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‘The Indianapolis Times

PAGE 22 Priddy, December 8, 1944

ROY W. HOWARD President . Editor

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MARK FERRES Business Manager

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RILEY 5381.

Give LAGM and the Poopie Will Find Ther Own Way

WELL, WHY NOT?

HE Minneapolis Association of Petroleum Retailers has affiliated with the American Federation of Labor Teamsters’ union, and has announced that it will make membership in this labor organization compulsory, at dues of $2.50 a month, for all independent filling station owners and operators in the Minneapolis area. The purpose, says the association's secretary, is to “provide teeth” for a program of “definite protection” against price cutting and other “evils” which are said

endanger retail gasoline profits.

In other words, some filling station owners have joined | otfier

a labor union, and intend to compel all their competitors to join, with the idea that membership in the union will

enable them to enforce a price-fixing agreement.

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. ” ” a : WHETHER THEIR MOVE is in the public interest is

highly questionable, but it certainly is logical.

Federal

anti-trust laws are tough on businessmen who combine to fix prices, restrict competition and monopolize markets. But the United States supreme court has held that traderestraining activity by labor unions. and their members is beyond the reach of those laws. dent Roosevelt said he would hunt a law to invoke against

J. Caesar Petrillo of

(Remember how Presi-

musicians’ union? And how he

didn’t find one? And how the Petrillo union's treasury is now collecting a “sales tax” on every phonograph record

made?)

80 perhaps filling station owners and other small businessmeti—or big businessmen, for that matter—ean acquire price-fixing “teeth” and anti-trust immunity by joining

unions,

At any rate, it's, hard to blame them for trying.

And if enough of them try, congress may finally be jolted into doing sométhing to correct the damage done by those

supreme court decisions.

WE OWE IT—LET'S PAY IT

HE argument against this city paying Fred C. Telford what it ewes him has gone beyond the bounds of common Sense,

Indianapolis officially hired Mr, Telford to db a job

of work, He did the work. We believe he did it well, but that has no bearing on the subject now. After the work was done, and after the city had accepted it, certain individuals, for reasons of their own, tried to induce not to pay for it.

the city

They caused some delay, but the city counell, as it

was honorably bound to do, eventually authoriséd payAlong with all other city expenditures, the item is now before the state tax board for review. And the same individuals who fought it in council are still fighting it before the board.

We are a8 much interested in saving public money as

anyone. Bit refusal to pay a just and authorized debt is not economy. We might as well refuse to pay the salary of some policeman or some fireman to whom we had taken We Hope the state tax board is not going to get lost in a lot of technicalities that were created largely by the efforts of the very mén who now cite them gs obstacles to the payment. One fact can't very well be idden:

Indianapolis owes Fred Telford $2800. We ought to

pay iti

FIRST STEP

HE Maloney<Motironey résolution seems likély to pass the house neXt week. It was cleared yesterday by the

rules commitee; and Democratic Leader McCormack said he wotild schedule it for & vote on Mofiday or Tuesday. So =assuming adjustment of any difference between the house version and the one already passed unanimously by the senate=there is now good prospect that this step toward a better organized and more &fficient congress will be completed before the present session adjourns,

The resolution proposes a bipartisan committee of six

senators and six representatives to study congressional procedure ahd recommend improvements. That, itself, is And if the committee urges a genuine. modernization of congress, rather than a mere gesture in that direction, it will run up again thany vested rights and powerful prejudices.

So adoption of the Maloney-Monroney resolution will

be only a step; only a first successful skirmish in what may prove a long and arduous battle. must be woh if congress is to maintain its prestige and influence as the policy-making branch of goverfiment.

But it is a battle that

NWLB, MEET NLRB (CHAIRMAN DAVIS of the national war labor board and

Chairman Millis of the national labor relations board

have afranged to meet and discuss conflicts of policy between their agencies as well as pending legislation affecting both. So says a Washington dispatch.

