Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1946 — Page 4

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month. er RI-5851." Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way “WELFARE OF COUNTRY COMES FIRST” THE American people can be proud of their President " and of what he told the nation about the railroad strike. And he made it stick. ‘ - Mr. Truman cleared away all doubt of where he stands when government is challenged by a group. His decisive stand brought quick action Saturday afternoon from Messrs. Whitney and Johnson, and from the congress. “The welfare of the country must come first,” he said. And he was right. The vast majority of his fellow citizens will support him loyally. He told the nation plainly how two men—heads of two great railway unions—undertook to place their will above the welfare of the country; how they rejected his fair proposal for séttlement of the strike; how they ignored his warnings of the tragedy they might cause. We share his doubt that the rank and file among the | quarter million engineers and trainmen can have known what fearful consequences their strike could mean, what suffering and peril it could bring upon all the millions here and millions more abroad. » ~ » applaud his determination, Mr. Truman, himself, has now recognized the need for permanent legislation. He has proposed a six-months’ study of the subject by a special committee of congress. That study should be made. Its findings can be valuable in making any law then on the books a better, more comprehensive instrument of long-range national policy. But when the senate’s present bjll reaches the President's desk, we hope he will analyze it thoroughly. We think he will find it good. We think he will find that the dangers represented to be in it simply are not there. We trust he will sign it into law, so that not for six months and not for one unnecessary day may the country be left with no safeguards against abuse of labor's power except the drastic emergency authority which he has asked. Mr. Truman has been called weak, vacillating, indecisive. There was nothing weak or vacillating or indecisive in his concern for our country. Now congress must act.

WHERE PEPPER STANDS

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sun on gold-turned sycamores, and

the cool bright air—a very benediction of peace and security to me, and to other mothers that morn-

YF you would understand why in this crisis Pepper of Florida leads the filibuster against corrective labor legislation, read what he tells the senate. _ “Conditions in America are changing. For the first time, labor has not only become articulate, but powerful in America. Labor not only has the money, but it has the votes. If it raises only a dollar per member it can raise several million dollars and match many of the masters of money who have been accustomed to’ buy elections from the people.” Where he sees the campaign funds and votes, there stands Pepper though America fall.

JOINT DEFENSE IN NORTH FAILURE of the Paris conference, and increasing world tension from Europe and the Middle East to Manchuria, underscore our defense needs. Congress must stop playing politics with preparedness, extend the draft and provide for unification of the armed services. Negotiations with Britain and the Pacific dominions over bases should be concluded promptly. President Truman’s proposal for an interAmerican military co-operation act, to put teeth in the Chapultepec agreement, should be speeded.

In addition, nothing is more important in our foreign military relations than continued development of the United States-Canadian joint defense system, started in 1940, It is not a formal military alliance—it did not force us to go to war to help Canada. It does not interfere with our commitments to Latin America or Canada’s relations with Britain, or with either’s obligations to the United Nations. Its sole purpose is to strengthen the defense of the upper part of the North American continent where the United States and Canada have an equal life-or-death stake.

It is now axiomatic that any major surprise attack on us would be by air. The only short air routes are from the north, the northeast and the northwest. Alaska, northern Canada and Iceland are the key spots. Adequate defense by either the United States or Canada is impossible without close co-operation. That integration should cover not only bases, but also weather stations, Arctic equipment, intelligence, joint planning and the whole range of security for the common northern frontier.

. No peaceful nation fears or need fear attack by these two democracies. Any aggressor will be less tempted to

attack these democracies if their Arctic barrier is strong. We dare not be weak in the north.

POTPOURRI IT takes all kinds of people— A Georgia carpenter, when told. he ~lmost but not uite inherited $145,000, said he wouldn’t have quit building ~~ ‘houses anyhow because houses are sorely needed. The : Metropolitan Museum of Art announces plans to establish . yunways so wheelchair cases may visit every nook and cranny. You now may take four ounces of vitamin B orange or grapefruit juice in small, tasty tablets’ A Philadelphia man has completed a 45-foot boat in yard and can’t get it out, Florists turn white as their " 88 at a suggestion that bereaved friends no ‘longer owers but contribute to the Memorial Medical fund bh. A New York father had to call the cops the to quiet his son, 45. dentist promises that nationalized medicine ill Pestrict his profes‘A pajama-clad r near Philadelphia berth, not in the aisle.

