Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1951 — Page 24

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The Big Pinch

HINGS will get a lot tougher before they get better. That's what Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson seems to be saying in his latest statement. “The big pinch is here now,” he says, speaking of ‘the pressure of mjlitary production on the civilian economy. In the months ahead, the production of military items will go up and up, taking more and more of the essential materials from the production of civilian goods. As government spending goes up and up, the government deficit is likely to climb and climb—unless a realistic tax program gets through Congress. The pinch on the production of civilian goods, and the expanded government spending, will bring around that old trouble again—inflation. It just doesn’t make sense to think there is much possibility of avoiding it as we go increasingly from a normal peacetime economy to an abnormal military economy. Sa fn - ” » uo UP TO NOW, despite the war in Korea and the titanic effort to build up our military might, things have been pretty comfortable in this country. Inflation hasn't been as bad as it might have been, although worse than it would have been if the government had tackled it head-on when the war in Asia began. Our fast-moving production machine has managed, for the present, to put out in incredible volume both for the needs of war and civilian consumption. That won't last much longer. As the government gears up the defense program, something will have to give. And that will be civilian production. “From here on out,” Mr. Wilson says,

“production of

military items will step up. And by next year, I think, it

will step up sharply.” Mr. Wilson is not baying at the moon. He is in a better position to know what he's talking about than any other man. We can’t fight one war, prepare against the possibility

of a bigger war, and run a normal, peacetime show at the same time.

They Don't Belong

IKHAIL FEDOROV, a Russian who claims to be an aeronautical engineer, and three American employees make up the Washingt ce of Tass. Tass is financed, lied and used exclusively by the Communist goverhmen ussja. It is not, by the loosest use of the term, a public news agéncy. Bag and baggage, it is part of the worldwide Russian conspiracy. The rules of the United States Congress say the press galleries of Senate and House are restricted to those who are “bona fide correspondents of repute in their profession.” Supplementary rules specifically spell out this definition to exclude any who are not primarily concerned with report- _ ing actual news for newspaper publication. The standing committee of correspondents, which is authorized to interpret and administer these rules, has gone so far as to bar radio reporters (who have their own galleries) and representatives of U. S. government agencies.

= #? 5 Lehr WILLIAM N. OATIS, a reporter for the Associated Press, an American citizen and a bona fide correspondent of repute in his profession, is in jail in Czechoslovakia, under

a 10-year sentence for merely trying to do his work in that -

Communist-plagued country.

—Fedorov and his confederates are registered as agents

of the Russian government, an admission ‘that they are not “bona fide correspondents.” Th Justice Department calls them agents of the Kremlin. If they were actual newspapermen, they wouldn’t be required to register. : Yet Fedorov and his confederates are members of the congressional press galleries. They do not belong.

How About a Zoo?

HERE'S talk going around we may be able to have a * zoo in Indianapolis after all these long zooless years. Many State Fair visitors have come up with the idea of making the wild life display in the new Conservation Building a permanent thing. Sounds like a fine idea to us, especially since it affords the opportunity of expanding said display into a full fledged zoo in future years. Around the turn of the century we lost our mgjor wild animal attraction here, the Cyclorama, which operated. for years as an indoor circus. About 1910 the last of the wild animal kingdom left Indianapolis with the passing of the bear pits at Riverside Park. Now the biggest wild animal that we may chance to see in the city is an occasional opossum or squirrel. | It’s a sad commentary upon civic affairs when citizens must go to Cincinnati ,0., or St. Louis, Mo., to show their children what a lion or tiger looks like. We have a chance to start a zoo. Why not take it now by making the wild life display a year-round operation?

MANY ADULTS must be thankful that they went through the teen ages without publicity. : a » ! a. 4. HIGH SCHOOLS could devote more time to.character training, if ey td! 't have so many “characters” to train.

