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No Excuse Now for lllegal Arrests 8 WE hope a new law ‘passed by the legislature will end. Ee for all time the slipshod police practice of making wholesale arrests under the questionable and, in many in. stances, illegal charge of “vagrancy.” The new law will require police officers to make more specific charges before they ean order a prisoner jailed for court action or investigation. Under this new statute the arresting officer, if he suspects a person of some crime or misdemeanor, must slate the prisoner as being held on “sus“picion of committing” a specified crime. : % This procedure will give officials a.chance to question and Svsstigals the prisoner legally instead of resorting to a phony; stop-gap charge. In effect the illegal “vagrancy! arrest procedure has for many given police officers virtlally unlimited authority to make ‘indi te arrests and jail citizens on

a mere whim. h ne eu No pul 9 8 THE vast majority of police officers are honest and sincere in their actions and there have been few abuses of the “blank check” arrest authority in the past. : But the illegal arrest kind of procedure is dangerous, It could open the door to opportunities for intimidations and “shake-downs” of victims on any kind of an arrest pretense without the necessity of making a specific charge to back up actions on the public record. i Prosecutor George 8, Dailey, Police Chief Ed Rouls and Ripe deny: 2 the new law in the legislature and have announced they will co-operate in a program to eliminate the stain of illegal arrests from Marion County's law enforcement record. ~ It is a laudable program to which we subscribe 100 per ' cent. el Ea

~The Truman Impasse | i THE Truman administration has lost its showdown fight to curb the Senate filibuster aimed at the President's civil-rights program. : With Vice President Barkley's cloture ruling reversed by the narrow margin of 46 votes to 41, triumphant sbutherners now may continue talking indefinitely against any motion to bring up the Truman civil-rights measures. That could stop the whole legislative program on dead eenter. Much as we regret to see the Senate revert to procedure - under which a small minority using the fantastic filibuster method cin frustrate the will of the majority, we think President Truman should take a hard look at the impasse confronting him. He has suffered a major defeat and should realize it. ] Other measures are at stake essential to the welfare 3 of the country. If the Democratic leaders are directed to continue their anti-filibuster fight, they risk delaying Senate . action on, for instance, rent controls which expire Mar. 31. Even if they keep up their fight for the civil-rights program “there is little, if any, chance of getting it through this session of Congress. . i :

ss» » » . * ON CIVIL RIGHTS, we think some sort of compromise is in order. Several suggestions have been offered from more or less neutral sources. If the President is to get any substantial portion of that program passed he must be

ground. The throat-cutting must end. On rent control, the issue also was revealed in its

Leader McCormack of Massachusetts urged Congressmen from rural areas to vote to continue the rent freeze. In return, he promised that when the issue of farm-price supports comes up later city Congressmen would string along with their rural comrades—a tit-for-tat logrolling deal to keep food prices up and rents down. We think it's a good time for the November-vote-happy, muscle-flexing Truman administration to pause and tape + up its abrasions before it comes out; swinging for the next round.

Keep. It Honest, Make It Work

Com Plan's real purpose was to make Europe a dumping ground for surplus American products. : Pressure now piling up on Congress could convert the European recovery program-into-a-device for doing just that. And it could end all hope that the Marshall Plan | ‘countries can attain economic self-sufficiency and get off the American taxpayers’ backs in the next three years. The pressure is being applied by American industrial and farm groups. They urge Congress to require new or increased ERP buying of their products for export to Eu. rope, thus removing price-depressing surpluses from our domestic market. .- "ir BT Their demands, so far, cover more than 109 varieties of goods and services, ranging from aloes to zippers and 4 including many things not urgently needed in Europe and many nivre which the Europeans can and should produce out of tiveir own resources. 7

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a - PAUL G. HOFFMAN, administrator of the Marshall™ Plan program, says that the granting of these demands would add hundreds of millions of dollars to ERPs annual costs. Worse than that, he asserts, it would defeat the program’'s true purpose—to help European countries achieve enough recovery by midyear of 1052 so that thereafter they be get along without. billions ‘of dollars a year in American

But for the Marshall Plan, as Mr Hoffman points out, America’s present exports would be only & trickle. As it is, + the ERP is making possible a very large foreign market for American goods and services. Congress should reAist all pressures further to-enlarge that market, at. the expense + services which they don't need or produce by their

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Socialism Curb .

