Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1950 — Page 28
WALTER Li LECKRONE HENRY | w. MANZ Business Manager
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‘apparently is going to vote President Tro. man much greater economic powers than he asked. That is fortunate. For the moderate powers he sought would be inadequate weapons against the growing menace
of inflation,
Higher axes, curbs on consumer credit and on spec
” a Be Seg pg
uld not exert enough fo elie or
prices or keep wages from joining prices in a pill upward
race.
Authority - . order government control of prices and _ wages also ik needed. ‘And Mr. Truman probably won't -be-—-
displeased to hi
INDEED, “had
been. émbroiled in partisan politics. He might have been accused of making the Korean crisis an excuse to grab for
' In Skea 10
‘he asked tor 3 the issue iat have —
power to regiment the nation’s economy and fasten perma-"
nent controls upon its people.
or something much
He might have got nothing, too little after long delay.
As it is, most Democrats and many Republicans— though Sen. Taft is one vociferous exception—now 1hsist
that the President must accept such authority.
Congress country and to its own;
is ‘responding to Bernard M. Baruch’s wise advice, to urgent vom citizens throughout the
~ appeals from sense of duty.
“Mr. Truman may find it advisable to use the authority very soon. The Times believes he should. Delay is dangerous. Each day brings new evidence of rising inflationary pressures threatening to get beyond Possibility of effective
control.
BUT how "het uses it is vastly impor A repetition
_of the piecemeal methods and mistakes of World War II would be inexcusable. An attempt to control only part of
the forces that create inflation, leaving other parts free, would fail now as surely as it failed then. . The Baruch formula, which was not followed then, should be followed now:
~ simult
A ceiling over the entire economy—a ceiling placed Mec Harden aneously on prices, wages, rents and all other costs—
with rationing to assure fair sharing of necessities and with determined action to prevent profiteering.
No lllusions
A military authorities have begun to speak cautiously of a “turning point” in the Korean War.
- -at- Gen. - MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters td ond at the Pentagon in Washington have suggested that’ . our forces soon may stop retreating and start a counter-
\
offensive. Both, however, warned that before that happens. ; or ‘small Korean foothold may he further reduced.
The two spokesmen seemed confident that the Amer"cans will not be pushed clear off Korea. ,And the one in Tokyd added that, in any case, “the shify is definitely under
way.” \
Let's hope this is an accurate setment. not just more
{ ‘othing syrup from the military.
d Yer another period
But if the tide does turn of days of weeks, let's shun all tempta-
ti )n to conclude that ou home can then relax.
That would be a
son. No matter w - this war will not ré
at happens in Korea, the real enemy in
Premier Stalin has just said that Russia must continue
Ho] grow in state an
awer—must increase the strength of the Soviet all its military and intelligence organs.
Zhati isa Hsin warning which. it. would be. reckless. folly.
Le Wr wid and to Aster the. one vountry Which has the Soter
a
tir strength and productive capacity to challenge s success-
That country is
“full y the ambitions of Russian despotism.
er
our own America. We.can never afford
“to velax—we should never dare to exert less than our ut-
most efforts—while
America’s Potential p power. remains less
«than fully mobilized and actual...
ngerous, and could be a fatal, illu- _ to/do my best to make both
© DEARBOSS.,.. By Dun Kidney
S Baio Demand
= All-Out Control
Congress Reeling From Barrage - Of Mail Urging Action
WASHINGTON, * Se &--Dear Boss If
t the peopie push the
having the govern-
Mr. Kidney Rene
seem to sense ht or te Don . They themselves must rise up and win
mocracy. over ate ot without benefit of any great Te HE
THERE TV fio FY IRA RIN surance via radio that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Despite the crisis, President Truman continues to sound as prosaic as when he commanded Battery B in a Missouri National Guard
“Wrtiltery “outfit tn World War T. Being com=—""""""
mander-in-ch hasn' any new oratorical style.
