Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1952 — Page 4

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Between Us and Crime IN A SPECIAL program to be broadcast Memorial Day ™ evening, tribute will be paid the 16 FBI agents who have been killed in line of duty since the federal anti-crime agency was organized 27 years ago. : J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, also will pay his respects to the countless officers of other law enforcement agencies who have died in public service. ‘Municipal police in many cities of America have been having their bad innings lately. The headlines have gone - to the bribetakers, the chiselers and some who have engaged in rackets themselves. . » » r >. ” » LEST we lose our perspective, it is appropriate to turn our attention also from those who have betrayed their trust to those who have served it so well—even to the point of sacrificing life. There are more honest policemen than otherwise—and in that class the F'BI is a tower of strength. The memorial service planned for Friday night's radio program if a suitable occasion for taking appreciative notice of thosé who know their duty and do it. They stand between us, ‘the public, and the greedy, criminal elements which otherwise might overwhelm us. . ;

New Danger in Germany

USSIA has established a prohibited zone three miles . wide along the 600-mile border between East and West Germany. : Red police have orders to shoot to kill anyone caught in this new no man's land without credentials. »- This is the immediate Soviet answer to the defense alliance between West Germany and the Allies. So the war of nerves between Russia and the West has entered a new phase. Russian threats failed to dissuade West German Chancellor Adenauer from signing the peace contract and defense

paign of intimidation is being stepped up to defeat ratification of the agreements in the West German Parliament. ‘If the Russian bluffs is called a second time, what then? That is the $64 question. .- There have been so many previous threats of impending showdowns between the Soviets and the West which did not materialize that the habit has developed of taking them in stride as so much sound and fury. But in the present case thé West for the first time has taken the initiative by agreeing to, even urging, German rearmament. And that appears to.be regarded by Moscow as a direct challenge. Thus it is taking too much for granted to assume that the Soviets will talk tough but do nothing more than talk, as has been thé'case in times past. : * To us, German rearmament is nothing more than a defense measure, to discourage a Communist invasion. But the ‘Kremlin may view it in an altogether different light. In Moscow, German rearmament maybe regarded as a direct threat to Russian security. . "If the Kremlin should decide that this program should be'nipped in the bud, and order an offensive before rearmaméht could become a reality, how well is the West prepared to meet a direct attack? That question must be answered “here in the United States, because this country is the principal power in the Western. alliance.

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Time—Bought and Wasted JN THE face of such peril, what are we doing at home? 5 Ye are falling down on the job. ; “" ‘We are falling down on the job especially in the production of airpower—the factor which did the most to crush ‘our enemies in World War II, the factor which gave us inifial superiority in Korea. t . «Since 1946, Congress has appropriated plates alone. But we do not have the planes. *" ‘Russian jets outnumber American jets 10 to 1 in Korea. ' Defense Secretary Lovett says the Russians have a three-

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agree they are far outstripping us. They have a “terrifying edge.” 5 We have the capacity. We have the know-how. We proved that in World War IL. In one short month of 1944, we produced more planes than we are producing in all of this year, ia The money is there. More than we appropriated in the two years of the war. Yet plane production is a comparative trickle, : : ; Why? What has become of the money? From the Truman administration comes many aliibis: Bottlenecks in machine tools (an excuse which became stale months ago). The higher cost and the more complicated construction of the newer planes. Inflation. But the real answer came yesterday from Bernard M. h, testifying before the Senate Preparedness Sube apparently don't want to produce,” he said. ireraft manufacturers back up Mr. Baruch. One points to the “peaks and valleys” in the administration program. Another calls the defense effort “a form of self- ” v

/ We are not producing. The administration has stretched out ‘the production schedule, first one year, and then still 8 year. ‘We are not producing—we are dallying, and , rican forces in Korea have suffered more than casualties since the Korean War began. The blood struggle of those forces bought us months of precious e—months to produce the planes and the tanks and the Precious time—paid for in lives and sacrifice. And sted away by the frittering politicians in the Truman who now are talking tough with nothing

