Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1949 — Page 24

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Telephone RI ley 5551 Gee AIM and the People Will Ping Their Own Way ;

State Department's Left Wing - Ro= LAPHAM, American economic co-operation chief for China, has told Congress $240’ million will be re. quired to continue civilian relief for those areas of China ‘still under Nationalist control. This is little enough help fora loyal ally, in dive straits after nine years of war. Refugees from the Cemmunist

‘cities, and -only outside aid can avert widespread starvation. But if what remains of Nationalist China is to be saved from Communist occupation, money must be advanced to finance armed resistance. Con, who have discussed the Chinese situation with Secretary of State Acheson gained the impression that - he has accepted, hook, line and sinker, the appeasement policy of the leftist underlings in his oparmant’s Far

ee THAT policy “reduced Nationalist China teria: prosent.

it, Mr. Acheson apparently defends it. Instead of ousting the appeasers,-he seems to be influenced by them, as his recent predecessors were. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communists have ordered tor. eign correspondents and the United States information “service in Peiping to “cease activities.” . Much that Mr. Acheson is reported to have .told the Congressmen in defense of his position did not square with the record. Some of them took exception to his assertion that his wait-and-see policy had the support of our bestinformed military men. If that is true, he was asked, why doesn’t he Teleaze the long-suppressed Wedemeyer report?

MR. ACHESON answered, lamely, that ths would not Bo. inthe publie interest interest. It is known, however, that the 'edemeyer report did not support the State Department's Nema She pulley is aSEvarisns Wilh Gen, MacArthur) ‘abled Zmseage 10 the

t said: 5. Te problem is part of a global situation’ = Eo tay altrtty qt wid bo utterly fallacious to underrate either China's needs or her ~ importance. For if we embark upon a general policy to Jalwark the frontiers of fresdam Afaivst the sisaults of‘ political despotism, one major frontier s no po! than another, and a decisive breach of any will inevitably threaten to engulf all” We have pursued. this “utterly fallacious” policy for three years. ‘When President Truman proclaimed his general policy against Communist expansion, in announcing his Greek- - Turkish program, the State Department's Far Eastern division was influential enough to make an exception of -communism in China. And the whole Asiatic front will be exposed to Red attack unless the President and Mr. Acheson bring State Department policy toward China into harmony with the Truman doctrine. z

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Gen. Clay and Successor (GEN: LUCIUS D. CLAY, our military governor in Germany, again is requesting retirement. After more than 30 years in the Army, a distinguished war record, and his brilliant service in the thankless job in Germany, he has ‘earned a rest. But it will be hard to find the right successor.. : Theoretically, it is a job for a civilian and should be taken over-by the State Department. Actually, however, neither the State Department nor any other civilian" agency “Has the training or personnel to take over tions in Germany. So the task probably will remain with U7 the Army, : Inc colwar pressure by Russia might necessitate appointment of another general as our top repre-

the State Departmient. Since Britain and France, as well as Russia, operate.there with ranking generals an Amaieay civilian could be at-a disadvantage. ‘The important thing is that Gen. Clay's successor be both able and experienced in dealing firmly with the Russians, and that he be in Germany for some months with Gen..Clay so there will be no. single day of weakness in the turnover process, Gen. Mark Clark, formerly our military “governor in Austria whose namie has been suggested, is the type r needed.

