Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1952 — Page 8

No - r 7 fa % . iw Si gi - i € : WAL > L . . . : HY i = . 3 ; 3 : > 7 ; % Th rananalie Timae POLITICS . . . By R. H. Shackiord he Ty IY ie The Indianapolis Times POLTICS - - . By R. H. She het Kind Of President Ike Would Moke= {aves — amv sen Europeans Wonder What Kind Of President lke Would Make ~~ | annou ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE. - HENRY W. MANZ '= LONDON, Apr, 19-Europeans, like some President Coolidge, who curtly dismissed pro- in a couple years—always barring another war. the war that Europeans may be excused for _ Ee President Editor Business Manager Americans, are beginning to wonder where posals that their World War I debts be forgot- He has stated: hoping it will continue indefinitely. Sr 5 - Gen. Dwight Eisenhower will stand on certain ten, and President Hoover and his Western “Fundamentally, and on a long term basis, Marshall aid was supposed to put Europe arold Jackson PAGE 8 Saturday, Apr. 19, 1952 specific issues if he becomes President, Hemisphere “Gibraltar” strategy. oo each important geographical area must be de- on its feet this year. Korea wrecked that purely Rosalig Ann Bri s Jutopeans like Tke, : eb ‘@ tended primary by ne. people of that region.” - economic project. and Lee Brin # 3 ut some of them are just beginning to re « a880C those opeans hope some ‘cases expect A year ago the arms programs were sup- grandéhildre Go ae “iartfand >? dostal Tons Tb alize that, an Eisenhower victory. may also uae EANS 24 aot ard ints any of ch an American ground forces to remain in Europe posed to be completed by mid '54. But economic oe Uinad prias, Pps-Howal i Newspaper ance. NEA * .me&n a Republican landslide. Questions are be- . e. ga indefinitely, A recent British Socialist Party prises in all European countries are stretching OME. 1420 1

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Settlement, Maybe, But, No Solution

JF THE government carries out its threat to force a wage settlement on the steel industry, it will have one happy result—and only one. | : It will keep the industry—basic to the country’s géconomy and vital to the defense program—in business. It will avert the stringent hardships which a strike always inflicts on the employees of steel, and those who depend on steel for their livelihoods. It will be a settlement of the wage dispute. But not . a solution to the problem, It means an immediate industrial crisis has been sidestepped. But it sets the stage for new economic tensions. However it is sliced, the wage settlement imposed on the industry, and the price rise which will result from it, is a stimulant for another giddy round of inflation.

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THE government, by its total lack of economic policy, cooked up this witch's brew. The expediency of its threatened action does not make it any more digestible. The steelworkers’ wage demands, based on a feeling that-they were lagging behind in the race 4o keep up with the cost of living, were a natural result of the administration’s sequence of day-to-day expediencies. This country will continue to indulge in this hop-skip-and-jump type of political “economics” until it gets an administration in Washington with the courage and intelli gence to establish sound and consistent policies.

A Spenders’ Candidate

"THE SELECTION of W. Averell Harriman gs New York " State's “favorite son” candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has filled one obvious void in the The lengthening list of hopefuls wow. includes an authentic, dyed-in-the-wool Truman candidate, = pcial

Mr, Truman himself may make this designation at the proper time and place, now that Gov. Adlai Stevenson of ‘course, Mr, Harriman shows enough form to pick up some delegates outside of New York. In one capacity or another, W. Averell Harriman—the “W" stands for William, though no one ever calls him Bill-<has been identified with the Truman administration ever since the man from Independence entered the White House. So

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AS U. 8. AMBASSADOR to Russia, the New Yorker was an inheritance from the Roosevelt regime. Then he did a stint as Secretary of Commerce, sandwiched in between Henry Wallace and Secretary Sawyer. More recently, and in a much more congenial field, he operated as a roving ambassador, with an office in Paris and an open checkbook. Currently he is listed as director of the Mutual Security Administration—the biggest spending job in the govern. ment, : ' Mr, Harriman has not been a controversial figure like his friend Secretary of State Acheson. Nor has he been touckted by any of the scandals which have given the admin. istration in general such a bad odor. But sheer dogged persistence has won him one distinction in a field in which he has had real competition. He has scattered more of our money around in more places than any other man now in public life. ® : > Though born to wealth and Wall Street, here is & “tax. spend-elect” candidate who could have satisfied the late Harry Hopkins on every count. (In fact, he was a protege of Hopkins.) If the bureaucracy he has built up abroad could vote at Chicago, he would win the party nomination by acclamation.

