Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1946 — Page 12

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WHY NOT BALANCE NOW? RESIDENT TRUMAN'S revised budget estimate for the current fiscal year—the 12 months ending next June 80—presents a comparatively encouraging picture. "That is, it forecasts that the government will come quite a bit nearer to living within its income than Mr. Truman expected last January. He now believes that the deficit will be less than $2 billion instead of $414 billion. And he hopes, though with no great show of confidence, for an actual budget balance. i The improved outlook is due largely to the fact that business activity and employment are much higher than the President anticipated last winter and are bringing a great deal more revenue into the federal treasury. Estimated receipts have been revised upward by more than $8 billion—from $314 billion to over $3914 billion. Mr. Truman now counts on individual income taxes alone to bring in more than $18 billion, a figure surprisingly and we trust not too optimistically near the amount produced by higher rates in the peak wartime year. Last January he looked for less than $13 billion from that source. But he has found it necessary also to boost his spending estimates to $4114 billion, an increase of $514 billion since January. This is largely because congress appropriated for veterans’ benefits, for pay raises to government employees and for other purposes many billions not provided _ for in last winter's estimate.

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OWEVER, it certainly is not necessary foi the government to spend all the money congress voted. And Mr. Truman deserves praise for the vigor with which he has urged members of his cabinet and the heads of various federal agencies to trim their spending plans, to postpone public works and other projects and to take full-advantage of every opportunity for even the smallest savings. One year after the war's end the government still has \ nearly three times as many civilian employees as it had in "1939. Which indicates that there is a wide field for retrenchment. We think an economy vigorous enough to provide the government with nearly $40 billion of revenue is sound énough to support a balanced budget right now. We welcome the President's emphasis on the truth that deficit spending feeds inflation and increases the danger of boom and bust. We agree with him that the time has not come to cut federal tax rates again. But we maintain that justice to the taxpayers. calls for even greater economies than he has asked. ; The La Feollette-Monroney plan for congressional reorganization, which Mr. Truman signed into law, offers genuine hope of sounder government fiscal management in the future. It calls for a legislative budget, to be drawn up at. the beginning of each year by the money-raising and money-spending committees of congress, and for a responsible effort to keep total appropriations within probable income. That should make for better teamwork between congress and the President than there has been in this or any other year.

A UNITED CHRISTENDOM

OINT action by Protestants and Roman Catholics to put ‘a united Christian viewpoint on peace problems before he statesmen of the world has been proposed by Protestant uders of eight nations in London, . Such a meeting of minds would be sought at the highlevels, presumably between the World Council of urches and the Vatican. To the layman it would seem that the advantages which would accrue from a united, aggressive Christendom overshadow the relatively unimportant obstacles to such a united front. Challenged everywhere by an atheistic totalitarianism, a divided Christianity is fighting a rear-guard action in many parts of the world. Union would bring strength to meet this threat by a full-scale offensive to restore justice, tolerance and human dignity to their rightful positions. Christianity, once beset by fratricidal conflict, long since has found common ground upon which its several denominational groups could live together in peace and harmony. Having achieved that understanding, which has stood the test of time, perhaps Christendom today can find a formula under which conflicting ideologies can learn to live and work together in the spirit of the Master. Development of the project initiated in London will be watched with broadening interest by a world in desperate need of leadership and vision.

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ican farmers need at least 240,000 tractors. Besides diverting needed equipment from ‘domestic

Africa, Australia and New Zealand. i "This cy just doesn’t make sense.

