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“A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER HENRY W. MANZ -Business Manager

Monday, Mar. 10, 1952

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

Crying ‘Wolf, Wolf’

“QTOMACH COMMUNISM cannot be halted with the weapons of war,” President Truman submitted, in asking Congress for money for a global attack on hunger and want. . It is a popular assumption that human distress is-a Communist germ carrier, Where is there any basis for this conclusion? ; Most United States Communists have been drawn from intellectual circles. Many of them are well-heeled. When Reds are found in trade unions, it isn't among the rank and file but among those who aspire to leadership and who are using communism as a means to that end. There isn’t a single country under Communist control today which could be diagnosed as a victim of what Mr, Truman calls “stomach communism.” In every instance, Communist control was established and is being maintained by force. Economic conditions had nothing to do with this. Nor was communism adopted because of any popular appeal. In most cases, Russia simply set up puppet governments backed by the Red Army and assumed control because no other country was either in the mood or the position to intervene. ;

THE LARGEST Communist parties outside the Soviet cordon are found in France and Italy. Both countries have been major beneficiaries under the Marshall Plan, and other forms of American assistance. While our aid may have prevented their economic collapse, it does not appear to have materially weakened the Communists in those countries.

Nor does it follow that, had there been economic collapse— “

in the absence of American assistance—the Reds would have taken over.

When a government falls apart, chaos and civil strife ensue. Power is seized by the faction with the most resourceful leadership and the most guns. In such circumstances, a rightest dictatorship, backed by the Army, would be just as likely to succeed as a leftist dictatorship, under Moscow direction. Spain is under a rightist dictatorship because when the Communists began to dominate the Spanish Republic, the army rose in revolt, defeated the Reds in a civil war, and installed one of its generals as head of the state. Spain has received less American assistance than any country in Europe outside the Russian orbit. It also has less Communist activity than any of those countries—because Reds just aren’t tolerated.

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COMMUNISM IS too great a threat to be confused with other problems. It is much too dangerous for what it is to be regarded as something which it is not. It has become a habit, and a bad and dangerous one, to try to scare people with the threat of ‘‘communism” whenever anyone wants money. If the practice isn’t stopped, the public will become so disgusted and confused that it will pass off all pleas as just more cases of crying ‘wolf, wolf.”

Electing a President

HE SECRETARIES OF STATE from nine state governments, meeting in New Orleans, have recommended that our presidential electoral vote system be changed so that each state's electoral votes shall be cast in proportion to its popular vote. This would require a constitutional amendment, so it could not become effective until 1956, but it is a movement that ought to be revived in Congress now. The LodgeGossett amendment which proposed this reform was passed by the Senate in 1950 but shelved in the House after some influential Democrats decided that it would interfere with their plans, and some naive Republicans fell for their argu-

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UNDER the present system a candidate gets all of ‘a state's electoral votes if he gets a plurality of the state's popular vote. Therefore candidates and parties cater to groups in the big states—because they can swing the entire election—and virtually ignore the smaller ones. When the founding fathers established the electoral college they did not anticipate the party system that we have today. Clearly they intended the electors to represent the will of their people in choosing a President. It is easily possible for a presidential candidate to get a majority of the people's votes and still lose. That is why these state officials and many other thoughtful Americans want fhe system changed. Congress should listen to them instead of the party bosses, who are always against any reform that threatens their power.

Not Smart, D. of J.

TTORNEY GENERAL J. Howard McGrath's Justice Department does not promote public confidence by the , manner in which it has flatly refused to disclose information sought by ‘the House Judiciary Subcommittee charged with investigating the department.