SOS for Flood Victims

VW HEN the great flood struck the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Valleys, the Red Cross moved in promptly to relieve the sufferings of® homeless victims, Food, clothing, shelter and the other necessities are being furnished thousands of families in the area. Already the Red Cross had spent or committed $22 million for disaster relief for the current fiscal year. No catastrophé the size of this flood was contemplated, however, when the Red Cross budget for this year was set up. Therefore the Red Cross needs at least $10 million more. This money must come from the American people. That is where all the Red Cross money comes from. It is traditional in America that direct assistance to disaster ‘victims comes from other Americans through this private agency, and hot from the government. : : Disasters of this or some other kind can strike any of us. “To be assured that the Red Cross always will be ready to help, we all now should contribute our share of the cost ~f this one.

Too Many Bends ;

WHEN THE Mutaal Defense Assistance Program thought it urgently needed cargo planes not available from commercial sources, it persuaded the Air Force to

ing raised about what kind of men will ride into power on Ike's coattails,

Wishful thoughts that Gen. Eisenhower's

election would guarantee sweetness and light toward Europe are being dissipated.

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GEN. EISENHOWER himself has indicated he might be even tougher on such issues as American troops for Europe and long-time American financial ald than ‘the present administration, . “Republican” meant “isolationist” to most Europeans ever since World War I. It conjures up memories of President Harding and his “return to normalcy.” It reminds them of

FLOODS . + « By Richard Starnes How to Tame The ‘Big Muddy’

WABHINGYON, Apr. 19—Hope of eventually taming the rampaging Missouri River rests in the so-called Pick-8loan plan--an ‘expensive two-headed monster born of a shotgun wedding between the warring Army Corps of Engineers and the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, The vast program of dams and waterways needed. in the Missouri basin was one of the

richest prizes in the 50-year fight between the :

Army Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau. Both had a plan to harness the river. Both sneered at the other's proposals as wasteful and Or unnecessary. The engineer plan called for 22 dams, 1500 miles of levees and production of a relatively small amount of electric power, It was authored by Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, now chief of en-

ei amation's plan, drafted by W. G. Sloan, called for 90 dams, irrigation of 4.7 million acres of land and generation of 750,000 kilowatts of power,

Construction Slowed

FOR YEARS, the two afencies wrangled bitterly in and out of Congress. The battle de-

layed adoption of a workable over-all plan and,

unquestionably, slowed construction work. In 1944, however, an event occurred which drove the engineers and reclamation into each other's reluctant arms. This was a proposal that the entire program be handled by an indeJorden Missourt Valley Authority—just lke

The engineers and reclamation banded together toward off the common foe. The Pick plan and the: Sloan plan almost overnight became the Pick-S8loan plan, The MVA proposal was defeated by the united front. ; Here is it the Hoover commission had to

say about the deal: “The ‘com ise’ consisted for the most part ‘In & division of projects, each agency agresing forego the privilege of criticizing Jrolects datigned by the agreement to the other. result 1s in no sense an integrated developHint n for the BAM, ++ + Agreement betwoin agencies may more costly to the public than disagreement , , .” y

Proposed Channel :

AB AN EXAMPLE of how the two agencies once sneered at each other there is the case of the proposed channel in the Missouri from Sioux City to the river's mouth, The Pick plan urged a nine-foot-deep channel to make the river navible to Mississt River craft. This, argued backers, wo force railroad freight rates down by providing water-borne competition, Nonsense, replied critics of the engineer plan. They claimed the existing $70 million 6-foot channel was used primarily by engineer barges hauling material for levees. They sald that thers was no assurance that there would be enough water in dry years to fill a 9-foot channel, and that it was silly to invest $300 million in the channel with no real assurance that it

© would bring down rail rates,

But the channel was included in the “com.

promise.” No more criticism of it was heard. Today it is two-thirds completed.

