Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1948 — Page 10
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fi THERE has been plenty of fireworks in Latin America @ |
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— is likely to come of that, as Mr. Hoffman admits.
, public contempt.
Two Securify Councils’ =
__ counted. . © "Once the council got under way, Soviet sabotage was
existent nation of the Ukraine. The Soviet delegate at-
showdown ballot on the American resolution for the Dutch
affective United Nations action, and to stimulate further ws Putch- fighting which is. increasing. chaos and communism. |
~ their gains, the damage already will have been done.
"did not specify that such changes had to be democratic. So
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_ Inter-American Council in the Costa Rican case. And it
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One-Man Committees oo | |
E AREN'T sure whether, as CIO President Philip Wa contends, a one-man congressional investigading committee has no legal standing or power of subpena. But we are sure that Congress should permit no more -one-man-committees to operate as, for instance, Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) has operated in the last two years. Mr. Hoffman has appointed himself, or has been able to get himself appointed, to investigate many, many things. The conduct of labor unions is one of his favorite subjects. The conduct of Democrats is another. But these by no means cover the range of his interests. He has seemed to consider himself vested with power to-order practically anybody to come before him and answer questions about ically anything. : Pra os a single individual would be dangerous even in the hands of a man of great wisdom and discretion, which Mr. ‘Hoffman is not. There have been many complaints that Mr. Hoffman has pried into matters with which he had-no legitimate concern, and that he has had careless regard for the rights of witnesses and other persons. And, "if his numerous investigations have produced any beneficial results, they certainly are far from conspicuous.
~ = ” MR. MURRAY has defied a summons to appear before Mr. Hoffman and be questioned about a recent raid by CIO steelworkers on a plant in Kalamazoo, Mich. So Mr. Hoffmign has asked the Attorney General of the United States to prosecute Mr. Murray for contempt of Congress, Nothing : Nor will Mr. Hoffman be doing much investigating in the new Denfio- § But the incident seems to us to add emphasis to the contention that Congress should adopt fairer, more definite rules for all of its investigating committees. Such rules, we think, might well include a ban on one-man committees. Any degree of power exercised by a one-man committee is much too likely to be abused and to bring Congress into
HOSE discouraged by the weak performance of the United Nations Security Council in the Indonesian case can be heartened at least by the splendid record of the
is especially gratifying that the Washington government in both instances took the leadership for enforcement of international peace agreements. =. oo The Security Council showed up at its worst. First it ignored a warning of Indonesian trouble and took a holiday recess, permitting its members to leave Paris for distant points. This was a violation of the United : Nations Charter, which requires the council ‘to he on; immediate emergency call. Then, when the Dutch broke the'truce with a military offensive and the United States demanded council action, M “kept i So the council was
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five days late though every Jour
complete. This was easy because Russia has two votes, one in her own right and a phony one in the name [ the non-
tacked everybody—the Dutch for aggression, the Indonesian republic for licking the Red uprising there recently, and the United States for protecting the Dutch. But on the
to return to their original military position, as well as cease fire, the Soviet withheld its-two votes. -
THUS Stalin was able to smear all hon-Reds, to block
throughout Southeast Asia and the islands. If the Dutch, ) "after taking all their military objectives, finally accept the ‘council's harmless, cease-fire ¢rder allowing them to keep
On the same day the Security Council in Paris was taking its ineffectual action, the Council of American States really functioned in Washington under the Inter-American “Pefense Treaty. It ordered both: Nicaragua.and. Costa Rica. ‘to abstain ftom hostile acts and dispatched a military comCouncil—inlike the Security Council—was ‘an untried body - dealing with a new case and had no commission on the spot when the trouble started, it moved with speed and sureness. In fairness to the Security Council, however, it must pe admitted that the comparison is not altogether just— the Inter-American Council had no Soviet wreckers to contend with on the inside.
. 8 Danger to Democracy " since representatives of 21 American countries, including this one, signed the Bogota pact last April. The governments of Peru, Venezuela and El Sdlvador have been overthrown by revolution. There was an unsuccessful revolt in Paraguay. Costa Rica blames Nicaragua for its recent invasion. And plots were discovered against the present regimes in Chile, Bolovia, Panama and Ecuador. The Bogota pact included a clause which provides for continuous diplomatic relations among the 21 signers in spite of changes in government. But the clause apparently
now the U. S. governidlent finds itself officially on good terms{with governments set up by force and violence.
