Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1950 — Page 16

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Small Start

S an “interim revenue measure,” President Troman' 8 _plan for raising $5 billion a year in added taxes is good. Congress should enact it speedily. But it is merely a start—a small start—toward taxation on the scale that has become imperative since Korea. It will bring in less than half the money Mr. Truman ‘already has asked to begin remedying our country’s perilous unpreparedness, and demands for other big appropriations are on the way. Its burden on corporate and individual incomes will be small by comparison with those which a new and comprehensive revenue measure must impose as soon as

possible. i COMPLETION of that comprehensive measure by Congress will, as the President says, require careful study ‘and some time. But time is doubly precious now, and none should be wasted in deliberate delay by timorous candidates for re-election who tremble at the thought of voting for heavy taxes before election day. Inflationary forces were gaining strength even before Korea. They can grow beyond possibility of effective control unless fully adequate action is taken quickly to drain off surplus purchasing power and make profiteering unprofitable. Mr. Truman put it mildly when he- said that every effort must be made to finance the greatest possible ‘amount of needed expenditures by taxation. Sen. Taft's advocacy of taxes steep enough to pay all the added cost of preparedness is more specific. And it is correct. Meanwhile, the people who must pay the taxes have a right to demand other action by the President and

Congress. : nn : SWIFT and drastic action to reduce spending by the °

government on things not absolutely necessary to victory

"in Korea and to preparedness to prevent a third world

war if we can or win it if we must fight. Mr. Truman's current budget asks, for purposes other than defense and costs of past wars, over $12 billion. That is almost half again as much as the New Deal government spent for all purposes, including national defense and relief of vast unemployment, in 1936. In that proposed $12 billion-plus of spending there are endless opportunities to cut out pork, to stop extravagance and waste, to spare the people the burden of supporting programs and activities which events have made nonessential.

Courage: Fn Congress ONE age: ‘has gone since Stalin serit the Red invaders into South Korea. That month has shocked America into realization that our perilous military weakness must be replaced by strength with utmost speed. We must prepare in hope of discouraging further Communist aggression and so preventing World War IIL We must prepare to fight for survival if war is forced upon us. Preparedness on the titanic scale that is essential will cost enormous sums of money and create grave danger of ruinous inflation. This newspaper believes Congress should arm the President with power ‘not only to order men to train and fight, not only to spend multibillions of dollars, but also to mobilize the national economy. Mr. Truman has asked for partial powers. But he elects to wait and see whether sharply rising prices will bring need for price controls and rationing, and he has not even mentioned wage conthols.

IT 18 not safe to wait—unless the President and Congress take immediately those other steps which alone have any chance of keeping. uncontrolled prices and wages from spiraling upward, beyond possibility of effective control, in a race to disaster. What are those other steps? Here are four: Heavier taxes now, not later. Taxes retroactive at least to that fatal day a month ago when war began in Korea. Reduction of nonessential government spending now, not later. Reduction far beyond the trifling cuts which Congress thus far contemplates or which spending agencies may make voluntarily, - Drastic credit restrictions now, not later, Restrictions tough enough to really curb the competition of purchasing

- power still unearned for goods whose output must be

stopped or slowed so that production of weapons way increase.

Sensible government reorganization now, not later.

They Have a Right to Work : HERE'S a little Job of highway patching going on down in Martinsville . . . or there was, up to this week. Then the job was y shut down, with the partly completed ‘repairs slowing traffic to a crawl, endangering car springs. ~The nine men who were doing it were in the office of Governor Schricker appealing for protection. Twenty car-

loads of men, they said, had come along and threatened

‘with violence if they went on working. Phe nine, it develops, are not members of any union. ly on the job wis a union member. The men in the 20 cars may have union cards . . but they are not very good union members, them-

: Mention Many

For Judgeship

Jurist Likely fo 9¢ Named p Background, Bar Group Support

Wit oun July 26—Dear Boss ~ “There should be many judges, for a few will Iways be ruled by the few.” ' That argument, taken directly from Machiavelli, might be re to read “a few will alwiys be appointed by the few,” and used in the Senate to obtain a new roving federal judgeship for Indiana. For a new judge might Possibly be selected on the basis of background and Bar Association support, rather than being hand-picked by Democratic National Committeeman Frank M. McHale and his cohorts.

