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Sunday, Sept. 24, 1950

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The Veto Message

NLY time can tell whether Congress has made the “ter7 ible mistake” which President Truman believes it made

by passing the so-called Communist control bill over his veto. But certainly Congress did not give the veto message the careful consideration which it deserved, and for which Mr. Truman had sent a personal plea to each member. It was an exceedingly impressive message. Its tone was temperate. Its statement of the principle that this free country should punish men for crimes they commit, but never for opinions they have, was eloquent. Its explanation of the reasons why the President felt compelled to disapprove the bill, after huge majorities of both parties in both branches of Congress had voted for it, was painstaking and persuasive: ¥ x » » ow YET the adjournment-headed House could hardly wait for its reading clerk to drone through the message before starting its roll-call vote to override the veto. And, though the Senate went into a long night session, there was little more evidence there of open-minded willingness to discuss the President's arguments on their merits, Mr. Truman may be mistaken in his opinion—an opinfon which, he said, is also held by the Departments of Justice, Def and State and the Central Intelligence Agency —that- the law which now goes on the statute books will help, not hurt, the Communists. "The dangers which he sees in this legislation—dangers to national security, to America’s relations with other friendly nations, to the rights of all citizens—may be less than he believes, or may be non-existent. : . » ” » ” » LAWS previously enacted may be—and, in The Times’ opinion, are—less adequate than Mr. Truman thinks to protect the country from “the real dangers of treason, - espionage, sabotage and actions looking to the overthrow of ‘our government by force and violence.” And, unquestionably, the votes in Congress on this bill .feflect a heavily predominant belief among the American speople that strong and comprehensive new legislation is “neéded.

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But legislation enacted in such times of stress as these

can be, and in other such times has been, too compréhensive and too strong to be wise and safe. The people and their Congress cannot afford to be too sure that Mr. Trur = * : r ~ ” AT THE moment, however, Congress has had its way, ‘and its members are scattering to their homes and their

: When they assemble again, late in November, they “should give Mr. Truman's veto message the thoughtful attention just denied it in the adjournment rush. And if, in “the calmer post-election light, they see that the new law does go perilously too far, they should be resolutely prepared to admit and rectify their errors.

The Police Get Together

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WE HAVE long advocated a single police force, under .

one head, for an adequate job of protecting Marion County. Lo Until we have that, the next best thing is co-operation Between the various police forces that already exist. w+ That's what has been getting started in the conferences beld here this week among the eight or nine independent police agencies now operating in the county. Plans are being worked out under which, in an emergency, all those forces could act together quickly and effectively, to block. the roads against fleeing criminals, or to maintain order after a sudden disaster. They are good plans. We hope we never need them. But if we ever do they'll turn out to be one of the most valuable bits of planning this county has ever done.

One Big Lemon

‘THERE ‘have been too many sorry performances in the U. 8. Senate lately. 11-hour filibuster by Sen. George W. Malone (R. Nev.), “against the bill to bar interstate shipment of slot machines. The bill had been approved by both branches of Congress and was ready for final Senate action. ’ It grew out of the Attorney General's crime conference last spring, and was supported by an overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives. But, as Mr. Malone saw it, it would prevent profes. sional gamblers in Nevada, where state law legalizes onearm bandits, from shipping in new slot machines or sending old ones to Chicago for repairs. - * » » } ot rf x ow . SO, Mr. Malone, protecting the gamblers! interests. = talked and talked until the Senate, eager to get om with other business, gave up trying to vote on the bill’ which now can't become law until Congress goes back to work in November, if then. : This performance confirms a long-growing impression that George W. Malone stands near the top of the list of Senators the country could well do without.

She'd Laugh at You

A . N° DOUBT we should all be preoccupied with other things =" in this uncertain world, but let's take just a moment, please, to mull over that typical breakfast of 1825 served the other day at the 125th anniversary of the Arnold Constable store in New York. ; and cream, scrambled eggs, Kidneys and squash, brown bread, preserves and coffee. All right. So we've got the United Nations, unification and television—but what price chromium? Not even with could

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EDITOR'S NOTES . . . By

Bigger National

“* . ONE OF THE louder irresponsibles who in-

fest the air waves was on (he radio the other evening spreading-good news.” Any time now, he trumpeted. thg national income in this country will pe $300 billions a year . . . maybe $350 billions, a difference he appeared to consider negligible.

