Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1949 — Page 10

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eferson Wasn’ t There HE President's. “non-political’’ ° Truman Day speech at the Minnesota Centennial celebration was an attack on “the reactionaries.” When Thomas Jefferson agreed to pay Napoleon $15 million for the. Louisiana Purchase, Mr. Truman said, the - reactionaries of that time raised a storm of protest. : They contended that the deal would ruin the country, that President Jefferson had no power to make it, that it was unconstitutional, that it would undermine and destroy democratic institutions, that the price proposed for nearly a million square miles of wilderness was far too high. : And now look, Mr, Truman went on, at what a wonder ful bargain the Louisiana Purchase turned out to be-the “territory from which have been formed, in whole or in part, 13 great states, Including Minnesota.

: TODAY, Mr. Truman said, renctionaries “exactly like ~ those of Jefferson's time advance exactly the same kind of arguments, for the same selfish reasons, against every “new proposal to promote the general welfare.” They “hold that “ govertiment policies should be designed for the special benefit of small groups of people who occupy positions of wealth and influence.” And 80 these modern reactionaries oppose “the policies we advocate”-—policies which promise to improve the lot of farmers and workers, to help small business and co-oper-atives,.to protect the old and disabled, to assure better hous“ing; better education, better health and medical care for . everyone and equal rights for all. - ““. « Thus President Truman at St. Paul. President Jeffer“son, who was unable to be present, doubtless would have agreed that his big real estate transaction in 1803 has proved to be more than a Fait Deal., Certainly, for a few million dollars, he acquired more “tangible assets than some of his recent successors have been able to Shaw or sxponditsre of many hitiona.

r : BUT perhaps it was just as well that Mr. Jefferson was ! not there to ‘speak for himself. He might have got himself * denounced as a reactionary by quoting his own words on a: | . previous occasion. de MT place economy among the first and most important | virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To pre:_sérve our independence, we must not. let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ‘We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of. caring or them, they will be “happy.”

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Two-Way Street Cn A MERICA' "favorable". foreign trade balance of $6 billion a year is severely unfavorable “to American tax

“National Foreign Trade Cotineil. Having become a creditor nation, Mr. Acheson said,

“ditional emphasis on exports. : Obviously, unless we buy abroad as much as we sell ... abroad, the nation to which we sell can't earn enough doloe to pay for our goods -or to repay our loans. Ahd we 't use their currencies. So we're now giving away a lot the goods we ship abroad—that is, giving our foreign : ustonsys dollars with which to pay that “favorable” trade

ends, in 1952, the goods we're now giving away must be paid for in cash or kind, or not sold abroad at all, in which

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goods which, if admitted, would find eager buyers here. 5 Much of our production has no serious competition in ‘the world market. It can't be sold. in that market, however, “unless potential buyers have the wherewithal to pay for it. On the other hand, many countries can produce some =. things as good as our domestic products, or better, and can sell them to Americans at prices lower than the cost of pro-

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'r ‘losers when restrictive laws deny them the right to buy such +“Yoreign products. = = Trade is a two-way street. Usote trafic moves on it in both directions, in fairly equal volume, there'll be sérious ‘trouble at both ends. If American industry and agriculture want to avoid

; face squarely the fact that, in world trade, America must buy as well as sell.

The Huddle in Europe Lr IT could be televised, that big huddle of Western Euro“af pean cabinet ministers in Paris this week might resemble r+ all three Notre Dame teams on the field at ona time. We could only wish that they would come out of the huddle with «the same directness of purpose, unity and determination to carry the ball of European recovery

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“ments belonging to the Organization for European Eco- .- nomic Co-operation (the OEEC-—19 members). {s the Consultative Council of the Brussels Pact (five mentBers). And last, the third-string team of the Ministers of he Council of Europe (12 members) which came along from Strasbourg eyely for the ride but none the less _ eager to play.

ak sa. v i “THE common goa! is some sort of economic sedeintion r Western: Europe, one that ‘will lower trade harriers, and get commerce moving again the 15 ilifon consumers of ‘Marshall Plan Europe.

