarming. Qtherwise he would not have blocked arms reduction all these years including .his, rejection of the Baruch atomic control plan. A - Otherwise he would not have proposed re-

"peatedly a phony proportional arms reduction

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Only Ring He's Interested in Now

PRICES . . . By Frederick C.

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Wow—No Corncob Control—

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9- The Office of Price Stabilization announces with appropriate (me-dium-sized! fanfare that it has decided to remove corncobs from price control.

Beginning tomorrow you can charge what the traffic will bear for vour corncobs. The Hon. Mike DiSalle’'s price fixers explain that when chopped up and properly squeezed corncobs give furfural. This is a chemical that's good for making more than 50 different and important things, from nylon stockings to automobile tires Corncobs also are good for smoking tobacco, but are clined to get a little strong after prolonged use. So there's a.shoftage of them and the federals figured if they allowed the price to go up. the proprietors of corncobs would ship the merchandise to market, Fair enough. Only I got to wondering whether corncobs were the sole ifems the government had decided to leave to~the mercies of supply-and-demand. Getting the answer meant shuffling through a tremenddus pile of paper (which is under price control), but I am pleased to re port that many a mighty American industry till is free of the bureaucratic apron strings.

Say youre in the business of chopping down forests and carving them into toothpicks. No price controls for you. The same goes for the dealers in bird cages and toy bones for pups. They can charge what they please. The Hon. Mike's experts have decreed further

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 The Eisenhower-for-President timetable has been stepped up smartly by Gen. Ike's visit home and if politics were run like business you might be reading an ad like this an day Wanted: Human dypamo to run national political cam paign for receptive five-star

general: should have organiz ing genius of a Jim Farley, he a whiz at fund raising, able to

win friends, influence dete gates readily, Natural capaci ty to make “maybe” sound

like “yps"” will count heavily Only those adaptable to five-nights-a-week pullman berth sleeping needy apply.”

~ n " The fact is that the proEisenhower people are at the stage of seeking a campaign manager. A possible alternative would be a closely-kn

strategy board which coul pull the pro-Eisenhower leaders together, so that each wouldn't have to read the newspapers ‘to find out what the others were saving and doing.

n ~ ” NO MEETING has been set yet, but the guesz among some top pro-Eisenhower men is that there will be one soon to plan a direct and energetic

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that hand-painted pictures (their phrase) are free from federal controls. So are glass ice cubes, which are a new product to me. Our government explains that these glass cubes are good for chilling without diluting. The idea seems to be: Put 'em in the refrigerator and then dump them into your highball. The OPS in any event, is not freezing its fingers on synthetic ice Artificial flowers. whether for decoration of hats, dinner tables or movie palace lobbies, can sell for what they'll bring. So can moose and elk calls. These as I understand it, are horns used by nimrods to fool the furry. folk of the forests, They strike me as being fundamentally dishonest,

Hair Pieces Exempt SO DO wigs and toupes. These hair DiSalle regards as having no effect on the cost of living and they likewise are exempt from his price ceilings

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Incense burners are exempt from the federal’s fishy eve, as are hand fans. custom-

built organs, shoe horns, hair curlers made of

wood, and pepper grinders, ‘so long as they are operated by hand. Price ceilings do, however apply to motorized pepper mills In my clawing through the papers annoureing the decisions of the price controllers, I came inevitably upon the regulations involving paper. They cover pages of paper. The subsection on Kraft paper is broken all the way down to butcher's paper. This the management defines as unbleached Kraft paper containing 90 per ent or more of unbleached Kraft fiber generally tinted pink and designed for use as meat wrapping in retail stores. : I guess DiSalle’s wife patronizes a different butcher than does mine. In all my memory our hamburger never has come home wrapped in pink.

. By Charles Lucey lke Backers Need a Genius

drive for Eisenhower dele Rates 10 next Julv's Chicago convention flat question

The need is seen to get some savvy politicians out into the states to begin direct organiz ing among groups not so strong for Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the only announced can didate for the Republican nom ination. The Eisenhower peo ple concede that if it isn’t done oon, It may be too late. The Eisenhower group tool

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From top couple days the General was in the country --his statement that no one was authorized to

Allied Disarmament’ Plan

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They observe. too, that (General still hasn't answered a as to he’s a Democrat or Republican They say this irks GOP leaders who above all insist there must campaign next year. They note also that while Sen. Duff talked only by tele phone with the General, Demo crats George Allen and Chief Tustice Vinson an evening with him men of Eisenhower mavement the word is that during Ike's visit they did indeed receive more solid

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less cost. And otherwise he would lose his grip on the satellites and the wherewithal for future aggression. A r ~ Even assuming a miracle, in which Stalin in good faith was ready for genuine arms reduction andeto give up future aggression and past conquests, he still could not accept effective international inspection and control. For that would publicize to the world the slave canips, the forced labor, the terror, the whole sadistic iystem of barbarism which is Red dictatorship,

COMMUNISM cannot stand the light. When the Allies propose that Stalih turn on the light hiey are asking the impossible. o All they .can achieve is to prove again—as so often in the past—that Stalin has so much to hide that he will not submit to the lawful regulation which democracies invite on equal terms,

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Hoosier Forum

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‘Too Much Eisenhower’ MR. EDITOR: I, along with. several other people that I talk with every aay, are getting sick of all the newspaper stories on whether Gen. Eisenhower is a Democrat or a Republican. Also, on witether he intends to remain on the job as

supreme commander of the North Atlantic forces.

