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Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

CASE BILL VETO | PRESIDENT TRUMAN vetoed the Case bill today on the ground that the measure would only foment additional strife. : We believe: the President's action showed a disturbing lack of courage and fortitude, a faltering approach to one of the country’s most serious problems. The Case bill would have cteated a new, independent

. federal mediation board, appointed by the President. That

couldn’t hurt labor. : It would have authorized this board to try—by mediation, conciliation ®nd voluntary arbitration—to arrange peaceful settlement of labor-management disputes that threaten serious injury to the public. What's wrong with that? : ¥ » . . ¥ . IT would place on management and unions in such disputes a positive duty to refrain from violence and to give the board a maximum of 60 days for peace-making efforts before resorting to strike, lockout, or arbitrary chahges of wages and working conditions. Such “cooling-off” periods ‘have promoted good industrial relations in Minnesota and other states. : It would authorize a special fact-finding procedure for disputes affecting public utilities, with a maximum of 65 days in which strikes and lockouts would be forbidden. Will it “enslave labor” for the public to have this reasonable protection against sudden, arbitrary stoppage of services essential to life and safety? It would authorize labor unions and employers to sue each other in federal courts for breaches of contract, imposing on both the same responsibility for living up to signed agreements. Does the life of unions depend upon freedom to break contracts without legal responsibility? It would forbid unions to use the “secondary boycott” as a weapon in their battles with employers or with other unions. Is it a necessary right of unions to punish innocent bystanders when they cannot agree with each other on jurisdictional questions, or to fight their quarrels with employers at the expense of other employers who have no connection with the controversies? It would subject to federal anti-racketeering act penalties unions found guilty of obstructing commerce by robbery or extortion. Does honest labor need federal immunity for robbery and extortion? It would require joint union-employer responsibility for proper use of health-and-welfare and similar funds contributed by employers through production royalties or pay- - roll levies. Can labor not live without the right, not only

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"Difference Between American and Foreigner Is One of Birth Only"

By Mrs. George Roessle, 574 N. Temple ave, Being a foreigner (class of '26), I cannot let the remarks of Mrs. A. R. in Friday's Forum go unchallenged. She says we have no use for the U. 8. Really now, that was thoughtless. Has she any idea how many of us “foreigners” served in the armed forces of Uncle Bam; not only in this war but also in every war this country ever fought, from the time of Baron Von Steuben to this day? How many lost their lives in the very country where they were born, while fighting for the ideal of their adopted country? They did their part, as any other G, IL did. It may have been many years ago, but did not your ancestors also come from some foreign land?

“SHERIFF SHOULD LIVE UP TO CAMPAIGN PLEDGE” By G. W. C., Bell st. This is my first attempt in writing to your paper, although I have been a reader of the Hoosier Forum for several years. I am doing so in the hopes that you will publish a veteran's opinion on the coming election. I have never voted for any man because of his party affiliations and I never will. I vote for a man because I believe that he is the man to fil the office. I voted for Sheriff Magenheimer, because of his past record with the police department and his work with the

to tax the public in this manner, but to use money thus taken from the public exactly as unions or their 8fficers please? It would allow foremen to join unions but leave em--ployers free to refuse to recognize unions as bargaining agents for foremen. Is it either essential or desirable that unions should have power to usurp management functions by forcing foremen to be represented by the same labor organizations as the workers they are supposed to supervise? ® » . ¥ » . THESE are the things the Case bill would have done. Many of them are things President Truman has said should be done. Which of them do you think would injure any well-intended union? Which of them justifies the frenzied clamor of the labor leaders? . We believe the Case bill provided moderate and fair means of preventing intolerable abuses of labor's power. President Truman should have sigmed it to protect the nation and its workers from the drastic and immoderate legislation sure to come if the abuses are continued. And congress should pass it over his veto.

ECHOES OF COURT PACKING

WITH all the ermine flying, as the fight between Justices Black and Jackson is disclosed to public view, who remembers back to the time when it was argued that all the supreme court troubles would vanish if we could “just get rid of the “nine old men"? We're not inclined to be facetious about this, The charge which Justice Jackson makes against Justice Black i8 a serious one. The judiciary committees of congress will be well advised to inquire thoroughly into many angles of the feud which rages in the nation’s highest tribunal. For however much one may prefer the social and economic philosophies of the seven new justices President Roosevelt appointed, it can hardly be argued that the court has gained prestige by its conduct in recent years, It is no minor squabble into which the new chief Justice-designate, Fred Vinson, is taking his talents as a peacemaker, : But we can’t help recalling ironically how the New Dealers were so sure that our government would be just one happy family if they could create the high court in their own image.

