Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1941 — Page 9

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3 Washington

WASHINGTON, July 3.—Federal price administra-

- tion, which is soon to be asked of Congress, will mean

. Washington interference with private business. It is

contrary to our accepted way of life. It is the opposite

of free economy. Nobody can say that ordinarily it would be better than our traditional free system. We are not going to like it. But here again, as in almost every decision we must make in these times, we are confronted with a iE choice of evils. We must take one or the other, the lesser evil or th greater. : In this instance the choice ! between wild, runaway prices—ir flation—or price administration b:the Government. It is the judgment of officials that unless effective price admin-

* istration is established quickly, backed by an act of

Congress, we shall be swept up in a balloon ascension

fa of prices from which there will be no escape except

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by a painful plunge into deflation. We have had two comparatively recent experiences with deflation—or depression, to use the real name for it. There was the brief collapse in the early Twenties and then the big one at the end of the Twenties. We know from those experiences, particularly that of 1929, that the aftermath of ‘inflation. is ruin for thousands of people and businesses. We

+ know that thousands were wiped out when the stock

market crashed, and that factories shut down and threw millions into unemployment and misery. That will be the inevitable fruit again if we neglect to move against inflation now.

It is important that Congress approach this problem with realism and not with phony demagogic slogans such as those of Cotton Ed Smith and Rep. Cox of Georgia, who say the Administration is out to Russianize the country. It would be equally fatal to heed the crackpot ideas of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. He is a greenback inflationist. It was he who put into the original AAA the inflation

By Raymond Clapper

amendment authorizing the President to issue $3,000,000,000 in greenbacks. His idea for solving the difficulties of the country is to print more money, and let prices go where they will. Then you can take your money by the bale to the grocery store and get a loaf of bread for it. Intelligent and practical legislation by Congress is needed to protect the country. Congress will do a large disservice if it trifles with this danger by tossing in cheap political red herrings. That is how the decadent parliaments of Europe destroyed themselves.

County Farmers

They committed suicide by their own irresponsibility.| &

The questions now up are difficult enough when apyroached with open-minded intelligence. .

orices Moving Up ; ; Wholesale prices are going up a point a week.

Che rate is accelerating. From June of last year)‘:

until February the total rise was 4 points. Since

February it has been 6 points. The level now is above| that of 1937. Retail prices will reflect these increases i

in the coming months. Fundamentally we have the situation that tends to produce inflation. We have a shrinking volume of civilian goods. If will shrink much more. Automobile people are meeting with OPM this week to consider further restrictions of production. At the same time people are earning more money. With more money to spend and the quantity of goods limited, you get rising prices. Our defense spending, now about $1,000,000,000 a month, probably will double in the next year. That will only aggravate the tendencies toward price inflation because there will be more and more money fo spend and less and less goods on which to spend it. As prices go up, we shall be in for more wage increases. Those shoutin’ Southern Congressmen who are now shrieking against price administration are the very ones ,who are always bellyaching about labor demanding more wages. Yet their attitude against price restraint is the very attitude that will provoke niore wage demands, as the cost of living goes up. By thus encouraging the thing they oppose, they reveal that they are thinking with their glands. They have got themselves into a position that doesn’t make sense,

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be back on the job in a few days.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

A FRIEND OF OURS who lives up on the North Side wasn’t feeling so well yesterday. So he called up ‘his drugstore and asked them to send over some medicine. He waited a couple of hours and then went to the phone, all full of apology like most folks ? are, and wanted to know if they'd forgotten him. “Oh, no,” said the drugstore. “The boy’s leaving right now.” Sure enough, the boy showed up in about half an hour and our friend inquired politely as to the delay. : “Oh, we were on strike,” said ‘the youngster. “What?” asked our startled friend. “Yep,” said the boy, “we've been gettin’ six-bits a shift—that’s six hours—and we just struck for a buck. The boss said no so we just let the orders pile up on him. When he got about 50 orders back, he gave in. We get the buck.” ; On the North Side, too!

Stop! Stop! Stop!

