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” » » . TODAY, as the budget director says, each of a numr of government programs costs more than the entire overnment did less than 20 years ago. The budget's very makes it more urgently necessary than ever before to
. 889 # SOME states have set up “Hoover Commissions” of their own. The rest should follow suit promptly. ¥ According to the Detroit Bureau, New Jersey became | the most economically governed state in 1948, with a per capita expenditure, of $41.16. Yet New Jersey's Gov. Driscoll was re-elected last month in one of the year's rare Republican triumphs--~which may- indicate that free-and-easy governmental spending isn't so popular with as many voters
“NO SIR,” Mr. Mayhew replied, he wouldn't. ternational practice,” he said, “the proper treatment of consular and diplomatic officials should be automatic, and % to ask for assurances on this point might imply that this
is thoroughly committed to: achievement of a better managed, more efficient federal § government. 80 he and his budget director, Frank Pace Jr, have assured the Citizens Committee for the Hoover report,
Mr. Truman has stanchly backed the Hoover Com‘mission by words and deeds. -He has acted to put an encouraging number of its recommendations into effect and is preparing to urge congressional ‘action on many more in
Now, through Mr. Pace, he asks for continued, positive i public pressure in behalf of such “specific and tangible” ! proposals as those of the Hoover Commission, rather than | “destructtve criticism expressed in vague generalities about
But, Mr. Pace pointed out correctly, governmental rerganization will not automatically produce better managent. The bulk of that job must be done in the -departnts and agencies, by administrators whose responsibility clear cut and by staffs which give them full and active
One—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson—heads a de- * partment which now spends almost a-third of the wholé i federal budget. He had just received a Citizens Committee } citation of merit for economy measures, in line with-Hoover { Commission proposals, by which he hopes to save as much
~~ %_. The other—a Veterans’ Administration employee at 4K Los_Angeles—figured out a new bus route schedule which
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"HIKE MONRONEY (D. Olay, bore the Farm Bureau Federation meeting at Chicago, stressed a different point. The Hoover Commission program, he said, can't maximum economy and efficiency unless Congress stays alert and better equips itself for its part of the task. “We need more adding machines and fewer dictaphoned,” he added, “more searchingly accurate analysis of the budget and fewer speeches in the record demanding
And the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research issued this startling report: The average cost of the 48 staté governments has jumped from $4028 per resident in 1946 to $64.50 in 1948—up more than 60 per cent.
F THE Chinese Communists “had continued” their detention of U.“S. Consul General Angus Ward—they did continue it for more than a year—"it would have been a very grave matter,” Britain's Foreign Undersecretary, Christopher Mayhew, told the House of Commons this week. 1 Mr. Mayhew thereupon was asked to give assurances that Britain would not recognize Communist China until it was reasonably assured that British diplomatic and con- ! sular officials in the Red areas would be treated with respect.
