Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1951 — Page 26

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n Light for Road Hogs.

WASN'T surprising, really, to learn yesterday that the .chie lobbyist for the trucking industry hadn't bothered register as a lobbyist. - No doubt he can persuade the legislature to change that _ if he's found in violation of it. His industry has done real well along that line so far thik session. We wouldn't expect it to have much respect for the General Assembly, yor the laws it passes. ‘ Overloaded, speeding trucks are swiftly smashing the

whole highway system of this state into rubble. #2 Existing laws are so weak and so’ full of loop-holes that othing much can be done about it. : “". The bill to the people of Indiana for damage already done by trucks runs into millions. It is getting bigger every day,

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: A REASONABLE proposal—too generous to the truck wners, but still a step in the right direction—was intro-

8 hots It provided that after a truck owner had been conficted 10 times of breaking the law against overloading his

& It put the responsibility for overloading a H, where # belongs . . . on the man who owns the truck. & Ten overloaded trucks might easily smash $100,000

y . . . or $200,000 worth . . . before they

are caught. Most of them are not caught now, and of those caught most are not punished. But under this bill they had do be caught and convicted 10 times before the state of {Indiana could rule them oy israads. .. . THAT wasn't | generous edoligh to suit the truck lobby. These persuasive gentlemen talked the House into mk." the it a five-day suspension after 10 convictions . . 10-day suspension after 20 convictions . . . and so on. Already an absurdity, it still was distasteful to those “Who want to hog the roads of Jadians for private profit.

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Words to Frame

rue ‘Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has turned +¢~ thumbs down on a proposed $500,000 federal handout. The Indiana Flood Control Commission has been put“ting the bee on Congress for that amount to curb Fall Creek at Indianapolis, contending that the project would aid ational defense by protecting the Indiana University Med-

(“National defense” has become a new tag for federal ‘pork.’ Detroit, for example, has obtained a $450,000 public«works advance from the government for a new city hall which will “contribute to national defense” by providing j Jmore office space for the military in the Detroit area.) President J. Ralph Fenstermaker of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce agrees that the flood-control project is desirable. But he thinks it should be financed locally, and promises that the Chamber will help to do that.

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. .. THE CHAMBER, he has told Indiana Congressmen, does not see how the project can logically be supported as necessary to defense. It believes that federal aid in this and many other fields is destructive of local government and, in the long run, more costly to local taxpayers. It believes, further, that all items in the $71 billion federal budget which aren’t truly essential to national defense and welfare must be cut drastically. which every civic booster organization in the country ought to frame and hang on its walls, he added: “We have often heard that this astronomical federal spending program cannot be cut because local communities SIDE GLANCES all over the country demand that their representatives in Congress work for items to their special benefit. We should like to clear you of any obligation in that respect.”

No Mistake

OME people fear the states have made a mistake by ratifying the 22d Amendment to the U. 8. Constitution. Now that no future President can be elected to more Bian two consecutive terms, they argue: ONE: Second-term Presidents may not be able to congrol their political parties. 8. TWO: The people may wish, but be forbidden, to regle Presidents whose second terms end in periods of war @r other national crisis. i Well, through unwritten tr rom seeking re-election. pining party contrgl, the results were not disastrous. - The argument that the people's desire to continue the tenure of “indispensable” Presidents may be thwarted has "no more validity. - The real danger, once the two-term tradition was broken, became that all future Presidents would -/be tempted to grasp for ever-increasing powers and use them to make themselves seem indispensable. . The 22d Amendment will give future second-term Presidents strong incentive to encourage, rather than obstruct, rise within their parties of other capable leaders whom 2 people may, if they see fit, elect to the highest office, alts a good and necessagy amendment, The states have “made no mistake,

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fluence-peddling, an $8000 mink coat in the

White House and other administration troubles, Harry Truman files off to Key West today for a spot of sunshine convinced he’s right on most things and will be proved so in the long haul, Men close to the President sizg up his state of mind about as follows:

believes the history

sees he directed helped defeat the in France and Italy, bucked up Greece and Turkey and snd checked Russian blustering over the Dardanelles, arrested economic Europe, "helped. keep nt into a vacuum in Japan and y. the development of the North Atlantic Treaty idea and a Western European military force. . These moves, Harry Truman is said to feel, represent monuments to his administration. On the domestic side, Mr. Truman is impressed with reports that more Americans own their homes than ever before and that business profits are high. He believes the general economic base sound despite the inflation danger.’ In personal problems, Harry Truman probably felt the ‘pressure most intensely in November and December when the U. B. was taking an unholy pushing-around in Korea and

. when the task of turning peacetime production

around to big rearmament seemed . 80 beset with-delay. + But the Korean picture is better today. The

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Fight-Battle Of Bunker Hill

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2-— Indiana's own battle of Bunker Hill continues to baffle two congressional committees and remains one of the classic examples of what makes Washington weird.

