Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1949 — Page 10

planning and managing the national |

Up to now, he has contended that he néeds these powers to keep inflation from getting out of hand, {© Itis evident that, even before January] the inflationary _ tide has turned and that it has been running out ever since, - But practically all of Mr. Truman's 1949 economic pro-

“had to be written in Pecember so that it could be printed in & book in time for presentation to the new Congress. Events had begun to outdate it before Congress saw it. That report, somehow, found reasons for indorsing, as essential to a sound national economy, most of the highlast summer and fall when he was appealing for the

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Taft-Hartley Repeal Issve May Be Carried to 1950 Election WASHINGTON, Apr. 8-—Hopes of union |

‘| supporters. in Congress for” repeal of the Taft- |

Hartley law have fallen #0 low that now much

talk is about maintaining the issue In next year's congressional elections, : BE Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey (D, Minn.), who

won last tall largely on the Taft-Hartley ques.

tion, ia quoted by a labor newspaper as saying that it will take the election of a new Congress ad over repeal, parE : newspaper is “Justice” organ of the

International Ladies Garment Workers Union |

(AFL), which wants this law repealed--and the sooner the better. The Minnesota Senator

"was elected over former Republican Sen, Joseph H. Ball, who was a leading Taft-Hartley ad- |

To ies Repeal Still Goal

"PHILIP MURRAY, president of the C10, | also points toward next year. After a White House call, ins which he told President Truman that Taft-Hartley repeal was still what or ganized labor wanted most, he was questioned about. poor prospects for that, particularly in the Senate. His reply was, “Remember there will be an election in 1050." Sen, Wayne Morse (R, Ore), who wants a “moderates” labor law to protect and satisfy both labor and management, said “I'm not as encouraged as I was three weeks ago on getting a good bill to take collective bargaining out politics. oo “There are many indications in the Senate of a Republican-Dixiecrat coalition that will make it Impossible to pass some of the most needed amendments. But I still hope that before it is too late the Republicans will recognize they must support legislation equally fair to both labor and management.” er

SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT (R. O.), has not disclosed his plans in detail, but has said he favors changes in the law to remove what he thinks experience has shown to be unfair or . These changes also might remove

unnecessary. ~ some of the targets for union attack.

Labor lobbyists express disappointment at the slow progress in both branches of Con. gress and the dim prospects for even the administration bill which, though restoring the Wagner Act, would place in it some restrictions on unions—much less than in Taft-Hartley. - The House bill is now hung up before the Rules Committee, and according to Speaker Sam Rayburn (D, Tex.), will not be brought up

for floor debate until after Apr, 25. Prospects

for Bensdte action are even more

In Tune With the Times Barton Rees Pogue A THOUGHT FOR EASTER

© "he fires of summer do not cease to be, They smoulder always underneath the snow; “A baimy day in February brin A crop of insects; crawfish in flow Of thawing streams; a singing cardinal; And hardy lttie plants begin to grow.

if the howling night wind brings he land with sleet?

"And will fekindle, throwing off the sheet Of ice to blaze again in summer's glow Until once more the circle is complete.

Life's ares of summer do not cease to be, They merely fade and flicker as the years: Pass by, and may be often fanned and stirred By memory, by great events, by tears, : Beyond death's winter they will blaze again Af surely as the new springtime appears. ~HAZEL DANNECKER, New Castle.

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: parties shall consult ‘together on collective action. Its purpose is to achieve collective security and prevent a third Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans early on the pact. When these hearings are concluded,

| a prompt voice should be sought in the Senate. The cold in its present phase, is psychological war. We have red the initiative by taking leadership in this bold e to maintain the peace. But if we are fo keep the ve the Senate must make good on our pledged word,

and it should do that quickly.

hina, a Potential Enemy : MA GEN. C. L. CHENNAULT, now retired and in : - business in China, has issued a warning that the conquest of that country is setting the stage

with the Soviet Union. 5 “As long as China, the traditional friend of the United States, remained a free, independent nation at “Russia's & : door,” it served as a strong check on Soviet aspira- , the general said. But, with that check removed and a nnder Communist control, Russia is free to go k in her own good time for her “planned aggression Charging that a “spineless, carping, unconstructive, “American policy made this possible, Gen. } mismanaged and unenlightened American poliies were busily training and arming the Chinese in Manchuria. While Washington talked onalists, voting funds for arms that Russia quiétly and efficiently directed

a third world war in which we can expect China to be

and imagined sins of Nanking,

Aun t power to the point where, today,

on is one of our own making. Chiang ‘the war against communism until Smbargoed arm shipments. Even

Who loud acclaims and honors Truth, Why Sorrow seeks the haunts of Age, : And Joy but designs to dwell with You‘h?

- Away with Truth, her knowing frown!