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States’ Rights and Mowgarine TATE laws to prohibit manufacture and. sale of yellow margarine are disappearing fast. Thirty states now permit yellow margarine.

year. i So far this year, Michigan has joined the list and Ten‘nessee has repealed all its anti-margarine laws, including

ih "10-cent ‘state tax on yellow margarine, The prospect is

good for similar action soon iri several more states. All this is convincing evidence of insistent public ae mand throughout the country for repeal of laws and taxes, state and federal, which discriminate unfairly against mar. - garine and everybody who buys margarine. . The butter lobby, realizing the force of that demand, . Is now trying to oy Congress . a. tricky ‘‘compromise” "scheme. It calls for repeal of all federal margarine taxes and license fees. But here's the joker: It also calls for an absolute federal prohibition on mahufacture and sale of yellow margarine in every one of the 48 states, - i It calls, that is, for Congress to repeal the laws of 30 {tates sow yurmittiag yellow margarine to Wo made gud

Talk about states’ rights!

helplessness before the Red onslaught. Instead of changing | uw S000 R00 A SIUED there te as

House Foreign Affairs Committee a..

Bans against it were abolished in five states—Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Missouri—last

Here is a states’ rights

Ind, the home of Gen. Lew Wallace.

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Barton Rees Pogue

A MEMORY OF GEN. LEW - WALLACE -

When a stall child I lived in Crawfordsville, . Wal« lace’s estate contributed a large share of natural scenic beauty to the Tferesting village, as it covered an area of betwéen 10 and. 15 acres of’ densély wooded ground. Along one side of Mr, Wallace's estate was another ed called -

wood stretch of i Elston’s Grove, which a wobbly path had been traced estrians, more

by especially by school children. Through this grove I fraveled twice. daily on my way to and from the | “Wilson School, where I studied in the second grammar grade. I frequently joined with other children in climbing over the fence into Mr. Wallace's

« grounds to gather wild flowers. At this, he

never seemed to make objection, either due to the fact that he did not sed us, or, to the ‘thought that there were-enough ofthese little - “smiles of God” to supply us all, . .. One fall, when the beech nuts ripened, about # dozen of us, girls and boys together, and possibly none over 7 years of age, climbed, over the picturesque pld rail fence and made a beeline for the nuts. ‘We talked and red, quite unaware of the possibility that someone might hear us, But the sound of our voices reached the General's ears, who thought, evidently, that'it was about time we needed to learn the lesson of going straight home from school. fairly grabbing the puts and cramming them ° into our pockets when one of the boys yelled,

“Run, kids! Here comes the General!”

“We looked, and -sure-enough there he was

in one hand, and a lafge coil of rope thrown over his arm. In make-believe anger he ran as

swiftly as his age would permit, crying at the same time, “I'll tie you to a tree and whip you!” i Away we

as fast as—our little legs would let us, scaled the fence in a jiffy, some of us tumbling over and landing on our backs, - But that did not matter, we were now on the safe side, and We had defeated the man who had the general of an ' Never after did I steal into ‘Ben. Hur's” UE spot, although doubtless each year Mr. Wallace had both the joy and discomfort of dealing with trespassers, for his big beeches yielded a mighty crop of nuts, and the rich soil grew Jovely flowers,

~JUNE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis. v ¢°9

FIRST OF MARCH

First of March—three short decades ago, A

Roads muddy, wind cold, a leaden sky, Heavy-wheeled horse-drawn wegons, stack

high, ; Indiana farmers'moving. Hearts ache so.

ed

Top-buggy or Ford. Farm to farm flight. -*

She follows behind her chairs and bed, With a sou! that's sick and heart of lead, . Tears soak the pillow where she sleeps at night.

Always renting land! Her soul will die! . Oh, for a roof which is her's to own, Church and school to boast, a family grown In a place where the good lands lie!

War! The machine age—prosperity, Electricity, tractor, deed to claim The land their own, a proud family name, At last something for posterity.

~—BERNICE HARNESS EZRA, Lafayette.

¢ oo ON MAKING AN IMPORTANT

DECISION

If in doubt and still you do it, In the end, you always rue it; The other way is just as bad, For if you don’t, you wish you had! : =-DOROTHY M. PARKE, Indianapolis. 9 ¢

" APPRECIATION

1 didn’t hear the redbird ° When the other birds were here, I didn’t see his plumage Until the days were drear, But now against the brooding skies . His pertness like a promise lies And fills my thoughts with cheer!

