Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 July 1946 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, July 26,

Civilian Control Imperative A year has passed since the first manmade atomic explosion occurred in the New Mexico desert. In that year three more atomic blasts have occurred. Two helped finish a war. Another was used to determine scientific facts of atomic fission. This nation led the way in atomic research and manufacture, today retains the scientific “know how” of atom bomb production. But in the past ; year our Congress has failed to bring forth legislation for control of atomic energy. Now there seems to be a minority in the House determined to set aside the wishes of the President, the Senate and a majority of the people and give control of atomic energy to the military. The House Un-American Activities Committee recently made some charges against the atomic scientists to the effect that some of the men -who helped perfect the bomb (they don’t say who) are engaged in “subversive activity.” This activity is alleged to include having communications with persons outside the country, but the charge that atomic secrets hae been given away is not made. It looks like a smokescreen by the House Committee, an effort to intimidate Congress into voting full jnilitary control of atomic energy. The charge is also made that some of the scientists have been advocating world government. Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts has been an active member of one such group advocating world government, and Bernard J. Baruch has submitted a plan for international control of the atom that has been applauded by all but Russia. The Senate has rejected military control of atomic energy, providing only an advisory capacity for the admirals and generals. The bill went to the House and in Mr. Mays committee amendments were born calling for one or perhaps two military men on the atomic cotnmission. It is stupid to expect that military control of atomic energy will keep atomic secrets intact. Men of science who would give away secret information will not be deterred by military control. The secret can remain one only for an indefinite period. The American people generally are against military control. This is a civilian government. Peacetime development of atomic energy in time can produce a better world, but such a thing is not likely to be the aim of a military board. The Un-American Committee would be more helpful and far more entertaining if it voted an investigation of iySelf. Journal-Gazette

Let American-Made Films Show The Real America America wants to tell her story to the World. If we can tell the true story, we’ll stake our chances on that for making friends for ourselves and for our democratic ideals. We have the means for telling our story aboard. Not perhaps as fully as widely as we might wish. But with what we have, let’s tell it wisely. America is not a nation of children. Nor do most Americans spend their time at seduction or holding up the First National Bank. Now that the U. S. motion picture industry is striving with some success to recapture foreign markets, let’s hope it will export America and Americans as they are. How important are films in telling our story? Before the war American-made pictures got 70 per cent of the playing time in 60.0000 foreign theaters. That is immensely important as foreign trade alone. And American films have produced tremendous demands for Americanmade goods displayed in them. More important is their propaganda value. ,It is not merely to promote trade that the Commerce, State and Justice Departments are co-operating vigorously with the film industry to restore U. S. foreign markets. This is part of the new diplomacy. It fits in with the nation’s over-all program of information about us for foreign xconsumption. Congress, after a short balkiness, recently appropriated $19,250,000 to finance that ■program for the current fiscal year. It is not exorbitant in view of the sums other nations spend to propagandize us and each other. Under the program as directed by the State Department, the U. S. will start shortwave Russian-language broadcasts in the fall. Russia is believed to have about 75,000 short wave receivers. Not many compared to the 193,000,000 Soviet population. But it’s a start toward breaching the iron curtain. It’s a start, as is the magazine America, 50.000 copies of which our State Department circulates each month in Russia. Under the Congressional appropriation we will continue to broadcast the proceedings of the U. N. Security Council to 32 countries. A network of libraries and information centers in 67 countries will be maintained. In addition there will be press and cultural

