Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1946 — Page 8

shrikers “with unmatched boldness, rejected ) of the President of the United States.”

They refused to abide by “the President's action in recognition of the national interest.”

» are certain quotations in the above statements. is only fair to give credit to the source and explain ir use. They were the exact words used by Philip Murray, C. 1. 0. president, in denouncing the U. S. Steel Corp. for ‘turning down Mr. Truman's proposal in the steel conBut they fit, equally well, in the parallel action of the C. I. 0. Packinghouse Workers’ union. They show how words can kick back when the situation is reversed. A A —————————————— FRANCE SLIPS ™ NET result of the change In the French government = is a weaker executive and worse instability. That plays into ‘the hands of the Communists, and at a time when - France is the key to Europe. This will not make it any easier for Washington to deal with, Paris, : , the new interim president, M. Gouin, was not the candidate of his own Socialist party but of the Communists. Certainly he is not as strong a man as Gen. De Gaulle, either as an individual or as a leader of the nonCommunist groups. He can remain in office only by Consmunist sufferance.

Fi Ber oe om rant tha is & more conveiieit aeouyl Gk .the Communists than if one of their own men Were head of the government. For in the latter case their responsibility would be clear, and they would get the full force of public reaction against their wrecking policies. As it is, ‘with a minimum of risk to themselves, they can go on undermining the coalition government of which they are a i as they constantly sabotaged the De “Gaulle

¥ All ob ship oF apical terestdb- Amimiesns:as it touches French . foreign policy. Traditionally American- ~ French relations have been close, both economically and politically. Not that we have a selfish interest in France.

We do not. But the two great republics have a common uted

interest in the survival and growth of the democratic prin- - giples which they have shared so long. If democracy can- + not flourish in France, where its roots are deep, the chances of democracy in the less friendly soil of central and éastern Europe are almost nil, ‘Europe needs French leadership, and Americans want ~ France to provide it. Unlike Russia, which has tried to lower the international position of France until and unless she becomes a Moscow puppet, the United States has insisted that France have full status as a member of the Big Five. ~~ But only France herself can determine her future. If , the French Communists succeed in making France weak in the military and economic fields, and a Russia stooge politically, she will lose her international influence and succumb to chaos at home. Only the democratic people of France can prevent that.

BYRON PRICE'S NEW JOB OF the toughest war tasks was running censorship in this country. And, by what amounts to common consent, 3t ‘Was one of the best run. Indiana-born Byron Price, former press association executive, headed the operation. He richly deserves the Medal of Merit conferred on him by President Truman. Byron is about to take up residence in Hollywood where he is becoming vice president of the Motion Picture Pro- ~ ducers and Distributors of America, Inc. His salary will be many times what he was paid as director of censorship, but we wonder whether the new place won't be correspondtougher. : u Anyway we wish him well #nd hope he is able to avoid, A offending any Hollywood host or hostess of some

appeal to his Hoosier sense of what congood time. The latest is described by United

details leaked out today of the pre-dawn free-for-on t} front lawn of the home of John Decker, artil Flynn. The movie stars involved said it a misunderstanding. The battle was described in Tort 44 4 deuffle. These Who saw it said it like & brawl, heavy Jack LaRue «+ « got a cut on the back , one on his nose and one on his lower lip, when y, the movie Dillinger, hit him and knocked ney socked Sammy Colt, son of Ethel Barrya Barrymore, Colt's cousin, slapped Tier- } times in retaliation.

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By A. BR. Groves, Noblesville

Could it be possible that our realise the vast power the C. I. O. has * attained? Could it be that

guilty of this terrible situation. How? Well we sent a nice bunch of representatives to our congress from each state.in the union. The average one of thent has at ledst enough knowledge about the workings of corporation to know that if you run & machine you will wear it out and, to preserve that machine, it is only logical to stop slicing bread and save the bread slicer. Oh yes! You and I are the dumb bunnies, John Q. Public. We sent that bunch of men up there to legislate for the good of the country as a whole, but we picked them out becalise they represented this or that party and not that they represented the best brains in our country and state. We should worry if they bow to powerful lobbles in Washington Just as long as they belonged to our political party, I heard President Truman's plea to the nation to get congress to do something about the bills he had recommended. To me

side chat that hall a real merit. That was to do something to get the bills out of committee hands. That is the first real problem -our congressmen should solve, notwith« standing the vital strike menace, » tJ » “LITTLE OLD LADY IS MODEL OF ANGELIC ACT” By Eugene. V. Ayres, Indianapolis It was my fortune to observe one

"Improve Caliber of Congress, Get Bills Out of Committees"