An ordinary citizen might be tempted to wonder why

such a meeting should be considered news. tempted to wonder why ‘these two governtient boards, | This created to handle labor problems, haven't been working in - Elose co-operation all along, and thus avoiding confliets of

He might be

policy. He might even be curious about why the aetivities of NWLB, NLRB and moré than a dozen other federal

many of its other affairs,

agencies also created to handle labor problems of various Botts haven't been co-ordinated under the secretary of labor. An erdinary cititen, that is wonder coficernitig these matte how the New Deal eonduéts i

, might bé tempted to

rs—if he knéw nothing about ts labor affairs, and & great

——————— test hit play is “Harvey” The title| # six-fobtone white rabbit Who never

REFLECTIONS — ali Reading the Mail By “ohn W. Hillman”

to learn to take the bitter with the sweet. :

This Hillman 1s a canny chap He’s not a cloak and suit man. He stalks the Reds by night and day And grimly tries to shoot them.

Small town he is, but his all he gives To-the pursuit of shocking Pinks And his ammo isn't his charming phiz Or devilish little winks,

Like Pegler he still pursues ‘em - ~The Pinks and Purples and Reds, Even to routing the old maids out

IN THIS BUSINESS, you have |

# chubby little guy in his shirt. sleeves pecking at a typewriter with two fingers. reason, we cherish a one-way corre been having with a certain Mrs. spends her spare moments stitching monohair shirts to our measure. Mrs. Long signs her letters: “That Dern Fool Columbus,” but the description is hardly with enough humor and humility that way certainly is no fool. BeScotties—and that’s a point in anyalways irritate Mrs, Long. There was a what hurts most-when she liked have the letters to proye it. But somewhere along the line, something happened to this beautiful friendship. It must have been the election, o It's Too \Often for Mri. Long WE. "TT WRITING a great deal nowadays, | d on our time being what they are, but apparently we appear often enough to keep Mrs, 1.8 boiling point’ low and her blood pressure high. In her latest communication, she put us into verse an honor that doesn’t often come our way. She says

And peeping under their beds.

1 hate to tell you what he sees there— It has a 1id that clanks, And they're getting scarce because the steel Is going Into tanks.

Mts, Long is right on several points. Your correspondent grew up in small towns, God bléss em, and he hopes he will never grow out of them. And his face definitely is not his fortune.

When Did We Bait Any Reds?

BUT WE'RE not just sure which of our little essays inspired the charges about Red-balting and old maids. We've always held that it's anyone's privilege to believe whatever he wants to, and likewise that what goes on ih an old maid's bedroom is strictly her business. We're not the type, unfortunately, who gets invited around to boudoirs, even by old maids. If we were, we doubt if we'd be curious about what's undér the péd==with oiif waistline, it's get= ting inereasingly difficult to bend over. We suppose Mrs. L. has construed our recent rémarks about Orson Welles wardrobe and Elsa Max well's silhouette as a vicious attack on Marxism. Maybe so, but wé wouldn't like la Maxwell and el Welles even if they'd voted for McKinley, And, ome to think of it, that smug “we are the Lord's anointed” attitude wouldn't be much out of place ii the Union League ¢lub, But we doubt if our Hollywood chums feel too badly about that essay though Miss Maxwell might send over her seconds if she knew she'd been defended as an old maid. After all, it's publicity, isn't it? . Ab the end of her poem, Mrs. L. adds this note: - “Nice, huh? Of course, you can’t print it because of the paper Shortage, but will you please oblige me by being annoyed?” 0. K., Mrs. Long-=wé're afinoyed. Feel any better?

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Allies Near Rift

By William Philip Simms

(Continued From Page One)

Communists, Leftists are trying to overthrow the existing, tempo= rary feglifié and Impose theins61Ves aS filers. Soores have beeh killed and hundreds wounded, Ih stating the ease for Britain, Prime Minister Churchill said. Whether the Greek people es« tablish & monarchy of a républie, 4 government of the right orf the left, ate matters entirely for them.” But, he warned, until they are in a position to decide, the British ary will hot hesls tate to take the necessary steps to maintain order. He said the allies can't ehrry on the task of res storing economie order and providing relief “t tommy gufis, provided for \se againsh the Gerthans, are now used if an attempt to impose by violence a Communist dictatorship” Following British intefvention in the Italian litical Crisis, Secretary of State stettinlus issued a plufit statethent. THIS was Interpreted here and in tiondoh as a rebuke, Certainly it indicated that Washington: and London do hot see the Eutopean picture allke, Ang 1b 18 obviolls that Mostow doesn’t seé eye to eye either with L8hden or Washington.

