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GERMANY... By Lidell Donny - Next ‘Fuehrer’ A New Menace?

"The Indianapolis Times TA SCRIFPSHOWARD NEWSPAPER J. ROY W. FOWARD' j WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

Hoosier Forum “I'do not agree with & word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say i.

| Speaking of a Dollar Crisis

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gain in non-farm jobs from high for this year. :

Mr. Truman pointed out to his news conference. loans to business have been climbing. The American Bankers Association reports that cash reserves held by American farmers are sufficient to retire all outstanding farm debt, "~~ despite heavy spending for improvements, new equipment and soil conservation since the war, and that such reserves are still growing. Government figures show personal savings at record levels, personal incomes not far below the postwar peak reached last year.

PAGE 6 Saturday, Sept. 10, 1949

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Telephone Rlley 5551 Give Light and the People Wall Find Thew Own way

Good News

THs country can use a little cheerful news for a change.

It got some this week. A Commerce Department report, based on.Census Bu-

reau surveys, estimated that between mid-July and midAugust:

Employment, instead of falling as it normally does at

that time of year, rose from 59,720,000 to 59,947,000—a

1949 record. Unemployment dropped more than” seasonally, from

4,085,000 to 3,689,000, after climbing steadily each month, except one, since last October.

Farm jobs, following the usual late summer pattern,

declined from 9,647,000 in July to 8,507,000 in August.

But that loss was more than offset by an. impressive 50,073,000 to 51,441,000, a new

NOW, of course, a one-month batch of encouraging job

statistics doesn’t prove that we're safely out of the recession, or whatever it is we've been in. people holding jobs, and fewer without jobs.

We still need more

It does, however, justify a larger degree of cautious

optimism than most of us have felt lately. And it's backed up by quite a few other hopeful signs.

The index of industrial production is rising again, as Bank

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CHAIRMAN NOURSE of the President's Council of

Economic Advisers felt warranted in saying, after a call at the White House, that he and his colleagues are “very defi-

nitely encouraged.”

But, Dr. Nourse added, strikes in such basic-industries

as steel and coal could upset everything and turn the now brightening picture dark again. en # wil 80.8 great deal depends upon management and labor. If they can agree to be mutually prudent, to adjust their differences without fighting or stopping production, it seems safe to say that the country can look forward to a lot of cheerful news about continued recovery.

Yackety-Yack in the Senate

- GEN. TOM CONNALLY of Texas charged in the Senate

The same newspapers which carried the Senator's

statement reported that Chiang was at Chungking, in the interior of China, presiding over a war council at which he urged provincial leaders to support him in his last-ditch

fight against the Communists.

Sen. Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- |" mittee, is the administration's foreign policy spokesman in | the Senate. His speeches show the kind of misinformation |

upon which too much of our foreign policy is based.

Last Wednesday Sen. Connally opposed any aid tor

non-Communist China. Yesterday, he was willing to appropriate as much as $75 million. But his concession was

so snarled up in red tape that little or none of the money would get to China in time to be of any use.

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MONEY is a secondary matter anyway. What is needed | first is a sound American policy—not a“ program to help Chiang Kai-shek, or to bail out British colonialism, but a |

pelicy.to safeguard and advance American interests. We do not have such a policy because we do not have

intelligent leadership in the State Department or in the

majority party in the Senate. For three years the State Department was so eager to destroy Chiang that it forgot all about communism.” Now it is so ‘eager to serve British colonialism that it wants to

_ do business with the Communists,

Sen. Connally's loose talking only reflects the State Department's loose thinking. ’ But let's not be too hard on the venerable Senator from Texas. - He's simply parroting what he's been told, because he would be, just as zealous and reckless in his statements if he were urging a sound policy. He's that kind of partisan Democrat.

Move Over, Rockefeller

R a while it looked as if the only really significant stuff

we could chew over was Greta Garbo showing up in Italy

to buy 1000 pairs of shoes and grab a movie director before Miss Bergman married them all." But now we have Sonja

Henie, the ice skater, about to marry an aviation executive."

And a dashing one, too, who used to be a test pilot.

