Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1946 — Page 16

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LORD KEYNES’ LEGACY

FEV Englishmen have influenced American government policies so profoundly as did Lord Keynes, the famed economist, who died this week in London. He was still plain-Mr. John Maynard Keynes when he visited Washington in 1933, the New Deal's first year. His ideas were said then to have “captivated” President Roosevelt, although they had aroused no such enthusiasm in the British government. Probably only the most learned of his fellow economists ever fully understood them. But Mr, Roosevelt eagerly adopted the theory that big government borrowing and spending would he an effective weapon against depression and unemployment, Out of it grew the New Deal's great pump-priming program of the 1930s. And, undeniably, the far greater war-spending program that followed did create full employment, at least temporarily, and has created a hectic, dangerous sort of

“prosperity.” » ~ " » » » ORD KEYNES didn't advocate deficit spending as a

perpetual policy. He believed, if we grasped his theory, that a government budget should be unbalanced when necessary to combat bad times, but firmly balanced in good times, As one of the foremost American disciples, Prof. Alvin Hansen, has put it: “It would be financially irresponsible to raise expenditures, lower taxes and increase the public debt when there is a tendency toward an’ inflationary boom.” Well, certainly there is such a tendency now. We are in the 16th straight year of unbalanced budgets. Our federal debt is nearly $270 billion, and still growing. Deficit

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spending obviously is raising steam pressure in the inflationary boiler. And yet our government only talks—and that not too. confidently—about balancing the budget in 1947 (perhaps).

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

Hoosier Forum

The trouble seems to be that government spending has

created a huge federal bureaucracy that strongly resists’

the idea of trimming; that powerful groups of voters, having acquired vested interests in the benefits of deficit spending, don’t want to give them up; that to many citizens cutting taxes seems so much more attractive than cutting budgets. Lord Keynes was a truly remarkable man, and an account of his services, achievements and honors could fill many columns. He left us a lot of deep thought, but he didn’t leave us any formula for breaking the spending habit which he helped us to get into.

CHANGING TOKYO CABINETS RESIGNATION of the Tokyo cabinet was overdue. Baron Shidehara is an old man in poor health, and even more ineffective now than years ago when he allowed the militarists to capture control of the government. The immediate difficulty is that none of the political

‘Congress Is Leading Us Right Into Inflation by OPA Action"

and that they wanted the housing 1 » subsidy—yet congress, the repre-lslow in getting those abuses cOr-|yhat frequently when juveniles are sentative of the people, has taken rected, and I'll admit the present it upon itself to show the people administration what is best for them. | Even now prices are high but|of the veterans’ bill of rights, given! where (hey will be without restric- ys by congress, by the appointtiows nobody knows——it will be worse ments they have made to adminis-| than the debt'the “old guard” howls ter and enforce the bill,

parties obtained a popular mandate in the election this month. Doubtless there will be a coalition of right wing parties, particularly the misnamed “Liberal” and “Pro-

which polled the highest vote—about one-third of the total =—would be the new premier. But this man, Ichiro Hato-

once writing a book which praised Hitler and Mussolini. There are two obvious reasons why Japan is not likely to get a vigorous democratic cabinet at this time. One is that the election went overwhelmingly conservative— and hardly could have done otherwise. The other is that there are Virtually no experienced figures among the few genuine democrats who survived the military dictatorship and war, Even if enough experienced and able Liberals were available to man a Tokyo cabinet now, they could not function as a sovereign government. By necessity all ultimate powers are vested in Gen. MacArthur, as an essential protection to the allies. It would be dangerous for Americans to expect longmilitarized and regimented feudal Japan to Pon a ,

so much about. Perhaps prices will | must be changes—and quick, rise so much the debt won't seem 50 big after all. 7 . What we people want from our gressive’ parties. Normally the head of the Liberal party, |sovernment is service—and congress, instead of giving service is being dictatorial. It is still not too] late for the newspapers to salvage we need is to get the facts and Juvenile and criminal courts in Inyama, is still under investigation by Gen. MacArthur for |something after their “see. nothing, | know nothing, say nothing” period. La Follette, Ludlow were the only ones who voted against the emasculation of the price control act—the papers should back these men, particularly Mr. La Follette, the hope of the Republican party and of Indiana. We people have not forgotten Roosevelt—and when we see men who take the people's intérests to heart as he did, we will be all for them, regardless of party affiliations and regardless of what the newspapers do or do not do.