It may be that the subcommittee, headed by Rep. Frank Chelf (D. Ky.) sought to impose a rather heavy burdén of paper work on the department. It requested data on all criminal and civil cases which other departments had referred to Justice over the last six years, and on which Justice had declined action on or which no action had been taken mare than one year after the complaint. But, in the circumstances, that seems not an unreasonable request. How-else should the subcommittee go about its job? --

The circumstances are that the Justice.Department is under such a heavy cloud of suspicion everybody in that law enforcement agency should be eager to work overtime “to clear up the mess. 3 . . The arrogant letter to the subcommittee, written by Assistant Attorney General Duggan, challenging the scope of the subcommittee’s inquiry, will lead some people to be-

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COMMUNISTS IN ENGLAND . . . By R. H. Shackford Red Leaders In Mine Unions Can

LONDON, ‘Mar. 10—Commuhism has never been a threat in Great Britain. And it is not a threat today. . But there are still Communist union leaders. Most of them are as busy as bees trying to stir up more trouble in the midst of- Britain's re armament, financial, economic and Attiee-Bevan crisis, :

For example, look at Arthur.-Horner, who wears two hats, He's—secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, 600,000 strong.

He's also Comrade Horner, a prominent, active

member of Britain's tiny but annoying Communist Patty. : o & & HORNER'S influfnce in the mine workers

union may be seen next Friday when its dele- " gates meet here to decide whether coal miners should continue a voluntary overtime Saturday shift on top of the regular 40-hour work week

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The miners won a long fight for a five-day

week in 1947. But later that year, Britain's economic crisis was so bad the government appealed for longer hours. Each year, the miners have voluntarily agreed to the overtime Saturday shift which through last year had netted an additional 34 million tons of production.” None t pt NOW the miners are balking. Mang regional groups already- have voted to boycott any renewed agreement this year, Every influence is being used by the government and responsible union leaders to keep the miners working Saturdays. Horner, as a union official, should be doing the same. But he's throwing oil on the fire. In a speech this week he supported the rebelling miners. Claiming he spoke assa Communist, rather than a union official, Horner told a Chelmsford meeting.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

VA Still Has Hospital Problem

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10—Veterans, like nonservice civilians, never seem to have enough beds in their hospitals. Thus the new Veterans Administration Hospital at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis has not solved the problem and some of the beds at Billings Hospital at Ft. Harrison still are needed by VA. That was the way the matter was summed up here by Dr. Norman Booher, Indianapolis, vice chairman of the National Rehabilitation Com-

mittee of the. American Legion. ° Dr. Booher, who is him-

self a commander of a Legion post made up of doctors and dentists, laid the Indiana department’'s problem before Hoosier members of Congress at a Statler Hotel dinner last week. Present also was Thomas Hendricks, former Indiana state senator and long-time official of the American Medical Society national headquarters in Chicago, Hits Criticism ALTHOUGH he is a member of both the AMA and Indiana State Medical Society, with which Mr. Hendricks was connected for many vears, Dr. Booher objected to some criticism of VA giving too much hospitalization to non-service-connected cases which certain doctors. He told the Indiana group that with the old Cold Spring Rd. VA hospital being converted for TB patients, the new one will not provide for all patients needing “intermediary care.” His suggestion was that some beds at Billings be retained by VA, although the hospital has been turned back to Army use at the Ft. Harrison Finance Center. At the suggestion of Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.); it was decided to explore the situation and report all findings back for action by the state's delegation here,

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SEN. JENNER will head the committee and embers are Reps. Willlam G. Bray, Martins

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ville, and E. Ross Adair, Ft. Wayne, Republicans, and Winfield K. Denton, Democrat. The latter was the principal objector to the Billings Hospital plan. He said that veterans in his home town of Evansville would still have to go all the way to Indianapolis or Louisville for VA hospital treatment. - “If we are going to get some more beds for veterans,” Mr. Denton declared, “I don’t see why in the world we cannot have VA operate the old Marine hospital right in Evansville. It has been closed ever since it was abandoned by the Public Health Service, which decided that its purpose had been fulfilled. The buildings there are of the permanent type and not like the temporary barracks type construction out at Ft, Harrison.” One answer to this was that the IU Medical Center offers a better field for staffing and that the VA has been following a policy of establishing hospitals where such is the case.

