Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1950 — Page 12
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_ period of Communist appeasement we let the Poles, of all
NAM Proposes $10 Billion Reduction Next Year ' WASHINGTON, Jan, 4A federal spending
what President Truman is expeéted to put up to Congress next week has been proposed by - B 8 the National Association of Manufacturers. Telephone RI ley: 8551 Give 140ht end She People wis Pins Tae ven way ;
its government spending committee, “has imposed a burden 100 “heavy. for Ahe- “American -
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“he asks from the session.
“well as Republican— have returned to Washington with
firm foundation for social and welfare progress. Insolvency
~~ toward a government lations with us.
ended. On the other hand, Spain permitted French troops to ne pgeape through-her ports.to.the free French forces in. North...
‘ments in many instances by using her own government
anti-Soviet. ‘
“civil rights or religious freedom as we do, but we have
— TTT TTI wy, rman
‘) “PEOPIE 16 EArEY . - : The committee is headed by Lane D. Web-
P TRUMAN asked. the: new session of Con. Edison Co. and includes nearly 100 top in-
gress today for much more than he is likely to get COMB from it -* hc SH full observance of the Her- , - The Taft-Hartley Act won't be vepogled this year. bert Hoover rganization Committee reports,
ming.” and reduced foreign. Nor will compulsory health insurance be enacted. dollar ald. would” 20° balanced budget, the : The Brannan farm plan has hardly a forlorn chance nan points out. : «of adoption. FE arg And prospects for the civil rights program are little the committee says, “wou ply provide for defense expenditures, veterans’, care, foreign commitments, and would not impair essential government services.” N
1 Mr, Truman's ‘message asked prompt and favorable
"action on such legislation. But the demands will be chiefly .. NG
President's Budget Ng
UNOFFICIAL reports say t President's FAILURE or refusal of this Congress to “grant those budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 will
‘demands will give the President what he really wants— call for expenditures of more than $42 billion. 4ssues upon which he can appeal to the labor vote, the farm Treasury income from taxes for that same
12-month period is expected to total around vote and other group votes for election of a Congress which $38 billion if income tax laws remain unchanged, as congressiong] leaders say they
will.
Hence the NAM proposal would mean a surplus by June 30, 1951 of more than $4 billion instead of a $4 billion deficit under the expected Truman budget. The President said in October the deficit for the current fiscal year, ending next June 30 will be $5.5 billion. “Deficit financing," says the NAM, meaning borrowing by bond sales to make up difference between outgo and income, “should not occur in ordinary peace times.”
Budget Comparison
stage-setting for the congressional - campaigns next fall.
Of one thing, however, Mr. Truman may get more than That is government economy.
Many Senators and Representatives—Democratic™ as
reports that the most insistent demands they heard from their constituents were for a balanced federal budget without higher taxes. After 18 annual Treasury deficts in the last 20 years, they say, the folks back home are genuinely alarmed at last. So this session may see a aly determined effort to
t out red ink, and kee THE NAM Sommittee. and its staff of Seana. ky a8 A wr rE AER TE 4 2 es Y H
Fr ott a EEF age” yu ro ri current ty A fiscal year. Appropriations voted in the 1949 session for the 1950 year totaled $40,556,000,000. This does not include $3 billion in deficiency ahd supplemental appropriations to make up shortages
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ms TRUE that many , citizens who shout for drastic economy also want the government to go right on spending as much or more on programs and Projets of particular earlier in 1949 for spending in 1949 and 1950.
interest to them. Principal economies in the NAM budget But it's also true that a government which lives by 14 come by lopping off $1 billion in veterans’ and sinks ever deeper into dgbt can’t provide a care and benefits; $1.2 billion from defense spending: $1.2 billion from ordinary government expenses; $1.7 billion from governmént corporations, principally the farm support prices and RFC mortgage buying, and $1 billion from Euro-
in the Federal Treasury isa Ghats to everybody's ascurfty, everybody's rights, everybody's freedom and the wor RIC wos peace, n - ne NAM supecially Sondesuned ihe 3 rman We believe that members of this Congress who can ministration practice of bringing in deficiency Polit to teconds of asusitis, ra he AXEte TreRINE YET MOUSE Darpeted go before their co 0 .
for the bureaus. sciences and good chances of returning to the 1051 session. co, 0) 5oending’
; . “IT 18 beyond dispute,” says the NAM re- ; ? ; port, “that the executive (President) has the The Spanish Question opportunity to control spending, at least to hold it within appropriations originally voted.” (CANADA'S just-completed deal to ship Spain 300,000 The report also condemned the congressional
“bushels of ‘wheat at a price above $2 a bushel again practice of voting “contract authorizations,” points up the absurdity of our own stand-offish position which cost little in the year they are passed, but
mount up seriously as these obilgations are met which wishes to have friendly rela. |, ,. ceeding years with cash
Service budget, the NAM sald that reorganiza, tion of the Veterans Administration for greater efficiency would help greatly. It pointed out that 80 per gent of the patients in VA Rospitaly, were not service connected cases.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES”
NEWARK--His arm tattoo resulted in the identification and arrest of a man wanted by police for desertion of his family.
