Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1945 — Page 10

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GEN. IKE'S MESSAGE ITH the humility that marks the great, Gen. Eisenhower yesterday turned Washington's welcome into a tribute to those who served under him. He accepted the honors of congress in their name and replied in their behalf. For the courage and superior fighting qualities of those for whom there will be no home-coming—he expressed the pride of a grateful nation. Victory in Europe was won in the opinion of the man best the home front and the fighting front. Unity sea and air forces. Unity of the allies. In the noble tradition of our greatest military com-

because of three unities, able to judge. Unity of of the ground,

manders, voiced the American soldier's appeal for peace after victory: “He passionately -believes that, with the same determination, the same optimistic resolution and the same mutual consideration among allies that marshalled in Europe forces capable of crushing what has been the greatest war machine in history, the problems of peace can | ‘and must be met. He sees the United Nations strong but | considerate; humane and understanding leaders in the | world to preserve the peace he is winning.” To which America's response is a prayerful, Amen.

GIVE THE LEAGUE A CHANCE! HE TIME HAS COME for friends of a new League of Nations to take an over-all look at what is coming out | of the San Francisco Conference. There is grave danger | that the big powers—under Russia's take-it-or-leave-it threat—will impose a dictatorship through the veto device which cannot be legally changed. That would invite future destruction of the League. If the right of free amendment of the charter is lost, there will be little chance of improving an imperfect. league. There will be no real opportunity of strengthening a weak league. There will be an almost impassable barrier against

ing it in perpetuity. That is a pleasant prospect only for. those abroad and

in this country who want no genuine international organization, who distrust collective security, who oppose any league strong enough to challenge a big aggressor. It is a dream come true for those who insist on the balance-of-

progress, if any one power is given the privilege of block- |

who never have been militarists, the general |

power and spheres-of-influence system, w caused wars and never provided security.

of isolationism—and after repeated proof in the national platforms and election of last fall, and the congressional votes in favor of American participation in an effective league—what a travesty if others now prevent the formation of such an international organization.

n s . s » ” WE ARE NOT AMONG those who expected a perfect charter to come out of San Francisco. Not many Amniericans did. For Americans are apt to be politically-minded and realistic. They know that government in any form involves compromise. They know that conflicting views must be reconciled by give-and-take. And if this is true in national affairs, obviously no agreement is possible among 50 nations without an equal or greater spirit of conciliation and

hich always has’

But it is not what the American people have hoped for and been led to expect. After all the talk about the evils |

A ¥ Scientists : By James Thrasher

and of the serjous longdangers that may be expected in corisequence.

These warnings have been issued piecemeal by Now comes

leaders in various scientific a joint report by the i and the National Research Council, covering th tire subject of this war-inflicted' deficiency.

professions. Council

while the separate earlier warnings were disquieting, it must be said that the impact of the whole situa-

tion is greater than the sum of its parts.

The report indicates that if present enrollment

rates in niedical schools continue, there will be fewer doctors forseivilians after the war than b

It states that although an annual enrollment of 3000 riew dental students is estimated to be necessary for

the country's needs, our dental colleges expect 360 freshmen this year.

In other fields the situation seems quite as alarmThe college enrollment of student engineers is 64 per cent below the 1939-40 level; the enrollment in

ing.

pharmacy is off 73 per cent; in mining, 84 per in agriculture, 89 per cent, and in forestry, 9 cent. Pp Fail to Recognize Facts A LONG and total war such as this is tremen

ly depleting to a country’s resources, whatever its

military fortunes. The nearness of victory incr rather than lessens, its demands and depletions.

vilian government agencies over replacement

terials for such basic war essentials as transportation. farm machinery and heavy industrial equip-

ment. Russia. Britain, Canada and other allies, the

report points out, have’ not only maintained but in some instances increased their reserve of technical and scientific students. Our government has not done this. On the contrary, it has cut deferments sharply and increasingly curtailed college training

under military auspices. :

It Is Not Too Late THIS POLICY seems short-sighted for the

almost all the scientific training needed for

prosperity and our world position.

parent insistence upon throwing the country’s

battle and thus jeopardizing the attainment victorious peace.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Vital Role

the United Nations prepare

and peace-saving conferences,

them all

vast majority of the assembled delegations. Today,

and Marshal Stalin. : Envoys Are Grateful and Relieved

here are profoundly grateful—and relieved. of them foresee for President Truman a task

accommodation. This explains the willingness of the American delega-

shoulder back in 1940.

