Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1949 — Page 10

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Politics and Coal

We hope the cynical brush-off Gov, Bchricker’s appeal for help in the coal crisis got in Washington does not represent the thinking of the President. It may well be, as Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman, so glibly charged, that somebody is “playing polities” with the human distress this coal mine strike has caused. If so, it is not Henry Schricker. Gov, Schricker has tried, and is still trying, to avert a

Indiana, which can produce 100,000 tons of coal ‘a day, hasn't enough coal to last two weeks. : Patiently, persistently and sincerely, Gov. Schricker “has endeavored to get enough coal to keep hospitals and

py in the dispute that has caused the emergency.

i around here, And around Washington.

"Good for the Cio ;

THE CIO performed a salutary operation on itself when the Cleveland convention voted overwhelmingly to expel its third largest member union, the United E lectrical Workers. - And it did the countzy an invaluable service. Pro-Communist - domination of any union is bad for labor, bad for employers and bad for America. Pro-Communist domination of ‘the UEW has been a _ special danger because so many of that union's members are employed on electrical and electronic projects vital to national defense. “Beyond question, a great majority of the UEW's rank file are completely loyal to the United States. But left.

ing less than drastic action by the parent CIO isself could break their control,

THAT action has been taken. The UEW is out. The C10 will now fight to organize all electrical workers into a new union, pro-American in Jeadership as well as member ‘ship, with which we hope and believe most of the UEW's © members will speedily affiliate, E Other self-surgery may prove necessary before Philip Murray's pledge to end pro-Communist control of almost a dosen additional CIO unions is fulfilled. If so, it will be im-. pelled ‘not only by patriotism but also by intelligent selfinterest. Yar, as Walter Reuther says: “The CIO eannot exist part hanest American and part subservient to a foreign power." : ‘But what was done at Cleveland was an excellent start "on an urgently essential job, And to those who led the battle—Mr. Murray, James B. Carey, Mr. Reuther and many ‘more—the country owes gratitude and sincere congratulations.

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threat to this state that grows more serious by the hour. |

‘water supplies running and to protect the health and safety | of the people of Indiana without aid or injury to either |

3 that-is-“playing--pelities”. we. could do with more of |.

his confirmed what already was painfully apparent—that the government will end its current fiscal year “with a whopping Treasury deficit. | © The red-ink estimate is five and a half E billion dollars.

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That's more than six times the- deficit Mr, Truman predicted last January; more than three times last fiscal year's deficit; only about $800 million less than ‘the peace-time record deficit in 1941, when the government spent heavily to arm . against thredtened war, Total spending for the present fiscal year is now estimated at $43.5 billion— up $1.6 billion from the January forecast. Total receipts are estimated at $38 | billion—~down 3 billion. a WHY THE spending rise? says the Budget Bureau, because Congress authorized more than Mr, Truman expected for veterans’ services and benefits, for support of farm prices and of the market for housing mortgages, for operation of the Post Office. ; On the other hand, Congress provided { less. than. Mr.. Truman.asked for the mil. | itary and European recovery programs, | and did nat vote his proposed spending for universal military training and fed. eral. aid to. education... ma i Why. the revenue drop? Because, says the bureau, tax yields have been reduced by declines of prices, money incomes -and corporate profits. And what can be done to prevent another deficit, perhaps a bigger one, in the next fiscal year? ¢ oo & ONE WAY might be to cut spending. The cutting would have to be far deeper than Congress has seemed willing or able to do and than Mr. Truman seems to believe possible,

The other way would be to increase taxes. *- Mr. Truman has indicated his ~ opinion that this is the only feasible way.

t on veag, And there's this to consider: ‘Many authorities believe that higher taxes could

..the government reaped less revenue instead of more,

Chiefly,

But Congress shudders at the thought of

voting higher taxes, Supocially in an elec- * wing leaders had obtained such power in thie inion THAT Hoth] jo —

so burden production that money incomes. and corporate profits would decline until

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e Indianapolis Times The Great Flood of Red Ink: . + An Editorial |

| JPRESIDENT TRUMAN'S Budget Bureau

It's certain, howéver, that if the government: can’t balance its budget in this period of relatively high-level production

“and prosperity, the Country” in in for ters rible trouble. For what Franklin ° D. i”

- Roosevelt said in 1932 is true: “If the nation is living within its income, its credit is good. ' If, in some crises, it-lives heyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable a. But'if, like a spend-

What Are You Kicking About?

