Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1952 — Page 22

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Week End in Detroit

IT STRIKES us as a very good idea for Indiana delegates to the Republican National Convention to go to Detroit tomorrow to meet with Gen. Eisenhower—since he has no plans for coming to Indiana. At least for those who are paying their own way. All these delegates met his opponent, Sen. Taft, when he was here last Friday, and it seems to us quite worth while that they should have this opportunity to appraise the other leading candidate, to get his views on major issues at first hand, and to have had some personal contact with both these men, one of whom will be carrying the party's banner in November. » . » » » ». THE EXPEDITION is legitimate enough. The faintly fishy smell comes from the ‘free rides.” Those look from here like nothing more nor less than a direct and cynical bid for the votes of these delegates 30 of whom already have pledged their votes as a condition of becoming delegates.

The difference between a luxurious all-expenses-paid:

week-end junket to Detroit and a straight cash offer for a vote is too thin for most of us to distinguish. The very offer is just downright insulting to the delegates themselves, (Gen, Eisenhower is not, himself, a man to approve such tactics. From what we knowsof him we helieve he'd rather not have the votes than to get them that way-—even if they could be had that way, which is doubtful. Those who engage in such dealings in his name are doing him. no service. : It is encouraging to those who prefer clean politics on Poth sides to see how many Hoosier ? dejogates. Baty

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Are Any Holds Barred? HE. joint chiefs of staff have asked Gen. Mark W. Clark for a transeript of an interview in Tokyo regarding the possibility of bombing the enemy’s bases in Manchuria, if full-scale war is resumed in Korea. The General was quoted as saying there should be * holds barred” in retaliation for-an all-out, massive air attack by the Communists, This attitude is in conflict with the General's present directive, According to one published version of the limitations under which he is operating, his planes would have the right to pursue Red aircraft across the Yalu River, “under certain emergency military situations.” But it was explained he would have to- obtain new instruétions before bombing enemy bases on the Manchurian side. Would this mean that our planes could fire upon enemy aireraft in the air -over Manchuria but would have to abandon the attack after an enemy plane had landed? » ~ » ~ . . IF THIS is the policy, it apparently does not take into consideration the possibility that the United Nations forces could be destroyed while Gen. Clark was waiting for a new directive. Suppose. the Secretary of State or one of the joint chiefs happened to be out horseback riding that day, and could not be located? : How many of our men might be killed before he could be found? The enemy has more planes in Korea than we have. The one way that advantage might be overcome would be through quick, hard blows at his bases, to destroy his planes before they left the ground or while they were refueling. If this would have to be approved in Washington, and perhaps London, too, our striking power might be wiped out before it could be used. While the joint chiefs are asking for a copy of Gen, Clark's interview, it is in order to ask the joint chiefs to publish a copy of Gen. Clark's precise instructions. If our men are to be “sitting ducks” while our Air Force is wrapped up in protocol, their parents—and the rest of us—have a right to know it so a change in that policy can be demanded before all-out war is resumed.

We Are Second Best

RESIDENT TRUMAN told his World War I Army buddies at a reunion last week that we are building “the best, instead of the biggest” Air Force in the world. Columnist Bob Ruark takes issue with him. “We haven't got the biggest Air Force, and we haven't got the best, either,” says Bob, “if you consider an Air Force something that is capable of flying off to war.” You can't fly a blueprint, he submits. : We'll have to go along with Bob, for his position is supported by the testimony of the top officers in our Air Force who ought to know their own capabilities. They say

that Russia has the best Air Force—that ours is second

best. They also say that Russia is building planes faster than we are. In war, the payoff for being second best is defeat— and after defeat, death or slavery,

ELECTION year bet what it is, President Truman just doesn't want to get into that Taft act.

TO A BIG city kid, the wide open spaces may be a place where downtown garages don't have cars parked on the roofs. «nr > » 7 x me » » ” A PARIS government fhaf will shed the Reds may even muster SUONER courage to collect axes. THE ‘national chairman of ‘the Prohibition Party is

naved Overholt. Sounds like the liquor boys may be 1

Judiciary subcommittee has postponed action

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2 A HO an those bills ta impeach President Truman. Probably too

CORVETtioN; wn —came-on the Heels of that vote. Mr. Halleck-did

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel Kidney, Brownson Does ‘Solo Flight’

WASHINGTON, June 13--Rep. Charlés B. Brownson, Indianapolis, was the only Indiana Republican to vote for continuance of Presi. dent Truman’s wartime powers during the present emergency, : The House Judiciary Committee had cut the number of specific powers from 60 to 48 and the committee of the whole Hpuse approved, The emergency powers continyation act, which extends to June 30, 1953, then passed the House 284 to 69, The other four GOP freshmen from the state and Rep. Ear! Wilson, Bedford Republican, were among the 69 casting “no” votes. Three of the Republican oid-hands were absent. They were

“Reps. Charles ‘A. Halleck, Rensselaer; Ralph

Harviy, New Castle, &nd Mrs. Cecil Harden, Covington. The-latter has just been re-elected Republican national committeewoman from the state, ‘ The two Democrats, Reps. Ray Madden, Gary, and Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, voted with the majority. Mr. Brownson explained his “solo flight” by saying that the Korean War is go real that had he not given the commander-in-chief the powers needed to carry it on, he would have felt as though he had betrayed the

men doing the fighting and members of all the armed services.

