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Monday; “Jan. 21, 1952

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Real Statesmanship =~.

A7HEN Winston Churchill's mission to Washington was announced some weeks ago, the feeling was voiced in many quarters that Uncle Sam was in for another rooking. Now it is reported that observers in-London are of the opinion that for every concession Mr. Churchill gained on.

: his visit he had to make two or three in return. That we

: must see to believe and the real facts may be slow to unfold.

It could be, however, that the concessions were reason-

. ably well balanced, as they should be between two govern-

ments with as much in common as those of the United States and Britain. A firm partnership cannot be built on the loose sands of distrust and temporary vantage. The ‘United States has agreed to exchange steel for

But if the steel we send to Britain is used to rebuild that country’s armament, it may serve our long range interests quite as much as Britain's. Even better, perhaps, the way our own production program is being bungled.

» » » y ~ n n BRITAIN'S stiff-necked Foreign Office is: miffed because the Prime Minister has agreed to support strong counter measures against Red China if the United Nations forces are double-crossed after the projected Korean truce is consummated—if it is. But Britain would be expected to do this in any case. Mr. Churchill simply has had the imagination to know that he could strengthen the ties between the two countries by going on record in advance of the event. Moreover, if there is an extension of the conflict on Red China's part, the withdrawal of Britain's recognition of the Peiping regime would be automatic. Knowing this, Mr. Churchill wasn’t conceding anything of substance by letting that be understood. Former Premier Attlee was too slow on the trigger to play things that way. But a master statesman is’calling the signals now and more respect. can be expected for American sensibilities. Beyond that there is comfort in the knowledge that we are associated again with a man who won't be looking back when he is needed most. When Winston Churchill joins up he enlists for the duration.

Reduced to a Ghost

Y RUNNING the Reconstruction Finance Corp. on a purely business basis, W. Stuart Symington practically proved the case against having an RFC. Mr. Symington, now retiring, cut the loans made by this once frivolous government agency to whistle-stop size. He wouldn't make a loan which wasn’t a sound-looking risk, and he wouldn't make one which couldn't stand up in a goldfish bowl. In the eight months of 1951 that Mr. Symington served as administrator of the RFC he granted fewer than onefifth as many loans as the old influence-ridden RFC had issued in eight comparable months. And some of those already were in the process when Mr. Symington took over. What Mr. Symington’s record shows is that when the RFC is run strictly on the up-and-up, there is little use for it—and virtually no need. Only when political drag and wildcat lending are in vogue does the RFC have any real business. The scandals exposed last year by the Senate Fulbright Committee show what happens when political pull and reckless lending dominate RFC policies. The record of the “new” Symington RFC shows that there wasn't any need for it, all along. The plain answer is up to Congress—wipe it out.

Where's the Rest?

IN ST. LOUIS, John J. Nangle, the Democratic national committeeman from Missouri, thinks President Truman should step down from the White House and run for the Senate. Mr. Nangle's reasoning is that Mr. Truman deserves a rest from the presidency. : “He should be entitled to live the rest of his life in peace,” says Mr. Nangle. Has Mr. Nangle been around the Senate lately?

Pushing Us Around

USSIA has limited the movements of foreign diplomats to a 25-mile radius of Moscow, and the State Department is considering retaliation in kind. The State Department is long on consideration, short on action. Retaliation ought to be automatic in nfatters of this kind. All of our relations with other countries should Be on a strict reciprocal basis, Of course, when we have a government which feels ¢bmpelled "to pay blackmail to a two-bit regimes like the. puppet government of Hungary, it is not surprising that the Soviet Union thinks it can push us around and get away with it.

Not Too Much Wrong

L257 WEEK, Agriculture Secretary Brannan was hot. headed when the newspapers published, “in the most unfavorable and disadvantageous light,” as he put it, a report to.Congress by Comptroller General Lindsay Warren. Mr. Warren said about $3,800,000 worth of government : grain supposed to be in warehouses in the Dallas area alone

‘wasn't there. ;

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Committee the shortages of government commodities in

vate warehouses’ probably will run between $5 million . $7 million. Which would indicate the department puts’ the “most unfavorable and disadvantageous light.”

