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- A SURIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER HENRY W. MAN2 Business Manager:

Sunday, June 15, 1952

ROY W. HOWARD. WALTER LECKRONE - President Editor

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Defense or Relief? i THE UNITED STATES has informed European governments it is prepared to purchase complete aircraft from European manufacturers as part of its military procure-

ment program.

Since we need more planes, and as quickly as we can,

get them, this may be one way to go about it. But is this either the quickest way, or the best way, to do it? According to Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, it takes

21 months, after orders are placed, to get delivery on jet-

planes. The first jet fighters ordered after Korea are only now coming off i assembly lines. Substantial production cannot be expected for another six months or a year. : How long will it take European manufacturers, starting from scratch, and needing critical materials and machine téols, to attain the momentum to match our own rate of produetion? ” “ » - » ‘" IN THE Netherlands, where the new policy has been geclaimed with: enthusiasm, the program is regarded as a way for the Dutch to get dollars. But which is to have

priority—dollars for the Dutch or planes for defense? "Confusion is compounded by the announcement of the

French government that the United States has placed a -

$150 million order in that country for military equipment for the U. 8. Armed Forces. This order, according to a French spokesman, will permit that country to fulfill its pledge to raise 17 divi-

sions and 27 air groups by the end of 1952. It is impossible to reconcile these two statements.

Suppose the French net a 10 per cent profit on this order. That would be $15 million.

»” * IN OCTOBER, 1050, it cost the U. 8. $91 million to buy ‘the initial organizational equipment for one infantry divigion. That did not include clothing for the troops. The cost

‘of an armored division was $293 million. Since that time, i]

How can. the French squeeze 17. dividtons and 27 air

groups out of the profit on a $150 million equipment order? Wa hope it can be done. But we'll have to see it. We also hope that the West's defense needs aren't

being confused with Europe's dollar needs.

Price and Wage Controls (CONGRESS will extend the price and wage control law

before it expires June 30. ; House and Senate differ on how much to extend it.

The Senate bill would continue President Truman's powers.

only until Feb. 28, next year. The House proposes a full year of extension. But the House proposes to end all credit controls on consumer buying and real estate. What seems probable, in the compromise law, is a temporary extension; somewhat watered down. "The Senate, in addition has restricted the Wage Stabiligation Board's authority to “mediate” labor disputes, a function taken on by this board in the steel dispute. The Senate's action in this respect is understandable, since it was the wage board's meddling—at Mr. Truman's direction—which contributed so effectively to the present strike. : By taking over the function of the more experienced and more reliable Federal Mediation Service, the wage board managed to garble whatever hope there was of settling the steel dispute by straight-out collective bargaining between the union and management. ;

Nd . .» THE TRUTH about wage and price controls is that in this political year the politicians are afraid to take them off entirely and they are afraid to stiffen them. So”Congress is passing an extension and the so-called stabilizers in the administration are upping ceilings, taking them off altogether and generally relaxing everything in the system except the bureaucracy which runs it.

” sa =» THE BUREAUCRATS manage to keep busy, though. Tenants of 14 Indianapolis apartments yesterday petitioned the Office of Rent Stabilization to let their rents alone. ORS had had ordered them reduced. Owner of the building says he can't operate at a lower figure, and may have to go out of business. His tenants say they're satisfied, they get their money's worth—and they'd much rather have apartments at this price than no apartments at a lower price.

Immigration Quotas “RITICS of the McCarran-Walter immigration recodification bill are urging President Truman to veto it on the grounds that the measure is “reactionary” and “arbi.

The “reactionary” label is given to the new bill because it retains virtually unchanged the old quota provisions, although for the first time quotas are given to several Asiatic nations. .. .- But we have heard no loud public demand to scrap the fjuota system, which appears to have served its purpose reasonably well over a long period of years. We certainly do not want unrestricted or indiscriminate immigration,

_ The new bill might be termed arbitrary in that it does

vest administrative officials with broader discretion in dealing with deportation cases. This was designed to remove some of the bottlenecks which delay the deportation of Communists and other undesirables. The need for some legislation on this subject has been apparent for some time. s Most of the condemnation of the pending bill would apply with equal force to existing law. And to get around that law it is becoming the practice to introduce so-called emergency legislation letting down the barriers to specified -pumbers of immigrants, one such is pending now, to accept another 300,000 above the quota limits. © If the McCarran-Walter bill—the product of three years’ study—becomes a law, there will be little excuse for any more piecemeal, “emergency” legislation on this subJeet. And we suspect that is the real objection to the Me2 If such is the case it is a good argu- : hits Sof it, echuse We Sught. io have a firm policy on ~ this subject and ‘quit dealing with it on an emotional or

