Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1949 — Page 14

Fhe Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD WALTER R_LECKSONY HENRY MAN

"PAGE 14 Wednesday, Apr. 27, 1949

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Telephone RI ley 8551 : Give Tight and the People Will Ping Thetr Oton Way

Bi 3 : ‘ pr Detour Through Asia : New York Times remarks that the Communist vic- = tories in China “mark not only a defeat for the West, which in this case means primarily the United States, but the fiasco of its entire Far Eastern policy.” Far It was Lenin's dictum that communism would conquer Europe by a detour through Asia. Hence The Times sees the Red sweep through China as “the Kremlin's answer to the Atlantic Pact, the Truman Doctrine and the European Recovery Program.” : ae But what made that answer too inviting for the Krem- = lin to resist was the stubborn refusal of our State Department to recognize the facts of international life when we ‘deserted Chiang Kai-shek.

” ” ” .» ”. ” 1 T IS questionable, however, whether the State Department recognizes that we have a cause in China, even at this late date. Secretary of State Acheson seems to have accepted the inevitability of the complete Communist conquest of all China and dismissed it as only a minor failure. Three men must accept responsibility for the. “fatal miscaleulations” that induced them to “support and cooperate with the Communists”’—President Truman, former . Secretary df State Marshall, and Mr. Acheson himself. * Gen. Marshall urged a coalition between Chiang Kaishek and the Communists even after the lesson of Poland as to the inevitable consequences of Communist coalitions. _ Failing to achieve Chinese unity on that basis, he issued his famous “plague on both your houses” statement, denounc“ing both the Nationalists and the Communists. Then we - withdrew our support from Chiang's government. That opened the door for the Communist detour through Asia.

“ “As the Debate Begins be WHEN the Truman Administration's labor bill was placed before Congress three months ago we stated our opinion that— Lae : we “Its enactment would promote industrial strife, encourage abuses of organized labor's power and deprive individual workers, employers and the public of protection for their ga 5 Today that bill, unchanged ‘in any slightest respect, _ reaches the stage of House debate. “Tt has been given rubber- | _ stamp approval by Democratic majorities on the House and Senate Labor Committees. al : But it is the identical measure that was drafted by the administration in an abject attempt to please labor-union - officials who want the government to give them enormous power and leave them free of public responsibility for that power’s proper use. = : . It proposes to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and to’ restore the 1035 Wagner Act with a few inadequate “improvements. : ;

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: La a ; ; : ado ¢ “HE Taft-Hartley Act, though by no means the “slavery law” that union propagandists call it, is not perfect. It is a better, fairer law than the Wagner Act was. But it can and should be improved in the light of experience. And, apparently, there is majority sentiment in both branches of Congress for attempting to correct its defects and meet valid criticisms of its operation. However, the administration, the union leaders and the labor committees have ignored this sentiment. They have insisted upon outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. They have, up to now, rejected all proposals for reasonable compromise and blocked all efforts to alter the thoroughly unsatisfactory administration bill. Since neither branch of Congress is willing to approve that bill in its present form, it seems certain that any new labor legislation enacted in this session will be written on ‘the floors of the House and Senate.

Mr. Sullivan Resigns

HRT and angry because Defense Secretary Louis A. Johnson did not consult him before stopping construction of the Navy's 65,000-ton super-carrier, Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan has resigned. It was the logical thing to do. : | 1 Mr. Sullivan is an able and patriotic public servant. He _ feels, with evident sincerity, that scrapping plans for the - Super-carrier was a “tragic” mistake. It does seem that ~ Secretary Johnson might have shown him the courtesy of

consulting him before-issuing the order. But Mr. Sullivan had had ample ‘opportunity to make - his views known in many forums. If we are to end the costly rivalry among the three military services—if we are to have a truly unified defense establishment, someone must call the signals. oo” gi : Secretary Johnson has been selected to do that. He En JL be judged by. results Me £41 BNE order and clear purpose out of the chaos, we shall have what we need— adequate protection against armed attack. His subordinates ‘wha don’t want to play his way have one recourse. They ‘can quit. : : : os

