Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1951 — Page 42

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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ resident

Business Manager Sunday, Mar. 18, 1951

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Telephone’ RI ley 5551 Give Idght and the People ‘Will Find Their Own Way

Finish These Jobs

TV tremendously useful Senate investigating committees are scheduled, as matters now stand, to stop their work within the next few weeks. One, headed by Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee, has been

crime throughout the nation. The other, headed by Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas, has been ‘doing an equally great job of exposing “i »luence and

struction Finance Corp. - Neither job has been completed. Each committee has trained its spotlight on conditions: - which are Zcutely embarrassing to the Pemnoeretic Party.

we WACH "HAS been more effec jve, in “that respect, than Ee “gommittee of “the REoubi in 80th Congress. ‘whose / leaders pramised, when they came to power, to * ‘ope each session with a ‘probe and close it with a prayer.” Sen. Kefauver and Sen. Fulbright are good Democrats. It stands to their everlasting credit that they have not permitted narrow considerations of party advantage to "interfere with courageotis performance of public duties. . But it is entirely natural that both should wish, as both do, to let the good work they have well started be carried on henceforth by other hands. Each has suggested the possibility of commissions of eminent citizens, modeled perhaps after the Hoover Commission on Government Reorganization, to conduct further investigations and propose remedies for such conditions of corruption or other wrong as might be discovered. The Hoover Commission was established by joint action of. Congress and President Truman.

MR. TRUMAN should pot be asked, or expected, to appoint members of commissions created to complete the. " work of the Kefauver and Fulbright committees. x Hg has just expressed full confidence in the honar of all

of them for exerting improper influence on RFC lending policies is, to Mr. Truman, just character assassination. Obviously, his mind is closed. He could not properly join in establishing commissions to seek remedies for evils which he firmly maintains cannot possibly exist. The Senate should order .those two useful committees to finish their jobs, giving them full authority and adequate funds for that purpose. We hope that Sens. Kefauver and Fulbrignt, despite their understandable disinclination, can be persuaded to carry on. But under them, or under other able, honest leaders, the investigations should go forward.

ECOSOC Dodges JNDIGNATION over Dictator Peron’s suppression of the Argentine newspaper La Prensa has flared throughout most of the free world. But the United Nations Economic and Social Council would rather be excluded out. : The ECOSOC, a sort of cosmic baby-sitter, frequently shakes an admonitory finger at such problems as slave labor, human rights, the local status of women, narcotic drugs, housing and town planning. Its 18 member delegations, plus a small army of secretaries and flunkeys flown down from New York, have been meeting now for nearly a month in one of the lushest hotels in Santiago, Chile. For several hours daily—before knocking off in midafternoon to go swimming or partying— they've had a go at a wide range of airy subjects. But when the solid, vital issue of press freedom in nearby Argentina came up this week, they “tiptoed daintily around it,” in the words of a U. S. correspondent covering the session. Thereby missing the opporinLy of at least one real Schisvement.

CURIOUSLY enough, it was rook on the insistence of the U. 8. delegate, Walter Kotschnig, that the question was shelved. Mr. Kotschnig asked that it be put over until the next meeting, scheduled this summer in Geneva. In the vote on the motion to delay, the U. S. delegation found itself honored with the company of the Soviet bloc. Naturally the Communist nations haven't the faintest interest in freedom of the press, since there is no sucn thing in a totalitarian country. The U. S. State Department is taking the line that nothing must be done to offend the Peron dictatorship at a time when we're trying to cement relationships among the American republics. But why should the U. S. delegate at = Santiago lead the fight to block any action in support of La Prensa? It puts the United States in an embarrassing position—and, besides, the ECOSOC should need no help from us in ducking a hot one.

“Trail Blazers

RESIDENT TRUMAN recently awarded a well-deserved presidential citation to a largely unsung squadron of flyers called Mosquitoes. These pilots serve as scouts and spotters for our bomb- - ers and’ jet fighters in Korea. Using a type of training plane never before employed in combat and never intended to be, they hedge-hop over the countryside looking for tanks, guns, trucks, troop concentrations—anything the Reds may be trying to conceal. Most of the time they fly at 100 feet or less, and their planes are completely unarmed. No small part of the amazing success of our Air Force in blasting Red supply lines and troops can be ascribed to the tireless work of the Mostuitoes. They're the brave Indian scouts of this war, and they merit the gratitude of us all.

If at First

N THE old days, uprisings in Latin America were so common that wags. used to talk about the “regular Monday : revolution.” wl Lately, a similar patiorn seems to have developed in the : British government. Five times in the last few weeks the

Labor government. And Conservative leaders give every sign of maintaining a fairly steady schedule. There's only ‘one difference: More often than not, the Latin American outbreak’ paid off. The more temperate efforts, of the British Conservatives never. seem to.

