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Not Fair Enough ETS ‘SET straight that misnomer, “fair trade.” It's the name given to a practice which enables a manufacturer and a retailer to agree on the price that must be charged for a product in a “fair trade” state. Other retailers in that state can’t sell the same product —a tube of toothpaste, for example—at a lower price, even though they want to and can do so profitably. If they do, they're liable to prosecution. That's the kind of compulsory price fixing a few thousand special-interest boys are trying to work on millions of consumers under the guise of that sugar-sweet, high-sound-ing “fair trade” approach. This fight has been going on for years. In 1937, Congress gave a go ahead to the “fair traders” by exempting price-fixing contracts signed under state “fair trade” legislation from federal anti-trust laws. For 14 years the price fixers were sitting pretty. And today only the District of Columbia, Texas, Vermont and Missouri do not have such laws. Last year, however, the U. S. Supreme Court kayoed the federal law which protected the price-fixing system. Now the mis-named “fair traders” are back, asking that their grab be legalized again. ;

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“were higher in “fair trade” states than in the District of Columbia or any of the states without “fair trade” laws. Congress should not over-rule the Supreme Court. Instead, it should give the “fair trade” proposals the treatment they deserve—overwhelming defeat.

Jingo-ism in Japan (COMING SO soon after Japan regained her sovereignty, there is something ominous in her claim that she is entitled to return of her property in Korea and that Korea pay indemnities for damages “arising out of the Korean incident.” Japanese property in Korea was legally confiscated by the American Military Government in 1945. It was subsequently transferred to the Koreans. The United States and the Republic of Korea ratified that agreement when American forces were withdrawn in 1948. Japan says she recognizes the validity of that arrangement. But she still wants her property back—with interest for damage inflicted by free men fighting Communist aggression. What is happening is obvious. The Japanese again are feeling their oats. Having “owned” the Koreans for 50 years, they feel they can still push them around. But Korea has friends. Japan's claims are directed not only at the beleaguered little republic. They hit at the U. 8. and the United Nations as well. This is not what the free world expected of the “new” Japan. It smacks of the jingo-ism of the past. It is just as well that Japan realize that now. It is not Korea that is on trial before world opinion. It is Japan.

‘All I've Done—' N ALL the welter of dismal, sordid, confused and unhappy news that seems to be the world's lot these fast-moving days, it is stimulating to note the selection of Mrs. Toy Len Goon as “Mother of the Year.” This immigrant lady from China for years has been running a laundry in Portland, Me., to support and educate the eight fine Americans she has raised. Although she is without a formal education, she-has one son who is a doctor, another a teacher, one.a merchant and one in the Armed Forces. - A daughter is a government employee and two younger girls are in school. “All I've done,” she says, “is train my children to the best of my ability.” : That's “all.” But it is what has made this country, especially. since there are so many other mothers just like. her. Nothing could be more American.

An Eminent Leader TF LUIS MUNOZ MARIN, the brilliant governor of Puerto Rico, had been born a New Yorker or a Californian, he undoubtedly would have been an eminent leader in the United States. 2 Mr. Munoz Marin is in Washington, asking Congress to ratify a new constitution for the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. His audiences there have been practically unanimous in judging him one of the great speakers of our time and a statesman of distinctive abilities. The governor came neither with his hand out nor a chip on his shoulder. He came merely asking the right of his people to self-government in their domestic affairs. His people, he said, are proud to be Americans; and the mother country’s “show window" in Latin America. Congress need have no hesitancy in ratifying the island's: new constitution—for it is in the American tradition that the Puerto Ricans should be granted self-govern-ment. ’

Tip-Off for Kingmakers 8 THE primary returns pile up in the 1952 presidential ~ preliminaries, one thing becomes increasingly clear: The people are doing their own choosing. Most of the voters are about fed up with political machines. In Ohio and Florida this week, Sen. Estes Kefauver of ' those states’ Yet he won half of Ohio's Democratic delegates and ran a southern favorite, Sen. Richard B. Russell, a good race in Florida. . Republican voters in Ohio nominated Charles P. Taft, younger brother of the presidential candidate, although the Jel tre GOP machine in his home city of Cincin-

gainst him. And he carried Cincinnati. : egates to the national conventions, and the leaders who like to throw their weight around, would do well to

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Than in 39 WASHINGTON, May 8-Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed today that large groups of American wage earners should be in somewhat better financial shape than they were in 1939, even though

today’s dollar buys only a little more than half as much as it did then.

