Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1945 — Page 20

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE PEOPLE MUST HELP RESIDENT Truman will need the help of the people to sell military training to congress. His address Tuesday was clear, logical, forceful. In our opinion his arguments are unanswerable. We can ensure our peace and freedom only by remaining strong. The atom bomb, jet propulsion, rocket missiles ard the other new and awful instruments of war, far from eliminating the necessity for training, actually increase the need. To continue so strong and so ready that no enemy will ever dare attack, we must have a constantly refreshed reservoir of young men trained in the complicated mechan-

And the obligation to be trained runs not only to those physically most fit for combat, but to all youth qualified to serve in any capacity. Yet, when there should have been applause, congressmen for the most part sat on their hands. To say they were unenthusiastic is an understatement. ) It is not strange that congress should be reluctant to pass the legislation which the President insists is urgent, and which Gen. Marshall, Adm, King and other top commanders warn is indispensable to the nation's security. It is not strange, even in the face of public opinion polls which have shown that a majority of the people favor

For, on this issue, the majority is not organized, and

3 » ¥ » ” ” » “I VERY member of congress these days is assailed by loud * and complaining pressure groups. always, assure there will never be another war. Educators, ‘with hazy ideas that peace on earth will somehow flow from their teaching of the social and political sciences. Parents ‘who demand that Willie be discharged, even if he has. only 15 points, and that Johnnie be left alone at home and in school since the fighting has stopped—forgetting that ‘unless all the Willies and Johnnies do their part to keep the peace they may be sent into another blood bath a few

Pacifists who, as

Make no mistake about it. The minority special pleaders are ready to vote for or against a congressman according to how he votes on this issue—and congressmen know it. : But what about the majority 7 The great rank and file “of people are sick of the stupid repetition of war and death, “disarmament and weakness, then more war and death. The ‘mothers and fathers have the hard sense to know that their sons can be safe only by keeping the nation strong. And, most important, the millions of discharged fighting men who know war, know there is only one sure way to prevent

When will this majority organize and make its convietions known to congress? Before it's too late.

DON'T GET MAD AT PETRILLO

NEW, improved kind of radio—frequency. modulation, or FM—started in a small way before the war and is the basis for a promising post-war industry. Or was, until James Caesar Petrillo, dictator of the A. F. of L. musicians’ union, issued his latest ukase. Mr, Petrillo has notified major radio stations that they must pay a duplicate crew of musicians to stand by, doing nothing, when any musical program is broadcast by FM as well as by standard radio. For¥instance, if a concert by the New York Philharmonic Symphony is broadcast by both methods, the station must not only pay union wages to the 104 members of that It must also pay union wages to 104 other musicians who don't play a note to earn the money. Well, the radio stations say they can't afford to do that. Advertising sponsors pay them no more for a broadcast by both methods than for a broadcast by standard And so, they say, FM will have to be limited to Which means, we think,-a much smaller market for special FM receiving sets and a much smaller number of job opportunities for people who might have been employed to produce and sell such sets. However, there's no use in getting mad at Mr. Petrillo. He is acting within his rights, as defined by the supreme In recent years the court has held that unions are immune to prosecution under federal law, not only for compelling employment of useless and unnecessary labor, but for almost any other conceivable form of trade-restricting, price-boosting, public-hurting

It might do some good to get mad at congress, and to For congress, although it has the authority and, we think, the duty to act, has never done anything to correct the damage done by those supreme

RED TAPE AVOIDS RED TAPE

H® HO, said the office jokesmith, bet it would be funny to show how much red tape you'd have to go through to learn how much real red tape the government uses. Quick to snap at any phase of red tape doodling, we asked our Washington man to get going. Virtually within the hour he called back with: “The federal government buys 61,000 spools of red tape a year, 72 yards to the spool at about 81 cents a spool. It’s five-sixteenths of an inch wide and generally is used It is stored in government warehouses along with desks and other office supplies and equip-