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MR. EDITOR: There was a letfer in The Times not long ago that I would like to make a reply to. It was written by Grace Prall. I would like to ask her how in the name of justice would we the people of Indianapolis, know what is going on, if it were not for The Indianapolis Times? If. our Sheriff, Dan Smith, is being unduly persecuted, then why doesn’t he come forth with evidence and ‘defend himseif? Really, be truthful. Doesn't all this smell to you? Someone is surely being fooled, and I'm afraid it's us, the people of Indianapolis. I may be wrong but I feel that any man who is elected into public office, should be trustworthy and above reproach. I heard Dan Smith's campaign speeches on TV. His promises even convinced me. I don't mind telling you or him that I voted for him. I liked what he said and the way he said it. But as yet, he has failed to live up to his promises. As for. our officers and policemen, there are two sides to . . . both good and bad. ood Ba I HAVE known quite a few who were fine,

honest, trustworthy gentlemen and others I

have met were as low as our common thief. But if it were you or I who was faced with this mess, how would we be tried and judged. 1 still feel deeply, if the facts were put before the people of Indianapolis, this city of ours

Views on the News

CHURCHILL showed Congress how a world figure figures the worid--cockeyed.

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FEDERAL Security Administrator Ewing addressed a group of doctors in New York and the speech carried that old promissory note.

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REPUBLICANS on that snowbound traip”

en route to San Francisco kept warm by flashing Taft and Eisenhower campaign buttofis at each other, 7 ob 7 THIS 1S to be a year of great gacrifice. The politicians will sacrifice anything to win, oP Bb SOVIET propagandists” say Russia will resemble paradise hy 1956. Just now it must look like hell, because foreign diplomats are not allowed more than 25 miles away from Moscow. —D. K.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

BOSTON—The $1.00 registration fee for the annual meeting of the American Economic Association has been hiked to $2.00. They're well versed in economics And the dollar's downward trend, Yet like villains in the comics, Evil's caught them in the end. Now their own prognostication Makes those experts scream and cuse. And their latest on inflation Is: “They can’t do that to us,»

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Hoosier Forum-=‘News’

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

would he a much better place to live in, Why can't they get corruption out of our political offices? Isn't there any real honest men who can be depended on to look after our welfare and goodwill. Maybe one fine day we will get a fine group of men and women in our public offices who will really take the bull by the horns and clean up this town. May we get them soon. Keep up the good work, Indianapolis Times. Where there are those against you, there are others behind you 100 per cent and I am one of them. —Thelma Flake, 1546 Lee St.

‘A Hick Town’

MR. EDITOR: 1 see in the Hoosier Forum where a “Mrs. H. B. of City” considers Indianapolis a hick town. I think that is putting it mildly. The officials of our town couldn't even manage a small hick town and some of the people that

live here and elect these officials belong else-,

where. ; Look at our Police Department. What incentive do the patrolmen have to strive for? If they are on the department and eventually get to he a lieutenant or captain how long do they get to keep that particular job?

Well, it seems like it is just long enough to

have someone like Clark to knock them down. What about .the “merit system Judge Bayt started? ; Evidently if Mayer Clark doesn't believe in it why did he faver it in his campaign speeches and why are the Works Board meetings hushed up. now? It looks to me like .Clark is doing a good job to ghow the people what they will have to put up with the next four years. I was born in Tndianapolis, but it wouldn't be hard to say

At is a good town to be from.

—Mr. H. L. K., City.

‘Homer for President?’ MR. EDITOR: Open letter to Homer Capehart: A week ago Sunday afternoon I was watching TV and heard you remark, “What is the matter with Capehart for President?” 1 said to myself and others in the room, “That's all, brother.” Everybody let out a scream. Remember, you promised us, the voters, that under your control bill, prices would go down and we wouldn't need to worry about inflation. Homer, you knew when you promised it, it wouldn't work. : The big manufacturer "is the fellow you are helping and the working man is just existing. If the worker asks for a pay hike, they say they are going ia the hole ar they will have to hike prices to give you a pay hike, ‘ Remember, Homer, your old pal Sen. Jenner is up for re-election and wouldn't it be too bad if the people didn’t return him to office because of your mistakes. Think it over, Senator. Even your friend, Sen. Taft won't get labor's vote. —Bud Kaesel, 2450,Central Ave.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 Sorhe time ago I wrote a sad little piece about the putt-putt lawnmower that always was . blowing up in my face. No matter what I did to its cantankerous engine, it always snapped back at me, Reaction from this nation’s lawnmower manufacturers was immediate and also . bitter. One of them said there was nothing wrong with lawnmower engines, except the men who ran them. Every man, he continued, when confronted by such a power plant regards himself as a member of the American Society of Automotive Engineers and goes to “work with his monkey wrench. " This results in chaos, . Women, he contintiied, never S have trouble with lawnmowers,

alone, This should be warning enoligh against what I am about to writé concerning John

engineer of 3 Ajrlines. He's either going to all thie television Low

run all the don_ repairmen out of business, or elec-

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Regervation and dissent on Winston Churchill's address to Congress piled haymow-high on Capitol Hill, However, leaders agreed that, net, the Prime Minister served his and Britain's cause well, The trouble, some Congressmen said wryly, is that the United States doesn’t have anyone to serve its cauge nearly as well. ‘Mr. Churchill was doing business at an old

the men who make up the Senate and House— could admire for his very craftsmanship. He didn’t sell everyone on every proposition he made. There never was any. chance of that. But there ‘was enough in the speech to gain

