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Tribute to the Reds

THE UNITED STATES has laid on the line for Communist Hungary $120,000 ransom for the ‘release of four American Air Force fliers whose plane was forced down by the Soviets when they accidentally crossed the Hungarian border. That's blackmail. Our government didn’t used to do business that way. A In 1852 Martin Kostza, a Hungarian who had declared his intention of becoming an American citizen, made the mistake of visiting Turkey where he was arrested on an Austrian warrant, for participating in a revolt against Austria prior to his going to the United States. He was arrested in the Port of Smyrna and placed on board an Austrian steamer. Then our government got tough. An American sloop of war, the St. Louis, was at Smyrna at that time. Its commander sent word to the~ Austrians that unless Kostza was released in a mattef of hours he would blow the Austrian ship out of the water. Kostza was released. . : a

THE Austrian-Hungarian Empire of 1852 was a much more powerful nation than the Hungary of today, ‘which is smaller than the state of Ohio, with a population of 9,200,000, about the same as Pennsylvania. That being the case, why didn’t our government send some troops into Red Hungary and rescue our fliers? We don’t presume that such a thing was considered. But if it was, the fact that Hungary has more troops in that country than we have in all Europe would have argued against a show of force. Despite all the money we have been spending, we simply don’t have what it takes to get tough. If we had the armed strength which we ought to have, our citizens probably would be treated with more respect. - : Moreover, we are being pushed around because we ask for it. When Robert A. Vogeler, an American businessman, was imprisoned in Hungary on trumped-up charges, he too was held for ransom. And Uncle Sam paid off. This payoff included the return of certain Hungarian property under our control in Germany, a shift in certain American radio wave lengths which were interferring with Hungarian broadcasts, and the reopening of Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland. , = = ® = = THAT was the beginning of the blackmail policy. We can expect more ransom as long as we continue to pay off. The State Department’s timidity also invites this insulting treatment. It continues to recognize and do business with Czechoslovakia, despite the unjust imprisonment of William Oatis, the Associated Press reporter, whose only * offense was that he was an American. We should end all relations with these outlaw, black- ° mailing regimes and use our influence to end all intercourse between them and the Western world as long as the Red bandits remain in -pelitical control. But do not expect this to happen any day soon. Fof that we would have to have an administration in Washington which respects itself and which demands respect from the rest of the world. :

Poll of Union Leaders

THE International Association of Machinists has polled the presidents of 150 labor unions, and announces that Gov. Earl Warren of California would, according to the 60 labor leaders who responded, draw the strongest labor support as a Republican presidential nominee. The union chiefs were also asked which Democrat would draw the most labor support if President Truman is not a candidate, and Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois ran well ahead. Unlike most pollsters, the IAM did not ask for a vote on President Truman. ; TAM doubtless undertook this poll with the best of intentions. However, the opinions of 60 presidents of labor unions as to presidential candidates are no more indicative of mass voter attitude than would be the opinions of 60 presidents of mowing-machine factories. Presidents of labor unions cannot deliver the votes * of their members, nor can they even tell how the men are going to vote. That was proved in 1948 when despite their all-out support of Mr. Truman, he would have lost had it not been for the farmers. It was proved again in 1950 in. Ohio when despite their all-out opposition to Sen. Robert A. Taft, he won overwhelmingly and even carried “labor”

counties.

If the TAM really wants to find out how workingmen feel about presidential candidates, why doesn't it poll its

own members?

Scales of Justice

IN 1048 the British ministry of fuel and power authorized in then Socialist England, to spend $89,600 on.the construction of a ne

the Yorkshire Electricity Board,

headquarters at Scarcroft.

When the project was completed it was discovered

it had cost $115,407 more than the authorized figure. Yes, it happened under socialism. But it also happened in a country where there is profound respect for the law. No evidence was introduced that there had been any graft in the case. But it was considered serious enough that the Yorkshire board had violated the law when it approved an unauthorized expenditure of public funds. At the conclusion of a five-day trial, the board was fined $56,000

and its chairman was sentenced to six months in jail. In this connection, we wonder whether anyone will be sent to jail as a result of the current graft investigations in Washington, and if so, whether those jailed will be | %ghairmen” or merely the small fry, like John Maragon, _ the former bootblack, who etherged as the “villain” in the

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MR. EDITOR: ; ; : Yes, Mr. Editorial Writer, you spoke a wellproven fact when you wrote: “Shall We Lose Everything We've Been Building for 1951 Years?” The vital truth in that editorial is these words: “On this 1951st anniversary of Christian civilization, that civilization is threatened with destruction (by the fanatical organized powers of Marxian socialism and communism.) This hydra-headed beast is composed of both the Socialists and Communists because they all follow the principles and philosophy of the same false propiet

gion is the opium of the people,” and

G5 le evil program was designed to estrgy faith in God and to destroy Christian civilization. :

