Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1950 — Page 12

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; ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONB

. HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

interested in finding out who is threatening political opponents in his name with beatings and violence. ;

and the property of Toney Flack, for instance, now that

who pretended to be a deputy sheriff. : : Mr. Cunningham has, indeed, disavowed any such representation and promised to take action against any deputy found doing anything of the kind. We hope he does.

and forget, at least for this year, President Truman’s proposals. for expanding the unemployment insurance program. $ J Their coolness ‘is understandable. Congress wants to cut the session short and there is little or no reason to fear

. comparable to the 1930s. But it would be wiser to consider these proposals now than to wait and act hastily under pressure of a possible emergency. Mr. Truman's chief recommendations fall-into two general groups. a J : First, he wants to broaden the program's coverage, taking in about six million workers now excluded—govern-

and to establish minimum standards which would be the same in all states. Each state would be required to pay unemployed workers 50 per cent of what they earned while employed, up to a maximum of at least $30 a week, for at least 26 weeks a year if they are jobless that long. Individuals with dependents would get additional allowances. At present, each state determines for itself the amount and duration of unemployment benefits. The standards vary widely and, doubtless, in some cases unfairly. There can be little reasonable objection to taking more workers into the program. Government employees and employees of small firms have as much need for protection as workers in large industries. ~~ - i asthe © But'it is far from certain that all states should be compelled to pay identical benefits. Conditions in agricultural states, for example, differ from those in industrial states. Living costs are higher in some states than in others. And {it seems desirable to preserve a large measure of state rehe sponsibility for the program, instead of moving toward complete control by the federal government.

} HIGHER taxes on employers’ payrolls would be necessary to finance the increased benefits. Such higher taxes, which Mr. Truman advocates, could hardly avoid discouraging employment and thus aggravating the condition they are meant to alleviate, The proposals, in short, need thoughtful study by Congress, and should have that now. Meanwhile, it's important to remember that the real cure for unemployment is more and more jobs for members of a steadily growing labor

MES Marshall Plan

We'd expect him to go out of his way to guard the life

Mr. Flack has been threatened with death by a hoodlum

“réarly development of nation-wide unemployment on a scale

Faces 4 Fights

Question of Imports

THE second front is on the more serious

long-term problem of whether the United States

will allow foreign countries to sell their products “here. ‘They must have dollars to Tive, for they are dependent on many American products they cannot obtain elsewhere. There are only two ways they can get essential American goods. One is by gift—UNRRA or Marshall doles, or uncollectable “loans.” The other is for us to take thelr products in exchange for our own, and thus enable them to pay for

increase exports to the United States. That includes promotion and marketing know-how.

The third front is on the long line of Euro-

pean trade barriers. Most external commerce of those countries must be among themselves. That is now retarded by import quotas and currency

controls, as well as tariffs. After failing to get... “Iftér-Elropeéan integration in any other way,

ECA is holding out a large special fund to prime that pump and to reward the nations that cooperate. ’

‘Foreign Interference’

FINALLY, there is the battle against governmental inefficiency, reaction, and sometimes corruption, in the recipient countries. ECA hoped persuasion would be more productive than threats—all countries properly resent ‘foreign interference.”

SUly, of unjustified “foreign interference” is alse. : Marshall money was requested and given on specific conditions, freely accepted—very generous conditions. Foreign regimes which deliberately break their bond, betray not only their own people and the American taxpayer. They jeopardize the entire Marshall Plan.

FIRST CARDINAL OF SPRING

Pour out your heart's cantata, living flame, And may your song admonish man's fierce sin— ; Though few may grasp its beauty through the din Of war's alarms and pressing search for fame—

‘That those Who hear, and Kindred spirits claim,

Might own again the hope that once has been In their life's song, and from its pow'r again Might live with love and beauty as the aim. O, brilliant splash of warmth in greying sky Of early March, a promise, too, you bring, Of better things, of April's vernal sigh" That sounds to hasten on the tardy spring. Yet, as I muse, you mount the dreary sky And fade from sight—a fragile, scarlet wing.