The Chinese make frequent assertion, One picture's worth ten thousand words. But now that he's charged with desertion, A picture's his one tie that girds,
The, United States maintained a mutually profitable i ip with Spain during the last war. But in the people, maneuver us into supporting a United Nations resolution condemning the Franco regime because it had aided the Axis and was a dictatorship which suppressed civil rights and religious freedom. . » » . . » é AS TO aiding the Axis, Spain sent one division to fight , but &t our request withdrew it before the war
TERR eye Tor Wn eye) 18 the §AVIng “A tooth for & tooth,” ah, how true! But he claims the price he is paying Might well be called “tit for tat"-—too!
NEW FACES . . . By Marquis Childs
Africa, and let American airmen who dropped in Spanish territory return to their commands, speeding such move-
transportation. ! So the charge of aiding the Axis is balanced by the fact
that Spain also aided the Allies. Of course, the Franco government was then, as it is. now, anti-Communist and
WASHINGTON, Jan.
IT IS true that Spain's dictatorship does not respect
diplomatic relations with Poland, which is under a much
budget for 1950-51 at least $10. billion’ undes:
“The continuous rise of expenditures,” says’
ber, vice president of the. Southern California
company executives from «il over the )
“'ning News says,
In lopping off $1 billion from the Veterans’ ~
Congress Changes
4—1f the straws now blowing in the political wind mean anything, 1950 promises some major changes in the line-up in Congress. Familiar faces will be missing before the year has run its course to usher in a new Congress. One new face is already to be discovered on the Democratic
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PROPHECY POLL .
ing its 1950 platform is a subject of great disagreement among U. 8. newspaper editors. Here are some of the answers brought out in a poll of over 700 newspapers, conducted by this” column: “Go more to the right,” says the Milwaukee, Wis., Journal. “It might not win, buf it would be a start in re-establishing the two-party system, to clarify the issues.” The Wapsaw, ‘Ind., Times ii Ames; Towa, Tribune make this even strong- , “Stick to conservatism, ‘even if it loses eleci” is the tenor of theipadvice.
On the other side, papers all across the coun-
try want the GOP to go liberal. The Trenton, N, J; Times calls fof “a newly developed fiberalRepublican program.” The Buffalo, N. Y., Eve“Its fundamental concern should be the, Avelfare of the broad middle class, $5000 a year and below, not $15,000 and above.”
Progressive Policy ny THE West, the San Francisco News calls for a4 GOP policy “developed by its progressive mémbers, in opposition to what the Democrats
propose.” The Gallup, N. M., Independent sug-
gests that the GOP “liberalize its attitude toward labor,” The Eugene, Ore. Register-Guard demands simply, “Wayne Morse's constitutional liberalism.” ) Here are other typical comments: “Stop being stooges for the N. A. M. and C. of C.”--Bidde-ford, Me., Journal. “Get on the Flanders-Ives-Herter-Lodge line.”—Fall River, Mass., Herald. “Forget ‘Favor for the Few.’ "—Nashville, Tenn., Tennessean. “A more liberal policy without metooism.”—Brunswick, Ga., News. “Give all the people a break, not the few."—Atchison, Kas, Globe. This carries aver into the argument of how much of the welfare state the Republicans should adopt as their own. “They can't outpromise the present irresponsibles.” says the Centralia, Ill, Sentinel,
But the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer-Press tells
the Republicans to “Stop hammering at the welfare state. Social security is here to stay. Work
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“80 they better try go-
“Ing BACK to rindamentals” tton™
. By Peter Edson Ty
. Editors Disagre ree on GOP Policy
publican Party should go right or left a sid
and Stassen are TE, ” Emphasizigg this position; the Alpena, Mich, News proposes continuation of “sound New Deal features, managed conservatively.” The Athens, O., Messenger asks for: “The GOP's own fair
deal, without the jackpot.” And the Clarksburg,
W. Va,, Exponent says flatly that the GOP program should be “more like the Democratic platform.”
As for other ideas, the newspaper editors
have a big load-ef-planks to dump in the platform builders’ yard. There are so many that it is impossible in this space to give them all. These are samples:
‘Middle-Road Economies’
“DON'T try to ‘out-fair-deal’ Truman."—
Haverhill, Mass., Gazette, “Human liberties plus middle-road economics.” -- Manchester, N. H., “Something to make laboring seem worthwhile.” -- Elizabeth, N. J, Journal. “A strong, educational, public relations program.” Schenectady, N. Y, Star. “Get rid of the Old Guard, be more progressive.” Fayetteville, Ark. Times. “Get more positive approach on domestic issues.” —Pensacola, Fla., News. “Cut spending, reduce taxes.” Lexington, Ky. Herald and many others. “Regulate labor monopolies.”-—~Harlan, Ky., En-
terprise; Meridian, Miss., Star; Cushing, Okla.”
