Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1950 — Page 14

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Well, Look John L. Lewis is called a ruthless dictator, some“YY ne almost always replies: “But look at what he has ‘done for the coal miners.” "The miners have made great gains since 1932. Mr. Lewis then had been president of their union for 12 years. Its membership had dropped from half a million to about 150,000. The average miner's yearly wage was down to $225. : - Now they are the world's highest .paid big group of workers—when Mr. Lewis lets them work. Li : BUT it was the government that made those gains possible. New Deal laws put tremendous power into Mr. Lewis hands—monopoly power over the coal industry, czar-like power over the union. His part has been to use,

power. In the last year his strikes and three-day weeks have

kept the miners idle on about 90 possible working days. The average miner has lost more than $1200 in wages Mr. Lewis would not let him earn. “The country’s coal supply now is dangerously low. Mr. Lewis is making it lower. }

HE 1s trying. obviously, to cause a mid-winter fuel crisis so that he can force the mine operators to. yield to his demands. oe -... Ho ohn do that with little

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the law he has promised them to repeal.

The mine owners should not yield to Mr. Lewis’ demands. They should not give him, in any new contract, the #able and willing” clause which enables him to call a strike ‘whenever he takes the notion. : ‘They should not give him complete power over the miners’ pension and welfare fund, with more millions from a private tax on coal to squander as he pleases.» ”

» - » IF THEY are forced to yield to those demands, this

More and more industries and home-owners will switch 1 coal to other fuels—fuels they can depend on getting Already in many parts of the country the price of na-

r unit of heating value is lower than the price le igh ne Already, during Mr. Lewis’ reign as dictator of coal,

use of soft coal has dropped from almost three-fifths of the country’s total fuel needs to little more than two-fifths. Look at what Mr. Lewis has done for the coal miners? Look at what he is doing to the miners, to their jobs, to the coal industry and to the country.

Eden Projects : A FEW months ago President Truman spoke of giant Toa projects to turn the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys into a modern Garden of Eden, with untold benefit to people of the Middle East. Gordon Clapp, the TVA chairman, and other members of a United Nations survey group have made an on-the-spot study of the Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan valleys. This is what they report: y “The region is not ready, the projects are not ready, the peoples and governments are not ready for large-scale - development of the region's basic river systems or major undeveloped land areas. “To press forward on such a course is to pursue folly and frustration” and “delay sound economic growth.” te» - » ® = INSTEAD, Mr. Clapp.and his associates recommend four small “pilot” projects in Arab Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to provide work relief for Arab refugees from the Palestinian civil war. They say countries of the Middle East must concentrate on improving agricultural methods before undertaking big industrial developments. That makes sense. A desert economy, built on donkey and camel transportation, plainly isn't ready for TVA-type public-power schemes. . It would be well to have less advance political ballyhoo about what is to be done for the world's undeveloped areas with American money—and that’s the only kind of money mentioned for such undertakings.

- nn n n » ~ . IT WOULD be exceedingly well to make careful, hardheaded studies, such as that made by Mr. Clapp and his group, before issuing extravagant promises of wondrous % benefits to flow from Mr, Truman's Point Four program. Our government, more than a quarter-trillion in debt and budgeted to go five billion or so deeper next fiscal year, can't afford to arouse false hopes and vain expectations all over the world.

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Sound Economy ‘THERE is one phase of the Indiana ‘economic picture Hoosiers won't have to worry about this year. That is - % the condition of Indianapolis banks. Annual reports of these financial institutions show that almost all of them came through the year With substantial gains in earnings and deposits, a reflection of continuing public confidence. The Indiana National Bank ended the year as a $318 million institution, 62d among the country’s first 1500 banks. The Merchants National, American National and the Fletcher Trust Co. all are beginning 1950 in a healthy convs Indianapolis’ financial institutions expand their busdnfluence in the community, they are increasing and staffs with more talent, i ad pans “the banking foundations of the comy eags. tl at the general economic outlook for ln- .

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‘Asiatic Nations Weakened

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12-The Ceylon terence of eight British commonwealths will be

od ‘by its ability to. settle itd own internal Judged |} ye than by high-flown resolutions to save the world. The prospects are not good. The opening statement by British common= wealth Minister Noel-Baker, dedicating the meeting to preventing & third world war and stopping communism’s spread, begs the real question. That is whether the Asiatic commonwealths will be a drag or a help to the Western Powers, which must carry the main burdens of the cold war.

