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It's Too Much Money | HE PRESIDENT'S message to Congress on his mutual ‘gecurity program, and his speech last night on the same subject, suggest that Mr. Truman may have failed: inn the haberdashery business ‘by giving away his goods before the cash customers had a chance to buy them. This thought is prompted by the number of nations Mr. Truman has placed on the American relief rolls, despite the fact that they have ample cash or credit to supply their own needs, if and when they choose. Our government can go broke, too, by continuing. to , give India our wheat while paying cash for her manganese and jute—and by taxing our people to buy arms for nations which refuse to tax themselves, * The past year's record also raises the suspicion that Mr. Truman might have given socks to people who did not wear shoes, had there been any such in his trade territory when he was a Missouri clothier. : : . 5 " a a THE U. 8. has been doing much the same thing—buying trucks, tractors and combines for peasants who do not know how to use a hoe or a rake. Mr. Truman wants to do a lot more of the same next year. The late Dr. H. G. Bennett kept such nonsense under control while he headed the Point Four program. He was a practical man who understood the problems of backward areas. But he had not been dead many days until the “spread-the-wealth” boys were scattering our cash to the four winds. He told a friend shortly before his death that he did not see how he could make intelligent use of $80 million during the current year, Now the President wants more than $600 million for next year. That should buy free neckties for everybody. Going on to. the rearmament section of the President's program, it is not “mutual,” neither does it promise security. ‘The figure of $7.9 billion he has recommended to Congress for military and supporting assistance for other , nations was “not taken out of the air,” according to Mr. Truman. There is nothing in either of his speeches to show how else he arrived at the figure. The division of the money by geographic areas of itself subjects the whole program to question. - : ; & cry — OUT OF THE total of $5,350,000,000 for so-called “direct” military assistance, Western Europe is down for $4,070,000,000. The Near East and Africa would gt $606 million. Asia and the Pacific are due for only $611 million.

Will this latter sum arm Japan, the. Philippines, Formosa

and South Korea, so that our troops can come home? It costs $293 million to equip a single armored division. Surely all Asia will need more than two. Or are Americans going to continue to do most of the fighting?

Nothing in either of Mr. Truman's speeches makes a case for this heavy favoring of Western Europe. On the contrary, he admits that of the 50 divisions which have been promised Gen. Eisenhower, only “about half” are to be on active duty. This means the addition of only five active divisions. If all of those are armored divisions, the total cost would be only $1,465,000,000—if we supply it all, which we should not under a “mutual” program. We suspect that the President's figure of $7.9 billion can he sliced a third, or perhaps in half, without doing much damage, for no real security is promised for next year anyway,

‘No Way to Run an Air Force ;

"THERES VERY little good anyone can say about Presi- * dent Truman's decision to reappoint Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of the Air Staff for an abbreviated term of 14 months,

Gen. Vandenberg's position is thoroughly untenable. “The President says he is keeping him around, not because he is needed (though he may well be), but because the General needs time to qualify for a pension without taking a subordinate command.

In other words, Gen. Vandenberg is a lame duck. His.

days are numbered. Worse, the man who will eventually “succeed him—Gen. Curtis Lemay—is being installed next door as Vice Chief of Staff. Fortunately, Gens. Vandenberg and Lemay usually agree. But both are men of strong convictions. They will not agree on everything. In any clash between the two, it is a little too much to expect Air Force staff officers—interested in their own futures—to side with the man on the way out against the one coming in. If Hoyt Vandenberg is the man for the job, he should be given a full four-year term, with the authority to enforce his commands and make his policies work. If he is not, another man should be appointed now. In a feeble attempt to satisfy everyone, Mr. Truman has—as usual—satisfied no one. : ; Such half-measures and compromises are too typical of the administration's defense program.

The Smear Fades Away

A FEW months ago, the Reds and their camp followers had a field day when two Chinese military men, Lieut. Gen. P. T. Mow and Col. V. S. Hsiang, loosed a virulent attack upon. Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist government. ie Now an untold side of the story is coming out.

