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Rive Yah ‘ana the People Wi Pina The Now Was
Farm Monop oly
resembling those of some labor unions.
Farming is highly competitive with all other means of making a living. Since the war it's had a big boost from the government, and guaranteed prices are encouraging ‘a constant increase of farm production. Under the present program, the government can limit the amount of price-
supported SOPs that can be produced.
EFFECT of this, we think, is to put an arbitrary and inflated price on farms, based on the size of the pay crop that can be grown on them. Thus, under government control, - the simple right to grow a certain number of acres becomes in itself a valuable and monopolistic asset. : For example, a farmer wants to buy 80 acres in North Carolina. The government says. he can grow tobacco on only 10 acres. But, with the crop price guaranteed, he may have to pay $200 an acre for the tobacco ground and
~ only $100 an aore for the remaining 70.
IF THIS system is extended to other commodities, as the Brannan plan envisions, it will have the effect of giving a still greater monopoly to the farmers now in business, protecting them from competition and putting
artificial prices on théir Tand.
But the young men wanting to go into farming as a life work, or others desiring to buy farms, will have to..pay huge premiums to the present owners. premium is based, of course, on the fact that government guarantees out of the taxpayers’ pocket determine the
value of the land. :
“It's sorely remindful of the stiff ‘initiation fees that workers must pay to get into some unions Which have :
“monopolies in their fields.
Tom, Meet Jimmy
IMMY LEWIS, 14-year-old pupil the 4 eighth grade of “Van Buren school at St. Paul, Minn., has joined a small
and distinguished company.
He and half a dozen of his school pals eaptuted an
escaped murderer,
They smoked him out by stuffing snow down the stove- - pipe -he had installed in the cave, in a “Mississippi River bluff, where he was hiding. They got a good look at him. Sure enough, he was the fugitive whose picture Jimmy had"
_ Spotted in a newspaper.
So the boys notified the police. And so William Nesbit, described by the FBI as one of the most dangerous crimis nals alive, is going back to the South Dakota penitentiary from which he escaped more than three yan ugo:
SOMETHING of the same sort happened in another cave, in another Mississippi bluff, a long way down the big river and a long, long time ago. If it happened only in Mark Twain's imagination, still several generations of American boys have found it an adventure as thrillingly real as the one which “has brought fame to Jimmy Lewis and his CRUE, To be sure, Tom Sawyer never would have taken Becky Thatcher to explore that cave near Hannibal, Mo., if he'd known murderous Injun Joe was hiding there. And to be sure, Injun Joe wasn't captured alive. He died of thirst and hynger after Tom and Becky escaped, and before Tom and Huck Finn learned that the townspeople-had blocked up the caye's entrance to prevent other children from venturing in
. and getting lost.
erpusly rewarded.
= 1f memory serves; the “treasure-horde found-i in Sry : Joe's cave was more than $12,000. Anyway, it made Tom and Huck the richest boys in their part of the country. But news accounts from St. Paul say the reward which pibably will be split six or seven ways by Jimmy Lewis and | hig bold companions is only $100. If the great state of Sauth- Dakota can't afford to do better than that, maybe sgme among Tom Sawyer 8 legion of friends will be inspired .
to, i in,
Wrong Remedy
N. EDWIN C
tributors and the films.
. Persons convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude, orivho admitted acts “constituting the essential elements”
“ofisuch crimes, would be denied licenses.
Films “tending” to promote -crimes and juvenile delinquency also would be denied licenses. They would be barred
from shipment across state lines.
There's a great deal to be said for the movie- industry's Somtestion, that films should be judged by their contents, at. by the private lives of the persons who make them. It opt be admitted, however, that the publicly paraded privale affairs of some persons who make movies has an influence on young and impressionable people that cannot be
dederibed as Wholesome or uplifting.
: i BUT the remedy, in our opinion, is not federal licensing —a dangerous proposal of doubtful constitutionality. ‘ : Part of the remedy can be applied by the movie industry, through the making of ‘better filnis and through disciplines rather than rewards for actors, actresses, directors,
producers and distributors who transgress.
