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

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# d Silver, Too

Te potato situation, which smells far ‘beyond the wave

‘length of decaying spuds, has got the public pretty sore. Not even a government economist can think up enough

dwmble talk to justify a system under which potatoes are -

p'~nted, laboriously cultivated, dug from the ground and t" sn buried back in the ground by the government to keep ~ them away from hungry people. But for 16 vears, and for the same reason—to maintain ¢ “oh price. the government has been forced to buy newly nin~4 domes=tic silver and then bury it. Silver dnesn’t decay and produce an unpleasant odor.

But the smell of this business is just as evil in one case’

as it ‘sin the other,

THE government is required to pay 90% cents an ounce for all the American silver offered. The going commercial “price for silver is around 73 cents. Consequently, producers

in the Western states sell their silver to the government -

while commercial users bring in metal from abroad for about 17V, cents an ounce less than the government has to pay. The silver bloc in Congress keeps the government in this buying business. As in the case of potatoes, a huge si'ver surplus has accumulated. The government now has about $414 billion worth of silver, more than half of it in . buried bullion, the rest in coins. 5 Treasury officials say they have enough bullion for eninage purposes for vears to come, and they. wouldn't be bt ing silver if it weren't for the law. A bill to repeal this 1"'v has been introduced, but only last week-end Sen. MeCarran of Nevada, a silver bloc leader, said it would be fouoht to the bitter end.

VAST Peures are involved in these and kindred offenses ag" “st common sense and the taxpayers’ pocketbook. : Those who sponsor these schemes, vote for them in

Congress = 1 sign them into law in the White House prob-

ably do so in belief that these millions and billions are too large for the average citizen to comprehend. : a ‘When, if ever, the average citizen. gets it through his head, the passage of years probably will have removed from the political scene these subsidy digrers and logrollers. They will never suffer Sy consequences. Their deceit will last out - their time, Unless, of course, the present odor of rotting potatoes,

may serve to stimulate the taxpayers’ thinking process.

Reporter Lucey in England (CRUCIAL political campaigns are an old story to ScrippsHoward Reporter Charles T. Lucey. ; He covered the Roosevelt-Willkie campaign in 1940, the - Roosevelt-Dewey contest in 1944, and the Truman-Dewey election two years ago. Now he is in Britain to give the readers of The Times ‘an American's sizeup of the epochal campaign between Winston Churchill's Tories and Premier Clement Attlee’s Labor Party,

- Although this campaign will determine the immediate *

future of British socialism, and particularly whether the steel industry is to be nationalized, Mr. Lucey finds the average Briton little concerned about such issues.

” . w . : FOOD costs, gasoline rationing, housing, old age benefits and fear of unemployment are of more moment to rank and file voters, he renorts in his story today. “The main question asked by most Britons is simply this: ‘Which side, Labor or Tories, will do the most to improve my living conditions?’ Which side will win the election? Having been one of those who guessed wrong about Mr. Truman and Mr. Dewey in 1048, Mr. Lucey doubtless will be cautious with predictions from England. But we think you will find his reports teresting and informative. :

ih ia ond Pakistan TAPIA has renewed its offer of a “no war” pact with Pakistan, through the medium of a speech by President Rajendra Prasad at the opening session of the new Indian parliament. But the offer lost much of its force when President Prasad said conditions had not yet been established which

would permit a plebiscite in Kashmir for a free declaration :

of its people on-the-future-of that state. -

The title of Kashmir is the cause of triotion betwen

_ India and Pakistan and yntil that is removed, talk of a "peace seems premature. Pakistan has been willing to submit the problem to the United Nations, but India balks.

. 8. 8 . : BECAUSE of fear of each other these two countries are devoting more than half of their respective budgets to military expenditures at a time when both are seeking foreign loans to stabilize their infant economies. This idiocy will bleed them’ both to death if their leaders do not . come to their senses. Naturally, the Communists just across the border in China are hoping for the worst. Under British rule, the economies of the two countries became so integrated that each depends upon the other and _ by boycotting one another's commodities, as they are doing at present, they are plunging toward joint insolvency. To paraphrase John Hancock's famous words, unless the two governments can. hang together they most asLsuredly will hang separately.