. CONGRESS, thus far, hasn't matched the © White “House wartime stride. Both parties are —
bickering about the past and fouling up the present by inaction. Each blames the other: for everything that has gone wrong. . A good example of how democracy is ‘working at the grass-roots was a letter contained in a whole batch on the same subject received by Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington, Republican national committeewoman from Indiana, It was waite BY Mrs. Harry J. Womeldorf, 1207
8he urged immediate congressional action
for higher taxes and price controls. Her hus.
“band had served five years in the Air Corps in World War II and they are just getting really started in establishing a home, but both are ready to do whatever it takes to win. She wrote: “This letter pertains to issues affecting every American, But first of all, I want to add my voice to that of the public in general-—I bélieve
our policy of defending Korea is wholly in th ’.
“Hight for we have no alternative. The fact t ~the Korean situation the Russian bear not been allowed to p paw where it had no business being, eal ignored. However, moaning about our costly diplomatic failurés and our misplaced trust of the not too distant past is of little assistance to us now except in the way a by ex-
pensive experience.” Replies
HOW effective are such sincere appeals from... the home front shown by the reply to Mrs. Womeldorf frog” Mrs. Harden, It reads: acknowledge your very port of total civilian mobilization e threat of World War IIL ‘House. is continuing debate on the mobilization issue this afternoon and the resuit 1 probably reach you before this letter. However, 1 should like to go on record as being in agreement with you as to the necessity of real mobilization along lines suggested by Bernard Baruch. I rather doubt that such a bill will be approved by Congress, although I am inclined to vote. for the sternest measure possible. “War is an extremely unpleasant business. High taxes and total mobilization of our civilian economy are unpleasant as well. Nevertheless, we are at war and I believe everything possible must be done to make certain of victory and peace. I agree with you that high taxes are necessary, for we must pay for this war, and I Hkewise agree with you that all non-essential spending should be trimmed to the bone.
Wants No Profiteers “IN CONCLUSION, there must be no room in Anierica for slackers or profiteers. I intend impossible and will vote for effective civilian mobilization and a tax program to take the profit.out of war and meet the expenses made necessary by the war, “Your letter, along with many others of ind vein, encourages me a great deal. I thank you”
letter in
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By Peter Edson
Truman Fh Plan a Stop-Gap
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Considerable polis
_ tics is being Blayed by ani by all concerned in the new
defense planning program. Preside
nt ro is being severely criticized -
or proposing what his critics consider only viii measures to deal with the Korean War. They say that he isn't proposing a big enough tax increase, that he isn’t asking for enough defense money, and that the economic controls he wants Congress to enact aren't
nearly tough enough to deal with the present
_ situation,
This 18 1 an entirely new line for administra: .
tion opponents. Heretofore, they have claimed that he wanted to tax-too much, spend too much and control too much. . As a matter of fact, the administration's new defense program now before Congress looks like a complete change in the President's political strategy. The President is now consulting more with congressional leaders, asking their
I instead of Just telling them. His defenses”
program is therefore based on what he feels he can passed now, in a hurry and with minimum difficulty.
Always 'way Ahead
IN the past, the President has alwkys been ‘way ahead of Congress. He has been the leader of the Democrat Party. He has wanted more civil liberties, more social welfare, bigger government programs than Congress has been willing to enact. Political justification for this has been that it was this program for things like a federal FEPC, health insurance, and low-income hous-
" ing that got the President re-elected in 1948. If
_he had compromised and been willing to take "only what the more conservative Congress had
been willing to give him, he would have hada
Gov. this
program even less progressive than Dewey's, From a political standpoint, might have led to a Democratic defeat. The President apparently wants to stick to his ‘way-out-in-front leadership, as longproposition. He would
- After listening to little men in Congress : blaming everyone byt themselves for the plight
we are in, these two letters neem to ‘lend truth 10s :
Rar ¢ ‘man s fudgment”
ALE sional
aan for a second that he had abandoned ans of his Fair Deal,
Rah senatorial Ait are sittery
GAME OF CHESS. = oY Map Shik By
ond the tactical maneuvering
leader Joe.
