Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1946 — Page 12
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1 month, “ RI-8651. CERERTNERN Guu Light and the People Will Find Thewr Oton Way OPA IS DYING
TODAY there is some question™whether President Truman will get out of congress another OPA bill as good as or a little worse than the one he vetoed—and whether, ‘when he gets it, he will approve it or veto again. And, on evidence presently at hand, there is doubt whether it will make much difference. OPA has been a dead Cock Robin for 10 days counting today. And so far, the economic effect has been less than
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» . ’ . » » » # NLY sustained and voluminous public uproar is for seems to be few, if any, dissenting voices in congress. If there is failure to agree on other OPA features, it should’ be easy to get a meeting of minds on rent control. That can be explained, perhaps, by the fact that in the war years several million American families were begun, while very few additional homes were being built. And it will take a long time to build enough houses and apartments, a longer time than on most items for supply to overtake
demand. Hence the need of controls to keep some landlords
from charging all the traffic will bear. Even on rents, many tenants seem to be willing to.pay reasonable increases to meet the added costs landlords have had to assume in the
upkeep of their properties.
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As important as or more so than a roof overhead, is something in the stomach. So people are worried about food costs. Since OPA’s demise, most food costs, that is, costs legally charged, have risen—though some have fallen. Part of the rise is explained by the discontinuance of subsidies which had been paid to food producers and processors under the OPA setup—so to that extent the consumer actually paid the full price in taxes, if not in prices. Then there is that difference between what was the legal OPA ceiling price and the black market price. The principal “legal” price ..increases have been in meat and dairy products. In some
last few months of OPA. So statistics don’t mean much. © For instance, in the New York City market; butter has ranged from 70 to 80 cents a pound. That's compared to the - old OPA ceiling of 65 cents a pound—but with very little butter being offered at that price—while the black market offered butter aplenty at $1 and $1.25 a pound. The same with meats. In the last week, there has been the greatest flood of cattle and hogs into the markets in a decade. Prices have bobbed up and down. Roughly those prices have been above the OPA ceilings, yet below the black market prices. So how can anyone tell whether prices have risen or declined over the prices most people actually paid before the end of OPA? One thing we do know is that in the last year the government paid out $1874 million in money, taxed and borrowed, in food subsidies alone. Also $70 million in copper, lead and zine subsidies, and $54 million in subsidies for stripper oil wells. That was pretty close to a $2 billion total. And the new OPA bill provided $1 billion subsidies for the year now starting. So if the OPA ig not continued, we'll “save a lot of money that we otherwise would spend in subsidies, » . » FJ . . THE TIMES has supported continuance of OPA during a period of “orderly decontrols.” But the ineffective law which congress now seems willing to enact is not one which gives us much hope. The exemption of meat and poultry yesterday was the pay-off. More exemptions are likely to follow today. Maybe we would be better off to accept extension of rent controls and forget about the rest. : We recall that we also were among those who were strong for NRA. When the supreme court knocked the NRA in the head, we were among those who prophesied that there would be hell to pay. We were afraid wages would be cut. William Green of the A. F. of L. predicted there would be widespread labor unrest and strikes—then even as now. We were afraid there would be cutthroat pricecutting. (Those were the days when everyone was talking about the need of higher prices, not lower.) But when NRA passed out of existence, what happened? Nothing much. Both prices and wages remained about the same. Ours is a tough country. We survived NRA with all its fumble-bumble economics. And we survived the death of NRA. We lived through OPA, despite all its bureaucratic thumbs. And if OPA isn't continued, we'll probably still be doing business at the old stand. Ours is an abundant land. So long as Americans work and produce, we'll probably be able to get what we want for ‘what we can afford to pay. That is, if we work and produce.
