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"A Curb Is Needed

|] INDER our system a treaty ranks with the Constitution itself as the supreme law of the land, superseding any Xe law in conflict with it.

Thiswhasn't made much difference until recently, be-

‘ cause treaties seldom affected Americans as individuals - unless they traveled or did business abroad.

Since creation of the United Nations, however, covenants and agreements have been proposed which would assure certain ‘rights” universally. Some of these are de-

“sirable, no doubt, but others sound as if they might threaten

the rights of Americans rather than guarantee them. For example, one would authorize governments to impose “penalties, liabilities and restrictioms on the press when they find it necessary “for the protection of national security, public order, safety, health or morals, or of the rights, freedoms or reputations of others.” Since ‘a government could interpret those words as broadly as it chose, it would have a weapon powerful enough to end freedom of the press as we know it in America. Yet, if the United States ratified such a treaty it wolild become law. The American Bar Association recently recommended a constitutional amendment to nullify any treaty provision

. Which conflicts with the U. 8. Constitution. Congress would

pass special legislation before a treaty became effective as internal law. Sen. John W, Bricker (R. 0.) then introduced a bill to get a constitutional amendment started. His bill goes further than the Bar Association suggested. Some of its language is probably too rigid. It could

* hamstring the President in making mutine executive agree-

in even ‘the non-controversial activities of the. United. Na- 5 © _ tions, such as Health and sanitation. [+ 3

‘ments and make it difficult for this country to co-operate

“a. However, Sen. Bricker is on the right track and the

Senate committee now considering -his amendment easily can make the necessary changes, and bring it out. for ap-

“proval by Congress and.the necessary 36 states,

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~ We should make sure no President and no Senate,

however good their intentions, shall ever be able to sign

away any of our basic freedoms.

Panmunjom Walk-Out

HE THREE-DAY RECESS declared by the United Nations representatives in the Korean truce negotiations

. may “convince the Communist delegation that: it will have * to talk business or quit.

pw ARE RESETS eee vn T

The Reds have been using the Panmunjom meetings as “a propaganda sounding board for two months. It was high time the filibuster was stopped. If a three-day walkout doesn't get results, our side should repeat it until the Reds are ready to talk turkey. The negotiators are deadlocked over the question of voluntary versus forced repatriation of prisoners. This ap-

. pears to be the only issue preventing a cease-fire. Until

: the Reds are prepared to settle this: question, there isn't - anything to discuss with thm.

The United Nations says 100,000 out of the 170,000

: prisoners it holds say they would fight any attempt to re-

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turn them to Communist control. The Communist truce team challenges the United Nation's information but won't agree to any proposal to verify it. Instead, the Communists denounced alleged conditions

‘ in the Koje Island prison camps. They can terminate those . camps any time they agree to an armistice,

And the fault of the Koje Island prison administration

1.18 not being too strict with prisoners—but being too soft to

maintain discipline. Besides, who gave the Communists license to criticize conditions on Koje? They allow nothing to be known about their POW camps. : s An armistice to end the fighting in Korea is the purpose of the Panmunjom meeting. When the Reds are prepared to talk about it the United Nations will listen. The Reds can get an agreement very easily if they don't insist

on forcible repatriation.

Arrival of a Friend

APAN, FOR THE FIRST TIME in more than 10 years, has an ambassador in Washington. Eikicki Araki, a Tokyo banker, has arrived to represent his country in its foremost diplomatic post. Mr. Araki said his mission was to “promote and strengthen the mutual understanding and good will” be-

: tween Japan and the United States.

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Japan, he said, now is “firmly encamped” among the. free, democratic nations of the world. It also is “inseparably” allied with the United States for security purposes. Mr. Araki comes to his new job as a friend. He is welcomed as a friend. : It is to the interest of both countries that this friend-

: ship be cemented and perpetuated. The safety of each na-

’ tion and, to a large degree, the peace of the world depend onit.

May neither people ever forget that. :

ue DEMOCRATS have twice as many presidential candi. gates as the Republicans, but for the first time they are i nly half as much noise. i ; v. 8 =» oe 5 ‘8 %- IF THE French try Red Leader Jacques Duclos, the Russians can testify he never has been a traitor.

