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DON'T EXPECT TOO LITTLE A NATIONAL Jabor-management conference meets tof° LX jay in Washington. Don’t expect too much from it. "Don’t make the worse mistake of expecting too little. The limits to what it can do are obvious. The labor members, John L. Lewis perhaps excepted, do. not have sower to make agreements binding on unions and workers. “he management members do not have power to make .greements binding on industry and business, Some of hem might, at most, be able to commit their own comanies. It follows, we think, that the conference does not have sower to “settle” the post-war wage issue,’ now 80 large in he foreground. 2 We are glad that there are such limits. It would -be * ndemocratic and unsafe to have so much power concen‘rated in a few men that they could get together and bind “illions of workers and hundreds of thousands of employers | ~ 0 any course of action. But when that is said, a wide field is left in which the sonference can serve this country well.

. n . ERE . » HOSE who meet at President Truman's call are a good, representative cross-section of Ameri¢an leadership in abor, business and industry. As such they can, by agreeing mong themselves on certain sound and definite principles, xert a tremendous moral force. They can set an example ‘0 persuasive that workers generally, and employers genorally, will see the wisdom of following it voluntarily. Surely they can agree, at the outset, on the simple " truth that industry and labor ‘can both prosper most by: working together as loyal partners, neither seeking to take unfair advantage, each dealing frankly with the other. Surely they can agree that the general public—all the people—has paramount rights, one of these being the right "to expect, and if necessary to require, that industry ang labor shall adjust their differences by peaceable methods, © not by constant warfare. }

a 5 = . wc : SURELY they can agree that labor needs good wages and that industry and business need good profits; that the “only way to assure both or either is to increase productivity _ constantly; and that even that way must fail unless labor and industry share the benefits of increased productivity fairly with all consumers in the form of lower prices. We'd like to see the management members of this conference join with the labor members in a declaration that all employers should accept collective bargaining wholecome to stay. And that both sides should live up faithfully to contracts that result from bargaining. We'd see the labor members join with the management members in a declaration that unions should not seek to usurp management's function, which is to manage. ‘We hope that, after the preliminary speech-making, the conference will settle down and work as long as may be necessary to reach accord on such principles as these, the public being kept informed about what is being said

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A : 4 3 PIECEMEAL, FOREIGN LOANS

home and abroad. in ignoring congressional and public desire for an over-all handling of the foreign loan problem. Nobody should blame the British, for instance, for wanting their case disposed of first and quickly. They cannot be expected, to see the whole problem; they are.too ‘close to their own. : But our government could

be more objective. No time ftigh; OF Atiyone else, if congressional separate agreements is held up pending over-| ¢ which ‘our executive should have made first Senator La Follette points out that congress cannot act intelligently on the proposal for a $5 billion loan for Britain, without knowing what the administration intends to do about the Russian request for $6 billion, and. the French, Chinese and other proposals. : Just as the President submits to congress a national _budget to give a total picture of domestic financing, there should be a similar, co-ordinated total presentation and recommendation regarding foreign financing, according to the senator. © Bernard M. Baruch, whose expert knowledge of foreign finance and whose record in behalf of international co-opera-ion are well known, says these foreign credit requests will total at least $20 billion, . » »

7 » » . BUT he warned a senate committee last week, our government has not yet taken an inventory of assets to _ find out how much we have to share with others. . fi He said: “Twenty billion dollars is a lot in my book. tI am not opposed to aiding other countries. They need ® help, many of them. ‘But I think it is time we found out i how much money we owe, what our resources are, and how much our tax intake can be, before deciding how much to ¢ lend others for rehabilitation.” p Even after our governmen

4 : \ t finds out how large a pie | there is to cut, dishing it out to a friend at a time could © lead only to disagreements and worse. The late comers

| go around—as there certainly will not be—we shall destroy . more good international relations than we create, We may easily end up the most hated “Uncle Shylock” in the world asa foward for our inept virtue, just as we did after world war ~ 80, for diplomatic and political reasons, as well as ‘considerations, the administration should approach this touchy problem with more knowledge of our total assets and of total foreign needs than is possible in the purrent piecemeal negotiations. This is a case of haste

waste—and delay.

