Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1946 — Page 14

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mond, Pen RI-5551, Wn BEE Give Light end the People Will Find Their Own Woy MR. WHITNEY ... DEMOCRACY... AND LABOR LAW A 30% IANS ambitious old man tried to strong-arm the government of the United States . . . and failed. A cynical, arrogant, old man-tried to impose what he said was the will of his 200,000 followers on 140 million Americans . . . and failed. A tired, bewildered old man, who hasn't learned a thing from the experience, boasts now of the $47,000,000 he can spend as he chooses to drive out of office the President of the United States, who spoke for those 140 million Americans, the 306 representatives who voted for them.

He'll elect to office, with his millions, he mutters, men |

who believe in emocracy,

F THERE reémaited any lingering doubt after last week that we need sane, fair, permanent laws to curb the + power of such union bosses, A. F.. Whitney, president of

the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has pretty well dis-| ;

pelled it. Plainly, democracy doesn’t mean to Mr. Whitney what it means to the rest of us. To him, by his own words, it means that those who follow him—fewer than One in every |

Five Hundréd Thousand Americans—can’'t starve a nation |

into submission; that he, himself, can stand in the White House and dictate terms to the President of the United States. Yes... we have come a long way, that any American - dares to try it. John L. Lewis is leading another strike against the people of the United States, and against the government of the United States, with exactly the same tactics and exactly the same motives , . . and strikingly similar conceptions of democracy. It must be ended, too... and ended, not bought off, not dragged out by an insulting “truce,” not “settled” by a trick to save face for Lewis. Less than three weeks away is a scheduled strike of gix C. I. O. maritime unions, ‘dominated by pro-Communists _ and fellow travelers, designed to halt all world commerce. In no sense is this a labor dispute. It, too, is to be a strike against the government and the people of the United States .. . and the hungry peoples of the world . . . by which a few ruthless men hope to control American foreign policy. There are others ahead . . . more than 800 others on which notices of strike has been filed. No... the problem wasn't ended by President Truman last Saturday aftemoon,

IT WILL NOT Pe ended until congress nih, and the President signs, laws that protect all the people . . . the workers in the unions and the many times larger number

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your right fo say it."

"I do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death’ = Voltaire.

"Teacher Retirement Plan Is

Shock, Unfair to Old Teachers"

By Fairplay, Indianapolis - Many experienced, loyal teachers will benefit only a brief ten months by the salary increase granted last month if the present proposal to force compulsory retirement upon them at the age of 66 is carried out. The present pension plan is just and fair for younger teachers, but those faithful ones who have been caught in the mechanics of adjustment from the old to the new pension system will suffer, They are the teachers who are experienced people, meeting the needs of your children with expediency and understanding and sympathetically training them to face the

of workers outside the unions . . . and all the rest of the 140 million Americans equally, from measures like those ‘Whitney and Lewis and their ilk have used and are using. Remember that the executive council of the A. F. of L. has indorsed the tactics and the demands of Lewis in the mine strike. Remember that the president of the A. F. of L. has bitterly denounced as “fascism” the firm measures President Truman used to end the rail strike. Remember that not one word of opposition to the maritime unions’ international power politics has so far come from national officers of the C. 1. O.. The legislation before congress now is not anti-labor legislation—no matter how the little handful of men who pretend to speak for labor may protest. It is pro-labor legislation. It may, indeed, be the only way left to save unions of this country from complete destruction , . .

present day critical problems. They are the ones who have given their lives to create with Indianapolis the fine school system it now enjoys; they are the teachers who moulded the lives and character of the present: adult public; they are ethically professional and hold to high standards of teaching, from them younger teachers have drawn inspiration and gained understanding of human needs; they are the

suffer for selfishness. Let the selfish people keep what they have, for I'm sure no one wants it. The rest will share and be happy over it and when night comes we'll thank God for what we've got and can share with others. Doing unto others as we want others to do unto us. It is easier to teach a ones who without warning are now healthy mind and body than a told they have no alternative but sick one, retirement. : "8 8 For most of these older teachers “GIRLS WHO DRESS IN the transfer from the old pension| JEANS HAVE NO PRIDE” plan to the present one would ne-|p, g g yyweon, 527 Dorman st. cessitate a prohibitive payment t0| 1; regard to article written by make them eligible for this secur-|p; cox and David Barngrover, I ity. Some had so few remaining|,... this to say. years to teach when the new pen-| nu cox and Mr. Barngrover seem sion law came into being that they to think the so-called bobbysoxers,

destruction by the very men who have grown powerful through their control over great unions . . . and shamefully

did not make this large outlay, but rather calculated upon increased insurance or property investment for

with their jeans and flannel shirts (with tails out) are quite a fascinating sight. I disagree with them

misused that power. Bitter though the lesson may be to the Whitneys and * the Lewises they still must learn that the welfare of all the people must always come before the privilege of a few + + « that the government of the United States must always be greater than the ambitions of te mightiest of union bosses.