_ FROM time to time in the past year there have been] warnings of a growing shortage of students in _ the fields of science and technology,

vet there is evidence that our military authorities have failed to recognize these obvious facts. Not only have the pleas of educators and scientists for an adequate nucleus of present and future replacements gone unhéeded, but there have been conflicts with ci-

ent as well as the future, since modern war can use

And it will certainly increase the war's price if, winning the war, we find ourselves with inadequate health protection, and an inadequate body of trained scientists to maintain and advance our domestic

Some of that added price seems inevitable. it is not too late for the military to moderate its ap- | p= 1 cGuire, Indianapolis | . ’ 1

reserve of potential scientists into the front line of |

By Wm. Philip Simms

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—As | words penned by the makers of succession of epochal peace-making | forced.

mats here expect President Truman | Cies of our enemies, to play a vital role—perhaps the most decisive of

This phenomenal rise of the American President | as a pivotal werld figure, is one of the most amazing stories of the San Francisco conference. When the gavel first fell, he was practically unknown to the

thanks to a whole series of Truman “coups,” there is not the slightest doubt in the mind of anyone here that the President is fully qualified to wear the mantle of the great Roosevelt; that, as the new member of the Big Three, he is quite competent to hold his own with Prime Minister Churchill

THUS THE ENVOYS of the 50 nations gathered

while different, is scarcely less important than that which Prime Minister Churchill was called upon to The British statesman sud-

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By Douglas Smith

WASHINGTON, June 19.~What the veterans will do—a question which has provoked endless discus= sions in congress and in the press—may be answered this summer. : : i The reason is that the men the army is now dis charging are fighting men; men who have spent two or three years dodging bullets, with little knowledge of what America is like in war-time and of how ‘poorly the nation has prepared for théir return, |" ‘These men have heard the standard army rumors that war plane workers all make $100 a week and often strike for more; they have also been led to believe that the G. I, Bill of Rights is a magnificent document which will automatically get them a job, educate ‘them, build them a home, or set them up in a business of their own

First Home Get Jobs THE 1,500,000-0dd - veterans already discharge have managed to get along pretty well; first, because there are plenty of jobs, “and second, because most of these men were over-age or non-combat soldiers ree leased for medical reasons. The majority hadn't served outside the States’ and in many cases had not been in the army very long. Their readjuste ! ment to civilian life has, in general, been easy. But the men who are coming out of the army now are different. They are tough, but weary of taking orders and of the harsh existence they have had to endure. At the same time they are touche ingly grateful to be home, but wondering whether they can find a place in the nation. Worry over jobs is a theme constantly repeated in their letters, in the army newspapers, and in re= ‘ports of war correspondents. | The law says merely that they shall have their old jobs back, and a large percentage of them had no jobs at all before the war. Many others were working for salaries which now would be less than a living. Skilled men fear that they have become *| rusty and won't be able to compete with fresher civilians; those who left school wonder whether to go back or to start work immediately,

Will They Act Together?

THE EXTENT to which the new veterans are abe sorbed during the next three months may provide the answer to whether the country is to have a “yeterans' bloc” that might dominate politics for the. next generation. These men feel that they have earned the right to decent jobs, and if they don’ get them they are going to organize to do something about it. If the first 1,000,000 battle veterans re leased can’t be absorbed’ readily it will be obvious

peace. after

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en ye Lord North admitted without res-

i of a |ervation that England spent mil-| | lions of dollars with American pub- | |lishers to line up the thinking of! the people of our country so that! we were easily enticed into the European conflict in 1918. ! + | The pen is mightier than the] sword, as any great charter of

rights, such as our own Constifu-| implies agreement with those tion; will readily prove. Men have

lived, died and, suffered that the opinions by The Times. The | Times assumes: no -responsifor a | this great declaration might be en- | bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

* eT | Among the many subversive agenthe infamous news cartels were the worst. our|

| newspapers are powerful and we freed McGee

diplo- |

and set him up with The first thing he

“] wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

can't buy food at the stores, and

that there is small hope for the other millions still fighting the Japanese. 4 Veterans organizations are aware of the probe lem, though they were over-sold on the G. I. bill which has accomplished little so far. Congressmen, acutely conscious of the potential veteran vote, have introduced hundreds of bills to “help the veterans,” . but there has been no thorough study of the situae tion, and the bills remain “in committee while its members argue about the efficiency of the Veterans administration.

your right to say it.”

