Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1951 — Page 8

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onomy in Reverse | "HAT economy bloc in the Senate, which started off so _* stout-heartedly, has become a dim echo of its original It has just taken a drubbing from that much more In voting an Agriculture Department spending bill of $826 million in direct appropriations, the Senate added $34 “million to the amount voted by the House. All attempts to whittle down this figure were beaten. : Moreover, these figures cover only what are called “direct” appropriations. They do not include at least $378 million in Agriculture Department spending which is authorized but not counted as “direct” appropriations. Sen. John J. Williams (R. Del.), one of the few holdouts for genuine economy, charges the bill actually will permit the Agriculture Department to spend $1,740,000,000— counting all the “hidden” items he says are in it.

” " '» » TYPICAL of what happened to the economy drive when it ran into the high-flying farm bloc was the action on appro- : priations for payments in the soil conservation program. | President Truman asked for $285 million. The House 4 cut it to $225 million. But the Senate biked the total back to $280 million. - It did this in the face of recommendations by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Grange. Both these important farm organizations took the forthright stand that sharp cutting of government spending is necessary for the sake of the defense program—and that the cutting should hit all departments of the governernment, including their own special interest, agriculture.

” » » ” THE Farm Bureau Federation said the soil conservation program would not be hurt if only $150 million were appropriated. In two days of persistent effort, the dwindling economy bloc won only one test—it knocked $2 million from one item. The net result, obviously, was a complete setback for anything resembling economy. : The handful of would-be budget shavers, failing on all attempts to make real reductions, then tried for small cuts. But the farm bloc would have none of these. ; It was riding high—even if the taxpayer winds up riding a rail.

Foul NE of the most disillusioned communities in America today, we would guess, is Peoria, Ill. For the stars on the great Bradley University basketball team have confessed to taking bribes from gamblers to “shave” the point margins in some of their principal games. And Peoria, as the prosecuting attorney put it, has “gone crazy” over this team in recent years. Winners in 90 of the 108 games they played in three seasons, the members of this team wer idols of schoolboys and adult fans everywhere—and- especially in Peoria. . Corruption is corruption, wherever found. But the shock of such ugly revelations in a presumably clean and amateur American sport, involving an institution of higher learning, naturally will be cause for special anguish in collegiate circles and elsewhere. While few will condone the “sellout” on the part of the players, there is a temptation to share the relatively lenient attitude toward them indicated by the prosecuting officials. And to throw the book at the guttersnige gamblers who engineered this und similar deals elsewhere. 4

” " » ” ” = BUT ISN'T the background of the situation at Bradley also a culprit in this case? Here is a comparatively small college, not widely known until it suddenly went big league on the basketball circuit. It is no coincidence when a school consistently comes up with top flight teams. An institution which builds an arena capable of seating many thousands more than its total student body is not inthe game merely for the enjoyment and health of its athletes. The vast commercialization of attributed to public popularity, and it is not for us to debate the merits or demerits of this development. But what's happened at Bradley, and several other schools, is a natural result—human nature being as it often is

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The Right to Precious Silence "J OTALITARIAN police learned long ago that it helps to break a man down if you can bombard him with painful, irritating sounds and flood his quarters continuously with light There are even reports that some try to exact confessions by resorting to a device nicknamed the “glockenspiel’: Beating with sticks on a pail placed over a victim's head. We're on guard against such abuses in this country. In fact, we're so careful to protect a man's ears and his right to choose silence that we won't let him be bombarded by sound in some public places. . That's what the court had in mind when it ordered the Washington streetcar company {to stop broadcasting radio mugic and commercials to its riders. Almost like imprisonment, the court said. ¥ But we still let him suffer in Indianapolis . . . especially on W. Washington St. between Illinois and Meridian . . . and around noon on the Circle. Folks working in these areas have their own private little “glockenspiel.” . . . A rich mixture of soap operas and more soap operas.

Rare Among the Military ECRETARY of State Dean Acheson pronounced the finest epitaph for Adm. Forrest Sherman, the late Chief of Naval Operations, when he labeled him an officer who was capable of thinking beyond military matters to the. underlying—and governing-—political considerations. * America has not had too many generals and admirals at the critical moments, that wars | purposes. Sherman understood that,

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OVERHEATED . . . By Frederick C. Othman

House Explodes

WASHINGTON, July 28—What the House of Representatives wants at this writing is a large bucket of cold water in which to soak its fevered head. The gentlemen need to become cool, calm and collected, like—say-—Secretary of

State Dean Acheson. When I left 'em, only a dousing of ice water could have turned the trick. I never did see so many statesmen so sore at each other, with fist-shaking, table - pounding and name - calling. The battle grew so hot that ‘the air-condi-tioning system could not keep up with the heated atmosphere,