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(CONGRESS i is dealing with an emergency as grave, and a danger as great, as this nation has ever faced. It should enact now, without delay, the emergency measures ‘the President has asked to deal with this imminent crisis. Then it should calmly, and courageously, and thoughtfully, replace the hopeless hodge-podge of statutes and gourt decigions and bureaucratic rulings, that is our labor law today, with clear cut, long range labor laws under which all Americans, union or not, will be equal . . . and all Americans will be free.

PERON’S PEACE THREAT

adequate old age security. The retirement proposal came as such a shock, and with so little time to adjust, that it leaves many faced with the problem of how to pay for this well-planned security.” Many will be unable to complete payment

of these commitments. ” » »

“LITTLE CHILDREN MUST NOT BE MADE TO SUFFER”

By Mother of Three, Indianapolis I heartily disagree with P, O. Hagen. Have you ever heard a small child say “I'm hurigry,” and have no food to feed it. I'll say this, feed and clothe them and watch their education. Teach them of God.and kindness to others. I'm sure we'll have less wars. It is selfish people who will not willingly share what they have who cause wars. Little children should not

altogether. It is really sickening and an indecent thing to see. I'd like to know what this younger generation 4s coming to, with their discourteous ways and disheveled appearances. I might say that dhe bloomer girl at least looked like a girl and didn’t look so trashy. Nowadays you can’t tell to what sex they belong. Any girl who will lower herself to goon the streets dressed in jeans hasn't any self pride or sense of decency. And anyone who agrees with them is just as bad. ‘I have hothing to say against jitterbugging, except that it grieves me to see the younger generation make complete fools of themselves, Although you can hardly expect anything else from such ill-raised children. It shows a complete lack of self-respect and pride on the parents’ part.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

THE Fascist drive in South America under the Argentine

dictatorship is alarming. vik

Peron is moving forward on two fronts. He is completing enslavement of his own country. At the same time, * he is trying to bring the whole of lower South America | into a bloc aimed directly against the inter-American | democratic system and the United States.

: In Argentina, the dictatorship recently took over con- |

trol of the universities. It is the same pattern made infamous by Hitler and Mussolini. This is typical of other ‘governmental invasions of Argentine liberties. +. In neighboring countries, Peron is using penetration perfected by Hitler. He has-a working alliance the reactionary regimes of Paraguay and Bolivia, ow h amounts to control in foreign affairs. Uruguay, the et democratic and internationally-minded country in y : , region, is barely holding out against Peron’s economic plitical pressures. He is taking advantage of internal within Chile, where he has the support of a miliclique, He is talking of a customs union with h would extend his power to ne Pacifie,

y neglecting his world fences, ‘While working lh Fascist Spain, he also is flirting with

nd easy zoton. Action by the obtained membership d be the most effective

y want: something for big-game hunting, i dont mean eplorer’s outfit” :

