Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1946 — Page 22

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TO MR. TRUMAN : E (the President) shall from time to time give to the | ** congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient”—Constitution of the United States. : The state of the union was never worse. The President himself has called the coal crisis a national disaster, His attitude however is that the executive department has no authority to end the strike. That is correct. The John L. Lewis putsch for power is within the law. The problem is primarily up to congress, since ours {s—or is supposed to be—a government, by law. . But the President can “recommend,” He isn't recommending. That is where he is falling down. And that is where the whole executive policy toward labor has fallen down—through the Roosevelt regime and on into the Truman.

: *” ” . . » . VW HENEVER action has been generated in the house of A representatives the word has been passed down from the White House to smother it in the senate. That is politics working—fear of the labor vote. So all the nation has had to date, in face of its most dangerous crisis since Pearl Harbor, is an order to cut down the lights in the White House. Why? Bpcause one man, John L. Lewis, has the government where the hair is short. The Pontius Pilate wash-my-hands-of-it act won't do,

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the fall election in the offing, a majority of the house of representatives succeeded yesterday in forcing the military affairs committee to take out of its musty pigeonholes the measure providing for leave pay for former enlisted personnel of the army. The committee, as might be expected, reported favorably on the bill. The fact that a majority signed the demand to bring it out indicates clearly that the measure will be passed when it comes up Monday. It then will go to the senate. This measures, opposed by the bureau of the budget, nevertheless should be passed. And it should be extended to former enlisted personnel of the navy, which includes the marine corps. ' Officers receive compensation for leave not taken during their service, which is logical. But it is unfair to the enlisted man or woman if he does not similarly receive pay for furloughs he was unable to take because of his duties or for other reasons. If this is not done, the ex-officer has an unfair advantage in getting adjusted to civilian life. The proposal wisely makes the compensation retroactive,

VICTORY WITHOUT PEACE

STOCK-TAKING on the first anniversary of V-E day is not cheerful. The war is over, but there is no peace. The trend is toward more trouble.

"Aid to Cancer Drive Good, There Still Is Chance to Help"

of May to raise funds for the American Cancer Soclety has met with a response in Indianapolis which, while encouraging, is far from satisfactory.

quarters for educational and research projects. Twenty per cent goes to the state, and the remaining 40 per cent is devoted to local activities

and keeping up the “little red door” informational center at the city hospital. The “little red door” is the society's county headquarters, a distribution

By J. Perry Meek, Chairman, Marion County Cancer Society. The current campaign which will continue through the first half

Forty per cent of all money raised here goes to the national head-

for cancer control. Our budget calls for $6000 to be spent for education

0 “CITY SHOULD REMOVE ROTTEN OLD TREES” By Mrs. Ralph Griggs, 5708 University ave. I have always held The Times in

center for the lending agency of public-spirited women whq make medical dressings for charity patients suffering from cancer. great respect because it has always Thousands of dressings are made |, yoq 5 good cause, large or"small, | each year, without charge to the iy, the welfare of the citizens, I, persons who receive them and, who! wish in some way you could bring] in most cases, would not be able (1s cause before the people. Rotten, | to afford this service. {dead trees are indeed a hazard here Five thousand dollars will bel, the city, especially Irvington. It given to the Indiana university |was never more clearer or more medical center to buy radium for (sjosely brought home than Friday cases on the waiting list, but which | afternoon when a huge tree crashed can not be treated until their turn | yithout warning across Audubon arrives. That turn is based on the rd (south), bringing a telephone availability of the present inade- pole down with it. The tree was quate supply of radium. {rotted almost in two at the base. We are informed that this radium | Here's the - payoff—a car loaded can be bought and that $5000 will | with James E_ Roberts school pupils buy all that is needed to bring the just missed being struck. The radium bank at the medical center |driver had assisted a child to his up to the forseeable demand. The | porch, leaving the others in the society also is giving a $15,000 deep car. He returned, closed the door therapy X-ray machine to the City | and drove away an instant before hospital, which will double the the crash. Had this occurred, and number of patients {thank God it didn’t, it would sure-

