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Backsliding Deficit ' 'AL income is now running more than $500 million a _ year behind expenses. The House of Representatives bill raising postal rates will add only about $120 million to this income—around $127 million after two years. But right after the House refused to boost postal rates to an adequate level, it voted to hike the pay of postal employees. This is justified, but it will add some $250 million.

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a year to thé post office budget. ©" Net result: Annual deficit of around $650 million, instead of $500 million. = . :

It's like the mountain climber who slid back two steps for every one he took upward. He wound up in a hole. a 98 Tn - as =» =» : 5 BIGGEST bone of contention in the postal-rate bill is the charge for second-class mail. That's newspapers and magazines. With them, the postal service has been running up its biggest deficit—more than $200 million a year. *. First class mail and airmail pay their way, but no other asses. The low rate for newspapers and magazines amounts nt subsidy. Most of them complain constantly bout government spending. : Here's a legitimate place to knock off some of that

; EE s » = THE Post Office Department asked for an increase of 100 per cent in second-class rates. The House committee ~ proposed a 60 per cent increase, spread over three years. ~The House cut this to 30 per cent. Even the Senate has dragged its heels on an adequate | million to the department's income. But the Senate, too, | raises newspaper mailing rates only 30 per cent, over three | years, although it proposes to hike magazine rates 60 per

* Second-class mail, and all other classes of mail, should pay their own freight—and on an even basis for all users.

8, this publisher wrote: “Ain't gonna do it.” “We don’t think everybody's tax money should be used to mail our newspaper,” he said.

8, how much more will Uncle Sam put up. of action.” .Already there have been broad hints tawa that the one source they all had in mind was 8 by which we'd take most of the burden. Conte le de ss =»

will try to reconcile a “militarily acceptable” Euro-

t American dollars, through lend-lease, id other give-away programs. He has long been * known as President Truman's trouble shooter. The way he shoots trouble is to pour on another billion or so. ‘The wise men must report their findings to the Atlantic Council by Dec. 1. Apparently the council chooses to pass over lightly an Eisenhower report of last week. It says European members of NATO are capable of $3.2 billion in military production during fiscal 1952—without straining themselves into moral or financial bankruptcy, That's 33 per cent more than they've been scheduled to produce. Anyway, everybody went home happy from Ottawa,

and we have Secretary of State Acheson's word for it that the conference was “very successful.”

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JOST naive witness so far before the Senate Commi I i oaan.io. far before the Sestle Commition . The committee is trying to find out where the government’s Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1049 version) left off and the American Lithofold Co. a St. Louis printing corncern, began. They seem to have had so much in common. .- Mr, Prince was head of the RFC loan office when J 1 was getting a series of large-size loans. He since bas been fired by the new RFC boss, W. Stuart Symington.

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| IN HIS tes , Mr. Prince admitted tro 4 JS tentimony | receiving from

bottle of perfume. : © ‘There followed a colloquy about the ethics of accepting uch gifts. Mr. Prince said he didn’t see anything “improper” nm what he had done but he wouldn't do it again. ame line used by Donald S. Dawson, White House accepted several days’ free lodging at a ritzy

FI . -” y - 5 v * = - =» . SOME publishers have been lobbying against higher ‘But a lot of papers—including this one, over —want no part of a government subsidy. to invitations to protest higher second-

[E question of whether the American taxpayer is going jo shell out a bigger share of Europe's rearmament cost not quite decided at Ottawa. J 5 Was pas nporarily to a committee, cheer2 con f men.” This group of in the language of the NATO con-

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DEAR BOSS... By Dan Kidney Sen. McCarthy To Plug Jenner

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—8en. William E. . Jenner (R, Ind.) will be high-rated on the GOP statesmanship scales when Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) addresses the Republican rally at Indianapolis Oct. 20. For the meeting has been arranged by Republican leaders in the state not only to help Republican Alex Clark beat Democrat Phillip Bayt for mayor of Indianapolis, but to tell also how the Junior Senator’ from Indiana has been speaking out against alleged Reds in somewhat the McCarthy manner, :

“I am not unmindful of the importance of the Indiana mayoralty races to Republicans in Indiana,” Sen. McCarthy said. “But I expect also to tell of the heroic work done down here. in Washington by Bilt Jenner in trying to get the Communists out of the government, “And of course I wouldn't speak in Indiana withewt saying a good word for Sen. Cape-

Sen, Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) was reelected last year for a second term. Sen. Jenner, whose term expires in 1052, hasn't yet announced whether he will seek to return here

.or run for governor, the one political position

he always has wanted.

