Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1946 — Page 10

Imbor-management A telephone sjrike gome local service, now is set for 30 days hence. . Essential communications are further disrupted by a telegraph strike in and around New York City. Hope for early settlement of the great General Motors strike has been dissipated by the corporation's refusal to _ @ccept the recommendations ‘of a presidential fact-finding board. We believe the corporation, though within its legal rights, has made an unwise decision. The C. I. O. union involved has strengthened its case with the public by agreeing to accept the fact-finding recommendations if the corporation reverses its stand within the next week. But fact-finding, as a remedy for strikes, has

suffered a black eye.

. ® #8 = . 0» NATION-WIDE steel strike, set for today, has been * postponed to next Monday, providing time for furtherefforts to reach agreement by collective bargaining, That strike, if not averted, could soon paralyze almost all metalworking industries and throw millions of people out of work. Two hundred thousand workers in the electrical appliance industry are scheduled to strike tomorrow; 335,000 employees in the meat-packing industry. are ready to strike Wednesday. And the actual and threatened strikes mentioned are only the largest of scores now in progress or looming throughout the country. . The reconvening congress meets in an atmosphere of emergency, and will hear loud and urgent demands for action. There is danger that it may act hastily, thoughtlessly and Tush through legislation that would not improve | the situation and might make it worse. This should not . happen. Congress should think before it acts.

country afflicted by history’s worst mess of

careful, fair, constructive legislation, to be pressed to passage regardless of whether the present labor-management crisis becomes less menacing. : There will be other crises, as bad or worse, unless congress now resolves to break its habit of ignoring the need for better law in the field of labor-management relations - except at times when the lack of better law causes great and costly trouble.

NEEDED: VOLUNTEERS FOR OVERSEAS : "HE demonstrations of our troops abroad have proved 7 —if further proof were needed-—that conscription won't work as a means of providing and maintaining American But armies of occupation we must have, and trained and disciplined armies, for we have commitments and obligations to fulfill as a world; power co-operating to secure So it is high time our government started making | decisions in what President Truman has rightly termed . + “this year of decision.” : ~~ One thing to be decided quickly is to get about the business of organizing through volunteer recruitment an adequate military police force—men trained in police work —for service overseas. Whatever combat units are needed in addition to back up our military police forces, in Germany and Japan and China and Korea and wherever else we're committed, should also be raised through regular army channels and through voluntary methods.

2 8 2 » = s&s =» SOME high brass generals have complained that they | can't get enough men through voluntary enlistment. “That can be remedied. By higher pay, overseas bonuses, rotations and such perquisites as educational advantages i Soesational aciliies proud, the service which is so ecessary to enforce wo ce can be — or BD pea made attractive : nation cannot afford not to the pri it attractive. Too much is at ns Prise © make Once the raising of troops for overseas duty is provided for, we can get about the companion long-range program of training American youth for the reserve citizens’ army—a program upon which we must depend

keep our nation militarily ¢6 powerful that other nation nok dare start another war. one e scramble of selective service, occupation duty and discharge by points and by chance, has led to ot By the same logic, compulsory military training and police Work in Yokohama won't mix. They will have to be separated. The war department should initiate the reform, though final decision will be up to the President and

THE SUN RISES IN CHINA

GEN MARSHALL'S success in getting a truce in the China civil war is an outstanding achievement in American diplomacy and Far Eastern progress. To stop a factional conflict that has sapped China ea) 19 years, and thereby invited foreign intervention, ii Vastly important at this critical time in world affairs. t the Marshall truce has done more than that. It has $he pledge of basic political reforms essential to na nal unity and recovery. soon as the truce was announced, Chiang Kai-shek Opening session of the all-party political consultaference that’ democracy would be instituted. four-fold promise included: A bill of rights, with 8 of person, conscience, speech, press and meeting, : tio ation and equality of political parties. r ele and local self-government. Release of

. .. , of . 8» elimin of course, the one-party dictator. of the evils which have contributed to would tend to re-establish Chiang as a | offset Communist propaganda. It would omic reforms which must accompany

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

By Bert Wilhelm, Indianapolis

bureaucrats.

