Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1948 — Page 10

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Vandenberg Statesmanship

(CHAIRMAN VANDENBERG of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee predicts that Congress will pass | the Marshall Plan authorization bill by April 1, the date fixed by the administration. That is good news, but perhaps on the wishful side. | Ru Certainly the deadline will be met if Sen. Vanden"berg has his way. From the beginning he has opposed unnecessary delay. He has persuaded the State Department to accept several constructive compromises on disputed points which would have prolonged debate. - Two of these are particularly important. One drops the $17 billion overall four-year figure, which was only a wide guess at best. - The other substitutes the Brookings Institution recommendation favoring a responsible administrator independent of the State Department except in foreign policy matters. The Senate hearings, just brought to a close by Chairman Vandenberg, have been a model of their kind. All sides have received adequate time to state their points of siew. The committee has asked searching questions withyut heckling’ witnesses. Thus fortified, the committee is yow in position to revise the draft bill suggested by the dministration or to write its own version. ; This redrafting job will be started promptly next Monlay, so the committee can bring the bill to the floor in jlenty of-time for full debate and action in March. “hairman Eaton of the Foreign Affairs Committee now ioubts that a bill will even be reported out for debate be"ore April. That probably would’ prevent congressional ction until late May or June. House committee stalling is 1 the more inexcusable because of its early independent lata obtained in Europe by the Herter subcommittee. ‘There is growing suspicion that influential Republicans 1 Congress are trying to play politics with the Marshall lan. Perhaps this is not true. We hope not. The Rejublicans if they are smart will take their cue from Mr. Jandenberg’s statesmanship.

Don't Aid Disloyalty i vir V[INNESOTA'S Sen. Ball charges that the U. 8. TreasE grv. is helpin; p finance at least eight Communist- | ‘ront 8 which Attorney General Clark has offi- | {ally listed as “subversive.” Persons who give money to these organizations, he 1y8, are permitted to deduct the contributions from their axable incomes. This under the law which exempts from ation gifts to “charitable, religious, scientific, literary

1 ss certainly never intended the law to divert nds awa) the Treasury and into the tills of organEe the United States. Yet that, accord1g to Sen. Ball, has been the effect of interpretation of 1e law by the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Bureau. In all, the Attorney General named 81 organizations as Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or Subversive.” Memsrship in one or more of these organizations may be condered enough to cast doubt on the loyalty of a govern.’ rent employee. There is, then, more than enough reason » conclude that the government should not aid such organ-

ations by giving then the benefit of tax-exempt contribu-

a er. | “So we're glad to learn that the Internal Revenue “Tureau is now checking all 81 groups on the Attorney Gen. -al's list. The idea, presumably, is to find whether any asides the eight named by Sen. Ball has been getting finanal support at the Treasury's expense, and whether there ve legal grounds for revoking that advantage. If the present law isn't sufficiently definite and clear, - should be made so, We think every organization seek1g tax exemption for its contributors should be required to. rove that it engages only in bona fide “charitable; relilous, scientific, literary or educational” activity, and not. " 1politics or subversion. ta

—ot's Hope ig EN wholesale meat prices broke sharply a few days ago some of the weightiest cheering must have gone |

~~p-from-the-Toledo-Seale-Co:;-of Toledo, Ov

Back when round steak was 35 cents a pound the To- | sdo company used to equip its butcher-shop scales with an f utomatic computing chart that figured meat as high as | n ingredible 75 cents a pound. That wasn't high enough} ome 1946, forcing butchers to grab greasy pencils and rapping paper to do their own computing on a customer's urchase. Stores wrote in about the charts, so the Toledo ompany put a crew of mathematicians to work figuring a ew chart, this time way up to 95 cents a pound, on the | heory thaf meat wouldn't go much higher. . Well, it did, and the Toledo company began turning out igger and better charts much faster than their scales. | ‘he latest chart we noted in our butcher-shop was calirated for $1.75 meat while over at the delicatessen counter ome fancy stuff was selling around $2. The Toledo com- | ‘any never quite caught up—a sharp little facet of the | nflation saga. . Maybe now they won't have to put-out any new charts.

‘dere He Is, Henry

J BIRD-PARTY scouts should not overlook Raymond \. Duncan as a possible running mate for Henry Wallace. MR, Duncan, just back from Europe, is the 73-year-old arother of the late Isadora Duncan, the dancer. . It is true he denounced Russia, but he has other as-

sets that might lend appeal to the Wallace ticket. He,

, wears bangs, long hair, a roman toga and sandals. He didn't

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In Tune With the Times . ANENT THE ‘WEATHER

The way a zero snap holds on, The like we never saw, I wonder if we're very wrong To expect a February thaw,

We wear more clothes and freeze our nose . It really is a hummer, But we could use a bit of it - When it's ninty-eight next summer,

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more important, we'll be able to see them in the half-light of dusk. 5 . * ¢ o

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administered industries which does mot tate into the state except as the necessary taxes to maintain order, etc, that this be the system adjusted to locate, of course, of the recovery program the reconstruction of war ravaged Europe.

