Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1950 — Page 36

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Foreign Policy Confusion T= appointment as advisers to Secretary of State Acheson of former Republican Sens. Dulles and Cooper may help toward resumption of the bipartisan approach to foreign policy problems, provided: - ONE: That Messrs. Dulles and Cooper are fully ‘consulted in advance on all vital issues and given an actual voice in their determination. vie TWO: That President Truman and the State Department recognize the important fact that it is Congress—in which neither of these gentlemen has a vote—which must approve all basic decisions, and that consequently the administration will have to operate in closer harmony with the Senate and the House. Our bipartisan foreign policy, so-called, was in fact a working arrangement between the State Department and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, rather than a meeting of minds between the leaders of the two major

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" - > "sn ” . THE plan to invite both Republican and Democratic members of that committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee to participate in policy-making at its inception was initiated by former Secretary Hull. .. But bipartisan co-operation assumed real importance only after the Republicans captured control of Congress and Sen. Vandenberg became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. By that time former Sen. Byrnes had become’ Secretary of State, However, the arrangement was not pleasing to die-hard Republican partisans. When Secretary Acheson, Mr. Byrnes’ successor, failed to maintain the same congenial relationship ~after the 1948 election, many Republicans v were well satisfied _ to see the policy pass into discard. : Now that the Democrats appear in the mood to revive the situation which existed under the Byrnes regime a reconciliation may be possible. But it would have much better prospects of success if Sen. Vandenberg could pick up his end of the burden. Unfortunately, his grave illness

seems likely to make that impossible for a long time. .

- - . " - IT is a tragedy for the country that Sen. Vandenberg has found it necessary to undergo his second major surgical operation in six months. The American people could better afford to lose the service of almost any other man in presentday publie life. However, even when in better health the Michigan * statesman was called upon to assume heavier responsibilities than he should have been asked to carry. That situation can be corrected in the present emergency with productive possiblities. Sens. Lodge, Taft, Knowland and Smith have become influential factors in the foreign relations field. The administration should recognize this, invite them into its councils, and work with them to give our foreign policy position real stability.

Not the Right Remedy ~T ESS than six weeks ago this country was on the verge of disaster because of a coal strike. That crisis ended when an agreement raised the miners’ hourly wages and increased their union's pension-fund tax on each ton of coal. They went back to work. Many mine owners raised coal prices. And Congress lost interest in President Truman's proposed thorohgh study of the “sick” coal industry. Yet now, after so brief a time, there are warnings of a new coal crisis on the way: Production overtaking demand. Glutted markets. Price-cutting wars. - High-cost, marginal mines forced to close. * Unemployment for miners. Chaos in the industry. oy llr Bn = © a » iene ONE WHO foresets eich dangers of a “riotous, competitive price situation” is Sen. Kilgore, Democrat, of coalmining West Virginia. He proposes a remedy—government price fixing, along the lines of the New Deal's old Guffey coal law, with “improvements.” tr The Kilgore bill, just introduced, would create. a bitu-. minous . coal commission to establish minimum prices for soft coal at the mines—prices calculated, in each .of 23 districts, to “yield a return not less than the average cost of production.” There would be a national advisory board, including representatives of the mine owners and the miners, 23 district advisory boards, and a consumer's council to look after “the public's interest.” The cost of all this‘ machinery would be charged to the federal taxpayers.

Mine :owpers..selling..coal- for--less-than- governments

fixed prices would be subject to fines and prison sentences. ~ » - - . - THIS, IN QUR. opinion, is no remedy -for the coal industry. That industry is ‘'sick” because its market is " dwindling— because repeated strikes and rising coal prices have driven vast numbers of consumers to other cheaper, more dependable fuels. Ceal is a great and abundant natural resource. There is urgent need to develop new and wider markets for coal, to make its supply reliable, to reduce mining costs by increased efficiency, to enable it to compete in price with oil and gas. Government price props for coal, as proposed in the Kilgore bill, would serve none of these purposes. We believe they would aggravate the industry's sickness and hasten it toward complete government control or nationalization.

