Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1945 — Page 12

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TRUMAN, WAGES AND PRICES

PRESIDENT. Truman hewed to a straight American line last night in his speech on wages and prices. He displeas d some employers by saying that, in inlustry as a who ole, “there should be substantial wage inreases without price increases. He displeased some labor leaders when he reminded “abor of its stern responsibility to be reasonable in demands ‘or higher wages, and when he said that “we cannot hope, sith a reduced work week, to maintain now the same take‘ome pay for labor generally that it has had during the var.” But he impressed us as a man who, courageously un‘nindful of the effect on his own political fortunes, sought o apply a wholesome, homespun sense of good sportsmanship and fair dealing to a trying situation, We think his words must have appealed strongly to the best elements in both capital and labor. ” » ¥ » R. Truman produced no magic formula, He laid down no hard-and-fast rules for determining the amounts Yy which basic hourly wages should be increased. His shanges in the government's wage-price policy do not aniwer all the questions about how to avoid a too drastic eflation of workers’ incomes and at the same time prevent } runaway inflation of prices. . But, without scolding or threatening anyone, he told he country some homely and undeniable truths. Business cannot prosper unless it has customers who make good wages and have money in their pockets. Workers cannot find employment and wages cannot rise unless business prospers and makes profits. It is good business for industry to help labor increase fts earnings. It is good busmess for labor to earn good " wages by increasing its efficiency and productivity, thus * helping industry to make the reasonable profits which are . necessary to expand production and job opportunities. “We must not kill the goose which lays the golden egg.” J . THE government, Mr. Truman said, will not step in and = decide who is to increase wages and by exactly how ; much. Those questions, he insisted, should be decided by free and fair collective bargaining. He recognized the difficulties of that process—the fact that not all companies can . afford wage increases, the risks and problems of the reconversion period which limit the capacity of industry, and especially of small business, to pay workers more without raising prices. Yet he proclaimed his belief that good-faith bargainIng is the sound, American way; his desire to get away as quickly as possible from government controls; and his conviction that labor and management, realizing that they have a common goal, can -compose their differences for the ~~ good of all, Eo We hope it will prove 80. For certainly it is true that only by joining their efforts in a spirit of “give and take on a democratic basis,” can workers and employers attain quickly the full production which is the only firm foundation for full employment, good wages, fair profits, security and freedom.

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A GREAT INVESTMENT

THE WAR has been won. The drama, as Secretary Vinson says, is gone. It is no longer possible to picture dollars, loaned to the government, as being transformed into planes and ships, tanks and guns, for use against foreign enemies, In one sense, therefore, the $11,000,000,000 victory loan campaign now under way presents a more difficult challenge to the American people than any of the seven huge war loans previously over-subscribed. Yet the reasons for buying victory bonds, though happily not all quite the same, are no less compelling than were the reasons for buying war bonds. There are continuing costs of war. Occupation forces must be maintained abroad. Millions of men must be brought home and helped to resume their educations or to re-establish themselves in civilian life. The wounded and disabled must have the generous care promised them. Inflation, that deadly internal enemy, remains to be defeated. Money put into victory bonds, and thus kept out of competition for still-scarce goods and services, becomes 8 mighty weapon against a disastrous rise of prices. And, to put it on a basis of pure self-interest, each citizen who buys these bonds to the limit of ability will do himself or herself a profitable service. The dollars thus used are not given away, or spent, or even risked. They are invested, safely and soundly. They will return, with interest, a few years hence, then and meanwhile contributing to the welfare and security of their owners.

HOW TO BACK IT UP

QUR FOREIGN policy can be only as effective as the strength behind “it. - The President has made it clear that he intends that our nation shall remain militarily the strongest on earth, to the end that our policy of en- , forcing the peace will be respected. To do that the Presi1 dent will need the enlightened and organized support of the people. One phase of his program on which the Presi- _ dent needs immediate and overwhelming public support is his Tecommendation to congress for compulsory military training. + Noisy minorities have organized to defeat that indispensable measure. It can be enacted only if a majority - of voters convince congress they want it enacted.

