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What's Wrong With The Chief We Have?

WwW E hear there's quite a scramble over in the Fire Department about who's going to be chief. : Factions backing this one or that one. Democratic firemen getting the cold shoulder all around. Republican firemen on the hot seat because they've been friendly with the present chief, with whom they've been hireg-to work in harmony heretofore. Lots of feuglin'"and fussin’. Roscoe McKinney has been fire chief for quite a while. One of the best Indianapolis has ever had, it is generally agreed. Ran a fine, efficient, fire department. But he's a Democrat, and, worse, his son is a prominent Democrat. So, naturally, we couldn't let him put out the fire if our house -happened to be burning.-.down. Only a Republican of proved party loyalty and to the correct inner-party faction at that, can save us. It certainly would be wonderful if we could sometime get a mayor into office who put the good of the city ahead of some petty little political clique.

Don't Buy the Stuff ;

HE Hungarian Communists have formed a government monopoly to sell in this country silver, porcelain and art objects stolen from Hungarian citizens who don't like the Red tyranny The Budapest government, like all other Soviet satellites, needs dollars to ‘pay for imports from the West to build up the Russian war potential. a A New York Times dispatch reports that the Romanian, (Czech and Polish governments may follow the example and attempt to set up a thieves’ market in the United States. Our State Department could stop that. But in case it doesn’t—for the usual lofty reasons known only to those deep thinkers—we would remind any American art lover who puts out good U. S. dollars for this loot, even at bargain prices, is compounding Communist thievery and is a traitor to boot.

Smoke Control?

FOr YEARS now we've had a thing called smoke control, but why is not quite clear. : We still grit fly ash hetween our teeth on the way to work and wipe the bigger cinders out of our eyes. We still have sinus trouble that is helped no end by breathing soot-thickened fumes. All this must be our imagination. We're officially told Indianapolis has one of the most effective units in the nation. We're not smoke control engineers and thercfore find it quite difficult to understand how that can be. The most scientific means our unit uses to measure soot fall is to observe it lying about on the snow. Where the snow is the darkest, soot problems are the blackest. © Seems to us other cities utilize a gimmick called a “soot trap” or “soot plate” which measures soot fall much more accurately. But the problem gets more confusing and we can't help but wonder how those pictures of smoke-darkened buildings and skies get in our paper if the smoke isn't really there. It takes $35,400 a year to operate this unit. We like to spend money for things like smoke control, but we like to get our money's worth, too.

Where Soft Breezes Beckon

INTRY winds have been lashing a good part of the country the past few days, including Washington where it's been unseasonably cold. And the long-range forecast is for more of the same. But it's nice down in Arizona where the weather map shows a comfortable 65 or better. So, by the darnedest coincidence, our Indian reservations in the Southwest need inspecting. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman is taking off tomorrow to spend five days inspecting the Indians. Then he goes on to Hawaii where there are no Indians, but the temperatures are wonderful—they certainly need inspecting. % The thing we envy about a cabinet member is not so much the opportunity of making those trips at the taxpayers’ expense, but rather the splendid self-assurance that he can fool the people into thinking they're necessary.

Feet Draggers .

RESIDENT TRUMAN has promised the King committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau scandals it may have the tax-case files it needs from the Justice Department. The committee asked the Justice Department nearly a month ago for specific files. For three weeks, no answer. Then, an evasive answer. So the committee appealed to the President. When it gets the- files, the committee also should bring along the dragging-their-tails officials of the Justice Department and see if it can find out what makes them so reluctant.

Read It Back to Him

SPEAKING to a graduating class of new FBI officers, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath told them their jobs are “sacred trusts.” ‘ “When a law enforcement officer misapplies use of hia “office or performs an act of malfeasance,” he said, “he breaks down the structure of our society which we have spent 20 centuries in building.” Well, Mr. McGrath is the head law enforcement officer of the federal government, ~ :

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Hoosier Coal

‘Soots Us... ?

