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ATULATIONS to all hands, including the governT -meént's concilistors,. on the fact that a nation-wide telephone strike has been averted, on "The settlement gives telephone workers sn average raise of 17.6 dents an hour, That's a cent or 80 more than the company had said it would consider paying, and a cent or 80 less than the union had said it would consider taking. Each side apparently concltded, wisely, that a strike was almost certain to cost it more than a.compromise. * Both hides,’ we hope, gave serious thought to their public responsibility, A strike would have cut off, immediately, long-distance service and local service through hand-operated switchboards, causing great public inconvenience and loss. A long strike might have shut down automatic dial systems, for lack of maintenance, creating acute danger to public health and safety. Such a strike would have been intolerable. The government soon would have had to stop it, by one means or another. It is fine that conciliation succeeded, and good sense prevailed, in the telephone dispute. But this.country no longer can afford to take chances on letting intolerable strikes get started. We mean the kind of strikes that would deprive the public of essential utility services or essential food and fuel supplies. The government ought to have a way of preventing such strikes. The Hatch-Ball-Burton bill proposes a way. It is compulsory arbitration of labor-management disputes that threaten to cause severe public hardship and danger, and that can’t be settled by conciliation or voluntary arbitration, The senate labor committee is now rewriting the Case anti-strike bill, recently passed by the house. We agree that the Case bill is too drastic. But we're glad to see the senate committe, for once, instead of pigeonholing such legislation, promising to try to improve it. One thing that should be written in is the Hatch-Ball-Burton proposal just mentioned. : : Labor and management both object to compulsory arbitration. So do we, in ordinary cases. But the public's _ right to protection of health and safety is more important than the right of employers and workers to fight out their differences. And even an enforced compromise is usually Rertain to cost both workers and employers less than % 8 A

CONSERVE FOOD > SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ANDERSON'S report on the food shortage abroad is grim. It grows worse, as new areas of starvation are added. Not only in Europe, but also in Asia, the need is great. One of the worst famines in history threatens in India. At the same time, the world grain reserve is less than expected, especially in this country and in Argentina. In many countries, the economic crisis will peak in the late spring at the same time as political crises. This can cause widespread violence, in some cases revolution. dn places where allied troops of occupation are in authority, the results could be exceedingly serious. : Any Americans not sufficiently moved by humanitarian considerations to co-operate with the Truman food conservation program should be concerned at least by these political repercussions. It is not proposed that we go hungry for a single day. A cans can consume 10 per cent more food ih 1946 than in 1945 and still meet our government's foreign commitments, provided we conserve on the critical items and eliminate all waste, Certainly that is asking little of us. We must do that much, 1

GET THAT JOB DONE Iv Chicago three days ago, Stabilization Director Chester * Bowles said that within 48 hours he would clarify the government's new wage-price policy and explain in detail the program for its enforcement. = “It's my job to help people understand what regulais are for and how they operate,” he added. By attending to that job promptly and fairly, Mr. Bowles can do a lot more good than he has been doing by violent speeches like the one at Wichita, Kas. Tuesday. “Irresponsible, reckless, greedy organizations,” he said there, are trying to wreck price control and bring on inflation. If so, they find their strongest support in the vagueness, inconsistency and uncertainty of the government’s wage-price policy. a The government is helping labor to force wages up. But countless employers don’t know, and haven't been able to find out, whether Mr. Bowles intends to hold price ceilings down so rigidly and so long that rising .wage costs will squeeze the profits out of production. Not knowing, they suspect the worst, and some of Mr. Bowles’ fiery utterances

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- proguction ‘will lag. Ard unless production gets rolling, big 4nd fast, price é¢ontrols will déstroy themselves.

