Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1949 — Page 10

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f Gy Personnel Efciency rr CREATION ‘of a Department of Personnel to select train City Hall eniployees, as proposed by Mayor Ferny . in his budget for 1950, could save taxpayers many. times the cost of such a bureau if it is operated effectively. ~~ City Hall here has needed a Personnel Department for many. years to increase the efficiency of public services by ‘elimination of the political “plums and the waste caused by

ers who are not qualified for their jobs. - However, some attempts to establish expert persontiel direction in-loval government in the past turned out to be | “flops” ue to he meddling pressures of machine politics. |

. POLITICAL Party leaders; of Soiiine, ie that their | organizations cannot survive without jobs to offer their cam- | paign workers. But a study of many other cities which have "strict City. Hall merit systems for employees is convincing | proof that Indianapolis, too, can have better public service personnel without disrupting political organizations, i We would favor setting up the proposed Personnel De- . partment if there is any assurance that it can be conducted ~~ on the basis of efficiency in the public services. rather than | for the benefit of political organizations. It could save the taxpayers a lot of money in the long run.

* Handicapped on Smoke Control Job + RE. of the high qualifications of the newly appointed Air Pollution Prévention superintendent, he faces an almost hopeless task in attempting to bring. about _ any real control of smoke in Indianapolis under the present city ordinance. After searching for four months for an engineer to take the job, Mayor Feeney finally appointed John G. Mingle, : ~& combuation engineer interested in smoke control for many

His job, which-pays $7000 a year, will be seriously “y the weakened smoke control &re a Gy Coun several month 440, It has made smoke control ineffective by its failure to provide for. fuel | restrictions.” Passage of the ordinance without effective enforetmunt “teéth in it resulted in resignation of Robert Wolf as air pollution superintendent last spring. : We hope Engineer Mingle can make some headway in . the city's long fight against smoke and other elements of air pollution but we doubt that he will be able to accomplish

much der existing Taw. a Just Too Much Pay Roll

GREEK civil servants plan a walkout, which would para: lyze the government, if their demands for a 65 per cent wage boost aren't granted. They have rejected a government offer of a 30 per cent Increase contendifig thie gost of lving-is-up 100 percent. "Phe government says it cannot make a better offer because ¥ 63 par cant of it total Tevenus row.1s absorbed by pay roll

: when more a and more Zone. are uction public pay ro I. Greece has been doing ro for years, “until the government is bur"dened with a top-heavy under-paid bureaucracy it is afraid to break up but which it can no longer support. : But let's not look down our noses at the Greeks. We are moving up the same dead-end street ourselves. The *_only difference is that we have had more fat to “work on before the bad news eatches up with us.

Sees All, Knows All HAS been disclosed’ in Washington that the adminif., : tration is “preparing to lay before Congress secret in- : = “telligente” reports which indicate-that Russia is arming for war.” Wonderful things, these secret. ‘intelligence yoporth. Previously, no doubt, our government believed the Russians were arming for a Fourth of July celebration. - ‘Nothing escapes the eagle eyes of these secret agents. But we must not permit patriotism to blind us to compar: * able alien skills. Russian intelligence also is at “work. We strive against the pessimistic view but might as | well face it. The Soviets probably have information by this -time-that- we-ape-not making those atomic bombs to blow : “mp otit-of corn fields.

Their Night to Howl

EGEND-SPOILERS have estiblished to their own satis- | ‘faction that the American mountain lion, or panther, will not attack man, unless cornered or wounded. Now a “writer in the American Legion magazine has date the same | job on the wolf. |

ia This debuttking business is playing hob with some’ of > our best native fiction. But the man doing the wolf ex- | perting for the American Legion magazine wasn't content to deal only with American and Canadian wolves, He submits evidence that even the Russian wolf won't bite. That fnvites reprisals. Even under the czars thé Russian wolf was the fiercest of all wolves, and under the commissirs the Russian wolf | is fiercer than he wai before the doctrine of Lenin’ pre. | vailed. So just wait until Pravda and the Moscow radio "hear about this capitalistic attack upon -one of their na. ~ tional | Institutions % vs .

