Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1952 — Page 10

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER HENRY. W. MANZ .* ‘Business Manager

‘Monday, Mar. 24, 1952

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Arms but No Sugar.

‘ [AST YEAR when the appropriation ‘for the Atlantic Pact ~program was before Congress, its proponents contend-

* od that there was urgent need for every penny requested

and declared that any reduction in the appropriation would

upset the whole security arrangement. The same witnesses used the same arguments in supporting the pending foreign-aid appropriation last week. They predicted the most dire consequences would result if ghere were any cuts at all in the $7.9 billion President Truman has requested for the coming year. # The record shows, howevBr, that Congress has been appropriating more money for foreign dssistance than the program has been able to absorb. And a great many items carried in the pending bill haven't any place in a mutual program, which should mean just that, and cover nothing but that. There is an unexpended balance of $11.7 billion from appropriations voted over the last three years. Until this money is used up, why should there be any urgency about voting any more? ” » . » . » THE TESTIMONY in support of the current bill has been so vague and confusing that it cannot be ascertained why any more money is needed or what it is intended for. Moreover, no clear distinction can be found between relief -and rearmament needs. Most of the comment in the European press emphasizes economic assistance almost to the exclusion of rearmament needs. Thus, it is apparent that the disposition there is to regard the new mutual security program as the old Marshall Plan under a new name. We 'suspect that the same is true of some of the American pro- / ponents of the pending bill. It is contended that a revival of Europe's armament industry will disrupt the civilian economy. Well, why not supply Europe the arms from American industry, and avoid a duplicating effort and all of the attendant headaches? Such a plan would be much topo direct and simple to appeal to our overseas bureaucracy, But its adoption might save the American taxpayer some money as well as provide the security he has been promised but which he doesn't seem to be getting.

Peculiar ‘Friends’

HE HOUSE Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, reporting on its recent tour of Latin America, noted that the Argentine Chamber of Deputies entertained it at dinner with “profuse expressions of friendliness toward this country.” ‘ About the time the ink was dry on the report, Agustin Pena, who has been covering the Chamber of Deputies for the United Press for 15 years, was expelled from Argentina as “an undesirable foreigner.” The Argentinians, who are so fond of saying that we do not understand them, ought to be able to realize that contrasts like these account for our puzzlement. If Argentina really wants to be friends, it would be glad to have the proceedings of its Congress reported to our newspapers by a representative of an American Press service. Argentine newspapermen are welcome in the press galleries of our Congress and always have been. Remembering the shameful expropriation of the great newspaper “La Prensa” by Peron’s government, we cannot be surprised at the expulsion of Reporter Pena. It is surprising, however, that Argentine spokesmen still claim to want our friendship when their own government's actions make friendship so difficult.

A Call for Help

OT MANY of us, we hope, will ever fully understand what it means to get caught in the path of a raging

. tornado such as those which swept this week-end across

gix southern states. Compared with a real twister, an atom

bomb seems a puny thing. But we can understand some measure of the misery involved in a catastrophe which takes 222 lives, puts twice as many in hospitals, leaves an equal number injured and unhospitalized, destroys hundreds of homes and damages millions of dollars worth of property. The American Red Cross has moved quickly to the relief of the sufferers with whole blood, plasma and drugs for the injured, and money for the shelterless and those who have lost their means of employment. Because of this disaster the Red Cross is asking an additional $5 million in contributions this year. ’ We who are fortunate enough not to be on the receiving end of the storms and the relief ministrations can help with our blood and checks to the Red Cross.

