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Encouraging Socialism

WO AMERICAN oil companies, the Texas and Socony Vacuum, are withdrawing from business in Argentina, and selling their properties to the government at a figure representing their original investment in 1933. No reason has been given. But the increasing difficulties of doing business under the Peron regime must have had “much to do with it. Socony Vacuum is abandoning its operations in Egypt for similar reasons. Unless investment capital can operate with a hope of profit and enjoy reasonable security, it will seek new fields where such conditions exist. Unfortunately, that welcome sign is not found in as many places as it used to be. That is in part the fault of our own government. Cy New governments emerging from colonial exploitation quite naturally are suspicious of foreign influences of any kind. But they can be shown /by our own experience as a nation that foreign investment capital can be used in the development of a country without any infringement upon its sovereignty. The U. 8. began its existence as a debtor nation. Foreign capital was a major factor in its jndustrial

development.

. » THE PEOPLE directing American foreign policy either do not know this or are hostile to tye free enterprise system. But whether it is a case of ignorance or socialistic bias, it amounts to the same thing. When the Iranian government arbitrarily canceled the. oil concession held by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co, our government condoned that by advancing money to the Iranians, and by allowing them to get the impression that more of it would be forthcoming. The Truman administration 1s encouraging this trend toward expropriation by financing socialistic ventures in other parts of the world. Private capital cannot meet this kind of competition, particularly when government money is being given away. : .The U. 8. got into the give-away business under the pressures of war. It ought to get out of the business now, except where our aid is making a direct contribution to the rearmament effort. : We are giving away money which we cannot afford, and it is being used to undermine the profit system which is the whole basis of our wealth,

Confusion

FROM THE standpoint of a stable economy, no more chaotic situation could be imagined than that now con"fronting the country as a result of the steel industry crisis. : The nation faces the dismal prospect of a paralyzing . steel strike, 11 days from now. Moreover, it faces the . prospect—if it has not already happened—of a breakdown in the loose economic controls which have been in effect, and a probable new surge of listing costs and prices. The memory of othér steel strikes is all too fresh. The hardships imposed on countless workers and industries are not forgotten. The setback which a prolonged steel shutdown would inflict on the defense program is obvious. All this stems primarily from a single source—the Jack of an effective policy in Washington.

. . " » » n WHEN THE Korean war started 21 months ago, President Truman said he didn’t need any economic controls to combat the new outbreak of inflation. Even when Congress gave him these powers, despite his frivolous optimism, he declined to use them. Not until six months later did he appoint Charles E. Wilson Mobilization Director, with sweeping authority to use the controls enacted by Congress. And a few weeks after that, when the labor unions revolted against this setup, he undercut Mr. Wilson by creating the now-disintegrating Wage Stabilization Board which took over the mobilizer’s authority. H the administration all along had had a strong, effective policy for fighting inflation, the steel crisis might not have developed. And if it had, there would have been a policy with which to meet it—instead of the floundering indecision which now has worsened the situation.

Seeing’s Believing

THE HOUSE Appropriations Committee has whacked more than $200 million from President Truman's request for money to spend on the Army's civil functions, mostly flood control and navigation projects. That's good work. But let's not bank those “saved” taxpayers’ dollars yet. There's tough going ahead. This is the big pork barrel bill. And this is an election year. From now on, a lot of Representatives and Senators will be on the prowl], trying to get more in the barrel for pet projects in their home districts and states. Log-rolling— you vote for mine and I'l vote for yours—again will flourish. : History of this appropriations bill in recent years has followed a striking pattern: ’ The House Appropriations Committee makes a deep cut. The House itself goes along, or restores some of the

reduction. The Senate Appropriations Committee votes big increases over the House bill. The Senate itself chips in more. Result: Darned little economy.

