Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1952 — Page 22

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Survival Is the Issue

“PEACE may well be at stake” in the present presidential election campaign, Dwight D. Eisenhower said in his foreign policy speech. . That was an understatement. Peace or war is the over-riding issue of our time. High taxes and inflation are mere byproducts of that problem. Our very survival as a free people is the basic issue confronting us, and it may well be decided in the present presidential campaign. Gen. Eisenhower's speech ably presented this problem in its broader aspects. But to the extent that his remarks were addressed to Sen. Taft's position, he was shooting wide of the real target. ; The issue of peace or war is not between the two principal candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. "It is between the party in power and the party in opposition. And it is time to deal with this issue with the gloves off. Those who “preach that we need do nothing except maintain a destructive retaliatory force in the event the Russian army should march” have been few in this country, and Sen. Taft has not been among them. But their number is increasing because of a growing feeling that other measures having failed, the American people may be forced to rely mainly on their own resources.

. . » ” ” . THE THEORY of collective security represents a more enlightened and hopeful approach to the problem, to be sure. But lip-service alone will not put iron in such a program. And we've been given little but lip service. for . all the money we have invested in collective security. Meanwhile, the fumbling, stupidity and proérastination of’ the. Truman administration are backing us ever nearer to the brink of all-out war... . _° en

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That is why the present camipalgn is so crucial, ~~ In Europe, the six-nation army proposal is bogged down in the French and West German parliaments. While this fruitless debate continues, arms are being denied our potential allies in Formosa who are ready and eager to use them. : : ; Appeasement in Korea has led us into a costly, ineffectual ‘and seemingly endless stalemate, but whigh is exacting a daily toll in more dead and wounded. : . At home our war production program has been stretched out until Russia has been conceded air supremacy for years to come, at the very time when we are warned that a Russian attack may be imminent. : These are the matters of most immediate concern to

the American people.

. ~ . . » LJ » IN THIS CRISIS, perhaps the greatest in our history, millions of Americans, without respect to politics, are looking to Dwight D. Eisenhower to point the way out, but in words that will crackle as well as inspire. And millions throughout the world are doing likewise, because no leader of our generation holds a corresponding position in the public mind. Pde ' The General himself has said the United States “must tead the free world—East and West—toward a singleness of purpose that we our selves must exemplify,” because it is not in our American character “to surrender or to fail.” To our mind Dwight Eisenhower is the man best qualified to head this crusade for freedom. But the first and worst obstacles to be overcome are in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon and the entrenched and'self-perpetuating debility which they represent. These must be the objectives for initial attack, and the time to be shooting is now.

More Room for Children >

THE NURSERY RHYME ABOUT the old lady who lived in a shoe pretty well described the Marion County Welfare Department today—although they couldn't solve their problem as simply as in the jingle. The department, too, had so many children it hardly knew what to do with them: Marion County Guardian home, built for 81 youngsters has had an average of 112 for the past year, sometimes has had as many as 129.

The County Welfare Board took the only course open. -

It asked for more room. To the County Commissioners and the County Council it proposed either a whole new institution, or an addition to the present one. It is a request that should have prompt consideration. The riumber of children for whom such custodial care is required has increased in rather direct proportion to the growth of the county's whole population. Over-crowding in this home already is serious, and there is every reason to expect it will get worse, instead of better, with present facilities.

Enemy Hif Hard

For THE FIRST TIME, on a serious scale at least, the Allies have smashed at the big Communist hydro-electric power plants in Korea. ; They have hit the enemy where it hurts-—and hurts badly. on the biggest air raid of the Korean War, United Nations forces are reported to have destroyed these five huge plants. One of them, at Suiho, fourth biggest power plant in the world, is officially described asa “pile of junk.” It has been a long time coming, but this is the kind of action the enemy can understand. It will do more to put grist in the Panmunjom truce mill than all the concessions, persuasion and palaver of the last year. ~The demolished power plants were vital to the enemy's military buildup. They were vital to his industry in Man-

which ¢ yin American lives. ~The ir Tr ply enemy’s industrial . ne sion which resulted Jt Senge P. :

