Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1952 — Page 8

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‘Socialists Don't Like Us

/PHOSE WHO regard American and British understanding

and co-operation as a bulwark of the free world must be profouridly disturbed bythe pronounced hostility .of the British Socialists toward the U. 8. since the election of the Churchill government. ; ‘An. occasional display of antipathy toward ‘Americans by individual Englishmen is to be expected. There are plenty of people in this country who twist the lion's. tail at every opportunity. But when a great political party in a friendly country appears tb be adopting anti-Americanism as'a tenet, it cannot be lightly dismissed. : _ The Socialists ruled Britain from 1945 until late last year. The most cordial relations were maintained between - Britain and the U.S. throughout that period. Loans and grants extended to Britain during that time amounted to ‘more than $7.4 billion, showing our sincere concern for that country’s well being. Now the very persons through whom these transactions were made appear to have turned

against us. “ . » ~ . ~

‘CLEMENT ATTLEE'S recent references to this country have been almost as unfriendly as those of Aneurin Bevan, from whom nothing more was to have been ex- . pected. Such hypocrisy in one who pretended to be a " friend, and particularly in a man who has held such ex-

alted station, must be attributed to Marxism because it:

certainly is un-English. Apparently a real Marxist just . cannot be truly sympathetic: with a country like ours, which operates on the free enterprise principle. ; Thus the overtures the British Socialists are” making to the French Socialists for an international alliance must be regarded with some concern, for a reborn Socialist international very obviously would not be friendly to the U. 8. It may indeed he intended to serve as that muchdiscussed bridge between British socialism and the Soviet " Union. ;

The Grain Blight

ONE THING about Secretary of Agriculture Brannan—he knows when he's been caught off base. And admits it. The Secretary has just put out a statement intended to “explain” the grain storage scandals. He starts out by ‘saying it isn’t his aim to “minimize” them, or excuse any wrong-doing. And he hopes to gain “much profit” from the investigations now under way. re . Mr. Brannan, however, thinks there has been too much “misunderstanding” about this situation. . But there can be no “misunderstanding” about one thing—five or six or seven million dollars’ worth of govern-ment-owned grain has disappeared. Mr. Brannan thinks

this will be pared down to only a million. dollars’ worth -

vhen the lawsuits are ended. " That, he says, is only one one-hundredth of one per ent of the $10 billion’ worth of grain the government has itored. in the last three years. But it’s still a million dollars.

And when a million dollars of taxpayers’ money has

sone astray, somebody ought to be jacked up for it. If, 18 Mr. Brannan seems to suggest, the system is to blame, the system ought to be changed. Or, perhaps even better, the government ought to get out of the grain business.

Tunisian Home Rule HE ANNOUNCEMENT that the French government has accepted the principle of self-government for Tunisia is an important development, if it means that France is prepared to satisfy, the legitimate aspirations of the Tunisian people. The suspicion that this may not be the case is prompted hy the explanation that a plan.must be worked out to let the Tunisians take over their own internal affairs gradually. Some such promise was made when France assumed

a protectorate over Tunisia in 1881. Little has been done

since that time to develop a home rule program. France is in a conciliatory mood at the moment becaus

the Arab states are at the point of taking the Tunisian .

issue before the United Nations. If the Arab bloc proceeds

with this plan without reference to the rather vague ’

I'rench assurances of limited and gradual self-government, it should be supported. Until this question is settled, and -settled right, it will. contribute to the mounting unrest disturbing the whole North African region. : Wars develop out of such situations. The Western world does not ‘want a’war@vished upon it by French afforts to maintain a decadent colonial system in a country which wants a government of, by and for its own people.

3argain of the Year : (CONGRESSMAN Peter Mack of Illinois, just back from a

round-the-world goodwill tour, finds that the trip cost

$8000—whereas his advance estimate was $15,000. ‘This is probably theJfirst time anyone in the governnent ever did anything that ended up costing less than t was supposed to cost, ... > : . i'Let's give the man a medal. Maybe two medals, be“use Hg ap did not cost the government a cent. He paid or it himself.

