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Britain's Pound Crisis
YT has been a popular practice recently in the British press to refer to the “dollar crisis” and the “dollar recession.” Use of these terms has caused confusion and misunderstanding in the United States.
Britain's troubles aren't due to anything wrong with
the American dollar. It is prized as highly abroad as it is at home: The crisis so frequently mentioned has to do with a shortage of dollars in certain countries, but it is no reflection on the dollar itself. Quite the contrary. . The British pound, however, is in real trouble. The issue is not being raised by the United States, and will not be on the agenda for the meeting in Washington this week of American, British and Canadian officials. But it will be the No. 1 problem at the meeting the following week of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund.
. » - . > ~ BELGIUM, France and Italy are expected to demand a revaluation of the pound sterling, probably with support from the Netherlands and the Scandinayian countries.
The pound is pegged at $4.03 on official exchanges, but
in finding its true value on the world's free markets is being
exchanged at rates varying from $3.50 to_$3. “This.cannot. |
go on,” admits the Manchester Guardian, the influential English newspaper. » Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's. Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, has steadfastly opposed devaluation, but his ada- |
mant position seems likely to become untenable. The Belgians and Italians feel that their francs and lire are undervalued in relation to pound sterling, and other Western European countries are coming around to that view. ‘ There is substantial support for a more realistic policy in Britain itself, where it is recognized that confidence in the English currency must be restored.
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But mark this down for the record: Uncle Sam isn't |
asking for devaluation of the pound. The issue has been
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Public Defender Disqualified - THICS of attorneys in relations with their clients usually are regarded as personal but when a public defender on the taxpayers’ payroll attempts to charge a fee against a person who has been officially listed as a pauper defendant, then it becomes the public's business.
Public Defender William Zilson; on the payroll of |
Criminal Court 1 to defend persons who can't hire their own lawyers, has admitted accepting $10 as down payment on a $300 fee from a defendant to whom he had been as-
signed as public-defender. He said-it-was-all-a ‘mistake.’ -
| medical care or-good- housing."
Defender Zilson's admission has disqualified him for |
further service as an officer of the court. Judge W. D. ~Bain who appointed Defender Zilson to his staff should-ask for his resignation. :
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A Commie Triumph
ANY of the Communists and sympathizers who rode
= from New York to Peekskill for the Paul Robeson per-- |
formance were not looking for peaceable assembly. They were looking for the kind of trouble that makes headlines. They got what they wanted.
Efforts of local and state police and law-abiding citizens |
of the community proved inadequate to cope with the hood-:
lum element. The shameful violence that occurred after the Robeson meeting ended and thé autos and busses had started back down the highway does not make pretty reading in American newspapers, nor in the foreign press. But you may be sure it is read with relish in Moscow.
Veterans’ organizations and others who claim higher |
pafriotism will serve their couritry better if in the future they refrain from trying to picket such meetifigs, and instead stay away in droves. 5 =
Forest Fire Menace in Indiana OREST fires, started through carelessness for the most
part, destroy thousands of acres of valuable woodéd land |
every year, much of it here in Indiana. As a reminder, the Indiana Conservation Department -has-issued a warning that>this is the time of yéar when drying grass and underbrush become kindling material for forest fires. Every person going into wooded land or areas where tall grass is drying should remember that one carelessly tossed cigaret could start a conflagration that might-destroy several hundred acres of forest along with many farm buildings. The time to fight forest fires is before they start.
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The Unforgotten Man HERE are many ways a Vice President may escape the oblivion generally associated with his office. Henry Wallace took trips and made an.endless -round of speeches.
cameron By Marquis Child The Farm-Labor | Tieup Pushed
Democrats Arguing ons Common Cause Basis
WABHINGTON, Sept. T The effort to weid farmer and city worker together within the framework of a recreated Democratic Party goes on apace. It has tremendous significance for the congressional campaign that will get going full blast just one year from now, The AFL Labor’ ¥ League for Political Education gave a Labor Day dinner in Chicago at | which, for the first time, the leading speaker was not a uniog executive or even a man prominent in labor. The speaker was Becretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan. In his talk he { argued the case for labor and farmer making | common cause, { The league distributed 1300 copies of that speech to editors in Midwestern states. Joseph D. Kennan, director of the league, introduced Mr. Brannan on the nationwide hookup as “the man in American life who perhaps more than any other symbolizes this unity of industry, labor and the farmer.” Another speaker at the dinner ‘was Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, who has made an outstanding record in his first session in Congress.
