Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1952 — Page 14

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MORE INFLA TION .

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BLS Predicts Record Living-Cost Rise

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President Editor Business Manager WASHINGTON The biggest monthly in- droughts. Pork, lamb and poultry prices were . —? a a? in the cost of living since the start of Also up, more than offsetting slight drops in They were all decontrolled on duty 1 hy the perts i nae level off and maybe THE GR PAGE 14 Wednesday, the Korean War is now predicted for the July heef and fish. new Defense Mobilization law, pass y EO Tn Eline anolis Jump lke SLEEVE, a

The Promise to ‘Clean Up’

N over-riding issue in this year's political campaign is

the need for a change.

After 20 years, the leadership of the party in power has become tired and shopworn. It has lost its alertness and has staled by being too long in the trenches. It is a leadership which has become tolerant of evil in its own ranks and intolerant of either outside or inside efforts to clean up The need for a change is recognized, naturally, by the Republicans. But it also is recognized by many Democrats. And its force as a campaign issue is a matter of keen conthe Democratic

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report on the Bureau of Labor Btatistics’ consumers’ price index. This report will be released about Aug. 25 This cost-of-living index for June 15, 1952,

An increase of that size now would put the index around 192. It would mean another wage increase for the last quarter of the year for all General Motors and other union labor contracts having an automatic cost-of- hving adjustment clause for its pay scales. This would be definitely. inflationary, if it touched off new demands for: compensating wage increases by unions whose members are not working under contracts proviaing for automatic cost-of-living adjustments. The July 15 cost-of-living index increase was accurately forecast by the preliminary midmonth report on food costs. This BLS estimate, hased on advance reports from eight cities, put the food Index at 235.1. This July increase was attributed to an 18 per cent rise In egg prices and a 2 per cent rise in dairy product prices, both attributed to recent

OCCUPATION . . By Ludwell Denny

< Oo 0 THE NEW monthly report is also expected to reflect some increases in the prices of fresh,

gress in June. The big riddle, of course, is what the cost-of-living index will show for the report month

that from June to July, then. the pressure for calling Congress back for a special session to toughen up the price control law will be hard

be published about Sept. 25,. should give the tip-off. By that time there will also be a clearer pics ture of how many cities are going to retain rent controls. Sharp rent increases, plus price increases, might start the howl again for more controls, Ex-Gov. Ellis Arnall's blast from the White House steps—when he simultaneously submitted his resignation as director of price stabilization

and demanded a special session of Congress to deal with inflation immediately —fell on deaf ears.

He was the only one excited about the danger. He was tired and discouraged from the beating he took on the steel price rise. Nobody else in government or out, except possibly Bernard Baruch, seems to think that the present inflation is dangerous. Sd aS

EVEN consumers aren't too alarmed. There are the usual squawks on high prices from housewives who can’t go into a grocery store without wrecking a $10 bill. But they have the $10. -

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President. : : ’ : Union laber leaders and the union news- coludn’t distin; To meet this paramount issue, Mr. Stevenson has taken US ria oO S paper edjtorial writers use the cost-of-living = 2 two steps: increases to get new wage increases. But wages UNFORTUN

He has tried, to a degree, to disassociate the Truman administration. And he has promised to up the mess in Washington.” He tacitly admits it is * a change,” but hopes to persuade the voters that

have a change without changing parties.” On the evidence so far, Stevenson, as President, change from the present administration.

possible for him to make a complete change?

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MR: STEVENSON may try to protect his candidacy from the stigma of the Truman administration. But he can-

not disassociate himself entirely without

break which would splinter the organization on which he de-

pends for support.

