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Save Food . . . It's Urgent A SMALL group of men and women met yesterday under the auspices of the Indiana Economic Council to dis- | cuss the citizens committee program for conservation of food. It was pretty much the same group of community | leaders who-unselfishly devote much of their time to con- | structive causes. Eo Such committees can draft programs and point the | way, but only the individual citizen can make the food con- | servation program the success it must be. Few of us have seen people dying of starvation or suffering from serious malnutrition in large numbers. The veterans of the last war who have seen this suffering know

the weight“of solution by virtue of her world leadership. From the standpoint of idealism, it is important that we help the rest of the world. And from the coldly practical point of view, it is necessary that we conserve food to help | until other nations can get back into production. The penalty | of not helping would be further unrest, perhaps war. Saving food is an urgent necessity, a challenge to every decent citizen. Let's help shape foreign policy at the family dinner table.

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EN. TAFT'S comments on the Marshall Plan in his New York speech and in his Washington press conference seemed to us rather uneven. He lacked the clarity which has characterized Republican statements by Senator Vandenberg and Gov. Dewey. : For such a frank politician as Mr. Taft, it is somewhat | evasive to say he favors a “reasonable” amount of aid to Europe without defining that slippery word. In view of the detailed study presented by the President's Citizens Committee under Secretary of Commerce Harriman, the Krug and Nourse reports, and the testimony of Secretary of State Marshall and his experts, it is hardly helpful to oppose the proposed totals as too high without being specific as to cuts, The Harriman committee suggested a four-year total ranging from $12 billion to $17 billion and Secretary Marshall a similar amount—compared with the 16-nation request for $22 billion—and urged that estimates be handled on an annual basis. There is a wide spread. between 12 and 17. Whether one or the other would be “reasonable” cannot be determined today because of many unknown factors in the future years such as changing price levels, crop weather and the rate of progress in the first year of the plan. = Whether the proposed first-year total of less than $6 billion is too high as the Senator thinks, or too low as the 16 European nations fear! obviously does not admit of a dogmatic answer. It is a matter of expert judgment which cannot be exact because so many intangibles are involved.

; » . » . . w BUT in approximating an answer, it seems to us, Sen. Taft should remember that every week of delay will increase the cost of getting results. A year ago we probably could have achieved as much with $3 billion properly regulated as with $6 billion now, If we wait many months more to apply the brakes to Europe's downward slide, it may be futile no matter how mnay billions we use, Then what would be a “reasonable” amount for our military defense? If dribbling out unregulated billions would save Europe, it would be safe now, because that is precisely what we have been doing since VE-Day. We should have learned by this costly experience to concentrate and control our aid for constructive purposes. The test is not how miich we put in but how much we get for our money. We cannot afford another penny for international boondoggling, but we can afford billions for a Western European recovery essential to our own prosperity and security. While Sen. Taft seems not to have thought through this matter of a “reasonable” amount of aid, we think in other respects he has made important contributions to the Marshall Plan debate. Particularly pertinent are. His warning against unwarranted American_interference in the | domestic affairs of others; his insistence on aid to China as well as to Western Europe; his statement that increased German production in the British-American zone is no less essential to furopean recovery than American dollais.

Information, Anyway

“INFORMATION PLEASE” is having Petrillo trouble. | Musical questions have disappeared from the popular | radio program. J. Caesar Petrillo has forbidden the hiring | of a member of his musicians’ union to play the few bars | of piano music such questions require. : The union pianist formerly employed, when the pro-

weekly chore. This season, however, the quiz show became “co-operative” —that is, the network that. carries it obtained 300 different sponsors, one in each city where it is broadcast by a local station. And the union contends that music on a “co-operative” program destroys job .opportunity for local union musicians. Dan Golenpaul, producer of “Information Please,” charges the Petrillo union with two violations of the Taft- |

First, he says, his program has been made the victim of an illegal secondary boycott, since the union's contract relations are with the hetwork rather than with him. Second, he asserts, the union is trying to compel the employment of 300 unnecessary “stand-by” musicians—one for each local station carrying “Information Please”—which

featherbedding would make the cost of asking musical |}

questions $9564 a week. : Mr. Golenpaul has appealed to the National Labor Re- | lations Board to prosecute the Petrillo union ‘on these |

i charges. What may come of that, we don't know. But at ||

least a little more has been added to the country’s stock of interesting, if not pleasing, information about what union bosses think they are privileged to do with their power.

