Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1951 — Page 14

ope for Bill Oatis b PRACTICALLY unanimous vote, the U. S. House of 3 tatives has voted to take drastic action to get ‘William N. Oatis out of a Communist prison in Czechoslovakia. The House yesterday adopted a resolution, by a vote of 362 to 1, calling for immediate suspension of all trade with Czechoslovakia. The resolution did not call for a break in diplomatic relations, as many members proposed. But the vote was conclusive evidence that an overwhelming majority of the members believe only the toughest kind of ‘American action will persuade the Czech Communists to release Mr. Oatis. There was only one reason the House didn’t vote a resolution calling for withdrawal of diplomatic recognition. The House didn't have a chance. Such an amendment was withdrawn before it could be voted on. ” » ” n ~ . THE WEAKNESS in the House resolution easily can be repaired in the Senate. Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have pledged themselves to act promply. But the House resolution in itself i is ample notice to the State Department that Congress favors forthright, hardnitting action to liberate Mr. Oatis from the shocking mistreatment to which the Czech Communists have subjected him solely because he is an American. The delicate maneuvering, to which the State Department so far has confined itself, has proved useless. It merely encourages new Communist outrages. Mr. Oatis is an American citizen. He is the victim of a vast Communist conspiracy to belittle and betray the American people. His release is an essential objective in the fight to contain Communist aggression.

It is up to the Senate to speak, in language the aggressors, as well as the State Department, will plainly under-

stand.

The Issue at San Francisco

T GOES without saying that the Soviet Union has decided to attend the Japanese peace conference at San Francisco with no &ther end. in view than to cause trouble. But the Allied nations will have themselves to blame if they permit the Soviets to throw a monkey wrench into the mechinery. The Russians and their satellites, if they

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston has predicted prices will go up 5 to 8 per cent in the next few months, large-

But the issue seems to be: Will the peopie pay the higher prices? Cellings at any level will be purely academic if the public won't go that

ly as a result of the kind of economic controls « high.

law recently passed by Congress. The new law specifically permits price increases,

Ber. the truth. selma to be Ahat aobody Is

very sure of what will happen. This is the conclusion drawn by at Jenst’ one correspondent—this one—after being ‘“back‘grounded” on an “off-the-record” basis by officials and experts in the price-control business. The rule books these people go by indicate price raises, Under the new law, the Office of prin Stabilization will be compelled to raise ces,

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For instance, the economic control agencies say that the mail coming over their desks now is full of letters from housewives complaining that they have not had beef on their tables for weeks, or even months. They can't afford it. Price-control officials expect beef to go up still more, because the new law doesn’t permit them to fix slaughterhouse quotas. But if a

large part of the population can't afford to pay present prices, what happens if prices advance still more? If the supply is there, and the demand drops off, prices inevitably go down. 80 ‘there is a good chance, in the opinion

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By Frederick C. Othman

You May Be Hot Now, Son, but

of price-control authorities, that the “public itself will impose the most effective kind of controls— by simply not buying at top prices. The second factor which controls officials think will act to hold back the inflationary spiral is production. They predict that within two years, at the outside, the production facilities of this country -—will be running at such a high rate that both the rearmament program and the demand for consumer goods chn be met fully.

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“Production,” said one high official, “is our one best hope for stopping inflation. And when

we get it, the need for government controls

will vanish, and the controls should be lifted promptly.” Some authorites think this point is close at hand. As against these two anti-inflationary fac-

tors, there are others operating to encourage:

inflation. One is the big rearmament program. Regardless of what they have to pay, the military will &ntinue to buy in huge quantities. Big spending by the government, is" billowing higher and higher, faster and faster. : Another is the prices demanded by foreign countries for materials needed in the defense program, or even needed by manufacturers in the consumer-goods lines. This country, for instance, may clap ceilings on scarce raw materials available here. But if U. 8. manufacturers, ip their desperate need

for these materials, go abroad to buy at over-

ceiling prices, officials of the Office of Economic

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_ 0 iy ne Sure What will Sonne To Prices In A Few Months