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"Defects In Our Civilization Cause of Mental Ills"

: By Del Munde The Times has revealed a most disgraceful situation existing in the mental haspitals of Indiana. The immediate need for the alleviation of present conditions is 80 obvious that I will not wdste space to discuss it. There is no such thing as mental insanity among the beasts of the jungles. The nearest thing to mental insanity among the animals is hydrophobia and this comes from becoming infected with a living germ, the germ of rabies. Of all the creatures of the earth man alone suffers

. Yugoslavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia and~Romania—at a time when the department of agriculture estimates Amer-

channels, the CPA-UNRRA- order radically would reduce the number of tractors allocated to France amd other western European countries, as well as to Mexico, South

y are satisfied, first priority should be given

not be neglected or destroyed while some one in| | mmed glasses tries to persuade an: Albanian to

with mental insanity. There is but one conclusion to this and that conclusion is that there are defects in our civilization that produce mental insanity. Space being limited I will mention only two causes.

(1) Economic fear. Fear of inflation and loss of purchasing power of savings, fear of deflation and loss of equities in homes and farms, fear of poverty in the land of plenty, fear of loss of employment, fear of poverty in old age. All of these fears, and more, come from an unlimited application of Machiavellian capitalism. A properly modified capitalism would make it convenient to maintain both democracy and a free enterprise system of economics. This would abolish economic fear and thereby nullify one of the main causes of mental insanity.

(2) Our custom of teaching and treating folklore as fact is another cause of insanity. Folklore has its proper place in the culture of any people, but it should be treated and taught as folklore and not as fact. So long as people continue to teach tales of folklore to their children as facts an unscientific culture will continue to contribute toward insanity, When tales of folklore are once planted in the subconscious mind of a child as facts he finds that when he is grown that his mentality is out of synchronism with the facts of life, but he is not able, except in a few cases, to overcome this subconscious mental state. This produces a mental condition wherein the facts of life as encountered by the conscious mind are disputed by the folklore tales planted in the subconscious mind as facts. This continual combat between the conscious and the subconscious produces an unbalanced mental state

“HERE'S THE FOOD NEWS FROM LONDON" By Clviticus, Anderson Speaking of food, here is the Britisher’s food news for the week of June 30, as published in the “Sunday Express” of that date. “Many London butchers’ shops yesterday displayed the ministry of food's official guide showing exactly how much ‘unrationed’ sausage and offal should be sold per customer. “The allowance is based on a %d (lc) worth of offal per head per week and 2 ozs. of sausage meat. “Under this scheme a consumer should get 3d (5c) wofth of offal once every six weeks (one kidney or less than a quarter of a pound of liver) and three-quarters of a pound of sausages. “Offal is usually distributed to retail shops once in six weeks, “There will be some unrationed rabbits for sale in London this week. Meat will be mostly imported lamb and mutton and smaller quantities of pork. “Cherries will be fairly plentiful, mainly the early cooking variety, at the controlled price of 1s.3d (24¢) a pound. “All green vegetables are in good supply. Early peas are improving, and, should be available at prices varying from 9d (15) to 1s 20c) a pound. “Peaches and apricots are still being flown over from France and selling at an average price of 1s (20c) each, “Over the week end 411 tons of fish came into Billingsgate Market.” When I read things like that I wonder if Britain would not be far better off all around if they would just evacuate Palestine and leave the matter of a Jewish homeland there for settlement between the Jews and the Arabs. Making it

which will, if not corrected, result in mental insanity.

our business will not simplify a settlement.

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“IN NEGOTIATING PEACE, REMEMBER REDS ARE HUMAN” By Internationalist, Olty Missouri mules were never

[stubborn as the Russians, they're human. Our esteemed secretary of state, James PF. Byrnes, has gone abroad again—this time to make peace with the world. But he hasn't a ghost of a chance. The Russians will sit in the luxury of Luxembourg palace and hurl stones at every feasible proposal of the other major powers at the conference. . Treaties to be acted on at this bigwig session are only those of the puny powers who took a blast at

