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THE LEVANT AND THE LEAGUE
HE inadequacy of a veto-bound league, such as the big powers are trying to put over at San Francisco, is show Bj by the latest Levantine explosion. Could the proposed league prevent such a military conflict as France has been waging this week against Syria and Lebanon, or keep: it from spreading sweeping veto rules are written into the charter. ; " 2 n n HERE IS the way it would work: 1. The world. would know in advance that such a situation existed. Just as the world has been aware for a long time of this one. 2. Syria and Lebanon would protest French intervenhave tis time. Other just as now.
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tion, just as they would supportytheir protest 3. Their and request for would be put to the security council. But of the Big Five permanent members “of the veto power, ‘would control. She could stall. with other big powers 2nd | council members, F rance mig her aggression—niayhe even council action Syria and Lebanon as disturbers of the peace. 4.+ A meeting of be too late to save the}
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Or, by deals pressure votes of ght get a council
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league protection | | MacA The drafting committee which spent two, hours in |.
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REFLECTIONS—
Light Side
By Péter Edson
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.—For'
the reporters who haye had to milk spot mews. out of the cud-chewing committees which are working in : secret to draft the United Nations charter, this San Francisco conference has been pure | pain. But the dear old U. N. C."1. O. has been good for a million belly laughs, foo. Among them: ’ Calling the eight-member U. S. delegation “Snow
White Stettinius and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Fareign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia telling Stella Karn: “Oh, I'm so tired I can't remember whether I'm a little boy or a little girl.” Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethuhe of the National As-
| sociation for Advancement of Colored People telling a state department official who was trying to ex
plain the function of the social and economic council: - “Let's put the cookies on the bottom shelf where we can all reach ’em. Robert M. Gaylord, president of the National Ass, sociation of Manufacturers, complaining to an asses oe because he couldn't get an officidl coriference ‘button -to take home to his family as a souvenir.
Them's Fighting Words ONE OF THE business group consultants telling a woman representative of one of the more militant pacifist groups: “It's people like you who start wars.” The Arabian delegates: moving for committee ad-
| journment whenever the subject of equality for the | gexes was brought up in committee meeting.
F. T. Orekhov, Soviet Russian press relations officer whom few people could ever find, answering his own telephone and saying: “Ah, I'm sorry. Mr.
{ Orekhov is not here now.
Arab nations |
| pines report France, as one | council with |
whitewash of |
the general assembly probably would |
( WT0 it Syria | - undo the wrong. But | songs, anthems. poems and flags which poured down
and Lebanon and their frien 5 at the first assembly meeting | would seek preventive action 1f the French attack had not |
begun, or remedial action i won. The assembly could do nothing more than taik,
however. French «eto control of “the council would- prevent
assembly Tecan meAtation or even Investigation. FJ n
THUS “THE LE AGUE under the Deoaet veto rules
) Ww or France had | if the war was on t “| hold of a few -specimen war refugees so they could
[be psychoanalyzed to show. how should be treated.
would encourage aggression by the strong against H the weak |
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—if the rules worked at all. But, regardless of such league immunity rules. for
France, another big power not party to the deal probably |
would rush in troops to protect Its “interests”
against |
France—just as Britain acted Thursday, with United States |
approval. Middle East, would side either with Britain or France. There are few places left in the world where a hig power "can threaten a small nation without involv ving other big powers, and so risking a.genel ral- war. Only a democratic league has. a chance of succeeding. The unrestricted veto power and world peace won't mix.
WELFARE AND POLITICS
- WE are not surprised to hear. that certain politicians would like to get a finger into the county's six-million- |
dollar a year welfare operation, but we are going to be pretty much pained if they succeed. And so. are a 1ew hundred thousand other Marion county citizens. The county welfare board that passed legally out of existence last Thursday has done an exceptionally good job. It was able to do such a Job because its members were individuals of unquestioned integrity and high ability and entirely free frem political strings.
