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A Matter of Credit M#& TRUMAN, reviewing his five years as President, says the country is in fine shape. We hope he's right about that.
“He “adds—and it's only natural that he should—
that his administration deserves and intends to claim the credit. Other men in his position have seldom been too modest to claim credit for prosperity. Mr. Truman has plenty of precedents. : There was, for instance, Calvin Coolidge. The country was in fine shape when he was President. At least, it seemed to be. And he certainly didn't try to discourage the idea that its good condition was due to having a smart man in the White House. ” ” ” . 1 . ” »
MR. COOLIDGE was smart, too. Smart enough that
he didn't choose to run in 1928. The hext year, when the
roof fell in on Herbert Hoover, cautious Cal was in honored retirement, and safe from blame. Come to think of it, the Coolidge boom followed a big war. And the current Truman boom has followed a much bigger war.
Both wars forced the government to borrow and spend Both saw great inflation of prices.
vast amounts of money, Both hugely increased the country’s supply of cash and credit—the second war on a far larger scale than the first. a = a °° » % WE AREN'T insisting on a parallel. But many respectable authorities do argue that booms growing out of
wars are dangerous—that trying to keep them going by ‘the same methods that: created them in the first place is ~~ %
likely to cause them to bust—that the only wise course is to let them deflate themselves gradually and safely. : But maybe that's just a theory.. Maybe this post-war boom is different from the one that did bust with such a bang. And maybe Mr. Truman deserves all the credit he claims for it. / : For our part, though, we'd feel a trifle more confident of the country’s fine shape if so many of Mr. Truman's plans for prosperity didn't call for the government to keep on stretching its own credit by spending borrowed money.
Empire Preference Again
MARSHALL PLAN supporters in this country are making a determined effort to sell the idea here that we must buy, as well as sell, goods abroad if the gains made through the American assistance program are to be lasting.
Obviously, too, we must do this if we expect to stay in the world market, after the end of the give-away program. Unless we buy approximately as much from other countries as they buy from us, our friends abroad will not have the dollars to do business with us. But it's a poor rule that doesn’t work both ways. . ”. ” LJ » . THE United States has made, and is making, some very real concessions to the British because of their acute dollar shortage. -On-that aceount there has-been very little-com: plaint against Britain's policy of buying the bulk of its goods from within the empire, rather than from us. However, it is imposing upon good nature to carry this to the point of practically excluding American goods from British markets. Malaya is a case in point. This year 25 to 30 per cent of Malaya's total export production is expected to. come to the United States. But imports from the United States are to be shaved to less than 4 per cent of the goods Malaya must buy. We submit that is making too much of a good thing. ~ " ” : ” ” . IN-1947; our exports-to Malaya were worth almost $175 million. The figure dropped to $71 million in 1948, and to -$39 million in 1949. Import restrictions, now reported to be planned, will cut the total well below $35 million. In the pre-war period Britain's empire preference policy barred most of our goods from the empire.market, and Britain seems to be reverting to that policy under the guise of .a temporary relief measure: - But-isn't-such-a-policy; once re-established, likely to become permanent?
“It’s Only Money
AS the federal deficit increases, it's good to know that the yachtsmen of Annapolis; Md.; may not have to roll up their white pants and wade ashore when ‘the Chesapeake Bay gets too choppy next year. They won't, that is, if the Senate approves the current” “$1.6 billion ¥ivers and harbors bill. The House has ‘passed it. In the measure is a little $76,700 item (1946 prices) for creating a yacht basin for 75 pleasure-boat owners who have summer cottages near Annapolis. They've been com: plaining that when they go sailing or cruising sudden squalls sometimes force them to beach their boats and walk home. Actual damage to a few of the 50-foot cabin cruisers totaled $7650 in the past five years. r - . . ” . . A “MORE steady flow of oysters to market” might be afforded if the oyster fleet used the basin—and owners of the high-class residential land thereabouts made it clear they were perfectly willing for the oystermen to use it, in winter. Although the Naval academy made no request for such an improvement, it is also “reasonable to believe” that the basin would benefit midshipmen learning how to handle small boats. That's the way the Army engineers look at the project—and unless the Senate whacks it off, Uncle Sam will be putting up $76,000 for that yacht basin, plus annual items—of $1000 for upkeep and $3308 for interest and depreciation. No proposal was made for paying back the prinelpal, - It's only money—but it's the taxpayers’ money, the equivalent of the federal income taxes paid by 393 married men (each with two children) on garnings of $4000 a year.