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payers: and consumers, Secretary of. Sute Achseon told the t

we must become more “import minded” and arop our-tra-

But that can 't £0 on forever. After. the Marshall Plan

case our ‘producers. will lose a huge chunk of their export:

RECOVERY ... By Bruce Biossat

| Conflicts Slow |

Pressure of Nationalism Blocks Economic Unity

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—Paul G. Hoffman, Marshall Plan chief, has laid down conditions °

for further U, 8. ald to Europe that ECA countries may find difficult to meet. / He has told them that if they want to be sure

- of getting more money in 1950 they had better

~ knocking-down national tA¥iff barriers and other .

obstacles to free trade, Fallure to achieve economic unity in Europe can only mean: “disaster for nations and poverty for peoples,” the ECA boss declared in Paris, Mr, Hoffman is a hard-headed executive, He

would not sound so serious a note without war- v

rant, That he has used this tone suggests he has carefully appraised the temper of Congress and decided that ECA 1s in for a rough ne rors Marshall Plan countries show some concrete

« results quickly.

Not Much Leeway

«~ BUT from now until January is hardly much leeway for this formidable task. The European nations have known from the start of . the Marshall Plan that measures of unity were expected of them. Yet in almost two years they have made virtually no real strides toward that goal. In view of this evident Inertia, it is asking a great deal to call for a solid demonstration of economic collaboration In so short a span, Of course such progress is mot impossible. But experience to-date leads one. to doubt that anything less than a severe shock will produce the results the United States is urging. It is conceivable that genuine advances toward unity may not come until the Marshall Plan countries understand that warnings such

as Mr. Hofffman's aAfe Aot Mere words. An actual”

cutting off of funds would certainly drive the lesson home, So might a statement from Mr, . Hoffman or other high officials that an end to

ECA will be proposed if Europe falls to take

action soon,

Must Face Realities

SOME foreign affairs experts may contend that however desirable unity is, this country has no right to insist upon it as a condition of continued assistance. But such argument is somewhat beside the point if Congress has actually determined to make that condition. ECA cannot live without annual congressional sanction. Europe must face the political realities of America. None of the European countries is denying the wisdom of economic unity.- All say they subscribe to the principle. What stops them from acting? Basically, the trouble 1s that they are trapped by conflicting currents. They recognize the ‘growing need for continent-wide solutions to their economic problems. But they feel heavy

pressure from the long habit of nationalist

thinking. This latter exerts a continuing drag upon any efforts to break down national borders.

British Example

NOWHERF is this dilemma’ hore plain 8 than in Britain, Even the firmest friends of the British admit that Brain 8 government behaves as if that country could somehow conduct its economic affairs free of entangling eontact with continental Europe. There appears a strong

desire to insulate the Labor Party's socialist | . expérimgrits from outside shock.

Mr. Hoffman's warning in Paris makes clear that the time is at hand ‘for Europe to choose

. bétween - the prospect of real economic well-

being and’ a clinging to outworn nationalism which can only lead the continent into deepening distress,

UP OR DOWN?

Prices soar, they're up and up, The end is not in sight. Inflation's here, we've had enough; Someone. must start the downward flight.

A car is something else you find That you can do without. And walking's good to clear the mind But wears the shoe soles=out. ~

Shoes are quite a must, you say? This much I will allow, With what you pay. for kicks today You used to buy a cow. «DOROTHY MAE PARKS. ’ 15 N. Edgehill St. * ¢ @

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That the ain of omission is equal to that of

commission.” Perhaps Congress has gone ‘home |

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MOSCOW STRATEGY

, By Marquis Childs

Red Move to Undermine U. S. Seen

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 5—-While no

one outside the 14 men who comprise the polit-

buro in Moscow can make any positive statement about Russian policy, the following is, I believe, a new and important indicator of 8oviet intentions. It has been checked and rechecked in several capitals with sources close to the confidential

reporting from behind the wall of Russian

secrecy. 2 Such cold-war tactics as- the establishment of the East German state are obvious enough. But back of these day-to-day headline tactics is a long-range strategy to overcome the United States by methods short of a shooting war.

One is to flood the West with massive

quantities of gold mined by slave labor. The”

idea is to undermine the value of America's vast gold hoard at Ft. Knox and thereby spread Bgnia) and economic chaos. "Russians have recently made major new a discoveries in the Siberian arctic. They may be even more important than any of the gold finds of the past decade that have been exploited by forced labor. The exploitation of the new finds is to be on a .acale far greater than ever before.

