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A Period for Prayer

HE heartaches produced by the inaccurate and generally dubious list of Americans purportedly held as prisoners of war in North* Korea have saddened many households at this Yuletide season. In a lesser number, new and perhaps f1lse hopes have been raised. Some of the names which appear on the list given {y our authorities by the Communists are of soldiers previ ~usly reported killed in action. The bodies of at least two of these had been returned and buried in this country. Thousands more believed to have been captured by the enemy are not accounted for, and their fate remains uagnown, A more tragic, heartrending situation is inconceivable. The whole list must be regarded with skepticism, as “resident Truman has wisely counseled. ‘ gi The facts in many cases cannot be established with any satisfaction until the actual exchange of prisoners has taken place. That may be a matter of days, weeks, even months. We are dealing with a fanatical enemy which has little regard for human life and suffering and no compassion can be expected from that quarter. Otherwise the Reds would have allowed the International Red Cross to supervise this whole affair under the procedure common to civilized warfare’ : We must pray for the best until the complete story can be told. And we hope that will be soon.

—-ADA-Should Reconsider --

MERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION is an organization which generally follows the philosophy of the New Deal. It has influence beyond its small size because snme of its leaders are prominent in the labor movement, in politics, and in public life generally. While the ADA frankly is left of center, it has long tarred Communists from membership. Like the CIO, it found that the Reds try to take over any organization they are permitted to join. ; That is why it is unfortunate the ADA has come out for repeal of the Smith Act. The Smith Act is the law under which the leaders of the American Communist Party were convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government.

Had there been no Smith Act! it is doubtful that they -

could have been convicted of anything. The government would have had to wait until it caught them in the act of ~ahotaging a factory, or blowing up a railroad—even though thev clearly intended to do those things whenever it suited their cause. : The Smith Act does not attempt to outlaw ideas, as the _ ADA charges. Not even Communist ideas.

IT 1S perfectly legal, and should always be, for “radicals” to preach their doctrines—so long as they do not advocate the overthrow .of the government by force or violence. Communists do advocate that. They are revolution- - aries. That's why we need laws like the Smith Act to deal with them. The ADA says that the Communists have been driven from power in the trade unions and are “isolated and powerless.” That isn't true. Reds or their ardent disciples control today the United Electrical Workers Union, which has contracts in vital defense plants; the Longshoremen's Union "on the West Coast, which could tie up Pacific ports at the drop of Harry Bridges’ hat: the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and several other unions. The ADA says it supports the exclusion of Communists from all areas or occupations vital to defense . , . in time ~f war.” We are “in time of war” now. That isn't a tennis tourament in Kprea. The ADA should realize all this, and reconsider its plea yr repeal of a law which seems so necessary to cope with Mis serious threat to our country.

‘elying on Uncle Sam.

NDIA, which invariably lines up with Soviet Russia and -Red China and against the United States on issues beween the Communist and the free world, evidently is pre~aring to tap us for another handout soon. Nehru's new ambassador to this country, on being received by President Truman, informed him that India was counting on further American economic aid. Only six months ago we gave India a $190 million longterm, low-interest loan to be used for the purchase of two million tons of American grain in a food emergency. It was looked upon generally as a gift ‘which neither this government nor India expected to be repaid. The prospects of another famine in India next year are now said to be even greater than when the $190 million loan was granted. So it would appear that India is making no headway toward self-sufficiency, meanwhile retaining her confidence that she can call on Uncle Sam to make up the deficit. : Russia isn't giving India anything. Yet Russia continues to receive India's support in the United Nations and elsewhere. It is possible that the current struggle between the Communist world and the free nations headed by the United States could be resolved on the economic front even before a shooting war broke out. And we could be the first to go broke if we continue to give away our money and : products—especially to countries which refuse to ally them. selves with us in what is surely a life-and-death conflict, There is ample evidence by now that we are not going to get India's support, co-operation or even much good will ":* demonstrations of generosity.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Foreign ‘tin ‘producers—who count on the United States to protéct them against com ism—are conducting 4 seller's strike against the U, 8. government, the: Allied defense program and the American consumer. Since 1850 the U., §. government, which buys tin for military and civilian purposes, has been unable to obtain any néw tin contracts except for one month last fall when Bolivia, a relatively minor producer, signed a 30-day agreement. Most of our tin comes from British Malaya. Tin shortages may in civilian usage, stockpile of tin for essential buckling under to foreign tin producers. The issue is price, . > 9