I didn’t note the blessings My life was built upon, “Or heed the Whispérsd warning = Until a few were gone, But now the blessings left to me "Sing, Mike a rédbird in a tree Upon a wint'ry lawn.

~ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbus.

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‘KNOW HOW’ PROGRAM “ee By Peter Edson Truman's Big Puzzle

WASHINGTON, Mar, 3—A select group in high government

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HUMAN NATURE . Planned State. Means Controls

WASHINGTON, Mar, 3—Human natdbe is what upsets planning... The stabilized and running by expert design, would be easy if people—including the planners—just wouldn't act lke human beings. But, being human, people have various ideas

ahd natures. Most of them are lazy and like

to take the casiest way. All of them like to be let alone. Take, for “skample, the lowly siibject of potatoes. After losing 150 million dollars supporting prices. of the 1048 crop, the Washington planners recently realized some-

‘thing was wrong. So.they cut the support price

over a dollar a hundredweight.

And—here’s where human nature came in—

the experts fixed only one price for all grades. That, they decided, woyid encourage growers to get out and sell. their best potatoes on the

commercial market above the official prices.” turning

Previously they had been the whole works over to Uncle Sam. “A lot of growers seem to have forgotten

explained an official,

Only Acting Human

WHAT had happened, of course, was that the

growers had been acting human. Why bother peddling spuds when it was so much easier

to dump them on Uncle Sam? The planners :

-had overlooked the simplest fact of life. For similar reasons, farmers vastly overplanted other crops which Washington had guaranteed to support by purchase or loan at high prices. Finally the warehouses bulged with them, and the old, uncomfortable law of supply and demand set in to correct the excesses of human nature, But farmers, of course, are no more to blame than anyone else, Human nature has been the big problem in all our Social Security

plans. It has caused many abuses and dangers °

afflicting a program which is worthy and can be helpful if safeguarded. It is a program which can be ruinous unless: the planners consider its possible evils, as well as its benefits, Unless. they make allowance ior human nature. Many people won't work or save if- Son support them. The more attractive you make will become the number yielding to this natural aversion to toil, Already, by ignoting thess humsn traits, planners ‘have done much damage along with a lot of good. The oa, injury has been

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planned state,

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in breaking down, on a big and growing scale, the old spirit of self-reliance. With it Has come a weakening of the pride which made ‘men and women stoutly shun anything which looked like charitable and public support. - The-old practice of “saving for a rainy day” has taken a great kicking around. It was never easy easy, but it had become an American trait. Thrift was the main factor in supplying the means to develop this continent and to create our unique industrial machinery and

“high living standards.

Pattern of Loose Spending

BUT of late thrift has heen made unpopular. Washington has set a pattern of loose spending and huge borrowing. It das preached carelessness. If you fall on hard times, it has said, the government ‘should support you. Promises of such support are the easiest way to buy votes. And, human nature. being what it Is, demands for public support are reaching the proportions, of a flood. The biggest problem , of involves the planners themselves. ‘Mr. Truman recently told the National Planning Association that proper .pianning can: avert economic disasters. There is a big difference, he said, between “a controlled economy and a planned economy.” There was where he apparently overlooked human nature. For the planner, being human, naturally thinks his plans are the very. best. He wants to sell them to others. But those others, because they also are human, prefer their own plans.

