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IK considering any peace settlements in the Far East, the U
nited Nations would do well to adjust its mind and its
- machinery to some basic facts of world-wide Stalinist aggression as outlined before the General Assembly this week. These facts were marshaled with great clarity by China's United Nations delegate, Dr. T. F. Tsiang. He warned that the Korean hostilities should not be treated as a civil war; that the immediate objective of Russian imperialism is to consolidate its vast power base in Europe and Asia; and that it was dangerously naive to hope that Chjnese communism might become another Tito movement. -
” » . “ - ~ - IN THE light of two new decisive international factors, Dr, Tsiang told the United Nations, there are no more “civil wars.” The first factor is the cominform, a world-wide organization and instrument of the Kremlin devoted solely to “promoting, preparing, fomenting and financing Red rebellion and subversion in all countries not ruled by a Communist dictatorship. . mE The second factor is that the Moscow government is the head and heart of a vast conspiracy to convert all countries into dependencies of Russia. Russian intervention in the internal affairs of all free and democratic peoples, he said, “make of every civil war in which the Communists con-
~ stitute one of the two fighting parties, an aggression threat-
ening the peace and security of the work.”
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POINTING out that Russia had done remarkably well in combining its European and Asian power blocs, Dr. Tsiang said it was totally unrealistic to think of Europe and Asia today as two different and separate continents. Western Europe and Southeastern Asia face the same enemy. And any gain by international communism in one area will be used for conquest in the other.
Under such circumstances, it would be fatuous to expect
a solution of the over-all problem of the Russian menace through piecemeal settlements around the fringe of the Communist world. A Korean armistice can be no more than a stop-gap. Global aggression still must be met with global defense. ” ” . ® » » AS FOR Red China, Dr. Tsiang observed that in the 29 ‘years the Chinese Communist Party has existed its leaders have never once differed from their Moscow masters on a question of world policy. - To advocate appeasement—by granting the Chinese Reds a United Nations seat in a Korean peace deal, for instance—on the theory—that Mao Tse-tung might become another Tito, is as futile as the hope that Munich would be
a final settlement with Hitler.
Henry Ford's Cause
LMOST 35 years have gone since Henry Ford's “peace ship” and its strangely assorted passengers set forth to stop a war in Europe and “get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas.” The misadventures and failure of that expedition became something of a world-wide Ford joke —and a cruelly bad joke, too. For Mr. Ford was moved to finance it by a fierce hatred of war, a profound belief that its horrors were needless and futile, and a sincere faith that its curse might be lifted by an appeal to human intelligence. He was quoted, at the time, as saying that he would gladly spend half his fortune to shorten the slaughter by a single day. ” u » . » » . IT IS good to know, now, thdt a great share of the fortune left by him and his son, Edsel, will be devoted to a more soundly conceived and far more hopeful undertaking with a similar if less immediate objective. The Ford Foundation, with assets of nearly one-fourth of a billion dollars, is the world's largest endowment of its kind. And Henry Ford II and his cotrustees have announced that the Foundation will support activities designed to help the people of the world along the road to peace and freedom, democratic strength and economic welfare. » = - . ” - . THE “five areas for action,” selected after long and thoughtful study, give the Foundation a very wide field in which to operate. Even the huge fund available will not go far toward accomplishing its purposes unless it is managed with wisdom and discernment. But reports that Paul G. Hoffman will become president of the Ford Foundation and chief director of its operations justify confident hope that the fund will be so managed, and will achieve results that would have gladdened Henry Ford I.
”" ” » » y » AS administrator of the European recovery program, Mr. Hoffman has served the American people and the cause of peace wonderfully well for the last two and a years. It is hard to think of any other man who could have steered that great and difficult enterprise through so . critical a period with so large a measure of success. All that President Truman and countless others have said in praise of him is well deserved. His decision to return to private life cannot, of course, mean that he will be long inactive. Mr. Hoffman will find a great new opportunity for distinguished public service at the head of the Ford Foundation.
