Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1950 — Page 14
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"After the Marshall Plan HOUGH the Marshall Plan has some substantial accomplishments to its credit, it is being admitted, somewhat belatedly and much too gingerly, that certain countries will remain in need of American’ assistance after expiration of the present recovery program in 1952. In making this admission in a speech at Philadelphia, Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, cited Greece, Austria and Korea as examples of countries which will not have achieved full recovery by 1952. He might better have given us all the bad news at once and headed his list with Great Britain, the most important nation of all from our viewpoint.
: . » ” LJ . » ’ BRITAIN'S gold reserve is $553 million less than it was in March, 1948, when the European récovery program began and Britain, as banker for the sterling area, was beginning to worry about solvency. nN The present $1.688 billion balance is about half a billion dollars below what British treasury officials regard as the minimum safety level. There is little if any probability that thig situation will improve by 1952. It may be much worse. The first payment on the 1945 British loan of $3.75 billion is due Jan. 1, 1951—$88 million in interest, and $52 million on the principal. Under an escape clause, Britain is not obliged to pay interest on this debt in any year when the balance of payments in her foreign trade runs against her, which undoubtedly will be the case this year. But if the lesser payment on the principal is made, it can be regarded as little Tare than a token of good faith. The above figures make it clear that the pump-priming expedient isn't getting results in Britain. : » - . Ld . ~ IT IS evading the issue to say that the answer lies in more production, for British industrial production is above the pre-war level and can’t be expected to go much beyond the present figure. ~~ x We do not presume to know the way out of this dilemma. Certainly it can be neither easy nar painless. We do wonder why no more attention is being ven to the problem, for it presents a challenge which ritish and Amgrican statesmanship cannot continue to igno without drifting into a catastrophic situation. x
+ Don't Go Back "A BATTLE impends in Congress over whether the House * Rules Committee's former power to bottle up legisla. tiofl shall be restored, * Last year the House voted, 275 to 142, to deprive the _cothmittee of that power. The system then adopted provides that, if the Rules Comittee fails to clear a bill in 21 calendar days, the chairman of the Legislative Committee which originally approved thé measure can demand a vote by the House membership on whether it shall be brought out for debate. ? Nine of the Rules Committee's 12 members have now asked the House to abandon the new system. Their request f shduld be denied.
| THE system they would bring back was undemocratic. Ungler it the Rules Committee too often functioned, not as a traffic signal to keep the flow of proposed legislation ordprly, but as a blockade. *
majority it was held up indefinitely. Six tommittee members could prevent 429 other representatives of the people from debating and voting ori measures which a majority of them might favor.
. . =» » LI I : REPUBLICANS and southern Democrats on the Rules Committee, for example, could prevent enactment of much of President Truman's program. ¢ We question the wisdom of many things in the Truman prégram. But in the past the power which the Rules Committee now seeks to regain often was abused for the purpose of blocking legislation we favored. We said, then, that it was wrong for the committee to haye such power. We believe, now, that it would be wrong for; the committee to recapture such power. What House members need is enough backbone to stand up for their owh convictions, not a device to shield political cowards.
Leader in Public Health
YHERE are few among us who have devoted as much time rand effort in behalf of a public cause as did Murray A. Awrrbach, who was buried today.
"Mr, Auerbach served as more than executive secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association for the last 20 VOArs. He gave his time and energy to other fields of public service fof more than 20 years, and was one of the leaders in advancement of all health programs that have contributed
80 amuch-to the community's welfare through the vears : Indianapolis and Indiana have lost valuable leadership in the death of Mr. Auerbach.