AFTER the primary, South Dakota will have to look

: around for some other big industry.

TAFT headquarters would like to ban Eisenhower's

“Pilgrim's Progress."

. - . : r - ” RUSSIA'S Jakob A. Malik presides over the United nieetings throughout June. He is expected to favor

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LITTLE STALIN . . . By R. H. Shackford - .

French Duclos Trial May Bare

PARIS, June 9—When Jacques Duclos goes on trial for plotting against the security of France, it will really be a trial of the worldwide Communist plot against the free world. Duclos is the “Stalin” of the Communist movement outside Russia and her satellites, He is a pudgy, bespectacled, rather repulsive fat man who is nominal head of the French Communist Party. But he is far more important to the Kremlin than that, Duclos is the real boss of the Communist parties not only in France, but in the 'U. 8, Britain, Switzerland and the other countries in northwestern Europe, He is Stalin's chief hatchet man in the Western world. His trial, therefore, will he more than just an internal French event. It will be a trial of Communist party plots and tactics in the overall cold war between east and west—all focused on one courtroom. * > % . DUCLOS who still lists his occupation as pastry cook, is credited with being the man behind the 1945 ousting of Earl Browder from leadership of the American Communist Party, Until Ris latest arrest, it was Duclos, on instructions from Moscow, who laid down party lines—especially the anti-American ones—in the West. The London Daily Worker gets daily instructions from L'Humanite, the Communist paper here. Before the war, Duclos was the Western world’s most important member of the powerful Comintern. During the war he was “underground” in France, Since the war he has been founder and top member of the Cominform,

Of the big three Communists in the west— Duclos in France, Ulbricht in Germany, and‘ Togliatti in Italy=-Duclos is most important. He and his commie pals polled more than five million votes in the last’ French election. They still are the biggest single party in Parliament. * THUS in catching Duclos red-handed, leading Communist sHock troops in street riots, the French government has a chance to do far more than prove just a one-day defiance of law and order. Duclos’ trial can expose for the benefit of all waverers the real aims of the commies. It can also take a Jot of wind out of the sails of the neutralist movement, which claims. we can do business with Stalin. Since Duclos helped found the. Communist Party in France 32 years ago, he has been

WE PAY. . . By James Daniel

U. S. to Publish

“Have Not’ List * |

a WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Gavernment: of- .

ficials eharged with helping U. 8. industry get

enough raw materials have lost a backstage

fight to suppress a report from the President's materials policy commission.

The report will be made public before the end of the month. : The commission was appointed in January, 1951, to consider.the extent to which the U, S. has become a “have-not” nation, and to decide whether industry and government are taking steps to assure enough raw materials for the long haul,

Its report has been ready for some time, but publication has been delayed because defense production officials believe the less said about weakness in America's bargaining position, the better.

Invitation to Gouge

SINCE KOREA, the U. 8. has paid heavily for much of what she bought abroad. The situation is improving, but the memory still rankles defense leaders. They're afraid a public ticking off of the commodities in which the U. 8, is not self-sufficient would invite another wave of price-hiking abroad.

They would rather have foreigners told more about the ability of American industry to develop substitutes for high-priced materials, such as aluminum in place of copper.

Defense leaders say they've learned one les-son-—the government can't bargain for foreign raw materials as well as private industry can. The foréigners try to pad the price as much as our immediate military necessity will permit.

After Korea, it was a race between the owners of .the raw materials in foreign countries and their governments to see who could squeeze the most out of the U, 8. rearmament program. In the clinch, our defense officials say, they often found themselves abandoned by their own State Department.

Came the Revolution

THE PEAK of this was when W. Stuart Symington, formerly head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., was accused of promoting revolution in Bolivia by refusing to permit Bolivia to front for the world tin cartel in a big price gouge, The Bolivians had their revolution, all right, and: Mr, Symington's enemies triumphantly pinned it on him. The only flaw in their story was that Bolivia's tin workers were at work drawing pay throughout the deadlocked tin negotiations, Now the sore spot is with Chile which has a tax on copper exports. This tax pays most of the Chilean government's costs. Recently, our government ceased trying to deal with the Chileans. An attempt is now being made to let American industry make its own arrangements.

