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oo Frode SOAR Re LE LE TREAT a : HE UC e nce in _L.ongress cra FRNA A 7 HE FORM in which the Senate has approved the “wheat for India” bill marks a welcome departure from the government's free-handed policy in recent years of giving things to nations which have means or credit to - supply their own needs. : hy President Truman's proposal was to send India $190 million worth of wheat as an outright gift, although India . asked only for a long-term loan. A Senate committee ad- . vocated a half-gift, half-loan compromise, with the loan half on “special and easy terms.” The Senate has voted to treat the whole transaction as a loan, which it should be. The Indian government has ample credit for the deal and there is no reason it should be treated as a charity case at the American taxpayers’ expense. It will strain our economy to aid the nations which, unlike neutral India, are definitely on our side in the struggle between free peoples and communism, . » ” . . . AND IT would be foolish to suppose that we can buy India’s good will by a demonstration of generosity. The Indian government and the Indian press aren't playing that way. They are giving Soviet Russia the best of it at every opportunity, regardless of what we do. This matter should have been handled from the out-

easy” loan. But Mr. Truman put our government into the deal, and the bill passed by the Senate is as good a solution as could have been expected in the circumstances. The bill on which the House plans to vote next week is similar in most respects, so Congress, at least, is moving in the direction of prudence.

Gamblers and Taxes

HE HOUSE Ways and Means Committee, seeking more revenue for the federal government, has turned its attention to professional gamblers. . Its members have voted into their new tax bill a special 10 per cent levy on the gross receipts of bookmakers and lottery operators, plus a $50-a-year “occupational tax” and a boost from $150 to $250 in the annual levy on coinoperated gambling devices. eon ay How much the government would get out of these proposals is a question. If all gamblers paid the taxes, “some authorities say, collections might be nearly half a billion dollars a year. . But the committee thinks another important purpose would be served. The federal government would be given a. more direct hand in the drive against gambling and racketeering.

EVADERS of the taxes would be subject to penalties ranging up to a year in prison, a $10,000 fine and a 50 per cent addition to their tax liability. And local law-enforce-ment officers could get from the federal government the names of gamblers who paid the taxes in their communities.

Some good citizens may not like the idea of getting federal revenue from illegal business. But, it's pointed out, quite a little already is being collected from bootleggers in dry territory who pay the federal occupational tax on retail liquor dealers rather than take a chance of trouble with Uncle Sam. And, certainly, most taxpayers won't be deeply affronted by this proposal to make professional gamblers help carry their burden. They aren't likely to be moved even by so pitiful a case as that of gambler Mickey Cohen, in Los Angeles, who says he's had to sell his dog's mahogany hed for $35 to raise cash so he can fight a charge of evading federal income taxes. .

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Scrap Again

THIS country once more is running up against a problem that caused much trouble during World War II . . . the scrap problem. America’s steel mills, with greatly increased capacity, are turning out more steel than ever before. But, to go on doing that, they must have a huge supply of scrap iron and scrap steel. To that industry, scrap is a material just as essential as iron ore and coal. Government officials warn that scrap stocks now are running “dangerously low,” with some mills on a day-to-day basis. These stocks, they say, should be built up rapidly this summer, against the winter months when collections fall off.

THEY urge railroads to tear up old tracks, auto wreckers to speed recovery of steel from dismantled cars, ‘state and city governments’ to scrap such things as abandoned bridges. As yet, they're not asking for a repetition of the ' wartime scrap collection drives. But it would be an excellent 2 idea for everybody who can to start old iron and steel . moving toward the mills by way of the scrap dealers.

4 defense production program would be gravely handicapped “#nd so would the effort to avoid a\too drastic cut in « production of goods for civilians.

i . § . haa pe? : Taxpayer's Day ih { DETROIT, preparing to celebrate its 250th anniversary, 2 plans something its officials believe will be unique for en American city—a “tax-payer’s day.” g On the Fourth of July, all citizens who have paid ® municipal taxes for 50 years or more will be invited to { assemble on the City Hall step and receive special certifi- { cates and congratulations from the mayor. : ¥ | e, that. But why not a national taxthe Pres dent telling us all that our efforts % mment have been appreciated? It e us for the greater future efforts

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WASHINGTON, May 19—With my own ears I heard ’'em, the butchers, say that meat today is too cheap. “I'll repeat it,” testified Wilbur Laroe Jr, general counsel of the Independent Meat Packers Association, “the price of meat is subnormal

as compared to wages.” Mr. Laroe and some of the other packers are old friends of mine from OPA days. Now they were back before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to say that OPS price controls on meat

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Meat Today Is Too Cheap—?

are going to empty the cases of the legitimate butchers.” I had to laugh and not at friend Kruse, who is a sincere and honest man. It will make very little difference to me if the butcher shops are bare. When steak is $1.35 per pound, there might as well be no steak. My bride refuses to buy it.

