Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1950 — Page 12
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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER L LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Business Manager
\ PAGE 13 Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1950
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U . . . PR Nios Street Railways, which has raised the price of most rides 86 per cent in five years, is back again for more. This time as in the five other times since 1945 it has asked for higher fares, the company says present rates do not bring in enough to meet operating costs and pay a reasonable return on capital invested. We'll agree fares ought to be high enough to do that. It seems to us, though, that the public which pays these fares is entitled to know just what IS invested in this company . ..and by whom. Is it the amount of money the owners actually paid for the property? Or is it some other amount a Public Service Commission later decided it would cost if they were buying it now? If it is worth more now than the owners actually paid for it, who made that investment, the owners . . . or the people who pay to ride the streetcars?
FOUR “Vears ago company management ‘promised to invest $4.5 millions more capital for better equipment and more service if it got a rate increase. It got the rate increase. How much of that $4.5 millions has actually been invested . .. and by whom . .. and what did it buy? Today company management says it needs a fare increase because it must buy $1.3 millions worth of new busses. If they are bought out of higher fares, though, it will he the folks who ride who have made that $1.3 million investment. Not the owners of the company. Are the owners of. the company, then, entitled to a “fair * yeturn” . . . or any return . . . on that “investment?” We don’t believe they are.
THIS ‘Whole "transportation problem should have a close ...and a fair... scrutiny by the Public Service Commission. Closer, it seems to us, than it is likely to get from a Commission whose chairman appedrs to have ruled in favor * of an increase before he even got a request for one from the
company . . . or from & Commission so politically conscious that it waits to hear the case until just AFTER the elections.
What Are We Buying?
HEN Congress reconvenes, it should undertake a complete re-examination of all overseas spending programs, with particular reference to American rearmament assistance and Marshall Plan operations. The United States has spent almost $20 billion in Europe since the end of the war. It is time to find out what our money has been buying. The American people consented to these vast expenditures in the belief that they would build the nations of Western Europe into a unified system against Communist aggression. But, from the evidence at hand, results have been profoundly disappointing. The very nations which have received most in various forms of economic and military assistance are now asking that we send additional American troops to Europe to. protect them from attack. At the same time, they want us to assume the burden of any increases in their own military budgets. In the case of France, the State Department has acceded to this demand, thus setting-a pattern for another all-out raid on the United States Treasury. This kind of business can’t go on.
” » FORMER ‘President Hoover is right in his stand that “we should say, and at once, that we shall provide no more ' money until a definitely unified and sufficient European army is in sight.” a * We also should tell our friends in Europe that, until
they are asking for will be kept at home—if and when we have 10 additional divisions. “+. _ Typifying our meek attitude in dealing with our “friends ahroad, an American spokesman for the economic “gp-operation administration has suggested to the Marshall “Plan nations that they should not lag too far behind the United States in imposing restrictions on consumers made necessary by the common defense effort. He pointed out that there would be an unfavorable
become necessary to curtail automobile production in this . country, only to have-European competitors Jump in an] . attempt to Steal the market from us.
THIS WAS stating it mildly, to say the least, but why
A common defense effort should call for common sacrifices, - under restrictions imposéd by all alike. Moreover, the . program should be compulsory as well as uniform. No real
: matters. {~~ © In the Korean situation, we immediately discovered that American forces were taking the field almost alone. - Most other members of the United Nations were not ready to act. The same thing could happen in Western Europe if we send additional troops to Germany without requiring, in advance, that France and Britain match our forces man - for man. All of these suggested safeguards would have been ‘written into existing agreements if our State Department
. been eager to give away American money. Since we cannot
‘look with confidence to the State Department for such “protection, Congress should step in with legislation to
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NATIONAL POLITICS . .
