Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1946 — Page 8

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ARIS CONFERENCE GLOOM "HE four power foreign ministers’ conference opened in ~ * Paris Thursday without the customary. protestations of unity and predictions of success. Secretary of State ult Foreign Minister Bevin are frankly pessimistic. The French are worried. And the silent Molotov is grim. _. This official gloom is hot pleasing to the world’s peoples, weary with waiting for the governments to get on with the long-delayed business of peace-making. But it is hotest at least. After all, the big powers began meetings on this subject last September and haye been in continuous session gince January—and are worse deadlocked than when they started. So the time long since has passed for the usual Pollyannish propaganda. Nevertheless, there is a ray of hope just because the situation has become so desperate that none of the big powers can stall longer without condemning itself in the eyes of the world as a peace-wrecker. Even the Soviet government, the chief obstructionist, may find its position untenable if it persists. For Washington and London are

fed up.

» » s v » " ” HIS is the significant difference bétween the Paris meeting and the many that have preceded it. The United States and British governments have made so many agreements with Russia—at Tehran and Yalta and elsewhere— only to have them broken later by Moscow, they are no Jonger in a sucker mood. They have made so many compromises in the name of co-operation, only to find that Moscow wants all take and no give, they are through with that skin game. : : Moscow's contempt for the United Nations in Iran * and at the security council has forced, Washington and + London to adopt firmer policies. It also has awakened and unified public opinion in America and Britain in support of a strong stand by the democracies. And it has rallied ‘the middle-sized and smaller nations, as the voting in the security council shows. : ; If Stalin faces this dangerous fact, he may reverse ‘policies at Paris. We hope so. AS ! WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? : REAL victory in the war against inflation calls for more

production costs. ~ Only by cutting production costs can labor maintain ‘and increase the buying power of high wages, can industry ‘enjoy their profits, can consumers have the benefit of lower ‘prices, can the products of factory and farm find an everwidening market. . po Two things are essential if production costs are to be cut. Eabor must be willing to earn its higher wages by high per-man-per-hour production. And the efficiency of ‘the tools of prodiiction—industry’s plants and equipment— must be rapidly and constantly increased. But government tax policy has long discouraged that second process. It has done so by arbitrarily stretching depreciation of plants and tools, for tax purposes, over periods of 10 or 20 or more years. If industry were allowed to depreciate equipment more rapidly it could recover their cost sooner and would have the money available for earlier, more frequent replacement of inefficient tools and buildings.

“aN Wigs WAR MOBILIZER JAMES F. BYRNES recognized the short-sighted folly of that policy in 1944. He sug.gested that manufacturers should be allowed to depreciate new machinery “substantially” in the years in which it is bought. And at Chicago, in the presidential campaign of that same year, President Roosevelt said this: + “Businesses, large and small, ‘must be encouraged by the government to expand their plants and to replace their Obsolete or worn-out equipment with new equipment. To that end the rate of depreciation on these new plants and facilities for tax purposes should be accelerated.” ok That, he added, would mean-“more jobs for the workers, increased profits for the businessman and a lower rate to the consumer.” It would indeed mean all these things. What Mr. Roosevelt proposed clearly and greatly would benefit labor ‘as well as business, industry and agriculture. Yet nearly two years later, although the need for the promised reform - 1s more evident than ever, the administration and congress : have done nothing about putting it into effect.

{AN HONOR DESERVED AM G. CHANDLER of the Scripps-Howard newsv. papers has been elected for a second term as president of the American Newspaper Publishers association. A modest man, Mr. Chandler probably will blush if he reads this small expression of our proud pleasure that an old and well-loved associate thus has been honored. But we can't refrain from saying ‘that Bill Chandler richly deserves to he honored by American publishers and . American public alike. During and since the war, it has been his constant concern that no part of the country’s free press should be unable to do its duty because of Shortages of printing equipment and supplies. For a time he headed, and he was always a foremost adviser to, the government office charged with rationing print paper. i Shortages were inevitable and severe. But the vigilant fairness of Mr. Chandler and others in government service and the effective voluntary co-operation of the publishing industry, made it possible for him to tell the A. N. P. A. i Meeting in New York this week that no American newsi paper, of any shade of opinion, had been forced to suspend Publication by lack of paper, metal or machinery.

