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,PROTECT LABOR’S POWER

tively, if at all, The Times and other Secripps-Howard newspapers championed the principle that labor should be organized strongly and effectively. We believed then that workers, for the country’s good as well as for their “own, should have power to deal on equal terms with powerful employers. We believe that just as firmly now. 1g Another principle in which we have always believed, and which we have consistently championed, is that or ganized power in any hands needs checks and balances against its abuse. A sound and deep instinct in the American people has impelled them, time after time, to demand that concentrated power be controlled and required to live up to its public responsibilities. This ‘has been the case with the railroads, with the banks, with the stock exchanges, with the utilittes, with other ‘great forces in our national life, It will be so, we think, with organized labor. No one should be surprised—and we are not—to see organized labor abuse the power which, with government's © help, it has now attained.

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THE RECENT demonstrations that headstrong union officers or undisciplined union members can deprive the nation of coal or oil, shut off telephones from coast to coast, paralyze essential services in great cities, obstruct the industrial reconversion on.which so many hopes depend— these are alarming. They are not surprising, For the tendency to abuse unrestrained power is one of the commonest of human failings. Nor are we surprised to find labor leaders desperately resisting proposals for legal restraints on organized labor's power. They are pursuing a normal, human course. It is presumably too much to expect of them clearer vision than was displayed in previous times by. railroad presidents, bankers, stock exchange officials and utility magnates. All of these desperately resisted legal restraints on their power, though few of them would now go back, if they could, to conditions under which liberty was perverted into license, But it is reasonable to expect congress to legislate in the public interest where labor is goncerned, as it has legislated where other powerful forces were conterned.

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NO ORGANIZED group should be free, any more than an individual is free, from obligation to fulfill a contract entered into in good faith, or from penalty for violating such a contract, No organized group should be free, any more than an individual is free, to make reckless use of 4 dangerous weapon—and in our complex economy the right to strike is a deadly dangerous weapon—without regard for the safety of innocent bystanders,

No organized group should be free to employ anti-trust law immunities, granted for protection of its legitimate activities, as a cloak for predatory and anti-social practices.

No organized group whose activities deeply affect the public interest should be free to conduct its own affairs by undemocratic methods. . :

Seeing no evidence that organized labor will restrain its own tendency to abuse of power, we believe that restraints will be imposed by legislation. We hope the legislation will be wise, so that labor's power may be preserved for proper use,

ABOVE PARTISANSHIP

HE INTERNATIONAL situation is about as bad as it could be in times of “peace” —what with the Big Three split, relief conditions in Europe, the Argentine dictatorship kicking up again, Russia challenging the U. S. occupation of Japan, and many other problems. But there is one part of the diplomatic picture at least for which Americans can be very thankful. Our major political parties are pulling together in foreign affairs in this crisis, Highest praise is due the administration and Republican leaders for rising above the temptation to take partisan advantage of the situation. The pattern was set during the last presidential campaign by Governor Dewey, Later the administration included Republican congressional leaders as major members of the United States delegations to the Mexico City and San Francisco conferences. As a result, the public and congressional debate on the charter never divided on party lines.

Now that technique has been carried further by the Byrnes-Dulles partnership at the London conference of foreign ministers. There was a situation made for partisan- | ship and explosive domestic politics. » ” ~ : » » » THE CONFERENCE failed. The Russian foreign | minister tried to drive a wedge between the Américan déle- | gation and the American public by saying there ‘was never any Big Three split when Mr. Roosevelt was representing the United States. » When the international post-war showdown came, the Democrat, Byrnes, and the ‘Republican, Dulles, faced it together, worked for a reasonable compromise settlement together, and together refused to surrender American pledges for a just peace, Hs Then they returned home and made publie ‘reports which were almost identical—except that ‘Mr, Dulles, as a private citizen, could speak more freely than the secretary of state. : The Republican minority has no intention of evading its responsibility under a two-party system 6F constructive criticism, Nor can the Democratic administration unload its final responsibility for government policy as long as it is in office. 2% ei is ii i : aa : ~~ But both sides.are making an’ effort to work together on the broad foundation of national policy which is the m mon interest and common goal of all ricans.

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"IN DAYS when labor was organized weakly and ineffec-

| heads of ‘cabbages to see her through the winter,

ve committee, where debate flourished.

