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ONGRESS won't curb govern ent sponding and borrow- + ing by any such simple device as lowering the legal limit an the national debt. .. The limit now is $275 billion. Seven Republican House members propose cutting it to $257 billion. (The debt, today, is about $2554 billion.) - «But that limit, wherever placed, means little or nothing. It's a too easily movable ceiling. Congress can raise it—and often has—to.make room for ‘continued deficit spending whenever that seems necessary or expedient or easier than practicing economy. The debt. limit, $25 billion when the New Deal began,
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had been jacked up to $49 billion by 1940. During the war 2
it climbed by annual leaps to $300 billion, then was hopefully lowered to its present level in 1946. Deficit spending proposed in President Truman's budget would carry the debt far above the seven Republicans’ proposed new limit next year. » ~ ” - ” » IF THE debt is to be kept to or below $257 billion, Congress will have to cut five or: six billion dollars out of the President’s budget. If majorities in both branches of f Congress are willing and determined to do that, they don't need a lowered legal limit to help them. And, if Congress lacks will and determination to od that, lowering the debt limit would be an idle gesture. The ceil: ing would soon have to be raised again. y i sete There may be more hope for effective economy in th resolutions, just approved by the Senate Rules Committee,
proposing amendments to the 1946 La Follette-Monroney
‘congressional reorganazation law. These would : Nn a . ONE: Create a permanent budget committee in Congress to draw up a legislative budget each year, recommend a limit on appropriations, report the amount of higher taxes or borrowing required if limit is exceedéd. . TWO: Require other committees of Congress to state the probable cost, over a five-year period, of all legislation
they approve. ; ~THREE" Make permanent the experiment; being tried this year, of consolidating ali major appropriations in one
big omnibus bill. But recommending or legislating limits on spending and borrowing—and then exceeding the limits—won’t stop the government's perilous piling up of debt. There is no substitute for a keen sense of individual and collective responsibility among the members of Congress.
Trigger-Happy Russians
HERE is strong circumstantial evidence that the U. S Navy plane which disappeared on a routine run between Wiesbaden, Germany, and Copenhagen may have been shot down by the Russians. Soviet: Foreign Minister Vishinsky has admitted that
Russian fighter planes fired last Saturday on an American - Only the
plane alleged to be flying over Soviet- held Latvia. lost Navy plane was in that general vicinity. According to Mr. Vishinsky, the American plane also fired at the Russians. Our officials say this was impossible— that our plane was unarmed. They also insist that; if the plane was flying over Soviet territory, it was off its course, because all American planes have orders not to fly within less than 20 miles of the Russian coast. If a Soviet plane became lost and appeared over American territory, it would not be fired on, of course. But we “are not the Russians. : " » . ~ ~ »
THEY are a nervous, srigg rer-happy people, under the
fron-control of “tough-minded men who ‘rule by force Tn
that uneasy part of the world they shoot without waiting to ask questions. ‘people is to stay away from them. When strangers get within the range of their guns, accidents, and alleged accidents, are bound to happen. Assuming the worst, this is not the first incident of this
kind, nor. is.it-likely to.be the last... But it-does-not follow =
that the so-called cold war is going to become a shooting war. . If the Soviets are as jittery as this incident would suggest, a real war may be the last thing they want. - Given time, the whole problem they present may be solved by internal combustion.
A Gain for Peace
N the global dog fight now going on, any time you can get even two nations to quit glowering at each other and agree on so much as the time of day it's a big gain. So it's good news that the prime ministers of India and Pakistan have signed a pact aimed at solving one of the points of conflict between them. If their parliaments okay it, they will take mutual steps to stop the communal fighting between Hindus and Moslems which has been going on since the two countries won independence from Britain in 1947. Biggest bone of contention, however, remains—the status of Kashmir, a state which is claimed by both nations. But a fund of good will has been set up and if they can draw on it for settlement of one issue maybe they can eventually dispose of all the problems between them. Anyway, Easter Sunday saw at least one cold war being thawed a bit.
Dr. Thomas B. Noble
HE advancement in surgery here during the last half a century is recalled in connection with the death of Dr.
Thomas B. Noble, who contributed a great deal to the skills .
of that profession. Beginning in the days when many operations were performed on kitchen tables lighted by oil lamps, Dr. Noble devised new techniques in abdominal surgery-through the - years as his father and grandfather, also medical men, had (done before him. Some of the improved methods of modern surgery will remain a monument to the life and achievements of Dr.