Hap Arnold
T was a fortunate thing for this country that we had Harvey H. Arnold back in the days when idealists were ching that the world was entering an era of lasting pedce and there was no need for armaments or air power. ! His was -a thankless and often difficult task, but he deyoted his career in that period to building up America's
warld’s largest Air Force in short order, it was only natural he should be named to command it. £ It was always hard to associate the genial, smiling al » 80 appropriately nicknamed Hap, with that terribly ctive armada which swept the skies in furious and sugoessful assault against the forces of tyranny. Bit Gen. ; Aue was notably impatient, famously short-tempered, and he could get tough when occasion demanded. is rare combination of foresight; imagination and lead-
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Chinese Reds
Stalin Not Seeking Deal; Intensifies Cold War
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — Communist seizure of the UU, 8. consulaté in Peking, and the Staté Department's retaliatory ‘order withdrawing all its officials from Red China, have changed the Far Eastern situation, The Red action was taken while the Peking satellite dictator, Mao Tse-tung, was in Moscow, There is no doubt it was on Stalin's direct orders, Moreover, they knew In advance how the United States would react. . The net is that Stalin and his China stooges are not wooing Washington, not trying to buy diplomatic recognition, not seeking a deal. They are intensifying the cold war. ’ This makes the State Department's wishful thinking about Mao pulling a Tito defiance of Stalin rather irrelevant. Regardless of the basic conflict of ‘interest between Chinese nationalism and Soviet ime perialism, which Secretary Acheson has ace curately described, Moscow is now making the decisions. Even if Mao some day breaks with Moscow over Manchuria, which is possible If not probable, that does not lessen present dangers,
United and Expdnding
FOR THE overriding fact is that Red Russia and Red China are now united and expanding; while the Western Powers are divided, and in the United States the administration and Congress are fighting over Formosa. It may be that the latest Red affrontery has jolted the Western Powers and Washington enough to get together on a positive Far Eastern policy hitherto lacking. It may be obvious to Secretary Acheson and the Benate Foreign Relations Committee, that there are far bigger issues at stake than postmortems on China or even Formosa’s fate, Clearly the challenge is as wide as the Orient, It cannot be met unless the administration and the Republican Senators call off their foreign affairs battle in a political campaign year, and
perfect bipartisan machinery for handling the crisis.
Broad Policy
EVEN if the administration after its long walit-and-see attitude suddenly blossoms out with a broad Far Eastern policy, that will accomplish nothing without congressional support. Only a policy matured jointly, by the co-opera-tive Vandenberg-Connally-Hull method, has a chance of working. ) All of the many difficult Far Eastern questions are given new urgency by this latest Jevelopment in Peking and Moscow. In addition to Formosa and China proper, here are a few that require pooling the best minds of the administration and Congress and of our Allies:
No Easy Answer
HOW CAN South Korea be defended? Should we recognize and help the new anti-Red government of Indo-China? Should we supply threatened Burma? What pressure can we use to prevent an Indian-Pakistih war before Russia intervenes? What should we do about Australia before Russia intervenes? What should we do about Australia’s request for a Pacific defense pact? Should we and our Allies make a Jap treaty without Russia and China? If so, what military rights do we retain and does Japan become a trade partner of Red China? All these and more are part of the larger questiorf, to which there is no easy answer.
ICE COVERED LANDSCAPE
Like millions of diamonds dazzling bright Like millions of stars ‘shining bright Shimmering colors enhance their sheen Red, blue, yellow and emerald green. Like millions of Christmas tree's tinsel trimmed Lit up by a million of lights undimmed! Sparkling from the rays of a winter sun Painting a scene no artist has ever done. A million bangles on spruce and fir In the topmost branch more gems appear! Each reed and bush is a gorgeous sight All covered with diamonds over night. —Frances Richmond, Columbus.
LOVE FOR A SEASON
You came with the spring And that was the start Of a golden new ring In the bell of my heart.
You danced my attendance The whole summer long. Oft’ since I've rememberéd My heart was a song.
But vou drifted away In the cool of November. I had love for a day And it's nice to remember —Dorothy Mae Parke, 15 N. Edgehill St.
NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs
GOP Comeback Fight
The Republican Party i= engaged in
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17
a kind of spiritual wrestling match in search of its soul. It should unlimber muscles long unused and stir brain cells that have not been disturbed for many a moon. So much of our political life, both Republican and Democratic, coasts along on
tired cliches out of the past. But the Republicans who are
wealthy interests outside New
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ECONOMIC SURVEY . . .