+ Incidentally,

By Anton Scherrer

.. "LAST WEEK one day—on Oct. 1, to be exact— I worked myself into «a lather to persuade you to see Mrs. Thorne's "American Rooms in Miniature,” a thrilling show now on exhibition’ at the Herron Art Institute. Today I want to urge you to tdke in the sideshow. It's under the same tent in the museum's stairway gal lery. x : : The sideshow accounts for Blanche Stillson’s sum mer and reveals why her larder of canned goods doesn’t measure up to that of other years. From the looks ‘of things, it’s going to be a hard winter for heér. Miss Stillson didn't have the faintest inkling of what she was getting into or the sacrifices it might entail when, more than a year ago, she conceived the idea of supplementing Mig Thorne’s exhibit with a side< show. As is the casé” with most women, Miss Stillson’s idea was also the result of a dream. Miss Stillson’s dream. started with the idea that It might be a gracious thing to gather and display a collection of photographs showing the exteriors of the houses which, once upon a time, contained the lovely rooms so faithfully reproduced by Mrs. Thorne,

Left With Empty Larder ,

SOUNDS like something one could handle with nothing more than letters, telegrams and long-dis-tance telephone calls, Well, that's how little you know about people who dedicate their lives to research work. In Miss Stillson’s case, the time cone sumed in collecting, cataloging and labeling the more than five dozen photographs of her sideshow left her with an empty larder. Chances are that it will stay empty unless Miss Stillson avails herself of the only vegetable left; which is to say that she has only a month to put up a couple of barrels of sauerkraut to see her through the winter, : The reason the sideshow has more items than that of the Thorne exhibit is accounted for by the fact that Miss Btillson developed her original dream, a not uncommon practice on the part of women, After she got. Mrs. Thorne's show supplemented to her heart's content (mine, too), she went to work all over again and collected a group of photographs of some of the magnificent old houses of Indiana. And still she wasn't satisfied, a common enough trait in women, some of the old houses that used to ornament Indianapolis. All of which was, of course, a great deal more than the original dream called for. The tesult is a most enlightening affair and represents the biggest plece of lacdl research since Dr. R. N, Harger tabulated the contributing causes of traffic deat®s in and around Indianapolis,

Find Moral Yourself

IN DR. HARGER'S case, he submitted his own conclusions, the general import of which was that the police didn't have “the guts to enforce our laws.” Miss Stillson is much more subtle. She lets you dig out the moral for yourself which, among other things, is another difference between men and women, The lesson 1 carried away from Miss Stillson’s show was a confirmation of a conviction I've entertained for some time; namely, that Francis Costigan is Indiana's greatest gift to the history of American architecture—certainly, of that phase known as the “Greek Revival” It's comforting to suspect that Miss Stillson shares this view for her show abounds in splendid examples of Costigan’s work in Indiana, especially in Madison where among other things, he designed the distinguished homes for the Lanier and Shrewsbury families, Francis Costigan was born. in Baltimore in 1810. He started as a carpenter's apprentice and, in 1835, was listed as a “carpenter and builder” in the directory of that city. The financial depression drove him West, to the up-and-coming town of Madison-on-the~ Ohio where, almost overnight, he blossomed into an architect with the most amazing results. (I got these facts straight from Lee Burns, who spends a good part of his spare time keeping Francis Costigan’s memory green.) The first appearance of Costigan's name in Indianapolis was in the directory of 1858-59, If that be true, it .means that Costigan compressed his unbelievable volume of Indianapolis work into seven short years (he died in 1865). Maybe, Mr. Costigan wasn't home the first time the directory man called on him,

Masons From Italy

OF ALL the homes Costigan designed for Indianapolis citizens, only the Wallace house remains (seutheast corner of Fletcher ave. and Irving pl). Its ornament resembles that of the house originally built for Lewis Hasselman just prior to the Civil war. (Later the Hasselman house was owned by Frederick Fahnley.) Miss Stillson has dug up the original perspective of the Hasselman house, a water color rendering by Costigan, himself. It reveals how completely Costigan changed his style after moving te Indianapolis; for what reason nobody knows unless, perchance; it was a search for self-expression. In the Hasselman house, for instance, the windows were ornamented with a conventionalized flower, the origin of which had botanists puzzled for the better part of 60 years. Just before the Hasselman (Fahnley) house was torn down to make room for the Indianapolis Athletic elub, somebody out at Butler traced Costigan's ornament to the passion flower, To carve it, a crew of masons had to be brought from Italy. Costigan's domestic architecture in Indianapolis was overshadowed by his public buildings, the outstanding example of which was the School for the Blind. It .was the priceless building that was sacrilegiously destroyed to make room for the World War Memorial Plaza. This one building together with the Lanier house at Madison is reason enough (at any rate, for me) to include Francis Costigan with the great architects responsible for the Greek revival movement in America. Bulletin: Blanche Stillson was observed early. this morning haggling (with both hands) for a dozen ,

