Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1952 — Page 8

HENRY -W. MAN2Z . Business Manager

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Hokum in Agriculture ‘PRESIDENT TR likes the old adage that the best : defense is a good offense. ! Only, the way he does it is more than obvious. Mr. Truman had occasion to hand out some awards to employees of the Agriculture Department for the good ‘work they had done. . Then, while praising these employees, he proceeded to humiliate them by using the occasion to defend, or shield, the widespread scandals which have cropped up in this department. Scandals which the department consistently has tried to cover up or minimize. Scandals which never would have been plowed up had it not been for alert con. ‘gressional committees. The President takes the attitude that any criticism of the department is a criticism of the farm program. What"ever the merits of the farm program, the criticism has not been aimed at it—but at the dishonesty in its administra.

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Mr. Truman built up a shock of chaff, and then knocked it down. He said any idea that the farm program is “socialism” is “hokum.” And he implied that the headlines of wrong-doing in the department also were “hokum.”

BUT THERE is no “hokum” in the revelations which ‘so far indicate some $8 million in shortages in the governA , about the Egyptian cotton . broker who got inside tips from a department employee as ‘to when the government would be buying cotton at high ; There was no “hokum” in She disdloatre at the As “eulture Department leased six gr evators from priva “owners for $231,000 and then paid the same owners $045,000 to store grain in them. * There was no “hokum” in the way a mushroom com_pany, spearheaded by a Missouri politician, leased government facilities from the War Assets Administration and a few days later leased the same facilities back to the Agriculture Department for many times the original rental. "When it comes to “hokum” everybody is out of step but Harry.

in ‘the income tax law which now is barred to them. "The Internal Revenue Bureau has ruled that Congress- . men officially live both in Washington and in their home ‘districts. So, says the bureau, they may not deduct from their taxable jncome the sums they spend on travel or living in either place. a But businessmen, coming to Washington on errands of "real or fancied business, simply charge up their expenses to thelr concerns, which in turn deduct them from. their taxikble incomes. A Congressman, as things now stand, pays out of his own pocket—and pays taxes on what he spends. John McCormack, the Democratic Flook 1 Lauger in he House, proposed to eliminate this “disc on a Congress,” as he called it. He stuck an amendment on an appropriations bill to permit Congressmen to deduct their expenses in Washington, where they are or should be most of the time, from income tax returns. And the House adopted the amendment. This is going beyond the privileges granted husinessmen. It would permit Congressmen to deduct the bulk of their living expenses—not just the cost of a business trip ~—back home to see constituents, say. « And it was done in a sneaky way—-by being inverted in an important measure which had nothing to do with income taxes. SE :

» » . » » . * IT IS no secret that business and professional men all over the country are living fat and luxuriously on so-called ‘business missions because of these chinks in the income tax laws. - Congressmen, who can't charge off a lunch for a constituent, want to get in on this gravy—in a big way. But if the Congressmen are as election-minded as they seem to be, they would do better to reverse the McCormack proposal. Instead of climbing aboard the gravy train, they would stop it—for themselves and everybody else.

Tax Soaking Point THOSE were significant figures made public. the other day in a joint report of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, : The report shows that American manufacturing firms «last year set a new sales record. They sold goods worth more than $12 billion—a gain of nearly. 17 per cent over 1950. : “+ It shows that profits—before taxes—were 12 per cent ‘higher. But that profits—after taxes—were 12 per cent

. | ‘In other words, the more the profits the less the net. It does not follow that this is the time to cut taxes, «38 hecs ll thév are eating so heavily Into pronti IX 8 “must come from income, and profits are income. ‘The hig Got of the defense program requires high taxes. There is +no other way to pay for defense. a, . a BUT THE report does show how we are headed. When "taxes tend to wring the incentive out of any business, they tend to cripple production and discourage expansion. The gh standard of living which made this nation the power was built on production and continuous expansion. High taxation for rearmament needs no labored justi. : the nation is saved from aggression, no

on adamantly claims that no feduction g can be tolerated because of the emergency. emergencies that prudent spending becomes all urgent. No emergency can justify waste, or

they are in danger of reaching at which they begin to under

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LONG ODDS .. By John'W. Love ue Pressure To Remove Controls

