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RFC Dabbles in oil

THE more light Sen. Fulbright's committee turns on the ~* RFC’s .business-lending deals the less taxpayers are going to like what they see. The first case, the RFC's promise to lend $11 million "to the Tex-Mass Petroleum Corp., seems to have little to recommend it from the taxpayer's viewpoint. If the loan is actually made, the principal beneficiaries apparently will be some Boston financiers who will be bailed out on some loans they made in haste to that company. Of course no Bostonian with a proper respect for money should get involved in an oil loan. And it's an even less acceptable enterprise for government bureaucrats handling taxpayers’

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THERE'S no business like oil business when it comes to losing money. In the Southwest there are some very large banks with plenty of money in their tills whose officers and petroleum engineers know how to protect themselves against the hazards of that industry. And that's where the better oil loans are made. If oil promoters can fast-talk Bostonians jnto venturing where Texas bankers hesitate to tread, that should be just so much hide off the Bostonians. And there's no reason whatever, so far as we can see, why the RFC should be assuming such risks with our tax money.

But Not Our ‘Voice’ WEN LATTIMORE may be mone of the things Sen. McCarthy has charged him with being. Judgment on

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But if Dr. Lattimore's interpretations of China for the

West are no more accurate than his interpretations of the

United States to the rest of the world, it's small wonder the State Department got into trouble through his guidance. In the March issue of the United Nations World, defending Russia against the charge of dominating Red China, Dr. Lattimore said: ; : “Our habitual thinking about China, as about the rest of Asia, is in the terms of areas and peoples that are normally controlled ‘on’ the inside ‘from’ the outside. This concept is usually expressed in some such phrase as: ‘If we ‘aren't controlling them, the Russians must be.'” ” » ~ . ”. » " HERE we have a man setting up a false hypothesis and then proving his case by it. . Where in our literature, or in our military or political history, can Dr. Lattimore show that our “habitual thinking” has been in terms of control of other “areas and peoples”? Where, anywhere in the world, are we in control, or do we seek control, outside of Japan and Western Germany, where we are present, reluctantly, on a temporary basis, as a matter of military necessity ? We cannot recall ever having heard any American express the concept Dr. Lattimore has described. Yet, during the war, as a high official in the office of war information, this man was part of the “Voice of America.” J That Deluxe Edition! OR us there is a certain irreverent fascination in the experiment being tried by the book publishing firm of Doubleday and Co. Certain of its books are being published in two editions—one cloth-bound, to sell at the regular price, and a $1 paper-bound ‘readers’ ” edition. The implication there would seem to be clear. It is that people who really want to read the book will buy the dollar

edition. The fancy cloth-bound job, presumably, is for those who are more interested in decorating their library.

. = » ‘ ~ = ” WE applaud Doubleday for this bold plan. But we warn that complications threaten. A kind of. intellectual snobbery is apt to grow up among the purchasers of the dollar edition. People may become fearful of being seen with the de luxe edition lest it be thought that they are not authentic “readers,” And that, of course, might be financially disastrous for the publisher. For there is a substantial difference in profit between say, a $3.50 book, and a simple little tome—boast-

- ing nothing but text—which retails for a buck.

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EDPLE who have been wondering what ever became of

“EU Hénry ‘Wallac the other day. It quoted him as saying the Russians may yet. outdo the United States in following the “teachings of Jesus Christ.” Our danger, he warned, *“is that the Russians will eventually develop a greater capacity .to understand and cure the suffering of the world than we.” . That ought to dispel any curiosity about Henry ‘Wallace.

Party Line ENATE Democratic leaders have proposed that two Senate committees combine their forces for a “hardhitting" investigation of nation-wide crime. There might be some variety in it, at that—with all witnesses testifying: “I am not now a criminal, I never was a criminal, and I refuse to say whether I ever belonged

to a criminal front on the grounds that it might incriminate me.”

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(COMMUNIST authorities in Eastern Germany are reported to have set an egg-a-day quota for hens in a certain province. or : Two correspondents of Pravda, Moscow newspaper, just arrived in this country, have sent back their first story saying New York is a dirty, unwashed city, its streets littered with decaying garbage. These guys probably figure they're on the same quota =they’ve got to lay one egg a day. ;

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that score must be suspended until the evidence, if any, is _ placedintherecord.

