Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1950 — Page 14
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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ .-. President Editor Business
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Rent Control . a Hot Potato
ITY Council has given long and earnest thought to the subject of rent controls and from all accounts has “about made up its collective mind to leave: the ‘controls in effect a while longer. It has obviously been a hard decision to make. There have been heavy pressures both for and against. And though we have no doubt the Council members are acting in what they sincerely believe is best for their community, we do seem to sense certain misgivings about the whole thing. £o, City Council, of course, didn't create rent control. _. It is. one of the hot potatoes left over from .the war. "H is also a shining example of how hard it is to stop,
~by government decree.
EVEN those who wa ant © keep them will generally agree that there is no element of justice in rent controls, They have been used to force alow, virtually a pre-war, “gelling price’ on the rental of a house through eight years
the man who rents it . . . has generally more than doubled. __ = Houses for rent are still scarce here . ,.. although there is no clear showing that they are any more scarce than they were back in the Thirties, before rent control. It is argued that if controls are removed rents will go up. That is almost certainly true. And a sharp rise in rents
who couldn't move out because they could find no other “living quarters for less. So our councilmen have had to balance the hardship that controls impose upon the owner of this house . . . against the hardship that removal of controls would mean to the man who rents it. -
let's remeéniber that they have the problem at all only be- + cause the federal administration that created it passed the buck back here when it got too hot to handle. Might pay us, too, to remember, next time somebody
for our own good, what a sad mess we got into eying to “control rents.
We Hope
miners telegrams saying: “You are hereby instructed to cease forthwith all stoppages and return to work without delay. All officers and * agents of the union are further instructed to carry out this polidy and immediately inform all our members. This is
members.” He followed the telegrams with letters explaining why they had been sent. In the letters and telegrams Mr. Lewis was much more
‘and not to the locals.
- ” . IT MAY BE that Mr. Lewis is now WE to put himself completely in the clear—to exempt himself from personal penalties if the coal miners continue their strike in defiance of the government's Taft-Hartley Act injunction, We much prefer to hope that is not the case. We much prefer to hope that Mr. Lewis meant the miners to accept the instructions in his telegrams and letters Friday in complete good faith, and that the miners, so accepting them, will return to work without delay. Unless they do that we see little prospect that the coal. crisis can be surmounted without most serious trouble . for the miners, for their union and for the country.
NVESTIGATION by the Secretary of State of automobile title rackets in Indiana will be weltomed by both the public and the legitimate car dealers. Te For several “years AV-by-night "a have resorted to manipulation of car titles to dupe unsuspecting buyers, evade taxes and in some cases to disguise stolen vehicles. Secretary of State Charles Fleming has promised to ep pgee-down- these shady deaters™ and -rid-the “automobile business of . irregular practices.
THE, legitimate and honest car dealers will welcome the investigation because one of these “phantom dealers’ working out of a hotel can give the whole industry a “black eye.” And thy buying public will be protected against many
from the unwary in the past. * We hope the state's crackdown will be thorough enough
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. Federal Omelet
DES life get tedious? Do you wake up°every morning to the same old grind? Do you often wonder what it’ s all getting you? Consider then, the hen. She works all day on one egg, and it takes three dozen -—36 days’ work—to make a pound of dried eggs to be stored by government price- supporters in a eave in Kansas, There are now 73 million pounds in storage, which is about 2,628,000,000—a dozen and a half eggs for each man, woman and child in the USA. Working ahead at its usual rate of one egg per pérsdf per day the country could eat the caves empty in‘less than three weeks of co-operative effort, urged on perhaps by a - National Egg "Month proclamation by President Troman® and three- iia: Speeches in all the theaters,
BUT the difficulties are double. The hens would stay
on the job, piling- up more eggs. “Hardly anyone will eat
fe
dried eggs if he can help it. Even the hungry British gag. <: at them. ”
‘On these dried eggs the government las aperit $100
-- W. D. Termchlen, the government “official in ‘charge, denies that the dried eggs in the cave at (At*hison, Kas, } are be-
to smell.