SIDE GLANCES

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convicted many times for subversive activities, Sentences against him have totaled some 30

years.

But he’ has been unbelievably successful in evading most of the sentences. Often, his parliamentary immunity saved him. In 1932, incriminated in the conviction of a Russian spy, he fled to Germany. But he was back in a few months. Parliamentary immunity has been of no avail to Duclos in his present trouble. The French constitution does not grant immunity to members of Parliament caught in the act, The French government's case this time looks good—for the West. But it is too early

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to assume that Duclos will not be back in his old “seat’ in the French Chamber of Deputies, where he is acknowledged to be an effective rabble-rouser and astute tactician. The case the government is trying to prepare against him this time, however, could imprison

him indefinitely in a fortress. The charge, under .

an old 19th century law is that he tried to “destroy or ehange the government or to éxcite citizens to arm themselves against public authority.” Little is really known about Duclos except that he has lived hig adult life in the middle of Communist intrigues, plots and counterplots, Born in 1896 in the Pyrenees Mountains, he

followed his father's trade and became a pastry LC}

Trying to Work in a Boiler Factory

BRIGHTENING THE NEST . . . By Frederick C. Othman

It Takes a Lot of Doing to Get Money’s Worth in House Paint

McLEAN, Va., June 9—You want your house painted properly? See my bride. She probably

knows more now about long oil alkyds and titanium barium than anybody.

She was badly stung a couple years back by a crooked operator; all his paint came off. This time she vowed she'd get the job done right and at a minimum price. The chemistry of house painting was complicated enough; the economics of it, she discovered, were worse. There are more than 200 brands of white house paint in this country, They range in price from $2.25 a gallon to $8.75. They all. smell the same. Mrs. O. went on from there. Before she'd finished she'd conferred with oil experts at the Customs Bureau and paint scientists at the Bureau of Standards. The consensus seemed to be that the’ best paint consisted of leaded zine oxide, dioxide, barium and magnesium titaniums, soybean oil, linseed oil, long oil alkyds and a few other things ‘I

can't even spell. This was the $£8.75-a-gallon stuff, 9 ”

Wages Cut

IT TURNED out to be the cheapest, because |

it is so doggoned white it only needs one coat Instead of the usual two. This cuts the wages of the $20-per-day painters in two. My Hilda was just getting started, She then went shopping for $8.75 paint. How much, she demanded of paint dealers all over Washington, would they charge her for $8.75 paint if she bought 35 gallons? One offered her a five per cent discount for cash and one 15. Eventually, she found a couple of sympathetic partners, who sold her the paint at a 20 per cent discount. This made it $7 a gallon, They also had some advice on a subject she'd never even considered. They said that paint as de luxe as this had to be stirred more carefully than a cake. They suggested at least 30 minutes’ work on each can with a paddle. Mrs. O. did some swift calculating: that added up to 1714

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: CANYON FERRY DAM, Mont., June 9—You have to fly over the Missouri River valley, and up the river itself, to be impressed with the size of it. To say that the Missouri River basin covers 325,000 square ' miles, which it does, means little. To say that it covers one-sixth. of ‘the area of the United States. gives a better image. é Few people outside of those who live in the area realize that Denver, Col, is in the Missouri basin—at the southwest corner. Here the east slope of the Rockies drains into the South Platte River. To St. vr. Louis, near the southeast corner, where the Missouri flows into the Mississippi, is 600 miles.

The main branch of the Missouri River itself is some 2400 miles upstream tq, Canyon Ferry damsite, near Helena, Mont. Fifty milés- farther upstream, the Gallatin, Madison and -Jefferson Rivers unite to form the Missouri. :

THIS 1S the farthest upstream dam of a series of some 102 dams authorized by ConKress in 1944 in an attempt to control this Here, on a flying pant. c

and Department. of Interior's

they've got now.

hours or nearly $30 worth of labor. Just stirring the paint. My own private painting contractor said there must be a better way. The dealers said there was, if she didn’t mind the trouble. They'd mix the paint on their automatic, electric paint shaker and do a better job of it than even a genius could with a stick. Only trouble was that paint starts to settle almost as soon as stirred.

