Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1950 — Page 12

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Jo Can't Dodge Ir ———— HOUGH we san do sofething about, our military , apparently little can be done to escape awful consequences if Russia should drop an atom t “on us. : That is the direful “news in the 438-page handbook which has just been put out by the Defense Department ““and the Ato) Co itis as American people on how to organize civilian defense against ~guch-s

~ named Rep, Cecil R. King (D. Cal) as a sub-

“To Public fo Be land

_ WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—The House Ways and Means Committee, on the look-out for new sources of federal revenue, is taking steps to-

. ward assessing fees for government services now free to special interests. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. ci has

committee head to survey the entire subject.

The federal government performs many in-

, Sieting. grading, reporting aud Neensing serve

- jees which have been authorized under various

laws to benefit particular groups.

RCE eee ness of an A-bomb attack. Nor is there any suggestion that American ingenuity, know-how or cocksureness can lessen the horror, or the loss of life. For that forbearance, ~ perhaps we should be soberly thankful—particularly when

featuring grandiose plans for eurythmic dancing and folk

“the earlier the better. Even five minutes’ notice of a. bombbearing plane would reduce casualties, if there were ade_quate underground shelters and the people sought refuge in a quick, orderly manner. There is, in fact, much emphasis on steps to curb mass Ee hysteria. Panic could kill more people than would be killed by the bomb. Therefore, proper planning and advance organization could save many lives. This report and guide, based on all the known results of past atomic blasts, should be valuable in quickening civil defense activity which in most of our cities is still largely in the early planning stages. In any case, it is essential reading. Titled “the effects of atomic weapons,” it may be obtained by writing the superintendent of documents, government printing office,

we recall our civil defense preparations of 10 years ago

_ games as an antidote. to air-raid fears... ..

“het re told, is VAG warning=-"" p THE “defense; we x on any of the fundamental federal services fo

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- state and local governments make charges for

“There 18 ho “thought oF plat the general public. But it is pointed out

many services comparable to those that Uncle Sam now gives free. v

Some Services Small

SOME of the free government special services are small, others of considerable value, such as airline franchises and radio brosdeastng licenses. “Broadcasting,” trade magazine of

radio and television, noted that the Federal

Communications Commission was the first government agency to report to the Senate committee, and said: “The FCC uses a budget of about $7 million, Let's say that half goes to the mass radio media operations. These media did about $450 million in net time sales in 1949. They paid federal taxes

accordingly. They've already paid for their por- .

tion of the FCC's administration, and then some, but Jad no voice In the pnanagement of the

_ Washington 25, D. C. and enclosing $1.25.

Our Greatest Danger “HE. United States is today in greater peril than ever before.” That statement comet from the National Planning - Association's Committee on International Policy, a group made up of representative leaders from agriculture, labor and the professions. "And that statement is true. Our country’s peril arises as the NPA Committee "says, from the fact that “Soviet imperialism is committed 17a policy gimed a! destruction of the free world, of which iy ruthless, gespotie Soviet \mperialisn is not all we have to fear. Our country's peril is’ immensely increased because too many of its people's chosen leaders do not recognize the terrible urgency of the present situation. Steps necessary to deal with the menace created by ‘Soviet imperialistn are being taken in slow motion or not at all Time, the most precious commIdity we have, is being squandered by men in Washington Whose motto seems to be: “Be careful not to do too much too soon.”

once upon “a costly and comprehensive program” of which President Truman, so far, has presented ‘merely the preview.” Among the elements of such a program, it lists:

of weapons,

and diversion for ius Fanon of a larger

y A building up and training of the Armed Forees on a much greater scale than has yet been announced. £2 Heavier taxes, elimination of governmental waste and —extravaganee, and other anti-inflation measures: “And, “much as we may dislike it, we should recognize _that economic controls have again. _become a matter of Urgent necessity.” .

ness of the truth that adequate preparedness to win, if America is forced to fight another great war, offers the best hope of discouraging Soviet imperialism’s aggressive plans for world domination and so averting such a war.’

s BUT surely, say the advocates of half steps, we can win the war in Korea without need for all-out industrial mobilization, price and wage ceilings, rationing of scarce essentials and other economic controls. - Maybe we could, though that has not yet been demonstrated. : Korea, however, is not the main event. It may be only the curtain raiser for an immensely bigger war which, if it found America ill prepared, could spell defeat and ruin for us before we knew what had hit us.

be prepared for a major war two, three or four years hence. Russia is now more ready than we are in most respects, and will spare no effort to increase her lead. We cannot do too much too soon. Our greatest danger } is that we may fail to do enough in time.