It could conceivably be one of those promin-

ently mentioned for the southern Indiana bench before William Steckler, Indianapolis, was named by President Truman. Included was Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Democrat, who introduced the rovjudgeship bill and got it passed by the House this week. He had able bipartisan help from Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Repuhlican. They pointed out that outgoing and incoming Indiana Bar Association presidents, Telford Orbison, New Albany, and Roger Brannigan, Lafayette, recommended the new judgeship and also Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis, chairman of the state bar's committee on selection and tenure of judges. > NOW IT IS UP to Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) to shepherd the bill through the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is a member, and bring it to the floor for final appproval. This is a tough assignment, just as was ‘he speech of Mr. Halleck in the House, for the Republicans know that by Truman standards the measure of a good judge is mostly whether or not he lms the proper Democratic party endorsements. Nevertheless, the bar in Indiana cites the crowded dockets both in the Northern and Southern Federal District courts and contends that the new judge is sorely Heeded to help out in both jurisdictions. Federal Judge Luther Swigert of the northe ern district had testified before the House Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. Denton is a member, that. the docket there is so crowded that he must work a six-day week with no vacation. Mr. Denton sald the Southern District docket is twice as bad. Almost all other Indiana congressmen” joined them in making these pleas before the House, Citing the increased Indiana population, since the Northern District was created 25 years ago, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, declared: “When you compare Indiana with other states of the Union we should really have two additional judges instead of one that we are asking for. “The United States Judicial Council, after investigation, has recommended that. this additional judge for Indiana be granted. “I do not know of any lawyer in the state of Indiana who would oppose an additional federal judge for Indiana.” Rebuttal to this type of argument began with Rep. Clarence. A, Brown (R. 0.) and was carried on by Reps. Earl C. Michener (R. Mich.) and Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. Y.) The latter two are members of the Judiciary Committee, All admitted that Indiana made a better showing for a new judgeship than any of the other states seeking them. ¢ So

“I NOTICE that Indiana has a lower number .

of criminal cases in the federal courts than the national average,” Mr. Brown commented. “I do not know whether this is because the people of Indiana are more law-abiding or lawrespecting than the average for this country, or that the federal law-enforcement officials of that great state are just a little more dilatory in their prosecution of cases.” Mr. Keating grew philosophical and said the bar and bench always want new judges in their state and acting uppon their advice he probably should get 12 or 14 more for his state of New York. He also pointed out that roving judges get tired of roving and then Congress is called upon to provide them a permanent seat, Mr. Denton declared that since the Northern judge now holds court in Fort Wayne, South Bend and Hammond and the Southern judge in Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville and New Albany they all are “rovers” 'and are likely to remain so. Should the bill be passed and signed by President Truman this session, Mr. Denton would be ineligible to appointment until the 81st Congress concludes. The law provides that no Senator or Congressman can take a’ position which he helped create during the same term of office.

Foster’s Follies

LONDON, July 26 King George VI honored a steeplejack with the Order of the British Empire for retrieving a Bobbie's helmet placed on a tower as a joke. Now-a-days there are guys who insist it is wise To do just what you must, and no more. What they don’t realige is that true enterprise Will project any man to the fore.

Now, as full proof of that is the case of the hat, When a steeplejack proved he was tops, Other chaps might have sat, or just left the job flat, By declaring,

“the helmet the cops!”

SIDE GLANCES

STOCKPILING,

By Jim G. Lucas

Outlay for War Materials Set

WASHINGTON, July 26—President Truman plans to spend another half to three-quarter billion dollars to stockpile strategic war ma-

terials.

Unless the Korean War gets completely out of hand, none of the stockpile will be used there. However, the President's decision is the outgrowth of the Korean situation because

convinced that Korea is a real showdown. The President believes that # the Kremlin has embarked on a new world policy; that it will not hesitate to use armed force anywhere in the world if the ! stakes are high enough, The National Security CounMr. Symington cil believes the question of posPolice Action? gihje Russian intervention in Korea will be faced when the Communists start losing. But they also are aware that the Russians may force another crisis elswhere. They want to be better prepared to meet it. Apparently, that feeling is reflected in Congress. Many questions put to Chairman Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board by the Senate Banking Committee yesterday dealt with the necessity of police action next year and the year following. The additional stockpiling money will come from $2 billion Mr. Truman has requested in the Defense Production Act of 1950 for expansion of productive capacity and supply, ® The bill would give the President authority to make purchases of “metals, minerals and other raw materials, including liquid fuels, for government use or for resale.” It would empower him to buy “without regard to limitations of existing law, in such quantities and on such terms and conditions as (he) deems necessary.” He could pay higher than the prevailing market price.

Lists Short Supplies

MR. SYMINGTON told the Banking and Currency Committee yesterday that steel, copper; zinc and nylon are critically short. He said he hoped the United States would buy more natural rubber even though our rubber stockpile is in fairly good shape. He said the lead stockpile had improved, but added that additional purchases are necessary in that field, too.