Your editorial this week called “Henry Kaiser Takes a Chance” is very timely and I, like Mr. Kaiser, cannot conceive that a difference of 3% cents would throw a strike upon the public of such proportions

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issues tickets at the Terminal Station, a little old lady patiently waiting in line for a ticket. Her hair was snow white snuggled under a knitted shawl which ambled down over her dropped shoulders. In her hand she carried a small gréen purse, in the other a shopping bag of inexpensive design. Here was not the picture of material wealth, rather a typical example of the struggle for existence, and as she approached the ticket agent she quietly said, “I found this pursé on the floor,” and added as she turned it in, “I wish to buy a strip of tickets to Sunnyside Sanatorium.” With this she reached into the battered shopping bag and withdrew a weathered Kk. She paid for her tickets, inquired for the next bus and shuffled away into the crowd. The full realization of what I had witnessed was dim in my mind and as my thoughts materialized into this version of angelic conduct the little old lady was gone. Who she was, from whence she came, aye a mystery, with no one in particular to care, not even the panic stricken woman in red who arrived a few moments later and nervously inquired, “Have you seen my green purse and $80?" on » . “NAVY NEEDS AN INQUIRY ON MORE THAN ONE THING” By a Sailor, Mooresville My topic is demobilization-of all fathers having one or two children. Yes, I realize the army and navy released all fathers of three, but

how about us fellows that have

representatives. Why not little time out from trying yourself a raise in salary, and

recent evening as I stood conversing with a friend of mine who'

Carnival — By Dick Turner

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“COUNTRIES BUY FREEDOM WITH RESOURCES CONTROL” By 8{ Moore, 3006 W. 16th st. Now the dumber you are, the better you fit, in a world that is run by the few who demand everything for their own selfish whims, but they don't give & hang about you. If you happen to have just enough sense to“work or to carry a pack and a gun, then you fit in just fine with the scheme of the few who just rest on their spines or have fun. They will squeeze you for boodle, paid out of your check, for a trip to some warm ocean beach, or they send you to fight for a monstrous cartel that is bleeding the world like a leech. So the dumber you are, then the better you fit in the scheme of the stooges of wealth; then just keep your trap shut, like & dumb, helpless clam if you want to enjoy the best health. The Siamese who collaborated with the Japanese have bought their independence a few months after the so-called end of the war by allowing concessions to Britain on tin and rubber. Since these commodities are about all the country is worth, the people can rule themselves and work in the tin mines and rubber plantations for little or nothing, live on a little rice, and be happy. They cannot fight any big nation. Thes Koreans who slit every Japanese throat they could get to and otherwise did all they could to help the allies, are to be kept under guar® of the UNO for five years. It may be that their resources can be allocated to world. cartels by that time and they can buy their right to eat all the worms they want out of their cab« bage patches while the international kraut cartel takes the cabbage. Someone has said that the British needed that four billions that you are giving them so that they can continue to hold up their heads. Anyhow, when the 50 ‘years are up they will still owe our children, but our children will not go passing the hat along the international main street like a bunch of bums. 2 8 =» “INVESTIGATORS FAIL IN DUTY TO PUBLIC”

By Mrs. W. A Cellins, 1402 E. New York st. Where is our public now?

If the Victor Wiese family had dogs you would hear the public howl like & pack of wolves, but not for two little friendless, homeless children. What was Metta Davis and Lourena Fullilove doing? They surely saw the condition of that house. I can’t say home. Will these two women still stay on the payroll after lefting the taxpayer down? Of course they will and many more like them. I imagine these children are nerve ous. wrecks, hungry, cold and will grow up bitter about living. Yes, they chain dogs but not children. I really don’t blame the Wiese famfly as I do the investigators although I think all four should be chained to a whipping post on the Circle. Few children plaged in homes have the proper food and care. Please give us more places like Mooseheart, the child's heaven on earth.

. # » “HATS OFF TO TEACHERS UNION; HANDS TO AID” By Mary Bllen Starr, $127 College ave, While so many unions are on strike it is refreshing to note that

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ment of school attendance laws and the establishment of schools to prevent juvenile delinquency before it occurs rather than to penalize the most serious cases .after they have become incurable. Hats. off to the teachers’ union, and hands to their ald.

DAILY THOUGHT And He sald unto them, How is 1t that ye sought Me? Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business?--Luke 2:40.