Worth the Effort

SO MRS. O. has been dropping by the store each morning for that particular day's supply. This is working out at about three and a half gallons per day for two painters; it involved a good deal of travel, but my bride says it is worth the effort. Her painters were polite about her pre-stirred paint, but skeptical.. They said it looked just like paint to them and where was the turpentine? She said if they put one drop of thinner into her super paint she'd swat 'em with a wet paint brush. They said it looked like a little thick. She said, paint, using the word as a verb. They did, and their attitude soon turned to one of pleasant amazement. Never before, they reported, had paint flowed so effortlessly from their brushes. They figured they'd get through a couple of days sooner than they'd originally estimated. Another $80 saved, says my complacent bride.

Not Too Green

SHE MEANTIME is giving deep thought to the shutters. She'wants em green, but not too green.. When last I saw her, she was experimenting with a mixture of turquoise blue and park bench. She had a splash of it on her nose and she said it was taking a good deal of time, but that she expected to achieve the perfect blend. I'm sure she will. And if your house needs painting I think you'd be wise (adv.) to give her the contract. :

By Galbraith ONE-SIXTH OF AMERICA . . . By Peter Edson 5 Immense Miss

trip with Undersecretary of Interior Richard Searles and Reclamation Commissioner

off

Michael W. Straus, the immensity of this undertaking pleted for unfolds.

The work that is being done in the Missouri basin now is a lpint Army Corps of Engineers

Bureau of Reclamation undertaking. This is the now-famed Pick-Sloan plan. Later on there may-—or may not be—a bigger and broader Missouri Valley Authority plan of operation. But Pick-Sloan is the only plan

om St. Louis west to nsas City, then north past Omaha to Sioux City, Iowa, the Corps of Engineers have built high retaining walls on both banks. This was the old way to control floods. Build a channel and speed the water on its way to the sea. But when the levees and dikes break, there are floods anyway. ¥ = =» A HUNDRED miles or so .

farther upstream, the Army

nee seen nesinneusseg,

downstream, navigation. This is the newer idea of flood control. Gavin's Point won't be comseveral course, But farther upstream, within the next two years, the Corps of Engineers will com- h plete Ft. Randall and Garrison Dams. And still further upstream in Montana near the Canadian border, there is Ft. Peck Dam, completed in the 1930's as a PWA project, Ft. ‘Peck is now producing - 5000 kilowatts of hydro-elec-tric power, which is being markéted by Department of Interior. © This power output incidentally, could be quadrupled.

. " - ABOVE Ft. Peck on the Mis-. souri, and upstream on the many tributaries that flow into the Missouri, Bureau of Reclamation takes over for multipurpose projects to provide not only headwaters flood. control, but also power and irrigation, This is Bureau of Reclamaiton’s 50th year in this busi-

Red World Plot

cook. At 18, he was conscripted against his will’

for World War I. He hecame a prisoner of war after the Battle of Verdun. His brother, Jean, was badly wounded. The two became violent opponents of the French army, and helped found the French Communist Party, * > ALTHOUGH Duclos has never been the titular head of the French party, he has for years been the real power in French communism. Maurice Thorez, until he went to Moscow in 1950 for medical treatment, held the title of leader. : : But Thorez, a burly ex-miner, was just a good “front” man. Despite Duclos’ allegiance to the Kremlin, his defense most likely will be an emotional display of phony French patriotism—saving France from the “greed” and “warlike plans” of the Americans. His tactics undoubtedly will be to make the United States—not Duclos—the defendant.