DEAR BOSS .... By Dan Kidney

But Even Thrifty Lawmakers Have Pet Spending Projects

WASHINGTON. Apr. 17—Dear Boss—That there should be no “sacred cows” in federal budgets is constantly pointed out by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the Na-

Clarence A. Jackson of the Indiana Chamber heads, i Wasteful military expenditures and possible

‘savings in veterans services and benefits, as

well as’ international finance, all should be pruned, it is contended. Just to help the Congressmen, who really want to be thrifty, the

Council of State Chambers of Commerce Re-

search Director, Alvin A. Burger, prepared a tip-sheet telling them where to look. _It closes with this advice, which Mr, Jacksofi has placed in the hands of the Hoosier Benators and Representatives: “The plain truth is that Congress has all the power it needs to reduce federal spending sufficiently to balance the 1951 budget. It is Congress which appropriates funds — for —the executive branch to spend. It is Congress which legislates new spending programs. It is Congress, not the executive branch, which has the power to modify and repeal all such spending legislation,

‘Height of Effrontery’

“THE executive branch cannot spend whit Congress does not appropriate. The executive branch cannot initiate spending activities which Congress does not authorize. It is therefore, the heighth of effrontery for any member of Congress to characterize as ‘arrant nonsense’ proposals that the budget be balanced through spending reduction.” One of the first to agree with al] that would be Rep. Earl Wilson, Bedford Republican. Having just been. named to the House Ways and Means Committee, he will have to help with raising the money to foot the federal bill. But even before this committee assignment, Mr. Wilson, in a weekly newsletter to his Ninth District constituents, decried bureaucratic spending incessantly. This week, however, his letter makes an exception. There is one bureau to which he wants to give more dough. Here is what his newsletter says about that:

‘No Gossip’ Swe? “J. EDGAR HOOVER, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is one Bureau head in Washington about whom there is no gossip and of whom there is no resentment. H# is a

splendid executive, qualified. for. his. job, and he

takes pride in giving the people their full .dollars worth of Service Tron “Hig Bureau “Mr, Hoover has asked for additional funds this year, and in view of the spy trials, the work of Communist international ~organizations, and. the growing threat of Red destruction of our way of living and thinking, I want him to have the 700 new employees he says he needs to do a better job. “Three hundred of these new FBI agents will be field agents, which is a dangerous, demanding and oftentimes poorly rewarding job. However, the work of FBI field agents is the backbone. of the FBI system.” Most citizens probably agree with Mr. Wilson's viewpoint regarding Mr. Hoover and

- the FBI. There are 435 members of the House

of Representatives and almost without exception they have some pet bureau or project for which they want more money spent. Add them all together and you get what Mr, Burger means when he says that Congress is responsible for the unbalanced budget.

Urges Pension Increase

ANOTHER stalwart for thrift is Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington Republican, a member of the House Veterans Committee and National Republican Committeewoman for Indiana. Yet she recently proposed an increased scale of pension payments for veterans and their dependents and said this about the government's pension and old age assistance policies: : “I have long felt that the government's pension policies are wrong and that old -age pensions are altogether too small. There has been a tremendous rise in the cost of living during the past decade. Pensions and assistance programs have not kept pace with this rise.” Rep. James E. Noland, Bloomington Dem-

~OCrat. was. irate atthe administrations Ferusal

to break the Truman rule of “no new projects” and put Vincennes in for a $3 million flood wall. Other. Congressmen, who have projects in their district now under way, called the reduced appropriations reported from the House Appropriations Committee “penny pinching.” If Mr. Noland can’t get the bill amended in the House, Thrifty Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) will make a hard try in the Senate, So the expenditures for «pet bureaus and “worthy projects” will continue and the Chambers of Commerce in most cities will be

right in there pitching for them—if they are theirs. : ’

FLORIDA CAMPAIGN . . . By Earl Richert

Hot Political Fight

MIAMI, Apr. 17 for his political life 4 campaigns any state i Yationally famous as the South's figure, the Senator throughout the pe, yin himself against char, hurled by his opponent, youth-

