Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1949 — Page 26

Indianapolis Times

WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

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Dollars and Nickels THE Senate has voted, 44 to 37, to send an appropriation 7 bill back to committee for a cut of at least 5 per cent from its “reducible” items. The 44 included 36 Republicans and eight Democrats, News accounts say that this vote has great significance . —that it indicates the Republicans can expect help from enough economy-minded Democrats to slash other appropriations In similar fashion, so that the federal budget may ~ be balanced and a tax increase avoided. ; We hope that's true, : : : - «This country can afford neither an unbalanced budget nor a tax increase at this time. A 5 per cent cut in all - proposed government spending would be infinitely safer. So would an even bigger cut. . "And we certainly don’t want to throw cold water on enthusiasm for economy. But the facts about what the © Senate has done appear to be these: Saw 5 tems sn 8 _ THE measure involved is the first of the nine big regular appropriation bills—all of them already passed by the House—to be debated in the Senate. It will provide funds for the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. For those purposes President Truman's budget asked $2,235,000,000. : ‘ ~The House trimmed that amount to $2,212,000,000. ~The Senate Appropriations Committee increased that t052,397,000,000. ior | The Senate itself then boosted the total to $2 410,000,000. : Most big items in the bill are fixed by law and ‘“irre- _ ducible,” Cutting the “‘reducibles” 5 per cent would mean c: estimated savings of only about $15,500,000, shaving the ‘total to $2,395,000,000—or $160,000,000 more than Mr. Truman asked in the first place.

~ poting to send the bill back to committee, the Senate auto- ~~ matically but probably unintentially knocked off the amounts added to it after the House passed it. If so, and if those amounts stay off, the picture will be different. Tro Ta Cm owe deinen ey «a =» AND it's true that the other hig appropriation bills, which haven't yet reached the Senate, have a far larger proportion of “reducible” spending items. The savings pos- . sible on them through a 5 per cnt cut would be much more So we aren't trying to belittle the good intentions of those Senators, Democratic and Republican, who voted for such a cut. May their tribe increase. All we want to observe is that boosting appropriation bills by dollars, and then trimming them by nickels, is no way to. economize.

Test of Good Faith

i GEN. VANDENBERG fears that both the United States ~~ ™ and Europe are “trending dangerously” toward judging the North Atlantic. Defense Pact by its companion * measure, the “relatively insignificant” , arms-for-Europe _ program. : He regards the treaty as of transtendent importance, the requested appropriation of $1,130,000,000 as a “comparatively trivial” issue. — If that implies ratification of the treaty is paramount, and that approval of the arms appropriation would then }»... be a relatively insignificant token of our good faith, we can “accept the Senator's reasoning. It would be quite another matter, however, if the Senate ratified the treaty and Congress then refused to vote the money for arms. That would be interpreted in Europe as running out on our agreement before the ink was dry. ° : ’ Fear of a Russian invasion is uppermost in the minds of the other nations in the North Atlantic Defense Pact. They know that arms in hand are much better insurance against such as attack than any kind of agreement. "a s @ ; EE TRUE, the appropriation President Truman has requested would be a drop in the bucket, compared to the obligations we would assume if we became involved in a third world war. But if Congress refused this “relatively insignificant” appropriation, would our friends in Europe have any confidence in our pledge to help them with all of our resources, should they be attacked? We fear they wouldn't. Since these two issues have been submitted as companion measures, we do not see how they can be separated now in the public mind, here or in Europe. We want to prevent another great war. To do that we must impress friends and enemies alike with our determination to maintain the peace with all the means at our command. ' Defeat of either of the measw ~~ hafore Congressz-~uld be a psychological retreat that might set off a disastrous chain reaction. : :

; : Russian-Made DP Camps

en PRAVDA of Moscow, the official Soviet newspaper, Le charges that headquarters of the United Nations’ international refugee organization at Bad Kissingen, Germany, is a “giant slave market.” + It sccuses representatives of the United States and other western nations of going there with the “sole aim of recruiting, buying up at a suitable price, the starving, ene and homeless people living in displaced persons » people are not slaves, but fugitives from slavery. of them are homeless because they fled from ons are to solve this problem. But Ruscamp is an indictment of com-

