Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1952 — Page 12

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Our Fatty “‘Sinews” THE MUSCLE of our military establishment is bloated. Its effectiveness is being diminished by the fat of “inexcusable waste” and “an unconscionable amount of inefficiency.” The Armed Services are playing “the old Army game of using five men to do the work of one,” and the cost is threatening the national economy. This indictment is among the findings of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D. Tex.), which for many months has been combing the defense program. It cannot be considered a partisan attack upon the military establishment, because its author is a Democrat, and a majority of his subcommittee are Democrats. The committee, in this most alarming report, calls on the Defense Department to set up a civilian commission to shake down the Armed Forces to a hard core of efficiency. The committee members despair of persuading the military heads themselves to prune their own extravagance. - American taxpayers already are saddled with a staggering burden because of the danger of Russian aggression. Inflation and the astronomical cost of the highly complex machinery essential in modern war have greatly increased the anticipated costrof the rearmament program. We must accept that and make the best of it. But inefficiency and "waste should not be tolerated. The Russians, despite a vast superiority in sheer numbers, exact a maximum use of their manpower, which an advanced nation such as our own should not expect to match. ? We do not expect the roople in our services to live according to Russian standards. But we do have the right to insist that the best possible use be made of the men who aré available for military service. And that is not being done when the Johnson Committee finds five men doing the work of one. We do, however, address one question to this committee, which wants a commission appointed to do an overhatiling job on the Defense Department. Would this be necessary if we had a Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of ‘Staff equal to their responsibilities, as well as a commander in chief in the White House who is equal to his job?

Elder Statesman am RANK AND GRACEFUL WAY in which Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O.) announced that he will never again seek the presidency is a-gpecial Hustration of his

“This is the last time", he said after his loss at Chicago.

“I'll be too old.” ee Earlier, Ne Had Strered Ha ull ios s to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Républican Party ini the coming campaign—an assurance unnecessary to persons who know Taft and his deep loyalty to his party, but a proper mple to some of his followers who had allowed their bit tomess to overcome their common sense. Bob Taft may be too old to run for President again, as he says, but this great legislator will be in the Senate for years to come, and his party and his country will profit by hig presence there. Moreover, he should find comfort in the thought that many American statesmen who are numbered among the nation’s great did not reach the White House and yet are held in higher esteem than some of those who did.

A Will Insects Inherit? BACK IN 1850 a horde of big dark brown crickets de- “ scended on the settlements of the Mormans in Utah. Just when it looked as though crops would be destroyed great flocks of seagulls appeared to save the precious grain. The so-called Morman crickets are playing havoc in Nevada this year and experts expected visitations in half a dozen nearby states. It took 40 tons of poisoned barley to save the little mining town of Austin, a community about 150 miles east of Reno. The crickets were moving in an area 25 miles wide and 14 miles deep. Eight other areas in Nevada were infested to a comparable degree. It was touch and go for Austin and several other communifies, let alone the damage done to crops and the hysteria caused among livestock. Now and then you wonder whether insects. instead of the meek will inherit the earth.

Spending and Inflation RODIGAL spending on the part of the Truman administration for the federal government is known to everyone, = but the manner in which such spending promotes inflation seems to be another matter. Inflation, .in effect, means higher and higher prices. The upward spiral is caused in major measure by a rapid rise in the supply of money and failure of the output of things to buy to keep up. > . Federal spending on a fabulous scale obviously in-

creases the amount of money in circulation. At the same:

time, however, government buying and controls are sharply cutting the production of .numerous items for the consumer market. The state of affairs here outlined clearly helps send prices up to the sky and it explains why our soundest economists continue to insist on slicing nonessential federal spending to the bone and on making a genuine effort to balance the budget.

Politeness His Downfall QVER IN Milwaukee recently a traffic officer was leaving in his car for his regular tour of duty. He had just listened to the usual broadcasts about stolen cars. The

__ officer stopped to allow a motorist to go ahead. The driver.

of the other car was so polite and so careful that it roused the officer's suspicion. He investigated and discovered the polite chap was driving a stolen car. The arrest that followed is expected to clear up quite a series of automobile thefts. It is a commentary on something or other that a really polite driver should be auto- * matically suspected. In any event, the risk is one that is not apt to be run in this neck of the woods, or anywhere else in the Siizge as far as we know.

