Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1946 — Page 22

A LOSS TO THE CITY Two distinguished citizens of Indianapolis passed, away

‘his hobbies, and his activities there included nine years

- control month. He speaks for the people when he calls for

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Wednesday night, and each will leave a gap in the life of the community as well as that in the families of which’ each was the center. John K. Ruckelshaus, a life-long resident of Indianapolis, was prominent in Republican politics and in his chosen profession of law. The Columbia club was one of

as president, chairman of the building committee for the club's new home on Monument circle, and 44-year membership. His humor and genuine love of people enriched the lives of many people. Mrs. Fred Hoke, one of the founders and first presidents of the Indiana State Parent-Teachers association, also was a builder. She was president of the Y. W. C. A. when Blue Triangle Hall was erected. A former chairman of the board of £he Indianapolis Home for Aged Women, and active in the Methodist church and in other organizations, she, too, was a life-long resident of the city. In their passing, Indianapolis has lost two beloved residents prominently identified with the most substantial elements of the community's progress.

WARON CANCER

(C2NCER is this nation's second deadliest enemy. Only heart disease surpasses it as a cause of death, Com-

Hoosier

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"I do not agree with a word that you

your right to say it."

will defend Jo the death — Voltaire.

pared to cancer, even war fades as a killer. Last year the mysterious growth caused 170,000 deaths; and 17 million Americans now living will die of cancer unless it can quickly be checked. President Truman has proclaimed April as cancer-

united action against this foe. An active program is being conducted in Indiana, under the leadership of former governor Henry L. Schricker, to bring the problem to the attention of Hoosiers. We are being asked to do our financial share in combating this disease. The field is enormous, the need drastic. One weakness is the fact that our public health service is limited. Only 528 of the country’s 3000 counties have full-time public health service; 845 counties have none. This increases the difficulty of discovering and treating cancer in its manageable stages. “Under the American Cancer society, unity progresses. Scattered research groups are being. co-ordinated. New facts are being pooled. Funds are being subscribed. One brilliant promise of advancement may lie in atomic energy. Scientists suspect that the fantastic chain reaction of the uranium pile may reveal precious secrets. They ask that war data on this subject be made available to them. In the name of humanity, their request deserves utmost consideration. New though it is, the atom’ 8 energy has been too long a source of horror. And too long has mankind endured the suffering and ignorance peculiar to cancer. If atom fission holds an answer to disease, let's have it explained in the laboratories and quickly. Let's push the battle for medical victory. Americans will continue to give of their cash in health campaigns. They must not be denied facts for the common good simply because those facts also are theoretically associated with potential war.

IT’S OUR OWN FAULT

VWRITERS often say that something will not be done by congress “because this is election year.” Usually it’s something a writer thinks ought to be done. An election is a process of democracy. Why should it prevent the doing of things that ought to be done? Is it the fault of congress? No. Congress is composed of American citizens above the average in intelligence and senes of responsibility. It is our fault. We, the people, have the votes. And we don’t make it easy for a man to be elected if he thinks’ only of the good of the nation. At election time, we vote against men because they have done something we don’t like, rather than for men in whom, on the ‘whole, we have confidence. We sometimes get men in congress who are not afraid of us—men who stand on what logic, facts and reason indicate—men who would rather be right than be congressmen. But we do not have enough of them. Independence should be the rule in congress, not the exception. Instead of just making demands on congressmen, and abusing them when they don’t vote as our possibly selfish interests dictate, let's back the men we believe in as enthusiastically as we do our favorites in the field of sports. : Let's organize to get statesmen in government—Ilocal, state and national—and to keep them there. If we don’t have good men in office, get rid of them at the polls—regardless of what party they belong to. We Americans are great joiners, We have thousands of business, labor, charity and social organizations. Yet our democracy is more important than any of these particular concerns, for they all depend on democracy. It's time to join up for democracy, and to get and keep in public life the men and women who make it work. And remember, if you’ re not registered, you can’t vote. And pext Monday: is the last day.

ONBLCOME HOOSIER EDITORS . = =

THE TIMES joins in the welcome to the members of the Hoosier State Press association, who open their annual two-day meeting today. The Hoosier State Press association is a non-partisan

everything and those more fortunat

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friends, . rushed out of our life into service to help

country survive.

Not a one has returned who hasn't, “deep down, "a feeling that he helped and he is glad he helped.

