Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1950 — Page 10
Give LAONS ond The People Will Pins Fhow Own Woy
Tito Isn't Worth a War. AMER ee policy is becoming more inconsistent
a Stale, we are told, will not furnish muni--tions to Chiang Kai-shek for defense of Formosa against Communist attack because that might provoke a war with Russia. That is the new “peace policy” —in Asia. But our government will furnish limited military assistance to Marshal Tito, if Communist Yugoslavia is attacked by Russia, according to a reported decision of the National Security Council. The Yugoslavs, it is explained, are strong enough to defend themselves against Moscow's Sutellyug Bat ul: and eo su rt” by the Soviet o such an atHE a revi 's sovereignty. That is where we would come in, and then, and only then, according to this inspired story from unidentified official sources. » » - ’ ». ” IF THIS is to be American policy in the Balkans, it certainly is neither a “peace policy” nor a policy that can win. X. : ; Limited American military assistance to Yugoslavia in a war with Russia could not possibly tip the balance in Yugoslavia's favor, Nothing less than our all-out support could do that—men, planes, everything. ; We know this. Russia knows. 4
situation off he China coast, where the Soviets arent i yet: even directly involved. : %
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i . " : oH oo rT, ON the other hand, the advance publicity given the Security Council's alleged intentions is intended to prepare the American people for intervention in the Balkans in behalf of Tito, that, too, is misdirected effort. / "To be sure, Tito has become ‘Moscow's big headache. " He threatens to upset Stalin's whole Balkan playhouse. But _ we are not going to War to rescue this double-dyed scoundre! simply because he has been caught in the net he himself _ helped to fashion. . This Balkan bandit has his Sulsance value, but in any situation involving American lives he isn't worth a moment's
Talk About Conniving
“ ARGARINE'S only crime—the only reason why it is taxed #d restricted by law—is that it is cheaper than butter.” That from Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas, leading the fight to abolish the federal margarine taxes, is the simple truth. The butter lobby would like to have margarine, especially yellow margarine, prohibited by federal law. It ean’t do that. And it knows that a Senate majority wants to vote, as a huge House majority has voted, “for repeal of the unfair taxes. ~~ > FE ono ~~ SO IT'S trying various other schemes to restrict margarine and keep its users under a costly disadvantage. Some butter Senators propose to tack President Truman's civil-rights program onto the margarine-tax repeal bill. That might provoke a filibuster. Others seek to add répéal of all wartime excise taxes. That might invite a ~ presidential veto. Sen. Humphrey of Minnesota is stfongly pro-butter. He also is keen for civil rights and repeal of the wartime excises. But, he says, these issues have no place in the margarine bill and putting them in would be “‘beneath-the-table - conniving” to kill it. He is exactly right about that. Yet Sen.’ Humphrey is among the sponsors of still another trick amendment-—the one nédrest and dearest to what passes for the butter lobby's heart, eww . wn «IT ‘WOULD. prohibit interstate transportation of yel“low margarine. In plainer words, yellow margarine could be sold only in a state: where it was manufactured. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have no margarine factories. ‘So the real purpose of that amendment is to make it impossible for the people of 31 states to buy yellow mar- ~ garine, even though their own stite laws permit its sale. Talk about conniving! The Senate should reject all those hokus-pokiis schemes, vote honest repeal of the marRating taxes and go about its other important business.
What Would It Cost?
«THs Hon. Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Republican leader of the House of Representatives, is strong for He says the Republicans, in this session of Congress, are going to have a vigilant “price-tag committee” ‘which will tell the
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= In Ei urope Aid Reduction May Be Lower Than That Asked by fruman.
WASHINGTON, Jun. | 1
4—Congress pected to cut Marshall Aid funds for next year
more than the 20 per cent proposed by the President, The extreme isolationists, who would cut the program for European economic recovery, prob-
"ably will be defeated. So will those who want
to shut off most of the aid to ‘Britain in retaliJoh for her diplomatic Fecognition of Red China, But there is a larger group, loyal to the Marshall Plan, who think it can operate more effectively at a lower figure than the proposed Truman-Hoffman minimum of three and a quarter billion for next year. This group holds balance of power in Congress, and therefore is ex pected to have its way at the Anal showdown.
