Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1949 — Page 16
¥ 3 vi
eA
‘os and. SSrees o : Telephone Ri ley 5351 4
Pera United Nations debate on Nationals China'4 charges against the Soviet Union, is the same Dr. Jessup chosen by the State Department to draft a new American policy for the Far East. ies a
ve become of public concern. Be ; yy Dr. Jessup held various positions in the Institute of Pacific Relations, including the chairmanships of its American and Pacific Councils. | While the institute's publication, the Far Eastern Surwas under Dr. Jessup’s direction, it began a campaign Nationalist Chins. : Referring to what it called the “two Chinas,” it said: “One is now generally called Kuomintang China, the other is led Communist China. However, these are only party bels. To be more descriptive, the one might be called : “Ching, the other derhocratic China.” { Thus began the long campaign to tear down Chiang : .shek and present the Chinese Reds to the American ple as democrats and simple agrarian reformers. We ow them better than that now. But that is due to no conibutions by Dr. Jessup. , 7 2k a8 THE Communist front organizations with which Dr. p has been affiliated or has sponsored include the ican-Russian Institute, the National Emergency Conrence (organized in 1939 to protest the deportation of diens who advocated changing our form of government), he National Committee of Lift the Embargo—on Red
limes Feb, 16, 1946, urging the United States to suspend he manufacture of. atomic bombs, following the appointat of the United Nations Commission on Atomic Energy. ‘This letter urged, in order that the discussions on omic energy control might proceed in an “atmosphere of faith and confidence,” that: : ONE: “The United States at once stop the production porabs from material currently produced”—this to ine the ‘of subassemblies and “all other proinvolved in the fabrication of the bomb.”
TWO: “For one year, which would seem to be a rea-
sonable time for the commission to mature its plans and to
secure action on them by the governments concerned, we which are the essential ingredients of atomic bombs.” 7 Re Sif n 47, caught up with us or d us . ® og Ps jo
Red 03 8 “bulky compendium ‘and frequent contradictions of published and
feeling his way around in circles and often finding himself in questionable company. Certainly it is not the record of a man who should be chosen to formulate anything of such tremendous potentialities as an American policy for the Far East. : , Imagine sending a Dr. Jessup to preside over & conference on Far Eastern affairs at Bangkok, when we have a man like Gen, Douglas MacArthur in nearby Tokyo. If this is the way American foreign policy is being made, God save us from the Russians.
Here, at best; we have the picture of a confused liberal
The Grange Speaks
PERHAPS the most scathing denunciation so far of Agri- .*" ‘culture Secretary Brannan's farm price support plan has come from the National Grange convention at Sacramento, Cal, ‘ Since last April, when the plan first was outlined to Congress, officials of most large farm organizations have been severely critical of it. In fact, jts one enthusiastic supporter among such organizfiod has béen the National Farmers’ Lion, a sort of agricultural cousin of the CIO. ~The Grange, however, is one of the first to consider it in a national convention. Secretary Brannan himself addressed the meeting and urged support of his plan. It was
' a central topic of discussion for 12 days by delegates from
37 states, who then adopted a resolution calling it “an internal cancer that eventually would destroy our free enterprise system.” . » » » . » ; G the government subsidy method of trying to solve farm price difficulties as “at best a temporary device which will serve only to postpone the time when a sound solution must be reached,” the Grange resolution said: “The (Brannan) proposal has totally undesirable political implications. It would make farmers public beggars for a fair income. Clearly, under such a system, that party which would promise to voters the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on the basis of an honest, sound platform. It would then begome ‘a race to see which party would promise most.” Ld The Grange convention, in short, has reached the same conclusion as many city dwellers—namely, that the Brannan plan, with its promise of high incomes for farmers and low _ prices for consumers, would mean a vote-buying contest, in-
“ ¥Yolving enormous expense to the taxpayers but producing
no fundamental answer to agricultural problems.
"The racketeers already are busy in Indianapolis working their schemes for cash on the guillible pyblic. One way to put them out of
i i
£ Cc. 1 the in the
A 48 la
yr. ul
Ban on Military Growth Applies Only to Present WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 = Official denials that Germany will rearm are to be taken with a grain of powder—Teutonic gunpowder. The catch is in the timing. The Allled ban applies only to the present. ‘Actually the question is not “whether”? It is “wig”? and “in what form"? } So the effect of the statement of Defense Secretary Johnson ‘in Frankfurt is to lull
French and American fears of German rearmament, despite the fact that the danger is real.