—Pete J. Carr, Bloomington, Ind.

‘TIS SAID

What's the use of being dumb if you can't

show it? And on some of us it sticks out all over. -

—B. C., Indianapolis, Ind.

LEGISLATION . ”. By Peter Edson

Congress’ Low Score

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SABOTAGE .

PARIS, Apr. 11—The current series of Com-munist-led strikes in France, in the opinion of informed officials, is only the forerunner of a period of labor unrest in which the Reds may turn to sabotage and violence in an attempt to demoralize France.

The Communists have been only mildly suc-

.cessful so far in the political strikes called to

protest American arms aid to France, Yet, a belief is held widely that Moscow has told the French Communist leaders to produce or else.

But the fact is that millions of Frenchmen

be the alternative in a campaign of industrial disruption. =. -

Wave of Strikes

THE MOST recent wave of strikes has affected textile mills in northern France, metalworking plants in Paris and the provinces, such public utility services as gas, electricity, water and street. cleaning, and the dockers in various French ports. Sometimes the walkouts have been brief and at other times weakened when sizable groups have insisted on working. But the heaviest Communist strike pressure is still ahead and will come when the landing of arms begins at French ports. There will be new. dockers’ strikes—though

—at- Cherbourg workers-have said they will stay

on. the job—and an attempt may be made to pull down the coal mines. A miners’ referen-

dum already has approved a strike.

Beyond the threat of Communist-inspired labor unrest is the strong possibility of legitimate non-Communist trade union walkouts on the issue of wages. . There is much agreement here that a vast number of French workers— probably one-third of them-—are in extremely difficult circumstances because of high living costs, Millions of workers are paid 15,000 to 18,000 francs a month—$45 to $50. Rents are low, but there is no great difference between the U. S. and France in groceries, clothing and many other things the Frenchman must have for his family. x ©

Charles Lucey New Red Offensive in France?

In ‘some of the large state-owned industries.

the government recently has agreed to a 5 per cent wage increase, with indefinite talk about productivity bonuses later. The government says this is as much as it can do if gas and electric rates, and the price of products made in big state industries such as the Renault auto plant, are not to be forced.

‘Charge of Big Profits

PRIVATE employers, making big profits, have followed the govern-

some charged with

trade union federations who long ago broke - “with the Communist-run Confederation of Labor

Unions. The Catholic unions charge the government with being as hard-nosed as the big private employers. What this adds up to is that the Communists have lost ground steadily because of their political tactics, but their objective of trying to make French workers believe they are exploited is

brought closer by the widely acknowledged need

to advance wages. To what degree this will aid the Communists when they begin to pull their antimilitary aid strikes—or how soon the non-Communist unions will push strikes of their own for higher wages

—is anybody's guess. 5

.Unions..Lose Ground

SIDE GLANCES

THE UNIONS in France generally have lost ground as their legitimate functions have been distorted politically by the Communists. Trade union membership was about 7 million in 1945 but today out of a potential 12 million perhaps 3 million belong to unjons. The’ unions themselves claim more, of course. What the Communist labor leadership has done is in keeping with Communist policy—its interest is not in a successful labor movement but in demoralization of French industry. The Reds, when they reach their peak of disruption at the time of the arrival of U. 8. arms shipments, will be well aware that this may raise doubts in American minds as to whether aid should be given France at all under such circumstances. :

By Galbraith

for. women). bill

care or hospitalization? Both parties believe in taxes. * oe ” Neither Republicans nor Democrats believe in socialism nor communism. So, there is only one thing “a change,” according to Mr, Heinke,

that the people want to vote for. Maybe you.

have something there, Only 20 per cent of the elective county offices are held by Democrats, “A change,” by sending Democrats may be the answer. 4 : Mr. Heinke, IT have never known in my lifetime a large registration of the rank and file that would go and get registered to vote against

ing to relieve pressure on oil wells. Pipeline companies can force the public to furnish them rights of ‘way for their gas lines and the public is due some consideration as to the price they should have to pay for the gas they use. Their only protection is government

price control, and when that is removed the... J...

public is at the mercy of the big gas companies. Rep. Halleck ran true to form in his action on this bill. He has never supported much legislation that was beneficial to the general public. He has always catered to big business at the expense of the general public. The Republican Party will have to get Republicans to head the party if they ever expect to get control of the government and purge the party of the parasites they now have at the party helm.