Stabilization think they will have to Tet them charge higher prices for their The reason for this is the so-called Capehart Amendment in the new economic controls law. It compels OPS to raise prices whenever a manufacturer can show his costs are er, even if one of those costs is in technical Violation of LOPS ceilings. The freight rate increases of 6to 9 per oant granted the railroads last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission were based on this same increased-cost principle and will have much impact on the inflationary trend. Other countries, also short of some materidls, are bidding up prices. The Office of Economic Stabilization can’t do much about that—either we pay the higher prices or we “don’t get the materials. . . ee

The most dangerous threat to price stabiliza-~

tion, however, is found in the ekpected demands in the next few months for big wage increases. Some of the major labor unions already are dickering for wage boosts well over the ceilings. If these unions put on the pressure, officials here think they may break these ceilings. Once the wage formula is broken in one place, it is on the way out. What will this do to prices, in general? Stabilization officials think they may be able to hold prices even in the face of another round of wage increases. But they are by no means sure. All they can do, they say, is try. On a whole, it appears that avhether we have a bigger dose of inflation depends primarily on the public itself —rather than the straining in Washington.

By Ludwell Denny

Europeans Cynical About Stalin’s ‘Peace Treaty’ With E. Germany

ASHINGTON, Aug. 15—S8talin’s threator “peace treaty” with Kast Germany could boomerang. Its purpose would be threefold:

ONE: To “free” 18 million East Germans as a. propaganda counter move to Allied plans for the contractural agreement or semitreaty with West Germany and for a Japanese treaty.

TWO: To complete the Communist Party's

J dictatorship over East Germany.

THREE: - To tie East Germany more tightly into the East European satellite system, economically, politically and militarily.

The propaganda value of such a trick is doubtful. It might easily profit the Allies more than Russia. Stalin would have a verbal victory. His treaty nominally would be the whole thing, while the comparable Allied contractural agreement would be somewhat less” than a full treaty and restoration of total German sovereign rights.

Cynical Reaction

ACTUALLY, however, Europeans have come to understand that high-sounding pledges of sovereignty and freedom in satellite treaties and constitutions are meaningless. The average European reaction to such “liberation” is likely to be mote cynical than appreciative: ‘Yes, the East Germans are being freed into the same kind of Stalinist slavery as the Czechs, Poles, Hungarians and others.” As to the internal effects of such a “treaty.” there probably would be an administrative gain for a brief period. It is somewhat simpler to run a dictatorship under a one-party system as in Russia and other “pegple’'s democracies” --than by maintaining the pretense of a mujti-

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party system in which parties without power. But’ in practice even the small amount of freedom granted to non-Red parties, groups and churches in East Germany so far has brought a certain amount of collaboration with the regime. If the new “state” becomes a formal rather than partially disguised Red ty-

there are non-Red

ranny, the attitude of the anti-Communist majority is apt to become less co-operative and

more hostile, In the end that would increase Stalin’s administrative problems. Similarly, open and complete absorption of East Germany into the Soviet satellite empire would be an initial economic and military ad-

vantage for Stalin. But the price would be the formal, fixed division of Germany into two parts. And that cost almost certainly would more than offget anv profit from the deal.

Most Effective Weapon

THE TWO things the German people as'a whole desire above all else are a united free nation and return of the lost eastern provinces. A Soviet-Fast German treaty would block reunification of the present Allied and Russian occupied zones. And it would underwrite the claim of Russia and her satellites to “stolen” German territory farther East. The long and loud Stalin propaganda for German unification -— however phony—hitherto has been one of the most effective cold-war weapons. ‘A separate Soviet-East German treaty not only would destroy that weapon. It would advertise Stalin's double-cross. " Then the German’s bargaining power with the Allies would not be greater, as supposed, but less. Because their only hope would be in the Allied camp.

