Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1951 — Page 16
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week the Senate Finance Committee began the "hard, slugging job of trying to write a new tax law, : The objective is to raise enough money to pay the ‘mounting cost of rearmament, along with the ‘“normal” expenses of the government. ; In wéeks of public hearings, this committee listened to a great mass of advice, much of it in radical conflict. ~~ Just as it started its own discussions, the committee | ‘was handed, indirectly, additional counsel—also widely differing. ! It was told by the professional staff of the Joint (House-Senate) Committee on the Economic Report, headed by Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) that at least $10 billion in new taxes is necessary to keep the budget balanced and to ward off inflation. : os ” n » ” . IT WAS told by the Twentieth Century Fund, a reputable privately endowed research organization, that it will take $16 billion in new taxes to pay for the defense program and hold back inflation. President Truman, Treasury Secretary Snyder and other government officials have insisted a minimum of $10 billion in new taxation is needed. But the House cut this fo just over $7 billion and there are indications the Senate may lower it still.more. Meanwhile, hardly anything has been done about the one proposal on which those advising Congress have _ agreed—a drastic cutback in nondefense spending. ~~ All signs point to new and bigger spending, rather than retrenchment. The O'Mahoney committee's staff has estimated that government spending will hit a “peak” of $87 billion in 1953, and not “level off” at $60 billion until 1956. Defense spending alone is expected to take $55!4 billion next year. 5 » » ~ ~ » THAT means the government plans to spend a third Por the national income in the next few years. . The public won't quarrel with the amount of defense spending, so long as the money buys what it is intended to. buy. But the public will quarrel with wasteful or unnecessary spending. And it will quarrel with deficit spending. If the money isn't raised as it is spent, the already tremendous national debt will soar still higher—a condition which could lead to inflation of deadly proportions and the economic disaster which the Communists have been wishing for us.
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Man of the Hour
HEN Mussolini's troops invaded Greece in 1040, the Greeks under Field Marshal Alexander Papagos gave them a sound trouncing and sent them pocking back on their heels: Mussolini was forced to call on Hitler for German reinforcements to save his army from annihilation. ~ ‘Marshal Papagos was recalled to duty in 1949 when civil war in Greece had reached a virtual stalemate, and he led his country's forces to a decisive victory over the Communists after other military leaders had failed. Now the hero of two wars, disgusted with Greece's inept poli tical leadership, the Marshal has called on the people to join him in a program for the country's peaceful reconstruction. ’
» » 5 t = ~ LJ IN A challenging appeal, which could be read with profit throughout Europe, the 67-year-old soldier declared that peoples destined to survive must essentially depend on their own powers and resources. He told the Greeks: “You must adapt yourselves without delay to the idea that it is wrong to except everything from the Americans. Realize that American aid cannot be unlimited and never ending. “It is chiefly on the battle of production that will depend our ability to hold down prices, achieve economic stability, largely increase exports and improve the people's living standard 1 ask vou to visualize constantly the Greece of tomorrow. I do not promise vou paradise or miracles. I demand sacrifices which will lead to better days.” The Marshal said bureaucracy and indecision must not be allowed to hinder or counteract constructive utilization of United States aid. 2 ~ 5 x oy ” ~ THEN, he said, there must be more and harder work and the eradication of parasitism: simplification of public 'services and restriction of the number of civil servants; economy everywhere, and effective functioning of the parx liamentary system for protection and reinforcement of individual and social rights These demands, while they may seem commonplace to us, strike at the heart of the things that are wrong in Greece Government there seems to have lost all power of initiative. The administrative machinery is bogged down under a topheavy, unwieldy bureaucracy. Petty factionalism resulting in a multiplicity of political parties has produced a legislative stalemate. With little incentive to work and produce, the country has surrendered to frustration until it is little more than an American:supported WPA project. Marshal Papagos is attempting to rescue the people from their lethargy. It may be their last chance.