STALIN'S ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN

RUSSIA grows even more active in her anti-British campaign of propaganda attacks and official insults. It would be hard to find a more petty act of one supposedly friendly nation toward another than Russia's refusal to participate in London’s great victory celebration. n ally was paying tribute to the living and dead who ht for the common cause. But the Kremlin refused invitation to participate, only that, but Stalin also had his Yugoslav puppet His Polish satellite withdrew after first having invitation—Poland for which Britain went to lin was making deals with Hitler to facilitate that country. Moscow's anti-British policy is Pravda’s if Foreign Minister Bevin, It calls his

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There is this difference between us, however, Mrs. A. R—by accident of birth, about which you had no cantrol (neither did I), you were fortunste enough to be born in God's country. You had no choice, {neither could I help the fact that I was born in Germany. Why blame us then for something we could not alter? However, we could and did do something about living in the country of our choice. As your own ancestors did. Don't say “foreigners” have no use for this country, when it was made what it is today by just such foreigners, and a pretty good job they did, too! However, agreed there is a black sheep in every family tree—in every race. But don’t include us all in generalizations. As to Bauer, I don't know the man, but believe he got a raw deal. According to the FBI's files, there is nothing against him, but his sin against the U. 8S. was to swear allegiance to Hitler in order to get out of the country. My dear Mrs. A, R., have you any idea what Germany was like under Hitler? I cannot blame him for that. Disregarding the merits or demerits of the stag party picture or politics, I was disappointed in the justice of Uncle Sam. I am afraid this country has more to fear from John L. Lewis than anything Bauer might have done in the future. 3 » » » “GIRLS DON'T WEAR JEANS TO LOOK CUTE; ARE HANDY” By Rose Mary Thompson; Shelbyville, I think a young girl looks a lot better in a pair of jeans or slacks than in a short dress or shorts. As for saying it is indecent, I very much disagree. I wear a pair of jeans because they are something

or hiking, a dress just doesn’t work on such occasions, You never find people finding fault with a pair of slacks, so why pick on jeans, And as for saying it is showing lack of self-respect on the part of the parents, that is going too far, I admit that wearing a sloppy shirt with the tail hanging out doesn’t look very nice. ,But a girl doesn’t wear jeans just to look cute. A girl does not look trashy in jeans as long as she is clean. And I do not believe the younger generation is making a fool of itself. When you were young, Mr, Lawcon, maybe you didn't express your feelings as we do now. But I bet you did some things that were just as silly as you think jitterbugging is now. The young people of today will be the citizens of tomorrow. Everybody goes through the stage which we are going through now. Of course, you will most likely deny going through any such stage. But I much resent people remarking about girls wearing jeans. Give us a chance to prove ourselves. Don't judge us by what we do now. » ®r - “SEND PROTEST LETTERS OFF TO WASHINGTON" By Evelyn Stewart, Indianapolis, In regards to Mack McGinnis’ letter--in--today’'s- paper; it's the best. ever, outside of Mr. James VanZandt’s letter. The only thing he left out in his letter was the “undertakers.” That would top the whole strike situation off. Then people would go around glaring at each other as to what in Hades would happen next. We only meed more letters like McGinnis’, only