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Saturday, Apr, 15, 1950
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ASIA cols hr bvaBey Hope of Peace “Seen in India
Plunge Toward War Stopped Temporarily =.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—The IndiaPakistan agreement guaranteeing rights of re-
ligious minorities is the best break in Asia in -
many months. It does not eliminate the danger of war be- . tween the partioned neighbors of old India. It . does not cover- explosive territorial, economic and political disputes, But at least it has stopped for & moment the plunge toward war, Both governments, after long failure in statesmanship, have shown a spirit of conciliation. 4 The importance of peace in the sub-continent of India cannot be éxaggerated. In all Asia it is the only major area in which communism is not an’ immediate threat internally. It is the one area large enough and potentially strong enough to lead the weak but
‘against Stalin's conspiracy of conquest.
Aid to Red Aggression
. BUT only potentially. Unless Pakistan can reconcile their disputes, and turn their energies from civil war pursuits to the solution of grave social problems, they can become an invitation instead of barrier to Soviet aggression.
Already Stalin’ s fifth columns are operating
among the desperate and disillusioned hordes of Hindus and Moslems, whose hopes of a native heaven after British withdrawal have led to more frustration. Though these Communist movements still lack the disruptive power of «those in Burma, Malaya and Indo-China, they are growing. For centuries India’s strategic position and riches, together with internal division and weakness, have tempted foreign conquerors. Russia Is .at the gateway where Pakistan and India, and their disputed province of Kashmir, meet, And Red China is next door,
Setup for Stalin
80 AN India-Pakistan war would be a set-
up for Stalin. It would provide the internal chaos needed by his fifth columns there. And it
probably would precipitate the kind of disguised Soviet intervention by which Stalin took China
and almost grabbed Iran and Greece, That almost certainly would lead to war. Neither the United States nor Great Britain, much ‘less the dominions of Australia and New Zealand, would hold their hands while that subcontinent fell to Russia, All.of which. belps. 1o..explain..the. joy. .in. Washington and London.over the new evidence 5f reconciliation between India and Pakistan, however faint, It is a restrained -joy because Allied officials are aware of the difficulties in ‘completing: that reconciliation. The sincereity of Prime Ministers Nehru of India and Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan is assumed. But there is still the hard task of enforcement of minority rights. There are a thousand years of bad blood between Hindus and Moslems.
Oppose Toleration
WELL-ORGANIZED religious fanatics in each country oppose all policies of ytoteration: Most of the 11 million Hindu and Moslem refugees . from the 1947 massacres, and the one million from the recent Bengal violence, have a vested interest in perpétuating the communal feud. Nevertheless, if Nehri and Liaquat are willIng to stake their careers on rooting out this evil of minority persecution before itdestroys their countries, they probably can succeed with joint sustained effort. : And; though the religious dispute is not the only one, it underlies the others—the territorial quarrel over Kashmir, the trade war, and the political hostility.
LOVE DEFINED
The willingness to do, and share, Where love rules first, and last. In every way—to show you care— In which role are you cast?
True love will never let you down. “Tove tempers each day's sorrow, Bids your every trouble down, Giving hope for each tomorrow.
A loyal friend . . . right at your side— To cheer you, when you're blue. Some one in whom you can confide What love can .-, . love will do.
If vows you made just to be broken Better far . . , if left . . . unspoken.
—Mary R. White, 854 N. Sherman Dr.
CENSUS QUESTIONS . . .
Basis of New Laws?
WABHINGTON, Apr. 15=A 1ot of the questions being asked by census takers these next few weeks may seem pretty silly. Fot
instance
“If your house is rented furnished, what would it rent for un-
furnished?”
