Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1952 — Page 14

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Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1952

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‘Memorial Period’

OHN L. LEWIS has called for another “memorial period” — during which his coal miners won't work. The announced purpose is to dramatize the need for sreater safety in the mines. But, as usual, only Mr. Lewis, who likes to make the most of his natural bent for being inscrutable, knows the real motives behind this maneuver. It cannot be without significance that this work stopnage has been ordered while Mr. Lewis is negotiating with the mine operators for contract changes. The stockpile of coal now above ground is estimated to be adequate for 84 days. Mr. Lewis’ “memorial period,” of course, will make a dent in that stockpile—although not a serious one as matters now stand. The stated objective of the work stoppage obviously is one with which no decent citizen would quarrel. With all ~f its modern machinery and safety laws, coal mining remains a tough, hazardous way of making a living. The disaster last December at West Frankfort, Ill, which Mr.

Lewis cites in his announcement, is more than ample

evidence.

WHEN MR. LEWIS says not enough has been one to prevent such disasters, he is more than just right. : Regardless of the usefulness of Mr. Lewis’ “memorial period” in promoting safety in the mines, no amount of determination on the part of the miners’ leaders, or anyone else, in seeking ways to cut down mine accidents possibly can be too much. We earnestly hope the “memorial period” will serve, in monumental style, the purpose Mr. Lewis officially has given it. At the same time, we cannot help wondering, along with the miners, who will give up their pay, what other objectives may be lurking behind those bushy eyebrows.

Too Mapy Spenders

PER CAPITA income has risen to an all-time high in the United, States,” but thefe is evidence that per capita spending has risen even more. ee nA sryey by the Lagor Department finds that in 1950 the average city family actually spent £400 earned. In many cases this excess came out of sawmgs, but a great deal of it was simply a matter of going into debt. : : That is easy to do. Since the government is setting such a glorious example of it, small wonder so many taxpayers choose to spend more than they make. Taxes have gone up. So have prices. But many people have had pay increases in the last year, and they hardly could expect prices to stand still while wages go up. The worst victims of inflation are the people who used to be considered our best citizens—the thrifty. The dollars they saved years ago are woefully shrunken in value. It is alarming, however, that so many people either cannot or will not make ends meet. They are going to realize some cold morning that only governments have that ~ privilege. And even governments can't do it forever.

Bipartisanship

HE UNITED NATIONS Participation Act provides that American delegates to the United Nations “shall, at all times, act in accordance with the instructions of the President, transmitted by the Secretary of State.” Should Republicans serving as United Nations delegates under this Act of Congress be subject to Democratic attacks for having made mistakes because they complied with the instructions of a Democratic President?

This question, which seems to answer itself, has been:

addressed to Sen. Douglas by John Foster Dulles, in reply to a speech the Illinois Senator made at the Democratic National Convention. In this speech, Sen. Douglas implied that Mr. Dulles was responsible for withdrawal of American troops from Korea prior to the Red invasion. What Mr. Dulles actually did do was to present a resolution on behalf of the American delegation providing for a joint withdrawal of both American and Russian troops whenever Korea had been reunited under a single government. ” » ” - . » THIS WAS a proper proposal, and it was Russia's refusal to agree to it, not anything the United States did, which set the stage for the present war. But in any case the United States resolution was not a Dulles policy but a formal statement of the American position.

If Sen. Douglas was not aware of this when he made

his speech he must not have read the record on the subject,

which would seem most unscholarly on the part of a professor on leave of absence from a great university. @n the other hand, if he was merely. indulging in partisanship for partisanship’s sake he must know now that it is easier for a man to put his foot in his mouth than it is to take it out.

Bunker Hill

ARINE STAFF Sgt. Dave Moore of Arlington, Va., never had been in combat until the other night. But he “made it” on Bunker Hill, current scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Korean War, “I wasn't scared at first,” he said, “because I didn't know what I was getting into,” But when he saw a white foot, “just a foot lying on . the trail to the hill,” he did get scared. Then— “I saw guys in their holes with their arms and legs blown all over and twisted. But it didn't make me sick any ‘more. I just got mad. I wanted to put my slugs into those ooks.” . 8 Has anyone here at home, busy with jobs, politics, baseball, television and family, had an experience like tl at lately? ri,

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FOLLOW FAMILIAR PATTERN . . . By R. H. Shackford

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Reds Attack German Church Influence

L.LONDON—East German Reds, having destroyed all political, economic, social and physical unity in Germany, today are attacking the last united, all-German, anti-Cemmunist stronghold -—the churches. It is a familiar pattern. It has happened in all other Kastern European countries. And like Fast Germany, it wag usually the last phase in the conversion of those countries to absolifte puppet status. So far. the churches in Germany have avoided a split between the Fast and West. But the Reds apparently have decided their time has come. Political division in Germany has heen a fact ever since Four-Power rule broke down shortly after the war. Economic division has existed since the surrender, Social contacts have been slowly suppressed to almost nothing, and now physical division—a three-mile no-mans lJand—1s a reality.

