Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1949 — Page 10
woaider a dangerous: way of cutting government expenses. it... appears, is Defense Secretary Johnson's order to the Army, Navy and Air Force for dismissal of 135,000 civilian employees and 12,000 Reserve officers.
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Asia Since the War
OUR years have passed since Japan signed the surrender |
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terms in Tokyo Bay, and Gen, Douglas MacArthur, in |
observation of that event, remarks that they have been |
fruitful years for the people of Japan in terms of human progress, -
Women have been enfranchised. There are free trade unions. abolished, opening the way for development of a prosperous middle class in agriculture.
total for all of 1948, continuing the upward trend which began early in 1946. Although nine and a half million people have been added to the population by repatriation and birth, “fewer than 400,000 are unemployed. All in all, it is a story
of
Representative | government has been _established.:
The feudalistic system of land tenure has been
Exports the first six months ‘of ‘this year exceeded the
remarkable advances.
” ” . . . ” » IT 18 one of history's ironies that most of the areas |
liberated from imperial Japan are in a much less happy | ! situation.
until 1945, was to have become a puppet of the Soviet Union and is again-in chains. Most of China itself has fallen to communism, and the rest
of
armed camps as well as sanctuaries for refugees. Serious disorders disturb the Philippines. are in the throes of anarchy. Korea is on the verge of a civil war between the North and South. Only Japan, under MacArthur, has found peace.
aggression for failure to establish peace in the Pacific after the Japanese surrender.
‘Manchuria, a puppet state of the Japanese ‘Empire been returned to-China, but has
the country is a battlefield. This spreading war has made Formosa and Hong Kong.
Burma and Indo-China
American diplomacy shares responsibility with Soviet
The conference at Yalta set the
stage for the present situations in Manchuria, Korea and Formosa. Chiria was the victim of American meddling and | our, Communist-appeasement policy.
have been a different story.
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Death Won't Take Holiday
: of the rest of their lives. »
ee more drivers use extra care and. gimon ‘génsé on’ the streets and highways.
ul rs more afraid of going to jail than being taken.to a hospital : or an undertaker, a mass crackdown by police with a certainty of heavy penalties would reduce the slaughter this week-end.
where would keep the reckless drivers in lihé. officers work the streets and highways diligently this weekend and send some of the dare-devil drivers to the calaboose, we'll venture the prediction that. the death toll for Indiana during the next two days will be much less than 18.
Name One Way
EN. ROBERT C. Ne I (R."N.*J:)-has com-
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editorial, entitled “Dangerous Economy,” town paper, the Woodbury Daily Times.
ment can cut down its expenses,” says the editorial, we wonder why they pick out a dangerous way of doing it.”
Woodbury Times and the Senator is this order's possible effect on the Philadelphia Navy Base which, the editorial
AST year during the Labor Day week-end in Indiana 18 | persons were killed and 470 others were injured, scores them so badly that they will be crippled and scarred for
+ And-it. will be shot the same story this , week-end un
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Since the average reckless driver, we stibpect, is far
Highways in which police officers are in evidence everyIf, police
mended to Congress what he describes as a splendid from his home-
“There are so many ways in which the federal govern“that
‘ministers, ‘with foreign ministers and with the
Tefcue operaton intended to restore Europe as
FOREIGN 2 AD... By NMiatavls childs | Europe Facing
Drastic Change |
Hoffman Says Reshaping Economic Structure Necessary
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—The first thing that ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman did when he returned from a strenuous tour of ‘Burope’s capitals was to go to the White House, For two and a half hours he talked with President Truman. . In seven capitals in key countries Mr. Hoftman had talked with premiers and finance
Americans directing ECA missions In these countries. It" was a solemn, even a grave session between the two men, . He told the President, as he told others since his returh, that far and away the most difitult tasks are: still to come, If Western Furope is to build a going economy, then drastic changes must be brought about. Nothing short of a reshaping of the political and economic map of Europe will suffice, Mr. Hoffman told the President, There are at least two essentials in this process. No. 1 is the complete convertibility—in effect the interchangeability — of all European currencies. No. 2 is a customs union for all Europe so that goods will move freely across national boundaries.
