Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1946 — Page 8

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month. e RILEY 5851 | Give Light. and the People Will Find Their Own Way HOS RE THE DAYS So \ Hoosier of Goshen, Harry Gumbinsky, is dead

; EM in New York at the age of 73. You may identify him mo easily as Harry Gumm or by his professional name,

anapolis old-timers ‘may well remember him in

Anyway, f.your own age is anywhere beyond, say 85 or 40, you'll remember him vividly and pleasantly by “his works. ETN He wrote such songs.as “Wait Till the Sun Shines, " Nellie,” and “Only a Bird ira Gilded Cage,” and “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” “I'want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad,” and “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows,” and “Please Go'Way and Let Me

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Sleep,” and “Cubanola Glide,” and “Rufus«Rastus Johnson

‘Round ?” Those and several thousand more. “, He also was popularly credited with giving its tle to “Tin Pan Alley,” that more or less mythical thoroughfare on which, for a good many years, he headed one of best-known music publishing "houses. The news of his passing brings nostalgic thoughts of the good old pre-radio, pre-juke box times, when popular songs stayed popular for years instead of being dinned to death in a few weeks of constant repetition.

AN INTOLERABLE STRIKE ‘A TELEPHONE strike is, in the word's exact sense, intolerable. The nation and its communities have become too dependent on teleplione service to let it be cut off by any controversy between workers and employers. _. The strike beginning yesterday affected chiefly long distance service and local service over manual switchboards in some cities. But dial service also depends on maintenance by union members. Without this maintenance, the machines - that make connections on:dialed calls would cease to func. | tion in a week or so at most. | A continued strike, then, would soon stop all or prac‘tically all telephone service. The effect on business activity would be severe. The effect on public health and safety would be calamitous. Government simply cannot permit “the telephone strike to go on. If the strikers ignore appeals to return to work. and let the controversy be settled by “other methods, President Truman will—indeed, he must— ‘order the strike ended. os He still has wartime powers to enforce such an order. ” - » z = = ¥ & BUT if ours is to remain a government by laws and not by men, the President's war powers cannot be continued ‘long in peacetime. And after those powers have been withdrawn a telephone strike, or any strike subjecting the _ public to severe hardship or depriving it of services essential ‘to life and saféty, would still be intolerable. : ~~ So, we think, an obvious lesson of the telephone strike ods that the country must provide itself with a method of ‘preventing such strikes by law. One proposal to that end is before congress in the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill. This bill, in our opinion, would create better machinery than now exists for voluntary settlement of labor-manage-ment disputes. As a last resort, in a limited class of disputes, of which the telephone case is typical, it would forbid strikes and require submission of the issues to compulsory arbitration. Arbitration awards would be subject to federal court review and enforceable by federal court orders. : ve The thought of compulsory arbitration is repugnant to us, as to millions of other Americans, But the evidence ‘now so plain that strikes of a certain type are intolerable,

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. and that government must by some means prevent them, § convinces us that some such legal means as the Hatch-Ball-2 urton bill proposes should be provided.

WHAT THE UNO IS FOR GOOD deal is being made of the fact that the opening sessions of the United Nations assembly reveal disa- | greements, especially among the big powers. This is taken in many quarters as a bad sign. If the Big Three can't get together in advance ‘and issues must be fought out publicly in the assembly, it is said, then the whole thing + i8 apt to end up in a free-for-all. ; This attitude strikes us as naive at best, and vicious at worst. Naive, when it ignores the obvious fact that major policy conflicts exist among the big powers whether we like it or not. Vicious when it wants the big powers by inside deals to be UNO dictators. ~_ For our part, we rejoice that the assembly from the start is proving to be the world’s open forum. That is

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‘of the Big Five or Big Three or a_big one, it will betray collective security and destroy the chances of world organization, 2 What is happening in London today is almost the first breath of fresh air in ‘international meetings since the smaller nations had. their sag at the San Frnacisco conderence. At the Golden Gate it was the small nations that made the fight for democracy and decency.

