Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1950 — Page 14

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The Difference

LTHOUGH now in its second month, the Chrysler automobile strike attracts comparatively little national attention. gs

Few big headlines. Hardly any editorial comment. No loud demands for government intervention to stop it. Why?

It is costly to. Chrysler and its employees, dealers and suppliers. How costly so far is indicated by estimates reported from Detroit by the United Press. ie : Wages lost by Chrysler employees, about $28 million. Wages lost by idled workers in supplier plants, about $12.5 million. : by Chrysler,

Production lost over 163,000 cars and {rucks } Sales lost by Chrysler, over $230 million, on which net profits would have been more than $11 million, Sales lost: by supplier firms, $92 million. n n ” " » ~

AND, of course, this or any big strike is costly to the whole country. The national economy is losing new wealth that can't be created while Chrysler's plants are clased. Government is losing tax revenue. Business and employ: ment suffer in Detroit and many other cities.

national disaster. many people badly: ruin everybody. —H—-wottldn't —¢ven—if new —autos—and trucks—were—as— essential as coal. For other companies—one bigger than Chrysler; another almost as big, and several smaller ones are continuing to produce cars and trucks. The coal strike, on the other hand, is industry wide. It has closed down almost all the coal mines. It has stopped almost all production of a vital, basic commodity. ” » ~ ” ” ” COSTLY as it is, the Chrysler strike can be tolerated. The American people and their government can afford to have Chrysler production stopped by a showdown test of strength between labor and management. --But-the-eoal-strike-is- intolerable; —The people and-their-government cannot afford to let an entire industry, producing coal or any other vital commodity or service, stay

If it lasted many months it would hurt It might ruin some. But it wouldn't

closed by a union holding monopoly control of the labor in

that industry. There is a vast difference between a Chrys!or strike and a coal strike—between a strike against one unit in an industry and a strike against a whole industry. More and more of the people are seeing that difference clearly. Their government will have to recognize it.

How Can We Win?

Now that the United States and Britain have recognized the French-sponsored Bao Dai ‘regime in Indo-China, French military circles are asking for a common Western policy in the Far East, as well as immediate military aid. “A list of the equipment wanted, including light tanks, jeeps, reconnaissance cars and small-arms ammunition, has been given to our government, with an additional request for a $100 million economic-rehabilitation loan. Since we are here being asked to buy into a war, it will be-well to get all the facts on the table. We ought to know what we're getting into. and just what chance. if any, we have to win. From this distance, the chance looks dim. . . ~ ” ” » o . THE French, having had an army of 160,000 men in the field for three years, have inflicted no serious injury on Ho Chi-minh’s Communist forces. Now, according to a Paris report to the New York Times, “an effective blockade of Communist China” is regarded as one of the essentials if victory is to be achieved. = ..- “The idea of a blockade of Communist China can. be discarded, now ‘that the British court in Hong Kong has awarded the Red government at Peking 70 transport and passenger planes which Maj. Gen, Chennault had purchased from the Chinese Nationalists. That decision probably

; —¥relly the al SVS "ax" wer a8 Killing any prospect

y ~ ” : . ” » . ~8OME heads should be examined in the State Departs ment and the British Foreign Office. Britain recognized the Chinese Reds, and now has given them the planes they need -to.continue theircampaign-of Aggression... The United States has recognized the Bao Dai forces in Indo-China, and now is asked to put up the money and the arms to defeat the forces of Ho Chi-minh, which-are

. ®aid to have the active support of the Chinese Reds. Rus-

sia, of course, is backing both Red forces How can the West hope to win under this kind of leadership?

60 Years of Progress

N. considering the future course of Indianapolis’ development, it is well to look at the past occasionally as a basis for guidance in civic betterment. An: occasion of this reflection for the tasks that lie ahead will be the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's observance of its 60th anniversary on Mar, 16. - The organization will trace the tremendous growth of Indianapolis’ business, cultural and educational institutions under the system of free enterprise as living testimonials against forces eempiag, to destroy or undermine these freedoms.

INDIANAPOLIS has progréssed a long: way in 60 vears. And the forces back of the advancements originated

deeply in the incentives of freedom. loving people to better themselves.

