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NO SHORTAGE OF BALONEY J*DIANAPOLIS housewives who saw the empty meat counters around town last week-end may. doubt this,

but there are 115 pounds of nieat—a little better than two | pounds a week—for every man, woman and child in America this year. Only a fifth of a pound less than we all had before the war. It must be right. High government officials say 80. . The question is “Where?” And maybe “Why?” That's what the senate voted Monday to try and find out. It isn’t that Indianapolis just happens to be in an area of local shortage. Quite the contrary. Other sections have less than we have and many of them have been practically out of meat for weeks. It isn’t that we are feeding the suffering peoples of other countries, as President Roosevelt said last week we'd have to do, because they are not getting much food either, and they are complaining about it. It isn't lend-lease food for our fighting allies. That has always been small and recently has been reduced.

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= n 5 Ed » n FARMERS AROUND HERE, and all over the Midwestern corn belt, used to bring cattle from the western | grass ranges and fatten them for market, adding 300 to | 800- pounds to each animal. They don’t do that any -more. | Government regulations now make it more profitable to sell the corn by the bushel and not to bother with the beef. There are still some 85 million beef cattle on the western ranches—more by many millions than ever before, in this time of beef shortage. Every one that goes direct from there to market represents a loss of 300 or 500 or. 800 pounds of prime beef that never grew because some swivel chair theorist in Washington decided otherwise. Farmers used to grow, on their own small farms, a vast aggregate number of beef cattle of their own prodiiction. They do less of that now because federal price rig-| ging has made it more profitable to sell their output as | young veal calves and never let them grow to maturity. Farms that were flooding the market with pork six months

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On-Omaha-Beach- -

By Thomas L. Stokes

¢ ISIGNY, France, March 21.— There was a muddy and impassable stretch of road ahead. So we got out of the car and walked down the hill toward “Omaha” beach. It was quiet there, where once there has been so much noise.’ A restless crow flounced about from . one bare tree to another, carping at our intrusion. His sharp complaint was the only sound. We walked down into a little pres valley, with a row of low hills behind us. Ahead of us was the bluff, on which the Germuns were waiting that June 6 when the American armies poured on to the shores of France. It seems so long ago now. So much has happened since, and the big guns are far from here, and the planes and the hordes of American soldiers, clear across France, beyond the Rhine.

'My Men Built That' : THE YOUNG SOLDIER who accompanied me, Capt. William C. Thompson of the engineers, walked along silently, a short, compact figure. He had the quick but sure footing of the trained soldier, and the solid, somewhat bow-legged walk of the southwesterner. His home is in New Mexico, whence he came by stages from Tampa, Fla. where he was born, to Georgia, to Mississippi, to Artesia, N. M. He was in Texas ‘Tech at Lubbock, finishing his engineering course when he joined the army. He spoke now, swinging his arm to the right. “I am familiar with all that—that's where my battalion was.” He smiled, timijdly, deprecatingly. He pointed to a dirt road which came through a break in the bluff and wound through the valley and. over the hill. “My men built that.”

It was one of those outlets from the beach beyond over which for many weeks and months rolled the procession of trucks moving up to the armies the supplies which were dumped on the beach from an endless parade of ‘“ducks”—those amphibious trucks

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beach, day and night. It was those “ducks,” incidentally, to which a German officer captured here, once pointed and said: “There is America’s secret weapon.”

‘Where the Germans Had Slept’ WE CLIMBED to the top of the bluff and walked about among the concrete pill boxes, the various sorts of gun emplacements, which the Germans had trained upon the beach and the channel beyond. Through a deep trench, head high, we entered one of the concrete structures. There was-a small room, a staff room, and down a flight of stairs another room where the Germans had slept, and beyond that around a curve, a kitchen. Outside, about“the bluff, there were remnants of barbed wire entariglements. Here and there was an anti-aircraft gun, its mow rusty barrel pointing at an empty sky, and dugouts also for the big guns, sturdy concrete squares, with slits for the barrel to

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“TREASON AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION” By Charles Ginsberg, 2201 N.

