Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1946 — Page 12
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on the ‘for a survey of the needs at the Guardians commissioners appear to oppose doing any-
lh bases his own objections on econthrift, and feels that the county shouldn’t spend ' necessary. We admire thrifty ideas, and in fact sh Mr. Ayres might have applied some of them to the ¢ wing at Julietta before that $200,000 disappeared into air. But genuine economy sometimes means wise to prevent waste or loss.’ “That is all the Welfare Board has proposed at the » home. The home is dangerously overcrowded with children for whose care the county is responsible. The number of children housed there right now is twice the number the home was built to care for, and far more than the fire regulations permit the home to keep. The Welfare Board simply wants to know whether the ‘Is likely to continue to have so many children on its hands, and if so how best to care for them. Its memers are trying to find out whether the county should spend money, or ‘whether by some temporary makeshift the county can save money, and still do the job. Certainly there is no economy in risking the health and security of these helpless children by overcrowding this ome. Marion county can’t afford, at any price, to keep its wards sleeping four or five in a bed, under a fire hazard. We believe the survey proposed is an intelligent attempt to effect a real ecoromy. And we believe the commissioners ought to grant it, without further stalling.
LET ME MAKE MY ZIPPERS”
STRIKE situation looks a little better. The CIO meat strikers have wisely changed their and gone back to work in the government-seized plants. Their wage dispute isn't settled, but the mntry will get some meat. Ford and Chrysler have grantwage raises a little more than half as big as the CIO union first demanded. That's probably about what CIO unions expected to get, and most big industries ve before the issue got all snarled up. So, perhaps, we can hope for fairly early settlement “the General Motors strike, the electrical-goods strike, others, including even the great steel strike. These bo! t battles have cost the country a terrible lot.of money, time and production. And the wage increases will be cut down by higher prices unless production comes fast, big and quick—unless all concerned get to work. is e = =» s =» = WHY THIS is so has seldom been better explained than *¥ it was the other day by David Silberma 8 New York sipper manufacturer. Mr. Silberman decided that the whole labor problem “was being approached too much from the political and pedagogical angles.” The average man “was being kicked around too much.” “#2 So he sat down in his hotel room and wrote an adrertisement—*“A plea from a bewildered small business m to the United States government, my government, to r, to management.” Then he took it around and had it full-page, in the New York Times. It deserves even circulation. Here's ‘what it said: “] manufacture zippers. I cannot get enough tape. I ot get enough metal. I cannot get enough labor. I canst enough of anything except customers. If I could get material and enough labor, and my competitors too, very soon between us we would make so many zippers—the competition would be so keen—that there would be no possibility ‘of inflation, at least so far as zipirs are concerned. : “!“What is true of my business—zippers—is true of buttons and dresses and fabrics and steel and autos and locomotives and finger bowls and tooth picks and of apple sauce. “Production, competition, the ingenuity of management, the co-operation of labor is what will prevent inflation, not government regulation . . . so— ' “Labor—please stop your strikes. Management—please pay your employee a higher wage. Remember, he is your best customer. Government—trust us, don’t regulate us. We'll hold the line—voluntarily. “Please, everybody, get together and let me make my : zippers.” pot
THOSE NEGLECTED STOCKPILES \CRE! ARY of the Interior Ickes is worried about the ~ = staggering loss of natural resources by this country during the war, and the need for replenishing. He is trying to interest the President in this. We hope he will have ~ more success in getting government action than the SerippsHoward newspapers and others who have been alarmed by this situation. + There are two ways to make up the shortage in strategic minerals and materials. One is to press forward with plo: m, which our government has been doing after a on under the Ickes spur. The other is to acquire foreign jurces and stockpile them, on which very little is being Both ways are necessary. The latter is particularly rtant because of the time element and competition. T course it is not always easy to get the scarce min- § and materials from abroad. But, as we have been out for a long time, the United States is in an ally privileged position to do so. The demand of other #8 for American dollar loans gives us a legitimate opnity to get something we need in return for what
‘negotiators missed this opportunity in the case of dd British settlement of lend-lease and of new
the American creditor.
