Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1945 — Page 20

Indianapolis Times|g

OUR TOWN—"" =

By Anton Scherrer

FATHER, I remember, always regarded the winding of clocks and | § ered the making of sauerkraut the two | prerogatives of (the head of the house. In all other things Mother bad her way. ° < Once, to be sure, Mother tried to point out that Halloween week was too early to start thinking about sauerkraut. I'll never forget Father's reaction. He took exception right away, and preached a half-hour-long sermon on the shiftlessness of ‘people who ‘put off making sauerkraut until the middle of November, or even Thanksgiving, as some South Side families were known to, do. From that day on, it ir : ¥ : became s tradition in oul household that, with Hal- | ee Economic -Joween out of the way, the next thing te tackle was INSURANCE

the manufacture of sauerkrayt, POLICY

TY SAE s 1 or ) OW ARD . WALTER LECKRONE HENRY w. MANZ 4 Ee Ener a ro A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

» a Price in Marion Coun-

v :

ily (except Sunday) by j ty, 5 cents a copy: deliv: Indianapolis Times Pub- ered by carrier, 30 cents ishing Co., 214 W. Mary EL ; - . = Mail rates in Indiana, §' Member of United Press, B= 2 Howard Newspa- = : U. 8 possessions, Canada per Alliance NEA Serve B= E31 and Mexico, 87 cents a ioe, and Audit Bureau of 3 month. § Clroulations. LSCRIPPS ~ HOWARD EP RILEY 8551 . Give Laght snd ihe People Will Find Their Own Woy

' REASONABLE MEANS REASONABLE THE reaction of certain labor leaders to President Tru- ¥ * man’s wages-prices speech is eurious and disappointing. . They hail the statement, “I believe that industry as a § whole can afford substantial wage increases without price g increases,” although some of them regret that Mr. Truman # Edid not specify a percentage by which wages should rise, "R. J, Thomas, president of the C. I. 0. auto workers, | = § asserts that the speech removed “the last excuse of the 1 ¥ automobile companies for refusing our"30'per cent payroll increase.” A number of others echo that sentiment. § None of them, however, seems to have heard Mr, TruF man say: : ! “We must understand that we cannot hope, with a ‘reduced work week, to maintain now the same take-home ‘pay for labor generally that it has had during the war, i There will have to be a drop . , . there are important limits “upon the ability of industry to raise wages without getting “price increases. Labor . , . has-a stern responsibility to see that demands for wage increases are reasonable.” Now the admitted intent of the demand by the auto I. § workers and many other unions for a 30 per cent raise in : “basic hourly wages—52 hours’ pay for 40 hours of WOrk—= {is to maintain for labor generally the same take-home pay it has had during the war.

The manufacture of sauerkraut, I remember, always started with Mrs. Kolthoff's arrival at our house. She ran a big farm outside the city limits where she raised the headiest cabbages anywhere around Indianapolis. As a rule, fifteen of Mrs. Kolthofl's cabbages used to fill a barrel. One year, however, it took two barrels to accommodate 15 cab bages.

15 Cabbages to Barrel I STRESS the phenomenal size of Mrs, Kolthofl's cabbages because Father always insisted on starting with 15 cabbages, no matter how many barreis it took to haul them. Father had an ancient recipe that called for 15 cabbages, and anybody who rememse pered Father knows that he considered any departure from a set of specifications as something approaching a crime. : : Well, with the cabbages safely delivered In our kitchen, the home industry got under way. It was night work. For two reasons: (1) Because Father had to be around to boss the job, and (2) because he insisted on having us kids present, too. Father said he had hopés that some day we kids would be heads of Households; and the sooner we learned about making sauerkraut, the bétter it would qualify us’ for our jobs. As near as I recall the cabbages were first stripped bf their outer leaves and cut into halves. Each half was then sliced on a cabbage cutter which looked for all the world like a washboard with blades set in. The Germans on the South Side called it a “kraut hobel” (cabbage plane.) To plane the cabbages to the right degree of slenderness took the better part of a night, Next night the packing process began. Four quarts of the planed cabbage were put into a large graniteware pan,

0 wagesFAIR PROFITSPRODUCTION - AND... Nor has any congressional committee made such , a study, | The navy plan did not go through the joint chiefs but went through the budget bureau—a formal gov ernment procedure followed often even on relatively unimportant matters. But, said Mr. Wadsworth: “When this navy plan was submitted to the joint

MORE PRODUCTION ——

with parallel studies for the army and the air corps and submitted its recommendations so we would have some idea of the overall problem.” ; ,

. 8 confined exclusively to either nor to any two of the three,

Promissory Legislation 3 5 “IN MY judgment” he contended, . “congress! should have a better conception of the team than it is now possible for us to have. We are the people

Iai

1f we understand plain English, when Mr. Truman said that there will have to be a drop in take-home pay he meant a A iewate Jak, that this demand is not reasonable. He added, to be sure, IY ur t Iphil o ga Fro aD

‘that the nation cannot afford to have the drop too drastic. eight-gallon, crock hid pounded Wis A Wooden = But nothing he said can be fairly construed to justify mg Reng wing oD slg Te

labor in standing pat for 80 per cent and nothing 1es8." and salt) was prepared and put on top of the first "Reasonable means reasonable. layer, and so on until all 15 cabbages were used up.