“MR. PRESIDENT,” William Hillman's authorized story of Harry S. Truman, should keep the White House busy reading the reproofs. Tee oN & 5 8 NO SLOWPOKE—Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina will answer the new Truman book via magazine. . . » . . . “AMNESIA” is an occupational disease of Washington, D. C., cops and U. 8. tax collectors. It's brought on by congressional investigations. ” # - . ” . AS WE understand Gen. Eisenhower's letters, he would return for a four-year lease on the White House. » ~ - ~ » - “STATES’ RIGHTS” means the deductions you are allowed for local taxes. : : ” » s a J . ® SAFE PREDICTION~If President Truman tries senatorial purge in Virginis, he will wind up with the wrong bird,

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> Indianapolis Times FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS PROB The dianapolis —— ‘Lyon’ Lattimore

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24—Owen . Lattimore,

" who came in like a lion, probably wishes he'd _ taken it on the lam instead:

The Far Eastern expert took on a Senate internal security ‘subcommittee, at his own request, with a bristling 50-page statement in which he scornfully challenged the committee's good faith, Friday, at the conclusion of a searching 12-day cross-examination of Mr. Lattimore, Chairman Pat McCarran (D, Nev.) read a prepared statement which he sald was the

unanimous feeling of the committee, It charged that Mr. Lattimore lied, It added he was “contemptuous, unresponsive, disputa-

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tious, insclent, overbearing, arrogant, evasive, contentious and, belligerent. ® “The precise ‘extent to which Mr. Lattimore gave untruthful testimony before this committee will” n.ver be determined,” Sen. McCarran read. “Human limitations will prevent us from ever attaining the complete knowledge of all his activities which would make it possible to assess each statement he has made and to catalog fully whatever untruths he may have uttered. That he has uttered untruths stands clear on the record.” : Sen. McCarran sald his committee will, as usual, reserve its “conclusions” as to ‘‘the substance” of testimony until all the evidence is

by Talburt

DEAR BOSS . . By Dan Kidney | Brownson Has a ‘Master’ Speech

WASHINGTON, Mar, 24 — All 11 Indiana Congressmen now have filed for renomination. It would be news if even one of them had not done so. Besides death and taxes, nothing seems more certain than that a Congressman will try to hold his seat. Last to file was freshman Rep. Charles B. Brownson, the first Republican to represent the Indianapolis district in 22 years. His office announced today that his renomination papers had been presented to Secretary of State Leland Smith.

Won Speaking Award

BEFORE attending the University of Michigan and then going into the Army, Mr. Brownson foreshadowed his present career by winning the Michigan state high school championship in “extemporaneous speaking.” He still is excellent at it. But this being a campaign year, the Marion County Congressman has prepared what might be called a “master address.” He tried it out last week by keynoting a college students mock convention at Lindenwood College, 8t. Charles, Mo. It is a stirring plea to make the Republican Party “progressive.” And he lists the following ninepoint platform as his own idea of how to proceed: ONE—The tax system must be revised so that it provides incentives, particularly to small enterprises, and is not punitive. This will encourage business activity and in the long run provide the greatest return for the government. It will eliminate without necessitating direct subsidy payments to shove up the economy. TWO-—Currency must be stabilized and a program of debt management consonant with good business practice must be established. For, to millions receiving payment from the government or a return of capital previously invested in insurance, private or government bonds, constancy of the dollar is a matter of economic life and death. THREE—Social progress must be secured and assured through the economic system, not through the principle that bigger government will cure all ills. FOUR—AnN agricultural program designed to serve the best interests of both the consumer and the produce must be organized. FIVE-—Federal legislation which creates and prolongs second class citizenship for minority

SIDE GLANCES

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groups must be repealed. The words of the Declaration of Independence, ‘all men are created equal,” must be made more than an empty phrase used only at political speeches. SIX—The dead hand of the government must be removed from labor-management negotiations and both labor and management must be allowed to return to the true spirit of collective bargaining. SEVEN—The United States’ foreign policy must .be returned to an alignment with the best Interests of the American people as a whole.

Backs Health Plan

EIGHT—In the field of health, let us take action to furnish periodic health examinations for all children and to provide funds for research and experimentation in the field of voluntary health insurance. There is much to be learned from operating experiences of such agencies operating private insurance schemes as Blue Cross and Blue Shield. 2 NINE—Every year we have more vigorous old people in this country. Many of them are well and could be productive. Old age assistance through Social Security should be paid on such a basis that it is not necessary for persons receiving these benefits to get public assistance as well. Individuals should be entitled to tax exemptions for investment in annuity plans. Preference and the awarding of government contracts should be given to firms which guarantee an annual wage to their employees and which furnish employment to those over 65.

