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» ences drawn from President Truman's press conference yesterday that-the atoni bomb might be used in the Korean War. aun : - Europe needs to _be jolted—and hard. Of course, the President did not say that the United States had decided to use the bomb. He said this country would take whatever steps are necessary to meet the military situation with every weapon we have. Asked whether that inclyded the atom bomb, he said that it did. : * Mr. Truman added emphatically that he did not want to see the homb used. But it would have been foolhardy “for him to say that it would not be used under any circumstances. . That is something Russia would like to be- ~ lieve. teéts us from attack. “ » » = = . ” THE UNITED STATES hae had more unfair criticism than effective assistance from Europe in the Korean crisis, - Our friends—if they are our friends--should put their men and arms on the line in equal numbers with ours before they claim the right to dictate tactics and strategy.
will give the President the opportunity to find out just what we can expect from Britain. Russia's veto of the United Nations resolution demanding Red China's withdrawa' from Korea should convince even Britain that the Korean War
world and the Communist forces headed by the Soviet Union. - : . + Nations which won't face up to that hard fact now will not be helpful to us as the going gets tougher. They won't be there. . 80 there is no point in putting guns in the hands of men who won't fight. First of all we must arm ourselves, The greatest weakness of the western world. is the ‘weakness of our own military establishment. . This must be remedied as rapidly as our resources can be mobilized, for time may be running out.
We'd Welcome ‘Church Headquarters’ HE IDEA that the newly organized National Council of Churches might choose Indianapolis for its home will get. a hearty response here. : There isn't the slightest question that the people of this city would enthusiastically welcome this great organization, and provide it with every convenience and facility it might require. | There are many reasons why the choice would be an fdéal one for the Church Council, too. "The decision: to ~Jogate in the Midwest seems to us to be a very wise one from many points of view. Indianapolis is right in the center of that Midwestérn area the Council yesterday de- _ cided it preferred, near the nation's population center, and conveniently close to most of the people of North America
tions long ago spotted the obvious advantages Indianapolis affords, and already have established their own national headquarters here. ; - / To the Natipnal Council of Churches Indianapolis could
American city. 4 + We hope they can join us, here in the heart of America,
/.s 3 * One Thin Dime . . . * A DIME'S not very important , . . a little-piece of silver * you plunk down on the drug store counter for ice _..eream cone or that you leave for the waitress afte ood meal . .. or, maybe, a little something you might leave for a kid that needs it. 1 - og . No, a dime's not very important, but a mile of them is. ~ A full mile of dimes is worth $8076, a sum that can help
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néed this winter. : : * Today is the opening day for The Times Mile-O-Dimes and a lot of people will watch that thin line of silver grow day by day and many of -them-will pray there will be enough to benefit their children. : . g ” "on s un = THE CASH contributed by the Mile=O-Dimes will be funneled into the Clothe-A-Child fund-which will be used to
mas. : When vou're in the neighborhood of L. S. Ayres & Co, ~ stop and see how the Mile-O-Dimes is growing and add as many dimes to it as you can. . You won't miss one thin dime, but some little kid will if you don't leave it. 3
. An Unused Trinket—We. Hope ~ 'ET us hope that the dosimeter is never needed. Of =F course, it's very comforting to know that we've got - dosimeters now, But just the same, all things being equal, the world will be better off if they don’t become common articles of wearing apparel. 2 . . .The dosimeter, in case you missed the news stories
When you run into some. atomic radiation, the film
| COMPARISON of the whiteness of your film with a gr iduated scale shows whether you're worth trying to save
ome grein
n¢ IR 2 # le ; - Remember the pictures of the English during the blitz? ry man, woman and child carried his canister containing
iatio
injury from radiation-—so far, noth-
anapolis Times pis cheatin Control Now? Administration Still Not ~ Inclined fo Set Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—Although the cost
A SCRIPFS-HOWARD NEWSPAFER ~~ «E5re
EPORTS from abroad say Europe was jolted by infer-
Doubt on that score may be the one thing that pros
British Prime Minister Attlee's visit to Washington °
isn't a sideshow but the real thing—a war between the free
by air, or by rail or by highway. A good many organiza- -
~offer-a permanent home in-a- pleasant, hospitable, typically f
buy the clothing that a little kid some place in the city will
buy warm clothing for needy children right up until Christ-
“about if, is a little gimmick you hang around your neck. _ It's a metal case. Inside is a flat paper package of photoiphically sensitized film, plus » pod of developing solution. -
‘white. The whiter it gets, the worse off you are.
ps mask. < The Nazis didn't drop any poison gas—for _of ‘course—and the canisters remained
isn't a direct counterpart of the gab that will do that. But, if another something
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Price, Wa
Richert
of living has hit an all-time high and the war . ~
situation is
immeasurably worse, “there still
seems to be no inclination on the part of the
Mr. Keyserling
« + « NOt now
inflation and to head off wage-price controls which might be necessary if inflation is not * stopped. His remark made it clear that, despite continuously rising living costs, he does not think price-wage controls are necessary now. Mr. Keyserling's speech and one by Defense Secretary George Marshall, Tuesday, before the National Women’s Press Club showed: that the administration still is following the assumption that no all-out global war is likely. They both talked of a long, tense period ahead with many international trials and a ‘large defense program. It is on this assumption that the administration has refused to move with an &ll-out program of economic con-
trols.
