Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1949 — Page 18

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: $ironge Assignments < State Department has assigned George F. Kennan, its No. 1 expert on Soviet Russia and communism, and y of our ablest foreign service officers; to make on-the-studies of Latin America and Africa. : These are two of the world's areas least disturbed by munism or Russian intrigues. ' Meanwhile, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, a professor of inter- " pational law with no first-hand experience in the Far East with a record of being surprisingly naive about commu- , is given a policy-making assignment to Asia-—where overriding problem is how to stop Communist expansion. § These selections don't make sense. :

MR. KENNAN plans to retire from. the State Depart-

absurd waste of a good man’s time to send so capable an official—if, indeed, he can be spared from more pressing roblems—to study two such vast and diverse areas as Africa and South America for a mere six months. Especially so, sinée those are areas in which his expert

to him and to the United States just now. . Long a student of the Russian people, their language and Soviet policy, Mr. Kennan went to Moscow in 1933 with Ambassador Bullitt, 2 He served later in several Western Eitopess posts Ahen became chief of the State Department's <ireai. T.ast year he visited Tokyo to get Gen. MacArthur's Aiews on the Far East, and then went to the Philippines.

in moments of decision and a high degree of intelnce. It has been written of him that “he oes not fit somfortably intoa an organization weights de down

+ “Desertion Crackdown

are hundreds of dependent and neglected children who ‘forced into that predicament by fathers who dodged responsibilities by running away to another state. And for too many years these deserting fathers have n getting away with this violation of the State's laws bethe prosecutor's offices have not i the funds to ng them back for trial. : Failure to prosecute these cases has contributed to the h increase in the number of Mothers and children on tor George S. Dailey has established a budget purpbse, starting Jan. 1. Judges, welfare workers ‘the public should co-operate in this program. It could a long way toward eliminating from the relief rolls hun-

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onserve on Coal PPLICATION of all coal saving methods will be neces-

suffering from the fuel shortage. Many of our vital public institutions, caring for sick dependent people, have coal supplies enough for only few days to a month and hundreds of private homes may ace an acute fuel crisis shortly if there is severe weather. There is little prospect at present that John L. Lewis relax his dictatorial three-day work-week for the tion's miners and permit more production of coal. Coal consumers of Indiana should heed Gov. Schricker’'s ppeal for conservation of fuel wherever possible. Strict ation could reduce the danger of an acute coal shortin Indiana.

“More Power’ to lke EN. EISENHOWER said in Texas recently that he is not a presidential candidate and “definitely” has no tention of becoming one. : ‘There are Democrats who refused to believe the genleral when he made similar statements early in 1948. At ‘that time, they were scheming to “ditch Trumen,” for they ‘were sure the President had no chance of election, and to “draft Eisenhower” on the theory that only he could lead “the Democratic Party to certain victory. 1 Now many of these same Democrats, back on the Tru{man bandwagon, are busily planning a “stop Eisenhower” feampaign. oo. ch v : Because he has warned the American people against the danger of depending too much on government handtouts “and too little on their own efforts, these Democrats B me he must be after the Republican nomination and Iready are spreading propaganda designed to reflect on his sincerity.

. vy . . ” ” 3 EVENTS seem to have proved that Gen. Eisenhower, “who probably could have had either party's nomination in £1048, meant precisely what he said then. We're inclined | to think he means what he SAYS NOW. 4 : All he does want, he said in Texas, is the right to express his genuine concern about: ideas and principles as $ applied to today's problems. He believes others should have and use the same right. § When a student newspaper at Columbia University printed caustic editorial criticism of one of his recent speeches, he $said the paper should be free to say what it thinks, “parabout the president of the university.” And he wished “more power” to the young writer of the editorial. . More power, we say, to Gen. Eisenhower, .It's a poor reward for his great services to America if he must be

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"ment for two years, beginning next summer. It seems an

knowledge of his special field would appear to be least useful

FRIENDS of Mr. Kennan say he has a gift for blunt )

THE rolls of Public Welfare Departments in Indiana

of children who should have been cared for by their —

sary in the next few weeks if Indiana is to avert wide...