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ing, whose lives were similarly in horrible confusion. With almost unendurable awareness of the blessedness of the democracy that provided such a way of life in the midst of such turmoil, every fiber of my consciousness formed an unspoken dedication to my beloved country. With the strike chaos, I feel a sense of desecration of that moment. A small group of men unworthy .to receive the benefits of

such a democracy, have shamed us before the world—a world about to ‘accept us as their leader. They have made us the laughing stock

‘lof our enemies and betrayed us

before our admirers, the péople of the little countries who are in such desperate need of. our leadership. Such depredation -of ideals of freedom may not appear in the statutes of treasonable acts. But is desecration worse than treason? It is desecration of the hopes and ideals of those young men who gave their lives for the very country that this small group of traitors has held up before the world in shame, - » » “CITY COUNCIL DESERVES PRAISE FOR METER STAND”

By Earl B. Teckemeyer, 130 N. Delaware st, }

Our city council is to be complimented on again refusing to give in to the parking meter advocates. Our’ council must know the facts. For example, they know that: 1. All discussion up to now has been about type of meter rather than desire or need for any meter; 2. Parking meters will not create even one more space; 3. Our board of safety continues, day by day, to designate more and more space as no-parking areas. Soon most of our downtown area will be a no-

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"A Small Group of Traitors js =- Holding Us Before World in Shame"

By A Concerned Parent, Indianapolis My little girl's first day of school came during the first year that her daddy was in the service. It was September of 1942. The world was torn to bits; the allies were being given a bitter beating. - My own world was a holocaust, without direction or meaning—except to provide a semblance of security for my seven-year-old. - We started out together to deliver her to the first grade teacher, on my way to work. ‘That was a morning of midwestern gold, autumnal

as my little girl's golden pig tails

danced down the walk before me the school bell came peeling across

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Iran reports regarding relations with Russia should be accepted at save-face value, » ~ - . Headline: “Wars Are Second Nature to China.” Maybe because men live there, » » » Underground movements in some countries are putting opponents there for keeps. » » » Adm. King is a man unlikely to be disappointed in the post-war world. He wants a “militant peace.”

parking sone. Where will they put the meters?; 4.” In Cleveland and Cincinnati, traffic experts decided to remove all parking from congested areas, and we should try that before clogging sidewalks with meters; 5. Parking lots and offstreet parking is the real answer, regardless of oost; 6, Parking meters create more of a hazard from double parking than any other thing, because prospective parkers see the meter with the warning sign exposed and “loaf” around, double parking, waiting for the occupant to remove his car; 7. If expense to police, repair, wind and collect from meters is charged against income, net revenue is so slight as to be unworthy of mention. . The council must know all of this, and more, and for that reason, despite the hue and cry of proponents, have steadfastly refused to order them installed. The socalled average man, the little fellow in this city does not want them. The council represents that fellow, thank goodness, and through them he is able to speak and make himself felt, Our problem is to move

Side Glances—By Galbraith

traffic, not park it.

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“CIGARET-SMOKING KIDS NEED A GOOD SPANKING” By Old Grouch, Indianapolis Guess I'm just getting to be an old fogey. Anyway, it goes against the grain to see these young high school girls sitting in automobiles outside Shortridge smoking cigarets. I'm not against women smoking. Don't get me wrong. But these kids look about 13, 14 or 15. And for my book, that's pretty young to become too friendly with Lady Nicotine. I used to sneak out behind the barn and smoke cigarets made of leaves. Father caught me one day. I “swore off.” Maybe those kids need the same kind of treatment, a good oldfashioned paddling. It hurt more than my dignity, too. » = -

