Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1950 — Page 4

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The Property Tax Load

ARION County taxpayers have some cause to offer thanks to the County Council for cutting the county government’ s spending program for next year. More than $2 million was trimmed off departmental requests for 1951, making possible a county tax rate six cents lower than the current levy. If these cuts don’t interfere with government services to the extent that special appropriations will have to be made later, it is an-example of the kind of economy long needed in local government,

; x = = © . wx } HOWEVER, this reduction and a similar cut made in the Municipal government rate last week will not mean that Indianapolis taxpayers will get off easier next year. In fact, the over-all tax rate for residents inside Indianapolis in Center Township will be 17 cents higher. This is due mostly to the big increase in the City School rate for its forced expansion program. There is little prospect that there will be any appreciable relief from the increasing property tax burden in Marion County until some steps are taken to eliminate overlapping and duplicating services of, the several government

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AS WE have pointed out before, little progress can be made toward a sound government economy here until servjces are consolidated into a metropolitan district with a single operating unit. As the tax load mounts higher each year, some action on this program is imperative if the cost of ‘public services is to be kept within the ability of the people to pay.

That Spanish Loan

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has indicated that he won't make - the $62,500,000 loan to Spain which Congress authorized in the omnibus appropriations bill he has just signed. However, he left -the door slightly ajar, suggesting that he may give the subject further study, as he should. We need Spain's help if we mean to defend Europe against an armed Communist attack. Spain needs our help to become an effective ally. The question isn't one of religion, ideology or personalities. It's a practical arrangement, dictated by a mutual desire for security and survival. ~ » ” . . . THE Pyrenees make Spain the best protected beachhead in Western Europe. This mountain chain, separating Spain from France, extends 240 miles from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. The only low passes are at its ends, where the main highways and railroads run between the two countries. Only five passes in the mountains themselves are practicable for unobstructed motorized traffic. A barrier as easily defended would be mighty welcome to our forces in Korea just now. ——— Spain also has the largest army in Western Reiropi-m. an army. which, properly equipped, could well defend its own boundaries. But it has almost no modern arms. And it needs money to build a modern road system, which could be vitally useful if Allied air bases are established in Spin for European defense. The problem can’t be shelved indefinitely. Providing new equipment for the Spanish army, and training troops to use it, would take time. Paved roads and airfields suitable for heavy bombers can't be built in a day. n_ 5 8 - - ” OUR military leaders long have advocated including Spain in the North Atlantic security program. Their views --- have been suppressed by the State Department; on-the-lame excuse that certain elements in Europe—meaning the left wing of the British Labor Party and the French Socialists er might not like it. These same elements have been dragging their feet on the whole preparedness program, including. their own countries’ part, If they are to be permitted to override the views “of our best-informed military men, we ‘might as well withdraw to our own side of the Atlantic and stop wasting money on efforts to help people who won't help themaaives.

Welcome Shriners NDIANAPOLIS has another opportunity to show the character of its hospitality to visitors. . More than 10,000 be-fezzed Shriners from all parts of the Great Lakes region arrived in town yesterday for a two5. day round of lodge business, initiations and just plain fun. The kind of reputation Indianapolis earns for hospi“tality will depend upon the kind of treatment these visitors receive while they are in town. A good reputation in this pays off handsome dividends. Tndiafupolis puts out its welcome mat for the Shriners,

Schoeppel's Smear

[T'S obvious that Sen. Schoeppel, Kansas Republican, didn’t know what he was talking about when he rose in the Senate this week and made charges reflecting on the loyalty of Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman.

vestigating committee. He challenged Sen. Schoeppel to divert himself of congressional immunity from suit for-— libel and repeat the charges. _. “The Senator didn't do that. Neither did he withdraw and apologize for his charges. He said only that, in making them, he might have been “a little harsh.”

