Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1950 — Page 12

OWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

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And Besides, the Advice May Be Good A FEW Hoosier Democrats have been complaining lately that Supreme Court Justice Minton is taking a hand in the selection of the new federal judge for this district, advising the President on candidates, and so on. That, they contend, is politics, and improper for a Supreme Court justice . . . or at least improper if his choices don’t happen to coincide with their own. We can't see why he shouldn't, ourselves. Mr. Justice Minton is charged especially, by the Supreme Court, with the conduct of the courts of this district. Naturally he is concerned, and very properly concerned, with getting able and qualified men on the district bench. : He knows the lawyers of this district probably better than anyone else in Washington. He has no axes of his own to grind. And 'the President has every reason to trust his loyalty and his judgment. Certainly it wouldn't be strange if the President should turn to him for advice on this appointment, or if he should give advice on it. Nor would it be in any way improper.

FE : CR THE little clique of professional politicos who have tried to jam through the appointment of a choice of their own, of course, object to any impartial appraisal of qualifications for this job. The fact that their candidate, a nice young man with a promising future, is obviously the least qualified of all the candidates in the field, and is opposed by four out of every five lawyers in the district, doesn't seem to impress them at all. They want him appointed anyway, and they resent any inquiry, even, as to whether he has the background, the training, the experience or the temperament to handle the job. ; We don’t pretend to know how much influence, if any, Mr. Justice Minton may wield in the final selection of a man for this bench. But we do consider it fortunate that the President has at hand an adviser of unquestioned loyalty and impartiality and knowledge of the Indiana picture to whom he can turn for an estimate when he requires one.

Our Complex State Government

HE series of articles this week by Times Writer Robert Bloem on the complications of state government, illustrated graphically the pressing need for a program of reforms. The many overlapping, duplicating and unnecessary -services have grown to such complex proportions that even state officials themselves are baffled by the haphazard mushrooming of boards, bureaus. and commissions. ee» . > ; fa =n » IT MEANS that the taxpayers have become victims of a costly government that is pyramiding itself into a monstrosity of unorganized public functions. The only way out of this maze of duplicating functions, each piled on top of the other by special interests through the years, is to make a thorough study of local govern. ment. Such a survey would point up glaring waste and inefficiency and provide the basis for for a general overhaul of services with a view to consolidations and streamlining

of functions. . . .

& . . MANY public functions, necessary at the time they

fulness due to changed conditions or the absorption of their duties by other agencies. But they are still doing business of doubtful value in remote corners of the state government gimply because the laws that created them years ago are still on the books. Taxpayers should insist upon a reorganization program before government functions become so confusing and costly that the tax structure collapses under its own weight.

Against Mass Murder.

outlaw the mass killing of human beings because they belong to a particular racial, religious or ethnical group—is before the U. 8. Senate for ratification. A committee of the American Bar Association, while condemning the practice of genocide, holds that the pending pact is “inconsistent with our form of government.” Former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, U. 8. Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman and other lawyers of equal standing see no conflict between the treaty and the U. 8. Constitution.

." » ” . . . MR. PERLMAN noted that the pact defined genocide as a “denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homocide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings.” He cited as an example the Nazi persecution of Jews. Similar treaties dealing with piracy, the narcotic trade and white slavery have not infringed upon the rights of the states, he pointed out. However, this is not a matter to be settled by lawyers alone, tO We've all got to sthnd up and be counted on some issues, such as monstrous crimes against humanity.

. . . . » vy IMAGINE the consternation and misunderstanding which would be caused if the Senate refused to ratify this Broposa on some specious technicality. Our friends behind Iron Curtain would be almost certain to accuse us of plotting the mass extermination of American minorities. The American delegation to the United Nations had a leading part in drafting this treaty. Its rejection now would place this country in a ridiculous light. We fought the last war to establish a world of decency and law, and if the civilized nations of the world can get together on this issue it will be an indication of progress.

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were established, perhaps, have long since. passed their use-

HE United Nations genocide pact—a treaty intended to

Comes Back to Indiana To Meet Campbell's Issues

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Dear Boss—May- -

be Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R., Ind.) wouldnt “walk a mile” for one, but he rode back to Indiana yesterday to try and catch up with a Campbell, § His first name is Alex, he comes from Ft. Wayne and is fighting hard to grab the Democratic senatorial nomination and then take Sen. Capehart's seat. . Before he left his post as head of the. Justice Department Criminal Division with the title of Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Mr, Campbell had already been telling the home folk how he convicted the Comimiinists in New York City, indicted Alger Hiss, and also such subversives as the Nazi and Jap American broadcasters, He has stepped up the pace since he is now giving his Senate race full time. Reports have been coming back to Washington that this is making quite a hit. One story