Emsley W. Johnson Sr. HE community has lost a valuable leader in education, law and local government in the death of Emsley W. Johnson Sr. A member of one of the pioneer families of Indianapolis, Mr. Johnson contributed much of his efforts during the last half-century toward development of the city's educatienal - institutions and reforms in ethics of the law. ~ As a member of the Butler University Board he helped build that institution from a small ‘college to its present status as a major ery loss of his influence and — counsel for better local governnfsnt will be keenly felt.

mo UNE... By Ludwell Denny

“Cold War On U. S. Seen

Leftist Movement Strong in Guatemala

LER EE Ts ——— WASHINGTON, Apr. 13-—-Our. government is. gh and Audit Buresu of Circulations

watching with concern the growing leftist, antiUnited States movement in Guatemala. U. 8. Ambassador Richard Patterson, whe departed from there 10 days ago after threats to his safety, probably will not return. That, however, would not be displeasing to the Guatemalan government, A group within the cabinet, led by Labor Minister Baez, is waging a kind of cold war against the United States. This takes two forms. . One is the familiar propaganda campaign against alleged Yankee imperialism. The other is discriminatory administration of labor laws against American-owned come panies, and obstruction by unions. In both cases this follows the Communist line. - But #is not clear whether there is direct

contact between members of the cabinet and

the Moscow Cominform.

Few Party Members E

THE number of avowed Communist Party members is small. The number of fellowtravelers is relatively large, especially in the labor unions. These leftist unions follow Vincente Lombardo Toledano, head of the Latin-American Labor Confederation (CTAL). The Inter. American Labor Confederation (CIT), of which the American Federation of Labor is a member, was formed as a democratic organization to offset CTAL activities. Lombardo Toledano denies he is a Communist. Nevertheless, his movement in Guatemala —as8 in other Latin American countries—operates in general like a Red front organization, or at least one sympathetic with Stalin, would be expected to do. }

Lack of Stability

THE leftists are aided by {lliteracy and lack of political stability in Guatemala. There have been about 20 announced plots to overthrow the regime of President Juan Arevalo since he took office five years ago. His right hand man, Defense Minister Jacobo Arbenz, recently resigned to campaign for the presidency. Arbenz is supported hy the left-wing parties. Like Arevalo he is probably more of a political opportunist than a convinced radical. But there is no sign that he would réverse the anti-Ameri-can trend if elected, . ’ American corporations operating in the country are the favorite victims of attack. The. unions apply this pressure in the economic and propaganda fields, while the government turns the screw with discriminatory regulations. Extreme labor laws are enforced only against the United Fruit Co, and other foreign corporations—-not against Guatemalan employers.

Unfair Regulations

THIS discrimination government-owned -plantations-do—-not-pay-the wages, or provide the vacations and favored working conditions, required of the United Fruit. Pan American Airways has closed its repair shops there rather than put up with unfair regulations. Nationalization of the holdings of United States companies is agitated, but apparently is not in the immediate offing. Meanwhile, no able democratic political leader has appeared to challenge the leftists.

SPRING'S REVIVAL

There's springtime in the air again, And Spring is in my heart, I didn't know it could come back, Since we'd drifted apart.

But somehow: all the hurt is gone, The bitterness and pain, I felt because of words from you, It's Spring—1I'll smile again!

FINE WORK...

Theres no feeling anymore — For Love walked thru an open door, The pain I felt was so intense, My hopes are gone —at your expense.

I couldn't ever care for you If I tried till 1952, It's over --finished--and you're the one, Who did the job-—and a good one, son!

—Virginia Potter.

What Others Say

IT seems clear that the effect of one of the unpublished agreements arrived at in Moscow last winter was to award the USSR pre-eminent right .in China's strategic western province ASinklang)...Seeretary-of -State-- Dean Acheson:

AGRICULTURE and labor exercise the great political power. Business should regain some of that lost influence so that business, as well as agriculture and labor, becomes a major concern of the government and the public at large. — Commerce Secretary Charles W. Sawyer,

_ IN future cars, a step on the accelerator may speed up. the delivery band of monomolecularly

fisstonatie “material {to the atomic engine. =pr.