Recognition for Ralph Bunche es _. DR RALPH BUNCHE, the American=difiiomat who ~~ 77" ‘brought peace to Palestine ag'Utited Nations mediator, after the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, is being considered for the new post of Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and African affairs. : This appointment would be a natural. ~ Dr. Bunche was a recognized authority on problems of he Near and Middle East when he was drafted into the ate Department's career service from a professorship at

Sussioy . . . By Earl Rich ;

Warns Against

{Farm Aid Dole

Rep. Poage Says People Would Lose Self-Respect

WASHINGTON, Apr. 271s it bad for the American farmer—or anyone—to get ern“ment subsidies served straight, like a dole? Rep. W. R. Poage (D. Tex.) raised this point at House hearings on the new Brapran farm program. He contended the proposed “produe“them lose thelr self-respect. “The very act of accepting a- dole from the government tends to break down the fiber of the people,” said the Texas Congressman who is the No. 2 ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, “We never before have insulted a large group of American citizens by asking them ‘to take their subsidies straight.” ; The proposed “production payments” would be used'by the Agriculture Department in lieu of the present government purchases of perishable commodities to take surpluses off the market and hold prices up to the goverriment floor. The new plan is to let pices of these preducts fall to their natural levels. Then the government by direct check. would pay the farmer thé difference between the average price received and the support price.

Wouldn't Cost More

AGRICULTURE Secretary Charles Brannan contends this plan wouldn't cost any more than the present program, and would let ¢onsumers buy the affected commodities, such as eggs, at much cheaper prices. Mr. Poage said he wasn't opposing the price floors Mr. Brannan wants to maintain to farmers through the ,production payments. But he thought the operation ought to ‘be sugar-coated 80 it looked less like a government handout, He asked -Mr. Brannan if ft wouldn't be possible to substitute a farm price Insurance plan for the production payment scheme, letting

the farmer or processor pay into an insurance’

. fund as in the case of unemployment compensation. i “You'd be saving the self-respect of the

| American farmer,” Rep. Poage said.

Secretary Brannan said he and his aids had thought of such a plan but had abandoned it ; because they .could not devise a plausible method of operation. :

“Support Level Loans

SECRETARY BRANNAN said he had encountered no’ reluctance among farmers to * take government checks when they placed their wheat, cotton. or corn’ under support level loans. “No,” said Rep. Poage, “that’s a transaction where the farmer thinks he is getting a pretty good deal by turning his commodity over to the government. It isn’t like getting checks in the mail to add to the prices they received for sellirig goods at the market place.” & His remarks touched off a round of debate on the general subject of subsidies. One committee member pointed out that the high tariff of years back was really a subsidy to business, Rep. Poage said the 40-cent-an-hour minimum wage was a subsidy to lahoring people because the government sald that much money must be paid them. * “But it's not a direct handout.” he said. “The laboring people have been too proud to

accept a dole from the government.”

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

TO THE FIRST DANDELION

You wear a tassgled crown of gold -Your robe is new and green; Exalted now, enjoy your reign, We herald you as queen,

Foolish humans often praise ee Things they’ll hate tomorrow; And sometimes joy that reigns today Tomorrow may bring sorrow,

You'll live prolifically you know And wear a cotton crown of seed; * Today you're classed as royalty, Tomorrow— just a weed.

_=MEREDITH R. HASKETT, Indianapolis. : 4% 4 :

~ THE NEXT TURN

When to the road we gaily take, No matter where we may be bound, What is it that keeps us awake ‘The thrill'all travelers have found? The question that acts like a goad: What is there up the hill, around The next turn in the road?

And so it is on life's long rgad, That often climbs and narrows fast, . Where we must tote or haul our load, At times with skies all overcast-— One trenchant thought pervades sur mode And makes us hold on to the last: : _ The next turn in the road!

—LUTS B. WRENS, Indianapolis.

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now Congress has been batting back and forth that word, housing. If all the speeches on the subject were laid end to end, they would reach so far out into space as to escape the sight even of the great new Palomar telescope. 5 But Congress seems actually about to pass a substantial housing bill. It will mean direct government aid to build decent homes for some of the lowest income families. The filthiest, most disease-ridden and overcrowded slums will be cleared away. : AEC In spite of all that the private housing lobby could do, the Senate has now passed a bill calling for construction of 810,000 home units over a period of six years. For slum clearance, the measufe provides $1,500,000,000 in federal loans and grants. The Senate, of course, has done this twice before and a handful of obstructionists in the House have always blocked it. g Today, however, there is general confidence the House will be allowed to vote on the hill and, if they vote, they will adopt it. Both Speakér Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John MeCormack have expressed their optimism to

President Truman.

