Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1952 — Page 10

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Monday, Sept. 22, 1952

The Nixon Expense Fund T IS NOT SOUND. POLICY for any public official to accept a subsidy of any kind from any source other than “the income he is provided by law. Strict adherence to this principle is essential if the integrity of representative government is to be maintained. The California friends of Sen. Richard M. Nixon, the Republican vice presidential nominee, who contributed £16,000 in the past two years to assist him in his work, may have been actuated by altruistic motives, as they say. No evidence has been introduced to show that any of this money was used for any improper purpose. According to the Senator himself, all of it was used to pay expenses incidental to his official position. As an alternative,” he has explained, “I might have resorted to the use of tax-paid facilities, free government transportation, or I might have put my wife on the federal payroll as did the Democratic nominee for vice president (Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama).” ’

” . n THE ALTERNATIVES Sen. Nixon has cited cannot be condoned, although in practice they are all too commonplace. Bu the fact that he does not indulge in such practices does not make Kis own position right. Sen. Nixon may not.have been influenced in any way by the assistance he has accepted from a few of his wealthier constituents. But if every member of Congress wefe to accept financial contributions from groups of his tituents, the time might soon come when the rank and file of the citizenship would be without any real representa-

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No Mine Strike OHN L. LEWIS and the northern soft coal operators have agreed on a new contract. So there will be no strike in the northern fields. Nobody can complain about that. The miners get a substantial pay raise—about 11.6 per cent. Few will begrudge more money to the men who work in this hazardous, grinding business. The miners’ welfare fund will get a 3313 per cent boost in income, : The new coal contract was negotiated without government meddling—and it's a fair guess this was one of the reasons it was done without a strike. pos So far, so good. : vg

” . NOW THE new wage rate must be submitted to the ‘zovernment's Wage Stabilization Board, since the so-called “ceilings” are exceeded. This board would be in a pocket if it developed any vill to disapprove the pay raise. The Wage Board, although since reorganized, made a pay boost for miners almost inavitable by its political manipulation in the steel wage case. So the bonfire started in the steel case becomes a yrairie fire. Egged on by wage and price boosts in steel and -oal, the drive for higher wages and higher prices in other elds will spread and spread. Ultimately, the whole public, including steelworkers and coal miners, will be paying the bill. And the ground will he laid for still another round in the apparently endless seesaw between wages and prices—until there comes a time, 1s inevitably it must come, when goods are produced at a orice the market cannot pay.

The Neglected Issue JUDGING FROM LETTERS from our readers, there is more interest in the Korean War than in any other issue before the American people—and the Presidential candidates will be very foolish if they do not give it more

attention. 4 Most of these letters ask one or the other of two questions, where they do not raise both. These are (1) “If we aren't trying to win the war in Korea, why are we there?” and (2) “Why don’t we use Chiang Kai-shek's troops and let Asians fight Asians instead of doing most of the fighting and dying ourselves?” The following quotation is from a typical letter: + “What is wrong with taking Chiang’s troops 50,000 or ax a time and sending them to Korea on a rotation basis? Fhis would actually strengthen the defense of Formosa begause the men would get battle training. ". “These 50,000 would relieve an equivalent number of Americans. If other Asiatic or Pacific nations wanted to get into the act we could aim at an eventual All-Asiatic . army on our side in Korea. Or at least a mainly Asiatic army with just enough U. S. and European troops to give it a United Nations flavor.”

LJ sn n . » n » WE ARE PASSING these questions on to the presidential candidates through this medium because they deserve an answer. Stalin is using Chinese troops against us. Why shouldnt we use Chinese troops against him? American battle deaths totaled 20,716 at last report. So far as we know, Russia hasn't lost a man, That does not impress us as the way to win a war, when we know that the real enemy is Russia.

