Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1950 — Page 20

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TT Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine hired an airplane for two weeks « for $27,840 to spread grasshopper bait over an area in the West. This wes at a rate of $450 an hour. Actual cost of the plane, bougat from War Assets Administration by a private company, was $6653. A plane of the same type, a DC-3, could have been rented from a large commercial airline for about $150 an

___hour—complete with pilot, copilot and stewardess, ~~ =

n ” . - . . . IN ANOTHER instance, the government's grasshopper people had two planes rented from the same company, one at $70 an hour and another at $100. When their work was caught up to the point where they could let one plane go, they dispensed with the plane that cost $70 an hour and kept the one that cost $100. And the $100 plane could cover only about 75 per cent as much ground as the one they let go.

Then there was the matter of cars s and trucks. In the %

Denver office, it was found, the bureau had 217 vehicles not in use at a time when it was buying 65 new ones. Although there was ample space for storage under cover, many of them had been left standing in: the open and were in poor repair. : ; . » ” 3 » y # ALSO, grasshopper-control men were found to be riding around in sedans in parties of three to five “inspecting” _ grasshoppers. ‘ And in some cases, a rancher Feporicd; the sa airborne corps, renting high-priced planes, had been dumping bait at random, not spreading it out as it should have been done. All this was disclosed this week in publication of testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee. It's only money—as the wisecrack goes—but it's your money that’s being wasted. If this sort of thing, in a small,

fairly obscure bureau, goes on throughout the federal gov-

ernment, it's easy to see why we're running $5 billion a + year in the red.

The Tydings Peace Plan : SEN TYDINGS of Maryland proposed an American-spon-sored interngtiona) disarmament conference, designed to

strip all nations of weapons “all the way down to the rifle.” This is a more realistic approach to the war problem than

“some previous suggestions which would have limited inter

national controls to atomic and hydrogen bombs, ~ As Sen. Tydings says, it was just as bad to kill 600,000

_ Frenchmen in the last war with conventional weapons as it

was to kill 135,000 Japanese with two atomic bombs. War is the evil we must attack. Weapons are incidental to that. . ® B® . 8 = # | THE TYDINGS plan raises some questions he bas not aneyorod: But it is aimed in the right direction. A public

to all nations certainly could not make bad matters worse and it might accomplish a great deal. Attention must be focused upon this problém if it is to be solved. Civilization faglt ¢ faces extinction if this reckless arms race continues. i n. Tydings is intelligent and sincere. He has proposed eg _— attack upon the most serious problem of our time. tion.

. Wire-Tapping the Kremlin?

QOME intriguing reports are being published under Paris

and Hong Kong datelines regarding the secret conversations in Moscow between Premier Stalin and Mao Teetung,

__chief of Red China.

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Uncle Joe's demands ‘and Mao's counter proposals are being reported almost blow by blow, such as Russia's ines = man- with. Dr. Fuchs’ Communist sympat sistence on taking over seven Chinese POS a Maw come here for further atomic dis Ln

request for a huge Russian loan, These meetings take place behind the walls of the Kremlin, presumably with only the two heads of state and their most trusted henchmen present. Yet it would seem _that someone has a pipeline right into the conference room,

and ‘is scoring one of the journalistic beats of the century.” It must. be disturbing. to-Uncle.Joe. to have. his. words...

~ fashied around the world almost before they are out of his “mouth, And. Mao must think that highly touted iron cur- _ tain is a sieve. But again maybe not.

Maybe they're smart enotgh to know thay, the dopesters.

‘are just guessing.

Holding That-Line

- SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON told the Busgarian minister that the United States was taking a “very

serious view” of the arrest and detention of Robert A. Vog-

eler, American citizen in Hungary. Mr. Vogeler, a vice president of the International Telegraph & Telephone Co., has been held incommunicado by

the Red secret police of Hungary since last Nov. 18. At various times since, the State Department has been “giving

urgent attention,” “considering appropriate ‘steps,” and “taking a serious view.’ “It's good to know that after. 11 weeks we aren't re-

laxing oné bit mn our firmness.

