Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1949 — Page 14
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Hoover Program in Danger FEY members of Congress would dare to go before their ~ constituents and oppose the Hoover Commission's carefully prepared program for reorganizing the government 8 executive branch. That would affront too many voters who are painfully aware that the vast federal bureaucracy urgently needs to be made more efficient and less wasteful of taxpayers’ money. ‘et the Hoover program is in danger, because many members of Congress don't want td give President Truman adequate authority to put it into effect. Mr, Truman asked for a law empowering him to submit reorganization plans for all departments and agencies, each plan to become effective unless vetoed within 60 days by majorities in both House and Senate. The House has passed an otherwise satisfactory bill which calls for special treatment of the Defense Depart-
In Tone |’ With the Times
“Barton Rees Pogue. DUNE CLOSE-UP
You would not know to view the dunes From some distant vantage place = That every tree—erect or bent Mothered wee flowers at its base!
You would not know that birds find this An island in oceans of din; That silent dunes call out bird-songs, Brings peace that make birds and man kin.
You would not know that shifting sands Like men are inclined to roam, Go not too far for guiding winds To shift them back again home!
You would not know that piled- -up sand Could symbolize a lasting rest Till on the structure ages built You stood proud, secure on its crest! ' ~BESSIE THURSTON, Gary. * oo
‘FRONT DOORS
1 like front doors; Some are traditional, Some conventional, And some. just friendly As if to say: “Come on, walk in” There are black ones, brown ones, Paneled and frosted ones, Gold and white ones, And some all glass. There are large ones, small-ones, Wide ones, tall ones, Heavy ones, light ones And some of blue; But anyway, now let me say:
ment and several other agencies. Now trouble is looming {The lovely and inviting ones-
in the Senate, where southern Democrats and Republicans on the executive expenditures committee are reported to have sombined behind a thoroughly WnERtistactory measure.
THE BILL they are said to favor would sake a veto by either the House or the Senate enough to kill any plan proposed. by the President. That would double the difficulty, great enough at best, of getting any plan into operation. For almost every Senator and Representative has at least one pet agency whose prerogatives and powers he is eager to protect. ‘And each agency has influential friends out over the country who can be stirred up to bombard Congress with protests if bureaucrats in the agency object to a reorganization plan. Any plan could be logrolled to death far more easily in one branch of Congress than in both. The Hoover Commission was’ created’ by bipartisan action in Congress. It is headed by the Republican former President and has been loyally supported by the Democratic
. President. It has made the most thorough study of the government ever undertaken.
Its report offers the best and probably the only real hope of a reorganization that would produce genuine
* economy and efficiency. But that hope will vanish, and
the Commission's fine work will be wasted, if Congress needlessly restricts Mr. Trifman’s authority to carry out the recommendations.
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Atlantic Pact Bases ‘MERICAN military bases abroad are an important sub-: ject in the Atlantic Pact negotiations which the Danish and Icelandic foreign ministers are conducting with our State Department. The issue, however, should not be allowed to block pact membership by those two nations. When the same question arose in the Norwegian negotiations, all parties decided that United States bases in Norway were not essential. Russia had used the bases fssue as an excuse to protest Norwegian membership in what Moscow called an alliance of aggression. The Danish and Icelandic cases are somewhat different. Neither Denmark's Greenland nor Iceland borders on Russia, as does Norway. . So Soviet objections would be even more far-fetched. There can be no question as to the legal right of any
‘Sovereign nation to accord base privileges to another nation
for purposes of joint defense. There is not even a legitimate question as to face or pride, since a nation as large as Britain gave long-term leases to the United States for bases at various strategic points.
co. " . » » » NOR IS any issue of international morality involved, as long as the action is within a purely defensive regional system as authorized by the United Nations charter. The decision turns on matters of expediency. a U. S. base on any specific allied territory decrease or increase the danger of Soviet attack. Is the U. S. with its already heavy commitments, able to maintain at adequate strength an additional base at any given point? Could such an ally as Norway or Iceland maintain its own bases with American help more effiectively than could the
- United States?
Clearly each casé should be considered on its individual merits, with the burden of proof favorable to continuing our Greenland bases. Also each case should be subject to review to meet changing conditions. It is essential that there be bases in all Atlantic Paet strategic areas. But it is not essential or even desirable that we have advance peacetime use of all of them, provided they are immediately available for joint use if one member is threatened by attack.