= Hoosier Sees = British Flaws

~ Student Says Englishmen’ Won't Work Through College

WASHINGTON, Dee. 21--Working "one's way through college is beneath consideration’

of the Government-subsidized students at Eng“lish universities, according to an Ameriéan ex- .

change studpnt now enrolled at Southhampten, Maclyn | Parker, former DePauw University". student- -athigte, made this observation tn. a report on his [exchange scholarship to- his Con= gressman, Rep. Ra)ph Harvey (R. Ind.). : 4 Telling of his Southhampton experiences, he ~ points out. that there are more janitors, housemen, watchmen. and others around the school than students. Thus full employment. is obtained

-._ in Britain today,

“Most of the men in the residence hall where 1 live ‘are ex-RAF boys dnd the greatest part were trained in Canada,” Student Parker re-, ports, “Aside from long hair and shabby clothes ~-due to rationing and high prices—they are about Hke any of our boys at DePauw. Sertons Outlooks

Serious Outlooks

“THEY “seem to have more serious outlooks on life, although most tend to be more theoreti« cal than practical. Therefore, as one would ex~ pect, conservatives are the exception rather. than the rule. The trend runs from lukewarm Socials ists to those who want Judge Medina set. before a firing squad. “The system of state and veteran grants is very liberal; in fact, about 80 per cent of the students are being financed through school with some form of ald. Their veteran grants are as liberal as ours in most respects, and the other scholarships are either state-awarded or uni-versity-given in order to enable people to make it through.

No Money for College

“THIS is quite necessary because the average middle class family does not have the money to send children tb college. Only at Ox. ford and Cambridge will you find a high per ceritage of privately-pald students. However, when I explained to some of the boys our system of working your way through college, they could never imagine such a thing and would rather not attend af all, especially when I mentioned such work as ser PRETO obs.

Fine batne amd sere =<PEESMS Are much nicer than in a majority of

American schools because a whole batfalion of scrubwomen keep them clean, the report continues, “One of the perennial arguments that I become engaged in is the question of full employment,” Student Parker wrote, “My proletariat-

. minded friends point out to me that four million -

in Britain they have Almost achieved universal employment.

Don't" Work as Hard

—_ever—one thing you notice {8 that the average

working man does not Work pearly as hard as a ‘able worker inthe States. Busses have or three people ui instead of

- ' roam around this place than students. All these people have full ems ployment, that's true, but one good man could do the work of the whole lot, = “Each, theater has about a dozen ushers, stores have more clerks than merchandise; and almost every other person is in some form of a civil sépvice uniform. “Everything starts at 9:30 a. m., maybe 10,

stops at 11 for coffee, then at 1 for lunch, at. 4

for tea, and then for dinner. They deliver tea in clinking carts inf theaters at 4 and workers everywhere knock off for an hour or so.

No Great Fortunes

IMIS, they y havesggiisemployment all right, and it is very good in & way because everyone is

more or less assured necessities, On the other hand, no great fortunes are made by the owners, due probably to having to pay so much help. “However, exports are not going to increase until they really knuckle down and work, and as long as they are more or less sure of their ems ployment, there is no incentive, So, full employment also has its bad effects.”

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

LOUISVILLE -- Mr, and Mrs. William Stockdale, Putnam, Conn, arrived here after walking 1000 miles on their hike to California.

En route to the Pacific. Const, nb Théy've walked a thousand miles, “Two thousand more” is their proud boast, Their faces wreathed.in smiles. We wonder If they're on this hike To pay some foolish bet, Or whether it's because: they like— A certain cigaret!. f a

PUBLIC PRESSURE . . . By Bruce Biossat

Excise Tax Cuts?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—During World War II Congress imposed a broad range of excise taxes on the nation’s economy. ‘Some of these were designed to bring in more revenue, but others aimed primarily at cutting consumption of civilian goods leather goods and cosmetics were a But necessities were not exempted. For example, ex-

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HOUSING . . . By Peter Edson

~Rent Confrol Battle Expected

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods has thus far found It necessary to reimpose rent controls in only three of the nearly 200 previously decontrolled areas. They are Americus, Ga.; a part of Somerset

County, south of Johnstown, Pa. and Harrods-

burg, Ky. In each case, rents had risen precipitously after the controls had been removed. But it was

the focal rent control boards that recommended.

reimpaosition of -ceilings—to- the federal govern. “yient: and not the other way “around. Two other —petitions-for-reimposition of rent controls" have

- peen denied by the federal expediter, because

— rents had not risen “unduly, after ceilings came off. All these facts are now being kicked around by the real estate lobby in Washington as evidence that rent controls are no longer necessary. National Association of Real Estate Boards has just made a report on a national survey, tending to show that wherever controls have been removed, there have been no skyrocketing rents and no mass evictions—only isolated adjustments to iron out inequities.

