Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1950 — Page 22

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‘County's Health Hazards

ESTORATION of funds to re-establish a one-mafi health inspection department for Marion County's suburban “areas will not solve the growing menace of insanitary conditions by any means but it’ s better than 3 no » enforcement ats ” ‘ The County Council earlier i in the. year had ad eliminatéd “funds. for a health inspector on the dubious ground of ‘economy. : The resulting insanitary conditions spreading through ‘the suburban areas as exposed by The Times focused public ‘attention on another of many weaknesses in the outmoded «structure of local government. The Council wisely reconsidered its action yesterday “and decided lo Yesestahiisn the mspection service,

- HOWEVER, “the County Health Department is still geared to the limited operations it was designed for a cen“tury ago when most all of Marion County was sparsely “settled farm land. It is not equipped in any sense for the . big job of health supervision for a sprawling metropolitan "district such as we have today. : It is another example of the need for elimination of .-the overlapping, inefficient public functions of duplicating County, City and Township governments for a Sonsolidated metropelitsn district government. Li

Distinguished Service ‘THE progress and health of any community depend for the most part upon the participation .of its citizens in the affairs affecting the general welfare of the people and their institutions... .... ogep— The value of such distinguished service e among ‘individval citizens is pointed up every year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce's “Young Man of the Yéar” award, The plaque this year was awarded to Carl R. Dortch, director of the Chamber of Commerce's Division of Governmental Research, for outstanding work in tax studies, costs . of local government and leadership in civic affairs. " J ” » ~ ” THE award is significant recognition of the need for “the public's interest in the efficiency of government during this period of expansion in public services and rapidly rising “costs. Mr. Dortch’s many contyibutions toward government * reforms and civic responsibility might well serve as stand“ard for all citizens in lending a hand toward solution of : 7 the community's many problems.

They’ Il Help a Lot

ESPITE the uncertainties of the world political picture, the American traveler's interegty, in, in, Europe Japms greater than ever this year. The Department of Commerce estimates that 300,000 to 350,000 tourists will cross the Atlantic in 1950, the largest number since the war. "It may even top the all-time peak of travel to Europe—359,000 in 1930. Ship and plane lines report a huge rush of bookings, ‘up 30 to 45 per cent over their 1949 figures. This is good news. Summarizing his views of the Eu- . ‘ropean situation, Scripps- -Howard Staff Writer Charles «. Lucey reported recently that 1950 might be the crucial year “for the Marshall Plan countries, still desperately short of * dollars.

~ ” . » » ” . 3 THEIR biggest source of dollar income this year will * be the American visitors, who will spend an estimated $220 - million. Which seems a Fletnit ahd easy way of sfiaring

“on its feet again. . 3 They can observe at first hand the sivantaghs of a 4 freer movement of goods and dollars among the countries. 7 And they can help foster a better understanding of the % Marshall Plan objectives, not only while they are abroad : but by their own testimony when they return to the United : States.

‘How One Wife Feels

THE Chinese ‘Communists are still holding prisoner— without explanation—two American servicemen, per- » | : mitting them no communication with their wives or their ‘ | countrymen, ‘official or otherwise. : They are Chief Petty Officer William® C. Smith of the + U. S. Navy and Sgt. Elmer C. Bender of the Marine Corps. ! They have been detained since Oct. 18, 1948, when their : + plane went down on a routine flight over Communist terri- : tory in Shantung. A month has passed since Secretary of State Acheson, making a West Coast speaking trip, personally assured the wife of Chief Petty Officer Smith that the State Department ‘was “doing everything it could,” and even asking the

British to help, to gain release of the two men. » - r . ~ ~ IF MRS. SMITH got any satisfaction from the Secretary's words, evidently it did not last long. She now has written Sen. Knowland of California: “It has been 18 months that my husband has been a prisoner of the Chinese Communists.” A famine is facing the Chinese people. Is my husband to be left to starve while our American government does nothing? " “We have the United Nations, also a law established on human rights for the United Nations to protect our citizens in foreign countries. Don’t you think that after 18 months it's time the United Nations went into action? “I hope you don't overlook this, ahd demand action at once. If Dean Acheson can't fulfill his promise to ask the United Nations for help, then let him get out so someone . Slse more capable can handle this case.”

