Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 34

HENRY W. MANZ Busfness Manager

- Sunday, May 22, 1949

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Insult to Injury fTHE Soviet Union undoubtedly would be grievously in-. sulted were another power to suggest that Russia declare a general amnesty and then hold free elections to choose a new government. ‘ : ons Yet that is what the Soviets demand of Greece. Moreover, the sovereignty of Greece was overlooked. The Soviet proposal was submitted not to Greece but to Britain and the United States. It's a case of one law for the strong, another for the weak. : : The present Greek government was formed by consti"tutional processes, after free, parliamentary elections, held in 1046 in the presence of American, British and French observers. That cannot be said for any other government in the Balkans. But since 1948, Greece. has been the victim of an undeclared war because she has refused to submit to the overlordship of Moscow, as the other Balkan countries have been forced to do. : 2 8 BN » ” » RUSSIA has not become directly involved in this war "of aggression, but has operated through the Greek Communists and the Communist states of Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. : Britain promptly rejected the overtures, as an attempt to deal behind the back of the Greek government. Our own government has followed suit—after the announcement from London that we would do so. (As was the case in the Berlin blockade, we continue to get our first news of such things from London or Moscow.) But a grand opportunity was overlooked in not spelling “out this situation for world consumption instead of letting Russia get eway with another “peace” move when the ‘Soviets are trying to back out of a war they are losing. We might have reminded the Soviets, toe, that under democratic practices, Greek elections are the legitimate concern only of the Greeks, subject to their own constitution. | 80, too, is the matter of a general amnesty. Except that "the United States should objegt to any general whitewashing that might include the two Greek Communists convicted of murdering George Polk, the American radio reporter.

BA - y Bo i — Good Place to Start WHEN President Truman urged Congress, to investigate YY 1obbying he doubtless had in mind the “big-business, pecialnterest lobbies’ arhich: he denounced so vehemently in his election campaign. See The House now has voted for an investigation by a 7 joint committe®IPR, --tatives and Senators, with lob- " bying by government officials and employees included in the scope of the inquiry. gles |‘ Yair enough. Among the most persistent lobbies in Washington are bureaucrat lobbies, pressuring Congress to give their agencies more money and power, or to protect them from losing any of the money and power they already have. A fine place for that committee to start would be with how the Army engineers turned on the heat against the Hoover Commission. Si "8 a un THE Army engineers want to keep their jurisdiction over federal flood-control and harbors projects. The Hoo- . ver Commission recommended cutting out a lot of foolish, wasteful competition for funds and saving a lot of taxpayers’ money by consolidating such projects and other similar government activities, now scattered among various ' agencies, under one civilian agency in the Interior Department. ; - Congress has been bombarded with protests against such a change. There is abundant evidence that the protests were inspired by the Army engineers. And this lobbying has been perniciously effective. Many members of the Senate are so determined to protect the Army engineers that they have refused Mr. Truman the sort of authority he asks and needs to reorganize the government to make it Jess costly and more efficient.

"\ A Good Place to Live

'S a refreshing change of pace to hear some resident * talk about the good things of Indianapolis rather than all the faults and shortcomings of the city of which we =" know there are many, This “new slant” came to us in the form of a letter from a family that has lived here only two weeks, having moved to Indianapolis from another state. “We have lived in several large cities-but never have we encountered such good-neighbor spirit as was demonstrated to us in Indianapolis,” the new resident wrote. ‘We just can’t sit back and see all this friendliness, good will and progressiveness all about us without saying something about it.” A _ Sometimes, in our zeal to make Indianapolis a better place to live, we are so cyitical of all its weaknesses that we may be inclined to overlook the good things in search for the bad. - Compared to many other cities, it's a good place to live.