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Italy Facing - Dictatorship

. WASHINGTON, May 20-—The threat of a

totalitarian Italy is taken seriously here. Democratic parties will lose control of the country in next spring's national election unless they can reverse the trend revealed in this week's local elections in central and southern Italy. ; An anti-democratic | government in Rome would end co-operation with the Allies. It would expose the southern flank of Gen. Matthew Ridgway’'s European defense forces. It would jeopardize the Mediterraneantdand the Mideast lifeline. - It would isolate Greece and Turkey. The most alarfhing result of the current polling is the revival of the Fascist Party. and its eventual benefit to Stalin, Even though this was not a compléte surprise, the Fascist-Mon-archist sweep of so many important cities and

provincial capitals was unexpected. Fascists now will rule Naples, southern headquarters of the North Atlantic treaty defense system under U, 8. Admiral Robert B, Carney. They also will govern the main eastern port of Bari and Foggia, the greatest air base in southern Europe.

May Hurt Defense®

WITH Fascists in control of these vital southern areas, and Communists dominant in important northern ports and industrial centers, it will he more difficult to deliver American aid materials and to operate NATO defenses. But the main worry here is rather the next national election, Demotratic parties won the national election four years ago only by uniting all the anti-Red forces. Now the Fascists and Monarchists have taken large groups of voters away from the democratic parties—especially from the Catholic Christian Democratic Par'y of Premier Alcide De Gasperi. Instead of a safe democratic majority in the country as a whole, there is a three-way split. Caught between the two totalitarian sides are the Christian Democrats, the Republicans, the moderate Socialists and the Liberals (namely, conservatives), Not only are these democratic parties now apparently in a popular minority in the nation, but they do not always work together as a democratic bloc. w . Old Forces - FASCIST gains represent in part the rallying of old Fascists, who were afraid to show their true colors before, and also new and young embers. There will be even more old Fascists bots in the national election, because many 11 regain voting privileges next year, To some extent the De Gasperi government may restrain the revived Mussolini movement by enforcing the anti-Fascist laws against such leaders as the notorious Marshal Graziana. Fascism probably always will be strong in southern Italy, where poverty and over-popula-tion are extreme, But fascism is not the real menace. It is not likely to win a majority of Italians in the near future. Too many of them in northern Italy have intelligence enough and memory enough to understand its folly.

Creates Violence

FASCISM is fatal indirectly. By dividing the anti-Reds it weakens the democratic coalition. It drives many non-Reds into a Communist united front against fascism. It creats violence from which Communists-profit in the end. And it trains totalitarians who switch to Stalin when the time comes.

In all these ways the upsurge of Italian fascism is of tremendous value to its nominal enemy communism. In Italy as a whole the hardcore Communists have not been gaining much in the past year, if ‘at all. But Fascists can do for them what they cannot do for themselves.

"THE STORY OF LOVE"

This is the magic story of . . . her wonders and her charms ... the tale of all her glory and . . . the heaven in her arms . . . it begins, of course, on a moonlit night . . . when stars were all aglow ... by a most casual meeting + «+ in a lane where lovers go . . . the bud of sweet romance did bloom . . . as did her beauteous face .,. for she was a madonna... dressed in lavender and lace . . . the story goes the way of love .. ., until a vow is made , .. and kisses bless two eager lips . . . until the Inst stars fade... it ends with dreams and memories , . . for now her love is gone... and she is left alone and blue . , . when breaks the gorgeous dawn—By Ben Burroughs.

UP TO REDS... By R. H. Shackford

Climax May Be Near In New Europe Crisis

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U. S. Spends Big Sum to Collect $151.86 in Taxes From Porter

WASHINGTON, May 29 — How many thousands of dollars our government has spent trying to collect $151.86 in taxes from J. T. Lowe, a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific, no-

body seems to know.

