Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1950 — Page 18
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Public Health Comes First AYOR FEENEY’S action in putting volunteer, emergency drivers to work collecting the City's garbage and trash was the only step left open to him as a result of the walkout of Sanitation Department employees. Garbage, left uncollected for any long period, becomes a serious health hazard that could start an epidemic of dangerous proportions. If there was a.legal way for the City Government: to enter into a labor union contract on wages and working conditions, there might be some basis for enforced negotiations. ". But the law is specific and the courts have held. .that
units of focal government cannot enter into tegal contracts
with employees. » ~ ~ ~ nN n "FURTHERMORE, budgets. for wages in the Sanitation Department as well as in all other local government .-agencies were fixed a year ago at specific rates for the en“tire fiscal 1950 and cannot be increased. Hence, the strike by members of the State, County and Municipal Employees’ Union for an increase of 15 "cents an hour, regardless of the merits of their demands, is pointless at this time. ~The time for these employees to negotiate for better wages is at public budget hearings when the rates of pay are fixed—not after they had accepted and worked under
: the budget provisions for nearly eight months.
» - » » - ” THE City Council recently approved a five-cents-an-hour increase for these employees in the budget for next year. No spokesmen for the striking workers appeared be-
leaves the union members with no reasonable basis for a walkout now. £ In view of the legal technicalities involved, Mayor Feeney was right in holding that the striking workers, in effect, have “quit their jobs.” Whatever step the City administration takes to keep ' rotting garbage off the streets and alleys deserves public support. Any alternative would result in a serious menace © to the life of ovary. resident of Indianapolis.
He Should Raise His Sights
RESIDENT TRUMAN'S request for $140 million to
‘move vital government agencies out of Washington was
.. ‘sensational and dramatic, but was quickly put into proper ~ perspective by the House of Representatives.
The Appropriations "Committee declined to approve funds for the project, Chairman Cannon explaining that the plan did not go far enough.” He wants dispersal of
. government to all parts of the country, but we are inclined
to agree with the President that such pork-barrel distribu- , tion would not primarily serve the interests of defense. A more telling objection came from Chairman Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee who said it would ‘ make more sense to appropriate sacugh money to defend the soumtzy. from. Attack. AL
EJ} ’ ANY emergency great enough to start plans for dis-
persing government agencies must surely be immediate ~ enough fo require more positive ‘Preparations to prevent
war from reaching our country. The whole thing, we think, reveals that President Tru-
_man is still running ‘a lap or two behind Congress instead
of getting out ahead and exerting the leadership necessary to put this country on an all-out war-time footing. ~ Ever since the Korean outbreak, he has -held ~ hesitating to recognize the mounting crisis. He resisted immediate wage and price controls, moved only feebly toward industrial mobilization, delayed Universal Military Training and generally slowed the pace of preparedriess. Then, in a surprise spurt, he announced plans of dispersing federal agencies out of Washington so the government wouldn't be-paralyzed-if-an-A-bomb-hit-the- eapitat-— New buildings and roads were to be constructed and
__ suburban communities established or enlarged to accommao-
date an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 government” workers
"but all within a 40-mile radius of Washington.
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= : So -NO-DOUBT “there is-a good measure of “prudence-in
* such a program, and we have no quarrel with it as such.
But the net effect is confusing—to Congress and our people—consisténtly to play down the nation’s peril and then suddenly to draw up plans for scattering the government into the nearby hills and valleys of Maryland and Virginia. - Which accounts for some of the charges in the House that the President's object was merely to protect government workers, and that the men fighting in Korea would take a
- dim view of spending millions in defense. of bureaucrats.
Since President Truman now concedes the possibility
of an “emergency” that could wipe out the government at
Washington, we hope he will set his sights considerably
~. higher and come up with the essential program to keep our
whole country intact.
Light on the Bug Issue
N clouds of potato bugs appeared in East Germany this summer, the Communists charged they had been "deliberately dropped from -American planes. Our government issued the customary indignant denial. It neglected to add that if we had been dropping any=
_ thing for free it would have been potatoes, not potato bugs,
Any bugs we had were needed at home.