Did this person do any work at all last week, not counting
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TRADE UNIONS .
‘World Social Reform Movement
~ TL GTON, “Apr. 15 “Oriental traders and businessmen are-in for a big surprise and a rude awakening. From the Bosphorus to Bali —-all across the Middle East and Southeast Asia —they are about to come up agaihst a world-wide labor union organizing movement.. The blow may not come fast. The punch may be telegraphed ahead for several years before it lands. But when it hits, the result is apt to be loud screams of anguish against the western European and American democracies for allowing this to happen. What this amounts to is that something like the American New Deal or the social reforms
_ that preceded it in Western Europe is. about. to - be transplanted into the Middle East and South
Asian countries.” They are principally Greece, Turkey, Iran, India, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Viet Nam and Indonesia. The western powers want to see them democratized as a bulwark against advancing communism. .
More Freedom
THE general formula for this salvation is translated to mean that the peoples of these countries must have more freedom. All vestiges of the old colonial oppression are to be thrown off. The people are t6 be given a higher standard of living. Freedom and a higher standard of living are being sold, or offered, as something far better than communism. ) The realization that the higher standard of living of western civilization has been won only after years of industrial revolution, collective bargaining, personal sacrifice, high taxes and governmental reform may not have registered on the Oriental mind. But there are signs at hand, if anyone will take the trouble to read
“them:
The sharp note which U.- 8. Ambassador Henry F. Grady recently handed to the Greek government bluntly told the Greeks to hold local elections, put their financial house in order and start collecting some taxes, or else. The else was a threat to stop U. 8. Marshall plans to build new power plants for raising the living standards of the -Greek people, From India come reports that native businessmen and the families of great hereditary
wealth are alarmed by the social“reforms of
SIDE GLANCES
By Tabor
. By Peter Edson
the hew Indian- government, “This- government -
is trying desperately to raise living standards for India’s wretched hundred millions. Indians
, With money are refusing to invest their private
funds in new enterprises which India needs to develop her own economy. They do not consider conditions safe. The line may have a familiar ring. a
Mission to Asia
IN Washington, J. H. Oldenbroeck of The Netherlands, secretary general of the new International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, meets with top officials of AFL and CIO. It is —announced that ICFTU will soon sénd a fourman mission to Southeast Asia for two months to study trade union conditions, This mission will make plans for setting up a “trade union college” to teach collective bargaining in-that part of the world. - In the fall a similar mission will be sent to the Middle East. Next fall there will be a labor union mission to Africa.
Ultimately there are plans to bring native
trade union leaders from these countries to western Europe and the United States, to see how labor organizations are run and what they accomplish in this part of the world. It is not difficult to imagine the shudders that convulse bankers and employers in these underdeveloped countries as they contemplate such manifestations of progress. Some of these
countries, like Turkey, don’t have any trade unions at all. In others, only a few crafts are organized.
Reform or Communism
THE. choice. of capital in these areas; however, is to take more, democracy, more social reform, more trade unionism and collective bargaining—or else to take communism, which means confiscation of all wealth. Incidentally the free, democratic trade unions see themselves as the real bulwark of salvation against communism. « Secretary General Oldenbroeck takes what seems to be a rational, trade-unionist’s point of view on the three-year
experimental program his ICFTU is launching.
in these underdeveloped countries,
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Enslavement of People’.
By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St. -
up for the purpose of ing the many collective elements of ¢ society. Good governments are predicated on Justice, freedom and the general welfare of the gov-
‘erned. It is necessary that men be placed in
positions of trust and power to carry on the
business of government, since it is impossible -
for all to participate directly in’ this matter. In democracies, these officers are elected by the people and become the servants of the people. Our own government was established on these grounds. . Our Constitution framed by the wisdom of our greatest men, endeavored to safeguard and preserve these principles. But since under all governments the influence of character of the office holders remains the same, it was impos-
-sible for. our forefathers -to guarantee that
future officials would possess the same noble character as themselves; it was impossible for them to guarantee. good government in the future. Since men seek to be great, to have power and riches largely to satisfy their own vanity, the methods they employ to reach their goal is anything but fair and good. Power seems to bring to men lust for more power and to overcome whatever good morals once possessed. In government, in time this brings a total disregard of the people's welfare and finally, as history proves, enslavement of the people. It is regrettable but seemingly true that our
own government is rapily drifting in this direc. -
tion, directly through the actions of our Congress, with our governing class repudiating nearly all the good principles of our government. Anyone inclined to object to the state. ment, governing class, I advise to check and see what proportion of the lawyer profession compose our office holders. If we could elect officers who believe firmly in the right and have the courage to do the right, even when it interferes with their personal right direction.