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Democracy By Carl D. Groat

LONDON, Oct. 10.—It's often sald that Russian and Anglo-American definitions of democracy vary so widely that negotiations between them are made difMcult. Never having heard the Russian definition author{tatively expressed, I decided to run it down. “I caught Andrei A. Gromykyo, chief Russian delegates, between sessions of the United Nations executive committee and put the question to him,

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| taking stock.

“STOP WARNING AND START ADVANCING" By Pvt..Charles F. Eyre, Camp Atterbury I am going to enter the controversy between Mr, Watchman and the Voice and say that we are at a point where we don’t need a lot of

new definitions as to what fascism and communism are. All Americans know plenty about fascism. It was fascism that allowed Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito to-get their stab at world conquest and it was fascism that caused the United States and the United Nations to lose millions of men and suffer more millions of hideous casualties in the effort to defeat fascism, All good and Christian people are deadly opposed to fascism and no one can deny that. Through the trials of this war ‘we have come to realize that the citizens of the Soviet Union are opposed to fascism just as.'ve are and we have found out that we can cooperate with them even though we con't like communism as a form of government. During this war we have made friends with them and learned’ to know a little more about them. a No sensible person can refuse to recognize the magnificent job that was done by the Soviet Union in helping us win this war, and no American is ever again going to be led into disliking these new friends found on the battlefields because of

name-calling and Red-baiting.

Now we are going to look at the

facts before we act and we are going to disregard the names and the name-callers. was on a program of “anti-com-munism" aged to keep the powerful Soviet bear from teaming up with the|jead to trouble. United Nations earlier, in fact that preak down ‘the system that we infamous document between Naziigave and like, it is mass unemployGermany, Italy and Japan was ment. So, now the question is: jobs called the “anti-Comintern pact.” and plenty of them and a high They were going to save the world|standard if living. from Are we now going to have to listen|pattle and settled .themgand he is to some Americans take up the bry Inot new in a mood for rehashing it where the Nazi and Jap thugs left|all over again. He knows enough off?

Remember, it

that the Fascists man-

communism. Remember?

Anyone can see that we need to

keep ‘au friend like the Soviet Union. name calling. He knows that this She can provide great opportuni- | country needs employment for all ties for trade and jobs for our peo- at good wages and in that he is ple on the goods she needs.

Labor unions wouldn't exist if

employers treated their workers de-|all over again. - Side Glances—By Galbraith iy a Auk

At first he declared it was impossible to give a | one-sentence, or even a l0-sentence, definition of | democracy. Then he Raia the nearest he could come to saying it in one sentence was that democracy is | “the fullest expression of the will of the overwhelming majority of the population.”

How About Majority Rule? |

WHEN HE had demurred against trying to make A single-sentence definition, I.asked him, “Well, how about majority rule?” At that he quoted the above. “That's a definition in a single sentence, isn't it?” I asked him. “Well, yes,” sald Mr, Gromykyo, “If you use only a single sentence” Nir Bile I then asked him how this “expression of the will of the overwhelming majority” was to be expressed ~by votes? ’ “Yes,” answered Mr. Gromykyo, “by voting on’ all sorts of things.” :

Democracy in Action Y 1 HAD attended the morning session of the execu-

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“That looked to me like told ‘Mr. Gromykyo, © “Yes,” he replied, with a smile. & chance to talk. Nobody in general he strung along with the U. § delegation favoring an early clearing-up of prework so the :

democracy in action” I

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stopped anybody.” |.

