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ECOSOC at Work

ITS just a coincidence, perhaps, that the United Nations

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Economic and Social Council chose Santiago, Chile, for

its big winter meeting. Right now Chile is basking in midsummer weather and Santiago has the added lure of beach resorts and a nearby lake region famed as the Switzerland of South America. United Nations delegates from 18 countries turned up and Trygve Lie, the secretary general, flew down from New York to make it official. For the ECOSOC is an important body of the United Nations, a counterpart in the nonpolitical field of the United Nations Security Council. Two major items to come up are a United Nations investigation of slave-labor conditions “throughout the world,” and charges that labor-union rights are being violated in Russia.

ABOUT the only place in the world where slave labor

is used extensively is Russia, and Russia, naturally, won't agree to any investigation by outsiders. Mr. Lie has asked Russia if she would consent to an inquiry on labor unions, and Moscow hasn't bothered to reply. That's that. Next big item on deck is United Nations aid to backward countries. Here, we suspect, the ECOSOC will be getting down to the crux of the session. “Richer nations,” reports a correspondent on the scene, “will be asked how much they are willing to sacrifice and poorer nations will be shown how they can take better advantage” of this aid. A recent Senate committee report disclosed that the American taxpayer was picking up the tab for about 57 per cent of the total costs of running the United Nations. Brace yourself for another shakedown.

British Let Us Down

ments for 12 months of 1949. British woolen goods exports to Red China shot up from © $2000 in December, 1049, to $300,000 in December, 1950. And in the same related periods, British shipments of assorted machinery, also vehicles of various kinds, rose from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands.

; Britain in 1050 sold 20 times as much raw rubber to : the Soviet Union as in 1049. 3 Right now two shiploads of rubber totaling 10,000 tons “are at sea between Singapore and Hong Kong, destined for . mut enemy which British troops are fighting on

‘. . . Ld H ‘. AND THE socialistic British government says it has ‘no intention of stopping these shipments. A Conservative member of Commons got a brush off this week when he asked Prime Minister Attlee whether he was aware that British rubber was moving to Hong Kong and what he proposed to do to prevent the loss of this strategic material. An under-secretary merely confirmed that the rubber, worth $10 million, was on the way and said the government intended to do nothing about it. No British paper printed the story, or mentioned the huge rubber shipments, according to a London dispatch. Small wonder, Reports from Korea Wednesday said that Red tanks and self-propelled guns spearheaded a drive which threatened to cut off 100,000 Allied troops including British around Seoul. If those tanks weren't made of British steel, if those self-propelled guns weren't moving on British rubber, they could have been—or more like them be.

SRL. 8 =» HOW CAN we win a war when an Ally—which we are banking—persists in selling much needed raw materials to the enemy ? Sen. O’Conor of Maryland repeatedly has called attention to the “alarming proportions” of strategic materials exports from Britain to the Iron Curtain countries. In the first 10 months of 1950 these exports have aggregated $68 million.’ His pubcomuiitios on export controls and policies is doing valuable work in disclosing Britain's trade with the enemy. Its findings should get closest attention as Congress looks into the foreign aid proposals in the Truman budget.

Its Own Medicine

IKE almost all organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation is for stopping inflation. Like many other. organizations, it asserts that this requires a balanced federal budget, pay-as-we-go for national defense costs, higher taxes and elimination of nonessential government spending. Unlike too many others, it seems willing to take some of the medicine it prescribes. - Allan B. Kline, president of this biggest farm organization, reports its directors have resolved:

That Congress should cut 20 per cent from nondefense administrative expenses of government agencies, including the Agriculture Department.

That the $285 million proposed by President Truman for a 1952 agricultural program should be reduced to $150 million.

That unassigned surpluses accumulated by co-opera-tive business enterprises, including farmers’ co-ops, should be taxed in the same manner as profits of other corporations.

If all organizations took stands such .as ‘the Farm

¢ Bureau Federation's, instead of advocating government economy on everything but their own special benefits and higher taxes on everybody but their own members, pros- ; posta for stopping inflation wou be a lot brighter,

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Party Launches Hoosier's Book

Notre Dame Dean Raps Foggy Thinking in U, §.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 24—Dean Clarence Manion of Notre Dame University College of Law has written a new book called “The Key to Peace.” It is being published in installments here by Col,

McCormick's Times-Herald. To launch the serialization, Editor Ruth McCormick Miller of the paper: tossed one of the top-flight dinners of the season at the swank Carlton Hotel. Col. and Mrs. McCormick came from Chicago. Dean Manion was accompanied by his lovely. . looking wife. He delivered an oration to the diners. The guest list included Chief Justice Vinson and Justices .Harold Burton and Sherman: Minton of the U. 8. SBupreme Court. The latter won the Democratic nomination for the Senate against Dean Manion back . in 1936. President Cody Fowler of the American Bar Association was there and numerous Republican Senators, including the two from Indiana, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, was a guest, but next day the Times-Herald listed him as a Republican also. Numerous photographs appeared, including one of Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle Republican, heaming on the McCormicks. He is president of the Indiana State Society of Washington. Basic idea of the dean's address was that U. 8. thinking has become “foggy” due to faulty education. He advised a religious reorientation. The first installment was introduced by an appraisal expressing complete approval written by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Marble Collegiate Reformed Church of New York City.

