Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1952 — Page 10

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Out of Your Pocket

ITS HARD TO GET OUT OF MIND one staggering sentence in Bernard Baruch's talk to the Armed Forces Industrial College in Washington last week. Mr. Baruch was discussing the failure of the Truman administration to move effectively against the causes of inflation after the s{art of the Korean War, and how that failure has raised the cost of thé defense program. Then Mr. Baruch said: © “By the end of the next fiscal year, more than $20 billion will have been poured down the rathole of inflation —needlessly.” Twenty billion dollars is a lot of money. Most of us casually pass over such a figure as something that has to do with that vague term “high finance,” and, therefore, of no particular concern of ours. But this $20 billion was—and is—all yours, every dime of it. It amounts to more than $133 for every man, woman and child in the country—or $665 for a family of five. A family of five could do a lot with an extra $665— even today, with the high prices the Truman administration's negligence helped bring about. Father, for example, could buy a new ($55) summer suit. Mother could get a couple of very nice cotton dresses for $40. Another $20 could go for new bathing suits for the children. Everybody n the family could have a $25 defense bond. : With all of Gat there still would remain $456. 25 to apply to the family vacation trip. Unfortunately, those things can’t come from your share of that $20 billion. As Mr. Baruch said, that money is being spent as “a needless tribute to inflation.” A tribute which you and everybody else in the country must make, And a tribute which grows larger every time the government needlessly spends a dollar, whether that expenditure be due to inflation, extravagance or waste.

Calm, Judicious Attitudes PRESIDENT TRUMAN, in a Washington speech Saturday night, said the Republican Party leadership “didn’t have to get mixed up” in the steel dispute at all. “The Republican leaders could have taken a calm, judicious attitude and weighed both sides and decided where the merits lie,” Mr. Truman said. The same “calm, judicious attitude,” no doubt, which the President assumed when he seized the industry because it would not grant the wage raises voted by his Wage Stabilisation Board. @ same “calm, judicious attitude,” doubtless, Vice President Barkley displayed when he told the Steelworkers convention it was “un-American” to differ with the wage board's decision. The same “calm, judicious attitude,” probably, shown by that other “impartial” government official—Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin—who said he was “heart and soul” with the union in this dispute. The same “calm, judicious attitude” as. CIO President Philip Murray exhibited when he accused Commerce Secretary Sawyer, temporary “czar” of the steel industry, of “an almost unthinkable degree of bias” because he called Mr. Murray's attention tp some “sporadic damage’ which occurred when the steel plants were shut down after Judge Pines antiseizure decision. And like Mr. Murray's assertion that the steel industry —whose leaders he called “those big baboons”—could “go to hell” if it didn’t grant the concessions approved by the wage board. If the steel dispute gets much more of this type of “calm, judicious attitude,” Mr. Murray's blunt admonition

to the industry might come to pass.

‘Chair Corps’ Cut

ARMY has decided it no longer can afford to use valuable and highly trained officers and enlisted men in “chair corps” jobs which can be filled by civilians or WACs. Gen. A. C. McAuliffe, head of Army Personnel, has reported on a test program at Ft. Knox where some 2250 officers and men have been freed for assignment to more vital military tasks, In addition, more than 2000 World War II and Korean disabled veterans—many of them amputees—have been returned to full duty after a program of carefully tailortheir physical qualifications to specific jobs. ° Gen. McAuliffe said the experiments have been successfui and the program will be expanded. It should be. The United States, numerically inferior to Russia, no longer can enjoy the luxury of misusing its manpower. ¢ Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Jim G. Lucas, who saw first-hand the desperate need for trained soldiers in Korea, ted out the waste of manpower in the Armed Forces ina series of articles a year ago. He deserves a great deal of credit for his part in urging the Army to make better us. of its men.

