Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1952 — Page 20

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GEN. GRUENTHER as one of the greatest military brains in the last 20 years of American history. His understanding of the strategic aspects of European defense is unsurpassed. He has been “a mountain of strength in support of Gen. Eisenhower. But his background as a behind-the-scenes staff general, ‘both now and during World War II, has robbed him of that color that usually infuses the personality of a successful fleld commander. Gen, Gruenther fits more the picture of an extremely competent corporation executive. Nevertheless, this phase of his makeup cannot be said him for the NATO job. It is a tribute to of fundamentals that the British press been trumpeting the case of Gen. Gruenther. . =» simply feel he is most useful where he is, and that Gen. year of experience on the European scene

Ridgway or Gruenther :

VV HETHER Gen. Eisenhower's successor in Europe is Gen. Ridgway or Gen. Gruenther, the NATO command will unquestionably be in superior hands. Any American should be well satisfied with either of these choices, since their qualifications, though different certain respects, are almost equally outstanding. Gen. Ridgway is obviously the more glamorous figure, with that sense of drama that often adds measurably to a soldier's appeal as a field commander. He has proved himself an able general and administrator in the unenviable task of successor to Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo. There is an understandable feeling that a man who can step into so difficult a spot as the Far East command can-do it again—in Europe. Though the strategic and tactical problems will all be different, there are definite basic similarities between the two jobs. Both call for high administrative talents, for the ability to blend the efforts nations in a common cause.

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ther may or Hay sob got the job. But it real progress when a man of his great but publicly post which you'd normally expect all NATO countries to demand be filled by a commander with proved qualities of

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It is rewarding to realize that the issue of Gen. Eisenhower's successor can be considered fairly on so high a plane of discussion. Whoever the final choice, there need be no feeling that the question was clouded or distorted by resort ta pettinoss and unreglistic argument. The case is being studied on its merits. ;

The Time Has Come

"THESE DAYS a man gets home from the office worried. Tired, too, as he trudges up the front steps, the latest instances of his fellow man’s eternal cussedness still etched on his troubled mind. ‘Convicts riot. Politicians spout more baleful warnings. Commies deal again froth the bottom of the deck. Steel folk still alley fighting. An atom bomb practice pitch. Home indeed can be a sweet refuge. Until that frenetic bundle in the back of the house charges up front. Windows to be washed. Screens to repair. Porches to scrub. Rugs to beat. Garden to spade. Seeds to plant. Is she really carrying that broom? Or is she riding it? :

Whirligig HEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN first said he would investigate the already investigated sections of his administration, he offered the investigating job to Judge Thomas F. Murphy. When Judge Murphy declined, the President gave the job to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, one of those Mr. McGrath, with the President's blessing, turned the assignment over to Newbold Morris. Before Mr, Morris could start investigating, he became involved in the congressional investigation of surplus ship Then Mr. McGrath didn't like Mr. Morris’ investigating methods, so he fired him. Then Mr, Truman fired Mr. McGrath and nominated Judge James P. McGranery to take his place. Judge McGranery now is under investiga.

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Meanwhile, it turns out the Justice Department, which Mr. Morris started out to investigate, was supposed to be investigating Mr. Morris long before, at request of the Commerce Department. Now Congress threatens to investigate that investigation, or lack of it. SE Any reader who is now lost has our understanding

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to capture the dog and remove him from his _ vernal retreat. ‘. _. 'The dog was pretty smart and for quite a spell kept {se busybodies at a distance. Then a reporter who was almost as smart: as the beast and who had the tools of civilization at hand put out some dog food spiked with sleeping pills. a The dog was captured. Unfortunately he was too groggy from the goof balls to chew the arm off the:

Now the dog is in a cage at an animal shelter. There are fio rabbits to chase, no fresh brooks to drink from and

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TheEnemy And Peace

_ By OLAND D, RUSSELL PANMUNJOM, Korea, Apr. 26 — What a weird fascinating place this is, halfway between the lines, where Artillery shells kick up dust within easy eye range; Snow white cranes stand immobile in nearby rice paddies; Helicopters hover and land with United Nations truce talk

delegates; American newsmen while away the time with softball, and you meet the enemy face to face. If you are a chance visitor and a newsman, you meet the enemy first in the person of Alan Winnington, British Communist who arrives in a Russian jeep and strolls down the jond greeting correspondents hy name, Mr. Winnington is tall and spare in his food-stained dark green semi-uniform, Hig long hair flares out from a rakish cap. His teeth are tobaccodarkened. And he is the essence of friendliness.

