Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1951 — Page 36

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Self-Control | HAT this country desperately needs is more selfcontrol, More self-control, and less concentrated devotion to self-interest, among— Leaders in government, leaders in business and industry, leaders of labor and agriculture— And among those whom these leaders are supposed to “be leading. LITER : ; For we can't control inflation if we don’t control our- - selves. Failure to control inflation would cost every group far more than any group could gain by refusing to play ball unless it can dictate the rules of the game. : The fight against inflation got off to a belated and fumbling start. : That can’t be helped now. What's past is past. . We can do something about the future, » . » ~ » . WE CAN make it a bleak future if each group among us insists on special consideration for its interests ahead of ‘the interests of others; If group leaders hurl bitter charges when they're dispatisfied with decisions by men who are trying hard to push the mobilization program forward ‘and halt the leapfrog “climb of prices and wages; ¢ If we waste priceless time and energy on internal quar‘rels which profit nobody except the external enemy who hopes to see us divided and defeated; ‘ ’ If we magnify our grievances and minimize our duties

“to ourselves and our country. ® 8 : . = =

WE CAN make it a good future if we work together; If we strive to be fair with one another; ' If we remember that temporary sacrifices are necessary to achieve permanent security and ultimate peace. "Who of us, safe in the United States, has been asked for any sacrifice worthy to be named in the same breath with the sacrifices many brave Americans are making each day in Korea?

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“It Hasn't Hurt Us

IT I8 becoming reasonably apparent, even to the most optimistic, that the Indiana General Assembly now in session isn’y going to get very much done, It is going to accomplish virtually nothing toward solution of the state’s pressing problems. On the other hand it is going to do little that is positively harmful to the state, As usual a few members have raised the point that the session is too short, that in the 61 days it is allowed by the Constitution, legislators don’t have time to grapple intelligently with the problems of the state. There is nothing to indicate, though, that this Assembly would do any more or any better if it stayed in session all summer. Men and women elected to the legislature are supposed to know something about the state’s problems before they arrive for the session + «+ « at least that's what they kept telling us when they were candidates last summer. If they don’t know beforehand no session could be long enough for them to learn. » » ” IN SOME 46 days of this session so far, the Assembly has proposed hundreds of bills. A few of them are good, a few bad, but unfortunately most of them are just trivial. Up to now the members have passed a half - dozen laws, none of them of any real consequence or importance to the state;-de-. feated one or two that were of importance to the state, and buried in committees nearly all the rest. They have, in short, put off yntil the last 15 days, nearly all the business they were given 61 days to transact, The result is going to be the usual log-jam in the closing days of the session with bills being passed or defeated more by chance than by intelligent consideration. There has, though, been ample time to consider all important measures. It just hasn't been done. It seldom is done. If the session were twice

as long, or four times as long,

“every past performance indi-

cates it would wind up the same way, with a good many sincere and well-meaning: members going home with a feeling of failure and frustration. ‘

n - » IT IS common for Indiana legislatures to be dominated

EDITOR'S NOTES . . . By Walter Leckrone

What's Been Done In The

by partisan politics and this -

one i8 no exception, More than most, however, this one is dominated by local politicians on the lowest level. “The most powerful political force in Indiana is the township trustee.

Anything that might in any way or in the smallest degree reduce their power or perquisites, or that of local county elected officers, has rough going in the Assembly and very small chance of even getting to a vote. : Since a very large part of the legislation the state most vitally needs falls within that area, most of it may be considered lost for this session, » ” n

IT does not follow that these

minor office-holders represent the views of their communities, either. In Marion County, for

BANKER'S DELIGHT . :-. By Frederick C. Othman

Listen, Sam—You Got the Dough That Mrs. O. Would Like to Grow

EORGE M. HARRISON, newly appointed special assist-

ant to Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, is president {of the Brotherhood of: Railway Clerks and a vice president of the American Federation of Labor. He says his appointment will not satisfy organized labor's demand for participation in the defense-mobiliza-‘tion program's highest policy councils. ,. Labor—according to Mr. Harrison, Philip Murray, Wildiam Green and other officials of big unions—wants noth- + ing less than a “leading figure” from the labor movement yon Defense Mobilizer Wilson's top policy staff. Mr. Harrison is an able man. But he has accepted his new appointment under conditions which make it as un‘satisfactory from the broad public viewpoint as he says

_it is unsatisfying to labor.

He seems to regard it as a part-time job, to which he will “give as much time as I possibly can.” He will continue -t0 serve as president of his union, commuting between its “Cincinnati headquarters and Washington.

