Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1950 — Page 14

Telephone RI loy 5551 Give Light and the People Will Fine I'hew Vion Way

“What Would You Cut?” THAT is the the taxers and spenders usually ask, with a t smirk, when anyone suggests that the government ought to stop spending more money than it's - : . v ON smug assumption is that, if you specify where to spend less, you will immediately arouse the angry protest of some pressure group. > v . ‘Well, what of that? All of us are taxpayers. If we really get stirred up about the way our money is being wasted and our future mortgaged, we can be the most formidable pressure group of all. ~ ° The answer to the taxers’ and spenders’ question is

Cut everything.

. » . » . » "CUT the farm subsidies. Reduce all subsidies. Cut the rivers and harbors and highway and housing appropriations. Curb the lending powers of government corporations. Reduce the amounts the Army and Navy and Air Force can spend. Pare down European aid. Cut payrolls. Put an economy. and efficiency team to work in the Veterans’ Administration to cut out the obvious wastes and abuses in administering the GI Bill of Rights, and empty the hospital beds of non-service-connected cases.’ We could fill this page listing places and activities

. essential government service, and without weakening the

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hires at least

least three people to do what ould be done better

and at less cost by two. Cra. . nn : THE toughest place to cut will be in the $5 billion-plus annual interest bill on the public debt. But we can cut that, too. We can do it by taking the money saved by stopping wastes elsewhere, and using that money to start reducing

we shrink the interest bill. : We cannot do all this by saying: “We're for economy, but..." What we must say is: “We're for economy period” And that must mean cutting all the way down the line. We must stop spending money we haven't got for ~ things we cannot afford. :

The Issue of Peace or War PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S decision to abandon Formosa was popular, one of our readers believes, because of an undercurrent of fear-in this country that American intervention there might involve us in a hot war with Russia. ~~ That may be so. But the initial popularity of a decision is not the sole test of sound policy.

. Time will determine the wisdom of the President's : The issue in the Formosa situation was not whether the United States should send troops there, but whether we should supply Chiang Kai-shek with the munitions and economic aid he might need for a successful defense of the island against the Communists.

. . r . w . AMERICAN intervention of that kind in Greece under somewhat similar circumstances did not provoke war with Russia. “Until now, at least, Russia has moved in only where the other big powers have stayed out, or backed out,

mainland while the United States was supporting Chiang Kai-shek. But, when we withdrew our support from the |v Nationalists, Moscow then threw its support behind the Chinese Communists. «When Neville Chamberlain returned lo Britain from Munich In 1938 he was received with great public acclaim, ‘because of x popular belief that the concessions he had made at the expense of Czechoslovakia would mean peace for at least a generation. Zz: :

. ne ou WINSTON CHURCHILL was one of the few dissenters.

The war Mr. Churchill a year: Gah The Japs used Formosa as the staging area for their conquests of the Philippines and the East Indies. If Formosa falls to the Russians and that island again becomes the springboard for a war of aggression, the popularity of

predicted followed in less than

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’ . moment,

- Gridiron Swag | ’ RSITY athletics have been trying to “stay pure” for a long time, Mongy mixed up in any sport like as not will ruin its amateur standing—and give the players

. wy Down in Louisiana, where they do a good many things

in strange ways, the board of the state university padded LSU's Sugpr Bowl players with $3000 in

the pockets of expense money. Expense money for what? For $3000 you can travel around the world. So why rot call it what it is—plain hardcash pay for playing a university football game. z ; In Indiana we don't want university sports to come to gor ‘that. And we hate to see it happen_elsewhere, even in © Louisiana, where neither the politicians nor the college

The CPG of the PRC : ENGLISH newsps targets of angry blasts

) from the Peking radis. It accuses them of “crudely the new Chinese regime as the “Chinese

where money can be saved without diminishing any really mses Hie 18 TBH PARE In DF Yterde