He pledges himself to “clean up the mess in Washing-

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UN for Treaty

WASHINGTON — Austria will appeal to the United Nations October assembly against further foreign military occupation, but only a war can drive out the Soviet army and the West is not prepared for that. : The hopelessness of voluntary Russian withdrawal was confirmed last week by Moscow's rejection of the American-British-French proposal of Mar. 13 for a short Austrian treaty ending the Four-Power occupation. The Allies have been trying for nearly seven years to get out of that country. But they will not withdraw until Russia does too. That would invite a worse Korea. Austrians are extremely anxious to get a treaty, but not at that price. In presenting its case to the United Nations, the Viennese government will argue that no treaty if necessary because it never was at war. They base this on the Big Four Moscow declaration of 1943. That recognized Austria was in-

go up faster than prices, the standard of living

is on the rise and nobody is really suffering. So what the heck?” This was overwhelmingly the sentiment of the last Congress when it passed the new law extending price controls to next Apr. 30. This law is weaker than the 1951 law and far worse than that of 1950. Congress didn’t pass a better law for four main reasons. First was pressure from farmers, food processors and retail merchants who just naturally don't like price controls for themselves. They lobbied Congress hard to kill all controls. The voice of the consumer asking for continuation of controls simply was not heard, Second, was the fact that the administrators of the existing stabilization agencies simply did not sell Congress on. the need for continued controls. They haven't done too good a job. Third, was congressional resentment against President Truman for seizing the steel industry and for not using the Taft-Hartley law. Finally, nobody thought there was any

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ton” while at the same time accepting the substantial back- volved in the war only as a Hitler slave, and BE ey olusate Price es Teachers of ing of the Truman administration which refuses to admit 't pledged her liberation as a tree nation. - in May, 1951, to 111 today. Retail prices had and tango h

there is any mess.

The governor invites scrutiny of his own record in Illinois as evidence of his ability to clean out. Washington. On « that point, a roundup of just what has happened in the Stevenson administration in Illinois has been writtén by Charles Lucey, Scripps-Howard political reporter. In Illinois, Mr. Stevenson succeeded an inept and venal Republican administration. As the new Democratic governor, “it was comparatively easy for him to make a clean sweep. Rooting dnt camp followers of his own party would be much

more diffican

What is required in Washington, as Dwight Eisenhower not only of faces and names, but of principles, methods and morals. Gov. Stevenson's pecord in Illinois and in the campaign so far does not provide convincing evidence of his ability to meet this need.

has said, is a complete overhauling

Study in Public Morals

HE i title fight between world's champion Jersey Joe Walcott and challenger Rocky Marciano is to be staged in Philadelphia, instead of New York, usually the favored site for major events of this kind. New York was ruled out because Walcott's manager, Felix Bocchicchio, did not have a license to operate in that

State Treaty Needed

WHAT 1S NEEDED, therefore, to regularize her International relations now is a “state treaty” not a “peace treaty.” And even a state treaty, however desirable on other grounds, is unnecessary to end a military occupation which has had no justification during recent years, There is no mystery about Stalin's unwillingness to get out of ‘Austria. Among the many reasons are: : His army there is at once the left lank of his

‘German and Czechoslovakian forces, and the’

right flank for his Hungarian-Romanian-Bul-

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Havin Austria is the hinge of his ‘whole Baltic-

Aegean line for an offensive agaffist ‘either .

the Allies or Tito, or both. In the 1947 satellite treaties the Allies*unwisely recognized Stalin's right to keep troops in those southeast European states to protect communications of his Austrian army of occupation. An Austrian treaty would end that “right.” It would leave his occupation of Hungary. Romania and Bulgaria resting merely on duress alliances with his own puppet regimes in those countries.

Futile Negotiations

A FREE AUSTRIA, jutting into the Czecho-slovakian-Hungarian Iron Curtain, would weaken Stalin's hold on those restless slave countries. By withdrawing from Austria, Stalin would interfere with his most profitable financial

FIT TO BE TIED .

WASHINGTON--This is a great day for the Turks; they get their first look at a genuine, American, automatic pretzel-bending machine,

At Izmir, Turkey, opens the International Trade Fair, where pretzels will be twisted without benefit of human hands daily for the next month. A lot of our other mechanical marvels also have arrived in Turkey, according to the U. 8. Department of Commerce, but why a pretzel-knotter? All the Middle Eastern Division of the Office of International Trade knew was that Turks are beer drinkers of vast capacity. The division added that Ankara beer is among the most «alubrious in the world. The Turkish embassy wasn't much more help. It knew about Turkish beer, brewed under

. By Frederick C. Othman Yankee Pretzel- Bending Machine ~Kntting Our Relations in Turkey

nappened by the fair. He said his company always exhibited its latest machinery at such international festivals. Well, did it send the Turks a pin setter-upper? He said it did not because he didn’t believe Turks have taken up bowling. We then got into a somewhat technical discussion of pretzelbending. Some bakeries turn out phony pretzels, which aren't bent at all; they are baked in molds like cup cakes. A pretzel fancier can spot one of these at the first crackle. It does not please him. Hand-tied pretzels, however, were disappearing rapidly a while back because of the shortage of expert pretzel-tiers. Tieing knots in damp dough isn't an art you can learn in an hour.