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"U. S. Steel Proposal Made Direct At White House, Not on Radio Only"
By Benjamin F. Fairless, President, United An editorial in Friday's Times
States Steel Corp. and other Scripps-Howard news-
papers entitled, “Mr. Fairless Bungles,” commented on my proposal for a meeting of industrialists with President Truman. In that editorial, the statement is made that, “He made his proposal in such a way that a lot of other people would hear it before Mr. Truman did, unless Mr. Truman happened to have his radio turned to a particular station at a particular time.” For your information, my proposal was made at the White House, to a high government official who was present during the negotiations there last week. In making the suggestion, I even went so far, when
oversight which congress can and should remconsideration of the agreement, There will be nities in the case of the Russians and others. ment on account on these lop-gided internae would be to the mutual advantage of the
Jeguizel siitegi minerals we can | 1 debts and to apply on new cred- | LL : : business. | i 8150 essential se- | »goytyick's stopped 29 3s , Fm . a
requested to do so, as to wri down the names of a few men who. | in my opinion, would be appropri- | ate for the President to invite to such a conference. I omitted mention of these facts | in my radio address on Wednesday | night, as I did not wish to embar- | rass the President. I am sure that | you would want this information, | in view of the statement in your editorial, . ® » “ARMY ISN'T HARD UP, FOR MEN; WHY HOLD US?” By A Homesick G. I, Le Havre, France I am a native of Indianapolis and/ have read The Times for as long as 1 can remember. Will you do me a favor and print a little piece in your paper and put it in any other paper that you can?
I would like to know what is the matter with people and our war department and congress, that they have to hold men in the army that bave wives and children and are above 35 years old. I know that the army isn't that hard up for men. Our children need us at home. Our children are getting out of our wives’ control and when they do, society is ready to put them away. Why? Because they didn’t have a father to teach them discipline and the wives are worrying themselves to death trying to keep the kids out of trouble and trying to live on a measly allotment. I am a 37-year-old man and have 17 months of service. And 10 months of that I have spent in France. Yet the war department says you have to have two years service, And I still have to go eight more months. ‘By that time I will go crazy and probably my family, too. We are all practically prisoners over here. Everything here in Le Havre is off limits. And if you do go out at night you might get killed or cut to pieces. 80 all we can do is set
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“RICH REWARDS FOR UNO AUTHORITY ACCEPTANCE” By L. Stine, 2078 N, Denny st. If 48 states can get along without going to war with one another, cannot as many nations do likewise? In the early days of America’s history, tribe fought against tribe, and sect against sect; but, after our forefathers joined to form a federal government and experienced a number of growing pains, including a war between the states, the United States became of age and emerged a peaceful nation whereby each state retained certain rights and surrendered others t0 a supreme government. And, today, one state gives no thought to making war against its neighbor—New York against Pennsylvania, Indiana against Ohio. After centuries of warfare where tribe has fought against tribe, em pire against empire, and nation against nation, the world now stands at the threshold of the greatest opportunity for peace. The United Nations Organization has been formed as the first step toward a supreme government over all, including our own great nation. The procedure will be a give and take Business as it was with the early colonies. One nation cannot be the be-all and. end-all, just as one colony was not the big chief when our nation was formed. The UNO looms as the salvation for all peace-seeking peoples of the world. It is time for all to get into the swing of modern legislative, judicial and administrative procedures and yield to this princifial authority. Because rightfully we have considered ourselves “tops” in succsesful government for so long, it will be hard for us Americans to accept any authority over our own government. But rich rewards await the democraticminded peoples who will-récognize, support and submit themselves to
around and look at the walls and think of the day we will get home, byt with not much hope. And there are lots of men of my age that
have no business over here.
the UNO. And we not fear it {impossible for a world of so many
{social cultures to get along. Our [own “melting pot” has proved otherwise.
ia—I th utton out of the plate!”
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Carnival —By Dick Turner
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“RUSSIAN COMMUNISM OK, WHY NOT TRY IT HERE?” By Alex Radishicki, R. R. 5, Box 19 Seems as though there has been a lot of hullabaloo here of late about communism, foreigners, etc. Let me ask a simple question. Where would American labor be today without them? Philip Murray, Dan Tobin, Sidney Hillman, Caesar Petrillo and on down the line, they were all born and educated in the old country. They say, “We are headed for communism.” Well, what of it? It works in Russia all right and it will work here, I'm a union man and I am out on strike. I say, down with capitalism. We workers should get an equal share in the profits We should run Philip Murray for Plesident and if all of us do our part we can elect him. Let's hold
Lout—for-a-straight-30-per-cent- that will suffice for the present, as the old saying goes, “We have got to crawl before we can walk.”
