Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1949 — Page 18
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Four Outrages GOMETHING must. be gravely wrong with law-enforce-ment and crime-detection methods in Detroit- and Wayrie * County, Michigan. ~The fortunately unsuccessful attempt this week to - dynamite the building which houses international headquar- ~ ters of the CIO United Auto Workers can hardly be disIt fits too closely eit. the violent pattern of these revious outrages: ’ On the night of Apr. 28, 1948, Walter Reuther, president of the CIO union, was seriously wounded by a shotgun blast fired through the window of his Detroit home. Ld ~ ON THE ight of May 22, this vear, Walter D Allen, a member of the union, was killed by a similar blast in his home at nearby Windsor, Canada. Two nights later, Victor Reuther, edueitional director ‘of the union and brother of its presidept; was the victim of the same sort of attack at his home in Redford, Wayne County. He lost an eye and narvowly escaped death. None of these crimes has been solved, although rewards totaling $225,000 were offered fof information that” would bring to justice the person or persons guilty of shoot- | ing the Reuther brothers. 3
Joo TRE Federal Bureau of Investigation "did not “intervene. in the shootings, on {he sensible ground that shotgun blasting was strictly a violation of state and local laws, and properly under jurisdiction of state and local enforcement officers. " Now Attorney General McGrath has ordered the FBI to investigate the dynamite planting on the chance that there may have been some federal offense in interstate move- , ment of either the dynamite or the would-be dynamiters. Of one thing we are confident—that Edgar Hoover's G-men will do a more thorough job than the Detroit police department and the Wayne County sheriff's force
Slow Boat to China - D® PHILIP C. JESSUP sailed Tuesday from San ri cisco on a leisurely trip to the Far East. He will stop in Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines and other points of interest. _ Highlight of his journey will be a meeting of U. 8. Far Eastern diplomatic chiefs in Bangkok, Siam,.scheduled from Feb. 11 to Feb. 15. Afterward he will return by way of India, Pakistan, the Mediterranean and Europe, and then rejoin the Columbia University faculty as professor of inSernational nw.
i THAT s : nice itinerary and it should he "restful to.a self-confessed amateur at diplomacy wh i sabbatical leave from his classrooms a year ago to become a member of our United Nations delegation and after a roving ambassador .and “trouble-shooter” for the State Depart- | ment. i Chief purpose of Dr. Jessup's trip, it has been said, is {to discover what the United States should do to strengthen | and maintain a ring of non-Communist nations to the south of and around the China that already has been lost to the Reds. But the State Départment must think there is no particular hurry about that, or it would not have put its trouble- - shooter aboard a slow boat to China. i Rather, it would appear, Dr. Jessup is being given a “T beneficial sea voyage, well earned by his arduous work with ! the United Nations. From that we can only conclude that 1 not much importance need be attached to the Bangkok : meeting. »
AS HE sailed, Dr. Jessup said the United States would not “abandon” China—whatever that means. More to the - point, and what everyone wants to know, is what we are going to do about recognition of Stalin China. As to that, Sen. Vandenberg summed it up well re- ; cently—without the benefit of an inspection trip. He said : Communist China has not yet demonstrated its competent { control nor a willingness to observe the rules of internag tional law. Therefore, it does not qualify for recognition.
On the Right Track WHEN Congress reconvenes, Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R. N. D.) may find himself out of favor with some of his ’ colleagues. Mr. Burdick, who's already inf Washington, says he intends to ask the House to set up a special investigation , committee to find whether payroll padding is a widely prev- : alent congressional practice. : : He doesn’t charge that it is. “As a matter of fact, : he says, “in my 15 years here I have found members of Congress honest generally.” But, Mr. Burdick points out, two former House members recently were sent to federal prisons—Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) for accepting bribes, and J. Parnell Thomas. (R. ~N, J.) for payroll padding and taking salary “kickbacks.” : And, he adds, “I find that many folks back home think we're 3° alla “bunch of Srooks. The facts should be brought out.”
