Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1951 — Page 23

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Pires in Marion County, 8 cents &-copy for : aslly and 100 for Sunday: delivered by carrier dafly “and Sunday, 35¢ a week, daily only, 25¢, Sunday only. 10c. Mail rates in Indiana daily “and Sunday. $10.00 a, year. daily, $5.00 a year, Sunday only, $5.00; al. other states, U. 8, possession, Canada and Mexico. dally $10 a month. Sunday. 10c a copy.

Telephone RI ley 5551

Give Liykt and the Peopie Will Find Their Own Way

Federal Aid for the Road-Hogs?

by overloaded trucks. Sa are the highways of many other states.

been fought to the last ditch by the lush lobby-of the trucking industry.

the state legislature this year ehacted new laws giving the state at least a little better chance to protect its road system from destruction. State police plan to add 25 new troopers, this summer, to weight enforcement duties alone. Their job will be solely to try to stop these truck operators-who violate our already over-generous weight ‘limits. The situation in Indiana is serious.

» on e ns COMES NOW James K. Knudson, head of "the Defense Transport Administration, an agency of the government of the United States that is supposed to be concerned with national defense. Mr. Knudson has sent a letter to Gov. Schricker, and to 47 other governors asking them to go easy on these overloaded trucks, make no move to lower the present too-

Bors go on violating. He has threatened, further, “federal action” to compel states to relax their weight limits, if they don’t go along "gust on his persons edict.

- ONE of Mr. Knudson’ 8 chief advisors in this project is Pohisi L. Fraley. Mr. Fraley, “consultant (at $33 a day) on street and highway maintenance” is on leave of absence from a North Carolina trucking firm of which he is an officer. Mr. Fraley’s firm enjoys the dubious distinction.of havIng been caught, so far, in 665 violations of the truck-

which leaves small doubt of its attitude toward overloading . brucks.

» » . Here, on a national scale, is almost exactly what the truck lobby ried to attain in the Indiana legislature ih this Se re EY Re Mr. Knudson retreats behind the somewhat over-worked ory of “national defense.” (@efense to destroy the highways of this nation in a time ot emergency is not made clear. How it will aid certain avaricious truck operators is plear enough, though. Overloads, the amount that can be put on a , truck above the limit set by law, are profitable business. One truck san carry enough “overload” to pay for itself in less than a year . . . and many have done so. It’s a chance for a few slick chiselers to pick up a few Jast dollars . . . at public expense . . . in the name of “naSonal defense.” It looks from here like a plain case of putting the crows bo guarding the ¢orn. Sen. Ed C. Johnson, (D. Cal.) was putting it mildly when he said the whole nation was shocked at this propeeding. He proposes to investigate the whole DTA. We grust he will . . . and thoroughly. And we trust Indiana's members of Congress will be on the alert, too, against any fast move to get a “presidential @irective” to further Mr. Knudson's bold program.

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Onward and Upward Pl Old Pearson's, a thoughtful-type liquor store, took & full page newspaper ad the other day in Washing, jo muse about taxes; history and liquor prices. Back in 1862, POP recalls, there were no jets or Abombs, but muskets were costing a heap. So grandpa frowned when the guv'ment socked a 12-cent excise tax on Bis drinking whisky, boosting the price to an equivalent of 80 cents a fifth. World War I sent the excise nick to $1.28 and the price Po $1.65. Came prohibition, and went.

nt agencies and then helped finance them with the tax paid on every fifth.” It was 40 cents on a $2.19 bottle.

»- = - » n WETTING his pencil, Pearson's man then starts figurIng how it’s been ever since: 1939—War again. - Tax 45 cents when fifths sold Jor $2.37. : 1941—Lend lease. Tax 60 cents and the price $2.49. 1942-43—FEra of big budgets. Tax 80 cents, price $2.69; then up to $1.20 tax, and $3.29 price. 1046—Peace and recovery. “Europe struggled and starved. We sent help. Taxes?” It was $1.80 on whisky, with the price of a fifth hitting $3.99. Today—"“With the cold war getting very warm, freedom also costs money.” A tax rise up to $12 a gallon is in sight. That's $2.40 a fifth, and if it goes through, Plain OM Pearson’s says your fifth will cost $4.59. ¥Prices quoted are approximate, are not on 100- proof bonded stuff, just average good whisky, and Pearson's says t's not to be inferred that all the fluctuations were due to bax rises alone. But read it and weep, and if you're in a philosophies mood you can reflect with Plain Old Pearson's that “history Deeps going on . . . and on, and taxes go up and up.”

Ws That Easy ~~.

