Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1946 — Page 14

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Sich a » pings tending to stir up racial; religious and class prejudice occurred in Indianapolis at the close the week. One was the charge by Oscar R. Ewing, Democratic national committee vice chairman and former Hoosier lawyer, that the forces that spawned the Ku Klux Klan in al period in Indiana history were being “stirred up for the benefit of the Republican party in Indiana.” © The other was announcement that a discredited, die“hard faction of the National Farmers Guild would meet here day after tomorrow to consider uniting with other extreme right-wing rural elements under the leadership of Carl Mote, of Indianapolis. Mr. Mote is known for his rabid attacks on Jews, Catholics, Masons and others, and stresses the “superiority” of the Nordic race. - Both are indications of intolerance of a serious nature. ~The Times challenged Mr. Ewing eight weeks ago tomorrow to produce proof of his statement to New York newspapermen that the Klar was back on the job, “and _ viciously,” in Indiana, and would be a factor in congressional elections. We told Mr. Ewing that we would publish the ‘factual evidence of the accuracy of his statements, if he had any. We still will publish them if he can produce them and if they can be corroborated by our independent investigation, To date, the challenge has not been met. © “I think it would be very interesting to know how many men in high office in Indiana and how many men aspiring to high office are or have been on Mr. Lyons’ (Robert W. Lyons, former Klan leader and one-time Republican national committeeman) payroll,” Mr. Ewing told his press conference. ~ So do we. If Mr. Ewing has any facts, let him make them public. If he hasn't, then he would be better serving public interest if he ceased making apparently unsupported |, ‘statements that serve no purpose except to fan the fire of hatred. It may be believed, if Mr. Ewing does not ~ produce facts, that he is setting up a straw man to be ~ knocked down by its creator for political purposes. ~The Ewing-Mote types of thinking are dangerous in a ‘democracy. It could conceivably touch off a surge of intolerance for which there is no place in a decent state or a

: is™ mixture of the practical and the naive in the © recommendations of the commission on freedom of

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The commission is on the right track in proposing international agreement for the flow of news and information. Such pacts, as it points out, should provide for aboli‘tion of censorship and discrimination barriers. ~~ If recognizes that our news agencies and foreign correspondents probably will continue to face for a long time censorship and discrimination in Russia and her spheres, in China, in parts of the British, Dutch and French empires, in certain Latin-American countries, and elsewhere. § But—if we may judge by the condensation of its interim report just released through Editor and Publisher— “some of the commission's proposals are potentially dangerIt would set up in all principal world news centers elf-administering foreign correspondents’ corps, tenuously : with a United Nations unit. It also would have “the private news agencies establish a non-profit export ; federation for distribution of American news abroad. In our judgment these devices more likely would regi‘ment and hamper than free the flow of news. They would tend to create a step-child relationship between government ‘and independent reporter. - Regimentation would result almost inevitably—regardJess of good intent—from any correspondents’ corps or ‘export federation systems based on the commission's idea that “whether they welcome ‘it or not, those who engage din the export of mass communications media have come to regarded as adjuncts of diplomacy and national policy. This inevitable relationship is no less real in the United States for having been avoided by government, resisted by industry and needlessly confused by imaginary threats | of encroachment upon the first amendment.” & Apress that is “an adjunct of diplomacy” tends to be- | come a government organ if not a prostitute. That is “an! inevitable relationship” only under a dictatorship or sergitotalitarian state. To say that the free press of the United States does not “welcome” such a peacetime relationship, even of the ‘mildest sort, is an understatement. The free press will t any move to make it “an adjunct” of government. | ‘ever it loses this battle, there will be no free press and litle democracy left. We hope the commission's full report makes that clear.

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would veto the minimum wage bill if it included the | ‘Russell amendment boosting the parity formula for farm | ! prices. So opponents of minimum wage "guarantees rallied | | to the farm bloc, and the senate adopted the Russell amendi) ment, 43 to 31.