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i group of Australian brides, returning home from the United States, made some pretty unflattering cks about us. Said we're heedless, selfish, purposeless unfriendly. But along comes another batch who inthat we're “grand” and that they're going home of ‘homesickness, So we Americans stand | don'bknéw. whether it's ins

OUR TOWN— The Hairpin By Anton Scherrer

ANOTHER phenomenon that might reward study is the hafrpin, a feminine tool that contributed as much as anything to.the excitement of my formative years, - Bo much so, indeed, that I have nothing but pity for the youngsters of today whose mothers wear bobbed hair. Poor kids, they know nothing of the

their unbelievable ingenuity in licking the problems of life with the simplest tools at hand. Primarily, the hairpin was designed to hold a woman's hair in place. As such, it did the work well; but that was the least part of it. The hairpin had a hundred other functions, and even more if the woman had imagination--like Mother, for instance. Armed with a hairpin, Mother never hesitated to tackle anything in the realms of the possible and even the impossible, it seemed to me. Nor did it make any difference whether the problem confronting her was inside or outside the house.

Many Regular Uses

MOTHER could be caught struggling with her kid gloves miles away from home without a button hook in sight when suddenly, as if inspired, her fingers would seek the recesses of her back hair and the whole problem was solved. 8he could button her high shoes with a hairpin, too. ' And when she was out shopping, I still recall her way of bending a hairpin and turning it into a carrier for light packages. The top bent portion of the pin fitted over the index finger as neat and slick as if it had been designed for the purpose. It was inside the house, however, that Mother did her best tricks with a hairpin, In the culinary department, for instance, it served as a nut pick. And when it came to scraping the innermost recesses of the big black kettle or the even more aggravating interstices of the waffle iron, there wasn't a tool on the market that could compare with the hairpin; at any rate, not with one ir: Mother's hands. It was the best tool, too, for trimming lamp wicks. 1 remember, too, that we Kids always called for one of Mother's hairpins when it came time to cut the pages of the newly-arrived copy of St. Nicholas. We had a beautifully decorated paper cutter somewhere around the house—one we picked up at Niagara Falls as a souvenir—but, somehow, it was easier to look for Mother than to go in search of the paper cutter. Besides, the hairpin worked better.

Plates Hung on Hairpins

MOTHER also had a way, I°recall, of using a hairpin to run tape through her curtains, thus rendering herself independent of a bodkin. And all the hand-painted china plates on the walls of our dining room were hung on hairpins, They never showed any signs of giving away, It was Mother's greatest engineering triumph, I do believe. 1 remember, too, a picnic at Hammond's Grove. On that occasion Mother lost a bution that cone tributed mightily to supporting her skirt. It could have ended disastrously except for the aid of a hairpin. 1 wouldn't have mentioned Mother's dilemma (or Father's concern) except for the “belt pin)” a slick contraption invented to hold a woman's skirt and shirtwaist together which turned up years later. Believe it or not, the belt pin, a miracle of efficiency, was designed on the very same principle Mother thought up in Hammond's Grove that day.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

U.N.O. Site

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—San Francisco will be the site of UNO headquarters—the new League of Nations capital replacing Geneva. Of that I was assured by a source in a position to know, The final formalities, of course, have yet to be concluded. To become official, a recommendation

preparatory commission—now scheduled to meet in London on Nov. 23, It then must be accepted by the general assembly of UNO to be convened the first week in January. Certain conditions are attached but these are said to be of such nature that San Francisco will have no difficulty meeting them. Switzerland, France and Holland were the chief European contenders. Some 18 North American sites were offered. But at the UNO meeting last spring I found sentiment largely divided between Geneva and San Francisco. Some thought Geneva logically should remain the capital because she already hasgmillions of dollars worth of marble palaces built to house the old league, and because Switzerland is a traditionally neutral country. Others believed it would be a good idea to remove headquarters from Europe and get away from the old world's feuds.

