Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1949 — Page 10

PAGE 10 Monday, Aug. 22, 100 FEARS

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Indiana's Speeding Busses : J ONE week 18 persons have died in bus smash-ups on Indiana highways. ; : ; Every week tens of thousands of Hoosiers climb into licensed motor busses on scheduled runs. : Every day hundreds of Hoosier motorists are awed by the speed at which these huge, heavy unwieldy vehicles roar + past them down the roads. : : What regulations protect the safety of these gers . , . and these motorists? Inquiry shows virtually none. And the few there are are widely ignored. - » » r * # TAKE speed, glone. State law limits the speed of any bus, any time, to 50 miles an hour on the open road, to slower rates in cities

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Do bus drivers obey it? 2 Victor Peterson, Times writer, in actual road tests found four out of six did not. : Where speed limits were 50 miles an hour he clocked them running up to 65. Where city or village streets require a limit of 30 he found busses doing 45...50... even 60 miles an hour. . Not just in isolated instances . . . not just hurrying to make up a bit of lost time . . . but steadily, mile after mile, ~ day after day, over twisting, often narrow highways past cross-roads and farm lanes and over hilltops, and around blind curves. : # A glance at their published schedules shows why. They have to drive at speeds like that to meet those A T0-mile run scheduled for two hours would seem "like a 35-mile-an-hour average. It isn't. When you deduct maybe a half-a-dozen scheduled five-minute stops the running time is down to an hour and a half, the average running speed up to 50 miles an hour. When you take out a = “or fifteen unavoidable

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traffic stops at a minute each, ; your road running average jumps to 60 miles an hour. With maybe as much as 10 miles of it through congested city

Skillful drivers? Of course they are. If they were not the death toll would be higher than it is . . . with the lives of 30 or 40 passengers in the bus and every motorist on the road at the mercy of a moment's lapse in judgment, a bit of broken pavement, a tiny mechanical defect. ~ "7 77 At 65 miles au hour. . og ; . 8» : . § 8 IN OUR opinion bus speed should be reduced at least to the right now. True, it will mean revision of existing # __Safety of thousands who ride the

_bithses, and other who meet them on the roads

vision of bus operation from a safety standpoint other than what the bus companies do themselves. - Granted it is ‘in their interests to keep their vehicles safe, their drivers “fit. Most But railroads, air-

x pt under continuous and -— public authority. : We see no reason why bus lines should be an exception.

Significant and Welcome

RESIDENT TRUMAN . was asked at his week-énd press conference whether he would approve of tax reductions next year, as proposed by Chairman George (D. Ga.) of the Senate Finance Committee. }

“get more revenue-for- the government, have money to meet a budget of which 80 percent is fixed charges. Until the business downturn a few months ago Mr. Truman was calling for higher rather than lower taxes. More recently he has ruled out any tax cuts this year. His open-minded attitude toward what might be done next year ; “Sen. George's idea, of course, is not to deprive the gov"ernment of needed revenue. He does contend that the gov—erament wouldn't heed so much revenue if its spending at "home and abroad—including some.items which Mr. Truman . seems to consider fixed charges—were “stripped of waste.”

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Permits Stalin to Strangle Her Economy

- VIENNA, Aug. 22—The proposed Austrian treaty is Soviet blackmail. It will rob Austria of two basic industries, give Stalin a stranglehold on her economy, mortgage her bankrupt treasury at the expense of the American taxpayer, and invite worse Soviet reprisals if weakened Austria falters under the heavy load. This is not the doing of the Western Allies, though they are going along with it. The Vien“na coalition government insists on it. At the recent Paris conference, Secretary of State Acheson and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Schuman agreed to Stalin's terms under pressure of Austrian Foreign Minister Gruber. And efforts of the Allies to prevent harsher terms in the current drafting conference of deputy ministers in London are obstructed by Vienna. Not that the Austrians like the treaty. But they are so anxious to end Soviet military occupation of Eastern Austria, they are willing to pay almost any price for the form of freedom even though it lacks reality. net . Pride enters also. Vienna officials are cocky enough to think they are cleverer than Stalin, especially In business deals. They are willing to take their chances on outsmarting their blackalles, even though they agree to be handcuffed y . »

lllegal Legal Base *~ AMERICAN carelessness is partly to blame for what may be called the illegal basis for this ~eoonomic-siavery-to—Stalin— At the Potsdam Conference Stalin demanded $250 million in Austrian reparations. But when the Allies reminded him that under the earlier Moscow Pact Austria was to be treated as a liberated instead of enemy country, he had to drop his reparations demand. : At the close of the Potsdam Conference, however, he caught the Allies napping and slipped in through the back door what had been barred at the front. In the list of “German assets” subject to reparations in satellite countries, he inserted Eastern Austria. : Since then Stalin has claimed everything he wanted in Eastern Austria, the industrial center of the country, as German property and therefore Russian, Actually Hitler had taken over about three-quarters of Austrian trade and industry. Bo the legal claim of the Russian dic tator rests on thes illegal claim of the German dictator who seized East Austrian property before him, » ’ While this argument over property rights has been going on in Big Four conferences for four years, Stalin has occupied the plants. First he looted and carted off to Russia all the machinery he thought he could use there. Other plants he operated, and shipped the products to Russia or its satellites. :