JCRATS HAVE TO EAT EP, ANDRESEN (R. Minn.) passes on a suggestion for © saving food: Let the Democrats call off all thelr Jackson Day dinners, + “It would save carloads of food.” says Mr, Andresen. How much food ft would save would depend, of course, ipon how much the same Democrats would eat that night 4 “they dined at home. Probably fiot as much. At home, lich of the leftovers can be saved in the icebox, Ab a kon Day dinner, with the price running up to $100 a

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“Low Pay and Shortage of Teachers Alarming; Few Parents Aware of It"

By Besttiee Norris, 1900 W. 206k St. After reading your editorial concerning increasing teachers’ pay, I began to rack my brains for a way that I could help. I am a member of the P.-T. A. of school No, 44. I was formerly a teacher so I can argue the oase pro and con. The thing that worries me—I don't know what to do or where to start and it seems to me the ones who do are not doing anything about it. The shortage of teachers is alarming. Sm sure few parents have been made aware, for one cause or another, of true conditions. So many people would help but are not réached in any way. I wondered

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teachers and exactly-how bad it is. Stress the fact that enrollment has increased to such an exterit that a teacher is not only underpaid, but has double duty. No wonder people don't want to be teachers. It's the hardest work in the world and I guess now it really is a very poorly paid profession. I still.think there are enough parents in the city of Indianapolis who can look ahead into the future and be frightened by these existing conditions if they could be reached with factual evidence. . And thanks for a good editorial,

Editor's Note: Thank you for a good suggestion. We feel Indianapolis teachers are not paid enough, and that unless the sitaation is femedied soon, the shortage of teachers will become acute,

. » ” » “COUNT ME AGAINST FREE HUNTING-FISHING PERMIT”

By Rolland Ayers, 4 8. Mount sf. After reading & recent gripe in the Forum on the controversy=over free hunting-fishing permits, being one of Isaac Walton's sternest advooates long before becoming a sol« dier or veteran, I'm wondering if someé of us who are getting this privilege are worrying any about whether there will be any money left to better our fields and streams, flow that a buck and a half it not being collected from us ex-G. I's Count me as one who would rather have to pay the Indiana Dept. of Conservation for improvements, which the free gratis license will severely cripple. Really, Mr. Inman, there are a lot of us.

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“BLOOMINGTON MURDERS WARNING TO ‘CHEATERS'”

By Janice Brownell, Indianapolis It’s just too bad that more persons like the couple murdered at Bloomington don’t share the same fate. Then there wouldn't be so much of this shameful, filthy business going on. And another thing, it's high time that the courts of these United States invoke some legislation cove ering such cases, and I don't mean divorce laws. I do mean laws that will mete out jail sentences to these dirty yellow dogs who cheat, men and women alike, If this filthy tripe knew that they could be arrested and thrown in jail for these nefarfous acts, believe you me, the anSwer would be “no”, I won't go out with you, you're married, or I'm married, The person who breaks his marriage vows is just as much a thief as the one who steals the more tangible coat, watch, of what have you. The thief who steals money or merchandise can be thrown in jail, 80 why not the other type of thief? Why aren't there laws to handle these thieves just as well as the other kind? What's the matter with the lawmakers and the club members who try to uplift the money thief, bf who let these other thieves go blithely on their way. Now it's high time some thinking persons got busy on this, and did something about’ it before it’s too late, and by too late, I mean before people take the law into

their own hands and start murder. ing left and right.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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“SMALL COUNTY SCHOOLS SHOULD PLAY HERE, T00” By » Fan of Franklin Township, Indianapolis

I would like to ifiquire as to why Franklin township high school has to play the sectional at Shelbyville. Till a few years ago when the sec-

tionals in Indianapolis got too crowded and all the small schools had to go out of town. We have belonged to the I. H. 8. A. A. before several of the others, so why can’t Franklin township play in Indianapolis, too? I believe that all of the smaller schools should have an equal chance to play there,

Editor's Note—The Times sports department explains that the assigning of teams to sectionals is done by the IL H. S. A. A. board of control. Recent boards have maintained the same lineup of teams. Whether Franklin township will continue to play outside Marion county depends on the action of future boards. While there has been agitation for two sectionals here to accommodate all Marion county teams, this has been countered by pressure from the rest of the state, which would stand to lose a tournament utider such a set-up.