These distliFbances in Europe And Asia are thé best possible ehebutagement to the Germans afid the Japs

| Otir ehemies see evidences of disagreement among the

big three over How to control the d This rakes the Nazis ana the WAtiords of TOKYS foe that if they can only hang of 16hg ehough, the Alles go to pieces from wi ! It Europe is allowed to drift inte civil war the Angle. Aueribah war effort mAY be hamstrung, & révolutioniries Are using fundamentally the same tactics pretty Much throughout the colt & The allied aries may find themselves caught between Hitler's fanatical Nazis ih front of them and half & dozen civil wars behind them. Beinn inne he demonsiratohe” I Balen. glans 0 4 "w is also the reason behing Prime Minister Churehill's admonition to the Greeks. . But the acts of Eisehhower and Ohuréhill palliatives, hot cures. The danger remains, 18 evety teason to Believe Bhat it will grow. There only one way to get rid of it. That is by a better understanding between Moscow, London and Wash-

Gén, DéGaulle, dnd of Burdpe's shrewdest pollui w Moscow to talk

To The Poi fo on Go

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.~Voltaire.

“WILL CONSCRIPTION PREVENT WARS?”

By An American Patriot, Greencastle

France has had compulsory peace time military service since 1708, Germany has had it since 1806. Great Britain is the gnly large European nation that has not had it for many years. Is there anything in the experi ence of these nations to suggest that _peace-time conscription will prevent wars? Is there anything in the experience of these nations to suggest that peacetime conscription will win wars?

. “LET'S DO A LITTLE FIGURING” By A. E., Tadianapolis 1 want to agree with Mr. James R. Meitzler of Attica relative to the raise asked by all postal employees. Let them have this bonus for the duration. It is plaih that the mos ment it looks like living costs might #0 up, everyoné hops 6n the wagon for, » raise. No thought is given to the fact that that in itself is the very reason for the cost of living increase. Now, let's do a little figuring! First, wages in 1028 were [fairly nice. I was making good money in business. I had equities in five nice homes; each in good shape: Each nicely rénted and were in, all the years till the debacle of 1029. Then what happened? Businéss went t0 jeces. My debtors couldn't ' pay. ey had no work, My rentals were reduced to meet the condi tions and even so I could not rent theth. I 1086 them, everyone but my Home. Business continued poorly. WPA became the vogue. M two Sohs were thrown out of wo afd I had to help. We survived it all becaiise we were hard-working Jacple, taking the breaks with out tends. Did we squeal? No. My fourth door neighbor was a postiian. Dufing the next five years this postman had two new cars, together with the fact that he had spent about $1200 in repairs oft his home. He Was buying perk ehops for 181; centé a pound (re member the little pigs?). Baden, unobtainable today, siéed In eellophane at 10 cents pound, and ehambray shifts at B90 cents. I men tion shirts because 1odiy my wire paid $1.40 for the shie shirk

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth hete are these of the writers, and publication in ne- way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi . bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

pression was on. The longer the depression, the better he lived, and now look at his long face. Even so, he gets better money today than the average -mechanic and works much fewer hours, off every little holiday. The average war check is around $30. Twicé as many checks in the $30 lists as in the $50. My daughter-in-law, with two children, 6 and 8 respectively, is living on $100 monthly, $23 weekly, and her loved one in the army. Shame, oh, shame. 8 = =

“WE NEED SOMETHING MORE USEFUL” By Girl Ninetéén, Indianapolis 1 agreé with you completely, Mr. Bayless—animals, birds, ete, should not be caged up In 4 20a, but should be free as God meant them to be. Since it would be Ww to the people to support a zoo, théy should at feast have the right to vote for or against it. Personally, I think the people would much rather support a plan by Which. to tid the city of the smoke Of smog which makes us gasp and e¢hoke, and eventually turns our IUNEs grey. Another suggestion would be to have the state board of health put fliofing in the water. Fluorine,

i8 How knéwh to prevent cares (deeay) of the teeth, or at least reduce it, I these things were done (and I Know that the people Would support thet) tndiaha woulda not only be a Healthief place to live, but the

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people would be heaiuny, and there-

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‘Side Glances=By Galbraith

‘Nussbaum will read it and give up

after & long series of experiments, |

fore, better able to work, which is very important during these war days. I hope if this letter is printed Mr.