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None of the important questions are to be considered, why? I don't presume to be so brilliant as to answer that one but I can offer a few humble suggestions. Take time out from those highball parties, shows and snoozing hours following the day's labors for just one day. Sit back in your chair and try to recall"the months of dickering and fooling around that have been spent trying to reach a lasting peace. Then, when you are suddenly struck with the realization that hardly anything has been done to rid the world of its consumating hatred, pick up a pencil or pen and scribble down a few of your ideas and send them to your congressman. If he possibly can, and he can, he will see that your ideas get into the proper hands, such as: Mr. Byrnes and others who are out to make the peace. Something had better be’ done soon though because the only nation in the world that can bring about ahother war seems to be girding for it. We can't be hard nosed and get anywhere and we can't be spineless. Just how would you get along with your neighbor. I've been getting along with mine for a good many years now. And I haven't had to act like a sugar-coated bonbon to do it. Granted you can't assert yourself just because you want something done this way or that. You can't simply screw a hook into Mr. Jones’ house and stretch your clothesline from his house to yours. But you can reason with your neighbor—even the most unreasonable ones. He has to be human somehow just as the Russians-are human. . s » ” “HAS GOVERNOR DRIVEN A LOADED TRUCK?”

By a Truck Driver's Wife, I just read an article about Governor Gates rolling along the clean Indiana highways (pre-dawn) and he likes to see food, plenty of it, on |the state maintained picnic tables, not unshaven truck drivers.

Don't the tryck drivers pay taxes |

the same as anyone else? Has the governor driven a loaded truck at night facing the bright lights of pre-dawn strollers or speeders on the highways? Has he noticed how many places there are along the | highways where a. tired driver | might pull off the pavement for a few minutes’ rest. (He doesn’t have | time to shave and have a picnic | lunch.) | But maybe when he {§ tired it would be better and safer to keep {on driving and run over some of | these politicians with nothing to do {before dawn, and p the few picnic stops clean instead of cluttering them up taking a nap.

DAILY THOUGHT

And He sald, Thou canst not ‘see My face; for there shall no man see Me, and live —Exodus

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can sound The God I sought for was not be found. # . «Thomas ‘Heywood.

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‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker LaMoore Our Chinese Policy Nears Showdown

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CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED with a sorry record Indeed when it comes to legislation concerning national defense. ! Its members certainly can’t point with pride to many attempts to enable the country to back up its international commitments . . . our army, navy and air force are weak. Weakness in that'field reduces our effectiveness at the peace conference and everywhere else in the world. ! Reason for the spineless position taken by the majority of congressmen stems from the.fact that they look on legislation through the eyes of politicians rather than the eyes of statesmen , .. they are concerned over the popular reaction to legislation, not its long-range importance to their country,

Defense Accomplishments Negative WHEN ONE ANALYZES the record of this congress from the standpoint of national defense, four facts stand out. They are: ONE--The degrading spectacle of the conduct of Rep. Andrew W. May, chairman of the house military affairs committee, who still hasn't answered the charges against him in the munitions contracts scandals. : TWO-—The thwarted attempt to place control of atomic energy under military jurisdiction instead of the civilian control requested by President Truman. THREE—Enactment of a wishy-washy draft extension measure. FOUR~—Success of the navy lobby in opposing the President's desires . . . and those of the country . .. for unification of the arnfed forces. The house also scuttled another measure designed to aid national defense after the senate had passed it . « » and Senator Kilgore, its sponsor, said the action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—The question of whether Republicans or Democrats will take the rap politically for rising living costs was the big issue bothering congressmen as they left for church-picnic and countyfair campaigning. The United Nations, the atomic bomb and congressional reorganization are issues that make fine fodder for speeches, but Capitol Hill- politicians know huge numbers of votes are cast on the basis of what is happening to the individual's pocketbook on election day. Most congressmen agree that OPA has been badly botched and that the price control bill President Truman finally signed probably was no better than the one he vetoed earlier. Administration Democrats claim the ‘Republicans cut OPA to ribbons. G. O. P. members argue Mr. Truman himself let OPA die for several weeks to throw the whole price control system into new confusion.

