Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1946 — Page 12

ED Dry Committee of Indiana is being form ninary to the primary elections, with the main obtaining enactment of a local option law by #inny fin iperintendent of the Indiana Anti-Sal rs he: of ‘of the oon or reais da Oatobe, 1944, will be filled this week by C. M. Wallace, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of + America, former member of the New Hampshire legislature “and concurrently chairman of the state's liquor research The Indiana league also has announced employment of a former army chaplain and a former navy chaplain to work “as organizers throughout the state, It is obvious that the drys are going to work in earnest this election year. And they will have the support of many organizations with related interests. J, Prohibition is an encroachment on individual liberties. During the years it was in theoretical effect in the United States, it was the direct cause of wide-spread crime and many other evils. However, unless the public is convinced that there‘is no serious abuse of present regulatory laws, local option will have a chance in many areas, particularly the rural counties. And local option is a first step toward prohibition. : Related to both local option and complete prohibition, although not the major factor, is the part played by the beer and liquor industries in financing state and local government. It is reported at the statehouse that excise taxes from beer and liquor will amount to nearly one-fifth The Alcoholic Beverage Commission says that in the first half of the current fiscal year, which ends June 380, the commission turned over $3,383,769 to the general fund ‘from excise revenue. It also asserts that the state received ~ $1,462,279 from applications for licenses, which was refunded to local units of government; $398,867 in industry and enforcement taxes, out of which the commission is financed, and $3,225,210 for the post-war institutional

Se———— LOST WAGES + "THE General Motors strike goes into its 97th day, and we "read that the United Auto Workers union estimates ~~ that 175,000 idle auto workers have lost a total of $106,220,000 in wages, due to this strike. ~The union is demanding an increase of 191% cents an

If our arithmetic is approximately correct, that means that if the strike had been settled Saturday and the workers returned to their jobs today, and they got the 1914 cents increase, they would have to work 77 weeks of five days of eight hours each, plus four days more, to get back what they have lost. Which ought to prove something. This seems to offer substantial evidence that some machinery should be ‘developed whereby wage disputes can be settled by bargaining, mediation and arbitration, while the workers keep . on their jobs and on the payroll and production continues.

GOOD JOB AT ATTERBURY

AMP ATTERBURY separation center reports that it ‘7 is'processing more than 2500 men a day from status of G. IL to civilian. Te - The administration of that center is to be complimented generously on the speed with which it handles thousands of men, efficiently and understandingly. When a soldier arrives there, his only thought is getting home. Despite this emotional pressure and a natural impatience with any delay, the departing veterans usually have a good word to say for their last contact with army life. And the army doesn’t sacrifice thoroughness for speed. Each veteran receives a thorough physical check-up and information on insurance, the G. IL bill of rights, and other subjects affecting his readjustment, along with his ticket home or its cash equivalent. ,. But if he comes home to Indianapolis, he finds no such sefficiency; too often it’s a case of lots of advice, but little real help. When the veterans administration’s projected “one-stop” center is set up, the returning soldier will be able to take his place as a civilian again with, we hope, something approaching the well-organized Atterbury assistance,

MAKE IT A TWO-WAY STREET ; LT GEN. JOHN R. HODGE has acted “in kind.” A correspondent of the Russian news agency Tass asked for | credentials to look around southern Korea, the “liberated” zone occupied by U. 8. troops. Gen. Hodge said “No, not until our correspondents are accredited to northern Korea, : zone.” ; Its -about time, we think. The two-way rule should L be | in other respects, and in our own country as well, fibre should we continue to be suckers in this whole business? Why should we open up for observation everything in sight in our country and the military areas where ‘We operate, and then stand behind Russia's iron curtain and not see what goes on in their country, or their military as? The one of north Korea is reported closed even 8. military observers beyond mere courtesy calls. recent Canadian 8py episode is pertinent. } is anything in reciprocity, brotherhood of ce, and giving light, why continue this ? Gen. Hodge, is cracking down on it, is language the Russians will understand, tion, we quote below from a letter writreedmar for 20 years director of the for. & Co., New York. He writes: that de: es are inherently weak, alm was that the strength of in secretiveness. 1 refuse to grant to for.