‘World Needs Message’

wall in every home in the world and re-read

‘many times. The worlds needs that message.

What Others Say

I GIVE a big laugh at people who brag about their ancestors. They are still climbing up their family trees. But the trees usually turn out to be greased poles and they come down with a bang sometimes.-—Manhattan socialite Mrs. Betty Henderson, 74, famous for planting her leg on a table in the Metropolitan Opera House bar, ® &

WE'VE taken all the initiative away from men. I say they oughta put the (equal rights in reverse and take away some of our rights. wConugistine Lucille Ball, ® <

WE STILL stagger from crisis to crisis with the initiative left to the enemy. We still treat sach country as a separate problem instead of as a part of a united global strategy.—Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch. p= ¢ * ’ I'M laughing at those Paris stylists who are urging women to wear dresses that are straight up and down in front. What are we supposed to do—lie, underneath a steam roller every morning ?—Screen actress Marie Wilson, famous for not being “straight up and down.” * > @

IN combat ships we outnumber Russia only in carriers and destroyers.—Adm. Louis F, Denfeld, former Chief of Naval Operations.

SHIPPING . . . By Earl Richert

Limit on Subsidy

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. Loss on Any Front Would PAGE 12 Tuesday, Apr. 11, 1950 Delay F y R By Buin C. Heinke reported in The Times the . ; i ay Foreign Recovery largest registration in the county of voters who 204 fata Pe WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 — The Marshall wish to vote against “taxes and spending, social- tte gm Plan is now fighting for its life on four fronts, ism and communism” and the thing they wanted deni and A : Ci _ The loss of any one of these battles would delay to vote for is “a change.” The story pointed Gilbert mn . 8 10 lagging recovery abroad. It would increase the to the fact that the people all wanted “a change” Jack Sn oo : Fa vt Sk political instability which invites Communist ag- wy a ~ ha a & Siner statee’ ssions, ‘Gan: gression. all for everything else. : Ewan py 41.50 a mon(l: Sunday. 106 8 SOBF. On the home front the immediate issue is Now what sensible voter is going to vote Hystony ot Telephone RI ley 8551 whether will cut below the safety point against taxes and how would they go about it? - : - the flow of munitions with which the No one likes to pay taxes, but I know of no . , WARS) Give T4ohs and The Peosle Will Pind Thar Nun Woe Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA) place short of Heaven where people are not, » - lt : wages its war against social chaos. ; taxed. Sixty per cent of our tax money fo ew Ll . d op mistrator Paul Hofuan, in line with to pay for past wars and tion for the No “Strong-Arm’ Tactics Wante §oUNOIY Ieuiremeitg 10 thif vel taxed gvuiie future If war should strike. Would you have our Nase wan : ho ; lon. threatens to cut off . _ soldiers thrown out of our hospitals and roam "WWED think Sheriff Cunningham would be the man most Jon. Congress | talons 10 6nt off 21OI 4 quar _ about over the country or die by the way without ily ¢