When that happens we'll all be rich, he as-

sured his unseen audience breathlessly. Everybody in America will make $5000 a year. He may be right on the figure, But, will we all be rich? Not necessarily. National income could go to $600 billions

a vear, and everybody in America could draw and we could all be

down $20,000 a year , .. poorer than we. are. —

~—=-T{ depends entirely on what the dollars will

buy . . . not how many we have. Everybody is vaguely aware that the Indiana family with an income today of $60 a week . . . which is close to the average . , . can't buy any more with the $60 than it used to buy with $30 10 years ago. Prices, they'll say, have gone up. Or perhaps, dollars have gone down. If there are 100 bushels of wheat for sale and $100 in the pockets of all who want wheat, the price of wheat, obviously is going to be $1

a bushel. But if those who want wheat suddenly

have $200 , . . and there still are only 100 bushels for sale, naturally the price is going to be $2. = That's “inflation” in its simplest terms. It is roughly what has happened to this country in the past 10 years. On a national scale we have in effect taken each one of our dollars, cut it in half, and started calling each half $1. There's a strong trend right now toward cutting the halves into quarters and calling each quarter $1. From our national administration in Washington there is much talk about the menace of inflation . . . but so far no real action to prevent it. As a matter of fact the one really consistent policy of our federal administrations for the past 18 vears has been to create inflation. It began with NRA which had as its sole

purpose making prices go higher, Jt extended

through the relief grants of the ‘30s, which

BUTTER SURPLUS . . ._ Dairy Industry Irked at Army

Military Units Buying Margarine for Rations

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—The Army is buying 3,550,000 pounds of margarine for use In canned rations. b And the dairy industry doesn’t like it. Especially, since the Agriculture Department owns 191 million pounds of surplus butter and is offering 50 miilion pounds of it to foreign countries at the give-away price of 15 cents a pound. The Army is paying about 23 cents a pound for the margarine—eight cents more than foreign countries can buy our surplus butter for. The Dairy Record, a dairy industry trade publication, "suggests a congressional investigation. Army Quartermaster Corps officials say the margarine purchase is easily explained. In the first place, they say. all the margarine is for canned rations. The Army never has been able to make butter keep as well as margarine in cans.

Can't Buy It Legally ALSO, the Army says legally it cant buy the 15-cent butter, If it bought Agriculture Department surpius, it would have to pay the original purchase price (about 60 cents a pound), plus five per cent handling charges and transportation costs. Moreover, the butter is in bulk and the Army would have to pay to process it into one-pound prints, or smaller units. All this, a spokesman said, makes the government butter more expensive than the price the Army can buy for on the open market. An official of Agriculture's dairy branch said a meeting is to be held with Army officers this week to see if some way can be found to get around the legal blocks that keep the Army from buying surplus butter. “I know it looks silly,” he said. This apparently indicates a shift in the Agriculture Department's position. = Heretofore, the official viewpoint, as expressed by Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan himself, has been that there was nothing to be gained by having the Army use the government butter. This, Mr. Brannan has said repeatedly, would only require the Agriculture Department to buy that much more butter in the open market to hold up prices to farmers as required by law, The military services now fill their butter needs by buying in the open market.

No Dent in Surplus

GOVERNMENT butter purchases have dwindled lately to about a million pounds a week because this is the slack milk production season. And the government recently has been selling small amounts back to the commercial trade at cost, plus all charges. But these sales have not made a dent in the surplus and the Agriculture Department still has no idea of how it is going to get rid of its hoard. The 15-cent a pound offering price to foreign countries still has to attract the first customer. The bargain price has been on for a month now, but foreign countries apparently don’t want our butter even at this price, especially since they must pay their own and not Marshall Plan dollars for it. . The Army walks the tight rope in the butter vs. margarine controversy .by leaving the choice of what to buy up to commanding generals of the various posts, camps and stations.

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Income Could were designed to ‘put more money into eirculation without producing mote goods. :

Gold had been selling for many years at around $20 an ounce, Suddenly our govurnment

announced it was worth $35 an ounce, seized ’

all the gold and paid for it at the new price . , , a move to make “dollars” worth less, and make prices go up. Then Congress enacted the ‘“‘wagehour” law . . . which undertook to de the same thing to labor . . . to make a week's work produce less goods, and cost more dollars. It was frankly inflationary and had no other purpose, since real wages cannot be changed by statute but only by production of more goods. There was vast expansion of credit, which also is inflationary, and there were huge increases in taxes which are completely inflationary. The American dollar was almost unbelievably sound. In spite of all this pressure it had been inflated only a little by 1940. The war accomplished what federal policy failed to achieve. Wars inevitably are inflationary because huge sums of money must be spent for munitions which cannot go on the market to be bought with