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MAN MISSILE . ‘ee By. Jim G. Lucas

Human Pilots Can't Keep Up

WASHINGTON, May 19—Are military pilots becoming obsolete? Are 46,000 Air Force and 18, 700 Navy and Marine fliers soon to be unemployed? { ome important men in the aviation industry think so. One is J. H, (Dutch) Kindleberger, board chairman of North American Aviation, Ihe. Mr: Kindleberger. designed and produced the F-86 Sabrejet now used against Russian MIGs in Korea. He's convinced we'll fight our future air wars from the ground. Guided missiles will replace human pilots, he says. “It is quite evident,” Mr, Kindleberger says . that our flying machines are rapidly approaching capabilities that are penalized rather than aided by the presence of a human pilot. We are heing forced closer and closer to the concept of leaving the pilot out , . . ”

The trend can be arrested, he said, only “by

world peace or worl destruction.”

Proof in Korea

Mr, Kindleberger said Korea demonstrates that humans simply clutter up jet airplanes. “At an altitude of eight miles,” he explained, “the pilot and his plane are in a thin, cold atmosphere. The temperature is about 60 degrees below zero. The pressure is two pounds per square inch, compared ‘with 15 at sea level. “Breathing free (up there), the pilot could remain conscious about 30 seconds. He could survive only a few minutes. He must be enclpsed in a heated, pressurized compartment. He must have pure oxygen pushed into his lungs under pressure. The thin air also affects the engine . . . therefore (he) must plan every maneuver with delicate precision,

And a Tummy Ache

“HE FINDS himself packed into the sleek fuselage of a jet fighter with 100 contréls to operate and 24 instruments plus dozens of hi dicators and warning lights to match. In the fuselage with him is an electrical or electronics gear equal in complexity to the circuits of a city power system, a radio and a television

“broadcasting station, and the fire control system

of a battleship. “Under, around and behind him run hydraulic lines, fuel lines, cooling and heating ducts and oxygen lines. A few feet away is a giant blowtorch developing as much power as three large diesel locomotives. And there he sita-—-loaded with protective clothing, parachute, G-suit, crash helmet, oxygen mask and a bellyache caused by expansion of gases in his body. “His senses are inadequate. His and the enemy airplane -are moving fast. His perception is impaired . . , even the horizon is just an indistinct haze . . . the sky above is a very dark blue in which it is almost impossible to see unless he catches a glint of sun on metal. His reactions are often too slow for proper control of his plane and guns.

Calls for Courage “IN THE back of his mind always is the emergency .in which he may have to leave his plane, after which comes the prospect of a perilous and very cold descent into enemy territory. This is the kind of fighting, certainly, which separates the men from the boys. I have a high respect for the courage of any jet pilot in Korea. especially an ace . He will not say when Sarhoers will be replaced by intercontinental guided missiles. “It would be a military secret if I knew™ he said, “the important thing is to know it is coming.”

What Others Say—

THE GREAT question in religion has ‘been, during my lifetime and back of that for several thousand years—do you believe in God? The great question of future religion will be—do you believe in man?—Dr. Charles Francis Potter, founder of Humanism. : $ 9 ALL WE can say of American education is

that it's a colossal housing project designed to,

keep voung people out of worse places until they are able to go to work—Robert Hutchins, educator, Ford Foundation executive,

A CONFERENCE is a group of people with no information who get together and pool their ignorance. The only thing that will stop a conference is one man who knows what to do. —Charles Low, inventor,

BABY LOVE THE love of little children . . . 1s wonderful and true . . , it is the kind of love that's pure ++ + 8 love that's always new , , . for children love with all their heart . . . and all of them depend . . . upon the object of their love . . . to help them till the end . . . children hold no emotion back . . . they're free with smiles and tears . . . and when something perplexes them + + « they show their doubts and fears . we all could learn. a heap of things ... from little kids at play . . . like truth and real sincerity . . . that they alone convey . , . for to my mind the truest love .. . a heart can ever hold . . . Is the affectionate unselfish love . . . of a little 5-year-old. —By Ben Burroughs.

BOOKIE . . . By Andrew Tully

In Harry Gross’ World

Season's Catch

LOVE NOTES -. . By Frederick C. Othman Congress Buys Machine to End Bottleneck in Mailing Letters

WASHINGTON, May 19—You had any mail from your Congressman lately? Do not despair. Love notes from your lawmaker will be on their way, postage free, as soon as we can iron out a little production problem in the bowels of the U. 8, Capitol.