The Chamber’ of Commerce has pledged to “rededicate

“itself to the continued building-of a greater city in which to

Jive, work and do business” by strengthening the fabric of free enterprise. .. « “Many other Indianapolis orgaplzations representing people in all walks of life, also have been lending practical support to these ideals of progress. So long as free men ~ continue to work together for common goals of civic better- ’ ‘ment, Tndiasiapois will, fontigue its pr ressive pace. . 3

The Indianapolis Times :

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College,

. Senators

SFEPC

Price Feoeran

Wabash Professor Says U. S. Must Have Free Market

WASHINGTON, Feb, 25-

DEAR ROSS: ‘es By Dan Kidney ree

Dear Boss unions were not the only economic group which

came in. for castigation when Dr.

BicKIe, pralessor

tee on the Robertson Bill,

The American farm bloc also is a conibing tion preventing a free price market which he considers essential to the maintenance of the U. 8. capitalistic system, the professor said. Hke the TaftHartley law, Dr. Van Sickle does not consider that unions laws from which they now are specifically exempt, Van Bickle would limit their collective bargaining area to states and give the states Thus . the CIO-UAW could bargain with General Motors on a statewide basis to which this giant would not be

The Robertson bill, which,

antiunion placed

enough, provides under the antitrust

- Dr. jurisdiction

over them.

confined at all.

But Dr. Van Sickle indicated he believes that big business is tame and harmless now, so far as any exploitation of the workers is concerned. It is labor and the farmers which are the menace today, he said. His testimony was sponsored by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce,

Duty of Consumer

“But since the consumers will not take all the output that can be produced at these prices, the output of the efficient farmers and the output have to be reduced by acreage

of the fertile soils

’

THE Wabash economic professor the commitieemen—that-—leaders—of —the—American—— farm bloc have successfully insisted that it is the duty of the American consumer to pay prices that will enable a host of “small, inefficient "farmers on marginal tands to earn a decent living.” : “These prices encourage the large efficient —farmers operating on ferthe—sots to push pro=—— duction,” he explained, in defense of his point.

Labor

John V. Van

of economics from Wabasn i testified before the Senate Bubcommit-

told

Som

allotments and penalties of various sorts.

“Tens

out by the U. §

“OUR public

marginal

the farm problem,

tions, defraud the consumer. and scare equity capital into hiding because of uncertainty garding the future level of taxes.” Pr.

rea sina

—HAsTRTEsut of 35 years of teaching and of talking with people in all walks of life, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that neither the rank and file of the people, here or anywhere majority of the will voiintarily accept the directives of the free prices of the private these directives run - counter to their immediate interests:

else, nor the vast special interest groups,

enterprise system, when

Rigged Prices

“THEY

faith that evervone,

whatever

“This mental blindness and spiritual insensitivity cannot do much harm as long as the leaders of special interest groups lack power, This is why the diffusion of power, that competitive private enterprise automatically guaran-

of thousands of competent men have to be diverted from productive labor and sent Department of Agriculture to police this extraordinarily wasteful method of -dealing-with-a-real-social-problem

Need Public Aid

farmers need and assistance, But the assistance should be of the sort that will finally cure the trouble, and hence end the need for special assistance. “Instead the vast resources. at the disposal of the federal government are used ta perpetuate complicate our foreign rela-

Van Sickle took a dim view of anything really being done about all this and gave his

will devise rationalizations, or wishful theories, to prove that the price mechanism should be set aside or rigged in their favor. “They lack both the training that would permit them to foresee the undesirable secondary effects of manipulating prices. and the inclination to concern themselves with these secondary effects, in so far as they involve other groups. It is much easier to hold fast to the comfortable helps my group helps

deserve

re-

rathe I

real.

COLD WAR

heid—the key tothe =situa=

Japan, and have been able to write our own

— ticket,

China.

tees, is essential to the realization of the demo-

cratic principle of equality before the law,

turn,

petitive private enterprise.

Or two,

is essential to the presetvation of comError banished from the world but it can be disarmed.” When the professor finished his economics “lecture there were no questions asked by the They hustled him off the stand to hear the other side from President William Green of the American Federation of Labor,

+ IT SEEMS TO ME

A friend is not one who will give you a dollar anywhere, any time, A real friend is one who will give you a nickel When all that he has is a dime. —Sue Allen, 18390 FE. Calhoun St.

cannot be

F. Brannan.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT ...By Marquis Childs

“WASHINGTON, “Feb. 2!

Democratic Blunder?

=~ the handling of the Fair Em=~ . ployment Practices tssue the Democratic teadership ax provided —— an example of remarkable ineptitude. The net result was an em-

barrassment to Democratic members of the House in a hill that has little relation either-to reasonable compromise or a strict en-

forcement measure. From the beginning it has been perfectly obvious-that an

and penalty provisions could not be passed, “If nothing else," a filibuster in the Senate would block it. the Republicans having joined with southern Dem-ocrata—to-—make it far-more difficult to close debate.

