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‘The Tail That Wags the Dog

PRICE CONTROL . . . By Earl Richert DiSalle Takes Case to Pe

WASHINGTON, Feb, 20 — Price Boss Michael V. DiSalle has begun to take his case to the people. : : . A peries of three week-end speeches at Des Moines and Chicago marked the beginning of a planned program by the Price Administra-

. tor to acquaint the people with the three-week-

old controls program and enlist their support. His theme is this: “A strong price control program tempered with reason and justice, and enforced as vigorously as any program has

ever been enforced, is essential to the preserva-

tion of our living standards and our concepts of individual freedom.”

There is no reason, he says, why any indi-

vidual or any group should gain an advantage over the rest of the nation as a result of the war. And the government must equalize the demands of the mobilization program,

Keep an Eye on It

MR. DISALLE made it plain in his first three speeches that food price control is his

« principal problem. And he also revealed that

ple Both Mr. DiSalle and "his assista ward F. Phelps, oid food ups in C igo that tailored mark-up regulations similar those used in World War II ‘would be fssued shortly for the food industry. “This supposedly would remove many of the it tnequit : fuities

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Moved Up 3 Points

MR. PHELPS said that the issuance of thess food industry markup regulations in the year following the general price freeze in April, 1942, had provided a basis for the food price stabilization finally achieved during the latter years of War II. He pointed out that from 1943 to 1946 the food index moved up only three points. But he did not point out that the stabilization of food prices came only after the government started paying dairy and meat subsidies to hold down cofisumer costs while allowing the farmers higher prices. 4 Neither Mr. DiSalle nor Mr. Phelps mentioned subsidies. nz = = = : Although most available indices show little

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And that, we feel, we could hardly stand.

Policemen'’s Pay

: THERE are two letters on this page today and one yés2h terday that we hope every member of the Indiana General Assembly will read. They were written by the wives of Indianapolis policemen . . . the ladies who try to make a policeman'’s pay cover the cost of feeding and housing and clothing a policeman'’s .- family. 3 That pay the Indiana Senate has just voted not to raise. a : We've had to be critical, once in a while, of the shortcomings of a few Indianapolis policemen. Really, though, * “it's amazing there aren’t more, They are shamefully underpaid. They are greviously *. overworked. They have no real security of jobs, nor tenure "in earned promotions. A member of the force can be, and © has been, a policeman one day and chief the next, and could . ‘be back as a patrolman the day after.

” » . ALL THESE are problems that ought to be adjusted by the city government: at the city level. But they are not. They can’t be. The state legislature keeps a firm grip on even such purely local municipal affairs. Tts members can hardly be expected to take the time to study them or to be informed on their merits. This is a local problem, and not in any sense a state problem. : It could be rather easily solved if the General Assembly would permit a workable system of police civil service to be established and turn back administration of local affairs " to local government, where it belongs.

Spendthrift UN

HEN it comes to wasting American taxpayers’ dol- . lars, the United Nations appears to be doing as - thorough a job as the federal government. We didn’t know there was quite so much competition in

_ at a cost of $502,525.

Will the Ersatz Coin Return?

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—If nickel is the Bcdrcest metal of all in our not-quite war economy, then the obvious place to start conserving ‘is in the manufacture of nickels. They're not much use anymore, anyhow. _ This helpful suggestion I put up to the Bureau of the Mint, : : which is in the midst of manufacturing 135 million five-cent pieces this fiscal year

Dr. Leland Howard. the assistant director, did not seem enthusiastic. .I suspect he’s still hopeful of the retirn of the nickel cigar. He and Mrs. Nellie T. Ross, the director, are ready to! make jitneys of any-! thing the master minds want, including wood. But they have had their troubles tinkering with the coinage in the past on orders from above, and they urge caution. A nickel doesn’t contain much nickel in the first place, Dr. Howard said. Only 25 per cent. The rest is copper and we'll get to that shortage in a minute; the penny situation is not so good, either. During the last war the management ordered the nickel makers to cut out the nickel. They came up with nickels containing 56 per cent copper, 9 per cent manganese, and 35 per cent silver. af The free spenders of this nation never even realized that their wartime nickels were ersatz. Nobody had any trouble esdtept Mrs. Ross and Dr. Howard.