Could Get Staff

MR. DENTON contended the old Marine Hospital at Evansville could easily be staffed with competent doctors and nurses, just as it had been for vears. All agreed that locating VA hospitals on a political basis had been bad and should not be revived. The best-advertised example some years ago was the putting of a large VA hospital in Tupelo, Miss. That happens to be the home town of long-time chairman of the House Yeurans Committee—Rep. John Rankin (D. MISS, ), “It isn't politics of any kind not to want the veterans in my district to travel over 100 miles to get to a hospital,” Mr. Denton said. Ye is a Legionnaire and veteran of both World "Wars, His sentiments about southern Indiana veterans being. somewhat ‘treated like stepchildren” was shared by Mr. Bray. So both were named to the investigating committee. Mr. Adair had some suggestions regarding the new VA hospital in his home town. So he also was put on the committee. Sen. Jenner is now a farmer near Bedford and a candidate for statewide support for another term this year. He will be the neutral chairman.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10— Last time I wrote a piece about Nellie Tayloe Ross, economical housewife and manufacturer of money, she was handing Congress back $1 million she couldn't use in her nickel-and-dime factories, This, at the time, was big news. No other bureaucrat in memory of the oldest man ever had returned any part of any appropriation, even if he had te git up nights figuring out new ways to spend it. The Con-

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“If the Tories persist in the application of “the measures they've enunciated ., ., the workers are entitled to use economic power against those who: are using political power against them.” . ? F That was also contrary to the official union opposition to political strikes. . Horner's statement coincided with the Communist London Daily Worker's appeal to British workers to resist the Tory economy program. At the same time the Paris Xommunist paper, Humanite, was hinting that the time was ripe—while. France was almost prostrate with a political and finanéial crisis—for nationwide agitation leading to widespread strikes. > & ©

HORNER'S influence as a Communist needn't be taken seriously in Britain. The Communists failed to elect a single member of Commons and polled only 21,000 votes out of nearly 30 million in the last election. But Horner's influence with the British coal

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Cab Strike’

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

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MR. EDITOR:

Wonder who's going to win out in the cab strike anyway? First we have a company hike in fares, then we have the drivers ‘saying this hike has cut down business so much they can’t realize enough profit to make the work worth while.

Now the drivers plan to set up a cab company of their own, only, from what we read in the papers, they can't do it because city law doesn’t provide enough licenses to let a new company come in. It was interesting to note the Red Cab Co.: has 300 licenses but normally uses only 150 __taxies. That means the others are kept on hand just to cut down the field of competition. Would like to know howe come the company was allowed to have all those licenses without using them? If this doesn’t constitute a monopoly, then what does? : > Frankly, I as a citizen of this city, don't like to see violence used in any strike.” It has happened in this strike and probably before it is finished, more will happen. a bh 0B

IF MEMBERS of the union are guilty of this violence, then the union should be punished regardless of orders from union officials. It doesn’t matter if a union official says no violence and union members go ahead anyway.

If the union has no control over the activ{ties of its members during a strike, it has no business remaining organized. It is not a law abiding organization. . On the other hand if management is responsible for any of this violence it should be punished by fines and imprisonment and if necessary it should be prohibited from doing business. There is no excuse for violence, especially if it injures or intimidates the public in any nner. at this license business, I would like to know who in City Hall is responsible for this “paper monopoly.” Why was such a thing allowed to happen, and why was .it allowed to continue? Doesn't sound like good business to me. Sounds more like dirty politics. —Cab Rider, City.

