Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1946 — Page 10

KAISER TAKES A CHANCE i “] CANNOT conceive that a sum of 814 cents should be per to retard or destroy the possibility of real ‘peace and prosperity for the nation.” ' Saying that, Henry J, Kaiser signed a C. I O. contract giving workers of his Fontana (Cal) steel mill the 18%4- ~ cents-an-hour wage raise proposed by President Truman. The U. S. Steel Corp. had refused to grant more than a 15cent increase, and its refusal-had been the signal for the great strike now on. : yy Maybe, in speaking of “a sum of 814 cents,” Mr. Kaiser over-simplified. That small sum, applied to the wages of about 4000 workers at Fontana, will mean about $140 an hour, $1120 an 8-hour day, $5600 a week, $291,200 a yéar. ~ Applied to the wages of 750,000 workers in the steel and _ related industries, it would mean many millions of dollars a year in labor costs. !

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PAYING a larger raise than Big Steel is willing to grant, Mr. Kaiser's small steel company is taking a chance + ==perhaps a long chance. But the steel strike is compelling the whole country to take a terrible chance. If that strike continues long it will not only mean idleness for the steel and aluminum mills and their workers. It will mean enforced, involuntary idleness for millions of others. Forty per cent of all the factory workers in the country earn their living by making steel into useful products. It will mean wage and production losses running into many billions of dollars. It could mean defeat of all the bright hopes for prosperity and full employment. . : x Labor, industry and government have all been at fault in the events leading up to the steel strike. President Tru- - man’s wage proposal probably is not an ideal way out. But it now seems to be the only way out without a long battle. We believe the American people want the steel industry to accept it and end the strike. The cost of a settlement may be high, but the cost of the strike may be disastrous.

. FIRST TEST OF ‘UNO

iE THE United Nations organization meets its first test in i¢ 7 the case of Iran. Evasion of responsibility is no solu"tion. Let nobody suppose that only the rights of one or several small nations are involved. The larger issue is the good faith and the effectiveness of the UNO itself, That directly concerns the United States and all the world. ~~ We share Secretary Byrnes’ regret that the UNO must be saddled with disputes before it is well organized. But, since Moscow repeatedly has blocked a settlement, Iran is clearly within her rights in appealing to the UNO. * Therefore, we think Secretary Byrnes is most unwise in trying to prevent UNO consideration of the case. He is unwittingly putting the United States in the position of supporting Russia's reported lawless acts jn Iran and of using big power control of UNO to screen that lawlessness. However unfortunate the necessity for UNO to handle any dispute so soon, at least it is fortunate that this is a relatively simple case. If the facts are at all similar to the charges .of the Tehran government and reports of objective observers, the question is not one of obscure legal technicalities but involves the whole UNO principle. The UNO charter obligates all members to “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.” If the alleged refusal of the Russian army: to permit forces of the Iranian government to put down a rebellion on its own sovereign soil does not merit UNO investigation and action on the facts under that charter provision, it would be hard to think of any big power aggression which the UNO could touch.

~ COMMON SENSE

AFART from a detailed consideration here of the bill he is sponsoring—incorporation of labor unions—we quote i - from U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd's statement trans- ' mitting his proposal. If what he says doesn’t make sense we'd like to hear why. To us, what is printed below spells simple justice— no more, no less: - “There can be no hope for prosperity in industrial peace until the equality of rights of all citizens, corporations and organizations, is written into law. _ “Unless contracts between labor and industry are observed and have the same legal status as other contracts, we «can look forward to a long period of industrial strife and business chaos. “With a debt approaching $300 billion we can only | service this debt and perform our essential functions of | government by means of a high national income. This is ' possible only by an uninterrupted industrial production. “I am strongly for collective bargaining, but bargainig must mean what it says—namely, that a bargain made qually binding on both parties to the agreement. 5) “We may as well try to build a house witho foundation as to enact legislation to proven ute and bor strife, without first providing for/mutual respon-