Hawaii Is Ready, Too

STATEHOOD for Hawaii deserves to be voted on in the Senate now, despite the fact that the Senate by one vote 'ecided to postpone Alaskan statehood. ;

Probably the Hawaii bill would pass, if only because en. Robert A. Taft, the Republican leader and an opponent f Alaska statehood, has promised to support it strongly. ‘he pro-Alaska Democrats say they are equally pro-Hawaii. -. We believe that both Alaska'and Hawaii deserve stateood now. But it would be a great deal better to admit one nd let the other wait, than to leave them both outside the ‘nion. for even one more year. They have waited too many ‘ears already. . aia ie er \ ’

~ WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—8en. Richard B. Russell's ‘entry into the Demdgcratic presidential

stakes yesterday signaled Dixie's most formid- -: Saturday, Mar 121952 able challengé to. the New Deal-Fair Deal. - . ’ ko ’ * -

Dick Russell is the man Southern political

‘leaders, almost without exception; have wanted .

as their standard bearer, = i The Georgia Senator's announcement that his name would be placed in nomination in Chicago gives the South a place to go polifically

: and with only a few exceptions it will go to Mr.

Russell at the Democratic National. Convention. , . o>. N° SEN. RUSSELL stresed his lifelong adherence (0 the Doncratie Party and observed. that he supported President Truman in 1948-—but. he left the door open to head a third party movement if circumstances call for it. ; He did this by saying he did not place party over country and would oppose any Democrat he ‘believed injurious to the country.

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In 1948, Sen. Russell didn't even go to the Democratic National Convention ‘at Philadelphia,’ was reluctant to have his name placed in nomination. Yet he received the South's 263 votes. ' It would have been 255 if Mississippi hadn't walked out of the convention. : ’z bp WB ? . BUT Mr. Russell isn’t merely a candidate of the South tue way 1s open for an active cam-. paign for delegates elsewhere. He said Thursday he doubted President Truman would seek re-election. There were some who saw this as a stratagem to get some kind of declaration from the President. . : It Mr. Truman does not run—the odds-have_ seemed the other way recently-—the Democratic Party nomination will be wide open. Mr. Russeil's friends want him to be in position, as an avowed candidate, to take advantage of all possible happenings. win 2 It's generally conceded that if Mr. Truman

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HOOSIER FORUM—*‘Truman’_

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

MR. EDITOR: Truman and his advisers took another look at the New Hampshire primaries and backed in again after backing out. he can win over Sen. Estes Kefauver because a big per cent of the Democrats in New Hampshire are. Catholics and the President has been pushing his idea of sending another ambassador -from our government to the Vatican against strong opposition.

I am a Protestant but I believe Catholics will vote for the welfare of our country and

for a man who has shown that he believes in

. fighting crime and against a man who has nearly let crime push him out of the White House and cannot fight-crime without hurting his friends. In this instance I believe Catholics will a for the welfare of their country and against crime.

-—Ray 'B, Hinchmgn, City.

‘Congratulations’ MR: EDITOR: My compliments to your paper for publishIng Emma Rivers Miiner’'s story revealing that a number of Indianapolis Protestant churches admit they draw racial lines. And one complaint . . Why were not the names of those churches which admit such. an un-Christian practice nublished? : As d& Caucasian who. thinks a hypocrite worse than an atheist, I would like to know which churches “talk Christianity and practice ‘ust the opposite. Just in case I support any of those I'd like to withdraw my support.

I'd -also like to suggest that any church which admits its doors are barred to any hu-

— bs Vail a

T.M. Reg. U. 8 Pat On’ Capr. 1952 by NEA Service, inal

"Remember now, let's not talk about the nut and bolt business “tonight! Did you ever finish that art book | gave ws ‘you for Christmas?" :

Mr. Truman believes

man because-of race or color no longer quali®fies as a proper religious institution and should . be denied tax exemption it énjoys as such. : : —A Reader, City.

Lenten Meditation Jesus Answers Our Questions About Sin IIT 1?

Judas, who betrayed Him, said, Is it 1, Master? ‘He said to him, You have said so. Matthew 26:25. Read verses 20:25, How often, deep in our hearts, we might ask, “Jesus, , have | betrayed you? By my lukewarm faith, by my compromises, by my seeking to get instead of seeking to share, by my neglect of worship, by my turning back when the Christian way gets hard. Is it 1, Jesus?” The answer we get from Jesus is pointed as an arrow, “You have said it.” Judas knew it all too well. By every day's decisions, by every word we say, by every action, every motive, every thought, we answer the question, Is it I? God knows the answer just as Jesus knew the answer for Judas, but we have answered first, Still as of old . Men by themselves are priced— + Jor, thirty pieces Judas sold Himself, not Christ.*

One morning Bill drove his load of hay up to the scale ond then, instead of getting off the platform, he slyly stood on the platform, out of sight of the weigher; he thought. His weight added twenty-one cents to the price he got for the hay. But as he drove off the weigher called. ' ofter him, "Bill, you sold yourself for twenty-one cents: this morning.”

