Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1950 — Page 24

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NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . Two-Year Delay — . WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—President Truman last week said the nation’s armed forces would be expanded from their current strength of slightly less than two million men to a total of three million. A lot of people breathed a sigh of relief at this, figuring that settled that. It does, all right, but we'd better not start counting our armed forces before they're hatched. The fact is, it'll be about two years before the United States has three million completely

trained men, ready for combat. The reason: Our present military organiza-

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; __ Telephone RI I¢ 3 __ tion just isn’t set up to absorb and Rn bi 3 om Rd TE A oes 5a a Goan CERT Ce ATL oe ve: Light and the People Will Find Thew Vww Way draft all the men it wants to but it won’t do any

— good if there's no place for those men to live, no uniforms for them to wear, no equipment for them to use and ng instructors to train them. What happened after the last war is that a majority of our training camps were de-com-missioned—fast.. Likewise, the Navy put its ships into mothballs. Now that the Korean emergency has arisen, everybody's working hard to get these facilities back into shape, but it's taking time. The Bainbridge Naval Training Station in Maryland is a good example, One of the biggest such stations during World War 1I, it was de-

‘Let Freedom Ring . . .’ WE were sorry . .. and more than a little bit ashamed . .. -~ that the Indianapolis Church Federation felt forced by noisy pressure last week to call off the speech it had scheduled Louis Dolivet to make. ; : We feel quite sure that those sturdy ‘Americans who founded the Columbia Club on the true principles of frée‘dom and- constitutional liberties would blush with us if they could know of their club's inglorious part in this proceeding. % , We hold no brief for Louis Dolivet, We do not know whether he is, or has ever been, a Communist or a fellow traveler. Neither, we venture to assert, do those well meaning, though ill-informed, folks who joined in the outcry. There does not exist one single scrap of evidence against him. The whole furore was based upon an unsupported, undocumented, charge by an obscure Illinois member of Congress, who has never offered to prove what he said. On the other hand Mr. Dolivet is sponsored by a completely reputable publication and warmly indorsed by responsible high officials of the United Nations , , . of which the United States is a part.

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EUROPE . . . By Ludwell Denny Aid to Spain Still Possible

Action Depends Upon What Bargain Can Be Made

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—There is still a chance of American aid to Spain, despite President Truman’s rejection of the $62.5 million provision in the general appropriations bill, The outcome does not depend chiefly on the mood of the President and the State Department, as commonly supposed, but rather on the attitude of our British and French allies and on-what kind of bargain can be made with the Spanish dictator. I Bese While both of these decisive factors are still negative, the Anglo-French opposition is somewhat less adamant than formerly and in Madrid there are faint hints of co-operation. The réason for this softening ‘on both sides, obviously, is the ‘rising Soviet menace to Europe, .-

No Major Barrier

AS FAR as Washington is concerned, ideological differences have ceased to be a major barrier. Gen. Franco and his totalitarian system are no more popular here than before. But he is no longer a threat to American interests, as he was when he collaborated with Hitler and his fifth column tried to poison Latin America against us. The administration here recognizes that our dominant need is trustworthy allies who can de“liver. It has not choked on co-operating with other non-democratic governments for mutual advantage against aggression. rin Our military experts are overwhelmingly in favor of gaining Spain as an ally. They think defense of the Western World could be greatly strengthened by Spanish naval and air bases, by Spanish ground forces, and by the Pyrenees barrier in a case of extreme need.

Less Effective

POLITICAL pressures here -tend to offset each other, The pro-Franco lobby has grown, while the anti-Franco lobby is less effective because of the critical defense situation. So there Is no big obstacle to a change in American policy. provided foreign conditions are favorable, : Of course no President is ever likely to “sign a blank check for Franco such as Congress pro--posed. If -he gets either economic or military aid it will be under the same safeguards as * other recipient nations. Political obstacles still exist among our allies. The Socialists govern Britain and hold balance of power im France and Belgium. Their old feud with the Fascist dictator is still bitter.