DEAR 205 - By Dan Kidowy Jenner Favors
Helping ‘Foes’
Bip 9 to Allies
For European Unity WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—Dear Boss—Dur-
First Few
ing the dark days of the U. B. economic depres- |
sion there was a gag going around the ranks of the unemployed which went like this: “The only way you can get /relief from President Hoover is to pretend you are a Belglan.” Reference of course was to the fact that the White House was opposed to any national relief organization, although Herbert Hoover had won international fame doing a bang-up job of feeding the Belgians after World War I. That old gag came back to me as I sat in the press gallery of the Senate this week and heard our Republican Sen. William E. Jenner . giving another of his series of speeches for helping Germany. This time he also had a few good words for the Japs. Since he sneered each time he mentioned our World War II Allies, I revamped that depression gag like this:
“The only foreigners Sen. Jenner feels sorry
for are our recent enemies.”
Opposed Marshall Plan
HE seems to favor helping the Germans,
but: refused to vote for implementing the Mar-
shall Plan with the Economic Recovery Administration.- His senior colleague, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), recently admitted in a television broadcast that ECA has “saved western Europe from Russian communism.” This strange stand of the junior Senator seems all the more remarkable because he was the first World War II veteran elected to the Senate.” He had served as a ground officer in the Air Force in England and often mentions in. speeches that he married an English girl. But so far as the British are congerned, rank only slightly below the Russian Commu-
nists in Sen. Jenner's castigations: ) These “poor Germans” speeches: of the Senator are cooked up by a special research
man on his staff named Albion Beveridge. He ran for the GOP senatorship in the last Maine primary and was. soundly trounced by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith. He has been on the paviolis of Sen. William Langer (R. N.D.) and Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb.). It was the latter who recommended Mr. Beveridge to him, Sen. Jenner ‘sald.
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Saved Japan...
IN his latest tirade, Sen. Jenner said that Gen. MacArthur saved Japan from the Commu-
nists by fighting Secretary of State Acheson's
“policies. “Whe has-fought-te prevent the Communists -from removing the Japanese emperor and delivering him up as a war criminal, thus destroying the whole social and political fabric of Japan?” Sen. Jenner shouted and then answered, “It was Gen. MacArthur.” The greater part of the latest Jenner speech, like several previous ones, was devoted to denouncing destruction of German industrial plants, The net of his plea is to. save the Germans and to heck with our wartime allies. He makes it clear that he means the French “and British as follows: “The Senate Foreign Relations Committee almost without exception, has unanimously supported the so-called myth of our unity of
purpose with. the Allies, a unity which is sup-
posed to have undergirded our international relations ever since the alleged break of the Western World with Russia. “At the heart of this new propaganda lies the administration's continued insistence that we share the identical aims and purposes of our
. so-called European Allies.
The best way to avoid trouble with such
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‘Wrong Policy’
“FOR five years we have been following the lead of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in pouring out billions of dollars to carry out so-called recovery and defemse programs in Europe, which we were told would lead to the integration of the economic, financial, political and military affairs of the continent as a whole. “Yet the record shows that time and again we have been warned of what was happening in Fermany. “Tine &nd again ‘we have been confronted with mounting evidence of the insanity that was involved with our policies toward those people, Time and again irrefutable proof has been produced to show how our so-called peace-loving Allies were using our billions, not to. bring about the recovery and reunification of Europe, but to divide and destroy it.” So the Beveridge-planned Jenner speeches carry on. Kind words for the Germans and a kick-in-the-pants for the British and French. Veterans of World War I cannot but feel “this is where I came in.”
- SECURITY RESOURCES . . . By Jim G. Lucas
High-Powered Job
hgn-1- Apr. 14—-W, man of the National Security Resources Board, overnightOnly the President would have greater powers.
Mr. Symington, now that this appointment has been confirmed by the Senate, must plan what he would do in case of war,
His job makes him the nation's standby economic czar ~ the new
they ° :
Stuart Symington, new chaircould become the second most powerful civilian in the United States:
vy . chairman broader
GANGSTERISM
. By Marquis Childs
Political Morals on Downgrade?
WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—Theé gang murder of Charles Binaggio and his bodyguard in Kansas City is like a sudden and evil emanation
~against-a-dark and ominous sky. TL is 4 sign for
the whole world. to see that gangsterism stil) prevails in Pendergast politics in President Truman’s own baliliwick, The murder on Truman Road will haunt the party in the ‘coming campaign. It cannot be shrugged off. Binaggio was, after all, the intimate not merely of local politicos, including Democratic Gov. Forrest Smith, but of national leaders in the Truman organization. Our political morality is in a downward spiral that would seem to be plummeting to zero. The machine gun and the smear are supplanting the
orderly and reasonable discussion of issues and...
men. In Pennsylvania the Republicans -are in the middle of a party quarrel that has fallen almost to the Pendergast level. No murder has occurred as yet, but the charges of graft, crime and corruption are flying like big, thick, wet mud pies.
Machine Bosses
GOV. JAMES DUFF is fighting it out with the powerful machine bosses led by the venerable former Sen. Joseph R. Grundy. Gov. Duff is campaigni for the Repu for Senator against Congressn¥an John C. Kunkel who is Mr. Grundy’s man. The seat is now held by Sen. Francis J. Myers, Democ ratic whip of the Senate. Mr. Kunkel in a recent speech charged Mr. Duff with “having. made the most brazen politi-
cal deal” in Pennsylvania history—a bargain to -
hand control of the state government over to political corruptionists in return for their financial support and their controlled votes.” That is strong language in the state that has produced some pretty high-flying corruptionists. “=But-Mr. Kunkel “went “oni ~in““a state-wide broadcast initiating his campaign to accuse Mr. Duff of “joining hands" with corrupt county bosses, a railroad lobby and a whisky lobby. Just to round things out, he accused Mr. Duff's candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, Judge
John Fine, with being a “political judge who in -
flagrant defiance of ethics and decency has been the boss of Luzerne County, which has the most corrupt political . machine to be found in Pennsylvania.” Gov. Duff replied with a heated denial and the charge that “important men in the Grundy organization” were “guilty of corruption.” He
SIDE GLANCES
ican nomination
\t ot h some choice language ahout his opponent: . “Kunkel is not smart enough to have made
...those._ clever distortions.himself. A -slow-witted, --
spoiled rich boy who never grew up to be a real man, Kunkel is merely the Charlie McCarthy for the venom of Owlett {Republican National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett), one of the most unscrupulous men in the Republican Party in high place, either in or out of Pennsylvania.”
Stassen in the Middle
HAROLD STASSEN, former governor of Minnesota and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, is somewhere in the middle of this brawl, vaguely aligned with the Grundy
faction.and Jay. Cooke, -who--has-the- Grundy--—-
Owlett backing for the governorship. It is a fast, rough league for Harold to be traveling with. Whether he comes out unscarred in a relatively. neutral position is anybody's guess. All this pleases ‘the Democratic politicians who have in recent years been hard at work exposing Republican chicanery in Philadelphia: Partly as a result of these exposures the Democrats showed remarkable strength last fall, with Richardson Dilworth, a reform Democrat, elected treasurer of the city. Mr. Dilworth is expected to be the Democratic candidate for
governor. ; Exposure is one thing. But a kind of pot-and-
kettle name-calling is something else again. The net effect of that is to disgust voters who have no very close ties with either party.
Crime Syndicates
A SENATE investigation of organized national crime syndicates, such as Sen, Estes Kefauver has been working hard for, might help to clear up the ugly mess. That is, it would help if it could be kept clear. of political - controls and oversensationalism. Mere headline hunting will contribute nothing but further confusion and disgust. Those who inveigh most loudly and indignantly against the intervention of the federal government into the affairs of the states are more often than not precisely those who demand that the FBI be sent in to restore law enforcement. The federal government can provide some assistance. It can break the networks that
extend across state lines. But it cannot restore
morality and decency to local politics.
By Galbraith
airlines.
newspaper’
"¢rat sees this and he says:
to fight back a, by the Associa
oY Gl vor area 8 vita PPyee ayer
wit defend fo the dasth you right fo uy 0."
At'the present time one can hardly pick up a without"
saucers, not only in our country, but all over the world. The people in Warren Township wouldn't even get excited if we saw a flying saucer. The reason for this is we have one of those up-to-date sandwich and refreshment stands just west of Shortridge Road. Ever since it has been there the property for nearly one-half mile around has been littered with fiying paper plates and napkins. The National Road is, as you know. the main entrance to Indianapolis and tourists coming in don't get a very good impression of our city. The neighbors complained to our
‘league and we called on the owner of this busi.
ness and he promiséd to put a wire fence around his ground, About six months later he had the posts put in. Today it's still that way; no wire on them. ‘County officials don't do a thing about it. When the owner applied for a zoné variance
"to operate he came before the Warren Zoning Board begging us not to oppose him. In a weak
moment we. granted his request, but due to our experience with this one it will be hard for any one else to get a variance.
