Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1949 — Page 10

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Russia Wants All Germany,

BY abandoning the Berlin blockade to open the way fo : a bid to control all of Germany, the Soviet Union again shows it is willing to swap a toothpick for a load of lumber. When the Big Four meets on May 23, the Russians will ask for a popular election on the issue of a United Ger‘many, according to Berlin dispatches. Failing to get that, they will seek a voice, and a veto, in the control of Ruhr industry. : Both moves have the same ultimate objective. The result of a German election on the question of reuniting their country would be a foregone conclusion. The Germans want that, as well as the withdrawal of the allied armies of occupation. They will promisé anything to gain those ends. : :

Ns.» se » 8’ SO A SOVIET election proposal on the issue of union would be popularly acclaimed. It would be a shot in the arm for German communism, which hasn't been making much headway in Western Germany. And it might induce many non-Communists to withdraw. their support from the American-British-French plan for a Western German government. All of which would be water on the Soviet wheel. But the Soviets are bidding for more than temporary advantage and popular favor. They want Germany—all of it. They believe if allied troops are withdrawn the Communists would be strong enough to take over. Their own zone has been organized with that in mind. Given a voice and a veto over the control of all Germany, or even of the

Ruhr, the Soviets could throw plenty of monkey wrenches

into the machinery to expedite that changeover. The Western Powers cannot agree to any arrangement that would open the door to the rest of Germany to the Soviets. Too much is at stake. ~The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler; re-

organized anid operating as the spearhead. of Russian imperialism, Would set the world on fire. 1.0 0

BN Bens vi “THE DIFFERENCE between a Nazi:and a Communist is the difference between Tweedledum ‘and Tweedlédee. Given German brains and know-how united with Russia's manpower, communism would sweep the world, The Russians, like the Germans, will agree to anything to gain an end. Both countries violated solemn agreements _ when they joined hands in the invasion and dismemberment of Poland. Russia was as ruthless in ignoring her pledges to* Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as the Germans were in their brutal invasions of the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and France. hE x The ‘BoViels accepted the c-Chartédi ted ig lated it in Almost every particular. “Tey have observed the Potsdam and Yalta agreements only when it has served their central purpose, which is"'world conquest. A union of Russia and Germany must be prevented at all costs. : : To’that end, Soviet influences must be kept out of Western Germany. :

No Time for Tears THE average American may be running his fingers through his hair in a kind of fear-born despair over what he thinks is a shriveling prosperity. If he is, he is economically near-sighted, seeing only the ‘struggling sapling instead of the broad and sturdy American business forest. ® It is true that sales resistance is showing up in all lines. Store sales are down -a little, Credit is up. But that does not mean we Americans have, or ever shall, run out of our kind of prosperity. In this country wealth is not something passed from the pocket of one generation to the next and the next, on down ‘the line. We create wealth. We make things and sell them. We find new types of services and sell those, too. ” ” wr . » LJ THE only thing we can run out of is ingenuity, incentive and the desire to do business at a profit. And the reserve of these three basic American commodities, we assure you, is unlimited. There is far too much irresponsible talk these days about business being “off.” Its volume is down from the war and post-war days. But we do not want the kind of prosperity which requires a war to keep it going. We hgve to pay for that kind of prosperity with the very breath of life. 'And it isn't worth it. : In a way it is good for us to tighten up a little in our spending. It is a mark of national character. There is nothing wrong with thrift. When the savings pile up high enough we simply buy something bigger. We are producing and consuming more goods than any country in the history of the world ever dreamed pcssible. Indeed, we ourselves are amazed.

» » S0 long as we have the capacity and the incentive to produce, we shall be prosperous. Those who are willing and capable of working shall earn their right to live in a land of plenty. Now is no time for tears or a painful look at the future, We are a little better off than we have ever been, here in Indiana and elsewhere. There is no justifiable cause to cry ourselves into a re« cession of fear when the facts simply are not there. «We are prosperous and reasonably happy. And itisa lot more fun to appreciate it than to cry about it.

