Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 14

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~ Potato Fiasco (Cont'd) WE hope the archivists of our time were on hand to record for posterity—which otherwise might not believe it—that monumental bid of folly just enacted at East Grand Forks, Minn, : It had to do with the fiasco of our surplus-potato crop—which seems to be getting sillier by the hour, : Farmer Art Wardner sold your Uncle 8am 160,000 pounds of potatoes at $1.45 per hundredweight. The government, of course, doesn’t want these potatoes. But it wants to keep them off the market so the price will ‘stay high. So Farmer Wardner said he'd buy them back ° for livestock feed at the government's price of one cent per ' hundredweight.

Re « =» . un EVIDENTLY this was all arranged beforehand, be. cause a government representative was there with checkbook. It was possibly the first transaction of its kind unde?

Agriculture Brannan on Feb. 3, = - ; 4 ~~ The government man handed over his check—that " would be for $§2336—to Mr. Wardners In turn, Mr. Ward. ner wrote out his—=that would be $16-<and handed it to ~ Uncle Sam, The potatoes never left the farm. Mr. Wardner's profit — figures at $2080, knocking off $240 for grading and inspec tion by a state agency at the rate of 15 cents per hundred. weight. : And Mr. Wardner still has his potatoes, which he can chop up, dehydrate, boil and feed to his cattle and hogs. The check that Mr. Wardner got can be made good by . 43 men (with wives and two children each) paying their federal income taxes on wages of about $3000 a year.

Tragic Birthday : JOHN L. LEWIS is 70 years old today. We regret sin- : cerely that his birthday must be anything but a happy one for him and for the members of his union... There are many of the elements of true greatness in - this man, He has strength and courage and high ability. And he has a worthy and appealing cause—the cause of the coal miners. ; : In all the ranks of labor there are no workers more deserving of fair treatment, generous wages, the greatest possible safeguards against the hazards of their occupation and adequate provision for the future security of themselves and their dependents. : Mr. Lewis might have enlisted the overwhelming sup- .. port of American people in the miners’ cause. = Instead, he has seemed to display contempt for the rights of the American people. al i ee NR

; on .. rg HE HAS seemed to insist that he has 's supreme righ to wage something very like private warfare to enforce his own imperious will, no matter how grave the consequences to national welfare, health and safety. He has seemed to go out of his way to alienate public sympathy from the miners. ~~ ~~ ~~ - : Again and again—even when the country was at war— he has forced the government to intervene against coal strikes that threatened disaster to the nation. He and his union now face court injunctions, sought under law by the government for protection of the people, and face them with an attitude of defiance which bodes no good for the miners or the country, ~~. ~~ =: He is playing a deeply tragic role as he attains what might have been the honored and respected age of 70 years.

Barnum Was Right

N° DOUBT it was highly reprehensible for Harold F. Ambrose to do what he did. ! Mr. Ambrose, a special assistant to the Postmaster Gen-

lators” that he could make them large and fast profits by buying commemorative postage stamps. ~~ He collected, according to the Chief Postal Inspector; more than $400,000. He told his clients that, by buying stamps in huge quantities, he would create an artificial shortage. He showed them stamp catalogs listing fancy prices for rare stamps. And they believed him when he said + he would soon be able to get such prices for the stamps he promised to buy for them. 2 . : ANY kid stamp collector could have told them the scheme was a phony. in Well, Mr. Ambrose has been forced to resign from his “Post Office Department joh, and various officials are trying ‘to find out whether he can be prosecuted for anything, and most of the speculators—except a few he paid off with money he collected from other victims -— are wondering whether they'll ever get anything back. : ; As to that, we have grave doubts. The Chief Postal Inspector says Mr. Ambrose used most of the cash for such things as horse race betting. But one thing seems sure: P. T. Barnum knew his onions when he estimated the sucker birth rate at one a minute,

. Uncle Sam, Printer

R. TRUMAN'S new budget has 1400 pages, weighs 51; pounds. You can have a copy for $5.50, a dollar a pound. i You, as a federal taxpayer; finance a lot of printing. There are 61 separate government printing and duplicating plants in Washington alone, . ; : San” Francisco has 23, Philadelphia 25, Chicago 16, Kansas City and Denver six each, and New York 186. The Army and Air Force have 140 printing and dupli- - cating plants. The Navy has only 87, the Commerce Department 26, and the Interior Department 15. ~ Printing is expensive, as your taxes will show.

