Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1947 — Page 10

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» Indianapolis Times PAGE 10 Saturday, July 19, 1947 ROY W HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President Editor

HENRY W. MANZ

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: Give AGM and the People Will Fuse Thew Uiwn Woy E VETO AND A FARMER CONGRESS! tried hard, but the senate Republicans couldn't muster enough votes to override, and President

tax-cut bill. ; That, we think, is unfortunate. Now many months— perhaps most of a year-—muyst pass before the American people can know how much, or whether, the federal tax rates on their 1948 incomes will be reduced. Mr. Truman's arguments were much the same as those in his first veto. This, he said, was still the wrong kind of tax cut and the wrong time to provide for any tax cut. The bill would give “disproportionate” relief to high-income groups, as compared to low. It would prevent adequate payments on the public debt, and might impair the government’s ability to meet its expenses and its obligations growing out of the war. It would increase inflationary pressures. And there could be no justification for it so long as “business, employment and national income continue at peak levels.” This week, in Kansas, Scripps-Howard Reporter Earl Richert talked with a farmer who has just grown a $42,000 wheat crop, putting himself into a fairly high income group. Yet this farmer said he was going to quit after this year. “What's the use of fighting the elements and working hard when I have to give the government 60 cents out of every dollar I make” he asked.

WHETHER business, employment and national income are to continue at peak levels—and they must, if the

adequate debt payments, see inflationary pressures fall— depends on sustained high-volume production. - _ That, in turn, depends on decisions by farmers, manufacturers, businessmen, investors in the high-income groups. Shall they fight the elements and work hard? Shall they expand factories, take on new lines, start new enterprises, put capital into more efficient tools of production, in each case assuming risk of serious loss? Decisions to risk are discouraged when the government stands ready to take 60 cents out of every dollar that might be gained—and in the highest income groups the governments take js a lot more than that. Such decisions are discouraged when the government refuses to say, in advance, what next year's tax rates will be. If such decisions were encouraged, by certainty of lower taxes, the government might gain revenue instead of losing. We believe it would, We wish Mr. Truman, before he wrote his veto mes‘sage, could have had a little talk with that Kansas farmer.

LEON 30 THE RESCUE LEON ENDERSON, the wartime OPA boss, got back into the news this week by offering the congreéssionsl’ economic committee a plan. He said this plan must be adopted to prevent another a depression. It calls for industry to raise wages and lower prices, for government to guarantee continued support of farm prices, for other steps to create more consumer buying power. ‘ Mr. Henderson isn't bashful about tackling big problems. Take the way he helped China to fight inflation. That was ) in March, 1945, when it took 700 Chinese =. Rents dollars, at black-market rates, to equal one : American dollar. The price of an egg was about $24 Chinese. ~ % Mr. Henderson flew to Chungking, at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's invitation, as a special adviser to the Chinese government. He didn't need much time: to size things up. Three weeks later, he and Foreign Minister T. 'V. Soong were back in Washington with a plan to stabilize the Chinese currency. Among other things, it called for the United States government to advance $200 million in gold, which went to China and has not returned. We were reminded of Mr. Henderson's labors to increase Chinese consumer buying power by a small item in the Wall Street Journal this week. It told how some five and a half tons of crisp new Chinese $500 bills, printed by a New York firm, are now being shipped weekly by air to the Orient “in a frantic race to keep pace with the Chinese inflation,” Two years and a few months have passed since Mr. Henderson gavé China his'special advice. At the “official” rate, it now takes 12,000 Chinese dollars to equal one Amer“1can dollar. But practically all business is done at the black market rate, now about 41,000 to 1. So the price of an egg is around $1400 Chinese. P. 8.—The congressional economic committee has taken under advisement Mr. Hendersom’s latest plan for saving | the United States.