attaches with our missions abroad, documentary motion pictures, exchange of students, exhibits, etc. All told, this is the voice of America abroad. It must not be raised to discredit other peoples m* Governments, or for psychological warfare. That would defeat its purpose. We have faith in our way of life, and we can make more and better friends just by telling the world about it. Philadelphia^Record . Good Advice From William Green There are ominous rumblings on the labor front. Rising prices are having the immediate effect of higher wage demands. It was bound to happen with the removal of price control, but labor should not rush headlong into a new series of paralyzing strikes. Some wise counsel was forthcoming the o^ier day from William Green. The American Federation of Labor president, writing in the AFL monthly magazine, advises workmen everywhere to increase their manhour production as the only way to wipe out shortages in the quickest possible time. There is nothing new about that. We all have known that production is the key to the shortage problem, but it has been difficult in the past eight months to get production. President Green was not talking in that tone after V-J Day. Had hedone so the country might have been spared the major strikes that so crippled our efforts to regain a normal economy. Of course, he would have had to co-operate, but certainly it is clear now that less insistence on immediate pay increases and more attention to production schedules would have eliminated much of our trouble. It will be extremely difficult for workmen of all classes to meet the cost of living in next few months, and with controls off ; many vital foodstuffs we can only hope that competition will have its desired effect on prices soon. In the meantime labor can help itself by refusing to pay too much for any article. Business can help itself by refusing to raise prices above a fair profit. It is time for self-control. A relatively few buyers who are willing to pay any price for a commodity can offset the restraint of the majority. It is a huge request that William Green is making of labor. He is asking workers to work harder even while their paychecks don’t buy as much as they did last month. However, if wage demands can be deferred, if all workers produce to their utmost, then production will soon end the day of the gouger. Only production can put us on a sound footing. And a stable economy only can give labor what it needs and deserves. Journal-Gazette The Nation’s Duty: A Price Freeze: Fair Vote On OPA The American people have a right to expect three things. They have a right to expect that every businessman, landlord and producer shall refrain from raising prices by so much as a cent until the emergency price control resolution has been acted on by Congress. They have a right to expect that Congress shall pass the emergency extension resolution without delay. They have a right to expect that, sometime within the next three weeks, both houses of Congres shall record themselves fairly and without ambiguity for or against a year’s extension of OPA on terms proposed by President Truman. Anybody who denies these rights to the people is an enemy of the public welfare and enemy of effectively functioning democracy. There has never been any doubt as to where the vast majority of the people stood on OPA. Their will Jias been temporarily defeated. It might be defeated again. But such a decision should at least be taken openly and deliberttely. If we are to have inflation, It it not be by trickery and deceit. We urge the people to make their voices heard.

Pass The McMahon Bill The House Military Affairs Committee, in tacking amendments of its own liking to the McMahon Bill for civilian control of atomic energy, is playing into the hands of Russia. Russia’s Pravda has charged the United States with an attempt to establish world domination by means of the atomic bomb. The overhauling the McMahon Bill has received in the House committee cer'tainly strengthens that charge. The McMahon Bill sets up civilian control for all phases of atomic energy. It is a sincere document that was passed by the Senate with the approval of the President. It proves to the world that we do not expect to put atomic energy to work for military purposes. The bill provides liasion between the civilian control commission and the military, but the control board consists of civilians. Congressman Andrew May chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, very properly is receiving the. bulk of criticism for twisting the McMahon Bill. May is author of the May Bill which failed of approval and seems bent on writing his own ideas into the Senate’s legislation. His committee is amending the bill to provide for one or more military men on the commission and even to give the military a sort of veto over the commission. It is imperative that the McMahon Bill pass Congress this Summer. We have dawdled too long already with the problem. If

the House does not override the amendments and pass the McMahon Bill as it was received from the Senate, it means the grotesque form spawned by May’s committee would go to the Senate for study and debate, with the great probability no atomic control measure would be passed in this session of Congress. The world is watching the United States for signs of empire-complex. They fear the atomic bomb, even more than we. The Baruch plan solemnly pledged us to share atomic energy under certain fixed guarantees. The McMahon Bill removed threat of military exploitation. The May amendments put us back where we started if they are accepted by the House. For the sake of our national profession of world peace aims, and for the sake of world peace itself, the United States must lead the way toward control of atomic energy. The duty of the House is plain. It should pass the McMahon Bill in its original form and remove a portion of the suspicion engendered by the May amendments. Journal-Gazette