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OVERLAPPING GOVERNMENT UNITS
THIRTY-THREE units of government are taxing the re7 sources of Henry county and are then “spending revenues with little regard to what each other is doing,” according to a report of the American Municipal Assn, just made public, A county council on intergovernmental relations studied overlapping government units in this county for two years. The council found there were 827 distinet ad- ~ inistrative agencies operating within the county or directly serving its citizens. Of these, 108 were federal, 111 ~~ ‘were state, and 110 were local, : The report just released shows how we have let “gove ; "get away from the people who are its creators. | Marion county is another example of overlap ‘units, We can avoid much difficulty in evolving now a. sound system for metroof Marion county, abolishing the an. system; and merging where possible her fui Which have mushroomed
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the world combined, (8)* proposing
attacking us before we should have time to recover from our war effort and perhaps learn to make our own atomic bombs, (9) carrying on a press and radio campaign to foment suspicion and hostility toward us, (10) seizing and holding military bases along both our frontiers (Iceland, Greenland, the islands of the Pacific), (11) sending & maval expedition into northern waters for special training in arctic warfare, (13) maintaining armed forces ‘at our very gates (United States marines, planes and ships in Manchuria, United States troops and anti-Soviet’ armies in India, Germany, Italy, Greece), (13) proposing for 1947-two years after the war—a military budget greater than that of any other country, with a higher percentage of expenditure military purposes than was made by Germany or Japan when they were actively preparing for war, and if (14) the Greek Catholic church were offering to lead a holy war against vs, and if (15) Marshal Stalin officially sponsored a public ceremony at which a former prime minister who had twice tried to overthrow our government and our economic system was highly honored and in his address urged an alliance between our two most powerful rivais—what would they think of Generalissimo Truman and Foreign Commissar Byrnes if they did not work njght and day to se6 that the United States had friendly governments in every capital from Canada to Argentina and if they did not move heaven and earth to discover the secret of the atomic bomb? Let us try to see ourselves as others see us—and this does not
“Let's Try to See Our World Policies as Rest of World Does"
The people Who are saying hard things about Soviet foreign policy| for himself. Security is something
If the Soviet Union (1) possessed the secret of the atomic bomb ability to reason and exercise judgAmerican communities as much as 80 and 90 per cent of (and (2) were doing its best to keep it from us, meanwhile (3) building
$ eat was in the black market in the [up 8 stockpile of the bombs, (4) maintaining an army larger than ever |} available and butter before in its history and (5) a navy larger than all the other navies of
() introduce universal compulsory military training in time of so-called peace, (8) allowing her army and navy officers to talk openly of | Mr. Stokes to state publicly and for
has from one to a dozen others riding piggy-back on his shoulders. He prates about “security” when he has the intelligence to know that there'is no security except that Washington, D. C, security that each one of us makes
{ ion | . | which no one can give me, nor can of the situation if they would putl, give it. And 1 cannot unders | | why people who are jealous of their |
| ment will accept the stereotyped | propaganda about a mythical secur{ity when their own intelligence should warn them that there is to continue the wartime draft and |something shady about such talk. And, in conclusion, may I ask
the private benefit of your publisher, does he propose renewal of price control on a fair and equitable basis, without discriminations, and A | applying alike to the product of his | On your editorial page Wednes-| Pen as to the landlord's rent and| day was a fine editorial, “Let Poli-|the butcher's steaks? Or would ‘he ties Wait” which, on the subject of |40 as has the “great master,” put OPA is one which everyone should |the screws on the guys who deal read and resd again—and then | With the greatest number of unthink seriously. It is an unassum- thinking voters, and give the world ing expose of the fact that the|to the ones who touch only a few? communistic program known as | Would he make fish of some and OPA, now deceased, was - foisted 80ats of others? upon thé American public ih Mr.| 3 7 Roosevelt's barter for the com- | “FUT NONE BUT AMERICANS munist vote. And because it was| ON GUARD IN OFFICES” impossible and unworkable from | By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis its inception, appeal upon appeal, | On this July -4, 1946, American id lusantie Heeiions hare been | independence was at its lowest level mage upon the unthinking, the un-|y..,,ce our nation is infested with willing W Wiluk, ibe (gnoran:, am a horde of foreign-born and nat-|
those with neither backbone nor moral fiber to control themselves, uUral-borm Americans whose hearts] and minds are poisoned, corrupted
in a barter for these votes. Now, that the chickens have come home and filled with hatred, contempt, and treasonable intuitions against
“STOKES PRATES ABOUT COMMUNISTIC THEORY” Schneider, 804 West Drive,
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to roost, Mr. Truman has the temerity to try to saddle the burden upon Mr. Taft. However, the economic concepts and pringiples of | vast majority of people who are life, and in whom has been sown endowed with common horse sense the devil's seed of revolutionary are able to see through this for- | 484 fanatical hatred of God and spiracy which has built Mr. Taft| country. up in greater stature. “Can these things be?” They However, it is disappointing to certainly can! Now that we have read on the same page the drivel of [an attorney general who publicly fellow-traveller Stokes, who dares has stated that. “We know that to ask the question “who owns the |there is a national and internation. United States,” while he advocates al conspiracy to divide our people, the Communist theory that every- |to discredit our institutions, and to thing belongs to .everyone. The | bring disrespect for our governones who own the United States ment. . . ‘We cannot help but are the ones who wrested their realize that here is a deep-seated share from the entire, without aid and vicious plot to destroy our of any bureaucracy, subsidy, WPA, | unity—the unity within the Unijted 'OPA, or any other communistic States.” program in disguise. And every in-| Yes, Mr. Clark, Mr. Hoover, Max
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dividual who so wrested his portion Bastman, Westbrook Pegler, Henry Taylor, Upton Close, The Times . editor, and many other Americans albraith are so terribly right, when they swing the warning lantern of truth
before our people as Pall Revere did in another hour of erisis and shout, “the Reds are sabotaging our nation, Wake up America for" God and country.” ‘Let us Americans make it a unanimous decision here and now that this nation by God's grace shall not perish from the earth and be drenched in blood and tears and ground down into the dust of Communist degradation, ot bow the knee to any alienism, Let us take our stand for the Americanism of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln and completely repudiate = the poisonous treason, sedition, and oorruption which alien-minded peddlers have stealthily planted in the hearts and minds of millions of our citizens. Examine yourselves whether you love God and coutitty enough to stand up and be counted as a true American, Follow the advice of George Washington, from today “put nothing but Americans on guard” in public office in our national and state, county and township government.
