Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1950 — Page 12

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85,000 New Neighbors Y census figures show that Indianapolis - and Marion County have now become a community of 545,000 people. *: That's a gain of around 85,000 in the 10 years since the last census was taken in 1940 . . .. or about the same addition as if Terre Haute (1040 ) population 83,000) had moved over and joined us. SEE old city limits of Indianapolis, and another 100,000 live outside the municipal-corporate boundaries, although all of us are essentially in one single métropolitan area, with the same advantages, problems and interests. For Indianapolis alone it is a gain of around 60,000 citizens, which is a fine healthy growth, though not the - largest within a 10-year period. In the decade between 1910 and 1920 Indianapolis got 81,000 new residents, in the period between 1900 and 1910 63,000 newcomers moved

before 1920, Soup, practically everybody who came here to live moved inside the actual corporate limits of the city itself, and very few into the county outside the eity, because there wasn't much in the way of transportation beyond the end of She earfines.

SINCE the Twenties tramsportation” trom every corner of the county has become quick, and sure and easy. So

But the facts point surely to the conclusion that In dianapolis as a city cannot continue to grow within the

= artificial and every year, ‘Already we pay for costly and needless duplication of many of the functions of city and county government. One police department, for instance, could give better protection -at less cost to this area than the two we now maintain. We've never seen any good reason why one treasurer, and one auditor, and one common council couldn't administer “the affairs of the whole area more efficiently and economically than two. ~ Some of this could be attained immediately, we believe, by a simple agreement between city and county. Some of it depends on action of the state legislature. Some, no doubt, could be accomplished only by amending the State Constitution. But it should be done. . . as rapidly as possible. Before one-sixth of our community gets frozen into patterns that will forever block progress in that direction.

Coffeepot and Kettle AMBASSADORS from coffee-growing countries in South and Central America have prepared a joint note ‘of protest for delivery to Secretary of State Acheson. They object bitterly to recommendations by the Gillette subcommittee of the U. S. Senate's Agriculture Committee, which investigated the recent boom in coffee prices.

ernment “initiate what might amount to economic warfare” against the coffee nations. Sen. Gillette's group called for anti-trust suits against Latin-American interests unless they stop holding stocks of coffee off the market by keeping them in Yarshonees in this SOUL. =

IT SUGGESTED that in view-of decreased production— notably in Brazil, where the number of coffee trees has been reduced by one-third—the United States should offer technical assistance to “other friendly nations” desiring to expand their production. It held, in effect, that the coffee countries are keeping prices artificially high and short-circuiting the law of supply and demand by schemes to restrict output and hold stocks off the market. ™ To which the reply of the Latin-Americans, whether in Spanish or Portuguese, might be freely trandisted as “look who's talking.” mes And, indeed, our government—and perticularly the Senate Agriculture Committee—is in a poor position to soemplaie

“FOR OUR government is using ai “methods to hold up prices of potatoes, butter, eggs, wheat, corn, cotton, peanuts and many other domestic crops. If anything, the Latin-Americans have done a somewhat neater job. At least, they haven't been dyeing their coffee blue or letting it spoil in caves. The net effect of such price-supporting schemes, of course, ‘is to produce artificial scarcities, increase living costs, hold down living standards and deny consumers the ' benefit of improved production methods in agriculture. It’s a pretty sorry mess, which seems likely to get - worse instead of better. But no American goyernment, Both, aa central, has. much right to joint the finger f soo ** Beighitors. i

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“nel change in the atmosphere. In other words, it. is claimed that the businessmen

-politienl activity that is unusual even for n for aun, which takes its goli-

tics pretty serious! Several a seem to have been respon sible. One was the the Or publicans took in the 1 election, was the legislative program which the Demo-eratic-controlled House almost put over in the 1049 state legislature, Still another was grow-

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HOT SPOT... By Bruce Biossa

Rent Curb Bill Merits Debated

Siding Boom 1 Has Decreased “Strong Demand for Housing

WASHINGTON, June 20—The passage of A rent control bill: by both houses nf Congress is a victory for President Truman, albeit ale most wholly a political triumph. At the start of the year prospects for extension of federal controls seemed dim. The President wanted them continued a year beyond the June 30 deadline; he got only half that, but controls are being kept alive. , He achieved this much largely because this

{gam election -yeur—&hd ~many Congressmen

from large cities feared reprisals at the polls it they allowed controls to lapse. Surely Myr. Truman is well aware of the issue's political potency. If you strip away the political covering, what is the merit of the rent control argument in 19507 Price controls are long since gone from every other area of American life. Is there any justice in continuing them on Bousing alone?

