Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1952 — Page 10

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Understanding Is Needed

RIME. ‘MINISTER Churchill put. his current mission to .

the United States in proper perspective when, on his arrival in, New York, he said that he was here “not to get settlements or sign agreements,” but to “establish close and intimate understanding between heads. of governments on both sides of the ocean, so that we may deal with events of the future with knowledge of each other's point of view.” Achievement of ‘such an understanding between the "American and British governments during Mr. Churchill's visit would be an accomplishment of utmost importance. Recent. and earlier disagreements over basic policy in both the Near and Far East point up the need for a reconciliation of views and objectives between the-two governments. The lack of understanding between the two great Western powers has confused our friends and encouraged our common enemies. We saw an example of that in Paris Saturday, when the United Nations was confronted by Soviet Foreign Minigter Vishinsky's demand for a high level Security Couneil-meeting-to-alleviate international tensions. ” " » s ” ” THE UNITED. STATES delegation was prepared to reject this proposal out of hand until it was discovered that it might find itself on the short end of the vote if it attempted to do so. The American delegation did not believe the Vishinsky proposal was made in good faith. Probably & majority of the American people would support the view. But it would seem that the Soviets have been doing a better selling job _ with other nations than we have, for the Arab and Asian blocs announced their intention of supporting the Soviet position. Iran, to which the United States has just made a substantial point four grant, also was in the Soviet corner. Forced to reconsider its position, the American delegation, now will accept a plan for an early meeting of the Security Council to consider international tensions, provided it does not interfere with the Korean truce talks. This embarrassment might have been avoided if our representatives had ascertained some of the other national attitudes and had attempted to reconcile their views with ours before taking their original position on the issue. = o ” o " # BRITAIN AND the United States appear to have been in substantial agreement on this particular question, but that has not been the case with some of the other questions which have been before: the United Nations at its current meeting. The fact that they have differed so. frequently undoubtedly has encouraged many of the smaller .nations to pursue an independent course. Even some of the Latin-American nations are beginning to break away from our leadership. The governments in the British Commonwealth have lost any real semblance of political unity. With Anthony Eden back at the helm in the British Foreign Office, more attention probably will be given to Commonwealth and Colonial affairs than was true under the late Socialist regime. Our State Department can afford to do some soul searching on its own account, if we are to uphold our end of the partnership. But if the United States and Britain are to lead the world out ‘of its presént con--fusion and despair, they must first resolve their own differences of view. They cannot expect to have followers if they continue to walk in opposite directions.”

Let It Get Started OR MANY years to come, this country will face the

necessity of keeping its defense at a strong level. Tyran-

nies are not toppled in a day. The core of a nation’s defense is its trained manpower. This nation cannot -afford a permanent yee military force of maximum st rength. The alternative i% a maximum reserve, The way to acquire such a reserve is through universal military training,’ The National Security Training Commission has recommended ‘that Congress immediately approve such a program, But because much of the country’s manpower is being’ irafted into extended service in the armed forces, under the press of the Russian threat to peace, a full-strength universal military training program is not possible. : n ” ” " ” » CHAIRMAN VINSON of the House Armed, Services “ommittee proposes, as an alternative, a “pilot” program, pen to 60,000 volunteers. His reasons are patent ones: Such a program would not interfere with the general iraft. It would not require expensive new facilities in the midst of the emergency. It would gi%e the country the needed experience on which an eventual full-strength program would be based. Moreover, it would get UMT started. In the foreseeable future, this country cannot drop its guard, In its military strength lies the best hope for peace. lhe fairest, most effective and least costly way to main‘ain this strength is with a stand-by military force—a force trained and ready but still active in the civilian econmy until disaster strikes. Universal Military Training will provide tht strength. It Is time to get it going.

Game of Suspense OLITICIANS, like. Hollywood, believe in the virtue of suspense as a means of advertising. The buildup for the 1952 campaign is off to its -cus-

. tomary start.