The world suffers in famine and spiritual disillusionment. Statesmen are unable to achieve the international | co-operation necessary for either prosperity or security. | - Our own fortunate nation fares better than others, knowing | however that our fate for better or for worse is bound up |

with the rest. : Nationally our problem is to make democracy work. That means economically as well as politically—the two can't be separated. No other nation is so blessed by nature, |

so favored by geography, so well equipped mechanically, | 80 richly endowed with skill and knowledege, so advanced | in living standards. And yet failure to prevent run-way | inflation, or to find an orderly method for settlement of our disastrous labor conflicts, could cause another terrible | depression. » » » ~ » ~ JNTERNATIONALLY, the problem also is to make democracy work, economically and politically. Security in the long run cannot be imposed. Hunger does not produce peace. Tyranny causes explosions, And, despite the allied victory over the axis, the economic and political conflicts which lead to war are growing today. Our hope is the United Nations. Its purpose is- to restrain destructive forces, while helping the nations to build a healthy and free world through collective effort for collective security.

But that organization and that hope are strained by the split in the United Nations. No one nation is solely to blame. . Nevertheless Russia is the chief cause.

Russia violates the letter and the spirt of the Atlantic charter, the United Nations charter, her treaties and her ~ pledges. By military force and political trickery, she has turned half of Europe into a Soviet satellite and is reaching out for more in the Middle and Far East. Through Com- . munist penetration and other methods, she is interfering in western Europe and the Américas. In the United Nations an A ministers’ conferences, she will co-operate own gain, and insists on complete veto-power.

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+. |ly have rated front page. I think h : hich Oe of 4 t Durgases 55 WHeh! ie city officials should have these er courses for doctors returning trees inspected and condemned if from military or naval service who | need be. I have also written the wish to specialize in treatment of MAYor. My little girl was a pasthis disease. This we regard as a SSnger in the ear, but 1 am alo positive investment in preventive alring the views of every. resident medicine, which will pay dividends I re a my own. through the years. We have been| pe a wn handicapped this year in obtain-| ing enough workers to make the RAISE MILK PRICES, BUT

kind of canvass needed to reach all} PUT CREAM BACK IN MILK" | By Frances Jones, Indianapolis I hereby give my undivided approval to the milk price increase. They complained about a scarcity of feed in Florida, until they got 17¢ a quart for their milk. They were right. They are a thousand miles from the market, but this outfit here doing business in the richest

interested in contributing to this attack on the number one disease. If anyone wishes to “participate in this campaign, either through offering his services or making a money contribution, he should get in touch with our executive secretary at 1101 West 10th st, Indian-

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of feed. But I still say give them their increase, maybe they will put the cream back in the milk. Anyone can see that the cream line has come way up on the milk, and still there isn't any butter. Yes, raise the price, and put some cream in the bottle again.

a “HERE'S SPELLING POEM OF HALF A CENTURY AGO”

By Maude Lueas Rampier, 50 N. Bolten ave. Now that your spelling matches are completed, I am enclosing a poem clipped from a newspaper over 50 years ago which you may care to publish in The Times. Having been a pronouncer at one contest, I have been interested in the outcome. Stand up, ye spellers, now, and spell Spell Phenakistoscope and Knell: Or take some simple word, as Chilly, Or Gauger, or the Garden Lily. To spell such words as Syllogism, And Lachrymose and Syrichronism, And Pentateuch and Saccharine, Apocrypha and Celandine, Lactiferous and Cecity, Jejune and Homoeopathy, Paralysis and Chloroform, Rhinoceros and Pachyderm, ; Metempsychosis, Gherkins, Basque, Tt certainly is no easy task. Kaleidoscope and Tennessee, Kamtschatka and Dispensary, Diphthong and Erysipelas, And Etiquette and Sassafras, Infallible and Ptyalism, Allopathy and Rheumatism, And Cataclysm and Beleaguer, Twelfth, - Eighteenth, Rendezvous, Intriguer, And hosts of other words are found On English and on Olassiec ground. Thus Behring’s Strait and Michaelmas, Thermopylae, Cordilieras, Suite, Hemorrhage, Jalap and Ha-