Housing, in Duplicate THE federal government's efforts to create housing have 7 resulted in a lot of jerry-built bureaus. Ae .. Uncla Sam, master builder, has 65 agencies gathering ~~ housing statistics, 34 acquiring land, 12 doing home and ~ _ ommunity planning. =. Lid Jack built.

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the potato-dumping program announced by Secretary of

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DEAR BOSS ...ByDanKidney Fre

Hints Bureaus

ma une Getting Too Big

Ewing Says It's Not Always

Possible to Know All Actions

WASHINGTON, Feb, 11--Deéar Boss Mr. Welfare State himself, -as Collier's: magazine called Hoosler-born . Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, is on record

now-as admitting that this government is so big

that the head loses track of the feet. True, it took considerable cross-examination by big, bluff Rep. Frank B, Keefe (R. Wis.) to wring this statement from the FSA head man, Mr, Ewing was testifying for his budget before. the House Appropriations Committee and the questioning concerned his own annual report. Mr, Keefe referred to paragraphs in this document which seemed to Indicate that FSA 1s planning to take over all welfare work and: drive the private agencies out of business. “Do you, as head of FSA, subscribe to the. belief that public welfare should move in the direction of gradual elimination of voluntary organizations?” Mr. Keefe inquired, “Definitely I do not subscribe to that opin100,” Mr. EWIng replisd and referring to his own FSA report added, “Is It in there?" Mr, Keefe said it was and named the pages - 193 and 194—upon Mr, Ewing's asking where to find it.

Asked Assuring Statement THE WISCONSIN Congressman pressed for an unequivocal statement assuring “Catholic welfare organizations, Catholic charities, Lutheran welfare orggnizations, Lutheran charitfes”

Mr. Ewing

-~that FSA has no intention of taking them

over.

“1 state It as unequivocably as words can state it," Mr. Ewing sald. “I think that any such thought is silly . . . my philosophy of this thing js that the federal government should not get into the field except to the extent that veluntary agencies or existing ‘agencies either cannot

—or will. not perform the functions that are

necessary.” rah Ge "7 Mr. Keefe then pointed out that FSA already is in the public-assistance field with grants administered by the Bureau of Public Assistance and the Children’s Bureau. Mr, Ewing countered that the actual administration ia in the hands of the states, however.

The Wisconsin Congressman outlined a plan

for family counseling service discussed by Arthur Aitmeyer, Social Becurity Board chairman, as one of the things which the church groups feared as an entering wedge foward what might be called government monopoly of the welfare field,

Private Charity Groups “SOCIAL SECURITY is one of the agencies under the jurisdiction of Mr. Ewing. The latte sald that while he understood the apprehensio of the private charity groyps he felt that thdy are groundless and based on misapprehension | FBA plans. 2 ; “Let me put it this way,” Mr. Ewing said. “I have not the remotest sympathy with anyone's ideas that might be along the line that they apprehend and are worried about. Whether I campo else has got some idea along that line

I canpot say. But I can say that ro one so far as I Xnow in authority has that, although I hesitate to say more for the simple reason I do not know, “I can assure you that as long as I am the Federal Security Administrator there is not going to be anything of that kind. I cannot cone ceive, as long as I am there, of there being any differences between the agency and the volun ter groups.” 5

‘Off the Record’ ;

AT THAT point, the printed report of these hearings.show that the discussion went “off the record.” But one more question by Mr, Keefe is recorded. And then Mr, Ewing made this stateBRE i A aa a aa sas abn “Another thing, Mr. Keefe, I wanted to suggest was this: That if any of these groups feel this, I would be awfully glad to talk to them, because if there is something going on I do not ‘know about—and that is always possible in a shop as big as ours—I would really like to know about it. It is something completely foreign to my philosophy.” br The colloquy ended there, but readers of this

~~ fecord may wonder if there still tsn't soms way cost of $15 + 2 The last is, of course, a fantastic exaggera-

to bring Mr, Ewing's and other government shops here down to man-size,

THE STRANGER

“Let me creep close to your heart,” said envy, “Dwell with you only a little space.”

~ What harm, thought I; I bade her enter,

Folded her close in gulleless embrace.

Tot Tate, too tutk; True my fond action; «woe

And futile-fingered tear at the chains; Too late I find that my heart has departed; _. Cruelly triumphant, envy remains. -

~Myra Ahter, Indianapolis

INDO-CHINA .'. . By Parker La Moore

Odds Favor Reds

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—The stage is set in French Indo-

J Congress by Veterans Administrator Carl Gray.

wr AMthoughsit does not specifically do-so, the bill;

—able—to-begin

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FEDERAL ECONOMY . . .