The Only Risk
A $10,000. “fine arts” insurance policy has been sold by one Republican Congressman to another to cover that Truman letter which proved so offensive to the Marines. President Truman promptly apologized and the Marines were just as quick to accept the apology. eT Under the circumstances, the only “fine art” that would seem to be involved is the fine old American art of dropping such unpleasant matters, once the amenities have been satisfied. That would bear some sort of insurance. =
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WAR WOR. B domes Drie Agency Checks 5 Per Centers
PAGE 10 _ Saturday, Sept. 30, 1050 Central Procurement Office
* ~ 5 Cs — Gives Contract Information WASHINGTON, Sept. "30—The Pentagon's central military procurement information office —set up last year to-meet criticisms arising from the “five per center”, investigation—is proving useful in the new war situation. The office collects, summarizes and distributes by Commerce Department teletype the daily requirements of 55 major Army, Navy and Air Force procurement offices. The teletyped reports are received at more thah 1500 locations throughout the nation. - On the’ average, any businessman in the country has an opportunity to learn about a military tract 21 days before it is let. Thus, businesses too small to afford a Washington representative have no need of a five per center * here to keep them informed on what is available to bid on, 7 =
Correspondence Grows
IN 11 months up to the outbreak of the . Korean fighting, the eentral information office “éorresponded with 5000 businessmen and interviewed 2300 others. In the past 10 weeks the correspondence has grown to 12,000, the number of interviews to 5000. lie In addition to telling manufacturers what contracts are open, the office now sends out a
weekly summary of the contracts awarded. One .
purpose of this is to let smaller businessmen know who has the prime contracts, so they may subcontract. Since the first of this year, the Munitions Board has had a small business office which works with the information service. The munitions unit steps in when a query requires more than a routine answer. . Often, a manufacturer says he has a plant which he wants to use for war work, but doesn’t know what, he should make. The advisers at the "Pentagon will refer him tos the military procurement office which is interested in his general line. There the manufacturer learns what is being purchased. If he can show he can deliver the goods, he is eligible to go on a special bidding list. x
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IN MAKING contract information availablé to business on a scale not attempted in World War II, the Pentagon steers clear of any suggestion that a manufacturer should convert his plant to war work. The decision must be. his own idea. As one official explained, “We don’t want anybody coming: back and saying, ‘You told me to do thus and so, and now I can’t get any orders.” ; Ninety per cent of the businesses that sell to the military meet the definition of a small business—no more than 500 employeés. But these obtain only about 23 per cent of the procurement dollars. Officials say this is inevitable consider-
ing the large plant required to make an airplane
or a tank. But they figure a large part of the big contracts is subcontracted to small suppliers. Have they uncovered any untapped sources of military goods? Officials say yes. For example 70 potential suppliers have been found in California and 50 in one area of Texas. In Ohio 14 manufacturers who never held a government order are at work on military business.
Can't Tell 5 Per Center :
ARE five per centers still plying their trade? Officials say they wouldn't be surprised if some of their visitors were five per centers. “You can’t tell by looking at a man if he is one or is not,” an official said. “The line between a legitimate agent and the other kind is hard to draw.” On the affirmative side it's pointed out that in addition to the standard requirement that a contractor pledge that he is not paying anybody a contingent fee, anybody getting a government rorder now must report the names of his agents and what authority they have to act for him. Officials figure this throws light in the dark corners where five per centers might hide.
A MAN
I knew a man that smiled a lot , . . and whistled through the day ... and I confess this fellow made . . . his friends both bright and gay . . . most everyone that came to know . . . this most amazing guy ... wondered where he got his joy . .. for he lived in. the sky . . . it seemed as though he didn't have . .. a worry or a care ,,. and that his troubles were but bubbles . . . floating in the air . . . he never grumbled if his job . . . went wrong or things got tough . .. and I have never heard him howl . when times were really rough . . . instead he saw the brighter side . . , and replaced can’t with can . .. a credit to the universe . . . this “most astounding man. - , —By Ben Burroughs
‘APPROPRIATIONS . . . By Peter Edson ‘Painless’ Economy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—In spite of all the bureaucratic bleating when it was first proposed, government economy on non-defense spending is going to be relatively painless.