‘Sign of Weakness’

“I SHARE the dim views of my Republican colleagues as to conduct of the Korean War Mr. Brownson said. “But a mere protest vote against giving President Truman powers needed to carry out the conflict might be misread by our enemies as a sign of weakness. It seems to

" me the Congress should be.on record as backing

up completely our men on the battlefield.”

It was this same attitude of “world responsibility” that caused the Indianapolis Congress. man to support final passage of the mutual security bill. He was joined in this by another Républican freshman, Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker, South Bend. Mr. Halleck, dean of the delegation, also voted for it. The bill, providing nearly $7 billions in economic, military and Point Four aid for foreign countries, was finally approved by both Houses on a conference report. The Indiana Republican Senators were opposed to A as usual.

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“and lost out as a national convention deleggte for the first time. Reports are ‘current here that he was betrayed by some pseudo-friénds.

House Minority I.eader Joseph W, Martin Jr. (R. Mnss.) voted to continue the President's wartime powers. As the active assistant to Mr, Martin, Mr. Halleck likely would have done the same had he been present. But the only nonfreshman present was Mr. Vsilson, who nearly always votes no,” regardless of the matter involved. Exceptions are ‘veterans bills and oldage pensions, although he voted against the latter on recommital, The measure will be brought back for passage, however, . :

Against Powers

THE Republican freshmen against extending the President's war powers beyond the end of this. month were Reps. E. Ross Adair, Ft. Wayne; John V. Beamer, Wabash; Willlam G. Bray, Martinsville, and Mr. Crumpacker. The last-named explained that he thought extending the powers would be giving “tacit approval to the fiction that there is no war in Korea.” These powers also continue to give reserve officers an unfair deal, Mr. Crumpacker declared. Mr. Beamer, who keeps account of his vetes in a Mttle black book, wrote the following: “Why give Truman this authority, when he has abused other authority and says there is no war.” Mr. Bray dismissed his as a mere “protest vote.” Expanding that idea, Mr. Adair declared: “President Truman has abused some of his powers. His action in the steel plant’ seizure where he declared the power inherent in his office and for which he was slapped down by the Supreme Court, is symptomatic. I- considered. this vote a chance to protest against

such outrageous conduct.” -

TIME TO SETTLE . ; . By James Daniel

Forecasts Changes

Brownson nor Crumpacker

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rsa June ISA thy Repub . cans I know, without exception, are fine,' up"standing ladies and gentlemen. Smart, too. Only

they can’t add. To them simple arithmetic is ancient sanskrit.

There can be no other explanation for the mathematical shambles they have made of the delegates favoring Bob Taft and Ike Eisenhower., By their collective count these presidential stalwarts. plus a few favorite sons, already have more votes than there are delegates.

What they need is not so much an electronic brain or even a calculating machine, but something simple like a wire full of little tabs strung above a pool table. If that doesn't work, I have a small niece in St. Louis who has developed an amazing facility for counting on her toes. Gad. Bringing. up these melancholy reflections upon the Republican inability to count was the arrival at the Capitol of a leading Ike supporter, waving a fist full of $50 bills, He wanted to do some gambling on his man. : He would bet, said he, even money that his boy. would get more votes on the first ballot at Chicago three weeks hence than Sen. Taft. From his pocket he pulled the latest confidential figures on delegate strength as compiled by the Eisenhower statisticians. These showed that Ike already had 571 votes in his pocket and Sen. Taft 489. A number of rival mathematical geniuses were quick to cover his bets. The Taft contingent claimed that their man had 540 dele- : gates clinging to his lapel. ~ -

A Bit Confusing

THIS WAS beginning to get confusing, but { referred to the United Press (which. owns a whole fleet of adding machines) and it said that Sen. Taft had 468; Ike 398. With all respect to the rival trigonometricians, I'll string along with the UP. So there'll enly be 1206 delegates at the stockyards. Add up Sen. Taft's 540, Gen. Eisen-

SIDE GLANCES

By Frederick C. Othman

but They Can't

eeney-meenie delegates who still haven't made up their minds, and you get 1340. This figure still doesn’t include the favorite-son delegates.

