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Eisenhower's Warning ee GEN EISENHOWER'S statement that the United States has disarmed beyond the point of safety, must be read in the light of what he was saying only a month ago. He was telling a House Appropriations Subcommittee then that the present $14 billion military bidget was “as far as we should go,” according to Subcommittee Chairman . George H. Mahon (D. Tex.). : It is known that Gen. Eisenhower, while temporarily heading the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was instrumental in reducing the defense outlay to that figure.

MR. MAHON now discloses that the general, appearing at a closed session of the committee, said that “under all the existing circumstances,” he thought $15 billion was adequate and offered no suggestions for increasing the amount. Thursday night, in a formal speech in New York, Gen, Eisenhower asserted his “conviction” that— “America has already disarmed to the extent—in some directions even beyond the extent—that I with deep concern for her present safety, could possibly advise, until we have certain knowledge that all nations, in concerted action, are doing likewise.” rt Gen. Eisenhower is not given to contradiction or careless statements. If, then, he has changed his mind about the prudence of a reduced military budget we can only conclude that he has the soundest reasons.

- WHETHER there has been some grave development the past few weeks, or whether, on the basis of the most competent advice possible, he has reassessed the situation, we cannot say. But in this “gloomy moment of history,” we should think few men's counsel would be weightier than Gen. Eisenhower's. ; The defense budget has not yet gone through. The House Appropriations Committee made few changes in it. It is now before the Senate Committee, which plans to recall the general. We think Congress would do well to heed whatever

For Better Traffic gi MAYOR FEENEY'S program for making traffic flow more smoothly in Indianapolis is a good one. i It will take a lot of co-operation from the motorist, as well as a lot of work by the police, to make it effective. In our opinion it is worth all that. Considerable improvement in downtown traffic move-

streets, clearing out rush-hour parking, and what appears to us, at least, to be more efficient handling of the whole problem by the policemen on duty. a 1 ! . ERECTION of uniform, large, casily-rend signs and improved traffic lights will help, too. As the Mayor points out, a good many now on the streets are hard to see, and -not much help to the motorist who doesn’t know the neigh.borhood. ; And, while it isn’t strictly a traffic measure, there are a lot of streets all over town that have no markers at all, or battered and barely legible markers to tell what streets they are. Many of them needed replacement even before

cult to do anything like that. ! : Hope the Mayor adds that to his street program this year. :

Object Lesson

Senate Friday afternoon.

“fo get economy in government. There was Sen. Byrd of Virginia, voting for a bill to let southern farmers plant more acres in cotton and peanuts. -* The bill will add at least $100 million to the cost of supporting farm prices this year. 4 os ————— Sen. “Byrd is leader of “the economy bloc.” He says President Truman's budget should be cut by $6 billion. But there he was, voting for the cotton-peanut bill. And Sen. George of Georgia, chairman of the Finance Committee, is a great advocate of budget balancing. Salle ll oo i ~ WAS Sen. George, one of the main s plugs in putting over the cotton-peanut bill.- = = And Republican Sen. Millikin of Colorado, believes high taxes. are ruining the country. he There he “was, helping southern Senators to pass the cotton-peanut bill. nc : > ~ You see, Sen. Millikin is for letting farmers in Colorado and other states plant more acres in wheat. ~ A bill for that purpose will, be coming up later—and the votes. of Senators from cotton and peanut states will be ‘needed to put it through. * Yes, you'd have learned something if you'd been in the visitor's gallery. : And, chances are you'd be feeling pretty gloomy about the prospects for government economy,

Reward for Spring Cleaning F a lot of Americans will go at their spring housecleaning ~ this year with more than usual vigor, they may find themselves reaping surprising dividends. The government says there are more than $200 million ~~ worth of matured but uncashed “baby bonds" still outstanding. Every month this year’another $75 million come due and ought to be cashed, but a good number probably won't be. - ta ™ Officials think most of these securities are stuffed away in desks, strong boxes, mattresses, bookcases and similar spots around the house. When you've stowed them ‘away so well, it's easy to forget you ever had them. So turn the place inside out this spring. There may be more than just shining floors and orderly desks to reward you. And if you do dig up a bond or two from World War II, don’t fed! too sheepish about it. There are till | x “worth of matured bonds outs ding from ; r I—tucked in hiding places even their owners