Under the crop-support program, we buy 75 million
~ bushels of spuds annually at prices around $1 a bushel and - sell 'em back to the growers at less than-a cent a bushel. Any fool can see it would save money to let the bugs eat
them right in the field. Bn WHEN the same mystery ‘bugs invaded Britain, our .. English friends investigated instead of popping off “about Wall Street. They quickly found that the invaders were " eoming into that country on vegetable. cargoes. .. Now if they will tell us where they came from perhaps " we ean cook up a reciprocal agreement under which we can ; Saou bugs n soap our magn.
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Sunday, Sept. 3, 1950
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"CARNIVAL
1952 IS DEADLINE . . . * z bv . Treasury Studies. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—With billions of dollars worth of World War II bonds coming due lin the years immediately ahead, Treasury officials are studying plans to keep these billions
invested with Uncle Sam. Treasury Secretary John Snyder has put
a committee to work to study the problem and MAKE TECOMMENAATIoNs. - =
Whatever is decided must_be worked out and in operation by 1952 when “E” bonds~st are maturing in huge quantities—-$§4 billion in 1952 $5.5 billion in 1953, $6 billion in 1954. etc. Edward F. Bartelt, fiscal assistant to Mr. Snyder, believés the people should be permitted
‘to ‘kgep their matured bonds, with the understanding that their value would increase at
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Jenner Defends
GOP to Negroes
Blames Democrats "9 Blocking. |
“Civil Rights Action in Senate WASHINGTON, Sept, 2-- Dear Boss—When Negro Republicans meet here Sept. 29-30, under the auspices of the Republican National Committee and the direction of Perry W. Howard, GOP national committeeman for Mississippi, they.-will-be-given-Sen.-William-E.-Jenner's—R: Ind.) answer to critics who blame a coalition of Republicans with Southern Democrats for failure of Congress to pass the anti-lynching, antipoll tax and FEPC bills. Sen. Jenner spelled out the Republican reply in responding to a critical telegram from R. R. Church, veteran Negro Republican political leader in Chicago. Mr. Church sent his wire to
National Republican Chairman Guy Gabriel-"
son and all GOP Senators. -He blamed the Senate failure to pass FEPC this session on the Republicans,
Mr. Church's telegram charged that they ran out on their Negro constituitents by only 36 of the 42 Republican Senators voting for cloture. Under a Senate rule adopted last year two-thirds of the entire Senate is required to limit debate and bring a bill to the floor,
Reply Widely Publicized
IN a three-page mimeographéd reply to the Church telegram, Sen. Jénner makes the point that only 22 of the 32 Northern Democrats voted for cloture, He also expressed the view that any legislation that is“in popular demand
The Jenner reply already has been sent to 200 Negro newspapers throughtout the country and has received widespread (usually page one) publicity from them.
Responsibility for failure of the Congress to enact so-called civil rights legislation must be attributed solely to the present national democratic administration, Sen. Jenner maintained. “The, arguments in your telegram,” Mr. Jenner wrote Mr. Church, “are not based on fact—when you charge the Wherry amendment has nailed the Senate's feet to the floor. On neither vote ‘on cloture, May 19 or July 12, would the old or new rule have worked. The old rule’ called for two-thirds of those present and “voting to stop a filibuster, Two-thirds of those present did not vote for cloture. I am not for a rule which would let a simple majority stop a filibuster, but T would be for some type of change, were I convinced, after a fair test, that the new rule would not. work. ’
‘Cloture Not Impossible’
“THIRTY-SIX of the 42 Republican Senators voted for cloture while only 22 of the 54 Democrats voted for it and no smoke screen set up by the Democrats or anyone else can alter that fact. “Seldom in the history of the United States Senate has there been a 100 per cent agreement in either party on proposed: legislation. The
political acumen shown in your telegram | indicates. clearly. that. you. know this... . xe
“I cannot agree that cloture has been made iipossible by the change in rules. It is relatively easy to get 64 Senators to vote for any-
thing in which they sincerely believe.” _ _- * Pointing out that tHére are “only 22 South-
ern Senators,” Sen.. Jenner then analyzed the cloture vote to show that while 36 of the 42 republicans voted for it, only 22 of the 32 Northern Democrats did so. “I know any experienced politican would not entertain for one moment any-idea tha President Truman could not have produced.