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Might Gum Up the Situation
4 AN EASTERN manufacturer has announced what he describes as a “move to aid reconstruction efforts on the part of the business community of the flood-stricken Raltoan Tily asta” - ; He has offered to replace all wholesalers’ stocks of . bubble gum which were destroyed by flood waters. - It isn’t ciear just how this would work. Maybe he the gum will keep bubble-popping youngsters busy Ma and Pa reconstruct. Or perhaps the stuff could be
GUMSHOES . . . By Frederick C. Othman When Investigators Investigate Investigators—We Wonder a Bit
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—If Congress doesn’t stow its gumshoes in the closet soon and put its Hawkshaw hat away, I doubt if it ever does go home. May be that we have an extra number of murky situations that need light. It also may
be that Congressmen like to play cop. All I know for sure is that they have more investigations on tap now than in memory
ofr the oldest police reporter. Messrs. O'Connor,
Kefauver and Co. are about to reopen their inquiry into New York crime under the floodlights of the television cameras. Simultaneously: a
House subcommittee is" ‘heading to New : York to look into charges of monkes Hines among the tax collectors and their clients there
The. customs agents and their methods of assessing the water in Scotch whisky are being investigated now. So are who want to be federal judges The statesmen are looking into operations
of Russian spies who did their sneaking in
Japan. They're investigating the Institute of Pacific Relations. They're peering into charges that Allied ships still are
carrying guns to Chinese Communists, They're questioning a Veterans Administraon official about his free fishing trips. They're worrying about the government buying "too many warehouses full of desks for stenographers that still haven't been hired Highbindery Involving surplus Armv trucks in Germany are under the gentlemen's scrutiny, In progress is an Investigation of an investigation of Burmese elephants undertaken by the Economie Co-operation Administration The Congressmen still haven't finished their investigations of cattle prices, or war material shortages, or why ‘the government in its wisdom decreed briefly that automabiles should have no spare tires. Thev're investigating the policies of the Federal Reserve, The other day they considered strip teasers in Baltimore
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CONTROLS . . . By Earl Richert
Meat Experts Predict Downward Price Trend
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Agriculture Department meat experts are amazed at predictions coming from the Economic Stabilization ‘Agency that beef prices will g0 up 5 to 10 per cent the next six months as a result
of the new controls law. The facts, to them, point the other way-downward, or at
least no increase in beef prices. n
some lllinois gents > -
dred pounds last week, which was interpreted by the experts as the beginning of the decline.
They're looking into the reasons for a tod eral rare-bird hunt in Turkey. Oné group of Senators momentarily is in the Midwest seeking to learn whether any more Army officers have accepted favors from ‘businessmen. While Sen. Joe McCarthy (R. Wis.) continues to investigate alleged pinks in the State Department, a Senate committee is cogitating demands that it investigate him,
Strictly Honest?
THE slueths are investigating whether to investigate Democratic sachem Bill Boyle's alleged deals with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. They're trying to decide whether the government's consumer price index is as strictly honest as claimed. They are investigating baseball. They're probing football at West Point. The lawgivers are inquiring into operations of
the Home Loan Bank Board and into whether
talking about
the defense agencies are giving the small busf< nessman a square deal. Another ‘committee ig ‘inquiring ‘into the question of some small businessmen taking the Defense Department for a patsy, And if the gents don't I'll have. to put in to the management for a siren and a police escort if I ever hope to Keep up with them.
HEAVEN'S KEY
IF YOU seek the key to heaven ... vou can find it very near... for it's in your daily living . and in things that you hold dear . .. you will find it in your actions ... and in what you chance to say . . . for the golden gates will open . . . if you go a righteous way . .. von alone can draw the blueprint . you're the draftsman of your life . and it's up to you to plan it . . . so you'll detour pain and strife . You can mold the key by doing . . , works of loving charity . little things that make skies brighter , . . things that calm life's stormy sea . . . being true to God above vou... will help you to form the cast , . . so-that when the key. is fashioned , . . it is sure to always last . then when all your davs are aver ... from the earth vour soul will soar... and vou'll enter into heaven . . . for your key will fit the door,
slow down a little
Ben Burroughs.
