Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1946 — Page 10

to mike good the legal profession, I am interested only in ¢ whom I can take my cases and have them and impartially rather than have the decision

poli That is one of the vigorous statements made by a prove veteran who attended a recent conference called Republican county orgghization to discuss future with a group of young Republicans who were ‘active in the party before they entered politics. And it is a statement that undoubtedly reflects the opinion of Democratic veterans and of those who have made no party affiliation. LW Demobilized veterans will be a potent force in politics * because of their numbers, the many who have made no _ decision as to which party they wished to support, and the broadening experience they have gained. They have the results of unsound politics in many lands. They |

ness about the responsibilities of public life and of political position. This attitude should have a salutory effect on politics. It also should serve notice to the old-line politicians that they must choose competent candidates, not men whose claim to preferment is political rather than public service. ' At the Republican meeting, the veterans were assured that they would be integrated with the regular county , organization. We trust that integration does not mean “absorption, but means instead a revitalized leadership in both parties. It should mean that places on the Republican and i slates indorséd by the county organizations, and by the state organizations, should be filled with a

; _ especially of those posts demanding vigor and initiative. It should mean, too, that the test for a potential candi- > * date should be competency rather than “hack” service to Really serious veterans who are determined that both

for their powerful influence could well direct their attention ) the type of person selected. for precinct committeeman. precinct committeeman is the key to control of politieal organizations, and it is the organization that almost “always selects the candidates from whom the public may hoose its officeholders.

COMMANDER STELLE'S BLAST = Te American Legions national commander, John Stelle, blew an angry blast yesterday, charging a “tragic : " in the veterans’ administration under Gen. Omar Bradley. $ #: Mr, Stelle demanded a congressional investigation. said that Gen. Bradley hasnt corrected the VA's “antiquated and inefficient methods”; that the VA is . ‘behind with its work; that the general ‘should be replaced by “a seasoned businessman.” Gen. Bradley commented “that Mr. Stelle had called him up earlier in the week: had * protested because a veterans’ hospital in Mr. Stelle’s home state, Illinois, wasn't located where Mr. Stelle wanted it; ‘had announced that he was going to carry his complaints “to congress. © BSpokesmen for other veterans’ organizations—the sAmerican Veterans of World War II, the American Vet~erang’ committee, the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars—rallied promptly to Gen. Bradley’s defense. They said the general is trying hard to ‘make the VA what it must be, and that he deserves a fair chance to show what he can do. We think most veterans, and most other citizens, will agree with them.

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PARTY RESPONSIBILITY

fact that a political party has responsibility for : those it places in public officé is aptly illustrated in pe of the Republican county chairman in con- : on the Marion county gambling situation. o Henry Ostrom, county chairman, took part inthe recent discussions with County Prosecutor Sherwood Blue and Sheriff Otto Petit, both of whom were organization candidates when elected, and Police Chief Jesse P. MeMaurtry.

Chief McMurtry is to be commended for his order to Indianapolis police pointing out that gambling of all forms is opening up here and that police officers who are lax in long | the law will be disciplined-severely. It isto be pri he will receive the co-operation of the prose‘and sheriff, and that the drive will not die out after a few minor raids and arrests. Republican county chairman is representative of whose voters placed these county officials in , part of his responsibility is to see that every -officeholder performs faithfully the job that p entrusted to him. Failure to so perform should fe the offending officeholder from a futtre place OTE, ticket. hope that Mr. Ostrom is actuated by this sense of ‘and public responsibility and not by the fact that an » in the offing,

RUSSIA

wan world that believes in’ prayer ought to God today for Britain’ 8 Foreign Secretary Ernest

: at long last, is one statesman who has the to Soviet Russia in A language she’ under-

d Nations gathering trying to work out Vin Aatly told Russia that it was her oscow ‘and her use of Com. that was “the real danger

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“Have come back to their homes imbued with a new serious- |

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"President Truman

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On one day, Mr. Truman was just an citizen. The next day

strongly, let's take a look. at the picture.

nasty, a semi-dictatorship and a political monstrosity such as the world had never known. There were pglitical commitments made at home. secret ents and a foreign diplomacy abroad that no ordinary

American would have ever countenanced.

