Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1951 — Page 18

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Bus Safety Code THE Senate has acted wisely in dirécting the Indiana Traffic Safety Council (or whichever agency Gov. Schricker may designate) to formulate a bus safety code for Indiana and make recommendations on bus safety in general to the 1953 General Assembly. Commendation is due particularly to members of the Senate Public Safety Committee, who sponsored the Senate resolution, They worked slowly and carefully to determine how bus lines could neglect safety precautions without being found out, and to prescribe a remady for it

NO ACTION ‘wa's.taken or attempted against the companies named in complaints, since evidence quickly began‘: to fade. Drivers who testified before the committee said. mechanical upkeep became noticeably better with | appear. ~ ance of ‘the first story on_the probe. The S¢nate's action deserves an adequate followup * a thorough job of investigation and study during the next two years. And it deserves serious consideration by the next Legislature. 3

*Hold-Up in Tin = ERE we are once more stocking up the arsenal of democracy - to help supply our - Alliés with food, machinery and munitions against the menace of an all-out war. : ~ And what happens? Some of our: Allies are gouging us unconscionably on the price of one of the most important strategic ‘materials we need-—tin. “The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by "Sen. Johnson of Texas, has just given us a painfully sulightening picture of the squeeze Hat's Jing put us.

Se CONTROL over most of the. world’s tin—we ‘produce +

“next to none—ig in the hands of a few British, Duteb, .. a om

Belgian and Bolivian «corporations with ‘interfock king connections, ‘and influential voices in their governments, * Before Korea, tin was around 75 cents a pound. Now, as a result of apparently deliberate production cuts and feverish speculation, prices have shot to an all-time high of $2 a pound. Nations which never before showed any great interest in tin have been buying it up and offering it to the United . States at virtual black-market quotations ranging up to $5 a pound. At the present exorbitant price, the cost of reaching - our tin stockpiling goal will be hundreds of millions of - dollars more than it would have been before Korea. The American taxpayer, as the Johnson report observes, is getting weary of being gouged for the privilege of obtaining from some of our Allies the raw materials with which we are expected to supply food and armaments they would Reed. in 3 word war.

WHO'S T0 blame? Well, primarily, those greedy for-

eign producers who insist on following a cynical, business-as-usual course in these stringent times. Next, our State Department and the Economic Co-operation Administration, for not cracking down. “Neither of these agencies,” says the committee, “deemed the matter sufficiently vital to condition grants of Marshall Plan funds or other foreign aid upon the taking of measures by the recipient nations to increase tin production.” We repeatedly have urged that the Marshall Plan be put to work more aggressively on building up our strategic stockpile. The warning of the Hoover Commission and of Bernard Baruch have been unheeded. Now we are paying for our official timidity and our policy of handouts without strings ‘attached. And, incidentally, learning a little more about the presumed good faith of some of our Allies.

Bad Smell in Mississippi PRO- “TRUMAN Democrats in Mississippi have been adding their bit to the odor of corruption, or close facsimile thereof, which rises from too many places in the federal government. Clark Porteous, a Scripps-Howard staff writer, ig making an on-the-ground investigation of charges of federal job selling in that state. He finds much evidence to support the charges. One war veteran, for instance, has told him of paying the Democratic State Headquarters $250 for a temporary appointment as rural mail carrier. Another applicant, who paid $500 in two installments, got a permanent appointment.