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NOTHING SETTLED . .". By Ludwell Denny
France Is Still a Weak Link i
In Allied Defense in Europe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—France's political instability still weakens Allied defense. The new Pleven government is a stopgap minority regime. It does not represent agreement amapg the center parties. Divisions are wider than when Parliament recessed nearly three months ago for the national election. Now, after an indecisive election, . many weeks of stalemate and seven futile attempts to form a cabinet, Rene Pleven has “succeeded” only because the deputies are exhausted and want a vacation. Such a government can provide limited co-operation with the North Atlantic powers and with Gen Eisenhower within a non-contro-versial range. But it cannot give the responsible leadership and make the binding commitments essential for rapid progress in Allied defense. Virtually all of the major unsolved problems of European preparedness have been made more difficult—and will continue to be—by the lack of a strong government in Paris. This applies to arms production, to unification of the Mediterranean command, to American bases, to raising troops for Gen. Eisenhower, and to the key issue of West Germany's contribution. The new French cabinet will be in the position of insisting on unification of Western Eu-
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MR. EDITOR:
Congratulations on your fine article concerning “Tenant Housing" ... also vour fine articles on the welfare fund. It is difficult for the people of Indianapolis to read the truth from the Star and News, and it is with pleasure that we are privileged to picko up The Times and read the truth. Keep up vour fine work of giving the people the true facts. Let's also give the people the correct facts of the world's problem and give them constructive articles of the United Nations and the work of the administration to protect this country and to help-the people. —FEvelyn Walton, 2049 N, Meridian St,
MR. EDITOR:
I read with much interest vour article in the July 30 issue of The Indianapolis Times regard-
ing the reliability of the Tenants’ Housing Service. On Apr. 13, 1951. 1 registered with this
agency, paying the 85 character and reference fee. On approximately Aug. 1, 1951, about three and one-half months after I registered with them (and after the heat had been put on them) I.received their one and only call to me wanting to know if I had found housing. All T can say for this agency is that it is a “racket” and should be eliminated from this city. I received absolutely no consideration from them. —Marian FE. Prather, 4257 Graceland Ave.
MR. EDITOR:
We, too, have heen agxictim of the Tenants’ Housing Service. 3 About the first ‘of April we paid our $5 tn the firm to find us a house. T kept ealling them on thes phone but all they could: say was they had nothing that fit our requirements. We finally decided it was just £3 thrown out the window. After The Times came. out about them, the Housing Service called me, saying that it wanted us to know .they had not forgotten us For the last four months thev were hound to have something we could use but we had come to the conclusion that it was nothing else but a racket I for one want to thank you for bringing this out in the open. : —Mrs. O. E. Burgess, 48235 Careline Ave.
MR. EDITOR:
Just a line to tell you that I registered with the Tenants’ Housing Service at a fee of $5, June 1. Up to date I have not had one®all from them I called their office once and they gave me a phone number to call. They said not to call till after 6 p. m. but after hanging up I called the number. A woman answered and told me the apartment was rented already threugh the Tenants’ Housing Service, I called their office back and they were so unpleasant about the in-
cident that I just forgot about them all together In the meantime, fortunately, through my
“Service
rope, through the economic Schuman plan and the military Pleven plan, when it cannot even achieve French unity. The house is desperately needed, but it never will stand without a stable France as a base. 3 Many explanations are given for French disunity. Somé say the constitution is at fault, Others say it is the electoral law. Still others insist it is .the low calibre of French politicians,
Though there is something in all these old diagnoses, the resulting “reforms” either have not helped or made the condition worse, The present situation has developed under a new constitution, which Gen. Charles de Gaulle would scrap for another. The recent election was held under a new law, which resulted in worse political division than existed before. And certainly some French politicians — including Pleven himself and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman-—are as good or better statesmen than party leaders in neighboring countries.
