Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1946 — Page 12

¢ his charges ‘head again in Indiana. rief | ame across the desk that really the Hoosier spirit. It was announcement that Triad musicale of the Murat Shrine Temple, ‘of Columbus and Athenaeum Tutners would be Murat theater next Saturday night. hardly necessary to point out that the Shrine is organization, the Knights of Columbus are Cathd the Athenaeum is the name given the Indianapolis : or in the days of world war I when animosity everything German ws running high and the name marck st. was changed to Pershing. + We've advanced a great deal in tolerance and cooperation since the first war, Let's not have a resurgence of .intolerance again, :

A LITTLE INFLATION 2 THE Truman administration is about to buy industrial peace (we hope) by permitting a little (we hope little) price inflation. © ©f Apparently it sees no other way to get the country out bf the fix it's in. . ¢.. And the country must get out of that fix in a hurry. .. The steel strike, now in its third week, and the other grout: strikes.-can't--ge on 2auehk longer-without. causing | 2% Mr. Truman guessed wrong when he decided that labor “#hoild be encouraged to force wages. up and, that government controls: could force “industry to hold prices down.

men’s policy of voting for all appropriations and against all es. - And just as sure to cause trouble.

Many unions demanded large wage increases. Mr. an, intervening personally in the steel case, fixed

cents an hour as a fair settlement figue. That made at few unions would settle for less. : trikes became deadlocks when many employers conthat such increases in labor costs would make it impossible for them to operate under price ceilings.. The administration now seems to have concluded that this is rue in steel. So, Mr. Truman is going to let the steel eeiling bulge—by about $5 a ton, according to reports.

ma s ® sn = ; x hope that will end the strike. But it's no trifling ' bulge. And the bulging won't stop there. Steel is a oF... a “4 Higher prices for steel, plus higher wages for labor, vill boost the costs of most other industries. Their ceilings also will have to give. The public, including union members, will have to pay more for most of the: things they buy. | OPA’s Chester Bowles is said to dnsist-that the steel gettlement must be part of a new, firm wage-price stabiliza3B policy “Big Steel formula”—to be enforced for the next year. He is right, we think, in contending that the administration should stop changing policies to accommo- : a However, no new policy can last long unless industry and labor, the American people, and their government behave wisely. :

® » =» se = OR at least a year, we think, industry and labor must cut " out striking and work together loyally in top-speed production. : = A vast outpouring of production is the one and only Way to bring unit costs down, reduce prices as volume Ses, make high wages real wages, and prevent mild inflajon from becoming an explosion. #5 Until production gets big the people, as consumers, must restrain the dangerous impulse to buy more than they Heed because of fear that prices are going higher. Yielding y that impulse is a sure way to make prices go higher. #= And the government must fight inflation with both hands, instead of promoting it with one hand and fighting it with the other. Government's deficit spending must ~ be cut down a lot harder and faster than Mr. Truman has promised. i... Priming our spouting pump with borrowed money is & sure way to swamp ceilings and flood out all controls,

ha x END CO-OP TAX EXEMPTION QENTIMENT against exempting co-operative businesses Na from payment of federal income and other taxes is growing in Indiana, With a number of organizations taking & stand in favor of eliminating the tax advantage which eo-operatives have over private business.

rty and all forms of business activity should be made

pegardless of technicalities of ownership. il. This representative of Illinois farmers states

on an equal basis. With this position we are in accord.