I'd hate to think the ampitheater is going to house a couple hundred ghosts, because it'll be crowded enough with live politicians. It may even be that the competing computers of the politicos will make their figures jib before-the festivities begin on July 7, but I doubt it. Things political obvieusly are growing exciting and the convention can't start too soon to suit me. In that connection I am pleased to report ‘that the Republicans managed to solve still another mathematical problem. They found a place for me to sleep. "First report from them was that they were fresh out of hotel rooms; Othman could try Grant Park. Later on they reshuffied their figures and on me they bestowed a double room at the Hotel Conrad Hilton. For this I am grateful; I also have forwarded a $50 deposit so Conrad will suffer no loss in case I arrive late.

All Is Well in Chicago

WHY I have a_double room I don’t know; ordinarily I sleep in only one bed at a time. Should there be a homeless Republican (one of those wraiths, maybe), I can put him up. So long as he doesn’t snore. My spies from Chicago report that all is well. The press, as usual, will sit on planks. But, so help the reputation of the engineers, all hands will be kept cool. The management has taken triple steps. Regular air blown over the ice cakes will be wafted at the amphitheater. In addition there will be a new and modern air-conditioning system. And in addition to that, the locals have dug two wefls 1000 feet deep from which to pump cold Jae for spraying on the rooft If all that doesn't keep down the ‘temperatures of the politicians, then they'll be incandescent. Mystelf, I can hardly wait for my first whiff of a smoke-filled room.

By Galbraith

Raps Blinker System MR. EDITOR: "Our local newspapers, radio broadcasters, school ‘teachers and citizens generally, caution auto drivers of safety ordinances and rules, Our policemen make hundreds of arrests weekly for noncompliance of our city regulations. Yet

there is scarcely a day in the year our papers do not report auto accidénts and deaths on the streets of Indianapolis, Not withstanding the fact that careless ‘drivers are responsible for a large percentage of the accidents and deaths, someond in authority in our city government has greatly increased. the possibility of added accidents by replacing the regular red and green traffic lights with the blinker system at several of our cross streets on E. Washington, two in particular, Washington at Audubon Road and Washington and Arlington Ave. He who ordered this blinker system at theses two cross streets should be compelled to driye south on Arlington and north on Audubon through Washington at 10 o'clock every night for 30 days. After about one Saturday night (after waiting 10 minutes to enter Washington, then proceeding at the risk of being struck by some fool driving east or west on Washington at excessive speed) he would immediately restore the regular red and green light system. If accidénts occur at so many of oyr out-of-city cross roads on account of the blinker system where, traffic is less than on E. Washington, why will not more aceidents occur at the above mentioned cross streets? Have a policeman stationed at Arlington and Washington some Saturday night at 10 o'clock and he will be convinced that someone “missed the bus.” One other hazard to the safety of Irvington residents is the fact that large trailer-trucks are compelled to use 8S. Audubon Road instead of 8. Ritter, Audubon Road, so narrow that three cars can hardly pass, Ivington Circle, Audubon at University, so narrow that one car must stop when another enters said circle. Ritter «Ave. is amply wide for parking on both sides, and still room for three cars to pass. Why should Audubon Road, a short, narrow street, be a truck route? -==H. J. Harris, 276 8. Audubon Road, City.

‘Got Results’

MR. EDITOR:

On behalf of the members of the SA class of School 84, I want to thank you for your kindness in receiving our committee Wednesday,

June 4. We deeply appreciate the publicity you

gave one of the neighborhood traffic hazards . about which our class was concerned. ‘The picture of the bi Sompletely covers phves STEW LIED

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ronan rents he Monday me weeds were removed by the Park : If the property owners whose shrubs block

the view of motorists at street intersections

would now follow the Park Board's lead, I'm sure there would be fewer accidents in our school area this summer and we would not lose ‘our green flag which shows a perfect traffic record for the entire term. Thank you again for your splendid co-op-eration in this project. —Bufty Cohen, City

‘Why Not Sign Name?’ MR. EDITOR: | I see that C. D. C. has not got the guts to sign his name. And in his last blast at the Democrats he states the government has been honeycombed with Communists and seething with corruption for 20 years. Why the last 10 years? What was the matter from 1920 to 1832, C, D. C.? And that Reosevelt took us into war, What would have happened to Mr. Roosevelt if he had not asked Congress to declare war on Japan? If you were smart you would sign your name and not be ashamed of what you write. A. L. Maxwell, Darlington.

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Allied Arms Plan

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In Nation's Economy

WASHINGTON, June 13 Fdwin G. Nourse, former chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that a time comes in nation's economic life when it must, settle {its accounts—just as individuals have to. balance their check books. Dr, Nourse thinks the time for this country to settle is at hand. In his lectures he's telling audiences that ever since World War II the nation has operated on ‘an unreal economic basis. He says that because of the big savings and the pent-up jemand left from World War II, industry and labor were able after 1945 to vote themselves round after round of

wage and price increases-——al-

ways confident the public would pay anything that was asked.