» The multi-million-dollar vending machine in-.

dustry was the snag. Over the years all the mechanical salesmen of candy bars; soda pop

and ice-cold apples, had Installed in them slug -

ejectors which operated on

the principle of electrical conductivity.

“If electricity flowed through a coin at the °

proper rate, it was a genuine nickel and the customer got his merchandise,” Dr. Howard said. “But if the current moved too fast, or too slow, that was a slug and it was tossed out. Our problem was to produce a new nickel without

nickel that acted like the old nickel inside the machines, ? six “This was not easy. Nickel is a relatively poor conductor of electricity. Silver is an unusually good one. So we added the manganese to slow down the current and the coin machines did not balk at our new nickels.” This was a triumph, in a way, but as Dr. Howard pointed out, the ersatz nickels were made of scarce silver and scarcer manganese and he’s still not certain whether the savings in nickel were worth it,

Pennies and Blushes AS FOR taking the copper out of pennies, which used a tremendous amount of it, Dr. Howard says please, have a heart. He and Mrs. Ross made zinc-plated steel pennies during the war and they continue to blush about it. Mrs. Ross says. these pennies were a disgrace to the monetary system and she is ashamed of them. And now, for the mysterious reasons which are stumping the experts, the people are spending more pennies than ever before. “In the first six months of this fiscal year we delivered 790 million copper cents to meet the demand. Nobody knows why.” Dr. Howard's own idea is that most things which used to cost 15 cents now are priced at 18 cents, while many a 20-cent item of the past now is 22 cents. That uses up a lot of pennies. And also a lot of copper and what happens next the managers of the mint do not know. We'll just put them down as being hopeful they'll never have to manufacture rusty pennies again,

TYPIST

The girls whose nimble fingers move . . . across the metal keys . . . seem to pound out letters with . . . comparative great ease . . this is a most accomplished feat . . though some don't think it is . . . for when it comes to typing words . . . some of them are a whiz . . and not only are they im need . , . when it comes down to work . . . but they have ways and means to make . the dullest office perk « + + for while they play a rat-tat tune . . their lips are moving too . . . saying little nothings that . .. make all the dark skies blue .. and so I take my hat off to . . . the typists that I know ... who by their looks and pleasantness - + « make dragging hours go. : . A —By Ben Burroughs.

So the police and firemen are left out in the cold again. The Senate didn’t pass the bill to give the police and firemen a very badly needed pay hike or cost of living bonus. 2 Sen. Kendall feared that other very deserving people might ask for more money too. I wonder if he was one of the members of the legislature that voted themselves a raise in pay. Isn't he government employed and payed with the taxpayers’ money? :

A policeman or fireman can’t strike for

higher wages like thalty employed garbage and trash collectors can ald did. They can only go

- on serving the public and send a committee to

the legislature to plead their case. It is a shame that these men must put in 8 hours on one job and because it doesn’t pay enough’ to make ends meet, must take parttime jobs too. : A trip to the neighbor movie is something to look forward to and wonder if it can be afforded or not. We pay taxes too, you know, — City Policeman’s Wife.

MR. EDITOR:

Congratulations, Mr. Senator . . . after all if these men can't make ends meet on $51.90 a week, they should re-examine their budgets.

_ Steaks only $1.05 a pound and butter 85 cents.

It only costs them 65 cents every time they have

their trousers cleaned and everyone knows that's rare because in their line of work they stay clean as pins. Then too, Mr. Senator, these men do not work. Just walk around, sit or ride around all day or night and never in any real danger because in their line of work they come in contact with only the cream of the crop, You know, Mr. Senator, I'm a policeman’s wife and I was such a poor manager I couldn’t make our $50 stretch so I took a part time job 80 I could have more money to blow. We have a small child but she really doesn’t need me at ‘home. After all when a child is 3 she can do without her mother’s guidance for a few hours a day, don’t you think? Mr. Senator, you've gained many friends among the police and firemen. If it should be God’s punishment that your house burns down or your child lies’ dead in the street due to lack of protection, you think of the raise you turned down, the raise that might have kept these men on the job.—Mrs. Policeman, City.