The fight of course, was about the Secretary of

State and whether Congress should fire him by indirection, through the expedient of withholding his eating money. The walnut-paneled chamber was tense when Rep. John Phillips (R. Cal.) stood up in his white suit and polka-dot bow tie to propose a law holding up the pay of any cabinet officer whose law firm worked during the last five years for a foreign government. The dapper Acheson was the only official who fitted these specifications, So: “I'd like to see a copy of this so-called sec ret weapon of the Republicans,” roared the grayhaired Rep. John J. Rooney (D. N. Y.). in

charge of the State Department appropriation Mr. Phillips said he already had one, Mr. Rooney said he did not, either. Furthermore, he said this amendment was illegal. Mr’ Phillips demanded a ruling from the chair. Rep. Clare E Hoffman (R. Mich.) said this was absurd ” Speaker Sam Rayburn ruled that Mr. Phillips was on firm legal ground, This seemed to shock Republican and Democrat alike. who had presumed the Speaker by his ruling would keep

Acheson on the pay roll. Now it was a matter of debate, Mr. Rooney started it. “How low must we he asked to stoop?” he cried. “In my part of the country the people don’t like these slippery, snide and sharp practices. They...” “Stop,” roared Mr. Hoffman. He said this was an insult to Mr. Philllps. He demanded that Mr. Rooney's words be taken down and that he be ruled off the floor. Mr. Rayburn tried to.calm down the gentlemen, who by now were shouting from all over the chamber, He said he did not believe Mr, Rooney's description of his high-minded * constituents reflected on the character of any Congressman. Mr, Rooney resumed his speech “I repeat. so the gentleman from Michigan thoroughly understands, that the people of my district do not like slippery, snide and sharp

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Acheson out of the way, do it the honest way. Do not peek through keyholes and sneak around corners.”

‘Throw Him Out’

THEN he said something about lynch law, which I didn’t rightly get because Rep. Joe Martin of Mass, the Republican sachem, was shouting about insults again. Take down those words, he said. Throw MY. Rooney out. That got a Jot of Congressmen into the fight. The speaker nearly wore out his gavel. And the poor old gent who was the official reporter had the devil’s own time finding the part about lynching in his shorthand notes. There was a lengthly pause in the battle, while he riffied through his papers. He thought he’d found ’em. Started to read. Mr. Martin said those words weren't the really insulting ones. Mr. Rooney offered to withdraw his: remarks. Mr. Martin wouldn’t let him. The fight went on from there. Later on, I have no doubt, we'll get around to whether Congress should pull the rug out from under the highly polished brogans of the Secretary of ate.

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Yiews on News By DAN KIDNEY

WHAT this country needs is a dollar that will go as far as it does fast.

SOME college officials may have been too busy overcharging GIs to keep their basketball team honest.

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HISTORIAN Will Durant says the world always has been SNAFU. What worries us is that we may be getting smart enough to end it.

REPUBLICANS are opposed to any “‘cease-fire”’—on Secretary of State Acheson.

GOP opposition to government housing exempts the White House. They want that. ;

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SENATORS visiting Eisenhower's headquarters agree that he is a great general, Taft supporters want him sewed into his uniform. A “PRACTICAL politician” is a fellow who believes in deals rather than ideals.

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job. The reply he got was something like this: “If you're fool enough. to give up your job, to give up vour home, to give up your time-—and go. to Washington to ‘live in an apartment, to work §ix’ days and six nights a week, and to be. smeared all over the place—if you're fool enough to do those things, go ahead. I'm not going to.”

= = =» THERE you have it in a nutghell one of the biggest problems in Washington. It is to recruit. competent experts with wide experience in some highly technical field like steel production or distribution, for temporary jobs with the government. Plenty of second stringers can be hired. What's tough is getting the good ones. Edwin T. Gibson, retiring as acting head of - Defense Production Administration, says there are three principal, reasons, why most businessmen dodge the draft for defense jobs. Mr. Gibson himself is ex-

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FRUSTRATED . . .

WASHINGTON, July 28—If the State De-. partment decides to break off diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia in reprisal for the jailing of reporter William Oatis it merely

“would be following a pattern set last year.