Ready to Help

© SEN. McCARTHY is ready to help Sen. Jenner in any case. His activities in helping Republican Sen. John M. Butler win over the ~ veteran Democrat Sen. Millard Tydings In Maryland last year came in for severe criticism from a Senate investigating committee. But such things leave Sen. McCarthy cold. ‘Sen. William Benton (D. Conn.) has introduced a resolution asking Sen. McCarthy's ouster from the Senate. but the man who has made “McCarthyism” a new by-word, merely retorts by calling Sen. Benton a “mental midget.” “I intend to debate him on his home grounds as soon as it can be arranged,” Sen. McCarthy said. “There are three groups in Connecticut wanting to handle the affair. Just as soon as they can settle on where and when it is going to be, I'll accept the invitation.” Latest to castigate Sen. McCarthy's tactics from the Senate floor was Sen. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D. Mo.) on last Friday. He said he had served notice on the Wisconsin Senator that he would do so, but Sen. McCarthy wasn’t there.

‘Good GOP Speech’

“I'VE BEEN OUT drawing big crowds with my nonpolitical anti-Communist talks,” Sen. McCarthy declared. “But you can report for me that the talk I give in Indianapolis will not be nonpolitical. I promised the Republicans to give them a good GOP speech and that is what I intend to do. “Ft. Wayne wanted me to come there. But I thought Indianapolis would be the best place to spread the word all over the state. I'll tell them of the good work Sen, Jenner has been doing working with Chairman Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) in tracking down subversives through the Senate Judiciary Committee. We are out to uncover- and oust every Alger Hiss in this government.” : Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Republican, said he had nothing to do with inviting Sen. McCarthy to speak. . “Of course I appreciate the big bass drum technique which Sen. McCarthy has used so successfully,” Mr. Brownson said. “But the way I look at it the Republican Party in Indiana needs some softer instruments.

Suggested Sen. Smith

“I SUGGESTED to Republican State Chair-'

man Cale Holder that we should invite Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.) or Gov. John Davis Lodge of Connecticut, who was a Republican member of the House. They have a that young Republicans are anxious to hear it.” Sen. Smith was the author of the anti-Mc-Carthyism statement on ethics addressed to fellow-Republicans. She also signed the committee report condemning him. :

FOSTER'S FOLLIES ATLANTIC CITY—The American Cemetery ampie

teries. Though you're tired and hungry and darn near broke, You really have nothing to fear, "For the fact of it is you're a darned lucky bloke, Your future is well in the clear.

If you live in a city that's stuffy and crowded, Forget it! Just be of good cheer. Your life will look er .the moment you're shrouded— - ° : ‘With plenty of room-—and good bier!

SMUGGLING . . . By James Daniel

Wonder Drugs Used As Money in Asia

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Penicillin

wonder drugs, manufactured by American pharmaceutical houses or their European branches and affiliates, have become the new black market currency of the Far East.

Smugglers take payment in vials of streptomycin or boxes of sulfa pills. Businessmen convert their funds into drugs to avoid the regulations on foreign exchange. Western seem to be used in the Far East for almost every purpose except to make sick people well, ” 0 r THESE are impressions

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Bast. inventory acknowledged by the Mr. Portuguese authorities. Trade Hong Kong sources said black Japan and Bales—at a price four spent most the legal price — were four Kong and ‘times the colony’s needs, Dock ~~ * British

Others are believed to. have spread as far south as India, judging from a recent upsurge in requests fqor U. .8. price quotations coming from that country and inquiries of our export control authorities as to the possibilities of getting export licenses. At Macao the trade with Red China is conducted so openly that it should hardly be called smuggling. On one point of land Mr. Hansen counted five major oil dumps, one of them a former shoe t Nearby was an anchored gunboat flying Communist flag.

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HOME FROM EUROPE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Material for Strange Story Seen in Iceland Plane Crowd

EN ROUTE FROM REYKJAVIK, Iceland— For a fellow who took his bride on a vacation in Spain, Icéland does seem to be an odd place to be leaving. And also cold when you don't have your overcoat along. : We'd finished our jaunt to Europe with a little whirl in Paris & and last night we boarded a sleeper plane for New York. §& Neither of us ever fh had put on our pajamas in a flying | machine before and | ‘we were wondering how this was going to work out. Then the captain announced before we ft took off from Orly 4

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to make a small detour to Iceland to take on

more gas. Fair enough. I'm glad we did. It was a big night in Reykjavik, where weeks go by with no aerial traffic except for the military and an occasional plane of the Icelandic Air Line.

Heavy Wind OUR Trans-World Constellation put down first in a wind that blew so hard it flattened the grass in front of the waiting room. The steam radiators inside felt good. In the next half hour planes of the Dutch, the British, the French and the Swiss all taxied up alongside and suddenly there were 250 international travelers; all bound for New York, in.a place that none of them could even spell. . There were American tourists like us, small Indizn ladies shivering in their saris, a large gent in a turban, several Egyptians in red fezzes, and an assortment of others from every country in Western Europe. It would have been an elegdnt time and place for a novelist to

gather material for an aerial Grand Hotel. Me. .