+ him friends in many places. Nobody warmed

fo his suggestion that maybe the U. 8. could plant a token military force in the Suez Canal Zone and nothing he said obscured the fact that Congress resents British diplomatic recognition of Communist China.

Standout Contrast

YET THE OLD warrior’'s talk of free enpero made him a standout contrast with the last itish Prime Minister who stood before them, Clemént Attlee. Republicans, sometimes critical of the “international” approach, warmed to the Prime Minister on this score. And many said he made commendable good sense in telling the U. S. not to give away its lead in atomic bomb knowledge until it is sure—and more than sure—it has a better way to keep the peace. First comments on the speech were mostly generous—they went more to the virtuosity of

_.the. actor rather than to the meaning of the

lines he spoke. There was a good deal of talk about “a magnificent performance for a man of 77” and ‘‘he’'s the master of them all, isn't he?” Later comments were increasingly caustic. The sharpest came from Midwest Republicans

who have followed an isolationist line, but it °

seemed doubtful their extreme views represented even their own party. Republican leaders in the

House voiced numerous reservations on what the Prime Minister said but when they balanced good against bad, they said Mr. Churchill came t ahead. ® nu Mr. Churchill came to America well briefed on the fact of rising criticism in this country in the last year over British foreign policy. He knew of the widespread assumption; when his impending visit was first made known a couple months ago, that his main mission would be to make a touch on the U. 8. Treasury. He met this in the first two minutes of his speech when he said he did not come for gold and favors, but for steel and equipment. Yet there was an offset reaction to this, too, among members who observed that once before he had asked .only for the tools to do the job—and yet, before long, America was doing the job, too.

Democrats, Too

CRITICISM of the Churchill speech wasn't limited to Republicans. Sen. Tom Connally (D. Tex.) said he was glad Mr, Churchill didn’t seek direct financial aid. Chairman Jame- Richards (D. 8. C.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Mr. Churchill seemed to “fail to realize the colonial system is on the way out.” And Sen.) Joseph -C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) observed that the nub of Churchill's speech was contained in his historic remark a decade ago that he had “not become the King's first minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” Mr. Churchill's candor at many points— his acknowledgment that the U. 8. is carrye ing nine-tenths of the load in Korea, for exe ample—counted importantly with some Congressmen. One source of criticism Mr. Churchill plainly did not satisfy was that dealing with British reluctance to go along with greater political, economic and military union in Western Europe, It was a sore spot in Congress before the Prime Minister spoke, some members made clear it will continue to be.

POLITICS . . . By Frank Clarvoe

Washington Wins a Victory

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21—-The State of Washington won the only victory in the dispute over delegate strength in the meeting of. the " Republican National Committee here. The committee is preparing for the National Convention in Chicago July 7. Washington got six more delegates than had . been allowed in the committee’'s previous calculations. Mrs. Janet Tourtellotte of Seattle, national committeewoman, turned the trick. A state's delegation ge strength is based primarily on population and the number of Congressional Districts it has. Every 20 years, however, there is an ‘orphan” year, when the convention is so close to the census that the rules of the previous conven- #» - tion cause confusion. ? This year some powerful Mr. Stassen states — New York ‘améng ... hard-hitting them —lost delegate strength. The West and South gained substantially, So the convention rule was disputed. The committee on call decided there would be no changes,-that the 1950 census prevailed. However, it did permit states some leeway in electing the delegates they are allowed. States also gain “bonus” delegates if they voted Republican in the past presidential elec-

tion, or elected a Senator or governor since the last convention. J. Russell Sprague. national committeeman from New York, led the unsuccessful fight ‘to retain the number of delegates the state had in 1948. Mrs. Tourtellotte attacked the rule on bonus delegates. She claimed that the national committee had not fairly interpreted it as meaning any election at any time since the last convention. Washington elected a Republican governor in November, 1948, which was after the national conventicn that year.

Not ‘In the Bag’

AS BANQUET speaker last night, Harold Stassen of Minnesota, offered analvsis of himgelf as a hard-hitting, determined candidatas for the presidency, with a record which should attract votes. He denied that the nomination is “in the bag” for anyone, but said he would cheerfully accept the convention decision.