AS PRESIDENT of his union, Mr, Harriscon is negoti‘ating for a wage raise for its members. As special assistant sto Stabilizer Johnston, he presumably would have a voice "in deciding whether such a raise fits in with the govern- . ment’s program for controlling price-wage inflation. ; The two duties are incompatible. Mr. Harrison doubt- . less could do either well. He should not be expected or per-

- mitted to undertake both at the same time.

There are other men as able as Mr. Harrison in the labor movement. They could give valuable help to Mobilizer " Wilson. But, to qualify for policy-making places in the mobilization program, they should step out of their union “offices. They should give undivided allegiance to the general

public interest, of which the special interests of union mem_bers are an important part, but only a part.

. Organized labor’s viewpoint, as interpreted by union -leaders, deserves full and sympathetic consideration. That, “however, does not mean that mobilization policies must be -shaped by union officials primarily interested in consider- - : ation for organized labor's viewpoint ahead of all others.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—My bride is a good deal more than a tax deduction to me. For one thing she is the only person in America I can interview with no fear of being sued, With no further introduction, I give you Mrs. O. on the subject of inflation, federal fight against;

Dollars, says she, are like Mexican pesos. Pretty when fresh, but hardly worth stuffing

more durable N

rial, she could use 50), Meee? ‘em to roof her chick- x SER en house. a

She seldom enters the grocery any j more, she continues, 7 without ruining a $20 bill. She is tired of serving me hamburger in numerous guis-

es. She is tireder still of paying 79 cents a pound for it. But what really pains her are the bigwigs who keep yammering about the necessity of taxing the populace until it hurts. If they need the money to buy guns, all right. She'll go along. But they insist that one of their main jobs is to drain away the peoples’ money so they won't rush out to spend it on luxuries. That's

‘what makes her boil. Her instincts are some-

thing like a squirrel’s. Her father was a thrifty man, in Tennessee. Her mother was a string saver and Mrs. O. these many years has been a thrifty woman. If she has any spare dollars—including the present tissue paper ones that wilt like lettuce leaves when exposed to a hot cash register— she is inclined to put them in the bank. ” She does not need anybody on Capitol Hill, or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, either, to take her money away from her so that it will not burn a hole in her pocket. The way the government's big brass talks, she says, you'd think she was a spendthrift.

As for taxing the people until it hurts, she adds that she .wishes:the federals would play a new record. It already hurts. Wherever she

turns are taxes to pay, including dog. If they've got to be raised some more, she wants the head men to be honest about it. All they need do is cut out the malarkey about saving her from herself and say they need more of her money. She'll take their word for that, though she was in a surplus store the other day buying clothes for her hired man. She bought Army pants, Air Force boots, and Navy dungarees at a tremendous bargain, but Mrs, O. was not taken in; she had the sneaking feeling that she'd already paid for this merchandise once via the tax collector.

Advice Any Time

SINCE this merchandise was available to her so cheap, she continues, why couldn’t the Department of Defense buy it up wholesale? And maybe not have to order so many pairs of shoes and pants at current inflated prices? I tried to tell her that the generals were too busy with mighty affairs to shop in war surplus stores. She said then they could send out some sergeants. . And if this government needs any more suggestions, my bride is listed in the phone book. The federals could do no worse, in my own unprejudiced opinion. A lot worse. Mrs. O, claims they already have,

THE EXCUSE

When things go wrong or I can’t make . the grade I set to climb . .'. I very often drift into . ... a most familiar rhyme . . . I tell a story that's as old . . . as time itself may be. « + + in hope that by my tale of woe . . . the fault won't lay on me . . . now I am not alone in this . . . for I have often heard . . . many people do the same . . . yes, nearly word for word . . . so now I always think before ... I

try to pass the blame . . . if trouble’s caused by my mistake . .. I always stand the shame . . . and I find it’s a help to me . .. when I admit I'm wrong . .. for I can face life with a smile « «+ and sing a happy song . . . and should I make a rash excuse . . . for lack of brain or meekness . . . it's not my strength of character ++ « but it's my greatest weakness.

—By Ben Burroughs

‘Reasonable Doubt’

HE federal Loyalty Review Board is asking President Truman for authority to order persons removed or barred from government jobs if the board finds in their “activities, present or past, reasonable cause to doubt their loyalty. Such authority was granted by President Roosevelt in World War II. Its restoration is urgently necessary. . The Loyalty Review Board operates under an executive order issued by Mr. Truman in 1947. The nation then was , at peace. Communist aggression and the activities of pro- » Russians in this country were much less generally recog“nized as the grave threats they now so clearly are.