Pass New Rules

AH! But suppose the planner can get an official position. A job where he can make some rules, or get a law passed. Then—just for the good of others—he can impose his

plan on them,

But the others, being human, resist—ar, at feast, don't go along according to plan. So it becomes necessary to pass some new rules to make the old rules work. Also, to enforce them more strictly. © That's where planned economy starts turning

the watchword. to act’ according to plan unless they also think that way

The ant state this turns into thé con-

trolled state because planners are human, ;

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‘Perisions for Old Soldiers’ ; =):

By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St. The Times stated very clearly its stand on

pensions for sgldiers after they reach 63. . The’

‘doublebarreled opposition : to the bill, stating that it is neither to the best interest of the sole. dier or the country, sounds like refusing food:

to & hungry dog. It is based on very insecure grounds From your reasoning one would think that - the salaries of publi¢ officials did not come from . taxes but cost the Rublic nothing; while every dollar paid to the soldier as a JWT sit servioa rendered becomes an uribearabel the people. cw At the beginning of our present our President was given a $25,000 increase in salary. You favored this legislation on he, ground that the $75,000 a year salary was adequate to take, care of present needs A—— ag a saving for old age. In plain English, you would let the soldiers suffer for the necessities™ of life but you would have ex-Presidents live in luxury, There's little doubt that you. would favor pensioning all public officials. The Sue” preme Court Justices receive what now amounts to the samé as a pension in that they are ap--Our governors’ widows rece a pension. Not so long ago Congressmen ceived an increase in “salary. None of these handouts were opposed by you: Shortly there’ "will be introduced in Congress legislation to ine’ crease the salaries of Cabinet officers, which” you will not oppose if past actions can be taken “a8 a Now-den't-you-think we should-be’ fair and not give the politicians all the breaks? ‘Your attitude seems to be billions to sustain the peoples of other countries, millions to ine crease the Juxurious living of our-public. . but nothing for the old and needy soldier. Is this government of the people, for by the people.? No one will dispute the fact that our governs . ment should practice some economy. We all know taxes are too high. This is no excuse for stating that a million or so dollars allowed needy soldiers as a pension will wreck our country. Let's use a little sound reasoning and tice and give our old and needy soldiers at least _ as good treatment as we give the peoples of Europe who have not fought our battles, but eats have depended on our soldiers to win thelr battles. . Gis ®* o

‘Why Not Licensed Gambling?

By L. McCormick, 4001 Englewood Drive

Now.there is talk of raising the gasoline tax, . possibly two cents a-gallon. Ethyl gas is now . praetically 30 cents a gallon. Why put all the . tax on car owners? Most everyone gambles to some extent and will continue to do so either with or against the law. There is plenty of gambling every. place one ‘looks. Why can’t Indiana look into other methods and permit licensed gambling? Other cities and states do it and realize plenty of revenue off it fo take care of bonus bills, ete... even enabling the Street Commission to keep up * the work it’s paid to do. Indianapolis has the worst streets in the Midwest. All its citizens are ashamed of them. There is supposed to be an allotment of taxes for that purpose, Heaven only knows where

that goes—there has been no change or repair -

of street conditions since the war, in comparison to taxes, paid for that purpose. Don't forget” about the straw that breaks the camel's back. * Taxpayers get tired of paying and then having * nothing to: now for their money.

What Others Say—

ARE we, the American people, the tools and. fools for which the Communists take us? I avow that unless the whole American people, : without further ostrich-like actions and pre--. tenses, unite to stop the Communist floodings of our own land—our sons . .. shall be summoned from their homes and families to bear arms against those who would desecrate and destroy them.— Francis Onivinal Spellman, ®

IF THE Truman depression, which now seems well under way, goes as far and as deep as many people feel it may, we will not long be talking about how to control production or distribute scarce products. Instead, we will be dis~ cussing here what we can do to ‘spur on and”

“to expand both employment and industrial pro-¢

duction in this country. —Rep. Clarence Brown

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{Re} of Ohto.- —

ee ¢ 0 I THINK the greatest contribution of tatlors™

“48 to make” comfortable clothes. «If they are:

comfortable, then théy will be smart.—Prince; Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

