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The Indianapolis Times

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1952

ROY W. HOWARD + WALTER LECKRONE President Editor

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Talking to the Reds HE RED REGIME at Peiping~ which all along has claimed that’ only unofficial, volunteer Chinese units have intervened in the Korean War, now wants to participate in the peace scttlement which is expected to follow a cease-fire agreement -if one is reached. . Rear Adm. C. Turner Joy, the United Nations spokesman, is opposing *his demand. He contends the Chinese Communists disqualified themselves as official belligerents by their own declarations. There can be no quarrel with the strict legality of the Admiral's position. But it is general knowledge that Red China is in fact one of the belligerents. What then is to be gained by our maintaining a fiction which the Reds are prepared to abandon. Nor is it easy to understand why the Allies should object to Red China submitting her political’ demands to a peace conference.

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COMMUNIST China—egged on and supplied, of course, by the Soviet Unior—is behind most of the trouble in the Far East. If Red China-is prepared to sit down at the conference table and: present her demands for a general settlement of all Far Eastern questions, nothing will be lost by letting her tcll her story. And it will be a gain to have just what the Chinese Communists want made a matter of record in their.own words. When the Reds have submitted their demands, it will be time enough for the United States to declare its position. We must rule out any deal which wold surrender Formosa. or any other free area to Communist control. We cannot accept with honor any compromise—-either by admitting Red China te United Nations membership at Nationalist China's expense, or by admitting Red China in its own right until it has demonstrated a willingness to become a law-abiding member of internatienal society.

But to deny Red China the right to appear and present its case would be unrealistic and to absolutely no point.

Monéy and Meat

MRS. NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS, the eminent lady who commands the mints, is having small troubles with members of Congress.~ The Hon. Benjamin Franklin James, a Pénnsylvaria Republican, is opposed to printing 32 bills. He says people don't want 'em. Anyway, he's only seen 10 in 25 years and he still has "em. It's a lucky man who can hang onto any bills these days. The Hon. Alfred D. Sieminski, a Jersey City Democrat, hinks Mrss Ross should make some 7-cent and 15-cent coins. Probably thinking of what's happened to the dime and the quarter. But Mrs. Ross says people wouldn't want them and they would only “upset the economy" and “create confusion.” We'll leave the question of upsetting the economy to the deficit-makers in Washington and go on to the creatingconfusion department. Which brings us to the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This bureau, which costs more than $1 million a year to run, has just made its eighth different estimate of how much meat Americans consumed in 1951. It seems the bureau's statisticians made a mistak2 in the first place, but decided not to admit it. So they scaled down. the error a little every time they gave out a figure. Latest report: : “Civilians may have two or three pounds more meat per person in 1952 than the 138 pounds- consumed last year.’ Providing, of course, they can lay away. enough T-cent dimes and 15-cent quarters to make a $2 bill.

The Atomic Boon

OPE FOR peace in the world seems to rest largely on the United States’ stockpile of atomic bombs. It is ironic that the best hope for preventing war is to prepare for it. But; in the present world, it is a hope without alternative. 1 In the development of atomic energy for war, however, there is one relieving compensation—as compared to the buildup of other weapons. ~~ The Atomic Energy Commission devoted a third of its recent report to Congress to the nonwar phases of its program. This report holds promise of vast new developments in the production of food. Both yield and quality, it says, will be greatly improved, while costs are lowered. This one phase of atomic benefaction alcne utlimately may do more to stabilize both world ecoromy and politics than anything yet attempted. If the lot of underdog peoples is made more abundant, the opportunities for aggressors and tyrants will be that much reduced. ; In a world of so little cheer, it i is heartening to hear of at least one enterprise intended for geryice to mankind, instead of destruction. =

An old. Umbrella Man

[FORMER FRENCH Premier Edouard Daladier is welling his fellowscountrymen’ that a‘direct appeal to Stalin is the

only hope fof world peace. "This is the same M. Daladier who went to ‘Munich with

Britain's Neville Chamberlain in 1938 and made the deal with Adolph Hitler for “peace in our time.”

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DEAR BOSS . . By Dan Kidney

Moody-Dingell Bills: Opposed

WASHINGTON, Feb, .13- Mail bers of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce opposing ‘the Moody-Dingell bills to up unemployment compensation with federal funds in areas distressed dy the change-over from civilian to defense production is beginning to arrive in Hoosier congressional offices. The State Chamber's social security department has sized the proposed measures up as a step toward ‘federalization.” It circularized the members to write their Senators and Congressmen, “The plan was conceived and cleverly promoted by the CIOUAW led hy Walter * Reuther,” the Chamber circular states, “It has vigorous. ors ganized labor support from alt sections of

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the country, “Federalization $f unemployment compensation would mean for Indiana employers an early end to experience rating and a probable approxi-

-mate tripling of its average annual costs.”