The subject has been pointed up by the probability that 650,000 or more steelworkers eventually will get a sizable wage boost. Despite labeling of the CIO steelworkers wage drive as a “catch-up” effort, many people anticipate that the final steel outcome will bring new wage demands in many industrial fields. The BLS figures show that the 12.7 million production workers in all manufacturing industries, including steel, earned an average of $67 a week in January of this-year. In 1939, the same workers averaged $23.86.

Better Off Now

TODAY'S $67 will buy what $35.26 bought in 1939, according to the BLS cost of living figures. Theoretically, at least, th: average factory worker should be better off now by $11.40 a week-—or about $5.98, if you're speaking about the 1939 dollar. Bituminous coal miners—nearly a half milfon of them-—appear to have done as well as any other large industrial group. In 1939, their average weekly pay was $23.88. This year in January, it was $86.99—which will buy now .as much as $45.73 did in 1939. For employees in power laundries—the only sther large group for which BLS has worked out comparative figures—weekly earnings in 1939 were $17.69. In January, they were $38.60, which is equal to $20.29 in 1939 purchasing

power.

Unions Included

THESE figures include both union and nonunion workers, but they cover fields in which unions have been active, There would he different comparisons, probably not so favorable to the individual worker, Jor fields In which unions have been less successful. The BLS fi ferentials, etc. They take no account of deductions for social security, today’s higher income taxes, union dues or other items. Anyone can make the same comparison fot himself by multiplying his present weekly income by 52}; cents. The result will be roughly the 1939 worth of what he makes now, Higher taxes then are to be deducted. The final figure may be disturbing, particularly to unorganized white-collar people.

Inflationary Result ALL OF THAT, officials point out, is part

of tha Inflationary movement of the past dozen

years. BLS has some other figures, somewhat outdated now, which make further comparisons. The factory worker with no dependents who earned $63.88 a week in December, 1950, could figure that he was getting $53.67 in ‘net spendable” dollars that month, but only $298.84 in 1939 dollars. The factory worker with three dependents and the same gross income was recelving $60.75 in “net spendable” dollars and $33.75 in 1939 dollars. The difference between the two workers is accounted for by income taxes,

What Others Say—

EDUCATION is organic to life, and not just pasted on life like a shin plaster.—Rev. Matthew M. Warren of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga. LA ER 2

NOBODY has been more misrepresented than George Bernard Shaw. I think we should ‘have another society to save Shaw from his friends.—Lady Astor. * Oo . & I DON'T know who first sold a woman on the theory that you can’t combine marriage and a career, but men who've been doing it for centuries obviously have proved that {dea unbeatable—Ginger Rogers, actress.

THE VENDOR

HE GOES about from place to place . , . displaying all his wares , . . you'll find him at the baseball games . . . or at the county fairs + +» « he sells hot dogs and soda pop . . . and wears a coat of white . . . and when he tells about his wares . . . he shouts with all his might “ «+ +» It's rough on lungs and legs as well , , . to work the way he must . . . and too, the weather must be clear . . . or his day is a bust

«++ he is a favorite of all kids . . . who patron-

ize his stand . . . and he Is known by. young and old , . . throughout this mighty land . . . and no doublt he will always be . . . 3 word upon life’s page . . . for he is firmly rooted on , , . this fast revolving stage. vee sense ~ ~-By Ben Burroughs.

TREATY ... By Jim G. Lucas

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WASHINGTON, May 8—All I know for sure about this deal is that 42,750,000 pounds of rice, boiled, should make the underpinning for a lot of chop suey. SL The situation otherwise- is

‘as confused as the ingredients

of an Oriental stew and I have no certain idea that we taxpayers actually were skunked out of $731,192.03. It may be that we just robbed our right pocket to pay our left. So let us listen, fellow chow mein fanciers, to Fred -D. Entermille, who was charged among other things in 1949 with supporting the price of rice. Sparsely thatched, wearing gold -rimmed eyeglasses and fiddling nervously with a yellow pencil, Agriculture Department expert Entermille said yes, he did buy 427,500 bags of milled rice weighing 100 pounds each from a co-op-erative known as the Califor nia Rice Growers Association, He paid, he said, $6.85 per bag. Cold cash. Then he looked around for a customer. Nobody needed that much rice except the Army, which then was using it to feed the Japs. The Army was