Furthermore, for 12 years we had been spending money at such a rate that our indebtedness almost equalled our actual wealth. In addition to this, high-sounding phrases such as the Atlantic charter had not been kept and, the worst of all, our country was actually split in two. There was no middle ground, and with all due respect to the late Mr, Roosevelt, one’ either disliked him intensely or idolized him. There was a war on, however, and the country could do nothing except support him. I have no doubt but what Mr. Truman was horrified at the power that had been given and assumed by one man. To his credit, it can be said that he at least tried to get our government back on a democratic basis. . . . It looks like someone had to be the goat and Mr. Truman was elected.

» # » “HARDSHIP ON FAMILIES OF LOW-POINT FATHERS” By P. H., Camp Atterbury With all the griping that. is going on about releasing men from the service I think it is high time that & good word was said for a group that no doubt are a small minority as far as the number of men in service goes. Reference is made to pre-war established family men who have two or less children and whose families have to live on a government allotment because that is all the income they receive. In many cases the children are too young for the mother to leave so she can go to work or the mother is not well and they are living under

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he was besieged by reporters who

election. They were told by Mr. Hanne‘been handpicked by Mr, Roosevelt as candireason being Mr. Truman was

the ordinary citizen and the great Roosevelt It is to be conceded that Mr. Truman has made plenty of mistakes and his political fortunes are at a low ebb and will probably

major parties should be revamped to include representation {get lower with the passing of time. However, before condemning him too

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! substandard conditions. The army does not think these conditions justify a man’s release. In my case, in addition, a Red Cross investigation reported favorably on my request for a discharge, Many men in this position do not have sufficient points to be discharged and to hold them in service longer only works an unnecessary hardship. on these familiés. Can't something be done about this? x ” ¥ » “WHY DOESN'T UNION PAY STRIKING G. M. WORKERS?” By G. M. Worker's Wife, Indianapolis In answer to the letter by a G. M. worker's wife-—yes, I think it's time someone looked at the union's books, also their paychecks, they say they dont receive, what a laugh (ha, ha.) The union had so much saved for strike funds, well, what's happened to it? Why don’t they pay the men who are out on strike? I'll tell you, if they had to pay them there wouldn't be so many strikes. And just what happened to all the money the union went around and collected from U. S. Rubber, Schwitzer-Cummins and others. . They told these employees who gave that they were taking up a collection for the G. M. workers to help them out through the strike. Now-—who got that money? Can the union answer that? The men were making good wages, s0 what they've lost is gone forever. And just how did you G, M. employees get to vote? Not by ballot, but those din favor of staying out say “aye.” Now I ask you, was that right? Why couldn't they vote by ballot? That would have been clean and straight, and the union doesn’t know the meaning of those two words. They've got everything cut and dried, and drawing their pay and sitting back and laughing at you suckers that have to picket 12 hours

for nothing. .

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“LABOR DOESN'T HAVE RISK, CAN'T SHARE MANAGEMENT" By Accountant, Indianapolis

clearly expresses the fallacy about

| wages that is sincerely believed by such a great many people that I am |

attempting a reply. Mr; Hinman brings up the question: of relative wages of himself and Mr. Wilson. Using the basis of “take-home” pay, an idea of the C. I. O, let's see how Hinman and Wilson stack up, At $1.12 an hour for a 45-hour week, the year's wages will be $2766.40 for Hinman and taxes will be $357, making the net take-home $2409. For Wilson, ut $300,000 per year, taxes will be $253,075 leaving him $46,925 or approximately 19 times more than Hinman. Now if anyone wants to argue whether the work done by Wilson is not 19 times more important than putting nut C on bolt 82D a certain number of times each day, he can do so, but in Russia, which seems to be the fountainhead of C. 1. O. philosophy, it is belibved that such differences are praper, I don’t believe Wilson would. mind the change to their system half as much as Hinman, because the workers there don't have bungalows