“Auto Title Rackets perenne one
Manager — Suniday, Feb. 10. 1050
once—you—start—trying—to—fix up CVofYINEE 10% SUR yr =
in which most everything else , . . including the income of
would cause hardship to a considerable number of families
Whatever they do decide, before we blame the Couneil,’
comes up with a glittéring plan to control something for us
OHN L. LEWIS has sent to all his local unions of coal
for the protection and welfare of our union and all its
explicit and emphatic than he had been in his telegrams a week ago, which went only to the union's district presidents
. that
on Capitol Hill,
"DEAR. BOSS .. By Dan Kidney =
> GOP stool : New Slogans?
Party May Cool Off on: Socialism” as Issue WASHINGTON, Feb, 18 Dear Boss-8hould the British Tories take a terrific beating in the
general election next Thursday, some of the Re- .
publicans, even including 8en. Homer FE. Cape-
hatt (R. Ind.) may ¢ool off an shouting ‘British Socialism”
and try some other tactic’ to win votes, In his Jefferson - Jackson Day speech, President Truman cabled the hue and cry of socialism a silly slogan for’ the GOP .and eited the nearly two decades of lost elections such tactics have brought them, This waz not a new view, When the
ism” slogan was adopted here the day of the dnllar box Mr. McHale Supper, Feb. 7, there were
many Republicans who wanted something better to offer the folks, Sen. Capehart, who had been shouting It up and down the state in his debates with Rep. Andrew Jacobs; Indianapolis Democrat; thought it was just dandy, however. And this view seemed to be shared by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) and Rep. Charles A: Halleck, Rensse1a#r, dean of the Republicans-from Indiana and the man with the longest service of any Hoosier
The down- to-earth Sen. William F. Jenner (R. Ind.) wasnt too sold on the socialist glogan, despite thé fact that he went hack. to Indiana and shouted it loudly in his Lincoln Day speech in Indianapolis, There are many more yotes in PrOVIng that the New Deal-Fair Deal Democrats are now the new plutocrats and proving that the administration -has—ecut the farmers -income-25-per-cent. Authorized importa that have caused unemployment and heen bad for business generally Sen. Jenner confided,
Change of Pace.
WHEN he plays a return engagement in the state he may get down to these points, rather than continue that burlesque of James Whit. comb Riley's “Little Orphan-Annie” and shout “the Socialists will git ya, ef you don't watch out.” . Such a change-of pace might prove profit. able in the opinion of a- man who has no intention of aiding the Republicans. He is Democratic National Committeeman Frank M. MeHale, Indianapolis corporation lawyer and the last of the MeNutt Mohicans in Indiana politics,
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He agreed, while attending the $100 dinner
here, that President Truman is on the right ‘track when he calls the socialism slogan of
the GOP cockeyed.
“Shouting socialism isn't going to get the oiits in at a time when Americans generally are enjoying the greatest -era of prosperity in history,” Mr. McHale said. “That argument falls by ‘its own weight when there is more wealth and Jess debt and the banks bursting with private funds:
‘We're Sure to Win' »
“OF COURSE I hope the Republicans continue to make socialism the issue and carry it onto the stump this falh We are sure to win on that one.’ Alex Campbell, Ft. ‘Wayrie, “who is the MeHale candidate for the Democratic nomination for the UU, 8. Senate, saw the. socialism issue coming. and hurried hack to tell the folks how he rounded up all the radicals and iraitors as head of the Justice Department Criminal Division while he was assistant Attorney ‘General of the United States. The GOP has some rebuttal on this point, however, in addition to that already used by Sen. Capehart, who surmisés that Mr. Campbell may be his re-election opponent.
Chambers Papers
THERE is the House speech by Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R. Cal.) member of the House Un-
“American Activities Committees, where in he
charged that Mr. Campbell had reams of the Whittaker Chambers stolen State Department documents but failed to use them in the first prosecution of Alger Hiss when a hung jury and no verdict was reached. When Hiss was convicted, Mr. Campbell took credit to himself, just as he had for the conviction of the New York Commies and the various World War II spies.