SECRETARY PATTERSON OBERT P. PATTERSON, who has resigned as secre- | tary of war, presents the unique case of a public official | who has worked to legislate himself out of a job, He was one of the most tireless proponents of legislation to unify the army and navy, under which his position would lose its cabinet rank and be subordinated to a new office of secretary of national security. And he was not a candidate for the bigger job in prospect: “Bob” Patterson will be remembered most, however, for his wartime work as undersecretary of war in charge | of procurement, a field in which American accomplishment ' was unrivaled. A Republican, he resigned as a judge of | the federal circuit court of appeals in New York seven sistant to former Secretary Henry L. Stimson. He succeeded Mr. Stimson as head of the department in September, 1945. - i ‘Secretary Patterson had an enviable combat record world war IL. He was awarded the Purpte Heart, the Star for gallantry and the DSC for extraordinary

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"Cut Frills Out of City Budget,

But Don't Harm Vital Services"

By R. J. H.,, E. Michigan st. a 1 see that the city budget for next year is to be considered “soon. This is a good chance for the outgoing administration to contribute something to the community and to get the hext mayor off to a good start financially. The services provided by the city ought to be looked over very carefully, inefficient employees weeded out right now even though this is the end of an administration, and frills ought to be cut out. 1 don't favor hurting the vital PAVERN od PACE servioss, in fact. 1 would spend, cp ouyLpREN" more money on such things 88 p, parent Disgusted with “Disgusted collecting garbage and providing

Parent’ God pity you disgusted parent and more policemen. ' ; © 1 believe our government has

all of the parents like you, if there be any. You say there would be been allowed to grow like ‘Topsy In | 1.0 1 venile delin if parents all of its branches. Let this city a REY council authorize a sound budget

could take their children to taverns ! with them. Experts tell us that the that attempts to scale down unimportant items and increases the

environment we create for our children s an important t in necessary ones and it will go out of play pas office with applause of the tax-

crime prevention. What kind of environment are you going to create payers. - » #" . “PSC FP ENTATION OF

tor your children if you take them to a tavern and guzzle beer in their STREETCAR CASE UNGOOD* |Presence while they sit with wide By Jud Maggerty, R. B. 6 Indianapetis | VES and open ears and hear the The A - well lik as rain| [At can be spoken? { i. php: a8 "a, You say you leave your children on wash days. People in this OWN |p. o pepy sitter while you are are becoming more and more out drinking and then come home aroused at the tactics used by "Tou wre so dispunting that Maybe representatives. .|you are so disgusting that a baby But perhaps we are not ‘look sitter doesn't care to be around.

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“TWO-JOB SOLONS FACE SPECIAL SESSION QUERY” By Del Munde, Indianapolis As it seems to me the action of certain members of the general assembly who are filling two official positions at the same time is so clearly in violation of the constitution of Indiana that no reply. what~ ever should be made to the letter of B. R. V. of July 9. However, as a measure of courtesy I will make a =3 reply. According to my information regarding the matter the gentlemen concerned made no demand whatever for their salaries for the other “offices” during the time that the assembly was in session. This action on their part reveals that, in their own opinions, their “other office®™ were “offices” in the meaning of the constitution. And certainly a seat in the assembly is an office, a lucrative office of trust and honor which should be honored and not bartered. Should a special session of the assembly become necessary it would be their duty to respond and perform their official duties as law makers, This reasoning reveals that they are still holding the honorable offices of members of the legislature, unless they have resigned their positions in the assembly, which, ac-

have not done.

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Any parent who will do the thing at the real evil at all. To not mis- .,, yoemk of is certainly unworthy understand me; 1 am not tryilg ,¢ peing called a parent. to defend the streetcar company In parents who put their children a pisiiin Wash Is, in my opinion, gt can have a wonderful time. | indele h Children enjoy being taken places! However, there is*more than One wih their parents. It a Cor rat in the woodpile. This business emotional security. Of course, you of exploitation could be cut short|,... i, take them to places which by an agency that is supposed 0 5,0 clean and nice and suitable protect the people from just such ¢, cpigren to go. You will have inflationary acts. It is the public ,, onoiitute a soft drink instead service commission, f the beer. Taste a soft drink Apparently, the commission does . ... time You know it will have | not regard its job very seriously. ., grrer effects. Doesn't even af-| When the token charge was before ¢..\ .haracter. { the courts, the commission pre-| v,, might try getting up early sented its case so poorly that any gn. Sunday morning and go with! judge would have agreed in the yo. ¢,' Sunday school. It gives findings. The commission does not the children more emotional securealize, seemingly, the power it has yyy and-treates a better environthan sending them alone be so reluctant to use that power. while the parents crawl back in! On the constructive side, I be- neq to get rid of the Saturday] lieve the situation could be cleared night hangover. The church could up if the drivers of all the busses provide you with information on| and trolleys went out on strike. crime prevention and juvenile de-| People who drive to work would be linquency, and will be willing to| glad to pick up those who ordinarily teach you many things. ride on trolleys. Try giving your children the Maybe, then, when the pennies emotional security they need and stopped rolling in, Harry Reid and make their environment clean and the rest of the Railway company pleasant. If you try this you may wolld realize that people are more find that you can find more hapthan numbers on a statistics table piness with your family than you ~that good public relations are a can by guzzling beer in the pres vital part of sod business. ence of children.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

