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" What to Dump 7
Ir YOU had a bushel of potatoes. and a family of four,
the bushel of spuds normally might last you ‘a month or )
longer—there are a lot of good ways of eating potatoes. Well, the government has about 50 million bushels of Potatoes to throw away. They cost the government $1.25 a “bushel, but even though your tax money helped to pay for “ these potatoes, you aren't going to get any of them. You'll ‘keep on paying around $2.90 a bushel for spuds. In fact, the government is so determined that these “ potatoes won't get to you it’s ready to spray dye on them ‘so they'll be unfit for Sorsutnphion, Or leave them in the fields to rot.
Ean il ; ¥ pas MO these potatoes in order to keep the price of growers at not less than 60 per cent of “parity.” That is a standard for ‘ measuring farm prices designed to give farmers the same. . purchasing power they had in past years. But this same law doesn’t provide for. adequate dis-_ posal of these huge accumulations, except to specify certain outlets to institutions which can’t afford to pay the transportation costs. So Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan has tried to dump the problem of surplus potatoes on Congress. And the Senate Agriculture Committee dumped it night <back on the Secretary. The committee refused, “as a matter. of principle,” to advise Mr. Brannan, and as far as it is concerned, it is
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— “willing for him to go ahead and dump" the “potatoes—at—
_ a loss of $80 million to $100 million on last year’s crop. ” ” » Ld . ~
Ly __THE Secretary says destroying the potatoes would
“save” the government $15 million in freight costs it would ‘have to pay if it moved the surplus to such outlets as “industtial alcohol plants. But the Agriculture Department would only use the $15 million to buy up other commodities ‘in the burdensome and costly price-support program. ; The Agriculture Committee says it would “entertain” . any requests for new legislation to meet this problem, We "think it should promptly entertain the idea of dumping the whole price support program—an end product of. congressional log-rolling that now takes eight and one-half 4 § cents out of every dollar you pay in federal taxes.
Presidential Elections
| REFORM of our outmoded, 162-year-old electoral col
lége system for the election of the President and Vice * President has cleared its first obstacle by the Senate’ 8 * approval of the Lodge-Gossett amendment. } The measure now goes to the House. If it receives a + two-thirds vote there, jt will be submitted to the states for ratification. Three- fourths of the states must approve :it for the amendment to become part of the Constitution. the required two-thirds. EN » » » 2 ENN " » : THIS amendment would divide each state's electoral votes among presidential candidates in the ratio to their
ishares of the state's popular votes. Elections then ac-
- curately would reflect the public will. They do not neces- . sarily do that now. a A plurality, rather than a majority, of the whole country's eleytoral votes would become sufficient to elect a 4 President and no longer would there be danger of having an election thrown into the House of Representatives. Three times in American history, under the present system, : presidential candidates for whom the largest number of citi‘gens voted were denied the office. ‘That should not happen . again. And it will not be possible if the Lodge-Gossett 3 emandment wins final app vak
E Postal Rates. : > xe
~ General: Donaidson:has reported to: Sons greés. “that he knows of no way to reduce the huge : Post Office Department deficit—it will be $554 million for * fiscal 1951—except to By all means then, let the postage rates be raised. ©The Times is not among the “tremendous opposition” he cited to the increase of second-class mail rates. Ang while
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bout it, it cof its members as an added fillip. ' 2. In his recent series of government subsidies appearing
bred The "Times, Scripps-Howard— Staff “Writer "Earl Rickert
- pointed out that nearly every piece of mail is subsidized, - except possibly the three-cent first-class letter which comes + nearest to paying its own way. In particular, we approve a pending bill to raise the . postal-card rate from one to two cents. ‘Though it used. . to be the “poor man’s mail,” the Post Office Department has-found that 90 per cent of the three billion postal cards "mailed annually are used by business firms for advertising: purposes. They, too, ought to get their fingers out of the « subsidy pie. 4 ‘War Criminals’ 3 “Russa S proposal that Emperor Hirohito of Japan be tried as a war. criminal comes too Inte to be accepted Sl as an act of good faith.