# 82 8 “REGISTER FIREARMS AND LOWER THE CRIME TOTAL” By 1st Sgt. Melvia L. Baker; Indisnapelis Being an ardent reader of your Hoosler Forum column, the article by Mr, Robert Clark Hollingsworth

of New Augusta, concerning “Firearms Registrations,” has aroused my curiosity, I'm curious to know just why Mr. Hollingsworth or any. other sportsman or gun lover would object to the firearms registering that he mentions in this letter, I see nothing in the bill that would prove harmfil to any law abiding citizen that has nothing to hide from the law enforcement ageéncies. It would seem more proper if such legislature was supported by all instead of fought against. Over a period of time this bill, properly supported, will serve to lower the rising crime wave of this country and in addition, it will be of untold value to the various police agencies throughout the United States. Per sanally, I saw enough guns in New Guinea, Dutch East Indies and the Philippines, and I'm not in ‘favor of them laying around unregistered. » »

w “IM GLAD MY SON DIDN'T FALL FOR FOREIGN BRIDE"

By A Proud Mother, IndiAndpolis Here i8 a letter to an Ix-G. I. of Indianapolis. I want to tell him and all other @. ls who married overseas that they should be sent back overseas to their wives as those women don't need to come to America. I have a son that has been serve ing over there for two years, Those English girls and women just want to come to America. He has told me all about them, He }ias been in France, London, Germany and many other places. He" never did fall for their lines. The lady from Mooresville is right when she says the fellows should be sent overseas, if they margled over there. vou tell the Ex-Q., I. I am 100 per cent American and I'm not German. If he likes Erig-

DAILY THOUGHT

But rather give alms of . such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you ~~ Luke 11:41, \ me

state department posts instead of drawing on the diplomatic corps. . = + The senate now has before it the latest of these [ nominations, that of Maj. Gen, John Hildring, to be assistant secretary of state. Gen. Hildring made an excellent record as director of the civil affairs division of the war départment, in charge of government administration in occupied areas. He is highly qualified for his new job, which will inélude somewhat similar duties as well as liaison with the war department, 3 Gen. Hildring’s selection follows closely the nomindtions of Gen, George O. Marshall, called from retirement as chief of staff of the army to become ambassador to China, and of Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Indianapolis, Gen. Eisenhower's chief of staff in defeat of Germany, as ambassador to Russia. . There is mo doubt whatsoever of the abilities of these mer. ‘But. their selection does raise the question of: whether suitable diplomats could be found for these essential key posts. “It also poses the ques tion of whether the concepts of future diplomacy are undergoing a change,

‘Army Voice in Germany and Japan THROUGH THE Hildring appointment, there is little question but that the army will have a much greater. voice in the governing of the occupied countries than was contemplated originally, Gen. Eisenhower, present army chief of staff, is known to have been of the opinion that government of the defeated enemy countries was not a military Job after victory was won and order established. It is the consensus of many regular army and navy officers who deal with policy on a high level that the armed forces have done their job when they have defeated their opponent. .Their function after that

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert

NEW YORK, March 9.—Every time I turn on the radio or pick up the papers and bump into words about appeasement, non-appeasement, spies, secret treaties, boundaries, pressure, occupation, distrust— I get that old uneasy feeling about this is where I came in, This is a plaintive wall in the wilderness, and probably will get me nowhere, but please, do we have to have another war so soon? It used to be every hundred years, and then it shortened to 20, and now it looks like they are considering the idea of running wars on an annual basis. - With the buttons still untarnished on my sailor suit, and a personal fight still going with the bureau of supplies and accounts to recapture some mislaid allotment money, about the last thing 1 want is to get hauled back into bondage undem Adm. Nimitz, who is a very nice man, but not my idea of a permanent employer. 3 Please, Mr. Churchill, will you quit being so generous with other people’s tired carcasses? Mother didn’t raise her boy fo be a lieutenant commander, and I narrowly escaped it in this recently concluded mess, I don't want to be wu four-striper or an admiral or a seaman second class. /