“GIVE YOUNG SOLDIERS DEFINITE TIME TO SERVE” By Mrs. W. L. H, W. 58th st. I would like to add my sentiments to those of T. L. H. of Linton and Mrs. C. C. of Columbus in regards to the teenagers in service. I am the mother of a 19-year-old boy now in Germany, who was drafted into the army at the age of 18 just three weeks after graduating from high school. If these boys were old enough to go there and the war still on, why all the fuss about them going now? Let them take their furn and by so doing no one will have to spend too long in the army. Many boys were in combat while still in their teens. If it was all right to take them at 18 and put them in the front lines surely they are old enough for the army of occupation. However if our congressmen feel that they are too young to go, and see fit to stop drafting them, then let's be fair to the ones who are already in and release them, for they are all a bunch of homesick youngsters and wanting to bé home with their parents and continuing their educations. Come on parents of our 18 and 19-year-old men, let's insist upon their release. I say let's keep politics out of the safety of our nation, but if votes count from one group they do from another, and we belong to the ones who are not getting a fair deal if they do not draft enoug n and bays into the army so ng onégwill have to serve longer than a year or 18 months at the most. And by all means give them a definite time to serve. » # s “DON'T AGREE WE CAN LET CHILDREN STARVE” By R. A. L.,, Winthrop ave, Long before the publishing of my feeble protest I imagine ¥. O. Hagen will be hanging his head. in shame. Surely those closer to this man have by this time informed him in no uncertain terms the natural revulsion of a real American to his formula of hate and cruelty in dealing with the conquered people. ” In the first place I could find nothing in the life of Genghis Khan to be admired or patterned. His only claims to greatness were his cruelty and his ability to conquer through his ruthlessness, neither of which Americans aspire to. We like to think that we have come a long way along the path of civilization since the time of this man, Our government was backed by such men as Lincoln, who said that all men are created equal and our courts say that all are innocent until proven guilty, How then can you dare say we would rather starve flve innocent people than risk feeding one Nazi. We have our church teachings, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” and “Suffer, little children to come unto me,” etc. How then do you dare say “let his children starve and their bodies swell from. disease.” I too have children I hope to protect from another war, We would be glad to see a draft bill passed, for as long as 10 or 15 years, long enough 1p” teach the conquered people the good of the American people and our ideals of living at peace with our neighbors and raising our children to follow the path of research for betterment of civilization rather than destruction. We would much prefer seeing our son serve 18 months occupation duty now than him or his children fight a war later,

DAILY THOUGHT

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is" proud, and abase him.—Job 40:11, . 4

THEY are Proud in humility, proud “in that Wey, are not proud.

~Burton.

' most forward-looking programs in

‘| share the magnificence of my accomplishment.

IT'S OUR BUSINESS to realize that one “of the dianapolis today is that of Flannef House, heart of the Negro com-

, munity of ‘40,000 persons: living within a 10-block | radius.

I visited this vital institution at 333 W. 16th st., at an open house Sunday . . . first time I had seen the new home into which it moved two years ago. The structures built co-operatively of old brick from an - abandoned ' tire factory house a variety of projects ~which benefit directly almost all of the 60,000 Negroes living in this city. Certainly, they benefit the community as a whole, directly.

Forerunner of Better Housing? ” PERHAPS THE CLEANLY Ol of Flanner House really will be the inspiration for creation of a housing project, to cover an area bounded by 10th and 16th sts. and by West st. and Fall Creek, which both Negro and white civic leaders envisage as replacing the poor housing in which part of the area of Negro population is centered. The eyes of its director, Cleo W. Blackburn, are on the future as well as on present needs, as are those of the staff of 42 persons, They realize that improving housing and health, co-operating with industry and other employers to place Negroes in Jobs, caring for children of working mothers and providing recreation facilities are highly important. But these . . , essential as they are . . . are but a part of the larger problem of doing for their race today what Booker T. Washington did for it in his work. The Negro need as it develops now is to integrate the Negro into the industrial scheme of today, as compared with Washington's task when the

IT'S-OUR BUSINESS . . . Dona D. Hoover Flanner House Alert to Negro Nee! |

emphasis was on the agrarian phase of the cot] development. As Negroes become greater in n in the cities, and decrease in numbers in the ag tural areas, new problems will develop . .. and to these new problems that Manner House is id Three thousand men and womert of both

visited Flanner House Sunday . . . among thet, |

countless volunteers who assist in its day-by-day and the few who grasp the broader implicat their effort. They learned that in a normal 4700 persons will be placed in jobs. . . that 4 tend its group work classes , . . that a toy libr operated for children whose parents cannot aff buy them toys . . , that hundreds of children fing play facilities there. . "In the 48 years of its existence, Flanner Hou built a deep loyalty among Negro and white of of Indianapolis . . . but there still isn’t enough n there aren't enough workers, to more than m. dent in the continuing problems posed.

A Living, Challenging Problem ANT OF THREE GENERATIO! preachers, one of them a slave, Butler-educate Blackburn pitched in with a vengeance wh turned down an offer as archivist and catalog the paper of Booker T. Washington to take ov present job here. That opportunity, dear t Negro scholar, came when he was on the tee staff at Tuskegee Institute, The living problem here was more of a chal So he took it. To visit Flanner House and to learn of it prc is to admire its mission, 43 cue denver said, see it, you'll be for it.”