» THEY should be, indeed. = What Mr. “Burdick wants -5 determined is how many people, if. any, are drawing pay from Congress for ‘doing no work at all.” Each Senator and Representative’ has a large allow- _ ance for hire of secretaries and assistants. And; year in, | year out, rumors circulate in Washington that a good deal
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: political henchmen and others Who, in return, perform no + upeful service to the taxpayers. / . Such rumors are difficult to run down. ; ~Congress, which i Investigates many other this, lacks enthusiasm for investigating itself. = Yet, as Mr, Burdick says, many folks, back home have suspicions which have béen heightened. by : the May and Thomas cases. .... He believes correctly: that no member of ‘Congress * should put on the payroll “persons who don't earn their j money,” and that his proposed. investigation “won't do any " Certainly it could do no harm to members LAR of, Improper practices, and they would serve the cause of good on oy xorg any Who ty be pully. aa
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to be questions as to why goverament
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Low-Income Families
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23- “The Marshal] Plan hae been partly responaiblé for the rise in cone sumer food prices in the U. 8. an Illinois University economics professor fold a congression-
al committee studying the problems of lowsin: -
come families. And per capita consumption of £064 dropped
"off as prices went up, sald Dr. Margaret Reid,
“She -quoted-—government statisties showing that per capita food consumpfion in ‘the U.S. was almost seven per cent lower last year than in 1946, while food prices were up 32 per cent. “Few,” she sald, "are likely to question the - advisability of programs which insured some increase in the food supplies of nations whose people were at or close to starvation levels or far below their. eustomary food consumption levels because of war conditions.”
Public Funds Question
“THERE is 4 question; however, as to the extent to which public funds are to continue to be used (n this way." ‘She cited as an example the “recently junlied proposal of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations to set up
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An IntErnAtIonAl_COMMOAItYy Clearing House 6 / move “genuine surplusses” out of the U. 8.
8he said that on any such program she wondered what would be the test of “genuine surplusses” and .if ~the needs of within adequate diets were to be considered. Dr. Reld indicated, too, that she did. _not favor the current government program to hold up farm prices by moving huge stocks of food Into warehous#s, i
. Cost of Program SHE mentioned but did not endorse the Brannan_farm plan scheme to let perishable foods fall to their natural levels with the gov-
~-erament making up the difference in direct pay-
ments to farmers. “From the standpoint of consumers,” she said; “the critical question concerning such a program relates to ‘Cost. How much would such a program cost? Who bears {t? There are likely funds food
should be used to make possible lower
prices for all consumers when a large percent.
age of them get enough income to buy adequate diets .at considerably higher prices.”
In discussing means of getting more food to low-income families, Dr. Reid urged a wide
spread system of #&chool lGnches. One well-bal-anced meal a day, she said, will go far toward
- ensuring an adequate diet,
In addition, when children receive a school lunch at low “or no cost there may be more money left in the family food budget for other
- meals.
Food Stamp Plan
SHE also mentioned direct distribution to needy families and the old food stamp piafi as programs to be considered. The preferred methed, she sald, is to get greater purchasing power into the hands of low-income families. This can be done, she said, by increasing the per capita real income and by having more equal distribution of -income. The joint economic subcommittee before which Dr. Reid testified is studying the problems of the 10 million American families who have annual incomes of less than $2000.
YULETIDE
Christmas is a precious “Jewel I. That gilds the rugged path of time, Transcending all that's base and cruel, { Making life sublime. With golden cord it threads its’ way Into our hearts, and nestles there, Where we may guard it through the day, * Treasuring its presence rare! Begs us forget the ugly past, Points us to a happier realm-—and then We find our way. at last, singing, Peace om~earth, good will toward men.” ~— CHARLOTTE BRUNKER KINNEY, - 3736 Kenwood Ave.
A CHRISTMAS, PRAYER
Ring the bells merrily for peace on earth, ‘Light the candles and place above the hearth. Hang a wreath for remembrance, and then, With bowed heads pray for good will to all men. ~Nell Mace Wolfgang, Sheridan, Ind.
Too much strong grog Will make a fog That's bound to mar Your driving par.
-—M. M. DILLISTIN.
PROPERTY VALUES . . . By Peter Edson
Restrictive Housing
ure correctly the real effects of the Truman administration's new ban against racially restrictive covenants in government-insured
housing mortgages.
