Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1950 — Page 12

Give LAght ans the People Willi Fins Thaw Un Way

Spending as Usual \ £OST members of the Senate Appropriations Committee seem to be under the impression that this is a time for government spending as usual, : Or even more than usual. i Maybe the gentlemen have been too busy to think through the ominous possibilities of the Korean crisis. At least, that would be a charitable explanation of what they've done to the omnibus appropriations bill which the committee has just sent to the Senate for debate. When the House passed that bill it carried a little less than $20.5 billion in cash and contract authority. Eo “The Senate committee has upped the total to almost $34.7 billion. : The major part of that increase, to be sure, was unavoidable and is not the committee's fault. The bill before the Senate contains nearly $4.9 billion for foreign aid and ‘other items which the House didn’t put into its bill because they weren't then ready for congressional action. But the items that the House did put in have been increased nearly $300 million. ” ~ . ” ~ ~ THE SENATE committee's bill contains over $132 million more than the House voted for flood control, rivers-and-harbors and other projects which are largely pork. It contains over $23 million'more for the expenses of Congress, including $12 million more for a new Senate office building. It makes a few small reductions, here and there. But in general the committee appears to have restored about half of the House's cuts in President Truman's budget estimates. And the Senate committee also voted down the House amendments ordering most federal departments and agencies to spend 10 per cent less than their appropriations for payrolls, transportation and other items and to economize

employees who resign, retire or die in this fiscal year. "If there had been no Korean crisis, it still would have been highly desirable for the Senate Appropriations Committee to have mercy on the taxpayers and authorize less 3 spending, instead of more than the House did. : | But it is already clear that the war in Korea will call ; for a big increase in military outlays. Building up and supporting larger armed forces will cost alot of money. Mr. Truman already has asked $260 million more to speed work an atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. 3 yu / Pa a

. pr 3 ‘ AND, DESPITE all hopes for the best, any day may

taking an enormous arms program for another major war effort. ; 4 4 It may be that, even now, the government shoul! be ordering more planes and munitions, adding more rapidly to its stockpiles of materials, preparing more adequately for an emergenicy which adequate preparedness might avoid. —Atsuch a time as this, common sense dictates that Congress should be cutting all the ordinary expenses of government, and cutting them deeply. : : At such a time as this, Congress should be cutting the outflow of political pork and pap. =

Europe's Fight for Truth

A AANY wise statesmen have been appealing insistently to the free world to exert greater effort to the grim “struggle for men's minds.” Sr in ~~ They have pounded repeatedly on the idea that it isn't enough to combat Russian communism with economic and military measures; that freedom must be shown to be the great cause it really is, a way of life eminently superior to the slavery imposed by Moscow. : ~~ he first imaginative stride in this direction has now been taken. From & secret radio transmitter in Europe, a new series of programs is being beamed to the countries behind the Iron Curtain— Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. : Radio Free Europe, as the new transmitter is called, is. the ‘product of the National Committee for a Free Europe,

ican citizens. tal . no» 4 #8 BUT this is no duplication of our official government Voice of America, Much of the broadcasting will be done by leading democratic exiles from the Iron Curtain nations themselves. Among them are a former premier of Poland, a former Czech ambassador to France, a one-time Romanian foreign minister. : ~. In the words of DeWitt Poole, former State Department Russian expert who heads the committee, these distinguished men will “speak to their imprisoned countrymen in their native language, in the familiar tone of a family reunited.” : see 02 ~The new group, being privately financed and admini- __ stered, han the further advantage of being free of the diplopatic restrictions which hamper the broadcasts of the Voice. Free Europe can speak with tremendous vigor and

= Never was it clearer that the West must tell its story pith force and power. Russia and her pawns are fouling ‘air with poisonous lies which seek to heap upon the the blame for the Soviet-inspired Korean war. =. ” » "0 is are working on the old theory of the Big developed : Repeat a whopper often enough n to believe it.