Morse Code

i AYNE MORSE, the talkative Republican senator from * Oregon, has had a new statement every few hours lately about his attitude toward the presidential race. So it would be risky to predict whether he will or will not support Dwight Eisenhower, his party’s nominee for the presidency. During his years in the Senate, Wayne Morse has voted with the Democrats so regularly that they have come to take his support for granted on all but the most routine fruestions. He has denounced his party’s leader in the Senate, Robert A, Taft, and other fellow-senators of his party go often that they undoubtedly would haye read him out of the party long ago if they could have. : “If Sen. Morse decides finally to support Mr. Eisenhower this year, it will be no more than the lip-service backing he has given his party's hominees in the past. If he chooses to back Gov. Adlai Stevenson, it would simply be consistent : + with the Morse voting record. we : ; _ © And if he emulateg his fellow northiwesterner, Mr. JusRef Sif he by mountain climbing in Asia, that might be the best idea of all. yr i

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WORRIED «+.ByR.H. Shackford ‘Stalin Guards Navy Secrets

, LONDON—Why is Stalin so upset about the * North ' Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) maneuvers in the Baltic? The main reason is his fear the West will discover Soviet naval secrets. According to Western intelligence reports, Stalin has a lot to hide, : The Soviet Navy never has gotten as much pulflicity as the Red Army or the Red Air Force—both of which are the biggest in the world. But the navy is no less of a threat to the West. Remember what trouble Hitler's submarines and raiders caused? Stalin has many times the naval power Hitler had. Ten years ago, the Soviet Navy ranked about seventh in the world, Today, it ranks third behind the U. 8. and Britain. And, if Russia's postwar naval building program now is complete, the Soviets already. may have ousted the famous British fleet from second place, at least in the number of combat ships. .

Worry About Type

BUT it isn’t the size of the Soviet fleet that worries Western strategists. It's the type and quality—quite different from any Western

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on aircraft carriers and big fighting ships. The Soviet fleet is built around a huge submarine fleet and a large group of interceptor-type surface ships, equipped to launch guided missiles. The Red Navy is designed primarily as a huge raiding fleet to. disrupt convoys, interfere with amphibious landings, striké at ocean lifelines and attack coastal cities. ' Although the Soviets have Black Sea, Arctic Ocean and Far Eastern sea outlets, their major naval area is the Baltic. ‘On the Baltic and along more than a thousand miles of coastline on the Baltic's south shore are secrets Russia doesn’t want NATO peeking at.

Secrets Cited

SOME of these secrets are: ONE—A substantial part—probably about half—of her estimated 375-submarine fleet. The Russians have plans: for 1000 more subs, many of which probably are being built in the Baltic area. : v TWO—The Reds’ Baltic surface fleet, estimated to include six heavy and 10 light cruisers, plus 25 or more destroyers and hundreds of smaller craft. THREE—An almost solid line of naval bases, submarine pens and guided-missile stations stretching from Porkkala, the naval base “leased from Finland, to Kronstadt and Leningrad at the head of the Gulf of Finland and then along the south Baltic coast to Rostock, near Denmark. FOUR—Hundreds of jet airfields all along the Baltic coast, with extensive radar installations. FIVE—A five-mile No Man's Land strip along the entire coast of Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia.

Headache to West

- THE Soviet submarines are a headache to naval defense planners in the West. But her new type of surface raiders are causing special study. Some of these 15,000-ton cruisers are reported to be fitted with special equipment for launching large guided missiles accurately from 50 miles offshore. These are made to order for hit-and-run attacks on coastal cities.

And when the possibilities of atomic warheads are acknowledged, it is no wonder the Soviet Navy is considered a force to be reckoned with.

BONANZA... By John W. Love

Auto Industry Steps Up Pace

THE AUTO industry is turning on all the voltage at its command for a high output the rest of the year. This month's production of passenger cars may be over 500,000, a new high for the year. And with the overtime work, the industry talks of using in the autumn, the 1952 total should be considerably more than was expected last January. ; . At the beginning of the year the production of passenger cars was being forecast at 4 million or a little more. Shortages of steel, aluminum and copper, due to the defense program, were expected to hold it to that. Now the prospect is for something materially better, despite the steel strike and the artificial short. age it created. During the spring the motor industry and its Michigan friends were carrying on their warm argument in Washington for more metals. They persuaded the National Production Authority to lift the ceiling from less than a million cars in the second quarter, to more than a million.

