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The President's Plea

the steel dispute. So he is asking Congress to get him out of it. He wants Congress to pass a law giving him power to geize the steel industry, the same power he tried to usurp last April. If Congress passes a seizure law, it is obvious it will do so reluctantly and that it will circumseribe the law much more precisely than Mr. Truman suggests. The question is: Even with such a law, can Mr, Truman settle the steel dispute? Using methods already open to him he has managed to keep the dispute very much unsettled. At this moment, the situation appears to be more

snarled than ever.

1S THERE any reason to hope that the hdministration

in the last six months? Mr. Truman keeps saying the dispute ultimately must be settled by collective bargaining between the steel companies and the union. But’ government intervention, as much or more than any other factor, has hampered and disrupted genuine collective bargaining since last December. Under the seizure plan proposed by Mr. Truman, he says he would reduce company profits and he would raise the steelworkers’ wages. Is that the “fair treatment’ to

bargaining in such circumstances? - Fea va Up to now, most of the “bargaining” actually has been between the companies and the government-—not between management and employees. Mr. Truman seems determined

to continue that process. . i ” . » ~ - »

HAVING failed to end the steel crisis by using the two most obvious methods: Exhaustive mediation, or the TaftHartley law, Mr. Truman now passes the buck to Congress. The Senate promptly rejected seizure legislation and requested the President to enforce the Taft-Hartley law he so much dislikes. ‘ But Congress can’t long duck the basic issue. Steel is.an emergency product. With the war in Korea and a ‘huge defense program under way, any long lapse in steel production is*unthinkable. 860 Congress has the exceedingly delicate responsibility of | trying to write a workable law which will head off, or stop, nationwide strike in such basic industries, and the even tougher assignment of trying to write a law the present President cannot nullify—either by ignoring it, or by gum-

ming it up.

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lke and the Budget

OME of Gen. Eisenhower's old associates in the Pentagon must have been shocked by the report that the General believes military expenditures can be reduced to the point where the federal budget can be brought into balance. Such a statement was made by Rep. Christian A. i Herter following a conference at Eisenhower headquarters and there is no reason to doubt its authenticity. : It is inconceivable that, with his knowledge of the military situation, the General would do any real injury to the military establishment in order to balance the budget. The probabilities are that he thinks he can accomplish what he seeks hy cutting out fat and by a discriminating application of priorities. ” n r » » ~ THERE has been no real unification and very little discipline in the Defense Department under the Truman ‘administration, The three services have operated as laws ‘unto themselves, and the combined budget has been made .up by the logrolling process. It is known, for example, that certain priorities were determined by the flip of a coin, Examples. of wanton waste have been uncovered throughout the services. Gen. Eisenhower should know where to find the frills and the fat which can be eliminated without damage to the rearmament effort. The armed forees should be given every dollar they need, within the limits of our resources, in view of the ’ ‘gravity of the world situation. 3 But we haven't seen much yet for the money which ‘has been spent. It could well be that better results can be ‘shown for less money, given a firm hand at the helm.

Two-Fisted Visitor

HEN Ramon Magsaysay landed in Washington vesterday, he wag greeted by a 10-gun salute and a host of +higher-ups from the U. 8. government. : None too much for Mr. Magsaysay. For he is the Philip‘pine secretary of defense and the man who checked the

¥ ; RESIDENT TRUMAN has worked himself into a box in

will operate any less awkwardly under seizure than it has

both parties” he talks about? What becomes of collective

JAFTPOWER. .. By Chorles Lucey. Cyype, Entry in the Race for Air Control

lke Is Facing Uphill Fight

NEW YORK, June 12—If Gen, Dwight Eisenhower had any idea when he came from Europe 10 days ago that he could breeze to the Republican presidential nomination, he must surely have changed his mind by now, ‘ He ig in one of the toughest pre-convention fights in either major party in many years. He was home only two days when Sen. Robert A. Taft edged him out of South Dakota's 14 delegates, He has ample evidence now—as in selection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as GOP convention keynoter and Taftman Walter Hallanan for temporary chairman—of the Ohioan’s party organization strength. Tke is finding, in day-long meetings with delegates from many states, that getting conven. tion votes is a plodding business. His missionary work may yield abundantly later, but up to today apparently only two previously uncomsmitted delegates had hit the sawdust trail to an Eisenhower conversion.

| wr Don't Like It

THERE WAS reluctance to attack head-on Gen. MacArthur's selection as keynoter, but Eisenhower men didn’t like it. No one expects Gen. MacArthur to plug openly for Mr, Taft. But he. is a dramatic and effective orator and could help Mr. Taft subtly in the spirit of what he says. So respected is he as a speaker that some have speculated on his ability to stampede the convention for himself, Perhaps even more important—in this year of bitter dispute over the seating of contesting delegations from several states—is the choice of Mr. Hallanan as temporary chairman.