gets, but the factory superintendents live in a style that Wilson would find much too expensive in this country. ‘ "If auto workers are to be paid $1.50 per hour for a certain expenditure of brains, training and manual skill, is it not fair to believe that other workers (who buy their autos) with the same ability and perhaps more apprenticeship should receive the same pay? Therefore, cement workers, truck drivers, tailors, drug clerks, maintenance helpers, packing house helpers, warehousemen, cashiers, typists and grocery clerks should receive $1.50 per hour, And when that happens, what happens to Mr, Hinman’'s raise? What is there about working for wages for General Motors (or any other concern) that gives a workman a title to a job or a voice in the business? The owners of a corporation or a small grocery store have one thing in common, that is the risk of failure. Does a workman have such a risk? When a company closes its doors, he has to look for another job, but does he lose anything hé brought to the job? No, of course not, usually he is better off for the training and experience he obtained , , . When unions are willing to underwrite some of the risks of doing business, they probably deserve some voice in the management of | the business, but not otherwise. And | if they want to go into business, they certainly have some fine opportunities today with their swollen treasuries and so many {aétories closing down for good, « = = “LOWER PRICES KEY TO STOPPING INFLATION" By Anton Hughey, Indianapolis Don't you think lower prices would be more valuable to the American people. now than increased prices? Just look around you and compare the prices you pay for everything you buy il prices that were paid a 16% sho years ago. Yes, I can see why

did you stop to think that if wages are raised that soon OPA will allow another price raise on the commodities and services you have to buy? And where will this vicious circle stop? Mark this down for you can bet on it—increased wages now is the first step toward inflation, Think it over Americans. Infla-

_ttion is just around the corner. It's

up to all of us and we must stop it before it gets started, or it's too late.

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rs, OUR BUSINESS how pi 18 being ad ministered as a conquered enemy, because that is and first-hand exe perfence- indicates the need Tor a business-like analysis of that administration Kt'an eatly date. Sidney Whipple, Times writer now in Tokyo, reported last week that the “occupation had 80 well that Imperialists and Communists | feared we were establishing a basis for a future relationship with Japan that can never be broken. In my opinion, We are on the road-to a solid position in Japanese the yoke of militarism . . , we will be not regarded as a ruthless conqueror.

ally, the Japs. Led to believe the coming in on thelr side by the government propas ganda line, it's declaration of war was a complete surprise. The animosities of defeat were concens trated on Russia. The Japanese actually praise Gen. MacArthur as a liberator , . , the exellent conduct of our troops has added to the good feeling. Acceptance by the Russians of a seat on the fours

the good, even though they are stalling about ase suming responsibility. It is hard to believe the Russians themselves really feel they had much to do with defeating Japan . . , any more than the average ine telligent Japanese believe it. Their more direct participation, if that be the proper term, will be helpful to international co-operation, but it hardly can mean more than that. It is doubtful any fundamental changes will be made.

[Officers In Over Heads

WHERE MACARTHUR SITS in any gathering will be the head of the table. The question arises, though, as to whether the administration and re-

ing complex problems is one which can be handled effectively by a military man, however brilliant and effective he may be in the fleld of strategy and war, i A general can be no better than his staff, which

“| is his advisory body. Most of Gen. MacArthur's top

staff have been with him since the earliest days of | the Pacific war, which In itself is a tribute to his | leadership.* But they are tired, dreadfully tired . and some of them still feel the weariness of Corregidor. While these men have done an outstanding job as

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—While President Truman asked Congress to approve the $4,400,000,000 credit to | Britain as a contribution to world “peace and prosperity,” many feel that the real argument for some financial help to Britain goes far deeper than that. Fundamentally it is this: If it was worth 29 billion lend-lease dollars of the taxpa ers’ money to prevent the destruction of the BritfS{ commonwealth in | the war, an additional outlay would seem reasonable to preserve its peacetime existence, along with us, as a bulwark of world democracy. The ugly truth is that Anglo-American democracy was never more in danger than it is today." Dictatorships, totalitarian style, are more in evidence, or in preparation, than ever before with democracy increasingly on the defensive.

