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A . Inviting Disaster Y HOLDING that our 1952 aircraft production schediiles are unattainable, and must be advanced two and three years, President Truman's advisors are conceding Russia air superiority not only for the present but for some years to come. : x i This is delibefately flirting with destruction and death. Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik told the United Nations Saturday that the third world war “has in fact begun.” - Many people are of the opinion that World War III began Juné 25, 1950, when the Reds invaded South Korea. But Mr. Malik's statement is of concern because of its source. When new mischief is being brewed in Moscow, Soviet spokesmen have a habit of charging the other fellow with what they plan to do themselves. In this case, Mr. Malik charged that war is being waged ‘against Korea, China, Malaya, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.” : If these are Red targets for 1052, several new fronts are in prospect.

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» ” ” . THE UNITED STATES, Britain and France have served notice on Red China and Russia that any new aggression in southeast Asia will be brought to the attention of the United Nations. If this warning meant anything at all it meant that in the event of a new attack, force would be met by force, Just as it was in Korea. But what do we or either of our major allies Have to contribute to a new front if one is opened? Not much more than sea power, with every likelihood the war would be in the air and on the ground, where Russian might is greater than ours. : ~ Next:to nothing is being done in Europe to put meat on the bare bones of Gen. Eisenhower's army. The West Ger-' mans, who were talking bravely a week ago of plans for a

riew. army, now have adopted the same ‘politics as usual.” ” v

. 8 9 THE LESS WE can look to our Allies for support in a showdown, the more we must be prepared to do ourselves. When the rearmament effort in Europe lags, our own should be stepped up accordingly. But instead of our own program being stepped up it is being flattened out, on some theory that wars are something which can be turned off and on like a faucet. . + Our whole defensive position should be re-examined and it will be inviting disaster to delay this until after the election. X

Ickes, the Prophet [AROLD L. ICKES died six years less 10 days after resigning as Secretary of Interior in a quarrel with President Truman over a question of political propriety. He had objected to the nomination of a recent Democratic Party treasurer to besUnder Secretary of the Navy, because of the nominee's interest in quitting the federal L government's claim to certain oil reserves. The nomination "lost. : With his usual flair, the old curmudgeon said he saw a cloud of corruption no bigger than a man's hand on the Democratic horizon. The quotation was from Elijah—the warning that was followed by a great rain, then a wind that- rent mountains, then an earthquake and after that a fire. - When Mr. Ickes died Sunday night in Washington, the scandals in the federal government's tax collections, in the prosecution of criminal cases, the storage of government grain, the disposal of government property, the awarding ". of government business, loans and favors-=all-had qualified him for prophetic honors.

- " » . =» » WE often fought with Harold Ickes. He liked to give —and take—blows. And he gave some mighty ones in his time." His cracks about “Willkie, the barefoot boy from Wall Street” and Dewey's “throwing his diaper in the ring” were no help to two might-have-been Presidents. But we tried to give him his due. On his resignation in 1946 we said: Te _“Withal, his has been about the only Interior Department operation of our recollection in which there has been no major scandal, no charge of graft, no Fall or Ballinger stuff. And while he has been frequently loose and loudmouthed and not always either accurate or funny in his extra-curricular activities, he has been, we think, exceptionally able.”

One Hand Tied Behind : JUST HOW Mr. Newbold Morris intends to accomplish his assignment to investigate corfuption in the Washington government is not yet clear. Mr. Morris has a. reputation as an honest man with a zeal for honest public service, but in this battle against | Goliath he seems to have cast himself in the role of David A without a slingshot. : His official title is assistant to the attorney general, and he has marked Atty. Gen. McGrath's Justice Department as the first federal agency he will ‘investigate. He has been promised the hearty co-operation of Mr. McGrath and President Truman, and unrestricted access to govern- " ment records and personnel. He has no power of ‘subpena, and says he wants none. “If something turns up that I can’t get, I'll go to the President.” 2

y . . » » » IT WILL BE interesting to see how far Mr. Morris

. gets with such tools. : io A half-dozen committees of Congress, with far better . tools, have been digging for many months in the same field of inquiry, and have hardly scratched the surface. * ~The committees have the power to subpena witnesses and records, td compel testimony, and punish those who refuse to testify or who testify falsely. . Mr. Morris’ undertakifig carries our best wishes, but ~ not our highest hopes, His appointment does not diminish A weed for congressional committees to get on with the ey have already started. Before Mr. Morris finishes bably will find that he needs’the help of * And maybe Mr. Morris in time can , since_ the administration hitherto