An Ohio Co saw President Truman and ~inted the President might say before Feb, 6 whether he 2 a candidate. . This was enough to create at least a one-day sensation in political circles. “Then the White House -coyly added to the “mystery” ny blandly saying Mr. Truman had made “absolutely no

commitment” as to when he will answer the question of f his

-andidacy.. This kind of thing probly will 20 on for some Wicks. [t's 1ik® those stray advertisements you see every so often ‘which say, “Who Is Cynthia?” In due time, Oates em. !

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DEAR BOSS . House Mombar Preview Given

Rep. Bray Outlines New Congress Setup

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7—Congress will convene tomorrow with some of the Senators and Congressmen on hand for the opening including several from Indiana. Those absent will continue to trek’ here during the renfainder of this week and the : . first of next.” Most all of the 96 Senators and 435- Representatives should be assem-, bled by the time Winston Churchill addresses : the joint session Jan, 17. Freshman Rep. William G. Bray, Martinsville Republican, did a preview of what the House membership will be like and issued it from his office. It will consist of 234 Democrats; 199 Republicans and 2 Independents. “Although this the quickest. and easiest classification of the members of Congress,” ‘Mr. Bray commented, “it is not the only one, Eagh Congressman has a backgraund, a training and a sét of beliefs which are peculiar to him. Although party affiliation is very important there are a number of other factors which distinguish each member from his. colleagues.”

Rep.

Bray

Many Are Lawyers

MORE THA! ‘are lawyers. Qwer 100 have had business experie Fifty "used to be a newspaperman.” They had worked on newspapers, magazines and in radio. Teachers and others from the educational field number more than 70. Sixtyfive have been farmers or have farming interests.

Eight Congressmen practiced niédicine or

dentistry, which 18 the same number as were

active in the labor movement. The balance of the House membership is composed of men

- who have left various other careers,

“The social and economic backgrounds of these men cover a wide range,” Mr. Bray said. “The time has not passed when a man of humble birth can rise to high position in his gov-

ernment. The log cabins are gone, but their counterparts still exist, and continue to send their share of men to the higher councils of

government.”

Average Age 52

AVERAGE AGE of the Congressmen is 52. Four members are over 80 and 10 under 35. Their religious faiths include members from every major denomination and educational achievements range from grade school toy Ph.D.'s President Truman campaigned in 1948 by centering his attack on the 80th Republican Congress. He called it “do-nothing.” This will be the second Democratic Congress he has had since that time. It .is likely to ‘“do-nothing” about his civil rights and social programs which bear the New Deal-Fair Deal label. Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer. Republican, dean of all the Hoosiers in Congress is sure they will “do-nothing’” about the new taxes the President is expected to request. He is one of the leaders in the north-south coalition which blocks such things. . During the first half- of this 82d Congress his leadership paid off in a personal manner by his being able to get the Jenner amendment, restoring federal aid for Indiana in the welfare field adopted by the House. Although Mr. Halleck is most prominently mentioned as a GOP senatorial candidate, should Sen. Willam E. Jenner (R. Ind.) run for governor, his office stated it would be perfectly safe to announce now that he will seek renomination for a tenth term as Second District Representative. He would rather be Speaker of the House, should the Republicans win the 83d Congress. And he might make it.

What Others Say—

I HAVEN'T changed my mind basically about my philosophy, but I don't have the sense of simplicity that I used to have.—Philosopher George Santayana on his 88th birthday.

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IT SEEMS unnecessary to try to decide the exact form immortality will take. We won't be able fo change it and we must accept it.—Eleanor Roosevelt. : > .Hh oS .

NOWADAYS all painters, even those who call themselves Communists, paint for millionaires. . . . —Paris poet Blaise Cendrars.

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MOST of the cast addresses her as Miss (Olivia) De Havilland out of respect. They don’t call her Mrs. Goodrich. She's real human. She doesn't care if you call her Stinky.—Actor Ron Randell. -

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Bureal has ruled that a man who operates a few punchboards rates the same treatment as the bigtime bookmaker as far as the new gambler’s tax is concerned.