THE CITY'S SIGNAL DEPARTMENT has been having its troubles lately, too. Over across from our office, at Kentucky and Capitol, they worked a whole week installing traffic standards. The street was torn up and all that goes along with it. Then, last week, they came back and tore out everything and set in new standards—but still no lights. Yesterday, they came back again. The standards had been placed so that they interfered with the water and gas mains below the street level. At another spot downtown they have to move a standard because they put it directly behind a utility pole and nobody could see the lights.

Farm Prices

WASHINGTON, July 3.—Sdoner or later there will have to be a showdown in the Department of Agriculture between SMA and AAA, which are really a lot different than the Tweedle twins, Dum and Dee. In case you're not up on your Washington code talk, SMA is Surplus Marketing Administration and triple-A is Agricultural Adjustment Administration. - Or, if these things are meaningless unless presented in terms of personalities, SMA is Milo Perkins and AAA is Rudolph M. Evans. These two gentlemen speak to each other and might even be called pals, but the organizations they head operate on two different philosophies and there's the rub.

SMA’s function is to remove price-depressing surpluses of farm

° products not covered by AAA. SMA buys the sur-

pluses at the lowest possible prices, takes them off the market, sells them for export, or distributes them to the states for relief of the poor. AAA monkeys with only five commodities—cotton,

. corn, wheat, rice and tobacco, and. guarantees pro-'

ducers of these crops will obtain 85 per cent of the well known parity price, the “fair” price paid to farmers from 1909 to 1914 for all crops except tobacco, which has its parity based on the 1919-1929 price.

A fAttle Matter of Prices

From this all-too-simple. explanation, it can be .seen that there is a fundamental difference in viewpoint. SMA buys at distress prices. AAA despises the

"idea of distress prices and guarantees high prices to

the farmers -who play along with its program. Threatening to bring the conflict to a showdown is a little measure known as the Gore amendment to the

§ Steagall bill, which has been receiving attention of ‘

Congress these last few months. The Steagall bill is 'a banking hill to prolong the life of the Commodies Credit Corporation, and the Gore amendment has nothing to do with banking, but that’s the funny

| © way Congressmen ‘sometimes get things done. What : the amendment would provide is that no Federal : funds could be used to purchase agricultural prod- : ucts at a price which is below parity.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—There is an interesting

. book which the American Youth Commission has just ¢ published called: “Time On Their Hands,” which is a

report on “leisure, recreation and young people.” Radios and movie programs are as available to rural youth as they are to urban youth, but somehow much of the Joy of life that used to be created by simple human contacts and working together for fun or for education and civic purposes, + seems to have disappeared out of modern life. Our particularly tinderprivileged youngsters are those who come from the lowest income group, or who live in rural areas and, above all, our young Negro people. We need better planning i and trained leadership. ' . The National Recreation Asso-

“ clation has made a study of the amount of money

- Which communities should devote to recreation per it at $8, but in 1937 that stand-

or Jers ro alin, Wo of the 34 oitiss of 100500

And to complicate all this they can’t get priority on copper wire and they haven't received a foot since January. They're hoping to get some by mid-August. Then maybe they can see whether our standards work o. k. Stop-and-go is hardly the right phrase for it.

Saving Our Army

YOU'VE PROBABLY REALIZED by this time that Friday, Saturday and Sunday will see the greatest mass exodus from Indianapolis in years because of the three-day holiday. One of the people who realized it first was Don Stiver, the State Police boss. You can imagine his consternation when the Army told him they were going to move three full contingents of troops over Indiana highways this week-end. Don pointed out the tactics and strategy involved and the Army promptly decided to move the vehicles through yesterday and today. Now we won't have to compete with a tank for the right-of-way.

The State People

HOWARD BATMAN, new Public Counselor for the P. S. C., had his first visitor, a chap waving a $4

water bill and sputtering all over the place. He left quietly when Howard pulled out his own bill, a $5 one. . . . Rumor hath it that Col. Everett Gardiner, who for. years represented the White Motor Truck people in Russia, will soon be named director of the State Employment Security Division (the old Unemployment Compensation outfit) to replace Wilfred Jessup, who's been wanting to resign for a long time. . . . And Marc Waggoner, the Conservation Department’s publicity man, tried an experiment with a photographic flash bulb. Mare is all bandaged up. No, the experiment didn’t quite work out.