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It would be quite satisfactory to most of us if the old | wi,
board could be reappointed, intact, for another term. Since some of the members seent to feel it necessary to retire, we why its standards lowered naming members to replace them. There is a lot of money involved there, There are a lot of human beings involved, too. responsibility of the whole community. This a spoils system, and it is no place te be building a We trust Judge Rhoads will hesitation, appoint a welfare board that will be c immune to political pressures from any quarter
{ a1} } 50 should be
public money. 1s no place for political again, without mpletely
WASTED TALENTS IGHT here, before ¢ongressional p: fisticutfs over that account, we rise in vehement We object to
188101 $2500 salary in pro 251.
this business ol
They are the
the privacy of their offices, without nesses. It between Congressmen Cannon of Miss
New York. The
3 +1 A , 4 { { 18 thoroughly unsatisiaclo
klip ‘ public can revel
whom with what, or which of gladder when hostilitie slaughter. All we have is 1 pals, and they are strangely a Surely of large halls and stadiums are cized, a return match—"Bom! Taber—ought fetch a begins to suggest the possibilitie sippi against any contender far the pitol Hill title would be a A | slugging senators mafehed with a lalf a representatives, should stand the cu Ses, sir, what to. put its belligerence on a paying basis and gate receipts to give every
these affairs can he
har der’ Cal 10 crowd,
oh. Ran)
acapity
sure-fire
attraction. agzen rampaging stomers in the aisles
congress needs a fight
g
mg m enough
member
ASK THEM AGAIN HE treasury’s war reports these figures: 7 Of people in the $25-a-week income group, had been asked to buy .war bonds and 27 per
finance division made a check and
cent them
0 ao per
cent’ of
bought ;- 65 per cent hadn't been asked and only 11 per
- cent bought. In the group earning from $26:to $45 a week, 59 per cent were asked to buy and 53 per cent of them bought; 41 per cent wergn't asked and only 25, of them bought. And so on. % ; ‘~~ The treasury now is adviging its six million volunteer salesmen to ask people, again ahd again, ta buy bends, perience shows that “people buy bonds when you ask thems" That's why youll probably be asked; over and lees
per cent
Then Russia, who also claims an interest in the |
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Germany.
! facade.
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EX-
A war correspondent just ‘back from the Philiping that the famous picture of MacArthur wading ashore at Levte was a fake. If it had been rthur he would have been ‘walking on the water.
hat debate charter and deal with the subject it had been debating
on some proposed amendment to the then discovered it- wasn't supposed to It sent
| a transcript of its deliberations to the proper com-= mittee to save it time and trouble.
| Parlez Vous Esperanto, Mac?
THE DELEGATION - trying .to- have Esperanto adopted as the official language of the United Nations. The flood of proposals for official United Nations
on the division of cultural co-operation, all having to be rejected with thanks.
The delegation from Chicago which wanted to get | 3
H. V. Kaltenborn delivering a lecture on the priv} vate life of seals, at Cliff House, and drawing a big audience of autograph collectors. Baukhage riding with a taxi driver who was one of his fans. Both of them listening intently to a re-
| broadcast of a Baukhage progea and both iin.
{ ly enjoying §
: WORLD AFFAIRS—
Shadows By Wm. Philip. Simms
SAN FRANCISCO, June Events in the Near East where French, British, Levantine and Arab are facing each other -across newly spilled blood, are casting their long shadows across. the conference here, dimming hopes for its future. French delegates the crisis was. not of France's making. "On May 10, I am: told, some 200 Palestine Moslems in uniform marched with a swastika flag through Beirut carrying a portrait of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the alleged Nazi stooge whom the French recently captured inside
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insist
soldiers, say of the Sisters
These conv rocks at
of Charity where “they threw the building and at the cross above the Thezsupon, the French claim, the police “were forced to fire on the soldiers to put an end to an intolerable situation.” 5
Repercussions Will Be Felt Widely FROM THEN ON, the uble - spread ever was at fault to begin with, repercussions will be felt throughout the Near East, Europe | and the world.
nt ent
tre
its
war seems tO ativ be a new and beset France and to Gen. particularly inaus-
tion—and a new
nly altern e—will
humiliating blow to sorely De Gaulle. And it com picious moment for either. : 0-the Fren prestige, just taken her p as one of occupation of Germany and Austria and France expécts to-take he Rhine. The peace conference ice intends to back a number table. De Gaulle is having his troubles 1al elections—the first since well bhefor. this year. Indications SWinging to the left and a ype is in the making
May | Prove Undaing of De Gaulle I'HE GENERAI the L setbhack—he will never
That will
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sponsoring power. lace the Big Five. the
pletion
Méanwhile, likely try is
the popular front
S humiliation in evant may
undoing. zg react me 100
colonial power in the te knit’ this empire union, patterned commonwealth of nawill hardly help her, and nowhere do such among colonials. r Riga as umor backing the order to oust the to have attempted to Syria and val and military be pouring oil ause she has her own
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Sens 2hd Nore Jeo Appropriate * RUSSIA HAS long } {esigns on i H i Tet is now said ‘to ovides After emerging from ind herself: in the which—Gibraltar So she wants for example,
oil and
inder B varme-water the
territory
are Fitish
a
outiet or the ocean-
Persian. gulf ne -also” wants
rs of power politics, a new league of nations;
S0 go the rumoi 101 by nations now setting whose charter things First then Trieste
vided a sty
EU ip upposed Poland and ange an San Fr ancisco,
So They Say WE. CANNOT Gelman waders -actea legally. therefore they shouid |
He treated, illegally President Robert. M.~ Hutchins, | j-Untversity of Chiao.