Industry Report Brings to Mind A Little Home Grown Incident

WASHINGTON, , Nov. 21—Back in‘ the Coolidge era, when the late Harry G. Leslie was Governor and Indiana seemed as solidly Republican as the mayoralty elections indicate it is now, the Legislature appropriated $100,000 to test Indiana coal. The money was to go to Purdue University. Gov. Leslie was a Purdue man. ,But he vetoed the bill, explaining that he thought that was teo much money to spend “to make Indiana coal appear better than it is.” Statehouse wag suggested publicizing the slogan “It soots us.” The episode was recalled here by the issuance of the 1952 “Bituminous Coal Annual.” It is chock+full of figures compiled by Dr. Walter L. Blifer, chief of the statistical and research section of the Bituminous Coal Institute. This is the fourth arinual publication of the book, which is a slick paper job with many multi-colored charts. and illustrations, by BCI,

Big Business in Indiana

THE FIGURES show that soft coat mining still is big business in Indiana. And the prediction is that it will remain so for years to . o As an adopted Hoosier, through a decade of teaching at Butler University in Indianapolis from 1024-34, Dr. Slifer proclaims the state's product as tops for inddstrial fuel. One of his charts shows that the bituminous coal deposits in Indiana were originally estimated at 53,051,000,000 tons. Mining brought out 1,004.000,000 tons from 1800 to 1950. This leaves a “recoverable reserve” of 25,521,000,000 tons as of Jan. 1, 1951. Coal accounted for 88 per cent of the production of mineral fuels and power in Indiana in 1849 another chart discloses. Crude petroleum rated 11.4 per cent; natural gas one-tenth of one per cent, and hydro-electric power one-half of one per cent. In 1949 the state produced 186,550.000 tons of bituminous coal and the preliminary total of 1050 rose to 20,370,000 tons. Of the 1849 total, 6,958,000 tons came from underground mines and 9,582,000 from strip mining. The 1835-39 average production was 16,600.000 tons per year. Biggest production yéar was 1048 with 23,840,000 tons. The 1050 total is 22.8 per cent above the 1935-39 average. No new deep mines have been opened in Indiana since 1948, when two got under way. Two others were opened in 1947 and 3 in 1046, making a total of 7 with a daily capacity of 15.8 million tons.

Value Per Ton

AVERAGE value per ton of bituminous coal

F. O B. mine in Indiana in

1950 was $3.88,

bringing the total business near the $80 million

mark.

More than 10,000 miners are employed in the

Indiana coal fields.

force,

Here, as elsewhere, ‘creased mechanization has reduced the labor During the early 1920s there were as

in-

many as 32,000 miners employed in the state. The average number of days worked in 1949

was 152,

According to this year book,

miners now are

the best paid of all industrial labor. The base

rate is $16.35 per day.

The “benefits” obtained for the miners by John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers Union all are listed in this book, which is a product of the united coal producers trade

association.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY WHEN YOU meet a tax collector or a Justice Department lawyer, it is hard to keep from

practicing “guilt by association.

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GOOD government is one

product where

price has little relation to quality. Nothing de-

teriorates faster than high-cost So 4. »

NEWS IS the unusual. That’

government,

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Truman firing a man who should have been

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GOP CHAIRMAN Gabrielson has been down in Mississippi appealing to “disgruntled Southern Democrats” to join his party. Some may have a common cause with him—particularly if the RFC refused to renew their loans.

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SEN. EVERETT M. DIRKSEN of Illino's has some specifications for. the ideal Republican presidential candidate for 1952 and they suit

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A CYNIC is a fellow who follows the football scores just to see which coach will be fired

next.

What Others Say—

ON the international scene we nave been out-bargained, out-smarted and out-mansavered, We have undergone humiliations unparalleled in our history.—Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.), on administration diplomacy. 5 oO I BELIVE that in the Republican Party we have had too many executives and not enough of those hard workers who ring doorbells get mud on their shoes, make friends and win the confidence of everyday people.—Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R. Mass.). = :

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IN THE case of Russia, the greatest threat is the submarine. I don’t think it is quite generally appreciated that we pretty nearly lost both

World War I and World War II through this submarine business.—Adm. W. M. Fechteler, chief of naval operations.