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Which is an excellent example of what in logic might be calléd the “a posteriori” type of argument—from effect to cause. Or, to paraphrase the late H. G. Wells, when you ilook at a diplomat at work you're apt to be looking at the
FEW weeks ago the U. S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Vinson concurring, upheld the Patent Office's “ment of a Washington lawyer for using a ‘‘ghost-written” article as evidence in support of a patent application. That decision is recalled to mind by news reports from Key West that Mr. Vinson has been invited down to help draft President Truman's messages for the coming session
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No reasonable person crificizes the President for en“listing—as he does and must—the aid of various able “ghost-writers” in preparing his mess\ges. 1 But whether the Chief Justice of the United States . should be asked to be one of them seems a quite different
DOCTOR in Philadelphia said the other day that most people could live about 30 years longer than they can normally expect to, if only they'd relax more, exercise more, take more baths and eat the right foods. Carelessness on these various counts leads to break-down of the blood ves-
But it looks like New Yorkers at toast are going to have ‘put off taking some of his advice. Plagued by a water “shortage, citizens of the Big Town are being warned to con-
~ ENGLAND . +. By Ludwell Denny
Strike Perils = British Regime
Power Walk-Out Could Wreck Recovery Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The electric power strike in Britain, unless settled, can wreck the recovery program and lick the Labor government in the coming national election. So far it is spreading, Like virtually all British strikes, it is wildcat, but that makes it more dangerous. Electric power, of course, is the key to indus. trial production. In England, there is a serious power shortage even When all stations are oper dating In high. -“When-there-is-a-effect is felt quickly in many factories. More than a year was required to make up losses of the terrible winter of 1947,
Britain's Only Hope
NOW, even more than then, uninterrupted full production is Britain's only hope of increasing exports. Otherwise, she cannot buy essential foreign food for her people and raw materials for her factories. That is the race she is running against disaster, The Labor government and union leaders know better than anyone else that work stoppage cannot be tolerated. In this case, as in the dock strike last summer, the Bocialist gavernment has called out troops to maintain essential services, Less than three weeks ago, the general council of the Trade Union Congress-—comparable to our AFL and CIO-—requested its eight million members in 190 affiliated unions to refrain from new wage demands during the coming year, That was in line with the Labor government's policy of freezing wages, as well as divi dends, If wages go up, prices will follow. This
inflation spiral would cancel any beneficial ex-
port effects of the recent devaluation of the pound sterling.
Demands for More Pay
WHEN the TUC reaffirmed the wage standstill, an estimated. two million workers were making or preparing demands ‘for more pay, The unofficial power strike over wages is symp-
tomatic, The TUC has no mandatory powers, The whole situation seems so unreasonable that, at first glance, one might jump to the
conclusion that it is Red conspiracy. Of course, the Communists are busy, but in most unions they are a small discredited minority. They fike to claim crédit for Britain's labor tension, but actually they are the least of the government’ 8 worries, Nor is it a case of labor's lack of patriotism or indifference to nattonal interests. After all, these are the same men who fought so well and sacrificed 80 much in the war. They are the men who, inthe dreary post-war years of aus-
terity, have driven themselves and antiquated-
machinery to boost British production more than 20 per cent. ahgye, praca; os NIN TL
riers | Hard Pressed
THE fact is that they are very poorly paid. Even with all the “free” (namely, tax-paid) social services and subsidies to supplement their average $19 a week, they are hard pressed. Obviously the solution is for them to produes more so they can be paid more. But labor under the wage freeze and high taxes—Ilike the employer under the dividend freeze and higher taxes--has no incentive to produce enough. The trouble with the government's policy is “that it is essentially negative, Until and unless it modifies its Socialist approach to offer more incentives and rewards, its appeals to patriotism and ban on strikes are not likely to get desired results, .
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
WASHIMETON--Use of anti-histamine drugs to relieve cold symptoms has been picked as one of most important science advances during 1949. .
Without their anti-histamine Ta stifle sniffs and wheezin’, A lot of folks will lie supine— Perhaps with all good reason.
We don’t know much about this cure, Or what point they get ease at, But grampaw had one which, for sure, Was nothing you would sneeze at!
THE SEAMSTRESS
Getting ready for Christmas With a million things to do, An apron to make for Harriet And some little dolls things for Sue.
