Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1950 — Page 34

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Mr. Hoover's Great Idea

RMER President Hoover believes the time has come either to oust Russia and her prisoner countries from the United Nations or to form a new united front of all freedom- loving people which would, for most practical purposes, displace the United Nations. In either event, he sees immediate need for an organization of those peoples who disavow communism, who. stand for -morals-and religion-and-who-love- freedom. - - “This is specifically not a proposed extension of a pmlc. tary alliance or any color of it,” Mr. Hoover says. “It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and Spiritual co-opera-tion of God- fearing free nations.”

» HIS ADVICE is timely because formation of a new Atlantic Council which would co-ordinate the economic and political policies of the non-Communist Atlantic states and serve as the successor of the Marshall Plan organization is to be discussed at a meeting in London early next month. This tentative proposal could, and shoutd be broadened, in scope and geography, to form the kind of united front Mr. Houver suggests. We can’t win this war of false fronts, phony slogans

ing for the enemy to mount the offensives, as we have been doing. We must assume the offensive and hold it. that the free nations need an organization geared for those purposes and unhandicapped by vetoes and a defeatist, appeasement psychology. The United States c the field at the forthcom g meeting in London by cutting through the undergrowth of related issues and shooting directly at the target. The free world will follow us if we point the way. What are we waiting for?

Citizens Aid in Government

complished in government by active participation of citizens in public affairs is illustrated by the results of such activity in Marion County's Juvenile Court. Three years ago a Citizens Advisory Council was formed to collaborate with and counsel Judge Joseph O. Hoffmann on the many problems connected with juvenile’ delinquency and rehabilitation of wayward children through Juvenile Court operations. As the activities of the Council expanded the membership Brew from 10 to the present 50 members, comprising % ‘As a result, the effectiveness of the court and its value * to the community in reduced juvenile delinquency has been strengthened immeasurably.

” ” ” RECOGNITION of the Citizens Council as an effective auxiliary of government functions was given before the National Probation and Parole Association convention in Atlantic City this week when Charles H. Boswell, chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court staff here, described it as “an invaluable aid to court administration.” Some other agencies of local government here are, badly in need of just such a “shot in the arm” asthe Citizens Council is giving Juvenile Court. Active participation of more Marion County citizens in the affairs of their government would go a long way toward getting the many reforms needed here for more efficient public services at less cost. :

Danger in Delay

AMERICA is hoping and striving to preserve peace in the world. But if this country is forced to fight again it must be far better prepared than it was last time for rapid mobilization of its military and economic strength. - Fumbling and delay, costly in World War 1I, could be + fatal in a World War III. ' The government agency charged with the duty of preparing for economic mobilization is the National Security Resources Board. (NSRB). President Truman has now given this agency what it had long lacked and sorely needed—an able, energetic, fulltime chairman. He is W. Stuart Symington, former Secretary of Ye. Air Force, » ~ ”. THE NSRB Das, made plans for total mobilization for ; government ‘control of industrial production. materials and manpower, prices, rents and wages; for rationing; for censorship; for most of the things that were done last time and for. some that were not. But neither Mr. Symington, nor President Truman, 1 nor any individual has power to order these plans into effect. And no individual should have‘such power. That duty belongs to Congress and must be done by law, Congress needs to consider these plans thoughtfully before it orders them into effect. Some of them may be unnecessary, unworkable or worse. And Congress ought to consider them now, while it has time for calm and careful study and debate, not in the heat and hurry and santusion of some sudden crisis.

A DRAFT of Mtoposed legislation has Neen ready in the NSRB for more than a year. Mr. Truman and the board's acting chairman, John R. Steelman, have taken the position that this legislation can safely wait. But Mr. Symington says he wants action on it by Con“gress, “the sooner the better.” The Hoover Commission's National Security Task Force has urged its early consideration. Bernard M. Baruch, always a wise adviser on such matters, holds that delay is dangerous. And so, indeed, it is. Congress should take up this legislation In the present session— should hold hearings on it, debate it, perfect it, enact it and kéep!it ready to go into Immediate effect when, but only when, the House .and Senate pass a joint resolution declaring that a war emergency requires the government to use the powers it authorizes.

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Both Criticize Appointment Of Dulles to State Department

brash junior Republican Sen. Bill Jenner this week proved the potency of that threadbare adage that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” “When he {ook out after former Sen. John Foster Dulles TR. N. Y.) for rejoining the State Department staff, Sen. Jenner probably didn't know it but he was echoing the sentiment of former Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes.

