Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1948 — Page 12

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> WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. PAGE 12 Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1948

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ivate Subsidy? ~ GOOD, strong, well-equipped, well-trained National "Guard is undeniably a great asset to the nation and he various states in which units are maintained. Indi- ~ 1's own National Guard has a proud record of service nation and state dating back for nearly a hundred +8, and a glorious tradition that every patriotic Hoosier rally hopes to see carried on. We do feel, though, that Indiana’s adjutant general is ng a great deal from Indiana industry in proposing, as lid last week, that it substantially subsidize enlistments . i:e Guard. To be sure, it was only a request, and wholly suatary, and we agree that it will be very nice if any oyer feels able and willing to do'this. But no discredit, sertainly no censure, should fall upon the great major- | t Indiana employers who will not find it feasible to do \ing of the kind. The proposal is, briefly, that employers agree to give | employees who join the National Guard an extra two | ; vacation each year for Guard training, and that they | + up the difference between National Guard pay for “ariod and the employee's regular wages for his job: . ¥ - . . ” ¥ LET'S SEE how this works out. The current goal is TT"0 enlistments. They will require two weeks training | : year. At current average industrial wages of around + week, their normal pay from’ private industry would rit to around $385,000 for that two weeks. At current | Army pay the Guardsmen will draw about $80,000 e period from the Army paymaster, plus, of course, . food, clothing, lodging, transportation and all other “ses, Indiana employers are asked to pay that differ- + around $300,000 a year, out of their private pockets. y in addition, of course, to the two-weeks. vacations | "+ “ay which are virtually standard and which these men | » ‘lly get already. It means, of course, a four-week * sn.with pay for the man who enlists in the National | + |, and a two-week vacation for the man working next 1 who doesn’t enlist. Certainly it would be a strong o enlistments, and it would aid recruiting, and to that | 'n the other hand it would add a $300,000 a year un- | +1 “tax” to Indiana industry, and it could cause some “> personnel problems within a plant organization. And i» se lines it is not desirable. . 8 » « z ® 8» - MILL ANOTHER point which hasn't been mentioned. + any years organized labor looked with much sus"1 on the National Guard, fearing it might be used to | st" 1, if the employer who “pays” directly and person-

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1 “nd his interests, in case there was a labor dispute? *'. perhaps, with some reason. At least it is worth ' he facts are the National Guard operated successTor generations without any such subsidy from pri- *» business, attained all the development it ever had “2. that system, and wrote for itself a long and brilliant

! Y. 5 . * i */e doubt if it is so weak today that it needs a hand7» get enlistments. Or whether enlistments that have

«i... 'btained that way are going to maintain the standards a's National Guard has achieved in the past.

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one he works too hard, the spine. Not to mention the vocabulary,

In an auto accident is by being motoriously careless.

ess of ageing. How can dren's shoes?

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hand to those who want to walk again.

CRUMBS

Have you scattered crumbs to little birds As they hop around your door? Well, if you have, their merry songs Have pald you o'er and o'er;

Have you scattered any kindly acts Among the sick and weary? ; If you have it is a fact, You've made some life more cheery. And when you start to scatter You'll find it sound advice,

Do not pass them out in crumbs But cut a whole big slice.

~LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. California is celebrating the 100th anni-. versary of the discovery of gold. Why, they

didn’t really hit the bonanza until they discovered the movies and built Hollywood. ® ¢

* If we all could do Just as we please, think of the dishes that would be piled up in the sink. ® 9% o

THE PITY OF IT

If all our slyly spiteful words Would put on wings, and then as birds Ascend into the heavens high, * They'd cover nearly all the sky.

- ~MYRA AHLER, $9 @¢"

“The man who thinks he is the whole cheese usually is the offensive kind. ah

* oo \ ONE WORLD, AGE ONE At dawning he watches with mischievous eyes, While Mother, yawning, attempts to arise, Forgotten are the wakeful hours past, Arid of drinks, here's morning at last; Now breakfast, bath, toys and fun, Lunch, a nap, and a stretch in the sun; There are bees hig as birds, flowers that tower, And strange new discoveries. every hour, An. airplane. or kite are too far away, Minutial occupies his day;Supper and Daddy come at night," Against bedtime he will usually fight; Now--that- his vigorous day is done, presto He is ready again for his night time of fun. . ~MARCELLINE BRUCKER. * 2 9% Students in an Illinois college are forbidden to bring knitting to the dining hall. Imagine spaghetti winding up as a scarf. ws bid Pde an. Sy Seino