high school basketball tournaments this year. he isn’t ready yet with an answer on what to slowing in the price rise, Mr. DiSalle is claiming YOU That delight was tempered, though when we learned do about the farm parity provision of the law. much good already for the Jan. 26 price freeze on Joe This makes it impossible to control the prices order. manpo' further that WFBM-TV Proposes to throw out, for four of many food items—until prices increase “I am convinced that had we not taken the plumbe Saturday evenings, the Ken Murray show, one of the very, further—since the law says no price ceilings action we did on Jan. 26, prices would have day, m rograms it now -offers that is worth even may be imposed on farm products selling below . risen far beyond their present levels, The n yery Tew > B y parity. American public. would have been penalized in office-t glancing a. 2 ala : He told the National Farm Institute in the past three weeks by millions of dollars,” he who ¢ The Indiana State High School Athletic Association it Des Moines and the National Canners Assocla- said. Bas ork § 4 "4 tion in Chicago that he wanted to watch a while . rs. Seemed. “requested” It be Sanceled, ith basketball tim longer to see just what effect the parity pro- Adjust Relationship And No, the show doesn't interfere with baske is vision had. : “THIS DOES not mean we are satisfied with seed It’s over before the games start. “But,” he said, “if the next two or three our present situation. We are now giving our That : : i 3 months demonstrate that the parity concept best efforts to restore and adjust the relation. Nothing Wiong. With the show, either, except, Sel, interferes with our efforts for economic stabiliza- ghip between the consumer and prices that would | horrors,—it's sponsored by some company that makes b—r. tion, we can take go other course but to rec- existed before Korea. It is our objective to If ye ® =» =» Loe » ®» =» ommend its modification.” level off prices by midsummer at a point some- be a HIGH school boys and girls, who of course never, never This seems to indicate that Mr, DiSalle what higher than at present and to hold the shoulde look at a teleyision set any other time, might be watching. would attempt to alter the parity formula line there for as long as possible.” gosling : 1 bo d girls in Indi ne heard of b—r itself rather than seek to use direct subsidies as Mr. DiSalle intends to tell his story during ; High school boys and girls in ana never ! * did the administration in World War II to hold = coming weeks to many other groups, including THA unless, of course, they happened to walk down a street or food prices in chéck. Either approach would some on the West Coast. Insofar as Jossible, fo mt i send him into headlong battle with the farm he will limit his speech-making to week-ends Tead a magazine OF 3 newspaper Sr fees. Selevision Show bloc in Congress, which opposes any change in 80 there will be less interference with his work Selle | ) or hear a radio broadcast or go to a grocery store, or even, the parity law and also opposes subsidies. in the capital. " : wres : maybe, open the family ice-box. i ; thew 5 At all costs, let's preserve their innocence, says the — en But THSAA, as usual trying to take in more territory than it OOS\ER "FO comes. can cover. Tow a WW Mae ol A How fortunate its aversion does not extend also to the LL qLAVRT, boc TE a en t : i TRAE — » tting taxes on that same b—r, earmarked directly for keeping - ; A . ge : : E | # ether. these same high schools running. 5 | do not agree with a word that you say, but! will defend to the death your rig 8 ther, If it did we might not have any high schools. . : ‘Out in the Cold’ Brotherhood Month boys ot "Then we might not have any IHSAA. CLINK, CLINK, CLUNK . . . By Frederick C. Othman MR. ZLITON, MR. EDITOR:

As you probably already know, the month of February has been designated Brotherhood Month. This month should be a time of some strong soul searching among us all. What has each of us done to-advance (or retard) the development of brotherhood in our own city, in the nation—eveh throughout the world? Consider—are we learning to live with our neighbors regardless of race, color or religion in a non-segregated scheme? Very much progress has been made toward breaking down the barriers of hatred, discrimination, ignorance and segregation. We, of Indianapolis, may now point with pride to our: new integrated -school system. Yet, the legalization of this new school system was not brought about without strong - opposition,

Our: soul searching should point out ta us all that there is yet much to do to further the brotherhood that is the cornerstone of true democracy and of all morality. One practical application of brotherhood at the present moment would be our active support of House Bill 193 (for a stronger FEPC in Indiana) which is now in the labor committee of the House of Representatives. True brotherhood shall ofly become a reality as all men ¢ome to believe in and practice freedom. for all, —S. R. Best, City.

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Views on News!