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By Anton Scherrer 2

He ment of state, county, township, school and-corporation taxes for the year of 1944, I deem it my duty to tell you about the Widow Finn. She was the only person 1 ever knew who co

for that purpose. Sixty years ago when I wag a little boy, the Widow Finn Jived on the west side of Union st. between McCarty and Ray sts, in a little brick cottage which js still standing. Like most personalities who have attained -the distinction of “characters” Mrs. Finn also had two names. When addressed, for instance, she was called “Tante” (the German equivalent for “Auntie”): and when talked about, she was known as the “Violet Lady.” :

Garden in Rear TANTE FINN might just as well have been called the “Bouquet Ladi” for I still remember that her mignonette and lilies-of-the-valley were every bit as prefty and fragrant as her sweet-scented violets which, ‘I have reason to believe, she was the first to cultivate around here. : The Violet Lady's house was set close fo the street property line which left her considerable room in the rear for a garden. Measured by old-fashioned standards which, by the way, still have their good points, it was the prettiest plot on the South side. At-any rate, I never saw a neater or more orderly garden, and it struck me at the time, young though I was, that maybe a pretty garden reflects the love and tenderness a woman puts into it. . “He that as it may, it was apparent that the Violet Lady loved her garden because, every time I called on her, I found her puttering around the place. Indeed, there were only two times a day when you

when she took time off to attend Sacred Heart church to pay her obligations to the Lord. As a rule, that was before anybody else had breakfast. Around 11 o'clock in the morning she again abandoned her garden, this time to go uptown to dispose of her bouquets, :

Her Favored Customer

TANTE FINN had her regular customers, I remember. Hex best patron was Louis Hollweg, who ran the big chinaware store on 8. Meridian st. For some reason, Mr Hollweg always got Tante Pinn’s first violets of the season. And, strangely enough, he was also the one to receive the last ones to bloom. This arbitrary and high-handed way of doing business struck everybody as a bit unfair, but the widow justified it by saying that Mr. Hollweg bought so niny viciets=a bouquets day—that--it- was only right -that he should have the last ones as well as the first ones: wrt : Charles Mayer, who ran the toy store, was Tante Finn's second best customier. He didn’t buy a bouquet every day, but he made up for it by sometimes buying as many as a dozen bouquets at a time, This is explained by the fact that Mr. Mayer bought the violets to sell to his customers—at a little. profit, I guess, which was all right because really Tante Finn didn’t chagge enough for her violets in the first place, The money Tante Finn collected by way of her violets was enough to pay the taxes on her property, which is what I started to tell you about,

Matter of Pride

TANTE FINN was mighty particular about paying her taxes—more so than anybody else around here. For a long time, nobody could figure out why she was always the first one to appear at the court house, but it finally leaked out that it was her pride. And it sounded reasonable enough when we learned Jat ihe widow's property represented the savings of etime, every cent of which was earned by be n her younger days Tante Finn a very select clientele. She did all the Slade Ne Select finicky bachelors at: the Circle Park hotel, to say nothing of substantial and abundant families like the Vanneguts and the Schnulls. - Indeed: when it came time to Teturn to her garden, she discovered that besides the property on Union st, she alo had a Surplus =n he Ship 98 | a bank account. ear Tan took of the take a trip to Germany, her rh Sa bo bottom of her trunk she put an American washboard to show the folks over there how she had acquired her Indianapolis house and garden.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS—

B French Peril

By William Philip Simms

~~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-—~The quarrel of the Big Three over the peace, with special reference to’ "Germany, constitutes a serious Se menade to Frarice and the small but important “democracies of western Eurape. postr ESR reaching Washington make it clear that unless the allies soon put same order into the chaotic situation inside Germany, there is likely to be blood

ask for trouble we will give it to them, that is not the answer. ; France Is now going through the worst ordeal in her history. History's most terrible way twice rolled over her prostrate form. Militarily, politically, mor« ally, economically and financially she was flattened, and her survival to date as a democracy is little short of a miracle. ; But she is not yet out of the woods. She faces the hardest winter of - her existence. Between and next June her newly elected constituent assembly will try tq frame a new constitution and found the

Vital to the World PULLING ONE way are traditionally democratic forces, somewhat weakened by the beating they have taken since 1939. Pulling another are the corres s ed forces of Communism which aim utimately at a totalitarian dictatorship. What happens during the t seven months,

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ON THIS, the last day left to] pay your second (and final) install- |

would't find her in her garden, one of which was |

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"Hoosi “WHILE STREETCAR PATRONS WAIT ON A CORNER" By John J. Hines, Indianapolis While -the -streetcar patrons walt on a street corner at zero tem-

against an antiquated streetcar sys-

tem here, other cities, 18 of them, have compelled their street railway

telephones for communication be-

systems automatically records the

make an investigation.