WASHINGTON, May 17—Merchants, manu-

. facturers and farmers are going all out to get

Congress to do away with price and con trols, but there is little chance of thefr accom. plishing so much at this time. : Alternately, many members of their organizations would be satisfied if the law which authorizes controls were continued after it expires June 30, but with price controls kept on fce-for use only if inflationary trends reappear. Such a course would appeal deeply to the merchants. They have a lot of expensive work to do in conforming to the price contro: regulations, even though much of their merchandise now sells for less than ceiling prices. Some merchants appear to favor kecping the price control machinery as “the gun behind the door,” for use if another Korea broke out somewhere. Meantime, they and the farmers and industrialists see little use for controls at a time when there are few shortages,

RED SCARE . . . By Ludwell Denny Stalin’s Aim Is Appeasement

WABHINGTON, May 17-Stalin’'s war threats in Germany are beginning to frighten the peoples of Western Europe, though not the overnments, | If public pressure grows, it could force the Allied and West German governments back toward an appeasement policy. That has hap. Panes Deters. Obviously Stalin's purpose is to a Bo far, however, the result this time has been to stiffen ‘official policy against Soviet moves. Tuesday's identical notes from Washington, London and Paris to Moscow rejected Stalin's tricky proposals for a treaty to unify and ‘“neutralize” an armed Germany, anid reaffirmed Allied conditions for all-German free elections. Secretary of State Dean Acheson. here yesterday followed this with a warning that the Alig wil resist the threatened Red blockade

Aid Cut Reduced :

posal to cut the $7.0 $1.4 billion, instead of the $1 billion recommended by the Benate Foreign Relations Committee. ° Administration officials, deeply concerned over the proposed additional reduction, are watching closely the effects of Soviet warmongering on Congress. Hitherto Stalin has been 80 sensitive to American defense appropriations that he has temporarily turned. off his threats and turned on his “peace charm” during congressional debate. x now he is trying to prevent completion of the Allied-Bonn peace contract, which would free West Germany for participation in Furopean defense. With signing of that agreement scheduled for this month, Stalin lacks the time for putting on his usual dove act for Congress.

Appeasement Bogs

IN BRITAIN the Labor Party swing toward appeasement has slowed down this week. Earlier “Nye” Bevan's left Ning. on the basis of rowing popularity, forced the party executive effect to reverse the German rearmament licy ‘of the late British Labor government. t on Tuesday, the moderate leaders, #x-Prime Minister Attlee and ex-Foreign Secretary Mor‘vison, defeated Mr. Bevan's move to end bipartisan support of the Churchill government's policy toward Germany and Russia. ow the British public will respond to the latest Soviet provocations is not yet clear.

France Frightened

A NEW WAVE of “neutralism” is sweeping

or AT-THE- time, the Senate Armed Services Commi ted by one vote a proon arog aa

“ France, as indicated by reaction to the so-called

Fechteler affair. Le Monde, the most influential newspaper in the country, published a phony report attributed to the American naval chief that Russia could sweep across Europe in three days, forcing Allied defense down to the Mediterranean. Neither Fechteler denials, nor the presence of American divisions in. Germany, nor American subsidies for West European defense

"convince French neutralists that we are not

planning to desert them. Of course the greatest public fear of war is in Germany, which would be the first and worst battlefield. But if Stalin blockades Berlin and the Allies break it again, as in 1048, fickle European public opinion may respond to that Allied jeadership and defy Russia, Now neither sfde knows which way the reaction will go.

What Others Say—

LEADERSHIP--the keystone of all economic progress—freedom--rests, and will always rest, not with the “comimon man” but with the “uncommon man.” However, today the value of talent, imagination and enterprise . . . has been liquidated in large part by inflation, — Alfred P, Sloan, ehAlnman % board of GM. IN ORDER to keep morally fit, human nature needs to be kept in training by some devil or other; and our Western world today is having this indispensable, though very disagreeable, service performed for her by Russia—Arnold Toynbee, historian. %. PRESIDENT TRUMAN and his wheel horses wanted Taft re-elected as Senator in 1950 to build him up as Republican candidate for President in 1852, — Gus Hall, imprisoned national Seoretary of Comittunist Party.

ABIA is a place that Russians remember and

that Americans forget. —John Foster Dulles, adviser to the State Department.

SIDE GLANCES

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By Galbrait

All they seem likely to obtain at this session of Congress, though, are some amendments to the Defense Production Act, nong. of them ree

' moving their strongest objections.