~ SCANDAL Scandal lay among the weeds Of prejudice and greed, It fed upon the rotten roots And nurtured every seed. “Then one day, a person walked Where scandal thrived and bred . . . © With ugly words it struck him down

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

What's Happening to Our Oil—

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Nothing lllustrates so out. And that_net balance on the import side will well the complexity of our technological civilization as the current oil shortage. On the line of oil

prevail for an indefinite number of years. Consider for a moment what is happening

ple conditioned to the -exigencies of war cal want under the military heel of the arbiters of their fate. : This would be the greatest peace program ever conceived By the mind of man, even as Brice said of our. Constitution “the greatest man despite malpractice. The general well being, the prosperity of the greatest number

"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but |

This would be the democratization of peo-

instrument of justice ‘conicelved by the mind of

Then reared its nasty head.

The poison ate into his soul And stayed with him alway. ,.. While scandal coiled amid it's filth To strike another day!

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that flows from the source in the Southwest, life itself depends in the crowded cities of the North-

Probably never before was any civilization so

elsewhere. The contrast with Great Britain is striking. Last fall the basic gasoline ration was abolished. This meant that only those motorists

who could prove essential need in Britain's battle

of the austerities could get any gasoline at all

of any nation and still in the ascendency with changing conditions as any nation governed by the people inevitably must be and dictatorships surrounded by a coterie of gunmen never can be.

—RUTH RICKLEFS, Crawfordsville, Ind. Do as much walking as possible if you want to live long, says a medical adviser. But stay on Wie Same ide of the street,

HOBOKEN

Hoboken, I'm not jok’en, Is a town.

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gallons, gressmen from

Since Sinatra | Made it famous, It's renown.

‘On the Hudson Ferryboats Glide up and down.

For it's beauty, New Jersey, - Wins a crown. —h. M8 ® & ¢ People who break their word find out that

Eid the United | of economic

_precariously hung at the end of so thin a thread. It is this fact that plagues the sleep of national security planners and the heads of the big oil companies with. the nightmare of breakdown. The United States today is consuming nearly twice as much oil as before the war. per person for 1948 is estimated at 650 gallons. The pre-war average was approximately 370

As always, the political reaction is swift. Con-

deluge of mail from angry constituents who are pinched by the scarcity. One result is a demand that the administration put an embargo on all shipments of oil out of the United States. At one point this reached

-such proportions that passage by Congress embargo resolution seemed likely. For the time being, at least, the embargo seems to have been sidetracked

This is due in considerable part to the vigorous defense of present policy made on Capitol Hill by of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and others who realized what such a step would mean. Nothing would so quickly turn opinion against

isolationism. IE, Here at home, it would seem to be merely

The average

ption in could not

ortheast states are getting a YOU have them go

of an 10 Our own private use.

back home. ’

-around the world as that kind

It was one of the hardest blows on the middleclass Britisher who had looked for some let-up and a little pleasure with the end of the war.

‘Back to Horse and Buggy

WHILE APPEARING before a congressional committee, Mr. Harriman was asked why oil con-

sum Europe further. In reply, he put another question: “Would back to horse-drawn vehicles?” A turther reduction in the amount of oil going to western Europe would almost mean that. An embargo on American exports would be, in effect, a proclamation to the world that we in America were reserving the internal-combustion engine

Yet political pressures are undeniable. Some | Congressmen who sincerely believe in the Mar- ~ shall Plan and world co-operation have joined the clamor to cut off oil exports. Or at any rate they have made the gesture for the benefit of voters

The current scarcity has brought a new awareness of how helplessly the big cities in’ the Nertheast dangle at the end of the oil pipeline. Kero- . sene is considered a fuel used almost entirely by country people living at the edge of civilization.

Marshall Plan is democracy in action, not theory. Consistency, gentlemen! ¢ ©

Those Gl Babies By E. F. Bayless, 3844 Guilford Ave. ; The article in Thursday's Times titled, “2000 Babies Born in Tokyo,” strikes me as being a plenty strong reason for opposing UMT propaganda that is being fired at us by the military big-wigs. il Among other things, the article states, “Despite its obvious responsibility, the U. 8. . Army of Occupation is ignoring the problem,

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fllegitimate baby crop. ~ I assume that this is the general attitude of the Occupational Forces wherever they are stationed. In view of this kind of representation that America is getting ove , NO wonder that they cannot sell. to. other people. ; If there are 2000 babies in one Japanese city alone, think .how many there must be i ‘the world; innocent babes, conceived. by selfish, yes, and stupid, American

__refusing even to recognize the existence of the -

it never again is as good as new. ® © 0

It strikes us that the “new look” is practi‘cally no look at a 4 FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“DUBLIN~—Eire Holding Jewels Russians Left as Collateral on 29-Year Loan”)

inevitable self-protection, but abroad it would have quite a different look. We would appear to be

wallowing in a sea of oil as never before while

the rest of the world starved.