That's why the taxpayers better wait this one out before they take great cheer from the House committee's action,

Rebuild the Bastile

HE FRENCH have arrested the premier of Tunis and two members of his cabinet. The charge against the three officials is that they yielded to pressure of “irresponsible violent elements” in attempting to send two representatives to New York to present the case for Tunisian independence to the United Nations. : ; 2 Shades of Voltaire and Lafayette. - Now that it has become treason to assert the right of petition, will the French revolution of 1789 be repealed ? , ER

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«By LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Mar, 28 Domestic politics in the United States and Italy probably will force some concession to Italy in the Trieste dispute, but the large anti-American riots in

“the free territory and in Rome ’

are resented here. In the long run Italy will suffer for them, At most, Italy may be allowed to share with the U. 8, and Britain the military government and occupation responsibilities in the free territory’s “Zone A.” 'T'hat covers the port city and a small sur-

rounding area. Kven this has not yet been agreed to by Washington and London, The Big Two will not hand over the entire free territory to Italy, as demanded by Itallan speaking municipal authorities in Trieste and by the violent mobs there and in Itallan cities, That would involve use of Allled arms to wrest from, Yugoslav occupation forces the territory's ‘Zone B,” a less Important and partially Slavic area south of the Amer-ican-British “Zone A.” » » ”

IT IS true that the Washington, London and Paris governmgnts four years ago recommended - giving the whole free territory to Italy—on the ground that Russia had sabotaged creation of an international administration there under the United Natfons, as provided in the Italian Peace Treaty. But there was no implication then or since, and no intention now, of starting a war against Yugoslavia and inviting a world war, to give impatient Itallan Nationalists what they want. Just as the BIg Three recommendation of March, 1948, favoring Italian claims to the entire free territory was based on a change in the situation, requiring a shift in the original Big Three policy for an International administration, 80 a further basic change since then has again modified Allled policy. This basic change, of course, is that Yugoslavia switched from being a Stalin satellite, with aggressive intent toward Trieste and Italy, and became instead a

semi-ally of the Western powers. » " ” THOUGH the Tito swi

was for selfish reasons and for no love of Italy, today Yugoslavia by necessity is in fact Italy’s chief bulwark against Russian invasion and the strongest anti-Stalinist force in Southeastern Europe. This fact has caused the U. 8. and Britain to give de. fense aid to Tito. Also it has made them seek a compromise settlement, which would remove the war-fuse from Trieste. and permit ItalianYugoslav co-operation for mutual security, Both Tito and Itallan Premier De Gasperi desire this. But both are partial prisoners of the extreme nationalism in their own countries. And more so now because of the Italian riots and the resulting Yugoslav public reaction, Nevertheless, the big two will continue to press Tito and De Gasperi for a compromise. =

» MEANWHILE, \ the pro-Al-lied De Gasperi I BND politically at home. He desperately needs from the Allies some Trieste concession to strength. en his position. At the same time, this is an American election year in which the administration is solicitous of Italian-American votes in New York and elsewhere. The Italian-American Labor Council on Tuesday told Secretary of State Acheson the free territory should be returned to Italy “without further delay.” Anyway, Washington and London are now seriously studying an earlier secret De Gasperi plea for joint American - British - Italian administration of the Allied “Zone A.” That may invite more conflict between Italians and the Slav minority there, besides raising legal -difficulties in the United Nations.

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MR. EDITOR: The Teamsters Union is having internal troubles and I have full sympathy for: the “rank-and-filers.” : As a result of the recent active protest of these “rank-and-filers” against the high-handed tactics of the "big shots” of their organization, The Indianapolis Times editor composed his number-one editorial (Tues. Mar. 18), His editorial was an indiscriminate ostracism of “union security” in-all unions or union contracts. His basic meaning was, if one union could and would be. a traitor to its people, all unions are. His line of reasoning here is like the article appearing a short time ago in The Times, which laughed at McCarthyism on the basis of word association. Said article explained that: If you know a Communist, you are a Communist; if you are red-headed, and a red-headed murderer is convicted, you are a murderer, etc. I have to assume from this that our editor does not read his own paper. do. HB oH THE POINT of my letter is, in my union, UAW-CIO, the union security clause cannot be used as a club over members’ heads like our editor describes, Where continuous membership status, in good standing, is a condition of continued employment, a member cannot be arbitrarily suspended. He must be convicted of a serious violation of our Constitution by an elected trial commit-