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died to attain, leaving our enemies free to regroup their forces and attack again? And why just “forget” millions of dollars’ worth of supplies in foreign

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lands? Hasn't the war cost us enough already? Surely taxes are high enough without adding more. May you continue to sort the chaff from the grain. y ® 8» “WHY DOESN'T THE STATE CARE FOR ITS STREAMS?” By Veteran of War I Indianapolis I am a veteran of War I, served in France and Germany. For my services given I was granted a free fishing and hunting permit. I am sure most veterans will agree with me that they would be glad to pay the sum asked if they could get value received, if our streams and rivers were _protected against pollution dumped in them. White river, from Noblesville to Gosport, could make many a veteran and his family happy for a day or two fishing. Not only White river but some very go8d streams in the southern part of the state, But not only stream pollution, as the game hog gets his share. They seine the streams, and as for rabbits, the night hunter or the foxes get the hare. So why have » license with conditions as they are—never taken care of. » » » “TAKE SELFISHNESS FROM THINKING AND DEALINGS” By Ex Swing-Shift Wife, Indians As I see it, the whole industrial dispute is summed up in the slogan of General Motors: “Better things for more people.” Just as long as this slogan remains as it is there will be better things as usual for a few, and the little that is left for the rest of us. Somewhere between the vast profits made by Industry and the small wages of labor is a fair price for both, Another thing overlooked is the great physical tiredness of the workers. The small $20 a week un-

"I'm Away From Home, Too, Want to Finish Job Started"

It was with interest I read your editorial of Jan. 16, “We Wanna Go Home,” on the demobilization progress, and it is good to know that you are wise enough to detect those who would use the G. L to hide

Yes, “I Wanna Go Home,” too, for I have a wife, a home and a job With more than three years believe me, I want to return as much as is humanly possible, but not at the cost of another generation having to fight a war which we failed

army service,

Why toss over-board all that so many people worked, fought and

employment benefit was begrudged to them not only by financiers, congressmen, etc., but also by people of their own wage level, While many of management's lucky people are basking in the suns of Florida, Mexico, Bermuda. How far did $20

much; needed rest? Ask anyone who served two years or. more on the swing-shift. Ask his wife, She can tell you! “Better things for more people.” How many more! Two, onethousand, two-thousand? Let's be specific in our slogans and thereby more convincing, We must take selfishness from our thinking, our dealings, our slogans, to make the world something better than the chaotic thing it is today. » ” » “BARTENDERS SHOULDN'T SELL LIQUOR TO DRUNKS” By A Drinksrd’s Friend, Indianapolis There is logic in Walter Hess’ article as to drunken drivers, but he should not only ask co-opera-tion of the police but of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Officers from both these sources should be compelled to go in all taverns frequently and stop bartenders selling to drunks. The other night I went into a tavern on Madison ave. I had heard was for sale and would be a money-maker if managed in a more respectable and business-like manner. I had asked a young man to go with me. He liked to drink, and before I realized it he had gotten too much. I asked the waitress not to serve him and told her - I was trying to get him to go home. When he asked for more, she told him she thought He had had enough, but he gets up and wobbles to the bar to buy another beer. I asked the waitress to get word to the bartender not to sell him, but she sald she would lose her Job if she would do that. So I told

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that he had had too much and I wished she would be good enough to stop the sale. She gruffly asked me what I brought him in there for if I didn’t want him to drink, and if IT thought he had too much that I should take him home. She saw he was so drunk he could hardly walk. I was terribly irritable then just to think there was nothing a person could do to stop selling to a drunk. I explained that I brought him there betause I had a legal right to, and that she did not have a legal right to sell him a drink when he was already intoxicated. She just sassed, acted like anything but a business woman. Her husband was even worse and refused to talk to me. It is time the A. B. C. investigates such insane methods, then thefe won't be so many drunken drivers or drunks going home to persecute and humiliate their families. » » » “WE'RE' SUCKERS IF WE MAKE LOAN TO GREAT BRITAIN” By Eva Burien Burns, Indianapolis Seeing inflation looming on the horizon isn't a pretty picture. Can you afford your war bonds depreciating in value? Few of us think in terms of ourselves or children when billions of dollars are in.

volved. ‘Yet we, the citizens, are the source of financing the proposed British loan of four billion dollars, . automatically canceling that which is still owed. Subsequently inviting diplomatic affront by refusal to. other countries to deal likewise. : None of us like to be ridiculed. Yet each of us is a sucker if this proposed loan is consummated. So let us shower congress with mass protests and help stop this playing a perpetual Santa Claus to these ungrateful countries. # » = “UNIONS ARE NECESSARY TO PROTECT WORKERS” By Harley F. Legg, 2318 W. MoCarty of, I also am a G. M. worker, Chevrolet Comm. Body. Here are the facts: The union books are open, and they are mostly on the red side