"DEAR BOSS . . ; By Dan Kidney

In a

Could Be Worse, Says McKinney

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—With the first soup kitchens since depression days opening in Detroit, National Chairman Frank E. McKinney picked that city to praise Democratic prospérity In a speech at a Michigan Democrat rally Saturday night; the : ” Indianapolis banker, ° who is taking time out to try to win another presidential victory this year, ; recognized the fact that he was talking place where \Truman prosperity had come to a dead

stap. Se urged his hearers not to lose

courage as he compared the present situation there with the Mr. MeRinney deep depression days of former Republican President Herbert Hoover. °° Just keep ‘voting for the Democrats and everything will \be dandy again he advised. “Perhaps it is\somewhat bold of me to state these facts in Detroit today,” Mr. McKinney declared. “I know that you are suffering serious temporary unemployment here in Michigan as a result of our defense mobilization program. : N “And I know that sympathy and talk and national statistics don't buy pork shops or shoes for the children. N

‘It's Being Handled’

“LET ME TELL YOU this. Despite all of the Republican propaganda you hear, despite the hysterical statements of big businessmen who hope to win working people away from the Fair Deal, your problem is not being handled with talk In Washington. It is being handled with action. ; “Right now new contracts are being funneled into the critical areas in Detroit and Flint and Pontiac. When your President issued the order that the defense work

have to move around the country hunting jobs, he meant what he said. : : “And from what I know of Harry Truman, if he finds anybody who is not carrying out that order or who is-not doing everything possible to bring more defense work to areas like Detroit, there will be some changes made, “The skilled workers of Detroit are a precious national asset and one day's unnecessary waste .of «heir skills would be an economic crime.”

Extends Into Indiana

WALTER RUETHER'S UAW-CIO has suffered most from unemployment among the membership. And the Detroit reaction extends into the automotive plants in Indiana. Two .weeks ago union men from Indianapolis and other Indiana cities joined with the Detroit area men to march on Washington demanding governmental aid in solving the unemployment problem. Mr. McKinney's stressing that President Truman has the matter well in hand gave added credence to the story that he may be seeking:

* secofid place oh a Truman third term ticket.

The Detroit story, as spelled out by him, would seem to add up-to the re-election of

_ President Truman as the best answer. He did not, however, neglect to boost the two outstand-

ing Michigan Democrats for helping with the job. They are Gov. Mennen Williams and his appointed senator, Blair Moody. Both will be up for re-election this year. :

Attention to Taft : BEARING down on his theme that only the Democrats care for the working Man, Mr. McKinney chose Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) for special treatment. “If you had a Republican administration in power,” Mr, McKinney said, “the jobless might get sympathy but they wouldn't get any more help .than they got when Hoover was.in the White House. They'd just get Taft-Hartley.” When President Truman .announced a postwar goal of 60 million employed (it is now 62 million), Sen. Taft opposed it, Mr, McKinney charged. “Taft's approach to every Democratic proposal is to whittle it down,” he declared. “He thought our -goal should be 51 million jobs. “Why? Taft sald this would be the same percentage of the population as in 1900, a banner year for old guard Republicans.”

Views on the News

PRESIDENT TRUMAN called state presi-

dential primaries “eyewash.” Had he kept his name on the New Hampshire ballot, it might have been an “eye-opener.” : “ 0 BH "IF SEN. TAFT wins in New Hampshire, we could use him in Korea. i > » db A GOP Congressman discovered that Washington embassies are full of foreigners. And there are lots more where they came from. =i $® G o A NEW DEAL Supreme Court is one that thinks the Constitution was designed to keep kids from praying in school. oo oo oo

SOME government agencies operate in such decrecy that nobody knows what they arédoing. 4 To : NEWBOLD MORRIS begins his government housecleaning job undér a definite handicap. Attorney General McGrath promised his cooperation.—D. K, :

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Who Was Right?—Taft or Lewis?

