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And No Future Bargains

N SPITE of the 37-to-11 General Assembly vote yesterday against seating Red China in the United Nations, it's a long way from deciding the larger issues at stake. What, for example, would the -United Nations do if Russia tomorrow should call off her war of aggression in Korea? How quickly “would sentiment shift among our Allies and other United Nations members who are trying .to do business with Red China and would welcome any deal which would improve their chances? What price collective igecurity, then? “i That is the disturbing situation that the United States delegation to the United Nations faces. And it is doing nothing about it, exerting no leadership. * : Twenty-six nations or governments recognize the outlaw regime at Peiping today, and 18 of them are members of the United Nations, including our closest ally, Britain. NOT ONE of them has withdrawn recognition, though" Red China is in open war with the United Nations, and stands branded as an aggressor. We're bearing 90 per cent of the burden of fighting the Chinese Reds—and 95 per cent of the casualties. But our timid State Department, floundering in the morass of its past mistakes and indecisiveness, has made no move to get other Western nations to withdraw their recognition of Red China. : Secretary Acheson, to be sure, spoke vigorously yesterday against installing China in the United Nations. He said he was revolted at the Soviet preposal to admit the Peiping regime at a time when it is “engaged in killing the countrymen of at least a score of delegations seated in this hall.” He said, too, that the international conduct of the Chingse Reds was “so low that it would take considerable improvement to raise it to the general level of barbar sm.” ’ - 5 ” ” » - = GOOD, STRONG wgrds—spoken like an American. But the weight of éVidence is that the State Department did not always see it that way. Indeed, the congressional inquiries in Washington into the considerable number of our policy-makers and hangers-on who were once friendly “to the Chinese Communists can hardly have escaped the attention of other United Nations delegations. Centuries ago, somebne asked the Greek philosopher, Socrates, what was the greatest penalty for being a liar. He replied: “Not to be believed when you tell the truth.” That is the awkward position of the State Department today. It may be telling the truth now about Red China, but the notorious White Paper has never been disavowed. Result is, we're still in the predicament of sparring delicately and tentatively for votes in the United Nations— while our Allies mark time to see what Russia means to do about calling off the Korean War, rr * » } . . » A PUBLIC opinion poll in this country only recently disclosed that the majority of American people opposed seating Red China in the United Nations even if the Reds agreed to peace terms. This, dnd’ a ‘similar expression in the U. S. Seénate, should be a warning to the United Nations as a whole, and to our Allies in particular, that we are not open to any

future bargaining.

Just for Laughs

A SENSE of humor is a good thing to have. Most every- ~~ body likes to laugh at jokes and embarassing situations. Sometimes even the victim of a practical joke can push hurt feelings aside and laugh at the situation.

Sometimes they aren't able to laugh.

Since the invention of the fire alarm box, certain persons have been unable to resist sending in false alarms. They like to send tke fire trucks racing down the street... and besides, think of the humorous confusion when the firemen can’t find the fire. It’s dangerous, expensive “humor.” No matter how many false alarms are sent in, firemen have to answer each and every one. They can’t take time to investigate by phone. The fire won't wait. They can't forget about the call on the assumption that it may be a fake. They have to go through red lights and stop infernections at full speed. » ” - » . . ” » IN THIS cold weather, with most car windows up, it’s easy for a motorist to fail to hear the siren or see the flashing lights. ‘It just takes one small car to wreck a fire engine. It just takes one false alarm to send a whole crew of fire fighters to the hospital . . . so somebody could have a good laugh. - Since Oct. 1, three officers have been hurt because somebody wanted a laugh. Eighty-four false alarms have been sent in since that date. We wonder how good a laugh it was that sent Patrolman Robert Wade to the hospital the other day. We wonder if the person responsible for that false alarm is still laughing. We're not-and neither is Patrolman Wade.

He Missed One UDGET Director Frederick J. Lawton says the government probably will run from five to eight billion dollars in the red in the fiscal year ending July 1. That ought to be easy for this administration. It already has spent nearly six billions more than it has taken in since Mr. Lawton says there are only two ways to “pay the government's bills" —tax or borrow. If Congress sticks

to its refusal to levy more taxes, it is clear the administra-

tion intends to borrow. And borrow, and borrow.