And the turn of events in Korea apparently has not affected this line of reascning. The 5 around the White House is that it would be” difficult to make an all-out program of price-wage controls work without the country being in all-out war. Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine still has not. found a man willing to take over the job of heading up a price control, division. And no concrete plans can be worked out until a
view among top - advisers
directing head is found.
Mr. Valentine this week has been attending the first meetings 6f the new Wage Btabilization Board, the agency which will make recommenditions to him on wage policies. No action is =»
expected from this meeting.
No Surprise
: IN ADDITION to a head for the price division, Mr. Valentine also must appoint a price board similar to that functioning on wages. The Bureau of Labor Statistics report that living costs reached an all-time high on Oct.
15 came as no surprise. But government
reflected dex.
Particularly notable were the jumps in one month, of 1.5 per cent in the cost of clothing and 2.3 per cent in household furnishings, a sensational increase for so short a time and far above what had been expected. Food costs were “up only .2 per cent, with dairy products, eggs,
Truman administration to impose price-wige
economists highly significant “the fact that the rise was “across the boards” in the BLS in-
controls, Our policy, a \
Keyserling, hairman of
cl | ‘the Presi-
dent's Council of Economic
Advisers, gave formal expression to this viewpoint, in a speech at . Hollywood, Fla., before the Invest. > ment Bankers’ = Association. He said higher taxes was the No 1 way to fight
9 YEARS OF YAMMER . .
If You Can't Call It Bread And It Isn't Cake—What Is 11?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Nine years would seem td be too long to Uecige what belongs in a loaf of bread. It's likely to grow moldy.
Back in 1941 the Food and Drug Adminis-
stressed as
fruits and vegetables being up while meat, par-
ticularly pork, went down.
A few months ago government economists had expected that meat price drops would be ‘sufficient: this fall to keep the entire cost of But this hasn't
living index fairly stable. happened.
And with rents going up as more and more areas are decontrolled, it is certain that living costs will continue to rise unless events force the government to move in with a tough con-
trol program.
‘What Others Say—
WE must go through this dark, dangerous and difficult period of years, but 1 am optimistic Any person who wants to live a peaceful, quiet, uneventful life, has just picked the wrong time, to live.-~David Lilienthal, former Atomic Energy Commission head.
about the outcome.
DIM RECORD . . . By Peter Edson SIDE GLANCES = By Galbraith
tration began trying to make up its mind about the proper ingredients for the staff of life. The
years passed. And there was Dr. Clive McCay of Cornell “~~ University paying no atten‘tion to the thousands of pages of - testimony by the bureaucrats on what to” stir into the dough. All he was trying to do was bake a better loaf of bread. He got his super - duper bread into production, only to - dis-
cover that the nine years of yammer-yammer at long last -had resulted in the "government issuing tentative rules on the contents of bread. His de luxe, better-tasting bread was outlawed. It was, said he, too good. He can’t call it bread.
He doesn’t want to call it cake.
This half-baked situation almost burned the toast for the Congressmen on the subcommittee of Rep. James J, -Delaney (D. N., Y.). These many months they've been worrying about the
synthetic softeners that go into the ordinary
bread, bread.
Excess Profits Tax
Issue Is Confused
WASHINGTON, Dee. 1 Backtracking and confusion continue ‘to muddy up the record on excess profits tax legislation.
This is the number one priority business before the lame duck
session of Congress which just convened. 3 . Before the election, Congressmen were all steamed. up about the need for an excess profits tax. When they had to go face the
voters to explain why it was necessary to provide for price
was 328 to 7 in the House and
and wage controls, piss big — 8pparently unanimously. on a
military appropriation bills and extend ‘the draft laws, then
they were eager tosay that
they had also made provision for taxing the So-called war profiteers. Now that the election is over, there is hedging
on the excess profits tax issue -
all over the place, ; Look at the record: President Truman's July 19 message to Congress, requesting income tax increases to finance the defense effort, didn't mention excess profits taxes but. implied they might be needed later. Sen. George and Republican - Sen. Millikin of Colorado proposed putting off the issue until next year. This finally carried
in the Senate 42 to 36 because
there was some dispute as to how much the O'Mahoney bill ~would raise—$3 billion or maybe only $30 million. i
MEANTIME, in the House, 32 Republican Congressmen
signed a statement in favor of
immediate passage of an ex-
Eberharter of Pit introduced a resolution to direct tax committees to prepare an excess profits tax- for the present session- of Congress. -This
passed-by a vote of 33140 2.
