Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1946 — Page 14

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Give [Nght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MEMORIAL DAY srl E T° HONOR our Hoosier dead of the Mexican war, civil war, and Spanish-American war, we erected the monument which dominates downtown Indianapolis. To honor our Hoosier dead of world war I, the large plaza and memorial just north of the downtown area was created. The greatest honor we could pay today to those who lost their lives in world war II would be to rededicate ourselves to those fundamental principles on which America was built—to resolve that we again will make our nation strong, that it'may live up to the responsibilities of victory.

ARBITRARY POWER OM left and right and in between, President Truman «ig getting hell for asking “arbitrary power” to deal | with strikes against the government, : § Senator Pepper and Senator Taft, the Communist Daily Worker and the Wall Street Journal join in the chorus of | dentmciation. It is said that under the law he wants, Mr. Truman could seize all strike-bound industries,* confiscate all their profits, fix wages at 10 cents or $10 an hour, draft strikers and have them court-martialed and shot if they refused to work. Perhaps he could. It is unlikely he would go to such extremes, but saying that does not alter the fact that he seeks frightening power which would be dangerous in any hands, though not completely arbitrary. Persons injured by his acts still would haye the protection of court appeal, and congress could withdmaw the power. But it is fair to ask why Mr. Truman believes he needs such power. Here, we thirk, is the answer: Because totally arbitrary power to injure the whole nation terribly is being used by private citizens and groups, which accept no public responsibility and from whose acts there is no appeal to any court. i Ending a railroad or a coal strike, preventing a shipping strike, will not make safe this fearful power of labor and its leaders. So long as it is arbitrary it will be abused. Whitney,‘ Johnston, Lewis, Bridges, Curran—they may subside, for a while. But other arrogant men will undertake to have their way, no matter how they hurt the Go back another step, and see why this totally arbitrary power exists and is not safeguarded: The President who did most to make labor mighty did his utmost to prevent lagal regulation of labor’s might.

respensible for proper .use of power sided New Deal laws.

Roosevelt “manag were kept in line, it was by deals he made.

with the “liberals” and labor leaders now howling at Mr Truman, to whom their chickens have come home.

pening now.

of labor's arbitrary power and what it does to them. Inevitably they will decide it a lesser evil to give an elected Presi-

it to destroy labor's power and save the country.

. WELCOME, SPEEDWAY VISITORS WELCOME to Indianapolis, Speedway visitors.

our town is not so crowded.

CARTER GLASS

congress before he died.

United Press, Scripps-Howard News- |

One man—the President—was labor's government. Mr. ” the labor leaders. So far as they

~ In all this Mr. Roosevelt used arbitrary power, not granted by or even asked of congress. And that was fine

They would not see where one-man government of labor was taking workers and the country. They would not heed the warnings of those who believed in government by law, They would not stop inviting what is hap-

The American people will not tolerate continued abuse

dent arbitrary power and imsist that, if necessary, he use

This is our big day in the sports world, and a day of hospitality as well as traffic jams and crowded hotels. We hope you enjoy your stay here. Come again when

ARTER GLASS had become a legend in the halls of

He was so ill that he never attended a senate session in four years that elapsed since his last election. There

Hoosier

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

in an effort of world peace.

ing the last resting place of those rights, look upon President Truman sively that he

Mr. Roosevelt, abetted by “liberals” of the Pepper-Wallace- |, var oF PUYSCH Ickes stripe, blocked all attempts by congress to hold labor "STRIKES A SE SaPRIE" and to correct one- [By Edward ¥. Maddox, Indianapolis

1 wonder if the American people, congress and our President can face the plain truth about this wave of strikes in our nation? And I wonder if the editor of The Times will publish the truth in the Hoosier Forum? Well, here is the strike situation as I see it. This wave of strikes is part of * |a planned putsch against the capitalist system of private ownership and operation of industry. Both the national and international socialists are totalitarians and are scheming and striking to force government seizure and operation of the mines and railroads here in the U. 8, as they have in Russia and are in England. The gentlemen of the right—national socialists, and the gentlemen of the left—international socialists, have one common characteristic. They are rabid totalitarians, A large number of Americans have been bit by the same bug that bit and poisoned the minds of Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini—the to-| talitarian bug. Yes, the totalitarians are using strikes to force this nation into state socialism — nationalization of industry, agriculture, transportation. They wish to discard the American way of life and adopt the regimentation of Hitler and Stalin, The authoritarians are using the strike to force their alien political and economic poison down the throats of the American people.

