Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1948 — Page 10

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More Spud Trouble

MAINE'S potato growers are up in arms, Canadian pota- ~~ toes are pouring to markets in the United States and underselling the Maine product half a cent or more a ‘Sen. Brewster, Maine Republican, blames a reciprocal trade agreement. Under it, this country lets Canada send in each year up to 3,500,000 bushels of potatoes at a reduced tariff of 371, cents per hundred pounds. The Senator wants to end that agreement and make all Canadian potatoes imported pay the regular tariff, 75 cents. We doubt that this would do much to stem the flood. It would make United States consumers pay more for Canadian spuds, but not as much more as they have to pay - for Maine potatoes. For our government is keeping the price of home-grown potatoes so high that, even after pay- * Sing a tariff of 75 cents per hundred pounds, Canadian growers still could afford to undersell Maine growers. eit ". » OUR government guarantees to buy all domestic po- ~ tatoes that U, 8. farmers can’t sell on the open market for doing this since 1943. As one result, U. 8, farmers hage | been raising bumper potato crops, although the amount of potatoes eaten by the average U. 8. citizen has been de- | clining. As another result, our government bought from +1943 through 1047 about 195 million bushels of potatoes ‘at higher prices and at a cost to the taxpayers of about $170 million. : As still another result, the average retail price U. 8. housewives paid for home-grown potatoes rose from 31% ~ ‘cents a pound in 1942 to about 6 cents in the first half of ~ this year. : ’ ; ~~ _Bo far in 1948, our government has supported doby bu about 40 million bushels,

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.. of the current crop hasn't yet been harvested. = |. The Canadian growers, who know a good thing when they see it, are faking advantage of it. Actually, our gov- | ernment is supporting Canadian potato prices, at higher ‘levels than they could reach otherwise, as well as still ~ higher U. 8, potato prices. Call that an absurd situation, “if you wish, and we'll agree. But we don't believe it's fair

to blame it on the reciprocal trade agreement.

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It Could Happen Here : LIGHTLY used elephants may now be bought in India 7 for as 1¥1é'as $60 apiece. The mifket has Hit rock not so much because 1949 models are. on-their way -to rooms as because large doses of democracy in the Indian princely states have forced rich rulers to cut their “Standard “of fiving “and turn 1668s vf their ceremoniai-{-iy No longer will it be possible to get on a waiting list in ‘India, buy a new elephant, load it up with luggage-carrier, sun visor, radio and fancy cigar lighter, walk it around the block and sell it at double the list price. Even jeep elephants are going begging in India, so bearish is the market, ~All this ought to make some campaign fodder for - # American Democrats currently battling old foes whose . symbol is the pachyderm, but we merely hail the news as 1 warning automobile dealers in this country that they, too, * may be fooling with white elephants.”

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a Social List of Washington,” 1049 edition, has just been published, and the country can now afford to sit back and draw a long breath of relief. For, according to Mrs. Carolyn Hagner Shaw, publisher, the “List” settles _ some pretty hot issues. For instance, there's the matter of social precedence in the new Department of National Defense. The head of | © that department, Secretary Forrestal, is a third rank * | among members of the President's Cabinet. But the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy and the Jir Force, not being Cabinet members, are relegated with their wives to posi- _ tions behind the 96 Senators and the 435 Representatives, and their wives, if any, Si Furthermore, says the announcement, the “List” has now disposed of “a dispute of long standing. The decision has finally been handed down that the Chief Justice of the . United States does outrank an Ambassador of a foreign .. power; a Minister of a foreign power, however, outranks an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.” Important? We'll say so. “Many a prominent social

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“A Job for Candidate Thomas

“THOUGH it isn't brand new, there's much to be said for 7 Norman Thomas’ suggestion that a small commission

com and Soviet espionage, as an earlier coma in Canada did, and recommend whatever action NL CN group were set up, we would like to see the candidate on it. As a learned, honest se for Stalinists, Republicans or Demoakin : be able to

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at a cost of nearly $57 millon to the taxpayers, and much |

“1 garesr,” ds Mrs. Shaw points out; -“has-been- ruined, and. | Taek of Kiiowledge of Who sits “above or below the-salt:'/t---}.