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the so-called Independent Republic is a “tool of the Russians,” and that his newspaper Kurdistan is “nothing but a Soviet tnstrument.” Another good reason why Russia wants the Iranian issue dropped, no doubt. . ” »

“AS LONG AS SHORTAGES EXIST, PUT UP WITH OPA” By Interested Housewife, Indianapolis Let's all work for the adoption of the OPA extension bill. Some of the methods and some of the administrators of the OPA may not meet with our full approval but without OPA where would we be? In a lot worse fix than we are. Only by encouraging production and seeking. ways to check inflation can we return to a normal economic system. Give "‘manpufacturers an incentive to produce, give retailers a reasonable profit, and prices will adjust themselves proportionately. But the restraining hand of OPA for another year will keep the prices from exploding in our faces. . As long as we have shortages we will have to put up with OPA and all its faults. » » " “END OPA AND SEE YOUR PURCHASING POWER DROP” By E. K,, Indianapolis . Write your representatives, both in the house and senate. Earl Wilson says that four out of five of his letters from his constituents say get rid of the OPA. That's easy to understand. His letters are from organized merchants, not from the consumer, : The merchants there, like here, want to bust up the OPA. Then God help us. T have two business rooms, each with{gs grocery therein. One

"Let's Look at Communist-Bossed

Countries as Well as Franco Spain"

By WILLIAM POST, 716 Middle dr., Woodruff Place

It seems we are now going to conduct an investigation of the Franco government to determine if it constitutes a threat to world peace. May

we likewise investigate the Moscow-

sponsored government in Poland which our dear friend Oscar Lange for, but which does not represent the good people of Poland. Also the Tito regime in Yugoslavia and the Communist-dominated government in Hungary, among others, not to mention the tyrranical dictatorship of Stalin's Russia where they recently “staged” an election in but one candidate was advanced for each office and that the candidate of the Communist party, “the only legal party in Russia,”

says “Damn” the OPA, the other puts in big letters on his window, “To hell with the OPA.” Didn't we try the honesty, to our own regret, of the fresh fruit industry. Didn't prices go sky high? Once we take our hands off the control of prices, we will be at the mercy of these crying merchants. For every merchant there are 99 consumers, 99 to pay for the greed of one merchant.

Subsidies are different, but they, too, have merit. Subsidies permitted the poor to eat some butter, more plentifully of meat. It, too, gave the babies milk at a savings. Yes, if OPA is ended, your dollar

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less, and the very merchant who cried “down with OPA” will have invested in stock the selfish profits he made, and all of us holding an empty bag; like the empty gesture, of “loving thy neighbor as thyself.” What a pity. -~ - o

“U. 8. SHOULDN'T LEAN ON BRITISH FOR DATA” By Ex-G. 1, Montgomery county This country needs a dignified, well-trained and organized intelligence agency to keep us out of war. That means a corps large enough and smart enpugh to obtain all the information — repeat ; all — without depending on other nations for critical policy-making facts, In the past we have let Britain do our intelligence work for us all over the world—even in the U.. 8. If we are to lead in-the United Nations organization, we can no longer lean on Britain. We can not allow Britain to furnish us our intelligence any more than we can allow Britain to furnish us our foreign policy (which is based on intelligence). If we continue with our pre-war brand of intelligence, we might as well announce to the world that we are joining the British empire to help Britain rule ‘the world and that the United Nations organization is the instrument we are going

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“MANY ADVANTAGES IN CITY VETERAN HOSPITAL” By Ex-Army Nurse, Indianapolis The article appearing in your paper April 25, concerning.the veterans hospital to be erected near city hospital is certainly untrue! Whoever wrote it should go out and look over the land in question before writing such an article! (1) Rats are prevalent all over this town and should be corrected. (2) Help will be easier obtained closer to town. Now in order to go to the veterans hospital on Cold Spring road, it takes one to two hours, (3) The city is giving this land for a good purpose. Use it. Just because the G. O. P. is in office don’t knock them. Hit above the belt always, never below when fighting: I served in world war II as an army nurse. These boys deserve the best! There are many advantages having the veterans hospital near City and Long hospitals. Editor's Note: The statements about which you complain are those of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and were reported in The Times as! such. » ” n “WOMEN WHO BREAK HOMES DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED” By V, W., Indianapolis * In this modern age of ours it would only be fair to enact some modern laws. So many divorces are blamed on hasty marriages. Or juvenile delinquency blamed on