Useful for Defense

NEVERTHELESS, the British Navy is interested in Spanish bases and the French army considers. Spain. .useful - for defense -of North Africa as well- as Western Europe, These military pressures are increasingly important in London and Paris. )

ns moa + ad. wide assumpeionms there wun ee i talk bi TRUE; there dre a-great many obstacles and even’some "quate evidence that Franco 18 willing to give legal barriers in connection with any program of annexation us anything in return for economic or military but the time to start unraveling these difficulties is now pa. ould he rick both dee. 2 he did In the One of the major barriers standing in the way of ex- . peen very cagey and ois nothing. ¢ has tending the boundaries to bring all of the city into Indian- Despite all these adverse factors in London, “mpolis 13 the lack of sewer facilities and other services that vans Madria: weve. thie trefid 18 toward would rightfully belong to suburban dwellers if they were — Sry. annexed to. the city. : " : : These are the problems that must be undertaken now

.. » on ” BUT the case, if any, against Louis Dolivet is not the “issue here. . The issue is far bigger, far more important to Indianapolis, than anything he may have said, or done, or been. It is the issue of free speech... of a free radio . . . of a free pulpit . .. of a free press... of the most basic rights our Constitution guarantees. Oo If clamor such as this can gag one man in this country + « » then who dares speak his mind? If self-appointed censors, on mere ‘suspicion, can bar one speaker from a private audience in a private club . . . ‘then what preacher may speak from his pulpit, or what union leader may speak to his members, or what statesman may speak to his constituents without first gaining their approval?

» - THE fear, of Course, that prompted this outburst is the fear of the Communist menace to our American rights and liberties, ; : +. Shall we safeguard these liberties by destroying them ourselves? : : . We have no idea what Louis Dolivet might have said had he been allowed to speak here as scheduled. We might disagree with every word of it. But we do not fear it. Our opinion of the intelligence of the people of Indianapolis is too high for that. : A "We offer him, therefore, a somewhat wider rostrum. If Mr. Dolivet cares to submit a copy of the address he planned to make, The Times will publish it,

The City Needs a Program OR a good many years the lack of long-range planning ~ on municipal development and annexations has been a ‘major threat to the orderly expansion of the greater Indianapolis of the future. The rapid growth of sprawling suburban communities, like a hodge-podge of “boom towns” outside the old established city boundaries, is making the need for a metropolitan plan an emergency matter. A series of articles by Donna Mikels beginning in The ~Times-today illustrates the haphazard growth of these sub: urban communities which are actually a part of Indianapolis but still listed as rural county areas.

if the city is to progress in-an-orderly-manner: The population outside of the city limits has increased "70 per cent in the last 10 years compared to a rise of only 10 per cent inside the old boundaries.

WHISPERING LEAVES Wouldn't “yu Tike to Tisten. in As they swing and sway with ease, Whispering only as leaves will do Gently rocked by the: breeze. Playing tag with the raindrops. = Then ... . basking in summer sun, Swinging and swaying so gently Then calm when the day is done. . Anna E. Young, 3517 N. DeQuincy St.

‘TIS SAID

That we are groping for leadership in our. national politics. Could be. But up to now we seem to-have grabbed a reasonable facsimile from every four to 16, years, . —B. C., Indianapolis

. - ; . MORE than 124,000 people live outside of Indianapolis "in Marion County and of these 90,000 are living in the suburban areas immediately adjoining the city itself. If these suburban communities began incorporating into a series of small towns they will stifle the growth of Indianapolis, practically sealing the present boundaries for all time. . : _ Other rapidly growing cities already have started reorganizing their metropolitan districts for expansion, Dallas, Tex., for instance, annexed 12 square miles of suburbs in the past year while Indianapolis took in only one- © » “ ~ ~ ~ - - CITY officials are hesitant to start annexation programs without the means to extend services and residents of : 7 "these outside areas are fighting against being taken into the city because of “higher taxes: ef evr © These differences can be compromised when proper planning can show better public services at less. cost through elimination of duplicating city-county functions. The present jig-saw puzzle of boundary linés leaves a property owner on one side of the street paying almost ' double the rate of his neighbor across the street. Both Are receiving nearly the same kind of public service. + We ought to start now solving some of these problems.

. 500 Homes on Parade

TODAY “there will be a parade of cars, loaded with '~ whole families, off to see another parade. = - ° > Itis the Parade of Homes. ; This second annual showing of homes, both built and ; building, stand on the very soil and in the neighborhoods for which they are designed. - . = - + The homes represent $7 million worth of land, labor

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recruits and three or four months before it's ready to operate at full efficiency. There is also the question of supply. It takes time to ‘procure the large amounts of food and clothing needed for one million men. The armed forces can order them fast, but they can’t be produced at the same rate. Then there is the problem of instructors for this new expanded force. It takes months to train such men and while they are being trained the armed forces will have to go slow in asking

ric ARE wo a Pentagon offi see it, it will

~The “take about a year to bring the armed forces up to three million men and another year to train

