Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1950 — Page 14

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J: EDGAR HOOVER says that only 170 telephones in the United States and its possessions are now tapped in connection with national security investigations by the FBI He contends—and we agree—that FBI use of wiretapping is essential to protect the country against traitors, Spies 3 and subversive plots. . He says—and we believe him—that it just isn’t true ‘that his bureau taps wires on an unrestricted or wholesale basis. Yet confidence in Mr. Hoover does not blind us to the fact that wiretapping is susceptible to grave abuses. Its danger to individual rights and freedoms can’t be denied. . ” » . . ~ » THE FBI's authority to engage in this practice should ~ be clearly defined by Congress. Wiretapping by private individuals should be forbidden. And regulations to govern and safeguard wiretapping by government agencies should be written into federal law, Congress has been asked repeatedly by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman to undertake this task. So far it has not acted. Under present laws and court decisions it apparently is legal for the FBI to tap wires if it obtains written permisgion from the Attorney General. At any rate, that's what it does. But the U. 8. Supreme Court has held that evidence thus obtained can't be used in federal court trials. This could make it impossible for the government to convict obviously guilty spies or traitors whose activities had been detected by tapping wires. Wiretapping authority for the FBI should not depend upon permission from its own boss—the Attorney General ~-a politically appointed administration official.

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” . * . INSTEAD, we think, the FBI should be required to apply to a federal court for a warrant when it considers a wire tap necessary. The application for such a warrant, like applications for search warrants, should have to show probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation. The Constitution guarantees the people's right to security against unreasonable search and seizure of persons, houses, papers and effects. The privacy of the people's communications by wire needs similar protection against unreasonable invasion. ' We believe, furthermore, that evidence obtained by wiretapping conducted legally, in accordance with regulations enacted by Congress, should be made admissible as evidence in the courts.

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Population Pressures

IS encouraging to read that Venefusld’ kad/ Apgétitina have relaxed their visa rules in order to admit nn from Europe. But much more attention should be given to such possibilities in Latin America, which is greatly underpopulated. Venezuela has agreed to accept about 2000 immigrants a month. Coming after a period when such movements were * suspended, Argentina's plans are not so well defined, but a few hundred Poles, Yugoslavs and Lithuanians recently landed at Buenos Aires under sponsorship of the International Refugee Organization. The potentialities of Argentina, however, have scarcely been tapped. ! Unequal distribution of the world's population is one of the challenging problems of our time. Measures pending in our Congress hardly touch the real issue, and no genuine international approach has been made to it. » . . » » » WE HAVE to deal not only with the distress cases now in European refugee camps but also with other dislocations ‘of war and its aftermath which find the former enemy countries of Germany and Japan called upon to support populations beyond their resources. In other areas, such as Italy, there are so far too many _i people for the available land that industrial stability cannot be achieved until an answer has been found to this matter of overpopulation. A bold, concerted attack on the over-all problem is ‘possible only through an international agency such as the United Nations. Both the over and underpopulated areas are represented in the United Nations, and that would seem to be the place where the two should be brought together. on this issue of mutual concern. p

Those Naughty Agrarians

FTER Angus Ward's outrageous” treatment at Mukden, even thé State Department's pink-complexioned office of , Far Eastern affairs should have known that American officials weren't welcome in Red China. But our consulates in Nanking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Tsingtao and Peking were kept open, in the vain hope that the Communists would consent to do business with us if we let them push us around a while longer. i So, to end all doubt in the matter, Mao Tse-tung's “ so-called government has violated our consulate in Peking, # ' the capital of Red China itself, and the State Department i has ordered a complete withdrawal from all posts and outi posts.

[LI CL WE HOPE the 135 Americans in the Red areas can get out of there without being abused as Mr. Ward was. But we greatly doubt whether the State Department will take this latest indignity very much to heart. It has played footsie with the Chinese Reds so long that it just can’t believe they're as bad as they now show them- : j; Selves to be.

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Keep Cool With Truman

MORE than 60,000 coal miners stayed off their jobs this 4: ©" week, disregarding a suggestion by John L. Lewis that they return to work on a three-day week. don’t worry. Word came from Preddent Truman that there's still no

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Se ad ES ar Hoosier Angles

"Rep. Walsh Pictured 9 Long Hours, Hard Work

WABHINGTON, Jan, 18—Dear Boss--That flossy magazine “Holiday” hit the newsstands today with a full-treatment in color of the Thumbing through the. issue you might conclude that it could have been sub-fitled “Hvnosiers in Washington.” Freshman Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson

Democrat, was singled out of 435 House members to show that “a Representative's day has

little glamour, much hard, complicated work

and long hours.”