Since 1947 collectors, agents, investigators and lawyers have been seeking to pry that money out of his pocket. Being a church-going man, and also stubborn about matters of honor, he hasn't paid up yet.

Now his case is in the Tax Court of the

United States, Judge Bolon B. Turner has written a learned, eight-page memorandum of findings of fact and opinion, and soon now the court will hand down its decision on that $151.86. The charge is that this porter on the Sunset Limited, running between New Orleans and Los Angeles, forgot about some of his tips and fudged a little on his expenses. He says he did not, either, . The rest of us taxpayers would have been

far ahead of the game if the management had

taken porter Lowe's word, but this is a matter of principle. It's the porter’s word against the gleuths of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. And I think you'll be amazed at the lengths to which the government went: This veteran of the whisk broom and the upper berth (he’s been on the job since 1923) figured that in 1947 he earned $2519.33, including $100 in tips. His deductions he added up to $1148.58. This left $71.14 due in income taxes and: the Pullman Co. already had withheld $128.70. He asked for a refund of $57.51. The Bureau of Internal Revenue got tough.

Estimates $100 in Tips JUDGE TURNER said it did look as if por-

ter Lowe maybe had taken in more than $100 in-

tips in a whole year of brushing off the passengers, but that Commissioner John Dunlap hadn't proved it. Possibly the travelers between New Orléans and the coast are 10-cent tippers. Then there was the matter of his wife Emma’s contributions of $100 to the Holy Ghost Church in New Orleans, She attended services there regularly on Sundays and Tuesdays, dropped contributions into the poor box, and paid 5 cents each time she lighted, a church candle. Emma, unfortunately, kept no records of this; the judge calculated that she contributed $60

Porter Lowe, himself, attended the Trinity Methodist Church and said he gave $160 to it. He kept no records, either, and the judge put him down for $40. : To the Red Cross and the March of Dimes, he gave $1f#ach, while at the ball park in New Orleans. Five dollars he gave to the Community Chest at church and $6 he listed as a contribution to the National Association for the Advancemént of Colored People, Judge Turner

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said he'd go along with all these deductions, except the last $6, ; Commissioner Dunlap contended that the association was a lobbying organization; porter Lowe said it was charitable. The judge held in , favor of the commissioner. The porter must pay a tax on that $6.

Lists Business Expenses

HE LISTED his business expenses, mostly involving hotel rooms in Los Angeles between trips and meals aboard trains, at $770. The investigators discovered how many days he did - spend in a hotel and they learned that he received a 25 per cent discount on all meals he ate ‘aboard the Sunset Limited. They did not report exactly what he ate.’ Judge Turner ruled that he could deduct $500 in expenses; later on the judge will issue his decision. Indications are that this will be bad news for both ‘sides. Porter Lowe probably will have to pay something, but not nearly all the $151.86 the government billed him. His case, I hasten to add, is one of a number against Pullman porters now reaching the Tax Court, They’d be wise henceforth to keep a little black book for jotting down their tips. Perhaps they can persuade the passengers, particularly the 10-centers, to sign it.

What Others Say—

THERE is always a tendency on the part of government employees to “‘overclassify’” because the censure of their superiors is great if they make a mistake.—Rep. Henry Jackson (D. Wash.). . > > WE (Britain) have force on the continent of Europe of any of the Atlantic powers. And we have undertaken to keep it there. Is this abandoning Europe?— Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary. DO YOU can't properly complain about the verdict of a jury, but I thought Costello was contemptuous of the committee. I hate to see a fellow like him get by with it.—Sen. Estes Kefauver, on Frank Costello trial jury deadloek. ¢ oS @ TF IT IS un-American and anti-Christian to defend the greatest Christian nation in the world through a fair, effective and less costly system of military training (UMT), then I plead guilty.—Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.). $b ob

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many Amerigan soldiers here.—Mrs. Jean Harumi Farley, recently arrived Japanese war bride.