Imports and Exports Even

. THIS BECOMES clearer when you look at the facts. In the pre-war year of 1938, total oil production in the United States was approximately

“metropolitan area in and

But Massachusetts uses one-seventh of all the

Resgstne sonsvmied in the cointry, and a lot of goes for heating and cook 3 shat goes ng ng in the. Slums

Kerosene is used in the same way in the great around New York City. Oné consequence of the pinch has been a spiraling black market in scarce kerosene. Acco to reports here, kerosene sold at one time in Newark,

GIs, who care nothing for the results of their carelessness, but are concerned only with their own temporary satisfaction. With the commanding officers ignoring this deplorable situation completely, its not strange

over to Army life. What chance have those poor, unwanted

that parents are reluctant to turn their boys

Premier Eamon De Valera Says the Reds are in Eire's debt; Thus the progress of an era Finds their ways in concrete set.

Since the Soviet's light of dawn, But their recent technique shocking, - Just employs a new type pawn.

IN WASHINGTON ... By Peter Edson Many Bills Proposing Broader Social Security

(Second of Two Articles)

panies,

3,600,000 barrels a day. The U. 155,000 barrels a day and exported 510,000. The export business was profitable to major oil comCustomers in Europe and Asia built up a dependence on American supply. ——in—1947—total—production 5,500,000 barrels a day; exports were 450,000 and imports were 450,000 a day on the average. Today this country is bringing in more oil than it ships

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—There are now over 100 bills before Congress dealing with proposed changes in the Social Becurity Law. Seventy of these bills call for increasing old-age survivors’ «> insurance; 41; for increasing old-age assistance... Twenty-seven. want unemployment compensation formulas changed, while 13 “cover-atd—to t to pay maternity benefits. . Ni Out of all this confusion there is some possibility that action may be forthcoming--maybe this year, maybe not until next.

| There are three principal pressures in government to speed it up.

: and-one-wants the-government :

“President Truman says He WII send a special message to"

Congress on the subject. His budget message called for increasing benefit payments by $100 million next year, covering ail gain« fully employed workers, increasing the maximum amount of earnings taxable. as against receipts from payroll taxes of $2,500,000,000.

Altmeyer Asks Top of $185 a Month

COMMISSIONER Arthur Altmeyer of the Social Security

Administration has already outlined his agency's recommendations, He believes the minimum benefit payable should be increased from. $10 to $20 a month, - The maximum paid to any one family shoiild be $185, instead of the present $85. Workers should be permitted to earn up to $40 a month and still receive social security benefits. At present, no worker earning more than $14.99 a month can receive -benefits. The retirement age

and the survivors’ age limit for women should be reduced from

65 to 60.

Finally, says Commissioner Altmeyer, the first $4800 of every

covered worker's annual income should be taxed for Social -Security, instead of only the first $3000, as at present. To pay for all these -additional benefits, it might be necessary to levy a tax of from 5 to 8 per cent on this amount.

Congress Froze Rate at 1 Per Cent

LAST YEAR, Congress froze the rate of Social Security taxation at 1 per cent on both employer and employee through 1949. On Jan. 1, 1950, the rate will go to 114 per cent on each. On Jah. 3, 1052, it will go to 2 per cent. Mr. Altmeyer made these recommendations before. the Senate Finance Committee's 17-member Advisory Council on Social Security. Chairman of this council is former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Other members include Marion Folfom of Eastman Kodak, Delos Walker of Macy's, Albert Linten of Provident Life, Frank, Bape of State Government Council, Nelson Cruikshank of AFL and Emil Rieve of C10, This is the third such council of private citizens assigned to study Social Security, ’ In June, the council will make a second report, covering

nind the cold because he says he has a “central heating gan in his stomach. He tackles a domestic problem with a typical Wallace Jourish—our ex-GI's, says Mr, Duncan, “should be out

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wigwains.’

" - Also, he has a new philosophy “tune the world” to what he calls “actionalism.

designed to

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possible changes in unemployment compensation, the payment of

I" cash sickness benefits for short-term unemployment on certified

illness, and the rates of public assistance payments to the poor,

» These two major. reports of the Advisory Council on Social | ceases. atomic energy can make man live ‘as long as Methusélah.