Test Vote
IN Pennsylvania's 26th Congressional District, a special election next week will afférd a test of the Labor-Farmer appeal, The .Congressman from - that district, Robert Lewis | Coffey Jr. a 31-year-old Air Force veteran with | a remarkable combat record, was killed in a jet “plane -erash. : : z ; In a traditionally Republican district, young Coffey, running as a Democrat for his first public office, defeated the Republican incumbent, Harve Tibbott, serving his fifth term. Because of Mr. Coffey's wide popular following and the sorrow felt at his death, Democratic leaders co-operating with labor agreed to name his mother, Mrs. Robert Lewis Coffey Sr, to run for the balance of the unexpired term Backing Mrs, Coffey with “a reatstic; doors" bell-ringing campaign are both the CIO and the AFL. The district is about half industry and half farm, and .the_ appeal to unity of the two elements is important, But the Republicans are equally confident of winning back this seat. They seem anxicus ta make it a test, with nationwide attention, of the Truman Fair Deal. .
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‘Need Limit on Taxes’
By Edward F. Maddox > u Now that we have learned that socialism is predicated on legalized robbery by means ot confiscatory taxes, the poor ‘victim having no’ redress for his grievances, we must find means 3 | of circumventing the iiternational Socialist gamblers who scheme to take more and more money from the pockets of the poor man, as well as the wealthy classes, The Socialist Communist plan is to rob everybody and regiment us like cattle, give us a work card and tell us to obey orders or starve or face.a firing squad. Hitler wag a Socialist; Mussolini was a Socialist, and Joe Stalin is a Socialist. So, if we don’t want-to be regimented like the Germans, Itaifans and Russians we must set a legal limit on the amount of taxes the gove n take from any person. STI] en purpose of the Constitution is to limit the powers of government but since the advent of the Socialist New Deal, Congress has been continually under executive pressure to pass socialistic spending schemes, like the Brannan farm plan, still cooking in the Socialist legislative pot, accompanied by more and more demands for more and more taxes, And now, lo and behold, the poor American tax victim gets a new jolt in his pocketbook to ball out the Socialist government of ‘England for, after all, this Socialist business is a world-wide fra« ternity and our American Socialist planners are not going to stand idly by. and see British socialism fall as long as they ean legally reach into-your he Yes, sir, it is just that easy to legally rule a whole nation—that is, of course, if our Congressmen can be intimidated, coerced or fooled into passing the laws neeessary for the perpetration of the Socialist scheme. The proper remedy is for Congress to set a legal limit on federal takes and federal. spending and for state legislators to do likewise. . Remember that the income tax is the Socfalists’ scheme to tax and spend the United
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PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . + . By John Loveland Fish Top Hoosier Clubs’ Menus
HOW 18 your appetite for fish? Apparently
mayor cousin.
And that is precisely how the
States into Insolvency and socialism. Let us face the facts. ! ® o o ‘Learn the Facts First’ By Alice M. Scheffler, City
As a "43 graduate of Shortridge High School, IT am not too well acquainted with Broad Ripple.
Newcomer in Politics -
THEIR. candidate is John Saylor, a Navy veteran 41 years old, who is also a newcomer to politics. Mr. Baylor is making an intensive campaign of friendly, first-name greeting and hand shaking. Labor's league is not advertising its activity In Pennsylvania. There is an increasingly sensitive reaction to the kind of news story that recounts the political power of labor and the millions cal war chest. Nevertheléks, Mr. Keenan was remarkably frank In a transcribed broadcast carried Labor Day evening. Speaking of the attack by “reac-
tionary newspapers” on Britain's Labor gov-
ernment, he sald: “The press campaign against Britain is not only endangering our fight against communism it contains a threat against American workers that should be seriously considered on this Labor Day. A reduction in the standard of living does not solve any problems as we found out .in 1932 and 1933 . .. This anti-British campaign is- a danger to both "business and labor in this ‘country. It is the same old argument that. we not have an expanding economy that. we cannot afford old-ag
Big Boost in Profits
MR. BRANNAN declared in his prepared address that corporate profits after taxes last year were 4'; times the 1039 level. This is
pensions,
of men and money-—in labor's politi- |
significant in view of the virtual certainty of a |
steel strike following the presidential fact-find-ing In which both sides fought over profits vs ‘wages. According to Brannan, total wages and salaries before taxes were only 2'; times as high as in 1939. . - The Secretary. concludéd with a strong plea for his far lan to “let prices seek their supply and demand level and compensate the farmers by a direct payment.” In spite of repeated setbacks In Congress, it is increasingly elear that the administration intends to make the Brannan plan the center of political strategy
for "50 and perhaps for 1952.
