Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1951 — Page 22

a im WAT guards are being used to the Red contention that the Americans were forced to beg for a cease-fire order because of their heavy losses. contention is false. But our over-eagerness to make 1 has made it possible for those photographs to be used reonvinee people in Communist countries that it's true.

” - . en ” » ” SOME sort of an agreement seems to be in prospect. It will not be a victory for our side—that possibility was ruled out months ago by back-room political decisions in London, Washington and Lake Success. This has simplified the problem from the Communists’ viewpoint, for they entered the negotiations knowing that they could get a good deal simply by exercising patience. It won't be good for us. We can only hope that it won't be too bad. ~~ When Adm. Burke returned from yesterday's meeting with the Reds he was asked how he felt. ~ “Reserved,” he said, adding, “I will know better six months from now.” So will we all, ~ Any time-bombs which may have been planted in the agreement ought to go off by that time. Then we'll know Hore about it.

Yotalitarion Outlaws

=~ ‘paper correspondent, on phony espionage charges in Czechoslovakia, our government has confessed its inability to obtain his release. Presumably he will stay in prison until some under-the-counter arrangements are made to buy him out, as happened in the Vogeler case in Hungary. . But if there are any more. cases Of this kind it will be sur own fault, : “= The United States should not maintain diplomatic or trade relations with any country which does not respect the rights of American citizens, » » » » . » od WHEN Hungary expelled three American diplomats the other day, on charges as absurd a: those made against Mr. Oatis, our entire diplomatic mission should have been withdrawn f from that country and _8ll Hungarian nationals

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get along very well “without any dealings with such ‘people. rAnd they will continue to push us around until we get tough. The State Department maintains the fiction that missions are needed in the Iron Curtain countries to obtain information. But what information do we get and to what conceivable usé is it put? : It is the duty of government to protect its citizens in their lawful pursuits, Since our government cannot do that in- certain countries, they should be placed out of bounds for American visitors and American commerce. And our own doors should be closed to citizens of offending nations.

Poor, Poor Mickey

NE OF the strange phenomena in this country is the generous attitude we so frequently show toward gang-sters-—local and international. . A typical example is what has happened to Mickey Cohen, West Coast hoodlum and gambler described by Sen. Kefauver of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee as a “contemptible little punk” whose crime career has been “surrounded by violence and bloodshed.” A Los Angeles jury re- = cently convicted @ohen of = cheating Uncle Sam out of = $156,000 in income taxes. = This entitled him to spend up to 20 years in one of Uncle's = penitentiaries and to pay fines up to $40,000, But when he came up for = sentence this week, Federal Judge Benjamin Harrison all but took Mickey on his knee and explained to him about the birds and bees. “Youre not as bad as you have been pictured,”

said the fatherly judge, who went on to call gangster Cohen “a

and a “hard-luck product of

very personable individual” child” who was merely a environment. So Cohen drew a five-year sentence and a £10,000 fine. If he pays the $10,000 and obeys the prison rules, he can get out on parole in 20 months. Meanwhile, the internal revenue collector in Los Angeles has to wait for orders from Washington as to what's to be done about Cohen's unpaid taxes, plus penalties, plus court costs. Poor Mickey. He might have been such a nice little thug. .

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Really Good News

HE announcement that a Japanese peace treaty is set for consideration at San Francisco Sept. 4 is among the Best of the “hard news” we have received in many weeks. ~The successful conclusion of this treaty will introduce an element of stability into the Far Eastern situation. It will be the first big step away from the chaos which has plagued the area since the end of World War II. : Abd since Russia is ‘not expected to sign the document, t another demonstration that in the ‘ ation it.is still possible for peace-

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By Frederick C. Othman

Round, Round We Go and If

WASHINGTON, July 12-1f I'd been hanging around the air-conditioned Press Club bar today, I wouldn't be so sore about this, But I put in a conscientious effort in the marble halls, listening to the statesmen, and about all T got out of it

was: Yah. The gentlemen don't seem to be getting anyplace much in the passage of laws and a good deal of the stuff they're doing I don't seem to understand. -» =

I sometimes wonder if they're dead cer- ¢ 4 tain, themselves, . This morning I spent in the old Supreme Court chamber, listening to a special Senate subcommittee investigate

