Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1951 — Page 22

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More Spending, More Danger NAY by day, as the defense effort picks up speed, government spending goes up and up. We are spending at a high, fast rate because we are tn danger. We have no alternative but to spend and spend, and build and build. ’ But the very spending creates another danger—or a set of dangers. Mainly, spending our way into. a big deficit. Deficits are inflationary. And inflation can wreck us. "If the government spends more than it takes in, it fs compelled to borrow. When it borrows it puts more money in circulation. This money does not go into goods which contribute to our standard of living, or into productive capacity which builds our economy. - It goes intd the materials of war. From the standpoint .of a stable economy, that is waste spending—although it is imperative to our national security. " In a war economy, which is inflationary in itself, it is even more essential to avoid that other inflationary

booster, a deficit.

» . » ; ! SINCE July 1, the government has And the deficit in that same period was more than Spending will increase, as the defense program steps A up. The peak is yet to come. President Truman estimates a deficit of $10 billion this fiscal year unless taxes are increased that amount. Other sources say the deficit may be a few billions less But there is no doubt of a deficit unless— Or, expenses are cut down to income.

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“ x s » . - r. THE SENATE is balking at adding more than $52 billion in new taxes. ;

“Not one more cent,” says Chairman George of the "Congress has a duty not to appropriate more than it taxes. 5 i 7 i i . The Truman Administration should. consider it a duty not to spend appropriations, even if authorized, which exceed income. It can do that by cutting out obvious waste and extravagance—by simply not spending, especially on projects. ‘both Co

D ongress and the administration shirk this duty, the taxpayer will get a double bill for the shirking— more interest to be paid on debts from deficits, higher . prices on everything he buys.

No Job for Jessup THs newspaper believes Philip C. Jessup is unacceptable. as a member of the American delegation to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in Paris this fall. Mr, Jessup is one of the policy makers of our State t, with rank of ambassador. He has been judged and cleared three times under the government loyalty program,sand his case is currently before the Federal Loyalty and Review Board. % - Disregarding the question of loyalty, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy's blunderbuss campaign against Mr. Jessup, we still don’t think he’s the man for the job. He has made mistakes of judgment so flagrant and perilous that he can-

At Paibly command the full confidence of the American

eomwe 3 Swe. - NOR IS HE entitled to it—on the basis of his tragically wrong guess on China. As a principal adviser to our State

Department on Far Eastern policy, Mr. Jessup drafted the notorious white paper of 1949—which was formal notice to the world that the United States was abandoning China to the Communists. : ‘ It was evident that he shared the views of his pal, Owen that the Chinese Communists were not “real Communists” but mere agrarian reformers and democrats whom America should support. ; That was the dreadful misjudgment—if not actual distortion—which set off the train of events in the Far East leading to the present debacle in Korea. The American

publie is not likely to forget that. 3 » » H

oo» " . THE WHOLE Jessup record up to Korea—when we met Russian aggression head-on, and unmistakably—reveals him as a man surprisingly naive about international eommunism. In 1947, for instance, he favored our suspension of atom-bomb making for a year while we discussed atomicenergy controls with Russia, ; . And in late 1949, according to recent Senate committee testimony, Mr, Jessup was advocating that the United States follow Britain in recognizing Communist China. The question of admitting Communist China to the United Nations may come up at the Paris meeting, among other crucial issues. Unquestionably the American people want to be represented at Paris by a man behind whom they can unite, with the fullest trust. In the circumstances, Mr. Jessup can't fill the bill, : __ Therefore, on the broader question of American unity and confidence in their negotiators, we think Mr, Jessup's tion, now before the Senate Foreign Relations Com- , should not be confirmed.

Saving ng Paper

. SEN. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Louisiana Democrat, thinks

re Phe ewaphrare ers of this country are too big.