More Than $9.4 Billion

ALTHOUGH the President blamed an econ omy-minded Congress for the fact that the river

was still out of hand, more than $1 billion °

has been spent on the Pick-Sloan plan. corps of engineers figures its end of the plan will cost $1.4 billion. The corps already has spent or obligated some $775 million. Reclamation, with a $3 billion slice of the plan, has spent about $400 million, But the $4.4 billion estimated over-all cost

of the Pick-Sloan plan is by no means the

total cost of all work planned for the Missouri basin. Other water-control projects have been added and other Javerament agencies-—notably the Agriculture partment have plunged in with their own schemes. By now the total estimated cost of the entire Missouri basin developments is more than $0.4 billion.

What Others Say—

AS it is now, we (the auto industry) rank equal with costume jewelry in importance in the nation’s’ economy. ~-0, E. WILSON, PRESIDENT, GENERAL MOTORS. * © : YOUR half-baked conclusions do not be. come your logic, Senator.

~JOHN L. LEWIS TO SEN. ROBERT TAFT. :

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

internationalist as Roosevelt, Truman and Wilson. They try to think of him as a Republican internationalist, like the late Sen, Arthur Vandenberg. ! “But will Ike be able to ‘sell’ his brand of internationalism to the Republican Party and a Republican Congress?” is the question being asked more and more.

Many of Ike's own statements make Euro-

peans a little uneasy. He's against permanently stationing American ground forces in Europe. He thinks ground divisions should be able to start home gradually

Cheaper by the Dozen

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foreign affairs pamphlet said that “Security of Europe against Russian attack and German domination depends on America being permanently involved on the continent.” > % : IKE IS against indefinite American financial aid to European nations for rearmament. He declared recently that “Europe must become self-sustaining in military manufactures at the earliest possible date.” For America to continue to be the primary source would wreck America’s own economy, he said. American’ aid has gone on so long since

By Talburt

RFC . . . By James M. Daniel

Mr. X Pulled Some Fast Deals

WASHINGTON, Apr. 19—The government

is investigating a New York accountant who doctored financial statemepts to make poor businegses look like good ones. : With the help of these inaccurate financial statements, the businesses got loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The current investigations mark the first time that the new regime at the RFC has looked into accountants who were involved in the old RFC regime's mistakes. : RFC investigators first became curious about Mr. X's activities when they discovered. the financial statement he Mad prepared for a New York company in 1048. . This false financial statement enabled the New York company to borrow $100,000 from

Investigation showed that Mr. X was not the company's regular accountant.

Went Busted Anyhow

THE regular accountant, just a year before, had reported a $3000 profit for the company. ~ Mr. X, when he moved in, reported a profit for the company of more than $130,000. He did this by exaggerating the company’s sales. So the sompany got its $100,000 from the

It went busted anyhow. It still owed .the.

RFC $30,000 at the time. The $100,000 loan had been recommended to the RFC board in Washington by the RFC’s New York office. (That oMice is now being run by new people, put in there by the new RFC regime.) i. The New “York office in 1948 either didn’t discover, or failed to report, that the company’s owners were in tax trouble. The Internal Revenue Bureau still wants $450,000 for unpaid 1945-46 taxes. Further study showed that Mr. X also pre-

WASHINGTON, Apr. 10— Maybe you know Allan B. Klein, the pig fancier. Possibly you are a member of his lodge, which is known as the Ameri. can Farm Bureau Federation. Has nearly 1,500,000. members. He's president. And a very surprising fellow he is, tgin With my own ears I hedrd him beg the government please not to be so doggoned generous to the farmers with the tax. payers’ money. Farmers also happen to be taxpayers, said he, and they're getting worried about the lavish schemes being cooked up for their benefit by some of our statesmen. I tell you, it was a pleasure to listen

‘PIGS IS PIGS . . . Farmer Tells U. S. to Go Easy on the Cash

pared a financial statement for a firm owned by

. the company that got the $100,000.