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cite an example. Home: Advertised as a 5-room modern, quoted as being 15-20 years old, price $5500. The actual. facts are that the house is 50 years old, hasn't been painted in eight years, needs a new roof and chimney. Pine wood floors, no built-ins and only one-fourth : basement. Plumbing very old, un-modern and in need oi repair, Foundation very bad and bouse needs papering throughout. There is no insulation and J2 tons of coke is required for comfort through the winter. The house Is also 8 rooms instead of 5 (advertising it as 8 rooms would “date” it). Now for the “gouge.” The house sold for $2200 eight years ago. No improvements have been made; in fact, no repairs of any kind. The agency only wants twice what the house sold for plus $1000. No doubt there are many cases like this. Let's get them out into the open and air them out. » » » “STOP WIN-THE-PEACE TALK; DO SOMETHING!”

By Ms. Waller Haggerty, Indianapolis

“Let's Look Into These Real Estate Gouges"

By Irate Prospective Home Buyer, Indianapolis This period is certainly the hey-dey for the real estate salesmen. There seems to be no limit to the amount of cash they fry to “gouge”

If an owner does attempt to sell his house without the help of an agency, the minute it is advertised they swarm down on him like a cloud to and arousing the greed of the owner with, “I can get you more, etc.” not realizing that they are only contributing to the increasing inflationary condition.’ . In case there is any doubt about the condition that exists, I will

follows: “Stop your loafing and quit stalling. G0" back" an" do tHe job people sent you to do.” My son was a gunner, entered the services when he was 17. Now he’s 21 and on his return from overseas was sent to an island 100 miles off the Pacific coast and has done nothing but loaf and homesickness has only been more acute. He has been confined to the hospital and disgusted and disheartened, with no will for living like this. Eisenhower says “let them leaf at home.” They send criminals on an island in the Pacific, Alcatraz. Is this the thanks our boys get for winning the war, an island in the Pacific by some other name? I also have a son in the Philippines, he is only 19 and homesick, while our senators frolic around. Stop that talking “win the peace” and get off your hunkers and win it. It has been said by the greatest authority if you want a thing well done, do it yourself. You old 40 and fat didn’t have to work or fight,

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voting was over and their party, won all they had to do was fold up and go home. This has been going on for years until things! have got in the awfulest mess|

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“Thank you for your views, I am glad to know what the citizens, of Indiana are thinking”—and that's that. Before election they know exactly. Letters were sent to Senators Capehart, Willis and Rep.

congress outlawed that bill. Now, pantywaist, go win the peace. » » » “HOW ABOUT WEEKLY STREETCAR PASSES?” By Mrs. James Hausley, Indianapolis Al] of this resentment concerning the raising of streetcar fares leads me to send: in my suggestion. Why

mocracy,” fails to act, a cry isnot try an entirely new plan on sent up, “Write your congressman,” | John Public? and the only reply in return 1s, A weekly pass costing $1.25 per-

mitting the public to ride from 12:01 a. m. Sunday until 3 a. m. of the following Sunday. At the same time, leave the straight fare 10 cents with a free transfer. I'm sure this would be easier on every-