Citizen and several others. “Offer the same program that won in 1946" —Galesburg, Ill, Register-Mail. “Develop logic of sound government.”-=-Springfield, Ill., Journal. “Combat cradle-to-grave program.” — Columbia City, Ind, Commercial Mail. “Force issues of economy, anti-socialism.”—Evansville,
Ind., Press. “A common sense liberal program, opposing. the Fair Deal. " — Indianapolis, Ind., Times.
‘Lincoln Principles’
“REPUDIATE the protective tariff and other paternalism.”—Tucson, Ariz. Star. ‘Return to principles of Abraham Lincoln.”"—Los Angeles,
Cal.,, News. “Balance budget, no further infla- = Watsonville, Cal. Register. full employment and high income.”’—Moscow, Idaho, Idahoian. “Make clear what social security plans it favors.” —Elko, Nev. Free Press.
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of this is due to the hybrid party and how much is due to natural evolution and common sense, And, of course, this hybrid party doesn’t assume any responsbility for the labor racketeers grown too big for their britches, not satisfied to make their own slaves suffer, but the entire nation must suffer, Nor is that hybrid party assuming any responsibility for the votes they are buying from these labor racketeers with the workingman’s money, Then there is that wonder Utopian program to buy farmers votes, which has one department of the government fretting about ways and means of increasing the production of the soil and urging universities and other institu. tions to push this program; while anothéf department of the same hybrid party is using the taxpayers! money to buy up the surplus. Still ‘another branch of the same hybrid is demanding more and more money to send to
foreign nations. with which to buy food Jeoducts’ : Sed wi Prag 3 el Kee OY i +
. great nation so many people are tsarving that the ‘hybrid apparatus-is- going -to-be forced to furnish free food, free medicine, and every. thing a man needs from cradle to grave, free and without cost to anyone. Isn't that Democratic hybrid a wonderful institution?
‘Waited 40 Minutes on Bus'By Paul Van Buskirk, 932 8. Warman Ave, It seems as though the Indianapolis Rail. ways would keep closer to schedule since the transit fare increase. 1 waited for a bus for 40 minutes last week going to work. Would a company that would shut off the lights for 40 minutes when a surgeon was at an emergency operation be well thought of?
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would be lost, Yet its employees, depending on public transit, may be the ones who failed be-
_ cause a bus was 40 minutes late,
As a taxpayer, citizen and public service employee, I would like to hear how someone else feels about it. Will the people stand still for another fare increase and less service? The PSC doesn’t have to ride a bus 40 minutes late. They have tax mosey with which to buy new cars.
So They Say
IT'S time the American people started sending men to Congress whose first interest is in running the country properly. We've had enough salary grabbers in our government to keep us broke for the next century.—Willlam L. White, candidate for Democratic nomination for. U, 8, Senator from Ohio.
I THINK that eventually the free nations of Asia will want the same type of security within the structure of the United Nations as the North Atlantic Pact nations. ~—Sen, William F. Knowland, (R. Cal.).
I's studying” atheism so I can stay around (material wealth). — Comedian Fred Allén's answer to the expression “You can't take it with you.”
PRICE SUPPORT . . . By Earl Richeri
Big Butter Surpl . WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Now it's culture Department officials insomnia. The department startéd out with a butter price-support pro-
gram last February, confident that it would have to buy only a small amount and that what it purchased could be easily resold
‘butter that's giving Agri-
harsher dictatorship. +. Congress is planning a full review, of American foreign policy, with the Spanish question among the controversial . issues to be aired. Since even Chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee now believes we should have an ambassador in Spain, possibly the State Department can be persuaded that we have let the Soviet bloc dieRate our Spanish policy long enough:
Tough Little Finland
OVIET RUSSIA'S threatening note, accusing Finland of harboring 300 “war.criminals” in violation of Finnish‘Russian treaties, followed the Moscow visit of Finland's two top Communists. : Finland's presidential ‘election is set for Jan. 17. Russia apparently is making another attempt to frighten the Finns into veting the Communist ticket. However, if this was the purpose of the angry Soviet note, it may have “exactly the opposite effect. ‘= The Finns aren't easily bluffed. Living under the ‘shadow of Russia's guns, they have refused to embrace communism, : . 5» fn 0» PRESIDENT PAASIKIVI'S New Year messige, as usual, his nation's friendship for the Soviet . Union. But Finland has resisted all efforts to reduce her to a satellite status. The Finns ‘smile and Bow, but do | give. After the war there were savers) Communists in the Finnish cabinet. One was the minister of the interior, in : of the police. But by degrees the Reds were eased of their key positions and the present Social Democratic : while pe laimitig a pro-Soviet attitude, is just
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side of the aisle in the Senate.