In dealing with the Korean .. “War situation, ‘however, ‘the “President is" up
about what the war may do to them, in all but the traditionally solid southern Democratic or northern Republican jcan districts. The President naturally feels that he must have Democratic majorities in both houses of
the next Congress. So he proposes a safe, mid- .
dle-of-the-road program.
Under Twin Attack
ACTUALLY, the President is being attacked from both sides of this road. Republican House
Martin Taft of Ohio feel that the President's defense
‘program is too tough. Followers of Bernard
Baruch, who wants standby price control SM rationing legislation enacted now, feel that President's program is too soft." There are. other good, practical political arguments for, not advocating price. and rationing controls at this time. In the first place, there is no machinery set up to administer and
“enforce thé. In the
“second ~Demotrats may well remember that one of the principal reasons they lost control of Congress In 1946 was the unpopularity of OPA. 3 In the President’s midyear economic report sent to Congress last week, still another line of reasoning is advanced. It is based on a fear that overexpansion of defense production now
would lead to a war boom. This war boom
would lead to inflation. And too much inflation would inevitably be followed by collapse. The remembrance of even the slight economic decline of the past 12 months, when unemployment rose to 4 million, still seems to haunt some Washington economic and political planners.
What He Proposes
— WHAT the President therefore
program that will take up. the reported 5 he cent slack in industrial production, further build up productive capacity for a greater defense effort at a later time, and absorb the surplus manpower now available-so as to cut down un_employment to 1 million. :
In other words, this looks something | like a A
defense effort to produce full employment and... ‘not ‘much more —till after election. It is ohvi-
n_of Massachusetts and Sen.
read the rumor that » | a negnmor
EE Y you Know)” “sald tha told her that someone said that ya dpe going to be rationed and if you want any you had better get it now, and so the wildfire starts that will end in holocaust for us and our chils dren if we do not stop it now. » ” = ARE we going to let greed entice us into the hands of the enemy? Every time we fli with hoarding in mind, we are doing just tha We are falling into the clever ‘web that ab Stalin has for us. If rationing does come are we 80 weak and soft that we can't take it? We lived through rationing during the last war, and though i% wasn’t pleasant, we survived and survived ter than our men who fought in foreign lands. Our veteran hospitals are filled with men who would gladly trade all the sugar in the world for a good healthy lung or one whole arm or leg or a mind that is clear and sane and not filled with horrors acquired while fighting for the cause of peace. . » » A
‘to stem the dark tide that seeks to drown us in its dark toils of slavery. Our country is rich » in resources and manpower, but our fighting men can't do it all. We have a battle to fight right here at home against evil rumors and lies made to look like the truth, and may God help
us to use our Yankee common sense to turn .
aside the Moscow-made river of greed that is Sweeping our nation. == 0
What Others Sys
A NATION of free and independent indivie duals is the best proof we can offer to other nations of the value of the American system of free enterprise—BSecretary of the Treasury John Ww. _Snyder. :
When I get out of this job the one thing I am going to run for is home.—ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman, mentioned as a possible presidential candidate,
THERE is a universal feeling that war
- means catastrophe for all—United Nations Secx retary
-General Trygve Lie, after talks with Jeaders of the United States, Great Britain, France and Rusbia.
AS a nation, we need have no fears so long as ‘the actions of those residing within our shores are “open and above board.”—FBI Diress tor J. Edgar Hoover. :
IN New Jersey we can't afford to take
- federal funds. We don’t want federal funds.— ~~ §
Gov. Alfred. Driseoll (D. N. J.).
NO WOMAN has ever so comforted the dise tressed—or distressed the comfortable!-Mrs, Clare Booth Luce, on Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
_ THOSE who understand a free society have faith that we can use our Javwledge for human
advancement.—P.
