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1 JUSTICES are inevitable in mobilization of the country’s “resources. Seeming discrimination in many cases can be lied in the name of national security. "But, in rounding up our military manpower, there is no gense in discrimination for the mere sake of discriminating. Yet, in calling- up. reservists since Korea, the Armed [forces consistently have defied rules of ordinary good judgment. So charges a House Armed Services Subcom. raittee, headed by Rep. Brooks (D. La.), in a report filed cfter a long investigation. ~The report says even grandfathers who happened to le in the inactive reserves were called up for service, while young, single men in the active reserves were left at home. “Reservists were picked out of college,” the Brooks committee says, “and ordered to report for active duty in a matter of days, while their draft-protected non-veteran schoolmates continued to safely lounge on the. campus.”

SOME "reservists who should have been called first were left at home, it adds; others who should have been called last were called first; many were called who never ghould have been, and others who tried to volunteer for cétive duty were not accepted. In all, the Brooks committee pictures a total lack of ~watem in the way military reserves have been pressed into aaty. : ! "Part of the fault seems to lie in an “unbelievable” lack of adequate records and part in the necessity for a hurry-up r1obilization. : The committee thinks these ‘‘serious inequalities” have done “irreparable harm” to the whole military reserve program. : That is bad news. For the reservists are vital to any long-range preparedness program. This situation can be partly improved if Congress, in rassing a proposed new reserves law, will profit from the

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T.uce Talks Reopen = * conditions stipulated by Gen. Ridgway, indicates that the Chinese Reds do not want to break off negotiations— at least at this stage. It would be unwise to try to read much more than that into the apparent Communist back-down. The real bargaining is ahead, and the United Nations delegation must deal with some tough, realistic and ruthless traders. - : 3

are merely playing for time is anybody's guess. We must be prepared for either contingency. Their continuing flow of reinforcements across the Yalu River into North Korea could be intended either to strengthen their bargaining position or to prepare for a resumption of the war, with better prospects of success, after they reform their armies.

” ” THE PROBLEM of inspection may prove. the greatest ‘obstacle to a satisfactory cease-fire agreement. If both‘sides p omise to retire a specified distance behind the 38th I’arallel or some other fixed line, it will be important to know whether either side is using the truce to bring additional troops into its rear areas. This suggests need for neutral observers to see that truce terms are carried out. But it will be hard to find observers whom both sides would consider neutral in this situation. A further fact to be considered is that the delegation of neither side has complete freedom of decision. Kim Il Sung, the North Korean premier, who purports to be the principal Communist spokesman, is in fact merely an agent of Peiping and Moscow. And Gen. Ridgway heads a force representing 16 nations which have frequently disagreed on the conduct of the war.

Feeding an Enemy THIS WEEK a House coalition of Republicans and ¥ Southern Democrats will continye and try to conclude ite drive to make price controls even feebler than the Senate has voted to make them. So it may be timely to review, with comment, a few of the arguments used by Congressmen taking part in that drive. ONE: Some say that need for firm controls has passed —that from now on production will hold down inflation if the government stops interfering and lets the law of supply and demand operate. (But tremendous government interference with supply and demand will raise inflationary pressures as rearmament spending grows and more materials and facilities are diverted from production of civilian goods to defense.) TWO: Others contend that direct price-wage controis never have prevented inflation, (It's true that in the World War II period from 1936 to 1946 the American cost of living, as measured by government statistics, rose more than 70 per cent, although direct price-

of that period. But in the World War I period-—a far smaller, shorter and less costly war—with no direct price-wage controls, the cost of living rose 108 per cent between 1914 and 1920. And since Korea the cost of living has climbed much faster in Canada, with no direct controls, than in the United States.) THREE: Still another argument advanced by coalition Congressmen is that inflation can best be held back by indirect measures—taxation, wise fiscal policies, government economy in non-defense = spending, restraint on private credit, ete, (But a lot of those Congressmen aren't practicing what they preach. They have voted against an adequate tax bil,

projects, they demand relaxation of credit restraints when int the pending legislation restrictions against importation butter, rice, fats, oils and other foreign farm he purpose of, holding up the prices of

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Capehart Confident Bill

Will Receive Approval WASHINGTON, July 16—Sen. Homer E.