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Anti-McHale Candidate = _ WASHINGTON, Mar. 25-—Dear Boss—' Sprightly Rep. John A. Walsh, Anderson Demoerat, is now being mentioned as a possible senatorial candidate on an anti-McHale ticket. His name has been added to the possibilities within the seven-member Democratic delegation. Most prominently mentioned have been Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, and the dean of the Hoosier, Democrats, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary, Those who are talking up Mr. Walsh discount Indianapolis reports that he might even : be defeated for Congress by the Fifth District Republicans. «~~ : They contend that he can out-campaign Sen. Homer E. Capehart, who is to be renominated by the GOP for a second term. Like his other colleagues, Mr. Madden, Mr. Walsh is a freshman in the House.

HIS SUPPORTERS say he has some advantages which cannot be claimed by the widely self-advertised Alex Campbell, Ft. Wayne, whose candidacy reportedly hasn't caught on so well. : 2 Mr. Campbell is an acknowledged “McHale man,” having the support of National Committeeman Frank McHale, Indianapolis corporation attorney. Cale Holder, Indianapolis, Republican state chairman, stated here that his party intends to make “McHaleism” an issue in the election this fall. Another factor-entering the picture is that Mr. Walsh is a World War II veteran. Sen. Capehart is a véteran of World War I. That would make the veteran issue a stand-off. Mr. Walsh's anti-McHale record is a long standing one. He spearheaded the drive against . appointing Democratic State Committee Secre- - t; tary John Hurt, Martinsville, U. 8. Attorney, and won a compromise. He lost, however, in - the appointment of William Steckler as U. S. judge.

‘Draft Walsh’

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Mr. Walsh to win the senatorial nomination. EDITOR’S NOTES * 0» By Walter Leckrone

Watch Out for the Federal

One of the first steps in the plan to “draft Walsh” would be the ouster of Dr. T. J. Costello, Anderson dentist, as Fifth District chairman,

He might be replaced by Mr. Walsh's politically-able secretary, Victor Hood, Marion. At léast he would be replaced by an anti- . McHale man, as the doctor rates as being quoted to the “contrary. ! = Another move would be replacement of. Ira Haymaker as state chairman. There is even talk of ousting McHale from his national seat. Those familiar with his durability in politics are

WE'VE heard quite a lot of talk about jhe story, “Federal Snoops Are After Me,” which the Saturday Evening Post published a week or 80 ago. And small wonder. It was the personal experience of a young war veteran who had bought, with all his savings and all he could hgrrow, a run-down weekly newspaper and print shop in Downington, Pa, a town of 5000. He and his wife and _one printer did all the work, of which anyone In all this talk the Congressmen here, who like Mr, Walsh immensely,- still would be glad to settle for Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Some of the Governor's lieutenants have been talking over the Walsh candidacy, however, and being anti-McHale men reportedly have looked upon it with considerable favor. In addition to his proven ability to arouse voters with his stumping, Mr. Walsh is highly photogenic. He was selected by the Washington Post as the ‘guinea pig” freshman Democrat and played up with pictures at the beginning

there is quite a lot, except for a bunch of high school boys and girls who used to drop in quite informally and on no sort of regular schedule,

school on the one day a week that there was a paper to fold. Jd . They did it, apparently, because they liked this young veteran and his wife and enjoyed giving them a neighborly lift, and he liked them, too, and used to take them all over to the drug store for an ice cream soda afterward.

and end of the first session of the 81st Con- Where it was breaking even on costs after two gress. : S or three years of struggle, and the future looked i ; pretty bright to them. It doesn’t look so bright Typical Congressman . now. :

