Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1951 — Page 12

suppression of news. - " J o ” n WE HAVEN'T suppressed any news that we know about, although we'll admit there may be some we haven't found . . . yet. Just the other day, when a lot of Indiana state officials—Democrats, too, as it happened—gave out, and got, huge increases in their pay from the State of Indiana, it was hidden so deep in devious deals to keep it secret that we almost missed it. Some of the officials involved threatened to retaliate by suppressing more news if we , printed it, and maybe they have, though we rather believe we'll find most of ‘it, sooner or later. It’s been more than a little difficult to pry loose the facts shrouded in official secrecy about the RFC scandals, and the Missouri vote frauds, and the Communist spy rings, the sale of Post Office jobs, the deep-freezers and the mink coats and the perfume smugglers, but on the whole it seems to us the newspapers of this state and '. nation have done a rather good job of it. We don't blame the Democratic Party because some Democrats try to hide these things, though. We're pretty sure that Republicans caught in the same kind of jams would try to hide them, too. a . LJ » ” s SHORN of its highflown campaign verbiage, Chanticleer’'s complaint against the newspapers of Indiana is not so much that they have suppressed ‘news’ as that they have expressed opinions that differ from those of its sponsors. This it takes to be clear evidence of a sinister plot, a rather common fallacy of amateur publicists.

We are confident the newspapers of Indiana are going to survive this attack. As for us, we feel as if we'd just been paddled with . 8 petunia.

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..Mopey From Your Rocket ~~ QENATOR PAUL DOUGLAS. of Illinais, Congress’ most * active and most persistent pruner of appropriations, says the government will wind up with a. defteit of $19 billion next year if Congress doesn't do two things: ONE—Cut a lot of money out of the budget.

TWO—Pass a tax bill big enough to make up the difference between outgo and income. : The Senator hasn't exactly been a howling success with his economy proposals. But the fight isn't over. And what he has proposed has made good sense, even if it did tend to wear uut his welcome at the White House. The House has completed action on all but one of the dozen big appropriations bills. And it has trimmed these bills by a little less than §4 billion. The Senate has acted on only half the budget and both Houses on only three bills. So there still is ample time for genttine economy. " » - o n » THE FULL budget, as approved by the House Appropriations Committee; runs to more than $84 billion. No ordinary person can conceive of how much money that is. It outdoes the imagination. But the Census Bureau has just figured out the average income of all individual Americans last year. The bureau says the individual earning, averaged out for each man, wom and child, was $1436. It would take all of this average income for more than 58 million Americans to pay the expenditures approved by the House committee. And if each individual American actually earned $1436 for the year, and each paid the same share of the federal budget, each would have to fork over $555 of his total income. That's how big government spending is running. No vonder Sen. Douglas says Congress has got to cut more. The only wonder is that more members of Congress don’t agree with him—and the White House as well.

. Caldwell’s Bluff

AST WEEK the House Appropriations Committee, ‘in } one of its better performances for the taxpayer, whacked the bejabers out of the federal civil defense administration's budget. This committee cut the proposals of Administrator . Millard Caldwell, from $535 million to about $65 million. It gave good reasons for its action. It said he had no “realistic, well co-ordinated plan” for spending so much § Y'Now Mr. Caldwell says it would be better to kill civil “The committee,” he says, “recommends just enough ey to keep civil defense in a lingering state of ineffec-

mite granted Mr. Caldwell enough rogram. If he doesn't think so, to someone

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SESSA RNLRARARNERESNS

MR. EDITOR:

In a recent editorial you stated that you were opposed to the donation of certain expensive farm machinery to the mechanically backward people of Iran because it would just rust in the fields as they would not know how to use it. ‘

On this point I agree; but then you stated that if anything should be sent to these people that steel plowshares for their wooden plows would be best, yet here again you said this might not be a good idea because the Russians ‘might invade Iran and would profit from this . aid and might turn the plowshares into bullets be used against us.

On this point I disagree. If a child was exposed to smallpox during the polio season would you refuse to have him inoculated against amallpox, which would surely kill him, because the doctors say inoculations may leave a child more suscéptible to the ravages of polio? ® & & THE people are hungry*and backward, and if we, the United States, don't help them for humanity's sake, then they will turn to Russia. The country of Iran needs to form a more diversified type of economy and helping them to learn a better type of farming would make

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MRE EI . If there would come a great famine oh Iran your paper would be the first to condemn any Senator refusing them some grain. So why not «condemn any Senator who would refuse them the means of “ralsing their own’ grain,” steel. plowshares and technical advice now and the use of farm machinery later. Help them to stand and we won't have to carry them. —Regina M. Hanely, 635 Coffey St.

