Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1952 — Page 14

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Indiana Central College

—An Indianapolis Asset OR UPWARD of 50 years Indiana Central College has been quietly doing a magnificent job in education here in Indianapolis. It has trained hundreds of young men and women i Who have become valuable citizens of this community, am of ‘a great many neighboring communities. It has maintained a high academic standard, which today is at the highest level in its history. It has-expanded and modernized its physical equipment, so far as limited finances would permit, to, provide facilities for a steadily increasing student body. - Throughout it has held to Christian principles as a cornerstone of academic life. Originally its students came from all over Indiana and several adjacent states. Many .of them still do. But more .and more; over the years, Indianapolis young men and young women have turned to Indiana Central for their college education, until today a geod half of its more than 600 students come from homes right here in our own city.

n » : a # - THE EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH, with which it is affiliated, is not a very large, nor an unusually wealthy denomination, and the college is not blessed with any extraordinary proportion of rich alumni.

financial support since its doors first were opened in 1904. They, with many an unsung sacrifice, have made possible the tremendous contribution this college has made, and continues to make, to this city. Now, for the first time, Indiana Central is asking the people of Indianapolis to share jh its future.

body of students—of whom an increasing number are Indianapolis. students—and to provide them the kind of education modern times require. The funds Indianapolis now is asked to invest will go directly into those buildings, to remain as a permanent investment in Indiana Central and in the community of which it has become so integral a part. They will enable Indiana Central to do better its task of serving Indianapolis. This is an appeal this city should answer—gladly.

The French Filibuster

RANCE HAS approved the general idea of a united western European army, provided German recruiting is delayed until the whole plan has been approved and goes into effect. The plan to merge the French and German forces with those of Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg was a French idea in the first place—advanced as an alternative to an indepeiident German army which might become a threat to France. Now the way the French are backing away from their own proposal indicates they want the whole project indefinitely postponed. “The whole plan” cannot go into effect until it has been reduced to treaty form and then ratified by each participating country. Thus France itself can hold the whole program in abeyance simply by withholding its own ratification. However, that may not be necessary since France's tentative approval includes certain other conditions to which the Germans are certain to object. As though all of this were not enough to kill the whole project, another joker has been tossed in for good measure. ‘That is the French demand that the United States and Britain guarantee the “unity” of a European army by keeping their troops in Europe “as long as seems neces-

a Russian attack on France and Germany until those countries are in a position to defend themselves. Then our troops are to be withdrawn. Now France is asking that these troops be kept in Europe indefinitely as insurance that the German troops will not attack her.

OBVIOUSLY. THE United States * cannot agree to anything like this. We have enough to do as it is, with the Russian problem on our hands, without accepting the additional assignment of acting as policeman between France and Germany, Greece and Turkey have buried their long-time enmity and are working together because of the common danger. If the French are so preoccupied by the old German problem that the immediate Russian’ threat is of no concern to them, the other nations confronted by the Soviet menace appear to have gne of two alternatives. . Either they can work with the Germans, to the exclusion of France, or they can abandon the idea of defending -either France of ‘Germany on the ground and rely upon air and sea power to counter the threatened aggression. Whatever the plan, it should be delayed no longer, because there may be no time to spare.

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; U* TO NOW, President NO high anger over the scandals in his administration has Jed mainly to confusion, . so far as any self-initiated cleanup is concerned. ‘Mr. Truman, whose ire over the scandals was so explosively expressed early in December, has just asked Congress to grant special powers to his investigator, Newbold ~* Morris. These are powers Mr, Morris at first said he didn't ul ~The President asks that Mr. Morris be authorized to subpena witnesses and records and to administer oaths. Without such pewers, the investigator is hamstrung, and they should be granted. . ~~ But Mr. Truman also wants to give him power to grant immunity from prosecution to witnesses who, in effect, state's evidence. That is a dangerous power, ores to abuse—or serious error—even with the best of A pe.

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EUROPE .

. By R. H. Shiodkiord

U. S. Has Heavy Bets On Lisbon Conference And Big 3 Session

EDITOR'S NOTE: R. H. Shackford, former European news manager for the United Press, is now European correspondent for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. In this, his first dispatch since taking over his new position, Mr, Shackford points up the European crisis and relates It to the American political situation. " 8 3

LONDON, Feb. 19—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s political future, President Truman's foreign policy and effective European defense against communism are at stake in this week's Allied conference in Lisbon and the Big Three's preliminary sessions here now,

The key is German rearmament. At best

this will not be a reality for many months—"

certainly not this spring, as hoped. During the two weeks the world mourned the death of King George VI, the bottom seems

to have dropped out of the diplomats” bést laid plans for Allied defense. What was to have been a decisive conference of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at Lisbon now appears doomed to half-measures or less, Like the French politicians in the Chamber

"of. Deputies, Allied diplomats: meeting here and

in Lisbon may finagle compromises and highsounding communiques giving the illusion of important achievements, But whatever “agreements” are announced probably will stem more from partial acquiescence than from wholehearted co-operation. Danger flags are flying all over Western Europe. Week-end napers in every capital screamed: ‘‘C¥isis.” That is an accurate description of the angry disagreement between France and Germany— and even among France, Britain and the United States—over German rearmament.