And the industry, now asking the U. S. Supreme Court to outlaw state’ and local censorships, had better give
thought to its Tesponsibility if it wishes to head off federal
controls.
2 The other part of the remedy can be applied by decent American Buoble; ts Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) points cAse goes to trial in September
Tene is ‘one DO aspect of the farm program ~~ -which the Brannan plan would be more likely to-extend - orobBA0-diminish. tis. the-tendency-under. “price. supports to set up new monopolies in the American economic scene
IT MAY be, “then, that SE Tews teserves more “erpdit for intentional heroism than Tom Sawyer did. It ! - would be pleasant to record that he will be at least as gen-
—=-ditional-reorganization Tega" tion. be completed before the. end oid (D. Colo. ) wants Congress to + impose a strict federal licensing system on the movie indugtry—on the actors and actresses, the producers, the dis-
The Indianapolis Times {2 ron Relosale
“Irk Mine Union"
Lewis’ Offers of Help * Cold-Shouldered by CIO
WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—The United Mine -
Workers Union is peeved because of the way two big CIO unions have cold-shouldered its offers of loans and other assistance. -
The United Auto Workers recently turned 7
down John L. Lewis’ offer of a $1 million loan
_ for use in the strike against the Chrysler Corp.,
and in forthcoming dealings with the General Motors Corp.
Later, the United Steelworkers rejected a Lewis offer to enter into a “mutual pact” to.
operate in future industrial conflicts. The United Mine Workers Jowrral, the union’s weekly publication, said “these generous and far-reaching proposals were cold-shouldered
by the CIO leadership of steel and autos in a -
~manner somewhat similar-to the treatment a
Corded by the AFL.{0.a. Minn OThera Hike. gestion last fall.”
Lewis Suggestion
THAT suggestion, also made by Mr. Lewis, called for nine other big AFL unions to join with the Mine Workers in subscribing about $2.5 million to help the steel union in its strike against the U. 8. Steel Corp. The AFL's response, the miners’ weekly says, “was a quibble to the effect that the steelmakers had not yet formally asked for funds.” This time, the Journal continued, “the first rejection slip came from Walter P. Reuther, who, when not beating®his breast over the airwaves in behalf of some Utopian scheme or other, functions as president of the Auto Workers, Reuther said, in effect, that it would be nice to have the money but he didn't want it as a loan; he would accept only an outright gift.
Fancy Phrases
“THE Reuther letter contained some fancy phrases about ‘maximum solidarity and working unity in labor ranks’ which he had evidently picked up while idling away a few hours in the public library. Anyway, he said no.” The miners’ weekly also poked at Philip Murray, implying that he, as president of the CIO, has little if anything to do with formulating CIO policies. Mr. Murray formerly was vice president of the Mine Workers and succeeded
to the CIO presidency when Mr. Lewis resigned. °
The Journal said: “With the Reuther letter having set the CIO policy on this matter, there came next a communication in similar vein from Philip Murray, president of the United Steelworkers, who reported that it is the view of the steelworkers’' executive board that no
useful purpose would be sefved by making such
an arrangement of mutual aid as proposed by the miners’ union.”
‘Great State of Calm’
THE miners’ weekly also was angry be- ~~ cause the AFL's news clipsheet no more than mentioned the mine workers’ new contract con-
taining wage gains, ‘The AFL publication, the miners’ paper said, “flew into a great state of calm and gave the outstanding miners’ union story a four-and-a-half inch item just as though it concerned some local union report of a victory in an NLRB election.”
AFL and CIO.spokesmen say these remarks —
are further evidence that chances of Mr. Lewis ever heading up a unified American labor move-
ment are very dim and getting dimmer.
PROBLEMS OF THE NATION
What's the matter with the nation? Some say we lack co-operation. I was told once upon a time,
That perhaps someone would write a rhyme,
That would help solve the situation .~And the problems of the nation. Thinking of it, it seems to me, It’s as easy as A, B, C. If- God's guidance would be taken, And He considered by the nation. God would meet this need each day by day. No matter what the world may say. If everyone would do his best, There would be no troubles on his chest. I've done my best to write this rhyme, To be a help to the world sometime, To solve the problems of the nation,
Pearl Benbow Aaron, New Castle, Ind.