The unanimity of feeling ‘on the business side may, however, .speed up the lifting of controls on dommodities ‘where pricés are substantially under their ceilings. Opposition to wage controls less vigorous here, Ta

noticeably of the feeling

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that they are tied to price controls. They are - hearings in March, on the same question of the

likely to stand or fall with price stabilization. © William J. Grede, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, complained bitterly to the House Banking Committee this week that wage controls have heen perverted by the Wage Stabilization Board into a force for inflation. This had been the result, he said, of that agency's efforts “at union appeasement.” The Senate Banking Committee held its

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LABOR UNREST . . . By Peter Edson Management Goes on Record

As Opposed to Union Shop

WASHINGTON, May 17—Leading U. B. employers like the railroads, the steel industry, General Electric, Boeing and Douglas aircraft companies, are now on record that they will resist to the end all efforts by organized labor leaders to impose the union shop on their collective bargaining agreements, = Bureau of Labor Statistics recently made a study of 2651 collective bargaining agreements, which were considered to be a fairly good crosssection of manufacturing and non-manufactur-ing industries, to try to get some idea of just how many union shop contracts exist. About five million workers were covered by the sample contracts stiidied. The result showed that close to three-fifths of the workers, under 1616 of the 2651 contracts studied, worked under union shop agreements. The study also showed that union shop agreements have steadily increased since 1949. :

Rails Still Wait

THE RAILWAY employees’ demand for a union shop contract is the oldest: case in the present controversy. In February, 1951, 17 nonoperating brotherhoods asked the carriers for a uniform union shop agreement. Fifteen months later, this matter is still pending, Settlement of wage and other working conditions might have been effected some months ago, if it were not for the union shop issue. The position of the employers is summarized in a brief filed by Washington lawyer Donald R. Richberg of their staff of counsel. “These carriers,” he says, “are opposed to any effort to establish company-maintained or supported unions, even when this aid is desired by the currently designated representatives of their employees.” » First of the Wage Stabilization Board recommendations for a union shop came:in the Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, Cal, and the Boeing, Wichita, Kas., cases. The CIO United Auto Workers is the union involved in both plants. Last October Douglas had a seven-week strike. Then the case was referred to Wage Stabilization Board. : In April, after all the other wage and fringe issues had been settled, President Donald W. Douglas sent a telegram to all members of Congress. It closed with this paragraph:

WASHINGTON, May 17—A

immigration laws has the Senate tied in knots and threatens hopes for a congressional adjournment before the national political conventions in July. Two groups are engaged in the struggle. One is headed by

Chairman Pat McCarran (D. * Nev.) of the Benate Judiciary

. » . » THE SECOND group is headed by Sens. Herbert Lehman (D. N. Y.) and Hubert

bill reflects something old Hitler Nordic mce theories. It is fighting for a bill of its own,

ators, has a two-part strategy. First, to try to send the disliked. McCarran bill back to the Judiciary Cemmittee—in effect, to kill it for this ses-

1080 MA Bren, bo, I . : sion, : Sond, to Jack this up "Same g | was thinking—buds on the trees, birds singing, many ments that . @ soft warm weather for baseball” gress would be here until ¥ Sa | 2 r : 4

battle over revision of U, 8.

The Lehman - Humphrey group, including 13 liberal sen-

. amendments have been offered

. “The company has told the union, its employees and the public that it has no intention of ever voluntarily granting the union shop, and

any so-called recommendations of the Wage

Stabilization Board do not ¢ our position.” The Boeing company went through a similar experience. In March the company signed a new contract with the union which covered all wage and working conditions, except the union shop. On that issue the contract says: “In event of failure to reach agreement on union security, the union may terminate the agreement by taking strike action.”

Upset Steel Settlement ’ STEEL “company representatives say pri-

vately they might have taken their chances on putting through wage and fringe raises, without any unusual increase in steel prices, if there had been no union shop provision. ‘ On this point, Clarence R. Randall, president of Inland Steel and spokesman for the employers in answering President Truman's radio talk on the steel mills seizure, declares: “We have a union shop in the coal mines which John Steelman (the assistant to President Truman) rammed down our throats after

the government seized. What experience I have «

had with the union shop in the coal mines does not lead me to want to see it instituted anywhere else, . . , If there is a single man working for us who does not want to join the union, the whole power of the American government should be thrown around protecting him in that right.”

GE Against Compulsion G. E. management has come to the conclu. sion that many of its highly skilled employees are fed up with inter-union warfare. Says Lemuel! E, Boulware, vice president in charge of employee relations: “General Electric has long been on record as opposed to all forms of compulsory union membership. The company has bargained often and long with various unions on this matter, But it has never heard any reason or argument advanced whieh would persuade the company to force G, E. employees to join a union.” While these typical statements do not cover the entire industrial front, they give a good indication of how determined a few of the bigger employers are to beat down this union shop issue today.