- Capehart (R. Ind.), who, as ranking minority

member of the Senate Banking and Currency. Committee, was a leading architect of the new anti-rollbacks price control bill passed by the Senate, predicted today that’ this measure is likely to become the : . After taking all

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which Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, is a Leading Architect

leader, has been knocking amendments in and out of it for more than a week and is taking up its “wrecking crew” work again today. To the gallery observer they seem to operate on a simple rule of thumb, viz. “If President Truman asked for it, it's no good so let's do the opposite.” And it has the votes.

Theory of Bill

IF THE CAPEHART prediction comes true, the administration may be fortunate to get even the watered-down price controls that the Senate voted. The theory is that all the provisions of the Senate bill will be part of the House measure when the matter goes to conference. Then the House and Senate conferees will write a bill which contains them, knocking out the additional matters, or most of them, that were added by the House but never passed by the Senate, President Truman, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, Eric Johnston and all the other topflight administration and defense officials have been urging stronger controls. But the idea of even higher prices than the present, due’ to inflationary defense spending, just hasn't set the grass roots afire. So the average congressman is going blithely along giving the lobbyists what they want in the bill —all but the labor lobbyists who are for strong price controls, even in industries where their wages are geared by contract to the cost of living. That is the UEW-CIO,

See Grab for Power HOOSIER REPUBLICAN freshmen, who geldom vote differently from the Halleck leadership but deny that they are “Charley's rubber stamps.” are seeing nothing short of a great grab for power In the controls asked for by the President. in Their attitude was summed up by Rep. Willam G. Bray, Martinsville Republican, who said: “This bill seems to deal largely with an effort to control the lives and the businesses of the American people. The average congressman wants legislation that will stop inflation without making the citizen a slave of the state” What the ‘average congressman” really wants is a control bill that will not cost him a vote. Of course that is what makes him “average.” Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle Republican, who is rated here above the average, made public a summary of how his 10th Distriet constituents feel about controls. It reads: CONNERSVILLE: “We are in desperate need of controls t6 protect our economy.” NEW CASTLE: “Price control is useless by

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RICHMOND: “Urge you vote for rigid price controls.” RUSHVILLE: “Stronger price controls will curtail production of food and meat animals, causing black markets, undue shortages, and logs of important by-prodicts. NEW PALESTINE: ‘The less the government meddles with economics, the better I like it.” MUNCIE: “The theory of controls is OK, but they just do not work.” SPICELAND: “I am for price and wage controls during the emergency. If they are impartially enforced.” SHELBYVILLE: “As T am dependent on a fixed income for living expenses for myself and wife, I find the continued rise in prices most difficult. IT most earnestly entreat you to support a strong price and rent control bill.”

LABOR... By Fred W. Perkins

Senators Work Out Taft-Hartley Shift

WASHINGTON, July 16—Two Senators far apart in political thinking, especially on laws affecting organized labor, are working together toward an amendment

to the Taft-Hartley Act.

They are Senators Hubert H. Humphrey (D. Minn.), chairman of a Senate Labor subcommittee on labor-man-

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Old Salts Teach the Senators A Little Bit About Their Laws

WABHINGTON, July 16—Nobody, including

members of the Senate Foreign and Domestic Commerce Committee, seemed to know about the Ship Warrants Act. They didn’t even Know what is is.

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hearings on the subject. So I beat it downstairs to a room lavishly = decorated with cupids on the ceiling and I got an interesting Tearful about ship § warrants, In strode Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane i (Ret.) of the Maritime § Administration. In his wake was a retinue of NRTOUN old salts in mufti. The room was jammed with seafarers, including an assortment of seagoing lawyers. Every single one of them was equipped in the best traditions of Joseph Conrad with a booming, fog-horn voice. The Admiral explained what was cooking. He said President Truman wanted for emergency, wartime purposes a kind of ration-card system for steamships. Before a captain of any land could dock here and take on water for his thirsty crew, or even unload his cargo, he'd need a card, or warrant. To get that, he'd have to promise to take his ship where the President wanted it to go, carry what the President suggested, and charge rates the President deemed fair.