“There are 10 warehouses in strategic cities: one of these and two sub-warehouses are in Washington itself. A federal agency gets tape like it does furniture. It makes

out one requisition and receives delivery direct from its

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Tomb-Boom By Robert J. Casey

NEW YORK, Oct. 235—Your old Grant's tomb re porter is able to report his favorite shrine in.New York is enjoying its greatest run of popularity sinee the day when they installed the new steam-heating system, : This, we' are informed by our informant, has been going on since a day or two before the arrival of the fleet. : The coineidence between the two, phenomena is somewhat difficult to explain unless one takes into account the historic preference of visiting sailors for national monuments over night clubs end saloons. So we went out to take a look at the place and found the answer just what you had expected it would be. There were quité a lot of saflors and girls wander~ ing in and out of the place, which wasn't too surprising. There were also little groups of women and children and small babies upon whom your investigator looked with startled eyes, The attendant, who apparently has been here too long to be startled at anything, surveyed his increased business without visible concern. He didn’t know the cause of it, exactly. People were getting more patri~ otic, possibly—more shrine-conscious. And then, of course, there were plenty of sailors in town. But a young warrant officer standing near the door seemed to have made a deeper study of the matter. “Sure there are lots of sailors milling through here” he sald. “I'm one of them. But they're not paying their respects to the general exactly. They're here with their relatives looking’ for a place to sleep. “There's plenty of room on the deck here if anybody’d let you use it , .

General's Privacy Disturbed

WELL, it may be reported that when the tomb closed up at the end of the day's visiting hours Gen. Grant's privacy was disturbed. But it may also be reported that it was the only vacant spot in the city. New York, which used to be big enough to accom= modate world’s fair crowds and even a couple of conventions, has been jammed by the visit of the fleet as never before in its history. It has begun to look like Bordeaux in the days of the big retreat when people couldn't find room to fall when they fainted in the streets gf

finding bureau at the Commodore when last queried had a waiting list of 5000. Getting aboard a subway train is an operation something } the bréakthrough at 8t. Lo, A

In rush hours or in the rain In

spots you can’t even force your way down the stairs from the street. Bus traffic is equally impossible and it takes an hour fo get across town in a taxicab, admitting for the sake of argument that you can find a taxicab. People with friends out of town are beginning to quit answering their phones. Cots have sprung up in offices and linen closets and similar strange bedrooms as they did in Washington during the raids of the patriotic contract seekers. Respectable people—whole families of them-—are jammed into the flops and flea-bags of the Seventies and more or less happy to be there. The visiting sailors who theoretically have caused this jam are nearly all off the streets at midnight. They sleep aboard their ships.

Others Suffer, Too

IT I8 a consolation to the weary traveler as he sits long hours in a railroad station waiting for a train out that he isn't the only sufferer from this situation. When he thinks of the clerk's greeting in the super-flops (“this bill is payable in advance with 50 cents deposit on the key,”) it is pleasurable to think that such things aren't happening any more. There's no room for any more customers even of the sort whose credit isn’t good for a 15-cent key. And it's nice to think also of the black market in hotel rooms shot to pleces by its own prosperity. Once you might give a bell<hop $5 for a chance to pay $6 for a $4 room. Once you might do quite a bit with. a clerk by offering him a, cigar--any kind of cigar— wrapped with & $10 pBut the market, it seems, is oversold and the cletks and bellhops have gone back to whatever clerks and bellhops do when not getting rich. ’ It still looks as if they might find a new fleld in Grant's tomb. -

FOREIGN AFFAIRS—

Preparation By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. —Adop~ tion of President Truman's recom mendation to congress calling for one year of military training for every male American. competent | observers say, not only would be good insurance | against attack but would save thousands of American lives in the event of war. The only criticism even the enemy could raise against American troops in either world war was that initially they lacked training. Feld Marshal von Hindenburg, for instance, had to admit that “the fresh American masses” were too much far his own “tired troops.” J Yet, he went on to say that “the .efperiences of these masses will have taught the United States for the future that the business of war cannot be learned in a few months and that in a crisis lack of this experience costs streams of blood.”