By Peter Edson

Now the Gore amendment may not get any place, but it is important because it is an attempt to put over a law that would apply the parity principle to crops other than the big five.’ If general legislation to that effect were ever put on the books, it would do all sorts of things. It would give the farmers higher prices for everything they raised, which would be nice for the farmers, but it would unquestionably raise the cost of living for others. And it would wreck the operations of the Surplus Marketing Administration, as well as other Federal activities like the Commodities Credit Corporation and even the food stamp plan. : It would mean that whenever the Government went into the market to buy surpluses for relief or for export, it would have to pay full parity prices on everything, prunes as well as potatoes. Currently, it would raise the prices of all the commodities which the Government is buying ‘for aid to Britain under the lease-lend act, meats, poultry and dairy products, on which the Government has asked farmers to step up production. It would cost taxpayers no telling how many more millions of dollars.

AFBF Means Political Power

Inspiration. for this idea of applying the parity principle to all farm products, not just the big five, now stems principally from the American Farm Bureau Federation, which has been advocating full parity for everything for years. In the last election AFBF went whole hog for Willkie because its leaders thought Roosevelt wasn’t giving enough encouragement to the full parity idea.

With Willkie’s defeat, some political dopesters thought AFBF was dead, but the organization went right on with its drive for full parity on the five basic crops, and what's more, put it over in what economy Congressmen from non-agricultural districts call the greatest grab in the history of the American Congress. Today, the Farm Bureau Federation is rated as one of the most influential lobbies in Washington. Its efforts tend to aid the big farmer more than

the little farmer. AAA and the parity program favor be

the big farmer perhaps 10 to 1. SMA, Commodities Credit Corporation, Farm Security Administration look more towards aiding the small farmier. That's where the fundamental conflict is in the Department of Agriculture. :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ture for this whole group of cities was $1.54. We are doubly conscious at the moment of the need of recreation, because we have found it so vital in and around our Army camps. One idea which I have just heard about and which is being tried out in a number of communities around the camps is well worth considering. They have set up community cookie jars for the boys. Village and farm wives are sending in packages to the recreation center to keep these cookie jars full. I am told that they are one of the most popular things that have been tried. I wonder if every home community is getting together to look after their boys wherever they go. Sending them packages of small luxuries, and even of necessities, is important. We have places where some of our regular Army men are stationed today where a little thought on the part of their home communities would mean a great deal. This is ever more true for the draftees who, in an hour, change from

civil to military life.

The heat continues with very little break, but I find that as long as I sleep on my porch at night, it does not bother me a great deal during the daytime. Miss Jacqueline Cochran is lunching with us today and I am most anxious to hear the report of her trip

CITY TO JOIN

OCD EFFORTS)

Radio Ceremony Tomorrow

To Rally Citizens to Defense Tasks.

What part are Mr and Mrs, Indianapolis going to play in the national defense emergency besides paying taxes? The answer to this question which a good many citizens are themselves and each other is becoming apparent through the Office of Civilian Defense, the agency which is organizing the civil population into one, vast defense aux-