Two Good Men Go ae

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has acdepted the resignation of Lewis L. Strauss as a member of the Atomic Energy

Commission and of Gordon Gray as Secretary of the Army. We regret to see these men léaving the government service—Mr. Strauss to return to private life and Mr. Gray

to become. president of the University of North Carolina.

Both- are exceptionally able. Both have worked tirelessly "at difficult assignments. Both will be hard to re- © place. We hope Mf. Truman will seek and find men of comparable ability and diligence for these two posts of i Jmepestaice to mations] security. Bia

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discussion of disarmament measures-at- a-conference open ately after the -

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~ REPUBLICAN Senators, Representa:

“Yet it seems to promise just about as

tives and National Committee mem= much to farmers, veterans, the aged; the

bara have produced a new party platform ““gtatement of principles and obJotives.” They hope it will help them to recapture control of Congress next November. Concerning it, the comment of Maine's Sen. Margaret Chase Smith seems pertinent: “This document is too full of vague generalities. That ‘is fine for those who

will vote Republican anyway, but what

the party needs is something that will appeal to the rank and file of the people.” It may be too bad, but we think it's trué that few rank-and-file people pay much attention ai yay platforms.

THOSE whe a rod this one are likely to conclude that it says, in 2000 or so words, nothing very new, strange or startling. It asserts that a Republican Congress would give greater strength and mean-

and increase the effectiveness of resist-

ing to a truly bi-partisan foreign policy SL

HE proclaims that today's “major Yo \ mestic issue is “liberty against socialism,”

that the. Democratic administration's

needy and other groups as President Truman promises. eld

"It does take a forthright stand for

retaining the Taft-Hartley Act, which such improvements as are shown to be . necessary.

It pledges continued sponsorship of

legislation to protect the rights of minor—{ties, but --says nothing about specifie civil-rights measures.

And it calls for a complete overhaul

“of : the government's loyalty Program,

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planned economy program is heading the

country into socialism, and that the Republican Party is the champion of liberty, It urges an end to deficit spending, a return to a balanced federal budget,

a policy of general tax reduction.

ESPIONAGE . . . By Andrew Tully

Mystery Behind Atom Spy Case

Lot of Questions Left Unanswered in Probe

WASHINGTON, Feb, 9-The Klaus Fuchs,

atomic spy case has posed a sackful of unanswered questions—some of them so bizarre they'd be disowned by a whodunit author. - It's now a week since Dr. Fuchs, the British atomic scientist, was arrested in London for transmitting: atom secrets to Soviet Russia. And all that's happened since then is that the case has become more puz--gling than ever, Reporters quizzing Sen. Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic = Energy Committee, after FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover had spent two hours with the -

alr for them. was give them a new ” bateh of mysteries. . For instance, when the Senator was asked if ‘more ‘arrests would be made, he said only that “sometimes common sense dictates that arrests not be made immediately.”

Mr. Hoover

Does that mean that the FBI has some-

thing on other people and is leading them on, hoping. to get more? Ordinarily, it would mean Just that. But if so, why is the committee letting the suspects read all about it in the § newspapers? ‘Why didn’t Sen. McMahon issue his statement immedi-

meeting; pr “stead of taking 20 minutes it over"? just being careful, is it that when he did issue the statement he did so, not from Sen. McMahon a prepared script, but off the cuff? Didn't the British Intelligence Service know that Dr. Fuchs was a Communist sympathizer or, perhaps, even a party member?