Cloy. |
Bes SPENDING By PaulR: eels
NOW and again our men are being called
You can assure repr of “one , thing. =
partie Ae ivered on
Control Need Stressed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Need for ‘industrial material cone
LEGAL JAL N ing obit be be held — mission, Cit of
~today by-revelation -that of the-$5222: censor ne This 000.000 scheduled for foreign military aid against communism posed mendm only about $475 million will be spent abroad. fron - Most of the rest will go into increasing the demand upon" : American productive capacity. As material is produced here
it will be allocated. to the na- : and their even with the speedup the
eof mes, Aug. ‘18 an’ aie ‘61 ‘hope. Tt 1s the” on role was:
of a United Nations ‘becoming a truly functional body to pre-
Is That Bad? serve the peace of ‘the world. FREDERICK L. OTHMAN, ‘a Times “columnist whose The potential is here and now in the plans and intentions sparkling humor delights us every day, has a story in _ agaression in Stitt a1 Ihe toe Bou-Communist. powers, The “take precedence in ‘the duel
a.
this edition we believe you won't want to.miss. : It tells how Indiana's Charley Halleck stopped a: bill i in ~ Congress .. . for a while. Good bill, too, no doubt. At least Rep. Halleck was supporting another one that appears now to say practically the same thing.
“THE REASON he stopped it was fe hadn't read it.
No’ Congressman, it developed, had read it. Mr. Halleck
figured it would be nice to-know what he was voting for”... or against...and enough other Representatives felt the same way to get the vote delayed a few days. Delay is one complaint many of us have against
Congress,
Why SAY wPessioh, y
Still, we believe we'd rather have them read the bills
they are making into laws...even if it does take a little
longer.
Political Blunder
Poise TRUMAN'S decision to call four National _Guard divisions to active duty is wise. The method used in making that decision known to the
. public was not.
First word. that. guardsmen from Pennsylvania, Cali-" fornia, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont had been ordered to mobilize was given out by members of - Congress from those states. . And most of the Senators and Representatives who ~ gave itoutare Democrats.
2g eR,
: THERE i, perhaps, some euler of excuse for permitting faithful Democrats in Congress to reap whatever spublicity and political advantage they can out of being first
to announce ordinary government projects of special bene- .
fit to their states or districts.
‘There is no excuse for parceling out official news im-
to the whole country.
—some-thinking and some plan-— ning outside the groove of veto and defeatism in which the United Nations was stalled. ew ow ‘A BOLD plan for action has been worked out by the United
States. If the tactical maneu-
“vering over Korea and Com-
munist China doés not get in the way, it- will be presénted
at once, This plan is for noth--
ing less’ than a permanent United Nations commission xempowered to inquire into agthreatened or real, direct or indirect, wherever it may be, Such a commission may well be the answer to the danger of minor wars breaking out
at a half-dozen tension points
in various corners of the globe. These tension points— Iran, Indo-China, Yugoslavia, Greece—would all come under the United Nations umbrella, Expert observers would be on the scene before any real
——-trouble—occurred. to determine
the source of aggression. » ». » 2 SUCH--an over-all commission would follow the pattern
missions for observation sent “to Greece and Korea. It would
fire alarm system, sensitive to the first whiff of smoke. In recent discussions in the State Department and In the
. of. the United Nations com-
- have broad powers and perma "nent status. Such a commission could be compared toa
United States delegation.to the
United ‘Nations it was debated whether © this should not be
Whoever in the government decided to pares out this +miade the Bist order of busi:
Bes that way biundered badly. Hereafter,
Jet such news come from the President or
—
ly. Korea, it
ness h “of Am
hold it up at I
ge SE Ln
e. But on the advice dor Alexander Kirk in Moscow it was decided. to t temporari--felt, should
with Russian delegate Jacob Malik. :
NO one has any illusions about what will happen when this plan for a permanent
commission is put forward. If . —Russia—is-still sitting inthe
Security Council, Mr.