Run Into Strike:

THEREUPON the factories produced 1.17 million cars in April, May and June, only to run into the steel strike in July and August. This carried the output back down to where it was when the industry was only getting well going in early 1946, after the war, At least 400,000 cars that would have been manufactured in July and August failed to be, There is some talk of the industry making this up quickly, but is hardly likely to be accomplished in the remainder of 1952. Actually, after the lapse of some months, one will be unable to tell whether lost output is made up. When an industry loses sales for one reaspn of another, strikes, shortages or the interference of war, some of its sales are gone forever, Some cars will be driven a few months longer than they would have been if there had been no steel strike, and no increase in prices resulting from the terms of its settlement.

New Models Coming

DURING the steel strike the story got around that the motor industry probably would postpone the new ‘models it was planning to launch in the fall.: This turned out to be almost if not entirely wrong. Apparently the factories employed some time during the letdown to arrange for a smoother transition to the 1953 models than would otherwise have been possible. The story now is that the changeover will be smoother than it has ever beer, and the down time at the plants shorter, only a matter of a few days in October or thereabouts. Sek It is a little surprising the post-strike demand should be thought likely to subside enough to require the offering of new models later this year. There is, however, another reason the companies are competing so energetically. ‘They all want to use all the materials Washington 1s willihg to allow them. Not using their quotas might affect the size of their quotas later on.

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‘LIME AND LESPEDEZA' . . . By Frederick C. Othman He Disks Icing on Cake for Cows While Mrs. O. Quietly Burns

» McLEAN, Va.—My bride’s been out wasting my money on lime and lespedeza seed in 100pound sacks, plural. I asked her, why didn’t she spend the money on pretty dresses?

And let the good old government foot the bill for the stuff to make the back pasture rich and green for the cows she’s got in mind? She said, and I quote, “Was I an idiot? Had I ever seen the forms a fellow’s got to fill to get his fair share of the lime the "Agriculture Department hdnds to farmers?” Filling stuff out like that, she said was worse than not having a new dress. Much simpler and more satisfactory, she continued, is to spend your own money for fixing the pasture; furthermore, you're not beholden to anybody back there in Washington. So be it. My checkbook is suffering and so am I Somebody, and I give you one guess as to whom had to disk all this fertilizer into the earth. Somebody needed to scatter the seed and the same somebody was forced to cover it over gently with a quarter inch of soil.

‘l Have the Tools’

I HAVE THE TOOLS, all right, but before this is over, the tools may have me. A tractor won't do any disk work when it’s hitched up as a mowing machine. So I climbed under the dingus with my monkey wrenches, taking off the mower and cutting my finger, as usual, on the cutter blade. Then, since this has got to be a pretty, level pasture, 1 had to attach the combination snow shovel and earth mover. Next I had to move earth in small driblets. Else the wheel spun. And there was Mrs. O., “standing over this operation, directing the job, as if I were icing a cake. Having got this done to her satisfaction I spread that lime. : I did this by hand. There was a light breeze blowing and when this was finished, I resembled a well-floured drumstick, ready for the pan. Now, said Hilda, disk it. The disk (for information of you city folks) is a stubborn contraption of cutter wheels under a heavy iron frame that trails behind the tractor, plowing lightly into the earth. How deep it plows depends on the angle of the disks. The operator is supposed to manage this by

means of a rope from the driving seat, but I never have figured out the system.