Muffed Remedy of Error

WHAT THE grizzled old marshal thought. he foresaw was a system of military training for Ameri can -youth in peacetime, He could not imagine an efficient, practical country like the United States risking being caught again unprepared as it was in 1917 Our losses then were much heavier than they would have been if our men, and their officers, had received such training. Hindenburg took it for granted the costly error would be quickly remedied. Yet, it is ruefully pointed out here, we muffled it completely-—to the axis' delight. Even so, Gen. Marshall and others have made it plain that we should never have been able to get started at all had it not been that Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China refused to accept what looked like certain defeat, > But, say the same high authorities, never again san we. count on any such luck as we had in both world wars, Not even the oceans, they warn, any longer offer protection. With the robot, rocket, atomic and other new | weapons the first days of the next war are almost certain to be decisive { United Nations circles here ‘will eagerly watch the progress of the measure,

United States Main Standby

THE NATIONS of the Western hemisphere are especially interested. The United States is their main standby. And the act of Chapultepec—yet to be transformed into a permanent regional security pact— either will be effective in preventing or putting down foreign aggression or will be an open invitation to it, depending on whether the United States remains strong or grows soft. Two features of the President's proposals are particularly comménted on here because they differ so radically from most foreign practice. ; One is the way military training would be fitted Into a young American's life between his high school and his job or his-university. Abroad the usual thing has been to call up young men when they reach a certain age, thus seriously interfering either with their trades or their studies. - ’ The other unusual feature is the truly universal nature of the trainfng, Abroad only males fit military service are accepted. The President would

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“CRIME IS CAUSED BY CHILD NEGLECT”

By Henry W. Rager, Indianapolis Many social workers, judges, police and educators have tried to solve the problem of juvenile delinquency without much success. It seems to me they could profit greatly by a high school junior's theme written on the subject. The boy’s theme is quoted as follows: . “Robberies, slayings, rapes, hatri and innumerable other crimes are caused by the neglect and mistreatment of children. Poverty also encourages the will to steal. This has :made the needy hate the rich and makes them greedy. In many cases the mother shows no interest in her child. Instead of showing love and kindness to her child, she constantly embarrasses and shows impatience and disgust toward the child. . “In other cases & drunken father may be the cause and often brings about disrespect between father and son. Like any and all children they like tobe treated with consideration. After all, you know, they are only human. “If people would pay more atten= tion, along with love and considera« tion, toward their children, they would be overwhelmed at the results. Danny Edwards, English 3, Sept. 25, 1945.” To my mind the boy comes closer to the crux and solution of the problem of juvenile delinquency than the many paid workers we have trying to solve the complicated problem. n » ” “HOPE YOU APPRECIATE

CHILDREN SAVING WORLD”

By Mrs. R. R. A, Morgantown Mrs. J. 8. after you sent that letter in which you said the mothers that yelled the loudest let their boys run the street and get drunk, didn’t you feel ashamed? I didn’t want my son to go because I feel like I've given enough when I gave one 18-year-old son to the Japs at Tarawa. Now that my other son has joined the marines every time I receive a letter or mail one to him my heart breaks for my first son and the horrible death he met with the Japs. But you couldn't know how terrible that can be because you are one of the lucky ones who are getting their sons home soon and I'm glad for you, but I'm sorry anyone can be so mean and narrow-minded as to make such a remark as you made about our young boys. Of course the 18-year-old boys are no better than your son, but if ever our youth needs an education

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it’s now and not a military education, If fighting is all they're taught at such a young age that’s all they will ever know, so we can expect another war in a very few years. My son did not drink and run the streets before he went into the service. I only hope he isn't made a tough man while he’s still a boy in years and that you and others like you appreciate these children keeping the world safe and letting you have your son back even though I won't ever get my other son back unless it is in a sealed casket. EJ » » “AREN'T THERE ANY KIND HEARTS IN THIS CITY?”