How the proposed legislation would work is explained in the Chamber circular as follows: ONE: When the governor of any state certified that within any one or more ‘labor market areas of his state there existed unemployment among workers, and the U. 8. Secretary of Labor found that such unemployment existed, the federal supplementary benefits would be paid to all people who qualified for state unemployment compensation benefits in all areas of the state. TWO --These federal cash payments, added to the state benefits, would amount to 50 per cent of regular state benefits and to 100 per cent of any dependents’ henefits paid under

state laws. The only limitation would be that:

the total benefits—federal and state—might not exceed 65 per cent of average weekly. earnings of a person with no dependents, 6714 of average

~ weekly earnings in the case of one dependent,

70 per cent two dependents, 72', with three dependents and 75 per cent with four or more. THREE—The program of extra federal payments would continue until the President proclaims the end of the present émergency or until the termination of the Defense Production Act, whichever date is later.

Increased Benefits

“IN INDIANA,” the Chamber points out, “the maximum total unemployment benefits (tax-free) would be increased to $40.50 per week. In Michigan, with the federal funds added, the benefits would go as high as $56.50 weekly— including 100 per cent supplements to the dependents’ benefits that are paid in that state. “Indiana has a successfully functioning un-

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virtually all employees who might be laid off temporarily because of a lag in defense production would be entitled to ‘benefits that, in most instances, would be at the Indiana maximum rate of $27 for 20 weeks.” Despite some spotty unemployment in industrial areas now, the state can handle its own problem, rather than take the chance of becoming “federalized.” the Chamber concludes. When President Reuther led his CIO-UAW representatives here to push the bills introduced by Sen. Blair Mbody (D. Mich.) and Rep. John Dingell (D. Mich.) there were a number of delegations from Indiana.

‘ Stop-Gap' SINCE South Bend is the worst hit city, due to Studebaker lay-offs amounting to an estimated 7000, Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. South -Bend Republican, went on record in sup-

port of the Moody- Dingell measures as a ‘“stopgap.” The two Demberats from Indiana, Reps.

Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, and Ray Madden, Gary, also are in favor of the bills. Hoosier Republicans are generally opposed. Arguing for their passage at the Reuther meeting, Mr. Madden said that it is as much the responsibility of the federal government to.care for workers displaced by-the defense program as it was to care for capital by renegotiating contract losses caused by the switch-over to civillan production after World War II.

Views on the News

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN McKINNEY says the country isn't undergoing “creening socialism,” as the GOP charges, but ‘galloping éapitalism.” That must be the kind that leaves taxpayers breathless.

“CAPEHARTIZE" is a new word c6ined by President Truman to put a Republican label on the weak price control law passed by a Trumanized Démocratic Congress.

SEN. KEFAUVER may get a White House letter charging him with talking through his coonskin cap.

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. . Egyptian Th EN ROUTE TO TUNISIA, Feb. 13 — The power of the Egyptian throne, which was on the way out two weeks ago, is making a comeback. Cairo’s stiff censorship made it impossible for me to report this situation fully from Egypt. But the fact is that in the midst of an internal political struggle, King Farouk is holding the whiphand in Egypt. Whoever were the guiding spirits = of Cairo’'s lapse into lawlessness, it was the King who called a halt. The Jan. 26 outburst of incendiarism, ‘wrecking and looting was at the same time the final challenge to the throne and probably its last chance. If responsible members of the Wafdist government then in power were not a party to the weekend of chaos they at least hoped to ride it through to a conclusive elimination. of King Farouk from politics— or more. For more than 25 years most powerful political party, has chafed under the traditional power of the imported Albanian dynasty which King Farouk represents. In return, King Farouk has repeatedly asserted his authority by dismissing Wafdist governments for corruption or other causes. When hell broke loose in Cairo. there was suspicious obstruction to the King's efforts to get 4000 nearby Egyptian troops into the city. It was widely rumored that Farouk had to bring all his waning influence to ‘bear. Presumably the army command was divided between loyalty to Farouk and to the Wafdist government.

Not Enough Ammunition

THERE was a story that the army objected to entering the city because it had ammunition enough for only a few volleys against rioters. the nightly trigger-happiness of Egyptian soldiers who have been keeping the curfew the past two weeks, this was obviously false. ge There was also a rumor that Farouk had to promise promotions right and left to get ‘the army into action. However it was managed, he did it. On Sunday, Jan. 27, order was restored, quickly followed by the ouster of- Premier Nahas’ Wafdist government. Riot leaders, working from check lists of establishments marked for destruction, ran up

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‘a total of perhaps $150 million damage before

military control was established. Apart from evident massacre of about 10 British subjects in the downtown Turf Club, there were few attacks on foreigners. : Most of the damage was done to Egyptian property. British losses are estimated at not more than $15 million. . The nicest thing that could be said about Cairo police during the disorders is that they maintained easy-going neutrality. By seizing on the popular aspiration of Egyptian nationalism-—which was ‘not a Wafdist monopoly—and breaking treaties with -Britain

‘GAD’ .

