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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

"IT'S WONDERFUL H® HUM. We see that Sidney Hillman, over at the world labor conference in Paris, is demanding a place for labor in the United Nations economic and social council . plus labor representation on the allied control council for * There can be no permanent peace, according to Mr, Hillman, unless labor sits in world councils, ; Well, Mr. Hillman certainly is a great authority on labor's ability to make and preserve peace. Look at the labor peace now raging in his own United States! Look at how his own organization, the C. 1. 0., is waging peace against the A. F. L. and John L. Lewis! "If world peace depends on Sidney, let’s build some more atom bomb plants,

IT’S NOT JUST A MATTER OF THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW

IT WAS just about two score years ago that Henry Ford = hit the jackpot. Twelve years before that, on a rainy night, his mechanical buggy had run a few feet down a Detroit alley and stopped because a bolt had sheared. There were other failures, but they didn't stép the farm boy turned mechanic. * "As recently as 1904, plenty of people were still sneering at the horseless carriage. That was when Charles Platt, president of the Insurance Co. of North America, said: “T'n never insure a gasoline can on wheels, the noisy, stinking things!” But, after more than a decade of disappointment and ridicule, Henry Ford put his idea over. His inventive genius, his energy and persistence, didn’t do it all. Many others, with similar ideas, struggled hard but fell by the wayside. 3 Risk capital was vital, Those who put in with Ford— the Dodges, the Couzenses, Malcolmson the coal dealer, Anderson the lawyer, and others—later sold out rich to Ford himself. James Couzens became a multi-millionaire and a great United States senator. His investment was $2500 but he had only $900 cash. His sister Rosetta came

life—and James signed notes for the rest. Rosetta cashed in $855,000 on her $100 venture. » LJ » ” » . 4 THE STORY has particular interest right now, since Henry Ford II has just followed his grandfather as head of the company—a third generation that hasn't gone back to shirtsleeves. There has been spreading in this country a doctrine that full employment can be made and preserved by passing alaw, Henry Ford's success made more jobs than all the ~~ laws ever passed, including PWA and WPA, and not by ~ deficit financing, Jobs for steel workers, rubber workers, glass workers, oil workers, cement workers, road builders and a multitude more, in addition to jobs directly for auto workers. Not a hamlet big enough for a garage, a filling station or a tourist camp has escaped the work-creating influence of Henry Ford's idea. An industry that didn’t exist at all before the turn of the century had added millions to national employ- ~ ment and multiplied billions to national wealth, So it has been with the electric light, the telephone, the radio, to mention only a few that had their start within living memories. So it can be with television, radar and the split atom. : Laws can encourage, or they can retard or prevent. But it isn’t by passing laws—it’s only by going ‘on with the process of developing job-creating ideas—that this coun‘try will attain.lasting prosperity and full employment.

A CASE FOR JOINT ACTION

HE latest terrorist orgy by the Argentine dictatorship has drawn an official warning from Washington that this will have “a deplorable effect” on American public opinion. This is generally interpreted as a forerunner of diplomatic and economic sanctions against the fascist regime unless it mends its ways.

nal affairs of another nation, But it does have the right to insist that the Buenos Aires dictatorship live up to international commitments. That regime, after long playing the Axis game, was admitted into the United Nations organization last spring on the pledge of reform and strict observance of international rules. Its current actions are only the latest in a

But no good can come of the United States acting alone. That would play into the hands of the dictators hy raising the old: suspicion, even among the democratic i people of Argentina, of Yankee interference. Since the issue is inter-American and international, the United States government should act through and with the i conference of American foreign ministers. That body is to meet at Rio de Janeiro in three weeks to draft the permanent hemisphere security pact agreed on at Mexico City in February: It should, and doubtless will,. consider the case of Argentina's outlawry.

SANTA HAS A PROBLEM : ‘THE EDITOR has just interviewed Santa Claus. are kind of mixed up.

Santa wasn’t sure how he should dress this Christmas. "The last few years, you recall, he sat for his picture in a

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But this year-—what should he wear? The war’s over, but Santa has a proud affection for the . men still in uniform. He's particularly devoted to those on occupation duty. When he visits them he'd like to wear

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behavior of the Herron Art Institute people who, more than a year ago, promised to bring Mrs, James ‘Ward Thorne's “American Rooms in Miniature” to Indianapolis in 1945. So far as I know, it's the only long range prediction that remains unchallenged. Mrs. Thorne's show opéned yesterday at the Herron Art museum and will continue through Dec. 2. It's worth going miles to see not only because of its

of the discovery that Mrs. Thorne is a born and bred Hoosier. .