I on pn NE EDout: wha 1s ethics anyhow? Along.came i Robert Ramspeck, the civil service commissioner, to say that Washington is a good deal better place today than it. was when he came here in 1911. Then there was a red light district here, he raid, while Congressmen spent a good deal of their time imbibing strong drink. Now they don't drink so much and they work harder. The next witness was Morris L.. Ernst, the celebrated New York lawyer, who said he saw nothing wrong with a good, honest five percenter. I got out of there. 1 tried the 95-cent cold roast beef lunch in the Senate refectory (that's what the sign says) and then I dropped upstairs, where the gentlemen were arguing about the Interior Department appropriation. This involved spending millions for dams and power lines and the propagation of fish, but the fight seemed to scatter all over the lot and 1 guess I'm not very I couldn't figure out gentlemen were

smart. After an hour of it, exactly what. most of the arguing about. 80 I got out of there, too. and hoofed over to the House. The Representatives sounded a good deal louder than the Senators, but 1 suppose this is because they did their shouting into loud-speaker microphones, What they were doing wag trying to write a new price-control law, Every other Congressman seemed to have an amendment and every amendment had to be amended a couple of times. This took a good deal of time. Next thing I knew the lawgivers were arguing about cheese and whether we ought to import same when we already had plenty at home. The majority, by formal vote, thought not. It was at this juncture that Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, the Republican floor leader, jumped up in his blue seersucker suit to charge that the Truman administration was incompetent. I'd heard him say this before. “Every housewife in Indiana knows

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when a pot boils over, the only thing to do is turn down the fire,” he shouted. “She knows it won't do any good to try to hold down the lid. If she does try it, she gets burned.” The same goes for inflation and the administration’s controls, he added. The Republicans applauded him. The Democrats sat on their hands. Rep. Donald I. O'Toole, the Brooklyn Democrat, retorted that the pressure for Congress to pass a stiff control law is coming from the grass roots and also the asphalt pavements, He said Mr. Halleck was a fighter for lost causes; that he always spoke for minorities, like the National Association of Manufacturers and the Rockefeller clan. The Democrats applauded him, while the Republicans sat solemnly silent. Later, T guess, we'll get some laws passed, All I hope is that my feet hold out.

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But Week on Self-Help Ideas

WASHINGTON, July 12—The Economic Cooperation Administration is making a strong case for more aid to Europe, but is weak in proposals for getting more self-help from the recipients. Congress is likely to require better results in the future, and to put in teeth for that purpose. 2 In his testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday, ECA Chief William C. Foster successfully tied together the defense and economic aid but admitted European selfhelp is inadequate. He justified the request for $1,650,000, 000 economic aid to Europe in the fiscal year 1952 on the ground that European defense is essen- William Foster tial but impossible give them more he'p without our economic support to maintain already low living standards. Even so, he said, ‘present European effort “is not great enough to meet the requirements of outproducing the slave world as quickly as necessary—therefore, there must be a substantial step-up in this effort.” He cited the case of France, which has had rapid recovery but whose per capita income is still only about $525 a year (compared with our $1700). French industry is not getting the most out of new Marshall Plan machine tools, or from the double horsepower now available. More output per worker per hour—not neces-

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sarily harder work but more effective—is his remedy. Marshall Plan countries could increase over-all annual production by $100 billion, and thereby provide a 50 per cent rise in living standards, according to the ECA. The Foster diagnosis and prescription are excellent as far as they go. But the trouble is that similar ECA analyses and propesals in the past have not been rewarded with sufficient hey -help abroad. ! .. The paradox is that industrial production in Marshall countries is 40 per cent above prewar and agricultural output almost 10 per cent above: thereby preventing such countries as Italy and France from going Red. And yet in most of those lands labor is still worse off than before the war, with: the result that communism is a continuing threat.