"becomes smaller, and the supply of money becomes larger, : No really serious stéps were taken to curtail this inflation during the war. A loose attempt at “price control” and a belated and largely ineffective gesture at “wage control” nibbled at the ‘symptoms, never attacked the causes. Once the war ended, the' government embarked on huge spending programs . . . again turning loose billions upon billions of dollars in projects which produced no good, but which added to the price of goods that were produced otherwise. As it took more and more out of the wage earner’s pay envelope for non-productive spending the wage-earner found himself with less and less buying power. He demanded higher wages. As he got them his employers asked higher prices, and then he found he needed another

wage increase. 4 e national administration steadfastly encouraged this, although from time to time announcing- that prices were too high. It continued, however, to force up the prices

this ‘money . . . the supply of things for sale EP of food by direct subsidy to farmers for major

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES . . . Verse and Prose

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S bushy white heard caused doctors more trouble than his broken thigh. The anesthesia mask wouldn't fit; he wouldn't let them cut his whiskers. They taped the beard down.

Touch not a hair in yon long grey. beard, Which once was a fiery red. If one single whisker is slightly sheared, Then be it upon thy head.

Thus spake the quick-witted Mr. Shaw, _ According to what we've heard. But the docs used tape, and a timely “saw’'— And for once had the final word!

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THIS venture -tarted with a daily rhyme. but we're going to spread ourselves a bit on Sundays and add a line or two in prose. ~ To put it another way: It was a verse, But now it’s worse, Oh well, we're the only subscriber to The Times who .doesn’t have to read these lines. We wrote ‘em, L e © 9 } WE have it on good authority that there are only seven jokes known to mankind; that every gag or funny story ever told is a variation of one of those seven. Watch us prove it each week. on ‘ > >

SPEAKING of gags, it is our personal opinjon that a good many editors are taking this freedom of the press business far too seriously. Since the comic strips turned into adventure serials, a lot of papers could use a good gag now and then. = * o> ¢

JUST wait and see. Now that the Senate has confirmed Gen. George Marshall's appointment

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as Secretary of Defense, some wit is going to say that we've finally marshalled our defenses.

To puns like that we're far from Besides, there's just one “Lin “marshal” . ‘But, take it easy, time will tell And good old George will give ‘em “L.” > *

AND don’t think the Commies are going to like the new Marshall plan any better than they did the other. The Old Soldier has a lot of nice new things to hand out. But this time the North Koreans will be the first to try them for sighs. Let's hope they're s0 good no other Red satellite will want any. But enough about the Commies. We want to keep this clean. * 4% 9

NOW that the makers of kids’ cowboy outfits ” ing could have used some Johnson thrift.

have run the whole gamut from 3153-gallon hats

to tin spurs, we note they've taken to putting

out cowboy slippers. It's about time the whole idea was given a rest. —To say nothing of the old man's pocketbook. > > 9

THE youngsters’ clothing budget was a relative cinch in our house—until Cassidy lowered the boom. - The only thing we liked about the whole idea was the spurs. But we never got close enough to the salesman to apply them properly.

Those cowboy heroes of the fill-ums Are to us a bunch of curs, Look. at little Bob and Lillums—— Fancy fringes, guns and spurs. Poppa’s broke and Momma's crying, Hopalong has got their goat. Do you wonder why she’s sighing? That's the goat for her “mink” coat. «> 2 -

WITH which we'll hop along and leave you to enjoy the rest of The Times in peace. ’ ~=By Ben Foster

Mean We Would All Be Broke

food crops of which there were already surpluses so large that some had to be destroyed. At the beginning of 1949 Congress amended the wage-hour law, raising the hourly wage rate from 40 cents to 75 cents to create still more 'inflation. The President asked labor unions not to demand any pay increases-greater than they believe they need . . . a rather flexible figure ... and they did, and prices zoomed up. It should surprise no one that the government spent, since the close of the war, some $69 billions on national defense . . . about twice the total cost of the whole First World War ...and had very little in the way of armies ta show for it when the crisis came in Korea, The government's dollars, like our own, just don’t buy as much as they once did . . . before inflation. Even if it goes no farther than it already has, the cost of a Third World War in dollars will make the Second World War look like a bargain, It already costs about four times as much to equip one army division as it did in 1942. “National income” {isn’t a very accurate yardstick, though we haven't any better one, It is the total of all the dollars that are spent for everything, and of course include a lot of duplications. A man may earn $2000 and spend it all on a new car, which is $2000 income for the maker of the car, who may put it all out in wages to his employees . . . by this time it is $6000 in national income, not $2000. But a rubber yardstick is even less dependable than a short one. In dollars national income went from §72 billions in 1939, to around $226 billions in 10 years, and is now above $250 billions. That does

not at all mean that we all have three times as

much now as we had in 1939. It just isn't the same dollar we're talking about. Only production of more goods for use actually can make anyone richer, or raise any standard of living. i By the end of the next war we may easily have a national income of $1000 billions ,: , and all be broke.

