Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1945 — Page 20

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READY TO ROLL, BUT— : PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S progress report on the first 100 days of reconversion is a valiant search for silver linings. He finds many: : ei The great part of war plant layoffs completed, except in shipyards. Non-war employment up; total employment back at V-J day level and expected to keep rising. Unemployment less than had been expected. Changeover of plants from war to peace virtually completed. Many wartime controls lifted. Most peacetime goods in production or ready to roll. Metal-working trades—chief source of consumer-durable. goods—may be producing by next summer at 214 times 1939 rate. Business continues good. "Mr. Truman also acknowledges some dark: clouds: Inflationary pressures. They're still great. Rising | tory”). A windlass worked by hand was

i ber the mathematically-inclined old real estate, wholesale and raw materials prices are danger a i sumer oh he met el oe

signals. (Deflation isn’t nearly as much of a threat, the count of the number of revolutions of the primitive

‘Presi is press conference.) = ,. : . . President told his p ) He had something like a little over 4000 revolu-

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strikes since August have involved 1,500,000 workers. But to do the job—all by hand, mind you. many other strikes were settled and averted. And time | . 4 Legs First : ost through work ‘stoppages since August is estimated at A CROWD twice as big turned up the second day, ‘only three-fourths of one per cent of the total working time |, si no girls. The big surprise of the second day availa was discovery that they weren't going to lift the

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He doesn’t mention the latest labor department report, 2 ot Wednesday. ‘It says that in October 680 strikes caused the greatest working-time loss for any month on record— 7,800,000 man-days of idleness, or 11 per cent of the available working time. And November, what with the ‘huge General Motors strike and’ many others, threatens to be worse. Nor does Mr. Truman mention the strike Susnage that labor department figures never reveal. The multiplying | work of up-ending the legs began. | : idleness in plants other than those directly affected. The of getting the feet into the proper position “for a pagalyzing ans throughout industry of uncertainty as’ to | on a ball, the two-ton piece struck |The Indianapolis Times have. lost when great struggles between labor and capital will be | give the sensation of an earthquake. Sou Doh FHVZ 1g very few days the house of rep-| settled, and how the settlements will affect general wages, costs and prices. : Bh : : I CIE : OST of this country’s mighty production machinery is,

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in the President's words, ready to roll. Ready APTER that it was merely a matter of na presine Room . to provide vastly more jobs more quickly than the gloomy Un land the Christian people who make prophets of government and labor thought possible a few ue me wiley People have demonths ago. Now, Mr. Editor, while you have

But far too much of that machinery isn’t rolling. The | In the world could Miss Indiana withstand a heavy |yeeq every trick in the book to cause

American people want a torrent of peacetime goods. They're Windsor, the controversy, the Board of Commis getting only a trickle. ~~ Tp sloners rushed into print to assure the skeptics tha "Neither industry nor labor can possibly gain as much | the woman was riveted together to its base by fighting their arguments to a finish as they would gain ; if they’d get together, each yielding something, go to work and start production in high gear. : "Production is the only way to keep unemployment less than had been expected. The only way to make certain of beating inflation and deflation. The only way by which | either workers or employers can attain sound and continuing prosperity. lhe A : : IT'S HONOR THEY NEED SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE, our correspondent in Japan, reports with dismay that he found among Japanese fairy stories “some of the most blood-thirsty tales I have ever read” They tell of “fiendish slaughter and cunning trickery,” practiced for the sake of “material rewards.” 5 Mr. Whipple believes such stuff should be rewritten for the uplift of -Nippon’s small fry. It -_ - Well, pérhaps. But we hitve sae pretty gory stuff | mr. Byres indiented-ouly. two men were voived on our own nursefy shelves. There's “fe, fi, fo, fum” de-| in the controversy “the former MOP manding the “blood of an Englishman.” And the wolf Gedige Alcheson gy Jobip. Beavign: Bol, he that -dieted on Red Ridinghood’s grandmother. And Blue | But both men were in key positichs in the state Beard’s unkind cuts at his wives. All of them call for | department during. the critical period of General

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as do international conferences—to overdramatize points of disagreement. It is also important, before the next conference meets, that Russia should fully understand the cone

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villains to be liquidated. . Surely Mr. Whipple remembers how bellicose his imag- ~ ination grew on this ruddy fare. He must recall how these violent" inspirations impelled him against the ogres and

Hurley's mission, and both were in ‘positions where they could influence the department's instructions to him, :

Nor is it to-be overlooked that negotiations he~ tween Chiang Kai-shek -and the Chinese Communists began to bog down when the Communists learned

gaze of the beautiful, next-door princess, who must have | visor to General MacArthur. f= been all of five, ; . Letter Is an Issue

; . wo» [a a : ; i T THE same time, young Sir Sid's little Japanese con- | INSTEAD of Haden Ct state department, “7 temporaries were busy with their own type of mutila- | General Hurley so far has exempted only two men ~tion—but with a difference, Sidney slaughtered for honor, | from his charges of favoring Chinese communist: . always warned his victim to be on guard, and killed only . after a fair fight, though it cost him a crimson stain on ‘ : A his shining armor. The juvenile Japs, on the other hand, | Secretary e Glances—By Galbraith were coached to trick and take unfair advantage. : Little. boys of the Whipple world grew up to storm \ beaches with Japanese shrapnel flying in their faces, because boys reared in the other traditions had sneaked up on Pearl Harbor, Perhaps it isn’t so important to take blood-thirstiness out of Japan's fairy tales as to put in something about the Ls “brand of honor that calls for a fair break and scorns “cunning trickery.”

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THAT POPOCATEPETL MONSTER INJOTHING in a long while has so cheered us as the news that a 100-foot monster with a luminous face is crawling up and down the slopes of Mexico's extinct volcano, Popocatepetl. Two Indian wood gatherers, reports the United Press, say the creature’s head glows dimly blue, its eyes flash red, and its claws leave 12-inch holes in the hard-packed soil, A mountain hermit avers that he has encountered the monster several times, but has never been bothered. eed Of course not. That is the one point upon

according to the writer, because of a letter to the President Kai-shek, which urged General Hurley's | |

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