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DEAR ols ; By Dan Kidney a Hoosier GOP in Congress Split

Jenner Nearly Doing a ‘Solo’ On Foreign Policy Stand

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30—Dear Boss--Our |. Ben, William E. (Bill) Jenner may soon find he is doing a solo flight with his arch-isolationism so far as the Hoosiers in Congress are concerned. His senior colleague and fellow-Republican, Sen. Homer E. Capehart, comes up for re-elec~ tion next year and he doesn’t intend to campaign on the Jenner premise that Uncle 8am is so poor that he “can’t do nothing for nobody.” On the Economic Co-operation Administration vote, Sen. Capehart did vote with Jenner against the $5,800,000,000 authorization but he later explained that was only because he wanted to whittle the amount by three billion and use that money to rearm Europe under the Atlantic Pact. ; : On the House side the ghiy from Indiana who supporiéd, the tor on his anti-ECA stan®i$ who i= a Republican from town of Bedford.

All Voted for ECA

THE Dean of the delegation, Rep, Charles A. Halleck, and the two other Republicans, as well as the seven Democrats all voted for ECA, that includes the only GOP freshman, Mrs. Cecil M. Hardin, who is the Republican national committeewoman: In fighting ECA in the Senate, where he had to be called to order by Vice President Barkley for violating the rules, Sen. Jenner said he was “against the bipartisan foreign policy.” This week, Rep. Ralph Harvey, one of only three Republican Congressmen re-elected in Indiana in 1948, took exception to such tactics in a Speech published in the Congressional Record. x :

#Our foreign policy should be regarded primarily as one designed to protect our own coun= try and our efforts should be regarded and measured in terms of how they have and will serve this purpose,” Mr. Harvey said.

Three Parts

“AS I interpret the program presently being considered in Congress, it may be divided into three parts. First, the Atlantic Pact and the United Nations; second, the Marshall Plan and ECA, and third, rearming Europe.” Describing each of these, Mr. Harvey took sharp issue with the Jenner contention that the Atlantic Pact undercuts United Nations. . “That the Atlantic Pact supersedes the United Nations is to me an evident untruth,”

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* 9’ Y ‘Waited Half Hour on Bus’ By Zenobia Fisher, $18 Camp St.’ : At 4:20 p. m. the other day I stood on the corner of Illinois and Washington Sts. half an hour waiting for a General Hospital bus, Five Riverside, five E. Washington, three. Fairgrounds, three Butler cars passed while I was standing there waiting for the General

Hospital bus. The Lockefield Gardens house 749 families, not counting the folk who live on the streets en route to the General Hospital. When the bus did arrive, I asked the drives

admitted there were just two. At 4:30 people are coming from work and two cars are not sufficient to give any kind of service for that many people. :

could be eliminated. One wonders just why five

while another has only two. ‘ : As for a higher rate for transportation, I think if ‘other cities can get along on a 10 cent fare Indianapolis could also. : ® * 9

‘Film of Wholesome Beauty’ - By Miss Clara Rice, Indianapolis . The film play “Little Women” is one of wholesome beauty, inspiration and joy, which is refreshingly soothing to the jaded spirit after the avalanche of crime and other films of dise gusting and immoral phases of domestic and

love plays and divorce angle. y © “Little Women” is a delightful film and s. , | leaves a “good taste in the mouth.” May we have more like it. A .good wholesome play is & delightful relaxation and recreation. ® ¢ ¢

‘Surplus Food for Children’

By H.C. R., Indianapolis

sion” won World War II. Draft figures show

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O'DONNEE

Mr, Harvey continued, “for the Atlantic Pact was drawn to reaffirm among peate-loving nations their unity of purpose, and to present a firm front against any aggressor in the world.” He then told of how Dick Bancroft of New Castle (Mr. Harvey's home town) made a personal check on ECA abrogd and brought back this report: “The plan has succeeded even better than was anticipated.” He then gave Intimate details of a personal conference with ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been assailed in the Senate by Sen. Capehart as a “Wall Streeter,” although

AN OLD

STORY . . . By Walter Morrow

Economics Defined in 8 Words

with a crash. And the guards, raising their crossbows, shot one thousand and five of the

Here's an editorial published In view of all the “plans” economists.