Néver mind the Henry Fords, the John D. Rockefellers or the Lucky Lucianos. Just take Miss Henie and you've

got an example of the wonders of free enterprise that even |

an economist can understand. . i - Miss Henie has made roughly $5 million. since she first came to the United States from Norway in 1936, some of it with her ice shows, some of it in the movies. She has also married and divorced the tinplate heir, Dan Topping, who

later went on to the anti-climax of buying a piece of the

New York Yankees. ;

In her 13 years in this country, Miss Henie not only

got rich, but prettier. She was just a cute little fatty when she came here and today she’s a svelte 110-pounder who can curl her eyelashes with the best of them, :

~~ G'way, you Commiinists. You got anybody like Sonja

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_this week that Chiang Kai-shek had “deserted the Chinese people” and “absconded” to Formosa with $138 million, in gold.

Alfred Loritz Has 12 Seats In West German State

_fuehrer.” When they say that, some laugh and some frown, None knows whether Alfred Lorits is a potential menace or merely a loud-mouthed nuisance. But a good many people who thought they w= » could laugh off Hitler wonder

for Economic. Reconstruction Party) will be the most closely watched of the splinter parties. The Bavarian Party with 17 seats, and the “Deutschland Uber Alles” German party with another 17, are larger than the WAV. The German Right Party, with 5, uses more extreme than any. But Loritz is the cleverest of the lot, He knows all about the Hitler technique. He ought to, because in the old days they were rival rabble-rousers. ; . . Loritz's “party of the German middle class” in 1930 had 100,000 members. But Hitler lured them into the Nazi Party. By 1032, Loritz was finished. Whether he left his party when fit moved toward Hitler as he claims, or was kicked out, is not clear,

Fled to Switzerland

ANYWAY he worked against his ri “discreet manner until he fled to Switzer! -1939. He says he planned the Munich explosion, which Hitler barely escaped. he was hiding in Switzerland, a Nazi court - demned him to death. : : As soon as Hitler fell, Lorits hastened to U. 8.-occupled Munich. In the first state el tion he got 13 seats. The party bosses of more respectable organizations decided he would be less risk inside the coalition eabinet than out. 80 they handed him the most unpopular job in Germany at that time—Bavarian minister of denazification. Instead of hurting Leritz that helped him. He didn't do much denazifying in the wrong places, but within six months he had used his hush-hush ministry to set up his own secret police... At last he was close to power, ‘

Alfred Loritz

Tried and Freed

WHEN he was ready last November—and not until then—the police “caught” the fugitive. Within a few weeks he had been tried and freed. His popularity had grown, . parties were trying to kiil the WAV and other of his aids were trying to take it over. On the eve of this federal election the Munich registration court obligingly handed over the chairmanship of the WAV to the rebel Erich Kuehne. Two days later the court restored control to Lorits. If Loritz could merge the splinter parties and control the 54 ultra-Nationalist and neo-Nazi seats in the .Bonn Bundestag, he would hold balance of power on many issues in Germany's first parliament since Hitler. Fortunately, that is what all the other wouldbe fuehrers want for themselves. So they probably will tend to balance each other aut—for a - while at least.

~ FOSTER'S FOLLIES —

("Medellin Colombia==Gives- recipe for lon

gevity.”) ~ . His peaceful years in Medellin Are six full score and four, - And that calm pace he's pedallin’ May bring him decades more.

For that town he was christened in Boasts of no movie show. What's more; he's never listened in On any radio! ®

(“Moscow—=Soviet mothers rewarded by government.”) . , Life is grand for all those Soviets, How could anyone feel low? Each addition to a drove gets A reward from Uncle Joe. Q

Mama Pushkin had a letter: — “In return for all you've done “You may try now to do better— “Make that sixteenth child a son.”