The two opposed were Demo-
crat Cox of Georgia and Nich-
olson of Ma%sachusetts,
In the end, something close: to the Eberharter proposal was
‘enacted as part of the interim tax bill passed on Sept. 22. It
directed that an excess profits
tax bill “shall be prepared” and “shall be repdrted” to the Sist
Co if In session. It was
cess profits tax, Rep. Herman.
voice vote, in the Senate. Rep. Eberharter said he considered the votés bound the Congress to complete enactment of &n excess profits tax this year. oH sie SUE BUT after election this sen“timent seemed miraculously to_ change. Since Nov. 15 the House Ways and Means Com- . mittee has been holding hearings and trying to draft a bill. Testimony before the commit-
tee has been : predominantly
against excess profits taxes.
Arguments on the “fssue,
however, boil down to fairly simple concepts. In favor of the excess profits tax, it can be said that in the defense &ffort, some firms and individuals will. make a lot more mapey than others. . Some will
088." As a matter of justice, it = is. argued that when the gove ’
ernnient-has-to_raise a lot of money from business, the pedple with the high incomes can _best contribute more, Against these theories ‘are. raised what are said ‘to be practical questions. How do you mes He : If you the av come in. the best three ‘the past four yeayd as then some vompanies had good records and will have had bad. The avia-. tion industry would have a low
average base in this period.
Television would be high. Gen* eral Motors would have a high. average for a base. Ford's average would not be so high.
would therefore have to pay.
. Profits? . sidered a curb
‘have Some penses so as to reduce their earnings below the excess _ profits tax brackets, Against this argument it is said that the final determina-
-Ford and the aviation éndustry
loaf of bread, what they can’t understand is why it’s illegal for Dr, McCay to call his nonchemical
shortening, sugar, salt, 2 per
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i Jerry Voorhis, executive secretary of the Cooperative League, tried to explain the situation. to them. He used to be a Congressman, himself, and he’s a pretty good 'explainer. ©. =~ = He said Dr. McCay kneaded his bread of unbleached flour,
cent wheat germ, 8 per cent miilk solids and 6
per cent high protein soy flour. store at Ithaca, N. Y., introduced it to consumers, who liked it. The shop soon was selling more of it than all other brands combined. Now it's being sold in co-op stores across the land. Many hospitals use it. New York City
‘et fat
. By Frederick C. Othman
lar's worth raked their
‘How L © By Alden W.
such men.
The co-op
cisco, Cal.
school children eat it for lunch. One of the
biggest bakeries in New York is about to put it
on general sale.
“It is white bread,” Mr. Voorhis said. “And it
tastes like it-—only better.”
So it looked, said he, as though Dr. McCay was well on his way toward putting a better bread on-the tables of America. Or it did until the Food and Drug Administration came up
with its new rules.
These Mr. Voorhis added, outlaw Dr. McCay's * bread in interstate commerce as white bread, or even as enriched white bread. It's just too danged good. The government says that the top limits for bread include three per cent soy flour and one and a half per cent wheat germ, The doctor must call his bread something else.
It's Bread, That's All
“WE DON'T want this triple-rich bread to be called cake,” Mr, Voorhis sald. “It is good
bread and we want fo call it bread ” Mr. Voorhis flanked “himself with photographs of the ingredients of his bread-—and of what went into many other breads, which contained less milk but more chemicals. He said the Food and Drug Administration had issued a 5000 word memorandum on bread standards to avoid saying exactly what was-involved in the
situation.
This, he charged, was easy; some milling intérests want bread to consist of white flour; air, water, and as little else as possible. Mr, Voorhis named no names. His idea was that the — average loaf of bread couldn't compete with Dr, McCay’s if its wrapper had to state the meager. soy flour and wheat germ it
quantities of milk, contained. -
I'd eat it under any name.
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en
“| still say ‘we sholld have gone fo Florida! What kind of & man would whistle at us in clothes like these?"
the companies mniaking extra profits to expand. And an ex‘cess profits taxes fall so un-
tion should be on what taxes can be easily passed on
taxes fall directly on
faxes on ar
"and 118,000 reported
‘the government should want cess profits taxes fall so unevenly on business, however,
that they not be shifted to the consumer and therefore they are not considered so in-
tionary. Sat In 1945, 303,000 U,'S. corpo- =
rations reported met income orted no net income. Of these 421,000 corpo-
here today.
