Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1945 — Page 14

easily or quickly, But the MacArthur measures at least “ean destroy the myth’s official machinery and give the

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HIROHITO AND SHINTO EN. MacARTHUR'S order separating church and state * in Japan, and Prince Konoye's suicide, weaken the emperor. What happens to Hirohito personally is far less important, of course, than the effect on the emperor institution. Abolition of state Shinto knocks out one of the main props of that institution. And suicide of a prince close to the imperial household, to escape trial as a war criminal, tends to involve the throne itself. “oo * All of this has revived speculation in Japan and abroad t Hirohito may be indicted or may abdicate, or both. e guess of those best informed is that he will not be tried. Certainly there is danger that a trial of Hirohito would have the opposite of the desired effect on the Japanese people; it could easily give them a “divine martyr,” and thus perpetuate the fanaticism we wish to destroy in the interest of peace. Pha FE "= 8 VOLUNTARY abdication is another matter. Few occidentals profess to know whethér that would help or hurt the institution. Even the Japs themselves seem to be divided. Some think Hirohito has lost .so much face that His retention of the throne would undermine it. Other of his: advisers fear that, if he steps down in favor of the child crown prince, allegiance to the throne will disintegrate even more rapidly. Though the MacArthur order destroys the state church of which the emperor is head, it should be understood that this does not interfere with personal religion. Shinto will remain as a cult with all the rights of other religions, none of which will have political power. ' Shinto, like other religions, will have to depend hereafter on the voluntary support of believers instead of official subsidies and mandatory adherence. Whether it declines | or gains on that new basis is no concern of the allies—so long as there is no organized revival of the political of the divine right of conquest. :

ss » » ss 0 » THE ALLIES are willing to leave the emperor as the head of a peaceful cult, but for international security they have outlawed the militaristic institution and its propaganda that “the emperor of Japan is superior to the heads of other states because of ancestry, descent or special origin and that the Japanese peoplé are superior to others because of “divine origin.” : This myth, which deified Jap aggression, will not die

Japanese a better chance to regain sanity.

OMORROW the General Motors strike will have lasted four weeks. In that time, according to their union, the strikers will have lost $31,640,000 in wages.

1+ The union calculates the wage loss at $7,910,000 a |. ‘week—$45.20 per striker—this being the pay for 40 hours

Work at an average rate of $1.13 an hour. " "The employer corporation puts the four-week wage loss’ much higher. It contends that the strikers, if they had stayed on the job, could have worked considerably more ah 40 hours a week, getting premium pay for the overand averaging about $51.22 a week. i= But assume that the union's figure is correct. The union's demand is for a 80 per cent increase in hourly pay. If granted in full, that will mean for 175,000 workers a wage increase of $2,873,000 per 40-hour week.

™ FOUR ‘WEEKS of the strike have cost them more than

“18 times that amount. Should the strike continue for 16 |

weeks, they will have lost more than they can gain in a full year of 40-hour weeks, after the strike ends, if the union

“* The strikers are contending for what they believe to be a great principle. We would not criticize—we would admire—their willingness to pay the price in wages lost

less costly way of settling a controversy between employer

and must be found, by workers and employers and the government, representing all the. people.

times, is costly not only. to the strikers. It is ‘terribly, indefensibly costly to all the people.

TIMELY ADVICE E war definitely ushered in the air age, not only in “derms of military strategy but as regards future travel, buisness and employment. During the war years, more than 8,000,000 men and women became a part of our military air forces. To the vast majority of them, participation

of them—from 500,000 to 1,500,000, according to various éatimates—it represents the peacetime activity which they wish to follow.

Zine National Aeronautics, co-operating with most of the governmental, manufacturing and trade associations of the industry, has made a survey of peacetime job possibilities in “aviation and offered some Dutch-uncle advice to the thousands of veterans who want to follow flying as a career. + Some of this advice deserves to be passed on: _ “The peacetime aviation effort is governed, not by the law of national necessity, which justified the greatest ex-

airplane or an air service must show some itself. ;

‘will be no more femunerative than ; of trabing and qualification. should not insist on flying. Airplane of the many occupations in aviation.

Finance Corp., which peddies ‘em, will sell only in lots of five. | ’ So what do you want with a barrage kite? RFC isn't sure. It says: “Although RFC does not represent or warrant Saul-Vangrow kites as being suitable for any particular purpose, the following uses are suggested: A storm warning for boats, advertising purposes, meteorological checks, kite-flying contests (Hey, Skinny, lookit what I got) and portable aerials.” : But if you want to go fly a Model VSK-1, you may procure five by mailing a check to RFC’s Washing-

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credits to China would depend on unification, and

sult, say, of the Communists’ refusal to give up their army, it would hardly be fair to blame the national government and so deny it assistance. } This is regarded as important because, hitherto,

Marshall on Way IN PACT, they observe, he made this clear as long ago as last Séptember, Shortly after V-J day. he announced a three-point program: (1) Amelioration of the lot of farm and factory workers; exemption from land ‘tax and a 25 per cent reduction in iand rent. €2) Inauguration of constitutional democracy; early convocation of a peoples’ assembly; free-

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—1t will be a worthwhile project for congress to do a little fact-finding of its own about the current labor-industrial situation, as the labor ommittees ; of both branches are planning to do before legislation

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