Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1946 — Page 12

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“Give Light and the People Will Find Thee Own Way *

MORE ABOUT TEACHERS’ SALARIES UR out of 10 Indianapolis school teachers are not re"ceiving salaries in accordance with the schedule established last year by the board of school commissioners, according to a survey by The Times. To us, this’ seems to carry economy to extremes. Granted that every dollar of public funds should be expended only for sound purposes, it is difficult to find any more sound than education of the city’s children to cope with the problems that will face them in the future. A recent survey sponsored by the Federation of Public School Teachers shows that on Sept. 1 of this year 39.4 per cent of all classroom teachers will be under the school board schedule of salaries, even if increases are made according to schedule. Broken into. groups, the survey states that 27 per cent of teachers not holding college degrees will be below schedule, one-fourth of those with bachelor’s degrees will be receiving less than the $3050 maximum, and 71 per cent of those with master's degrees will be below the approved schedule. Top salary provided in the schedule is $8400 for teachers with master’s degrees after 22 years of service. For starting beginners, the salary is $1700. Spokesmen for the federation assert that despite the fact that some teachers with qualifications for the higher salary have been in the school system for as much as 35 years, not one classroom teacher is receiving the maximum. A large number of the present old-timers among the teachers will become eligible for retirement in the next five years after 85 years of faithful service, without attaining the maximum salary. That will contribute seriously to a teacher shortage which faces Indiana because so few persons are enrolling for teacher training, And the attractions offered don’t indicate future enrollments will be sufficient to meet the shortage of which we are now warned by the professional educators whose business it is to know the facts of the situation. Let's not let the Indianapolis school system deteriorate from within , , . it means too much to future progress.

DON JUAN AND FRANCO

THE SPANISH situation grows worse, but at least the lines are more clearly drawn. Dictator Franco has defied efforts of the United States, France and Britain to let him out easily. And the pretender, Don Juan, has protested the three-power joint declaration as “intolerable foreign intervention.” Thus the would-be king, who first supported the dictator and now hopes to succeed him, uses ~. almost the identical words of Franco in condemning the American-French-British moves for a peaceful democratic settlement. : .. This must be embarrassing to the British Tory group which’ has long backed the kingly ambitions of Don Juan.

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"No_Notice Being Taken of Black Market in Foodstuffs"

By D. E. K,, 1223 Brookside Ave,

I retired from the grocery business just three years ago. Prices and points prevailed. I knew I could go on, but for how long? .Good grocers, good men, were being jerked up daily and their names put in the papers for mere oversights, or maybe a bit of carelessness. I did not want this. I had conducted an honest business for 33 years in Indianapolis, better than 50 stores in all. I did not want to be arrested and my name put in the papers on a mere technicality. So I quit. Today no notice is taken of black marketing, Onions, bananas, yam sweet potatoes and what not are brazenly sold for more than the | O. P. A. price list. I know, for I am still on the O. P. A. mailing list. | * This is terribly unfair to the honest grocer, and 99 per cent. of them are honest. He. can ok onions, etc, to sell—but not at O. P. A. prices So he is out. To be honest, he must be out. Every store must and does display both ress and environment that is rapidly the wholesale and the retail prices killing our desires for this true rein full view of the public. This is|ligious fervor. Our nation’s spiritual

| emphatically téll us that this true religious fervor was very manifest | in their day. : Hence, we can safely draw this|

But the British labor government now should find it easier to co-operate more fully with Washington and Paris in behalf of self-determination for the Spanish people. At the same time, the American minority group which | has supported Franco can hardly continue to do so after the state department documentary revelations of his close relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the war. Moreover, Franco welcomed creation of the Jap puppet regime in the Philippines. And he operated with the axis espionage system in this hemisphere. / The United Nations twice has outlawed the Franco regime from membership in the world organization. There is no longer any excuse for-the United States and other democracies to do business with Franco. If the democracies had not buttressed his Fascist regime with “diplomatic recognition and economic aid, the bloody un- , Popular tyranny would have fallen long ago. By ‘delaying the break with Franco, the democracies are playing into the hands of the Fascists on the one side and the Communists on the other. The longer the delay, the more likely that a change in Spain will be accompanied by civil war—which only the totalitarians want, :