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O wad some Power the giftie gle us To see oursels as ithers see us!’ It. wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion; : What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea'e tis, { An’ ev'n devotion. 2

Verily, if the dear ladies could only see them- | selves as others see them in those ridiculous

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No, certainly, the world won't come to an end because fashion has developed an absurd and eye-stubbing design in skirts, but there are some artistic souls who revolt at seeing women appear as if they hdd stepped into a long and too narrow potato sack. ~JOHN D. METZ. - * % 9

HOLIDAY BOAT RIDE

How I'd like to take a ride and glide through waters still, On’ a night that's calm and balmy, when breezes are tranquil, Skimming swiftly through the velvet as the shoreline fitters by, When the boat's nolse starts a-wakin' and a-makin’ frogs to cry. That's a boat-man's lullaby! That's a boat-man’s lullaby.

As you gently give a row and know you're moving fast, When from treetops gleams of moonbeams finally filter through at last From a big round moon of reddish hue amidst a fragrance sweet. When the water keeps a-splashin’ and a-dashin’ to a beat, There's a boat-man in the seat! There's a boat-man in the seat. ik When the stars are shining bright & and light the way for dew, s When you're light in heart :

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By Jim Pappas, 1836 N. Iiinois Bt.

" “Could you please lend me a few trusties from the Marion County" jail. I promise you that -I

won't use them illegally. Ph “1 would like to use one of your prisoners to

wash windows, thereby relieving Since this happens -to be a send a man who We might let him

mop the floor and our poor driver. flower shop, would you please knows a little about flowers. wait oh the customers. “Then Mom and Grandmother could use two to do handyman's work around the house. He ‘could help do some of the work, such as carry out the garbage, and tend the fire. If you send us & good cook, we might even let him cook our meals . for us. That would be a big load off Mom's mind. “How about sending one around for my very own: a sort of “my man Priday.” He could help me keep the family bus clean, and shovel snow in the winter. If he likes to work out in the open, I'm willing to let him tote my school books around for me. Please, sir, send an educated prisoner, so that he can help an average-student with his homework. “I ‘assure you, Mr. Magenheimer, that we all _ are kind, gentle souls; the type that pet dogs and chuck little babies under the chin. So you see, there's no danger df our mistreating your men. If any of them should take sick, we would be willing to give them time off to recuperate. “Mr. Magenheimer, I know that you are & good man, and I admire you. I admire you since the time when you were a sergeant on the police force. You used to come around to all the schools, and give lectures on good living. Ah, yes, Mr. Magenheimer.. Then, I listened to every word you said. I crossed the streets with the lights, and I was a very, very good boy. Now, since I've been out of grade school all this time, I fear I've become a sort of ganster. I jaywalk, I “sass” the police, I do everything you told us not to do. I apologize, Mr. Magenheimer, I apologize for not becoming a good man, likg you tried to make me. “please, Mr. Magenheimer, send me your men before you promise them out to someone else.

snd. stash Lo dreams and. caves are. fa nod There's someone canoeing with you forming silhouettes at bay, : When at last comes love a-callin’ and a-fallin’' on the way, That's a boat-man’s holiday! ~ That's a boat-man’s holiday. KEN TUXHORN, » ® 4 o Poets are born, not made, says a writer, a poor excuse!

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The moon is big and round and bright It fills my room with a mellow light,

' starts to flow. The leaves are turning red and brown

Some of them are tumbling down.

I look outside and shed a tear To think that winter is so near.

. —FAYE BRYANT. » bh oO After considerable thought I have come to this conclusion . , . If a feller values his missus’ good cookin’ he sholudn't balk at eatin’ humble pie.

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NOVEMBER ROSE

Your leaves are deeper green Your cup more brittle-bright Than your summer sisters bore For twenty frost-nights more And mornings: stiffly white Your urgent- bud has seen. -—A. WHITEHILL. ® 4 ¢ ‘ Did you ever drop a piece of bread and butter and not have the butter side land down? Se % ¢

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Congress this week. heard from in his special message to Congress, Nov. 17. Finally, the Congress must act.

or commission is set up and'is in business supervising European recovery by the beginning of the next fiscal year on July 1, it will be a miracle. This implies no criticism of slow-moving govern=-

be provided before the end of 1947. doesn't have to stand still while the American government erects the machinery and starts it rolling. the U. S. Sixty per cent of the first year requirements, stated in the Paris report of the 16-nation Committee on European purchases in third countries will reduce the European Economic Co-operation, are alréady on drain on American supplies and so ease off the order. Supplies ordered after the ERP is in operation demand for scarce goods in the U. 8. That, in turn, 1s expected to keep down price levels in the U. S. What this aid to Europe through third countries amounts to, therefore, is said to be a kind of subsidy

will be for 1949 or later.