«coy. It offered $5 per bag. Take

it or leave it. Fred took it. The loss on the books thus came to nearly three-quarters of . million. A small price, Fred figured, for keeping the rice growers of California solvent. You can imagine his, surprise when he learned that 85 per cent of the rice he bought came from three commercial millers, who had no right to price supports. The farmers long since had been paid the going rate for their crop: they got none of Fred's support money. There were investigations all over the lot, including one by the FBI. So the rice folks in California were Indicted on charges of fraud and restraint of trade. The trial on the latter charge was last December, and who

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do you,think went to California to testify as the govern— ment’'s rice expert? Our Freq; of course. Well, sir, he told the jury that he'd urged the Californians to round up some rice to take care of the feeding emergency in Japan. He indicated in almost as many words that

. they’d performed a patriotic

duty. The jury acquitted them.

Fred returned to the marble -

corridors of Washington, where rice costs 15 cents a small dab in the basement cafeterias. The Senate Agriculture Committee was not satisfied. It

called Fred up for more expla- .

nations. He said he never did urge the Western operators to hurry him some rice. The Senators were dumbfounded. “It was a criminal trial” said Paul Cotter, the committee counsel. “You were under oath. You testified you urged George’ Brewer (the co-op

. By Frederick C. Othman

“Rice Deal Mixed Up, So Is Witness

CAMPAIGN ... By Charles Lucey

WASHINGTON, May 8 — Like hurdlers taking the jumps, the field of presidential aspirants barely touched ground after the Ohio and Florida primaries when they were off today for tests ahead in West Virginia and Oregon.

Already Sen. Taft was in ~

West Virginia, ‘bidding for 16 Republican delegates to. be chosen next Tuesday. Sen, Estes Kefauver hreezed in and out of New Jersey, did a turn in upstate New York and began to pack his gear for the West Coast. He keynotes a Utah State Democratic conven-tion-Saturday, then goes on to Oregon and California to shake a lot of hands. » ” ” SEN. RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Florida victor, by <a - * -

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MR. EDITOR: . Thére is so much political - maneuvering, half truths and no truths at all concerning the act of the President of the United States in the seizure of the steel mills, that it is impossible for the average citizen to formulate a clear picture, and arrive at a just decision on this question. , To me this seems to be an act in the ine

Tennessee was opposed by the Democratic organizations of

WASHINGTON, May 8-—Ja-pan, recently restored to sovereignty after six years of occupation, has begun to question important decisions made by American military government after her defeat in World War IIL She wants back the property she once held in Korea. Not only that, she wants the Koreans to restore that property. to its “original state” and agree to pay indemmnities for damages “arising out of the Korean incident.” ' When American forces occupied Korea in 1945, Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge ordered confiscation of “all gold, silver, platInum, currency, securities, accounts in financial institutions, credits, valuable papers and any other property ... owned or controlled by the government of Japan or any of fits nationals.” " » ~ THAT INCLUDED practically everything of value in Korea. ' Later, Gen. Hodge re-

leased confiscated Japanese

assets to the republic of Korea. Some of it now is privately owned. When American occupation forces were withdrawn in 1948, the U. 8. and the Republic of Korea agreed to “recognize and ratify such disposition of former Japanese public and private property.. . . as has already been effected by the United States Army mili-

tary government in Korea. . .”

Since last fall, Japan and Korea have tried to draft a peace treaty whereby the two

and Jesogmise the 8s sovereignty. Jap-

however, insist

turn of their property. Negotiations have all but collapsed. » - - IN A “statement of basic principles,” the Japanese forelgn office says, on the one hand, that it “recognizes the validity of the disposition of the property of Japan and Japanese nationals made by the U. 8. military government in Korea.” But, on the other, it “does not waive original rights and claims to such property.”