Air of Gravity oe -
THESE being, in Mr. Hoffman's viey, basic steps, it 1s not hard to understand thé air of gravity that hung over the conversation between the President and the director of the
a going concern, For 17 months Marshall Plan ald has been poured into. Europe. Yet the steps toward real economic .cooperation have been faltering and timidly tentative. The sideline critics say that "ECA has not pushed hard enough; that ECA administrators have not used the stick and carrot technique to prod the Fufopean donkey. But Mr. Hoffman is not the type of ‘man to waste very much time trying to assess the blame for the past. Moreover; he believés that drastic change almost never comes except under the pressure of circumstance. When Europeans find they are up against fallure-and bankruptcy, . then with the spur of American help they will move toward real economic union. The President was sympathetic to Mr. Hoffman's point of view. In spite. of all the inspired rumors about the ECA administrator's imminent resignation, linked with reported distrust in the White House, the two men get along very well. At the tiffie of these inspired rumors, Mr. Hoffman at least twice indicated his complete willingness to step aside if the President had , any desire to replace him,
Concerned Over Bitterness
MR. HOFFMAN found the President concerned over the bitterness stirred up -on both sides of the Atlantic in connection with the forthcoming British talks. Stressing the need to create an atmosphere of good will, he told the ECA administrator about the speech he was to make, emphasizing the need for a friendly approach to try to find a common solution. Yet in spite of the good will toward the British that Mr. Hoffman has found in Wash- - ington, there ig. little or nothing tangible to cope with the dangerous and difficult situation confronting the two nations. All the good will in the world will not suffice. By an ironic coincidence the crisis in Britain, which is in reality a phase of the unbalance - that aficts all of Western Europe, comes along with something close to a political crisis here at home.
Aid at Home First
THE BIPARTISAN approach to foreign "policy has suffered in recent months. ‘A drop | from the record levels of production of a-year | ago has revived the talk about helping people | here at home befofe we send any more money ) to Europe. ’'~ “The argument that American dottars can be better spent on the needy here at home is a persuasive one, It links the old isolationist instincts with she idealism of those who are deeply concerned over the underprivileged in this country. What it overlooks, of course, is the fact that this country would be isolated economically, ideologically and militarily if the decision next year should be to retreat. And retreat at this | point would guarantee that every cent spent | “thus far om European recovery~-was spent in vain,
WHY WAIT?
, Peaple make such fuss and stew Over what they're going to do; Some day when things are just right
What the Woodbury Times and Sen. Hendrickson con-
More specifically, .what seems chiefly to alarm the
observes, has provided many Woodbury residents with a
livelihood for years-and years. tinues,
‘We.sincerely-hope, -it-con-. “that our Congressmen and those of neighboring
_._ When that time comes they will do,
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They will dine by-candle light, +: Stroll along that little brook, Walk slow, and take time to look. is TN RO MRR PPR RBIs cnn voi a AS They can laugh and be so gay;
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What they've always wanted to— This moment is all we claim, { If we lpse it who's to blame? f Vivian Wooten Pierson, Greenfield, Ind. |
CONGRESS . . , By Peter Edson
‘Vacation Muddle
WAGE ro FIGHT .
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3--It. looks as 1 everything is going to pop at once in the controversy between labor and management over a fourth-round wage increase. . The climax probably will be reached. within the next 10 days when labor- management negotiations in the nation’s soft coal mines and steel mills and at the Ford Motor Co. all reach a critical “point. Nearly 1,000,000 workers are involved.
> Strikes are possible in all three.cases, since . contracts expired long ago and work is on a
day-to-day basis, : Both the CIO United Steelworkers and Ford's United Automobile Workers are working to-
| ward strike deadlines—Sept, 14 for the steel-
workers and Sept. 10 for the auto workers. John L. Lewis, whose policy in the soft coal mines previously had been “no contract, no .work,” is operating this year under new tactics.
Instead of having his men walk out, he has put
them on a three-day-a-week ‘stabilizing. period of inaction.” But this could be the most ticklish situation of all, since there is no strike deadline and technically the miners can walk “out any time Mr. Lewis feels the urge.
Pressure on Stee)
TENSION, of course, is mounting in all three disputes, but it is in the steel industry where the pressure is the greatest. That is because both Waltér Reuther, the UAW boss, and Mr. Lewis want steel to set the pattern for their own contracts. If the steelworkers get theirs, the auto workers and coal miners figure the rest
_ will be comparatively easy,
So far, the steelworkers have had a tough time. Their demands have been met by a storm of protest from the industry and their
case is now before a presidential fact-finding .
board. The board is due to report Sept 10. The steelworkers are seeking. a 30-cent- -an-
Barbs—
HU NDREDS _ of. women mobbed stores “in London when nylon stockings were advertised. In other words, there was a run. . RR A TEXAS man of 97 is taking sax lessons.