This second firm borrowed $75,000 from the

It went busted, too. And at the foreclosure, it turned out that all the company's assets were worth $14,000 less than it still owed the government. e RFC investigators have found out Mr. X isn't a certified public accountant, He had a CPA on his payroll. He also had a lawyer on tap for the necessary legal flourishes. Officers of a New York bank sent him several of his clients. Mr. X also turned up in records of - the Kefauver crime committee. : He was questioned by that committee about certain black market deals. A former Kefauver committee counsel! describes him as an “unfriendly” witness, In rummaging through their old records, the RFO invesitgators have found 12 other loan applications where Mr. X's name appears. Althogether the 12 applications were for $1,580,000 in RFC loans, Some of them were withdrawn. One was refused. Two were granted and then the appli cants decided not to borrow. In all, eight companies got $405,000.

Paid Off Loans

TWO COMPANIES paid off the balances on their loans rather than let the new people at the RFC examine their books. Others claimed they couldn't locate key records. In several cases, investigators found, the companies sald in their applications that they were going to pay Mr, X certain fees, but really paid him more, : One application involved a meat packing business which got big subsidies from the government during World War II. This company later went bankrupt and was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to sell inferior meat to the Army and Navy.

By Frederick C.- Othman

Robert 8. Kerr, the millionaire Senator from Oklahoma and presidential candidate. Sen. Kerr's idea is simplicity itself: , Merely have the government guarantee the farmers a profit on everything they grow, including pigs. This would be known as a 100 per cent of parity guarantee. Strikes farmer Klein as silly and also disastrous. Let that one become law, he told the statesmen, and the people who have to eat would be justified in demanding a 100

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per cent price-control system to match. Then where would we be? In a solid, socialistie box, tightly bound in federal

He didn't use exactly those words.” Nor did he actually say that Sen. Kerr had talked himself “out of the 1,452,210 votes of the bureau members. e statesmen still got the idea. Fact is, said our connoisseur of pigs, if the Congressmen really want to do something for the farmers, they kindly can cut the government's cost

that time at least for a couple of more years. ¢ © we

SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON himself testified recently that it was no longer possible to put a three-year time limit on the present rate of foreign aid spending, as was done a year ago. ‘ Despite these questions, however, there is no doubt in Europeans’ minds about Gen. Eisen. hower remaining an Internationalist. * They find consolation in Gen. Bradley's recent speech, which pointed”out that whoever becomes President, the basic elements of American foreign policy are so well established they would be impossible to upset. ‘|

Hoosier Forum

“| do not a with. a word that you say, bat | will Sofond to the death your right fo say it."

‘Don’t Hurt Dogs’

MR. EDITOR: Several weeks ago some one left their dog in this community, to keep from paying taxes, I suppose. It happens every year. The dog that I am talking about is gentle, playful with children, very affectionate and friendly with everybody, but would make a poor watch dog. He doesn’t bark at strangers. Saturday the dog came back bleeding and we discovered he had been shot with a rifle. I suppose the party who shot him called that

their good deed for the day? Some people get

mean streaks through them and they have to take it out on a dumb animal. If they don’t like dogs around, they should ignore them as dogs are smart enough to sense the fact they aren't wanted. Don’t stone or kick at them, It isn't necessary to shoot a dog unless he is mean, I don't believe in being mean to mals and I do consider anyone that and sneaking to boot. It's mean, unless the occasion demands it, They wouldn't want their pets abused either, Now, I'm going to be mean in wishing that the party or parties who did the sneaking trick doesn’t get any sleep for weeks and is hounded by his conscience. Aren't you ashamed? Don't forget there are children as well as dogs in this community, so don’t use them as your targets. And don't coax a behind a bullding to do your dirty work. That's sneaking.