«Any charges which might ‘have boon entertained
‘against Hirohito have been voided by the. . passage of time. Unless a “statute of limitations” is recognized on such ‘cases, the former enemy countries will be kept in a state . of perpetual terror and apprehension. Any official or citi- .¥ zen refusing to embrace communism would be subject to % mtrumped-yp charges of war criminality, manufactured by “the Soviets’ familiar police methods. ; Of course, the Russians would like to control Japan. - ‘To that end, they would like to destroy Emperor Hirohito, -who is co-operating with the United States. But this coun-
«try is not likely to be fooled by any ‘more of Uncle Joe's -
* come-on-devices.
oh by thelastwar. = eB The world's prossat concein is Russian imperial
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_ Give Lah. ind he Peonis Wal Fina Their Own Wow
THE law says the ‘government has got to buy up Call
“The vote in the Senate was 64 to 27, three more than ’
Fre ————itberately provocative acts of — the free-mailing privileges —the—Communtst regtn
Rep. Howard Smith- Defends Southern Democrats’ Stand
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-=Dear Boss—Hoo- :
slers who heard the’ Capehart-Jacobs debates probably wouldn't have been surprised at a speech Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Demo=-
scrat, made in the House this week. oe Several colleagues on both the Republican
and Democratic side sought to answer him, It wasn't easy, just as Sen. Homer E. Capehart
the home stump. ~Atout the best summation of the Marion County Congress-
given by Rep. Howard W, 8mith (D. Va.); who relishes it id “He shelled the woods and Rep. Smith “front,” Mr. Smith said when he
arose to reply to parts of the Jacobs speech. “80 it takes a good deal of latitude to talk
_about the various and sundry matters that he
seemed tq be finding fault with.” Mr, Jacobs had labeled John L. Lewis a Republican, Mr. Smith sald he was one of his constituents (the UMW president lives in nearby Alexandria, Va., which is in Rep. Smith's districty and he intended to defend him. Congress and not Mr. Lewis is to blame for
outlawing union monopolies-and as a member of the House Labor Committee Mr. Jacobs should move to do so, Mr. B8mith advised.
GOP Coalition MR. JACOBS also had addressed the Southern Democrats, advising them that no good
man’s rambling discourse was .
he also covered the water *
(R. Ind.) found out back on =
the title “Southern Reaction- =
the coal-strilke he said. -It--could-be stopped by
could come of their House coalition with Re- ~~ §
publicans. He said the Republicans would accept.
their support but return them nothing in kind. To this Mr. Smith replied: : “My 4riend from Indiana undertook to reprimand the Republican side and reprimand us Southern Democrats, because, he sald, we had a combination. “He wanted to tell us the Republicans were not the friends of us Southern fellows. I have known that all the time, but what has disturbed me fs that the Democrats are not the friends of us Southern fellows.
‘Who Kept Party Alive?’ “LET me ask you in all seriousness. Who has kept the Democratic Party. alive in the bad times? Oh, it is very well to come down here when the Democrats are in power and when
you can exert some Influence and get some
patronage, and so forth, and talk about ‘we are the Democratic. Party,’ but who kept the Demo-
_eratic Party alive in the bad times? It was the
South. You would not have any Democratic Party today if it had not been for the. loyalty of these Southern states, “Now you turn upon the Southern people for the purpose of getting a few votes—that is all, and you know it—for the purpose of getting a few votes from a few minority groups, that probably you are not going to get, anyway. You are willing to cut the throats of the people who kept your party alive through the years.
‘Not Our Friends’ “AS FOR the Republicans being our friends, of course, they are not our friends. Who said they were our friénds. Have they not had the same plank in their platforms over the years that the New Deal Democrats have recently adopted in the last couple of platforms to try to take away these minority groups from the Republican Party.” "The planks Mr. Smith was referring to were, of course, those supporting FEPC and Civil Rights. Mr. Jacobs is for all of them. 80 was
the Democratic National Platform.
'FOSTER'S FOLLIES
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—It will be possible to send a rocket to the moon before the end of the century, according to Dr. R. F. Gibson of John Hopkins . University. Since we like it here, please don't knock it, Or scowl like a brainless baboon, You'll find brighter things on the docket If you think this earth's ouf of tune... So stick these few lines in your pocket And. whistle a merrier tune, ° With luck you can soon board a rocket— —Toward cheesier things on the moon!
‘TIS SAID We find it hard to arrive at independent judgment and harder still to stick to: that judgment. So? We won the battle of the bulge didn't we; and with green troops who decided — collectively and. individually-—to stick.