But the Nixon speech is being readied as
a campaign document and may be more effective ‘in Indiana than the general charge of
+; Socialism, *
—=cptent-boldness-to-meet-—t
of the gyp schemes that have taken thousands of dollars.
to effect. a permanent ban on irregular car title rackets.”
million. Both the hens and the government still are at it. :
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giana. as of today.
iitomobile “dealers”
On his recent visit here for the National Republican Committee meeting, former Gov, Ralph, Gates, now National Committeeman for the state, put the drop in farm income and the high level of the farmers income tax. as the number one factors favoring his party in In-
BATTLE OF BERLIN... By Maraui dil
Allies Unde
WASHINGTON, Feb. Hern "intelligence channel supplies additional -details of the plan being thoroughly and effi. ciently and persistently advanced by the Russians to drive the By every possible «Western position in that strategic city is being undermined. Whether the Western Allies are preparing plans: of suffi-
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Western Allies out of Berlin:
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‘down -with—sociat=—
putting an end to the blockade. Rox
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YOUTH MOVEMENT
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. By Parker La Moore
Challenge to U.S. in Germany
WASHINGTON, Feb, 18—The announcement
-that-500,000 members of the Communist-Youth-
Movement plan to smash through police lines to stage a mass demonstration for German unification in the Western zone of Berlin may present the most serious challenge the United States and the.other Western Powers have faced since the beginning of the German occupation.
Government buildings will. be seized and occupied during the period of the mass demonstration, according to the adv ange notices. While the marchers will Fé armed anly with sticks, they will have the support of the Russiancontrolled East Berlin police, it has been stated. The rally is being called for the ostensible purpose of agitating for a reunited Germany. But its real intent appears to be to show how easy it would be for the Germans themselves to drive the occupational forces out of their countw” if once they join hands to do it.
Threat May Be Bluff
THE FACT that the march on the Western zone of Berlin isn't scheduled to come off until slate in May, allowing ample-time for preparatiofhis to prevent it, is taken in some quarters as evidence that the threat is sheer bluff. Yet it isn't easy to see what the Russians would have to gain by whipping 4p enthusiasm for such an effort only to back down, . Of course, the Russians do not appear openly in the situation for the program is under the direction of a ‘so-called “Free German Youth” organization. 8o they feel that they could call the whole affair off without losing prestige, if the barricades appear to be too formidable to be carried by sheer weight of numbers. The United States has 90,000 troops in Ger-
MAY |
May I use my gift of sight to see The beauteous things of life, ‘May IT never waste it wantonly On sordid scenes of strife. May I use my gift of hearing And attune to pleasant sounds And linger... only briefly where Unpleasantness abounds. . And may I do a kindly deed Before the setting of each sun 80 in my heart I feel secure Of one small task I've done.
— - Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuiney St. ol
BRA BEI WE ERRIE
means the
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many, and the British and French can muster
all combat troops, by any means. But enough fighting units could be thrown on the line to keep the city from being taken by mob action, if that is the decision of the Allied command in Berlin, and the governments they represent. If the demonstration is attempted, it will provide ammunition for the Communist propagandists either way it goes. If the Allies let the youth mob rute the city for a*#ady, it can be said that they backed away from a showdown and that they were afraid to employ force. Yet if troops are used to prevent the mob
from overrunning the city, casualties may result,
in-which event the propagandists could make capital out of that,
Growing Problem MASS demonstrations and political strikes
-have been employed in France and Italy and
in the latter country in. particular present a growing problem... When deaths result from rioting, strikes are called to protest ‘police brutality,” and one disturbance succeeds another. Student demonstrations similar to those projected in Germany were one of the most effective weapons the Communists employed to build
“I do not agree with a word that ‘you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it"
“Political Obligations’
_ By L. A. Ensniinger, 1321 N. Meridian St.
1 am in complete accord with The Times. . editorial on the appointment of William E, Bteckler as judge of the United States District Court. I have had an acquiiintance with this young man for about 12 years, During that - time I have formed a very Javorabie opinion of him, both as a citizen and as an ‘attorney,
"but it nevér occurred to me that he has had
sufficient experience to preside over as important. a_post as-a United States Distirct Court, -« As you state in‘ the editorial Mr. Steckler begins his solemn and important duties under a cloud. Besides his lack of experience he was pushed into this position by political pressure,
-and-not—selected by unbiased preference. De.
spite arguments to the contrary appointments made in this manner infer political obligation, If Mr, Steckler can disregard these approaches, which in all probability will come to him sooner. or later, his refusal to be controlled by this influence will show his strength of character, merit public confidence. But this is not all. He does not have the knowledge of law and “the legal experience to qualify him as a well-grounded jurist. This comes from years of activity. While he acquires this knowl-
—edge—what willbe the -faith-of -the- Publie. in
—approximately-the same number. These are not
sentiment against the Nationalist government
before the Red troops themselves became a major factor in the disintegration of China. The civil wars in Burma and Indo-China grew out of long periods of mob action which undermined the governments and their economies.