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weekly in the New Republic, “O1' Ickes” made - somewhat the same criticism of the Dulles appointment that Sen. Jenner did in an anti-ECA speech Wednesday. One difference was that Mr, Ickes said it first and better. Damning the bipartisan foreign policy in what has become a habit since he has employed Albion Beveridge as his speech writer, Sen. Jenner said:

‘Utter Hypocrisy’

- “WHAT about the attitude of our so-called Republican bipartisan representative Mr. Dulles. Well, Mr. Dulles has just published a. new hook called ‘War and Peace’ in which he clearly reveals what kind of bipartisanship he wants to anchor upon us when he savs: 'If the leaders of the opposition party refuse to make foreign policies co-operatively, so that those policies can command unity at home and attract adherence abroad, then those who take that position ought to be repudiated at the polis. Refusal by the administration to make such a bona fide offer ought to insure a like fate , . “Think of the utter hypocrisy of Mr. Dulles, who was repudiated at the polls, double-crossed by his so-called bipartisan partners, who has been appointed as policy-maker in the State Department without any need of confirmation by the Senate, and who now orders from his ivory tower a purge of the opposition.” ’

Failed to Hold Seat

MR. DULLES had been appointed io the Senate by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey upon the resignation of long-ailing Sen. Ropert F. Wagner +B: N. Y.). He ran against former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman (D. N. Y.) and failed to hold his seat. President Truman, Whose efforis helped put ‘Sen. Lehman in, recently reappointed Dulles to the State Department. where -he had lohg service in international affairs before coming to the Senate. It was this procedure that Mr. Ickes ohjected to’ and far outshone Sen. Jenner in tdking Mr, Dulles to the cleaners. re WHEHEr John Foster Dulles was appointed an adviser to the State Department by President voluntarily, or whether as a result of pressure from Secretary Acheson and certain Republican leaders, I do not know,” Mr. Ickes wrote, “In any event, place of influence and power a man whose fitness for high public office was sn questionable that the voters of New York in 1949, after considering his record, both as an undiscriminating Wall Street lawyer and as an attache of the State Department, decided to return him tq private life,

‘Party Badly Off

“THE Republican Party {3 badly off indeed If Mr. Dulles is the only man of its political persuasion whom it regards as qualified to represent it in the spirit of nonparfisanship in. foreign affairs , . . collaborator, the. administration has neither itself nor the country any good. “It is to be wondered why the Truman administration went to the length that it did to defeat Dulles for Senator in New York in 1949 Knee it is now trying hard to rehabilitate him

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“Depariment as adviser ., : If he is not fit to be a Senator, and in my view he was not, how can it be argued that he is. qualified to be either adviser to the Secretary of State, or undersecretary.’ Thus the same dim view of Mr. shared by anti-New Dealer Jenner and ardent New Dealer Ickes. Both forgot to include one point in their criticism. It was Mr. Dulles who hired Alger Hiss to head the Carnegie Peace Foundation, the last job he had before being sentenced to the hoosegow.

FRIENDSHIP'S BLOSSOMS

Within the corner of my Where others cannot see, I treasure many tender thoughts Of friendships dear to me Each friendly thought a blossom holds - Within life's timely book, And as a day grows dull or drab I pause for just a look Where lilacs bend beneath the dew Of spring and love time there, And roses twined with bridal wreath Make summer friendships fair, A touch of autumn's colored leaves Are where paths curve and bend, And mistletoe's pressed closely To the thoughts of .winter's friend. ~Opal MeGuire, 814 Broadway.

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ALASKA . . . By Earl Richert

Seeking Statehood

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—Days of

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RETIREMENT PENSIONS

Social Security Battle Looms

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28 —The long Chrysler strike—climaxing over three vears of labor disputes in coal, steel, auto and other Industries for pension and welfare plans—focuses attention on the coming Senate battle over revision of the U. 8 social security system. It may not be generally realized, but in the background there has been a basic question of whether to continue the present, 15-year-old, contributory social security system at all. Under this system, both employer and employee pay a tax to finance the benefits. There have been some queer political and economic alliances in this struggle. An extreme right wing group—principally big business em-ployers-—has seemed to favor substitution of a flat, government pension scheme for the present contributory system. The explanation for this stand is fairly simple. Labor unions have been demanding and getting —contracts which provide that employers shall pay, out of pocket, the difference between government social security old age and survivors insurance benefits of around $25 a month, and a figure of $100 or $125 a month.

companies say they can't afford to ‘pay this differential, without tremendously increasing their costs, Their solution has been to have the whole pension burden shoved off on the federal government.

Shortsighted Policy

SOCIAL SECURITY officials and welfare workers argue that this may prove to be a shortsighted policy. Their reasoning is that a flat government pension would eventually mean that every person of 65 or over would be put on

government relief.