Results Surveyed

THE areas surveyed included Tampa, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Dallgs and Spokane in the over 100,000 population class; El Paso, Marion, Ind. Topeka, Salem, Ore, and Amarillo in the 25,000-100,000 class, and a dozen communities in the 10,000-25,000 and under 10,000 class. As opposed to this view, it is pointed out that there are still some 400 areas remaining under rent control. On the basis of actual rental units, 12,000,000 put of 14,560,000 houses and apartments under wartime rent ceilings are still under control. : Thus the picture today is that although onethird of the areas have been decontrolled, only one-seventh of the actual rental units have been decontrolled. Nobody knows what would happen if all these areas were precipitously decantrolled. Even with limited control, the Bureau o Labor Btatistics cost of living rent index has shown a ‘¥isé of two points—from 119.5 to 121.5—betwe December, 1948, and October, 1949, the figure available.

as fast as he has rélt he could. It is surprising, but nonetheless true, that Woods has done more

. decontrolling than the cities and sfates.

Local communities are holding back. No,large

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city has decontrolled. Some six weeks ago, Woods started a movement to decontrol all communities which had 1940 populations of less than 25,000, provided they had no large military installation or no colleges with more students than they could properly house.

Controls Stay On ie

TO the expediter's surprise; npot-ene of these smaller communities wanted decontrol. controls are staying on. -On-the stats 16vel Arizona and Utah have removed all rent controls by ction of Jocal

“boards. Nebraska and Texas state legisiatures _ removed all -rent contrels- Wiscomsin-has subst

tuted state for federal control. Alabama has —passed-a law which will Témove controls next May. S80 43 of the 48 states, plus the District of Columbia, still think rent controls are necessary for a while longer. The housing expediter’ s office has been forced to ‘rush decontrol for a simple jack of money for enforcement. The last session of Congress cut rent control appropriations by a third — roughly $0,000,000. This was done with the distinct understanding that the expediter could come back in January and ask for a deficiency appropriation. This is exactly what Mr. Woods proposes to do when Congress returns in January, to the tune

of $3,500,000 to $4,000,000. This is the extra

- amount now estimated as necessary to continue controls thru June 30, 1950, the present expiration date.

Whether the new Congfelis Will extend rent ©

control authority for another year beyond this date is the big question,

Housing Boom

THERE is, of course, no denying that new housing construction is gradually catching up with the demand. The 1,000,000 new units started this year establishes an all-time record, greater than the 937,000 units begun in 1025. About 35,000 of this year's starts are publicly financed rental units. Housing Expediter Woods says the safe time to remove all rent controls will be when the new federal rental housing construction program

. really gets rolling. He estimates this will take

“about a year.” This would put a cut-off date at

“approximately Jan. 1, 1951. Extending it to June _Expediter Woods has heen. pushing decontrol. . a

1951, would. provide a margin of safety. - eal estate interests are prepared to fight any

such ‘extension with everything they have, in-

cluding'the killing of all appropriations for rentcontrol enforcement.

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“Trustee Should Be Removed" By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St, City The exposures made by The Times of the manner in which the poor relief program is being handled does credit to The Times and staff writers, Donna Mikels and “Richard Leéwis. Decatur Township Trustee Edwards should

.., be removed from office. for ‘malfeasance,

Mr. Edwards is a servant of-the citizens of Decatur Township, They pay him his salary to take care of the poor relief program according to rules.and qualifications pertaining to applicants.

But it seems Mr. Edwards arbitrarily does just

as he pleases about the matter, Applicants have to obey his instructions regardless of their cire cumstances or be told to “starve and die.” Mr, Edwards disobeys commissioners’ orders and boasts that he will do ‘as he pleases. In my opinion, Mr. Edwards i& unfit. for public office. The case of Center Township, I think, is due to inefficiency in record-keeping and laxity in.not checking up on unscrupulous grocerymen. But a person who is not capable of efficient service or who might have some ulterior motive, should be relieved of his public duties. I agree with The Times’ editorial saying, in effect, that nine township trustees are too many for Marion County and should be consolidated. I would suggest that poor relief and welfare agencies be placed under one appointed administrator. Then the voters could hold the public official who appoints him accountable for the manner in which he handles his duties. And if he proves negligent or inefficient, the public official who made the appointment should have the power to remove him.