Tried Exploitation

AT FIRST the Reds tried to exploit the churche& Catholic and Protestant—for their own political ends-—appealing to the national desire to avoid East-West division. The Reds found some fertile propaganda ground in the neutralist movement of Pastor Martin Niemoel-

DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas ‘Target Areas’

WASHINGTON—Approximately 67 million Americans live in or near more than 60 "target areas” in this country. These are the places the Joint Chiefs of Staff assume an enemy would attempt to knock out early if we ever go to war. They're our industrial planta, atomic installations, dams, canals, troop concentrations, bridges, etc. An enemy might not get all, but he’d undoubtedly. try for most, No one contends we could prevent an attack {f Russia decided to launch one. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Chief of the Air Staff, says any nation determined to get through and willing to pay the price could strike a devastating air blow at this country. The Federal Civil Defense Administration has undertaken to make a number of urban area target analyses. These studies are reduced to maps, showing where bombs are liable to fall, principal and alternate evacuation routes, location of hospitals, fire stations, ete. Fivei—for San Francisco, Baltimore, Washington, Dayton and a special one for the legislative and executive heart of the nation's capital—have been completed. Studies involving Boston, New Orleans, Wichita, Norfolk and Jersey City are underway. *

Plans Too Elaborate

SHORT OF turning enemy planes back before they reach their targets, the next best thing is to teach people how to protect themselves and their neighbors. But our Civil Defense program is lagging, principally because the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) and Congress can't agree. Congress thinks the agency's plans are too elaborate. It

says we can provide a ‘realistic ciyil defense

sgrogram without-exgenditures of large sums of money.” The congressional concept—spelled out

tee—is an “adequate attack warning and communications ‘system, and the training and education of the American people in matters of self-preservation.” - Backbone of the Civil Defense setup are a number of interstate compacts. In effect, these are treaties between sovereign states. They agree to come to each other's aid if attacked. Once effective, they should eliminate the necessity for a large federal organization. Nineteen states California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine--have signed. Washington and Montana are ready.

Civil Defense vs. Civil Rights

IN THE 80UTH, however, Civil Defense ran up against the civil rights issue. No southern state has signed what FCDA calls a multilateral 4 bact—one that binds it to help and be helped by any state in the union. Arkansas is the only state without a civil defense law. Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, however, have signed bilateral compacts. Florida, for instance, has agreed to help and be helped by Georgia and Alabama. Alabama will help Tennessee, Georgia or Flor-

ida. Georgia has signed with all her neighbors. Tennessee is - willing to help Alabama and Georgia. South Carolina has signed only with Georgia. ®

FCDA has $15 million in matching funds to support state projects. That money must go into air raid warning systems, medicine, training, education, communications, fire fighting and rescue, Attack warning systems have first priority. J. J. Wadsworth, Deputy Director, says some cities and states are ahead of others. There will be considerable flexibility in allocation of matching funds.

What Others Say—

MISSIONARIES offer Indians not pure’ Christianity, but Christianity plus European culture.—Missionary to India Dom Philip Kaipanplakal. . "

SIDE GLANCES

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ler and overwhelming church sentiment . for reunification. But the churches turned obstacle to the Communists. . Result—the heat is on to eliminate church influence in East Germany as completely as it has been in the rest of Eastern Europe. Tomorrow is the third of the summer religlous congresses will be held in West Berlin. This is a Catholic Congress, which some 100,000 East German Catholics are expected “Mo try to get to, despite Communist threats. The Communists regime prohibited East Germans from attending the World Lutheran Congress at Hanover or the Evangelical Congress at Stuttgart-—both in the West zone of Germany. They cannot prevent attendance at the Catholic Congress in West Berlin by any * willing to risk Red wrath. East Germans are

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Campaign Starts in Earnest

THE COMMUNIST campaign against the churches started in earnest last month. Deputy Red Premier Walter Ulbricht demanded that the churches. break off any ties with BritishAmerican agencies. It was an open move to jrolate German Christians, The German churches refused to ‘conform” to Ulbricht's demand. Bishop Otto Dibelius, titular head of German Protestants who had tried to stay aloof in the struggle although never hiding his anticommunism, rejected the demand, stating: “The Evangelical church will not take orders

Is About to Go Up

THERE'S BEEN A SLIGHT CHANGE — THE NEW BOSS WANTS YOU TO CHANGE YOUR act?

