Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1952 — Page 24

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Fair to You?

THAT WAS a disgraceful exhibition in the House of Representatives yesterday. We mean the action on the so-called “fair trade” bill, which was passed, 196 to 10. Only 10 members voted in behalf of the consumers. ‘And more than half of the House membership didn't even bother ta show up. A great day for the lobbyists. For there was no public demand that the House pass the fair trade bill. ; It is a lobby bill, pure and simple. A noisy, grabby lobby, representing a few thousand special-interest boys, got what it wanted from the House, at the expense of millions

% of consumers.

This misnamed fair trade bill would make it possible for ‘one manufacturer and one retailer to fix the price of a product in a fair trade ‘state, even though other retailers in the same state were willing to sell the identical product

for less. wen Only the-Distriet..of Columbia, Texas, Missouri and.

Vermont do not have fair trade laws under which pricefixing contracts okayed by the House could be written.” Such contracts were, in effect, ruled out last year by the Supreme Court. So the fair trade lobbyists have been pressuring Congress to patch things up for them. * There is still a chance to beat them—in the Senate where the bill now goes. But the consumers have got to be heard from—quickly

and in large numbers—if this price-fixing attempt is to be .

stopped. The lobby already is at work.

‘We Will Not Buy—’

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S forthright statement on forced repatriation of war prisoners—‘“we will not buy an armistice by turning over human beings for slaughter or slavery" =ig in the best American tradition. Free men everywhere will applaud his courage and decency. They stand with him when he brands forced repatriation “unthinkable.” . With one bold stroke, the President has safeguarded

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DEFENSE . . . By R. H. Shackford ; Military Plans For Western Europe In Dan

LONDON, May 9-—Strategie, military and diplomatic plans of the West are in grave danger of collapse,

many into Western Europe threaten to become no more than pious paper hopes. Third, the Western powers themselves are disunited, At least half the people of each country are opposed to the over-all plans, In the face of these threats, governments of the U. 8, Britain, France and West Germany are trying desperately to accomplish what looks more and more impossible. The men in the Kremlin must be watching with glee the confusion, indecision and wishful

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Some Glow, Others Burn

WASHINGTON, May 9—Every election year the two major parties are described in glowing terms and sometimes with a slow burn. Hearing or reading the protagonists and antagonists deseribe or deride them leaves the net impression of the three blind men and the elephant, It all depends upon how you feel about it, . This was dramatized within the last 24 hours by one Republican and two Democrats from Indiana. The Republican was Paul Hoffman, who resigned as president of ‘the Studebaker Corp. at South Bend to become the head of ECA and now is on leave from the Ford Foundation to campaign for Gen. Eisenhower for President.

the Committee for Economic Development, Mr, Hoffman was. the honor guest at a CED luncheon at the Statler Hotel here. He was introduced by Sen. William Benton (D. Conn.). This gave him an opportunity to inject a partisan note into the customary nonpartisan CED proceedings.

Stresses Responsibility

MR. HOFFMAN assumed Ike will be the GOP nominee and win the presidency. He then advised the CED, which is composed of busi--ness leadership only, that businessmen will have a greater share—or at least voice—in government. His purpose in raising the point was to warn of their responsibilities. Unless they stand for the general welfare, as being best for business in the long run, the Republican regime will not be returned after four years he predicted. .

That the Democratic Party has been good for everybody was the theme stressed by National Chairman Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis, in addressing the Allegheny County JeffersonJackson dinner in Pittsburgh last night.