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The 1 Indianapolis Times

doing a great job of exposing the operations of organized

favoritism” in a big government lending agency, the Recon-

the men around him at the White House. Criticism of some *-

NEW YORK — A $75-a-week textile salesman, arrested for an allegde $45,000 phony nylon deal, admitted spending some of the money on a mink coat, diamond ring and a convertible for a showgirl. She referred to him as “a creep.” He gave her a mink coat and diamonds and such, With money they charge he had swindled. But she doesn’t think he amounted to much— At least since his balance has dwindled. No, she doesn't rate him too highly at all, In fact, she's depounced him for keeps. And the cops are the ones on whom trouble will fall— Such business just gives them—‘“the creeps!” ~> o ” o

AMONG other things the

young man bought for his light

of love was a convertible. When she sold it, he bought it back

and gave it to her again. But

the reconversion didn't work either. Still ‘we don’t know just why she'd call him a “creep.” Seems

J \jke he had a lot of fast-may-

Ing high-powered ideas. He is alleged to have told his victims that he could buy nylon for $1.00 a yard and sell it for $1.50 a yard. A couple of dentists were drawn in, among others. Then it turned out he had no nylon, but was merely pulling the wool over their eyes! . Anyway, it was a good yarn! ” ” n MEANTIME, two other young men were arrested in Maryland charged with trying to extort $2500 from a contractor. One youth was a university crime prevention student. What's wrong with a fellow doing a little research on the outside? He should rate “A” for effort. The crime was pre vented, wasn’t it? nn n o AUNTY COMMY says: “That Soviet | annoyncement that re-

4 tail prices. on consumer goods

in ‘Russia have been cut ten to twenty per cent sounds fine. Maybe the Comrades might think so too—if there were any goods on the shelves over there!”

s n o OVER here everybody coftinues to grouse about the high cost of food. But in some ways things were almost the same in the old days. Maw would take her change purse to the grocer's and the delivery boy would bring the packages home in a basket. Now-a-days she brings the eats home in her purse. And the delivery boy picks up the money In his wagon!

” ~ ” LIKE the engineers who put in a bid to build an incinerator in Glendale, Cal. And forgot to include $38,000 for a smokestack. Someone is sure going to be burned up about that! If it had happened around Christmas time you might say the specifications overlooked the most important Claus! Within our modest estimation, When bidding on incinerators, To lack a stack of concentration, Bids forid adieu to estima-

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GIFT TO INDIA

By James Daniel

Doesn't Look Like Free Wheat Bill Will Reach House Floor

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—It looks as though India won't get those two million tons of U. 8. wheat free. 2 As things” now stand, the likeliest prospect is ‘that Congress will vote a loan to" enable India to buy the wheat.

A bill to provide the full tonnage as a gift has been bottled

-in the House Rules C o m mittee. Indications are that the committee - members don’t intend to let it come to the floor, for fear it might be defeated or so severely amended..as to arouse more - antiAmerican feeling in India. . Instead, rules members have sugMr. Nehru gested to the House idn' Foreign Affairs + oo didn't ask Committee that the best thing might be to prepare a new bill, which would scrap the gift idea for a loan. India never openly asked for a gift. Early this year, the Nehru government asked Washington to be enabled to obtain grain on “special and easy terms,” language suggestive of a loan’ But the State Department took the position that India is financially unable to repay and so should be helped free. President Truman later indorsed the grant idea and asked that the Economic Co-operation Administration handle it. ‘The Indian government has been trying for some years to interest the U. S. government in underwriting a big development program. Getting the ECA into India on a famine relief program looked like a possible beginning.

Hoosier Sketchbook

up for several weeks

Rep, Christian Herter (Mass,), one of the Republicans behind the original _ gift bill, said, he still thought the ECA idea “Pest, but” “not. essential to meet the immediate food shortage problem. He said, “A tremendous number of Congressmen have pledged themselves not to vote for added expenditures at this time. They can’t justify this. (gift) bill 4> themselves and the pledge they made in their districts.” Some Democrats are reported still hopeful that part of the wheat can be made a gift administered by ECA and part of it a straight loan. Last year India exported $349 million worth of strategic or critical materials, such as manganese, mica, jute, cyanite and chrome, all

.with a ready market in the United States. Ex-

ports to the U. 8. however, were worth only $101 - million of that total. And since 1946 India has refused to sell us any of her monazite sands, of which she has the world’s largest deposit. «

Rare Earths

THESE sands are a rich source of thorium, a fissionable material which the U. 8S. Atomic Energy Commission wants. They also contain rare earths which are valuable in manufactures. The Indian government is reported to have given a French company a monopoly on the monazite to sell outside the British Empire. By a modest increase in her exports to the United States, India could apparently repay the $190 million loan required for the 2 million tons of wheat. Meanwhile, India is arranging to buy large quantities of grain in Canada and Australia. But only in the United States is there any suggestion of not requiring cash, Congressmen point out. These members point to the fact that in India’s 1951 food plan there is a provision for returning 42,000 tons of grain Britain herself advanced to India last year.