Pokes at McKinney THE MASTER speech, as is customary, “views with alarm” most everything the Democrats have done in their two decades of national administration. It takes several pokes at Democratic National Chairman Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis. “Evidently’ Mr. McKinney and his boss in the White House do not realize what the people on the street are talking about,” Mr. Brownson sald. “The working man already knows that we can have a depression here in America with our pockets full of paper money.” / So he is confident that the Republicans will win both the Congress and the Presidency. And Bitheush he doesn’t say so—Mr. Brownson does e Ike.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24— Seems to me that I've been spending most of my waking hours lately, consorting with thieves, alleged thieves, and investigators of thieves.

Mostly they've had their Hands in my pockets and yours, and that's one reason I haven't become bored with such a steady diet of lamentable characters. I am beginning to believe now that the time has come for us taxpayers to get back some of our dough. So far we haven't received a dime. You who read these pieces know what I'm talking about: Crooked tax collectors, highbinding purveyors of merchandise to the military, an assist ant attorney general who liked mink coats, federals who allowed weevils to get millions of dollars’ worth of grain, hotshots who made multimilliondollar profits in government oil tankers, low-lifers who shipped goods for profit to tne Chinese Communists, and stupid bureaucrats who merely wasted our money because that was the easy way.

Since the first of the year there has been a veritable

. pageant of deplorable opera- , the school bus tors making their excuses to : an assortment of congressional

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in. But, he said, the committee had some plain facts to.report. > “The committee has been confronted here with an individual so flagrantly defiant of the United States Senate, so outspoken in his discourtesy,” and’ so persistent in his efforts to confuse and obscure the facts, that the committee feels constrained to take due notice of

. his conduct,” he stated.

The “Johns Hopkins University professor's opening “fusillade of invective” the committee statement said, “scoffed at the committee's efforts, impugned the committee's methods, and slandered the committee's staff.” : “Few witnesses , . . have been permitted to use language as intemperate, provocative, and abusive of the committee,” Sen. McCarran read.

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FURTHERMORE, the statement said, Mr. Lattimore undertook “a deliberate attempt to deny or cover up pertinent facts (which) placed him . . . in a most unenviable position.” . The committee added that Mr. Lattimore , “has testified to having a type of memory with which the, committee is quite familiar. With respect to some matters, he has demonstrated that his memory is extremely good. But he has - testified that his memory was unreliable with respect to matters which ordinary men might be expected to remember most clearly. Very few men forget about their visits to the President . . , but Mr, Lattimore, who, said he saw President Truman just once, wanted this committee to believe he had forgotten the incident when he testified before the Tydings Committee with respect to his influence on foreign policy.” (The McCarran subcommittee has been at-

tempting to show that the Communists pene- °

trated the Institute of Pacific Relations, of which Mr. Lattimore was an influential official, and used it as a propaganda machine to urge a “soft” policy toward the Chinese Communists.) * “AT TIMES,” Sen. McCarran continued, “Mr. Lattimore refused to testify with respect to conclusions; at other times, he appeared eager to do so; and he did so testify on a number of occasions. In fact . .. he testified vehemently to conclusions which the committee found itself unable to draw from facts of record—as in the case of his testimony that he did not have any influence on U. 8, foreign policy with respect to the Far East.” Sen. McCarran pointed out that in 1945 Mr. Lattimore wrote a letter to the President, “urging a review of United States policy” in

MR. EDITOR:

Open letter to Times writer, Ted Knap: In regards to your story in Monday, Mar. 17, Times, “Anderson Paying for Political Greed.” T want to congratulate you for opening the eyes for the people of Anderson. I just hope you do more, because it is rotten here in Anderson. Both the newspapers in Ahderson are together and run by General Motors and the politicians, so we don’t get the truth on anything concerned with Anderson unless it's in the politicians favor. . The light plant situation is terrible. For example, during the past 10 years I've lived in my house, my light bill has averaged from $8 to $13 a month, which wasn't too bad, I

* thought, since I had almost everything electrical.