x » an ” » " ~ WE don’t think the 40-0dd United Nations which are not = big powers or stooges are perfect. We don’t think ajority rule is a short cut to heaven on earth. We don't JNK open covenants openly arrived at are a cure-all. But : ‘believe—after the failure of the last big power-dictated Settlement and after the tragedy of. the last big olled League of Nations—that democratic are the only hope left. = Hhere is any American foreign policy that cannot and o pe iscussion by the UNO assembly, the public 568 NG know it, As for Russia and Britain and Rr : those governments are sincere in the pledges for a democratic world order, they will nbly to operate so their own people and judge their policies. 3 any compromises necessary to the unity greatest number. But let them be open promises-—not the backstair deals of the fe power for themselves, Democracy inside international deals without

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; . so . . 7 "We Wait 20 to 40 Minutes for Trolley in Rain, Sleet-or Snow" By An Eastside Mother, Indianapolis : ~ Someone suggests that there is a possibility, of course, that Tndianapolis Street Railways, Inc. and the people of Indianapolis didn't Study

the same arithmetic. Apparently so. It certainly was an insult to-0 intelligence when they published over and over that the change of rates

10th st. line, and since the addition of Arlington ave. "we have become a mere shuttle line. We wait anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes for a trolley

in rain, sleet or snow. Then we are packed and crowded in a manner both - dangerous and unhealthful. - —

ner, and once her hair and scarf Motors telling their side of the and coat were frozen together while strike situation. waiting for a trolley which did not yhole page could have been excome. With service like this we are pressed in a very few words. asked to pay an increased fare and jou, (; the real substance it was accept the statement that it is sav- gmp)y this: Whom do they

“HAVE ALWAYS FAVORED REFORMED SPELLING”

By J. W. Moore, Indianapolis article

congress on the British loan, the word “okehed” appeared. Is it in

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I hdve always favored reformed

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—many have twice as many letters] When it comes to confused spelling and pronunciation,

unnecessary letters from the alpha- tion to buy from us. the surplus

[Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters -hould be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth \ here are those of the writers, “%0d publication in no way implies agreement with those s by The Times. The umes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cagnot enter correspondence regarding them.)

Those of us whose children must ride to school | in rates, and it is not a saving. But that is not We live at the Brookside park end of the E.

same time it is frankly admitted that there’is no chance of it debt ) ) ever being paid. ‘ By. Jusper -Dauglay, Indianapalis, Billions in lend lease gift, we are soaked In The Times last Monday there | 10g, is to be wiped off as a ba at the cor- Wasa full page spread from General debt, ‘ wha Now, when General Motors has Phe gist of the come out frankly with a-statement | that though their profits mount to Boiled | the sky, labor must be ground down 16d to: as low a level as they can get (away with, be careful, big boys, or {there will be an avalanche of votes ee (for a Socialist: party that will be ness how many millions General, .o0q ¢ pfoduction for use and Motors Rigss 1 profits, 3nd ws 7% elimination of private profits to nop Sonten oe for labor, but we|C"Ters Who never did a stroke of are determined “What the Workers useful work in all their lives. who produce all our wealth’ shall x = = get no more for their labor than the| “STATE POLICE WOULD HAVE bare cost of a scanty livelihood t0| MADE ACCIDENT CALL” sustain theif families. - a Now, Mr. General Motors, and ~, ™ °¢ likewise all other greedy corpora-| Christmas eve my wife and I [tions, you had better go easy on started over to my brother-in-law’s that strain, for there is grave for the evening. The route we took danger that the great mass of work- ¢ rom our home was from home to

ers will wake up and see that when - 10th st. to Central to 16th, west on 18th to West st. north on West st. to Northwestern to Fall Creek blvd Rather than go north on Northwestern, I thought it would be better to go west on Fall Creek blvd.

than to get in a traffic. jam. We drove about two blocks on the boulevard headed west. We saw a car across boulevard on our side. I pulled off the boulevard to the right so as to get off the right-away, My lights wére burning and motor running. I went to the help of the driver of the other car, left my wife in my car. We had almost got the other car started in the right direction when two drunks driving a dump truck empty on boulevard ran into the rear of my car, skidding it on icy street, turned it around headed east, and wrecked my car.