One of the Congressmen suggested that maybe the Doc ought to call his loaf soy bread, or soy wheat germ bread. Mr, Voorhis said that was inaccurate, because it was white bread. 1 wouldn't know; myself. I'd like to taste Dr. McCay's bread. If it's as good as he says,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—The government is mi ing a determined bid for more power. to protect the public
soned food. : More and more are man-m
of grocers’ wares..
The Food and Drug Ad-~
ministration now is asking Congress for tighter controls over : which chemicals can or cannot be used. Under present laws, FDA says, dangerous
chemicals can creep in. Yet
only when someone gets hurt can the government act. Pure food men have asked a special House committee to “recommend changes laws which would ‘make food processors show in advance that their products are harmless, just as drug, manufac-
. ‘turers are now required to do.
Thé committee is headed by Rep. James J. Delaney, (D. N. Y.). Hearings were begun last August and resumed this week in Washinglom as the committee delved into-the use of chemicals in food products and farming, 3 Bai 8 GOVERNMENT experts and representatives of large food and chemical firms are being
“The planted colonies and RO ele Armada by the British. By 1808 too weak : s and was a perfect set-up for the sugar interests in this country to get control of Cuba ann ihe PHllliptnee. we have : — spent over $50 for every dollar benefit “we received from Cuba and $1000 for every dolof benefit the government received fnvestment in the Philippines. This is all true, but how much has free enter- : especially cat the Spanish-American by money, ) o the working class of America. ;
Julietta?" : aris, Elwood * THANKS to The Times and the articles by Bob Bourne in helping to expose the deplorable : conditions at the Julietta Marion County Poor » Farm. 1 wonder just how long it will take the “public” to wake up and make a change in the ‘management there? . age who appointed: Mr. Dailey E. McCoy as head of the Marion County Children’s Home? Let's get rid of all those responsible for hifing
After The Times did such in exposing these conditions two years ago, how could any one be so cruel as to keep those kind of people in such positions?.
Wants Pen Pals By Richard M. Massey 3 I AM a crewmember aboard a port currently operating in the war zone. We have very few pleasures here and mall is our favorite ‘pastime. write to, and I thought maybe I could remedy this by writing to some city in the States requesting pen-pals: I decided to ask the citizens of Indiahapolis for letters because I hi, pressed with the friendliness and hospitalit, the people there. EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. is USNS Marine Phoenix, ¢/o FPO San Fran.
"BECAUSE OF YOU
BECAUSE of all your thoughtfulness . . . I hold within my heart . . . a reverence when 1 hear your name . . . now that we are apart . .. because you gave me courage to strive and make . . . I cherish every memory ...and I will not forsake-. . . the principles you stood for . .. the kindness you'd impart +. to cheer me up when I felt blue . . . and "give me & new start .. . for you no road was too hard . . . mo hill too steep to climb . . . you'd always see it through my love . .. to &. happier brighter time .. . and if I follow what you taught . . . and do the things you'd do ... I'm sure my darkest clouds will fade . . . and make way for the blue.
FOSTER'S. FOLLIES =
"RALEIGH, N. O.—Two childhood sweethearts... .who “courted nigh onto 60 years” were married Me
He courted her back when the Nineties were gay," True sweethearts we call them, indeed. And now old Dan Cupid at last has his way, His sly incantations they heed. :
The lovers are finally happy they say. You see, they have just exchanged rings. Now, lest you should wonder about the délay— There's no point in rushing these things.
FDA . .. By Sam Matthews
"U.S. Bids for Teeth | 3 :
ade chemicals being used'in farms ing and food processing to fight insects, plant diseases, and. weeds, to fertilize, or to enhance the attractiveness and nutritional value
in the
in dollars, lives and the rupturing of the economic life of our young men from 1898 until today and the end is no where near in sight? decadence
the country that more their
of Spain, at the defeat of
taught started
to protect its foreign pos-
(meaning the gov-
the ar trusts benefited by ; BUR that was financed and the suffering of the sons.
a magnificent job
troop trans-
1 have very few people to
imy of
Massey's full address
and . .. a goal
By Ben Burroughs
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s = 8 : x THEY point to protracted | hearings held by the Food and Drug Administration this year to determine permissible residues of various chemicals used - by growers of fruits and vege= tables. Much of the research evidence = which filled ' 9000 pages of testimony, the chemical industry claims, was the work of its own scientists, who themselves check possible tox= ic efect of farm chemicals en 7 consumers, a The Delaney Committee is = , Investigating a much broader field than the FDA hearings ° covered, however, It is studying the use of all compounds used as insect killers or fer~ tilizers in all types of farming, as well as chemicals fa the of fo
~The public may hark back the mid-1930’s and say, “isn this where we came in?” For
called to testify. Already they. - ang the
are arrayed on opposite sides
of the fence.
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