Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1945 — Page 12

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PRODUCTION, THE ANSWER IDENT TRUMAN, opening the national labor-man-a agement conference, did well to emphasize over and over this country’s imperative need for fast, bountiful and unimpeded production. We ee have production, he said, to safeguard our domestic economy and our leadership in international affairs. We must have it before we can hope to proceed toward otir goal of full employment and higher living standards. .. Production means that our present problem of wages aiid prices will be easier to solve. It means employment. It means higher wages and lower prices. It means the difference between strength and prosperity or uncertainty and dépression. “Continued production and an expanding industry— unhampered as far as humanly possible by stoppages of work—are absolutely essential to progress.”

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s - ” R. TRUMAN spot-lighted a central, stubborn fact too often ignored by those who argue and fight about how to insure a fairer distribution of wealth, That fact is this: ~ Wealth must be created before it can be distributed and enjoyed—and new wealth can be created only by the processes of production. : : Paralyze those processes, and all the fighting and arguing will prove to be about nothing but the division of et action. is the answer, and the only answer, to the question whether America can retrieve the wastage of war, achieve the finest fruits of peace, and exert a maximum ‘influence for order in the world. And the President put t mildly when he said that the American people do not like the amount of industrial strife now threatening to destroy their great opportunity for an-era-of prosperity ~ and security. ; ‘He f£alled on the conference to find a voluntary way of resolving diffences between labor and management withouf stopping production. He emphasized the responsibility “management for good faith-in collective bargaining, the responsibility of labor for finding a substitute for juris- _ dictional strikes, and the responsibility of both for living i up to contracts. .8 0» this conference can recommend answers to the public ~~ demand for machinery to prevent or settle industrial disputes, it will have made vast progress toward industrial peace,” Mr. Truman said. Only if labor and industry as whole “If the people do not find the answers here, they find them some place ¢lse. For these answers must and will be found. The system of private enterprise and individual opportunity depends” upon finding them.” : That is profoundly true. As Bernard M. Baruch said in his letter to Rep. George of Tennessee, made public on the same day: E ~~ “Unless strife ceases soon, government must take a band, and a strong one. . . . The miracle of American production can save the situation now, as it did in war, but it must hugry, hurry, hurry!” r Lng

OUR DANGER IN CHINA

HE, position of American armed forces in China is becoming very difficult. We do not believe for a moment the Communist charges that it is American. policy to participate in Chinese civil war, and that our troops are now doing so. That, however, does not remove the danger of involvement... ce dg tT rs go . Our forces are caught in a situation not of their making } nd beyond their control. If the civil war, which is still “Jargely in the bluff-and-maneuver stage, resily gets going alot of American blood can be shed. «lms "Our troops are in China for good reason. They went there in the first place to aid our allies in war and to prepare mainland bases against the Japs. They have remained since V-J day to hasten the disarming of a huge and scattered enemy army. Delays were multiplied -by the Communist Chinese troops of the north, trying to take Jap arms nd cutting railroads to prevent the regular Chinese army from taking over enemy-occupied areas, The situation has now. developed ‘to the point where, unless we are exceedingly cautious, we will be unwittingly | participating in a civil war rather than in completing Jap i disarmament. That would be very bad for the United Btates and for China,

. . » - r . » would violate our essential policy of non-interference in internal affairs of other nations, and react against us pound the world. It would cause trouble among American oops in China and politically here at home, where there go desire for American boys to die in a foreign civil war. ily, anything resembling United States military interjion would be an “invitation to Russia to do likewise— The solution of course is a genuine agreement between | p Nationalist government and the Red faction .to settle eir dispute without civil war, an agreement more binding p the recent one. But both Washington and Moscow, th recognize the Chiang gove and are bound to jy treaties of friendship, have responsibilities. Chiang the Reds probably will avoid war if Chiang knows he ll not get help from the United States and the Reds know "An immediate joint American-Russian statement of

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Massillon, Ohio. I'am certain he will become the legends of the marine corps, for he had

‘He died because he could not go back on He was modest. To the end, Tommy spoke of himself as “Just a yardbird.” '

Begged to Go to Saipan

heard him said he was a master at the piano. said only that he guessed he could “bang out a note or two-now and >

24th marines, who thought so. picked up my typewriter and

willingly accept its decisions, he went on, can the | Il will |

removal of German machinery did a pretty job but found they lacked technigians able the machines. Thereupon

British zone for skilled

induced scientists ‘and technicians to work U. 8. and England, but only on a business basis. is, without any compulsion,

service is not known but the practice. has halted, for the time being at least. is improvement in: the matter of raids on food trains heading eastward to supply the British gone in Berlin, ; ;

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Marine Hero By Jim G. Lucas

moved he found it difficult to speak. It was the time he'd ever suggested that a story be written, and he did it almost apologetically, He said: “Whatever you say abbut Tommy, it won't be in

enough.

Tommy was 20 years old, and his home

thing it took to be a good marine. He was brave. He was competent. He

WHEN HIS division went to the Marshalls, Tom-

my remained behind. His pride was hurt. He begged to go to Saipan. He was not a voluble person, but he won his point, At Saipan, he was left aboard ship to help in the unloading,

Two days later, Tommy went to his C. O, tears in

his eyes, and asked to go ashore. They let him go as orderly for a colonel. .

That didn’t last long. The second night the colo-

nel was digging his own foxhole, Tommy had disappeared.

Soon the “Old Man” began to hear of Tommy

at the front. He'd joined an assault company as a stretcher bearer. He was risking his life, and he had killed several Japs. The captain of Tommy's adopted company sent a report back and asked that Tommy -be-left-at-the-front.-He-was-a valuable-hand.-In-reply; | - the colonel wrote:

“He left me without an orderly, the rascal, But my

memory isn't what it used to be. I probably will forget to punish him.” ‘

One day an officer fell, and Tommy started after

him. We yelled at hime to come back. Tommy never Was Reared in Orphanage

We tried to force Tommy to tell us, one afternoon,

some of the stories we'd heard about him, He blushed and said he “hadn't done much” and “was just a yardbird.” w : *

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