Merited Applause

IF THESE confident forecasts prove true, several people will be able to step forward and take merited applause. One will be the President, who has consistently ever since he has been in the White House, and long before that in the Senate, urged the need for government help in building homes for families whose incomes are so low they cannot afford a decent place to live. Another will be Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Mr. Taft's sponsorship of housing by government subsidy goes nearly back as far as the President's. In 1945 he Joined with two Democrats, Sens, Robert Wagner of New York and Allen Ellender of Louisiana, to sponsor a public housing bill. Mr. Taft, whe favors more limited assistance than the Administration proposal, has had his ups and downs as a champion of public aid in home building. 3 In both the 79th and 80th Congress the Senaté passed bills of which Mr. Taft was a sponsor. But in spite of all the prestige and power he wields in the Republican Party, he could not move the half dozen leaders in the House who were holding the door shut against any consid-

eration of the bill.

FEDERAL AID . .. By E. T. Leech

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Guaranteed Profits?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 — What" about the little business Isn’t he, too, entitled to government security and guar-

: pendent voters with no strong ties. *- course, points directly toward 1952.

SLUM CLEARANCE . . . By Marquis Childs Passage of Housing Law Seen

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27—For a long time

* So far as his convictiops go, Mr. Taft has never wavered. The intensity of his feeling came out once again in the highly publicized episode of his off-the-record speech before the Republican Policy Committee. SLA That speech, in which he told his fellow Republicans' that the party could never win an election so long as they opposed every measure of’ social reform, puts Mr. Taft in the most interesting political spot in'the Capital.

Feared in Both Parties

HE BECOMES the blunt, outspoken chalJenger feared within both the Republican and Democratic Parties. That has always been more or less his role, but until his speech he has never so openly challenged the right wing of Republicanism. > : In his own party, Mr. Taft is resented particularly by such men as his Ohio colleague, Sen. John Bricker, - Mr. Bricker, an avowed spokesman for the real estate lobby, sees Mr. Taft in the same light that Franklin Roosevelt's rich and conservative friends regarded the late President-—that is, as a traitor to his class and background. Sen. Taft is up for re-election in Ohio next year. It should be the sharpest and most significant contest in the country. . From the Bricker wing of the party he can expect, at best, indifference. On the other side, organized labor is out to defeat him for sponsoring the Taft-Hartley Act. ; If he wins, Mt. Taft will be able to claim a ‘strong middle position between the Truman Fair Deal and the do-nothingism of the extreme right in both parties. The political logic of this middle ground will be highly persuasive not only for his own party, but for a great many indeThat, of

Seek Taft's Defeat

IT EXPLAINS why the Democratic National Committee will concentrate so much money and time toward knocking Mr. Taft out in Ohio next year. ‘The Bricker type is not feared. Their complete and total reaction is almost selfdefeating. But a Taft, claiming the middle group of reform and progress in health, housing, ‘education—-that is another and far more serious matter. That is the kind of political competition out of which advances have come in this country. It sometimes seems hopelessly slow, but usually ~—as now, with housing—it comes along.

SIDE GLANCES

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‘Fair Deal for Chiropractors’

| By Hiram Lackey, Martinsville, Ind. * : ~~ Aecording to Lenin; control of doctors is the

‘Hoosier Forum : FL 2a ol sven wh + word Tha you tiv, Wak 1

keystone in the Communist arch. Since the °

‘newspapers published Dr. L. E. Burney's Jngthy y

which cries out for communism, challenge os rant equal space to an answer. Disregard for to chirdpractors disgraces our good Indiana physicians. This stubborn, bulldog sort of opefation created Godless communism in Kar! Marx and established it in Russia. of really pine 1t is not foo much to ask of our ly did rank and file physicians to join their patients in demanding fairness of the medical heirarchy. Excepting as physicians are core rupted by their power-mad leaders, many are kind, honorable men, willing to live and let live,