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Hoosier Forum—‘Familiar Face’

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

‘Familiar Face’ MR. EDITOR: A few nights ago I was leafing through a popular weekly magazine and I came across a picture of the four Arabs that were recently executed for plotting the assassination of King Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, one of the Arab States. As I looked at the faces I thought that one of them looked familiar to me. I turned to my notes on my\irip to the Middle East in April, 1951, and there I discovered that he was our guide in Old Jerusalem and to Amman, the capital of Jordan. He wag Dr. Musa el Husseini,

the director of the Arab Tourist Agency in Old

Jerusalem. As I recall, he looked the part of a Wily individual, He had a black mustache and could have taken the role of a criminal in a movie

without make-up. Husseini did most of the talking and always corrected any statement that was favorable to Israel or the ruling powers of the Hashemites. [ sat with him part of the journey to the capital of Jordan, Amman, and he told me the King of the Hashemite Kingdom did not know what he was doing. It is very vivid in my memory that as he led our party into the Mosque of Omar in Old Jerusalem, he knelt in prayer, his head lowered toward Mecca. * Husseini was very bitter against Israel, he said the State of Israel should be confined to a small plot of land around Tel Aviv. They should give up the vast reclamation project in the Negev desert and turn it over to the Bedouin Arabs who for 2000 years have been roving tribes with their flocks of goats that eat the grass and then pull up the roots and eat

them, which denudes the land and causes it to?

be eroded. . It was Dr. Husseini, a graduate of universities in London and Berlin with a Ph.D. who arranged our passage from Old Jerusalem to the new city of Jerusalem in Israel. Dr. Husseinl was in Germany during the reds p war and was a Pro-Nazi. He married a bedutNul blonde German woman, much younger than himself who would fit’ into a scene in Hollywood. One whole evening was spent with Dr. Husseini and his German wife while he tried to persuade our Christian Palestine Commiittee that Israel was to blame for the conditions in the Middle East. His blonde wife tried to entertain her large restless bulldog. When the new King, Talal, of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan took his throne recently, the four Arab plotters that led to the death of his father, King Abdullah, lay in prison in Amman under sentence of death by hanging. Dr. Husseini did not believe that Jordan authorities would carry out the sentence but

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on the appointed hour he and his three conspirators walked to the gallows and were hanged, Dr. Husseini being first and the others followed. It is a thrilling experience to look back upon my close association with this clever yet unsuccessful assassin of King Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. —Dr, Sumner L. Martin, Superintendent of the Indianapolis Methodist District.

‘Messing Things Up’ MR. EDITOR; What are the Republicans. trying to do in Indiana? It sounds like the old joke about radio. If the Republicans can’t kill the Republican Party in Indiana, the Democrats will never be able to. * Many Democrats changed over in the last election because they were tired of Acheson and his blundering policy, for which we are paying with our boys’ blood in Korea. They were tired of Truman and his socialistic experiments in medicine, etc. They were tired of buying bonds for defense and then see the

money used to buy up and destroy food in order to buy the farmer's vote, ; But were the Republicans happy with all this lush campaign material? Oh, no! They want to give the Democrats a break, so they mess up the state welfare to put us in the spot where we will still contribute to federal welfare but won't get any of our dough back. This welfare bill should be changed by Congress and our local boys had better rectify their errors and get back home before the taxpayers realize what their boot might cost them.

I see where Judge Clark has challenged Mayor Bayt to debate this issue. That ought to accomplish a lot. Why don’t they discuss the crime situation in Indianapolis or something else they could do something about? It doesn’t take an elephant to remember that the last Republican city administration was pretty lousy.

‘Easy Victory for GOP’ ‘MR. EDITOR dni I read.with a great deal of concern that Mayor Phil Bayt does not want the support of the professional politicians of his own party in the coming election. This is indeed regrettable and should lead to an easy victory for his Republican opponent. : :

It I were a candidate for mayor on the Democratic” ticket I would not only welcome but would solicit the active support of many of the old line “professional” politicians of the Democratic Party.

—John F. Dugan, 3030 W. Michigan St.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20-— Dear Boss—Congress will not lift: the secrecy provisions. of the Social ‘Security law this session, : : That became apparent when the Halleck plan for prompt hearings by the Ways and Means Committte on Tuesday was thwarted. Instead the committee decided not to start the hearings until. Oct. 8 and let them run for at least a week. ; ; Witnesses pro and con will

_ be heard and they might run

on and on. In any case, it ap-

. pears impossible that the re-

pealer bill will be brought to

the House floor for action before adjournment, which can come any time now. x = 8

EVEN should the miracle man of such maneuvering, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican’ and assistant minority leader, get It, through

MIGNON—

Foster's | Follies

MAMARONECK, N. Y. ~A New Jersey man was sentencyd to thirty days in Westchester: Penitentiary after pleading guilty to selling horse meat as filet mignon. !