Color photograps show the Indiana Con-

gressman starting his day with both arms filled with mail, attending an Armed Services Committee hearing, posing—with the capitol dome as background—with a group of visiting scholars from the Fifth District, making a broadcast report to his constituents, getting a bill drafted and plodding back to his office at something p. m.

Walsh Family Life

IN ADDITION there is the Walsh family’s

home life, with several shots of the lovely looking Mrs. Walsh and their three children. There are such captions as: “Walsh family, which has trouble making ends meet, lives in this unpretentious, small Arlington house. Work often runs overtime for a legislator. Not parties but homework usually winds up Walsh's day. At home, Walsh hing hin wife with diapers, pablum, Here he serves cake at one of his son’s birthdays.” ' un tne Senate side, Republican Sen. Homer E. Capenart is the Hoosler that gets into the pictures. He is shown riding the monorail subway train from his office to the Senate. In the text covering Congress, which was written by Milton MacKaye, there appears this wut the late Sen. James E. Watson of Indiana under the subtitle “The Power of Words.”

Absorbing Address

1s WATSON of Indiana used to tell a story about his fledgling years in the House. He wandered over to the Senate to hear the elegant, pink-whiskered J, Hamilton Lewis. Returning two hours later, he was awed and impressed. -Never, he told a colleague, had he heard a more absorbing address, such flowering rhetoric, such colorful choice of metaphor and simfile. “What was the Senator talking about,” asked the colleague. “Watson paused, and a look of consternation came over his face. ‘My God,’ he answered, ‘he didn’t say.” Mr. MacKaye points out that Congress really is a serious business of the greatest democracy in the world, nevertheless, and the whole issue of the magazine is designed to help readers understand Washington and take is seriously as part of themselves. “The Supreme Court’ is covered by Max Lerner, who pays considerable tribute to its newest member -- Associate Justice Sherman Minton -—

whose address still is New Albany, Ind. Recalling the more flam-

boyant days when Justice Minton was a New Deal Senator: from Indiana, Mr, Lerner writes: “It was quickly apparent that he was one of the ablest of the freshmen Senators, and others of the 1934 crop, like Sen. Truman of Missouri,

Judge Minton

- who sat next to him, were impressed by his legal

knowledge and his fluent and militant manner in debate. “He became assistant Democratic whip. and got to be known as one of the toughest New Deal militants, a sort of FDR dead end kid, whose sharp wit and flaying words even the strong men of the opposition were not anxious to provoke.”

‘Coming Out Party’

Because this Washington issue is something really special In the way of magazine

- publishing, President Walter D. Fuller of the

Curtis Publishing Co. held a sort of “coming out party” for it, so that newsmen here could meet the editor of Holiday, Ted Patrick, and his staff. Held at the Mayflower Hotel, the party was more intimate, but equally as swank, as the one once held by former Gov. Paul V. McNutt in the same Chinese room. It turned out that arrangements were made by a Hoosier too. He is E. H. (Duke) Ulrich, assistant to President Fuller and director of public relations for the publishing company. He came from Sharpsville and went to Purdue The manager of Holiday is also a Hoosier, but he went to TU. He is Eddie Vontress and his old home town is Monroe City. No wonder this issue is chockful of Hoosiers in Washington.

DEFICIT SPENDING . . . By Earl Richert

ECONOMIC REPORT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—President Truman's Economic Report spells out a five-year plan for the United States. The State of the Union message was more on the order of a 50-year plan, looking ahead to the year 2000. It was written in broad generalities. But this Economic Report is concerned principally with 1950-1954, inclusive, and it is full of specific though controversial proposals. The keynote of this Economic Report seems to be in the President's stdtement, “ . . economic affairs are not beyond human control.” Opponents of the Truman administration and Philosophy may see in this phrase the old bogey of “government planning” rearing its head again. The President builds up his theme by statements that many of his critics will dispute. In his State of the Union message the President said that, “Government programs for maintaining employment and purchasing power have been of tremendous benefit” in meeting and reversing the recession of 1949.