THE DAY before the Korean War broke out, the “world price” for tin was 73 cents a pound. Speculation and private buying soon drove it to $1.03. . ’ To protect the U. 8. Congress made the

LABOR... By Fred W. Perkins Price, Waco Issue in Steel

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Philip Murray has not objected in negotiations here between his C10 Steelworkers and. steel management to higher steel prices to meet the union's wage demands. This is despite union claims that the steel companies can afford to grant pay wage boosts out of profits, It is in contrast with the usual tactics of another CIO leader, Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers, He has repeatedly opposed higher prices for automobiles to compensate for higher wages. - . Cyrus 8. Ching, federal mediation chief, said, “Our understanding is that the union holds the price subject to be outside its bailiwick.”

oon require severe cuts

Mr. Putnam

of the industry's employers in pointing out how the dangerous deadlock can be broken. It also places the union in opposition to the views of Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam on the necessity of holding the line against the threatened inflationary spiral of wages and prices. The union is figured to be entitled to an Increase of only about five cents an hour under present wage control policies. Its wage demands, according to Mr. Murray, start at 15 cents and go to 1815 cents when certain adjustments are included. Other monetary demands raise the total potential bill to from 30 to 45 cents an hour—according to whether the union or management is doing the arithmetic. The controversy could be settled today if the government would assure steel companies of enough added income to represent a substantial part of the union demands. That is not thought to be likely. ,

‘Major Crisis’ “IT IS a major economic crisis,” said Mr. Ching. With Mr. Murray in the negotiating sessions are 39 assistants, including the union's secre-tary-treasurer, David J. McDonald, who is a special aid to stabilizer Putnam. The industry delegation of 24 was chosen by Mr. Ching from the directorate of the American Iron and Steel Institute, but' Mr. Ching has emphasized the bargaining is not between the union and the institute. Its directors appeared to him to be a fair cross section of management in the industry. Some small concerns appear with the giants of the business. : The industry group has no titular leader, but

»4n it is John A. Stephens. a vice president, and

twa other officers of United States Steel, biggest producer; J. M. Larkin, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, biggest of the “independents”; W. R. Eliot, vice president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; T. P. Patton, yice president of Republic ‘and Charles Murray, vice president of

—Armco Steel: - -

Mr. Ching was aided by two assistants, Clyde Mills and Walter Mazzioli. They were expected-o keep trying to the end of the week and perhaps ‘until the day after Christmas, but now have turned the matter back to Mr. Truman. The union's contract expires Dec. 31. A strike already has been authorized, starting on New Year's Day: :

Can End Dispute

THE President is expected to send it to the Wage Stabilization Board, conclusions ‘of which would not be binding on the parties unless both agree in advance.

The President also could .move for an. in--

junction against the union under the TaftHartley Law. Or, he could use authority under the Defense Production Act and another statute to seize the steel industry and operate it governmentally. Some sort of a compromise worked out under price policies is regarded as more probable.

SIDE GLANCES

"If you win all the political arguments you have with the boss, him about salary?"