By DAN KIDNEY i

MOVIE Czar Eric Johnston will learn a new lesson in slow motion when he tries to get Congress to act on his $10 billion Economic Stabilizatfon tax bill * ¢ © OUR dipldmats are suggesting that the United Nations invoke a “selective embargo” on the China Reds. We probably will not let them have anything they don’t need. . > * 4 9 A BENATE subcommittee is trying to figure out whether a mink coat means influence or just affluence. * oo & COMPETITION between the two old parties never gets keen enough to cut the price of the, farm vote. * o o PLENTY of folks who went South for the winter found ft. ; ARTI RPE ERR RRR R RENO N NERO ROR RRR R REE O RRR Rares

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, curtain and showed us what real experts can do with boon- SPOTLIGHT By Charles Egger : > . U. S“FORCE By Ji C-R-0 ; . ih V8. ps im G. Lucas ! doggling on a world scale. sr SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith : Y Hoe : When the UN was founded, it was generously agreed Senate Wants Reason Korea Replacements gee !- for the U. S. taxpayers that they would pick up 40 per hes o : : : : ° ° rosley | cent of the tab for operating the big organization. The For RFC-Y oun Lo T Pp Oxsiley ! Russian bloc, with its six votes to, our one, was let off with an ave op riori Y ape C . & 10 per cent nick. Ty NG ION, Jeb. 20=The Fulbright Investigating Com- WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—8o far, the United States has had Washes : i ? i i r : nation from the Reconstruction Fi- 50,000 casualties in Korea—men killed or wounded. There are ; Now it turns out we've been footing the bill for some nance Corp. in connection with a complaint about E. Merl Young, 44,000 soldiers from all other United Nations armies in the fight. couldn’t ; 57 per cent of the total costs. That's because other mem- 2 Sars employes, rs want to k In this country, replacements for Korea have top priority. ] man ne ' bers, including the Soviet group, have been reneging. And rormore ors Want to know why the RFC didn’t For the next several months, they will take precedence over the -want I ne Efosp i BE - check into Mr, Young's activities after it received a report that four divisions slated to go to Europe. Fifteen thousand men will “How nn ; Uncle Sap grandly makes up for their shorts. he had offered to help along an leave this country every month here, ar ; Result is, in the past five years, $424 million of our Ran application for an Bimer Nasber, Said all dikes. for Korea. In additiod, the Tren. 38 wounded aad 258 or t 1: 5, , S able when t d Generals 8 . ey have been re- YOU + tax money has gone to the UN, and another $120 million Mr. Young, a key figure in the committee wants them. Ary Hans to seid gen lg rad IY an Dave aero. you is to be asked for the sixth year. the committee’s investigation Wiis Yiiett, one of the di- 000 men to build their six divi- Eriam plans to keep its Ko- ley”, 8 ¢ of favoritism and influence in rectors criticized in the com- tean forces up to strength. : : , sions up to full strength. the tho : . 8.8 : nan : the RFC, will be one of the mMittee's. report, said he would So hi GF ne. sent FRANCE sent a 1000-man London WE'RE more than half supporting an expensive staff Bre ithesses whet the Som. iS Shiunce 18 anewes an additional 1000 men to re- infantry battalion to Korea I don i" sumes ¢ hearings £ u p of 9700 men and women, most of them brought here from © “EAE PEOUE ey himeait, C. Edward Rowe, a place combat losses. Here's the early in December. It has lost days wi

other countries. Their upkeep accounts for 65 per cent of the United Nations big and growing budget. In addition to good salaries, they get a cost-of-living increase and various allowances and grants for children, education, language, rents and even home leave—all exempt from our income tax. And what are they doing, besides sitting on their hands while the Korean War rages? Well, they've got 728 projects under way, many of them academic rather than practical, of doubtful value and urgency, and wastefully duplicating or overlapping other projects.” For instance, such studies as the effect of chewing the coca leaf; the market for Uruguayan wool; translations of great books: the social aspects of the use of chemical fertilizers, and a comparative study of civilizations. We hope Congress takes note of this enlightening report on United Nations profligacy and swings a keen ax when the next appropriations for the organization come up.

