Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1949 — Page 22

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YY between Sen. Homer Capehart and Rep. Andrew Jacobs promises both to enliven and enlighten next year's po campaign, and we hope éverybo “in Indiana with take time to listen in on it. ss | The subject, though, looks just a little loaded. (Can it be that our Representative has impetuously stepped into a bear-trap? ; ~~ Mr. Capehart’s challenge, which Mr Jacobs accepted, was to argue the merits of “British Socialism vs. the American System of Government” . . . with Mr. Capehart, of course, onthe side of the American system. And no wandering off the subject, he adds. Mr. Jacobs is an able debater, as he has very often proved, and an effective speaker. But if he can sell British ~ poclalism to. a Hoosier audience as preferable to an American republic we'll say he ought to go down in forensic | history alongside Cicero and Demosthenes and - Daniel | Webster. A , _ | Maybe, 0 sober second thought, Mr. Jacobs will decide to back out of this one as gracefully as one can, and we can’t say we'd blame him if he did. = If he doesn’t he's gone a long way toward committing ’ the Democrats of Indiana to support of pure socialism as a campaign issue . . . which we doubt if they really want.

| Better Football at Butler JT ISN'T surprising to hear some eriticiam from the Butler campus about Butler's two straight losing seasons in

football.

#7 But we'don’t blame the coach, as a few of the campus critics have done, it seems to us unthinkingly. We doubt if any coach ve taken the material at hand and won ‘the played this year. "The biggest lack was reserve strength. In game after

‘held tough opponents even, or better than

beorbing new plants cesses and new patents an ever greater share of the nation's life.” "And it quotes CIO President Philip Murray: “The in-

in monopoly eontrol and in the concentration of ecopower in the hands of a very limited number of over the life and destiny of everyone, This grip held by monopoly power must be broken.” : Business monopoly is bad. Americans have always feared it. Congress has enacted laws against it. Public opinion supports enforcement of those laws. But this country's most powerful monopolies were fostered by the government when it helped John L. Lewis and Philip Murray to organize the great industry-wide unions of the CIO. TL = an. as HE won 8 THE ANTI-TRUST laws can’t touch these monopolies. has giver them immunity from the laws on the theory that labor is not a commodity. Yet control of the labor force in any industry means power to control or halt production of that industry's commodities. : “Mr. Lewis in coal, Mr. Murray in steel, have such control over two commodities vital to all industry and to the nation's health-and safety. The econbomic¢ power in their hands gives these two men “control over the life and destiny of everyone.” ; “Three giant corporations, according to the CIO publica- © tion, own almost 60 per cent of the country’s primary steel capacity. But Mr. Murray's giant union could close the plants of those corporations until they met his terms and he could tell smaller companies to go out of business if they can't afford to grant his demands. . » . y 8» THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT puts no real curb on the | monopoly power of unions. At most, it can halt or delay a | paralysing strike for only 80 days. And Mr. Murray seeks | to use the political power of the CIO's membership to presSure Sug ean into abolishing even that weak measure of stion for the public interest. 2: 0 By all means, enforce the anti-trust laws against busiStrengthen those laws, if need is shown, to make them more effective. But Mr. Murray's fulmina-

business cannot conceal the urgent need abuse of super-monopoly power by

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Open War With Russia

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something of the quality of the struggle of prehistoric monsters in the Silurian swamps. The ultimate alm of the strategy employed by Russia must have been obvious to Tito early in the game. That aim was to so weaken Tito’s position in the ry that he would be a vassal of the USSR. be removed and destroyed, :

In Strong Position PRESSURE from Moscow before the break, for exampie, was to play down the role of Yu- . goslavia’s partisans in liberating the country ‘and to put greater on the contribution of the Red army. Likewise Tito was to be subordinated to Stalin, ; But Tito was already enshrined. first by the heroism and drama of his leadership In propaganda

members of the Politburo in the Kremlin. There also was pressure from- Moscow to speed up the collectivizing of the land. That would have meant bucking strong resistance from land-owning peasants. Again Tito knew that to respond to this pressure would be to risk a breakdown of farm production, economic upheaval and a weakening of his regime. In Instance after instance he refused fo act on the hints. the nudges and. finally, the pokes from Moscow. He could say no because his po- ~ @ition was quite different from that of any othar satelite Teader. While Tito was indoctrinated in Moscow, he . peturned alone to lead his partisan forces the German foe. Rumania, Bulgaria and

Fouaht With Tito EQUALLY important, Tito built the monoHithie structure of Yugoslav communism with his own power at the apex. The 400,000 Communists run this country with total control exercised by the Yugoslav Politburo.