SINCE THE Paris agreement in June, under which Austria is to pay Stalin $150 million for those plants, he has resumed his looting. In some places not even the empty buildings are left. To prevent continued Boviet theft of ma- ' chinery and rolling stock, Secretary Acheson in the Paris agreement specified that Russia must

as the buildings. In the current London Confer ence the Russians argue that the agreement covered only immovable equipment. The fight is particularly hot over 500 locomotives owned by Austria when Hitler moved in. as Besides oh Nieation of how many of the 280 les are to. be. turned back to Austria, and ee 10 be gutted of machinery, there is also the matter of where the money is coming

pact Austria is to pay $150 million over a sixyear period. But of course Austria hasn't even that many schillings, much less dollars. Is Uncle 8am going to pay? So it seems. American officials are angry over broad pub-

will pay indirectly, regardless . of official protests. Marshall aid by 1952 will total about $1.3 billion. Not one dollar is intended for Stalin——but if Austria is able to pay him, it will be because America is footing other bills.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“Liverpool, N. Y.—S8teals 300 Right Shoes.”)

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the housing situation in Indianfar from satisfactory. bt Survey stffice

‘is completely out our pe wy And n6 one seems to want tenants

their plans and pro. ington. For example, Louisville * federal assistance — submitting ‘specifi and projects—within a matter of days after the new housing law was passed. *~ hie funds set aside by the federal govern. ment for local assistance are limited, and even with the best will in the world, the government will have to. pass up Indianapolis unless __our city gets busy on this problem now. In the meanwhile, Indianapolis taxpayers will help pay for housing throughout the country, without getting any benefits on the local level, where

PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . By John Loveland

THERE'S ALWAYS something interesting to see along Highway 31, either north or south, and today’s jaunt up state was no exception. It didn’t take long to realize that the tomato crop is being harvested from the tent villages and family units of Mexicans and other migrant labor who bring their truckloads of humanity

John E. Loveland, traveling salesman, has also turned Hoosler columnist. His stories from around the state will appear Monday, Wednesday and Friday in The Times.

work to be done, I've never quite gotten used to coming upon an old building that last week might have been a haunted house, only today to find it busting out at the seams with spirited black-haired, copper-colored youngsters. Passing from Howard to Miami counties, while there were still a lot of tomatoes, a new crop began to appear. Of course that is no more nor less than chin-spinach. The barbers and razor blade sales up that-a-way must be taking a beating for sure. The minions of the law, even, were sporting the deepening shadows of forty five-o’clocks. On the court house plaza are two slab-wood cabins boldly announcing that right the great Peru Centennial. “Almost smacks _ slightly of commercialism.

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it weren't a stone boat.

Proper Adomment Disputed STOPPING IN at the Lumber Company I walked smack dab into three of the four schools "of thought as to the proper appafel for faces

| TACe 10 WITH baseball season on, this is the time of year when beer should not be put in pitchers. ¢ oo a ey STOCK thieves in Marion, Ohio, got away with 34 hogs. If they're squealed on, it's their

own fault. : +

eo THE clinging type of gal still is with us on the back of a motorcycle. . * * *

bushy moustache reaching right back. 5

TWO-THIRDS of the human body is water, | according to medical reports. Some smart guy |!

will have it incorporated some day and sell | i | pearance standpoint. ‘his own helps & young man to | Fun will of his rich |

puccess—almost as well as a

He still has nothing left!

new business that To those who say that private enterpris

But the whole point of the Senator's proposal is that a sensible, scientific reduction of tax rates and revision of tax methods would stimulate private investment of risk capital, help business and industry to create more jobs and

ing, and enable the government to collect the revenue it must have without breaking theitaxpayers' backs. ¥ = » . ¥ . MANY OTHER authorities share Sen. George's opinion that present tax rates and methods are having just the reit “versé® effect and drying up sources of government revenue. : For instance, President Emil Schram of the New York Stock Exchangé, who called on Mr. Truman this week, urged a program of tax redtiction and revision to encourage the flow of risk capital into establishment or expansion of jobcreating enterprises. ; es And; most significantly, an appeal to Congress along ‘those same lines was made the other day by Thomas B, Mc1Cabe, Mr. Truman's appointee as chairman of the Federal Mr. Truman, being from Missouri, naturally wants to be - shown that such programs as ate advocated by Messrs. George, Schram and McCabe would produce the promised

both parties in Congress to join with the administration in exploring this subject, starting now.

