Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1951 — Page 14

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HII uitsia has nssvined'the sale of esos ibaker if ~. Korea—and is getting away with it—the United States Has let itself be placed in a provocative light in the hectic I I Xe Passi ins pron ls : ‘Department said yesterday it had decided Ey what to do about Russia's proposal for a cease-fire agree- * ment in Korea, but. it refused to disclose the decision. That was no help. . This policy of silence gives the Russians that much more time to flood the air waves with their propaganda. ~The longer this goes on, the more people will be forgetting that the Russians started this war and could have stopped it anytime they wanted to. While the State Department fiddles with this situation, it_fuddles with the one in Iran. On Monday it was nn unced in Singapore (a British colony) that four ican destroyers had left’ that port for Iranian waters “a show of the flag’—which is tHe British way of ng to “throw our weight around.” :

t wT . ¥ 0» . THIS STORY was published all over the world uding Iran. The Irhnians knew that a British cruiser en route to the Persian Gulf, so to them it must have that the world's two great naval powers were Soining hands and bearing down upon them. If this isn’t the case—and we do not believe that it is—why doesn’t our government say so? Asked about the destroyers yesterday, Secretary of State A on said he had heard nothing about such a report, and that he hesitated to accept it. If he doesn’t read the newspapers someone should tell him these things. Then he could pick up his telephone and ask the Navy Department what about it. The United States would be in an awkward position if Russia should move in, announcing that it intends to defend . Iran against American-British aggression. This is exactly what we are asking for by not disassociating ourselves from this situation where our meddling has resulted only in misunderstanding and. ill-will. On the Korean peace proposal—if it is a proposal— Russia should be told that we will stop shooting the moment ne Reds do, and Red China and the Soviets should be asked

he i ty are prepared to make suitable reparation for the diiage dete i South Koren by the Chinese armies and the

Russian warplanes. We have everything it takes to deal with these situations except leadership.

Clip "Em, but Hard "HE COUNTRY at large has good cause to be horrified, s it is, over the recent disclosures of drug addiction

or ‘epidemic has not reached our smaller itie aud Furs] ares, in qume metropolitan centers it has econ a’grave menace. And it is growing at an alarming under pressure of an organized traffic in illicit drugs. But the menace can, be licked if Congress will tighten

¥ the foul characters who are peddling dope to youngsters. . That is the opinion of a man who should know most io oi the difficulties of federal dope-law enforcement. He ; y J. Anslinger, 1 U. 8. narcotics commissioner.

“We can catch them, but we can't keep them in,” 8. Anslinger told U. 8. News and World Report, news magazine. He was speaking of dope smugglers, the gndicates, the wholesalers and pushers. “They serve about f months. We put one crowd in jail, then start on » ther one. By the time we get the second one, the first orks again.” § The present maximum federal sentence for a dope gtidler convicted on a single count is five years. Usual tence for a first offender is a year and a day. A bill sponsored by the Senate Crime Committee calls t mandatory sentences up to 20 years for pushers. There similar bill in the House awaiting action, and Sen. n of Illinois has still another measure that would vid o life sentences for those selling dope to minors. i Congress should do a fast job on these laws. And, good measure, the various states should jack up their

rn punishment for the carrion they catch preying upon

a ines’ Answer

a Cots hocaune “we don’t need two armies.” that suffers from oversimplification, but it 8 & poor reason for not doubling the size of as the Senate-approved hill calls for. Bl she sbuled Vel ous $0 In our word : cluding a few from our Allies.

laws and lay down stiffer penalties as mandatory .

! DEAR BOSS . ... By Dan Kidney

Can Jenner Proposal Live?

WASHINGTON, June 27—With the Senate and House conferees finally getting together today te iron out differences ih the labor and

federal security appropriations bills, the fate

of the Jenner amendment seemed over-shadowed by amendments to cut personnel in the two offices.

As Rep. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville *

Democrat, pointed out, if the 10 per cent overall personnel cut vpted by the Senate is ap-

proved, it will be applied to each appropriation bill as it comes along. That has administration officials worried. For they say that some departments and agencies will be severely handicapped by such a reduction. It appears likely, however, that some such amendment is sure to be adopted. For the House approved one from the floor which permits replacements to be cut one-quarter of the number retiring from government service,

Both Senate and, House conferees are fully aware of the implications of the amendment which Sen, Willlam E. Jenner (R. Ind.) got into the bill, however. Although there was no Senate objection at the time, some of the Senate conferees and fnost of the House Democratic ones now to be opposed to it. There has

' been a considerable drive by welfare workers

and some labor groups throughout.the country to make them aware that the Jenner amendment would lift the Bocial Security Law secrecy provisions. by writing legislation into an appro-

Amendment Pending

AN AMENDMENT to the Social Security Law to do this is pending before the House Ways and Means Committee sirce its introduction some months ago by Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Republican. Either the Jenner amendment or the Brown-

son proposal would legalize the welfare publicity law passed by the 1951 Republican legislature in Indiana. Sen. Jenner pointed out that his method is the one way to save the state from being cut off from some $18 million in federal grants-in-aid, as the time is too short to apply the method of Mr. Brownson.