BUYING VOTES |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—-If a politician tries j40 buy people's votes with private money, he's a “dirty crook. But if he tries to buy them with the people's own money, he’s a great liberal, Private bribery is strictly against-the rules: But if thé rewards which are promised Tor votes are to be paid Yrom the public purse--that is, by government —it's all right, This #trange contradiction never has been more apparent than in recent years, Yet it isn't new. It's one of the oldest laws of politics. It is the greatest problem and weakness of selfgovernment, Democracy always faces the supreme danger that the voters will loot their own treasury Periodically’ they have done this through. the ages. Autocratic governments tend ‘to rob other nations. But self- -government prefers to clean out its own till,

BY AGREEMENT between the Netherlands government and, representatives of the Indonesian Republicans, a | ~ new nation will be proclaimed not latér than Dec. 30—the _“Federated Republic of the United States of Indonesia.” | Thus, not without reluctance, the Dutch have followed Britain's 1047 example, in granting independence to India. Only France remains as a major colonial power in the Far ? East, and French control over Indo-China is tenuous. "Under the new arrangemerit, the Dutch ahd the Tide: nesians are to be equal partners in a union headed by Queen - Juliana. But the Iridonesiins are to have complete control over ‘their domestic affairs and their relationship which «Holland will be similiar in most respects to that between Britain and Canada. » i © 2» |

80 MUCH for the fine words on paper. It remains to

the Dutch Indies. Even the native politicians who signed

This always happens in exactly the same way hy squandering money for the supposed beneMit of the people. The politielans don't spend their own money, but the money of the people yet the politicians také credit for making gifts. “And -atways they “are able to win votes from people who thought the politicians were giving them something free,

Cheap Way to Buy Votes

IT I8 such a tempting and cheap way to buy votes That 1h the Tong rim, 1H 1s self-defenting.”

Tt tx carried so far that finally the treasury ix

- cleaned out, and then everybody suffers. That's what is taking place in Great. Britain today. It is what surely will happen in the

“United Htates unless enough” voters yuleidy- &

NEW YORK POLITICS, . . By Charles Lucey... x

Source Dried Up

By E. T. Leech ‘Free’ Benefits Seen as the Road to Ruin

"awaken to the danger. -

Athens did it—and ceased to be a democracy, and also soon ceased to be a free state, Rome did it—and first ceased to be a republic and then just ceased to be=-period.

Pericles of Athens first used on a ‘big scale

the purchase of votes out of the public treasury.

He created a lot of paid public johs for poor.

votérs and soaked the rich Py making them finance festivals and other popular enterprises. He went in for public works in a way that made business good and Athens famous. Buf, also, he yted up its treasury and thus paved the way for military defeat soon after his death; followed by loss of freedom and poverty. The Roman republic went down in a great orgy of vote buying. It began with the sale of cheap, subsidized wheat, which. soon became a free wheat dole. Politicians cancelled debts, distributed land, soaked the rich with tevies on

capital, and finally built up in Rome the great- -

est- system of. relief which the world had ever seen-—all under the promise of security. Rome's wealth was squandered and her population “Futned by" corruption "and “easy living. Liberty disappeared before the inevitable effort to cure the situation by a highly planned and powerful state, Finally the barbarians moved

"in and put the suffering government out of its

Misery,

BRITAIN, in similar fashion, has used up

her. savings and soaked-her-rieh-to pay for pubs:

lic welfare schemes. As always happens, that source of something-for- “HOES has about dried

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‘and is willing to make no sacrifice at all |

telling less prosperous countries that they

thrift, it throws discretion to the winds,

in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the people's power to pay and con tinues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.” : And unless our government does balance its budget, what right has it to be

must balance their budgets if they expect , Sontinged American aid?