On Feb, 21, 1950, the United States severed relations wtih Bulgaria because the Bulgarian government had made phony espionage charges against U, 8. Minister Donald Heath, ‘Mr. Heath had not been thrown into jail nor harmed in any way. In fact, the Bulgarian government had taken the unusual step—for an ron Curtain country—of publishing Mr. Heath's enials of the charges. But the State Department took the stand that since the Bulgars. would not withdraw the charges they were trampling on the dignity of the United States. In contrast with its slowness in the Oatis case—Mr, Oatis has been in jail since April— the State Department acted fast in dealing

" with the Bulgarian government in the Heath

case. 3 The controversy began in December, 19849, when the prosecution linked Mr. Heath with Traicho Kostov, who was on trail for treason and subsequently was executed. Mr. Heath, the prosecution charged, had told Kostov that he, Mr. Heath, was a representative of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and would pass on any information Kostov could give him. Immediately, the Bulgar charge d'affaires was called in and given a dressing-down by Under Secretary of State James E, Webb, Mr. Webb demanded that the attacks on Mr. Heath stop and that the Bulgar press publish a denial written by the U. S. minister.

Attacks Continued ODDLY enough, the Bulgarian press did publish Mr, Heath's denial. But the attacks on him continued and the American legation in Sofia was described by the prosecution in the Kostov tiial as “a center of plots and espion-

age” against Bulgaria. Moreover, the Bulgarian government sud-

JETER ARRAN

MR. EDITOR: 2 There's one thing Indianapolis has plenty of, and that's hot weather. I'm not a Hoosier myself, that is not yet, but do plan to become one . .. that is if I don’t have to sit around swimming in my own soup every summer. Tell me, good people of Hoosier land: Are all your summers like this? If they are then T'll say goodby. If they aren't then I'll stay and take my chances that the sun is still the same, reasonable distance from the face of the earth that it is in Ohio. 1 have a little room downtown: with one window in it and so help me that room is second cousin to a blast furnace. I refuse to go ‘back. I won't do it. I'm sitting in a park now way eut in the north end of town someplace and you know what? T've got my shoes off and am soaking my feet in cool water. I've got my shirt off, enjoying fully the fresh lireezes and so- help me I'm sitting under the biggest shade tree I can find. Know how I do it? I'm unemployed and plan to stay that way until you Hoosiers get me

some cool weather, . —All Baked, City.

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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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denly declared Mr. Heath persona non grata (unwelcome) and asked for his recall. J The State Department hotly replied that unless the request for Mr. Heath's recall was withdrawn the U, 8. would have no alternative but to sever diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. Furthermore, it again demanded that the at‘tacks on Mr, Heath cease. 3 A month went by with no response from the Bulgarian government. The State Department, therefore, in a-long note to the Sofia regime, broke diplomatic relations because of what it described as a “series of restrictions, insults and harassments” inflicted by the Bulgarian government on the staff of the American legation. The note again denounced the charge as false and charged the government with being “unwilling . . . observe accepted standards of international comity.”

Only Possible Course

FOUR days later, the U. 8. legation staff left Sofia and the Swiss government took over as U. 8. representative in Bulgaria. Officials of the Bulgarian office in the State Department said today they felt the U. 8. took the only possible course in the case.

These officials said, also, that they felt severance of relations by the U. 8, made a “good impression” on the Bulgarian people, It showed the people, the officials said, that the U. 8, had decided it did not want to associate with their government and added to their fant hopes that the day might come when they would be liberated from their unpopular bosses. The Sofia regime, of course, gave the impression it didn’t give a hoot what the U. S. did. But these Iron Curtain countries have shown in the past that they value U. 8. recognition—the Bulgarian regime itself had hailed U. 8S. recognition in 1947 as an event which “will now pluck from the opposition’s hands their main weapon. This fact has opened the eyes of all those misled persons who believed in the opposition fables.” There it was—right from the horse's mouth —the frank admission that diplomatic relations with the United States carry considerable prestige.

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A Lot of Talk’

MR. EDITOR: ; ; There's been a lot of talk going around this city apout the increase of traffic deaths and injuries. Talk but no action. I've lived in this city a long time although I am not a native of it . .. fact is I'm not a native of this state. But I like this city and state and can’t stomach what the people are doing to it. It's the same old story, not just in traffic, but in almost every bit of community planning. Talk plenty but don't act, talk big money but don’t spend any. > Don’t believe it? Look at:the condition of our streets, public buildings, traffic system, and even the condition of the trees on the curb lawns. Indianapolis was once known for its beautiful trees but they are on the way out now and they are not being replaced. Why? The city doesn’t want to spend the money and nobody wants to pay higher taxes. It won’t be long now before Indianapolis looks like a junk town and it’s a shame.

—Adopted Hoosier, City.

