Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1949 — Page 10

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Give TAGM and the People Will Ping Thetr Own Way

The Road of Progress

THIS country could use a lot more genuine advocates of free enterprise like Merritt M. Nash, that dairy farmer who flew from Washington state to Washington, D. C., the the other day to tell Congress why the federal margarine taxes should be repealed. “Those unwarranted taxes,” he said, “are a detriment to the dairy industry. It's wrong to rely on restrictive legislation against a legitimate competitive product. The industry should promote butter instead of asking the government to demote something else.” Mr. Nash wént on to argue that the energy wasted on fighting margarine should be devoted to improving and pushing the sale of “that product for which we have our most —— favorable market-—good fluid milk.” Sen. Butler of Nebraska, a member of .the tomittes before which Mr, Nash was testifying, asked: : “If there were a synthetic substitute for milk, just as margarine is a substitute for butter, would you then say there should be no protection for the regular milk producer like yourself 7?" » ” “SENATOR,” replied Mr. Nash, “I've thought ahout that question, and I'll say this: I'll never stand in the road of progress, not if it puts me out of business. “My grandfather manufactured carriages and buggies. In 1909, when my father bought a Ford, my grandfather disowned him—cut him off with a dollar in his will. ‘Because,’ grandfather said, ‘automobiles are going to be the ruination of the country. They're putting me out of business, and putting 25 people who work for me out of jobs.’ “But, Senator, do you think that over the long run it was a bad thing to have the automobile industry come in? Every new development in this country hurts some segment of our society while we're making the change’ But the result is progress. “If someone produced a synthetic product with all the wonderful qualities of fluid milk, I'd be among the first to say: ‘Mister, if you can produce it with less effort and cost than I can produce milk, I'll sell every cow I've got tomorrow and get into your business or some other.” ”

5 I Blocking Economy’

WE DON'T know how many eminent. authorities have warned recently that Congress must either slash government spending or increase taxes if a federal deficit is to be avoided in the next fiscal year. However, the number of such warnings has been great, Yet, though Congress shudders at the thought of voting higher taxes, its efforts in the direction of eeoromising are far from impressive. Total appropriations seem much more likely to be over than under the almost $42 billion figure proposed in President Truman's record-smashing peacetime budget. _infiation,” or whatever it is the country is now experiencing, appears almost certain to bring federal revenues; at present tax rates, below Mr, Truman's estimate of about §41 billion, And trying to produce a Treasury surplus by granting the President's demand for $4 billion in new taxes could dangerously speed up the “disinflation” and result in less rather than more federal revenue. : : . . » . MEANWHILE, a constructive plan for government economy on a really important scale is in grave danger of going by boards. This is the plan, set forth in the reports of the Hoover Commission, for reorganizing the overgrown federal bureaucracy, eliminating its vast wastes and duplications, and increasing its efficiency. KEstimates of the possible savings through adoption of this plan run as high as * $3 billion a year. The Housé has passed a bill which ‘Would fet the Presi‘dent make a start toward putting the plan into effect. The Senate has not acted. And certain Senators, seeking to protect their ppt government agencies from being disturbed, are backing a scheme for restrictions on the President's author-

almost impossible, Unless and until the Sénate is prodded into action such as the House has taken there can be little hope of much economy throtigh the Hoover Commission's plan, next fiscal year or ever.

Test of Democracy

[OOSIERS will have a chance not only to help strengthen their government and the freedoms of democracy but to help themselves materially during the U. S. Savings Bond sale campaign May 16 to June 30. m Purchase of these bonds. is. more than merely JoAning

‘up the American way of life, a tangible proof of the power of democracy at work. At the same time, purchase of bonds will raise the financial status of every community by building up reserves. of / buying power and security of every participating family. Citizens of Indiana intetested in more security for them-

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ity which would make any thorough-going reorganization

‘money { to the ‘government —it | is a contribution that will beer

/ selves and their form of government, will find no better op-

teen to guarantee that security than investment of savings in U. 8. bonds during the next two months,

: Let the Public Speak

ORROW in the World War Memorial auditorium a ‘housing conference will be held. Its purpose is to get at the facts, to find out how many people need home, and _ what kind. This is a healthy pivsedite If nothing more taotars . than to bring the truth to the surface, the effort will have “been ‘worthwhile. There is no better way to find out what TS Be thinking than to provide a way for them to ex-

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LABOR... By Fred W. Perkins

os | po Big Strikes

Seen This Year

Demands of Workers May Not Lead to Major Walkouts .