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too limited for undet immediate threat of Red expansion are not represented at the conference—French IndoChina and Burma, which withdrew from the mmonwealth,- = And the British Asiatic commonwealths have neither military nor economic strength to defend themselves, much less their neighbors. Nor have they the will to wage a defensive cold war against ‘Russia, along Western lines; of which Prime Minister Nehru of India is so critical. In fact, Nehru never tires of repeating his neutrality and unwillingness to join the Western Bloc. i

Little Security Aid FOR these and other reasons the new and unstable Asiatic commonwealths cannot in the near future be the bulwark of collective security in the Far East. At best they can co-operate with a more inclusive and stronger Pacific regional organization, under United Nations and with American help, But they could do a lot at hbme, even though’ they can't be of great service elsewhere. The chief threat to world peace in that area is the feud between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. A war between those two commonwealths not only would belie their peace protestations and betray the United Nations, it would invite Soviet intervention. That could lead to world war, vz,

Racial Disputes | THIS subject, however, is too hot for the

Ceylon agenda. Neither will ‘the conference be

permitted to touch the racial disputes of India NPM CATR EHR

Tonweriths c . 2H wo fi bé to forego some of their pound of flesh in tife form of stérling. balances. Those are debts Britain, incur in the war, partly in their defense. The United States not only canceled most ~ of its loans to Britain, but also has been paying off those other debts indirectly. That is, the amount of our Marshall aid to Britain is roughly the same as the total she is passing on to the sterling balance nations.

Raise Living Standards CEYLON conference delegates seem agreed that the surest way to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia is to raise the low living standards there. ." That of course involves American aid. Bu even if India and Pakistan settle their economic war, which is lowering living standards, they and their neighbors have yet to show they would accept the terms and controls essential to effective foreign aid. . The question of Red China recognition has . ~thetr premature action. The

Jap treaty question involves the United States. 80 the conference is handicapped.-

THE LAST JELLY

Mother's scolded, and declared We have to eat it up; And we'd better get quite busy, If it is a bitter cup, To eat She last spoanful of jelly in the dish, \

How the first bite tasted yummy, In our memories is secure; \ But I leave the last to brother, And he wants it not, it's sure, NO - That last spoonful of jelly in the dish.

The story is quite pathetic; \ As mother sadly shakes her head. \L She wonders in her mind \ If we aren't a little too well fed,

Disdaining the last spoonful of jelly in,

the dish.

The battle finally winds up With another flavor sweet On the table in a new dish, So tempting and so neat, Replacing the last spoonful of jelly in the : dish, . Where is the spurned jelly; There's a glint in mother’s eye; As she passes us some cookies, And we munch without a sigh, * ~The last spoonful of jelly in-the-dish: ~JOSEPHINE BUCK, Westfield, Ind.

BIG U. S. DEBT . . . By Marquis Childs

Ammunition for GOP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-—The battle now joined over Presi- N I derit Truman's budget will go right on through the elections this fall and after. If any Republican orator fails to attack that five-billion-dollar deficit, it will be because he or she is suffering

from total amnesia.

The good intentions the President's budget exudes are like \

those in the message on the

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Plenty of Room

WASHIGTON, Jan. 12—In President Truman’s budget message, you finally get the bad - news. This is his estimate of what ali his proposals for new legislation would cost. The bill comes to $7,707,600,000. Though this sum is only about a sixth of the $42,439,000,000 estimated total expenditures for the 1951 budget, it is a most important part, It includes all the fancy new gimmicks and the enlargements of existing programs which the President has introduced in his State of the Union and Economic Report messages. These are the {téms the economy advocates will try to use the axe on. - Old programs for government spending are hard to cut or kill. But new ideas are duck

, soup and meat for economizers, and so worth

considerable attention. It should be made clear at the start that -besspent. in... the next fiscal year—July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1951. J Actual expenditures would be $4.070,300,000. ‘The other $3,637,300,000 would be contract authorizations and increased government borrowing to pay for expenditures under these pro-

grams in future years.