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government the exclusive importer of tin— thus pooling military and civilian demand (the U. 8. normally buys 50 per cent of world tin production) -and eliminating competitive bidding within this country. Lt : code. ” THESE tin-buying powers were delegated by the General Services Administration to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Studies, by the RFC showed that a.price of $1.12 a pound would provide a 50 per cent profit for any tin

producer anywhere -— more for low-cost pro-

ducers whose costs range down to 18 cents a pound. Bodivia, which normally sent 50 per cent of {ts tin ores (the poorest grade) to our govern-ment-owned smelting plant built at Texas City in World War II, was invited to sign a contract

at $1.12 a pound. The RFC acknowledged that =

Bolivia's production costs are the Highest ifi-the-world. . ee The Bolivians demanded $1.50 a pound. Other tin producing countries represented at a meeting in Rome of producers and users

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backed Bolivia's stand. But the RFC discovered that Bolivia's three largest tin companiés had agreed with their government to

underake costly expansion of their mines as

long as the price stayed above 99 cents. This was an admission by Bolivia that $1. a pound was a good price. The Bolivians agreed to sell tin for one month at $1.12 a pound on the RFC's pledge to pay retroactively any increase’ agreed-upon later. After a month the Bolivians refused to renew. J Currently, the .U. 8. is getting by on tin bought before Korea, or stored by industry. The tin producing countries are contending to the State Department that the RFC is “unfair” and unsympathetic to their aspirations for national improvements,

A ei Sb SH ¥ THE canning industry, fearful of not getting enough tin, is bombarding Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Their position is: Forget the price, get the tin, W. Stuart Symington, head of RFC, is

By Talburt

POLITICS . . . By Peter Edson

U.S. Is a Winter Wonder (?) Land

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Early-winter bookmakers on the 1952 presidential sweepstakes can take some interesting bets now on entries to run against the favorites. For instance, if Gen. Eisenhower decides to run as a Republican, or even if he gets drafted, what Democrat would want to run in opposition? » ; He would be a fall guy, almost certain to go own in defeat. Strangely enough, there are several Barkuses who seem willin'.- President’ Truman, out of his famous stubbornness, is believed willing to make the race even against Gen. Eisenhower, and he might make it interesting. Considering all the patronage the Democratic machine has built up over the last 19 years, and all the money it has spent, Mr, Truman still isn’t counted out. Income tax case scapdals in Department of Justice and Bureau of Internal Revenue might damage Mr. Truman's chances if he cannot clean house in a hurry, If Rep. Cecil King's committee continues to turn up Irregularities

“over ,the next six months President Truman

might be forced to withdraw as a candidate for the sake of his party. That would open up the field for selection of some other sacrificial entry to run against the Republican favorite.

Dark Horses

VICE PRESIDENT Alben W. Barkley, in his general statement of availability for anything last - summer, probably had in mind only his willingness—or eagerness—to be Mr. Truman's running mate again. The Veep has just turned 74. Many political experts have tried to count him out of the 1952 race for that reason alone. But if President Truman should not be the number one candidate it is generally believed t1at Barkley would be perfectly willi to head the Democratic ticket, even if it meant certain defeat. He is that much. of a regular, and that loyal to his party. Supreme Court Justice Fred M. Vinson, another loyal and regular Kentucky Democrat, has: kept complete silence during all the talk that he has been the President's first choice

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — What 1 think I'll present the congressional investigators of tax scandals (if they'll refrain from accusing me of bribing high governmental officials) is a new gavel, Their old one is a wreck, splintered. around the edges and sprung in the handle, from the pounding given it by Rep. Eugene J. Keogh (D. N. Y.) in his vain efforts to silence the mouthpiece of Henry Grunewald, our localgmystery man. You'd never have thought that the season of peace and good will was upon us, the way Rep. Keogh and Attorney William P, Maloney shouted at each other. Wham, went the ‘gavel. Whamety-wham. The portly, bald-headed Grunewald with the bulldog lower lip, who has been mentioned as a possible participant in a $500,000 tax shakedown of Al Capone's lawyer, just sat there

” ” on -HE TALKED, but only enougn: to indicate that he

could, All he admitted during a whole morning of gavel ru- ‘ ination was that he was born in 1892. With his lawyer still shouting, the Congressmen walked out on him finally, hinting darkly of contempt charges. r

to head the Democratic ticket, in the event Truman himself should decide not to run. Vinson is 62—six years younger ‘than President Truman. Age is. therefore no factor in ruling the chief justice out of the political picture. But Mr. Vinson would have everything to lose by resigning from the Supreme Court to make a political race. And the odds are now considered against Mr. Vinson's ability to defeat either Gen. Eisenhower or Sen, Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The chief justice, grand man that he is, just isn't well enough known to enough people.