iliary. . The job for Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis begins at precisely 3:55 p. m. tomorrow. At that moment, no matter where you are, in swimming, at a ball game, unpacking a picnic lunch or just sitting at home, turn on your radio. Let’s All Sing At Washington, the U. 8S. Marine Band will play the Star Spangled Banner and everybody is going to sing. If you can’t remember all the words, sing anyway. They'll be singing all the way from Cape Cod to the Florida Keys, from Hoboken to Honolulu, in Alaska, Albuquerque, Panama, Guam, Puerto Rico and perhaps on the fringe of island naval defenses in the Atlantic Ocean or on an American freighter steaming through the Red Sea. The President of the United States will then make a brief address. After that, everybody will recite the pledge of allegiance. The idea for this inauguration of a mighty civilian defense effort was thought up by the American Legion, the V. F. W., the D. A. R,, the Elks, the Boy Scouts and others, but is being made a national institution by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City, who is chief of the Office of Civilian Defense. The radio ceremonies will be from 3:55 to 4:05 p. m.. After that, the OCD will carry on. Its first major project is the aluminum collection beginning on July 21. Governor Schricker started the wheels of the state aluminum campaign rolling yesterday with an appeal to Mayors and presidents of town boards to take charge of aluminum collection in the urban areas and to the county agents to take charge of the rural sections. Thompson Is Named Governor Schricker named Frank G. Thompson of Bluffton, former State Auditor, to direct the aluminum collection campaign for the entire state. In Indianapolis, Paul Gastineau, 12th Distriot Legion Commander is in charge. He was appointed yesterday by Mayor Sullivan. The OCD is collecting aluminum, because of the national shortage, from old pots and pans, broken golf clubs and trinkets. This metal will be put to secondary use to release present stores of free aluminum for the manufacture of airplanes. The OCD wants to make it clear that pots and pans actually in use should not be given up. The important thing is, don’t give up aluminum until July 21. The July 4 and July 21 mobilizations of civilian effort are only the ginning. LaGuardia’s organization is just starting to. go. It has asked for a $900,000 appropriation next year and its personnel will number only a little over 250. That’s just vitamins for a guppy the way Washington figures the long green in these days, but for this amount of money, more people will be prodded into doing things than for any sum you might mention. The trick is that your help will be solicited on a volunteer basis. Councils

Form Local The organization trickles down to the man in the street through a simple pattern. Mayor LaGuardia will have a branch in each of the nine Army Corps areas, with headquarters in Boston, New York, Baltimore, San Antonio, San Francisco, Omaha, Columbus, Atlanta and Chicago. ‘Within each state, the top man is the Governor and in each town, the Mayor. The Army will detail an officer for civillan defense in each corps area. Local defense councils will be organized. Within each council, comes the work of the individual citizen. Populatlons are going to be organized and drilled in air-raid defense, just in case. >

So if you have had any suppressed policeman,

desires to be a fireman, ice

anti-gas man or

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1. Farmer James Limp smiles as he shovels in that golden stream of wheat pouring from a combine at his farm, R. R. 2, Greenwood, Ind. 2. The crop is good and the harvest is swift on the modern, motorized farm.

3. Warehouse or market?

Huge Combines Ease Task;

Government

It’s harvest time again in Indiana. ; Under the torrid summer sun, a rain of thousands of bushels of golden wheat steadily drums into the grain elevators of Marion County. The steady drone of the powerful combine machines is heard daily in the county’s wheatland, and next week the farmers who use the oldfashioned harvesting machinery will begin their work. It’s a bumper crop for a bumper price, according to Horace Abbott, County agricultural agent.

Yield Up 25 Per Cent

The big rains of a few weeks ago will bring the crop on the county’s 18,000 wheat acres to a 25 per cent better yield than last year, and the Government loan now on wheat is about 98 cents a bushel, compared with less than 60 cents a year ago, according to Mr. Abbott. : Out Greenwood way yesterday, Mrs. Anna Limp sat contentedly

on her front porch after taking care|f

of the truck garden, sprinkling the flowers, feeding the chickens and doing sundry other duties a farmer’s wife is accountable for. She was thankful, For this year she didn’t have 30 mouths to feed at harvest time.

A One-Man Job

“Let’s see, last year, I had chicken, noodles, macaroni, green beans. —" and she enumerated about a score of other foods which yearly weigh down the tables for the har-

Loan Is Higher

Down in the field below, James Limp, who farms 50-50 for the owner, George Walden, a chemist at the Eli Lilly & Co., was performing a one-man operation on his 60 acres of wheat. | : With his powerful combine, itl take him about two days to have the harvest wheat ready for the grain elevators.

Happy at His Task It seemed that Farmer Limp just sat in the high seat of the combine and simply steered. He'd run around the fleld once, pull back by the truck, and the grain would ‘chute from the combine into the bed of the truck. Just like that, and Farmer Limp would be on again. The hot Indiana sun beat down unmercifully on Mr. Limp’s battered old straw hat, but he was happy.

The troubles of the world appeared to be far from Mr. Limp’s 420-acre

arm. With 60 to 65 per cent of the harvesting to be done by the oldfashioned binder method, the big harvesting season is yet to come. It’s to get underway in earnest next Monday, although a few farmers have started to thresh already.