forced to suspend manufacture for

Of course no one would allow himself to think that on “cost plus” jobs thers would be a difference of from’ $3.10 per thousand to $10.00 pér thousand as the contractor's profit. That would lead to inflation, and of course that was not the governmeént’s policy. It must just have been an oversight by some clerk away down the line that caused this price to soar, Wages and freight rates have not changed to such an extént- to cause lumber to sell at over $50.00 per thousand, the peak reached In world war L There might have been some pressure used by the pre-fab house group. Not so long ago we read of one manufacturer who could deliver a house'a day and another that could deliver three houses a week, while at the same time I doubt if a single material yard in Indianapolis could deliver a complete house or take an order for a complete house to be delivered within 60 days. Later, I hear over the radio that the prefabricated house will come rolling off the assembly line in a dozen war plants. The only satisfaction local builders and material yards will get out of the mess is a reduction, ‘or perhaps ho income tax to pay for the year 1946. How about the innocent bystandér, the returning serviceman? His bill of rights gives him the right to assume a mortgage on & home and obligate himself for 33 per cent more than the place is worth. In other words, he pays $4500 for a $3000 home, -He has 20 to 30 years to pay it, but will a prefabricated house be there in 20 years? The chances are that he will have the lot left when he finally pays off. Seventy-three per cent of our population never bought a war bond. They could not afford it. Seventy-five per cent of the returning fers come from that class. Will they be able to pay for a hope running from $4500 to $6500 and

"Housing Shortage Can Be Traced... Directly to | Source—Bureaucrats”.

The present housing shortage and other inconveniences confronting returning servicemen can be traced to only one source. The answer is

While ceiling prices on the price of cement blocks, brick, rock lathe and builders’ hardware were frozen at a point where manufacturers were

the time, the price of lumber was

allowed to soar, to at least three times what it was offered for at the time of Pearl Harbor. From a base price of $31.00 per thousand for a good. of frame stock and sheathing to $100 per thousand for inferior stock right from the saw. How come? \

keep up these payments for 20 years, as well as paying their share of the national debt?

CRE RY “DON'T HAVE TO READ OR BELIEVE WHAT I WRITE”

By Velce in the Crowd, Indianapolis Mr. Dooley, The Forum is not so

filled with “unknown reactionaries”

as it is with people who can write but who do not or perhaps cannot read. In these days many people are crying at one another “reactionary.” Reaction to what? Most of the people.who_ use the term are not “reactionaries” but are those who wish to see our trend continue until we again reach the “Middle Ages” where a very few did the thinking and - planning for the masses. The masses did not have to think for themselwes and all that was expected of them was that each of them beat a good horse out of a job, and live as they were ordered. Bear in mind they are not reactionary because they do not oppose the trend. The result, however, if it were attained, would be reactionary by at least 300 years. Then there is a group who rights ly are called “reactionaries” and I am one of them who believe in the Constitution in all its prinelples, including its self-prescribed rule for change. These people do not wish Americans to react 300 years’ thinking, they are following a road that leads forward. They! do wish to see a 80-year reaction where honest courts and honest public officials used the same book of rules that restricted their ene croachment on the rights of the individual. They want public officials whose desire for re-election is secondary. to their desire to uphold the principles of our republic. These reactionaries aré not afraid

of change nor opposed to it so long as those changes are by constitu-

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tional amendment and everybody follows the same rules. not oppose responsible trade unions that do not deny the right to work nor deny any boy the right to léarn any trade of his choice without restriction. Personally I believe that since we come into this life as individuals and leave it as individuals, we have the right to live as individuals, It is a God given right and in every phase of the Constitution of this country that right -4s protected. Since long before the war we have not been governed by the Constitution. I am reactionary because I wish we could get back to it. If that is un-American, help yourself! You don't have to read nor believe what I write. I don't wonder nor is it any of my business who Dooley is, so why should you care who signs: Voice in the Crowd. s » » “THEN WE MAY ENJOY PEACE IN THE WORLD”

By Mrs. i. W. Shea, 3018 Madison ave. Being the mother of a son who has just been discharged from the U. 8. navy, I read with interest the article of Jim Lueas, the new addition to the editorial staff of The Times, written as his initial contribution. I heartily agree with him that each one of us is in some way responsible for the war. Having lived through two wars with a husband in world war I-the war that was fought to end all wars—then a son in this last world war--the war which ‘was supposed fo put an end to all wars forever. When we mothers, wives, fathers, preachers and the little men and women of the public cease to be mislead by that type of bunk, that each war is to bring an end to wars, and cease to be impressed by the beating of the war drums and the ballyhoo of the patriotic millarist, and just take a look back into the history of wars in the past, what they promised and what they really did, do a little clear thinking for ourselves and stop educating our sons and daughters to the glory of war and hero worship, which “is nothing short 6f murder in uniform,

about the heads of the war heroes, to be worshipped by the lttle sons of the coming generation because he shouldered a gun; went out and shot down. in cold blood, murdered

