Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1946 — Page 22

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.YING THE MINERS CASE (ECRETARY WALLACE and others say that the coal strike is terrible to be sure, but we should all remember at the miners have a case. Of course the miners have a case. Their great leader, I Lewis, with all his strikes and all his power, has won for them such protections and benefits as they or as other unions have won for other workers. Lewis lives in style and luxury befitting his high te. He eats regularly and well. But many of his miner | subjects, after long years of struggle, still exist in squalor; still are exploited by hard and grasping employers; still are exposed to needless danger because safety laws and rules not properly enforced; still have no adequate protection themselves and their families against the hazards of disability and death connected with their calling. This is especially true in the southern mine fields. “ *But Lewis can not improve the miners’ lot—he will only deepen their misery—by prolonging a strike that daily brings the whole country nearer to complete paralysis.

. . . . » » 2 do not admir® the mine operators. Plenty of sins blot their record, but in the present situation they have at least offered wage and other concessions which do provide a basis for bargaining. It is Lewis who refuses to bargain. He insists that he will not even discuss wages, hours and other issues until the operators grant his demand for a health and welfare fund, to be administered solely by his union and raised by a tonnage royalty or tax on all coal mined. On that issue, we believe, the operators have no right to yield. The royalty Lewis is reported to want is 10 cents a ton. That would mean more than $50 million a year taken from the public in higher prices for coal and turned over for Lewis to use as he pleases, He could use it for | health and welfare, or he could use it for politics. The _public would have no control over the money, and the union | obviously has no control over Lewis. : ~The miners need a health and welfare fund. It should be large enough for the actual need and, directly or in- | directly, it will have to come from the public's pocket. But | neither Lewis nor any union boss should have power to tax the public and use the proceeds without public supervision and control. :

. ¥ . » LJ . MONGRESS has outlawed such a tax, on phonograph records for radio, by Petrillo of the musicians’ union. Congress should outlaw such a tax by any union. While might not end the coal strike immediately, it would d Lewis of the false and dangerous issue which he i8 using to delay a settlement on the real merits of the miners’ case.

LIBRARIES FOR INDIANA HERE in Hoosierdom we fancy ourselves as a pretty lit- & erary and literate people. And we do stack up pretty | well.

The Indianapolis publi¢ library, as a case in point, can boast of a readership circulation per capita that is exceeded ‘only by a fraction by Cincinnati, Cleveland and Minneapolis. But still, 28 per cent of the state is without library re, according to a survey by the American Library association. Crawford county has no library at all, according to the state association, The next session of the legislature will be asked to remedy this situation, with special emphasis on providing books for rural readers who usually are far removed from ‘an adequate and up-to-date library. Also pending in con(gress now is a measure providing state aid for such

We are heartily in favor of broadening library service. too often stops with the adult years unless jinued reading becomes a habit. Many persons cannot Mord books, while only a few can buy enough to keep them thoroughly informed. The public library is the answer. The problems ahead require an informed public opinion, #n opinion that can be genuinely sound if it has access to all ‘the facts. The libraries should be able to provide these facts. ,

SSIA BOYCOTTS THE UN N voting to keep the Iranian case on its agenda the = security council took the only possible course under the With Russia failing to report withdrawal ‘of her troops, and. with Iran stating that it could not the facts because of Soviet interferences, the meil adopted the American proposal for Iran to report later than May 20. ~ In addition to the Iranian statement of continued t interference, there is also press evidence that the jians still control Azerbaijan province. The Russian ine refused Azerbaijan transportation to foreign correndents in Tehran, on the ground that permits had not n granted by the Soviet consul. This may not mean that Russia again, as in March, 8 broken her pledge of military evacuation. Rather, it pobably means that—after a formal withdrawal—Russia 8: more time to perfect her camouflaged control of

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. Though the Soviet agents who started the Azerbai jan dence” revolt have had six months to secure that as a Russian puppet and conspiracy center inside parently they are stil] unable to guarantee results plin, Hence the further delay.

i.e. . . nw re disturbing is Moscow's attitude toward the y council. The council has made every effort 8 a face-saver by not discussing the substance charges, and by requesting merely a Russian ry withdrawal as repeatedly pledged. But

ort to the council, but Wednesday for the ited its sessions. the council voted after an Australian ‘action would overrule the Soviet effort fying reassertion of the council's authorRussia continues to defy he helped to create and |

another sock at the council—not only does |

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THE COAL STRIKE (S A NATIONAL DISASTER

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WHY | DOESN'T SOME BRODY

DO SOMETHING ABOUT 2,

Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it," — Voltaire.