Visit in England is

WHAT does British intelligence, or the FBI, know about a visit paid to Dr. Fuchs in England in 1947 by his father, who lives in the ctor of Germany? | i : Dr. Flchs, who was interned if: Canada as an enemy alien during the ny part of

. the war, was released in 1942 to work on the

British and American atomic bomb projects. -But.-why,-in.1947,. when -Soviet-Russia--had. "begun its cold war against Great Britain and America, did the British government SUEY a

These are the kind of questions that have set reporters covering the case to acting like characters out of an E. Phillips. Oppenheim’s

mystery. : Certainly, they are obvious questions :

~-the only trouble is nobody's tome up with the answers,

“PROGRESS IN SCIENCE . rs Hy Peter Edson

Atom ‘Secrets’ Out

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—David E. Lilienthal can leave the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission fairly well satisfied on one point, at least. He has made a start on giving the American people 2 full an accounting as posgible on the develop- 2 ©

ment of atomic gcience.

When the AEC’s seventh semiannual report to Congress was

released, Lilienthal was asked, “What is the most important thing in the report?”

” » “ HE REPLIED that the most remarkable thing about the report was that it was released at all. It had been cleared by military : security. Yet it contained a tremendous amount of new information on the progress of scientific research and the -construction of new’ facilities for the AEC’s Tapidly expanding Plants.

FROM a scientific standpoint, the most important part of the AEC seventh report is in a 100-page section which reveals U. 8. progress in atomic energy research in physics, chemistry and metalurgy. This, plus similar sections from the fourth, fifth and sixth AEC reports, comprise valuable chap-, ters that bring up to date the famous. Smyth “Report. on’ Atomic Energy, issued in 1045, The Smyth Report is still - considered basic, particularly its first ‘two chapters. But for a current textbook on atomic science, it would now be necessary to include the AEC reports of the past two : In the fourth report, the AEC covered the use of isotopes and

and medicine.

has been -

cation,

power.

and weapons.

. thering atomic research. ume, fy 5 2 Gan ° Ye ii LA 5 : et Ca x

“{s- Lincoln's birthday, - John L. Lewis “will 70 years old. For a

~ Workers into a personal-hiterarchy with

“40, in part at least, in the steel industry,

the fifth report, postwar progress on production of ores, processing of feed materials, and their purification and use at Oak Ridge and Hanford were Teviewed.

THE sixth Teport gave in brief form a complete review of atomic progress in biology

The seventh report tells what learned about behavior of the atom under vari- . ous conditions, It indicates how this basic knowledge may be turned into engineering applisuch as in building atomic machines to Semerate

i os 8 = ‘ THEN there is the practical application of this knowledge to such as the structure of atomic shields, in engineer ing out the modifications eof processes for making more efficiently fissionable materials

this pon-government research , Inthe AEC reports. But it was found this would require pubthe government's pr lication of a remands 1 vol

efficiency and economy in government and = TH

LABOR POWER .

- WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-—Next Sunday, w whith

good part of Ahat Fou lifetime Mr. Lewis has exercised a power as nearly autocratic as any in this country. But it is sometimes forgotten that even this autocrat with a flair for melodrama has had his ups and downs. At the bottom of the depression his union was shattered by rebellion, With thousands of miners out of work the union treasury was nearly flat. Mr. Lewis hitched a ride on the New Deal in its NRA phase. With the aid of the-Roosevelt administration, he welded the United Mine “himself

at the top of the pyramid. In my opinion he is riding for a fall in this late phase of his fantastic career. The reasons why this appears to be so have little to do with Mr. Lewis’ union practices or even with the intricate politics of organtzed labor as they weave throiigh both major parties.

Priced Out of Market

THE basic reasons lie in the economy of the coal industry and, in particular, as that industry relates to the rest of the nation's economic life. Coal is being priced out of the competitive market in one field after another. Millions of householders have switched from coal to oil and natural gas. Even in New England, remote from the fields, natural gas. Hnes are being pushed. . It is true, of course, that in many. industrial there: canbe no-substitution: That is y=

But here the demands that Mr. Lewis has

hold have created a distortion with

serious _ implications for the whole economy. It has contributed to price rises that have steadily pushed up the whole price level. This can become a

factor to he taken

* serious account of perhaps even by the end of

this year. If enough people are priced out of

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all the time and trouble it

charging that the Tunas ‘tion has been dangerously too. ward Communists and fellow travelers in __important government posts.