“Forced Labor

IN Siberian gold. mines worked by forced labor an estimated 1 and been replaced, according to those—and they are very few-—who have escaped. ; ~Thousands of additional récruits are now

being sought and it is believed that the whole sale arrests: in the Czech purges will provide raw material for the hetret police charged with-

the task of shipping an ever-increasing number of carloads of human beings to the gold mines.

From time to time in the past Soviet cours -—

fers and even Russian diplomats have been exposed smuggling gold through diplomatic ¢hannels. The gold ‘was presumably being supplied to Communist agents abroad. In massive amounts from the mines now being opened it would have the more ambitious objective of knocking the props out from under the American financial system. ) “The second objective of the Soviet strategy is even more ambitious and far-reaching. The goal is to create a chain of atomic power stations stretching across the Soviet Union and

| linked together in a great power grid.

Russian planners believe that this will pro-

“slaves have died °

duce by far the cheapest power in the world. It will, therefore, put Russian industry in a position of tremendous advantage to outproduce the rest of the world. Russian scientists, working with German physicists and chemists brought to the Soviet Union at the end of the war, believe that Russian atomic development has reached a stage at which such a chain of power | stations can be seriously pianned.

Chain Power Systems

SINCE Russia has no major electric power grid system and only limited petroleum resources, there is no possibility of economic loss through duplication. Such a chiiln of peacetime power stations would also have an enormous war potential The coatrast with America is. striking. In the United States the tendency is to play down the possible peacetime use of atomic power

—and-to insist that such a use. can.come into.

being only in the remote future, if at all

~~ Electric utility interests are naturally concerned

lest cheap atomic power should supercede a vast investment. %- One of the reasons the Russians have continued to oppose any form of inspection in the United Nations discussions of the control of atomic energy ‘is because of their plans for an atomic power system.

Under inspection the location of each atomic’ | plant would be known to the West and would |

become a target in the event of war.

w.. Named to direct Russia's long-range cold-

war strategy is Bela Varga, the brilliant. Hungarianzborn economist and planner. Varga was

“in disgrace for'a time because he ventured to

predict that America would not undergo an

immediate post-war “depression. “This was di:

Yéctly contrary" to Communist goctrine at- the

‘time,

Raised Up Again

VARGA went down on his knees before supreme authority. Moreover, he was prov ed right in ‘his analysis. Therefore, according to these

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reports, he has been raised up agalmr and given |

. one of the most important assignments in the

Soviet Union. In effect," his immediate job is to help bring

about a depression in America. Since his earliest |

youth Varga has been a Communist revolution-

ary, participating in the Bela Kun revolt which |

succeeded briefly after World War I. Success, even approximate. success, in .his new undertaking would put him in a position of extraordinary power in the Soviet dictatorship.

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and when fasclsm comes to America it will be disguised as antl-fascism.” | “With the present campaign against com- ' munism now pretty well in high gear, one begins to: wonder 41 times 3f- WHSt {he Louidisne

hilosophy which demands entry via. the front TE ry * would not be objectionable to Moscow if his fellow travelers did find it more convenient to enter through the rear exit. Lois are generally of much more im)

portance than and methods, and if I know anything at all

about the way Mr. Stalin's agents do things, I would say that to them the end always justifies fa’ vo urTey'’s recent outburst in Cleveland to the effect that he wanted no part of the Communist inspired “program of destruction” is indeed typical of present-day thinking

among too many so-called leaders of the rank.

and-file American workmen. Being already into the very thing of which they complain against and having become so entangled into something eritirely beyond their limited - capacity to understand, they continue to wander hither and yonder in a bewildered state of mind and totally are unable to see the " forest for the trees. They assume, in their wn 3 little limited way, that pious declaration of aims now and then will serve as an over-all cover-upjfor their greedy and misdirected aspirations and that the general public is either too dumb to know what's really “taking place, or too indifferent to even care, .. Either case serves their purpose.