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Questions About the Kingdom

TAKE A CHILD

They had discussed with one another who was the greatest. . . . He took a child. Mark 9:34, 36. Read verses 33-37. *

Take a child, as Jesus did, and “put him in the midst” of the questions our world asks today, then see how the answer lights up from the face and heart of that child. Toke a child and put him in the midst of modern war (he often gets left in the middle) and see what war does to that child and what the judgment of that child would be upon war. Take a child and put him in the midst of an alcoholic home (children are oll too often caught in the middié there) ond see what that home does to that child. Take a child ond put him in the midst of our widespread materialistic culture, where social standing so often seems to depend on who has two cars, or a television set. Then see what that kind of culture does to the ideals and character of a child. No wonder Jesus said that unless we come to have the humility and love of a little child, we need not worry whether we shall be first in the kingdom of God; we won't get in at all, even to the vestibule. .

Let Us Pray: Dear Father of all Thy children, the next time we face a hard question help us to put a child in the midst of that question and see whot our decision might do to our own children, our neighbor's children, the children in all far ploced who are dear to Thee, as Jesus did. Amen.

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tee. He has the right to appeal from this decision to the international executive board, and the right to appeal the board’s decision to the next international convention before final action is taken. The international convention consists of elected representatives from every local union in UAW-CIO from all over the country, $0 no local personal animosities can sway it. Our belief ip union security is based on the same principles that our local and national government is, namely, that all people who receive beneficial services therefrom, should pay their fair share of support, always reserving the right to gripe about how it is spent. Mr. Editor, I think that you owe us members of UAW-CIO and a majority of other unions, a profuse apology. —Clarence F. Goodyear, 2275 N. Edmundson Ave.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Theoretically all unions, including the Teamsters, have such “safeguards” for members, which jn some, such as UAW, ginclude more “trial” procedure than in others. Under any system, though, the member who disagrees with the union to the extent of breaking its rules can be put out of the union, even though it be done by a fair “trial.” If there is a “union shop” contract, that means he is fired from his job and blacklisted from all other “union shop” jobs. The common error that unions have such rights because governments have them, overlooks the fact that unions are not governments, and is comparable to saying everyone in Indianapoli now should pay dues to the’ Republican Party because it won the election last fall. The right of any worker to join any union he chooses ceases to be a right when all workers are compelled to join. Compulsory union membership offers no advantage to any worker that he does not have without it, and actually weakens, rather than strengthens a union by forcing unwilling workers to join it.

Views on the News

TAFT decided to face Eisenhower in the South Dakota primary June 23. The Ohio Senator always has had good luck getting Southern delegates.

INFLATION hasn't hit everything. There is more in-terest-in Sen. Brewster's $10,000 today, than in “Brewster's Millions.”

IN CONGRESS a “lone wolf” is a Senator or Representative who is not serving on one of the 225 investigating committees.

RUSSIA'S gouging éf India in their rice deal must have been a “capitalistic” plot by the Communists.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN is reported trying to convince Gov. Stevenson of Illinois to become the Democrats’ receiver in bankruptcy.

—D. K.