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. MR. TRUMAN'S 1947 order requires the Review Board to give government employees and job applicants whom it investigates the benefit of any ressonable doubt. If a person can't be proved disloyal at the time of the investigation, the board has no choice but to clear him, even though it is not convinced he is loyal. ! Board members say that's why they cleared William W. Remington, former Commerce Department economist, whom a federal court jury recently found guilty of lying under oath when he denied he had ever been a Communist Party member. The keeping or getting of a government job is a privilege, not a constitutional right. Of course, the Loyalty Review Board should be careful and conscientious in using authority to withdraw or withhold this privilege. : Rut the board's chairman, Hiram Bingham, is certainly “eorrect: “No person should ‘be employed by the federal «government if there is resonable doubt as to his loyalty,”

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instance, .a group of county

officers has turned the-heat on .

the Marion County 1 tors to get them to oppose all the several proposals for extending the merit system or improving it. Some of those very men gave lip service to the merit system beforé their election and garnered votes here in Marion County on that basis. Then in secret sessions they work to block it. County commissioners have horribly mismanaged the county infirmary at Julietta over at least 10 years al fantastic cost to the county. Successive

FOSTER’S FOLLIES

MEXICO CITY—Spanish and Mexican bullfighters’ unions have agreed to exchange cardcarrying matadors during 1951. For three years no Mexican has been allowed to fight in

Spain, and no Spaniard in Mexico. Toreddor, you may fight any where— -

In Spain or in Mexico City. The welcome is out, there is joy.in the air, But mat-a-dor hark to this ditty. When the bull charges in, just be sure to take care. He can make you look tired and sickly, So be ready to grab off a ” breath of fresh air— Pic-a-dor and get going— but quickly. 2 ” ”

FOR our money, that’s just about the best job in the bull ring. Pick a door. Any door. Bull fighting is one occupation where it doesn’t pay to start from the ground up. And you can’t figure on taking the bull by the horns in that game, either. The bull might have another idea. And then you'd be stuck with it!

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NEW YORK City College School of Business is now giving a course in price and wage control. But there is no truth to the report that Messrs. Ching and DiSalle were among the first to enroll, » ” ” IN PALERMO, Sicily, police are looking for a young man who tried to kidnap the town beauty, but carried off her father by mistake. Doesn't sound like the guy was exactly alert. But it sure proves that crime doesn’t pay. oy 8 =» o TWO thousand ‘years ago, the British equipped their chariots with rear-view mirrors of polished iron to prevent attacks from behind. And there weren't any Commies in those days either.

DEAR BOSS .“. . By Dan Kidney

Abe Lincoln, the GOP and Ringing Words

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Three Hoosier Congressmen held down the House seats this week while their colleagues took off

to make Lincoln Day speeches.

Included were the two Democrats re-elected in 1950, Reps. Ray Madden, Gary, and Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, and the

third was freshman Republican Rep. E. Ross Adair, Ft. Wayne. °

Having taken off the week

"before to address the Indiana

Legislature, Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) spent the week here while his senior GOP colleague, Sen. Homer E. Capehart, took off togtell about Lincoln. He is the owner of one of the largest collections of Lincoln portraits and they line both sides of the walls in the Senate office suite occupied by Sen. Capehart,

” » » WITH so much Republican oratory on tap throughout the country, the Democrats got in

a still small voice when they sent Sen. Ernest W. McFarland (D. Ariz.) dawn to the Jefféerson-Jackson dinner at Raleigh, N, C. It was one of his first dinner appearances since. he was chosen as the compromise maJority leader. Judging from. the text put out this week-end from the Democratic National Committee, it was filled with the news that the Truman ad-

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ministration is not confused. Here are some of the things that Sen. McFarland actually said: 0

icago, wants a rousing observance of Smile Week from Feb. 26 to Mar. 3. — ZZ? Wants everybody to smile for seven days. Let's hope the committee = Z Apia ——— won't object if American soldiers in Korea just grin and Cong

bear it.

Legislature?— Virtually Nothing

boards of commissioners have been voted oft of office mainly on that very issue, along with

. a few prosecutors who have

whitewashed conditions there.

The wishes of the voters of this county are quite clear. Yet county office holders were able to get four of the six Senators ‘from this county to help kill a bill to take that stitution out of political control and put it on ‘an economical efficient operating basis. 4 » bd . IN THIS county, as in many

another county, political plums are going to be protected at

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‘A Free Country?’