Make It Even Sillier HAT House bill to prohibit the shipment of yellow mar-. garine across state lines could be opened up to amendments. Why limit such a novel idea to one commodity ? Why not an amendment to forbid interstate shipment Lots of it is artificially tinted, we're told. It could hardly be nationally advertised and | distributed if it werer't of uniform hue. That was easy | to think of. But let's not stop there. Take whisky, which looks so much alike, whether aged and ponded stuff, or raw and blended.- It's rumored that burnt sugar or some other artificial coloring accounts for that amber uniformity. Why not change the laws so New Yorkers, Ohioans and Texans are forbiddeh to buy Kentucky bourbon? Fix it so Maryland rye is for Marylanders
- only, and limit Pennsylvania rye to Pennsylvanians.
- And shoes! And luggage! And pocketbooks! And belts!’ It's an outrage the way such leathergoods are colored. Black, brown, tan, high yellow, russet, blue! And those golden and silver slippers! Move an amendment to prohibit their shipment across state borders. 1 Come to think of it, why stop at state boundaries? Why not forbid anything ‘produced in one county being sold
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Will in our mem'ries stay. I LIKE FRONT DOORS,
~MYRL G. NEW, Pendleton. 4 * % 9
A MEMORY
Before he died he often tock my face And tilted it. a palm on either cheek, To hold it so a long and silent space . And look into n y eyes—as if to seek The very depths of my most inner soul; And I would keep them open for him, wide, That he might see the heart of me inside— For it was his to have and his to hold.
Wher. he had searched unto his deep content His arms encircied me, his head was bent Until his hungry lips had covered mine And there was rieither universe nor time— Nor earth helow, nor firmament above, Nor any other thing except our love!
—~MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City. oo #
HALF PAST THREE
Small grandson Tommy, just half past three, Brown-eyed and sweet as a lad could be: I hasten with eagerness over the floor To answer his tap, tap, tap at my door.
v “Grandma, see what I found out in the sand!”
.He shows me some stones in his fat little hand. We talk about them, and the bears that will bite, The dogs and the cats in the alley at night;
His truck and his am that his daddy had bought,
And the ball lost so logg for which he has
sought. Then—"Grandma, you have a cooky I think,” Ard grandma produces her jar in a wink.
A grandma who fails to have cookies on call Would not be a true grandmother at all, And nore I am sure, e're so happy would be, = Without little lads, just half past-three,
ELIZABETH A.°NELSON, Columbus. 4 .$
WHEN YOU WERE TEN
Thinking of you through all the day Dreaming I hear your childhood play Combing your hair again it seems, Hearing your laughter through my dreams.
Childhood's gone, my dreams astray In the bustle of ‘life today; Your toy train, your top and kite, The kiss you gave me for good night, Have all too long been put aside, For things you hold with greater pride. I too am proud of boots and wings, Your, parachute and other things, But still I'd love to hold again The lad I loved when you were, ten, OPAL McGUIRE, Indianapolis *
PUPPY
My boy has a brand-new puppy, She's full of tricks galore, The only trick she doesn’t know , Is...when to go to the door.
-—R. F. MAPLE, Richmond.
WASHINGTON, Mar, 16--The *
officials here, Further repercussions are likely.
uniformed Americans from the enraged Cubans.
Marti, “ of the
by indecent acts,” according to witnesses.
Butler was howled down when he emerged to
of mourning.”
Harmful to Nation
THE incident was tragic for many reasons,
visiting fleet were responsible, The overwhelming
themselves and the country,
before turning our sailors loose on foreign soil. all the way to the top
them to relax reasonably and have a good time. have seen them in many ports and capitals.
Responsible for Crews : + THERE'S a reason.
This means that the men become self-policing.
SnewraingX For us, it was a national the spectacle
HAVANA INCIDENT .. By William Philip Simms
Navy Gets Black Eye |
‘Havana incident” involving several drunken U, 8. sailors is not light regarded by informed
According to dispatches from the Cuban capital, a lynching . was averted only by fast work of the police who protected the
The sailors desecrated the statue of the national hero, Jose
“ten years’ war” of independence, to Cubans is a combination of Washington, Lincoln, Bolivar and San Martin. A mob crying: “Out with the Yankees!” surrounded the U. 8S. Embassy. Stones were hurled through the windows. Ambassador
found it expedient to call on the foreign minister and apologize. Later he laid a wreath on the Marti monument. A “national day planned: by Cuban students, subsequently was called off presumably at the request of the government.
eye not only to the U., 8. Navy but to the nation itself. seems that only three out of several thousand sailors from the
service men are ‘fine, .upstanding youths who Tefiect | credit on
Which points up another regrettable phase of ‘the incident — its utter futility, It could have been prevented by prgper briefing
~to the captains of our ships, to the admirals of our fleets and to the White House itself. . No Navy wants its men to, be milksops. Skipper# can't expect their crews never to take a drink when ashore. They want
But I can't recall ever seeing a British, Fiench, Dutch or other foreign naval man drunk and disofderly in public—and I
Officers from the top down in most navies are held strictly accountable for the conduct of their crews. The men are warned that if they allow one of their num- ~ ber to get out of hand ashore, the entire unit may lose privileges.