S OPPENHEIM

nd intrigue in high places. Gen

mong silk-hatted crooks.

| NOTHING sets my teeth on edge quite as much. as «| the propaganda peddled by amateur weather prophets; to say nothing of the so-called facts and figures they submit in a desperate effort to prove that there never whs such a thing as an Old-Fashioned Winter. I know better, Sixty years ago uta. : when I was a little boy, we used ‘| to have longer and colder winters. Certainly, the snow stayed on the ground after it got there, If it didn't how was it possible for us kids to spend the greater part of

that the Ku Klux |

“The position of those who demand an end to this unfair exemption is that all forms of income-producing commercial

- $0 bear their fair share of local, state and federal taxation, . Impetus to the movement for remedying this tax uality comes from the president of the Illinois Agriral Association, which is similar to the Indiana Farm

the approval of his organization, that it supports! fination of such tax advantages and that earnings of | |

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Hoosier

0 Ba ap Oy ‘By 'Y to y i “Tipton, Sec., the for the following reasons: 2. Erection of the meters’ would

hick town. ’ 4. The meters are expensive and of operation before they became

is the governing body 30,000 workers in 35 affiliated C. O. unions, » » .

“PROFIT-SHARING MAY BE ONE STRIKE SOLUTION” BY Warren A. Benedict Jr, 2019 Madison

"Local C.J. O. Council Opposed........... | To Downtown Parking Meters" His theory was as politically attractive as SOME: CONGYESS- much wpmound 1 the pursinse of Parking meters for the downtown ares

1. Constitutionality of the city’s right to restrict use of public ‘streets, except on payment of a fee, is seriously in question.

town traffic congestion, and is a silly approach to the problem. 3. The meters are unsightly and would make this city look like a

| “UPHEAVALS EVIDENCE

say, but | your right

Forum

Indianapolis C. 1. 0. Council

have little effect if any on down-

there would have to be a long period

OUR ONWARD STRUGGLE” By Chas. E. Geiger, Richmond These are days of history in the making and it is worthy of note how people of all walks of Jifg react to it. As one reads the many and varied comments of writers who express opinions from one extreme to the other, one may gather the “wind direction’ as it were, of futyre evolutionary development.

ave. The unorganized, so-called averagé citizen trying to analyze the strike situation, especially in the steel and auto indiustriés; mast give up wearily with a “plague on both houses.” He may believe strongly in unions, yet honestly doubt the strikers are entitled to their demands, in view of the income of the average rank and file workers. It is doubtful if a floor sweeper in an auto or steel plant is entitled to more income than the average school teacher. But he is equally foolish to side with the houses of Morgan and DuPont, and the Wall Street financlers, rolling in wealth from absentee ownership and war profits, They consider him merely a pawn, as a tool to be turned against all unions, and as a sucker to be fleeced of his extra cash. Senator Brewster and Congresswoman Luce have suggested a study of profit-sharing plans as a possible solution to the wave of strikes. These Republican members of Congress can hardly be rated as radical, and the suggestion deserves serious consideration. Another suggestion is the regulating the giant corporations as the public does the utilities. Here in Indianapolis the phione, water and light companies are privately owned and managed, and their bills constitute the biggest bargains in the citizens' budgets. Yet their stocks and bonds are considered gilt-edged investments. If we could buy automobiles and other necessities at the same bargain rates we get our utility servjce most of us would be sitting pretty.

The psycho-genetic and social evo-

"l do not agree with a word that you

EVEN iF NOT HOME COOKING"

. |gripe at Billings General hospital,

will defend to the death to say it." — Voltaire.

“CHOW AT BILLINGS IS O.K. ) By “Patient,” Billings General Hospital Maybe he wants “K” rations, In answer to Cpl, Killips' food

Just finished a swell breakfast and was reading your article, and thought back to the days when we didn’t even have a cup of hot coffee or maybe you never were in a situation like that. I'm not regular army and the food is not the way Mother prepared it, but the hotcakes were sure delicious this morning. As for the DBs, I work with them and find the majority of them capable and trustworthy. Corporal of the forty D.B.s working in the hospital mess, could you replace them with forty volunteers? I was a former patient at .the hospital and a former combat man, now attached to the medical section. » " 8, “SGT. BAUER HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY DEALT WITH”

