Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1950 — Page 10

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a4 . hy The ‘Moderation’ Front ‘PRESIDENT TRUMAN said rightly that price and wage controls and rationing should start simultaneously—if danger of inflation makes them necessary. : But, he made it clear, he does not think them necessary Bow. 5 2 3 He continues to hope his present program will keep them from becoming necessary. That program includes: A new $5 billion tax bill, which Congress will take some weeks to pass; a heavier tax bill, which he says should be enacted after the November elections; government power to curb consumer and speculation credit; reduction of nondefense government spending “wherever feasible.”

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In addition, his economic report this week called for voluntary measures against inflation — for businessmen, consumers and labor to “practice moderation,” “refrain from hoarding or avarice” and avoid inflationary wage demands and strikes. » » » LET'S see, then, how goes the battle on the “moderation” front: : : The day Mr. Truman's economic report reached Congress the government daily spot index of wholesale prices for 28 commodities had risen 3 per cent in less than a ‘week, 10 per cent in the last four weeks. ast That same day the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index hit $6.49—up 8 cents in a week to its highest point since September, 1948.

THE Federal Reserve Board reported nation-wide department store sales the week of July 15 were 46 per cent above a year ago; the greatest increase on record. Milk prices rose in Chicago, Dallas, New Jersey and ~ New York City, where the increase was a cent a quart in groceries, a cent and a half home delivered.

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And a whimsical Washington (D.C.) grocer decided to _ offering 5 pounds of sugar for 88 cents, almost twice his price the day before, and sold 800 pounds in four hours.

CONGRESSMEN in growing numbers “lack Mr. Truman's faith in voluntary measures and indirect controls. Republicans on the House Banking Committee tried to write Bernard M. Baruch's proposal for price-wage controls and rationing into the administration's pending de-

fense production bill. ~ w The committee defeated their effort, but by a vote of only 10 to 9.

Mr. Baruch has urged Congress to order price-wage controls and rationing started without delay. If Congress won't go that far he says, it should at least write authority into law right now, then keep it ready for Mr. Truman to use instantly if and when he changes his mind. Congress would be exceedingly wise to do just that. For Mr. Truman may find it necessary to change his mind suddenly and soon. Certainly the menace of inflation is far more serious today than it was on Nov. 1, 1947, when he demanded from ‘an emergency session of the Republican 80th Congress immediate price-wage control and rationing powers. Or than it was on Jan. 7, 1948, when he repeated that demand.

Why All the Delay? prac CHIEF ROULS, and presumably also Mayor Feeney, now have the eye-witness evidence of the brutal beating of a prisoner while two patrolmen had him under arrest, which the Police Department has tried so hard to suvpress. : The bedting was 11 days ago. 2 The two patrolmen are still on duty. They have not been fired. They have not been suspended. They have not been reprimanded. : On the contrary, it now appears that these two men were allowed to “investigate” the charges against themselves, and that “investigation” was the principal basis of the “report” Chief Rouls gave Mayor Feeney whitewashing THREE unimpeachable witnesses saw it ali, with their own eyes, in broad daylight, from a distance of less than They offéred immediately to give testimony.

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curity needs. If they fail in that there will be litle hope left in the United Nations.

No Effective Aid

FOR MOST United Nations members lack either the capacity or the will, or both, to give effective aid in an emergency. There are exceptions among small nations—such as Siam, Turkey and a few others—who are quick to share their mite, even though they themselves are in exposed positions. : But for most nations collective security still means a one-sided system from which they intend to get as much as possible and give as little as possible. This perhaps is due less to selfishness as such than to lack of intelligent selfishness. Too few of them understand, even at this late date, that separate defense or neutrality is impossible ~-that the free world will survive or perish together, So the example of large nations like Britain, or of small ones like Turkey, is necessary for the enlightment of many laggards. ‘Next Korea’ FOR PRACTICAL purposes, however, these examples should be of more value in preparing for “the next Korea” than in defending this one. An international defense force cannot be improvised. Small units from many nations cannot become an effective single fighting team without training together and without standardization of weapons. The lesson of Korea is the need for a professional United Nations police force, with high mobility, quick striking power and special training in guerrilla warfare. To such a force small nations can make their fair contribution. Disarmed nations like Germany and Japan can port their citizens to serve in an international n. Defense of areas such as Korea and defense against Soviet attack on major fronts are different problems. If the United States and Britain must turn their main effort to defending Koreas, they never will be prepared for the big push. But until there in a standing United Nations force, they will have to do both kinds of defense jobs,

ELEMENTS OF LIFE

It isn't that some folk are gifted, "Tis by suffering they learned to live, That is why, my dear, they are dedicated To the happiness they can give,

They have learned to battle the elements And found in all of the bad . There was always a mite of good concealed That they might never have had—

If their ship had not sailed the surface Of an ocean with waves. a bit wild, But faith and trust and a courageous heart Go hand in hand, my child. ~-Anna K, Young, 3547 N. DeQuiney St.