liga. His i Ris Pala sober him up or gut Bim Gack aboard, ship without For the Cubans the incident merited a “national day of | ‘humiliation,
"WORLD PROGRESS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 16 — President Truman's’ surprise package in his inauguration message turns out to be not so new after all. The message called for. “a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for ‘the’ improvement and growth of underdeveloped countries.” Actually, the President's budget message scooped his inaugural message on this item by 10 days, with a request for $15 million. The sum was, comparatively, such chicken feed that nobody paid any attention to it. Also, this kind technical assistance has been going on in the government since 1938. For the first 10 years it has been confined to LatinAmerica. Lhst year $4 million was spent on it. In the so-called Smith-Mundt “Voice of America” bill passed by the 80th Congress, authorization was given to éxtend this lending of American know-how to the Eastern Hemisphere. The catch was that Congress didn't appropriate any money to carry it out,
| 250 Speciolist¢ Abroad
{ THE type of activity which will be carried out under this plan can best be indicated by projects actually in progress in Latin-America. Since 1938, nearly 250 U. 8. specialists have been loaned 20 American _ republics for nine days to two and a half years each.
The projects resulting from the loan and these techincal experts have run into many millions of dollars, paid for by the governments getting the assistance. The cost of the experts to the U. 8. government has averaged only a little over $5000 apiece, In many cases the foreign governments have paid part or all of this. : This is about the cheapest kind of assistance which the United States can give to the underdeveloped countries, and a case can be made that it does 'em a lot more good than giving ‘em guns, which cost a lot more. ! Management of all these projects is now carried on by the jaw-breaker named Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Co-operation. Its chairman is Assistant Secretary of State Geonge V. Allen and its active head is Haldore Hanson of the State Department, | who is now in South America checking up on his 100 current projects. ICSCC takes in some
SIDE. GLANCES
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Ts. By Peter Edion. U. S. Science Helps 20 Nations
36 branches of 25 major departments and agencies of the federal government. Here are some of the jrojects which it now
has at work:
Afgentina—An~ entomologist advising on
movement ‘of fruit.
Bolivia—Three agricurtural experts working at an experiment station on crop improvement and an aviation expert at LaPaz -One expert working on development of a blight-resistant natural rubber. Three geologists surveying iron ore deposits. Four social
Brazil -
security advisers.
Experts on Many Problems COLOMBIA —One irrigation expert at Bogota. Two more agricultural research men, One expert on labor standards. One anthropologist on In-
dian problems.
Costa Rica—Five experts on rubber development and one investigating coffee plant disease. One adviser on labor standards and another on agricultural statistics and census. Cuba—One expert on development of kenaf, an Asian hibiscus fiber used for making raw sugar bags. Three scientists working in migratory. bird surveys. A labor standards expert. Ecuador—Three agricultural experts working | on pyrethrum, an insecticide plant, and two at A nurse training midwives for ministry of health. Another labor |
cacao experiment station.
standards man.
El Salvador — Fifteen experts working on soil research and tropical agricultural products. Haiti—Two rubber experts, a geologist surveying bauxite deposits and a census expert.
Nurse for Midwives
structing midwives. A Two anthropoogists. Five geologists and metal-
MEXICO—Three rubber experts. A nurse inlabor standards man.
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Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub-" ject with which you are familiar. Some letters: ased will be edited but content will be pres served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
‘Majority Against Segregation’ By Cary D. Jacobs, 2401 Martindale Ave. 4 "The Attorney General's office is wrong when it says, that the law against segregation in public schools is ineffective. The mere fact that this bill has become the law of the State &f Indiana is evidence that the majority of the citizens believe that segregation is wrong. This law represents a step in the right direction. One
that all laws and practices shall accord every citizens equality, not only in education but ‘in work and the exercise of all civil rights,
Itisa blot on the name of justice for anyone, especially one sworn to uphold and enforce thé law, as is the Attorney General, to argue that a law is ineffective simply because no penalty is attached for its violation. Good citizens obey the law not from a fear of punishment, but because of the joy of doing so and because they have given their word. There are those, however, as the Attorney General seems to be, who will
for them penalties are necessary and therefore should have been set out in this law. Let no one be deceived, however, the right of mandamus is still the law of Indiana, and if those who are charged with the administration of this law fail or refuse to abide thereby,
| The people who caused this bill to become law will not stop until this law is put inte practics,
RE Ghiones Trolley Change
‘By G. W., of West Side Members of the Board of Works, plus the Safety Board, are the good men who re-routed ‘the Brightwood trolleys.” ? With the help of over 2000 people we appealed to have it routed back but we have heard nothing from them as promised. We walk two blocks north to come west. Wouldn't it be a grand city and state if only courteous practice came from those who are appointed to do for the good of the people, to do unto others 2s they would want to be done by, and forget who belongs to.this party or that party, but consider the good side? Twenty-four thousand people ride this trolley (ine and can’t understand the change. To reduce traffic, someone said. That a laugh for our trolley line is small. When the time comes 1 don’t want a handshake and to be told “look what we did for you” ignored what we needed.