By Mrs. H. M. DeMarco, Carmel I've been reading the Hoosier Forum for years. Now I feel the need to write. To landlords especially. For the last year I've had to move at least six times. One house I rented the landlord wanted us to promise to stay a year. One week later the house was put up for sale, We were unable to find a house so we had to sell our furniture and move into a housekeeping room-up in the attic. You see I have two little girls (which to landlords is a disgrace). “Sorry, the children make too much naise for the other tenants so you'll have to move." It goes on and on. I'd like to know what's wrong with the people in Indianapolis. Don't they have hearts? Why is everyone so unkind? We all were children once. Now that I've found an ideal place in the country where I thought my bables were safe from abuse, I've been asked to move again. Where? No one seems to have a place for us. How are my children going to grow up believing and trusting people when theyre being shoved around so much, Aren't there any kind hearts at all in this city? I'm beginning to have my doubts. ‘

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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

“AND SO THE JOYRIDING INFLATION WENT ON”

By Zene B. Cutler, Lafayette “Nobody knows what ‘inflation’ means,” said a political wise-crack-er, “but we know what it is when we get it.” In fact nearly everybody knows that inflation means conscious acts like inflating the lungs and blowing soap and water into a big bubble with the aid of a straw. Which examples so simply that even a child may know what the word means. The misuse of the word as an economic term concerns rather the bursting of the bubble; but includes the mixing of soap and water, a first-aid necessity to blowing the bubble before it can burst. This preliminary mixture of soap and water must be continuous, and in a greedy joyriding mood, to put any sense in “inflation” as an economic term. What the profound sounding term is intended to mean is the continuous marking up prices. These four words express it. Yet the economists and politicians, you know, must not “profound” too much, but be witty and often picture “horror and tragedy, It is well to examine some of the mixing of soap and water and bubble-~blo , the deliberate marking of prices, the cost of living in our recent history by the wise men in Washington. The gold dollar represented the key figure necessary to statistics of prices and values helpful to trade and commerce, The first act of inflation was to double the price of gold. Thus in ‘theory the “purchasing power,” as the’ profound economists put it, of .our dollar was reduced to 50 cents and the price of all else must double. This was all very fine for the owners of gold. But the owners of silver began to yell. They did not propose to furnish silver at the same old price and get their pay in a b50-cent dollar. 80 they were satisfled by marking up silver fromd 15~18 cents an ounce to $1.20 an ounce. An open market was maintained; all the smart guys began to speculate in silver, silver options. The price of silver literally was continuously marked up on the blackboards and stock tickers to about 85 cents an ounce. The “suckers” were buying, silver was pouring into the U. 8. A. from all over the world, All very fine for silver owners, but the cotton men began to howl, What would this inflationist New Deal do without the solid South vote? To

Marked so high in fact that even England refused to buy and began growing its own with peon-labor in Egypt, etc, but the federal government bought it at the nice high All fine for the cotton men, but what'of the working men? The la-

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Skilled Worki By Thomas L. Stokes |

CLEVELAND, Oct. 25.—Part of the problem of fitting unemployed war workers into available jobs has to do also with the skilled worker. It involves, though not to a H great degree, the real skilled worker so recognized. More seriously it concerns a new class of “skilled workers” created during the war. They were not real skilled workers in the usual technical sense, but were so graded in the war-time scramble for mane power and were paid at high rates. There are some real skilled workers out of jobs now. This is probably largely temporary, for there is a shortage of skilled workers now of some types and in some places. When. reconversion is completed and manufacturing industry is in high gear again then skilled workesa=-should have no problem and offer none. :

