Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1947 — Page 24

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Marshall Talks Back

SECRETARY OF STATE MARSHALL'S colmterabtock |

in Chicago Tuesday night on Soviet lies about the United States was hard-hitting. He accused Russia of deliberately

blocking European recovery, He charged that the Kremlin's |

obstruction and anti-American propaganda are affecting world stability. : His reply to Soviet accusations of American imperial fsm was to cite the record. The United States has annexed no new territory; Russia since 1939 has annexed more than 280,000 square miles with a population of about 22 million, - The Secretary's address was in line with the new State Department policy of meeting attdck with attack. We think this new policy is justified. The old policy of maintaining a dignified silence was worth trying. ‘It failed. It was mis- - understood by the Russians as a sign of weakness. It encouraged them to be even more hysterical bullies. On the basis of that experience, it is well for our government without stooping to the filth of which Moscow is master— to keep the record straight by a calm recital of facts disproving the lies. But we should not overestimate the importance of this. The struggle into which Soviet aggression has plunged the world is not one which cin be won with words. If this were merely a verbal debate there would be nothing to worry about, because we could win it so easily on the record.

In the battle for world economic recovery and against | Communist chaos, American food and fuel and dollars and

military strength are more effective than words. In the defense of free nations against Soviet penetration and tyranny, debating victories cannot take the place of a strong United Nations backed by American military preparedness.

Happy the Bride

¥ | T'S always pleasant to see a young couple starting out on

the voyage of life together with a bright prospect of financial independence. So we're glad to learn that Lt. Philip Mountbatten, who was married today in London, is assured of a 56 per cent pay rise to assist him in setting up housekeeping. His $38.60-a-week salary as an officer in the British navy is to be augmented by a marriage allowance of $17.50 and an extra allotment of $1.88 for rations, bringing the weekly total to $52.43. : The bride, a Miss Elizabeth Windsor, also has had a - stroke of good fortune. The. stockings she wore at the ceremony in Westminster Abbey are described as “neutral in shade and so constructed that they will not ‘ladder’ when she. kneels.” Since Mrs. Mountbatten has fortunately found one such set of hosiery, she doubtless knows where to buy more. Our own extensive experience convinces us that the average wife, if equipped with “ladderless” stockings, could save at least $1.87 a week and a large number of more or less ladylike cuss words. We wish it were possible to say that all other omens are equally felicitous. Candor, however, compels us to report that quite a few American women have threatened to boycott the marriage because the bride's aunt by marriage— Mrs, Wallis W. Windsor, formerly of Baltimore, Md. —was omitted from the invitation list. And that the Methodist Board of Temperance is likely to disapprove strongly of the wedding cake because its ingredients include 514 pints of rum, brandy and Curacao.

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-we accept the advice we so freely give to others?

~InTune ‘With the Times Donald D. Hoover : ON’ ADVICE

IT 18 EASY ENOUGH to give advice, but how many of us can apply it to ourselves? » We can ghbly quote, “Those who would hurt you, couldn't, and those who could hurt you, wouldn't,” when a friend comes to us for sympathy because his feelings have been hurt, because someone has slighted him, We can attempt to calm his ruffled feelings by; 3 4 urging him to be big ehaugh to live above a slight, |: to try to see that it might not have been given intentionally, that it is easy to imagine things that are not really true. ., We may counsel him “to return good for evil,” to remember that old saying, .

“There Is a destiny that makes us brothers : None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.”

and, thus, to forget his hurt by sending forth a kindly thought, by belrig doubly careful not to slight another unintentionally, But, honestly, when we come right down to it, are we big enough to overlook another's fauits when we are the ones who have been hurt; can we overcome our bruised feelings by quoting bits of philosophy to ourselves; in other words, can I wonder. I can't. Can you? ’ ~ELSE. ® ¢ ¢ Hey, Mr. Janitor, you may fire when ready! Which probably won't be soon enough. ¢* 9 4 With the coal price where it is, maybe we had befter shake well before using. * 9 9% Mom needs hélp with house-cleaning again— and dad’s the Fall guy! ® 4 ¢ Babies want more sleep than grown-ups, say doctors. But at a different time. ; * % % It makes you feel better when you think people are better than you know they are.

But nobody can have everything. It seems reasonably certain that the bridegroom's salary boost, plus the bride's possible economies on hosiery, plus the fact that her own income is to be increased to $200,000 a year or more, should | enable the young Mountbattens to eat regularly and live happily ever after. So, let the wedding bells ring out.

More Whitewash?

