Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1949 — Page 14

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Welcome Cleanup

NS of several Municipal departments to co-operate in a general cleanup program to rid the city of an accumulation of dirt and trash is a project that deserves the support of every citizen of Indianapolis. 5 For dirt and trash strewn through the streets and alleys or on private property harbor germs and disease-spreading rodents and insects. If filth in the city’s streets and alleys is not cleaned up in the next few weeks, hot weather will cook it into a major health menace.

. » » . 2 STREET COMMISSIONER MAIO has offered home owners the use of city trucks to remove rubbish. The City Sanitation Department plans to place trash containers at convenient places and the City Health Department has pledged a crackdown on violations of the sanitation ordinances. It is up to every citizen to co-operate with these Mu~nicipal efforts to- make: the- city-a clean and healthy place tolivein. Failure of the public to erperate in this cleanup drive may lead to the necessity for severe laws with stiff penalties for violations. Accumulation of dirt in songeated areas of a city is inexcusable.

The Berlin Blockade i

R VMORS persist in London and Berlin that Russia may be in the mood to lift the Berlin blockade, so that trade between the two zones of Germany can be resumed. No definite overtures have been made, however, and welcome as such an arrangement would be if the price isn't “too high, too much should not be expected from it. Operation of the Berlin airlift is costing us $5 million a month, in addition to the cost of the supplies involved and - the normal occupation expenses. Since removal of the road blocks between Berlin and the western zone of Germany would mean elimipation of that extraordinary cost item, an agreement on this particular issue is much to be desired.

» . 0» ‘" . » THE counter-blockade instituted by the western powers is costing the Russians money, too, so it is to the interest of all concerned to agree on a live-and-let-live policy. ¢ But any understanding on the Berlin blockade is likely to be limited to just that. Such an agreement would scarce"ly touch the issues in the much larger problem of Germany as a whole. I The Soviets want a united Germany under Communist control. That is the last thing the free nations wish to see. “The German war potential and industrial know-how, under Soviet control,’ would make Moscow the master of Europe, if not of the world. So no early agreement on all of Germany is in prosnect. It may be a generation or more before that is possible.

Worth Quite a Quibble

PRESIDENT TRUMAN, asked at his press conference about a certain appropriation, said he thought its amount was $540 million. The questioner believed it was more than $590 million. The President said maybe that was right—he wouldn't quibble over $50 million. Mr. Truman, of course, spoke in jest. It would be unfair fo intimate that he regards $30 million as a trifling J sum. But in these times, when the government deals in multi-multi-billions, there are not a few people in Washington to whom an item of $50 million seems mere chicken feed—an amount so picayune that it makes little difference whether it's savell or spent. It was not always thus. A century ago the total expenditures of the federal government were well under $50 million a year. And even today, from the viewpoint of those who supply them, that many dollars loom pretty large. A married man with two dependent children and an income of $3000, pays $54 a year in federal income taxes. It takes all the income taxes paid by 925926 such men to provide the government with $50 million.

The Soviet Veto -

THE Uhited Nations General Assembly has voted, 43 to 6, to ask the big powers to give up a share of their veto power in the Security Council before it destroys the organization. The six negative votes were cast by the Soviet bloc. And, of course, the appeal was directed at Russia, since the Soviet Union is the only member of the Big Five which has been accused of abusing the veto right. Russia, of course, can ignore this appeal,-just as she has ‘ignored past protests against her promiscuous use of the veto which has kept the Security Council in a strait- jacket. But this time the. Soviets are on the pot,

DR. JOSE ARCE, the: Argentine delegate, voted for the appeal to the big powers _with great reluctance, remarking that it would take more than “kind words’ to cure the “cancer” of the veto, He wants to amend the charter, and do away with the veto altogether. Commenting on warnings that the Soviet Union might withdraw from the United: Nations if the charter were rewritten to strike out the veto, Dr. Arce said he would rather * gee withdrawal than the end of the organization.' The 43- _ to-8 vote indicates how most other nations feel. So the jssue is squarely up to Moscow. Either the Soviets must a git of veto with moderation or face ‘the prospect

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ASIA... By Charles. mm

U. S. Policy in

China Scored

* State Deparment Faces ‘Going-Over’ in Congress

‘WASHINGTON, AQF. 20-—The State Department's passive China policy is in for a rough

. going-over when the administration goes to

Congress asking guns for western Europe In support of the North Atlantic Pact. Sen. Willlam F. Knowland (R. Cal.), warning of the danger of all Asia going Communist announced he would insist that our policymak-

ers provide the Senate Armed Services Commit-

tee with an explanation of our whole approach to the world situation—China included. - Mr. Knowland said he certainly didn't agree that “the State Department is perpetually right

Pacific Coast complained of shipping scrap iron to Japan when we were arming a potential enemy. Not only was it used against-the Chinese but against ourselves. It was demonstrated historically the State Department was wrong here and I think it may be demonstrated again if there is no change from present policy.”