By J. Hugh O'Donnell

HOOSIER FORUM— ‘Farmer Isn’t hes + Bad Off -

Improvements on the land and in the buildings

‘Take Another Look’

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Reps. Ralph Harvey and William Bray Cast Independent Votes on a Roll Call

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—Two Hoosier Republicans -broke a considerable precedent this week by failing to follow-the leadership of their dean, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, and casting independent votes on a roll call. They are third-term Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle, and Martinsville.

freshman Rep. William G. Bray,

Mr. Harvey helped amend

President Truman's proposal

to speed up the shifting of governmental agencies during the emergency and then voted for it. But a coalition of the Halleck - GOP and Dixie Democratic forces killed it by a vote of 227-167. The latter

4 followed their Mr. Flarvey

straditional | independent

fear that the Chief Executive might use such

‘power to establish a Fair Em-

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“ployment Practice. Commission, as FDR did in World War 11.

The New Castle Congress-

man was back in the Halleck sheep- fold, however, when a rule to take up the Defense Housing Bill was turned down 219 to 170 by a similar coalition. But on that 2 : ; call, Mr. Bray jumped the Mr. Bray fence. He was i mped fence

about to catch a plane for Indiana when the

whip’s office called to come over and vote on the bill. He came, voted with the administration and then caught the plane. Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, made the speech for ‘the rule on the Defense Housing Bill. He is a member of the House Rules Committee which voted it but. In fighting against its adoption, Mr. Halleck asserted that “had the full membership of the committee on rules been in

. attendance it likely would not

“it and. say;

ready for that job, I would work 12 hours a

have been reported.” Republican members were present at the Rules Committee meeting and voting against reporting the Defense Housing Bill, Those absent were Democratic Reps. Gene Cox of Georgia, Howard W. Smith of Virginia and William M. Colmer

HOW LONG? .

of Mississippl. They usually vote with the GOP in the Rules Committee on such domestic matters. Mr. Madden said he understood they had been told by Speaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.) to miss the meeting and let the bill come to the floor.

. When it arrived there, Reps.

Cox and Smith were on hand

to ‘help Mr. Halleck kill the

rule by voting “no.” Mr. Cal~ mer voted for it. ;

SO DID Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Democrat, With the Madden and Bray votes that made three for it from Indiana and eight against

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Chairman Brent Spence (D. Ky.) of the House

“and Currency Committee,

which reported the bill to the Rules Committee for action,

pleaded that it was a pressing - defense measure and its defeat

would be tragic. “It is an administration measure,” he said, “but it is not a Democratic measure and cannot be made a political issue. The one who is most earnestly interestéd in it, who has in his jurisdiction the production of materials for defense, is Charles E. Wilson, a Republican.” This reference to Defense Mobilizer Wilson failed to

~ move Mr. Halleck,

“This bill is too broad,” he declared. “It is going to cost too much money. There has been no real demonstration of necessity for it.”

MAYOR EUGENE SWARTZ of: Gary, who had testified for

the bill at the House hearings, -

had this to say regarding the need in his city: “I saw one storeroom that was divided off and they had 65 cots.in the thing. The men that used that worked in the

mills. They would go to work,"

and their beds would be ime mediately taken over by the men returning from the previous shifts.” Had he access to the House floor, Mayor Swartz would have disagreed, on the necessity for such a measure, with Mr. Halleck and his followers north and south.

. By Earl Richert

Sam’s Bank Account Is Fat Right Now

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—At the moment, Uncle Sam is like the lucky fellow with a good-sized bank account and a fresh pay

check ready to cash.

The government's bank account shows a surplus of $1.1 billion as internal revenue offices throughout the country start adding up the millions of Mar. 15 income tax payments from

corporations and individuals. It will take at least two weeks to wade through the avalanche of late tax returns. By the time this is finished the government's budget surplus undoubtedly will be much higher. All this is temporary, of course. Rearmament contracts, now running at a rate of more than $60 billion a year, still haven't begun to show up to any sizable extent in actual government spending. tJ » 8 BUT THE financial situation is such that government experts are now wondering if they weren't too pessimistic in forecasting that the government would end this year with $2.7 billion in the red. Some think now that the budget deficit will be much lower. And some private economists, such as Herbert Stine of the Committee of Economic Development, are. confident that instead of being in the red the government will end the current fiscal year in the black. Mr, Stine predicts, for example, that military spending for the current fiscal year will total about $1 billion less than the $20 billion which the government had estimated. » ” » SOME economists see a black side to the picture of a government surplus at this time. “Congress is apt to look at ‘Oh, no, we don't need higher taxes’,” said one.