“Now,” thundered the king, “get you gone,.

economists, dealers, the government, and nature, ~ | could become healthier thereby providing security for themselves and for our country. Produce more and more food. A surplus of food stored

build a stronger nation, ¢ & ¢

‘Country Needs Third Party"

By William ¥F. Haddock '

how many busses were on that line, and he

There should at least be three busses to ac- _ commodate these people—one in transit, one at the end of each line—and in that way perhaps | this waiting on a corner in the cold and rain .

busses should be used for one section of the city i

social life. Truly it is a relief from the triangle

The undernourished “spawn of the depres.

more men were rejected than were accepted. The © coming generation with the aid of the farmers,

in fhe bodies of the children of America would "

ONCE UPON a time a great and wise king ruled a populous and prosperous land. But a plague. of poverty came upon that

and return not until you have written me a really brief text on economics.” And the remaining economists fled down the long hall,

he was president of the Studebaker Corp. at

- South Bend. +»

Progress Pointed Out . PROGRESS all the way from England to Italy was pointed out in this first-hand report from Mr. Hoffman. England has been a special target for Jenner ridicule. : “It is her leadership, among the participating nations, that is making the plan work,” Mr. Harvey told his colleagues. “Certainly so long as these countries are willing to work to achieve their sufficiency, our plan should be directed toward helping them

‘accomplish this goal. You will hear eriticism

of the plan to the effect that it may dislocate some of our own production and export plans, and I think this a fair criticism. - “However, we should take the long-fange viewpoint rather than the immediate one. By ‘way of illustration I would like to cite the opposition that came from men employed as cradlers of grain to the reaper, but the value of the ultimate contribution to the standard of living of all of us far outweighed the temporary dislocation. ni

‘Made Our Choice’

“WE have made our choice as between trying to live as a self-contained nation or be a part of world affairs and commerce. The invention of the airplane and its modern development and the atomic bomb have, in my opinion, made the decision for us. So with regard to the Marshall Plan I will conclude by saying, “as I did a year ago, that it is, in my opinion, the most momentous decision we have made in a

gram for peace even: though i calculated risk.” $l hyve a Listening to that type of debate, Sen. Capehart likely will conclude that the Jenper plan is. calculated to risk hinmS-gince= Bill isn’t running again until 1952. There may be some changes made in the senior Senator's voting in the near future, ¥ i

century. And we have adopted a positive pro-:

land, "end no man knew its cause. There were mighty and inconclusive arguments in the halls

of government, and learned graybeards in the :

schools advocated this remedy or that. The king called his wisest counselors from the four quarters of the kingdom. ~ Beated on his golden throne he commanded them to lend him their wisdom. Then began an argument that lasted all through the night, until the king's head drooped wearily with the weight of the sapphires and diamonds in his golden crown. As dawn was breaking he arose and said: “Here is only confusion of tongues. I have heard many of you speak of a science called economics, which may prove the key to my people’s troubles. hence let all the economists of my kingdom assemble here, bringing with them a short and simple text on this subject of economics, so that I may find light and my people may be saved.”

‘Where's Short Text?’

A MONTH passed. The economists assembled, and their number was two thousand and ten. , “Where is my short text on economics?” asked the king. . “0, sire,” replied the chief economist, “we have it not. To prepare such a text will require at least a year.” “That,” said the king, “is a long time, and my people languish. But go, now, and get to work without delay.” A twelvemonth later the economists took

their places in the great audience hall, around

the crystal walls of which stood the palace guards, armed with spears and crossbows, Then stood forth the gray-bearded chief economist, “0, King,” he said, “we have labored with all diligence and have prepared the short text on economics for which you asked. We have it here in 87 volumes of 600 pages each, profusely illustrated with charts and graphs,” Thee sing raised his scepter and let it fall

Mark well my words: One month

. guards leveled their crossbows.