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school patrol. I honestly believed that he was anti-machine and against all machine politics. He has now been appointed interim sheriff. And one of his first acts as published b¥ The Indianapolis Times is to purge the sheriff’s office of some sixteen deputies, not because of inefficiency, but simply because their party affiliation does not agree with the Republican party machine, I wonder, Mr, Magenheimer, if you follow the dictates of the Republican machine in this matter, will you do so in others. I also wish to ask you, Mr. Magenheimer, if this is your idea of being anti-machine. If it is, I am sure that I don't want some. Mr. Magenheimer, if you continue to carry out this program, I am thankful that you were appointed sheriff so that we citizens of In. dianapolis can see that you are just another politician who follows the dictates of the men in power instead of his own convictions. I say to you, Mr. Magenheimer, that before this happened you were assured of being elected this fall, but if you continue to carry out this program, I for one will not vote for you, nor do I feel that any clear thinking citizen will do so. Therefore I believe your defeat In the fall election is assured unless you renounce the Republican machine and live up to your own convictions as a man and a candidate for the high office of sheriff of Marion county » ” » “NEWSPAPER IS BUSINESS OPERATED FOR A PROFIT” | By Robert M. Sichols, 1470 8. TNlinois st. Well, I am glad to see that one of your readers, Mr. T. J. L. of | Bakemeyer st, took the time to | write what must be the opinion of every thinking person that reads your newspaper, Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you can deny that you are anti-labor, anti-union, |or Republican in your presentation

{of the news, but you must have your tongue in your cheek. For instance, I have seen countless headlines in your newspaper about the loss of man hours due to wartime strikes, but never a column about the man years lost when large manufacturers help up the government in contract negotiations (and don't challenge me to cite specific examples because I could surprise you). And the primary elections Golly! I wouldn't have even known that a party known as the Democrats even existed from your treatment of the news then. All I got from the paper then was which faction of the Republican party to vote for. Oh yes, dear readers, newspapers are business organizations operated for profit. Few newspapers can honestly boast an editorial policy completely free from the influence of its best paying customers, the big time advertisers. The new slogan of The Times seems to be “Give half the light and the people will find our way.”

DAILY THOUGHT

A fool is also full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; | and what shall be after him, who can tell him?—Ecclesiastes 10:14. . . . Young men think old men are fools; bus old men know young men

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air force colonel and his accomplices for theft of $1,500,000 of Hessian crown jewels from the sister of . the late kaiser , . . unfortunately was not a rare occurrence, The army should “throw the book” at this officer for his betrayal of the elementary principle of respecting the property rights of the enemy population

"+ + » & betrayal all the more serious because of his high rank and because of the shameful odium it casts

on our armies abroad. One expects the Red army to rob and loot, but it hardly is In conformity with American standards. :

| Combat Troops Not to Blame

. THE FIGHTING SOLDIERS rarely engaged in looting, with the possible exception of rounding’ up everything drinkable in an they took. . It usually was the follow-up groups who committed the thefts, when these were committed. The colonel and his WAC bride, for example, stole the jewels from 100-room Kronberg castle near Frankfurt, Germany, when it was being used as a rest camp, The combat soldier neither had time nor room to carry crown jewels, silver tea-sets or expensive rugs as he advanced to take the next town. : It takes occupying troops with more time on their hands to think up such things as the signs at Welsbaden telling civilians to deposit “All Cameras Here,” or “All Watches Here.” First enemy territory we occupied in this war was Sicily. Gen. Eisenhower issued strict warnings against looting, pointing out that pillaging was inexcusable in an American soldier anywhere, under any eircumstances. It was pointed out that rifling of orchards

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and fields and unauthorized appropriation of enemy food stores were not only contemptible acts, but. also were punishable by courts-martial. . I remember the criticism we received from our own GHQ when in July, 1943, we took almonds and grapes from Sicilian fields to augment our slim rations. Orders to American troops, and to British ones as well, told them we were invading Italy to make the Italians put ‘down their arms, not to win souvenirs. Property was to be taken only when necessary to

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ing was to be seized without authorized purpose. » I'm afraid those orders were: not obeyed to the letter. Fortunately I cannot remember the names of the persons involved, but I shudder to think of the opinion many Italians have of the honesty of Americans because they lost valued treasures. Buf they were not as prominent as the ex-kaiser’s sister, Princess Margareta, nor was their loss so sensational, So they may share the feeling of countless Frenche men, Germans, Filipinos and Japanese . . . the latter to a lesser degree ... who do not regard looting as & boyish prank, . For too many .., and this of course was only a small proportion of total troops . . . occupation turned into grand hunt for souvenirs. And some were not too scrupulous about how they got them.