Warns Against Defeatism

THE Senator challenged those who say it is too late to help China, reminding them that such a defeatist attitude at the time Hitler's armies swept into Dunkirk probably would have turned all Europe over to the Nazis. Suppose, he added, that those in Europe who helped us the winter Washington was at Valley Forge had takén such an attitude. ‘ “Of course it is too late to save all China, with Manchuria and the area north of the Yangtze already gone,” Sen. Knowland said. “But I believe it is important that an area of free China remain and I believe that with proper support for the non-Communist areas—instead of pulling the rug out from under them--we could maintain a Chinese area which would

hot be overwhelmed. Rs “It a government ever followed a policy of

undermining the morale of a former friend and ally, we have certainly been doing it in these last several months with China.”

Views of Other Senators

SEN. KNOWLAND'S criticism of the State Department China policy reflected the views of many Senators both Republican and Democratic. There is a widely held view that the administration has followed a faltering} go-slow program ever since the Gen. George C. Marshall mission to China. Even some Senators who are not disposed to challenge the State Department openly are unhappy about its past course here. Recently Secretary of State Dean Acheson sat -down hard on a proposal by Sen. Pat MeCarran (D, Nev.) to provide $1.5 billion of aid to non-Communist China. ; : Earlier the State Department had objected to a provision in legislation that left-over 1948 China aid funds be expended only in non-Com-munist China —but it didn't get its way. Sen. Knowland today cited Chinese news dispatches quoting Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, pledging aid to Russia in case of conflict between the Soviet Union and the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Thus, the Senator said, we've been put on notice as to where the Chinese Communists stand, and “it would be as stupid to ignore this as it was to ignore the Plueprint Hitler laid down In Mein Kampf.”

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

GROWING CHILDREN If you, a stranger, Should step. inside our door, The first thing that you'd see Is a toy-strewn floor.

Cars, marbles and a train, @vershoes, too, in case of rain.

Baseballs, a bat and mitt, One 9-year-old they fit.

A play-tired puppy sleeping, What else the children keeping?

Oh, stranger, you would know, As inside you'd enter, Here it is our children grow, In heart and home, the center. ~MARY HELEN ADAMS, Indianapolis. 9%

. TIDES

~ High or low-— Your heart rides out the tide of years and sings a reckless sailing song when life is gay and days are long-— Then “come the tempest and the tears.

Ebb and flow— But wait the low tide out, and then sail bravely off the rocky reef of dark despair or stormy grief--The sea will float your ship again! -

== MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland any.

Before the war we on the.

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U. §. VS. RAILROADS

WASHINGTON, Apr. over the rates the U. 8. government pays the American railroads for hauling. the mail has been in the making for over twq years and is now about to burst wide open. It has been called a three-billion-dollar battle. Participants include Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson and the U, 8. Post Office Department, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the General Accounting Office, the Congress, and the Association of American Railroads and its subsidiary Committee on Railway Mall Transportation. Theraugh this committee the railroads have petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for increases in mail pay totaling 80 per cent of present mail revenue of $178,000,000, amounting to $142,000,000 a year. Postmaster General Donaldson believes, briefly, that any increase the government pays the railroads should be based on a new and comprehensive study of cqsts.. The Post Office Department has offered to pay its full share of making this survey. Postal inspectors would be assigned to make it. Congress has appropriated $390,000 to do the job. Forms have been prepared to get the data.

Little Railroad Co-operation BUT the Association of American Railroads, through its Committee on Railway Mail Transportation, has flatly refused to use the Post Office accounting forms and has refused to submit the full data requested by the departmen Instead, the railroads have submitted to | ICC only their own data, on a take it or le basis. The Post Office Department conte the railroads’ figures are based on.

sheets and underlying evi weakness in the Jailfeaty CAS

without full and fair The railroads di cent increase all 1047, the railro

not ask for their 80 per one 8woop. In February,

prove a 45 per/cent increase in mail pay rates. There were bfief hearings and much stalling by “ both. sides

By Peter Edson

Fight on Railway Mail Looms

20—A battle royal

On December 4, 1947, the ICC granted the railroads a 25 per cent interim increase. This would have given the roads about $44,000,000 additional a year. Postmaster General Donaldson at first refused to pay the increase, in an effort to force the railroads to agree to a full cost study. Last June the railroads asked for a 65 per cent increase instead of their original

request for a 45 per cent increase. 5

Tentative Agreement

IN AUGUST the railroads and the Office reached a tentative agreement for study. Postmaster Donaldson _then payment to the roads under the.25 crease order. Even after the rail money, the case dragged. .One

A Republican Postmaster them what they wanted.

survey of railway big undertaking,

terminal costs; amounting to about one-third sted increase. On this item the ly submitted claims for increases

en Post Office accountants dug into these fis they found them full of major errors. ere were big unsubstantiated claims for items f lights, lubrication and labor. The Post Office then requested a spot study of 200 terminals, which -handle about three-fourths of all the mail. The Rallway Mail Transportation Committee refused to co-operate on this study.

