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iad to ste Mayor Tyndall spearheading what to be the beginning of the city’s biggest camt smoke. And it is especially heartening to e that this is not just another “winter will be forgotten when the air clears next

y personnel of the board he has named to deal with jon lends weight to his statement. So does the ordinance making it possible to use really expert solving the problem. * Smoke and smog can be virtually eliminated if the ople of the city are willing to take the steps necessary 0 do it, as has been shown by what they did in St. Louis st before the war. And it will not dnly mean healthier, living here, but an actual saving in money, right the start, both directly and indirectly, _... Certainly here is 8 move that everybody in town ought _to approve, and back to the fullest extent.

A DRIVE THAT'S NEEDED NJEXT week President Truman will send to congress the = first post-war federal budget estimate, covering the fiscal year which begins next July 1. Two months ago Mr, Truman indicated that the new budget would call for about $50 billion in government spending. However, the United Press reports, he has now ‘decided to trim that to about $38 billion “in a drastic econ- - omy drive that will affect every branch of the govern“ment.” . 5 ~The President, according to the United Press account, “is determined to cut government spending to the bone and to strive for a balanced budget by fiscal 1948" —the 12 months beginning July 1, 1947. This, if true, i important and hopeful news. For 16 straight years federal spending has exceeded federal income. The federal debt is now nearly $280 billion. The bill for interest, alone, on that debt is approaching $5 ‘billion a year—considerably more than the cost of the entire government in any yéar from 1922 to 1981.

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. . success for Mr, Truman's reported economy drive 7 would mean another federal deficit of some $8 billion in the next fiscal year, assuming that expenditures can be cat ‘to $88 billion and that government revenue is $30 billion. “And collecting that amount of revenue will require not only exceedingly good ‘business. It probably also will require ‘keeping federal tax rates at their present high levels. Balancing the budget in fiscal 1948, or in any year soon thereafter, will be no easy job. In that connection, the “Anti-Inflation Bulletin,” issued by the Institute of Life Insurance, has just dug some interesting history out of U. 8. treasury records. “In the 10 years before the Civil war, the publication points out, the cost of the federal government was only about $62 million a year. In the 10 years after the war, government costs average $332 millions. The increase was 51-3 times. : ii < In the 10 years before world war I, government costs ‘were $696 million a year. In the 10 years after the war, $3.7 * billion. Another increase of about 51-3 times. Ji Inthe 10 years before world war II, government costs averaged about $6.7 billion a year. If history repeats, if government costs in the post-war decade now beginning run 51-8 times what they were before, the country will have | ! 10 federal budgets averaging something like $35 billion a year

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" ” » » . for thought for the millions of taxpayers who + will have to foot the bill,” the “Anti-Inflation Bulletin” Observes that “this bill may run much greater than anyone now anticipates unless the government, supported by public | opinion, makes definite efforts to keep expenditures down.” "We hope it is ‘true-that such efforts are what Mr. Truman has in mind: He will need most aggressive support by public opinion, not only for cuts in present spending but also against a flood of proposals for new spending,

‘BRITISH BUILD AUTOS, TOO A CLOUD no bigger than your hand is a Reufer's dispatch = “from . Birmingham, England, relating that Sir Miles Thomas, the British automobile manufacturer, has returned from a 14,000-mile market survey tour in the Middle an Barbas. ~ Sir Miles found plenty of prospective buyers of automobiles ‘but, he says, British auto manufacturérs can’t gauge “the intensity” of American competition “until the Strikes in Detroit have been settled.” ‘British automobiles have never made a dent in the t American market. = American cars dominate the

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"Fire Department Here Good but Needs Equipment and Co-operation’

By Walter L. Hess, 2544 N. Delaware As many of you readers know, during my life I came to many countries and studied fire protection and prevention from every angle, ~ As I said before, we here in Indianapolis are happy to have one of the finest fire departments in this country, a department with about the shortest time in leaving the stations after an alarm comes ing with the to save

