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Sensible Aid to India

COMMENDABLE compromise plan is being worked “+ * out under which legislation for famine relief to India can be pushed through Congress. Even though the appeal came at a time when there were sharp political differences between the Nehru government and ours over Red China, no reasonable American objected to the principal of aiding the unfortunate Indian people.

Chief objection was to making an outright gift of two million tons of grain when India had asked only a long-term loan with which to buy our wheat. A minority group of the House Foreign Affairs Committee thought we should make India a loan on easy terms and ‘arrange for repayment in strategic materials the United States badly needs. We supported that view.

~ - ” » » ” EVIDENTLY with the same consideration, the House Rules Committee has blocked the outright-gift plan for the last six weeks. But now administration leaders hdve given ground. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Friday unanimously approved a bill authorizing the grain shipments on a half-loan, half-gift basis, and the House committee is preparing a similarly rewritten bill which should reach the House floor next week.

India would be required to match U. S. gift dollars for the wheat by depositing local currency to be used for producing more strategic materials for our stockpiles. In addition, the Senate bill provides for taking 112 liberty ships out of mothballs to help move the wheat to India.

A lot of time has been lost working up to this more sensible program—to be most effective the grain should have started moving on Apr. 1. But, now that the principal objections have been met, Congress should act promptly to get the program under way.

Fine, but Not Enough

(FFICERS and members of the American Veterans Committee, like countless other good citizens, are deeply disturbed by recent revelations of misconduct among public officials. These veterans call for a thorough, lasting clean-up-of conditions which federal and local investigations have disclosed. But they believe rightly that it would be tragic for ~ suspicion to be directed against all public servants; a great majority of whom are faithful to their trust. So, in the hope of encouraging integrity and devotion to duty, the AVC plans to offer the more than 6 million officers and employees of the federal, state and local governments opportunity to subscribe to an admirable “credo of public service.” This document reads, in part: “The government post I hold was established only to serve the public. I accept it as a trust... I owe no undue allegiance to any individual, group or special interest . .. I take full responsibility for my conduct in government service, and for the official conduct of government employees who are under my jurisdiction. . . . I am prepared to challenge and expose misdeeds in government, no matter what the source or the consequence. . . . I consider my sworn statement of office a contract to perform my duty according to law. But public service requires a higher pledge, and to this code of conduct I hold myself strictly accountable.”

=» = - = = ” IT IS A splendid code. It puts needed emphasis on a truth that has seemed to be lightly regarded in high places —namely, that official conduct which may not actually violate the written law can yet be very wrong indeed. This project of the’ American Veterans Committee is well worth while. But the unfortunate fact is that some public officials and employees make necessary stronger, sterner, legally enforceable codes to restrain them from improper actions. a The evils of favoritism and influence which the Fulbright Committee has exposed in the Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s lending operations, for example, cannot be abolished by noble words. They require some such compulsory standards as Sen. Douglas of Illinois, a member of that committee, has suggested for all federal agencies and all citizens doing business with them: : ONE: Discussions of applications or claims before government departments shall be conducted only in office

hours in public buildings, with both sides represented in all .

arguments before officials. TWO: Dockets of agencies concerning dealings with the public must be open for inspection and must show attorneys and representatives involved in each case, as well as any “kickbacks, finder fees and split fees.” : THREE: No government employee who deals with a private company shall accept a job with that company within two years after he leaves government employment.

Prophecy for Peron

PLAQUE recently presented to the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York bears these words: “Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself .. ." : They are the words of the late Joseph Pulitzer, noted + crusading editor and publisher. Meant for America, they could apply equally well to Argentina where Dictator Peron has killed the country’s greatest independent newspaper, La Prensa. Not only applicable, they could be prophetic, too.