Refused to Co-operate

POSTMASTER GENERAL DONALDSON then wrote letters to all the railroad presidents, asking their co-operation on this terminal cost survey. “A number agreed, but the majority refused to co-operate, Some of the executives, including Pennsylvania’s M. W. Clement, didn't even answer. On Apr 1, 1949, however, the

Railway Mail Transportation Committee asked-

the §CC for a 85 per cent increase in pay— makihg the total request an 80 per cent raise— with an immediate interim increase of 35 per cent on top of the 25 they have. That was when the Postmaster General decided it was time for a showdown.

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Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be prewerved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Clock Pushed Around’

By 8. H. Fitzsimmons, Indiana Legislative Representative, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

After listening to the Indianapolis Chamber

‘of Commerce, other adults, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, proposing to defeat the purpose of the Indiana Standard Time Law, it is not hard for one to understand why so many teen-agers disregard our laws and expect to get away with it. As a railroad employee, I have seen the sun come up and the sun go down many times in the past 46 years, but I have never as yet seen it stand. It is not pleasant working om a rail road at night, and if it is possible to turn the clock up one hour and gain one hour of daylight, then it only stands to reason that ‘the clock could be pushed around 12 hours and we could do all of our work in the daylight. It seems to me that if the poor old clock is to be “pushed around,” blamed for much confusion and not permitted to function properly ir correctly, thén it would be better if our law amended to use the sun dial only. The Chamber of Commerce and some local newspapers would have the public believe that all labor is in favor of this so-called Daylight Saving Time. This is to advise that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are not in favor of it. * & ¢

By John-Jackson- Jr. 6240 W. Washington. The size of the waiting lists at Locke Gardens, Tyndall Towne®&nd other places dianapolis. should prove, conclusively need some type of public housing. N temporary shacks but permanent units. : I sincerely hope that this Conference that is going to be War Memorial Auditorium something done. I hope th but that some concrete this conference. I, as a veteran in serious need of housing, am going to attend this conference, and I hope to help them get something done. How about the rest of you

blic Housing 1d at the World Apr. 23 will get it is not only talk on will result from

* < ‘Eliminae Time Arguments’

time, effort and expense concerning DaySaving Time. I hear and read discussions th pro and con and have heard bitter conversies. It is of little importance whether I favor or disagree with the change as I am employed in the shop and of necessity must adhere to the working hours established by my employer. It appears to me that a sensible plan could be followed that would be a democratic procedure based upon majority rule.

Clocks would remain on Central Standard

Time. Allow the employees of a siness to decide by majority vote if they desire to start work one hour early. The merchants adopting such an early schedule could so state in their

advertisements. This plan would eliminate the

arguments concerning Which time was being followed. *

Wht Others Say—

OBSTRUCTIONISM fo a sound housing program has given the Democratic Party an extremely useful political weapon, but I am certain all Democrats would gladly trade it for a good supply of decent housing at reason= able rents and prices.—Sen. J. Howard MeGrath, chairman, Democratic National Com-

> 4 JUST because a man can talk easily it does not necessarily follow that he talks sensibly. . + The literate man may speak grammatically, coherently, persuasively—and still give voice to folly.—Irving J. Lee, in “The Language of Reason and Folly.” : > LJ I KNOW of no other expenditure that can produce greater security at a more reasonable cost than investment in a timely defense of the borders of western Europe.—Army Chief of Staff Gen. Omar Bradley. * & 9» THE United Nations remains today the core nerstone of effective international action to maintain peace and security and promote higher standards of welfare throughout the whole world. —Australian Minister for External Affairs Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, president of ‘the UN General Assembly.

