Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1951 — Page 20

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Only Eight to Go

EW MEXICO has ratified the proposed Constitutional amendment to limit Presidents of the United States to Only eight more are needed to make this venerable tradition a law—rather than an unbinding custom which can be violated by some “indispensable man” of the future, The eight additional ratifications must come from the following 20 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. In all of these hut Kentucky regular sessions of the legislatures are beigg held, or will be, this Year. Therefore the amendment can—and should be—written into the Constitution this year. If it is not ratified by Mar. 27, 1954,

the proposal dies.

TRUMAN Democrats oppose the amendment—for no valid reason. It would not apply to President Truman. He can go on and try for as many terms as he chooses. Andrew Jackson, claimed by the New Deal and Fair Deal as a political ancestor, asked in each of his eight annual messages to Congress that Presidents be Constitutionally limited to one term of four or six years—“I think our liberties would possess an additional safeguard.” Old Hickory could have been built up as an “indispensable man” in his day. His popularity increased while he was in office. He opened the government to the common people; wiped out a public debt and accumulated a surplus, and curiously enough, built a strong party on a platform of low taxes and little spending. When he left office there was a spell of magic about his name not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's, but Old Hickory voluntarily retired believing that neither he nor any other President should ever aspire to a third term.

Time for Decision OW that the Chinese Communists have fallen back al“20 most to the 38th Parallel, the time has-come for encour Ji, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces to attack the Reds on the China mainland. Unconfirmed reports from Tokyo indicate this is what Gen. MacArthur would like to do, and that is easy to believe. " Typhus and frost bite have been fighting on our side in Korea. If the Reds are compelled to fight a two-front war it will be difficult for them to reinforce their demoralized troops now facing the devastating attack of American artillery and air power. Chiang’s Nationalists have between 400,000 and 700,000 troops in Formosa, and 100,000 to 200,000 of them are said to be ready to take the field. They should be allowed to do so, and supplied with American arms if necessary. Military equipment is expendable, and when it can be used to save American lives it should be so used. ” “

» ASIANS willing to fight communism in their own behalf should have that privilege. The original contention that the employment of Chiang’s troops would. broaden the war by bringing in the Chinese Communists was outmoded when the Peiping regime intervened in Korea last October. This is an issue between Asians, and must be finally decided by them. An alliance between South Korea and . Nationalist China is needed to put the situation in proper perspective. stich a union of anti-Communist forces. The United Nations was not consulted when President Truman called on the Chinese Nationalists to refrain from attacks on the Red forces on the mainland. It neéd not be vonsulted now for the President to abandon that position in the light of the changed situation. He should do it at once, and let Chiang attempt to Mberate his people from Red controls.

Supplying Red. China

THE FREE Chinese Government in Formosa kas banned cement shipments to the Portuguese colony of Macao on the South China coast to keep this vital construction material from reaching the Communists on the mainland. If the British in Hong Kong and the Dutch in the East Indies would show equal interest in depriving the Chinese Reds of strategic materials, communism would be restricted to its own limited resources. Raw rubber shipments to Red China from Malaya, through the port of Hong Kong, are up four-fold from last year. They are putting the Red war machine on rubber tires. Malaya and Hong Kong are among the targets of that machine. When they are attacked, the British will call for our help. And, suckers that we are, we probably will

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ER the farm price-support program, the government lost $91.6 million on buying up and disposing of 14 food eommodities in the first five months of this fiscal year. Just the other day Gen. Lawton Collins was speaking of our antitank weapons. He said the 57-millimeter recoflless rifie was a good one. It fires the same type ammunition that the bazooka uses, but to greater range. A 57-millimeter. recoilless rifle costs $1033. We could have bought 88,000 of these much-needed weapons with the $01.6 million of the taxpayers’ money spent on price supports last fall.