Drop the Knife, Lovie! KNIFE-AND FORK eating has a bad effect on our molars, ‘says'a Canadian dental professor. When we cuf our food in small pieces we only use our back teeth to chew. On the other hand, food stuffed in the face by the fingers per- - mits gnawing and gives the teeth and gums good exercise. Manners aside, we're surprised to learn that a hand-to-

south existance 30 ear A med Bellsky? | "HE Communist government of Hungary has promised he peasants that prett everybody will have a fo 1 invention by the well-known Russian 0 i i

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| WORLD POWER... By Wm. P. Simms

Allies Warned Of Reds’ Aims

Russia Expected to Resume ‘Cold War’ Tactics on West

WASHINGTON, May 7—The liftipg of .the Berlin blockade will not end Russia's cold war against the West, according to an Eastern Euro- - pean official who only recently escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, . He quoted the teachings of Stalin, now more than ever current in Soviet-bloc countries. Said ‘Stalin: “The epoch of the world revolution represents a new stage in the (Communist) revolution. It covers a strategic period which may occupy years, perhaps decades. In the course of this period there will occur—nay, must occur—ebbs and flows in the revolutionary tide. ... “These oscillations merely show that the revolution does not usually develop along a straight line, but in zig-zags, in advances and retreats—which but harden the forces of revolution and prepare for its final victory.” For the United States and the West to be fooled into thinking that the Kremlin has under-

would be tragic for them and disastrous for the world. -

RedsHard Hit

been hard hit, economically and morally, by the counter-barrier imposed by the Allies in retaliation against the Berlin blockade, They want it lifted. So Moscow seems prepared for one of its trick plays.

nations, the ex-official observed, always have had to import some two-thirds of their raw materials to keep their industries going. A large pereentage of these imports came from the West. Now they are shut off. Czechoslovakia, for example, is up against it

And Russia cannot—or will not——supply her, There are millions of dollars worth 6f uncom-

materials fro utside to be finished. Similarly the “poral side is suffering. Most families in Soviet satellite countries have friends or relatives in Westery Europe, Despite censor"ship, these families areNearning of the progress of the West, largely t ks to the Marshall Plan, and the news is spre - East.

Why Fight ERP?

* Why do we fight the ERP?”

does tremendous damage to both East and West.

“long as there i8 no East-West trade. But the Hast needs’ the ‘West more than the West needs the Bast. The West is incomparably richer in both raw materials and manufactures than the East and, if Moscow insists, can get along better. But, for the moment at least, the Soviet bloc is feeling the pinch. There is considerable and

getting lower, rather than higher. And these— Supared to American standards—were never So it looks like one of the Kremlin's “gigzags” is just ahead. Or what might, for the moment, resemble even a “retreat.” But, warn

YA KER iri ght inhservers fromcbehfndithe Tron Curtain, the West oF; on Hoshad better Jook’ sharp.

The Kremlin's master plan hasn't been changed in the least.

In Tune With the Times

‘Barton Rees Pogue

A RONDEAU

Capricious Fate! Angelic you— You lay at my feet with much ado All of my dreams; my heart you bribe, To- its desires you do subscribe To make my skies a golden hue.

I reach to take the things in view, Like life and love, then you pursue Some other soul. 'Tis then I find, Capricious Fate, You are a witch, a fiendish shrew. You take my cup and in it brew Concoctions rare, make me imbibe It's bitter dregs, the while you gibe

At my retchings, my dreams you strew, Capricious Fate.

—BETTY P, HOWE, New Castle,

BIG BUSINESS . . . By Earl Richert

panies and their practices. facts ‘and reach reasonable conclusions.

ficial. "It's a sort of checkup-like a man dentist for a checkup.”

Provide Open Forum

the probe.

Senate Rules Committee. hire lawyers and accountants.

are being disposed of.”

No Competitive Bidding

ties, without competitive bidding. , “In the last year,” he said, ‘more than

are being used.

| had a gripe against an.insurance com

gone a change of heart, sald the former official, .

THE Iron-Curtain countries, he went on. have

Czechoslovakia, Poland and other satellite.

for cotton, ponferrous metals and so forth.

pleted machinery and other goods awaiting raw

ing throughout the

“WHy is it,” they are asking each other, “that people in Western Europe are so much’ better off than we are? How is it that they can | get things which, more and more, are denied us? -

European 'eronomy can never be the same as

growing discontent over the fact that living standards behind the Iron Curtain seem to be.