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Docision at Moscow: by the U. 8. Britain and Russ sia that we and Russia would form 8 joint commission to establish a central government and thas those powers. and China would constitute a five-year trusteeship with a “view to the re-establishment of Koreas as an independent state” did not sit well with Koreans, who demand a government of their own immediately without foreien interference. Responsible place little a tg esyonainia. Ban world that they are not ready for selfsgovernment. . Friday's dispatch from Moscow stating Russia favored & five-year maximum for the trusteeship will do nothing to improve relations further complicated during the week by charges of Xorean cone servatives that leftist groups favored the trusteeship. The most conservative national leader, Dr.

Informed Koreans with whom I have talked say that while more than 40 years of Jap domination _— done much to dull initiative and aggressi there nevertheléss are sufficient leaders to form a sound government and the people are sufficiently aware of the issues to elect the right type of representatives.

Humiliating Abuse

THE JAPANESE really gave the Koreans a kicking around, vicious and humiliating. The. ancestorworshipping Oriental holds his family name most

REFLECTIONS . . . By Jim 6.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.~G. 1. Joe, the guy who climbed out of a muddy foxhole and went to college, is turning ip the best grades professors have seen for many a semester. This isn’t likely to make Joe popular with some

of his classmates or, for that matter, with some of his teachers. High school graduates who expected college to fit the old pattern of dances, dates and proms complain Joe is setting too fast a scholastic pace. Professors who would like to discount veteranstudents as gold bricks taking advantage of a generous public larder are finding the facts don't bear them out. The veteran is deadly serious about getting what he came to the uhiversity for. There is still an inclination on the part of a few to argue that the veterans’ interest in higher education won’t last. One university official believes that many veterans will find the standards of his school too high and will drop out. But there's little in the record to support either theory.

Vet Average Higher "PRESIDENT CHARLES SEYMOUR of Yale, in his last annual report, pointed out: “The veterans have displayed a marked seriousness of purpose. Experience in the armed forces has made clear to them the value of college training sand a college degree. The prediction that the veteran

Remain Strong

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Congressmen backing U. 8. bases in the Pacific, universal peacetime training and adequate national defense measures are being asked: “Against whom are we arming?” also: “Have you lost faith in the UNO already?” These are trick questions. Pretty much the same people are asking them today as those who wanted to know, during the late 30's what was behind our preparedness program then, and why our navy held maneuvers in the vicinity of Hawaii, referred to by some as “Japan’s front yard.” The answer to the one about “against whom are we arming?” is, we are arming against no one. But we are arming against anyone who might attack us. City police weren't armed against -a ‘specific evil<doer. They were armed against possible emergencies, The fire department wasn't set up to fight a particular fire, but any fire. World war II, it is pointed out, provided a good indication how much world peace depends on the United States. One of our allies of world war I attacked without justification and forced us inte world war II. In order to help save mankind from NaziFascist domination, some 12 million Americans saw service in every corner of the globe. To lick Japan our men were forced to fight and die throughout the islands of the Pacific.

Keep Necessary Bases

IF WE ARE to do our part in keeping the world safe from similar aggressions in the future, we must have ready-made bases, American boys must not be called “on 40° shed more blood to gain a toehold on the same islands a second time: Almost every American, it is observed, is 100 per cent for the UNO. But just as the United States

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Truman has made a broad analysis of the presént industrial confusion which takes on considerable meaning when measured against the perspective of developments in recent years. He saw the steel strike as & tryout of power between industry and labor. His conclusion is that” there is too much power on each sile. His role as Presidént, as he sees it, is to exert the power of the people as a whole, whom he represents in his office. What the country is experiencing, and perhaps hasn't clearly realized yet, is. a new era of conflicts of massed power for which there is no ready solution. Even if there were, it would take more than a formula. It would require a spirit of co-operative adjustment which now seems to be lacking. mocracy works itself out of crises by successive compromises in which nobody wins completely. None has been found for the one now confronting us. Democracy depends upon a balancing of forces.

First Labor-Industry Test A LOOK BACKWARD helps to indicate .the problem. It is only in recent years that the workers have organized as & cohesive power in out great mass production industries, They achieved in the Roosevelt administration, and it was the purpose’ of the Roosevelt regime to accomplish just this to try to bring balance ig a situation that was weighted for big industry with all its resources. and ‘power.’ There was no secret about this. But this new power never really had been exerted in a contest with organized industry until now, after

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will come back 10 college with a serious determination to make the most pf his opportunities is thus far borne out.” President Herman L. Donovan of Kentucky nis versity reports: “In genera), the scholastic average of the veteran as a group is much higher than the student bedy. as a whole. Their influence on the campus has been excellent.” oan Kenneth C. Little of Wisconsin “university

a he veteran has maintained a higher scitolastiq average; and displayed a more serious attitude toward learning, than any other group’ of students.” Dr. Francis J. Brown of the American Council on Education predicts that the veteran soon will be in a numerical majority and within a year will dominate most university campuses, :