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By Peter Edson
Unemployment in 32 U. S. Areas
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Labhor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin has set up an “Economic Survey” conferénce room across the hall from his paneled office. The room is in charge of William IL. Batt Jr, who is the secretary's special assistant in charge of unemployment problems. The walls of the room are lined with charts and at one end is a big map of the United States showing employment conditions. The map still doesn’t look too good. There are 32 big’ black-headed pins In it showing the “E' areas where unemployment is 12 per cent or} more, Aside from Honolulu, 3 which was crippled by a cut in government employment as well as by the longshoremen's strike, all the other 31 areas are east of the Mississippi River. Sixteen are east of the Hudson, Six are in Pennsylvania and four are in the southern Indiana-Illinois area. Utica, N. Y.; Cumberland, Md.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Jasper, Ala., and Muskegon, Mich., are the others, . Eight of these areas have unemployment of over 20 per cent. This amounts to real “depression level” unemployment and the situation may no longer be brushed off as “temporary.”
Labor Surplus Areas
THE Truman administration plan to funnel government contracts into distress areas may have done a little good in a few places. But it has by no means solved the problem in “labor surplus” areas, as they are politely called. Incidentally, any businessman thinking that a labor surplus is a desirable thing to have should listen to the stories of exhausted credit and trade fallen off that come in from these “E” areas. The general impression to be gained from reading the President's State of the Union, Economic and Budget messages is that everything in the country is lovely and is gging to get lovelier. But buried in the messages are half a dozen proposals to deal with this really serious unemployment situation: Increase unemployment insurance pavments to a federal standard of 26 weeks maximum. Increase coverage, since only 70 per cent of U. 8. workers are now protected-by job insurance,
Mr. Tobin
The Only Hot Air in the House
Increase benefits to 50. per cent of wage, up to $30 insurance a week for single workers and $42 for workers with families. Appropriate $13,500,000 for unemployment compensation to federal government employees laid off for economy or other cause. Appropriate $12,500,000 for unemployment “reinsurance.” This means grants in aid to states that have paid out more than they have in their unemployment insurance reserve trust funds. Two states are in danger of this deficit now-—Massachusetts and Rhode Island. .. Increase grants in aid to the states for public assistance by $250 million,
Local Problem
ASIDE from thesd proposals to do something about the unemployment situation at the national level, the main job in relieving unemployment is on the local community and the state. Michigan has probably had greater success at this business than any other state. Mennen Williams formed a State Full Employ« ment Committee under Harry Markel, former War Manpower Commission official and in dustrialist. When a Michigan community now reports serious gmemployment, trouble shooters are sent in to make surveys and form local Full Employment Committees. They report considerable success. The copper mining region on the upper peninsula has just put 1300 back to work. Iron Mdéuntain, with 400 out of work at a trailer factory, was persuaded to make bids on government contracts. The first four bids were turned down but the fifth was accepted and the factory reopened.
Factory Reopened
IN Port Huron, a local union got its international to advance $30,000 to match an RFC loan, in order to reopen a factory. In Jackson, business and labor leaders at first wouldn't confer. American Legion and other elvic groups finally got them together and the community now has 400 men at work who were formerly considered unemployable. These Michigan cases are cited in Washington as examples of what local communities can do. for themselves when they go to work on this tough unemployment situation. The President's budget mesgage says unemployment trust funds will pay out $2 billion more than they take in this year, if unemployment gets no worse.