+ oo ‘Investigation Needed’
By Bud Kaesel, 3438 W. Michigan In The Indianapolis Times I was reading about how poor the State Hospital inmates have to live and eat and sleep under terrible condis tions. If we had more reporters like Richard Lewis wey could learn more about other state institutions. I want to take off my hat to him for publishing the pictures of the unsanitary
conditions that exist there at present. He told about having one bathtub for 50 people and one tin drinking cup for the same group. My blood begins to boil because of all the money that is spent foolishly in this state during the year. Surely they could buy some paper cups, which are more sanitary than one tin cup. Citizens. of Indiana and Indianapolis, let's all unite and demand an investigation and find out why these people have to live like that.
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‘Laws for Pressure Groups’ By Mrs. Helen Bishop, 1845 Tallman
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and Senate this year than we have had for a long time. They passed laws for pressure groups, not for the public taxpayer, They passed 270 bills. What a farce. If the soldiers don't get their bonus, thg legislators won't get their votes either. *
lurgists studying copper, lead and zinc deposits : and mining.
on palm oil, cacao, abaca, vanilla, ginger, and
Nicaragua — Three experts
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What Others Say— .
doing research
other products imported by the United States. - t=
Panama -— Three experts on mahogany and
teak Wood forestry,
rubber, cinchona,
Peru—Seven agricultural experts working on insecticide and animal hus- | bandry projects. Four civil aviation and weather | advisers. A geologist on lead-zinc survey. Two |
census experts.
__ COPR. 1949 BY WEA SERVICE, WG. T. "a. or.
By Galbraith
"Don’t let your mother tell you how much money | vied fo spend on dates—she was plways glad to be with me without going anywhere!"
of the desecra! ', To say it
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and more vividly than they will ,
apologize to the Cuban government and place flowers at the foot monument, are things not easy te forget. a little thing is to misunderstand public psychology. Cubans will remember the American sailors cavorting around their hero's statue longer American help in their fight for independence. Fifty years ago when the United States was an isolated, in- . ternationally unimportant’ nation, such capers would bad enough.- Taday the U. 8. is the very act us bullies and saying we ignore the
have been world's is broadcast and criticized.
culture and fee : could 3 feeling.
foremost power. The
THAT'S all right, son. I'm a country hick? too.—President Truman, to a visiting Boy Scout who apologized for being “just a country Bick
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OVERTIME PAY... By Fred Ww. Perkins
Wrong Guess Costly
WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—A wrong wartime guess by the War and Navy Departments and the War Shipping Administration threatens to nick Uncle 8am for an estimated $500 million, it was disclosed before a Senate Labor Subcommittee. The guess soured last June when a Supreme Court majority held that stevedores who worked nights loading and unloading ships are entitled to collect back” wages ynder a formula which regards “premium pay” as a “regular rate” in the computation of payment for overtime. The label “overtime on overtime” has been applied to this formula, over which judges and lawyers still disagree. But the Supreme Court made it the prevailing interpretation of the federal wage-hour law, and it will’ stand until Congress clarifies that statute or orders courts to reject suits for collection of the “windfall” pay.
Still a Guess '
THE government's liability, large but stil a guess, has come out in hearings by a Senate labor subcommittee on a bill already passed in the House. The House bill would merely provide for the future. A retroactive provision causes the main argument—and is the one which most concerns government offi « clals, Stevedoring companies and other private businesses which employ men around the clock seven days a week, such as electric and other utilities, meat packers, brewers, bakers, warehouses | and lumber manufacturers, also have a vital Interest. Guesses | of “billions” have been made on private industry's potential I Habilty.*
in- addition to those -they can make the government shoulder through agreements covering payment for the huge volume of wartime stevedoring. The wrong guess by the contracting government agencies, backed by the Justice Department, has been disclosed in a letter dated Oct. 15, 1943, by L. Metcalfe Walling, then wage-hour administrator, to the war shipping administration. Mr. Walling took the position that stevedofing companies were not paying their men in accordance with the law, and that “premium pay” would have to be reckoned with in Aguring payment for overtime. ;
Rejected in Court 4 THE Walling opinion was rejected by a Federal Court in New York, supported by an Appeals Court, and Snany sustained SimoSt Sve Yeats lane v the Sufkeme Court. But meantime, the
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