Sen. Capehart

was that after a tall talk in Lake County, Mr,

Campbell went into Chicago and called on Col, Robert R. McCormick in his Tribune Tower. Last Sunday night Walter Winchell is said to have suggested in a broadcast that Mr. MeCormick might support Mr. Campbell. In any ase, it is alleged that Mr. Campbell's batting the ears down on the Reds made a hit with the colonel, 80 up popped Sen. Capehart on the Senate floor Monday with a 17-page damning administration delays in the Alger Hiss case and using that as a springboard to ask President Truman to apologize, kick out Secretary of State Dean Acheson and request the resignation of Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter from the Supreme Court.

Most Senators Gone

THE senior Senator from Indiana obtained the floor at 4:15 p. m., after the Senators already were weary from listening to the latest row over Adm. Denfeld. By the time Sen, Capehart finished reading his manuscript, there were only six Republicans and three Democrats left on the Senate floor, With the speech on the record, he then took a night train to Huntington where he addressed the Rotary Club at noon yesterday and the district Chamber of Commerce last night, “Something is obviously wrong when it takes the government 11 years to gain a conviction against a spy whose operations were known,” Sen. Capehart told the Rotarians.

Wasn't on the Job

MAYBE Candidate Campbell will reply that the only thing wrong was that he (Campbell) wasn't on the job at the time. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting, Sen. Capebart told them that he wanted Spain counted in on the Marshall Plan and not until

now has Secrediry Acheson adopted a new policy

of complete Spanish recognition. Here is the text of what the Senator said as put out by his office here: “In his letter to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday Mr. Acheson pronounced a friendly feeling on our part toward Spain. “His letter was full of explanations that our

lack of diplomatic relations with Spain was due‘to United Nations restrictions. He avoided mak-

ing any comment in that letter as to why we

found it possible to deal with Dictator Tito, or

some of the Russian satellite nations.

Two Pleas for Spain

“WHEN it was obvious we were going to:

adopt the Marshall Plan to “ight communism In Western Europe, I urged that we at least include Spain, the one nation in ‘Europe which had fought communism successfully. That was met with objection because of our foreign policy. “Then, when the Atlantic Pact came before us, I againwrged that Spain, whose position is militarily strategic, be included. Again I was rebuffed because the suggestion did not coincide with our foreign policy. “Mr. Acheson's policies toward Spain are as consistently inconsistent as his policies toward China where, he alone says, the revolt was not Communist-created.” ’ Whilé admitting that Secretary Acheson has now caught up with him on Spanish thinking, Sen. Capehart probably still is puzzling whether he or Mr. Campbell is ahead in the Red hunt on the home front.

SCIENTISTS . . . By Marquis Childs

H-Bomb Stirs Fear

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Something very like a strike by many of the scientists who would be expected to plan and design .. the hydrogen bomb is more than a possibility. It is a probability It is one of the factors that must be seriously

and, therefore, weighed.

This would not be an organized movement.. It ‘would repre-

sent the deep conviction of many men of conscience who

form of containment.

LAW-MAKING TANGLE . .

Congress Fouled

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Both houses of Congress, in the first three weeks of the new session, have become completely fouled up in their own red tape. The subject in the Senate was repeal of taxation and other restrictions on the sale of oleo margarine. In the House it has n an unsuccessful effort to move backward by repealing a muchneeded reform which passed last year, curbing the power of the House Rules Committee to kill legislation. Performance of this kind is what drives people interested in efficient government nuts, It is also ‘the despair of voters and taxpayers who think they are entitled to a better break for their money. And it provides excellent propaganda material for the advocates of totalitarian government who are telling the world that democracy—with a small “d"-—is a complete flop.

‘Performance Budget’

MUCH has been made of the new ‘“performance budget” which President Truman introduced this year, The Citizens’ Committee for the Hoover Report on reorganization of the federal government has hailed this as a major step forward in simplifying and making government more efficient. But this performance budget based on dollars has also suggested that maybe what Congress needs is a performance budget based on time. The Congress has its parallels to the agenda idea in the Senate and House “calendars.” But items get on the calendars only after consider-

able maneuvering by political strength and .

awkwardness. This is useful in one respect only. It keeps off the calendar an enormous amount of legislative chaff, There are now before the Senate 2900 bills

and 460 resolutions, most of them left over

from the last session. Before the House are 6900 bills and 600 resolutions. The 1949 session of Congress passed only 793 bills making them law. This comparison of measures introduced and measures passed gives an idea of the amount of work that Congress can do in an eight months’ session, during which the Senate met on 185 days, the House 165.