Physicians are educated to Jove truth. Their tras

the centuries tics is involved, why should Drs. Burney and Morris Fishbein throw honor to ine SUEY dons Dr. Burney seeks to excuse g power invested in physicians in Senate Bill 39 in the last legislature by arguing that no new power was added to the bill. We, ‘the patients of Indiana, request our physicians to prove this enormous power safe in their hands. We ask them to give chiropractors, such as the splene didly trained ones, a fair chance to obtain lie censes. Surely the GI students there deserve this justice. Since 1927 this common decency has been denied all chiropractors by the stupendous power of Indiana physicians. The burden of proof is on Dr. Burney and nothing less than justice is the answer. Even the pressure of our dire need in World War II was not sufficient to break the stranglehold of the American Medical Associa. tion, and thus make chiropractic available for American service men as it is for British. This injustice is a denial of every democratic ideal for which the AMA fights, : 3 Dr. Burney knows that therapeutic art and science are infinitely complicated and since there are so many closed minds in every branch of healing, monopoly is dangerous. Why not make peace by justice and encourage all groups to work together and tell the truth about each other? : Isn't it fair to ask physicians to grant chiro. practors a wee bit of the justice physicians de«

dition of idealism stretches

mand from Uncle Sam? Why should our overs

worked physicians who have neither the time nor the Riise to give chiropractic service, join a power-mad leadership in a dog with a bone attitude? Doesn't medicine have enough merit to compete with chiropractic competition? It has. Physicians know the importance of rest and harmless stimulation. Then why not let chiropractors come into homes, offices and hospitals and give suffering humanity relief, Let's yield to truth. : : ® 4% 9

‘Should Get Help’ By Oran R. White, 744 8. Capitel Ave, After reading in The Times of the struggle that a mother and three children are having on Prospect St., it makes one wonder just how far the dollars of the various eommunity funds; ete., £0. I sincerely believe a good person who is trying to be neat in her home and tries to be a de« cent mother should get help when she needs it

most. After all, do you have to be dirty, down

and out, no furniture and sick children before you can get help from our so-called welfare agencies? ‘ .

‘What Others Say—

ANY intelligent enemy concept of strategy

must be directed toward destroying our large industrial areas and causing chaos and cone sternation in our large areas of population.— Daniel ©. Fahey Jr, staff member, National Security Resources Board.

* 0 9 ITS MYSTERIES are as dark to me as they are to the alert American press men. But a French proverb may help: “Forever changing and forever the same.”—British Foreign Secretr~y Ernest Bevin, commenting on recent changes in the Kremlin. * &* o SOME two centuries ago there began a burst + + » That burst

Is by no means over; its high peint, IT believe, . :

has not even vet heen reached.—Dr. Vannevar

Bush, president, the Carnegie Institute of Wash

ington. * ¢ 2» IF RUSSIA ddes not meditate armed ate tacks, the (North Atlantic) Treaty cannot harm her. It is a covenant in nehalf- of peace and life and liberty.- It is nothing more.—Sen. Tom Connally (D) of Texas. : ;

RED MENACE . . . By Parker La Moore

Plea for China Aid

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27—Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault, wartime

small business. “The re rt of ihe Pregidapt's-advisers a | Atabintion om pthent TRIS Lovie] only failure of this

anteed profits? The politicians profess to love him just as they do labor and the farmers. Yet his role gets steadily tougher. He's lucky to stay in business, let alone make a profit.

named in his behalf, a lot of lip service—and all the regulations, taxes, union restrictions and artificial price handicaps which are the common Tot of both big and little business. Business failures have been growing. Most of them involve small business. In 1948 an average of 101 business firms closed their doors every week--5252 for the year. And this year the number of failures is increasing. Already the rate is more than 800 per cent above the wartimé low of 1945,

Growth of Big Firms IF EFFHER unions or farmers had been failing at the same rate, the politictans would be in an unbelievable dither.

cently that ‘control of the market i¢ passing move largely into the hands of large corporations.” This process, it said, was caused both by the growth of big firms and their “absorption of small ones. more intense.” the council warned. , This charge is, of course, aimed at hig business. t ix an indictment of the Washington Administration. For Washington has been professing to carry out special efforts in behalf of small business for a dozen or more years. It has held investigations, named committees and bureaus and passed laws to aid