False Economy ®
WHETHER additional cuts would be false economy--retarding European recovery at the critical point, as feared by the administration would depend on how they were made. Doubtless indiscriminate slashing would have that effect. But if ECA allocations were carefully keyed to performance by the receiving nation, the net result might well be a considerable American saving plus more incentive abroad. In general, there is no disposition in Congress to challenge Marshall Plan achievements to date. It has blocked the threatened Communist advance in Western Europe. By supplying ‘fuel and raw materials for industries, and food for workers, it has enabled most of those nations to regain prewar production levels. As a result, living standards are higher, currencies are firmer, and political conditions steadier.
American Subsidy
ALL of this, however, rests on American subsidy. The real test is whether they are progressing toward self-sypport by 1952, when Marshall Ald stops. Most of them are not.
There is little hope of reaching that goal un-"
less they now speed basic reforms which they pledged for Marshall help, but which they have evaded so far. And yet without those reforms,
- not only will Western Europe be unable to stand
on its own feet, but also many of the current gains. willbe lost,
THE first type barrfers to get markets for the restored production, which is already piling up and causing
unemployment. That means elimination of im-. joint clear- .
port quotas without raising tariffs, a ing house to facilitate currency convertibility, nondiscrimination in place of two-nation deals,
an end to dual-pricing by which foreign cus-
tomers subsidize local consumers and inefficient producers, and more: open .competition in place of cartels, Internally most of those countries cannot become self-supporting without raising direct
taxation nearer to the American and British
levels, without curtailing useless government employees, without cutting government subsidies, and without saving more of the national wealth for productive capital investment.
SMORGASBORD
O groaning board of potpourri So temptingly arrayed, At least before the bars are down And famished guests invade, Alerted nostrils seize the wafts That hover, tantalize . Sharp savors which few gourmets know Once they homogenize. Those patrons bent on “just a snack” In friendly atmosphere, Soon marvel at the jet-like speed, ‘The food does disappear, The first round is abounding with Decorum and finesse; The second; third are reduced by A wish to convalesce. In spite of their discomfiture From such an enterprise. 80 wish they had a stomach in’ Proportion to their eyes.
~John M. Montani, 2640 N. Meridian St.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
EAST ORANGE, N, J.—8gt. Stripp. traffic division director, found a summons on his car, issued by his immediate subordinate,
“You are so alert and quick, it's Really time you had a raise. You've used up a book of tickets, And each one a good fine pays™
“Yeah, it's great the way vou serve us. As a cop you really shine. But I'll break you, saints presérve us!— That last car you tagged was mine!”
MIITARY STRATEGY ... By Jim G. Lucas
» } CL. . = Views on Formosa - WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The Joint Chiefs of Staff and De-
fense Secretary Louis Johnson will speak “with complete frankif Congress calls for thetr views on Formosa,
ness” learned today
Sens. Robert’ A, Taft (R. 0.) and Arthur Vandenberg (R Mich.) have demanded that Congress Question the Joint Chiefs on
thé island's strategic !mportance. Both insisted it could be
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NA TIONAL POLITICS .
are more and more convinced that that is jhe
lineup for 1952. What has just happened in Co-.