Born in Vincennes

NARCISSA NIBLACK (the name with which Mrs. Thorne started out in this world) was born in Vincennes. She was a wee little girl when her uncle, Albert P. Niblack, sent her a miniature tea set. He continued the practice until it grew into a habit and, in no time at all, Narcissa had & collection of bibe~ lots, the several items of which came from all parts and ports ‘of the world. ‘Uncle Albert was able to do this because of his connection with the U, 8. navy. Albert P. (for Parker) Niblack was also a product of Vincennes (vintage of 1859) and a graduate of Annapolis (class of 1880). He began his career as an ensign. He retired in 1923 with the rank of vice admiral commanding in European waters, In the course of those years sometimes loosely referred to by people with short memories as America’s “years of péace”’—Uncle Albert served in explorations in Alaska: in the Spanish-American war; in the block ade of Cuban ports; in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines; in the Boxer campaign in China; in Central and South American waters and in the American occupation of Vera Cruz. During world war I, he was in command of U. 8. naval forces in the western Mediterranean. In addition and at various times, he was also naval attache at Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Argentine, Brazl, Chile and The Hague, -

Uncle Albert Got Around

UNCLE ALBERT certainly got around with the result that, when Narcissa Niblack got old enough to be coufted, she had quite a dowry in the shape of rare trinkets, miniatures and bibelots. The bene-

Thorne, a vice president of Montgomery-Ward Co. An ancestor of his was a founder of the firm, The penultimate in Mr, Thorne's name gives the whole thing away. Mr. Thorne not only put up with his ‘wife's hobby, but. encouraged her to make the most of it. Of such

of her collection, Mrs. Thorne conceived the idea of displaying her uncle’s gifts in miniature rooms, the architectural character of which would reflect the historical periods of her accumulated bibelots. Perfectionist that she was, her first attempts didn’t make her any too happy. Too often the scale of her coljected items didn’t match that of her rooms. She started all over. This time she began by collecting a staff of the most expensive architects and craftsmen to design and construct the parapher-

served the privilege of doing her own needlework. Mrs. Thorne is an accomplished needlewoman and has made all the draperies, including the upholstery of the furniture, in her miniature rooms with her own Hoosier hands,

Thrilled Art World

THE HAPPY collaboration of expensive architects and craftsmen, to say nothing of Mrs. Thorne herself, proved so successful and so free of anachronisms that it thrilled art connoisseurs the world over. Pleased as Punch, her husband paid the bills without 80 much as lifting an eyebrow, - Thus far, Mrs. Thorne has turned out 97 rooms. She says she isn't going to make any more, but you never can tell about women. She sold some of her first rooms to International Business Machines Co, whose president, Thomas Watson, is a business man with an undisguised love for art. What's more, he doesn’t care who knows it. Another of her rooms, a Georgian affair, was purchased by England's Motherqueen Mary. She presented it to London’s Kensington museum. And just a short time ago, Mrs. Thorne gave one of her miniature rooms, a magnificent Massachusetts example, to the Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis. She presented it in memory of her grandparents, Judge and Mrs, William Ellis Niblack, They came to Indianapolis sometime around 1876 when the Judge was elected a member of the supreme

ilked Indianapolis so well that they stayed here the rest of their lives. I just knew that if I'd stick to this Job I could hitch up Mrs. Thorne with Our Town.

Biggest Set Brought Here MRS. THORNE gave the rest of her miniature rooms to the Art Institute of Chicago. They con-

Rooms in Miniature.” This is the set which tickled 25,000 people pink when shown at the Herron a year and a half ago. The other set—“American Rooms in Miniature”—is the one (I repeat) now on exhibition at the Herron. It's the bigger of the two sets and embraces 37 rooms. It's you business to see it. For one thing, it includes the historical rooms in which Washington, George Mason, Andrew Jackson, Harri son Gray Otis, to name only a few, had the luck to live. Included, too, are typical rooms such as, for instance, a living room in an honest-to-God (1750) Cape Cod cottage, and a living room-kitchen in an early (1675) New England home. If you don't come away from Mrs. Thorne's show with a set-up feeling that America has a culture and civilization to brag about, I'll eat my hat (which is the proverbial practice of American columnists when they make what appears to be extravagant claims),

To The Point—

THERE is strong sentiment in favor of Jpringing all our armed forces under one command-and the sooner that command is “go on home” the better the boys will like it.