” n » BUT it was also obvious that a large measure of support could be marshalled be-

, hind a fair employment law

that would make a start at education and ‘persuasion. Many Southern legislators were prepared to accept such a bill. They represent a shifting ‘opinion in the South-—outside, of course, of the deep and irreconcilable

South— which recognizes the inevitability of change and the need to prepare for it. A rompromise measure such as that of Rep. Brooks Hays

of Arkansas; calling for inves- - tigation of discrimination in employment, coupled with education of employers and public,

would ‘have meant a good start. It would have afforded

a test in both North and South of intentions and capabilities, supplementing the experiment of state FEP commissions which have now accumulated a

fair amount of Bi rience. SUCH a Tompromise eould have been accepted on a {rank-

ly limited basis, Even the most passionate .proponents ‘of FEPC could have accepted a test for a period of two or three years. They are not. likely to get as much in that time if

they persist in an all-or- noth-

ing atfitude. Then, too, honest advocates

vl i. a

bill “with compulsory

of equality of opportunity in

the North had come to doubt

the wisdom of a federal law providing punishment for violators.” They realized that

such a law could be uséd in the South to inflame latent feeling

.against minorities.

_the disabled

Beth the Demoeratie leadership and the proponents of an all-out FEPC law seemed to abandon any hope of keeping a substitute measure In bounds. This was on the theory that whatever bill was sent

" to the Senate would be certain

to be amended before final passage. ~ ” . THE substitute. originally introduced by Rep. Samuel K. McConnell Jr., Republican of Pennsylvania, became in consequence something of a monstrosity. Amendments were slapped on in the confusion of the late-night session providing that women should not be discriminated against- and that should be protected from unfair employment practices. These amendments were mostly the

what they were doing. The Hays bill, if it bad been given a chance by the leader-

. ship, would have won the votes

of a fair number of Southern Democrats, Moreover. President Truman. had indicated that he would sign it if it came to his desk in anything like its original form n y

IT is tard to deterniine who

: is responsible for the present

mess. But a great deal of the

, blame must rest on the diehard

work, of. Southérners who knew exactly -

proponents of an all-or-nothing

bill. i.

They can’ again use the Fair

But the time is approaching when some vital decisions must be made and then we may find that our position there is just as difficult on the long pull as is our present precarious predicament in Germany. - Our problems in the two countries are basically the same, except for the troublesome unity issue in divided Germany. In 1948, the United States adopted a policy of forbidding the export of many materials to the Soviet Union and its satellite states so as not to increase their war potential. . Now West Germany wants to sell steel and steel products to East Germany and the Balkan states, and Japan wants to sell steel to Red

What Others Say

THE present

(price)

Secretary Charles

UNDER conflicting laws, rival federal agencies compete for taxpayer money in what often appears to be premature and unsound river development projects, surveys and bidding against each other for local support at national expense.—Former Gov. Leslie Miller of Wyoming.

duplicating each other's

-support system—in- .. volving government purchases and loans and nolding farm products off the market-—forces consumers to pay a “double” price; one in taxes to support the program and another in higher food - prices.—Agriculture

4 BN ry

Harry's Problem Children

7 COAL Yessir]

By Parker La Moore

AMERICAN policy is stalled on dead-end streets in Germany and Japan because the State § trade practices in use, Department has been unable to relate our position” in_efther place to the realities of the cold war with Russia. We are being pulled in opposite directions by ‘the conflicting demands of recovery and security, and when we compromise with one need we undermine the other. These compromises threaten our ultimate defeat in both places, An American failure in Germany probably would mean that, Russia would take over there, and in the rest of Western Europe, as well China, than Japan; tHon—in—Asia:—But--the—toss-of -Japan; following — the loss of China, would leave Russia virtually unchallenged on the Asiatic side of the Pacific.

Moving to Showdown

EVENTS appears to be moving toward a showdown in Germany much more quickly than in Japan, but that may be more apparent than We have had the show to ourselves in

What both are asking iz a resumption of before the war, when Kast and West Germany were one, and when China was Japan's best customer for many com-

modities.

Present trade restrictions forbid export of . ‘mining machinery, cellulose and artificial rubber, as well as basic iron and steel, to East Germany .and other Russian satellite areas. The German problem is acute, because the unemployed in West Germany now number 2 million, a figure that promises to increase unless trade is given more latitude. Communist politicans_in East Germany. are . making the most of this situation,

Orders for Steel

BEFORE China fell to the Communists, the

Nationalist government had contracted with Ruhr manufacturers for a large order of. steel rails for the rehabilitation of China's transport system. That order has been Terewed by the

Red regime at Peking.