1 savour not her cynic breed. Has she not robbed me of my faith } With her materialistic creed? 2

That Holy Faith which mothers teach - To wayward sons! So fair it gleams, A lovely star beyond my reach.. Away with Truth! I want my dreams,

Congress Fades

; WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—The struggle began a long time ago in this country to regulate “big business, Commissions were set up to ume

"| pire the rules of competition in an effort to

keep the free enterprise system free.

the regulatory system took a heavy blow. The

ola, before the Federal Power Commission, in-

volved the right of government to enforce competitive bidding on a $60,000,000. bond issue put out by the powerful banking house of Dillon, Read & Co. The bonfis were those of the Texas Gas Transmission Co. which is financing through Dillon, Read a pipe line extension. Another financial house, Halsey, Stuart & Co., wanted to bid on the bonds at a rate which would have ‘saved Texas Gas an estimated $2,300,000. Instead Dillon, Read contracted with 12 insurance companies to take the whole issue at a higher interest rate, Shortly before the contract deadline, the Federal Power Commission ‘was asked to approve the transaction.

Majority Opinion

CHAIRMAN NELSON LEE SMITH and

write the majority opinion. Commissioner Claude I. Draper was seriously ill and Commissioner Thomas C. Buchanan disqualified - himself because he had had a previous connection with one of the cities to be served by the pipe line. Mr, Smith and Mr. Wimberly found that the FPC did not have power to require competitive bidding on the bonds. But Commissioner Leland Olds, dissenting, pointed out that the commission had taken the opposite stand only a month before in another case. In his dissent Mr, Olds used vigorous 1anguage that rises above the technical jargon ordinarily employed in such matters. What he thinks of the other two commission members is no secret: i “The record in this case presents a spectacle of an applicant for a certificate of convenience and necessity deliberately attempting to circumvent the commission’s review of the initial financing and endeavoring to render us impotent in respect to one of the basic issues of the proceeding. I cannot recall a more flagrant flaunting of regulatory authority. If this ap-

~GEQRGE ZEBROWSKI, Pekin,

plicant is successful in frustrating commission

FEDERAL REGULATIONS . . Big Business Wins Power Ruling

In a recent skirmish big business won and

Commissioner Harrington Wimberly joined to

. By Marquis Childs

review of its financing, there is no reason why another applicant cannot use the same strata-

gems as to other phases of a pipe-line project,

such as construction, route, gas reserves, etc,”

finds its way onto the financial pages where the average citizen is likely to miss it. But, as Mr. Olds points out, millions of householders are directly affected by such a decision. Usually they don’t know it until they find an increase in their gas bill.

Higher Rates

THE COST of financing the pipe line, which will serve customers in northern states, goes into the total cost on which rates are based. If it costs more to finance than it should, then rates will be higher than they should be. A ‘strong undercover drive is on in Congress to free natural-gas producers of regulation. As a starter, bills have been introduced to take certain producers out from under regulation. There are those who see a chance to make a big killing and a quick killing in the manner of the early railroad promotions. But here, too, as Mr. Olds suggests, the

. average householder has a direct stake, If you

can exempt the financial deal, then the commission will be precluded from. looking into the question of reserves. But what happens to hundreds of thousands of new homes with gas furnaces if the supply runs out? — Mr, Olds’ term on the commission expires in June, Already a move is reported begun to prevent his reappointment.

‘Recess Appointment

COMMISSIONER BUCHANAN is serving under a recess appointment because the 80th Congress blocked his confirmation. The naturalgas interests consider him to be too consumerminded, President Truman sent his name to the Senate again in January and thus far it has been buried in committee with seemingly little chance to get it out. This last is true even though Mr. Buchanan's sponsor is Senate Whip Francis J. Myers of Pennsylvania. The radical—the Communist and the Social {st—believes that government regulation cannot preserve free, fair competitive enterprise. The radical says that only state ownership will servé the common man. It sometimes looks as though big business were trying to prove him right. 4

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of the common I believe that a strong liberal Republican candidate for mayor could win the next city

-slection.- It will take work -to- rebuild the ; OWR. SOMRLY. arganization, but it be fia : eo ‘Who Would Benefit?’

By Claude Braddick, 614 8. Meridian It a lawsuit filed recently sycceeds in nullifying measures enacted by the. General Assembly after the 61-day copstitutional deadline, it would result, certainly, in a special session of the Legislature, Its members could correct some

mistakes, alter some bills for better-or worse c.f

But in all probability, they would simply come pensate themselves handsomely, legalize the bills as they stand, and then go home. Who would benefit by this? ' Se It isn't that the 61-day session Is too short. It's just that the Assembly members can never agree on anything but their own pay, and §uch uncontroversial matters as goats, until the im-

“minénce of adjournment forces them to do so.

Extending the legal limit would not materially alter this situation. The best remedy would seem to le In inducing the Assembly to start clearing .its log jam earlier. Denying it the privilege of clock-stopping might possibly aid in this.” But there is an equal chance that it would result in an even more frensied windup. , ®

Housing Problems

By Irwin Katz, Co-chairman, Indianapolis Publie Housing Conférence : The Indianapolis chapters of the American Veterans Committee are among the sponsors of ‘the Indianapolis Public Housing Conference which is being held on Saturday, Apr. 23," at the World War Memorial. In order to properly understand all aspects of the housing problem, we would like to ask the readers who have a housing problem to write the American Veterans Committee, Box 671, Indianapolis, giving details of their personal housing situation, including the number of children in the family, their present housing accommodations, number of rooms, present monthly rental, and any other housing ine formation that they feel may he_ pertinent. We also want to extend a cordial invitation to all interested Indianapolis citizéns to attend the conference from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. to express their opinions on the vital subject of housing.