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xpressive if candidates nominated by the big {business lords they cannot hope for any more than the big shots allow. When the masses have only a 1 letters, as’ choice between Tweedle Dee and at least, if| Tweedle Dum, it is not democracy. Roosevelt ordered destruction of cotton, pigs, sheep and fruit, for which people were in deadly need, the great mass of American peoplé thought it was a fool thing to do. Now it is proposed to plough under in a different way. We will loan to {dear old England (who has never this lan- heen a friend of the U. 8.) four Taking out |pjlljons so that she r 'y be in posi-

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I found out later that my wife was injured also; we found that out Christmas day. I stepped off the distance my ca’ was shoved and it was 150 feet over the ice. My car just did clear the car I was helping. The insurance company says it will cost $150 to $200 to repair. Now this is the payoff of the evening—we call on our great police department for a little assistance. And were told that if there was no one critically injured that they wouldn't come. I turned the report over to state police; and was told by state police that they. would have made the call if we had called them. They told me that it hasn't been the first time that they have received reports that the city police have failed to make a call when really needed.

. "DAILY THOUGHT

And Samuel . sald, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt of ferings and sacrifices, as in obey“ing the voice of the Lord? Be-

hold, to obey is' better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.~I Samuel 15:22.

OH, if there be, on this .earthly . sphere.

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| American affairs and the office of

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REFLECTIONS... y Rok Jest

ph “ sl CL ek by WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—By OWI, out of OIA, and midwifed by the ‘state department, little OIC was 12 days old today all ready to go to work. _- Little OIC is the state department's new baby— thé office of international information and cultural affairs. It shows what happens when a ‘couple of other temporary press agencies—the office of inter- ; war information— start looking ‘around for a home, They found it in the state department, merged under the snappy title of interim international information service, and on Jan, 1, emerged as OIC. OIC, under the wing of Assistant - william Benton and directed by William Stone, intends to perpetuate OWI's wartime function of disseminating Americana abroad. (Propaganda is a word that is not spoken aloud in the state department today). Mr. Benton says there will be no propaganda— only information which will shed a true light on this country. In a summary of his convictions, called “the voice of America,” Mr. Benton said America must be explained to all the little kurds and hottentots as the kind, motherly land she is, instead of the overaring. bully some people make her. That'll be e future job of OIC. Shr

Staff of 2700 Anticipated . TO DO THIS is going to take some 2700 people, by latest estimate, only 400 of whom will serve in some 60 countries. Some 850 will be engaged in shortwave radio broadcasting, and the rest will co-ordinate at home. However, the 400-man allotment “overseas does not include some 500 in Germany and some more in Japan and Austria, because they are not regarded as permanent, Director Stone, who was a vice president of the Foreign Policy association, and director of economic warfare for FEA, says that his new service will tone down considerably the wartime activities of the parent agencies. “We are going out of ‘the press service business as soon as possible,” he says. “At the moment we are only operating two—-into Germany and Japan— and expect to knock them off as soon as the regular

LONDON, Jan. 12.—Britain, insofar as it can do 80, seeks to impart to the United Nations session here a strong economic and humanitarian trend. Prime Minister Attlee, keynoting the opening meeting of the general assembly stressed security plus freedom from fear and want. With the atomic bomb’s potentialities for destruction, he told his audience the choice, is between life "and death. But he talked more of economic distress. Moreover, his government's inspired news releases of the past few days have stressed problems of relief and reconstruction of a now unstabilized world with its wandering displacees.

Reads Better Than it Sounds HIGHLIGHTING his speech on economic and humanitarian questions was: “To the individual citizen the" spectre of economic insecurity is more constant,

.} more imminent than the shadow of war. Without

social justice and security there's no real foundation for peace, for it is among socially disinherited and those who have nothing to lose that the gangster and aggressor recruit their supporters. ; “A police force is a netessary part of a civilized community but the greater the social security and contentment of the population, the less important is the police force.” '

There Is Still

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Some of the government's emergency war agencies may have disappeared, but don jump to the conclusion that their employees

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different title. "\Some were transferred, in wholesale groups, to other eral payrolls when the emergency agencies were discontinued. Others, acting individually, took new federal jobs, as wartime functions d off and reconversion added to the duties of other agencies. To facilitate such transfebs, the U. 8. civil service commission operates a sort of ority system for the rehiring of federal payrollers. They classify employees by “retention groups” according to their civil service status and veterans’ preference.