” . » THE State Department understandably dees not, like the situatign, It has circulated a message among the Latin American governments which holds that rule by minorities . and military cliques is dangerous, and which indirectly suggests a change In the policy of automatic recognition. There Is still a long row to hoe before democracy makes much real headway In Latin America. And the start must pe in the social and economic field, not the political. Until wegdatin America will be a fertile j lism or any other extreme po- | litical philosophy that is lavish with promises in its quest for | power. As such, it will remain a source of
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in Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue
"THE EGGS AND US"
It takes years of hard work before most writers can acquire professional skill. But it's interesting. It's even fun, if you have a lively -sense of humor. Sometimes we write something that seems powerful. Maybe it's a thought that an Oriental sage propounded, but with sudden “brightness” we decide to fix it better. Ah! 1948 al'a mode. We mull it around until thé sage himself figure out, “Wot hoppin?” Power! Drama Style! That in itself should be warning enough. - But, NO, we just couldn't toss it In the wastebasket ’ So it gets printed We take one glance at the newspaper, two sharp looks, then three long stares. Our delightful little gem almost bounces out and bumps us on the nose. “PHEW! an egg.’ we moan, while starting to weaken so fast we couldn't eat the words if we had a chance. . Just getting our. name dibbled off of At. would seem. mighty powerful. Here's the point. What you put on paper has to come from your own_ mind and heart otherwise it simply does not ring true. The old sages were wonderfully wise people, but you andl are not sages; we must be ourselves first, last, and always. So we inspect all eggs, sniff them suspiciously, toss out the bad ones; then laugh out loud at ourselves and hop right back to the typewriter and start over again. —MABEL K. STABLER, Indianapolis » © %
PLEDGE
I have known pain None may deny me that I have seen it raging Consuming, as a flame
Devours a paper toy. I have seen it quite Still and terrible as death Relentless as the night.
I have known it ahed — : A burning fever in my head.’ I have known it abroad— A grinning, tyrannical god,
Who delights in my frustration— An unrequited love — A passionate desire — The courtship of damnation.
» “Oh futile! Futile!” © For who knows better. than 17 “The quest 1s futile!” I have héard it many times.
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And pain has taught me well How truly small are men. (How small a grain .of sand?) How littie does he ken!
But he has failed to teach me To obey and to submit— To pass without a question— For I will not learn’ to quit!
—JAMES CONNERLEY, West Lafayette.
WRENS" WRINKLES
Money talks; sometimes with a turned-up ‘nose . .. Sound facts make little noise . . . The pessimist procrastinates, the optimist operates « . . You can buy liniment to make your skin smart but concoct your own mixture to make your head smart . . . If only those who never told a lie get to heaven it will be awful lonesome with nobody there but God and George Washington . . . The straw that broke China's back has been dipped in a molten mass of misery . , . The good old fashioned butcher occasionally pulled a bone . , . No scale has the capacity to - weigh all the angles . ., Communf&ts and skunks have theif own kind of native diplomacy .. . . We have no plans to:put out a new wrinkle Lream. —~LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis. * *
1 like to see the windows Of the houses that we pass, ] When all the screens have been removed, And through the sparkling glass Clean, lacy curtains glisten; Arranged, beautifully, with care, To proclaim to all who gaze That a woman lives in there. i : ..=B. C., Indianapolis.
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FUTURE DEFENSE . -. . By Jim G. Lucas Security Pact Becoming Reality
WASHINGTON, Dec, 27—The proposed north Atlantic security pact binding America’s military fortunes to Western Europe's {8 gradually becoming a working reality. Officially, the pact doesn’t exist. Nothing has been committed to writing. We have agreed only to discuss it. Ambassadors from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg met at the State Department again this week to look over progress reports. Com‘mittees have been at work for several weeks.