‘Money Trees Again’

MR. BDITOR:

The impression I get after reading some of the letters published recently in The Forum is that many Fair Dealers believe that people who have a reasonable amount of money must have got it by picking it off of some tree in their own backyard.

Actually, people who have money, in most cases, work harder and work longer hours than anyone else, In fact, in these days of uncer tainty and high taxes, people have to work harder to keep what they have already got, than they did to make it in the first place.

I know of one relief client who inherited $2000 and it lasted him 11 months. I know another who got $3000 and it lasted him less than six ‘months. Suppose all the relief clients and old age pensioners who have been raising such a fuss in The Forum recently were presented with $25,000. I would be willing to wager that every one of them would be broke in five years, Actually, $100,000 is only a modest sum today and I wouldn't advise anyone to try to retire and quit working entirely if they have any less than that amount. —C. D. C., Terre Haute

SIDE GLANCES

Hoosier Forum— ‘Help Iran’

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‘What Have We Lost?’ MR. EDITOR: That front page editorial from the Cleveland Press is worthy of the place you gave it in the Aug. 16th Times. It provokes much sober reflection and searching of the heart when it asks “What precious thing is it that America has lost?” We can sincerely hope that the number of offenders may not be so great when ranked against the gregt number of faith-keeping, patriotic loyal, God-fearing .citizens. Past history has taught us that even one man’s disobedience has troubled a whole nation as in the case of Achan in early Jewish history, who, facing a temptation to take a short cut to wealth and ease, disregarded the rules of justice and fairplay and we are told became the cause of a whole series of defeats for the Army of Israel. “wd HOW MANY are amongst us today who, under cover, seek to feather their nests while fellow citizens, neighbors and friends sacrifice homes, shed their own blood and tears and pray for the good of the whole world? How many groups are there amongst us who can see virtue in regulating others if they themselves are left free to extend their curren profits thathe mada:

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governmental restraint making it-1 greedy and powerful to gobble up the earth and

whose ears are-aeat tothe er7-ohthe-poor and :

needy? . ‘ - Yes, there are many ponderous questions tied up in these thoughts which I admit would take a greater man than Solomon to properly judge. y But I insist that in the spirit and life of our Lord Jesus Christ, a greater being than Solomon is here. Let us get back to that. —John Lemon, 1231 Naomi St.

‘Welcome Advice’ MR. EDITOR: I want to highly commend you on the wonderful article, “Can We Tell Right From Wrong?" This crazy world has needed this

advice for a long time. —JIra D. Fields, 1327 Broadway.

GOD PROTECT THEM

OH MY GOD, may ail our Soldiers ... and our Sailors and Marines . . . be protected by your goodness . . . in the battlefield's ravines . may they walk with You beside them . .. through the horrors of the war ... bring them home again to vietory . . . I humbly implore . . . make them sing when hearts are heavy make them laugh when they cry ‘ie sors . , . with the will to do or die . . . for they hold the very fate of . . . every person who is free ., . . oh my God, please God, protect them . . . on the land and on the sea. —By Ben Burroughs.

WASHINGTON; Aug. 21 -— My Hilda had a faraway look in her eye. She said didn't I think you readers needed a little vacation from me? I said I hoped not. She got out her pencil. The way she figured it, I have been writing this plece every day, six days a week, every week, 52 weeks a year, for the last four years. This, she said, included the time I had lumbago and wrote about what I saw on the ceiling. A fraud on the customers if ever there was one, she said.