A Fair Answer A FAIR answer would seem to be that so

long as a general housing shortage existed font Seung Sedaralty Joverned ‘were a wise

Hy Fes St Te to a An “upward price

surge when demand for a product outruns supply. Unless all signs are wrong, there has been no general shortage of living space in this country for a long time. Serious deficiencies continue in many localities, but the impact of three years of heavy private building gradually is making itself felt in more and more areas. Pgrhaps the whole matter thus should have been’ turned back to the states and cities last year or earlier. They do have power to decon-

“trol if they feel their situation warrants, and a

lot of sections have exercised that power. But by staying in the picture, the federal government has given other areas an excuse for not establishing their own controls—as would seem more sensible,

Too

tC and Wisconsin already are opstate rent controls. Their initiative unhappily hasn't been widely copied. The time has come to leave the problem to the

places where shortages still exist, They've - leaned on Wasting dong enough for pro-

The 1 new ‘extension won't go beyond next January. But the bill provides that after the next deadline communities can continue controls another six months at their option, It would be better if this feature had been left out, for it simply delays further the period when many localities shall nave to stand on their own feet.

- Controls should housing lack. “But the dots on the national

shortage map are no longer enough to the concern of ‘Washington. ng e hi

SEASONS

I like the Spring when everything Speaks of life anew, The violets and bluebells So beautiful to view. 1 like the Summer with its flowers _Enhancing this . . God’ 's land, Made lovely by all growing things Placed here by His own hand. Then Autumn with her gift of Art Paints beauty here and there. And as I watch the colors blend Beneath her hand so fair, I ponder at my daily task --And pause to breathe a prayer, To Him above who gives all this To us; this land so. fair, Then Winter scenes of glistening snow In sunlight everywhere— : I really truly cannot tell Which season is more fair. —Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuinoy St.

are only talking to themselves and convincing -

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stay wherever there is real.

. June Bride

Fr 0 A ENOUGH FOR ALL .

Navy ‘Swamped In

avy June 20—-The Navy has tound it still has $1,200,000 worth of wartimepurchased carbon paper. Much of it is so deteriorated it can be used only once.” This situation came to light after so many complaints about the carbon paper had poured into headquarters here that a check of the Navy's stock was ordered. The finding: $1,200,000 worth of the five-year-old paper still in stock all over the world.

The Navy, according to Rear Adm. Charles W. Fox, .chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, hasn't bought any new carbon paper since 1945,

A Little Too Much

“FOX: “The Japs and

, those already convinced of their views. lature, Lawmakers then asked the representaBut there is more to it than, that. Cross- tives of the manufacturers why they came ing the state twice, # in half a dozen around only once every two. years, when the smaller citiés as well as napolis, this cor- ~ legislature was in session. respondent had run into many new manifesta- Typical of the way in which the manufaeMons of an “turers have quietly been trying

to ‘correct this Tb

LL By Talburt

By Earl Richert™ Carbon Paper

The other government departments took a look and said in effect: “No soap. It's too old.” So the surplus that the Army and Alr Force

- wouldn't take, about $278,000 worth, was ad-

vertised for sale to the general public for whatever it would b Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.). Congress’. No. 1

watchdog over federal dollars, saw the ad-

vertisement concerning the surplus carbon paper at the Mechanisburg, Pa. supply depot and swung into action. He started calling government officials, high

and low, to find out what it was all about.

the Navy selling carbon paper while other government departments were buying.

Order Halted Sales

“I FINALLY got Johnson (Louis Johnson, Secretary of Defense) before 1 got any action,”

Mr. Taber said.

