Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1950 — Page 10

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|| Don't/Cheer Yet | | HOES who have ben waiting 4 fo x Io f time to : buy colored margarine have ho cause to celebrate yet. “It's true the Senate has passed a bill oe the present discriminatory federal taxes on margarine. The House passed such a bill last year. But, as the measure goes to conference for adjistment of differences between the two bills, there is a gimmick in the Senate bill which could delay effective action for perhaps another year; and a half.

THE gimmick lies in.the Frear ada, quires that all yellow margarine be packed in triangular shape weighing not more than a pound a package, so that pats cut from it will not resemble square pats of butter.

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needless expense, it seems to us, of setting up new machinery to mold their product in this curious shape. Packaging machines themselves would have to be designed, for there appears to be no precedent in turning out triangle food packets. 1 “The cost of all this has not been estimated for the industry as a whole, but we may be sure that it will be passed on to the consumer, thus defeating, in part, one of the main objectives of the repeal bill: Making a good b butter substitutgpvaiiable ut a ech lower price.

» n . THEN, it is "wid the margarine makers will need at Jeast a year to change over their machinery. Since the repeal bill will not go into effect until July of this year, that would mean housewives would have to wait until the summer of 1051 before they would benefit. The Senate-House conferences should throw out this restrictive amendment. In its final enactment, let's have honest, unhampered repeal, consistent with the overwhelming ‘majorities by which it was voted in both Houses of

Congress.

Fruits of Confusion THE Truman administration's contradictory attitude -on

_In the first vote on a Far Eastern issue in this session, the House rejected by a vote of 183 to 101 an administra-tion-backed bill which would have granted: $120 million aid to Korea. It was the first time in 10 years that either House of Congress defeated a major administration measure on foreigh policy. Democratic leaders were reported to hv been confident the bill would pass, yet how could they overlook, or expect a House majority to overlook, the incongruity of the

yr... I ” “THOUGH this government has been following a Com-munist-appeasement program with regard to China and Formosa, the administration in this instance was asking Congress to vote more money for South Korea as an antiCommunist move. With our troops gone from South Korea, the Communists can overrun that area whenever they want to—and another $120 million would be gone down the rathole. Sixty-one Democrats voted against the bill.

. . » ~ » . IF THIS continues, what will happen to the bigger ‘money bills which are going to be submitted from time to ‘time to carry out our government's overseas commitments? It is a matter which should be causing the President and Secretary Acheson grave concern. John Q. Citizen has been willing to give until it hurts to build a line against the Reds. But he cannot be expected to retain confidence in a leadership that doesn't know which direction it is taking.

Handicapping Age EN. MILLIKIN of Colorado is asking witnesses at the

.8ocial Security hearings what's to be done to “stop the junking” of older workers.

For itis one of the great human, troubling and tragic questions of our time. All the pressures are to try to shove older people out of the way and into retirement. - The Social Security law itself stipulates that the old-age insurance benefits be paid only to those who quit their jobs at the age of 65. Those who keep on working get nothing back for the premiums they have paid over the years in the form of taxes withheld from their wages. That's an unwise discrimination against older citizens who remain able and willing to work. ° . . » . ~ » "AND the private pension plans that lately have been developed on such ‘a wide scale—they also make it harder for middle-aged and older men and women to find new jobs. The actuarial tables make it much more costly for the employer to hire a man of 45, say, than to hire a man of 20. ‘Important human values are at stake. Laws we pass and pension schemes we work out ought not penalize older people who prefer to work. And to the natural disadvantages of advancing years, in competitive job-hunting and _ Jobholding, we ought not add artificial handicaps.

Well, Why Not?

HERE was a time when communities had civic booster ~committees hard at work to steer main highways through their towns. It was thought that the heavy traffic would bring in fresh retail business, But thinking has changed. Communities have. found that the main thoroughfares through a town only add to traffic congestion, endangering the lives of local citizens. And cross-country drivers never have liked to plod through maze of traffic lights in little communities. Now Noblesville, just north of U. 8. 37, wants a bype to the highway when it is rebuilt next year. { sts will not mind by-passing Noblesville, and if want. it that way, why not curve the high-

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“Saturday, Jan. 21, 1960.

This re-.

It means that margarine makers would be put to the

‘the Far East has brought quick reaction in Congress.

- We hope the Senator will keep on asking that question.