_ some ‘measure of relief in the lowest pay brackets to workers whose products are sold in interstate commerce. Farm workers are exempted. The irony of the Russell amendis that while it would sharply lift farm prices, by ng that farm wage Rests. be included in the parity @ N60 minimum wage pro lav it woula give age p tection to the and commercial workers who would benefit by having their wages raised to 65 cents an hour , by the Russell amendment, what they gained ore in the higher prices they would have to pay they eat and wear. And everybody else in the long run, the farmers. partly in reprisal for inflation. already has made, is the ‘vote in this session of con-

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"When Unions Are Americanized, | Will Consider Being a Member"

: By a Non-union Member, Indianapolis : Can a garden variety American get in on this labor-management brawl? If so, here's my bit for those who labor but don't belong to the unions. What a great many people forget, and the unions won't admit, is that there are quite a few workers who like their jobs and employers

were bad long before the war ever started. If the Indianapolis Railways has the responsibility of that part of

and don't have a quarrel with either. Many who belong to the unions I say the unions won't admit it, but they know it and are afraid of that feeling. If they are not afraid of it then why the check-off card? 1 charge that if the check-off were eliminated the union would not have a majority of the emI further charge that the check- WwW off is illegal because under it the VIE S ON union, and the member signing it, agree to ignore the law. They call But the majority of the members By DANIEL M. KIDNEY. signed it without realizing what| Early bird _prediction—Wallace ithey were really signing. The only |will be the “salt-of-the-earth” way to stop being a member of candidate, with Pepper for vice and start all over from the bottom a8 up. John L. Lewis is interested in his If the C. I. O were not afraid|OWn health, as well as the health they would not ask their members of his miners. He always confers C. 1. O. wants their contract with 4.8 8 the employer. And you can bet they| The CO. I. D Sans down nore will see to it that the employer |OPinions than the supreme court. meets that contract to the letter. 8 nd has the employer any comeback if fodiens Jiom ihe oapiugl before the the union doesn't keep their part egisl " on of the contract? The answer is parti teres “no.” And that is illegal, too. Be- Both is are It ed in see on the parties to it in order to be voting bouts. ss » legal. When Stalin ‘reaches an agreeWhenever the unions are Ameri- ment with a neighbor, it would be canized and made responsible, then, sider becoming a member. plain #4. I've met good bosses and bad ones. I've also seen a lot of good and bad employees. “PUBLIC HAS GOTTEN the street used by their streetcars, USED TO BAD STREETS” then they are to blame as much as | By William L. Arnold, 329 Lockburn anyone, I have been reading with much| For instance Shelby st. from dition of the streets of Indianapolis, st. east and west, East Michigan, also your pictures of the chuck- College ave.—all these streets and (holes. For years I have wondered many more where the car tracks { how bad the streets would have to run are paved between the tracks | drive to wake up the officials blestone you can think of and could |enough to get some action. The {not be laid smooth when they were condition our streets are in is not|put down, much less stay smooth a thing caused by the war. They afterward. They howl about a just

feel like that, too. ployees as members. it the voluntary check-oft card. THE NEWS the C. I. O. is to give up your job | president. to sign such an agreement. The at the best hotels. If he doesn’t they'll sue him. But In Cuba a $23,000 diamond was cause a contract should be binding| "8, veterans housed in the right and not until then, would I con- nice if he let the other fellow ex- » ” . interest your articles on the con-|Fountain Square south, Washington | get before someone would start a with every kind of brick and cobSide Glances—By Galbraith

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COPR. 1946 BY NEA LY. M. RE PA

I don't think se y uch of scionfists—thoy discovered the atom bomb, that's true, but why don't they: invent some non- fativning sweefs!"

fare to give the public better service and to have modern vehicles but never do anything about their part of the street that they use. The motorist pays plenty of taxes on an automobile and the man that uses his car and has to drive over streets that are in the condition that our streets are in sure takes a beating both to his car and body. I understand that Washington st. and others that are marked as highways running through Intdianapolis are to be kept up by the state now. If this. is true, I expect to see better streets where the state is concerned, but I doubt that the city will ever improve much even though you are doing all you can in your drive unless you keep on and wake up the public enough that they will demand the city officials get down to business and do something, Our city has had such rotten streets for so long the public has more or less got used to them or just gave up hope of ever having any better. Good luck to you in your drive and keep at it until something is accomplished. os » ”