paid to them even though they should resign from the assembly then there is no reason why all members of the assembly could not resign at the close of the regular session of the assembly and keep their salaries for the entire year. Then, in this case Indiana would have no state legislature, which is, of course, absurd. Then, in this case, the law and the constitution of Indiana would become an- absurdity unto itself. Aside from and beyond all that can be said in the matter with regard to it's relationship to the constitution it seems to me that when the millions of people of Indiana delegate their soverign power to 150 of their fellow citizens those citizens should guard well their personal honor and intégrity by keeping their personal conduct well within the law and the constitution of the state that so honored them. » " » “ANTI-LOTTERY ORDINANCE WOULD BUILD BSOOTLEGGING”

By 8. K,, City I think there is a good deal of

common sense in the city council's reluctance to pass an ordinance outlawing the manufacture of lottery tickets. The assumption such an ordinance would enable police to gather evidence more easily cannot be taken for granted, as some of our do-gooders apparently take it. Such an ordinance would sthnulate a vast and profitable bootleg lottery printing business. The ordinance ‘could readily be extended to harass benevolent lottery enterprises promoted by churches and lodges. If our polices cannot control the open sale under present law, how could they conceivably stop clandestine manufacture? The proposed ordinance would have the effect of stimulating the spread of a more insidious type of loffery enterprise than now exists. And a much more profitable one. #” ® . “CAR COMPANY AT LEAST TOLD PUBLIC RAISE COMING”

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WASHINGTON, July 10.—When the list of 843 registered lobbyists was made public sometime ago, algost every interest was represented. Wool, sugar, metals, motors, they were all there with a man to break a lance for them. . Maybe an addition to this list is called for—a lobbyist for the public interest. A people's lobby does exist here in Washington, but it never has had very much influence, perhaps because it lacks the generous operating funds that most lobbyists have. The other day, with little debate, a bill passed the house which will cost the average money if it finally becomes law. It was a bill to scale down the authority of the federal power commission to

week, a similar bill was pigeonholed and no action 1s expected to be taken by this congress. How much it would cost the consumer is arguable. The sponsors for the measure said the added cost would be nominal. The opposition said no one could forsee how much would be added onto the consumer’s gas bill.

from states in which there are important naturalgas interests. They said repeatedly, during the discussion on the floor, that “the public” had been given full opportunity to express opposition.

Public Is Neglected

THE RECORD OF the hearinigs shows, however, that “the public” took a minor part in the proceedings. Many of the witnesses were from oil and gas companies that have been trying for a long.time to curb authority of the power commission. Others were Washington lobby-lawyers representing one or another of the private interests involved—including coal, with the mine owners anxious to check the expansion of the natural-gas industry,

PARIS, July 19.—FPrance's narrow escape from a disastrous general strike of civil service employees involving 1,350,000 government workers illustrates the immediacy of Europe's need for help if democracy is to remain alive on this continent. The strike was avoided Thursday when the issue, involving the printing of 20 billion francs more in paper money to meet a pay rise, was solved by the national assembly. A pay rise was granted, meaning more inflation while the strike, said- Premier Ramadier, “would be the death blow to the French republic.” ; Thus the French government continues day after day to fight for its life. If this menace is parried, others threaten. Foreign observers agree Premier Paul Ramadier has performed a miracle to hold the fort as long as he has, His firmness and patience have increased the government's prestige at home. But under attack as he is from the left and right, and as strike follows strike and living costs soar, everybody wonders how long he can keep up the struggle,

Wages Behind Living Costs

IT WOULD BE over-simplification to say Communists are behind all the government's difficulties. To cash in they need only to utilize the nation’s postwar economic and political plight. Nor can rank-and-fille workers be blamed for dissatisfaction. This writer rémembers when excellent meals were served in boulevard restaurants for two and a half francs, wine included. Today the same meal is unobtainable at 250 francs. Wages of course have risen but still are behind living costs. Bread, cheese and wine which used to be staple for workingmen now are sky-high and lacking in quantity and quality. French bread which formerly was the