Editor's Note: We hasten to add that opinions in the Forum are not our own . . , we don’t believe the men named above are Communists. | » . » | "HOW COME PRIORITY ON CARS FOR ADVERTISING?” By Four Veterans, Indianapolis With hundreds of veterans forced to depend upon the temperamens tal public utilities for their. trans- | portation and unable to beg, bor- | row or buy a new car, why are the manufacturers of Raleigh cigarets able to obtain automobiles to be dispensed in a contest for advertising purposes? To us, there is neither rhyme nor reason to this system. Some of us have already paid deposits on a new automobile and have been told that we could expect them next fall— at the earliest. Yet, the Raleigh cigaret company is able to give away a brand-new “Chevrolet-a-day”— and there are no “next fall” strings attached. Is there any reason is this wonderful post-war world why an advertising campaign should have priority over the requirements of men who have given a limb in the service of their country or, for that matter, civilians who need cars in their everyday business? . » » “ARMY IS TO BLAME FOR SOLDIER KILLING JAPS” By Mrs. M. B. Carlton, Rushville An open letter to Jim Lucas, I read your article in' The Indianapolis Times of Pfc. Hicswa’s death murder of Japs. ¥Xou may have had control over yourself if you did take a drink but there are
» » s “KEEP UP CLEAN-UP; STREETS DISGRACEFUL” By Nancy W. Briney, 151% N, Meridian of, Congratulations to your paper and to Sherley Uhl for the articles on ¢leaning up Indianapolis, The conditions gf the streets here are sickening and disgraceful. What
people to Indiana and to Indian-
when they get here? ‘I hope you keep up your campaign until y get results,
DAILY THOUGHT
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.—II Corinthians 6:1. *o
ink some woman's ‘trying to match
is the point of spending thousands of dollars on advertising to bring
apolis if it’s going to look like this
THANK God for grace, ye who weep only! If, as some have done, | ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place and touch but tombs—look {up!- Those tears will -run-soon--in |. long rivers down the ifted face, and
States and Russia over Korea, where armed forces of occupies half the country. ge :
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afraid the people will declare unity prior to the end of a conference
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of the door.” ! MacArthur's first report on the occupation, the Russians were not being coHe also stated dual control was bringing
Conflicting Stories Rife Le THE LACK of co-operation was the principal impression I received on a mission to Korea shortly before I returned to the states from Tokyo. When I was there, and it was in the period covered by the report of the supreme commander for the allied powers, there was no such thing as a free interchange of information between allies, such as I have seen on other fronts in this ok The natural result , a8 always under such circumstances, much misinformation. I was told, as being verified “straight dope,” that the Russians were stripping northern Korea of heavy industrial machinery and shipping it to Russia. I received, too , . . and on just as reliable authority . . . the directly contradictory story that what was really happening was that the Russians were merely moving the machinery in question closer to the source of raw materials in Korea. No one seemed to know the real truth, nor was there any working machinery for arriving at the facts, )
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—I am glad my late grandpa who had a poisonous hatred for radio, who regarded a telephone as a devilish contraption, and who deeply distrusted automobiles, isn’t around today. Grandpa would blow his top. Grandpa’s grandson sat in on the public debut of the two-way, dial-operated, automobile redio-tele-phone, which will allow two people riding in different directions to talk to each other, and also to ring up home to find out if the cake is in the oven. The test was complicated by television and the press. Apart from Frederick Budelman, chief engineer of a radio company I was the most confused person present. “I start out today to show the auto dial phone to some scientists,” said Mr. Budelman, a personable, blond young man, “and it turns into a Roman holiday. Scientists I haven't seen. Reporters I've seen too much of.”
'Cop Is Getting Touchy’ THE TEST involved two autos, one of which seemed to stay in the Holland tunnel, and a studio. The occupants of the cars chattered with each other, and the studio, representing home, talked to both. ‘While this was going on, some busybody was televising the control room which e conversation possible. Mr. Budelman, at the helm of a sedan parked outside the laboratories from which the experiment was being run, was telling a female reporter about two-way radio telephones. He was interrupted. “This is Gene,” said a voice. “Have you pulled away yet?” . #No,” replied Mr. Budelman. “But the cop on the beat is getting a little touchy. I guess we better switch over to the station wagon.” . - “Will you say a few words for the press in the car in Holland tunnel?” a “Sure,” answered Budelman, “if they don’t mind a guy with a bad cold. Harrumph. Umph. How are you?”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Diplomatic loose talk of “conflicting interests” between the United States and the Soviet Union, unless checked by positive action on the part of Washington and Moscow, may do drreparable harm to relations between the two countries, From London, Paris and other capitals come persistent reports that Britain or France or a combination of these and other countries must “preserve the balance” between the “conflicting interests” of Russia and the United States. It is remarked in the highest circles .on. this’#ide of the Atlantic that there is no need for any go-betweens; that there is no legitimate conflict .of interests between the two powers. True, Russia and the United States are now the world’s two mightiest nations, But their honest interests clash nowhere. Paragraph 1 ‘of Président Truman’s ten-point statement of U. 8 foreign policy said: “We seek no territorial expansion or selfish advantage. We have no plans for aggression against any other state. We have no objective which needs clash with ‘the peaceful aims of any other nation.” And, it is observed, our record in two world wars proves this. Assuming that Russia feels the same way, there is no room whatsoever for a conflict of interests.