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* ® : : . 5 =» ; what they get.. put themselves. And that’s what they would do if wi THERE'S NO room in Marion county elections for This involves relaxing tariffs and customs or” they voted the Republican ticket. The people , he 8, or plug-uglies, and we don’t want an regulations to increase imports. American pro- a ” want to change these Republican reactionaries Back thigs, hoo im ah P ge g ta h ith Wheth y ducers unwilling to stand foreign competition pr” * and send Democrats to Washington. Mr. Heinke, ush-league Binaggios getting s arted ere, eit wer. €T here object ta this. More far-sighted. American - . you, like Dr. Gallup in the election of '48, got World | this was a deputy . .. and there's only the man’s own very corporations and commercial groups understand — - the facts, but pointed them the wrong way, Hoosier doubtful statement to indicate he was or just some ‘hat healthy trade upon which our own pros f = - Sn I assert “we need a change,” but not the way Bing 4 ty perity depends is a two-way process—Iif we will / en you point it, and if you don’t change your point- ows ambitious amateur, we Jelieve fe sheriff's bon hod not buy, we cannot sell. why ing you are going to be very embarrassed after J. ake every effort to find out who it was and to see that s . \ the election. Woathe we 4 dealt with properly Prices Too High ¢ Se - X ; . ‘ * & . a . v Mr. Cunningham hasn't set the best of examples him- BUT some foreign products, against which Parasites at Party Helm Mrs. Fe ] 2 . : iin ) 4 there is no American barrier, cannot be mar- By E. Bowman, 2881 Station St. [rm self in his relations with individuals with whom he disagrees keted here because, prices are too high. While " Passage of the Kerr bill by Congress is Hows ¢ politically. eral West Europea industria) produstion ing to be difficult for some of the Republicen \ ‘ : ; above prewar, in man essm ming Let's not have this become a habit. cases costs are prohibitive. Those foreign ope : Congres SOR. 0 Snewes In the ne fen. ae facturers either are inefficient, or are shackled in favor of the bill. Natural gas is a by-product . Study Them Now by Natrictive lawa oe Jasor Practices, . : of the independent oil companies. If Hem have 30 : : : * n Mr. Hoffman has se :30| Grand EMOCRATIC leaders in Congress seem disposed to file up a new ECA division to help foreign countries a RO WAY Gf selling t. it must be wasted bY burn. Rosems

FFESTFI] EZR TREN

ment employees, workers in industrial occupations con- anh BOW pat he pivalion is Sefious, BUA have seen through Red attempts to use the ment's lead on the 5 per cent proposal in the By John Cromie, 901 Lesley House | : x i : a i - nected with agriculture, commission salesmen and WOrkers wis those Who ave ok Aryng ut While Park She wae Se Soa BO Go re | ans ares though in (he provisces 8 per cent {want to express my appreciation to The EE . . . : . : s “Mr. ; in firms with fewer than eight employees. _ Of the Marshall bargain. Current ultimatums have the mass worker strength now fo cripple The seeming alliance on proposed increases . The: S Tor I . ey Jones, Meet BENEFIT ( . » = = a ux = to Greece and Korea, and recent sharp re- France as they once did. between big private employers and the state I have just finished reading Chapter 8 and Silver Sta SECOND he wants to increa the A ram's benefits minders to West Germany, are cases in point. Lacking numbers, violence and sabotage may ted tment amon non-Communist ha "should . . y 18 se prog 8 y Any charge that Washington is thereby in .l ped reser 8 to me, that cnapter sh be hung up on the Benefit Assc

* statesmanship and vision. < We're glad to have him with us.

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District of Columbia.

That last one seems particu--larly appropriate. La

can get bets in Washington there won't be any tax legislation passed at all. There may

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was watered down by the House and faces filibuster in

the Senate. St. Lawrence, Co-

_ what sin. .

against anything except sin, if

you don't get too specific as to

-pending before the

house, would provide $46 million for operating subsidies—$12

“of 500 vessels.

This - would about double the cost of the

_mil- operating" subsidy program.