This poor guy yelled till he was hoarse, But changed no one’s opinion. And so the health laws took their course; They've barred his filly mignon.

Thus endeth one man’s steady drive . To fill the poor man's table With something on which he might thrive— A product that was stable!

HE probably figured if the OPS could horse around all this time, he was entitled to try a little of the same. In their price control drive, they haven’t had a tight grip on many lines. Like the res of us, this guy just got tired of their: stalling. A In Austria, the governmex has ordered two meatless days a week. Over here a lot ol people would like to meet up with two of the other kind.

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THE nearest most of us ever come to a stake is when we get a ringer throwing horseshoes. That isn’t very nourishing. It would be better if they hadn't removed the horse from the shoes. Sometimes we envy the Apache Indians of the 1800's, They shod their horses with rawhide shoes, instead of metal. When things got really tough they could always broil a couple of shoes for dinner. Which ‘is just about what we're reduced to. Except that nowadays we haven't any shoes to begin with. And we figure we're lucky when Friday rolls around and we can enjoy a little sole. If Junior's luck holds out down at the river! Whatever happens, though, the butcher still gives you one thing free. * The horse laugh!

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‘AUNTY COMMY says: “See where the Norwegians have proposed a shorter whaling season. That ain't gonna go over very big with them Reds. Them guys like to wail 365 days a year. Exceptin’ leap year, of course.”

HEH-HEH Headlines: “Girl Singer Lonely With 18-Man Band.” Probably wishes she had somebody to accompany her on her night off. “Kids Should Not Have Same Rights As Adults.” Of course not. That would restrict ’em entirely too much. “Armed Forces Seek Ways To Attract Women.” Is that new? “Federal Outlay For Education Exceeds $3.8 Billion.” And still. nobody in Washington ever seems to learn.

By O'Donnell

Dy AUTUMN SCENE

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"DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Long Delay Seen in Congress 4: Action on Welfa J

the House before adjournment, there would unlikely be time for Senate action, ; Mr. Halleck, dean of all Hoosiers here, argues that since the Senate has twice approved the Jenner amendment it would go for whatever .the House does. For the: amendment of Sen, William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) also lifted the secrecy provisions of the federal law.

Such action would restore the welfare grants-in-aid to Indiana cut off by FSA AdminIstrator Oscar R. Ewing. He ruled that the 1951 publicity statute in the state violates the Social Security secrecy provisions. The special legislative session was called by Gov. Henry F. Schricker to remedy the matter,

» » . EVEN if both houses approved the anti-secrecy bill, which first was introduced in

the House by Rep. Charles B. Brownson, freshman Republi can from Indianapolis, Presi‘dent Tyuman likely would veto it and there would be no twothirds vote to over-ride. : Thus it appears, that the hearings a week from Monday are about all that can be expected at this time. Even obtaining them was a feather in the hat of Mr. Halleck. For Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D, N. C.) had declared at the outset of the session that he wasn’t entertaining any amendments to Social Security. And his nickname is “Muley.”

MR. HALLECK is serving his ninth term here and is a big time operator in the GOPDixiecrat conservative coalltion. So when a Virginia Democrat of the Byrd type, Rep. Burr P. Harrison; adopt-

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ed the Brownson amendment.

and began pushing it, the Hal leck hand was right there patting and ‘pushing him on the back. ; Included In the campaign was an assault on welfare

from the Saturday Evening « _ Post, part of which has since

been partially repudiated. Mr. ‘Harrison made’ the speech, sneering that the poor were getting rich through Welfare payments and that chil dren born out of wedlock produced others to live off the taxpayers. It got a big hand from the well-heeled.

NOBODY defended relief chiselers, nor Administrator Ewing. Mr. Halleck kept the debate om the principle of letting states run their own wel= fare programs, without federal interference, and the taxpayers, right to know where the funds go without any secrecy provisions. . He cited the plight of Indi-

ana apd then pleaded for .

prompt Ways and Means Committee action). “Are we to. sit by and let a bureaucratic ruling, which I

state or my state of the money to which it is justly entitled?” Mr. Halleck asked. As a pioneer in secrecy re-

peal, Mr. Brownson suggested

that Gov. Schricker and the

’ leaders of both houses of the

legislature be asked to give their views to the Ways and Means Commitfee.