Vana, Cinquefoll and Ipecacuanha, And Rappahannock, Shenandoah, And Schuylkill, and a thousand more, Are words some prime good spellers miss In Dictionary lands like this. No one need think himself a scroyle If some of these his efforts foil, Nor deem himself undone forever To miss the name of either river, The Dnieper, Seine, or Guadalquiver. I know you don't print: poetry but perhaps an exception can be made in this case. : » . . “IF JITTERBUGGING IS WRONG, WHAT OF BUNNYHUG?” By Dave Barangrever and Bill B. Cox, 1214 Pleasant ot, In regard to Mr. Flagg's article of May 2, we have this to say. It seems to us he is still residing in the Gay Nineties. In your opinfon, Mr, Flagg, how long ago was it that girls were luscious? It seems to us it depends on your personal

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . ... by Dondd D. Hoover = © ~The Lebanon Is an Historic Friend

IT'S OUR BUSINESS, because of the stress placed’ on friendship with-the United States in the Levantine

| republic of Lebanon, to know more about that tiny

Mediterranean country from which French and British troops are to be withdrawn by Juné 30. These troops already have quit Syria, of which the Lebanon actually is a part , .. and U. 8, troops were withdrawn some time ago when the Levant service command was abolished. Small service units have been left behind by the other two allies to handle liquidation of supplies. Home of the famous cedars of Lebanon, this state has been the natural outpost of Christianity in the Moslem Middle East for many years. Its capital, Beirut, is the home of the American University of Beirut . . . said to be the largest American educational institution outside the United States.

Lebanon Leaders From Beirut University ONE REASON FOR the close ties between the Lebanese and the United States can be found in this university, which opened in 1866 and since then has educated most of the leaders in the republic. “This college is for all conditions and classes of men without reference to color, nationality, race or religion,” said its founder, Daniel ‘Bliss, in 1871, “A

{ man, white, black or yellow; Christian, Jew, Moham-

medan or heathen, may enter and enjoy all the advantages of this. institution for three, four or eight years; and go out believing in one, god, in many gods, or in no god. But it will be impossible for any one to continue with us long without knowing what we believe to be the truth and our reasons for that belief.” Such a broad-minded policy was essential in this [ land where there is a greater mixture of races and religions than anywhere else in the world. Even in the days of the Phoenicians, it was a polyglot area. It has been the only Arab country with Christian majority, but there are few if any pure Arabs in it.

WASHINGTON, May 9—It is the fashion nowadays to say that the threat to our freedom and democracy is from the left. Proof of any such statement lies in facts. An examination of the record would seem to disprove this theory and show, instead, that amid all the howling about the danger from the left, forces om the other side have been moving in quietly to consolidate themselves.

No 'Leftish’ Bills Passed SINCE BEFORE THE WAR congress has enacted no new law of the New Deal stripe, or “leftish,” with a single exception, That was the watered-down version of the so-called full employment bill. In its final form, it won approval of even staunch conservatives. It has started no revolutions. T But there has been movement in congress from - the right, easily overlooked because it involved seemingly complicated matters. Their purpose is simple, that is, to protect and strengthen entrenched economic interests to the.detriment of the rank-and-file citizen. Monopoly, or private government by private interests, is what it all spells out. Irony is that this threat to our competitive, free enterprise society comes from those who are so blatant about free enterprise. But they know what they are up to. frien. # « Reference has been made before to the attempt of the great insurance industry, in the middie of war, to exempt itself from anti-trust laws and thus deprive the public of its champion “against extor= tionate rates and charges. They won in the house but were checked in the senate—and through a compromise—by alertness of Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), who knew what they were up to. Another campaign to break down the anti-trust laws is on, even more far-reaching.

NEW YORK,.May 9.—'Offhand,” the little dark lady said, “I do not think you are the type to commit murder.” Being in an especially benign mood, I'm glad to agree with Dr. May Romm, a psychiatrist who takes time off from her private practice and a clinic in Los Angeles to help steer the moving picture industry through the pitfalls of psychiatry.