‘The political aspects of the matter are complicated by the probability that if the Ruhr isn't allowed to supply this order the Chinese Reds can get the rails from the British. This shows the hig hole in the economic weapon we are trying to use, when it is considered that Marshall Plan money may be used to finance the

British productive operation.

Meanwhile, we are spending American taxpayers’ money feeding the Germans. Herr Handke, East Germany's minister of trade, was in Moscow while Mao Tse-tung, leader of Red China, was carrying on his negotiations with Stalin. Side negotiations held between Mao and Handke took into account the export possibilitiesvof West German enterprises. Now - prospective business with Red China is being used as bait to draw that area away from West-

ern influences.

Now Under Reds

EXACTLY the same situation is coming to a head in Japan, which also has an unemploy-

ment problem.

Japan formerly looked to Manchuria, China proper, Korea and Formosa for much of its faw materials as well as its food. In exchange, it sold those areas manufactured goods. Today all of those areas except Formosa and half of

Korea are under Red control.

Most of the things they need could be used in war, and Red China presumably will be used to spearhead the Communist attack on the rest of the dilemma confronting

Asia. That poses American policy makers.

Trying It Out for Size

Employment issue in the elections this fall... However, as

one session of Congress after

another fails to produce any

legislation; the result may be disillusion and disgust rather than votes. The only real bene-

ficiary - Js" Rep. Vito Marcantonio of the fellow-traveling

Labor Party whose aim is to. ~discredit both major parties, .

The McConne!l substitute put

-adnifnistrative Democrats on a

bad spot. If they voted against it, then they were in the post

tion of opposing the only bill

that had a change of passage.

But since it was a Republican-

sponsored measure, they cdbuld not take very much credit to themselves with it. : One thing. clearly. demonstrated in the Ho se ie that FEPC has becotne sordid football to be kicked back and forth between the two parties. The ineptitude of the Democrats made “it possi: ble for the ‘Republicans to grab

_ the ball and run Jor a touchdown. Hie

for. Roing along

a rather

Bes Hoosier Forum

- do not agree "with a word that you say, bub | - will defend to the death your ww to , say Ho

“a.

‘Socialized Medicine’ a By W. A. Sebastian, Columbus, Ind. | The article in the Forum by A. H. Seyfriea entitled “Don’t Fence Doctors In” stated two of his children became ill last summer with symptoms indicating polio and it was necessary to call a strange doctor as the regular family doctor was vacationing. The--strange — doctor promptly responded and prescribed for the children and called back in four hours to inquire how they were getting along.

Mr. Seyfried asks- the question; “Can soclalized medicine duplicate such sterling service

as we received from our family physician?”

Judging from the statement of Mr. Seyfried, his family received no -services whatsoever from the regular family doctor. Socialized medicine can certainly duplicate or exceed service

drugs,

reatity

I've received from doctors. sence last year, my wife became {ll with symptoms indicating pneumonia. It was necessary for our small daughter to go to the home of a neighbor and call a doctor. The child was un- , able to contact the regular family physician ~ and ‘she call¢d another The strange doctor asked If ‘another physiclan had been called and being informed in the affirmative, he told the child that he might come. This doctor did not come and after an _ elapse of 24 hours the family physician responded and diagnosed the illness as virus pneumonia. The doctor traveled one mile and spent five minutes with the patient. His fee was $4 plus—a prescription —that—cost $23. Since the yearly. income of my family is about $2000 i: can readily be seen such expensive medical attention is beyond the means of this family, Unless there is a genefal downward trend in fees charged by it is my firm conviction socialized medicine is the only solution and it will become a regandtess of the propaganda put out by the medicos and Mr. Seyfried.

During my ab-

Hector.

doctors and the expense of

‘Reckless Fliers. Fined’ By C. F. Cornish, Director,

Aeronautics Commission of Indiana

A letter entitled

“Some Fliers Reckless” hy

Elsie Rayburn appeared in the Hoosier Forum

recently. others, activities

Apparently fs not familiar with

the author, like many

law enforcement

in Indiana with respect to reckless —aircraft operation. Indiana has all -thelaw—it—§needs to use in apprehending and convicting reckless pilots of aircrafts. It-is-unlawful for any person to operate an, aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another. The law applies to acrobatic or unnecessary low

flying over thickly inhabited areas. It prohibits

flying while under the influence of liquors or narcotics and any person found ‘o be in violation of this law is subject to a fine of not more

than $250 or imprisonment of not more than six

months or both, Enforcement of our reckless flying law during the last few years has been accomplished mostly by Indiana State Police officers. During 1048 for-instances; -there-were eight convictions -with-fines-ranging-from-$1-and-cost-to-$250-and costs. In 1949, five convictions with fines rang$1 and cost to $100 and cost were .

ing fro recorded.

operation is rapidly diminishing in Indiana. This in part is . ‘responsible for a 64 per cent reduction in fatal aircraft accidents in Indiana during 1949 as compared to 1947."