SIDE GLANCES

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Secret (Haw) Tax Testimony—

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—Most of my waking hours, I do believe, I've spent standing in corridors outside closed doors, waiting for the masterminds to come out in clouds of cigar smoke to make announcements that seem at the moment to be important. This has been going on for more than 20 years. It is hard on the feet. So there I was in front of the House Ways and Means Committee room, flattening my feet a little more, while the statesmen in deepest secrecy — they thought — took evidence on alleged in-come-tax shenanigans involving the Long Beach (Cal) Federal Savings & Loan Association. The door opened. Out came a small man in eyeglasses to hold a whispered conversation with a cop. Then he popped back in. The bluecoat explained that the Congressmen wanted him to keep newsmen away from the door, so they couldn't eavesdrop through the cracks. Haw! We moved back 10 paces from the door. There were some other fellows loitering outside, too. They turned out to be witnesses, waiting to be called. They were bored. First thing you knew they were moving off into corners to chat with the press about what their secret testimony was going to be. I strolled into an anteroom with some other reporters and a pleasant, plump citizen with a gay cravat, who identified himself as George Bryan, a Los Angeles attorney. Until 1849 he was assistant U. 8. district attorney in charge of the- Long Beach tax case.

. He talked at length, nearly an hour and a half, about how the government claimed in 1946 that the officials of the building and loan association owed more than one million dollars in unpaid taxes. The sad part, from the viewpoint of the rest of us taxpayers, is that they haven't paid up yet. What pained Bryan was that the statute of limitations long since has run out and the Justice Department couldn't prosecute the officials on criminal charges, even if it wanted to. There is the fantastically complicated case of Thomas A. Gregory, president of the loan association; his father-in-law, J. D. Wilhoit, and the Jones brothers, C. 8. and C. J. The charges concern taxes on profits from real estate developments and, apparently, from a scrap iron deal in Mexico. Politics is involved. Fact is Rep. Cecil King (D. Cal.) who is investigating erookedness within the Bureau of Internal Revenue. says rumor has involved him in the alleged fixing of the Long Beach case. ® The million dollars, in any event, has been owing the government now for more than five years. Bryan said he and the other assistant prosecutors tried to collect and also to start court action, but that they never could get a complete report from the Bureau of Internal Revenue on who owed whom what. About all he was able to prove was that

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ATHENS, Nov. 21—Ameri- - can observers in Greece freely predict that the newly-elected coalition government of Prime Minister Nicholas Plastiras may not last long. The old general might fool them. He himself predicts that his government should be good for four years, But his own New-Dealish, left-of-center party has only 81 votes in the new Parliament, He has formed a coalition government with the Liberal

Party of Sophocles Venizelos, which has 50 votes. Their combination of 131 gives them only a four-vote majority in the 258-member Parliament. And since three members of the coalition are representing Greece at the United Nations meeting in Paris, the actual majority is only 1. The man who will at every opportunity seek to overthrow this combination is Field Marshal Papagosr, former chief of . #ataff of the Greek Army. His Greek Rally, Nationalist Party has 114 seats in Parliament and is therefore the strongest

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ig A CHANCE... By Ludwell Donny. " Will England Shut Out Reds?

Still Some Hope Left British will Break With China

WASHINGTON, Nov, 21-There i8 still some hope here that the British Conservative government may ultimately break with Red China, though Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in his policy speech in the House of Commons Monday gave no such hint, 3 Tn A quick change In British foreign policy, as a result of Tory victory in the recent election, never has been expected in diplomatic’ circles, a That wishful thinking was confined to certain " .uninformed members of Congress. So the dis--appointment now that Prime Minister Winston Churchill is following the late Labor govern3) ment’'s foreign policy is chiefly on Capitol Hill 5 Just how closely foreign policies of the Conservative and Labor Parties jibe was re-empha-sized by the commons debate. Most of what 1 Eden said regarding Russia, Germany, Iran, A Egypt, Korea and China had been said in some form by his predecessor Herbert Morrison, when in office. Morrison Monday reaffirmed agreement with Eden's main statements.