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the reunion of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the musical, “The Barkleys of Broadway.” ' To the grimmer intellect the return of a song-and-dance team may be nothing to throw hats in the air about,

“and the Louvre, the Astaire-Rogers team stands out be- ' eause of its class, In the swarm of Hollywood mediocrities, "it In one of the few truly major league outfits. Oldtimers doted on Pat Rooney will know what we mean. . we'd better euloy hem we can. Any minute orcine intellect in a West Coast office will be

pen to the movie industry. One of those things has just -

bit we just can't help cheering. Like the Grand Canyon |

DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney Indiana Survey Given Congress

Overlapping, Costly Setups

_ Of Government Shown . WASHINGTON, May 21-—Dear Boss: How would you like to deal at a “one-stop” governmental service station where all your requirements as a good American citizen and taxpayer could be fulfilled? ! In case you think that sounds too Utopian, I hasten to point out that it is the upshot of some real Hoosier homeé-front thinking regarding our expanding governmental setups in county, state and nation, 3 A New Castle businessman, Clifford F. Payne; has presented a rough-draft blue-print for just such “efficiency through co-ordination” to the House and Senate subcommittees on intergovernmental relations. Rep. Ralph Harvey (R. Ind.) is a member of the Bubcommittee on Expenditures in Executive Departments and had Mr. Payne appear here to explain the plan. It is based on a fiveyear study made in his home county,

327 Units in County

THE study, originally financed by the Spelman (Rockerfeller) fund, was carried out by the Henry County Council on intergovernmental

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Harvey was an original council member and Jack OC. Greig is the executive director. The council survey showed that in New Castle and Henry County there are 327 government units with little planned co-ordination. To bring them together under “grass-roots” control is the idea of the “one-stop” plan. Fach government service would be covered by a single office and the result would be a savings of both time und money for the taxpavers, it is argued. i Testifying before a joint hearing of the subcommittees Mr. Payne made the point that all our governments—local, state and national —are a good deal like Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin—they ‘jes growed.”

Complex Demands

THE COUNCIL found: + That group demand for special services is the chief cause of complex government, though people jdentified with the groups fail to think of themselves as sponsors of the complexity. That the 327 government units serving Henry County include 110 local, 113 state and 106 federal setups, That there 1s a correlation between centralized control of business and centralized government. That much of the “home-rule” talk is just talk. That frustration In an attempt to understand our changing social and economic structure is at the root of most complaints. That local . government has lost prestige because they failed to work as a team, partly because officials fail to realize they were elected to improve government rather than to maintain the status quo. Besides Jealousy of

"their jobs and prerogatives by local officials,

another reason for failure to develop local government teamwork is group interest which “fences off” activities, : t

Financially Embarrassed THAT local government is financially embarrassed, attempting to operate on the oumoded, unfair, inadequate property tax, and with new revenue sources limited or already pre-empted by the state and federal govern-. ments, ; : That there is no overall check on what serv ices the public gets, how well they are per‘formed, whether they are actually needed, or whether they could be adjusted to fit the local situation, : 3 That active citizen interest in governmental affairs does exist but it finds no focal point for

homogeneous area as. Hepry County. ) B That many valuable advisory and technical

federal and sta

Too Much Red Tape Ee

THAT the’thief points of intergovernmental friction are excessive. regulations and red tape; insistence upon uniformity when flexibility to fit local needs is desirable; lack of knowledge of local needs and conditions by state and federal administrators; multiciplicity of agencies performing the same or similar services to the confusion, irritation and expense of the general public—<plus the irritation and senseless rivalry of administrators; feeling of inferiority on the part of local officials due to state and federal back-seat driving; newness or change of a service which has not been sold to the public, and failure of the merit system to emphasize local personnel acceptability. Mr. Payne presented a 12-point detailed program for setting up the ‘“‘one-stop” governmental service plan in the communities. It is based on a two-pronged proposal: A: Raise the stature of local government; B: Mesh the gears (local, state, federal) better.

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BALKAN POLITICS . . .

By Ludwell Denny

Stalin-Tito Fight Increasing

TRIDSTE, May 21-— Chances of a major Balkan war this summer are decreasing, but the Stalin-Tito struggle in Yugoslavia is increasing. Stalin is ready to spring the long-prepared Bulgarian guerrilla atack on Yugoslavian Macedonia whenever conditions are ripe elsewhere in Tito's domain. That, at least, is the view in this clearing house of Balkan reports. Such an attack would be similar to Stalin's Jeft-handed civil war in Greece. It would be easier because America and Britain could not risk saving Tito as they have saved Greece. And for that reason it would be less likely to precipitate a world war for which Stalin is not yet prepared. . Allied observers over here agree that Stalin has no choice <= he must regain control of Yugo~ slavia or eventually lose his other restless satellites. They are not predicting the outcome. But the present trend definitely favors Stalin,