. But there is one other way to avoid a deficit—a way °

which no adnfinistration official ever mentions. ; And that is to quip spending so much, uselessly.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

McHale Politics

in Washington? McKinney Will Find Harry's . ~ A Democrat . . . Period

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—S8hould new National Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney - sattempt to transplant the McHale brand” of bipartisanship from Indiana to the national scene, he will be committing the cardinal sin so far as President Truman is concerned. While the political faults of the man from Missouri may be great, such-as _ supporting crooked friends of the Pendergast type, he never has been accused of practicing bipartisanship for personal profit. 5 Harry 8. Truman is a Democrat— period. One of his topflight appointees here, who knows Indiana politics well, was not surprised : at The Indianapolis Times Sunday story about a $1000 check allegedly contributed by Mr. McKinney to Republican Mayor-elect Clark's campaign in Indianapolis. The contribution was made before Mr. McKinney took the national chairmanship of course. Mr. McKinney himself called the story “ridiculous.”> But his critical observer here declared that he was told Judge Joseph M. Howard was practically a Democratic campaign manager for the Republican mayor up until the time the McKinney national appointment came throligh. Now Mr. McKinney is bringing the Judge down heie as his top assistant. And the question has been raised as to what it is, exactly, that the Judge is going to help McKinney do. If it is to do what has been done in Indiana, the Republicans are in in 1952. For the state has been lost by the Democrats since the late President Roosevelt's second term. The election of Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schricker twice was in the nature of a personal and not a party tribute. Each time he drew a Republican Legislature. :

Democrat Boss FRANK M. McHALE, Democratic national commitieeman and patronage dispenser, has bossed the Democrats during these brilliant defeats. Not since the days of the late, great Thomas Taggart has there been such close organization control. During Mr. Taggart's days the Hoosier Democrats didn't win much either. But the late Republican Sen. James E. Watson used to tell with delight of how when he wanted some “radical” legislation stopped in the Indiana Legislature he just called Mr. Taggart and the Watson-Taggart forces did the job. So while bipartisanship has flourished in the state under Mr. McHale, it long has been an indigenous flower. One thing that has made it easy for the latter was the knocking off of New Dealers or Fair Dealers wherever they popped up. So that with the farmers having their mortgages paid off and voting Republican again and the Democrats not standing for. much but election: it was simple for Mr. McHale to handle the federal patronage without any advice from Democratic Senators or Congressmen. He was and is in. In fact the McKinney appointment reportedly was obtained by him through the good offices of Truman's patronage secretary, Matthew Connelly. With Mr. McKinney making bold statements of reform and starting off by getting the President to advise putting the tax collectors under Civil Service, the new regime at national headquarters got off to a flying start. Praise was almost universal i

A Bit Too Late

THEN CAME THE election and the loss by the: Democrats of nearly all principal cities in Indiana, including Mr. McKinney's home town of Indianapolis. He had gone home to campaign, but it was too late. Reports of how the Democrats of the Me-Hale-McKinney school had dragged their feet on re-election of Mayor Bayt ““because he isn't a ballplayer”’—are drifting back here now. They eventually will reach President Truman, even if Mr. Connelly tries to erect an iron curtain against them. When they do, Mr. MecKinney and Judge Howard will be on trial. They will have to jettison McHaleism or else unless of course the President wants to turn the country over to the Republicans because of the shape it's in.

