Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1946 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Pind Their Own Wey GIVE, OR WE WAIT ) 3S boptoval of the iward of the Dodecanese to ‘reece came as such a surprise to Secretary Byrnes, h said afterward, that it took him several minutes to catch his breath. The incident is important, from the American standpoint, only because it illustrates the rear-guard action we ‘have been forced into all along the diplomatic front. 5 The islands in question are Greek by population and tradition, and geographically should belong either to Greece sr Turkey. Turkey was not asking for them, and the 5, who took them away from the Turks in 1911; did t to the Greek's having them. “ind had made no claims on the islands, other than a vague hint she might want a refueling base Mr. Molotov simply had refused to discuss their

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bu e Big'Four. | »- We are on forced to twiddle our thumbs at the conference table until Russia is willing to talk business; because we aren't asking anything for ourselves, and because Russia has demanded almost everything in sight except Ahe moon.

WE aver ¢ anything to trade which Ln to us, and any time we compromise it is likely to be for something less than justice, and usually at the expense of one of the smaller nations which cannot defend itself. By contrast, Russia has maneuvered herself into the strategic position where she is trading with herself and making it appear that she is being extremely magnanimous when she slightly modifies one of her extravagant demands, or consents to discuss something with us. . "President Roosevelt established this unhappy relation ship with Russia and it is going to take time, patience and determination to work our way out of it. © When we became *& belligerent, Russia was fighting | for her very life, menaced by invading Germans along a line from Leningrad to Stalingrad. We at once began . supply her with tanks, trucks, munitions, ‘food and everything else she needed, asking nothing in sreturn. ‘That was the moment to have opened the question of what Russia ultimately would do in’ our war with Japan, but we the opportunity pass. ~ When, at Yalta, in February, 1945, we finally got discussing the Japanese situation with Russia, Ho was sitting pretty, Hungary had folded, Warsaw had fallen, and the Red army was within 45 miles of Berlin. hilt get Russia ints what. turned out Jo be 2 six-day war Japs, we gave her the Kurile islands, Port : “a half-interest in the Manchurian * railroad, and other odds and ends. Every succeeding conference until the end of the war Japan was turned into another Christmas day for Russia. Between meetings she helped herself. We put ourselves on the defensive and she is Keeping us there.

CASTE IN THE RED ARMY ALIN’S new disciplinary decree re-defines the ris ‘ * tionship of officers and men in the Red army and , instructs subordinates to obey unquestioningly the 8 of superiors, and to be prepared to endure hardships n suffer loss of life if necessary. = Ee he Soviet army's newspaper, Red Star, says the decree Sequires military personnel “strictly to keep military state’ | ts; to be honest, truthful and conscientious; to study requirements; to conserve military and state property; to respect superiors and chiefs, strictly observing the rules of military politeness and saluting.” Meanwhile, in this country the Communists are the ones who most loudly decry the caste system and demand ‘more democracy in the American army. »

RUBBER STAMPS DON'T LAST J HE case of Justice Jackson vs. Justice Black is another _ of those affairs with which history is dotted, wherein dis fall out over the words of the master, after the aste: departs, Politics being more volatile than religion, this reaction occurs more quickly when the political prophet is no longer at hand to guide the flock. It doesn’t matter what the political prophet’s persuapn May be. The resulting disruption seems always to in direct proportion to the domination of the prophet. V s the falling out of the Gauleiters after Hitler went. D: what happéned #mong Mussolini's henchmen after II Juce was no more. "We don’t desire to make odious analogies, or to comare the political philosophies of those to whom we refer ith the political philosophies of Mr. Roosevelt. - What we are trying to emphasize is that when the

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AYBE BILBO DAYS ARE NUMBERED is encouraging news from Mississippi that Theodore G. {The Man) Bilbo is losing some of his long lead in his for re-election to the senate, and that the other didates are gaining strength-and may force him into ditt and possibly defeat him. : “Alabama got rid of Tom Heflin, North Carolina shed | b Reynolds and North Dakota has just decided for the ‘time emphatically to have no more of Gerald Nye. i Mississippi, a state which sent to the U, 8. senate fine men as John Sharp Williams and Pat Harrison, hot er be content to be misrepresented by Bilbo,

§ FAULT? URG, Soviet journalist who has traveled abe % She Laiead States for two months, summed up his in 2000 words on departing for Russia. He a him Seeply saddened by the attitude of the Amer-

and serious papers,’ of he wrote, “are thrashing false information on Russia.” this? ‘Great and serious American to have accurate information on reporters, moving Hedy about iron ouptain.