~ ~ ~ ‘ ~ » » ~~ MORE than a little harsh, and much more than a little _ stupid. Members of Gongress who abuse their privilege of - immunity and spout wild accusations without making cer- * taim of their facts do their victims serious in justice and the American people grave disservice. ~ Disloyal public officials and employees should be exand removed from government service. But each’

be » making 2 genuine effort to be ‘sure of what he's. task becomes more difficult. Smearing loyal : nf inviting he fisloyal to ay that

Mr. Chapman refuted the charges before a Senate in-

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U. S. OBSERVER POSTS

By James Daniel

Air Raid Warning System Pushed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9-The Air Force is 60 per cent through with the basic organization work of a ground observer system intended to protect the United States against enemy alr attacks, Few citizens outside the areas where the system has been established are aware of its existence. Eventually, Air Force spokesmen say it may be decided to extend the system to the entire nation, Right now, it's confined to the East coast from about Kitty Hawk, N. C., north to Maine

and west to Minnesota, taking in the industrial centers around the Great Lakes, plus the Pacific

" northwest and the coast of California.

Air Force spokesmen say these are the areas where a successful air rald would be most profitable to any possible enemy. The ground observer system -much more ex-

: tensive than anything attempted in this country

in World War IT—has been a Pentagon project for several years. It was well advanced before the Korean war began, and the Air Force thinks of it as a permanent necessity for this country as long as any threat of war exists. Its goal is a civilian observer post at eight mile Intervals throughout the entire area selected for special precautions.

Top Priority

BY special arrangement with the telephone companies, calls from these observation posts

have top priority fo filter centers which the Air

Force is establishing in cities possessing good telephone connections with the surrounding country and with air defense intercept stations established by the Continental Air Command. There are 26 such filter centers now. Each consists or will consist of a large room with a table in the center, the top of which is a large- . scale contour map of the area being watched. In full operation, 10 to 15 civilian “plotters” will take incoming telephone calls, summarize the information on small mounted cards and arrange the information on the board. A supervisor will monitor the incoming calls and aid the plotters. on “difficult messages. Meanwhile, four or five “filterers” will move around the table, weeding out obvious misinfor-’ mation which the plotters have taken down,

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three tellers will observe the movement of ajrcraft as plotted on the board, and telephone

~ the-information to the’ Dearest ground control

intercept station At the. intercept stations the Air Force will co-ordinate the information from. the ground observers with the information obtained from

its own radar screen and its knowleage of the ~—movement-of our-ownm aircraft. a

ln-an enemy air-attack, it is here thatthe

+» order would be given for our planes to take to

the air. Al present all 26 filter centers have heen roughed out. But some are not as complete as others, and only & few” are recruiting “civilian workers, If the nation gets into a big war, each filter center will have a complement of approximately 500 volunteers to assure sufficient personnel for round-the-clock operation.

Tied in with the ground observer system is

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an air raid warning system which is now the Air Force's responsibility but which some officlals hope eventually to turn over to a civilian defense organization, whenever established. "For warning purposes the nation has been divided into defense areas. Those areas with ground observers have air defense control centers where ground observer and radar information from several intecept stations is correlated to give the Air Force the larger picture of the situation at the moment in the air,

Memory Board

IN EACH control center there is a civil air raid warning officer who takes down the information from the big map on his smaller map called a memory board. Noting the reported size, position, height, direction and speed of unidentified or hostile air-

- craft, he applies this information to a scale

giving the estimated capabilities of enemy planes. Originally it was planned to have four signals: a yellow warning that hostile aircraft have been sighted but their direction and strength has not been determined (this one not to be given out to the public; a blue signal to notify all and sundry that an attack is 15 minutes or so away; a red signal meaning that enemy planes are practically there; and a white allclear. Assuming the civil air raid warning officer decides that Washington is about to be attacked, this is what would happen: ——

The officer would pick up the phone, ask

operator to plug in “Washington red.” On the nearest commercial telephone switchboard would be four plugs for Washington, yellow, blue, red and white. The operator would plug in the red. At Washington in the keypoint warning station the red button on the desk telephone would glow. The person on duty there would pick up the receiver and repeat “Washington red, Washington red, Washington red” until he obtained confirmation from the civil air rald warning officer at the other end.

Prepare. for Worst

HE WOULD then notify the lesser points in his area and also alert his city’s rescue, welfare, medical services, police and fire department, principal industrial plants and public utilities to prepare for the worst,

Up to now the Air Force has functioned

through the state governors. Not every governor has been equally prompt in responding to a request to appoint a civil defense director to go. about establishing the ground observer and air rald warning: services. But every state has at least a telephone, installed at Air Force expense in a location suggested by its governor,

“| do not agree with a word that you oi but | ‘The Wrong Trail’

By C. D. C., Terre Haute.