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HEAP OF TRYING

Treasury figures show that federal spending since last July 1 is still slightly behind the same period of a year previous. And federal . revenues are up nearly $3.7 billion over the year before. A picture of what is happening is shown by the comparison between military contracts and actual military spending. The government is now letting military contracts at the rate of about $5 billion a month. Actual military spending is running about $11 billion, How long it will take for these $5 billion per month military contracts to be translated into $5 billion per month spending cannot be estimated. Mr. Stine said he doubted that actual military spending would reach $4 billion a month by Juhe 30, 1952, ” ” 2 MANY government departments are spending far less than they did last year. One of the largest decreases in spending is shown by the Commodity Credit Corp. (The farm price support agency) which has spent only $544 million as against $1.2 billion during the same period a year earlier. Marshall Plan spending is also down $700 million and the Reconstruction Finance Corp, has spent $450 million less. Among agencies where spending has shot up sharply is the Atomic Energy Commission. Its spending had increased 663; per cent over a year ago.

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Conservatives have made determined bids to-upset the Attlee

MR. EDITOR: I am interested in those figurés which a “Farmer's Wife” gave to prove, among oth:r things, how ignorant .I and my kind are of farm problems.* The lady said they farmed, at grain rent, 270 acres of land; 50 acres at cash rent. She listed the expenses and the ‘“‘cash receipts.” The tenant farmers I know, farming for grain rent; furnish half the seed and fertilizer, all the work and machinery, and receive half the products raised. The owner furnished half the seed. and fertilizer, the land itself, and gets the other half of the produce. Now, I wonder if the farm lady listed .the

entire expenses for fatming the 320 acres and’

then shows her own ‘‘cash receipts’ after the grain rent had been delivered to the owner. (Having worked with figures all my life, I know how wonderful they are, You can live like a king and figure yourself a bankrupt.) > 0 &

THEN, I come down in the lady's letter to

the farm itself. The asking price for 200 acres, $70,000. That is $250 per acre. Twenty years ago, land sold for $60 per acre; if you were lucky, $100, and $150 was considered exorbitant. What makes the difference?

‘get my person

and the amount to be earned from farming the land itself—that is what makes the difference. Any man who values his land at $350 per acre has something, and don’t try to tell me he hasn't. Let us consider the farmers intangible income. He has room to breathe and is free of that eternal bossing that goes with all jobs anymore. He grows probably haif what he eats; figures that cost right in with the rent and deducts it from his tax, but forgets to call what he ate, income. ¢ © 9 THE HOUSE he lives in goes with the land, with a possible privilege fee. Does he: place any value on that? No, h® forgets it, but if he spent a dollar for a coat of paint, he'll add that in to expense. He gets his electric power for a fraction of what the city man pays, the same goes for his telephone. Then let us consider hours. If a farmer worked the 12 to 16 hours he claims, I don't see when he would listen to the radio, look at television, or read letters tothe editor. * What he does, is count every hour he piddles

away getting ready to work. If I counted the .

nd, from my job,

hours it takes me go

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day, 7 days a week. All I get paid for, and get credit for, are the hours between punch in and punch out. Let us have some understanding from both sides, shall we? <> o MISUNDERSTANDING is not the breeding ground of communism. It breeds in hunger, cold, wart’ frustration. Picking one class of people clean to feather the nests of another, is the best way to create the ground I mention. The farmer is entitled to every dollar he can earn by his efforts and intelligence. But I am sick of being burdened with extra taxes to insure him a good living. I am going to keep on being against it, until the injustice is removed, and I intend to vote ragainst it, every chance I get.--F. M,, City.

‘Please, Mr. Smith’

MR. EDITOR: 3 Quote J. T. Smith, City: “I don't want anyone telling me what to do or not to do (regarding gambling) but there should be a law, against old bags who talk about their neighbors,” Please, Mr. Smith, why should you desire special rights to do as you please and then not allow your old baggy neighbors that same right? : ~—Walter A. Gordon, Oy

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IT TAKES a heap of trying . . . to look up when you feel low . . . it takes a heap of trying . .. just to stop when others go . . . it takes a lot of grit and strength . . . to climb a rugged hill . . . because there are so many falls . . . to break the strongest will . , . and too, it takes an extra push . .. to smile instead of frown . . . although your heart is breaking . . . and your world has tumbled down . . . it takes a man of character . . . to speak highly of all . . . instead of ridiculing those . . . who may have caused his fall . . . it takes a heap of trying . . . to be humble despite fame «+ for great are your temptations when « + « the world honors your name . , . it takes a heap of trying . . . but with prayer you can succeed . . . and reach the goal of happiness . . . if only God you heed.

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