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INCREASING PERIL . . . By Earl Richert Inflation Warnings Mount
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—The administration now is resorting to everything but shrieking sirens to warn the public how bad the inflation menace is and of how tough the program must be to combat it. At the rate of two or three a day, government big-wigs are taking public platforms to make Churchillian “blood, sweat and tears” speeches about high taxes, self-sacrifice, etc. It is a far cry from the attitude of a couple of months ago. Then we were assured that the economy could take the Korean War and rearmament in its stride with only limited restrictions on our normal mode of living. Today’s utterances apply to the future outlook, regardless of the outcome of the Korea War,
Inflation Rate Snowballing
THE rate at which inflation is snowballing is far above expectations. Practically every government official having to do with the economic side of U. 8. affairs is worried. Much of the current siren-blowing is for a specific purpose, as well as to inform the public. It is to lay ‘the foundation for the tougher program to come, especially for increased taxes. ; . The administration is shooting for taxes high enough to pay the costs of our defense program. That means a tax increase of at least $10 billion a year. Most of it will come from an excess profits tax on corporations. But some may come
from increased excise taxes on scarce commodi-
ties, such as steel, rubber and copper, as suggested by Roy Blough of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. .
Barbs—
IF YOU haven't been able to afford a vacation this year, you can at least take on that faraway look. .
MOST of the time, when a man argues with a fool the other fellow is doing the same thing.
THE friends who cost you nothing are your dearest.
A LOT of fall cleaning will be ‘prompted by
. parents seeing the handwriting on the wall,
IF THEY ration soap again, how will we be able to remember the hotels where we stay?
SIDE GLANCES
The Federal Reserve Board has announced it will do everything in its power in the credit field to halt inflation. It is now conducting spot
. checks to see if the new down-payment require-
ments are high enough to restrict buying. If not, they will be raised. Tough restrictions on new housing credit also are coming soon. Most top administration officials agree that
"selective price-wage controls—which also are coming — will not halt inflation. They serve.
merely to retard its impact. Taxes high enough to put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis and the toughest sort of credit restrictions to make it difficult for people to buy are needed to bring inflation to an end and save the value of the dollar, they feel. :
Top Official Comments HERE'S a sample of what top officials have been saying in the past week: ? Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer-— “Regardless of the outcome in Korea, we have embarked upon a program which will put critical strains upon our domestic economy. Serious shortages, heavy taxes and problems of inflation will tax our ingenuity and seif-control and strength to the utmost; and this will go on for years.”
Secretary of Treasury John Snyder— ‘The average American has no notion of how heavy a tax burden the nation’s defense program eventually will imposeg Federal Reserve Board Chairman Thomas McCabe—*“Inflation is not around the corner. It is here right now . .". We must cut down the spending. power of all but the lowest income group.” So
Can Creep Upon Us FEDERAL Reserve Board Member M. 8. Szymczak—"Inflation, if uncurbed, can creep upon us month by month and year by year until suddenly we find ourselves prostrate in {ts grasp.” Deputy Controller of the Currency J. L. Robertson—*“Inflation has now advanced so far that correction will call for a strong dose of very unpleasant medicine.” } Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin — “The danger of inflation is the major danger which faces American labor at home today.”
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GO EASY... By Andrew Tully
No Silly Curbs, Please
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—If nobody minds, please leave us not draft Miss Mayris Chaney for this war. Likewise, it wouldn't hurt if our bureaucrats refrained from banning cuffs on men’s trousers and ready-sliced bread.