Raids Across Border
A VARIATION of this technique is found in Korea, where the country is divided into Russian and American occupational zones. On the Red side of the 38th parallel, which separates the two zones, a puppet army has been organized with the apparent intention of invad-
across this border are a common occurrence. “Cold war” becomes a misnomer for this struggle in which we are engaged when the Red forces begin to march. Greece is the only place on the world-wide front where the United States has found the right answer for this method of Communist attack, There the Communist rebels represented a small minority, and we succeasfully constitutional government.
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intervened in behalf of the .
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"tion of Jan. 15.
his court? I trust that Mr. Steckler can. immediately prove himself to be thoroughly capable of handling his duties fairly, impartially, intelligently, and without prejudice. Those are the qualifications that the people expect of a federal judge, the attribtues that the office demands, This is his chance to make a name for himself, and my hope is he will not fall
‘Marxism is Materialism’ By Charles Ginsberg, City.
In hi= letter of Feh, 2, A. J. Schneider said: “I could perhaps surprise Mr. Ginsberg on how much I know about the Marx and Engel theories , , .” That Mr. Schneider knows very little “about the Marx and Engel theories” is well proven by the opening statement, “Like all Marxist idealists.” Marxian theories are based strictly on materialism and are not “idealistic.” To be a Marxist you must be a materialist, : : Mr. Schneider says he answered my quesIn his letter of Dec. 28, he
says, . but denied in so many of the world's
- “infustrial- -republies—of labor’ -I--then asked; + —
“Where has there ever been an ‘industrial republic of labor' set up?’ To date he has never answered, but has béen doing a lot of wiggling and squirming to evade the question. In his last letter-he stated, “Although I did not specifically state that an ‘industrial republic of labor’ had ever been tried anywhere, I did assert that all totalitarian dictatorships in history, even before Marx and Engel, have slaimed to be exactly that, even the most regent ones.” Again I ask where? Never once in written hisory has there ever been an “industrial republic of labor” established. The “industrial republic of labor” is the socialist theory of government under socialism, based on industry and not on geographical boundaries as the political state, Like many others, Mr. Schneider is trying to argue about something he doesn’t understand.
‘Disorder in Government’ By Miss Regina Peller, 634 E. Kessler Bivd.
1 suggest -a complete housecieaning in our state government. There are, at present, many overlapping offices and officers in the set-up of our government, causing only friction and disorder. The jobs which can be handled easily by one office are (in many cases) distributed among two or three offices, and this results in incompetency rather than co-operation. The many unnecessary offices in our state government are costing the people of Indiana thousands of dollars yearly in taxation. It is the money paid by the citizens of the state, and they should ‘see to it that their money is used wisely instead of being a means of rivalry among the offices working for the same cause, Secondly; I suggest that something be done about the tremendous amount of negligence in the enforcement of our laws. Many of the holdups, burglaries, and molestings would stop if our laws were propertly enforced and our police force were more alert, I also believe that during 1950 our government should take some definite steps towards helping the aged, the mentally ill,.and the physically ill. General Hospital, one of the problems would he solved, for the near future at least, It is unfair to the citizens of Indiana to have so many ‘mentally ill" people running loose because there is Inadequate hospitalization for them.
AVIATION . . « By Max B. Cook.
phere Radar rick
THE T0sp defensive radar screen fs preparing to operate high in the stratosphere, invading enemy bombers. Augmenting the ground radar stations which cannot “see” over the “optical horizon,” high-flying aircraft will cover the blind zone many hundreds of mile beyond ‘the grou ~One-of--the-Navy's-topge=- a
cret research projects for sev-
on a, par with any high- fying
tack is a question, It is a question deeply troubling many That agreément restored the who are familiar with the pre- controls over - transportation carious position of the Western = existing in December of 1947 Sector of the city” and, the . and January of 48, Americans, British and French <a * % @ who are there presumably to UNDER those regulations
see that this bastion is held. » ~ ”
BERLIN could be another China; That may seem a fantastic exaggeration when the twh areas are compared in terms of geography and popylation. . But in Furope, Berlin has taken on such meaning as a symbol of Western intentions
"that its loss. wapld shake the
continent and its effect in Western Germany could not be calculated. Information = reaching me from knowledgeable sources in Berlin indicates that the Western Allies are drifting with no very clear notion of how the challenge is to be met.