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Hoosier Forum—‘True Record’

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

MR. EDITOR: ter Reuther. I am not trying to build up any-

one. I merely waznted the recor} quoted truthfully.” Walter Reuther worked for Ford as tool-

maker (second shift), attended Wayne Univer-

sity (day classes). After graduation, he was fired for attempted organization of the tool and die makers. Walter and Victor decided to see some of the world on bicycles in 1931,

+ They rode through China and Japan. Paused to work in England to replenish their funds. Worked in Italy. (I suppose you think he was a blackshirt Fascist). Traveled into Germany and worked there. (Were they then Nazis?) While working in Germany, they signed a contract to teach the toolmaking trade at the Gorky plant in Moscow (Model A Ford). The Reuthers claimed you could only get a letter out of Russia (police state) by praising the “Collective Bosh.” I was not there. I never want their system. I say their explanation is reasonable. 8 *» ° 9

THE LETTER you quote was distributed widely by GM as printed by the National Manufacturers Association in 1937 and I read it 11 years ahead of you. The same letter was used by the Daily Worker, Communist newspaper, as a kiss of death against Reuther's militant fight against subversives., (Passed out in 1941, UAW Convention, Buffalo, N. Y. I was there, received a copy from Nat Ganley, lately on the staff of the Michigan Worker, Communist newspaper.) I am told by others who have been in Russia that the working people want peace. I hope 80. The pattern of Russia is a result of military control by the leaders. Is not the gold camps of Biberia, as well as slave labor in the mines, ete, proof? ® & o

I KNOW NOT what was in another’s mind In 1034, or today even. I only know my own mind. To change my mind, I don't believe is a sign of weakness. Why? I certainly changed my mind as a result of circumstances concerning D. C, (Klan and Republican state boss) Stephenson, Ed (race horse) Jackson, Warren McCray, Herbert (promise two chickens in every pot, but do nothing) Hoover. I changed my mind on politics. Raised a Republican (too rotten for me) voted for Roosevelt (made mistakes, but also helped the farmer and working man) and the old gag of voting for a yellow dog simply because he is on the ticket is not the way to improve government, : -I try to pick the best qualified for the office and many times I have to pick what I believe is the lesser of two evils. A ~—William M. Taylor, Morgantown.

Dislikes Unions

MR. EDITOR: I am two months away from being 17 years old and have just been employed as a hod carrier and general laborer, which work I would like

C. D. C. is sccusing me of building up Wal-

to do for experience. 1 #m going to attend - Purdue University next fall and study civil

But the. reason for writing this letter is to

attempt to wake up the free peoplé®sf the U. 8. I have just returned from a certain labor union* which requires me to pay $21 down and $5 a week for four weeks. This may seem a small amount to some people, but to me it represents quite a sum. Any time a free (?) person is required to pay $41 to acquire a job as a manual laborer, that person has lost his freedom. I was on the radio recently in a panel discussion concerning strikes which endanger the nation’s welfare. I am amazed at the power the labor unions have. I read books and magazine articles about labor unions and I have discovered these groups posses nearly if not more power than the President himself. The right to fire and hire does not belong to the labor unions, as it does today, but to the employer. : : Why am I required to join a labor union to get a job? Am I receiving protection? I smppose I am, but protection from what? Because someone else has more intelligence and experience than myself (meaning the employer) should I take away his right to fire and hire whomever he pleases?

God save us from this tyrannical plague called labor unions. —A Neophyte in the Labor Market.

Strikes and Soldiers MR. EDITOR: Well, the strikes are on again. Good old America, the land of the free and home of the brave. Where else could you strike? What would the American people say if the American soldier in Korea could strike, if they

could lay down their weapons and say “more money and other privileges or no more fighting.” We would be ready to have them shot for deserting the duty of protecting us. But the way everyone {is striking you'd think they had no duty to perform. Oh, they'll get their way. They know it's valuable to the nation that they work; that our boys are counting on them, But what's one life in Korea to more money? I wish the President could take over every outfit that wanted to strike during a national crisis, especially the ones vital to our defense. My husband's wages have gone up (but not by strikes) since the Korean war. It's nice to get raises, but I'd be more than happy to give every cent back if this war would end. But there are the 10 per cent who hope it continues. ‘They'll lose if it doesn’t. ° Good old America. The most wonderful place on earth. But how many here stop to think of it in that respect. I'll bet there's one

every second thinking that in Korea. «Mrs. M. L. M, City.