~ A United States District Court has rendered a $7

million default judgment against Gen. Mow for failure to account for Chinese government funds entrusted to him. Gen. Mow wasn't in court. He was last reported in Mexjeo. Thus, he seems to have taken it on the lam. : Col. Hsiang, his aide, wasn't named in the suit. But his wife and children, who had been living on the West Coast until recently, have turned up in 8 Apparently, the Daily Worker and its journalistic colues will have to dig up some new witnesses for their

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sotmcs . By Charles Lucey

CONCORD, N. H, Mar, 7—8en, Robert A. Taft mushed through a New Hampshire winter wonderland yesterday in a bid to tip the bal. in next Tuesday's presidential primary. . : : The north country gave the Ohio Senator a y characteristic wel-~ come, The local weather prophet [ast week forecast “a blizzard up to your gizzard” and saldé this week would be” “cloudy and rowdy.” Ha clicked both times, Snow fell steadily for 30 hours béfore Mr, Taft's arrival and much colder weather was predicted. But highways were open and all hands were undjsmayed, Sen. Taft's paign pace is verging + + +. bad weather on. the realm of legend. . He's scheduled 30 political meetings in three days-—up the Merrimack. Valley, across the lake eountry and White Mountains, down the Connecticut. River Vailey separating ‘Vermont and New Hampshire, then a swish through southern New Hampshife mill towns. That's rugged going for Mr. Taft or anyone else, Taft supporters say these three days could make the difference for their.candidate Tuesday. THe few neutrals left ray the race is close. The fact that the contest now is regarded as fairly even Is a decided. change from a few weeks ago. When it hecame known in January that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's name would he on the New Hampshire ballot, his leaders predicted complete defeat for Sen. Taft. Most top New Hampshire Republicans lined up on the General’s side. It seemed futile for. Mr. Taft to Friends advised him to restrict hia primary runs to such states as Wisconsin and Illinois, where he had solid-organiza-tion backing and seemed likely to clean up. But Mr. Taft decided to enter this first 1952 primary test. Hir decision looks wiser every day. Firat mistake of the Eisénhower people was to talk’ this up a= sure Eisenhower territory. Mr. Taft took the opposite tack--said he really didn’t expect to do much in New Hampshire, but that he'd go ahead, anyway--he didn't want to let down his local supporters. : Now, some Eisenhower people are trying to adopt the same tactics. .

Another Debate

THERE'S a debate, too, over whether the contest to elect delegates to the Chicago convention or the straight popular preferential poll Is the surer test of each candidate's strength. The Eisenhower people say the victor in the delegate fight is the real winner. They're sure they have the advantage here hecause their candidates are the state’s best-known Republic-ans—--present and former governors and Congresamen and other officials, They'd get a lot of votes in New Hampshire on the basis of personal standing, and without regard to the candidate they favor. Taft dclegate candidates, by contrast, are mostly unknown. In their wildest dreams, Taft leaders here don’t talk of electing more than fix of the 14 to be chosen, They'd settle happily for four. It i= easy to vote in the preference poll in which the voter simply marks hig choice—Mr, Taft, Gen. Eisenhower or Harold Stassen. But it is difficult to go through a list of 40 or 50 names to vole for the delegates. It's expected many will vote in the preference primary, then vote for none or only a few of the delegate candidates, Hence, the Taft people ‘say the real test is the preference poll -and thev think their man will fight Gen. Eisenhower nip-and-tuck in this.

Sen. Taft

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About God

THE TEST

If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. John 14:23. Reod verses 21-25,

It is only when Christian love clears the glass that we understand each other fully. ; Judas (not Iscariot) had asked Jesus, “Mow is it that You will manifest Yourself to us?’ The answer seemed a little indirect. “If a man loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and we will come to him ond make our home with him" It is deeply true! If we would understand nature we must love the hills

ond valleys and the sky at evening and the birdcalls in the

forest. If we do not love them we cannot know them. If we would understand our children we must first love them, for children unfold their inner hearts only to those who love. . If we would understand music we must love the sonorous profundities of Beethoven and the plaintive gentleness of Brahms. If we would understand science we must love to explore its mysteries. . If we would understand Jesus we must love Him with o willing heart. Then our love will quickly lead to obedience.