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MR: EDITOR: As the time nears for the National Repub-

. Mean Convention, I have dark fears for the fu-

ture of our great Republic. Our forefathers gave their blood to carve this Republic, so you and I, and ali of us, could live a free life. Under the New Deal and the Fair Deal we have seen red herrings, five per centers, deep freezers. mink coats, Alger Hiss, Reds, Pinks and Fellow Travelers undermining our great Republic, spending ourselves broke, “then this Good Old Joe can take us without firing a shot, Now comes the headache. Why do the big= wig Democrats, along side of these internation= alists, want Ike for President? Ike ade all of his promotions under Roosevelt and Truman, He also made his fortune under: the Democrats.

Why didn’t Ike pay the regular income tax on ) book? Why don't Ike come out

and tell us how he stands ox a lot of things? v Pichi . SURE, I am afraid of Ike. If he gets to be Presidént, or a Democrat gets to'be President, then we play into the hands of these internationalists who don't give a rap for a young boy's life. Are we still in a supposed-to-be police action? Or is it out-and-out war? Truman’s police action has cost the lives of thousands—and for what? Just to keep the New Dealers and Fair Dealers in power. : The President’s chair is for a civilian. Let's put a civilian in there and keep the brass hats where they belong, and the civilian of my personal choice is Sen. Taft of Ohio, one of the most brilliant men that we have in Washington, the man who will clean out all thc deadbeats, the Reds, Pinks, Alger Hisses, the weakkneed State Department. He is the one man who can and will tell Russia to go-to the devil. He will use laws that are made by our Congress to straighten out these strikes. The heads of unions won't like it, but ‘the dues-paying members will be glad that it will be done. Why? Because they are the ones who suffer, not the b! igs of the unions. gses only hope the Republicans will get to the polls on election day, alongside of the independent voters, and place a real honest to goodness man: by the namé of Robert A. Taft as our next President, —Navy Veteran of two wars who knows “Brass Hats.”

Industrial Progress

MR. EDITOR: Statisticians and administration officials of our federal government like to point with pride to the number of bath tubs or automobiles belonging to the citizens of the United States. Even during World War II President Roosevelt pointed with pride at the production pace of our industry and explained to the world that this was the fruits of the American Way of Life. What is the American Way? Why; in the past have we always been able to out-produce the world? Because in America we have always been free. The United States has been relatively free for a long time from the force of government. We a & WE HAVE, during the past Democratic administration, allowed ourselves to blunder into socialism ‘by voting special privileges to ofirselves and to others. Consequently the government has grown big and unconscionable. We, the people, are running (not drifting) headlong into socialism, not from choice and not because we believe in it, but because we have used thé force of government to satisfy

our desires for ‘false security” and temporary

remuneration from inflationary forces. More and more we are leaning on the federal government for what we want. Our leaders are abandoning our traditional standards of right and wrong and if we do.not draft MacArthur and insist that he be our next President so that we can accept again the true American ideals for our way of life we will have become another lost nation in history.

—Harold A: Wilson, 1917 Fisher St., City

War and Economy

MR. EDITOR: I enjoyed a recent letter in The Times by C. D. C. and it was fine he was given so much space to express himself and his sound policies. He states there is something wrong with our economy when we need a war to keep it going. In early history when famine and pestilence due to floods and droughts ceased to be necessities imposed by nature to keep down surpluses and people, they were re-established by political art. The sluice that was opened to drain away each new accumulation of wealth was war, I would like to ask this student of economsfics, history and finance, who prefers to remain anonymous, if he has for any length of time since the turn of the century and the end of our western frontier, saw full employment for any length of time without war, and if he knows of any deadlier foe to democracy and Christianity than the unbridled indulgence of the acquisitive economic appetite?

~—Clarence Love, Waveland.