“I LIKE EDITOR'S NOTES, CONTINUE USING THEM” By Forum Reader, Indianapelis There are two classes of people, generally speaking, who write let~ ters-to-the editor. First, there are the ones who want to be constructive. They write only when they have what seems to a good idea and then they take the trouble to think through carefully what they are saying. These people consider it a real favor for an editor to take the trouble to point out anything that might clarify their own thinking. Their letters are few and far between. Secondly, there are the people who know-it-all. They've got plenty to tell the world and they love to see their own words in print. “Now ain't that sumpin!” For them the first consideration is not the soundness of what they would like to say. Just so it's extra bright, or stunning, or even unspeakably rude. They never get paid for anything they write, but it is only because editors are dull old dodos who fail to recognize real talent through thick-rimmed specks. And what happens if anyone who is qualified to make statements takes the trouble to point out errors? Why, they just up and slap back with all the clever adroitness of a cross-eyed polar bear, It is my belief that you should keep on with “editor's notes” in the Forum. Your reaction to varied comments is interesting for the rest

of us, It is constructive criticism for| .

you to point out where people differ from the consensus of opinion. Lastly, it openly challenges statements which should be given additional thought. Tsk, why did you publish the insulting letter Ruth Dawson sent in on this subject? It was awful!

Editor's Note: Thanks. » ” »

“SCHOOLS IN DANGER IF TEACHER PAY NOT RAISED”

By Offieers and Directors of the Indian a Branch of the American Asso elation of University Women

As members of the Indianapolis Branch of the American Associa~tion of University Women we are interested in the maintenance and improvement of educational standards in Indianapolis. We feel that the educational program of our the teachers’ salaries are raised. In the interest of improved education, we urge all citizens of Indianapolis to contact members. of the board of school commissioners regarding the proposed salary in-

creases for teachers.

DAILY THOUGHT

For he saith to ‘Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. . ~Romans 9:15.

IN WASHINGTON .

‘| energy.

| WORLD AFFAIRS . Leftists Are Eying Russians. Uneasily

WASHINGTON, April 1.~World government may have been prepared for us already—in the laboratory, from the retort and test tube, and without benefit of the politicians, the ‘clergy or any of the rest of us. but the scientists. This impression smites you ‘fn the report of the state department's atomic energy committee. It is a refreshing and daring document and, in time to come, may be looked back upon as a turning point for the world, It introduces a revolutionary concept—but none too revolutionary for the terrific problem of our age —in the proposal to put the newest and most potent source of energy in the safekeeping of the United Nations for the protection and benefit of all of us.

Government at World Level

THE SCIENTISTS WHO have harnessed this energy have driven us into government at world level in this respect, and from this beginning who can tell what may follow as we accustom ourselves to thinking as one world, not as a eollection of sovereign nations?

of traditions deeply rooted, among them, the whole idea of private ownership and control of a source of energy. Its development though would be subject to license to private enterprises which are equipped for such development, but only under conditions that would give everybody a chance to enjoy its benefits. Nothing like that happened with other sources of It was quite an advance in this country when we undertook, through our government, merely to regulate another source of energy, electricity, and that only comparatively recently. Such regulation still is in sharp controversy. Our furthest advance is in TVA, and it is inter. esting that David E. Lilienthal, chairman of TVA, was a member of the state department’s committee. But it is even more significant that big American industry, including the electric power industry, was

PARIS, April 1.—On paper, a survey .of Europe today will show every nation on the continent which was involved in world war II now is governed by Communists, Socialists or a coalition in which one or both of those elements are strategically represented. This would suggest a steady and perhaps irresistible trend to the left. Yet paradoxically, observers and ordinary citizens not afflicted by any of the popular ideologies invariably tell you the swing will be to the right if conservatives can get together and if there are free elections, Available evidence tends to support this view, but the two big ifs are something else again. ' Communism has lost much of its popular appeal even for the distressed workers because of the ruthless high-handed conduct of the Russians. Socialists who are making book with the Communists are losing confidence on the same count.

Communists Seek Police Control # THE COMMUNIST MINORITY isn't likely to gobble up the Social Democrats in Germany outside of the Russian zone so long as American, British and French forces remain in control of their respec tive areas. But the Social Democrats are for the most part led by old men and such support they have largely is support derived from expediency. If expedients of the future so dictate, this middle of-the-road party may continue to be a majority party. But there is little real democratic sentiment in Germany at the present. The Communists represent the only aggressive force in the country and such gains as they are making are due to strong-arm tactics plus Russian

TODAY IN EUROPE

NEW YORK, April 1.—Do you want to fight for Kars and Ardahan? Probably not! But since there is an outside possibility that we might have to, let's get out the atlas and take a look at them, These two Black sea Turkish provinces 1ié on the frontiers of Russia. They are of insignificant strategic importance. Yet at this moment, they constitute one of the danger spots of the world. It is a shocking thought that millions of Englishmen, Frenchmen and Americans might have to die in a war started over so trumpery an issue. There are a lot of people nowadays who write to the newspapers protesting against” any mention of the word “war,” and suggesting that the way to avoid it is by not talking about it. The whole of history proves the falsity of this view. History also shows that great wars very often arise from small occasions, but seldom from small causes.