“AFTER all, we are all newspapermen,” he says. Then he goes into his act of smilingly assuring you that: ONE — The United Nations army is waging an uncivilized germ war against the Communists. ; TWO-The armistice could be arranged in a matter of hours if the United Nations delegates would stop stalling and really negotiate. THREE-—The huge Chinese forces in Korea really are volunteers— “Why, 39 out of 40 people in my (newspaper) office in Peliping volunteered,” he said. ? “You really believe Amerfcans and your countrymen are spreading germs among civiljana?” I asked. “I'm convinced of it,” he replied. » » .

AND HE was equally convinced, he said, that we were stalling the truce talks until we could start using tactical tomic weapons in Korea. The tie-in of recent maneuers in America with the deadeked negotiations here, he ald, was unmistakable,

No, he'd never been to Amer-

ca. But he'd gladly come if ve'd only admit a known Communist. Mr. Winnington offers you a grade of American pipe tobacco you can't get at any post exchange in Korea, explaining “we have plenty of it up there.” And he proffers a light from his swank, initialed Americanmade lighter. He snaps your picture with a Russian camera and offers to bring a bottle of

Polish wine tomorrow. .

“WHAT would happen if I walked down that road?” I asked, pointing into enemy territory. 8 “You'd be arrested,” he said. And then? “You'd probably be the topic of considerable discussion,” he sald. But, he added, if I merely wanted to visit the Commy headquarters in Kaesong, six miles north, he'd show me a good time and bring me back tomorrow, “You'd really have a story,” he promised. But that's one 1 didn't buy. : Correspondents here long have pegged Mr, Winnington and his colleague, Wilfred Burchett, for what they are— mouthpieces to plant stories, ‘hide realities and bore from within, : Shs They're a fantastic part of the whole fantastic business

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MR. EDITOR: On Sunday, Apr. 20, an article appeared on the front page of your paper which I certainly did not like. I am quite shocked that anyone like Irving Leibowitz could hold a position with your fine paper, since you have been very fair in the past. He seems to have no conscience. His remarks are not true. He seems to delight in making fun of people who are every bit as smart as he, and fellow Americans, I am a Democrat, and although I am not blind to mistakes made by my party, I resent his inference that some of the good, well meaning people who attended the dinner on Saturday night didn’t even know who Jefferson and Jackson were—had never heard of them. I am certain there was not a person at that gathering regardless of how glum or sullen he looked that could not have matched wits with Mr. Leibowitz, I am sure the Democrats studied history also.

I enjoyed your paper much more before Mr. Leibowitz started getting front page space. His style is certainly ugly. He has a right to his opinions, but his scathing remarks are not in tune to the rest of the paper. . =Frances M. Brezettd, City.

‘Fare Increases’

MR. EDITOR: I have just finished reading the proposals of Mayor Clark to the Indianapolis Railways in an effort to prevent them from getting a higher increase in their fares. It was my belief that when the honorable Mayor was elected it was on the basis of lowering taxes and expenses and instead of doing that he has had the tendency of raising the costs of everything in the city. Let us examine his proposals one by one: ONE--Increasé the downtown parking meter charge from 1 cent for 12 minutes to 5 cents for 15 minutes. Purpose of this, contends the Mayor, is to discourage downtown driving. What about business? What effect will it have on the

downtown stores?