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GOVERNMENT EXPERTS predict a big boom in Christmas shopping. Why did they have to bring that up? . Ld . THAT WARTIME plea to auto drivers, “Stay off the highway,” has changed to a peacetime warning, “Stay on it!" 3 . » WHY IS IT that most golf courses have the rough where the fairway ought to be? - > » w

WE DON'T KNOW what Uncle Sam will charge for discarded army autos, but they'll probably be jeep at half the price. ¥ . a . SPEEDERS who watch the scenery instead of the road have a fine chance of becoming part of both. x . - -

JAPAN'S new premier is Gen. Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni—and the press writers are in for a bad spell, :

ration free--and that's how

it affected the driving of a great many. bt .

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‘ELECTRIC fans will be available §y December. We doubt, however, that winter will need any help

IN SPITE of its breath-taking variety, this wobbly old world still

a certain predictability. In suppert which I cite the

timely .appeal and aesthetic content, but also because |

ficiary of her dowry turned out to he James Ward |

court. He served a second term beginning 1889. They-|-

stitute her two great sets, one of which is “European |qeaj

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“NOT FAIR TO COMPARE POLICE DEPARTMENT” By A Times Reader, Indianapolis A certain local radio news te-

stuff are Chicago husbands made, To make the most | porter severely criticized the Indian-

apolis' police department a few nights ago for inefficiency during the present crime wave, If the said news reporter would listen to a police radio from 7 p. m. to 12 p. m. for a few days, especially Friday and Saturday, I believe he would realize the police are doing all that is humanly possible. As for comparing the size of our city

in with $100-half of all the money she had saved in her | nalia that went into her rooms. However, she re- [and our police department /to other

cities, that is no more fair than to say that because a man with a heavy head of hair uses a certain kind of hair tonic, that every other man should use that same kind to insure a like growth of hair. If this said news reporter wants to use his radio free speech time for the betterment of our city, he might well do that by emphasizing the harm done by the many false fire alarms which are turned in— and perhaps suggesting a suitable punishment for those responsible. These alarms result in wasted time and energy for both police and firemen. Also he might suggest a plan for firms who find it necessary to lay off certain workers from a very long distance, to insist on these same workers going back home as they will be no longer needed here. (I am NOT talking about workers from Kentucky or Tennessee or other nearby states.) 5 - » “BEST POLICE CHIEF CITY HAS HAD WAS DEMOTED” By R. E. B, Indianapolis Don't put too tuth of the blame for the crime wave on. the policemen. Just how much interest would you take in your job if you were no more sure of it than they are theirs? If you are fired without a reason the union comes: to your rescue. You get a square If a policeman is demoted or discharged, it's politics and no one can help him and just like The Times editorial stated, we will never know why. - You just don't hear of those things. Like the state police car that ran over the man on New York st (a woman was driving). If it was in the paper it must have been on the back page. The best police chief the city has had for some time was demoted. Was it because he was raiding the wrong places? They just couldn't control him. Well, someone voted for this setup but so far I haven't found anyone who will admit it and until it's put under civil service or a sound merit system we will continue to be afraid to get out at night.

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“SINGLE MEN DESERVE RIGHT TO COME HOME”

By Another Single Serviceman’s Mother, Indianapolis

I have just finished reading the letter written by A Mother of a Single Serviceman, Indianapolis: I, too, am the mother of a single service man of 19 years, who has two years of overseas service with the navy. He enlisted op his 17th birthday and has in his two years overseas service taken part in several major battles as a gunners mate. It doesn't take much imagination to give a fairly good picture of action and plenty of it at such a station. To my way of thinking he's deserving of the right to come

ay » “POLICE SIMPLY PATROL IN THEIR CARS”

By Mrs. Jeannette Booker, Indianspolis

be placed, mingling with the crowds as if they were civilians. Then if any crime is committed they are on the scene to make the arrest and not have to wait for the arresting officer to arrive on the scene. Then the one who commits the crime would not have a chance to get to the waiting car to speed them away. Another advantage, they would soon realize that they don’t know who is a civilian or a detective. The police simply patrol in their cars. Not anyone is going to do a wrong if they see the police car, they hide until it is passed. instead of putting the vets in togs, let's put them