“Unless Japan waives such rights and claims,” the document sets forth, “they continue to exist as a matter of course.” The foreign office document declares that “Japanese property, rights and interests in Korea should be recognized. + + + Furthermore (Japan) intends to include provisions concerning responsibility for damage or destruction inflicted upon Japanese property arising out of the Korean incident. She requests Korea to take necessary steps to restore the original state of the property,

‘to pay indemnity and to make

pocsible the execution of (Japanese) rights.”

. - n FORMER Japanese property fn Korea includes railroads; shipping, utilities and public buildings. All have been destroyed during the Korean War. To restore it would cost billions of dollars.

Dr. You Chan Yong, Korean ambassador to Washington who headed the Korean delegation to Tokyo, said Japan's claims are “in effect directed against the United States and the United Nations.” He said to, recognize them would be “tantamount to turning Korea back to the Japanese.” ~~ “In view of our long and in-

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Japanese acquired this property—by duress, bribery, terror and other methods of the police state—it is interesting to find in the Japanese statement a pious reference to the princi-

, ples of international law,” he

said. mw “SINCE the military action in Korea to stop Communist aggression is being carried on by the United Nations; many. no doubt will be surprised to learn that their late enemy, Japan,, apparently intends to

all these re inthe ‘re mostly iband fixed himself" |

have been had Japan made her intentions clear to the

~ United Nations during the San

Francisco conference or even when the matter was under consideration in the American

. Senate. . , . I have told nego-

tiators for the Japanese government frankly that if they persist in these claims there can be no treaty of friendship

between Japan and.the Repub-

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have threatened to expel the Korean diplomatic mission in

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Pine's decision, Justice Hugo Black might be found with the majority.

sn.» : CHIEF JUSTICE Fred Vin-

- son and Justice Robert Jack- _ son; Democrats, along wi ‘Justice Harold Burton, the only Republican on the Supreme Court, are generally

rated as its conservative back-

bone, : While the chief justice 1s a close friend of President Truman, and while Justices. Bur. ton, Reed and Minton were - also Truman appointees, there is an acute awareness that the

Court may be operat in a Republican DE mo :