“I WANT to have both sides in the record, but I do not want these hearings to become a sort of committee filibuster with nothing but welfare wits nesses all repeating what was said before,” Mr, Brownson declared.

OBSTACLES . . . By Earl Richer

Proposal to Expose Incomes Opposed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—A long, hard road is ahead in Congress for President Truman's request for a law to force top federal officials to file public statements once a year showing all

sources of income, including gifts.

The odds, at present, seem to be against it. : Republicans, almost to a man, brand the President's proposal

as pure politics, though some such as Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. ind.) would vote for it. As put by Sen. Jghn W. Bricker (R. 0.), they see {it as ‘‘a is m okescreen on the part the Presilent to cover p the corption in his administration by inplying that there are oth- Sen, Capehart ex who are : Sma favors it. erbranches of government.” And the Democrats are shrply divided, with even thse supporting the proposal panting out many obstacles. \aid one Democratic Senatorwho will support the plan: “Bey, there should be a lot of proprty shifting if such a law weré passed.” Bijgest fear of the lawmakers ifthat public disclosures of incom» would subject them to all sots of attacks by dema-

goguet during campaign years, + ! 8 8 BN on

SAIN one Senator: “My wife inbheritd some cotton land, and théincome from that land is very important to us. Now, if I happned to cast a vote for the bendit of cotton, my opponent indoubtedly would point to ny income statement and say { was feathering my own nest. Several ‘Senators, such as Sen. Eujene Millikin (R. Colo,), oplpse the proposal on the groundthat it would be an

invasion “the sacred right of privacy! which public officials have & much right to en-

joy as peofle in private life. A oon BUT OTHERS, such as Sen. Mike Monnmney (D. Okla.)

and Lyndon Johnson (D., Tex.), answei the privacy ar-

gument by saying that people in public life must expect to Hve in goldfish bowls and should be willing to make public disclosures of all income. Some Senators argue that passage of such a law would keep anyone with much money from being elected to public office. LT “IN MY state, anyone with over $5000 income is a plutocrat,” said one Senator, “and

+ I think it would be difficult for

anyone forced to say publicly that he was getting more than that to be elected.” > One of the Senate's richest men stated an unusual objection. He said he gave away

~ about $40,000 a year now and

it took one secretary full time just to handle requests for donations. If he had to disclose his total income, he said, his office staff wouldn't be able to do anything else but handle requests for money.

» = » SEVERAL lawmakers said the disclosure law undoubtedly would keep big businessmen from joining the government. The public statement of their incomes would subject them to unjustified sméars, it was said. Most lawmakers contend fit is impossible to live on their salaries—$12,500 a year plus

$2500 in a tax-free expense al-

lowance-—and that they must have additional income, either from their businesses or by accepting fees for public speaking. ¥ r = PRO - TRUMAN Democrats almost unanimously approved of the President's proposal. “It's a smart move,” said one.

“It shows that somebody down

at the White House is doing some thinking.” These Democrats think President Truman has told Congress; which has been raising so much hob with his administration, “to put up or shut up.”

BECOMING A WOMAN ... By E. M. Pooley

‘So Quiet It Hurts’

IT DIDN'T Seem that she spent much. time around the house.

She had her hore and her car and her beau and her friends and it seemed that he was always gone. But if she wire home so little, why is it that the place seems 20 quiet and empy now? When she was at Sandra's or Nancy's

or Susie's, or w store, or out ridilg her horse, Star, she wasn’t it home any more than she ishow. We didn’t seem to miss her then. We knew right. Her mothe didn't sit around with eye& glistening and I didn’t take {ime to wonder where she wa and what she was doing and if she liked 8 N ITS different now. re came the morning whet she got on a train and

went away and went 2000 mile We know where she is and that she is all right. And help to go

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_.._.Shéhas gone away to school. Bett She # about to become a

she was at a show or at school or the drug

our nation was ‘down on its economic back, beaten, It was a dark day for our country, but not for us. Feo

- nomics didn't seem very im-

portant when she was born, so little and red, and so hungry and sleepy. She was “bur own and precious, and the troubles of the world could not worry us or dim our pride. ~ » -

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