The fellow ‘who handles a punch-board it seems .

Is hooked with a ruling revolting, He's taking a cut in. his financial dreams, His pursé has been getting a jolting. i

But let all talk fade of the new gambling tax Now smacking this crestfallen cookie. For like the bet-taker, he knows all the facts— The truth is they're each a closed bookie.

SIDE GLANCES

. By Dan “Kidney |

To the Hills Men—It's én } Year Ly i L I ey “Why Did UMW

half of the House members

By Galbraith

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A VISITOR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-—He. has four names —Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill—and he was born with. red hair . . He's 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighs 185 pounds . , . He was 77 years old last Nov. 30 . . . He starts work in bed at 6 a. m. but almost always manages to sleep for two hours in the afternoon , . . For this, he undresses completely and gets into bed . He loves to swim and once jumped into his private pool at his country home in Chartwell in full evening dress . “I always wanted to find out what it felt like,” he explained . . . He takes @ hot bath twice

a day... His Mr. Churchill favorite , bev- . . on top again erage is not

scotch, as is generally believed, but champagne . . . Once he set his atomic expert, Lord Cherwell, to figuring out how much champagne he had drunk in his lifetime and was disappointed to find it could all be drawn by one locomotive . . . He never inhales those famous cigars which are 10 inches long. He's half American. His mother was the beautiful Jeanette Jerome, daughter of the wealthy Leonard Jerome . . . He was a sickly child with.a weak chest and a hesitancy in his speech but as headstrong as they come ... He was a poor student at Harrow, but won fame by reciting 1200 lines of the lays of ancient Rome ... It took him four tries to get into Sandhurst, England's West Point, but he graduated eighth in a class of 150. When, as a war correspondent, he escaped from the Boers during the Boer War, the Boers posted . handbills describing him as “of indifferent build, walks with a forward stoop, pale appearance, talks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter 8 properly” . . When he returned home in 1900 he was elected to Parliament as a Tory. . ... Meanwhile, he had written a successful . book, “Ian ‘Hamilton's March,” and was off to the United States for his first visit as a lecturer . .. : By 1903 he had switched to the Libera! Party, the first of several shifts in his political career. . . . By 1908, when he became president of the Board of Trade under Lloyd George, he was thought of as a pacifist and radical. . . . But by 1910 his radicalism was slipping. . . . As Hole Secretary he twice called out, troops against strikers. . . . He learned to fly, an air-

WASHINGTON,. Jan, 7—To-

By Andrew Tully

Churchill~the Man Who Was Useful at a Critical Moment

plane in 1913, while he was first lord of the admiralty. . . . He favored Irish home rule but was against woman suffrage . .. He was blamed for the fall of Antwerp and for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. . ... But he and his supporters always insisted his plans would have been successful if they'd been carried through. . . 1915 and subsequently served five months as a lieutenant colonel commanding the 6th Royal Scots ‘Fusiliers in France. . . . By 1917 he was back in the cabinet as minister of munitions and became famous for his “work or fight” order of 1918 during a strike of munitions workers...

Lost His Seat HE RETIRED in 1922 at the age of 48 when he lost his seat in Parliament after campaigning as an anti-Socialist. . . . But after several months writing his book, “The World Crisis” and generally taking it easy, he returned to politics in 1923 to be defeated for a seat from Leicester. . . . He lost again in 1924 but the following year was elected from Epping. . . .

Until 1929 he was chancellor of exchequer. .. .’

In that job he restored ‘Britain to the gold standard . . . In the years before Munich members of his own party assailed him as a ‘“warmonger.” . . . But’ after Munich he announced to Commons: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. * You chose dishonor and you will have war.” . .. Everybody knows the contributions he made toward saving Britain in that war. . . . They could be summed up by a report written many years before about a young lieutenant named Winston Churchill during a bitter Indian campaign. . . . “He was useful,” said the report, “at a critical moment” ., ..