Yards and yards of lace to buy And threads of pink and blue, - For Nancy and Anne have gots that are nude And Grandma has sewing t Nana E. Young 3547 N, DeQuincy
NATIONAL SECURITY . .. By Oland D. Russell
Threats to Freedom
Committee for Economie Development, warning that “large-scale measures for national security seem/ necessary for vears to come,” has called for a
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 “The State Depart-
ment's rebuke to Bulgaria was long overdue. It ~ is not alone in China that American diplomats
are subjected -to- deliberate humiliations and hardships. pa TUTE TNPTO Tr these (Rhappy times 1s to stand up to the continuous hounding that is a phase of the cold war. But the question must always be under review as to whether it is worth it in practical returns to this country, In Bulgaria, it seems to me very likely that the answer is: No. While they were not spelled out in detail by the State Department, the harassments to which our diplomats in Sofia have been subjected are extraordinarily petty and mean. The Bulgarian government is denying license plates to the few cars owned by the American legation. This means, as the licenses expire, that it becomes increasingly difficult merely to get around the city and perform the minimum of official duties, -
Fuel Withheld
FUEL for heating homes apd apartments occupied by Americans has béén withheld or doled out in such small quantities as to make existence hardly endurable. One of the younger members on the staff of American Minister Donald Heath lived through last winter with his wife and small child in one partially heated room, and water was rationed to thef-extent that it was for several months turned on only an hour a day, from 5 a. m. to a.m. While it is true that most of the population was living at this same wretched level, the tradition always has been for diplomats living in a foreign land to be given some special privileges. Satellite representatives in Washington get every diplomatic privilege. Bulgarian secret police harried the neighbors of the family mentioned above to such an extent that the neighbors’ children were forbidden to speak to the small son of the American household. Violation of this prohibition would have meant that ‘the father and mother would be promptly clapped into jail. That fllustrates the kind of ghetto in which American representatives in the satellite capitals are forced to live. It often has seemed to me that we have been too unaware and too unappreciative of the sacfifices being made by
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the men and women in these grimroutposts, If it pays off in intelligence and needed materials, then-it-is worth tA glance at the Bulgarian-United States balance sheet indicates. ARSE & very fitt® in return for the money and the energy expended in keeping a legation open in Sofia. ,
Got U. S. Materials
DURING the past nine months, Bulgaria got from this country $186,500 in industrial materials, office appliances and chemical and related products. These are all the kind of goods desperately wanted in the satellite states. In addition, Bulgaria imported from America §$797,000 in raw cotton. In return, the United States got from Bulgaria $1,087,000 in tobacco and $148,000 in essential oils, mostly attar of roses for perfumes, Surely, these are not very important items, and in all probability the same type of tobacco could be obtained in Greece. The matter of intelligence gained from the mission: in Sofia is morg difficult for the outsider to appraise. In general, it has seemed to “me that there is always an advantage im recognition and a disadvantage in the sterile policy of nonrecognition. But if our diplomats are to be narrowly confined in a diplomatic ghetto and constantly spied upon and harassed, then the amount of information to. be obtained may not be worth the cost and sacrifice. This applies not only to Bulgaria but to Romanfa, and perhaps also to Hungary.
Fair Play Needed
IN ANY event, the time has come, in my opinion, to serve notice on the satellite regimes that they must give our representatives a semblance of fair play or the mission will be closed and their diplomats here sent back home. That might have a salutary effect, The need for the kind of goods that can be obtained only from the United. States is indeed desperate. Without stooping to the miserable tactics of dictatorship, we cannot apply the same restric“tions on satellite diplomats here. They move about freely from one part of the country to the other. If the persecution persists, the only recourse may be to break off relations with regimes that behave like thugs and stool Joe
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‘Civil Rights. Violated"
By Mary Kanable, secretary,
_Andianapolis Chapter, Civil Rights Congress.