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ALL IN ONE PACKAGE

AN ALMOST unanimous chorus of praise has greeted the La Follette-Monroney report proposing steps to ~ strengthen and equip congress to do a better job. .~ This enthusiasm reflects a profound public feeling— ‘shared, we believe, by most senators and representatives ~—that congress has fallen dangerously behind the times. In an age of jet planes and split atoms, congress is still struggling to do business by methods that antedate the automobile and the electric light. Its organization is cumbersome. Its operations are bumbling, Its sources , of unbiased fact-and-figure information are inadequate. As a result, we have a constant growth of bureaucracy—an ever-expanding volume of “administrative rules “and regulations—an alarming trend’ toward government by men instead of government by law. If this trend is to be halted and reversed, congress must bring itself up to date. : But the general recognition of that fact, by members of congress as well as by the public, does not automatically insure that the wise La Follette-Monroney program will be adopted, Part of that.program proposes higher salaries, more help, retirement pensions for senators and representatives. Congress probably will need no urging to adopt that part. But the chief recommendation of the other part calls for a Sherpu of standing committees and a‘reduction of their » An order to eliminate the present overlapping, du- - Dlication and conflicts of effort. That would id 17 i of the 33 present committee chairmen in the senate, and ~~ 30 of the 48 present committee chairmen in the house. So there is likely to be some powerful opposition to that patt We ‘hope, ‘however, that the whole program will be up r annd enacted in one bill, the bitter committee chairmien along with the all ‘Senators and representatives” A

not done at the market in plain|collapse can be blamed entirely on| view of the patron. If it is dis-|the spineless pastors of the churches. | played, it is too far back, hang<| When I was a boy, preachers] ing lopsided, or covered with a con- and laymen alike, shouted what venient garment. I know. I looked they "had to say, and whenever

for them. Where are the O. P. A. [they prayed they always got down

agents? They will tell you they on their knees—especially when

lack the authority to arrest without|they were praying for the welfare | a prosecuting witness. If this be of their and their neighbors’ sons | necessary why fool the public with|{and daughters. They would shout | make-believe? There are honest|their prayers and sometimes pound | merchants on the market just as|the back of the seat so hard they there is the honest grocer. More would almost break it. But we! often their names appear over their didn’t have a 60% child delinquen- | place of business and they are cy problem in those days, as we! proud of that name. They take no | have today. Now don't tell me these | chances. Black markets are no{good old people were fanatics and | part of them. [hypocrites for I lived near them Here is a suggestion. Let O. p.[and came in contact with them A. put a few agents in uniform, a Dearly every day. Every Sunday distinctive dress. Let these agénts|One or the other of us would give visit the stores and markets. All AN invitation to a welcome dinner | they need do is walk about, even|2! Our homes. Then every Sunday | whistling if they like. Tl guaran-|®Vening we would put several kitchtee that petty larceny will cease ® chairs in. the old farm wagon and pronto. and start for church, and as we drove down the road we could hear our- neighbors in their farm wagon on the other road singing, “In the| Sweet By and By” and other good | old songs. | Today the majority of the churches are closed on Sunday night. What has closed them? The modern automobiles and the modérn preachers. If we want to escape the calamity that the President predicts, we will be compelled to immediately discard modernism in every form possible and get back to God.

. 8 8 “PREACHERS SHOUTED THE MESSAGE WHEN I WAS A BOY”

By Ira D. Fields, 1327 Broadway President Truman asked for a resurgence of a truly religious fervor to save the world from destruction. The word “resurgence” implies that this true religious fervor really existed and functioned in a former generation.’ Now we know it to be a fact, that the generation prior to our present generation was far more primitive. And our grandparents

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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conclusion—it is our modern prog-|'0 be done with referees that can't

“TECH GOT RAW DEAL AT ANDERSON FROM REFEREES” By A Bunch of Greenclads, Indianapolis We have just finished reading an article written by a Washington fan concerning the game with Tech at the sectional, Talking about anyone getting a raw deal, we sure thipk Tech got one at the game with Anderson. We would also like to know who taught the referees. Tech has a fine, honest, fair fighting team but what chance does a fair team have when referees are

against you? I think all teams should have a fair chance and with refe-

team. We think everybody will agree with us. We also think the game with" Anderson should be investigated and we think something ought

play fair.