‘more than 22 votes from the 32 Northern Demo-
crats had he so desired,” Sen. Jenner's letter continued. “The thought of “political retribution is important in helping delinquent Senators in making up their minds. Mr. Truman, a part of the notorious Pendergast machine of Kansas City. is a past master at lining up the boys for what he wants. ‘T strongly resent any juggling of figures or
hypocritical attempts to place blame on Repub-~Hegns-for-Democratic-instrreerity-and ima cticn,
‘Proud of GOP Record’
"PERSONALLY I am proud of the record the Republican Party has made in its attempt to help pass civil rights legislation at this session of the 81st Congress. .I do not believe that any attempts on the part-of-the Democrats ar their paid. spokesmen. can explain—to the satisfaction of the intelligent colored voters the failure of the Democrats with all their patronage and power and to make good on their glib promises on civit rights:
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How to Regain Billions From Maturing Bonds %
* specified intervals—every month or every four months. Mr. Bartelt, who wants to reduce paferwork expenses, says it would cost millions to
have people turn-in their matured bdnds and’
have new ones issued. “Why go through the trouble of making a
“re ow Brg Th- & green piece of paper and give
him a pink one back,” he argues. He said his plan could be worked in this way: A man with a matured $100 bond (for which he paid $75 ten years ago) could be told through a general announcement that his bond would gain one per cent in value every four months, At the end of four months after maturity, it would be worth $101; after eight months, $102 and after 12 months, $103. Mr. Bartelt would not make things complicated by compounding the interest. The bond ‘would keep on increasing $3 a year in value until it was cashed in. He said that when any new program is announced
Flanking Attack on
WOM ZAT
—ean-muster-a- two-thirds Senate~vote; ~~
MANY-SIDED PUZZLE
it ‘must be made clear that it is
hos NOG oN
voluntary. The bond. holders can always turn in their bonds and get their cash if they choose, And also, if-the bonds are held past maturity
7 under some new plan they can be cashed at any
time. “- Somie Treasury officials object to the three
per cent interest payment under Mr. Bartelt's ~ plan, saying it is too high. The E bonds now
pay 2.9° per per interest if held the full 10 years. These treaiury officials also say this plan would end the “free ride” which the government now gets in many instances because people forget to cash their bonds at maturity, the government keeping their money but not Paying interest. Mr. Bartelt says, however, that when a person has his money invested with the government he should be paid for it at all times.
Another m#jor _proposai-under study is to :
have the government issue new bonds for aprice equal to the matured value of the old ones. For example, a bondholder could ex-
Home Front
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By Ludwell Denny
German Arms Compromise Seen
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—A compromise of the many-sided controversy over German rearament is probable. The decision will be made by Secretary of State Acheson, British Foreign
“Secretary: Bevin-and-French-Foreign-Minister
Schumann at their New York meeting the middle of this month.
In general the agreement is .expected tof——Western—eoeccupation—
inerease-—eo forces and of German armed police, but not as large an Allied or German force as _ proposed in various quarters. At the same time the West German government probably will be given much more authority over internal affairs by modification of the occupation statute. .Bonn's desire for control ‘over foreign artairs ‘will n6t Be met in full, but a diplomatic service with carefully limited functions probably will be permitted.
Korea Spurs Action
THE speed with which Allied policy toward -
‘West Germany is being revamped is caused, of course, by" the rapidly worsening” world crisis.
Red military aggression in Korea has convinced ~Atted governments that Stalin 1€ ready 16 Fiak==
though not necessarily to start deliberately a World War to achieve his ends. The:relation of this to the €er is direct and obvious. , The main differences betwéen Korea and G@many” are against us:
(1) _Stalin’s satellite army in East -Germany-is-
more. formidable than the one in. Korea; (2) While Korea is of minor strategic importance, West Germany—with its Ruhr--is the decisive area in the worldwide ‘struggle. There are ‘two “other differences.
