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A Dishonest Resolution

American resolution presented to the United Nations

ECONOMICS... By Charles Egger

Buying Power

Workers’ Wage Advantage | Second Only to Australia WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-—The average worker

"oan put more food on the table with an hour's

labor in this country than in any other nation except Australia. CT * Food’ purchasing power is-lowest in There, an Average wage earner must be on the ‘ Job from four to seven times 4s long as & worker in the United States to be paid enough to buy the same amount of food. Italy and Austria are next lowest in food . purchasing power of hourly earnings, although the average man can get much more for his efforts in those countries than in Russia. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported

~ General Assembly by Dr. Philip C. Jessup in the Chi- these figures after a study of food purchasing

~ nese<Russian dispute is a hypocritical evasion of the issues

power of averagé workers in 19 countries, An average hourly wage of $1.37 was used for the

upon which China has asked the member nations to pass worker in the United States,

It is a contradiction in part of the State Department's paper on China, which Dr. Jessup himself

own official white edited. 4 :

Prices and Wages

BECAUSE of country-to-country differences Available statistics, including earnings, prices © and quality of food, the Mireau offered its find-

5d “ rison” of nd If adopted in its present form, the resolution will be np a “rough compa of prices a

a left-handed approval of everything Russia has done in

Manchuria and China,

China asked the United Nations to pass on accom. plished facts and stated acts of Russian aggression. But t imerican resolution is worded as though none of the of which China has complained had taken place. It déals only with the present and the future, not with the

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contained a restrained criticism of Soviet acts in Manchuria,

here is not one word of condemnation or criticism in

t bon itself, nor is the Soviet. Union mentioned. «The resolution calls u principles of the charter in their relations with China.” This in the face of the published fast that Russia set

. up a puppet government in Manchuria months ago-long be. fore the Chinese Communists announced the formation of

their own “govarnment” at Peiping. ;

It also asks all nations to “respect the right of the

people of China now and in the future to choose freely their political institutions and to maintain a government inde-

: This at a time when Red troops control most of China, In what country in the world have the people had a voice

in the formation of & government when Red troops were in

control? =. iy a " §F § 3 FINALLY, the resolution asks

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member nations to “re.

train from seeking to acquire spheres of influence or to

. . ”. ” ” . «DR. JESSUP'S speech in support of his resolution wag more forthright than the resolution itself, in that it

all ‘nations “to respect the ina and to be guided by the

Only foods’ were covered in the survey, but

the bureau sald the worker in the United States -

would have rated even better if other items, like & suit of clothes or a4 pair of shoes, had been included. The statisticians started out by giving the United States a rating of 100. Food purchasing power. .of the wage earners in other countries then were compared with that mark. Australia had a rating of 109, the only country to exceed the United States rating. That's because Australians eat more meas and buy it at lower prices than Americans.

Lower Ratings

HERE'S how. workers in other countries rated behind those in Australia and the United States: Norway, 88; Canada, 84; Denmark, 80; Great Britain, 71; Sweden, 69; Finland, 52; Israel, 51; Switzerland, 51; Csechoslovakia, 48; Ireland, 45; Chile, 36; France, 85; Hungary, 33;

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y, 32; Italy, 24; Austria, 23; Russia 18.-

Purchasing power would move up in some ¢ountries, particularly France, if family allow ANCeA were included. The bureaq ‘éitimated that food purchasing power of an average French worker with a wife and two children would increase about 18 per cent if his family allowances were included. The- survey includes estimates of how long the average wage earner in éach cauntry must work to buy & given amount of food. -

30 Minutes for Bacon

IN THE United States; 16F example, the

a man must work 30 minutes to earn 10 buy a pound of sliced bacon. In Great ___ Britain it takes 53 minutes. The Russian worker. needs seven hours and 46 minutes.

‘If it's pork chops he wants, the American worker needs 32 minutes to earn a pound. The

ro Australian does it in 35 minutes. create foreigh-controlled regimes within the territory of requires six hours and 47 minutes Bvsnn =~ China” and from “seeking to obtain special rights and prv- _, Fiecears the nu

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TA Ee =k = ses mia hn A assis 3M 18 22 Port Arthur, the Canaan agen na 21 I; A0AADS - foemany ttle No Bm om en RE Great Britain cise 87 — 16 “10 7 Italy Sesnsiuisein 112 2 248 46 S Ruséia Chesnais bines 158 52 50 1

to secure control of

fest of Manchuria and to ald the Communists in their cone quest of China proper, = ~The United States government has stultified itself by

offering this resolution to the United Nations—and the Nations would stultify itself by adopting it.