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ago are stripped clean of hogs today because the “con-

trolled” price structure resulted in a net loss for the farmer.

Food supplies in every category, juggled and flagrantly misrepresented during the political campaign last fall, are

scarce and getting scarcer. a This is what is known as a “planned ecapomy’ “planned economies” have always worked out this way. 2 s 5 ” n » THOSE TWO POUNDS a week for all continue to be only red ration stamps, which are pretty, but not very nourishing. : From Washington, as the shortages grow more acute, come the usual explanations, neatly mimeographed on paper; which is“¢ritically scarce, by manpower which is also critically scarce, in federal bureaus of which, alone, there appears to be plenty. Up to now none of them has suggested that the system might be unworkable, or that the quarreling bureaus that administer it might be doing it wrong. The meat counters seem likely to be just as bare next Saturday as they were last Saturday.

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CURFEW SHALL NOT RING—IN NEW YORK

MAYOR LAGUARDIA'’S arbitrary decision to advance the curfew hour in New York from midnight to 1 a. m.—

an “hour of grace,” he calls it—is astounding. It little |

becomes our largest city to set itself apart from the rest of the nation. - 4 7 ; : : War Mobilizer Byrnes said he issued the curfew request to conserve coal, manpower and transportation. We suspect

that there was mor# basis for thé order in the administration’s concern over the opinion of the troops about the

home front. “We must convince our fighting forces that | the home front is prepared to sacrifice for their support,” |

Byrnes said in discussing LaGuardia’s action. But, whatever the merits of the curfew or the reasons

for it, this is no time to argue about it. We have consistently opposed the policy of government by edict. We still | think it's wrong. But the request is made on” defense

grounds. It should be obeyed in New York, or Podunk, - until the government lifts it for everybody.

Nevertheless, Mr. Byrnes must have had a red face | when he discovered that the curfew request had no legal |

standing.” He ‘didn’t even trouble to have it printed in the federal register, a process prerequisite to. legality for any administrative order. 8

Mr. Byrnes’ casual manner of slapping on the curfew |

has not helped matters. Ju

THE STRONG AND THE WEAK

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sweep the beach. The gaunt skeletons of a number of houses stood here and there on the bluff. In a small house hidden behind the bluff an old French couple still were living. On the hillside was their garden, freshly worked and planted.

- ‘They Were the Avenues of Victory' THE. BEACH now looked like no place to enjoy oneself on a summer day. The sand had disappeared. The ground was churned up into mud. Roads crisscrossed it, roads quickly built by troops of the 5th and 6th engineer brigades under German fire. Some of these roads were no longer usable. They are needed no longer. But once they were the avenues of victory. This beach was one of the two supply bases, the other being “Utah” beach, from which everything used by the army was shuttled from boat to beach to truck and to the army advancing ahead, first slowly across the flooded lowlands and through the hedgerows, then more swiftly. This was once a very busy place. Night and day, across this beach nearly two million tons of supplies

bend, where the other American army landed on France, handled nearly a million tons. This was the tiny break in the German dam across France, no ‘bigger figuratively than a child's hand which broke

before it... Nearly. two. million soldiers. were landed across these beaches. camp A “ Later, Cherbourg was captured and rehabilitated, and the burden of supply moved there. Then other

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Forgotten Country ‘By William Philip Simms

ports were captured, and they shared as they do now. But that was some time later.

- WASHINGTON, March 21.— Holland, for the moment, might almost be called the forgotten

licity with war news and peace talk. - Yet V-E day find this little nation of 9,000,000 -people the most desperately situated of any in Europe. Not only have her principal ports and cities, merchandising establishments “and industries been destroyed. to a large extent, but by the time

be under several feet of water. To hamper the allied advance, the Nazis opened the dikes protecting the below-sea-level areas from

the North.sea. Still other regions were flooded by | | river ‘and canal water. i

Experts estimate that it will take from five to eight years to reclgim the land now covered with brine, and until that is done the Dutch will have

| to depend on the outside world for much of their |

“N E may deplore, if we choose,” said Prime Minister | food and other necessities.