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little noise. : terers will be pleased to learn, even as was I, “ieto spend eating fresh corn aid peaches and ‘I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." " The proposed treaty with Japan has been accepted in that winter is on the way. The red-picket snow = such like ‘with haspitable Pennsylvanians nian p I § - ro: a il £2 \ Es 4 : fences even now are being unfurled along the Oné of these latter, a Harrisburg attorney hv. EE EEE NNR EE ERR RNR N OER vans TNR E a RTARTA EONAR ARR T EIEN RARER RINNE OR NaiS its present form by the United States, France and Britain, northern * sides 07° Peénnsylvania‘’s highways... the name of John" Scott,’had an elegant scheme MR. EDITOR: ‘Send Him H ’ Tape and there i& no reason to suppose that either of the latter That's a good sign to keep his wife«ii her place. His theory Is that Shocking as the news of nearly 100 young en im Home AE The Carlisle women loig havé heen too uppity and mysteri- J ; 5 MR. EDITOR governments will breake the agreément to approve the County Fair 18 going ous about their cooking. Where there's some- men being a part of a cheating gang at West : x vi : x ] x nl ; . - 7i reference to t ticle t 1 r treaty exactly as it has been drafted. great guns. This, too thing fancy to be baked ‘at his house, he does Point may be, disgusting as it is that they now w li ee Sd he ally ! iat tne fo Re Le oo. . : ' { y y NeCK1 salesman an 1uie trader from ig indicates that sum- it himself. try to defend themselves with the flimsy excuse NEE pa ts ree a Ty . # N o J J souri quoted in The Times, Friday, regarding $9 2 y : mer's nearly done To prove it he brought along a large yellow that they are not the only ones, that they were a possible opponent for his soft job » Te : } ' i} i] So es he amn aver cake wit Mick white icing 8 u shoul , : Nos y . hy WHAT the othér participating nations do ¢ hr So 4d the - camy layer cake with thick white icing and you 1 forced to tell, that the news should not have Since when does the big shot tell the Ameri- deemed ha or we meeting of one of have seen the females ‘squirm when he sliced Wb ~; h can people whom to vote for or elect” + business and should rot be a matter of vital concern to the picturesque sects into it. He really fiXed ’em then by telling them been made public, all of which does not change Just W ho does he think he is outside of a rc =~ the American delegation. This treaty 1s essentially a war of so-called plain his recipe for chicken divan. This is « en the basic fact of cheating one bit, the most re- y Who couldn't pass a bar cxaminat oR. Isn't 1 Ia 3 p 4 es 1H 8 ( uste it olting ing has e - torn + y . ” 1. 2 : gettlement between the United States and Japan. It does people in. a giant nestling on broccoli in cream Sauce, dust With volting thing has heen the effort of nine Repub up to the American people who pay his salary - ¢ : ] A t is bei 1 ubmitted tahernacle down pay ne on cheese and baked under a coating o lican House members td make this a political and give him cruises up and down the river? 30 | N( © NS 0 “t rou ‘al. 8 8 Ing su \ Mi, ) rH av wi ped cream. e ¢ 5 8 groy i 2 : . - i all + Ed 5 etd Nis . not require majority approval. / i 1 Roxbury was ain ! o a had those ladies groveling, issue. How low can a politician get, ahyway? If al the voting At ns feel the way I do o 4s any nation can take it Or lea e it, as 1t. sees hit Any nation Bs far the i JU we teres. oe ott tHe iosteWtet oe The whole country should be shocked be- let 5 sand the former 0-4 1lled necktie salesman Vi n ) orf ig : aparate agreement with Japan, if clans back In ash 5 Tove oY! \ e Hosieias to Boil aviga and mule skinner back where he should have : free to negotiate a separate agreement wi : ington, D. C.. they ing Springs, where their daughter, Ann. is one cause his is one more mass demonstration that stayed in the first place. In my opinion is a 30 it elects to do so. don't cut much of the leading ladies in a summer theater there. something very important is passing from the President, he would make a good blacksmith 45 | - : $ ) mp} n PEP On the way we saw a farmer refurbishing the American character. Without honesty, integrity, For the security of these United Statec te — _. 2 3} a " the VFO OSE settlement pumpkin in these . 