“DON'T BLAME THE FARMERS” By E. K., Waldron In January we truckers could bring into the stock yards only so many hogs and other stock a day. Therefore a lot of pigs were let die. Now the peas are ready to can and the truckers can’t get gasoline to haul them and after they are cut |

rs nw wel Al LANSS

Last summer I had the same trou- | By Peter Edson

ble for gas when the corn was ready for packing. This writer has been trying for gas for 15 days, so I want you all to love the OPA when you WASHINGTON, June 19.—The big argument over whether the United ‘States should be represented in post-war international aviation by one big, joint “chosen instrument” company or a number of competing companies operating under principles of “freedom of the air” has been lost sight of for a couple of months, but behind

IN WASHING TON—

don't blame the farmer for not rais- | ing food when he puts out his] money and labor and then sees it| lie on the ground and rot. If we did not have the OPA, we would have more food and prices

Americans readily understand how! high honors. easily any great power can be mis-| used. ‘ Now please, Mr. Editor, don’t you honestly believe that the American

“would do it again.” The second thing he did was to go A W.0 L; government should: finance its own not a new thing for Joe by any pen workers for the advancement means. Joe McGee himself proved of own cause? i the public error. , - § a2 = If we are going to expect our “McGEE HIMSELF PROVED fighting men to win wars and our THE PUBLIC ERROR" officers to take tremendous responsBy Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis ibility with lives and property, it is high time that we trust to It seems that ihe - forum has| ory authority those things which heard enough about Joe McGee, the |...” nirely military and of which |army's number one Smart Alec.| on-combatants and commentators, | Since Joe has been out of “hock” uns glorify in deforming public |and restored to duty by our greal|yninking, know nothing. I believe | group of non-combatant army um-| ine army should give McGee a | pires, he has proven that the army .....0e to “do it again,” and if he | was right in the first place. | does, they should give his two years

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Some which,

did was to voice his contempt fori And the farmers would not be | army discipline by stating that he|

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would not be any higher than now.| ,)., canes there has been a good bit of intricate ma-

neuvering. Newest chapter in the state department-senate foreign relations committee impasse over international air policy hds just been introduced by Mississippl Senator Theodore Bilbo, of all people. Bilbo isn't a member of the foreign relations committee, but he is a member of the commerce committee which also has a fist in this stew. Bilbo’s action in making public a letter from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew, defending the state departments right to take the United States into international aviation agreements through ‘executive order, without senate ratification, may again bring to a boil this dish which has been simmering on the back of the stove for so long & time.

Air Freedom Program Progresses WHILE THE senate has been unable to make up

lafraid to produce. » » » | SHORTAGE”

By Clyde McCormack, Business Representative, Central Laber Union of Indianapolis. .

The following statement for your Hoosler forum column is informa|tion that I feel the tadbayers are | definitely entitled to. Yesterday the press quoted Clarence L. Farrington, vice president of the Indianapolis board of school commissioners, as follows: “I've actually been ashamed of conditions at many schools I have visited. We must do something right | away to clean them up.” J. E. McGaughey, superintendent

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its mind and determine a policy, the state departs

By L{ ; United . The allied neo probabl tion of the to his thror It will be this import

Mr. Keen

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CHINES pe udcluded Chinese oughly prep | a green veg thinly sown, lings thinne: anid then t Since Chine weather pla should be quickly. Fo results, an tumn crop be preferred should be pi two and ‘one to: three m before frost Water mu supplied whe + soil -showns of drying Culture is si cabbages, ar the cutworm and aphids. | Chihili, th nese cabbage ing, maturir be largely pl: dener. Its 18 to 20 inc and tender,

tion at San Francisco, and of others there, to go to such extremes of compromise to appease Russia. Moscow has refused to go along with any international organization | Big Three unity without unless she was given an absolute veto power—that is, unless | might much mater. her vote on vital issues would count for more than all the | plished in that" direction. votes of the 49 other nations combined. To keep her in this | Just begun. conference and to get her into a league, the United States | and other nations have virtually let her write her own | ticket. 2 As a result, the veto power extends far beyond the use of force or sanctions against an aggressor. Under the present tentative agreement, the veto covers even the | peaceful settlement of war threats. It goes farther than | that—a single big power can prevent even most League | investigations.