= H inland Defi Wg ~e= Red Blackmail

But. Communists and Sympathizers Increase Vote

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-—-Stalin has failed once more to intimidate his smallest and most helpless neighbor. The Finns have re-elected

. their aged President Paasikivi in defiance of

/the last Co

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Soviet blackmail. But there is trouble ahead. The Communists and fellow travelers raised their vote from 19 per cent to 21.5 per cent of the: total. Buf that gain—2.5 per cent of the total—is really a gain of 13 per cent when

Communist yote'in this election. The right wing Pic also made jarge gains, While the Socal

present | cabingt d (dre the most vigorously i anti-Red of all many , barely mains | taining their position as the New Cabinet

THOUGH the presidential election does not change parliamentary seats, a new cabinet must be formed next month when the next presidential térm. begins, Then a coalition, similar to the one which supported Mr. Paasikivi, probably will . replace the existing Social Democrat government, Actually, the Finnish political situation Is not as safe as the comfortable Paasikivi majority in this election, or the anti-Red majority in parliament would indicate. In addition to the significant Communist gains this week, two other election developments are disquieting. One is the flirtation between the Agrarian

JParty and the Reds, The Agrarians lost votes

this week, chiefly because of extreme ‘weather in the rura! north where they are strongest. But they still have about 20 per cent of the total.

Red Strategy ’

IF they and the Communists together had polled a majority, the Reds were expected to drop their own candidate In the electoral college and vote into the presidency the Agrarian candidate, Urho Kekkonen. Though this plan failed, Kekkonen is in a strategic position as speaker of parliament. A second development which alds Stalin is the split in the Social Democratic Party, As in other countries he has succeeded in drawing off from the Socialists a leftist faction, which he has amalgamated with the official Communists ina Red-front party called “Popular DemoBut most of the Social Democrats have remained extreme anti-Stalinists.

Stalin's Motives

BECAUSE they are his most effective opponents, and also because they are his competitors for labor support, Stalin always tries to desfroy Social Democratic unity. This week Premier Fagerholm hoped to carry a united Social Democratic Party for President Paasikivi. But the former party boss and expremier, Vaino Tanner, came out against Paasikivi. As a result the Socal Democratic vote went down. 80 in both the Social Democratic and Agrarfan parties, personal ambition and partisan poli= tics are beginning to weaken the grim unity which has been the pride and virtually the only defense of little Finland against the Soviet

aggressor.

PRAYER

My soul soars up to heaven On the wings of daily prayer, As I tell my trials to Jesus In his realms of glory there.

My soul lifts through the darkness Of a troubled night to meet, His benediction falling : As I kneel at His feet.

So often when I'm weary And a heavy load of care, Is hard for me to carry Then I hide away in prayer."

He leads me through green pastures And my soul with manna feeds, Lays my head upon His bosom With His love supplies my needs.

He leads me to the sunlight For no shadows linger where, My Saviour lends His presence To an hour of evening prayer.

~Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway.

A LITTLE WHITE SHOE

Just a little white shoe that my baby wore, And my baby now is a baby no more. I look at that shoe, with a hole in the toe, 1 look for the size, it is marked with an 0. Just a little white shoe, scuffed and torn, A little white shoe my baby has worn. No gold could buy that worn little shoe All ragged and torn, you can see it's not new. But there is such feeling, deep, down, in my heart, And from that small shoe I never would part.

Only a mother could feel as 1 feel Life, O tao soon. will our little one steal Rut I'll still have that shoe, all scuffed and torn,

‘The little white shoe that my baby has worn —Mary K. White, 834 N. Sherman Dr.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Edward J. Meeman

Our War Blunders

Stalin in 1941 The Times

~ WHEN .Hitler attacked his ally said editorially

“When crooks fall out, justice is the gainer.

“It was the ‘treaty of friendship’ signed by these two bloodthirsty and power lustful dictators in the summer of 1939 which kindled the flames that swept across Poland, Finland, Denmark,

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MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD

By Peter Edson

Asks ‘Independent’ Senate Group

WASHINGTON, Jan, 21—There has been some effort here of late to make out that liberal Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois was an antiTruman Democrat. The man himself says it isn't so. By and large, he thinks that President Truman does a pretty good job. But the junior Senator from Illinois maintains that he still has a right to be an independent. He thinksthere ought to be more of them.

pendents -equild be recruited from both sides of the Senate aisle, they could easily hold the balance of power on votes. He mentions men like Republican Sens. Tobey and Aiken from New England, and Democrat Frank Sen: Douglas

iraham frem North Carolina, as Independents

With a little group of independents functioning in the Senate, Mr. Douglas believes that a safe, middle ground might be staked out on which to build sound foreign and domestic poli¢ies. They would have none of the extremes of New-Dealishness and none of the do- nothingness of the more reactionary forces in Congress. Here Sen. Douglas makes. clear that he is opposed to political compromise. In compromise, he says, one side gives up something it believes in on condition that the other side gives up what it believes in. By laying out policies on safe middle ground, Sen. Douglas believes both sides can come to agreement without sacrificing anything ‘

Views Exchanged

HE is bitterly opposed to an idea advanced last year by a group of political science profes-

sors -he was a professor himself once- -to make all’ members of a party follow its policies blindly and without exception, He doesn't want the United States to follow the British system, in

which the legislator is presumed not to have a brain of his own

Where 8en. Douglas refuses to go along with the Truman program. however, is prin ipally a matter of detail, not of fundamental concept. He says it is a program of strong progressivehess.