SOMETIMES, saving the ples S money i is. so o simple that an 8-year-old boy can grasp it. In fact, one did. Gregg Buckalaw of Mobile, Ala., wrote VU. 8. Postmaster General Donaldson suggesting that the “Via” be dropped from ‘via air mail” stamped on items for plane delivery. . “You can save almost a third of the rubber,” Gregg pointed out, “and rubber is a critical war material besides.” Gregg's right. Lord knows how many thousands of hand stamps were to be bought for the country’s post offices next year with that wholly needless word. The Post Office Department i is | going to adopt the idea, d Gregg got a nice letter. He ought to ‘be fetched to Siigton and turned loose with a nice, shiny new Boy

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NDIANA'S fine highways are being smashed-to rubble ~ Efforts to control truck loads, here and elsewhere, haye :

In Indiana, over the furious opposition of that lobby;

Uberal weight limits, and by inference, at’ least, to let viola-

weight laws of the neighboring state.of Virginia, a record .

Just how it will aid national

In 1934-38, says POP, “Dad read about the new govern-

CHICAGO, Ill.—The American Mosquito Control Association was told that even a

billiard ball’ that looks and smells is fair prey, but no miggquito will bite a person

“is cool and not breathing =

heavily. Perhaps they'd bit a billiard ball, In fact, we it. : own bare spring to fall, Seems proof’ enough about it.

wouldn't doubt

Our pate, from

But when ‘they claim a man

who's cool Will get the skeeto's vetos, We must say “gnats” for

that’s one rule Unknown to all mosquitoes!

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ASK any man who has settled down in a hammock under a shady tree for a long Sunday afternoon nap! Just- about the time the old buzzard starts ignoring the cares of the world, somebody puts the bee on the head mosquito. And the buzzing ‘herd swarms down and doesn't iggnow a square inch of exposed epidermis.

For a moment old calm and cool thinks he’s been attacked by a squad of dive-bombers. But that impression is corrected immediately.

No planes are that large!

There'll be no escape from that sharp proboscis Of the skeeter large or the

skeeter small. At least for us—we feel them all!! But why complain. It gives you an excuse to go in the house—and mix a tall cool one! = = » ONE WAY or another you're bound to get your lumps these days. Like, for instance, nomic Stabilizer Eric Johnston says that if things keep up, with increased business profits, farm prices, or wage raises beyond the 10 per cent limit, it could “blow the roof off inflation.” Brother, if that house has a roof it must be made of cheese cloth, It's sure been leaking like a sieve for a long. time! But“ cheer up. Price: Stabil-

izer DiSalle predicts that the — entire price control

program will be ‘operating. smoothly" in about 60 days. What we want to know is — from when? Even the Army has been buying meat at prices above civillan ceilings. But it will be good for the GI's. Give 'em something to beef about!

A SONG

A LONELY heart, a little

son me gay and cheerful tu . WIT ATWEYE WoTK like magic when . . . your

spirits need a boon... a love affair that has gone wrong + « + & love song old but new « +. will have a way of comforting ... and making dreams come true . . . a perplexed mind ... a hymn or two . . . works wonders every time + +. and will instill new hope In.you . ._. to help you solve the rhyme. . . a tribute’needed to the land .. . and anthem fis the thing . . . to do great honor and to make . .. a nation's subjects sing .". .. a sleepyhead + « « a lullaby, to make the sandman cal . . . a song to fit most everything...and heed

most eall. r Bon Burroughs.

Though. the..summer’'s._cool, it « 18 our prognosis

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HOOSIER FORUM—'No Trucks?"

MR. EDITOR: Letter to Rural Reader: Every time I read a letter like yours it reminds me of the picture of two horses and a bucket of food. You no doubt are a farmer ... maybe a large or maybe a small one . . . but does the trucking industry tell you how “to run your farm? Has the thought ever occured to you that maybe politics have something to do with the crumbling of Indiana highways instead of trucks? I am employed in the trucking industry and I have seen them spend Sométimes as much as $20 a day making g_ surg that trucks do not leave this city overloaded. : oo & oo "THAT IS just one company. Multiply that by all the companies in the city and I would

say it is costing them a very large sum of -

money to protect our nighways...

CONGRESS ROUNDUP

You say’ stop truck Just how would

ment from Indianapolis t of people say use the raNroads.

roads.

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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but Iwill defend to the de.

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. By Peter Edson Ding ae

" Diplomas Put the Spotlig ht - On. Homitohore Dolo Sotoblom

WASHINGTON, Mar, 31—When the United Nations asked for military assistance for Korea, all it got from the Latin-American countries was one frigate from Colombia. After a couple of months training on the U. 8. west coast, that Colombian frigate is now on its way to Korean waters. So give Colombia full credit. Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama

" offer volunteers, but none. has been accepted.