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terest of all the people over a small minority group, the steel mills, and is entirely within the power of the President as defined in the Constitution. Among other things as laid down by the Constitution as the President's duty is to the general welfare, even if it does check the general welfare. Any act that is for the good of the masses is bound to be in the interest of the general welfare, even if it does check the liberty of a strong minority group, which clearly 18 what this act did. To promote the general welfare is the keystone of the Con~ stitution on which all other acts hinge and become a part. The Constitution itself was written for this purpose.” “ &. @& SINCE Dec. 15, 1951, the steel workers have been working without a contract because the mill owners refused to negotiate. By government orders they have been restrained from striking up to the present time. In this way they were deprived of their only weapon with which they might get some measure of justice, The purely political criticism and censure that has grown out of the act is doing irreparable harm to our government. The contempt for the government of the United States that the Republican Party is showing dould lead to almost anything and if carried on at the present low level will add greatly to the strength of the Communists. The politicians are forever telling us of the dire danger of communism es but they do not seem to realize that they : Cost, themselves are the chief cause of this, ASE EAA Breer: sR DOR BT a rR SAR eed Si a aa CGE AEC OUR SOLDIERS on the battle field will suffer from the action of the mill -owners backed by Taft and other powerful political agents. They seem to have no regard for the welfare of our nation and are only interested 3 in slinging mud at President T§uman. Mud manager) to deliver the rice in . created by the Ingenuity of their own twisted the emergency. Here this thinking. President Truman, in order to honor morning, also under oath, you his oath of office and his position as President, testified you never did ask him was compelled to take some action. The Conto deliver it.” stitution forbids involuntary servitude. The Poor Fred. He flushed scar- gpposition-seems- to favor some such measure. oH ana sqteesed ; his wrist 1, fact anything just so it is in favor of the ya rr mL. S ym iy mill owners, Since the mill owners would not | ta oT ajo tia Hv | Ang, Agree to continue the production of steel, the anyhow, it was hard to say President was forced to take some action in the how he felt then, when he feels Pest interest of our nation and prevent a. colthe way he does now. lapse of our war effort and Communist opposiThé Californians still must tion. He took the only course open to him by face that fraud indictment. The provision of the Constitution to promote the government wants back its Seneral welfare. $731,192.03. Only the Japa- The Intelligence of our people has reached nese long since have eaten the such a high standard that.they are not likely rice. And if the Army hadn’t to permit any group of men to channel their been so hard-boiled, maybe it thinking into illogical, corrupt and deceiving would have paid the full price grooves. Surely the politicians will some day per bag. Then there'd have wake up to this fact. = wo loss: a as Pred. who, —By Theo B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St., City keh Soraping from the Senaors, a glass of ice wa- : ter and went Agni 'I doubt Agrees on Trolleys he ordered rice. MR. EDITOR: After reading the article in The Times on Apr. 26 by D. E. Gregory I will have to agree with him as regards the crowded trolleys and busses, especially during the rush hours. I don’t know what reports the checkers turn in to Indianapolis Street Railways, but I have to believe what I see, and brother, they are crowded, I have ridden both and, in my opinion, the trolleys widening margin over Mr. are the-worst of a vs Worle the rush period. Kefauver, sails off in a couple ANYONE with on "a days for a Los Angeles - ; an ounce of brains knows the a Monday, and OR, Tee! service will not be any better. Improved transit ’ an- service means more cars im operation, and that cisco meeting Wednesday. naturally means more operators, and just where He'll he in Pittsburgh May 15, are they coming from, with the Indianapolis in Charlotte, N. C. the next allways in need of both? And any improved day. His aids already are pro- service that should be attempted would be only gramming still anpther tri sporadic, for that is the way it has always been, trip 10 and what assurance have we riders of the West Coast and a s i Theis and a schedule change for the better? With th of vote hunting in the Mid- pata orf e fare increases Swest. ng absorbed by wage increases, who would Harold Stassen. beaters bad- pay for the improved service, if any? lv in a whole string of pri- oe 0 . maries, quits hard. He'll be TAKE A LOOK into the future. With Indiancampaigning in both West apolis Street Railways’ employees getting periVirginia and Oregon. odic wage raises, and the corporation “passing The presidential primary the buck” to the riding public, what will the tests will "continue nearly a riders be paying in fares two or three years month. The close-outs are in from now? When is the merry-go-round going California and South Dakota to stop? There is a limit to everything. June 3. - ~Fred Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave. GUESSING GAME . . . By Peter Edson Odds Against Trum In Steel Case Test WASHINGTON, May 8— ticular, the 8 : Trying to dope out what the never has ® une Coury Supreme Court decision and um. But a unanimous decision, vote will be in the steel in- Sustaining Judge Pine, would dustry seizure case is the best be a surprise. guessing game in Washington. # 's = Odds seem to favor a six-to- MAJOR POLITICAL interthree decision against thé gov- est for the merry month of ernment. May will center on state poThis would sustain Federal litical conventions—13 RepubJudge David A. Pine’s original 1ican and 14 Democratie. decision, ordering the seized 1OUShly a fourth of the conmills returned to private man- Yention delegates are to be agement. It would be a far- pamed These state convenreaching decision that the g;4 po Republicans and President does not have the They rials. tient bo constitutional” power to seize (po machine can Ia Aes And private property, even during jt is probable that they wil an emergency. Many lawyers hold the balance of feel this is such a sound 1aw the delegates pl gg over It can't by upset, and pledged in state fed THE three Justices expected With to vote to sustain the govern- and first ar 9: LNAIYIARY ment are Douglas, Minton and‘ of the road only five more state Reed. If the decision is handed primaries are left to be fr down by a five-to-four vote, Republican delegates S Jugey Justice Hugo Black might join —in four primaries—are 118, * this trio, : Democratic 132. This is the yt e) a isin 8 way, Riv Hne-up: . ’ ~~ “4 Tom Clark might be counted Republien. Ter LPLA: 16 with this group. If the vate is entered; 20 Democra six to three to ovebrule Judge tries. ts, 20 on-

8. MAY 16—Oregon: 18 Repub-

lican, Eisenhower, Staaten, Warren, MacArthur Sen. Wayne Morse entered. Some delegates believed secretly

pledged to Taft; 12 Democrat,

Kefauver, Stevenson and Ji tice Douglas entered. : May 27—Florida second primary: 24 Democrat, Kefauver and Russell pledged d be be, chosen; no

publican, Warren and Rep. T.

mary. June 3-—California: 70 Re--

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