Phony GI School Waste Shown

WASHINGTON, Feb,’ 11-Economy is a

magic word on which the Republicans mean to .

rely heavily in their drive to recapture Congress this fail. But when economy hits a large and articulate segment of the vpting public, then it is likely to be pushed aside.

erans Administration are sending to the White

House a report on the cost of the GI Bill of .

Rights. It shows an extraordinary waste of government funds in phony schools that have sprung up since 1944 and in crude exploitation of “on the job training.” : 3 This report incorporates some of the material contained in a statement submitted to

But It goes muéh further. In many Industrial areas the number of Gls taking advantage of the GI bill has doubled in less than a year,

ment or partial employment,

arger Net Income

IN MANY instances the so-called training is merely an excuse for the veteran to draw $120 a month, which is the aliowance for a married veteran with two or more dependents, In addition, the veteran draws an unemployment benefit. Since both the GI allowance and the benofit are free of federal income tax, he may have A larger net income this way than he would have on a payroll, , 3 The President is expected to use the report as the basis for a message to Congress suggest ing an end be put to the worst abuses by legislative action. It also is likely that he will take & shot at a bill which both the Veterans Administration and the Budget Bureau believe would add billions of dollars to the cost of GI benefits. This was sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Robert A, Taft of Ohio, one of the most fre-

‘quent denouncers of deficit spending by the Tri-

man administration, The Senate passed the bill in the closing days of the last session and it Is expected to come before the House soon, A majority report of the VA's educational advisory committee described the bill as an unlimited invitation to every veteran to take as many courses as possible. The majority report suggested that it might mean an additional

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tion. Rep. Olin Teague of Texas, sponsor of the bill in the House, denies emphatically that it would mean any substantial added cost. He cites a minority report prepared by Hiram N. Rasely, of Burdett College, Boston, Mass, champloning the bill as necessary to protect veterans’ rights, " Experts in the VA and the Budget Bureau take, however, a serious view of the measure,

they believe, would postpone the cut-off date

for at least five years. .. Under present Interpretation, GIs will be un-

The Vegetarian

China for another “Spanish Civil War with Russia and the ~~ ~~ ™°

West in -opposing corners. =

Odds. are heavily in favor of a Soviet victory. : Russia threw dewn the gauntlet to the West when it recognized the Ho-Chi-minh regime of Viet Nam, ‘which is trying to

bill, That shows how costs have skW

the report shows, This reflects rising unemploy-

~—sooner—or-iater-are going to-have-to-

car INTELLIGENT alertness « an. precision are the orders of the day. The dangers of

By Marquis Childs

July 25, 1951; although those who have previously started their training can continue. If this cut-off date were extended to July, 1956, the additional cost would be an estimated $5 illion,

_ Costs Skyrocketed

FEW have realized how extensive and how

costly the GI bill has been. The total cost -

through the fiscal year 1951 is estimated rough~

ly at $12 billion; the cost is now running at

about $2.5 billion annually, Recently the Veterans Administrator sent a request to Congress

--for-an additional $800 miilllon above the budg-

etary estimate to cover spending under the GI vketed” in the current year. Some of the abuses are in rural areas where trumped-up on-the-job farm training has meant for many farmers’ sons merely a government bonus. In the backwoods of Kentucky, it is re- . ported, 35 and 40-year-old GIs are sitting in fourth-grade schoolrooms, often next to their children, in order to draw the $120 a month - from Washington. The VA Advisory Committees reported that 5600 new schools -had come into being since 1944. Some of these are valid and useful train. Ing schools necessary to take care of GIs honestly seeking to advance themselves. But far too many are fly-by-night institutions chiefly

interested in getting tuition money out of the -

government.

Hollow Economy Talk ; THE GI bill has brought real and lastin benefit to millions of young veterans. But in administering such a vast program the VA hasnaturally had to lay down regulations to pre-

vent the worst abuses. As viewed from the VA,

the Taft-Teague bill would wipe out all regulation and open the way to-even more flagrant

“evasions of the intent of the law. At the same time it makes all this fine talk of economy _

sound pretty hollow. .