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Great-grandfather lived. here; 1 look at the

Was carved in t Et Great-grandfather found in all nature good-will, | And worked very hard for his brood; He looked o'er the land at the close of the day And found what he'd done had been good.

Great-grandfather lived here and also his son, His son's son then left it to me; Can 1 claim to be worthy descendant of these, Can 1, too, feel joyous and free?

May 1 look over the land at the close of life's day, : Stand where my forefathers stood, And know in my heart I have tried with my might ] That the work of MY hands should be good. ~MYRL G. NEW, Pendleton. * So

| THANK THEE, LORD

I thank Thee, Lord, for work to do, For lowly tasks my hand may find, For strength to earn my dally bread, And live in peace with all mankind,

I thank Thee, Lord, for those in need; That I may share Thy bounty, too, . .

And lift a’ load from aching hearts. Lokkion I thank Thee, Lord, for work to do. fi SUBCOMMITTEE / I thank Thee, Lord, that I may come \ 7

And kneel before Thy throne of grace, I thank Thee, Lord, when life shall end, That I may see Thee, face to face,

—BINA “I. SARVER, Crawfordsville, od oo @

NOTE TO HOUSEWIFE

Have a working plan to work by that'll work. Then your work won't go beserk. But if you shirk Trouble will lurk,

~MARY BACON, Indias He ‘Ni

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Are gold bricks hard to sell? O no! Just dangle one before the average man. Does he take a powder without pro And con? He begs for one. “Can _ You spare this one?” Within a few days The gilt wears off. He's fallen for a trick. For his bargain treasure assays An old red building brick. Does he blame himself? Certainly not!

Who let this country go to pot!” Wise old Barnum was right again.

~ALMA C. MAHAN, Terre Haute. * 4

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Tt seems ‘the dear old gang is busted And things have changed about, You don’t write like you once did. Guess I'm not the same old scout; Thinking back insfondest memories Makes my heart leap up with glee, When you and I were buddies, In the days that used to be.

There's the times we had together ¢ In the garden by the lake, When 1 would plant potatoes

In the furrows you would make; bank. commercial farmers. They , “es ien-the girls would spread the suppe : So I rmers. produce’ more than Ee PE t Ie APR rb ti pA rei itl ib on they consume, to sell. They're in business. That Oh, the sight was grand to see, - Name to Be Heard on Farm Policy == """fkes capitai-—more in most cases thsan-it takes

When you and I were buddies, In the days that used to be.

But thos gone forever, And T getting old, It seems our friendship’s drifting, And our hearts are growing cold; But I still hold fast the memories Of the one so dear to me, : ‘When-you-and I were. buddies, In the days that used to be. ~—CHET BARRIGER, indianapolis. * & o

MY GARDEN

A little garden plot I have I tend it with great care, X And I hope that much of beauty Will thrive and blossom there.

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But I must watch so carefully And many times I weed The ugly things . . . that crowd out A kindly thought or deed. ~-MINNE BOURGOYNE-RODEFER, ‘ Liberty.

SENSITIVE ISSUES . +» By Marquis Childs Vague Policy Charge Resented by Dewey

ABOARD THE DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN, Oct. 16—In the long light of history the current political campaign may have a quite different look than it now has to us who are so close to it. Candidate Dewey's contemporaries—and this goes especially for the 70 mewspaper critics traveling with him-—are inclined to be irritated by his high-level appeal for unity, his failure to be specific on specific issues. The last is a charge to which the Dewey team is acutely sensitive. And, believe me, they are sensitive on this train and instantly aware of criticism -— even though it may seem that they are gently and even smugly coasting down to victory, In particular on the core of foreign policy the Dewey managers resent the charge that they are too vague and too general. A well-known radio commentator delivered a rather sharp attack on Mr. Dewey's Salt Lake City foreign-policy speech. The commentator quoted wise-cracking Oscar Levant as saying he had always wondered how a man would sound who was saying nothing. And now, said the radio oracle, we know. °