‘We Have Enough . Taxes’ By A Taxpayer. Two years ago we heard a lot of talk about increasing the automobile license an additional $5 per year and do away with the property tax assessment Of the automobile. This was not done. However, the last session of the Indiana Legislature increased the license fee to the tune of $2 extra on all automobile licenses. This is probably not the end of what is planned for the automobile owners by away of increased taxes. The cities of this state

tribute to them $25 million to help them meet

the expenses of the city governments. And where _

do you suppose the state expects to get the money for these cities?

It has been suggested that a tax on gasoline,

an increase in gross income tax and perhaps an-

added tax on cigarets be levied to get the money. The automobile owner now pays more and a

higher tax than any other item of taxable prop

erty. It ts time that fhe man y who drives an auto-meobile-tells the taxing authorities that we have enough taxes,

‘What Gives Gold Value?

By H. E. Martz, 3360 Kenwood Ave,

—The-frequent feférences to the gold standard jeads us to inquiresjust what gives gold jts values {nthe absence of any widespread practical application of its properties? The answer, of course, is common. consent. Common consent could therefore establish a commodity-equivalent exchange medium whose lack of value intrinsically would reduce the scope of financial influence over the economy. Since goods and not money constitute the

only real material wealth, this would place ma- *

terial resources in their proper relation to the economic life unhampered by financial restrictions. Depressions are born not of commodity shortages, but of commodity surpluses in the face of consumption limitations induced by “inancial impediments. .

What Others Say

"THE Co nibts have been forcing us to spend money beybnd our saddest dreams . . . with the result that the restive taxpayer is looking . . . under the rug for dirt and waste more diligently than he has for: a long time which is a very healthy thing.—Gov, Adlai Ste venson of Illinois. °

* * FRANCE'S position in today's difficult ine ternational situation, like that of other Euro pean nations, is dominated by the problem of the atomic weapon.—~Rene Mayer, French political leader, 4 & oo or THE more I see of public life the more J Helieve no generation in American life will be able to answer all the yo Rep Franktin D. Roosevelt Jr. (D. N. Y.).

TR WE have been true to the moti vita vital tradition of representative democracy. We have kept faith with the people Avho elected us,—

Ben. Scott W. Lucas (D. I

DEFICIT SPENDING . . . By Join W. Love

‘Mortgage on Future

CLEVELAND, Dec. 23 This country is a good deal like a pan. who has fallen intg’the hands of an architect with big ideag anda wife with biggér ones. They are building a house that dget ising me for more years than he expects, Dr. “Narold Moulton of the Brookings Institution says we are creatingvvast obligations upon the assumption “that this

PARSE wi Mrnen noRINP HET THE § Tate hard and dis-

a for expressing his opinions, however much the dislike them.

cises on railroad freight brought in $337 million in one year, on passenger traffic $251 million, on telephone and telegraph business $535 million. - - . ALL THESE and many more were labeled wartime taxes but they are still with us four years after the end of the war, Republicans In Congress have been clamoring for their removal for a long Gradually numerous crats joined the chorus, Sen, Scott W. Lucas, ! ate Democratic leader, has spoken as If he were sympathetic toward this objective,

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Sen. Lucas noted a ‘tremendous sentiment in Congress and in the country” for knocking out the wartime

levies, He thought such action might be a good stimulant for business, but that the Jlawmakers would have to turn up some other revenue sources to make up the loss,

o ~ ” - SEN. LUCAS made plain, however, that he has not consulted with President Tru-

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time,

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man. The President seldom .

overlooks a chance to call for higher taxes to close the

widening gap between income _

and outgo; so it is highly improbable that he will indorse removal of the excise taxes now, That does not mean nothing will be done. With elections coming-yp. next fall, the 1950 pession jot Congress is certain to be tax-conseious, If -it could make a showing by removing irksome levies and hiking others less noticeable to the public, Congress would probably be happy to do =o; The question will be where 8

to place the heavier burdens to"

offset the lifting of excises, No bright - suggestions have yet been heard.