HOLIDAY magazine took a whole series of color photos of Mr. and Mrs, Walsh and their three boys to illustrate their Washington edition as showing the daily routine of a typical Congressman. A daughter has been born since that time. : An Indiana University law graduate, Mr. Walsh is a former Indiana Deputy Attorney General. A confirmed supporter of the 1948 Dem. ocratic national platform, he never takes off on solo flights from the House floor. : This week he addressed a meeting of the AFL League for a lneal Action and got a rousing welcome. He was presented as a ma i i ; who has never let labor down.” That and tne I T0DGbly Violating Laws ~~ ~Brannan plan t6" Win farm votes ‘would ‘be HE LOOKED at the stressed in the campaign if Mr. Walsh is the School and said they had to be paid 40 cents an : hour too, and besides some of them looked

candidate against Sen. Capehart. S awful young to be working, and probably child RAMPANT L labor laws were being violated all over the \ EO place. So he went to the public schools and Behold the lon, fierce. untamable, - around to all their homes to find out just how Burning icy flakes cling to his shaggy chest, ©!d they were, and fure enough, some of them e how he stands, bold, unfrightened, Were only 14 or 15. - And dares the world to do its level best. All this took him, of course, several days, during which he drew for himself ubstantially

ernment, making what he called A check.” the veteran and his wife, who owned the place, weren't drawing any pay. Since they'd found it

to bortow the money they needed, he told them they were employees and cents an hour each plus time-and-a-half for all the hours they worked beyond 40 in any week, which had been, naturally, a lot of hours—they

had no idea how many—deducting, of course, withholding taxes.

youngsters from high

Hear his loud roar, gruff,’ resonant, _Bidding all the world that listens to-beware; 2st some there be, weak, unprotected, To feel the flailing fist that storms the frigid afr.

Look how he leaps, high, buoyant,

And tears the lacy cloudlets down from out the sky,

To spill their rain and

~and-ahalf if He Worked more than plus a per diem to ‘a total that

40 hours, expense allowance, all coming would no “doubt have been Whole weekly newspaper quite a while. You paid part of that, on Jory If you paid any taxes (and who didn't?), as you wn past of the cost —VI8ls -he-sald-would-have-to be made, and t cost of the various bureaus which will I ly issue rulings and enforcement orders, and quite Probably ‘institute criminal and civil proceedings in the courts against this didn't pay himself any salary beca ness didn’t bring in enough yet so any left DI cai arpa EE g Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt saw the story, too, and she wrote to the bureau that sent this char-

ALTERNATE CAPITALS . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Emergency: Planning

WASHINGTON, Mar. 25—To

ment are convinced it's time for the United St more alternate capitals— Blutin io Dick one on

to be used if ‘Ww: - tacked oF destroyed. f Washington is ever at

They say few matters are more They are not men who frighten easil if it comes, it will start with an attack on Washington. Thus, they believe selection of alternate capitals — and the duplication of thousands of government documents — cannot be avoided. - - »

THEY point out that our strategic plans and planners are concentrated in the District of Columbia, which is 69 square miles in area. One bomb. could destroy our secret plans, orders of battle and communications with field commanders. It could wipe out mobilization plans for 7000 industries, It could eliminate all three branches of government. Rep. Chet Holifield (D. Cal.) has introduced a bill look toward selection of an alternate capital. Such bills in the of documents and records past have not been taken seri- would have to be made. ously. The Pen , how- 7 & a8 ever, wants the Holifield bill LIFI sori passed. It is now before the Le, Jmol a ELD d bes House Judiciary . Committee. * He _— anionaty a rw of oar al ae

snow and icy blasts, helpless lie.

High fly the leaves, whirling, frenzied,

They strive to climb above the fearful conflict biting, raw, ° iE But all the world, tense, fearful, .- 3 Les Struggling in the powerful torment ut thy “EEENION'S paw. : i” : —Sué Allen, 1830 E. Calhoun.

there was

P men in the Defense Depart-

important or more urgent. y. They are convinced that

of government in the event ofan attack by foreign powers.” The defense secretdry would be chairman of the commission. Members would include one Senator, one Representative, one Supreme Court Justice and three men picked by the President—one each from the National Security Council, the National Security ReSources Board and the Atomic Energy Commission, They would recommend: Possible sites for an alternate capital which would be secure against attacks by foreign powers; buildings which would have to be constructed “on or under” such a site and the extent to which duplicate copies

; EN at wo! r ‘a seven-man com- to panic. : : years on the Joint Comey ipioriLmAn Satie “My decision that an alters ‘That ures which can be taken to in- nate capital should be éstab-

lished,” he told Congress, :

