Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1951 — Page 22

“WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor

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or a Meat-Ax TARY of State Dean Aditadn ind Gen. Douglas , the two central figures in the current inv into American foreign policy, have had as much to do with that policy in the Far East as any living Americans. Yet, although Mr. Acheson became an Assistant Secretary of State in 1941 and head of the department in 1949, he and Gen. MacArthur have never met personally, the testimony has disclosed. 4 In the light of this circumstance, it is not surprising ~~ that they do not see eye to eye on some questions. Particularly since Mr. Acheson hasn't visited the Far East since his youth while Gen. MacArthur, until his recent return, had been absent from the United States for 14 years. Pei ~ . $ ® » » MOREOVER, their official relationship has been as remote as their geographic positions. Despite his vast experience in the Far East, the General has not been consulted on any problem in that area, outside of Japan, since the end of the war. Contradictions and inconsistencies in policy are inevitable in such a situation. Yet, though this is an extreme case, the absence of any adequate co-ordination is apparent throughout our policy-making and administrative agencies. Adm. Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, told the Senate committee he thought Secretary Acheson was pressing for United Nations action on a naval blockade of Red China. The next day Mr. Acheson told the committee he had not asked for a blockade. Yet these two men meet at least once a week, and both are vitally concerned with the conduct of the Korean War. The research director for the Hoover Commission, who has been studying our overseas expenditures, has reported that dstimates of the amount of money the United States has spent abroad since 1946 vary by $60 billion. This is posgible because each spending or give-away agency is likely to have its own method of keeping books. “So,” he explained, “what is a loan to one man ie an expenditure to another. Then there are appropriations which have not yet been b expended, as well as loans that may well turn into grants, « until the whole subject is what you might call confused.” 5 2» . * » » _ THIS confusion must be costing the American taxpayer a lot of money. A confusion of purposes also exists among these agencies, which have popped up like mushrooms all over the place. + For “there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed nor birth” when our professional do-gocders fare forth to find places to give away our money. A South American country which felt the r of some cash found four U. 8, agencies Prepared to bid for the privilege of making the

4 oy are suffering from an acute case of bureaucratitus and it will take a meat-ax operation to rescue us from chaos.

Our T.-to-T. Club

O aminon THE ground that we have no quarrel with the themselves, but only with their Kremlin the Rimsias, hom of Representatives has adopted a resothe friendship of the American people for people of the Soviet Union. * The vote, which was taken on Monday, was 36 to 7. "Proponents of the measure are disturbed by this meager showing, in the face of extensive support known to be behind the proposal for its psychological value. It was unanimously approved in the Senate just a month ago. Its backers are now asking how can the House vote be ‘explained on the Voice of America.

WELL, it feould be explained perhaps, but the explanation might not look so good. The Voice would have to tell all about our Tuesday-to-Thursday club in Congress. +. It's not exactly a club, and few would admit membership. But it's made up of those Congress members who live at convenient traveling distances from Washington. They have a habit of leaving for home Thursday night and returning Tuesday morning, although they get good and full-time pay for staying on the job in the capital. ‘+ The 36-to-7 vote does not mean that there were only 43 members on hand Monday. But that is only a little more than half the present House membership of 433. "The friendship resolution is a commendable move. It invites the Russian people to work incessantly with the American people—including House members—to advance the cause of peace, There is no suggestion that they work at it only from Tuesday to Thursday.

Sawyer Must Stay Free

0 FAR as the Supreme Court is concerned, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer will have to stay out of jail all summer long. Mr. Sawyer is in contempt of a Federal Appellate Court because he did not obey its order to turn over to R. Stanley Dollar effective control of the American President Steamship Lines. He was to have gone to jail last l, but Chief Justice Vinson ordered a stay. The interests asked the full Court to override Justice 's action =. the Court refused and has now 2 . 1.

wanted to prove some point about immunity, tment is likely to be shared—at least by his this extraordinary and complicated case.