Churchill Defines Democracy EVEN THE meaning of democracy is now violently disputed. But the British conception, as Prime Minister Churchill told Commons, “is that of the plain, humble common man—just the ordinary man who keeps a wife and family, who goes off to fight for his country when it is in trouble and, at the proper time, to the polls to vote for the candidate he wishes to see elected. “We stand,” he went on, “upon the foundation of fair, free elections based on universal service and suffrage . . . democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respect for other people's rights as well as on your own ambition. . ... The last thing that resembles democracy is mob law that attempts to introduce a totalitarian regime and clamors to shoot everyone who is politically inconvenient . that is not democracy. That is the antithesis of democracy.” The American idea, in its essentials, is identical to

IN WASHINGTON .

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The most interesting phenomenon in Washington is the current revolution in congress against the administration. The revolt grows rather than diminishes. It is most pronounced in the house, which is supposed to be clgsest to the people. It raises several questions, Is the country really becoming conservative? Does the hostility of con-, gress represent irritation as a reaction from war? Or does it represent confusion in itself and among the people? Or a bit of all three? Or is congress in its present mood not really representative of the people? "Part of the answer may lie in the makeup of congress. Rural and small town constituencies are predominantly influential in congress and in its key posts. Is this a form of the .old war of small-town and rural philosophy against the big cities? One paradox in the situation is the apparent continued ‘popularity of ‘ President Truman with the rank-and-file. That, however, does not seem to reflect itself in congress. Is this natural apathy following the shock of war?

House Unkind to.Labor

THE MOST significant factor in the present situation, when you look back over the recent record, is what has happened to proposals by President Truman in the interest of labor. The senate has shown some sympathy. But the house, supposedly closer to the | people, has been not only unmindful, but unkind. Some examples: Proposals to increase unemployment compensation for the reconversion period are bottled up in the ways and méans committee, The full employment bill was reduced to virtually noth-

LONDON, Feb. 2.—"“Love as if ye shall hereafter hate, and hate as if ye shall hereafter love,” Through all ages such has been the maxim of all prudent, farsighted politicians. The history of the world has shown that there seldom are differences between Tt| either nations or politicians which ‘cannot be reconciled by an accidental turn of the wheel of fortune. In the last parliament, when Ernest Bevin was minister of labor in the coalition government, his most deadly andt persistent critic wis his near namesake— Aneurin Bevan. Today they are colleagues in the same cabinet, with Ernest Bevin, great trade-union leader, holding the seals of the foreign office, and his erstwhile foé Aneurin Bevan, coal miner, presiding over the ministry of health. Before he gained high office-as a result of the last general election, Aneurin Bevan, in addition to his parliamentary opposition to the Churchill administration, conducted a ferocious press campaign in the Tribune—-weekly mazazine of which he was editor and which was originally founded by Sir Stafford Cripps.

| Bevan's Paper Critical

THE POLITICS of the Tribune were always strongly leftist and tended in their foreign policy to advocate revolutionary socialism throughout Europe. They also pressed strongly for an early opening of a second front in western Europe at a time when Britain- and Americe were in no position to uel nye venture,

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ans, even if it is necessary to “draft” them, Unless we make a success of the becupation of Japan, we have made a dreadful sacrifice in vain, The prestige of the United States in the Par Bast depends on thé efficiency of that occupation . . . delsy in facing the problem squarely whittles down the victory. It is not faiy to Gen. MacArthur to place this new burden on him after he has brought our forces over that long and dreary road to Tokyo.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms’