Since the first of the year my light bill hasn’t been under $17, Now I haven't used any more this year than I have in the past nine. ‘Only the meter shows that I use the kilowatts, yes, but why not? They cut the voltage down so you have to use more current. The Anderson papers the other morning came out with the story that this administration is asking for a reduction in rates. So much the better if they would put the voltage up where it should be. Thanks again for blasting the officials of Anderson, and I hope you do more. Maybe we cifizens of Anderson will wake up and do something. - What we really need is an investigation in the rotten setup in the city of Anderson, but who is going to do it, when our, papers won't print anything? —Carl O. Marlitt, Anderson

‘Need New Traffic Plan’

MR. EDITOR: Our city needs a new traffic plan. A fullscale study of traffic in Indianapolis shows a need for a control program which would lower

Views on the News

CONSOLATION PRIZE—Sen. Taft won the “write-off” in New Jersey.

s o » WHEN candidate Kefauver’'s plane was forced down in a Nebraska snowstorm, he was reported “the calmest man on board.” Probably thinking how he'd like to be Ike.

F 4 2 » EXPLAINING why he supported the Jenner-Smith reservations to the Japanese Fa peace treaty, Sen. Capehart (R. Ind.) sald he was Sen. Capehert “through following experts.” ,,, experts out

» MORE People seem to be involved in that million-dollar Reno robbery than in the Cuban

revolution.

—D. K.

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the Far East, “from which review the then top ‘officials of the State De should be excluded.” Mr. Lattimore visited the President and left a memo suggesting that State Depart-

ment officials with China background be given

more authority. “Soon thereafter,” the committee statement said, “the them top officials of tRe State Department were replaced, including former Ame bassador (Joseph C.) Grew. Further, the num ber and importance of top jobs in the State Department, held by persons with China back- - grounds, was increased. Finally this witness testified that the policy advocated; shortly thereafter, in the so-called “directive” of Dee 15, 1945, on China policy, and which our gove ernment sought to carry out in China, was substantially the same as the policy‘ outlined In” Mr. Lattimore’s memoranda with respect to *China ... : - eo TH @ MR. LATTIMORE, insisted in earlier testimony befure the committee that he had had no influence on U. 8. policy toward Chind. Sen. McCarran read numerous examples of what he termed “significant’ untruths” in Mr, Lattimore’s testimony. Three were: That Mr. Lattimore “forgot . . . he had a desk in the State Department Building for ‘four, five, or six’ months during the last war.” The Far Eastern expert first denied he'd had a desk there, and later admitted that he had. That Mr. Lattimore denied he had ev&r handled correspondence for Lauchlin Currie, aid to President Roosevelt. He admitted his memory had been “Inaccurate” after a letter he had written was produced. It said, in part: “Currie asked me to take care of his correspondence while he was away and in view of your telegram of today, I think I had better tell you that he has gone to China on a special trip... eo * o ANOTHER statement cited by the commit tee as an “untruth” was about a luncheon with Constantine Oumansky, Soviet ambassador to the U. 8. in June, 1941. Mr. Lattimore earlier testified that the luncheon took place after Germany's attack on Russia, Before the McCarran committee, however, Mr. Lattimore conceded that the lunch was four days before the German attack-—that is, while the Hitler-Stalin pact was still in effect. Mr. Lattimore sat tight-lipped through Sen. McCarran’s bitter attack. When it was over he smiled broadly at Mrs. Lattimore and left the hearing room.

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the death rate and bring order out of chaos. The first part of the job would be to get the enforcement machinery . , . which involved the police as well as traffic courts . , , operating effectively.

The traffic department is understaffed and inadequately housed. It lacks motorized equipment and there is little or no training, The courts are too lenient, the fine schedule for traffic violations too low. There is no safeguard against ticket fixing. Drunk drivers run rampant here. They are only occasionally punished as they deserve.