parents. But let's look deeper into the matter and see where the blame really lies. , We have some shameless women who use such heartless tactics in order to break up happy homes. To be seen in public places with these married men is not a disgrace; it strengthens their ego to have others acknowledge their conquest. And naturally this information is relayed to the wives at home. At lass, the triumphant hour has come! » : Oh why can't these creatures be placed behind bars for committing such .a.crime. Surely that is a crime, much worse than violating a traffic law, or appearing in public places under the influence of liquor or other intoxicating beverages. Even many murders could be avoided™ These defenseless wives are overcome with &n. intense jealousy. They knbéw the law won't take matters into their hands: so they take care of that part themselves Do you blame them? A law should and must be enforced, and soon. These degrading persons should not have a right to meet the world on an equal basis. They must not continue to wreck this nation of ours. They should pay for their crimes, + » ” ” “CONGRESSMEN SHOULD NOT BASE VOTE ON CONSTITUENTS" By L. A. Jackson, Vernon We have been urged to write to our senators and representatives and tell them how we want them to vote on. a certain bill. I think we should, instead, send them letters similar to the following: “If you feel that the majority of ‘your constituents are capable of telling you how you should vote on any bill, then you are not intéllectually §t for your job. If you are chiefly Interested in knowing how the majority of your 'constituents want you to vote, then you are not mqrally fit for your Job.”

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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye- transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.~Romans 12:2.

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{IT'S OUR BUSINESS . , . By Dold D. Hoove

IT'S OUR BUSINESS ta look with gratification on the vote of the senate territories committee to confirm President Truman's nomination of Judge William H. Hastie, a Negro, as governor of the Virgin islands, 3 . Pe : If the senate accepts the recommendation of its committee, Judge Hastie will be the first of his race to receive appointment to govern this group of islands we bought from Denmark in 1917. Some 90 per cent of the Virgin f{slanders are of Negro or mixed blood. « +» « It is hoped they will give Judge Hastie the support his record as judge has. earned for him. udge Hastie is a graduate of Harvard and Amherst. In addition to being a former dean of the Howard university law school, he was an assistant solicitor in the interior: department at Washington.

Government Spending Freely

DRAWING ON THE extremely remote past . , . 21 years ago whén I was really a man of letters as postmaster of St. Thomas, capital of the islands. . . . I raise the point of the acceptance Judge-Hastie

., The islanders of mixed blood have created a social scale under which the lighter the pigmentation of a man’s skin, the higher his place in society. And society there is spelled with a capital “8,” too, There is great friction, or at least there was in the year I spent there, among the various groups . . . and there seemed to be a jealousy of those of their race . who progressed. Ng This feeling was'so great that a quadroon friend of mine told me he could not accept an important administrative position because he knew the natives would not give him support. Perhaps in the interim this attitude has changed. It is always dangerous

Black Is Grea

IT RAINED HERE during the funeral of Chief Justice’ Harlan F. Stone. The great gray walls of the National cathedral, on the crest of Mount St. Albans, were tear-moist in mourning.

Somehow the classic Gothic structure seemed illustrative of the rugged characteristics of this great Jurist. For while Chief Justice Stone respected tradition, he never hesitated to apply old truths to a new day. Here was a man who didn’t fear dissent. He believed that a majority might sometimes be wrong. He lived to see his minority opinions accepted by the majority and thus prove his point. Who will succeed him?

Ignored by Political: Prophets THERE HAS BEEN much talk about that here. Several Democratic members of the high court have been mentioned. This is based on the idea that a Republican likely will be appointed associate justice. Oddly enough, the greatest Democratic justice, in the opinion of many members of ‘both bar and bench, -has been played down. : He is Hugo LaFayette Black, -Everyone. knows that Justice Black, as an ambitious young politician down in Alabama, joined the Ku Klux Klan and got elected to the senate. There he once led a filibuster against a federal anti-lynching law in true KKK fashion. Scandal of that affiliation broke about his head after he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt. The late Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind), senate judiciary chairman, promptly put the nomination through the senate. Senator Black thanked his colleagues, one of whom is now on the federal court of appeals bench, also by F. D. R. appointment, former Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.). . Which leads up to a Damon hnd Pythias story which never before has been told. For Senator Minton was offered the Supreme Court seat and recommended his friend Senator Black instead. Homer E. Cummings, then attorney general, came to Senator Minton's home at night to discuss the matter of the vacancy. Two days later, Senator Minton confided that he had bowed out of the picture and predicted Senator Blael® would be named. Because of the Black KKK background (well known despite