WASHINGTON, Feb, 13 You ever hear of Halogeton, the Russian botanical warfare development? That could threaten us with starvation? That we're spending millions to fight? Gad! Looks like it's one thing after another with those Russkies, This Halogeton, in any event, is a poison weed from the land of the Soviet and already it has spread over 1.500,000 of our western acres, © killing most of the animals that nibble it. . Nobody's charging that Communist agents are sprinkling Halogeton, seed where it will do the most good, or even, that they brought it over here inthe first place. But here it “is and Halogeton does a superb job of distributing itself. » A = ' MARION CLAWSON, direc. “tor of the Interior De ment's Land Management, estimated that one Halogeton

seeds, Bo 8 would say millions,” said Royale Pierson, his deputy in ~ charge , of soil management, ‘he whole plant literally .

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last October, the Wafdists forestalled aridbther corruption crisis and their likely dismissal under the King's constitutional powers,

Anti-British Sentiment

WAFD RODE the great wave of anti-British sentiment which is the common denominator of all articulate Egyptians. Farouk could not have breasted this current if he had wished. He shared Egypt's national hope naturally enough but disapproved the Wafdists use of it

“for political cover.

_Wafdist idealists, with dreamy ideas of Egyptian Empire and Islamic renaissance, made common cause with Communists, National Socialists or Fascists, and hothead® of Moslem Brotherhood bent on purification of the faith. Ordinary hoodlums also mixed in. Underlying the whole range of human motives was Egvpt's social and economie unrest which fills the great gulf between the wealth of a few and the poverty of many. A sense of protest and a growing inclination to do something about these inequities is present in the mass of 20 million Egyptians. Any move by Farouk to dismiss the Wafdists and to install a more moderate cabinet that might have compromised with Britain was considered, up to Jan. 28, as virtually suicidal. It's quite likely riots were plotted to complete his futility.

Uneasy Peace

WITH his critical show of strength at the last possible moment, King Farouk brought uneasy peace to Cairo. The new government is showing signs of readiness to negotiate with Britain and to join.a four power Middle East defense alliance. If that goes through, all Arab states may be expected to follow suit. Whether Premier Aly Maher Pasha can do it with any semblance of national unity is a question. His chances of popular success rest largely with the British. The British seem tending toward recognition of absolute Egyptian sovereignty in the Canal Zone, with the possibility of British evacuation in return for a Middle East defense arrangement and a plebiscite of some kind in the Sudan to determine Sudanese relations with Britain and Egypt.

What Others Say—

LIKE an emetic (abstract artists) purged us of a great deal of silly 18th Century sentiment , . . revealed the permanent bones benefith the perishable flesh. Yet the.perishable flesh will assert itself again. The body can be purified by an emetic, but it can’t be nourished by it.—Eric Newton, British art critic.

WE Americans; must realize that the free Fast and the free West are not going to join hands to presérve our common freedom unless our hand is a hand of. fellowship which clasps the hand of the: Oriental as that of an equal.— John Foster Dulles, adviser to the State Dept.

HEADLINE: Bogus U. 8. Money Is Common Abroad. And good money 3 getting practically worthless here.

NOBODY expects Sen. Taft to run his campaign on a shoestring, but he could do without those old Christmas neckties,

. By Frederick C. Othman Russia Puts the Halogeton on Parade

within a few . hours when they began foraging on an infested field. The herders didn’t even know that the plant was a killer. Trying to kill it is something else, Burn it with gasoline flame throwers and nothing whatever happens. stalks and the leaves contain’ up to 20 percent of sodium and potassium salts of oxalic acid and hence are practically fireproof. It takes propane guns developing up to 3000 ‘degrees temperature literally to melt the plants to the ground. “You can pull up a plant: in bloom,” continued Mr. Pierson, “put it in your car trunk and a few weeks later you find a mature

mowers, motorists and even railroad trains have carried the seeds into wide: areas of * Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The resultant plants do the rest, exploding new seed in all directions,

Halogeton looks a little like Russjan thistle. © Each small leaf has a sharp spine at its end. The foliage is so toxic that Clawson,’ Pierson and Co. have, put exhibits, into sealed packages to’ display to farmers through: cellophane; they're taking no chances of dropping a single seed" by mis-

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‘Fair Deal Dirt’