What Others Say—

THE best revolution that can occur is an election in which the people can freely express their will. Any person who tries to start a (revolutionary) movement a month before election is certain to fail. —President Juan D. Peron, of Argentina, on recent Argentinian revolution. od. d . THERE are still a lot of Hitlers in the world. A lot of guys like the Longs and Talmadges. the tobacco-spitting Southern Senators who try to perpetuate racial hatred.—Jesse Owens, former American track star. LE > THE only thing that matters any more 1s duty.—Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, of France,

Judge Howard . , . what's he going to do?

ole WE do not ask the Western powers (in the case of Palestine) to undo all the evil thay heve done. . . . We ask them only to give evidence of neutrality—military, economic and political neutrality-—not take sides with us against Israel . . . nor against us.—Haj. Amin el-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

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HACHOOOOO . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Wan’na Have Some Fun?—Just. Get a Cold, Watch the Ceiling

McLEAN, Va, Nov. 14—There is a fellow here flat on his back, staring through reddened eyes at the little men on his bedroom ceiling,

fellow named Othman, with a sore chest, plugged nose, and a head that feels like an elephant stepped on it. ) I spent $1.98 for a bottle of antihistamine pills, but my cold got worse. I gulped some aspirin, but all that gave me, in addition, was a stomachache,

My old-fashioned \ bride said what I needed was a slug of castor ofl. She served it between layers of orange juice. I doubt if I ever can look a glass of orange juice in the eye again. It's a good thing that the : Congressmen are long gone and President Tryman momentarily is displaying some Bing Crosby haberdashery in Key West. If they were here, I'd not be able to leave my bed of pain to jot down their deathless words; I can only gaze at the activity on my ceiling. Sometimes this is in technicolor and

“sometimes in black and white, according as to

how nearly shut are my eyes. As of this moment Commissioner of Internal Revenue John B. Dunlap is brandishing a blunt instrument (it looks like an adding machine) at thieves in his bureau. He's also taking a few swipes at Rep. Cecil B. King (D. Cal) and company, who've been investigating him. They're fighting back wth pink subpenas and quite a ruckus it is, too, until it fades into a couple of hairy-chested gents in boxing shorts. The one with the spotted trunks seems to be Truman, Harry 8S. The other with the striped pants is Krock, Arthur, of the New York Times. Fighter Truman seems to be in better shape, but Battler Krock has loaded his gloves with typewriters. The slaughter is too awful to contemplate; I close my eyes tight (and blow my nose) but I sfill can see that ceiling. : Now come the ladies in Milwaukee looking for somebody to defend Sen. Joe McCarthy. There’s McCarthy on fhe left (it should be right, but I've got to be honest) and he'd defend himself, except that he’s busy trading

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

GENOA, Italy--A restaurant staged a fasting exhibition in which a woman lived 62 days sealed tn a glass case. She drank salted water and smoked 12 cigarets a day, but took no food.

“Our food is of the very best, “There's none in town to beat it. “So why not put. it to the test, “Just step in, folks, and eat it.

“And lest you fear our portions small: “Will keep vou undernourished, “This gal's been here two months in all “And Wok at how she’s flourished.”

PARIS, Nov. 14—Ten days ago, this sixth annual meeting - +fthe United Nations General Assembly was being heralded as the most tmportant in history. But as the session enters a second week. many observers are asking themselves why they are here, and somg of them are making plans to go home. Lester P. Pearson, Canada’s Minister for External Affairs, put his finger on the source of the trouble when he told the ‘Assembly Monday that its assets were being wasted. Moreover, he warned that while the United Nations remains man's last best hope for peace, the emphasis is shifting from best to last. ' » . ~ THIS session got off on the wrong foot when the United States, Britain and France presented a general disarmament proposal for immediate consideration. While this far-distant goal is being discussed pro and con, the issues which contribute to world tensions are being Widetracked and neglected. Britain's Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, attending, his first United Nations session since its organizational meeting in 1945, last week $ave his support to Secretary

swats with Millard 8S. Tydings. For weapons they're using copies of Roget's Thesaurus. Still more ladies rush onto my ceiling. They're wearing leather skirts and I guess they must be Texans, who refuse to pay their social security taxes. They're chasing Honest John Snyder and they catch up with him just before he collides with the chandelier. They make him Say uncle.