the idea of a zoo. 1 am sure he could think of

ple of Indianapolis. Don’t misunderstand me, I think a great deal of Mr. Nussbaum’s column and always read it, however, we do need something more useful than a oo. ; a 8 ® LLOYD GEORGE CAN'T PASS THE BUCK” By Henry Reeger, Indianapolis As an American, I take great resentment from David Lloyd George's first public utterance in two years, He implies that the present debacle can be laid at our doorstep, dué to the fact that we didn't enter the League of Nations. He said that he would act the same way at Versailles, if he would do it overs==that 18 under the assumption that America would stick by her word. Now, pray tell me, when has America failed to keep her word? It is true we did not enter the League of Nations-due to the fact that the majority of our cohgressmen objected to our entry. The fact ‘remains it was only Presidenit Wilson who committed us to the leaglie and he gave his life for it and despite the fact we didn’t enter, we did pledge our cooperation in backing up the league. England used the League of Nations to furthér her owh selfish ambition and the first time the league had a chante to act against active aggression in 1033 at the time Mussolini entered Ethiopia. England sat quietly by and let Italy run over Ethopla. England took no-stand, at least not an active one, against Japafiese aggression against Ohina. She permitted Hitler to tearm Germany, permitted her to enter the Rhineland. England deliberately sold France, Poland, Austrian, Cgechoslovakia down the river. If I were a Frenchinan I could never forgive England. France, on fiumerous occasions, begged England to take a Stand against Hitler. They never aid until Hitler was in their batk yard ahd they were assured of American lend<lease goods. Lloyd George's England has committed all the crimes in the book. She deliberately keeps India and Palestine in a state of turmoil so 48 to Afford anh excuse to hang on to them. ~ Bngland commits the cries of Naglism under thé guise

be ald at the door of England. Lloyd George can't pass the buck to us. As for me, he can stay in retirement. retharks burn me up. . “ISN'T IT A

GOOD IDEA?”

something more useful to the peo-|-

POLITICAL SCaNET Solid Issue By Thomas L. Stokes :

Board Is Strictly Political

THE ISSUE boils down to a few simple facts.

is a tremendous job, is a board strictly political in complexion. Everybody at the Capitol recognizes this, The high board of political strategy, headed up by Harry Hopkins, is paying off some political obligations

back attempt. He wanted s job in Washington. So his old friend, Mr. Hopkins, under whom he served as a state WPA administrator, fixed it up. Mr. Hurley is an engineer by profession. ' Another is Lt. Col. Edward ¥. Heller, a wealthy business

His wife is Democratic national eommitteewoman from California, i

Patronage for Senator Downe ! COL. HELLER is the patronage of Senator Downey. (D. Cal), recently re-elected, who did a very nice job for the Democrats. Also active in the army officer's behalf—he himself made one of the first tele calls to the Oapitol in the interest of confirmatioris— is Edwin W. Pauley, treasurer of the Democratic na tional committée, a California ofl man who is trying to worm his way into the high palitical councils. The third member is scheduled Gillette (D. Iows), & political lame~duck

finally was induced. to carry the story in that state several months ago was that was to be rewarded with a federal judgship.

Democrats at the Capitol privately "confess they don’t like it, They thought different types of men should be appointed. Now small business and farm and ‘labor groups have become interested. As 4 result the investigation of the two nominations already made—those of Mr. Hurley and Col Heller—have been reopened for further hearings next week, Delay and debate always are helpful in a situation like this to let in some light,

Economic and Social Problem

THERE 18 BOTH a broad economic and social problem involved. Surplus property must be fed on the market gradually so as not to disrupt existing business, and small business is particularly concerned here. Mismanagement of this disposal could upset business and throw the economic structure out of gear. It could be a depressing influence, From a social standpoint there are numerous questions which are vital to farmers, labor and people < generally—selling surplus land, for one thing so that it would be available to persons of average means;

other, in which labor is interested, and getting many useful things in the hands of ordinary people as easily with the orderly conduct of already established business. ,

Most groups agree that the board should include someone expert in merchandising, familiar with mar«

David Lilienthal, chairman of TVA, for instance, whe was offered the job but who turned if down. No sich is iheluded in the proposed personnel The senate might get them by turning down these nomination and serving notice on the President.

IN WASHING TON—

Lost Atlantis By Daniel M. Kidney

(Continued From Page One)

a ted for high back to the foreign relations come mittee for further investigation, | 1 want to oii them on whether they by thé Atlantic Chaat, or even there is an A tic Charter,” Senator Chandler said.

Senator Ji C, O'Mahoney

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