Dewey Maes Rebuttal

THE COMMENTATOR felt that Mr. Dewey should have spe-

cifically declared for the rearming by the United States of the armies of Western. Europe. Failure to do so, in his view, was evasive and cowardly. ] But the Dewey managers make what seems to me a most “important Feblttal. “They point-out; first, how. perilously close is the

votes in the politburo in Moscow stand in the way of imme” diate war. k This being #0, say skillful men in car No. 2, who are fashgM v ‘wpeeches, a clarion: call for immediate armament by the candidate almost certain to be next Presiden the United States might well have a disastrous effect. It co convince the masters of the Soviet Union that there was no the Russian Armies have the preponderant advantage in Europe was the only choice. With this in mind--and the men around Mr. Dewey are deeply aware of what an unrelieved disaster for all concerned another war would be—Dewey's words on foreign policy are chosen with the most painstaking care. In his Oklahoma City speech, for example; he said:

*Peace Is Single Goal’ “WE ARE not trying to tell other people how they should live. We are not even trying to tell them what kind of govern-' ment they should have. In our dealings with other nations we shall be fair, consistent, patient and strong. We shall have a foreign policy that hay for its single goal the establishment of peace in the world . . While that may be perfectly obvious, it nevertheless seems to me important that it should be said. This is not appeasement in any sense of that abused word. It is self-restraint and foresight, and Mr. Dewey deserves full marks for it. In the long light. of history I believe he will get greater credit for his restrain accorded

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PRESSURE GROUPS . .-.

High Command of Farm Bureau

WASHINGTON. Oct. 16—There is a decided new look about Washington headquarters of American Farm Bureau Federation, probably the most powerful of the farm pressure groups in the capital. The man responsible is Allan B. He yells, “No law enforcement! Weelect men sine an Towa corn-hog man who this year succeeded big Ed O'Neal, the Alabama cotton plant. er who was AFBF president and chief 'Washington lobbyist from 1931 through 1947. : Mr. O'Neal's drawling, easy-going ways have .-been.banished. A new staff of younger, bristling Middle’ Westerners has Roger Fleming. The offices themselves have been moved from a crowded Suite in a downtown building to half a floor in the Standard Oil building at the foot of Capitol Hill. There are thick carpets on the floor, pastel tinted walls, modern desks. The Farm Bureau is now definitely big business, AFBF was founded in 1920. It grew up with the county agent movement. When Ed O'Neal took over its presidency it had less than 300,000 members and it was broke. Today it has over 1,300,000 members and over $1,000,000 in th

THE NAME of new President Kline is. apt -to be heard a good bit more around Washington in the shaping of future farm policies. He is 53, of medium height but stotky, with big hands and a weather-beaten face. He has a de-

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ible. They go up and down on the market. But other elements in food prices are what he calls “sticky.” They go up, then stick there. Labor and freight costs, for instance.

Costs Must Drop First

UNTIL the sticky costs of machinery and Jand and fertilizer and other things that the farmer buys come down, Mr. Kline says there is little chance that farm prices can come down much further If, in spite of this, the gdvernBY inger, bristling = ment should embark on a low-price food probeen moved In UNAEr = gram, Mr. Kline believes Tt Wil "have to-resort-to— a subsidy program. The British have done that. They pay the farmer $1 a dozen for eggs which are sold to consumers at 75 cents. The government pays the difference. Mr. Kline says he'd hate to see the U. 8. adopt that system. The present system isn’t free enterprise, he admits, but it's a lot closer to it than the subsidy system. Mr. Kline's chief interest—the American Farm Bureau Federation's chief interest—is in what he calls the “commercial” farmer. Of America’s 6,000,000 farm families, only half are

to run a grocery store.