ing public and help to stabilize prices, it ought to be honest about the matter and not resort to deceptive subterfuge. Whatever, happens now there must be a lot‘of hard work and the application of a lot of common sense. The battle against inflation will have to be waged as best it can be, with or without a law. It is to the advantage of everyone to keep the national economy on as even a keel as possible. It has been out of joint too long already. The attitude of those who have supported an extension of OPA for another year has often been misrepresented during the long and bitter struggle. They do not favor a permanently controlled economy. They have only sought to have the OPA retained as a temporary measure during the next year while production is trying to catch up with the demand for food and consumer goods. They were merely asking for a legal weapon with which to fight inflation during the postwar emergency. It is no more than a prudent American Congress, responsive to the wishes and welfare of the majority, should have granted weeks ago. Journal-Gazette

A Second Phony OPA Bill Deserves a Second Veto So your family uses a pound of butter a week? Well, in many places butter is up from 68 cents (OPA ceiling) to 86 cents. Add 18 cents to the Missus’ bill. Milk? Does your family of four use three quarts a day? Well, that’s up five cents a quart since June 1. And 21 quarts a week— Add $1.05 more to the Missus’ bill. Meat, HoW about 10 pounds a week, including lunch meats, hamburgers and maybe a roast? Pfice hikes run from 10 cents a pound more to 25 cents a pound more. It depends on where, what and who. But take the average, and tack $1.50 more on the Missus but’cher bill. That’s $2.73. Om just those few food items. No theory here. No guess work. These are price boosts that have taken place. You’re paying ’em now. But those are precisely the items on which the U. S. Senate refuses to control prices! That $8.73 added to the Missus’ bill is only a starter. It doesn’t include poultry, on which the Senate has killed price ceilings. It doesn’t include cheese, cream, ice cream, or any of the many other products whose prices will go up with milk prices. It doesn’t include margarine, salad dressing, or t!he breadstuffs, soaps and many other necessities made from soy beans. A es, the ceiling’s ripped off soy beans, too. We could fill both these editorial columns with the list of products whose costs will be boosted by taking ceilings off just four items: meat, poultry, milk and soy beans. But in its mighty majesty, the Senate will protect you, the consumer—on the prices of the things you don’t have to buy. On food, and other essentials, excepting rents, the only limits are the bottom of your purse and the top of the sky. What’s more, if Sen. Taft and the other die-hard enemies of OPA have their way, this Senate bill will be so hog-tied that even in conference with the House (which approved a full OPA extension) the conference committee won’t be able to put ceilings back on food. If that happens, The Record urges President Truman to veto the Senate’s No 2 phony OPA bill. We've said before there are some arghvments for no OPA, for letting the law of supply and demand take over, muddling through a period of chaotic prices, and hoping competition will bring them down. There are far better arguments for a real OPA. But there are no arguments at all for a phony OPA bill, an OPA in name only, a dirty trick law under which consiumers would be robbed through higher prices— While a lot of politically scared Senators would be able to tell their constituents: “See I voted for the OPA.” What they voted for was a corpse. _ I-^et. s have some common honesty in Washington. Let those who are against OPA have the courage and conscience to say so, vote so and take the consequences. Let those for OPA demand a real bill And let President Truman veto any new attempt to two-time the American people by Senators who have one hand on the Bible —and the other in your wife’s pocketbook. Philadelphia Record OP A Battle Reaches Showdown • ^ ouse indicated that it was less anxious than the Senate to hamstring the OPA extension bill when the former voted 211 to 64 to reject the Senate bill and sent it to a joint conference committee in an effort to write a compromise measure. Senate bill as reported out ,ot the Lajiking Committee had been amended until President Truman has said that it couldn t be any worse,” an indication that he would veto it if it came to him in that form. The general public is not interested in politics as it applies to the OPA. What most peop e have wanted is an instrument with which to fight inflation and the rising cost of living. It is to be hoped that the conference committee and both houses of Congress will act with reasonable speed because the people are entitled to know under what rules the economy of the next year will be conducted. No OPA law at all would be preferable to one which is a mere pretense and which has no real power to hold the price line. If Congress is unwilling to serve the consum-