Dietrich E. Beischer, scientist at U. S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Fla.

I'M laughing because I've got 300 days before I have to pay my income tax.—Comedian Red Skelton. :

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

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EDITOR'S NOTES

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By Walter Leckrone

Time Law Not Being Violated

WE'VE had a few letters lately, it being spring, about the daylight saving time that is soon to go into effect in a good many Indiana cities, including Indianapolis. Most of them protest that “violation of the law” by these cities in moving ‘clocks an hour ahead, is going to breed “disrespect for all laws,” especially among the rising generation. We'll agree that violation of law by any arm

serious affair, and very likely to create general disrespect and contempt for all law. ‘In this case no law is being violated. Indianapolis city government, and as far as we can learn the government of all those other Indiana cities, have been very careful to violate no law relating to clock-changing. The legislature did pass a law last year which said that governmental offices had to operate on Central Standard Time in Indiana. The legislature, of course, had no power to say what kind of time anybody else should use, and the law does not attempt to do so.

Stay on Standard Time

LAST summer city and county and state offices in Indianapolis remained on Central Standard Time, just as the law said they should. That's what they plan to do this year, too. In many public offices, however, they will come to work ‘an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier during the summer months, procedure so long as the cloc ks are not changed, Private businesses, however, ‘universally moved clocks ahead one hour last year, and propose to do so again this year. They do not break any law, since there is no law against that. Since we're on the subject of law-breaking by governmental agencies though we might look further, The legislature which passed this law is required by law itself to complete ita biennial sessions and adjourn in 61 days. This one flaunted that law and stayed In session some 64 days, using the very thin subterfuge of stopping the clocks in the House and Senate chambers . . . and thus going off Central Standard Time or in short doing just what it had just prohibited. all units of government from do “Thus it was the first to violate its oWn law on Central Standard Time, and so far as we know the only government unit to do that so far. But it goes even deeper than that. The issue of daylight saving time, which was one of the hottest in the last session of the legislature, split, roughly, between cities and country, hepresentatives of rural areas wanted to prohibit .

in the legislature, although more people live in the cities of Indiana. The constitution, which is the basic law of Indiana, directs that the legislature shall adjust that representation after each census, so that

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representatiy, es of sity areas’ wanted it inne si There.are more representative es oof oral areas:

1000, or 100,000 people shall have the same representation in the legislature no matter whether they live in the-city or in the. country. Successive legislatures in Indiana, including the one which enacted this law on daylight saving time, have for 40 years refused to obey this other law and set up new districts for members of the legislature. The same group which pushed the “time” law through has blocked every effort to get the assembly to obey the other law... obviously for the reason that if it was obeyed they would lose some of their own power.

Disrespect for Law

OF course what really breeds disrespect for law, and widespread violation, is the attempt of a minority . . jority . . . to enforce its own wishes, prejudices or whims on the daily lives of others. City workers, confined inside an office or a store or a factory at their jobs all day, like to go to work earlier in the morning in summer, and get off earlier in the afternoon so as to have an extra hour of daylight for recreation or gardening. They like daylight saving time for that reason. Farmers, bound to no such schedule and outdoors generally from “dawn to dusk anyway, can see no value in it, and even though they do not observe it generally they find some inconvenience when stores close an hour earlier and radio _programs move up an hour in summer. It was their attempt to force their own wishes on the city workers that brought on all the fireworks in the first place. There is nothing, of course, sacred about Central Standard Time, or. Eastern Standard Time, or for that matter any other system of reckoning time. Many of us can recall the days when most farmers followed neither Central Standard nor daylight saving time, but relied on “sun time’ — geared more closely to the rising and setting of the sun than either of the others. Even that didn’t, and couldn't, follow the sun's movements exactly, and if completely accurate it varied every few miles as you moved east or west. In Indiana it was generally, and arbitrarily, considered. one-half-hour faster than Central

Standard .Time,. although .it actually was 29

minutes faster at one side of the state and 31 minutes faster at the other.