If He Ain't Running He'd Better Start

LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins

WSB Debates Union Membership

WASHINGTON, Feb, 19—Whether compulsory membership in labor unions should be prompted by government orders is becoming a hot subject in the Wage Stabilization Board. The board, which has power to recommend settlements in management-labor disputes, ‘must face the question soon in the steel controversy and in important. cases from other ‘Industries. Chairman Nathan Feinsinger has said that the Wage Board will not dodge the issue and has indicated a disposition to rule definitely on the demands of the CIO United Steelworkers and other unions for the “union shop.” Present law permits unions to negotiate with management for that arrangement, under which all employees must become union members within a specified period.

Management Protest i.

MR. FEINSINGER'S statement has caused protest among management spokesmen——for one reason because the War Labor Board of World War II wrestled with the same problem and finally came up with a less stringent solution, the maintenance-of-membership policy. It required all members of a union to maintain their good standing during the life of a labor contract, ‘‘escape” provisions permitted them to withdraw at efther the beginning or end of a contract, = The siainteiance-of-membership plan is still used, mainly in the mass-production industries where the bargaining agents are CIO unions. They are striving to change it into the union shop, which has had a great growth in other industries since the Taft-Hartley Law legalized it while outlawing the more stringent closed shop: The main difference is that under the union shop non-union men may. be hired, although later they must become union members. In the steel case, the companies have argued that government power would ‘be abused by a requirement that all steel workers must join the union, and also that the steel union was already so powerful it needed no further help for security. Congress recently amended’ the TaftHartley Law to remoye the need for elections among employees before their unions could negotiate for a union shop. Experience had shown

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that the elections were expensive and useless. The unions won by big majorities in 97 per cent of the cases, However, the National Labor Relations Board will hold an election if 30 per cent of the employees ask for it, and will remove the union shop privilege if a majority votes against it. Also, the. union must still get the employer to agree to a union shop. It's that provision which management spokesmen don’t want the Wage Board to weaken with recommendations that employers might be forced to accept.

HOOSIER FORUM—'Still Mistakes

MR. EDITOR: In my opinion, I don’t think Sen. John Van Ness and his GOP (grand old peepers) have accomplished very much in passing the welfare secrecy law. Have they found a $100,000 worth of chiselers in this state? I don’t think they have if they will count the old people who have died in this state and have been legally getting their old age assistance and the children who have become 18 years old and have been taken off the welfare records. . I think they have made a mistake and they know they have and for political reasons they will not-admit it. Not now anyway. I think the only ones that got any good out of the secrecy welfare law were themselves; the men who passed that law and got $100,000 off the taxpayers. I may be wrong, but are they right? Well, let the public be the judge this election year and somebody is going to pay for their mistakes. Who will it be? —Charles Bell, Cambridge City.

‘Other People’s Kids’

MR. EDITOR:

Ld Regarding letter in the Hoosier Forum grip-

ing about taxes: The writer said he gets mighty tired of payinga more and more for so-called education. for other people's kids. I don't see. as anyone is paying for other people’s kids. But other peo-

WHAT'S WHAT

Big Shots,

WASHINGTON, Feb, 19 — Time has come to congider the three gents with savvy who put up $400 per each to establish a shipping corporation. Then they sold almost $100,000 worth of stock to a number’ of big-shots, who khew a good thing when they saw it. Next they borrowed $9,705,000 from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. to buy eight oil tankers from the U. 8. government. Five of these they leased - for a while to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey for enough to pay off the loan installments. And finally: They sold their tankers to a Greek syndicate and a Chinese outfit for a net profit of $3250,000, which is not hay, and sometimes I think I am a stupe for not having a few corporations of my own in my vest pocket, Of course,-nobody’s in vestigating me and I'm not _spending sleepless nights worrying about defending myself. Maybe it all’evens up. As of now, the Maritime Ad-

- somebody used the old snickersnee in part of the incredibly involved transactions; the Justice Department is investigat-

ing. So is the United States

* Senate. Let ug, therefore, join Sen. Er (D. N.C)