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rightly deserves. Or will he? That's it! Will he be helped? will Washington “wake up” as we did and rush aid to us, now that we need it? There are those of us who, due to the aid we gave to our country, are unable to work, unable to provide a livelihood for our loved ones, There are those of us who, through the G. I. bill of rights, hoped to obtain that goal they strived for, that goal of an education, How, yes how, can any one of us,

States government for support and funds, survive unless those funds and that support are received? Men and women, who have started their education, have had to drop their objective to obtain employ=ment to survive, Those who are unable to work to live are wondering just how they are going to live unless they receive that which will give them security. It was up to us and we tried our best. We woke up. Now we're wondering will Washington do its best? Will they hélp us now that we need it? We say, in unison, “Wake up, Washington, D. C.!" » » » “NO SUCH THING AS HALF AMERICAN; ALL OR NONE” By Carroll Collins, 1402 E. New York st. Recently over a broadcast President Truman said Churchill was half American. I resent that, His. family deserted America and her ideals for a worn out aristocracy. He is no part American. We have too many luke warm, half, Communist, yes, even Nazi people who wish to be called Americans only to sell out our govern-

be a whole American who believes in the greatest document ever written or you're none.

By Keith Hertweck, Way back in 1941 the government looked around ahd, after viewing the situation on hand, told the American people to wake up. eye could be opened, things began to happen. Mr, and Mrs. Average American woke up to see their homes torn apart; their husbands, brothers and fathers rushed away to serve with our much needed armed forces. Some gave all, some gave nothing that could be seen, but all gave

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“NO UNION INTIMIDATION; FORUM WRITER INCORRECT” By Theodore J. Fleitz, Sec.-Treas., Loeal 1047, United Paperworkers of America In answer to “Non-Union Member’s” letter in the Hoosier Forum of April 1, 1946—I would like to know where he gets his information on the check off of membership being illegal when it has been approved by the lawmakers that he has elected to office in Wash-

ington. Every applicant carries his or her application card two or three weeks before he ever signs it and then he will always ask his officers about

his rights in the union. The C. I. O. is not controlled by a group of individuals, as “NonUnion Member” would know nothing about, but by the members of each individual local. When management and the union sign a contract with the check-off clause in it, there is always the escape clause recommended by the war labor board that notifies every member that he has the opportunity of withdrawing from the union for 15 days after the signing of the contract. 'If he feels that the checkoff is unfair, he only has to notify the union and the management that he is not a member of the union and their is no intimidation or coercion by the unibn or the management according to contract. If “Non-Union Member” is still

nation-wide | doubtful T will gladly welcome him

to one of our open meetings and I am sure he would learn a great deal more from a group of union members than he ever would over a bar or whatever source he gets his information. I was at one time in the same situation that this same individual is in and when you work at several different trades you will find out that without organization the labor-

ment at the first chance. You must{ing man is lost.

This is my “own quotation and is not backed by Local 1047 or the C. 1. O, or any other organization.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

organization of editors and publishers of the smaller newsers of Indiana. Its president, E. C. Gorrell, of Winamac, one of the deans of journalism in our state. The press of these smaller communities of Indiana has for its rous participation and influence in life. Working in a field perhaps more limited

‘militant force fc of the'n, Joxpalion, ay

‘a metropolitan newspaper, it has long been a | good. And it has trained

“OPPONENT OF CHECK-OFF DOESN'T KNOW UNIONS”

By Marion Priest, 1406 Castle ave. An article by “Non-Union Mem-

ber” in the Forum April 1 must have been intended as an April fool's joke, but if we are to consider it seriously, the “mistakes” must be made apparent. That writer claims that a great many people do not want ih the union, but that they can’t get out. This is not true. The dues check

off system, which is in effect in many C. I. O. unions, also has an escape period, in which time the member can withdraw, and it does not require new employees to join the union. That writer, which I suspect belongs to The Times editorial staff, says the majority of the members agreed to the check off without realizing what they were signing. They didn’t sign it, they voted for it, and with full discussion to ‘enable a child to understand it. That writer suggests that the union will sue if the company does not keep its part of the contract. Under most contracts, the union and company agree not fo go to court. And as-a result, in General Motors, for instance, the union has not taken any case to court. The truth is, the company has broken the contract possibly a hundred times to the union's once, since nearly all grievances are a violation of contract. The umpire has ruled many times against the company for violation of contract. So the union can prove that it has been more responsible for its actions than management. - That writer attempts to write about unions without being a member and therefore knowing very little about them. It is a common and accepted practice that a man, to speak with authority on a subJect, must know something about the subject. And, brother, if you work where there is a union, without belonging, the increased pay which you have received since 1936 has been paid for by your fellow workers, and you are the worst kind of chiseler.