4 eric: . v y. In . th rity « e United States let's + " ; I'he Philippine zobjyect to e proposed 4 parts. The folks are hex sign over the door of his three-story barn honor, self-respect, personal responsibility, and have someone in Washington that is a man for because it does not require Japan to make specific repara- too busy getting » crops. Putting marcel with green and orange paint. Nobody believes truth, we do not build civilization, but a jungle. the people, by the people and of the people 30 tions for war damages. That is a legitimate complaint - waves in the coats of their fair-bound cattle in evil spirits hereabouts anymore but a sign My guess is, the average citizen will shrug Charles Everett, City. -& 45 | { om the standpoint of the Filipinos. though not from ours and freshening the hex signs on their barns to to keep ‘em out ie good Insurance, anyhow the whole thing off with, “ah, so what.” Be- : —_— in om the standpol 8, ugh not 1 Ss. ea Sh dads = Liay. | # -C : no worry much about mink coats, Joe McCarthm, Devout People cause today, it seems more inportant to win, to BLESS THE HOUSEWIFE 18 Any substantial payments on war claims which Japan or even higher tax make money, to be a so-called material success Su : equir ha ke would be at the expense of Our masters in the Capital don't seem s WE ALSO stopped by one of the camp meet- than anything else. It never Has worked, and it A CHEER for every housewife who :30 might be required to make woul ® 4. ihe oN n ta tf me, in { I' oo Bein ore ings for a while. All the ladies wore lace caps never will work here. makes each home look neat... a million thanks :45 ' n ‘ . . . important O me. even < eC r 5 1 I . : pr ho his is i E— - the United States, because this country underwriting two days. My bride and 1 rolled up here through Most of the gentlemen whiskers. The latter Blame will be thrown first one place and go Sut a hel +e NNO BS I 50 Swebt, .. she :00 the Japanese economy. Burma and Indonesia have similar the Rarvest Raids f8s OUP Bh trial tb also wore high stiff collars, but no neckties another in this affair, so I shall not be different. makes the home a castle... by brightening each 15 ne Japanes ( ( y. ¢ ave he harvest fields for our annual visit with our . 3 nal inivrr ir thoi s room . . . with gaily colored curtains that \ . er hott venting old friends, John and Hilda Hosfeld. It was, as These were devout people, worshiping in their 1 blame the professional church people. The iri +» + that 30 | claims, which we cannot recogniz without accepting Oe A Rn Han feld. as, as own wav and I am not one even to smile at people who cry one thing, but do not find it prac- nv Akal the gleom , . . she must be jack of 45 | ability for their payments. . he them. Some of their daughters I must report, tical to live their every day and business lives oh Fades io from diplomat to cook . .. and 0 ; ; ; on [he rest-of the world may, be coming to an looked like ILana Turner without the rouge by what they claim is right. Churches are bulg- She must also he the sweetheart « « + of each 8 | War reparations have been outmoded by modern end, but the hard-working natives of thiz lush Mostly they were blonde. Mostly their dresses ing at the doors every Sunday, yet stories like Httle nook . . . she Is the axis of each home . .. , 1 30 warfare. When a nation is bombed into defeat its economy countryside figure on proceeding calmly until were dark and mostly-=according to John thev this one appear almost every day. They have for Xt is up to her , ++ 30 do the million little 45 | . : w ta AAR. 1 vhelmed. and the end of time were the daughters of the most prosperous lost their power, these churches, and they had things . . that make each family purr . . . and = My 1s destroved even before its armies are overwhelmed, and Bvarvbody here well fod neluding the farmers in the neighborhood hotter take a look at themselves and see why, I have often wondered . . . what each household :00 at the end there is nothing left with which to pay damages fish. 1 tried in vain to catch one of the whoppers Tomorrow I'll be back in Washington 1 for it is upon the%churches that we depend for would be like + if without provocation , , , 1 $y | * tribut That hard fact may as well be recognized tn John's pond. but in fat worms he had no ° can’t say that the prospect pleases. 1'd rather these spiritual values that have so little money “he would pull up stakes and strike. 