Someone has rightly said there are two kinds of people

in our world, those we love and those we do not know, For when we know them we shall love them for what they are, or love them for what they ought to be, in Christ,

Let Us Pray: O God, lead us to obey Thy law, not so much because we have to os because we want to, as Jesus iid. Amen,

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By Galbraith

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MR. EDITOR: A Mr, Frederick C. Othman, who writes a syndicated column for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, recently referred to the lighting effects in the Pest Office as being similar to those of a Cecil B. DeMille dungeon full of Christians waiting for the lions. (Times, Feb, 26.) Mr. Othman was sitting in on a hearing before the House Appropriations CommitteeT It seems that our Postmaster General, Mr. Jesse Donaldson, was on the griddle before the committee, He was being asked some questions about improving the service, grease racks, lights, ete. : It seems that in Richmond, Va. misdelivered mail was a problem. So the Post Office Department painted the interior of the main office with a light-colored paint to improve lighting. Now, according to Mr. Othman's story, the clerks can see and misdelivered mail no longer is a problem. No doubt the improved lighting did help the carriers in routing their mail and tends to eliminate some misdeliveries. More of this sort of thing undoubtedly should be done. However, I doubt that the mere addition of a coat of paint was the complete solution to this problem. Mr. Donaldson. representing the poor, old, beat-up Post Office Department, was asked some more questions. This time the queries coming from Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.). Mr. Wilson bought some stamps to send out some campaign letters.

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A CARRIER was observed by a lady placing some of this mail in a service station stove. The Postmaster General admitted that those things do happen. He went on to tell the tale of the temporary carrier, who just got tired at Christmas time and dumped his sack of mail in the snow. : It seenis to this poor, simple mind that whenever the legislators in Washington run out of whipping boys they trot out the Post Office Department for another session at the post. Much thunder is raised about one wayward fellow who poked a bundle of letters in a stove. Eyebrows are lifted about the temporary who placed his mail sack in-deep freeze. What I cannot understand is why no one ever mentions the 100,000 or so carriers who loyally perform their duties 52 weeks “in the year. Not once, ever shucking their pouches in the snow. Nothing is ever mentioned about the countless thousands, ves thousands, of letters that every day ‘carriers deliver promptly and” correctly, that were incorrectly addressed. The letter carriers are not asking for a lot of tub thumping about their efficiency or loyalty, We do believe, however, that an occasional pat on the back would perk up the old spine for tomorrow's load. —George J. Riedl, 4817 Wentworth Blvd.

‘Priscilla’s Pop’ EDITOR: I want to thank you for putting Priscilla's Pop back in the paper. "I think it is far better than the one you-put'in in its place. My favorites are Boots, Nancy, Grandma and Sandy Hill. | —Mrs. R. G. Tyler, RR 14, Box 264.

BAD MEMORY . .

WASHINGTON, Mat. 7—1 guess mavhe the pup chewed up the financial records of Cyrus 8S, Eaton, the eminent financier. Possibly Mrs, Eaton »

used his canceled checks to start a blAze in the fireplace. Perhaps thev got chopped up in the electric fan. Danged if he knows what happened to 'em. Empire builder Eaton swore it on his oath. Somehow this pleased me mightily. Here we're talking about the Cleveland Croesus, . proprietor of railroads, coal mines, iron deposits, farms, banks, steel mills and investment firms. If a mighty man like Mr. Eaton can’t keep track of his bank statements, I see no good reason why I should worry about mine. I intend to tear them up. unread, for litter in my henhouse. : ss = = THE TROUBLE seemed to be that Mr. Eaton had slipped £30,000 to labor's Nonpartisan League in 1950 to help elect - Jumping Joe Ferguson as Democratic Senator from Ohio. Jumping Joe, the Mr. Malaprop of Columbus, O., lost out to Sen. Robert A. Taft. Now.

the Senate Elections Commit="2>

tee ig investigating.

r. Eaton put up his own

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Post Office’

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

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Canceled Check? ‘No Got

A Queer Old Bird Is the Pelican

‘Rights of a Citizen’

MR. EDITOR: . -- It seems there are a lot of people who think the proper reply to any discussion is a personal insult. I think that is used to hide the fact that

there was no logical reason for a certain point °

of view; hence, the insult to those who differ. Now, whether my name appears in full in the paper is’ not important at all, but someone asked me a question and made an inference which I do think is becoming increasingly important in this country. “Did I ever go to war?” What possible difference does that make in my basic rights as a citizen of this Republic, may I ask? I have always enjoyed the rights and privileges this country gives to all, and I also have always accepted my responsibilities as a citizen and tried to meet them to they best of my ability. I toe-the line on my tax Jayments and say very little about it, but IT do not. like the ever increasing clique in this country that thinks the government is their own special Santa Claus, and that the country always owes them something.