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That some people spend half of ‘their time |
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the people living in the northern part of Hendricks County are quite enthusiastic over the fried variety If you can tell anything from the signs on Highway 34. But maybe this is getting ahead of my story. It being necessary to drive to Danville, Illinois today; I stappad at the corner filling station for service and said to the owner, "John, why don’t you go over to Danville, Illinois with me this afternoon?" ~ ; John has-serviced my car for some time now ami may have gotten some ideas concerning my respect’ for traffic laws. “1 can't go with you, but I sure would like to. If you get pinched in Danville just tell the mayor-you know me and he'll let you go—he's my cousin.” . .
The Fish Question
NOW HOW in the world would he get a notion like that? Do you suppose I have a reputation for being a fast driver? It made me wonder and as the highway finally settled down to give the full speed ahead signal and my plans began to formuiate for a theme for tomorrow's column, it seemed best to take it easy in passing through small towns on the way. There are a lot of old friends living in towns between here and the state line but you can
bet there are not many of them calling the
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ROON-the-latest-thing-in-fall clothes will be A married woman. Ask the hubby who has to wait. * > @ AUTHORITIES disagree on why men have to sleep Sometimes it's to get away from authorities who disagree. 9%
A GARGLER tmitates a waterfall forthe radio-—-and probably talks shop first thing in the morning and last thing at night. ~ HP
WE'D almost be willing to let reformers shut up everything if it included their mouths. > > & cw NO MATTER what the yield this year In spinach it's the usual surplus crop—with the o>
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vacation is unpacking that trunkful of stuff
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fish question arose. While, poking through Brownsburg at a reasonable 25 mph, if was easy ‘to note that the Lions were going to have a fish fry. Next came Pittshoro and: Lions Club annual fish fry. 4 Lizton, being a hop, skip and a jump down the road ~ame up with something different, however. They're having a K. of P. fish fry. That did it. It seemed that everyone was becoming fish conscious. : Now my primary interest in fish is keeping them c¢old and odorless, because refrigeration is my business, and it: made me think that someone 18 going to sell a lot of fish. Being a
salesman. my first thought is “who is going | .
to buy what?”
A long Town
HOWEVER, the climax to the whole matter appeared when Jamestown rounded the curve. Jamestown is a pleasantly long little town that is first announced to those approaching from the East bv tall billowing columns of coal
smoke arising from an oil pipe line pumping |
starion just north of the railroad tracks. Apparently the B. & 0. Railroad is greatly improving their roadbed for I had noticed the gray newness of the rails along the way, and -now it was very evident that the track hands were doing the job. for they were
sprawled along the street under shade trees |
eating lunch. . Three guesses what they'll be offered to eat tomorrow? A banner announced in the heart of town: “Jamestown Homecoming” On the north side of the street a half block or =o beyond the junction of Highway 75 stands and
, booths were already being set up. Yep. I'll swear
1 smelled fish frying.
Swaps Yarns
- WHERE DO all these fish come from? They certainly serve a purpose by fitting Into the community programs sponsored by the vartous cluos and lodges. Not only do lots of fish get eaten, but gnod crowds get together, swap yarns and gossip, spend their money, and some good cause gets its proportionate share. Some day I'm BE to find an excuse to call on a customer in Grand Haven, Mich. An old schoolmate, Tobe Dornbaus, was related to the owners of a fishery there. I'll bet he'll be able to tell us all about how these self-same fish are caught, prepared, frozen, sold, and
However, after reading of the controversy in
regard to the appointment of J. Fred Murphy
as principal of Broad Ripple, I am amazed that certain Broad Ripple pupils and their parents are opposed to his appointment simply because they are not acquainted with him. Why not give Mr. Murphy a chance? Why not get acquainted? I knew Mr. Murphy but briefly when several years ago -he analyzed a vocational guidance test for me at the 8chool Board building. He impressed me as being a man of great understanding, with the abilities necessary for leadership. I never forgot his friendly, cone siderate personality. - he I know Mr, Murphy does nof deserve to be condemned by folks too lazy to learn the facts
" before they throw stones.