Things We Don't Want to Do THE OFFICE PHONES have been ringing all day, with people wanting to know whether recently discharged veterans are to be called back to duty, and whether all discharges have been halted by the army and navy. It's not true, but is this your idea of the brave new world of peice and plenty? “1 am on strike against another war. I don’t know who's right and who's wrong, and what all the yelling is about, but I do know that I want no part of it. If I have to get myself knocked off, let it not be because some jerk buried an application for a loan in the files, or because we appeased when we should have punched or punched when we should have argued. After three years of saying goodby in gloomy railway stations, trying to read V-mail, being scared

WASHINGTON, . March 9~—~At one point in the hurly-burly in the house over the housing bill, when amendments were being slapped up and down, Republicans missed their cue and voted exactly opposite to their intentions. They had to have a roll-call later to straighten themselves out, Speaker -Rayburn remarked wryly that members should follow their “leadérs.” This had an ironic connotation. It aptly symbaiized the situation in congress. For that body operates these days like a .leaderless mob, with party lines meaning little, > Democrats, for example, hardly know from one day to the next who are their leaders. A Substantial blos of southern Democrats in the house does nof look at all to its party leaders, nominally President Truman, Speaker Rayburn and Majority Leader MeCormack. This bloc of Southerners teams up with Republicans.

Leadership Vacillates THEY CANNOT always be said to look to Republicans as leaders, however. Sometimes it's the other way around. They step out as leaders and the Republicans follow them. This coalition can now be described as virtually a party of its own. It has held control of-the house in recent weeks on several issues. Psychology of the ‘Republican-southern Democratic coalition is worth considering, For it is having much to do with the shape of post-war economy. By and large the coalition's purpose .is to break away from

‘An International

WABHINGTON, March §.~That Winston Churchill's proposal for an English-speaking entente should strike certain senator§- as “shocking” itself came as something of a shock to students of the United Nations. Russia has a 20-year alliance with Britain and Foreign Minister Bevin has just said ‘his country would gladly turn it into a B0-year alliance. Russia and France have a similar treaty, and Russia has paots with Ozechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia. The United States has a mutual defense agreement with Canada and plans to sign defensive treaties with the 20 American republic to the south, None of these pacts in any way interfepes with the proper’ functioning of the United Nations. -On the contrary, they are regarded as giving added strength to that organization. Article 25 of the charter expressly states: “Nothing in the present charter precludes . . . regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with , . , the maintenance of international peace and security + « , provided that such arrangements , ., are conaistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” Any understanding between the British commonwealth and the United States, the former British prime minister said, would be similarly eonditioned,

Big Power Aggression Ts Test ‘MOREOVER, it is pointed out, the United States, in effect, already is a member of a quintuple entente with Russia, Britain, France and China. And congress has given its’ formal okay to this entente. If Russia or Britain 'or ¥rance or China become the vietim of an aggression,” the United States is bound to assist it,

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point, they believe, becomes one “of enforcement of such terms of the surrender instrument which might require tréops on the ground to keep law and order, if necessary, and to conduct counter-intelli<* gence measures to prevent development of sube versive underground movements, » That was the concept in all planning in which I participated in the war department, and in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, It was an ace cepted premise that the state department would take over after order had been restored. Indications now point to a revision of that approach, with the army remaining as the administrative agenoy in both Gere many and Japan. - Is it because the President does not feel the state Jepurunen can handle that mission to his satisfac on

Effect on World Opinion

OUR SELECTION of soldiers for diplomatic poste gives us representatives with broad training in global policies, and with intimate personal - contacts with

many of those with whom they will be dealing, Bug

it also places undue emphasis on the military, or militaristic, phase of our national policy, We tell everyone that we have no imperialistie ambitions, and mean it. But a dubious and suspicious world is likely to regard those protestations as made for the record, and continue arm’s length deal. ings with us if they believe that we are entering a saber-rattling era of diplomacy. ’ President Roosevelt's selection of Adm. Leahy for the post of wartime ambassador to France was an understandable choice, because the problem there \)] a military one to a great extent. But the problems we now face should not be regarded as primarily military, The army is our national police force . . , diplomacy should be left to those trained in the broad phases of world politics, if the state department can produce them,

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Do We Have to Have Another War?

to death part of the time and bored stiff for the rest, I ery “Uncle!” There are a lot of things I would like to do ia the next few years, including fishing, but I will enumerate some of the things I don’t want. I do not wish to ride any blacked-out transports, | sit on the wet ground to watch “B” movies, or scramble around for something to help me forget the lousy life I am living. I have no desire to wear any uniforms or march with anybody, anywhere. The prospect of censoring other people’s mail leaves me cold, and the lack of enthusiasm I have for ammunition ships and bombing raids is simply staggering. I have had my quota of jungle rot, shrapnel panie, being polite to people with riore rank, writing letters to the heirs of dead friends, walking away from apartments with weeping women inside them, lousy chow and uncertain future.