Editor's Note—The letter in question was written by a worker who said “I'm out of work because of a strike.” He asked that his name not be published. You're wrong— it was not written by a member of The Times’ staff. We don’t operate that way. » » » “I LIKE EDITORIAL PAGE

OF TIMES; FORUM NOTES, T00”

By Mrs. Ralph Smith, Indianapelis I like “Editor's Notes.” Plus them, Hoosier Forum is a true forum. Writing them adds a chore to a busy editor's work pile—that I realize—but they are a service fo the reader, a service for which he should be grateful. Interspersing black face and light face type adds eye appeal, too, The removal of the cuts from columnists’ columns definitely improves the. appearance of these columns and the pages on which they occur, What the writers have to .say is: the important thing. Yes, I think the face-lifting was an excellent idea. Mr. Scherrer’s silhouette, though—now, that stands approved. “ » » " “CUT OUT BRITISH KING AND SAVE SOME MONEY”

By Clitton Renick, 1727 N. Alabama You seem to be all for the British loan, hook, line and sinker. Well, I suggest they eliminate that worthless king: they are always singing about saving and save some money. The world’s largest diamond they are always bragging about would also feed a few poor, starving British, if they would care to trade it for food.

DAILY THOUGHT

BE not a witness against thy neighbor withoutcause; and deceive not with thy 1 s—Proverbs 2: 28. v

GOSSIP is a sort of smoke that comes, from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse ‘it; it proves

[REFLECTIONS . | Spot- lighted Charity Bludgeoning |

NEW YORK, April 5.—At the risk of having my Red Cross button lifted and my merit badges taken away, I have a loud complaint to make. In words that even a Broadway usher can understand, let's knock ®ff this custom of shaking down the patrons of theaters for any and all causes, while the collectors circulate under blazing lights and thrust cans under your nose. @t's genteel blackmail, at best. It violates the spirit of charity, And it intrudes rudely into an evening of relaxation for which both charitable and uncharitable people have paid their money. As a man who believes in the Red Cross and cancer relief and any other worthwhile cause, I would be tickled to buy a double-priced ticket at the box office. I would pause at a stall in the lobby and drop my two bits in the box. I would be pleased to hand a contribution to the man who takes my ticket.

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BUT I AM GETTING SICK to death of this perpetual shakedown, which is based on the theory that if the lights are turned on, every patron feels he is under scrutiny and must cough up a contribution or feel the scorn of his neighbors. When I go to the movies I go to relax and escape, momentarily, from wars, disease, taxes and the atom. I figure my buck is supposed to buy me two hours of release from catastrophe and unhappiness. I am interested, during that time, only in whether the guy with the marcelled hair is going to get the girl with the phony eyelashes. No charity, no matter how worthy, would break into a man’s home and interrupt his dinner or a ‘private party to pass a hat around. I think the premise is the same. For my dollar I have bought myself a home for two hours—a shoddy dream house with

WORLD AFFAIRS Security Council

NEW YORK, April 5.—Security council circles feel that a considerable victory for the little nations has been scored in eliciting what are widely regarded as reasonably satisfactory replies from both the Soviet Union and Iran. But what has been won is a battle and not a war. The feeling here is that, for the time being, the crisis over Iran is passed. Though vaguely worded, the Soviet response to the council's questions will do. Iran is not likely’ to.press for more categorical assurances for the present. And while the case will remain on the docket until the Red army is out of the country “unconditionally,” the cBuncil will doubtless proceed with other matters.

U. N. O. Must Build Confidence

BUT THE PROBLEM symbolized by Iran remains. It is biggeF than Iran. “It is bigger than Russia or the United States or any other country. It is the problem of how to make the United Nations work— how to create world security. It is to build up a world organization so effective that with its help even the smallest nation will feel strong when threatened with aggression and the powerful will hesitate to attack the weak. The case history of Iran, therefore, has not been concluded, insofar as the council is concerned. The Soviet reply could be interpreted in more ways than one. While it did not say specifically that the Red army would be withdrawn unconditionally, there was no further mention of the original qualification regarding the “unforeseen.” Russia said simply that the “withdrawal will be complete during the period of one and a half months.”