What Others Say
IF WE hold firm to our ideological, national and racial rivalries and hatred, if we place on our scientists the bitter burden of the prostitution of their services in war, if we fail to realize the danger as well as the immorality of the irresponsible behavior that has marked the past conduct of international affairs, humanity will
suffer the fate that-it has long -invited.— Dr,"
H. L. Keenleyside, Canadian Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources. . * ¢ 9
IT WOULD be erroneous to consider the
Chinese civil war as merely § struggle for power
between rival factions. The fact is that the emergence of the Communists as the dominant force in China marks another phase of political and social revolution which has been in progress for more than half a century.—Francis H. Russell, Director, Office of Public Affairs, State Department. ® + 9 i AS AN ‘American citizen serving on the secretariat of the United Nations, I wish to express the shock I have experienced at the recent actions of the Benate Judiciary Committee which has heard from a ‘mystery witness” wild charges about the international workings of the United Nations secretariat. Dr. Ralph J, Bunche, molder of the Palestine armistice. er * o ©
THE present situation is a virtual state of war which is more than a threat of war.— Julio. Ortega ¥Frier, Dominion Republic ams«
excuse for not doing so.
BR. C., Indianapolis.
NEWS NOTEBOOK :..By-Peter Edson
Behind the Scenes
WASHINGTON, Bept. T-Navy Undersecretary Dan Kimball was playing golf on the 13th hole house
farthest away from the clubwhen he was called to the phone by his office. The mes sage was that his own assistant, ( ‘edric Worth, had been revealed as the aut¥dr of the unsigned letter that started thé B-36 investigation, Kimball walked back on the course and relayed the news to his partners in a threesome --Army Secretary Gordon Gray and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg. Up to the time -he got the phone call, Secretary Kimball had been shoot
Ing good golf, with a 48. on the first nme and only one over par on the 13th hole. But when he eame hack to finish the round his partners.started ribbing him so mercilessly about Worth, he says. that it upset his game. So he threw in his towel and walked back
to the showers. Secretary Gray and Gen Vandenberg finished - ~ . ~ ” LJ ~
-'ls Gen. Vaughan There?’
President Truman acquired a certain fame as a piano player |
while occupying the runner-up spot. Vice President Barkley “s taking another tack: Romance. .
No-one seems to be sure whether this romance is real |
or imaginary... But it is certainly keeping Barkley out of the ranks of forgotten men. It appears to have supplied him and his friends with enough gag material for the full four-year term, whether or not it has any basis in fact. Mr. Barkley loves to tell a good story. Is this his biggest one yet? . ’
Don't We All?
THE OTHER day, Rep. Clifford Davis (D. Tenn.) obtained consent to have printed in the Congressional Record a speech, which he delivered recently at Memphis and ch began as follows: :
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; our great country for soung thinking, it is today. I wish 1 knew where we were headed.” =
tariffs, simplify. customs regulations, buy more British goods, in-
A GOVERNMENT employee who had been away on vacation
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and had not been following the news came back to town and in serted a wand-ad in one of the Washington papers, offering to sell his deep-freeze unit The paper had barely hit the streets when the practical jokers started calling. By the end of the dav his frantic wife had 300 Phone calls, and. more than 200 of“them by actual count o ened © with statements like, “Let me talk to Gen Vaughan please "or
“Is Gen. Vaughan there?” Nobody wanted to buy. canceled his ad after the first insertion and decided to keep his
deep freeze for a couple of months, till people forgot ” ~. . . ” ~ . av . — An International Soldier ~~ AMERICAN observers at Fontainbleu, France. report that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, now chairman of the Brussels Treaty countries’ Commander in Chiefs’ Commit-
tee. has stopped flying the British flag on his staff car. The reason given is that Monty now considers himself an international soldier—not a Bfitisher, He is reported to feel that all the other Western European Union commanders should follow the same course. ) ~ . itll .
