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"PAGE 12 Wednesday, ‘February 28, 1945

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NO NEED FOR A COAL STRIKE

T has become almost routine for the coal mines of this country to shut down on April 1 of every second year and stay closed while John 1. Lewis completes. his bargaining with the mine operators for a new two-year contract. Mr. Lewis always announces, a bit cynically, that this isn't a strike—the miners just haven't any dontract and naturally wouldn't want be “trespassing” on company property without one. But whatever it may be to Mr. Lewis, to all the rest of us it is a strike, not in any way different from any other strike.

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] REFLECTIONS—

Tarkington Novel

By Harry Hansen

THE LADY whose portrait is being ‘added this year to Booth Tarkington's gallery of obstreper-

ous names in print. On’ the cover of her “Image of Josephine,” .she called a turbulent woman. On the inside flap of the jacket she is called + a fascinating creature. When she appeared in the Ameriean Magazine she was called a lovely hellion. This should serve notice that Mr, Tarkington is up to his old tricks and that the exhibition should be worth watching, And it is. It is a-most amusing and effective way =of . presenting a girl who ran things with a high hand from her teens and raised a terrible ruckus if anvonge disagreed with her, With a practiced hand Mr, Tarkington portrays her in action, a noisy, overbearing youngster who bosses her playmates, wears out. her mother and shreds the nerves-of- everyone associated with her except her grandfather, an old miser named Thomas Oaklin, who tries to perpetuate his name by putting his money into an art museum and giving Josephine authority to run it,

Tarkington Knows His Way Around

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members of the United Mine Workers, will benefit if we | just skip that performance this year. Whatever the justice |

of Mr. Lewis’ demands for higher pay for coal miners, there

obviously is nothing the mine owners can do about them. |

Miners’ wages already were up to the maximum limit permitted by. federal. regulation when negotiations began two years-ago, in 1943. At ‘that time a few tricks were discovered by which they. could be given more pay than the Little Steel formula permitted without seeming to violate that formula. But the federal government improvised tricks—no one else could do it. If there are any new wage

have to be produced by the government—and not by the employers who have nothing at-all to say about the wages they will pay.

the | 1 Frenchified for rabbits to be pulled out of the hat this year, they, too, will |

MEANWHILE, the coal situation is critical, and likely |

to be more so. An unusually cold winter has reduced pro-

duction and cut deeply into reserves.

will be able to produce this year—even if Mr. Lewis’ miners | go on working in April. If they stop work, even for two weeks, it is likely sofhe steel plants will shut down, some guns that American soldiers need will not be made—and | war production will be slowed in scores of other vital items.

If the miners do quit work to wait for a new contract |

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knows his way around a museum,

the ways of the adolescent girl, but the squabbles

ous women has been called vari-

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| The Shape of Things to Come

story | is |

I WON'T NEED to explain that Mr. Tarkington | He not only knows |

that arise inside a museum devoted to spreading cul- |

ture among ihe people. Not only our art editor, but the officials of ‘museums and . gallerfes will get |

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chitkles out of the battles among the staff of the |

Thomas Oaklin ‘Memor ial, Mayb he museum people somethin

nerves, that,

all

in in

jumpy to do with Horne, chairman the board of the table and shouting at Rossbeke such thing as a revolution ain't art; it's only trying at. . What's ab-pre-Nazi

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th art have John Co trustees, banging the director: “There's no in art, Henry. Revolution to get noticed by stractionism

stable

being differe: except a disguise Nonobjectivity's wished painting no . object, n ihilism, nothingism? Stop thinkstop painting? What's the logical end of the whole nonrepresentational eliminate- | everything racket?” Why not a blank canvas with an Eskimo's name signed on it and a self-sacrificial dealer spring

on 100, | painting

ing, so why not

meat nothing

callivne it selling i

for $12,000?"

| Josephine Had Her Own Ideas

From present indi- | cations the country will need 40 million tons more than we |

OLD JOHN gave Mrs. Hevlin the jitters, too. She | was curator of Oriental art and insisted on arranging |

| the Chinese sculptures to fit their affinities in mass, form and line, putting sculpture from the Shansi |g

caves next to Afghanistan stone figures with Hellenistic influences.

| the dynasties. Josephine had her own ideas what |

| canvases should hang on the walls or be stored in the |

. the nation will lose the coal they might have produced, and |

“the miners themselves will lose the wages they might have earned—a loss likely to be greater than the amount of any wage, increase they get. money.