By Mrs. A. Q., Indianapolis This an n letter to our good

lution of humanity is imperceptibly slow and considering that we are but a few generations removed from cannibalism, we are not doing so bad. All these wars, strikes, crimes and other social upheavals are merely manifestations of the eternal struggle of universal forces toward an ever more perfect ultimate objective. To adjust one's self emotionally and psychologically to existing environmental circumstances is the immediate problem of each indie vidual and incidentally our greatest contribution to the sum total of human _ progress. So I say, “Cheer up; things are not as bad as they seem.” - » ” “LET'S KEEP POLITICAL WITS ABOUT US NOW”

By E. R. Egan, Indianapolis The supreme irony of an effete

civilization, the damning evidence of its decadence epitomized in the wrangling over the atomic bomb by the incompetents ; and. hoodlum status of its political representatives in power who do not realize that this very bomb has ushered in a new era and who would if they did realize it, do their utmost to prevent its culmination in a new epoch of world peace and general prosperity in their abyssmal ignorance and greed of how to direct even the political possibilities thereIn. Witness the drive for universal military training in this country whose democratic credo certainly does not include conscription and the dictator potentialifies inherent in it of which this war has given concrete evidence.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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paper The Times and to our two very good Senators Homer E. Capehart and Willis of Indiana for taking a hand in the very sad plight of Sgt. Bauer of Indianapolis. I think the army has done Sgt. Bauer rotten to say ‘the least. That is a

of giving Bauer his mustering out pay and holding him a prisoner at Fort Harrison. 8 » ” “LET'S DEMAND A BONUS INSTEAD OF MONUMENT” By Marshall T. Yates, Indianapolis

feel as the other G. L's.

families in it, but we could use the money as a bonus for buying a home or starting us a business. Other states are paying a bonus in~ stead of putting up a brick monument for the pigeons and birds to use as a resting place as the one on our Cirgle. S80 come on G. L's and let's write in and ask for a bonus. We don't need the monument as a reminder

friends we lost in battle. So let’ all pull together. # . »

“SAVE LIFE OF BOY WHO KILLED JAPS”

student

years old, from Wallington, N. J who is facing death for killing tw Japs, The army taught our boys to kill Japs or Germans if they were to meet them, Now the war is over they want to kill- our boy because he does the thing that once was taught to him to do. Even after V-J day there were pieces over the

killing our boys. Our boys still have

nese, I.think every person in the United States should ask to have this boy's life saved. ~ ~ ” “TOO MANY MONUMENTS; DON'T KNOW WHAT FOR"

By Ex-Marine, Indianapolis

monument,

Othe publi:

cheap way for the army to get out )

the season skating and sledding on | the sidewalks in front. of our homes? . Moreover, 60 years ago =. : when a kid got a sled or a pair of skates for Christmas, he didn't have to moon around weeks for the snow to appear. It was right there for him to use: Lau~h that off, if you can. ; Even as late as 1892 we had a winter with six consecutive weeks of snow on the ground. I remember it distinctly for that was the winter we kids hurried from school as fast as our legs would carry us to see

‘the speedy snow horses racing in N. Delaware st. The

course ran from Walnut st. to Massachusetts ave., the equivalent of half a mile (or thereabouts) which was plenty long enough to see what a horse hitched to a sled could do with the right kind of driver behind him.

Show Horses of Nineties

“OLD TWINEBINDER,” a trotter belonging to Joe Platt, the Illinois st. fish dealer, was just about the

fastest snow horse in Indianapolis that year. Some- .

times, to be sure, he had to extend himself to beat the horses belonging to Tom Taggart and O. L. Leh-

! man, but on the whole “Old Twinebinder” always gave

a good account of himself. I can't recall his best time, but I seem to remember that Mr. Taggart’s horse had a turf record of s"mewhere around 2:22% which ought to be enough to give you skeptics a line on “Old

| Twinebinder.”