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INTERNAL STRIFE . . . By Oland D. Russell

Political Rival May Uns

TOKYO, June 26—Japan’s party in power, like the U. 8. Democratic Party, is having internal strife and strains. The Japanese strife is not regional. There's not even much cleavage over issues. Rather, it is a clash of personalities—betwéen that of Premier Shigeru Yoshida, head of the Liberal Party, and Ichiro Hatoyama, a very lively ghost who has come out of retirement to haunt and goad an old pal. If Mr. Hatoyama~succeeds in kicking up enough dust, there could be a general election in Japan this fall. And if, meanwhile, he wrests the party leadership from Yoshida, the old pro, Mr. Hatoyama—which means Dove Mountain— has better than an even chance of being the next premier. Mr. Hatoyama was founder and first president of the Liberal Party. With the blessing of the occupation, he was all set to become

_ premier in 1946. Then the straw matting was

jerked from under him. Some left-wing newsmen dug up a batch of Hatoyama's wartime effusions and passed the word to the occupation authorities. Hatoyama was promptly disqualified for public office. The story goes that Hatoyama personally picked Yoshida to take his place—and Yoshida went on to greater glory. But Mr. Hatoyama tied a string to the arrangement. He exacted from Yoshida a promise that if he ever got depurged, Yoshida was to step down and let Hatoyama return to party presidency and possible premiership. Only one person witnessed this verbal promise and he died last May 26. So now it's a matter of one man's word against another's. :

DEAR BOSS. . . By Bin Kidney Halleck Urges Soending Check

WASHINGTON, June 26—8hould the Republicans win control of the next Congress, the long-discussed Joint Committee on the Budget may bécome a reality. This was indicated today by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, who likely would return to his role of Majority Leader, or even possibly Speaker, should the GOP win this fall. His outstanding talents are constantly used on behalf of his party to bring about the conservative coalition with Southern Democrats which has repeatedly thwarted the Truman New Deal proposals. This recognition here may have caused some of the less able so-cr'led Republican leaders to try and trip him in Indiana. This week Mr. Halleck devoted his report to Second District constituents to a discussion of the Joint Committee Plan. This new commit-

ise would be composed pf members from the

‘Appropriations’ Committee of both the House and Senate. : . < They then would employ a staff of qualified experts to deal with.the national budget, which called for $85.4 billion this year and was detalled in a 5-pound book.’

Every Item Checked

THIS IS how Mr. Halleck explains the pro--

‘cedures which the new Joint Committee and its experts would follow: “The President's budget would be examinad in detail, every item checked with these questions in mind” “Is the amount asked justified? Can it be reduced? Beyond its initial cost, how much future spending might this proposal involve? Should it be eliminated entirely? “The staff would make its recommendations to the Joint Committee, which in turn would present factual data to the Appropriations Committee, With such facts at hand, it is argued, these committees could act with greater understanding on the budget requests coming before them.” The Joint Committee's job would not stop there, however, the Halleck report points oul. After the Congress had appropriated funds, the committee and its technicians would follow through to determine what the various agencies

_ actually were doing with the money granted

them, Examples of unwise or excessive spending would be reported. Offending agencies would be called to account and Congress could take adequate steps to stop waste,

‘Need Machinery’

* “THE NEED for some kind of effective machinery to tighten congréssional control over the nation's purse strings is a matter of increasing concern,” Mr. Halleck said. “The facilities and manpower available to Congress for careful study of the budget simply haven't kept pace with the size and complexity of the job. “It has become impossible for members of Congress to examine properly the thousands of

items presented in the budget, or to determine

the real justifications for requested funds.” Checking at the source is the only real way to. curtall big ‘government spending in the opinion of freshman Republican Rep. Charles RB. Brownson, Indianapolis. As a member of the Bonner subcommittee on wasteful spending he flew around the world, found plenty of it, but points out that it was too latasthen to stop it. All the committee could recommend was not to have it happen again.