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Empire, & burlesque theater that used to stand at the corner of Delaware and Wabash sts. : * ‘The Empire, the first Indian. apolis theater deliberately’ de signed to assuage she cares of tired businessmen, opened fof -| business on Labor Day, 1802, a fact which of itself has all the elements of a paradox. It cone tinued to do business until the movie industry wormed its way to the surface, In the beginning, the Empire was a brand-new bullding especially erected for the purpose by the Heuck Opera people ‘of Cincinnati, Oscar Cobb of that town was the architect, and Jungolaus & Schumacher of Indianapolis, the contractors. The struce -| ture costing $70,000, most of which was spent on the interior, was as pretty a job as you ever saw when they handed over the keys. As near as I recall, the Empire had a seating ¢a-

ity of 2100, or something like 17,000 a week counte 6 ample ‘accommodations

a management never catered to women customers. Like barber shop and the saloon of the Nineties, the Empire also was an institution designed “for men

Girls Wore Tights

THE EMPIRE'S stage was 35 feet deep and 85 feet wide which was architecturally correct to accommodate a chorus of two dozen girls. As a rule, the girls appeared in “tights,” a quaint colloquialism used at the time to define a skin-tight fleshing covering the wearer from the waist down, the inevitable corollary of which was that the Empire shows were always called “leg shows.” Nowadays, tights. are practically obsolete except, maybe, in the opera, Shakespearean plays and trapeze acts none of which has made any

LONDON, Jan. 14—The question of the little nations versus the big ones already has popped up in the United Nations session here. It came into the open as Cuba urged its amendment be adopted to set up the general assembly's vital steering committee with 51 members—that is, with every country represented—instead of 14 memas proposed by the preparatory commission. Bee decision was reached but referred to a subcommittee for early action. Cuba

-won-a-partial victory in insisting that the report of

the subcommittee be made within eight days. It was manifest that Cuba was motivated by concern over the Big Three or Big Five domination of the UNO. Philip Noel Baker of Britain contended the smaller committee would surely be better to

representatives. It is apparent that the little countries already are alert to the question whether they are going to have power or merely be tails to the big nations’ kites.

For Good Understanding ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT PAUL-HENRI SPAAK, Belgian foreign minister, took cognizance of the problem when in referring to the veto power bestowed at San Prancisco, he observed: “Speaking for the whole assembly, we attach the utmost importance, so far as the great powers are concerfied, to a good understanding among them. It is from them that we expect success, security and lasting peace.” While the big-and-little issue cropped up, delegates learned from evening papers that the Moscow radio was condemning “enemies of peace, both overt and covert, who cry out about the dictatorship of three, or five, or. two powers as they try to break up unanimity.”

Oppose Foreig WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—When Gén. George C. Marshall turned over the job of organizing military government to Maj. Gen, John H. Hilldring, Marshall declared it was a very precious thing that was being

entrusted to Hilldring’s safe-keeping. Hilldring replied that hé understood the words,

| but was not sure he got the full meaning. Marshall

then explained his reasonihg. Thé American people like to criticize, he began. They criticized the army 1edders for being dumb, and maybe théy were at times inefficierit. Army leaders were also criticized for being extravagant with the public's money, and maybe they were wasteful, too. But the American people did not fear their army, Marshall conluded, and that was an asset which the army leaders must do everything they could to safeguard. Therefore. they should do everything they could to make sure that governing power entrusted to the army temporarily should hever be misused. Proposal to set up a “foreign service academy” to train U. 8. diplomats in the way that West Point and Annapolis train army and navy officers is being opposed by Assistant Secretary of State Don Russell and others in the department. Reason is that the foreign service must be made a group of men broadly representing every U, 8, background and every state.

Special Training Studied TO GIVE foreign service officers more chance for advanced study, a program of “in-service” training is being considered. After several years’ service abroad, the young diplomats would. bé given a chance fo return to the United States and pursue specialized study at some university well équipped for research in a particular field of history, economics, political science, languages or law.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

LONDON, Jan. 14—When the peace conference meets in Paris, one of the thorniest questions certain ly will be the ultimate disposal of Trieste. The more

viniced one is that the only just solution is for Trieste to be internationalized. Britain and America will have a particular responsibility for ensuring that a just solution of the question is reached. Their decision to occupy Trieste last May placed the two powers in a position where the experience and intimate knowledge acquired during the occupation particularly qualify them to find the correct answer to the manifold problems of race and economics which are inherent in the situstion. ; After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1919, Trieste and the province of Venezia Giulia were annexed by Italy. The Slovenian population of Venesia Giulla, which amounts to rather more than half the total population of 900,000, were no happier under the Italians than under the Austrians.

Declines Under Italians . declined in importance under I t and neglect. Its trade continued to with Central Europe rather than with Italy or Jugosiavia,: both today claim it. Between the two wars, 8 per cent of Trieste’s trade was Jugo-

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ld Empire Theater? percept le progress in the course of the last 300 The most’ : | Bmpire aaah i at bu Bui Watson's “Beef Trust, the ly ve a,

the most monumental chorus ever to Ind apt ! : turn up in

brought his “beet trust” to the Empire, Of one thing

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one package and labeled it the “Beef cal technique which is not unknown.