It is not to the particular discredit of the

other Latin-American countries that they of-

fered no more. Fifteen of them did offer economic aid of a kind—money from Uruguay and - Brazil, sugar from Cuba, beans from Mexico and so on. The reason. they didn't offer ‘more actual

military aid is that they didn't have it to

give. And that sad fact is the main reason for concentration on the subject of military co-operation at the Council of American Repub-

lics’ Foreign ‘Ministers now going on in Wash- ’

ington. Something drastic has to be done. to bolster western hemisphere defenses so “that the U. S. and Canada don't carry a disproportionate share of the burden. Today, inter-American defense is largely a thing of paper. The Inter-American Treaty. of Reciprocal "Assistante provides that all the republics will come to the aid of any one that is attacked. But it doesn’t specify what with.

A Sad Story

THERE is an organization known.as the Inter-American Defense board, created during the last war. Function of the Inter-American Defense Board is to make plans to repel aggression against any of the republics. The full Board, or Council of Delegates as it's called, meets every two weeks, The staff works regular hours. All it lacks to become a going concern are manpower and equipment—other than those of the U. S. armed forces. During the last war, there was fear that

the fiermans might invade or attack the South .

American bulge from bases on the west African bulge. The U. 8. maintained two bases in Brazil. They were useful ferry points for the South Atlantic airlift. Eventually, the Brazilians got one division in the European fighting and the Mexicans had

th your right to say it."

from running on our u get your new equipyour farm? Lots Just think

Latin-American countries had been able to their own defenses completely, it would hav freed 100,000 or more U. 8. troops for duty in

an air squadron in the Philippines. eto ma

other places.

Another Sad Story THE MATTER of equipping Latin-American forces is another sad story. At the end of the war, there were some general staff conferences on supplying Latin-American armies with U. S.. surpluses. Their hopes ran high. The way it

worked out, $146 million worth of supplies were ‘sold to them for some $38 million. It was less than 10 per cent of what they expected to ) get.

From the expiration of the Surplus Property Disposal Act to the passage of the Military Defense Assistance Act in October, 1949, there was no authorization for arms aid to Latin-America, - Even then the original MDAP Act required pay-

ment of full cost for equipment furnished at re-

placement values. An amendment in July of last year permitted U. 8. surpluses to be sold at 10 per cent of cost. But by then U. S. prices were

so high the sister republics couldn't afford to

buy. And since July, when the Korean war got hot, there simply haven't been any Américan surpluses for sale.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

‘Hoover Offers Answer To Fairchild Telegram

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—Gambling exists 9g Indiana because Hoosiers want it that way. a Without mentioning the telegram for help from Marion

about “how many trucks thay use to complete their service. If you and I would try toXhelp each other instead of condemning each otker, this would be a better world to live in.

Tick- Tock Draft’

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A Yow entioned your editorial’ (Times, Mar. 28) aM Jack Husband w “tick-tock” noise in his head and was ré drafted. If things are the same as whe husband was drafted he'll probably get works. —Hooney Giggins, City.

-~ 3 column 0 has a ently this

. By Charles Egger

Bricker Fears Loss of Power

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—While the House enjoyed its Easter holiday this week, the slowmoving Senate stayed on the job. Sen. John W. Bricker (R. O.) was leading a GOP effort to return to committee all resolutions in which the question of sending U. S. Armed Forces to Europe is involved. Sen. Bricker and others want the Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees to draft 4 resolution which would require congressional approval in advance of additional troop commitments by President Truman. Pending resolutions merely suggest that the President consult with Congress before sending additional troops. The pending resolutions, Sen. Bricked said. contain the “seeds of dictatorship” because their approval in effect

Mr. Bricker . dictatorship

would be a surrender of congressional authority

over foreign affairs. . Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) agreed with this argument, but said he intended to vote for the pending. resolutions if that's “the best we can

get.”

Crime Investigation

THE Senate voted unanimously to continue its. Crime Investigating Committee until May 1. The extra month will give the committee time to draft its final report and recommendations for legislation. Other highlights of the week : Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz of Brooklyn gels mated that New York police collect from $20-25 million a year {in protection money from gamblers. The Senate voted contempt citations against

Hoosier Sketchbook

Frank Costello, New York gambler who refused to tell his net worth to the investigators, and 11 others. The committee asked Treasury Department officials to get tough in its handling of income tax returns from gamblers and rac keteers. It mentioned Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, Chicago underworld character, as having listed $100.000 income .in one return- as ‘miscellaneous.”