WASHINGTON, May 7—House Foreign Afe

probable three-week run.

Favorable House action on the ITO charter ig possible this session. The Senate may not get around to considering it till later. Considerable opposition will then come from Colorado's Sen. Eugene Milliken et al. Whether his forces are strong enough to block ITO is doubtful, but it will be a lovely battle. : In a sentence, what the ITO-charter seeks to do. is set up ground rules for the future conduct of world trade. of course. The charter is 106 articles and 30,000 words long, with 17 annexes and 43 additional notes. It is a highly complicated and technical document. But experts like William Adams Brown of Brookings Institution, who has made a careful, comma-to-comma study of it, insists it is a closely-knit, workable arrangement.

planned by the U. 8, State Department during the war, Its first draft was agreed to in prin- “ ciple by the British at the Bretton Woods Conference. Final text was completed at the Ha~ vana trade conference in March, 1948. Tad,

Two Years in the Making

REPRESENTATIVES of more than 50 nations have worked on it for more than two years. - The fact that they were able to agree on anything is something of a miracle. Neither Russia nor any of its satellites was there. But there were big trading mations like Britain, big exporters of raw materials like Canada, big shipping countries like Norway, underdeveloped countries like India and China, state-trading nations like Czechoslovakia, and free enterprise countries like the U. 8, They all had the common interest and knowledge that there had to be some order in world trade relations to govern tariffs, customs, cartels, commodity agreements, quotas, nondiscrimination, state-trading, guarantees to foreign investors, development of backward countries and raising the world standard of living. Opposition to the ITO in the United States is of three principal kinds. All will be heard at length during congressional hearings.

Insurance Probe? i)

WASHINGTON, May T—This Congress is almost certain to authorize a major, year-long investigation of life insurance com-

Sponsors of the proposed probe say there will be no witchhunting or headline-seeking—that the sole objective is to gather

“Authorization of the probe shouldn't indicate that Congress thinks something's rotten in Denmark,” said one committee of-

going to a doctor or

Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. N, Y.), main sponsor of the probe, thinks life insurance companies are conducting themselves in an ! “exemplary fashion,” but because they are so big and play such a major influence in national life they should be studied. “The idea,” he said, “is to get the facts and maybe, if any } remedy is required, the facts will point to the remedy.”

SOME big insurance companies are said to welcome the investigation because it will provide a forum from which the public can be told what they are doing and how. Some are opposing |

Some Senators are cool to the idea but since they know that Rep. Celler as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee can go ahead and conduct his own investigation they are going along with the idea of a joint House-Senate investigating committee of - three Senators and three Congressmen--all of whom will be Judiciary Committee members and thus lawyers, The Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Sen. Pat MeCarran (D. Nev.) already has approved the probe and the resolution asking $100,000 to conduct the inquiry is now before the That amount is deemed necessary to

Rep, Celler said Congress would go into such things as how the insurance companies are handling their $50 billion assets. “There is no Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. supervision, no Securities & Exchange supervision, no Federal Reserve Board supervision,” he said. ‘Congress ought to know how these assets

HE WANTS a study of the current practice of insurance companies’ buying bonds of choice companies, particularly utili-

a half billion dollars worth of good securities of gas transmission and pipeline companiés have been privately placed with insurance companies. The public doesn’t get a smell at those good securities.” He wants to know about the straight banking loans being made by insurance companies, such as a recent large one to the Dutch’ 8hell Oil Co., a foreign corporation. And what insurance companies are doing with premiums on lapsed policies, also whether current mortality tables reflecting longer life expectancy

Sen, Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate subcommittee which first approved the probe resolution, said there was no thought of throwing the investigation open to everyone who

3 company. “We'd be here until 1960 if we did that,” he sald. “We don’t |

First are representatives of those U, 8, in-

‘SIDE GLANCES

The charter is an American idea. It was’

fairs Committee hearings on ITO—the Interna’ tional Trade Organization—are under way for a

GLOBAL BUSINESS . . . By Peter Edson

Rules for World Trade Sought

dustries that favor high American tariffs for protection from foreign competition. They are the wool, textile, pottery, glass and chemical

That is oversimplification,

. COP, 1940 BY WEA SERVICE, MC. 7. I. REO. UB. §. PAT. OF. ‘ "I know just how you feel, Mrs. Fillmore—my mother is still keeping my curls in a cigar box!"