Low Morale THE FRUITS of increased production are not being shared by the people. So their morale is low, and they are not making the best use of the new machines and increased horsepower. That is the vicious circle which the ECA, or the higher policy makers of the State Department and White House, are doing little to break. The net effect is that the American taxpayer is subsidizing \and perpetuating inefficient and unhealthy economic systems which cannot make their countries self-supporting or provide the basis for self-defense. Specifically, business is enslaved by private and state monopoly, labor is shackled by restrictive practices, competition is limited, tax evasion a scandal. American ajd is supposed to be conditioned on self-help, but there can be no adequate selfhelp without basic internal reforms. Western Europe is weak because it is evading those reforms, ;

By Earl Richert

Congress Butters 'Em Up

WASHINGTON, July 12—-Congress has voted, in effect, that Americans must eat cheese made in this country. It also has voted that Americans shall not be permitted to buy cheaper foreign butter. Both House and Senate—at the instigation of the dairy bloc and in the name of national security--have adopted identical amendments to the Defense Production Act which continue the existing import ban on foreign butter and add cheese to the list of commodities on which import embargoes are to be maintained whenever foreign competition threatens.’ Rep. August Andresen (R. Minn), who offered the amendment in the House, said it was not his idea that all foreign cheeses would be banned whenever one domestic type, such as cheddar, became in surplus.

Cheddar in Surplus

RATHER. he said, the import ban would apply te the foreign cheeses which offer damaging competition to the domestic product, type by type. Right now, ‘he said, the import embargo would apply to the foreign blue-mold cheeses which are selling wholesale in New York for from 43 to 45 cents a pound while the domestic blue cheeses are selling wholesale at the same market for.from 50 to 52 cents a pound. The 22 blue cheese plants in.this country, he said, cannot break even for less than 50 cents a pound at ‘the plant. The. foreign blue-mold cheeges, which come primarily. from Denmark,

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would be banned too, since cheddar is the biggest domestic type and last year was in huge The U. S. imported more than $3 million -worth of cheddar cheese last year from Canada, Denmark, Britain, Italy and New Zealand. Total cheese imports last year amounted to about $25 million.

State Department officials, who have been

trying to spur foreign trade through the reciprocal trade agreements, regard the ban on butter as an even bigger blow to their program than the addition of cheese to the Import ban list. The State Department in its Annecy. France, reciprocal trade agreements had reduced the tariff on butter from 14 to 7 cents a pound. The reduction was effective July 1. And Denmark and New Zealand particularly were counting on selling butter in the American market to earn dollars.

Now. under the House and Senate votes, the importation of butter is banned until June 30, 1952. Rep. Andresen, the leader of the dairy bloc in the House, said that butter from New Zealand could be delivered duty paid in New York for 43 cents a pound. This is 23 cents a pound less than the 66 cents a pound at which the U. 8. government is pegging the price of domestic butter under its price support program. Members of the dairy bloc argued that it would be ridiculous: for the U, 8. government to permit cheap foreign butter to come in and force “the Agricutture Department to buy domestic butter to hold up prices under the support program. :

Fats and Oils : :

OTHER items on which import bans are to be maintained under the name of the national welfare are: Peanuts and peanut butter.

Yice and rice | products, flaxseed afd linseed ofl! soap, 2 soap =. “powders. . ve

Importation of ‘these. commodities: has been banned for several years under the fats and oils import control law which Congress has now . voted to extend for another two years. In addition to voting the import controls on fats and oils. the House has duplicated the Senate in voting overwhelmingly to ban the use of slaughtering quotas on” beef by the Office of Price Stabilization. Price Boss Michael DiSalle has said it would be virtually imposgible to stop a beef black market without slaughtering quotas.

Hoosier Forum—4th This Year Not Like Old Days

MR. EDITOR: The Fourth of July was a day to me that

seemed so ominously’ quiet as to almost présage a calm before the storm and no doubt, other oldsters like myself contrasted it with the grand and glorious Fourth which exuberant youth and Civil War veterans once celebrated our independence around the turn of the century. I watched a parade which was supposed to depict life in the old West but which I regret to say bore little resemblance to the hard life which some of ug have known and lived. I heard a speech by Harry Truman, tinged

as always with Fair Deal polities. in which he elaborated on our freedom and liberty, with veiled implications that any other road except the one he is taking would lead to disaster. 1 listened to Fair Deal government paid propagandists who orated about our freedom and liberty and trotted out various citizens to tell their troubles that were either real or imaginary. A government bureaucrat in each case answered the complaint and told how a great and wise bureacracy in Washington, District of Confusion, was taking care of everything and how we poor mortals who are a cog in this

SMALL BUSINESS .