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risen less than 3 per cent in the same period. Nobody was scared. The fact that controls might have been responsible for holding the line that much was overlooked.

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Our Faith in the Future MR. EDITOR: The Republicans say the Democrats should geep their mouths shut regarding the last 20 years. Surely, #fey would like that. It would give them the chance to go on sowing their seeds of fear and gloom. The national debt is high—so is income. We operate on credit, yes. Most every business operates that way. The majority of our people are in debt. When haven't we been? This country rolls on credit. It is our faith in the future. Did you ever consider that every country in the world is living in a “war economy” these days? Where else has the common man made such strides? Why does he not do it elsewhere?

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racket. Now he holds and operates as Soviet 8ovVernment monopoly in Ankara and Istanbul, No Four-in-Hand Because their governments have not yet stopped yer said. state. And it was understood that the New York Boxing Sorparatiens Most of Austria's industry, includ- bit hb Bp lh he yurkish taste THEN CAME the American Machine and he one Tow from Ee io i ~ ins} , " i OV {cat ng the oilfields and Danubian shippi Thi . ww Foundry Co. with its patented marvel, which ey just haven nce require § : ion pping. 8 undry p 1 COMMISSION Was prepared to disappr ove such an applicat ; impoverishment of Austria has forced the (Dis dough contorter now startling the fez- p,q two steel fingers operating on a cam. They it here. A medium because of some unpleasant experiences Mr. Bocchicchio had United States to pour in a billion dollars since Wearing visitors to Izmir. A mystery, sort of. seize a ribbon of dough and whip it into a knot $o. NN best.” he said had with the Pennsylvania law. So the fight is to be held in the war. Well, sir, there's only one concern in all so perfect that even a pretzel aficionado cannot GET ONE OF these Republicans alone and “But almost

Pennsylvania, of all places.

The six years of futile Allied-Russian negotiations for Austrian liberation is the perfect

America that seemed a likely source of pretzelknotters: The American Machine and Foundry,

tell it from a hand-tied job. Mr. Neely went on to say that his firm also

find out what he really does not like. He doesn’t like the way the farmer has become independ-

except the ‘M

Nor is that the whole story. Ens vez 3 he wishful thinkers who still suppose Co., of Buffalo. N. Y,, in the news not long ago sent to Izmir an assortment of power saws, drill- ent-—his powerful organizations and co- TD Veterans’ AV hen i raj ta New York was out of the 1at a 8 Four conference can settle the Ger- when it went into production of automatic pin press vises, automatic drill checks and a vertical tives. He doesn’t like the surge of organize Ww hen it was reported that New Y¢ Ip : man or Korean deadlocks. After 258 meetings setters for bowling alleys. Does away with dough-mixer. labor— too independent these days. What they On Catsu running, and before the bout was awarded to Philadelphia, the Allies, under Austrian pressure, agreed to boys on the job. This is for cakes, but with certain modifica- really do not like is to see the average citizen ~ OMAHA. Av

Heinie Miller, chairman of the Washington, | Commission, made a strong bid for the fight. Cited in his favor was the point that he had had Mr. Bocchicchio as his

house guest not so long ago.

Since the business of pugilism is more or less a law_ unto itself, perhaps there is no particular $oint to this commentary. But it does seem odd that a character who can 't jperate in the big, bad town of New York should be emhraced with open arms by the officials of Philadelphia and

Washington. Or is it?

Welcome Price Cut

an appeasement draft treaty which Stalin promised to take. But he even ran out on that making his double-cross since his 1943 pledge 100 per cent complete. To compound that treachery he is now using his Austrian occupation to blackmail the Allies into creating a permanent separate Trieste state ureder his veto power. He earlier sabotaged the internationalization of Trieste and insisted that it be given to his puppet Tito. Now he is afraid

of an Italian-Yugoslav alliance based on division of Trieste.

