Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1949 — Page 10
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: Almost Too. Wonderful :
eA other, city folks should take sympathetic interest in the a Truman administration's new farm program, just. put before - Congress by Agriculture Secretary es ‘Our first reattion js like that of a big farm organization, the Farm Bureau Federation, This program is a “startling reversal of policy” and would make “revolution- ~ Its proclaimed objective—to keep farmers as prosperous every year as they were, on the average, in the 10 preceding years, and at the same time to assure consumers of more food at lower prices—sounds wonderful. Consumers ‘would relish more and cheaper food; farmers would enjoy being as well off each year as they were in the booming war and post-war years since 1939. : In fact, it sounds almost too wonderful. A lot of people, | including us, will be inclined to suspect some catch in such. [® Gittering promise.
THE program would scrap “parity” and adopt a new : “minimum-ncome” formula for farm prices. The govern.ment would continue to buy surpluses of grain, cotton and other “ storable” crops, thus supporting their prices at the ~~ “minimum-income” level. But it would stop buying surpluses of meat, poultry,
fall aa low ag the law of supply and demand 1
Then the government would pay the growers of these foods ~ the difference between what they get for them on the market and what is required to maintain their “minimum incomes.” In other words, the growers ‘would get subsidies and the consumers would get lower prices because the govern. : ment would be paying part of everybody's grocery bill - Now, of course, that scheme could bécome terribly cost1y'to the government if the farmers were free to grow as’ much as they pleased. So there would be strict controls on production, some new ones, and farmers would Base ta onfpt Shem If they whnted the prograss benetite
estimate the new program's cost, though he thinks it would be less than that of the present program. There's a point ; “0 Whish we'd ike further, much more definite information. The program has other phases that would bear looking
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pean recovery, oy idgeted for Intent yirposes wma Bir . would contribute to the need for additional taxes of to the making of a budget deficit.” . There, in a nutshell, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, dala of
and Congress is in no mood to vote them. Therefore, if a _ deficit is to be avoided, adjustments must be made within the present budget’s limits “to gain maximum security with minimum strain on our economy,” as Dr. Nourse puts it. Some items in the budget are fixed charges, which can't be cut. In others, some economy is possible and desirable. . But the bulk of the proposed $1,250,000,000 for the North » Atiastie Defense Program can't: be. obtained that way.
THAT program has taken form since the budget called for $15 billion for pur own Army, Navy and Air Force, and some adjustment would seem to be in order anyway. On ‘the same score, we believe European recovery funds also can “be tapped for a contribution. ‘European recovery, North Atlantic arms, and plans for _.our own military establishment are three parts of one general security picture. They should be considered as a balanced program and given single-package treatment. If these closely related issues are left on a competitive
lars, the pressures will not be equal and the essential arming of European nations which are parties to the North Atlantic Pact is likely to be dangerously skimped--if 3 not sidetracked Sltogether.
Good Man oa WEVE admired Steve Early for a long time — in fact since
Soisvask for the United Press in Washington, As & Washington correspondent, he was tops. As Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary, from 1933 to 1945, he sat in the White House and did a fine, square-shooting E200 of socing the: everybody por the fans moving on important news. He's tackled many other tough assign: nts in his time, and lately he's been a vice president of n Corp. Whatever he’s done has been done well. ‘re glad that President Truman has called Steve ack to government service, as undersecretary of Bo Dwting that he'll make good 16 w bg way
Another board source said this did not mean ‘wholesale dismatitling of the nation’s capital. So fey ant She Howse, if Washingion is sacked have - Suburban —
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. WASHINGTON? Apr.” 9A plan foF relocating the federal t in case of war has been approved and is now “being implemented. a National Security Ressutess Board official has revealed. - LD Brent, director of industrial and gov--
* srnmental dispersion, told the American Industrial Council that plans for
MORE important it means plans for further expansion © federal ernment do not include the Somteiet of Columbia: - They may include suburban areas. Mr. Brent's secret papers are understood to outline to the ents of Interior, Coms« merce, ASHicultuts and Labor, for example, where they should any new bureaus or bul One board member sald Jscentral. ys ihe cers ip WY 1 ustry. same ¥. we have or Mr, Brent ald hat the Department National O00 oveated Army, Navy and Force-—had the board's general nd and have applied it to all but a few of their ‘establishments
The board's plans tor relogating government and Industry assume: ONE: Any attack on the United States will be designed to cripple vital industry (or the seat of gore vernment.) O: A high concentration in any area makes the best targét for atomic weapons, THREE: It can be expected that any attack will be suddén and of such magnitude that genatal, Seat uction “may be umed.”