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life and property. ; ; As far-as I know we have some new pumpers, we have new chemical equipment to fight special fires, we*got two modern aerial ladders five years ago—but now I come to the reader's point, what could be better and is considered as the biggest - handicap by many firemen: nursing and old age homes to all 1. Every fireman should have his | your propositions for a better fire| own individual fitted gas or better prevention in those houses? smoke mask, carrying the mask like |fire in Connecticut recently is rais- moecracy. a soldier carries his gas mask. They | ing this question agan. And still they héve on the department some big | chemical mask outfits, but the com- | Yes, they need more modern equip- |

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rive first at the scene of a fire can- rescue squads and individual gas stand that the n not wait until the special equip- masks. ‘But they need the help ing from a d ment arrives. ‘ from everybody to help prevent fires brought about by

tions are so old fashioned and out! ders of the fire prevention chief, of line that whenever you see them | . .8 u going to a fire you cross your fingers “5 MILLION RADICALS and hope they will make it. (Up OUT OF 50 MILLION” till now they made it, thanks to|By Pat Hogan, Columbus the skill of the drivers and tiller-| Now that the C. I. Os have set men, but every accident has a first the pattern to wreck the nation, and coming). the steel workers, telegraphers and 3. More fire alarm boxes in the sundry small fry wish to aid, let's streets, They are so far apart that'all get behind the movement, do it many pegple just don’t know where up brown and let them choke on it. the next box is and how to handle, The U. A. W's rejected a 10% them. Why. not mark the boxes at raise and 45-hour week in face of night with a big blue lamp (red is the fact that millions of us are not possible because 6f mixups with working 48 to 84 hours with no traffic lights). Many people de- raise. Farmers have always worked pend on the telephone but the in eight-hour shifts—eight hours phone can be out of order for some! before dinner and eight hours after. reason or the address gets mixed, The C. I. Os want also a guaran= up in the conversation with the teed annual wage—vacation with | gamwell operator. pay included. If this is considered |

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have a big toll on lives and the many days of sunshine, accurate tragedy on 8. Illinois st. was no temperature and rainfall to proexception. As long as all those duce food and crops. Likewise smaller hotels do not have any fire dairymen should be guaranteed that prevention and just do not do what every cow shall have perfect health, the fire prevention chief says every produce so much milk, be prohotel fire is to be considered a bad tected from flies, ticks, drafts, heat, fire right from the start. ieold and many other things that Why not have in shows some po- afflict the dairy business. licemen in every ‘floor to handle! ‘Meat processors, canners, grocers, emergencies. Uniforms can do, fruit producers should be supplied wonders in a panic. Are there fire-| with sufficient products so that men ready behind the curtain, with [they have not a care in the world. fire hoses, ready to play water on| Now the radical unionists claim a second's notice on the stage? {a me bership of 5,000,000 and about One. of the most important ques- 50,000,000 are registered under Social tions. to my good friend, Fire Pre-| Security. Thus we face-the damnvention Chief Hyland--How was the able fact that an unreasonable, unreaction from the so-called private | reliable but Vvoluble minority would

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have overcome all artificial obstacles. When we really automobiles, the British can't hold a candle to us. ® 8 » . i * w now the British cast an eager eye on a competitive that is not at all “artificial,” except that it's man‘we don’t Budi automobiles, and the British do, jpture our world markets, and given i . . 2 enough time, ‘would be one ‘way to help the British lift themout of the economic doldrums. If American auto keep on striking, and the British auto industry producing, that will solve Britain's problem, more even than the proposed $4 billion loan. i ving the world’s auto manufacturing capital

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters rhould be limited to 250 Letters must signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those = The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manurespondence regarding them.)

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Our fire department here is good.| finding committee.” . If there is a sane person in these mon fireman and officer who ar- ment, new aerial ladders and more United States, who does not under-

2. The ladder trucks.of many sta- and give 'a helping hand to the or- and too much power, that person is a fit subject for the alienists.

trying to build camps for soldiers, the radical unionites came near wrecking the program with their “closed shop” stunt. It was impos-

unless he lay $50 to $150 on the line to join a union. Fact finding committee—faugh. Is eongress too blind or forgetful to understand these damning facts? Let congress rewrite the Wagner

and these radicals will wake up. Does congress fear “labor”? Then it. face another cold fact— 50,000,000 under. social security and

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By Charles Ginsberg, 2201 N. Keystone ave.