“The need for Congress to have a staff of its 480 budget experts is imperative,” Mr. Brown-

said. “At the present time most of our expert information comes from staffers om the House and Senate Appropriations committees who have been borrowed from the agencies involved. “Do you think they are going to" cut the figures and then go back to work for those who will resent such cuts? It just doesn't make sensc the way it is being done now.”

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In any case, Mr. Hatoyama, now depurged and recovered from a stroke which had him flattened for nearly a year, has returned to his Tokyo home to launch a fight for presidency of the party he founded. According to most recent popular newspaper polls, the Liberals, who are really conservatives, command greatest strength among the voters.

Mr. Hatoyama says Yoshida’s too flabby and .

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keeps hedging. Hatoyama's for immediate rearming—putting a respectable standing army, a navy and an air force in the field as soon as

. possible.

Moreover, he feels the constitution should be promptly amended to permit universal conscription. Even under Article 9, which is posed to prevent Japan from having an army, says Mr. Hatoyama, “our country has the righ to arm for self-defense.” ‘

Maybe That's the Bag It's In

CARRY YOUR BAG, ul MISTER

'SOOTHED? GENTLE? HAW’... By Frederick C. Othman

Tempers Flare in Debate Over

Asking Truman to Enforce T-H Act

WASHINGTON, June 26—It was one of those hot and steamy days," as Jin a Mexican jungle, except without the orchids. Not fit for doing any work on account of a fellow’s fingers sticking to the typewriter keys. So I sneaked into the House of Representatives, air-conditioned at great expense to the taxpayers, to absorb a little of the comfort I helped buy. The idea there on a soft stool in the press gallery was to rest in the salubrious atmosphere and be soothed by the gentle droning of the

statesmen on the floor, Soothed? Gentle? Haw,

The boys were battling so - bitterly over one

little word that. I got hot all over again just © listening to em.

I think maybe you'll be interested: .

Up for debate was an amendment requesting President Truman kindly to enforce the TaftHartley Act, if ne would be so kind.

Came Rep. Clarence Brown (R. 0.) with an amendment to amend the amendment. Cut out that word “request,” he said, and substitute the word, “direct.” He meant don’t ask Mr. Truman; tell him.

“But Congress can't direct the President to do anything,” complained Rep. Brent Spence, a Democrat from Kentucky, This made Rep. Brown unhappy.

‘Won't You Please—?"'

“WELL, SHOUERD we =ay, won't you please, pretty Jaw?’ " he roared. ‘ “I tell you, we can't tell .the President,” insisted the elderly Rep. Spence. ‘ “Why not?” cried Rep. Clare (No-pockets) Hoffman (R. Mich,). He was wearing a suit of snowy white; it had no pockets in it, either, just like his black ones. ‘The President asked

‘Mr. President, please, enforce the

us to tell him,” Rep. Hoffman said. ‘‘Can’t we %o it, just as a matter of courtesy?” This made Rep. Spence sore. He said that

WASHINGTON, June 26— Original plan for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's speech at Detroit was that he would be introduced by Michigan Sen. Homer Ferguson. ; The Republican Senator accepted the invitation. But he

made clear that in his introduction he weuld have to say that he himself had not yet made up his mind whom he would support for the presidency. When Arthur Summerfield, Michigan GOP political leader, heard about this he changed the program and introduced Gen. Eisenhower himself, ? * wn =u

FRANKLIN D. RGOSEVELT JR., who is national chairman

‘man to enforce the -Taft-Hartléy Act.

was a specious argument. By now 40-odd Congressmen were on their feet, demanding to have their say on Mr. Brown's one little word. Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) got the eye of the Speaker. He said, why should Congress ask Mr. Truman to enforce a law, when the Constitution already directs him to do just that, And,

anyhow, he said, he believed the steel strike would be over in another week, no matter what.