WASHINGTON, Feb. “4 — Who was right, Sen Taft ox John L. Lewis? The Ohio\ Republican and the United Mine Workers president argued bitterly here last week, and one of the main things they argued about was a Virginia lawsuit against the mine union. , x A check of court records on the Virginia case showed that an impartial -arbiter’s decision, written almost\three months ago, suppotts Sen. Taft's position. 7 Wednesday's Lewis-T a f\t row came after the UMW

law lets employers ‘bleed unions white” with dathage Jjuits. He cited a $750,000 damage suit filed against the union by the Blackwood Fuel Co.,, which owns two Southwest Virginia coal mines. Mr. \ Lewis claimed that, because they fear such\damage suits, local. mine safety committees are afraid to close mines they consider unsafe’

"Sen. Taft retorted that a union must an.

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cept the possibility of being sued like any other\

organization or person, So far as he knew, said Sen. Taft, the Virginla suit had nothing to do with mine safety. He added that the question could not be decided without the records, which should be

‘ placed before the Senate Labor Committee be-

fore which he and Mr. Lewis were appearing. He concluded that a suit against a union whose

. members refused to work in a really hazardous

mine would have no more chance “than a.snow-. ball in hell.”

“ U. 8. District Court records show the Blackwood suit against the UMW is due for a jury trial in April

A Report THE RECORDS include a report, dated Nov. 12, by H. K. Trammell, arbiter who was ap-

pointed by both sides to umpire a union grievance which is tied directly to the suit.

Mr. Trammell reported that the union had charged that Clyde Arnette, UMW safety chairman in one of the Blackwood mines; “was discharged for trying to get management to comply with recommendations of the federal inspector...”

On Sept. 17, Mr. Trammell recounted, Mr. Arnette was assigned to help drill holes in the rock roof of ‘the Calvin, Va., mine. Federal inspectors had recommended ‘‘wet” drilling to allay rock dust, but had okayed “dry” drilling for short periods if miners were equipped with respiratory equipment,

Fired on the Spot

BECAUSE of drilling troubles, the umpire reported, “it was necessary for short periods of some shifts to-drill dry.” B. F. Mason, mine superintendent, “directed the drill crew , ,. to drill a hole dry . .. to locate thestrouble,” Like all workers, Mr. Arnette had -been issued respiratory equipment, but had left it at home that day, the umpire said. He refused to accept the offer of equipment from another worker or to have any part of the dry drilling. The mine superintendent fired him on the spot. :

WASHINGTON, Feb, 4—In the not-so-good old days of the depression my major problem wis paying the rent—-and also eating. To achieve these twin ambitions, I augmented my small wages writing true detective stories for some of the most startling magazines ever published. ; For a 5000-word piece I usually got $150, plus $3 each for photos of the gory proceedings. This was good money, but hard to éarn until one of the editors took “pity on me. He said I. hadn't got down pat the style of the true crime story. All I needed to do, he said, was. write my plece and then insert an adjective in front of every noun and an adverb after every verb. The result was downright lurid, It also ‘was profitable because I was being paid by the word, a frace . tion of a cent per each. These stories I-wrote under an assortment of aliases, mainly because I didn't want my mother to know what I was doing, though now that I

she ever saw a detective book. . ; : Lee. WHAT BRINGS up these - melancholy reactions is the

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The 165 men in the Calvin mine struck. Then the other Blackwood operation—went out. Both strikes ended on Oct. 10. The record is not clear as tp whether Mr. Arnette was rehired. The umpire’s report concludes, “at the time - of his discharge he {Arnette) was not acting

as a safety committeeman under the contract.

and code but was himself acting in violation of the contract by refusing to work under the direction of the management without immediate danger to himself or other workmen.” The umpire denied Clyde's claim for back pay and the company sued the union for the $750,000 which it claims it lost because the men in its two mines stopped production. :

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Hoosier Forum—‘Bus Crash’

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

EGYPT ...By Clyde Farnsworth :

Suez Issue

Like a Bomb

CAIRO, Feb, 4—Promoting a British-Egyp-tian settlement gt this delicate “stage of the game is like tinkering with a time bomb. Public reaffirmations by British Foreign Seo« retary Anthony Eden and U., 8. Secretary of

State Dean: Acheson of Britain's treaty rights in Egypt and the Sudan were like tapping the bomb with a hammer.