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them. By that they mean it will be a year before the armed forces are stabilized at three million men. In the meantime the force will be reduced by expiration of enlistments and, of course, by death, both natural and unnatural. Pentagon people hate to come right out and say it takes a year to prepare a man for combat. As they put it, “Nobody ever stops training in any of the services,” on the other hand, some soldiers need less than a year’s training. But a year is the average they feel they can safely strike. They point

ing to a soldier or a sailor.” And finally come the courses which enable the recruit to learn a specialized skill, or to become an instructor,

‘MAGIC’ FIGURES . . . By

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Big Production Formula Talked

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9--There’s a “magic” number floating around here these days: $300 billion. It's an estimate of the amount of goods and

services the nation will be turning out at.-an -

annual rate within the next few months, without ariy further increase in prices. "Its magic qualities come from the fact that a national output of this-size; according to-most government officials, would meet all the needs of the military and still leave plenty of goods for consumers. BN Crs . Hence, no need for all-out price controls. From top to bottom in government, officials are talking about the prospective $300 billion national output and what it means.

Sees Goal Next Spring

SAID one high ranking economist not connected with the administration: “We should cross the $300 billion mark sometime next’ spring. “And with a federal budget of even $60 billion, that would leave $240 billion worth/ of goods and services for the civilian economy — as much as we have now.” ) i Said another high official who oftep has dis-

“agreed with White House policy: “We are cers

tain to reach a national output of $300 billion a year soon. And with a national product of that size, we should be able to maintain, if necessary, a permanent federal budget of $75 billion

a year without changing too much the kind of

life Americans like to live.”

This thinking on the adequacy of the $300 billioh national output is based, of “course, on

the - expectation .there will be no global war, *

At the time of -the outbreak in Korea, the

. national output had been climbing rapidly and - then was running-at an annual rate of $270 billion a year—$15 billion higher than in 1948.

It is estimated now to be running at the

‘rate of $280 billion. (Although Congress has not

yet stopped voting money, the federal budget

-.- Emergency Boards. : Railway personnel relations have seldom been in a worse position, and the great fiction . of government seizure is the only thing that seems to be preventing a strike worse than Canada’s. - » . » . BEFORE these manpower problems are settled, however, a more material problem may come to 4 head in a shortage of railway freight cars. If this sounds Ike something reprinted from editions of the days of ‘World War II, it is not. "At the end of August, the railroads - were a shortage “of about 38,000. freight cars a day. The shortage was not confined to one : type of car nor to any particu"lar localities. - : =

‘ - * » FIGURES gathered by the

for the current fiscal year likely will be in the neighborhood of $53 billion, a considerable part of which won’t be spent before next June 30.) Federal officials say there is also a possibility that the rising national output might work another miracle: a balanced budget for a few months next year.

More Tax Income Seen THIS would be due, of course, only to the

. slowness” with which the federal government .

disburses dollars for military goods—actual payment - usually coming months after orders are placed. - Byt: it would be a good thing because a balanced budget, and especially a Treasury surplus, is anti-inflationary.

/ An increase in the output of goods and serv-

Ices, such as is now occurring, will pour more 7 dollars into the Treasury through taxes. The

tax increase bill Congress now is voting orig-

~inally was-eéstimated to produce $4.5 billion “in

taxes annually.

But government officials‘say that under present circumstances it will produce: much more.

Revenues Up.

GOVERNMENT tax revenues already have gone up $300 million. since: July 1. And with a lag in military payments ‘and a decrease in government spending for veterans’ benefits and

farm price supports, a temporary budget sur- -

plus is possible for the few months ahead, government officials say.

‘The $300 billion output rate which the cduntry now is expected to achieve by next spring is the goal set in 1948 by Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, to be reached, by 1953. Mr. Keyserling has now raised his sights and” is shooting for a $350 billion output (in terms of 1950 dollars) by 1955. .

TRANSPORTATION . . . By Peter Edson | American Railroads Facing Great Test

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—The next two months are a big test for U. 8. railroads, even if the threatened strike of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors js settled. The Switchmen’s Union, other nonoperating brotherhoods and the four brotherhoods of operating railwaymen have other grievances in various stages of negotiation before National Mediation Board panels and

here in Washington * show a shortage of 22,000. box cars for general freight, 7800 hop‘per - cars, 6500 gondolas and 1500 flats.

crop from the southwest was met without too much protest, although some grain always has to be piled in the open to wait ‘cars.