Just so much old paper.
a newly elected Congress. Thus thoysands of hours of committee drudgery, piled up on
go "down the drain. Can Ld = a J
(7 UNIVERSAL military trainw=) ing, a top “Jesue—with war, is dead until 1951. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson marched up to Capitol Hill to plug for UMT, but President Truman decided this “wasn't thé time for it. Next year, maybe. UMT has many advocates in
it say that if enacted now ft would ‘drain off for training purposes experienced soldiers heeded today in combat units, 1 "a x’ THE TAX bill now dragging through" the Senate is only a patch on the tax job that will ‘Have to be done early next year. If Sen. Joseph C. O'Ma‘honéy’s (D. Wyo.) proposal to
seems almost a cinch for next
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A Situation =
Allied
_ By Dick Turner CONGRESSIONAL Le Favored Bills to Become Scraps of Paper
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—When Congress heads out for the fail. ™ barbecue and county fair circuit soon a flock of bills dear to
forces are already in Western Germany’ and were only in Japan, rather than in Korea, when
the Far Eastern aggression began. Moreover, the Soviet government is legally responsible
New ‘Civil War’ Feared
THE two latter factors seemed mildly re- _ assuring several _months ago. But now they... are much less so, Why is Stalin creating such a large German satillite army unless he intends to use it? His propaganda and his dispatch of thousands of subversive agents and fifth col= umnists into West Germany point to another “civil war” made in Moscow. Under the circumstances the question’ of ~ West German - defense cannot “bé- evaded any longer. The problem is how to keep Germany too weak for future aggression and at the same tinte prevent the Reds from taking West Germany. Is a future Germany or a present Russia
a graver menace? The Allies think Russia is the -
worse danger. of ‘the two, but that a combined Russia and Germany would be the- gravest gan ger of all.
Bigger -Garrisons--Due——onie ca cad, SO the Allies lightly armed German force for internal secur-
garrisons—though not as much as the Germans and French desire.
‘The question of a formal: German army prob-. =
~-ably will -be- postponed as academic; because the Germans want one only as part of a still non-existent European Federation army and because the Allies need tanks for themselves before givigg them to Germans, ’
ADJOURNMENT .
for East Germany... sR
probably. will aulhorize a ~~
ity, and strengthen the American and British -
The House has ‘passed
ly change a $100 matured bond for a new ful paid $100 bond. He then would be pala interest semiannually. Harvard Economist Sumner H. ‘Blichter has suggested that the government offer bonds redeemable in dollars of June, 1950, purchasing
“power, if held to maturity. This would give =
government bond holders special protection against decline in purchasing power . of the dollar. But Mr. Bartelt said the man who invested in savings bonds was no more entitled to special protection than the man who put his savings into life insurance policies or savings accounts—other fixed income investments. Treasury officials say the wave of bond cashings which followed the Korean outbreak was only a “normal development” and that the rate of cashings has been dropping continuously since late July. At present, E bonds outstanding in the hands of individuals are worth $34.5 billion. The Treasury will ‘launch a new bond sales drive in November, with no fixed goal and with emphasis on-payroll deductions for bonds.
| on not agree with a "word that ou say, but
will defend to the death your right to say it."
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‘Stop Teen-Age Marriages’
By Mrs. M.G. W., Indianapolis
I saw the article in The Times about teen-
agers getting marriage licenses. How true it is. I know, because I have had the sad experience of three of my teen-age children getting married. One of them, a girl of 15, was still in school. I have also had the sad experience of having two of these marriages in the divorce courts. In one case a little child is involved.
Jf a girl can get her head above the marriage license counter at our Marion County Court House and swear she is 18 years old, re--gardless of her right age, she can get a marriage license. > 9
‘OUR Juvenile Court doesn’t give us any
protection -either. You can hand a ‘lawyer a hundred dollars or so and get the marriage annulled. People who have to work hard to raise a family don’t have the money for that. It isn't our divorce laws that need to be changed. Our Indiana marriage laws are a disgrace. I could write a book about the heart-
ache that has been handed out to me over the = & “marriage license counter. If is about time that
someone did something about it. All of our children have birth certificates. They -have to use them to get a job, but not a . marriage licerise, when marriage is the most ’ important job. in their lives.