Planned Economy on Global Basis BUT THIS JOB 18 BIGGER than any peacetime~ for the American consumers. reconstruction project ever conceived. It is planned reasoning, but that's the way it's being presented. economy on a global basis. The ERP blueprint must attempt to predict and write specifications on how the non-Communist world is going to look in 1951. Long-range economic predictions of this nature have U. S. should give these third countries, there is no never before been successful for even one country or certainty at all. To make such predictions for the ‘is that, to set a top limit allowing the U, 8, to whole world may be a noble ambition, but it is next finance up to two-thirds of three-fourths of all the aid that Europe might get from Canada or the Too many variables enter the picture. The Harriman Committee of 19 admits them. No one can countries would insist on getting the full amount predict what price levels are going to be four years whether needed or not. Harriman Committee thinkor even one year hence. A change, up or down, of ing is that each of these countries should be dealt a few per cent may alter the total recovery funds with separately. By negotiation, the amount of these needed by a billion or more dollars. No one can dollar purchases should be kept at the lowest possible predict what the weather is going to be. No one can predict how fast Europe is going to recover— how fast coal production can be stepped up, what that the European Recovery Program will have to be exports Europe can produce and sell, thus reducing revised constantly, year by year or even quarter the amount of aid needed from American taxpayers. I Add up these uncertainties both ways and what you have is half a dozen alternate figures that may bus appropriation bill, is impossible.

IN WASHINGTON , . . By Pefer Edson : Uncertainties of Marshall Plan

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—If the two-volume, make ERP cost as little gs $12 billion or as much 15,000-word seport on the Marshall Plan from the as $23 billion. Harriman Committee of 19 big businessmen proves closer. anything, it is that there is nothing definite about the European Recovery Program

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Evolution of ‘Simple Suggestion’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—The vast scope of what we propose to do in Europe is just beginning to be apparent. Reports, statistical tables, estimates are pouring out of overworked and understaffed government agencies. : In his testimony before the joint Senate and House foreign relations committees, Secretary of State George’C. Marshall referred to the “simple suggestion” he made in his Harvard speech of June 5. That “suggestion” was acted upon by 16 European nations, and the report they drew up in Paris is the basis for the Marshall Plan. Anyone who thought this would be merely a matter of signing a few sizable checks has by now been thoroughly disillusioned. The State Department is preparing a volume only slightly smaller than the fat Washington telephone directory which will contain merely the outline of what is officially called the European Recovery Program or ERP, Two or three additional “volumes on the telephone-directory scale will contain supporting. tables and statistics. The Harriman

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against European needs, contained about 100,000 words. The reporter these days collects a library when he goes out on assignment. All he needs is leisure to digest what ‘is rapidly becoming.a five-foot shelf of official volumes blueprint stage,

Urges Immediate Aid ; IN HIS STATEMENT to the joint congressional committees, Mr. Marshall emphasized once again the urgent need for interim ald in the coming weeks for France, Italy and Austria. He put the total necessary to stave off hunger and cold at $507 million. This would cover the period up to March 31 when, presumably, Congress

| will have adopted the long-term recovery program and the drive

for reconstruction can begin. ’ But even in his comparatively brief statement Secretary Marshall

report, analyzing the availability of American resources as measured suggested some of the hazards and difficulties in the way of admin-

istering a recovery program that will affect the lives of more than 2500 million people in Western Europe. There is the big ‘question of where pMmary responsibility is to rest, Mr. Marshall understandably puts the stress on the need to keep the control of our foreign policy in the State Department and the foreign service. He talks of a single administrator, with broad centralized powers, who would have the rank of ambassador. This goes contrary to the concept of the House committee headed by Rep. Christian Herter of Massachusetts. Their report advocated a corporation with board of directors to boss the job. The Harriman committee follows more or less the same line. But tie State Department speaks disparagingly of such a board as a debating society that would hopelessly bog down when it came to making decisions.

U. S. Efforts Unrecognized

PARIS, Nov. 12—When the average Frenchman or Italian bites into the rationed piece of bread he has bought from the baker, he cannot taste the effort America is making to get it to him. Nor does American-grown food that.finds its way to European tables come wrapped in cellophane marked “Made in U. 8. A" Instead, it comes in an astronomical maze of international loans and credits, world food board allocations and other tasty tidbits of world trade and high finance that leaves the recipients completely unimpressed. Actually the United States itself helps all this confusion by solemnly subscribing to the pleasant fiction that its aid is simply a. business transaction of straight loans and sales. : AlFrenchman or Italian, quite naturally, feels that food sent by the United States has been bought and paid for. The money is made availablé by the U, 8. So what, it's a debt. That the U. 8. has only slightly more than a factory girl's chance, most of the loan money again is concerned, is quite

Estimates simply can’t be made any

Another uncertainty must be built around how much aid the U. 8. gives to Europe through third The State Department is presenting its ideas to countries—principally Canada -and the Argentine. Then the President must be The Harriman Committee seems to agree with the European experts that it is to the advantage of the U. 8. for European countries to buy a maximum It will be spring before the real sap of recovery proportion of their imports from other countries, If a U. 8. government corporation with the U. S. footing at least a part of the bills. Some of the reasons given are these: Europe's needs cannot be met in full from U. 8.