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death

_your right to say it," — Voltaire.’

"South Side Wants That Civic -

‘Amphitheater; Is Community Asset"

By Southsider Please, please, please don't fake that amphitheater ‘away from the South Side. The only opposition is coming from a fringe of property holders skirting Garfield and these people are only being incensed by the wrath one individual personally has against Park Director Paul Brown. Has anyone ever asked those of us who arent members of civic clubs how we feel about the new amphitheater? I'm a property holder, live within driving distance of the park and want that asset to the park.

of any cause no longer leads, it becomes a proposi-

amphitheater will add to the beauty WAT |and facilities of the grounds. Ask the 50,000 of us who live down here. » # . 5 “} VOTE FOR MY JOB AS FARMER BEING HOTTEST" By Seuthport Farmhand

3 it wiful hot. I'll even agree —— fellow who is re-

sponsible for thé hot-weather feature story about the maflman. The mailman-is hot. So what? So I pick up my Times and read about him. I have troubles of my own, I am a farmer—I work in the hot sun. Trees are scarce on my farm and I think you have a pretty good

Another thing—I'd like to know how hot it gets for the writer of the feature. He might write about himself" sometime. I think I'll go on the front porch now—it's getting tog “hot” here in the living room. » = . “WHY DON'T SOUTHSIDERS WANT THAT SUMMER OPERA?” By A. FP. C, Indianapelis What's wrong with those South Side people? Don't they want this town ever to grow up? There's always been a lot of squawking about the North Side being favored over other sections of the town and aow that something good and really

Commercialising of Garfield park? Rubbish.. Acquisition of addiMore rubbish.

. VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Government statistics show more people are employed now than in wartime. Shortages of everything suggests they must be engaged.in manufacturing the statistics. n » # How to puncture OPA price ceilings—add four pleats and two buttons to a $250 shirt and; you can get $5 for it. » » Waalingion D. C, is planning an “old-fashionéd Fourth of July.” They never get tired of fireworks. » » . :

. Maybe Chief Justice Vinson of the Supreme court got “kicked upstairs.” Just two days before he

left his post of secretary of treas-|

ury income was greater than outgo. Seemed un-American. ® » .

When Justice Jackson gets back

from Germany, Mike Jacobs should’

sign him for 15 rounds with Justice Black. No heavyweight bout, so Joe Louis is safe,

worthwhile—the outdoor opera—is proposed for Garfield park the folks around there‘ say they don't want it. I see now that the folks out in Broad Ripple say that they would be quite willing to have the opera at their park. Good. I hope they get it. Then I won't have so far to go.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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this morning ‘because the decorators this bandanna because my. hair

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“TIME TO RETURN TO PRIMARY NOMINATIONS” By Onlecker, Carmel The best suggestion that grew out of the drab political conventions this year was that of return to the “direct primary.” I have never seen such a vulgar display of power politics in my life. Purged politicians yelped! Party bosses swaggered! . Political fawns licked the hands of their masters! Put the power of the government back into the hands of .the people where it belongs. It will make for the democratic government that we all love but are about to lose in our apathy. It seems hardly possible that our Hoosier ' state, the finest in the union, should be the victim of such a cataclysmic debacle. Let's get together and urge the state legislature to strike the convention system from Indiana law and permit the pecple to. choose their government officials. # [ I J “KIDS ON VACATION WANT PLACES TO PLAY” By The Kids on 30th st. : Please hear our plea. We want places to play without someone calling the police ifs we drink out of their hose or cause dust on their windows, or make holes in the alleys so. they can’t get their cars through.