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Still Far-off Russian Dream

WASHINGTON, June 14—Between the two world wars, an American summed up the Marxian goals of the Russian revolution by saying— “Tanya wants a Ford.” . : Sincéd that time, Tanya, or. her husband,

brother or son, may have learned to master

firearms, drive a tank or fly an airplane—but the Ford for their own personal use is still just a far-off dream in the so-called “workers’ paradise.” Entering its fourth decade of ‘a proletarian dictatorship, the workers in Russia and its satellites still are lagging far behind the rank and file of those in the much hated—and envied—U. 8. A. : Their own propaganda efforts prove this. A fair sample is a pamphlet distributed to the press this week by the Hungarian legation here. It is entitled “a day in the life of a worker.” There are pictures to {illustrate the pathetic progress made by an iron puddler in Budapest.

Read It for Laughs

GUYS DOING the same work in Gary (when there is no strike on) could read the pamphlet for laughs. For the things that H an is acquiring, such as a small apartment with his own furniture, have long been accepted facts around American factories. It does not, of course, include or even contemplate a Ford. The common sight of hundreds of worker-owned cars surrounding U. 8. plants is nowhere to be seen in the Soviet satellite states. Nor even in Russia itself, with its new imperialism trying to encompass the globe. The Hungarian worker's two-room apartment is “on a paved street where busses run” the pamphlet reports almost with awe. And at night “the streets are alight with electric arelamps which have taken the place of the old, dim gas lamps.” That puts him even worker of around 1900. Stores, which in the picture look like a chain grocery, also have their place in Budapest today the pamphlet continues. In the past a miserable grocer eking out

with an Elwood iron-

a dreary existence in a dark basement shop and a smoke-filled pub Tepreauniod commercial life in the street,” continues, “Today = brand-new stores with brilliant show windows line the gtreet, and the house. wives ‘can do all their shopping within a range

. of 200 yards.”

Unlikely Project THERE IS A clinic, school and several movies in the neighborhood and if the Gergelys don’t like it they can move—apparently. Here is the report on that unlikely project— “If they should decide one day to move, even a large ey van would prove too small to transport all their belongings. There is the furniture of two rooms, the kitchen furniture, a sewing machine, a radio, plenty of household utensils and crockery, curtains, carpets, pice tures and books and the two children’s things, “Ferenc Gergely smiles, thin of. the many things he has, purchased in course of the last four or five years. “He remembers the day when he had but one shirt and had to wait, shirtless, while his wife laundered it. Today the cupboards are full of clothes, underwear and linen.

Militant Pride

“THE SMILE lighting up Ferenc Gergely’s face whenever he remembers these things is not merely one of serene satisfaction. There is a shade of militant pride because all this was not easy to achieve. None of it fell, like a gift, into his lap, none of it was given for n none of it was obtained quickly, from one to the next. He had to fight for this kind of life, it demanded self-discipline, hard work and a determined struggle against obstacles and difficulties.” ; The booklet emphasizes that Gergely’'s new god—government—is responsible for all these changes. And it admonishes him to keep worke ing—or else. If he lives long enough he may yet get a Ford. :

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN . « + By Charles Lucey Bitter Fight Raging Over Seating of GOP Delegates

NEW YORK, Jine 14—A

Z rip-the-roof-off fight over seat-

ing opposing state delegations at the Chicago Republican Convention has become a “cer-

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A ‘batle that has raged in Texas -and other southern

" states for months broke into

a new fierce exchange of blunt .

‘and bitter - language here. It raised a possibility that the GOP presidential nomination may be settled before a single roll call ballot is cast. The outbreak showed the readiness of Gen. Dwigh't Eisenhower to fight as no one foresaw when he returned from Europe 12 days ago. The Eisenhower strategy may be to fight first on the naming of Walter Hallanan of West Virginia, a Taft man, as temporary convention chairman—that is, to challenge this in a test vote before the 1206 convention delegates.

” ” ” THE SAME test could come on a convention floor appeal from any ruling of the Republican national committee or the credentials committee

against Gen. Eisenhower in the battle over the Texas delegations. Eisenhower strategists count on such “favorite son” states as California, Minnesota and Maryland to vote with them to defeat the Taft forces in such a test. “If a credentials committee of one member from each state can decide this,” an Eisenhower leader said today, “then the convention may as well pack up and go home.