The Miners Pay—And How WHR ctu minas sumainly Aes paying & high pric or whatever it is John L. Lewis may think he is accom.

plishing, Out of 234 possible working days so far. this year, the 380,000 bituminous miners east of the Mississippi have been idle almost 80 because of strikes or short work-weeks ordered by Mr. Lewis. : : The loss of wages that might have been earned in 80 days amounts to approximately $1200 for the average

And, if the #Y week now ordered by Mr. Lewis \ : , the possible working days not worked in 1940 will be almost 00, and-the potential earn. ings lost to the average miner will be approximately $1350,

y= » 4 a 8 2» ON MAR. 11, the miners went out for 8 two-week strike because Mr. Lewis said they must protest the appointment of Dr. James Boyd as director of the Federal Bureau of Mines. The U. 8. Senate promptly confirmed the t. oat : On June 13, they went out for a week which Mr. Lewis termed “a stabilizing period of inaction.” - g On June 30, he decreed that they should work only thrée days a week until further notice. On Sept. 19, Mr. Lewis ordered a “no-day week” to enforce pension, welfare and other demands which, he never yet has explained clearly to the miners or the public. That . On Nov. 9, Mr. Lewis, professing concern for “the publie convenience,” sent them back to work for three fulltime weeks.

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Thursday, that period having expired, they struck .

again, and a few hours later he ordered them to resume work, on & three-day week, beginning Monday. ; E, ; | x

Christmas, but not knowing that Mr. Lewis won't call them out again at any moment. ; If the miners have any ct of gains to show for

the economic be done by

ful he is, that demonstration ix totally unnecessary. : ‘. ® » ‘ ; w=» ! country already has had super-abundant proof that immunity from thé antitrust laws enables this one man to abuse monopolistic power greater than that any itor of their union has power to punish individuals it dare defy his ower to rule

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FRIENDSHIP ASHES Absence dims the ardor of affection And passing time may blur our memory, Until some token of dévotion : Recalls the joys of days, that used to be. The dull ember of a friendship dying May lie and smoulder through forgetful days, While friends whose love our youth held closely Have wandered through life's misty veil of haze.

But often a budding flower in springtime “Or moonlight dancing on a rippled stream, Of strains of music in the évening Bring back old friendships in a welcome dream. Then our memories of youthful laughter ’ And reveries of folks that wé 6née knew, Form into a a splendor And kindle fires of friendliness anew.

~OPAL MeGUIRE, 814 Broadway.

TRUMAN'S AIDS... By Andrew Tully

Cabinet Shakeups =

WASHINGTON, Dée. 3-=President Truman

assistants like a woman uses up words éver since hé took over in 1945, but he's really hit his stride since being re-elected a year

ago.

In that time, sight top officials have bitten the dust—two of

them Cabihet members and the third the boss most delicate enterprise, atomie

One of the first to go was for- / maér Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who retired last’ January with Mr, . Truman's praises ringing in his ears, Another is. David Lilienthal, whose récent resignation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was accepted by the President with ts that were warmly and wordily sincere. . . » GEN. MARSHALL had been free of major attacks during his term in office. But Mr. Lilienthal had had to weather a series of assaults, the most recent of which was the investigation of last summer over

Krug not only

hid argued wi

Sullivan were

with the

Adm. Louis fired as chief

feet during the campaign but

over various reclamation policles. Mr. Truman thanked A Krug for services rendered, but he didn’t get out the honey jar, Kenneth Royall and John

this year as secretaries of the Army and Navy, respectively, because they didn't go along administration on unification plans,

tions for the same reason, after a noisy hooraw featuring the out-cries of the rebellious Capt. John Cromimelin. .

Cold Comfort

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AMERICA'S FUTURE . . . By E. T. Leech”

U. S. Losing Stro

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—~Two weapons make America the world's strongest military power. And they are not the atoin- bomb; jet. plane, guided missiles or any of the fantastic pushbutton weapons about which there 18 so much talk.