Could Produce More Food

THE OTHER half of America’s farm families merely live in the country. The U.S. could

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I think that the dog leash law should ba passed and- think that the City Council instead of giving too much consideration to the “200 pet, enthusiasts” who were screaming -their opposition to this law before the Council on October 4th, should inktead take into consideration the safety of our children and of the dogs themselves. Mary Catherine Connor, a City Councilman, in a letter to The Indianapolis. Times (Oct. 6) says that when this ordinance is presented again that she will vote against it and says, “If I did otherwise my conscience would bother me all the days of my life” I feel that it should be the other way around, that if she didn’t vote for this ordinance that her conscience would bother her. Hundreds of our children’s lives are in jeopardy every day from these stray dogs, And stray dogs they are if they are off their home ground. and not under control by a leash, These “200 pet enthusiasts” represent a bunch of the most selfish, egotistical group that I.have ever heard of; it represents a group of people who do not stop:to think of the safety of our children, or anyone else, no, not even the safety of the dogs whom they profess to love. 1 wish to make clear that I do not hate dogs and do not wish to be accused of it but I do think a dog should be kept Hokid control. > @

‘Some Women Ask for Insults’

By Nelda Gooding I wrote a few days ago that women who go about almost nude, women who do not pull down their window blinds when Hessing or undressIng, and women who get in cars with strange men “ask for it” when they are insulted or molested. Some readers misunderstood what I intended to convey. I do not believe that good women are not molested, as I know otherwise. I am good

I know this is true of other women, too. I know too that the type mentioned in the first pgrt of this letter incite evil thoughts in moronic men. I know too that these men may vent their evil acts on any woman or child who happens to be around. That is the sad part of this, that it may not be the woman who did not conduct herself right who is their victim, but some innocent child or good women. A recent book on this subject states that the No. 1 reason for the upswéép:in crime on women is their immodest dress. I certainly concur with the author on this. hry ® “4

‘Record of GOP Deplorable’

By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St. . Pp h. of Mz. Hobart Or ig Republican aspirant for Governor in which he lambasted union leadefs as being dictators and the rank and file as puppets, sealed his doom insofar as organized labor is concerned. Of course, Mr. Creighton never was a member of a labor organization. He knows nothing of the methods used in a concerted movement. His statements as to the manner in which subjects are handled was one hundred per cent erroneous. The rank and file makes the setup, always, The leaders want to start any movement of interest to the rank and file he must first take a referendum vote to see how the rank and file feel about it. Mr, Creighton didn’t losethe labor had it; his record for that subject is too well known. He said in part, he didn’t like union leaders’ attitude toward him. The feeling was mutual and since we are in America, they both ¥ have a right to their say. - ”

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gree from Iowa State College. He has been .to Europe four timiés in the last four years to study European food problems. His j40-acre farm - roduces $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn, a swimming podl and tennis court. .. Te He can talk farm economics like a college professor and by the hour. He does it .without reference to notes or ‘manuscript, citing statistics all the while. Which may account in part for the fact that he is also a member of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank board. His spe- - clalty is monetary policy. } In talking about today’s prices, Mr. Kline distinguishes between farm prices and food prices. He says most people believe that food grows in grocery stores. They forget that in the grocery store price are also transportation, processing, handling and storage costs—all of which are piled on top of the farm price. Farm prices; Mr. Kline points out, are flex-

margin between war and peace in the savage East-West | contest... Mr. Dewey. has. sald. privately that he helleves only two |

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

int Xoure always, raving how pretty these leaves are, Mom— . wouldn't you like to admire ‘em a little longer while |. play football with the kgs?"

in the longer perspective the magnitude of the present crisis will be apparent and Mr. Dewey's contribution will be clear.

The way is wide open to exploit the bles of the Truman administration. The Vinson-to-Moscow posal is only the nost glaring . - Consider the kind of campaign that Sen. Robert A. Taft would be conducting at this point if he had become the Republican nominee. The bipartisan foreign policy would be mincemeat and the Soviet radio would be echoing night after night the Republican attacks. ', ! ‘ Incidentally, Republicans .of the: Taft variety are almost as unhappy over the Dewey unity campaign as the newspapermen who scratch through the Dewey speeches in search of a headline. They would, of course, like to see an old-fashioned hell-and-brimstone attack on the wicked Democrats antl the arch fiend