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up. So now the bill is beginning to fall on the. great masses of the people, and’ Britain is fighting for existence. Her “state security” has turned into painful insecurity. These things happen over and over because | people whose votes can be bought by political | promises don't realize that the schemes aren't | new,-that they all have been tried-and all have | failed time after time. And those who do know | better are not alert, or are too lazy to get out and combat the politicians, or don’t take the trouble to vote. v The founders of our government knew this danger. They talked of it constantly in the Constitutional Convention. They particularly feared that some President might try to corrupt the electorate and destroy freedom by the old’ Athenian-Roman scheme which, during the Harry Hopkins era, was so aptly phrased: “Tax | and tax, spend and spend, elect and etect”

Safeguards Weakened t _ 80 THE Constitution placed: the spending power solely in the hands of Congress, with only ! the House entitled to initiate money bills. The President was denied all power to promise gifts to voters. - He could not even tell Congress what or how to spend. But gradually these safeguards have . been

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_ weakened, The old passion for public benefits “, again his Tanned into a roaring flame. We are. |

using up our savings and getting deeper and deeper into national debt.

It ts-the oid, oid stide-tnto financial dtsustey =

which always has ended in loss of liberty and { eventual’ destruction. i

SIDE GLANCES

+ he shown that real capacity. for. self-government exists. in. |

‘Hot’ Campaigning

NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Around a couple of élderly gents so

“By Galbraith

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Trolley Tactics an Outrage’

By Mrs. Wendell P. Hanna, 3016 N. Capitol Ava.

Four cents is an insignificant afiount of money thesé days. But four cents times — equals eight and eight times four people equals 32 cents. This product times 30 days equals

“$900 the amount of “booty” now being collected

by Indianapolis Railways for the privilege o Nr poopie riding on thelr self-styled a busses one round trip per day for a month, And the correct term is “booty. It is high time, and A AN in fact, that etty officiais and the Public Service Commission

take whatever action is necessary to end such

tactics once and for all, They are an outrage, an insult to the InteMigence of the patrons, an a disgrace to the city. The term “express” is as phoney as a half-dollar, and is obviously only a ruse lect a higher tariff, which was already line, considering the caliber of service tha peen rendered for some time. Express are. being collected for rides that

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North Meridian bus from hy and Illinois, through Butler, to 49th and Capitol. There is nothing express this run. It is strictly local and short, The called “express” feature of these busses Ww: ‘supposed to end at 34th St, ortihound.

charge should be. Now one has the privilege of paying 15 cents or waiting until Indianapolis Railways concedes to and they are getting more and more infrequent, Any obligation of responsibility to IN public is a thing of the past, and thix'iy 9; means the only example that could be cited. . The arrogant-attitude of this should not be tolerated any longer. Publie portation in Indianapolis could be vomparable to St. Louls, if Indianapolis Rallways would

“start thinking Th ternis of Service instead of

higher and higher rates, which they do not

«| _ deserve, There are plenty of patrons who would . prefer to ride rather than drive.

It's the pringipid of og thing.

‘Workers Tow Money Away’ ¢ By A Steel Worker. ;

After reading Mrs, Fritmeier's article in thy Forum, I would like to give her first hand steelworker's attitude on this matter which is of grave importance to this great country of Bo built upon hard work and investments and n 1 doles, as she seems to think every worker wants and is entitled to. I hdve worked In the steel mills at Gary 1 30 years as'a laborer and have raised a famil of seven. Three of them are now college Sot ates. Besides this, I built and paid for my own = home all from my pay, which was ample at the same time to lay a little aside for old age and the proverbial rainy day. But, on the other hand, there are the ones who work who just throw their money away and have always lived from hand to mouth from

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ay to payday. If you don’t believe this, the ;

pi I would rsuggest your visiting Calumet City

any of the night spots when our mills are worke-# ing. Calumet gangsters, gamblers, hoodlums and prostitutes are the country's most prosper ous because of the loose spending of our mill workers. Perhaps Mrs. Fritameler will say that the |

rank and file voted for this atrtke;, but this H

not 80. When one of us Has a grievance we t

it up with the committee and this is as far it. gets, because it is ruled directly by Murray's henchman, If we do not go along and keep our mouths shut, our homes would be burned or bombed and bodily harm come to our families.