Kefauver for Democrats? MOST interesting of the dark horse Democrats is Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, now an avowed candidate. Even as the fall guy against Gen. Eisenhower, Sen, Kefauver would have everything to gain, nothing much to lose

by carrying the Democratic colors in the 1952

race, - - Sen. Kefauver’s Senate reputation as a crim buster would offset any smell of irregularity clinging ta the Democratic Party as a result of King committee disclosures. Sen. Kefauver is 49. He could take a licking in 1952 and still be the number one Democrat in line for 1956.

Sen. Kefauver is even considered a good bet for the vice presidential nomination, to run with Mr. Truman in case the three-score-and-fourteen-year-old Mr. Barkley can be persuaded to step aside. Again, in this spot Sen. Kefauver would have the edge on other Democratic hopefuls for the 1956 Democratic presidential nomination.

The possibility that President Truman will not be a candidate to succeed himself is now widely doubted. The greatest influence against his running has been Mrs. Truman. But friends of Mrs. Truman now believe that she no longer has the influence she once had on her husband's decisions. These friends insist, furthermore, that the President now considers Rimself the indispensable man.

YULE SPIRIT . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Merry Christmas to All—Whamety-Wham

Fact is, I don’t believe these statesmen are imbued with the Christmas spirit. They've got all kinds of things in mind, all of which bode no good for somebody. Take what hap- work. pened in the House of Repre- o sentatives’ cafeteria.

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onions, 70 cents) and sat down, Yes sir, said he, it was a shame the way he and his felinvestigators pocus tax collection, had to

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standing off the pressures. . RFC has -let if be

known that “Symington will nét pay any more than $1.12 a pound for tin, even if no beer or

dog food is packed in tin next year.” . The British—particularly Prime Minister Winston Churchill,’ who is to come here next month—hold the key to the deadlock, ¢ ©

MALAYA, where the British dictate eco nomic policies, dominates the ‘tin producers, (They're also interlocked by. corporation ties.) Britain wants to buy- a large quantity of American steel at a controlled price. At the same time British tin producers want to sell us tin without price control. If tin prices are permitted to go their limit, producers of more significant metals such as copper, lead, zinc would also insist on higher prices. One RFC official puts it: “If they have their way there won't be énough money in the world to buy the materials we need for our defense— and theirs.”

Hoosier Forum

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

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“Traffic and Busses’

MR. EDITOR: Would like to know one thing. On one-way streets, why is it necessary for Indianapolis Railway busses to keep their bus stops on the right side? Without fail, every single morning, busses going down Capitol Ave. snarl traffic and bunch up across the intersections in the block between Capitol and Washington and Capitol and Maryland. . The only reason this happens is because the busses stop on the right side of the street and then when they reach Maryland they have to angle across the traffic lanes to make a left turn. They start to angle as soon as they enter the block between Washington and Maryland §

Traffic piles up behind them and more than one §

bent fender has resulted from this. ¢ 4 2

I AM not sure, but probably the same thing happens on the stree.s going north. Why isn’t it possible to have bus stops on both sides of the one-way streets? THe busses that make right turns would travel down and stop on the right side of the ®treet. The busses making left turns would travel down and stop on the left side of the street. I don’t know who ig the traffic manager in

“frdianapolis Railways, but it seems to me,

ever is, he's doing a very poor job. Maybe ths guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. Could it be he's one of these guys that puts a plan on paper and then fails to go out and see that plan in action to see what is happening. It would seem this company is doing every. thing it can do to be most obnoxious. Whether this is intentional, or just a result of slipshod work is beyond ‘me. It should change and perhaps it will if the people of Indianapolis make their demands loud and long. —Citizen Driver, City.