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SALES ARE DOWN

By Frederick C. Othman

Drop a Tear for TV, Dear—

WASHINGTON, June 7—Let us shed a tear for the television moguls now in town. They're sadder than the sogp oprys on their own 20-inch screens. I was about to call 'em manufacturers, but that is not exactly "true today. Mostly their factories are shut ’ down; while they try in vain to peddle their picture boxes, Put their unsold TV sets end to end (presuming each one is four

stretch for almost 500 miles. There are more than 600,000 of hese

ie Td Nobo pa knows h o w many more are in the hands of: dealers, nor how many of the latter are on the verge of bankruptcy. The video boys blame their Uncle Samuel. Claim all the rich who want television already have bought, Say the poor are prohibited from buying by Uncle's 25 per cent down payment rule. So they're in town buttonholing bureaucrats and making speeches at Congressmen to do something before television becomes the business tragedy of the age. I had a little talk with their leading spokes man, Robert C. Tait, president of the Strom-berg-Carlson Co, of Rochester, N, Y. He's a ‘pleasant gent and husky enough to wrestle one of his own TV-radio-phonograph combinations alone. Unless business gets better he may have to start hauling his machines personally, too, Speaking generally, that is. His own concern long has been in the telephone

GOOD RECORD. .. By Peter Edson

Sen. Russell Is No 7 Rubber-Stamp Man

WASHINGTON, June 7—Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, chairman of the Senate's committee investigating Gen. MacArthur's dismissal, has two things on the Washington record of which he is particularly proud. One’

manufacturing business and is not likely to go bankrupt over the slump in midget wrestlers, I wondered whether the quality of TV programs maybe had had something to do with the sudden lack of interest in buying sets, Mr, Tait said, and I quote, that television entertainment is getting better and better. I did not argue with him. Of course, sald he, the credit restrictions aren't all, Half of this nation still does not have TV broadcasting, so that people who live in places like Denver wouldn't want a receiving set even for free. And talking about Denver, there's the matter of Sen. Ed Johnson, who lives there. Every time he sounds off about the time has come for color television, a few more prospects decide to wait for the tinted comics on their greens.

Not So Hot MR. TAIT'S a diplomat and he’s not denouncing the Columbia Broadcasting System's nor the National Broadcasting Company's rival color inventions, He doesn't think either is

much good. I said the demonstrations looked lush to Sen. Johnson and mae. “Yes,” said Mr Tait, “but maybe you noticed that nothing moved very fast on those screens. Else it would have been a blur of colors.”

He said he beMeved.the inventors would have

to labor some more before color TV was good enough for general use. While waiting for this, he said, the industry certainly would be grateful if Congress would pass a law, cutting out the credit restrictions for three months, so that he and the 330 other members of the Radio-Tele-vision Manufacturers Association could get rid of their mountain of machinery, I wish them luck, but I haven't much hope. I'm neutral, too. Don't own a television set,

SIDE GLANCES

FOREIGN POLICY

. By Charles Lucey Is Acheson & Co. Taking Firmer |

Stand Against Red China?

WASHINGTON, June 7--Secretary of State Dean Acheson's testimony in the Senate Far Fast policy inquiry is strengtheping the case of those who say State Department policy has mellowed toward Nationalist China and stiffened toward Communist China, : Maybe Gen. Douglas MacArthur's insistence on a tougher anti-Red China position by the United States had nothing to do with it. The State Department “has made some disclaimers that there has been any policy shift on the China front,’ But Mr, Acheson's newest testimony before Senators studying the MacArthur dismissal shows a more stern Far East front than some of his critics believed existed before. Secretary Acheson has said vigorously on other occasions that United States opposition to admitting Red China into the United Nations had persuaded other United Nations members to take the same position. But he also had sald earlier that he did not think admission of the Chinese Communists into the United Nations was subject to our Security Council veto. Ambassador Warren Austin has said the same thing at Lake Success. ’

Share Leadership BUT Mr. Acheson's responses to questioning by Sen. John C, Stennis (D, Miss.), who warned that Red China admission to the United

Nations “means the end of a United Nations we ‘can take part in,” show that the United States is ready to make a vigorous fight on this whole question—veto included. The United States’ task, Mr. Acheson said, is to show such clear leadership that we can convince other nations and cause them to feel they wish to act with this country in keeping the Chinese Communists from “shooting their ay into the United Nations.” The Secretary said: “If you can present that great major thought powerfully to your associates in the Unfted Nations, then you can get them to vote with you on preventing this thing from happening, and you have to have them feel that way and believe that way to make this whole effort successful on account of the fact there are 45 organizations in the United Nations where one power doesn’t have the decisive voice.” Mr, Acheson said, “we expect to be in the majority .and I think we can stay there as long as we can give good, strong leadership.” Russia has used the Security Council veto to bar other nations from United Nations membership. But it has been argued the veto doesn't apply to China—that this is not a matter of admitting a nation but of recognizing a new government in a country already a member,