Can't It Happen Here?

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BRITAIN . ... ~~ Ludwell Denny Loses Job Sol Subsidy Remark

British Official Discharged After Questioning System

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—A high British official has just been fired without notice. He was guilty of a crime which surremt Sova. ments cannot countenance; - He was not a spy or a Red, He did not steal. He was not inefficient. He was not a liar—indeed, it would have been better for him if he had been. His unforgivable sin was that he told the truth about the unmentionable. He questioned subsidies. of Of course he knew-—-as American, and French and Italian and other government officials know—that you can't do that and hold your job. But he thought that the news of a subsidizer challenging subsidies might be big enough to register once with the public—on the man-bites-dog theory.

Thank Heaven—We'll All Be Immune!

80 Stanley Evans, aedia secretary of the food ministry, blurted: “The time has arrived to ask whether the cost of providing the farmers with guaranteed prices and assured markets has not reached a . level which neither the consumer nor taxpayer can afford. Do high subsidies conceal a good deal of inefficiency and inertia? Production at any cost, guaranteed markets of products at

prices fixed so the least ‘nefficient and ener- .

getic can make profits, will kill this country stone dead.” As soon as the Farmers Union-heard that, Mr.-Evans was through, It would have been the same—though perhaps not quite so quick—If an official had questioned any other type of direct or indirect government handout to a large industry. The manufacturers’ lobby, or the merchant marine lobby, or whichever one was touched, would get the offending official as the farmers got Mr. Evans.

Bankrupting System PRECISELY because it is true that subsidies are bankrupting Great Britain, it is dane gerous to the system to let the taxpayers get hold of the fact. They probably would insist on changing the system fast—or “élse. fais" That is the kind of revolution which neither the Labor government nor the Tory opposition cares to risk. Most Labor and Conservative - candidates in the recent British erection competed with each other in evading the subsidy issue, just as most American officials do.

“Yet itis the baste issue in Britain “today.

“DESPITE AT that HAR Bed WiTrten and sata about the costly British health insurance plan, it costs less than farm and industry subsidies and

it. at. least serves-the- entire population instead -

of a minority.

Costs too High

BRITAIN has increased production all right a quarter above pre-war. But production costs are 80 high that in many cases they are priced

up the difference in one way or another. That, in turn, rewards inefficiency and waste. Whether this system will kill Britain “stone dead” is prophecy, but that it is making it awfully sick is a fact.

HELEN

You might have béen my daughter, dear Your hair is just as brown, Your coloring of skin and cheeks The way you smile and frown, Look much the same as mine once looked When I was young and gay. x My laughter rang in much the tone That yours rings in today; But God decreed it otherwise g years p e by, My Reart ne'er he y own babe fast Or listened for it's cry.

Then once another lent to me Her baby boy to keep, And In the darkest hours of night I'd watch him in his sleep,

_ And through his growing years I worked

To give him little things,, That he would know some of the joys A mother's loving brings; “Ror HWE OH YHA tUral

That when he married you,

That as he was my only child You were my youngster too.

You might have heen my daughter dear, But I know al! the joy, God had reserved, for now I have Both daughter and a boy.

—Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway.

} which party is in power. Huh there are some in.the cities who don't even know there is more

than one party.

B.C, Indianapolis

“POLITICS IN ASIA + « « By Charles Lucey

Cites Peace Peril

20—A sharp dissent to a proposal by Owen Lattimore that the U. 8. withdraw support from the Chinese Nationalists and open the way for the Chinese Communists to grab China's spot in the United Nations has been voiced

WASHINGTON, Apr.

by Sen. William F, Knowland (R. Cal).

“1 heartily disagree with that point of view,” Mr; Knowland

said. “For this government to

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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS .

. By Marquis Childs

Russian Plot on n Germany Seen

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 Confidential reports from Germany indicate that the Russians

have plotted a political-diplomatic -coup--caleu-

lated to take the West by surprise. The timing is. aimed at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Western Powers set for London ih midMay. -The objective is to present the world with the sham front of an “independent” East German §tate. That state will sign a treaty of peace with the Soviet Union. And the USSR will agree to remove all its troops from East Germany within a year. These moves, which may be announced very

—-shortly;-are--being -plotted by Walter Ulbricht,

deputy premier of the East German State. Ten days ago Ulbricht returned secretly to Berlin from a visit to Moscow where the whole plan was worked out. Ulbricht immediately initiated a series of conferences to set the plot in motion. The idea as originally projected was to call into being in East Germany a national front congress. The congress would have administrative powers to sign a peace treaty with Russia that would

seem to give East Germany a most favorable

status,

Powerful Propaganda

WHILE this would be a fake, it would never.

theléss have a powerful propaganda force in all -

of Germany and in Europe. For one thing, it would strengthen the extreme Nazi-Storm Trooper elements in West Germany that are today saying the only hope is in at least a a temporary union with Russia. Whatever decision the for-

eign ministers. might take in London with re-

“spect to Germany would Sew t5 be 8 Teaction to an achievement already brought off by. the Soviet. That same thing has happened far too often in the past. There is one big hole in the Russian plan that could be readily exploited by ‘the. West. That is the Russian action in handing over to ~ Poland just as the war was ending all the German territory East of the“ Neisse: River. As Winston Churchill pointed out at the Potsdam conference, this took neary one-fourth 4Of : the

: LE -surprized-the Pots: dam conferegce by announcing that the “admin“istration” of this section of Germany had been “turned over to the Poles. Presented with this aseamplishied fact, Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Churchill

SIDE GLANCES

Shifting. Strategy

AT IS at least a temporary advantage of dictatorship that strategy can be shifted almost

overnight without re ard either for public =

and Mr. Truman all insisted that it should not be regarded as a final determination of Ger-

many's borders. On their insistence the. follow... ing language was put into the Potsdam protocol: *

“The three heads of government reaffirm their opinion that the final delimitation of the

western frontier of Poland should await the

peace settlement.”

Coached on Plan

UNDER Ulbricht's direction today thousands of Germans working in schools, hospitals and other institutions in the East Zone are being coached to say that they accept gladly the

Oder-Neisse line -as-a permanent frontier. But-

this will not. conceal the true feelings of the

" German people whether in the East or West

Zones. At the foreign ministers’ conference next month Secretary of State Dean Acheson will recommend a review of German policy and a drastic revision in the light of present realities. Mr. Acheson is in favor of putting a greatly increased allocation of Marshall Plan money into West Berlin to revive employment and trade.

city is limping along. There is still considerable unemployment. The wage scale is sliding down. The city got money to pay essential pensions only about 24 hours before they were due to be paid. In ~recent weeks the American Occupation authorities in Berlin, under the direction of Max Gen. Maxwell Taylor, have been preparing to meet the threat of the May 28 demonstration. Indications are now that the Russian directed

march on the West sector from the East Zone “uri be much more modest ATTATr than original-

ly intended. With resistance fully prepared by American, British and French forces, East {German youths are not likely to be so eager to

make trouble with a mass invasion of West Berlin.

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Germany,

must seem at times as though this were not-an—

inevitable retarded teppd but a kind of paralysis.

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Reports from West Berlin indicate that the

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Hoosier Forum

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The article “Time Law Not Being Violated" in The Times was interesting but | cannot follow the logic of it.

As you say, Standard Time wasa compromise. : time set.up for convenience and to avoid confu-

—sion. Bo now every summer we abandonconvenient method of knowing when to meet

* our fellowmen for work or play. .