For Services Rendered Yes, it has been a party fight. Price control is something the people want. Price control is something the leadership of the Democratic party, under President Truman, has fought hard and honestly to give them. And price control is something the leadership of the Republican party, under Taft, Wherry, et al, has fought—and fought—and /ought—to deny them. The Republican leaders tried to kill price control by hook or crook—by the hook of simple annihilation, or, failing that, by the crook of passing an unworkable bill. They tried both ways. And let there be no mistake about “they.” “They” means the leadership of the Republican party, the men who dominate and control that party. Let not those in Congress who have striven so valiantly to do the bidding of big business t lobbies now disown the awards they have j earned by their desperate stand for inflaj tion, for profiteering, for increased burdens I on the American consumer. l Let’s pin their medals on them whether they like it or not. Our first medal is the iron cross for Mr. Reece, who, after his party has moved heaven and earth to kill price control, now comes out with the argument that the Republicans didn’t do this at all, that it’s “the Man in the White House” again. He done it! Our second medal—the brass award, and we mean brass!—goes to Republican Leader Robert A. Taft, who assures us that he is an old-time lover of price control from away back, and that he is abused by the critics of his amendment because they are saying it would have subverted the whole American economy and made it unworkable. Our third—the tin medal—is awarded to Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, Republican Whip, for his battle cry that another year of price control would “produce violence” in America. This medal is highly ornate and twofaced. On one side there should be an engraving of Wherry and his violence. On the reverse the words: Cupidity, Anarchy, Calamity! And for the Republican party leadership as a whole, the award should be a loving cup from the lobbyists with the legend : NOT WELL ENOUGH DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS. That would fit in with the ideas of most Americans. The performance has been a little too raw.

Open Season On GOP Liberals Increasingly ludicrous, in the light of cur rent events, is the spectacle of the Republica: party leadership trying to masquerade a liberals. While the boys in the back room send ou statements about the Republican party beiiij “the liberal party in America,” they are bus; signing political death warrants to the clain of liberalism. Like tin ducks in a shooting gallery, th few liberals within the party have been drop ping before the aim of the Taft-Bricker 01< Guard. ^ Senator Robert M. LaFollette, an out standing liberal, failed to get the endorse ment of the G. O. P. Wisconsin convention b; a landslide vote of more than 2,500 to 1. A one newspaper said, “LaFollette is an impel feet Republican. He has a small aint—o liberalism.” In Indiana, another genuine liberal, Rej: Charles M. LaFollette, was overwhelming!, repudiated when he sought the senatoria nomination. After his defeat he said, “ will continue to fight for liberal, progressiv legislation, but I believe the Republican part; is not the vehicle I can use.” In Nebraska, Governor Griswold, who h his senatorial campaign had the backing o Mr. Stassen, was defeated 2 to 1 by the ma chine-picked, arch-conservative, Sen. Hugl Butler. In New York, liberal Congressman Josepl Clark Baldwin was tossed overboard by th Republican organization to make way fo Frederic C. Coudert, Jr., a reactionary Wa! Street lawyer whose record in the State Sen ate endears him to the Old Guard. And in North Dakota, Senator Williar Danger, one of the only two men in the Sen ate whoi voted against ratification of th United Nations Charter, won renomination The new 1946 drape-shape suit of libera election duds that Chairman Reece and hi tailors have been trying to fashion look mighty funny on models such as these.