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“COKE COSTS HERE ARE NEARLY DOUBLE” By Thos, Bradon, 1935 Broadway After public indignation was aroused over the street railway company’s grab, the OPA seeing the good progress being made, joined in the fight, I thought rather belatedly. If they could continue their good offices in the battle against inflation and ask for an examination of the gas company’s coke account, it would be a consummation devoutly to be wished. The retail price of their coke is almost twice as much as that sold in Cincinnati and Louisville. They have made false entries in their coke account showing a fictitious cost to manufacture. The dealers must sell their coke or none. If this is not in restraint of trade, what is? Are the gas company’s books open to the public? The city controller nor the Public Service Commission has ever made public the true cost of this coke. Twelve dollars a ton, plus 50 cents to deliver, plus 25 cents to push it back in your bin makes it almost worth its weight in gold, and for the wealthy only. 2 » » “GIVE A LITTLE MORE TO THOSE WHO NEED IT” By H. W, Drinkut, Indianapelis As a reader of your paper and a veteran of world war, II, I would like to say a few ‘words on strikes; that is, what I and many other veterans I know thik of them. To start, I would like to tell the people a few things they may not have noticed. Since 1930, our wage scale made the great jump of 8% per cent and at the time I went in the army I was paying 69c for a work shirt. Today if I could find a work shirt, it would be about $1.69, no less, and wouldn't be as good as the 69-cent job. If I'm not sadly mjstaken that is well over 100 per cent jump. I bought an overcoat a week ago for $20.50. My dad bought a better one four years ago for $19.50 at the same store. That is a 50 per cent raise in price. Yes, and the people of the great U. 8. ask why the poor worker wints a raise. A G. I. just getting back might not like the strikes but give him a few weeks to soak in both sides of this strike situation and see what he has to say. It happened to Germany. 'Let's npt let it happen to us. And too much money in too few hands will

do it. Give a little more to the men who need it. ee.

“SPENDING O. K., BUT CUT THE BORROWING” By Hrs. Harper, Indianapolis = I, too, hope it is true that Mr. Truman intends to make an effort to balance the budget. If he will just ‘pull that sore tooth instead of through all of these bureaus to help the people live together, ne You aren't too dense to know what that tooth is and it certainly will take a lot of aggressive support from the people. We do need to continue spending but I say, cut out the borrowing. Why don't you tell the ‘people that? And say, also, we don’t mind paying our way by working and producing but we are getting no-

the capitalists behind the’ scenes just for the right to work.

DAILY THOUGHT

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and éternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are

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SUNDAY HAD A CHARM of its own when I was a little’ boy. ; > 2 NA ! ~ For one thing, the day with a strange serenity, a mood maintained more or less until the close of day. The streets were quiet. cries of peddlers and vendors were

ently, probably because of the absence of the hegvy) draft horses used for pulling drays of which

Sacred Heart bells began ringing on Saturday night, but they never revealed the stuff they were made of until Sunday morning when the air was clearéd to receive their music. Unlike modern bells, they didn’t attempt to play tunes. They rang out as bells are supposed to--joyously, happily, gloriously as if they were in a mood to celebrate something worthwhile. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Indianapolis had a lot more church bells when I was a little boy than it has today. :

Dad Had Shoes Shined

THE MOOD of celebrating something worthwhile didn’t stop with the church bells. It took hold: of everybody. Father started off the day dressed in his “Sunday-go-to-meeting-best” and I recall that he always had his shoes shined on that day. I used to get a nickel for the job unless it happened to be a muddy week, in which case I received a dime. For some reason, however, Father always reserved the right to determine whether the job was worth a dime or not. By the time dinner was ready, Mother, too, was dressed in her best and so were we kids. It was

Propaganda

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—A lively debate is expected when congress takes up, probably this week, the state department's new $25 million project for American propaganda abroad. It is called the office of international information and cultural affairs and will be under Assistant SecreIt will employ approximately 2600 experts and assistants in the United States and 62 foreign - countries. It has President Truman's backing. His view is that it should be “an integral part of the conduct of our national affairs.” Today, he says, it is more than ever necessary “to replace prejudice with truth, distortion with balance and suspicion with understanding.” And Secretary Byrnes shares: the Presi dent’s view. But the wartime OWI and office of inter-American affairs—which the new office, in a sense, replaces— lost favor with congress long before they were dissolved. OWI's $58 million appropriation for 1945 was cut, after heated debate, to $35 million for 1946 and some even wanted to reduce it to zero. : There is no reason to believe, however, that a majority of congress is hostile to the new agency as such. But many are of the opinion that official propaganda, as put out by governments preceding and during this war, has now become so thoroughly discredited that it largely defeats its own purpose.