Such writing of legislation into a money bill must be approved by the House and could have been stopped in the Senate by a point of order. At the kick-off the conferees declined to predict what will happen according to Mr. Denton. He said they had been talking more about the personnel cuts,

Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, who admits that he would be “taken off the hook” by not having to deprive his native state of funds for the aged, blind and, dependent children, if the Jenner amendment stays in the appropriation bill, publicly favors the retention of the Social Security Law's secrecy provisions. These provide that no access to the records are oper to anyone not engaged in welfare administration. The new Indiana law would make names and amounts available in an open book in each county auditor's office.

At a press conference Monday, which was billed as “important,” Mr. Ewing unveiled the new FSA plan to pay 60-days hospitalization for all persons over 65 who are now covered by Bocial Security benefits. It also would be paid for survivors and dependents and no increase

in rates or taxation would be necessary he said. «

Specific Provisions

AT THE questioning which followed, he was asked concerning a statement which he read with this paragraph in it: “Specitic provision would be made for maintaining the confidential character of the records concerning any patient.”

That is not comparable to the question posed by the Indiana law, he explained, since this is an insurance and “not a give-away.” Pressed somewhat further he took a stand for retaining the secrecy provisions for grantsinsaid. That would put him against both the Jenner and Brownson amendments, The introduction of this new FSA plan, however, would necessitate the Ways and Means Committee taking up the Social! Security Law for amendment and give Mr. Brownson a chance to push his anti-secrecy plan at that time. Since the general law was just amended last year to include wider coverage, Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the Ways and Means Committee said. he is unlikely to do anything about it this session again. So the Jenner amendment is the only $18 million out for Indiana at this time.

Barbs

IF YOU want to make all of your troubles feel small, just ignore them.

NO BOY really has lived who hasn't experienced the sensation of a stubbed toe.

CONTROLS . . . By Earl Richert

Prices Make Strange

MARKET BLUES

Tactless Texan Roars About Tactless Tomato Price Gougers

WASHINGTON, June 27—Ausdtin Anson, the tactless Texan, wondered if I'd had a plate of big, red, juicy sliced tomatoes lately. I hadn’t. He wasn't surprised. Scientific progress, said he, has ruined this nation's tomato appetite. As manager of the Texas Citrus and Vegetable Growers and Shippers . Association of Harlingen, Tex. Mr. Anson has for sale at the moment 4000 freight-car loads of the finest, fattest tomatoes ever to soak up Texas sunshine. They should retail in “any grocery in America for 15 cents a pound, but Mr. Anson fears most people will have to pay at least twice that—and still not get the topgrade, de luxe quality. The cellophane tube is the villain. You've seen this tube at the grocer’s with four small tomatoes lined up inside it. A few years ago Mr. Anson and his tomato growers figured the tube would be the salvation of their business, It would put tomatoes in front of the housewife in such attractive fashion that she couldn’t resist 'em. So thought the vegetable growers.

By Frederick C. Othman

because of this profiteering. Especially they're not eating our Texas tomatoes. “Ours are too fine and big this year to squeeze into those little tubes.” Every town in the Rio Grande Valley is jammed with tomatoes looking for a market. In some places they're piled along the curbs. The demand seems to have vanished. A little simple arithmetic, according to Mr. Anson, explains that, “Our growers get three cents a pound for their tomatoes,” he said. paper, hand labor and shippers’ margin amounts to 6.4 cents a pound and the railroads charge around three cents a pound for a “I mean our tomatoes can be delivered anywhere in the country for 10 cents a pound. So one of. our shippers was on the phone trying to push some of his cheap tomatoes in Salt

Lake City. Blows His Stack

“THE WHOLESALER there admitted his cut was 10 cents a pound, while the retailer took another 10-cent gouge. This is what they call taking care of their fellow man, charging 30 cents for tomatoes that ought to sell for 15 cents. Everybody could make a perfectly decent, normal profit at 15 cents a pound. But, no. These babies have got to double it. “This same situation is being dfplicated in every market in the United States today and all I've got to say is heaven help places like New York, Boston and Chicago. In those cities they robably weigh our three-cent tomatoes on

“But that danged cellophane widget boongeranged on us,” Mr. Anson said. “We thou welers’ scales.”