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Having Home Just Like New Twi

NEW YORK, May 28.—After nearly four years of vagabondage, I have found a place to live, which Just goes to show the power of prayer and clean living. And it is really a tremendous emotional experience—

one which cannot be fully appreciated by people who have been firmly planted among their household

Roughly, I feel like the father of twins. I wish to buttonhole everybody I see, friend or stranger, and Let other people brag about their beautiful sweethearts,

{ their talented children, their war-earned riches. You

ought to see that gleaming icebox which will be mine, all mine, after June 3.

Glamorous Home

HAVING A PERMANENT ROOF never seemed important before the war. And barging around, living out of a handbag is picturesque for a spell. But eventually you begin to hate the sight of a suitease, the symbol of impermanence. % During the .war, F lived on ships and in tents and in barracks. I lived in other people’s houses, shorttime apartments, hotels, furnished rooms, auto courts. There was a brief stay in a Mississippi hotel full of bootleggers, gamblers and ladies with bright pink hair. I served a stretch in a California fleabag which seemed to be frequented exclusively by bearded wrestlers and hostesses from the dancehall across the street. I have been bitten by bedbugs in Italy, fleas in Africa, spiders on Guam, and by landlords all over. I have slept on cots in the pouring rain, on a canopied bed in New Orleans, in a foxhole or two, and 40foot square boudoir of an unhorsed Fascist politico in Bari, Italy. The politico's bedbugs were most voracious, but as compensation there was a balcony from which I could have addressed the populace, if the populace had shown any interest in the proposition. Lizards, spiders, landcrabs and leeches have shared my couch. I have washed out of helmets, rivers,

WORLD AFFAIRS .

oceans, outdoor showers, buckets and not at have eaten in military messes, restaurants, cans, in airplanes, on ships, on trains and on the back of a camel. There are probably mor restaurants in New York today than anywhere 1 the world, but I am nearly as sick of them as™ of spam when I was a guest of the marines. § we ate spam ala mode, which was one plece oi] with another piece of spam on top. This craving for the hearth applies not only | but to my wife, who has been among the home. | only a few months. Eventually, to a woman estra from domestic necessities, a kitchen and icebo come more desirable than a mink coat, | Closet space is more glamorous than an oper: § A place to sit and a place to eat, a place to coo] a place to sleep, not jumbled together in one | achieve more solid importance than a divan in ti restaurant and a suite in the best hotel. I walk around now in a kind of daze, m a happy litany. Soon, I say, I can put beer :} icebox and when I need ice for a highball I have to call room service. I don’t have to plc keep from being pitched out of a hotel at th. of five days.

Have You Seen the Pictures? I GOT A FIREPLACE. I'm going to eat dining room table, and when I finish my cc won't have to call for a check. When I get sle will walk up a flight of stairs to find my sack. sack, by the way, is going to be seven feet squa

I get hungry at 2 a. m. I will walk back down 23

stairs and in the pantry will be enough as delicatessen to keep me awake the rest of the I don’t care about getting a new car or a tele set. I have a mailbox with my name on it, a finished with forwarding addresses. When I | again, I still have a place to come back to, : strangers won't have lived in it in the at} I am a lucky guy, a very lucky guy, and properly appreciative. Would anybody like to snapshot of the kitchen?

. By George Weller

Marshall Gelling Results in Chil

SHANGHAI, May 28.—With Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek returning yesterday to Nanking from Manchuria, Gen. George C. Marshall is preparing for the second phase of his effort to unite China and recover its divided territories. Meantime, the nationalist armies are speeding north and east from Manchuria’s capital of Changchun, hourly regathering miles of railroad fronr the Communist “shadow army,” which seems at the moment virtually nonexistent.

May Have Had Hand

QUARTERS CLOSE TO MARSHALL say that the Americans’ untalkative broker of peace is aware of the conditions which made the Communists suddenly fold up their iron line and yield central Manchuria to central government troops. It is strongly hinted that Gen, Marshall was himself responsible for the showdown, which has reversed the Soviet union’s policy in concealing Communist Generalissimo Lim Piao’s shadow army in Manchuria during the six-month occupation. But how Marshall accomplished this puzzling maneuver still mystifies

‘the most sophisticated observers.