. o = THE pro-Truman faction, according to Mr. Porteous, is short of really big federal patronage to dispense. That's because Mississippi's U. S. Senators Eastland and Stennis, both sympathizers with the rival States Rights or Dixiecrat faction, can block appointments to major posts which require Senate confirmation. So the pro-Trumanites have been dealing in smaller plums—minor postal jobs, etc.—and apparently doing a brisk business. Charges were made in Congres¥\yecently _ that they were offering for sale jobs in the new ¥ederal " Price-Control Organization. William M. Boyle, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has removed Mississippi's acting national committeeman from office, and post office inspectors are checking into the situation. Strong measures obviously are required. The Post Office Department, in particular, should be determined to «Clean up such situations wherever they exist and to seek «the sternest punishment Provided by law for political job : + Bellers,

. THE public can't be blamed for suspecting that the : { huge postal deficit is not altogether due to inadequate postage rates—that a lot of it may be due to inefficiency | resulting from political shenanigans. 4 To employees hired, not because they are the best qualified applicants, but because ‘they pay the highest prices into Democratic campaign chests. And to wholesale frauds, like the one exposed recently in Boston, where ~Democratie politicos got temporary post office jobs for “hundreds of ward heelers who did nothing but punch s: 4 clocks and collect ry

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EUROPEAN REARMAMENT . +o: By Ludwell Denny

Germans Want Rich Uncle Sam To , Pay For Their

FRANKFURT, Mar. 7—The German stalling on rearmament is more a matter of money than morals. The main issue is who picks up the check. V They aré chiseling on payment of pre-war and post-war debts. They object to carrying their fair share of defense expenses, including Allied occupation costs. ' Meanwhile the big business interests—which are close to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and dominate economic policy of the two largest parties in the Cabinet—want to continue peacetime production and take over markets which Allied industry is losing by conversion to military output.

Practical Mattéis Delayed +

ALL of which is a far cry from the sundry propaganda lines used by special interest groups to befuddle the war-weary and frightened Ger- * man people. But while the politicians talk about the right to more “sovereignty,” and the generals demand more military “equality” and restoration of “the honor of the German soldier” and the Protestant preachers paint the glories of “neutrality,” more practical matters delay Allled-German agreement. The Bonn Government could have had more . sovereign rights under a modified Occupation Statute as long as last September. But for six

DEAR BOSS . . By Dan Kidney Brownson Gives Reporters Break

WASHINGTON, Mar, 7—Former Democratic Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, took two and one-half lines for his biography in the 81st Congress Congressional Directory.

In the 82d Directory, out today, his successful Republican opponent, Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis, takes 25 lines, His biographical sketch is the longest of the 13-mem-ber delegation from the state,” which includes the two Senators and 11 Congressmen. ; So far as newspapermen are concerned, Mr. Brownson deserves a vote of thanks and Mr. Jacobs one of censure. For the biographical section of the directory is designed to give the background of a member of Congress and cutting it down to zero is considered a sign of the sort of humility which is really pride.

Mr. Jacobs merely reported that he was “born in Perry County, Feb. 22, 1906; lawyer; married; one son and two daughters; elected to the 81st Congress on Nov. 2,.1948.”

Little Information

FOR such a colorful one-termer. ug he turned out to be, that was completely insufficient to get

Mr. Brownson, on the other hand, may have felt it necessary to fully expand his biography since he ‘is the only Republican not born in Indiana now ‘serving from the state. He was’ born in Jackson, Mich., Feb. 5, 1914. The other non-native is Democrat Rep. Ray Madden, Gary. He was born.in Minnesota and came to Lake County from Nebraska.

Being the first GOP Congressman from Marion County in 22 years may have been another good reason for Mr. Brownson's expansiveness. Also he has an outstanding World War II service record and entered politics through his veteran connections.

A charter member of Ernie Pyle Post; No. 1120. Veterans of Foreign Wars. he is past commander of John H. Holliday Jr. Post, No. 186, and the Eleventh District Department of the American Legion. His biography shows that he is ‘‘past president Marion County Republican Veterans of World War II; member of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Sigma Nu, Mystic Tie Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite. Murat Shrine, Forty and Eight, Indianapolis Press Club, Indiana Society

. of Chicago, Marion County Juvenile Court Ad-

visory Council, and Optimist Club No. 1.”