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By Peter Edson

Unemployment Jigsaw Puzzle

VWASHINGTON, Apr. 17—Economists have coined a new name for the present high unem‘ployment. It's called “prosperity unemployment.” Business is good, profits are high, but the people without jobs still number over 4,000,000,

which.-is double. what -had heretofore -been. re-

garded as normal maximum unemployment under full employment tonditions. How explain it? There are several unique factors. Productivity in industry is increasing about two to four per cent a year. This cuts down on the number of workers retired by a corresponding percentage. ; g About 1,500,000 new workers are coming into the labor force every year. When the new crop of June graduates starts looking for jobs, unemployment is expected to go up again. It fs expected to decline gradually from then until the peak of farm employment during the fall harvest. Unemployment will then increase until the Christmas rush begins ifter Thanksgiving. How big all these shifts in employment will be and what their effects will be are hard to estimate. ; One curiosity in the unexpected March decline in unemployment figures was that while nearly all of the February graduates apparently found jobs, some 300,000 women workers dropped out of the labor force, Employment experts are now trying to find out where these women went, and why?

Suffered in Style

BIG, white-haired James L. Wright, “dean” of the Washington press corps and correspondent for Buffalo Evening News, is now recovering from a broken leg. He sustained the injury in mounting a speaker's platform to greet Gen. Omar Bradley. The steps collapsed under him and he fell to the floor. Gen. Bradley immediately ordered an ambulance from Walter Reed Hospital, but Jim had to lie on the floor for over an hour until it.eame: «um cto mns There "have been all sorts of investigations and reprimands, but the explanation has now been made. The order was given to Walter Reed Hospital that, “Gen." Bradley wants ‘an ambulance.” Orders at the big Army medical center's garage are that a four-star general rates a Cadillac ambulance. At the time this call came in, the Tadillac ambulance was out on another call. There was another ambulance, of lesser plush, standing idle in the garage, but it wasn't considered. suitable for Gen. Brad-

‘ley. So they waited till the Cadillac came back. > @ .

RECENT expulsion of American newspaper correspondents from Czechoslovakia is in line

SIDE GLANCES

Sen. Claude Pepper. of Florida. is fighting none of the most rootin’ tootin’ political n the country has seen in years. + t left-wing political l paign has been defending ges of Communist leanings and sympathies

with. what the Russians. have been. .doing.to. .

U.S. newsmen. in Moscow. Only. the wire. services and. -one..newspaper have correspondents there now. Gradually, the play seems to be to force out all American. correspondents and make

the 1, 8S. press depend on Tass for whatever

news. it gets from behind the iron curtain.

Russian Correspondents

CONTRAST that with what is happening in Washington, where two correspondents from Pravda are now seeking accreditation. At the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee investigation hearing on Sen. Joe McCarthy's charges against Owen Lattimore, a Tass correspondent brought in the two Russian correspondents. After a little skirmishing they got seats in the press section. They were identically dressed in sharkskin suits, blue shirts, lavender ties, wrist watches. The Tass men translated for them, and they took a keen but laughing interest in the whole proceedings. eo +

ALTHOUGH American Legion's “Tide of Toys” program spread much good will for the U. 8. throughout Europe, it hit a sour note in Germany. The German toy industry is just beginning to get back on its feet. German toy manufacturers feared that the Legion program would hurt the toy market throughout Europe. Legion spokesmen hurriedly explained that the toys they were distributing went anly to those youngsters whose parents couldn't have afforded to buy new ones.

Not Strategic Material

AS quietly as possible, Munitions Board has removed black pepper from the list of critical materials it has been stockpiling. The board has good reason to be red-faced about this.

--Pepper-was- believed to be a strategic material,

without which canned meat could not be made edible for armed service rations. Department of Defense now admits that pepper isn't necessary. But nobody will admit how many tons of pepper were purchased, or how

much money was spent on it before this discovery was made,

What Others Say

IF we want to bring France and Germany closer together, this attitude of talking about arming the Germans in any form . .. is going to set the clock back for a considerable time.—British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. -

Hoosier Forum

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“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend fo the death your right fo say i."

By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Dr. Woodruft PL. ‘When one seeks, as does Rep. Ray J. Madden, recently in the Forum, to claim a public halo for veracity, it would seem that common decency would demand that one tell the whole truth. His remark that “I was not telling an untruth in

that statement” does not necessarily imply that

he was stating the whole truth. One can stick absolutely ng Pes unvarnished truth and yet convey a completely opposite impression than would be created by the whole truth, one example on the miners dispute he In Cyrus 8. Ching publicly stated— “there had not been any honest effort at collective. bargaining since. contract discussions started last summer.” But the whole truth was that there was nothing to negotiate all that time. No one, not even Mr. Ching, was informed by Mr. Lewis the full bill of particulars as to what he was demanding, as a basis for negotiat-