There Jt sxboas. fot. in the Sedessl budget from thedgri--ine. A FU et RE SMH BERR

the quarter-of-a-trillion debt. As we shrink the principal,

At ClO Critic : Answers Union Head With " + Plea of ‘Welfare for Others’,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-—Dear Boss: Al though he would like very much to be promoted to the Senate, Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat, doesn’t even care to keep his seat in the House if he has to be a man wearing a label. : That goes for the “union label” as well as any other. The Marion County Con“gressman “made that quite clear in answering a critical lejter he received from Raymond H. Berndt, director of Region 3, UAW-CI1O. Learning that Mr. Berndt had his letter and sent

and also published it in the newspapers, Mr, Jacobs an- . nounced he will do the same Rep. Jacobs with his reply. The CIO leader took exception to Mr. Jacobs being for President Truman storcing § the Tan. Hartley injunction provisions in crisis. He Lh Jumetia men would not have supported him if they knew that. was the way he felt about It. Like all professional unioneers, Mr. Berndt wants Taft-Hartley repeal—period. It is such dogmatic stands which Mr. Jacobs, a long-time labor lawyer, opposes. He wants Taft-Hartley modified, but. is opposed to total strikes and for more democracy in the unions so that such dictatorships as that of John L. Lewis will no longer be possible,

Get Another Candidate

ALL this he made clear to Mr. Berndt and added that if that doesn’t suit his purpose he can very well seek another candidate to support. Mr. Jacobs, who insists it is a Congressman’s

- business to resist the pressure from pressure

groups if they are entirely selfish and inconsid-:

erate of the general welfare, laid down an eight- .

point credo in his reply to the Berndt letter as follows: “For your information, I believe: peridént economy when any group can act without reard ‘to some’ FekpoM

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clearly see the responsibility of others, but remains blind to their own responsibility.

Vital to Welfare

“THAT the coal industry is vital to the welfare of all, including you and your members,

“and it has fallen into a sad state of cartelization

_because of tacit understandings between John L.

Lewis and certain operators. 3 “That any entire industry should not be used a8 a single bargaining unit, nor should the unit

"ever be reduced below the entity of any com-

pany, holding company or syndicate, Otherwise, we are headed for a controlled economy. “That your remarks were quite ill-considered. You will note that Sen. Lucas is demanding the

President act to alleviate the peril in the coal

strike. You are not asking intelligent help for labor, but blind acquiescence. “I never pledged any such, or any kind, of ce, but to represent all the people and to listen to all, but in the end to use mine, not the judgment of others.

‘Don't Fit That Pattern’

“THAT when" the people want a representa-

“ tive that will do otherwise they should select

oo... Russia did not admit aggressive intentions on the China .

“You were offered a choice of war or dishonor,” he told Mr. | Chamberlain in Parliament. “You chose dishonor. Yau will |

the Formosa decision in January, 1950, will not be of great

someone else. I don’t fit that pattern. “And finally, I doubt. your own considered sincerity in the premises. Otherwise you would {nduce your own union to strike the entire auto industry.” : : That such replies are generally considered “above and beyond the call of duty” with most Congressman goes without saying. The irony of it is, Mr, Jacobs, pointed owt, that while he was dictating this reply to a union leader he was being given unshirted hell at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in Indianapolis. “I may turn out to be a lame duck,” Mr. Jacobs wryly commented, “but I will not be crippled from ducking the issues.”

MOSCOW --Pravda quotes a Chinese dramatist as saying the Russian language is to be a required subject in Chinese secondary schools.

A Chinese who is erudite And knows what lies ahead May drop Confucius overnight And study Marx instead.

He no will talk in Manchu style; New phrases curt he'll blurt. Old tickee now no more worth while— The Commies have his shirt.

DEFICIT SPENDING . . . By Earl Richert

Danger of Big Debt

WASHINGTON, Jan.-1t—Headlines tell again of another

PRA ’ nen

to all local union presidents’

biifty” TOF tiie “welfare oe"

WR HAE

huge federal deficit—$5.1 billion for the year upcoming and piling

right. on top of red-ink figures of $5.5 billion for the year now ~ending. ’

‘That's how much more the thah it is taking in. What does all this mean to

government is going to spend

He's probably the first chief executive ever to say “trillion” and

A375 a Week wage earner with

a family? . No. 1 important effect is that federal deficit spending depreclates the value of the dollar. Government borrowing to pay for its projects pours more greenbacks into the money stream. The value of the dollar goes down and you have to pay more for the things you want and need. -. » »

YOU can't see this happen.