Just Plain Stealing THIS MISCONDUCT on the part of officers and men is nothing but theft. There is absolutely no basis on which it can bes condoned. It is a crime against the person whose property rights have been invaded. And it is a orime against the uniform worn with honor by most of those men, and women who represented America abroad.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Bikini Tests Call for a Mink Coat

NEW YORK, June 11.—By staffing the target ships at Bikini only with pigs, goats and mice, the conductors of the atom bomb tests are showing a lamentable stricture of thought, typical of the military: You can answer just so many questions with a dead pig. Why is no mink coat to be wrapped around one of the sacrificial goats? Who knows what happens when unfettered energy meets with $10,000 work of mink hide? It's a question I'd like answered, because so much of our national wealth is tied up in fur coats that a dead mink is saturated in social significance.

How About Civilian Applications? SINCE THE BIG BOMB is primarly a -weapon against civilians, we owe it to ourselves to find out what happens when the atom encounters a commodity on which such heavy civilian stress is placed. If I were running this show, I would have a mink expert infiltrate the corps of men with slide rules and microscopes. While they inspect the fused deckplates and singed rats, my man would be in there figuring the relative resilience of mink. In all the words that are written about the coming tests, I see no mention of nylon hose. Where are the nylons? Surely, the nylon hose is the most important item in America today. There is no other item for which ladies so happily toss each other through plate glass windows, assault policemen, and stand contentedly in queues while babes howl and dishes go unwashed. But has anybody on the crossroads staff thought

of putting a pair of seamless nylons on a pig? Na indeed. They will drop the bomb and blow up Bie kini, but nobody will be able to say what happens when sun-fed molecules go haywire and collide with size 10, 54-gauge stockings. ; It is discouraging to note that neither a two-way stretch girdle nor an electric razor is to be left on the target ships. Not one mouse will have a lifetimeguaranteed, under-water writing fountain pen cinched to his back. After the big boom at Bikini, we will know nothing of the atom as opposed to Pepsi-cola, Does nuclear fission kill B. O.? Army and navy don’t care. I suppose that strikes and reconversion make i impossible, but I'd like to know what happens when the bomb meets a Ford coupe. I know what would happen if the atom met a jeep. The jeep would win, Hundreds of reporters will cover the laying of the egg of the ages. But nowhere on the press list do you find a Hollywood gossip columnist, a fashion reporter, or an actor with a yen for politics.

What, No Trained Seals? THIS CANNOT BE CALLED complete coverage, in light of the San Francisco conference, which was infested with journalistic freaks, Or the national political conventions, when radio stars turned cole umnist were nearly as numerous as politicians. Who will report the carnage as seen through the eyes of Frank Sinatra? Will a Lilly Dache hat bear up under rampant energy? How does a diamond wrist watch hold under bombardment by the sune dered atom? Nobody is going to be there to tell us.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Senate Must Act in Domestic Crisis

WASHINGTON, June 11.—In the last few days, our thoughts have turned again to those American boys who splashed ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches two years ago. Some of them were left behind, casuals of the crusade, in that triumphant march across France and Germany. But so many of them have come home from Europe, and from the far reaches of the Pacific, and are trying to start their lives anew.

Price Increases Ahead

A FEW DAYS AGO British Foreign Minister Bevin said a significant thing in a speech in the house of commons about the problems of peace: “In dealing with these problems I can never get out of my head that there is something much more important than statesmen, who after all only hold office for what is a moment of time in the ages of history, and that it is the masses of the people who may be either at peace or at war in the future as the result of the action of statesmen at a given moment.” We have our statesmen here, too, our home-grown product, the men who make up our congress. Just now they face a domestic crisis affecting all of us, though so few have realized it in the press of another recent domestic crisis’ caused by the coal and rail strikes. It. is the real danger of inflation. It is concentrated this week in the senate. That body will take up a bill framed by its banking committee that would break down effective price control and start us on an inflationary spree that would threaten the immediate and long future of all of us, including the millions of veterans who are beginning their lives anew. The house already has passed a bill that would break down price control. The senate measure goes even further... This would seem to be a good time for our own statesmen to ponder the words of Mr. Bevin. They have a chance in the senate to redeem themselves