By Harry R. Hughes, New York

investigation,

"Pollard Was One of Hoodlums Making Trouble at Bus Station"

. An experience I had while passing through Indianapolis in early February, 1045, may interest you in connection with the Pollard murder

My wife and I had arrived in Indianapolis in the late forenoon and after eating lunch we went over to the Indianapolis bus terminal where we stood in line for the bus that runs through my home town of Spencer.

Just as we were starting to move into the bus two young men and | one old one came running toward the bus scréaming “railroad men first, railroad men first.” At the same time the two young hoodlums started

“CHURCHES AND DRYS HAVE LITTLE IN COMMON” By C. M. B,, Indianapolis The papers have lately been full of editorials and articles about the

alliance between some of ghurches and the professional drys. There should be no common in-

drys argue that alcoholic beverages are wholly evil and should be prohibited.

shoving women as well as men in

of those people who were behaving

had a load of baggage I protestad.

baggage all over the street,

around and so these three ugly ex- earn an existence? amples of Indianapolis humanity a

on their way. I had succeeded, however, in foreing the policeman to make this man give his name, show his regis-

something peculiar about the latter. This hoodlum was Howard G. Pollard. Since no damage was done I went on my way and forgot the in-| cident except that I couldn't associate such gangster conduct the many fine railroad men whom I have known. Also I could not un. derstand how the Indianapolis I ate] knew and loved should tolerate such | mately, hoodlum activities.

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thought it might serve to shed further light on the character of | votes. young man who is certainly headed for a sad ending. » ” » “HOOVER PROPOSAL FOR FEEDING JAPS 18 INSULT” By Jerimia Crowder, 1711 Park ave. It is my honest opinion that the recommendations by Herbert Hoover, stating that foods produced by American people should be sent to Japan to prevent those rats from starving, is a gross insult to the intelligence of the American people. Without provocation or justifiable cause of any kind the Japs saw fit to leave their fields and industries

they please.

and OPA. They had

parasites and the national debt.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

good the OPA does. with the majority of people realize how much they buy that is black market, We have high prices anyway, gardless of his character or whether. 80 we had better have them legit-| he is personally wet or dry, if they

their

climbed aboard the bus and went «BLACK MARKET HARM

OUTSHINES OPA GOOD” | By Mrs. E., Indianapolis I can’t imagine why anyone wants ie the OPA after all these years, jt has tration card—as I recall there Was | en in, crippling business and proThe OPA may do a little good, but the harm done through market far outshines any I don’t believe

their efforts to board the bus ahead jo swoop down upon thousands of defenseless people and murder them in orderly fashion. One of these by the thousands instead of producyoung men and the old one pushed |ing their own food. Therefore, it is my wife and despite the fact that I utterly silly for us to jeopardize the food situation or skimp ourselves in The young guy swung a nasty any way to feed them, hook at me which I managed to| Hoover, a dry fanatic, has already block, but it meant dropping our done all he could to get all the grain away from our distilleries because I threw one back at this individ-| he coulin't get the country dry any ual and after a wild flurry we both other way. Could it be possible that stood off. A policeman finally came he and his capitalistic crowd would up and I explained the situation to jike to see the scarcity of foods drive him and with witnesses backing me them into black markets so that the up I demanded that he arrest this jaboring people would have to spend thug. He refused. The bus com- g)] their money and become dependpany had no officer of any kind ent again and crawling up to get to

chance muffed it, so unless they show a big|or it. Why can't those people in improvement immediately, it is time gyrope grow some of their own to take the taxes paid to those OPA | 0042 start paying

The professional drys are not interested in temperance. If everyone was temperate, the dry~organizations would go out of business. Local option now being advocated by the Anti-Saloon League would cause more drunken driving than any law that could be passed. Local option igives the drys the opportunity to concentrate on and dry up one community after another. When a boy, I lived in a wet town nine miles from a dry town. The road ditches bétween the two towns were filled with empty whisky and beer bottles. Those were “horse and buggy days,” a horse will find his way home, an automobile cannot. The people most interested in temperance today are the brewers and distillers, they want their business to continue. : If the church people would discard the 4dea of prohibition, local or national, and put their energy into cleaning up the very small percentage of taverns which are bad, the situation would soon be under control. As to the political mess, the drys have never helped us get good government. The professional drys will endorse for office any candidate re-

| believe he will vote for the bills they

; Holding rent prices down to | FF See : 11941 level is an outrage and a chea Ld In writing you of this incident I} olitical scheme to corner a lot of | “FEED THE EUROPEANS, If they would be fair, they] OWN CHILDREN STARVE” {would get the tenants’ votes and By Frances Gillum, Indianapolis the landlords’ votes, too. There has always been a class of people who seem to think that as soon as they pay a month's rent, the property is theirs to do with as