Editor's Note: The Times has supported ‘he extension of OPA to July 1 of next year, and has criticised congressional hamstringing of this

other fellows in the same boat as you and take your complaint through channels as a group. The moral: Firing power is the

; . thing; don't waste your ammunition. By Virginia F. Childers, 2019 N. Pennsylvania If you feel jumpy and want to blow

Why have the Indianapolis papers been so backward about helping | off, find a group of veterans. They

the cause of the price control aci? Congress again has turned its back | wil] understand. to the American people—first it ruined the housing act and now it has led us right into inflation by removing OPA restrictions on almost “JUDGE RHOADS GIVES everything. ministration probably will. be blamed-—but the Republicans, Democrats and business men are responsible. supposedly “the watchdogs” of the people's rights, have let them go] counter to the people's wishes. Polls published in newspapers ShOW |} eIping rather than hindering the the people want continued price control (demonstrations show it, too) |

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If this country goes into an inflationary spiral, the ad- | pEFENDANTS PAT ON BACK” southern |

by Mrs. M. 8. Indianapolis And the newspapers, | oi n py

Judge Mark W., Rhoads, in an effort to sidestep the blame for

| spread of juvenile delinquency, tried {to involve William Remy by saying

reported as having appeared in has pretty much |; venile court they actually apsabotaged the intents and purposes | .. eq omy in juvenile aid division, | under Mr, Remy's jurisdiction, and { were lectured and sent home, Even There | if this is true, one can hardly blame | Mr, Remy for preferring reprimanding the cases himself to turning We have the law on the books,|ihem over to Rhoads who would and we will be getting more on the most likely just give them a pat books. We have the strength back on the back and a key to the city. of us and we don't have to depend| Even back in 1943 Mr. Remy and on either party for support. All other police officials contended that

evidence accumulated to present |dianapolis were displaying “inordiour cases—and we are doing that | nate leniency toward teen-age felnow. lons with long criminal records.” In the meantime, while we are| They complained that although the getting our case ready to present | police expended much time and ento the public, an immense amount | ergy tracking down wayward adoof harm is being done our cause by |lescents, the courts psuedo claims of injustices suffered | right out in the streets again.” while in the service or after leaving| I'll never forget the jolt I got the service—claims that won't stand | when reading in the paper a drooly the light of day upon them—claims letter Judge Rhoads had written in that John Doe Public knows are defense of auto thieves ddring the not true becajse he was in the serv-| war years. He explained “these chilice himself. The public, including |dren, particularly the boys . .. Rave ex-servicemen, is hearing so much nothing to dook forward to but getof this self-evident belly-aching and ting into the armed services, and top-blowing that it is beginning tothe live, red-blooded ones do not doubt the sincerity of all our claims.|want the show to pass them by.” We can’t afford this. Again, in the case of the bunch Here's the point. If your case as of hoodlums who threw bottles onto you put it is really true, then there |people’s porches and cost little Mike

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agency, The most recent editorial | ras ’ democracy within a few months, or even a few . years, |on the subject appeared last Sat-|¥ill be thousands of other G. 35 Shulet ius shy She, Ste Rhoais Gen. MacArthur is doi : X YET lurday. in the same boat. You are smart sympa y seemed to with the be ris doing a superb job, but it has Just aa enoligh to go before a board and defendants rather than their victim. gun. i; Yu ie . . fight your case. Every veteran would He turned them loose on their word “V ETERANS SHOU 1D TAKE be back of you to help you win, bg- that they'd defray—at their con- : IT EASY IN BLOWING TOP” cause in winning for you they would | venience—a small fraction of the G. I. BUSINESS HAZARDS By a Pacific Veteran, Crawfordsville [5g winning for thousands of other |unfortunate child's medica; expenses

This is in answer to Pive Battle

SX of every 10 veterans asking the government about | private business prospects indicate they would like to |

Shooge wedhald appliances and radio branches, | The o ice of small business is replying that opporH tunity looks good. By June, 1943, about 875,000 pol country’s 1,620,000 retail and 643,000 service stores had closed. The agency adds an additional note of cheer by reporting that production restrictions and manpower shortAges are easing. Those factors crushed most of the concerns that collapsed during the war. But, the small business office reminds veterans, commercial success is never a cinch. The navy cook may dream of his own restaurant, the army radio technician may envision a brisk clientele, the aviation mechanic may imagine a bustling garage all his own. ‘Nevertheless, it takes something more than a store and a helper to guarantee continuing profits. Small business leaders advise venturesome veterans first to ask themselves: , : “Have I an intimate knowledge of the business? lave : I sufficient capital and credit? Do I make friends readily ?” : ~ G.'L. entrepreneurs should be sure they can answer yes | [fare announcing their grand openings. | : e American Retail Federation, functioning through | established stores, offers to help train AY Vora . pay them while they learn, The G. I. bill of rights A measure of financial assista he first difficult months, i listically, the federation and the government reran that 16 per cent of all employing concerns in 1944 closed within the year, The mortality ent in retail trades, 16 per cent in service