“I DON'T AGREE WITH CABBIE'S FARE STORY” By Mrs. C. D. Kershner, Indianapolis I have just finished reading the letter by a cabbie about cab fares,

and I don't agree with him on any point. Why do they say that three can ride as cheap as one if they make each passenger pay what the meter reads and then continue to let it run. I live at 3Tth and Pennsylvania and a few weeks ago I returned home from a trip on a Saturday at 5 p. m. I had no other choice than to come home by cab, The first two went to 16th and Delaware; they paid 45c. The meter was not turned back and of course by the time we got to my home it read $1.05 which I had to pay. Several times my, husband takes a cab to Union station and the fare is always 85c, but when my stepdaughter and I went the same route the fare was 95c. I think the drivers think they can make more off of women for most of us are too timid to complain, The cabbie says the meter could not read 80c or $1.00. But how does he account for. the $1.03 or $1.11. The way I figure, if the meter reads 25c to start and jumps 10c each time it doesn't add up to odd numbers. On the three passengers he just made the first two fares extra for the whole trip to 52d and College was only $1.35. So he really collected $3.23 for a $1.35 trip. I have quit riding the lousy things. How about. some others doing the same? ~ » » “WOMEN SHOULD PAY OWN DIVORCE ATTORNEY FEES” By H. K., Indianapolis The women have always asked for --and got—equal rights. Right to vote, right to hang around taverns, right to make as much money as a man, which is all right, but when it comes to some things, it is time for the men to ask for equal rights. Divorce courts, for instance. If a woman wants a divorce, the man has to pay her attorney fee, whether he wants divorce or not. . On the other hand, if man wants divorce and wife doesn't and fights it, he not only has his own attorney to pay, but hers, too. In other words, you pay her attorney to fight you. There is absolutely nothing fair about that, In this world of equal rights for women, they should have to pay their own attorneys in either case. They get all the money you make anyway and everything else. Everything should be split 50-50 and each pay his own attorney. It's all too one-sided. » » » “NEW DEAL DEMOCRATS PLANNED IT THIS WAY!” By Mrs. G. W., Indianapolis Now that nothing can move but

* §|the Japanese smallpox, I would like

to remind the Roosevelt Democrats that they “planned {it‘that way.”

| |T'll sign this “The Elephant"—why,

should he ever forget?

DAILY THOUGHT

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.—Psalms 119:163. -

FOR truth is precious and divine;

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WASHINGTON, May 27. — Additional controls being imposed by. congress on labor evolve from a variety of motives and circumstances. One fact, however, stands. out—determination of the senate to curb the powers of labor. Hitherto nothing has been done. by the senate to revise or modify the Wagner act since it became law a decade ago and was hailed as “the Magha Carta” of ‘labor. The only senate action on basic labor legislation was to approve the Connally-Smith act, a wartime measure to give the President more power in industrial disputes that threatened war production.

New Deal Killed Revisions

THE SENATE BLOCKADE against basic labor law revision was in its labor committee, controlled by New Dealers. It let recurrent measures passed by the house linger and die without reporting them. The senate’s changed attitude must reflect concern among the people. That is the only way it can’be interpreted. This is understandable when the nation is suddenly paralyzed by strikes in two of its fundamental industries, coal and railroads. It is unfortunate that these two strikes came together, unfortunate for millions of workers. For that opened the oppoftunity for those in congress who warited to seize this postwar era for crippling labor to move in on the wave of aroused public opinion. People do not like to see the mechanics of our civilization slowed down and stopped. That is human. Furthermore, they do not like to see their government virtually powerless. Their natural reaction is against those who operate these facilities, the workers, or at least the leaders of the workers—though the unions

| In these two situations have good cases. The workers

are like the rest of Americans. They are trying to get a little more in ‘the pocketbook to meet. the increased cost of living to their families. Their weapon is the strike. And don’t believe it is easy to come around to use it. For it means hardships. What they won in the Wagner act took a long, hard struggle. The odds were against them for so long... Their new-found power has been abused in,

Sn By Thomas L. Stokes

Sonne cases, and often they have been misled by thelr eaders. Now .they are paying the pri Ie paying price for these The. senate situation may be explained simply. Broadly, the senate is divided into three groups. There are the strict conservatives ‘Who long have been itching for just such an opportunity to restrict labor. Among them are southerners who are disturbed by

the C. I. O, organizing campaign in the south and |

its eventual political effects. There are, on the other extreme, the staunch champions of labor who have resisted any change whatever and refused to recognize abuses of power by labor. Then, between, are the moderates. What has happened is that the conservative anti-labor element and the moderates are Joined now in common cause tough nak for the same reasons. Rok nfortunate thing for labor in this whole situ Is that it gets wholly negative treatment from pi gress. While congress regulates labor, at the same time it shows little inclination to go forward with a number of long-pending measures to improve the general welfare of labor, or to resist new encroachments by monopolistic enterprises which meanwhile have been entrenching themselves while attention 1s diverted. These last are costly to labor as consumers, Congress fails to do the whole job.