An easy way to make a friend is tell some-

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TOMORROW Oh, heart keep still! Cease useless pining, The day {is new— The sun still shining, Why grieve today? For yesterday's sorrow Hope is not dead, And there is, “Tomorrow.” -~MARY R. WHITE, oN, Sherman Dr. * ° One way to avoid puffs under the noticeable upon arising, is to take your off when entering the house late. ® 9% ¢ Scientists say Vitamin A postpones the proc you apply it to chil-

: > ® & & The Indians in the U. B. speak 55 distinct ost as many as their pale-face

* 0 ¢ oi Giving to the March of Dimes is lending a

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A GUST OF WIND

If I could be the night wind And whisper through the leaves, I'd travel ‘round the whole wide world And whisper what I please! But, since I'm just a person, And glad of that, I am, I'll not submit to gossiping About a fellow man! ~'Pis very strange -indeed, my friend, . The breeze there is astir. But I'll not listen—not one bit And it dies out—for sure!

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . .

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—Sen. Arthur H. Van-

. denberg sits in the ornate red and gold vice presi-

dential room just off the Senate floér and ponders his own future and the future of the world. Both he finds filled with uncertainties, with high promise and at the same time with potential perils. Looking out at the snow-covered lawn of the capitol, he recalls the first sentence of his statement in Life Magazine of nearly a year ago, when he sald he was not a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. It is harder not to run for President, the Senator said then, than it is to

Everything that has happened since seems to prove the truth of this paradox. It was Gen. Eisenhower's experience. ' If the General had been content simply to drift, saying nothing, the Eisenhower boom would certainly have continued to expand. Now that Gen. Eisenhower is out, the focus is again on Sen. Vandenberg in spite of his real reluctance and the deep doubts that trouble him. The draft-Vandenberg stimulus comes, as it did in the instance of Gen. Eisenhower, from those who feel that the times demand a man above and

beyond the ordinary political ‘mold.

In a deadlocked convention Sen; ‘Vandenberg could be drafted. But he could be down two conditions before he accepted such a draft. The Vandenberg terms would be: ONE: Thdt he would be a one-term President if-he were elected. . ’ TWO: That he make no barn-storming coast to coast campaign tour. ; The Senator believes a one-term declaration would put a candidate in a very strong position. He said as much four years ago when he came

out for Gen. MacArthur as the 1944 Republican standard bearer.

Would Be Freed From Politics

IN THE Senator's view, a one-term President would be freed from

politics in making his major decisions. He would not be constantly pressed by friends and cohorts reminding him of the effect that his actions were having on his chances for re-election. Furthermore; appeal tothe country would be stronger since it would be evident that continuing in power was not his chief objective. There is also the practical fact of the Senator's

~AVOLYN YOUNG BLAKE.

: Lively ‘Ghost Towns’ : product of World War II was a tremendous move. “Vent of civilian population within the United States. ® flocked from small towns and rural areas to warAlot of folks worried about what would happen to + “over-expanded” industrial centers after the war. * predicted that they would become ghost towns. 7 Well, those dire predictions haven't come true. ~The - nal Housing Industrial Conference Board has been - ting up on what actually has happened to the 34

~eo-tads-all-but-two-of -them-have kept right on growing ~~ the fighting stopped. : Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, which led the “try with a 45 per cent wartime population gain, has a little. San Antonio, Tex., which was second with a : rer cent wartime growth, stayed even. But San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, ‘land and 27 other war-boom centers, for which the ‘erence board has analyzed statistics, have more resi"iis than they had in 1945. So what were going to be dismal ghost towns have ned out, thus far, to be lively places.

sw Hat in the Ring

\ J ELL, Mr, Truman has one more political worry on his | mind. For Gov. James E. (Big Jim) Folsom of Ala- | ma says he'll seek the Democratic nomination for Presi- | '.nt in his state's May primaries, - Big Jim has already done a good bit of spade work. | wring his campaign for governor he did a lot of baby kiss- ¢ (females. that is, ages about 1 to 21). And since his retion he's spent a lot of time fighting with his legislature. ‘ny man with that rich background of political experiice can't be dismissed too lightly.