somewhat, though evem if the ‘senate should wipe out all the provisions designed to make more profits for special groups at the expense of all of us, there still is the house bill with which the senate measure somehow must be com It seemed appropriate that Chester Bowles, stabili« zation director, addressed himself particularly to vet erans in a recent radio speech, since we have promised them so muth for their sacrifice. He recalled the in« flation which the veterans of world war I found when they got home. Undoubtedly most veterans will not be fooled by statesmen—or politicians, if you prefer—who wave their arms and shout about all they have done for the veterans, and vote now at the behest of special interests to break down price controls. That of course would push up the price of all the essentials of living and the family budget would be shot to pieces. Analyzing the senate bill, Mr. Bowles showed how it would cause an immediate boost in the price of milk, butter, eggs, poultry, cheese, meat and make bread still more scarce through diversion of restricted grain supplies to hogs and cattle because of higher meat prices. He showed how the bill would increase clothing costs, and how OPA would be un« able to hold rent ceilings with everything else going up. . “Each of the amendments has for its purpose higher prices and higher profits,” he said of the senate bill,

A Disillusioning Spectacle WAR BONDS AND INSURANCE policies will ge down in value as the cost of living rises. Mr. Bowles said he believed an investigation of the lobbying that has gone on here by interests greedy for profits would reveal “a national scandal.” This is a disillusioning spectacle for the boys who were at Omaha ‘beach and Utah beach and on all the other battle-fronts.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Leigh White

How. Can We Get

OF ALL THE QUESTIONS people have asid§d me on my return to the United States after two years in Europe—mostly spent in Soviet Russia and in Sovietdominated countries—most insistent question is: “Are we going to fight the Russians?” My answer is the following hedge: “Possibly, But not for 10 or 15 years, in any case, and not even then-+if a workable formula for inducing mutual tolerance can be devised.”

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FROM THEN ON the dialogue runs as follows: Q—Who's got that formula? 3 A—Nobody, vet. But a man I know—a certain American diplomat who's devoted years to the problem—has come nearer to working it out than anyone I've heard about. Q—Well, let's have it. What does he say? How do we get along with the Russians? A—By talking and acting as tough as they do, but by talking and acting sensibly—that is, “realistically.” Not hy doing any more appeasing, certainly, And not by issuing any more threats or protests, either— unless we're prepared to back them up, The man I'm talking about, a career diplomat, takes as dim a view of our policy toward Russia as anyone. The only reason Russia's policy seems “realistic,” he thinks, is that our own foreign policy has been so unrealistic, especially in dealing with the Russians, . He told me a long time ago—and time, I think, has proved him right—that the leaders of the Soviet government will pay no attention to our protests unless we enforce them with deeds. It's no good, he says, to ask the Russians to do anything without promising them something in return. And it's no good asking them not to do anything without being prepared to act in reprisal if they do not do it. a t We should always live up to our promises and we should always live up to our threats. And if we can combine ‘a threat with a promise, thet we oan keep either one, or both, so moh the be a

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We should never promise more than the: absolute minimum of what we ask them to do is worth. And we should promise nothing that we can't deliver, ac~ cording to exact specifications of our written cone tract. Recently the Americans and the British have re« sorted to issuing protests. We've protested to Russia about Iran; we've protested to Tito’s Communist government in Yugoslavia about its increasingly hostile behavior; we've protested to the Communist govern ments of Romania, Bulgaria and Poland about, failure to live up to the Yalta agreement, and we've protested to the Communist leaders of Russia about their unfriendly policies in Hungary, Austria, Ger many, Manchuria and Korea. In Poland we backed up our protests by repeatedly refusing to consider granting that country & muche« needed loan. And in Poland alone have we achieved any appreciable results. In Germany, we refused to hand over the indus trial equipment we promised the Russians at Pots dam. If we continue to refuse, the Russians will make good their promise at Potsdam to co-operate in enforcing a joint program for all of Germany. If we fail to keep our word, then, according to my friend, we will fall in Germany as we have failed in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania, where our empty threats and protests have failed to convince either Russians or local Communist disciples that we need be taken seriously.

Peace Is Mirage Today ; 4 ALL RIGHT, so we don't appease Russia. What then? \ Then, little by little, the RussiAns will learn that in dealing with Americans it will be necessary to give full value for value received, to give as well as take in a word, to compromise. v Once the Russians have been taught, as we have been taught, that the essence of peace is compromise ~to live and let live—then, he thinks, enduring peace will be a tangible prospect rather than the mivege

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