Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1951 — Page 22

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Friday, July 13, 1951

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A Desirable Showdown * \ DM. JOY has told the Red commander in Korea that . ‘there will be no further negotiations on a cease-fire agreement unless and until the Communists cease all interference with United Nations personnel. . A free conference could not be held under any other © More is involved here than freedom of the press, or

the Communist attempt to use this mesting as grist for its propaganda mill, without competition from the free press of free nations. Each of the parties to this conference has the right to decide for itself the representation it desires during the negotiations. The Reds, claiming and exercising this right for themselves, have sought to deny it to the United Nations. This may have been due to sheer ignorance. In any event, the Reds now know that Americans don’t do business that way. j This misunderstanding should have been avoided, and might have been, if the United Nations delegation had demanded removal of all Communist troops from the vicinity of Kaesong the moment it was found to be a Com-munist-held eity. Meetings of this kind should be held in neutral territory where questions of military interference would not arise. - » » . ” » HOWEVER, there is no certainty that the Reds want to reach an agreement even on the cease-fire proposal. Their offer to negotiate could have been a plant, either to set the stage for a trap or as a build-up for another phony peace offensive, In that case, they could be expected to @ynduct their end of the proceedings in such an offensive manner that we would be forced to break off the neg! tiations. i But if the Reds are sincere in wanting to end=hostilities, they can prove it by recognizing the customary amenities and allowing the meeting to proceed without further mili-

tary interference.

They Aren't Helping

OP UNION leaders display doubful judgment when they deliver to Congress such ultimatums as some of them did yesterday. ; President Green of the AFL, Vice President Carey of the CIO and other union officers served notice that labor will “no longer submit” to wage controls unless “effective” “price controls are enacted. < ? ~The fact is that “labor,” as represented by Messrs, Green, Carey, and other members of the United Labor Policy Committee, has not been submitting to wage controls in any real sense. As Bernard M. Baruch says, it is “bunking the public” to contend that wages can be increased without raising price levels. Yet members of the United Labor Policy Committee, by threats to withhold support from the mobilization program and by using their influence with President Truman, who puts high value on their political support, have made wage controls little more than a joke. The practical certainty that they will continue to do just that is another big reason why members of Congress sincerely doubt whether any price-control law could long be effective, ! ; Congress should enact price controls and wage controls that can be enforced and that will be effective. 3ut the tactics of the top union leaders are more likely to handicap than to help those members of Congress, and those officials responsible for the défense mobilization and economie stabilization program, who are trying to obtain strong and sound legislation.

Travel Notes

MSS MARGARET TRUMAN, returning from Europe, - arrived in. New York today. has made many admiring friends in every country she visited, conducting herself with simplicity and dignity and providing an admirable example for other Americans traveling abroad. Her fellow citizens, as well as her fond father, have good reason to be proud of Miss Margaret.

From all accounts, she

2 un » "nn MEANWHILE, 17 flush Americans, who paid $14,500 each, are making a super-duper. de luxe European air tour, described by its promoter as “a trip of pleasure demonstrating non-austerity at its highest level.” Rep. James G. Fulton (D. Pa.) is outraged by what he considers a wasteful, vulgar display of wealth which is bound to make a bad impression abroad; especially at a time when our foreign-aid officials are advising Europeans to live austerely. He wants the State Department to do something

about it. But what the State Department could do is not clear. And those rich showoffs are, at least, blowing in their

own money-——in large chunks—which dollar-hungry Europeans will be happy tb get their hands on. Taxpayers who can't afford to visit-Furope, even by cattle boat, might well be more indignant about certain other trips which have been, or will be, taken at their expense.

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. FOR INSTANCE, Secretary of Labor Tobin's recent three-week tour to “study the European manpower situation.” He took along two assistants and his wife and daughter, doing part of his traveling in military planes for which operating costs were estimated at about $10,000. And that at a time when five other Labor Department officials were in

‘Secretary of Agriculture Brannan is about to take off AT r three-week tour, to “observe” the European aid ress. And many another government official ng to take, at public expense, travels . nece: is, to put it mildly, not

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ABADAN, to do about evacuating the A and Kuzistan oil fields may be clear to the select few who are making British policy. : But here that policy speaks with conflicting ‘yolces. > One voice says: “We're getting out as quickly as possible.” ;

The other voice says: “We're sticking it out

as long as possible,” The top-ranking representative here of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Ca, Alec Mason, manages to speak both pieces almost at the same time, : * & * HERE ARE the most plausible explanations of this apparent confusion: er

The Starter's Gun

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July 13—What the British intend badan

out because of Iran's repudiation of the International Court's proposal to hold up the seizure of the oll works while new conciliation efforts were made. This was the last straw to the British, but they are dragging their heels, just in case something should turn up. * & < TWO--British evacuation of the refinery and. ofl fields actually is proceeding as fast as it can without “blowbacks” which would result from a too-quick shutdown. ‘“‘Blowbacks” could wipe this $500 million refinery off“the map. _ And the physical disaster which would result from a too-rapid shutdown easily could cause a political and economic upheaval which

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INCOME TAX . .. By Frederick C. Othman

Uncle Sam Plays Cupid—?