Fact-Finding Machinery Needed

THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MACHINE is so delicately intertwined now, with opportunity to stall it by pulling out one segment, that it is necessary to find some means to handle strikes in the public service industries and those which affect public welfare. This should be coupled, certainly, with fact-finding machinery as advocated by President Truman, For,

when public utilities are stopped by strikes, the public Is inclined, without thinking, to blame the workers.

That gives the owners a psychological advantage, |

What is needed is some means to bring out the facts, particularly the fact of wages and working conditions. Some of these workers have been underpaid. That is a primary priciple,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson Negroes Will Run Virgin Islands

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands, May 27.—

‘Hopes soar here these days in the land Herbert Hoo-

ver called “America’s Poorhouse.” For the first time, the 26,000 inhabitants of the Virgin Islands—90 per cent of whom are colored—have a Negro governor. He is Judge William H. Hastie, inaugurated to the office on the bandstand of Emancipation park in the presence of Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug. In the parade of automobiles through the narrow streets of this old ‘Danish town, at the cocktail party reception for 500 or more of the islands’ leading citizens in Government House, at the banquet that night in Bluebeard’s Castle overlooking the harbor, in demonstrations next day on St. Croix island—nobody looked much at Secretary Krug. All eyes were on the new Governor Hastie. What they saw was a lean sixfooter of 42. He had been honor man at Harvard Law School, dean of Howard University Law School, wartime adviser to Secretary Stimson on race relations, and first Negro to be named a federal judge, serving on the bench from 1937 to 1939 here at Charlotte Amalie.

Governor Took Local Bride « “HERE HE HAD MARRIED Beryl! Halliday, reigning beauty and daughter of one of the capital's first families, So this was a homecoming for a native son-in-law. Everybody turned out to celebrate, in a day that made Virgin islands history and whoopee. It may be hard to tell about these things without arousing a lot of senseless prejudices, though that shouldn't be. This is an experiment in government so interesting that it should be watched from the U. S. mainland. Everything about these islands should be better known to Americans: Their tropical charm; their possibilities as a vacation ‘spot; the fact that a growing number of Americans, retired on pension, have chosen this as the place they make their homes during their last days. American government of the. islands—under the navy from 1917 to 1931, under the interior department

since—has been nothing to brag about. If the islands haven't exactly been kicked around,-they have been unduly neglected and exploited. All these simple, kindly people want now is just a little better understanding in Washington, just a little bit better standard of living, just a half-way decent break in their struggle for existence. The Virgin islands has a peculiar social set-up, anyway, with many of the natives being extremely jealous of any recognition of their fellows. And some of them in the past have been reluctant to accept responsibility. They never have had a genuine voice in government, and the new scheme of things has all of the potential of a new deal for them. That's where Governor Hastie comes in. All the native people look to him to pass a miracle and establish the millennjum, quick. For that reason, troubles Governor Hastie wiil encounter will come more from his own people, who expect too much and are probably doomed to disappointment, than from the whites, who expect too little.

Experiment in Government GOVERNOR HASTIE has a few whites at the top to help him. Morris De Castro, who is government secretary, is one. Another is Walter Taylor, commissioner of St. Croix for years. A third is Roy Gordon, president of the council, who came back to the islands in 1938 to form the Progressive Guide, the islands’ one political party, which controls the native vote and runs the reform movement calling for lower electric rates, sewers, better water supply, more sanitation and health, price and rent control, and a mini= mum wage of 20 cents an hour. It is such a little government, but, oh, so important to the natives, who place such pathetic faith in it. If the United States can't, give these tiny isles a decent local, native democracy, what hope is there for the other islands, both in the Atlantic and the Pacific, which the army and navy want for bases? That is the larger importance of the Virgin islands experiment,

WORLD AFFAIRS . + « By William H. Newton Homeless Jewish Refugees in China

SHANGHAI, May 27.—Desperate pleas for ships to carry 15,000 European refugees out of China came today following an outbreak of a vicious anti-Semitic campaign against men, women and children who fled to Shanghai to escape Hitler's death camps. While the campaign, which some observers believe was inspired by Nazis who remain at large in Shanghai, promptly was smashed by the police here, officials expressed fears for safety of the refugees unless they can be evacuated from Shanghal within the next few months.