Tm ee Og HUI De YEN TOF the har See oT ae]

“est nation Th War are largely ighored. At times we seem bent on destroying them. These two wedpons are the industrial ea- = pacity and the financial strength of the United 7 States. In the sort of total, gll-out war which

of the world. It is the miraculous tive capacity of the American industrial organisation that the Russians fear. Alter World War 1, Hindenburg sald, “The American businessmen defeated . Germany; they understood war’ He did .not- mean that they understood military tactics and strategy. What he meant was that they understood how to pour out such a trémendous flood of guns, tanks and ammunition

———4{hat-an-enemy could be overwhelmed.”

Industrial Strength

BUT our industrial production in the first ~Wwar was a mere trickle eompared to the flood which we poured into World War IL i : America’s industrial strength consists of its factories and machinery, its know-how and management, its assembly lines and organization, and the world's best-trained and most productive labor force. It is a joint creation of investment, engineering, management and labor. We have the best and the most tools, and the moat opérators and workers who khow how 4 to use them to the greatdst advantage” Bit it takes vast financial strength to maintain and exvand that industrial capacity, and to keep it modern and progressing. Industrial strength is largely a matter of individual entérprise—of the personal efforts and ability of management and workers, But financial strength depends largely on

SIDE GLANCES

has used up his

of the nation’s | had dragged his

th the President Mr

dropped earlier

A. Denfeld was of naval opeéra-

ngest Weapons?

government. Politics dictates the size of our debts and whether we live within our income. These factors in turn determine the tax burden and the buying power of the dollar. If government debt is 60 great—the U. 8. debt today is over 250 billion dollars-—and expenses are too high, two things happen. Wealth and credit are consumed in time of peace which

Heavy taxation and inflation result.

Using Up Money

getting into” debt Before an emergency arrivés. This is happening now in America. _ American Communists always rt any

bs ; ie Suppo Furope und the rest policy which will increase. debts, provoke labor

difficulties and othetwise hurt our business and financial structure. They get their cue from

Russia. And Moscow wants to eripple or destroy -

our two

- dangér than are a lot of Americans. When I was in England last summer it was surprising to encounter 80 many people who were worry-

ing about a possible AmericAn depression, and .

about the extent of American spending. They asked more questions about these matters than moist Americans do. . Europe knows that financial and business trouble in the United States would weaken the

whole free world. Also, Europe always thinks |

in terms of the next war. w»

Perilous Situation

FOR 2000 years, Europe has had almost continuous war, - broken by interludes of peace. There Is nothing to indicate that this long trend has been reversed. And we have become so involved that war in Europe almost automatically meafis war for the United States. Yet here we are, deeply ifivolved in a perilous situation, and spénding ourselves into trouble during a time of peace. Wa fot only don’t talk or think much about our {wo greatest weapons; we seem intent on weakening or destroying thém,

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THESE use up dollars which otherwise would

.. Steel Corp. *

“Hoosier Forum * da val yee with speed hat oy, but;

By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, RE 8.

I'd like to take a crack at C.D.C. for not having éver sighed a name to articles. One

readon these ynnamed persons do not is their 1s no

they are ashamed of mind.

try to teach them since C.D.C. En i : m

to the old school where the teacher sanding in the corner wearing a De

method didn’t work, the teacher often pasted the lines on the head. One day C.D.C.'s teacher pasted the préambie of the Constitution on his head, upside down, in order for C.D.C. to learn it he had to stand

on his head and look in the mirror. That's why °

he has learned everything backwards, which is

the policy of the Republican leaders. 86 he fits =

right into Republican leadership, always going ‘backwards. Republican leade is like a frog, It jumps up two feet and kicks four, You unnamed, say: “Andy, (Jacobs) by his

own admission, collected big attorney fees °

from unions.” It took him a period of months of work and stud lected overnight.

suit for them they didn’t owe him a cent, Now

what could be more fair? The free enterpfise °

system; we believe, gives a man a t to work for a living and not for peanuts, if can, Then unnamed, you ask “If our so-called free enterprise system Is so good, why Is Andy going to debate with Capehart on British soclallam?” I didn't know this was going to be the subject but rather the subject was “Whether the Democratic Party was better for the people

than what the Republican leaders offered.” Ir -

Capehart does debate this subject, which is what the people want, there will bé a lot of red-faced Republicans snd a lot of shluttering guing on. ¢ oO

‘More Decorations Needed’

By Joan Daaiels, City.