More Cuts Sought

FIRST take a look at some of the extensions of present programs the President asks for. He wants $3.1 billion for the third year of the Marshall Plan. This represents a cut of $900 million from this year's authorization. But there is a determined effort from the isolationists in Congress to cut it more. An additional $647 million plus another $500 million in contract authorizations is requested for the European arms aid. The President asks $520 million new contract authority for federal highway ald. Every Congressman being in favor of more roads for ‘his state, this will probably go through without much trouble. ‘Fhe President asks authority to increase the publi¢. debt through government borrowings of $500 million, Half would be used to finance housing mortgages, the other half for his new and thus-far undisclosed program of business loans and guarantees. Only $10 million of this latter sum is ‘ear-marked for spending next year, and only half of the former. For extending rent controls another year, the President asks. $18 million. There is sure to be a battle to kill this whole business.

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Wo aA Now take a look at some of the new major legislation proposals. : Biggest item is over $400 mililon for education, of which $300 mililon would be in the federal school aid bill which passed. the Senate last year but is now tied up in the House. For school construction surveys, $45 million, and a like amount for aid to medical ‘education training doctors and nurses in anticipation of the health insurance scheme.

Aid to States

NEXT biggest item is nearly $300 million for welfare plans. For direct grants in aid to the states, to provide greater poor relief, $250 million. For grants to the states for maternity benefits $0 million. For health services to school children, $35 million. The President asks $370 million—$240 mil-

tary construction. . Sixty million dollars are requested to set u a new co-operative housipg plan for middleincome families. This is a mere start. The President is still hoping for new legislation that will raise postal rates and make the Post Office Department more or less self-sup-porting. This could conceivably save the government $395 million. But the chances are slim, because most Congressmen and a lot of pressure groups using the mails don’t want savings made this easy way. For the St. Lawrence seaway the President asks an initial $4 million and for Alaska roads and airports over $8 million. Another $3 million is to be poured into Inland Waterways Corporation for new equipment.

More Jobless Insurance

TO PROVIDE unemployment compensation for federal workers, $13,500,000 is requested, and to expand unemployment insurance for non-government workers, $12,500,000. To expand old-age survivors’ insurance and to start the federal health insurance scheme, the President asks that. $1,450,000,000 be collected next year in the form of increased payroll deductions. This money would go inte trust funds for later expenditure. But the public would have to dig down for it and pay for .it just like regular taxes which would finance thé other pins. All tx all, there's plenty ‘of omizing on this budget, if the Congressmen have the courage to do it.

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To the average reader, it would seem that even Republicans themselves disagree as to who is responsible for the drift toward “socialism” in the United States. Sen. Capehart, although confused as to who turned what war plants back to whom, is cere tain that Democrats are fostering “British. type socialism.” . .And now, young Philip Willkie says: “It seems to me that the Republican Party, along with Lhe <onservativg community In general in America, Is unwittingly playing the Russian's game.” If we accept the idea propounded by, newspapers and generally accepted in Ameriga that the difference between British-type soeialism and the Russian system is only in degree, then one of these gentlemen is in error or there is a difference of opinion. How does the Republican Party expect the people to.agree with its public figures when they disagree among themselves?

‘Taxes for War’ By H. E. Martz, City. Since the Slements comprising and motivate .

ing the opinion-making forces of the country g taxes the major issue

pe AR bg Al] fn j ry) Rt All except a few billions of the national budge. et go for war-incurred debts of the past and, with psychopathic logic, toward preparation for future war. There are many views as to the causes of war, but injustice born of ignorance and bred in greed and brutality is the prime moving force. If, therefore; we will observe the workings of the power world in which we live, we will find the originating impulse of wars and taxes within the groups who most deplore the fiscal consequences of war.

‘Watts Trial Transfer’

By Smiley Fowler, Greensburg, Ind. . I read with interést the letter of Maiqella McDermit, defending Decatur County afainst an implied attitude of racial prejudice. The editorial note appended, explaining its source as a “petition filed by the attorneys for Watts" does not fully set the public right on the matter,

although the public may be well aware gi ambiguity and wilful distortion of Tactic yb

gal statements, There anp'And always have been, as th stated, Negro residents in Decatur County. Ine cidentally, they are good citizens and are highly regarded by their neighbors. The reason Watts’ attorneys would not let .him be tried in Decatur County is that this was the former home of the young woman whork he is accused of murdering. - a

What Others Say

TALK will not make me a candidate.—Gen, Dwight Eisenhower. .