‘I've Got to Leap Down’

I'VE GOT to leap down and tug the machinery by hand every time I need to change.the depth of the cut. This is frequent, because some places the pasture is soft and some it isn’t. So I plowed in the lime. Then came the seed. This was fun. You put the seed into a kind of canvas sack, which connects to a small, windmill dingus, with a crank. The whole business you strap on your back and you stroll down the pasture, and then up, cranking as you go. The seed sprays out at the exact rate (provided you set the gauge properly) to make a good pasture. The beauty of this part of the job is that the longer you work at it, the lighter grows the sack. Very pleasant. : That left me with the small problem of covering the seed. This was a breeze; the cultivator did that and all I had to do was steer. So it does look as though the cows next spring will get plenty to eat and all I've got to worry about’ now is how to get that sickle bar reinstalled without breaking my back. The moral is: Get your meat in the form of steaks at the butcher's. What if it does cost $1.40 per pound? You're still ahead of the game, your muscles are intact, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that some of your tax money went to buy lime for all the farmers, except, of course, my bride.

‘THE PANHANDLER'

LAST NIGHT I met a fellow . . , who walked on the crowded street . . . he asked me for a dime or two . .. to buy something to eat . . . and as I reached into my jeans ... to answer his request . . . I hesitated for a spell + ¢ + to give my thoughts a rest . . looked into his eyes . . . the mirror of his life + « « I knew of all his worry for . . . they told me of his strife . . . so further down my hand did go . . . till of some change I let . . . to help him jbuy a little bit". . . to ease his sad regret. - —By Ben Burroughs.

PACK BIG PUNCH . .\. By Max B. Cook Little Ram-Jet Engines Making Aviation History on West Coast

SMALL 12-pound ram-jet en- sultant thrust gines are making aviation his- power, tory on the West Coast. ”

The ram jets were first labeled as power units for fas-ter-than-sound guided missiles flying at great heights. But they now are offering keen competition to the heavy piston aircraft engines at low altitudes. Mounted on the rotor tips of a Hiller Hornet helicopter, two of the ram-jets lift a pay16ad of 600 pounds. The small, two-place copter, when empty, weighs only 360 pounds with the weight of a heavy engine eliminated. ” n » THE ARMY, Navy and Marine Corps have ordered HIJ-1 ram-jet helicopters for intensive service tests. The tests will cover medium range tactical missions, liaison work, low-cost helicopter primary training, evacuation of wounded, wire laying, and reconnaissance work. Widespread use of the ramjet helicopter in peacetime commercial service is predicted by Hiller engineers. Display of a tiny ram-jet unit at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics laboratories in Cleveland, shortly after the war, awakened engineers to its possible is helicopter use. it ® » ”

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Four men, including the pilot, have been carried by the HJ-1 in flight tests at Palo Alto, Cal. Engineers point to many safe landings made from 3000 feet altitude with both engines cut off.

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Visions Not Enough

MR. EDITOR: I have listened carefully to the speeches of both Stevenson and Eisenhower. My interest been centered on the intelligence, logic and character displayed by the two men in their speeches and their fitness for the office they want. Eisenhower seems to be well equipped to parrot the old theme of the Republicans and the press which has been very much in evidence in the past months. All the ills of the world are placed at the door of the Democrats who, they would have us believe, never do any good and deliberately bring disaster to our country. They want to kick them out and replace them with Republicans; any old Republican will do. * 0 0

THEY SAY the Democrats have been in power too long. Under our system of government the people choose the man they want for President of the United States and other public officials. It's hard to believe that all the people who ‘aren't dyed-in-the-wool Republicans are fools just because they have voted Democratic over the past 20 years. It's far more logical to think that they have voted for their best interests and of course this means the good of the country. Our present condition as world leader and domestic prosperity, regardless of the world wide turmoil, for which we are not responsible, confirms this assumption. They say they fear the loss of the two party system. What they really fear is the loss of the Republican Party. If this should occur there's no doubt that some darty having another name would emerge, which according to their own reasoning might be a good thing. The Republicans seem to vision another Jacob's Ladder swarming with angels cescending from heaven, who of course are all Republicans who will throw the Democrats into the

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world over to suit the Republicans, which they say would be good for all the people. They promise this but they give us no evidence of how they will do it other than some visionary Republican way. : > &

THE REPUBLICAN position is, a way, pathetic. They cannot hope to win on™{heir record, so they keep still about it. They instead resort to mound building out of grains of sand by the most vicious sort of propaganda and base lies, which isn’t likely to win them many votes.