lumbus, O. Or, rather, didn’t happen—confirms that view. Chairman William M. Boyle _ Jr. of the Democratic National Committee went out to Ohio to meet with Democrats, laborites » and farmer representatives. According to advance rumors, his mission was to persuade all elements to agree on a candidate who could defeat Sen. Robert A. Taft in the election this fall, The leaders of organized labor, who have made Sen. Taft their No. 1 target, were hopeful that the agreed-upon candidate would be Murray Lincoln, executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation since 1920 and the leading promoter of co-operative enterprise in this country. For many months pressure has been applied to Mr. Lincoln, who was at one time a registered Republican and who has never run for public office, by labor and farm groups to persuade him to run. But Mr. Lincoln has been jaa reluctant. He indicated from Ij time to time that he would run if all elements in the iF Democratic Party, both state Th * and national, would agree on his candidacy. In other words, he declined to wage a fight in the primary. At the Columbus session a question arose that has been the subject of speculation here’ in Washington. The report has persisted that Mr. Boyle and the men around the President decided they would rather not see Sen. Taft defeated so that he would in all likelihood be the Republican nominee for President in '52. Mr. Truman, renominated, would then as they see it, have an easy victory. This was put squarely up to Mr. Boyle at a press conference. Naturally he denied it. And there were inspired interpretations of the CoJumbus meeting to the effect that this was a resolute determination to keep hands off local contests. The last is’ slightly laughable, since in other local contests the National Committee has certainly not hesitated to take a decisiye role. The complicated situation in New York state was
SIDE GLLANCES
Mr. Truman
Sen. Taft
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“The amart insiders in the HS Party Herbert LeNman 43 the candida
er peer { Fo
rn tor the Senate; Mr. Lehman defeated John, Foster Dulles, who had been appointed by Gov. Dewey. In the aftermath of the Ohio meeting Mr. Lincoln, himself, and many of ais most ardent proponents have the distinet impression that President Truman's political advisers would be well satisfied to see Mr. Taft re-elected to the Senate and thereby so strengthened in his push for the presidency that only a Republican rebellion on a scale rarely seen could sidetrack him. .
Taft Victory Seen
NO matter what Democratic-Fair Deal desires and wishes may be, Sen. Taft's re-election seems as of this writing assured. The Democratic nomination will in all probability go more or less by default to a loyal, regular Democrat such as State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson, who will scarcely be a match for Mr. Taft. It may be that Mr, Lincoln 1s too forthright and too radical for the Democratic committee. Speaking hefore the Maryland Farm Bureau convention this week, he boldly tackled the problem of falling farm prices at the point of greatest political sensitivity, This is with respect to the share of the family’s food dollar that goes to the farmer and the share that goes to the large-scale processor. Mr. Lincoln called for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into what he sald were “drastically wrong” differences in this division.
Abundance for All
“WE are now in a period,” he said, “when science and mechanization in agriculture and science and mass production in indusiry have combined to make:abundance for all possible. This, rather than the isms, is the real revolutionary force at work in the world today.” That is strong stuff. While it might please the laborites, it would be likely to send nervous tremors through Ohio's regular Democrats. The challenger to take on Mr. Taft will be expected to talk in far more orthodox political terms.
Barbs—
MOTORISTS who go speeding across the country miss a great deal, says an auto club bulletin, And they hit a lot, too!
“MONEY-SAVING advice: If you must take a chance in a pool, go ‘swimming.
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cost, the gradual surrender of first one freedom, then another, and then more, until we have none left, is a fate worse than death itself. Mr. Marts hgd better think it over before it is too late,
‘U. S. in Two Cold Wars’ h
By E. Bowman, oy Station St.
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“Yr itain. Todia, Belgium ahd the Beandinavi. ans are going to recognize Red China. This is
done for the purpose of getting in on the ground .
floor for China's trade, thereby shutting out the USA. Buf if it hadn't been for U. '8.’s help in two World Wars, there wouldn't ‘have been a Britain or any of the above-mentioned nations. These countries never paid any substantial
amount on the First World War debt to the
U. 8. Britian never intended to pay any on the Second World War. But England is now doing everything pos sible to weaken the U. 8. and curtail our world trade. ' There is no place in history where any of these countries has ever done a single benevolent act for the ©, 8. We have always had to give blood and money for their salvation and in return, we receive nothing but insults, I wish to reiterate that in my opinion all financial assistance should be withheld from any and every nation that recognizes a Red government. Let them realize their losses are much greater than their gains. That's the way and the only way we can win one of the cold Wars. Sometimes I think George Washington was right when he said: “Be friends of all nations and the allies of none.” “>
What Others Say
I PERSONALLY am somewhat encouraged —-particularly by our last labor settlement, where we recognized the cost of living and stabi. lized it not in dollars, but in terms of what people had to live on.—General Electric president Charles E. Wilson; on future labor-management relations.
WE BELIEVE that the principle of equal pay for equal performance should be applied and that wider job opportunities for Negro workers must be sought.—Rep. Brooks Hays (D. Ark.). "
RUSSIA is now security mjnded. ‘At home she will be busy during the next half century doing the same things America was doing durIng the 19th Century—developing her resources, —Historian Arnold Toynbee.