With simple realism, British and American

policy makers ought to quit insisting on treaties °

which the Egyptians have dbnsidered dead since last October. An approach to settlement must be along a more conciliatory line, or the West can scratch Egypt from any Middle East security setup— and the Arab states too. The Egyptian press bridled over Eden's and Acheson's comments, Newspapers responded with the Nationalist WAFD Party's basic. requirement: Let the British first evacuate Egypt and the Sudan. ! Much more meatax diplomacy will tie the hands of the new Egyptian government completely, and everybody will be back where he started.

Restated Policy ;

THE new premier, Aly Maher Pasha, has broadly restated the foreign policy of his pre

decessor, Nahas Pasha—through reserving free. -

dom of action on internal matters. For peace talks to get to first base, a face-saving play

must be made. : : Possibly an American guarantee of an eventual, dated British evacuation of the Canal Zone would turn the trick. That has been men= tioned in Egyptian speculation. The Egyptian government itself, through former Foreign Minister Salah El Din, offered as a “challenge” to the British the idea of a plebiscite in the Sudan under United Nations auspices: So if the Sudan should remain a stumbling block, Britain might well accept that challenge. The Egyptians must be treated as equals in their own house. Britain has shown remarkable ineptitude at making the first move toward new understandings in the Middle East.

Second the British

THE United States hasn't done much better. In Egypt. we have been content to second the British stand. However, Britain and the U. S. retain a measure of good will—even in Egypt. Perhaps it's a simple preference of our tent to communism’s kiss of death. What ever it amounts to, we ought to exploit {t—but fast. . The governments of the Arab states have treated the Middle East defense project with open-minded reserve, neither grabbing at it nor forthrightly rejecting it. They were bound to hang back on Egypt's account.

If we want them on our team, Egypt must’

fifst be satisfied.

REINER TERRA EET RENN OUR ERNE RIRIRA TARR RSE

MR. EDITOR: How, by the greatest stretch of our imagina-

A tion; can the railroads or a flashing light signal . and

\ be blamed for a bus stalling oh the trac being struck by a slow-moving train. Undoubtedly, if the bus had not stalled, it would have had sufficient time to go across before the train came to the crossing. After all, a train can go nowhere else. It must stay on the track.

\ Of cqurse, I can understand Mr. Dalé trying to put the blame on the railroad and demanding an investigation for he is getting his arguments in first so ‘he will be spared paying the suits that are suré\to follow an accident of this kind.

If we check the records, we will see that in the greatest majority of crossing accidents, the flashers were working perfectly, but the drivers either just ignored\them or get in such a hurry that they start across and are hit by other trains approaching but the lights are still on.

In other cases they are struck by trains that are exceeding the speed limit but it is almost unknown for an accident to be caused by the flashers not working. \ a : Let's look at tme facts before we pass judge-

. - —Inez Stephens, City. EDITOR'S NOTE: Reader Stephens missed a few facts herself. The flasher at this crossing is manually operated, not automatic. So far the investigation has found from the driver and majority of : passengers that the bus. started across the tracks before the blinkers started to work. It had a distance of 30 feet to travel from the blinkers to the track where it was struck. That means it actually had less than 30 feet to go when the blinkers started working. The driver and majority of passengers believe if he

had gone across the track the bus would have:

been hit in the middle, instead of the front. .The driver stopped his bus, attempted to get it in reverse and then is when it stalled. Right at that moment the train hit the bus. This does not seem to us to be adequate warning.

‘His Creation’ MR. EDITOR:

May everybody, everywhere, learn to urder-

stand that God's world is still His perfect cre- : ‘ He

By Galbraith GOOD PICKINGS . . . By Frederick C. Othman 2 Senator Turns Detective Story Writer

ation. Because it is perfect in «pirit, i can ba made to express this perfection in peace. I ine vite everyone to daily join me in silent ‘prayer that God's peaceful world may come into manjfestation here and now and those who have the responsibility of world Teadership may be guided by our God in their work. i - Yes, the more we see of beauty everywhere, in nature, in life, work and rest, in man, woman and child, in progress, in the outward and inward world, the more we see the presence of God, The world needs a change in outlook, From fear to faith, based on the kind of love

' that Jesus taught. To be saved (from wrong

thinking) we must follow His teachings. “It is in loving, not being loved that the heart is blessed. It is in giving, not in seeking gifts that we find our quest. What ever be thy longing or ‘thy need, that do thou give; so shall thy soul be fed, and thou indeed shall truly live.” - “Glory be to God in the highest, on earth peace and goodwill to all men.”