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on farce and there can be no compromise. Winter is setting in and the familiar wind blows down ths Danube, bringing a bone-deep cold straight from the steppes of Russia. Already there is snow on the mountain passes. But the spring may bring something other than the uneasy not-peace-not-war that now prevails,

MAJOR ISSUES . . By Dan Kidney,

Campaign Plan

WASHINGTON, Nov, 17--Secretary of Agricuiture Charles F. Brannan and Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, together

with President “Truman, have drafted a 1980. .

campaign plan which will make the Brannan farm plan and national health insurance the two major Democratic Party issues. A: few hours after the meeting with Mr. Tru. man, Mr. Ewing obtained time on a coast-to-coast radio network to describe in detail his part of the program. He decried “socialized medicine.” Private health insurance plans, such as those approved by the American Medical Association, he said, are fine but too costly.

Says It Fits the Bill ; ONLY THE administration's health plan will fit the bill, Mr. Ewing declared. He contended that group health insurance and hospitalization by private companies take 31 per cent for overhead and profits. “Obviously, such insurance is a mighty poor buy.” Mr. Ewing argued. “We ought to be able to do better than that. We can do better than that. That is why we are proposing a plan for national health insurance. “Overhead under national health insurance would cost no more than 5 to T% per cent , which means that from 92 to 95 cents of every dollar in premium would. go to pay for the © medical care you need.” Doctors will not be regimented under the plan; it will be opefated on a local basis and you call your own family physician, Mr. Ewing éald. There will be no more red tape than un-

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Act on the Ward Case -- An Edioril

GQECRETARY of State Acheson has said that the imprisonment of Angus Ward, U. S. consul general at Mukden, by the Chinese Communists is a matter of “primary concern.” . 3 He promised all possible steps to obtain

‘Prompt action is essential. Mr. Ward's life may be in danger. He went to Manchuria by order of our government. He is entitled to its protection.

and feel only contempt for weakness. A power never has got into war with by u its own national dignity and its own rights in matters of this kind. It is when they find that they can push other people around that are most likely to go too far.

: a : WHEN THE Japs sank the American ship Panay in 1937, they were feeling us out, just as the Chinese Communists are now. By letting them get away with that we encouraged them in the course that led to Pearl Harbor. re Because Hitler had been convinced at

““Munich that Britain and France would not

stand against him, he invaded Poland and touched off World War IL The Chinese Communists degfénd on obtaining petroleum products, cotton, ma-

- chinery and much of their food by sea. We

“¢an shut off these supplies by blockading

OUR TOWN . .. By Anton Scherrer How Columnist Gets His Start

A GAUDY RASH, subsequently diagnosed as the most spectacular case of measles ayer seen on the South Side, compelled me to sever con‘nections with. Public School 8 for a while. When I was put to bed, the class with which I was identified was in the middle of long

division with a remote

chance of licking that pranch of arithmetic. When 1 returned to school to take up where I had left off, I found my healthy mates disgustingly familar with what, in that day, was known as vulgar fractions. Indeed I had lost so much ground that I was about to surrender when, to my delight, I discovered that my class had not yet ventured into the geographical area then known as China. Except for that discovery, 1 might have been a prize example of utter frustration. As it turned out, I ended up a columnist. . : My precocious knowledge of that part of the Orient may be attributed to my Blue China Period, that sector of my childhood when my breakfasts were served on. plates of the old . Maybe you, too, had the same luck. Goody-—then I don't have to think up a lot of words to explain that the plates portrayed the story of a mild-m mandarin making love to a Ty n on & rickety bridge so old that it was al to fall apart,

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Historians will be puzzled at our stone age ers when they fail to reconcile our mottoes with our actions. Conforming with the letter of the motto, we achieve a result that mottoes never intended when great-grandma them on samplers.

“Want in the midst of plenty.” The powers that be want more and more. “God helps those ‘who help themselves.” Today that motto is

superfluous sad its; wisecrack companion, “God helps those caught helping themselves,” doesn’t even merit a parole department's scrutiny, especially for major gyps. . It is true, “That all work and no play makes jack,” but in the succeeding generation, “Ten little Indians swinging down the line,” cannot understand the caption, “Lo! the poor Indian.” “The dillar for dollars, the 10 o'clock schole am, “ho Jatt Sat at noon,” leave at noon. me are on factro , s.un ss ai “Supply and demand.” When the poor his torians hit that one, they will surely throw ia the sponge unless the spongers of our era have - ended the existence of this ubiquitous mopper .. “Economists,”. that won't help them, either, The Rosetta Stone these pundits use is vaguer than hieroglyphics. %

their ports with“our Pacific Fleet. ‘Lacking either navy or air force, they could not counter the blockade. We would not need to land troops to engage the Communists’ forces. We could bring them to terms without firing a shot. And, of course, we should make it clear to them and to the world that what we de- Ee mand of them is only what it is our right to have—decent treatment for official representatives of our government.