Britain at Least Involved IT IS A GENERALLY ACCEPTED view that Rus sia does not want another war. But Russia might be misled into supposing that she could march her armies into those two Turkish provinces without encountering any resistance. The most reliable observers believe, however, that Turkey would fight if attacked. And the issue would straightaway have to be brought before the security council of United Nations, Whether or not the security council would be able to produce a unanimous recommendation for action against Russia, only the event would show. If it did, all the members of the United Nations would be morally bound to go to the aid of Turkey. But even if the security council proved ineffective and was incapable of recommending any action, that would not necessarily be the end of the matter, Confronted with a breakdown of the organization which has been devised to deal with such aggressions, the various members of the United Nations would have to consider their own security and their own obliga-

REFLECTIONS

WASHINGTON, April 1.—Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt made a two-day plea for his emergency program before the senate banking and currency committee after the house got through knocking the foundations otit from under it. But how much reconstruction the senate can do is a bit uncertain. One of Wyatt's key points is a provision’ for guarantees to the manufacturers of prefabricated houses. It's a new industry, bucking all sorts of obstacles, and housing people in Wyatt's, executive end of the government feel that the builders need all the encouragement they can get. There are now 33 manufacturers of prefabs in “business, and this is their big opportunity to survive or perish. Wyatt estimates the present capacity of the industry at 100,000 units a year, but his ne program calls for 250,000 this year and 600,000 next” The industry could easily be expanded under wartime production methods to the point where new prefabricated houses would roll off the assembly lines like peanuts out of a slot machine. The catch is that nobodoy knows whether the public will buy them.

Too Revolutionary, Perhaps POPULAR TASTE is a funny thing. All the logical arguments in the world can be presented on the advantages of living in a streamlined, dustproof, mothproof, 20th century efficiency domicile with built-in bath and garbage disposal. But if it looks like a squashed pile of something Junior created,” blindfolded, with his blocks, it. just isn't the corven--‘tional white clapboard, red brick, or chicken wire. and plaster California bungalow with green shutters that people are used to living in.

Round houses still don’t have 's' for grandpappy to sit in Er

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uD. pies for corner cupboards. And_ it's still impossible to buy carpets shaped like & slab of ple, or

. By Thomas L. Stokes | ia With Atom Control, Science Governs

represented on the committee which recommended compléte international control of atomic energy. Scientists have caused many and tremendous changes in our ways of living, and these have had their indirect effects on our social and political forms. But this is the first time that the laboratory has had such a direct effect on government change, and at the highest level, in its international aspect. For we are certainly in for change, and the committee report only accentuates it. Scientists, in effect, become our real .governors, bee hind the scenes, not the political leaders and the special economic interests of all sorts that so often move them. The danger is that political leaders and great economic interests that have so much influence might fail to recognize the need to adapt and to adapt faster than man has ever had to adapt before, Are we equal to the test?

How About UNO Control of Oil? FRANKLY, the state department report points out

that rivalry in the fleld of atomic energy is much more intense, for example, than for oil. That reveals - To save our skins, we would Neréby shake off a lot—our danger. Oil has caused wars. The world cannot

afford to face a war over atomic energy, for it of itself would furnish the devastating weapon against which civilization cannot stand. * The question also arises: If we can agree to international control of atomie energy, then why not oil, too, which is a factor in the problem now before the United Nations? "And if oil, why not other factors that enter into war? Atomic energy shot the whole world ahead with a great spurt that left us shuddering. The most encour aging thing since its application is that a group of our own people, those on this committee, have boldly leaped far ahead in thinking. And it takes a great leap for all of us. It is largely our problem and our responsibility because the . atomic bomb was made here, ‘and all the factories there are for turning’ it out are here. Bold leadership requires boldness to follow.

