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INDIANAPOLIS AND “FAIR EMPLOYMENT”

time has come, it seems to us, for a little plain talk and complete frankness about the municipal “fair em-

‘ployment practice” ordinance now before Indianapolis city council, “This ordinance proposes to forbid by city law any Mdiscrimination” for or against anyone who wants a job because of his “race, creed, color or nationality,” It would ‘take it illegal for anyone in Indianapolis to hire a man “because he is a Presbyterian, or a Negro, or a Frenchman, sor an American citizen, or to refuse to hire him for any of those reasons. Ostensibly it is intended to’heJp members of minority groups to get jobs, the implication being that they now

~~ I¢annot find jobs because of their race, creed, color or na- | i - tionality. * the Hive rembte chance of actually helping “to eliciidiesy:

‘If it was honestly so. inténded, and if. it had

‘racial or religious prejudice, we would certainly be for it. "Because we believe it is not honestly intended by its own real ‘sponsors to accomplish any such purpose, and ‘pecause it can only create and not reduce such prejudice, we are most emphatically against it, We realize that some of the people who approve this proposal are genuinely and earnestly interested in fair employment opportunities for all races and ‘creeds . . . people whose sincerity we do not question. We wish, too, ®&hat there might be an easy short-cut to univérsal tolerance and fairness . . . as easy as passing a law, But there isn't. ” . " » » » EAL pressure behind this ordinance comes from the * ‘Indianapolis head of the Communist party, backed by A little handful of fellow travelers who deny they are Communists but who almost always find themselves agreement with the party line from Moscow. We do not believe Communists are genuinely interested in better working conditions, or religious tolerance, or friendly relations between races and groups. Their whole record is directly contrary to all this. Their whole program is based on dissension and conflict between races and groups. Their activity alone in this matter should be the tip-off Ao councilmen, and to the city as a whole, that this proposal is not what it pretends to be. "If council should enact this ordinance, which it probably has no legal authority to do, it would be doing great, ‘and perhaps irreparable injury to the growing spirit of

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"Streetcar Company Is Entitled

To Fare Increase; Others Raising"

. By Mrs. G. A. R,, Westbrook Ave,

I have been reading with much interest the pros and cons on why the Indianapolis railway should and should not. raise .their fares to three tokens for 25 cents. I ride thé cdrs and busses every day and

mutual tolerance and fairness of which this city may be 80 ywould, therefore, be affected by the raise, but do wish somebody would

sjustly proud. Because we are deeply interested in the welfare of minorities and their continued advancement

explain to me why they are not entitled to an increase in their revenue, the same as all other places of: business which have been and are raising their prices every day. Each day the papers are filled ‘with

An Indianapolis, we sincerely trust the council will reject |increases in prices of some kind: 11 cents per pound on butter; 2 cents

this tricky attack on them.

LET POLITICS WAIT HE Truman-Taft debate over who killed Cock Robih +" may be interesting, but the thing not to lose sight of “now is that Cock Robin is dead. What will happen to our household budgets, in terms “of rent, food, clothing and other necessities, is a lot more ‘important to us than where the blame will lie when we get “around to the November, 1948, elections. TT » » w w * | THE OPA'’s demise really started soon after V-J day "= when the administration embraced the fallacy that wages could be increased sharply without raising prices. ! Lahor, unions, naturally, cheered for that attractive theory. "The resulting drive for higher wage rates brought long i strikes in automobile, steel, coal and other basic industries. yMany unions won wage jncreases of 18145 cents an hour, more or less, but so stalled production that there were fewer goods for workers to buy with higher pay. i * From then on Cock Robin, one wing crippled, could ionly flutter with the other. i Congress, when it got around to voting another year iof price controls, tried to write a formula compelling the {OPA to allow more rapidly and generously for higher pro‘duction costs in granting price increases, President Truman, unwilling to accept this consequence of his administration’s earlier mistakes, vetoed the bill. With Robin such a dead bird, and growing colder by the hour, what next? The President, and almost all members of congress, want rent control, That can, and should, be revived quickly and extendéd for a year. The present turmoil, economic and political, may make it impossible for the President ‘to get a new price-control bill any better than the one he vetoed, if as good.

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¥ ~ # » " vy RGET politics and 1948, and the problem is a little simpler. If we get to work and produce—if labor labors and management manages—a flood of needed goods can quench the inflationary fire more effectively than any law.

If we don’t get to work and produce, supply will lag far |!

behind demand and prices will continue to rise, regardless of any law that congress can pass.

QUESTIONS FOR MR. LA GUARDIA ~ DEFENDING the administration of UNRRA in Europe, Director La Guardia sets up and knocks down his own | . straw men, but he doés not answer.some of the serious _ charges which have been raised. He finds without basis what he termed “a very ugly story” that a Soviet general in Yugoslavia was diverting UNRRA gasoline to his personal use. It would be more ~.$o-the point if he would answer the charge that UNRRA shipped gasoline into Yugoslavia during the same period

| Marshal Tito was using vast quantities in the military

- maneuvers he has been conducting as a threatening gesture

‘against Italy. Mr. La Guardia says UNRRA does not inquire into the affiliations of people getting the food given to governments. Bit does fie follow up the delivery

of Communist-controlied governments ? , Mr. La Guardia implies that his critics want | to use UNRRA food as a political weapon against : That is reversing the charge that UNRBA

» We do not want to use food as a ] do Welw Th our food used as a

food to see what happens to it after it passes into |

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per quart on milk; 1 cent on bread, and from $50 to $100 on autemobiles, ete. Yet the public accepts these increases with nothing more than a comment,