Views on the News

WITH ALL the trouble his government faces, Winston Churchill should be able to give President Truman some good advice about running again. ? 4 -% SENATOR KEFAUVER looked right into a mirror and didn’t smile when he said he thought a Southerner could be elected President this year. wt Bb "THE TITLE of Van Wyck Brooks new book gives a good clue to 1952. It is called “The Confident Years, 18851915.” ono

U. 8. reservation Indians claim they are now so civ- Stalin lized that they no longer peed protection from law- + + + oxport

yers. IT IS “the year of the dragon” and Stalin is trying to make the Russian bear look like one—for export to Japan only.—D, K.

CONGRESS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

‘Things Are Popping, Including Army Buttons—

begin officially at noon, Jan. 8, - mediately,

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LABOR... wi By Fred W. Perkins

~ Let Men Work?

“Why: Didn't: Safety Committee

Pull Miners Out Before Blast?

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7 -~ Why did the + United Mine Workers’ Local Safety Committee fail to use its authority to pull the men out of the West Frankfort, Ill., coal mine before the Deé, 21 explosion which killed 119 men?

The United Mine Workers’ national contract

with coal companies gives local committees of miners authority to stop all work in a mine they consider more than normally dangerous. This authority has been used only a few times sinc it was granted in 1946. vo federal inspectors, W. R. Chick and C. L. South, reported last July that explosive methane gas stood in numerous abandoned “old ends” of the West Frankfort mine.. Their preliminary report was. posted at once at the mine and their detailed report reached the local safety committee within a month. On the basis of these reports, the committee could have ordered work stopped until the gas was removed and ventilation was provided to prevent its further accumulation.

What Happened?

ACCORDING to investigators for various

‘agencies who. have returned here from West

Frankfort, this is what happened: The Jcommitteemen — Vernon McDaniels, Cecil Hall and Valli Cook—discussed this part of the report with the mine management and were shown another statement if the report that the management had immediately come plied with a recommendation that gas be blown away from actual working places, but not the abandoned entries. They were informed also that the state mining law did not require the closing up of old entries, although the federal mine safety code does so recommend. The committeemen also were informed that state ine spectors had not raised the ventilation question, Mr. Hall, member of the local committee, confirmed “this at~West~ Frankfort. He added that the conflict between federal and state mining regulations made it “hard for the committees to do more than report to finion headquarters in Because of the differences of opinions on the degree of danger in the mine, he said, no demand was made that the mine be closed until compliance with the federal

" recommendations.

‘Ventilation Good" (ON DEC. 11 James R. Wilson, Illinois state inspector, reported ventilation “good” and other -conditions “fair.”) After its talks with the mine management, the union safety committee reported to its national headquarters here. There then was correspondence between the UMW Safety Division and the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co., owner of the mine at West Frankfort. This correspondence ‘has not yet been made public. Local safety committees are made up of ‘working miners who are not regarded as safety technicians. They are qualified to observe visual hazards, such as torn-up railroad track in the mines or obvious danger of roof collapse, but they are not equipped with either facilities or training to detect invisible dangers. These include the odorless, colorless methane or “marsh” gas.

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Hoosier Forum

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

‘Broken Ship’

MR. EDITOR: Hope Capt. Carlsen makes it back to port with his broken ship but can't see why the press played this thing up as big as it did. The captain is to be admired, there's no doubt about it. His bravery can be accepted without question. By staying with his ship he has lived up to every colorful tradition of the sea. He lived up to every concept of a good American, - He also saved his company a few million dollars, If he had left his ship others could legally salvage her. This is not to the discredit of the man. It only adds more to be admired, But now the ship 1s in tow and there is no reason why he can’t leave her. He's a valuable man to this country and there is no further need for him to take such risk. Why is he so valuable? Because he has shown each and everyone of us something that most of us lost long ago. Guess that’s the reason the press played it up so big. ==3audlubber, City.