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I'm a reporter. And what do you: think all these people did? . They’d just finished elaborate champagne dinners on their airplanes, but they made a beeline for the lunchroom and ate it bare. My Hilda emerged triumphant with two pieces of jelly roll wrapped in paper napkins. Then the travelers converged on a poor, blond little Icelander, who was holding down the souvenir stand. Everybody wanted a remembrance of Jeeland. He did a rushing business at horrific prices in ashtrays, fur boots; sheepskin rugs and similar’ knickknackery. Hilda got a genuine 15cent Iceland doll for $2.

Better Than Pullman .

AFTER’ two hours the Trans-World plane was ready to take off, except that a large and

. flustered lady from the British ship had got

aboard by mistake. She was evicted politely and we headed across the black Atlantic.

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late that I'd left my pajamas in my suitcase, which was stowed in the hold. I slept in my shirt. <The berth, which cost $25 extra and was worth every penny, turned up to be longer, wider and softer than : Mr, Pullman invented. So we took a last look out the window (there was nothing to see, except black), pulled the covers up to our chins and ate our jelly roll. The purr of the motors was like opium. Or maybe we were tired. We slept soundly almost to Boston.

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I WANTED to have breakfast in : suggested by the stewardess, but Hilda said that was carrying a good thing too far. So I climbed out, shaved with an electric razor provided by the purser, and had my eggs in the front lounge, Next stop New York; then Washington and the Congressmen. As vacations go, Hilda says this has been the best one yet. If you ask me, she's still thinking about those pme Spaniards kissing her hand.

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MR. EDITOR: . See oe or rads The controversy between “Stal In ana ‘Oscar Ewing, on the matter of the fed government's contribution to our Welconfused

fare program has been so and be-~

clouded by political maneuvering, tit the

has been lost sight of. And now, session,

t whatever. to : Now that hé has taken it upon himself to deny us our own money for the purposes intended, our legislature should memorialize Congress to pass a claims bill for refund to the taxpayers of Indiana, that portion of the,federal/tax being illegally withheld from us. This much is the least that should be done, The next thing our legislature should do, would be to memorialize all the legislatures of

the other 47 states, to seek legislation abolish: .

the Federal Security Agency and return the duty of caring for our own unfortunates to each state, where it rightfully and properly . belongs. - This great vote-buying: machine has no business whatever in our federal govern-. ment, If we can provide $3 from which to get $1 to help our unfortunate neighbors, would it not be better to provide $2 and handle it here . at home?. These facts, in addition to the fact that the Constitution specifically reserves to the sovereign states and the people, all rights not surrendered to the federal government. It would: patification by 36 states to surrender to the federal government the right to take care of our unfortunates in our own way, without dictation from Washington. This was never, done; for the simple reason that the Socialist. minded bureaucrats know that such a measure would never make the grade in 36 states, So, we are deliberately operating unconstitutionally,: with the full knowledge of all Washington, because the bureaucrats fear a Supreme Court test. : » In the last analysis, if we cannot spend our

* own money within our own state as we see fit, "without dictation from Washington, it is “tax-

ation without representation” and I think those words caused us to have a Constitution under which we might still exercise sovereign power within each state. And if the blind in Washington do not wake up soon, and shed all their

* socialistic ideas and get back to the Constitu-

tion, I foresee another civil war to re-establish the Constitution supreme over bureaucrats and to restore the sovereignty of each state, except fn such matters as the Constitution provides,

either directly or through .legal amendment. —A. J. Schneider, City -

‘Hero's Relatives Here’ MR. EDITOR: : I read (with pride) the recent article in The * Times about Lt. Henry A. Commisky of the U. 8. Marines. I would like to say that Lt. Commisky's father, Hugh W. Commisky, was born. and raised in Indianapolis. He lived here until . 1920. Lt. Commisky has three uncles and a great aunt still living here. . > * Mrs. P. W. Commisky

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN ide it clear he now is convinced that in dealing with the Russfans nothing comes from the . use of force-—dxtap: Jugulta.

SEN. McMAHON of Connecticut reports that atomic weapons make it possible to pound our tanks on plowshares.

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lesson for Stalin—every tyrant who considered the world his oyster, choked to death trying to swal- . low it. ; * > PRICE Administrator DiSalle denied that either he or President Truman made any nasty cracks about Gov, Frank Lausche of Ohio. They don't want a ceiling put on the Ohio Democratic vote.

Congress kept its franking privilege at the old price.

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Ibraith BEST RUN AGENCY . . . By Earl Richert %i=Export Bank Wins OK From Congress

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—While Congress is giving the RFC the business, it is heaping praise and a fistful more cash on its twin, the Export-Import Bank. : The Export-Import Bank is the counterpart of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. : : in the foreign. field. It makes loans to foreign governments and countries on the same.

basis the RFC makes loans to domestic companies.

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