» » » THEN when the backlog demand was about exhausted, along’ came Korea and created A new demand based partly on anticipation of World War 1. Now, Dr. Nourse foresees a period when supply and demand will have to adjust to each other, and the true worth of goods and services will be established. He thinks the real reason the steel companies stiffened their backs to the President and the union on the seizure issue was their feeling that the consumers-will-always-pay

‘period is over and a return to

competition is ahead. He doesn’t think competition will bring back the conditions of the 1830's. ~*~ ” » . IN FACT, he says, the anions were right all along in contending that the ANH n a

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says, was in insisting mainly an pay raises, These meant price increases, at a time when decreases would have made the whole country more prosperous. Industry failed; he adds, to explain to union leaders the need to keep business healthy by letting them set a little money aside toward providing more jobs and goods in the future. Politically, this viewpoint runs completely against the policies of the administration. The government has constantly increaged the amount of money in circulation and has made credit easy to get, but hasn't comparably pepped up the production of things to buy. :

” " rr THIS “controlled inflation” policy gave short-range bene. fits to organized economy groups. but it has been hard on the unorganized, says Dr. Nourse. A recent wage study shows insurance emplovees—the second highest paid group in 1939 now in 20th place. The story is the same for most White collared people,

Even farmers have slipped

from their peak. They're now doing only 50 per cent better than the rest of the.country economically. In 1847, they were doing TO per cent better. Higher prices for the things farmers buy are part of the reason.

» - ” DR. NOURSE thinks the respectful attention given to Sen. Harry Byrd (D. Va.) and Paul Douglas (D, Ill.) when they urge economy in government, and the independence shown by Sen, Joe O'Mahoney (D. Wya.), chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. in

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What Others Say—

A VICTORY for democracy in India will enable tens of millions of Asiatic peoples to develop a robust new faith in themselves, in their ancient cultures andl in the ideals of the free world ~=Chester Bowles, U/8. Ambassador to India.

* + WE SEE a leading Republican contender for the presidency

patronizing political 5 and 10-cent stores, trying Vo buy freedom at the bargain counter.—Sen. Brien McMahon. :

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AMERICAN history is full of men who were big vote gétters for statewide office, but could not make the grade Bationally.

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* + 9» CONTINUED armed might over many years should not be & basis for seeking a lasting peace —Sen. Estes Kefauver,

Puts Stalin

' WASHINGTON, June 13 — Russia's rejection of the Allied disarmament plan under the .United Nations has embittered some of the neutral nations. It also helps the Allies to get ratificatien of the German and European : army pacts. That is still a very hard j6b in France and West Germany. i The fact that the compromise arms proposal — which Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik ridiculed in the United Nations session—was of British origin will“ give Prime Min-

+ ister Winston Churchill neces-

sary ammunition in his struggle with the left wing Laborités. ” - » THF. PROPAGANDA value «0 the Allies of Stalin's sabotage of disarmament is far greater abroad than most Americans realize. This country is fully aware that Russian militarism is the cause of the tax-crushing arms race. But in Westérn Europe large numbers in all parties still think we started it, that our “provocative” rearmament and defensive alliances are chiefly responsible for the war danger. . » .

EUROPEAN fear partly explains such distorted thinking. But Stalin's effective propaganda has a lot to do with it. Until now he has been able to make his black record look white simply by publicizing a plausible plan which the Allies had to reject. The Allies’ technical explanation of why the Stalin offer was phony, and why their early plan was better. never got across to the Europeans. » .

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. mew Allied proposal is that it

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cut. He offered to cut onethird. The Allies say, make it one half-——namely a troop ceiling of 1.5 million each for the United States; Russia and China, 800,000 each for Britain and France, and 1 per cent of population for others. This is no real change from the original Allied objective, But instead of presenting abe stractions and outlining future studies as before, it proposes immediate action in terms cone fused Furopeans can undere stand. » = » SO THE positions are re. versed —Stalin is now refusing to. accept an obviously reasonable plan. Now he must do the explaining. , And he cane not do "that without exposing the crookedness of his own plan. There are three basic differences hetween the Stalin and Allied plans: . His plan would reduce the big Soviet force one-third and the little Allied force onethird, thus leaving Russia overs whelmingly superior — at less cost to him. The Allied plan would equalize military strength by relating troop limie tation to Population size,

» v SECONDLY, he insists. on prohibition of atomic weapors before any reduction of other armaments or of troops—thus placing the Allies at his mercy. The Allies offer to limit all forms of military weapons at the same time. Finally, he refuses to allow the United Nations or any ine ternational authority to inspect and enforce inside Russia any arms agreement he makes. Of course the Allies point out that any reduction pact with

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