The people who want to spend this country

into bankruptcy, no matter how noble their intentions may seem to he, will deserve and get the thanks of no one, not even the ones who seem to be getting the most out of it for the time being. We all want to live our lives as we think best. It is the purpose of government to protect that right for us, nothing more. When we reach the time that any one group in this country thinks they have some special rights and privileges coming to them that no one else has, then we are no longer free and of equal opportunity. We all have exactly the same rights and duties in and to this country. But there certainly is a whale of a difference between the way people accept those rights and duties. : F. M., City. ‘Drinking’ MR. EDITOR: If your policy of defending my right to_ say it is true, I will read this in The Times. I really do not expect you to print it. I want to reply In brief to Mr, DeWitt's articles on “Why Men Drink.” I see no argument in favor of liquor. I have just three questions for Mr. DeWitt: ONE-—Would you select a site for a new home for a family of children next door to a tavern? ' : TWO--Would you employ a young man or young woman for a responsible position only on condition that they drink liquor? THREE—Would you advise your son or daughter to marry anyone that drinks liquor? Since it seems almost hopeless to take all Of the stuff away from our young people, it is about time we do all we can as parents, teachers, preachers and taxpayers to take our young people away from the stuff. Mr. DeWitt is not doing this. Half of the taverns in Indianapolis would quit business if every church member would stay out of them. There are no liquor-drinking Christians. Read Romans 14:13 and you will agree that liquor is both a “stumbling block and an occasion to fall.” —Rev. E. L. Eckerley, Noblesville.

. By Frederick C. Othman

DEARBOSS .. By Dan Kidney Testimony Due

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In Katyn Case

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—Rep, Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, will move his special House committee into Chicago next week to hear more testimony in the Katyn Forest mass murder case, - . With Germans and Russians blaming each other for the execution of hetween 11,000 and 12,000 Polish officers and intellectuals during the days of the StalinHitler pact, Mr. Madden is determined to find out the facts. The House rules committee

has approved going to Europe to do so. The Madden committee is expected to be voted $100,000 to make the trip.

Hearings are scheduled in wy London and Paris “during Rep. Madden April. ... presses probe,

They expect to be able to interview Euros peans who helped prepare the documents for the Goebels’ Propaganda Ministry, which first broke the story for the world, after Hitler launched his ill-starred Russian attack. *

«= Later similar documentaries were prepared,

with film and voice, by the Russians seeking to hang the crime on the Nazi. The Polish government remains the captive of the USSR. When the Russian embassy here declined, with the customary Communist Billingsgate, to accept

_an invitation from the Madden committee to

testify, it was only a short time before the Polish government did likewise.

Witness Hides Face

SO DANGEROUS do the committeemen consider -the situation that they had one witness appear with a pillow-case covering his face, There will be similar secret witnesses when hearings are held abroad. Meanwhile the committee staffmen have turned up the documentaries and put them on view for all Congressmen and others interested to see, Whether you witness the German or “the Communist films, there is but one word for it —horrible. Decayed corpses are dug up .and close-ups made of the skulls with bullet-holes in the head. Some seem to have been buried alive, with sand or sawdust shoved into their mouths to halt their screams—as the masked witness testified seeing. John Mitchell, chief counsel for the commit« tee, and Roman Pucinski, investigator, explain when the pictures are shown in the Banking and Currency Committee room in the new House Office Building, that the committee business is to discover once and for all time whether the Nazis or the Communists committed’ this genocidal crime,

Called Propaganda Lie

THE RUSSIAN diplomats, when answering the invitation to testify, wnich was properly presented through State Department channels, said the case was settled. They called it a Goebels propaganda lie and charged that interest in it is being churned up now as part of President True man’s war propaganda. Mr. Mitchell pointed out that the case was originally scheduled for trial at the Nurnberg prosecution of the Nazi war criminals, but later quietly dropped by the Russians. He contends that similar crimes might now be going on bee hind the Iron Curtain — killing instead of ene slaving dissenters. ; a Peculiar wording of the United Nations geno cide convention, which links the crime only to “aggressive war,” may be a pretext to provide for them in this cold war, it was contended. There were 12 doctors, some from outside Germany, engaged in the first uncovering of the’ mass graves. One, who was a Swiss, they hope to have testify, Mr. Mitchell said.