Under Republican procedure, the convention opens with the seating of the temporary roll. If appeals are taken from the credentials committee’s ruling on seating either Taft or Eisenho delegations, the temporary chairman presumably would rule as to whether those seated from disputed-delegation states would be permitted to vote on such appeals. There appear to be precedents either way— in 1912, Elihu Root ruled this could be done. In 1928, the late Sen. Simeon D. Fess of Ohio disqualified from voting those delegates whose own seats were involved in the appeals,

Court of Last Resort

AN IMPORTANT question now is whether the Taft control of convention machinery goes

as far as the credentials committee which—next to the convention itself—is the court of last resort for settling stich disputes.

The ‘credentials eommitise is PART prety

‘delegate from each state. With disputes 5 affect:

Ing 75 or more delegates in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and perhaps other: states, its relative

Taft-Eisenhower strength could be of tre- .

mendous importance. Here, Gen. Eisenhower has met more state delegations to Chicago—the most important being New York’s own 94-man group, which is largely for the Genéral but which has in it some pro-Taft rebels, One of the General's troubles seemed to be that most pro-Taft delegates are staying away, They want no part of the charm sessions, apparently. Hence, the General's opportunity to make converts is limited. Yet that there is some gain in these meetings is unquestionable, The General made hig big pitch with delegates from Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. A major theme was his determination to carry his campaign into the southland if he is nominated.

Bid for Dixie

NOT IN YEARS has a Republican candidate made a really serious bid for Dixie—Herbert Haover carried four states in 1928, But the GOP leaders who talked with the General here told him he had a real chance for November victory there. Beyond this, they insisted that Gen. Fisenhower’'s nomination could be the basis of a real start toward a two-party system in the South, “ Republican State Chairman Claude O, Vardaman of Alabama reported Gen. Eisenhower will get a minimum of five of Alabama's 14 votes on the first hallot.

HE HAS GOOD TIMING .

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By Frederick C. Othman -

Demand for $3 Billion to Split Atoms Puzzles House Probers

WASHINGTON, “June 12—On Monday. Bent lamented Rep. John Phillips (Rr. Cal.), -his:appropriations subcommittee will be” confronted by some sphinx-like bureaucrats, a pile of docu-

"ments labeled secret, and a demand for $3 billion

for further atom-splitting purposes. “And none of us on the committee has the slightest idea why they want this money,” continued the white-haired gentleman from the Imperial Valley. Those babies from the Atomic Energy Committee drop up to the hill with bundles of papers marked top secret, said he, even when they're. concerned with money for a cafeteria in which the atom smashers eat their lunches. This is frustrating to Congressmen. They did some snooping on this particular eatery, howpver, and discovered that it cost twice as much to run as a similar one on the outside of the barbed wire. They also got tough about all those red-inked secret stamps on papers which turned out, in many cases, to be no more confidential than a laundry ticket.

Maybe He's Wrong

STILL. AND all, Rep. Phillips got the idea that the Atomic Energy Commission needs halfagain as many men to do any particular job as does private industry. Maybe he’s wrong about this, but how can he know when nobody'll come up with the detailed. truth? ~~ « That, he told the rules committee, is why he hopes the House will soon vote for a joint committee to keep a year-round watch on the big spenders working on the President's budget.

. By Ludwell Denny

Korea Truce Move May Succeed If Stalin Is Sincere This Time

WASHINGTON, June 12 The new Red move for a Korean truce deal has a fair chance of success, Stalin has timed it perfectly. The Alles are anxious for a settlement and he knows that, So, he is in a favorable posi-

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As usual,

Of course, he can overplay his hand-—as he so often does, The U. 8. already has made so many concessions to break the Panmunjom deadlock, not much leeway is left except to find face-saving devices for the Reds. If those will satisfy Stalin, he doubtless can get them, But it he demands too much, the present Allled attitude of accommodation probably will stiffen.

Europe.

ister Nehru and his sister, V. Pandit, former ambassador to Washington. After her six weeks’ China, she is sure that government wants a settlement. there is speculation as to why Stalid is sudtion. denly interested in a Korean

after having blocked so many opportunities in the past year of negotiations, surmise is that a showdown for the has been reached on the allimportant - German issue and he is ready to in the Far East for much in

trade a little

“SIDE GLANCES

WHATEVER STALIN'S devious purpose may be, there is no mystery about the political pressures in Britain and the U. 8." Prime Minister Churchill is under attack by the labor opposition and many within _his own party for allowing

visit in Red

Washington to “mishandle” compromise—if indeed he is— the truce megotiations and POW camps. He needs a Ko-

rean settlement. So does President Truman— same humanitarian wnd military reasons which dictated America’s earlier concessions at Panmunjom, and also because of the presidential election campaign.