65 ANSWER APPEAL CHICAGO, July 3 (U. P.).—The American Medical Association said today that 65 American physicians were ready to join Great Britain's medical services in response to an

vest hands. HOLD EVERYTHING

appeal for 1000 doctors.

{b ythe Dun & Bradstreet

That’s the poker of crop raising, especially when there’s an international surplus of wheat, as there is now.

'GHUTE TROOPS T0 DROP HERE

Grotto Fireworks Display to Show Modern War ‘Maneuvers.

One of the most spectacular fireworks displays and pageantry Indianapolis has seen in many years will get under way in the Butler Bowl at 5 p. m. tomorrow and continue until about 10 p. m. The whole affair, replete with trick aerial displays, bands and paraders, is being staged by the Sahara Grotto as its annual Independence Day celebration. One of the highlights will be portrayal of modern warfare, complete with tanks, field artillery and other battle tackle. Salvo to Open Affair Other parts of the program will include a fireworks tableaux with a scene of Niagara Falls, several American flags falling out of the sky, the Statue of Liberty, the cruiser Indianapolis, a musical wheel and many others. After the opening 24-bomb salvo, the crowds will sing “America” in a mass chorus and a whole troupe of circus clowns will scurry over the field at 6:30 p. m. At 7 there will be a band concert for an hour with .drum corps drills and the Littell Trumpet Choir following. The Sahara parade is scheduled for 8:35 p. m. after which the spectators will join in singing “God Bless America.”

Guests to Be Introduced Distinguished guests will be introduced from a platform just before the big fireworks display which is scheduled to get under way at 9 p. m.

During the battle scene, parachute

- |troops will descend amid bursting

bombs, with some 30 mm howitzers

in battle maneuvers. This scene will be called “Cavalcade of Defense.” Workmen today completed installation of extensive scaffolding for the fireworks. Special bus service from Circle to the Butler bowl is scheduled by Indianapolis’ Railways. Beginning at 6 p. m. additional busses will be put into service on the N. Meridian St. line and they will run at short intervals from then until 8 p. m. Running time from the Circle to the Bowl will be 24 minutes and transfers from other lines will be accepted.

WEEKLY FOOD INDEX . FALLS TWO CENTS NEW YORK, July 3 (U. P)— ‘ food prices as measured

weekly

WARNS ROADS | T0 BE JAMMED

Stiver Expects a Record Traffic Flow; Local Police Assigned.

The State Police today prepared to handle the heaviest traffic load the State has ever experienced dure ing the three-day holiday week-end starting tomorrow. ‘ * They expect the highway congese tion to exceed even that of a Labor Day week-end, which consists chiefly of two and one-half days. In fact, State Police Superintende ent Don F. Stiver said that certain highways—U. 8. 20 across the northe ern part of the State, for example—would see cars crawling along almost’ “bumper to bumper.” General Exodus Likely

In Indianapolis almost 90 per ceng of the booming commercial and ine dustrial establishments are giving their employees a three-day holie day, which, combined with the tors rid weather, is expeéted to result in — a general exodus from the City to points cooler. he Trafic Capt. Leo Troutman bes. lieves this will relieve the City of much congestion despite the ine crease in through trafic on the dozen or more state and national highways. However, he is gearing his traffic force to handle the largest crowds in history at the big fireworks cele= brations—at Riverside Park and the Butler Bowl. More than 25,000 are expected to be in and around Butler 3

Bowl for the Grotto display, a sit: Fd

all the officers to work an hour or two later. Details Assigned Ten motorcycle officers will patrol the area surrounding the Bowl and other policemen will be at the vari ous intersections. A special detail will be in charge of parking, the chief problem involved. % Statistics compiled by the State

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Police indicate that at least 10 per.

sons will meet death on Indiana's streets and highways. There will be about 100 personal injury accidents and about 150 involving property damage. “These will include speeders, drunks who could ‘still’ drive and drivers who took a chance on pass ing on a hill or a curve,” Mr. Stiver said. All days off for state troopers have been canceled for the weeks = end, according to Mr. Stiver. He advised motorists to start for their destinations in plenty of time bee cause the traffic flow will be ime peded in many cases by summer dee tours.

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