~ sible for passage of the Smith-Gonnally law which labor has « g0 bitterly resented—and public opinion may

strike.

There is every reason, from everybody's point of view,

And they can lose more than | The mine strike of two years ago, under circumi y 7 wi is v was solely respon- | stances exactly as they will be this year, was solely p | Ya well force | through congress far more drastic and even less wise legis- | lation if confronted with another needless war-time mine

basement unti] Bailey Fount got back from the war, |

slightly wobbly on his pins and not’‘completely self- | confident. Oh, there's another man in it! Yes, indeed, two; one, engaged to Josephine, hurries back to the army without waiting to get married.’ Bailey stays. You | see, he had been a pretty tough sergeant before he |! was knocked out. And after seeing Josephine in ac- | tion, confidence began wo return to him. ... You can It's one of Booth Tarkington's straight-shooting stories, : Julia,” if not quite as appealing as (Doubleday, Doran, $2:50.) “Image of Josephine” will be the March choice of

{ copies. The Doubleday advance printing outside of | | the guild is estimated at 45,000.

why work should continue without pause pending final sign-

ing of a new contract—with any wage increases it may contain made retroactive to April 1.

OVER

nearly 18 months the allies have turned over to

ITALY TAKES FTER

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Ruffled Pride

By William H. Stoneman

the Italian government most of the responsibilities for |

foreign relations and internal affairs in liberated areas. The

Italians do not get all of the powers they asked for. Wash- |

ington and London can step in again if necessary, and essen-

tial military supervision is retained by allied authorities. But for all practical purposes civilian affairs are now in the |

hands of Rome. . This represents an important advance. have our hands more than full elsewhere. For Italians it is the restoration of sovereignty. As-a result, there should be better co-operative effort, stands its own people and problems better than any foreign

officials, and can get things done with less friction and delay |

that the allied commission. Even the allied technical experts, whose advice will still be needed, can accomplish more under national than foreign auspices. » BUT THE trol will not Atatbenr overnight. - Especially the tendency to blame the other The allies are the goat in Italy today. From many complaints it would appear that the allies, inste Fascist slavery and war,

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fellow.

are the cause of Italy's distress. Of course the return of civil authority to the Rome regime will not solve all the problems. pute over the monarchy and parliamentary institutions can only be postponed until the liberation of northern Italy food problem will continue until after the war,

allied European nations far exceed our shipping capacity. Similarly, the shipping shortage prevents the arming of large Italian forces and the acceptance of anti-Fascist Italy as a full ally, as desired by her patriotic leaders. 7 It is not within human bowers for Italy to escape the long hard results of war, for which she shares responsibility. But, ‘under the wide authority now are to her by the allies, she can exercise the qualities of initiative reliance upon which her future so largely depends.

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(GOVERNMENT bonds do matufe and théy do pay off | in | cash. Secretary Morgenthau has just-awarded hss to an 11-year-old girl and a 79-year-old man in Philade " recognizing maturity of the country’s first “baby | . They were, issued 10 years ago. ila as you think of your own growing stack of war bonds r add a spare one today—for the thrill it will produce

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It relieves us | of many complicated and thankless tasks at a time when we |

moraie and wider | A coalition Italian government under- |

UNDESIRABLE heritage of foreign con- |

ad of being liberators of that country from Nazi- |

The basic’ political dis- |

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LONDON, Feb. 28.—Still upset its exclusion from the Crimea the French govern- | ment apparently has. refused to! accept the formula the con adopted for the voting procedu‘e in the world security council As a resflt, : be one of the “invited” rather than one of the ing” powers at the San Francisco conference. Continued reluctance to forgive and forget has heen evidenced | visit of Georges Bidault, French !

conierence,

‘invit

| during the London foreign minister While his talks with | Eden

Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Churchill tinctly friendly certainly toward settling France's. position great powers as some had hoped.