= : -» What Others Say mec 2d ‘I DON'T want journalists between my fort

all the time. I have a name whereof history will speak, 1 hope; for a very long ‘time, but that

| doesn’t mean I am to be a target for journalists,

—~Rachele Yumactin, widow of 1 ! * -— WE can whip the wiih We ask no a We deplore the government moving in on the negotiations. We do not want them to bludgeon

.our.people back into the mines-—to force us ®

agree to the operators’ terms, —John L. Lawik * o> 0

THE government undoubtedly can cripple * completely destroy free enterprise by regul tion, by excessive taxation and by government or-government-supported competition; rd —Sen. Robert A. Tait IK. Smo).

I TRUST you i excuse my barbarous E lsh, but it is well known that English hg ation -often-cannot be mastered, not only KE Russians, but. also by the Americans. —Ruséian Foreign Minister Andrei Viehiraiey * & @

WHEN the photographers come, they draw crowds around me and 1 just can’t help myself; Xam: frightened beyond. control. Whenever: so many people stare at me T Teel almost as —Actress Greta Garbe SS INDIVIDUAL income is at the highest peak” in thé history of the country, ~ Secretary’ of the Treasury John W Snydeks |

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LABOR UNIONS Ts By Fred W. Perkins

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Business and today held invit _..Vidual pupils to - during Americar _ Bext week, Some 1200 of | received the per during a “tha given by teach and entertainme High School las turn for the re dustry day whe guests of Indi places and indus

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[ClO Purge Risks

Nov. 4—Like any major operation, the CIO's

the agreement. at The ‘Hague are not_certain they can sell . kindly countenanced they. could play. Santa. Claus. without. the the union idea to the discordant elements they represent. | “musk today rages ds “dirfy ‘a political campaign—a battle for a Even in Sumatra and Java, hotbeds of the independence | U.S. Senate seat—as hasbeen seen since early Tammany days.

movement, the Indonesian Republicans have had only nom- Republican Sen. John Foster Dulles and Democratiq. ex-Gov. inal control over their own armies Herbert H, Lehman made their pile in Wall Street and they walk co ove elir o .

I” © fs In the deep red carpeting of upper Park Ave. But the political Internal discord will be a real threat to the new gov- | twister blown up about them is out of Skid Row and the Bowery, ernment, for communism is waiting to move in as colonialism “Bigotry” and “liar” are harsh words but they've bgen hurled ; : , . PRR In this campaign. The whispering that goes on away from the | backs out. ‘Communist movem¢ nts, of both home RTOWn platform is even sharper. When politicians sit down to assess and Moscow varieties, have established strategic bases in what will happen when New York votes next Tuesday, they weigh | ; { OY " , oh y the impact of pre judice as importantly as the judgment of the certain areas, and secret members of both groups probably | voters: have wormed their way into the ranks of the Republicans - | themselves. When the-Dutch pull out their troops these | Cry of Bigotry : os to sabotag- THIS big town is thin-skinned on racial and religious matters borers from within can devote their full energie to sabotag BS SONI Dre TT a a SN iiony ma! | ing the new government. the hackles of both Democratic and Republican necks. But the chief cry of bigotry grew out of a statement made by Sen. Dulles

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=» v ng in an off-the-record piece of oratory at Geneseo, N. Y, t THE PROBLEMS of ‘the new United States of Indo- In that speech, as quoted jn some of the newspapers, Mr, Dulles sald:

—nesia would be serious enough without the menace of Soviet expansion which threatens all Asia. But the Indonesians ‘may be given little time to get their house in order. Red waves rolling out of Communist China may be beatHg At thelr shores before many days. wo : Colonial imperialism is dying, but Soviet smperialism *- ison the march. Unless they are prepared to meet the new danger the Indonesians may find they have traded a master & for a despot. . a

“IT you could see the Kind of people tn New York City making up this bloc that is voting for my opponent, if you could see them © with your own eyes, 1 know you would be out, every last man and woman of you, on election day.” Mr, Lehman is Jewish. - He ifnmediately said this was an at-tempt-to-“throw- class against-class and to appraise people by their race or color or national origin.” Mr. Dulles insists the remark was aimed only at the Com- | munist gfoup in New Yurk City and that taking his whole pase rather than a single remark, proves. this,