Billy Watson Capitalized THE FACT that President Roosevelt's on everybody's lips inspired Billy Watson, as showman as ever lived, to capitalize the ail He assembled a line of 24 bosomy chorus none of which, he claimed, weighed less than 1 pounds. The two end-girls in the first row, I member,. looked as if they might be well over pounds apiece. At any rate, their waists appear to have a circumterence of something like 44 iriches, if I am any judge of distance. a Because of the unbelievable progress of modern solence, it is now an established fact that Billy

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girls in the first row, fooled was because Billy deliberately built up the effect by putting the girls into striped red and purple tights, And just in case you don’t believe that color and stripes can increase a woman's avoirdupois, consider for a moment what Florenz Ziegfeld did when, several years later, the style called for slim chorus girls. On the occasion, Mr. Ziegfeld took compparstively hefty ladies and poured them into white tights, with the result that everybody believed he was looking at sylphs.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Carl D. Groat UNO Faces Little Nations Problem

Meantime, theré was a fresh crop of rumors concerning Russian questions. One paper had Russia probably preparing to reopen the atomic bomb gues tion, and inférentially not in'a helpful fashion. But Senators Connally and Vandenberg of the U. 8. delégation hadn't heard of that, and Mr, Connally seriously doubted it. Russia's 'Bad Reverse’

“bad reverse” in the rejection of her determined

as president of the assembly. As a matter of fact, the rejection was narrow—328 votes to 23—and Russia had American support on the nomination. So the question of victory or defeat for Russia is scarcely existent. Russia has had worse rejections. That Russia was not ignored nor sidetracked is seen in the selection of her delegate, D. Z. Manullsky, . as chairman of the important political and security committee of UNO. (This committee will have charge of discussion of the atomic energy commission to be set up under the UNO.) U. 8. Ambassador Harriman has arrived to be adviser to the U. S. delegation on Russian problems. The report that Gen. Eisenhower is to be urged to take the post of secretary genera] was exploded when Secretary of State Byrnes said Gen. Eisenhower was not interested. pd While the UNO ig sitting, G. 1's demonstrated in

Grosvenor square as part of the soldiers’ world-wide -

outbursts against occupation service. Some in the American group’ at the conference regretted this,

suggesting these demonstrations would not enhance .

American prestigé and power here,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Petet Edson

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This in-service training could be financed either by paying the man his salary and letting him choose his own place of study, or by fellowships to selectad and approved graduate schools. No definite plan has as yet been decided on. ; Bringing the young diplomats home after a few gears overseas would also solve another big problem. It would enable the. foreign service officers to meet and probably marry more American girls. One of the big difficulties of the foreign service is that too many of the men stationed abroad meet only the women native to the countries in which they serve.

Change of Viewpoint

WHEN Adm. Emory S, Land takes the job as head of the Air Transport associdtion, he will become spokesman for an entirely different point of view than he had to represént in his old job #8 chairman of tie maritime commission and war shipping administration. : In a maritime policy statement Adm. Land signed and issued in September, 1044, he déclared that, “The participation of the mafitime industry in civil aeronautics 1s necessary if the United States is to have a merchant marine adequate for the development of its foreign and domestic corimerce.” Airline operators have bucked this position and they have béen supported in it by decisions of the civil aeronautics board. es CAB has forced some steamship lines to give up their aviation holdings And Nags refused other shipcompanies the right to operate néw air routes.

the 23 U. 8. airlines, Adm. Land will now have to work

in support of this policy. He will not be asked to retract what he said before.

Randolph Churchill.

Trieste May Be International City

Whereas the population of Trieste and the coast of Venezia Giulia is over 80 per cént Italian, all the hinterland of the province is overwhelmingly Slovenian. : If the peace conference were to decide in favor of international trusteeship, it would hot be necessary t6 internationalize rail communications from Trieste

to Central Jugoslavis. The United Nations could |

negotiate arrangements between thesé two countries, guaranteeing fair transit’ conditions for all goods into and out of Central Europe:

Would Assure Prosperity THERE 18 little doubt that, if Trieste and its im~ mediate surroundings were internationslised, immense prosperity would result for all its inhabitants. Trieste

speedily would become not only ons of the most flourishing

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«considerable factory area. With its unique position at the head of the Adri. atl, where it is tapable of supplying the markets of Central Europe and the whole Mediterrgnean basin, it would, if guaranteed security and tranquillity, be an obvious place for British, American and other foreign firms to set up factories. If its international character wers guaranteed by the majestic authority of the United Nations, it would be the safest placé in the whole of Wurope to bulld factories and conduct trade. If the United Nations mean bus.aess, here is their 0 tunity to. try out, on a limited scale and with

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