Anthony have been dishave net gone as far toward the other

thev

Wil Delay Economic Collaboration |

| “Inviting”

FRANCE'S FAILURE to take its place among the

powers at San

revive feelings’ which were aroused during the early

years of the war and by Gen. De Gaulle's personal

W aloofness Such Lit

independent position, whatever its real | jus len, will also delay economic collaboration which France seeks with other powers, Ap parently no progress has been made | Bidauit’s visit toward the conclusion of an .Anglo- | French defensive alliance, which has been under discussion for several months. This pact can obviously be concluded at leisure and would be overshadowed, in any case, the broader agreements which are | expected to be taken at the United Nations conference in San Franci The formula to whi

cat

during

ch France refuses its support

is understood to provide that, any one of the principal |

five allied powers would have the power to veto any

decision taken bv the council

i or economic sanctions

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To The Point—

AN OFFICE seems to be the handiest place for some people to look for sleep they lost the night before

and self- |

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ELEVATOR operators in a Kansas town building struck, We can think of other uplifters we'd rather ' sée walk out A NEW YORK | strange words from menus. strange prices would help. .

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steward suggests eliminating The, same treatment fat

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THE WEATHER MAN has hit it right on the}

"nose with “more snow.” There's more than most people have seen for years. : 5 -

A TRUCK crashed through the front of a barbershop in an Indiana town and no one was hurt. perfect place for: a clese shave.

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THE MYS STERY over what started an’ Indiana | hotel. botgl fire. was solved-—a cigaret, The™ mystery |

As . » «

over tere the digaret ¢ came trom 1s still unsolved. :

to a millionaire’s hypnotized off- |

Horne wanted them grouped to fit |

of a piece with “Gentle | “Alice Adams.” |

the Literary Guild, which wil] account for 470,000 |

Josenhine's explosive remarks have given | but the issues | too. There's |

symbolism gone |

meaning |

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1 wholly

disagree with what

The Hoosier Forum

you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD”

By a Soldier of the Army of the U. 8, Columbus.

I have just finished reading x letter written in The Times from | {Mrs. C. V. K, in reference to the | marine, titled: “Don't More?” ‘Let me say |

{merchant {They Deserve

jof the world in merchant ships for {over 15 years. I was a picket on the | {San Prancisco waterfront in the | |great waterfront strike of 1936, {fighting for better wages, food and|

|sailing conditions for all sailors. |

Therefore, my heart is with the | merchantmen. They are doing al {swell job, let's not take credit away | {from them. They deserve it. How-| ever, let's look at the record. Mrs. C. V. K. says her brother is giving his life for his country;

life (he is 19) overseas with the 7th army in the combat engineers. Would that my son could exchange’ jobs with Mrs. C. V. K's brother, but my son would not swap, I know Many soldiers now in the trenches would gladly swap jobs with any merchantman. Yes, they will swap, the filth and mud of the foxholes,

ference |

France is likely to |

Francisco would serve to,

which- involved military |

shells falling continuously all aroun them, the long rainy days, the bitter cold and the long wait for medical assistance, for that nice shipboard | bunk with clean, white sheets and| (warm blankets. The three hot {meals a day imorning). The “coffee time.” And ves, let's not forget the nice cold fresh milk the merchantman gets. |Oh, yes, that pay check of the mer|chantman, my, what a difference (than when I went to sea. My son |gets $60 a month, to get shot at

every day-for- the next two years (if|

{he isn’t killed in the meantime) and then he may get a 30-day furlough, maybe. The ordinary seaman gets $90 a month base pay, bonuses, etc., $180 a month or more. He may get {torpedoed and he may not.

with his unit, he can’t quit; wishes, sea. Once a merchantman was griping

to me about the same thing Mrs. C.|the war, teaching young air co:

. signed, at the beginning that I sailed most:

(ham and eggs every|

and with| he gets a minimum of |

The | {soldier must continue to go forward | the, merchantman can quit any time he| he does not have to go to! | telegraph license.

{Times readers are invited to express their " these columns, troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let: ters should be limited to 250 Letters must be Opinions set forth ters,

views in

religious. con-

words, here are those of the wr and publicat ion in no way impli ies agfeement with those nicks by The Times. The Times ' no responsibility for the return of manu-

assumes

scripts and cannot enter

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espondence regarding them.)

lv. K. Is griping abou t

if he didn't want too. “Oh,” plied, “I couldn't do that, if I quit the army would draft ‘Yes, the merchantman is pat but he has put a price on hi ism, in the form of “bohu sea voyages Into enemy- ir waters and ports that are lat be bombed by enemy aircraft

{ing overseas on the ‘trans enemy-infested waters, or fo rf {ing the enemy in enemy ter: Just his 60 bucks per, minus ins ance and war bond. Granted, someone must merchant ships, however, over the age of 30 could very do this job, When I went to we had cripples on board, me: one leg, one eye, paralyzed arm yes, even a hunchback, men 65 years old—and doing a good After this war is over, I'll go b: to sea again, for I want to feel swell of the sea under me again smell of the sea and all its