SE Moscow Historians | - WHEN history doesn’t conform to the Communist

Party line of the moment, the Russians rewrite history.

According to a Moscow newspaper, the atom bombing

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred “when the end of the war was actually already decided by the Soviet army

offensive.” ~The atom bomb was dropped on Hircahims, Aug. 6 1945—two days before Russia declared war on Japan, Nagasaki was bombed on Ang. 9, the day after Russia : entered the war. Japan sued for peace the next day. If th end of the war was in sight when the atom bombs

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Eco ors hw Love “rance May Not ‘N-~ad More Aid

Prospects Better Than in "England, Germany or Italy PARIS Feb. 14-With ordinary luck the

The Mountain Goat

~“French won't need American help after 1063.

Prospects here appear to be better than in the United Kingdom, Western Germany aad gr © Among those who believe France will self-supporting by 1952 are Paul G. a and W. Averell Harriman, chiefs of the Economic Co-operation Administration; Barry Bingham, head of the mission in France, and Jean Monnet, director of the Monnet plan for French restoration. 3 2

‘These sources and ECA records offered the

following summary: The European Recovery Program encountered in France a situation which was deteriorating before the war. The economy had begun to pull apart at the seams, War did it no good. Restoration had to begin with the heavier industries. Electric power had always been short It already has increased 50 per cent and will increase that much again. New mines have been opened and steel plants have ‘been modernized and expanded.

U. S. Investment

MOST of the money for expansion still comes

from corporate treasuries. A little U. 8. Invest~ ment is returning like International Harvester's plant now building at 8t. Dizler. Industrial productivity has had a good rise and is 5 per cent over 1938, Much new machinery is now coming in on ECA authorizations and output will be greater next year. Without this attention to capital goods, recovery couldn’t have been sound at this stage, But the attention to capital investment helps explain the restlessness of labor and the agita-

tion of Communists. The nation still teeters on

the edge of inflation; as evidenced by the high s profits of some employers, but prices haven't changed much lately. Workers’ incomes are about what they were before the war. Those of family men are a little higher, because of family allowances. Those of the unmarried are a little lower, White collar workers are still the main victims of inflation, as landlords have been of rent control Little has been done for housing, except in the areas. -

Power Reduced

COMMUNISTS continue their agitation, but their power is much reduced. Despite their interest in socialism and nationalization of some industries, the French carry individualism to extremes. They remain suspicious of all propaganda and more or less of all foreigners. The effort to tell the ECA story has had to be more restrained than in Italy, but a recent poll has shown that 87 per cent of the French know something about it.

ECA statistics show that new peaks of re-

covery were reached in several industrial directions between May and September of last year, but that subsequent totals of output fell off. A minor recession may have set in, Certainly a short plateau was reached. Unless a new upward swing occurs the recent optimism may dampen.

Our deacon is a candle tall Whose steady light shines brightly, Across the heads of worshipers To whom he preaches nightly.

And every member of God's church In one way or another, Beams as a smaller candle here To some sin wandering brother,

+ But high above our steeple spires With power no man can measure. The light of all the world shines down To fill our hearts with treasure.

He lights our candles all anew When they burn near their ending, Until in Christian fellowship ‘Our taper lights are blending.

—Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway. PERSPECTIVE

I looked far off to the Eastern sky And watched the sun like a ball of fire Rise . . . and travel tili it arose so high It shone as bright as a butning pyre.

I looked to the West at the end of day ‘When the evening sun was sinking low. I watched the reflection on clouds far away Mixing. coiors into a brilliant rainbow.

[ looked to the North where snow peakes rise Silthouetted forms against the sky! Like pyramids, yet so immense in size That I shiver when the North winds sigh.

[ looked away to the pa Southland And wished that I might there abide, Along the banks of the sunny strand And Teel the spray from the ocean tide.

== Frances Richmoad, Columbus.

NAZI REVIVAL . . . By Bruce Biossat Warning

WASHINGTON, Fe

correspondent, who has just finished a broad tour of that

H alarmts paints & ah develop political conditions The story ge that might threaten world he tells is one #& peace. He assafled grows of Nazis & ing tendency to bl other

‘working be- W hind the cloak of a democrat- |

plight.