Churchill to the house of commons, that there is a | any other country perhaps save: Prance. is: directly |

difference between the great and small, between the strong concerned with the allied peace terms. She wants— |

The Netherlands, therefore, more intimately than

and weak in the world. There is undoubtedly such a ‘dif- | and must have—some sort of*reparations from.Ger-

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broad and obvious statement, buf it could do with som. expansion and clarification. :

carry responsibility as well as power? Does he feel that a monopoly of greatness and strength implies a monopoly of wisdom? Does he believe that smallness and weakness have no right to equal justice, dignity and consideration with the great and strong? _ We trust that the answer is ves to the first question, and no to the others. We trust that President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin feel the same way. - And we shall look- - forward to seeing their sentiments proved in action at the San Francisco conference. :

NEW BURDEN FOR THE RED CROSS

HE war department reports 50 sick and wounded sol7 diers afe arriving in this country every hour. That could be 1200 a day, 8400 a week, 36,000 a month. At this rate, 144,000 sick and wounded men could come home by _ early July. That many sick and wounded men in the “hands of the medical corps, helped by Red Cross volunteers. This is just anoth

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Aindergoing a change. Whereas a year ago almost

engl by fs fled Cross Rasls | serious tes may overtake her in the Dutch

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many, but in just what form remains to be de-

. : : . | termined. Mr. Churchill was speaking in defense of the voting |

procedure agreed to at Yalta. And he was referring, of | Dutch Oppose Annexation

course; to great ‘and small nations. ‘No one will deny his | posed to ‘annexation of erman territory, according

€ {to Arnold Vas Dias, representative of Aneta, the

; | official Netherlands news agency, now in Washington. Does Mr. Churchill grant that greatness and strength |

ODDLY ENOUGH, the Dutch appear to be op-

At the same time, he told me, they don’t very much like the idea qf the temporary occupation and use of German farmlands until their own flooded areas are restored to cultivation. Few Dutch farmers, Mr. Vas Dias said, would want to go “abroad” for five or 10 years knowing when they did so that they would eventually return home. The Dutch are Europe's best farmers. While in exile they would be improving somebody else's land and they would not like to do that for the Germans. Sentiment in Holland, therefore, now seems to be

nobody favored outright annexation to make up for the Dutch territory which the Nazis gave back to the sea, today an increasing number have come to believe that a permanent transfer of populations may be the only way out, . : ; Netherlands Foreign ' Minister . Van Kleffens if now ‘in Paris. Ostensibly he wert to complete an economic accord _ like that recently signed with Belglum, . Actually. he is probably also discussing the" more important problem of the future of the Rhineland and the coming settlement with Germany. -In all this, Holland's stakes are enormous. Unless she is given a break at the peace table, she may not only suffer ruin and starvation at home but

March 12) “If tlhe people at home won't work at essential {I say, make ’em!” Whether intentidal or not, the statement advo- | cates the very compulsion that our sons are being told that they are! fighting against. About a year ago, Ernie Pyle] reported a discussion between Lt.| Heath Stewart and Capt. Robert | Perrin that took place on one of | |the -fighting fronts in Europe. | Stewart thought labor should be why do they have to go to Pea duce what? More deadly weapons (drafted, to which Capt. Perrin re- Ridge and Scratchgravel residents or life giving food? As for inflaplied: “Why, that’s just what we're for their money? And why do they tion, -why should a laborer getting {fighting for, the freedom not-to be have to. get in a+ lather just be-|$25.a week strive to avoid it? If That's slavery cause we are having a war? Will such laborer buys a suit of clothes t. If you we have to have another ‘war to on credit at $25, and has to work feel that way about it, there's no keep imroiey §oPung abot? Maybe |50 hours to pay the debt, certainly {use fighting at all.” \ | There is no choice in the matter brains. are in Washington can an-|tion comes and he can pay the debt As the na- swer that. Better write to con- [with 25 hours labor. {tional secretary of the Socialist La-!gress about it if you are short on! This “internal debt” seems to be { bor party, Arnold Petersen, put it change. {in a recent letter to'a Texas legis-| {lator, “Forced labor is illegal un-