» . ” WITH the 1949-50 deficit expected to be around $5 billjon to $7 billion, no one imagines we cap risk making the situation’ worse by a further flat reduction in government income. It may be argued that many of the excises are unwise and perhaps even unfair, For all anyone knows the President might agree. But in the face

of constantly mounting finan-

cial demands, he sees no course but to hang: onto the revenues now peuring in. . . - WHEN formed guesses were putting the country's postwar budget at around $20 billion a year, It never even came close to that relatively low level. And now it's hitting up around the $46 billion mark. Naturally tax policies dreamed up at war's end had to undergo revision to meet this unforeseen burden. 80 the excises, sfong with steep corporate and personal income taxes, have stayed on the books. 1 w » ” STILL, the excise program deserves careful review next year, even if election year policies inevitably will become entwined in the issue. Taxes definitely designed for a limited period should not be al: lowed to take on permanent character. Especially when there is danger they may do

real harm in fields like rall

transportation, which is now suffering considerably from a

post-war travel decline,

the war ended, in-

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COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. Dev,

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Santa Claus? We want to tell tmas—and no dumb

him what | want “racks to spoil the

act for my mother)"

Barbs—

WITH the platoon system, why not have football players train for the bowl games by mingling with holiday shopping

. ,; A coL ORADO judge ruled it legal for a man to spank his wife. What a chance for husbands when the Christmas bills

” ' IF the platoon system continues next year in football, arrangements should be made to have astronomers identify the stars in each play. :

WE read of another sit-down strike. The result of conditions workers think they just can't

stand. »

UPSET over her divorce, a |

Florida woman went fishing. You'd think she'd stay single for a while, } ~ » » IT'S fun to earn pin money when you're a champ bowler and give exhibitions. “ CEE I A FLORIDA man. got shot

for ying at his wife, Quiet, wal

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country's productivity will keep on rising. But, said Dr, Moulton, there is no eertainty ft will. Moreover, even if it does we are earmarking it for purposes that will leave us pretty restricted. » ” ” ONE set of the obligations we are currently building consists of pensions. Another may be the extension of medical care and hosgbifals, for which President Truman will renew his request next month. Likewise he will almost certainly ask for greater ynemployment benefits, “All of these—plus other proposals less definitely formu-lated-—are expected to: be afJorded out of the national income in the future. People who seriously propose these benefits generally count on their being paid for out of the growth of the national product in the years to come. " ® = THIS growth has been about two per cent per “man hour over many years, Sometimes it has been faster; sometimes so slow it disappeared, as in depressions, But for the half century now nearing its close, it has been around two per cent compounded.

This two per cent is probab-~

1y a fair estimate for the future. Projected far enough, it reaches’ a truly {impressive amount. In the November Atlantic Prof. Sumner S8lichter of Harvard suggested that by 1080 the output of goods and services in this country would be about 68 per cent greater than it is today, ®ven if thé wor

Ang Week wer cut to 30 hours.

WHAT® is happening today, though, is that we are becoming nationally conscious of this rate of growth, we are beginning to rely upon it, and we are preparing all sorts of benefits to- be financed out of it. ) Furthermore, by permitting deficits in our government's budget, we are spending before we collect. We are overspendIng on current needs before we adopt the major portion of all the proposals for “security” in the future, : The idea of steady national progress is an old - one, but the statistical measures of it are rather new. Newer still is the spreading confidence that we can bank on it and mortgage the growth to make good on promises of. large and definite benefits. " "ow THE promises may have an effect upon the rate of growth in the. future; to come back to Dr. Moulton's talk, if they produced taxes so high they would discourage investments, Or these promises might be so liberal that when we came to carrying them out we would simply have to inflate once more, This was done during’ the war, when the promises made before the war for retirement benefits under social security lost half their purchasing power. ‘This we shall probably do again if we count in advance upon the future growth of our - national income paying for every benefit which is popular today. v

“Plans Educati

Thomas F North St., ha the Marion ' Association a secretary. He Bailey, Dr. association. pi Mr. Jordan round volunt: ar part of ti gram of adu He will conti zation’s educ: exhibits and and promotia tion with. the . It will be keep_ the pub association's of TB preven in Marion C work will be licity for th Seal campaig ' Won Mr. Jordar 8t. Louis U associated w Commercial | Navy. He att versity (New

school of jou received the § Writers Guile Early next will move to and there cor lations work attend the Mexico grad He became local associa after being gr » seer sd Sotege AT versity of Ar has been acti Press Club.

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