Her calculations indicated that these four years of items for the paper total 748.800 words (too many of them duplicates, .she said), or a good many more than the Senators wrote down when, they were investigating Pearl Harbor. She said she was sure you clients deserved some relief. erp ns TO PROVE it she listed some of the subject matter: Lawnmowers, Senators, sampling cocaine in Bolivia, Gen. - Benny Humbug Meyers, presi- ! dential union suits, buying her a hat in Paris, wormy apples, senatorial snuff, John Maragon, mink coats, the

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portant to Allied defense at the moment than atom bombs or gold. The coal and coke shortage in Western Europe is cutting steel and armament , and no relief is in sight. As usual the Allies look to the United States. American coal exports can help but.they can't solve the problem. ’ HE The Mng-run solution is in Europe, which

has plenty of coal under the ground. But many .

internal and international reforms are required before European production is able to meet consumption demands. That will take years. An additional complication is that Polish and Czechoslovakian coal, which normally would flow west, is now used for Soviet war preparations or doled out to ‘Westerh Europe at prohibitive prices or other conditions.

Limiting Factors .

ACCORDING to the Economic Commission for Hurope, the shortage for the last quarter of 1951 will be nine million tons of cogl and two and a half million of coke. America has no coke to export. Our coal export is limited by three factors—price, foreign exchange and shipping. The price of American coal delivered to the continent is about 40 per cent higher than the British export price. But Britain ‘has cut her exports and must import the American product next winter as last, ! Allied countries cannot pay that American price without serious economic and fiscal dislocations. It drives the cost of steel and armaments above the capacity of defense budgets, besides greatly inflating the entire domestic economies of those countries. When European

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governments try to cushion the domestic economic and political shock by subsidies to cover the difference in American and local prices, the national treasuries sag toward bankruptcy, France wants us to pay the transportation cost and charge ‘it up to military aid. This would take care not only of the price problem but part of the foreign exchange difficulty of finding dollars in Allied countries to pay for our coal.

Battle of Education

EVEN IF American coal were given free to the Allies, however, there would not be enough ships to hay! it. Transport must be carefully allocated, and there are many high priorities other than coal. Increases in European production .are slow, partly because of old .and uneconomic mines but chiefly because of labor, Marshall aid has improved these conditions but not enough. J In Britain, despite premium wages and privileges plus patriotic appeals, the number of miners ‘steadily declines, and the unions will not allow employment of large numbers of Italians who need work. German production is kept down, despite large unemployment, because of the Ruhr housing shortage and opposition to exporting German coal and coke needed at home. Better utilization of coal is a long battle of education in countries where central heating is uncommon. There has been a switchover to oil* and hydroelectric power as coal substitutes, but not enough to offset larger armament demands, Now the oil disputes in Iran and elsewhere threaten Europe's supply of a major substitute,

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CONGRESS . « « By Earl Richert Economy Bloc Due For Showdown

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—The drive in the Senate to whack $2 billion from the administration’s foreign aid bill represents the supreme test for the Congressional economy bloc headed by Sen. Harry Byrd (D. Va.). To win that fight, and get the House to agree to it, would mean “a 5 successful season” for the Byrd group which set out to make a sizable dent in Mr. Truman's $71.6 billion budget. 3 Defeat would give the economizers only a so-so season. So far, the Senate economy bloc has found the going rough. It scored sizable vietories early in the session but lately has suffered sharp reverses as it fought unsuccessfully for large reductions in the Rivers and Harbors and Agriculture monéy bills. Sen. Byrd himself, who started out talking about making total cuts of $6 to $7 billion in Mr. Truman's budget, is now hoping only for $4 billion. And he says that $4 billion could be achieved only by cutting the foreign aid bill by $2 billion. The foreign aid bill had been tagged by the economizers from the start as the place, and practically the only one, where it would be possible to win huge reducfions. The House voted a cut of $1 billion in the $8.5 billion foreign aid measure—a large cut in itself but not enough in the opinion of Sen. Byrd who is now working in the Senate Finance Committee on the new tax increase bill. The actual move for the $2 billion cut

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will be handled by Chairman Walter George (D. Ga.) of thé Senate Finance group, with Sen. Byrd supporting him. The George-Byrd proposal will be directed solely at the economic aid side of the foreign aid bill and will not touch the proposed military aid. If adopted, it would practically kill foreign economic aid sihce the administration's bill would allocate only $2.5 billion of the $8.5 billion total for economic aid. Sens. George and Byrd said it was time that this country stop giving dollars to Europe for economic aid since those countries already are up to 144 per cent of their pre-war production,