¥ “1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Hoosier Forum

i a

£ RUSSIA'S “MONROE DOCTRINE” : UR. government is trying hard to re-establish the cooperative relations with Russia which Foreign Com“missar Molotov strained at the London conference. “Twice this week Washington has made overtures to Moscow, First it recessed the often-postponed opening sasion of the Far Eastern advisory commission to save Russia's face, and to give her more time to drop her boycott of that body. And now Secretary of State Byrnes proclaims “United States recognition of the Soviet Union's “special y interests” in central and eastern Europe. | “These efforts to break the Big Three deadlock are good. [The necessity of harmonious relations among the major | powers to preserve peace is only: too obvious. Therefore no opportunity should be lost—short of Lbetraying basic American and United Nations principles— jo meet Russia half way and more. Secretary Byrnes’ cognition of a kind of Soviet Monroe Doctrine is such a

“i

il . B_.8 nN = y 2 5.» ; JR USSIA never tires of repeating her suspicions that 3 eastern Europe may be used as a hostile base against ther, Historically her fear is not unfounded. Although her eastern neighbors are mostly small, as puppets of a | foreign power they could menace her—just as a foreign ‘power operating in Mexico’ could endanger the United States. Our government's frank recognition-of this fact is a fair and friendly gesture, i . Secretary Byrnes goes beyond gestures, however, in making the flat pledge: “America will never join any groups | in those countries in hostile intrigue against the Soviet “Union. ‘We are also confident that the Soviet Union would

* But despite Russia's fears and despite “Secretary

e tates nor, Britain is In a position to use eastern Europe against Russia, even if they were stupid emough i to desire that, and certainly defeated Germany cannot.

A » . i. s » w A MORE real danger is that Russia, in trying to achieve ©. security, will create in different form the insecurity i she fears. By dictating a Ruskian sphere of influence {an eastern Europe of Soviet puppet regimes, she can under. _ mine the United Nations organization and destroy the friendship of her neighbors—the two best guarantees of

" & As Secretary Byrnes was careful to point out from our town experience with the Monroe Doctrine, the good neighbor policy must work both ways. It cannot be an excuse for the trong to exploit the weak, for the large to dictate u to the small. Specifically the best, and in the long run the ~ [only, insurance that Mexico will not become a ‘weapon of foreign intrigue against the United States is that we earn

and keep her free friendship, The same applies to Russia |

and her eastern neighbors, Likewise, it would be as suicidal for Russia to try to counter the United Nations organization with an exclusive Russian sphere in eastern Europe, as for the United States to attempt domination of this hemisphere in defiance of a frond security system. ; - SCIENCE AND MILITARY TRAINING : : (OPPONENTS of compulsory military training are fond of + ™ arguing that if there is a next war it will be an atom { war or a push-button war and therefore there is no need of i training vast numbers of men. ! . : ¢ President Truman answered that line of argument in his recent message to congress. Sure, he said} we must plan, develop and prod he said, “research, new materials and new weapons will

* never, by themselves, be sufficient to withstand a powerful |

ferlemy. We must have men trained to use these weapons.” 7 "As our armed forces become more and more mechani, and as they use more and more complicated weapons, must have an ever-increasing number of trained men. chnological advances do not eliminate the need for men. ge Washington never heéard of ‘the atom. But he

w about war, and the causes thereof.’ Said he, in a mes- |

not join in hostile intrigue against us jn this hemisphere.” |

«apt imal Jeter pe

The last layer of. planed kraut was decorated with the rejected outer leaves of the cabbages, and on top of this camg a cloth which was usually cut from a discarded linen towel

Weighted by Stone FINALLY came a round board cut exactly to fit the circular dimensions of the erock, on top of which was placed a heavy stone not unlike those the Swiss put on their roofs- to keep them from blowing away. By the time all this was attended to, it was long after midnight. : Our process of packing took longer than it should

After the first layer of planed cabbage was prepared, Mother always suggested that a cupful of chopped apples be added along with the quarter cupful of salt. She said that was the way the Schellschmidts and Bennerscheidts prepared their sauerkraut and that it tasted mighty good. Father would have none of it. He said that people who mixed apples with every layer of their sauerkraut were of the same

he, for one, would have nothing to do with such perverted tastes. The argument usually lasted half an hour, with the result that our sauerkraut never had the flavor of the Schellschmidt's or the Benner-