P. 8. The slogan for Indianapolis, I believe,
is “Civic Beauty is Our Duty.” We believe in that for Warren Township.
‘Trying to Confuse People’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City.
The newspapers and radio and our Republican leaders are trying to confuse the people by mixing President Truman's health program with socialized medicine. The Democratic Party does not advocate socialized medicine any more than it believes in communism or socialism. Under President Truman's health program he is trying to work out an insurance plan so that everyone can afford proper medical care. A Socialist sees a family driving a nice car
‘and proud of their home and trying to improve
by being energetic and saving.. He says: “What's the use of going to all of that trouble, when if we stick around lorig enough the government
‘will give it to us.” -
A Communist sees the same thing and he says: “No man should have so much.” A Demo“All men should A ‘Republican sees the same Why should the laborer have
earn as much.” thing and adds:
all .these..things.when--they-were-intended- for f=
we bigwigs? If we give the laborers a better wage they will enjoy the same comforts as we
us. We can't have this going on in a free country. :
‘Wars Could Be Averted’
By Charles W. Burton, 911 E. Maryland St.
There was a time in history when men were drafted for military duty to fight in the face of the enemy with guns and bayonets, but the
-backbone-of the war was formed by the people
who stayed home and made big profits, All this is changed now that atom bombs may be dropped on the people, including those who make war profits. I think that all wars could be averted if people really knew the facts and would stop and think and act.
What Others Say
THE time has come when we cannot afford longer to delay the modernization of such types (of weapons) ‘as tanks, anti-aircraft artillery,
‘recoilless weapons and various classes of vehicu-
lar equipment.- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
TO support the (Chinese Nationalists) seems _
futile, but I do not think anyone can make the fina) decision except the United Nations General Assembly.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
WE must recognize that pensions are here
40. stay ~—William-B.- Barton; ‘employer-employe
relations director for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,
UNTIL war is eliminated from international relations. unpreparedness for it is well nigh as Sriminal as war itseif.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenower,
THIS is no ordinary election year, It is the most crucial of elections: ~Mrs. Gilford Mayes,
assistant chairman of ‘the Republican National Committee,
IF left to the peoples of the world, there would be peace.—Vice President Barkley.
TRANSPORTATION . . . By Earl Richert
Air Subsidy Fight
WASHINGTON, Apr. 14 Y 1g industry is preparing gainst a devastating attack on airline subsidies" tion of American Railroads. The attack, delivered by Sidney 8. Alderman ‘of the Southern
Railway Co. before a Senate Interstate Commerc probably was the most co heures,
program of government aid to ® = a MR. ALDERMAN. A180. Af
mprehensive ever made, against .the
finding a story about flying
-10_be kept “ready, . until and... _bowers. it we go to, war, Mr. Symington and Presi-
_ dent Truman first must decide
whether the Board is to remain merely a - planning agency. By law, it is the President's adviser on industrial, ci
vilian and military mobilizawith ‘the.
tion. Its chairman, President and Secretaries of State and Defense, i= a. member of thq National Security Council: ha edt ge IN the past, Mr. Truman has ihsisted ‘that its sole duty -is to “advise the President.” In 1948, he wrote the then Chairman Arthur Hill, “I do not intend to vest in the Board any responsibility . . which re‘quires the exercise of directive authority.” He continued that policy while Dr. John R. Steel-
man was acting chairman of
the Board.
Elder Statesman - Bernard
Baruch has condemned that as
a policy of “vacillation and neglect.,” He thinks the Board must have peacetime regulatory powers. Ferdinand Eberstadt, who conducted studies for Mr, Hill,
urged that the Board “learn
to walk by walking” Mr. Baruch says we have no mobilization - plan because the Board has not asked for stand: by legislation. Mr. Truman and Dr. Steelman say that we have plans and that legislative proposals are ready. - - » THOSE who know Mr. Symington believe he will not be happy as a planner. He is
essentially a man of action.
hey point out Mr. Truman knows Mr. Symington .inti-
mately, 50 he may plan to give
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A Standby “emergency pow- oo
ers act” has been ready in the National Security Resources Board for 18 months. It would let the President create new government corporations, build defense plants, set up a system of priorities, by-pass anti-trust
laws, requisition, establish im-
port-export controls, establish
censorship, stabilize prices and
wages
and renegotiate contracts. ’
:Many of those. Powers .were . .. ....g
established by Congress during . .
