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UNITED NATIONS PROGRESS : THE security council's action in asking the Moscow and Tehran: governments for prompt reports on the Iranian dispute is admirable, It reaffirms and advances the council's earlier decision to consider Iran's complaint against Russia. It demonstrates that Russia's blackmailing walkout on the council has failed to prevent operation of the charter. At the same time the council, by giving Russia until next Wednesday to reply, has offered Stalin a chance to ~ change his obstructionist tactics without much loss of face. | The Polish delegate who hitherto has followed the Moscow line joined in the council's action. This raises hope that Stalin already may have decided that he cannot wisely defy the United Nations. Meanwhile Americans should be proud that Secretary Byrnes has provided fair but firm leadership in this council crisis, a leadership applauded particularly by the small nations.
PETRILLO CRACK-DOWN (CONGRESS has cracked down on J, Caesar Petrillo, dictator of the musicians’ union, The bill passed by the house Friday aims te rescue the radio broadcasting business from restrictive Petrillo practices. It outlaws demands that broadcasters pay wages to more union musicians than they need or want, It forbids the union’s ban against use of unpaid amateurs on non-com-mercial and educational programs. It prohibits exaction of payments from broadcasters for making or using recorded music on the air. And it does several other things. . Our opinion of the way Mr. Petrillo has been acting ought to be pretty well known. We hold no brief for him. What he is about to receive is what he has been asking for. But congress, while clipping one of Mr. Petrillo’s wings, is leaving all other union bosses free to carry on precisely the same sort of restrictive practices he has been carry-
on. *~ Mr, Petrillo has been more open and bold than most of them in abusing the great and dangerous powers given to labor unions by federal laws and supreme court decisions. ~ Hehas made himself a conspicuous target for public wrath. | And the broadcasting business, on which he has been \ preying, was strong and insistent enough to get action ~ from congress. : ‘But if and when the anti-Petrillo bill becomes law, other unions can still—so far as the federal government is con- ~ cerned—use threats or force to compel employment of unnecessary workers, to prevent use of improved materials ‘and methods, to make homes, food and other products cost the public more than they ought or need to cost. Even + Mr. Petrillo can, for example, compel a movie theater to pay a whole orchestra for standing by without playing a note when a musical picture is being shown. Restrictive practices against the broadcasting industry by the musicians’ union are wrong and should be prohibited. . But similar practices against other industries by other unions are just as wrong. Congress will be cowardly if, having cracked down on Mr, Petrillo, it does nothing about other unions’ abuse of power.
. FORMOSA SCANDAL ; THE Chinese are doing to Formosa what the Japanese did to China and what the Russians are now doing to . Manchuria. This is revealed—for the first time, so far as we know—by the dispatches from our correspondent, William H. Newton. His eye-witness reports from Formosa cannot be discounted. They show that the natives are victims of extreme cruelty and exploitation: . “The Chinese are systematically bleeding the people by graft and shakedown. Under the rule of Chinese occupation officials the Formosans live in constant fear of robbery and death from organized gangs. Hundreds of children have been kidnaped and shipped to China as slave labor. Civil liberties are suppressed, Prominent citizens “have been jailed without hearings.” Americans have more than a general humanitarian interest in this reign of terror. American forces liberated the island from the Japs, and then gave it back to China. We do not question the.right of China to ulfimate control of Formosa under the Cairo agreement, and as a matter of justice in recovering land stolen from her by the Japs in 1894. But we doubt the justice or wisdom of entrusting sole responsibility there to China before she is | strong enough to provide an administration of law and | decency. ¥ : i. The problems of government and rehabilitation in any land long enslaved by the Japs are difficult at best—as the United States is discovering in southern Korea. That is all the more reason why there should be no terrorists and grafters and looters in places of authority in Formosa. The fact that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has 3 allowed this Formosa scandal to continue for many months is sufficient proof that he is unable to enforce the reforms he presumably favors. The. U. S. military mission thete should be given supervisory authority until Chaing can handle
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IT'S OUR BUSINESS because of the stake we have in assuring democratic government spheres. of influence, to be familiar with the issues of the important elections to be held in the Philip + | pines Apri} 28 and in Japan April 10, The Filipinos will choose the president who will guide the commonwealth when it becomes independent of the United States on July 4. The incum-
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GETTIN’ bent, elderly and sometimes ineffectual Sergio Osmena, is opposed by Senate President Manual ANY WH ERE Roxas, whose supporters claim he stayed during GE 4 ; the Jap occupation at request of Gen. MacArthur, but