Some of the other good snow horses that winter

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes is Communists Prefer FEPC Confusion:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The shabby fiasco which has been going on in the senate over the fair employment practices commission bill has aspects of a sham battle in some ways that are probably not clear

. Wake 3 NT. ELL Sincere advocates of this measure designed to help eliminate discrimination in jobs on acount of race, creed or religion are handicapped by other than obvious surface factors. Most widely publicized is, of course, the filibuster by southern senators, much in the minority, who have blocked a vote by the usual devices. Other factors are less obvious. , One is the lip service accorded by some members on both sides of the aisle who are eager and willing to capitalize whatever political advantage they might gain, but who are not going to snap any buttons, bust any galluses, or sit up nights trying to get real action. This was clear when Senator Morse (R. Ore.) 'suggested early in the proceedings that the bill's supporters keep the senate in session day and night to break the filibuster. That terrified some professed supporters of the bill who talk mighty big now.

Some Support Insincere ; THE gentlemanly farce goes on &mONg the lip service fraternity, nice clean work, with good hours, five or six hours a day for five days a week, in anticipation of the usual dividend—they hope—in political advantage. Then there is another factor not so easily detected. This is the sly part being played by Communist and Communist-front organizations. It has been going on for some time and is revealed in advocacy of various futile legislative stratagems aimed at delay.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simm Definition of Aggression Needed -Jill——

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—One of the by-products:

I'm a discharged vet also and I We cannot eat a brick monument or keep our

of the Soviet-British row in the security council at London is almost certain to be a renewed effort to define aggression—admittedly the most slippery word with which the UNO will have to deal. If that occurs,

propaganda will find itself on the carpet. The UNO charter says “the security council shall

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Local Winter No Myth?

FOR CF

.er's “First Money”; Pat Dickerson’s’ “Dalineator®s Dr. Bhort's “Buck”; Fred Kissel's ‘ “Dallas”; Olint

Hare's “Premier er’; T. L. Armstrong's “Boulanger”; i he Marion Eaton's El Cajon” and J. B. Gibbs’ bay pacer, - Officials A Ayres," with a turf reeord of 2:55 and as pretty a : | piece:of horse-flesh as you ever saw, © Private i if we kids were lucky enough to arrive na prime (JY rea «+ of horses orace Wood, Dr, Haas, ., i ; William Coburn &nd Henry Bals. I remember, too, & sodial ib bay “pacer one-half of which belonged to j porary solptio Pred A. Gregory and the other half to John 'J, Appel. "5 gonditions at U L always meant, to make it my: business to learn whose : # dians home in part. came in first but, like so many other things of studied today. my boyhood, I Hever got around to it. : : Kenneth Mill Longer Snows Those Days ~*~ © Lr hn al OF WHICH ought to be prima facle evidence - | cles to review a Shen was a kid, we had winters unlike those: || tions and repor anded us today. There were sound reasons for this -« could provide condition and I might as well cite them, if only to. basis. show that I can think up facts. and figures as good A meeting of

as those submitted by“people who don't or some + reacon won't, believe in the Old-Fashioned or 0 :

For one thing, we lived farther apart when I was -

officials concerr was held yeste!

a Kid, & fact which gave the. Old-Fashioned Win Se sbionere plenty of room to work in. That.made the a ; ha pep lot colder, and if you don't believe it permit me to ? point out that, the Circle, the Plaza, end the square om ih the John Herron Art Instftute is located are Differences of still the coldest f in Saintly ig 4 8 proposed sur same 1, our living 60 years private agency | made the snow stay on ‘the ground. Sure, Pas it ‘was said, wot with all the radiation (let alone the lot air) Jet loose future needs | by people living compactly, as they now do, you ean’t '* solution. expect the snow to stay on: the ground the way it Private agenc

general with 8 survey of thi But, some felt, I do the job, w agency people survey organiz under local sup Mr, Miller de eitizens’ commit pervise any sur “This is rece have the con agency leaders,” County Counc Parry, however A

: I trust this disposes of the heresy that there was such a thing as an Old-Fashioned Winter.) Any. way, why do we have to listen to people so young that *: they can't even’ remember the snow horses of Indie :* anapolis? : : ’