The Democrats stand for “construction” and

thinking they created with their March proposal for another conference on Germany. One reason for the difficulties is that the

than 50-50 that the public would support the German rearmament plan in a vote. The chances are no better than 50-50 that the various European parliaments would not ratify the European army plan,

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This being the situation, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's proposal in Rome that Europeans call an assembly to start work on a political federa-

which would - give West Germany near-sov-

ereignty and which are an integral part of the,

German rearmament program. In France, public opinion always has been against German rearmament. Recent French

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governments have not dared to come out franke ly in full favor of Western plans. : y Three factors today have more influence on European public opinion than almost anything

First, the Kremlin seems likely to succeed Western governments have failed to take their -PAGE 24 Friday, May 9, 1952 in finagling the West into another Big Four publics Yoo their complete confidence—to edu- tion of Europe fell on deaf ears. else: olally the French and Z - conference long before the rearmament of Ger- cate the peoples so they would accept and sup- West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Ade- ON muropeans- espe a hope in ane 100 iar 3h Bn th. Somos of many becomes a fact. port Western policies. Hater 13 In Jower, by virtue Of a Sountion o any eh, with the Russians. They've Spd A rims Hand rd Newilaver Alliance. NEA Serv- Second, plans for 12 German divisions in the The result: In Britain, France, Germany and right-wing parties. Now coalition party leaders other c bipanng Bimg Woe Aha feo and Audis Burean of Circulation European army and integration of West Ger- most of the rest of Europe, chances are less are balking at proposed contractual agreements forgotten last y

sentatives couldn't even get together on an agenda. Germans still hope for unification of Fast and West Germany more than they hope for integration of West Germany with Western Europe. Thus, they hesitate to turn down even a long-shot chance that this time Russia is

- sincere.

THREE—AIl Europeans dislike the idea of rearming the Germans anyway, and agreed to it only under strong U. 8. pressure,

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Hoosier Forum

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

‘Invent New Money’

MR. EDITOR: It is no more impossible to invent a new money for this age when it was to invent an atom bomb or television. Our outdated stone age system of money Is no more designed for this modern age than the ox cart is fit for our modern highways. Stuart Chase said, “What we need is a new financial invention.” All families of three or more children should have $100 per week. You could not raise wages that high with our outdated ox cart age sys tem of money. That would only cause higher prices, but you could pay those wages with my new financial invention. It is a new dollar, a new money designed to work that way. Congress--can-at.any.time: change our Bsys-

FSH ET METER et 80 midlion: families. demande

it and it will be done. They will demand it when you promise them $100 per week and show them how to use the new money. Prices would not be raised. No bonds or debt of any kind. It is not printing press money. It is impossible to inflate it, and impossible to No big gamblers could dodge taxes and no war profiteer could make a killing.

Let all congressional candidates who want to be elected adopt this plan and you are in. Twenty million hard pressed families can change the money system of this country and the govsrnment would use the new money to subsidize their wages to $100 per week. The old money would be called in, the new would take its place. Prices would not rise and the money could not inflate. You skeptics will say “impossible,” but what They were impossible things to your type of mind until they happened. But the minds that conceived them saw them clearly. Likewise my mind sees here what you say is impossible. —B. M., North Vernon. EDITOR'S NOTE: But what is the plan?

‘Courage of Mothers’

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. the Republi “obstruction” Mr, the prestige we stood to lose in the Far East. The right to i. nw Te on in MecRiney : MR. EDITOR: } Be autify and choose life and liberty against slavery is not the exclusive . “All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to right of Americans. It is the heritage of all men, every- Running Away’ : WHITE HOUSE STROLL . . . By Frederick C. Othman my angel mother.” | dustboard-top

where, of whatever race or creed. So said the President of the United States.

“MOST of the Republican candidates are not running on the record of the Republican Party

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Do not all of us wish to borrow these words from Lincoln, come this Sunday? Does not each

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” d every year of our memories at home give . —they are running away from it,” he declared ah l d d i i : us new reasons to know how good God was . included. The prisoners in our war camps—nameless, faceless, “It is no wonder that the Republican Party when He gave us our mother? 48" wi unknown to most of their captors—thus are recognized as I Siwavs Jturching or new faces. It needs WASHINGTON, May 9—The standing there in front of ferns this on a long table, which was Through thick and thin, even sham iin " WiC individuals, with all the dignity and pride freedom confers em. An 8 no wonder that a few Republi- . y\oqqames Eisenhower, Ke and other greenery in pots; crammed with plates of cakes, the mother’s call is always the same: “My child, i 96" wic

upon individual man. Theirs is the right to choose, and they have chosen freedom. In honoring that right, we have honored ourselves. 5 Since the President spoke, we have taken our stand. From that stand, we will not retreat. It is heartening that so many of our Allies have joined us. And all can feel a little cleaner today begause of it. There is no substitute for being right and decent. This is the kind of democracy that needs no “selling.”