‘Disgusting Incident’ MR. EDITOR:

It's disgusting to read about the political

mess ih Princeton. , Because of a political fight between the city council and the mayor, there is a threat that there won't be enough gas to operate city street and garbage trucks. This is just one more incident that proves there are too many elected and appointed officials in government of-all levels who believe

they are more important than the people they

serve.

The people are paying these men to see that these services are run properly, Instead they choose to use the public's time and money to secure their own political aims. The people of Princeton should remove the mayor and the city couneil immediately. If it is done, that little town will stand as a -pillar of American tradition. It will show the world that the people and only the people can run this country the way it should be run.

~American, City.

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inter- Meantime, they won't have

morrow my troubles come to an end. Congress gets back to work. Welcome home, fellows, and may your’ oratory put the usual strain on the airconditioning system.

Maybe you -long-suffering customers the last couple of - weeks have noticed old man Othman scraping the bottom of his barrel. Writing screeds

when the dominies of the Senate and the House pray that their charges this year will display their usual wisdom and strength of character. The rest of the day the gentlemen will spend shaking each other’s hands (they spend an awful lot of time doing this, -anyway) and trying out the 1952 version of the official

about nothing much, because bean soup. On the following nothing much was happening. day and thereafter: . Hold ‘This has been a worrisome everything.

thing, rushing around smartly and accomplishing hardly anything except a few pieces about man deliver his message de- . price decontrols on fried manding higher taxes, more worms, weather predicting by money for:foreign aid, and a caterpillars, the value of royal few ogulg controversial matpastel mink coats, and how to ters. attle will start {m- - brew fresh pumpkin wine.

First, off the statesmen have got to listen to President Tru-

rupted in a few more days by

the arrival of Mr. Truman's

budget.

This is. a volume about the size of the New York telephone book and containing all the needs for money for many things, .including the yacht for the ambassador to Turkey, the eradication of grasshoppers, new uniforms for the District of Columbia dogcdtchérs, the education of Indians, the conservation of ‘whales, and the need for jeeps with winches so

.these vehicles—price $3000

can pull themselves mudholes, : Such a mighty document will give the gentlemen something to chew upon.

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a . THIS peculiar reading matter came about simply because all the statesmen were in far 3 places, sitting on their’ plazzas. . Now they are back and al-

cluding the suspender buttons on the infantry’'s pants. Leave off ‘the buttons, says Rep, Wal-

1.8» Te "© 7 ter Norblad (R. Ore), and : a om v8 pei in iE aves of Sonate. . “is that bird named Cloudal Willy yank Sin 1 30's hart ot wD Ren a PAL “the movi, wanking hor hae, or 1d up with AuT" most of the rst o the yur

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- A WONDROUS DAY CORD Drie Grr Betis wih « .. wan of tea or two . . . a friendly. chat with neigh+bors then . . . a geiitle kiss from you ... a

_ bright and cheery afternoon . .'. with some

good book fo read . . . and loying tenderness from you . .. is everything I need . . . a setting ¢ sun, a rising moon . . ..a real hot stew +. « then éuddlé by the fireside . . . without a Jung (0 40, oo the vieeple bell Shut tolls the

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been idle. They've got a lot of things to consider, such as why the Army needs so many can openers, how come we’ve been selling surplus ships. to Amer.

icans in Panama who pay no

taxes, why we. can't keep bet ter track of the grain stored in bins around -the nation, and who else among the bureau.

crats got mink coats for their wives,

~ . ” ALL HANDS agree that this will go down in history as the investigating Congress. It also has some lawh to pads, includiG So lef) oer om 1AM ti, The 8t. Lawrence Seaway, uni. versal military training, and’ off-shore ofl—all good for a fight—are some of these. The lawgivers likewise are faced with the fact that the defense production act expires in June; if there's peace in Korea by then, you ¢an get your self a bet on what happens to As for the President's new tax bill and -his scheme to reorganize the outfit

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