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Dec. 18, childishly claiming martyrdom. Pegler would get a laugh out

The Watchman claims he is fighting communism. So does the “Rock of Freedom,” tells us what communism is nor where it is dangerous, proving their ignorance of same. leader or watchman would be more dangerous than a crooked one. He

hunter that didn’t know the dif-

~What is communism? What is socialisms? What is capitalism

Isn't it true that the Communist not true’ exponents of communism

It is not the label that determines what a thing it: Some of the biggest frauds are labeled Socialist, Communist, la-

answer these questions scientifically, you must admit your ignorance of same. You would be like a pilot on a ship that didn’t know his way. If you can answer correctly you will be guiding’ to safety. If not you will be leading them over stumbling blocks into pitWhat do you say?

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INDUCED radioactivity was more of a bugaboo then than now—and the affrightened cannery interests thought that perhaps next year's crop of tuna would be blighted in the bud. Anything the explosions didn’t get, they figured, would turn white and die a week later from radioactivity. So they went, wailing, to Ickes the ickthyologist, who told them never fear, he and his men would

‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Good ‘neighbor relations between Mexico and the United States just now are being subjected to a severe strain. This is the result of leftist propaganda raising’ the old bugaboo of Yankee imperialism south of the border, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Marxist labor leader and head of the Federation of Latin American Workers, seems to be behind this anti-American drive. On Dec. 16 he publicly charged that United States interests were smuggling arms and ammunition to Mexican political factions. Last Wednesday, in Leon, state of Guanajuato, there was an election riot in which 30 were killed and some 300 wounded. According to press reports the

~,erowd. was protesting against installation of Ignacia

Quiroz as mayor on the grounds that his opponent, Carlos Obregon, actually had been elected. Federal troops, it was said, fired into the crowd. Spokesmen for Toledano's followers claimed the Leon shooting “proved” his charges against “U, 8. interests” because, .they said, dum-dums had been used and the Mexican army does nof use such bullets.

Statements Protested

UNITED "STATES AMBASSADOR MESSERSMITH, one of the best-informed diplomats ever to represent this country in Mexico City, protested against Toledano's original statement as soon as made. : After investigation, the Mexican government promptly disavowed Toledano's charge as without foundation. It has also been quick to inform the state department that there was likewise “no basis” for the Toledano group's follow-up after the incident at Leon.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Why President Truman wants to continue operation of the U. 8. employment service as a federal agency for another year and a half instead of turning the offices back to the states in three months, as congress provided in a bill he vetoed recently, becomes clear after investigatior of the facts. They relate to the hectic situation now existing all over the country as incoming ships unload war veterans, on top of the big task of finding jobs for civilian war workers which still is a problem, too. President Truman is much concerned. that war veterans shall have the most efficient service in trying to get back into normal civilian pursuits. That can be done only by operating on a national basis and without disrupting the USES organization with its expert, trained personnel that is supervising state agencies. USES has built up a co-ordinated nation-wide organization with information about job opportunities everywhere and with facilities for assisting placements. It is being stretched and strained now by .the terrific load imposed upon it. fe For example, the number of veterans applying at

| USES offices for jobs rose from 142,000 in July to

598,000 in November. During those five months a total of 1,542,000 veterans registered for jobs at USES offices all over the country.

More Than Half Apply

SINCE selective service was inaugurated, 3,300,000 veterans have registered with USES for jobs, This represents about 55 per cent of the 6,000,000 servicemen who have been discharged and re-entered the labor market. Altogether, by the end of the year, some 8,000,000 veterans had been discharged, which means some 2,000,000 have not yet entered the labor market. There is always a time lag, too, between their discharge and their registry for jobs. So heavy has been the load on USES personnel, particularly in some localities, that the organization