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[SAGA OF INDIANA ©. By Willan A. Maslow | Tobacco Habit Is a Link With Past
THE MODERN HOOSIER smokes his town with dirty soot. The pioneer Hoosier smoked his meat with hickory wood. The first Hoosiers helped to smoke the ‘world ‘with holy smoke. ’ i At the dawn of civilization, a flash of lightning gave man the idea of fire. As soon as he learned to bulld his own fire, and it smoked, he conceived the idea of worshiping the sun with holy fire and holy smoke. That was the plan. Priests implemented it. They built the holy fire. In blowing the fire, they inhaled the smoke, To escape the {irritation of the smoke, they switched to herbs and fragrant gums, and incense was born.
A Trail to Indiana WHEN THEY OPENED the tomb of Tutankhamen, Pharaoh of Egypt, on Nov. 4, 1923, 3273 years after he died, they found the little incense pellets that had sent up the perfumed smoke in his honor, The vogue for this kind of smoking by mankind goes back to the dawn of civilization some 5000 years before Christ was born. It began a fadeout less than 100 years before Christ was born, A new kind of smoke and smoking was edging Into the world. This epic shift in the smoking world was made by the Mayan Indians of the western hemisphere in southern Mexico and Central Ameries. Lhe incense Which the priests in this region blew fr pipe toward t sun and the four points of the compass In solemn religious ceremony was tobacco smoke. This is the first known instance of this in the entire world. In the western hemisphere, the homeland of the Mayas, in southern Mexico and Central America, ana the offshore Antilles were the best places to grow this tobacco to scent the world, : ; About the priests: ‘They ‘liked tobacco smoke, Smoking in’ worship readily eased into smoking for pleasure. Any man who ever drew tobacco. smoke
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WASHINGTON, July 10.—There has been some" resentment in congress lately over criticism of that body. Criticism of congress is not exactly new, It comes and goes periodically. It is likely to become louder and more insistent in times of stress and strain, such as during depressions, or after a war when personal lives and the general economy are disturbed by read-
justments. That is because government, in such times, affects the lives of people more closely, and public attention is focused on the processes of government. So congress naturally would come in for criticism now
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THE USUAL FRU TIONS of such a time, however, are intensified by the frustrations of the average citizen when he tries, as we say, to “dope out” congress, to find out just who is responsible for what. ; The involved processes of congress make this difficult, and they are much more involved now than need be because of ancient customs and procedures that may be hallowed by tradition, but certainly ate not blessed by .it. Congress needs an overhauling, not only so that it can cope more efficiently with the complicated problems of today, but so that it can be a more responsible body and more responsive to the public. . The public is entitled to know why things happen in congress without the befuddlement of the man who is trying to find out which shell the pea is under. Congress, itself, has recognized the need of an overhauling., The senate already has done something about it, under the able leadership of Senator LaFollette( Prog, Wis.) by passing the LaFollette-Mon-roney bill to reorganize congressional procedures. The legislation was drafted after a long investigation by a joint committee, headed by Senator LaFollette, as chairman, and Rep. Monroney (D. Okla.) as vice
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FRANKFORT, July 10.—Allied occupation of Germany is in danger of failing because the Potsdam agreement is not being carried out, Joint control of Germany is only a shadowy subterfuge. Actually there are four separate, almost airtight countries called zones, with unco-ordinated and often conflicting policies and methods. ‘The result is increasing economic chaos and a receding political solution.