"Tain’t Fair : THERE'S no question that President Truman, as Com- ~ © mander-in-Chief, has the legal right to punish Gen. Douglas MacArthur. ‘But he should not inflict cruel and unusual punishment. Hii rr, : * «Yet this is what he apparently intended. He sent Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan to meet Gen. MacArthur at the ashington airport. ’

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THE SKETCH above is not a figment of ‘an artist's imagination. It is real. A child running an errand to the grocery store for her mother . . . two cars racing ... one goes out of control. One more digit added to our mounting traffic toll. Every citizen in Indianapolis has the blood of 273 children on his hands . . children injured in traffic accidents since the first of the year. Add to that a total of 966 persons injured in the same period and 20 killed. If traffic statistics continue their swift advance we can only hope to capture an infamous title . . . leader in the nation's traffic slaughter. : > There is no one person to blame. At-

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tempts to saddle one or two city officials with total responsibility belong in the category of low-line politics. They are not sincere approaches to this tragic problem. It is the responsibility of every citizen . . . pedestrian or driver, city official or appointed employee . . . to stop this senseless slaughter. The only way to do it is constantly keep in mind the terrible killing power of an automobile . . . and not gamble with it. Signs, safety education, stop lights, street lights, street improvement, improved system of traffic flow, police crackdowns . . . all of them help. But unless they become a constant part of our fight against traffic accidents they serve only to adorn the city streets and front pages of our newspapers,

CONGRESS ROUNDUP . . . By Charles Egger

MacArthur Laid It On the Line For Entire Congress to Look At

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—This week in Congress Gen. Douglas MacArthur laid it on the line in his dramatic appearance. He set forth a program which provided: That Formosa be held; That a go ahead be given for eventual bombing of Chinese Red bases in Manchuria; For use of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’'s troops, now based on For-

mosa. For a tightened economic and a

strong naval block-

ade of the Chinese mainland. ® Gen. MacArthur #& said it was his understanding that other military leaders, in- Gen. Chiang cluding the Joint . . . backed by Mac Chiefs of Staff, in the past have agreed with his views. Congressional leaders, who had received the opposite impression, planned to ask the Joint Chiefs for an explanation. Gen. MacArthur also will be heard when the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee delve into the Truman administration's foreign policy and the events that led to Gen. MacArthur's removal.

House Appropriations

A BILL to provide $2.6 billion for the Labor Department and several independent agencies was approved after an amendment was adopted designed to cut down Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing's publicity activities, particularly in behalf of compulsory health insurance. The amendment specifies that no money

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provided in the bill can be spent for “publicity or propaganda” not authorized by Congress. Meanwhile, the appropriations committee voted $520 million for the Interior Department, about 7 per cent less than President Truman had requested.

Aid to Yugoslavia

CONGRESS was notified by President Truman that he had authorized $29 million in aid to Yugoslavia's armed forces. This will be in addition to the $38 million already authorized for shipments of food to Yugoslavia.

War Declaration?

SEN. HARRY CAIN (R., Wash.) offered two resolutions—one .to declare a formal state of war with Communist China, the other to withdraw U. 8. troops from Korea. He said the resolutions gave Congress an opportunity to make a choice. His proposal. however, got no voice support from either Democrats or Republicans.

Arthur H. Vandenberg

SEN. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG (R. Mich.), the GOP’s leader on foreign policy, died after a long illness.

OUR LOVE DREAMS

LET'S MAKE believe the stars are bright . +. . and we walk arm in arm . . . where soft winds play and willows sway . . . far from all wordly harm . . . let's make believe that our lips meet . . . with tenderness and bliss . . . and that our arms entwine each other . . . while we hold our kiss . . . let's dream that crickets break the hush .. . of our deep silent love . . .

and as million diamond moonbeams . . . rain down from above . . . let's for a moment just suppose . . . that you and I are one... and |

know when our thoughts take wing . . . we'll

wish they'd just begun. —By Ben Burroughs

RUSSIAN KEYSTONE STATE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Stalin Can't Give Up Hold on

E. Austria Under Red Policy

VIENNA, Apr. 21-—Stalin intends to hold East Austria as an offensive war base and a prop for his shaky satellite empire. He will not grant an Austrian treaty excluding his troops for any price, until and unless Gen. Eisenhower's defense superiority destroys his chance of European domination. This 1s the judgment of informed officials here.

For Austria has become 2 key to Stalin’s entire European policy. Several times since the Armistice he has been ready to trade a tricky and unsafe Austrian treaty for a stronger hold on more valuable Germany. That would have been an excellent bargain for him had the Allies been foolish enough to accept it. Now he no longer can make such a trade. He must hold both East Germany and East Austria.