Compromise on Time

STANDARD time, itself, a compromise set up for convenience and to avoid confusion. Moving the clocks forward an hour in sum-

mer does cause some confusion, although not as MUCH &8 any--other method -of achieving the:

same result would cause. And the desire of factory and office workers for that extra hour of daylight after work in summer appears to be 80 great that it is doubtful if any “law” pushed through by any minority group will be able to prevent it.

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By Sidney Ellis, 914 N. Riley Ave. I do not understand the reasoning of C. D. Cs Terre Haute in his letter of Apr, 7. ‘He stated

= there “were actually more people unemployed in

1938 than there in 1932 when Mr. Roose-

C. have some special source of ine is he using these figures without verification?}In 1932 there were 12,830,000 un< employed in ) U. 8. and 1938 there were 10,« 390,000, a decrease of 2,440,080, or nearly 25 per cent, in spite of the engineered “recession” of 1937 and before the beginning of national de-

.fense. according to U. 8. Statistical Abstract is-

sued by the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national income figures from the same source show that the income fof the year 1932 wads $39.5 billions and for 1938 was $67.5 billions,

which surely means a very sy stantial increase

in employment. A } i C.D.C. also writes about the “fawning New Dealers.” There must have been a large number of them in 1936 when Mr. Roosevelt carried all the states except Maine and Vermont and in 1940 when he carried 39 states and again when Mr. Dewey out-promised the New Deal in all departments and said the reason he was running for the presidency was that he thought the people “wanted a change.” Well, did they? I think there are a number of forward look« ing Republicans, men of high caliber, who would make a good President if they could secure ‘the nomination, but are blocked by the Old Guard who live in the past and will not give way to more progressive men. I believe C. D. C. is as well fixed now or maybe better than when Mr. Roosevelt took office and has just as much freedom, but the memory of five successive presidential elections evidently rankles within him.

‘People Have a Right’ By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Dr., Woodruff Place, Dean Acheson recently said: “This isn't a job they (American people) have handed to me that they can have a relaxed and amused attitude about.” For the benefit of Mr. Acheson, and any others who may be laboring under a similar delusion, our Cabinet secretaries are not given any job by the American people. According to the Constitu-

tion, the Cabinet secretaries are the personal ..ambassadofs.of the President, appointed by him, .

and. merely approved by the Senate, and they serve at the pleasure of the President. Indeed,

it has been common practice for many recent ad- .

ministrations to make the appointments to ment who will give an undated resignation. for use when it pleased the President. : For this reason, the people have a perfect right to be as relaxed and as amused as they choose. And.if the secretary of any department does not like that attitude of the public, it is his privilege to.move over to make room for someone who will inspire a greater degree of respect. This remark of Secretary Acheson most emphatically points up the subject of an editorial on the same page “Seeds of Treason.” The worst traitors this nation can ever have, are those who piously recommend or install in key govern=ment jobs, persons whom they know to be disloyal, and let them abuse a tolerant and trusting people. Personally, I cannot see how exposure of the truth, through the loyalty files, to an accredited committee of Congress, can destroy the usefulness of the FBI or any other investigative agency. Those agencies are set up to uncover the truth. And anyone whose actions cannot bear the spotlight of truth, as shown by the files, does not deserve to be on our government payroll. And. loyal Americans who do not fear the truth will continue to supply the FBI with known true facts.

‘Party Prejudices’

By Valera E. Draper, City.

..I.wish-to-take this. opportunity to. commend. .

The Indianapolis Times for its grand write up, giving an estimate of the voters who had registered in Marion County. 1 want to urge each and every person of voting age who are residents of Marion County outside the city of Indianapolis to come out at the primary and take a part in the selection of our candidates who will hold the welfare and health problems of the county in their hands. People wishing to question my status, will find I am a Democrat, and proud-of it. Many “die hard Republicans” have given me an argument. since my appointment to the County Health Board office that politics does not enter into the Marion County Health Department. "Though 1 always try in my humble way to agree that “health problems of Marion County residents should not be made a political issue,” they will have to agree that when a County Council comprised of seven Republican members sees fit to abolish the position of Health Inspec~ tor of Marion County, despite the great need for it, that the Health office of Marion Couny is suffering as a result of party prejudice, or differences. I wish to commend Fred Nordsiek' for the work" he is: doing as County ‘Commissioner; and” for his discovery of waste in the purchasing system of the county. He is working for the interest of the public and ‘I believe that Democrats and Republicans alike wilt have to agree that Mr. Nordsiek’'s work is not being influenced by party prejudice.