POTATOES ON WAY ... By Charles Egger Modern Americans Cutting Spud Diet

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PARIS, May 20—How much the Kremlin plans to heat up the. Cold War to prevent German rearmament may be determined in the coming weeks. It's a safe guess the Kremlin plans plenty of trouble, It will take steady nerves in West Europe to stand up to the Soviets and their stooges firmly and preserve peace. The climax of the present act in the East-West drama will come some weeks hence, when the parliaments and legislatures of the Western Powers must decide whether to ratify the many treaties and other papers signed this week —all of which are aimed at freeing West Germany of occupation and allowing her to rearm. The Kremlin shows every sign of trying to scare the West away from the course that has been set, . » . THREATS already have s been made which, if carried out, could convert Germany— divided now between the Bast and West—into another Korea. “ The Soviet countermoves thus far includ¢: ONE-—Another appeal to the Western Powers to sit down at the conference table with the Russians for an sjempt to draw a treaty for all of Germany. The Russians still insist on their terms, but their appeal has the sympathies of many non-Communist West Europeans. French pressure for Suothes DE Jou conference ' TWO-—Threats by the Sovstooge - government of em impose an-

other blockade on the {solated city of Berlin. These come when the U.S. Britain and France have repledged themselves to keep troops in West Berlin and consider any at. tack on that city as'an attack on themselves. And that would mean war,

» » ” “HOWEVER, most diplomats and military men feel that Russia will continue keeping the world in turmoil just short of war. This is a policy that has profited her well to date. But even such views are shrouded with the greatest caution, because no one really knows what the Kremlin's final decision will be, On arrival here to replace Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Ridgway was asked: Do you consider Soviet military action in Europe a possibility?

” - - HE REPLIED: “Anything that is a capability is a possibility. And there is great capability there (in.Russia). But I wouldn't care now to go into the probabilities.”

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are heavy or that this is the time for a gamble. If there's only a chance that war may possibly be imminent—even if the odds are against it, as many might contend—then the merest duty of self-preserva-tion demands y that it should be regarded as imminent in fact . . . to risk anything is to risk all.” That's the kind of Europe

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WASHINGTON, May 20 — All the commotion over the potato shortage shows again that Americans can be the contrariest people. A lot of folks are burning up right now because they can’t

get their spuds. -Yet the record shows that

Americans have been treating

the potato pretty poorly. The Agriculture Department says the average person ate 175 pounds of potatoes a year in 1910-1914. 4 : By last year that per capita consumption had fallen to 100 pounds—a drop of 1% bushels per person. ” » . AND despite the big population increase, farmers will raise only the same potato crop this year that they averaged in 1910-1914, The experts cite several reasons for this drift from the potato. : First, people don't do as much manual labor and therefore no longer go for those big platters of.potatoes at breakfast.” Also, the dieting fad in the 1920's cut consumption. (Nowadays, many dieticians agree that it’s not the potato but the gravy or butter that add to _ your poundage.) . ha . 8 =» FINALLY, there are improvements in other vegetables; fresh, frozen and canned. Before World War I, the average American ate as many pounds _ of ;potatoed as he did all other “fresh vegetables combined. a tik

~Now he eats 23; pounds of other fresh vegetables for every pound of spuds. Agriculture Department spokesmen advise everybody not to get too "het up over the current potato shortage. They say it's temporary, and should end in a few weeks. » » ” HERE'S what they say happened: ¥

JLapt year was the first since 1932 in which the potato farmer was on his own. During those eight preceding years the government bought up his surplus production—at a total" loss, incidentally, of more than $540 million. With no more price supports, potato farmers cut their acreage 20 per cent. Even so, they expected to produce 356 million bushels, a plentiful supply. But bad weather reducéd the crop to 326 million bushels, ” ” »

THAT didn’t allow an adequate carry-over into the new year. Then this year's early crop also.was struck by bad weather. The harvest was held up four weeks in many places, All of this created a vacuum period when there were prace tically no potatoes going to the markets. Agriculture Department experts figured the supply situation would be ‘worst between May 5 and May 24. Them, said they were right, too. In June,.they say, about 23 million. bushels of potatoes should be available. That's normal fof the month, And by July we'll have potatoes coming out of our ears”

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