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Thank Goodness! oly :

(CHEMICAL industries take from the air and use as raw materials about five million tons of nitrogen a year. This brings up the question a as to how long the world’s supply of nitrogen will last. - Sidney S. Negus, science editor of a Virginia Chamber

tion. He calculates that the air around our sphere contains 4,650,000,000,000,000 tons of nitrogen. He says, further, that . what nitrogen is taken out of the atmosphere is not deHH stroyed; nature's processes eventually return it to the air. And, even if it were destroyed, the present- supply. of nitro- _ gen, at present rate of use, would last 930,000,000 years, ~ Thanks, Mr. Negus. It's a reli®f to hear about at least

gh that doesn't # for immediste Wony,

THE NPA Committee urges that America embark at ne

A speed-up of industrial conversion to: ‘manufacture -

wInvally the NPA Committee deploys inteligentsawaress

Mr. King is author of a bil which would dl.

TRAINING PLAN .

By Jim G. Lucas

Preparedness Seen ‘Best Answer’

WASHINGTON, Aug. \15—Five years ago World War II hostilities ended on VJ-Day. We thought the war was over, but'it wasn't. Responding to public clamor, we “got the boys home,” and quickly demobilized our powerful army. Our military leaders soon began cast-

Mr. Johnson created the Civilian Components

. Policy Board as a permanent part of the De-

fense Department in May, 1949, to “develop

_ over-all policies.”

‘Lot of Sense’

FIRST chairman was William Faricy, presi-

“Ihe Yavment of license fees or filing fees

. would be no hardship for the larger stations or

the networks. No matter how slight, they would be burdensome to the smaller operators. Last year, according to the FCC's own statistics, 25 per cent of the licensed stations lost money.”

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

FT. MONMOUTH, N. J.—Front line battle action telecasts to the home were reported to be within the range of possibility before long.

Wee Willle likes old Hopalong Within the TV-nestling, While mama _ goes for Godfrey's song, And poppa wants the wrestling.

About what program fills the screen, - There's always noise and prattle. ~~

"So what's so new if your machine Brings forth a nightly battle?

‘TIS SAID

—Business is business and some stores and markets will rise or fall on their: merits. . Let's not return to the “take it or leave it” policy.

is about over for this year.

Ur AWARE Torces.”

REORGANIZATION ... By Peter Edson

Reform Plans Fade

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—Government reorganization in line with ex- -President Herbert Hoover's Commission recommendations President Truman has no more

ing about for a preparedness plan_ 1 rebuild

With administration backing, and demos support from national organizations and. civilian leaders, they settled on universal military training. As it failed to pass successive Congresses, various substitutes were sought and proposed. But none of them stood up in the face of the gradually mounting emergency. Today, five years after the war was “over,” the emergency is upon us again—and in the view of the Defense Department, universal military training still is regarded as the best answer. Today—"any plan for manpower mobilization other than universal military training is inadequate for the defense of the nation, and

is equivocating, compromising and a ‘dangerous

~ generator of illusory security.”

Adoption Urged

THAT was the wording of a resolution adopted Friday by the Defense Department's Civilian Components Policy Board. The board, which is the nation’s top board on reserve policy, backed up the Defense Department's action in drafting a UMT bill for Congress consideration this week. It recommended that Defense Secretary Louis Johnson immediately “urge the adoption of a universal military training program for the youth of the nation, to be trained in such numbers and at such times as designated by the President, to assure a virile, adequately trained and sufficiently large defense force.”

The board found that “the immediate threat

“ter the national security and our continuing

strategy for peace mandates the marshalling of our manpower to obtain the greatest potential for combat with the least interruption to the nation’s economy.” “ —It said that other plans for manpower — mobilization were ‘studied; “all of which failed to meet the current or ultimale YeqUIvEments

SIDE GLANCES

up his sleeve to send to Congress for cop-

sideration within 60 days, or veto. Some 30-odd reorganization { bills are before the Senate 8d. House, and _half- a dozen minor... >

oftes ‘have ‘sight’ chance ©

“Mr. Paricy ty ‘was succeeded by Edward

._ Burgess, vice president of the Baltimore and “Qhio Railroad. Other members include assistant

selretaries of the three services; an Army general, “admiral and Air Force general; and two top of from each branch of the reserves or National Guard. “Universal military training makes an awful lot of sense,’- one board member said today. “Suppose the Russians cause us to mobilize

and nothing more happens. After dix months

of what we mistake for peace, there is a hue and cry at home to demobilize. Then the Russians start trouble 80 re else, and we have to re-mobilize, can’t keep that up “HSTRY. ‘We should ne ave Tewer than wo million men in-uniform. Tal military training. is the pertect answer. It keeps our reserves at fighting strength, it provides adequate training for the men who will have to fight, and it will provide some relief for the boys—they’re get! on in years now-—who've been standing guard 11 over the world for the last nine years. They deserve to come home, and the younger boys deserve the chance to help defend their country, knows, ing they've been trained for the job.”