Since the bait of an American loan was partly responsible for leading the Kuomintang and Communist parties the few steps toward democracy, taken during the winter, it is hinted that Marshall may once again have indicated that the Communists, by breaking the peace, were killing the national goose. Other quarters believe that the general has also undertaken a kind of middleman’s guarantee that China's first appointed government will be of a coalition nature, with Communists in several key posts,

TODAY IN EUROPE . .

PARIS, May 28.—There's no truth in rumors

"that Gen. Charles de Gaulle is being kept under

some form of restraint, or at least surveillance, by the French government. His demonstrative though mysterious pilgrimage to the tomb of Clemenceau was proof of his liberty of movement. This has beenconfirmed once more by his journey to Switzerland to attend the wedding of his niece. Many French people genuinely think De Gaulle is under some form of restraint. I have taken the trouble to trace these rumors to their source. The story behind them seems worth telling, for it gives an interesting insight into De Gaulle’s character.

Spread of Prisoner Rumor SOME MONTHS AGO, a famous firm of ‘Swiss watch-makers decided to present De Gaulle with the best specimen of their work. They sent two of their most skilled workmen, who had taken part in the design and construction of the watth, to present it in person. The two Swiss learned that he was living inl the forest of Marly, 15 miles outside the city. With some difficulty, they chartered a taxi and drove out to the hunting lodge which the government has placed at De Gaulle’s disposal. Some 400 yards from the house, they e stopped by police who asked for their papers an quired as to their business. ‘After they "had explained, the police telephoned to the house. While the Swiss were waiting they examined the wire fence with which. the property is surrounded and noted the number of guards. After about 15 minutes, one of De Gaulle’s aides walked down from the house. The aide took the watch and, asking them to wait, returned to the house. Then he reappeared, thanked them for. the gift, and explained Gen, de Gaulle never received visitors and hoped they would understand: The Swiss, unaware of how characiristc of De

. By Randolph Churchill

De Gaulle’s Hat in Political Rif

.& “mystique” and legend about himself.

But except by remote indirection and com} off the record, Gen. Marshall is simply not dis the secret of his reputed one-man peace offe The Communists are undergoing a test o justly-reputed discipline in keeping silent abou deal lies behind Manchuria's recovery. Since Communists have planned, and several hundre died, to gain advantages in Manchuria which a’ being voluntarily written off, there are marke givings in Communist quarters about this s retreat. Unless a substantial] Communist price has gained for surrendering control of central Man it is not going to be easy for the Communists’ re “northeast bureau”—now once more nomadic w wireless apparatus and war charts—to explain fur-capped 8th route army “balus” why bes modern Changchun was handed over without a

China Still Not United

IT 1S PRESUMED THAT Lim Piao’s forces | be strung out in eastern Manchuria from the. port of Antung, near Soviet-held Korea, throu} Communists’ old secret capitals at Tunghwa, H and Meihokou to Kirin and thence northward ! Harbin-Vladivostok railroad line. Chinese press reports that the Communi now massed around Tsitsihar, in northwest churia, are considered to refer to local forces. Communist effort is seen as centering in reasse: troops in southern Manchuria and the Sha peninsula, thus reserving the possibility of spl? China in two again by taking Peiping and Tier after the United States marines are withdraw this Chinese Mason and Dixon line.

prisoner. The story inevitably got about and = neard it concluded that this was the only expla:

Gaulle the episode was, concluded he was virt |

The truth, of course, is very different. The many people who would like to assassinate De The French government feels a deep responsibi protecting him and know they would be s criticized if they did not take proper precautio In addition, the authorities, in common wi French people, feel deep respect for the ma was first to raise his voice and summon the I people to resistance against the German oc The French way of showing respect for citizens is like that so prevalent in America~—t round then with bodyguards. One cannot imagine an English or Am politician behaving in so ungracious a fashio from De Gaulle’s point of view, he is quite Though the French in general have very goo ners, they have a curious respect for any on has a “mauvais caractere.” They think it ticularly in keeping with the role of a “grand And that is the role for which” De Gaulle ha: cast himself,

Trying to Create a Legend THERE'S NO' DOUBT that he's trying to of His trip to Clemenceau's tomb was brilliantly de by one French journalist as “leaving his visiti on destiny” The French people, without do appreciative of such gestures. All observer: that De- Gaulle is far more popular today t! was when he resigned in January, His hat is definitely in the ring. How | will remain there depends on the course of politics and the speed of French economic’ But so long as it's there,«it casts a lengthentng} vver the whole politiont stage,

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