then Vienna, then Carinthia, now the "Levant; these have prod none too appropriate atmosphere
for
‘berated nations !
| By | | " { up, | {Russian {man. {from my nephew,
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the French, proceeded to the |
the Russians rapidly. | i
{It h delegation are |
dimmed some- !
{very trying conditions,
(matter of demobilization
not—if De |
the Dardanelles, | |
an exit from, |
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in | strategic |
to put a stop to just such |
support the thesis that because |
Hoosier
(“JUST WHO IS
| THE WATCHMAN?”
Robert T. Bennett, Indianapolis
Many of your readers are
diatribes of The Watch1 received & letter last week an infantry capHe writes:
tain in Germany. they fond -of us and, of course, we are grateful for the magnificent fight they put up against the Nazis, 1 talked to some of our men who were
released from German prison camps | ns and- they said that|-
by the Russiz when they got home, if they heard anybody knocking the Soviets, there would be a fight.” Just who is The Watchman and what is his purpose? The security of this nation depends on full and friendly co-operation with our Russian ally, If Hitler, Goebbels and
{Himmler were alive, they would be
happy to read The Watchman's letters, because he wants us to treat as dangerous enemies instead ' of as loyal and proven friends. ”
“NAVY MEN DESERVE
SOME CONSIDERATION” By Overseas Veteran of the Navy, Washington, D; . 1 see they have. now cut army discharge age to 35 years What's the matter with the navy? is as hard for us of that age Or over inthe navy to get a start in ' eivilian life as*®* it is for any others in the army. Many of us have been too, consideration
the
through and dein this or discharge from the service, whichever you call it.
serve some
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“THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR”
*, A. J. Wayne, Indianapolis
The ing Allison, Run,
American resumed, viz 10,000 lay and various where. “The only to fear is‘ fear itself.” Headlines and. broadchsts are heaviest contributors to let down in homefront morale by spreading lay offs —panicky minds result.
way of life is be4000 lay off at off at Willow numbers = elsething we: have
our
“fed | to put it mildly, with the anti- |
“We have met the Russians and| are O. K. ‘They are genuinely
| brutes.
{have so soon forgotten that it was| your heart us. [the Goebbels game to spread the so hat I won't have to break the]
{grabbed a
“1 wholly disagree with what « you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
|“THE PET OF [MY TWO SONS” By Mrs. D. L. 745 W. Morris st ‘I am. writing you,” hoping that you will put this in your ¢olumn| and maybe aid me in finding my | signed. Opinions set forth Jao ae A mM here are those of the writers, |, say in the Hoosier Forum. and publication in no way | implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor- {perhaps return him to us.