2 |der our Constitution. the flood of supplies, to spread out and sweep all |

|drafted for labor. {the way ‘Germany does it.

l t. were moved to the armies. “Utah” beach, around the jf the labor dra?

Compulsory labor —is—inveluntary and involuntary servi-' wear pl {tude is expressly and unequivocally or some {forbidden under the XIII Amendthe Constitution. {neither congress nor the President —not even the United States supreme court—has the right to dis‘regard our national nor to trample it winderfqot.” You see, Mr. Winston, to “make ‘em’ is’ to commit treason against Constitution of |States. Would you?

United BY J- Lucas, 4855 Plainfield ave.

| cent column, Oveta Culp Hobby “ENGINEERS HAVE TO KEEP BUSY”

By Si Moore, 2606 W, 16th St. country. The great powers are |

nonopolizing most of the pub- |

{for surveys and plans, but engineers the war ends, some 45 per cent of her farmlands .may | : P 2

If these cities are so wonderful, | world structure.

“I wholly disagree with what

Hoosier Forum you say, but will defend to the

death your right to say it.”

(Times readers are invited |“SOMETHING WRONG to express their views in |WITH"THE SYSTEM” these columns, religious con. In J. M. W.. Indianapolis. , troversies excluded. Because In a letter to the Forum of

of the volume received, let- [march 14, Voice in the Crowd has

ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement, with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes NO responsi- |oonase nature. bility for the return of manu- He also says “if people will work scripts and cannot enter cor- to produce and take steps volunrespondence regarding them.) |tarily to avoid inflation, our way of life will not greatly change.” Pro-

the temerity to suggest that the American people are “awakening against change.” Since “change” is

the one thing in nature that is permanent, I cannot believe that Voice in the Crowd means that the

some of. the ones who think all the!it is not a hardship to him if infla-

. {a bugbear. To whom do the people But we thought Indianapolis{of America owe this debt? Inhab-

{might write to congress for about itants of Mars? Or is it the case : There are's5 worth of oatmeal or plaster of that the people of America owe, thigl WASHINGTON, Match 21.—It has taken a cone ‘no ‘ifs’, 'buts’, and ‘ands’ about it. paris to feed the birds before Eas- internal debt’ to the people of i TET; HS Some people will want “to [America® ie timmy

ug hats and rayon gowns. “High taxes.” Since when did of the peace experts might “taxes” enter into the cost of pro-

stop-on-the way to the Golden Gate | duction? Even if taxes were 90

and stop all the contfoversy that|cents on the dollar of income, the threatens to wreck the nation, as|item “taxes” could not be entered the pigeons did at the time of the into the column. “cost of producFrench revolution. {tion,” The cost of production has not any connection with “taxes” but “taxes” have a definite connec~ tion with the price of the product, which is entirely different. The Referring to Ruth Millett'’s re-|cost of production remains the same, but the buyer has to pay the : | “taxes” of the producer. should not be offended about the “If goods are not distributed...”

so-called malicious stories about In the first place goods are not dis-

y 3 a N48 “WAC STORIES HAVE BEEN MERITED”