SIDE GILANCES

And he says a Republican is somebody who approves everything the Democrats have done so far, but doesn't want to go any farther, The Senator thinks the Truman budget could be cut from $2 billion to $3 billion without doing any harm and fér considerable good. Me mentions specifically cutting defense another $500 million. He would reduce lending by Federal National Mortgage Association by another $800 million. He would cut government employment by another 8 to 10 per cent, to save $550 million. He would cut rivers and harbors, public roads and other pork-barrel appropriations by $450 million. And he would cut the President's request for a billion dollars’ worth of new programs by $300 million or so. In advocating these economies, Mr. Douglas

,does not mean io imply that the U. S. budget

should never get aboye $39 billion. As the country’s economy grows, the budget can grow with it. But he does not look upon the President's program as a cause in itself. It is rather the result of America's ever-expanding economy.

Studying Revenue Measures

ON tax legislation proposals, Mr. Douglas

says frankly that he is not informed. He was -

glad a general revenue bill didn't come up during the last session, because he hadn't studied up on it. He is now studying up on it. Sen. Douglas says he is not satisfied with the

Brannan plan or the high-level farm income

supports which the. Secretary of Agriculture has proposed. Mr. Douglas wants price supports for the nonperishable commodities, at a lower standard. He would like to see the Brannan plan tried out on two perishables—potatoes and eggs— which the government has been buying to reduce surpluses, only to have them spoil. On health insurance, Sen. Douglas believes in limiting it to coverage for catastrophic illness

. only. If a family's.doctor and hospital bills got

over say 5 per cent of its income, then let these extra costs be covered by health insurance. He would exclude the higher bracket income families from this coverage.

‘Favors More Benefits

HE would expand social security coverage and benefits, excepting those whose permanent disability was brought on by their own misdeeds, like criminals, alcoholics and venereal cases. In a recent poll of newspaper editors conducted by this column, Sen. Douglas’ name stood third in a list of Democratic presidential possi; bilities for 1952, in case Mr. Truman did not run. Only James Byrnes and Sen. Byrd were ahead of him. Mr. Douglas was surprised but not too interested by this showing. He's not a candidate, he says and he wouldn't make a good one. Too independent. Besides, he’s having too much fur right where he is. He thinks it the best job in the world.

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NATION'S WEALTH . . . By Bruce Biossat

Protect Resources

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Here and there hearteni are seen that the country is starting to grapple seriously problem of protecting its basic wealth-—-its resources of “ja - water, minerals and forests. ~ Yale University has announced establishment of a new-gradu-ate program of research and teaching in conservation of natural

human lives. They defame and degrade sex. Stealing from others legally ptherwise is an y gocurance. Tie one evil practiced | most by people in All walks oF ite | bearing in small iy veo gp i ren scale. [ag ony We hear “losing our freedom” propaganda,

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Light Helps sue Spot’ 2

Sts, and the approach of West Drive, Wopdruff Pl, I want to express our appreciation te who ever was responsible for having the long-nééded traffic lights installed at this corner. Whether this was accomplished by Mayor Feeney, Chief: Rouls, or Capt. Johnson, the few days that.the lights have been in operation proves their whith} This corner has been a danger spot and many of us have been urging installation of lights for a number of years, It is miraculous that, with’ all the accidents at this corner thus far, none has been fatal. Let us hope the hazard la.now corrected. However, I believe the location of the’ ‘Mghts still leaves a possible hazard. At least it «is worth studying. The peculiar arrangement -of the streets, as related to the lights, does permit a through flow of traffic from Stafe St’ into West Drive without holding up a copyple of lanes of traffic. On the other hand, if‘%he light on the north or westbound side ere moved east to the approach of West Drive, then there could be a through flow from State. St. into West Drive, while Michigan St. trafic. im halted by red lights. I suggest that this’ i.