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‘WIDE-OPEN CONVENTION . . By Marshall McNeil |

‘Several’ Democratic Ballots Are Predicted

CHICAGO, July 15—Southern Senators are arriving here to try to capture for their beau _ ideal, Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, the Democrats’ first wide-open convention in 20 years. It is obvious that unlike the Republican hassle here last week, the Democrat convention next week will be anything but a& one-ballot affair. Mr. Russell’s supporters, the first to arrive on the scene, predict thfre will be “several” “ballots, adding hopefully: “But not 120, like in 1924.” Southerners in happy coalition with Republicans have had their way in Congrédss for many a year. But there won't%be any Republicans at next week's meeting here. So if there are coalitions created in Sen. Russell's behalf, they will have to be within the Democratic Party. And these are possible, Of the seven leading candidates, four are from the South and Southwest. Included in this quarter is the front-runner, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. In addition to Mr. Russell, there are Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and oe Sam Rayburn of Texas, who finally conceded

GOP HERO... By Richard Starnes Anti-Red Bill Boomed Nixon

WASHINGTON, July 15--The Mundt-Nixon bill was one of the dual springboards that skyrocketed youthful Richard M. Nixon into the second biggest job it Is within his party's power to bestow. The other half of the machinery that made a Horatio Alger hero out of Sen. Nixon was the Hiss case~in which he played a decisive role. But in the less than six years he spent in « House and Senate, the Mundt-Nixon bill was Sen. Nixon's major legislative contribution. As a sophomore Congressman in 1948, Mr. Nixon teamed up with Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R. S.D.) to write the subversive activities control bill. The heartwood of the bill was the section (4-A) which stated: “It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to eombine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship, the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of any foreigh government, foreign organization, or foreign individual.”

Provisions of Bill THE bill also: Established a three-man board, appointed by the President, to decide what organizations are “Communist- political” y or ‘“Communist-front” and to detérmine whéther a person is 8 memsbér of stich organizations. Required such organizations to register with the Attorney General, to provide names and addrésses of officers and t6 stibmit regular financial statements. Required “Communist-political” groups to make public names 6f members. Denied passports to members of such organizations. Made it a crime for any U.S. employee or official to give classified information to any t of Communist ‘Denied use of mails or radio to such organizations unless the material mailed or broadcast wis clearly identified as coming from a Communist source. The bill passed the house in 1948 by a thump- . ing 319 to 58. But it died in the Senate Judiciary Committee when Congress adjourned. In mid-summer of 1950, the bill was FISvivea hen _aggression.in.. Korea. sparked. a. roots demand for an antisubversive Frm By late summer, the Mundt-Nixon bill and several other similar measures had been wedded into the McCarran Act and became law. President Truman, on Sept. 22, 1950, vetoed the act because, he said, it would help, rather than hinder, siibversivé elements. He maintained too that it would add nothing to the useful store of information about Communist and front organizations already known by the FBI, and that enforcement of it would be an unnecessary burden to the Justice Department and the FBL

Passed Over Vefo

THE BILL was passed over the President's veto and most of the important provisions of the Mundt-Nixon bill became law. ' Sen. Nixon's voting record is liberal Republean. He's voted for: Japanese peace treaty and security pact; to cut federal civilian pay rolls 10 per cent; the draft extension-UMT bill; the troops for Europe resolution; veto of the President's RFC reorganization; a $21 milllon cut in riversgand harbors (pork barrel) funds, and to kill the President's Internal Revenue reorganization. He voted against: Shelving the Alaska statehood bill; a bill to authorize rent increases up to 37 per cent; a $500 million cut in aid to Europe; ending split income tax benefits; cutting armed force funds to $55 billion.

What Others Say—

FREEDOM of speech and freedom of the press are not in serious jeopardy in our country —United Press Vice President Earl J. Johnson.

IF WE (France) outlawed the Communist Party, we would only help it because many nonCommunists wolild favor the prosecuted. — French UN Delegate Jules Moch.