Bee what we mean when we speak of trimming the fat out of the budget? - ~

Gray for Glamour

A WEEKLY news magazine reports that “the Army's bid for glamour, the new gray uniform, has béen shelved for ‘economy reasons.” We wonder what artistic genius in the Department decided that gray is the ideal color with which to make a bid for glamour, Gray, the color of fog. Gray, the color of depressing, storm-threatening skies. Gray, the shade of shadows. Gray, the perfect neuter. There are two ways of Soing things-..the sight way and the 8 Army way.

Only American policy stands in the way of

WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WANT? . .. By Earl Richert

Pressure Groups Are Already Working To Ease New Price Controls i

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The bloom is fading fast from. the price control rose, Already, with price ceilings less than two weeks old, 16 influential Senators have paid a personal call on President Truman to try to get the cotton price order eased. -And Price Administrator Michael DiSalle's enforcement people have learned, to their great disappointment, that all courtroom work likely will be-handled by the Justice Department.

‘Too Much Politics’

RATHER than stay in a-job where he could only make suggestions Mr. DiSalle’s chief enforcement officer, F, Joseph (Jiggs) Donohue, has taken an appointment as one of the three commissioners of the District of Columbia. He had been in the job only 10 days, as a replacement for Vice Adm. John H. Hoover, who resigned charging that the price control agency was shot through with politics, And doubt is beginning to arise over just how much public support there is for price controls. Mr, DiSalle has said all along his program couldn’t be successful without the backing of the American people. At the outset he was confident the public was demanding price controls and would support them. But in a speech in Buffalo Tuesday, his general counsel, Francis P. Whitehair, indicated that all is not well on this score. He said people generally have not responded,as they must to the nation’s defense program, He asked his audience, members of the New York Town Association, to explain the need for price and wage controls to the public, saying he was sure the public would respond when it realized how vital these control measures were. Little has been heard from the most vigorous opponents of price controls—the meat in-

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Critics Burn Celluloid Strip

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—When Sen; Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) consented to pose with a couple of half-clad movie actresses for a press agent's plug for the picture “Pre-Historic Women,” he did so because one of the girls was a native of Winchester, Ind. At least that is the explanation given now by the Senator's own press agent, Charles Egenroad, former South “Bend newspaperman. “You know, of course,” Mr. Egenroad said, “that Winchester was Jim Watson's home town.” The reference was to the late Sen, James Eli Watson, who was one-time Republican floor Jeader inthe U. _S.. Senate,

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In any. case; - "Senator from Indiana had his picture in. the. payers promoting; what the four newspaper critics here have labeled one of the worst movies ever made. Never has more sulphurous criticism been uncorked in Washington. The Washington News (Scripps-Howard) critic, James O'Neill Jr., wrote: “Frankly, I don't know how to begin writing about ‘Pre-Historic Women,’ which arrived yesterday at the Metropolitan. I watched about 20 minutes of it and threw in my hand.” The only credit he accorded was to Press Agent Max Miller, who cooked up the Capehart and other publicity here, He arranged a breakfast for the critics with the two girls who had posed at the Senator's office and about this Mr. O'Neill offered this comment in a column bearing the title “It Must Be: A Movie “Since ‘They Show It On A Screen.” “I agreed to break bread with them, but only on the condition they wear a trifle more raiment than they wore when passing the time of day with Sen. Capehart . . .” The Washington Times- Herald review began: “ ‘Prehistoric Women,” a quickie turned out by something called Alliance Preductions, features six refugees from a burlesque runaway in a story that is occasionally funny , .. and more often just dull.”

‘One of the Worst’

RICHARD COE of the Washington Post called it “unduestionably one of the worst pictures in some years.” Dean of the critics, Jay Carmody, writing in the Washington Star, suggested what should be done about the matter as follows: “The implications of this exhibit are that it is a joke, a satire on jungle pictures. Accepted on this basis, ‘Prehistoric Women’ is only slightly less stupefying than if it is taken straight— Prehistoric Women’ is a film made in a clump of bushes by a clump of players whose acting is 74 degrees inferior to that in the average home movie.”