To Mayor Feeney: The Indianapolis Chapter
"of the Civil Rights Congress wishes to call
vour attention to certain violations of civil rights which have arisen under the eity vagrancy ordinance’ As you undbdubtedly know, this ordinance enables the police to demand that any person give an account of himself. If the person is not able to answer the questions which the police officer may see fit to ask qr feels that the questions are an unlawful inv asion of his lawful, personal business, he is liable to arrest. We believe that this ordinancé is unconstitutional, First, it violates people's rights to pros tection against arrest without due cause and” without due process of law. Second, it can be used to violate people's right to freedom of speech. Third, it gives the police power to“ine terfere with the lawful private affairs of citizens, Fourth, it is in conflict with the state vagrancylaw which defines vagrancy in a much more restricted way. This ordinance has been used to violate the civil rights of peaceful, law-abiding Indianapolis citizens. Cases have come to our attention showing that the ordinance has resulted in unjust arrest, in the abridgement of freedom of speech, in the perpetuation of racial segregation in the city, in police interference in the lawful private affairs of citizens. We believe that this law is dangerous and must be repealed. We realize that the police must have certain powers to preserve law and order. However, under the American tradition such powers are usually carefully defined and limited. Seldom are the police given such sweeping discretionary powers as they obtain under this ordinance. The wisdom of careful defini tion of police power is witnessed by the abuses, which have come to our attention, of civil rights under this ordinance, We urge that you use your influence to have the present Indianapolis City Vagrancy Ordinance repealed. We shall be glad to meet with you for further discussion of this matter if you will suggest a time. >
‘Preserve the Bill of Rights’ By John Alvah Dilworth, City. Some good has been done by trade unions, But so-called unions unquestionably have pulled some of the finest boners of our time. The Bill of Rights has been kicked around from time to time by closed-shop unions more than many people realize, One of the big criticlsmg against the socalled closed shop is. that its leaders have used it’ for personal publicity te satisfy personal grievances and to benefit relatives. They used the closed shop in dn endeavor to stifle tha
- freedonr of 8peech by expelling members for
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exercising the.
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. Our thinking must square against some lessons in history, some politicians, some principles of government and unjops and morals, U. 8. Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantees of freedom and the digrity-and right of men to which this nation is dedicated. Communists that infiltrated into the movement and
labor those who became fellow-
travelers generally were responsible for kicking
the Bill 6f Rights around. Closed-shop unions, such as Harry Bridges’, would not admit the truth of these charges.
What Others Say.
IT IS my candid judgment that the American people in 1950, and 1852, and throughout the years of the future will confirm overwhelmingly. their satisfaction with the contribution we (Democrats) are making to the general welfare of our own people and to the peace of the world, —Vice President Aiben Barkley. ’ * © ©
IT IS the responsibility of the government to reduce expenditures in every possible way, to maintain adequate tax rates during the transi. tion period, and to achieve a balanced budget— or better.— Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, ee © @
I BELIEVE the President should use the Taft-Hartley Act, but I don’t believe he should use it except in case of an emergency where the public health and welfare of the people are affected.—Sen. Robert Taft (R. O.). < <> <@ WE WILL not accord to the central government unlimited authority, any more than we will bow our necks to the dictates of uninhibited seekers after personal power i. finance, labor or any other field.— Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Se oo T FOUND evidence of a basic faith in the soundness of our economy and our way of life, —Commerce Secretary Sawyer, after surveying
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NATIONAL POLITICS . .. By Bruce Biossat
Eisenhower Strategy
WASHINGTON, he views Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as an active bidder for the presidency in 1952. They do not say so, but presumably he sees the general as a —candidate for-the Reptiblican nomination. Certainly Eisenhower's public utterances are not in a vein that can be easily reconciled
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leaders recommended among other things that ‘the role of the dormant National Security Resources Board be clarified and developed, and that a fulltime chairman be appointed promptly. Since the resignation of Arthur M. Hill a year ago, the hoard has been without a chairman. President Truman appointed his friend, former sov,.Mon CC. Wallgren, chairman but he was not confirmed by the Senate apparently on the grounds that he lacked a businessman’s qualifications.