We, the future America, should have a place to play and enjoy ourselves in playing horseshoes and baseball, etc. They call us Juvenile D, and yet how can we be otherwise without games and sports? We are robbed of all the necessary things that make up a happy childhood. So this 18 our vacation. Sure, some children c¢an have "fun in California or Illinois, but what of

_|the ones that have to stay at

home? : We ask you to please help us. » » - “WHY WORRY ABOUT A CIVIC AUDITORIUM NOW?” By Irate Taxpayer, Indianapelis Mayor Tyndall hit, the nail on the head when he told that committee studying a civic auditorium that the city was in a devil of a financial shape. - Why. on eéarth we should be wasting time and energy on planning a civic auditorium' when the city is in serious financial shape and when all available material is needed for housing is more than.I can’ see. Let's

| | forget about those frills until we

really get on a sound basis of operation. Veterans with no place to live, families broken up by the housing shortage, men unable to

accept good jobs because they can’t | find any place to live. ' Bah and bunk! I hope The ‘Times stands up for sound spending of the city's money and opposés building any city dlioriun " Pils time,

“FIGHT TO TAKE COURT OUT OF POLITICS”

| By Ronald ¥. Fausett, 834 Wright st.

Congratulations! The Times has finally snapped Out of its lethargy. !

been a long time in coming but at last it has arrived. Of all the inefficient judges we have had In juvenile court (Bradshaw excepted), Rhoads is about the worst. Now, along with this blast, The Times should follow through and fight to have the juvenile court taken out of politics, Anyway, congratulations for ‘the start;~and now, for heaven's sake, don’t go back to sleep.

DAILY THOUGHT The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of un~ godly men made me afraid. —

The blast against Judge Rhoads has|

Psalms 18:4.

The fear of death is worse than death. —Hufio

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SAGA OF INDIANA . + Early. Vooser

70 GET PULL IMPORT 4 thé: tet Bovsters In clear outline calls for a bird's-eye view of them. In-

cluded in this view must be the original "American

of which they were an inseparable part. ; -view is-a-most fascinating and instructive

‘thing. There is no other single picture of the human

race that is more striking or more distinctive. It has no parallel, if any equal, in‘its unique setting, in

its main characteristics,” in. its ultimate results, in

any like picture of any race of men that ever lived ‘on the face of the earth. ;

Variety of Surroundings

HERZ 18 THE PICTURE: The original American

race is a separate and distinct race of men. Whatever

weight that carries in“any general estimate of mankind, the first Hoosiers, as part of the race, share it. Whether you classify the races of men in the world

| by color—white, yellow, red, black, or brown; whether

you classify them by continents—Eurafrican, Ausa Asian or American; whether you classify: them by distinguishing race Shatusteristics Nordic, Alpine, Mediterranean, Negro, Mongolian, or A lian; by whatever classification you divide the h race, these or any ‘other, the original American race is properly given a plate of its own, or does not very

“Well fit in at all. That is an impressive thing, for in

any case the race stands distinctive and alone. That one fact in itself makes a broad, striking, distinguishing stroke across the complete bird’s-eye-view of mankind. The next outstanding thing about this race is the portion of the entire land surface of the globe that it fell to their lot to occupy. Irr the grand shuffle.of all the races of men that ever lived in the world, this race drew the whole land area of the western hemisphere. That is not all. They ‘drew it for themselves,

oy sacluglvely. No other ace of men, at any time, in

IN WASHINGTON .

Price Rises Hit

WASHINGTON, July 1.—The confusion, ‘indonsistencies and cross-purposes of the times may thus be illustrated in congress: In the senate, that final battle royal ovef the compromise OPA extension bill which administration leaders claimed was not adegate to hold off inflation— that is, higher prices. A minority wanted to go even further and abolish price controls on meat, which the senate had voted originally, but which house and senate conferees had restored. ’

No Action on Minimum Wage IN THE HOUSE, the rules committee was burying the minimum wage increase bill with far less ceremony than attended the hanging of Danny Dever, putting it off until after the elections. The house labor committee appealed in vain for a place on the

house calendar this session for the simple: bill it" finally had approved to increase the minimum wage"

in industries operating in interstate commerce from 40 to 65 cents an hour. There seemed an inconsistency in these actions at both ends of the capitol. . The minimum wage bill, passed already by the senate in different form and with complications, is designed to raise the pay of the forgotten folks in our economy, the two to four million mill workers and white collar workers. They lack organization and the protection of labor unions, and have not benefited from union increases. Yet prices are going up under the compromise bill, whatever its final form. Some in both house and senate,“ if they had had their way, - would have abolished OPA. The senate voted to abolish price controls on livestock, poultry, eggs, dairy products, as

REFLECTIONS . A Strike Is

WASHINGTON, July 1.—Purpose of this piece is to confuse you thoroughly. It's the only way to show how balled up things are. The ‘other day the coal miners filed a complaint that they can’t mine coal to keep the nation’s economy going unless there is more bread and meat in the

“| stores for them to eat. Of all the crazy commen-

taries on the cockeyed condition of the country, this takes first prize.