SIDE GLANCES

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publicly that he would be available in event of

a deadlock. The other candidates are Averell Harriman, the mutual security administrator who many think will get President Truman's nod, the indecisive Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, and Vice President Alben Barkley. Mr. Kefauver will arrive here this week, still opposed by the party bosses, but backed by the votes of more than three million persons in primaries. Already there are placards up in the Hilton Hotel, hailing Estes as the man who can win. People opposed to Mr. Kefauver might find some superstitious comfort in the fact that one of his headquarters in the Hilton is being set up in a room that the Taft forces occupied last week. :

But you can. ‘hear from supporters of all Democratic candidates the assertion that any candidate could beat the Republicans. Sen. John Sparkman, tise first of the Southern senatorial bloc to arrive here, tried at a press conference to overcome the greatest obstacle that Mr. Russell faces—the claim that he is a sectional, merely a Southern, candidate. Mr. Sparkman vehemently denied this, point-~ ing to Sen. Russell's long record of putting through legislation for the good of the military, the farmer and city folks. He said he had no fdea what Sen. Russell's delegate strength. is and didn't know what President Truman would do. Questioned about the other most issue “before the Pemocratie convent

portant n—civil

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rights—Mr, Sparkman told how Mr. Russell, in secret conference three years ago with President Truman tried unsuccessfully work out a compromise, Mr. Sparkman, a mefober “of the preconvention platform drafting committee that starts work here tomorrow, bopes that the civil rights plank will be somewhere between that of 1944 and 1946. He shies away from the word “compromise” in speaking of the forthcoming plank. He predicts that, if nominated, Mr. Russell would not lose a single electoral vote from the south, thus denying that Ike would break the solid south. The Alabama Senator admitted that he heretofore has sald that he would make a “good President on the Democratic ticket.” And he grinned as he poinied to a statement in one of the Russell pamphlets now being circulated here. It quoted Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California, Tke’s running mate on the GOP ticket, as saying about six week ago: “I think Dick Russell would be the hardest Democratic candidate for us to beat.”

Hoosier Forum

“I do not a a word: that you say, but | will ho the death a right to say it."

"House of GOP’

MR. EDITOR: ‘ Republicans are acting like the old lady that moved from house to housé—néver able to find a house that suited her. It's & case of the old maxim: You can move from your house but you can’t move away from yourself. is The Republican Party with its nebulous and ever-changing program with which it tries to attract votes, is like the bewildered old lady looking for the ideal house. Each change made is a little more ridiculous than the last. Each argument put up for the change is a little more illogical and irrational than the last. There was a time when the Republican Party stood like bedrock for principles and program. Moreover, it fought with the vigorous belief of youth and the rational argument of common sense for those principles and program. The “old house” in which the party lived may have been old and totiched with mold, but it was stiil to be loved and defended. It was something to be repaired and kept up to datenot something to be ashamed of and moved away from. ® 4 »

Anny “OLD HOUSE” of Republicanism still even though the old lady has wandered away from it in search of of Somtort and gran. deur. he t in the 80th Corgress shows Highs ste Republican children and who want to move back {ito the old house. But there aré other children who want to raze the old house atid dynamite the founda: tion. y want a fiew house built on a foundation of {sth and wishful promises that will dassle the public with eye appéal. They even chose a earetdker. Mr. Eisefthower, who will doll-out the last vestige of tradition of the old houseé in the néw one. When id election is over this fall 1 am sure

.GIFT A PROBLEM . .. By erick C. Othman ‘Unk’ Forgets Politics, Conventions

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. For Brief Visit With2 Nieces

CHICAGO, July 15—-When I was a youngster in St. Louis in the long, long ago, I kept careful book on numerous unclés making their calls oni my family. One of them was a pious soul who brought me biblical stories to improve my character. 1 thanked him politely because my mother said I had to. One uncle in my book was a skinflint. It never occurred to him that a small gift for his carrot-topped nephew would be appropriate. Another of my uncles was careless, He usually flipped me a quarter upon arrival and once when he was in a jovial mood he made it 50 cents. 1 accepted his money, but it did seem to me that he took the easy way. Then there was my Uncle John. A great and wonderful man. Once when he dame through town he brought me a folding camera that took fine pictures when the bulb was squeezed. Another time he handed me a steam engine that got its power from an aleohol stove. What if I did set my mother's diningroom tablecloth on fire? That wasn't Unéle John’s fault; the engineer merely was a little too heavy with the fuel. Uncle John's beén dead these many years, but his memory I always shall revere.