Not Two Wars in Same Decade! THE UNEASY AMUSEMENT with which people treat the imminence of death in a war is all right for a few years, but as a daily habit it is wearing on the nerves. I do not want to be a soldier, a sailor, a war cor« respondent, a Red Cross official, a USO entertainer, an employe of the office of war information, a meme ber of the merchant marine or even a Boy Scout, if it entails the wearing of a uniform. The newer wrinkles in radar and atom splitting X give away, freely, and as far as airplanes are concerned, I still got callouses from bucket seats, and I still love trains. 3 I wish Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin and Mr. True man would all go away, and leave me with a new re. frigerator, a dozen new shirts, an automobile, the stranger I was married to before the war, and my | dreams of the romantic days when the old man was a hero. I still say it's dead against fair employment practices to make the same guy fight two wars in the same decade. It gets so monotonous after the first one.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Congress Is Hell-Bent for ‘Normalcy’

controls of all sorts imposed during the war, price controls being foremost, and to abandon subsidies as a means of increasing production or holding prices down to the consumer, or both, Likewise the ooalition is resisting proposals that would carry on the New Deal idea—increase in minimum wages, medieal and education programs, and the like. - It is hell-bent for what was called “normalcy” after the last war, .

Truman Tries to Stop Trend IN VAIN the President and administration lead ers try to stem the tide. They argue that some cone trols must be continued for some time to ease transis tion from a war economy so that the wage-earner and the consumer will be protected. To one who watched congress operate after the last war, what is going on now looks much like that, You get the feeling®from observing this “back-to-normalcy” spree that some day in the future the Monday morning quarterbacks, or perhaps the historians; are going to point back to all this, shaking their heads gloomily, as the time when the natiom missed its opportunity. Congress may *be following the “mood” of the country. . War-weariness probably still has most people in its grip, so that they do. not, bother too much about congress. It is a question always whether congress should accept a temporary “mood,” oe whether it should take the long view and lead, oe try to lead.

WORLD AFFAIRS... By William Philip Simms

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Real test of the United Nations, therefore, will come if and when one of the Big Five turns aggressor, Should, Holland attack Denniark or vice versa, and the Big Five agreed on the aggressor, there would be no problem. ‘The culprit would be put down in a jiffy, But the situation would be vastly different if one of the major powers turned outlaw and exercised its power to veto action against itself. If the rest of the big powers did nothing, the United Nations automatlcally would be destroyed. If they refused to back down and decided to uphold the charter, the fat would be in-the fire,

UNO Now Polices Small Nations AN EXCLUSIVE, old-fashioned alliance between the United States and Britain alone might oe tre garded as provocative by an already suspicious Russia, But a tripartite pact among the United States, the British commonwealth and the Soviet Union to come to each other's aid in case of unprovoked attack might have a contrary effect. To say that the United States is opposed to peacetime alliances, 48 beside the point for the three powers already are bound to much the same effect. France and Ohina also might join such & pact inasmuch as they are already members of the Big Five, - ; ’ Here would be a sort of interlocking or overlapping’ regional arrangement. If we attacked Russia unproe voked, Britain and the others would. join against us. If Britain attacked Russia, we would all help Russia. If Russia were the aggressor, the rest would make common cause, and 80 on-all under the aegis of. the United Nations, As matters now stand, the United Nations merely police the little fellows. Events prove daily that'a big international bully can get away with anything: Un~ less and until it is further strengthened. by regional understandings or otherwise, the new league of na~ the wily remain for the most part

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