WASHINGTON, July 13 —Agpthur Elder, the economist of the American Federation of Labor, it a plump and pale citizen with "a booming voice. And serious, Very, very serious. So there he was before the Senate Finance Committee, telling the gentlemen in language formal that when they write the new tax bill they ought to go easy on the workingman and soak the rich a little harder. The statesmen listened with respect. Mr. Elder was going good until he got around to the split

Income tax provision : / : I ZN for married men. 0 : NO If your own in- in come ig worth mentioning to the tax collector, you know about this. The law lets you give half your money to your wife, then you both pay taxes and the result for a

fellow in the middle and upper income brackets 18 a considerable saving. \

This also is the law that turned Uncle Sam into a cupid with whiskers. A fellow making any Kind of decent wage can't afford to stay

single. That is what pained the sober Elder, It wasn't fair to bachelors. He wanted Congress to do something about it And he was in the midst of a technical explanation when Sen. Robert Kerr, the millionaire Oklahoman and humorist, interrupted. Mr. Elder,” he asked, *‘are you a married man” “Yes, sir, 1 am.” Mr. Elder replied. “I take it that you subscribe to the theory that two can live as cheap as one?” continued the Senator Indeed 1 do,” Mr. Elder said This I have proven, When I was a single person, 1 had dependents, These were domiciled in other

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places. My expenses.then were higher than they are now as a married person without dependents.” Mr. Elder went on in this vein. He said the government discriminated against bachelors. He was about to say something else when Sen. Kerr interrupted again. This time he wanted to apoloRize, “TI am afraid you have got me all confused,” he said. “Here you have been talking about being a single man with dependents and separate abodes and I just don't want to embarrass you further.” “But I'm not Elder. Sen. Kerr ignored that. He said he'd learned

embarrassed,” insisted Mr.

long ago not to ask personal questions of strangers, because of what their answers are likely to be. He said he was sorry. “There is nothing to be sorry about,” Mr. Elder said. “Perhaps not,” said the Senator. “But I've often been told that the more establishments

a single man is for him.”

The Last Laugh

EVERYBODY laughed, except Mr. Elder. He said it was true. The more households a man has. the more costly it iz. This caused the Senators to laugh louder still. Mr. Elder seemed amazed He then got back on the track and pretty soon a succession of insurance chieftains appeared to demand that they not be forced to collect withholding taxes on dividends paid to widows. Sen, Kerr asked them no questions. There wasn't a laugh the rest of the day. The Senators still have to hear dozens of

supports, the more expensive it

experts with horrendous tales to tell of what will happen if they try to collect the extra $10 billion in taxes that President Truman wants, The indications are now that he won't get anywhere near that much. Fact ig, he's

not likely to get anything in the wav of new taxes until late fall. This gives numerous bachelors time to take unto themselves beautiful and ever-loving tax splits,

WASHINGTON, Republican leaders whistling in the dark. But they claim that President Truman will not be able “to put the cat” on the back of the Republican Party for whatever happens to prices after passage of the weakened controls bill. Here's their argument: The Democrats are in control of Congress--by four votes in the Senate and 35 votes In the House. Whatever bill is passed {= the product of the Democratic 82d Congress. And the President, if he takes the stump to assess hlame for the existence of the expected higher prices, will have to blame the D e m ocratic - controlled Congress.

July 13 may be

THE Republicans, the. leaders point out, have not taken a party stand on the controls Mrenewal bill. All votes have been cast on an individual basis. So, they contend, there will be no Republican stand for the President to attack. ; And the. Republican leaders " . .- have made no move to kill con- : trols. Qnly 10 Republican Senators voted against the Senate renewal bill on final passage. Administration leaders, how‘ever, don't see things this way:

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would seriously interfere with British withdrawal.

‘Iranian hotheads are only too ready to ac- -

cuse the British of sabotage and to raise riotous mobs against them, The Iranian extremists have demanded complete British evacuation while at the same time they were threatening reprisals if the British should withdraw in such manner that the oll installations would be damaged. What the Iranians apparently have in mind is court-martial and punishment of every British technician within reach folowing any collective abandonment of the refinery or the oil fields. ; The British technicians have refused to consider themselves as employees of the new Iranian National Oil Co.