~ demand for - consumer - goods.

caught between the maneuvers of the managers of big business and big labor. Sen. Willis ™ _ Robertson put in a bill recently that would

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the market, it will be quickly felt in a lessening depression would be likely to play havoc with the welfare system that Lewis has got out of the coal industry; a system that has little relation to actuarial soundness,

Monopoly Position

THE United Mine Workers is pot the only union that has exploited a monopoly position. Another that comes to mind at once is the printers’ union. The public finds itself more ‘and more often

bring trade unions under the anti-trust laws if it can be established that they do in fact exercise an unreasonable monopoly in an industry affecting the nation’s health and welfare, There isa larger: question here of public sympathy. Mining is rough, hard, dirty, dangerous work and the public, in general, has

- been sympathetic with the men who work the

mines. There has been approval for the very real benefits Mr. Lewis has brought to the tainers:

Sharp Controversy -

"BY an unhappy coincidence, the sharp political controversy over the Taft-Hartley Act makes . for added ' confusion. Even officials charged by law with carrying out Taft-Hartley provisions are wading into the quarrel. Robert INSDeRNAN, general counsef- of “the National: Labor Relations Board, chose this moment to make a foolish attack on the members of the

Mr. Lewis comes of long-lived and hardy . -- Welsh stock. His mother died recently at the

age of 91. He may yet go through a whole

— new cycle of decline and fall and rise again.

But his present pose, defying the lightning, the

fates and most of the American people, 1s a

chancy, one. -

they seem to think that somehow, $0) there's a slogan and a scare comb ‘should. bring victory.

at the. election.

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= Old Days Gone Forever’ If the Republican Party is to regain. By “Mere Woman,” Brownsburg, Ind. control of Congress, it needs a great deal more than this platform, or any platform.

The GOP is busy scratching its collective

head, holding meetings, writing pronouncements, > It needs new blood amd new brains. trying to find a formula that will return it; It needs leaders who know how to lead. power. It .needs less effort to please campaign contributors and more effort to persuade voters.—It needs, in every state-and dis- — trict, courageous candidates who will appeal tg the intelligence of the people, 1 Io their Prejudices and feats. :

Cleaning Up the Ivory

Fondly remembering’ the days of yore, tion hat Then one day in Congress,’

loudest about al the important “Aid to Korea”

bill. By Talburt How go’ they do this? By the simple expediww h the Southern Democrats, the Rankins

ch they have used so often—teaming the rest of those reactionaries, sad relie

J» Civil War havoc.

The GOP refuses to combine with these Southerners in a real political party, but they seem to think-the voters don’t know what is going on in Congress. On the other hand, the Democrats had the

gall, right in the middle of a seemingly hopeless

political campaign, to tell off these Southerners, Jet them walk out and form a new party—and then the Democrats went ahead and won the

—ploction: er Since the eleétion, the ‘Democratic ‘National Committee has shown its determination to cone

tinue ap latform of progress whether the Southe erners go glong or not. The GOP leadership seems utterly unable to

. understand that the old days are gone forever,

The blind partisan voter is in his grave, His grandchildren have learned to read and think for’ themselves, There is no magic phrase or formula—intelligent progress is the order of the day. We may make mistakes, but we can’t " ‘stand still or turn back.

get the bit in their teeth and what ‘happens? not They vote to return thé Rules Committee to its ‘old position of poyrer and intrigue. The very people who yel Formosa, defe:

Party-Bassed Tickels' By W. H. Edwards, Gosport, Ind. i In regard to The Times editorial, “Too Many Citizens Don’t Vote,” the main reason “that only one out of three eligible voters go to the polls