of the ledger. ‘Yes, the UAW has had a ‘strike fund-—$4,000,000 to be exact. But there.are over 1,000,000 auto workers, so each worker has a fund of $4 or less. Our union is democratic. Reuther or Thomas or Atwood, Lyons, Strange or Alexander did not call the strike. Ninety per cent of 175,000 G. M. workers called the strike. May I say the union has given aid to many of its members. We have had one raise since before the war—4 cents per hour. Living costs have gone up 45 per cent. No, unions (C. I. O) were not born in Russia. But by desperate people who had to join together to protect themselves against such unions as chambers of commerce and N. A. M. Labor must have its fair share of what it produces. » . » “GOVERNORS' WIDOWS AID INSULT TO OTHER WIDOWS” By Ruth Jones, Indianapolis I am an elderly widow trying to live on very scant savings, afraid to spend enough to get the kind food I should have and still have enough left to bury np. I was brought up to believe everyone should depend on himself and do not believe in the government supporting me. I wonder how the wives of the governors feel about handed out to them. If they are handed out to them, If fthey are left without enough to live on, let them go to work ‘as others have done. It is an insult to other widows.

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This time he conceived the idea that if he could persuade a mouse to run a treadmill it would do the same thing without costing him a cent for electric current. He lost no time and vent to work rigging an endless belt with a baited cheese. That done, he discovered that his bakery was in such apple-pie order that there wasn’t a mouse anywhere around his place tp run his new-fangled contraption. The discovery that he was minus mice moved

WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.~The British empire today faces the greatest peacetime crisis in its history. The long-delayed showdown between Great Britain and India is now at hand and its repercussions will be felt around the globe. London regards an Indian settlement as vital to world peace. For that reason, no less than three British cabinet ministers are being hurried to that country—something without precedent. London also admits that self-government is now in India’s grasp if the nations will co-operate. But India herself is split wide open. Though Hindus and Moslems alike are now fighting British rule, bringing mutiny and bloodshed to Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Poona, Delhi and.other districts, they would soon be at each other’s throats if Britain gave them unqualified independence and walked out. And there are rifts inside of rifts.

Moslem vs. Hindus

THE VICEROY, Field Marshal Wavell, has announced intention of calling a constituent assembly to set up a self-gov India. That is what the Congress party, composed mainly of Hindus, has wanted. But the Moslem léague, representing some

league leader, says such an assembly would spell civil war, Thus Britain still finds herself between the same devil and the same deep sea. Willing though she may be to grant Indian independence or dominion status, India’s nearly 400 million inhabitants—or their leaders—seem hopelessly divided. While the Hindus, who are in an enormous majority, insist on a united India, the Moslems demand “pakistan”-—independent statehood for themselves, They prefer British rule,:they

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—In addition to all its other troubles, OPA now gets blamed for making it impossible. to keep the young folks and hired hands down on the farm. No sooner had Georgia: Congressman Stephen Pace’s special subcommittee on agriculture started to investigate the shortages of milk, butter, sugar and wheat, than it ran slap dab into this, It used to be, Henry Haag of the Dairymen’s Cooperative association of Portland, Ore. told the committee, that life in the city wasn’t much different from life on the farm. That was before the days of paved highways and picture shows. But now whenever a farm boy wants to marry some slick city girl he has to offér her the same comforts she’s used "to in town, and the farm hoys just can’t make enough money to do that. The implied solution for this problem was to raise the OPA ceiling prices on milk and dairy products. Representatives of the dairy farmers spent the better part of a week In Washington, and through their National Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federa« tion they have been doing quite a job of lobbying, spilling soured milk of human kindness all over the place. They threw a banquet for about 250 congressmen one night, just to make sure the congressmen understood how poor they were. .

Food Prices vs. Luxury Prices NEXT DAY the spokesmen for the group went up on Capitol Hill to make their speeches of the night before official. Henry Haag was the first ‘witness. He said that all the farmers had been able to do during the war was liquidate their debts. He sald it was so bad that if a farmer sat down and figured up the cost of his grain, feed and straw, he had nothing left for his labor and nothing with which to rehabilitate his plant. He explained it was possible for farmers to keep on going because they “could live off their depreciation.” The trouble was, Haag went on, that food was the one thing everybody had to have, and there-

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LONDON, Feb. 25.—Britain’s Labor governmeyt is still young, yet already there is talk of a big shake-up and of an impending cutting out of a lot of old wood. There is no direct criticism of Prime Minister Attlee, but some Labor party members are saying that he is insufficiently tough to make the necessary changes and that, if the government is to be adequately reshaped, a new prime minister is needed. Bix months ago, if there had been talk of a change, it would have been a very close thing between Ernést Bevin and Herbert Morrison. - If there should 'be a change now, it’s certain Bevin would get. the job. Hence, Attlee's stanchest supporter today is Morrison, : Dissatisfaction with the government is focused on three main topics—food, coal and housing.