Sen. Brewster

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 — kindly would keep their noses Nobody much seems to be out of his affairs. Obviously, worrying about Hyman H. he said, they had just tankled

Klein, the hungry millionaire, except me. I don’t think he’s getting enough to eat. When he hitchhiked back ‘here from Los Angeles to defend his multimillion-dollar whisky profits before the House tax investigators, I noticed he was lean and hollowcheeked. His voice was soft, but how was I to know that was from lack of nourishment. He talked casually about how his investment of $1000 in a complicated international corporation deal had resulted in him garnering $5 million in profits by importing from Canada a potent fluid known as Harwood’s blended whisky. He told about how he'd paid a capital-gains tax of $1.2 million when he sold out and he lamented the fact that the Bureau of Internal Revenue had slapped a jeopardy assessment on him for $7 million. . Wistfully he added that he certainly did wish the government would let him resume business. He said also that he'd be just as pleased if such strangers as Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) and mystery man Henry Grunewald

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the red tape some more. The Congressmen could not force any facts from the close-mouthed Grunewald; he

said he was sick. So they did the next best thing. They invited Sen. Bridges to sit on their hot seat and explain why he tried to help a man he'd never even met. Sen. Bridges sat on the extreme edge of the committee's green leather chair and explain, he did: A lawyer friend of his. William Power Maloney, asked him to urge a little speed on the Bureau of Internal Revenue in settling the case of the

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 28—When the House Ruies

Committee voted 7 to 4 to investigate the Wage Stabiliza- —

tion Board, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, charged that it was a move to aid the ‘‘steel barons.”

The first district Congressman from Indiana was one of the four opposing such action. He charged it was put over by the coalition. of “‘‘reactionary Republicans , and Dixiecrats”’ on. the ruies committee “It is done to keep-the steel workers from getting the wage boost which 'WSB found was justified,” Mr. Madden asserted. “If there is a steel strike it will be caused by the price hoosts ‘nade possible by the Capehart and Herlong amendments, not by the findings of the Wage Stabilization Board.” Sen, Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), author of the price control amendment which President Truman alleges can cost consumers billions, called Mr. Madden's charges “unfounded and assinine.” “The Capehart and Herlong amendments have held the price line” the senior Senator from Indiana said. “That is shown by the fact that the cost of-living price index has gone down so that railroad workers operating under the escalator clause have taken a two-cent an hour wage cut. We stopped the inflationary spiral and Mr. Madden must know he is talking’ nonsense. n = a MR. MADDEN said in reply that the cost of automobiles and other manufactured pro~ ducts all have been boosted by the Office of Price Stabilization because the Capehart amendment made such - increases mandatory. The amendment provides that all cost increases of manufactured products can be added to the price from the start of the Korean War up to July 26, 1951. The Herlong amendment legis-

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lates the customary mark-up of profit on all increases percentagewise, -e “The only thing these men want to hold down is wages,” Mr. Madden declared. “If they interested in really holding down prices, we would not be confronted with the danger of any steel strike today.” Mr. Madden's principal political support comes from the unions in the Calumet district. There are.thousands of memberg of CIO President Philip Murray's United Steel Workers: of America employed In the Gary steel mills. Mr. Madden long has been one of their principal congressional spokesmen. Sen. Capehart is equally as arduous in pushing emonomic measures from the standpoint of the businessman and manufacturer, He is one of them. _

n » 2 HE PREDICTS that the present WSB will be replaced by a full-time board of $15,000 a year men who will represent “the public interest.” This means that the labor and industry members of the present 18 members board would be dropped. Their votes usually offset each other any wav. The President would appoint the new board, but the memsbers would have to be approved by the Senate. As ranking minority member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, where the Capehart amendment Ww a s born, Sen. Capehart and his southern cohorts, such as Chairman Burnet R. Maybank (D. 8. C.), would pass on the membership before sending the names to the Senate.

POLITICS . . . By Charles Lucey

Anything Can Happen In Wisconsin Primary

MADISON, Wis.,, Mar.

928 The American voter's

growing disregard for party lines could cut a fancy figure in Wisconsin's presidential primary test Tuesday. ; This state’s primary is wide open. The voter doesn’t

go into a voting place and ask for either a Republican or Democratic ballot as in many states. Here, ; . RR he gets both ; to start with: and then makes his choice. -3 The pros-, pect here is for invasion of the Republican primary by Democrats. Nobody can judge the exact proportions of this invasion in advance, but some Wisconsin politicians think it could be a formidable threat to Sen. Robert A. Taft.