SINCE then Dr. John Steelman of the White House stafr has been acting chairman, but has give only half his time to the board. The research and policy group of the Committee for Economic Development issued a broad statement Here on national policy. “Though adequate security fs essential to. protect our freedoms,” said the policy statement, “the (present) program aimed at security raises new threats. to .our freedoms and way of life. “Under it has been a great increase In the role of the military in our government, a great increase in bureaucracy and expanding dominance of government over industry and
an increasing . interference with Individual liberties.” sn»
MUCH of this is inevitable, the report acknowledges, but It
the prime suggestions, of course: stop taking contends ‘that “we have al
ready given up important
freedoms without adequate challenge.” Further, it declares that
“freedoms unexercised may be freedoms forfeited,” and ‘‘security bought at the cost of destroying our system of individual liberties or our freeeconomy would be self-defeat-ing.” A threat to our liberty arises “when the loyalty of individual American citizens is called into question,” sald the report, but “a more indirect threat comes when the security program endangers the free economy which underlies so much of our individual freedom.” ~ - » “UNDER conditions charaecteristic of a free economy free markets, individual initiative. and minimum of direct government control—our great power as a nation has developed. Our society looks to individuals to make the multi. tude of decisions about production, ¢onsumption and other elements of economic activity, We depend on the action and interaction of individuals and enterprises to produce a sound and expanding economy.” The report said the security program threatens our free economy in three major ways: By the burden of taxes on economic incentives; by the control “of. business - activity through government contracts, and by the likelihood of recurrent proposals to impose direct controls over economic activity in the name of security. "=n
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nate the market, the more businessmen become, in effect, hired administrators of government contracts. The free market is thus narrowed. Carried far enough, thé expansion in government purchasing can destroy a free economy.” Among the recommendations in ‘the report were: That the National Security Council be developed as the principal executive agency on which the President relies for formulating and reviewing bal. anced security policies. hat three full-time civilian
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members be added to the coun~
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responsibilities. That within the Department of Defense theré be a strong civilian staff independent of control by the military services to ald in developing and evaluating defense policy. That a committee on national security be established in each house of Congress, That the President devote a part of his annual message to Congress to a discussion of the problems involved in the national security program and
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with Democratic Fair Deal philosophy. Gen. Eisenhower himself is of course denying his candidacy with almost as much regularity as he did in the campaign year 1948. But it is true he. is speaking out
more and more on thé chief issues of the day. » LJ y
MOREOVER, a clear pattern of thinking is emerging from his statements. He is resolutely opposed to the wei‘fare state, to bigness in government, to emphasis upon security at the expense of selfreliance, all the things the Republicans say the Democrats
stand for. | Ike's recent “hot dogs and beer” speech, in which he advised the average man to scale down his dream from the champagne level, is said to have convinced Mr. Truman the general is trying to build ip strength for entry into the political arena. . " » THE President's intimates
add that despite his great admiration for the general as a soldier he regards -him as strictly an amateur in politics, An-old political axiom has it
that no one ever wins a party
roesidential nomination. without working like a Trojan for it. If Mr, Truman is right and Mr. Eisenhower really wants to run, then he has a lot of work ahead of him, Assuming that ambition, we'llpsoon see how much of an amatéur he is, -His present heavy round of speech-making may indeed be the first step
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eve and outlining one's views, In the very process of telling where he stands, Eisenhower is bound to lose some of that huge reservoir of popular esteem he has enjoyed since World War II ended. So long as he was silent, any citizen could imagine the general stood with him. Now many must know he does not. Inevitably that will impair his vote-getting appeal.
FU RTHERMORE, Mr. Eisenhower is a political outsider. Though the general hunch is that: he {s a Republican, he has never said so. The professional leaders in the GOP will not be after him so long as they believe they can win without him. Outsiders are too hard to manage. 80 if Ike really wants to carry the flag in 1952 he will
have a tough jon of selilng
himself to the professionals. Wendell Willkie bowled them over in 1940 by extreme effort but they repmid him by crushing his further ambitions in 1944. The regulars are tough to beat and most candidates
don’t try,
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, Eisenhower if he has actually
set out to capture the GOP
as Mr. Truman suspects, } If, on the still means it
other hand,” he when he. says he isn't a candidate, then al this gpeculation is a- pipedream and Mr. Eisenhower is just availing himself of the happy American privilege of
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his government, We'll know
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