Defiance of Master

TITO has no effective weapon to use against Stalin, other than the contagion of a puppets defiance of his master. : But Stalin has a full armory of weapons, Politically, he can use party discipline inkide and outside of Yugoslavia. Psychologically, he can wear down Tito with the ever-present threat of murder, while he tempts Tito's party rivals with rich rewards to do the deed. On the military side, it is sufficient for his guerrillas to bleed Yugoslavia and prevent concentration on economic recovery. Already the Cominform economic hoycott has staggered Tito. The refugees and deserters from Tito’'s army, who escape to Trieste, confirm the lack of consumer goods in Belgrade. They add reports of peasant unrest in the interior. When these reports are discounted for partisanzhip, as they must be, the picture for Tito is still not a pretty one. Not that there is any sign as yet of mass

of old age and survivors’ insurance,

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die leaving minor children.

Double the Scale

relief payment to the aged is $45 a month,

and then quit his job,

exceed $30 a week.

present living costs.

Five Best Income Years

pre-inflation years from the calculation.

present, counting only the first $3000. Mr.

1030's when the law was passed. | year. A $3000-a-year man, who now pays a tax of wo Right now, they 8 the amount of income used in computing benefits is | pay $60 next year. . 430, would Re ry Te TuAding ie Atle Gowan) 2 ¥ ; ni Ri | ' pid, o : / : ; a . » : 3 is N We id i ive i A

SOCIAL SECURITY . . . By James Daniel

More Old-Age Pay?

WASHINGTON, May 21—Soclal Security Administrator Arthur J. Altmeyer has asked Congress to expand the program

He calls this the “nation’s first line of defense against desCurrently about 35 million jobs are covered by the insurance

system, which pays annuities to workers and their wives at the age of 65 and also compensates the survivors of workers who

By ‘covering in “practically all gainfully employed persons,” | Mr. Altmeyer would add another 20 million or so jobs. Groups presently excluded are farm hands, house servants, | employees of non-profit organizations (churches, schools, ete), public employees, railroad workers and the self-employed, such as farmers, professional men and small businessmen. meyer wants {hem all in, except railroad workers, who have their own U. S.-administered retirement system, persons under | federal civil service and a few other minor exceptions.

MR. ALTMEYER also wishes to double the scale of benefits paid under: the old age and survivors insurance system, The average worker's benefit now ‘is $25 a month. The average

At present somebody has to retire or die before an insurance claim becomes payable. Mr, Altmeyer wants to make it possible to pay claims when a covered worker is disabled. If he and the administration get their way, a permanently disabled person would retire on the same basis as if he worked until 65

Thereafter the benefit would be 50 to 70 per cent of the person's normal wages, depending on the size of the family, but not to

Two devices are suggested by Mr. Altmeyer for bringing the scale of retirement and survivors benefits into line with

ONE would be to base benefits on the five best Income years of & person's working life, instead of, as at present, on the average of his good and bad income years, This would eliminate the

The second would be to count up to $4800 of every person's annual income in calculating his benefit rather

that a $4800 income now is equivalent to $3000 In the uninflated

Mr, Alt-

A person temporarily disabled would be compensated for up / to 26 weeks of iliness—14 weeks in the case of a woman leaving her job to have a baby. No benefit would be paid the first week.

Roadside Awakening

revolt. The reaction of the fiercely patriotic

Yugoslav against Russian interference is still Tito's best asset and Stalin's worst liability. This is not a case of loving Tito more but of loving Btalin less.

Limited to Small Groups

* 80 FAR, the organized opposition is reported limited to two small groups. One is the Stalinist Cell, which Tito to date has been able té curb

as rapidly as it spreads. :

The other is the so-called White Yugoslav

movement against both Tito and Stalin. At this

stage the Whites cannot hurt Tito without helping Stalin and vice versa. There is wishful thinking in some Washington and London circles that Western aid to Tito can be effective and safe. Evidence here does not support that. ; Large-scale Western aid would be a kiss of death for Tito. It would nullify his shrill protestations that he is more Communist than the Cominform, and force his fanatical Communist aides to bump him’ off as the. traitor Stalin accuses him of being. .Small- Western aid — which is ho longer secret since Allied ships unload in Fiume and other public ports, including Trieste — cannot sufficiently buttress the crumbling Yugoslav economy upon which Tito depends.