- For instands, who could imagine that ‘the state would approve the Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics, “Inc., through its department of public instruction and the school never exist? How did the late War Assets Administration ship an estimated $4 million to $7 million (General Accounting Office figures) for the aeronautical school to the naval air station addressed to Bunker Hl School, which is also a nonentity?

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Re Sone on EnEvRve’ BANE “plored all d day yesterday and far into the night. v The Bunker Hill leases were investigated last year by the House Armed. Services Committee. Two Hoosier Republicans are on the subcommittee, Rep, Cecil Harden, Covington, and Rep. Charles B. Dain Indianapolis. They. were

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his questioning. : "As near as the hearings tame to: making sense, this battle of Bunker Hill is the aftermath of a split between two men. They are

Wayne Ladd, Indiana soy bean processor, who

helped organize the Bunker Hill Corp. and take over the naval base on a dollar-a-year lease and C. Harrah of Niles, Mich. and Bouth ration but was made an outsider. His aeronautical school project was forced to move to Seymour, Ind, and finally fold. Mr. Harrah testified that Howard L. Pemberton, one-time Indianapolis test-pilot for Allison’s and Curtiss-Wright, originated the school idea, which he still thinks was a good one. Trouble was it never got Civilian Aeronautics Administration certification and wasn't in operation in time to qualify for GI bill of rights students under the Veferans Administration rules. In fact it never functioned at all and after being forced off Freeman Field at Seymour the WAA shipments they had were scattered, the most being in a Niles warehouse under Mr. Harrah’s watchful eye. What he has, he would not say, he testified most of the boxes haven't been opened yet and he would have to take the WAA invoice for what is in them. He did know he had some airplane engines. however, and ten of these he peddled for $14,750 after paying $10 each for them to WAA under the mythical school deal. They now are back in Army contract service with the California Eastern Corp.

Name Was Changed Later On

THE Aeronautical school, which was later changed from the Bunker Hill to the Indiana Aeronautical School, Seymour, was rated as a non-profit educational institution and therefore, got WA A supplies at a 95 per cent discount. They agreéd that none would be sold except for junk, but Mr. Harrah testified he ran out on that one without WAA permission. Another mystery which the hearings helped develop was a letter from the Internal Revenue Department exempting the aeronautical school as a non-profit maker in which $200,000 had been invested. Mr. Harrah said that was a typographical error and produced an affidavit showing it should have been $20,000.

EVEN Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.), who a nmittes

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$5 ENTERTAINMENT .

Dospite a, Ho Hin s still The Cocksure Missourian

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. By Frederick ¢ C. Othman

A Quick Way to Lose Cash—

VINA DEL MAR, Chile, Mar. 2—The Crime yes ama of Ben, Estes. Kefauver.:

De “Hroorested = vr now: t LL COE have DISET gamblers; Fawr And settle samen ways the good Senator never

would imagine. Here at the seashore in this southernmost republic is the Casino Municipal, a vast white , wedding cake . of a building in mar: =}#

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ble, devoted to sep- Bil > arating the suckers on from their money in Uy the pleasantest possible way. The profits support the city gov- \ ernment. The gambling . ble with crystal trim- lp » mings feature roulette and chemin de = fer. Leading off the P= flower-banked foyer is amirror-lined night club with a big-time floor show, three bars, a library for weary gamblers, a grill room and a formal dining room with a string orIn the latter chamber Don Carlos Busto, the manager of this fantastic enterprise, fed me chicken a la Maryland with fried bananas and explained how the Chilean government discovered that too many Chilenos were trading their income tax money for 100-peso chips. The decree went out a couple of weeks ago that no citizen could enter the Casino unless he showed his income tax bill stamped paid. too many housewives spending the grocery money on the green baize tables. The management fixed that in a hurry. A lady can get in the front door it her taxpaid husband is along. If she comes alone she must present a letter from her spouse saying she has his permission to wager the family funds on the spinning ball. Only fellows who enter with no questions flash their passports and they are free to bankrupt themselves at their own pleasure. Don Carlos, does, however, present each departing client with a 20-peso chip, worth about 15 cents, so he can hire a horsedrawn hack for the weary ride back to his hotel. I fooled Don Carlos. On the theory that my dinner, including two kinds of wine, tips, and a Havana perfecto, was worth about $5 U.S.A,

rooms in pink marchestra. Don Carlos said also there were complaints of asked are Americanos. They need merely to WAGES, PRICES .