Recall Truman's Veto Tactics

ALTHOUGH blaming Republicans, some observant Democrats fear that if the country is plagued by rising costs voters may reason that a Democraitc administration is in charge of the government and fasten the blame accordingly. These Democrats believe the task of their party is to try to “get out from under” the onus of the weakening of price control. President Truman could do it, they say, by going on the radio to read the record on how the Republicans voted on OPA, roll call by roll call. It would be much the same tack he took in the OPA veto message in which he sought to pin

THE FIRST WHITE MAN in Indiana was a Frenchman. He emerges standing at the falls of the Ohio river where it passes modern Louisville. This was probably in the waning days of winter or in the early spring of 1670. His name was Robert Cavelier, titled LeSeur de La Salle. About 62 years before, in 1608, another Frenchman, Samuel de Champlain, had founded Quebec on the lower St. Lawrence river in Canada. A year before, in 1607, Englishmen had settled at Jamestown, Virginia, and 43 years before, in 1565, Spaniards had founded a colony at St. Augustine, Florida. These three colonies and their successors in North America have affected, directly or. indirectly, every man, white, red, or black, who ever lived in Indiana.

Priests and Trappers

IN THE 150 YEARS that followed the founding of Quebec, Frenchmen established in North America one of the greatest continental trade routes ever established in the world. The traveled portion of this route in Indiana ran over the Wabash river from its portage at Ft. Wayne to its mouth at the Ohio river. This complete route blanketed the St. Lawrence river valley from the sea and the Great Lakes to the headwaters of the Mississippi river. Here it swung south down the broad Mississippi valley to the river's mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. In passing, the wide sweep of this trade route through the heart of North America covered nearly 2,000,000 square miles, about one-fifth of the entire continent. Its population in 1940 was more than 72,000,000, nearly 55 per cent of the population of the United States. The 1940 population of its 15 large cities was 11,000,000, about equal to the entire population of Canada. The Frenchmen of the 16th century, who sketchily mapped this route were widevisioned men. Credit them for wisely including Indiana in their plans.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Our policy of drift in | China, into which we have lapsed again, is moving | toward a showdown, whether we want it or not. ir The United States is being crowded into an uncomfortable corner because of official reluctance to

The Communist attack upon a U. 8. marine-escort-ed food convoy was botH unprovoked and premeditated. It was a logical follow-up of demands by Mme. Sun Yet-sen and the Moscow radio tHat our troops be pulled out of the country, :

We're Taking It On the Chin

WE ARE represented there by a token force, bus its presence probably is the only thing that is keeping Russia from moving in and taking over. So Moscow wants us out. More attacks upon our troops are to be expected, since the idea seems to be that American public opinion can be stampeded into forcing our withdrawal. Meanwhile, the United States is taking it on the chin in the all-out propaganda war Moscow is waging against us, because we aren't putting up any defense. v ; , , . When anyone in the state department has anything. to ‘say about Chinese policy, it usually is to reiterate that we are not taking sides in the civil war. That «is said, too, in stich a way as to leave the implication that we are on the feyce between the recognized governfent of China and the forces in

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow French Lead in State's Pioneering

spell out our exact position in the Chinese situation..

Congress Dodges Defense Measures

lobby, The measure in question put the government squarely behind an expanded of scientific research which would have made up for war-time

Josses in this field . . . when so many potential young “scientists were in uniform.

It doesn’t add up to a very pretty picture . . . de= . flance of the President and his earnest recommendations as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, lack of courage to act on controversial issues which might affect votes, and a stop-gap measure to provide manpower. It must be discouraging to those professionals charged with protecting our country and with carrying out abroad the programs to which we have been committed. It is a picture of world questions decided on the basis of congressional district judgment. :

Home to Garner Votes

GREATEST FAILURES to face facts squarely were in the issues of unification of the armed forces, urged by the major leaders who won the recent war and by the President and of universal military training. Legislation which was successful, in this field, gave the services more personnel for their regular establish ments . . . much of the army, navy and air corps still 1s on a temporary basis . . . and approved compensation to enlisted personnel for furloughs not taken but accumulated. The latter, obviously, will' have strong political appeal. Now the congressmen can devote their time to gathering votes for the fall election , . . without being side-tracked by world issues. When they point with pride to their records, the voting record should be the first to be scrutinized, not the speeches. And it should be remembered the peace still is to be won.