‘Delay Saris Bee Excused’ By a Times Re:
The continine delay in new constructicn at ""mmerich Manual Training High School cannot ve excused. The “irate delegation of patrons” are to be congratulated. I have had four children graduated from this school and my youngest son hopes to enter there next year if there is room for him. ~ In all these years a new building has een proposed and then delayed until now the congestion is acute. Plenty of new construction of stores and office buildings and apartments are going up and proposed for the near future. Building costs will never go down. On the contrary, they more than. likely will go up." So why not give the public a break and especially in so important a matter as the education of the young folks.
‘Close the Taverns’ By Al H., Indianapolis. Much has been written about auto accidents,
- drinking reform and alcoholic problems.. It is
my belief that if all public drinking places were _done away with, auto accidents, broken. homes, “divorces, alcoholic deaths, diseases, and mental hospital cases would be reduced. If the Anti-Saloon League would try to get package.store sales universally adopted instead
--of-al-out-prohibition;~ which -is- probably unat="
tainable, they would do a lot. of good. Stores could handle liquor, wine and beer sales, all to be cbnsumed at home. Then anyone. found in public with an open. bottle would be arrested. All this would tend to reduce the glamour of drinking and would stabilize the thinking of this country.
What Others Say—
YOU and 1 and the rest«of this generation will never live again in a peacetime economy. —Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, of Boston.
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THIS administration. is-certainly-not-opposed Jo rooting out subversives wherever they are, but certainly we are not. going to abridge the Bill of Rights.--Scott W. Lucas, Senate Democratic leader, Inve:
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THE battleship Missouri cost more than. $120 “million, but with ‘a budget of that figure my department could stem the tide of communism with a grass roots campaign just as we did in Italy. —Edward W. Barrett, assistant secretary of state, in charge of the Voice of America.
. By Charles Lucey
year ago, but it is a goner
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measures which fail to pass,
Congress but some who favor.
levy on top-heavy profits, is " not accepted. in this session, it:
the hearts of many legislators-—and Harry Truman-—will become
Legislation holds over “live” from ‘éne session to another within the two-year life of Congress, but does not hold over for
plete turnabout in the war situation "would wash out - this likelihood. -— od
cess profits tax now, and so does Senate Finance Chairman. Walter George (D. Ga.). ises action on it early in the new session.
THAT will be enly part of the new -1951 tax bill, of course. Everyone agrees that the increased corporation and individual income taxes being levded now are merely a start.
They'll raise about $5 bil-
lion in ‘new money annually, but the economists are urging
an’ additional tax take of at.
least $10 -billion to cheak in‘flation and help pay for big mii spending. q
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ALASKAN and Hawaiian stateliood bills came
BASS Tut 9) a Wary
But, Mr. George prom-
cldser to passage this year than ever
these measures and they have. been reported favorably by a
Senate committee.
But the Senate already 1s -
piled high with work it istrying to .finish in time for: a Sept. 9 adjournment. - Mr, Truman indicated some
~- regrets. yesterday about failMr. Truman opposes the ex-
ure of the statehood bills to pass. But he said nothing ahout putting the heat on his
Congressional leaders to try .
to get some action. ” » »
LAST year the administra<
tion managed to get accept--
ance of a bill Increasing fed-
“eral matching funds for hos- . pital construction—part of the _over-all Truman program bullt.
around a scheme of national
compulsory health insurance.
“This year it didn’t do so well Just this week the House Inferstate Commierce Committee
“knocked down a bill by Rep.- - Andrew Biemiller
(D. Wis.) providing funds to help edu-
“cate doctors ‘and nurses. There _ is fairly wide agreement that the U.S. needs more pliysi-
cians: A bill favored by Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) among
the Senate ‘as
now and a start must be made all over ih the next session.
‘A BILL, also part of the
Truman health program, to
provide federal funds to build °
up state and local health agen-, cies, has reached the House calendar but probably will die there. It already had passed the Senate. The compulsory health insurance advocated by Mr. Tru-
man and Federal Security Boss
Oscar chance.
Ewing - never had a
THE Brannan Firm Plan was brushed aside long .ago.
. The session ends with civil
rights bills as dead as ever de-
.- Mr: Truman didn't get his - _cabinet-rark welfare depart-
ment. The move to make over
the electoral system failed. The
$300 million-a-year. general od ucation bill is dead. : The rush is on to get Boe and start campaigning. A man
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