Already Mr. Symington pointed out, the government has reopened three synthetic rubber plants. They include a general purpose rubber plant at Port Neches, Tex. with a capacity of 75,000 tons; a butadiene plant in Houston and a butyl special purpose rubber plant at Baton Rouge, La., with a capacity of 13 000 tons. Their addition gives the United States 18 synthetic rubber plants in operation and nine in standby. The 18 plants in operation add 88,000 tons to our annual production, giving us 500,000 tons a year.

Additional Expenditure

THE $500 million to $750 million additional stockpiling money will be spent over and above 740 million Mr, Truman has asked for stockpiling this year. (The Senate has appropriated $630 million; the House, $733 million.) The Mu-

the North Koreans,

mittee of two. They are Livingston T. Merchant, deputy

assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs and Capt. Albert C. Murdaugh of the U, 8. Navy, a special assistant in the office of Defense Secretary Lewis Johnson.

Communist countries go first to United Nations headquarters in New York. United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie has been trying to drum up more business, but he hasn't been too successful, either. What offers have come in, Mr. Lie has forwarded to the State Department, where the Mer-chant-Murdaugh committee takes them over. > = ” = CAPT: MURDAUGH carries the offers Svar 10 the Pentagon for Secretary son -and- the Joint Chiefs of Staff praise. If the

E neither he nor his advisers are _

Offers of aid from the anti-

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By Galbraith NO MONEY, FEW MEN .

“Korean Aid Offers Are Wrong Type

WASHINGTON, July 26-—The U. 8. government is open for business—as agent of the United Nations—but it has few cus- ~ tomers offering troops or other military assistance to put down

The “office” at which the U. 8. would like to do a lot more of this business is Room 3151 in-the new State Department build--ing. It is manned by a com-

_ the Washington. ambassadors

nitions Board says we had 55 per cent of our $3.7 billion stockpile goal on June 30. That

represents the purchase price of the critical .

materials we would need to fight a five-year war comparable to the last one. In recent weeks the Munitions Board has raised its stockpile quotas for 11 strategic materials and added two new ones—aluminum and

asbestos. The 11 materials with new quotas in- .

clude chromite, manganese, rubber, tin, abaca, sisal, corundum, kyanite, tale, quebracho and opium, ;

Manganese Warning : A SENATE Armed Services subcommittee warned in May that we could “very easily lose” another war because of our meager manganese

stockpiles. We must have 13 pounds of man-

ganese to produce a ton of steel. A $3.5 billion plane buying program-—added to the $2.2 billion scheduled before Korea—may tax our strategic reserves. The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics says columbium, tungsten, cobalt, chromium and nickel all are considered critical in supply,

the nation’s maritime unions,

Tobin Moves Fast fo Block: Danger of Waterfront Reds WASHINGTON, July 26— Waterfront loyalty

during the Korean fighting—to assure unham. pered shipments of military needs—apparently

thas been guaranteed by a voluntary agreement

of ship owners and anti-Communist martime

__ unions.

Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin moved fast when he heard there was danger that

shipping associations, steamship companies and tanker lines. In less than six hours Tobin yesterday he got from them a x wl Aad unanimous agreément sweep- ad ing aside the complicated labor problems of this industry, as far as they relate to national defense. The agreement, signed by spokesmen for all important waterfront employers and for all waterfront labor unions except two, pledges “full co-operation to the United States government in the entire period of the emergency.”

Harry Wasn't There ONE of the two missing signatories is the International Longshoremen’'s and Warehousemen’s Union, which is headed by Harry Bridges, an Australian who has been convicted of lying about his Communist membership when hs applied for citizenship papers. But spokesmen for three local unions representing most of the longshoremen on the West Coast signed up with vigorous statements that to them Mr, Bridges doesn't mean anything. “If he starts trouble we can control -him™

said Tom Kelly, of San Francisco, representing

the Ship Clerks’ Local No, 34. “Bridges is out the window--he was booed down by- his own local, No. 10 in San Francisco. Nearly half of his influence came from the sugar locals in Hawail, and that doesn’t count now.” The other union not represented was the Marine Cooks and Stewards. Its president is Hugh Bryson, who has been aligned with Bridges in many of his conflicts with the U. 8. government and labor organizations. Both the Bridges and Bryson unions are being expelled by the CIO on charges of Communist domination.