: ary work he constituent assembly -of the |: 3 United Nations could meet on schedule early in Deaking the United Nations a living

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—~Presj~ dent Truman's first six montis in

Friday, It is a natural occabion for

Much is being said about various phases of his administration thus far. There is one significant

curred and it is worth some analysis and discussion. *For a dozen years, under the late Franklin D,

on the dynamic leader.

of what Republicans were loud in condemning as “one-man government,” we now have under President Truman an attempt to get back to what is sometimes called co-ordinate government. This calls for more delegation of responsibility to cabinet officers, the heads of government departments, and more cow operative relationship with congress. . During the years of the New Deal, as far as the

considerable power in their own right beholden to none of the regular departments or cabinet officers, Some of the heads of these special agencies were

Pressing Post-War Problems

over-awed by this overloaded executive structure and handicapped further by its own cumbersome, out-of date, and inefficient legislative machinery. Congress actually developed an inferiority complex which it

and “long-haired economists.” offer a handy target. All about, now are examples of the defects both In the executive and congressional machinery as the

Economists always

change of approach and pressing post-war problems which won't wait.

out of labor trouble, for example. It was discovered anew, as President Truman and others had discove

jurisdictions and no central responsibility,

the"labor department and its new secretary. He hag done this also with other agencies, tyiffy them inte regular departments, = Further, he asked congress some time ago fog authority to reorganize the whole government, In the case of congress, the groaning and creaking

change of approach by the President that has oge

ered long ago, that agencies concerned with handling. . labor disputes were scattered all around, with varying:

The , President moved quickly to bring them together undep . |

Hoosier Forum

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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

cently and did not use sweatshop methods every time they could. Also, the threat of some radical kind of polities taking hold in America is very slim. unless:there is mass unemployment. We must make our own brand of American democracy work if we wish to prevent any kind of political ‘thinking from taking hold in America. In- Europe and in ©Ohina, when private .capitalist free enterprise failed, revolutions brought in either {communism or fascism, So, Mr. W., you should be calling now for the advancement of our system. We have beaten fascism abroad and we have made friends with the only Communist nation and it's about time we stopped this name-galling which gets us nothing but hard feelings. ! There is a job to do. That job is to make American people solid and satisfied with our democratic system, to iron out the kinks that Jf anything can

G. I. Joe has already fought the

{about it now tHat he doesn't need to say anything at all {in the way of

much wiser than those who would isave us from communism or fascism

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What price unfaithfulness?

“UNFAITHFULNESS OF THE SERVICEMAN'S WIFE” By Mrs. Marvin Jones, 2878 N. LaSale st.

In these days of near hysteria and screaming nerves, with ‘dispositions worn ragged by the troublous times we have just passed through, there are many things that seem to us to- be out of kelter, sort of unbalanced and out of line. But of all these things, some small, some great, just one tremendous grief

lic as the essence of all wrongdoing. And that one is—the monstrous score of unfaithfulness of the serviceman’s wife to the man in uniform who has supported her while he himself waded mud, blood, fought the elements as well as an armed barbaric foe, without any comforts save only the thought that back home safe and sound the little woman he left was standing gudrd onthe portals of ‘their home, -hoping and praying for his safe return. While she, of all people who really should be keeping the home fires burning brightly for his return, she, the little ones thrust on a ‘kindly neighbor to care for, is out hitting all the highspots with all comers. The taverns, the shows, the dance floors have been crowded with war wives whose only interest was in keeping up their own morale. And I don't mean morals, For with these double-crossing wives, morals don’t enter into the deal. If you ask one of these so-called wives why all this lack of moral code, here's the . answer: “Well, I am lonesome. He don't need to think I am sitting back here waiting on him to come home to me after he has had all his freedom over there. What's fair for him is fair for me.” Yes, but what a shoddy excuse, sister, for your own weakwilled lack of decent principle. It's a sure thing that that boy who has shouldered a gun and pack through every conceivable inconvenience hasn't had much time to chase “wine, women and song.” Time, nor disposition, probably.

But you, you have had the .oh-

yourself from being lonely back here where there are no bombs screaming through the air, no machineguns diving out of the clouds to strafe the civilians. Of course you've been lonely, Haven't we all? Haven't we all given someone near and dear to the cause of a free world? Free. Yes, free for you to double-cross, free for you to drag in the gutter the name of the man who honored you with it. Free for you to humiliate the parents of that man with your rotten cheap affairs. And what excuse, sister, what excuse? Do you really think that there is an excuse that will stand before the righteous wrath of that uniformed man when he finds you have dragged in the dust all that he holds dear? Do you actually think that the general public will keep close-mouthéd on what you have done? I won't tell it, ‘maybe the little women next door won't tell it, ‘but sister, there are plenty of folks everywhere 0+ have looked with scorngon youl doublecrossing who won't « be closemouthed about it. Then what? To the hundreds of true-blue, foursquare war wives who have saved their money, bought and fixed up homes for their men,, I make my bow, and salute you. May God bless you and reward you. But to you who have lowered your standards, dragged them in the dist, I

don’t think the general public will

DAILY THOUGHT os now art thou cursed from

so-difficult task of trying to keep]

say’ God have mercy on you. If

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for some time on the temporary unemployment coms pensation bill, its atténtion was called to a conflict

which it now lacks.