THE conservatives in America have become inarticulate to a point where their voice does not do credit to their ideas and often does their cause a positive disservice.—Dr. James<H. McBurney of Northwestern University.

PROSPECTS for our immediate futurs.are good. It is probable that business will continue at its present level throughout at least the early part of 1950.—~Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer. :

THE aims of the two principal parties in the cold war, Russia and the western powers, are better served by a cold war, I would be extregmely surprised if either party resorted to a shooting war.—~Historian Arnold Toynbee.

THREE dimensional films will make presentday pictures look as outdated as the Xinetoscopes from the turn of the century.——Ptoducer Samuel Goldwyn.

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EDUCATION ... By Bruce Biossat

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Every year a million youngsters drop out of high school. Most don’t quit because they can't do the ~ work, for studies show 60 per cent have average or greater abilities. They leave because they're bored or badly adjusted, because the schools don’t offer the things they want to learn.

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state of the union and in the economic report. The goal of high prosperity in _an_expanding econsomy is unassailable, But a great many people will question the means set out to reach that goal What the President pro- : poses is defi Mr. Baruch cit spending with large outlays for public works at a time when employment and income are near the top.

" . » THIS is directly contrary to accepted theories of government spending. Such spending is justified, In the Keynesian dootrine, in a period of decline in order to compensate for a falling off in private payrolls. To resort to it now is to risk using up the slack of govern. ment credit when it may be ur. gently needed at a later time. If the government spending is to be part of a calculated long-range economia policy; it must be subject to controls more nearly divorced from short-term political consider: - ations, The President's budget includes $1,400.000.000 for river Sevtiapmnt ~~ flood . control, na pn, reclamation, power . 8 RN

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4s to continue to expand and provide more-and more jobs. There are areas where an acute

power shortage has held back

development. A lot of it, however, is plain pork. Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois pointed that out”when-he made a heroic effort at the last session to cut the rivers

and harbors bill.- But he got. little “support from either Re-

publicans or Democrats, since

most Senators had a river or a -

harbor back home that the Chamber of Commerce wanted to see developed. Here precisely is the danger given the kind of target the President has put up before an economy » minded Congress. There are essentials in the budget that have been scaled down about as far as can be done consistent with American responsibilities at home and abroad. ’ » - » "IN most instances; however, these essentials are not cher. ished by any group or region

for any particular or selfish reason. RE. . The President complains

about the action of the Repub-Necan-controlled 80th Congress in cutting taxes when the In. flationary hoom was at fits peak. It has complicated every effort to keep the economy on An even course. ig

. iw w ) SHORTLY after the war ended, the administration to off the war-

QORR. YR BY NRA SERVIDE. ING. Y. M. wun. Ub PAT. OFF.

“They've quit fighting in the apartment across the courb| suppose he finally saw the light and admitted he was wrong!”

agreed. This a lot to do with the still ring spiral of high profits and corresponding demands for higher wages. The Id was taken off just as the fires of inflation had begun to blaze up brightly, A few far-seeing individuals

were at the time aware of the

seriousneds of this step. One of

: them was M. Baruch, UNDOUBTEDLY, part of time tax and a .- who has never to point 'm : this is essential if the economy compliant” Congress readily i a

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the billions may not be too outlet in leisure time activities. serious. Fe. The youngsters themselves What deficit financing does supply a clue to their ‘needs. do is encroach on the future. It Surveys among students show RAMA WRAL US Stall @iware Shey want 1g Kain Saw ko Sit. have employment along with people, to manago, kind of optimism comes natu- finances, to keep :

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U. 8. Office of Education, says not. In an article in the Saturday Evening Post, she pins the blame on school administrators, teachers, and, to some extent, parents.

She says the good high schools in America are in a distinct minority. And she quotes Earl J. McGrath, chief of the U. 8. Office. as rating most secondary schools obsos lete and inadequate. § i - . ”

WHAT'S wrong with them? Says Miss Rummell: They try students for jobs they'll never get and to prepare them for’ the college education most will never seek. The emphasis is on the old. fashioned classical curriculum ~Latin and Greek, mathematies, the more distant periods of history, subjects too often éry as dust and remote from to day's living. » » » LEADING educators want schools to fit students for the lives they are going to lead. Most will never have white collar jobs because there aren't enough to satisfy everybody.

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