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Foster's Follies

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—A

young man charged with reck-

less driving blamed it all on a foot-long boa which he had bought at a tourist attraction and then placed in his hat for the drive home. Medusa, they say, for a comb, Her pet hair dresser worked in a zoo. Yet this silly chap with a boa driving home, From that mythical took his cue.

had no use

miss

A daring idea he had under his hat, With a hair-raising twist, if you please. But now he’s constricted—the cops saw to that— Being boa-ed, they put on a quick squeeze. n n o THERE'S . just no‘ telling what some of these ' modern

drivers will get into their heads. If any. Some of ’'em have less chance of making it home

safely than Ulysses—who took

.a flock of years getting back

from the Trojan wars. That little set-to was a 10year merry - go - round that might be going on yet if the Grecians hadn't decided they wooden horse around. They carved out a mahogany mare and presented it to the Trojans.. But it proved to be all Greek to them. And made them the first people to be sorry they hadn’t looked a gin horse in the mouth, un EJ u ANYWAY, when Ulysses learned that Achilles wasn’t too well-heeled after all, he

figured he'd bettér get along

home to his wife, Penelope. Penelope, incidentally, ahad been a pattern of constancy all those years. (Constancy was the local dressmaker. She dressed Penny down now and again whenever she showed any signs of getting out of line.) The wars had been a cinch for Ulysses, but, like a Labor Day week-end drive, the trip home was something else

again. Even when he traveled ‘by boat,

the Sirens were sounding all. over the place. But Uly, a man of real restraint, had no trouble at au circumventing their wiles. gimply tied himself to mast.

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= s =n LATER, the old boy ran into

a further tie-up when met up with the Cyclops] Bu} he Today he'd

was lucky at that.

have difficulty finding any drivers who acted like they had even one eye. : Ulysses finally made it all

right. He was only going to Ithaca anyway. And just about that time he happened to meet np with a passenger agent ‘or the Lackawanna Railroad who quickly put him on the right track. 2 n ” u HEH-HEH HEAD LINES: ‘Fear Chemistry May Reshape Human Race.” A day on any beach would prove we've nothing to fear. “RUNS 109-DEGREE FEVER; BUT COOLS OFF.” Evidently hasn’t seen his bill yet. “MONTANA’ TOWN SKIPS ELECTIONS; TOO EXPENSIVE.” Especially after :the winners take office. “SENATE GROUP VOTES AGAINST TAX ON OPERA.” Probably figured it's taxing enough just to have to listen

to ft.

. PRESIDENT TRUMAN put in another plug for his.

favorite GOP presidential candidate. He’ invoked the TaftSartiey law in the copper. strike. aA.» st 0. : THAT NEW Navy'plane that flew 1000 mies er-hour be named Quo Vadis.

jhe opposition contended she

~ - ” SENORA EVA PERON told

the folks that “There can be”

only one Peron’ For which

some of the people, in the Ar-

gentine may be duly grateful. The senora 'has decided not to seek the vice presidency after all. Among other tings

the peopTe? If- that indicates adolescence, then .

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Hoosier Forum—‘Out of Touch’

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

WASHINGTON, Sept. The Senate stayed on ie job in Congress this week while the House was in recess. Appropriations Committee set up a special $5 billion fund for development of air power in the $61 billion it approved for

military spending : The special fund was voted after a subcommittee had received Jyormatien : “fantastic” new Ligh Sen. O'Mahoney en ilton R. Young (R. '*' big plans N. D.) said the weapons, which could be delivered by air, were “not atomic but something new and different.” Also provided in the bill: $20 billion for the Army, $20

billion for the Air Fogpce and $15.5 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps. Principally because of the special fund for air power, the bill's total is more than $5 billion higher than the House has voted. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), chairman of the subcommittee which drafted the measure, said, “we are rapidly developing a military power much greater. than that which enabled us to arm the whole world in World War II to crush Hitler.”