I heartily agree with Gale Thatcher and G. - .. 0. Baker that street and light post decorations :

‘in downtown Indianapolis would be splendid. Just imagine Washington Street, particularly from Alabama 8t. to Capitol Ave. ablaze with brilliant colored lights, holly, Christmas

trees and reindeer decorating the light posts -

with possibly a large star hanging over the center of Meridian St.

We have given up the 4th of July celebration }

because of its. dangers. We have given up the traditional Halloween parade’ on Monument

Cirele because certain individuals used it to a

disadvantage, but we still have Christmas. Think of the decorations in the downtown

stores. Merchants could readily spare Christmas

trees, candles and reindeer. That would give us, the people of Indianapolis, Christmas decorations for. each block. I don’t believe this suggestion could be ifiterpreted as ‘‘wanting something for nothing”

Apasmuch as Indianapolis citizens do their shop- F

ping particularly if this six-block area. * ¢ 9 2

‘Supporting Beast of Greed”

By Clarence Love, Marshall, Ind.

With our present foreign policy headed toward-a Fascist domination of -the—world-by—-Our cartel monopolies and trusts, we are defi--nitely opposing the four baile freedoms. We are helping Italy, Spain and- and"

opposing those who fought Hitler. We are help

ing Gérmany to rearm and we are

\g_ guns _ and ships to strengthen the same Fascists that +

murdered millions. We have set up the four powerful Jap families in control again. At home there is another witch hunting spree to covet this up. . We pray for peace and utopia but we eontinue.to support the beast of greed that thrives only on wars and exploitation.

What Others Saye

WE are today in the ludicrous position of telling other countries they must balance thelr budgets as a condition of our aid or loans while we ourselves are badly out of balance

W.” Randolph Burgess, exceutive ehalrman of the National City Bank of New York. / ' ¢ oS 9 )

THIS (steel) settlement represents & come promise of the principal issue in dispute, mainly Whether or riot the employer shall pay the eéntire cost of instirdnee and pensions f6f emiPloyees.—Benjamiln Fairléss, president of U. &. eo @ I'AM {rying to get all those people who logk up to meet those people who look down-—those people who are strictly materialistic—and if we

can get them together, we will have world peace —Presideat Truman.

~ By Galbraith SWEET suppLY . . . By Earl Richert

The big

as a participant in a heated battle being w ed here whether sugar prices BO up or down next Mya

makers of ¢afidy, soft drinks, bread, etc.—want him to permit a big sugar supply, thus forcing prices down. ‘ spokesman housewives, who buy Half of all sugar consumed in this country, have yet ‘ap- . peared in the two days of hearing. And Agricultare Department officials say they don't expect any-the housewives usually don’t show up. But the industrial Sugar users, in fighting for themselves, al80 fight for the housewives,

WHAT is immediately at Rand is the estimate which the

Sugar Price Battle

WASHINGTON, Dee. 3-0nly the U,

8. houséwife is absent over year, ;

Domaestie sugar growers want culture Brannan-—who .has complete contra ove Ee oretary Chafle

t the supply situation

through control of foreign sugar i by limiting the supply. Sipetis-te. loves Jr 9)

users—the 7,250,000 tons less than it was

almost certain that the U. 8. would consume, He later raised the figure to 7,500,00 tons but his actions held down thé Supply enough te force sugar prices up slightly, the retail price of sugar now averaging 9.8 cents per pound compared with 9.3 cents a year ago, | All food prices on the aver age have dropped 5.2 per cent In the same period, according to the Bureau of Labor Stas tisties, :

It is expected that the See retary will favor the growers again this year. Mr. Shields estimated that It the Becretary drove up the