By Galbraith

The obvious

~ n . SO FAR the only formal action is the note from the Red command in Korea to yen, Mark W. Clark, United Nations Commander in Chief, asking him to join in all-out effort for settlement of the prisoner dispute, That, at least, is how the Peping radio describes it. On the surface this appears as nothing more significant than another propaganda move in reply to the American negotiators’ threat te hoyeott Red stalling sessions until they have something to offer. But the British and some other Allies are half convinced there is more to it than that. For two reasons: : At the United Nations the Russians are supposéd to have whispered. a reasonable compromise is possible--whatever that means. Some Allies think the Reds might be willing to detour around the POW ijasue, in effect leaving it to the individual prisoner after release to return te Red territory “or remain on the free side of the curtain. : - ” » ; AT THE SAME time, Red China again is using. India as °°

@* There's no .chance of Sieh an outfit ‘being set up by Monday morning. however, and what pains Rep. Phillips is that by the same afternoon he's supposed to make up his own mind on that three billion. “We either have to use a rubber stamp on appropriations like this,” he said, “or a meat axe.” He meant there were so. few Congressmen on the appropriations committee trying to make sense of the billions being requested that most of the time they were downright ignorant about how the money was being spent.

This atomic-energy thing disturbs me no end,” said Rep. John E. Lyle Jr. (D. Tex.). “What are we doing with these billions? Building power houses, or bombs?” Rep. Phillips said he'd guess that about 80 per cent of the atom money now was being spent for peaceful purposes. “And what about that $65,000 dog house at Los Alamos?” demanded Rep. Lyle.

Wasn't a Dog House

“I AM sorry you brought that up; said Rep. Phillips, a fair man. “It wasn’t a dog house, but an animal hospital. And it cost $85,000.” “Yes, and they rented it to a veterinarian for $150 a month,” persisted Rep. Lyle. “No, he is the health officer and he is doing some very important experiments,” said Rep. Phillips. “This particular enterpfise has received some very unfortunate publicity.” Rep. Lyle said that was the trouble. Until the atom aplitters decide to give Congressmen full and honest answers to their questions, he said he intends to vote them no more money. Several other lawgivers, faced with other bureaudrats demanding other billions, had the same idea: Give them a year.round staff to keep tab on the plans of the big spenders. Then maybe Congress could know what it was doing when it signed the checks. In this group was Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. (D. Tex.), who said: “A housewife can't run up bills without consulting her husband on how mugh his paycheck is” “How long you been married?” Rep. Lyle, On this jocular note let us leave the lawgivers; their problem isn't funny. The gentlemen, as usual, are overdrawn at the bank.

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MR. EDITOR: I wish to commend: the editor of The Indianapolis Times for his editorial of May 30, titled, “Smear Tagties.”

This editorial is timely and to the point. It could be of great value to the people in bringing to their notice some flagrant abuses, shameful actions and immoral behavior practiced by men who hold places of honor In our government. Evil tactics, lies and deceit foisted on the people by the politiclans for the purpose of gaining selfish ends can bring nothing but harm to the people and the perpetrators in the end. This is one of the many ways in which our newspapers, ‘which are devoted to the best interests of our country, can bring facts into the homes of the people. I was gratified to some extent to read this article as it tickled my ego to see pubHshed my own ideas which I have tried to convey to the people through my letters to The Times over the past six or eight months, The editor, of course, put in in much better words than could I, for which I thank him. The Times is the only one of our three Indianapolis newspapers that can be relied on, to some extent, to print both sides of issues without distorting facts by false propaganda and political hocus-pocus, THe newspapers are the greatest nfedium which ‘can be used to bring important issues to the notice of the people. All too often this is used for selfish political purposes as a means to channel the minds of the people into grooves helpful to political parties and harmful to the people. ~—Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh &., City.

‘Another Wendell Willkie?" .

MR. EDITOR? : >

Among our numerous candidates do we have another Wendell Willkie, “a liberal Democrat,” avin g to climb a Republican tulip poplar flagpo - Do we have another George Dewey, of 1898 fame, as one cartoonist him,

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Evil Tactics’

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

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KIBITZERS . . . By R. H. Shackford

Gen. lke Gets British ‘Vote’

LONDON, June 12 — “The barefoot urchin from the prairie dust who has become one of the most popular Americans in history ..."” That’s the way Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is being “billed” for many British readers. If Gen. Eisenhower loses the Republican nomination to Sen. Robert A. Taft, Ike's une happy supporters at home will have a lot of companions in ‘misery on this side of the Ate lantic. No American election ever interested Europe as much as this one, especially in Britain, Certainly no other man in peacetime history has ever had so many Europeans on his side as Ike has in his fight for the presidency. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt could match him in popularity abroad—and Mr. Roosevelt's popus larity was in wartime,