FBI to Help

THE mechanism for making certain that ships leave port on schedule is fairly simple. The U. 8. Coast Guard is authorized to declare whether any man on board is a bad security

‘risk. The Coast Guard will have help from

the FBI and the office of Naval Intelligence. When a man is ordered off a ship his union will furnish a replacement. Either the man or the union may appeal to a board composed of

representatives of labor, management and the

Coast Guard. Capt. H. T. Jewell, of the Coast Guard, who

took part in yesterday's meeting, said arrange-

ments could be made quietly to carry out the The White House was represented at the agreement. meeting and Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer also sat in for a time—indicating the top-level interest in a labor situation that could have proved troublesome,

"l do not agree with a word thet you say, but r will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Thanks for Letter’ By a Reader, City.

I FEEL I cannot make strong enough, nor can I make others see my way, but oh how

right was Mrs, Keene in her letter—“Close Unity in the Home.” We have gone so far, from the “old-time” training and rearing of our children. Yes, it is true, mother will take a job outside the home to pay for the luxuries dad cannot afford alone. So mother works to help pay for the new car or the TV set. (A strike against mother right at the start.) As for dad (not all dads) he will park in front of the new TV set with a few friendly folk to see the show. Mother, at that time is at her busiest. Dad has come home from work, eaten the dinner that she has prepared and now has an evening of relaxation before him. Not so for mother. * SB

AND she too, is holding down an outside job. The dishes must be washed, and a million-and-one other things must be done to be ready for the coming tomorrow. Also, the children seem to be a little more obstreperous after a day away from mother. They must be in bed at a certain time, if lessons are to be learned, she must take time to be a teacher. Love and security more essential than luxuries. Children must have care, need care. “First things must be kept first.” I can’t understand a mother finding anything sweeter than the little clinging hands of her babies. Their warm moist little kisses. Then when they lisp da-da, dad-da, or mom, mommom . . . luxuries . . . these are your luxuries. We can get along without the “too high to buy”

of the foreign countries con- argo.

cerned. There are no formal treaties drawn up. There's a minimum of red tape. In this way Australian air units and Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch and New

forces supporting Gen. MacArthur's command in Korean

French have offered to send a naval vessel. There are two reasons for wanting to get maximum in-

. By Peter Edson

supply merchant ships to haul supplies to Korea has been of particular interest. The only question is how many ships are available, whether they are tankers or dry cargo ships, where they are and how soon s 8 = they will be ready to load

The first offer of ground troops-—which are needed as badly as apything else—came from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Incidentally, this offer was not refused. There Zealand naval units were rap- has been a delay, however, beidly assigned to U. 8. Navy cause of a number of considerations. Now, Thailand has offered a combat team of 4000 waters. ‘And just recently the _ troops, and England ds considering sending ground troops from Hong Kong or Malaya. So far, other nations have offered only materials that ternational aid for U. 8. troops they have in long supply. The in Korea. The first is political Danes have offered medicine.

luxuries, that we cannot afford—but children

cannot get along without love. * % 9

MOTHERS care is best... . But it cannot be right kind of care needed when mother is overtired. She too, is human. “Is the game worth the candle?” The price paid ... too much.... My opinion is this, if a woman must work when it seems that dad has more responsibilities than cash, the load should be shared. The housework divided. Dad assuming a part. No “fair-minded,” “right-thinking” man should object to this. After mother has helped ease the load, then she should take her own place again. Thanks,

Mrs. Keene for your understanding letter in the

Hoosier Forum. I wish every father and mother could have read it. You were so perfectly right.

‘Political Dead Duck’ By H. E. M,, City THE BLATHER about Capehart being a “No. 1 target” for the PAC or anyone else could be nothing more than a feeble back-door buildup for a political dead duck whose suicidal public policies cut his own throat long ago. As for their “surrendering” in their “effort to defeat Sen. Taft,” the latter should be kept forever before the people as an “after-taking” picture of reaction in this country. He is otherwise harmless, due to the very notoriousness of his position, HE is an object of fun rather than any serious threat to the stability or prosperity of the country, even though past charges have linked him with threats to security in the field of fore

eign relations.

Domestically, however, as well as internationally, it is the Capeharts, Wherrys, Hickenloopers, et al who are the real and stealthy danger.

have to bolster them up further. But even token aid from these countries — something more tangible than just moral support—would be most welcome.

ONE THING that may have held back offers of aid is that the 50-odd countries supporting the United Nations resolution against the Commies haven't known what would be useful. Gen. MacArthur’g headquarters and the U. 8. Joint Chiefs of Staff are now cone sidering issuance of a military shopping list of supplies they might use. Even money would be useful,

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