WASHINGTON, June 12 special Senate committee or just told the Civil Aeronautics Board to make radical changes in_its policies toward “irregular” or nonscheduled airlines. Now the committee is sitting back waiting for the board to act. If it doesn’t, committee members broadly intimate they will follow up with legislation to force a change in policy. The committee is the Select Committee on Small Business. Its attitude has been sparked by a subcommittee which investigated the CAB's policies toward the “nonskeds.” There are only 50 of these _“nonsked” airlines. And they operate only 188 planes. Their volume of business last year amounted to less than 3 per cent of the business done by the “regular” big commercial + airlines. But the subcommittee, headed by Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ala.). accuses the Civil Aeronautics Board of trying to put these “nonskeds” out of: business.

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great political monstrosity had nothing to worry about. ; a oN I THEN listened to various news commentators who deal long and loud about our precious freedom. Some of them who only a few years ago were berating the Germans and Japs as ogres and war-like races and praiging the Soviet Union as a great democracy, were now berating the Communists and advising us to rearm the Germans and Japs pronto, And the thought occurred to me that there is no one under 40 vears who actually knows what freedom and liberty is as we once enjoyed it. 1 do not mean of course under any cirecumstances we could live in our complex society today and enjoy the same freedom we enjoyed half a century. ago. & oe »

BUT THE small amount of freedom we have left is more physical freedom but is not moral, mental or even political freedom. For instance a man is not free when he is drafted in the Army against his will, nor when he has taxes collected out of his pay check or when he owns property and is compelled to accept rent prescribed by a government bureau or when his

of the “irregulars’” do follow set schedules between fixed points —but at “fares well below the regular airlines,” as the Sparkman committee put it, manent The ‘‘nonskeds” weren't even the in business until 1945. This type of air transport business was started by World War II

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wages are frozen or when the price at which he can sell anything is frozen. Now the question is how did we lose this freedom, and liberty which ig a part of our national heritage and the answer is quite simple. It is because three Democrat Presidents couldn't make their philosophy of government work as a peace time economy and they took us into three useless, futile ware under the pretext they were trying to free the rest of the world.

And they not only failed to free the rest of the world but they took away our rights and liberties and left us sitting on an atomic powder keg which may explode any minute. And let no one deceive themselves, a war with Russia, win, lose or draw, merely means that any liberty and freedom we might have left is gone forever. —C. D. C.,, Terre Haute

‘The Wonder of Europe’

MR. EDITOR: : . Through Mr. Sovola's column, I've been reliving, redoing Europe, and it has been a pleasure. I found, and maybe he has too, that’ it was not the monuments or galleries or night clubs that made going abroad so wonderful . it was the people. ~Adrienne Robinson, 4629 Rookwood Ave.

Change Policies

pone the effective date of the crackdown 30 days. was extended to July 5. And in the meantime a federal court here issued a perinjunction forbidding to carry out its

‘These carriers offer a flexible airlift capacity ‘hat can be brought into military use far more rapidly than the certificated (big) airlines, whose equipment i= obligated by commitments and schedules to service regularly appointed routes.”

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pilots who came home to find government wartime planés for sale as surplus and a public demand for cheap air trans- . portation. At first, the Sparkman committee - says, the ‘‘nonskeds” had no trouble getting “letters of registration” from the Civil Aeronautics Board. These “letters” entitled them to operate, under CAB safety regulations, = » ~ BUT last March, cracked down on them. It said that as of Apr. 6 the ‘“nonskeds” could npt operate more than three round-trip flights a month over “major” air traffic routes nor more than eight round-trip flights a month between other points. . “Major” air traffic routes are comparable to those served regularly by the big airlines. “Other noints” means anyvwhere else. :

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LJ » » IN ITS report, the committee charges the CAR order “inevitably” would put the “nonsgkeds” out of business within a vear or two. And that the CAB has been guilty of ‘‘constant harassment” of these airlines. The committee “nonskeds'” have a good safety record the last accident occurred two years ago. And in March of this year, the report savs, the ‘‘nonskeds” flew a billion passenger-miles without a fatality. It also’ reports these companies did yeoman work in the Berlin and Korean airlifts—doing 50 per cent of the Berlin job and at one time 60 per cent of the job in Korea. “The nonscheduled industry,” the report says, “has kept alive and developed technical shill and administrative know-

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