J Ho force. WASHINGTON, Apr. 11--Maybe Congress will come back WASHINGTON, Apr. 11—An attempt to limit the size of one SA Mt Unemployment insurance, however necessary, won't after its Easter vacation, full of jelly beans and determined to do of the government's many subsidy programs i J Y progr 8 stirring up a Eves. B create new jobs. For that purpose. government economy, 8 JOTICIAE BULA the ate apis ut the beginning of April and ne ahoping. Industry. i in so : sod , eir rec Ane sh Anau 48 ed 2 fed gage 2 fnmbismnatii balanced federal budget and sensible revision of the federal as the Kighty-Worst Congress... eo “9 ILE R ¥olVed and. a. large-part-of tty" tax system would be far more effective. : This session is now about half over. In January the Con- Cause is an economy provision written . into the omnibus . { . . gress passed no legislation at All this legislation may be appropriations bill. The provi- tion 1 ‘hag : y all. In February, 10 public sion would limit operating sub- on less the President re. Welcome, Good Neighbor laws were enacted. In March, for good and worthy causes. sidies to the number of ships Guested. Congress last year RS RESIDENT Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile comes to 21. Just look at what some of But in the whole March record which were receiving subsidies voted $27.5 million and the : ; . them were: there are only four laws passed on.Jan. 1, 1950. ] year. before $16,691,000. the United States this week on a state visit. Transfer of the Vigo ord- that by any stretch of the This would keep the ship-op- w= The distinguished visitor is one of the best of -our good nance plant property to the U. piv xy be consilered erating subsidy program from ir Jou ELEY : neighbors to the south. Ever since his election in 1046, 5 penitentiary at Terre Haute, Caw A i as, More posed $46 million would serve NY : ye . x “ae A - — - — President Gonzalez Videla has stoutly affirmed his friend- . y ONE was a deficiency ap- tainly happen. without such a _ 2S an effective limitation on : ic tional education to the Virgin A y happe ~ the size of the subsid ship for the United States and has seen to it that his coun- Islands’. . . Extension of the fropuiation bill. Abother was a restriction. Te Es rah Ay Dros Bn AG ry maintained the most cordial relations. with.ours.. He has ....FEUol In hich Veterans Ad ....evpp ge wlio" {0 $15 miion THE San Francisco Cham. = But Maritime Commission two more years to go in his present term. detailed for research fn med, OF Ue construction of airports mane Hang lion a a dy be : es ; : » ’ - in Alaska. A third was repeal opposition. sai at a tota a at col } ; He was perhaps the first South American chief of state cine and surgery. . . . Increase of the oleomargarige tax. The of 856 U. S. ships of all types paid out, they say, but obliga- ~N to see the threat to the Western Hemisphere from Russia's inthe number. of patent office fourth was the cotton-peanut- were operating in foreign trade tions could "be incurred for — : “ . nN 8 . “ cold war, Though he was elected with Communist support, fines . potato bil. Ana Ee tne as any Rising jr pd a! oy " : : . 3 . : . id made tha e las WO 0 ese . s within a year he was warning that Russia was using Latin ARE you sated”? Get another are bad legislation. Adoption of the proposal, the available to pay about 75 cents - America as a base from which to attack the United States load the fa wa which Presi- The oleo tax repeal bill was Ohalaber 3 Sommeres } ig 0 an dotiar Rvel She Th Co ent Truman has had to sign well intentioned and it was would pro! e extension o " ave to pai economy a leadership of the Western democracies. this past month while trying to. passed after years of effort. ‘government aid to any of the " of Jubiré appropriagions. gs y i . = =» . run the country from Key But the law has now been 621 vessels which operated in n defending the - shipping - PLAGUED by Reds in the Chilean government, Presi- west: found so. full of jokers that : 1949 without government sub- subsidy, spokesmen point out dent Gonzalez Videla lost no time in rooting them out. Then Wong of some Indian lands in Food and Drug Administration - © sidy. that it is She smallest of all a Co : Jtah. . . . Creation of a new may find it impossible to en- : “The companies