energy and will than the Soviets can

to Europe.and around the globe

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further by hiring replacements for only 10 per cent of their

find this country up against the stern necessity of under- -

which was organized about a year ago by outstanding Amer- -

a fit

Railroads Collect Millions in

about for their other shippers. . FIVE: Deadhead mail cars sometimes are returned in freight trains, and the Post Office Department pays as though they returned in passenger trains. : SIX: Bome “complex” arrangements between the Department and the railroads permit the carriers 1o bill the government for deadheading cars in advance of the outbound mevement of mail cars,

No Complete Records HOW MUCH does the taxpayer lose by these practices? The Post Office Department says it paid the railroads $221,017,189 last fiscal year, but that it kept no records as to hew much was for “phantom” mail, The GAO checked some mail runs and foiind that the government was paying as much as 84 per cent additional for unused space and deadhead cars. Over a large representative check, the GAO found that 22 per cent of the money the rallroads received was for providing no service, Often, the GAO reported. it is more profitable té the rallroads to return a mall car empty and bill the government for it than to accept a payload from another shipper. On this point, the GAO comments: “It is the profedure of the carriers, whenever possible, 10 place a small quantity of mail In an otherwise empty returned storage ear in order that thers will be no question as to the payment for thé return movement.” What is the GAO's proposed remedy? Agcording to the accountants, the Post Office Department should not pay for empty Cars. and unused space. The GAO contends that

A certain amount of empty return movement i» natural in railroading, and is an element in"

the rates the rails set for their other shippers.

Model Setup Cited

CANADA, cited by the GAO as a model, pays its railroads 32.7 cents per mile for a 60foot storage car, and nothing extra for empty deadheaded cars. We pay 50.82 cents for the identical service, plus an equal sum if the car Is returned empty. The fact that almost any ear in an emer. gency can be used for mail makes it easier for the railroads to bill the government for their non-revenue producing movements. In one month, the GAO reported the Post Office Department reimbursed the rallroads for returnIng the following to Washington: Two baggage and mail cars, 79 baggage ears, 132 baggage-express cars, nine horse cars, 199 box express cars, 22 refrigerator cars, B68 Xpress cars, ons coach, one box car, six milk cars, 19 baggage and passenger cars, and 10 postal storage cars. “It Is not apparent,” said ths GAO, “that anyone really knows what the total space actually used in rallway cars is per day, week, month or year. It would appear probable that no one will ever know as long as these complex, recondite and unwieldy agreements, precedents and practices exist” ?

THE EDUCATED FOOL

Have you ever heard the story of the educated fool? He's really a grand fellow, who just loves to go to school.

He's a eynic from statistics that were quoted

from a book,

- A dreamer from the problems left unsolved

where he may look To conquer those equations that have been left unnamed. But he has no taste for pleasure and he has no zest for fame; : Yet time is rushing madly on. with so much left

rn, That he must light the candle and from both ends let it burn, He keeps prying, probing, searching; with his magic dream of youth, But_he will-never-find-it; “tor he's searching for the truth.

=~~Dorothy Mae Parke, 15 N. Edgehill St.

BOYCOTT... By Charles Lucey

Is Russia Out of UN? ph

LAKE SUCCESS, July 11—The decks were cleared of Korean action ‘at United Nations headquarters today but a whopping big

question remainéd facing United Nations leaders:

Is Soviet Russia out of United Nations for keeps? Three possible courses are seen open to Moscow:

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A MAJOR BLOW . .. By Peter Edson