' Mr, Mason confirmed reports that the shutdown of refinery operations means unemployment for many of the 29,000 Iranian workers on the payroll at the Abadan works. But he said they will draw pay whether they work or not, He wouldn’t say how long that might go on. The daily payroll for Iranian workers, he said, exceeds $61,600. . Iranian officials sent to take over the oil

company announced when they arrived on the

scene that they had $7 million to pay all the help. . But the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co, with a gen-

erosity that must be considered unusual for a Sa on its way out, went right on footing the bills. ; i * + B® THE PRESENT British plan seems to be to hang on as long as possible, although Mr, Mason says “the situation is very fluid.” This remark, plus a report that the company’'s general manager, Erie Drake, had returned from London to Basra in a more optimistic frame of mind, gave rise to speculation that a solution of the deadlock might be at hand. Iranians, howeyer, continue to accuse the British of bluffing all along. Hussein Makki, the chief nationalizer, says the British never had any intention of abandoning Iran, but re-

- fuse to leave their expert help here as em-

ployees of the Iranian National Oil Co. . > db MR. MASON (with whom Iranian officials refuse to deal) has announced that the refinery

‘; production by the end of the week would be

cut from seven million gallons a day (less than half normal capacity) to between 25 and three million gallons daily. Thiz, he sald, would allow the withdrawal .of another 150 British technicians, There are now 1237 key British employees in Abadan, as compared to a normal staff of 1740. And there are hetween 400 and 500 in the fields, as compared to the usual 830.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Governors Favor Jenner Measure

WASHINGTON, July 13—When Sen. Dennis Chavez (D. N. M.), in his role of chairman of the Senate subcommittee on labor-federal security appropriations, polled the state governors on the Jenner amendment the result was: Seventeen favorable, eight opposed and three neutral. This has some bearing now because the Senate-House confere2s, after killing the amendment on the grounds that it wrote legislation into a money bill, recommended that the matter be acted upon in the regular order by the proper Senate and House committees.

The rejected amendment, offered without dissent in the Senate by Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.), provided that no state should be cut off from federal grants-in-aid because of enactment of a welfare publicity law. Such a law was enacted by the 1951 Republican legislature in Indiana. The Jenner proposal was an indirect way of wiping out the secrecy provisions of the social security law governing grants-in-aid for the aged, blind, handicapped and dependent children.

Bills Offered in House

BILLS PROVIDING that this be done directly have been introduced in thg House by Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Republican, and in the Senate by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R. Ill). If the recommendation of the conference committee is acted upon, it still would be weeks before any report would come on these matters #Mom thes House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Brownson said he is hopeful for Hpguse action as Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R. N. Y.), ranking minority member of ways and means, has introduced a similar bill to strike out the social security secrecy provisions which were put into the basic law by amendments in 1939. They provide that no access to records can be had by anyone not directly connected with welfare administration. ; . “This fight is really a matter. of states rights,” Mr. Brownson said. “I should like to see the state “of Indiana keep its money and

‘ pay for its own welfare program without these »

grants-in-aid at all.”

SRRNARERIRANRRIT RINE.

‘A Good Clock’

MR. EDITOR:

I noticed the story in The Times Sunday about the clocks given out by the paper quite some time ago in a circulation campaign. I want to state that Mr. and Mrs. William Hancock are not the only ones that have one of those clocks. I have a brother who has one, who is living in Muncie, and hag it hanging on the wall. It runs every day and has never been repaired.

, That is some record.

I get your Sunday paper every Sunday and want to state it i= a fine paper. —G. J. Buennagel, 614 Gladstone Ave.

‘We Need Honest Rule’

MR. EDITOR: It seems we are a proud and egotistical people who are very sure our approval or disapproval of current political and economic acts is needed to affect the future of our country. In my opinion we would do far more good to look closely at local and public servants and weigh their good services against the bad, seek some way of cleaning up our own front yard, Our best claim to bolster our land of liberty and equality is our boasted independence in securing life, liberty and happiness. To obtain peace, have good honest rule,

we must be’ peaceful. To humble, dutiful people

By .Galbraith PRICE CONTROLS . . . By Earl Richert

The President, they are confident, can — with his wellknown skill along such lines — fix the blame on the Republicans by simply reporting. the score, showing how a ma jority

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did not act until late January to freeze prices, even Congress passed the controls law in early September. administration,” (George Bender

Having vetoed the bill which became the law in Indiana, Democratic Gov. Schricker is listed as one of those favoring the Jenner amendment. Other governors on the favorable list, as presented to the conferees, were: Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Tennessee; Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Opposed were the governors of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada and New Jersey. Listed as expressing ‘neither approval nor disapproval” were the governors of Louisiana, New: Mexico and the Virgin Islands. Gov. Schricker placed his emphasis on the need for Indiana to obtain its grants-in-aid and the argument used by State Atty. Gen. Emmett McManamon that the new law does not violate federal statutes governing secrecy safeguards. Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio wired Sen, Chavez: “I strongly favor the adoption” of the Jenner amendment. } ; Gov. Johnson Murray of Oklahoma went into the matter at some length, He wired: “I favor removing the veil of secrecy from lists of those receiving public assistance. The theoretical purposes for which this practice was intended has not been accomplished. Practically it has been a failure for the reason that designing persons have obtained the lists anyhow.