The Truman administration and Gen. Eisenhower have prodded, pressured”and pushed the Allies for 18 months to bring West Germany into the NATO preparedness system. Otherwise, the General warns, Europe cannot be effectively defended. But the past’ two weeks have uncovered these hard facts: The German people will not rearm and help NATO except on their own terms, and many don't want to rearm at any price. German bargaining power increases daily. The French people will not agree to allow German troops on any terms acceptable to the haughty Germans. The French still distrust and fear the former invader. The Bonn Parliament approved a plan for German participation—with France, Italy, Belglum, Holland and Luxembourg—in a single European army under NATO, but attached reservations which the French reject. The Paris Parliament-in-turn-is-expected to put-conditions on any approval to proceed with negotiations for a European army. LE IN THE debate preceding today’s vote, an Incident occurred which. was more eloquent of French feeling than all the long speeches. Deputy (foorges Heuillard was helped to the rostrum by two ushers. He told the hushed chamber he was about to .die—from illness caused by neglect and mistreatment in German concentration camps. :

Every deputy—from Communists on the left to Gaullists on the right, and government supporters of the center—stood and cheered when Heuillard shouted: “Never must my sons serve side by -side with their father’s tormentors.”

DECISION . .

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Big Three Foreign MinisterssDean Acheson, Anthony Eden and Robert Schuman in theip meeting here are trying to find a way out of that French-German deadlock before the full NATO conference opens in Lisbon tomorrow, They spent all day Sunday discussing the crisis, Yesterday they were joined by “the old fox of Bonn,” Konrad Adenauer—foreign minister as well as chancellor of the West German Republic, Consequences of these London talks, of the French Chamber's vote today, and of the Lisbon sessions will be global. Nowhere are the effects likely to be®more far-reaching than in America. If President Truman's European policy is thwarted By Europeans, thi# will be an em. barrassing issue for the Democratic Party, whether he runs for re-election or not.

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‘GEN. EISENHOWER is as completely com..mitted as the President to a separate European

army under NATO, to German rearmament and to European unity, While the General's political advisers warn him that his chances for the

Republican nomination wane with each week:

he remains away from the United States, as NATO commander he can’t abandon it in crisis, Yet no presidential aspirant wants to be associated with a failure or near-faijlure—especially when it is the ‘major policy ‘of the opposite party. Congress soon will start hearings on the In an election year it will not be keen to vote more billions for European defense if Europeans themselves cannot agree on full co-operation. The wrangling European governments are very much aware of this.

. By Ludwell Denny

Time Is Running Short for Iran

‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 19--Premier Mohammed Mossadegh today will get his best, and

. perhaps last, chance to recover oil revenues

before Iran goes broke. The second unsuccessful mission of the World Bank has delayed departure from the country, on the plea of the Iranian Parliament, to renew its offer to operate the industry as trustee until Mossadegh and the dispossessed British company can settle their dispute. Reports from Tehran are not promising. He objects to sharing authority with the bank or profits-with the company. In holding out for confiscatory terms, the premier apparently does not realize that time is running against him and that his bargaining position grows weaker. He is obsessed with the idea that the world cannot get along without Iranian oil. He thinks he can write his’ own ticket if he holds out long enough. He is ericouraged in this unrelenting attitude by favorable results in the continuing national elections. He is discouraged from any moderation by the attempted assassination last week of his chief oil official, Dr. Hossein Fatemi, by the same Nationalist religious sect which murdered

Mossadegh

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the last Premier. And he knows that shutdown

of the Iranian industry has created a shortage of bunker fuel and interfered with shipping.

. Nevertheless, the over-all international trend is definitely against Mossadegh and his policy. And for these reasons: Increased oil profiuction and refinery capacity in other countries are making up for Iranian losses of 30 million tons a year, and will continue to do so increasingly. As a result, the competitive situation will be far less favorable to the Iranian product than formerly even if Mossadegh ‘accepts the world bank's offer to revive that industry. Neighboring countries, which have jumped production and are rolling in larger royalties, would be just as well pleased if the Iranian industry remained closed. This is creating an acute diplomatic problem for the United States and Great Britain. €an Western powers afford

ple’s kids have to go fight for all of us and give their lives, The ones who are not killed are in bad health when they come home. It seems to nfe these boys deserve to get big money for what they have done for us. The writer gripes about taxes being paid to send these boys to school. Maybe he and the other

people who think the same way ‘would like to"

be put up in the front line and be shot at like rabbits. They would change their minds if they had to go over there in Korea and fight in the mud and snow. —Times Reader, City.