Housing Shortage Is Factor BACK OF THE CAMPAIGN is the acute housing shortage here which now is so severe that unless ships can be found, many. of the refugees soon will be driven from their miserable tenements and concentration -camps into the streets. During the war hundreds of thousands of Chinese left Shanghai for the interior. Now they are returning and because of heavy bomb damage in some sections there are no homes for them. In addition, the Japanese evicted hundreds of Chinese from tenements in the Hongkew area and segregated the Jewish refugees there. The resultant explosive situation is made to order for Fascist-minded propagandists. Chinese demonstrators recently marched on- refugee dwellings in one section of Hongchew demanding that the foreigners be ousted. They posted antiSemitic slogans and placards on the walls. “German and Austrian Jews are loyal assistants of the Japs! They are poisonous to all human be-

ings,” read one poster. Others said, “The stateless Jews who have infringed our national rights on our territory are our common enemies.” Another called upon all Chinese to “prosecute the Jewish robbers.” Charles H. Jordan, Far Eastern representative of the American Jewish joint distribution committee, spoke to the demonstrators and persuaded them to remove the placards. Prompt mobilization of the police quelled this disturbance. “Chinese government officials have been both understanding and friendly,” Mr. Jordan said today. “We have received complete co-operation from the municipal officials—based on the assumption that we are going to move these people out of China.” “Morale among the refugees today is at its lowest ebb. Most of them. have been separated from their families for seven to 10 years. Many have parents. or children who are living in America and are citizens. Others have close relatives in Australia and have received permission to enter that country.

Can't Get Transport “THE SITUATION HERE is growing more and more trying. But we are unable to obtain transportation for them.” : No question of funds is involved, he pointed out, since his committee has sufficient money—contributed in America for relief of these refugees—to pay transportation for all of them to another country. Mr. Jordan emphasized that the basis on which Chinese officials are co-operating is that all refugees will be removed from China as soon as possible,

IN EUROPE TODAY . . .By Jack Bell ; Things Are Sure Screwy in Germany

FRANKFURT, May 27. — Here are some casual observations from Germany: The Russians have given a new twist to an old 'gag—two Germans, two British, two Americans and two Russians were ship-wrecked on a desert isle.

Contrast and Confusion

THE BRITISH TURNED their backs on each other because they hadn't been properly introduced, the german got into an argument and started to fight, the éricans opened a night club and the Russians patronized it, got drunk—and still are asleep. Bo goes the old story. = A German prisoner of war escaped from an Amerfcan camp. The American guard shot twice and missed. A few minutes later, a German cop came in, dragging the escaped man. A lleutenant, after getting instructions from the colonel relative to drilling and inspecting troops, was called back to headquarters for a new assignment. A month later he showed up again and with a grin sald, “Colonel, I'm here to inspect your training program and report on your methods.” The Goethe platz in Frankfurt is completely demolished, but strangely: enough bombs didn’t touch a huge statue of the mighty German poet and humanitarian. - 3

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When nabbed by M. P.s for some slight irregularity, they would say, “me Poleskl.” They got away with it for awhile. “Your guards at the border forced my driver, a Russian sergeant, to leave his pistol before he could come-in,” objected the Russian captain. “We never treat you fellows that way over there.” “Then why did your guards hold me four hours Thursday when my papers were in order?” retorted the American captain. They both grinned. . The poor guards go nuts trying to keep up with commands from on high, so end up by saying “No” to everybody. ? “We-had a truckload of White Russians, headed for the border to be turned over .to the Russians there,” sald the sergeant. “They had been fighting in the German army and it was like handling wild bulls to get 'em on the truck.”

Comedy and Tragedy “WE THOUGHT WE HAD searched them well, but someone got in with a razor blade hid somewhere. “Before we could stop the truck and get it, three of 'em had cut arteries. Bled to death before we got to the Russian zone. ~~ . “I want: no more jobs like that; whew!”

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