.et's Do the Whole Job | ; ' USSIA'S Andrei Gromyko has told the United Nations | "Atomic Energy Commission again that his government | “ill not accept any international control agency until Amera's stockpile of atomic bombs has been destroyed. It is nearly 30 months since the world learned about he atemic bomb. Other governments have certainly | ‘ought to duplicate jt. Some may have succeeded. Will | Mr. Gromyko's government agree to international inspecdon, just in case America’s stockpile isn't the only one 10. be ‘destroyed? : “

IN WASHINGTON ++: By PeterEdson = = Reserve Board Switch. Makes Merry Mix-Up

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-—-By shuffling chairmanship of the

Federal-Reserve -Board of -Governors from -M

“Thomas B. McCabe of Philadelphia; reducing Mr.

vice. chairmanship, President Truman Board in a political pickle:

has put the honorable

age. On his birthday, March 22d, Sen. Vandenberg

By Marquis Childs =

Could Vandenberg Be Drafted?

will be 64 years old. He is less than two months

Side Glances—By Galbraith 2

older than President Truman, who will be 64 on May 8. Rumors about the state of Sen. Vandenberg's health are a part of the curfent of political speculation,’ To friends who inquire on this score, he replies that he had a thorough physical examination at a clinic in his home town of Grand Rapids, Mich., last fall. The doctors at that time pronounced him organically sound. He has had a mild heart condition which has been brought under control by digitalis administered over a considerable period of time. :

Aware of -Thorny Path Ahead - DURING THE past two years, the Senator has proved that he can carry a heavy burden of work. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he conducted the five weeks of hearings on the Marshall Plan with patience and courtesy, If the rumored compromise comes off and the plan is speedily approved, no small share of the credit will go to Sen. Vandenberg. Proud of his role in the Senate, the Senior Senator from Michigan is actually aware of the thorny. path-ahead of any President in the four years. World War II has left in its wake problems at home and abroad of such magnitude as to make even the most ambitious man hesitate. Increasingly the presidency has become an “impossible” office, with the public'and ceremonial side piled on top of a responsibility crown more crushing with each succeeding year. fi Yet a full-fledged campaign to nominate Senator Vandenberg has begun in his own state. It was launched by Gov. Kim Sigler and Sen. Vandenberg’s Michigan colleague, Sen. Homer Ferguson. That gives it an official status. At a rally in Detroit, Republican leaders expressed confidence their tavorite son would accept a draft if it came about. Sen. Vandenberg is still { running for President. He talks of the possibility of some sort of pre-convention agreement between Sen. Taft and Gov. Dewey which would prevent a deadlock, lifting the threat of the

n the position of not

at their convention in M 1924. But the Senator i general. He can hardly Eisenhower did,’

adison Square Garden in 8 a politician and not a rule out a draft as Gen. even if he wanted to.

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kind of long- . ~drawn-out-hair-pulling that ruined the Denver ess :

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D AFFAIRS . . , By William Crisis Invo { @ ps 9 - z : Seeking Belgian Crown WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—A crisis appéars imminent involv -+-ing ‘the throne. of Belgium and which of three persons will wear —

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issue plainly and clearly. E i are brief. We do not return lottery and all contributions are to Write what you will—for the "ing: ; speak. ia A X = aly iia rez A Lost Customer " _By Newaomer, Olty, diiaia a is A -A biting, near-zero wind stung the cheeks of .. It took your breath away t5

| walk against if and turned your ears deep

| theh white and numb. It wasn't a morning

to walk far” Ha : A middle-aged man, his head bent 15y against the sharp wind, left his place of : and headed for a bank. It was not a day t, be particular which bank, any one would do, He chose the nearest. : * In the warm, marble-pillared lobby, he paused to get warm, loosened his looked for a cashier's window. Finding one, he approached and pushed his industrial 200d-“as-gold check through the opening. «The young lady took the check, flipped |_over for the sighature. “Do you have an ge. t here?” she asked. The thawing pedestrian said, “No.” “Know anyone in the. bank?” Again the pedestrian said, “No.” She directed him to still another window, © It was marked “New Accounts.” There a man well-padded from lingering at the fleshpots sat upon a cushioned chair, He asked the same questions, “Do you have an account?” and “Do you know anybody ig the bank?” and received the same answers, Thereupon he turned the good-as-gold check back to the now-thawed pedestrian without even getting off his chair or apologizing for his inability to adcommodate, and sent the pedestrian, new in town, back out into. the bit. ing, near-zero wind tq hunt , more friendly bank. | : ’ . ‘The pedestrian newcomer was about to open an account. But the bank that got the account ‘ was the second one which showed “court interest in the customer, asked for the usual identification, and cashed the check. ; Thus one of the larger banks, with a care. Tess employee, Tost an account to & smaller competitor. This makes us wonder if this isn't how little businesses become big and big ones become small. { : ® & ¢