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it." v
‘Sinful Attack’ By Roy Ratcliffe, 2101 Boulevard Place. I haven't said anything about this mulish attack on the Democratic administration, and it seems as though it’s time someone spoke up, and .as long as I can get anyone to print or to listen, I'm going to try to retaliate. I think it is both. sinful and ignorant to attack anyone as our present sheriff has been without first investigating his circumstances. Eon I don’t think anyone could be that unfair, but a beaten: politician. Cunningham and all other sheriffs have done a remarkable job with what they have to work with, + I had no intention of defending Cunningham, because I do not know him too well, but last month at a Council meeting, without fanfare, I heard him beg for ice to give some unfortunate men and women a decent drink of water, not for votes, but for a little comfort for some une fortunate human beings. > © © I WONDER how many people who are squawking about the way the sheriff's cars are treated know they have to race all over the county over all kinds of roads in all kinds of weather. I think not. Another thing, they can't always be on the best roads because the lover lanes are not on the good roads, but on the out of way places and believe me, when I say there are plenty of them. Well, I can tell you that in the vicinity of every drive-in, roadhouse, country club and the big plants all over the county there are several and each are spots for murder and blackmail. . Another thing about these wrecks of the sheriff’s cars, I wonder how many of you have passed the used car lots and junk. yards and seen thiQusands of wreckéd cars not driven by sheriffs, Well, good luck, Jim, and I can an it is better to, watch lover's lanes a drynk drivers than bingo games.
‘Defects in Voting’ By W. H. Edwards, Gosport, Ind.
Newspapers keep urging people to gister for voting in the coming elections, without
challenged by poll book holders and then have to vote by affidavit. Several years ago Marion County politicians® showed the other counties how to restrict the ballot by leaving one little checkmark off the master list in county clerk's offices. Hundreds of legally registered voters in Marion County were deprived of the ballot and were not allowed to vote by affidavit, and that was upheld by a former Indiana Attorney General. _ Since then other county clerks have been shown how to restrict the ballot. In one pre<inct in Owen County alone eight registered voters were challenged by the poll book holders but were allowed to vote by affidavit. With such a nuisance practice being ‘followed is there any wonder that many legal voters are saying that voting is not worth the trouble? From where I sit it seems likely that-the “1 authors of the registration law created that technical defect in the act to serve their own purpose. - If the newspapers are so interested in having all of the legal voters go to the polls then they should get busy and have that defect wiped out of the next session of the Indiana legislature. As things stand now county clerks are dictators on who shall or shall not vote.
What Others Say—
BRITISHERS are immensely grateful for Marshall Plan aid, but we have done better than any other country because we have planned our economy. We're not down and out. —Dr. Emlyn Davies, professor at South Wales Baptist College.
THE calm attitude of the American people in the fact of crisis presents a good contrast to the condition of the Japanese people at the beginning of the last war.—Chikao Honda, president of a Tokyo newspaper, after U. 8, tour, ’
I CANNOT understand why we will not give the Chinese Nationalists any aid and at the same time we say that we will fight communism all around the world. The Nationalists . . . are certainly anti-Communist.—Maj.-Gen. (retired) Claire Chennault. :
IT certainly will be three or four years before we have developed enough strength to regain the initiative which we threw away in 1945, and organize the world for lasting peace. —Adm. Louis E. Denfeld.
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ANY use of the senatorial committee to influence primaries seriously mars its effectiveness. Our duty is to elect, and not select.—Semn. Owen Brewster (R. Me.).
_ Oct. 6 is the deadline for the bad news on who gets cut how much. That is just 30 days after President Truman signed the appropriations bill for the fiscal year ending next June 30.