Germans didn’t tell us when they were going to

stop fighting. The carbon paper was bought on the rate we were using at the height of the war." After taking inventory, the Navy decided to declare $628,000 worth of the carbon paper as excess because at least that much would be worthless by the time the Navy got around to using it. The Army and Air Force agreed to take about half of it—without charge. The remainder was referred to the general services administration for sale to other government departments.

Memo to Congress:

The government owns $27 million worth of supplies. But agencies continue to buy supplies which other agencies have in surplus. * ¢ 9

A central inventory system for all government departments could prevent waste.

THREAT TO ARMED FORCES .

ful has it been? »

That question was spotlighted by the recent arrest of David Greenglass, 28-year-old Army veteran, on charges of conspiring to give atom bomb secrets to Russia. Mr, Greenglass, a former

denied he was a Red and said he was trying to trap Soviet agents. ; » » . * _~ EARLY this month, Pvt. Ronald Dorsey, 20, of Palmer, Mass..: surrendered in Manila after deserting and spend-

, (Name not revealed.)

] -Hvity 18 ‘hard to prove. Where on marfTor some other reason. ;

sergeant who worked in the Los Alamos A-bomb plant, is said to have admitted his guilt. Stephen T. Early, deputy secretary of defense, says our armed forces today are “pretty clean.” Ir there's a Communist in uniform, Mr. Early doesn’t know about him. ¥ LJ » THE House Un-American Activities Committee believes

— military intelligence has done - a good job. The committee has “found veterans ‘Who are Com-

munists, but none still in uniform. Its conclusion is that the armed forces “find them first and gets rid of them.” Records are not yery revealing. In most cases, suspects are reason-~for the good of the service or for prejudicial conduct, Here's what the armed forces say about Communist suspects within their ranks: Navy: One in recent years. a. =

» Al E: Communist ac-

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released for some other

We'd be sticking our neck out

' to charge that they are Reds

when the record doesn't reflect it. Army: We keep no such file. Usually, we get rid of the man for another reason. Marines: One suspect, séparated from service for another reason.

. v » OCCASIONALLY, cases come to light. In 1048, Sgt. James McMillan, 20, of Boulder, Colo, son of the colonel then commanding the Huntsville (Ala.) Arsenal, gave up his citizenship to stay in Moscow, where he was attached to our embassy. Although he issued the customary statement assailing “Western warmongers,” he Apparemiy was primarily interested in his Mossow girl friend. t April of this year, Cpl. dana Mueller, 18, of St. Paul, whose mother is a Veterans Administration worker, was

sentenced to five years’ hard

labor snd dishonorably diss tary secre to R Russia. Mueller

ing nine months with the Reddominated Huks. He attained the rank of Huk colonel. He sald he deserted because lie was bored. : Communist plans for infiltration were described in de-

tail to a congressional commit-

tee last month by Paul Crouch of Miami, Fla. one-time head he U. 8. Communist Party's anti-militarist department. Mr. Crouch said he was in

the Army in 1924-25, and was

“gourt-martialed in Hawall for

prejudicial conduct. The charge, he said, was based on “a letter I wrote as a soldier to the Communist Internationale In Moscow, (although) it was not mentioned at the court-martial.”

n » ” ~ WHILE serving his sentence, Mr. Crouch said he was visit-

ed in Alcatraz by a Marine

who was “very much interested in-work in the armed forces.” He said he recruited other

- prisoners for the Communist

Party.

Mr. Crouch spent 1928-29 in Moscow and was given OLY :

ona tor infitrating by the :

Mr. Taber's calls resulted in an order halting the sales until the General Services Administration can canvas other government departments again to find out if they won't take the surplus carbon paper. “I can’t understand how all that carbon paper could be purchased and be in surplus this far away from the war,” Mr. Taber said. “They claim it’s a wartime purchase. If it was going bad, why wasn't it cleaned out before?” Adm. Fox said the Navy had been holding onto the carbon paper until the complaints became so numerous some action had to be taken. “We had been hopeful we could utilize it.” Rep. Taber sald that the $278,000 worth of carbon paper offered to the public was more than the entire government used in a year, ocutside the Department of Defense.