Editor's Note—There can be only’ one winner in basketball, hence the unpopularity of some of the officials with fans of eliminated teams. The I. H. 8. A. A: advises that the officials at Anderson were “okayed” by the competing schools long before the tourney. That was the time to have protested—not ow, J 8 » ” “CITY FACES CRIMEWAVE, BETTER WAKE TO PROBLEM”

By Cpl. Robert Schneider, Camp Atterbury It has been my fortune, or mis-

fortune, sometimes I don’t know which, to have been stationed in over 11 different states while in the army. During that time I have

been in all types and sizes of towns in the U. 8. Until recently, Indianapolis was my choice as to where I intended to make my home after I leave the army. I said, until recently, because the last four weeks I have been shocked at the “crime wave” that seems to have hit Indianapolis. I have noticed column after column devoted to the crimes that seem to have this fair city in a death-grip. The worst and most revolting of these are the sex offenders. Why is it that our police force hasn't made more progress in it's fight against this rising crime wave? It couldn't be because of lack of men. There are many former army M. P.s in this .city that would be a betterment to the local police. Indianapolis had ‘better wake up to a very serious problem before they have one of the worst crime waves in,it's history on it’s hands. » » » “CHURCHILL'S SPEECH IS

WRITING ‘FINIS' TO UNO”

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to have not only the know-how of harnessing atomic energy but also racks of the bombs themselves, to exercise extreme caution in selection the custodia of that awesome energy. i Having seen the utter devastation and litera] disintegration of Hiroshima , . . observers for other countries saw that and Nagasaki, too . .. I am eonvinced that it is a weapon and a force too great for any nation to possess alone without arousing suspicion, fear, hatred and sinister scientific competition throughout the world. Atomic energy regulation should not be the exclusive responsibility within the United States of the armed forces, as is urged by Maj. Gen. Lester R. Groves, engineer in charge of construction in the Abomb project. Gen. Groves would: give the joint chiefs of staff veto authority over decisions of whatever control commission might be created. He told Sen. McMahon's committee on atomic energy, now in session, that this war-making part of our government . . ., or its defense machinery, if you will . . . should have this veto. And he also said scientists other than those in the services should not receive full information on some technical secrets. .

Don't’ Encourage Armament Race CONTROL OF atomic energy is a moral question both in the national and the international scene, as well as one of our national security. The U. S. would be endangering the peace of the world if this energy were considered solely as a weapon of war, as most people now regard it. If the military control. it, we will be serving notice on the world that we are entering an armament race of an Intensity never known before . . , and it would be a race toward destruction. The director of the national bureau of standards revealed last week that there are scientists who now know how to make a single bomb whose destructive capacity is equal to a million 10ton blockbusters. This same authority said the nation’s scientists were “held svery strietly under military domination” and that under such condition “science simply cannot go forward.”

WASHINGTON, March 13—Soundings with a view to another Big Three meeting in the not distant future are believed to be under - way, despite mild disclaimers. London is said tq be particularly. active. The reason is that relations among the United States, Britain and Russia are daily becoming more strained. Irritation is increasing. If the present lack of understanding becomes chronic it may have fatal resuits, . A growing number of United Nations officials are convinced that a determined effort at the top is needed to avert possible catastrophe. They fear further drift may carry mankind over the falls.

Truman Favors Session Here THE IMPRESSION has gone out that President Truman is against any more Big Three meetings. A transcription of his press conference, just before he embarked on his week-end cruise, indicated the reverse,

Q—A new meeting of the Big Three has been suggested. Is there a possibility of that? The President answered that there was not, in the immediate future.

Q—You're not discounting it entirely, are you? He said, not entirely. He added that anyone who wanted to, could come to the United States to visit the President. Q—The next meeting will be here, then?

* WASHINGTON, March 12.—The last of the 370,000 German prisoners of war will be moved out of-the United States some time in June, says Brig. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, the provost marshal general. A few big employers of farm. labor who liked the idea of having this ready surplus of hands tried to get their congressmen to delay the departure of. the German POW'’'s till after the harvest was in. But the war department turned thumbs down on this effort to provide competition for free American labor, and the prisoners are now being shipped out as fast as boats are available, Y As a final phase of this big emigration, 20,000 hand-picked, tried and tested anti-Nazi prisoners of war are being given a one-week short course in democracy at Ft. Eustis, near Norfolk, Va. They are put through the school in weekly groups of 2000. After their graduation behind barbed wire, they are shipped to a port of embarkation and in six weeks they are home, free men once again. Incidentally, the prisoners are permitted to buy six cartons of cigarets apiece before they leave, their own graduation present to themselves, to last them during their final six weeks of captivity, There are two big lessons. First, how democracy works. Second, in a democracy, everyone must take some responsibility to make it work.