What Others Say

* UNLESS we are willing to ‘withdraw recognition from all Communist governments we

the Chinese Communist government.—Sen. J. William Fulbright {0 ye} L ® ©

I SOMETIMES think that we will have to go to the, academies at West Point and Annapolis to get at the source of the trouble. They are undoubtedly fine schools, but I hope they are not sowing the seeds of future disunification.—Sen, Lester C. Hum > Wyo.) *

communism must be exposed and its cynical olitics carefully

labeled.=FBI Director J. —new courses of education after Edgar Hoover, — the

wh ny AY 7A

Hoosier Forum

oa death your right fo say it." ‘Methodism’s Pink Fringe : TH

By Dr. Harry H. Nagle, 4117 k. Washington St,

though Stanley High's le; Fringe,” in 0 of Reader's Digest has Kicked up quite

a cracker-barrel discussion of the topic, which is as it should be. : Mr. High, son of a Methodist minister, ig now a Presbyterian and active in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, He has opened a bacterial pocket that needed draining for a long time. I am & Methodist myself, We have before us a little 24 page booklet, The Facts, by Frederick Woltman, ace ScrippsHoward columnist and Pulitzer. prize winner, written about the “Fringe,” its accepted name,

-L- the Methodist Federation for Social Action, and

its now-it-is-plain December, 1947, meeting in City.’ Kae Hoy have some similarly dated news. paper clippings about Methodist groups around the country that were all riled up about said organization. These groups were going to blast it and good at the World General Conference of the church in Boston in April 1948. To date apart from the article by Mr. High we have not heard a squeak of protest or any action taken in Boston regarding the MFSA. To us it fooks as though such a hot potato was taken care of in the usual convention method of sweeping it under a rug by Killing it in com. mittee, “But let's get a picture a-littie-nearer home: here in Indianapolis and peek in on a meeting held in the Antlers Hotel, Sunday, May 4, 1047, The meeting was called by a group then known as “The Indiana Committee to Win the Peace.” We understand this committee denied any connection with the National Committee to Win the Peace, which was well tagged as a ‘front organization. This outfit turned out to be a midwife for the Progressive Party that ran. ’ Hemy A. Wallace for President. The speaker wag Je

rome Davis, which name occupies a very

prominent place in The Facts and the “Fringe.” Here are-but a few quotes from his talk: “The press and radio are being subjected to a wave of hysteria about Russia and its threat of aggression—U. 8. press magnifies evils of Russia all out of proportion to how they exist—Russia is justified in wanting friendly neighbors all around (shades of Mendszenty and the rape of Czechoslovakia)— - ; " “Russian ideals are the same as American ideals—Russian revolution similar to American —the trend in Russia is toward democracy (that word again) and more religious freedom —=-brands false the idea that there is no freedom of spéech or press in Russia—bureaucracy in Russia similar to U. S.—the reason that Russia limits foreign correspondents is that every

American in Russia displaces a Russian from =

his home.” There's a bunch of dillies for the sillies that will believe them. ’

pais Oa -

~ In the July 20, 1947, issue of the Classmate,

youth publication of the Methodist Church, we find on page 15, an article by Jerome Davis, Some very interesting quotes: “It would be an error to consider the Soviet leader a willful -man- who believes. in forcing -his -ideas -upon others, Everything he does reflects the desires and hopes of the masses to a large degree— and (he) is very responsive to the state of mind of the people.” Mr. High conclusively said that “the Federation’s national office is housed in the official Methodist building in New York City—its telephone is the Methodist number. We think -it long past high time that the great body of Methodism in the world, in no mistaken terms, disassociates itself from men and organizations Jat bring discredit to its fine institutions and

WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950? .

‘Parking Space’ By Newell Hall, Technical High School pupil, - I feel that there are several things in Indian. apolis which could be improved. For instance, the parking situation downtown is deplorable, As a result of this Jack of parking space many people go out of town to shop. 1 think Indianapolis should be able vide #®me sort of off-the-street — parking for the . people who would like to drive downtown it parking space was available, I don't know where this park- TRE ing space could be the most ¥ conveniently situated. However, I think it would be possible to have under parking under University Park. A large municipal auditorium would also be a idea dor-Indianapolis-te thi ot ——— As it is, there is no suitable place for a convention or meet- Mr, Hal ing of any large group of people. If this audl. torium was provided it would bring more people to Indianapolis, : The thing which Indianapolis needs the most

city are taught to be proud of their city a great step will have been taken toward getting rid

fighting for h

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is: more. civic pride. ~When .the children of our...

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spot if FEPC | a good word f While Sm: paigning at Wi for: $50 mill American War in support pric $16 million for . canal; $40 or canal across veterans’ hosp

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BEHIND THE SCENES . . . By Peter Edson

serious bug.

German War Error?