Free Nations Benefit

EVEN though the West could save him, it would be on the fallacy that he can be weaned away from communism and trusted. Those who have watchéd him and his associates and know them rate them as ruthless as their parent Politburo in the Kremlin, and less a world menace only to the degree that they are less powerful internationally. The free nations benefit because Tito and Stalin are weakening each .other. .The longer both can be kept at it, without either winning, the safer for world democracy in the judgment of most Allied experts on the Balkans,

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state of mind.

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those earning below $3000.

rising dollar for dollar.

each next Jan. 1.

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also the amount of income subject to the social security payroll tax, the effect of this would be to subject persons earning more than $3000, a year to a proportionately larger tax increase than

Under the present law a $3000-a-year man now pays $30 a year (one per cent of his salary), and his employer pays $30. This is due to rise to $45 a year (one a half per cent) next Jan. 1 and $60 a year (two per cent) in 1052—with the employer's tax |

Mr. Altmeyer is asking Congress to go to the 114 per cent tax on both employee and employer this July 1, and the 2 per cent

and greater amount of income subject to tax would mean that a

The double-barreled effect of the higher percentage of tax t and greater amount of income subject tn ax would mean that

tomiq materials. They are impatient with pleas for “academic robo » ; om, - because, as Mr. O'Mahoney pointed out, they feel the atomie .

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Hoosier Forum

“1 do not gree with a word Phat you say, but |

will defend to the death your right fo say #.%

Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub. | ” ject with which you are familiar. Some letters | used will be edited but content will be pre- | served, for here the People Speak in Freedom, |

‘Jobs Under Slavery’ Liga By J. C. Bankett. ¥ In the “Hoosier Forum” a man signing his {nitials as J. T. had this to say about employment under dictatorship. : i “In Russia there is no such thing as une employment. That is acknowledged by Russia's

_ severest critics. Under communism everyone

1s guaranteed a job and full use is made of the

“respective skill of the workers.” °

J. T. states an established fact but it is not under communism that the worker is guar. anteed a job. It is under SLAVERY, There is no communism in Russia. In 1917 when the German high command sent Lenin and Trotsky into Russia to preach communism, the thing they hoped for was accomplished. A revolution , broke out in Russia; all the leaders of govern«' ment were destroyed as well as the ruling class

' in the field of industry and banking. The net: - | result was communism, where all men are de-?}

clared to be equal and should have equal pay, No one would work because there’ were no bosses. The city dwellers were not. producing . anything and the farmers refused to plant ™ their crops knowing that the government would take the products of their labor without coms ¥ pensation; so that the city folks could continue, to live and enjoy life without working. It was Joe Stalin who plotted the destruce tion of communism in Russia to savé Russia. Lenin died and Stalin purged from the ranks of the command, every Communist and instituted state capitalism. Under state capitalism every individual is not only assured of a job, he must work or go into a concentration camp, salt mine, coal mine or into the frozen north. There is no hourly wage or weekly wage for labor in & Russia. It is task labor. You fulfill the task signed to you or you are punished. In 1931 Stalin issued to the world the es- ’ tablishment of state capitalism. At that time Stalin said, “The key to industrial efficiency . is an income scale that reflects correctly the difference between skilled and unskilled work, ‘Incomes must paid according to work done . and not according to need.” 2

“Trading With Spain’ By John S. Whittle. 5 The French and the English governments are opopsed to the U, 8. recognizing the Spanish government. (We have yet to hear a whisper from these’ two government about our recog : nizing the Russian, Polish, socalled, and Yugo- : slav government.) The French did $100,000,000 - worth of business with Spain, the British did - $400,000,000 worth of business with Spain. The Marshall Plan seems to be working out so well with some people," that we are cone - sidering the idea of asking for $15 to setup a peanut stand. :

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‘Accidents Due to Bad Brakes’ By C. B, .