THE APPLE TREE
The apple tree quickly sheds its leaves, All except a very few. Changed from green to autumn brown, They ‘dance the Winter through. No lear can dance: half so well As the leaf of the apple tree, Though securely attached upon the branch They seem both wild and free. When cold winds blow they whirl and whirl In a dervish dance of glee. : The others trees look on in naked shame At the leaf of the apple tree, ~Lois Machian, 2122 College Ave.
POSTAL REFORMS +. By Peter Edson
Cutting Mail Deficit
eb uring Mar, 21— —Postmaster General Jesse M., naldson’s efforts to put the U. 8, Post Office Department on a . business basis are at last beginning to pay off, the department in line with Hoover Comjection from Congress will take effect when
their data before the trial be- es “gins 8o'the proceédings should
- Reorganization of mission recommendations got by without ob last year. Major administrative changes the new fiscal year begins next July 1 if Congress passes ad-
of 1950. THE House has patio a bill
which “will. increase all but first-class mail rates. If ap- the railroads proved by the Senate, this will reduce the Post Office Department's annual deficit of $550 million by about $130 million & year and bring it a little closer to paying its own Way as it goes. Finally, the Interstate Commerce Commission has Just
way terminals.
wo Lt 8-all- use more consideration: =o
8 > THERE is no doubt about getting some-thing--mere.—There-—has been no increase in mail pay rates for 25 years. In the interval, the character and volume of the mail have changed, labor costs. have increased and so have. operating costs in rail. But what the railroads will be paid in the
pete ppp pent
JOBS AND PRODUCTION
.-. ‘By Marquis Childs
Creeping Unemployment Forecast
~ WASHINGTON, Mar, 21-The economic
‘prophets have so often been confounded in this
‘strange post-war éra that the level of public
belief is pretty low. It began with the economic”
prognosticators who predicted while the war was still on that there would be 8 million to 9 million unemployed within a few months after V-J Day. The latest figure—for February-—is 4.7 million. It is. expected to be considerably higher for this month. But that will not necessarily reflect any serious rise in the number of jobless. The March total will include many who were
made idle by the prolonged. coal strike.
“That is one weakness of the statistical method now used to arrive at the monthly figure. Another weakness is that it does not reflect partial employment. For the long pull, what most economists foresee is a steady creeping upward of the jobless figure. In this connection a significant speech made before a business group in Chicago by Leon. Keyserling, acting chairman of the President's Oouncil *6f Economic Advisérs, was too generally overlooked in the news.
High Production - - MR. KEYSERLING talked about this creeping unemployment in relation to the nation's levels of production. He pointed out that 1948 was the most productiivé year the nation has ever had. Much of the talk of the future has been in terms of trying to sustain that level. Yet, according to Mr. Keyserling, if that
“level is maintained; “there Will be 10" million to" 12 million unemployed by 1954. With this as a
springboard, he developed his favorite thesis that only by expanding the economy to provide many more jobs is there real hope of preventing this creeping blight. Mr. Keyserling assigned two main reasons for the steady upward climb of men and women out of work. One is the increasing rate of production per man hour. This makes it pos-
- sible to produce more and more goods with
fewer and fewer people. The chiefweason, of course, is the number of young people who each. year come into the labor market. What is happening to an in-
_ creasing degree is that these young people are
finding jobs. But they are pushing men of
- 45 or 50 out of work and these older men find
SIDE GLANCES
anded down a decision to try on its merits the U. 8. railroads’ request for what amounts to a 95 per cent increase in pay for carrying the mail. This is a reversal of a previous ICC stand on this case. It is also a great victory for the postmaster general, who has been fighting the railroads’ demand for more mail pay without hearing. .
+ THE postmaster general put his foot down and said “No! He demanded a cost study to Justify the railroads’ demand. The railroad presidents fought
- him on that, too, but he won
out. A survey of some 10,000 railway stations where mail fs handled was made and the results of that study are now being examined by the rail-
roads and the P. O. Depart.
ment.