FHE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE V- By PILGRIM

TRAVELING GAME EXHIBIT VISITS INDIANA CITIES The fish and game division of the Indiana Department of Conservation has its own circus truck these days! Wire-enclosed cages aboard a semi-trailer truck house birds and other game from quail to bears. Back on the road this year for the first time since the war, this Fish and Game truck has been covering Indiana towns since the middle of June. In addition to the bear and quail in the truck, chucker partridge, pheasants both ringneck and fancy, the white groundhog, a raccon, fox and wolf, a bob-cat, the American eagle and a beaver may be seen. A representative of the fish and game division of the department of conservation is on hand at all times to answer questions about the exhibit. According to Donald R. Hughes, director of the fish and game division, the exhibit will be shown at North Vernon this week, and will leave there on the 26th to spend two days (July 29 and 30) at Rushville. Other cities scheduled include: Russellville, August 1, 2, and 3; Portland from 4 to 9; Fountain, the 10th; Battleground, at the Methodist .church yard, 11, and 12; Mooresville, 13th, and Rockville from the 14th through the 17th. Moving northward the truck stops off at Warren on the 19th and will be in Brookville from the 21st to the 23rd, and in Princeton from the 26th through the 31st. During the week of September 2 through the 7th, the exhibit will be on display in Indianapolis at the State Fair Grounds, and September 8 will appear in Salem. The next stop from the 18th thru the 28th, the exhibit will be shown at the Wells County Fair in Bluffton. The last stop scheduled for this year will be in October. The 24th, 25th and 26th the exhibit will be in Evansville at West Side Sportsman’s Club. Cities in which the truck al- ’ ready has appeared include Charlestown, Syracuse, Boswell, Pekin, Franklin, and Columbus. o-— SQUIRREL SEASON ‘OPENS AUGUST 10; CLOSES OCT. 8TH

Indiana’s squirrel season will open August 10 and continue through October 8, the Indiana Department of Conservation announced today. Shooting should average fair to good, Donald R. Hughes, director of fish and game, predicted after a departmental population survey. Kill and bag limit on both grey or fox squirrels will be five per day. o Long Day Pays Off To Tycoon Bloomington, Indiana — American needs good writers who moted to a job which paid his predecessor $9,000 a week. As the new president of the

Lever Bros. Soap Co., Luckman’s rise has been meteoric since he was graduated as an architect from the University of Illinois in 1931 and couldn’t get a job. Since he had married a fellowstudent, Harriet McElroy, two days after commencement, Luckman needed work. Just .as a stop-gap—he thought—he took a temporary job as a soap salesman. Sales Head at 27 A few years later, he was sales manager of Pepsodent Toothpaste Co., and by 1936 — when only 27 years old — he became vice president in charge of sales. By 1943, he was president. Meanwhile, Lord Leverholme of England, chief stockholder in Lever Bros., which is Great Britain’s largest business enterprise, had been watching Luckman’s rise and was impressed greatly by his abilities. Lord Leverholme noted how Pepsodent’s sales had been boosted since Luckman’s advent, and he thought particularly well of Luckman’s signing of Bob Hope, ace comedian, to sell that product. Last Januray, Luckman was named president of Lever Bros, whose home office is in Cambridge, with plantations and branch offices throughout the world. But this Horatio Alger story cannot be attributed only to the smile of Lady Luck. Starts at 5 a. m. Starting his duties at 5 a. m., the soft-spoken Luckman often works steadily until 8 p. m., and that happens seven days a week. As proof of his remarkable memory, a fellow worker cites the fact that six weeks after Luckman took his present position, he knew the names of hundreds of Lever Bros, managers, stenographers and clerks. To relax, the dynamic young executive works on his 22,000-acre ranch in California or studies plans for three new products which his company is contemplating putting on the market. The way he works? “I simply surround myself with good men and give them full authority. I never interefer. They don’t have to come to me for this or that,” he explained. Luckman’s determined, too, that his sons will know the pleasure of a hard-earned dollar and the thrill of forging ahead. Just as a start, he has them working in local gasoline stations week ends to learn the value of money. —o PEACEFUL B-29

Deison, Tex. — Qne of the Army’s B-29 Superfortress gun turrets now serves as a playhouse here for the children of N. H. Hodge. Hodge, a minnow dealer, uses the two motors of the turret to agitate water in a minnow tank.

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