FOREIGN AD... By Earl Richert

Split Over Imports

pit Apr. ‘13 “There are signs pointing to a probable split within the administration over the question of increase ing imports to enable foreign countries to earn more dollars.

man hasn't approved them. But if war came tomorrow, they would be the only plans we have, What would they do” Briefly, they would give Uncle Sam

the power to tell you where whether you could switch jobs,

how much vou'd be paid, where vou would live, what you would eat and wear, how you could

travel, what you could do with your money-—even whether you

could enlist. ~ - -

IN RETURN, Uncle Sam would try to be generous. He would foot the bill if you shifted jobs, he'd see that your wages were’ ‘adequate, he'd hold down your cost of living, he'd give you a sympathetic hearing

if you felt you were mistreated,

and he'd do all he could to protect you from the enemy. But he'd expect you to realize that it was total war. Top planners say we eased into the last war. Mobilization came slowly. We had a cushion of nine million unemployed as a base for expansion. As a result, total mobilization was not attempted. - - ” WAR controls now being prepared undoubtedly would: Control the labor market

and eliminate nonessential

obs. oo civilian production 25 to 30 per gent--from $175 billion to $125 billion—at the outset. Virtually eliminate civilian

and how long you would work, construction — apartment houses, homes, stores, etc.

Impose strict rationing. Freeze prices, wages, rents, etc. ~ ” - THE government would take over most of the nation’s markets. Government purchases immediately would go above

the $125 billion mark. Taxes

would be forced up. Industrial planners dislike the term “labor draft.” They prefer an indirect approach.

But it adds up to the same -

thing. Nonessential jobs would. 80. Wages could no longer be used as a hiring device.

THE National Security Resources Board's manpower plans anticipate the establishment of both employment ceilings ‘and hiring controls. They would freeze every essential worker for an indefinite period. At the end of the war, our labor force was 66 million. Today, it is around 59 million. The maximum Jabor force available to us up to 1955 is estimated at 719 million. Therefore, they say, stringent labor. controls cannot be avoided.

COPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. WC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

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"They kept harping till we got a television set, and now what?

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" imports manufactured goods in

On one side are Paul Hoffman, who administers Marshall

Plan money,

and the State Department.

On the other is Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, whose .

job it is to look after the welfare of U. 8. businessmen, * - *

MR. HOFFMAN says that

the increased imports which he .

envisions would have an “utterly insignificant” impact on

the U. 8S. economy. He has just

set up a new division to try to increase imports from Europe by $1 billion by 1953. Of this amount, an estimated $400 million would be goods competitive with U. 8. products. Secretary Sawyer makes it plain that he “is not so sure that a sizable increase in the

“flow of. foreign goods into this

country would have an “insignificant” effect. - * * IN A press. conference Mr, Sawyer urged a “go slow” policy statements. - He said he favored an effort to stimulate imports—-but he added that it must be selective. “There is no doubt but that which will ¢tonflict with this country will affect em-

ployment,” he said. “We have

some serious problems now in connection with import, . from Japan, for eSample.”

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_ AMONG the latest to protest against imports from Japan is

the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union of the Pacific. It says that the recent removal of quotas on oils containing vitamin A has increased imports from Japan to the extent that the Puget Sound fishing industry - has been ~ wrecked.

THIS is one small sample of the problem. The U. 8. government is now pouring about $500 million a year into the Japanese economy. And foreign poli¢y officials say that Japan must, increase her trade with us and other countries if she is to get back on her feet. But increased imports from Japan damage many small industries, “If we do not import we cannot éxport,” says Mr. Hoffman. - - -

OPPOSITION spokesmen ‘ say that Mr. Hoffman's theory is" fine for the big mass production industries but it doesn't work for the small U. 8. industries which must pay high domestic wage rdtes and operating. costs.

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