COMPREHENSION

I would choose for myself the simpler things, Pick the good from what I have had, For contentment must be—the peace it brings, The good must outweigh the bad.

It is marvelous, yet do all of us learn What it is to understand, "Tis wonderful to find and discern The beauty of what is at hand! —Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuincy St.

‘TIS SAID

If business could whip the cost of delivery we may have more for less. Fine, fine, just so they don't shift the burden to the housewife. During the war she carried everything from a spool of thread to 50 feet of garden hose on crowded trolleys and busses. -B. C, Indianapolis, Ind.

BALLOT BOX . . . By Marquis Childs

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What Laws Will Curb Gaming?

WASHINGTON, July 29—Sometime before next Feb. 28 Sen. Estes Kefauver (D., Tenn.) and his Crime Investigating Committee will have to decide what kind of laws Congress ought to pass to control gambling and kindred lawbreaking. ; That's the date set for the committee to report on its current nationwide investigation into the ramifications of off-track horse betting, slot machine operations, narcotics smuggling and sundry crimes.

Nobody knows exactly how much the “busi-

ness” amounts to, but guesses are that it scoops up billions of dollars annually. Meanwhile, young Sen. Kefauver and his committee are fast using up the $150,000 voted by Congress to study the situation—and there's still consider-

& able work to be done.

So far, the Senators have held public hearings in Washington and Miami, as well as closed-door sessions in St. Louis and Kansas City. The committee expects to go back to the latter communities for open hearings sometime this fall. Before that, however, it'll head for Chicago, a noted racket center,

Gambling Tieups BIGGEST discovery made by the Senate group up to now is that there are definite tieups among gambling interests with networks spreading far across state lines. This was believed by Sen. Kefauver to be the case even before the formal investigation was started in May. It was confirmed in Miami. As is customary with the committee, staff investigators quietly invaded the Florida city to have a look-see before Sen, Kefauver or other committee members -put in an appearance. On the eve of the Miami hearings, the chairman announced: “Gradually, piece by piece, we are assembling a nationwide picture of organized crime that indicates a definite network involving the same figures in several states and shows beyond doubt that operating criminal groups have countrywide ramifications.” : The committee sought to question 30 witnesses in Florida. Several failed to show up, however, and will have to be called later. Meanwhile, the committee learned, among other things, that Philadelphia gangsters regularly hang out at one fashionable Miami hotel, while mobsters from Chicago, Detroit and New York stay at another. It learned, too, that Florida's Gov. Fuller Warren was elected with the support of an

SIDE GLANCES

WASHINGTON, July 29—1If there is one characteristic above -,

all others essential both to the lawmaker and to the executive in our government today it is responsibility. Since that is so, there is an encouraging bit of news in the victory of Rep. A. 8. M. (Mike) Monroney over Sen. Elmer Thomas in Oklahoma. For Mike Monroney has proven through six terms in the

House that he is, above ‘all

“industrialist” and a dog-racing king, each of whom contributed at least $150,000 to his campaign fund, and that the sheriff of Dade County mysteriously had increased his personal assets from $2500 in 1944 (the year he was elected) to $70,000 four years later. .

Murder Mystery

IN ST. LOUIS and Kansas City the committee paturally had to devote some time to the celebrated mystery growing out of the murder of Charles Binaggio, local Democratic leader and gambler. ; The Senators had little hope of solving th case. They did discover, however, that Binaggio, who was shot to death in a district Democratic club last April, along with a henchman, Charles

_Gargotta, was Involved in interstate operations

of gamblers and racketeers in the Kansas Cjty area. Chairman Kefauver confirmed what previously had been disclosed in the neéewspapers— that the Binaggio-Gargotta operations were closely connected with the m ¢ t of race wires, There is, he added, an “interlocking of

people involved in the ownership of these serv-

ices and the gambling which is taking place.” As in Florida so in Missouri, the Senate group learned that racing news distributors and gamblers had contributed heavily to campaign funds of Democratic state and city officials. Before hitting the road, the Kefauver Committee launched its investigation by sending requests to governors, mayors and police

officials throughout the country for informa- -

tion on local gambling and racketeering which might be useful to the Senators.