The Fair Dealers who have always prided” .

themselves on being great progressives and liberals have at last begun to see that Franklin

_D. Rooseveit took the wrong trail in dealing : - with foreign nations.

While admitting he was wrong, their apology i= that he could not foretell the future. In order to smear the men such as Taft, Halleck, Capehart, Jenner, Wherry and McCarthy, who warned us long ago that the Roosevelt policies were leading us to disaster, they try op cover the mistakes of FDR by hurling bitter abuse at the domestic policies of these same men with whom they, of course, do not agree. It is cer-

_ tainly not improbable that the time will come

when these so-called Great Liberals might decide that these men are also right in their domestic policies, just the same as they were right in their foreign policies a few years ago when they were being berated as. Feactionaries and’ isolationists, * * FOR instance, who could imagine a single one of these men who would have tolerated

-€ommunist in our government? Could any one

imagine anyone of them picking a man like Algér Hiss for his closest adviser at Yalta”?~ Could you imagine any of these men's wives fraternizing with the pinks as Mrs. Roosevelt did when she was in the White House?

RUSS STRATEGY

UN Leaving U.S.

LLAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept. 9 United Nations members are showing an increasing inclination to allow the United States to carry the full brunt of the Korean War physically, financially and now even morally. Russia's Jacob Malik, quick to sense this is trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Security Council members who voted to make the Korean War a United Nations operations. Malik argues that the shooting down of a Soviet bomber in the Korean theater is a matter that concerns only the United States and Russia, not the full membership of the United Nations. He objects to the Security Council even discussing the matter. . And those nations that voted for the military action appear content to leave it at that.

Offers Disappointing

THE United States probably never expected other countries to help finance the operation. The offers of ground troops to help the Americans have been disappointing. Even that might be partially overlooked. But failure to stand up and assume respunsibility for sponsorship of the action is proving’ a blow to American Delegate Warren Austin. Not a voice from. the 11-member Council was raised to tell Malik that the Yanks were dying under the United Nations flag in performance of a duty supported by 53 of the 59 Members of the peace organization. * Not a member pointed out that the Security Council jointly created the unified command and that the United Nations as a whole was responsible for prosecution of the war. No one rose to state:

COMMIES QUIETER

will defend to the death your right to say it." Could you imagine a single one of them whe would have weakened Pearl Harbor and left it

wide open to an attack by the Japs by sending our destroyers to protect English convoys,

Yes. there were men like Ham Fish, Burton Wheeler, Bob Lafollette and other patriotic men who were nailed to the political cross merely because they warned us against Communists and that FDR was leading us to disaster. And furthermore, may the good. Lord pity us if the American people don’t start getting rid of the political scrouges known as the New Deal and the Fair Deal in the November elections. It is our one last chance for survival as

a free people.

‘Why Worry About Money?’

By Charles R. Stevenson. + Look at all these GIs in Kores, outnumbered and inadequately supplied, while all of our “representatives” fuss around with such questions as “Can We afford it?” : Egad, what a question! We shouldn't worry about whether or not we can afford it. We should just do it. Our men fighting for democracy are no different than you or me. Why should they have to endure unreasonable hardships and sometimes give their lives because we.worry about

a few dollars? Let's all give them a hand. And that means you too, Mrs. Hoarding Housewife!

By Ernie Hill to Carry Burden?

“This is a United Nations military actiom and the Russian bomber was shot down by a United Nations plane for which we are collesHvely responsible.”

American War

DELEGATES of France, Norway, Indias “hina, Cuba and Ecuador said nothing to Malik’'s statement that it was an American wag Not even Britain which has some troops = Korea corrected Malik. Under the circumstances, Mr. Austin was unable to point out what any or all of the other members should have stated in response te Malik. So the dour Russian got away with his eontention. “The Soviet Union government,” he stated, “holds the United States government fully responsible for the criminal activities of the mil itary forces of the United States of America which are guilty of this crude violation of the universally recognized standards of Interma-

tional law...

“The responsibility for this must be borne by the United States government, as these" were the actions of military authorities of the United States and have nothing to de” with the United Nations.”