¢ oo RUSSIA is not involved in this matter, por likely to involve herself. The Soviets always let their stooges do the dirty work and take the risks. They pushed Bulgaria

Greece, but when we intervened, Russia herself was not involved. She was ready +o. 0, to move against Iran, but backed away "Little Fellows Strangled’

when we stepped in. ; By T. Parker : Moscow is winning in Asia without’ Union wage-raises give 15 million more than

fine myself to the one 16€ated in my bailiwick, at the corner of Madison Ave. and Meridian, will be more than enough to describe them all Mr. 1.6¢ was a bearded Briton brought up in

keepers. His stores were as spick and span as one could wish and charged with a smell unlike

compounded of Edam cheese, Smyrna “figs, Damascus dates, a blend of a dozen or more spices, and the exotic perfume of a selected line of coffees and teas which were kept hidden from

they really need and put 60 million of us in fighting. There is no danger that the Rushalf as much only. United States itself in an attempt to knock If union men don’t pay part of all benefits, Russia to gain an impression that we have as a privileged class. goods and then giving or loaning its customers guaran market for 168 million bushels of wheat ancountries to get together and set up a price take 456 million bushels annually at prices view in black japanned containers back of the pictures which in their way, were just as excit- 40-Cent Subsidy

eater peril each time. 5 p : inflation, caused this - sians will start 3 war by engaging our fleet ing in to union bosses, A ig SOn nal pe with their inferior navy in the Far Pacific. ings and pensions and insurance, We can buy If and when they decide the time has come Fifteen million unionists get 4 : : nis to fight us, they will strike by air at the causing 60 million to get too little, Fifteen ; million always win, 60 million always lose, and out our production machine, for they have are thus robbed of their security, seen what it can do and they know they ' they won't be conscious of the cost, cannot mateh it. A mies Sictatonial sill, which awh : ants | But there is real danger in permitting yon poorer ones. Fifteen a nur gone completely soft—so soft that we raise only feeble verbal protests against the im- WHEAT By Earl Ri I dan rl Richert prisonment of Consul General Angus Ward y ina Manchurian jail. Reverse Sales WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--Visualise a store cutting prices below cost on one big line of the money to buy at the below-cost price. That's exactly what's happened on the U. 8, end of the international wheat agreement-—the deal by which we are teed a foreign nually for the next four years. . We sponsored the wheat agreement on the grounds it would be a good thing for the nonCommunist wheat exporting and importing schedule which would maintain “fair { all” for the next four years. It also rican — us a guaranteed market for some of our surplus, Thirty-three importing countries agreed to ranging from $1.50 to $1.80 a bushel for the Foote et mo eo wre The tea containers, I remember, were gor: . 88 prices, Our apart ao at ith. Tod, and gold Chinese share was 168 million bushels, ing as those on the willow ware plates: Indeed, 3 : wheat prices main : some were even more exciting for they ventured by BIRR ur gomastie A Jeicss m sained beyond the field of mere. love-making which, = =o $1.80 ps a po proses ase well when you come to think of it, has distinct pay the pf brimemn Pe iwi

limitations. ranges from 40 to 49 cents a bushel. The Sexes Reversed Thus, our government guaranteed to sell AT. ANY rap, it-wat In Mr. Lee's tod store. S823 6f these 168 million tushals at far below that 1 first discovered that the Chinese were What happened? : \nterested in a number of things besides making The wheat I love—in horses, for instance, and boats ‘and nt, ratified by our Sen.

sports such as shuttlecock and battiedore, to say nothing of long pants. - Except for Mr. Lee's

tea store, I might never have learned that counter. Chinese women, wear long pants while the men dn » 3, with thres months gone by, go around wrapped in long flowing garments. reg only 13.3 million of the 168 million Somehow, 1 had never observed this distinction ‘Most of this was bought by Latin ‘American countries, with the exception of Belglum which ran out and had to buy.

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stalls, they were Backed in—a prooeduse which could be-used to U. 8. at the had the merit of showing their faces and not going market price. Pian, a Sa BOt could not be used rm Chinese had funny notions about boats, too. Wheat. =. In Mr, Lee's store they rowed their boats stand- Congress days solved ing up t the bow, And even more mys- this Plan money terious was discovery that they hauled the under the inter boat on shore by the stern instead of the bow. national The change became much by way of Mr. Lee's Sffoctive perked up at once. ; later, , the U. 8. will have no

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