A similar system worked fine during the last war, the Admiral said. I got the idea that if it were in force now, the Russians wouldn't

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dare land a ship at any of our ports for fear“df being put to carrying guns to our side in Korea. Might not be such a bad idea. But the Admiral said it was standby legislation for use only when things got tough. ‘Sen. Magnuson turned the proceedings over to the shipmasters. These mariners were unanimously against the passage of any such law,

The idea was okay in wartime, they agreed, but no good for now. The Admiral protested that President Truman didn't mean to enforce it immediately. The sea captains said, yes, but he might change his mind. Along came George W. Morgan, the president of the Association of American .Shipowners. Capt. Morgan, who is a: lawyer; wore an ap-

propriate cravat (gray fish on a brown sea) and

an unhappy expression. He said that as of now the government had enough control over steamships, Maybe too much, the way business is around the globe. He also had some statistics that were comforting to me,

Not Such Hot Ships

HE SAID that sailing the seas of the world today are 13,282 merchant ships. That means the folks on our side have about 15 times as many seagoing vessels as the Communists have, Of their 758 ships, Capt. Morgan continued, 83 of them belong to us. These are-the ones we lend-leased the Reds during the war and which they have refused to give back. Maybe refuse isn’t the right word. We asked ’em for our boats four times so far this year and they've ignored us. § “What kind of ships are they?” asked Sen. Magnuson. “Mostly Liberties,” replied Admiral Cochrane. That's good news, too. ‘The Liberty ships weren't go hot in hte first place. After 10 years under Russian crews, my guess is that they're daubs of rust that'll barely float.

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‘Soak the Poor’ MR. EDITOR: * Of recent days, there has been talk of a Constitutional Amendment to limit the taxing of income to no more than 25 per cent. They tell us it has the states’ support already. Now, at first, that seemed to me to be just the thing, Then, I began to think. If 25 per cent tax rate is the limit, it will more than likely be the amount we shall all be paying. I am what is known as a middle-class citizen. My income is in the lower bracket, where the experts tell us most of the people are. I have never paid 25 per cent of my income in federal tax. Under the the proposed amendment, I and all the vast numbers of folks in the lowar brackets, will have a tax increase. Who, then, gets the benefit of the proposed amendment? The upper brackets, of course. * & 2» THE FOLKS who can best afford to pay,

: will be the ones who will get the tax relief.

It is just another clever way of putting over a tax bill that will soak the poor and let the rich accumulate more and more. The argument is that men just won't work unless théy can get richer and richer. They just retire when the tax burden gets too much. OK, when a man gets that rich, let him retire and give someone else a chance. Seems to me we are terribly worried for fear some folks won't get money enough to suit them. We had better worry more for fear folks won't get food, clothing and shelter enough.

One wonders if anything can ¢bme out of the legislature any more but reli people who don’t much need it. And e while,

communism feeds and exploits the poverty, disillusionment, and frustration of men all over the world. You spend billions on the one hand to stamp out communism, then feed it like mad with the other hand. Great, just great. —F. M,, City

‘The Muddle Age’ MR. EDITOR:

The world has passed through the Dark Ages, the Middle Age and is now in what is called the Christian Era, but which could be more appropriately called the Muddle Age where the people are guided in their thinking and act- . ing by the confused and selfish muckle-headed politicians, money dominated press and commentators in an effort to confuse, misguide and prevent logical thinking by the masses. Twenty centuries ago the greatest teacher of morals the world has ever known came to earth. Numerous organizations have come into being since that time, their purported purpose to guide the people along moral lines which Christ taught. Most of our officials profess to be members of one of these organizations of moral upbuilders, but you would never know it by their public acts, except in very small matters. Our government was founded by men of very high moral character gnd our charter of gov ernment followed the same line. Unfortunately the years have changed all this. Political pull or wealth have supplanted morals. hh Db THE GREATEST interest of our officials seems tg be centered in raising their and other salaries. Their slogan seems to be, thousands for themselves and other officials and pennies if anything for the old and helpless soldiers and the aged civilian who is unable to provide for self. They are so frightened themselves that the people will rise to a state of logical thinking that will. be disastrous to the political and capitalistic tyranny, that they attempt by war hysteria to divert the minds of the masses to cover their real motive. The articles published in these columns ate an indication of success but only where logie is absent and some selfish motive can be detected whether political or otherwise. —Theo B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St.

VACATION AT LAST

LET'S pack our duds and take a trip . . . to same far away station . . . and new and different wonderland . .. where we'll spend our vacation . . . let's leave behind our worries for + + + at least a week or two . .. and put in practice all the things ... we'd really like to do + » . we'll capture once again the joys ... we had this time last year . . . and live again the things we did . . . the things we loved so dear «+. 80 dress the kids and lock the house . . , while I tune up the car . . ._and we will hit the open road . .. for places near or far . . . for it is growing nigh on time . . . to take off with elation . . . and head for playland where we will spend . . . our own well-earned vacation, —By Ben Burroughs.