Off .to Visit Nieces

_I MENTION ALL this because I, myselt, am

an uncle now. Tonight I cateh a flying machine between -conventions for St. Louis to visit for a couple of days my nieces, Judy, age 13, and Evelyn, age six. Today I ignoretl the few remaining Republicans in this town and I took a run-out on!the press conferences of the early arriving Democrats. I had more important work. The six-year-old was easy. In Chicago's biggest toy store, with the help of two motherly

HELENA, Mont, July 15— Montana has a red-hot political issue on the ballot this November in which there is more local Interest than who gets elected President. It is a petition for a new workmen's compensation law that would outdo compulsory health and make Britain's cradle<tograve~welfare state tame by comparison.

Opponents of the Montana petition say it ‘might easily bankrupt the state, if approved by the voters and enacted Into law. The igsue has national in-

terest in that, if Montana adopts it, other states might follow suit. - ”

AUTHORSHIP of the Montana petition {s attributed to Jerry O'Connell. He may be remembered as a Washington state congressman for a brief but héctic career and as the author of a Washington state old-age pension law that almost bankrupted. until it was repealed. Mr. O'Connell is now practieing law in Great Falls, Mont. He 1s a pillar in the tottering structure of what's left of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party of 1048. For this workmen's compensation initiative petition, 0'Cénnell has the support of the Montapa state AFL and CIO . organizations. They are

operating from Progressive

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COMPULSORY INSURANCE . . . Nation Eyes Hot Health Issue in Montana

above title and no further, might be inclined to approve to

clerks and a local matron who took an Interest

| in my problem, I selected the doggondest aol I

believe I ever saw. But what does an uncle gét a 13-year-old, who’s on the verge of leaving childhood and who probably believes that she already has? Several suggested lipstick as the one thing they desired above all else at that age. One gajd I'd be a hero if I brought my niéce a pair of gaudy earrings. What, if her mother wouldn't let her wear em?

Prayed for & Waich EY SEHOW THESE ideas didn’t seem suleable (I don't know quite why) and I got to thinking about Unele John. When I was 13, I wanted and even prayed for a watch. Not just a_toy, but a genuine gold watch like my father’s. I never got one; my mother said I was too young. I'd break it. But 1 kept on hoping that some day Uncle John would produce one. I never mentioned this to him, of course, but I figured that possibly he was claifvoyant. He wasn’t. This tiny flaw in his character I did not hold against him. Now, 30-odd years later, I'm glad I remembered. To a jewelry store I went and there I got my 13-year-old a wrist watch. A grown-up lady's watch, Not the best-the Swiss ever made, but still and all it'll never turn her wrist green, and With 17 jewels it “should Keep time. If you'll excuse me now, this worried uncle has to catch an airplane. His reputation with his nieces for the rest of theif lives is at stake. Mere politics, or who the Democrats will nominate, by comparison is trivial. I'm not even too interested in the Democrats’ new sign, which says, nix-on-lke. I only hope my youngest relatives don’t decide, nix-on-unk.

Pafty headquarters at Great Falls. ” ” » it.

the ave found her new house ever more distasteful and with less public approval than the last house she méved into. In the meantime, we children of the old house have no home--and we have begun to wonder if we have a country.

==J. B. Dj Crawfordsville.

Cleaner City - 2 ao Te MR. EDITOR: : % i ML MaeKensie recently wrote 4 letter res garding a cleaner city. I am very mueh inter: ested in his suggestion. In fact, I have started to do something about it in my neighborhood. It is not only the slums that are at fault, but also the so-called respectable neighborhoods which are contributing te an unclean city. The citizens of every community should take it upon themselves-to interest others in eliminating the throwing of trash on the sidewalks and streets. Too many of us asstime the attitude that it ¢dn’t be done. » > >

BUT I ENOW it can be done, for I have proved it in my neighborhood, where I have secured almost 100 per eéfit co-operation from the merchants, young péople, children and

neighbors. I am thrilled with the improvements tak-. ing place in our great city, but the presence of trash on our streets will detract from these Tuprovements, e last admonition—éclean u your heighborhood and do not sweep trash ho the street. Pick it up and dispose of it in a trash ean.