Taft Well Pleased

MRS. MERL YOUNG is up there, too. She's standing in front of her tourist camp in Florida, wondering what to do in that climate with her royal pastel mink coat. which she got when she was working at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Up comes Robert A. Taft with advice. He tells her to keep that coat; he thinks she looks good in it, and the more she wears it, the happier he will be. He strolls away in his double-breasted, or campaigning, suit and takes a long look at Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who's just standing there, saying nothing to anybody. Numerous people think he's talking to them. because they repeat what they thought he said. but he doesn’t even move his lips. This pleases Taft. The band strikes up “I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” and my head hurts som» thing awful. Hilda just dropped in. She says stop mumbling and go to sleep. If you'll pardon me now I'll turn over on my face. That should shut out the ceiling. Tomorrow I'll be back on the job. Either that, or dead.

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Corruption’

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

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MR. EDITOR: e Having read “Let's Clean House,” by C.D.C, of Terre Haute, makes me wonder just whose house we should start with. Of course there is graft and corruption in the government. Always has been and always will be until we, the people

of the United States. clean” out both sides, Re-

publicans and Democrats -

Now is the first time there has been scandal in the U. 8. White House. How about the Teapot Dome and numerous other underhanded things that hapnéned when the Republicans ran this country for 24 years at one stretch? * + C.D.C. talks about old Tom Pendergast being the Democrat boss in Kansas and being sent to the pen. How about one of our own Indiana Republican governors being there also? What about one of the most powerful leaders of their party and how they all looked up to him, D. C. Stephenson? Look where he is today. He says there never was so much graft and corruption in the history of the nation as now. There always has been but in those days we didn’t have the radio and newspapers to tell us about it. Now with the papers and radio mostly

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Furor : : . By Ludwel Beawy >

Desire for Stalin ConferenceIncreases Fear in Some Quarters

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — Prime Minister Winston Churchill's repetition of his desire for a personal conference with Stalin, and Foreign Secretary ‘Anthony Eden's unexpectedly econciliatory speech.to the United Nations Assembly, have Increased fears in some quarters of a soft British policy toward Russia. ; These fears are especially acute among those disappointed by the new Tory government's

. failure to withdraw from Red China the diplo-

matic recognition accorded by the former Labor government. But those here who have confidence in Mr, Churchill are not alarmed. They think appearances in this case are deceptive. They advise patience. : They point out that Britain is a democracy, and that the Prime Minister cannot move much faster than public opinion. In the recent election, though Tories gained control of Parliament and the government by a narrow margin, Laborites polled a larger popular vote. When the campaign began it was generally believed Mr. Churchill’s party would get a popular majority and a.comfortable parliamentary margin.

.ead Melted Away

BUT, after Laborites raised the cry of warmdngers against them, the Tories’ long lead in the public opinion polls began to melt away. Mr. Churchill pulled through only by convincing independent voters in some close constituencies that peace would be safer in his hands than under a continuing Labor government. This is given as an explanation of Mr, Churchill's present effort to lean over backwards to prove to his country that he is seeking a negotiated settlement with Moscow to orevent war. The political motive is obvious. His parliamentary majority is so thin he must continue to woo public opinion. Otherwise the loss of a few by-elections and a shift of Liberal Party votes in the Commons could pull down the Conservative government. More than selfish party interests are Involved. There is the fate of the rearmament program to be considered. It is not popular,

‘Cut Armament’

ANEURIN BEVAN, leader of the left wing revolt against the moderate Labor government, is getting increasing minority support on this jssue. He says that armament, instead of living standards, should be cut. And many Britons, who distrust Mr. Bevan and his “neutralist” policy, share this view. Mr. Churchill, like his Labor predecessor, Clement Attlee, is committed to carrying out the military preparedness plan .without reduction. But, to do®this successfully, he must convince the eountry that he is “building strength from which to negotiate with Russia” rather than accept the inevitability of war. Even Mr. Churchill's stanchest defenders, however. are not certain that he will break with Red China, which has been waging aggressive ‘war in Korea for a year. For a majority of Congress and, presumably, of the American public this will be a major test of Churchill “policy and the possibility of the closer AngloAmerican alliance he favors.