But they will not get more than an occasional small dose of ‘that kind of adrenalin from the team that has plotted this Sainpaign with hour-to-hour precision. Now and then the con-

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produce a lot more food if these subsistence farmers could be put on a commercial basis, .says Mr. Kline. He believes the U. 8. could ..consume all that these farmers might produce. - Mr. Kline denles the frequently made charge" that the farm organizations are to blame for the delay in lowering farm support prices until 1950. Farm Bureau hada big fight over that at its annual meeting last December. One group wanted to keep support prices up to 90 per cent of parity indefinitely. Mr. Kline led the fight for a cut to 60-80 per cent of parity. He

Right up to the end of Congress last June, all the farm organizations held together on the 60-90 formula. Delaying that action until 1950 was something that the politicians thought up: He won't say who was responsible, but implicates both parties. As for rectifying that mistake in the next Congress, he sees no chance.

The record of those elected as Republicans in Indiana has been deplorable. 'T have been a Republican for 50 years. If some persons in our state or federal offices are Republicans I have ~-.been. wrong 50. years.: I cast. my first vote for McKinley. : * ¢ > t

‘What About Pin Ball Machines?’

By William E. Swanson, 422 N. Belmont Ave. Some nine months ago our Mayor requested the city corporation counsel to render an opinion determining whether or not pin-ball machines were gambling devices. To date no such opinion has been given. Yet New York City has declared them illegal and confiscated and destroyed them all. Neither has the same official ever rendered a decision whether the Gas Company's affairs can be investigated by the proper city officials” This officer's pay check should be held up -until he complies with the Maylor's wishes.

WORLD AFFAIRS . *. By William Philip Simms Berlin Crisis Linked To European Recovery

PARIS, Oct. 16—United Nations delegates ’ tes see a clear link between failure of mediation over Berlin and the European recovery program which Moscow and her fifth: columns everywhere now are openly seeking to wreck. uropean and American officials are convinced the next 12 months will make or break the effort. Far from coming to 2 Pjcraanding with Je East, therefore, Russia is expected er efforts produce chaos and hit har and on Hore places than ever. i faster the same time there is a growing uneasiness in Amerlcan Tircles over the lack of long-range targets for European Sooriomle co-operation. Phe British are known to share this Up to the present the Marshall Plan has ta pectations. However, much of what has reat About. met ex. of an emergency nature. But frm here pn, if the recovery program is to succeed, more and hetter and clearer long-term

targets are essential,

Planning Board Considered

MEETINGS of the Council of Organization Economic Co-operation are now under yes here i European ject" on the agenda. It is said that the end result—which is to make Europe self-sufficient within the ordinary meaning of the term-—doesn’'t seem much closer than at the beginning. An economic planning board somewhat like that which functioned in the United States during the World War 11 is being studied here. It is also being considered. in. W.

sotiing but reign sual yves from each of the Marshall Plan countries, ese analyses would re staff of European economists, P prepased bya Competent ‘Marshall Plan nation ig supposed best of its ability. Each is pil to help the others, Germany is regarded as a vital part in the setup, Yet today there Is complete confusion regarding the future program and unless planners have reliable, full, up-to‘date facts regarding each and all beneficiaries, no intelligent targets can be devised.

European Unity Vital

RE and more from ‘how on, European unity—at least wend Europe’'s—Iis vital. It was this that Sen. Vandenberg must have had: in mind when he warned that the Western European union must speed up its plans for unity if it expects Congress to continue to appropriate billions for aid, That Russia is keenly aware of ‘what 1s at stake in Western Europe is increasingly evident here. It is not Just an accident that Communists of France, Belgium, England, Italy and other European countries camé out within a few days of each other In announcing that one of their major policies was to wreck the Marshall Plan. : . The French government claims to have proof that the strikes were ordered and financially backed by the Cominform with instruction to start exactly when and where they. did. The Boviet' stand at the United Nations here fits into the general picture like a hand in a glove. ' That is ne reason .. why there is little hope for an East-West understanding either now or soom, rh a YN wet them ?

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