Racket Squad

ONE of the first to respond was Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who directed his police commissioner to appoint a racket squad lieutenant as a liaison officer between the committee and the police department. “The lieutenant already has given us a load of stuff—information, leads, and so forth—that will prove highly useful,” a committee spokesman said. At the outset, Sen. Kefauver declared his group had no intention of entering the field of local law enforcement. On the contrary, he explained, its purpose would be to seek ways by which federal legislation could be passéd to strengthen the hand of local officials desiring to enforce their own laws,

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opposed to our form of government. But at the same time, it appears to me that if the same men in authority would exert an equal amount of interest, concern and energy in the shortcomings of our present democratic state, we would have no need to fear and be apprehensive. Such alarm, fear, timidity, and apprehension is the result of the absence of an abiding sense of security. It is evidence of the fact that the government itself, is not satisfied that its citizens are completely sold on the idea that our present democratic government has lived up to and abided by the principles of democracy as set up under the Constitution of the United States. If men in high places, if men who hold themselves out to be men of integrity, men of honor, and men of influence, would exhibit such a keen sense of fear and apprehension when some of the basic rights as guaranteed under the Constitution have been denied to its citizens, our democracy would be a much more potent force and our security would not be questioned, We would not have to sell the world on democ« racy; democracy would sell itself.

‘Anti-Hoarding Pledges’ By Cordelia A. White.

NOW is the time for all good men (and women) to come .to the aid of their country and take a direct forward step to nip this hoarding in the bud. Certainly, we are not going to allow our sleves to be duped by a false alarm of short age, or frightened by these wild women who are stampeding from store to store in their selfish and thoroughly un-American quest for more than they need of commodities in the immediate future. Why not The Times appeal to the better side, the better judgment of its readers, and get pledges from homemakers, housewives and bachelors who do their own cooking, that they will not buy more than they need; that they will not hoard any item whatsoever; that they are going to remain good Americans and cooperate with the government in order to keep America free of forced rationing and the return of OPA and all its headaches of the last war,

‘l Have a Home for Néedy Person’ By Mrs. N. R. Noble, R. R. 2, Mooresville

I have heard many times of the destitute men and women in Indianapolis who do not have the necessities of life and only a dirty hole in the wall to call home. I have a home to give to one of those elderly women, with proper food and warmth when needed, in exchange for being company for my children at night while I am working, but can I find one of them? No. I can place a want ad, certainly, but I don't want hired help. I want the person to become a member of our family. Why is it, when a person is willing to give another a helping hand, there are none to be found. Maybe some of your readers can tell me,

What Others Say—

WAR is not inevitable. It is our responsi. bility to find ways of solving our problems without resort to war and to exhaust every possibility in that effort. This is what we intend to do.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

IF American forces are forced to withdraw from Japan ... our entire Pacific line of defense . . will disintegrate.—Clyde A. Lewis, commander- y, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

IF they (Republicans) modify their position toward Taft-Hartley, they could get control of the nation.—Daniel J. Tobin, president, AFL Teamsters Union.

I THOUGHT I would be helping a nation, whose final aims I approved, along the road to industrial strength.—Chemist Henry Gold, arrested on charges of spying. :

CHAIN OF MERCY . . . By Jane Stafford

Rescue Operations

WASHINGTON, July 29—Backing our fighting forces in Korea is the most efficient, smooth-working rescue operation that has ever existed in history. It is known as the Army Medical Service and this week it celebrates its 175th birthday. The unbroken chain of mercy operated by this service from the front line to gigantic military hospitals in the United States

else, a responsible and a conscientious public servant. He is a responsible public servant before he is a partisan poli-

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phenomenon, n » » ONE reason for Sen Thomas’ defeat, ending a political career going back to Oklahoma's first year of state-

Dixiecrat forces in that state. This raises further doubt as to whether the South is ready, and willing, to rally behind a crusade against the Truman administration.

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