whose opponents claim he was pro-Japanese, Guerrilla leaders are split in their ranks, some supporting each candidate, Osmena has stalled about calling an election . . . his friends in Manila told me they were afraid Roxas would seep him out of &tfice partly on the grounds he had not been in the Philippines during the occupation while Roxas had remained and actually helped the U, 8. and spiked Japanese efforts to draw the Philippines into the war on the side of Japan,
Both Sides Woo Huks STRONG FACTOR in the election will be the Hukbalahap, or people's army, which not only is armed but which also controls thousands of votes. The Huks, as they are known, are the strongest group in the democratic alliance, and other cone glomerate peasant and labor groups, plus the Communists in the islands. WHichever candidate gains the support of this militant organization probably will win the election. : There is a strong movement for agrarian reform, including broader ownership of the tremendous estates which are owned largely by families of Spanish descent. : While our apparent support of Osmena would have helped him in the early months after the end of hostilities, it won't do him so much good now because we are rapidly losing the faith of the Filipinos because of the dilatory manner in which we are handling rehabilitation there . . . which they compare unfavorably with our humanitarian activities in Europe, There is no question but what we have let
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between the U.S. and the U.8.8.R. Only a few weeks ago there was much talk of inevitability of such a conflict here. Some attributed postponement of the atom-bombing plans at Bikini Atoll to war talk. They said there was no Munich-like appease~
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“was anxious to remove the youth from Indiana.” There is a singular eallousness in the practice, frequently used, of turning a eriminal loose upon neighboring states. In this case it is stated the boy will live on an Illinois farm. Of course, no notice will be given to the sheriff of that county of this dangerous addition to his criminal population, Sex criminals are invariably repeaters. No state has adequate laws or institutions for their segregation and treatment, But, since this fact exists, it follows that ordinary criminal laws should be applied for the protection of society. In this instance a youth with a. defective mind has been released. It has not been impressed upon him through punishment that what he did was a heinous crime. Eventually he is quite likely to rape and ‘murder a little girl, and for such a happening Judge Rhoads would be directly responsible, Courts are responsible for much of the juvenile delinquency that appalls an older generation. The police certainly must tire of arresting youths of viclotis tendencies, frequently for the seventh or eighth time, and appearing against them in court (on the officer's own off time), only to see the judge dismiss the youth with a pat on the head! The law was organized for the protection of the general public against the criminal element. As presently administered, it gives more protection to criminals than to the public. Everything seems to boil down to the question: Do we elect judges to protect the public from criminals and defectives—or to protect such animals from the consequences of their own impulsive acts? -" ” ~ “ARMED FORCES ON CIVIL SERVICE WILL GET BEST” By 0. C. G.,, Fairmount
"Courts Are Responsible for
Much of Juvenile Delinquency"
By Lloyd G, Veazey, 2108 N. Meridian We read that Judge Mark W. Rhoads, of juvenile court, had announced his candidacy for" renomination in the Republican primary
Only a few days previous the newspapers informed us that Judge Rhoads had released to his parents a 18-year-old boy accused of raping a woman of 73. The boy admitted that he had stripped his victim, outdoors, on a bitterly cold afternoon and had raped her, evidently a minor matter to the good judge. Judge Rhoads is quoted as saying that a threat had been made on the boy's life (which is quite understandable) and he
why the armed services are not placed under the civil service. Some veterans are discovering that they had more of an edge on civilians than” they realized, in common with the army in federal classified services; and that before the newly born desire of the brass hats to make uniforms attractive. Recruiting posters have long seemed to offer more than the announcéments luring job hunters to Washington, and their fresh emphasis on lifelong security should soon have applicants standing in line. Not much more will have to be offered, to enable army, navy, etc., to turn away all but the best, yet still have all the personnel they need. When eligibile lists eventuate, to replace the draft, there'll be new and better reason for pride in our forces. "Tis so with our exposed policemen; and ‘twas so with the coast guard: nicht wahr? Why shouldn't it be with the navy, the army, the marine corps? : : 8 8 =» “JUDGE RHOADS DOESN'T DESERVE RENOMINATION” By A Friend of Juveniles, Indianapolis Judge Mark W. Rhoads has agked for renomination and re-election as judge of juvenile court on the record he has made in the last three years in such position. If reelected, he promises to observe the best interests of society and the interest of individuals coming before him, As part of his past record I recall the following: Upon taking office he reduced the pay of experienced certified probation workers and with this saving
to keep their present places at onehalf the present pay. After the legislature gave Judge Rhoads the duty of naming the members of the County Welfare Board it was reported in the papers that the judge said it was his job to name a board without hurting himself politically. Indeed a pitiful statement. No expression then of the interests of society. Does the judge's concern for zociety and the unfortunates who come before him stop - just short of his own political welfare?