Nothing Settled
ALL of which seems to prove that the dif. ficulty goes deeper than constitutional forms, or electoral systems, or the pettiness of politi« cians. These merely reflect the deep divisions and party groups of approximately equal parentary strength. Ha reason ii politicians cannot form a strong coalition from these six minorities is that still other issues cut across those lines, So that minorities which can agree on economic issues are irreconcilable on religion or foreign olicy. ’ Pleven took office by postponing the higher wages and church school issues, and by tems porary support of the Socialists who refused to join the cabinet. Nothing is settled.
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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Housing’
'l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
own efforts I have found a suitable place, But 1 just wanted to point out to you, that for each tenant they have placed, they have collected a thousand $3 bills for investigation fees from people who have received no services whatsoever. think they should be made to have some=
thing available to show the registrant at tha estimation
time they collect the fee, In my it is just a racket to get as much money as possible, Yes, thev may have placed a few people
but the percentage is so low compared to the number of registrants that they have that it is more or less just a front to keep it legal, I am for your attempt to expose and stop
them, ; —Mrs, H. S. Hart, 205 N. Randolph St,
MR. EDITOR: the Tenants’ Housing because Wwe are (One child and no
The investigation of
has interested wus suckers through necessity. home.) I am writing because perhaps with added names, something can be done. Apr. 28, ws sought aid through them because the ads in “For Rent” column was constantly metioning a vacancy or two accepting children. We called and were told they had 3 or 4 vacancies but our $5 was due first, We heard nothing from them and upon ine vestigation we found our credit references were never checked nor were our personal references. We finally bought a small home which 13 still not finished but we know now the housing service never intended to place us.
Mrs. Kenneth Davis, in Smith Valley, i3 also another who waited, then bought. Since your investigation and publicity [ have nad 2 calls from them stating exactly what they have been printing in the paper, that they have housed 118 families. ete
and after a long spiel say they hope to help
us soon. a - 1 never told them we had a home pure chased. I wanted the name .still on the list of suckers for your sake. We came from
Detroit in March. —Mrs. T. T. Bryne, City
. . , ‘Killing Not Necessary MR. EDITOR: 1 have just read the shocking account-of the brutal killing of Billie Thompson. What has happened to the thinking of our police force? Killing this boy was not necessary when all the police had to do was to get the license of tha car and pick him up whenever they wished. I am a firm believer in a good decent police force, but this latest #ctfon I cannot condone, At the same time I feel that Mr. Thompson was wrong for fleeing instead of facing the music. However, I repeat, this killing was not necessary, This is the first time I have ever written to vou but I feel that I should, —Suburban Reader, City.