British Oppose U.S. Site

THE BRITISH strongly opposed the committee's recommendation to locate UNO headquarters in the United States. France and Holland sustainel them. But they were outvoted by Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Mexico, Russia and Yugoslavia, with Canada and the United States refraining. The fact i{s—and this was clear even during the San Francisco conference—that while the choice really lay between Switzerland and the United States, Russia made it plain that she would walk out before consenting to Geneva. The two countries have never been on friendly terms, especially since a Soviet official was killed in Geneva and Switzerland did not react as Moscow felt she should. Voicing a widespread British opinion, the wellknown liberal Manchester Guardian accused Russia of wanting to keep UNO headquarters out of Europe because western Europe may not take too kindly to Russian domination of the east. San Francisco, the newspaper says, is “too far from Europe.” Besides the methods of the American press are “hardly calculated to improve international relations.”

Strange for Liberal Paper THIS, REMARKS other members of the United Nations, sounds strange coming as it does from a liberal dally which might be expected to uphold freedom of the prés Thanks to its climate, natural beauty, location half way between the Occident and Orient, and accessability by land, sea and air, San Francisco clearly appealed to UNO delegates. Asia, the scene of new stresses and home of half the population of the globe, is just across the Pacific. Europe, the hotbed of recurring wars, ancient and modern, is about the same distance across the Atlantic. Nearly half the present UNO membership are within the western hemisphere, No world war has ever started in that area. Thus while it is true, as the Manchester Guardian observers, that the effec of locating the new League 3 Nations capital In the United States will be to

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“PEOPLE SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR CHILDREN”

By Harrison White, Indianapolis Just what the idea was or is behind the tempest Willlamp Remy has stirred up in the criticism of Marion County Juvenile court in not sending to jail these “teen-age offenders,” might cause anyone fo question.

I am not personally acquainted with Judge Rhoads; I have though been interested in his handling of the “juvenile problem” and under the law and its attending conditions, I think Judge Rhoods is all right in his handling of the juvenile problem. However, I have my own ideas as to juvenile delinquency. I believe the law governing the whole juvenile setup in this state should be repealed, for the good of the homes of Indiana. This government for children is a farce and a failure in my opinion. I believe people should be held responsible for their children and they should not be jailed for (whipping) attempting to correct them; the parents should have the responsibility of their children and not the state, as they did before 1903; that the homes should be freed from invasion by professional workers, investigators, snoopers and probers who are the barnacles attaching themselves in hordes to an already topheavy state government, which is ever expanding.

Adolescent youth should not be regimented nor his freedom confined but only by his own home. We must let them come to a finding of themselves, without the state being too quick on the trigger. The original idea of the juvenile court was all right in theory, but in practice it has become too awful to even contemplate. Take yourself, for instance as in your teens; consider also “The Freedom of Youth” and how he resents being told anything by strangers, especially when with other boys, then consider yourself being jerked into a court of strangers, by any kind of an officer and before a strange judge to judge you. Of course you would be resentful to it; your fists would be clinched; your knees would be crossed; your lips would be drawn and so you would close off every avenue of perception and receive no good from the whole show which has been pulled off at the expense of Indiana, and you, having the leading role, being sent to any school of correction; resentful you would become only one of a whole school of resentful children. So you be-

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

“WE WON BUT WE MUST HAVE COMPULSORY SERVICE” By Gene Cole, Morristown In regard to your most remarkable editorial on Gen, Marshall's report, it seems to me that the most remarkable thing about your editorial is the conclusions to which you have arrived, completely dissolving all the ideas that I have been led to believe were true through all the years of our country’s history—ideas that have had no place in our government. ‘The fact that Gen. Marshall contends, and you concur, that we should have a huge army raised by that “most democratic method,” compulsory military training. It didn't use to have a place in democracy. Brother, how the dictionaries have changed. You speak of the distillation of Gen. Marshall's expert judgment

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come steeped in criminology; kept there for any length of time and turned oiit, still resentful and determined to get even. You have been made a criminal by the state of Indiana. Should you have been brought into the presence of your father