2,876,004 Employees in 1944

CIVIL SERVICE reports. show that federal payrolls in continental U. S. totaled 2,876,004 in November, 1944, and 2,450,003 a year later. That's a drop of 426,001 over the period that included V-E-day, V-J day and the start of reconversion. However, latest figures show 763,190 paid civilian employees outside the continental U. 8. which brings the total to 3,213,193. There are also 298,398 uncompensated employees, to boost the total to more than 3,500,000. Recent terminations of federal war agencies didn't make any large dents in the” payroll. Here are a few examples: The war manpower commission had 27,839- employees before it was scrapped. According to figures

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Confidence Is

LONDON, Jan. 12.—The way An which law and order gradually are becoming réspected again in Trieste and the self-confidence of. the Italian population restored, is well illustrated by two strikes which were organizéd by the Communists for political purposes. Under an agreement signed in Belgrade last June, the allied authorities undertook to make use of the local government set up by the Jugoslavs during their 43-day occupation ‘of Trieste, providing this was found to be efficient and truly representative of the population. ; In July, the allied authorities decided that these conditions were not fulfilled and they proceeded to set up their own civilian administration instead. The Communists at once called a general strike ,and even the Italians, who must have been pleased at the replacement of the local government which was almost entirely Slovene or Communist, came out on strike. They were too frightened to do otherwise,

Communists Lose Influence “A FEW WEEKS ago, however, the Communists called a strike to protest the allied decision to suppress a Communist: paper which had libeled an American officer. The Italian Trade Union, which is becoming increasingly self-reliant and effective, refused to take part on the grounds that the strike was ordered for political rather than economic motives. As a result, three-quarters of the Trieste shops and factories remained open and even streetcar service was discontinued only for a few hours, Another “sign of returning Italian confidence Is the growth of the local Italian press, which now does not hesitate to reply to Communist propaganda in the local Slovene papers. Unfortunately they now are beginning to allow themselves to imitate the reckless and untruthful methods of their opponents. Polemics aré hurled back -and forth daily. between the two factions. ’ lit HGR ly] One stabilizing and moderating, influence is the allied Information service, which produces two dally papers, one Sloyene, the other Italian. They are ‘entirely objective in their presentation of the news, and the measure of their, success is shown by the fast

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‘wire services can extend their facilities into uncove ered areas.” : - Sr It was pointed out that the office of inter-Ameri=" can affairs, before the war, put out a complete press stances was reported to have paid the papers to use it. Mr. Stone said that America’s new vocal cords will In no way infringe on press associations, but ‘will merley emit background material to the far places, 80 that them as.can read may ‘see the truth. . ¥This would embiace the establishment of in formation centers in 60 countries, a daily wire (estimated 7000 'words) to diplomatic missions, a daily batch of feature copy, pictures, movies, newsreels, at least one magazine’ (in Russia) and an exchange of students technicians and specialists with ofher nae tions.’ .

38 Transmitters Left.

+ WHAT WILL be done with the 38 short-wave radio transmitters we have left over from the war has not yet been decided. The state department . will continue to operate some of them until congress decides to set up a special agency or to sell them to private companies. ; It is the expressed purpose of OIC to combat, with truth and information, anti-American propa= ganda such as, to quote Mr. Benton, the allegations that we are a shylock ration, a land of gangsters, a nation of capitalists and combines, and a country of crooners. Just how this is to be accomplished through the media of reading rooms and canned documentaries is not clear, but the state department is optimistie about it. The department is not so optimistic about some of the personnel it inherited, however, from OIC's mama and papa—a’ cast of characters which contained a heavy sprinkling of fléaters and ine competents as well as some able men, Mr. Benton said he expected his unpropagandized soft-pedaled information policy to take a long time to show results. But eventually, he hopes, the dirtieste nosed kid in Cairo will know that America is power ful but kind, rich but generous, cultured and as quiet as Sunday in Philadelphia. .