Funds for paying government pensions for all would have to come from annual appropriations by Congress. In this status, these appropriations. would be subject to downward pressures by congressional. advocates of economy. The result might be less social security for all. The position of some of the labor union leaders in this struggle is curious. By collective bargaining and by strikes, the CIO unions in particular have been forcing employers to grant pensions over and above social security benefits. What these unions really want, they say, are higher government social security benefits. Not being able to get these benefits from Congress, they say they are forced to get them from employers. But their real purpose here is said to be to force the employers to support their drive security. This

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admission was made by Walter Reuther of United Auto Workers in his testimony before Senate Finance Committee,

Expanded Social Security

AFL UNIONS have not gone along on this strategy. The federation wants expanded social security coverage and benefits, just like the C10. But it has held back its unions from bargaining for employer-paid pensions, and has relied more on its own insurance and retirement _ plans. A third major farce in this argument is the private insurance business. A little background is necessary to understand its position. Originally, the insuranée companies fought social security. They thought government old age and survivors” insurance would be a competitor. It didn’t develop that way at all. Instead, social security was the biggest policy sales booster the insurance business ever got. Social security paid only minimum subsistence benefits, at depression levels. They enabled insurance agents to argue that prospects should take out more insurance, to supplement their social secu-

rity and give them enough to live on in old age Need for $140 a Month

NOW, however, the insurance companies have a new fight. There is talk from the Townsend plan people of the need for $140 a month. The CIO has figured that the minimum need 13 £162 a month. Walter Reuther says the Auto Workers will have $200 a month pensions within 10 years. . If everyone could get an assured government plus private employer pension of $200 a month, the need for private ipsurance would largely disappear. Insurance company executives now find themselves in sharp disagreement with their natural allies, the big employers who-seem to favor bigger and bigger government pensions.

Barbs

LOTS of folks are taking that old remedy for colds—if they have any left over from the New Year's Eve party.

IT'S parents who do most of the baby-talk-ing, according to an Illinois doctor. The finy tots just do it to humor the old folks.

IT'S twice as hard to grasp opportunity when your hands are full of debts.

WE'D eat a lot better if wives could cook as well as hubbies tell their friends they can.

By Galbraith

Ty Thee Br Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St. Any eighth grade school boy knows that it's not within the power of the President of the United States to take this nation into war, Yet in this column a few days ago a writer blamed Roosevelt and Wilson for the two World Wars, Anyone at all familiar with the circumstances just preceding the first World War knows that it was brought about by men who valued the dollar more than human life and violated the neutrality of the United States by shipping .munifions of war to Germany's ene emiés causing her to sink our ships, The second World War was brought about directly by Japan's. sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. No President and no Congress of these United States, because of the people's anger and resentment, could have kept us from enteringwthis war, I want to be fair in my criticism and state without these acts by Germany and Japan we would have eventually gone to war, but not because either of our Presidents at the time wanted war, The writer who offers these lame excuses in the interest of partisan politics is doing a loying t

p parties to gain their ends. However, i is

mitigated by the fact that there are a few who know better. He blames liberals, reactionaries and the Fair Deal for all our ills. He's lavish in his one-sided unsound, unsubstantiated criticism without one word of constructive advice. All he can undergiand is throw the Fair Dealers out. Such political misstatements of facts only serve to encourage political rottenness. If all the voters employed the same line of reasoning, if you can call it that, the people would soon be slaves of one or the other of the old parties, Fortunately, many of the voters have awakened and no longer vote for the men for office because they are Democrats or Republicans, Mr, C. D. 8, seems to still be in hibernation some place around Terre Haute, He does not tell us where,

‘Quarter Snatching Scheme’ By Fred Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave.

anticipation of enjoying a big and pleasant evening, you proffered the bus driver your transfer, Then came the bomb. With a sniff, the driver told you to give your two-cent transfer to that important looking man standing on the curb, then. get back on with a quarter for bus fare, And did you notice what a pitifully small few were boarding the busses, compared to the mob that would have been there with a more decent and reasonable fare to pay? In order for us to enjoy a professional baseball game, the Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc. intends to hold up its patrons for 74 cents fare, 24 cents to and from town, and 50 cents from town to_ the ball park and back. The time will come when the Indianapolis Street Railways will want 25-cent fares on all its lines. And it will be approved by the Publia Service Commission. This quarter snatching scheme will never work. I, for one; will never pay it. People will find other and cheaper ways to get to Victory Field.

‘No Incentive to Work’ By Charles W. Benton, 911 E. Maryland St. A government economic report revealed that in 1949 eight million families in the United States received less than £1000 cash income in 1948. In 1946, it was reported that only ona American family in 10 had $4000 annual incoma and more than 50 per cent had less than $122 Persons who believe we can moralize our way out of social problems must realize that ine comes of this kind are no incentive to work, They are incentives to robbery and murder.. The standpat school of social thinkers had better come out of the weeds and recognize that America is entering an area in which it will have to choose between abundance, security and peace, or scarcity, profits and war.

What Others Say

IT IS time to rally from a frustrating confusion that has its roots in mistakes of the past rather than in the circumstances of the present.—John Foster Dulles, GOP expert on foreign affairs.