‘A-Wonderful Article’

MR. EDITOR: Congratulations and thanks for your wonderful article about Indiana sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum, The other Indianapolis newspapers, as ale ways, and like the Chicago Tribune, are still under the delusion that art can save the world or ruin it, and therefore, must be reactionary, That “was Lenin's and Hitler's notion, too, Strangely enough the only pronouncement Tru man has made on the subject has been in like

+ vein.

Let’s have more of the sympathetic presentation of the art which is peculiar to this cen tury, whether the staff writers understand it or not.

—Ralph F. Thompson, 609 Merchants Bank Bldg.

eo Views o By DAN KIDNEY

CONGRESS may have to. pass an antl

" lynching law to protect the weatherman.

IT'S FEARIER to get an undertaker than a doctor to make a house call. .

SECRET WITNESS—One who knows so many Congressmen he can't be trusted at a public hearing.

A BRIBE is private enterprise interfering

with the government. . ;

THE TRUMAN administration has achieved world renown for its fine graftsmanship.

- VISHINSKY wants to give U, 8. flier down in Hungary a “Soviet trial.” That's thé kind where the defense attorney helps with th prosecution.

What Others Say—

THE BASIC element for judging anything®

is always news—information. A widely and freely informed people can judge a bad govern ment even though no criticism may be eviden in the editorial columns of newspapers.—D Alberto Gainza Paz, former publisher of sup pressed Argentine newspaper. ~ > + 4 I SOMETIMES think the best influence th United Nations could ‘have. would be a house wife just walking through the corridor {nh a apron with an apple pie in her hand.—Mrs. Ray mond Sayre, of Ackworth, Iowa.

of the White continued with a perfect] straight face: “We've got to work nigh and day, with hearings © cases all over the country, and still IT doubt whether we'll fin ish our job in 1852. Not before November, anyway.”

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the cellar. T was ‘having the turkey croquettes with the creamed peas (55 cents) when a Republican member of the committee walked up to my table with his tray (liver and

into,” he said, “gives us leads on other cases. They just seem to mushroom. We've got reports now of tax trouble in all 48 states.”

He glanced in the direction

SANDMAN ,

AT NIGHT when little ones lié down . ., and nestle snug in bed , ., the sandman makes his rounds and touches . , . every sleepyhead « + + he tiptoes through the window of . .. each Yoom where children dwell , . . and listens quite annoticed . . , to the story mothers tell . . . and though no one can see him . . . every night he will be there , , , waiting. with a bag of

dreams , . . for good children to share . .. he must be quite a kindly soul . , . as old as time itself . , . and T am most inclined to think... he is a jolly elf . ., because for years he's never failed . . , through fair or stormy weather . . . to sprinkle sand on sleepyheads . . , and glue their eyes together, : 2 «By Ben Burroughs.

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He went on to express, stil without any hint of a smile his sympathy for the Dem ocratic Chairman, Rep. Ceci King of California. Poor King he said, just ‘wearing himsel to a frazzle, uncovering fisca monkeyshines among his fel

.low Democrats, Even if Rep

King wanted to halt the in vestigation, he continued, he was delving so deep in the murky doings of numerous tax collectors that he couldn't stop. ” » . MY REPUBLICAN Iluncheo mate sighed contentedly ove his chocolate pudding; the ex

pression on his face resembled® ‘that of my yellow-eyed cali

after lapping a saucer 0 cream.

Where that leaves Grune-g

wald, I don't know. He's go high Democratic pals; he also seems to have had some pleasant associations with Repub-

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