TWO--Halt off-street parking projects, and the third proposal is to prohibit parking in the downtown mile square area. What will visitors to the city who come here, as well as businessmen from other cities, think of a proposal in a city which prohibits them from parkng The average family wanting to go down-

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

CONGRESS ROUNDUP . . . By Charles Egger

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Fight Over Stee Reaches White-He

WASHINGTON, Apr. 286 This week in Congress the uproar over President Truman's seizure “of the steel Industry reached the white-héat stage,” The Senate refused to deny funds to pay for government operation of the mills. A Repub-lican-sponsored motion to suspend the rules and consider such a ban was voted down, 47 to 29, four short of the necessary two-thirds majority, In another move to get the same result, the Senate Appropriations Committee began writing the prohibition into spending bills being sent to the floor. . The House ordered an investigation by its Labor Committee of the Wage Stabilization Board, which recommended a steel wage increase and other benefits, including a closed shop. ’ Rep. Robert Hale (R. Me.) introduced a resolution calling for President Truman's impeachment. There is little Hkelihood that such action will be taken. The Senate Banking Committee began its own investigation of the steel seizure.

Senate THE SENATE expressed strong - sentiment for abolishing the Reconstruction Fi--nance Corp. then deferred final action until a later date. The tentative vote to abolish

“the RBC carte when debate bes

gan on the Fulbright bill to tighten the lending agency's administrative procedures. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D, Va.) asked that his bill to dissolve the RFC be substituted for the

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town shopping and take the car would be unable to under the proposals of the Mayor and thus they would start shopping at stores in outlying districts that provide parking space or where they could park free on the street. It fs my honest opinion that the three proposals are silly because you cannot create one evil to discourage another evil. I think it only fair for Mayor Clark to consider the business people in the downtown area because an increase in parking meters would

‘only benefit the city and hurt the businessman.

If it is the Mayor's theory to dstourage downtown driving, I don’t believe that he has Indianapolis businessmen in thesdowntown area in consideration when these proposals were

made.

—Norman L. Shepard, 3037 Graceland Ave.

‘Taxes and Jobs’

MR. EDITOR:

Today's taxes are a menace to the working

man.

Did you know that it takes from $8000 to $10,000 to create a job in American industry? Yes, it costs that much, on the average, to buy the plant, tools, supplies and all that a man needs to work with. Now when the government takes $10,000 away from the people, it takes away the wherewithal to create a new job. That new job does

not come into existence.

Somebody, perhaps

some young fellow just seeking a start in life,

is denied a job.

In the year 1951, the federal government took $56,003,339,429 in taxes, the most monumental tax-take in all history, Dividing this figure by $10,000 we find that the federal government last year took away the capital with which 5,609,334 new jobs could have been

created.

That is more than four jobs for every youngster who graduated from high school last

Year.

THE opportunity to create all those new jobs was denied to American business and industry by the federal government, Those new jobs were not created and never will be created, because an administration which poses as a friend of the working man took the money

away.

The State of Indiana also is guilty of snuffing out the life of many new jobs before they can be born. In the year ending last June 30,

“the state took in taxes a total of $262,700,000.

That money, if left in private hamds, would

' have béen enough to create 26,270 new jobs.

That is a substantial number of new jobs. Indiana industry badly needs those new jobs to give employment to our growing population. But no, the tax hungry state denied us the opportunity to create those new jobs. Working men, wake up. The future of your sons and daughters is at stake. —Oscar W. Cooley, 5121 Winthrop Ave.

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Fulbright measure. His request was approved, 42 to 37, but administration leaders then succeeded in getting the abolition bill returned to committee for further study. The Byrd bill would transfer RFC's defense functions to other agencies.

St. Lawrence

THE Foreign Relations Committee sent to the Senate, but without the customary recome-

Joseph Nunan Jr. « + » questionable bucks

DEAR BOSS. . . By Dan Kidney

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e St. Lawrence Waterway project. The bill provides for joint participation by the U. 8. and Canada. Hows

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Ernest McFarland of Arizona indicated that the measure would not be considered this

year.