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“FASCIST-MINDED ARMY OFFICERS SEEK CONTROL” By Joe Saunders, 3528 College ave. That the current snarls in inter-
nomic and ideological relationships are now being greatly magnified for the specific purpose of furthering the covert plans of fascist-minded army officers and their financial
tatorship in this country,
flaged by either official word-mon-gering or editorial pontificating. The “gold braid” boys have already made considerable progress in the matter of taking over governmental controls. High ranking military men have been eased into all of the most important ambassadorships and other key positions in the diplomatic setup; and rumors persist that.a prominent general is soon to replace the present secretary of state. But control of foreign
to the “brass” unless they can call the tunes on the domestic front. And unless then can scare the mil-
the point of hysteria with this high voltage hullabaloo about international tensions, their dreams of dic-
The ordinary citizen sees no valid reason why the control of atomie energy should be turned over to a little clique of army and naval officers; nor is he convinced that universal military training will usher in the millennium, nor that by being forced to register any firearms he may own he will be making any
” “PRODUCTION BEFORE STANDARDS RISE” | By Faet Facer, Indianapolis
ment of Russia involved. Instead the joint chiefs-of-staff were too busy to bother with the experiment at this time. Whether true or not, the stiffened attitude of the administration toward Russian aggression has brought results without warfare, Andrei Gromyko can stalk out of United Nations all he wants, but the facts likely will be laid before the security council as to. who ran out on who at Iran. Stalin's policy of co-operation, under coercion, probably will prevail. : One theory here is that Stalin himself is being pushed around somewhat by his generals. Which brought out a priceless story of the laté Gen, George Patton's plan for dealing with them. The story is that when Patton's Americans crossed the Elbe to join the Russians, a Russian general ordered his troops to take over the American boats. At that point, Gen. Patton came up to the Russian commander with an interpreter. He told the latter to tell the general exactly what he was saying. So with his great command of cuss words, Gen. Patton proceeded to tell the Russian off.
Patton's Peace Prescription MAKING THE AIR BLUE, he told him that he had trained artillery on the boats from the heights on the far side of the river. “And if any of your so-and-so troops try to take those boats we will open fire!” The Russian's mustache bristled. Then he smiled and said: “It was only beeg joke!” This story may be aprocryphal, but also prophetic. So with the administration determined to give the Russians a little of what might be called “Patton medicine,” present wounded relationship may heal sooner, . One effect of the Russians’ bad manners in throwing their weight around has been to cause American Communists to lose caste in the labor unions. Most dramatic, of course, was the defeat of President R. J. Thomas of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers by Walter Reuther, whom the Communists bitterly opposed. Because Reuther as a young man made a trip to
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NEW YORK, March 30.—The real United Nations crisis over the Soviet Union is yet to come, When
Japan, Germany and Italy failed to have their way in the old League of Nations, they quit. Similarly Russia may quit the new league. Thus, Soviet Ambassador Gromyko's walkout, of itself, is not what is worrying security council members. It is what was behind the act and what it may portend that bothers them. There are indications that Soviet Russia has inherited all of the imperialistic ambitions .of Czarist Russia and added some of her own, «Already she has acquired 700,000 square miles of new territory as a result of the war and is currently believed to have her eyes on other areas totaling
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Filipinos and Japs Go to Polls Soon
the Filipinos down, despite their sacrifices for us.
