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ITS. CLAIMED that any cut in the $52 billion military ‘budget recommended by President Truman for next year _ would. “increase, beyond the realms of prudence, the calculated risks already taken.”

This warning by Defense Secretary Lovett would be given more serious consideration if the public had any reason to believe that all of this’ money would be intelligently and expeditiously spent. There is little in the record to encourage such expectations. ro

of confusion.”

Congressional investigations also have revealed if was a year of waste, extravagance and even corruption. Mr. Lovett contends that a budget reduction “would force us to less efficient operations and would not permit the continued accelerated production during the next two years of the major items we need.” : - ~ 5 » . ff .8 » MR. LOVETT apparently believes the rearmament program is an efficient operation, which has attained an “accelerated production” which should be maintained. But expert testimony does not sup those conclusions.

“Because of the present ground rules of our rearmament program, it has been necessary to cut back the original defense schedules,” William M. Allen, president of Boeing Aircraft Co., asserts,

That cannot be termed “continued accelerated produc-

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tion.

On the contrary, as Mr. Allen remarks, “it is a form of self-delusion” because “anyone can attain a goal if he continually lowers it to make its attainment easy.” Instead of improving, the procurement situation has in ‘many ways deteriorated. At the time war started in Korea, for example, Mr. Allen said, “Boeing could place an order for standard aluminum extrusions and expect to have the order filled in 10*weeks. Today the normal procurement time for the same items is 38 weeks.”

That is acceleration in reverse. ‘ "8%" 8. “8 &

~~ WHEN A defense manufactirer goes to a supplier to buy a new type of part, he has to take his place at the end of the line, according to Mr. Allen. A similar bottleneck is ~ - encountered in obtaining materials. Under the government's controlled materials plan, an allocation of materials is known as a “hunting license” because it has no priority over civilian demands. It is only a permit to go shopping. “If America really needs military electronics conipment

more than aluminum roofing, then she must make certain

Money then isn’t the only problem confronting us. More money would only add to the existing confusion until a hardboiled, realistic procurement and production program is adopted. Indeed, money which isn't being used is simply another form of the self-delusion which Mr. Allen is talking about.

More Red Propaganda or OF the propaganda agencies for the Communists is the so-called “Press Service” of the Legation of the

" Romanian People's Republic in Washington. ; If United States diplomats in Bucharest were guilty of

ments, sent home, or jailed. It can't happen there. But it is all right with the Department of State for {he . Romanian Legation to ape the $viet Embassy in circulating * Red propaganda here. The Romanians seemi to aim their paper, called Romanian News, at labor unions and leaders. It is sent to local unions around the country. ¢ The union men don’t like it. They resent—that is most of them do—the Romanians taking them for suckers for such downright deception and exaggeration as appears in the sheet.

o » = » LETTERS to Congressmen bring back the afiswer that nothing: can be done about such a violation of American hospitality. But we believe something can be done. If our State Department, which delights to appease Reds of what-

own medicine, there would soon be an end to such business. How long would the Romanian and ‘Russian mails be open to an American propagenta paper? Just that long should the United Statés mails be open to the Red propaganda. Meantime, the union people might see that the papers are destroyed so efficiently that Americans of weaker minds

will not have a chance to be influenced by such ripe -

Not Quite, but Almost °

IY ITS report on political tampering with the government’s Reconstruction Finance Corp., a Senate investigating subcommittee doesn’t quite put its finger on any‘thing. - It-says neither former Democratic Chairman William 'M. Boyle nor Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson did anything - RFC in behalf of borrowers. ~ . But it blisters the American Lithofold Corp, "Mr. Boyle's former legal client, “for having “attemptéd to use improper influence in government.” And it says that while there is no evidence of “improper” influence on the part of Mr. Gabrielson, his claim that he had no influence can't be accepted. It accuses both men of a lack of candor in their testimony and says what they did is “bound to lead to eharges of impropriety.” There is no evidence, the committee says, of anything ng, but—

does not belive it is in the infor paid of unpaid’ officials of

An aircraft srodietion leader has termed 1051 “a year

more urgently than she needs television sets, and airplanes

that these things come first,” Mr. Allen submits.