‘Inferior Paper’

THE Navy currently is using carbon paper

at the rate of $375,000 worth every nine months,

“._he said, is to “create conflicts

Adm. Fox said the high rate was due to the inferior paper. Neither Adm. Fox nor Washington paper company officials could estimate how much $1,200,000 worth of carbon paper would be in carload lots.

By Jim G. Lucas SIDE GLANCES Has Red Infiltration Been Successful?

WASHINGTON, June 20--Infiltration of our armed forces is a major objective of International communism. How success-

late Red Marshal Tukachevsky and three other members of the Red general staff. He said they stressed “concentration on strategic military objectives.” At that time, he said, ' the Russians were anxious to plant Red soldiers in Panama and Hawail, - » > MR. CROUCH said the first party man to enlist was a man named Taylor from WilkesBarre, Pa. He was sent to Pan-

ama where he “established ¢ivilian~ contacts, maintained correspondence through underground channels, served his enlistment without detection and returned home.” Mr, Crouch said the Commu“nists selected the battleship Oklahoma, later sunk at Pearl Harbor “to begin concentration of our efforts.” They were able to establish a cell of “seven or eight members aboard,” he said. These men “made a big issue of every petty griev. - ance” with the result that there was considerable troule.” : A favorite Communist tactic,

between officers and enlisted men . . . from these conflicts, Communists are recruited.” Mr. Crouch said Communists were told to “work hard, take Javantags of Syort operty.

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Hoosier Forum "| do not agree with a word that you say, but |. 2M Selena ts Wu Sout ou Vio to say it."

‘Great Age of Universe Universe"

By Milton

“When Most people read of events that have

“taken - place during the coursé of récorded history they are awed by the long passages of time that separate them from bygone eras.

- Yet if they were aware of the. great ages of

the stars they would not be too impressed by

the six or seven thousand years of our civiliza~

“tion. "For the average age assigned to the stars

is at least two. billion years and may be con-

siderably more. About 20 or 30 years ago, when the ma-

jority of astronomers- believed that afinihila-

-tion -of matter provided the source ‘of energy of the stars, they computed their average age to be between five and ten triliion years. To_day most astronom

processes and therefore give an average age

“to the stars of about ten billion years.

There are quite a few astronomers who would assign an even lower age to the stars. They believe that originally the entire universe was filled with dense matter, which #8 a result . of some internal, pressure or explosion, scattered the matter, which formed" into galaxies “and that all of these are Teonding from one another at terrific speeds. To accompany recession of the galaxies space este had and all of this supposedly tool k place

cen . about two billion years

Bven, Bowever, if we take the lowest figure of some two billion years as the average age of the stars, still we can see that a person's life span of nearly 0 in comparison, is but a second.

‘Inflation Is Di By Roy Denny, Terre What do we expect ute our foreign-policy when we see the weakness of our Congress and administration on the home front? Our housing program is a huge joke, if it were not so tragic. Our -inflation is a disgrace. More than 43 per cent of our people cannot buy good pork, beef, butter or cheese. Even a limited inquiry will show that inflation is caused by scientifically organized greed. It is maintained by pressure groups that dominate our Congress? Do we hope to keep ofl out of our foreign policy?

What Others Say—

IF our democracy is not to die by its own hand, it must not adopt the secret police tactics of the Nazis to combat the secret police of the Communists. — Attorney-General J. Howard McGrath, ‘

ONE of the most disgusting trends of Fécent years has been the movement of ill-gotten, crooked money into decent, respectable American businesses.—Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) on “nation-wide crime syndicate.”

WE have let our excitement about’what mav happen to our remote. interests in Europe blind us to what is now happening to our immediate interests in the Pacific area.—Rep. John M. Yorys, -(R. Ohio).

THE world is 30 small that any advance in human" rights made by the United States is felt throughout the world. — Mme. Pandit, India's ambassador to the U. 8. :

WE may stumble into the accident of war but war is not on the horizon at the moment. — Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. 2

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tor. 1:0 BY WEA PRAT ro. Xe "I realize our club room flag which we salute is rather frayed, but for — our treasurer recommends that

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“""yarious considerations, lieve that the energy ¥ “of the stars is derived from atom building

By Galbraith

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