Their goal is to draft proposed treaties in time
for presentation to the Senate next spring. Tacitly the United States and Western Europe have agreed on the framework of their
“gHiance; it-was- earned. -They-have. answered.
the basic question—how far shall we go? The pact, when drafted, will be patterned after the inter-American defense treaty signed at Rio de That treaty provided: “Every attack of a state against the integrity and inviolability .of the territory. or against the sovereignty or political indépendence of an American state ... shall be considered an act of aggression against the other states.”
Extend Security Zone
IN EFFECT, then, it has been agreed that the proposed north Atlantic security pact will extend the western—hemisphere security zone —which already takes in" a quarter of the earth's land area—to many of the nations of western Europe outside the iron curtain. Specific details must be wopked out. In some instances, there may be stumbling blocks.
i. There is no roll-call agreement yet. The United | States wants the pact as inclusive as possibile.
We are anxious to have Italy, Spain, Portugal, Western Germany and Scandinavia. France and Britain don't want Spain. France fears
the French also are reluctant to re-arm Italy. although Gen. Efisio Marras, Italian chief of staff, recently promised the Western powers bases in Tripoli and Tobruk for the return of ~the Italian colonies.
TRANSPORTATION... By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — Government ownership of the railroads may be what ultimately lies ahead if the transportation industry continues. its -present cycle of .wage and. rate. increases. This hard conclusion is the off-the-record-opinion-of Washington |
transportation authorities not connected . with either railroad |
management or railroad labor. Probably no ‘official would allow
Mediation Board's recommendations
increase.
Recommendations of this board are not binding on. either Either or both may *turn down the findings. as. unacceptable. . The recommendations were intended of a strike next January, but a strike is stil
management or labor.
to head off threat
ais fopyativarcpenatbilitvo is cthab id them] Wor should be acceptéd by both sides as a basis fof -negot there will be nine months of arguing over how to put the 40-hour™
week into effect.
Not on 40-Hour Week
THE railroad industry is practically the only big the country which is not now on tHe tive-day 40-hour“week. will be recalled that when this schedule was being generally adopted during the 1930's, there was much argument that steel and other basic industries couldn't operate that way, and would Transition in the railroad industry may therefore be a lot smoother than islshow anticipated. Increased operating costs imposed by the recommended wage rate and rule changes would be something else again. Estimates vary, but the total increaseg~costs to the railroads if all the board's recommendations are adopted will be $450 million to
be ruined. They weren't.
$650 million a year. These increases
by eC would be the “sixth round.”
rates have been received since the end of the war. ~ passenger fares, mail pay and express rates’ have been jaifed.
Can't Go on Forever
) RAILWAY labor has, received three full rounds of wage increases for both operating and nonoperating pegsonnel, and |
is now starting on its fourth round.
70 per cent.
This spiraling of wages and rates obviously can't go on
forever, increasing return. out of business.
Passenger fare increases granted this year have already the effect on cutting ‘total passenger-miles traveled. freight rate hearings just concludéd, many ‘shippers of coal, lumber, fruits and, vegetables, livestock, and ther commodities claimed. freight rates were now -as high as they could go.. If passenger and freight rates are forced still higher, more thatfid will simply have to be /diverted to competing services. Sid in railway express
This" has happened to some degree business. v
If the railroads are headed toward government ownership, it will apparently have to be this kind of an operation. be Kept low enough by law so that people can afford to travel Government subsidies will take care of losses. Escapes from this eventual outcome are considered limited undey present trends. ' The railroads might possibly change their operation so as to out down Sy srndads Unprofitable services | : / , y SEH eT, ‘ wl
and ship by rail.
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himself to be quoted on this trend at this time. But private observations to this effect were made freely following announcement of the special Presidential that’ on. Sept. nonoperating railroad employees should be granted a 40-hour: week in place of the 48-hour week, with 7 cents an hour wage
cannot be absorbed by: any freight or passenger rate boosts which the railroads have received or still have in sight from Interstate Commerce Commiission, for a 13 per cent increase in freight rates now being considered Four increases in freight
In addition, the carriers claim that coal and oil costs are up nearly:z*100 .per cent above pre-war, while all material and supply costs have gone up about
| Side Glances
1949,
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supported by. a 34.000-man Netherlands Indies
“UNTIL Congress acts, we can participate only.
staff, recently went to London, undoubtedly with
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a re-militarized Germany. ‘10 a Tesser degree,
Nor has ‘the amount of Uricle Sam’s con-
tribution—In manpower and materiel=been de~—1-
termined. Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, head of the Western Union Military Staff, first must decide how much, he will need. Estimates run as low as $1 billion and as high as $5 billion a year. Whatever western Europe asks, that amount undoubtedly will be cut. One report is that first asking figures run as high as $30 billion.