Ruhr industrialists col- promote laborating with them and even plotting Mr. McCloy cal

recovery democracy a deal with Soviet Russia in that will Allow Ha citizens to live as free men. This is a firm speech. As

hope of restoring Germany to a key place in Europe, and millions of

po” no other voices convinc- tude.

“ing. CE

It's a tile, too; of United , States, British and French in- . action, confusion and mistakes

contemplate any specifie in Germany. No real effort is in though

being made either to teach democracy or create the conditions under which it can flour-

WHEN McCloy was in ib | its former dangerous Washington ‘not long ago he /It must not be permitted to

said the “evil embers” of Ger-

"Coplon and

to Germany

14--Tardy but welcome. That must be the verdict on the warning against a revival of Nazilsm issued in Stuttgart recently by U. 8. High Commissioner John J. McCloy. For a long time evidence has been mounting: that a new - —-Apirit-of--nationalism - is. rampant in. the- West. German republie.- con ff The latest account comes from Leon Dennen, roving European . - !

they'll get no army or air force and won't de allowed to

contries for their postwag

= MR. McCOLOY added that - Americans aren't in Germany simply to feed the people and

ordinary Germans - another reporter observed, it « Degmning to listen again to reflected not so much a “get extremists because they Hugh” as a “show me” atti-

action is implicit in his warn-

Perhaps our government first wishes to measure the ef-

SECURITY RISKS . . . By Paul R. Leach

Grading Loyalty of U. S. Workers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The federal gov-*

ernment divides its suspect employees into two groups—those who might be disloyal and those who might be bad security risks. A person is considered disloyal if he is a member of the Communist Party or one of its

af shooting off his mouth, or getting tight or blabbng about

With the Hiss,

cases in the - public mind there have been § charges that the § government is. “riddled with Communists.” Mr. Richurason This isn’t so, says. Seth W.. Richardson, chairman of the Loyalty Review Board. “No Communists or fellow travelers on-the federal payroll?” he was asked. “I didn’t say that,” boomed Mr. Richardson. “It is quite possibie that some smart Commies have wriggled their way past the loyalty board. I'd be surprised if they haven't tried it. But this is a continuing program. Any bad information that shows up on a person immediately starts an investigation, even if that person has been cleared previously. An employee or has applicant declared disloyal is dropped.” Mr. Richardson, JIowa-born ‘Washington lawyer, is a conservative Republican and Legionnaire. He was Assistant Attorney General under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, and was counsel for the ional committee that investigated the Pearl Harbor attack.

° “The whole loyalty swings on the

program Federal Bureau of Investigation and I have no

reason to believe it does anything but a thorough job," he said.

SIDE GLANCES

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‘area boards, and some

dob ds tm Lam sem avon giaducte from high iw. kins—all the goed obs will be gone by that time!

Mr. Richardson was talking about the loyalty “purge” since it began on Oct. 1, 1947, He does not deny that there were Communists and fellow travelers high on the payroll in the Thirties or later. See the Hiss case. “What about Judith Coplon?” he was asked. The reference was to the Justice Department clerk now being tried on charges of passing secret information to a Russian United Nations employee, TUUUThe loyalty investigation had not got around to her yet when she was arrested,” Mr. Richardson explained.

Security Risks HE AGREES there may be many bad or Indifferent security risks who nevertheless have been passed as loyal. Under the loyalty review setup, a federal worker or applicant must fill out an exhaustive questionnaire—Form 84—on his or her life history and connections, So far 2,800,000 have been thus screened.

All but 11,386 have passed on the basis of .

Form 84. . Sen. Mundt (R. 8. D.) calls this procedure

“lax and ineffective” because it involves only a

name check against membership rolls of organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General

Mr. Richardson says that the forms are combed by the FBI and that anything that looks out of line calls for a full investigation of the individual. The new Republican platform adopted last week says it wants: “Complete overhaul of the so-called loyalty

_.and security checks of the federal personnel

. prompt elimination of all Communists, fellow travelers and Communist sympathizers from our federal payroll.” The critics and the platform, says Mr. Richardson, confuse loyalty and security, °

Full Time Boards

“I HAVE no feeling about it one way or an-.