‘But another year having passed, they re-

turned, and the aged spokesman spoke with prideful voice:

“Sire, at last we have just~what you want.

We have reduced our work on economics to 63 volumes by eliminating the graphs and charts.”

Fled King's Wrath AGAIN the king. raised his scepter and brought it down, with such force. this time that the great sapphire remained embefided in the walnut and pearl of the table top. Again the guards shot their crossbows, and agaip the number of economists was reduced by half. And those left alive fled once more from the king's wrath, > Year after year they returned to the palace, bringing each time a slightly more condensed version of the text on economics. But never was the king satisfied, and each time the palace guards shot' more economists until at last only one remained alive. And a day came when this last economist

plodded slowly to the palace and sought audi={

ence with the king, himself now a graybeard, sad and bent with pondering the troubles of his people. Trembling, the last economist approached’ the throne, prostrated himself before the king and spoke: >

Not to Be Disputed v

“YOUR majesty, I have reduced this subject of economics to a single sentence, so brief and 80 easily remembered that it was not necessary to put it on paper. Yet will I wager my head that you will find my text a true one, and not to be disputed.” “Speak on,” cried the king, and the palace But the old economist rose fearlessly to his feet, stood face to face with the king and sald: “Sire, in eight words I will reveal to you all the wisdom that I have distilled through all these years from all the writings of all the economists who once practiced their science in your kingdom, Here is my text: “There ain't no such thing as free lunch.”

What this country needs is a third party.

. Not to run a presidential candidate, but to

elect members to the House and Senate who

will not listen to lobbyists and pressure groups. .

‘We need men in Congress who will vote for, or against, a bill not for the effect it will have on their own districts or party but for the effect it will have upon the country as a whole. If we had such a group in Congress today the Hoover Commission suggestions would be adopted and billions of dollars would be saved the taxpayers. Let's vote for good Americans and not politicians. ;

What Others Serye

. WHEN you're doing nothing you have sa much energy that it’s not good for you.—Morie atsu Higashikuni, son-in-law of Japanese Eme«

peror Hirohito, as he accepted a job as a bank *

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which we have prevented military aggression from the Kremlin, the Russian secret weapon is the hope that a depression will. develop in the U. 8. . —~President Truman.

¢ & oO OUR ties with the U. 8S. are morally and

materially as strong as though we were a meme ber of the Atlantic Community.

—Turkish Foreign Minister Necmeddin Sadak,

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THE 81st Congress is in its infancy and has a long time to live, It will be judged in the end on who was responsible for its achievements and who was responsible for its failures. : ~Sen. J. Howard McGrath (D) of Rhode Island, ¢ © ¢ FROM experience we know that farm famis les are likely to be the first victims of the bust that tends to follow the boom.—Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. ;

- IF the atom bomb is the secret weapon by,

that even such a place is preferable

SHANGHAI . . . By William Philip Simms

Defeat for West

WASHINGTON Apr. 30—The fall of Shanghai, Asia's bigges city, will be the greatest victory in OI history gat West's worst defeat since Peag) Harbor and Singapore. Face——which we call prestige—is a major item in the life of every one of Asia's billion poBulation. And to each individual, the loas of Shanghai wills@peil loss of face for America, Britain and the Western world. The cold-blooded murder of the Philippine Republic's former first lady, Mrs, Manuel Quezon, and others of op family and entourage may be merely a hint of other, similar horrors yet to come, The killers were Communist-led guerrillas, Shanghal was built by the West, principally by British and Americans. It is a city of six million people, mostly Chinese. But when founded in 1843 it was only a reedy mudfiat. The treaty of Nanking a year earlier had opered up five Chinese ports to the west, Shanghai being the most northern. Britain was given the first “concession” in the Whangpoo marshes north of the native fishing village of that name. Six years later the French received a similar grant and in the early 1850's the United States leased some ground on the other side of the British,

‘Paris of the Orient’

IN TIME the British and Americans pooled their land and formed Shanghai's international settlement, called “the model settlement” because it was run so much better than other Asiatic cities, Also it came to be known ds “the Paris of the Orient” because of its lights and galety. What once was only a path through the reeds along the banks

throughfare along it became the world-famous Bund.

most colorful cities on the globe. Sampans, houseboats, floating gardens and ocean liners nosed each other in the harbor, and in the streets rickshas, sedan chairs, native wheelbarrows and tiny carriages drawn by vicious little Mongol ponies mingled with the shiny automobiles of wealthy natives and foreigners.

restaurants were at their brilliant best.