How ‘About Farmers' Strike?

WHAT'S THE MATTER with these miners? Don't they realize “their “No eats, no work” policy constitutes a strike against a strike? The farmers are on strike for higher grain and livestock prices, just as miners recently were on strike for higher wages and welfare.

Don’t these miners realize that for them to eat.

now would be worse than crossing a picket line? It would be plain strikebreaking, The miners should, therefore, continue their work without eating, because no miner would ever think of interfering with the national economy. This is obvious nonsense. Or is it? Of course, it would be all right for packinghouse workers to go on strike next month and stop production of meat that way. But it’s wrong for farmers to stop production of meat by refusing to sell their pigs and steers till the price goes up, { It's all right for the farm implement workers’ to strike at International Harvester, J. I..Case and Allis

‘| Chaliners, stopping production of tractors and plows

needed to produce more food. But it's wrong for farmers ‘to- refuse to sell grain they have produced ti the price is raised. * On _the other hand, what's the difference? The farmers’ strike isn't an “organized” strike by a union, in the way most industrial strikes are run. And the farmers’ strike isn't so much a strike by the little 40-acre fellows as it is a “sit-down” by the big boys. It's big ranchers and grain men, livestock feeders and

TODAY IN EUROPE By

By William A. Mlaclow

. By Thomas aps 7 Low Incomes Hard

well as meat, hut the sepate-house conference com- :

Had Big" Slomaland

the otis “Sistoty of the ‘world; ever drew even one entire continent of the earth as their own. The origi-

_nal American race drew two. How is that for good « « luck, or great good fortune, on a grand scale? View- .

ing the world. as a whole, in any drawing, on any plan, for any purpose, to get the whole of North America and of South America as your portion, as the original “American race did, is a grand prize, A bit in detail, and on the basis of the cold facts,

this land ‘drawing of the original American race is

still illuminating and impressive. The land ares that fell to their .lot covers almost 15,000,000 square miles. That is about 25.73 per cent, a little over one-fourth of the entire land surface of the essrth. It lies on each side of the equator, extending well toward the poles both ‘ways. This means that these people had the heart of the temperate zones in the entire west‘ern hemisphere. In addition, they might have, still in their allotted portion of the world, as much heat of the tropics, and as much cold nearer the poles, as. their fancy or their needs dictate. Whatever they might make of their lot, you can say: They had a wide

, open opportunity.

Early Americans Were Men Apart *

NO OTHER RACE ever had a chance like that. Whether the original American race made the most of their opportunity may be an open question. Whether they developed themselves and the area allotted to them as they should, or ‘as another race might have, done, can never be finally known. But of the wholes matter, this: one thing can be truly said: After the land bridge that joined Europe to North America sank into the sea, these origina] Americans, s0 far as it can be well determined, were the only men in- the entire western hemisphere. Two wide oceans separate them from every other TAC 91 men in. the world. :

mittee hesitated to go that far, because of public protests: The people on the fringe of our economy grimly face higher living costs. Yet they are denied help through ‘a minimum wage increase bill.

Senator Wherry (Neb.) said a good deal abot

black: markets through which, he estimated, 80 per cent of meat is now sold. He said that meat price

_ controls did not work and that the present situation

“is causing wholesale disrespect for law.” The people who would be affected by the minimum wage increase naturally do not know anything about

black markets, except what they read. A They can’t

buy in them. And, if prices are going up anyhow under the bill: they can’t buy much, if any, meat then. To them, all of this fight in Washington is largely theoretical. -

Low-Paid Are Meek

SENATOR WHERRY also said that unless this situation is cured by lifting meat controls “acts of violence will be committed in. this country.” By whom? . Certainly not by the cattle industry and the meat industry. They seem to be doing all right. The cattlemen and farmers are able to hold their cattle

off the market without any hardship, waiting for

higher prices, a new sort of strike. Violence, if any, might be expected from those in the low-income scale who would get some relief from the minimum wage bill. But they won't be violent, at least not yet. They are the meek, though they do not yet inherit the earth. They are c¢omparatively few. They are not politically effective enough to frighten and congressmen.