30 | i te 1al P; I { \ as ii Bi LE, 3 : ] Y : or P R : . interest. So I jumped in with him. Very cool watch the road gangs erect snow fences value these days. —F. M,, City. ~By Ben Burroughs, AS Survival ig victory's sole reward: and its cost must be — ea SIDE GLANCES By Galbrai "5 y Galbraith DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney rs } ~ n ow 2 ” n AS " RA ———p— CERTAIN other nations, icing Ina, pin to ve ogfppppo—————u p=: Hoosier Congressmen Fret Over Arms Fund w palitical issues at San Francisco, such as the participation sa 15 | of Communist China as one of the Allied powers. But that h WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 such policing. So is three-term at piloting such measures thing first hand about such 45 demand warrants no consideration because Red China That “war is waste” has be- Rep, Cecil Harden, Republican, through in both war and peace. matters. — ; : 4 " : come axiomatic. But in build= Covington, the GOP National yg 9 ww His present dilemma, as qs wasn't ‘a recognized belligerent and would attend the ing defense the wastrel weak- Committeewoman from In- MR. BROWNSON said he an’ appropriatio > an 30 | conference merely to create dissension, just as the Soviets ens what should be made diana. didn't mind being quoted on = 2PP p ns committee 3 slan to do strong. fn 4 that either. He thinks that ‘member, was summed up by —-— P : That sums up. in a measure, EACH HAS contributed to the seniority system places Mr. Denton as follows: ¢ » - All the Asian nations going to this conference in good the thoughts’ of iidny S te exposing wastefulness, through Such men I oom he Phair “Our appropriations com- : 1 . Congressmen as they voted for : = manships and that World War rit toe . faith should recognize that. they were libérdted "from the Targest military peacetime their subcommittee investiga- yy war who may have S15 1 reas te ho pr oy ! ¥ os aL id ny $1.5 billion from the 1952 deJapanese control or saved from invasion by American appropriations in history when tions. After voting for the big = some. facts about the service, fense appropriation i. arms. The defeat of Taipan Was act ompl shed at a fearful the armed services bill passed bill. Mr, Brownson sent out an not filtered through the gener- the bill probably carries 10 a NAR tr il i ) $ cost in blood and money, largely American. We are asking re Ue Hf ll od tor it S08 for more and better help Rls XW (Ramat, ue an times the wasta existing in all : All t} ( rs voted. for i . ) B . the other a 1 - t this police wo p nnual appropria nothing for this contribution to world freedom but the Each would admit that the ° Bid in 1s pol ow d Voice in the bill making. tions combined PRrop proval of a common: policy toward Japan which we $57.5 billion provided by the He suggested that retire Only a little more than a day 2 » 'n ap ) X : bill was such an astronomical admirals and generals could : rN . s 41 ‘believe will help to establish a friendly neighborhood in AY ‘aihe be well employed in ferreting Of ~debate ensued before the IN ORDINARY times it is > p lo es 5h § ALA gh 100( sum that it had to be taken ie a nd. vesartin measure was passed. It is ex- usually possible for the comthe Pacific area. 08 faith. Nane were BADPY. OV the Cong nd TePOTHNE pected to shde through the mittee to find and eliminate a | Sam 4 Rc est posh ths hemdiJeponc] about that. eh lo F Senate shortly. Another bill = substantial number of none ~~ aaa ren Puieh 56 abut wil mow - ~ ot IT, I ———— - 4 A + CO oo NOW of neighborhood. That will be the major conflict at San Evansville Qemocrat. pointed over with several of them and ow to hnance military public quests of the armed Services,

out that the House Appropriations Committee of which he is a member, did. lop off £1.56 billion from the administration's budget request. He expressed the pious hope that some savings may be made through policing expenditures by congressiohal committees. Az 3 mémbeér of the House Committee on ‘Expenditures in executive departments, {resh-

they were ready and willing to co-operate, Mr. Brownson said. His view is that jt will take a professional know-how to find out where the padding is in these big military budgets and no ordinary layman can do the job. : Nothing was done about cutting the appropriation after it reached the House flpor under the eagle eye of Chairman Carl

works, such as construction on Army posts, airfields and other defense installations. Supporting “the $1.5 billion cut made by his committee, Mr. Denton admitted that the bill “probably carries 10 times the waste existing in all the other annual appropriations combined.” A veteran: of both world wars, Mr. Denton. like Mr.

since ‘their operations often involve considerable inefficiency in the use pf funds. ."However, Defense Department c¢stimates were not submitted until rather late this ear, &nd what with the _ ited time and the Perilous international . situation, memhers of the House were fearful that any sweeping reduction in armed services budget requests

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