“Mr. Murray's avowed ain to rid his organts y= zation of the “vicious and diabolical campaign

of the Moscow: fellow travelers is indeed. <a comforting objective were the whole thing so simple as all that. But the point that he has

- conveniently overlooked is the broad space that

often exists between words and deeds. : The mere act of pointing a. finger at the Reds and making ‘public accusations against them on the one hand and. virtually carrying out their very “program of destruction” on the other, can hardly be termed a sound demonstra~

tion of consistency. And if Mr. Murray and .

the likes of John LJ Lewis haven't conducted a “yicious and diabolical campaign” against the whole Americafi economy, then I would like to know just what such a campaign would really have to consist of to be within the meaning of Mr. Murray's terms. Why, for instance, waste expensive A-bombs on Such things as American steel mills and coal

mines when they aren't producing anything

anyhow? They couldn't be any more inactive or any more harmless to the Soviet cause than they were under the orders of Murray, Lewis and associates. They could hardly be shut down any tighter had they been under the power of Willlam Z. Foster or. Earl Browder acting on direct orders of Marshall Stalin mis, * *

Criticisms of Our Fair City By H. W. Daacke, 3818 So. Olney.

I board a bus at 17th Ave. and Main 3t., “Beéch Grove, then I transfer tothe Madison Bus at Maryland and Meridian and go beyond Raymond st. The long haul for which I pay 13 cents (which is exorbitant) could be furnished by the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. at a far lower cost per mile, with the same 13 cent return, by an adequate service cross-town line;

How about the traffic bottleneck: on - the

South Side, Cameron 8t., Carson. Ave. and Shelby 8t.? Application for traffic police ase sistance has received little or no consideration. Regarding trash dumps, my suggestion is: Divide the city into quarters. Let each one quarter have it's own dump to take care of it's section. Why put the entire - burden- on: the South and West Sides? Why ~does- the - new street transportation

system put all new equipment on the North

and East Sides, then later it goes to the Brightwood district and the South Side?

What Others Say

LET'S face the fact that Europe is decadent and has been living off American aid and charity since the progressive evolution of Europe came to an end in 1914, —Paul Henri-Spaak, president of the Bitopeen Consulative: Assembly. > & : IN the sphere of foreign affairs, India will follow an independ¥nt policy, keeping ‘away from the power politics of groups aligned against eachother.

~Jawaharial Pandit Nehru of India.

TAX EXEMPTIONS Ea By James: Daniel -

- # EE 4 3 i” - : SR ««+ NOBODY denies these facts. But many interests oppose

trade barriers that are keeping out of the American market

% ducing similar items here.’ American consumers are the |

being ruined by a “favorable” trade balance they'll have to |

STIR, EHO Te THe TOE i of the govern- ¥ ‘Running Scared’

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Battle of Ballots

NEW YORK. Nov, 5-The Degoceatie high command has

ordered out thie guard foot-and-horse in a furious attempt to | nail down lection victory here next week. And-top New Dealers [

and Fair Dealers in droves are being rushed into battle.

The Republicans are calling on their big names similarly | to bolster Sen. John Foster Dulles in ‘his campaign to defeat ‘| Democratic Ex-Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and hang onto the |

Senate seat he drew by appointment from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey

A féw months ago. But they've been out of national power so |

— they can’t come up withthe razzie-dazaie stuff-the Demo erats have.

The Lehman forces Rave called out the Roosevelt family,”

cabinet members and ex-cabinet members, labor: leaders, bigname writers and everyone else they could get their hands on. President Truman has pushed his fist actively int the campaign. Vice President Alben W, Barkley was .rushed up here. James A. Farley has pitched in. And a battalion of others.

Big Names

MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELY, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Secretary of Labor Maurfee Tobin, ex-Becretary of Labor Frances Perkins, ex-Treasury boss Henry Morgenthau, Playwright Robert Sherwood, AFL “President William Green, Negro leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Tobias Channing, ex-Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California. "Even the big town is impressed by the cast whipped up tor the Lehman show. The old political chestnut about voters resenting outside interference in an election campaign has been heaved into the Hudson, And Mr’ Dulles? Well, he's had to settle for one really big

assist by. Gov. Thomas BE. Dewey, an endorsement by Sen. Arthur |

H. Vandenberg, a speech by Harold E, ‘Stassen and some speeches by Sen. Irving Ives (R. N. Y.). But he has turned the big Democratic invasion into a campaign charge that Mr. Leh-

ALL this spate of oratory and evangelising for the Democrats in a campaign in which most observers originally believed they would win hands-down, suggests Mr, Lehman is now “running scared.” ry But ne, say the Democrats.