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‘The Big Noise’

MR. EDITOR: I am writing to you in to the world's largest siren, and the article you wrote about it a few days ago. One writer wrote an article ‘a few months ago, expressing the hope we would get a siren many times larger than the one we had at that time. Well, now it is here, and I Hope they mount it beside her bedroom window, and Fiddle and Faddle plays it like a calliope all night, every night, until this lady Witter gets enough of this silly noise making I think this is the biggest farce to come about yet. I suppose, Mr. Editor, you think the public should stop every activity, and wait 15 or 20 minutes while a bunch of silly, mullett« headed, nilly willys try to play music on the great calliope. Now you can, set me down as against this foolishness and as one who will not co-operate until I am forced by law. "Now, just a word about the war effort. It seems to me that regardless of the effort required the newspapers and vote-hungry ticians will manage to get us in war, without the help of the public. Why don't you harp on something else for a change, for instance, peace

and good will, instead of war and hate and

suspicion. If I was as afraid of bombs as you groups pretend to be, I would go to some small, out-of-the-way town, and stay there.

=~Oscar Hilton, 1507 English Ave.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

MEMBERS of the American Society of Newspaper Editors called on President Truman at the National Museum, where most of them tried to put him four years ago,

A SENATE judiciary sub. committee has been appointed to bring in an unbiased opinion proving President Tru. man had no right to seize the steel mills,

SEN. TAFT now puts for. eign aid in third place on the defense agenda. If the Eisenhower campaign continues to click, he may cut it out ale together,

GOLD STANDARD guys are going to hol a convention in Washington, D. C., May re

More appropriate would be a funeral service at Ft. Knox. .

WHAT Sen. Kefauver's campaign needs most now is a new grin.

Sen. Taft + + + foreign aid

about $10 billion a year and balance the budget. The subject eventually and inevitably got around to pigs. Here was Mr. Klein in Wash. ington worrying about the politicos about six weeks ago, and there was his son, Bob, in

Towa, wo about. those a Sted ia, rather say e tho ey ought to be sold in a hurry. “I told him to keep them and quit reading the market reports for a couple of weeks,” sald Mr. Klein.

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~ But instead of paying the Air Force a reasonable price for these planes, in a direct deal, MDAP repaid the Air Force in kind by buying 11 used passenger planes from Pioneer Airlines. Pioneer was paid a price equal to its original investment in the planes. 8 Why did MDAP have to do business in such a round-

with the weather-beaten face, is no pent-house farm leader. He looks like a farmer. Out in Vinton, Iowa, he has 580 acres devoted to pigs. He likesthese beasts; they like him. Most of his acres at the moment are under water, but the

who . . . holds magic in her hand . . . all she a long time now befors I get must do to grant a wish . , . is wave her won- Bob /t6 respect my judgment drous wand . . . and you will find that you'll on pork prices.” possess . . , the things of which you're fond , .. Mr. Klein blamed the skid in ’ he pAnings to this land of d S$ . . . cannot the value of his ught for gold . . . but'it is gained by doin good . ., and living in God's fold . . . dein tee to one and all . . . that if great good you

’ : ket disrupted. Now so Dron ADY about manner? There must have been a‘simpler way to pigs (he sells $40,000 worth a do ... you'll be admitted to this land... marie! a. oa dterm get these planes, if they were so desperately needed. The ts sess Len Ee aiauds «7 WDSAD yur diane sv tn . Sor yo ars aro oMeious of this gov. Fa Senate Investigating Committee ought to be interested in WASNERTER, Ly vl a rig hey. NAAF..o and Appius will follow 30u ..e the production. of mates and | Bf tein Avet # 59. Shere Wers 50 Hany bends 18 MDAP's trial jy Ne Tui. dostur} Yor. fhatlbe o Chine ol. righ bast the farm relief scheme of & Har —Baden Burroughs. BY Jal, ho Esai 4 anariage Ya pi ao

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