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acting and backstage work as do their seniors. In short, the workers bucksiage and on stage form as good a cross- n o 0 as one could imagine, with a mutual interest in theater as the “tie that binds.” Leading lady or prop-girl, leading man or switchboard operator, ingenue or seamstress, character-man or carpenter—everyone is a very necessary part of the business of producing a play. There are no elections to membership and ~ no one has to be “invited” to join. An easily purchased $9 book of exchange coupons is the open sesame to the participating fun as well as a seat for the eight plays. Average audiences are 3200 adults per play and 1300 youngsters 20 You oan see fat it ia by Jo meas 4 aml} : oup with a limited appe: me The organization is run by the director manager, Jack Hatfield, under the supervision of a board composed of hard-headed, eivicminded business men most of whom wouldn’t be caught dead behind the footlights. It is their belief in the value of such an organization to Indianapolis that makes them willing to give

functioning, and it is due to them that the group's finances are in the black year after year. Besides paying its own way, the Civic The-

side organizations buy one perforniance and sell the tickets), makes it possible for other

their own treasuries. In fact, so popular has this way of raising money become that all

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and many others as well as school —agents_and many others aswell as school

their time and their advice concerning its -

ater, through benefit performances (when outs

groups to put at least $3300 each year into

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mote hi WAN TUR & COURUFY Weekly newspaper knows — TAWS Were p

help fold the papers for a half-hour or so after

They'd just got the business up to the point

Not long ago they had a visitor from ‘the wages and hours division of the federal gov-

“routine He looked at the books and found that

necessary to incorporate the business in order

had to be paid 40

more than 40 cents an hour, with af least time-..

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acter out to Downington and got a report on the case which she described in her column. She said an executive department just carries out the laws, and that’s what this fellow is doing. That’s what the man told the young veteran in Downington, too . . . he didn’t make the laws, he just carried them out. Mrs. Roosevelt said she felt sympathetic about young people starting out to establish their own businesses, but she still figured these prétty good 1aws and if folks didn't

have enough money to comply, why something ought to be done so they could borrow some. She didn’t say where.

Something Vicious

SHE seemed to feel there was something pretty vicious about letting boys and girls fold a few newspapers for a half-hour after school, especially if they didn’t get that time-and-a-half pay, and dangerous too, there being what she called ‘power-driven machinery” around a country print shop, that they might get to tinkering with and get hurt. All this seems strange to a generation of us who grew up mowing lawns, running errands, selling newspapers and working around farms that were just crawling with power-driven machinery at harvest time, for whatever the traffic would bear, which as we recall it used to be around 50 cents a day. It seems to have left no lasting blight on us, though. The young veteran in Downington may have been lucky at that. The federal wage rate was only 40 cents an hour when the snooper got there from Washington. Since then they've raised it to 75 cents, and added complications, For instance if a worker wins a prize, now, in some office contest, that becomes a part of his hourly wage, and has to be figured in on his time-and-a-half rate if he happens to work an extra hour some week. And if he puts in a

Job; or In"theé Hope of winning advancement . . watch out , , . the man from Washington will be around. A All this just goes to show how hard it is to find a place to stop when you put your govern-

. ment to running people's private jobs and private businesses.

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Inflating Currency :

THIS minimum wage law was passed back in the depression quite frankly as a means of inflating the currency. It didn’t raise anybody's

~-Wages,—because fu Worker “Wasn't worth 40

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available performances are spoken for a year ahead and frequent Sunday matinees have to be added to the regular run of a play. Aside from the present fact that the Civie Theater is the only place in Indianapolis to see legitimate shows regularly, the Civic is the oldest such organization in continuous ex-. istence in the country. It was founded in 1914 and has never failed to produce plays each season since, including performances at Ft. The organization built its present building in 1926 and has enlarged its seating capacity = and working quarters three times to date. At the present time a committee is raising money to enlarge and remodel it again and the fine ished structure will be named after Booth Tarkington—a fitting tribute -to one of ‘Ine diana’s leading literary and dramatic figures. The building is a modest structure on a side street, but it is easily aécéssible from all parts of town which is very important to the participants as well as to the audiences.