Seen in Britain

Nationalization of All

Industry Not on Program WASHINGTON, Mar, 12 — Dear Boss— Hoosiers who haye been staying awake nights

worrying about Usele Sam sending our hard. so that John Bull

earned money England can 3 wiser 4 Eh on complete socialization, can allay their fears. 1 fave a inst hand report from a member of parliament in the British Labor - government that instead of more nationalization of industry now the etfort is to be directed instead of making what they have already nationalized work: better, : He frankly admits

the course pursued as caring for 45 million citizens on

it lsn't easy, but defends dictated by the needs of such a small

island in this unsettied postwar world, ;

The informal’ report was presented at a luncheon here by the Hon. Frank Beswick, Labor M. P. for Uxbridge—a miner's son who well represents the new democratic-aristocracy bent on improving his country without destroying its traditions, :

Here on Study Tour _ MR. BESWICK is 37 and a World War II

“flier. He defeated a conservative cabinet minis-

ter, Col. J. J. Llewellyn, in 1945 and has been in . the House of Commons since that time. Right now he is here on a study tour, with emphasis on U. 8. co-operatives as well as politics.

It was through the co-operative movement that he came into politics. He is firm in the belief that the sort of socialist government which England is setting up will not destroy co-ops and some of the competitive forms of private profit making business: - _ Bo far the government has nationalized the Bank of England, utilities, domestic transportation, coal mines and commercial aviation. Including the international air lines. A bill is pending to nationalize steel. Laborites are vided re ing it. a With nga socialization, Mr. Beswick says they now have established the “administrative pattern” and from now on the effort will be to “improve its quality.” One of the “improvements” should be decentralization, he suggests.

Pleiiis Sotantenlize.

WHILE it was necessary to centralize for national planning, now that the pattern has been set it is necessary to decentralize for better functioning. It seems that centralization can become a real problem, even on. “the tight little t8le.” Not only is Mr. Beswick a labor party man, but he also is a member of the co-operative party within labor. He is a journalist who has visited four continents and 35 different countries before and during the war and writes for the Co-operative Press. His outstanding war service gave him the post of parliamentary private secretary to Geoffrey de Freitas when the latter was appointed under-secretary of state for air. He wah a British observer at the Bikini atom bomb test and termed it “one of the most tremendous experience I've had.” He believes the split atom should put a period to war. “There are 10 million individual members in the co-operative movement in Britain” Mr. Beswick sald. “We have 1037 retain societies,” autononmous, non-profit making and organized and controlled by their members. The combined trade of English and Scottish wholesale and retail societies now runs around $2,800,0Q0,000 a year.

Market in Refail Shops mine]

“SOME 48 producer co-operatives societies are closely linked with the consumer movement and their find their chief market in the cooperative retail shops. Workers in these productive societies share in the ownership and

- management. The profits are distributed as —bonuses--on-

wages, -dividends-to-customers. on purchases, additional interest on capital, educational and welfare activities. “While the co-ops have been helpful to the labor government they ask no favors of ft such as special tax concessions,” Mr. Beswick said. ,- : “Alldwe want is a fair field with no discrimination either for or against the co-ops,” he stressed. ts “We don’t look to the government for anything. Our business has §en bu 5 2 with other forms of private enterprise. Co-ops offer an alternative to the ordinary private profit retail trade.” ‘He had no answer to the question of why the consumer co-operative movement has failed to rally, Americans except this: “The moveriént came into being In England because of a great need.” He expects to look around at our dime stores, chain groceries and other fast-moving