$10 Billion in Red

SEN. BYRD said the administration now has $4 billion left over from previous appropriations for military aid and thus would have $10 billion n all to build up military strength in our 1lies with the $6 billion in military aid to be provided by the bill. Present estimates are that the government will run about $10 billion in the red this year unless that amount in new taxes is voted. The Senate Finance Committee now is said to have a goal of raising about $6 billion in new taxes. That amount, if accompanied by a $4 billion budget cut, would about balance the federal budget as it now stands. ut the costs of the Korean fight 3 included in the present budget. Sling areny of fighting, it is estimated, would add from $5 to $7 billion to the military bill. Thus, continued war in Korea is certain to throw the federal budget out of kilter. The military, too, is preparing to ask Congress for more money to expand the Air Force etc. But it is doubtful that much of this

money, if any, would be spent during the current fiscal year.

LABOR . . . By.Fred W. Perkins

MEL Congress Pass ‘T.-H Jr'?. .:

WASHINGTON, Aug. -21 — Congress may

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strengthening the national policy fag¥qring membership in labor unions: : The Senate is expected to pass an amendment to the Taft-Hartley. Law which will remove

the requirement that unions must win elections among employees before they can negotiate with management for a “union shop” contract. Under the union shop, nonmembers or new employees must join the union within a specified period, usually 30 or 60 days. This differs from the prohibited ‘‘cloged shop” which would allow employers to choose employees only from among union members, Sen. Humphrey The amendment: is sponveo TH Jr. sored by two Senators who have differed widely in attitudes on labor legislation—Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D, Minn.). They agree in this instance that union shop elections seem unnecessary because unions have been winning more than nine out of 10, and also that they have proved to be a tremendous drain on the funds and time of the National Labor Relations Board. They explain, however, that employees will continue to be protected against subjection to union shop agreements which a majority disapproves. If at least 30 per cent of the employees in a bargaining unit petition for it, the board

IS IT TRUE? . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Mrs. O. Thinks You Need a Long Vacation

on flivvers, and how not to raise the chicken of tomorrow. I told her this looked like a 2 pretty good list of subjects to

tioned some more: The cow, Clarabelle, the strange things that go into bread, the cost of coffee, how a beefsteak tastes in Argentina, what politicians do at conventions, Harry

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hear any more? I had to admit I saw what she meant.

A BRIEF respite from reading these dispatches; she said, ought to please you readers. It wouldn't do me any harm, either. Perhaps when I got back from a vacation, added my severest critic, the literary quality of output might be im-

I said, ves, but I remembered well the time I stood at Shakespeare’'s tomb in Stratford-On-communing with the Bard. This had not helped; the same old words came out later on my typewriter. I might as well have stayed at home, She said this was because she hadn’t been along. And by now you surely must have the idea. I am about to take a vacation in far places and, what's more, Mrs. O., is going along 10 see that shoud 1 follow the trail of Don Quixote, which is 8.5» quite possible, I tilt with no

traveling with’ me; I have a sneaking idea her presence will add a good deal of interest to

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ment. Then it would take a majority of the employees to carry that question; The Taft-Humphrey combination is sponsor. ing other amendments which are expected to make the Taft-Hartley Law more workable. The group of amendments is being referred to at the Capitol as “T-H Jr.” They are yet to be offered in the House.

Union Shop Extended

. THE national policy favoring membership in unions was established by the Wagner Act in 1935 and restated 12 years later in the Taft Hartley Law, which was designed to give protection to the individual worker and union memsber, while strengthening “union gecurity.” The union shop privilege was extended early this year to railroad labor, which operates under the separate Rallway Labor Act. Since enacted in 1928, this act had forbidden compulsory unfonism. Over opposition of railway manage ments, Congress was finally persuaded to place rail labor on the same footing in this respect as labor ip general. The union shop was authorized, without the Taft-Hartley requirement for elections. Rail unions are now negotiating un-jon-shop agreements and already. have signed up a considerable number of carriers, including

the New York Central and Great Northern and their subsidiaries,

dope against foreign. bugs; . We're arguing with clerks In = embassies about visas (I wonder why they always want so many photos of prospective visitors?), and we're trying to decide whether nylon shirts allegedly washable in the bath overnight are a good idea.

I'll be on the job here for the rest of this week among the politicos and when we get squared away on exactly where we're going, and how, I'll let you know. I'm taking my typewriter along in the hope that after. a week or two Mrs. O. will relent and let me tell you about the characters we meet along the way.

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