POLTICS— ~ : Close R Race

By Thomas L. Stokes

DETROIT, Oct. 31.~The mayoralty election here Nov. 8 is aLuracing national interest. The C. I. O. again is trying to®

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“Interest in the election is enhanced and bitterneess , sharpened because of the background of industrial turmoil. Threats of a major strike hang darkly over the city. The tensions of this industrial conflict naturally extend to the local political fight. In previous attempts to install a friendly executive {he city hall, the C. I. O, has backed candidates not directly identified with labor organizations. This time it has a candidate from its own ranks. He is Rich-

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trance in the mayoralty race was sudden, presumably without much consultation. It caused some surprise,

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But the C. I. O. has rallied stanchly behind him ) WIND and its political action committee is out for him. It \ is button-holing the citizenry and ringing doorbells, as it did so effectively in the last national election. Greatly P. A. C. is a formidable force here, Mr, Frankensteen is trying to unseat Mayor Ed- Regular 7.95 1 ward J, Jefffies Jr. three-time incumbent. Behind now the mayor are aligned the business and industrial in- "13.95 terests of the city which have been stirred to inten- off, Regular 13. sive activity by the labor threat. NOW... City affairs are conducted normally on & non- Regular 15.75, partisan basis here. So are elections—without the » 1 NOW. ».... tags of Republican and Democrat. But Mayor Jef- Regular 25,00, fries has the support of the Republican organization, ROW .avinss

He also will draw votes from the A. F, of L. be~ cause the older craft unions fear that C. I. O. influ~ ence might weigh adversely in jurisdictional disputes. Mr. Frankensteen has the backing of the local Democratic organization which is tied to the C. I. O,

Made Some Enemies PERSONS HERE well-informed politically say that Mayor Jeffries would have little chance if it were not for the labor issue embodied in the straightout C. I. O. candidacy. The mayor has made enemies, and there is no overwhelming enthusiasm for him. His victory margin two years ago was fairly small. He ran behind Mr. Frankensteen in the five-man pri- : mary. ‘ But injection of the labor issue has served to whip

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in the first place, your avenues of perception would not have been closed, and in your correction you would have gotten the “rod” and the good out of it to make you a good citizen. I have failéd to find any person, who looking back upon

cn the lessons for the future. I'd like for you to answer this question: Where was Gen. Marshall studying on the night before Pearl Harbor? After a ‘lifetime in the military, where did he learn to be on the alert? I am told that he is to be

IN WASHINGTON—

Training By Daniel M. Kidney

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the home restrictions of his youth, but who will say, “I never got a lick amiss.” ” » » “NO SENSE OF 80 MUCH FOOL DILLY-DALLYING AROUND”

By Subscriber, Knightstown I ‘would like to know what congress, or whose ever business it is, does not sce fit for the government to seize all the plants when strikes are going on and give the jobs to the returned soldiers, to whom we have promised good jobs. Pay them the prices the union men are getting and let the owners and strikers do without.

Picket and run the plants with returned soldiers, as it begins to look like we need them in this country to straighten out the mess our civilians have made. I cannot see that the eémployers or employees deserve any consideration

retired soon. Perhaps not soon enough. You say our folly of being unprepared for war cost us billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives. I do not question your figures as to cost in money for our government doesn't give a damn. As to. lives, one is much too many. Yes, after four years of war you say that Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo were right. We whipped ine pants off therh but we just must have compulsory military training. In conclusion I wish to congratulate you on the final note in your column. The question that answers itself. Had you left the rest of your column blank, you would have been entitled to a medal of merit. fn » “DEALING WITH THE JAPS NOT PROBLEM OF YOUTH”

By Mrs. Walter ‘Haggerty, Indianapolis The problem of how to deal with

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—A week of the world breaking out in a rash of small and medium-sized wars and revolutions has brought a marked change in the attitude .of congress toward universal military training. The May bill, embodying the plan recommended by President Truman, is set for hearings beginning Nov. 8. Should the sentiment keep on changing as rapidly as during the past week, the measure will start through congress with about a 50-50 ehance to pass, observers say. Loi President Truman's message, combined with his Navy day ‘speech, is credited also with contributing to the change, It was pointed out that both speeches * stated forthright positions which all citizens could understand.