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' BONN, Sept. 10—They call him “the coming

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—One of the crucial phases of the Hoover Commission's recommendations for governmental reform is being blocked, at least temporarily, by bureaucratic opposition. 2 It is the streamlining of the government's nine regulatory commissions. These are the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Power Commission, Federal Trade Commission, U. 8. Maritime Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Communications Commis-

Board and National Labor Relations Board. ~~ THe ICC is the oldest. It was established in 1887. Since then Congress has set up independent boards regulating a vast amount of the nation’s business, including such significant fields: as labor, transportation by rail, truck, pipeline, ship and airplane, credit, banking, the sale of ‘securities, trade pratices, radio, telegraph and telephone, and electric power. The nine commissions are small potatoes in terms of operating cost and employment. They employ .only 12,000 of our two million federal workers. Their budgets. total $57 million, out of -the $42 billion to he spent this year. But their influence on business activity is enormous.

Many Complaints

the years there have been mapy fomplaints at

the commissioners over windmill-tilting subordi‘nates. Because of antiquated salary schedules for the commissioners and for top staff members, there have been suggestions that the jobs didn't always lure thesbest men. The Hoover Commission considered all these complaints ‘and came up with a set of recom-

TT mendations atmed at more business-like admini-

stration. i The first wo- to sponsibility in \ Ordinarily the ci: than sign papers. A new man comes in each year; this summer a Senate committee got letters from one commission, signed by two different acting chairmen a month apart. The Hoover group recommended that each board have a real chairman, able to control the budgeting and personnel policies of his

vest administrative recommission's chairman.

for the whole commission. He and the other

sion, Civil Aeronautics Board, Federal Reserve °

“SOMETIMES the influence is-negative.-Over-

unreasonabte delay in getting decisions-from the — commissions, also at the lack of supervision by

nan doesn’t do much more

- agency. The chairman would deal with Congress .

HOOVER PROGRAM . . « By James Daniel

Reform of U. S. Bureaus Blocked

commissioners would be protected in their jobs by a uniform rule stating that they could be removed only for narrowly defined cause, main ly misconduct. } Other recommendations would take away from some of the commissions executive functions which the Hoover group thinks belongs in' the 1egular government departments. For instance, the Commerce Department would take over ship construction, chartering and sale from the Maritime Commission.

Barrage of Criticism

FINALLY, to protect the boards against stalemates which result when the Senate refuses to act on presidential nominees for commission. vacancies, the Hoover group recommended that commissioners be kept.in office until their successors were confirmed. Publication of the Hoover recommendations set off a barrage of criticism. In general, the commissions that lost functions were opposed; agencies that gained were favorable. Within the commissions individual commissioners objected to giving their chairmen any real authority.

They argued that administrative responsibility. was inseparable - from the regulatory. powers.

which all commissioners share. . Conservative Senators saw a threat in the

Hoover recommendations to the independence of"

the regulatory boards. Chairman Ed C. John-

. son (D. Cole;) of the Senate Commerce Com:

mittee, for instance; proposed a drastic change under which commissioners would be appointed by the Speaker of the House, rather than the Ptesident, with confirmation power remaining in the Senate.

Breakdown in Program

RESULT of the opposition has been a breakdown in this part of the Hoover program, while ‘other parts of the program are moving steadily toward fulfillment. : Legislation covering the nine’ commissions

was -introduced in the Senate and referred to | the Committee cn Executive Expenditures. The |

Commerce Committee got jurisdiction over six commission; the Banking and Currency Committee over two, This left one board in the original bill, the National Labor Reélations Board. And that's about to be turned over to the Labor Committee. No committee hearings, which would start action on this part of the Hoover reforms, are in prospect. :

--NOW-by ing, portable capifol.

“How Can You Limit Taxes?’ By A. J. Schneider, 504 -W. Drive, Woodruft Place :

The “Need Limit on Taxes” letter by Ede’

much thought among ertizens who are not too lazy to think or who delude themselves that they are paying someone else to think for them, "Mr. Maddox, however, poses a tax limit as a possible remedy for today's dilemma. 1 would like to ask Mr. Maddox to explain just how a tax limit would operate. In other words, the same kind of legislation which could limit the tax bill could repeal, re voke, or increase the limit. What kind of . safeguard would that be? Only a constitution: amendment could hold any assurance. Yet, then we stop to think about the fact 4hat there is no provision of the Constitution authorizing Congress to delegate it taxing powers. That power has, nevertheless, been delegated. The whole system of withholding tax and deduce tions is unconstitutional. But it requires a mile lion dollars for you or me to defend ourselves

against invasion of our constitutional rights. .