And It *akes some time to feel it. But it happens—as can be shown by an example of what developed during the last 10

years when huge government deficit financing was necessary

* because of the war,

government savings bond that would pay you $100 at the e of 10 years. . » . nw TODAY, you go in, cash the bond and collect the $100. {

day with continued government

"deficit financing.

. ~ - YOU might fight the depreclation of the dollar in your day-to-day life by going to the boss and getting higher wages -if you're able to persuade him and if he is able to pay. But those people who saved the proverbial nest egg in a savings account, life insurance, a pension system or bonds are trapped today. The money they get out of such savings will buy much less than they had expected because the value of the dollar has gone down. Thousands of retired persons Aare caught in this situation today. Old-age security payments, deemed adequate back in 1936, are so inadequate now that the house-passed social se-

curity bill proposes to raise

payments by 70 per cent. . . w , ALL sides agree that government . deficit financing is bad. But the degree of opinion > differs, The Truman administration

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“Pop, if you were so crazy about Greek when you were in high school, hogs come you switched to detective stories?"

What's being done? The Truman administration

mean it, - To gauge how optimistic his forecast was, you have only to note that total yearly output in the U. 8. today is around $255,000.000,000, slightly more than § fourth of the figure he anticipates for the start of the 21st Century, . . ® 4. AS for family income, there's probably some disagreement among economists as to where it stands today. Mr. Truman is said to have taken a 1950 average of $4200 a year. So his $12,000 forecast for the year 2000 would mean a tripling of

income for every family.

Is this a lot of wild dreaming or is it really possible? The President arrived at these spectacular estimates largely by projecting forward the same growth rate of productivity (output per worker) that the

-country enjoyed during the

years 1900-50. In other words, he assumed that economically we shall not slow down our expansion in the next 50 years. ” - » SINCE 1900 the country's “national - product” ,

"fal

off, we must conclude that Mr,

"Pruman’s trillion dollar talk is

not fantasy. But whether the possible is. also probable is something else. Trends have an unhappy way of reversing themselves. Curves arching gracefully upward . often go plummeting without warning. ” ss nm ! MR. TRUMAN himself ace knowledged some of the pite falls in the State of the Union message. He hung a big pro-. viso on his bright forecast. To make the dream come true, he said, we have to keep the economy in balance. We must nour. ish it both with carefully guarded resources and with the dynamic energies of workers and| business leaders who have in free enterprise. . . ” J NONE of these tasks is easy, So if we do hit that trillion~, dollar mark in 2000, it's safe to