‘One of Greatest’

DR. PEALE WROTE: = “Dean Manion’s book gives the one certain method for making freedom strong in our time. It is one of the greatest books of all my reading experience, and I commend it to every patriotic man and woman.” A somewhat dimmer view of the Notre Dame dean’s book is taken by Rev. George G. Higgins, assistant director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conferencé with headquarters here. He sent out an NCWC book review under the title “Superficial Book.” Fr. Higgins cites a Chicago Tribune review by Walter Trohan calling the book “the finest politico-spiritual study of America I know” and comments that it isn't so. Pointing out that it may do harm to our

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present writer—a fellow-immigrant, = ‘genierations removed — is particularly bewildered by the author’s implicit indictment of the Republic of Ireland. Dr. Manion says, by obvious implication if not in so many words, that the government of the Republic of Ireland, and of all other nations on God's green earth, with the sole exception of the United States of America, holds to the proposition that government once installed is unlimited in

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Dean Manion «++ Key to Peace’

PRICES AND INFLATION

WASHINGTON; Feb. 24—The nation's railroads are pleading the Interstate Com-

merce Commission fof an immediate 6 per cent increase in freight rates despite these facts: _ONE: Freight rates already have gone up

War II in a succession of rate increases approved by the ICC. TWO.: Railroad earnings jumped sharply in 1950 over 1949, with the result that railroad stocks are selling at around the highest prices in two decades. THREE: The government supposedly is trying to “hold the line” .on prices and a rise in freight rates undoubtedly would serve to force upward the prices of

‘Not as Good’

“HIS thesis is that ‘Americanism offers the only valid formula for the ultimate achievement’ of the ideal of human brotherhood. The ‘genuine and really precious ‘diamonds of human clvilization,’ he said, are to be found ‘only in this—the United States of America’ It is unfortunate, he adds, that ‘every political system in the un-American world officially and categorically denies’ the sacredness of human personality. “If this means anything at all, it means that Ireland, among other countries, is either actually or potentially a totalitarian dictator-

Mr. Franklin

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many commodities. . How can the railroads plead they're in an emergency situation and need an immediate freight rate increase in the face of these facts? The railroads say they're anything but prosperous. And reams of statistics to back up this assertion are being presented to the ICC by “railroad company officials.

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Do the Railroads Have a Case In Asking ICC for Rate Hike?

return en net worth of 45 manufacturing industries in 1949 was 13.8 per cent; iron and steel industry, 11.5 per cent; auto and truck lumber industry, 11.3 per cent, and the railroads, on the same basis,

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industry, 30.8 per cent;

3.2 per cent. _ The railroad argument is “made -by ‘orga say they're Jule tr

of a rate increase to keep up with the increased cost of doing business since their last increase

in the summer of 1949.

President Walter 8S. Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad presented these figures for his Increased annual costs on account of wage increases to operating employees already agreed to, $18,180,000; and increased cost of materials and supplies on an annual basis because of the price rise since July 1, $26,772.000. 10 the Pennsylvania,

road:

Total increased costs $44,952,000.

Typical Story

THE ESTIMATED 6 per cent freight rate increase, Mr. Franklin estimated, would ‘raise his company’s revenues $45,883,000 on the basis of estimated 1951 business — slightly more than enough to offset the cost increases. lin said Pennsylvania's rate of return on investment was only 2.49 per cent in 1950, although the road's net operating income increased from $37 million in 1949 to over $57

million in 1950.

The Pennsylvania's story was typical of

those of other railroads.