rabhical ooation in the considered safe from a Jotential enemy simply because of its remote-
nesIx: A location less than three miles the potential target center of an atomic bo: 18 “seriously vulnerable.” SEVEN: Attacks on areas less than five miles square or cities of less than 50,000
NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . Change Seen in Congress Trends
was in session was little more than a threat.
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ject with which you are familiar: Some letters wied_will by adiind but content wif be gis |
‘Rents Won't Be Too High’ By A Reader
I want to add a few words to what son wrote last week on rent control. He said he see
did not own rental but could the Jandiords were not getting a fair deal. I want the only ones
to say that the landlords are not People
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Ren t control is to blame. Owners’ "rents Gown Su low Hat Hho CR EL Soa Oh
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WASHINGTON, Apr. 9—When newspaper
By Morais Childs
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le separated Bively open country probably will not be stratagioatly aie to any enemy,
taper recent shift of United
other is decentral vulnerable targets out of large cities.
10 or more miles of rela-
there were two kinds of The first is a form of migration Aircraft from
Conn. to Dallas is an example. The uation of itis Making soma
In Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue
¢ Than trai softly fallen snow.
Ele Teale Soni iutios My. Truman fas Ongroms |
- BEAUTIFUL HANDS 1 Sit, iu in my life, lite, have ten
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Or mud from working in the soil, Or woman's hands which often tell, With broken nails and skin of red, The labor which her family needs In helping earn their daily bread.
But even these cannot compare To beauties which I hope to see In nail-scarred hands my Bavior bore From Calvary’s sacrifice for me. 5
Zhe hands that touched 4 blind man's $yes : made them =.
~OPAL McGUIRE, Indianapolis. -
—agree to such an adjournment. : would be built around the idea of calling Con-
pressmen walked out and forced the suspension of all Washington newspapers, they added one more sniall coal to the fire of resentment burn
ing brightly on Capitol Hill. An addition was
scarcely necessary since the bonfire was already of impressive proportions. No one could possibly have guessed on Nov. 3 that the present situation would exist with a House and Senate heavily Democratic and with a Democrat in the White House pledged specifically to repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. If the Congress were to act today on labor legislation, the strong likelihood is that the Taft-Hartley restrictions would be tightened rather than relaxed. That is a measure of the in the political climate that has taken place. Whether the Taft-Hartley Act will come up at all in this session is an open question. The Senate seems hopelessly bogged do After European aid is extended-—if it is i. extended--the Senate must consider the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act.
‘Housing Up Next
IMPORTANT appropriations bills are next in line. After that, so the talk goes, housing will be taken up. Consideration of the North At. lantic Pact cannot be postponéd indefinitely without harming the position of the United States before the world. Debate on the pact is certain to be lengthy. While it is ag yet hardly more than a gleam
.in Sen. Wherry’s eye, a proposal is under con-
sideration to force an adjournment late in June.
gress back for a special session in mid-Septem-her oF Sply Detopsr.
The President would then devote a part of
the summer to touring the country. In the same rough-and-ready fashion he employed in his SAHIAIES hb would G the Mofile Why ongroms had failed to pass his program. Such a tour, with Congress in ent, would be practical. The. President’s implied threat to “go to the country” while Congress
produces arbitrary tional anger in Congress. No one is more aware of this irrationality than Sen. Irving Ives of New York,
Hope for Compromise SEN. IVES still hopes to see passed what he considers a “reasonable” labor law. He is working closely with Sen. Robert A. Taft in hopes of a compromise that virtually all Republicans and enough Democrats will accept.
Sen. Taft tends to favor keeping some soft
Ne Labor Votes
during the two years of the 80th dominant theme is: Frustration compounded with delay.