ALUMINUM... By John W. Love

Alcan War-TimeBoom

Bending an Ear

SO I CALLED the local office of A. M.and F., and sure enough there was a helpful gent, who identified himself as manager John Neely. He sald his firm was the only manufacturer of automatic pretzel-benders in the world. Why did it send a pretzel-bender to Turkey? Mr. Neely said he didn’t rightly know, but he presumed in an effort to sell pretzel-benders not only to Turks, but also to Egyptians, Iranians, and any other Middle Easterners who

SIDE GLANCES

tions in the bowl it also is good for medicines, mayonnaise and foam rubber. It should be of interest to many Middle Easterners, but it is no good for pretzels. Their dough is mixed in horizontal mixers, tike bread. Nobody sent a horizontal mixer to Izmir, where we must presume pretzels still are mixed by hand. To all concerned, my thanks for this information on Turkish pretzel-bending, but what I can't understand is why I'm always getting tangled up in these knotty, international situations. Haunted, maybe.

By Galbraith

1oing so well. They don’t like to see them so free and independent. They want them lickihg their boots for favors and jobs. No one knows what the future holds. There will be setbacks. But the wealth of -this country is in its lands, its factories, the skill and brains of its. workers, not in a greenback. - Take svery dollar out of circulation and the real wealth of this land would remain untouched. Nothing is going to stop our country unless our people get “scared to death” again. —F. M., City.

DUCK THE BIG ROADS . . . By Alfred C. Anderson

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A NY PRICE CUT is news these days. Particularly when two manufacturers of cortisone, an important new “wonder drug,” cut prices 40 per cent.

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Readies for New High Motorist—Shun Pikers

Cortisone is effective against a common arthritis, a painful disease that nothing seemed to remedy before. Yet it was feared until recently always would be scarce and expensive, because such a little of it could be obtained ffom the glands of cattle. Chemists went to work on the problem, however, a eventually learned how to obtain the same amount of cortisone from two cattle that used to be obtained from 400. Thus again the unsung men in the laboratories have learned how to relieve human suffering. Praise is due them, and the drug industry which made their work possible.

Pacific Coaches

IR-COACH flights across the Atlantic, inaugurated this year, have been so successful Pan American World Airways plans to extend them to the Pacific. There should be quite a potential tourist traffic to the Yet the journey by ship takes too long for the ordinary. vacationist. and present first class air fares are beyond the means of the

[far East when peace is restored. there.

average traveler.

Other airlines which fly the Pacific should follow Pan American's lead in the effort to get Pacific coach service started by next year. The Atlantic carriers all are happy

with their new low-cost service.

Good Musicians

LOOD DONATIONS still are lagging in many cities, probably because this is the vacation season. Organizaions can help a great deal by encouraging their members

‘0 give blood.

The Musicians Union local in San Jose, Cal, an excellent example for groups which can afford it—it vredited three months dues ($4.75) to each member who

hated ‘a pint of blood.

ARVIDA, Providence of Quebec—Near the head of the great fiord known as the Saguenay River stands the world's largest primary aluminum plant the Aluminum Company of Canada. In and around Arvida, Chicoutimi, Port Alfred and a tew other places is now a population of 75,000. Its rapid growth has been made possible both by the reproductive capacity of the French Canadians and the expansion of the aluminum industry in eras of war, peace and defense. Arvida itself, where many of the 12,000 employees of “Alcan” live, is said to have the continent's largest proportion of children—half the population of the city is 16 or younger. Except for ‘industry, though, it's a hard and inhospitable country, mostly rocky hillocks and muskeg. Only because the electric power is here, generated from the swift-running and always ample waters of the Saguenay, does it have industry at all. Nearly all of it is in the extraction of aluminum and the manufacture of newsprint Paper.