"President Sacrificed Political

Future on Altar of Americanism"

By C. E. Boling, Greenfield . On Saturday our President made a complete sacrifice of his future to preserve the rights of our people. America worthy of every eye now upon us looking for sound guidance

Every dad and mother, whose son or sons who died to preserve our American

holds the rights of the people above himself. 1 speak as a father of a son who made the sacrifice.

At the same time he made

lie in foreign fields mark-

as a man who has proven conclu-

o ”. g “USING NAZI WITNESSES AGAINST BAUER UNFAIR” By a» Constant Reader, Indianapolis Now that the government has so

neatly put Frederick Bauer away to the satisfaction of some of our higher politicians, I hope they will go a step further and -find against all the men who joined to fight for Prance, Spain and other countries, and take away their citizenship also. Of course they will say that they were not enemies. But neither was Germany, at least they tried to make us believe they weren't up until the first shot was fired.

Of all the sneaking things I ever heard of being done, and of all the un-American ways of doing things, bringing to this country three Nazi higher-ups, and an ex-wife of the man to testify against him, Where did all this money come from? Who put it up, surely the taxpayers were not interested enough to want to see their taxes go for this “junk from a bunch of junkers that they brought over here fully two months before the trial and kept in hotels at a cost of $7 a day each. Surely they don’t want us taxpayers to pay out this much money for testimony from a bunch of people that we have said their word is no good, and a woman, who was so incensed that her testimony could not have been anything but biased. Our minds were not so embittered toward this little ex-G. 1. as everybody understood that his conduct in the army

These strikes are part of a

planned revolution to crush private!a good conduct medal which the

was good; in fact, he was awarded

| AND NAZIS; WHAT NEXT?”

are other senators elected for the same term and serving |

ownership and operation of Amer-|F. B. I. confiscated at his home. I |ican industry.” The totalitarians| cannot help but think that these {control organized labor and are Nazis were bitter toward him, and

“WE POLISHED OFF JAPS

By C. 8. Hendricks, 2033 S. East st. Americans, why cut off® your noses to spite your faces? Looks like the work only a moron would perform upon himself. We who can did supply the entire world with food, munitions and whatnot, apparently cannot use this enormous productive capacity to give ourselves the things we need and want. We made parachutes by thousands yet can't, for some reason, make hosiery. Plenty of tanks, jeeps and victory ships were made, but there are no refrigerators except for display models and special prizes. We saw Hitler, Mussolini and the Japs get polished off, yet we're not big enough to give a shellacking to a couple of guys who say.“no trains” and another guy who says “no coal even if you other guys let the trains run.” Can't Uncle Sammy work out something, especially if he can work out atomic bomb problems? I believe he could if we all will let him know that we want what we want now and not at some distant day when we'll be past enjoying anything. C'mon Sammy. You won the peace for the world. Now let's see you unsnarl this biggest national trafic jam we have ever seen. ” » » ! “MY PRAYERS WITH WIDOW TRYING TO KEEP DAUGHTER” By “Adopted” Parent, Indianapolis | Your paper carried ‘a picture Monday of a San Jose, Cal., mother" and her adopted daughter. The basis of the picture was that her husband had died before expiration of a one-year trial period that had to precede legal adoption. The law wants to take this baby daughter away from her mother, because it says it won't have a father’s love.

the tiny baby girl, I believe that is a horrible injustice to her, and to a child that subconsciously is learning security and loving care. Of course father love is very important, but this young mother’s heart shouldn't be broken by robbing her

where this is a serious and sad day of memories . . .

If the mother is able to support | lag.

IT'S OUR BUSINESS, on this day dedicated to the memory of the 300,000 Americans who lost their lives in this war and the 126,000 dead of world war 1 and the victims of other conflicts, to query whether our “country is not forgetting the ideals for which men died. } 3 Victory is not without responsibility , . attain it and then forget. , Only one year and five days ago, 800 B-20s were dropping the bombs that destroyed one-third of Tokyo. . , . America was united in the team that had just done so much to defeat Germany and that then was bringing Japan to its knees.

