Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1943 — Page 28

“home in Albuquerque, far from the madding crowd.

TT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1945 [HERE'S ERNIE NOW? de W live who do not sometime long for fame, which comes ‘only a handful among the millions on- this earth.

And, as with prosperity, few can stand it or carry it grace- |

fully or be unspoiled by it.

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urge that he dust off the classics and read the warning nals as that by Dante, for example: “All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the summer glow which brings it forth soon slays with power.” Or Byron: “For this men write, speak, preach and heroes kill, and bards burn what they call their midnight taper, to ‘have, when the original is dust, a name, a wretched picture, and worst bust.” : But fortunately Ernie’s the sort that doesn’t swell up. So we won't worry about that. The purpose of this is merely to point out what to us is one of the.most interesting incidents in the world-old | story of fame. No Brodie, diving off Brooklyn bridge;

no Blondin, walking the tightwire over Niagara; no states- |

man flashing through the sky of public notice, or general

“movie star, ever got a quicker or more com: {st

or Ta bath of fame than has this thin man from Indiana, dubbed by Frederick Painton in the Saturday Evening Post as the Hoosier Letter Writer. 5. 8. s 8» ’ RRIVING from the tragic scenes of action he is showered with adulation, literally lathered with offers from “socialites,” government officials, syndicates, magazines, book publishers, screen, radio, stage and notables galore. "His friend, Lee Miller, drafted into what he refers to as the job of being Ernie's vice president, now is run ragged "and gaunt under the strain of helping absorb the shock of the triumphal return. © But the thing that strikes us as most interesting—and * impréssive—~in this study of fame and of those who can “take it,” and those who can't, is in the answer to the question of “Where's Ernie now?” = ° Is he exposing himself to the flooding sunshine of attention from the great and the near-great who would wine and dine-and display him-as-the world's most noted corre: __spondent of the world’s greatest war? The answer is no. He is basking in a more healthful if perhaps less heady sunlight—God’s own—somewhere not far from the picket fence that girds the yard of his little

THE SENATE STARTS i : A PMINISTRATION leaders in the senate, after .six “months of prodding by press and public, have given the go sign to the subcommittee considering resolutions on post-war foreign policy. The president deserves credit for pushing Majority Leader Barkley and Chairman Connally, after the 360-to-29 . house vote for the Fulbright resolution had failed to move § them. Senate expression is essential before the important Anglo-Russian-American conference of foreign ministers, The simple approach would be to report out the Fulbright resolution, because no measure on a controversial i foreign issue has ever received such overwhelming bipartisan support. But that seems to be prevented by misplaced senatorial pride, which cannot accept house leadership in foreign policy. So the Connally subcommittee has decided to start from scratch.: ;

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» » r = 8 . ONTROVERSIES, which have delayed action and which E- now face the subcommittee, revolve around four questions: : ONE—Should the senate—or the United States, for that matter—have any post-war foreign policy whatever? Affirmative public opinion, and the danger of our government negotiating blindly with allied governments holding clear policies, have almost disposed of that question. . TWO—Should we participate in international organization for peace, or depend on an Anglo- American military alliance and perhaps partial alliances with Russia and China? Despite all the large and loose talk bout confining it to an Anglo-American alliance—which would be opposed by smaller allies, and in time provoke enemy counter-alli-ances—there is little likelihood that either the American

forernment or people will ever accept this.- The recent outlined by Secretary of State Hull, as well as the

house resolution and the Republican Mackinac declaration, |

favor wider international organization. .

THREE—Should the international machinery be|

ed by power? Secretary Hull and the house say, the Mackinac declaration evades the question. Obvi- | any peace system without enforcement powers would

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ment, or perhaps any intelligent d on the ki trol of policing forces. iat 32 the Kind DUR :—Should American international commitments, involving war and sovereignty powers, be subject ional action? Both the Mackinac and house resoide for such constitutional processes. That prontial, and is desired by the people. ~ ‘that the senate will, or should, go further it compromise. But ceftainly it should

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a huge manufacturing company in the Middle West found itself snarled in negotiations with five different unions at one time, some of them presenting competi-

men and required hospital treatment and the union

pany to can him, The company refused but gave in after five days of retarded production and. thus another of Adm. Land's ‘smart” unioneers had won another victory over a company but at the expense of American sol diers and sallors fighting in a war. Moreover, it is a union policy nowadays to require mutual agreement between thé company and the union in the preparation of lists of men for whom deferment is to be asked, and this means that the smart union official is given the right to write his own deferment merely by refusing to okay the list unless his own name and the names of his friends are on it.

Law on Union's Side

JOE CURRAN'S Communist-front maritime union regularly holds its own courts-martial and condemns sallors for “antiunion” activity which includes antiCommunist activity and lese majesty to Curran, dismissing them from union membership; which means that they are then reported to their draft boards as no longer eligible for deferment as merchant seamen. . The temptation to a corrupt unioneer to threaten a rank-and-file saflor with charges calling for a union trial and probable dismissal and certification to his home }6ard. 4s an eligible drafiee need not be dwelt The unioneér is, of course, “smart” as Adm. says, but, unlike the management man, he may a criminal with a record or living under a as many of them do and yet the law is side and stacked against the company ing men who need the factory production the people of the United States who today bonds to pay for such delays and idling. The law and all procedure encourage unioneer to promote grievances and keep endlessly in progress, but Land could said in justice to the management men that in futile struggles against such activities they likely patriotic and conscientious than dumb,

We the People

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such as hurrying to the time clock or rushing to the lunchroom, Most of the infractions of rules center about smoking, which is forbidden, except by executives in the office areas. iia The penalty for each infraction of these

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