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Progress in the Welfare State

N ENGLISH woman demands a free monogle under Ler | government's health program. British bureaucrats ponder whether the law permits substitution of a single-eye | glass for the regular two-efe” specs, on which, incidentally the government i some three ‘million pairs behind in its | orders. “The situation is a little eagier- in the balds head dopart.. | A Only 3400 Englishmen pre now on the f Walling list |

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the Republican National ‘Committee meets here |

- spending much more than they took .in; and

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Seek to. End

S “Party Loaders Expecting Fight Over Chairmanshi “WA ~8==0One day" “before to nme a new chairman, GOP leaders are try- | : Teg to avert a second “battle of Omaha'—a bitter fight leaving the party even more torn than before. Yor.days talk has centered on Guy George Gabrielson, national committeemen from New | Jerséy, who is unknown nationally as Rep. Hugh Scott was when he became LITER last ‘summer: But the knives have come out for him. Chief opposition to Mr. Gabrielson seems to be blowing out of the West. Bome commit. teemen from out there have set up shop at the

Shoreham Hotel here, where the meeting Is to |

‘be held Thursday, and are claiming! a Western

chairman was promised when Mr. Boots re- | - signed a couple weeks agd.. - eg aR

Want Strong Leader : BUT. THEY haven't come up with a AIOE candidate and there is scuttiebutt that if no ona |: can be found they'll vote to keep Mr, Scott in’ _office rather than to see the chairmanship go to Mr. Gabdrielson. “Mr. Gabrielson has seemed to be out in front because he's been thaking a campaign for -chalrmanship and nobody else has. Some of

his supporters have claimed he has up to - 1

votes nalled down. Presumably it will take about 51 to elect, depending upon committee attendance. Those opposing the New Jersey man say his strength is being over-estimated. Mr. Gabrielson’s chief backing is to ' be coming from twp old guard leaders, Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, both former na--tional chairmen. Turn the party over to that crowd, *he opposition side is saying, and the GOP will be right back where it was during all the years of New Deal eclipse. :

No Indorsement at Home cle

MR GABRIELSON has failed to-get- the~indorsement of his own New Jersey state delegation in the House, and although they have no to do. with the national this is being cited to show he doesn't have the support of his own people. The whole row is important at this point becaue it's about time the GOP National Com--mittee organization - was getting its decks cleared for next year's congressional elections. There's need, Loo, for someon# to get-out and raise money for the Republicans. They've been

some. big party contributors have anhounéed that until the organization gets straightened away to do a job, they don't see much point in shelling out money.

“SOPHISTICATED RUSTY"

We meet a lot of humans" 7 Unfriendly and unkind, bi They often makes us wonder : What goes on in each They get up every ..To work out a ca Of all the sharpest And how to a” ¢ Instead of

Ins spre fing sunshine They do § the reverse; ; Instead ‘of: pmiling. brightly - ~~

Their Hps are set and terse, Too no one has told them - ¢y missed life by a mile

For it's harder to keep frowning

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Than smiling all the while! — Rusty B Khare of of: Waterloo. - SW IT TRUE

Is it true that some of us find In this business of living today. That somehow life was more worthwhile ‘In the days of our yesterday? Also true that some of us find And by ... living , . . are able to know That today Is a' day Just as priceless As that day of our long -lopg-ago? =~Anna E. Noung, ne Rs DeQuincy St.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

("ATLANTIC CITY—Scientists Say Skin Blemishea -Can-Be Sandpapered A re : wo. Are you troubled with a pimple? aS EETRATE SAYS HEH 0 Pog They can change it to a dimple, . Though the going might be rough:-

But although no lavely cutie Ever winked at us and grinned, For this modern Aid to beauty We're a trifle too thin-s*inned’ * \

CREDIBLE FRIEND

Who heips smooth out the tangled ends Of threads of Life that oftime wind * ’ Into various masses ‘of knots in kind:

“Uf we help -unfangle one single SURE It might ease the knot and jSraduatty bring That. silken skein straight to the end, If we happen fo be.. that kind of friend --Annas E. Young. 341 N. DeQuingy St.