r rv ® » n » IT IS JUST BECAUSE the proposed charter is so piti- | fully weak, that remaining hope now turns on the facility for improving it in future years. To ask the 40-odd middle and smaller nations, and the large majority in the United States and Britain committed to collective security, to accept a league which can be domi- | nated by any big aggressor is expecting a great deal. But | we believe even such an organization, with all its faults | and all its dangers, is better than no league—provided it is Mn her dealings with the Poles not sealed and doomed against any progress. | ; We appeal to the American delegation to think again before they join with a short-sighted Russia in crushing the conference majority opposed to a big power veto on “future amendments. We appeal to them to stand by the Little 45 amendment rights that have saved the American and other | democratic constitutions. we We ask them to get this little—after all the big sacri- | fices to dictatorship in this charter—to assure ratification by the Senate and by other nations. We ask them to remember that an inflexible thing is easiest broken, that an organism Which cannot grow cannot live. Give the League a chance! .

which not

Americans, Polish factions will try to

situation is loaded with TNT for all,

news that Moscow,

in some unrevealed prison.

ference completely mystified.

| Three—on the part of the not

government

o form.

ants and Communists, If that is done, and if the “free and

regarded as a hopeful sign.

. So They Say

THE UNION IS RIGHT CHICAGO judge granted Montgomery Ward & Co.

. : Cn . | temporary injunction restraining the C. L O. union 01 | - yr 15 COMING to be recognized that naziism store clerks from: publishing “untruths” in its newspaper. | is but one expression of ideals and attitudes which ‘have long prevailed among the great majority of Germans —Combined report of seven psychiatric or -ganizations on study made at Columbia U. ; ‘ .

The union is appealing for dismissal of the injunction, . charging that it violates freedom of the press. , This, in our opinion, is precisely what it does. Union publications, unfortunately, do not always print the truth ‘and nothing but. “However, the proper and constitutional | _yemedy for those who believe they are injufed by untruths | ted in union newspapers, or any newspapers, is to proiunder the laws of libel. Judges have neither duty right to mak ms sors of free expression

tion, We: have to have the means

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iv and San Francisco delegate, » . -.

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THE NON-FRATZRNIZING. rpg harder on doughboys thas @ kick out ing 1

Admittedly considerable has already been accom- | But the chore has only The most difficult problems of all are | yet unsolved, both territorial and political. . International statesmanship of supreme quality | | will be required, for example, successfully to steer the conference on Poland, now in progress in Moscow. | Under the auspices of the Russians, British and

resentative, democratic regime in Warsaw and. the

Gredtly adding to the anxiety here comes the within the next will begin the trial of the 16 Polish underground leaders arrested last March and imprisoned ever since |

Conference Is Completely Mystified MOSCOW'S .REASON for this move has the conA new “purge” trial such as those with which Russia amazed the world | 1 a few vears ago—only this time with Polish politi- | C; : \ cal prisoners in the dock-—hardly seems calculated Side Glances =By Galbraith to help the Moscow conference on Poland. | Many here hail Great Britain's release of political | prisoners in India as the sort of thing which Russia ight well afford to emulate, especially at this time, |

tions” promised at Yalta materialize, it would be

IT 18 NOJ enough to have a security organiza-

with the conditions that make it easy for wars to’ start — Clement Attlee, British deputy prime minister |

on the Germans. We get | arving kids, ly if

denly had to find a way to save imperiled Britain | The American now seems elected to the job of saving

even Victory

set up a rep-

“few days,”

| habit of getting feverish for short! gr | periods in an what is cons

Such a gesture, it is widely felt, plus strict adher- | ence fo the Yalta formula for settling the Polish | | problem, would go a long way towards restoring con- " | fidence in the Big Five—or more accurately, the Big | altogether trusting

News that former Premjer Mikolajczyk, Peasant | party leader, ‘may head the proposed .new Polish | has raised expectations here, good deal depends on the government he is allowed There are five major partiés in Poland; Christian Democrats, Nationalists, Socialists; PeasMikolajezyk 1s known to want all five represented equally in the new cabinet.

But a |

unfettered elec-

for doing away |

Army discipline is more important | back and make it stick, than anyone in the army.

That the |

He was given a fair .,.i.e ”

y would not be in| They were Ameri-

tan

Public: opinion, which has

eat U.S.A. honest effort to help |

army is fair in its discipline has| There are 100 many Important |, the effect that the manpower N35 | nroblems awaiting publie solution been constantly proven by the high|s) aay : shortage is responsible for condit : | ave any time to worry whether |, =. ot many schools quay i he orale o oy | McGee has two years to serve or if| : g g men. Joe disregarded army : orders and he openly flouted army eis bounced entirely out of the|,, kept clear and that Mr. Farringdiscipline. : trial by a court of army officers who | knew the facts. These officers Were | wyrpyAT's JUST A {not dumb or the their position. | can officers. They were not selected | By Ivan C. Clearwater, Indianapolis | from the German army to persecute | an innocent man. McGee was not " \innocent and they sent him up tor | TORE page headlines of a newspaper | two years, and if Winchell did no like it, he should have served Mc- { Gee's sentence for him.