Postal Rates

A BILL ordering postal rate increases which would raise

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MR. EDITOR:

The Sept. 4, 1951, Scripps-Howard editorial regarding display of the Confederate battle flag in northern automobiles, indicates that your editorial staff is completely out of touch with the pulse of the' American people. While our press casts aspersions at those who expose the nefarious operations of certain individuals in high places, the thinking citizens are doing some investigation of their own. The Fair Deal challenges the sovereign right of our state to legislate regarding the general welfare of its citizens within its own borders and our press cries out about the possibility that certain welfare payments may be cut, instead of pointing to the fact that the federal bureaucrats are again strangling the sovereign power of the state. The 10th amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,

are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” a at ENTANGLING foreign commitments are

made without ratification by the Senate and treaties are signed which nullify our sacred Constitution. We, who have fought to preserve our precious American heritage, have seen the things we fought for destroyed by seditious op pointees of conniving politicians.

Vainly, we have hoped for a great leader to arise from the opposition party but all we get is “me too” candidates. Just what can frustrated individual citizens do in a case like that? Well, until they can find a Moses to organize them and lead them out of bondage, they can only do what they are doing . . . adopt some symbol of protest to publicize their spirit of revolt. Most of the people who display the Confederate battle flag (not the stars and bars as your editorial calls it), are expressing their silent protest against the ever increasing encroachment of the power of a few federal officials over the power of the several states and

I am an adolescent, although I can recall having shouted in favor of McKinley-Hobart and the full dinner pail.

DURING the past year, I have driven through Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Pennsyl-

vania and Ohio. I have talked political issues to hundreds of people in all thése states and it is astounding how freely most of these people have expressed their disapproval of official actions which are daily condoned by the press. I purchased my Confederate battle flag in the old court house in Vicksburg, Miss., and I am proud to pledge my allegiance ‘to’ the principle of a union. of sovereign states avith the

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powers of the federal government limited to those set forth in the Constitution. Someday. the people will rally around a leader and will demand that we get back to constitutional selfgovernment. In the meantime, let us see more emblems of protest, as exemplified by the Confederate battle flag. —Norman H. Coulon, 5330 Byram Ave.

‘School and Cars’

MR. EDITOR: Four days after school starts a little girl is hurt in a traffic accident. I wondér how many

little children will be hurt 40 days after school

starts. It’s too bad schools have to be near busy streets, but they must and in light of that fact there is only one conclusion to make, Drivers have to keep their speed down and their eyes open at all times. Parents and school teachers have to concentrate more and more on teaching the children the danger of crossing a street without looking before they cross. I have a little boy who will be school age within a few years and so help me, he's going to learn what a ¢ar can do to a human body before he makes that trip to school alone. And when he's old enough to drive a car, I'll bet my last dollar he'll retain that lesson and be a good driver or not drive at all. + There are too many accidents in this city every year. ; : —Driver, City.

‘Gentle Reminder’ MR. EDITOR:

I am giving notice to the Mayor- and the street car company that a be placed on the south shore of Fall Creek. When the street is iced, the bus will slide over into the creek and drown everyone. I will keep on reminding you until this is done. —A Taxpayer, City

GOD HELP ME —

MY GOD above I pray to You... and ask Your guiding light . . . so I may travel through this life , . . and do what's good and right . I ask You God to be with me . . . through joy and heartaches too ... instill in me the strength I need . .. to_ work and follow through . . . God give me faith so I can have . .. real peace within my heart . . . a solace full of tenderness . % that never becomes tart . . . console me when I'm all at sea ... and know not where to turn . . . give freely of Your love to me . . because for You I yearn ... this is my prayer to. You my God . . . please hear my humble plea . . . I need You ever by my side . ... God, my God, help me.

—By Ben Burroughs.

CONGRESS ROUNDUP .

strong railing must -

sostal revenues more than $375

million a year was passed and ..

sent to the House. Principal provisions: i Raises the regular postage

on lefters from 3 to 4 cents; " Increases

mail -rate from 6 to 8 cents; doubles the present penny-postcard rate; raises the special delivery charge from 15 to 20 cents; increases the second-class rate 10 per cent a year for three years on newspapers and 20 per cent a year for three years on magazines. A provision which would have ordered restoration of the twice-a-day mail delivery service was removed from the bill.

the air

Sen. R. Russell .. oe won't hurt people

Sen. Richard Russell (D. Ga.) said the single ‘delivery saves $125 milion to $150 million a year without “doing damage to the American people.”