Central Control Still ‘Balked THE SITUATION IS SO SERIOUS the United States soon may be forced to centralize its own zone and join, economically and politically, with the British and perhaps the French in an over-all western zone, opposite the Russian eastern zone, This is highly undesirable ahd represents a defeat of American policy as incorporated in the Potsdam agreement for handling Germany as an economic and political univ through central agencies under joint four-power e¢ontrol. Nevertheless, impossibility of administering the American zone in its preSent unbalanced state makes some degree of centralization and co-ordination essential. And it should be on an all-American, or bettef, all-western level, if an allGermany level is impossible. Virtually every occupation problem requires a common, centralized treatment. This is true of demilitarization, de-nazification, food, housing, industry and trade. It is also true of handling displaced persons and German evacuatees from liberated countries, as well as the setting of civil liberty standards and thé Democratic, peaceful education of Germans. Economic revival is lagging and that is multiplying hunger and housing chaos because the American zone normally is dependent on food imports, farm machinery and fertilizer imports, Light industries of
MADRID, July 10.—Main responsibility for the greatly increased popularity of thé Franco regime among all classes in Spain must be divided between the French, Polish and Russian governments,
But the United States is also far from- blameless in this Spanish affair, The éncouragenient which the state department has given to Jose Giral's socalled government of exiles has not passed unnoticed in Spain. -
Interference Is Bad Policy LEFT-WING PROPAGANDISTS in London, New York and Paris represent Oiral as an impeccable republican with liberal and moderate opinions. In Spain, he 1s remembered as the minister of marine undér whose authority orders were issued to Spanish naval ratings to murder their officers. It's quite certain that Giral and his exile government cannot be imposed on the Spanish people without a oivil war, Tens of thousands of Spaniards who dislike the present Spanish regime would rally behind Franco if there were any real possibility of Giral returning to Madrid. Apart from the general lack of wisdom of Interfering in Spain's internal affairs, the actual technique employed by Franco's enemies has been extraordinarily clumsy. Suggestions that Franco is making an atom bomb merely make the Spanish people laugh. They know he couldn't make a motorbike. And ns that he is a menace to world peace are unlikely to deceive people who know the ridiculous state of equipment. of the Spanish army air forces. Today Spain does not possess a single military aircraft which could be classified as “operation-. al.” There are a few which can just’ get off the ground,-but none of them are battle-worthy.-
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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny Potsdam Policies Are Facing Defeat
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TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill U.S. Not Well-Informed About Spain
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through a pipestem, a cigar, or a cigaret will readil understand that. About the folk: They trailed the priests. d Mayan Indians looked at their priests with hopes for a whiff of their smoke. The priests In fatherly fashion. The Mayas smoked. The J tice spread first to the Mayan world, From there it probably moved first to the nearby offshore An : Eventually it covered most of the western hemi-| sphere. At this point destiny edged in, when Christophe Columbus landed at San Salvador of the Baham Islands, on Oct. 12, 1402, and moved on to Cuba and
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pressed by the tobacco samples he saw in the West Indies, by a strange touch of fate was at the
of the tobacco culture of the western hemisphere anc . Recent f of the world, as of his day, But when he and his sailors returned to Spain, they unwittingly unioose C A trickle of news about tobacco and tobacco smoking By the middle of the 16th century this hae abou 8 to flood the world with news of tobacco anc on its smoke. : ? iv is 3 . . Clark told Chi Link With Past today that he ‘THE TOUCH OF ALL THIS comes to Indiana Presi through its early Hoosiers. They raised tobacco, They We aiam it. They liked it. The bones of their dead y with their pipes and & pinch of tobacco, often lie Jil] United States buried together in Indiana soil. For good or ill, ancl assets in Aust for all time, they link Indiana to the men who taught} Clark in a le
mankind how to smoke. Thus the tobacco road of the world stemmed from an altar and a prayer. Could destiny have decreed hat up} José slow insolvable way this road shall blend’ ack through mankind into a more sacr a more devout prayer? °° 4 Alar apt
can governmer any transfer o tria under the unless the trar United Nations uary, 1943, on
> Who knows?- 3 > The annou ! letter followed the national as said ‘Austria d tion of the rec take over all f erty. | Communist | chairman. All shades of political opinion were rep Jilltold the sessic resented on the committee and its work has been ment “has don praised highly on all sides. § with its polic Congress can do much to restore public confidence Potsdam decla and respect by doing this overhauling job on itself. government “o