‘Don’t Break His Heart’

MR. EDITOR: I was surprised and amazed when I noticed the front page headlines stating the account of Duke Stern's arrest through the combined efforts of Mr. Gorman and Tech High School and the police for selling obscene pictures and literature. I have met Mr. Stern and I'm acquainted with people that know him very well. They speak highly of him and his family and like# myself, are at a loss to know why he should be singled out as an example when it's a known fact that obscene literature is sold and advertised in nationally circulated magazines. We also wonder why Duke Stern was picked up since he is only a clerk and why he should be made the goat. Working at the novelty shop, filling in on TV once a week and one night stands with a

Views on the News

AFTER two weeks in the South, President Truman may decide to run as a Key Westerner. “Bb REP. EDITH NOURSE ROGERS JR. (R. Mass.) wants the Agriculture Department to get some. hay for her farmer constituents right now. It will help her make some in the Fall cam-

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oo oe THE ADMINISTRATION plan to reorganize the Internal Revenue Department will curb corruption in government—provided all crooks are fired and none hired. BD NEWBOLD MORRIS will not be able to give full time to the Truman corruption investigation next week.. He has been called as a witness in the tanker scandal. A. J GOV. HERMAN TALMADGE of Georgia likes to be identified with his newspaper. It is called “The Statesman.” —D.K.

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miners may be serious. Europe s economic crisis stems directly to the failure to‘mine enough

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THE biggest part of American economic ald to France last year financed imports of American coal, which costs about $10 a ton in Penn« svlvamia, but more than $20 by the time trans. Atlantic shipping costs are added. Before the war Britain supplied Europe with whatever extra coal it needed. Britain's coal crisis—the failure to increase production to prewar levels—has all but wiped ‘out her coal exports. Britain herself has had to spend precious dollars to buy U. B. coal. . If the coal miners now decide to stop the ‘Saturday. shifts, it will be a major blow to the country. :

magic act provides his living whith isn't an pasy one we assure you and not too »rofitable, Probably Mr. Gorman may not know about the many times Duke Stern has played without pay before Boy Scout Troops, hospitals for crippled and spastic children. We know he has turned down paying jobs to put on benefit perform. ances of magic before such groups. No, we do not believe that hig arrest will solve the problem. It will only break the heart of a home-loving, good-natured guy and ruin his life. I'm against the sale of such literature, but I'm also against making an example of a vice tim of circumstances such as Duke Stern. —Joe A. Theobald, City.

‘Blackmail?’ MR. EDITOR: In regard to your story of the price of $17 million for the release of. Bill Oatis: How can it be a price or blackmail? I can't understand it in those terms. Your paper stated ‘he steel mill was- bought and .paid for, also storage was being paid for on same by the ~zechs, «In other words we_have $17 millions that belong to the Cze¢hs. Will not refund their money, or give them their purchase. We as a Christian nation should wonder why other nations don't have respect for us. We made a deal, we should live up to it regardless of cost. How can we. expect to spread Christianity when. we don't even live by the commandment, “Thou shalt not steal.” What has happened in the steel mill case? The sale and purchase was made before the export law went into effect. Let's get this thing ironed out . . . give back their money or let them have their mill. I am a property owner, taxpayer and an ex-Army pilot who bombed Czechoslovakia in World War II and will go back again if needed, But IT am also a Christian and believe that right is right. I pray for Bill Oatis and say set him free at any cost. But it will be dirt cheap to do it the $17 million way as we will only be doing things the honest way.. —G. A. M,, City.

‘Jack. O'Neal’ MR. EDITOR:

As a Republican and a former resident of Indianapolis, I was deeply grieved at the passng of Jack O'Neal who was one of the most capable, honest and fair-dealing officers ever in the Indianapolis Police Department. After 38 years of faithful and honorable service, Mayor Clark's Republican Board of Safety demoted him from chief of police to lieutenant of detectives and suspended him for seven days for what the board termed an “error in judgment.” That action by the Board of Safety deserves forever the criticism and condemnation of every fair-minded ritizen of Indianapolis regardless of party affiliation. —John Warren, Greencastle.

Lenten Meditation Jesus Answers Our

Questions About Himself SHOW YOUR CREDENTIALS

By what authority are you doing things and who gave you this authority? Matthew 21:23. Read verses 23-27. When you go_through the FBI building in Washington, the guide will tell you to make sure that any invistigator who comes to you shows his credentials—a badge and an engraved card. But what is the credential of a good friend? Does he

carry a card inscribed, “Master of Friendly Relations?”