the samé thing, they would be restricted in their move-

ever nationality, would give the Romanians a dose of their

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The Indianapolis Times NATIONAL POLIT Ics ia By Charles Lucey

New Hampshire May Point The Way For The Nation March: 11

EDITOR'S NOTE~From the granite hills of New Hampshire will come the answers to a lot of political questions the nation is arguing today. : Its presidential primary on Mar, 11 looks to be the most interesting in the country. Charles Lucey, veteran political writer for the Secripps-Howvard newspapers, is on the

-scene to describe the battle for the readers of

The Times. This is his first dispatch, Others will follow as the campaigns warm up.

. CONCORD, N. H., Feb. 5—A wintry-white little world that climbs up from the Merrimack Valley to the Quebec border is working up a fine stir and bustle for the. nation’s 1952 presidential primary.

New Hampshire goes to the polls Mar. 11 and they're saying a bit proudly here. that on

Mar. 12 the country may have a pretty good’

jdea as to who will be thie Republican presidential nominee.

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MR. EDITOR: Today, when the President-makers that dominate our primary convention are trying to avoid the issues of the day by offering us the magic of a candidate's name and glamour rather than a program to vote for, it is well to remember the Constitutional Convention and the famous warning of Benjamin Franklin as Be Signed the Constitution: *Our government can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people have become so corrupt as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” This warning from Franklin tame after a long and bitter battle among the founders of the Constitution- to frame a document that would insure against and prevent future generations from turning to despotism and dictatorship to solve their problems. Franklin may well have foreseen the modern ‘primary convention . . . the modern. method of subverting the purpose of the Constitution . .. and offering the people only despotism and dictatorship to vote for.

~=L. L. Patton; Crawfordsville. ® i.

‘lke and Politics” MR EDITOR:

All this hysteria about Ike for President should mean something. But, I wonder if people really stop to think what it does mean. Eisenhower is a military man. Would he run the government on the same terms? Don't get me wrong, I think Ike's one of America’s greatest men. But did any military governmeént really work? And isn't that the way he would try to solve the nation's promlems?” Japan had a military government. Did it work? I think the people should concentrate on a good, clean, not vefy political, nonmilitary man. How about Gov. Earl Warren? I think he thinks he fits the bill fine. So do a lot of other people I know. Especially . labor. How about

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Hoosier Forum—‘Warning’

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

By Galbraith

The voting will have an importance “quite out of proportion to the little band of 14 delegates to be chosen. This {s the nation’s presjdential bellwether and the result is likely to bear oh other contests between now and the national conventions in July. Most excitement will be on the Republican side, where voters. will express preferences’ among Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Sen: Robert A. Taft, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Harold E. Btagsen,

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-BUT there'll be a Democratig battle, between supporters of President Truman and Sen. Estes Kefauver. Mr. Truman has said he would withdraw his name from the presidential preference vote, which is simply a popularity test among candidates: and does not control selection of delegates. But delegate candidates “favorable to” Mr. Truman have filed in the

separate delegate contests and presumably will contest these places with delegates favoring Mr. Kefauver,

Streetcar Named Desire

it folks? Me? I'm not a politician or have no affiliation with any politician. ; I am only a voter and a housewife as so many other millions. Let's get behind Gov. Warren for the next President. Heavens knows he couldn't do any worse than H.8.T. Believe it or not, I'm a good Democrat, toa. —D. F. G., City

‘Need Mail’ MR. EDITOR: I, among many others, have a problem, but I think you can help me out. When our mail comes in, I wait patiently- for the mailman to get to my name. Thé waiting I do is useless, for it’s the same story most of the time. Sorry, Doyle, no mail. If you could puhlish a small request in your paper for someone to write me, I would appreciate it very much. —Pfe. John E. Doyle 1133968, USMC, Marine Helicopter Trans. Sqdn., ¢/o FPO, San: Francisco, Cal.