COAL’ s FUTURE. «++ By Fred Ww. Perkins

Mine Owners S

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—Tired of taki

changes in the industry’s methods of bar Mine Workers, That is the story in this month's * trade magazine, which gives resiill among coal producers. Its poll wa and three anthracite operators,

regular lckings from John L. Lewis, a big majority of coal opérators want radical ning with the United

oal Age,” a McGraw-Hill ‘of a survey it conducted answered: by 78 bituminous

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FARM SUBSIDY . . . By Earl Richert

Price Plan Doubts

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—A “show me” attitude confronts the administration’s request to Congress for immediate authority to use direct subsidies to let pork and milk prices come down for

Although not particularly hostile to the idea, most of the *1éading Democrats on the Senate and House Agriculture Commit-

country and mining companies of all sizes. This disclosure is important now. because the present union contract expires June 30, and Mr. Lewis is expected to give notice early in May that he wi a better one. The speculation is that he will demand an-increase in the union welfare fund tax of 20 -cents on every ton coal produced, and also a reduction in the work week from 40"to 35 hours (including travel time within the mines and a paid lunch period), with no decrease in pay and perha ps a wi "boost. “On all fides,” the magazine reports, “fears were expressed -for coal’s fiture unless some satisfactory way is found to make a contract<fear of outright government control, fear of declining public favor, and fear of disaster if the inddstry is compelled to knuekle under to Mr. Lewis year after r year.”

| Better Bargaining Methods

CONCLUSIONS from the survey are summed up in this way: .

“To improve bargaining methods and get better results, a more aggressive and intelligent approach to wage talks appears to be in order. . “Operators generally agree also.on the need for better publierelations methods, especially during negotiations. “To bolster coal's bargaining position and to offset the general public's belief that coal operators are mossbacked standpatters, the producers’ negotiators should enter wage talks with concrete, negotiable proposals of their own. “Some way also should be found to tighten up the operators’ negotiating committee—perhaps by reducing the number of repile-

sentatives and certainly by freeing them, at least in some degree, . from interference by groups or individuals with selfish or special

" interests.” Specific proposals stated by the magazine, with the percentage of replies favoring them, follow: ONE: Reducing the number of operator negotiators as a means of expediting negotiations, presenting a more solid front, and cutting down on personal Sashes, | In TavoR, 8 per cent.

Broader Powers TWO: Granting broader power for negotiators to make con-

tract commitments without delaying the joint conference to com- ° _ sult their constituents. In favor, 81 per cent. ‘THREE: Setting up a full time liaison committee of opera-

tors to keep in touch with ‘the union on. contract interpretation, industry economics and labor relations the year around, this same to bargain for new contracts when old agreements expire.

In favor, 89 per cent. FOUR: Abolis the operators’ negotiating committee and tation in one man, employed tull time,

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“This display must be the result of Junior's becoming interested es. in advertising—evidently | he's making a survey of models!"

and chosen for his knowledge of the industry and his skill as a

negotiator. In favor, 52 per cent. FIVE: Taking the initiative by’ entering negotiations with a

constructive set of negotiable proposals instead of waiting for the |

union to make demands. In favor, 97.5 per cent. SIX: Setting up an operators’ public-relations agency to release spot news of day-by-day progress in negotiations. In favor 90 per cent. SEVEN: Reducing the length of the negotiating period by making written proposals. prior to opening the joint conference, restricting debate to relevant issues, and leaving fringe issues

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tors agd the union. In favor, 90 per cent.¥ GHT: Oeing wage conferences 10. the press and. the

tees say they will have to be *“sold” before they move to put through separate legislation dealing with these two commodities. . A separate act would be required because Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan wants to be able to use these subsidies, which are called “production payments,” before summer. And it will“take Congress months to act on the comprehensive farm program He presented. Authority to use production payments is con= tained in the Aiken-Hope law which goes into effect next Jan, 1,

Wants Facts, Figures

“I WILL have to see a bill and a lot of facts and figures before I form an opinion,” said Senate Committee Chairman Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.). “I don’t want to go at jt on a piecemeal basis,” said Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D. 1La.), ranking committee Democrat. “It would be much better to get a farm bill through as a whole rather than in bits.” ‘Mr. Brannan foresees pork and milk surpluses in the weeks _ ahead and under the present law he. will have to buy . keep prices to farmers up to 90 per cent of parity. He. thinks it would be better—and consumers at least would get some. break— to let prices of these products fall to their natural levels, and pay farmers by government check the difference between the average Price hey Tessived Sud the Support. price. This would eliminate payments to processors as well as . transportation and storage costs oh the commodities.

Buying Butter and Milk

to support milk prices and it expects to have to buy heavily of 3 pork soon, To stress the urgency the administration feels, President Truman may send Congress a special message repeating Mr. Brannan’s tn for authority to use production payments at once. The ture Department has not been able to estimate probable ot of the new scheme.

is on the administration side of this phase of the new farm ‘pro= gram says Congress should act at once to approve direct * subsidies to support hog prices. The Vermonter, however, is critical of many other proposals in the new program.

- gressional Democrats because he took three months after the pening of Congress to come forth with his new and

proposal he production units per big. arm's produce ineligible

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THE department now is buying butter and dried skim milk

Sen. George Alken (R. Vt.), coauthor of the Afken-Hope law,

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