SENATE SNARLED . . + By.Charles. Lucey Immigration Laws Row May Delay Recess

He probably will be supported by many Democrats and most If he wins, the liberal group will have to decide how far to push its fight

Christmas wrestling with them. Already more than 100 Republicans.

and there's talk of another 100

extension of the Defense Production Act on which the controls rest. This week it voted to continue wage and price controls to Mar. 1, 1953. It also voted to revise drastically the Wage Stabilization Board and to take away its

"authority to settle labor disputes. The com-

mittee will take a final vote on the bill May 21. Among members of Congress who personally oppose continuation of controls, a strong feeling prevails that they can't risk voting against them in this political year, Too many are running for re-election, In addition, one Senator points out President Truman has so much money to spend that betv.een now and election day he could turn on a lot of inflation.

Hoosier Forum

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

MR. EDITOR: For nearly 20 years this once progressive country has jupmped from emergency to emergency. A few of these emergencies were real. Most of them were conceived in the minds of two Presidents—with subtle promptings from the Bocialistic and Communistic cliques, who have composed the “Palace Guard”-—and dedicated to the proposition of subjugating the traditional free will and initiative of a great people to the will of the state. Now we have come to the ultimate consequences of such a political movement—government seizure of private property. Government has encroached upon private enterprise step by step from political control of the nation's purse strings, through legislation affecting banking and market transactions, both in stocks and commodities, to this. Labor has been seduced by political promises to a point where its so-called leaders now rush to Washington for help from their fellow politiclans instead of honestly to develop a workable economic solution with labor’s natural partner, management. tite ees Government never has solved and cannot golve the problems of labor and management

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“in a free econnomy, Only the parties concerned

can do that, Little, selfish men in big positions can be the only answer. Stubborn, pig-headed management trying to hold onto the dictatorial powers of an age long past; avaricious labor leaders,

_drunk with the new wine of power pressed by an

alliance with demagogic politics—two silly boys who couldn't settle their own petty disagreements, Government, the perpetual encroacher on man's freedom, now threatens our lives. In the first Roosevelt administration, the Supreme Court was restaffed with men who, it was hoped, would be sympathetic to the plannedeconomy clique which seized the government

during a period of economic illness known as

the depression. = We have retrogressed until we have reached the pitiful pass where a government attorney had the unmitigated gall to assert that the executive may, at will, supersede our courts.

On that issue hangs our future—freedom or

slavery. Which shall it be? A little more than seven months from now, if the present government does not succeed in entrenching itself as a dictatorship, what may easily be our last free election will take place. In that brief period, the American people must decide whether it is worthwhile to remain free or Become slaves of a collective state. alking about it, looki the other way, shrugging one's shoulders ne suffice this i We must decide once and for all that this is a serious fight and gird ourselves for the battle of te centuries, e must not, shall not, fellow . mit this government—of the ae Seu, i ple, for the people—to perish from the earth. . —By W. H,, City.

‘Tell It All’ MR. EDITOR: In your recent review of the Indiana Artists’ Annual exhibition, you fall again into a rather common fault amoung the news journals. You put all the emphasis on the prize-winning element of the exhibition. Primarily, the Art Annual is not a contest, but an exhibition. There are many fine paintings and sculptures in these shows with no awards on them. Many of them will please and delight discerning art-lovers quite as much as—often more than—the -p winners. A distinguished art critic recently observed that only the simple and the very innocent nowadays take art Pr very seriously. y does not The Indianapolis Times se a reporter to John Herron Art Institute sens has some understanding of art, and enough real enthusiasm for it, to examine it all and record for us some genuine impressions? Why not give us something more than a humdrum report of another man’s opinion, a dry listing of the winners who struck the jurymen’s fancy? By Grant K. Kent, Mishawaka

Public Property? MR. EDITOR: : I hear a lot of talk about this steel strike.

-The steel men say the government has no cons

stitutional authority to seize private property. Are the’ steel mills private property or public property? Public property is pertaining to the people at large, open to all the people collectively. If this is right the government, in my opinfon, has the right to seize the steel mills and protect the public. Isn't that right? ~—Charles Bell, Cambridge EDITOR'S NOTE: The steel mills are private property.

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important racial diseriminations, give priority to aliens se 8 knowl or skifls would help the U. 8. and ioughes present bans on unble aliens.

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