Views on the News DAN KIDNEY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN McKINNEY wants President Truman to stay in the New Hampshire primary and prove you can clean a coonskin cap with eyewash. Tage BS “Ww

ANY CORRUPTION investigator selected by the Truman administration is likely to be charged by Congress with guilt by asseciation. thea CONGRESSMEN can cut the $83 billion budget, but you'll just have to take their word for it.

“ bb : : EARLY reports indicate that 1952 may exceed: 1851 in the IRoduction of bottlenecks. ¢

- A GROUNDHOG ish decides to skip “February cand be classed as a dumb animal.

FISHY NEWS . . Tariff Issue

WASHINGTON; ‘Feb. 5 — Maybe you'd better have a

with mayonnaise before read- "+ ing the fishy news to follow;

it should help put you in the mood. There is a 45 per cent tarift on imported canned tuna. fish, so hardly any of that gets chopped into our saladss There i= a 12%.per cent tax on foreign tuna preserved in brine, ‘but we don’t eat much of that on’ account of ‘it's salty. Hh. . ON FRESH and frozen tuna, “wherever caught, there is no . tax and it comes hére by the thousands of tons from Japan and South America. This has made our own tuna fishermen

w= With a hook in its mouth, They want a 3 per cent “tarift on _ tuna - frozen in blocks; either that, they claim, or

tariff - on salted tpna?” de manded Sen. Eugene D. Milli~/

Committee, in charge of Writs -- Ing tariff laws. -

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tuna sandwich on whole, , Wheat J

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apgrier even than an albacore

There is considerable thinking here that although Gen. Eisenhower has the state's top Republicaps with hifn, ‘and although this'is ter--ritory supposedly friendly to him, the Taft showing may be closer than has been believed. Wood a IT OBVIOUSLY is too early to attempt judgment ‘as.to the outcome. But the Eisenhower people—and this probably is good politics—are anything but cocky. They aren't talking about any sweep and some say they're worrjed a little, The Taft people, by odd contrast, seem to think they'll do pretty well, The fact is that if Gen. Eisenhower doesn't give Mr. Taft a pretty thorough shellacking in New Hampshire, the outcome can be made to look good for the Ohio Senator. Mr, Taft himself shrewdly opserved in advance that most of the favorable factors here are with Gen. Eisenhower. He has sought to discount any defeat he may take and has said he is in here because

he did not wish to let down New Hampshire

supporters who wish to make a fight for it. Gen. Eisenhower has the big names at the top-of his slate of delegates — Gov. Sherman Adams, ex-Gov. Robert Blood, Rep. Norris Cotton, ' ex-Rep. Foster Stearns, ex-GOP National Committeeman Robert Burroughs, Headmaster William Saltonstall of Phillips-Exeter Academy, Speaker Lane Dwinell of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Other Eisenhower candidates are almost as well known and, aside from these candidates, Gen. Eisenhower has the important backing of GOP National Committeeman Frank Sulloway and other party Bgures, BY CONTRAST. most Taft delegates are not known widely—an exception is Wesley Powell, former aid to Sen. Styles Bridges. Yet the Eisenhower people have one grave handicap—their man is an ocean away.

Sen. Taft, on the other hand is expected to come into the state at least once or twice to-do some intensive stumping. The prospect is that when he.does come in he will draw good crowds, On the Eisenhower side, there'll be some big name appearances into the state from amoéng the General's national leaders. And in the interest of stirring up some hqopla, a caravan of stage stars will roll'into Conway, in the White Mountains, for a big all-for-Ike extravaganza

early in March,

Harold Stassen will be in the preferential popular vote or “beauty contest” but has no: candidates in the “battle for delegates. Gen. MacArthur, on thé other hand, ordered his name withdrawn from the popular poll hit can't do anything to bar candidates carrying his banner in the delegate contests. Delegates “pledged to" a candidate must have his consent, but those merely designated as ‘favorable to” do not. KA -» o>» AT THE moment contesting for 14 delegate positions are 18 Eisenhower candidates, 16 Taft candidates, eight MacArthur candidates and two unpledged men who will, make the fight on their own. The abundance of KFisenhower delegates creates a problem for his strategists. Nobody wants to pull out, and yet if some do not the vote-splitting. will hurt his chances. The early guessing is that Gen. Eisenhower's top half-dozen delegates are solid bets for election. But if Mr, Taft gets any important part on the rest of the delegates it will be counted a ‘real achievement in territory supposed to he unfriendly to him. Gen. Ike can lose a few—but only a very few—if the idea of his great popular appeal is-to. be fostered. If the unexpected should happen and if he were heaten by Mr. Taft his cause would suffer badly.