What Others Say—

IT 18 increasingly evident that commun cannot succeed with religion and cannot succes without religion. This trial (of Hungarian Care dinal Mindszenty) will serve to bring about ‘a better unity of all religions.—Harold E. Stassen, president, University of Pennsylvania. *

THE housing shortage is more than a poste war phenomenon. 1t has actually been growing during the last quarter centry.—Dr. Edward U.

Oondon, head of National Bureau of Standards, -

®* & o * OUR generation may well be the unhappi that has ever lived in the history of Christianity ~—Msgr. Fulton J, Sheen,

SUBSIDY . . . By Earl Richert

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TRADE BARRIERS . . . By James Daniel

U. S. Sells at Loss

WASHINGTON, Apr, B--It'll take the federal income taxes of 410,000 family men (wife and two children) making $4000 a year to pay the subsidy costs—8$84 million-of the U. B. share in the proposed international wheat agreement. That's more than the population of Indianapolis or Houston, Denver or Columbus, 0. at the last census.

A $4000-a-year man with a wife and two children pays ap-.

proximately $203 to Uncle Sam in income taxes. 1t-Congress approves, the U. 8, will spend $84 million subsidizing the shipment of 168 million bushels of wheat to foreign countries participating in the wheat agreement during the next ear, ; i Ee 4 The subsidy comes in pecause our government has’ guarantedd to sell this amount of wheat to the foreign countries at a price below that which our government will guarantee U. 8, farmers through its price-support program. Also our govern. ment will pay transportation costs to U. 8. shipping ports,

Selling at Loss

THE maximum price which the importing countries will pay

.fof the wheat is set at $1.80 a bushel, And the at-the.farm price our government will guarantee growers on the wheat harvested this summer is expected to be about $1.93 a bushel.

But because of freight costs, the spread will be much wider

when the cash changes hands at the ports.

When a ment will have between $2.40 and $2.48 invested in it. And the importing country will pay $1.93 a bushel ($1.80, plus 13 cents freight)—~making a spread averaging around 50 cents a bushel, x ;

~ Fifty cents is expected to be the countrywide average loss

to the government on each bushel shipped under the agreement. The agreement must be approved by Congress. The Repub-Hean-controlled ‘Senate last year let a similar wheat compact die. But the new agreement drawn up last month is expected to meet with a more favorable response because of the change In . complexion of Congress and the mounting wheat surpluses,

(og Rt gly | Hold Foreign Markets of basis for Gen. Chennault’s con- |

THE U. 8S. has been the driving force in both wheat compacts drawn to date-and our primary motive is to try to hold on to some of the foreign markets we have had since the war through our virtual give-away programs. Ty 1 Agriculture Department officials say the matter of subsidies in the wheat agreement is academic since our government will We

be spending money to dispose of surplus wheat as long as

ol of Kansas wheat reaches a Gulf port, for

in the import livestock and

COP. 1640 BY NEA SORVIOL. INL. T. 18. NEG. Uh &. PAT. OF,

“Dad told us a garden would teach us how much work goes into raising our food supply-—guess he's telling it to Mr. Jones, too"!

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ing countries presumably will grow other crops and the U, 8B. may be able to retain its market.

. "The agreement, which is to run for four years, involves 37 wheat-importing nations and five exporting ones. , We

are to export 188 million bushels a year at a

have a price-support am and good crops. | maximum price of $1.80 a bushel ahd ata nfinimum price start say jon expected to be spent Is less than | ing the first year at §1.50 and declining to $1.20 a bushel the ering oF years | It we should sell our Sommitment next year &t the minimum of $1.50, our subsidy costs naturally would run far above

Milk Controls Hit

WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—The Bupreme Court's decision at” .

New York State couldn’t deny a license to an out-of-state milk company for an additional dairy plant is causing hurried confer ences among milk Industry men, iy ; According to some federal milk-market regulators here, the

decision may have knocked the legal props from under state laws

which set up minimum milk prices and then by regulations forbid

importation of milk from outside areas. : The Supreme Court decision dealt with exportation of milk from New York State to Boston, but the decision was so phrased,

"officials here said, as to invalidate barriers to importation as well,

In the New York case, H. P. Hood and Bons, Inc, largest New England milk distributor, wanted to set up a milk receiving station at Greenwich, N. Y,, to buy local farmers’ milk for resale in Boston. i

Divert Milk Supply

THE New York State Commissioner said Hood couldn't have the plant because it would divert the milk supply of 30 or 40 dairy farmers who were now selling to other distributors, In denying a license for the station, the State Commissioner said he could find nothing in the case to justify a refusal on thé grounds of public health'and safety, and therefore was banning it as likely to produce “destructive competition.” : . . ph so broadly plirased as to raise legal doubts

export. . , . Likewise, every consumer may look to free competi tion from every producing area in the nation to protect him from

: by any.” State Controls

BESIDES New York, all six New England states and New Florida,

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