Republican, resigned to accept A place on the Supreme Court of his native Connecticut “by appointment of Gov. Chester Bowles, Democrat and Fair Dealer. To Baldwin's seat Gov, Bowles named his good friend and former advertising partWilliam Benton. . - . MR. BENTON is that comparatively rare phenomenon the successful business man in politics. He is a self-made man who helped to build the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles into one of the most successful in the country, It is because he has felt the need and the urge for public service that Mr, Benton at the age of 49 is such a hopeful phenomenon in politics, Froth
its inception he has been asso-
ciated with the Committee for Economic Development, the remarkable organization that has provided constructive eritfclsm, of government from the
_ business point 6f view,
In CED, Mr. Benton has been closely associated with his good friend, Paul Hoffman, head of the European operation Administration and formerly president of the Studebaker Corp. - " = a ».
IN Septerhber of 1043, Mr. Benton accepted the thorny as’ signment as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of the
javefulent'y_ program. uf intion throughout he
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pioneering job and one bound to stir trouble. Tackling it with the eager. ness and the supreme self-con-fidence that characterizes him, Mr. Benton annoyed” and irritated many people who were accustomed to more caution and discretion in government. In an éxtraordinary session before a congressional committee, he was called on to justify and explain the modern American art he had approved for a traveling collection to be sent to South AmerAs publisher and collector, Mr. Benton qualifies as an art expert. ” r . »
BUT he found his confidence
melting away as committee "members demanded to know
whether that really was an apple or just a daub of red paint. The committee, its ignorance matched only by its arrogance, ruled against any appropriation, ‘however small, to send that “stuff” around the world. Later the State Department sold the collec tion. ’ The business man In Congress has sometimes in the past found himself baffled by the complexities of politics. The man of action is lost in & body that puts a premium on talk and then more talk. Mr. Benton wil] have a special desire to make good in He will want to
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FOR the first time in the history of the state, due to a change in’ the Constitution, a governor will be elected for a four-year term rather than a two-year” term. This puts an added emphasis on Gov, Bowles’ race for re-election, which. would draw national {hterest in any event because of growing will be a strong contender for the Democratic nomination for -
appoin Next fall Mr, Benton will have President in 1952.
Io run for re-election, at will ,
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President Truman, now decided to seek re-election, regards Gov. Bowles as the ad-
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way. In spite of the handicap of an opposition legislature, Mr. Bowles has pushed through somie of thd measures in his progressive program for Connecticut, conspicuously a housing piogram am that is at: Sracting attention’ outside the state. - : :
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the national picture. And Mr: Benton's performance will be
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this winter. ‘But it has had to purchase 167 ‘million pounds of butter so far this year for about $67 million. The beginning of the flush milk production period is only three months away and the department has been able to resell only two million pounds of butter to the commercial trade. : . . " IT'S giving 20 million pounds to tip school-lunch program
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mercial trade will take a considerable amount during the January-March period. 3 But by the time the grass is green and the cows are gushing with milk the department
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pounds of butter on hand.
Butter has been kept in cold.
storage for as long as two years. But it's not desirable to hold it over from one season to the next. And surplus butfer can't be fed to livestock. * * - .
ALSO, the old standby of dumping overseas is out in the case of butter, Britain is the principal chaser of exportable butter, And Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand depend heavily on their butter sales to the British Isles, We'd have all these countries hopping mad if we undercut them by dumping our surplus butter in BritAn at bargain prices. rtment officials promise that the butter will not be per-
~ ALSO, while “the department is working to get rid of the old surplys it probably will be accumulating millions of pounds of new butter, since it has announced it will support butter prices through March of 1951 at approximately 80 cents
support for 1949, If conditions stay the same as they have been, both from consumer-buying and produetion’ standpoints, this means that the government undoubtedly will have to buy huge quantities of surplus butter during the next 13 months. Congress has required that Iuster be supported after Jan. 1 at 75 to 90 per cent of-a new parity and the 80-cent-a-pound support price is only slightly above the minimum level.
AGRICULTURE officials say
that the butter surplus problem during the months and years ahead will furnish the strongest argument ‘for Secretary Brannan's farm plan, This would let prices to con~ sumers fall to natural levels, with the départment paying farmers the difference between the price received and the support price. Department offi cials are confident that if but ter prices got cheap enough, there would be no surplus.
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