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SEN. DULLES is a leading Protestant prominent in the Fed-

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removal of its Communist. fringe Is apt to bring disturbing come ! plications. Sid Ra The CIO is purging itself violently- risking the loss of 700, . 000 members, but consoling itself that, in its new sharacter, it will attract many more Americans who have distrusted the harboring of Soviet sympathizers, my ) The complications from the operation will come in the dee cision of the “leftist” unions on what to do with themselves. They are divided. “ Sorhe; lke Julfi@ Fp and James Matles of the United Electrical Workers, with their union president, Albert Fitzgerald, want to make this urion of 450,000 members the core of a new labor federation. Harry Bridges, Australian-born hder of the West : Coast Longshoremen who 18 in new trouble. vith the government because of his Communist leanings, apparently sees life outside the CIO as a cheerless thing He is sticking to his policy that the only way he'll leave will be through’ the booting-out method.

Hard Row to Hoe’ / Fi ind THE smaller leftish outfits, such. as the Fur and’ Leather Workers with Ben Gold, a proclaimed Communist as their leader, will fall in" line somewhere between the’ idéas of Messrs. Emspak nw and Bridges. At this point it looks as if the ultra-lefties have a hard row to hoe. The outlook is for them to be isolated in a small group, but conspicious enough to be easily shot at. In the present state L of public opinion, produced by the fear of a war with Russia, they will have to look abroad for oficial or other friends. But they still have legal Tights, Con that brings in many of the complications. ~The leftish unions have thousands of contracts with employers. For instance, the electrical union has many with the | Westinghouse and General Electric concerns. ! These contract recognize the UE as a part of the C10. win | they be invalidated because the UE. will no longer be a part of | the CIO? It's a legal question likely to be fought over in the | courts and before the National Labor Relations Board. :

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a AN open forum on Indiana's 98-year-old constitution will 8) be conducted here next Thursday by the Indiana Uni. | ~~ versity Department of Government.

Til SoRfereien vil provide an excellent opportunity

and slapstick in the interest, of Pemocratic victory, referrihg to Mr. Dulles’ position as a Ickes told an audience {n the Bronx: “I belleve that I am in a better postion thap many. others to ‘underétand Mr. Dulles, who displays his religion n'a Show case - 80 that none may ignore it. I also was brough ught up by a sincere .

Apparently aking. « churchman, Mr. curers.”

oh next Tuesday's result. between Francis Cardinal

£ Es as ing : > : eral Council of Churches. - He points out Be Baa labored long th | “: ~i. snd | figure on saving énou gh for the first few -~ bi Lie the National Conference of Christians and Jews | . fl ; ; aymants by washing his diapers myse Conference oh Government Mr. Dulles’ own religious standing was called into question by | hw LLL pay Y 9 i ex-New Dealer Harold 1. Ickes, who dished up a speech of fire

Then Mr. Ickes ripped into Mr. Dulles as a big lawyer loyal to “cartelists, Nazi agents, international fixers and political pro-

There's still another angle involving religion that may bear ‘Mr, Lanman, In the recent differences

‘on the fase Of 1oderal 810 10 rhoslS, apoio out Lr dors er orel Catholics

pressing needs for many reforms in Presbyterian mother. Wisely, she did not fall t Se point out to. me / that, even among our co-religionists, there were Who See. / Roosevelt. Nobody EONS a many aid local, goveraigient waita, 1 Jury vied £5 aii: 19 apiay Whit with thaodet of Mr. Lehman because of this. ; jo . Jat xX es ; : ka . ; i a » 7) A : Po | : i | CR , ‘ oe ela 2 i J i. L a7 og / ml pt

THE CIO will set up committees to take over local untons that. want to stay with the CIO, and in other cases: will assign “jurisdiction over the expelled or seceded unions to other unions in the CIO. Employers will get in the fight, and so—it's : will the AFL, not adverse to picking up some of these contracts with members,

dues-paying The prelude to what is ahead came In the CIO convention in ol Jebite ver changes In the C10 canstitution to give the - a leadership effective tool against the left- |, The key vote was heavily in favor of the Murray le wear Ro

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