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basic business sense if, first of the hazards as well as the prom-

Scarred Veteran of April. 18. There enter retail and service fields. Ten per cent of these would {which veterans will "have against{to get yourself branded as a mal- ; abuses they suffered while in the [service or after coming out of the|to the other fellows in the same and girls.” service. I'll admit we're moving'boat as you? Why not get with the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

G. 1.’s in the same boat. If you con- resulting from their “prank.” tinue your present independent ac-| To cap the climax Judge Rhoads tion you will get no where except lapsed into his usual habit of com- | plimenting the culprits. He said content. Do you think that is fair|“these are normal American boys Well thanks! That makes us peaceful and considerate folks abnormal, eh? All I can say is that we are badly in need of a change in at least one judge when the primaries come

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” o » “GIVE PUBLIC A BREAK AND CRIMINAL HIS DUE” By R. L. J, Indianapolis

I want to thank you for the recent editorial pertaining to the making of criminals. The laxity of the courts and the inefficient methods used by the prosecuting attorneys is exceptionally deplorable. We now have in custody Mr.-Pol-lard who has so long escaped his just punishment. What is going to happen this time? Will the law enforcement agencies again slightly reprimand him and possibly send him to prison for a couple of years and then let him out so he can carry on his criminal activities? Just a week or so ago I saw in The Times that two men were recently arrested who previously had been arrested 18 or 20 times, I think The Times should wholeheartedly get behind this Pollard case and blast this thing from all angles, Let us give the law-abiding citizens a break and at the same time give the criminal his just dues.

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going until his next annual visit. No housewifée had any excuse for a rundown kitchen after Mr. Thatch had been around. : But even more splendid than Toby Thatch's shining stock of kitchen tools was his manner of dress. He wore a short brown flan- _| nel coat, the collar of which was half a foot from the top of his . neck. It gave his head the appearance of a bird with the feathers plucked off its neck. With this went

pair of corduroy breeches and thick-soled boots reinforced in some mysterious way with what ‘looked like iron hoops. Inside this regalia was Toby Thatch himself, a man six feet tall or more, as thin and bony as a giraffe, with a long swallow face and dark staring | vacuum; in action, the very spirit of liveliness, It was most lively ‘with his tongue wagging, and his tongue wagged best when he told stories of the long-ago.

A Gawky Traveling Companion MR. THATCH KNEW a lot about the long-ago because he spent most of his time in strange places picking up stories in the pursuance of his business. He started his annual pilgrimage, I recall, somewhere

was a whim of his always to start on April Fool's day. He usually arrived in Terre Haute towards the end of May and I press the point today becausé that was where Mr. Thatch picked up one of his best stories, He said he got the story from a, woman who bought a “spider” from him. And before I proceed, I might as well tell you youngsters that a spider is a kind of frying pan with legs long enough to hold it over the logs of an old-fashioned fireplace. Mr. Thatch's stock of spiders was unusually complete for a“ peddler. Well, as I was saying, Mr, Thatéh got the story straight from a Terre Haute customer. And she got it straight out of the lion’s mouth which, in this case, was a Mrs. Nelson whose .husband was one of the

WASHINGTON, April 24. —The confused state of mind hereabouts, which helps explain what is going on in congress, may be illustrated by some recent events. Several days ago, it may be recalled, Senator Taft (0.) bellwether of Republican stalwarts, had a spat with Senator Murray (D. Mont.y over the proposed national health bill which the Ohio senator called “socialistic.” Now along comes the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in its weekly publication “Business Action” to say of the housing bill recently passed by the senate, of which Senator Taft was a sponsor: “It is hard to imagine a measure which is more socialistic in its proposals than this one.”