in U. 8. Many no#®ook on their July 4 independence as a
discontinuance of U, 8. interest in their welfare, & discarding of a faithful friend, . . The issue in the Philippines is who can best
guide the birth of this new nation, gateway ta the
Orient, in such a manner that the welfare of. the
common man will be given greater consideration
than. it has in the past. Nowhere can the term “économic royalist” be applied more aptly than to the economit¢ and political rulers of the Philippines, 7
Japanese Constitutional Convention IN JAPAN, a new diet will be chosen , , . with principal task being adoption of a new constitution under which the emperor is shorn of his “divine* powers and retained as a state. figurehead, and in which war is outlawed, Of course, Japan never again will be tn a position - to wage war , , , her empire and its resources are gone, her heavy industries destroyed almost entirely,
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All parties except the Communists have indorsed the new constitution, ‘with its bill of; rights similar to that of the United States, There is little difference in the stand of the various parties . . . and the public itself knows and cares little about democracy. That's still just a word to them, and the voters will be apathetic , , they are more interested in jobs and food. The beste financed group is the Progressives, who were ‘ofgane ized by the money interests and whose candidates are regarded as stooges for the old order. The Leftistg are split, with Communists attaching Social Demo crats and Socialists. Incidentally, the women will cast their first ballots this year, The issue in Japan seems to be how to accomplish what are believed to be Gen. MacArthur's wishes . , . not establishment of a nation fit to take a place in a world of decent nations. To plagiarize, I quote the answer of the Jap who was asked his opinion of the new constitution: “I don’t know,” he quipped.
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IN WASHINGTON . .. By Daniel M. Kidney Don’t Get Agitated Over War Talk
Russia, labor-baiting congressmen have tried to pin the Red label on him. More discerning was Rep, Charles M. La Follette, who is back in Indiana rune ning as the Republican “radical” candidate for the senate. Anti-Communist himself, Mr. La Follette took the house floor on March 8 to show that General Motors management in fighting Reuther was playing into Communist Hands. : Answering a question abou: Reuther’s trip to Russia, Mr, La Follette said it probs. ably was his visit there which caused him to come home a “better American, determined to work out am American plan for solving our economic problems.” “I feel sure that a trip to Russia would be the best cure for Communists that anyone could find” he concluded.
‘Doc’ Sherwood and the Senator
BY THE WAY, Elmer “Doc” Sherwood, whe whether in the army or American Legion ix always busy playing an inside straight in Indiana Republice an politics, was here again this week. He came to the capitol with the Americanization committee of the Legion of which he is full-time director, They were presented to the< house une American activities committee by Rep. Gerald W, Landis (R. Ind), a member. The committeemen,
including Rep. John Rankin (D. Miss.), told “Doe* °
and his Legion committee they would be glad to ine vestigate any “un-Americanism” that is going on. On the side, “Doc” told Congressman Landis that everything is set to give “Bill” Jenner the senatorial nomination in that GOP convention June 13. That is an old prescription that “Doc” is putting out. He gave the same medicine to the venerable Senator Willis himself and it acted like a tonic. “Doc” ladled it out to the senior senator at a Claypool hotel breakfast the day after they had returned together from the fall meeting of the Republican Editorial Association at French Lick in 1945, This is 1946 and the senator is in there pitching for renomination harder than ever. Maybe “Doc” should try again. This time with some soothing syrup. Some of those who don’t like the setup as they see it from here; are putting the blame directly on Gov. Ralph Gates and resolving revenge. Any obstacle put in the way of the governor's alleged vice presidential aspirations should suit Senator Capehart (R. Ind.) very well indeed. Por the junior sen~ ator admittedly wants to be in that national picture himself in 1948. DAN KIDNEY,
WORLD AFFAIRS ... . By William Philip Simms ‘Russian Thinking Is Out of Step
ful to her were the whole proceedings. She visibly resented being questioned about Iran. It angered her that anyone should wish to hear Iran's story, This trouble between Russia on the one hand and the western powers on the other is not new. There have been misunderstandings over Yalta, Tehran and other Big Three meetings. The difficulty is their total inability to see things in the same light. When Russia speaks of democracy, she means a dictators ship, Kremlin style. The others think of governmeny§ of, for and by the people, Lincoln style. The twa are poles apart. And there is the same wide differs ence regarding free elections and other fundamentals,
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inized labor and the present strike dilemma be denounced as an outright enemy of labor by thé unions? Aren't there just as many or more non-union wage earners who hold a valid interest in their own and in this country’s economic welfare, and who may be of the opinion that strike action at the present time is not proper for the common good? How about putting into practice the principles of tolerance and moderation that we so recently shed blood for? Perhaps if we still have sense enough left to act rational in our present inflationary crisis, it would dawn on us that the nation cannot progress on the mere potentiality of a higher future standard of living, but that in order to share in such benefits we must first create them by sheer productive work and nothing else—however wishful may be our thinking. : Because of greatly increased government regulation since the last period of true peacetime prosperity, labor should have little fear that management will do so well financially in future good times. Nonproductivity at a time like this is simply an. unconscious admission that we do not have the courage and faithy to start laying the only founda for the bright economic future we talk so much about. : Let's make the cake before we try to cut it! :
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twice as much more, Korea, Manchuria, Sinkiang and at least parts of Iran and Turkey, among others, are mentioned as likely future additions to her sphere of influence.