PRODUCTION ... By Charles Lucey

Can We Shift to War Without Much Pain?

9 Here, from the highest war production people, is a look at the blueprint shaping up for America’s

WASHINGTON, Feb.

period of big rearmament:

In a nation now turning out nearly $300 billions a year in -something never seen before in world his-tory-—a new $50 billions in defense output will be pushed through

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dustry. Said one leader: “We're just sitting back and waiting to say, ‘we told you so.’ Price controls just won't work in a period such. as this and it won't be long until it is admitted generally.” - On cotton, the cotton bloc in Congress and the industry generally is trying to get Mr, DiSalle’s office to rule that cotton prices are not subject to ceilings until the cotton reaches the spinning- stage. At the moment, cotton is

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uncontrolled only on the farm. It comes under price control immediately after it leaves the farm, « Cotton exchanges have been closgd since issuance of the freeze order, : Argument of the cotton bloc is that cotton prices cannot be controlled in the bale stage and that no attempt should be made to do it this time, since it wasn't controlled in World War II. They say the public would be ade-

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Sheriff Clancy's « a Magician

WASHINGTON, Feb, 9 — Sen. Charles W. Tobey comes from the rock-ribbed hills of New Hampshire, = where everybody automatically obeys the law. Sheriff Frank J. Clancy hails from Jefferson Parish, .La., where the easygoing population observes only those laws it approves.

So the Senator =" --= glared down at the = RE sheriff as though he = Es were a worm. “Po- EEE litical vermin,” the

Senator said. The Sheriff didn't understand big words like that. With an uncomprehending smile on his rosy face, he gazed up at the Senator as though he were a man from Mars, Never the twain did meet. And maybe you'd like to know about law (baw) and order (haw, haw) as enforced by the white-haired Clancy for the last 23 years in his kingdom outside New Orleans. King Clancy maintains his office in the courthouse at Gretna; across the street at No. 117 Huey Long Ave. is a race wire relay office and a gambling hall called the Bank Club. Here, close to the roulette wheels and the hoss charts, the directory lists two phones in the name of the Sheriff, He's a little vague as to why. Within his office, under Deputy Sheriff Paul Cassagne, King Clancy maintains an employment office for the parish's gambling dives, which seem to be almost as numerous as its grocery stores. The Sheriff supplies all the croupiers, chart writers, and dice experts who work

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might as well get the wages. He operates on the same theory in connection with slot machines, of which there are 5000 in the parish, The Sheriff allows no outsiders to run one-arm bandits in his bailiwick. The locals have a monopoly. The night watchman at the courthouse is Sol Fink, whose brother, Herbie, manages the Billionajre’s Club, half a block down Huey Long Ave. When Sol isn’t nightwatching, he functions as the Sheriff’s bookie. In the last four years King Clancy has won $78,000 on the ponies, He ascribes this phenomenal luck to good information apd his own private system. The information he gets from horse owners and stable boys. He does not pay them for this, but if any of them want to borrow money, the Sheriff always has a little to spare.

‘Sumpin’ Wrong, Boss?’

SHERIFF CLANCY'S salary is $6000 a year.

During the last four years his annual income has been better than $20,000. Some years it might have been more than $50,000. The Sheriff is not much of a one for keeping books. He has three bank accounts, two safedeposit boxes, a number of rental houses, a cattle ranch and interests in oil leases, land companies and finance firms. He still can’t see where he's done anything wrong, even though Sen. Tobey thinks he's disgusting and a disgrace. He also announced that when he got home he intended to close all the gaming places in the parish; he said the Senators had persuaded him that. was the thing to do. \ They were amazed. King Clancy then rounded up his chauffeur, who rode with him here on the train 80 he'd have a gin rummy partner, and headed back for the bayou country, still scratching his snowy head.