It sells itself. Throughout all of Asia—even behind the Iron

Curtain—men of free spirit may take new courage, When it takes this line, democracy’s eventual victory is assured.

Point Not Reached, He Says

NY THE oil strike, the Wage Stabilization Board has lost an appeal to the strikers to go back to work while wage negotiations are in progress. . The fiasco which followed the Wage Board's intervention in the steel dispute may have had something to do with the oil workers’ decision. \ The Wage Board also asked representatives of the union and the oil industry to meet in Washington Tuesday to report on how the wage negotiations stand. Meanwhile, the armed services have issued drastic orders for cuts in fuel consumption outside of Korea. Commercial airlines have had to cut their schedules. Other transportation has been affected in some areas, The Petroleum Administration for defense is preparing

cans, convinced that the record of opposition and frustration made by Taft, Bridges and Martin is an insurmountable liability, want a Republican candidate for 1952 who is in. n ay tied to those albatrosses of reaction.”

Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, may feel affronted by the neglect of Chairman MeKinney in not listing him among the GOP leaders mentioned. But that may be just an old Indiana custom that has grown out of the bipartisanship which has thrived in the state under Frank M., McHale, Democratic national .committeeman, = = Ea A less rosy view of what the Truman Democrats have done was expressed by Danie) J, Tobin, Indianapolis, long-time president of the International Teamsters Union.

Tobin Bitter

MR. TOBIN was a Democrat of national stature long before Mr, McKinney was born. Writing in the current issue of his union's magazine, he says that Sen. Robert A. Taft, although “anti-labor,” is a man of his word. He then continued:

® “On the other hand, if some of my leading friends in the Democratic Party—with few exceptions—from the top brackets down, give you their word to be helpful, they will crawl into their private rooms after 5:30 and laugh and tell their associates how they bluffed labor today and how, with their clever political persuasion, they: made labor believe that they were the friends of labor,

“The worst runaround labor has had in all my time—and I was somewhat active in 1904 and in 1908 for Bryan and in 1912, when we elected Woodrow Wilson—in all those years under many different kinds of presidents, labor

fauver, Taft, Harriman, et al., I trust, favor the color green, One of these ladies in January doubtless will move into the White House; if green happens to be one of her hates, we taxpayers are sunk, - We'll just have to redecorate the newly remodeled executive mansion all over again.

What I mean is that my bride and I have been out in

President .and Mrs. Truman. About 800 other people were there, too, but let's ignore them for the moment, We walked down the main entrance hall, which was a beautiful, soft green, as on a Chevrolet convertible. There a cop said kindly do not smoke on the floor above. So we strolled up the marble stairs and got into a long and snaky line with the other 800 in the East Room, which was white, - with gold drapes and crystal chandeliers that twinkled red, white and blue. We shuffled into the Green Room, which had walls the color of grass and setteés the shade of genuine, $9-per-bottle chartreuse. It was the greenest place I ever did see. Pretty soon we came to Gen. Harry S. Vaughan, who asked us what was our name. This

“high society. “We had tea with"

they acted like they enjoyed all the palm pressing. Mrs. O. and I didn’t have much time to tell the President what this country needs, on account of Gen. Vaughan hurrying along the throngs from behind. We kind of got pushed, in a polite way, into the state dining room. This - mighty chamber used to be paneled in polished walnut. The _Trumans rubbed - down (so the paint would stick) and gave it two coats of a handsome and appetizing green, the shade of chlorophyll toothpaste. Well, sir, here was where the mob congregated, because of the tea, which turned out to be punch the color of orange pop. There were three bowls of