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LE SE EAT grapefruit to combat heat; advises -an or te some other type of shower bath. LE 4ONE of the greatest noisemakers in the animal world, outside of Junior, is a lion.
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“By SE Tully Labor, Industry Face New Crisis
hour package of wage increases, insurance and
pension benefits, seeking, in the latter two de-
mands, to bring. themselves up to a par with Mr. Lewis’ miners. In support of their demands, they have cited a 54.6 pér cent increase in steel companies’ profits in the first half of this year. -John-L: Lewis and the coal operators have been .chewing the rag off and on fof several weeks, with the next conference scheduled just after Labor Day. As usual, though, Mr. Lewis hasn't made his demands public, being content to discuss the industry's general economy while he waits to see what happens in the steel dispute, The UAW demands at Ford are similar ‘to those of the steelworkers—a 30-cent-an-hour wage boost, a $100-a-month pension pias, and health and welfare benefits.
Up to Reuther THE FORD workers voted a strike Aug. 1 but left it up to Mr. Reuther to call it. Under a Michigan state law, however, the strike must be called within 30 days after the vote or another vote taken. Also, Mr. Reuther must give the company five days’ notice before calling the strike. Meanwhile, September will bring an increase
In dnion activity all over the country. Twenty-"
three union contracts will expire this month— most of them on the 30th. Six of the expirations will occur In martime and longshore industries: } All this renewed activity will find the country ina somewhat restless condition. There are six major “strikes in progress at the present time, affecting nearly 40,000 workers. ; The two which have ‘grabbed most of the headlines are the Honolulu stevedore strike, where 1700 men have been idled and where the
territorial government has taken over the docks
under a new seizure law, and the Bell Aircraft Co. strike in Buffalo, N. Y., where 2000 work-
© ers are out.
Rubber Industry MEANWHILE, however, the first major strike in the rubber industry since before the war has broken out at seven B. F. Goodrich plants around the country, where 17,500 C10 United Rubber Workers have walked out. The Honolulu strike, with its overtones of
} An. attention of the U. . Senate. The BANKING Committee is considering sending a subcommittee
to Hawali after Congress adjourns to investi-
gate charges of excessive power held by Harry Bridges’ Red-tainted International Longshoremens and Warehousermen's Union (CIO).
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Hoosier Forum
#1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | “wl defend: te Wi dhuth you oi Yo Vay Bt
‘One Example Proves Nothing’ ny id Sh A atalbel ki “The es con a A of Articles denouncing socialism. They
t the resent time having Sount financial dif a Therefore, any socialistic system is
unsound. One exam example can prove nothing. 1t can only serve, at the most, as an extremely crude. indication of fact. The greatest error, however, lies in tacit as sumption that Britain's woes hitve been cAused chiefly by socialism. The articles almost completely ignored the most pertinent factors “of Britain's decline. That is, that in the. last war Britain fought two years and. three months longer against the Germans than we did. (In other words, she fought a War and a half to our one), Secondly, since for a Sime, she fought alone st the common enemy, Britain had to de liberately wreck her peacetime-economy in ore der to surviye. Lastly, that Britain was fh an area of come bat; that the many buildings and factories which she lost during the bombings have raised an enormous handicap to a country whose econs omy was so highly industrialized ‘before the
WRT Fo the first World. War similar conditions... Britain to be weakened immeasurably more than the Unitad Bites. :
cause.’
‘Saving England f for Socialists’
By C. D.C. Terre Haute Jokn Foster Dulles has “recently “told the American people, and it has been. confirmed by Dean Acheson, that the administration has been keeping the people Ih & staté of tension -overx war with Russia. The obvious reason, of course, is to put over the entire foreign program. One could expect this {fii ®*Totalitarian nation but it can hardly be oned in a country which in '40 and '41 was tooting its horn as the arsenal of democracy and is now. trying to spread its ideology to the four corners of the earth. I mention this because some people do not believe
“undue alarm and high tension” were caused by -
Franklin D. Roosevelt, so let us examine the record. Mr. Roosevelt, who was a master ‘politician, ruled the people largely by emergencies and crises. These were usually political in nature and sometimes cut from whole cloth. For in. -
stance, he put over lend lease and his military °
program in 1940 by representing to the people we were in mortal danger of an attack from the ‘Nazis and the Japanese and ‘that fifth columnists were already swafming in our ‘midst. It has now been“found that there were, much to Hitler's disgust, less than 450 loyal ‘Nazis in this country. The Nazis were never able to cross the Engfish Channel, much less the Atlantic Ocean. The Russians have taken over more than 10 times as much territory as Hitler had in his heydey in Europe, and they are making the Japanese look like pikers in Asia. This so-called’ “humanitarian” was saving England for the Socialists and Russia for the Communists while our own boys were dying m
* Jap prison camps.