“Training Plan

WHO would serve uncer universal training? Every young man would be covered when he reached his 18th birthday or finished high school—whichever—came last. The Defense Department says there will-be a million 18-year-olds every year; it estimates 850,000 will be “accepted. For the remainder—those rejected for physical or mental reasons, plus econscientious objectors—there would be some form of non-military training. Initially, the 850,000 would receive six months —of —basie Thereafter, they “could choose between six months more of basic training, or some form of specialized training. } Bla. : ;

work brigade.

ation.

“By Galbraith ‘VOLUNTEER STB Andrew Tully

“Gun at Their Backs

BELGRADE, Aug. 15—The nice thing about Yugoslavia is that everybody is willing to pitch in and help build up the tounwy there's a guy with a gun at their backs.

“More Double Telk' By HEM, on *and others advocate

talk geared to the sliding greased by the old oil of slick tongues. Bondetente spending, in the meaning of sources, includes all the services built up > “the public interest over the past 18 years or so. In other words, it is merely another attempt to sabotage public-approved measures under the guise of all-out war preparedness, after failing under various other pretenses.

Peculiar Labor Campaign’

See t nions arted a_ : paign “to "defeat Homer AbEhEt for the Senate in the November election here. The peculiar thing about this is that the unions are not campaigning in favor of Capehart’s opponent, Alex Campbell, Democrat. How > Could it be that Cambell is not considered

. much more of a “friend” of labor than Cape-

hart? If so the labor drive looks more like a “neutrality” campaign than an effective effort to influence voters.

What Others Say—

DISCRIMINATION is not confined to any

ie povgriphicel section Tut ae buen present “inal inities none form “or another

William M. Boyle Jr., chairman of Democratic’ National Committee. La THE picayune faith we had before the last two wars solved no problems then and that kind of flabby piousness won't come close to the needs of this day.—Dr. D. R. Sharpe, execu~ . tive secretary of the Cleveland Baptist Associ-

eS & POLAR colonies probably won't have bathbeaches, but atomic heat should insure

no 1 crops and a livable temperature for the inhabitants.—Prof. Paul F. Chenea, University of M scientist, on efesting small temperate zo regions,

in polar N > oo THE American Legion... throws overboard for the duration of the present crisis its advoTTCACY Of Any new veterans™ pension fegistation:A ational commander of the American Legion. . . : R=

WE have been trying to tell the Deoble that we do have adequate food and there is no rea son for hoardingror, in my opinion, an increase in Brices. —Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of

There are about a million of these unselfish

“There is no safety inthe plans now being made to

i of Commerce publication, has been looking into that ques- .

passage this session. There is a general feeling that Federal government ought to be reorganized, reduced -in size, made more. efficient. Few people who are not experts on government have any real idea

of what's involved, or how lit-

tle has really been done in spite

of all the ballyhoo for reform. -

rn » ” x ADDING up all the reorgan= ization moves achieved in the past year and a half, since the Hoover reports came out, it's still impossible for the naked eye to observe what difference has been made. As for the natural questions of how much money has been saved, nobody

But ‘tis said the government is

now operating more efficiently,

"tis said.

A score card shows that President Truman submitted 34

~reorganization plans te Congress. One of them on Treas-

ury—went up twice because the - first version wasn't acceptable to Congress. In all, eight plans were vetoed by Congress and 26 were approved. 8 = = Ce THE eight plans Congress killed covered Department of Agriculture, merce Commission, National Labor Relations Board, Fed-erat-€ommunications Comniission, Federal Security agencies, creation of a Department of “Social Security, transfer of Reconstruction Finance Corporation to Commerce Department and reorganization of ‘the Of--

fice of Comptroller of the Cur-

rency. : " "The 26 plans approved cover most of the other Departments “of Government -- State, Defense, Jystice- Commerce, In-

-QAR-ZIVe.- ARY. ACCKraAle. answer...