By Peter Edson

a Strike Is a Strike

fatteners, middlemen #fid speculators who buy from small farmers and sell to big flour mills and packinghouses. These flour mills and packinghouses are shut down

just as effectively as if their own workers were on

strike. ure ft. . The producers and processors of food aren't going to “work”—that is, they aren't going to sell the fruits of their labor--until prices go up. The thing that keeps prices from going up is, of course, OPA. In other words, the government. So the strike of the food producers is a. strike against government. And it says in the new department of agriculture appropriation bill that strikes against government are illegal.

So it comes out the same, any way you fig-

If you carry this to its logical conclusion, the gov-

ernment should call out the marines to break the. farmerg’ sit-down strike. The army was called on to break’ the railroad strike, and the navy was alerted to break the maritime strike. So this should be on the marines.

Where's the Difference?

SEND THEM OUT into highways and byways where farmers are hoarding grain and herding meat animals. Break this strike of the farmers, who waited so long in hope that congress would cripple OPA. Make these farmers sell now—without any more of these 30-cents-a-bushel bribes which the government had to pay to get relief shipments moving to Europe. Let the government “seize the farms.” Just let 'em Rry. But if it was fair to seize mines to keep the country running, why shouldn’t it be equally fair to seize farms, so that miners can get enough to eat? Or if it's fair for coal miners to shut down the country by refusing to mine coal without a contract, why isn't it equally fair for farmers to shut down the

country by refusing to sell food without a price -

increase?

Randolph Churchill ~.

Secrecy Is Needed in Negotiafions

PARIS, July 1.—Progress of the foreign ministers’ conference here has been as slow and cumbrous. as their previous meeting. But despite absence of agreefhent on fundamentals, the general atmosphere has certainly been more cordial. than before, The French government hospitably provides a small buffet in the Luxembourg palace, where delegates are served with champagne and snacks in intervals between their laborious discussions.

Byrnes for Publicity on Sessions

. THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN agreeably free from the personal recriminations between ey Foreign Minister Molotov and British Foreign tary Bevin which have been a feature of thelr previous meetings. On the other hand, there have been unnecessary difficulties between leading members of the delegations on purely techhical matters, such A8 press arrangements. At the previous Paris ‘meeting, some minor deadlocks had been broken at sessions where delegations were cut to a minimum and decisions werd kept secret. In hope of speeding up the procedure, Bevin proposed a series of similar sessions. Molotov and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault agreed. It was thought Byrnes was also in agreement, but later the American delegation saw American correspondents and gave them a full account, Byrnes.explained to the other foreign ministers that it was essential | that the American public be kept fully informed of day-to-day progress of negotiatipns. Later, however, Byrnes gave way, and sorhe [small and ‘secret’ sessions were held, } President Woodrow Wilson publicized the slogan: “Open” agreements openly arrived at.” This was part of his campaign against so-ca

secret diplomacy. ;

What he meant was that he was opposed to secret treaties, which in the past were concluded between governments and, after lying dormant for many years, were resurrected and had to be indemnified by millions of people who had never been consulted or even informed of the conditions which had been agreed to in their names. That Wilsonian principle is accepted by all rational men today. Unfortunately ‘the argument has been pushed too far. General prejudice against secret treaties has been invoked against any sort of private discussion between responsible leaders of great powers. This is folly of high order. If you want to buy a house or sell a farm, you do not conduct negotiations in public. Any form of financial transaction is normally conducted in private, No one has ever suggested that a woman bargaining with her modisty about the price of a hat should conduct her’ business in public. If you want to buy a horse, it's not normal to go into a public square and bellow the price you are prepared to pay. The same rules apply % negotiations- betwpen great powers.

Need Confidence in Spokesmen

DIPLOMACY, BY NATURE and definition, must be secret. It cannot be conducted ¢n the” housetops. But what modern democracy has a right to demand is that results should be proclaimed thereform. Under a system of free government, the , people

have the right and powér to elect their rulers. Having :

done so, they ought to give them some: measure of _ confidence. 1f thé peoples of the western democracies will not -give this confidence to their leaders, they

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