No U. S. Far East Aspirations GEOGRAPHICALLY, the one area where Soviet-
WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.—~When the present industrial disputes clear up the great mass of organized workers in big basic industries will enjoy increased wages.
A large number of industrial disputes have been
settled already with wage increases, many without strikes, as President Truman has pointed out. They attracted little, if any, public attention, The parade of bigger industries into new. contracts with higher wages started with the Ford company. . But this general advance, which is necessary to meet higher llving costs, does not include many workers in some segments of manufacturing industry—among them textiles, lumber, tobacco, furniture and electrical equipment “= nor many white-collar workers,
Labor Surplus Cuts Jobs IN THE manufacturing industries listed above and a few others there were for example, some 2,400,000 workers when the bureau of labor statistics made its survey last summer who got Jess. than 65 cents an hour, because of low minimums. Since then, however, there has been A reclassification downward of
when the war ended. .It is to protect these forgotten increase
people and 10 help of purchasing
sun.—E. B. Browning.
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leave the vision clear for stars and
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. sources of hydro-electric power. The American zone i
Need High Level Orders
"Grandpa, They're Sure A'doin’ It!
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philp Simms Diplomatic Loose Talk Is Harmful
| jobs in many industries, due to the surplus of labor
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‘Our administration of the areas of the Far East, whether it has been alone or jointly with other. "powers, has been pitifully lacking in co-ordination ke 3 ‘wifh the Russians. This has been due, perhaps, to . HERBERT P. Gen. MacArthur's determination that liaison shall Delaware st. ch
be a two-way street, with the Russians giving as much ag they receive in the way of information, : I | have a hunch that the reports of the Russian consular officials in Seoul don't offer very helpful | reading: in northern Korean‘ headquarters or in | Moscow. And they won't until the Russians change | their present closed door policy regarding what they | are doing “north of 38.” The blame is at‘their door. The Russians ared of “liberation” contains most | of the natural resources of Korea, including the |
contains the most productive agricultural lands. When I was in Seoul, there not only was no arrangement for sending food north and power south, but there even were unfounded rumors that when cold weather came, the Russians. would refuse to permit power to be sent out of the area they controlled, a rumor that is most absurd. 4
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EACH ZONE: of Korea, is in effect, closed to the | - local branch. representatives of the power not administering it, He was vice except for superficial visits which reveal nothing. Hoosier state “The solution to problems occasioned by this | Telephone Pior division can be solved,” says Gen. MacArthur, “only § for 1944-45. by active co-operation between the governments of . the United States and the Soviet Union” ; i CAROL DUR. It is astounding that complete co-operation can- first candidates
the Queen of }
not be obtained . . . far too many weeks of pulling 16 at .the Broac
against each other have been wasted. There was, it |
is pertinent to observe, the “same reluctance of the | » ‘One candiRussians to let us know what was going on in their | date will be searea in Iran when we were supplying the pipeline of | | lected by each lease-lend materials through Persia. 4 t een ‘canteen, The Koreans, with their aspirations and their | Judges will sepromise from the United Nations of independence lect the win.
and freedom, are the victims of this lack of co-opera-tion. Let's stop this nonsense by ‘top-level orders from Washington and Moscow; finish up the job of | giving Korea back to her people, and send both American and Russian troops back to their homes, |
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ner. A number of attractive gifts will be awarded the queen and her . runner-up. The dance will feature Glen Clarke | from Cincinnat Steven Bellin the Truk On c¢ Miss Durnil wa
“Okay,” said the press, in the Holland tunnel. “How much will it cost if I really want to buy one?”
asked the lady reporter. Noa cd “Five hundred bucks,” answered Mr. Budelman, lis city aus
“Let's go upstairs.” Going up to the studio, he said quickly: “Everybody’s missing the main point, This isn't something everybody is going to have right away. It's | designed for railroads, for press use—you got a guy on a story and he wants to talk direct to the office for police, firemen, doctors, taxicab drivers, farmers who haven't got regular power lines, It's romantio but impractical to think of it in everybody's car.” Mr. Budelman explained that his company just mekes, the auto-phones, and that telephone com=panies are planning to set up a special switchboard to handle the traffic. “You just call the company, tell them to take your car and install a phone. It'll cost $15-$20 a month. For some people it's practical.”