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Truman Faces Big Debt Problem
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 — President Truman's first meeting with. the members of his cabinet following his Florida vacation will hardly be held in the joyous mood of the holiday season. Too much that is harsh and forbidding lies just ahead. The five-billion-dollar deficit and a budget trimmed like .an underfed Christmas turkey to fit that deficit inevitably dominate the thinking of the administration at this stage. The importance -of the cuts that must be made have been impressed on all the President's official family. In two closely related spheres the concern is feit most deeply. One is national defense and the other is foreign aid. “Secretary of State Pean Achtson is facing the realities like a good soldier. Clearly if domestic programs must be trimmed, as it is expected they will be trimmed in the Presi-. dent's budget, then any new foreign programs are clearly out of the question. While this can hardly make the secretary happy, he is not complaining.
Peril to Foreign Policy THE DANGER-and it is a very real danger —is that the whole momentum "of America's positive post-war foreign policy will be lost; It is ‘not-s0 much that the tempo must be sustained by ever more and more spending on foreign programs. But it is not enough merely to coast on what may be left infact after Congress has finished slashing present programs. That, of course, raises the big question—the
Far East and the struggle against communism®
in Asia. The need for a constructive new program that would be tied in to the problem of European recovery and, above all, to the British debt in the Far East and the Middle East is glaringly obvious. It has been considered likely that Point IV
programs for India and Pakistan, and perhaps
also for Iran. would be forthcoming shortly after Jan. 1. These would be large-scale loans to start new irrigation, hydroelectric and in:
——dustrigl projects. ) But, as of today at any pare “Hertston-18— pen
against any such program. The World Bank Is being looked to as the source of construction loans, Likewise, the bank and the international monetary fund will, it is hoped, step in and help to work out some adjustment of the vast World War II debts that Britain owes to India, Pakis-
SIDE GI. ANCES.
Tsibility.
tam, "Egypt. Iran and almost every other country ig that part of the world. After all, our foreign policy planners point out, the World Bank is a very rich and flourishing institution. Its bonds sell readily to the financial community in New York. The bank has already granted two loans ‘to India, one for $34 million for railroad construction, and a second for $10 million for land reclamation.
Considered Success
FROM the point of view of understanding and good will Prime Minister Nehru's visit to America was considered a great success. But it did not, as Nehru told some of his close friends in London on his return. journey, happen quite as he had expected, He had-thought that the United States would ask commitments from him, particularly on China and communism, and that in turn he would ask for commitments from this country. Instead, nothing was asked and nothing specific was offered. In- response to an invitation from President Truman the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, will visit America. Planned for next May, his visit is expected to follow the pattern
sof Nehru's journey. . “~. On the foreign side the greatest concern is
felt over possible cuts by an economy-minded Congress in the appropriation for administering the German occupation. At best, the plans and hopes centering around the West German government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer are based on shaky premises. If the prop of financial support is pulled out, the whole structure can come crashing down.
Critical Unemployment
ESPECIAL concern is felt for Berlin where anemploy ment remains-at a critically high level. If the Russians continue tn play it quiet, as they ‘have been doing, stressing the phony facade of their East German ‘government wheré all is
TERT will drop out of the news and Congress and the public will become indifferent to the urgent needs of the occupation. That is the foreign picture as it looks to the men who carry the heavy burden of respon-
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By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh Street. Recently there have been published in the Hoosier Forum several articles written by C.D.C. Now, 1 have no way of knowing what these letters stand for, but using the articles as a guide, they seem to condemn, destroy and confound. > The views expressed in those articles are distorted political propaganda and are meant to tear down all reforms enacted by the Demo cratic Party, whether good or bad. Perhaps C:D.C. formerly lived by plucking fruit from the lower branches of the Republican plum tree, since the Democrats have the Republican orchard, he is thrown on. his" own. I can’t blame him for ranting and. raving, but I can't see where he is going to gain any-.’ thing. His reasoning .is. so few Republicans will agree with hint and no Democrats, who aftér all constitute a peat majority of the people. . C.D.C. accuses’ those who were forced by circumstances to accept a dole, as selling their vote, There are very few people who would
Tather-tive-on-the-mexger amountgovernment than provide for themselves. All
“Maws are violated and abused by a few people, 1 wonder why C.D.C. votes as he does. I suspect that he hopes’ it is to his advantage financially, C.D.C. has such great confidence in His ability to think clearly that he even believes he has proof that he is right and over half the American/people wrong. Of course cases of misuse and
“yiblation can be found here and there. However, “this doés not change the &Vér-all picture, nor, is
it sufficient to condemn the policy. C.D.C. goes to great pains to condemn liberals, Without liberalism this country could never have reached its present station. If “he will read some past history he will find that liberalism has played a great role in the advancement of the pedples of the world. Rt alse might be more reliable theh ® his more than half century of observation. I would like to see C.D.C, come out with some constructive criticism and suggest a way to eliminate poverty and old -age. It takes a long time to build a house but only a few minutes
vor hours and no ability to tear it down.