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Truman.

trialist they portray as the spokesman of “big business.” © The United Labor Policy Committee, representing all important unions except the United Mine Workers, has cut loose with a bang from all direct participation in the defense mobilization drive. After weeks of boiling, , much of it : highly audible, the labor volcano suddenly erupted Wednesday night. All union representatives were ordered out of advisory committees in the Office of Defense Mobilization (Mr. Wilson's agency); nomic Stabilization Agency (Eric Johnston); the Defense Production Administration (Willlam H. Harrison); and

Mr. Wilson . «at odds

“ThA kind of man | like! He either works or loafs with all his Mightete doesn't sit around $ilfing papers!’

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that when a Michel, ‘changes tables, he is

supposed ‘to change the color of his chips? Mine were dark blue, which I disttibuted impartially on all two dozen tables. They got mixed up with the dark blue chips of other gamblers, causing the croupiers to get into arguments with the customers, and finally bringing out the house dick to locate the villain.

A Bit Excited ;

HE WAS polite about it, in an excited Latin way, and thereafter I tried out chips in 14 different shades, ranging from violet to deep or--ange. The way I figure it, I won. It took me an hour and a half to lose my $5 and where else can you buy so much entertainment for so little? Don Carlos was waiting for me in the bar with the peacocks on the wall. He was disappointed that my winnings in cash were nil The casino is open, he said, for only six months of the year. When fall arrives here next month, the place closes up tight, and he resumes his other profession as real estate agent. Big winners frequently like to buy a little place on the seashore complete with. modern bath, two maids and a gardener, and Don Carlos said he had in mind several particularly nice yillas he’d like to have shown me. “Xhother time, maybe,” he said. “Maybe,” said I. And if Sen, Kefauver wants any other details on how to control the evils of “gambling, I'll be back in Washington in another couple of weeks.

HUSBAND'S PRAYER

This is a prayer to you dear God . . . so you will help me be . . . the most devoted husband that . . . the world will ever see . . . give. me the fortitude my God . . . to work and do my best . . . so that my wife will feel that I... am equal to each test . . . and let me not forget to do . . . the little things that count . . . so highly in a woman’s life . . . for in her heart they mount . . . make me be loving, kind and true . . win everything I say . . . so that our lives will go untouched . . . by gossip -and decay « « « give me the courage God of mine . .. to weather all alarm . . . so I may hold her close to me .. . far from all worldly harm... bestow on me’ deep gratitude . . , God make me worthy of . . . the one who brings me happiness + + » and gives me all her love. -—By Ben Burroughs.

. By Fred Perkins

__Roing on the State “re paying a fancy price?

_ of standards to attract sufficient men to man

Swing Your Partner’

discuss his thinking on the RFC mess but leave no doubt that he is deeply concerned. seems some belief he may take action on own. One thought is by ent” for the moment. His use of the % e’ in connection with the RF is said to have related only to the whom charges had a critical report. It was not meant to question the committee's right to investigate the At Key West, Mr. Truman will not be . ing off all work. Jimportant | mail will be flown to him and teletypes will him in most of the time with Washingion, But be free of long, daily calling lists, : Mr. Truman has spent some hts. trying to solve current labor shows up most mornings with oy amount of reading done, and qu front & many:qountey study of a n-in-the-stree thinking in Europe today or from the writ of a Sixteenth Century cardinal, we ‘That Mr. Truman sees 80 many more than any recent President—is pro offset to the fact that the Presidency is in

ways a lonely office, The more he sees, the sure his feeling about what people are thinking,

As to 1952 and another term, Mr, Truman probably has not made up his own min Truman is opposed. Close friends say r he runs might be decided by the Republicans. They think if the GOP chose Sen. Robert XK. Taft, whose thinking is so completdly .opposits to Mr, Truman's, that might drive the Missourian right into-the fight again. min