Fraud Charged | >

“NO STIGMA or embarrassment should attach to. those honestly entitled to be on these rolls. On the other hand, much fraud has been practiced because of the fact that many unde-

serving persons have been able to get on these

rolls because of this secret protection. “Public officers have been hampered in the discharge of their duties because of these legal inhibitions. If Congress will start the movement I feel sure the states will follow quickly. This will result in full protection of worthy people and protection of the state against dishonest claims.” Gov. Earl Warren of California wired that

" “California believes that maintenance.of con-

fidential nature ‘of lists of public assistance recipients is in keeping with spirit and purpose of public assistance programs.”

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are required in office, Have we no way to rid ourselves of careless men who give $6 million of our money to a great monopoly? Of the three important branches of our own government, the executive takes the most blame. The judicial is placed on high and we are apt to worship these man-made gods. The legislative is where we lose our shirts and blindly follow leaders selected by powerful groups.

The same day Judge Claycombe, with a grand gesture, set aside the will of the people as expressed by the Indiana Public Service Commission, Marion County in obedience to yur last state assembly, gave 10 judges in this rounty an increase of $3000 per year. —Thomas M. McGuire, 3228 N. Kenwood Ave,

MY SUNSET

FACH time my longing eyes behold , « . a sunset in the sky ... I feel a deep emotion and ... I'll tell the reason why ... because it erowns each closing day ... with rays of peace and love . and it's God's way of showing me . .. His promise from above , .. oh sunset, you bring joy to me . .. and solace to my heart... for beauty such as vou afford . .. no artist can impart . . . your million shades and colors bring . . ‘a feeling that's divine . .. to cheer me on my toilsome way ... to where the world is mine ... and that is why 1 thrill to see you . . . sunset heaming bright . : . across the heavens of the world , . . when daytime kisses night. ‘ ~—By Ben Burroughs.

bank and is being led in the House by another Democratio Committee Chairman, Rep. Cooley.

though

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of Republicans and only a minority of Democrats voted for the so-called crippling amendments. He can report how the

amendment to kill slaughtering quotas called the ‘black market’ amendment by Sen.

Clinton P. Anderson (D. N. M.), former Secretary of Agricul ture was offered by Sen. Hugh Butler (R. Neb.) and Rep. Clifford Hope (R. Kas.) and adopted by overwhelming Républican votes, Ld - » “THE President,” said one Democratic Senator, ‘can get specific if he has to and admit that Democratic leaders like Ernest McFarland (Ariz.), Lyndon Johnson, (Tex.), Burnet Maybank (S.C.), and Harold Cooley, (N.C.) all had a hand in slashing controls. But he'll be able to prove that what was done was made possible only by overwhelming Republican votes.” ; Republican leaders in bath

Houses have been asking to -

build a backfire already by

pointing out repeatedly in de-’

bate that the administration

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“let prices get out of control. We're not going to permit them

to place the responsibility for

high prices on us now.

- » ~ REP. CHARLES HALLECK (R. Ind.) said Congress was passing a good contrpls bill and was only removing some inequities, “I don’t think,” Rep. Halleck said, “that anyone will he able to say that the Republicans stood in the way of a reasonable bill. The bill being passed ir as good as the one we passed last September when they (the administration) said they didn't want any.” Some Republicans say they think the administration should be given everything asked for —on the ground that prices can't be kept down anyway and this would make it impossible for the President to blame Congress and the Republicans. - But the majority feelz otherwise, Republicans point out that

the anti-rollback was led in

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nate by Democratic ittee Chairman May-

Republicans (out of 200) voting with the administration when the rollback vote comes,” said one House Republican leader. Showing how carefully the Republican leaders are trying to keep their party off the price control hot seat is this incident: One influential lobbyist approached a Republican House leader to try to get him to lead a fight to kill price-wage controls outright. “I'll deliver 100 votes if you'll first guarantee me 110 Democratio votes,” the leader said. The lobbyist couldn't promise 110 Democratic votes and the GOP Rader wouldn't budge.

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