People Conscious of Neuroses A PSYCHIATRIST, or a psychoanalist, is as necessary a fixture on a movie set these days as an actor. Hollywood currently is so psychology-conscious that visiting soul-probers are met at the station, and before they arrive at the hotel they are booked solid for six months. This is not because Hollywood is the squirrel cage of the universe, an always popular suspicion. Dr, Romm says that the citizens of her home town are no more beset with frustrations and complexes than the taxpayers of New York and Pittsburgh. “Movie people,” she says, “go to psychiatrists because of three reasons. Their atmosphere of competition and insecurity are apt to breed a need for psychiatry. They know about the science. And they ran afford it. Actors don't need psychiatry iny more than clerks or bricklayers.” But Hollywood, which has adopted the tortured pefsonality as a saleable commodity, has delved so far into the business that cameras are reluctant to grind unless a scientist with a medical degree and knowledge of the mind is on hand to nudge the director’s elbow. Dr. Romm lately has been busy helping International Pictures decide which Olivia DeHavilland committed a murder. Olivia fashionably plays twins

WASHINGTON, May 9.—Ome year ago the war in Europe came to an end, Yet instead of having started the world on the road to peace and plenty, as promised, the principal victors are now talking of another war—this time among themselves, In the 12 months since VE-day relations among Russia, Britain and the United States steadily have deteriorated. Almost nine months have passed since the first Big Three foreign ministers meeting to begin the drafting of the peace. Yet to date they have agreed on no single major issue.

Russia Still Repudiates Pledges TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, the Big Three have side-tracked the really vital problems of Germany and Japan, They have tackled only what should have been the simple task of framing peace treaties with’ Italy, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. And, even there, they have not got to first base. Had the great powers practiced what they preached in the Atlantic charter and other war aims pronouncements, the peoples of Europe, at least, would now .be fairly on their way to recovery and self-reliance. Instead, Furope and large areas of Asia and Africa are in the grip of one of the most horrible famines in history. Instead of being settled on‘the land in conformity with just decisions of victors, who boast of their superior culture and humanity, millions of people, homeless and desperate, are hungry and on the march with no’ place to go. President Wilson declared in his “four principles” of pesce, that “peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty as if they were chattels or pawns in ‘a game Compared with what is going on today, the peace after world war I more or less followsd that general ides, But after paraphras-

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The Lebanon has been within the French sphere of influence for many years prior to its being placed under France's mandate after the last war , . . despite requests of the Lebanese that they be placed under U. 8. protection, It was invaded. by the British in June, 1941, and taken away from Vichy France. Together with the Free French of DeGaulle, the British ruled it . . . although actually they alone made the real decisions . , . until Jan. 1, 1944, when Syria and the Lebanon were theoretically freed of this domination. Withdrawal of foreign troops is another step toward independence, although the Lebanese and the Syrians, whom I will discuss in a later column, are ill-prepared for such independence. Their political leaders have told me that what they really wanted was to be protected by this country... not complete independence.

Resistance to German Propaganda

WITH THE COLLAPSE of France in the last war, the Lebanon and Syria were flooded ‘with Gers man agents and “tourists” interested in two subjects + + + the pipe lines from the Mosul oil flelds and fomenting revolt among the Arabs. A big factor in failure of German propaganda in the Lebanon was the Christian repugnance to the axis anti-religious program , , , as in Syria it was the Arab rejection of the heathenism aflvocated by Hitler. The Lebanese still will be in the middle, as well as the Middle East, in Britain's battle for power in that area. And they still will continue to look to us for help, even though politically we have no authentic

, interest in that part of the world,

One Lebanese intellectual in whose Tome I spent an evening, by the way, was a collector of the works of Meredith Nicholson. When he found I knew Mr. Nicholson, I was taken to the college and other gathering places to. be introduced as someone worth know ing. But not before that, however,