Europe to the Europeans
WHILE some members of Congress think that an American general should. be made commander in chief in Europe so as to keep control over North Atlantic Pact military assistance, U, 8. defense officials are shying away. from it. They reason. that Furope must organize for its own defense. If an American is placed in command, then it is feit the Furopeans would want te dump the whole problem on the United States, for full responsibility, and do nothing themselves, + =» . = =
Problems in a Nutshell
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crease the raw materials stockpile program, cut down synthetic rubber production so as to buy more raw rubber, and provide | more capital for investment in the United Kingdom. In return. the U. 8. wants the U. K. to cut down imports, increase production of exports, reduce costs of production, work harder, and if necessary reduce their standard of llving so as to earn more dollars and cut down demands for greater financial assistance. e's» oy 8 u
ClO Cutting Ice With Democrats *:
| | CH ANYONE*who thinks that the CIO Political Action Commit- | ton, District of Columbia's national committeemen are Melvin D. Hildreth and Mrs. J. Borden (Daisy) Harriman. Mrs. Harriman | was out of the city and could not attend, Her proxy was held by | Ted Dudley, smart young CIO economist and congressional liaison man for PAC’s Jack Kroll, ; wea pe TE
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AIRCRAFT MIGRATION .... By Jim G. Lucas
Uprooting Industry
WASHINGTON, Sept. T—The Air Force and Navy are pushe ing one of the greatest industrial migrations in history. . Eventually, much of the multi-million dollar aircraft ine
. dustry may be “uprooted, It began a couple of years ago when
a Navy “suggestion” moved. Chance-Vought, lock, stock and la« bor force, from Connecticut to Texas. It continued last week when
the Air Force decided to shift Boeing's biggest contracts inland
from Seattle. Further movement will be in order when the Air Force picks a successor for Wright fleld, air research center at Dayton, O. . " Most major aircraft plants are on the West Coast, with & scattering in the East. But all Air Force bombers will be built this year in Texas and Kansas. Convair, which lists 8an Diego as headquarters, is building the B-36 heavy bomber at Ft. Worth, Boeing is making the B-47—the all-jet medium-—at Wichita.
‘Grew Like Topsy
MOVING WON'T be easy. Like Topsy, the industry just grew —often .from a shed, a barn or a garage--but it has taken root. Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington is out West now to soften the blow for Boeing.. But there apparently is ‘little he can say to. make Seattle feel much better, All that city can expect for Boefhg are some design and engineering contracts. Dayton hasn't had to face up to it yet. But it will when the Alr Force picks a site for the new air engineering development center. ’ . Mr, Symington told Congress it “will take up where Wright fd facilities are unable to handle the requirements of supersonic ight.” ~ The Air Force says there are compelling reasons for both decisions, In the case of .Beattle,: it's security—vulnerabllity to enemy air attacks. Bedttle is 1600 miles closer to Russia over: the north Polar bombing route than Boeing's Wichita plant. In the case of Dayton, it's the need for additional electrie power for supersonic work. . . Industry, of course, could refuse to move. But it won't, Most companies lose money on commercial orders. They make money from the Air Force and Navy.
Jobs for 10,400 3
CHANCE-VOUGHT simply packed up and meved out of Stamford, @onn. But that apparently won't happen to Seattle and
~ Dayton. When Boeing’s B-50 contracts end next year, the Air
Force's contracts will provide work for 10,400 people instead of the present 26,000. In the case of Wright Field, the Senate Armed Services Committee says it will be retained for “the lower-speed problems of landing and takeofr.” , ~The decision on Boeing: will he made when the Air Force . picks the place where the B-52 the B-38 suceessor--will be built, Boeing engineers are making blueprints at Seattle; the plane won't be ready for four to six years. Wichita is the present choice, But Tulsa may be in the running. . The Air Force will be hard to satisfy. To attract “high qual. Hy scientific personnel” it wants a site where “high living stand. ards prevail” including “good facilities for shopping, recreation and all other needs of a complete community life.” At the same time, it. wants a region “which lends itself to the of such . future materials as rockets, supersonic aircraft, ete.” may be hard to find. 2 NL nl : .
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