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quately protected by the imposition of price ceilings at the mills. e opposing viewpoint is that with a “seri cotton shortage—such as theres wasn't in War II—raw cotton, prices might get so high it. would be impossible for the mills to operate on existing ceilings. And there would be nothing tp do then except permit increased costs to be passed along in the finished goods, Just how much power the cotton blo¢ has béen able to muster fs shown by the fact that the Senate delegation of 16 to call on the President was led by Sen. Kenneth McKellar (D, Tenn.), dean of the Senate and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee. Included in the delegation were chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the Foreign Relations Committee; Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland (D. Ariz.); Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D, N. M.), former Secretary of Agriculture; Chairman Richard Russell (D., Ga.) of the Armed Services Committee; Chairman Walter George (D. Ga.) of the Finance Committee; Chairman Allen Ellender (D. La.), of the Agriculture Committee, and Chairman John McClel-

land (D. Ark.) of the Executive Expenditures

Committee.

Impossible Situation?

ON THE. enforcement problem, Chairman Burnet Maybank (D. 8, C.) of the Senate Bankfing Committee said it was the plain intent of Congress, as expressed in the price control law, that the Justice Department should handle all price control enforcement, This would make Mr, DiSalle’s enforcement branch only an agency to gather data to be turned over to Justice for whatever action Justice degmed worthy to take. Some highranking price control officials think this would be an impossible situation, with Mr. DiSalle charged with the responsibility of stabilizing prices ard Attorney General J. Howard McGrath having sole discretion on what is done to enforce Mr, DiSalle's orders.

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Let's Clear the Roads MR. EDITOR: What is wrong with our highway department? They yell about accidents, but they sure don’t bother about sanding the roads. Road 31 from the city limits to Road 100 is not very often bothered by the department. ‘Road 100, between Road 29 and Road 31, is not bothered about either. In the past we heard people brag about Indiana roads. What's wrong now? —Road Bound, City. MR. EDITOR: « +» » We drive to Crawfordsville and back every Sunday evening on Road 34. We know the road. from Speedway City to Clermont is always bad and sometimes impassable sich. as Jast Sunday bpt from Clermont on into Craw-

“fordsville the road Has been cléared as other

cdunties have had snow. plows on the road and have scattered sand etc. . This week-end we “noticed the highway to Clermont had been cleared . .. Also the towns

had their streets cleared to the curb so parking

is no difficulty. Then to come back to Indianapolis and see our main street, W. Washington and farther out on Road 40 which is a four-lane highway made into a three lane this week-end from travel and melting of the snow and up until then had been barely a two-lane highway “ae Why can't something be done? Mrs. K. L. P., Indpils.

Don’t Blame Eve MR. EDITOR:

Tell the Montgomery County Farmer who wrote recently on Women and Politics, that Adam got away with blaming Eve for everything that went wrong in the Garden of Eden. But that was a long time ago. I don’t think it’s being done much any more. The American referendums on all important questions occur every two years when we elect members to Congress. Too few people vote in them. But more vote, I'll wager, than would turn out if we had separate elections on

every problem that comes along. And the peo- . ple who want their individual opinions consid-

ered can write to their Congressman. If enough of them do, the Congressman will sit up and take notice. Past history was influenced by many factors, just as present history is. Economic faectors are not the only ones. Pacts and alliances have given us peace and security for a while, when we have had them. The Dark Ages, as history has named them, occurred when the nations wanting peace were not strong enough to enforce it. The North Atlantic Treaty is another attempt to stick together and hold what progress we have made. As Gen. Herghey has put it: “No one knows whether strength would have prevented war, but it is time to realize that weakness doesn’t prevent it.”