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HE SAID Gen. Ike's people will carry the fight to the convention floor. And the General himself may be in Chicago to help plan it. Political historians dipped back -to the 1912 convention struggle between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt for a comparison with the bitterness of 1952. Charges of “shyster” and “ruthless steal” blazed through midtown Manhattan as both Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhower courted delegates here. From Paul G. Hoffmann, national chairman of Citizens for

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. Eisenhower and one of the

General’s chief advisers, came this statement:

“We face a ruthless drive to rig and steal the convention, Just as it was rigged and stolen in-1912, . * ! ? ® 5 » “THIS IS the standardized effort of stand-pats who woild rather lose the election than lose control of the party.” Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Eisenhower campaign manager, said the Taft forces were “trying to give the GOP convention the character of a Kangaroo court. It is disgusting to see the use of these shyster methods.” Up stepped Sen. Taft, who last week signified a willingness to compromise the state

delegation fight, with his owm-

accusation. “Wherever the Eisenhower people had the power, they ruthlessly exercised it under the rules of the Republican Party,” he said in charging his adversaries with breaking agreements in the picking of delegates in Kansas and Rhode Island.

” » 2 “I SEE no reason why, if the Taft people have the power, they should not use it it it is within the rules.” The implication seemed clear—the Taft forces, considered likely to dominate Chicago convention machinery— are ready to play tough, hard politics. A Taft spokesman insists everything done will conform to the rules. But the rules

are loosely drawn and subject to varied interpretations—and Taftman Hallanan will be in the chair. : " Eisenhower people know ‘they .probably must win the.

tests on disputed delegations if they are to. win the nbmind~ -

"tion—the battle is so close that

" the 75-0dd delegates at stake could make the difference.

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THEY BELIEVE they ha assurances from California, Minnesota and Maryland that , votes pledged to Gov. Earl Warren, Ex-Gov. Harold Stassen and Gov. Theodore MeKeldin’ will be with them when the fight over seating delegates goes to the floor. If Mr. Taft loses on cone« vention floor, appeals from the credentials committee, Kisenhower people say, he loses the nomination. Taft men count for help on a party rule that only disputes involving delegates elected at large can be carried to the national convention. This would mean only 10 of Texas’ 38 delegates would be involved—hence the 28 disputed district dele gates would be all, or mostly, pro-Taft. 2 ” ” SUCH a ruling will be ap pealed to the whole convene tion. Appeal also might come on a ruling to let temporarily seated delegates vote on whethér their own seating: could be reversed. Eisenhower leaders acknowle edge that appointment of Mr, Hallanan is a Taft triumph. Sen. Lodge yesterday said it “shows contempt for fair play.”

U.S. HEADACHE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

It's an Old Story— But Taxes Dig Deep

WASHINGTON, June 14 — Rep. Thor C. Tollefson (R. Wash.) made a speech to which nobody much paid any attention, except maybe me., His audience in the chamber of the House consisted largely of brown leather chairs. Only occupants of the press gallery were the clock (time 3:35 p. m,) and Othman. The trouble, I guess, was the subJect. Old stuff. Namely, our government is too danged big. Everybody knows this, so why listen? ® - -

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gentleman from Washington had some startling ideas. He impressed me: Back in 1930 (he said) we had a population of 122 million. By 1850 this had grown to 150 million, making an increase in people of 23 per cent. During these same 20 years the civilian employees of the government grew from 570,000 to 2,539,045. This is a boost of 345 per cent, or enough to make a taxpayer cringe, Rep. Tollefson reported that as of now the federal government has 14 different agencies handling forest problems, 28 busy over human welfare, 29 lending taxpayers’ money to other taxpayers, 34 spending all their efforts buying up land, and 85 spending eight hours a day gathering statistics. He said this was bad. Nobody To pay for all this the taxpayers have got to work overtime. So do the &ollectors.

calculates this is because $62 of it represents taxes collect by the federal, state and local governments, Not all as taxes on the car, you understand, but as taxes on about 200 dif. ferent transactions that went indo the making of that pare ticular super six. My lonesome speechmaker went on to say that anybody who builds a house pays at least 475 taxes, mostly hidden, on the stuff that goes into it, A man's suit-carries 100 dif ferent taxes. 4 He said that on a 14-cent loaf of bread, the tax is a nickel. On a 23-cent quart of milk, nine cents goes to the man. The collector gets 32 cents from a 90-cent pound of beef; if it weren't for him the same meat would cost 62 cents, ” ” ”

“TAXES take 14 cents out of a 26-cent gallon of gasoline and $3 from a $4 quart of whisky,” he went on. “The total cost of these hidden taxes is staggering. If a man’s in. come is ‘$3500 a year, he will pay about $800 in hidden taxes, Income taxes are extra.” He added that this year the government will spend about $6.5 billion more than it takes in. President Truman wants to make this up with higher taxes. Rep. Tollefson snorted. Tur. nips will produce only so much blood. said the govern. ment already has soaked the poor, the middle class and the rich a good deal harder than

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