Confusion Brings Accusations SENATOR TAFT “socialistic”? U. S. Chamber of Commerce! All right, perhaps, for another sponsor of that bill. Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), for he was author of the Wagner labor relations act and the social security act, and is now resighed and philosophical. But the U. S. chamber should be more careful about the .third sponsor of the bill, Senator Ellender (D. La.). He wouldn't like to be called “socialistic”—and it might not do, to call him so to his face. Almost as much a fighting word as “Yankee.” When men are confused they toss labels about. Again—there were a couple of things that happened Easter afternoon in two widely separated parts of the world—if any two place are widely separated any more, There was the jet plane that whizzed over

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert

Now, after all,

NEW YORK, April 24.—It is hard to visualize a member of the United Nations staff shooting off his face while a canned orchestra plays mood music in the background, but it’s possible. Muzak corporation, which has softened the stony hearts of bankers and accelerated the output in the brassiere industry, might just possibly set international diplomacy to music. Muzak is talking business at the moment with the Sperry people, into whose Long Island holdings the United Nations expects to move. The plants are already wired to accept Muzak's product. -

Tunes for Every Purpose IT WOULDN'T BE a startling achievement for Muzak, which, in 10 years, has quietly become a major American industry. Muzak is the outfit which pipes a 24-hour schedule of plugless music into everything from penicillin plants to.restaurants. The business has mushroomed, in that short spell, from one operation in New York to an enormously successful market in 125 cities. Not long ago, the Sante Fe railroad announced that its trains would feature the quiet, continuous mysic in which the corporation specializes. By next year, 90,000 out of 120,000 American factories will pipe Muzak to their employees. Doctors, lawyers, banks, hospitals, restaurants, all buy Muzak now, for doctors have found that waiting-room music calms | their patients, and bankers have decided that an | applicant for a loan is. happier when the loud “No” is set to sprightly rhythm. Factory employees work harder when the air is filled with sharps and flats, and it is possible to digest the food in some hash houses when the indestructible chop is accompanied by subdued chords.

Soviet Foreign

WASHINGTON, April 24—Western democracies without exception, and most of the smaller members of the United Nations, are hoping with serious misgivings that the Big Four meeting starting -tomorrow in Paris will break the .deadlock and get the world started back on the road. to peace. The misgivings are on account of Russia. What Secretary Byrnes, Secretary Bevin and Foreign Minister Bidault will do can be pretty well discounted in advance. The American, British and French stand is more or less along United Nations lines,

Red Stand Not Known

BUT SUCH 1S ‘NOT the case with the Soviet Union. Only she knows exactly what she wants but whatever it is she seems determined to get it regardless of previous commitments. Diplomats” say she is the world's greatest opportunist, which. means that her course often follows the most amazing zigzags. Generalissimo Stalin likes to quote Lenin on the subject. : “In a war for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie,” the present Soviet dictator quotes his predecessor as saying, “a war 100 times more difficult, prolonged and complicated than the most stiibborn war between states, to refuse beforehand to ‘maneuver, to utilize the conflict of interests (even though temporary) among one’s enemies, is ridiculous in the jextreme. At times we may have to go. in zigzags, sometimes retracing our steps, sometimes giving .up the course onde selected and trying others.” . : : ; Russia's stand regarding Poland and Spain “during the past seven years is regarded as a good example ‘of what Lenin and Stalin refer to as @igzagging. pressiitg the security council Ww take IA 2 ig J fa TT

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house when 1 was a little boy, I liked Toby Thatch best. He came once a year, usually around the Fourth of July, in a wagon loaded down with enough tinware, pots and pans to keep Indianapolis kitchens

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of the story. I wouldn't fool you for the world. Judge Hammond and Thomas Nelson, it appears,

had arranged to go from Terre Haute to Indianapolis by way of a stage coach. That was back in the Forties:

in the period when the comets acted up and had

everybody scared, said Mr. Thatch. As they stepped

into the coach (the men and not the comets) they discovered a long lank individual whose head to quote Mr. Thatch, seemed to protrude from one end of the coach and his feet from the other. He was the sole occupant and sleeping soundly. Moreover, he was without a vest or necktie. Indeed, he looked like a mah who had never gone in for the masculine accessories. : The judge slapped the unadorned man familiarly on the shoulder and asked whether he had chartered the coach for that day. “Certainly not,” said the odd-looking stranger, moving over to make room for the Terre Haute travelers. (The reason the Terre Hauteans wanted the seat appropriated by the stranger was because it was the. best from which to view the scenery.) Well, the stranger looked so out of place in a stylish stage coach that the sophisticates from Vigo county thought they'd have, some fun with him, and all the way to Indianapolis they razzed him unmercifully. Some of the razzing was mighty mean, said Mr. Thatch, but the stranger took it patiently enough and always joined in the laughs, although most of them were at his expense.