POLITICAL REPORT . .. By Charles T. Lucey Who's to Blame for Rising Costs?

blame on Senator Taft (R. O.). The Democrats long have been counting on perous conditions and fat pay envelopes to pull through in November election. But if the fat pay envelope is deflated by prices, the full dinner pail claims of the lose much of their validity. They know this, and going on the offensive to try to place the blame the Republicans. National Democratic headquarters officials already have gone into a number of states to spell out th urge

ou OPA story with their candidates and to them to make this an active issue.

G. O. P. Points to 'Basic' Idea

present session also fought against OPA. Republicans say that while Mr. Truman tried to pin blame for price control breakdown on Senator Taft and other G. O. P. members, he placed no such emphasis on action of Democrats whose amendments helped carve up the OPA legislation. Democratic leaders acknowledge that much of the fire against price control came from their own side. But, speaking politically, they point out this opposition came chiefly from the South, where nomination is tantamount to election. Republicans contend that not only did Democrats themselves do much to scuttle OPA, but the administration’s basic idea, after V-J-Day, that wage ceilings ‘could be lifted without a bulge in prices, was nonsense. They charge that started most of the trouble. aul

Down the wide sweep of this route came the first white men to Indiana and they envisioned the French concept of white civilization in North America. At its base was a Christianized Indian population geared to the church spiritually through its priests and tied to the fur traders through pelts and fur profit. : Of the priests: they were Jesuits, zealous, active, and hovering over the vital spots of their slice of North America with burning zeal and inspiring enthusiasm. At one time, for example, 3000 Christianized and civilized Huron Indians were under their care. Indiana's Indian population drew their special attention. ™ As to the traders: there were two ¢lasses—the bosses, who were the leaders in the fur business in their section of the continent, with headquarters in Montreal and Quebec; and their laborers, who roughed the fur business“out in the woods. They were the coureurs de bois. They were the roistering cowboys of a later America. They married Indian women and mingled Indian fashion with the Indians. They feasted on venison and .turkey now and then and lived on parched corn and bear grease most of the time. Their favored relaxation was a drunken spree at a fur trading post. Vincennes and Quitanon were two of their favored spots in Indiana.

Forgot Middle Class

THESE EARLY FRENCH comers were the nest egg of white men in Indiana. For nearly 100 years they ruled and bred in the state. Their priests set the ideals and goals of their civilization. Their fur traders filled its workaday world. The fateful touch these first white men in Indiana gave the state was this: they forgot that layer of middle class folk that is the backbone of every

great civilization. For them, this was the kiss of death.

armed insurrection against it, although the two things are not one and the same. Our weaseling attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek, a loyal ally, is weakening him, and our position, too. Moscow and its American fifth column are going all out for their side, taking the game by default, Gen. George C. Marshall, the President’s special envoy, carrying out orders like the good soldier he is, has done his best to end the civil war by bringing the two factions together under a coalition govern~ ment.

Russ May Take Same Role as Japs

BUT THAT project has been outmoded by Rus sia’s attitude and we seem to have forgotten that we have any interest in China other than to secure Communist representation In a government now free of such influences. Ex-Ambassador Pat Hurley tried to unite the Chinese factions as a war measure, but failed largely ' because of lack of support from the state department, Now. if the Marshall mission fails because the proj ect has lost its original meaning, our evasive attitude toward the real merits in the Chinese controversy

has left us with nothing to peg a new policy on.

We entered into our war-time alliance with China on the same basis that we joined our efforts’ with Great Britain and Russia, but by consistently pure “suing an apologetic atlitude toward Chiang we have all but opened the door for Russia to take over the position in China the Japs held prior to V-J day.

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