Second are the perfectionists. There are some points about the present charter they don’t like. They therefore condemn the whole ITO idea. For instance, the charter would give the U. 8. only one vote in ITO. The one-vote-per-ocuntry principle is well established in United Nations procedure as protection for smaller countries. Critics think the United States should have voting strength proportionate to its percentage of world trade.

Separate Trade Pacts

THE perfectionists also think that U. 8. business would fare better—that better deals could be had if trade agreements were made with each foreign country separately instead of trying to make agreements with them all at the same time, : : The third kind of opposition to ITO come from those who do not like present world trends toward nationalization of industry and state trading. People who view this trend with alarm think that the way to beat it is for the United States to band with other like-minded nations and get tough about it to impose free enterprise ideas on the rest of the world. > When all this opposition to the ITO charter is brought together, it amounts to spokemen for half a dozen special interests: National Association of Manufacturers, League, National Association of Wool Manufacturers, America's Wage-Earners Protective League—backed by a few AFL unions in tariff. protected industries—the U. 8. ceramics industry and the far-flung DuPont enterprises.

For World Peace

" THERE IS a much larger group of American business interests, civic bodies and labor unions who favor ratification of the ITO charter by Congress. Under William L. Batt, Will Clayton,

Ernest Kanzler and a number of other big busi-.

nessmen, they have formed a committee for the ITO which will lobby for it just as hard as the others lobby against it.

Supporters of the ITO charter look upon it

as the proper and the only method to promote

world peace and promote American trade.

American Tariff:

Hoosier Forum

"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo sey H."

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

‘Beauty in Art’ By Lester C. Nagley Sr., Nashville, Ind. For many years now the controversy of modern art vs. conservative art has been carried on, and, as a Brown County artist, I would like to report what some patrons have told. me. An Indianapolis businessman and his wife explained what they wanted in paintings was beauty. They scorn modern art; he wanted charm, not thrill, in his painting. , Another patron, an Indianapolis doctor, said a painting in his home added not only color and but he said that “every time we look at’ it, it imparts a spiritual benediction to us.” I believe that the artist, modern or conservative, must be a missionary with a message, creating beauty, and such beauty, too, that no

one, unless he be a moron, can live with the

artist's painting without getting an emotional reaction that will spiritualize his thinking, Most artists fail to sell paintings because we do not follow the basic principles of good advertising—we fail to make folks desire to have a painting. : So, be it modern or conservative, art should tell a worthwhile story aad Seve humanity. # @

‘Refused Economy House’ By Mrs. Hubert O. Abney, 2926 E. 18th St. This happened in Indianapolis. We have to move. Our house is sold. We own a lot east of Emerson Ave. and south of 238th St. So we decided to build an economy house to cost $6500, not including the lot. No neighbors or vacant lot owners appeared against us after being notified of a zoning board meeting for a permit. Recently I was denied a buildidg permit because of reduced floor space. I was not asked the kind of material or if it was to be modern, which a lot of houses around us are not. This house was to be FHA financed and big enough for two people—four rooms, bath, and utility. Our neighbors offered to appear and try to help us. Sixty-five hundred is enough money to spend on housing. This house was not good enough for Warren Township with its trailer camps and tents. i he What are the men of Indianapolis to do with their families if we cant have economy homes? %

WU. S. Pattern for World’

By Raymond F. Wivell So Why cannot we Americans, with our love of freedom, promote our way of life for the entire world? : y Must we be forced to bring peace to the . world, each generation, through the blood and sacrifice of our country’s youth? : Fach man was born to live and provide for himself and family a life of creation, constructive and productive ability. The world is here for all people to enjoy in peace and mutual protection, 3 Democracy has operated successfully in the United States and should work equally as well all over the world. The peace which will be agreed to by the principal nations must not leave most of the world under the domination of a few nations. This peace should be followed by a democratic way of life for all of the world. One method of organization of the world along democratic lines would be to pattern its government after that of the United States.