Security will go to the Sénate Finance Committee. : Since Social Sequrity matters are considered as taxation, and since the Somnus provides the tax bills must originate in the: House, it is entirely possible that the reports to Senator Millikin:

Bho gen Bort Cot fe pt

Present cost of the system is $750 million a year, ! 000 |

N. J, for $1 a gallon. most.

8. imported ; . Some Republicans may

folly.

Side Glances—By Galbraith 3

This hits where it hurts

feel that of an oil embargo would be smart Politi.” Bags resolution would certainly be vetoed by President Truman, who would thereby. not endear himself measured against the plight of the rest of Pr world, an embargo would be the politics of reckless

kids got to obtain their rightful place in life; born out of wedlock, abahdoned by careless fathers, and probably having God-only-knows what kind of mothers. Respect, faith and trust are attitudes that must be earned and deserved to be possessed.

trust of civilian, population, it might at least attempt to conduct itself to be worthy of these attitudes,

[DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney ~~.

fea regu remem

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COPR._ 1948 BY NEA STRVIOL. WNC. YT. M. REG. U 8 PAT. OFF,

"Now that we've got all the mumps, measles, new hats and relatives disposed of, how about one hand of bridge?"

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Halleck, Landis Busy Defending Labor Law

. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7—Dear Boss: Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, Indiana's only national political figure now, | has been attending Republican rallies up- and down the land | praising the 80th Congress and listing its accomplishments. At such shindigs, one of the measures to which he accords

and cites figures to prove It. Speaking at Dayton; 0; last week; “Mr. Halleck summed up as follows: = “Since the enactment of the Taft-Harley Law there has been a new atmosphere in the field of labor-management relations

_.and a marked decline in industrial strife. :

and there were 81 million less man-days idle from. strikes in 1947 than in 1946.. Moreover, since the enactment of the law, the contracts which labor is entering into with management are the most liberal that labor has ever obtained.

Views Shared by Gerald Landis

* “I SINCERELY believe that the average American working man, both union and hon-union, is recognizing more and more the fairness of the law and its value to him.” { ‘ !

now ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee which drafted the bill. He also makes speeches about TaftHartley being a big strike-stopper ‘and cites figures similar to Rep. Halleck's: | ] : Rep. Ray J. Madden of Gary, who is a product of the linking of Jabor with the Democratic Party in Lake County, takes a dimmer view of this business. As a minority member of the same committee on which Rep. Landis serves, he condemned the

Taft-Hartley Law from the time it was first proposed, fought | against passage and went to the White House to urge President Truman to veto it. The President did veto it, but it was passed over his veto by the required two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, .

SO THEY SAY... In the News

since man's life is never wholly secure, economically, physically o spiritually.—Secretary of Defense Forrestal. | n » . . LJ . Food, fuél-and credit are weapons in a cold war that can be transformed. quickly into & hot war. Let us use them as weapons and quit pretending.—Rep. E. M.: Dirksen (R.) of Illinois. | ® x» = » We are now divided into two worlds, the one which holds to agnosticism and human slavery, the other that holds to faith free men.—Herbert Hoover, . ~ . : . "8's . 8.» : Atomic bombs can annihilate ‘all life on earth—but if war

~Rabert M. Hutchins, chancellor, University of Chicago. . . - " o ” r r I have discovered I can't be a careér girl and a party girl, \ aE re I

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The word security in essence has no place in any language,

al \ Labor Law Laid in Lap of NAM MR. MADDEN claims the Taft-Hartley Law was fostered by the National Association of Manufacturers and that this talk of its stopping strikes is “NAM propaganda.” " “Eighty-five per cent of the companies “stampeded to sign new contracts immediately before the Taft-Harley Law went into * effect Aug. 22, 1047,” Mr. Madden contended this week in inserting some research on the subject from the Public Affairs Institute 24 ta Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen into the Congressional rd. : : These statistics verify the Halleck-Landis figures, but the conclusion drawn is that only at the time of contract termination will the strike-cufbing possibilities of the Taft-Hartley Law be tested. . . ; RE Like the AFL and CIO, the Brotherhood condemns the law as part of a drive to disorganize labor.” “Low strike figures by themselves are * successful labor-management relations,” the report continues. “There were extremely low strike figures in Hitler C there are equally low strike figures in Stalin’ Russia. “A decline in the number of strikes is a good sign it reflects a situation where conditions permit labor and ment to sit down equals at the table, resolve their on terms 1a both” ik

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great-praise-{s- the Taft-Hartléy Law. He says it stops’ strikes ~~

“There were 1385 less work stoppages in 1947 than in 1046,

Similar views are shared by Rep. Gerald W. Landis of Linton, .

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