. By Parker LaMoore

influence. Should all four allies withdraw from Germany, moh law would take over and hoodlum bands would fight it out with opposition to the Communists springing inevitably from some form of revived nazism. In France, much the same thing could happen, Parties of the right and center are showing ne disposition to get together, and Meanwhile Come munists are moving into strategic positions in the police system. People are losing their confidence in the democratic processes and the time may be approaching when free elections are but the memory they are in countries behind Russia's iron curtain, Here as elsewhere—where they have entered coae lition governments—the Communists demanded the post of minister of the interior because it controls the police. Once the Communists control the police, how can there be free elections? a Frenchman asked.

War With U.S. Predicted + IN FRANCE as in Germany there is much talk of the inevitability of war with Russia, and here as there such talk is colored by the strong flavor of wishful thinking. Fear of Russia is real, and since the United States is regarded as the only nation powerful enough to challenge Russia, war between the two powers would be welcomed by some French as offering the only relief in sight from the threat of Russian oppression, “War between the United States and Russia is coming, of a certainty,” a French hotel manager told me, “Maybe it will be 10- years, maybe 20, but perhaps it will be next year.” You got the idea he hoped it would be next year,

By Randolph Churchill Turkish Provinces Are Danger Area

tions on an individual basis. In 1939, Great Britain concluded a treaty with Turkey for mutual defense. Under the terms of that treaty, Great Britain is committed to go to the defense of Turkey if Turkey is attacked by any European power. It might be argued that, since Turkey failed to ful= fill her side of the bargain by declaring war on Italy when Italy attacked Britain in 1940, the treaty was no longer operative. This argument, however, would not hold water, for Britain did not take advantage of Turkey's non-fulfillment of the treaty to denounce it. And if international law and international agree~ ments have any Weaning, the treaty is still plainly in force.

U.S. Affected Indirectly THE QUESTION FOR AMERICA to decide would not be the merits of the Kars and Ardahan dispute, but the question of the future safety and freedom of the whole world. The first world war exploded when an assassin threw a bomb at the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The second, world war was technically fought in defense\of the Polish corridor. In neither case was any direct or immediate American interest involved. But that did not prevent the United States from ultimately going to war. One of the dangers to the peace of the world is the fact that countries which are democratically gove erned can seldom make up their minds for what pre« cise interests they will, in the last analysis, fight. The fact that exact commitments cannot be made in ade vance is apt to mislead autocratic governments which can make war or peace without consulting their peoples. ’ Fortunately, the men in the Kremlin are realistie and it is certain that all these considerations are in their minds. The more they are also in the minds of the democratic countries, the better chance there is of the danger being warded off,

By Peter Edson Home, Sweet Pre-Fabricated Home

concave pictures to hang on the inside of the outside walls. Maybe that's why they say the industry needs protecting. If these prefabs catch on in rural areas, however, watch for a revolution in the U. 8. Christmas cal endar art which illustrates scenes to go with “Over the river and through the wood, to grandmother's dwelling we go.” The horse may know the way to carry ‘the sleigh, but look for him to rear back and run away if the old homestead is converted into something that looks like an enlarged incubator, Maybe they've got something there, though, if the prospective buyer is interested in raising a family,

Prefabs Can End Housing Shortage NEED FOR all the emphasis on prefabs is that there simply “aren't going to be enough standard building materials to make possible the construction of 2,700,000 conventional-type houses in the next two years, That's why Wyatt is leaning on 850,000 prefabs —~to keep that many families in ouf of the rain and out of the hair of relatives they might overwise have “to doubles up with, Senators listening to Wyatt's program didn’t seem to be too well sold. Senator Robert A. Taft thinks 150,000 prefabs is all the market will absorb, Senator Homer Capehart,’ the big radio man from Indiana,

says he would go along with granting the prefab’

makers RFC loans for factories and machinery, but ‘he's not so sure about the wisdom of having the government guarantee them a market. If the gove ernment does that, Capehart said in summing up his opposition, “I'm in the wrong business.” ! . Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, acting chairman in the absence of the ill Senator Wagner,

didn't stop to think how “My old Kentucky prefab -

ricated- home” would sound if set to musie, He turned to Capehart quickly, “Well,” he sald, “you could: build ‘em a radio set for each house and make up for all your Other losses.”

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