Sick of Canned News

ONE OF the opponents of such propaganda is Carl W. Ackerman, dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism and a member of the “world freedom of information committee” of the American Society of Newspaper Eidtors which made a world tour last year surveying press freedom. Benton had suggested this committee look into the cancellation by the Associated Press and United Press of their contributed wire services for broadcast over short wave, “Today is the time for our government to scrap official propaganda,” said Ackerman in a letter to President Truman asking that the President withdraw his backing of the project for propaganda abroad. “Peoples throughout the world are sick,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-—Anticipate. at least a five-point increase in the cost of living in the next year, That would put the bureau of labor statistics index at 135 or better, as compared with approximately 100 in January, 1941. The index now shows food, clothing®and house furnishings nearly 50 per cent above levels of five years ago. The total cost of living during the war has been held below 130 only by pegging prices on rents, fuels and miscellaneous supplies and services. Future rises can be piled up not only through

labor costs coming out of today’s strikes. That can gradually force up the costs ofjall manufactured goods. And if OPA controls are removed, the sky's the -Jimit. Among the items on which price increases can be expected is cotton clothing. OPA has announced its intention of putting a 2442 cents a pound base ceiling price on 15-16-inch middling cotton. Cotton is today the only major crop not under. price control, because all through the war the market price has been under parity. The equity of the situation, says OPA, demands that everybody be treated alike. Price ceilings can't be kept on wheat, corn or livestock if cotton is to go free. If you want to argue that the remedy is to take off all price controls, you have to be prepared to see stabilization break down and all prices go up.

Upward Price Spiral OPA maintains t higher prices 6n raw cotton necessarily mean higher prices on all cotton textiles and clothing. If you try to answer that by saying there are only a few cents worth of- cotton in a

LONDON, Jan, 21.—Despite their overwhelming victory in the recent elections the Communist junta which runs Yugoslavia is still plainly apprehensive lest some effective opposition to their regime should 5 The two main bodies which might prove trouble~ some are the Catholic church and the Croatian Peasant party. I described, the other day, the campaign which the Communists have initiated against the church. The Croatian Peasant party is also being carefully sterilized to render it impotent a possible opposition force. u Founded some 40 years ago, this political party ted the ts. Tl oe of a federal Yugoslavia with wide powers of autonomy for its various states has largely destroyed the separatist movement-in Crodtia —at any rate, for the present, But the Communists fear the hold which: the old leaders of the Croatian Peasant party might still have over the nts in regard to other issues. Hence the general pdiicy ot intimidation directed against all other leaders of

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. merchor., To make his getaway appear plausible, he

would sometimes take me along. He said he wanted me to profit by the talks of Max Leckner, a musie

* master; Herman Engelbach, a bookseller; Dr. Guido Bell and Gottfried Recker, a merchant with a Hans |

Sachs complex. ‘The most profitable occasion I ever spent in the company of those men was the Sunday afternoon

Prof. Leckner revealed an experience of his boyhood in Germany. He sald he was a little shaver just | old enough to start taking music lessons. He was | getting along fine, he said, when all of a sudden |

his teacher died. Ill never forget how graphically Prof. Leckner portrayed the suddenness of his teacher's death. He said it occurred just 10 minutes after a pupil's lesson, the payoff of which was the pupil was ‘the little Leckner boy.

Teacher Who Didn't Die

WELL, the suddenness of his teacher's death broke J up the little Leckner boy so completely that he didn't |

know whether he could attend the funeral or nof. He did, though, and the way things turned out, it was

* the luckiest thing he ever did." The preacher had

Just finished the last prayer, said Prof. Leckner, when all of a sudden, the body ‘of his old teacher started to stir. A moment later, he rubbed his eyes and hopped out of his coffin, The first person the old teacher recognized was the little Leckner boy. He was told to report for a lesson the next morning. When the Leckner boy finished his lesson the next morning, he learned that his old teacher was as good as ever and, apparently, none the worse for his cataleptic fit. is Wonder why we don't have Sundays like thas anymore!

