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While the Dust Settles SOME members of Congress report that they have Secretary of State Acheson's assurance that the U. 8. won't recognize a Communist government in China as long as the «Nationalists retain a foothold in the South. That is somewhat encouraging, in view of the State Department’s recognized hostility toward the Nationalist government. But it doesn’t mean much, ; Unless the Nationalists receive military supplies there is little hope that they can retain a foothold in the South, or perhaps anywhere else. In April, 1948, Congress appropriated $125 million to _buy military supplies for Nationalist China. Of this program, $30 million in supplies remains unshipped because of the low: priority our government gave this emergency equip- * “ment. If the State Department wants the Nationalists to stay in the war it can prove its good faith by giving the balance of the program top priority, :

yg vy” . i » . | fom *" NATIONALIST troops have been going into battle with less than 10 rounds of ammunition per rifleman. We have more than seven million tons of ammunition on hand in the U. 8. A fraction of it might save South China from Communist invasion. We have 4000 World War II fighter planes in storage. A few of these old planes would enable the Nationalists to cut the Communists’ supply lines, according to Maj. Gen. C. L. Chennault, who used similar planes in tactical operations against the Japs. He believes there is enough old equipment in our dumps on various Pacific islands to spell the difference between victory and defeat in China.

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ment still holds more than half of China. But that area is being eaten away by Red inroads while the State Department sits with folded hands waiting “for the dust to settle.”

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Hocus-Pocus A MAN already up to his ears in debt and living beyond ~~ his income, which was large, wanted to buy a yacht. So he drew six months’ salary in advance and blew that in as a down payment. : © “I'm a financial genius,” he said. “I've discovered a painless way to balance my budget and still have the good things of life.” And he enjoyed that pleasant delusion until the sheriff showed up with a summons to bankruptcy court. That's fable. Thiais fact: . Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and other Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have proposed 7 a “painless” way to balance the government's budget without any disagreeable necessity to cut spending or levy higher Kes. ig. i : Congressional tax experts estimate that, at presen # tax rates, the spending proposed by President Truman would mean a federal deficit of about $3 billion in the next fiscal year, running from July 1, 1949, to June 30, 1950.

2 » » » » # . 3 : UNDER present law, corporations would pay federal ©. taxes on their 1049 incomes in four installments, due in March, June, September and December of 1850. The Mills * wcheme is to change the law and make them pay up those taxes earlier, half in March and half in June. That would concentrate a full year's collection of corporation taxes into the last six months of the government's fiscal year. In those six months the government would. col lect about $4,600,000,000 more than it expects to collect under the present system. bi So, instead of a $3 billion deficit, the government would end its next fiscal year with a “surplus” of around $1,600,000,000 on its books. a0 This scheme is dangerous hocus-pocus. In the long run, it would not add one cent to the government's revenues. It would merely create a brief bookkeeping illusion of a balanced budget. And, while that illusion lasted, it would discourage efforts in Congress to cut spending and encourage reckless demands for more spending.

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To Save Miners’ Lives R the fourth time in six years Congress is studying proposals to give the Federal Bureau of Mines more authority to promote coal-mining safety. This time, Congress should do more than study. It should act. “The bill now under consideration was introduced by Sen. M. M. Neely of West Virginia and Rep. Melvin Price of Illinois, and the United Mine Workers—John L. Lewis’ union—is urging its passage. Present law gives Bureau of Mines inspectors authority to go into coal mines and, when they find dangerqus conditions, to recommend safety measures. But it gives them no power to close unsafe mines or enforce their recommenda: tions. Enforcement is left up to the states. And in too many instances—notably the 1947 Centralia (Il.) blast, which killed 111 miners—state enforcement has proved deplorably lax.

» n ” » THE Neely-Price bill would authorize federal inspectors to order immediate withdrawal of all miners from mine , areas in which they find “imminent danger.” Mine operators or managers could be penalized for refusal to obey such orders. i This proposal would not increase government costs, mince the Bureau of Mines inspectors already are on the Job. The fact that they are on the job gives them a responsibility for mine safety—a responsibility which, under the pregent law, they are handicapped in discharging because recommendations can be ignored with impunity, The Neely-Price bill would do much to correct this con- . Congress should enact it.