it up back in 1948. Up until then the average woman would buy around two pounds of tomatoes which she'd pick out, herself, from the bin. a “Then came this blasted tube. Sure, the tomatoes looked pretty in it. But usually at least one of the four wouldn't be fit to eat. This package weighed only 14 ounces and the average grocer insisted on charging about 30 cents for it. That's just plain gouging. So the people aren’t eating tomatoes much any more

SIDE Cid

he personally

| CHIEF of Staff Gen. J. Lawton Collins told a

Bedfellows in Senate

WASHINGTON, June 27 — Senate debate on renewal of price control legislation is a strange sort of thing. All sides are criticizing the administration severely for

not having imposed a pricewage freeze long before last Jan. 26. And the

is handling the bill, Chairman Burnet Maybank (D. 8. C.) of the Senate Banking Committee, is shoutin Pours Sen. Maybank right,” and “T___ ‘You're right’ agree with Sure rg you” to practically every criticism voiced by Republicans. In fact, Chairman Maybank often is outdoing the Republicans in criticism of the administration of price controls. And Sen. Maybank is the socalled “regular” Democratic national committeeman from his state. z Sen. Maybank’s theme is a simple one: “Congress passed a wonderful law (on controls). If it had been administered as Congress intended, there would have been no trouble.”

Sen. Maybank said he would

resign fron¥ithe Senate before he would help pass a law giving the price control trator power to roll back prices May-June

wanted prices to rise so that Increased taxes could be collected from larger incomes and the federal budget be balanced.

Focal point of debate is the amendment adopted by the Banking Committee which would prohibit rollbacks in any prices below those existing during the period from Jan. 24, 1951, the month after the govrnmen sed | price freeze. po 8, genera] This would eliminate the scheduled Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 rollbacks in beef prices as well as all price rollbacks that would result from. the general

manufacturers’ and textile ulations. Is

o o » SUPPORTERS of the amendment argue that this will stabilize prices as of the period chosen by the administration and help business by letting it know there will be no rollbacks below the level of prices existing then. Opponents of the amendment, led by Sens. Paul Douglas (D. Il.) and Irving Ives (R. N. Y.), contend that the ban on rollbacks would mean an average rise of 5 to 6 per cent in’ manufacturing prices and thus result in another round of wage increases which would set off another spiral of inflation. This would happen, it was

I told Mr. Anson I doubted if the wholegsalers and retailers would appreciate his remarks. He blew up. He said (leaving out the sputtering) that if any of ‘emi wanted to argue, would rub them with tomato paste and pack them in cellophane tubes. He was sore. And I can say only that if any vegetable dealer has facts and figures which he believes will refute Mr. charges I'll be pleased to continue the great tomato controversy in this column.

LABOR . . . By Fred Perkins

High-Pay Groups Fall

uy Galbraith

COPR. 1951 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. ML. REO. 18 &. PAY. OFR. “Smartest thing you ever said, Dad—a buck certainly don't go far nowadays! Could | borrow a couple?"

ad pushed their prices up sharply before the Jan. 25 + freeze-the level at which the so-called “gougers” could hold their prices, 2» » { . SEN. IVES, though fighting the anti-rollback amendment, made it clear he was “no administration apologist.” He said he was getting letters from ‘constituents concerning price Acontrél administration

Wich made it sound as if PA were a paradise.”

Supporters of the “watereddown” renewal bill hope they can get it through SenateHouse conference and to the

White House Saturday, the last.

day before the law expires. The House begins debate on its controls renewal bill today. But odds are that -the_ bill

‘cannot be passed before the extnsion resoition wil have

“The crates, tissue

Hosier Forum "'l do not agree with a word that you say,

but |-will defend to the death your rig to say it." Voltaire,

‘A Poor Show’

MR. EDITOR: Maybe . . . and I hope so . . . Miss Virginia Ann ‘Johnson, the new Miss Indianapolis, her family, friends, and fans left the Murat Theater in a happier mood Saturday night t following the Indianapolis uty pagean It they did, I'm sure they comprise a select group of satisfied customers. This year's pageant, the first since 1048, was poorly Planned. pany paced, over publicized and o For $1.20, $1.80, or $2.40, one ean hear Rogers and Hammerstein, the , or Jazz Phil. harmonic, Naturally the. sones and talents of the contestants weren't to match or even approach the capab . of ‘the above named, but then wy: Shoulq the prices?