Let Us Pray: Change our. thinking, O God, when we forget that by betraying thee, we hove betrayed ourselves more. Nothing we can do shall stain thy name, but will - make or break our own. In Jesus’ name. Amen. *“Betrayal’ by Hester H. Cholmondeley,’

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith : ny ui

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—The House Appropriations Committee, which doles- out the billions, issued today the fourth . installment of its hearings on the Interior Department, run-

volume largely has to do with what the irreverent call pork“barrel projects. \ .

Stuff like dams, harbors, new beds for rivers, bigger elevators for the Carlsbad Caverns, better. national parks, stepladders for fish and no telling what all else. So, as I say, along comes Volume IV, Much of it is devoted to the statements of Congressmen, including a few Senators, who have made speeches about the necessity of “strict economy in our government. Only now they're demanding more money, instead of less, for pet projects in their home-town districts. Some of” 'em even want multi-million« dollar enterprises that the Ine terior Department and its Bu-

“turned down. reaticrat§, say théy, and spend “the money. Yn :

. ” ~ . * . SOAS I leafed through this document, t to thinking - that maybe some of our Congressmen are mere men, after all. I'll not bore you, or em-

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Tough Challenge In Russell Entry

"runs again, he is certain to be renominated. If

the Democratic platform contains substantially ‘the same. strong civil rights plank as in 1948, the South's leaders then will face the question

-of whether to organize a third party. a.

A factor would be the Republican nominee. The GOP convention comes- before the Democrat convention. If it appears that Mr. Truman could beat the Republican nominee, that would argue for a third party ‘movement. Southern political leacers have said generally that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would run strongly in the South’ either as a Republican or as 4& nominee

of afl anti-Truman Democratic Party organized ° 5

én a state-to-state hasis. : oD

THE RUSSELL announcement made certain ™

that, regardless or whether President Truman runs, the Chicago Democratic Convention will not be cut and dried. Virtually no one believes Mr. Russell could get the nomination if Mr.

Truman is a candidate, hut the battle can be

furious. < . There was some speculation. here that Mr. Russell's announcement might be bad news for Sen.’ Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), an announced Democratic candidate, and that it might also throttle down the: Eisenhower talk. : But the facts seem to be that Mr. Kefauver hasn't. much; support in the old conservative South. There are some who say he is too liberal. Mr. Kefauyer professed to take the Russell candidacy in all good spirit and said, in effect; the more candidatés the merrier. Mr. Russell indicated he would not cam-

paign for the .nomjnation—that his work as Séhate “Armed ‘Services Committee chairman and as Agriculture Appropriations Subcommite tee chairman would keep him occupied. But few men: in Congress are more widely respected or « liked, and missionary work by his friends isn't out of the question, ’ . or dae a > > THE CIVIL rights issue is the one to be used most against Mr. Russell optside the South. He

made it plain Thursday that he is net retreate’

ing an inch from the traditional Southern posie tion: he has supported by his vote in the past— to a question he replied that what often were ‘called “civil: rights’ he regarded as “civil wrongs.” : Spy . He expressed the hope that the nation’s poe litical * future would. not be settled on such questions but on issues on which the country needs to be united—such as the hope to avoid a third world war. - Without suggesting names, he remarked that “no honest candidate for public office in these times can consider the tempting prospect of promising all things to all men.”: But he took a cut at recent frequent disclosures of corruption in government with the movement: » . “The very foundatioh stone of popular govs

ernment-ig the confidence of the people in their

public servants. Fraud, corruption apd divided loyalties cannot be. tolerated "in positions of trust and confidence.” : He called himself a “Jeffersonian Democrat” and opposed concentration. of power in Washington. : <

ENGLAND . . . By Ludwell Denny

Who Will Control Labor Party?