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FRONT MEN... By Charles. Lucey Congress Plans Lobbyist Probe

Pressure Groups May Be in For a Lof of Explaining

WASHINGTON, May 24—Lobbyists were on hand and active the first day Congress set up shop in 1889 and they're still at it—but today they're more numerous, more lavish, bolder and more imaginative in turning on the pressure. } “ Now Congress seems about to give the lobbying business a thorough -over. A Tesolution providing for a joint SenateHouse inquiry into lobbying has House and awaits Senate action. The Washington front men who toss swanky, expensive cocktail parties hereabouts and who steam up floods of letters from back home seem in for a lot of explaining. Rep. Frank Buchanan (D. Pa), who sponsored the House resolution, and Sen. Harley Kilgore (D. W. Va.), its Senate author, insist they want no witch-hunting enterprise. They say the rights of individuals and groups to petition Congress must be respected. But some Republicans are skeptical. They're saying already that this could turn out to be an, attempt fo try to embarrass the National Association of Manufacturers, the U. 8. Cham. ber of Commerce and other big business groups for opposing the administration.

Cut Two Ways

YET, under the authority provided in the resolution as it passed the House, the blade could cut two ways. At the instance of Rep.

James W, Wadsworth (R. N, Y.) and Rep.

Clarence Brown (R. 0.), lobbying by government departments and agencies could be in: vestigated. A federal law bars use of federal funds to influence legislation. In part, the proposed inquiry would be a . study, of the workings of the lobby-control provisions of the LaFollette-Monroney Con--gressional Reorganization Act of three years ago. Ly act has forced registration of hundreds of individual lobbyists but has not pro vided detailed information on their activities. Also, many in Congress feel that much more needs to be known about organizations and groups engaged in lobbying. ny investigation is likely to dip into the activities of nearly a dozen organizations in. terested in housing bills in recent years, headed

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Boards. The extensive lobbying on both sides of the butter-versus-margarine battle and the current controversy over a national healthinsurance system will be scrutinized. Congressmen say, in fact, that scarcely any major bill comes up now without creating its lobby-—-last week it was a lobby of cold-storage and warehouse people who were fighting to restrict the Commodity Credit Corp., in providing crop storage facilities for farmers.

Fostering Propaganda.

ONE of the flelds cited by Rep. Buchanan _ As meriting attention is that of newspaper and magazine advertising by firms or organizations, including labor unions, which go in for pleading a cause or fostering a particular propaganda rather than advertising a product. | Nobody knows how much is spent in Washington for lobbying, or who pays witnesses’ ex8 to come to Wi n to testity before congressional committees. Estimates on lobbyIng costs here have gone as high as $40 million & year. The scotch and hors d’ouvres come high ae better Jotels and pressure cammail. and telegraph can important money. grap s, ite

Security Administration for lobbying for com‘pulsory health insurance and at the military establishment for lobbying on universal military training. These activities may be reviewed

again, and other government ne or ghey x goye! agency lobbying

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

MY TASK Ica ch my boy of Gad, Or that child to Shing The birth of earth-things from the sod, The reason why the starlings sing — If I can answer, man to man, The questions he is bound to ask

About God's great creative plan, «++ I've done my task!

But when I teach my boy-to pray For other men — not for himae If he should throw his prayers away: And keep the Book upon the shelf; If he should live his tender years Unmindtul of the One we natled Upon the cross — and shed no tears — «++ Then I have fatled! ~BUDDY LAWSON, Terre Haute.

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TIME FOR LEISURE . .. By E. T. Leech

Living in ‘Age of Useless Speed’

WASHINGTON, May 24—This is an age of useless speed.