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the

ness, The strange ports to be visit

ahd the thrill of coming back

{home port again. For I am a tr arn

merchantman. I felt the

I asked the very Young men (he was about 20) why| well, my son is giving his young|didn't he quit, he didn’t have 3 sail e rebecause | me. riotie,

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d soldier does not get a ORL | for go-

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ght- | For the most part, itory.|men with the faint outline of a ur- | young beard -covering their faces

en men |, a lad from Ohio

ea, with | stained bandages. a leg has been cut from hip .to un to|ankle revealing still another blood- | | under the selective service law,

job. ek | the the

bat crews How to use their com{munications equipment, | I, for one, am proud of the work | {the merchantmen are doing, they {shall not be forgotten. However, |there is no reason for griping by | anyone. The soldier, sailor and ma{rine deserve everything. you can {give them. The merchantman is | getting his now in the form of high | pay and bonuses. Finally, the one {thing that merchantmen get and | enjoy — five days to two weeks at| {home between voyages—that soldiers | | would give their-eye teeth for.

| "REEP UP THE | GOOD WORK" |

| By Ist Sgt. Belgium

E. C. Abbott, Somewhere In

The following few lines are re-

| spectfully submitted for a place )

! your paper.

At this very minute, it is my mis | il

fortune to be a non-battle casualty

patient In an evacuation hospital During the

| | last three hours, I have seen ambu- |

somewhere in Belgium.

k a after ambulance drive up and | * for 2

fested yle to | litter cases and must be carried in, The | While still others are more fortu-

unload their patients. Some are

nate and can walk in. But it is the litter patients I want to brag about. they are young

{ They are mud-splattered, cold, wet

il the {and a little hungry.

On a litter just a few feet away His left arm | and hand are swathed In bloodHis right trou-

| soaked bandage. He lay under fire two hours before the aid men could {erawl out and bring him in. | Beside him rests another pa{tient from Illinois Both of his

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needed me more; therefore, I vollin-

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{feet are frozen. All afternoon they have been pouring in like this Occasionally a wounded Jerry is | brought in for treatment. For him | {the war, is over. His next stop will the a P.W. camp . No matter how serious the wound, not one G.I. has uttered a groan. As -the nurse helps dress their wounds, they look up at her with eyes big as silver dollars. A real Hell, the first one some of them have seen for wo years. A shy grin spreads over their faces and they try to say a few { words,” Usually it's, “Could I have a smoke, please?” Real fighting men from a real fighting army. The same procedure goes on day after day. G.I. Joes from all states in the Union are admitted. They have been through hell up there today, and know that when they are well they must return to that ever- | present “hell on the line.” But they aren't complaining. At home | are friends, mothers, wives and | sweethearts who are proud of them and the job they have done. And the unselfish sacrifice they have | ‘made. Tomorrow morning. when you, the | man behind the man behind the | gun, ring in at the shop, remember the guys over ‘here. You at home are doing a great job, but like all good things you won't receive praises due until the war is “finis.” | Keep up the good work—and, if possible, put on a little more

men who know. ‘what to dq with it.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods; wherefore I will deliver you no more. — Judges 10:13.

THE Vitor to to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; - Man is more than Constitutions; better rot bFheath the sod, Than be true to Ee hl Se while we are doubly f

POLITICAL SCENE—

TVA Nits’

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Sene ator Kenneth D. McKellar (D, Tenn.), may not launch his ane. nual spring offensive against TVA Chairman David E. Lilienthal this year, it was reported today, In fact, he may approve Mr. Lilienthal’s reappointment in May for a 10-year term; Returning the * compliment, ' Mr. Lilienthal may help Senator McKellar when he runs for a sixth term in 1946. Credit for this turn of events Is being given, rightly or wrongly, to Ed Crump, Memphis Democratic boss, who wields great ‘power . throughout the entire state. It is said that Mr. Crump suggested that if Senator McKellar and Mr. Lilienthal could patch up their differences, the 75-year-old senator could probably enter the Democratic primary without formidable opposition. The Memphis boss is reported to have no desire to battle the strong TVA crowd. He proved this Hy having his congressman, Rep. Clifford Davis, vote against an anti-Lillenthal amendment tacked on

to an appropriation bill by Senator McKellar last year.