RFC Probe

JOSEPH E. ‘CASEY, former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts, refused to tell the Fulbright Committee investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. the names of his associates in a surplus ship deal. The deal returned a profit of $2.8 million in three years on the stockholding investment of $100,000. The ships were purchased from the Maritime Commission and then chartered to an oil company.

Mr. Casey argued that thé Fulbright Committee didn't have jurisdiction over the transaction and -said-he would testify before a committee with proper authority. It was revealed, however, that Adm. William Halsey, the late Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. and former Assistant Secretary of State Julius Holmes were among the stockholders. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) committee chairman, deplored the lack of high ethical standards in government today, criticized the Truman administration for condoning the RFC scandals and urged establishment of a commission of eminent private citizens to study the problem.

President

PRESIDENT TRUMAN signed the bill permitting E bond owners to hold their bonds and draw interest for another 10 years, :

SHARP ENOUGH

County Prosecutor Frank Fairchild, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover gave that answer to the local crime problem when he appeared

before the Kefauver committee.

The top. G-man, Attorney General McGrath and . FCC Chairman Wayne Coy all agreed that gambling -must be

curtailed at the: local level and

the job not puf upon the federal government. Mr. Hoover preached this sermon, which might well be taken for a reply to the Fairchild telegram: ” » - “THE experience of opbserving the growth of crime in the prohibition era, its sharp decline in the mid-thirties and now its gradual rise convinces me that crime is a problem to be met and solved in each city, town and hamlet. In facing this task one thing is certain in those communities where public opinion is enlightened and aroused, crime is at a minimum. In such communities, crime has not become entrenched, it does not enjoy unholy alliances with those in public office, it does not have the protection of the very forces who have a sworn duty to exterminate it and it is unable to secure recruits from established incubators of crime. “Lawgenforcement is only as effective as the citizens demarfd. If the community, as a group or as individuals, does not desire effective law enforcement, then there will not be effective law enforcement. » = = ‘THE American system of law enforcement is based on the mutual co-operation of national, state and local agencies, each working within the democratic framework of government. Time after time, the strength and validity of this system have been ‘demonstrated. In the 1930's dangerous criminals, who brazenly flaunted the orderly forces of government, who had a vast network of aid and assistance, who were glorified by sentimentalists, were finally brought to justice when the American public became suffi-

By J. Hugh O'Donnell

J. Edgar Hoover . . places the blame

ciently aroused to demand and support the campaign which brought about their destruction. During the war, the manifold problems arising from.the national defense of the nation were efficiently and expeditiously handled in this manner. This nation has no need for a national police force. Cries frequently are heard that America, to meet the problems of the day, must create a master, over-all law enforcement agency, whose authority would extend to every. nook and cranny of the. nation. I disagree with this attitude. My experience has demonstrated that the present system of law enforcement, national, state and local, is the best system. The peace officer must be the servant of the people—protecting their Interests and respending to their will. The law enforcement agency must be an Integral. part of the community. =n » ” “THERE can be no concealment of the fact that law enforcement has not always performed at peak expéctations. The fault is not in the system but in the way it works. The American people, if they desire competent; efficierit and effective administration of justice, must be willing to provide financial means; moral support; and a practical realization of the responsibilities of citizenship. A police department, under-staffed, under-paid, and lll-equipped, - cannot properly . fulfill its duties. Lack of public interest may allow a small minority of peace officers, aided and abetted by corrupt politicians, crooked prosecutors and underworld “fixers,” ‘to bring shame upon the profession. Action is needed, not to revamp the fundamental structure ‘of -American law enforcement, but to strengthen, in technical skill, character and esprit de corps, the existing institutions, »

re EHINK the tires has come for some straight thinking on the subject Hf responsibility.

All too frequently in the past years, there has been too much ‘buck passing’ to the federal government. T oo frequently, when pressures mount in local communities by reason of dis-

satisfaction with conditions,

leaders, either fo escapé the wrath of citizens or to conceal their own inability to cope with situations, have advanced the alibi that this is a job for the federal government. The time~ has come to take stock. The federal government can never be a satisfactory substituite for local self-government in the

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LOOK FOR gation of influe big truckers on portation (DTA) and Ti merce Commiss

Sen. Ed C. Colo.), chairma and Foreign C mittee, thinks t leading DTA James K. Knud: Johnson's burn

Knudson, whe member, recer that states post, to tighten the laws; also thr federal powers enforcement 8 his staff advil ers or their a : Last year, tried to get tl tion denying | to states not ¢ national code gtrictions. stiffen hacks elals being hig trucking lobbi n't go al If Knudson— have their way

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