A Few Price Controls Needed

By M. G. French, Edwardsport, -Ind. Yesterday in your “So They Say” column, ‘there is a quotation: “The American people know that if OPA comes back, the people will get black markets, old bull meat and short shirt tails.” : Just who is this gentleman speaking for? His class of people? Surely not the 20 million families who are gradually being squeezed dry by our present market. = Doesn’t he know that the poorer class views the present market as very black? Doesn't he know that about all the meat they are able to look at is political bull? Doesn't know that short shirt tails are useless when you lose your shirt? . “It 1s truly a tragedy when they offer puns | instead of specific remedies to stop a debacle i in the offing. y Voluntary controls are a farce, rationing across-the-board is a pipe dream. A few con. trols where needed will halt this upward spiral and I am not discounting prices, wages and | government spending. i Those people who are not motivated avarice and politics will give honest support to any plans that will help cure our domestic ill, Sugar--control-worked.- Rent controls seem be highly desirable, ’ Why not take other scarce commodities and. put them under control until supply dovetall demand? 3 EN Every day that indecision is practiced is on day nearer to boom-or-bust. Thén on to Wash ington. Save us. Then WPA. It did happen It can happen again.’ Wisecracking about. free enterprise won turn the trick. It is too late. Congress had better come up with the answer, “Charity begins at home” has been supplanted by “Charity begins every Place but home,» +

Where Are the Charities? Mr. 8, Hack, 28 8. Parker Ave., City I am a daily reader and want to make a protest of a condition that causes a woman to have to give up her child, Has this city come to the Place where we have to give up our children ii 80 they cgn have something to eat or what's the | matter th organized society? ; ‘ If" so what are the administrators of relief for and what are their duties?

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speculation in congressional and banking circles.

The desire to purge another New Dealer—meaning Mr. Eccles |

The-President's-refusal-to-explain-his moves has-heightened | |

States beforeireturning to Europe—is King in exile. His brother, _ Prince Charles, is Regent in Brussels. But Crown Prince Bau“doutn; “eldest son of Leopold; comes of age Sept. 7 and this event

| recommend that Mr. Szymczak be named. vice chairman.

~-has been suggested. Also the thought that the administration |

might like to have a Republican—Mr. McCabe—to work with the GOP Congress or to blame in case the country headed into economic distress.

it becomes necessary to look over the membership of the full |

Board of Governors, - er First name that strikes the eye is that of Commodore James _ K. Vardaman Jr. of the Missouri boys—had been Mr, Truman's naval aid. Vardaman Seemed Truman Favorite AT THAT TIME, it was generally assumed Mr. Vardaman

would be Mr. Truman's man on the Board and‘ultimately would Shortly after taking his seat, Mr. Vardaman |

become chairman. began feuding with Mr. Eccles, ; Mr, Eccles, an aggressive, fast-thinking "and fast-acting personality, always dominated the Board.. Lawrence Clayton, formerly assistant to Mr, Eccles, later a Boston banker, was named to the Board at Mr, Eccles’ insistence a year ago to give the chairman clear voting control over Mr. Vardaman. There are three other members. Ernest G. Draper, Washington manufacturer; R. M. Evans, S8zymczak, Chicago banker. : 3 Mr, Szymczak was on leave of absence from July, 1946, to June, 1947, while serving with U. 8. military government head | ‘quarters in Berlin. :

Wanted Szymezak Vice. Chairman

WHEN MR. ECCLES went to the White House in December to talk about his own reappointment as chairman, it was also to

To | $ ; Early last January, the President decided to name Mr. MecCabe to the vacancy caused by Mr. Ransom’'s death, and make him chairman. Mr. Eccles’ four-year term as chairman expired on Feb. 1, 1048. Mr. McCabe was apparently told he could pick his own vice chairman, Mr, Szymczak had been instrumental in getting Mr. McCabe naméd head of the Philadelphia’ district Federal Reserve Bank. : Mr. McCabe sald he wanted Mr. Szymczak to be his vice | chairman. The President crossed this a week or so in telling Mr. Eccles he was to be demoted. When he was told, he was thrown the so Eccles decided to stick it out. But, as the Board lines up now, the period ahead. is bound: | to be difficult, Mr. McCabe is an organizer. ' Mr, Vardaman is | likely to side with him against Mr, Eccles. Mr. Eccles is a fiscal expert with pronounced views shared by Mr. Clagton. Mr, Draper and Mr. Evans are uncertain. The man caught square in the middle is Mr. Szymczak. There is little doubt about his confirmation. He becomes key man on the | : fi g

p of vice chairmanship, Mr. |

It will be recalled that Mr. Vardaman—one |

an Iowa farmer, and M. 8. |

To get a fuller understanding of this situation |

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up. There was a delay of | thought of.—Sen. Robert A. Taft | Truman of trying to court left-wing friends of Henry Wallace.