Taft Defeat Feared by GOP

COLUMBUS, 0. July 11—It would be a major blow to the Republican Party—almost worse than defeat in a presidential election if Robert A. Taft of Ohio should lose his race for re-election ss U. 8. Senator this November. Whether you agree with Mr. Taft's political philosophy or not, he is far and away the ablest and most effective critic of the Democratic administration in Washington. Every administration needs good critics. Taft's defeat would leave the GOP hopelessly helpless. The Democratic candidate is, of course, State Auditor Joseph T. (Jumping Joe) Ferguson, He has a reputation as a great vote-getter. He has been elected state auditor for four four-year terms. In 1948 he won by 202,000-—-the largest plurality any Democrat ever received in Ohio, He is 58. He is the father of eight children. - four married, with three grandchildren, and four at home. Two of his boys were in the Navy. The family lives modestly in suburban Columbus and Mrs, Ferguson and the youngsters do their own housework. But Papa doesn’t show off his family much, as a political asset on platforms, Being slight of build, “Jumping Joe” never was able to participate In sports himself, but he has managed bowling, basketball and saftball teams. In his office are some 20 trophies his teams have won. “Ferguson's State Auditors” was runner-up for world softball championship several seasons ago. He Says ‘Ain't’ . HE BAYS “ain't,” and he drops his final “g's,” and he makes other mistakes in grammar, “But,” says Jack Kroll, “so do most of the people who vote.” The build-up is that Joe Ferguson is “a man of the people,” a watchdog of the treasury, a loyal public servant with a 14year record. Sometimes they're hard to beat. The outcome of the Ohio senatorial race, however, depends not on indorsements, but on three general election factors. The third is-the new type of Massachusetts ballot adopted by Ohio law last year. Ohio has roughly five and a half million voters. Registration has been heavy in the industrial counties, due largely to PAC effort. But

Republicans have also been active in getting out -

the vote, . Fred Lazarus of Federated Stores antl George B, Hill of Kroger's grocery chain were instrumental in organizing “The Ohio Voter,” a group of trade association executives, to promote greater registration and participation in politics by businessmen. An organization of “Independents for Taft” founded at Oberlin College, has been fairly successful. “Democrats for Taft,” started by Cleveland lawyer A. A.

SIDE GLANCES

“Bulent area.

Benesch and Mrs. Newton D.. Baker, has made little progress. : On money matters, however, Taft forces

.~have been more successful. A. A. Weatherhead,

Cleveland manufacturer, has reportedly raised nearly $1 million from Ohio businessmen. At any rate, he got so much money he didn't need the help of the national movement to colléct dollars in other states to aid Taft in Ohlo.

Party Symbols Out THE NEW type ballot adopted by Ohio, which eliminates party symbols and makes voting a straight party ticket impossible, has been estimated to be worth 100,000 votes for Sen. Taft. i As for the issues, Democratic Candidate Ferguson himself says he'll campaign on the Democratic platform. He's for President Truman's civil rights program including an FEPC with teeth in it, and for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act, He's against communism and against government waste, He's for adequate national defenses and for the North Atlantic Pact and the Marshall Plan. “We gotta be prepared,” says Joe, He claims that Sen. Taft has been a complete jsolationist, that he doesn’t represent the people, that he has no touch of humanitarianism, being too cold. Mr. Ferguson will base his campaign largely on opposition to Sen. Taft's voting record in Congress. But he won't debate Sen. Taft on public issues. If elected, Mr. Ferguson says he will launch an investigation of Sen. Taft's campaign contributions and expenditures. Mr. Ferguson charges the Republicans with trying to buy the election. Mr. Ferguson won his primary nomination on $700 expenditures out of his own pocket. He says that he has yet to collect his first nickel of campaign contribution, Democratic state and national committees so far haven't kicked in, and neither have the PAC nor other labor organizations, But he doesn't think it will take much money to beat Sen. Taft, because Sen. Taft will defeat himself. ’ 5

What Others Say—

THE only way out of the mess into which we are heading if complete political and economic integration of the free world —Former Supreme Court Justice Owen T. Roberts.

THE success of Communist forces in China .

menaces the whole of that over-populated, tur_SesTeAary of Bat THE world is more settled now than in 1936, «President Truman. -

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the North Korean Communists to defy and make war against the United Nations’ authority to keep the peace. The United Nations should warn all the other nations not to give aid te the North Korean aggressors.