PRICE CONTROL . . . By Earl Richert

Farmers Mow Down Capitol Opposition

WASHINGTON, July 16—Future historians may well label this period as the era of farm dominance in Congress— just as big business had its era in the '20s and labor was on top in the early '30s. Newspaper headlines have reported defeat after defeat for the administration in Congress’ voting on ree

wage controls were in fqree, for most of the last four years °

they fight to prevent economy front touching their own pet

_ such restraints “hurt business.” And they have even voted '

agement relations; and Robert A. Taft (R. O.), of the-controver-sial law and regarded as lead-

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er of a Senate majority large enough to prevent any changes he does not want. The change now being worked on would exempt the buildingtrade unions of required ! alections on, construction projects to qualify the unions to rep- Sen. Humphrey resent the em-. aad changes ployees or for enforcement of the ‘union shop.” under ' which every member must become a union member

The significance of the TaftHumphrey co-operation is that

it is a shift in policy for Ad-.

ministration Senators. Heretofore they have refused to agree to changes in the labor law because they wanted complete repeal and substitution of a statute based on the bld Wagner Act. g Sen. Humphrey, was inter. ested in the proposed change by the AFL's building trades department. This also shows the AFL has reversed fits former stand for the complete repeal. 2 This) added to the recent

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General J. Howard McGrath for an improvement in the Taft-Hartley requirement of non-Communist oaths from union officials, could mean a break-up of the solid front of union leaders and Administration spokesmen attempting to preserve the Taft-Hartley issue intact for political purposes It has been recognized almost since the law was enacted over Presidential veto four years ago that it would be difficult to apply the election requirements to the buildIng trades. The reason is that construction workers seldom are employed continuously by the same employer more than a few months, and the personnel on succeeding projects may be entirely different. As a rule in the construction industry there -is-no-stable unit of employees such as those found in factories where the same men work for the same employer year after year. This difficulty has recognized by Sen. Taft. Experiences of the National Labor Relations Board have

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convinced him that elections

are superfluous in the case of making a choice for the union shop. Unions have won practically all union-shop elections by majorities averaging more than 90 per cent of the qualified voters. They cost money and take much time of NLRB officials ard staff ‘members.

A PROPOSAL to drop the union-shop elections was

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than a year ago. These amendments have never been brought to a vote in the’ House. An agreement is reported between Senators. Humphrey ‘and Taft not to attempt anything controversial this year in TaftHartley amendment. The buildIng trades change is not regarded as such but the result would be to open the gate for further changes of the kind desired by thé law's supporters as a means of taking the repeal issue out of _pdlitics.

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and have announced they hope to make the Taft-Hartley Act an issue in next year's elections.

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issues which would conflict

with what Congress deems. to be the farmer's interests.

Big business hasn't been getting what it wants in the voting. Nor has small business. Nor has labor, But the farmers h¥ven't lost on a vote yet, in either House. For example:

The House Banking Committee approved an amendment which would bar imports of manufactured goods made of raw materials which are under allocation in this country. This was to protect a number of small manufacturers in this country ~— pottery and glassware people, jewelry makers, watch makers, etc. It would have banned the importation of

brass door knobs when the

manufacturers of brass door knobs in this country couldn't get enough raw materials to keep up their output. ~ ~ ” BUT the. House knocked out this amendment. And the administration won one of its rare victories.

The vote on the “brass door knob” amendment came at the close of a day's session. The first order of business the next day was an amendment spongored by the dairy bloc to add cheese to the list of farm commodities on which imports would be banned when imports threaten competition with the

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Thus, the House on succeed= ing days voted that it was all right for brass door knobs, etc., to be imported even though they took the market of domestic manufacturers but that It wasn't all right for butter, cheese, peanuts, peanut butter, etc, to be imported under the same condition, In the Senate, Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) offered amendments which would have benefited the big auto companies. But the Senate voted down these amendments over-

whelmingly. The multi-million -

(dollar auto companies didn't have enough influence.

” ” 2 BUT WHEN it came to slaughtering quotas on beef— which Price Boss Michael DiSalle says are necessary to stop black marketing — the Senate voted twice to kill them. And the House has followed suit. On rollbacks, the scheduled manufacturer's rollbacks were killed in the Senate only’ because they were made a part of the beef price rollback vote. And in the House it looks as if the future beef rollbacks will be killed while some rollbacks on manufactured goods will be permitted. Why this farm: dominance when the farmers and their

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cent of. the population? Farm area lawmakers point out that they are almost" always organized and are on the floor to vote—while their big city brethren are elsewhere.

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