Watch Your Step

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—Behind the hydroelectric dams that have been built on several of America's great rivers since 1933 is a concept of the general good. Specifically, they were intended to provide flood control and navigation for all the people of the region.

up by instruction of Congress to benefits which would not directly return any revenue to the Treasury. That is a fact that private utility propagandists either refuse to recognize or deliberately distort. Utility propagandists are constantly holding up the cost accounting of TVA alongside that of private utilities, although in the broader sense they are not comparable at all. This same implication runs through the task force reports of the Hoover Commission on public power. Those reports, not yet released, have stirred deep differences among commission members.

Dangers in Political Row

THAT is unfortunate since the detailed and lengthy studies contain many suggestions for improving the operation of vast federal enterprises.. The, danger is that the good will be lost. sight of in the heat of argument over what are essentially political issues. Some commission members have expressed the fear that the controversy may cut across all the valuable work that the Hoover group has done in trying to prune and pare down the luxuriant jungle growth of government. L____JIn a report prepared for the commission by A. B. Roberts,

0, it is estimated that multiple-purpose river valley projects will cost $40 billion in the next 20 years. cost may be even larger because of “extensive - shipments of steel, power-plant equipment and supplies for aid tp Europe.” Then the author of the report says: ? “In view of the continuing burden of taxation indicated by the trends shown above, it is —belteved that mow ts the time tp accomplishments to be anticipated from mul-tiple-purpose projects. Once under way, they

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8 WS FEDERAL ENTERPRISES . . . By Marquis Childs Public Power Policies Debated |

For that reason part of the cost was charged - burden. . .

“pean aid and to maintain a strong America be

consulting engineer of Cleveland, AS the specialists for the Hoover Commission

The report suggests that the total.

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are almost impossible to eliminate. Unless the Congress and the taxpayers consider carefully the implications of these trends of federal expenditures, they may, without even realizing it, throw upon themselves and their children a continuing ,and perhaps an ever-mounting Millions of Americans paying their income tax this week feel strongly about the volume of government spending. But it is doubtful that the place to begin cutting is on projects that are in considerable part self-liquidating and that contribute so largely to the wealth and welfare of the nation.

Unemployment Risks

ONLY in an economy that is expanding and, can the burden of taxation for Eure-

sustained. Once you stop expansion, you run the risk of mounting unemployment and further curtailment in a downward spiral, : This is a lesson some people never seem to learn. As was shown in the controversy between TVA and the private utilities, private operators, would never have built TVA’s dams and power | projects. Equally clear is the fact that without TVA power the country could never have produced the aluminum for 50,000 planes a year in the war. : ’ The great new projects in the Pacific Northwest are providing employment for thousands of newcomers who were attracted by jobs in war plants.. Without this resource of power, there might be serious unemployment. :

point out, there is much overlapping and duplication in the government approach to flood control, navigation and power. The Army engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the various power administrations, the Department of Agriculture, all have a hand in it,

Share-Work Basis : Insurance Co. SEN. JAME * ¢ ¢ . J 8 MURRAY of Montana has I'D be a millionaire overnight if I could draw “bill—to—create—a- [the blueprint for a gat = fettow realty could §

—introduced—a— - Valley Authority which would have as its province the great basin of the Missouri and its tributaries. That river valley is now being developed on a sort of share-the-work basis by the Army engineéers'and the Bureau of Reclamation. 1 ¥ Perhaps the valley authority is the corect .way to get the most out of every government dollar spent. But thé argument should be primarily one of method and means. We are

By M. K. 8, Oty,

Socialized Medicine’

jdney, Washington columnist, wrote: whe Bane. Medical Association is now seek ing to prove that the drive against President Truman's health program Is based on something ‘more than just keeping the doctors well heeled. Perhaps he was joking, put is it funny? The Saturday Evening Post said editorially, Jan. 22, 1049: “Already the private physician has been successfully smeared , . . as a interest in medicine is that it pays vacuum cleaners.” + : Solus —. truth is that the American Medical Association doesn’t need to prove anything to us so-called average Americans. Too many times we've seen medical doctors stand by our families through almost hopeless situations; when the prospect of Hell Scaling Just payanything but . k men ort nyt the American Medical Associas tion -that is fighting socialized medicine. It is every good level-headed American in this coun.