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By Charles Lucey
California GOP Has Jitters
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24—Two weeks efore election day California opinion makes Gov, Earl Warren a good bet for re-election over Jimmy Roosevelt and gives Republican Richard Nixon a slight edge over Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U. 8, Senate. Democratic leaders say almost unanimously that only vote-pulling magic by the Roosevelt name could make Jimmy the governor. Republicans rate Governor Warres in front but, gun-shy because of Harry Truman's 1948 victory, they take nothing for granted. So they're playing nervous-like and organizing everyone from chiropodists to old athletes like Ty Cobb and Pop Warner in a big drive to get out the vote for Mr, Warren. In terms of voters’ registration, Democrats are on top in California about 3 million to 2
million for the Republicans, But cross-filing in.
the primaries, which lets candidates run on both tickets—as did both Governor Warren ‘and Mr. Roosevelt—weakens party lines. Governor Warren always has pulled a heavy Democratic vote and he's after it again this time. In total Democratic-Republican votes in the June primary, the governor led Mr. Roosevelt by 731,000 votes. Party lines do stiffen in November elections but that's a fair gap for Jimmy to overcome. .
Draws Good Crowds +»
YET Mr. Roosevelt has been getting good
crowds all over the state—and although handicapped by lack of really sharp issues, he has
- made a good campaign. He has talked, as did
Franklin Roosevelt, about the “forces of special privilege,” and has thrust at Mr. Warren for high public utility rates and for failing to act on rent control. The test for Jimmy is this: Will his name bring out the masses who used to come out for FDR? There's betting that neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mrs. Douglas, but a man named Edmund
What Others Sqy—
I DOUBT that, left to themseives, many children would go haywire over so-called Sorror entertainment. It seems to me that they have a pretty fair amount of common sense and are capable of arranging their own values. —Boris Karloff.
I WAS born in an age in which people who
did not have to work were considered no good,
even before they opened their mouths. ~~Heiress Barbara Hutton.
HAS BEEN
The gay times , ., , they are over . . . the lights shine dimly too . . . and memories are all that's left . , . of all the fame you knew...
~ the people that were once your friends . . . are
nowhere to be found...and all that's heard of loud applause , , . is an echo of the sound . .. the world is funny in its ways . . . it holds us in its sway . .. to build us up then let us down “+ we're king for just a day . .. don't take it too hard has-been . . . be like the laughing clown. . , although his heart was breaking . .. his face just couldn't frown. J By Ben Byr1ouRn,
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G. (Pat) Brown, running for state attorney general, will lead the Democratic ticket. By many, he is given the best chance of the three to come out on top. : Much of the strength Governor Warren - has and Mr. Nixon lacks is due, to the fact that the governor is widely known and Mr. Nixon, a two-term GOP House member, is not. But another big difference is that Mr. Warren will get important labor support and Mr. Nixon will not. There's no such thing as a real party ticket out here—it's every man for himself. Mr. Nixon is out-and-out Republican, as Earl Warren is not. Mr, Warren thinks Democratic votes are nice, and he isn't jeopardizing those he'll get
by plugging for Republican Nixon, He's a
political lone wolf, and has a record as governor that's hard to beat. GOP hopes of winning the Senate seat vacated by Sheridan Downey rest largely. on Mr. Nixon's ability to pin back the pretty ears of Mrs. Douglas, a Democratic House member, on the Communist issue.
Outspoken Foe MR. NIXON, as a House Un-American Activities Committee member, helped put the perjury finger on the State Department's Alger Hiss. He says Mrs. Douglas, next to New York's Vito Marcantonio, has been the most outspoken foe of his committee, and that if she had her way Mr. Hiss never would have been convicted. Rep. Nixon seeks to nail Mrs. Douglas for opposing legislation requiring federal employees’ loyalty oaths, for supporting a State Department policy appeasing Communism in Asia, for voting against the McCarran Communistcontrol bill which passed over President Truman’s veto. He says Mrs. Douglas voted against the 1948 draft law and that if she had her way “our troops would have been even less prepared in Korea.”
He recalls a 1946 Douglas quote that “Com-*
munism is no real threat to the democratic institutions of our country.” i
‘GOP Fences Have Holes’
By John H. Wooden, 335 S. Biltmore Ave. I see in The Times that our Vice President said the Republicans were looking through the fences they built, I for one think there is plenty of holes to look through. And as for changing horses in the middle of the stream, they might have trouble getting a new horse in water as bloody as the last three Democratic Presidents have kept it.