SID COLLINS Homie well as master of ceremonies and did-his best to keep the show alive. Without his efforts and personality it would have otherwise fallen completely dead. ‘ Since this is supposed to be a civic project of some sort, then why not have it for the city next year? Other cities sponsor similar projects. Why can’t Indianapolis? If the Murat demands too much to use the theater, forget it entirely. It was too hot and stuffy, anyway. Next year let's put on an outdoor production with the proper fanfare due the occasion. Let's have no more sparsely

‘ attended gatherings that attract only spectators

close to the participants and are conducive to nothing but hall echoes: amd partiality. LET THE city chip in with a few dollars and make this production worthy of Indianapolis. Garfield Park or the Butler University Botanical Gardens might be an appropriate place to hold next year's production. Make fit free to the public and put some civic interest into it for the future. Who knows, maybe Indiana or Indianapolis may have a Miss America some year. We could use one. Orchids to Queen Johnson. peageant producers, Vive le OPS. ~-Bill Shover, 325 W. 44th St.

Onions to the

‘Very Unfair’

MR. EDITOR: I am not your idea of a government worker, and I want to tell you that your. editorial in The Times, June 21, “Workaday Washington,” was very unfair to the average of us. First, your calculations are misleading. Not one in 10,000 government employees uses all his sick leave each year. Those who use it without cause soon lose thelr jobs through low efficiency ratings. I don’t know how you got 65 and 15 to add up to 152—of course you added in Sundays, that everyone gets off in any line of work. Such figuring creates a fallacy. I have been a government employee. since 1 was discharged early in 1948, after over four years active service in World War II. During tat time I have not had to use my "sick vacaion.” Prior to entering the service in 1941, I taught school for 13 years, and never missed a single day because of iliness—for that I'am glad and thankful. ®.% I DID get over 100 days vacation, but I wasn’t working for the government then, Why didn't IT go back to teaching? Because Iowa paid teachers so poorly and before 1946 had no retirement plan for teachers. I have a bachelor’s degree from University of Chicago. a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and a few extra hours toward my doctor's degree. I would probably get a Tot more ‘vacation’ working for someone other than. the government, but excess vacation 1 not, and never has been my goal. Right now I don’t get as much vacation as the average bank clerk, or long--time industrial worker. : You are delibearately trying to make readers believe. government workers use sick ‘leave whether or not they are sick. Your inaccuracy is very unfair to those who are efficient government employees. . —Government Worker, City

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

NEW YORK—Globe and map makers receive frequent letters offering to prove that the world is not round. We have to agree with the word going ‘round; Columbus was not crystal clear. To our mind this latter-day theory is sound, In view of what we're stuck with here.

In Christopher's day things were different, indeed, There can’t be much doubt about that, But now we have Stalin and Mao and their breed-+ And, brother, they sure leave us flat.

Under Salary Control

WASHINGTON, June’ 27— Big industrialists, movie stars and others who draw high pay are subjeéct-same as you and me—to the salary control system naw starting under the stabilization scheme. Salary control will be based on the same general principles as wage control. That means thé high-salaried executive, like the wage earners in his plants, is subject to the “10 per cent formula.” Under it pay increases are limited to 10 per cent of the levels prevailing on Jan. 15, 1950. The Salary Board now has pending the case of a baseball star whose employer wants to increase his pay, which already is pretty good by ordinary standards. This baseball player Is understood to have boosted his batting average in recent months, ” ” ” HOW ABOUT a productivity increase for him? Solutions for these and other problems will be sought by special panels working for the Salary Board. A “stock option panel” already has been set up to reeommend on what to do about stock bonuses to business executives. It is believed that a “professional sports panel” also will be organized. Another problem is in salaries of movie actors, and in other entertainment fields. The Salary Stabilization Board has been operating for

two months without any mem-

bers but under an executive director, Joseph D. Cooper. - Using Wage Stabilization

law. Bowrg policy as a yarfiptek,

Mr. Cooper and staff haye ap-

proved increases for salaried

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people in two companies, General Electric and Ford Motor.

= n ” ABOUT 900 other cases await the Salary Board's five members when they start, early in July, to ¢hart policies and to attack the problems for which Wage Board rulings provide no yardstick. The five Salary Board mem-~ bers named by Mr. Johnston are: Chairman, Dr. Raymond Bernard Allen, Seattle, Wash., president University of Washington; Elsworth C. Alvord, Washington specialist on taxes; Clinton 8. Golden, Bolebury, Pa., former vice presie dent of the CIO United Steel-: workers and now lecturer on: labor problems at Harvard;. Charles P. McCormick, president Mg¢Cormick & Co. Balti’ more, ter on management. subjects, and V. Henry Roths--child 24, New York corpora-. tion lawyer. Dr. George W. Taylor, chair. man of the Wage Board, will’ be a non-voting member.

SERIOUS CHECKERS:

TO ME life is a checker: game . . . that each of us must’ play . . . from the time that we: are born . . . until our dying: day . . . the earth acts like a’

checker board . . . where we.

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