Barbs—

WHEN a man boasts that his wife understands him, you can almost bet he has his own

- » ~ ONE objection to a boy being born with a silver spoon in his mouth is that it's often hard getting him to stir for himself later on, ” » » SPEEDERS in a Texas town face brain tests, Is there much

had this

including 'a few green ones. The end bowls contained a mixture of pure fruit juices. My fellow guests (all news correspondents and their wives) soon discovered that the center bowl ° contained something extra: a dollop of bourbon and shreds of green mint. It was ‘a pleasing and flavorsome beverage hope the ladies of the W. C. T. U.-will not be outraged.

By working fast I managed to sample the middle bowl three times, and savor the contents on my tongue. My own considered opinion is that the whisky in the Truman punch is as the rum in eggnog ice cream, I had some difficulty getting rid. of my cake plate and punch cup, but finally found a sideboard with a greenish marble top. Then we strolled into the front hall, where the Marine Band in red coats was tootling waltzes. Nice tootling, too. Well, sir, the walls here were green of palest hue. Sea foam, I believe, is the trade name. Here also I met a cohort of mine, who looked green. His wife was radiant; he said it cost him $200 to outfit her for this brawl and that he was thinking next time of voting

and I'

my child. Give me back my child.” Monita—the one they said was a Saint after she has “passed away—was that kind of a mother. From North Africa, to Carthage, to Rome, to Milan, she followed her erring son.

Her tears washed her prayers upstream with

such surging force that this once sinful boy became the great St. Augustine. He later said of Monica that she was twice his mother in giving him first birth of the body and then rebirth of the soul. A bad-tempered husband, a nagging mother-in-law, and a wicked son could not stop the love, the faith, and the courage in

-her great heart. In-the-end she had converted

all three. Who said the courage of a nation is not the courage of its mothers? ~Maurice L. Ponnelan, Martinsville,

‘Common Frailty’

MR. EDITOR: I was interested in that Defense Bonds advertisement that appeared in the Apr. 14 edition of your paper showing a young soldier enJoying “an ‘American magazine, an American cigaret,” etc. think this advertisement fllustrates a common and interesting frailty of us Americans, We Americans tend to take pride in anything that comes from our country, regardless of whether. it merits it or not. It is right for people to be proud of the worthwhile things their country produces. It is not for them to be so of its unworthy ones. And I certainly wouldn't consider something which makes the human body a smokestack and impairs health a worthwhile one, I am proud of the worthwhile things which my country manufactures, I am not proud of its cigaret industry, no more than I am proud

i f its liquor industry, its dope ind - ney uses. ; : a 0 q Y, pe industry, its gam to earmark supplies for emergency : : ia has never been given the runaround that it has = LC Ne felaved to Mr. Truman, ;44.,i0n of a brain when you Republican, : bling business, etc. g The strike is now in its tenth day and oil supplies, vital who pumped our hands, and in- 40 Ah, well. You can’t please I 3 t ih lant rtati nd Been given in the last four of Ave years,” troduced us to Mrs. T. The : * = = everybody. . , Myself, I like 1,¢ Stop thi Bt others Bdopt tis attitude, 4 0 o J. J ok ’ 5 Ss to the armed forces, defense plants, transportation a If Gen. Eisenhower is nominated by the Re- . President in a double-breasted YOUNG FOLK who wish . green. The Trumans like i op 112 Donsense of being proud of some.

utilities, have been reduced 35 per cent. President Truman says the administration is working hard to get a settlement. ) But Mr. Truman says enforcement of the Taft-Hartley law has not been considered because that point has not been reached. :

SEN. BRIEN McMAHON (D. Conn.) says he will not wage a “widespread presidential campaign.” -Nor will he lose by a narrow margin, ; »

» » . ~ . . ~ SEN. EISENHOWER'S candidacy has revived an old American industry-—rumor mongering.