- BECAUSE POWER is so cheap and regular in supply, the aluminum mill is the mpst economically operated in North America. For much the same reason it is also the largest. The plant covers half a square ‘mile. On the other hand, no indus-

try has to go farther for its " materials. Largest item in the t bill is bauxite, or alumin ore. This comes from -

British Guiana, 3500 miles away. Canada has no bauxite to speak of. The bauxite, sulphur and a few other materials come up the Saguenay to Port Alfred seven months of the vear. Alcan owns 11 vessels but at times it uses as many as 70. The return cargoes are chiefly newsprint. Despite the heavy freight bill, the cheapness of power more than overcomes it. No other industry uses so much electricity in its processes—10 kilowatt hours are required for each pound of product. Correspondingly. the labor cost is the lowest. Nothing of the same value employs fewer men per ton of product. A large part of the cost of production is in the interest on the huge investment in water power, manufacturing plant, ships and a few other expensive things. This is a fixed charge, so far as the cost of money goes, and. as a result, in an era of rising labor costs, aluminum has an advantage over every other metal.

[J FJ » 5 ALUMINUM does rise in price, but not so much as steel or almost any other metal except gold and silver. That's the clue to the surprisingly large market for aluminum which followed the war, The industry was enormously expanded during the war, and many industry leaders won dered how they could possibly sell all the product the new mills were set up to make. First they cut the price. Then they found other metals were so scarce they had no difficulty working aluminum into many

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places it had never been used. Today the market is much larger than anybody before the war thought it could be for many years. Like other industries, aluminum has to pay aigher wages (the starting rate tor common labor up here in the bush is $1.27 an hour) but the wages don’t have. the same effect on the costs of production." So long as wages in gen- - eral rise, therefore, opportunities’ for aluminum will expand

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in competition. with other metals in the electrical industries, in building construction and in many other directions. But defense does cut in on this rosy civilian outlook. Washington is contemplating a third round of expansion of aluminum in the U. 8. "The British are currently taking the largest share of the 85 per cent of Arvida's output which is exported. (Hence Alcan is preparing to expand again.

LOTS OF motorists are becoming “shun-pikers.”” They duck the big roads in favor of the small ones. How do they get that way” What do they gain? It’s this way: We were in Cleveland, O., at 10 a. m. on the Saturday of last July 4 week end. Our goal was Memphis, Tenn., by Sunday night. How could we do it and live? We did it by “shun-piking” —riding the little roads. All roads go someplace, and you'd be surprised how many pleasant secondary roads, with few trucks and only light traffic practically parallel the big thoroughfares.

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WE SPENT that night in Paris, Ky. after a delightful day of refreshing driving through pastoral land and charming villages. We had smooth, though narrow, roads.

Never asked a question, and hardly looked at the map. Took a county road south from Cleveland, took the first mild-looking state route west for a little while, then took a state route south. The biggest place we drove through all day was Chillicothe, and we crossed the Ohio River 75 miles east of Cincinnati at Aberdeen. You can have your threelane killers and four-lane roll-er-rinks, breathe that diesel

“breath, sharpen those nerves

as you wind up to 70. ready to jam on the brake, driving with, one eye ahead and one on the mirror. > = ~ ~ YOU TAKE the high road— we took it last year. We'll take

the by-road and you won't be

there an hour sooner. We are shun-pikers. We are the ones who got tired of fol lowing that coal truck, took the next right and found ourselves in the heart of the Amish country, seeing horses, bugeies and beards. Others have also cursed U. S. 6 around Port Jervis, N, Y. We just turned left on another road, to another world, there at Minisink Ford, and we'd never heard of the place before —-or of that bridge that John A. Roebling built so strong back there, a bridge you can. walk on now, but which once transported the coal barges. It was no bridge in those days, it was an aqueduct, an aerial canal, the vital engineering link in the old Delaware & Hudson waterway, and it’s all still there to see. No main road comes near fit. 2 = ~ SUCH ARE the rewards of shun-piking: Old canals and

+ old mills and old homes and-

the quiet way of life, real an tiques, and interesting places to eat on roads that Duncan"

Hines never traveled. There are no problems. There.

is always a highway near, and: always a quick way to reach it,

Shun-piking is the best east. of the Missiseippi River,” al--though Missouri is. hard ta’

heat. New England is first rate,

New York superb, Pennsyle

vania fair, but remember your geography:: Where mountains range, roads run with the vale

leys. Where land is flat, roads

checkerboard. It’s pretty hard. to get lost in the U. §. A. . did.

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