‘Referees Unfair’ By Mrs. Harold Collier, 2916 E. 19th St.
An open letter to Ott Heller, coach, Indianapolis Caps: You might like to know that your fans think you are a fine coach and we are behind yoda 100 per cent. No doubt you already know that the last game had the worst refereeing that we have r between Hershey and Indianapolis, and that smelled. Time after time the referee penalized the Cap players and closed his eyes to the slashing, highsticking and roughing by the Barons. I believe in being fair to both sides and if the referees can't see what is going on, then put in a third, or else remove them, Has the hockey commission closed its eyes, too? If this continues, it will be the end of hockey for Indianapolis. I wasn't the only one to register a complaint. The whole section in which we sat were protesting. It begins to look as if the Caps will have
to _beat the referee as well as the opposing
team. More power to the Caps.
‘Commendable Action’ By Mrs. D. L. Watkins, 1146 W. 27th St. I wish to commend Mr. Maio and Mr. Feezle for their disregard of their own safety in capturing the man whose car struck an elderly man and then showed his contempt by trying to flee the scene of an accident.
Views on the News
By DAN KIDNEY
ONE easy way to improve the administrae tion would be for President Truman to poste pone running until 1952,
POPE PIUS made a radical Easter address, He called on all Christians to act like it.
THE Home Front—Congress should consider voting some arms aid for the Missouri Democrats.
.- THAT Pickerel sibmarine trip from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor proved that the Navy has gone underseas and not underground.
CIVILIZATION .1950—Bob Hope and Arthur Godfrey will earn more this year than Einstein in a lifetime. DEFINITION — Politics — The only trade wherein a "professional gets insulted if you charge him with working at it.
IT'S getting so you can recognize a successes ful Fair Dealer by his Florida tan.
EUROPE DEFENSE . . . By Bruce Biossat
U. S.
Zz WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—Some European: defense experts think the United States ought to have virtually a permanent garrison of troops stationed in Western Europe. According to this our soldiers would be based for many years in Germany or France, or perhaps both countries.
Leadership
good, a great sep. would be taken in the
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.how.many.
work around the house?” “Last year, how much money did his relatives in this. household receive from interest, dividends, veterans’ allowances pensions, rents, or other - income, aside from earnings?” o ~ ~
FOR farmers, couple of hundred special questions to fill out, on both sides of a big sheet of paper. They want to know everything about the farmer's life, including ~cantaloupes, cow: peas, tame dewberries and tur--keys over four months old he raised. . All these seemingly silly questions are. supposed to have a purpose. It may take a year and a half to compile the answers, . By that time a lot of data may be out of date. The country {8 growing faster than many experts thought possible. Marriage and birth rates are up. Total population will be over 151,000,000, Farm population is declining. There may be 47,000,000 families,
ALL these things create new problems for Congress. Answers to the census takers’ questions may be the basis Yor new farm, housing; social security, education and other legislation for the next 10 years. Take housing. All housing legislation proposed or passed since the end of the war hasbeen based on conflicting estimates of supply and demand Private industry home baild- . ers insist they can take care of the situation. Advocates of more public housing insist that the private building industry - hasn't taken adequate care of . the situation in the past and
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won't be able to do it in the future, 8a THE 1950 census . taker's first housing question is to determine how many families are living in single houses, row houses, apartments, flats, trailers, tents, rented rooms, hotels or other institutions. - The census taker will also have to determine how old housing units are, many are dilapidated. He will
and "how
have to count houses with hot =.