Mail Favors Universal Training EXCEPT IN certain areas where religious pacifists are conducting letter-writing campaigns, the mail reaching many congressmen is beginning to favor

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whatever. They are at war with the people here by taking away their fuel, etc. . They have been coining the money and if they have not saved it, it is their own fault. Give the soldiers the extra good jobs and be quick about it before the people starve and freeze. There is ‘no sense of so much fool dillydallying around. This is from an old woman who is sick and will suffer from lack of coal. Not only myself, but thousands of others will also.

the Japs should be trusted to those who have had a considerable amount of general knowledge, with .additional professional training and there is no one better fitted for this

the universal training proposals as formerly was the medium size o case. Rep. Wadsworth (R. N. Y.) who helped draft the 3 May bill, expressed considerable optimism. He pointed out that while it has been pending for some time, its* “J NEC provisions incorporate all the Truman proposals. The bill would give one year of military training

job than our clergy, social and wel-| to all 18-year-olds with educational options to the Str fare workers. There are in this) age 21. It would let those who finished high school (130) SHOULDE country nearly 500,000 men and take the-training at 17 with their parents’ permission. some Although most polls have shown a majority for led women ministers, to say nothing of| universal training, some Midwestern states and dis< oiled the number of research, social and! tricts still are not for it, according to their represents (157) FASCIN ecbnomic workers and executives| atives 50% who direct the work done oy others. . o rayon .... Nearly every religious organization | People in Hill Country Opposed (60) RED ARA has schools for training teachers of REP. DEWEY SHORT, Republican from the hill HEAD SC. Biblical literature, theology, ethics.| section of Missouri, doubted if there was anyone in . missionary and welfare work (those his district strong for universal training. (715) SWEAT that haven't shouldn't preach). “It is giving me grave concern,” Mr, Short said. { wool, The Japs and Germans are not a! “For with little wars now going on and the U. 8. in solled .... simple-minded people and“o change| danger of enemies everywhere, we cannot be too well 0 their way of thinking will require| prepared for any emergency. We have to depend) more wisdom and knowledge than| upon our own defense this time for sure.” A p that possessed by our 18-year-olds| Although opinion still remains divided among LACEY and any mother of these boys knows| the deep South delegations, they are apt to swing he is not grown up, neither has he| into .line behind the President's proposal when the Ww bad the training to deal with these| measure reaches house and senate floors. crazy, cowardly maniacs whose skill Rep. Clifford Davis, Memphis Democrat, reported in propaganda baffles even our{that to date his mail from home is “running 10 to generals. one in favor of universal training” He intends to ; The battle of bullets is over; the| support it. i Large enougl battle of verbs has begun, not of : i head, of use pompous phrases, or those who like ; ! White, red, bi to “pit thelr wits” with thetr op- S Th S — ] BLUE BORD ponents over the radio or in the Oo ey ay : 8, press. Qur youth did a grand job. i BLOCK'SThey gathered their toys as it were JAPANESE militarism has been crushed. Amd sweaters (they had] world peace demands that it remain crushed, in the earned at school), basketball, base- manner that. is prescribed for the German peaplees, ball and bat, handed them to us for Burlington, N. C., Times-News, WN i “until T return” they ; sald. For many these playthings NINETY PER GENPot the people who come:futo. COSTUM will remain untouched. God knows| magistrate’s court are not criminals. They merely are ih iavy Tag Sudugly. Stiey| visting of ous sictsl-ecoutnils stig) ang ouly. Sood Str are a sadder a wiser generation| our ~Magistrate Maurice Simmons, New Yi : » than we have ever had before, guy help. ; SE 4 ok ASSORTED B/ Go ye therefore and preach and : LRN ell ey A sterlin teach an international good will and MOTORIST is short-sighted indeed who ners peace and to all na- ge for

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