Accord May Be Delayed
THE Netherlands’ war against the Indonesian Republic may delay final accord. The Dutch Have 85,000 troops including - airmen,
army; in Indonesia. By contrast they have only 2000 trained troops at home. Despite U. S. opposition to her Indonesian campaign. The Netherlands has beén one of the North Atlantic pact’s most active supporters. Because it is accepted that the pact eventually will include the United States, it has begun to pay dividends in advance. An example was Belgium's announcement last week that she is building a big air-army base in the Congo. The Congo is the world’s principal uranium source, and its vulnerability has-long been a matter of concern here.
Only Observers Now
as observers. Maj. Gen. Franklin A. Kibler, head of our delegation to Marshal Montgomery's
suggestions. Air Marshal Sir James Robb, com-mander-in-chief of western Europe's air force,
have been gone to the French zone. Informed sources say these visits are part of Uncle Sam's observations”’-—which usually are translated into "BONTEtHINE "TIOTE "COMOTe te: om mmm nna] The U. S. already has done everything a nonvoting member couid. And because they already accept us as a partner, western Europe's military chiefs tend more and more to accept Uncle
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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but |
will defend to the death your right to say it".
Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pres served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
By Eva M. Gardner, 10 N. Euclid St. Another example of Republican bungling has occurred here in Indiana in the Goss Income Tax Department. Some of the brass hats there devised the scheme of copying after the federal idea of mailing tax blanks direct to individuals this year. The idea itself may be sound even though it costs the taxpayer more to mail out 1,100,000 blanks than to distribute them througn license branches as they have in the past. A friend of mine hired a taxi at noon last week and went to the Gross Income office requesting some forms. She was told no blanks could be given out because they were all to be mailed later. Now this i§ another piece of folly. The state wants its part f the individual's income, so why lay any hindrance in the way of getting it? Anyone who is a taxpayer should be able to go to the Gross Income Office and demand a tax form and by law, it must be given him. Don't they know this? DR
‘Something Is Wrong’ By A Reader. For the past several wecks The Times has been carrying articles picturing the pitiful cone dition of families living in garages, coal sheds and other makeshift homes .as an appeal for junds to provide some Christgnas cheer’ for these people. I realize that these pictures and articles present a true state of affairs and that they provoked a generous response, That is as it should be. , » Yet isn't there something wrong with our system when we have conditions like that here in our city at a time when thousands of dollars can be spent in erecting a kennel " for dogs—a kennel which The Times pictured last Sunday as having all modern facilities including radiant heating? Think how happy
several families could have been made if the
money spent on.the kennel and its fancy equip= ment had been spent in providing low-cost
homes! LE
‘Sorry. for President’ By Mrs. R. W. Powell I just read an article about the hardships of President Truman. "Maybe we should pass the hat around and take up a collection for him. It sure is a shame, since he only gets $75,000 per year plus a $40,000 expense account. Maybe we should share our $3000 per year with him. It is also nice to know he can get a steak for $1 a pound. If we want steak, we do without something else. Maybe he should raise our taxes. again so he can live a little better. We pay the same 22¢ for a quart of milk. And if he can get a loaf of bread for 13c, that is swell, be-
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cause-we-have-to-pay-18¢.t0.20c.for our loaf of,
bread. 1 sure would be glad if I had one-tenth of - his income. I sure would live like a king. > @ . .
‘Prices Will Be Down’ By M. W,, City Maybe things are going to be different this vear but I'm anticipating: that department stores will announce “after Christmas” sales and offer. ing the same necktie for 79 cents that Uncle John has just unwrapped and which cost you $1.50 on your last-minute shopping trip. It would seem that such advertising could be held up for a few days so that you could enjoy the exchange of gifts without being told what a sucker you had been by doing your
- shopping ahead of time.