HERE'S a lot to be said for the complaint of AMVETS National Commander Edgar C. Corry Jr. that the case of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers is “another case of Army general whitewashing Army general.” A former AMVETS commander, Ray Sawyer, said the same thing when Army Inspector Gen. Ira T. Wyche

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cleared an old West Point classmate, Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, of charges of a different nature by Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark a few months back. Commander Corry says World War II veterans won't be satisfied with that kind of justice—that they want an inspector general's department for all the.armed services with independent authority to ferret out irregularities and expose incompetence. We don’t propose to pass on charges against Gen. Meyers. But we share Commander Corry’s dissatisfaction with the Air Forces handling of them. We think that Mr. Corry's suggestion deserves attention.

Toil and Thrift

‘WO classic means of combating inflation are: To work more and spend less. In his message Monday President ~Truman mentioned neither, The Republicans, instead of fuming about “dictatorship” and “police state,” might be more convincing if they would move into the problem along those two avenues. We didn’t win the war working a 40-hour week, and we're not likely soon to produce enough on that riled schedule of toil to insure the peace. In the last session of Congress, though there was much talk of economy, appropriations were rather expansive when the pressure groups came in for theirs. Some Republicans say Mr; Truman should reduce domestic expenditures by enough to pay for all foreign aid. Well, Congress does the appropriating, and the Republicans have a majority in both branches.

Taking No Chances

: “THE good that men do oft lies interred with their bones.” Our trade negotiators at Geneva might have had that - in mind. After working themselves to a frazzle fixing up

“new - schedules, -they. finally concluded a deal whereby |.

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"I'D LIKE TO BE'

I'd like to be the kind of man You seem to want me to, Not just another “also ran” Who drifts in life's canoe,

I'd like to scale great heights, Attain much fame, and fortune too;

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‘Quit Coddling , Criminals’ By A. E. Wrentmore, 227 8, Ritter Ave, i The recent startling disclosures made By The Times and other papers of the city regarding the delinquency and softness of our penal authori. -tieg in the prosecution of crime, their pampering of criminals, the indulgehce of severe offenses and their apparent indifference to the safety of the public, has not only confirmed the convictions of the people as to the causes of the shameful conditions which prevail in our city, but has also inspired an indignant and strenuous demand that | “these causes be eliminated, An evidence of this fact is the following resolution, passed at a recent meeting of Th. Amer ican Home Owner's Union, an organization which stands for good government, the enforcemept of law and the protection and liberties of citizens.

“WHEREAS, The rapidly increasing crime wave, with numerous beatings, sluggings and musders in the past few months has .become an alarming menace to the citizens of Indianapolis; and,

WHEREAS, There has been a shocking mis. carriage of justice, coddling of criminals and neglect of prosecution on the part of law enforcement and criminal court authorities; and,

WHEREAS, Certain city departments have even employed known criminals to engage in city work, thus affording them encouragement and oppor. tunity for the perpetration of vicious crimes; therefore be -it

RESOLVED, By The American Homer Owner's Union:

FIRST: That we denounce this snd over-lenient treatment of criminals as an incentive to crime and prime factor in the reign of lawless~ ness and vice which is imperiling our city.

SECOND: That we demand the prompt and vigorotis prosecution of all criminals without favor or partiality, and the imposition of ‘such penalties as will serve as a warning to all potential wrong ‘doers.

THIRD: That we send a copy of this »vesolu~ tion to each of the leading newspapers of -our city.” Since the members of this organization come from all parts of the city we feel that this resolution is a fair expression of .the sentiment. of the public throughout Indianapolis. As president of the above body, I wish to say that I feel that our citizens should rise in vigorous protest against the sequacious’ and incompetent

I'd like to aim and set my sights On Tiches— just for you,

I'd like to be the man you say I'm qualified to be. I'd like to make your every day Sweet hours of trust in me.

But if I fall to gain a place Among the great in life, » I'll still have you—your fond embrace— For you're that kind of wife. ~ROBERT 0. REYNOLDS. ¢ ¢ 9. One of the best ways to make friends is to forget your troubles in front of others. ‘ ® © ¢ Conceit is a form of ill health, says a scientist. ‘Thai ought v6 make it hard for some Tolks fo get insurance,

control wages.

® + 9 Three inmates of an Eastern prison came down with measles. That's one way to break out. * ¢ 9

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“LONDON-—England Erecting Memorials to George Washington.”) British folks throughout their island, Have George Washington enshrined, Thus the bonds of your and my land, Are with Britain closer 'twined. Had the father of our nation, : On old England's soil once stepped, Every shrine could make assertion: “It was here this great man slept.” —BEN FOSTER. * ¢ o > ‘The schoo! kids soon will find a mark to: shoot at—when the snow packs. ¢ <¢ ¢ Have you noticed that gold bricks are back— or aren't you building a new home? * 4 4 : Love at first sight often is as foolish as divorce

Taxpayer Takes Risk

On European Loans

By PAUL R. LEACH - WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—~Threat of communism among the 16

western European nations is a mainspring back of the Marshall Plan | as well as the reason why private investors prefer to let: American |

taxpayer dollars try to quarantine it.