British Loan Must Be 2-Way Deal

the British. It finds expression in our constitution especially in the bill of rights with its guarantees of freedom of religion, of speech, of the press and of assembly. It gives to every American the right to his own way of life, to work at whatever job he likes, strike, bargain collectively, live where he chooses and to have his home considered, under law, as his castle. Only in the United States, the British commonwealth of nations and a few smaller countries is this

conception of democracy practiced nowadays to any |

considerable extent. And even in those it is not going unchallenged. Totalitarian ideologies, both red and brown, are doing their level best to undermine it. Both of these ideologies breed fastest and rankest in human misery and privation. No even fairly prosnérous country, offering reasonable employment, at fair wages, has—yet succumbed to either extreme. Germany, Italy and their.satellites turned Fascist, and Russia went Communist, as the result of economic and social pressures growing out of world war I

Aid to Trade and Industry

THESE fundamentals, for obvious reasons, may or may not be publicly aired during the coming debate on the British loan. But there is reason to believe they will weigh heavily in the minds of members when they come to vote. In its fight for survival in a cynical, embittered world, many feel, nothing could be worse for AngloAmerican democracy than that British trade and industry—with all that these mean to the British people—should go on the rocks for lack of outside aid. But at the same time, accommodation should travel a two-way street.

Britain has defense bases we need. She has access to strategic materials we need. Surely some kind of

deal can be worked out to our mutual advantage.

, By Thomas L. Stokes

Does Conaress Reflect Public Mood?

ing at all. half as a federal agency was voted down twice. The

last tinfe the house voted to return it to, the states g

in five months.

This brings us to President Truman's proposal for |

fact-finding boards in labor disputes, now an issue in the house. The labor committee whittled it down. Thereafter the Democratic coalition in the rules committee, assuming extraordinary powers, threw a brand new and far-reaching bill imposing restrictions on labor into the house along with the original bill. The house

approved this procedure by a more than two-to-one |

vote, though final actiofl on the bill itself will not come until next week.

Will Labor Policy Aid G.0.P.?

NONE of the recognized sponsors of the measure represents a labor constituency. And a majority of the members of the rules committee are from nonmetropolitan areas. Yet in presidential elections, the big city vote is the decisive factor in some of the bigger doubtful states. Republicans have been outvoted in the big cities" in recent elections. Can they win with the sort of labor policy they have espoused? They seem to count on that in the congressional elections, the most immediate concern, though théy may have to: break into metropolitan areas to capture the:house. Obviously the majority in the house which supported the Case bill believes it represents the feeling of its constituencies. The Republicans seem sure of themselves . . . they are betting that the country is moving toward conservatism.

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lowing the Communist party line of the Kremlin. But many people were puzzled by the fact that the Tribune, while under Bevan’s editorship, frequently made sharp criticisms of the Kremlin's foreign policy, Some people explained this by saying that Bevan hated Churchill so much that he felt bound to quarrel with Stalin for no better reason than that Stalin appeared to be a friend of Churchill's, ‘Others, probably with greater perception, interpreted the Tribune's hostility to the Kremlin as an indication that Bevan was really a Trotskyite who could not forgive Stalin for having betrayed the social revolution in Europe in the interests of Russian power politics. c

Responsibility Sobering WHATEVER the truth in all this, the interesting fact remains that Aneurin Bevan is. today ‘a most effective ally of Ernest Bevin in his policy of atte oh up to the Russians and opposing the current smagh-and-grab tactics of the Kremlin, This is not to suggest that there is any split in the cabinet on matters of foreign policy. But there are some 40 extreme members of the Labor perty in the present house of commons who are, in fact, erypto= Communists. They have pursued a bitter vendetta against their own foreign secretary and have done all they could to hamper in his work. In the early months of the Labor government, they looked to Bevan for* p. It seems, however, that Milli 5 bilities of office, Bevan is becoming headed and sgusiois Sunsellor, ]

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