PEACE TALKS . . . By Ludwell Denny Reds Still Haven't Retreated—

WASHINGTON, July 28—The Korean agenda agreement is not a Red retreat and United

‘Nations victory, as widely advertised despite

official warnings by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Foreign troop withdrawal from Korea, which the Reds proposed as an agenda item and which Gen. Ridgway rejected, is on the agreed agenda in disguised form. The fifth and final agenda point reads: “Recommendations to the governments of the countries concerned on both sides.” It would be hard to draft a sentence giving the Reds

wider latitude: for agenda subjects than that. The popular notion that

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this “compromise” is a United Nations victory is based on the assumption that the real agenda consists of the first four points, and that omnibus point five is only a meaningless face-saver for the Reds. According to this, either side can make any recommendations it desires after the cease-fire. There are hints that Gen. Ridgway's negotiators got an.acceptable interpretation of the ambiguous point five before formally agreeing to it. But the history of negotiations and conferences with Stalin and his agents shows that side agreements are even more worthless than formal agreements,

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As long as point five is on the official agenda,

By Peter Edson

the Reds can claim that agreement under it is essential to agreement on other items. This has been the familiar Red technique in other postwar negotiations. Apart from offering a blank check for agenda subjects, including foreign troops withdrawal, and besides making that a possible alibi for scrapping agreements which may be reached on other items, point five could open the door for recognition of Red China.

Specific Condition

FROM the beginning, recognition of the Peiping regime and its admittance into the United Nations has been a major Red condition for a Korean settlement. The showdown on this will come when so-called political questions are discussed. The United States entered the present armistice talks on the specific condition that they would be limited to military matters, and the United States refused to accept foreign troop withdrawal as an agenda subject because it was a political question. While military questions of a cease-fire can be discussed with the aggressor, to permit him to fix a political settlement would be to accept the outlaw as the legitimate government of China. The United States came perilously close to that in agreeing to put on the armistice agenda “recommendations to the governments of the countries concerned on both sides.” We are now in the difficult position of dealing with a Chinese “volunteer” army command for which the Peiping regime takes no military responsibility, but through which it hopes to win the prize of political recognition and power.

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eral Foods in® private life. Despite the fact that he was 67 years old and had two heart attacks, he came to Washington last February to help set up DPA, and get it going. It is now a going concern.

Mr. Gibson doesn’t feel that in

the present state of his health, he is the right man “to have to make tough decisions right up to six o'clock every evening,” as he puts it. So he is stepping aside for younger, tougher. Manly Fleishmann. But Mr. Gibson himself will stay on as an adviser and as chairman of the International Materials Conference, } ” - ” HIS THREE reasons why businessmen won't take Washington jobs are: 1--Theyv are needed by their companies, who won't release them. 2--They don't realize there's an emergency. 3---They are frustra by Washington.

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most intangible, is also probably the most important. Businessmen aren't trained in

politics. They can't understand why, if something has to be done—-it has to be cleared with Congress, ‘the White House, State, = Deiense, Commerce, Agriculture, Interior, Labor and the Attorney General. The when a temporary government official does back some course of action he considers necessary for the good of his country he gets beat over the head unmercifully.

un " ” THE chastisement which C. E. Wilson and Stabilization Director Eric Johnston have recently taken from the National Association of Mahufacturers is on par with what President Truman wrote to the music crivie. Mr. Johnston reports that some business friends he has known for years now won't speak to him when they pass. Mr. Wilsoh had Sidney Weinberg and Gen. Lucius D. Clay as his assistants for a time, But they refused to take the punishment and went home. In trying to replace them, Mr. Wilson gets called “a fool.” = There is of course a fourth reason why businessmen won't come to. Washington. Government doesn’t pay enough. Top government salaries — outside : % ‘

Experts Dodge U. S. Jobs in Washington

July 28 — Mobilization Director Wilson once asked a business associate he had known for many years to come to Washington and help him out on the three-year national defense production

of cabinet officers and “ambassadors — are $17,500. But most government bureau heads are in the $8000 to $12,000 bracket. And men whom private industry would pay $10,000, the government expects to hire for $5000 to $7500. No smart and rising engineer or executive is going to give up his chances of promotion with his company to come to Washington to work and live in shoeboxes for less money. = = ” TO MEET this situation, Congress has provided for a limited number of “WOC” and “WAE” in the defense agencies. The first are “without compensation” employees, They get $1 a year plus transportation. and $15 a day living expenses. The “WARE” get $50 a day plus transportation and

"$15 a day keep, “when actually

employed.” There are now 412 WOC's in the defenes agencies under Mr. Wilson. 4 There are about 300 WAE's.

‘They get to keep their private

industry salaries; paid by their companies. In return, the companjes agree to loan some of their best men to the government for periods of from six months to a year.

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