“M. K. N, City. GOD'S GREAT GIFT

GOD GAVE me fields of flowers . , . and He gave me staziigh too . He gard me some of heaven . . .. He 16t he 100k &¢ af you . . . He gave me emerald mountsing . . , and the’ beauty of a rose . . . and when He let me hold

. you dear . . . He gave my heart

He gave me children’s laughter . . . and a little baby’s smile . . . 4 5) Hite 1 sutusk You love . . . my life seems so worthwhile . « yes, § ans grateful to my God . , . more than mere words can say . . . for He has n . « + to have and hold each i pve va tome Te

«By Ben Burroughs.

By Peter Edson

tional disease would be entitled compensation. For an employer to refuse

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No marl markets he result of order, store “Supply : the prices : have been OPS price said.

canned asps juice. The and frozen f der an ame defense proc Mr, Arnal “no alterna “some prices food industr

decontrol, h will be no ge items deconf ing far belo Controls w per cent of fruit and v cluding bat vegetable jui dried fruits. plies to proc retail levels, July 1. Controls tained on items in w*: mixed during as vegetabl jellies, prese: chile sauces. decontrol of items would | limits of .t

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MONTANA miners may have a legitimate demand for revision of the existing workmen’s compensation law. Some mine safety experts say it does not give 'adequate protection for injury from silicosis, the lung disease contracted from inhaling mine or quarry dust. The O'Connell proposed law, however, mentions sllicosis only in the title. It reads. “An act transferring the burden of payments to those suffering from silicosis from the people of the state of Montana to the industries responsible, therefore making occupational diseases compensable under the workmet's compensation act.” The title then goes on to provide for “increasing compensation for injuries to workmen in cases ‘of temporary total disability, total permanent disability, permanent partial disability for injuries causing death, and for specified injuries.” ~ » - IT WOULD remove “the limitation on the amount allowed for medical and hospital services and other treatment for | hs.” Any citizen approached to

sign a petition, reading the.

ured workmefi; and for

The dynamite is contained in four wide and long columns of fine type making up the text of the bill, which few people have hothered to read. Newspapers and various civic groups alerted to the dangers of the O'Connell bill are now conducting an educational campaign against it through an industrial health committee.

o ” ” n AN INJURY is first defined as any occupational disease or infection arising out of employment, and it would entitle an employee to compensation even if any other illness was aggravated by the injury, years later, just as though it was the sole cause of subsequent illness or death. . The employer who had last

hired the workman under con-

ditions where he was exposed to~a hazard, would be held liable for the injury. This liability would run for 20 years. This is interpreted to mean that if a workman employed in a mine in 1953 left that job in 1954 and took up employment

a8 a vlerk, the employing mine °

operator might be held responsible if this ex-employee con-

tracted tubereniosts in 1972,

AN EMPLOYEE discharged because he had a nonoccupa-

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to hire a workman having a nonoccupational disease would be made illegal and subject to $5000 compensatory damages. An employee sustaining tem-

' porary total disability would be

entitled to from $20-a-week minimum to $38-a:weeék maxi mum for 300 weeks, which is roughly six years. Compensation would vary according to wage scale and number of dependents. For occupational injury causing death, benefits of from $20 a week to $38 a week until the widow or widower died or remarried, or until all minor dependents reached age 18. 8" a ALL - HOSPITALIZATION and medical costs would have to be paid by the employer for

injuries resulting from industrial injury.

For specific injuries result-

ing from industrial accidents,"

compensation would from

. 250 weeks—tive years—for loss

of.an arm at or near the shoulder, to four weeks for 108s of a finger or toe at the first joint. Insurance companies providing group coverage for an emoy working force say these benefits would soon drive

. them oMit of business or cause

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DEATHS

Bertha Barger, reinoma. Minnie Barrett, can Byrd Carver, , occlusion. Carl Fahrbach, cardial degene Emma Fesslery 8 nephritis. John Hofimark, carcinoma Myrtle Jones, rheumatic hea John McAlister, carcinoma. Frank Robert, 76 occlusion. Jesse Rutherford tal, cerebal hi Alberta - Sande Hospital, myoc Rachael Seligma carcinoma Katie Taylor, ' cirrhosis. of Iiy Mary Willman, vascular.

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