The army should have its

. | SMALL SAMPLE” So many people read only the

d therefore it makes me glad .to note that, in your edition of Thurs|day, June 7, you really “put them a wise” as to what is going on in this

Well, that's just a small sample; | ijdered the under-dog, if they should ever get around to | (without the facts) brought about a reading the editorial page perhaps | reversal of the army's decision and’ they might get some more “samples.”

lot buildings and grounds, is quoted

I believe that the record should

ton and the public should have the actual facts as to why our schools are not properly maintained. In the 1041-42 school year, the total appropriation for maintenance was $132,612. The requested appropriation of the board of school commissioners for the year 1942-43 was $83,750, a reduction of $48863, and this was before any shortage of manpower. This was just before electibn day. The 1043-44 appropriation was $05,725. This was after election day. The appropriation requested for 1044-45 was $118,130, or $34,405 moje than the appropriation for the year "42-43, Again we had no election. I served on the 1942 tax adjustment board, and during the meeting on the school budget I publicly stated that the reduction in the

» over within the next three years.

successor.

porters pally Pan-American

stop such a development would be

be difficult, to say the least. Background maneuvering which

maintenance budget would bring about the very condition that Mr. Farrington is complaining about. It seems to me that this record shows that it was an election program, and not a manpower shortage that’s responsible for our schools not being properly maintained. *

” ” ” “ASTOUNDED ANYONE CAN BE SO CRUEL” By _stella Garner, Indianapolis My soul was stirred and my heart ached when I read of the shooting of a pigeon because it flew into an office and encircled the room. This emblem of peace was not wanted here, yet it has a scriptural correspondence and is similar to the dove’ Why could not these people have seen God in this innocent creation while it visited them? . . . I am

teresting. About a month ago the

advocates of the one big airline

the senate for ratification.

all about?”

THIS. WAS just the opportunity

tion was spreading disapproval of, policy wherever possible. Grew’s reply to

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ment's “freedom of the air” program, mapped at the Chicago International Civil Aviation conference last fall, has been moving right ahead. Thirty nations four more than time necessary 26—have already ratified the Chicago agreements and Capada is preparing to issue invitations for a first meeting of the provisional organization which will regulate international air commerce until a permanent organization can take

In the meantime, the U. 8. Civil Aeronautics board, meeting with President Truman, is supposed to have laid on his desk a recommendation that North Ate lantic flying rights be given to thrée competing come panies—Pan-American, Transcontinental Western and American Export or its American Airlines-controlled

The “President may turn down the CAB recomse mendations, but since they are believed to have been made with strong representations as to urgency, ape proval by the White House would confront the supe of the jointly owned company jdea-—princie and United Alrlines—with op« position as good as established. The only way to

action in congress, the passage of new laws defining a different policy. With congress now ready to go home for the summer, any such achievement would

letter from Secretary Grew to Senatpr Bilbo is ine of the American Federation of Labor, stirred up by statement that the executive agreements on inters national aviation promulgated by President Roosevelt were illegal, should be withdrawn and submitted to Using this as a springboard, Senator Bilbo was moved to take the A. F' of L. statement, send it to the state department and ask in effect, “What's this State Department's Big Chance ment had been waiting for. Its side of the argument

was locked up in off-the-record testimony before the senate foreign relations committee,

the Bilbo inquiry is therefore .a strong defense of state department's right to make the

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astounded that anyone can be #0| executive agreements adopted at Chicago on interim MEAT —R( cruel as to enjoy seeing anything so| organization and freedom of the air policies, J2 are valid {nnocent give up its life. It 18 being backed up by a more legal argument through P2 Recently a pigeon flew into| prepared by Stephen Latehford of the state departe 31° Qa th Ebenezer Lutheran church near| ment's aviation staff and printed in the. current state : rg Millersville road. It perched upon| department bulletin. Together the Grew and Latch Aug. 31. Va t the altar, Holy Bible and rested| ford ddcuments serve as a rebuttal to Arne C. Wiprud, Sept. 30. Mi upon the minister's shoulder during| department of justice transportation lawyer, who has red points his preaching hour, It was greeted | been unofficially that imternational aviation pound of we lovingly. rights could not be grated by executive agreements SUGAR—! The church members commented | under U, 8. aviation law. : TS Pounds thro on the scriptural verse, St. Matthew a / 3:18, . Cr able at ratic 13 in Book ¢

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