- one thought Harry Truinan couldn't win,

* But if the Democrats aren't sure what will happen‘ next Tuesday, that's not surprising Chaos is the word for the criss- | | crossing of party lines in this ‘slection. The Dulles-Lehman Senate fight is all mixed up with & slightly violent New York |

City mayoralty race. . "There are three candidates in “the mayor's race—-the incumbent Democrat Mayor Willlam O'Dwyer, Republican-Liberal, fo American ated Jorris_5 and fiery Vito: ‘Mareantonto of Lehman as a Democrat is tied into Mayor ODwyers Sampaiga. But ed also has the Liberal Panty pom

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Mayor O'Dwyer. Then, Mr. Marcantonio is trying to discipline his followers

This “single shot” voting will hurt Mr. Lehman becsuse no

1 “leftist votes would have gone for Republican Sen. Dulles anyway.

knows just how much ft will hurt Mr. Lehman, though there are some guesses that the Marcantonio followers

| will do as their leader bids them.

President Truman’ moving into the: campaign personally

with another appeal for .Mr. Lehman, and Gov. Dewey, stump-:

ing the state for Mr. Dulles as though he himself were the candidate, have at stake A matter >f personal and political Prestige in na cpntest, Mr. Truman damned. the reactionary forces in for ‘Mr. Lehman and has declared “ey must be stopped In ow

‘College Profits

PIR scientific, literary. or educational”—the the Matutory wrexemption 1 tor colleges—.in nw

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—The Internal Revenue Bureau is

making two court atfacks on commercial ventures of U, B. ¢ol

leges and universities. If the suits are successful they would tend to slow down the most significant trend in the financing of privately Supported

++ higher educational institutions.

A study by the Américan Council of Education shows ‘that 159 colleges: and universities are- buying commercial enterprises

out of endowment funds or out of the current and now taxexempt earnings of the’ “businesses they are taking over, * FOrty per cent or 811 #naowment rounds are Bo’ Hives now,’

as against 20 per cent before the war. The high federal tax on corporation income—38 per cent of net earnings—provides the incentive and the means for selling profit-making enterprises to tax- exempt institutions.

Moving Into Industry

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ia one of the instititiohs now .-

moving directly into the ownership of industry. It owns the C. F\ Mueller Macaroni Works in Jersey City, a piston ring factory in Bt. Louis, ‘a pottery plant in New Jersey and the Zion Indus tries, Inc, of Zion, Ill. The University gets the net. profits, ine cluding an estimated. $1,500,000 annually Whick the industries used to pay in federal taxes, One of the sul's is against the Mueller operation. The goverrfiment seeks. $136,438 for the remainder of the 1047 tax year after the Macaroni plant was taken over Aug. 28, 1047. In Bt. Louis last week the Bureau completed the presenta

tion of its case against the Century Electric Co. which sold one .

of-its plants to William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., and then claimed a business loss for the difference between the book value of the plant and the sales price to the college.

Owns Churchill Downs :

MANY other schools also are in business. Union college in State

vig-the-owner ‘of - all -the -Allled - Stores real around the country, University of Louisville owns Churchill

Downs, where the Kentucky Derby is run.

Many of the buildings used by Woolworth, Montgomery-

Ward and Sears & Roebuck retail stores around the country .

are college-owned. Morningside College in Sioux City, Towa, bought the: local

public transit system and leased it to an operating com y ” * The University of Denver owns a big office balling "4 pany

Such lease-back Operations seriously deplete "municipal revenues which rely heavily on .real estate Loy They don't cut into federal revenues, to the degree that occurs when

a tax exempt college becomes both the owner and operator of a ;

commercial plant. Then all taxes are lost, city, state and federal. A certain amount of commercialism is incidental to many college activities. Agricultural colleges have dairies and demonstration forestries. They're likely to sell extra milk and timber, Which Js produced in the process of training thelr students. the government is sontanding that thers is nothing

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