The Secretary of State wants to put $16 to $20 billion into sta- | bilising those governments and assuring their recovery in the next |

four years.

Most of that has been expected to be sought in outright grants, |

U. 8. government loans and grants would be made as a “calculated risk” in the “cold war" to assure peace. Only lately has there been discussion of repayment in the form of scarce raw materials. One of the most pressing questions in Congress after-the emer« gency session has disposed of domestic inflation and temporary rellet for France, Italy and Austria, will be why other than U. 8. Treasury funds cannot be used. Why not non-government’ loans? This question touches three different possible sources: ONE: Gold, stocks, bonds, bank deposits and direct investments held by foreign governments and their nationals in the United States. TWO: The World Bank, whose spohsors are governments of 45 countries, including the United States. : The American Export-Import Bank,

Politics Overshadow Collateral

» [4 STIC REGIMES and political uncertainties abroad make all Aue doubtful as European loan Sources from a banking stand-

CE hoffcial detimates of foreign holdings in the United States given to members of Congress range all the way from $12 to $26 billion. It has come here in goverhment-earmarked gold and in various

forms of wealth for private investment, before, during “and aftet

the war. Private investments were made here because this government provides a “good risk,” and because returns appeared assured. The Treasury and Federal Reserve Board are digging into dis« coverable foreign government dollar credits which have not been used up, as well as “hidden” individual assets to find out what the real total is. Two problems involving these foreign ing explored by congressmen. One is how far foreign governments can go in persuading their nationals to cash in and put the dollars Tealized into their homecountry industries for recovery. England and France already are trying to “ade their currencies

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for dollar holdings of their own people so the governments could °

ues the dollars. ; The other problem is what large-scale Hiquidation of foreignowned stocks and bonds would do to prices of securities held by Americans. The Federal Reserve Board foresees an upset market if a sudden liquidation should be attempted without careful super. vision. The International Chamber of Commerce report, following its June meeting in Paris, contained two “paragraphs which have attracted attention of members of both houses. “There is urgent need today,” it sald, “for the resumption of | steady and ample movements of capital (into Buropel, but unfortu=nately the economic: and political Wi # rgeetosle for- | eign investments has never. been so unfa varable.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . ~ Mr. Truman’s Austerity Program

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Republicans ain't gonna like President Truman's message a bit. lobbies will like it even less because it calls for return of government price and rationing control. should love it, even though it calls for authority to

The message is awful good political strategy. puts the high-cost-of-living right up to Congress. If Congress doesn't want to do anything about it, that's the law-makers' choice. .But if they choose .to do nothing or. monkey around, the responsibility for whatever happens next will be right smack on the “congressional shoulders.

Forward Pass—Uncompleted

THE JOB OF CURBING U. 8. inflation which the President has now handed Congress would normally take six months. price control act and the stabilization act. the Republican Congress of 1947 that long to revise price and rationing controls downward in the ‘“unworkable” bill the President had to veto. It will take & month or more to set up the price and rationing control machinery Oongress finally approves, whatever inflation-curbing is done is a long way off. Congress intended to stave off the fourth round t of wage increases. The third wound is already here. Legislation to provide the $597 million emergency’ aid for France, Italy and Austria may be shoved through before the holidays. Deficiency appropriations for Germany and Japan should follow in short order. This other. bill of goods the President asks for is something else again. It involves a major economic reform in the United States. In one way the Truman message tosses the bad medicine ball to Republican presidential candidate Robert A. Taft. This is the third time Truman has tossed the inflated ball to Taft. the catch. Last January the President sent to Congress his first economic report, ~ Taft did nothing

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“Every possible effort,” it added, “should be made by the govern= ments (European) to smooth away the obstacles to international investments.” 5 Warld Bank loans ‘must be: made on a banking basis. It cannot make “political or non-economic” loans. If it were to start making such loans of doubtful future it would have trouble selling more of its bonds here. . The Export-Import Bank is in somewhat the same position. Hs funds were increased by Congress after the war from $700 to $3500 million. The increase was e for foreign récovery loans, and most of it has been lent to private industries abroad. It now has over $800 millionyavailable, expects return of ‘nearly $300 million more by the end of next year. But most of this is expected to be lent to Canada and Latin-American countries, With its recovery loans made, the Export-Import Bank has returned to its statutory caution. = ‘Under federal law it can make loans only to stimulate American trade. Ba loans must be made “with reasonable assurance of Topayment"

The second time was last July, when the President sent up a mid-year economic report. In the montkr before Congress adjourned, Taft's Every economic thinker and planner who had a piece to speak came in and testified. But the committee did nothing about it. During the congressional recess three sub-commit-tees toured the country to investigate high prices, after Sen. Ray Baldwin of Connecticut had needled Taft wasn't along on any of these investigations, as he had a trip of his own to make out west, for purely political purposes. ~ three sub-committees returned to Washington, thé Midwestern group under Ohio Congressman George H. Bender came. out flatly against any return to

The Eastern group under Sen. Ralph Flanders of ‘ Vermont came up with a report that consideration might be given to rationing meat, butter and eggs, restoring installment-buying' controls, extending export controls, allocating scarce grains. These four are recommended in Truman's message.