Another meat man said he'd like to meet

- Mrs. O. and put her straight on the reasonable-

ness of meat prices. He's a brave man. One peep out of him as to why hamburger at better than $1 a pound is a bargain and she'd bop him in the eye with her reticule. %., So .. this went on for a while under the senatorial chandeliers and I almost felt sorry

for the meat men. They said they were more ~~

misunderstood than husbands, even. Mr. Kruse

- sald sadly that he did wish some newspaper

a black market was in the offing, and that if Price Stabi‘lizer Mike DiSalle eoan'¥ wreaked his will on the industry there soon wouldn't be meat for housewives at any price. When they were finished some of them dropped back to the press table to ask how I thought they'd done. I think they were fishing for compliments, but I had to tell them they hadn't impressed me. Not so long as ground round steak is $1.10 per pound. “But,” said Henry J. Kruse, president of the Seattle, Wash., Packing Co., “these regulations

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By DAN KIDNEY PRESIDENT TRUMAN accused Congress of exceeding its powers. Many citizens thought Congressional powers were dying from lack of exercise. oo oo Lo MOBILIZATION Director Charles E. Wilson called some of the Congressional shenanigans ‘‘foolishness.” That proves he knows more about running General Electric than Genergl Elections. =e & : : SENATORS and Congressmen are treating price control extension in such a cavalier manner, the average citizen must get the impression that national legislators must be over-paid. >

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“OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE"— and they make swell Senate witnesses. Sd A SENATE Ethics Committee may try to eliminate five percenters. Sounds like more inflation. S db NEHRU has become so westernized he is referring tough decisions to committees, e o> PUTTING grain for India on a simple “money or your life” basis, should speed up action in this Congress.

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reporter, somewhere, someday would tell American housewives his side of the story. I propose here to give him his wish: He said that beef eaters, themselves, set the price thereof. Every steak at whatever price is sold to somebody. Let demand fall off and price goes down. Or let production increase and you get the same effect. : Now comes Mr. DiSalle with his regulations, which Mr. Laroe said filled a book as big as Webster's dictionary, and many of which he said are stupid on their face. Think what they're going to do to the meat business, said Mr. Kruse. Cattle feeders will quit feeding because they'll lose money on every cow, he said. Packers, hamstrung by rules they can’t even understand, will go easy in a business that might inadvertently put them in jail.

Might Be Right

LEGITIMATE meat production will fall off, the black marketeers will offer steaks at fantastic costs, and the OPS will be controlling prices on meats that don’t exist. Or so said Mr. Kruse, He and the others said a good deal more, but I think that's the essence. They may-be right. Goodness knows the OPA made a mess of the meat business. The meat men doubt if Mr. DiSalle’'s OPS ¢an do any better. So do I. I suppose I'm what you'd call a disgruntled neutral. No matter who's in charge, the government or free enterprise, I get no meat. Mrs. O. says the prices in the butcher's today are insulting. Claims she'd be no proper wife if she spent my money in such clip joints. I'm thinking of buying Mr. Kruse a catcher’s mask, -for his safety’s sake, and asking him out to ‘a fish dinner. Unless he should choose a night when we're having cottage cheese.

What Others Say

MEN who stare at women in low-cut gowns are uncultured. A truly refined man, a cultured man, a man with real background, does not stare.—French screen star Denise Darcel.

THE free nations must stand together and help one another if freedom is to survive.—President Truman.

HONG KONG, May 19—The rush to beat United Nations resuaints on supplies to Red China bottlenecked air freight services from Western Europe to this busy port. Kleven cnartered freight flights representing most of the usual Europe-to-Asia alr carriers landed at Hong Kong last week in addition to scheduled flights. Cargoes included items. of potential military

glass equipment, Much of this tonnage was said to have originated In Western Germany. Why Allied control officials in that occupied country have permitted such goods to be exported to Hong Kong when obviously it is destined elsewhere 18 not known here. The urgent and high-paying market for stich goods is implicit in the fact that it is shipped by air at a prospective profit, This also suggests that available surface transpart has been heavily backlogged by such shipments.

o o ” ANOTHER factor that must be reckoned in judging the extraordinary . character of this traffic is that virtually the entire round trip must be paid for by the plane charterers since return cargo is either

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WASHINGTON, May 19—The_ Senate, which has“resounded to denunciations of the British and other Allies for trading with the Reds, 18 getting a sobering picture of what the United States Is permitting to happen in West Germany. : Immense quantities of war materials or war-supporting materials—needed or soon to be needed for building up Western Europe's defenses—have been moving unimpeded behind the Iron Curtains Since the Korean War began, West German trade with Red China alone

“has increased tenfold.