They don’t want a bill passed any more than do ¢ the southerners. They want to keep the issue un- = settled for agitation purposes. Solutions do° not help them, Confusion is their object. . Most recent tactics include ‘letter-writing campaigas denouncing. singere - Of the Dill baw: cause they won't take the bill as written but are in favor of some ameridnients. they consider essential —that is, if they ever get a chance to comisider the bill on its merits. Anybody who is in favor of amendments is not “liberal.” That's the line. It's a familiar strategy, easily detected. Another piece of “strategy” of this element 18 dragooning campaigns, visits to members by groups which make threats. This makes members mad, which is exactly what it’s meant to do.

Filibuster Undemocratic HAROLD STASSEN, in an address supporting a FEPC bill recently at the dinner of the national council for a permanent FEPC, said: “You ‘have demonstrated an awareness of the manner in which subversive elements might endeavor to take advantage, to the detriment of all of the people of the country, of the situation created by unfair employment practices.”

Mr. Stassen put his finger on ‘the under-surface Thrift situation when, in deploring a filibuster as defeating hi the “effective functioning of democratic government,” no he said. ! warne “It gives comfort to those of the extreme right appe and of the extreme left, who seek to undermine the ha effectiveness of and the confidence th our representa- oe tive form of government. It contributes to the look

establishment of fertile ground for the flourishing of subversive activities.”

in the debate—the fight being more or less a private one between Russia and Great Britain—Washington is in entire agreement with Mr. Bevin. In fact, we almost broke with Moscow in 1934 over violations of the Soviet-American pact under which the United States recognized Russia in 1933.

Russian No-Meddling Pledge

FOR YEARS, the United States withheld recog

“

peace and security.”

acceptable definition.

determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and decide what measures shall be taken to restore international

Thus far, however. no one has yet formulated an The old League of Nations tried but did not quite succeed. The matter was brought up in committee meetings at San Francisco only to be dropped as too complex for quick solution.

of what happened over there. That's buried deep in our minds and we shall never forget our buddies and

By Shirley Harbin, Paragon high scheel

I saw the article in The Times about Pfc. Joseph E. Hicswa, 20

Is Propaganda Aggression? LESS THAN a week after the United Nations began to function at London it bobbed up again—in somewhat diluted form, it is true. Iran charged Rus=-" sia with interfering in her domestic affairs and, retaliating, Russia charged Britain with meddling in Greece and Indonesia and thereby endangering the peace of the world. - In all three cases, the allegations revolved around the use of troops—Red troops in Iran and British troops in Greece and Indonesia. But the real danger to the peace, British Foreign Secretary Bevin told Foreign Commissar Vishinsky, “has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British commonwealth, and the incessant utilization of the Communist party in every country in the world as a

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nition largely because of Communist propaganda in this country. There were other obstacles, but that was the big one. Thus/it was only after Foreign Com= missar Litvinov had formally renounced for Russia all such activities within our borders that diplomatic relations were re-established. : Specifically, he pledged his country “to respect scrupulously the indisputable rights of the United States to-order its own life within its own jurisdiction in its own way” and to refrain from interfering in any manner in its internal affairs by propaganda or - otherwise. < Even before his memorable journey to Washington, Mr. Litvinov had taken the lead, at Geneva, to obtain a clarification of aggression. In his own definition, he made it clear that “economic or cultural backwardness of a given country, alleged maladministration, a revolutionary or counter-revolutionary movement, civil war or disorders or strikes, the establishment or maintenance in any state of any political or social ordér”—none of these warranted invasion. Such intervention would amount to aggression. Propa~ ganda, therefore, which might bring about such conditions as an excuse for intervention, might be, in itself, a form of aggression.

ot \\ 1%

radio and in the paper about Japs

hatred in their hearts for the Japa-|,

I whole-heartedly agree with the fellows’ statements in Friday's Jan. 25, issue about a bonus instead of a

means to attack the British, government.

one against the other.”

dentials are required. of Portugal against this background.