Maybe the solution would be t6 send a card and tell Aunt Jane that her gift would come along as soon as you got down to the after
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‘Feed the Birds’ ~~
By Ralph E. Thayer . Now that winter is really here, with the ground frozen, let us not forget to feed our
+ feathered friends. I feel sure it will pay divie
dends to those who do. It always has to me.
PRICE SUPPORT .. . By Earl Richert .
Bounty for Pears
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Now we've got too many pears, And that fact is going to cost the taxpayers between $100,000 ~304, $200,000 this winter, . : Villains in the picttire are the Western European countries which aren't spending. dollars on pears this winter, and the folks inthe Midwestern and Southern. states, such as Texas apd Tens 0... nessee, who never developed an appetite for the fruit. ’ The virtual end of foreign purchases would make no differe ence, say Agricultiire Department experts, if the -people--in the ‘18 Midwestern and Southern states would eat as many pears as those in the rest of the country. - . ; + These folks average only one-half of a pear per year while ‘those in other parts of the country eat six apiece.
Bounty of 45 Cents a Box
coin TO-DO. something Zhout this and. try to ease. the. surplus burden. on the winter pear growers of Oregon, Washington
to a. bountv_.of 45 ‘cents—a. box on. pear
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would be dropped. Ratiroad passenger service for all Class One railroads i§ now operating at a loss of $400,000,000 a year. Trains and even routes that do not pay expenses might have to be taken
fThe other alternative, of course, is to let the railroads go bankrupt. That might bring on another depression. erihile them to write off their indebtedness ahd start all over again at a lower capital valuation and lower carrying charges. It would of course mean the ruin of ‘many investors. government would probably be asked to step in and take, oyeér |
$200,000. “This silver platter” official earn it.
trade.
But it would
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What Others Say—
No human being can continue to exist unless the land continues productive. , , . Soil erosion is a plague to the farmers and
—Lt.-Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, Army chief of engineers. <>
s WE must be pitiless, pitiless, pitiless, 0 that we can kill the germ of the idea of fascism. If {reedom is against the common good; then it should be restricted. One cannot-afford-to play with a
~~Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet deputy foreign minister. . > ¢ 2 . THE practice of industry to raise prices, and thus its profits will’do more to bring on a depression and reduce production than apy other single decision of industty, . Si ~-Stanley H. Ruttenburg, director of education and research, C10.
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in charge of the program. They're got to sell the pears to dealers in the specified states or foreign countries before they get the 45 cents from us.” He said the 45 cents per box really amounted to an incentive payment to get the pears ‘shoved along” by all factors in the
” » ” IT'LL soon he the time of year when Either Junior “vill forget’ to wear his rubbers or he’ll track right - ° | through the house with them on. .
fang California, the Agriculture Department is going to pay what + " & Tr brant, a ba A ane
the 18 states and to the Marshall Plan Cotntries. o . Cost of this program is expected to range from $100,000
snot something which we are handing out on a
said “J. W. Stewart, Agriculture Department
“They've got to get out and
Mr. Stewart doesn’t expect the consumers to get any benefits from the government payments. margin of profit to the growers or enable them to break even,
Sold at Auction
AT PRESENT, pear growers are getting about 45 cents a box ‘(about 110 pears) as against production costs of 91 cents a box. Pears that cost $3 to get to New York sold this week at mes auction to wholesalers for an average price of $2.71. : These winter pears, which aren't good for canning, now retail for 11.to 12'2 cents a pound-—about the same as apples, Usually, pears are more expensive than apples. Mr. Stewart said a major problem of the pear industry was educating consumers, td the fact that winter pears must be ripened Tike bananas. ‘They should be ripened in living room temperature until they are mellow and fragrant and yield to gentle pressure when touched. . About 40 per cent of this. year’s crop of 5.4 million boxes are surplus because of the loss of export market.
They might, he said, provide a
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2 wom 0m THERE is a place most people wish they were instead of here, » ” 8 * v ~ 8 > | WHEN the word jwelcome came into use it was Yust something else for people to take advantage of, : \ . o ” ‘ ; A NEW YORK wasn’t hurt. If he hi
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