Interstate Com-

ganized were a number of independent regulatory agencies like Maritime, Federal Trade, Securities and Exchange commissions. ~~ One other question to which

it is impossible to get any ac-

curate answer is just how many of the Hoover recommendations have now been adopted. Ed Ww HEN President Truman sent up his biggest batch of reorganization plans last March he said, “When these 21 plans are effective; we shall have acted on almost half of the Hoover proposals.” When thé voluminous Hoo-

ver report was issued. one count Tisted 331 recommendations for ation in government said that

127 of them would require legishation. 122 could be achieved hy administrative action, 82 by reorganization plans, One estimate made by Dr. Robert L. Johnson, chairman of the Citizens Committee, is that the 26 plans so far adopted cover 35 to 40 per cent of the Hoover recommendations, and will achieve savings

. of $1.250,000,000 a year.

» » ” AS FOR reorganization leg: islation, only 10 public laws seem to have been enacted to date. Two covered Civil Service classification and revised pay rates, Upward. Two others

covered unification of the

Armed Services—probably the biggest achievement, economy-

Other legislation adopted reorganized the State Department, changed Post Office pro-

curement methods, created a

National Seience Foundation,

gave Government Services Ad- ° - ministration a lot of house-

COPR. 1950 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. UW. S. PAT. OFF,

“If she'd been a boy we could have named her after Uncle Peter, the bank president—but | suppose she can always marry onel’—

_ keeping odd jobs, set up the

machinery for reorganization .and gave the President authority to. delegate many -of his powers to the heads of government agencies. This last bill ‘will of course take much of the burden off the White House. Four other reorganization bills which stand some chance of passage this year inchide: A

compromise on Post Office fi-

nancial control. Another com-

promise revising budget and .

accounting procedures. Revision of records handling .A new Federal personnel employment . As can be seen, these bills » ld’ ‘merely change the zed

tape winding and paper Shut-

fling techniques:

Most of the big problésms of :

reorganization, Congress simply has not come to grips with. Included are such matters as complete overhaul of the postal system, . Veterans Administration, government medical services, land and water urces management, overseas administration, government corpor-

ations, the many independent

-regulatory commissions and

Federal-State government re- .

Jationships. In summary. government re-

organization has barely been s

_ #cratched. Rol eg

Last year, for instance, they contributed 319 million work hours worth $140 million. SL Ta THIS being such a harsh, materialistic’ world, there's a selfish motive behind ali this

charity work. Nobedy forces you to labor in the work brigades, of

course, but it’s considered wise .

to do your share. Otherwise, you might not eat for a -long time, cases of unco-operative people Suddenly being nto the jug as dangerous criminals. .

» = ” SO ALL over the country there are camps of these peo-

ple who work on roads, hous= ing and in the fields for the

great and ever-loving Tito. They even put on a good show enjoying it. Any 5 o'clock in the morning you can be awakened by the delightful roar of. their voices as they march to work chanting the glories of their bureaucratic masters. It is, of course, a good idea to be seen singing loud. . Lo. fF ; THE biggest project to be completed by these volunteers

"so far is a 250-mile autoput, or highway, from Zagreb to - This is a nice:

Belgrade. straight highway built partly of concrete, partly of macadam and partly of granite

_ paving blocks. i Some 350,000 volunteers

worked on the road, thereby winning commendations as “national heroes” and some- - times even getting extra food "rations. Road opening Seremonids ‘were held in ‘Zagreb while I

: was there. “Marshal Tito was

sed to have shown up, but at the last minute didn't

and there have been

do so. . The principal speech to the assembled 10,000 brigade members was made by Bozidar Maslaric, minister of. transportation.

MR. MASLARIC, man with a shaved head, arrived in the inevitable Buick

- with silk curtains on the win-

dows. He made a lovely speech

“about how this road was link“ing the Croats and the Serbs. The Croats and the Serbs, of -

course, would much rather

.spend the afternoon at each

other's throats, but ‘nobody mentioned that. ' Those brigade members sweltering in the hot sun weren't as bad off as they

~seerned; though most of them _probably belonged to Yugo-

slavia's labor organization, the united labor unions of Yugoslavia, or 88J. It has two million members, representing 90 per cent of the nation’s labor force. : » » ” IT IS a nicely ordered outfit controlled by the state as an instrument for presenting and enforcing government nly Naturally, under such a gen-

.teel setup, nobody is going to

be cad enough to start talking

about pay rises, shorter hours, -

time and a half for overtime, but that doesn’t mean that SSJ isn’t a real labor union. ! Why it says so right on the door.

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