REMEBER RARER EARNER RRNA RAEN)

Hoosier Forum

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

TI I ERT RE ERROR EERE R REE RTT NERA

Property Seizure MR. EDITOR: © . An open letter to J. Ames. What I mean to constitute seizure of property. A telephone, light, or gas bill, or bus fare are symbols of a just compensation for public service companies which promote the general welfare, subject to regulations of statutory law, Governing a public service under the: law, the determination of reasonable charges can be made by a board of public utility commissioners, However, the utility company has the right to disagree with the rate set by the board, resort to the rightful due process of law, and call upon a court of justice to decide the rate of compensation which protects the essential freedom of property of the utility according to the purpose of law.

Rent control failed to satisfy this principle of law, and is nonjudicious and unjust. To exercise control over rent with no provision for due process of law constitutes seizure contrary to the purpose of law, and is in conflict with rights protected by law and the Constitution, In regard to the purpose of our Constitution, it protects only the legal rights of each citizen, among these none is cherished more than those of life, liberty and propetty, the greatest symbols of “personal freedom in. the whala

world. Today, the lawmakers thréaten to rob us"

of the freedoms our boys diéd to win.

I am not interested in rent. I cherish free. dom most. As good citizens we must ‘decide

which" of these two are the essentials. getting late. ; —By J. R. Frantz, 7150 Ketcham St., City

‘I Like Robot’ MR. EDITOR: Someone invented a robot. Why not have a robot run for office. All he would have to do is get the proper spokesman and have a welltrained press agent to set forth what he thinks are the views of the robot. ; This is the robot age for candidates. All they have to do is to get on television, and if they are handsome they will be nominated and elected. The robot might be dressed up like a man and have his picture thrown on the screen. In the days of Lincoln we had debates and people gathered to hear their candidates.

In Indiana we have a number of men on the Republican ticket who have paid from one to two thousand dollars to- file and if a robot wanted to file no doubt if his manager had two thousand dollars he would have his name presented to the convention. The Democrats do not need a robot. They have only one candidate and he need not be for anything. All he has to do is to say nothing and pay his money and he is a candidate. So low and so bluffed out are the Democrats that they don’t even fill the ticket in some places and it is just as well the Republicans can run the office anyway. : So all we have to do is file and cry, “Vote for Mr. Robot, he does not have any views.” Perhaps we could get a sheet of instructions for the manager of Eisenhower, how to have a candidate without any views and put them out in correspondence classes for the voters. Vote for Ike Robot, he does not think, you should not think, all you have to do is vote, Let's have a candidate who will say that we need a direct primary for every office from Governor, U. 8. Senator, Supreme Court Judge and all. And let everybody run that wants to as we did at one time ‘in Indiana and I assure you that we will

have a political campagin and not a campai of Mr. Robot. Pan

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—W. C. Reese Sr., City.

Likes the Column MR. EDITOR:

You certainly win a vote of praise from me for your choice for ‘current publication of Muriel Lawrence's “The Mature Parent.” Mrs. Lawrence is giving the average parent down to earth advice, mixed with wonderful proportions of common sense, philosophy, psychology and parental wisdom. I find it all very understandable and also very workable. I do hope the column will contin.e for many, many more issues, My thanks to you for bringing it to us. ~Mrs. William Killion, Reelsville,

ouri Valley Project Unfolding

providing watts of power that could be

developed. And six-and-a-haif million acres that could be ir.

rigated along the fringes of the

years, of valleys,

ad a series of seven dams on

the Missouri between Great Falls, Mont, and Helena. It's dam at Canyon Ferty was one 3 Se oldest power dams in the

But it was too small in relay tion to the power that could be developed at this site. So it was acquired by. the government and will. soon be buried under the waters of the new » 5-by-25-mile lake to be imDoutided by Bureau of Recla. ation’s new Canyon Fe yo! ry

This is how reclamation work has advanced in the last half century. The old, limited‘use dams. aren't big enough for today’s multi-purpose projects. Montana Power Co, will get an equal allocation. of

has just broken ground at hess, and its golden Jubilee is power and water from the new Gavin's Point, 8. D, for a big, _ being celebrated all over -the dam, and everybody is left new earth-fill dam to hold West. Bureau engineers now more or less happy” ugh flood waters in a huge reser- estimate that in the Missouri. Montana Power is still opposwater would be allowed to run tial two-and-a-half million kilo- : government's program.

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