And another timely editorial was: “FuzzyMinded Experts,” in The Times of Dec. 25th. Listen: “The State Department is full of fuzzyminded experts of this kind, many of whom are employed in positions of trust and confidence.” And, “Many of the blunders in our disastrous China policy can be traced to the intrigues of the leftist cult with which many of these self-ac-claimed political experts are associated.” I just want to remind the writer of this editorial not to underestimate these same political experts. They have been smart enough to sell us out from Tehran to China, and if permitted to run our foreign policy and to represent us in the United Nations, as I fear they do to an alarming extent, we will remain in mortal danger until we elect a President,

like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who like Patrick

Henry, was smart enough to reject those fuzzyminded experts. The New Deal Marxists will continue to sell us out to Stalin, squander us into bankruptcy, sabotage our defense armament program, give aid and comfort to our Communist enemies as long as we are dumb enough to keep them in positions of trust and power. . Edward F. Maddox, City.

‘Danger of Dictation’

MR. EDITOR: . Again Indiana is in danger of dictation. The three branches of our government are designed for equity, justice and competency. These qualities in themselves at times fail because of ignorance or mistakes. Is the state less than the county or greater than the nation? Arbitrary justice, graduating from one-horse courts, if continued may in the near future be dangerous to our great republic. The Indiana Public Service Commission created to study all public utilities that they may be able to fairly’ and justly adjust rates and establish rules of conduct for operating the aforesaid public utilities is in need of abolishment. It's useless. Next recourse would be to give the Interstate Commerce Commission full right to make rates and properly control monopolies engaged in inter-state commerce. Not being an attorney, 1 can only advocate that we appeal the state's decision to federal court.. State and country courts are unable to render a true verdict, because of ignorance or bias due to lack of knowledge concerning essential details. —Thomas M. McGuire, 3228 N. Kenwood Ave.

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‘Just Let It Lay’

MR. ‘EDITOR: Yqur article in The Times, Dec. 19, was sad to read. No wonder the Weather Bureau is plagued with calls the way the Indianapolis newspapers with their “anything for a headline” attitude, play up the least fluctuation in the temperature. Two and three-inch headlines. The corruptness of this town stinks to high heaven. Let the snow lay on the streets until the gutters are like overswollen creeks. Old women downtown shopping the other day were a pathetic sight. And with the good old Indianapolis Street Railway busses and trolleys splashing water all over everyone. - Get on the bus these -days and the driver is likely to say “Sorry, going to the barn,” or, “I don't go past Washington St.” When it snows they take half the busses off . . . the other half get stalled. eB OB

WHAT A sad sight. How unnecessary. How uncalled for. Simply because a bunch of grafters have this city by the throat.

‘Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta , . . all of ’em

- can handle a big snow better than this town.

What would they do here if we had 24 inches like La Porte had the other day. Let it lay, I suppose. 3 In Louisville, Ky., the snow removal starts at 2 a. m, or 5 a. m, if need be. A few sanded intersections after 9:30 a. m. is all we ever see. Snow removal? Never heard of it. What's it like? Cross the Michigan state line and find out. State Highway Department is the same way. Just let it lay. Next spring it will melt.

—Elmer Throwbridge, City.

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

NEARLY ALL of the Senators and Representatives are expected to be back from visiting Gen. Eisenhower in time for the opening session Jan. 8, ;

SEN. LODGE, Ike's cam- * paign manager, has been chosen the .“best dressed man.” But it will be a shirt- § sleeves’ job to take the GOP & nomination away from Sen. | Taft.

A FELLOW named Krishna Kumar Chatterj is opposing’ Nehru in India as “the voice of the common man.” And whatever became of Henry A. Wallace?

Sen. Lodge « « « shirtsleeve

THE Senate Preparedness Subcommittee reported finding a collegé graduate cut- ‘ ting lawns in an Army cemetery. Didn't say where he got the “know-how.”

HEADLINE—Austrian fis invited here to téll of waste. Meanwhile we carry coal to Newcastle,

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1s a Challenge to U. S. People

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—8talin outsmarted

himself in the Hungarian blackmail case. -

The fact that the military trial of the four American airmen was suddenly advanced, and that the séntence was three months or a fine— instead of death or long imprisonment for-a

fake espionage charge--is interpreted by Iron Curtain experts here to mean that Stalin knows be °

he made a mistake,

Whether he knows it or not, there is no doubt

the net result of the Red satellite government's treatment of the fliers—whose unarmed military plane en route to Yugoslavia was forced down in Hungary on Nov. 19—is the opposite of that intended. Instead of intimidating the American people, it has stirred demands for a tougher policy against the Red bloc.