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‘Baseball Fans’ MR. EDITOR: It seems that some of the trolley operators on the Riverside line are not at all happy because they have to load and unload baseball

fans at Harding and 18th Sts, who patronize the ball games at Victory Field. A couple of the operators sounded off the past week and this is what I heard from one: 4 suppose they are going to that - « - « ball game.” The other one said, “I hope every - - - - one of them gets good and wet.” Jt was cloudy that Sunday. Now what I would like to know is whether these car operators are paid to haul these passengers, or whether they are doing it for sweet charity's sake? I have been laboring under the impression that they are paid good wages, on Sundays and holidays especially. If such is the case, just what business is it of the operators where the passengers get on or off? They all pay their fares, so what does the streetcar company lose? Does the company presume to think that all fans are silly enough to pay 50 cents round-trip fare on these baseball busses plus 30 cents to and from home, a total of 80 cents for car fare alone. Everybody does not get paid $75 to $100 a week, I shall continue to ride the Riverside bus to and from Harding and 18th Sts. along with a lot of other baseball fans, until the Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc, dream up a way to stop it. ~George F. Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave.

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It takes seven of the Security Council's 11 members to vote a nation into membership, Mr, Acheson told the Senators that if a time came when we did not have thé votes to bar Red China, the case should be carried to the World Court for determination. If he didn't have the Security Council votes to bar Red China, he pointed out, we probably wouldn't have the votes to have the veto declared applicable in such a case. There have been other signs of a stiffening attitude toward the Chinese Communists. Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk slapped them around considerably in a recent New York

speech, and expressed sympathy for the Chinese Nationalists. No policy change was represented in this, it was claimed, but a lot of people remain unconvinced.

Gen. MacArthur protested against the cone,

tinued flow of strategic materials to the Chinese Communists, This was followed by a United Nations resolution recommending stoppage of this flow, and by a stiffening attitude in London on British shipments to the Chinese Reds. Gen. MacArthur long has argued the strategic importance of Formosa to the U. 8. and called for a military mission and greater military help for the Chinese Nationalist forces there. A sizable mission—planned before Gen, MacArthur testified before the Senate — has been sent there in recent weeks, and an important step-up in flow of military supplies is in progress. Gen, MacArthur alsqg urged use of Chinese Nationalist troops against the Chinese Communists. Some pro-administration Sefitors believe such action may be on the way.

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‘Needs Letters’ MR. EDITOR: Sandra Combs, a girl of 10, is sufering from rhuematic fever. On Friday, June 1, what started out to'be a ball game among her playmates of the surrounding community turned out to be a very sad day for Sandra. She partieipated until serious leg pains caused her to be sidelined. She had been bothered for some time with these pains. But her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Elmer Combs realized that her misery never before persisted this long. They quickly took her to a local doctor where he immediately diagnosed her as a victim of the dread rhuematic fever. Little Sandra would love to get mail from anyone. Her address is Sandra Combs, 206 W. 25th St., Connersville, Ind. —Stanley Howard, Conncrsville.

‘Hot Chocolate’ MR. EDITOR: It was front page news in The Times when the Army announced it had developed a chocolate bar which would not meit at 120 degrees, Seems to me we had those in the last war, I remember trying to make a cup of chocolate out of one after I had broken my last remaining tooth on it. Used a gasoline stove with a hot blue flame, but the chips remained where they had fallen atop the boiling water, I guess the idea was that one bar was supposed to last one man through one war. —Dogrobber, City.

PRICES . . . By Earl Richert

Uncle Doesn't Want Lettuce Under Ground

WASHINGTON, June 7—While one branch of the government is still destroying 1950 crop potatoes in Maine, another has stopped 225 California lettuce growers from plowing up a part of their crop to try to hold up

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is his sponsorship of legislation which made the school

lunch program permanent. of the farm parity formula legislation. On the first, Sen. Russ¢ll's Interest was aroused by

the high rate of World War 1I draft rejections for undernourishment. Money from the federal treasury to buy surplus farm products for school lunches had been provided up to 1948 by an annual amendment tacked into the Department of Agriculture appropriation bill. Sen. Russell introduced the bill which gave th@ school lunch program permanent status,

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IF YOU do not know where to turn-. , , there Is an open door . . . that bids the troubled enter in , . , and of their heartaches pour , , . a door that never closes and . . , invites us one and all , , , to come within its mighty fold . .., and pay our God a call... thréughout the day and night alike . ..