WASHINGTON, Apr. 22-Government conciliators believe last week's flare-up of strikes is over for a time;

bile industry, and Were “quickies” or “wildcats” not authorized by the CIO United Automohile Workers. According to reports from Detroit, leaders of this union used as one argument in getting ‘the men back to work the contention that the strikes were promoted by employers as

. a means of influencing national labor legisia-

tion, particularly the pénding efforts to repea! the Taft-Hartley law. One .of the few remaining strikes of importance is a recurrence of trouble at the Bendix plant in South Bend, Ind. which, according to reports here, originated in discharges of some employees for taking part in an alleged

“slowdown.” About 7500 workers are affected. Ford Strike Vote OUTSIDE of coal mining—where the un-

predictable John 1. Lewis is making the moves that usually precede a shutdown intended to force a better contract from the operators the higgest indication of possible. trouble is in a strike vote avithorized hy the auto union among the more than 100000 workers of the Ford Mator Co, Buch votes strike mga jority,

usually result. in- a huge. proand this one is expected to be no exception, But it would “not necessarfly mean a strike. The action must..still be ratified by this big union's executive hoard, which in past situations of this soft has used the strike authority to strengthen its hand in collective bargaining. Ford's contract expires July 15, and unionmanagement talks are expected to start about May 15. Walter Reuther, United Autoworkers’ president, is gunning for a company socialsecurity aor welfare program, and has stated this demand will ‘be placed ahead of wages. This precedence for pension-insurance subjects fe expected to appear in other fmportant negotiations. !

‘Cost of Living Fodor

ANOTHER factor is in the continued slow fall of the cost of living, as shown hy the U, 8. Bureau of Labor statistics’ “consumers’ price index.” This, plus price cuts by some manufacturers (bhelittled by the unions in view of profit shawings), for wage demands, Po‘h General Motors and Chrysler have contracts running to mid-1950.. Chrysler's contract may be reopened after June 15 this year on economic matters; which could include pensions as well ag wages, If the union wins a pension plan from Ford, that may produce a move on GM for similar benefits without waiting for next vear, This subject is expected to figure also in negotiations between the CIO United Steelworkars and big concerns of that industry, The steel contract runs to Apr. 30 of next year but it may be reopened this July after 60 days’ notice, Government

experts refuse to predict, but

are likely this year in manufacturing Industries.

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MY CREDO

1 will enjoy today, Crammed with Heaven's treasure 1'll seize each moment-—-make it pay It's last bright coin of pleasure.

1 will enjoy today — Who can find tomorrow? I'll work and worship, laugh and play, And if 1 must, taste sorrow.

T will enjoy today: Nor will tomorrow dread, For He who charts my Way today, Has charge of the days ahead. OLGA ADAMS, Peru.

SSS If, day by day, ‘we may achieve some good, Let it be known to us and understood , , ,

In humble gladness know that it will be The cornerstone of-ourteternity! , May we not once. our own mistakes forget But, for our sinfulness, feel full regret; Acquire a charity, be slow to blame Another who may know an equal shame, That. in the end, the good and bad may be A-balance wheel of kind humility! ~~ ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Terre Haute.

VETERANS'-BENEFITS “ra By Jim G. Lucas

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MEDICAL CARE .