Capehart Leads

WHEN it comes to being a joiner, however, Sen. Homer E, Capehart. continues to lead the list. He put himself down as a member of “Lutheran Church, Masons, Shrine, American Legion, Elks, Indiana Societies of Chicago and New York, Moose, Eagles, Columbia and Indianapolis Athletic Clubs, National Republican Club of New York, National Press Club, Indianapolis Press Club, Indiana Press Club of Washington and Burning Tree Country Club of Washington, D.C» It is essential for the senior Senator to get that D. C. in because he lists his home town as Washington; Ind. Mr. Brownson is a University of Michigan man and has a freshman GOP colleague from the Ann Arbor school, Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr., South Bend. He also is a veteran and had an engineering degiee from Northwestern University before he went to Michigan to study law.—Businessman (wholesale wallpaper and paint) in Indianapolis, Mr. Brownson majored in psychology in college. He is a Hoo-sier-by-marriage, Mrs, Brownson being a native of Ft. Wayne.

JAPAN ... By Peter Edson

U. S. Adopting a

Treaty Technique?

WASHINGTON, Mar, 7—Background for John Foster Dulles’ efforts to draft-a U. S.-Japanese peace treaty makes a highly complex picture. In some respects, the situation in Europe is simplicity itself by comparison. There is at least an agreed-upon, Peace prospects in the Pacific are

single objective in Europe. roiled by many political cross-currents.

months 1 has held up recognition of its foreign debts, demanding credit for

expropriated . property, allowance for the smaller size of West

Germany, and similar claims, Now. there is an apparent belated agreement in principle, which should have beeff"obtained last fall, but details will be long in settlement.

That debt settlement and accompanying re-

duction of Allied control powers here was supposed to pave the way for an informdl treaty,

‘Good Gosh—Another One?

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MIGHTY MOUNTAINS

share joint def : This is the matter which has been fire over two ‘months since the Brussels ference. Apart from inconclusive

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By Frederick C. Othman

20,000-Foot Peaks Give Way To M’Lady’s Dainty Parisian Hats

ROUTE TO MONTEVIDEO, Mar 7— ne Noo casual-like, I crossed the Andes, mightiest mountain range in the world, and I still am pinching myself. I don’t believe it. These mountains make the Rockies look Itke potato hills and the Alps like pimples. They are sullen chunks of rock in sullen colors of purple and black and gray with snow, even in this South American midsummer, dusting their dozens of 20,000-foot peaks. They are dotted with lakes of deepest green that man never has seen, except from above. And there I was in a soft chair of coral-colored leather in the lounge of a Panagra DC-6, sipping orange juice while the wildest country left on the globe slid below at 300 miles per hour. I was goggle eyed. What gave me the biggest jolt was the sophisticated lady on my left. She ignored the most spectacular landscape on earth in favor of a picture magazine from the U.S.A. I glanced over her shoulder and, so help me, she was studying a layout of Paris hats. As soon as we, left Santiago, Chile, we began to climb steeply, while most of the other passengers unsheathed their cameras for photos of jagged peaks that looked in the super-clear air as if you could touch ’em. They'd hardly

SIDE GLANCES

snapped their first pictures when the ship at 21,000 feet crossed the Argentine line. That stopped the art work. The bheauteous blonde stewardess, a Miss Wood from Paraguay, picked up all cameras and put them in bond. Seems that Dictator Juan Peron doesn’t want tourists making photos of his mountains. It may be that he considers them a war secret; Miss Wood did not know. After about 30 minutes the country began to flatten out in the Pampas of the Argentine cow country and Capt. Frank Havelick, Panagra’s chief pilot, strolled back for a bite and a chat about the loftiest aerial operation on earth.

In the Old Days

HE HAD a chicken sandwich, ice cream, peaches, and cookies while he talked over the problems of navigation that is dang-near celes-

tial. In the old days, and not many years ago at that, his men flew little two-engine jobs

across the hump. They'd fly through the pass,

which looks a little like Grand Canyon, with granite towering far above their wing tips. Sometimes, he said, the winds blew so hard that the planes stood still under full power and he sat there and wondered if he'd ever get where he was supposed to go. So we slid at dusk into Dictator Peron’s

airport de luxe on the Atlantic to be met with * efficiency, South American style. His customs

agents registered all typewriters and cameras, so nobody’'d sell one in the Latin black market, while a small nurse stood on her tiptoes to insert thermometers in the mouths of the tall Americanos.