—Boone County Farmer's Wife,

MOBILIZATION . . . By Jim Lucas

What's in Store I! For National Guard?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The Joint Chiefs of Staff soon must decide what they plan to do with the National Guard. % So far, six National Guard infantry divisions and 22 of its air wings have been called to active service. A number of units—ranging in size from platoons to regimental combat teams-—also have been mobilized.

the machinery ‘annually for maybe the next three years

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the civilian economy. Of course there will be some cutting back of civilian goods ~-the estimate is that the drop will be to about $275 billions,

‘ But the $50 billion of war out-

put will bring the nation’s output of goods and services to a new, record-breaking $325 hillions a year. » " »

THERE are bound to be shortages in critical materials and dislocations of small businesses in the next year. But the guess of top officials in Charles E. Wilson's Office of Defense Mobilization is that these shortages will be eased substantially by the first half of 1952 and that there will be sharp relaxation of controls by then, By mid-1952, the guess now ifs that present steel capacity will be up by almost 20 per cent. . Old synthetic rubber plants - will be expanded and new ones will be on the way. The gap between supply and demand in aluminum, copper and other critical materials will be harrowed. All of this assumes there will be no_early war in Western Europe: If there is,.all bets are off and the * emphasis would shift from the planned approach to rearmament at a rate bringing vastly ale "munitions output by the end of the first year.

This is the gamble the present program takes, Actual

arms output in the first yean,

might not be much greater if’ Washington pulled out all the “Stops now. But the production curve would take a straightup line rather than the gradual second-year upturn now foreseen. By the end of 1952, if no total war comes meanwhile, the U. 8S. will be piling up huge stocks of war munitions. The decision the government would face ‘at that point would be to what extent to cut back war output and turn a larger share of national productive capacity to civilian goods, > This all adds up to a period of belt-tightening, in the next 12 to 18 months in terms of civilian goods, and after that a period in which the productive capacity of the country has been so expanded that output of both guns and civilan goods can be on an enormous scale. » » " GETTING an increased flow of basic raw materials is an important. key to goals being set. Some industrialists brought here to organize defense production saw now that although they opposéd and still oppose President Truman's idea that maybe the government itself should build steel

plants. for greater national ca-,

pacity, certainly someon o should have built them,

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It is this tightness of some raw materials, officials say, which would check really big defense output this year even if a decision were made right now to go in for maximum rearming speed. In approaching rearmament 80 that industry can be conditioned to shift quickly away from civilian goods and Into

tically right now, production officials make this point: Suppose we schedule all-out, maximum defense output and bring the total devoted to war to perhaps. $150 billions, instead .of $50 billions a yéar now planned. Maybe the big shooting war doesn’t’ come— but by then the peacetime economy is ripped to shreds and the impact of getting back

to a normal basis would be

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The rub is that no one ever contemplated the partial mobilization of the National Guard in peacetime. That's just not its role, It's always been called up in wartime and sent home when the war was over. But this period of tension, it is said, may last 20 to 30 years. dd ” = NOMINALLY —and only nominally-—the Guard is called up for 21 months. But if Guard divisions take up their posts in Gen. Eisenhower’s defense line in Western Europe that seems highly ynlikely. Most guardsmen are convinced their period of service will be extended to 27 months, then 36 months and on and on. They'd like to know just what lies in store for them. If they're going to make the military their career from now on, they'd like to know that. If they're going to be sent home, they'd like to make suitable arrangements for the careers they left behind.

It seems unlikely that the.

Army would withdraw a full division after 21 months and presumably — replace {it with another National Guard division mobilized for that purpose. For one thing, the average National Guard diyision

was under strength when .

it was called to federal serv-

“ice, It's ranks have been filled

up with draftees and regular Army men. 8ome of those came in early, others arrived much later, They wouldn't go home with the rest of the division.

Apparently, there's no policy. When it looked like we were going to win the Korean War, there was some talk of demobilizing National Guard divisions next summer. Since then, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg has indicated she may send some Guardsmen and Reserves home before they complete 21 months so they won't all leave at the same time. But there's been nothing official. The National Guard Association is plugging for a definite mobilization program involving the whole National Guard,

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