Party Responsibility THE

opportunity to legislate. Only last week the senate

sider the .atomic energy bill, These are but santples picked ‘at random. Unless congress revises cedures and overhauls its out-of-date machinery ig can not handle properly the great problems before it, This is important if our democracy is to work, See ing that something is done is a matter of interest to every citizen. . > Because. of this, and because the who will be presented to congress soon in a ile siren joint committee which has investigated it, headed by Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis.) and Rep. Monroney

and analyzed in subsequent columns,

IN WASHING TON—

House Sale By Ned Brooks

WASHINGTON, Oct, 10—Warbuilt housing — nearly $2 billion worth of it—took its place yesterday on the government's bargain counter,

the last five years and the sale of usable homes is about to getsunder way. The federal public housing authority, a branch of the national housing agency, will act as disposal agent, .

ment of $790 million; Present or prospective occupants will be given preference over investor-buyers in the sale of these units and the FPHA will price them on the basis of independent appraisals. ' %

permanent types and 74,000 are demountable,

Veterans' Preference

groups of prospective occupants, they must be ofe

erence over others.

chase through private lenders, FPHA will accept a 20 per cent down payment, the balance amortized

ship, corporations can obtain properties for as low as 40 years,

investment buyers on competitive bids, with terms favoring buyers intending to operate the projects on a rental basis. * : About 320,000 of the 654,000 wartime units are of temporary construction and the law requires their removal within two years after the end of the war emergency to prevent the start of new slum areas. The temporary units represent an investment of $760 million. On these, the government's loss will be heavy-Mr, Klutznick declined to estimate how much, Hewever, he expects the loss to be reduced by $50 million to $60 million as a result of techniques developed by FPHA for salvaging panels of the struce tures which can be removed and re-erected into farm buildings, resort cottages, garages, tourist cabins and small schools or churches.

Series of Demonstrations

. SINGLE contracts will be awarded for the demoe lition and salvage, and buyers of the knocked-down

is planning a series of demonstrations in various localities to show uses for all major types of tems porary structures. : Wi Another 60,000 permanent units, built with funds under the U, 8. housing act, will revert to the use of low-income families under the supervision of local

About 56,000 war dwellings were converted from existing structures, most of them leased from private owners. These will be retur

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(D. Okla.), the problems involved will be explored -

About 654,000 dwelling units have been Installed at government expense in 1000 war centers during ..

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Roosevelt, we had emphasis on the White House and .

Harry Truman has chosen to alter that. Instead .

executive end of government went, there grew up 8. multitude of special and independent agencies with.

much better known to the public than cabinet officers,

AS FAR as congress went, that body found itself

confessed by protesting about “downtown bureaucrats” .

government seeks to adjust itself to the White House

The end of the war brought the expected cropping -

and the bottlenecks also are obvious, For instance, - after the senate finance committee had been working

with state laws. This could have been known ahead of time if congress had sufficient research facilities

HOUSE ways and means committee later shelved that same bill, denying the house itself an °

got itself tied up over what committee should cone

its cumbersome proe

For the average home-hunter, the chief oppors . tunities lie in the 180,000 permanent units which the ..} government is directed by law to sell “as expeditiously . as possible,” In these, the government has an invests |

. About 106,000 of the dwellings are of standard :

BEFORE the homes can be sold to individuals of *

fered first to federal agencies, local housing authorie ties or state and local governments. If none of these is interested, present occupants have first choice and ° prospective occupants come next, Veterans have prefe )

If the occupant-buyer is unable to finance his pure

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10 per cent down, with the balance amortized over |

authorities, and none will be offered for private ‘| purchase, Bi ik Al

returned to the owners when.

over 25 years at 4 per cent interest, Mutual owners’ i

Units not bought for occupancy will be offeted to | |

panels will deal with the successful bidders, FPHA |

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