Views on the News

7 By DAN KIDNEY RUSSIA jammed our Voice of America broadcasts so their home folks can't learn Uncle Sam is “waging peace” contrary to the Communist Party he, °

THAT New York draft-dodger who spent 10 years in a cubicle still remained sane enough to tell that radio programs are gven worse in the day time. 4 &

READING the Congressional Record you

learn that the USA is the biggest business ever

operated constantly, “at the cross-roads.” : ® *

@* MAYBE John L. Lewis plans on signing a Confederate’ contract with the Southern coal operators. 3 > ¢ % HENRY A. WALLACE is campaigning again. He should do better in a non-election year.

By Galbraith py

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STOCKPILES . . . By Jim G. Lucas

More War Materials

WASHINGTON, May 7—Uncle Sam finally has put the Marshall Plan to work helping build his strategic stockpiles. From now on, Economic Co-operation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman is required to “make use of his bargaining power to increase production and assist other government agencies in purchasing (strategic) materials.” He has authority to make contracts for as long as 20 years to get the materials we need—but don’t have—to wage another war, With an anticipated $5.2 billion to spend in the next 12 months, Mr. Hoffman's bargaining power probably will be con-

Low Production

AS A RESULT, the first year's record was disappointing. The United States spent more than $5 billion on European recovery, but Deputy Administrator Howard Bruce told Congress we got about $40 million worth of strategic minerals. Mr. Bruce sald he doubted that ECA could do better until it could sign long-term contracts. Under the old law, he said, it could make long-term contracts, but could only use foreign currency it had obtained in other Marshall Plan deals—counterpart funds, ECA calls them. He said ECA was “hampered by not having dollars.” He recommended the law be changed to let the ECA locate strategic materials, use its influence for best possible deal and, then have other government agencies pay for them with regular stockpiling appropriations. y “If we are backed up by somebody with some real money and prepared to make long-term contracts,” he said, “I think much more can be done. We will gladly be the sales agent—the exploring agent—for such a body.”

Nickel Production

. ’ DAVID BRUCE, recently appointed Ambassador to France,

busier looking for the old ones. would make a lot less money. <*

ter than one. Why, of cores!

- ‘holders,

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WHILE the government is busy looking for new taxes we're * & 0 sl IF IT weren't for the palms in the ritzy Florida cafes waiters

* , A HEALTH expert contends that two apples a day are bet-

want to do anything that would shake the faith of the policy | But we think we should kriow where we're going.” He said the investigation would include a study of insurance company-promoted real estate developments Where no local archich contractors or capital were used. ’ Insurance companies are now regulated by the inquiry will include a study of these laws.

told Congress American money could be used to develop nickel production in New Caledonia. A 100 per cent increase, David Bruce said, would barely satisfy French demands. But, he added, . “France then would cease to be a claimant on nickel produced in other parts of the world” and leave Uncle Sam a freer market. In approving the new amendment, the Senate Foreign Relations committee said: “No substantial amount of (strategic) materials can be purchased unless additional dollars are provided and authority granted to make long-term contracts , . . the committee does not

feel that additional dollars should be given to the Economic Co-

state laws and | a, p! 8.

| operation Administration in this field, which is the primary re- | sponsibility of the Munitions Board and the Bureau of Federal | Supply. It does, however, wish to emphasize that the administrator should continue to make the fullest possible use of his bargaining poyer to promote the work of these agencies.” 3 The Munitions Bohrd's last report revealed that the United States now has approximately 40 per cent of its $3.1 billion stock-

The first Marshall Plan law merely told Mr. Hoffman to ' “facilitate the transfer” of strategic materials to the United States. No one ever was quite sure what that meant; particularly since the law also said that stockpile néeds took a back seat to Europe's “reasonable requirements.”

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The list of one bers includes A, Hartley Jr. Manasco (D. A peck (D, Ga.), rum (D. Va.). Rent Rep. John Mass.) said Tighe E. Woo rent increases chusetts in vi control act. Mr. Kenned ran ‘afoul of counts: He fa hearings on ti ommendations the increase taxes, a fact has said shoul alone. Gold Fred M. Se the Newmont Congress shot deal involving Argentina anc Argentina, U. 8. oil inf worth of gol price of $35 could have g in the Middle Foreign A A United 1! report that ti retarding EF touched off ne mands for a aid spending. Senate Rep neth 8. Wher William E: Je the report sl gress to give European Re fore voting f tions.

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