SIDE GI.ANCES

If it

. By Peter Edson

in Red Tape In this slow grinding of the legislative mills, a lot of trivial measures like authorizing the Marine band to go places and play music got passed, while a lot of important measures like aid to education and extension ‘of the social security program got passed over. This is what is said to emphasize a need for some kind of a time performance budget for Congress, to give priority for the more important proposals. In other words, the job of streamlining Congress was not finished—it was barely begun when Congress passed the LaFolletteMonroney reorganization bill of 1946.

85 Top Priority Bills A ROUGH tabulation of all the measures which President Truman has requested in his Btate of the Union, Economic and Budget messages of 1950 discloses that there are some 85 which he considers of top priority. In addition, there are another 100 or more proposals made directly by the executive departments of the government which they consider important, though the White House has not yet given them its blessing. ; To sift through the 10,000 other bills introduced by individual Congressmen on their own to determine which are important is next to impossible and has-not. been attempted. But the President's list is a good starter for setting up a time performance budget, an agenda, a must list, or whatever you want to call it. This is not to say that everything the President proposes should be passed just because he asked it. Many of the requests in the President's messages should be and probably will be defeated or delayed. But they are the things which any elected chief executive of any party, and the voters who elected him, have a right to expect the Congress to act on, one way or another,

Score of Measures

THE President's social welfare, housing and education programs involve some 20 measures,

. Including his health plan, aid for middle-income

home builders and National Science Foundation bills.

And of course, the new general tax revision proposals deserve top priority over them all.

By Galbraith

Congress. Several

company's money is invested in ent

government bonds. So is our savings account at the bank.”

College endowment funds are

invested - ; in our government debt, and U. 8 Social Se.

comforters: “Who is this that without knowledge?”

‘Valuable Friendliness’

By Mrs. Frieda Akers, 1701 N. Illinois St. When my husband and I recently returned to Indianapolis, we experienced a very wonderful friendliness, which, naturally, made an ever. lasting empression. i We were taking a walk and mét six teen. agers. We didn’t know any of them. But what friendliness. They approached us with a glad handshake and said “Let us wish you a very Happy New Year.” Of course the same was extended to them. It made one feel very happy and I am sure it did those boys also. No person was a stranger to them. So, such friendliness ‘means a great deal and why not be friendly and “Love thy

hbor”? neig s .

WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?

‘Good Attitude’

By Saul L. Rabb, Judge of Criminal Court 2. "The question has been presented to me: What would be good fqr the city of Indianapolis? In the mental attitude of the individual, whether resident or commuter, toward his fellow man and toward this city and its peoples as a whole lies that which is good or that which is bad for Indianapolis. An individual can see in his own community only a reflec. tion of that which is in his own heart. Thus, if most of the citizens of Indianapolis adjust their general attitudes to appreciate the better things of our community. Indianapolis will be a better city, But if a majority of citizens

Judge Rabb see only the bad things the community will suffer likewise. : An improved attitude among individuals toward his fellowman would go a long way toward building a healthier foundation for future devel. opment of Indianapolis in 1850.

What Others Say

I AM convinced that unification is absolutely essential to our national defense. It may well be that we can enforce it only by taking from some branches of the service their distinctive uni. forms.—Sen. Lester C. Hunt (D.) Wyoming. : * ¢ ¢ IN THE over-all picture, it is estimated that

the gross income to the average farmer will be -

some 10 per cent less again in 1950 than it was in 1949.—R. Q. Smith, secretary of Independent Livestock Marketing Association. ® ¢ © THE politics: of the Brannan plan is based on the theory that the people can be fooled into believing that the government owes them a living and can guarantee utopia to all—Sen, Robert A. Taft (R), Ohio. eo WE ARE deeply grateful to our good friends in the United States for the imagination and sympathy with which they first realized our problems and then set to work to help us over them.—King George of England. > ¢ OUR country has become the citadel of libe erty and opportunity in a world clouded by fear and uncertainity.—Gov. W. Kerr Scott of North Carolina. Co

CONGRESS . . . By Earl Richert

Slow Tax Cut Seen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—It will be early summer, if then, before you: can buy handbags, railroad or bus tickets, talcum powder, etc., with smaller tax payments to Uncle Sam. For there will be no “quicki®” slash of excise taxes by

influential Senate Finance Committee members would like, now that the Presi- 2 a» dent has come out for excise

you an idea, they would cover the floors of

could not bring themselves to contribute to an instrument of mass destruction on a scale threatening the very existence of ‘the human race. In private discussions In laboratories. and on campuses around the country this view is being expressed. » . »