Further Loss of Face

NOW THIS great western-built metropolis of the Orient Is about to fall to the Communists. All Asia, with half the population of the earth, is watching. It is watching just as it watched When Japan during the 30's and early 40's was humiliating the When the Japs set up barriers in the streets of Tlentsin and made British men and women strip before gaping, grinning SooliGE, not only the British but the entire West lost face throughou The Jap bombing and sinking of the Panay In the Yangtze caused us further loss of face, and Pearl Harbor and easy Jap

victories over Americans, British, French and Dutch in the

of the Whangpoo, was given a magnificent sea wall and the wide |g

Streets were paved, Western style. Magnificent Buildings of ( '.. brick, steel, stone and marble sprang up, Ships from every nation | made it one of their principal ports. Shanghal became one of the |

The shops were the richest in the Fast. Silks, satins, jewels, jade, silver and gold and other wares had their own “streets” and |™

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Philipines, southeast Asia and the East Indies finished what was eft.

VE-Day and VJ-Day lifted us out of the dust somewhat, but

for the past three years Asia again has been wondering about

the West, Soviet Russia, ruled by men who boast that they are Asiatics, has ridden roughshod over the timid, hesitant Western nations and Moscow-directed Orientals have advanced all along

‘the line,

For most Asiatics, therefore, the fall of Shanghai, symbol of

Occidental power and prestige in the East, will seem to mark a

new waning of the West. And the over-all effect could be. catgstrophic. ‘s

PRICE SUPPORT . . . By Earl Richert

Fights Farm Plan

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30—Standing squarely in the path of -

the revolutionary Brannan plan to guarantee farmers a high income is the American Farm Bureau, biggest of all farm ore ganizations. : p It wheeled its heaviest artillery into place before the House Agriculture Committee to blast the proposal on the grounds. it would mean government-administered prices with government control of all land and livestock production. : : “I feel strongly,” said wiry, graying Bureau President Allan B. Kline, “that it is a mistake to get into administered prices with the idea it is going to mean a high per-capita farm income, It's going to mean just the opposite.” His point was that many farmers actually would get less cash with the government curtailing production in order to maine tain high price floors.

Cost Would Be ‘Staggering’

MR. KLINE, an Iowa farmer, said the cost of the Brannan program would be “staggering.” He estimated it would cost

nearly $2.5 billion a year to give milk farmers high prices and *

lower the retail cost of milk to 15 cents a quart—a figure mens tioned by Agriculture Secretary Brannan. “The income of American farmers,” said Mr. Kline, “should not be made dependent upon annual appropriations from the Federal Treasury.” Hassil BE. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, pointed out that the government now: is running a deficit and said he could foresee the time that Congress, under deficit condie tions, would be reluctant to vote huge farm appropriations. ~ “We're vitally interested in taxpayers as well as farmers”® said Wilson Heaps, president of the Maryland Farm Bureau and a dairy farmer, “I believe the Brannan program would cost more than the present law.” ' The Farm Bureau is Indorsing with some suggested minor revisions the flexible price-support system which now is scheduled to go into effect next Jan. 1.

Opposes Income Guarantee

IT CONTENDS price supports should be used to protect farmers against unreasonable price declines and not to guarantee farm income because guaranteeing farm income means more gov ernment vontrol, George Wilson of the California Farm Bureau said he knew of no country with government-fixed farm prices that had an agrie culture industry comparable to ours. He said-the controls in effect in many countries were a big reason for their need to ime port food from us, Mr. Kline pointed out that the Aiken law which the bureau is supporting provides the highest The Alken law would let support prices fluctuate between 60 and 90 per cent of parity in accord with supply. A floor of 73 per cent would prevail when production controls were imposed, ; i

price supports ever proposed for

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