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This is the attempt of the railroads to get out from under the anti-trust laws through the so-called Bulwinkle bill. It, too, passed the house, often a most undiscerning body. But the justice department’s anti-trust division, and such others as Governor Kllis Arnall of Georgia, laid before the senate interstate commerce committee a factual record of monopolistic rate-fixing by railroads and allied transportation agencies. drawn. within their orbit, which this bill would perpetuate and strengthen. _So the committee has had its eves opened. Point about such rate agreements is that they are controlled from the top by one organization, the American Association of Railroads, which itself in turn has tie-ups with great New York banking houses. It is a private empire above the government and people. This top stratum has tremendous power because the banks, in turn, are affiliated with the nation's great industries. By the way it fixes railroad and allied transportation rates, it not only raises the cost of living, but it also can hold back development of certain sections. This it has done. Its interests lie with industrial enterprises in the east.

Shippers Suffer Through Combine SO POWERFUL WAS THIS hierarchy that it refused reductions in rates to the government during the war in many cases. Those excessive charges. come out of our pocketbooks as taxpayers. New freight classifications were devised In some cases to get a higiter rate. . * During the war, too, and before, this railroad hierarchy stretched its influence, through banking and other connections, into other forms of transportation in an effort to get them to raise their rates to the railroad level, thus leaving the hapless shipper, in many cases, no competitive recourse,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruerk - Pschoanalysis Rage Not Unhealthy

in an upcoming show called “The Dark Mirror"— and one Olivia is good, one bad. Since the bad Olivia's guilt is determined by psychoanalysis, Dr.

Romm’s job was to chart the course to determine

which twin was psychologically capable of murder. Dr. Romm, who was a general practitioner “before

she took up psychiatry, says she is happy if the .

movies take 5 per cent of her advice, if that 5 per cent will disseminate a realization for the need for mental therapy over the land. She would like to wjake the free association test as familiar as the axiom that you should never, never put the bananas in the re-frig-er-a-tor, 3 _ The American Medical association has put out some figures to the effect that 55 per cent of our army casualties (Hon-gunshot) were psychiatric. “They had two strikes on them when they went in” Dr. Romm says. “Many of them could have been easily straightened out.” Dr. Romm says that the greatly magnified interest in the ills of personality is no indication Americans are being driven to greater neuroticism by the ine creased pressure of modern living. She says that people are just becoming more conscious of neuroses as a tangible ailment, like the bellyache,

Fancied Ills Are Real, Too “THE MAN WHO COOMES to you because he is worried about being fired has just as real a headache as the man who is hit over the head with a brick,” she says. “A person who thinks he's sick is just as sick as if he really were sick.” In order to get this point across, Dr, Romm says she is pleased to play along with the movies. And when she has finished with the directors, I hope she gets to work on some of the producers. Understand some of them think they are Darryl L. Zanuck,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Big Three Duck German, Jap Treaty

and solemnly pledging themselves to follow it, the world war IT victors have violated it at every turn. VE-day was made possible by Russia, Britain and the United States about equally. Peace, therefore, should have been gone about in the same way. Instead, Russia redrew the map of eastern Europe and the Balkans to suit herself and today is insisting on having her way in other areas, Wherever Britain and the United States have not given in to her, there is stalemate, The Atlantic charter was signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in August, 1941. Russia, Cliina and others of the United Nations “subscribed to” the same purposes and principles thereafter. On May 22, 1042, Russia and Britain signed a 20-year: treaty pledging close collaboration “with one another as well as with the United Nations at the peace settlement and during the ensuing period of reconstruction.”

At Moscow, in November, 1943, the Big Three

promised to work together promptly to restore demoeracy in Europe and independence to Austria. In December, 1043, at Cairo, China was promised Manchuria and other loot stolen by Japan, Korea was to become free and independent. At Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, San Francisco and elsewhere other equally high-sounding promises were made. Yet today they are all going begging.

Reds Talk War : BUT, WHAT 1S EVEN more alarming, every day the prospect of Big Three rollaboration seems less and less encouraging. Yet, as Churchill cried out in commons, “only in this way can, catastrophe be avoided.” r friendship, Russia is needling her masses into distrusting and hating their former allies, Instead of peace, Moscow 18 talking war, Why, nobody knows,

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