B. C, Indianapolis
FOREIGN POLICY... By Marquis Childs
WASHINGTON, Feb, 3-Nobody can say mean enough things about the way the Russians are acting up in Berlin again. If their new block-
-ade- against the movement of trucks across the
Russian zone of Germany keeps ‘up, it could mean resumption of the airlift, This new slow-down of traffic from Berlin to West Germany is in violation of every agreement made by the Russians at the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris last June. Yet here they are, as soon as the airlift is demobilized, permitting the passage of only three or four trucks an hour past the check point where 100 trucks an hour could clear, But before getting too mad about this, it might be well to take a look at some of the
: blockades now being conducted right here in
Washington. Come to think of it, some Ameri-
cans could probably teach even the Russians
a few tricks. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. In July he ordered a three-day work-week in all coal mines east of the Mississippi. On Sept. 19 a full strike. On Nov. 11 all miners went back to work. On "Dec. 1 the three-day week was reimposed. The Russians can't beat that record.
Telephone Sabotage
OR take this man joseph Beirne of the telephone workers’ umion, CIO. He has invented a new technique in blockades—a speed-up instead
* of a slow-down. Facing a strike, he has recom-
mended that all union men dial as many phone calls as possible 80 as to” sabotage the equipment. Not all! this blockading is ‘done by union labor, however. Business groups can come up * with a few nifties that would show the Russians how to get really tough in Berlin, if they had a mind to. Take the dairy industry's lobby. It has been behind . the legal. blockade imposing color restrictions on the sale of oleomargarine for many years. Congress has finally got around to doing something about repealing these restrictions. But the way the bill stands now, margarine would have to be sold in triangular shapes. If the Russians at to pick up the idea, they might require that only three-wheeled,
triangular trucks could be cleared at Berlin’
check point. This would really be not much worse than many American state laws which restrict thé movements of trucks across their borders. Through varying limits on trailers, weight, length, tires, loading and lights, they
~ SIDE GLANCES
Big China Question =
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 Policy- makers here will not even attempt to guess when the waiting period on Communist China is to end. The great land mass of China is now entirely con- - and
trolled bya Communist dust has long since settled.
Yet the outline of a positive policy that wil encompass ‘these © enormous "realities is not Le reason is the
in
Bt armen; The 77%
. tation bill repeal,
By Smith.
vitally cramp the free movement of interstate commerce, The real experts in this blockade business,
however, are the many minority interests in Congress. . They can find more ways to slow-
down progress than a traffic cop can shake his
finger at. There are a couple prize examples’
going on right now.
Two-Week Filibuster
BY FAR the most effective legislative blockade in the 81st Congress has been against President Truman's civil rights program. Last year
the Senate conducted a two-week filibuster:
against a proposed rule to end filibusters. By this action, they succeeded in blocking action on the civil rights measures all year, This year the House of Representatives has indulged in all kinds of delaying tactics in an effort ta keep truck loads of legislation from passing their check point--the House Rules Committee. First,” Rep. Gene Cox .of Georgia tried to force repeal of a rule which could force the committee to discharge bills it was holding up. Mr. Cox was defeated on that point. But then Speaker 8am Rayburn refused to recognize Rep. John Lesinski of Michigan, who wanted to force the Ways and Means Committee to discharge the permanent Fair Employment Practices bill for consideration. : This left the FEPC advocates with ofly slim chances of getting their bill cleared for a vote on the next “calendar Wednesdays, ” Feb. 15 or 22; of the next scheduled “discharge day,” Feb. 27; or by a discharge petition signed by more than half the 435 Congressmen.
Imposed Blockade
TO show that two can play at this kind of shenanigans, the pro-FEPC bloc and the antimargarine, dairy state bloc combined to slow
up consideration of & cotton quota acreage limibadly wanted by the South. “The Northern state groups imposed their block- - ade merely. by taking up all the House's time
demanding quorum calls. But it was just as effective as the Russian blockade at Berlin, the Russians vetoes and walkouts at United Nations sessions in New York.
Arguing against these dilatory tactics is not
arguing that the FEPC bill should be passed, nor that the triangular margarine .or cotton acreage bills. should not be killed. But they should all be allowed to come to a vote so that Congress can get on with other business, Thats democracy. ‘Behaving Hke Russians isn't.
Dngsier Forum nh he
fired of Criticisms’ - me “By George C. Boorn, Paster: Universalist
Clue, Ontlanaun, Ind. ; tour entigibin “of Secretary Acheson for his remark that he “will not turn his back upon ‘Aiger Hiss. A writer sald he read through the passage from Matthew, to which Mr. Acheson alluded, and could find nothing that applies to the case save, “I was a stranger and you took me .in.”-I wonder what happened to the Bible words, “I was in prison and you visited me.”