I'd like to shake hands with Car{roll Collins, who had an article in Monday, May 6, Hoosier Forum, and I'd like to add more to what

The hardboiled land-|she said, lords you read so much about have

gotten that way from their years’ counrty, too. Kids undernourished experience with deadbeat tenants and without enough clothes. So

There are people starving in this

they cut the size of a loaf of bread and and still you pay the same price

If we can grow a garden to On help feed our own, why can't they? Because Uncle Sam has to play Santa Claus or it is that-someone is getting rich quicker by selling it to the government,

COPA. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE. WG. T. W. AEG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, L

} ahead, feed the poor s

Raising the price of milk is a smart move, too. Did the dairies operate at a loss all the years be{fore the war? I don't think so. |A lot of people can’t buy milk now |because they can't affogyj it. Go arving Europeans and let our own thildren do ! without,” Servicemen say they have seen worse conditions in this country than there is over there No butter, less milk and only the poorest cuts of meat that are left after the government takes the best, What do you think that will do to our own children? If those people over there had any guts or grit they could. help themselves instead of. standing in soup lines. If our congress and government doesn't think enough of our” children to see that charity begins at home (without glory), then I think it's time the mothers of this country got together and did something about it themselves. Even an animal will fight to protect it's young and they're supposed to be dumb. How about it, mothers, can't we do something about it?

DAILY THOUGHT. ,

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| ward another. Mind not high things but corndescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.—Romans 12:16, ida! ” ” . o ‘I've never any pity for conceited

"Where would they be Without us in this office? Im

{| people, because I-think they carry _ their comforf>abott with them. —

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alliance between liquor and politics. | There has been nothing about the the

| items some of which, no doubt,

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Blood- Letting . BIXTY YEARS AGO when I was a little boy, every barber shop in Indianapolis had a rack of shelves especially designed to hold and display a collection of fancy shaving mugs. Inside each cup was a shaving brush. On the outside, every mug was decorated with a set of Initials or a monogram, and sometimes even with a man's full name lettered in gold. A good barber shop never had Jess than a dozen of these vignetted cups and I remember that in some cases the collection embraced ‘as many as two dozen

would be considered museum pieces today. The cups didn't belong to the barber, They were the property of fastidious customers who insisted on being groomed with equipment of their own. Very often, too, these same finicky customers brought their own hair brushes and combs, but that's about as far as they carried it. For some reason, they permitted the barber to furnish his own razor and pair of scissors, However, one barher shop on McCarty st. (a promsinent thoroughfare in my bailiwick at the time) went a bit further, I remember, In addition to the customary collection of mugs reserved for fastidious customers, it had another rack of shelves designed to hold a collection of several dozen of crystal-clear glass cups, each of which was about two inches high with a mouth area the size of a quarter, . Unless one was smart enough to interpret the sign in the window, there wasn't any way of telling what the cups were good for, The sign read: “We do cupping.”

Surgery Sixty Years Ago CUPPING, in case you are not old enough to know, was a8 minor operation invented to take the sting out of bleeding (or blood-letting), a major operation practiced by the ancients to relieve people of their aches. In which connection it may not be amiss to note that 60 years ago, when I was a little boy, the barbers of Indianapolis horned in on the doctors’ business like anything. And not only the doctors, but the dentists as well. Even I remember a lot of barbers around

WASHINGTON, May 10. — The ~ government, through justicé department, brought suit some time ago against western railroads charging price-fixing and collusive and restrictive agreement of various sorts in violation of the anti-trust laws. The suit now

terest between the church and the! professional drys. The professional |

is awaiting decision by the federal district court at Lincoln, Neb. The state of Georgia, through Gov. Ellis Arnall, brought -a similar suit direct to the supreme court against the Pennsylvania and other roads charging similar practices affecting the south. The court appointed a master who now is taking evidence,

Result Affects Living Costs

BOTH ARE IMPORTANT in our daily cost of living and also in maintaining a free enterprise system that will expand our economy and develop every section of the country. : The railroads, like insurance companies in a similar situation, are trying to head off these suits by

| act of congress, The vehicle is the Bulwinkle bill

which has passed the house and is pending in the senate interstate commerce committee. It would exempt railroads from anti-trust Jaws and legalize the practice of agreements among them to fix rates, subject to interstate commerce commission approval. A party to the government suit is the American Association of Railroads, central agency that directs and dictates rate agreements among railroads. It operates through three regional associations, in the east, the west,- and south, all tightly tied into and subject to A. A. R. The A. A’ R,, itself, is tied in with powerful banking groups which the government charges assists it in enforcing its decisions on members, This banker connection was effected in 1934 when