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Tax Collector’s Form Letter Tends To Make Anarchist of Taxpayer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Turnabout is fair play and if the tax collector gets tough (in particular, Collector John E. Manning of Newark, N. J.), I suggest you write him a letter saying. “Go away, boy, you're bothering me.” Tell Collector Manning your hooks are in a mess and that it'll take you nine months, or maybe longer, to figure out how much you owe him. Tell him also to sheathe his fountain pen and quit writing vou running notes until you finish your calculations. That, at least, is the way the Collector of Internal Revenue operates in Newark when the shoe is on the other foot; he couldn't possibly object to a little of the same treatment from you. What brought. up this subject of insulting biilets doux between collectors and their clients wag a form letter received by a friend of mine, who'd overpaid $54 on his Social Security taxes last year. He wanted this money back.

Not Even Please COLLE@IOR Manning sent him this letter, which bere no “Dear Sir,” or any other salutation. It said merely that my incensed pal should have deducted his $54 from his current tax payment. Since he didn’t, the collector continued, he'd have to fill out Form 843 and also Form S8-9, explaining why not. . This letter bore Collector Manning's signature in rubber stamp facsimile. Beneath it was a P. 8, which made my friend see cerise and also scarlet. It said: “Note: As processing of any special claim may take as much as nine months or longer, it is requested that no inquiries be made before expiration of that period.” _ This indicated to my taxpayer friend that Mr. Manning had his $54, all right, but intended to take his own sweet time giving. it back and

not to bother him while he cogitated the situation during the next year or so. In. my usual effort to be helpful to citizen and bureaucrat, alike, I have spent this day at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, trying to discover how such a letter ever got written. The boss men were aghast. Said they never wrote any such thing; added that Collector Manning must have composed it himself,

They All Do It

THEY SAID also that collectors all over the land are empowered to write their own form letters and that some are enough to turn a peaceful taxpayer into an anarchist. Some local offices have as many as 75 form letters of their own devising to cover every possible situation. Commissioner John E. Dunlap has ordered copies of them all to Washington for scrutiny. The idea is that it makes a citizen sore enough to’ pay the kind of taxes now confronting him without some snide remarks via mimeograph from the collector. ’ I suggested Collector Manning at least could have called my man “Dear Sir.” That might have softened the blow a little, but his superiors defended him on that. They said all form letters to irate taxpayers used to begin: “Dear Sir or Madam.” This, in itself, made a lot of them angry. The sirs said they were not madams, while a number of ladies said they'd prefer to be addressed some other way. So, salutations are verhoten on form letters to touchy taxpayers. My own suggestion is that Collector Manning shake his stumps and get that $54 back to my correspondent in Newark. And not take any nine months about it, either. Otherwise my man: who is notoriously hot tempered, is likely to take it out of the collector's hide.

ALLIED STRATEGY . .. By Clyde Farnsworth

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from any government, any party or any poli. tician in this world.” That is hardly expected to deter the Come munists. They are likely to step up their attack which in recent weeks included this sort of thing: = ONE—Refusal to let East German Protes. tants attend the Lutheran Evangelical congresses. TWO—Refusal to admit theological students trained in West Germany to church positions in East Germany. J THREE—Refusal to assist the transporta. tion of thousands of East Germans wanting to attend the Catholic congress and refusal to allow Catholics tg use any buildings in East Berlin. FOUR—Expulsion of the Bishop of Fulda from the Soviet zone, where he was holding confirmation services. His territory is in both East and West Germany. FIVE—Interference with religious youth education. This provoked the ‘“‘Petrusblatt,” official Roman Catholic newspaper in Berlin, to charge that the East German Communists were engaged in a ‘deliberate and systematic poisoning of children’s minds with hatred.”

Hoosier Forum

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

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Is It Prosperity? MR. EDITOR: & I have just read the ‘Good Democrat’ letter in the Hoosier Forum. He wants the truth about the Democratie Party—and here it is: In 1939 there was as much unemployment as in 1929. To counteract this our great FDR led us into a disastrous war, caused in great part by policies of his administration. Read the truth about Pearl Harbor. Then, Good Democrat, read how Roosevelt and Truman gave away Poland, Czechoslovakia, China and East Germany to Russia at Yalta, Tehran and Potsdam. In 1950, we had another recession starting, To avoid this, Truman threw us into war (police action, he calls it) in Korea. Believe me, “Good Democrat,” I would much rather suffer through a depression than spill more of our good American blood, caused by our last two Presidents. IS IT PROSPERITY when one-third of your earnings go for taxes? If you will read the history of socialism in England, France and Russia vou will find out that they have been in a depression for the past 20 years. They pay 60 per cent or more taxes. A vote for a Democrat in the coming election is not a vote for democracy. It is definitely a vote for socialism. As an ex-serviceman with foreign duty, I wish to get on my political stump and shout te SAVE our great nation—STOP socialiSm— STOP 5 per cent deals—STOP mink coat deals— STOP the entire rotten deal by voting Repub-