There stand row upon row of clerks at tables, folding the golden words of the statesmen and stuffing them into envelopes for mailing to their constituents. That's the way it's always been done and nobody paid much attention until Rep. Fred E. Busbey (R. Ill.) dropped down to see whether he could get the stuffers to do a rush job on a few billets-doux of his.

He only had 10,000 letters to mail, was all, and he was in a hurry. Well, sir, the foreman in charge of licking ationss for Congressmen said he'd certainly like'to help out the gentleman from Chicago on his few little letters, but there was a kind of a backlog, sort of.

Six Weeks Behind

THERE WERE, in fact, 2,250,000 congressional mailing pieces ahead of his, waiting to be folded, stuffed, and licked. This man said he doubted if his helpers could get around to Rep. Busbey's hefore six weeks.

So Rep. Bushey did some snooping. He discovered that 50 of his cohorts were making like newspaper reporters and sending out news letters -to their constituents, some of them at the rate of 10,000 per week per each. An awful lot of folding and licking, Rep. Busbey reasoned. He complained to Speaker Sam Rayburn who, of course, appointed a. committee to investigate, The investigators vestigated in person. #1 think they were surprised to find that millions of pieces of mail were being processed by hand one piece at a time in the folding room,” Rep. Busbey said. This was inefficient. It was costly. And it raised callouses on the hands of the help, Still the mail piled up on the floor. Rep. Bushey blamed the celebrated doorkeeper of the House Fishbait Miller, for .not hiring more folders and lickers. Mr. Fishbait rushed out and got some on a piece-work basis. Last month he had 86 extrg stuffers stuffing at a fraction of a cent per stuff. Cost: $11,524.77. I am pleased to report to you who have had any mail lately from your Congressman that this situation is about to be solved. Congress has ordered some mjchinery that folds, stuffs, and licks letters at a prodigious rate.

When - these get going, Mr. Fishbait can fire some of the help and it may even be pos-

SIDE GLANCES

gible to take part of his sanctum for enlarging the official cafeteria. One of the troubles here is that too many statesmen and clerks drop down for a cup of coffee, over which they dawdle, while the honestly hungry stand in line and wait. Or so said Rep. Busbey. He's not against coffee drinking, you understand. All he wants is a special place for it, like maybe the back end of the folding room. Let us turn now inevitably to that literary monument, the Congressional “Record, daily compendium of gentlemanly doings. Each Congressman is entitled to three bound sets of this every year at a cost of $38 each. Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D. Fla.) said that since most of his cohorts never did even read one set, they ought to be able to get along with twe. Would save the taxpayers $16,644 a year.

Terrific Waste

REP. BUSBEY agreed this was a good idea. He wondered if everybody'd seen the vast room piled to the ceiling with records from years back? All waste paper and, he added, a ter-._ rible waste of maney. “And also storage space,” said Rep. Bennett. 1 regret to report, taxpayers, that the gentlemen voted down this idea. Thirty-three agin; 20 for. Each gent will continue to get three sets of records. Elegant for door stops, attic insulation, and furnace lighting.

Barbs—

IN DROUGHT times the sky makes a perfect covering on hot Highte, No leaks! @»

A LOT of drastic steps are being taken this summer—many of them on the dance floors. So bb

THERE are gaid te be fewer whales than there used to be. Maybe some of the fishermen’s stories are true, after all. de bh IF WE did everything we say we are going to do, our time would be wien up from now on. “GIRL WEEPS Eleven Hours” —headline, And we'll bet she got te wm coat she wanted.

ON SATURDAY nights, when you put too much into them the goblets will get you if you don’t watch out.