~ © : THE reasons: Tito’'s breakaway and consolidation has exposed Stalin's southern flank. Loss of East Austria would leave his center unguarded, as withdrawal from East Germany would uncover his northern flank. :

Foster's Follies

NEW YORK-—General Manager Rudolph Bing has announced that the Metropolitan Opera will put on special television performances next season for which they hope to be able to obtain sponsors. A sport shirt and slacks will be all right for this show. With opera no longer high hat, The white tie and tails in the moth balls will go, Along with the pearl-buttoned spat.

But trips to the Met some will still make with glee; A truly enjoyable stint. Why sit in the parlor and watch your TV? That won't get your picture in print! ! = . » YOU'LL admit that video stunt sounds like a good idea. No matter what happens they'll have a bigger aria to work with! And a Bach will get you two that a lot of folks are going to prefer Die Meistersinger to some of the monster singers they're getting at present. Crooners, that is! As sponsor for the Barber

of Seville the Met might try °

to get one of the razor blade companies. It might be a close shave, though. Maybe they'll be needing some new stars for all this. If 80, they might get together with Godfrey who (among 12 million other enterprises) has that weekly Talent Scouts program. But then they'd only wind up with a soup opera. Which might not sound like a bad idea to some folks! Haven't heard what they plan to start with, but they might simply take the bull by the horns—and give us Carmen! ” ” . SPEAKING of car men, a New York City subway conductor thinks it's high time someone started cleaning up Tammany Hall. 80 he's running for Democratic leader of the East Side Assembly Districts. His campaign manager is a subway motorman. Sounds like a sort of underground movement! But that duo ought to be able to give anyone a run for his money! =» » ~ AUNTY Commys says: “See where_the Russians are claiming the first°printing press was invented by a compatriot named Ivan Smera. Well, there can be no doubt that any Commie press is a ‘“smearer’! #" on ” OLE Jimmy Petrillo seems to want to do his best to get in bad with the listening and viewing audiences. He recently called off a threatened TV and radio strike! » = ~ BECAUSE of the time difference between Washington and Tokyo, President Truman was asleep at the time Gen. MacArthur received his dismissal order. Some folks claim that Truman was asleep when he issued it!

By J. Hugh O’Donnell

These reasons apply not only to the military situation, both offensive and defensive. They also govern Stalin's political hold on Eastern Europe. He needs to stay in East Austria because it is the main supply line between Czechoslovakia and Hungary before war and during war. Vienna is the communications and transportation hub (road, rail and water) of Eastern Europe. East Austria is essential for successful attack on Yugoslavia. Or on Italy. Or, to a considerable degree, on Germany, ‘Austria is the Danube, And Austria is the road to the

Brenner Pass.

East Austria is as valuable to him for defense as for offense. On one side it protects Czechoslovakia, on the other Hungary and southeastern Europe. In war “the soft underbelly” of the Soviet Empire would be the Cgzech-Austrian frontier.

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THE political importance of

Fast Austria to the Soviet slave-state system is no less obvious. Without it there would be a great hole in the Iron Curtain. The value Stalin places on Austrian frontiers for this purpose is proved by

, the number of Soviet troops ¢ which guard them from one

side and the size of Czecho and Hungarian border patrols on the other side. . Despite those double lines of frontier forces, and the miles of barb-wired and mined strips, there is now a constant trickle of refugees from Stalinism coming out, and of antiStalin patriot agents slipping back in. Once the Soviet occupation army here was withdrawn that trickle would become a flood. The satellite regimes could not long survive that flood. But it is not enough that Stalin, for these military and political reasons, retain partial control of East Austria. He must eventually enclose Austria in his totalitarian empire, or risk losing his present satellites. And his only chance of

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getting a puppet government in Vienna is by keeping his army here.

. =» THERE is no probability of the Austrian Communist Party being able to pull off the coup alone, as happened in Czechoslovakia. It 1s too weak. To be sure, the economic crisis and failure of the Vienna government to meet it give Stalin an opportunity. But, as was discovered last fall, even a spontaneous general strike here cannot be turned into a successful Communist coup under police protection without aid of the So« viet army. The time was not ripe last fall to use his army openly, but he will have to keep it handy or he is not likely to get a puppet government in Vienna. For that purpose alone, and apart from the influence on neighboring satellites, he cannot afford the military withdrawal involved in a treaty. Once he gets his stooge regime set up here, he can cloak his aggression in “legality.” He can “invite” himself to d with Austria as he wills, and

make “treaties” with himself

to sanctify enslavement as he has done throughout Eastern Europe.