IN WASHINGTON Who Is Going to

WASHINGTON, April 5—A month or more of public hearings and clamor over the new national health bill begins this week before the senate committee on education and labor, under somewhat altered- and unusual conditions. The proposed législation to be considered is the Wagner-Murray-Dingell health bill, which has been kicking around congress in various forms since 1939, without getting anywhere. President Roosevelt gave the idea off-handed" support without ever indorsing it. But last November Harry Truman went all-out with a special message to congress'calling for a brand-new, bigger-and-better health program. This is it. Briefly, the bill calls for a nation-wide system ot prepaid health service for all employed persons and: their families, Medical care would be paid for by payroll deductions, as are the present social security taxes. Farmers and other self-employed businessmen would make their payments in the form of special income tax returns. The tax proposed is 3 per cent of earnings on annual income up to a total of $3600, or a maximum of $108 a year. For that the family would get almost complete medical care, including doctors’ attention, medicines, and hospitalization for as long as 60 days a year.

A. M. A. Changes lts Tune HERETOFORE, opposition to anything and every-. thing of this kind has come principally from the American Medical association. A. M. A. calls it “socialized medicine,” and has made it seem a worse disease than leprosy. But in spite of A. M. A. objections, there have sprung up a large number of voluntary group health associations,” of which Blue Cross is probably the biggest. What's more, nearly all of them are suc-

‘TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

NEW YORK, April 5—Already, behind the scenes, there is a lot of special pleading going on in mitigation of the motives which animated the British and Canadian scientists and officers who are charged with betraying military secrets to Soviet Russia. Some of the accused have defended themselves by stating that they were “animated by a highen loyalty.” Their friends—and they have many in the highest scientific circles—go further by saying that the fact that the accused took no money or only a “very little” puts them in a very different category from that of the ordinary spy. After the first world war, France brought to trial a number of her citizens who, while prisoners of war, had edited pro-German newspapers. The prosecutor made great plays with the fact that they had done it for money. One of the accused pointed out that the sims received had been inconsiderable. The prosecutor replied, “Are you not aware thdt Judas Iscariot betrayed our Lord for 30 pieces of silver?” The defendant's witty retort, “But the.gost of living was much lower in those days,” did not save him from the guillotine,

Motive Doesn't Affect Guilt APOLOGISTS IN the Canadian case are urging, too, that the offense was venial because the secrets were revealed to an ally and not to an enemy. They add that, since the British, Canadian and American governments had refused to share the secret of the atom bomb and other scientific discoveries with the Russians, the scientists, whose function is universal, had a moral right to repair the omission, It is plain that, in law, none’ of these arguments has the slightest force. Treason is treason, whatever the motive. «Whether it is done for love or money makes no difference in the eyes of the law. And there is no difference in such matters between receiving a lot of money and a little money.’ Normally, I would not presume to comment on such a éase while it was still “sub judice.” But since

nothing hyt the bad taste of the smoker. —deorge. Hiiot. j

at least two of the principal defendants have. already admitted the charges against them, there

By Robert C. Ruark |

chewing gum under the seat—and T did. not pay that dollar for the privilege of being dunned. I can't see that it's ethical for anyhody, in the name of anything, to spoil the enjoyment for which another has paid. But, right in the middle of my short escape from the world, a short subject flashes on the screen and Miss Corinne Vere de Vere, whose mother is probably

off starving quietly in the attic, pops onto the screen . |

and smiles her B-3 smile, the one with the tears behind it. Then, in a burst of spurious pathos, she exhorts us to empty our pockets for the community chest or the Joe Glotz memorial fund or something, Up. come the house lights, and for 10 minutes you. sit and fidget, while the ushers shake that can menacingly in your face and step on your feet, 1.

Theaters Should Ban Practice

I ONCE MADE a casual remark that if this thing continued, shortly a trained nurse with a bottle would be relieving you of a quart of blood between the newsreel and the feature. Somebody must have heard

me, because a couple of nights later there was the nurse with a subscription list, loudly demanding that individuals sign up for a blood bank. This was i New Orleans, a city in which several theaters recently announced that they were through with public solicitation. I intend to continue giving to worthy causes, but I've quit allowing myself to be high pressured into it. Either they separate charity from virtual blackmail in places of amusement or I, like many another, will cease patronizing those places. Staying home every night with the radio may be painful, but it has one advantage. Not even television can project an usher with a collection plate into your living room.