They Take Sides:

. EUROPEANS are developing just as definite opinions about who the Americans ought’ to elect as those people who stand on sidewalks and “superintend” skyscraper projects. They already are being deluged with thou sands of words daily about American politics, And they dre openly partial, just as most Amer» icans were during the recent Churchill came paign for re-election. As the London Daily Telegraph put it: “It would be foolish to pretend that on this side of the Atlantic we can look impartially and objectively on the contest between Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhowef, Our own future prospects are too tied up with American policy for such an attitude to be possible.” The British newspaper treatment of Gen, Eisenhower's first days in the U, 8. is enough to confirm that judgment, 2

Gets Most Space

BRITISH newspapers normally publish little news about American affairs. But during Ike's first week home-—when Korea seemed ready to blaze ‘again, another Berlin blockade was in the . offing, and the new Queen Elizabeth per« formed on horseback at her first public cere mony—Ike got the biggest share of news space, The Manchester Guardian devoted its leading full-column editorial to Gen. Eisenhower two days out of three. Most of the others ran at least one editorial. In addition, almost all of the big papers “have been rumning articles about Ike, other candidates and the American election’ system. The London News Chronicle hat even printed a spgcial popular pamphlet, “All About Ike,” in which they describe the General: “The barefoot urchin from the prairie gust who has become one of the most popular Americans in history . . . a child of primitive paci+ fists who turned into a lord of battles. . , , A product of the isolated Midwest who came back to tell his people:

“‘We are part of the great civilization of this world at this moment, and every part of the world where a similar civilization prevails is part of us.”

Worry Over Aid

THE ONCE-GREAT fear America would revert to isolationism of the 1920 variety is pretty well dissipated. But there ig some concern that even Ike, as a Republican President, would be less liberal with American money in Europe than the Democratic Party.

. “No one, of course, expects American aid to go on forever,” the Manchester Guardian said in commenting on Ike's belief that the period of decreasing costs abroad is ahead. “But one may contrast Gen. Eisenhower's expectation of ‘decreasing costs’ with the cautious reluctance

of Mr. Acheson, testifying in March before the

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to put a time-limit on the present rate of expenditure.”

MY LITTLE BOY

My little boy, I love you so, . . as I watch you at play . . . you're in the garden of my heart... and there you'll always stay . .. in you I see myself again .,. when I was just a kid . ., and I long to be young again ., . and do the things I did . . , my little boy, you're learning now , . . to play the game of life . .. you're learning how to give and take .. . and how to detour strife . .. you're finding out that life is full”) . . of bad as well as good «os and the way you know you should , . . my little boy, I "wish that you « + » could stay just as you are ,.. for with each year it seems you're growing . , . distant as a

star, ~—By Ben Burroughs i i cesta Rita IR He Challenges MR. EDITOR:

Since I am an Indiana man by birth, humere ous people are asking me while I am at present back home in Indiana why 1 changed my address for political purposes from Indiana to Louisiana, The reason for the change is because Louise fana elects all congressional and state offices by direct vote of all voters on a statewide basis, instead of the Indiana system of using the .delegate method and indirect vote of the voters. I'll be glad to see the day when all candies dates from the President on down will be nomi« nated by direct vote of all voters, thus terminate ing the delegate method entirely in all primaries and general élections throughout our nation. I understand the deal that was made at the Indiana Republican Convention made this compromise. They agreed to a pro-Eisenhower man as the Republican candidate for Governor after it was agreed to give the National delegates to Taft for President at the Chicago National Con. vention. I challenge any and all Republicans in and out of Indiana to prove if they can that this deal was not made at the Indiana State Republican Convention, At the present time I _am the Republican candidate for U, S. Representative from the 5th District of Louisiana under the Eisenhower banner. I hereby desire if any person can show me, that I could attain this same position in Indiana as far as Madison County is cancerned, because I do not believe in deals, I was entirely left out, as far as Indiana Republican political affairs were concerned. Therefore, I transferred my address to Louisiana where a person has a

: much better chance of becoming a candidate for

a major political office without ever ‘having been forced to make that first political deal, A person, as I see it, who steals ‘money, cars, etc, is convicted for being a criminai, as should ‘be done, but this same person can steal votes in states like Indidna, Texas, etc., for President and be patted on the back. That is why I do not believe in Taft for President. I am '& 100 per center for Eisenhower for President, Thers stolen delegates,

Are no deals, stolen on To - the Eisenhower faction I challenge the Taft ; faction to prove they are on the level, BIE

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