; They should serve also as a warning to the small ori ni who are now about to be singled out for special government help. Tip for Farmers : . THE small { pened to the small business man, and be cautious. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan recently unveiled a utopian scheme in behalf of smaller farmers. He proposes to guarantee them profits based on the 10 best years they ever had— those between 1939 and 1948. At the same time, food prices are to be allowed to decline. The miracle of low farm prices and high farm profits is to be achieved by paying a subsidy to about 98 farmers—thiose who grow less than about $25,000 worth M com-" modities a year, Big farmers——who raise about one-fourth of the

the n of a slave. His success in the State Department should open | 10 other qualified members of his | stands accused of racial bias in |- re is a chance to demonstra

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nation’s erops although they represent only two per cent of the

trols, The government isn’t interested in them —just as it hasn't been interested in big business. - of Ra But it well could turn out that big farmers would manage +6 do. better, in spite of this discrimination, than their smaller

] /would greatly prefer P-47's and B-25's. I liked the P-47 for low. brethren. Just as happened in the c of business. : "Little business men are much more poorly ‘organized and have altitude work better than the P-§1 because it could take a lot mere An's scheme, to-be effective, would have to impose. less bloc consciousness. =n ee pesishmen 4 sll 87 home’, Ce RE SEE

All he seems to get is a special Congressional committee’

The: President's Couneil of Economic Advisers reported re-. ;

“The concentration of “economic power becomes

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'"The big thing to keep in mind, Jones, is:that a man mustnt start thinking he can get rich too quickly in-this business!"

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would eventually have to submit to myriad reguifitions.

anteed profits—based on the 10 bést years they have ever had— then why not do the same for small business men? . Shouldn't

) { they, too, be paid a subsidy to make up the farmers-—will he left out unigss they comply with production con- |

ifference bétween

the prices at which they sell and -the profits which they are

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On the face of it, the little business man has. just as good an argumeént for government bounty as farmer has. The dif ference, of course. is that farmers are supposed to vote as a bloc.

strict discipline on small farmers. In order to get subsidies they

As a matter of fairness, if small farmers are to get guar-

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lesg. But time proved them to be 5 * saved China then and can do it again, In hix opinion. pe Gen. Chennault says the Chinese are not asking for any of

leader of the famous “Fighting Tigers,” has returned to the

United States to make a final plea for American aid to the Na=

tionalist forces opposing Communist advances in China.

The veteran airman believes it is not too late to give effective help to China.

The “too-late” propaganda, he said, “is being circulated largely by the same group of peogle who opposed aid to China all along.” To prove the courage of his convictions, he is willing to enter the fight himself. -

Gen. Chennault is expected to appear before congressional committees in bebalf of a China-aid program. His views are in sharp conflict with those of Maj. Gen. David G. Barr’ former come “Mander of the American military mission at Nanking, who testified that the Nationalists had lost rio batties because of lack of military equipment.

Planes Needed ; : : :

“THE Communists invariably have superior artillery and machine-gun fire,” Gen, Chennault said. { city is beseiged, the Communists plant their artillery on ri and "hilltops overlooking the city and calmly. pound away until the place is taken. Even a half dozen planes could prevent that kind of artillery employment.” "Another great difficulty of the Nationalists “is that they have no_air reconnaissance and seldom know the position of the Come munist units.” A small air force would do much te restore morale

of Nationalial, leaqers £ and troops, in Gen. Chennault's opinion, > would be equally dep.

ressing on the Communists, he said. It was recalled that Gen. Chennault's small volunteer Amer. ican air force and its outmoded planes cut short the Japanese invasion of China under somewhat similar circumstances: Many of the same men are willing to fight again for a free China. All they want is-a green light from the State Department. ¢ Gen. Chennault is convinced the Mohammedan provinces in China will prove a hard core of resistance to the Communist ine vasion.

Opposition in West : “EVEN if the Communists are able to penetrate along the Hangkow-Can rajlway to the southern have détermined o occupied much more of China in 1941 than the Communists do today, he added. Many people then said the situation was hepewrong, he added. Our help

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our jet planet or new bombers.

“A tactical air force employed in this war in China against

Cemmunist troops doe: not need modern planes,” he said.

“When a Nationalist

, coast, they will stil} . opposition in the west,” he said. The Japanese '

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