In Jacob's time visions played a great part in the lives of the people. In our enlightened age something far more concrete is required to lead the people.

~—Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St,

Scores Democratic ‘Record’

MR. EDITOR: Now comes a Hoosier, Mr, Fritz of Lafayette, to tenor the noise of Stevenson that the national press is biased against the Democratic Party. This is indeed a compliment, for it gives editors and editorial writers credit for enough innate intelligence and common sense to analyze and portray all the facts about the isue.

Let Mr. Fritz be advised if a single Republican candidate or office holder made a slip that even hinted a shoddy deal was back of it, the press boys would pounce on it as eagerly as a cat goes after a stray rat. If Mr. Fritz is old énough, he may remember the Teapot Dome.

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UNFORTUNATELY, the Democratic Party began to slip under the guidance ahd mismanagement of FDR. It has just about crushed every ideal set up by Jefferson. Space prevents an honest contrast, but any man who is honest with himself will consult history and learn (hat he is only kidding, not, deluding himself by following the banner of the present mis-called Democratic Party. The poor deluded victims still believe that

FDR was a poor man’s God sent to relieve their ~

burdens, but the fact is that he did just the opposite, There is a time in every man’s life when adversity gets him cornered; every great man the world has known has grabbed this as an . opportunity to take stock of his mental equipment and dig up his God-given talents; all great men have invented something to make the world better while it brought them fame and fortune. It is impossible to estimate how many geniuses were crushed -under the WPA steam roller, which made them leaners instead of producers, encouraged idleness and discouraged thinking. ¢ & 4

WORSE STILL, since FDR the Democratic Party has rapidly degraded into about every scandal possible, because it is dominated by the most dangerous clique of misfits in America —dangerous because they don't know that their transparent ‘notions have brought us to the brink of ruin. Truman, Marshall and Acheson top all mis-

fits for biundering while we are nearer the

greatest war in history and sinking deeper in debt because of this clique’s Tar and absolute lack of common sense. But behold, this bunch of bigets t h ry to belittle Ike. They sound like so many puppies barking at a locomotive. Still Sweet Adlai, who sat under the wing of Acheson for a spell, says he is running on the “record.” —Pat Hogan, Columbus,

Warns of ‘Trade Slump’

MR. EDITOR: Robert C. Turner, an IU economist turned bureaucrat, fears an end to prosperity .when defense spending tapers off. Evidently he is one of those who believes that we have been “spending ourselves into prosperity.” Defense spending is spending for guns bombs, war planes, tanks and all the lesser tools of. killing; also for factories and machine tools to turn out these ‘munitions of war. People can't eat this stuff, wear it, or use it in living. It is only good for killing, It is wholly déstructive. Therefore, leaving out of account whether it is necessary or not, defense spending is a complete waste, and all of the energy that is spent is wasted, oes the wasting of billion ; worth of American energy make a ars prosperous? Does destroying wealth create wealth? The defense program makes the u. 5 ~ less prosperous, not more so. e have spent some 20 billion doll fight the war in Korea. But forget - a what we have really done is pour 20 billion

maw of war, It has been thrown - . sipated—is gone forever,. How way process make us more prosperous? ng We haye torn thousands of lads from their : Bones and pushed them, gun in hand, into the 3 Jeathtrap., Eighteen thousand of them have been cilled, many thousands more have been maimed, and others rot in Communist

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leased. Has this kind of s made pendi; prosperous? Perish the thought. ns oe

Such prosperity as we have today spite of Korea, not because of it. . oy well off as we are because defense spending is small compared With constructive, civiliar

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continue a high enough rate of vitian production, compared with war spending, to hy us well supplied with the means of livelihood.

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Barrows and lower than F today at the Ii yards. Bulk choice 1 had a top bid

260-290 pound $19.50-20. Light sold at $18.50400 pound sows of $17.50-18.50.

Choice steers ling sold str higher. Utlity cows sold at § and good bulls Choice and pr steady at $29.5

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