By Galbraith ' Steel

SEIEENEEITINRITINNES

[Hoosier Form

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

It Can Happen to Us

MR. EDITOR: As’I recall it was William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, who was secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, who was opposed to the Federal Reserve Banking law sponsored by Wood- | row Wilson. I believe his argument was that it placed too much. power in the hands of a few politicians and could make the people serfs of » the government, However, the bill was passed through the efforts of Wilson and a pliant Congress and was supposed to end money panics foreever. I mentioned this to a banker a few years later and he told me no one knew whether it would prevent a money panic or not as there had been : no time Up until then when there was any reason why a money panic would occur. To prove his point 1 recall he cited me to the case of the Titanic which was a ship that was built that could not sink. 3 A few years later I lived to see the worst money panic in history when Hoover was Pres-

ident, although it was called a depression for political reasons.

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I MENTJON these facts because of a letter in the Forum in which ‘the writer thinks we need an entirely new money system. I do not wish to argue the question, except to say that there is something entirely wrong with any economic system which has to have a war to bring prosperity. Rather, I wish to cite what has happened in the past when the gdvernment took over the economic system of various countries and the people became dependent on the government. The Roman Empire was once the money capital of the world and the greatest nation of its time. However, the politicians gradually took over the economy in almost the same way that the New Deal and Fair Deal have taken over ours in the.last twenty years. The bankers moved to Carthage and the Roman Empire collapsed of its own dead weight. The politicians did the same thing at Carthage and the bankers moved to Greece, Greece became the greatest country of its time and much of our own freedom and our liberties were patterned after those of early Greece. Eventually, however, the politicians, tried to rule the economy of Greece and its civilization fell. The bankers then moved to England and it became the money capital of the world with an Empire on which the sun never set. The fall of the British Empire started after World War I, although some people claim’ it was-before that. The first step toward socialism

was the dole and the refusal of England to pay -

us their war debt for the first world war. * fb AS ENGLAND declined and became a tottering socialistic state our own country became the money capital of the world. Incidentally, I would Hke for everyone to note the difference of the now tottering economy of England and all other free nations in Europe. All other na- - tions in Europe with a free economy are going strong while that of England is getting worse daily. Not only that, but at least two-thirds of all Marshall Plan money has gone to England. There are strong indications that under the manifold blessings of the New Deal and the. Fair Deal that the same thing is going to happen here. Business, farmers, labor, paupers—all are becoming dependent on handouts from the government, with the government becoming se big that no one can control it.

, Less than ten years ago a Canadian dollar was only worth 80 cents in our maghey while today a Canadian dollar is worth $1.61.in our money.

That is the price we are Pavicy for fear, war, communism, confusion and corruption of the New Deal and Fair Deal. It is my own prediction, if the Fair Deal stays in power, that Canada will soon become the next money capital of the world and our own economy will” col lapse entirely just as all other, nations in the past have done,

-C. Db. C., Terre Haute.

‘Better Bus Ventilation’

MR. EDITOR:

We are all grateful for the advances made in transportation. The. question arises though as to the ventilation of these busses.

Many people, sitting next to the windows, are reluctant to open them, because the wind, and sometimes the rain, hits them directly in the face.

Because of the lack of fresh air, many folks who find it necessary to stand on a crowded bus often times become very tired and uneasy, Would it be possible, when ordering new busses, to have them equipped with a different type window or perhaps have some sort of wind breakers installed, similar to those used on

automobiles? 1. H. 8, City. |

STEEL . . . By William Jacobs

Union Hints

There Is Realism, but—

NEW YORK, May 19-There is nothing unique about Harry Gross, the $20-million-a-year bookie who broke this city’s police bribery scandal- -biggest in the nation’s history. He was the kid who left school in the seventh grade for the streets—his eye on $20 shirts and Cadillacs and charging privileges at the Stork

Club. ss »

LJ HE IS, now, the man of 36 who, smarter than the rest of his mob, has become a kind of tycoon in the’ bookmaking racket. Harry Gross could even play Harry Gross—the eternal Harry Gross—in the movies, because he looks just like the public imagines Harry Gross looks. He is just under medium height, with a chunk of a body that just misses being fat. His thick black hair is long, and groomed carefully. He has the heavy black beard without which mo Hollywood racketeer could get past the studio's front gate. His teeth are strong and good, his brown eyes small and shrewd. ©