“and “éold running water, _ water: only, outside faucets, “hand pumps, wells, bathtubs, showers, outside privies, radios, TV's, iceboxes, kitchen sinks or no such fixtures at all. Also, how. many families ‘have to share such facilities. : ~ ‘» 5
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HOUSING units owner-occu-pled, rented and vacant will be counted. Rentals and sales prices will be asked. And finally, whether the property has a mortgage on it. There will be no snooping on the size of the mortgage— just whether or not there is one. All this detailed information, involving sormhe 30 questions, each with two to five possible answers, ought to give a pretty accurate picture of America's housing situation. It will also be good market data for manufacturers and merchants of house furnishings. All this housing data can then be coupled with answers to the most controversial question of all. which every fifth person must answer, It is, “Last year how much money did you earn working as an employee for wages or salary?” This will provide a good basis for determining just what income groups need what hous-
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ing, and what price they can afford to pay for it. This is the key to all housing legislation: : = i - . THE questions on employment—about 20 of them —are going to give an acurate answer to unemployment conditions. There has been much criticism of present Bureau of Census sample surveys on unemployment. The present figure of over 4,600,000 is considered low, in that it does not include workers laid off, temporarily unemployed, or working only part time, If all these categories were included, unemployment might be over 6,000,000.
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Census questions on how many weeks anyone worked last year, and how many weeks he spent looking for
‘work, will give a more. accu-
rate picture on the length of unemployment periods for people not in the state unemploy-
ment insurance systems. This -
is the basis for bills now before Congress, aimed at increasing unemployment benefits, Three questions which every fifth person will be asked to
‘answer cover the amount of
schooling he has had. Answers: will provide data on whether
“there is need for federal aid
to. education. A bill to provide
-uag ay) passed FRY pie yons ate, but is stalled in the House.
“Point Four”
The idea is said to be that American troops would provide
leadership for Europe's defense
forces and “also wotild ‘tend to
calm French nerves in event the Germans take part in the
Western Powers’ defense arrangements. - Ld [J
ALMOST certainly--=there’'s another unspoken reason. ‘why this suggestion is being made. Western Europeans find themselves unable to forget this country’s isolationist past. De-
.Spite.the.recovery. program; the ..
North Atlantic Treaty, foreign arms aid. and the proposed plan for development of backward areas; Eu-
. rope always has a lurking fear
that we will again draw back into our shell. The presence of U. 8. troops on European soil would be the strongest possible assurance that we would be involved in any new conflict that might get started-there. Any assault by the Soviet Union upon Western Germany or France would mean an attack on American soldiers. They would fight back, and so would the rest of us. ” . »
CONSEQUENTLY the U. 8.
uniform in Europe is a greater comfort to skeptical Europeans than this country’s signature
“on any number of formal de-
fense pacts. Alliances can be repudiated or ignored, but a
nation seldom. abandons its - outpost forces to any enemy
without a fight. / Yet even if Europe believed American isolationism quite dead and that our. participation in a common defense was assured no matter where our soldiers were stationed, its statesmen undoubtedly would
still Jook to us for military
leadership.
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EUROPE. has no lack of manpower to pour into defense units. But Britain, France, Italy and the smaller nations no longer have the economic and financial resources to support huge land armies in the field. They are all hard put to keep on _their feet without such expenditures. The vefy limited goal of 36 Atlantic Pact divisions by 1955 will ‘be diffi« cult to attain,
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“WITH Europe clearly look ing to the U. 8. for the economic sinews needed to beef up is per-
to us also for the leadership those units require. Whether we like it or not,
- the brutal facts of the post-war
era have cast this country as the leader of the free nations both in the diplomatic sphere and-in the realm of military defense. It does not seem like-
-ly we. shall be able to escape
playing this role to the hilt.
Barbs
A MILK wagon horse in Philadelphia, after walking out on its driver, was caught when it stopped for a red light. We could use some more such horse sense.
AN Eastern college offers a course for janitors. Maybe we're in for some sweeping reforms.
DON'T be embarrasseq whem the census man calls. Just pre~ tend you're on one of those radio quiz programs.
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