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LABOR . .-. By Fred W. Perkins Row Threatens Wage Board

WASHINGTON, Feb, 5—A row which could again wreck the National Wage Stabilization Board has developed between the board's labor and management members,

It came out yesterday when Richard P. Doherty, a management member, replied sharply to criticisms by Joseph A. Beirne, a labor member.

Mr. Beirne is president of the CIO Communications Workers of America and a CIO vice president. ‘In a radio interview charged that- the six management members are “on 4 sitlown strike, conducting a war of attrition against the wage stabliization pro-

. gram itself.””’

Mr. Doherty, whose private job is employee relations director of the National Association of Broadcasters, replied that” “management members don’t intend to join Mr. Beirne in sabotaging the wage stabilization program merely to further union politics.” The union spokesman has asserted that the management members were ‘dragging their feet” .on a number of proposals, including allowances for increased productivity.

Critical Time

MR, DOHERTY said that “some of these henefits would be accomplished facts now if the lahor members had not walked off the job for three months last spring—at a time extremely critical for the whole stabilization program.”

Management's Mr. Doherty also said “Mr. *

Beirne belongs to that segthent of labor which regards the Wage Board's ceilings as merely floors to be broken through. The labor members have never voted against a single one of the thousands of petitions for approval of wage boosts in excess of the ceiling. Their only negative votes have been recorded when the-public and industry members refused to grant as much as the unions demanded.” The labor members believe, Mr. Doherty said, “that any union-employer agreement, no matter how far above the ceiling, should be

JAPAN

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. disputes between unions and employers.

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. feet deep in the trough,

honored. If that theory is sound we don't need any wage controls at all except for non-union labor.” Mr. Beirne had accused the management group of “alot of doubletalk” and said that “right now the industry members are opposing the union shop.” The “union shop” lets an employer hire non-union members, but must join ‘the union usually within 30 days. It is allowed by the Taft -Hartley Law. if employers agrea to it -

‘Agreement Needed’ THE WAGE BOARD'S management members, Mr. Doherty declared, ‘“have- never said they oppose the principle of the union shop. But they are against the board’s ordering it when the law doesn’t permit it without an agreement between the employer and the union.” When the ‘labor’ members, both AFL and CIO, were pulled out of the Wage Board by the United Labor Policy Committee nearly a’ year ago, they did not return until President Truman reconstructed the agency with power to settle Many disputes involve the union-shop Jssue.

Mr. Beirne also said that since the Korean °

War began, “industy net 'profits have jumped 1912 per cent on the average. These abovenormal profits prove that big husiness has its ; is profiteering on the war effort and recklessly pushing us down the road to inflation.” He sald wages are lagging far behind.

Harvard Professor

MR. DOHERTY countered by citing Sumner H.' Slichter, Harvard economics professor, to the effect that since the Korean War started. average hourly wages have risen faster than prices. Mr. Beirne, said Mr. Doherty, “is not in

accord with the facts as shown by this authority.” ?

The Wage Board's 18 members include six each for the publi¢, 1abor and management. The board’s record shows that public members usually side ‘with the labor members on wage questions.