The Reds are paying fancy prices, and even the West German industrial concerns in which British and American capital is invested are providing forbidden goods to the Communists. The story is being spread on the record by ‘& O'Conor Subcommittee of the Senate Inter-

For months the O'Conor group has en

the Reds. The result has been a fairly tight embargo on trade between this country and the Soviet bloc. Sen. Herbert O'Conor (D. Md.) then turned his attention on British trade, particularly that flowing through Hong Kong to Red China. This riled the British considerably, but results were .meager until Gen. MacArthur had his say on the same subject.

Booming Business. NOW Sen, O'Conor is moving against the American occupation authorities in West Germany, headed by John J. McCloy, our high commissioner there. The idea is that.it does no good to block American sales to the enemy if West Germany, under our control and receiving economic aid from us, does a booming business in proscribed goods. Mr. McCloy has a dual responsibility in West Germany's economy, On the one hand, he is charged with helping the revival of trade and industry in order to lighten the relief load on the -U. 8. taxpayer. On the other, he is supposed to avoid industrial and trade decisions which will build up the Russian zone in East Germany, or contribute to the Communist war potential in general. Information reaching the Senate committee indicates that the recovery obligation has received first and almost exclusive concern. Since last May the West Germans have had the administration of their own customs. They have a huge force of customs inspectors—some 15,000 men. With, proverbial German thoroughness they have done much to dry up illegal smuggling into West Germany of consumer goods.

SONNE SENNNENININNY.

MR. EDITOR: Republican bigwigs have been looking for one who resembles “The Great Stone Face,” to nominate for President. They thought they had him in “Old Fizzie Wigg,” a general, and a five-star one at that, and they kicked up a lot of dust that got in our eyes, When the dust settled and all the glitter died, they found they h nothing left but many ugly words about their President.” Sunday we celebrated Mother's Day and I doubt if there is a mother living that would vote for a military man for President. I can

see the mothers working. day after day, not

only giving comfort to her own but to every child in the neighborhood. I imagine if she were investigated by Congress she would not only wear five stars but a crown stuck so full of stars it would glitter and outshine any decorations worn by the “Great Fizzie Wigg.” There have been books written on the history of great generals. That is why they just fade away. 1 can’t recall any book on great mothers. A good mother lives forever in the hearts of her children and all the children that knew her. She never fades away. —Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City.

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Such smuggling costs the West German gov. ernment tariff revenue and also provides price competition for the West German manufac. “turers in their home market. : But when it comes to stopping smuggling out of West Germany, ‘that's another question, Eastbound trucks roll across the border day and night with no inspection except on a small

fraction of the border’ where American MPs, untrained in customs work, supervise. A former ECA man, now working as an ine vestigator for the O'Conor group, was in Bere . lin a few weeks ago. ~ He learned that Red China had sent a purchasing delegation which was holding open house for West German salesmen in Russia's part of Berlin. Among other things, they were contracting for a complete rolling mill and a power station. The West Germans were told they would have no trouble getting the goods to Red China provided they avoided stopping at American, Canadian, Philippine or Japanese ports. They were told it would be safe to stop at Hong Kong. A New York bank was providing a letter of credit for one of the big purchases. Joker of the whole situation is that West German firms who are “among the largest reciplents of ECA aid” are prominent among the German concerns building up Russia's war mas chine. This means the American taxpayer is paying twice—to build up the Communist menace and to oppose ft.

‘Thanks for Everything’ . MR. EDITOR: I've just been reading a story in your wone derful , newspaper called “Thank You, Indiane apolis,” and I must confess up until this time, I haven't even thought to convey my thoughts to the good people of Indiana for their kindness to me since I left my home state of Pennsylvania and came to Indianapolis to live with my husband who is stationed at Camp Atterbury. More than once I have mentioned the fact

got around to telling these kind people ho much I appreciated their hospitality. ‘ Since this is my first occasion to be away from home and family, I had already convinced myself to be homesick and lonesome, but I must confess I have spent many joyous hours here in your fine state. I will admit that I miss my family and friends, but every now and then I find myself, when in conversation with my husband or pomeone else, referring to Indiana as my home! Once again, I'd like to say, thanks for everything. —Stegy.