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"Will you work on dead to buy me a spring coat, mother? When | ask him for anything he always tells me all about

* the things I've already got!" War,

SO THEY SAY... In the News

Unless there is a reduction in federal expenditures, a financial crisis in ‘America, such as now exists in England, is within the realm of possibility, This would mean world chaos.—Sen. Harry! F.. Byrd ¢(D. Va.). »

~ » Mr, Truman has raised all the ghosts of with new trappings that Tugwell

terview,

. » . the old New Deal and Harry Hopkins never

(R. 0.), accusing President

| his m “on: x» : The idea that high tariff walls are necessary to protect the United States from a flood of cheop foreign-made goods has long { since gone by the boards.—Rep. J. G. Fulton (R. Pa.). =

rr ~ . - . . = 1 will'bé available if there is a desire in the Re

publican Con vention for my nomination. .. . But I have no burning desire for it.—Gov. Earl Warren, of California, discussing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

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may bring matters to a head.

When the crown prince comes of age, he should take his seat in the Senate or enter military service. As an exile, his father does not want his son to return to Belgitim, but unless he returns he may be regarded as an army deserter. Leopold might abdicate in his son's favor, bitter feud by a compromise. I have seen the fully doéumented, - 270commission appointed to investigate the Ki France and England at the time and talked To a neutral, therefore, it would now seem quarrel is mostly the result of a chain of misunderstandings.

Critics Make Four Major Charges f THE KING'S critics | eriticized his military leadership in 1940. Becond, his refusal to | 80 abroad with the government-in-exile. see Hitler and, fourth, his marriage to a commoner, Official wartime documents reveal that as soon as the blitz struck France and the low countr took command of his armies in the he put himself under Gen. Billotte. During the Allied debacle, urged him to retreat southward. | pledged himself to his Allfes. abroad. He replied that he had told his troops he would stick with them and he would keep his word. Taken prisoner after the surrender, he insisted-—according to the records—on being treated as an ordinary prisoner of The records also show that it was Hitler who sent for him at Berchtesgaden, ‘in:

thus ending the

page report of the ng. I was also in with several involved. that the now historic

made four major charges: First, they

Third, his journey to ies May 10, 1940, Leopold field. At France's request, some of Leopold's advisers

He refused, saying he "had Then he was pressed to flee

stead of Leopold's asking for the in- . F ” 2

Protested Favors From Germans a 8

IT 18 also in the record that he Germans against being deported from when informed that his family would also be taken along, he protested against that. Prisoners of was he said, were not | shown such favors. i . Finally, the documents reveal that as a Catholic monarch arriage had the full blessing of the church. His bride, a { Mile. Marie Liliane Baels, renounced the title of Queen and the King renounced all royal prerogatives for any children born. The row led to the election, in 1944, of Prince Regent. In 1945, Leopold was permanently banned unless and | until Parliament voted otherwise, - In 1946, however, the Catholic | party--most favorable to Leopold—became the single . party in the country, although ‘munists and Liberals still hold the over-all Jkjortty. republicanism altogether dead. Tha ilssus, therefore,

proesteq bitterly to the Igium and that later,

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the combined Socialists, ComNor is far trom

gona! income ta - Senate GOP recession would "to be a factor § sions they mak lion tax-réduct by the House. would give no ¢ relatively mino modity and sto last week's. Republican se ing ways of s tax slash dowr $5 billion to wir mately 15 Be votes needed ts ticipated veto | man. Some De dicated they wil $4 billion tax c

Vandenber Won't Und

Sen. Arthur I Mich.) said to Recovery Prog tee profi losses for bank "recovery loans. ‘While such | ducted from tc the Senate F Chairman said, guarantee of ¢ or - 5. these investmen

Potshots Pe

At Rental

Both Republ crats took pot-s to drop rent c« tenants who ah to 15 per cent increases. This was one in the new re: fered by a Sen committee. On ator assailed it

For Distille

The outlook proval of legis] ernment resun to whisky-mak some question would follow &

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LAFAYETT! Railroad authc tigated the der bound Nickel } _and tender he: Thies tiain: jured slightly, The engine | bankment at railroad bridg inches short o Railroad off gine left the west of a yard curve leading cars of the 4 were derailed. Er ———

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