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‘Not Following Bosses’ By A. J. Schneider, 504 West Drive, ‘Woodruff Place ; The citizens of the 11th chigressiondl district should fee! very fortunate in having as their representative in Washington a man who can chart as laudable a program as was outlined by Hon. Andrew Jacobs in his transcribed radio report to his constituents last week. While T have taken occasioh to criticize Mr. Jacobs on several occasions, constructively, ¥ hope, I am just as ready to recognize merit and give credit where credit is due. Moreover, Mr,
-- Jacobs faced-a- tremendous problem to fill the
shoes so ably filled by his predecessor. It was almost like going in with two strikes against him; and many a weaker character would have gone into the job without hope of carrying on the good work of his predecessor and ended up following the-lead of the bosses—which is not what we need or want in-Waghington—— Just as soon as Mr. Jacobs realizes that his re-election can be assured by adhering uns waveringdly to the creed he expounded here, he will also realize that he will not need to “run
“with the pack” on all thé schemes to buy votes,”
Such a representative will undoubtedly become presidential timber.
Views on the News
By DAN KIDNEY MAJ. GEN. HARRY -H. VAUGHAN might make a good spearhead. in the: drive to abolish the National Guard. ® ¢ o
+. down ‘should be reminded that “they are not’ U. 8. Senators. ® 9 * FIGURING it on. a United States cost per guerrilla basis, the Gramos has been a. Rock Candy Mountain for the Greeks.
TERROR GANGS OUTLAWED . . olels By Fred Perkins
‘Unmasking the Klan
HOSE. British. workers who have slowed. |
states will be up in arms against any gonteniflut off closing | of the i i base.”
” ~ . SECRETARY JOHNSON says’ his order-.i8 one step. |
toward stopping “terrific waste and extravagance” in the Armed Services and will not endanger national defense. Our opinion is that any real government economy- program is bound to dislodge some people from federal jobs and to reduce federal spending in some states and localities; and that,
if Congressmen rise up in arms whenever their states or |
districts face loss of federal jobs and money, there will be no real economy program. . If we're mistaken jn that opinion, will Sen. Hendrickson
and the Woodbury Times please outline just one “safe” way of cutting down government expenses-—just one way, that is, w hich would take nobody off the federal payroll and deprive ho state, district or: locality of any federal spending?
‘Vaughan Standards
RESIDENT, TRUMAN'S. announcement that Gen.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—8o0 the House of Represe ntatives decided to go home fot 26 days. So the Representatives wanted ~to- give the -Senators-time to catch up. of the Lowe. House felt they had nothing to do. LA Jook..at. the House calendar. for Aug. 26--last work.day before the boys went home on vacation—shows just how much unfinished business “they left behind. Furthermore, the Senate will probably complete action on a number of important measures within the next three weeks.
S80 that when the sunburned and vacation-fatigued Represen-
tatives return to Washington on Sept. 21, they will.find piled an their desks a vast fccumulation of old papers and legislative battles of soured milk. It will easily take them up to ThanksgivIng to clean up the mess. It should make them wish they had
stayed on the job and looked after things the way they're sup-.
posed to Of first importance is the ald to education bill. The Senate has passed a bill on this subject. Chairman John Lesinski's House Committee gn Labor and Education is all snarled up on a re ligious side-issue and is making fio progress. They ought to be here threshing it out,
"Fou'ad Up on Labor
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_ Vaughan will remain his military aide admits a standard’
of- conduct around the White House which the American people will not approve. «Anyone who accepts Gen. Vaughan's own version that there has been nothing venal or sinister in his extracurricular activities—and we're inclined to take his word for it
, In our opinion,
and sensitivity to serve in that position.