The New Congressman

FINALLY, THE CONVERSATION got around to the strange behavior of the comets at the time. Asked what he thought of the phenomenon, the uncouth traveler opined that it wasn't for him to say what would be the “upshot of the comet business.” Late that evening the coach reached Indianapolis. The two Terre Hauteans hurried to Browning's hotel. In their hurry, they completely lost sight--of the perpetrator of the awful pun. After retiring to their room to brush their clothes, they descended to the portico and there discovered their gloomy fellow traveler in the center of an admiring group of lawyers who seemed interested in a story he was telling. “Who is that man?” asked Mr. Nelson turning to Mr. Browning. the landlord. “That is a new member of congress from Illinois,” said Mr. Browning, “his name is Abraham Lincoln.”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Congress Follows Expediency Policy

Washington 27 minutes after it left: New York. And there were the half dozen old-fashioned balloons, the kind dad used to watch at the county fair, which took off in Paris, to the thrill of a half million people, and from just about the spot where "Leon Gambetta took off in the same sort of balloon to escape to Tours ‘during the siege of Paris in 1870. We are, with the whole world, in an era of planned economy, have been for somk jyears. It's uncomfortable mentally.

Political Patchwork in Congress NATURAL RESULT is what the politician always does when confused: Hesitate, prevaricate, try to forget. it all if possible. Thire are two customary courses. One is to doctor up whatever solution finally is reached in such a way that it can be explained away to any constituent, as happened for example, on OPA in the house. The other is to pause for awhile, especially in an election year when the people are so uncomfortably close again. ’ This accounts for the sentiment now in congress for fixing up a few things temporarily, OPA, the draft, the British loan perhaps, the atomic energy bill maybe, and go home. Decision would be avoided before election on measures of planned economy, such as long-term housing and health bills, expansion of social security, minimum wage increases, and measures with new departures from old ways, such as universal military training and unification of the armed services, It's much easier to watch the balloons than to ponder what the jet plane has brought us.

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Mild Music in the Modern Manner

The business of “industrial” music has become so nearly ubiquitous ‘that in the future you are almost sure to hear Muzak being sprayed over the interior of an airliner or seeping softly from the bulkheads of a ship at sea. Hospitals, of course, get the ultra-soothing treatment, as do the offices of most professional men. Hotels and places of amusement receive still another brand, while the few people who can afford to buy the service for their homes have a free choice.

The core of the business’ success is centered in ‘the fact that music can increase metabolism, increase or decrease muscular energy, affect breathing, pulse and blood pressure, delay or reduce fatigue, cook a five-course dinner, and tend the children. It is not vet known whether a correctly angled confection by Spike Jones can shoot down a rocket bomb or split an atom, but Muzak is investigating it.

Will United Nations Fall for It? REGARDING ITS involuntary cousin, radio, with a hard eye, Muzak has resisted attempts by advertisers to insert commercials in its day-long flow of music. This is sound; nobody, Muzak feels, would

like to be hit over the head with a liver-pill plug while dining out, or would enjoy being cajoled by a. mortician while sitting in a doctor's vestibule. . I'am waiting with halted breath to see whether the United Nations conclaves are to be musically adorned. If so, the program-selectors had - better step warily. I do not wish to go to war because some disc jockey played “Rule, Brittania,” when the obvious choice was a few brief bars of “Volga Boatman.” ’

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Policy Is ‘Zigzag’

action against Spain which she accuses of collaboration with the axis. Yet Russia, herself, collaborated with the axis from 1939 to JuRe, 1041. In August, 1939, Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov signed a treaty of friendship and non-aggression with Nazi Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, thereby gaining for Russia a free hand in eastern Europe. In the following September, ‘Russia and Germany signed a pact dividing up Poland. Territory east of the line then drawn, became Russia; west .of the line, German. In October, therefore, Molotov was able to report to the supreme Soviet that at “one swift blow to Poland, first by the German army and then by the Red army, nothing was left of this ugly, offspring of the Versailles treaty.” (The American President Wilson had been largely responsible for Polish independence, the “ugly duckling” of world war '1,) To outsiders this looked like aggression. Apparently it even struck some Russians in the same way. For Foreign -Commissar Molotov was at some pains to explain it to the supreme Soviet as another zigzag.

Molotov's Warning of Change “CERTAIN OLD FORMULAS which we employed but recently, and to which many people are accus-

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and inapplicable. We must be quite clear on this point so as to avoid making gross errors in-judgment in the new situation that has developed in Europe. . In the past few months, such concepts as ‘aggression’ and ‘aggressor’ have acquired a new concrete connotation, a riew meaning. We ecfinhot employ hese concepts in the sense we did, saf. three” or four

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