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« « » And many were the times I know . .. its welcome showed the way . .. for what could be more wonderful , . , to those of us who bleed , . . than just to speak our deepest heart . . . and tell God of our need . .. and that is why I say to yoit + +» to all of you whe grieve

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A farm parity formula was something that people just talked about for a long time. The idea was to establish some ratio or relationship between the prices of things farmers sell and the things they buy. One day In 1939 Sen. Russell wrote out in longhand a definition for a parity formula, That becgme the basis for the law. » » . UNTIL 1946 Sen. Russell served on the Senate's Commit. tee on Agriculture. Then congressional reorganization plans cut each Senator down to major committee assignments. A Georgia farmer himself, Sen. Russell naturally wanted to keep his hand in agricultural matters. He gave up his seat on the agricultural committee, however, retaining his Appropriations and Naval Affairs Committee seats. But he hung

onto his chairmanship of the agricultural appropria- _ tions subcommittee, and” so kept his hold on farm affairs. He was "a cosponsor of the Tennessee Valley and Rural Electrification legislation, and he takes great pride in the way those two programs have developed. Sen. Russell has, in fact, supported most of the New Deal's domestic program ~~with the exception of civil rights reforms, He has supported Social Security programs and played a large part

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ministration alive, even when: it was under bitter criticism,

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foreign policy moves, however,

-OPPR. 1951 BY BEA SERVICE. MC. T. WL. ABO. W. & PAY. See.

“They're right when they say riches bring misery—Mom won't

let me touch a dime of the $17 in my pig bank!"

Sen. Russell has been something less than wholeheartedly co-operative. One count shows him favoring only 13 of some 30 major foreign policy moves. Thus he was for the Marshall Plan, but on a greatly reduced spending basis. . . ~ AS A member of the Naval Affairs Committee, Sen. Russell was one of five Senators who made a wartime 47,000mile tour of all naval bases and activities, When the subcommittee came back, they reported, in executive sessions, on what they found. But some

of the Senators leaked infor- .

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mation and a id account got into the : T angered, Sen.

= Russell took the floor next day

and in what many of his friends say was the best speech of his career, he set the record straight. And he said that as far as he was concerned, that would-be the end of executive sessions for the Naval Affairs Committee, He stuck to that, too, right up to the time that the MaeArthur hearings began. It was unification of the Armed Bervices that switched Sen. Russell from Naval Affairs to the also - unified Armed Services Committee. He didn’t particularly aspire to chairmanship of that group. But when Sen. Millard Tydings was defeatéd last year, Sen. Russell, as the ranking majority member, succeeded

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lettuce prices.

“I know it looks crazy as hell,” said one ‘government

official, who declined use of his name. “But the difference is that the potato deal is sanctioned by law while the lettuce growers just acted on their own.” With lettuce prices falling sharply, most of the big lettuce growers in the Salinas, Cal, area, the “lettuce bowl” of America, got together about a month ago and decided to plow under a portion of their

crop to bolster lettuce prices, » r ~

ON MAY 18, they were charged with conspiring in violation of the antitrust

laws in a suit filed in federal court at 8an Francisco by the attorney general. The case has not come to trial but Federal Judge Edward P. Murphy issued a preliminary injunction restraining the growers from destroying the lettuce. The preliminary injunction settles the matter for this year since the lettuce season in the Salinas area is comparatively short. Officials of the Agriculture Department said the California lettuce growers. could have availed themselves of a federal marketing agreement or have gone under a California state law to restrict marketing legally and thus stabilize prices. In its suit, the Justice De partment charged that the California growers violated the Federal Antitrust Laws by plowing under portions of lettuce “erop to raise prices and limit quantities of lettuce available to ers, : ; “e

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YET A "Whole hetwork of féderal laws sanctions and promotes restrictions on production and marketing of farm crops for the sole purpose of holding up prices. Under the Federal Citrus Marketing Agreements in Florida, for example, the Florida growers customarily go through a so-called ‘‘shipping holiday” during the period after Christmas when they hold their fruit off the market. This clears the channels of distribution and they can start shipping again in early January at a good price, This is legal. The Citrus Marketing Agreements are supposed to keep the markets from being flooded by limiting shipments by quality and quantity, This week, for example, the Lemon Administration Committee of California has decided that shipments of Southern 'Callfornia lemons should be limited to 600 carloads during the week . ending June 10. This is 100 carloads less than the limitation during the previous week. This is legal too.

” » » THE Milk Marketing Agreements, which govern most of the big city milksheds in the U. 8, are price-fixing deals which maintain uniform prices to farmers, Since the depression days of plowing under cotton and kil)ing little pigs, the Agriculture Department has placed restrietions on production to hold and tobacco are under age restrictions now, but the other major crops will be curtailed whenever surplusses threaten

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