NON-UNION WORKERS .... By Fred W. Perkins No Voice on Laws.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 3—In all the talk about a new national’

circles has run into 20 assorted kinds of complications. They

have been trying to write the ticket to carry out Harry Truman's |

big {dea for: sharing American know-how. with. under-developed countries,

That's: the way government works. Some hot shot at the

top of the heap- announces a new big headline policy in glowing - ...20rmS,

Then the technical experts are ‘called in to figure out how to do it. te In: the case of controversial “Point Four” ot ‘his Inaugure address, the President apparently had no idea of how it would be carried out in detail. The job of planning it was assighed to Willard Thorp, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs. He appointed a committee. There is always a committee. In this case, some second or third level brass from eight agencies State, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Labor, Federal - Securify Agency and the ECA Marshall Plan boys. They called In the experts from about 25 other government agencies and the wheels started to grind.

No New Marshall Plan ho’

MAIN lines laid out in. the President's speech were fairly clear. This is to be no Marshall Plan for the rest of the world. It is to be simply’ a program of giving technical assistance to ~ those countries that want it. It involves no big program for. government capital investment in foreign countries, though the more private capital assistance growing out of it, the better . things will be. But here the questions start to roll in. What kind of ‘technical assistance will be the most helpful?. What if any countries should be excluded? What is an “undeffdeveloped” country? How much self-help should be expected from these countries in return for U, 8. technical assistance? What government measures ‘will promote the flow of private capital to these countries? , Whit guarantees from the U, 8. government and from the foreign. . governments must private capital have on taxation,’ dollar convertability and freedom from seizure?

: al -. education abroad, “in-training” of fore technicians in the U. 8. Which of these efforts are worth expan and which are not?

Bo far, tisere has been no discussion with foreign governments

on what they need or what they want. That will come later,

Another series of questions has arisen over what the limits of this program should be. How long should the program be for? How can a roster of experts be built up?

Private Groups inField ~~

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“I'm sorry, ones, but my wife asked me for a raise first this - morning!"

" development through the United Nations and which is best through a bilateral agreement direct between the W 8. and a . foreign government? How to co-ordinate this work with the United ‘Nations subsidiaries—Economic and Social Council, Food and Agriculture

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“servants, farm labor ‘and the self-employed-—to reach their

Organization, International Labor Organisation, Educational |

labor law, “no one seemed to be interested in unorganized labor,” it says a letter from Einar E. Marken, a resident here who Is 8 .

“hon-union worker;

+ “We should have Jegistation that’ would” benefit 1abor as as whole,” he wrote, “rather than the organized groups which at’: times act like the spoiled child who will lay down on the floor. and Mek its heels until it gets what it wants.” e record shows that among the many witnesses who a peared before the Beriate Labor Committes, advocating or 13 ing a sweeping revision of the Taft-Hartley Law, none s solely in the interests of unorganized workers. Mr, Marken also is borne out in his contention t organized labor outnumbers organized labor.” The the U. B. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that of 60 million people in the country’s present working force, only one in four; belongs to a labor union; and that of the workers in flelds that unions have been o 16 million hava} been brought within the

No Spokesmen

MEMBERS of the congressional Iz labor commitions say there are two reasons why unor attention-

Wagner Act and the Taft-Hartley Law were in to govern’ relations between agement and organized labor. ' However, a Taft-Hartley supporter says ‘that statute's ban on the closed ~Mop (under which an applicant must be a union’ member before he can be hired) is a protection for the unore

‘ganized millions, and also that nonunionists are equally en«

titled to benefits of the Wage-Hour Law, From the present 60 million workers the statisticians de-’ duct three large groups almost wholly unorganized—domestio’

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figure Jommwhat under 40 million as the unions” potential mem-

The history of union organizing has shown, however, that this potential may never be fully covered. Except in 2 ot flelds well adapted for organizing, such as coal , unions have concentrated on the big units within industries. Too much’ $Huet 254 exppnan 's TYWUITed. to reach. thie smaller wi,

Small Percentage .

THAT is given as one reason’ why, among the 10 million in retail and wholesale trade, only ;

ized workers have been given tive b pine

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