We're Not Winning“the-Peace TODAY, THERE IS DISUNITY and weakness, lack of purposesand belief, strikes and. skepticism. Our armed forces are so small and so disorganized that they could not defend the cause for which their comrades gave their lives , . , and through no faulg of their own. They could not enforce our international pledges, either, if the chips were down. Informed sources in Washington, London, Manila and Tokyo fear those chips may be down, too . .. if present Russian tactics are cofitinued. 1 don’t want to play the roll of war-monger, but the simple truth appears to be that we are not prepared should the ‘Russian bear suddenly. decide . . . as did Japan . ... that we were soft and ready for defeat. I can't believe the little people of Russia want war, any more than do we or than did the same little people of ges countries. But their leaders“seem to want a ow-down with the western powers . . . their present tactics are anything but those of a well-intentioned nation. y) There are at least half a million homes today

. we cannot

It Looks Like Pr

WASHINGTON, May 30. — President Truman's letter to Senator Bob Wagner of New York cdlled imminent danger of inflation “the mosf important issue now before the congress.” - That statement, though since derailed by the rail strike, takes in a lot of territory, including atom control legislation and other explosives, like the British loan.

OPA Expires in a Month IN SPITE OP this high priority given price control, and in spite of the fact congress has been dallying with this extension for four months, it will be several days before Senator Wagner's banking and currency committee will complete its deliberations. Then a few weeks more for senate floor debate. And a couple of weeks more for senate and house con-.

-ferees to agree on how much they'll knife OPA in

the back. If the act is completed by June 30, when the present OPA law expires, it will be sheer luck. If it’s a bad bill, President Truman has indicated he will not sign it, on the theory that emasculated price control is worse than no price control at all That may suggest an interesting line of sabotage to congressmen who would like to see the whole OPA works thrown out the window, but don't dare be quite that raw about it. : The heat turned on congress by consumers after the house passed its horribly-amended price, control renewal bill has now subsided. This apparent cool-ing-off of public OPA enthusiasm may have emboldened the anti-OPA senators te start talking in terms of still more amendments. If more consumers’ pressure is to be put on these senators, it will have to be done in another drive by housewives’ lobbies and another letter-writing campaign—timed to hit fast. Main point about which the anti-OPA congressmen seem concerned is the lack of faster decontrol. But check of the record shows that ever since V-J Day, OPA has been lifting controls and raising price

PARIS, May 30.—Britain still lags painfully behind the United States in civil aviation. There's still no British commercial service flying the Atlantic. And when it does start in a few weeks, it will be operated not with British aircraft but with American Lockheed

Constellations. Despite this sad state of affairs, there are many who are optimistic about the long-range future of British aviation. British hopes center around gas turbines. Those qualified to judge consider that Britain is far ahead of the United States in this vital field of development. So much so that some American corporations are negotiating for purchase of British gasturbine engines to install in American planes.

Private Enterprise Is Advantage IF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT were sensible, it would pursue a reciproca] policy in regard to American airframes. In this department, Britain is far behind the best American designs, Many progressiveminded aviation enthusiasts in Britain are urging that she should throw aside considerations of national pride and buy American airframes in which to mount the highly successful gas turbines which are now in rising production. Otherwise, Britain will continue to

American aviation, privately owned and subject to intense competition, has. immense advantages over Britain's state-owned monopoly. Operators of Amerjean airlines, being obliged to provide their customers

REFLECTIONS . . . By Thomas

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donld D. Hoover - Do We Forget Sacrifice for Peac

“who never laid eyes on their famous colleague from Vir-

But they heard plenty about him—about his matchless

| using the strike to force socialization of our national] economy. Yes, the totalitarians “planned it that

| the wife, who they kept in ignorance of the fact that she was divorced | from him until they got her over

skill in debate, his withering sarcasm, his wide-range intelligence, his fierce integrity, his monumental achievement in passing the federal reserve act and other financial reforms. With only a primary school education, he started work at 14 as a printer's devil, and became an influential publisher. Forty-four years in congress—with an 11-months hitch as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the treasury— and in all that span of public life, even his bitterest foes never withheld their respect for Caster Glass, nor accused him of compromising his principles or trimming on a vote.

"THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR iE LORD INVERCHAPEL arrived in Washington yesterday i as the new British ambassador, We welcome to the

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Nothing in all the range of foreign relations is more important than ‘that the two largest democracies shall strive ever closer together for security and justice and

way.”

| here.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

"United States this worthy representative of our great ally

peace. England and America have their differences, but these are minor compared with the common ideals for which ey ana, the purposes they share and the mutual inter-

In his efforts to increase the friendly co-operation of he two nations, the new ambassador will receive a sympaic resp from the American government and people. has preceded him. His long and brilliant Siplomsal and his democratic ways commend

successful missions in Russia and

conferences, equip him well for his new a8 happy and as popular in fie Earl of Halifax.

experiences at the Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam

of this happiness. I say that if she can take care of the child she should be permitted to keep it. Others might learn to love the little girl as good parents, father and mother, but think of the heartbreak of a woman who loses both huspand and daughter. It's not human to rob her of this little bit of humanity that will make life living, even without the husband and father. My prayers are with

her. " ” n

“WHY DOES WILLIS CHASE . VOTES IN HOUR OF CRISIS?” By R. Smith, 1402 N. Alabama st. We have again had a good reason given to the voters of Indiana as to why they need new blood in the United States senate. At one of the most crucial mo-

ments of the country's history, we about Indiana campaigning for votes. What if a man were ill and at the crucial moment the doctor decided to play golf? We need at this time in Washington someone who will at least spend some time working for the constituents of this state dnd not soméone who spends most of his time out speaking or campaigning for: re-election.

DAILY THOUGHT

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to lhe pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? ng Psalms 30:9.

HELL +s no other but a soundless

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: "Oh,d beg your pardon! | thought yOu were my husband!” i.

find the---senior--senator-..gadding. |

Where no one beam of comfort

WASHINGTON, May 30.—Memorial Day again. Little stories come back from a brief excursion to the war zone in Europe in its final stages that could not be written then because of censorship. Stories of our ci n army—Ilike our army of the American Revolution—which won so great a victory. There was the curious adventure when I flew from Paris with Lt, Gen. John H. Q. Lee, in charge of European supply, to Granville, France. = The general was Investigating a bizarre German raid from the Channel islands on that little Brittany port. Story of a Civilian Soldier LONG BEFORE, the war had left this part of France. Our armies were far away, poised then to sweep across the Rhine. All of this area was allied territory, except for a by-passed port here and there and the Channel islands which we hadn't bothered to. clean. out.A-few.nights before the Germans had sneaked over to Granville for a surprise event. Granville is one of those pretty, ancient little towns, with narrow, crooked cobblestone streets. We were led—the general, his aides and mysel{—to a small room on the second floor of a little hotel. The general sat down behind the desk of the port commander, Maj. John L. Brown, and we all sat around the wall, : Maj. Brown got up before the maps to tell the story. He was obviously nervous before his commanding general. He described first. how he had received the radar report that ships were approaching, some time after 1 a. m. He explained that he had in his desk.a plan of defense and he got that out to see what to do. After all, he was only an engineer officer from civilian life. He showed the places on the maps where the three German boats had landed. ¢ : Then—with his pointer shaking a bit from his ‘nervousness—he said: o “I dispersed my: troops.” . “Dispersed!” barked the general

peeps in it—Herrick. :

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troops. You mean you deployed yowr troops.”

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“Major, you don’t mean that. Disperse is what you dn to enemy

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homes in which the sacrifice to win *peace means more than an empty phrase. At least 1399 of those gold star homes are right here in Marion county . . . there .were that many casualties before VE-day and

VJ-day. And in the homes of the Purple Heart, too; - .

they know that war is not something to be dropped once victory. has been attained—or, rather, once peace is within our grasp. They know it, also, in the homes of the young men who may be in uniform and in battle unless America is strong. . : While we honor the memory of our dead, let's not forget the sacrifices they made that we might have peace.

Generals Work for Peace . LET'S NOT FORGET the fact that the leaders of those men, and, in particular Gén, Douglas Mac~ Arthur and Gen. George C, Marshall, still are fighting for a lasting peace, ey In China, Gen, Marshall is true to his trust as the professional soldier is® true, He is doing a diplomat's job in trying to unify China. And in Russia, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, of Indianapolis, is serving as ambassador to the Kremlin, Still another ‘Hoosier, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, is making a record in Austria for his firmness in working with the Russians there, where he is on the allied control council, In the Philippines, shortly to become a republic, army and navy men :work with the pro-American president, Brig. Gen. Manuel Roxas, who became head of the commonwealth government last Tuesday. And in Japan, Gen. MacArthur ig performing the outstanding job of world statesmanship, in building a grass roots democracy. In these countries of the Far East, America’s bastion against foreign ideqlogies

is being built . . « and soundly, .