Job-Shopping Problem MEANWHILE, they are contributing somewhat te the general problem caused by the Job-shopping of workers There is little inclination or inducement for the real skilled worker now unemployed to take a teme porary job if he is fairly sure, as most of them are, of going back to his regular type of work: He may expect to return to the plant where he was employed when it is reconverted, and .is waiting for that. In cases where his wartime plant has shut dowr or severely curtailed its operations, as hap~ pened with many airplane plants and ship building yards, he may feel reasonably sure of a job somee where when industry and business pick up. It is the “skilled worker” of the other category war-made and not a real skilled worker—who raises a problem. This so-called skilled worker wag the ‘product of dividing up work to speed production during the war. Helpers for regular skilled machine workers wers graded up to skilled workers for purposes of the job and wages, Now, they still want to be considered skilled workers. . There are, however, no jobs for them of that sort in peacetime production and they are not fully qualified for regular skilled jobs, Meanwhile, they are hoping to find something that approximates wartime pay. Consequently they are holding off from taking other, lower-paid jobs of a different kind. They contribute to the frustraetion that has gripped so many war workers,

Don't Want Low-Pay Status

THERE is another factor in the holding off and waiting around which comes out in questioning some workers why they do not take available jobs at lower pay. They reply that if they took a job at a much reduced rate, which is true of most of the ‘available Jobs, then when they would go back to their former trade for work and be asked what their pay was at their last job, they would have to quote the low rate, This would be a handicap they say. There are not enough real skilled jobs to take care of the war overflow of the semi-skilled class, as cone trasted with prospects for the real skilled worker. The big bulk of jobs in this country is not in manufacturing industry, but in the so-called “service trades” and related lines which were stripped down to dg Skeletons Jo meet the demands for war work. ers. 8 ority of unemployed work to find places in that field. P mw have It is a big reservoir. The pay is mostly low. EE —————————————————————

IN WASHINGTON—

Forest Shrine By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.~That’ the proposed Benjamin Harrison Memorial forest project for southern Indiana may be but the beginning of future “nationalization” of land ownership was the warning made in the house by Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind). He declined to say that he might not support the Ludlow bill setting up the memorial forest howe ever. He has not made up his mind on that point, Mr. Wilson explained. He wants to hear from the farmers who would have to move from the area first he said. “If this program is Initiated, some 700,000 acres of farm land will eventually be purchased by the federal government,” Mr, Wilson declared. “It will not be taken from the farmers by condemnation proceedings of the federal government, The farmers must be willing to sell their land or bare gain with the federal government much as they would with any private buyer. Therefore, the farmers who wish to sell to the government will not be adversely affected. “My concern is for those farmers who are mane aging to make a living from their farms and whe wish to remain on them. Let us look, for a moment, at what might happen to them.

Fertile Bottomland Menaced?

“SHOULD the Shoals dam be built, which is an ever-present threat to the people in the river bote toms of the east fork of White river, above Shoals, the government would take all of the fertile bottom land out of cultivation and with the initiation of the ‘Harrison Memorial Forest 700,000 acres of marginal land would be acquired. : ; “Many farm folk who are wholly or partially earne ing their livelihood from their farms woud be ree moved to other localities, Some, namely those afe fected by the construction of the dam, would be une willingly removed. Hundreds of families have ale ready been removed by the acquisition of land for various war-time projects. All this leaves an increased tax burden on those remaining in order to carry on the expenses of their local governments. Also, to the thousands of farmers who are just earning a living and who will have to bear the increased cost of all marginal fencing instead of 50 per cent of it, which additional load will be more than they can possbily stand, and there fore they will be squeezed out, “Also, how about a farmer getting his children to school and getting his roads cared for once a major portion of his neighbors have moved on? ‘This squeeze will, in my opinion, eventually get 25 per cent of the remaining farmers in the areas involved,

‘Boon to Businessmen?

“WILL this is a boon to the businessmen of the area? Will it help such towns as Nashville, Seymour, Paoli, Salem and Bedford to have 25 to 50 per cent of their farmers absent from their town with their cream and egg money on Saturday afternoons? “I might add that while I am in favor of spending government money when and only when a dollar's worth of good is done with every dollar spent, I am not sure that a jrogram, of nationalization is the best way to do this job. \ “Everyone knows that/ our federal treasury is in deplorable condition while our state treasury is fat with funds. The qu is ‘How far are we going f our country?" said he merely wanted to unless more interest dee

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