‘Russian Baseball’ ‘MR. EDITOR: ;

See where the Russians have now invented

baseball. Well, it's a good game and frankly, I doubt that the Russians could even come near understanding It. It deals.with things that we call sportsman-

ship and fair play..If it was a Russian game it -

probably would go something like this. A member of the team opposing the one Joe backs, hits

' a home run. He starts rounding the bases. Before

he hits third base, he’s shot in the back of the head by the umpire. His teammates wonder why. The umpire tells them he was guilty of wasting state produced material, He hit the ball over the fence and it was lost. Everybody denounces the

to alienate several Arab governments in order to buy the fickle friendship of the Tehran Nationalist regime?

Tehran Blackmail

TERMS granted to Mossadegh will have to be extended, in one form or another, to most

of the oil producing lands of the Middle Fast

which dampens any Western incentive to pay Tehran blackmail. Only last week ratification of a profitable new oil contract for neighboring Iraq was held up by Nationalist demands for

* ‘a bigger take, This despite the fact that the

Bagdad government's agreement with the American-British-Dutch-French company provides for equal division of profits, which would net Iraq about $42 million a year. Finally, some American interests are oppos-. ing any compromise with Mossadegh which might encourage expropriation elsewhere. Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, even challenges the authority of the World Bank to accept temporary control of Iranian ofl if Mossadegh is willing. Under these circumstances the terms offered Mossadegh today are likely to be the best he will get. The alternative is mounting Iranian chaos, from which only Stalin's waiting Tudeh Party can profit. .

Views on the News By DAN KIDNEY

THERE doesn’t have to be two sides to a question to bring about debate. United Nations Korean truce delegates have agreed to argue

Union is neutral. Tidy i, A HOUSE committee asks the death penalty for pgacetime espionage. They must be expecting peace to break out soon.

o oH Sen. Byrd . HOW WE ARE DOING— the bird? The U. 8. A. leads the world * in sleeping pills and alarm clocks.

in Welfare’

player, the umpire blows the smoke out of his gun and the game goes on, That would appeal more * the efficient Russian mind. See where the Russians are now picking up letters to the editors and reprinting them with a few Soviet twists. They make it sound like the American masses are wanting peace at any cost and are in total agreement with the Russian policies. Wonder how much good this will do the Reds. —Anti-Red, City.

‘Increased Fares’. MR. EDITOR: Please allow me to add my bit to the discussion of increased fares on our transit lines, I think the company is making a serious mistake when it asks for an increased fare and leaves the transfer charge the same. It costs Just as much for the company to pick up, haul and discharge a passenger on a transfer as on a cash fare. The company contends it should have more suburban lines; yet these riders do not ride as far as others do in the city on a transfer. I think it would be much more fair to leave the token charge as is and hike the charge of transfers to @ay five cents or discontinue transfers and lower cash fares to a dime. I might add, I Fide on a transfer five days

-a week.

—Buhrman s. Miller, 5255 E. 21st. St.

. . By Frederick C. Othman

Big Ships and Big Deals Probed

how to make a fortune by los-

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. Bull Halsey and the late Ed-

whether or not the Soviet

mfhistration thinks maybe

ing money. That, exactly, is what happened: . Joe Casey, the handsome exCongressman from Washington; Julius Holmes, one of our diplomats now in London, and one E. Stanley Klein chipped in the original $1200 in 1947 to

organize the American Over.

seas Tanker Corp. of Delaware, They put in a bid immediately for the ocean-going. oil freighters of - the Maritime Commission, made a deal to lease same to Standard Oil,

and began looking around for

a Panama corporation to fén-

- dle this business on a. tax-free

basis.

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in New York who just happened ‘to have such a corporation in his pocket. ‘Fhis was the Greenwich Marine Corp, of Panama City, which existed only on paper, but was a handy thi nonetheless, Messrs, Caséy, Holmes and Klein paid $600 for Greenwich Marine. Then American Overseas leased five of its tankers to Greenwich which in turn rented them to Panama Transport Corp. a subsidiary of Stardard. y All this happened before the government delivered any ships. About this time American Overseas sold stock to numerous investors, like Adm. hi > Tea

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ward Stettinius, one-time Secretary of State. So finally, early in 1948, the government delivered the ships to American Overseas, which chartered them to Greenwich Marine, which rented them to Panama Trans. port. And Standard Oil paid charter hire of $2,191,305 ie the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which put up the cash to buy the boats. American Oveaseas paid no income taxes, because it was losing money heavily on ships which were returning no profits, Greenwich Marine paid no taxes, either,. because it was doing business in the tropics. - Standard Oil was getting use of the tankers; Metropolitan

Life was getting its money §

back, plus interest. It looked - like a ideal where everybody won. Or did, until the Senate became interested.

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