Moreovey, more than half the tax income is from taxes we pay eath time the cash regis« ter rings, notwithstanding there is continual agitation against a sales tax or consumer’s tax. How can you limit the more than 40 taxes in a loaf of bread, or the more than 700 in an automobile? Once a sales or consumer's tax is substituted for the puerile tax system—or lack of system—which we now observe, the tax bill can be limited and only then can it be limited. Under a sales or consumer's tax, each individual can determine exactly and limit to his own desire his total tax bill. No other method pro= vides such a safeguard. Under a sales or consumer's tax, also, the ‘corrupt politicians will be held within a strait. jacket by the knowledge that every individual is daily tax-conscious and watching how his money is being wasted. And under a sales or consumer's tax, I'd bet my last dollar there would not be.a second thought given to the silly and wasteful socialistic and communistic projects now occupying the time and talents of our representatives in legislative halls.

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Comments Sheriff

By Bud Kaesel, 524 Rochester Ave. I want to commend Sheriff Cunningham for exposing the shameful conditions of how pris oners in the County Jail are living at present,

1 don’t know whose fault it is that men -

have to live under such horrible conditions. I

have seen dog hospitals and .they live under’

better conditions: than that. They at least have a bed to lie on. ; 1 say again—hats off to the Sheriff for his

courage and kind heart, wanting these men

to be treated like men, not dogs. I, for one, am 100 per cent in favor of building a new jail and also a new Police Headquarters. Then both the Sheriff and the Police Department could better serve the taxpayers and make the city and county a safe place to live in.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

WHEN Ginger Rogers got a divorce from her third husband because he didn’t come home to dinner on their anniversary, the judge didn’t seem to weigh the fact that she cooked it here self.

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IN 1812 the British burned down our Capitol. Some Americans seem to fear that the British-now are trying to burn up our capital. Coe eo

WE COULD help Chiang Kai-shek right sending him a high-powered, fast move

ALTHOUGH U. 8. currency is printed on nonunion paper, the unions will be glad to ac cept a fourth round of it.

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THE “Veep” has taken the title away from Gov. (Kissin’ Jim) Folsom of Alabama, who has married and settled down.

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MAYBE Gen. freezers under the impression that the Welfare State is already here.

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GEN. VAUGHAN seems ‘to be President Truman’s “selfish interest.”

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The visit of Adm. Richard L. Conolly is described in the

"FOREIGN AFFAIRS . .. By Marquis Childs

Spain Wooing U pain Wooing U. S. .. WASHINGTON, Sépt. 10—80 overwhelming is’ America’s power in the world and so uncertain is the condition of Europe “that it is hard to realize here in this country the consequences of the visit of an American admiral to Generalissimo Franco in Spain. It has set up a whole series of currents that are traveling like the waves of an earthquake to the farthest boundaries of

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

NATIONAL POLITICS. -. By Richard Maher. |

Taft Opens Drive CLEVELAND, Sept. 10—S8en. Robert A. Taft, Mr. Republi« can himself, 1& on the Ohio hustings these days, giving the folks back home a preview of the 1950 Ohio campaign. The Senator has mapped a speaking program that. began last Sunday and” will run until Deé. 1. each of the state's 88 counties. i Sen. Taft is on_the offensive nearly eight months ahead

It will take him -into

Vaughan took those free

Department of Defense as routine. But inasmuch as Adm.

Conolly is commander in chief of the United States Navy forces in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic, his visit to Spain °

as commander of a four-ship squadron cannot be written off in that fashion. B..q; ) Certainly Franco is not writing it off. It is being propagandized for all it's worth, and probably more. to try-to convince the world that the United States is coming to the rescue of Spain's rapidly worsening economy.