Views on the News
: By DAN KIDNEY - CONGRESS is playing double or with President Truman. They doubled his salary and have ame nothing Jor him since,
nothing
WASHINGTON goes on Daylight Saving Time. Apr. 24. It will be nice for Congress to save an hour Sfter wasting S0 many days. ANY day now we expect to hear that the new Sears, Roebuck catalog is being tried in gue of the Peoples Courts behind the
a THE United Nations is making another at living up to its name. ty * & ¢ ATTORNEY GENERAL TOM CLARK seems resigned to reports of his a ignation, * &
AN ATLANTIC PACT Sly is one that would rather be free than “liberated.”
INDUSTRY . .. By John W, Love
F SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
PRICE SUPRORTS . .. By Earl Richert
“basis in a three-way drive for the same limited supply of-dol|
the days before World War I when he first went |
Seek Factory Sites
WASHINGTON, Apr. 9—Heavy Industries in this country— steel, chemicals and the like—are-still reaching out for new locations for plants. The lighter ones, the diversified manufacturers, have slowed down and almost stopped their budding and ‘branching for the
time being. They have not stopped growing, but they are no
longer doing much of it by spreading out. This is the word brought to Washington by members of the American Industrial Development Council. Its members, the fndustrial commissioners of Chambers of Commerce and the industrial agents of public utilities and railroads, have heen holding their annual meeting here. These are the men who find new spots for factories, mostly branches in recent years. and who do their best to keep industries contented in their home territories. Some say they entice plants to pick up and leave old locations but this doesn’t occur often. Most industrial migration is by way of branches.
Trend Since War
DECENTRALIZATION has “een the main trend since the war, but this, the conference was warned, has been due mainly to causes other than the normal economic ones,
James F. Bone of Los Angeles, president of the conference, -
sald the recent boom in construction of branches had been caused chiefly by increased freight rates, the Supreme Court's decision in the cement-case—involving basing points and delivered prices and pressure for military security.
The movement is evidence of the vigor of American enter-
prise, “Mr. Bone emphasized, but the energy had sprung from unusual conditions. Mr. Bone and others named among the most spectacular recent developments those in the chemical industries along the Gulf ¢oast, Lake Erie and the Ohio River, the movement of fab-
ricating plants to steel centers of Youngstown and Pittsburgh,
and the building of brass plants in California. = . These shifts, fike plant additions, have been made possible by the ability of large companies to. use profits for , Spansion, members pointed out. ae @
! S00, 140 0 J ARV. T 8 1001. PAL OFF. : “i will ba easy to get Dad to take us fo the show——just tell Bobby he has to pracics on his horn again Tight after supper!”
WASHINGTON, Apr. 9—The Agriculture Department would be mighty happy if you parents saw to it that the Easter bunny did his stuff extra well this year. - They'd like for you to make it appear that a whole flock of bunnies had been around leaving colored Easter eggs. And don’t mind if the children mash a few, throw them at one another or otherwise nullify them for next week's meals. What extra eggs you don’t dispose of at Easter, the Agri. culture Department will have to buy with your tax money to hold up prices; the law says. put it conservatively, the department has been doing its share of buying lately. In the three months since Jan. 1, it has bought more eggs to support prices than it bought al last year, k
One Egg Per Person
LAST week, it bought nearly 14 million dozen; the week: before, nearly 16 million dozen and the week before that. more than 12 million dozen.
year, the government has spent $38 million buy oh 290% million pounds of dried eggs to support prices. It takes the income taxes from more than 180,000 family men (wife and two children) making $4000 a year to give the government that much money. The end is not in sight. We're just now at the peak of the flush production season. And the government still has $25 million worth ‘of dried eggs left over from last year——an amount equivalent to the taxes paid by more than 120,000 family men making $4000 a year.
Last time we were in an egg mess this bad was in 1948. But
then It Tedlly Wasnt 4 Muu bectum Britain was taking th whole surplus at cost.
Seeking Outlets ~~ ;
“NOW Britain isn’t buying. But agriculture officials are hopeful that the in meat rations resulting from the squabble
! with Argenting wil caus them to turn to our surplus ried for "Wr eggs
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