Hardly. You judge of his qualities by his performance. What, then, ore the credentials of a teacher of reli gion? Must he be ordained? Hold a degree of Doctor of Divinity? These are not the real credentials. Does he teach the truth as proved by experience? Does he speak the truth as God gives him to see the truth? Is he God's mon speaking with divine authority and love?

Jesus was bold enough to teach in the temple even

though he had not been ordained as a rabbi. No wonder a group from: the Sanhedrin asked him, “By what qu thority?” J And ‘when Jesus answered, “Neither will 1 tell you by what authority | do these things,” he was saying clearly, “They speak for themselves; judge of their validity by their fruits. My authority is my life.” Let Us Pray: Forgive us, our Father, when we put all our faith in evidences that shall fade away, and help us to put our confidence in truth that is eternal. Let our lives be our best evidence of our faith, as in Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

WHO IS TO BLAME? . . . By Frederick C. Othman Demand for Pennies Puts Drain on the Mint:

Now it turns out, according

this amazing demand for pennies. He figured this was on account of sales taxes, six-cent soda pop, and 13-cent streetcar fares. \ ne Whatever the reason, he had to put the one-cent department on double shift and still, as of now, he's got to manufacture 240 million extra coins in a hurry, mostly pennies. This costs money in large chunks.

For the last six months there has been such. a serious

them. Mrs. Ross has appealed to hoarders of same to empty their old fruit jars, but this hasn't been of much help. Rep. Gordon Canfield (R., N, J.) a recent caller at the Philadelphia mint, had another idea.

“We have been led to believe (hat the chief offenders in the withholding of coins have been the children of America,” he said. “Reference has been made repeatedly to coins be-

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gressmen were amazed at the way Mrs. Ross had pinched the pennies of her. own manufacture. That was two years ago. Now I regret to report that our economical director of the mint, through no fault of her own, has had to ask the lawgivers for an extra $465,000. - When time came for her to appear before her Congressional - admirers,” the- brighteyed Mrs. R. was home in bed. She sent up her ‘assistant, Dr. Leland Howard, who reported. she feared she'd .better not show up because she'd be doing more sniffling than talking. Dr. Howard, himself one of the world’s leading authorities on coinage, carried on. .

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WHAT IF

WHAT if my friends should all forsake me s» » » When luck is hard and I'm very low . .. I still have you, my dearest lover . .,. to follow whither I might go . .. what if each try I make doesn’t tally . . . and naught but failure is my gain . . , I still have you my inspiration . . . to help me ease the failure’s pain ... what if the world should crumple round me . .. and all my

dreams were shattered too . . . I will be happy despite trouble : . . because, my dearest, I have you , , , that's why I go through this life of sorrow . , . with a gay smile and a song in my heart . . . for I have you to always love me. ,, I pray, dear one, that we never part. he « ==By Ben Burroughs,

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to the superintendent of tha Philadelphia money factory, that the banks are to blame, he said. When they ship back a sack of beaten-up old coins for redemption, they includa up to 30 per cent of perfectly good, spendable money. This looked mighty slipshod to him. ” on n DR. HOWARD didn't believa it, but said he'd {investigate The gentleman wondered how come he had such a whopping surplus of silver dollars. Ths answer was simple. Until 1942 there had to be an actua! silver dollar for every pape: one in circulation. It was against the law to melt down one of these cartwheels. Made an awful shambles, too, Dr. H. said, He stored ’'em in canvas bags, and after 25 years or so of sitting in one place, the sacks Would disintegrate. Then you'd 7 ove a few and spew dollarg”all over the floor. He knows about this, . He used to have to sweep ’em up and count 'em.. _ Since 1942 it- has béen legal to back the currency with silver in bars. Dr. Howard and

Co. melted down 60 million sil-

ver dollars, but he still has 300 million of them left.

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