By Oland D. Russell

Exports Control--A Milestone

TOKYO, Feb. 5—The just announced return of exports control to the Japanese government is a milestone on the long, hard road Japan must travel to gain economic independence and survival in-the~post-war world. Japan must feed a population of 84 million —growing at the rate of a million and a half a year—crowded into an area the size of Cali-

fornia. with only one sixth of the land suitable *

for growing food. Pre-war, Japan ranked fifth among nations in foreign trade. With an empire to draw on, vast networks of shipping and the leading industrial plant in the Orient, she was able not only to pay for her necessary imports and support her population but also to build up a massive military machine and furnish much capital and equipment .to develop her overseas areas. : :

Hothouse Recovery

NOW, .with her empire gone, her shipping and industrial wealth lost and hesitant for pos

litical reasons to resume trade with mainland:

China, Japan faces enormous problems in the long-range pull, Her recovery to date has. been amazing but it has been wet nursed by the

hothouse recovery and the Japanese now are facing up to the fact they've got to go it on their own, especially if the Korean Wa¥f ends, There are already signs that the first team, the great Zaibatsu trading combines of the Mitsuis and Mitsubishis, is standing by to take over foreign trade. Though they protest they still are powerless as a result of SCAP’s breakup of family fortunes and holding companies,

. few "here doubt that the Mifsuis and Mitsu-

bishis will make a determined effort for a comeback once the peace treaty is ratified. Almost coincident with the announcement that exports control was reverting to the Japanese, minor news stories appeared in the Japanese press that three separate offshoots of Mitsui Bussan, once Japan's greatest trading firm, were going to unite in a single concern, “to cope with keen competition in the post-peace world.” og

‘Reunion Tendencies” THE NEW combine was arranged by two of the Mitsuis’ highest officials, including Kishashi Matsumoto, former managing director of Mitsui Bussan and head of ‘vast itsul interests in pre-war London«-"

occupation. Japan's exports have increased six- In addition, 12 so-called offshoots of the fold in six years but this has come mostly huge Mitsubishi industrial and trading firm through America’s financing imports of raw of Mifsul Bussan and head of vast Mitsul

materials and arranging trade and financial.

agreements for Japan with other countries. In addition .to $2 billion of direct aid the United States has bought heavily in Japan for the Korean War. But all of this has been something of a

vs By Frederick €. Othman,

and: Mitsubishi trading firms were broken up into some 240 smaller companies hy the occupation but the “reunion tendency” which the Japanese speak of airily, is expected to pros

duce three big Mitsui and five Mitsubishi enterprises. ?

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on Salted Tuna ‘Hooks’ Senators

“Well, how much tuna fin brine does Iceland produce?” Sen. Millikin insisted. “None,” replied "Mr. Ballif. You see what I mean. The tuna tariff sitnation is more complicated éven than.the ingredients of a soda fountain salad. . The fundamental trouble to

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fish. He swims where - he-. Asia. And the fishermen don't pleases without. regard to . want treaties; sometimes he's all She's bound to bulge out some, white meat and again he's place. dark. Much of the white tuna, Until the last few years:

now comes from Japan. Our

PEACE AND LOVE

EACH moment that we spend on earth . ..

Where that Sen. Millikin has no idea. is perfectly obvious that Jdpan has got to have some trade someplace,” he said. United Nations don't want her . with Communist China. The British don't want her to trade with southeast

fishermen want this stopped. They figure the tariff should

her to trade. with us. sim wo. STILL OTHER tuna clippers

we caught a lot of tuna off the. coast of California:"Then these

fish started owing farther south, near Peru, and our fishermen have been steaming all the way down there: Some bring fish home, and sell them here. Others put in on -the South Arfierican coast and have their catch frozen before the long voyage home. makes it imported, according to. the law, and. subject to whateyer duty Congress provides,

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sail south with skeleton crews, hire South American. fishermen ta do the work, and who's io say what nationality is the fish caught under these condi- ‘ tions? .8ome of our. own packers wanf imported fish to arrive duty free; others don’t. And as

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Sen. Robert 8. Kerr (D. ‘Okla. 3, observed: “What I don’t know * " about this problem is cons d= . erable,” ‘As ‘for the interna-. - . 7 tional tuna price situation, he” 2 * sald: “This is a mathematical, : gymnastic situation that is a’ little hard for me to comprehend.” The statesmen will discuss -. tuna with the experts for the “next several days, My guess is then they'll give « up - Jura _ sandwiches i

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