When the railway mail pay before the ICC, it will be on studies.
future will be based on actual costs of operation, and not on guesswork. What the cost surveys are expected to reveal are where the railroads and the govern. ment are wasting money by in-
‘efficient operation. For In
stance, in the New York, Boston and other metropofitan areas, there is no sense in trucking mail to the railroad terminal, loading it on mail
cars, hauling it 10 or 20 miles
into the suburbs, unloading it,
trucking it to another: post
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“I don't like these new suits with the string-bean lines, either— but we'd probably run and buy one if we were still, single and slaves to :
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it all but impossible to get new jobs. Here is the hard core of unemployment that promises to grow under the rigidities of our industrial system. The jobless tigure for June or July is almost certain to go over 5 million, according to government economists. The ranks will be swollen
by huridreds of thousands of high school and col-
lege graduates. Some will be only temporarily unemployed, since they will-return to school in the fall.
Political Sidelights
THIS suggests, of course, some interesting “political sidelights. When the total passes the
5 million mark, there is bound to be an outcry. That will call to mind the dreary Thirties, when mass unemployment ranging up to 10 million had come almost to be taken for granted. The party in power will be belabored by the Republican - opposition. You can hear now how those speeches will sound—all this government spending, deficit spending, yet in spite of it 5 million out of work. It will be an effective form of political attack. But the expectation of the economists is that the figure will drop below the 5 million mark again late in September or October. This may serve to take off the immediate political heat in relation to the November elections. It will not, however, resolve the problem of creeping unemployment. Mr. Keyserling’s estimate is that at 1948 levels of productivity industry will fall short by 3 to 4 per cent a year
-of -providing-a-sufficient-number -of--jobs ~In~ ~~
1948 the average of unemployed to employed was 1.8 per cent. In 1949, when output was only about 1 per cent below the level of the previous year, unemployment was 3.5 per cent of employment.
1952 Issue
SHORT of a war, this will put the problem squarely into the 1952 campaign. By that time the level would be 6 million to 7 million for many of the older jobless, unemployment bene-
_ fits and savings would have long since been
exhausted. . They would constitute an articulate, not to say vociferous, minority pushing for drastic governmental remedies. That may seem aiong way off. But it is already a cloud on the horizon.
By Galbraith
want war.
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f r important positions and Important offices,
"placed Pérsons’ bill a
THE contradiction between the two methods in this cold war offensive—talking “peace” while starting more trouble—is not as erazy as it may seem. It is the familiar technique used by Hitler and perfected by Stalin
The dirtier the deed the louder the dictator shouts “peace.” That confuses the victims as to ".the dictator's next move, and also reassures his nervous people back home that he does not
THIS fastie- dade has not deceived the Allied governments. With the. backing ‘of . London and Paris; Secretary . "a > : of State Acheson in his Cali-
ified seven-point compliance by Russia with: the treaty and United Nations pledges she is now voilating as the way to ease world tension.
May I suggest that we Democrats nominate
d elect an outstanding educator for U, 8, : Senator? I am referring to Prof. C. C, Katter-
n, retired principal of the New Albany High oe and now trative director in the State Revenue Department in Indianapolis. Prof. Ka hn is a graduate of Indiana and of Columbia Universities and is well qualified to fill the important office of United States Senator. He has a keen mind and is capable of analyzing the difficult problems SosITomting this nation. He is in the very
fortes of our state. Often we see men with ‘much ens education and less ability pushing themselves to the front
put “Tam the big white hat chooses not to rum, our professor from southern Indiana will be willing to take up the responsibility as our candidate for Senator. This man is trained for thinking and that
“is what we need and .not a mere politician,
Let us show by our exampie in nominating Prof. Katterjohn that there is room for the students in our schools and colleges in govern ment and important positions. Let us not urge too strongly that Gov, Schricker enter this race. Let's not draft him. He has repeatedly stated that he wants to finish his term of office as Governor and then to retire to private life. Prof. Katterjohn would make a good candi. date. He is no spellbinder, but a sane, sensible man who would work to the interest of the party and to the interest of all the people, Labor, schoolmen, businessmen,’ farmers, church group# and the rank and file of the Hoosier voters can place confidence in Mr. Katterjohn.