Fc good—and Sen. George says it certainly shouldn't be de-

more new national wealth, keep the national income grow- |

results. It would bé a fine thing for.him to ask leaders of

If action is to come soon enough to do the most possible:

layed beyond the opening months of 1050-—there’s no time. | tola pe

Today Mr. Trippe stahds at what may well be a major turning point in his career. In the midst of a long bureaucratic contest. over whether he shall be allowed to buy oyt the rival American Overseas Airlines, he has been charged with seeking

to drive dut all oppasition.

Charge Financial Manipulation

instrument.”

Alrlines, that will be merely the first step towa according to the brief, sol

Believe Competition Essential

Atlantic route would be Trans-World Airlines. of TWA, the brief suggests, “could be brought

Opposition to a merger that might result in a line operating abroad is based not merely on the

could dictate its own terms.

effect a saving of $0 miilion a year. of tha unhappy

OVERSEAS TRAVEL . . . By Marquis Childs

eo Jo i Airlines, Monopoly ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--With the tourist season at .ts height -every-hour-of the day and night-the big planes are taking off for Europe, most of them filled to capacity, This is a brand- . was scarcely beyond the experimental stage 10 -

thriving industry is a refutation. If any one individual can | singled out as the pioneer of America's far-flung system of pe | | seas airlines it is Juan Trippe, head of Pan American World Alrways. For 25 years ‘Mr, Trippe's driving genius has sent | | { American flag airlines to the far corners of the earth. |

MR. TRIPPE, who has promoted powerful political friends tn Washington, has long championed the “cliosen instrument” theory of foreign air operation with the argument that only a single co-ordinated American line can meet the competition of foreignowned companies. If the Republicans had won th November, Pan

American's good friend, Sen. Owen Brewste alne, was prepared to push through Congress his bill uthoriny Tag chosen

What he could not do by direct political action, Mr. Trippe is now trying to do by financial manipulation, according to the charge in the brief filed by Public Counsel James L. Hfghsaw Jr. and William F, Kennedy of the Civil Aeronautics Board. If the CAB approves Pan AM's application to buy American Overseas

AFTER THE nferger the only competitor left on the North

competitive pressure applied by Pan American or by TWA's own | financial difficulties or by a combination of both factors.

competition so that rates and service will be responsible to the | demands of the traveling public. A monopoly airline, according to the brief, would have powers greater than that of the govern- - ment of the United States. In both foreign policy and defense it

Mr. Trippe in his testimony .argued that merger of the two 7 aspects of the contest is the way “in

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Which, under the regulatory system, it is drawn out. The final decision is months away. ; ' In my opinion the case for a “natural” monopoly or an “inevitable” monopoly—even a “benevolent” monopoly—is always doubtful. Compefition has been a powerful spur behind the de- . velopment of airways that span the globe. .

, . Even In the face of the kind of costly technology by fhe Boeing Stratocruiser, which- only a f “ge, the argument for competition remains

single American need to keeprup

companies can J powerful one.

Miami County Raises New ‘Crop’

for the occasion. Joe Rody first appeared, sporting merely a mouth-wide shapeless moustache, Shall we call this type THE COMPROMISE. Then came Clay Loveland who is lining up shoulder. to shoulder with “Uncle” Omer Holman by refusing to grow

didn’t sport whiskers so why should he? Clay's grandfather, Ebenezer P., whose picture was hanging in the court house last time I saw it, was also clean-shaven, but he certainly needed a haircut. - Let us, children, call these outcasts, these one-in-seven who shave every day, THE

Olaf Hemdal next walked from the yard, and if you are a salesman and plan to call on Olaf for anything, take my advice. A week before your visit, get a sponge rubber ball in your right hand and keep squeezing it for all you're worth, Maybe by the time you make the move to shake hands with him you'll have built up enough strength to withstand the wringer roll application of his grip. Better yet, stand at a |

times suspect that before Olaf left Norway some

20 yeirs ago’ that hie rowed a boat ‘Auily, ‘snd from the power in that grip, I sometimes wonder