Like Gov. Earl Warren of California, the only other candidate here, and David Ingalls and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking respectively for Sen. Robert Taft and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Mr. Stassen emphasized the need for a thorough organization of the party to get out the vote. Like Gov. Warren, he urged ‘a humanitarian and liberal platform.”

“It is not going to be easy,” he sald, “to

throw the Truman administration out of office.”

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Hoosiers Due to Fight Tax Hike

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 — President Truman's plea for a $5 billion tax increase isn't likely to get a single vote from the Indiana congressional delegation in this election year. Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Democraft, expressed his pleasure at the omission of any new tax plea in the President's State of the Union Message. But the $5 billion estimate soon followed, with the presentation of the economic report, and will be fortified with the budget presentation. ; Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, assistant House minority leader and dean of all Hoosiers on Capitol Hill, had warned against any tax increase when the 82d Congress came back into session Jan. 8. Today he repeated that warning in citing the President's proposed new $5 billion levy.

Like Vetoed Hike

“SUCH AN increase,” Mr. Halleck said, “would represent about the same amount as the traditional bite voted during the first session of this Congress. “Many feel that we have reached the point of diminishing returns in the matter of tax rates. Unless there is a vast change in the attitude of this Congress, it will not go along with any demands for higher tax rates.”

Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington, Republican national committee-woman from Indiana, said a’ flat “no” to any tax increase.

“I will only vote to cut taxes, not increase them,” she said. “Indiana taxpayers contribute $1,141,000,000 to the federal government each year, and the federal government turns back €¢5 million to Indiana in pensions, annuities, grants-in-aid and so forth. In other words, we

By Galbraith ‘SIMPLE IF . . . BY Fredrick C. Othman \\ Gives the Lowdown on TV Set Repairs

send $13.42 to Washington for every dollar Washington sends back to Indiana.

Cites Family Share

“THE federal tax share of the average Hoosier family of four has now risen to $1155.36 per year.”

Attempting to dramatize the issue of rising

cost. of government, Rep. Willlam G. Bray, .

Martinsville Republican, cited these facts:

ONE—It was recently disclosed that the three service branches pay varying prices for the same items. One small example showed that the Navy pays 6.5 cents a pound for 10-penny nails. The Army engineers pay 8 cents*and the Air Force 12 cents. TWO-—Civilian employment by the federal government now numbers more than 215 million persons. THREE—At the end of the calendar vear 1951 the federal deficit was almost $714 billions approximately 13 times the size of the deficit for the same period in 1950.

Inferences Drawn “FROM these facts we may draw three direct inferences,” Mr. Bray said. “Waste and inefficiency in military procurement continue to cost the government money. There is no apparent reason why one service ne pay more than another for the same

“When such a large number of persons are on the payroll, the government must surely be too big. The burden of supporting these miilions falls on the rest of the population. “In the light of all this and many similar factors, it is not surprising that the government cannot pay its bills. We are going more and more into the red. The policies which would make us solvent are not being followed.”

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P. Kenneally, the chief radar Pan American

has turned into a runaway best-seller at 50 cents on the nation’s newsstands. His idea is that .television sets (like Jawnmower engines) are simple items that anybody’ with brains, his book, and a screwdriver can fix. got something.

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any television set after about

a year grows dimmer. So, finally, you call in the repairman and he sacks you $10 for Wiping the dust off the picture ube. the dust to collect there, says Mr. Kenneally, and you hv i

Static electricity causes -

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as well do the dusting yourself. He reports (and I have confirmed this fact 40 my own amazement) that every television set has twe sets of knobs, one in front and one in back. The back ones, which mostly work with screwdrivers, have®got to be tuned, too.. To do this you need a mirror to see ‘what is cooking on the screen.. I tried his method of TV screwdriver tuning and the picture came out better than I ever saw it before. - Mr. Kenn goes on say that TT oes sets, no matter what their cost, are ar-

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ranged about alike inside; full of tubes and little hlack boxes with holes punched in them. He suggests that before you go poking around in these boxes, you'd better turn off the juice. He also explains what these widgets are good fof and suggests that if the machine is playing tricks, you should take a long squint at the tubes. If one of these is glowing purple, it's a sign you probably need another. One thing I never thought of as going bad was the aerial, I figured that was permanent. After a while your antenna gets crusted with- soot and scum that play hob ‘with the highfrequency waves. It's a good idea’ to shinny up the roof ae-

, casionaly and rub down the

aerial with steel wool. ’ Mr. Kenneally says, and I quote, that about 90 per cent of television trouble today is so easy to fix that you might as

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