* w= : ONLY HARRY GROSS’ language and his manner of speaking might disqualify him for the movie role of Harry

Gross, Sitting there In an

anteroom of the Tombs prison,

he speaks softly and never from' the corner of his mouth. He hs listened carefully tn

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‘other people all his life and has plucked good - sounding phrases from their lips. “I was in the hands of the Philistines,” Harry Gross will say. He means he didn't approve of the District Attorney's men under whose grilling Gross first broke down last summer and sang his song of paying $1 million a year in bribes to New York's cops. And, “I was broken in mind and spirit.” » - ” HARRY GROSS — and this perhaps is the most typicai thing about him-—sees no immorality in the way he earned a living before he was sent to jail for 12 years. He speaks of his “business” and it is clear he is only casually aware of its fllegitimacy, “People wanna bet,” says Harry Gross. “I obliged them —and I always paid off. I never bothered anybody. I ‘minded my own business.” As for bribing cops, that is merely one of Harry Gross’

‘Facts of life. He a ccepts it as a

matter of course, as a part of

his He seems suranyone should ask him about it. ” "=

HARRY GROSS even has a little joke about how he put one over on the. co ‘There had been, a few years ‘ago, a flood of counterfeit ten and

twenty-dollar * bills. Naturally,

a lot of them found their way

into Harry Gross’ horserooms. “Some of my cashiers come

‘ta me and =av, ‘Hav, Harrv,

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"You'll sta hia that piano till would people say if I gave up so ouily?”

whatta we do with these phomless’ I tell ’em don’t . I tell ‘em, ‘Put them in I ro Tr, Those cops’ll . take anything that looks like money.’ "” Talking with Harry Gross =, gather that statements like Re

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temptuous of cops as they are indicative of the attitude of every Harry Gross toward people. Harry Gross would call it

‘ realism, He would be surprised to learn that there are people

uninterested in making a fast

_buck. There are no such people

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WSB Offer

PHILADELPHIA, May 19— There was growing evidence here today that the CIO United Stéelworkers will go back to their original demands from the industry and will consider the government's settlement recommendations as only the bare minimum they would accept. . The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) recommended a 26-cent “package,” plus the union shop. » - . 5 BUT, the union's original 22point demand, drafted in Ate lantic City last November, was much steeper. It called for an 1813-cent pay raise plus paid holidays, increased vacations, extra pay for night work, etc., which steel coms pany spokesmen estimated would amount to at least a 37-cent “package.” ’ The move to return to the 22-point program was started here on Tuesday when Joseph Germano, director of the unfon’s largest district—the Chicago district—mentioned it in a violent attack on the steel

Industry.

” LJ » - MR. GERMAND'S remarks, 2 source close to USW President Philip Murray said today, were not accidental. They were planned, and they were fol-

. lowed up by similar pronounce- | ments from a number of dele- :

- He ‘AMAA wWanitinm I

‘Minimum’ dispute, adopted a resolution which warned that it was not going to continue to work indefinitely in 1952 at 1950 wages. The union members have ‘heen working without a contract: since Jan, 1 of this year and their last raise was 16 cents an hour on Dec. 1, 1950. - ” »

THIS resolution, coupled as

it was by a statement of a top union leader, was taken to mean that unless the steel industry agrees within a reasonably short time to grant the WSB recommendations, it will go back to its original demands.

Delegates to the convention do not really feel that the pending decision of the Supreme Court on the question of the legality of President Truman's seizure of the steel

industry has very much to do

with the equity of the case. As Mr. Murray pointed out, the steel industry and the union eventually will have to sign some sort of a contract, regardless of the decision handed down by the high court. » » » . THEREFORE, they believe, there is not much point in cons tinuing to work in their present state of suspended anima-

tion, and there is a strong feel- -

ing the dispute should be Prested to a showdown with

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fell to 15 mill

pared with 35, March last yes

9000 distillery ' less.

Bonded ware country are bu ord total of m lion gallons. time sales by about 20 per cé parable 1951 fi three months c

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