Modern Keystone Kop . * BUT TO GET back to Olat's facial adorn= | ment.. Do you, recall, my friend, the old Key- - stone Kops? Especially the one whose sideburns

been chopped off in a straight line at mouth level; then finding downward progress stopped, they began to reach inward, and lo and behold

right there under the man’s nose was a sandy, with slightly waxed ends

Yes sir, if you'd see Olaf in a police uniform today, you'd start looking around for the Mack Sennett bathing girls. . Perhaps we'd better call his style THE KEYSTONE KOP. Many of the residents of Peru are working hard to get the old town in shape from an apInnumerable houses and _are being given fresh coats of paint. |

they are badly needed. : We are not at this time advocating any specific plans or projects to be undertaken locally. That will be a matter for determination by a responsible agency of city government, namely, a city public housing authority. We do feel, however, that if our city government is responsive to the wishes and needs of our citizens, it owes it to the people of Indianapolis to set up such a housing authority, which > has the means and the authority to survey local needs, and which can proceed forthwith to assure that those local needs are met. We therefore urge you strongly to pass a city ordinance —gstablishing this to which a truly representative group of -civic-minded citizens “should be appointed, thus taking the Immediate steps which can and must be taken to break the back of our local housing shortage.

¢ + 0 ‘As Simple as That’

By H. E. M,, City + After four years, Britain's Utopia is on the rocks, according to Mr. Leech’s pronunciamento, but if you mention one or two shortcomings in | this country, it is a young country which will work out its difficulties sooner or later. Of course, we never mention that Britain was on the rocks in 1945, when the present government took over, as a result of two world wars and the plundering inefficiency of the “uppah clawsses” for generations past. 5 “When we begin to-look facts:in deal

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th them on that basis instead of embalming our intellects and consciences in sooth- ‘| . formula” It's as simple as that.

What Others Say

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SOME critics of the Brannan Plan oppose it because it serves both the farmer and the con- | _sumer. In my judgment this is one of its greatest assets. A program that benefits only one group is not workable nor is it desirable.—Ohio Grange: Master Joseph W. Fichter. : & * THESE recommendations of drastic reforms - are opposed by many bureaucratic empire builders. It is only, the citizens who can step such _obstructionism. — Former President Herbert

TAX RELIEF . . . By Eat] Richert

McCabe Plea Shunned

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--Federal Reserve Board Chair. man Thomas B. McCabe's plea for tax relief for business has been ; with a great “It's had sbout as much effect as tossing a pebble into the deean during a- storm” said-one Democratic leader. “We're anxious to get through the matters at hand and go home.”

great—stir. . in the business world, with some terming them the “first”

pro-business tax revision suggestions to come from a high government offictal in 16 years. . ‘ Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.), chairman of the banking subcommittee which asked for Mr. M¢Cabe's views, said he hadn't had a chance to read the proposals—although they've been .on his desk nearly two weeks now. Sen. Robertson has been investigating labor monopolies.

Toe Busy With Social Security } _ CHAIRMAN Robert L. Doughton -(D. N. C.) of the House Ways and Means Commjttee—which must originate tax legis.

lation-2said he hadn't evén-seen the McCabe program. He's been

busy with the new sctial security program. Rep. Walter Huber (D. O.), a member of the joint come mittee on the economic report, had heard about the McCabe proposals on the radio. Sen. John W. Bricker (R. 0.), a member of thé banking committee, said® he had been out of town and would study the program at the first opportunity. The suggestions made by the Federal Reserve ‘Board chair. man on Aug. 5 as a “personal statement” cover many of the tax goals of the business world--lower personal income tax rates, elimination of double taxation on dividends and permitting faster depreciation of plant and equipment fon tax purposes, etc. Mr. McCabe proposed these changes as a'means to stimulate biisiness by encouraging people to invest, particularly in. come mon stocks. wie

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. wiv, 2 Pittsburgh Point to Need for Revenue BE eam, AMONG THE few legislators who had studied the McCabe * * GAD program, the common reaction was: How can we get the revenue AMERIC to offset what would be lost by such reductions? (All Chairman Burnet R. Maybank (D..8. C.) of the Senate Fold at Xa Banking Committee sald he thought the paramount domestic 3 {olumbya-at 8 problem today was the fact that the government is spending . more than it is collecting in taxes. ? No samen oh “I think we ought to raise taxes to balance the budget,” said Sen. Maybank. He favors re sing excess profits taxes but Brooklyn. at) doesn’t think Congress would vote them. Hs : ony Rap. Doughton" sees thingy the same Way. TT RESUL’ “It looks now as if the No. 1 problem is trying to “find AMERIC additional revenues,” he said. “We can’t continue deficit finance a « 6 Sr. McCabe. Republican : pole RR \ a , bu ted. to stanceu the Federal Reserve chairmanship by Mr. Truman when faa end ery Chairman Marriner 8. es was demoted \ * bf bus... el » 3 } y - a