Good Refresher for Us at Home THE INSTRUCTION through which the prisoners are put wouldn't hurt any American, either, in these trying times. . Subjects are fundamental—what is democracy. ‘What are rights, how can free and equal men agree on a course of action? They cover briefly rights of the individual under the constitution, danger of too many parties as compared with a single one, our educational system, American economic life, etc.

WASHINGTON, March 12—The atomic bomb scared the daylights out of us, as well as the scientists who created it, when we pondered the possibilities

By Charles E. Geiger, Richmond, Ind, I see where we ex-G. Is can get ready to put on the old uniform!

| and get back into the foxholes.!

Churchill's. speech wrote finis to the | UNO. It was a beautiful dream while it lasted. I wonder how much | American and British oil interests in Iran had to do with all of this?| Does our much biagged about free speech permit our newspapers giving us the facts? I doubt 'it.

Editor's Note: You are getting the facts through the press, Mr. Geiger. And we don’t agree that Mr. Churchill's talk spelled the end of the United Nations organization. It did emphesize the need of an

; enabling congress to do a genu- : y the salary raises, pensions

early ‘U. 8.-British-Russian meeting to strengthen UNO.

DAILY THOUGHT

Then he sald unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom néthing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.—Nehemiah 8:10.

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after destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was some small comfort to learn at the same time that, as well as being the biggest dealer of death and destruction, atomic energy also opened up untold benefits for our daily living. . But, in the press of other problems, we have become callous about the atomic bomb and atomic energy, developing what might be called a sort of protective mental and psychological coloration, This is a most dangerous attitude, * : For, right now, congress faces a decision momentous for our future in that if involves the sort of controls that shall be devised for atomic energy, hoth as a military weapon and as a beneficient agent of social progress.

Army Backs May-Johnson Bill

THE BASIC DECISION is whether the control shall be military or civilian, The two theories of control are at issue, respectively, in the so-called May-Johnson bill. which has been approved by the house military ‘affairs committee, and the McMahon bill still pending in the special senate committee on atomic energy. Broadly, the May-Johnson bill would permit military control. Military men could be appointed to a commission of nine to control atomic energy. But, more important still a military man could be appointed as administrator. The commission is not a full-time commission. It is required to meet four times a year. Control ‘would be exercised largely by the admin-

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istartor who, if this bill were passed, might be Maj.

Gen. Leste R. Groves, who supervised the atomic bomb project. The army and navy chiefs of staff would have a veto on commission decisions.

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Atomic Control Should Be Civilian

"IT'S OUR BUSINESS, ss the ohe nation sipposed

control would be on the military.

Civilian control must be established if we are

to take the lead in preventing an atomic armament] !

the form of control was delaying creation of then

competition in which tHe danger is that everyone will lose, As a United Press dispatch from Washington pointed out yesterday, our failure to determine

United Nations atomic commission because other na«tions -are holding up their appointments until they

know the type of representative we select for that commission, ‘

Final Control With UNO

asked that this be established.

I agree emphatically with the scientists who fear what diplomats and politicians might da with atomie 9 energy, or what the world reaction would be if our M armed forces controlled it . . . and at best, our sole 1 a

possession of the bombs can be but temporary, ~Final control ultimately should be at the intere national level . . . in the hands of the United Nations organization when it is strong enough to handle this new power for world security. The President and the

secretary of state have assured Sen. Vandenburg, Re- +

would force premature sharing of U. 8. secrets with |

publican spokesman on foreign policy, that no come mitments were made at the Moscow conference which

other powers, The impression exists that “share” our secrets prematurely, I believe their Posie tion is stated adequately by Dr. Arthur H, Compton, who told the Federal Council of Chiirech of Christ in America recently that we

That is sound thinking, tifically , . . and there should be the two, Atomic energy must be considered and progress . ., not of death. And that approach to the question will be accepted by other if it is under control of a commission not. concerned primarily with wars . . . whether they be wars of

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms i - = Big Three Meeting in Washington?

The President answered “yes.” All this seéms clear. Only an “immediate” meet ing is ruled out. An early meeting, however, remains a distinct possibility. What Mr. Truman in effect says is that on four different occasions an American president has crossed the Atlantic to talk business with the allies and it is now up to them to come to Washington. No one doubts ‘Prime Minister Atte lee’s willingness. If Mr. Stalin refused, that, in ite self, would be significant.