Only records of accidents causing personal injury or deaths are kept. The run of the mill accidents, involving property damage, are hardly ever investigated. A complete system of reporting and investigating of traffic accidents, no matter how minor, is needed to determine

accurately what the ci total accident experience has been. " pe

From these reports, anyone can see what kinds of accidents have been happening, how many, comparisons with previous months and other information which is needed if the Police Department is to control traffic accidents, With a complete overhaul of the traffic police, courts, traffic engineering, safety education and legislative phases of our city government, we can lower the death rate and make Indianapolis a safer place in which to live.

=Clifford Gibson, 3048 N. Drexel.

Lenten Meditation :

Jesus Answers Questions About the Kingdom

THE GROWING EDGE

It is like a grain of mustard seed. . verses 18-21, Luke 13:19. Read

hat is the kingdom of God like?” $ an answer Jesus tells seven i describe the mysteries of this kingdom, Peles Which Each of these parables is a treasure in itself, but notice that the first four have to do with growth or change. Unless the seed sown by Jesus has a chance to grow the kingdom cannot be strong. And evil may grow along with the good until the judgment. And what has started very small may grow very great. The parable of the leaven shows that the Christian faith can change the individual and permeate society with its blessings.

Dr. Richard Cabot points out that just es skin or muscle has a growing edge so “the soul has a growing edge. It can advance only from the point where just now it is.”* Then he lists five foods which cause and encourage this growing edge.” They are love, learning, beauty, service, and suffering. Dr. Cabot adds, “In my own life it i sutfering, frustration, humiliation, -grief, remorse thet have best nourished growth. . , . The growing edge ‘of our character is what we now want to make of ourselves.” |

Let Us Pray: If we are dying spirituall ly and mental and morally, O God, stir new life within us so that i may begin to grow again with Jesus. Amen. ‘ *From The Art of Ministering to the Sick by B. C. Cal on

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cluding the tax collectors at St. Louis and Boston, have gone to jail for taking bribes from those who hated to pay their just taxes. Several others have been in"dicted on perjury charges growing out of the Lustron Housing hocus-pocus, which alone cost us taxpayers $37 million. A number of others have been fired from federal jobs both high and low. But’ the money which we taxpayers lost seems to nave gone down the drain. Nobody paid us for the 43,000 pounds of ham that spoiled at the San Diego, Cal, naval post; the coffee that the Army used as a sweeping compound in a

million worth of grain that disappeared from federal warehouses. . The total loss from cheating poor, old and sometimes softheaded Uncle Sam {is fabulous. It runs into the hundreds of millions and even into the billions, if you include the mere waste along with the pure (this is a new way to use that word) thievery. Man after man I've watched deny everything, until confronted with evidence that couldn't be denied. I've heard testimony about them receiving bribes of television sets, Holy Bibles, cameras, airplane rides, hams, hotel suites, jam, automobiles, summer cottages, and

KIND AND GOOD

WHEN are wo nearest God and Heaven . . , when have we reached that noble place . . . sharing great joy and splendid comfort . . . that is found only in God's grace . .. when are we. humans lifted upward. . , floating upon a silver ¢loud . . . hearing the songs of saints and angels < « + ringing within our ears aloud . . . when does great happiness enfold us . . . giving a special inward thrill .. . such as we get when looking over . . . beautiful landscape from a hill. . . and when do we all feel a real glow «+ « Warming our hearts as deep passion would o + « Well, I can tell you all this happens . . . whenever we are kind and good.

=-By Ben Burroughs,

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Some cynics claim the cure rent sunburst of investigations is a matter of politics. Others insist that stealing from Uncle is nothing new. There is merit

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doesn’t make this close-shorn taxpayer feel any better. The congressional inquiries apparently are just getting a good start. The grain scandals are only beginning to

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probers claim they've still to spear their biggest fish. Wednesday a congressional committee starts looking into the ‘income of the attorney general, himself, More shipping deals still are to be uncovered, more wild eyed operations involving the

. sales of surplus real estate,

more fast ones in connection with military bases. I'll stick with ’em for one reason, no matter how hard grows the .chair, nor glaring the lights, I want my Noney back. If Uncle tould latch on:to a billion or so that the stupids handed to the wickeds, it would show. up on the tax bills of us all, “i

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