By Galbraith

New

consumers.

Germany has been paying part of the Occupation cost. This takes 25 per cent of her total

federal and state budgets. That.compares with United Kingdom defense costs of 25 per cent, France 35 per cent, and the U.B.A. 42 per cent of the federal budget—all of which are being drastically increased. A better basis of comparison is the defense percentage of national income. Ours is about 17 per cent and Germany's a little over 5 per cent, 5 Though Allied forces in Germany are to be tripled or quadrupled, the United States is only asking her to double her financidl contribution. That would take only 10 per cent of her national income, or little more than half the burden carried by the American citizen. But she is unwilling to pay more than 7 per cent.

Since VE-Day Germany has paid for U. 8, *°

Zone occupation costs a total of $2.7: billion, “while the U. 8. has paid $4.1 billion. In addition

- the U.. 8. has supplied §4 billion of aid to Ger

many, making a total of $8.1. billion. So- we have put in here three times as much as Germany has paid us.

Cut Down Unemployment

EVEN the money Germany has “paid” us has been funneled right back into the German economy. It has helped to keep Ge hi from starving. It has cut down Germany's serious unemployment by giving American jobs here to 140,000 Germans, which takes over a third of the total Occupation-Costs budget.

This does not include 60,000 more Germans employed by the U. 8, out of its own separate budget. y .

Now that the Russian threat has increased the Germans want more instead of fewer Occu--pation troops, so they will not have to raise an army, But just as they object to having Germans made ‘mercenary troops’ for the Allies, so they do not want to make mercenaries out of -American and Allied troops here—the Germans want them free, .

“I do not agree with a word thet you “say, but I will defend to the death yeur right to say it."

‘Asleep at the Switch’ ; MR. EDITOR: :

I wonder how much good Mr, Letbowitz's reporting on the activities of the Communists in Indiana will do? He's got some: solid stuff there, and I'm glad to see it in Times. Only trouble is, we're asleep at the switch again. Not all our fault though. Millions of words on this subject are drummed at us daily . + « and not all of them make too much sense. Too much of the stuff is being “sucked out of the thumb” by would be commentators and newspapermen. It's refreshing to get a few facts that you can lay your hand on: 7

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TOO MUCH of the stuff is being thrown around in Washington and it has a strong smell of “political artistry.” The people want to finish off the Red-threat in this country but they don’t want to brand innocent people. Their caution is natural, They don’t want to accept everything at face-value, because somebody might call them a Red some day. Let's fight the Reds with everything we have, but let's be careful. We don't want to hurt anyone that is on our side—Anti-Red, City. ® & o '

‘Rent Control—Bah’

MR.-EDITOR: The law to control the use and rent of property has sacrificed justice, on the shrine of welfare. The object of Jaw is to protect the person and property of each citizen as absolute against the direct invasion of Congress without court procedure. Rent control is the wrongful exercise of police powers. Enforcing rent control is not for the purpose of justice. It is for the sole-purpose of gaining for private advantages in the rent and use of property by compelling some humble citizen, by the use of police powers, to relinquish his security in rent and the use of his property to some other private citizen. This pitting of one against the other according to his need is not our ideals of law and justice. It is communism, wk F. Frantz, City.