Present Drift Is Dangerous NOT EVERYBODY, however, believes another Big Three meeting would be fruitful. The following para-

- graph from a letter to this writer expresses the views

of a considerable number: “You have written several times of late on the necessity of ‘the Big Three’ getting together again to conserve the peace of the world. I want to say most emphatically that such meetings of Stalin, Attlee and Truman are useless for the simple reason that Soviet foreign policy is already cut and dried. Nothing that Truman and Attlee can do will cause the Soviets to change their plans or intentions one iota—unless the Soviets gain by so doing.” Nevertheless, others observe, something should be done, and soon, if the present dangerous drift is to be checked. And, in Russia, only Stalin seems to have the necessary understanding and authority.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson | Education Behind the Barbed Wire

Of particular interest is, of.course, the section which deals with the History of democratic traditions in Germany. The failure of the Weimar republic, Germany's place in the world, and the United Nations Organization’s promise for®the future are discussed, After the lectures, the sessions are broken up into groups of 50 for discussion. Arguing gets hot and heavy, for the prisoners are encouraged to exercise full freedom of speech, to ask each other searching questions and to answer them. In a session on the league of nations, the men contribute out of their own knowledge of conditions in Europe, analyses’ of such engrossing problems as what happened when Italy invaded Ethiopia, when Germany invaded the Rhineland, and when civil war broke out in Spain, and why the league failed.

Last Chance to Alter Views "WHAT WE HAVE tried to do in this barbed wire educational institution is to create an atmosphere in which the Germans have a final chance to change their point of view. How much of America has rubbed off and soaked in will take years to tell. Thousands of the prisoners have asked how they could immigrate to America. When the German atrocity films were showa where violent Nazis were segregated, many were converted, and some confessed they were ashamed to look their guards in the face. : When President Roosevelt died, 800 POW’s at & camp in Arizona signed a message of condolence te Mrs. Roosevelt ‘and the nation. One prisoner at Ft. Eustis gave every man in his discussion group his name and address for the pure pose of keeping the group united to work for democ= racy in Germany after they were liberated. A barbed=

. wire alumni association may be in the making. IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes We're Callous About Atomic Energy

committee, would set up a permanent civilian coms mission of five, with the military to have & voice through & military devision, and with ample pro= vision for military security. Desipte the fact that President Truman has urged vivilian control most forcefully, Gen. Groves and the military have moved in quietly behind the May-Johne gon bill, sponsored jointly by Rep. May (D. Ky.), house military affairs committee chairman, and Sene ator Johnson (D. Colo.), senate military affairs chair~ man. It is extraordinary to have military officers working contrary to the President, whois commander» in-chief and is supposed to define policy.

Military Control Against Efficiency PLACING OF military men on such commissions is a departure from our tradition and precedent. Be~ yond that, there are other obvious dangers which have been pointed out. It is feared that military control not only would alarm other nations and thus adversely affect our foreign policy but that as a mate ter of plain efficiency it would hamstring develops ment of atomic energy both in the bomb and peace time ‘uses. : * Control. by civilians, with freedom for scientists, is the best way to develop atomic energy, whether for the bomb or otherwise, Sclentists produced the bomb, not military men, They might have developed it sooner had it not been for the rigid military discipline imposed. on various phases of the project from ‘conferring with each other. had done.the preliminary work even before it was made an army project, and had kept the secret among themselves. . Anybody who has been around Washington for ay time knows the effect of military control. The military mind is rigid and uninventive, It follows eaten paths. TheYe is grave danger that it would seriously hamper development of atomic energy for peacetime uses, since the.whole stress

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Theater Par SEVERAL P, ing arranged fo formance of “ the Civic thea production will the Indianapol ber of Commer Among those are Messrs. and Fitch, John E dinger, Alan G liam Pearson, be Mr. and | Dirks of Hag and Mesdames wood Yockey, I geon Johnson 1 kins, Dr. and 1} Ed Dodd and

Alumnae Di THE INDIA nae of Ward-B have their firs dinner-dance | Indianapolis, C J. M. Edwards the event and | is in charge c Following the zation of the « Pahud was ¢ Mrs. Ross Coff Mrs. J. A. D and Mrs. Robe:

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Poets Award

The Poet's will hold awar "day in Hollen tral] Y. W. C. ing, state a chairman of t. Awards will and state-wid ganization. M Motley is ch contest and Ww with the press A panel dis a World of Ur Mrs. Virginia Central colleg of the state h Dorothy Lyor school. Miss Olive program chai provided by tl servatory wo Warren Cent: rigal Singers Hergt, soloist,

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