| F . | Toy is the pet of my two sons | respondence regarding them.) | who are serving in the navy, one
a veteran of the Pacific who willl]. |be home on leave June 6. His, re-| {cent letter to me was all about his By Robert 8. Burton, Terre Haute. dog, and he wrote that he was go- | As the rather ofa U. S. soldier jo t; take him back as a mascot. who was wounded by Hitler's Nazis, gow can I tell him that Toy won't | I watt to protest against the dis-|pe here to take back? graceful articles which have been Toy won't be much good to his! appearing recently in the Hoosier ow owners because he is-old, al- | Forum The Watchman. These mast blind, runs into objects, has] contemptible articles preach hatred i, nave treatments for his eves and | against our great Russian allies, pair He is surly ‘and mean to without whose heroic help we might strangers, but to us who have cared | still ‘be struggling "against Hitler's for him for 9 years, he is just * on} Faithful.” I appeal .to you to see it within to return him to
(Times readers are invited to express their views. in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because | of the volume received, let- | ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be
Kollinger,
I am hoping that the party that {picked up my dog, a large tan Peke,| and drove away with him on Saturday, May 26, in vicinity of Morris’ land Senate, will read this and]
“SECURITY DEPENDS {ON CO-OPERATION”
hy
Does The Watchman think we |
lie: “We must protect against communism’ '? her How does it happen . that The Just drop him off in his neigh- | Watchman weeps and wails" because |porhood and he will come home. the Rusisaffs are trampling on the Or bring him to me and I will reliberties of the Poles, but he never ward you—no questions asked. says anything -about the way British |
troops helped the Greek Fascists |, ah 5 crush the Greek partisans who had “GIVE US A BREAK
driven the Nazis out of Greece? ‘ON MONDAY NIGHT” Why does The Watchman delib- | By Frederick O.. Rusher, erately say that “along about Ifo) An article states that the Merthe Communists attacked Poland?” | nants association has agreed to Doesn't he know that the Polish |permit numerous downtown stores “Colonel's clique” (the same gang |i, return to hours of three years now skulking in London and try- ago. What hours will be proposed ing to stir up trouble between the for us war workers to do our shop= aliies) attacked the Soviets and pings While some war plants have large slice of Russian 4g. nour work week schedules, which sermit- them. to shop on Saturday m., what about those of us that remain on the job 48, hours
Europe Sad news to my son when he gets |
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Indianapolis
territory [p The trouble With The Watchman |, is that his constant attacks on Rus- |i sia are nauseating... Lt. Cmdr.
‘prices,
| monopolistic in nature themselves,
| OF both. | work abroad.
‘by Rep. Voaorhis,
| under their own direct control in
| of the entire | the hands of Germans.”
Charles &. Seely (U., 8S. navy retired) says: “The security of our country depends on full and friendly co-operation with Russia. one who endangers our .good rela-
Any-|
per work week (6 8-hour days). If we can ‘sacrifice 48 hours of hot sun and sweat, can it be asking too much of the Merchants as~ sociation or employers and em-
|ployees, whose hours are scheduled
jor a fool.”
tions with’ our great ally is a knave py this association. They seem to
forget that they are permitted to
Side Glances=By Galbraith
observe holidays, of which we re{main on the job, just the same as a service man on the fighting front.
We gripe, too, but nevertheless, { you will find us at our post of duty, = rain or shine, holiday or not, - No one changes our hours to meet the changes in weather, Although we are guided by the rules in the war department in Washington, we feel we have an obligation to:fulfill, The war is still going on, so give this a little thought, Merchants association, and employers and employees guided by them. Give us a break on Monday night and return to the hours of 12:15 p. in. to 9 p. m. 1 speak ‘for thousands of others also. LJ » . “ARTICLE IS {100 PCT. RIGHT” By MH. J. HIBBEN, Indiaanpolis M. K.’s article on socialized med|icine, in your paper of May 28 is just 100 pet cent correct in its opinion - of a number of people that I have talked to. He is right, on every point. So penetrating. and correct an argument is worthy of being reprinted — inmy humble opinion.
DAILY THOUGHT Behold, we count them happy which ‘endiire. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen’ the end of the Lord; that t#e Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 318
| 1 WORKED with in mec which] ‘almost po
POLITICAL SCENE—
[Cartels
By Thomas L. Stokes
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WASHINGTON, June 2. — The international security organization being put together at San Francisco by representatives of the § United Nations Will be little more than an empty shell unless the power of interna tional business and’ industrial monopolies, known as cartels, is broken, This ‘is obvious to anyone who. has followed the numerous ‘investigations by the justice department and congressional committees over the last several years. They have disclosed how these international monopolies ‘operate outside the pale of government how they. influence international politics without the people knowing anything about it or having anything to.do with it, and how, in (He case of Germany, they became instruments for building her war machine, ¥
Germans Are Back at It Again
THE HANDS of the United Nations are not clean, either, for some of our biggest corporations entered agreements with the Germans. It took a series of anti-trust suits to dissolve these restrictive agree=ments, covering strategic war materials, and seizure of patents by the alien property custodian to: free us from the enfanglements so that we could equip ours selves to fight, The Germans, though defeated back at it again—'business as usual’—as evidence accumulated by government agencies has revealed, They will try to enlist American corporation interest again, as they did after the last war;-or seek proetection now behind alleged American, British or French interest. re Many of the cartel agreements inv olving ‘American corporations which restricted patents, divided world markets into inclusive territories, and controlled date back soon after the last war. They were, in effect, secret treaties, though not subject to in= spection by our senate or anybody else. They were just as important, if not more so, than political treaties.