‘Production of Wealth’
By Clarence Love, Marshall, Ind. Elémentary economics teaches us that ‘the
three factors in the distribution and production
of wealth are land, labor and capital, All three must receive their just compensation if our free enterprise system is to survive and function, Under our present inflation, labor is ‘unable to buy its production and this is causing unemploy= ment which will ultimately cause a major de pression. Remember the next major depression may bring to light the cause of depression. The most expedient thing may have to be used to get production started again to satisfy the needs of the people. :
‘Gift of Freedom’ By L. A, Wiseman, City. "All of us are thankful for the gifts of the Christmas season and all of us place differing standards of values upon the gifts. Po seme a ° gift purchased with a great sum of money has the greatest value. To others the gIR bought from the savings of a small child's allowance has a special value. Likewise, a parent's denial of even daily necessities of life to give gifts that bring happiness to their: children has its value, At this Christmas time let us not forget the
. gift given to secure our freedom upon the fields
of battle. This is a gift bought at great ‘price and though it is not tangible, it is under our Christmas trees and abroad in this land of lib-
"erty.
What Others Say
THE business readjustment after World War {I has been gradual and orderly. During the post-war period there has been neither excessive credit expansion nor excessive speculation. ~—Edward J. Foley Jr, ‘undersecretary of the treasury. eo @ THERE is no overproduction; only under
Investment and underconsumption. Bold plan
ning and expansion now can raise the national Income to $300 billion and the standard of living
a third by 1954. —Lewis 8. Rosenstiel, Shalrmen.
of Schenley. Industries, ine. oat : —
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> ch ) THE. State Department no ; longer an expect to determine a course of action in the Far
* East and then come to Congress expecting us
to sign on the dotted line. We want to be told what's going on and have a part in deciding policy.—Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R. N. J.).
By Galbraith U.S. PLANE COSTS ...By James Daniel
WASHINGTON, Dec. made public the first break-down of its VIP program. A VIP is a very important person who because of his official capacity is entitled to ride free in military planes. Air Transport Service maintains a number of planes at Washington National Airport solely for transporting VIP's.
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The military
stroyed "
that very
‘of that money finds it way into the pockets of relatives, -
, Miter new and then, buyers and sejl -. ars of property,
in a routine manner, the whole affair might have caused little concern. It would probably have been regarded as mere legal conformity with the Su-
preme Court descision of -last-
May, holding™ that restrictive covenants were unenforceable. ~ ~ .
WHAT caused all the uproar was having Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman
make .the first announcement He did this in a political speech before the New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing. *“ That may have pleased the racial groups that have long fought housing segregation. But it rubbed many people the wrong way. They didn't know what it meant. Not having the actual regu-
* lations before them, they were
scared that restrictions of any kind on the ownership, sale or renfal of property would" be outlawed. Now that the tions - have been FHA Administrator Franklin D. Richards and VA Administrator Carl Gray, It can be seen that these first fears were largely unjustified. . . ~ . » IN THE first place, the new regulations are effective only Feb. 15, 1800, Between
new regula-
landlords and tehants also, can make any kind of a restrictive covenant
they wish, FHA and VA will.
insure mortgages which have such covenants in deeds or leases. Similarly, existing
_ deeds. and leases containing covenants will not be affected.