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Carl D. Groat Britain Seeks to Impress UNO Session

Mr. Attlee’s speech reads better than it sounded, for he is. no Churchill, Wilson or Roosevelt. Only moderate applause echoed in Central hall’s shiny new surroundings. Outside in a drizzle a faire sized crowd waited for a chance to see the world's great emerge from’ the baptismal service for UNO. But they applauded only mildly.

Anxious to See Mrs, Roosevelt THEY pe chiefly anxious to glimpse Mrs, Eleanor elt, whose “My Day” is being advertised by the London Evening News as acquired for duration of the conference. She's quite a drawing card here; wr : : : A prefunctory American press conference called by U. S. delegate Stettinius prior to Secretary Byrnes’ arrival was largely on the insistence of British news« men, since they wanted Mrs. Roosevelt and she didn't want to appear for the first time in other than the role of a member of the American delegation. Incidentally, the British program of stressing eco nomics is getting considerable support from the litt nations and there is quite a scramble to get assigilments in that work. The little nations are said to figure they do not have 50 much opportunity in security work but can contribute, ideas on the economic side.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Robert Taylor

a Big U.S. Payroll

of the congressional joint committee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures (the Byrd committee), 26,076 of them later were attached to payrolls of the labor department and federal security agency. The war labor board had 3844 employees and 3548 of them went to the labor department when the board was discontinued. The office of war information had 7989 employees last August. It was wiped out and 141 went to the budget bureau and 7383 to the state department.

Drop of 589 Workers THE OFFICE of inter-American affairs had 1249 employees in August and only 660 in September. Meanwhile, 554 had been transferred to the state department and the net reduction in the ‘federal payroll was only 35. The office of economic stabilization had 19 employees in August but by the time it was wiped out, it actually transferred 22 to the payroll of the office of war mobilization, - according to Byrd committee reports. . OES has since been re-established. ~The foreign economic adminstration,’ discontinued, distributed nearly 3000 employees to the state, com< merce and agriculture departments and RFC. The war production board ended employment of 4202 and transferred about 4000. to its successor agency, the civilian production administration. x

Unique among government agencies, the office of

censorship not only died promptly after V-J day, but it made a clean break with the federal payroll. Jobs of 6000 employees were marked “terminated.” Some 205 employees remained in September to clean up files. Then they left.

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Returning in Trieste

that their circulation is more than double that of any other Trieste newspaper,

Port Operating Efficiently THE ALLIES also operate a local radio station which acts as a valuable corrective to the untruthful propaganda employed by both sides. In addition to

entertainment, it broadcasts .news in Slovene and ’

Italian, and there is no doubt that all except enthusiastic bigots are relying more and mere on ‘Radio Trieste for news. Trieste is one of the largest ports in the Mediter ranean and, although it was extehsively mined by the Germans, already is operating very efficiently. Far and away the biggest item imported is UNRRA supplies for Jugoslavia. They amount to more than half the total imports. * . Other big items are coal, which comes from Lor enco Marquez in Portuguese East Africa, and stores for the allied military government in ‘Austria and maintenance of the British occupation force in Austrid, The limiting factor in use of the port is commute cations by road and rail with the interior, which cure rently are limited to 6000 tons per day.

Co-operation Maintained * , ALTOGETHER, the allies’ have done a job In Trieste of which they have a right to be proud. Co operation ‘between the British and Americans has been admirable and has maintained the high ware time standards first set by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhoweer in the Mediterranean: The troops seem conscious that they are doing useful and important work and are probably more contented than any other froops Overseas. ; Their two main complaints are “The Bora,” the fierce, cold wind which comes down from the Alps in ‘the northeast, and the rate of exchange. The troops .still get only 100 lire per dollar, which is under halt the true exchange value, It: certainly seems unjust that ‘troops of the vice torious and occupying army should be penalized in this way, and it is much hoped in Trieste that the Italian government soon will imitate the French gov.. ernment apd bring : harmony with reality.

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