. By Charles T. Lucey

Defeat of Health Program Seen

WASHINGTON, Apr. 22--Chances for acceptance at this session of Congress of President Truman's broad national health program were regarded as ranging from slim to non-

| existent by important Capitol Hill sources today. I~ A special White House message on the subject

is being prepared for Congress. : Some of the President's chief supporters are

saying the best that can be obtained is a compromise, and such opponents as Sen. Robert A. Taft doubt there can be any health bill at all at this session. Mr. Taft, who has his own hill ‘for a national health program, says he bélieves the Democrats cannot drum up the votes to get approval of the part of the Truman program calling for a system of Sompuiaory health insurance. Indications are that considerabie influence will be exerted by the ifinounced opposition to a compulsory program by three Catholic groups ~the Bureau of Health and Hospitals of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the National Conference of Catholic Charities and the Catholic Hospital Association.

Voluntary Plan

THESE groups favor a voluntary approach to a pay-in-advance medica) care insurance program. 4 At present there are Wind major bills providing for a national health plan, and although details vary there is fairly general agreement on the need to train more doctors and nurses; to expand state and “local public health programs and to provide federal aid for construc tion of hospitals and clinics, It is regarded as possible that a bill could be. passed if limited to ®uch areas of accord, but if the administration insists that a compulsory health insurance program be ‘wra pped in the same package there probably will be no bill at all this session. Even the calendar is against action. The guessing is that hearings could not begin. until well into My, and they probably would require several weeks to complete and then would run head-on into the end-of-the-session legislative jam: Sen. Claude Pepper (D. Fla.), who favors compulsory health insurance, said there might

be a compromise ground within the compulsory formula—for example, that pay-in -advance

.~—health insurance might be limited only to hos-

pital care. This would exclude compulsory prepayment of doctors’ bills for service either in the _hospital, the physician's office or the ‘home.

Predicts Compulsory Plan

BUT the Senator said he was convinced the country would come to comprehensive medical care and hospitalization under a compulsory system. Such a plan may be stalled, but it will eventually be adopted, he said. Sen. Taft expressed a general accord with numerous phases of the voluntary national health program proposed by the Catholic groups. He questioned, however, their recommendation that as an incentive for enrollment in voluntary health insurance programs all individuals earning up to $5000 a year be permitted to deduct premiums up to $75 annually from their income tax. He said this might lead to other similar proposals for tax deductions, As. of today, the widest support for any system of health insurance seems to exist for proposals to provide government funds for payment of premiums-in voluntary health insurance plans for those who cannot afford to pay such premiums themselves. This would be permitted under a bill introduced by Sens. Taft, H, Alexander Smith (R. N. J.) and Forrest Donnell (R. Mo.), and under still another measure. proposed by Democratic Sens. Lister Hill (Ala.), Herbert O'Conor (Md.) and Garrett Withers (Ky.) and Republican Sen. George Alken (Vt.).

Solid Opposition THE present Senate prospect is for ‘almost solid Republican opposition to any compulsory health insurance system. Democratic conservatives would oppose it, of course. But the fact that such usually regular administration supporters as Sens. Hill and O'Coner favor a voluntary system shows which way the wind blows, and there are others fairly close to the LT Tesident who question compulsion. + The new bill headed for Capitol To will resemble the so-called Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill-in its compulsory features, but probably will go further in spelling out an aid program for hospitals and medical colleges.

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‘Brothers Under the Skin’ By W. H. Richards, Box 291, City. ". Three- -year-old ‘Kathy Fiscus fell into a 14 inch abandoned well 180 feet deep in California, Heroic men who, under ordinary circume stances, could not have been paid any price to undertake such a task came forward and volun<" . steered to risk their lives to dig down 180 Joc in an effort to save the child. Within 48 hours a report of the-accident nad

been flashed around the world and. peopie of all

nations, creads, colors and languages had heard over the radio or read in their papers the sad news, and their hearts beat in unison ‘with those

of the anxious parents’

Millions of prayers were offered in all lan= guages that the child might -he found and brought out alive and unharmed. Shé was found, but hours too late. Kathy was dead. The profound sympathy of the whole human race was a forceful demonstration that we are. Indeed one world; and if this sad tragedy should ‘awaken the peoples of all nations to realize that we are all brothers “under the skin” and that war by which millions of the best and noblest of the youth of one nation are sent by their rulers to kill the best and noblest of “nother nation is ‘the height of folly and humanity should insist that there should be no war, little Kathy shall not have died in vain. * ¢»

Opposes Aid to Europe

By Charles A. Hubbard, Martinsville, Ind.