Rep. Spence said how about a vote to chop off debate in another 20 minutes? There were howls of protest. How about 20 minutes then? More howls. The gentleman from Kentucky said, all right, let's chop off the yammer in one hour. The lawgivers agreed to that.

Faces Mathematical Problem

THIS LEFT the Speaker with a pretty and precise mathematical problem. There were the 40 gentlemen insisting they were going to have their say—and they had only 60 minutes all told to say it.

The way the Speaker -calculated it, give or take a few orators, was one minute and 15 seconds each. That's what they got, too. Mostly these used their time saying they couldn't even begin to express their thoughts before the gavel banged. It kept on banging, too, until Rep. O. K. Armstrong (R. Mo.) got up to announce: b

“You cannot make Harry Truman a good Presidént by congressional resolution.” This crack pleased the Republicans; it almost caused the Democrats to boo. ~ One of the Republicans relinquished his own minute and a quarter to let O. K. continue in the same vein.

All the speeches finally were said, Then the gents voted. Rep. Brown's little word they vetoed in favor of merely requesting Mr, TruI got out of there; the thermometer said 97 in the shade, but somehow now it didn’t seem nearly that hot. .

HE WASN'T SURE . . . By Peter Edson Ferguson Cut Out of lke’s Detroit Program

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He sald Yoshida’s trying to handle it as « rely domestic problem, Pe Look at the way he's let the students get out of hand, drifting into Communist camps. The police themselves are dismayed at the gov. ernment’s apathetic attitude. They are aware of the serious natignal damger that confronts Japan from the north and they wonder when we'll have a real army to cope with it. No Japanese wants to depend on the so-called American “security forces forever.” Answering the Yoshida argument that re. arming should be put off until Japan's economy is stabilized, ‘Mr. Hatoyama said this wasn’t the way to go at it. The economy could be stabilized and recovery stimulated, he said, if Japan permitted banks to be freer with loans. As to trade with Red China—“That's an im« portant question.” He seemed to imply that he'd certainly consider it if it were in the national interest. But on a whole, and as of now, he thought that Japan had more to lose by trading with the Communists at the risk of losing the good will of the Western democracies, For a Japanese politician, Hatoyama has plenty of ready answers—and a fair command: of English, He scarcely looks his 68 years. He has had a brilliant political career. Graduating at the head of his class at Tokyo Imperial University, he entered politics immediately and, at 28, was elected Tokyo city councellor, taking the seat left vacant by the death of his father. He twice served as Japanese Education Minister. During the war, he kept out of the limelight, living on a farm 40 miles northwest of Tokyo. He milked his own cows and grew enough garden produce to feed a family of 20 through most of the war.

Hoosier Forum "I do not agree with a word that you

say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." '~ ; :

MR. EDITOR: In my opinion, Gen. Eisenhower was right when he stated in his Dallas speech that Taft supporters in Texas are nothing more than rustlers who stole the Texas birthright instead of Texas steers. The Texas incident is not the only act of larceny that has been committed by the Taft click in the past few months, and I advise the honest Texans to keep an eye on them just in case they decide to steal the steers yet and possibly a few horses, too. I have just talked to voters all the way from the Pacific coast of Oregon and Washington to the great state of Indiana and I am cone vinced the great majority of Americans want

¢ neither Sen. Taft nor Harry. Truman -in the

.White Houge. They have no use for President

. Truman and his Missouri gang, and they have - .{#%5::. “1888 fop Sen. Taft and his unscrupnlous clique. attempting to steamroller the convention and |

~steal the nomination. When Bob Taft calls Harry Truman corrupt, It ‘1s just a case of the kettle calling the pot black. The American people want a President who is capable, honest and truthful, with a sense of fair play. They will find those qualifications in either Gen. Eisenhower or Sen. Ruse sell. : If Sen. Taft is successful in forcing his nomination over the will of the majority and the Democrats nominate a Trumanite as their

standard bearer, I will then favor a third party -

headed by Gen. Eisenhower with Sen. Russell as his running mate. Gen. Eisenhower and Russell would meet the approval of all honest Americans and would win with ease over the Taft and Truman gangs.