Silence Deafening

IT WAS at this point that the silence ia the Security Council chamber became deafening. The statement stood by default. At some future meeting, some members may decide to refute this Russian contention. But the fact that no one put the record straight at once was an indication of the lack of spirit shown and the lack of responsibility indicated by other members. b

By William McGaffin wt

New Red Plan Seen in Britain

BRIGHTON, England, Sept. 9-- Britain's Communists didn’t make as much noise and

“trouble here at the annual convention of the

Trades Union Congress as had been expected. Veteran labor observers think this may be the result of a change of tactics aimed at tryIng, to make pals of the Socialists instead of

fighting them.

This new policy was first tipped by Harry Pollitt, boss man of- the British Communist Party when he confessed recently in the Cominform Journal that he had made a “fundamental” mistake in putting up so many candidates at the February election. A hundred Communist can-

didates ran then and all were defeated.

Observers “here believe that the delegates from such Communist-dominated organizations as the Electrical Trades Union, the Association of Scientific Workers and others have had or-

“ders from higher up to soft-pedal their actions ”

at this meeting.

Badly Defeated

THE Commies weré badly defeated on the major issue of whether organized labor in this country would follow Russian or United Nations lead. Card vote showed 6,942,000 in favor of the general council indorsement of the United Na-

for taking in-coming air raid warning calls.

‘What Others Say— ~~ °

TOMORROW'S farm developers will get acreage around good small towns or villages. Live in the city-and work in the country. That's the right idea.—Walter B. Pitkin, “Life Begins at Forty.”

I HOPE I have better luck against the Reds in Korea (than I had against the Cincinnati Reds in my last game) .—Curt Simmons, Phillies’ ace pitcher, called to active duty.

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tions policy in Korea and support for any meas-

“ures Britain may take in the struggle against .eommunism. Only 595.000 were opposed.

The effect of Communist Propaganda’ “However, is to be seen in another vote on whether

_the question ‘of international control and super-

vision of atomic energy production should be reopened along with the banning of ‘atomic weapons and the destruction of all’ atomi¢ bomb stocks. The Commies, who of course want the bomb banned, were voted down but this time enough anti-Communists joined with them ‘to swell

their hard core of 595,000 into 1,972,000 while 5,601,000 opposed. There were some good slugging speeches by, anti-Communists. But the Communists pulled out all stops to work on the emotions of the delegates. For example, P. W. Brian of the Association of Scientific Workers got up and told the convention that those people who survived an atom bomb burst might give birth to monsters.

Moderate Mood )

IT 18 good news to America that organised labor, which will take on the job in this country of rebuilding the nation’s defense squipment, is in such a moderate and understanding mood. : . Its anti-Communist vote isn’t the only refieetion of this. There is aiso the cautious on public control of industry which has just been adopted. Two years ago this. might have caused 9 ‘storm.. But this time there was hardly a murmur of dissent at the suggestion that it is eommon sense to concentrate on making already nationalized industries work before going on te nationalize” more—and that there is much te : be said for methods of public control over inSuintry which do not Involve transfer of owner- - ship.

More Industries POLITICAL observers strengthen the hand of moderate elements m the Labor Party. But unless a halt is called the iron and steel industry, which will form the

backbone. of the. rearmament effort, will be

taken over by the government within a matter of months. It is not very smart in desperate times like these, as the Manchester Guardian for one has pointed out, to expose the vital steel industry to “all' the perils and uncertainties of purely

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ting collaboration with it.” Registration of Communist groups is required by law (but not enforced because the Jus- __ tice Department says it's difficult to prove foreign control - of the home-grown subversive outfits), But the McCarran bill would require that not just officers, but all membership lists, .be shown. ha - - - : MR. MoCARRAN says there _ Is no provision in the bi to ovtlaw the ‘Communist Party as aueh. sontends th the Lge

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mere registration in itself would constitute self-incrimi-nation, if not under the terms

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Smith Act, which makes Com- _ munist membership prima facie evidence of criminal intent. The McCarran bil | sets forth

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He warns that the bill might bring danger to many nonCommunist organizations

alien registration act of those who have been trained in any foreign espionage school.

administration internal seeurity bill as & counter. It would plug | loopholes in the acknowi-

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Opponents have offered an.