OUR TOWN . . By Anton Schorr -

in the Barbershops here whe picked up easy money on the side pulling people's teeth. And, goodness knows, I never went out of my way to be on speaking terms with dentists. But to get on with the cupping business. When the McCarty st. barber had a promising case of what was then called “gout” he, first of all, removed a dozen or so of his glass cups from the rack. Then he inverted them over a spirit lamp and held them in that position until the oxygen was exhausted which, of course, was the trade secret-connected with the business. That done, they were ready to be pressed against the patient's skin, If it left a red mark, it was pronounced a successful operation—the theory being that as the cups cooled off, the mild vacuum created couldn't help but draw the blood to the surface, Apparently, it worked for I remember that the same customers took advantage of the barber's art every spring and autumn, the two seasons when everybody in Indianapolis took hygienic precautions in some form or other. At any rate, I distinctly recall that the McCarty st. barber never “displayed his cupping sign in summer or winter,

Barbers in on Other Fields

—AS FORTHE ancient practice of blood-letting, I'm told it went out of style in Indianapolis about 30 years before I was born. At that, I'm prepared to tell you something about it. Believe it or not, it also was sewed up by the barbers. As a matter of fact, by two German barbers who operated in the basement of a frame building on the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian sts. The fact that a reputable bank now occupies the same corner is just another example of the curious turn of things and must be construed as such before I consent to £0 on, All right. If youll agree that the technique of modern banking has nothing in common. with the ancient practice of bleeding, I'll proceed to tell you why the two German barbers monopolized the business of blood-letting in Indianapolis. Besides having a clientele of their own, they furnished all the doctors around here with real-for-sure leeches of the Macrobdella decora variety which were so mechanically perfect that every one was guaranteed to relieve a sufferer of three ounces of blood in 15 minutes, or your money returned with no questions asked.

IN WASHINGTON . .. By Thomas L. Stokes Railroads and Banks Work Closely

the traffic department of A. A. R. was organized, It 1s revealed in letters passing among Henry W, DeForest, New York banker and railroad director; John J. Pelley, president of A. A. R., and Fairman Dick, investment banker, railroad director and also an employee of A. A. R. This correspondence shows that it was agreed” among the three that if, in the activities of A. A. R. some railroads should object to subordinating their welfare to “the welfare of the whole,” as it is put— that is, be independent about rates, etc.—then Mr. Pelley would let a committee of nine bankers, headed by Mr. DeForest, know about it. The latter then would act. The railroad-banker alliance still continues, and what is important about bankers is the power they exert through financing arrangements for railroads. and through connections with giant industrial enterprises—one big family. There was a committee of directors, for instance, who met at 40 Wall street, to which the western commissioner reported about rates. It was a sort of appeals board. It comprised blue ribbon directors in banks and industries, including J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn Loeb and Co. leading railroad financiers.

Coercion Is Charged THERE ARE SIMILAR associations in the south and east, all headed up in A. A. R. Exhibit after exhibit submitted by the justice department shows how coercion has been exercised from the top—to raise rates; to compel competing agencies, such as truck lines, to go along. to stop railroads from lowering rates; to prevent or delay mechanical improvements, There were 81 such separate cases of restraint submitted to the senate committee, ws,

REFLECTIONS ... By Robert C. Ruark Use Birch Freely and Spare Adults

NEW YORK, May 10.—Since I possess neither chick nor child, and hence can be called an unbiased witness, I wish to come out strongly today against modern children. The excuse is Mother's day, which arrives Sunday by special arrangement with -the florists. I am rigidly opposed to the modern, scientificallyreared child, a pampered swashbuckler whose entire outlook could be ‘improved by a smack on the pants.