Ho Topsatads SiPreaidant _ that the United States has no intention to rearm
’ : ter Cg oh ’ RAR : tole Lu Totnes
Germany. That is official United States policy, - !
with no hedging and no dodging.” No Rearming ‘at Present’
GEN. BRADLEY, chairman of the U. 8. joint chiefs of staff, to be franker. He said there would be no German rearmament alarmed
There the three Western occupation powers . made a deal. They relaxed other controls and modified their dismantling of Germany's potential war industries in trade for a pledge “to maintain demilitarization . and to endeavor by ail means in (Bonn's) power to prevent the recreation of armed forces of any kind.”
No Long Term Pledge
: ASSUMING that Chancellor Adenauer is sincere in this—and many of his German colleagues are not-—it is still no long term pledge. At the moment the Bonn government lacks funds and facil it needs the friendship and protection of the Western Powers against Stalin and his East German satellite. But step by step, is the Bonn regime grows stronger, it will demand military “rights,” It will chisel away the disarmament bans just as it has scrapped successfully most of the Allied dismantling
program. : This is clear from an earlier unguarded .
Adenauer statement that Bonn wants membership in the Atlantic Pact, which is a military
* He was one of 12 signers of a letter in the New York . alilance.
"Adenauer is well aware that there are powerful groups in America and Britain, and even a - minority in France, who wish to arm Germany _as an ally against Russia.
Reborn Germany
MR. ADENAUER knows that if and when Stalin withdraws Soviet troops from his already armed East German puppet, Bonn can pressure the Allies to gat out of West Germany. Then a reborn West German army, under the harmless guise of “a small defensive constabu-
" lary,” will be called for.
Once West Germany nas an army, backed by her potential war industry, she can play the Western Allies and Russia against each other—and deal with the highest bidder. ©» Meanwhile our government is trying to postpone that evil day as long as possible. And it is hoping, despite rapid revival of German nationalism, that the weak democratic minority there may somehow miraculously prevail,
w ¥
IAL CHRISTMAS
Christmas as a time for
“For a festive board and a fireside and celebration the whole day long.
Some people think of Christmas as a day of penitent prayer. For hailing the birth of the King anew. and rejoicing re. !
Bome people think of Christmas as chill winds
and ice and snow, . Of sleighbells and reindeer and : caroling wherever they go. : a
- Some people think of Christmas as all Jaughter and gaiety, . . Tinsels and silver stars and bells and presents under a tree.
AN of these things are Christmas, and many more things it is true, But my Christmas is always a special day because it first brought me you. :
~SUE ALLEN, 1830 E. Calhoun St.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS . . . By Bill Jacobs New Union’s Program
Nov. 30—The new CIO International Union of Electrical Workers is only 29 days old. And, typical of
PHILADELPHIA,
for an army. Moreover, .
THE CHANGING U. S. . . .
By Peter Edson
Population Center Moving West
WASHINGTON, Nov, 30—The U. 8. center of population will definitely be shoved across
the west bank of the Wabash River after the
1950 census. For the past 60 years Indiana has claimed this honor of being the center-of-population state. The 1940 census put it in Sullivan County, Indiana, south of Terre Haute. : In 1780 the center of population was out in the Atlantic Ocean, due to the curvature of the east coast line and the relatively denser population of New England. In 1790 the center of population was 20 miles northeast of Baltimore. Since then it has gradually been moving west,
toward Leavenworth, Kas, which is
the geographical center of the country. It is anybody's a good betting proposition, too—on where the 1050 center of population will show up. The general area will be between Paris and Cairo. Illinois, that is, not France and Egypt. And a good hunch is that it will not be more than 25 miles west of the Illinois-Indiana He, which is the Wabash River in this area. It's something for the local Chambers of Commerce in those parts to start argu-
- ing about. ~. Postwar Migration
BECAUSE of the heavy postwar migration toward the west, there has been some belief that the 1950 census would put the center of population in Missouri. The “Show Me" state has about every other top honor in government now, so why not that? gi The trouble with this calculation is that the East has been gaining in population as well as the West. True, California, -Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada have gained from 45 to 60 per cent in the last 10 years. But they had greater-open spaces and less population to begin with, ! - What all these and other shifts in population amount to for the whole country is. a net gain ‘of 34 per cent for the past 10 years, or a jump from 131 million to over 150 million people. Another way of saying it is that every
- month {for the past 10 years, the U. 8. has been
gaining population equal to a city the size of Hartford, Conn. Nashville, Tenn., or Akron, 0. Or a 10-year gain equal to the present combined population of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. What these chanves do to the economy of
SIDE GLANCES
the country is no small potatoes. There is every indication the country is going to keep on growing at this rate, snarling up traffic still more. The formation of 7 million new families in the past 10 years has created a lot of new business. Half of America's annual turnover is furnishing goods and services to families— autos, housing, furniture, laundry, food. The birth of 30 million babies in the past 10 years
‘has created a vast market for infant wear
alone. The lengthening span of life means more business supplying the aged.