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And now comes a letter in the Forum by Harry Gasper who seems to be one of the top riders of the Fair Deal outfit in Indiana and he makes it quite plain .that he thinks’ Andy’ Jacobs is a political maverick that does not wear the Fair Deal party brand and has no rights whatever as a Democrat squatter in Indiana politics. 1 think you will find the feud is ‘over the carcass of the Empire Tractor Co, whish McKinney and McHale failed to get buried deep enbugh over a-year ago, It seems that the two political Mac's and their friends took all the meat and salted it away for their own use and the palitical stench from. the skeleton of the carcass was so rank with corruption that Andy just couldn't stomach it. However, Andy has always done all right hy himself by being a great friend of labor. In one Instance alone, he collected a nice little fee of $65.000 which he probably would never have been able to have got if Roosevelt hadn't rounded up labor and put it in his own political corralg and promised ‘to clear everything with Sidney” in order to be elected President for a third ‘term. Nevertheless; while Andy charged plenty, he probably earned his fee honestly and fairly and the only moral is that it pays better to Be a friend of labor these days than to be a friend of some corporation that is on the level, However, every/day brings further exposures of corruption in government and the question is. when men like Andy who are honest, personally, are going to realize that the Fair Deal ers are never going to wash their own dirty linen, the only way it will ever be done is by electing an honest to goodness Republican. & —C. D. C., Terre Haute,

‘The Fur Business’ .

MR. EDITOR:

It seems our leaders persist jn aiding the fur business. Since “the mink coat episode couldn’t push it enough, we now have the coonskin cap prank. Td like to believe the mink fitted a bit, It fs an expensive fur breathing for refinement, gentlemen and ladies. We don't seem to have - many for leaders these days. Possibly the coon fur dees. It fs an an{mal that runs after dark, and has to be discovered then. ‘There sure is plenty of darkness cover ing the doings of our leaders. I am sure the squirrel isn't in it. He saves, One can't say .that our government considers much saving. Then we have the rabbit; he runs in fear of his life. He is a goodly one when the gun connects. I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser if some of our top leaders carried a little fear of God and man. Last, but not least, we have the lowly skunk, Doesn't it fit them ‘well? What a stink arises when we stir amongst our leaders.

—Josephiue Buck, Westfield

‘Who's to Blame’

MR. EDETOR: . . My son purchased a ticket at high school for the Attucks-Cathedral game last night (Feb. 6). I drove him to Tech and witnessed the riot there. It is out of incidents such as . this that serious race trouble starts. The gym should have been cleared until all ticket holders were admitted, Are our school administrators such poor planners that they cannot handle a small matter like this? Why was ‘such a game held at Tech? How about the fieldhouse which was dark? I see by the paper that ‘gate crashers” were to blame, Who admitted the =o called “gate crashers”? Why were they not removedf It is my opinion that the authorities simply gold too many seats and are blaming “crashers.” All of those I saw, who were refused admission, had proper tickets and did not get to see the game. The school authorities have only themselves to blame for this bad situation,

%n . —Thomas L. Swannington, City

‘Lincoln Ideals’

MR. EDITOR:

Let's relive the ideals of Abraham Lincoln. The month of February again reminds me of the life of Abraham Lincoln. Fach individual should. study the ideas of Lincoln and revive their influence in their own lives and if each one were to do this we would see the results in the nation, at large. : Lincoln was a great humanitarian, truly a friend of his fellow man. He was interested ii their needs and in the development of the dignity as free human beings. At the same time he championed national unity and the sanctity of law as a means of keeping people living and working together. These ideals are on trial in our day. Are people encouraging in themselves and their children the moral strength to serve God and their fellow men in order to keep order and control progress? Let's each of ‘us ask ourselves this question and then figure the results,

—Mrs. B. E.- Hutchens, Sheridan

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‘Andy and Syrup’ MR. EDITOR:

After reading a letter in your Forum of Feb. T concerning Andy and his pipe, I noticed the writer left ouf one thing. Andy also had a bout with Hadacol. He said it was made of soothing syrup and rain water, I guess, him being’a Northerner, he doesn’t like good southern syrup. —Byron Hightower, City.

seed produced just from the moisture in the plant.” Rep. Ben F,. Jensen (R. Iowa) sighed. “It would be a very fine thing to sabotage your enemy with,” he observed. The experts agreed. They - Said that 2-4-D, the synthetic hormone that causes weeds to grow so fast ‘they burn themselves out, does a good job killing Halogetofi., But that only stops the growth above “ground.

wun ’ ANOTHER thing that works reasonably well is the planting of grested wheat. It tends to crowd out the Halogeton, Only ‘trouble is that this spe« cial ‘wheat won't grow in exe tremely dry land, where Halo- @ geton thrives. The Halogeton fighters got. $2 million to catry on the war last year. They wanted an- - other $2 million this year, but

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