Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1949 — Page 20

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2 12 yn» - EVERY reporter present at the interview wrote a story of this general import. The correspondent for the Chicago Daily News went so far as to write that “grave doubts as to - whether Japan has any military value at all were raised” during the secretary’s visit. Discussing “the reasoning behind the reappraisal of the global military picture,” the * reporter added: “If war came soon, Russia might be able to take Alaska and the Aleutians.” ~The incident has caused consternation not only in Ja"pan, but also in the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. of the Chinese debacle, it is being interpreted as a general American retreat from Asia. To be sure, the “high American official” was credited with saying we might fall back upon “Okinawa, the Philippines or Formosa” and be able to hold on there. But that was no comfort to the Japanese or the Alaskans.

r . ” . » » ” THESE fateful “admissions” can do more damage to our position in the Pacific than anything that has happened since the surrender at Bataan, unless they are repudiated in toto and at once, President Truman himself should do this, if the damage is to be undone. - 5 Meanwhile, and again, Mr. President, we ask, what is ‘the American policy in Asia? i “Rumor, conjecture and speculation are undermining . our throughout the world because of the blackout ~ on this half of our global policy. - - Bringing the issue home to the Western Hemisphere is the national defense policy on Alaska? not going to retreat from there, too? Yet

administration, ‘the people should now. Then we may be sure an outcry would be ‘would change that policy. ~~. ift, has anybody seen any of those tell y

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One of the happiest memories of my -childhood is that of riding in a bob-sled. The snow was so much prettier in those days when there were no whirling automobile wheels to sully it. It lay on the ground in packed depths of gleaming white, no coal soot near our country home its black imprint on the highway. I

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| ARMY ENGINEERS . . . By Peter Edson

High Pressure Lobbying Job

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-—Highest pressure lobbying job. Washington has seen in a long time is the organized campaign to keep the Army Corps of Engineers from being deprived of its civilian flood control, rivers and harbors work ‘by ex-President Hoover's Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Principal weapon used thus far is a barrage of telegrams. Over 2000 wires have rained - down on Sen. John L. McClellan of Arkansas, chairman of the Committee on Expenditures. In addition, several of the individual Senators on the committee admit having received from 50 to 100 telegrams and letters apiece. The whole business looks like something that West Virginia Sen. Harley M. Kilgore's proposed lobbying ition C into. It would take a long and careful investigation, tracing every one of these wires to its source, to determine what organizations inspired the campaigns. President Hoover has blamed the Corps of Engineers itself for having mobflized its friends. That might be hard to prove, for there is a specific law against such activity by a govern. ment agency. But the effect is the same. Even examination of the wires reveals

definite patterns from recognizable pressure

groups.

‘Water Lobby’ PRIME MOVERS have apparently been the so-called “water lobby,” made up of organizations interested in flood control, navigation, rivers and harbors—plus the Associated Gen-

For the water lobby, the National Rivers

of telegrams to interested organizations, calling their attention to. proposed legislation which does not specifically exempt Corps of Engineers from reorganization plans. Associated Contractors in its Jan. 28 Washington let

called its members’ dt. tention to “Government and the Corps of Engineers.” members to wire their Congressmen. It just gave all necessary information, including names of committee members and numbers of. bills, $8. 526 and H. R. 1560.

The letter did not tell its

Results from furnishing this information are obvious. ‘Scores of contractors wired in. State Associations of General Contractors wired Trom New York, New Jersey, California and Washington. Of 20 protests from New York, 16 were from contractors. ‘Very Efficient’ ONE TELEGRAM from Les Angeles sign “N. M. Ball and Sons, Harms and Parker, Inc.” said more frankly than the rest: “After completing several million dollars work of work under Corps of Engineers, we found them very efficient and feel that no reorganization plan affecting that department is necessary.” Influence of water lobby organizations was’ far more potent, however. Wires have poured in from 40 states. Biggest batches of telegrams were 130 from Arkansas and 187 from California. Florida citizens sent 62, Washington state 41. Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia and Oregon sent over 30. Arkansas wires included 23 protests from drainage districts, 13 from Chambers of Com. merce, 11 from leves districts, seven from service clubs like Lions and- Rotary, flood-control associations, five from mayors, four from . contractors, three from fributary river basin associations. California wires came from irrigation, flood tricts, contractors, shipping companies, port authorities, yacht clubs, Chambers of Come merce, mayors and from 13 state Senators, which was certainly no coincidence.

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replacing private enterprise.” . such proposals in the bill, indicating some people were misinformed. } But all this is powerful pressure which the Senate will find hard to resist. In two previous attempts to put through government reorganization bills, Army Corps of Engineers was exMr, Hoover says if they do it again,

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will defend fo the death your right fo say I." "Keep letters 200 words or less os ‘any subject with which you are familiar, Some letters

used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Pick Principals from Faculties’

‘By W. 8. Hiser, Olty :

and well-trained teachers our high schools. There are other able men on the faculty of Manual; and the right thing to have done

would have been promoted one of them as principal. If a qualified pal was not to be found

on Manual’s faculty, there were the able faculties of our other high schools, from an excellent Shalot foild Bave been made,

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no job. .The neight ne I think it is time for the Red Fea to blow his way and help. 1

‘What Others Say—

ANY attempt to hold our present population in our bankrupt cities has a false objective.

ng - hundreds of millions of dollars on express ways and elaborate, unnecessary mags rapid transits. We ought to be spending them to decentralize

our cities.—Louls Mumford, author, planner and {- goctologhet — .