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A the number of committees to avoid du licati Wants wasted time and effort and additional a Bacialisi Dep ance for committees and individual members. Thi that if all Gern will give members more time for major national prob- Jl from Austria * lems and more information for important decisions to restore Jev Long overdue, too, are the increase in salary and ” retirement pension system to provide greater person: ria. security in public service, - : He said Aus Equally important among other provisions, too, JERCC Many inclu is the plan to get more party responsibility in con- BS In money ; gress by creation of policy committees in both parties JRI185 in propert in each branch. The public thus would know each “We don't. party's proposed program of legislation, and could fix our rights,” Sp responsibility for deviations or omissions, both by the JEJOUT OWn ore an party and by the individual member. Figl sald th Some of the eonfusions in the present congress [ljO08 to Austria might Have been avoided had such a system been in J 2\lied nations operation—likewise crossing of wires between White Jill restored at on House and congress and some conflicts within the Re- The assembl publican party. Certainly it would have been easier ion Supporting for the voter in making his selections. marks with fo Should State Policies Clearly Die F avian THERE 18 ANOTHER important reason now. too have halted for more party responsibility. If the Republicans their deportati should capture the house in November they would be- the Soviet occ come the responsible party in the house. This would ern Austria. require wise and skillful handling sinee there would A ministry o be divided control, with a Democrat in the White said that on ti House and Republican management of one branch reports there of congress. The public certainly would be entitled rail movement » a declaration of Republican policy in that eventu- “Let ality. 3 Figl told the
It would help to have congress formalise such declaratiorr of intentions. every governm torious or de! is a limit whic He said Gen which persons ality purchase Austrians befor Hitler's ‘black gality in this The chancel commission “is tentiary institi to the governn “We have ulfill the Ru d “We wil stabilize peace we are given and plows.
the zone are dependent on outside coal and steel. Normally, extra food for the zone came from what is now the Rulsian zone or tertitory given to Poland Coal and steel came chiefly from the Ruhr now in the British zone. Moreover, the entire économy fis dependent on free trade instead of the present frontier barriers between zones. Though this recently was mitigated a little by bilateral American trade agreements with the British for coal and with the Russians, each month the effects of zonal barriers becomé more serious. Blame for blocking the Potsdam central-contro!
program may be put on the French and the Russians Wako Ms France refuses to play ball until the Ruhr and Rhine. aE land questions are settled and the western frontier o Germany is fixed, Russia originally said she wa: OFFICIA willing to carry out unification but the iron-curtair U. 8. W policy, dictatorship methods and one-party system All Data in C in her zone would make effective joint control through Tn =
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Four-Way Split Won't Work BESIDES THE EVIL EOONOMIC and social effects, the present dismemberment of Germany i having bad effects on the people. It destroys theh incentive to work, to develop democracy and .earr re-entry into the family of nations as planned by the Potsdam agreement. At the same time it encourage: Germans to revert to the old strategy of playing the allies against each other, and so turning defeat intc an actual comeback. Probably only a successful peace conference and a new four-power agréement stricter and better than Potsdam’s can prevent division of GCermany into two parts, eastern and western. Anyway, the fourzone division will not work,
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affairs is that half the people who write violent d nunciations of Franco know nothing of Spanish hisd tory or Spanish psychology. Many of them have never been in Spain. Yet they feel entitled to ufge the Spanish people to have a gigantic and bloody civil war, Such irresponsible advice naturally pth: duces nothing but scorn from any patriotic Spaniatd, whatever may be his political convictions. a If the American state department is ill-informed on current Spanish events, it has ohly itself to blams Having recalled their ambassador, Norman Armo a year ago, they sent their embassy edounselot, Wil liam W. Butterworth Jr. to Chungking last March. For the last three months, the United States bas been represented in Madrid by Press Attache Philip Bonsal. He is by all accounts an able, agreeable person, but he lacks both the prestige and knowledge essential for any American representing his couns try abroad.
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No doubt the state. department thinks this an 4 effective way of showing its dislike of the Franco exper regime, But it's singularly ineffective. All that hap+ : pens is that the state deparfment is less well in< andi re
formed than if should be and the Spaniards, wha are a proud rage, merely think the state depart]
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Britons Mave Better Source THE BRITISH EMBASSY, on the other handj is particularly well-staffed. Ambassador Sir Victor Mallet is one of the ablest and most experienced professional diplomats in the service, and he i assisted by an exceptionally gifted staff, The re sult is that British influence is far greater in Madrid than that of the United States. 1d 1t Secretary of State Byrnes is wise, he will re consider his Spanish policy and send to Madrid a outstanding. ambassador who can speak plainly and boldly to the Spanish government. J {
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