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

LONDON, Jan. 8~When allied armies entered Rome 19 months ago, it was astonishing what large stocks of luxury goods still remained in the shops. All sorts of goods which had net been seen in England for many years and which were in short supply even in the United States, were displayed in abundgnce, One's first reaction was to suppose that Mussolini's government really had not made an all-out war effort and that Italy fought the war only half-hearted-ly. This, however, is riot a true explanation. Italy is a country which produces no coal, no oil, no iron, no copper and no steel. Italy's war effort, therefore, was entirely dependent “on how much of these commodities the Germans were able to spare and to transport across the Alps. Though the Germans did their best to meet Italian requirements, even sending thousands of tons of coal monthly by rail, Italian inddstry was never more than 60 per cent engaged in war production, and the re‘maining 40 per cent always was available to meet nsumers’-needs, ° 4 he France, so in Italy, it is lack off coal which retards recovery to normal economic conditions. The allies are doing their best to help, and currently are supplying Italy with about 40 per cent of her requirements of coal and oil. This means that industry is working at something less than half pressure. Since the government forbids industry to dismiss any semployees, the workers are receiving & week's pay for three days’ work. So far, the banks have supported industry in making these payments, but it is obvious that this process cannot, be continued indefinitely. PL ” Industry Pays for Unemployment TODAY there is an immense ¢amouflaged unemployment which is being paid for, not by the govern-

‘ment, but by industry. Many firms already are faced with bankruptcy. The automobile manu-

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Anti-U. S. Drive Waged in Mexico:

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man up and says: “No sir, can't do it'there. That's ® States where the whales cross. And we can't go killing off a lot of whales. They're scarce enough now." ~ Bureau’s iss, it seems, uo in a rut, every year, in 3 » OMIT stately caravar travel n dh a ET ey rth 30d. south, “ “Red Cross disa What especially scares the fish, boys 1§ what the vided food, shelte bomb will do to the tuna supply. ‘If anything” hundreds of hon happened to that, the drugstore lunch counters. would: : three southerr s have to go out of business. ois LAE m A tuna, you see, is a shy fish. N "knows . Ya Wake of tor: where he breeds. Baby tunas may come from Japa caused by two ¢ nese waters, or they may be born ‘in Sydney hashor, * downpours that for all the experts know. And ‘tuna is big businéssas * deaths of at least $35 million a year's worth." 1" 2 TIC ev Sie. Heavy rains we Concerned About White Tuna rd on SO, IF Adm. Blandy says: “Leave us drop those flood warnings f« things off Ulithi,” a fish man right away is scared * states. that the A-bomb might fall smack on a Tuna love ‘Death toll fro , nest, ! MA aster which acco

The experts especially fear that the f : rupt the spawning of white Tuna, the nh an of the breed. 'The white Tuna disappeared & few years back, and only returned recently. Nolody 4 knows where they went and why, but interiot detsn't

want them running off in a huff ‘agaifi because soni’ had been owe admiral started cutting up with the atom. ~'* ** & area headquarter But right now, Adm. Blandy and his staff sould" twice th throw a hell of a scare into the canning busihess'by Juries had not be announcing that the atomic bomb will be dropped on ervey ships somewhere off the coast of Alaska .. 5 Re ‘ A United Pres * accounted for I Fo follows: : Carrollton, Mi: i Miss, 3; Coila, A lage, Ark, 3; F (drowned), and I

If dum-dum bullets were used at leon, they could” easily have been improvised on the spot. Dum-dums, —which get their name from a town in India, where,

with a populatio BY many tourist

they were invented by the British late last cehtury—. flood waters fror have hollow noses and mushroom or “explode” upon. There the Red Ci impact, leaving ghastly wounds. The same effect, more than 100 ean be produced by filing off a bullet's nose and notch, flee their homes ing it cross-wise. . Cee near Dayton. Ev Mexico is now in the middle of a, presidential miles north of Ds election. “The principal candidates are ; lieved isolated. Aleman, backed by the P. R. M. (Party of the, Two Tennessee Mexican Revolution), and Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, fore. dams on the Du mer minister and standard-bearer for the Mexican, man eounty, Ten: Democratic party. . zs sind by flood waters. . . o bile . : stations and t Tries to Discredit Padilla Eh wii Dams TOLEDANO is attempting to discredit Dr. Padilla ated at $26,000. by charges that he is not only a tool of the Yankees Swept Fr but is pro-Catholic. Dr. Padilla favors separation of Flood waters @ church ‘and state but says he rebels against the home of Joseph