. This is reflected in a growing
. render
nervousness and tension in
the German population. = .s PART of the uncertainty comes out of the American blunder in ordering the sje ure of the Railway Admin Stration Bullding. “Then” when the Russians seémed to threaten to reimpose thé blockade, the order was given to surthe building. That created a wave ‘ of doubt throughout Western Germany.
“Actually, * of course, the
origin of the trouble is much
: Seeper than this Celt. It
ment minis. of 1940
the Russians can require bills of lading on each truck load leaving the city. Endless delays are possible while the bilis of lading -are checked against the goods on the truck. Thus an effective blockade can he imposed within the limits of the law. The uncertainties of American policy have produced a skepticism whieh one West
Vv German businessman summed
up -as follows: . “The Americans give in now when the Russians. make
trouble. 1f°I send raw materials to Berlin, how sure am I that
1 will get my goods back if.
the trucks are stopped? The Americans can pull out and where then is my investment? The risk is too great.” » = ” MORE American dollars are now being poured into Berlin. There have been enough Russian violations” to justify reimposing the counterblockade which would really hurt the Soviet Zore. : Some Americans believe the - time has come for just such a ‘bold step. They go even . ‘ther and say that a reviv
airlift should be used not alone . to feed Western Berliners but .
to fly in ‘raw materials and to" fly “out: processe goods,” thereby helping. to restore the city's vitality, - - \ This would, of course, lot hil oney., THe | :
airli#t cost $265 million for 15 months,
t 5 ~ » »
HERE one come up against
the policy of curtailment and economy in Washington. The logic-of that policy comes out of the prospect . of another $5 billion ‘deficit for the fis-
~ cal year 1951. It is also di-
rectly related to the present determination apparent both in Congress and in the country to keep things on a business-
_as-usuai level with each group
in: the population determined against” any ‘sacrifice of any’ part of its interest. « This puts the men who make yd
any
The net result is drift, and the American people should know that drift can lead straight to catastrophe. ®°n »
THE complete communiza-
tion of the Soviet Zone is mov- |
ing forward on a calculated fime table with periodic stepups.” The so-called Folk Police in the East Zone are training with ‘armed Rusd#ian units. In the non-Communist politi-
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cal parties that remain, all.
opposition elements are being ruthlessly and systematically
“eliminated. If worse comes to the worst, :
-eral years, the plan was re-
vealed in the announcement of existence of a new flying laboratory to test airborne early warning equipment,
LI I J INITIAL development of ‘high-powered, far-seeing -air- - borne radar came as a vital necessity for Naval aircraft carrier task forces, If attacking enemy aerial or surface formations could be detected hundreds of miles away, intercepting, planes would get into the air and fight the enemy off long before it. could reach a point. of "attack. Wartimé surface ra“dar could - detect the enemy
<only 50 to 100 miles away,
. Bo the Navy began equipping high-flying twin-engined _P2V bombers with new- -type radar and other electronic devices.
s 8 ® ADVANCED electronic systems for" faster- detection -of enemy air and surface forces have been perfected, the Navy says. And they have been installed for. further testing and
“proving in the new flying lab-
oratory, a specially designed Lockheed Constellation, called the PO-1W. A second similar
: plare has been ordered.
The new laboratory has a range of 5000 miles, can fly at 350 miles per hour and can remain aloft for long periods “on patrol Missions. =
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- everybody,
invaders, Interceptor fighters
By the addition of a new wing to .
then would be sent up to ate -
tack, far from industrial; strategic or. heavily Populated targets, Results of the tests will be made available to the U, S.
Air Force which alse is test-
ing its own equipped
new radarreconnaissance bomber. This is a new type of B-50 "which has been equipped with the most modern and. Mcient aerial photographic and weather reconnaissance laboratory available.
” LJ ” COUPLED with powerful radar, the new Superforts will
- ‘be’ able to sight the enemy
from afar while flying 40,000 feet up, photograph enemy targets and hit 400 miles per hour on returning to base, Four camera stations with nine mounts, a push-button of operating all equip-
system > ment and a refueling device to
allow longer range by taking on gas in _ flight are provided. Night pictures can be taker by dropping flash bombs. Vital weather reports to .ald pro-
posed bomber . flights can be
radioed back,
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