The $5.5.billion appropriation for the Mare shall Plan to aid bankrupt Europe, will do more to destroy the American way of living than the un-American activities of all the Communists in the world. Arthur H. Marlow, British Council General in Chicago, when visiting Gov. Schricker and Mayor Feeney, declared Great Britain was planning to recapture American markets with exports of autos,’ whisky, worsted, linens, cute lery, chinaware and machinery, made by British “pauper labor” and sold here at less than cost to American manufacturers paying the American wage scale, . If America is flooded with pauper labor- made British goods, it is obvious that American face tories will close, that unemployment will begin and that a depression will surely follow. Mr. Marlow further declares Great Britain can now fight America for world and American markets with British-made goods—thanks to Atlantic Pact and Marshall Plan aid. “If you objett to higher taxes and less take home pay, if you object to selling your labor in competition with-the pauper labor of Great Britain and Western Europe, now is the time to make your objections known. Tomorrow may be too late. ® * ¢

‘Housing Solution Needed’ By Sanford Ramsey, 444 N, Capitol

I find that housing ‘in Indianapolis is most inadequate, and I think that the people whaq are. proposing the housing conference are to be praised for their attempts at a practical solution to the pressing housing problem. In my opinion, the best means of refuting the propaganda of the real estate lobby is to attend this conference on Apr. 23 at the World War Memorial and present testimony as to conditions. as they actually exist. The real estate lobby has spoken of new houses being built at a mad pace. Quite a glowing picture, but just how many ordinary persons can afford to purchase new homes at $12,000 and up to any fancy figure dealers dream up? Families of small income must either live doubled up or pay exorbitant rents. Those who have no place to go and have to‘buy have almost bankrupted themselves. There must be something we can do about this sity situation. :

What Others Say—

TIN THIS age material power must be cone trolled by something higher than itself.. It must be controlled by moral power.—Dr. D. H. An drews, professor of chemistry, ohm Hopking

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ALL the old can do for the young is to shoel them and keep them up to date. —George Bere pard Shaw. rE

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By Galbraith

FARMVOIE... By Earl Richert !

A Clue for the GOP

WASHINGTON, Apr, 22- World War 11 veterans will cost the U nited States at least $43 billion in the next 10 years, Con-

gress. has been told. That is more than twice as much as the

amount for veterans of all other wars since 1778, ' The forecast was contained in a staff study for the Hoover Commission's veterans task force by the Trundle Engineering Co., of Cleveland. It wag not included in the task force report, which dealt only with organization apd procedures. However, it was sent Congress by Herbert Hoover and printed by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, The report said that by June, 1058, Waerld War 11 veterans will have received $36 bjliton in pensions, compensation and other gratuities and $11 billion in Medical care, “1t is evident,” the study said, “that the present programs should be carefully reviewed before .a change in economic conditions makes them the medium by which veterans as a privfleged class can escape the effect of an economic recession.