“persecution” of Mexican Catholics because of theif, religion, : a Toledano, according to many, is a Communist, He denies this but avows Marxism. He founded the. C. T. M. (Mexican Confederation of Labor) in 1938 in opposition to Crom, older and less radical. Two, years later he went to Moscow. After this trip, he, announced the solidarity of his Federation of ‘Latin. American Workers—founded the same year—with ths. second internationale “to. which,” he said,. “most workers outside Russia belong.” : : ee Some call him “the undisputed dictator of Mexican, labor.” Certainly he is the best known and most, dynamic labor personality throughout Latin America, _ ch is what makes his outbursts so dangerous. to the good neighbor policy of this hemisphe :

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has been unable to do as ‘much as it desires in thb" way of finding jobs because of the mere detail ‘of registering the “ex-soldiers.. The congestion is ‘espé=" cially heavy in Florida and Southern California dueé* to the migration of war veterans and their families to those, sections. : ! The problem of finding jobs for veterans requires. patience and understanding, Some of them appar ently were under certain illusions. about employment

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opportunities in the United States, that is, as to? SHINGO! wages, presumably because of some of the ‘stories that ters said today

went out about war workers. - Not only do they find + those stories exaggerated, but they discover that pay“ has been cut considerably by reduction” in Hours of* work, ond naxiek

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min a Pay Not Attractive ior ar A A Red Cross MOST OF the jobs now available are for swt of. Pikesville, Ky skilled workers, but they are at pay that doe§ not. evacuated or str: attract the veteran, particularly if he has a family, ‘The Red Cross s Most of the skilled jobs. that are open require ‘long Hatin, Sv a experience and are at pay much below wartime leven,” Cross. also | Veterans do not’ rush to clerical and professional Mancheste! white collar jobs available because many of them pers Ya. formed such jobs during the war and want to do, A tree offered something else. : a ; Su waters of the Cu The task of fitting thém into jobs is thus a highly, hours for Joe difficult one. But their cases are treated carefully, Negro, and his t and sympathetically. There is not, for example, the officials at Harl: strictness about refusing them their compensation if. Lee kept climl

they don't take available jobs, as there is in the cases, of civilian workers, which is all a matter of state reg=, ulation. There were, in mid-December, about. 450,000, veterans drawing their servicemen'’s compensation, as. compared with’ 45,000 in July, . ew _ A recent check in California showed that 50 per cent of war veterans who contacted USES offices came from other states originally, and that 25 to 35 per cent of them intend to remain in California .apdwork there, .

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“gt boards Are Bare, many more are bound to follow suit in the coming? months. of Sh The purchasing power of the lira today is about’ one-twentieth its prewar value, so all those who live on fixed salaries, pensions or invested incomes are today being liquidated, ® : } The whole of ‘the Italian middle and professional classes are literally facing starvation this winter and are bound to disappear as they did in Germany after: the first world war. $ Italy's economic plight is aggravated by the shore’ age of shipping. Before the war the Italian merchant marine amounted to 4,500,000 tons. Today it is only. 350,000 tons. Until Italian merchant ships are ree. leased from the allied pool, this shipping shortage is bound to act as another strangle-hold on Italian rew covery. ¥ : * Foreign Exchange Shortage ; ITALY also is gravely hampered by a shortage of foreign exchange. The Amefican government has been most generous and for some months has been. crediting the Italian government with thie dollar’ equivalent of the pay of American troops and officials in Italy. In this way Italy has accumulated 150,000,000. dollars. ‘But this, even assisted by remittances from Italian immigrants in the United States, is wholely inadequate to finance the purchase of raw materials | and fertilizers, which are essential if Italy is to get on her feet again. i ; One cannot escape the conclusion that the allies will have to extend considerable credit to Italy if she is to play her part in rebuilding Europe: . A Italy's most serious long-range problem is hep growing population. ‘Until 1940, immense numbers of |

lating several disrupting transy ing thousands of

South America. For the last few years, this flow of / Now |

population has been almost completely stopped.

‘Ttaly has lost her aa more acute than Vg Be or Sion.