Must Tighten Belts THE POPULATION of the British Isles today is subsisting on smaller food rations than during the war. If the American loan fails to go through congress, British rations inevitably’ will. be reduced still further. - The British public is fully aware of the acute famine which threatens a. large part of the world and does not expect to get more than a fair share of the food available, but there is a widespread feeling that much Information has been withheld by the government and that there has been a certain amount of political bungling. - The coal situation is even more deadly for the government. Mimister of Fuel Emanuel Shinwell’s drive for increased output during the winter com-

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That raised a rumpus, of course, and the next thing to turn up was a sign on a butcher's door, a a

the day was done the price of cats hit an all-time low. Except for the short winter we had that year, the inexorable law of supply and demand might have revealed its ugliest mood.

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say, to becoming a minority under the rule of the Hindus, ! Jinnah wants two constitution-making assemblies one for the Moslems and one for the Hindus. Once independent, they would then negotiate treaties gov erning their relations with each other and with

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EVEN NOW there are signs that the pot' may boil over and add to international complications beyond India’s frontiers. Jinnah has said that pakistan requires solidarity with other Moslems. This means, as he has admitted, support for the Arabs against a Jewish state in Palestine—“if necessary by violence.” Nor have the Indian disorders been directed entirely against the British. An American flag has been torn down and burned in the streets. American soldiers, officers and men, have been attacked and a score or more injured. When they have identified themselves, they have been told, in effect: “We know you are Americans, but you are white. Why don't you go home?” The rioters have demanded recall of Indian troops from Indonesia, better treatment for Indians in South Africa; and so on. The Japanese left behind them in Asia at least one legacy which will survive: “Asia for the Asiatics.” Occidental] - overlords are on the way out. Which, insofar as this means self-government, is both ine evitable and desirable. ' That js the way the United States played it in the Philippines. But if it merely sets the stage for the subtler, more ruthless form of imperialism now spreading from Moscow, instead of that being the end .of a chapter, it will only mark the beginning of another one,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson gE Cant Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm

fore everybody wanted to get it as cheap as possible. Nobody ever questioned the price of luxuries. He took sharp issue with Bowles on food being 40 per cent of the cost of living, rent 19 per cent and clothes 12. That made a total of 71 per cent, and Haag sald right out he didn believe it. Why, it took 30 per cent of a man’s income just to support an automobile. ; Henry Rathbun, president of the Dairy Co-opera-tive League of New York state, made & speech just like a congressman. He said he represented 28,000 farmers and seven million ‘consumers and he got pretty red-faced about the ‘whole business. He said the farmers used to give their young folks the car and 50 cents to go sparkif’, but now they didn’t have the 50 cents. He didn't say what they used the 50 cents for when they had #, but later on he complained that people in the city paid 50 cents for one drink of liquor and thought nothing of it.

Darsen't Offend Hired Hands MR. RATHBUN sald people living on the farms weren't interested in these luxuries, but they also weren't interested in doing things at a sacrifice. Among the sacrifices he mentioned was that he darsen’t refuse to loan his car to his hired hands when they wanted to go to town and their car was broken down. Also, his women folks darsen’t refuse to mind the hired hands’ children when the hired hands’ wives wanted to go to town to do some shopping, If they did refuse, the hired hands left. Keeping help on the farm was just as difficult as keeping the young folks; even though wages for good dairy hands were from $100 to $200 a montHh. That was with room, but without board. Even so, that's as much as most labor makes in the city. The hours are longer, though—10 a day in winter, 12 to 14 in summer. One of the congressmen asked Mr. Rathbun what would happen if the dairy farmers went on a 40-hour week. He said there just wouldn't be any milk.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill |

Party Faces Unrest

that many factories may have to close down because of the coal shortage. : An essential feature of the Labor party's propae ganda in favor of nationalization of the coal mines is that, once the miners knew they were cutting coal for the benefit of the community rather than for the wicked capitalists, they would redouble their efforts, The coal bill is nearly through parliament, and all the miners know that, within a few weeks, the indus. try will be nationalized but, far from cutting more coal, they are cutting less, Need More Dominant Leader “THE “PROFIT MOTIVE,” which Socialists have so often denounced, appears to be as strongly present in the mind of the coal miner as in that of the capitalist, The revelation of this fact is having a sobering influence on those members of the Labor

party; who have been anxious to press on with nae

tionalization of other. industries, They are beginning to think that nationalization may not be the panacea

they supposed and that, if they press forward their

plans for state ownership of other industries, this may soon begin to lose them votes. - ~The housing ‘question, : of course, is desperate, There is ‘no hope of any large supply of new houses for eighteen months or two years, ; As yet, public dissatisfaction on these topics has

not shown itself in by-elections, but many members of * party are afraid it soon will. Hence, the |. talk of changes in the government and of the choice

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