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system of trading lives for dollars in fighting useless wars, Woodrow Wilson, of course, was a Demot, although an Internationalist. took us in a war to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy. Most of us made out of the war, but we not only lost a lot of our own freedom, but most of the rest of the world became dictatorships. The next two presidents, who called theme selves “Democrats,” were really hybrids. The Republicans left the country in utter ¢ Franklin D, Roosevelt tried all the pump ing devices his bright young men from vard could think up. However, by 1938, spending more money than had been the time George Washington was til he became President, there were ’ more people unemployed than when ver went out of office. War, of course, was thé éasfest way out, especially since he wanted £0 run for a third term. . The present hybrid incumbent in the White House has us in a cold war which, for all economic purposes, is working about as well as a shooting war. However, the unfortunate thing is that it May break any time into a hot, shooting war.
Getting back to the man’s will, Mrs. Haggerty tells us about, the heirs will probabil find after settling up the estate, they can vote any way they wish. They will probably find that “What the New Dealers giveth, the Fair Dealers can taketh away.” “w
‘Too Many Chuckholes’
By R. F. E., City,
After reaching a certain age we all have the experience of going the polis and casting our vote for the person we think best suited for the job. A year or so later we sometimes wonder why we voted like we did. Many of us remember several years back when all of «our streets were full of chuckholes and bumps, and our Mayor at that time inherited the nme, “Chuckhole.” :
The present condition of our city streets is not any better than back during the days of “Chuckhole’s” time, and maybe it would be very appropriate to give our present honotable Mayor the title, “Chuckhole Al” _ I have just read that man’s best friend, the dog, is on probation again, having been placed under another 120-day rables quarantine. I al ways pick my friends by the fellow who likes my dog, and if he doesn’t think any more of man’s best friend than to pen him up for 120 days, then maybe I did vote for the wrong fel low after all,
I believe the City of Indianapolis and its citizens would be a lot better off if our honorable Mayor would spend a little more time pay= ing attention to the crime wave that goes on every day and every night, also the chuckholes and bumps in the streets, instead of worrying 80 much about man's best friend, the dog.
WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?
Better Schools
By Virgil Stinebaugh, Superintendent of Schools, The outlook for the economic and cultural growth of Indianapolis is encouraging. Industrial and business activity will no doubt be accelerated and the community will make continued developments along spiritual, cultural and educational lines. ‘The year ahead should ’ see a closer integration of the public schools into the life of the community. The goals for the publi # schools for 1950 include: ONE: Rapid advancement of the school building program in order to provide adequate school housing for the increase ing number of school children. TWO: Provision for kindergarten training in all areas of the city as rapidly as school housing facilities permit. >> Mr. Stinebaugh ron. Expansion of “the program of adult education. "sg In brief, an extension of educational opportunities for all citizens, young and old, of the entire community, and .intensive efforts te improve the effectiveness of teaching at gvery grade level. or
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NAVIGATION SUBSIDY . .. By James Daniel
High River Costs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—The government is spending $10.5 million of the taxpayers’ money this year to encourage navigation on the Missouri River, commercial cargo carried on the stream in 1948, The Missouri navigation project is one of the oldest itams in the rivers and harbors program of the Army Corps of EngiCongress first author-
This is about $20 for every ton of
tons a year. Making allow-
air; strength. Then, when his realistic predictions were’ " fu and we found it vitally necessary to build the
e dervice have earned
trying to frame a policy state- Hampshire. ment should not forget the old On several occasions by. his adage that actions speak loud- forthright demand for investier than words. This applies gation of deals engineered bv
with particular force to certain of the primary contests in the
party this spring and, above all, to twi sta where the fate of Republican Senators with an independent voting record is at stake. ~ » » ONE IS Charles Tobey of New Hampshire. On the other side of the continent is Sen Wayne Morse of Oregon. While
they may be unduly apprehensive, both men are fearful that Old Guard Republicanism is out to knock them off The case of Mr. Tobey is par-
ticularly interesting. He is beIng opposed in the Repuhlican primary by'J. Wesley Powell, who up until a short time ago was administrative assistant in Washington to New Hampshire’s other Senator, Styles
Bridges. Mr. Powell is a 34-year-old disabled Air Force veteran who served Sen. BFidges before the war and after his return, Ben. Bridges declares that he Is staying strictly neutral in this contest, although it is hard to see how this is possible since Powell is in a sense his protege. Pukthermore:; Ae < bétween the two Senators has been distinctly cool and they have more often than not been on the opposite side of major Issues. 1 ; pit i .. na ; BUT the chief concern of Mr.