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

ices Are Going Up

ceilings so fast it’s a wonder there's any priée control left at all. OPA Administrator Paul Porter says that 40 per cent of applications for price ‘increases have been granted in full, and 20 per cent in part. In other words, OPA ceilings are already a sieve. Rate at which price increases have been approved has been going up month by month. The eight Republican senators on the banking and currency committee seem to be voting the party antiOPA line. They are Capehart of Indiana, Tobey of New Hampshire, Taft of Ohio, Butler of Nebraska, Capper of Kansas, Buék of Delaware, Millikin of Colorado and Hickenlooper of Iowa. ‘Tobey and Millikin are the only two inclined to give OPA a break. With three southern Democrats—Bankhead of Alabama, McFarland of Arizona, and Fulbright of Arkansas—the anti-OPA forces have a majority of the committee. Three Democrats are on the fence— Radcliffe of Maryland, Murdock of Utah, and Carville of Nevada. : That leaves only five strong supporters for OPA— Chairman Wagner, who probably also holds a proxy for Carter Glass of Virginia, Barkley of Kentucky, Downey of California, Taylor of Idaho and Mitchell of Washington. All are Democrats.

Cost Factors Rising

IMPORTANT FACTORS in increases in costs naturally will follow the new wage-price policy announced in February, and just now beginning to be felt. ' These include higher steel costs, increases in coal wages and prices and railroad wages and rates. When they go up, OPA will have to allow still more price increases, even if the present price control law should be renewed without amendment. No wonder the President called the threat of inflation the most important issue now before congress when he wrote Senator Wagner.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill U.S. Paces Britain for Air Traffic

with the maximum service available or go out of business, naturally buy the latest ang best devices and equipment, irrespective of nationality. A stateowned corporation, on the other hand, is bound to be hampered by political and even military considerations which should play no part in operating an airline. Britain's nationalized industry may find itself at serious disadvantage in the field of service in facing American competition. British airways prided themselves on high standards of luxury. Now, with a Socialist government responsible for conduct of Britain's airlines the policy is reversed. Aim. now is to imitate the Americans, who put low fares before other considerations except safety.

Luxury Traffic Pays THOUGH FEW PEOPLE in the aviation industry believe that it's the luxury traffic which pays, there is a small minority of experts who are sure that this theory is correct. It's based on the fact that the general public always follows the tastes of well-known people. If one airline succeeded in attracting the custom of a large majority of millionaires, film stars, pugilists and dukes, you may be quite sure a large majority of the general public would stampede to travel by that airline, even if it cost a little more. Most airlines, fortunately for their shareholders, are run by fairly cynical realists with a quite coldblooded understanding of what the public is prepared

to pay.

L. Stokes

What Would the Arising Dead See?

Gen. Lee is a meticulous gentleman, as anybody who has been around him knows. “yes, sir, general—deployed, yes sir, deployed, that's what I mean’t.” The major had been a chain’ grocery store manager in Pueblo, Colo, when the war engulfed him, His big moment was this raid in the middle of the night. You could see that as he talked. He was living it all over again. He never thought, back there when he was running his store, that he would be in the middle of anything like that. He had done a good job. He had organized his forces according to plan, and had driven the Germans away after a couple of hours. One German raiding party had gone through another hotel in the town where American officers were quartered. They found only one, a colonel, whom they machinegunned. They also had captured a couple of UNRRA employees, one in his nightshirt, and had taken them away.

They had shelled ihe bafracks on 1p of the Rill

from one of their boats, and it was a shambles. We inspected it. Luckily there were no troops there when that happeried. The Germans also had sabotaged a couple of cranes in the harbor—Granville was a coal port—and towed away a small British boat. Why the raid was carried out no one seemed to know. Perhaps the Germans just wanted some ex: citement. . I've thought so often of Maj. Brown who hed been, a chain grocery store manager in Pueblo. That was our army, a civillan army. later saw his counterpart. doing a magnificent job.

Where Are We Going? . TODAY WE PAY TRIBUTE to those who di in that war. If, at the blast of a bugle, all of them could rise from their graves and take a look about them at the world today, what would they think? Most of them were citizen soldiers, like Maj. Browh.

today and answer for outselves—all of us.

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