other,” he adds. “But if wants employees and applicants investigated for security as well as loyalty, it should say so. It should appropriate the money and establish full time, not part, time boards as exist now fo do the The review board here, 14 regional and four 250 federal agency joyaity boards are charged with finding only whether an employee or applicant is loyal. He might be declared eligible for a job if he has merely joined one or two front prgunisations

on the Attorney General's subversive list. If he... . has joined several of them, although

still is not a card-carrying Communist, he's in for trouble,

By Galbraith

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: More excitement was created by the President's ) forward with the H-bomb. ‘even here there was only nian of Jystera,

BUT ao there is danger that the nation will go into a panic’ over the case of Dr. Klaus Fuchs. Hysterical be-

v . arises, certain Congressmen

control of the that the Fuchs - great a tre as it is fo must’

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Hoosier Forum

"1 do not agres with word that but 1 will defend to the dasth your 1 to soy 2 ‘Use Potatoes’ ”

when we switched to vodka. At any rate, if the Russian diplomats at the United Nations meeting would be induced to down h few drinks of putsheen, they would not leave the room in a huff, but remain in their seats singing the Volga Boatman, and forget to veto anything.

Alcohol makes a fine fuel, and by using an.

* alcohol furnace we can equip our government.

built houses for the lower income group with these furnaces, and again adopting the Brennan Plan, supply them with cheap fuel, A lower income citizen, arising early to fire up his furnace, would forget his income tax, time it took to pay for his home, worry as to" whether his home would last till he gets it paid for, and come up to breakfast giving three cheers for the Fair Deal,

‘Here's a Possible Solution’ By Gerald M. Landis, Linton, Ind. Usually labor leaders always ask for more than they expect to get. Employers offer less than they are willing to give. This makes a compromise in order. The United Mine Workers and the operators will have to give and take in order to reach an agreement. Here is a possible solu. tion to the coal situation: The United Mine Workers will give up—the willing and able clause—If a worker is not able, of course, he doesn’t have to work. But if you have the word “willing” in a contract miners can quit work any time they wish or can work Sine, SWo oF thiee daya a week as John L. Lewin orders, The operators will give the 20< cent royalty fund fo 27 cents per net ton. This seven-cent increase will offset the loss in tone nage since the war. This welfare fund, if proper~ ly handled, at 27 cents per ton will take care of the miners, their families and dependents. Pensions will be granted to retired miners

when they reach the age of 62 if they have been §&

employed in the industry for a period of 20 years or more, Other provisions include a two-year contract, present wage scale and union shop. Many of the rank and file miners I have talked to are satisfied with the present wage rate. They do not object to dropping the “willing and able” clause. 5 They would like to have an increase in the royalty rate in order to make their welfare program sound. They do not want to raise the retirement age to 65. Most of them would like to. have it at the age of 60.

WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?

‘Good

By Harold Daringer, 276 S. Sherman Dr. The things Indianapolis needs most are a municipal auditorium and a good cleaning up. I was appalled when I returned from Europe to see how Indianapolis had deteriorated. Civic pride, which characterized our city before * the war, was non-existant. The

grace. ‘A municipal auditorium By would be the cultural hub for %¢ Indianapolis and it would at tract many attractions which ¢ show in Bloomington and then by-pass Indianapolis on thelr

i . could be low enough to attract more citizens. The money brought to Indianapolis by conventions would soon pay for the construction of an auditorium as well as to give apolis trade a boost. * © & (Editor's note: This is the last of a series of contributions from readefs on “What do we need in 1950”? as a special feature. However, additional letters on-this or other subjects will ~

~ be welcomed for use in the Heosler Forum

column.)

PUBLIC ATTITUDES .. . By David Dietz

U. S. Atomic Dangers

HYSTERIA can destroy | the nation’s atomic ¢ SHerEy and transform a source of national security into national danger. This is a fact worth remembering at the present

a source of

Tramamwy- “announcement that Soviet

3 ‘Fortunately, President Russia had achieved an A-bomb was received by the nation with. out any hysteria. In fact, some observers were -inclined

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censorship upon their own utterances and publications at a time when the ave

decision to erage Congressman didn't even

. They had the - project well

good. : some of the

congressional utterances, one uN gets the impression that the

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