Modernism Not Like Old Days

MY REAR STILL TINGLES when I hear the word “Mother,” I. sprang from a strongminded lady who had three curés for bad littlp boys. One was a long broad comb, teethmarks of which I still bear. Two was lengthy immolation in bed, when the other kids were playing baseball, Three was castor oil, generally administered for. the gastronomical stupidity of eating green peaches. A lecture of unminced words went with all three. Honest, kids today are getting away with murder. They know it, and they revel in it. It's this scientific raising, which says you have to reason with the young 'uns, and explain things to them, and argue with them, and let them go around finishing off the dregs of the grownups’ highballs, For my money, adult reasoning with a 2-year-old is as senseless as arguing with a puppy. At some time or other, people have to learn that you can’t run roughshod over the world, and the lessons might as well start early. All this pointed consideration of junior as adult is supposed to make him a lusty character, free of complexes and full of confidence. From the examples I've seen, it makes him free of parental respect and full of high-octane deviltry that might be easily exorcised with a switch. Friends of ours are raising a young male child

scientifically. He dominates all conversation at the table with shrill screams, hurls his pie at little sister, and strides up and down among the crockery. Instead of hanging this demon (jg) by his thumbs in the deep-freeze, they plead with him for hours to be ‘a good boy when company chmes. Little horror - says “Yes, Daddy,” meekly, and then proceeds to bite the lady guests on the ankles. He kicks the servant, assaults the ever-suffering cocker spaniel with blunt instruments, and smears his jammy hands over the eillars of his father's friends. Only complete combat fatigue chases him into the. sack, where he should have been three hours earlier. The business of allowing the- youngster to grow up unchecked is abetted by the progressive school. A poisonous little freebooter with the instincts of Al Capone, gleefully sets fire to Sue-Ellen’s hair with one hand, and hacks a gully into the Chippendale with the ther. art Do they painfully impress on his posterior the error of his ways? No. Teacher reasons with him, “That's wicked and naughty, Cuthbert,” she says. “It's unproductive, and a complete negation of the Golden Rule, the Monroe doctrine, and the four freedoms. Sue-Ellen’s hair is a sometime thing, and play with your miniature model of Hiroshima.” . “Yeth, ma'am,” lisps Cuthbert, muttering under his breath that this is certainly a soft racket,

Put 'Em to Bed! WITH THE PROGRESSIVE school's internationale, “never strike the child,” pounding in his knotty little head, he sets fire to Sue-Ellen's other braid, and carves his nebulous initials in the Hepple white sofa with a scout ax. Personally I am weary of discussing the atom with 3-year-olds, and of being instructed in the foibles of birds and bees by young punks who ought to be worrying about Peter Rabbit. Less conversation and more birch, I cry, ar at least get them to bed early.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms View World Future With Pessimism

WASHINGTON, May 10.—Russia’s refusal to cooperate either with the other great powers or with the United Nations in line with her commitments, is creating profound anxiety in international circles. ‘Soviet Ambassador Gromyko's boycott of the secur= ity gouncil in New York added to the gloom and reports from Paris predicting failure of the foreign ministers’ meeting there, did nothing to dissipate it. In accord with Winston Churchill, a vast majority

of United Nations envoys here agree that it is too.-

painfully clear that the time has come to face the ugly prospect of a world divided into hostile camps.

War Is More Than Possibility “WHAT HAPPENS,” asked Mr. Churchill, “if the United Nations themselves are sundered by an awful schism, a clash of ideologies and passions? What is to happen if the Unit#d Nations give place, as they may do, to a vast confrontation of two parts of the world and two irreconcilably opposed conceptions of human, society?” : ; No United Nations official with whom this writer has talked views any such development save with dread. That is why, from the partition of Poland on down through the whole long list of complete surrenders to Russia for the sake of appeasement, there has been remarkable patience, Most United Nations

‘officials have felt almost anything is preferable to a world given over to a balance of power which logically could end only in o

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gressive, more insistent than every on having her way, In as clear a case of treaty-volation (brought by Iran) as the United Nations is ever likely to be called upon to consider, Russia simply got up and statked out. Such charges could be brought against others but not against her. In Paris, Soviet demands in complete disregard of the Atlantic Charter principles which she signed at the White House on Jan. 1, 1942, have completely stalled the Big Four peace efforts, Such major agreements as have been reached came when Britain; France and the United States gave Russia what she wanted. Today the United Nations is approaching a momentous turning. It is rapidly nearing a showdown. ~The frightening but realistic vision ef Winston: Churchill, diplomats reluctantly admit, is more than a mere possibility. It is a probability unless world statesmanship—especially that of the Kremlin— quickly awakens to the danger and acts accordingly.

UN-May Have to Act Without Reds SOME FORESEE AN OCCASION when the rest of the United Nations may have to proceed with the peacemaking and peacesaving job with or without Russia, The Big Five have no mandate to monopolize the peace terms. The smaller powers which contributed of their blood and treasure in proportion to their size, have the same moral rights as the big ones. And the United States, it is felt, should be the first to

admit this and insist on an early general peace

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