House

A BILL to let President Truman appoint 23 new was shelved by a 165-to-1 vote. ‘

Nunan's Income »

FORMER Internal Revenu§ Commissioner Joseph ND. Nue nan Jr. had “unexplained, un« reported” income totaling $176,000 from 1944 through 1950, the King subcommittee investigating tax scandals reported. Mr. Nunan Was head of the tax bureau from 1944 to June 30, 1947. Subcommittee investigators said Mr. Nunan had declined to explain the income om ounds of possible self-ine crimination. Mr. Nunan's phye sicians reported he was too ill to undergo questioning in pubs lic hearing, but a specialist ene gaged by the subcommittee earlier had said Mr. Nunan could safely testify for short periods. v

President PRESIDENT TRUMAN .

asked for restoration of Houses ordered reductions in flood cone trol appropriations. . The President had recom mended $660 million for flood

control and navigation proj " ects, but the House cut it to

$472 million. In a letter te Chairman Wenneth McKella® (D. Tenn.) of the Senate Ape propriations Committee, Mr, Truman said the House actiol was “thoroughly unsound.”

Point Four - STANLEY ANDREWS of Arkansas was nominated by Mr. Truman to head the Techs nical Co-operation Administras tion, which handles the Point Four program for assistance t§ underdeveloped countries. Mr, Andrews would succeed the late Dr. Henry G. Bennett of Oklahoma,

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Halleck Tells Labor About Seizure Danger

WASHINGTON, . Apr. 26 — Exercise of arbitrary power, such as President Truman used in seizing the steel mills, could be used against labor as well as for it

That was the point Rep. Charles A. Halleck,

Rensselaer Republican, developed in closing the debate in favor of a House investigation of the Wage Stalilization Board. Union men from the Calumet district steel mills were in the balcony listen~ ing. Their man, Dem ocratic Rep. Ray Madden, Gary, was absent. He is in Mr. Halleck . . . Paris holding tough question hearings on the Katyn Forest mass murders of Poles in World War IL

When Mr. Halleck arose the steel workers jeered. They didn't cheer when he was through, but they appeared thoughtful about what he had said. The investigation was voted 255 to 88. Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Democrat, voted against it. Republican Representatives from Indiana all voted for it, except John V.

Beamer, Wabash, and Earl Wilson, Bedford, who were absent.

Instead of seizing the industry, President Truman should have used the Taft-Hartley law to prevent the impending steel strike by CIO President Phil Murray's steel. workers, .

union, Mr. Halleck contended, At his press conference om the subject, Mr. Truman pointed out that the union had delayed striking 90 days at his request and Taft-Hartley only provides an 80-day delay, That WSB rulings should not be considered as was Mr. Halleck’s contention. That would mean .an end of collective bargaining and amount to compulsory arbitrae tion he declared. After W8B decided that the steel workers were entitled to a wage increase, fringe benefits and the union shop, Mr, Murray said there wasn't anything to bargain about and management should accept the findings according to Mr. Hal leck. oe... “LET ME ask you who pros fess such great love for ore ganized labor and the actions of this Wage Stabilization Board, if the award had been a nickel an hour’ (it was 17.5 cents) and no order for a come pulsory union shop and all the other non-economic matters, would you think that Phil Murray and the IO should take the award?” Mr. Halleck asked.

“Why, of course, you would not think any such thing. And you would be here crying out against the Board and its des cision.” : Bir. Halleck built, from tha record of executive orders res garding WSB, a case against the President as violating the powers conferred upon him by Congress. The President, in seizing the mills, said his power to do so was “inherent” in the present Korean War and preparedness crisis. Justice Department lawyer are now trying to uphold that Sontention in the courts. That as no legal backing argued by Mr. Halleck #, other lawyers, including Frank Holman, former president of the American Bar Association, A brief from him was put into the Congressional Record,

n » ~ A HEARING on the steel dispute is umder way before the Senate Committees on Lae bor ‘and Public Welfare. And the House WSB investigation is slated to s \ Halleck a Say, ae

. labor legislators to support it

as follows—

“If tomorrow a government In control at Washington says to labor, ‘vou cannot have a union shop,’ and says, ‘we will decide what your pay shall be’ rather than letting labor make its- own decisions across the board with employers, think of. the situation you would be in. Would you, alleged friends of labor, support any such pros

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