Being a part of a large city simplifies and

does away with most of your confusion. But

meeting so often with both groups is no sfmple matter and it seems so unnecessary. The members of “border” counties do have a lot of confusion. Though I try to be accurate by going to the trouble of saying DST or CST, hardly . & summer goes by without some fouling up on appointments, mostly not serious, but definitely inconvenient. Most of it arises from lack of knowledge of what time people in- the next

ad the others. D stance, at the last primary elections, Lafayette did not adopt Daylight Saving Time until after a 6 to 5 vote in favor of it. This year I saw where they were going on it Apr. 23 while I thought Apr. 30 is thé time for most others, Is this confusion necessary? .I believe that if workers wanted to go to work early, they should, but not at the expense of the other people. I believe we live in a time when employers would operate on & summer schedule if the workers would make it plain that it was to the advantage of all. Sure, they would have to set their alarms a little different, but the fellow who benefits would ‘be the one and not the other people. ’ You say farmers’ attempt to force their will upon the city workers brought up the fireworks in the first place, I am not a farmer, but a hard. working guy who would like to have some kind of dependable time system. Eastern Standard Time would be all right, or any kind of time, but please stop changing it around. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and, this is no exception. I arise and work on Standard Time, while 100 per cent of my evening companions are on Daylight, so I go to bed on fast time and get up on slow time, getting one extra hour sleep every night. And I do like sleep as it takes a lot of it to be ready for another rough day. I cannot wear a wristwatch for work, so I wear a pocket watch with slow time in the day and a wrist watch with fast

time-at-night.-That-seems the smoothest way out. Believe me, I wish I didn't have to watch

CST and DST so closely. If I wasn't tied down here I would sure move to standard time ter- - ritory,

‘Health Hazards By L. P. 8, City

I wish to answer a recent letter about politics in Marion County Health Department. The Increasing health hazards in the suburban and rural areas of Marion County speak for themselves. They are due to the inadequate inspections and lack of unified law enforce. ments. The county roads are in horrible shape,

“There's not even a street sign on Layman Ave.

There's a home-made one that a neighbor put up, The over-crowded schools take more money to send a child to county schools than in the city. We need recreation for the children. They have nothing. The county officials should furnish that, but do they? I believe the 44,000 voters in the suburban areas are going to elections with that on their minds.

What Others Say

I DO not know whether the word “con-

science” has any meaning these days east of the line which separates free and slave states in Europe, but let us, in God's name, appeal to the conscience of "the totalitarians.—Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing.

FORTUNATELY the Secretary of State needs no defense from me. No one who knows his extraordinary record of able and distin-

~guished-public service -can-belteve-that-he isin

any danger from these little men.—GOP Statesman Henry Stimson, former Secretary of State,

WHEN the Census Bureau sends 168,000 political hacks and ward heelers out into the country to snoop into the people's finances it is thumbing its nose at the Bill of Rights.— Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R. 0.).

WE are not denying (“flying saucer” re-

a Pe] ut hecguse

THIS should ‘our first, our immediate objective: An agreement to co-exist, a. covenant “to live together if not inh amity then at least in peace.—Brig: Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines.

POLITICAL ISSUES . . . By Earl Richert ~~. .

Spending Danger

HILLIARD, Fla. Apr. 20—"“Some ng you may be paying a dollar for a Coke—unless the government stops spending more than it takes in.” Thus does Congressman George Smathers of Miami try to illustrate the dangers of government deficit financing as he swings about the 'gator state in his campaign to unseat Sen. .

ports) because of any developments of secret '

follow that course and help the -

Chinese Communist regime get Into the United Nations not

“only would be defrimental to

the peace of the world, but to the security of this country,

" . » “THIS would be a first step toward recognition of the Chinese * Communists by the Western powers, and if that should happen, every Chinese embassy would become another center of Communist espionage. It would affect not only capitals but key cities in

which consulates are maintained. : “Again, this would be aPp-

peasement of the Munich character, because it would mean that the Russians by walking out of the United Nations had forced the rest of the nations to abide by their unilateral blackmail of the United States. . = n . “IF YOU'RE going to succumb to that type of pressure in China's case, you encourage the Russians to do the same thing whenever they seek their own way in the United Na-

. tions.”