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—The current fight over British foreign policy is really a struggle to control the Labor Party. Attacks on alleged American war-mongering, and attempts at parliamentary censure of Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his -American co-operation, are devices of Aneurin Bevan’s left-wingers to capture party leadership from the Attlee-Morrison majority faction. —— ~ = Mr. Bevan is doing better

he tricked ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee and ex-For-eign Secretary Herbert Morrison into a partisan shot at Churchill which could ‘ only

selves. In the parliamentary $Y : .censure motion they tried to Mr. Bevan create - an issue between . themselves and Churchill «+» doing better

where none existed. Churchill was able to show that they were criticizing him for following secret agreements they made last year with Washington to retaliate against Red

China if she broke a Korean truce or started

another offensive. , .

This revelation of course did- not overthrow Mr, Churchill. It enabled the Labor Party executive committee to oust Mr. Morrison as director of party foreign policy and to seat Mr. Bevan’s ambitious friend, Hugh Dalton. : They picked Mr. Morrison as the goat because he was a poor foreign minister and is less popular than Mr. Attlee. Nevertheless, Mr. Attlee was just as much to blame—or to praise, according. to Prime Minister Churchill—for the pro-American policy as was his aid, Mr. Mor- - rison. As the Bevanites grow stronger they will center their attack more directly on Mr. Attlee, who stands between them and- party control. :

An amusing aspect of this incident, which

widened the Labor Party:split, was that its.

AIR POWER . . . By Peter Russia Stressing

" _ WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—Questions on the relative merits of American and Russian afr power are- best answered by comparison of

planes, type for type. In summary, these comparisons are analyzed as showing:

ONE—-Russia has concentrated on intercep-

tor plane production. This is taken as an indi-

cation that Russia has been primarily inferested in defensive operations up to now. :

* TWO—On quality, American planes are considered superior, type for type. This is not true on quantity comparisons on all types. The U.S.

has more bombers, “particularly in long range

types. Russia has more interceptors and fighters.

‘THREE—The United States took a holiday on plane production at the end.of World War II. Russia did not. Russia's gréater aircraft production is the result, : >

A. V. Roe Company of Canada, builders of the first jet transport, credits Russia’s rise: in jet production to the British 1947-48 sale and delivery to the“Soviet of 55 Rolls Royce jet engines. Much to U. 8. annoyance, the British even invited Russian technicians to take a course in maintenance at the Rolls Royce plant in England. Soviet engineers went on from there,"

Not a Match

. TODAY the Russian MIG-15 and the U. 8S. F-86 Sabrejet have the same engine .thrust. The U. 8S. F-84 Thunderjet is not considered a match “for the latest Russian models,

The MIG-15 is a lighter piane, making it

better at higher altitudes. The F-86 is considered

superior at lower levels. In the Korean War, in air-to-air battles between the two planes, the score has -been 166 MIG-15's shot down, to 23 —F-86's; a This ratios is 713-to-one. In many air battles over Korea recently, the American planes have been outnumbered by similar ratios. ‘Superiority

VOLUME IV . . . By Frederick C. Othman - Indians, Congressmen

barrass them by mentioning She said

names, but the book now is available’ from the Govern-’ ment Printing Office in case

purpose appeared to be to split the Conservas

tive Government—the resolution, while censurs’

ing Mr. Churchill, approved his foreign secre tary, Anthony Eden. : © Though Bevanites outmaneuvered the Attlee Morrison faction in this Instance, ary assumpe tion that the left-wingers are close to power is premature. The executive committee which voted out Mr. Morrison is not -as important as its name implies. The real power in the Labor Party rests with its parliamentary leaders and most: of whom are anti-Bevan, The party mae

chinery is chiefly in the hands of Mr. Morrison,

a kind of Tammany Hall boss of London. Mr. Bevan is waging his. fight on two levels —the parliamentary publicity plane and the

‘. union plane. The latter is more important. He

has won over many locals and some districts, but few of the national union organizations. In the union field the Communists, a small

in the electrical and railroad unions, and in some machinery and mining districts.

Labor Party Split?: : :

IN THE near future at least there is. little

chance that Mrs Bevan can capture the. Labor

Party, much less the country. But he has a good chance of completely splitting the Labor

,. Party by playing on the people’s fear of war

"and -their objection to welfare cuts to pay for arms. z Whether Mr, Bevan is a sincere leftist, or an opportunist riding what he thinks is a

wave,.is a question often discussed and never

settled. But his friends and enemies agree he % is a great rabble-rouser, a courageous and ruth less fighter, and an exceedingly clever operator, As a Welshman his oratory comes naturally, He learned to fight as. a pitboy in the coal fields. And his cleverness has been acquired .by watching masters of the British political game—including Winston Churchill, i=