Malik
will once. again use the veto, -
But then the way. will be open to go to the ‘General
" Assembly of the United Na-
tions, and the assembly meets next month, There is little doubt that such'a plan for a “permanent fire alarm’ system would be approved by the assembly. The belief here is that “the
. United States could expect the
support of those nations that have clung to a concept of neutrality. India, for example, supported the Korean Commission and an Indian observer was a member of that
- commission. India could play
a vital role on a permanent commission with “broad powers to report on threats to the peace well in advance of
* any shooting.
i ® ® = KOREA has-been an’ eye: opéner fpr many of the neutrals. The Swedish United Nations delegate, Sven Grafstrom, is urging a permanent United Nations military force, Other member = states, spiciously Canada, have. been discussing such a possibility ever since Gen, MacArthur assumed the ommand of Ameri<' cans and the .name of United Nations.
con-
th Koreans in
oy
comm. 00 ek sEIGE: We. . MG 8. PAT. OF.
“These summer visitors think we're. crazy, and we think they're “crazy, and over in Europe they think we're all crazy!”
fighting apparatus ready to
go into action if and when the’ permanent commission of in-
quiry sould sound a threealarm call. This is exactly what was envisioned before the slow strangulation of the veto began to squeéze the life out of the United Nations. #8 #8 THE veto, or a threat of it, kept military committees in
long and futile months of dis-
cussion. The Soviet Union did not want a United Nations military force in being. . «The hope in this new line of yd planning for action has big question
; mark bettas" At. Is there time enough? And, % Ton 4 ditommelemmmten of . view of defenaelessness of
. for support for the new com-
Much of the $12 billion President Truman has for winning the Korean War and stepping up our own air, land and sea preparedness soon will be going out to industry in the form of orders from the Amy, Navy and Afr
Force.
INDUSTRY, according to government economists, can take the load without shutting « off civilian goods as was done .in the last war. output obviously will. be reduced: Howimuch remains to be seen as military demands - are translated into direct buy-
ing. The
the whole Western World. The free nations have waited so long. They have waited until what seemed less paralysis ‘had settled in. There is only one virtue in the length of this waiting period—it is proof;—if proof were needed, that the free world was willing to believe nearly to the point of self-destruc-tion in Russia's protestations of peace and co-operation. Mémbers of the American delegation are now canvassing
nilssion. - Some delegates feel Wat would have too much auy. This can be “an “end
President Tuesday formally requested Congress to supply an additional $4 billon right now for the mutual . defense assistance program. This sum is in addition to the .. $1,222,000,000 for that purpe in the regular appropriation ~bill- now before the Senate; ~— According to officials here, $475 million is about "all that "= = = can be spent in one year in dollars and sent abroad on Im- _ proving facilities, providing materials and parts to help Atlantic Union countries and others arm themselves. : More will be asked in 1951. However, they say $475 million is not a fixed figure. If Britain, France, Italy and ‘other couritries can absorb more in their own production they will get it. thing is to get them armed as quickly as possible, iy
IT 187 GOING to take from six 10 24 months to get de-
ora and there are here and abroad or any her who Tel 1 ov. sume neh, Riad
“President has asked. : Military chiefs of staff of the Allied countries met some time ago to begin ‘mapping the requirements of each of the participants. That has been estimated now in terms of divisions of soldiers and air squadrons. The number of each is not being made public. . Deputies, of the foreign ministers, with Charles M. Spof“ford, New York lawyer: representing State Secretary Acheson and serving as chairman, are meeting in London to work out agreements on How weapons provided by the United States will be distributed. More important is the ob"taining" of definite agreements by each of the participants to devote a large part of their own industrial effort and finances to helping themselves. American officials say they
requested
But civilian
abroad to help finance production should get results at
terms of dollar output,
THE WHOLE PROGRAM is to be elastic, it was emphasized here, By that is meant we ‘may pay for material produced in England intended to be given to France or Italy. ‘Economic Co-operation ' Administration officials insist that the military assistance funds provided by the United States will need for Marshall Plan eco- ' nomig recovery dollars, American buying here for 0 distribution-a-broad will be ” done through . our normal
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