PRICE CONTROL . . . By Earl Richert

Farm Groups Oppose Consumer Subsidy

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—The administration Y. ‘warned indirectly not to try to use subsidies to hold down food prices to

Four major farm organizations declared their stout opposi-

tion to such subsidies. And spokesmen for the groups predicted they could defeat in

Congress any move to launch

Why are the

The usual way to get a peace treaty is in a full dress peace conference. Mr. Dulles, as special representative of the President with the rank of ambassador, is apparently trying to get a peace treaty by direct negotiation, It is a new technique. It seems to have a good chance of initial success within the next six months. If achieved, it will likely come in two or three steps. First, a separate U. 8.-Jap-anese treaty. A still secret, draft text is already supposed to have been largely agreed to ‘by Japanese negotiators under Premier Yoshida.

THE second step would be for Australia, New Zealand, the Philippine Islands, Nationalist China and perhaps other powers to make similar, separate peace treaties with Japan. The third step would be to tle everything together in a Pacific pact agreement. The purpose of -this pact would be to fit Japan into an island screen, so that an off-shore Asian group would be a barrier to Communist penetration in the Pacific.

For the near future, it would :

seem wise to keep the British, French, Dutch and Portuguese out of this Pacific alliance. Othegwise it would take on too

much flavor of an old-time colonial imperialism. All this is going to require

' considerable diplomatic man-

agement. British Commonwealth of Nations would probably have to give its consent to Australian and New Zealand participation. The British fear anything that might jeopardize their position in Hong Kong. They . fear American dominance in the Pacific. » tJ ” BRITISH, Australians and New Zealanders all fear Japanese rearmament in any degree. They mistrust possible revival of Japanese commercial rivalry. The Filipinos still talk about wanting to collect reparations from Japan for war damages. It would of course be impossible to get India and Nationalist. China to agree to a Japanese - peace treaty in the same room. All these are reasons, however for trying to get a peace treaty with the ' Japanese through separate negotiations, rather than through a peace conference of them all. »(Fetting the Japanese to go along on the American peace program also will require considerable finesse. The Japanese people are believed to be 90 per cent pacifist. Their new constitution forbids rearmament “forever,” Se the Jap

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"Why is it, whenever there's something to take back to a store, you're always the shy, retiring, defenseless type!”

government wants guarantees of security and protection from

” » AS Ambassador Dulles outlined in his s§ h before the America-Japan jety in Tokyo, the United States will

'qopathetically consider an in-

Vitation that U. 8. troops be Tetained in Japan.’ In his Tokyo press conference, Ambassador Dulles made clear that revisions of the Japanese surrender terms would not even be considered. This means that Formosa woul re d gain _Chiness,

a consumer subsidy program. Congressional approval would

be necessary since the price

control law now prohibits the use of subsidies to hold down prices. The four farm organizations were the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange, the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives and

the National Milk Producers

Federation. ” » nr A FIFTH farm organization, the National Farmers Union, refused to join the others. The Farmers Union said it was opposed to the use of subsidies on farm commodities which were selling below parity. But, when products reach parity and higher prices are needed to get more production it favors “incentive payments” such as ware used in World War II.

ment paid out nearly $5 billion in direct payments to farmef's and processors so that prices of such products as meat, milk, # butter ‘and flour could be held at a fixed price to consumers. Although no formal subsidy proposal has been made, there is some thought in the administration today that it will be impossible to maintain firm price ceilings on food {items without the use of direct sub- ; sidles. i *

major farm organizations (except for the Farmers Union) agains consumer subsidies, since the farmers themselves would get the government payments? Here ate the reasons they give: ONE: Subsidies fool the housewives by making them believe the price they pay across the grocery counter is the real and only price. - TWO: Subsidies hide the fact that the amount of the subsidy, plus the cost of administration, must be made up in taxes paid by the present generation or added to the national debt for future generations to pay. THREE: Subsidies place the farmer in a position of being a recipient of government charity, even though the

In World War II, the govern- 4 money he receives is for the

exclusive benefit of the consumer. FOUR: There is no sound reason why the federal gov-

‘ernment should pay a part of

the grocery bill of every American family in a time of full-employment. FIVE: Subsidies kindle the fires of inflation since money not required for food, unless taken up in higher taxes, is freed to > bid up prices for other commodities. : » ’