Drain on U. S. Economy

“THE drain en the national™economy may ‘well be. a con-

fect, of course, is to stimulate inflation and add to the so-called national income.” These figures, ministration, And it warned servative, “Continued pressure from veterans’ organizations and other groups. may be expected for increasing the benefits for World War II veterans,” it said. “At the same -time, World War 1 veterans will want to match some of these demands for themselves, : “There is little reason, other than political, to continue- any of the current laws beyond. their expiration dates “Sf to increase materially any of the ben “Heing paid. “Should Congress prove too acquiescent in this respect and yield to this veterans’ clamor, then the figures here merely rep-

the report said, did fof include cost of adthat $43 billion might be con-

privileged group and one for which ample benefits already have been provided.” The report poilited out that each Spanish-American war veteran had cost the government an average of $1128 a year

and the World War I veteran so far, $720 a year. Cost $3.5 Billion Bey “IF, IN 1998-50 years from now--75 per cent of the living

World War II veterans-are on the compensation or pension rolls, receiving an average of $1128 per year, the cost for 3,150,000 veterans will be $3.5 hillion." the report predicted. “More immediately, in 1973-24 years from now and based on the same considerations—the annual pension bill for 13 million veterans and their dependents may easily amount to $8 billion or $8 hillion.” The report warned that the taxpayers, “of whom a considerable proportion are vetsrans,” have a right to be concerned since half of the governim mant's income comes from, . personal income taxes,

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the veterans’ population” the report said. “This load bears equally on veterans who pay taxes as well as other taxpayers.” It warned that payments to World War IT veterans—whicd “are far more generous than ever before in the country's his-tory'‘=-had only begun. ¥or instance, it. pointed out that: l ONE: The last veteran of the war of"1812 died in 1905. The list payment to a dependent was made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, « = : TWO: The Mexican War ended May 30, 1848. The last veteran died in 1929. During the fiscal year ‘ending June 30, 1947, pensions totaling $25,487 were paid to 46 widows and one child. THREE: Eighty-two years after the Civil War ended, penslong of $124841 were paid to 91 surviving veterans whose ages averaged 101 years, while $8.9 million was paid to 17,202 ‘widows and 1625 children, - © The report said that the trend In veterans benefits is "definitely upward." Against this, it recommended several

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—Back on Nov, 3 when the Republie cans sought clues as to what had happened to their missing farm vote, they found Charles F, Brannan's tracks all over the place. They had known of his indefatigable campaigning but they had misjudged altogether his effectiveness in persuading the tarmers that the GOP really wasn't for high farm prices as its presidential candidate had said. Milg-manneéred and ube pretentious, Charles Brannan had seemed too innocuous to bother with when his nomination as Secratary of Argieulture was sent to the Republican Senate last May. Today, this same quiet man is repeating his election. -time performance with the most marathon- ike campaigning the Capital has seen in years.

Speaking Day and Night

HE 18 speaking day and night for the new administration farm program-—a program which is his own. In addition to maintaining a heavy schedule of congressional appearances, | he'll see almost ant. newspaperman to talk Shout at tHe FHghtest urging on radio program. He has addressed as many as four Mi a day since he presented his program two weeks ago. . All this is a little unusual to Washington which has be come accustomed to seeing administration programs sent to Congress and then forgotten—after a Cabinet officer or some other spokesman has appeared to testify languidly and une convincingly Only other Truman official to_approach his performance has been Oscar R.- , who as Federal Security wr OF henn. PROMOMAK th surance plan. An Mr. Ewing has been out PERN six Ya Nise of illness. Whether Mr. Brannan's effectiveness with Congress will match that with the voférs is to be seen. But he is trying the

same tactics. Next Monday he starts out again with the House _ Argiculture Committee in sessions that are scheduled to last

om Jo a. m. until late at night. ‘ . Brannan is so interested in selling his farm program he i he wouldn't bother to resist if someone came into his office and carried off his desk.

Will Push Program

"AFTER working for months, late into the night, he intends to do everything possible. now to get his program onto the law books. He thinks it is the best scheme yet advanced to deal with the nation's farm problems. Although staying on politically safe grounds in asking for legislation to maintain high farm prices and yet give consumers cheaper food, he took two sfeps politically perilous for any

One was proposing to drop peanuts, rice and wool from the present list dof farm commodities with top priority for farm price support. And the other was proposing that much of the produce of big farms not be made eligible for price support. He knows that political pressurs will be such that he likely loss out on both proposals in any new legislation. But he He was Fight and should make them, : : Es

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