" ‘Indians Here First’
By Judson Haggerty, Indianapolis If history is correct, the Indians were hers
‘in America first, and all the rest who came wers
immigrants. It must be true, then that America is a land of two classes: Indians and: immigants, “Sen. Jenner's blasts at the proposed Disdirected against what the Senator calls: “aifens” and “foreigners.” Even if Sen. Jenner's ancestors came over on the Mayflower the Senator is an immigrant too, and the only difference between him and those who now desire refuge here is a matter
-of time or luck. Sen. Jenner preaches equality when it comes
time for election powwows. Why doesn’t he practice it?
‘Moral Duty to Vote’ By Dan Bedell, regional PAC director, C10.
I wish to commend The Times for the edi~ torial entitled “Shirking Duty as Citizens.” It
‘carried a very important message as-to our
moral duty and obligation to register and vote, I believe a great public service could be rendered by The Times if it would carry on the front page every day a reminder of how many days remain before the closing of registration along with a statistical remark with each
publication as to the percentage of votes cast
in presidential years and non-presidential years and the percentage of votes cast in some of
the- foreign countries such as Britain, Ttaly and SH * Cuba. -
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THE (Labor) government . . . will go forward in the firm determination to carry the country through in this difficult period. Let us go through together. Our members are in very good heart.—British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, ¢ ¢ @ FURTHER negotiations with the Kremlin over international control of atomic energy, as proposed by Winston Churchill and Sen. (Brien) McMahon, are worse than useless.—Dr. Kenneth Colgrove, professor of political science at Northwestern University. ‘ : > > & THE idea seems increasingly prevalent in in-
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dustrial-and-financial circles-that our great neg
dustrial unions should: be attacked and crippled, .
one by one. This idea should be knocked in the head.—John L. Lewis. : * * & WE have to keep winning the Cold War, We are in a continuous race, not a sprint, Russia has to win only once and we're through. —Lieut.-Gen. Leslie Groves, retired former head of the U. 8. atomic energy program. > > OF course T feel that thé exisience of the He bomb — or the probability of the H-bomb — makes it all the more necessary that we come to some workable international agreement
‘which will guarantee that such things will not
be used.—Acting Chairman Sumner Pike of Atomic Energy Commission. -
COLD WAR... . By Ludwell Denny
Stalin’s Offensive
WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—Stalin has opened his spring offen sive in the cold war, Communists are provoking riots all the way from Italy and France in the West to Indo-China in the East. The bloodiest clash of all is being prepared for Berlin. These wide-ranging activities of the Cominform are joined with a new so-called “peace offensive.” This consists of a propaganda barrage by Molotov and “=-other-high— Politburo spokes: - men, supported by the Soviet press and radio, to the effect that the Red empire and the . Western world can exist side by side in peace if “warmongering America” will consent.
-~governments-inte Jose in trying W fool them.
OF COURSE, Stalin would stand a better chance of get ting an appeasement if. he . would postpone his rough stuff, As it is, American reaction against his aggression probably will save the Marshall Plan appropriations and foreign military" aid program which he wants to destroy. The same thing happened two years ago during consideration of the Economic Co-op-eration Administration, when his war-like acts spoke louder
" offensive.”
with the powers. ‘. THEY point out, however, that his peace talk is essential at home and in the satellite
govern‘ments. Reliable reports agree that the Russian people fear another 'war—so much tha them
his Sepastment o 5 Sotent public expense. lously insolent ultimatum” and ~~ the truth about the H-bomb. opera - of the principal ref the “total of an Amer- Among gest business’ in the world, The pega) rm _ican liar and warmonger.” . Eastern he with the most employees -<* ; Aparato It is now clearer than ever tions over 535,000. . of airline subsidies -P&Y that Stalin wants no “peace” * Hence as pe » for. carrying the Up . BUT instead of trying fo fig- now, Civil
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feat. Besides cluding three Bloodworth a the Boston fli 10 walks. } ’ # WEST PA Mar. 21—Rox Byrd, entered a job with th letics. Byrd pitche his four-innin, the A’s defe Chicks of the
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on base doin Joe Tipton t Brissie allow three hits.
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