What Congressmen Overlooked

WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS that the congressional committee on the economic report has apAuthority to allocate transportation facilities and equipment; control over livestock and poultry marketing; encouragement of Department of Agriculture conservation practices; extended rent control, and control over inventories

This, then, is the.Truman austerity program. is an austerity program in which nobobdy need get Compared with the British austerity program, the Truman message offers ice cream and cake. “All the Truman austerity program asks the country to do is cut out the foolishness it has indulged in since June, 1946, with wages chasing prices up the spiral staircase of inflation in a rat race that can end only in the trap of an economic crash.

‘ the internal warfare so

administration of justice which makes such ine tolerable conditions as the present possible. There is an old adage that “Oné gannot make - a revolution with rose water.” Neither can one suppress crime and lawlessness by feather-bedding vicious offenders and feeding them on soothing-

assault and murder of innocent people, > PS

Recipe for Law Enforcement By J. W. Bar ver, U. 8. M. C. Retired To solve the crime epidemic that has come to our city and county is not going to be easy and cannot be done alone by the law enforcement agencies without the moral support and co-opera-

When the sentiment from fair- minded citizens reaches the | boiling point and they are willing to back up our | police in their clean-up efforts, then and then alone can we hope to succeed.

‘With 40,000 unpaid traffic stickers on record proves that we as citizens must clean up in front of our. own gloor step if we are to keep from qualifying for.the careless “Flaunt the Law” type of citizen who doesn't care about a trifle of a violation when he can beat the rap. With this great army of traffic law violators continuing to pile up ‘new records and sneer at the consequences, they don't realize that they are keeping a large section of our police department busy trying /to cope with this serious matter, when they could be used more effectively on other phases of police work to rid our streets of yeggs, hoodlums and murderers. We really need an awakening of our citizens to see through imporfant things. First: Let's all be law abiding citizens in every way. Sefond: Let's support our law’ enforcement agencies and urge them to gek tough as hell with criminals who run our streets. Put the heat on the shysters and political lushes who thwart justice. Third: Put teeth in laws that will make our courts deal out justice surely and swiftly, It's a disgrace to our city to allow this travesty to continue.

Politics Upsets Unions, Creates Wide Gulf

By E. T. LEECH

- THERE'S a striking similarity today between the conventions of big labor unions and those of political parties. Almost invariably the big news about a union convention has to do with some struggle for power between rival factions. This, of course, has long been characteristic of political conventions. Unions are knee-deep Inf politics; and, as a result, y of them are torn by factionalism. The individual union member has become somewhat like the individual voter—a party member whom the bosses struggle to control.

The political reporter would feel right at home these days in a union convention. And the labor reporter finds himself dealing with issues that used to belong to the man who covers politics. Factional warfare within the unions doesn’t center around such old-fashioned matters as wages, hours and working conditions. It has to do with domestic and foreign political issues and the ambitions of top union men to cut a figure in the political game.

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Torn Between Right and Left Wings

THE AFL CONVENTION, for example, featured a struggle between John”L. Lewis and a group of rival union politicians for positions of power in the national political field. The CIO convention was highlighted by a battle over communism. The United Electrical Workers and United Auto Workers likewise were torn by political rivalry between left and right wings. In the AFL the battles are largely personal, growing out of the rivalries of individuals to cut a figure in the state and national party councils. In the CIO there is ideological warfare between the right and left wings, with a lot of jockeying over ambitions to turn the American labor movement into an outright political party, In addition to the political motives, there is another reason for evident within many of the big unions. The union movement has become very big business—and those at the top are paid rewards comparable to those received by the heads of big corporations. They have power to collect and spend vast funds. Hundreds of thousands of members are influenced, and sometimes brutally dominated, by the men in authority. There aré great numbers of paid employees—perhaps a hundred thousand or more—whose jobs are handled by the union officials as 50 much patronage. Union jobs are similar to political jobs in that they often depend on absolute loyalty and obedience to the leader. Even more important than pay is the expense account—for money on an expense account isn't subject to income tax. Top union officials (and even some quite a way down the line) can travel a lot, live

oat the best hotels, and othefwise cut quite a swath af the members’

expense. The gulf between thy tap officials of a union dnd the rank-and-file members often is as great as that between the traditional Wall Street financier’ and the clerk in one of his branch enterprises, Union politics is great training for party politics. For the methods of getting ahead are the same. Rival factions fight with statements, rT rates, Tut And yrisles. sapiens, SAAN and promises,

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