lican, —William W. Bruce, 520 N. Meridian St,, City. Strike Is a Disgrace .. = MR. EDITOR: x

eyes of working men everywhere. The employees want leadership and the right to bargain collectively. But instead, they are getting confusion and unemployment, and forced to give up their jobs and pay checks while the two huge labor unions cut each other’s throats over who will be bargaining agent. These same unions, in the last 20 years, have been noted for their fight for higher wages and better conditions for the workers and have been instrumental in the healthy econpmy of the workers. A strike of this kind—over who will be the dues collector—is the most disgusting of all, and the blame must be placed in the lap of William Green and Walter Reuther. ap TWENTY YEARS AGO the AFL would never stoop so low as organizing the unskilled wage earners, but it was accomplished by John L. Lewis and such leaders as Mr. Reuther, Now that they realize they missed the boat, the AFL tries to raid the CIO. Never have I known one single case where the CIO has tried to win over the Railroad workers or any other established AFL union. Many have been blamed because of the strike at Allis-Chalmers, but the facts remain that the company is a manufacturer of farm implements and aircraft parts and falls under the jurisdiction of UAW-CIO. The AFL has no business poking its nose in the UAW-CIO. How about it, Mr. Green? -T.L.M., City.

'ALWAYS'

I wouldn't trade my life with you . all this world could give . . . or would I give away one kiss . . . a kiss that makes me live . « + not even one small smile let stray . . . into another's eyes . . . or just a glance, a loving glance . . . that makes my hopes arise . . . for I have learned to love you . . far more than words can say . . . and I will always want you . . no matter come what may . . . and when life's summertime has gone . . and we are gray and old . . . I'll love you as I did before . . . to have and always hold. —By Ben Burroughs,

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Greece’s Papagos Wants Tito in NATO Pact

WASHINGTON—Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, likely candidate for future leadership of Greece, has appealed for Yugoslav participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This he cited as a condition for fulfillment of Greece's own NATO role. Yugoslav Marshal Tito has played hard to get.

NATO has not Invited Yugoslavia to join, but leading members, especially United States, want Yugoslavia to reach a regional understanding or agreement with Greece and Turkey. Marshal Papagos spoke out about NATO's lame right wing in delayed answers to questions put to him by this correspondent several weeks ago in Athens. The answers were forwarded to Washington. NATO's situation in southeastern Europe has not changed much since the questions were asked, so the answers are still valid. Tito has just taken a short step toward outright collaboration. A delegation of his army officers will visit Greece next month, presumably to examine -the possibility of an informal understanding without joining NATO. ol it,

” » » . TITO'S reserve on. NATO ° ‘was pointed up by: Marshal Papagos’ interview answers: “Greece, determined to de-

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forms together with Turkey, the right wing of NATO forces covering the eastern approach to the Mediterranean and at the same time protecting the flanks of Turkey and Italy,” he wrote.

“If, as I hope, Yugoslavia becomes an addition to this defensive group, and the complete system is adequately organized and strengthened— especially with regard to air power—then this right wing of NATO will constitute a serious threat, as well as a formidable deterrent, to any nation or group of nations designing to invade Central Europe.” The Marshal was asked about Greece's strategic role in NATO and whether she was in position to fulfill it, “Yes, on condition that the political prerequisites I have mentioned are fulfilled in time, and the rearmament of the

three Balkan powers accomplished.”

» - » THE MARSHAL considered Greece still a target of Communist . maneuvers internally as well as externally. The main credit for Greece's 1949 victory over Yugoslav-based Greek Communists in the Greek civil war belongs to ‘ Marshal Papagos. “I am convinced that inter-

national communism has by

signs on Greece,” he says now. “I cannot predetermine the exact time when it will renew its attempt to put those designs into effect, but it is certain that that will depend on the speed with which it is able to reorganize its fifth column inside the country. The process is already being accelerated.” Marshal Papagos is leader of the Greek Rally, the strongest element in Greece's manyparty politics. In elections last September, the Rally got 36 per cent of the popular vote, the largest share, but failed to seat a cabinet because of proportional representation. The Marshal found the present = government's policy toward the KKE (the nominally outlawed Greek Communist party) one of ‘‘appeasement and compromise.” - o ~ “CONVERSELY, the mere assumption of the reins of government by the Greek Rally would shatter the KKE's hopes of being in-a position to reattempt a subversion by violence.” The Marshal argued that the Rally, once in power through free elections, would ‘make “radical changes” of personalities, methods and aims. Then he sharpened the Rally . objectives: “Absolute priority to national and public security'... ,

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