Aid for Recovery

THE President repeats this idea in his Economic Report. - He says: “The relatively safe passage from inflation to greater stability was no accident. Businessmen, workers and farmers demonstrated much greater judgment and restraint than in earlier similar periods. . . . Government measures in such fields as credit

and banking, social insurance and agricultural

price supports proved their worth in cushioning the downswing and lending strong support to the recovery movement.” This may all be true. But it also will be recalled that in 1948 and early in 1949 President

- Truman asked for many stand-by rationing,

wage, price and credit controls which Congress refused. In other words, the business recovery and the decrease in unemployment in the fall of 1949 were made without benefit of these government controls. Government economists may argue that the degree of recession would have been less if Congress had granted the President these additional powers. But that is debatable. But it is to cut unemployment to 2 million, to secure full employment for 64 million workers and to get the most out of U. 8. production that the President advances his five-year program. Its goal has been stated before. It is to achieve an. annual gross ‘national product of $300 billion in goods and services by 1954. The present level is $255 billion. That means an increase of $9 billion a year for the next five years,

SIDE GLANCES

More U. S. Red Ink?

huge Post Office Department deficit.

Purpose of the bill is to give veterans who entered the Postal Service since the war the same benefits given to the Post Office workers who went to war and then came back to the service.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Postal employee groups are driving for a bill which would add many more red-ink millions to the

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The President's plan would bear particular emphasis on increasing the earnings of the low-est-income families. As his report says, the ultimate goal would be “the complete elimination of poverty.” Certainly no one can decry the desirability of that objective. The question is, how do you do it?

All Old Stuff

THE President's 12 legislative proposals are all old stuff.

They include banking and credit controls; social security, education, housing and health programs; continued river development and foreign aid. Some of these proposals the President left out of his State of the Union message, accidentally or on purpose. But all of them have been made before in 1949 messages to Congress. What is new in the President's Economic Report is an indication that he will encourage more government assistance to business. This is apparently to be done in the forthcoming messages of tax revision, anti-trust law revision, encouragement of private loans to small business and guarantees on private investment in foreign countries, These proposals may make an important change in administration policy when they are all spelled out. But they do not necessarily mean any softening in the attitude toward business, There is another possible explanation to be considered.

Plenty of Money Needed

THE business recession of 1949 cut down the federal government's tax receipts by about $4 billion. That may have awakened the government to the fact that to carry out its welfare and social security programs, it must have plenty of money rolling into the federal treasury. It is to the Truman administration's interest, therefore, to do everything it can to promote full employment and high industrial production. They will insure high-level national income. And the higher the income, the greater the tax collections to carry out the Fair Deal programs.

What Others Say

TO the Jewish people (Jerusalem) has been and is the very part—the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings.—Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett of Israel.

WE must work hard and remain united. Our unity must be impassive but dynamic.— President Soekarno, Indonesia.

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‘Let's Boycott Film Trash’ By Mrs. Joseph N, Huser, 1214 N. Wallace St. I have recently read a number of editorials pertaining to the stupidity of glorifying and publicizing crime, scandal, divorce, etc. To say I wholeheartedly agree with these people and am convinced that the less these scandals are publicized, the better. Our youngsters, particularly those who sre so unfortunate as to lack good moral home training or example, are most gullible to such trash, and absorb and imitate it all too quickly and freely. I would like, also, to call upon all truly cultured people, regardless of race, creed or color,

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the Legion of Decency, to boycott all movies in which such riffraff is filmed, and then perhaps the producers will hire only the more decent actors and actresses (and there are plenty of them in the profession) and thus clean up our movie personnel, How about it, folks? Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of our youth, and restoring the virtue of decency in film ‘and literature, strive to overcome this terrible wave of juvenile (and adult) delinquency. Let's hear from some more of you folks who think thue In strength of sentiment there is power, so let's tell these movie producers and magazine and newspaper publishers just what quality of material we want.

What Do We Need in 1950?

Growing City

By Frank H. Fairchild, attorney. What Indianapolis needs most in 1950 is an awakening to the fact that it is a growing city. The very fact that Indianapolis and Marion County are now over the half-million mark is of serious concern to public tax-supported agen= cies such as Sunnyside, Marion County home, Juvenile Court and the Department of Public Welfare; and also the volunteer agencies of the Community Fund. With the tremendous growth of Indianapolis, our responsibilities - have become more complex. We simply can't shut our eyes and say they don't exist. Emotionally disturbed children frequently seek escape in crime and become emotionally disturbed adult criminals, thus threatening our safety and increasing our taxes for more protection. With the assistance of volunteer agencies, through expanded help and through additional assistance and expansion, commensurate to the growth of our tax-supported organizations, juvenile delinquency can be curbed and adult delinquency decreased, resulting in a safe and healthier city for us to enjoy.