{her ‘WAC’s. .For I contend such tributed, goods are hought for a According to the papers, the dear stories have been merited. {price.. In the second place, if the {robins have returned to join the . . starlings and pigeons in making|marvel at the lenient attitude of |the buyer has to pay $1.01, where Filed Report Every Two Minutes {life miserable for the city fathers. the war-taxed civilian towaid-these | d0es he get the £1.01? He has only MEANWHILE, HERE are a few examples, accordThe mayor of Chicago has brazenly | “super-duper” khaki promendaders, |Técéived $1, the cost of. production.| ing to the budget bureau, of recent savings to the asked “congress for 19 millions for 1 circulate continuously in public| TO produce efficiently is to pro- : the engineers and architects to places and cannot help but charac- | duce a commodity in the least time. A daily report formerly used by two agencies at Plan on that city’s 937 million post- | terize the militant attitude of the Our efficiency has increased 15 per| ® monthly cost of $20,000 has been eliminated. An|war spending, at your experiie. WAC and the other branches of the [Cent since 1935, then, the services (Nineteen millions is some dough women's armed forces with the ap- (Of 15 per cent of the workers will |parent lack of public courtesy, [NOt be required to produce the (have to keep busy, if they can't|gracious gestures and. feminine 800ds we need. ' If we keep on inAnd New York wants 10 mannerisms so becoming to wom-|Creasing our efficiency, by taking billions of your money for post- ankind, as something unwholesome full advantage of our advance in

As a veteran of world war II, I|Cost of producing goods is $1, and

and non-beneficient to. our future | the industrial arts, we can further reduce the number of workers re-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

quired to produce the goods we need. We can keep adding to the number not required to work, . we can add to the number of unem-

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ployed. A bright prospect. Technology, as we employ it today, has created a body of unemployed. Technology tends to increase that number. Technology |also increases wealth, and under our modern system of producing goods, .we can either restrict technology and place all the people at great disadvantage, or we can fully employ technology and increase the

poverishing individual members of our society. Labor income is the basic income of the great majority of our people, and since the wages of labor cannot command the production of goods and services which technology should provide, Voice in the Crowd must admit there is something wrong in the system he attempts to uphold. It must be understood that a businessman is not interested: in making a product, he is interested in making money, If he could make more money by dog racing, he would not make a breakfast food.

DAILY THOUGHTS How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with

us? Lo, certainly in vain made

he it; the pen of the scribes is in vaifi.—Jeremiah 8:8.

ROBES and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, rh

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: . And the strong lance of justice “It's not so strange for her to be crazy about a swoon-crooner— Burless breaks; : remember that opera soprano | rescued you from who . | a Done 3 PRY. say : now. weighs 200 pounds? ~~ Bile =King Lear,

American people are determined to

number of unemployed, « thus im- | {jon applying to 10 or more concerns or individuals, “The director —was—ordered—to—determine—whether—g— | form was necessary. )

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By Marshall McNeil

WASHINGTON, March 31. The senate has an old special rule tht can be used to prolong debate on a treaty and might be the means for defeating a hotly contested one. ‘ It was discarded 19 years ago for all other purposes, but still applies to consideration of treaties. It came to light in connection with the pending senate debate on the Mexican water agreement. Its existence surprised even ‘some veteran senate employees. ) It is important because the senate, perhaps this summer, will begin debate on the united nations organization treaty. And if that treaty provokes a bitter fight, all ‘parliamentary devices will be used.

Debate in Committee Is Unlimited

THE RULE provides that the senate shall sit as a committee of the whole in considering treaties, This means that the whole senate is regarded as a committee for debate on a treaty. . In this committee, any senator may offer an amendment to a treaty, and debate is unlimited.. When all amendments have been disposed of, the committee of the whole reports its action to the senate itself. Then the senate—the same men sitting in the same seats, who have just completed the fiction of being members of the committee of the whole— consider the treaty and all amendments, But, after the committee of the whole rises and reports back to the senate, the senate can reconsider all the amendments which were passed upon in the committee of the whole. It can vote them in, or vote them out, acting on them singly or in a group. New amendments can also be offered.