WASHINGTON, April 27.—On the basis of the reports from Manila, it looks as if Manuel A. Roxas, a younger Quezon and political protege as well 28 sometimes opponent of that tempestuous leader, may

be the first president of the Philippines republic. Complete returns may take days. But such an outcome would not be surprising. For while his rival, commonwealth President Sergio Osmena is a scolarly, able and widely revered leader, the more youthful, fiery Roxas long has been called “the idol of the Philippine youth.” Next to the late President Manuel Quezon, he is probably the most colorful figure in the Philippines.

Collaboration Charges Fade

ROXAS WAS a brilliant student at the college of law, University of the Philippines, according to his American teacher, George A. Malcolm—later senior justice of the Philippine supreme court—he carried away first honors, In effect, therefore, he might be called an American product,” something which he never has denied. While still in his 20's, he became known as the competent young governor of Capiz. Elected to the lower house, he skyrocketed to leadership, succeeding the older Osmena as speaker when Osmena moved up to the senate. The Quezon-Osmena-Roxas. political triumvirate was unbeatable as long as it operated as such, and when it didn’t its component parts made the sparks fly. One such occasion arose over the Philippine independence question. All three came to Washington to work for the Hare-Hawes-Cutting act. But when

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert Jap Male Out of

NEW YORK, April 27.—The American people, in the person of Gen. MacArthur, have visited the most terrible vengeance on the Japanese that was ever imposed .on a vanquished race. We refer to the emancipation of the Japahese woman, into whose tiny hands recently came the vote plus equal privilege in social and economic Mfe. This is. no momentary revenge, but a permanent punishment which will be passed on from father to son, so that Tojo's great-great-grandchildeen will curse their ancestors as the wrecker of male supremacy in Japan.

Little Flower Comes Out of Kitchen

AS LONG AS there is a Jap alive, Pearl Harbor will be remembered and mourned. Surely; if the warlords had forseen the consequences, mass hara-kiri would have been ordered on Dec. 1, 1841, and the emperor's reign of Showa, or peace, would have con= tinued. , The Japs, when they climbed down out of trees and started snubbing the hairy Ainus who still swung from the branches, immediately began a campaign to keep women in the kitchen and out of public life.

womenfolk in hand, and finally succeeded. As is fitting in a civilized country, the wife deferred to the

was king outside the home, because mama. confined herself to her domestic duties, and let the old man wear the commercial kimono. = ‘ ; When father éanfe home from a hard day at the geisha house, with worries of the rice crop and the

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to base conclusions on attitudes of the past, . However, ‘a letter of several Judge Hastie will have his problems. ; “Things have stepped up in St. Thomas and. St. Croix,” said this note from a trained scientific observer, “The G. I's have spent, a lot of money and our goverment has, and ds still, throwing money around in huge gobs. In St. Croix, it fixed; up: old houses for some of the a tors of the Virgin Island Society, spending as much -as $40,000 in repairs—and the houses are about $12,000 places when they get through.” ‘ 5

Islanders All Speak English

SUCH PRACTICES have gone on for so long, sald this observer, that the natives are “just sitting around waiting for the government to take care _of their needs. ; . : “It might be a point to investigate,” he adds, “because ‘it's our business’” He asserts the government is making surveys now for sewage systems in two small villages which would, cost a million and a half dollars each . .. a ‘ridiculous expenditure in light of the conditions of

these villages. They remain much as they were when Alexander Hamilton worked in one of them, inci@entally.