Over loud and anguished protests, you'll recall, Congress finally built into that law a provision requiring. President Truman to cut at least $550 million from the $36,153,490,425 omnibus money bill for the year. J o ” CRITICISM of this enforced economizing was that it is no way to run a government. It was buck passing by Congress. If Congress wanted the executive end of the government to reduce expenditures, Congress should have specified where the cuts should be made. This criticism makes a certain amount of sense. After all, the lawmakers are elected to decide how much or how little the government should spend. . . . SINCERE efforts by Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois and others of like mind to have Congress face up to its responsibility and do its own meataxe economizing, met with complete failure. Instead, Congress approved many questionable public road, river, harbor and other pork barrel projects. By this device, individual congressmen and senators can, of course, claim credit from their voters for supporting federal expenditures in their home bailiwicks. At the same time, they can take credit for being advocates of economy. And they can be the first to protest if the President finally makes -a cut that affects their conatituenta, :
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THIS marks the second year that Congress has tried to economize in this across-the-board manner. Last year an effort to require the President to cut appropriations by 5-to-10 per cent failed by three votes in the Senate. This year, the effort was made to put over a straight 10 per cent cut. The $550 million cut finally approved was a compromise. It provides only one safeguard. Cuts must not interfere with the defense program. ” ~ ~
EVEN before this action by Congress, President Truman had asked 14 major spending agencies to review their budgets and see where economies could be made. These requests went to the eight nonmilitary departments of cabinet rank, plus the Army, which has a large civil functions appropriation. The requests also_wére sent to Federal Security Administration, General Services Administration, Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation, Ten-,
nessee Valley Authority and Veterans’ Administration.
mis FMLA ll . «.. REPORTS FROM these
agencies have been made, but have not been released to the public. A check on thes» agencies unofficially reveals that they could cut back ex-
penditures. by some $600 mil- -
lion. This could be in addition to the $550 million cut ordered by Congress. : The status of thisdmtter cut is that Budget Director Frederick J. Lawton has apportioned it among the major gov-
“opment agencies This gives
' Admipistration will “have the
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these agencies a new ceiling on * what they can spend in the current fiscal year. It will be up to each agency to decide what projects it must eliminate to stay within this new limit. These cutbacks must be approved by both the Budget Bureau and White House before they are ordered into effect.
ne. WITH potential savings of a billion dollars or more in sight, the. big question is whether the
courage to cut that deep. It be done, All the scream
"and now he sends me an itemized bill!"
ing by the agencies that they couldn't get by on one cent less than they had asked for has been proved to be so much. poppycock. The talk that cuts would cause layoffs of thousands of government employes Was nonsense. x A billion-dollar cut on a $36
" billion budget is less than a 3
per cent economy. It would be most reassuring for the country to hear, in time of heavy
defense spending, that other.
government spending was being cut to the bone. And with an election= just around the corner, it would be smart beak ol
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.That case of Miss Chaney about drove Congress crazy. Miss Chaney, of course, was that reasonably well-stacked dancer who o
was hired by the Office of Civlan Defense, at the suggestion of her patron, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, to. head something called “children’s activities” in the “physical fitness division.” - » s
THE PITCH was that Miss: Chaney was supposed to teach the kids how to be physically fit and thus, presumably, avoid being a drag on the war effort. The salary list said she drew $4600 a year for this contribution. . Well, when Congress heard about it, the capitol dome all . but blew off. The*House voted to ban civilian defense funds - “for instructions in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances or other public entertainment.” Two weeks later Miss Chaney resigned. » . .
THE Chaney uproar, though,
. was mild compared to the hub-
bub over the War Production Board's ban on the sale of sliced bread. You'd have thought the decision had been to eliminate bread altogether, Statesmen filled columns in the °
*Congressional Record with
their protests and the letters-to-the-editors column in the newspapers bulged with de-
WEN. SEN: CLYDE M. REED of Kansas thundered that the ban was costing the nation untold -
‘sums of money because in order
to cut their bresd housewives
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.” - ” THE WPB insisted the no-cuffs-on-trousers thing worked.
In the first year, it reported,
make more than 300,000 extra pairs of pants, But this didn’t salve the incensed males who were pere fectly willing to go without cuffs but got burned up seeing their tailors clip off their pant legs and then throw the mas et.
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