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BLUEPRINT FOR DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 — Uncle 8am has phantom orders” for $72 million worth ing tools—and he hopes it's never filled. phantom order has no substance in peacene. It's a. guarantee to manufacturers that

/ they can start making-—and that the govern-

ment will pay for—spepified quantities of essenAny future M-day. Details are-wor out in advance. The price is set, delivery dates are fixed, and the amount of floor space and the number of skilled workmen involved are agreed upon. If any emer gency comes, the contract becomes valid on receipt of a code telephone call or telegram from the Reconstruction Finasce Corp. If there is po emergency, the order simply collects dust in somebody's safe. In this case, cutting tools orders went out to 96 manufacturers all over the United States. The orders were worked out by the National Security Resources Board's industry advisory committee. The Commerce Department supplied figures on" industry's capacity to produce.

Contracts Written

THE Defense Department told {he board how many tools it would need if an emergency were declared. The committes worked the two

columns inte balance, and the .board’s counsel, -Charles Kendall, wrote the sontracts,

Barbs © + THE modern office boy dosen't take the day off to go to his grandmother's funeral. Grand-a-§944.10.tha, bal) sasha. with. him, 2

: WHEN dining i iter trip, ‘Temember that it always is followed by a-fall, < AN. expensive Anane an Indiana man . ‘bought front & “Triend” turned out to be paste. DE ‘A YOUNG ey 8 “most anxious SHEL, says a writer, is when she bakes her first cake. And | her husband's, when he eats a slice, ] - * SF ’ : WE now have the days when the leatherhinged citizen can get a new deal by simply

+ A DIETITIAN says no matter how you cook spinach kids are apt to refuse if, Just an old “spinach custom!

i LE X THE only time some drivers worry about

“fosing control of a rar-is-when-they-are B-0upie-

of installments behind. ®

“A REALLY lazy man is one who buys a front seat at a fan dance just to get the breeze,

since V J-Day. Earlier, 100,000- machine tools | . for-the-green-light basis.

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i Uncle Sam’s ‘Phantom Orders’

“vising them to keep them current.

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The Reconstruction Finance Corp. mailed them out. If the machines are ever made, ‘the government will take title to them and RFC will sigr. tLe checks. The tools later will be resold by Uncle 8am to munitions makers who need them most in the industrial mobilization scheme. This is the second batch of phantom orders |

worth $750 million had been ordered on a waitThose orders went The board is now re.” As In the case of cutting tools, each manufacturer of machine tools knows his job the moment an emergency is declarad. Similar orders for fractional horsepower motors and ball bearings—serious bottlenecks in World War II—are being prepared. Eventually, the board hopes to Ty Pal essential industries mobilized on a stand-by basis.

Originated Idea

THE phantom order ides originated with George 'E. Felton, former director of Produc. tion Planning. It was carried through by the late E. V. Hickey of Boston, his successor. Mr. Hickey's death last week after a brief illness is attributed in some degree to overwork. His place has been taken temporarily by Frank Shields, who had been assistant director for

to. 300 manufacturers.

Officials of the Security Resources Board say it is increasingly active despite the fact that it has no permanent chairman. Congress rejected the nominaticn of Mon C. Wallgren, President Truman's selection for the $14,000-a-year job. Dr. John R. Steelman, = chairman; -admittedly ‘cannot give the job ill his time. However, Dr. Steelman also is President Truman's first assistant. ___His close xorking re relationship “with the White House enables Bim to get things done’ 3 ‘say. He" sg able“ to meet frequently &nd informally with other board members, who also are Cabinet members. The former chairman, Arthur M. Hill, was criticized for failure to’ consult the rest of the board. @

‘Feasibility Tests’

IN-ADDITION to placing phantom orders, the board has run a number of “feasibility |. tests” on the security program. It recently completed-a special study of the - impéact of. foreign military-aid programs on the domestic economy. It has assumed full responsibility Tor civil defense. Arrangeménts- are being made for an exchange of ideas between President Truman and the 48 governors. —A-full-scale Washington meeting is in prospect.