It seems to me there is a suggestion here of
-not-turning one's-back. fi -a-man, no matter what may be his crime™He {is still a brother tobe treated as a brother. Jesus did not turn’ his” back upon Peter who denied him or Judas _ who betrayed him. Nor can we imagine him doing so. American juries are “not {nfallible Under the law Alger Hiss is guilty. His trial was believe, as fair as a trial can be. The a ed turned what it thought an honest verdict. But it is just possible that men of unquestioned
honesty and patriotism who have been close to
Alger Hiss might be better able to judge his guilt or innocence than any jury. It is possible
that -he-is-innocent. I don’t pretend to- inow: a
But I see the possibility.
‘Destructive Forces’ By H. E. Martz, City. 4 The current opinion favoring the development of the hydrogen bomb typifies the creeping sickness symptomatic of our time with Tespeet 0. .our.- main weakness, . Despite the lesson of Gandhian India n its application of Christian practice to material problems, we cortinue to swear our allegiance to destructive forces in appalling disregard of _ principle and dire prospects.India, not even nominally Christian, exceeds us in proving Christian principles, ‘while we, as professed Christians, pursue the doom- we Aoretell for “pagans.” n wé not smash this mirror of mockery Berd ;M# mage engulfs us?
WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?
‘Improve Minds’
By Joyce lett, Technical High School Senior.
If someone were to ask: “In what way
——Weould you improve Indianapolis? What would
be your answer? : It rather stuns a person at first, especially if the question had never come to his mind. “This very thing happened to me. h:
ful, the first thing that came to my mind was not a material thing. There have been many articles written on what the city should do to improve its standing. For instance, better bus or trolley service, better streets, less crime, and numerous .other complaints, but the thought foremost in my mind was the attitude of the people. One might wonder jlist what the people have to do with the improvement of a city. They make up the city.
Miss lett
Have you ever been to a dress-rehearsal of a-play or musical when the actors and actresses have not as yet put on their make-up? If you have you know how pale and dull the cast seems to be. That is how a city appears without the
make-up of the people. Do not misunderstand" —that the people are the cast without paint pri powder. They are the paint and powder, = ] If the people create an interest in the finer arts of the eity, the more they will be publicized and the less we shall hear of the “dives,” 80 to speak, that go hand in hand with crime. So, Junior, the next time you start to buy a comic-book, add a couple of pennies to it, hop on a trolley and take a trip to the library where you can get books free that are of a much higher standard and more educational.
Mom and Dad, the next time you have an evening out, drop in at the Murat and hear the Symphony Orchestra, or take in a, lecture on some interesting subject at the Art Museum. It won't be so long and nerve-racking as. a.game. of ‘canasta. And you, the daughter of the famAly, on your next Sunday afternoon home, check with the newspaper and see if there is a concert scheduled presenting your own teen-age group at the World War Memorial, instead of going to Betty Brown's home and chattering away the afternoon.
Only by improving our minds will ‘our oity
improve itself. Only by putting on the right make-up will the setting be a success, °
# ” ” What are your ideas on ways to improve Indianapolis in 1950? Send Your suggestions to: “1950 editor,” The Times, 214 Ww, Maryland St.
“By Gal braith HOUSING . cos By Earl Richer
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Congress. .
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That’ 8 the attractive sign the administrati { Co-operative Housing bill 6 has hing on te
which it is trying to push through
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“To Be truth. .
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Japanese imperialism w was an evi of the past, erabed
China, abetted and inspired apparently by Moscow.
want United States recognition of China, which would be first step in- a new policy. Neither does an important and highly articulate section of American public opinion. An unhappy fact in the whole China business is the threat of a prolonged and divisive debate within this country. It is already developing into the kind of
Mr. Bullitt
~to donot so mich with the realities in Asia as with attitudes and opinions here at
pute that has
home. This. can mean interminable stalemate and, in the end, a nét loss to America. There is a parallel in recent history that should serve as’ an object lesson. From 1920 to 1933 the debate went on over whether the United States should recognize . the Soviet Union. It gathered increasing acrimony. and bitterness as the partisans ‘on both sides grew more impassioned,”
- ONE of the ardent advocates of recognition was William C.
Bullitt, whom President Roose-
velt sent to Moscow as the first ambassador to Red Russia.