PLEATED BOTTOMS
states in guaranteeing and providing that right, ~ A recent pews st stated that three or had from prac-
been Fit ie : AS a mittef of fact,”ITndiana recognizes and legalizes chiropractics. The 1827 amendment to the Medical Practice Act for licensing of chiropractors. Yet in the 23 intervening years the State Board of Medical Examination and Registration has refused to either grant one license to a new chiropractor or even accept his application for an examination. The board has decreed that applicants must be graduates of an approved medical college . . . which is in direct contradiction of the 1927 act. As secretary of the Indiana Laymen Chirepractic Association, I would like to announce that this organization has undertaken the program of giving to approximately one half million Hoosiers the right to go to a doctor of their choice,
By Frederick C. Othman
Bureaucrats’ Travel Rules Eased
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — Wafflebottoms, meaning the intaglios engraved on the anatomies of bureaucrats by their woven cane chairs, have been in the news a good deal lately. Congress debated the subject at length. But somehow it never did get around to pleated bottoms, a topic more painful still. The suffering this involves is unbelievable. These many years, you taxpayers will be sorrowed to note, our bigwigs have been traveling first class. on ocean liners to far places with all expenses paid by their Uncle Samuel, except for one important item, The rules said that if such an official traveler wanted to rent from the steward a deck chair to take advantage of the tropic breezes, the -government would pick he the weather turn cool, Washington stood ready to rent a steamer rug. If that sounds good, you Hon't know steamer chairs.
Cushions Cost $2
THESE are made of slats, éne inch apart, and running lengthwise. Recline on one of these and they press stripes into your quivering flesh. So the average traveler paying his own way resignedly forks over another $2 for & steamer cushion to make his steamer chair endurable. '’ This struck a federal scrooge of long ago as too dang luxurious. He figured the government's masterminds sat down too much, anyway. He'd go along with renting deck chairs for the help. He'd even pay for their steamer rugs, but he balked at charging the taxpayers for cushions. So it was that over the years on ocean grey-
hounds the ashen-faced ones squirming on their .
steamer chairs were U., 8. government bureaucrats; everybody else was comfortable on , Only the federals cringed on bare slats,
JOE'S OLD TRICK .
For years their piteous cries went unheeded, Sometimes at the end of a long voyage to maybe Zanzibar, they'd be accordion pleated in stripes of pink and blue with red ridges in between,
* The agony of it was incalculable, but the pleas
for relief went unheeded by the callous ears of Washington. Until today, that is.
Approves Charge 80 IT is my pleasure now to report that the Bureau of the Budget has issued a 32-page, pocket-sized book in green entitled, Standardized
Government Travel Regulations as Amended.
On page 2, section 3, subsection 8, this document rules that a bureaucrat en route can charge up to the old swindle sheet the rental of a steamer chair, a steamer rug and a steamer cushion, Boy! What a relief.
pay the actual charges for chair, rug and
cushion, but if he wants to tip the deck steward for tucking him in, that comes out of his own pocket. If he doesn't tip the steward he probably gets the midmorning boullion spilled down his shirt front, but that’s the life of a bureaucrat. He can’t win,
Train Travel
IF HE rides on a train for less than two hours, he's got to travel via day coach. If his run is overnight, he's entitled to a lower berth, He can have a stateroom only when he makes a valiant effort to rent a lower, and can't. This he's got to prove before the auditor will OK his expense account, Only other really good news for traveiing officials in these 1950 regulations (section 3, aph 11, subsection A) concerns their ivery horses. If a bureaucrat has to rent a horse to get where he’s going, he's entitled to the full cost of oats
By Ludwell Denny
Reds Are Angels Again
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—S8talin is doing surprisingly well with his latest “peace by negotiation” trick, considering how often it has been exposed. Once more the devil bedecks himself in angel's wings, and the unthinking hope it is real. The United Nations unanimously urges the big powers to get together and settle their differences. Stalin’s No. 2 man, Molotov, holds a meeting of puppet states in Prague. They demand that the Western powers join Russia in
But Mrs. Douglas has been talking against _ getting up a united “free” Germany. And at the Commies, too. She says the U. 8S. must be Lake Success the Soviet spokesmen say they
kept strong economically and militarily, and asserts Stalin respects the kind of strength that lets the U. 8. manufacture a brand-new ba,
Only American strength, she says, has kept
—zooka and fly it to Korea in four days.
the Communists—from moving westward in
Europe.