Doesn't Understand World View IP RUSSIA HAS any such aspirations, clearly she is not going to want the United Nations to try to block her. No one who sat in on the council meet ings here could have failed to see how utterly distaste-
NEW YORK, March 30.—There is a lady sitting over in the corner, fondling a small but vicious firearm, which she says she will not put away until this piece is in print, I am prone to believe her, and so today you see a champion of outraged womanhood. To some extent before the war there was a prohi~ bition, in some public restaurants and cocktail rooms, against serving a lady who was unescorted by a gentleman or who entered with another lady. All over the country this banning of the lonesome lassie increased, as the cafe business boonted: mers For instance, there are places in New York and in Washington, to cite a couple of towns, where women are not admitted at all, or are so discouraged and insulted that their evening is ruined. There are other places which sweep the girls out after certain hours, and others which will not allow them to come in before certain hours. “It got so bad that you have to keep a sort of timetable, so you will know which cafe won't let you in at all, which one won't let you in before 7 p. m., and
.| which one will toss you out if you ‘want to linger
past 9. What with everything else, this is about the last straw,” said one complainant heatedly.
Pistol Packin' Mama Speaks THE OTHER LADY~the one with the gun—broke
in excitedly. . : “When my husband was away, occasionally 1 got tired of ‘staring at myself over a sandwich and a
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will be vastly different in the future. Patently, Ruse sia is adamant against even the right of full discuse sion in the council and to almost every one of the 46 smaller nations that right is the absolute minimum if their dues in the club are to be worth paying. What would happen if the Soviet Union took & permanent walk? The answer one usually gets to that question is that the remaining members of the United Nations more than ever would have to stick together and make collective security work. y
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark - Women Are on War-Path Over Snubs
and go out some place fancy for a drink and a good dinner, “I have been thrown out of more places than the , average bum,” she continued, toying with the hams mer of the pistol. “You walk in, ask for a table for two, and the headwaiter says: ‘I'm sorry, but we do not serve unescorted ladies here, Modom,' and turns away.
“Only the other day my husband and I were .
meeting some friends for lunch. I was sitting at the bar while my husband went to the washroom, and the bartender said: ‘Are you escorted, Modom?' I said ‘No, I'm nof escorted, I'm with my husband, and he shut up. But I'm still furious.”
This Is Democracy, Ain't It? : THE LADY WITH THE GUN said “by dam I am 8 nice girl and I love my husband and I refuse to be classed as a bad woman in the eyes of a headwaiter because I am unaccompanied by some jerk in pants from choice, because my husband is away. It makes you feel like you came there on purpose to arrange a pickup and in a democracy I resent it.” “Furthermore,” the other lady. ‘said, “if I am quiet and neatly dressed and have money to pay for what I buy I stand on my rights as an Amerigan to go where 1 want to and buy what I please, and no slick-haired foreigner in a tailcoat has the right to refuse to sit me down and serve me.” S“Women all ovhr tha country are boiling about this,” the lady with the gun said, “and you better bring it into the open.” ol
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