Bill Seeks to Curb TVA

AT THE OPENING of this congress, Senator Mee Kellar introduced a bill incorporating his anti-Liliene thal ideas. It would require TVA to turn all its revenues from the sale of power into the treasury and come to congress for funds. As acting head of the senate appropriations committee, Senator Mc Kellar would be in a powerful position in handling TVA funds. The bill also provides for changing the TVA property condemnation system. A third feature of his anti-Lillenthal fight would subject top: TVA jobs to senate approval. He hag received no support for any of his schemes from Tennessee congressmen. It was said that if he per=

sists in them some of the younger Tennesseéans in the house might run against him,

Among names mentioned as possible opponents have’ been Reps. Fstes Kefauver, Albert Gore and J.

Percy Priest, all strong TVA supporters and backers of Mr. Lilienthal.

Lilienthal Is Candidate for Reappointment

MR. LILIENTHAL, a graduate of DePauw univers sity, has. made a world wide reputation for his SUO= cessful management of TVA. When his first term ex pires in. May he will seek reappointment, ‘It was thought that Senator McKellar was sharpening his axe for him when he reintroduced his bill, which gen« | erally is labelled “anti-TVA,” but really is part of | his long battle against Mr. Lilienthal, But the politics of re-election, without a knocke down™ fight such as Mr. Crump likes to avoid, may dictate a different course for Senator McKellar, it is said. First indication that he has cooled-off somewhat was when he was “nice as pie,” according to a senate

colleague, when Mr. Lilienthal appeared before the senate appropriations committee last week.

IN WASHINGTON—

Veterans Jobs By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The | 30,000 men being discharged each month from the armed forces are, for the present at least, having very little trouble getting heir old jobs back, if they want inem, Sylvester P. Meyers, head ot the civil rights unit of the justice dee partment, reports that employers, except in rare instances, are coe operating full-heartedly with the spirit of the selective service law, Only four cases involving the re-employment of discharged veterans have got inte federal court so far,

Cutbacks Expected to Bring 'Suits Galore"

TWO OF THEM were decided in favor of the veteran and the third would have been, the judge implied, had the veteran asked for his old joh back

| within the period specified by law. In the fourth | case,

the judge ruled simply that a veteran can by contract waive the benefits to which he is entitled

This “peaceful” situation is due in great measure |

| to the current manpower situation, selective service

and justice department officials said. They frankly expect “suits galore” when the war situation permits production cut-backs and at the

| same time the release of more thousands of veterans,

Although the No. 1 veterans re-employment case, a case decided by Judge Swinford in the eastern Kentucky district, upheld the constitutionality of the law, there are still many questions to be decided,

Seniority Issue May Cause Trouble

~THE SENIORITY question is expected to cause the most trouble when they are layoffs. Selective service interprets the law as meaning that a veteran must be re-employed even though this necessitates discharge of a non-veteran employee with greater seniority, In many cases this will be in direct conflict with union contracts which make seniority the deciding factor in determining who is laid off. Federal courts eventually will. have to settle this one, justice departe ment officials expect. sand what about the man who went off to war and came back to his old® job to find a closed-shop contract in effect? Must he join the union to get his job back? That one too must be decided. In the Kentucky case, Robert E. Hall, who was discharged June 4, 1942, after less than two months service, applied on June 7, 1942, for his old job back with the Union Light, Heat & Power Co. at’ Covy ington. He was not re-employed until late September and he brought suit for $512, the amount he would have. earned during the interim, The judge upheld the constitutionality of the law and Mr. Hall got his back wages.

‘Statute Should Be Construed Liberally’

THE SECOND CASE involved a company doctor, Dr. Albert E, Kay who, after six months in the armed service, wanted his old part-time job back with the General Cable Corp. in New Jersey. The company argued that Dr. Kay was not an employee, but an independent contractor and as such could not demand his Tormer job back. The trial court so held. Cally But the third eircuit urs of appeals at Phila« delphia reversed the lower court. Sald the higher court: “Every consideration of fairness and justice makes it imperative that the statute should be construed as liberally as possible so that military service should entail no greater setback in.the private pursuit or career of the returning soldier than is unavoidable.” The appeals court ‘also went on to say that a former employee must be re-employed even though the employer found the substitute employee to be more aie “elther by greater efficiency Jr 4 mon