Sen. Knowland said he belleved we learned at Munich that “appeasement is only surrender on the installment plan and it is no different now than it was then” Mr, Knowland insisted that the United Nations “will not become the functioning organization we all wish it to become by yielding to this type of pressure. On the contrary, I think we have ¢ better chance to make the United Nations work

to preserve the peace and security of world by taking a

strong affirmative position and _ “nota Heyauve a

” “INSTEAD ot doing as Mr, Lattimore suggests — sitting back and doing nothing and encouraging the rest of the nations to unseat the representatives of the republic of China--I think this government should

" be taking a position of leader-

ship in opposing any such unseating. “By doing so we not only would command respect on the part of the nations that do maintain a free world of free men, but also among the 3oviet Union and the satellite countries.” Mr. Lattimore in his statement, made at a meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia, Chinese . Nationalists on Formosa had no hope of reconquering the China mainland. But, he said, Nationalist use of U. 8.-supplied planes and naval craft to blockade Chinese seaports and bomb civilian coastal areas was ‘focusing the Nationalist feeling of China

-sharply against the U. 8.” ”

. ~ MR. KNOWLAND commented that it is interesting to note that the criticism leveled at the Republic of China in the State Department's 1949 white

‘paper was to the effect that the

Nationalists did not show a will to resist communism.

Now that the Nationalists,

fighting with their backs to the

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wall, have been relatively successful with a sea blockade and air attacks, there are some who complain of this activity, Mr. Knowland pointed out. He said they use this as an excuse to withhold aid to the Republic of China, whereas a short time ago they were urging that no aid be given because the Nationalists would not fight. - » » “ONE cannot help draw the

conclusion that their policy

tly has been to under-

mine the Republic of China and that nothing that government might do would gain their support.” Earlier, in a Senate floor discussion of a Lattimore memorandum on China, Sen. Knowland charged-that “Mr. Lattimore and others he influenced in the Far Eastern division of the State Department have

made a mighty contribution to

the debacle which has taken place in China and in the Far »

Claude Pepper in the Democratic primary May 2. The handsome, 36-year-old

“rERIMATINE knows he is "tack."

ling a problem with little appeal to a campaign audience. But, he says, it's got to be done—the people must be told what eventually results when a government. constantly pours out more money than it takes in. » - . HE says that when the government borrows money to meet expenses the result is “printing press” money and the value of the dollar goes down. “And some day you may walk into the corner drugstore and throw down a dollar bill for a Coke. You'll ask the man for change, and he'll say ‘There isn’t any,” the Congressman tells his campaign audiences. He uses the same f{llustration for a loaf of bread. Rep. Smathers’ efforts to - lustrate the dangers of deficit spending is in sharp contrast with the speeches of his opponent. Ben. Pepper has yet to be heard mentioning the government® financial situation, 8-8 AS HE travels about the state, Sen. Pepper is promising everything—more old age pensions, more help for the citrus fruit growers, - more help for the small businessmen, more help for veterans, more hospitals, more roads—and more of everything. “A billion and a -half dollars have come to Join

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from federal grants or invest. ments since I have been in “tire Senate; motey WHIch ‘Has aided every veteran and businessman,” he says proudly. Rep. Smathers tells his audi ences that he cannot outpromsise the Senator and won't even try. “If I promised you a 24story federal building, he'd go to 30. And if I went to 30, he'd go to kl he says. » “THE way to help people of this nation is to make the dollars they get good dollars. Dollars that will buy food and pay the rent and pay the bills and maintain a high standard of living. We have had enough of the 50-cent dollar; we must have again the 100-cent dolar Rep. Smathers says he supports the Hoover Commission plans to reorganize the gov ernment to cut down on government costs. Sen. Pepper never mentions them, The Smathers camp tried to keep a boxscore on the costs of the promises made by Sen. Pepper. They say they added up $90 million worth 6f promises from one day's campaign speeches alone and gave up

after the figure passed the

$2.5 bition Mark,

REP. SMATHERS also

makes a big point of “free-dom”-—maintaining our individual liberties. “Liberalism today apparent-

ly means regimentation, regu- .

lation and red tape,” he says.

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