» ” ri MEANWHILE, there are Soviet economic advantages in continuing without a treaty. Favorable as the proposed Allied treaty is to Stal him control of the oilfields and the Danube for a generation, and putting the rest of Austria in hock to him-—he gets more under the occupation. By his present operation of most of the factories in the Eastern Zone, the industrial center of the country, he profits financially and in military supplies for Russia and the satellites. Moreover, by thus draining the Austrian economy he is at the same time automatically bleeding the United States. Indirectly Marshall Aid to Austria is Marshall Aid to Russia. For Austrian officials estimate that Stalin has taken out since the Armistice about as much as we have put in—that is over a billion dollars. So this is a profitable sideshow while he waits for the right moment to start the big event—taking over Austria, or at least creating an East Austrian regime.

THE WHISTLE

The starting whistle always blows . . . a shrill and mighty blast. . . to tell me to begin the day . ... that I wish were

just past . . . it has a melancholy tome . . , that lingers In my ear . . . much like a

warning to beware . . . for working time is here . , . it acts as prelude to an act . . . that will be hours long . . . and woe betide the actor who vie lets anything go wromg ++. I seem to have a dreaded fear . . . of this most lifeless thing . . . that seems to hold me in its sway . . . each time I hear it sing . . . but strange enough I welcome it . . . and {t sounds rather gay . . . whenever It blows § o'clock . . . the finish of my day. —By Ben Burroughs.

farmer when you think of food t that a lot of hands are involved

from the time the food leaves the farm until it reaches the consumer. Also, it is very important to note that the farmer does

not set the price for the food he produces.

He merely takes

what the ‘market gives him. Food from the farm is sold in the

freest market in the American economy, where supply and demand determine the price. Actually the consumer has vastly more to say about the price of food * than the farmer who produces it. : There has = been a lot of * loose talk j§ about “high food prices” in recent months. It is true that some food items have risen in price. It is also a fact that many consumers have jumped at wrong conclusions through a lack of information. Food is a better bargain today for the average person, according to government records, than it was in the years just prior to World War IL Persons whose incomes have kept pace with the average can buy with 19% of their income after taxes the same diet that required 23% of their income after taxes in 1935-39 period. While that {is important, don't overlook this fact: Consumers ares not spending 19% of their disposable income for food; they are spending 26% of it. » » “ THAT means consumers are willing and do spend additional money for more and better food. Records at Purdue University show people today. are eating less potatoes and sweet potatoes, grain products, etc., than in the years before World War II, but are eating more per capita of choice steaks, pork, eggs, fruits and vegetables and dairy products, Today's food prices are relatively. not out of line . . , even when the prices are set daily in a free market where supply and demand operate with little. interference. . The U. 8. Bureau of Agriculture Economics has pointed out repeatedly that prices of many farm commoditiés hate very little relationship ‘to con-

Mr. Schenck

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The latest government figures show that farmers received an average of about 50 cents from each dollar that consumers spent for farm foods in December and January. So you can see the farmer isn't grabbing large hunks of the consumer's food dollar,

The current big food produetion program of farmers has produced a spring pig crop & per cent larger than a year ago and there are 5 per cent more cattle on-feed now than a vear ago. All of this big production, stimulated through confidence in a free market and a minimum of government interference, means more and more food. With a growing suooly of food, we have one of the most important weapons ~“@to whip inflation.

Few city people know that the net income of farmers has been going steadflv down since 1947, when the national figure was about $18 bBillfonis; In 1948 it dropped to $16.5 billion and to $14 billions in 1949. ana In 1950 the early estimate wae recently announced as near $13 billion level, - » »

FARM costs have steadily Increased during the same perod. A new tractor today is from 7 per cent to 10 per cent higher than a year ago ard dairy feed is 23 per cent hicher. Other needed farm sunplies which farmers must buy for food production are propor. tionately high.

Farmers and consumers alike know the present free market system is working and the maximum amount of food is being produced. Any other system of govertimental price fixing or interference would undermine confidence and retard production as ample evidence throughout the world has proved. It will pay to look at the whole food picture before jumping to conclusions. —Hassll E. Schenck, president, Indianapolis Farm Buarean. EITOR'S NOTE: Next week

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