WASHINGTON, Feb, 11-—Princeton University scientists who have been studying captured Germany records in connection made by the German experts which may have changed the course of the war. The first pulse-jet engine built by the Germans for the V-1 rocket developed what was regarded as a

of the unenviable title of “the dirtiest city in——

drive the French off the mainland of Asia. Britain and the United States have accepted the challenge by recognising the opposing, French-sponsored movement headed by Bao Dal, former emperor of Annam. »n » . . THE Soviets chose the field for this test of strength in Asia. They also hold the best cards on the propaganda front. Russia stole a march on the West by recognizing Moscowtrained Ho Chi-minh before France had ratified its agreement with Bao Dai. Britain arid the United States couldn't act, until France had acted.

It shows the advantage held

by a government which doesn’t

have to wait upon legislative approval-of its foreign policies. Now the Russians are charg-

“ ing the Western powers are

supporting French imperialism against a native nationalist movement, .- wy . . a ACCORDING to the Pravda version, the French “picked up Bao Dai at a fashionable French seaside hotel” and are boosting him as the new emperor of the country to halt its “liberation by democratic forces,” z SE Lea "The French have had a well-

trained army of 160,000 in the ° fleld for three years without

being, able to defeat Ho Chimink's insufrectiontsts, Now

that the armies of Stalin Chi . na control the country's whole: northern border, Russia and So i Bin WIE

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her Chinese satellites are in a

position where they can extend material aid to the rebels with‘otit the West knowing it. But any move by the West must be made in the open and will be hailed as imperialist ag

* gression.”

1 » . . INDO-CHINA is made up of three federated states within the French Union—Viet Nam, ‘Cambodia and Laos. ~The population includes a million Chinese. They are concentrated in the cities and towns and they own the stores, rice-mills and most of the buffiness enterprises. Having fam. ily and business relations in China these people are a poten-tial-enemy fifth column, under the kind of pressures the Communists are known to exert under such circumstances,

While the battlefield in this

struggle will be in Asia, its outcome may have world-wide repercussions, Since France is a member of the Atlantic Union, arms sent, there under the North Atlantic Pact can be used in defense of that part

"of the French Union which is

in Asia.

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the forces of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, A victory by either of these extremist groups would disturb Allied relationships in Germany and have its rever:

_berations in all of the Marshall

Plan countries, - |

. plete the Red barrier between the Philippines and the Asiatic increase the Communist pressure upon the new republic of Indonesia.

. nN s : IT CAUSED the V-bomb to “fish-tail” or waver in the air. Because of this peculiarity, the Germans held up use of the V-1 for many months, trying to get it to travel on a . perfectly straight course. The Princeton experts now beligve that if the Germans had used that first jet engine, the V-1 swerving characteristic would have made it practically impossible for Allied planes and anti-aircraft guns to shoot it down, ; - » » =~ . STATE DEPARTMENT and Army had a protocol-ducking match when the two widows showed up for the Arlington funeral of Col. William T, Babcock. : He was the U, 8. deputy - commissionre in Berlin who recently died of a heart attack. His body was flown to Washington for burial, with Army Capt. Charles M. Foyle as escort for. the European widow, Mrs. Florence Maryjean Babcock. ;

arrange. Prophetic books on this area,

$Arlington National: Cemie« tery,” came the answer, “That's Army jurisdiction,” ‘ruled the State representative, and bowed out of trying to make a ruling on which widow should get the American flag draped over the coffin. 86 the

flag was handed to Capt.

Foley, He naturally gave it to the widow he had escorted from Berlin, and ‘that was that. ee But then came the question of how to get the European widow back to Berlin, State .came to the rescue here. There was a vacant seat on the plane flying U. 8. Commissioner John Jay McCloy back to his Berlin post. Gladly the

_.Army and State washed their hands of ‘the whole affair, and crisis.

went on to the next } . ; ‘» . = KENNETH P. LANDON; a former missionary in’ Siam, got into government service at the start of the war and since 1943 has been in the Souths

“east Asia division of the State Department. Few people know

it, but Mr, Landon is author

> ‘of what is said to he one of

the most authoritative and

TRUMAN - 4 sion to stand p overtures to R Benators. They think

no PRISSCA 8 WAP

tunity that wou offensive agair One Senato!

were to send ( to see Stalin ar reporting no possible .on a the President ° fore the world one great, fi peace. He'd Db rally democra

Mr. Truma:

Personnel Pol job ‘hasn't be - William Wet

chairman, ret * months ago the Military

mission. ~~ Deputy Se - fense Steve 1] in a few mon of Defense, _ _moye up. -'N Mr, Voorhee . sms, Mr. Gr