The night following the packing, the erock was put, into. the. cellar to ferment (we called it “"swelling.) Two weeks latér Father would go down to have a look and remove the scum, if any. After that,

ing of the clocks.) When there wasn't anymore scum to remove, he pronounced the ssuerkraut fit to eat. Our winter's supply usually lasted until the middle of April. There was only one exception. That was the year ib took two barrels to. hold Mrs. Kolthofi's 15 GAUGARSE: ON HAL GONE WE SF AURTIANS Ee Year

28 WORLD AFFAIRS—

Our Problem

RFI

ing Nazi adherents, but so far they have not appeared in-such numbers as to cause eoncern. They are gen-

{n | erally attributed to the lunatic fringe of Nagi rem-

the denazification. policy will seriously hamper their economic life, despite allied pledges to permit Germans as good a life as their neighbors, :

Eliminate Nazi Influence REALIZING that they have not embarked upon any popularity drive, occupation forces have empha~

sized that they must and will accomplish the program of ridding government and industrial life of

the most modern weapons, “But,” | tn

because of an argument that turned up every year,| The

eed who put sugar on their salad dressings and that

he went down every Saturday night (after the wind-

“BETWEEN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA, GERMANY WILL WIN" By Veles in the Crowd, Indianapolis Marion Meredith is talking right through the top of a stove pipe hat in his reasoning of what ended the war. The British labor party had po more to do with the ending of the war than the lady on the Soldiers’. Monument, \@ war is ended even though it is not yet won, because the greatest nation on the face of the earth had the resources and the determination to risk their all to win the war and if possible save our. national neck. Millions of high charactered Americans each doing, in thelr ndividukl manner, those things that they could do to con-

ply the brought the dbar to its military conclusion. That, of course, includ-

attention of you admirers of the Russian ideal is this: Russia which Is supposed to be of Sw ab labor party is in power than when the censervative party was carrying the high office in England.

ne evidence at all that Russia, the state capitalist, has any regard or respect for the “tolling masses.” Between the two of them in their Germany

and we

: tionship will yet win world war IT cannot stop it. —— It would be enlightening to have

reach them lend-lease. Russia #0 doubt the least advanced producer of manufactu ny of the allied nations,

i mT

labor, for Ia: Mga od Re 2 Gags]

PEIN he

it was

products of

(Times readers are invited those ha Magy . . ious cone troversies excluded, Because of the velume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are. those of the writers, and publication in- no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsie bility for the return of manu. scripts and cannot enter cor. respondence regarding them.) +

“S0 ALL HAIL TO THE GENERAL” By Oscar Houston, Bllettsville Isn't it about time we as Ameri-. Gen, Douglas MacArthur and the grand job he is doing not only in Japan but his whole long, brilliant, sucessful and outstanding military

bi i

g E

FREE Ty

hi: g

sit Ri ji Hh

5 3 3 5

Side Glances—By Galbraith

f EE ——

{

“POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES NOT BASIS FOR PEACE” By E.R. Egan, Indianapolis

If the United Nations, the big five,| could bring to the fore the fact that!

political ideologies, entirely aside from military dictatorships, are not a basis upon which peace, co-opera~-tion of commerce are founded unless we accept the dictum of the

there was considerghle

Nazis or Nipponese, the Foreign|

Ministers Conference might have accomplished its purpose—a formal peace. It is very likely Mr. Molotofl, with the deliberations of the San Francisco conference in mind, in which the Peron-Farrell regime, admittedly Fascist and German and Spanish, dominated, was against Mr.

~ | Miolotolt’s protest and rightly so, ad-|

mitted to the United Nations. The Russians and French, being on the receiving end of the Spanish lution, the proving ground of the Nazi and Fascist venture into world empire, had good reason to , and Engldnd should have

1 £

fit “f g

il el

i igh £ i i

q i i

k il

In # i |

pe! ji

: & 7

iy i

‘Sit-Downers’ | By Peter Edson 1

charge that “management is on strike against labor” has become 8 common cry. It was made by John L. Lewis when the coal operators . refused to negotiate on recognition

| it was. true, but merely to see What the answet was, manufacturing employers’ Teoog-~:,

nised spokesman, Mosher Says They're a Minority

does admit that there are a-few employers whe feel that now is » good time to let labor “sweat Wout” ‘for a while, till things get shaken down. Mosher says they are a definite minority and not fi

| biggest corporations. They are individusis and: th great national conspiracy. v= He will mention-no names. rR AE Ne

are not organised inte-any

. He says, however, that the shortsightedness of this

resolution’ is neither an authorisation nor an t discussion

SURPRISINGLY enough, the N. A. M. president