SOMEONE HAS SAID that in the hurly-burly of life genius is the ability to pus the grease where the squeak is. Of all the Indiana men of state or national stature, Thomas A. Hendricks is the epitome of this punchy quip. This was reflected indirectly’ but clearly in an editorial in the Indianapolis Sentinel the morning after Mr. Hendricks died unexpectedly at his home on Tennessee st. in Indianapolis, Nov. 25; 1885. The piece said: “During the last few years of his life Mr. Hendricks commanded a popularity never excelled by any states

That this size-up of Mr. Hendricks was not generous talk for the recent dead, of partisan slant, or otherwise off the beam, consider this: After Mr. Hendricks was elected governor of Indiana Oct. 8, 1873, and before he Was inaugurated, Indiana legislature raised

the Ind from $3000 to $8000, a 3.75-fold increase.

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Still others spoke for state utility commissions, They argued for state's rights in controlling the proe duction and local use of natural gas, limiting federal authority to interstate transportation. Public spokesmen appeared for Kansas Cleveland, D.,, and Rockford, Il. - They bill because it would increase gas rates in One thing becomes evident when you look in issue such as this one. It is so complicated, so around by legalisms, that “the ” rarely ge point. In the present cqngress, changes being brought about quietly, with as little publicity possible. And “the public” may discover what means when the cost of living keeps going up.

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for the special interests of his district or his state. He becomes a kind of ambassador for the maj industry back home. ; Thus, Ross Rizley of Oklahoma was the chief

sponsor of the bill to cut down federal authority over

natural gas. In the senate, a measufe was backed by Senator Ed Moore of that same state. Mr,

Rizley and Mr. Moore are ambassadors for oil and

gas. The special-interest ambassadors have, of course, a legitimate right to defend the group back home

that means prosperity and jobs. That right, however,

is not superior to the public interest. If congress is to be nothing more than an arena in which the special interests struggle to get their own way by the familiar process of log-rolling, then we might better substitute the lobbyists themselves. In this light the congressman appears to b€ merely a rather expensive middleman for transmitting the wishes of a wide variety of special interests.

WORLD AFFAIRS . ... By William Philip Simms France—Keystone of Western Europe

world’s best, today is almost inedible. The bread fis so bad there have been strikes over this alone—for bread is far more important fo the Frenchman's diet than to the American's Prance is a great wheat-growing country. But this year a winter freeze destroyed a large portion of the crop, and the price paid to farmers is so low they feed their grain to pigs while city-dwellers gag on a poor quality of cornpone. _ Here again the farmers are not entirely to blame, Unless they sell in the black market the prices they receive won't buy the things they need in town, such articles being too expensive or non-existent.

Battle for More Pay

TO MAKE ENDS meet, therefore, both workers and farmers are battling for more pay. Surrender to their demands means increasing the flood of printing= press money already record-high. Refusal to meet their demands means more strikes, less production, fewer goods and higher prices. It is a fatal inflation spiral either way. The threat of farmers to boycott towns is the latest, grimmest specter, for a farmers’ strike would spell hunger of a kind that brings mass revolt. Authorities. agree that France must have outside help if she is tq get on her feet. She must have more bread, more coal. She must have more machinery to make consumer goods; more steam and electrio power to turn wheels; increased transport and better distribution of what she already is producing. Unless she gets them, Premier Ramadier's grim warning may not take long in coming true, France is the keystone of western Europe. If she collapses the Marshall plan automatically becomes a dead letter, .

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow : "Thomas A. Hendricks—Statesman

And on the same day Staley’s Washington special to the Sentinel in a frank punch said: “Talk about money carrying Indiana in 1876, why, without Tom Hendricks’ name and influence, $10 million could not have carried the state. He made the fight his fight, and carried it by his own power and influence.” In a general way, the life of Mr. Hendricks runs in the groove of men who have led and shaped Hoosier life in politics, industry, commerce, finance, and the professions. ‘ He was born on a farm near Zanesville, O., Sept. 7, 1819. He was of Huguenot stock from western Pennsylvania, where his father, John Hendricks, was born. His mother was Scotch, the family was Presbyterian, and Mr. Hendricks, himself, Episcopalian,

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