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pretty blond "girl, make-up melting under searing Later he ser tok sentative in th lights, was televised and talking t0 a roving car, all izing public re at once. In the television screen, she looked tired. s “Are you the girl I saw on the television set?” HERMAN J asked a voice. “Blue eyes? Blond hair? Five feet former civilian eight? lic recreation i
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“That's corny,” the blond girl answered. “My Inc., is on hi gawd, it's hot.” way. to Shang: “More legs!” yelled a photographer. “Give us} bhai for = th more legs!” | “Ah, that's beautiful” said a stout man. “Beautid | Dujies Nation ful.” 1 2 “Nuts,” said the blond girl. habiliiation a “At least,” said Mr. Budelman, to an associate who He will serv
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was leaving, “You can go ig it is?” > Grandpa, move over,
to provide for her the fullest and most unembarrassed
opportunity to develop her own way of life. And that, ers college in it is remarked, goes equally for the rest of the orient ters degree fro and the world. So again, unless the Soviet Union has His mother,
other aims, there can be no clash. . With one-sixth of the habitable globe under her flag, it is noted, Russia, like America, has no need to expand. Ideologically, it is admitted, the world’s two mighti« est powers are poles apart. But if there is a “cone flict of interests” there, iteis not confined to these two. The “conflict” is between the Soviet Union and, virtually every other country. Thus no especial “bal< ance” is needed between Russia and the United States but rather a determination on the part of Russia dnd others to live up to the spirit of the Roosevelt=' Litvinov agreement of 1933. x
Russian Non-Interference Pledge RUSSIA, under that almost forgotten agreement,
pledged herself “to respect ‘ scrupulously the indis-: putable rights of the United States to order its own
day, lives at 8 : “x VETERAN O fce in Burma a Worley will re
life within its own jurisdiction in its own way and to Dr. J. P. Worle, refrain from interfering in any manner in the internal ¥ hs affairs of the United States, its territories or pose terneship was sessions.” Also to restrain any agency under direct pital. Dr. Wo
and child, wil
interf: ith the or indirect Soviet control from interfering w Washington st
internal affairs of this country. Were this pledge
boys who don’t have as much con- fnterests may be said to touch is in the further internationalized and honored as part of the trol as you do. ‘I sympathize with Anericun Ee our commercial policy has UNO charter, the chances for lasting peace would be CANVASS the parents of this boy. His back-| been and remains that of the open door. Politically greatly enhanced. « FOR LGC ground is good. The army taught | it has been and still is one of hands off. Unhappily, actual “conflict of interests” are not NORTH. M2 him to kill and perhaps to drink. As set forth in the nine-power pact of 1922, it Is necessary to the creation of tension between nations, Maybe he did get drunk. If our| “to respect the sovereignty, the independence and the If repeated often and long enough, people at last ® (U. P)—A] brass hats had had their shoulders| territorial and administrative integrity of China,” and begin to believe the story. vass will be m: to the wheel, had not been asleep, 3 . chester, Pleas: we would not have had a war. Mr. o Lucas, all I can say is “judge not IN WASHINGTON oon By Thomas L. Stokes ‘ PY ee ge you be Judge aul 80 . by the drink in e army ame. ey taug The liquor q him to kill. And are you married WwW Ad N H lp { M ; Y and do you Have a ry age vances w € © an Be
hour for the first two years after it becomes law, 70 ,cents for the following two years, and 75 cents thereafter,
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This was a compromise with the Truman’ proposal ney Raymond which called for a 65-cent minimum, with an increase invalid because to 70 cents after a year and 75 cents thereafter, But passage. a fight will be made in the senate to reduce rates After the can even below this compromise, particularly from some pleted, resident southern members—a repetition of the battle agqinst vote at a down the original 40-cent minimum eight years ago. Veteran Presents Problem ‘| AID FOR THERE IS another compelling reason now for an § DRIVE {increase in the minimum, other than those ems : phasized in recent Weeks before both senate and A- campaign | house labor committees. ‘This is the returning Jl ™shings and pr veteran, ; ¥ for returning He has a peculiar problem, particularly the Jl Started by the
the American \ District chai , are: North, N chapter presid ave. telephone,
younger ex-soldier, For about 80 per cent of the veterans do not have re-employment rights since they were not regularly employed before they entered. service. Some of these will go back to school.” But many must find jobs, Some have families to support.
Surveys by the U. 8. employment service and by Mrs. William F independents reveal that a number of jobs available OHerry 0733; | Prather, 719 P
pay too little to support a family, less than a man with a family was getting in the army in fact. The low wages offered in so many cases explain why:
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veterans are taking unemployment benefits of $20 & week—around 400,000 at Roy report— while shop
ping around for better jobs.