Tobey’'s backers is over the possibBity that the state will be flooded with (
insiders in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Mr. Tobey -has offended powerful railroad interests His independent voting record has offended some of the moguls in ‘his own party. Lo Sen. Morse has likewise asserted his independence by voting more often with the Democrats than the Republicans, He was, for example, one of the Senators who voted for the confirmation of Leland Olds to be a member of the Federal Power Commission. votes, together with Sen Morse's forthrightness in speaking his mind on controversial issues, has antagonized private utility managers and lumberrngen in his state,
~ ~ ~ THUS far no rival candidate has announced for the contest. The final filing date is Mar. 10. But the report here is that Vice Admiral Thomas 1. Gatch is beTfig readied to run against Mr. Morse, with emphasis on his wartime role in the Pacific. Mr. Morse's case is more complicated than that of Mr, Tobey. In Oregon, a new laborliberal element 8 breathing life "Hito the moribund Democratic Party in the hope that before too tong it will offer the Republicans some real competition in what has Been almost a ps
party state.
= ~ - . % . THIS labor-liberal element is suspicious of. Morse, charging ‘him with reverting to old-line Republicanism in election
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years. That isthe attitude expressed .by berger of Oregon. berger, ator,
Mr. NeuDemocratic state senquestions Mr, Morse's
“stand in opposition to the Co-
lumbia Valley Authority. The fate of an independent epublican could hardly be better illustrated. If he deviates from the old guard line, he draws the fire of the jealous
bosses of his own party. If.
he falls to meet every M - 1abBr test, he becomes on that side of the fence.
Richard, L. Neu-™
‘Men such as Mr. Morse, Mr. Tobey and Sen. George Alken of Vermont are in one of the oldest and most vigorous of Republican traditions. It is the tradition of Noris of Nebraska, Lafollette of Wisconsin and Borah of Idaho, No party line determined the views of those independents. . If the Republican Party is to be purged of their inheritors, it will be poorer even than it is
. today. Not all the policy states ments in will make up for such a loss.
ized a chinnel-dredging project
-on the lower part of the Mis-
souri in 1912, The goal then was a six-foot channel. In 1945 ‘a bill was passed providing for a channel nine feet deep from Sioux City to the mouth, 762 miles as the river meanders. - . ~ THE entire project was set up to cost $218 million. To date $238 million of the taxpayers’ money has been spent. By the time the job is com-
* pleted-—1956 at the rate of ex-
penditure recommended in next year's budget-—the cost will exceed $300 million, More than a fourth of this is to be the cost of repairs. Up to this year the Missouri had washed away, or silted up, $52 million of the taxpayers’ im-
provements. Currently, repairs ~
are costing $6 millio new construction $4
a year; millon,
The engineers say when the river has been 100 per cent “pinned down"-It's 85 per cent pinned down now-the annual repair bill will drop to $45° million, ji
ance for the fact the program is 15 per cent incomplete, some Congressmen think the engineers are far from justifying their $238 million expenditure. ” » » IN 1048, latest year for which the engineers have figures, the cargo moved on the Missouri amounted to 1,807,000 tons. Included in this - was 1,076,000 tons of crushed rpck and othér material required Yor repairing and extending the dikes and revetments. Com-
mercial cargo amounted to $530,929 tons. , This was one ton of cargo for every $20 of government
expenditure, Most of the cargo.
was coal, with some gran and lumber. . ~ vy . AT PRESENT the taxpayers
' are spending directly about 80
cents for every ton-mile of commercial traffic on the Missouri River in 1948. By vontrast, average railroad revenue last year for all* types of freight was 1.251 cents pe¥ fonmile. Considering the potential cost of the Missouri “Biver project as an outright are
12 million tons of traffic and the annual cost of repairing
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