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There has never been an “angel” to give the group a complete and up-to-date plant like the ones in Kalamazoo, Dallas and other places: . ‘What we have we have worked for, long, hard and enthusiastically. Our reward has come from seeing ever-growing audiences, an ever-enlarg-ing group of participants and from the gen= erous financial support given us by individuals and businesses in our present request for capital funds to make our plays and activities availe able to even more people.’ Is it any wonder, then; that we feel the existence of the Civic Theater is one of the real reasons why Indianapolis is a good place in which to live?

‘Like Breath of Fresh Air’ By W. W. King : . I think The Times idea of publishing Dr.

..Peter Marshall's sermons. is. an-excellent thingy

cents an hour why he Just got laid off after the -

law was passed.

This year, still for the purpose of inflating

the currency and keeping prices high, the. rate *

was raised to 75 cents an hour. It still raised no wages, of course, for it isn't possible to raise

Wages by law. try as.you-will—Jt-did-re-utt-tn—

Some workers losing their jobs, and added to the nearly five million unemployed there are

now. And it does cost each of us some money,

which comes out of the $15 a week the average worker in Indiana hands over, directly or indirectly, out of his pay check every week to keep this and the rest of the federal bureaus. running, AR Tor- tHe young veteran in Downington he has the answer himself, * : ’

I commend you for it. We need more things of such nature. There is so much news of a dee praved nature that articles of this kind is like taking a deep breath of fresh air and sunshine,

‘Amazed at Inefficiency’ By H. W. Daacke, Carmel, Ind. In reading the evidence introduced the past

few days in the Watts case, I am amazed at the inefficiency of the Indianapolis Police De

partment that these crimes could have been.

committed by one individual! over such a long period of time, without detection.

What Others Say

.... TODAY, in_many countries of. the world, 8

the concepts of freedom and self-government are merely vague phrases. They express little to people. who are engaged in a desperate struggle - with ignorance and poverty.—President Truman, ® © o

IT (is) our duty... . to concert more forcibly

--And-tenaciously our-efforts with those ofthe =

other democratfc peoples... if we are to pre= vent a conflict.—President Vincent Auriol of

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dent Truman this one. Several big papers; and'm ficials, are fi bill, charging costs to gas co If Presiden the bill, as su will, Kem ar charge he dic campaign - con big oil and gz thinks it’s all re-elected.

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NO SIMPLE STATUTE... . By Fred W. Perkins

WASHINGTON, Mar, 25—Employers are flirting with trouble if they -treat the revised wage-hour law as an easily understood statute. : ; It is hazardous to assume that all the law means is that workers in interstate commerce must be paid at least 75 cents an hour, and employed no_more than 40 hours a week unless they are paid time and a half for each hour over 40, Complicated and voluminous interpretations and regulations issued by Wage-Hour Administrator Willlam R. McComb show there is much more to the law than that. °

efficiency of work done by the employee during his customary working hours at his normal assigned tasks (whether on the employer's premises or elsewhere) it is obviously paid as additional remuneration for

a» » employment. . . . - . WHAT was formerly. consid- ) ered voluntary extra effort by THUS prizes paid for co-ope young people willing to put in eration, courtesy, emciency,

a few extra licks after regular hours and thus advance themSelves in the business may now be overtime hours for which the employer must pay for at the extra rate. . The value of prizes offered by the employer to get new business or promote efficiency may now be figured as part of normal. compensation, and increase the overtime rate the employer must pay. - - . n = HERE is part of what .the ‘Wage-Hour Division rules on ' contests and awards:

highest proGuction, best ate tendance, best quality of work, -- greatest number of overtime hours worked, etc., are part of the regular rate of pay, » s »

ACCURATE records must be _ kept of the time devoted to

the time spent outside normal working hours. : Banks, ‘nvestment houses and other business concerns have. complained about the meaning as well as the com- . plexity of the regulations, But Mr. McComb's assist-

“Prizes are included in the ants say the complaints have Neguiag, Tate (of pay) if they been * y few” as. +. created by an atomic or hydro- are ‘to an employee as compared protests made

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