Desire No Trimmings he VETERANS show impatience with accepted pat-, terns. Dr. Willard Givens, NEA executive secretary, the father of a 21-year-old paratrooper, believes “the veteran will not be as interested as some of us waquid like him to. be in what we: call ‘culture’ ‘He wants to learn what he needs to earn a living for himself and his family, and he’ll reject the trimmings’ Dt Alonzo Grace, Connecticut commissioner of edueation, predicts: “The day of the ill-prepared, take-it-ors leave-it, lecture is past. The veteran is putting: hig professor on the spot. He's asking ‘why’?”

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms ; to Preserve Peace

was a principal in winning the war, it will be a des

ciding factor in preserving the peace. That 4s 38 say, in making the UNO effective. But it can nodt fulfill its obligations, either to itself or to UNO, unless it remains strong. Not potentially strong, bug actually strong—in the air, on land and on the sea: And adequate bases are a vital part of that strength A war-weary major general who has just returned to this country after three years in the Southwest Pacific told the writer: “We Americans can, if we will, prevert another war. We are certainly not going to attack any other country. If, therefore, we remain strong enough’ to discourage aggression by other powers, we shall ‘havy peace for a long time.

Help UNO Be Effective

“JAPAN ATTACKED us because she was cone vinced she could lick us. A comparatively small, sec: ond-rate power though she was, she felt certain shé could defeat us because we had betome weak and. disorganized and she was armed to the teeth, dise. ciplined and ready to go. Pearl Harbor was the result. . “True, we finally won the war. But it took a ong time and might well have taken longer. It cost us moré than a million casualties, nearly $400 billion, national ;debt of close to $300 billion, & disrupted national economy and a vast soeial (nheaval. i “By an expenditure of, says two per cent, of what world war II cost us, we can probably avéid word war III. We dan at least procure a long pe&ce. . can help make the UNO effective: - If we grow hg wé will be inviting another Pearl Harbor. And our next Pearl Harbor almost certainly would be on a nationwide scale’ and probably ‘out last.” ’

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and a government board became the umpire. We have, then, come into a néw era, and we come unprepared--not only in mechanics, but also in spirit. President Truman, perhaps £0t fully realizing himself the strength of the tensiors released by the end of war, first suggested collective bargaining between’ industry and labor on their own,’ A conference was called here. It failed to find a formulas in that field. He then suggested legislation for government factfinding boards, but this languishes. A fact-finding board appointed by him was turned down by General Motors in ‘that case, 'as his own personal fact-finding in the steel case was rejécted by U. 8. Steel,

Can Be No Complete Victory MEANWHILE, with nothing working, the Presi dent resorts to wartime powers to take over industries, as in the meat case, which is no solution, either. The government ean’t keep on doing that. Big industry is well-heeled by war profit and tax advantages granted by congress. President Truman investigated and considered that carefully. when he made his offer in the steel case, which the company rejected, and the union’ accepted. The President, significantly, is insisting that the solution of the steel case is for U; 8. Steel to come in and accept the compromise offer of 18% cents an hour.” He presumably regards this as in; -the inlerest of the people of the country. “This would not represent a full vietory tor eller side, and there can be ng compiete victories for either side the way our democracy has functioned and must function. he whole people must be considered, as

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tion” on experie whom they ha last few month Chere will be ‘ele d other business i a closing con nducted by the Wednesday. Rev. Mr. An or of religious Indiana snyod. Listed C no attending ll select courses sented in class 15 and 8:40 p. o m. will be foll id the 8:05 assem Among the list Youth at Worship, bcation,” “Applyin e,” “Adventuring

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Dr. William J. he chapel of Fisk ve the 7:30 p. m trict meeting of outh Fellowship oberts Park Meth The district meet 6 p. m with a hen Dr. Faulkner folk tales treasu ¢ is the author o bject ‘and is call Negro leader oung people and ees in the city

ttend. Dr.’ Faulkner wil ind the annual c ndiana Pastors’ he Indiana Coun hich opens Mond David Saunders, e fellowship, w ruth Nickels w n of the 7:30 p. m tomorrow. M by and Miss. Muri charge of the i refreshments. Coble, pastor of pet Methodist cl buth counselor.

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Mrs. Helen Scho y Mrs. Donna C he 4:30 p. m. Prote orrow at the vet Chaplain J. G. he talk. Arrang usic were made | unit 85 of t imerican Legion s

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