“The "secret reports that Mr.
Bullitt sent back to the State
ie Department when he Brst. went
. on his mission.
HE" KREMLIN 068" EE Fhe. highest. officials. in. me
emotional dis- -
.way. He
that Mr. Bullitt took with him
Soviet Union set out to woo ‘him with “their flattery. At that time Russia wanted to make large purchases in this country in order to push plans for -speedy industrialization. His dispatches show that Mr. Bullitt, as long-time advocate’ of Russian recognition, was a
willing eciplent of this flats
tery. SAE. £ AT a ‘dinner in the Kremlin,
Mr. Bullift had a long talk -
with Stalin, who told him that although Mr. Roosevelt was the “leader of a capitalist nation.” he was “one of the most popular men in the Soviet Union.” As Mr. Bullitt was leaving, Stalin told him he would see him any time of the
day or night and finally asked -
him if there was anything he
‘- personally could do to help the
new American ambassador,
In the Roosevelt files at -
Hyde Park, soon to be opened to researchers, are letters Mr.
Bullitt wrote personally to the
late President. These letters are sald to go all-out for Ue Soviet Union,
-flattering attention devoted by
Stalin and other members of
‘the Politburo to Mr. Bullitt.
. Ld . Mm WAS understandable that Mr. Bullitt, react in this
World War 1 to brig about tion of the, Soviet Union, It was also understandable when he. ‘became eistliu.
mestic politics, ~ bound to take on emotional
“worked since
‘ase 1060 BY NEA SERVIOS Wn T. w aso-u wir Lo “Where are those pretty ties | gave you “for Christmas—the ones that match the living r room drapes?”
sioned and reacted with the ‘same emotionalism. apna Rusia and everything = When the question of. recog-
“it is almost
overtones. The real interests of this country are obscured by
"pros and cons that have little .
or nothing 3 de do. with Amer: . ica's gain or loss,
IN HIS report on his- three youd as Ambassador to Mos-
_Rus“portant book
" Smith does not allow his own feelings to run away with him.’ _ Through his useful and imruns a hardheaded realism that puts the "interests. of this country first --and foremost. The Communists in China may make it impossible to aeccord recognition to their re- _ gime by -répeated acts of deliberate defiance.' But apart” from such a development, a -prolonged” debate over China - . that ignores the. realities will, in my. opinion, ¢ do io great hain,
Housing project built under the ‘proposed program as against the rent charged on the pri-
since the war under government loan guarantees. » ”
“Ii IS our expectation that rents can be -reduced about 25 per cent below rents currently being obtained in FHA. section 608 rental projects,” Raymond M. Foley, housing and home finance administrator, told- a House Committee in testifying for the Co-op bill Nearly all apartments built
since the war were constructed
under so-called title 608 by which the government guar- .
anteed loans to private build- ~
ers covering 90 per cent of construction costs. Results . has been a vast
- apartment construction pro-
gram. But the government contends that rentals which must be charged to give owners a profit are too high for
many middle-income families. Sill ® =»
THE CO-OPERATIVE hous-
ing program is offered to meet the needs of families earning
themselves adequately, - Mr. Foley said that a family - in a Co-op should be able to ‘get a two- : apartment
-costing $8000 for monthly pay-
ments ° of $64.67, including - utilities. He said the comparable rent on a two-bedroom apartment constructed under the present program . was
average of $60 a month (not eountiug witities). was all fhat
vitely-owned apartments built
-for 50 years.
saps dS
thumb that rent should not exceed 20- per Sent o income.
THE
rom a’ new mixed- -ownership ‘government corporation, the National Mortgage Corp. for housing Co-operatives. : The corpbration wotid get an ‘expected $2 billion from private investors by sale of debentures, with the govern=~ ‘ment guaranteeing these investments fully. These would bear the going government rate of . interest. Holders would not be exempt from payment of federal income taxes on the Anters Feceived. y BIG POINT in the proposal is that the loans 4 co-ops would be at interest rates of about three per cent annually
.8everal Co gressmen, asked whether many persons now paying -on mortgages bearing to four and five per cent interest wouldn't give up their ‘homes and move into co-ops to enjoy the three per cent
* Foley said he they
) would because this would : mean ging up their
Moving
costs also would be a determin he said. Ing factor,
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_ money to nin va , The housing ofical sald ah + 0
discriminatory op residents would. Ly able ; ‘to sell their home or apartment
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