IF WE must make a choice between a period ot deficit financing to strengthen our chance for peace or running the chance of engaging in an atomic war, I will declare right now that I pre. fer the risk of deficit financing. —Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas, Illinois.
TREASURY RAIDING . . . By Earl Richert
Mine Subsidy Asked
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—8ignals are being called for what the mining bloc in Congress hopes will be a final dash across the goal line with an $80 million bill to subsidize mining. The bill isn't nearly all that the mining bloc would like. But it's all they think they can get through Congress™~and accepted by the President. “A ‘foot through the door’ is
fident they can win. They got
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saved from the Communists without war. They want to know whether the mill tary view. point was adequately considered In President Truman's decision to adopt a hands - off policy. president Truman and Becretary of State Dean Acheson say that _ intervention might involve us in a shooting war, a risk they say we cannot afford.
A defense official said pric vately that the high command expected to be called. He said it would speak frankly, but stress complete willingness to abide by President Truman's decision,
The administration apparent. ly hopes to keep Secretary
Vandenberg
Johnson and the Joint Chiefs
away from Capitol Hill Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the Foreign Relations Committee maintains that the President took the military viewpoint Into consideration. He sald defense chiefs would
«not be called unless he is out-
voted by his committee. He sald their views “are always available to the President.”
cases, hat the Joint Chiefs "have no ; authority to make changes in
"ever,
_defense’ chiefs, as he did the
SEN. VANDENBERG, howinsisted that their testi-
mony was ‘‘pertinent and Jn dispensable.” The Joint Chiefs are not
anxious to air their differences with administration policy, it was learned. At the same time, they are disturbed by reports that they only recently came around to support of the Chinese Nationalists. They are irritated by State Department attempts to write off Formosa strategically as of no value. They fear Secretary Acheson's statement that we have an “impregnable line of defense” in the Pacific without Formosa implies their agreement, J. = 5 PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S re. action to a frank exposition of - the military viewpoint-—which is certain to be at variance with his policy — admittedly disturbs the Pentagon. Mr. Truman apparently is making support of his Far Eastern policy a test of pers sonal loyalty. Several who have’ talked ‘to him recently say he is bitter, angry and on the defensive. There is a possibility the President may try to gag his
Navy during the first unification fight. In that case, there is not the slightest chance of rebellion, Mr. Johnson <~ who on.
IF THE military is permitted to speak it is sure to be asked for the views of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. MacArthur is " reported to have made appeals for support of the Nationalists Whether the Defense Department would be - permitted to reveal Gen. MacChiefs simply would refuse LN i TISAY Meats: wn loss would ir personal views. fe
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release $75 million a
mosa can be held. It has offered to set up military mis. he Rules Committee by fling a sions. It wants Mr, Truman to discharge resolution which will
ppropriated for Chinese military aid. Retoritnl of te Pubiie While Joint Chiefs do not Somtaiites
about all that can be sald about it,” said Rep. Clair Engle (D. Cal), House mining bloc leader. He said federal aid of
-$80 million a year wouldn't be
‘nearly enough to help out the western mining industry. - - » HOW much is $80 million? "It's enough to use up all the taxes Uncle Sam collects in a
year on luggage, handbags and wallets. It's double the total amount of federal income taxes paid in one year by the citigens of New Mexico. The mining .forces stand now at the five-yard line. Their “bill passed the Senate last session and has been approved by the House Public Lands Committee. Stumbling block is the House ‘Rules Committee headed by 83-year-old New Dealer Rep. Adolph Sabath (D. Ill). Rep. Sabath thinks the government has gone too far now with subsidies and he wants more time to study the bill—which has been before the committee since late last summer.
Chairman J. Hardin
permit
a majority of the votes cast
.Jate last session when they
tried to bring the bill up under suspension of rules: Their move failed because they needed two-thirds, . . “THE BILL'S a subsidy all right,” said Rep. Engle. “No doubt about it. But we need it because small miners are going broke.” r The bill would authorize a Cabinet committee headed by
of exploration for. new mineral deposits, The government could help high-cost mines by buying their
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