‘Close’ Unity in Home’ By Mrs. K. S. Keene

Our street is the average American street. All good neighbors, always ready to help one another and in case of sicknes or death—are not afraid to dig down into their {pockets to give a helping hand. Even the children on our street seem to get along well together and I believe that is because the families have real home life for and with their children. If there is a close unity in the home and mom is always thers

Ap-care-dov-them. and. dad makes a companion

af junior and helps him over the rough spots — *hat makes a real Americ&h Tamily. I belive if there were closer unitx in all homes, there would be fewer juvenile delin~ quents. In many unfortunate cases, the mother has to work and cannot be home, but there are so many cases where mom works to help pay for a new car or television set and dad is just too busy to take a real interest in the children and their problems—and so they are left to their own devices to do pretty much as they please. : In these cases the children do not have a feeling of security or real love that is so essential to all children. I believe they could do with fewer luxuries and material things but more love and closer ‘unity as a family in the home. 3 :

‘Sit Tight, Mr. Renter’ By F. M,, City A short time ago, IT wrote a letter warning the renters of this town to get busy if they wanted rent protection for you could see plainly enough what was happening in the Council. The public héarings it held were packed with landJords and real estate interests, who heckled, booed, and cat-called anyone who spoke in behalf of the renter. It was more like a mob than anything. else. ’ The Council claims it acted in behalf of the small property owner. I thought the Council was supposed to act in the interests of the whole population—the general welfare of the eity—— not one group, It may think it acted bravely and in statesman like manner, but it should hear the comment and bitterness of the renter who has been left high and dry. Let's stop the idiotic stuff about a 5 per cent increase of rents. Do you suppose that bunch camped in the council chambers meeting after meeting for a paltry 5 per cent increase. You will pay, and right throught the nose. Public opinion will have nothing to say. The only thing that talks now is a roof and a buck. The Golden Rule folks claim to practice usually goes up in smoke when there is a chance to “turn a buck.” So, Mr. Renter, just sit tight like you sat, and

, watch your ceilings rise.

‘Glutton for Punishment’ By Observer.

Mrs. Walter Haggerty must be an awful glutton for punishment or she wouldn't keep letting C. D. C. beat her ears down. 2 I suspect that a lot of the tension is caused by Judson Haggerty, who seems to be Mrs. Walter Haggerty's son, getting beat in the last primary elections for State Representative. Possibly the letters of C. D. C. had a lot to do with it or she thinks they did, anyway. After all, C. D. C. was telling us things about F. D. R. five years ago that sounded like

"Hes that we ure now Anding out 18 the truth,

80 he must be a politician himself or at least knows what he is writing about. 2 :

UNIMPRESSED . . . By Ludwell Denny

War Signs Discounted

~ WASHINGTON, July 11—8igns that Russia may be getting ready for a world war soon do not impress official Washington. . The guessing here is still the same as before and at the beginning of the Korean attack—that Stalin is not yet prepared for and therefore does not want a big war. >

. Around.

je only antidote for the Big Lie ia the Big

ONE: She may not show up at all for the General Assembly

meeting set for September and 86 seal her position as one of permanent withdrawal, 9 TWO: She may send her delegates only to make a dramatic withdrawal on the lasue of United Nations failure to seat the Chinese Communists, an action already taken by Moscow in relation to the Security Council and a score of United Nations off-shoot bodies. 2

THREE: She may decides the show of unified strength in Korea Ia impossible for her to ignore and return to United Nations as a slightly more tractable big bear. Some here believe that whataver Russia does will depend on how the fighting goes in Korea. If the United Nations forces by that time are victorfous or clearly on their way to victory over the North Korean Communists, the speculation ix that Moscow may be more willing to compromise, If the contrary is true she may continue to throw her weight

THERE are able men here who are convinced that Russia is through with United Naa MA galing

the very fullest for her own propaganda purposes and that then, when the heavy tide of United Nations opinion began to turn against her, she got

‘ready to withdraw from the

organization.

In those earlier days if Moscow could not get ita way in United Nations, it at least could keep some important. countries from swinging to the side of the U. 8. on important tests. If they did not vote with the Russians they abstained. But a shift came and for a long period the General Assembly votes wers a consistent recording of the position of the Soviets and their five or six satellites against the rest of the world. Time and again the United Nations roll call’ would show some 50 votes to six. x - ~ - THEN, when Moscow was

Security Council after Tito had broken with the Cominform,

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politics-as-usual and business-as-usual attitudes definitely are dominant. During the past week prob-

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