—Bob Currie, R. 1, Lagro.

. * ‘No Side Door Version’ MR. EDITOR: We proclaim the Constitution as our guide anc protector and guarantor of our inherent rights, equal justice, equal opportunity, and individual freedom. The Constitution means what it says. There is no side door version. The point is we make the farmer prosperous. We select groups of our people and give them . retirement pensions. Others, not classified in groups, we reject by a twist in the law that it would be economically impracticable. A federal, state and county department promise aid to those rejected, then a counter force is set up to use all permissible means to prevent these old people from receiving aid. If they have children they are told to look te them for their needs, or it may be other relatives. Then the children are sternly - warned: to support their aged parents or els These old people have likely done more and harder work than the average pensioner, yet they are forced to go to their relatives for support as their reward for a dutiful life, while their next« door neighbor retires on a hundred or more dollars per month pension. And rerhember these pensions are paid by all of us, even the poorest pay. I don't condemn the aid system done within the wording or nt or bn Lh stitution. Our present handout system can’t be reconciled with the spirit of the Constitution, We will reap just what we sow.

=—One of the Rejected.

‘Journalistic Sheep’ - MR. EDITOR: I am indeed disappointed that my f newspaper found itself compelled to Ai . rest of the journalistic sheep into the Eisen hower fold. And I thought I detected something poignantly reminiscent of the little boy who has been forced to say “Uncle” in your editorial, a hurried, stubborn, under-the-breath repetition of your own belief that Taft is the better man, and then loudly, for the bully’s ears, “But Ike can win‘ because he has a warm personality.” And so has Micky Mouse.

=F. R., Nashville,

and this late start gave Sen. Kefauver the advantage. The way it turned out, of course, was that Mr. Harriman won, four to one, It shows how far wrong even professional politicians can be, . " » . GEORGIA Sen. Richard Russell’s hopes of having 350 ‘delegates from the Solid South fof the first ballot at Chicago aren't materializing as rapidly nor as solidly as anticipated. Here's the line-up: Alabama—22 split, 7 Russell, 7 Ketfauver, 8 unpledged. , Arkansas— 22 pledged to Sen. Fullbright as favorite son, Florida—24, Russell 19, Kefauver 5.

Georgia—24 sure for Russell as native son.

Kentucky-—26 for Vice President Alben Barkley, native son.

Louisiana—20 for Russell."

Maryland—18 for Kefauver.

South Carolina—16 for Russell.

Tennessee—28 for Kefauver. Texas — 52 uncommitted,

Heavily counted on for Russell, they may go for House Speaker Sam Rayburn if his boom develaops.

YVirginia—28 counted on for Russell. For Sen. Russell this adds up to 15114 without Texas, 2031 with it. Sen. Kefauver has 58. The four favorite sons—Fulbright, Barkley, Kerr and Rayburn — would have 124 delegates who would not hold but would probably be split after three or four ballots, Likewise, the two scattered, delegates and the 181; unpledged will split, Of these 14414 uncertain delegates needed by Ben. Russell to give him approximately 300, he would probably get the majority, but not all.

” ” ” THE Kefauver-for-President Committee of the District of

organization going after it was over, the committee opened headquarters in suite 375. They wanted a private telephone put in the offices. But when the telephone installer came to put in the line, the only way he could get into Suite 375 was through Suite 376. The occupant of Suite 376, of all people, happened to be the chairman of the Republican Natiofial Committee, Guy Gabrielson. Sen. Taft has been having trouble ‘with the photographers some more. When the Senator's campaign manager, Da. vid 8: Ingalls, was in Washington recently, the two of them had a quiet. dinner together in Mr, Ingalls’ hotel suite. : Photographers got wind of it and asked permission to take a picture of the two hav-

ing dinner together. Sen. Taft refused to allow the picture to

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