‘Damning Record’
SHE says only a mistaken one-tenth of one per cent of Americafis has any truck with Communism, and wonders what the percentage would be if the Democratic administration
- hadn't looked after the public welfare.
But ‘famed phrase-maker George Creel, old associate of Woodrow Wilson and FDR who has fought many wars and who heads a Demo-crats-for-Nixon group, isn't impressed. : “Belated flag-waving cannot erase this damning record,” he says, “nor can the tawdry pretense of ‘liberalism’ excuse it.” * Although most people give Mr. Nixon the edge, Democratic leaders say Mrs. Douglas is gaining, Even Republicans say they wouldn't like. to bet too much on Mr. Nixon.
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an exalted job to be a big shot. As Becretary of the Senate, Les Biffle gets a salary of $12, 000 a year, plus the use of a Cadillac and chauffeur. Yet there are few members of the
Home to the Biffles isa Jush, five-room apartment _ swank pile of granite nrmeq the Westchester. They belong to eight clubs, including the expensive Burning Tree Country Club, and Les indulges himself
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SENATE ‘WET NURSE’ . Biffle Has ‘Lush’ Position in Capital
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Senats Secretary Leslie Biffle, currently on one of his political pulse-taking tours for President Truman, can be summed up in one sentence: He never had it
, Les, as a matter of fact, should be added to the guidebooks
are ready to discuss a Japanese peace treaty. Taking these manifestations of the “peace” efforts of the Politburo at face. value, it would seem that one of two things must happen. Either heaven is right around the corner, or the wicked “war-mongering Western “powers” will wreck the era of reconciliation proferred ‘by the Soviet saints,
Absurd Propaganda
BUT the absurdity of such Soviet propa- . ganda is usually unwittingly exposed by the
Kremlin itself before any but the most abject
Reds and completely naive non- Communists should be taken in. So'it has been during the past few days. -. On the same day Président Truman and British ‘Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin reaffirmed the Allies’ desire for a settlement, and said it could be obtained anytime Russia would act the peace she talks, Moscow replied with ridicule of the idea that Russia could change. The angel’s wings got caught in the forked tail That meeting of Molotov and the satellites
‘Senate
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of such establishments as the restaurant, document room and the little jufireas running between the
urged peace for Germany -— but ‘on Stalin's terms, already applied to his East German slave state whith was represented at the session. If there was any doubt as to Stalin's terms of Allied surrender, he had just dispatched formal notes warning them that he would not permit them to en the West German police force ~—which faces his militarizéd East Germany,
Double Dealing AT LAKE ne. the same Soviet spokesman who sald he was ready to start Jap treaty negotiations, listened to the American proposals, then refused to commit himself, ‘ It is the same way with all of the score of major issues of conflict. The Russians will agree to nothing that does mot suit their aggressive purpose, and even settlements made to appease them are not kept. Korea is the latest test, After all the blood this Red aggression has cost the United States, after the awakening of the United Nations, Stalin still insists we are the criminals, Stopped for the moment in Korea he turns to IndoChina, as he turned to Korea when stopped in Greece and Berlin. .
Plenty of Talk
NOW he is warming up again for Gobghest of Austria, where more' than 200 meetings of
. Allied-Soviet negotiation have falled to produce
a treaty. There has been no lack of contact, no lack of talk, between Russia and the Allies at Lake Success, in Moscow, London, Washington and elsewhere. There have been countless cone ferences.
Of late, there have been reports Les and Harry are not getting along so well. But Les doesn’t have to worry--his position with the President is
subway ng and the
None can bring peace until Russia . + ceases world conspiracy and aggression.
musts in Washington. For- he is a prime example of the fact in this town you don’t have to have
done, the Biffles saunter out almost nightly—and often in _
the late afternoons as well— to top-drawer whisky - and - pheasant shindigs that many a cabinet member would give his mahogany desk to attend. Capitol Hill and diplomatic
corps alike pay homage to .
Renate Actually, Les Biffle's
main chores consist of acting as a combination wet nurse, counsellor and father confessor for his Senatorial bosses.
” nr - AS such, Les Biffle has gained a reputation for knowing more about the Senate than anybody in town. He reportedly has a diary, kept since he came to town in 1908, listing
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