to farmers, nor would there be any ag the " vé any subsidy at all any mors than I 4? ‘The farmer chose way of life the same as 1 did, and : i husband did. My husband “i wy

| recstves ‘no. subsidy, nor. hewant one... be it a government dole, the “Brannan plan’ whatever you choose to call it. Whatever it "called, payments | to the farmers take a big chunk of our tax And by the time the ‘administration ex for the Department of Agriculture and all the other government agents volved axe added it amounts to more than “the taxpayers can afford. Result: A staggering national debt. If the non-farm and non-labor union group organized, we could give the country back people, and there would be an wqual

bP r all. Our taxes could be cut immeasurably; e could take pride in the fact, that he take care of himself; the old-

of thrift, security through self-respect would prevail,

to rr S— e the laws for A and all politicians by the people woul t all the

This is a Jot of bunk-—farm and food ‘prices are so high and

--Jabor charges on manufactured articles are so

high that we of the non-farm and non-labor union group are not buying. The following little article was in .a paper at the same time: “While Congressmen yak-yak= yak about farmers doing badly and going broke,

along comes & sales manager for an automobile

firm, reporting a continued heavy volume of car buying in all rural areds, and in all price brackets.” Yet, the farmers are still clamoring :for-more government money. I don't get it. * 4b 4

‘A Case for Southerners’

By Gladys Ruddick Ebaugh, 5801 E. 21st St. So the Honorable Andrew Jacobs has joined the anvil chorus against Southerners. If Hizzoner's forebearers came over here 200 years sgo he is blood cousin to these folks: if he is of more recent immigration he and all his snobbish kind would do well to acquaint themselves with the facis regarding who cleared -the way ~for them, who wrote the incomparable laws giving tham surcease from the old country's horrors, and who fought the wars for the frees dom which they enjoy. - - What the down yonder people need to do is organize. Then they will be in a position to appreciate themselves. They will learn, among other things, that one of the best educators ever to sit in the White House was proud to be their kinsman. I refer to the late Mr. Woodrow Wilson. While the bureaucrats are snooping around here they might find out whether or not intermartiage between down yonder stock and some of the local city sHckers from way back has improved or lowered the breed; that is, whether or not the offspring of these marriages have produced higher ar lates c2ye: 1han-the-losal =... «parents show. . ....

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What Others Fe

THE (North Atlangie) Pact is a vital link In the chain of events which taken together is bound to wreck the economie structure and the wage-living standard of this nation. It will reduce it to one of the 58 states in a federation of the world.—Sen. George W. Malone (R.) of Nevada.

* * 9» OUR philosophy is that anything that conceals, attracts. Cover something up and it be“comes obscens. We feel about a bathing suit" like the Californians do about their fog: it should dissolve.—Aloié Knapp. “King of the Nudists.” head of the Central Sunbathing elation in, Chicago.

PRICE SUPPORT oi By Earl Richert

$72 Million 1

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-80 far this year t Department has plunked down an average of apiece for every person inthe U8 to hold "» the wm million in all,

“That's wemrty- twice ax AY, as Ale depantmnd: “apent- ait i

~dast year to take eEgH off the market to hold up

T by farmers

* And the Department still has $20 million

year's dried .eggs on hand which it is na® trying to get i i !

by offering at 50 percent of cost for foreign export

Eggs. for the time being at least, have superseded potatoes |

as the No. 1 perishable commodity problem. Drought,

potato price support.

Potato Buying Down

AT THE end of last week, the government had boug ht only ] 3.7, million bushels of potatoes as. compared with purc ases of 11 million bushels af the same time last year. Cost to the government of the potato price support program so far this year has been only $5 million as compared with a net coat of $20

million the same time last vear

Put the potato people in the Agriculture Department aren't |

doing any chortling yet

They understand that many. Northern potato Frowees,’ pars as requested. but then | planteds the potato plants and rows much closer together and | heapea on much more fertilizer. It still {8 possible ‘hat the De- i

ticularly in Maine, planted fewer acres.

partment will have to buy a flood of potatoes,

| But the egg surplus is-lere now and the Department of

ficlals don't knew what to do about it.