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“MUST PURGE ENEMIES OF FREE ENTERPRISE”

By The Watchman, Indianapolis President Truman, congress and patriotic American labor must, soon er or later, wake up to the fact that all Communist and Socialist labor leaders are enemies of private free enterprise and will fight to block, slow and finally wreck our reconversion plans if they can, The signs indicate they are busy. It has long been evident that the Socialists and Communists have adopted the false fronts of “liberal” and “labor” to cover the multitude of their anti-capitalist activities and those Socialists and Communists who have muscled into union lead-

into a position of such power, backed by the Wagner act and supreme court decisions, where they can almost defy the President of the United States. The Socialist-Communist enemies of capitalist free enterprise must be purged from our government, schools, labor unions and from all positions of power and influence if we are to “preserve, protect and defend” our constitutional freedom and economic liberties. Here is a great issue for the Republican party—to battle for quick reconversion to private, free enterprise, to kill off all radical Communistic legislative proposals like the full employment bill. That bill may have some good points but it was hatched to cause a trend toward more and more government inter ference with private enterprise. Here is a good example of the left-wing squeeze on private business—OPA setting ceiling prices at 1942 levels and the. C.1.O. demanding a 30 per cent wage inCrease,

Do the American people and their officials know what the Socialist-Communist program and attitude toward private business is? Well, this so-called “liberal labor” crowd plans to. put all private business in a Communist strait jacket and confiscate all private property. Shall we Americans be hoodwinked and robbed of our freedom, deprived of jobs and forced into a depression by a few Reds? » » » “MORE APPROPRIATE TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION”

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A-Bomb

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—A great debate is now going on about what to do with the atomic bomb. This is divided into two phases. One relates to control of it as a

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the atomic principle in our every-day life. Significant in discussion of the second phase is

| ths seeming general acceptance of the principle that ze people, through their government, should have |

control of this new and amazing source of energy. The object is its development for the best interests of all so that it will not be monopolized to make excessive profits, at a high cost to the public.

‘|“tionary as the discovery of the atomic principle

itself. It is revolutionary because it has been the genera] rule that social adjustment to new inventions lags years behind the inventions themselves, ' - It is revolutionary, too, because this principle of control of a source of energy by the people, in effect, never before has been accepted or adopted at the outset in our country. It was not done with elece tricity, nor with gas, oil, nor steam. |

Monopolies Tightened Grip

THESE were developed privately, at first with ne control, but later and gradually with some public

the public. Excessive rates for services were charged, some extortionate. They became so eco~

for a long time, from regulation. They were more powerful than the government ostensibly represente ing the people, whether in state or nation. It was bold—and almost naive—for the late Sene ator George W. Norris (Neb.) to stand up in the senate 20 years ago, when he was beginning his fight for public regulation of the electric power industry, and assert that, after all, electricity came from the air and belonged to the people. Then we learned how the “power trust” as Sen< ator Norris called it, had wormed its way not o-ly into politics, so that politicians bent the knee, but aisa into the almost sacred preserves of public education, It was getting its propaganda into school textbooks so that the minds of the oncoming generation would be conformed to its interests. It seems, in the case of atomic energy, that we are determined to sfart right this time, to benefit from what has gone on before.

Opened Whole New World

THE ATOMIC DISCOVERY, indeed, has opened a whole new world. It would appear, from acceptance of the basic principle of public responsibiilty and public control of this new energy source, that this is being recognized. All sorts of means of public control are being

Senator McMahon (D. Conn.) in a recent speech advocated the creation of a government board to develop, control and supervise the use and application of atomic energy, with authority to license its use to all comers on an equal basis, and thus provide for its development under the private enterprise

rather have this power in the hands of the chosen servants of the people whose will they would be obliged to carry out than in the hands of a predatory

| Harmony By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The labor-management-government conference opening here Nov. § : three- to-one chance of success, Eric A. Johnston, president of Commerce. Johnston's

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ment he took a beating. : Predictions have been freely made that the forthe coming conference, called. by President Truman and Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach at the suggestion of Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg, would end in a brawl. Since all past conferences have ended that way, it is easy to make such cheap predictions, Some people apparently don’t’ want the conference to succeed, and therefore give it a black eye. To expect that this or any conference will end the present wave of strikes is ridiculous on its face,

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