Edson $s Interceptors

of American pilots and their radar fire control equipment is given credit for the advantage. There 1s a dispute among- pilots over armae ment. U. 8. standard equipment is the 50-cal, machine gun,” which fires up to 1500 rounds a minute. Russian armament is predominantly 20mm. and .30-mm.—even: 37-mm. cannon, which fire only 700 rounds a minute. Te For high-speed aircraft; there is an advane tage in more rapid fire. Heavier aircraf: cannon and ammunition add to the weight of a plane and so reduce its combat time. Tests are now under way. to determine if U. 8. equipment should be changed. On all-weather interceptors, the U. S. has the F-94 Northrup and the F489 Lockhééd in pros duction; but the numbers in service are still low, Soviet Russia is believed to have few if any

planes. of ‘this type, except perhaps experi .

mentally. _ MIG-19 and YAK-21 and 25 rocket inter ceptors have been identified. But they have not been in combat over Korea. So their character istics are not known,

New Red Bomber

ON BOMBERS, the most publicized Russian

model has been the TU-4. This is a direct steal - :

of the American B-29. It was American mise fortune in this instance, in being forced to make emergency B-29 landings in Siberia during the war which resulted in giving the Russians their start on heavy bomber production. ne

The B-29, with speeds of around 350 miles«

an-hour, is-rapidly becoming obsolete on mise =

sions where it may encounter The same applies to the TU-4. < - A new Russian type 31 bomber has now been identified... It has a speed of over 450 miles an hour and a range of 6500 miles. These char acteristics will enable the 31 to make two-way

trips from Russian” bases to some targets in the United States,

Jet interceptors,

“and Pork-Barrel -

she believed the - millions forthe Indian Bureau went more to the bureaucrats than to the Indians. She had

Akers of the Assiniboine T' s ribe at Ft. Peck, Mont. She said Indian Bureau wanted

$112 million this twice what it year, about

ning to 1739 pages, This mighty .

you want the details. And that brings us to the only citizens in the volume, who wint less money spent, instead of more. Both ladies.

Indian ladies.

What they had to say made, sense to a taxpayer like me. First there was Mrs. Gertrude Lerche, a Chippewa, from St. Paul, Minn. “I' want to protest. to high heavens against all these appropriations that Congress is asked to make for the Indian Bureau because we Indians do not .get any aid from ‘the Indian Bureau in northern Minnesota,” she began, :

some horrid examples, such as the hospital at the White Earth Reservation. This institution, she continued,” had three patients and a staff -of 17 bureau employees. “We were told what they were going to do in the way of ‘providing equipment,” she said. “They were going to give an ‘electric dishwasher to the hospital and I asked them why they could not, when they only have three patients, use some of the 17 members of the staff to wash the dishes.” That wasn’t all Mrs. Lerche had. to say, but perhaps we'd better turn to Mrs. Dolly

reau’ of Reclamation have Ignore the“bu--

OLDEN. DAYS WHEN winter comes and soft dark hair... has long since turned to snow...I wonder if folks do not live,..in days they used to know «++ I wonder .if the things that passed . . . throughout ‘the days gone by + « don’t keep them company at times . .. then leave them with a sigh .. ."., to. me nothing’s more wonderful . . . in it people turn back years . .". to days that used to be . . and in their minds they can recall . , . the glad days and the sad . . .

.-than golden memory . . . for -.

and actually be consoled . . . with things that

they once had. : p= = ~—By Ben Burroughs

got last, and sh believed the Congressmen oy

better learn how much of thi money trickled down to the

_ Indians,

i 8 9 gg ° * « “SOMETHING. ought to be

done to get riq of these bu. reaucrats,” she said. “For ine stance, our director in Billings, Mont., has been in the Indian service a long time, He is ale ways for a bigger and better Indian: Bureau and he comes before your committee quite often. He has been here again and again and he is one of those who is always saying, ‘Oh, dear, these poor Indians,

I am just doing everything possible for them. But, bless

his heart, I will tell you right =~

now that every time we Ins dians try to do something so that. we can get olit from une

. der, he will say, ‘Oh, no, - you _ cannot.’ . ~

The committeemen promised

the ladies to take a long, hard

look at the Indian Bureau, and

why it.believed it needed 4000

more ‘people than last year to care for its charges.

pO but active minority, help. heh agkBedu vy Mr. Bevan often parrots- their Hine: "HE protroy cy by their disruptive tactics. They are strongest

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