for the

about

charges of mismanagement AND to nobody's surprise, Agriculture secretary is re- - Price of as as he made by Sen. Bourke B, Hick- Dr Edwin G. Nourse resigned quired to make this month - could In following the letter of (R. Ia) Mr. 141 48 chairman of the President's on how much sugar we'll con the law, the { enthal won that one and Council of Beonomic Advisers, sume in this coutitry next Of One cent a pound per pire ~ throughout had the President's Nobody was surprided be. year. Department officials are %on for household would To ~“eause-& few days belors Dr. - holding publio hearings toget - b¢ about 45 cents & a For the rest; President Tru Nourse had made a speech the views of all concerned. slightly less than one per man not only was giad to see against defélt financing. The If ‘he makes & high esti pound. . a i them go but gave some 4 firm cold little note the mailman ’ mate, they'll slide down & 1it- But others pointed out that ; " "brought Dr. Nourse from the Ir b An Increased cost of one oent 1's true, of course, that the Boss was about as closs as the i gy 1 TT peach Robert Shields, president of & pound on 7,800,000 tons t was saddened at the President could come to saying he boss certainly booted one, ma ing ¢ at radio speech about , the U. 8. Beet Assocla- would be § 000 and he departure of the late James = good riddance. how little 8 dollar will buy-=three people have tion, has asked that the Sec-' increased cost 16 bakers, candy former of For a change, the latest de - - asked for raises today!’ fetary make an initial con makers, ate, would in many Defénse, The two were on good parture from the President's , 4 Fy sumption estimate of 7,200,000 instances be passed on 16 cons terms in a formal kind of way, - official family will be a volun- i ; tons, 50,000 tons less than the sumeérs too, y the President was con- tary one; Clark Cifford, the placed the one man who left bor Maurice Tobin, Initial estimats for 1040 and 20 a ‘ Mr. Forrestal was not President's special counsel, will . - the Cabinet for a n-< of Agriculture Charles Bran. .. 300,000 tons less than. t + MR. PEYTON dic ‘nob ats his. job well enough. leave next month to try t0 Tom Clark, who st up nan and of Com- final 1949 estimate of 7,600, tack. current 50 There also," of course; was the make some money practicling last summer to the Supreme merce Charles Sawyer all were tons, . ’ Much a8 he SANE Prices 2K report that Truman felt - law, rt. " i ted. last year, Gordon P. Peyton, fepre- ance of > malntenMr. Forrestal should have . .o +. Mr Krug was the veteran of it Af the Cabinet is short senting: the 14 r indus: situation, Ught sugar supply helped out some in the presi AS THE Cabinet 1s set up the Jot until his resignation. on longevity, it's lonig on a tries, has asked that the Sec- “ANY unforseen dob: dential campaign. how--that is of the moment = Now the seniority passes to quality Mr. Truman likes 4 Jot retary make & minimum con any disruption in Shthand Coast "sl It includes four members who Secrefary of the Treasury John better--fair dealishness. The sumption estimate of 8,098,000 "shipping or refining ‘ote - AT ANY rate, Mr, Forrestal - weren't there when the Presi- - W. Snyder, who's been inthe only one of the bunch who tons, thus assuring larger im- ate peal ong Sond Joft last February to be suc- © dent was re-elected. These are '. Cabinet three whole years. Of be described as a conser- . ports from Cuba. try” be in the indus--Geéded by & Truman pal, Louis Mr. Johnson, Secretary of the rest, only one has been {hn vative is Treasury Becretary £8» Voi The sald. Johnson, : . Bate Dean Acheson, Secretary office more than a year—Post- John Snyder apd he'll probably . THE SECRETARY . ruled . under a aculture Secrotpry whee wis Cap Krug, SF the ISOEIOF usar Cnapinan, Sutera} Jee, Donkia: Stick a8 Jung 1a he wants, ais. last year on the kide %of the Jaw 18 directed A... resigned weeks: torney General J, OW- ‘son, who was . After , aintain. sugar prices 3 a8 Secretary of Interior. Mr. ard MeGrath. Mr. McGrath re. vember 1047. a of Ta. yy al, Wa trom We po gc with gn. » Sarting 3 an von to the producers and

dunce cap be ““eause he. couldn't learn his lines. hoy

and this sum was not col. ° e think hé was underpaid, ° Besides he told the union if he didn't win the -

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© Collins, 23, s wards, 20, H shortly. after 52 near Leban Their death double-fatality ANA On success Two truck dr to death in a v yesterday and killed Thursd: near Plerceton Hit Fr Police said 2 were driven by Mr. brother, Ira, + hit from behir driven by Willi: anon. Mr, Edward “right. Mr. Coll Hospital a few was admitted. injured serious also was hospi Walter E. B Mich., was kill accident involv Ind. 47. His other, skidded with a truck Dickerson, Aut - Rams | In Anderson 33, was killed] car struck a | and’ overturned A former Inc Jacob W. Will died ‘yesterday pital of injurie day in a thre the 7700 block St. ath His wife, La: dition in Methe

: yesterday, will ~ . Monday.in Ro) neral Home. Floral Park. Mr. Burkhea of two weeks, together in th lost control or highway and bridge. Mrs. Bu cal condition fix Hospital, Steub

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