ing, until within almost a matter of hours before

the so-called agreement was hammered out. If one age © noth : make known its demands, there is nothing to negotiate. ' . This dodge has been one of Lewis’ tricks for many a moon—long enough that the operators know what kind of a character they have to deal with. So they were quite willing to sit back and wait for Mr. Lewis to spell it out. The honest-to-goodness negotiating would have been under way months before if Mr. Lewis had placed his cards on the tables. Just one way in which the, Taft-Hartley Act should be strengthened would be for both parties to a labor dispute to be required to publish all points in dispute. Then the spotlight of publia scrutiny would have some influence in obtaining settlement. - I wonder why Mr. Madden elects to gloss over the history of labor during the war years,’ He very skillfully makes it appear that there was no labor unrest, no unpatriotic work stoppages, no strikes during the war years. I feel that if he published the facts, this would prove - to be the sorriest years of our history. When Mr, Madden tries to point out the unusual number of manhours of labor lost during 1949, as compared with 1947 and 1948, he is trying to make it appear that this is a direct result of the Taft-Hartley act, and in spite of the claims of Taft-Hartley supporters, that the act has curbed labor disputes. But Mr. Madden did not make any attempt to prove that there was any sincere effort made by the administration

ta enforce .the..provisions .of the act...On-the

eontrary, in both the steel strike and the coal strike, illegal means were used to side-step exe ercising the provisions of, the act. Indeed, Mr. Madden “has only served to strengthen the hand 6f those Who want to save the best parts of the Taft-Hartley Act, but to strengthen it in certain particulars for the benefit of the general public—not to buy the support of the labor racketeers, or to butter the hands of business, :

‘Danger of Half Truths’ By Clarence Love, Marshall, Ind. Since World War II began and ended and the cold war that followed is still going on, wa" have read all kinds of slanted, colored and biased news as well as half truths, which are worse than a lie. Half truth will travel around the world, but a lie does not live long as it soon is exposed. : The psychic effect of this cold war has worked up a fear and has the people in our country, a land of unlimited resources, in mental chaos. - It will be interesting and bring out the truth to read the history of this war and propaganda epoch. When history is written, there is no place im it for the half truths or a lie as history is written from proven facts and the lia and half truths will manifest themselves. They will not conform with the facts that the. his torian must use to write history. :

‘Rent Control Illegal’ By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St. The Constitution provides. that no city, state or the United States shall make or enforce laws “which shall deprive our citizens of life, liberty, or... property’: without court procedure; other method used by the city, the state or the United States is in violation our Constitution. This simple fact is the reason that the rent control act is not now, and never was a law. Its denial of the obligation of court procedure to ascertain the question of rent is confiscation, with abuse and hardship for the citizen, The jurisdiction devoted to the City Council over rent control by the Congress is illegal. The exercise of politics over rent control is shocking to our ideals of justice, and our citizens view with alarm the unjustice of the law. Strange as it may seem, the Supreme Court in an are bitrary. manner upheld the violation of the Constitution,

By Galbraith CHILE'S DEMOCRACY ... By Ludwell Denny

Double Play on Reds

WASHINGTON, Apr. 17—Don’t dismiss the visit here of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile as just another one of those diplomatic amenities with the usual hoopla trimmings, It is more important than that.

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ful Congressman George Smathers of Miami. And now Sen. Pepper has received the indorsement of the southern edition of - the Communist Daily Worker. » » »

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beled the = indorsement “A typical Communist trick of indorsing those thev don't want to. see elected.” But Smatherites see the indorsement as the final blow that will 'knock Mr. Pepper out of the Senate and put their man in on May 2 when Floridans name a Demoeratic U. 8. Senate nominee — which is tantamount to election in this one-party state. . After the indorsement, Rep. Smathers rigged up a statewide radio hookup to say: “I have read with some amusement the curious statement of my opponent that he was indorsed by the Communist; Party for the purpose of defeating him because he is an enemy of communism, ~ ” -

“THE “people of - Florida know that Sen. Spessard Holland is an enemy of communism. Have the Communists ever indorsed him in order to secure his defeat? Did . the Communists indorse Henry Wallace for President because they wanted him defeated? Rep. Smathers gained statewide fame before the war as an assistant U. 8. District At-