A Few Guesses

THOSE who attacked Eden were the same leftwing Laborites who had challenged the old Labor cabinet and for the same reasons. . While Morrison sided with Eden and against the leftwingers Monday, Morrison said it should be made clear that Britain would press for admission of Red China into the United Nations at the appropriate time. Eden replied it would be inadvisable to discuss that issue now-—which is just what Morrison said when he was foreign secretary. On the record there is no definite basis for the belief that Churchill and Eden may break with Red China later. Officials here usually well-informed on London plans have no such information. Nevertheless the hope persists. It springs from the following guesses: ONE—The Peiping puppet regime will refuse to reciprocate British diplomatic recognition, as it has in the past. TWO—Churchill’s plan to make an over-all settlement with Stalin in a personal conference will fail. THREE—Churchill will not get the full American support which he desires for British policy in the Mideast until he gives more support to American policy in the Far East.

FOUR—-A minority group within the Conservative Party opposed recognition of Red China. Lord Salisbury, named by Churchill to lead the House of Lords, is one of that group. It is assumed Churchill and Eden will be under {ncreas-

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the government had tried to collect taxes from Wilhoit on money that he never actually received. How this could happen, I don't rightly know, but Bryan said the government still was trying to get the money. He went into detail then about the alleged operations of the several citizens in the numer: ous deals. These included an ex-bodyguard of

“Huey Long, who went to Mexico on the scrap-

iron thing. “You understand, gentlemen.” said Bryan in the midst- of his revelations, “that everything I'm saying now is libelous.” Oops. My cohorts stopped taking notes. When Bryan's evidence goes on record, then it'll be privileged for printing in the paper. I trust this happens soon, Meantime, my feet hurt something awful, \

MR. EDITOR:

I would like a few paragraphs to answer the lady, Inez Strickland, of Morningside Dr. Her first point: ONE—"“You can have the Republican Party « « «» men selling apples, neighbors losing homes ete.” Republicans didn't cause that, It was the backwash of a great world war into which our Democratic leader, President Wilson drafted us, after being elected on a platform of “Peace and Prosperity.” ’ Also, if youi want to talk ahout depressions, go on back to another Democratic President, Cleveland, when you could buy a blooded Jersey heifer for one silver dollar ,, , if you had a dollar. :

TWO—"Taxes are high and so are wars” she says. 1 agree. We have had three Democratic Presidents since 1900, and have had three wars, one under each. THREE —-"“We have our nice homes. cars, television sets, quite a change from the old days. I like it that way,’ the lady says, then adds, “It sure is hard to satisfy some people. I'll bet the boys in Korea aren't yelling their heads off about taxes, poor kids.” While she lolls at ease in her nice warm home up in Williams Creek on Morningside Drive, the “poor kids” are enjoying a nica, cool, foxhile in a stinking hill in Korea, with the Commies shooting at them. They don't have to worry about high taxes. They have other worries. It's too bad Inez isn't a man and could be drafted to occup¥ a foxhole over there. Under the bad old days when Hoover was in, there may not have been so much money, but no one starved to death. At least a family of teen-age boys could sit down with their father and mother in the family home and” eat what they had in peace, instead of squatting in in mud hole in a distant land eating K-rations, or worse, lying beneath a white cross far-from home, and far from the ease and and comfort of a rich home on the far north side of Indian: apolis where it is so pleasant and nice.

—John L. Niblack, 5115 Carvel Ave,

EUROPE . . . By Peter Edson

Hoosier Forum—‘Political

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No Moral Approval

MEANWHILE: British officials continue to explain that under their system, diplomatic recognition implies no moral or political approval but merely the existence of a fairly stable government in control of a given area. This has been true in the past, But it ignores the complication created by different standards for United Nations membership, limited to peaceful states. The British government is in the contradictory position of giv-_ ing diplomatic recognition to an aggressor en-

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‘Upside Down Thinking’ MR. EDITOR:

Some guy named Smith presumed to call the majority of the people of Indiana stupid because they failed to agree with his political opinions. Since that majority includes me I resent it very much and in rebuttal would like to say, I doubt if the Forum ever printed a more scrambled, upside down line of thinking.