: . » ~ Ld MOVEMENT of the winter wheat crop from the northwest -in August and Séptember. is followed by heavy cargoes of sugar beets and soy beans,

AR SWig the Sunes @ an. o RS £ oid — sed principally as an early Scrapping cars

Four other factors are outlined as contributing to today's car shortage. One is the fiveday week. While there is no ban against railroads operat- - ing a full seven days as they did formerly, the overtime pay provisions make management try to cut down on full-week °- operation. Staggering of shifts, so that there is seven-day op-

A SECOND factor. has been strikes in other major indus- . - tries—coal and autos, for instance—which put the. roads months behind on their movement of freight. : Third is the inability to get box cars loaded heavier. Undér Office of Defense Transportation controls in war times, there - were strict orders ‘on loading cars to near capacity. When those controls were lifted, the roads went back to 1d = :

" As an example of how slowly the military mills have to grind, it's pointed out that of all the men taken into the service since the Korean War broke out—in men from the draft. ae "tional Guardists and reservists—none of them vet have gone into action on the battlefron ‘And it will be some time yet before they do. "It takes 20 to 30 days to induct a man, but since the draft already has been under way

for some months, the flow of men is now run-

ning smoothly. . “ _ ‘Under present conditions, says Service, it can draft 50,000 men a

Selective

TAL p radi « Re AY 5: 0 only 600,000, but there's no doubt this rate be Y codut up as facilities for receiving the men are put into shape. It will be some time, though, before Selective Service can match its World War II record of 406,374 men drafted during - the month of February, 1943. America then had been at’ war more than two years and everywas running in high gear. a rio officials feel it probably will be. necessary to draft fathers under 26 to meet the new demand. The alternative is either to lift the exemptions on World War II veterans or draft single men over 26. The latter course is frowned upon by the armed forces, which prefer younger men.

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.

‘Hybrid Democrats’ B. A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Dr., Woodruff Place, A writer in the Forum is attempting to minimize the inept and imcompetent leadership of the past 20 years by pointing to a few mis- _ takes of Congressman Halleck who dared to criticise the administration which is supposed to guide us through the most critical period in the history of this nation. In the first place, the writer's criticism of

Mr. Halleck must be discounted by virtue of -

_the fact that he is telling only half truths, while Mr. Halleck indulged in whole truths. That is why his criticism hurts the stubbornly ignorant hybrid Democrats. I use the words “hybrid Democrats” for the reason that real Jeffersonian Democrats of the old school agree with Mr. Halleck almost to a man. Witness the remarks of old-school Democrats Baruch and Byrd. od @

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FOR THE edification of that writer, there is a vast difference between the status of the two men being criticized. Mr. Halleck is just a citizen selected by his neighbors to represent them in Congress. Mr. Truman is a citizen who was selected to represent all of the people of the United States—mnot just the racketeers or the labor leaders who prefer to aid the war effort by calling strikes to hold back war supplies from the troops dying on the battlefield, or the. incompetent cronies with whom he has surrounded himself. It is quite true that many precious administrations, both Republican and Democrat, were famous or infamous for the cheap tin-horn corrupt politicians who were appointed to Cabinet berths and other commanding positions.. But because they were able leaders, those Presidents, when emergency arose, cleaned house in the Cabinet almost at once and appointed able men to those key jobs. Se BOTH Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Rooses velt, when emergencies arose, practically appointed entirely new Cabinets. But they placed welfare of the nation which honored and paid them, above any mythical obligation to cronies or political hatchetmen.

There is the outstanding difference. Mr,

Halleck, judging by his several re-elections, ap-

" parently is big enough for his job, and is serve ing his neighbors as they want to be served. But the other is a far cry from an able man, and now is floundering in the middle of the mess of his own incompetence, and is too stubborn to heed the good advice being offered him. Furthermore, the Constitution gives Cabinet officers no official authority. They are appointed by the President to serve at the pleasure of the President, and are only authorized to advise with and report to the President. . > S$ THOSE people, including Rep. Andrew Jacobs, who are’ crying for the resignation of

Louis Johnson and Dean Acheson, are. doing -

those sorry men a grave injustice. The resignation that should be demanded is that of the man. who is incompetent to interpret their ad. vice and recommendations. Indeed, if President Truman were to resign, it would mark him as one of the greatest Presi-

idents who ever lived, in spite of the sorry record

he has made, because it takes a very big man to know his own limitations, and recognizing them, act accordingly even to stepping down from the greatest and most honored position in the world.

What Others Say— IF one side attacks its neighbor it is (accord ing to Russia) not an act of war but an act of peace.—Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British Delegate to UN. ~ * > WE must make Formosa the base for nae tional recovery, a vanguard for the struggle for the free peoples of Asia and a champion of world peace.~Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shels . * ¢ @

‘NO other country in Europe has done more. to fight communism than Spain, and ‘we must join with her in a united effort to fight aggres-

. ¢“sion.—Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-N. M.),

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