One of the most common hindrances to law

the underneath side of the left wing of the air-

plane, He should make a note of these numlsers as well as the day and exact time the incident occurred and if possible observe any special markings, color, number of engines, etc., then report this information to the Indiana State Police. Airport officials, l3w enforcement agencies and government aeronautical agencies are most willing to co-operate with the public in every way possible to eliminate incidents of reckless aircraft operation.

and

‘Bigots in Medicine’

By a Reader *

1 have been reading ‘a lot lately about the

drive for funds to cure heart disease. If it isn't one fund, it is another.

And it occurs to me that

all the money in the world is not going to rid us

of the bigots who are in the medical profession. Did you ever notice that it takes a glib tongue to get to be a “high up” in anything, be it medicine, politics or salesmanship? And there's another saying that is often true of glib tongues,

“Shallow water makes the most noise.”

to be found

Our greatest doctors are not always the ones who sit on top of the heap. They are usually in a quiet; but busy, “just around the corner.”

little office They are too busy

to get their names in the paper.

FARM SURPLUS ces By Earl Richert

Too Much Butter

“WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— ‘Another “tough gir 1s coming ture D#

—to-the—fore- nthe—Agricut ‘the, surplus butter?

partment. What to do with all |

So far, potatoes and dried eggs have hogged the spotlight. But butter isn’t going to be left out much longer. The butter problem, like many others, started as somethiflg

which Agriculture Department officials didn’t amount to much. When the Department began buying butter last spring to maintain butterfat prices of abgut' 60 cents a pound to dairy farmers, agriculture officials confidently predicted that purchases would be small. - » » - BUT the butter poured in all year. The Department bought about 114 million pounds at ‘a cost of nearly, $70 million (an amount ef§ual to the cost of running the entire legislative branch of the government for one year). At the time the Department was buying several million pounds a week to hold up prices, officials said optimistically that at least half would be sold into commercial channels during the slack winter production Jnonths.

ITs now only. a little more than a month until. the ‘big milk production season starts again, and the government still has 82 million, pounds of butter in cold storage. Of the total 1949 purchases of 114 million pounds, 12 million pounds were sold at cost, plus handling and storage charges. Twenty million pounds were sold at cost, plus handling 4nd storage charges.

- "Twenty million pounds ~were

given to the, school -lunch program. : Department officials are

hoping that ariother 10 to 20. million pounds may be sold - before the big production season begins,

EVEN

a0 "” .

if these estimates

prove . accurate, the gover:

think would

keeps: only from six

ment. will _have.more than 60 million pounds of 1949 butter . on hand when it has to start buying again.” And cold storage to 18 months. -- Agriculture officials say they don’t know what will be done

to dispose of this butter before

it spoils. It can be offered bree to

. welfare Institutions and to the

Bureau of Indian Affairs. But it's difficult to dispose of an amount as’large as 60 million pounds through domestic relief agencies. . 2»

BRITAIN is not a pros-

pective purchaser because she - ‘buys large quantities of butter .

from Denmark and Holland.

If the U. 8. would sell butter

to the- British, it would only take away vital markets from

those small European nations. ¢

Department officials see almost no prospect for disposing

of any of the butter through

exports. Smaller, but comparable to butter, is the Cheddar cheese problem, The. goveument

“bought 25 million pounds at a

cost? of nearly 32 cents a

‘pound last year to help hold

up milk prices. And it has sold,

at no loss, only a little more. . than 2)5 million pounds to the _ commercial trade. ~

government’ also has

THE, 169. million pounds: of dried

skim milk left from the 325

_miNidn pounds it bought last year, at an average cost of 12

ents a pond» "vs

butter

enforcement in aviation, or other matters, is — F the reluctance on the part of the witnesses to co-opérate with law enforcement agencies in prosecuting the case by signing a complaint against the alleged violator. A person witnessing an incident of low flying should be able to read the large registration numbers which appear on

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