‘We Can Burn Bonds’ fig ad By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City a 80 we owe $45.5 billion to our government. We owe it to our own people and not to “any® foreign government. If we don't like that big.

debt we. can wipe it off the slate when-our

bonds come due by burning them and “let it go.” If our Republican Congress hadn't takepn.off

“the excess profit tax, we wouldn’t have been: so’

financially embarrassed in the first place. I'm’ not as. handy with a pencil as some of our Hoover experts, but so long as I can dig down? in my pocket and bring up enough small change’ to pay for a loaf of bread, I get the bread and _ the grocer gets the money, so we are" “both happy. In Hoover days, if bread had been twe cents” per loaf, we didn’t have the two cents and the" grocer couldn't sell the bread. We were both

_ unhappy and hungry. I'm like the little bay ine

school who deserved punishment so the teacher™ left it up to him as te what kind of punishment to give. The little boy thought a while and re-" marked, “Let it go.”

What Do We Need in 1950?

‘Better Streets’:

Andrew 8. Hoover Jr., 1624 Fruitdale Ave.

a - a3 Progress of Indianapolis in 1950 could- show a marked upswing if the city fathers would de: something about W. Washing- im ton St. As a national highway, ‘ i leading smack through the middle of the city, I think it could be made better and more attractive by an immediate job of resurfacing. It could be made a lot safer if the city would rip up the useless car tracks that now present such a definite menace to traffic. Indianapolis is a great, city. It could be made better if city officials and the Chamber of Commerce would do something to make it. pore attractive to out-of-towners. cs

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Mr Hoover

Norway, Holland, Belgium, .

France, and the Balkans.and subjected the British people to

inhuman assault. - . .

“IT will be poetic and moral .

justice if Hitler and Stalin are now consumed in the conflagration of their own making. “They are both enemies of our way of life. They have both

maintained in this country fifth columns of agitators seeking to destroy the unity and secyrity

of the American people. ~ . “

“WHILE our enemies, the Nazis and Communists, are fighting each other, let's re-

double our efforts to produce guns and tanks and planes and bombs for the British—and redouble our efforts to make our own defenses impregnable.” That was a realistic appralsgl of the situation. But the makers of American foreign policy forgot realism. They forgot that Soviet Russia was our enemy and did not cease to be when Hitler at. tacked her, SO the results of our tremen-

‘dous expenditure of men and

resources was not victory, The result was simply to destroy one enemy and make the other stronger. Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, is wri a history of World War II, preparation for it

ia recounting “Our Worst

Rlunders in World War IL” He says: } “There is no doubt whatsoever that it would have been to the interest of Britain, the United States, and the world to have allowed-—and indeed encouraged-—the world's two great dictatorships. to fight each ogher to a frazle.” 4 » w » OUT of the great misconception that Soviet Russia had become our friend grew many blunders. Of these, Mr ‘unconditional surrender He says “Unconditional surrender was an open invitation to unconditional resistance; it discouraged opposition to Hitler, probably lengthened the war, cost us lives, and led to the present abortive peace.” Another major blunder was in‘ not invading Europe through the Balkans rather than West. ern Europé. Had our armies been in Central Europe we would not have lost those lands to the Reds and ‘found our selves later pushed around in an isglated Berlin. Says Mr. Baldwin:

es =» “BUSSIA had to have our help; we did not to the same

Baldwin puts first,

extent, require hers. . .. In retrospect, how ° stupid we were! ;

“In the same manner and for ‘ much the same reasons we reshould

versed the policy

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COPR. 1960 BY NEA SEAVICL WNC. T. M. REO. W. &. PAT. OF. ur father what we paid for these steaks—we don't

want to hear that speech again about them being tougher than the 20-cent steaks his mother used to buyt”

The school. believes the time

bas come for the colleges to

undertake the training of competent personnel in this field. » = ” BACKING for the program comes from the Conservation Foundation, an organization headed by Fairfield Osborn, noted conservationist, who calls it a “step of extraordinary importance.” Mr. Osborn's group is {itself currently engaged in a painstaking survey of the nation’s ground water resources, At the same time, we learn that President Truman's special Water Resources Policy Commission already has met and agreed to survey water problems “from the head-wa-ters of the country’s rivers to the sea.”

~ » ” WATER is of course only one part of the general problem, but right now it is uppermost in people’s minds because of shortages in the East. And it's as good a place as any to begin. Failure to maintain ample water supplies will throttle the country’s growth as emphatically as any other resources

wisely informed on its Wiens tory of natural wealth, - The job it cquld hdye; gond

“must now be performéd by

other agencies—piece-meal We should chart carefully

the known resources, measuré

them against the likely. com

sumption of an expanding population, set up rules Tor their wise use.

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WHERE shortages are. presi ently or potentially serioh4, we

..also should focus on. furtheg

‘explorations to turn up new supplies. And as a vital backs

, stop we should push the devel-

opment of adequate substitute} to have ready when any key resource plays out, These steps are so elemental they sound obvious, But up une til now we haven't done verg much about them,

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was to serve her own interests, we ‘bribed’ her to enter it." And 80 ‘we Invited Russia to start taking over China. We

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