alertrto

knowing not whom to damn, 4 . » ss =» “NEW FARES SAVE MONEY FOR REGULAR PATRONS” It costs more than ten (or

ten cents or buy eight fa ‘We regular patrons ride t

perature, muttering imprecations

companies to install two-way radio

tween the dispatcher’s office and

emergency | repair trucks. A new device used in connection with such

exact time -each streetcar passes certain designated points spaced [ajong its route. The dispatcher can see at once when and where a car is behind schedule and he can then radio the nearest repair truck to

nd the operator of the- car is

have done for these last forty years,

twelve) cents to drive a car across Indian< apolis. Our present rate is possible only because of the heavy patronage of common people. Yet the oc~ casional rider (crowding and griping at rush hours in bad weather) feels abused because he must pay

as well as .the streetcars—and it doesn't cost us as much to get around as by the old fare structure:

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in _these columns, religious convon ters should be limited to 250 wordd 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 responsi. bility for the return of manu-

respondence regarding them.) “MOMMY, I WISH MY

By A Mommy, Indianapolis

aware that he is being checked. |street. puke This would do away with the! Then thelr little pliymat® familiar scene such as in Broad daddy drove up and the children

block. My Susie sat on

my Daddy would come home.”

‘wish” her Daddy home?

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DADDY WOULD COME HOME'"

Today my two children were playing the make believe games small children play with two young-

half steps and watched them drive away, She got up slowly, came up to the door and said wistfully, “Mommy, I wish

. How can you explain to a three- |; year-old, going on four, that even though the war is over she and her brother -- seventeen months service, eleven ‘overseas -= can't

How can I keep that promise, “When the war is over Daddy will come home?” I promised hier she |recre sould have more bacon, too; and-—

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

“ARMY FOR DEFENSE NOT

FOR PRIVILEGE FOR FEW” By Robert il. Davis, Indians university 1 To the ex-G. I. who wiote the letter in the Oct. 16 Times, I, as an ex-enlisted G. 1, should like to add my hearty agreement. 1 shall never. forget the bitterness ind disgust I. felt upon leaving Rome after spending only a day and a half there because every hotel, every edcent night club and restaurant, nearly every other place of value or interest, was off limits to EE M. 5 .For the benefit of anyone interested, I should like to state some conclusions I reached .after spending three years in the army." 1. The |army is more interested in -the so|cial and financial enhancement of {its officers than in the defense of the country. -2. The army is bound and blinded by forms, traditions and. customs which. exist solely beCause they were a part of the an. cient armiiés of feudalism and® no

a dime, : anyone yellow. 'She asked if If you want a true accounting get|Colby boy did not learn the Ten| it from the people who make a good Commandments. I believe she could streetcar system a necessary and stand to read some of the Good profitable business, Study the city|Book Herself. My heart goes out map. At-all stops of both bus and|to the mother and father of this streetcar the public rides the ONE [Boy who has no. doubt faced desth | that comes first. We did it when bravely many times for his country saved was worth more than threejand if Mrs. A. A live cents, : in this country that Regular patrons are saving money {come back perhaps find by the new fare structure, refuge-in some ;

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ers as the nation goes back to normal businessman type again assumes his society. A young soldier came into the club car on occasion. He was the merry, happy-go-licky, audacious Italian-American type. He came in lke breeze, bearing a big paper sack in each hand. He passed them around with easy hospitality. One held

“cakes, the other peanuts.

Back in the end of the car one businessman was in the midst of a long address to anothdr who could do nothing but nod occasionally. The victim was effectively pinned down. The other’s voice through the car. ‘The soldier’ listened for awhile, enraptured.’ Then he stood up and pointed his at the orator who sat about 10 feet away, y

Business Rides Again “SLAVE DRIVER!” he hooted, and he thumbed his nose with his voice. ges

“That other guy hasn't said a word yet,” he finally blurted out.

Later, in the dining car, an earnest conversation

across the table. “And we'll sell them for 50 cents apiece.” Later still, in another club car. A man stopped

“Aren't you Mr. So-and-8o?” The other beamed appreciatively, and nodded. “Have you made any valves yet?” . “Yep, got some on the line now.” Then they comforted one another about taxes. The businessman is riding again.

WAR MEMORIES—No. |

WASHINGTON, Nov. S5.—Twenty-three-year-old

Allen L. Gordon of Rock Island, Ill,

.| human bomb.

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