By Galbraith MEDICINE . . . By Frederick Woltman
>. New Pill May Reduce
mentation by
Because of
Frostbite Amputations
NEW YORK, Aug. 14—A new and easy method for treating the complications that cause most of the deaths in heart attack and other fatal blood-clotting diseases has finally been developed. : It is the result of experistaff members
of Beth Israel Hospital here. its simplicity,
placed under the tongue. It's absorbed into the blood stream within 10 minutes, and be-
They may he within_the law now, but I
“for beef prices to Prices dropped 60
The country this year is producing 108 million head of pigs, second largest crop in history
There was an exceptionally large production of early spring pigs, 14 per cent more than a year ago. These pigs are now starting to market and the experts say the next
four months may see the largest hog slaughter on record ” » ~ TO THEM, there is no questioh but that hog prices will drop sharply, possibly between 25 and 30~per cent between now and late November. This will mean lower pork prices, though possibly not commensurate with the drop in live hog prices because of increased: freight rates, labor costs, etc. ANG wWitn noticeanty lower pork prices in effect, the Agriculture Department experts can’t believe that the Ameri-
.can housewives in their pres-
ent mood would be willing to bid up the price of beef. : Cheaper pork, they say, should provide an effective brake against any tendency
go up. Hog
MEAT prices customarily de-
cline from late September to February Beef violated the rule last
vear with the public in {ts post-
Korea buying frenzy. But it went down sharply, like pork in 1948 and 19490, And this year isn't like last
insofar as 18 concerned The Agriculture Department too predicts an increase in
public psychology
beef slaughter this fall Beef slaughterng has been running 9 per cent below a
year ago as the farmers have been holding : cattle ‘to build up their herds. Result is that there are between 6 and 7 million more cattle on farms now than a year ago. Bo & THE rains in the Midwest have made pasturage excellent and there will be a big run of grass-fed cattle to slaughter soon--offsetting the fewer number of cattle in feed lots. And the Agriculture Departmént says. prices of some grades of cattle may drop below ceilings,
- But officially, the Agricul-
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ture Department isn't willing to forecast lower beef. prices. It says the supporting effect of the defense programs on demand for meat should keep. any material weakness from developing in cattle prices. It is noteworthy, however,
Agriculture
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Department forecast stresses the weaknesses rather than
_ the strength inherent in the
cattle * price situation. And some experts think the weakness has been minimized too much. They think cattle prices
will go down noticeably be-
this new fechnique may go a long way toward solving one of the Army's major battlefield medical problems—frostbite, And {t may greatly reduce the unavoidable amputations and deaths from gangrene that have taken a heavy toll among our combat troops in Korea, ” ” ~
IT WILL be invaluable in still another field, prevention of dangerous blood-clotting which usually follows severe surgical operations and childbirth. The new method is amazingly simple, Up to now, the best-con-trolled treatment consisted of injantine Wana pin hil pa duces coagulation of the blood,
into either/the veins or the °
muscles. The former, involving a steady intravenous drip over a period of 24, 48 or 72 hours or longer, requires hospitalization. The intrambscular
injections’ must be made peri-
comes effective in an hour. Although the tablet worked on 100 Beth Israel, patients further .research is necessary, Hospitals all over the country have started to experiment with the tablet which is supe plied free of charge, for ‘ree search purposes. One advantage of the tablet treatment is that it can be applied quickly, without waiting for hospitalization. Furthermore, it's much less expensive than other heparin treatments which most patients today cannot afford. Although the cost of producing the tablet still runs high, with mass production it can be expected to drop substantially, as did peni« cillin. 8 8 AL LIvkdbiv hk sviwiers suie fering from frostbite cannot start treatment until they
reach a hospital, Hours or days -
later. That delay often means the difference between an ame putated limb’and complete recovery.
Heparin tablets, on the other
odically by a physician and are hand, could be made part of painful. «+... .. the first aid men's equipment ~ Under the Beth Israel and administered on the bat.
tiefleld, as are sulfa tablets.
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Harold Har tor of The Ti ing. His regu day In Busin sumed Aug. 2(
apolis Board o corn yield this million bushels million over ay Soybeans, fr makes innumer probably reach The corn cro a bumper yiel about three wee ule—probably | first week in S luse says. Of course, th: tinued good we The wheat th Hardly any car were hardly ar No. 2 red—wH the field with le moisture. ” MOST OF tt} 15 to 17 per ce harvest in th only about 26 n cause a lot. of under this sprin winter. Most o! sowed with soy | This was the that the railrc cars on hand tc ana wheat har One reason Ww business shipme report. And now th are worrying boom. The oat crop of it stayed or cheap feed. was not attracti
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IMAGINE IF the picture wou lost 72 million cent Kansas-Mi total crop estim Department of million bushels The flood alsc corn yield to bushels—89 mill the prediction b Despite alt lo crop harvests a the second high cials estimate.
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