THE political and economic independence of Austria is being sabotaged by the determination of the Sovietz . . . to maintain their forces and special interests in eastern Austria.—Secretary of State Acheson.

IT would he a mistake . . . to mislead tha American people into thinking that our security in the defense of western Europe is-assured, —Gen. Omar N. Bradley.

FREEDOM is an atomic bomb in the field of ideas. Former U. S. Ambassador to Russia William’ C. Bullitt.

MARSHALL PLAN . . . By Ludwell Denny

Trouble in Greece

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—The United States and Greece together have just turned-another dangerous corner, but there are plenty of troubles ahead. Washington is pleased with the first showing of the Plastiras coalition’ government in Athens.

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“AND THESE people, most of whom went to Alaska 30 to 40 years ago without more than the proverbial thin dime, regard as little short of blagphemy the charge that Alaska cannot raise the additional tax revéhue necessary to pay the cost of operating their own state government, i This is the main argument against statehood for Alaska -—that the tax burden on the estimated 95,000. Alaskans would be so heavy that it would keep new people from coming in and stifle the businesses already there,

“WE PEOPLE who are in--esting our lives in Alaska are willing to pay the costs of statehood,” sald Mrs, Mildred Hermann, Juneau attorney and resident of Alaska for 32 years. “We'll economize and pull in our belts to get statehood. If we can't buy steak we will eat beans.” Mrs. Hermann, fiscal spokesman for the group, estimated that statehood would * cost Alaska taxpavers $4.242.000 more a year than the territorfal government now spends. Bhe said that the newly re. vised territorial tax structure would provide all but about $1

‘million of the needed monev.

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some of the problems of a territory state—problems long forgot ten in the United States. For one thing, there is care of the insane. As a state, Alaska will havg .to provide facilities for care of the insane—a burden now borne by the federal government. Mrs. Hermann said she be-

lieved that the federal govern- —

ment would continue to care for the 348 persons who now are in the federal hospital, since their care would have _ started prior to statehood.’ ~ ~ ~ SHE

estimated additional

costs of $1 million a year for

fish and wildlife service, $37.300 for the state legislature, £50.000 for the governor and secretary of state, £2 million for construction of roads and maintenance and $355.000 annually to pay off a proposed $5 million program for new state buildings. Her figures did not include any costs for county government—a unit of government which she considered obsolete and which she did not think the state constitutional convention would set up. . ” ” ~

ALTHOUGH !t has nat heen mentioned in testimony, some supporters of statehood =ay that a three cents per can tax

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on salmon would raise enough money to end the proposed new state's money worries. Chief opposition to statehood comes from the salmon industry ~~ with supporters charging that it is only because the non-Alaska owned fndustry doesn’t want to pay higher lanes, . - “THE OEOL Ion to ‘taxes comes from the people who

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have gouged us for years” said Mrs. Hermann. “Their tax burden is not onerous. In 1947, the salmon industry took out $12 million in profits and

Wwe got only $84,000 in taxes.” Father G. Edgar - Gallant, senior priest in Alaska, told

the committee that the majority of people in Alaska were for statehood and “are more than willing to assume a great burden of taxation.”

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American aid will be curtailed or pérhaps even sthhped altogether. Economic Co-Opera-tion Administration officials and the State Department are impatient economy-minded Congress is even more so. ” ” ” ABOUT one and a half billion dollars already poured into Greece. But that country has made little basic economic progress and is nowhere near a condition where she can support herself, + There are several reasons for this. Some of them are complimentary to Greece, others_are- not. Of course, the main reason was the Stalin conspiracy and civil war, No country suffered more than Greece during the World War, in which she fought = so heroically and against such terrible odds. After the armistice, she had no chance to concentrate on reconstruction. Instead. she had to fight for her life against Reds from within and Stalin

satellite invaders posing as Greeks. ~ ” ” WHEN she had put down

that long rebellion, with American financial and military aid, she managed to hold a peaceful election. Considering the

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he question then was whether she was to be ROvV= erned by another ineffective conservative coalition, or by a grouping of the center or maoderate parties. When the servativealeader Venizelos broke .his agreement with other center parties and tried to keep Gen, Nicholas Plastiras out of the premiership. zs = PLASTIRAS, a former opponent of the royal family, was opposed by the king as well as by the conservatives, He was finally seated when American representatives . insisted that the coalition be widely representative, Apart from Red rebellion, and the political’ strife among other parties, Greece has been held back by governmental inefficiency and corruption, by selfish operations of a few rich families, and by the extreme poverty of the country as a whole. - ~ =. WHILE American taxpayers have been carrying Greece, ner profiteers have beén evading taxes. ‘Her governments have lacked the courage or ability to eliminate the favoritism which bloats public payrolls and. enables certain business interests to sabotage the purpose of Marshall aid.

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