'in May primaries” is because one third of eligi=

ble voters refuse to vote a party-bossed ticket. As the law stands now, only two primary bale lots are available. We who want to vote for candidates on both tickets are given a choice of voting ‘for either a machine-picked slate of

“Democrats or Republicans. Give us a third bal-

lot labeled “Independent,” then you will see more votes cast in May primaries. . .County Clerks in each county have charge of master lists of registered votres, County Clerks are dominated by machine-made politicians, If a party boss shows the clerk how many voters of the opposition or independents are on the lists, they can be easily left off the poll books. Those so ‘disqualified are challenged and are compelled to prove conclusively they are legal Petigents of the precinct and have been voting same place and same precinct at-each

Make it a severe penalty for County Clerks to leave names off master lists without giving official notice to those so disqualified. The registration law was meant to curb crooked elections, yet party bosses have repeate edly won elections by means “of having master

- sheets tampered with. '

WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?

“Traffic Relief

By Lucinda Rohm, Shortridge H. 8. Pupil

My suggestions are first of all, relief of the traffic congestion downtown by more adequate parking facilities; perhaps the underground and the four or five-story type parking lots,

and better co-ordinated stop lights for smoother Fung traffic. Also, when streetcars have been a completely discarded and the

safety zones in the middle of the street, traffic will run more ‘smoothly, A civic auditorium for use

has long been needed by our city. If athletics were organized in the grade schools, we would have much more spirit in the high schools. This Miss Rohm has been proved by the small town teams which have won the state basketball crown. - Unless both students and teachers become better adjusted to the 55-minute periods, I feel the 40-minute periods should be reinstated. The dissatisfaction arises from the failure of many of the teachers to give a portion of —the period. to study -and the failure of the

“students to use “this portion of ‘the period §F

beneficially. Also many students cannot take the half-credits in the music and other fields

ties as they could before,

What are your ideas on ways to improve Ine dianapolis during 1950? Send your sugges tions to:

- Editor,” The Times, 214 W. Maryland

oR: 7 ‘Galbraith. GUIDED MISSILES .. +2. By JimG, ices ra ~ Science of Watare. —

target.

bombs.

faster.”

‘down safely. »

. . ” a GUIDED: missile men say the Air Force’s program is farther along than anyone ex- . pected it to be in 1950. They are optimistic but not satisfied. Since Russia has the atom bomb, they say, “the emphasis is on getting the job done

The Air Force has run sev- ; eral guided missile tests, In - doing so, it regularly controls planes — dubbing as guided missiles—over relatively great distances and brings them

_ A GUIDED" missile gets no - * help from its target. Thus; a plane subbing as a missile must be controlled from the takeoff

: WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Long-range, guided missiles de= veloped .in this ‘country have flown against theoretical enemy targets with ‘human accuracy.” , But the Air Force isn't satisfied. An Air Force navigator is expected to bring his plane within three to five miles of his He then can correct his course, either by reference to landmarks or by radar. A missile can’t. Thus, the Air Force dims at better than hgman accuracy. Within three years, it hopes , to have guided missiles which can pin point on a target with little or no margin for error. In war, it is assumed the - missiles would carry - atomic

erally can be assumed. Many Air Force men feel the Gere mans contributed to their own . defeat by placing too much re liance on poorly guided missiles too soon. The German V-2 was not always accurate. J sy 8 = MISSILE experts say that long-range missiles which can hit targets several hundreds— perhaps even thousands — of miles from their bases are on

the way, Already, they say, - accurate short-range ssiles have been developed. r

missiles are “more a matter of three, than 10 years away.”

8 8 8 3 DETAILS of recent guided missile developments/are still

» : They also say the day of

it took me to back into The major problem in misslis most igi tests. Thelr prob : ~~ development has always been lem is one of refinement of 8o-

city is rid of the tracks and.

“by conventions ‘and meetings