Goal of Franco

FOR many months that has been the goal of Franco and the little clique around him that exercises such tight control over all of Spanish life-—to get an American loan. Since Spain has no ambassador in Washington, chief of the mission from Madrid is the mysterious Jose F. Delequerica. : Officially an inspector in the Spanish foreign service with the rank of ambassador, Delequerica has been here for nearly a year and a half directing an insistent propaganda in behalf of Franco. He has Geen the power behind the hiring of influential Washing-

dent Barkley. . The immediate goal ‘is to get a group of Senators to visit Spain in the course of a European tour to see how ECA money is being spent. Delequerica has extended an official invitation to the Senators, members of the Appropriations Committee, and Madrid is now reported officially on their schedule. But within the committee there has been considerable resistance to the inclusion of Spain, which does not receive American ald. Sen. Harley Kilgore of West Virginia argued that the time of the group could be much better spent in countries where Marshall Plan money is now going. .

Anti-U. S. Propagednda

WHILE this effort to woo the United States is going on, curiously enough at the same time a violent anti-U. 8. propaganda is carried on the Spanish radio. This is aimed at South America where the influence of Spanish fascism is directed ‘against the United States in a variety of ways. : A month ago the Madrid radio carried the text of an article from Arriba, the official paper of the Falange Party, | President Truman as the

head of a plot of freemasonry aga! the Roman Catholic Church. President Truman, as the Sahn pointed out, holds the 33d and highest degree of masonry, Broadcast article declared: yi# \ The “The recognition of the State of Israel, its inclusion in the United Nations, the hypocritical and unfair behavior toward Spain, circumstantial enmity to the Argentine, the systematic o | position to’ Catholics holding senior. posts in. the | or in the government of tha state, and the major

decisions in the

attacking

P= field of justice

ton lawyers including Max O'Rell Truitt, son-in-law of Vice Presi- |

COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. REQ. U. &. PAT. OFF, * "But you'd like this movie, dad! It's a love picture and no shooting or police sirens—you could go right to sleep!”

national and international field are exclusively due to the dictate of freemasonry.” . This same broadcast led off with an attack on Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as a result of her controversy with Cardinal Spellman. She was referred to as “this old freemason woman” who had influenced “the presidential decision taken against the interest of the United States as outlined by its general staff.” . With all political and ideological considerations to one side, the best case that can be made for .aid to Spain is by military men who consider the Pyrenees Mountains as a line of defense that would enable American armies to keep a foothold in the Iberian Peninsula. But this congept of defense against invading Russian armies horrifies France and the Benelux countries, since it implies another occupation and another “liberation” with destruction on a far greater scale than in 1944-45. These countries would be reluctant to pool their strength in a Defense Council based on such a plan.’ Thus, even as a military concept, ald to Spain has its drawbacks, .

| of the 1950 Ohio primaries.

Organized labor is out to “get him"—and “is raising mile lions,” he says, to do it. Mr. Taft realizes he has & fight ahead. In two counties this week, he made as many as four talks a day. His circuit is the luncheon- club groups, business associations, church club audiences, women’s clubs. .

Getting Big Crowds

HE'S pulling big audiences. In Cleveland the other noon, he spoke to more than 1000 men and wamen at a luncheon given by the Smaller Businesses of America, Inc, They filled a hotel ballroom and overflowed into corridors. . Mr. Taft is hitting the industrial centers, but his audiences so far have been drawn from those folks who normally will support him-—conservative people from residential communities normally Republican. Tour arrangers as yet have been unable to book him into a labor meeting. But the Senator isn’t shying away from labor, Typical of his frontal attacks upon labor leaders who oppose him are these: .. . :

‘Rule or Ruin’

“UNION officials want complete repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. It's rule or ruin with them” . } “Urions want to be relieved of responsibility for their acts.” “They have brought James Petrillo and Joe Keenan into Ohio to tell the people here how to vote.” “Only the union bosses are against me. I have repeived hundreds of letters from union men indorsing the Taft-Rartley Act. . : Mr. Taft doesn’t know who his opponent will be. Nor €o the Democrats and union chiefs. - : Ohio union chiefs privately want Cleveland's popular mayo Thomas A. Burke. ; pe Some downstaters are talking of Murray Lincoln, Farm Bureau leader, but he is unknown in northern Ohio,

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