~ torney who broke up a Miami

vice ring .and sent the operators and one politician to jail —a job he got, incidentally, with Sen. Pepper's assistance. And it is a prosecutor's tactics that Rep. Smathers is

using on his erstwhile benefactor. ~ ” ”

“ON July 28, 1947,” he said In his radio address, ‘‘the Communist Daily Worker conferred this praise on my cope ponent, and I qoute word for

word from that issue of that:

paper: . “The heroes of the 80th Congress are few. They in-

clude a dozen Senators led by Pepper of Florida, Taylor of Idaho and Murray of Montana.” “Did my opponent. at that time, repudiate the praise of the Communist paper? Did. he then allege that the Communists were playing a trick?

That paper, which was so gen--

erous in its praise of my opponent {is the same paper which just last Sunday gave him its indorsement.” = = » MR. SMATHERS always carefully states that he is not charging Sen. Pepper with being a Communist. He says he is showing his opponent's associations, sponsorships and

friendships with Communist

front organizations “because I sincerely believe that those associations, sponsorships and pronounced sympathies are not only dangerous to the security and welfare of the nation, but do not reflect the views of the majority of the people of Florida.” Sen. Pepper has replied that he was sympathetic with Russian views only while they were our Allies and for a time right after the war when it was hoped the U. 8. and Russia could work together,

‘Rep. Smathers

COPR. 1960 BY NEA SERVICE. ING. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF,

"Those are the seed catalogs you sent for this year—and here. are the ones you didn't open last year!" :

MR. SMATHERS blasts him on this, too. He said that the Russians definitely were not our Allies in 1947 when President Truman asked for aid to Greece -to keep that country from falling to Communist guerrillas, Also on the pro-Red line, daily names some Communist or Commu-nist-front organization before which Sen. Pepper has spoken, indorsed or been associated with. >

SEN. PEPPER'S defense is that the groups had not been listed as un-American at the time he spoke or indorsed them. ; “My friends,” Mr. Smathers shouts, “it seems strange to me that this man, who would have us to believe that he is 80 astute.and so well-versed on national and international affairs, would have required an opinion of the Attorney General to tell him the true nature of those obviously un-Ameri-

can groups.”

si States pays ”

. - This is part of a double play by the two governments in the

grim game to head off Communist conspiracy in Latin America,

It is also an effort to publicize to totalitarian regimes down there—including Peron.of Argentina—that democratic cooperation with the United

. . ON THE national level Senor

Gonzalez is not uninterested in -

American trade and credits. He will meet many American busi_ness leaders before he leaves this country. Then there is the Point Four program. Chile can make out a good case for that kind of aid.

President Gonzalez himself is

: one of the best foreign sales-

men to arrive in Washington in a long time, which is saying a lot. He is a social charmer with a mind that moves fast. He likes the United States and that helps. ’ s 8 =» BUT the best basis for closer American-Chilean co-operation is the Gonzalez record. He has proved himself to be one of the most effective practitioners of democracy and enemies of communism of all the chief executives in this hemisphere. He learned the hard way. When he took office after a special election in 1946, there were three Communists in his cabinet — one of those nice united front affairs which Stalin has used to enslave Czechoslovakia and others who thought they could work with the Reds. « Rom ~ BUT when the Kremlin started its violent strikes, aimed to _seat the fifth column in power, President Gonzalez did not respond as planned.

Instead, he promptly restored order and kicked the Stalin stooges out of his cabinet. He

soir @AVE the party. a year and a

half to operate lawfully. It continued its treasonable con.spiracy, and he outlawed it.

"He did not use this as an ex-

cuse to shackle his non-Com-munist political opponents. He “protected freedom of the press, even arranged for the critical opposition papers to get the scarce newsprint without which they could not survive, This, of course, is the exact opposite of Peron, who has persecuted the once great demos cratic press of Argentina. = ” ” SO IT’S no accident, that the ‘Chilean president in his Washington speeches specifically praises American liberties and names the Bill of Rights; or that President Truman responds in kind. Peron'’s totalitarian system is not working. He is losing popularity and needs American credits. Washington hasn't yet decided whether to let him go under and risk getting something worse in Argentina, or to encourage him to reform. . - ” BUT there is no good reason to bail him out before he has started reforms, including press freedom.

In any case, this is a decl-

sion which should be made in consultation with esident Gonzalez, and probably will be. For the Chilean stake in Latin American security is large. .

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