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‘Beer or Antique Films?’ MR. EDITOR:

May I congratulate you on your current editorials in Tuesday and Wednesday Times on the abandoning of the Ken Murray show— purely because they advertise beer, a legitimate, lawful business. , Who do they (the IHSAA) think they are? That they can dictate the policy of a TV station;

what the people should and shouldn't see? And why doesn't WFBM live up to its reputation antl continue one of the few decent, live programs instead of this rotten, antique film stuff which we saw for 1'4 hours last Sunday afternoon? Surely, our youth has seen enough beer in the family refrigerator to know what it looks like—to say nothing of sampling it occasionally,

- ~Mrs. T. Tynan, City

‘You Can Do Better’ MR. EDITOR:

I just read your editorial in The Times. It eems to me that you in your position could do tter than to hold up for something that you know to be the ruination of so many fine young people. A teacher should not try to sit on both sides of the fence. You know (for you have sense) that beer can’t be right when you see so many drunkards on the street and so many sad faced children from drunken homes, Are you proud of that editorial? If you are I wish you would come down to Cloverdale and look at Mr. X and his family, I knew him as a young man before beer and then whisky got hold of him. I see him now a drunken sot and a menace to society. He has a family of sweet young girls, some like him, and some ashamed of him. In your next editorial please, please think of something better to hold up for than beer.’ —Just a Reader.

‘Don't Hide the Truth’ MR. EDITOR:

I am writing in regards to the Ken Murray show. I have a daughter, 16, a sophomore at Howe High School; a son, 14, an eighth grade pupil at School 82. I would hate very much to turn the TV off everytime a beer, wine or liquor or tobacco ad was broadcast and I also would consider myself a failure as a parent not to tell my children the truth or try to hide such facts from them. I feel I would drive them straight into it. There are such things as beer, wine, liquor and tobacco and always will be. I feel it my , place to teach my children right from wrong, ' what they should or showlen t do.

IF THE IHSAA is so interested in the high school youth and welfare, why doesn’t it get in the high schools and stop some of the five-cent lottery that gees on from time to time? The IHSAA stated “Many of the students would have bought tickets if they thought that

In other words you are thinking “we will get them next year. We won't let them know we are going to dismiss school until after they buy their tickets. We don’t care where they go or what they do if we get their money.” I think Mr. Phillips and the THSAA would hang their head in shame had they seen Ken Murray's show of Feb. 17, honoring the United States Marines. In my opinion Ken Murray is doing more to respect youth and what it stands for with his beer, than the IHSAA is with their dictating. ® % ¢ OUR ENTIRE family looks forward to seeing the Ken Murray show from week to week. If my children should take up smoking or drinking it isn’t going to be because they saw such advertisements before or after a baskets. ball TV. I enjoy basketball very much, but I am anxious to see how interested my children are in it on TV. My guess is it won't hold their attention like the Ken Murray show and my guess is they don’t watch the Ken Murray show for the beer ads. How stupid do you think the public is?

Mr. Frank-

~—Mrs. Edward W. Suhr, City

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amp. ... “The USA is a wonderful place in which to lve, but it's probably not as good as Manion says it is, nor are the other free nations of the world, including Ireland, quite as bad.”

WHEN MOTHER'S SICK

Our house was in an uproar . ., and nothing went just right . , . the fire died out cold and then . . . the cat stayed out all might . . . I had no socks to put on... no shirts of just my kind . . . and when it came to getting dinner + ++ I nearly lost my mind . . . now all this scurry worry . . . was because mother was sick « + +» and believe me when I tell you . . . nothing seemed to click . . . there is no other person «++ on whom so much depends . . . for no one knows the ropes like her , . . she knows the easy bends . . . now I believe I won’t forget . . . not for a long long lick , . , the chaos in our little house . . . the time mother was sick. ~—By Ben Burroughs.

NEWS NOTEBOOK . .

Heart of the railroad case is their increased operating costs and the rate of return they're earning on their investment. According to the railroads’ own figures, they’d be just about as well off if they could go out of business and put their money in 215 per cent government bonds. J. H. Parmelee, vice president of the Association of American Railroads, testified that during the 1946-50 period net railway operating revenue, including back mail pay, has averaged $825 million a year, a return of only 3.51 per cent on investment. ¥» 1950, the rate of return went up to 3.93 per cent. And, the railroads say, the rate will drop to 3.38 per cent in 1951 because of increasing costs if the 6 per cent freight rate increase is not granted. These figures are for the railroad industry as a whole. The proposed rate increase would, if granted, send railroad earnings up to 4.17 per cent on investment in 1951, it is estimated. Dr. Parmelee quoted National City Bank of New York statistics showing that the average

. By Peter Edson

The railroads say that if they're to maintain their equipment and trackage in the geod condition necessary for the country’s security and pay higher operating costs they must have the freight rate increase. Many shippers and some government agencies are opposing the proposed rate hike.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON —Former President Herbert Hoover agreed today to help President Truman plan aid for a famine-stricken India.

A serious matter we must now examine: The food which those Indians need. Without us, it seems, they’ll be facing a famine, So let us assist with all speed. Yet what do we hear as we probe the sad question? Nehru and his clique’s ifs and buts. They'd better pipe down or there'll be a suggestion: — Let's send back—those Indian nuts.