Gen. Smith

ATOMIC fission of uranium has tremendous potential peacetime uses. But there is no foreseeable use for the fission of hydrogen excépt in a military weapon and that weapon is sald to have the power to decimate and destroy everything in an area of 30 to 100 square miles. It is this that underlies the doubts and fears troubling many scientists. With uranium fission they could always believe that a vast storehouse of energy would ultimately be

available in peacetime at =a fraction of the cost of present power sources. But now nearly

five years have passed since

the first atomic explosion and the problems of the peacetime use of atomic energy are far from solved. An atomic arms race is on. Bombs now in production are far more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima and serious considera tion is being given to a weapon that may mean final and ultimate destruction.

r . » IN ORDER to use uranium for time power,

fission the ve' rays must be harmiess by some

ol :

takes 10 sheets of lead to contain the rays of uranium fission, it would take a thousand for hydrogen fission. That is’ oversimplification to the point of absurdity. But it illustrates why scientists cannot foresee anything but a destructive use for the proposed development. Whether the cost is $2 billion or a tenth of that, $200 million, is, In the scientist's frame of reference, irrelevant. He rebels at being harnessed to a

machine that could have as its

only goal the destruction of millions of human beings in a mass slaughter that would make large areas of the earth uninhabitable, » » » SOME scigntists—and - some military mén—seriously doubt the value of a hydrogen bomb as a military weapon. A weapon built at such great cost in money and resources could have only two or three Justifiable targets, No concen tration of industry, communications and transportation remotely comparable to New York, Pittsburgh or Detroit exists in the Soviet Union. On the subject of the advances of Soviet industry and its successful dispersal there is sobering testimony in a recently published book. It is “Soviet Arms and Soviet Power” (Infantry Journal Press) by Gen. Augustin Guillaume, who was French militagy attache in Moscow from 19046 through 1948. Our own ambassador to Moscow for three years, Lt. Gen.

Bedell: Smith, has written a

foreword in which he says that Gen, Gillaume's “reasoning and conclusions are sound and

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"The new family next door has two cars! How in the world can they afford it, living in this neighborhood?"

ening thing about, this whole business is the way in which it is taking place in a kind of stratosphere above and beyond the American people. The enveloping veil of secrecy around the whole atomic

energy project has been the product of small and fright. ened minds. Men of larger courage with faith in the proeesses of democracy have urged

repeatedly that the public be

given more of the truth. It is not surprising that so

. many Americans seem to feel

Barbs

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DRILLING for oil, some

tax reduction, to go ahead and send him an

creases in y revenue, 5 But block gen, Millikin ing them is the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee which intends to go along with the President and offer a singlepackage tax bill—one providing for some increases in tax revenues at the same time it cuts the excises. . . » THIS will take time. Rep. Aime J. Forand (D. R. IL), Ways and Means estimates at. least months just for the House side alone. Rep. Forand said that a way for the Senate to kill a bill would be for it to attach an excise tax repealer and send it over to the House. “The Constitution says we're to write the tax'laws,” he said. “And we're jealous of our rights.” " Sentiment in Congress Is apparently almost unanimous for slashing excise taxes. But there is no general agreement on the increases. Most Republicans are against all proposed increases, particularly in raising the rates on corporation profits above $50,000 and on estate and. gift jaxes, Many Democrats are

“I predict Congress will vote . increase whatsoever,”

no taxes : sald Sen. Eugene Millikin (R.

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Colo.), GOP member - ‘of the Senate Committes. hn w

SEN. MILLIKIN said he was not including the tax loopholes which might be closed and thus add some extra Treasury revenue, . Rep. Noah Mason (R. Il.) sald he was confident the House single - package bill would include provisions to close loopholes through which Some charitable trusts, educational institutions and co-opers atives now escape taxation. He said hé thought the come mittee would vote to tax the farm co-op reserve funds which are accumulated for expansion purposes, One of the biggest fights will be over the President's proposal to do away with or reduce the depletion allowances enjoyed by the oil and mining industries. In the oil industry, this works to make tax exempt the first 27 per cent of gross income, . ~ » REP. FORAND said he fhought some modification might be worked out whereby normal tax rates would go into effect on ofl income once the invested capital had been recovered, with certain exemptions for money &pent for further exploration. Senators and Congressmen from the oil and mining states

. Will try to block any %hange

in law, but they are not confident they can get off Without some modification. #w ~ » "ON Increased ‘Corporation taxes talk among administra. tion Democrats 1s that the rate may be shoved up from the

are not confident this can be done. Such a normal administra-

tion supporter as Sen. Herbert

O'Connor (D, Md.) said he could

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