Smith is an independent voter physically, but mentally he is a slave to the word Democrat. He blames the Republican Party for depressions, the Bible for wars and sundry other items.

He glorified the Democrats for all this prose perity when he should give that credit to the Bible which, he says, is causing the wars, and the spending and the borrowing that coincide. with war. 4 There is a limit to borrowing even to the Fair Dealers. However, when the bottom of the * barrel is reached, I doubt not that the Democrats in high places will have stolen enough to weather most any old depression. But where ill the poor loyal, Independent, New Deal, Fair eal, Socialist Democrats be, who enjoy this

wonderful prosperity?

They won't be able to

save or steal enough to weather it. —E. R. Sled], Monticello.

THE BEST WAY

IF WE could know our tomorrows . .. and

see oursélves then as now . pitfall in the road . . bough . . . on carpets weaved with roses . all the painful spots , . ‘supposes , , + ++ And easy all the way .

. or know each . each tree with a shaky no doubt we'd plot our jonrney .

. . and detour + without thoughts or . but then again i life were smooth « we'd never know +» + + for this we all mast pay

+ « + and so no doubt it's best that things . , .

are really as they are .

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know the dark . . , we'll never reach a star. *==By Ben Burroughs.

should have been asked by the King to form the new government. Papagos is the strong man of Greece, He is the man American officials in Greece hoped would become head of the government, U. 8. Ambassador John Peurifoy at first tried to use the influence of the American government to have Papagos made prime minister. But when the ambassador found that the King did not like Papagos, for purely personal reasons, the attempt to influence the choice of prime minister was abandoned, ” o » EARLY in the summer, before the September elections, Plastiras had come to- the American ambassador to seek his support. Plastiras’ principal argument seemed to be. that since Venizelos had been prime minister since the previous election, it was now “his turn" to head the government, When the American Em-

bassy refused to give its bless. ing to any such alliance, Plastiras had to form his coalition with the Venizelos party. But there®is no love lost betwee the two leaders, ’

of visiting American newspaper men in Athens, there was an amusing Incident which showed how things stand. The tall, slender, dark-skinned prime minister had just answered a few questions when a side door to his office opened and in popped the wiry little Venizelos, with an air of “What goes on here?”

There was some confusion on the part of the prime minister and his aids. But Vénizelos walked in, sat down. So for the remainder of the interview, Plastiras answered

questions in Greek through an interpreter, while VeniZelos answered the same questions in English. This kind of petty rivalry between the two leaders of the coalition is expected to mark their relationship for as long as their. government lasts, Personalities and personal leadership are the dominant factors in Greek politics, n ” » ON ONE important issue, Prime Minister Plastiras has attempted to play down the political motive in forming his new government. - This is in the naming of Alexander Sa-

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Personalities Dominate in Greek Politics

kelariou, an independent, noncoalition man, and not a member of Parliament, as minister of national defense. The purpose was to try to keep the armed forces and their administration out of the many cross currents of Greek politics. This is right in line with American wishes, if the United States is to continue its military ald to the Greek government. Gen. Theodore Grigoropoulous, who succeeded Field Marshal Papagos as chief of national defense, is continuing in this post under the PlastirasVenizelos coalition. , ” ” ” HE WAS a military leader in the war against the Commu- |, nist guerrillas and in Greek World War campaigns, He is a . respected commander, and he . has the confidence of Ameri. can military advisers in Greece, - though he does not have the

great popularity of Field Mar. -

shal Papagos. : Gen, Grigoropoulous is build. Ing up the Greek army to still greater strength. In an inter. ° view, he declared that the . Greeks still'needed heavy artils lery, tanks and alreraty,

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