That is the danger to the peace of the world which sets us

While the American delegates did not participate

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchil Portugal Dictator Kept Nation Safe

LISBON, Feb. 6.—Must neutral countries prove they are democratically governed before they can be admitted into the UNO? This question will have to be tackled soon unless it is agreed that the admission of Argentina made it plain that no democratic cre-

It is interesting to examine the political structure On paper,

Portugal might appear to be a parliamentary state.

rative businesses and private businesses should be

Why pile a few rocks on top of the other to help try to remember something the people are already forgetting about. There are already too many monuments and statues standing and people don't even

There are a president, a prime minister, civil service and a parliament. however, are entirely nominal and the is not responsible to parliament. legislate but cannot turn out the government.

a cabinet, & The president's powers, government Parliament can In

NY a man is grateful to the memory of E. Phillips | heim, dead in England at the age of 79. This wrote more than 150 novels about detec- | Intrig tions of palpihave been indebted to him for vicarious ad-

m countrymen, Mr. Oppenheim did somehis youth the game of poker was illegal ued it from the underworld by winning : eld that poker is a game of skill, Englishmen, like their American 4 to sit up all night trying to

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Dothing worse than their

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, 7, M. REQ. U, &. PAT, OFF,

"Some day when we're married and rich like that, we can look back ~ and see what a swell time we're having now!"

know what they are for.

some good.

always try to get the best.

or the monuments?

DAILY THOUGHT

Confess your faults one, to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed, The effectual prayer of a righteous man avalleth much,—James 5:16.

WHO goes to bed, and doth not

pray, Maketh two nights to every day! NL Her

Give the vets something that will do them

The marine corps taught me a lot about life and one thing was, In the next war, who is going? The men

pert. = policed states

by the personal dictatorship of Salazar.

admit his regime is a dictatorship. Country Relatively Free

dictatorship is Europe. The press,

garia, all of which countries pure democracies. No one today opinions and on litical offenses.

all over Portugal

except for bureaucrats

rivilege 7 of eastern Europe.

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»ortugal has been governed for nearly 20 years

unlike so many other ‘dictators, is honest enough to

PARADOXICALLY, Jife under this self-confessed infinitely freer than under many socalled “democracies” which flourish today in eastern it is true, is far from free but it is much freer than in Yugoslavia, Poland or Bulclaim to be purest of

is in prison on account of political ly a few score are in prison for poPortuguese. citizens are free to travel without obtaining permis. _ Tues are allowed to travel abroAd—an un e i in the democratic

Undoubtedly a vast majority of the United Nations regard propaganda of the kind Mr. Bevin denounced as a menace to world peace. And the UNO almost certainly will be asked to do something about it.

Salazar's authority rests on his intellectual pre eminence, complete personal integrity and proved ad~ ministrative capacity. Part of the strength of Salazar's position is that he succeeded in keeping Portugal out of war. In many people's minds this service outweighs grieve ances against the government in domestic matters. On this latter subject the complaint is widespread and becoming increasingly vocal. Last November there were elections to the national assembly. They were boycotted by the opposition on the grounds that insufficient time was allowed for the campaign. During the elections, however, all press censorship was lifted and though it is now reimposed, it is not as bad as heretofore.

Opposition Lacks Leader AN ORGANIZATION has been formed known as the movement of united Democrats, The precise degree of ‘political activity allowed. them, clear, but they ‘already are organizing a, national movement which seeks to to Salazar's dictatobship, ‘Its greatest weakness is that it has no. leader one-tenth as outstanding as Salazar, And Salazar is in possession. Dictatorships often’ lead their countries into war in order to bolster up their unpopular regimes. But no one could suspect Salazar of harboring aggressive designs against his neighbors. His whole career has been devoted to sparing his country the horrors alike of civil and external wars. He brilliantly succeeded § in his double policy and if he is not as liberal as he. § might be in his domestic policy, that surely is a matter to be settled by the Portuguese rather than Wy outsiders. faa

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