Views on the News

CURRENT prosperity would be better if we didn't have to work so hard to make it that we are too tired to enjoy it. | ¢ 4+ ¢ ! SEN. BRIDGES says Republicans are entitled to know what is in Gen. Eisenhower's mind. Obviously he doesn't believe in mind readers. ¢ 4 o IT IS tough for Sen. Taft to be the favorite of Republican leaders. They seem never to nominate anybody they like. § ¢ <2» DANCING IS one American sport that is going square. D. kK.”

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SEBNETANINNIIRANS

Republican owned, we get the Democrat graft but not their side of it. One thing, I will give The Indianapolis Times credit for going part way with informing the people. C.D.C. says if a good man is running for mayor not to vote for him because he is a part of the corrupt Democrat political machine and we can blame it onto old Tom. That is taking a lot for granted, is it not? > oS H ARE WE then to believe -that Jenner, and Capehart, and all-the rest of the Republicans in office here in Indiana are crooked just because some of their party were in the pen. I personally think not, but if that is tHe case the people should see that they are not returned. 1 hope C.D.C. read in The Times the 8th of November, the editorial on voters elsewhere in the nation. Philadelphia elected a Democrat after 68 years. After a long list of GOP officials had been convicted of misdoings in office. So you see it happens in both parties. I would like to see all the old bunch cleaned out and young men like Rudolph Halley, and Judge Clark put in. If they are in there for the good of the people and not for the parties they will be OK. Let's all work for our country and not for personal gains, —dJerry E. Dirk, Frankfort.

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6TH ANNUAL MEETING . . . By Parker La Moore

What Progress Has the UN Session Made?

of State Dean Acheson’s disarmament proposal, but indicated Monday that he must have done so with some misgivings, After passing over the high points of that program, Mr. Eden stressed the need for grasping definite and limited problems, and working for their practical solution. That, he said, is the real. road for peace—-"starting from small issues and working to the great.”

” ~ ” THE small issues, are being shelved and allowed to fester and spread until they grow into larger issues, These neglected issues are Egypt, Iran, Kashmir, the areas in Africa which the Union of South Africa seeks to annex, Morocco, Germany, Austria and Korea. When the Arab states brought charges against the French Colonial Administration in Morocco, instead of giving the situation an airing, Britain and the United States joined France In voting to lay the question aside. This al-

lowed Russia to step into the

breach and pose as a champion of native independence against European imperialism, The Moroccan decision WAS not an easy one for the

* United States to make, for in the past, the U, 8. has favored

free discussion of all issues. Making an exception in this case will drive another wedge between the West and the Moslem world, already in a ferment because of its differences with Britain, The United Nations also is being weakened by a growing tendency of the bigger nations to bypass the smaller ones on major plans. For example, the Arab states are deeply offended because they were not in-

vited to-sit in when plans were

being made for the proposed Middle Eastern defense com-

mand. "This program was worked out by the United States, Britain, France and

Turkey without consulting any of the nations most concerned. » ” ” ADMITTEDLY, the Arab states do not have the military strength to defend themselves and their own area.” But they are sensitive on this score and resent being ignored. As a result, they are threatening to Join Egypt in boycotting the whole proposition. Meanwhile, word that the Middle East command will be given to a British general has further prejudiced the Arabs on the program. A Turk might have been acceptable. But above all, they want to be congulted,

Apart from this particular regional situation, aggravated by religious and racial factors, there is general discontent because of almost daily evidence that the United Nations is becoming little more than a sounding board for Russian and American propaganda, while the big powers make the real decisions in the back room.

ONE GOD

NO MATTER what your faith may be , , ..or how you worship God . . . remember underneath it all .(, . we stem from one main pod . . . and actually though we may . ... differ in how we pray . . . we must look to the same God . . . although in our own way . . . and if we hear in mind this fact . . . we'll find that we are one ,. .. and that we're closer than we think . , . as stars are to the sun , . . we'll find that we car live In peace , . . and know a happy day . . ., and everyone will benefit , . , in each and every way .. . so let us all join hands and hve , , .

In friendship good and true . , .

and we’ will meet with God some day . .. beyond the distant blue.

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