® 4 YOU (educators) have failed not in teaching the skills to work but in teaching the willingness 10 Work... Industry tells you not to train your students so hard for technical work. Put the emphasis on the willingness to work, on adjustment to life.~Dr. Earl G. Planty, executive counselor, Jolidun & Johnson Co. :

WE realize that no democracy can .ever maintain itself fully ready for war. The degree of readiness, however, must obviously be geared to as sound an estimates as it is possible to

empted. it will be the end of reorganization.

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of Defense Forrestal.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 17—Early In January,

economists were guessing alike for the first and

end of the war.

of the post-war inflation.

are more pessimistic, forecasting at least a

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' They foresaw more inflation for the year ahead. To _ But within a month grain prices took a break of nightmarish proportions. And the economists at once started riding off in all directions, some hailing the grain price break as the end

But through it all the President's Council of Economic Adyisers—three men—stuck by their guns, contending that more | “inflation lay ahead. They were right. Grains recovered much of. | the lost ground and the cost of living continued to soar unti ugust. ‘- ‘ A lot has happened since August and more and more econ-

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and union leaders were becoming more He commended the statements of a business magazine, “Modern Industry,” as one of numerous manifestations from the

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UNION LEGISLATION . . . By Fred W. Perkins

| Labor Accerd Near?

“WASHINGTON, Feb, 17—Sen. Wayne Morse -(R, Ore.) said prospects for ‘J "” but effective labor legislation to replace the Taft- ey Law were improving because both

management

( management “to stop pany labor law and upon unions to cease

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“WHAT THIS country needs now is a law that both management and labor can come to accept as ‘pro-public.’ This is the only kind of law management needs, and the only kind of law for which it should fight.” According to the magazine, the general “Check the excesses of organized labor without destroying its rights or the security of its unions. “Check excesses of employers without destroying their rights

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to manage their own businesses.

‘Profict the country from crippling strikes that endanger health, security or welfare,

and unions ident of the tution; Leon A ry | : with their legitimate New Deal-trained lawyer, and en Dr, John Br Clark, a laa a a le : man Who became & university professor after he made EER SA 1: Ad Would Expand NLRB | " Fe a So LA 95¢ the Mr "ths ho tas to ATR Soave or SOE SEN. MORSE with all these objectives except the pegged as being left of center. Dr. Nourse is considered by some n® Shite eo Th the aetivities of the National Lator Board. $hs Sonservaiive of the group and pr. Disre 1 Sven that . COPR. 1949 BY NEA SERVICE INC. 7. M. REG. UL 6. PAT. OFF. Details of the magazine's include: All have had long experience in economics "You've got more shirts to wash than you used to have, Mrs. wet hon | al ati secondary ( as rs Bal : Jones—! guess. prosperity means more work for all of us!" RS Nap ovet Mork 3t » stuck plant), Favors Balanced Budget. picketing, featherbedding and the DR. NOURSE, 65-year-old chairman of the Council, t | la in Che he stock. in place of cash Curtaflment of the em "for 1 agricultural economics at a’ number of universities I at for Rare tng & a a oil ode oh y hit it 0 Ee ation Jor Yulon ing a branch of what was to the rich and so did Mr. Clark. He went up the oil business " 1 of v in 1023. He is strong for a balanced government budget and it | becoming a director of Standard Oil of Indiana. At 44, he left | of government was he, more than any other, who persuaded business, got a degree at Johns Hopkins and later started teachto hold the lid on the military budget this year, ing economics, He was dean of business at Nebraska University Mr, Keyserling, now 41, 1s one of the Harvard-trainied law when he became a presidential adviser, : S02 yers who invaded Washington with the atlvent of the New Deal All three ‘freely about the hazards of economic forecasta I a Sovrumant Jobs, Inchuding 4 peviod - Ing and say it is likely some day they'll miss by a mile. as secretary to Sen. Robert er (D. N; YX.) He is “A always comes when it’s least expected,” says Dr, ih Sijiing Sen. Revere Taft (R. 0.) on the need for low-rent | Clark. “As far as I'm concerned this is'when it's least expected.” n respects, the 84-year-old Dr. Clark- has tinh replaced by one Tan who wii bg economic Ad:

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The principals of ow high schools in Indianapolis have been promoted from * very faculties of th well-known high 2 : The School Board the principal of Technical High School (Prof. D. ‘Morgan, | ts rg hos the Indianapolis The board ted from assistant super~ tendent of Connersville, Ind, tendent- (Prof. Virgil ): . It promoted the of Manual

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