What happens after Feb. 15 is something else. Some real-
tors feel that for a few months . thereafter
"a
issued by:
slowdown in government - insured mortgages. Bankers, puilders, mortgagors and mortgagees will be feeling their . way and VA officials enforce theif regulations in specific cases, and what penalties they may apply in forcing foreclosures for violations. aw ” OTHER realtors, pointing to the fact that the building usually begins in say that there will be no slowdown, thing, government insurance covers only a third of the total U. 8. mortgage debt. So even if the new regulations drove the government completely out of the field, it would not mean.the complete ruin of the real estate mortgage business, It- would, however, seriously’ affect the
season March, For one
most
such favorable terms from banks, insurance, building ‘and loan companies unless he has government insurance on his mortgage. ” vy ” THERE is some fear that
the new regulations will result
“In “bootlegged” covenan ts"
.8int® covenants on govern-ment-insured: mortgages can no longer he made part of the deed, there may he an effort to write racial. or religious bans as secret or side agree. ments. Smart lawyers will no doubt try to use every. device they can think of to beat the new restrictions. Racial. and religious coyenants — banning ‘the sale or rental of property to Negroes, .Jews, Japanese, Chinese or other minority
Toups ary not. the only types
to see how strictly .FHA.
small . home purchaser, who can't get
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3 * Haven't .you got something about eight-by } blue wallpaper?
of agreement ‘written Into deeds and leases. . THERE are neighborhood
covenants. The developer of a
“new sub-division, or a group of
home owners, may enter into a coveriant Yor mutual protec-
- tion of their property values.
They may decide they will
"not allow, sale or rental of any
of their property to anyone not approved by all the others. Such covenants are. inkended to keep out gamplers, madams, drunkards; -8u eh covenants are entirely enforceable and are not covered by the new regulations.
Itris only if the Truman or * . some later
dministration tries “to go’ béyond the riew FHA and - VA regulations “that trouble
1949 BY NEA SERVICE ING: T. M REG. U 8 PAT OFF
in=this trend toward eliminmtion of segregation in housing could completely ‘upset property values: havoe in ‘the real estate mar-
As matters stand today, the Court government regulation both rec-
dwnier ‘ha’ he right to rant or . sell only to whom he pleases, As long as this principle of not person of his “liberty of property without due .process of law” is not upset, there may be not too much to fear from f "an this latest government regula-
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson got in bad with some Congressmen recently for suggesting some of them were flying at the taxpayers’ expense when they should have. been _paying their own way. » ~ ”
AFTER Congress threatened to investigate administration officials who also were using government planes, Mr. Johnson's assistant, Stephen Karly, announced a new honor system
legislators and administrators would: examine their own consciences before asking for use of a government plane. Still nervous over that episode, Mr. Johnson's office has forbidden release of “any detailed information on VIP ‘flights, while stoutly maintain- = ing that-a.ciareful scrutiny -is being made of every request. A press query phrased to elicit general information was placed with The Pentagon press staff
ten to go with some weeks. ago. » - » * THIS much of an answer 2 was received today: It i= the next step In fiscal 1949, ending last
June-.30, the. planes at' Washspecial missions. Gas, oil, depreciation and pay for the crews cost $1,009,205. Under the law, the defense establish ment was entitled to seek Treimbursement, from other departments for flights which did not directly serve defense pur: poses. Seven of
and create
deciison and housing
every property -
the 145 missions
fundamental
ible “ and defense got back depriving a
$24,121. One of the missions was for Congress, five for the the Justice Department, _
' THE remaining 138 missions ‘simbursible.
under which it was hoped both -
ington’s main afrport flew" 145"
wera declared to be reimburs- -
State Department and one for.
Twenty-two were for Secretary
Johnson's “office, four for the -
Joint. Chiefs of Staff, five for the National War College, seven for the White House, 12 for Congress, 23 for the Army, 62 for the Air Force and three for the, United«Nations, § A comparable summary of the special missions flown by planes at--Bolling and other Air Force bases is mot available. However, the. defense establishment says that during October, “a typical month,” these planes flew 318 special missions. $220,290. . ~ . THREE missions for the State Department, two for the Atomic Energy Commission and one for the Library of Con
—gress-were ruled-retmbursibie.
On these ‘the Alr Force got back $2217, following the stan dard rule of charging $70 an
hour (flying time) for use of ,
two-engined planes and $130 an hour for four-engined aircraft. : ” ~ . NOT all the free flying 1s
done in military craft. Three.
heads of civilian departments and their subordinates have access to government planes without asking the Pentagon's aid. The Reclamation Bureau has two light planes in the field and a 10-pasfenger Lockheed Lodestar in Washington which is available to other units of the Interior hepariment at $73 an hour, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer uses a Civil Aeronau-
tics Administration plane and -
Treasury Secretary John Snyder can take a Coast Guard
plane whenever he deems It
Operating costs were