Auto deaths mostly come from speeding to save a few minutes in going some place to waste them. But haste to waste isn't confined to driving. Its losses and tragedies aren't limited to the highways. This century's outstanding characteristic has been a great speeding up of all our tasks, so we could gain more time to lose. 3

Science, management and union pressure have sharply cut the work-week. An infinite variety of appliances has been sold on the promise that they would shorten household chores. Razors and blades are hawked with the lure that they will trim seconds as well as whiskers. Even foods are promoted with claims to shorten the digestive process. We have gained much of life’s most precious and irreplaceable asset, time. The big job now is to reduce its waste. For there is little indication that our added time has done much good. There are many indications that it has done a great deal of harm. Technical progress has given us time on our hands—but no good way to use it,

Little Value in Leisure

BRIGHT predictions made before the hours of labor were cut proved to be mostly. illusions. In most cases, added leisure brought neither progress, profit nor greater happiness. Often it brought trouble. Save for a small minority, there seems little evidence that part of these free hours has been used to make the hours of production more profitable. Either for the

| management which reduced them--often with

reluctance-—or for ourselves. By many, of course, profitable production is frowned qg—as part of what is called by the bad name of “speed up,” And We don't like

to speed up except to gain more time to slow

down, i Mental troubles, domestic woes and the ills of delinfuency are a national problem. We al-

- ways had them, but maybe we lacked time to

cultivate and nurture them. Health and length of life have improved, but chiefly due to medical and scientific progress made by men who kept very busy.

but probably this is due almost entirely to better schools more widely available to t people with higher incomes or greater public assistance, There is little sign that better education has resulted in higher average intelligence. .

For More Happiness

. THEORETICALLY, increased leisure was to have given people more time to learn things and do things for themselves, so they would be happier and better able to get ahead. But largely that hasn't happened. There are many exceptions, of course. But, with the majority, the shorter day, the day-off and the hours saved from home chores haven't been used for self-improvement. Too often, the day-off doesn’t lead to mental or physical stimulation but rather to the type which leaves a hangover. A recent business survey has been causing a lot of comment. It confirmed something which is worrying many firms. It showed that the executives of big companies are too old. Within 20 years, it disclosed, the average age of presidents of 65 representative companies had increased from 53 to 59. Average age of the general officers was up from 47 to 54. It is easy to think that the old guys are stubborn and won't step aside, Or that their doctors are doing too well by them. Even so, it’s a reflection on the young men that they don’t push them aside.

Jobs Hard to Fill

BUT the fact is that better jobs are hard to fill. Often they go begging. Business conferences and trade publications talk a lot about the shortage of junior executives—of men worth promoting. 4 Business and government and the professions have grown very complex and hard to manage. They can't be learned, much less mastered, in a 40-hour week. Those who are getting ahead are the ones who are spending part of their free time preparing themselves. Too few do so. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” goes the old maxim. But it can work in reverse. All play and no work, or too much

- play and too little work, can lead to worse

results.

“| do not agree with a word that you say, buf | will defend to the death your right fo say i." ‘Keep letters 200 words or less ou any subused will be edited but contest will be pre. served, for bere the People Speak in Freedom.

ered, fought, bled and died that Spain would pt be a not become a Soviet hell on earth.

: > ¢ * : A ‘Not So Good for Wage Earner’ By Howard W. Toner ee under a Labor government isn't 80. good for the small wage earner. In Great Britain, under a Labor governmeni with socialized medicine and government ownership of fndustries, a married man with a net income of $2000 pays an. income tax of $234. On $3000 the tax is $576, and on $5000 it is $1206. “In Canada, another member of the British Commonwealth, but not under a Labor government, a married man with an income of $2000 pays no income tax. On an.income of $3000 the tax is $150 and on $5000 it is $510, Quite a contrast. : > In this country the taxes on these. incomes: are $133, $209 and $631, respectively. Before we elect a Labor government, adopt socialized medicine and have government-owned industries we should consider whether the small wage earner can afford it. Remember we will have no Marshall Plan to finance our experiment in this field. 5 ¢ © %