Bitter Reaction INSTEAD of & withdraw-from-Europe reaction in congressional circles, this is probably good for several billion dollars larger defense appropriations in the coming budget. Instead of causing American loss of face and leadership in Western Europe, Washington's willingness to pay the $120,000 ransom is not considered cowardice but welcomed as responsible restraint by our Allies, according to reliable reports from those capitals. Whenever one of these revelations of Red barbarism occurs—as when the Russians captured or shot down U. 8. military planes over the Baltic and Yellow Seas—the American public reaction is bitter. We want to punish the pirates and brigands to prevent repetition of such acts,

TOUGH . . . By Ludwell Denny ~ Stalin’s Blackmail Scheme

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Bul a canvass of possibilities usually shows there is no way really to stop this sort of thing short of war, or military superiority comparable

to war threat. To admit this is humiliating,

and even more frustrating. : 1 ‘Why don't we break diplomatic relations? Whatever else that would accomplish, it would not protect Americans behind the Iron Curtain and not improve the chances of getting forceddown airmen out alive. ry . Whether American diplomatic missions should be kept in Moscow and satellite capitals is a matter of opinion, or at least of timing.

,The State ‘Department and Pentagon believe

such missions should be maintained as listening posts, however restricted.

Propaganda Value WHY DOESN'T the United Nations do something? It will debate the subject, and there

is propaganda ‘value for us in that. But it can do nothing effective. Hungary Is not a member

. of the United Nations: Even if she were, the

United Nations has no separate enforcement facilities. As in Korea, any enforcing has to be done by the U. 8. and a few Allies. Some of the same Americans who have been saying, “get out of Korea,” are now saying, “get tough with Hungary.” We can’t have it both ways. . The truth of the matter is we cannot get tough with Stalin“yntil we have more to get tough with. Bluster will not prevent blackmail, and recalling diplomats will not frighten the Kremlin. Until we are strong enough militarily to do otherwise, we shall have to take it and buy time,

PARTY LINE . . . By Frederick C. Woltman ;

Reds Take Advantage of Yule

NEW YORK, Dec. 28—The Yule spirit came in handy to the Communists this year. They used it to help fill the party's criminal defense kitty (goal $400,000). To friends and the fuzzy-minded .folk, the party peddled Repeal the Smith Act Christmas seals—for $1-a-sheet. For blocks of 100, you got a cut rate price of 50 cents. The Commies’ Christmas stamps served a triple purpose; sealing gifts and greeting cards, raising dough for Smith Act defendants and slipping a bi of propaganda into the Yuletide cheer. Festooned with red and green holly leaves, berries, ribbons and‘ things, each seal bore an envelope facsimile that read: “Dear Congressman—Make it a Happy New Year. Repeal the Smith Act.” Progressive Party clubs nationally and American Labor Party clubs hereabouts sold the sheets. But the collections eventually funnel into a Communist Party hideaway presided over

by Marion Abt Bachrach, one of the indicted:

Commies and press agent for the party. Of the $400,000 goal, $250,000 is allotted to the defendants East of the Mississippi; $150,000 to the California Defense Committee which

covers Hawaii, the West Coast and the Rocky ;

Mountain states, > THE CHRISTMAS seal returns are not yet all in. But the party proudiyghas announced individual contributions—$5 from ‘a farmer of Cumberland, Wis., $2 from a University of Chicago senior, $25 from a Kansas City lawyer. Two dollars for two stamp sheets came from Dr. Dirk J. Struik, professor suspended by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pending his own trial on charges of advocating the overthrow of the commonwealth. Dr. Struik, meanwhile, has two defense committees raising money in his own behalf. One's headed by Prof. George Sarton of Harvard; the other by Dr. Harrison L. Harley, chairman of

psychology, philosophy and education at Simmons College, Albert Maltz, Hollywood script writer (“Pride of the Marines”) and one of the Hollywood 10 who served prison terms, kicked in $100 for 200 blocks of the seals. The Commies’ proudest boast of all was over a $25 donation from “a banker of Rutherford, Tenn,” This banker, who seems to be remarkably hep to party nuances, sent it directly to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, top indicted lady Commie. Name withheld. (But the payment was by check.) : So» THE Washington tax scandals have landed the CP a new slogan: “Convict the tax fixers,

free the Smith Act victims.” oe oe oo

AMERICANS for Democratic Action, which bans Communists and Fascists from membership, has announced it will fight for repeal of the Smith Act. The law's directed at what men think and say but does not deal with espionage or sabotage, against which “drastic protection” is necessary, according to ADA’s pamphlet, “Free Speech vs. the Communists—Let’'s Get Back Into Balance.” The anti-Smith Act drive's to be spearheaded by ADA’s national chairman, Francis Biddle. It was while Mr, Biddle was Attorney General that the first Smith Act prosecution took place 10 years ago. (The indictments had been voted under his predecessor.) Then the defendants were Trotskyites, bitter enemies of the Communists. Eighteen were convicted in Minneapolis. oe Ho oO THE government of Turkey, a Southwest neighbor of the USSR, has just taken a leaf out of the Soviet notebook. It recommended a new law which makes our Smith Act look palid: Ospiial punishment for the Communist Party sses.

LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins

Tafters Reply to Union Poll

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Taft-for-President boosters had a ready reply today to a poll

among union presidents who didn't give the

Ohio Republican a single vote.

“The answer is simple,” a Taft campaigner said. “Their opposition is based on the TaftHartley Law, which restricts their power over their members and also over the public in general. Practically every union president opposed Sen. Taft's re-election in the Ohio campaign of 1950, but he must have won a substantial labor vote because he carried all of the state's industrial counties.” The Machinists’ International Union asked 150 heads of ‘big labor organizations to participate in the poll. Sixty responded. : ! Gov. Earl Warren of California, the only. other announced candidate for the Republican nomination, was named by 74 per cent of the union presidents who replied as the Republican “who would draw the strongest support among labor voters.” : - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ran second in the Republican poll with 14 per cent, and on the Democratic side was third with 16 per cent. The Democratic poll was based on the supposition that President Truman will not run. The ballot did not carry his name. In this division the leader, with 47 per cent of

Gov. Warren «+ 74 per cent

CLEAN-UP . . . By Frederick G. Othman

the union presidents picking him, was Sen. Pgul H. Douglas (D. Il..). Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) was second with 19 per cent. Chief Justice Fred Vinson, widely discussed as Mr. Truman's probable choice for the nomination if the latter doesn’t want it, received 12 per cent. !

For Vice President

SCATTERED votes on the Republican presidential choice were recorded for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Sen. James H. Duff (Pa.), Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (Mass.) and Sen, Wayne Morse (Ore.). > The poll also covered a Democratic nominee for Vice President if Mr. Truman is the party nominee and Vice President Alben W. Barkley is not a candidate for renomination. Sens. Douglas and Kefauver were even in this contest, each with 34 per cent, Lesser support was given to Sen. Brien McMahon (Conn.), and Govs. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and Adlai Stevenson of Illinois.

What Others Say—

EVERY TIME the Soviet Union makes a peace move, I get scared. The end of the Korean War is simply a change of strategy by the Soviet Union, but not a change of their intentions. They intend to conquer the world.—Gov. ‘Thomas E. Dewey.

I LOVE them (the Russian people). They have been out of civilization for years, but please God they will be back in it soon.—Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen.

Capitol Put in Top Shape for New Congress

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 — The U. 8. Capitol at this writing smells of turpentine and such a hustle” you never did

see as the custodians try to get the place ready for the statesmen. Congress returds to work - Jan. 8, dedicated to so many investigations of skulduggeries that I doubt if'it has time to pass many laws. So the exterminators symbolically, have been turning up the carpets, folding back the drapes, and upending the sofas for a spraying of DDT against Buffalo moths. - » » THESE insects are worse than lobbyists as a congressional problem. They eat the stuffing out of a lawgiver's couch if given half a chance, turn his velvet drapes into lace curtains and chop so many holes.in his broadloom rug that he's likely to fall on his face. The boys in the subbase~ ment have polished the cuspidors until they shine like so many brass suns. They've torn down and rebuilt the Senators’ i private subway cars so that ; there'll be no chance of a train

cious aboard.

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senatorial snuff has ordered

a new shipment from the Philadelphia tobacconist where he has been buying the same brand of sneeze powder for the last hundred years. This he will place in the two Japanese snuff boxes nailed (against souvenir hunters) to the ledges on either side of the Veep's dais. : You wouldn't think a Senator in this atomic age would be interested in snuff, but the stuff dissappears ° regularly and has to be replenished. I always swipe a pinch of it, myself, when I happen by,

common cold, Claim it's more potent. than anti - histamine tablets. The same fellow who keeps the snuff boxes filled and properly moistened also is in charge of senatorial sand for blotting purposes. On each mahogany desk, including the one With the bullet hole in it, is a small cut-glass bottle containing black sand for the Senators to sprinkle on their signatures and then blow onto the floor.

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special black beach in Persia; .

it used to be that the Arab

world. Before blotting paper, that is. Now about. the only regular customer he has left is the Senate. I am pleased to report that the sand in the bot‘tles this year {is the genuine article. It was not always so. Back toward the end of World War II, I happened to be in the Senate chamber one morning and I shook a littlé senatorial sand into my hand, Haw! Iron filings. This discovery 1 took up with the custodian and he was a shaken man, . » 2 YES, SIR, the admitted, he'd tried and tried to get black

while a number of legislators swear by it as a cure for the

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