“I'm discouraged with U. 8. participation in affairs off the continent, if Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands are good examples,” he concluded. “I am sure we can't afford the luxury for too long or on foo wide a scale.” - ‘ All Virgin islanders, by the way, speak English, 8t. Thomas has been a port of call for shipping for several centuries. Since English is the language of commerce, it was a part of everyone's education.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Daniel M. Kidney t Democratic Justice

President Roosevelt's protested innocence concerning it) ‘many did not believe the appointment would be made, . Maybe they didn’t know F. D. R. Certainly they didn’t know Justice Black. Donning the black robes, no shred of the white ones has remained in his makeup. The then Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes began assigning the so-called “civil liberties cases” to his new associate justice. Many involved rights of minorities—particularly Negroes. Justice Black never missed. Nor Has he often done so in other cases, . Last September, on Constitution day, we inter viewed Justice Black as he ate from a tray in the Supreme Court building cafeteria. He gave his views on what the court should do about the Constitution. “I do not share the view that the Constitution is a living document in the sense that it can be made to/mean anything the judges say it means,” he said. “My view is that what is not definitely forbidden by the Constitution can become law by legislative enactment, either by congress or the state legislatures, It is a democratic thing. They are the elective agents of the people. What they enact is good ih law unless it violates’ the Constitutitional restrictions.” It was this type of judicial thinking that Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) praised in his eulogy of Chief Justice Stone,

“Chief Justice Stone in the last moments of his

life gave utterance to a philosophy which sometimes we have lost sight of in these latter years,” Senator Willis said, “but which we should remember all the days of our lives.

Senator Willis' Tribute

“IN A DISSENTING OPINION handed down by him yesterday (Monday), he spoke words which seem to me to be almost dramatic in their timing and their bearing. They were to the effect that only the congress can make the law, and the Supreme Court must not be guided by its own idea of what the law ought to be. “The great rule of his philosophy of the law was that congress makes the law, and that the Supreme Court must follow it.” This week's letter may sound a bit solemn. But it is always sad to lose a great man-—particularly in Washington where they are never plentiful.

DAN KIDNEY.

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By William Philip Simms Roxas Is a Brilliant Philippine Leader

they returned to Manila, Quezon split with them over what later proved to be a relatively minor difference. Roxas and Osmena . favored acceptance of the act and Quezon was against it, They lost the round, due mostly to Quezon's personal prestige, but even he knew he had been in a fignt, Soon after V-J day, a concerted effort was made to fasten the onus of Jap-collaborator on Roxas. After this first flare-up, however, the blaze soon died. For one thing, during the present political campaign, other issues have been stressed by both sides. Also whenever occasion arose, Roxas has met the charge head-on, offering his war record.

Eyes of Asia on U.S. Policy

THE PHILIPPINES are to become completely independent on July 4, this year—on schedule to the

dot. The United States has pledged itself, however, tohelp pay reconstruction costs, actual war damages

and, over a period of years, to grant trade preference to Philippine products. Cengress recognized it could do no less. The use. to which the new nation will put its freedom remains to be seen. But, as Roxas told congress when he came to Washington on a Philippine independence mission, its education in democracy has gone about as far as it can under outside tutelage. It is as ready now as it will ever be to take its first steps alone, If for any reason there should be a postpone ment, the chief sufferer would be the Unifed States. For all the world—especially the half of it that lives in Asia—is still watching us out there, half expecting us to renege.

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Luck With Suffrage

tion about politics and the atom bomb. He never came home from the office, expecting dinner, to find a note saying that Mrs. Okimoto was off on a speaking tour, stumping for congress. She didn't let the babies holler while she played golf or

wrote historical novels, She was not encouraged to

march in demonstrations, picket the Diet, appear on radio quiz shows or racket around the country fomenting discontent among the other housewives. The Japanese man was very happy for many years by- ruling that women should neither speak, read, write nor think, and discouraging any overtures in these directions by administering a soumd rebuke with a stick. Now Gen. MacArthur has bestowed equality on the girls. As soon as they learn to exploit their newfotind. position, they will reverse the situation and hammer down their spouses, even as he is trodden under the spiked heel of the American wife.

Just Like Stateside

THE MALE WILL start living out of a ean and washing his own dishes, while his wife, via Radio Tokyo, gives out handy hints on housekeeping. for men and belabors his ears with soap-operas called “Nishimoto’s Other Wife,” meanipg the happy little moron he was espoused to befo’ de wah. |, Ah, yes, truly we have wreaked a great and lasting

vengeance on the Japanese male, and it serves him .

right for chucking his, weight around. When his wife tells everybody .blandly: “Ah so, Puji makes the major decisions, and I make the minor, but only I determine which is major and which minor’—when he hears Y

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