The increasing number of auto accidents - caused by bad brakes is becoming very alarme ing. People fear walking on the street as a truck or machine with defective brakes may - lose control and cause a pedestrian’s death. Although warnings are given occasionally . over the radio telling auto owners to have their - brakes checked, most people seem to pay no heed to these warnings. I think the law come « pelling everyone to have his auto brakes checked should be enforced. Then many deaths and tragedies could be avoided.

What Others Say—

IF AMERICAN influence exceeds that of the hammer and sickle at all, it is only in the ® Western hemisphere, at a few remote points in - Asia, and what has been described as a “deep beachhead” in Western Europe.~Gov. Val. Peterson (R) of Nebraska, ; S 9 .

ANYONE who follows the news even casually . . . readily recognizes that American policy generally conforms to public opinion , . ¢ Jornelimes Jeasing it, sometimes following Hy ut always close to it.—Sen, Francis J. Myers *(D) of Pennsylvania. ‘ ¢ &

o I'VE never been so/thrilled in my lfe—te meet Shaw, I mean, not to get hit ny the car, - That hurt. I ‘mean getting hit, not meeting Shaw, That was wonderful.—Comedian Danny, -

disappointed in Mr. Lilienthal, easil a ‘no comment.” Instead, he repli

It is indicative of the Sepate’s attitude, questioning of Mr. Lilienthal is being led by a supporters, Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.). courteous with the Commission chairman, an down, but "he is blunt and aggressive — appare get straight answers to his questions. Mr. Lilienthal, in at least bne sta committee to be just as de Hh earxuple, Yo one oh ship held by Hans Friestadt, an avowed Co honey complained several times to Mr. Lot hen, ON think your answer is plain.” nical play on words.”

Clear Purpose MR. O'MAHONEY never lost Sempiing justand | to pose his questions in urposes wo clear. But Mr, Kellar was openly hostil This is a question you can answer yes id : . At Mr. Lilienthal at one point, during the non-Communist affidavits of Atomic Fellowship candidates, And later, Mr. McKellar snorted, “You have never an a question straight to me that: I know of.” Thats} the atmosphere of the heari are aroused and angered — even frightened — by re ot munists in the atomic energy program and ha Sou

program funds, and thus should bar Communists ment program bars them.

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NATIONAL SECURITY .. . By Andrew Tully Evasive Answers

WASHINGTON, May 21 — The purse Strings for the nation’s io hog the avid E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Ener . Commissio Members of a Senate appropriations subc oe He's tata La am, they feel are evasive Smilies Me lth al during the current hearings on alle tions in the atomic program. 8 ged SomMUNist inWliras Except for Sen. Kenneth McKellar the commission chairman,

atomic energy program are annoyed at - answers given by Mr. Lilien« .

(D. Tenn.), an old foe of : there is nothing personal in the senae But they give the impression they don’t Doan

Mr, Lilienthal has been paying strict — or attention to the business of i Father: Plalistiorw

Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.),

Lilienthal's confirmation for the Commissi up the Committee's attitude. OR pret, In 247, sums

s - Don't Realize Danger’ : “THE trouble with Mr. Lilienthal — and most sci n Mr, Ferguson, “is that they don’t really know what sts is. They don't realize how dangerous Communists can

Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R. Mass.), wh Te ny Sane ’ 0 voted for Mr. Liliene

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GOP Eyes REPUBLICA unemployment, that’s their iss tions. So far, Sist provided GOP paign fodder. | ernment is bei some Republic: tried that befo proved effective Sen. Homer who has to ru to link une:

of GOP desire sion” label o strenuous meas employment fr hand. Congress is public building; pression backs passed bill auf lion for buying plans. That's half-billion-doll House may c¢ week. It's also control progra make more jot

” Tab on Re GOP'S ALSO ments in wh Atomic’ Energ *soft” policy to It may try to k for next year. However, a Rep. Albert Th start formal { fellowship prog en limitations education for stopped. Mr. Thoma appropriations that handles Commission s is also taking whether atom ing waste of « AEC is gett dollars for nex as has told A and general a break this dov ~~which was a five categories major activity It's time, he to know mor money's bein how.

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