Newsmen to Testify

SOME AMERICAN newspapermen and radiomen, as well as wartime OWI workets, also will testify, he declared. The type of answer that comes from Red embassjes asked to help find the facts is well illus trated by these excerpts from” a handout just issued from the Polish embassy press office, 2640 16th St., N. W. It reads: ’ “For several months American propaganda has made an effort to publicize the spectacular sessions of the so-called special committee of the House of Representatives in the Katyn case. The staging of this farce and the unleashing of a campaign based upon it, the provocative aim of which is evident, are links in a general United States government propaganda plan, which, in turn, is part of aggressive preparations for war, “Behind the scenes of this campaign stand the notorious protectors of Neo-Hitlerite revenge aims, the enemies of peace, democracy and the Polish people, such as Mr. Arthur Bliss Lane, who while holding the position of ambassador of the United States in Warsaw did not hesitate to take a personal part in the organization of actions directed against the Polish state and its independence.

Specialized in Slanders

“AND WHO, since his return tn the United States, has specialized in vile slanders against Poland and the USSR. such as, also, a member of the special -cormittee, Rep. Alvin E. O’Konski, who during World War II was connected with Nazi agencies in the United Stites. “The “appointment of the special committee coincides with the appropriation by the United States Congress of $100 million for diversionist= espionage activities in other countries, among them Poland. It is a component part of that

criminal action aimed against the world, AE peace of the

“The extermination in Katyn of thousands of’

Polish officers and soldiers was the work of Nazi criminals who, in addition to the Katyn crime, committed hundreds of similar crimes on Polish and Soviet soil. The Katyn crime was one link in the Nazi campaign aimed at the physical extermination of the Polish people and consistently carried out during the occupation.”

Says Eaton

ing Joe, well and good. But, if :

he paid that money via check of Otis & Co., his investment firm, he violated the Corrupt ‘Practices Act and could be in a bad jam. This did not seem to worry Mr. Eaton, who has been in jams before. : The Senators slapped a subpena on him to bring his records and himself to their caucus room. Records he did not have, but he brought himself in a double-breasted suit ‘of banker's blue with tie to match. He observed before the Proceedings hegan that this marble-columned chamber

would be an elegant spot for

~roller skating. -He somehow did not seem like the hard-boiled man of finance, who not long ago was making headlines with his

multimillion-dollar fight against Henry Kaiser and the finaneing of the latter's auto company. . He was tall, whitehaired and twinkly of eye, When he got to talking about his troubles keeping track of his own financial records, I couldn't help a feeling of sympathy closely akin to affection. The Senators did not share this sentiment. They were sore. They said. anybody who'd lose documents ‘as important as that was a dope—and they figured Mr. Eaton was a smart fellow. This did not perturb him. He said he put up the $30." 000, all right, through an assortment of stooges, whom he named. He gave ‘em the money and they passed it on to Jumping Joe's campaign fund. He

30.000 for the benefit of Jump. ..

PEACEFUL VALLEY

I'm searching for a valley . . . where hearts are ever gay ... where peace and real tranquility . .. are part of each new day . . . where people smile instead of frown . . . and do the things they should . . . to create happiness for all . . . by spreading truth and good . . . where heartaches are unheard of .-. . and gold does not exist . . . and, there are no evils which . , , we mortals can’t

hp of God I'll find ; .. my valley hy-and-by, : =—By Ben Burroughs. §

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resist . . . but I suppose I'll go - «On... searching until I die .. . then with the

did this, he said, because he thought capital ought to play ball better with labor. “But where are your rec. ords?" demanded Sen. Guy M, Gillette (D. Iowa), who added that, Poor as he was, he added his check stubs every month.

Mr. Eaton smiled, pityingly.

“ He said he never saw his stubs,

He rarely wrote his own checks, He hired people for chores like that, Furthermore, he continued, he moved his office twice last year and then hia

private secretary took sick and retired.

” ” ~ SOMEHOW, - all the papers concerning his contributions to the cause of Jumping Joe disappeared. Of course, said Mr. Eaton, he was dead certain he'd used his own money and not the firm's. for this purpose, though” he couldn't remember. whether he’d paid in cash or check. This recollection, he said, surely should be sufficient for the committee's purposes. ‘Sen. Gillette & Co. sald it was not, either. They; ordered Mr. Eaton to phone the sick secretary in Toronto to see if

" “he remembered what had hap-

pened ‘to the missing papers. Mr. Eaton said he in could do- that, ali ht. Sen. Gillette ‘said the U.8&. Senate

Would finance the call. ~