LABOR . . . By Fred Perkins Influence in Defense Program—

WASHINGTON, May 19—Results from organized labor’s apparent victory in its fight for more influence in the defense program will be checked up at a United Labor Policy Commitee meeting on May 28. That will be four weeks after the committee announced that because of a “changed attitude” among defense chiefs it was returning labor spokesmen to defense agencies. It is expected that policies of the revamped’ Wage Stabilization Board will be clarified before the meeting. Developments of the past two weeks have indicated that among the board's 18 members a majority will favor extensive thawing of the wage freeze that became effective Feb. 186. New cost-of-living figures from the U. 8. Bureau of Labor Statistics are expected late next week. They will be based on retail prices in mid-April and may be used for a general revision of national wage policies. Forecasts indicate, however, that only one or two points will be added to the present all-time high consumers price index. This might be regarded as not enough of an increase to justify a general revision of the wage-freeze formula, but the board could approve negotiated wage boosts on the grounds of inequities and other exceptions to the rule.

Mr. Carey « +. just waiting

Nearly three weeks have passed since the United Labor Policy Committee nominated spokesmen to take posts in important defense agencies, but the nominees have not gone to work. Union spokesmen say there is no particular significance to the delay. James B. Carey, president of the CIO Elece trical Workers, said that “labor is waiting” to see whether it “will support continuation of wage stabilization.” Unless the law is altered on prices, profits, speculation and taxation, he asserted, “we cannot expect the working people of the country to restrain themselves and simply carry the burdens of the inflation that Congress has created.” The delay is in contrast to vigorous protests made by the Labor Policy Committee to lack of union representation in the defense program. George M. Harrison, an AFL vice president and head of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, was nominated to become an adviser to Moe bilization Chief Charles E. Wilson. David J. McDonald, secretary-treasurer of the CIO United Steelworkers, was named as an assist« ant to Stabilizer Eric Johnston. Mr. Harrison has been attending a convene tion of his union in San Francisco this week. Mr. McDonald is sald to have been detained at the steel union's headquarters in Pittsburgh by the illness of Philip Murray, CIO and Steel Union head. However, he is expected to discuss his duties with Mr. Johnston next week.

BUSINESS WITH THE ENEMY . . . By Clyde Farnsworth Rush Bottlenecks Air Service to China

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value, - with accent on optical

very light or altogether lacking. Shorter runs by air also are being made from India to Hong Kong with highly profitable returns on shipments of Indian - manufactured canvas and rubber shoes of the sort favored by Chinése armies. Tens of thousands of pairs of these sneakers reported to have been made in India have entered Hong Kong by air in

recep! weens. oo. One particular advantage en-

joyed by air shippers has been that prior import clearances have not been required by Hong Kong authorities for airborne cargo, according to informed sources. It may be landed in customs bond to be documented later, it was said.

” ” ” : HONG KONG official import-

export statistics reflect only the officially approved trade with Red China and do not show what the Reds take by trans-shipment through the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, or by outright smuggling. It is understood, for example, that trade in petroleum products which the British themselves officially cut off before the United Nations took action now has been transferred to Macao. ; /* Recent {ntelligence out of

Microscopes are

Red China suggests that thousands of Russian “advisers” with their well-known taste for Swiss wrist watches and German cameras are responsible for a smugglers’ boom in Chinese cities, The Russians are said to be paid in local currency credits by Chinese municipalities or other organs to which they are attached. Since they are already being fed and housed at Chinese expense, the

—-best- way --of spending their

local money is on durable luxury goods.

RUSSIA turns out delicate flight instruments for. jet fighters but she has never let the

proletariat dictate the produc- :

tion of decent timepieces. Russian watch-snatching in Europe and elsewhere after the war was a notorious commentary on the Soviet way of life. Untold thousands of Swiss watches have been brought to Hong Kong by air, But the demand for some other items of the European air cargoes is not so easily explained—Iloose lenses and optical glass, for example. These are needed for artillery range finders, bomb sights and spectrometers without which. metallurgical laboratories could not work. A another

great item for which there is practically no market in Red China educational circles. But microscopes in military use are more readily associated with bacteriological warfare than anything else. The chances are that much of the high priority cargo from Western Europe is actually destined to Eastern Russia instead of Red China. To the best of anyone's

knowledge; there's no industry -

in China that calls for or-is capable of processing the

‘blocks of optical glass which

have gone through Hong Kong

.by the ton.

FROM A HILLSIDE

BEFORE me lies my vast domain . . . as far as I can see . . , the sky above and the land below . . . they all belong to me . . . I own the sunlight and its glow . . . that warms me through and through . . . and I have clover carpets that . , . are fashioned With the dew . . . my wealth extends beyond the earth . . , for I own stars that shine . . . and even the great moon above « ++ ls actually mine . . . each flower and each leafy tree ... they too form a great part... of my domain, my vast domain + + + endearing to my heart. : —By Ben Burroughs

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