Members Crying For More Time

all costs, on the township and county level. On Tie credit side, the Assembly has passed the resolu tion limiting all future Presidents of the United States to two terms, which will become part of the Constitution when five more states adopt it. It is unfortunate that this was considered strictly as a partisan issue, which it actually is not, but happily it passed anyway. Hope is not wholly gone that some slight economies in state spending may yet be made. Several measures are pending to eliminate functions and bureaus of questionable value. Some of them might pass. The Governor's proposal for a sur-

‘vey of all state operations,

with a view to dropping or merging needless or duplicated activities is still alive, and it, too, has a chance to be enacted. While it will save nothing before 1953 it could well open the way for some substantial economies then, In line with those economies the measure to raise the pay of the Governor of the state, and some other officials, is still alive, and ought to be passed. Nothing indicates that we will get a better Governor at $18,000 a year than we get at $8000. That's no reason for underpaying those we do elect. But there's a more important rea-

-son for raising his pay than

that. So long as the Governor’s pay remains where it is, it is-a-1id on the pay of all the other men the state employs. And the lid is too low to attract the kind of physicians, psychiatrists, engineers and other technical experts the state has to have. Up to now, however, the Assembly has accomplished virtually nothing; good or bad. For whatever it does or falls to do the voters quite properly may hold the two political parties responsible. Neither has produced any constructive leadership in this session, with a membership so evenly divided that both must share in the result. And its time is definitely running out, .

According to the Jan. 27, 1951, issue of Business Week

magazine the total cost of living for December, 1950, is 178.4, rent is 123.8. If all costs of. living had been held down by Soutsols as rents have been, we would not be in the mess we are ay. The bulk of rentals are owned by small unorganized landlords, helpless to do anything to protect themselves, Unless you received 20 per cent increase in your income within the last wear you have taken a 20 per cent cut. According to the United Press unless your income has doubled in the last ten years you we:e better off financially in 1940. If landlords could do like the coal miners and the railro-:! switchmen, rents would be increased so that the landlord's income would go up as the cost of living goes up. In case of any overcharge the landlord has the choice of returning the money or be fined triple damages. The railroader flaunts the law and stays home sick. In the meantime the government pleads with the men to return to work. And this is supposed to be a free country. What has become of our Constitution that has kept controls on rents only and let wages and prices go sky high? : -P. J., City.

‘Nobody Can Laugh’

MR. EDITOR:

We have just received a letter from a German girl, 19 years. .

old. Her name is Elenor Leur and there is one paragraph that we" all should read. Here it is as she wrote it: “I go to school and spend my time for learning. Only one time I go to the carnival. But as to the present conditions no one can be as really joyfull and happy like in earlier times. Nobody can laugh to its hearts desire, nobobdy can be really happy. Always you will find a forced laughter and a forced enjoyment. I don’t know how you speak about the present political condition in America. We Germans hear again and again about trouble. Might God give us a lasting peace. All peoples in the world would be able and willing to live in best peace.” —Alfred J. Clark, City. >

Old Chuck Scores Again MR. EDITOR:

Tuesday night, Feb.13,I drove to Indianapolis from Bloom- » ington with five companions to see the Olympians play Ft. Wayne. On the way back I was driving on Capitol Ave. About onenalf block south of the intersection at Capitol and 16th St. I hit a hole in the street ‘about three feet square and about a foot deep, The result was a practically new tire ruined. While I was changing my tire two other motorists met the same fate. It seems to me that in a city the size of Indianapolis, competent officials should be put in positions as important as keeping up the city streets. we Jack W. Stader, TU

“Is there confusion in the minds of the President -and the bipartisan leaders of Congress who created the Marshall Plan? Can a program which aided 270 million people in Western Europe to throw off the poisons of communism be called a product of confusion?

o » ” “WAS the Berlin air-lift, which raised the morale of Western Germany and frustrated the Communists, an example of confusion? Was ‘it confusion to sponsor the North Atlantic Pact which bound 12 free nations together against aggressors? Was our ald to the Greeks which enabled them to throw out the Communists an evidence of confusion? Are the encouragement and assistance we are giving nations everywhere to resist Soviet imperialism examples of confusion? . . .

o ” » “AS FREE Americans, we

. have never bowed to aggres-

gors. Acting ‘as our Com-mander-in-Chief our great President, Harry Truman, met the issue last June as. Jackson and Jefferson would have met it-—without flinching, without fear. 2 “The firm defermination ’ + of “

and the fighting spirit we have shown in Korea may have disrupted the plans of the Kremlin for world conquest. That was our purpose.” Mr, Madden was more modest In a speech he made in the House celebrating the 33d anniversary of Lithuanian free. dom. It was but one of a seri s of such House speeches c:'nbrating the Declaration of I. dependence in Lithuania on Feb. 16, 1918. : Mr. Madden also included a proclamation from Gov. Henry F. Schricker of Indiana in honor of the day,

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A KENTUCKY mountaineer celebrated his 101st birthday. Just imagine that amount of chewing tobacco. » » » THE H. C. of L. has affected even men's styles — i

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” » » THE right spirit in any plant makes more people turn up their sleeves at work and fewer their noses. : ?

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