Congress May Expand
THE increase and shif
Ca »
population also
has important political implications. Before “Jan. 1, 1951, the Bureau of Census must report
to President Truman and he must advise Congress on the exact nose count. The Congress then has 15 days in which to take action on increasing the membership of the House of Representatives. : 3 If no action is taken in that time, the membership stays where it is, at 435 Congressmen. The clerk of the House then notifies each state how many Congressmen it will be entitled to elect from 1952 and until the next census. It's up to the states to figure out their own redistricting to accommodate any changes in the number of Congressmen they may be entitled to. Originally, there was one Co an to every 30,000 people. The 1940 census put the ratio at one Congressman for every 301,000 people. If the size of Congress is not increased next year the ratio wil! be one Congressman for every 350,000. The number of Congressmen—435 —hasn’t been changed since 1910. Some people think 435 is too many. It’s impossible to predict accurately what changes in state delegations will be made next year, but this is approximately it: California will gain seven to nine seats.
* Texas and Florida will gain one or two. Most
of the other Southern states may lose one each, due to migration of Negroes to the Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago area. Oregon and Washington seem sure to gain one each, Maybe Michigan and maybe Connecticut will gain one apiece. Pennsylvania and New York will be close and might gain or lose one. Pennsylvania, incidentally, may lose out as second most populous state—to California.
By Galbraith
|
_ tery to many people.
PRIVATE DEBITS . . . By Bruce Biossat
New Credit Curbs?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—By the end of 194% consumer credit is expected to pass the $17 billion mark. Measurea in dollars, the
83 cents retail. I don’t know the wholesale pri but I judge about 50 cents, That would m the cost of one cup just about one cent as as the coffee is concerned. To get the other five or six cents claimed, you must have allotted all the head-—rent, light, heat, electricity, water and labor to the coffee and left the other food free, No, I think you are wrong. I think five cents is still enough for one cup of coffee. :
‘The Money Mystery’ By M. 0, Crawfordsville, Ind. “Money Is & measure of yalye and a dium of exchange.” So says a school text of 35 years ago. 1 am told that the total amount of real U. money is somewhere near $10 billion. The of the fabulous billions is imaginary represented mostly by credit slips and promis to pay. The why of that situation is still a
A
mes
To many it looks like money is largely Instrument of debt™and functions mainly as hindrance to equitable exchange. In a recent article pointing out the character of savings bonds, E. T. Leech “That's because the dollar has gone value.” a % x Again he says. “Heavy government deb huge public spending, rising taxes and costl benefits result in rising prices ,, . as ment debts go up, the value of money » falls. This has been true throughout history¥ = A Times’ editorial says: “When the governs ment increases its debt, that creates inflatio The value of money falls.” ! We remember hearing a lot about inflatio and the shrinking value of the dollar back. 1916. That same year the propagandists of th party in power seeking re-election boasted abo! the national government being out of debt. « A few up-to-date definitions: Lo ’ —a word now substituted for selfs
ishness, + Liberty—a word now substituted for indiscred tion. : Security—a word now substituted for co venience. / i Socialism—a name now applied to anything and everything that might interfere, for betteg or worse, with up-to-date freedom, liberty of security. : + 9 * © o TR
‘Why More Aid for Watts?’ By Elsie M. Davidson, 3623 E. Washington Sk I see that a third lawyer has been appoin to fend Robert Watts. Now I, for one, like to ask why they don’t get out a band him, give him fine food and keep on taking best care of him on the taxpayers’ money f two or three years more, then turn him to kill a couple more women, : I was a peace officer for many years 3 another state and I want to say in that statd they would have been through with him a long time ago. ? * o> ¢
‘Streets Need Decorations’ By Gale Thatcher, City. I am beyond a doubt in favor of the sugges. -tion submitted by G. O. Baker, for Yule decorations in Indianapolis. ' While the Circle decorations during the holidays are beautiful and everyone enjoys them, still it would appear that in a city the size of Indianapolis the downtown merchants would pu forth a little more effort and decorate the Ngh® posts and buildings. 7 8 It is such a pleasure to walk into Ayres's Wasson’s and Block's and view the lovely Christmas atmosphere that prevails, Most osr< tainly this atmosphere should be carried to) the outside also, :
a 29-day-old baby, it is doing a lot of squalling. But the noises that are being made here at the fouliding convention of the right-wing union of electrical industry employees are pretty articulate. They are beginning to make a lot of sense.