~Frank L, Martino, 508 Bankers Trust Bldg,

‘Sign Your Name’ MR. EDITOR: Last week ¥ sent a letter to the Hoosier Forum. It was an open letter to Sen. Capehart stating 1 disagree with his price plan because it was helping the big manufacturer and ths working man must just exist.

I like to read other opinions, but not by a

person who signs his name C.D. C. fnstead of

his full name. I would like to ask you C.D. C,.

* Who are you afraid of? We are in a free coun- - try, not in Russia where we couldn't ever have

the chance to criticize our government leaders, I have never read a letter of yours where you have signed your name. I thank God Iam an American and I will continue to voice my opinions. It doesn’t ‘matter if anybody agrees with me or not. If you want to eriticize -me, why don’t you be man enough to sign your full name. ‘ Now that that's over,.I would Iike to come mend The Times on that fine picture of the Block's fire last week. I put it in my scrapbook, My hat is off to your photographer. ; —Bud Kaesel, City

one of my best customers, has a new author. Good, too. Lots of adjectives and adverbs in his vocabulary. Fellow by the name of Alexander Wiley, U. 8. 8enator from Wisconsin. He has banged himself out a little ripsnorter, called “Blueprint for Stalin's Spies.” This runs the standard length, though my guess is the -Senator earned a larger fee than the editor ever paid me. Author Wiley’s item concerns: the fact (his figures) that last year 500,000 foreigners sneaked into the United States without benefit of visas. Some, he said, were spies. Pa

“They came to create havoc

on the home front; to snatch

guarded secrets from our atom bomb plants; to survey our harbors and military installations,” the Senator wrote. “They came to undermine our

‘minority groups and feed them

propaganda-powered bullets that would eventually explode | into race riots and. smoulder-

or unions and foment strikes;. to cripple the defense effort.

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To pose as good Joes—cousins. I) wish I ‘haa space to tell of another Jos; a Joo whose - you mote. ‘All I can add is last name is Stalin and whose that the Senator should earn last wish on earth would-be to~ “8 hice living as a detective } Cs 7 3 rs i. we Ja . : ; a. a 55 2 i 5

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. Se America remain a free country.” : s n s THIS SENATORIAL author of detective stories went on to tell how easy it was for the unwanted to cross our borders. Hp told his tale in words that even I, a8 an ex-professional at” the adjective = business, couldn't improve. “Twelve men, one more or less, will lle under ‘the bushes, their faces pressed against the red earth,” he wrote. - “Above them will spread a massive sky; gray turning blue and spiked with vague, | soft -colored ribbons from the sun far to the east. Behind them, many kilometers behind, will be memories of poverty and crowded huts. A few yards ahead of them will

06 a quiet, muddy stream of . water, the Rio Grande.

~ So, according to the author, ig, hairy-armed man with

the leather shoes and the fat

“waist, poles them across the

river in a flat boat. Now they're in the United States. Among them is a tall, blonde man,

whose eyes are light, almost

green. He's a Russian sy.

writer, if he ever gives up laws making. :

GOLDEN RULE

THERE is a mental yard. stick . . . that we call the golden rule . ». and what each foot comprises . . . we just partly learn in school . . . for we were first Informed of this ++ « most useful of all: measures « + « when we were little tots at play . . . with toys for great est treasures . . . our mothers told us to be good ,.. and t play fair with all . ."; and tha if we'd abide by this . . . we'd rise and never. fall , . . next time we heard this rule again

+++ We were big kids in school

+ «+ and we all learned to follow it « « . or fit the dunces stool + + +» then as we réached sdulf stage . . . we used this rule we learned . . . to make an honest dollar and . . . thank God for what we earned . , , do unto others as you'd have ... them do things unto you... . a rule’

as old as time itself . . . and

also just as true. - ... —By Ben Burroughs. | (You can obtain 100 of Mr,

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