. LABOR-SAVING slogan for men who mow their own lawns: Dandelions are dandy.

. . » » ” POLITICAL QUIZ: What makes summer radio even worse in election years? * . ~ "=n ~ PRESIDENT TRUMAN says the dark ages were even worse than ours. They did not even have an atom bomb to light them up.

® = = » x» . CANADA cannot escape becoming more like the U, 8.

mosques are calling for higher wages. They threaten a ers are apt to refuse it. Just an old spinach

wr Lun we in

publicans he will sweep the country Mr. Tobin predicts, :

- SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

suit and the First Lady in a lacy gray outfit, looked fine

they were grown-ups wish they

were young when they are.

green. We can only hope that the next First Lady does, too.

thing which our country produces regardless of whether. or not it is worthy of fit.

—Kenneth St. Clair, Norwood, O.

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN . . . By Peter Edson ana Harriman Candidacy Seen as Political Puzzle

WASHINGTON, May 9 — Entrance of W, Averell Harriman as a full-fledged Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination at Chicago provides one of thé more bizarre developments in this crazy campaign. As one Washington wag re- . marks, “Mr. Harriman at least has the novelty of being the only ex-polo player among the candidates.” He is not the only millionaire. Sen. Robert 8. Kerr of Oklahoma shares that distinction with him. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, sometimes ‘identified as the -candidate preferred: by the wealthy, is himself considered

man is going with his presidential candidacy is still re-

- ence to run the White House.

in the list of 10 best-dressed men,

As a presidential candidate

running for a public office, however, Mr. Harriman's handicap is generally regarded as considerably higher than his eight-goal rdting as a polo player, He is pleasant in a small group but cold and austere before larger assemblies. Up to now he has been only a fair-to-poor public speaker, He is always tense and serious, seeming to find it “difficult to relax. He has a tendency to appear always tired and overburdened. »

” » WHEN he concentrates on one problem, his mind goes

any effort to deter or detour him till he has exhausted the subject to his own satisfaction. People don't talk to Mr. Hariman, he talks to them. It is conceded that he must have more on the ball than he shows. Otherwise hé could not have produced the results he has in such complicated tasks

as the Harriman report on the:

Marshall Plan, handling the Marshall Plan in Europe, bringing the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty countries into agreement at Lisbon, It is further conceded that Mr. Harriman was the first of the Roosevelt administration

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world threat of Russian

has the atility and the experiHe hat the looks—tall, slim

TENTED by the moon and stars... sur-

me through and through ... held a willing prisoner . , . concealed alone with you . , . thrilled by perfumed flowers . . . of a rare exotic smell

often regarded as a New Deal-

er and a traitor to his own class.

» » » HOW HE got in this race is something of a story. Up to the Jefferson - Jackson Day dinner when President Truman scratched, Mr. Harriman never considered himself as presidential material, That is, out loud, Between then and Gov. Stevenson’s withdrawal, a number of people seem to have told Mr. Harriman that he was a man of destiny, Vice President Barkley was toe old. Sen. Kerr was too oily. Sen. Humphrey -was too liberal. Sen. Russell was too. Southern. Sen, Kefauver wasn't ac-

Democratic. Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick proposed him as

ident Truman gave his blessing, Mr. Harriman was convinced he ought to run. : Main headquarters for his

Cr only moderately well-to-do, right down the track to the imperialistic communism. In ceptable to the politicians, So Montreal just had a big jail riot. maybe a millionaire, but not a end of the line and he resents spite of this, Mr, Harriman is ran the arguments. : diimoom. . 8» . : multi-millionaire. 2 s . . . % a » ers ; ; : a de a MODEST Mr. Harriman was + BESIDES their prayer calls, muezzins in the Cairo JUST WHERE Mr. Harrie YOU AND | flattered when New York A

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