# Whitewashed Marketeers?

JEPWARD P. MORGAN was the attorney for the Tydings subcommittee last summer, He has now been appointed head of the Price Enforceme

nt Division of the Office of Price Stabilization. If he prosecutes black marketeers with the same lack of seal he showed in the Amejasia case, housewives will not - have. to tote heavy market baskets. 2%

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tarial assistant at the White House. He first will be questioned about testimony by Ross Bohannon of Dallas, Tex., that Mr. Young offered to be influential—for an $85,000 fee—in connection with the Texmass Petroleum Company's application for a $10,100,000 RFC loan. ” " ” NO ARRANGEMENT was made between Texmass and Mr. Young. But Mr. Bohannon sald he reported Mr. Young's offer to former RFC Chairman Harley Hise who assured him that Washington influence would not be helpful and was not necessary. Mr. Bohannon Is expected to repeat his testimony, first given In closed hearings, during tomorrow's open session. . . RFC officials probably will be asked to appear the same day. ° . “We want to know why the RFC didn't do something about the report it got from Mr. Bohannon,” a committee spokesman said. “At least it could have put out a statement callIng attention to the complaint

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that outside-influence was not

to be tolerated.” “RFC’'s presgnt chairman, W,

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director mentioned less ecritically, said he would ask to be heard, : # uw 8 MR.” YOUNG probably will testify a number of times during the public hearings, which are expected to last two weeks, His name is mentioned many times during the report, For example, the report said

Mr. Young held an $18,000-a-

year vice presidency with the Lustron Corp., a big borrower from the RFC, while he also was a $10,000-a-year official of the F. L. Jacobs Co. of De-

troit. The committee said Rex .

Jacobs, president of the Jacobs firm, had been hired by the RFC to make a survey of the Lustron plant at Columbus, O. The report then said: * “In the preliminary draft of his repdrt, which the subcommittee has In -its files, Mr. Jacobs proposed that “ownership of Lustron’s capital stock should be vésted in substantial part in E. Merle Young, Robert. Haggerty and Ed Hunt. The proposal does not appear in the report which was delivered to the RFC.” The: committee pointed out that Mr. Jacobs’ sugges-

tion, as drafted, contemplated

sale of enough ‘stock at one

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cent a’ share to take control of Lustron from Carl J, Strandlund, Lustron president. Sifice Mr. Strandlund holds 86,000 shares, the cost of getting control of the $37 million firm would have been $860. The report identified Robert Haggerty as a business associate of Merlé Young. It said Mr. Hunt helped Mr. Jacobs make the survey of Lustron— a two-day job. -¢The Senate investigators

also said officials of the Jacobs

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Company helped finance the insurance business Mr. Young now operates. They Said that the company “has undertaken to finance Mr. Young's entire stake in a wildeat oil well.” The committee cited testimony “by Mr. Strandlund dealIng with a proposed substitution of .-a Jacobs product for other equipment used im the house ' manufactured by Lustron. In that instance, Mr.

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AUSTRALIA has contributed a 1000-man infantry battalion, a 400-man aircraft squadron and two or three destroyers, It has lost approximately 175 soldiers and some airmen. They have been replaced.

BELGUIM has a 900-man infantry . battalion in: Korea. It didn't arrive until last month and has suffered few casualties, The question of replacements hasn't been discussed.

CANADA has 1000. soldiers In Korea. In addition, it has 400 airmen flying transports from Seattle to Tokyo and three destroyers in Korean waters. Canada this week flew 85 replacements to Korea and plans to do that every month. The Canadian troops have been training in Southern Korea their only action against guerrillas, They are now en route north to join a-Commonwealth division being formed. Canada has a 12,000-man brigade training at Ft.,Lewis, Wash. All are volunteers, They ar & earmarked for Kerea, but may go to Europe. : BRITAIN has 22,000 men in Korea—12,000 infantry and 10,-

000 navy. They have suffered 813 casualties, including 139

400 men: while killing at least 2500 Communists. France plans to replace its losses.

GREECE has 1000 infantry and 400 airmen in Korea. The Greek Embassy has no casualty reports although it has asked the Pentagon for them. There have been no replacements, Greek casualties have been relatively light, . HOLLAND also has a 1000man battalion in Korea. It has suffered some casualties including its commanding officer, killed this week. There have been no replacements. NEW ZEALAND has 1000 artillerymen on the scene. . Casualties have been light and” there has been no need for replacements. akin THE PHILIPPINES have contributed a 1200-man bat-

have. been moderate. There have been no replacements. TURKEY'S 1000-man . battalion has = suffered approximately 300 casualties, There have been no replacements. Turkey depends ‘on us for transportation, THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA has one air squadron

.~~400 men—in Korea. It has

suffered few casualties. have been no replacements.

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