WORLD AFFAIRS... By William Philip Simms :

Discredited Abroad

cynical and skeptical of all propaganda. This is no time to offer American-made patent medicine in the hope that it will cure everybody or anybody.” This is especially the case abroad. Totalitarian regimes are widely known to have manufactured wholesale lies to suit whatever purpose they had in mind. Their government-controlied radio and press releases flooded Europe, Asia and South America especially to such an extent that the people. have become suspicious even of the truth when it comes

in this form. Officially peddled American propae

ganda in these same areas, it is felt, could hardly enjoy any different. reception, however truthful it might be.

Give World Real Facts

BUT THERE are more ways than one in which the OIICA could sell America abroad. For instance, our use of the Boxer indemnity to educate Chinese in our universities provides a clue. That one thing did more to teach China what the United States is liks, and what its people stand for, than almost everything else combined—including our part in two world wars, An American library in each of the 60-odd prine cipal centers of the world is another way to spread Americanism without pain. The writer is familiar with such an institution. Thousands of interested foreigners used its facilities and, because they came voluntarily and got the information they wanted, they believed it. Had it been crammed down their throats willy-nilly, they would have rejected of it as merely “prapaganda.” ! Similarly a press attache—one who knows his business, who is himself sold on America and who is fluent in the language of the country to which he is assigned—could earn his keep many times over, He, too, however, should : function like the library, That is, he could soon make it known to editors and others desiring information-—social, political, economic, cultural or other—that they could get it promptly and accurately from him. . “I am not going to stuff you with propaganda,” he might say, in effect, “but any time you want to supplement your own information from America, just let me know.”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Watch for Cost of Living Jump

shirt you may miss the point. Cotton mill ‘operators called on OPA to protest that they could not pay higher prices for raw cotton unless the prices on their products are allowed to rise and unless these increases are passed on ‘to consumers. Already the mills, converters, finishers, garment makers, whole« sales and retailers have absorbed about 250 to 300 million dollars’ worth of increased production costs which have not been passed on to consumers. They say that’s their limit. So OPA has to freeze cotton prices or allow the price of clothing to go up. If the price of cotton goods is permitted to ade vance, cotton farmers have to.pay more for the fine ished cotton goods they buy. That means an increase in the parity price formula requiring still further price increases for cotton goods and so starting an automatice’ upward price spiral that is unending.

Cotton Market Break . IN THE final analysis, the whole question gets into the field of market speculation in which the cotton growers don’t make any more money, though specu= lators do. With no ceiling on cotton, with a lot of loose money around, with a great demand for cote ton goods, with a short crop of only nine .million bales in 19456 as compared with 12 million bales in 1944, cotton futures could have been bid into a boom, This is just’ what happened after the last war, In July, 1919, the price of New York cotton was 43.78 cents a pound, Land prices soared, production ine creased, everybody got rich. Then in the 1020-21 season the bottom dropped out and cotton sold for 10 cents. Everybody went bust. It is in an effort to prevent a repetition of this catastrophe that OPA says it must step in now.

TODAY IN EUROPE... By Randolph Churchill Tito Persecutes Peasant Party

of National Libefation. Dr. August Kosutic, vice president of the Peasant party, escaped from Zagreb and came to Topusko. ’ Kosutic was introduced to, me by Monsignor Rytig, only leading churchman who joined the Partisans, One Sunday, Rytig and Kosutic lunched at the Brite ish mission headquarters. Returning home, Kosutig found secret police agents waiting for him. They took him away. We never saw him again, 3

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he has never been accused on any charge, let alone tried or convicted. Other leading ‘political figures also are in prison or subject to restraint.

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likely to cause considerable unrest. The peasants

find that, when they bring produce to the market, they now get fixed prices paid in dinars, with which ‘they can buy almost nothing in the shops. Consequently, they are hoarding their produce, and the towns are getting very short of food. Action to cope with the situation fs not likely to" be popular with the peasants. Hence the Communists desire to

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