Can't Be Sold

2 — THE EGGS are purchased in dried form, can’t be sold here | ‘and foreign countries don't seem to want them-—even at 50 per cent of cost. Tests have shown they will keep at least 18 to 24 { mofiths but they don't get better with age. Most Department officials: think the only ‘solution is Agri- | culture - Secretary Charles Brannan's plan to let eggs fall to ¥ ‘thelr natural ‘price levels -with* the Department ‘paying pro- {

ducers the difference between prices received and But the House of Represeritatives hak To date this yehr million pounds’ of dried “eggs ‘(threes dozen pound of dried eggs), pounds.

And with 12: per “emnt more chickens on farms’ now fhan a | year ago, Agrinitry officials foresee. an #8, Price support Ha l

lower yields in the Southern states. and smaller | acreage have come to the ald of the taxpayers’ pocketbooks on

veep Tp

rejected this plan, | the, Department Ras bought almost 58 pl. PERS make a Total purchases last Year were », million -/

he Agticulture. | & half dollar price of eggs

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prices receiv ed

worth of last. |

"Mr. Jones, your daughter tolls me that you didn't have a dime ‘when. you.got married — is that right?! =. J

By Galbraith

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fomia. economy mood.

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support prices. continued—as the House so voted.

repeal,

ing program next year that “will make ‘this year's look like pea~nuts they presefit 90. per cent -of parity price support law Is

- The current law provides nd authority for controlling gE production, Agriculture; officials say. The Afken law, which ig to | ‘become effective mext Jan. 1 but which the Housk sas. voted to would permit the Secretary of Agriculture to fix “2K _price supports.at ‘Anywhere from zero 10. 90 per cent of parity, The Department at present if paying procesiors’ $126 a pound ? tor arieg eggs, with no idea what an ii done with theny |

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for all to see, but it's a viewpoint not in the party. Moreover, he is an SXtremsly forthright. man in a field where straightforwardness is not necessarily regarded as wise, .Ther¥'s more to It, of colirsé. In 1048 Mr. Warren made only “'a belated, half -hearted try for tle ‘nomination, “The presidency - seldom seeks the man, He has to want it enough to go after it. No one knows whether Gov, Warren does want the 1052 nomination: Past attitudes toward him in his party suggest that ‘even hard work might not get it for him. But & man of nis ad. mitted stature probably ought in give the public a real chance - to measure hith against the presidency. Only he can decide bow

PRESIDENTIAL RACE... ‘By Bruce Biossat

Warren Comeback?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Gov. Earl Warren of California beBan 1949 under heavy handicap. He had bden second man on the losing Republican team in the 1948 elections. ANd that normally means diminished prestige and influence, When the California legislature corivened last January, his on Jooited stronger: -On-the nationat scene; his names was

Gov. Warren nevertheless waded in with a state program he believed the voters wanted: That included ‘a record budget.

buck his emboldened political opponents plus a

host of hostile lobbyists, who are no puny adversaries in CaliHé had to talk big spending fo legislators who were in an

Won His Fight

ACCOUNTS from the Pacific Coast now declare that Mr. Warren has won his fight after Us longést legislative session in his state’s history, He pushed his he held his leadership firm}y at all stages. A two-term governor, he is now in a in 1950 if he wishes. For Californians are talking once more of Warren, the liberal GOP executive. The beaten vice presidential nominee is forgotten. But the governor's comeback: is bigger than this. He was the plandout among Republicans at the governors’ conference last month in Colorado Springs. Roscoe Drummond of the Christian Science Monitor checked many reporters who attended that meet. ing, and summarized their views thus: “Gov. Earl Warren of California was the most popular and on an all-around basis the most impressive Republican participant jn public-and private discussions.” Does this mean he will be regarded as a serious contender for ‘the GOP: presidential nomination in 19527 On performance Mr. Warren would seem to merit such ats tention. But there is no assurance he will get it. He was largely

program to enactment and strong spot to run again

No.1 post last year, although his record and hy already well established.

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