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The horse trading and farce going on wo State House currently is enough to make sincerely interested in improving the under which we live, sick at heart. - I have long been an advocate of requiring

more inténsive study of bur forin of government . and the way it operates, among our youth, and * notice that a bill ‘was offered recently, - & gpecial study of our elective system on day. Can 'you realize how nauseating it will ps even to callow youth, to have to devote precious school. hours to study some of -the.n

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As an example . . . bills were offered providing for increases in" pay for our police. and fire forces . . . to bring their earnings into line with prevailing wage scales. We are facing a period when many of the present force will be

called into military service, or will be attracted

to other jobs by more interesting earnings, with consequent inability to replace them: .. .

of these public servants tp hold down insurance

costs as well as to continue unbroken our present line of p i

place oo 0) oo : min temptations, and require lowering

the forces. Penny wise and pound foolish? —A. J. Schneider, City

MR. EDITOR:

I wish to commend Ed Sovola on his recent article constructively criticizing the ‘so-called humorous antics of the State Legislature. MF, Sovola, certainly not lacking a sense of humor, knows that this is neither the time nor place for such displays. The next time these legislative playboys feel they must be entertained, I suggest they call on the police and firemen’s wives. We could sing them a song with lyrics like they have never heard. And we might even throw in a dance as an added attraction. It’s called “Swing Your Partner.” I'd like to have as mine, Sen. Kendall, I'd just like to swing him right out some window. Don’t forget now, call on us anytime, you can engage us cheap. You could even pitch us pennies because in our homes every one counts, —Mrs. Policeman, City

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

SAMPSON AIR FORCE BASE, N. Y~— Walter and Thomas Cross, identical twins, have reported for training here. Their flight chief, Cpl. Francis Broughton, can’t tell them apart. “This punishment is corporal,” The worried flight chief said. “The ringers in this corps, plural, “Have darned near knocked me dead.”

“To tell who's who I've tried my best, “And still I'm at a loss. “These lads have caused me great Unrest “A private double-cross!”

Charles Wilson Set for Tough Labor Fight

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—It .ooks like a fight to a decision that organized labor has jumped into with National Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson—top and trusted defense aid of President

No face-saving or other panty-waist moves appear adequate in this battle between top union leaders and the former indus-

» - » ALSO directed to withdraw were: George M. Harrison, who as special assistant to Mr. Johnston briefly occupied the most important post by a union spokesman in this emergency; A. J. Hayes, special assistant to Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg; and Joseph D. Keenan and Ted B8ilvey, representing “>the AFL and CIO on the staff of William H. Harrison. The three labor members of the Wage Stabilization Board (Cyrus 8. Ching) had already resigned two weeks ago. Wednesday they were instructed not to rejoin. The Office of Price Stabilization had not yet carried out a plan to name a labor consultant to Director Michael V. DiSalle. Though few labor spokesmen still remain on committees “in some “old line” government agencies, union leaders have ‘shot the works” in

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participants had known what went on in a meeting in Mr. between him and the union leaders. George Meany, AFL secretary-treas-urer,.“ and Jacob Potofsky, president of the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers, led sharp attacks on Mr. Wilson. £ About .a dozen men took part in framing the Labor Policy - Committee statement. All were Democrats. Gist of 2000 words was this paragraph: “It is amply clear to the United Labor Policy Committee that Mr. Wilson does not want labor participation in the . mobilization “program: he now would accept window dressing supplied by labor, to cover: the back-room activities of the leaders of industry who staff the Office of Defense Mobilization.”

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.. THE committee said it realized “the “gravity of this decision” but “in no other way

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on the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated upon them.” The outstanding wrongs were itemized as a just - issued price order

dispute. “which amounts to legalized € 8 4 : robbery of every American cit--THE mans withdrawal izen — together wit a wage could have been forecast order which denies justice and

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“who works for wages” Mr, Wilson was charged with an “arrogant” attitude in assuming control of manpower pole icies. The union men, who weeks ago resisted transfer of control over manpower from Secretary Tobin to Mr. Wilson's office, declared that “so long as the control of manpower rests in the OI’M, no American wage or salary earner may feel safe that the big business clique in control of that agency may not seek to achieve a compulsory draft of the nation's workers.”

” LJ » THE Labor Committee put out two feelers toward a ree conciliation: (A) “Inthe interests of our country ang the cause of international “peace and freedom, we stand ready to meet with responsible representatives of our government to continue.to seek a remedy for the insupportable conditions facing us.” (B) “We reiterate that we are prepared to participate In - a reconstituted tripartite wage

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