resources to advance long-term credit to Europe. Stop-gap relief aid for food and fuel may ' The third countries buy from the U. 8. with the And Europe dollars they get from Europe, so, in a way, the financing of European purchases promotes trade in

Of still more importance, the financing of these

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The Harriman: Committee position

All these uncertainties merely emphasize the fact

by quarter, as it goes along. Trying to write the ticket for the entire four-year joy ride, in one omni-

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: & .. Thank you.” 8 ; ie - ‘Armistice on Prices?’ By A. B, City 1 have just finished Fart Richert's story on poultry prices in the Armistice Day Times. In the name of common sense, how's about an armistice on this price spiral? When we had price control, the farm lobby raised cain, charging .the government was interfering with “his freedom of enterprise, messing around with natural laws of supply, demand, purchase power, etc. Controls came off, one by one, until a white collar worker or a laboring man can scarcely afford to feed a family. ‘ But what happens when the price of just one farm commodity starts to fall off, the very thing Republicans and Democrats scream must happen if our economy is» to be salvaged? Mr. Richert wrote the answer. The government bows its head to the pressure group and agrees to help poultry men keep the price from falling further. If it’s the law of supply and demand we want, and I do want it, let's let it operate fairly on all counts—no ceilings but no floors either. It is clear from this development, if from no other, that even if Mrs, Housewife goes ahead and cuts her food buying in an effort to resist high prices, the government will stymie her best efforts by supporting food prices right where they are anyhow,

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By Florence B. Jenkins, Exe. Sec. Indiana Society for Prevention of Cruelty to’ Animals, Ine. - This is an answer to a letter printed in your paper signed Puzzled Citizen. Regarding the pitiful puppy on Riverview Drive, 1 wish to confirm her description of this pathetic little dog. I also want to tell her that we now have this puppy in our custody. It is receiving the best in medical care and is being personally looked after by Otto Ray, our investigator. The puppy is responding to treatment and we hope it will in time be restored to health, although | this will take many weeks to accomplish. Also want to assure Puzzled Citizen this puppy will not be returned to its owner: Puzzled Citizen will be of great service to us fh what we are trying to do for all animals if she will phone our office, Market 8776, and give us her name and address.

. By Marquis Childs

Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas has been summoned home from London, although he was in Washington only two weeks ago. According ‘ to’ one report, he is being sounded out “by President Truman for the No. 1 job in the long-term recovery program, Mr. Douglas has many qualifications. He is a successful businessman who has maintained a continuing interest in public life. What is more, he could be confirmed by a Republican Congress.

' Too Early for Planning | AT THE TIME OF HIS appointment as ambassador to Socialistic Britain, it was said by the cynical that this was a little like sending a Baptist preacher as envoy to the Vatican. But Mr, Douglas seems to have got along well with the Labor cabinet ministers. In their talks he and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin are on a friendly “Lew” and “Ernie” basis. , ' While Mr. Douglas may be the type of man on whom the RePublican Congress and the Democratic President may finally agree, it is much too early to talk of individuals. Members of Congress who traveled abroad have some very positive ideas on how the program should be administered. They lean strongly toward the idea of a corporation and they will not give up that idea without a struggle. n TL , The immediate task of the coming special session is to approve emergency aid. If that is not done quickly, the frail ‘structure of Europe's economy will disintegrate at an ever swifter rate.It is not expected that Congress at the special session will act on the long-term program. That would be expecting too much in view of the differences which must be ironed out. But inevitably the problems that are a part of that program will come into the

debate. It will be a prelude to the great decision that America must make in the coming year.

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By John A. Thale

because an expected regular monthly shipment of some 250,000 tons of American grain will be only 200,000 tons next month. During the last six months of this year, France is expecting abous 606,000 tons of American grain. A total of 825,000 tons was allocated it by the International Emergency Food Council. (The IEFC world pool doesn't include Russia or Argentina.) : If American grain were used by itself, it would maintain the French at their 200-gram daily bread ration for a little more than two months out of those six. - "But it isn't used by itself and once American wheat gets fo the mills it goes into the same hopper with domestic wheat and imports France has been able to round up in other countries. The grain situation in France is handled by the National Cereals Board. American wheat arriving by ship at the Port of Havre, for example, probably would be transferred to barges and shipped to one of the large mills near Paris designated by the NCB. After milling the grain, at a price fixed by NCB, the miller sends

Lit on to distributors in various cities on instructions from the national

board. Individual bakers get their allecations of flour by sumitting ration coupons and money. : J In Italy the situation is much the same. Large amounts of grain imports are bought with loan funds in stfaight bookkeeping transaction. “America does better in winning credit in Italy, however, since being given upward of $100 million of funds voted by Congress direct relief under the so-called post-UNRRA aid bill. maT Capyright 1047 hy The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News)

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