The Democratic primary is complicated by bitter war among Democrats themselves. Three slates of delegates are before Democratic voters—one representing Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and “two made up of warring Democratic factions eager to sell themselves as standins for President Truman. Most Democratic leaders seem to’ think Mr. Kefauver will win handily. Months ago, Wisconsin Democrats sought President Truman’s permission for a slate in his name, but he would have none of it. Washington was advised that if Mr, Truman didn't come in, the state would go to Sen. Kefauver. New pressure was put on after the President reconsidered and let his name go on the ballot in the New Hampshire primary. Still, the only word back to Wisconsin was a suggestion for a favorite son ticket.

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BUT in Wisconsin, there was no prominent Democrat capable of holding the fort for Mr. Truman. Thus today there are two pro-Truman slates, headed by men generally unknown in the state. The one name on

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rapidly weakening millionaire. Turned out that in 1948, Mr. Klein and wife were about to take a cruise in the Caribbean. The bureau thought maybe he was going to flee the country with his millions. So it ordered the jeopardy assessment. This formidable document forced Klein to stay in the country. It tied up his property. It froze his bank ac-, counts. He can’t sell anything. The way it's been explained to me, he can’t even cash a check at a resturant. os ” ” FOR four long years almost to the day, Mr. Klein has been growing hungrier and hungrier, while his lawyers argued with the government's dittos. There

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the Democratic ballot that is known is that of Mr. Kefauver. Because the feud between the state's Democratic factions {s worth no more than a yawn to thousands of Democratic voters, the thinking is that many will swing into the Republican contest to vote for Gov. Earl Warren or Harold. Stassen — in other words, to vote against Mr. Taft and indirectly for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. The campaign job done by Thomas E. Coleman's Republican organization for Sen. Taft seems close to political perfection. Yet this possibility of Democratic voters in the Republican primary, plus a possible sweep of pro-Eisen-hower strength to either Gov. Warren or Mr. Stassen, has an explosive potential. on ” ” YOU FIND, among a few politicians here, a feeling that there's a long shot chance of Wisconsin crushing Mr. Taft as it crushed Wendell Willkie in 1944. That was the year Mr. Willkie, pulled out of the presidential race the day the

_ Wisconsin returns came in.

But Taft leaders are buying none of that. They acknowledge that the Minnesota Eisene hower write-in could be infectious here. But they know also that an Eisenhower vote may be split badly between the Warren and Stassen tickets, Both sides have made a tere rific bid for a share of Gen, Ike's coattails, and nobody can be sure of the results. A factor some people count on the Taft side is a rising opposition in northern Wisconsin against the drafting of young men off the farms. Protest meetings, ‘held in many towns, emphasize the unpopularity of the Korean War, That's an angle Mr. Taft has played hard. The Taft people will settle for 22 of Wisconsin's 30 delegates, but they’re hungry for more. They can hardly get fewer and look good.

still 1s no sign that the case is near settlement.

Sen. Bridges sald that when this was explained to him by Mr. Maloney, why of course he urged the tax collectors to make up their minds. He said he didn't ask the tax experts to do Mr. Klein any favors, but rather to show a little speed in making some kind of settlement. The delay, he continued, was unfair not only to Mr. Klein, but to. the rest of us taxpayers. The fact that the whisky millionaire continues on/ short rations with the jeopardy ase sessment still in force indicates the kind of influence Sen, Bridges has around the Treas. ury Department, the Republican gentleman from New’ Hampshire added. . Sen. B. took two pairs ofeveglasses from his pocket and put on the ones with the pale frames. He placed a cigaret in a silver-bound holder and he waited for the Democrats on the committee to do their’ worst. ; “They handled him gently, Unanswered went the question as to why so many strangers

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