‘Control Dogs Here’ MR. EDITOR:

A few days ago your paper had an article about an epidemic of rabies here in Indianapolis, Its no wonder because the law to keep dogs in an enclosure or tied down is not being enforced. Nothing is done until some children get bitten and then we hear a big to-do in the papers. Lets not close the barn door after the horse has left. People who own dogs should take care of them or else not have any. I live in Broad Ripple and I have never seen so many dogs running loose. One never knows how vicious they are until it’s too late. I have three children and I certainly would like. to see the Police Department take care that my children, together with others, are not bitten. Give out tickets like the motorists are getting and this negligence on the part of dog owners would stop.

Mrs. John F. Taylor, City.

DiSalle Finds Out Politicians Always Know What They Want

Scientists Are Due for a Few Tough Problems From Mobilization Director C. E. Wilson

military situation will come in spring, after the rains are over and when the country-

WASHINGTON, Feb, 24—Price Director Michael V, DiSalle

side has dried out a little, Winter weather -has really worked to United Nations, ad-

Truman Administration Will Catch Blame for Shortages and Controls in 1952

vantage. First because of bet- sage in the ad was, “There's

has a story about political job-seekers which well illustrates some of the troubles he is now having, trying to assemble a staff

SIDE GLANCES

of state and regional price control officials. In Toledo, O., where Mr. DiSalle used to be mayor, there was a loyal political worker who came into the local party boss and

said, “I want to be postmaster,” The boss was somewhat

taken aback by the request. You can’t write very good and said, “You ought to know that.

“You can't be postmaster,” he you don't read any too well.” “Look,” said the job-seeker, “I didn't say I wanted to be assistant postmaster. I said I wanted to be postmaster.” ou = ”

MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR C. E. Wilson is taking a keen interest in government research and ‘ development programs and may be expected to give the scientific laboratories some tough problems to solve, Among them, synthetic production of materials now in short supply and badly needed for the defense effort. It is believed that substitutes can be found for many of the critical materials, and new processes developed to make others unnecessary. Experiments have already been made to produce synthetic diamonds and emeralds. They're not wanted for the Jewelry trade, but for industrial uses. The diamonds are used for precision grinding and @

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boring. The emeralds are used for bearings in precision instruments.

The synthetic emeralds are said to be so. good that the only way they can 'be told from the real emeralds is to try to smash them both. The synthetic emeralds won't smash, » LJ * POLITICAL implications of the three-year mobilization plan now being shaped up in Washington can’t be ignored. The two-year period of shortages and controls now fore seen will probably reach the height of unpopularity along about election time in 1952. Incidentally, 1952 may be » tougher year than 1051.

The Truman administration can hardly fail to catch much of the blame. Whoever runs in opposition can campaign on promises to remove controls, cut defense spending and reduce taxes. Whoever gets elected and takes office in 1953 can probably make good on those promises if the threeyear mobilization plan timetable works out. All bets ‘off, of course, in case a full-scale siooting war breaks out. Real showdown on Korean

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. By Galbraith ter equipment and greater abilWG . ity to withstand cold. Becond because tanks have been able to take off across rice paddies and go anyplace they had to. When rice fields are nothing but mud, tanks are confined to roads. And the tennis shoe-shod hordes of Chinese soldiers can operate without fear of frozen feet. That's when the big Communist push may be expected, in an effort to drive United Nations forces off the Korean peninsula. » " r

EXCHANGE of prisoners taken in Korean fighting is being attempted by United Nations countries through neutral nation negotiators. South Korean forces are now holding over 170,000 Communist prisoners captured by United Nations troops in the eight months of fighting. There are no estimates or reports on how many prisoners the Communists hold. American soldiers reported missing in action number under 10,000. So far, all efforts to arrange exchange have failed. » » .

YOU never can tell how the public will react, as the experience of- one big chain store © outfit illustrates. stop scare buying, this chain prepared & big newsletter ad for publication in all cities

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plenty of everything. No need to rush in and buy.” Believing that the ad was run deliberately to cover up shortages, shoppers came to the stores in droves and bought everything they could afford, whether they needed it

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OFFICE of Price Stabilization's theory on controlling price markups, instead of controlling prices, can best be illustrated by one example. Study of past price differentials from slaughterhouse to retail meat ‘market has demonstrated that, on the average, when beef sells for $33 a hundredweight to the livestock raiser, the price of roundsteak in the meat market should be around 90 cents a pound. When roundsteak is selling for $1.10 a pound and beef is $33, then there's too much markup someplace along the line, » ” »

SPOKESMEN for Economic Stabilization Director Eric Johnston deny that h$“ teok the job to further presidential

aspirations which he once held, -

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