THIS same committee is similarly fouled up on labpr legislation. The Senate has passed a bill making some changes in the two-vear-old - Taft-Hartley bill. The House passed-a quite different bill, then voted to recommit it. The House Labor Committee has done nothing to break the deadlock. Instead, it has gone on strike.-I¢ ought to be here threshing it out: A bill to increase social security benefits has finally been ap|v proved by the House Ways and Means Committee after four years of monkeying around. They ought to .be here threshing it
| out.
A man who wears the uniform of the U. S. Army, the:
“stars of a-major general and the gold braid of a presidential aide should have some qualification for office otherthan that
of being a-crony. Certainly he should know better than to
“get
involved
collecting -
campaign
freézers, or promoting inside the government the interests
shouldbe a | cut above, say, a clerk. in the office of small-town mayor
of a perfume company or a race track.
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He
~ engaging in a sideline of lobbying weed ordinances through | 2 8
contributions or free. | been reported out by the House Public
Similarly, President Truman's proposals | for national health insurance have been before Congress for several years. Senate Labor Committee has held partial hearings and recessed.
|" The House Commerce Committee hasn't even begun to hold heay«ig left only to conclude that the general lacks the sense | i
ings. They ought to be here threshing it out.
Home Rule Legislation ' LEGISLATION to provide home rule for the District of Co-
So distinguished membe rs. |
The |
MUBbia==u nother fssue that has been kicking around a long time |
-has been tied up in the House District Committee all year, The measure has been given up for dead aguia this year. But they ought to be here threshing it out. Legislation to grant statehood to’ Hawai and Alaska has Lands Committee for
[ “some months, but there has been no progress. They ought to be
here threshing it out. Also, the Marshall Plan and the Army civi! functions appro-
| priations bills were in conference. Stop-gap legislation has been | passed, authorizing expenditures on these programs until Octo-
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ber, but this doesn't clean up the business, They ought to be here Sepa 4 out. wt : : vo
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. “Union Calendar.”
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By the time the House comies back to. town, the Senate will have completed action on Military Establishment appropriations, Military Assistance for Europe authorizations and Interior, Deficiency and Supplemental appropriations legislation. In all, over $2 billion worth of money bills for this year's government expenditures will be hung up, three months after the fiscal year has
. ‘begun. They ought to be here threshing them out.’
There were 70 reported bills on what's known as the House
ing. They ought to be here threshing them out. There were nine other bills and resolutions reported out by committees and awaiting action on the House regular calendar “When the Reptesentatives got out of wh, They ought to be here - Warping them out, = : ey
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unacted on as the Representatives wany: fish-
‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—State legislatures, including those of the South, are gradually moving in to unmask and outlaw the Ku Klux Klan and similar terroristic organizations. Eighteen states already have such statutes; according to a. compilation prepared by the law and, soclal action commission of the American Jewish Congress in New York.
:~ .Alabama’s new antimask law is the latest manifestation of what appears to be a trend. Florida soon may join the procession with an anti-Klan measure introduced in this Years session of the legislature but not yet acted upon.
Hooded Gang- Outlawed
OTHER pouthern states which ‘have legislated against hooded gangs are Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
States elsewhere that have antimiask laws are Arizona, New
Mexico, California, Illinois. North Dakota, Ohio, Iowa, Washing ton, Wisconsin and New York. . The North Dakota statute makes no exceptions, but the others permit masks to be worn for innocent purposes—such as by clowns in circuses and children on Halloween’ The Louisiana law,
_makes an exception for masks in the annual Mardi Gras pageants
of New Orleans, but requires. that general permits be issued by municipal officials.
Some states make it a crime to use a mask for concealment of the wearer's identity or to escape recognition in the commission of a public offense. Among these are Louisiana, California, Arie zona and Illinois. Other states impose greater penalties for certain crimes committed under protection of a mask.
Greater Penalty : Sai a
THE IOWA law, for instance, provides that assault with a dangerous weapon by a masked person constitutes an assault with intent to commit mutdeg wil greater Penalties than for an ordinay brawl. In Wisconsin an additional Jail term of one year is provided for a misdemeanor while masked, and five years more for a fel ony by a masked person. The Arizona law automatically makes a felony out of ‘a misdemeanor if the crime is committed under a mask. A few of the statutes are made more specifically applicable to the Ku Klux Klan, In Tennessee a masked person is forbidden trom.interfering with the disposal of farm produets, and he can't” compel dismissal of laborers, share-croppers or tenants. gr Arizona forbids any person to organize a mas grou ani Texas bans parades by a masked or disguised radied UP. Sp These state laws are backed up by ‘three fede
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