First off, there is no doubt that there is a strong feeling among the delegates that they owe the public their assurance that all traces of subversive tendencies have been cast off, The old, left-wing United Electrical Workers Union was kicked out of the CIO because it consistently: followed the Communist Party line,
. » . THE leaders of the new unfon, with an unmistakable
boost from both CIO President hillp Murray and President Truman, have insisted that they intend to devote their efforts to advancing the trade union movement, not’ the for. eign policy of another nation, S0 they have outlined a three-point economic program which they intend to press upon the industry. It calls for: A wage increase, . A pension program that goes further than that won by the steel workers, A "complete and adequate” social insurance program. - . . THE wage increase is demanded to bring the average the electrical iner up
:
ployee or used to increase the reserve from whi the benefits are paid. In ‘either case, the employer would not save anything, though he would, of course, have to share the increased cost of larger federal benefits. » » »
THE new union, which already claims 133 locals em-
bracing more than 221,000 em«
Pployees, has set up a general committee to analyze the eollective bargaining situation with General Electric, General Motors and Westinghouse. These three had been in negotiations with the old union when the storm over the Communist issue broke at the C10 convention in Cleveland early this month,
The committee has been try-
Ing to assess the damage done
to the relationship between thé . firms and the employees as & result of the failure:\of negotiations which were ca on by the old leftish union.\ , |S 4s N, THE emphasis on pork A to be won by the new union was keynoted by Mr. Murray
when he addressed the opening
While the old union and the
"Industry were stalling negotia-
tions, he said, the steel workers won themselves free pensions and a social Insurance
program. ; President Truman recog- ; nized the existence of the new:
tary-Tréasurer James B: Carey, who is acting now as its leader. The President said he was confident that the union , in and out .of the movement.” ig
4 é .
E
"benefit .from an increase in
= Ik : COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, WE. 7. M. RES UWTRYD0Y, » "She's been struggling for days with her Christmas list—she
knows so many boys, and isn't sure which ones will sepd her presents!™
What Others Say— - This measure (new 75-cent-an-hour minimum wage law) will remove from the sweat-shop ca some of the most exploited American -workers. At the same the entire economy will \ power . now so badly needed to maintain prosperity. Rieve, president, CIO Textile Worker's Unlon. = Rid
private debt of the American people is twice as great as in prewar days and three times its level at the end of World War II. Economists of the Federal Reserve Board don't like to ses this continuing growth of credit. But the men who are actually
lending the money aren't yet worried.- They believé@ buyer credit can be expanded safely another $3 billion to $5 billion. The lenders argue that consumer debt is running only a
little ‘more than 8 per cent of
personal Incomes left after payment of taxes. In 1939 such credit amounted to 11 per cent. - # = 4 SO LONG as incomes remain fat enough to keep that ratio below its previous high, the lenders apparently will be sat. isfied to go on putting consumers on the cuff for all kinds of goods and services. Reserve’ Board’ experts feel that today's high incomes ought to mean a higher proportion of straight sash payments instead of bigger and bigger credit allowances. If people have the money, they should use it tor pay for things instead of going into debt. These economists are perturbed about the easier and easier credit terms being offered in many places on sales of automobiles, radio and television sets, refrigerators and
other home appliances. s LE a
SOME car dealers are asking as little as $100 down with three years to pay on brandnew vekicles. Nothing down and years to pay are the terms frequently dangled before prospective appliance purchasers
The experts like to disting guish between jnstallment
Joans and other credit, includs
ing charge accounts, some loans from banks, service creds it from doctors, lawyers, ga~ rages, laundries and the like, Repayment in lump sums is the feature of this type. ' n ® »
SUCH credit is now about
$125 million below the level of a year ago. Yet it still bulks very large, with charge ace counts representing $19 of each $100 in consumer debt, single payment loans $17 and service credit totaling up to $6. The installment allowances, however, produce the furrowed brows among Reserve Board members, They think they should have power to restrict these loans, as they did until Congress let the authority lapse last June 30, ° But the figures show that the former restrictions had little
retarding’ effect on the growth
of installment” credit. Terms were stiffer than now, but the total outstanding debt went on rising anyway. Probably the total Will cone tinue soaring to. new heights until lenders decide —— perhaps suddenly -- that people no longer have the income to make their payments, For that seems to be the only economid measuring. rod they're inters ested in,
Barbs— | Naked hills — nude trees <= bare limbs! No wonder the
corn is shocked! ith &
* » j
There Diffar
Ask the n who has a RAILROA Home Le
WITH GEN
WEG
MARBLE | 927 ARCHI RILEY 753