the war and later withdrawn, Others were established by executive order. The emer-
gency powers act would estab-
lish them by law in advance of hostilities. | ~ ” - HO'NEVER, they could be used only if Congress gave the
_ signal, or if the country were
thrust into war before- Congress could act. In that case, the existence of a “state of war” would be enough. A surprise attack, for instance, might make it ‘impossible for Congress to meet. If war came tomorrow, Mr. Symington undoubtedly would assume control of the nation's economy. The National Security Resources Board has absorbed the records and functions of 137 emergency hoards created during World War IL. Its chairman would become the World War III equivalent. of James and Fred Vinson. Its department. heads —now comparative little knowns would step into
the shoes of such’ men as’
Joseph Eastman, Paul V. MecNutt, Donald Nelson, etc. ® .¥ »
U N DER Mr. Symington. .
Frank Shields, a former war production board official, would be
director of war production.
Byrnes -
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just because | let Junior use the car tonight for the ‘first time!"
James C. O'Brien, a career man, would be director of war manpower. Oscar Endler, another career man, would be director - of economic controls. Former Navy Capt. Granville Conway would be director of defense transportation. "The Board was created in 1947. ‘It has never functioned effectively, however. Mr, Hill, a- West Virginia Republican ‘who had been a wartime special assistant to the Navy Secretary, was the first chairman. Mr. Hill disagreed with President Truman; he felt the Board should have more authority, He resigned Dec. 15, 1948.
. MR. TRUMAN tried to appoint his old Senate friend,
Mon C. Waligren. The Senate.
Armed Services Committee rejected him. It was not until then that many realized the almost dictatorial role the chairman would play in the nation's war economy. : Since then, Mr. Steelman has been acting chairman. He tried to give the job half of each day. He did not always succeed. along. Many’ of its key men drifted into.other fields. Some planning was’ done, but little co-ordination was achieved.
The Board coasted .
s<He:blasted every" phage" ore the airline subsidy program’ in a 78-page statement, thick with - supporting statistics and on which he had worked for
months, # » =»
HE asserted that the airlines no longer were an infant in-
“dustry which needed govern-
ment aid; that there was no analogy between the present
airline subsidies and the land
grants to the railroads in the
_early days, and that airlines ... ‘have no. special military sig-’ nificance to entitle them to . "i continuing subsidies on national defense grounds.
The airlines knew what was
‘coming. Even before the rail-
roads unfolded their case, Robert Ramspeck, executive vice president of the Air Transport Association, requested permission to answer. The airlines had not been scheduled to testify at the present hearings on transportation problems because they estified last year. "” » “WE will Ewer the railroad charges point by point,” said arr Air Transport Association spokesman. Mr. Alderman objected to the Civil Aeronautics Board's policy of making special mail-pay payments to the airlines for losses due to grounding of aire craft. “When one .of our Jlocomotives is condemned as unsafe,
nobody reimburses us,” he said. That's rather extraordinary mail pay—for the
grounding of aircraft.” He said that Transcontinental and Western Air, and United Airlines each had received $2 million from the government, in addition to all other mail revenue, for losses incurred when Constellation and DC-8 aircraft were grounded a few years ago.
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“safled the ‘statement -that the a Four (American, TWA, United and Eastern) airlines are not subsidized. The socalled nonsubsidy mail rate for the Big Four was put into effect on Jan. 1,-1948. In that year, Mr. Alderman sald, TWA
each to enable them to break even.
“The air carriers,” he said, ,
“are the-only agenciesof trans“portation in the United States which are virtually guaranteed by the government against loss.” Mr. Alderman praised Eddie V. Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Airlines. He quoted Mr: Rickenbacker extensively, including such statements from the Eastern president as: “Air transportation is suffering from too much coddling and wet Ruraing. » o ~ MR. ALDERMAN said that the airlines were getting four subsidies: Mail pay which in most cases is far in excess of
.a fair charge for carrying the
mail; free use of beacons, weather services and airport control towers which are paid for by the taxpayers; the use of publicly provided Te at charges which, on the average, fall far short of the cost; the benefit of government financing of agronautical research.
HE said that Congress should adopt and apply a policy
which would place airline op-
erations on. a self-sustaining basis, Of the land grants to railroads. he said that they applied to only eight per cent of railroad mileage and that in
return the government was
given lower than commercial rates, 6" fii a
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