By William Philip Simms

Makes Good Start

Period. “As to other questions” the reply added,

“they are not connected with the question of the

withdrawal of the Soviet troops.” That the council could debate the meaning of the Russian answer for days is admitted. But, as one delegate said, the United Nations was not set up to keep nations apart but to bring them together. Russia's: good faith could be questioned and the council could ask her to make her reply more specific. But few regard that as sound practice in_a peace organization, Russia appears to say that her troops will have

cleared out of Iran according to the new schedule --

and the tendency is to give her the benefit of the doubt. In other words, to wait and see. If there are

. any mental reservations on her part, time will expose

them.

Iranian Question Not Closed

DELEGATES FEEL the council has started out courageously and well. It has demonstrated that a small nation can come and state its grievances and that a great power—even one of the Big Five— cannot keep it away. That, they contend, should hearten small nations clear around the globe. But that, all agree, is only a starter. What happens to Iran still remaffis to be seen. reneged on promises before and it is permissible to wonder if she will do it again. Then there is Azerbaijan, Iran’s rich northwest province which recently, under the wing of the Red army, declared itself autonomous. The status of that area is still in doubt. The United Nations will live or die depending on whether it can make its good decisions stick.

By Peter Edson

Pay the Doctor Bills

cessful. Over 3,000,000 people now subscribe to sud) |

group health plans, and another 5,000,000 carry health insurance policies. With this growth of the group health principle staring it in the face, A. M. A. early this year began to change its tune. In February it brought out a plan of its own for a country-wide system of voluntary group health plans to be operated on a non-profit basis by local medical associations. A separate organization known as Associated Medical Care Plans, Inc., has been set up tc promote the scheme. _So when spokesmen for the A.M. A. come to Washington to testify on the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, they may be expected to support their own voluntary health plan in opposition to any compulsory socialized medicine proposal now being considered by congress.

Veterans' Health Enters Picture ANOTHER new factor in this situation is the emergence of a tremendous veterans’ health problem. The government now gives the 15,000,000 vets complete medical care for all illness or injury sustained while in service. There i$ at present some agitaticn to have this coverage extended to the point whe. : all veterans could get medical care for disabilities not “contracted while in military service, and full coverage for their wives and families as well. That would be real state medicine, free to the vets but paid for by the taxpayers. Naturally, there is plenty of opposition to that. But- even for service-connected disabilities, the veterans’ administration is in danger of bogging down, so great is the need and the burden. The veterans’ administration has already made arrangements whereby private hospitals care for some servicemen who can’t be accommodated in government hospitals.

Randolph Churchill

Canadian Spies Guilty of Treason

seems no impropriety in making some general observations, While it is clear that, in law, the betrayal of trust that these men have committed is as grievous as that of the petty rogue or traitor who sells his country for money, some people may think that ethically. there is a wide gulf between them. Let us, then, examine the ethical side of the matter a little more closely. I can understand that a high-minded scientist, animated by love of his fellow man and dominated by internationalist concepts, might think it very wrong that so far-reaching a discovery as the atom bomb should be the property of only three countries. He might’ passionately feel that the secret should be shared with all the nations of the world. This point of view, though wrong-headed, is in itself quite respectable, But what should an honorable man do in such. circumstances?

Culprits Kept on Working IT SEEMS TO ME that two courses would be open to him. He might go to those employing him and say that he so disapproved of the political use being made of the discovery that he no longer wished his brains and learning to be at the service of such a cause. Alternatively, he might seek out the political leaders of his country and, as a private citizen; seek to persuade them ‘of the wickedness of their policy. The one course which an honorable man in these circumstances could not adopt would be to plunge further and further into these scientific mysteries and then reveal them to a foreign government. Consider now what some of the scientists involved in the present case did. They did not at any stage ask to be relieved of their task. ~They did not at any stage seek out the leaders of their governments to protest at the failure to share the secret with othér "countries. Instead, they betrayed the secrets entrusted to them to the agents of the one

foreign goyernment which never shares any of its secrets wig anyone else. It is hard to see how per-

sonal dishofior could sink to lower depths. es ‘ > \

Russia has

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