Amendments Can Be Debated Twice

THUS, SOME AMENDMENTS can be debated twice, and voted on twice. Between these votes, a senator might change his mind and his vote: In both ‘the committee of the whole and the senate, amendments to a treaty can be approved by a majority vote. > Finally, when all amendments are disposed of in the senate, that body takes up the resolution proposing ratification of the pact in question. This resolution can .be amended by attaching “reservations;” which, actually, are senate interpretations of what certain treaty provisions mean, Reser« vations also can be approved by a majority vote, Finally, the resolution itself is called up. Here it takes a two-thirds majority to approve ratification. At all stages of the consideration; senate debate Is unlimited, unless a two-thirds vote applies “¢cloture” —which means each senator gets only one hour to speak before the final question is decided. “Cloture” | Is very seldom applied, because the senate is extremely jealous of its right to unlimited discussion.

' Procedure Retained for Treaties

| IT WAS the long wrangle over the Hawley-Smoof t tariff bill that brought about the fight by the late Senator Claude Swanson (D, Va.) to eliminate the fiction of .the senate sitting as a committee of the | whole. During that debate, tariff changes approved in the committee of the whole were, in some instances, reversed in the senate itself. Senator Swanson got tired of this and offered a bill to change senate rules to eliminate altogether the procedure of the senate sitting as a committee of the whole. This bill went te the rules committee. There, attaches remembered today, it was amended so that it would apply to senate consideration of all legislation except treaties. There were senators at the time who recalled the old league of nations fight, and who wanted the committee of the whole retained so far as treaties were concerned.

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Less Paper Work

‘By Roger W. Stuart

certed three-way assautt to cut down-the number and seope of government questionnaires ang Teports; THe | bug-bear of American business. More cutting may be | in order, but .the campaign already has made prog-> | ress. i One company, for example, reports a saving of 5000 man-hours a month as a result of simplifications { and changes made since the federal reports act was [adopted two years ago. - Another happily declares it | has reduced the number of persons working exclusively on priority forms from nine to four. I : The savings fo both business and government re« sulting from the campaign can’ be figured in the millions, according to the budget bureau, 3 The senate small business committee, in a report | made public today, declares it is “pleased” with what | has been accomplished. At the same time, the | pessimistic opinion is advanced that “it wil] be no easy task to reduce to the maximum extent possible the number and complexity of government forms.”

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government:

| nual savings, $240,000. A statement of operations Involving 800,000 res ports each year has been discontinued. Annua] save ing, more than $1,000,000. A basic plant report has been" reduced in size and its frequency reduced from monthly to quarterly, thus eliminating 100,000 reports a year. Annual save ing, more than $300,000. hi What brought about these savings in cash, manhours and paper? The senate committee says frankly that business, particularly small business, was beset by “paper | work,” which “in many cases was more than could be done.” In 1943, for example, one company had to | file with government bureaus one report for every two | minutes of every regular business hour of the year— 71,588 reports in all. Protests from businessmen, large and small, finally | began to dent congress. Some kind of action, all | claimed, was needed to “provide relief from an enw | gulfing flood of reports.” [* So congress passed a federal reports act centers | ing authority in the director of the budget for re viewing requests from executive agencies for informa.

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"Internal Control Units' Established

THAT WAS two years ago. Before the budget, bureau got down to cases, however, a committee rep resenting national business organizations was appointed to advise the bureau on simplifying ques. * tionnaires. “Internal control units” were established within each agency. A bureau desiring to send out a form was required to submit it first to its control unit, and 32 such units now examine about 95 per cent of the forms. During 1943 and 1944; according to the bureau, 15,347 forms -were submitted for clearance by more than 100 federal agencies. Of these, 1526 ‘were dis-’ "approved ‘by the bureau or withdrawn because of objections raised in the bureau's review. At the same time, internal control units were throwing put: up to 80 per cent of the forms submitted for cone sideration. J : Informal - discussions have accounted for many disapprovals. One proposal cited by the bureau called for 300,000,000 forms. This was dropped after discussion ‘among the control unit, the business advisory group and the bureau, = ie i Another was intended at first to require monthiy reports from 1600 persons. It contained 200,000 items

After if covered only 100 persons and called

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