in this war, are
Publication of Agreements Sought
AN EFFORT to correct this, as far as American corporations are concerned, is embodied in bills pending in congress sponsored by Senator O'Mahoney (D, Wyo.) and Rep. Voorhis (I). Cal), which ree quire registration and publication of any cartel agree
| ment in which a United States corporation is-a party,
A more immediate problem “the control of German industry, in which the United States will share,. This will require expert investie gation to ferret out the ramification of German intére est and investment. in industries all over Europe, as well as in this country. It will require also disinter= ested personnel to advise and formulate policy. The foreign economic. administration and other governe ment agencies already have sent investigators abroad to do this. Involved in the policy making are the technical advisory committees of FEA*®which will work here, and men who will work under the American group control council in Europe under Lt. Gen. Ltcius D. Clay. Some key figures on the technical advisory committees, are men with associations in international finance or affiliated with corporations eithep or tied up pre viously in secret agreements with German interests, The same is true of some men who will dd
is ‘that involved in
Congress might well take a look at this setup, or at least watch developments with these associaiinng
{ in mind.
There Should Be No Question
THE IMPORTANCE of all this is emphasized in a recent comprehensive and well-documented speech who showed how. for the last two have been “establishing enterprises Spain, Sweden and have been hiding
years Germans
other countries, and how their funds.
He .said
they
“it appears that as much as 40 per ceat industry of Spain at present in Likewise the Germahs have been registering a greatly increased volume of paten's in Sweden. The Germans have greatly increased . their holdjngs ip the French aluminum trust, part of an international cartel with indirect connections in this country. There should be no questipn about the type | of mind which. handles these problems on our behalf,
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IN WASHINGTON—
Defense By Daniel M. Kidney
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the war manpower commission defended his $500,000 division of occupational analysis. in the WMC _ bureau of manpower utilization in a statement issued through the office of war information, The setup was challenged recently when Senator Eastland (D. Miss.) received a complaint regarding a plant survey from E. M:- Wells, Jackson, Miss, manager of the Mississippi Cotton Oil Co. Mr, Wells enclosed a form showing the occupational analysis. surveyor recorded how each man worked under 27 “physical activities” headings and also under the title “working conditions.” Whether the job required. .“walking, talking, standing, stooping, feeling, seeing” and the like was recorded as were “wet, dry, hot, cold,” etc., conditions,
'Simplified Selective Placement Technique" THIS QUESTIONNAIRE Mr. McNutt termed a “simplified selective placement technique, which makes easier the placement of handicapped persons in jobs they can do best.” “The purpose of the ” technique is to match handicapped persons with jobs in which their occue pational limitations will not affect their ability to work,” he said. “They may be disabled veterans or persons with handicaps resulting from industrial dccidents or diseases, “A. person's physical disabilities working conditions to which he can Under medical standards in many plants, a person with specific handicaps would be ‘rejected. for, eniployment. Suppose a man can't climb. Unless the right job.can be found, one that doesn’t require climbing, he is out of luck.” Mr. McNutt cited four cases of handicapped persons being placed in Jobs as a result of this technique. The cases were recorded in the bound volumes of. a _survéy. made “fi the Henry Kaiser shipbuilding yards at Richmond, Cal. He also told of 40 out of 400° rejected applicants being hired after such a survey in another plant.
restrict the be, exposed.
Help to Place Handicapped Persons
THESE “HOP, skip and jump’ surveys are said to be of service to-the U. S employment service in ‘making placements: of physically handicapped persons. But just how many placements were made through them was not available at WMC head= quarters of the occupational analysis division, Acting Director George V. R. Mulligan asserted that during the manpower shortage such analysis opened the way~ to. work for many persons who . had been considered, unemployable. .He also pointed out that it could be useful in placing disabled war veterans : The current ‘ulget of the division is $500,000, It ‘employs 170 at WMC headquarters here and approximately 300 in the field. Included in this are the research workers who are compiling a continuous dictionary of occupational, titles for jobs, ‘More than. 33,000 definitions are listed tn four ~ which w started 10 in