Our condensed opinions amount to this. We, in this grand old United States, have always put too much faith in big names when all along it 1s really our disregard for money that turns the trick. We think that a green ‘“shavetail” would be received with just as hearty a welcome as Gen. Eisenhower, just so long as we would

send him with the same amount of American dollars. >

We also think that it matters litile whether the General is a Democrat or a Republican, In fact, we don't think he will disclose himself either way. After all. he has always done well for himseif in his chosen field without letting people know his preference in politics Also, we think that Ludwell Denny's opinions are oniy his own.

~—R. J. Shipman, Cambridge City,

‘Tough Job Ahead’ MR. EDITOR:

Well, ‘our boy lost the election. but as a eitizen of this city I must offer best wishes to the new mayor. But may I take this Space to remind our new mavor who made so many promises, that our past mayor did untold good for this city and its people in one year. Also that the new mavor has a past administration to measure his work against. So, Mayor Clark, let's use your first Vear asa measuring stick. Let's see jf YOu measure up . much less top . the year's performance of our past good mayor, Phil Bavt. rf you can’t measure -up, perhaps the thing’ this city's citizens should start campaigning years.trial, is a “city

va} Hig recall election Something not permitted to us

now, * So. Mayor Clark. our best wishes and sincers desire that vou can and do f

fulfill your promises and measure up to the man, Bayt, P

—R. M. H., City.

‘Shocking Pictures’ MR. EDITOR

No “Indianapolis Mother you are not alone in your reference to the shocking pictures apeparing daily in our newspapers. You are so very right. It i= very disgusting to have to look at those anvthing but beautiful pictures. I am but I often think it is small wonder there are so many sex offenses The newspapers report in large print the sex orgies etc. and invite such offenses by the almost daily portrayal of these nude pictures. I also feel certain that the women readers are not the only ones who find such pictures objectionable, Freedom of the press may be one thing. but the daily insult to common decency is another and if the editors do not value the patronage of the reading public by givIng us the best, then we should keep their dailies out of our homes and legislate such obJectionable pictures off the pages of newspapers and magazines and relegate them to the nudist colonies where thev belong —Irate Reader, City

not a mother

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

VINCENNES Sheriff Francis F. Thomas. who had gone to Investigate a case of missing watermelons, was met at the edge of the fleld by a boy who asked, “You come out to steal watermelons, too?”

The future it seems doesn't hold anv promise 4 For youngsters (in this chosen field They're fast and ambitious, but then Sheriff Thomas Arrives and soon ruins the yield.

Why isn't he off chasing bandits and felons And other bad men of that breed? It's getting so kids can't’ make hay with the melons Another good thing gone to seed.

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the honest draft for him, and they

plan the most diligent work in coming weeks to make it posible to demonstrate existence of this demand. If a really impressive showing 1s made, the way would be opened quite naturally for the tieneral to agree to entry of his name in the early primariag. That could be the moment at which Gen. Eisenhower-- as he said he would if and when the time comes—decides to speak for himself,

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private assurances that he's Speak for him seemed (0 Dut . receptive than anyihing that IF WE people desire to live the finger on Gov. Thomas E. was said publicly, The test in peace « In ch aor Dewey, Sen. James H, Duff ahead could be whether Repub- where we. might a to and others who have been j..;, politicians across ‘the roam . . . we should la . been whooping it up for the ’ y om

famed soldier and saying they were ‘‘sure” he would consent to entering the race at some point or other. But on his final day the General seemed to leave the door open wide for his supporters to do all they can to demonstrate an Efizen

- hower draft is the real thing.

~ " Ld BUT THOSE in the Taft camp doubt this is so. They say state and county leaders and prospective delegates are realists who want more solid assurances frgm Gen. FEisenhower than anything “they've seén yet, Side

country will accept this as negotiable political currency,

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Wednesday by a national poll showing that in a sweepstakes.

in which voters were given 18 names from which to choose a presidential favorite, their man was in front in all sections of the country. They sav this shows how the. General will run in any presidential primary contest in which he’s entered.

They say their task simply -

i= to conyince the General

there can be a genuine and

foundation by living in peace + + first of all with our loved ones at home . . \, we should all try to make , , . for a real happy home . . | for the home Is the root of all life . . , we should spread joy and eheer «and help \dry every tear and by so doing end worldly strife . ... for when - nations entwinein—the turmoitof war , and the seas of life stir up with foam . . . we can trace all our woes , , | from the place whers it flows + + « and the source Is an unhappy home,

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