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Favors Legalized Gambling By V. B. Smythe, City. L. McCormick is 100 per cent right when he suggests legalized gambling as a source of reyenye for Indiana. If people want to gamble, they are going to. However, it will never be legalized here, for then there would be no “pay-

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Indiana, not in some politician's pocket. a ot Jud owner fs tax-saturated now. Why put all the burden on him? And why should car owners have to pay for highways which the

ks have torn up? truc ib ®

: ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ By George M. Lyons, 3001 Prospect St. 3 we are so short of motorcycle patrolmen, why is one stationed continually at Sears, Roebuck parking lot? His main job seems to bea

king lot attendant. Parking re

o . * ’ ‘Help for State Hospitals By W. H. Edwards; Gosport, Ind. Our Indiana Legislature has adjourned without doing anything to correct the appalling conditions in the state's mental hospitals, Are there not enough public spirited citizens in the state who will give a dollar or a few dollars voluntarily to finance much better care for the mentally unfortunate? : ’ Neither the Red Cross nor the Community Fund are supposed to take over a problem belopging wholly to the state. If someons with organizing ability would take the lead in directing such a worthy cause as that of increasing the comfort of the mental unfortunates, I believe the response would be sur. prising. y If a non-profit organization is: formed for that purpose alone, I, though in the low income group, will dig up a dollar, or maybe a few more, to help the cause along. How about it, citizens? 4 Cs

Fundamentals of Justice’ By Gerry Allard, 173 N. Illinols Congratulations to Sally Green for her splendid article on “The American Heritage,” and to The Times for printing the article, 1 propose we send the adults back to school and have the 16-year-old Sally Greens lecture to therp on a few fundamentals of justice, fair play, decency and the general meaning of democracy.

What Others Say—

facts on heart disease if we keep sight of the fact that the human body is not made to last forever and that the greater the chances of lying to old age, the greater the chances are that death will occur from heart disease.—Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician, Metropolitan Life

count on for better or for worse, , ... Even a washing machine is more reliable than a woman, and that's the understatement of the year!— Bennett F. Terry, New York artist and designer, . ® oo »

WHILE the immediate outlook gives confl-

that are more significant than they were a year ago. If something isn't done to correct 58... we will have another depression.—Leon Kéyserling, member of President Truman's Couneil of nk

re rich, or, if you will, too poor; to let our

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MARSHALL PLAN . . . By Edward A. Evans

U. S. Business Ai

WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—Pressure is piling up on Congress for action that would turn the European Recovery Program into a relief project for American industry and agriculture, .. ...} o..0 As gt today, its members have been urged to order the Economic Recovery Administration to buy and export to Europe more than 109 varieties of American commodities and services,

ranging in the alphabet, from aloes through co pickles and toys to zippers. The pressure comes from farm and business want -to-use-ERP..as.a device for.pr surpluses of their products from accumulating market, ) Paul G. Hoffman, administrator of the

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UNEMPLOYMENT . . . By Earl Richert

5 Huge Jobless Fund

WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—-On paper, we're set to take care

size unemployment. :

laid off and to ; Brookings +|..about equal to than sufficient

tide them over until they can find another job.

offs.” The money would have to be used for the .

dence, there are weak spots (in our economy)

profiteer whose

WE will be less likely to misinterpret the

Institution officials say that a fund of this size—

the entire federal-budget-in-1839-—should-be-more to tide the country over the worst sort of unem-

ployment crisis.