which have government subsidies—costing - he went several steps further—he outlawed the Communist Nayonai Cemetery at Ft. Lo. force. At the least it will be been operating without subsidy less than the butter and ched- — Party in Chile and severed all diplomatic ties with Russia Fan, Cota. +. Approval of the awfully expensive to enforce, in the past are not in a posi- dar cheese price-support proand the satellite countries. aho - Wyoming compact on since it puts the U. 8. govern- : a | tion to continue indefinitely to gram. — Thereafter the Chilean republic bol dly called on the 3isposttion of the waters of ment in the business of inspect- SOP A087 WEA SRAM, Was Y. 1. AAG 6. & SAT. OW: operate without subsidy,” it xis. - ® = : : Gis : Snake River. . . . Authoriza- ing all beaneries. Pop guessed he wouldn't come along this trip, Uncla Will! He said. Listed as reasons were : It 18 the only one in al United Nations to use every peaceful means at its command tion for the Secretary of In- ue said he was getting along so well with all mom's shrinkage in-cargo, increased which the government may get : Y to prevent Russia from carrying out any plan of aggression terior to build airports in cer- FOR once in their lives, relotives why visit?" foreign competition and sub- back part of the subsidy. Ty y n . bo i tain cases. . . . Authorization President Truman and Sen. ? 5, WY Visi stantial reductions in freight During the first 10-year reSenor Gonzalez Videla himself was a delegate to the United for the erection of a monument Harry F. Byrd of Virginia seem rates. capture period, five of the 12 pp Nation's founding conference at San Francisco. ey toy Sraluary at Is agree on Something. It is be a token cut in excise taxes jumbia, Missouri Valley plans THE Shed erating a Subpienzea = SE DARies paid . { i pe a ouse, Coos a € advantages o e new near the end of the session. have no place. Revision of s 3 c eve ollar- receiv Though ruthless in his fight on the Reds, he was careful County, ore. farm bill outweigh the disad- But any tax reform legislation the Tatt.Hartey Law has been Program, voted by Congress in = (rom the government and an- For to maintain the democratic procedures and the rights of . ¥ » vantages. seems to be out. lost. | 1936, is designed to keep & other company paid back 90 4 universal suffrage in Chile. IF YOU'RE still not con- This legislation is admittedly Aid for middle income hous- . 5 ® U. 8. merchant marine alive - per cent, said Frank J. Tay- ra pS be ted vinced on how hard the Con- So inadequate that President ing has been killed. This may IN AN election year, every and operating in foreign trade. - lor, president of the American dor ; bservers have noted, too, that the press and radio in gressmen have been working Truman has asked Congress be an important vote, indicat- Congressman wants some The government pays the Merchant Marine Institute. "5 Pa Chile have been freer over a longer period than in most Srovid Dele, > Vill be wha jor still ggg new farm bill © ing that the era of new deal or spending for Tvlests = his giserinee between the oe dar s = Shain ’ = : : : you re at two other laws. Ss session. e odds are 99 fair deal reforms is coming to & This an . 8. costs an e lower costs Francisco ame ; South American nations. In contrast to some other chiefs iney passed last month pro- to 1 against anything like that an end. - election year. That's the real of competing foreign lines. ber of Commerce said that une Img of state, President Gonzalez Videla never sought to sup- vided for incorporating the Girl happening. * ; Extension of rent control fs answer to the whole legislative Thirteen U. 8. lines now have less Congress adopts the re- . e voi t o itio i its : - Scouts of America under a fed- g 8 8 dying on the vine. Federal aid collapse. No one wants to be subsidy contracts with the strictive provision in dispute press the voice ot he Pros hon by SULIRE. Off is NeWSPEINL.. oo’ chaniy, au Tar cuties. THE Tiaman program ds oe I rll Mo or ev i ns _ the country may end up With Imire or broadcasting facilities. told, he measures high in ing the removal of sludge in hopelessly bogged down. You House. Civil rights legislation ~~ home, mother and the flag, nor ~ - The appropriations bill, now = a subsidized merchant marine :