lame explanations of the smart or foolish people Becca and M of these principles will not change the mind of of Flushing, | a thinking individual. ? ward H, Schr It is a well-known fact that the Republican two brothers, Party has always favored interests, Indianapolis, that they have sought to add strength to the Ft. Wayne, a strong and weaken the weak. Money and devi ous ways have sustained them in former years, James L. Now education and wisdom of the masses is Rites for J their downfall. Never again can they hope to native of 8 rise on their past record or policies. Just now held at 1 p. there is a split between the “me toos” and the cobs Brother standpatters, between those who would adopt Burial wil the Democratic policies and those who would fol- - Cemetery, low old Republican policies. : A resident The stand taken by our Congressmen on So 44 years, Mr. called social security, that is legislation for the day in his h good of the most people, should be closely Ave. He was watched by the voters. For the benefit of those Surviving 24 who may read this, the writer wishes to state Marcella Par that he is not a Democrat or a Republican, but Parker; four an independent voter who indorses by his votes Eleanor Pen ho ~that which seems to him to be for the good of Parker, Miss A a ND OI PROS FR I RA nd a RAN RI BOYER ATA TIRE SAY inh BERR F EIA EID, wo £4 the oy le... A FA TA ONAN mt * and Mrs. on : : nder all governments the influence of ° , a sister, ; ) , ’ a Character remains the sams, Freedom is only. . YL. ..-bawson..a MONEY. TROUBLES... -By. Parker. Ore. LNT NA TRAN wep iNed by RAR od with pala. A | ~ Parker, a 1 il aE i SI 7 i un p wt Gr —— - 4 g i fixes 430d . Ri > Seven gran a IRE © i Tol Fy F Te Sh NT (Av i XK ir AT Tatred: rds nest BL STEER A aA, 3 jp 3 R ry HR x g 2 bw Ba iy »i R 3 ” ai 3 - - : i on” as pl oA ts EARLE TYR he rR ig A RNS ¥ LB RW TN ME ri bi oa & i > Thay Le We YRS iy WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—The 11 countries of minority elements in Israel that King Abdul- With interest I read the pros and 3 the S ices lah’s troops be driven out of the old city. . 7 which have achieved their independence since Tod oh Eat inant slain Carved mercy killing of a woman patient in New Hamp- erv the end of the last war face a precarious future, out of Britain's. old Indian empire, has & shire, I do not believe in mercy deaths but the Services fo beset as most of them are by internal discord, ...i us adverse trade balance and faces a budg- Pain that a cancer patient endures is almost too 6063 “owell financial distress and the pressures of the cold et deficit of $90 million notwithstanding $44 Unbearable for those who come in contact with it, terday in his war. F . million it has received in loans from the Inter- Personally, 1 believe the condition of Dr, P. m. Friday - § L » hanan mort Of the seven new. gov: national Bank. Feuds with Pakistan over Kas- Herman N. Sander's patient got on his nerves y, ernments in the Far East—In- mir and devaluation have cut off the supply of 850 much that he resorted to the mercy death, : follow. He dia, Pakistan, Burma, South raw materials from that source, which is shut- Fe made his own punishment, namely, the tor- i Mr. Sel Korea, Ceylon, Indonesia and g ting down India’s jute and cotton mills. ture he endured by being the doctor in the case r Schake 3 the Philippines—only Pakistan : Ee and the excruciating pains of his patient. Fetired In 100 began the year with a balanced Same Exchange Value a - . gb pudgat and A Savor le UNTIL Britain devalued the pound, both the Public Getting Worked Up’ Evangelical tunate situation may be short- Indian and Pakistan rupee had the same ex- By Robert Eisenhut, 9 Johnson Ave. i Church. lived, because of & top-heavy = change value, But when India followed Britain +% “Delteve tbe [65 are slywh tt Survivors military budget and a throat- in devaluation, Pakistan refused to follow suit : peop! y getting Mrs. Karl A eutting: \rade war-with India. = o : and set an exchange rate of 144 Indian rupees Worked up over the increase in federal taxes lis, and three & . wr f to 100 Pakistani rupees, which India refused to and our government's foreign policy. How can | Raymond A. he Sutionk ja omuwhat . accept. we get better representation? It seems as if i dianapolis, Fasey averse [UF ihe Hew ha~ Hing Abdul) This has stopped the movement of raw ma- Mr. Acheson is dictating foreign policy despite Schakel, Ft. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. But each terials and food from Pakistan to India. what the people, Congress and military think. Mrs. Juli has its own peculiar problems . Burma's situation is even more ‘critical, for I feel that we should have a law passed reg- ull : civil war has undermined both government and ulating the number of civil servants we can Sefvices fo Syria and Lebanon, released from a French y,4ustry until the country would be virtually have per capita which would cut down. on the | kerson, 36 8. trusteeship, and Jordan from British control, — peipjess should the Chinese Communists see fit voting strength of the dominant party as well 1 held at 3 p. all figure in the projected kingdom of “Greater 4, nyo on across the Yunnan bordef, after mop- as reducing taxes. " Peace Chape Syria” which King Abdullah of Jordan hopes to = ning un the remnant Nationalist forces there. ments have form by combining those countries with Iraq Ceylon, on the other hand, unwilling to trust - A native of and Arab Palestine. Egypt, Israel and Baudi ;. pio neighbor, India, was satisfied with a What Others Say Wilkerson di Arabia all oppose this merger—Egypt and Israel 4. ini0n status and membership in the British ) Vincent's He because they want to maintain the present bal- nm nwealth. This has paid off in political WE already have developed several methods ness of eight ance of power in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia 434, of making sea water drinkable. The problem In 1948 M because King Ibn Saud is a bitter enemy of the The Philippines started the present fiscal mow is to find out how to cut the cost of produce to Indianap , Hashimite dynasty headed by Abdullah. year without a budget, for its Congress ad- tion so that it will be economically’ feasible. Ky., where si _This conflict has been behind the overthrow = journed without approving one. President Elpi- Rep. Gordon L.'McDonough (R. Cal.) on current the Baptist ( of three stccessive Syrian governments within dio Quirino met this crisis by extending last water shortage. “ Surviving recent months, year’s budget. But the books at present are not i Julian M. W Israel's most pressing problems are housing in balance, and an increasing deficit is antici- THE Democratic Party is not only willing, sons, LaVer and jobs for incoming immigrants. In the year pated but anxious, to meet its opponents on this field 3 W. Wilkersor i and a half of its eventful life, The Filipinos are not readily responding to ©f political battle. We are proud of our record olis, and Da 5 the Jewish populatien of Israel the need for work, work, and more work. and make no apology for it.—Vice President las, Tex. has increased from 655000 to All but ‘surrounded by an expanding Com- Alben Barkley, on party program. 1,000,000. The government is munist world, South Korea, America’s other WE approach the problem of government Mrs. Letil confronted by the necessity of protege in the Far East, continues to exist only ownership and control not as a problem of Services fo getting these people off the re- because of the artificial respiration it is er- theory but one of common sense and hard, prace former India: lief rolls and into production. ceiving in the form of U, 8. dollars... ono 0 pure Minister-elect Robert Menzies: be held at 2 "Meanwhile, the country is Shirk Hard Facts of Australia. : : Shirley Broth living on grants and loans and r a . el. Burial will must continue to do so for APART from the growing pains inevitable T REGRET that there are still large numbers etery, Camby some time. to come, in any infant government, all of these new of Japanese who are still detained in Soviet A native The -internationalization of states seem inclined to shirk some of the hard Russia and Communist China.—Premier Shigeru Mrs. West d i Jerusalem, voted by the United facts of national life because of an apparent Yoshida of Japan. home in Bric King Ibn Saud Nations, seems to be a dead confidence that easy money will be forthcoming - } and a mem letter. Israel is in possession of © from the United States to tide them over any REVIVAL of the (Civilian Conservation) Church. the new city, and Jordan holds the old city. emergency. VN Corps on... (a) ... modified basis would not Surviving Meantime, both oppose the United Nations pian. “Most of them have applied for American only help the youths by giving them the break West, Indian But while these two governments are in loans, and all of them appear to be expecting they need—and keeping them off the crowded ters, Mrs. A; agreement on this point, a general agreement a new deluge of dollars from President Tru- streets—but would permit everyone to prosper port, and Mr: between them on other pressing issues is com- man's Point Four program which hasn't yet from their efforts.—Rep. Reva Bosone (D) Los Angeles; plicated by other factors, including the demand been approved by Congress. : Utah. and four gre . * SIDE GILANCES By Galbraith FUTURE U.S. ...By Bruce Biossat Readjustn . Complete, R | 2 CHICAGO, V ream or ea i * America ha sp q WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-For the average American family, ie v | $12,000 a year; for the whole United States, annual production President Al ERR A - : : . amounting to one trillion dollars, That's right, trillion, “Banks ai This was President Truman's prediction for the year 2000 © oredit 1s goo A. D. as the nation stands near the midpoint of the 20th Century. 1 ning 1950 wif

of confidence, Retail Furnit ner last nigh He predicts “far better th and may eve said he hope defense costs soon but war probably wou some time to