‘Rubles Don’t Sound Good’ By Paul E. Holland, 3441 N. Drexel Ave, The whole country’s nuts, to use a phrase from Red Skelton. We sit around and talk about the communistic influence that is gradually working its way into our lives and our way of living, but what do we do about it? Nothing. On top of all that, we have to read about’ people who are supposedly Americans challenge that “The Communist Party of Indiana is dedicated to the best interests and well being of the people of Indiana.” . I do not remotely contend that I am an authority on political parties, but I do want to state that I agree heartily with The Times’ editorial question, “How dumb can you get?” in regard to the argument of Reds that they are not connected with Moscow. ; I also want to state that it is high time the Communists are deprived not only of their

and work in our country. If they like the way of the Communist Party so well, why don't they go to that country behind the Iron Curtain where it is in full control? I. for one, am happy to continue working for the good old American dollar. Rubles don’t sound good to. me, 2

What Others Say—

WE must prove, beyond any shadow of doubt, that our form of government offers the individual greater opportunities than any other system of government in the world today.—Secretary of the Treasury Jom W. Sayder. ®

I KNOW what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long.—Rep. Dewey Short (R.) of Missouri, declaring that he has no anti-labor sympathies. ® + © WE have one weapon more powerful than all the atomic bombs, the ed missiles, the battleships, the airplénes and the tanks. It is the soirit of freedom.—Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson. + 4 o

BEFORE the Marshall Plan the willingness of the German people to work was at a low ebb. But now the people believe in work again, this time for peace.—Dr. Ludwig Erhard, economic director of the Guia Bi.zonu! Administration.

IN THE ultimate, television may well come to be the most powerful of all forces in terms of its effect upon public opinion, our social, political and economic philosophy, public enlightenment, entertainment and the cultural pattern as a . whole.—James Lawrence Fly, former chairman

rights in this country, but of their rights to live

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ECONOMY . .. By Marquis Childs

Warning Signs Seen

WASHINGTON, May 24—Economy in government is a lovely is likely t d Soomy ely to vanish into thin air with a magician's sleight of hand. But the Democratic leadership in this Congress cannot ignore the warning signs. If there are no substantial economies, then a budgetary deficit of several billions is inevitable. The alternative would be a tax increase and, if anything seems certain about this Hncerain Congress, it is the firm determination not to increase The shrewdest common sense on, this whole matter of economy has come from Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, Sen. Douglas has shown that liberal convictions do not necessarily mean a refusal to recognize the facts of life. In a recent speech Mr, Douglas proposed a cut of 5 to 6 per cent in the numberof government employees and, what is more, he suggested how the cut might be carried out without doing any

damage to existing government services. The argument of those .

Who say that economy ‘fs wrong &t a time when the business spiral is declining Mr. Douglas answered by declaring that waste in government is never productive and ngver justifiable, no matter what the condition of the economy.

, Watchful Waiting

THE esseptial soundness of his position cannot, it see me, be challeliged. The next few months, says the Bator To Illinois, should be a peridd of watchful waiting to determine the real significance of the prestnt’ trend. The government would meanwhile keep its powdery While preparing an extensive program to meet a depression if {t comes. Not ‘content with this, Mr, Douglas rode full tilt at one of the worst congressional abuses, even though he must have felt, as he did so, a little like Don Quixote attacking the windmills. What he proposed was a $300,000,000 cut in the Rivers and Harbors Bill, WC ‘ From™the beginning,of time, that has been the biggest of all pork barrels; It is now wrapped up in a beaut:ful package called “the civil functions’of the Army,” but, as Mr. Douglas sald, beneath that wrapping it is the same old baloney. 80 many costs of government on the domestic side are fixed by law that this is one of the very few places in which sizeable economies are possible. The irony is, of course, that while the local Chamber of Commerce in one voice demands economy in govern. , ment, in another voice it tells the local Congressman that he must

4" get that appropriation for the local river front or else.