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[USS ethployers wince the mid-1930's have built up am account that now stands at $8.4 billion, Sole purpose of the fund | 18° to provide weekly cash payments for workers when they are

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program, maintains that it would be a grave mistake to require | spending of ECA dollars for American goods if Edfropeans can |

produce the same kind of goods out of European resources, “If Congress should grant all these requests,’ he says, “the ERP program's cost would be increased by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. More importantly, it would become

impossible to reach the goal of European self-sufficiency by , midyear of 1052."

\ on | -» Long List of Goods HERE is a partial list of American commodities and services which various members of Congress have been urged to have used scale or newly included in the ERP program: Aloés, aluminum, apples, athletic l bandages, beans, boilers, boneless beef, books, boxes, brushes, buses, candies, cane syrup, canned fruiis, vegetables and meats, canning machinery, carbon black, castings, ceramics, citrus fruit, clocks; clothing, coal, cocoa beans, coffee, concrete-block machines, construction. work, cookies, corn, cotton and cotton 8. ‘ dairy products, dress snaps, dried foods, drugs, farm machinery and equipment, fats and oils, feathers, fiber (wallboard, etc.), fire pumps, fish, fishing: vessels, flour, fuel ofl, fruit trees. % Garden tractors, glassware, handles, heavy-duty jacks horses, horse-fly netting, ice-cream mix, industrial chemicals,

industrial supplies, insurance, jams and jellies, ‘laundry blueing;

leather and leather products, liquor, livestock, locks.

Even Mules on List bo : ‘ MACHINE tools, miscellaneous machinery, malt, mules, music, nuts (pecan, pina, babasu), ofl-seed meal, paper and paper products, peanuts, pears, peppermint oll, pickles, pipe and tubing, popcorn, port facilities, prefabricated houses, pressure cookers; pulpwood. ! :

_ Radios: rice, rubber goods, se machines, shipping, shoes, soap, soft drinks, soya beans and ofl, steam locomotives, steam shovels, stoves, textile machinery, textiles, tires, tobacco, toys and Mr. Hoffman, who the presidency of the Studebaker + Corp. to take his it post, says he can well understand

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market in prewar Europe, regrets to see European dealers shift over to selling British cars. “But,” he adds, “at present most Marshall Plan countries | can’t buy American cars unless American taxpayers give them | the money. All American producers should remember that, . without the Marshall Plan, our postwar exports would have been 8 TEE thers 18 £0 Be énough Buropen that by 1 ) "there 1s to uropean recovery so by 1052 our financial ald no longer will be necessary, we must encourage

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BUT the situation isn't as rosy as it may seem. Trouble is that the banker, .Uncle Sam, has spent the many, replacing it with his bonds. . us, if any really big call comes for unemployment cash, the Jedaral gove eras yo would have to scurry around selling 8, Insurance companies - 0 get. Hida p and private individ might be rather difficult because anv hig unemnl would come only with a depression, and cash tee hare Shad In such times, even for the government. And the government, too, likely would need to be selling its bonds for other purposes since would be dropping Tar below scheduled

W. T. Heffelfinger, Treasury Department fiscal expert, sald the sale of bonds to raise cash for unemployment payments would not, result in an increase in the national debt since the government merely would be retiring bonds held in the unemployment insurance account with the new funds. The rnment to date has paid over $1 billiog interest into ent insurance fund on the money it has borrowed. As things stand, the government now for the first time.in years is paying out more for the unemployment fund than it is taking in.

$90 Million a Month

UNEMPLOYMENT taxes paid by businessmen average about $90 million a month but during the last two months Taare than $100 million a month has been paid out. In January, unemployment payments amounted to $102 million and in February to $110 million. The February payments were almqgst double those

of February last year. ; ’ stood at 3221000 persons, with about half of that numtbrer t compensation: a week for

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