Mr. Fairchild

FAPM AID . . . By James Daniel

New Handout Asked

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Latest move for a nice, fat government handout is pitched at $43 million. A group of farm co-operatives have a bill in Congress to that effect. It has passed the House with the indorsement of the Farm Credit Administration and is before the Senate Agriculture Com-

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Extra cost: $53 900,000 for the first year, and $454,175,000 for the life of the program, as estimated by the House Post Office Committee. Fifty-three million Is a= much as Uncle 8am collects in one year from his 20 per cent luxury tax on furs, $454 million would eat up one year's total collections from the 20 per cent tax on jewelry and 15 per cent tax on travel tickets. ” . r THE Post Office Department now is running. $550 million a year in the red. President Triman has termed this deficit “excessive” and has asked Congress to increase rates sufficiently to bring revenues more in line with costs. The Senate and House Post Office Committees bills which would increase revenues by about $115 million, but neither house has yet acted upon them. The veterans’ bill would eat up nearly half of the increased revenues that would be brought in by the rate-increase bills. ~ »~ "n

THE Senate already has passed a bill to give the vet. erans who entered the Postal Service after the war credit toward their automatic promo‘tions “B time spent in the

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voted such benefits after World War I. The House bill, which has

been approved by the House Post OfMce Committee, would grant the same time credit for promotions but also would give the affected postal workers four additional grades at the time they received their regular appointment — which amounts to an additional salary increase of $400 a year. This ‘would be given regardless of whether a veteran served two weeks or two years in mili tary service.

~ » . THE House bill would apply to all veterans who enter the Postal Service before July 1, 1850; the Senate bill would keep the veterans’ benefits open to all incoming veterans for three years after enactment. Under the House bill, a veteran who entered the Postal Service next June'l at a startng salary of $2670 would, if he ad four years’ military service, immediately have his salary boosted to $3070. When he received his régular promotion, his salary would go up another $400. Spokesman for the employee groups contend the legisiation is necessary to end discrimination mong veterans working for the Post Office, since those who were working or were on the Civil Service rolls before the war got such benefits and those who Mii to work after War ve not JTecetved them,

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"Don't take him seriously, Mrs. Benson—those guns aren't loaded!"

“THE question of treating all veterans alike is of greater importance to the Postal Service and the country as a whole than any question of a postal deficit,” said Roy Hallbeck, legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Post Office Clerks. Chairman Tom Murray (D.

Tenn.) of the Hotise Post Of- :

last summer and he doubts that “our economy can stand it.” Postal employees were given A $400 annual rise in 1945; a $400 rise in 1946; a $450 rise In

1948 and a $120 annual rise

last November. Various administration agencies have objected to the bill

If the Senate passes it, it will cost the taxpayers all the money paid in income taxes in a year by 211,000 men (with a wife and two children) who make $4000. And that's not the end. The taxpayers would have to continue to subsidizing the co-ops by about $80 jon during the next 40 years. LJ ~ . THIS is the story: During the depression Congress set aside $178 million of vernment funds to start a { anking system for co-opera-"tives. Because this money had to be borrowed, the taxpayers have been paying about $3,500, 000 interest annually so the co-operatives could have the funds. But the co-operative banks have never needed all that money. About half of it has been invested in government bonds, on. which the public is paying interest—to the banks. This interest now amounts to about $43 million, which is

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of any dividend would there-

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dividend has ever bean declared, : The co-opératives’ proposition to the government now is this: . » ss THE banks will be reorganized. The government's divie dend-eligible $178 million worth of stock will be converted into non-dividend-eligible stock. In the future, only the stock held by co-operatives will be eligible for dividends. Out of the profits made in using the government's money, the co-operatives will gradually buy ownership of the banks for themselves. At the end of about 40 years they will own the banks dutright, plus the $43 million now on the books, plus the $80 million interest subsidy which the taxpayers will be paying until the $178 million in stock has been Teired;

NONE of the $178 million to be “retired” will go back into

fund from which it can be put back into the co-operative banks whenever the Farm Credit Administration decides they need it. i And there's one more gimmick: nr * The officers and; employees of the banks are entitled to the

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