X06. ( “| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Motivated by Fear’ By An Isolationist. “Fear is man's worst enemy.” Thus began an advertisement in a number of popular magazines 25 years ago. One school of scientific psychology teaches that most fighters and fightmongers are, in reality, cowards. They are motivated by some form of fear. Their first . thought of a stranger. is an enemy. As a rule they have no deep religious convictions but will conform to some sectarian practices rather than be “irregular.” : So A study of recent actions and utterances of

Harry 8. Truman reveals evidence of a mind .

confused and alternately daminated by conflicting fears and emotions. His boasts and contradictions; his hasty reprimand of MacArthur for “spilling the beans” and almost as hasty effort to soothe the General's pride, and his tiff with the Marines are all Indicative of “Jumpy” nerves. They are like the jumpy nerves of dn amatsur about to, or having already committed a crime, or a Sunday School model about to commit mortal sin. ; In his Sept. 1 speech Mr. Truman boasts of military might and intentions in one breath .and pathetically claims to be the chantpion of peace in another. Didn’t the warlords of Europe mobilize to stop aggression and preserve peace in 1914? Didn't Woodrow Wilson and his rubber stamp Congress start “prepardedness to keep us out of war?” All of them knew at those times that war was the only alternative to losing face. Perhaps the same psychological preparation for another satanic holiday is going on in other areas of the earth. Perhaps Russian papers are warning the proletarians of their “position of deadly danger” from American imperialists, The United States grew to great economic size and strength mainly by keeping free from foreign entanglements and costly militarism. Capitalism itself did not make this country. As a whole, economically great isolation and anti-militarism did. Disprove that if you ean.

‘Too Many Mistakes’ By Mrs. T. J. W., Indianapolis. You are so right in your editorial, loading a Liability.” . Marshall has made too many mistakes before to accept him now without question. His China position proved all wrong. His European spend-

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Thrift is a rarity in our government today and Johnson should not be blamed for that, I believe he was misguided by the Reds and pinks of our State Department.

"IT MUST BE" There must be a tomorrow , , . as now there is today . . . just as tonight will come to pass . . . a8 did our yesterday .. . there will be loves and hates of man . . . as long as there is life . . . and for each bit of joy we know , ., we'll feel the sting of strive . . . for every wrong exists a right . . . to balance what we do . . , and we will find for each dark cloud . . . there is 2 sky of blue . .. and most of all there must be death . . . it comes to everyone . . . but even after that occurs . .. we've only just begun . ., for there must be a place to go . . . a place we long to see . .. that goes on till the end of time ++. all through eternity.’ '=By Ben Burroughs

RED GROUPS ORGANIZED ... . By Paul Ghali |

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» ~ » “ A TRAVELER who toured both Allied and ‘Russian zones of Austria during the summer has revealed to this correspondent that: The Russians are busily preparing resistance groups in Austria to be put into action behind their conception of the American frontline in case of war. = = The Russians are making preparations in Austria not only in the Western Allies zones of occupation but also in , their own, preparations started at the time of outbreak of the Korean War but steadily intensified since talk of a preventive war began circulating in th United : States. BR

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Soviet ‘Secret’ Activity May Be Next Strategy

PARIS, Sept. 23—1If the Russians do NOT expect to launch an offensive against Western Europe next year, they are making ready some new indirect action which they now know will bring

This is the interpretation well-informed: circles here are giv-, Ing to rumors of present Soviet “secret” activities,

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" tions, the underground sabo-

teur groups must be ready for action next spring. : As recruits mostly former

junior members of the Hitler's ~

SS (security police) many of whom are refugees in the Tyrol and Voralberg regions, . are -being used. _

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- organization the Soviets had - “hoped to get Otta Skorzenyi, . a trusted Hitler adherent. They

tation among the S88 of fearless heroism. He remains unconvinced so far. These former SS have been

AUSTRIAN Commun ists who can. circulate easily between the zones are being used by the Boviets as agents and liaison men with these newly formed sabotage groups.

‘To increase the strength of

their sabotage and underground groups by hiring men with a perfect knowledge of the Tyrolean Alps, the Soviets have recently tried to employ former officers trained in the famous school of Alpinism at Fulpmes. Officers from the

school formed the bulk of the’

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THESE officers, all of whom are now nearing their thirties,

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ducted in greatest secrecy, enough rumors have circulated to alarm the usualy calm Austrians. ey Several wealthy landowners have become jittery and have been looking for refuges in Switzerland, Italy, and even in the United States. Others have begun moving some of their furniture and belongings into mountain chalets Whets they hope they will be safe.

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