Army Engineers Cut Seen : : ANOTHER place where sizeable and proper economies are possible is in the far-flung projects of the Army Engineers and the Reclamation Service. The Hoover Commission has shown the appalling waste and duplication in the rival—and, now and then, the joint—efforts of these two agencies. The Reclamation Service is working on the upper reaches of the Missouri River, building ; on the lower ‘reaches the Army Engineers are deepening the river for purposes of navigation. v "a Mark Twain wrote a novel called “The Gilded Age” The optimistic hero, Col. Mulberry Sellers, believed that if he could get the government to dredge out a certain creek, his fortune would be miade. There are still a lot of peaple around here trying to get those creeks drodged. : : The Democrats have worked hard, and for the most part

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successfully, to beat back the Republican across-the-board 5 per cent cut in all appropriations. Since Democratic leaders know, even if President Truman doesn't, that drastic economies must be made somewhere, the strong likelihood is thdt they will come

. in the appropriations for European aid and the military.

The President has said that the present authorization for ECA can be cut §150,000,000. While they are not talking about it publicly at this time, the leaders of his party at the capitol are convinced that the drop in commodity prices makes a much deeper cut not only possible but desirable. Similarly, they see an opportunity to carve at least a billion dollars out of the appropriation. The temptation is always to use a meat-axe on appropriation

bills, It is difficult or impossible for even the most conscientious ;

members of Congress ever to know enough about the complicated

and voluminious details of a government budget as thick as two |

telefhone books. But a uniform slash across the board can do Eg harm. There are ways to prune the luxufiant tree of government, if Congress will only take a little time to consider them. A é " : \ "

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GUATEMALA . . . By Peter Edson

Anti-U. S. Sentiment

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, May 24—Here on a quick trip inaugurating TACA Airlines’ new daily plane service from New Orleans, the United States visitor meets several surprises. It is impossible to spend only 48 hours in any country and pretend to know the answers. But giving this place the John Gunther “here he comes, there he goes” treatment, a few facts are obvious. SE While the red carpets, bottles and feed bags of hospitality were all dragged out for the plane load of officials and newspapermen, giving them the usual No. 1 treatment of welcome, it did not take long to learn that there is considerable anti-Ameri-ican sentiment. It is centered largely in radical political refugees from Spain and Central American revolutions, in the universities, in labor union leadership and in a left wing political element from which the present government of President Juan Jose Arevalo gets its support. The now familiar Communist cries of “Yankee imperialism™ are raised against American business. In the recent May Day parade in Guatemala City, banners proclaimed slogans such as “Down With the Marshall Plan"; Down With the Clayton Plan"; and “The North Atlantic Pact Means Enslavement of LatinAmerica.” Some of the signs were so vile they cannot be described. All were anti-United States.

Dependent on U. S. Trade

THIS is most amazing and something of a shock. If United States business should be driven out of Guatemala, the place would go broke. overnight. Ninety per cent of Guatemala's trade is with the U tates. The well-paved, streets of this capital city are filled with American cars. Stores are filled with American radios, refrigerators, hardware, clothing, notions, shoes, drugs, and other merchandise. . Guatemala’s biggest industries are United States developed — United Fruit, the railroad, the power and light company, the airlines. TACA, though an El Salvador corporation, is operated by Waterman Steamship interests of Mobile, Ala.

Political Opposition

WHY, then, all this anti-United States feeling? Even an overnight guest can discover the answer, if he asks for it. The opposition is political. And it has undoubted Communist roots, even though the Communist Party was “outlawed” in Guatemala in 1045, * But here is a beautiful example for all the rest of the Western Hemisphere on what happens when communism is driven to disguise. Unless this thing 1s checked in Guatemala, it may

* Three-fourths of Guatemala's internal troubles may be traced to this social revolution. p \ The other fourth of Guatemala's trouble is strictly imported, and that’s where the root of anti-Americanism lies. 4 Foreign minister in the Arevalo government is Enrique Munoz Meany, former Guatemalan minister to Paris. There he apparently became closely associated with Spanish Republican exiles. Since his return he has facilitated admission to, Guatemala of some to 200 of these refugees. Some may be good Republicans. re are outright Communists who now hold important posts in th’ Guatemalan government. lieved to be the trouble-makers,

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