Oatis Case ANOTHER retaliatory move was made against the imprisonment of American Reporter William N. Oatis in Red Czechoslovakia on phony spying charges.

" Finance Committee.

w Charlo} Boker 2 : gy ‘Fantastic’ Wena: Spark $5 Billion AF Fund Plan

Sen. O'Conor “v« « keep 'em out

Sen. Herbert O’Conor (D, Mo.) proposed that representatives of Tass, the Russidn news agency, be barred from. congressional press galleries on the ground that Tass is not a bona fide news service.

Military Construction

A BILL authorizing $800 mil lion for military construction, including bases in North Africa, France and England, was passed.

Rubber

THE preparedness commit= -

fee callea for more vigorous stockpiling of rubber. It warned that the United States may lose its main sources of natural rubber if Communist aggression spreads in the Far East. The committee-also rec ommended more synthetic rubber production.

Taxes

A -10 PER CENT tax on gambiing was approved by the

posal, designed principally to restrict professional gamblers, would yield about $400 million a year. Such a tax already has been approved by the Héuse. ©

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

U. S. Welfare Hearing Full of Surprises

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—Nobody would have been more surprised to hear the lawyers describe the new Indiana - welfare statute in court arguments here than the members of the 1951 legislature who enacted it.

A fitting description of what occurred Friday, during the

oral arguments before Judge Alexander Holtzoff in the j U. ‘8S. Distriet Court, are} those lines from John Gay's. fables §&¢ written back in 1727: “I know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please.” The “twist” that Howard Boyd, Washington attorney arguing for the State of Indiana, gave the matter was that the legislators

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_had no intention of letting the

taxpayers and general public get a look at the welfare rolls. They only wanted those with business connected with welfare to see them, he said. And that is what the federal stay utes provide, Judge Holtzoff appeared somewhat astonished. He said that he thought that such state action as Indiana’ had faken was based on reports that welfare rolls were being packed in places with “undeserving persons” viz. “chiselers” and that was why taxpayers wanted to take a look at them.

By O'Donnell

Legislative hearings on the welfare publicity bill went at considerable length to disclose alleged chiseling and that was the very basis upon which many legislators acted. Others may have followed the general rule that taxpayers’ money should be openly accounted for at all times and making public welfare payments is no exception. Then there were those who put it on a straight “no dictation from Washington” basis and overrode Gov. Henry —F. Schricker’'s veto with a rebel yell. Nqne were quoted as saying that they passed the welfare

“publicity law to prevent access

to the books. For the law requires that each county auditor make book on the welfare recipients, with names and amounts paid, and continues: “Which said book and all reports contained therein shall be and the same hereby are declared to be public records and shall be open to public inspection at all times during the regular office hours ot said county auditor.” Mr. Boyd argued hat this paragraph was qualified by one following which provided safeguards against the book being used for “commercial or political purposes of any nature, or for any purpose not directly connected with the administration of public assistance.” “If that cancels out the public access provision, why did the legislature pass the law at all?” the judge asked. He proceeded’ to answer his own question by pointing out that the Governor in his veto message had warned that the federal grants-in-aid would be cut if the publicity provisions were maintained, “But the Legislature went ahead and overrode the veto after that distinct warning,” Judge Holtzoff continued. "So, as aware as I am of the danger of the needy in Indiana suffering by having these federal funds cut off, IT must

find that the blame lies with

the legislature alone.” That FSA Administrator Os. car R. Ewing acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in cutting off the $20 million annual grants-in-aid for the aged, blind and dependent children was not sustained by the court. Instead the judge said that the Ewing ruling was “well reasoned.” He upheld the defense of it as presented by Federal District Attorney George Morris Fay. ‘Congress wrote the law: and

"empowered the federal security

administator to. approve the. state plans. ‘Since he did not approve the 1951 enactment by Indiana and had approved previous ones without the publicity provisions, My. Ewing

acted as federal law required be called upon 0 thangs that

and could not by the court.

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