The Indianapolis railway has struggled through four or five years of war with shortage of help and material. Consequently the equipment has depreciated and is badly in need of overhauling and replacement. All they are asking for is a small increase in fares to make|g these repairs and replacepents. A few years ago when the railway equipped their system with new cars, trackless trolleys and busses, I remember of people coming from all over the United States and Canada to see it operate and complimented Indianapolis on their very wonderful system.. Yet, today, when all they are asking is a small increase n their revenue to keep this system, which we are all so proud of, they are turned down by the city and public service and ridiculed by the people of Indianapolis. I have ridden on railway systems in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Oklahoma City and St. Louls and feel that Indianapolis excels them all in service and equipment. I am sure were it to be checked it would be found, in any larger city where the railways have a cheaper fare, that the system is owned and operated by the city-and kept up by the taxpayers, which in taxes would run more than three rides for 25 cents. , I have also noticed how faithful the Indianapolis railway system has been to the boys returning from service. Many of them are either wearing army clothing or a service button. The pay, hours, riles a regulations must be ea their employees or we would be left stranded on the corner like many

other cities where they are now having strikes and labor troubles. This letter is not written to start arguments in the Forum but is only my personal opinion of the Indianapolis railways, and let us not lose a wonderful transit system over a small increase in our fares. ” » “TEEN-AGE BOYS OF TOD FOUL-MOUTHED” .

y/a Housewife, Indianapolis “We have a rare thing on our

street, a teen-age boy with the manners of a gentleman, The rest are foul-mouthed, disrespectful. I

don't know of a better place for thee teen-age boys than Uncle Sam's army or navy. These boys’ parents are absolutely to blame. I have two boys, age four and seven, who have to hear and grow up around these-kind because, you see, if we sold our home and moved on another street, we would find more, as they are numerous in this city. The street we live on is supposed to be one of the best in the west end.

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a nn “TRUMAN OPA VETO WAS ACT OF STATESMANSHIP”

By L. F., Indianapolis Up until Saturday President Truman appeared to me nothing more than a tinhorn politician. His action in vetoing an outrageous price control act written by cone gressmen who represent the National Association of Manufacturers rather: than their constituents makes Mr. Truman a statesman for my money. On the strength of that alone, if he wants to run in 1948, he can count on the votes in my family.

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“YOTERS REJECT MEN WHO THINK INDEPENDENTLY”

By John Alvah Dilworth, 518% Broadway Voters and other citizens often say that something will not be done by the city council or mayor “because this is election year.” Why should an election, which is a progress of a democratic-republic city, prevent the doing of things that ought to be done? It is not the fault of the mayor or the city council because these elected officials are, or at least should be, American citigens above the average in intelligence and sense of responsibility. It is the fault of us, the eligible voters of Indianapolis. We do not make it easy for a person to be elected if he thinks only of the good of the city. We sometimes get a man as mayor or men on the city council who are not afraid of us—men who stand on what facts, logic and reason indicate and not the spirit of coercion, collusion, conspiracy, encroachment, entrapment or intimidation—men who “would rather be right than president,” but we vote against them at election time because they have done something we do not like, rather than for men in whom we have confidence on the whole. Instead of abusing and making demands on the city councilmen when “they do not vote as our possible selfish interests dictate, let us back the people we believe in and elect because independence should be the rule and not the exception in the city council. A democratic-republic city is important. THerefore, let us get statesmen in our city government next election and if they do not prove to be good men in office, go to the polls and get rid of them regardless of what party they belong to because business, charity, labor and social organigations depend on a democratic-republi¢ city. The present - city administration is, I believe, a post-war failure for bungling in circumstances that may lead to the greatest accident record and for subjecting the Indianapolis people ‘to a possible new all-time death r&cord. Just as we have achieved a victory over a lowered death rate we are staggered by the ever-increasing city death rate through failure to properly plan for post-war traffic, » » ~ “CITY TRANSPORTATION IS MUCH TOO CROWDED”

By Isaac Jones, Hotel English I read in your issue of Thursday

where the local transit company was denied increase in fares. I also

|| noted their program of retaliation,

one particularly that would reduce service. I have for two evenings observed busses leaving the station on the Circle, packed to the windshield, and I mean packed. I understand busses appear idle at the car barns

(})|—surely not due to shortage of

manpower these days. I have ridden over your city via transit and I must say it appears to be well-patronized at ‘all hours. For a utility to threaten to curtail service because of one token's difference in sale to patrons, seems to be a very small attitude, inasmuch ‘Bas 10 cents cash fare is charged, plus 2 cents for transfer. You have a fine-appearing city, but the transit attitude of retaliation is conspicuous.

DAILY THOUGHT

The strangers shall fade away, and -be afraid out of their close places. ~Psalms. 18:45.

‘Shame arises from the fear of fx cl ence from the fear of

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|SAGA | OF INDIANA .

“SO THIS IS CALIFORNIA—the ‘land_ of sun= shine, fruit, ahd flowers!" Not for me. Back to In. diana I' goto stay.” = This is a bus driver speaking. horses were stationed at an entrance to the quadrangle of Leland Stanford Jy. University one morning in the early 1800's. It was raining-—a warm, midJanuary, round-the-clock California rain, as only such a rain can be,

Can't Define the Species

THE BUS DRIVER was waiting for passengers, students released from .classrooms at the next inters mission, all bound for Palo Alto, a mile or so Away. | As the driver waited, he looked California square in the eye—her hair down, dripping wet, at her -bedraggled worst. And for once, .the proud state of Oalifornia was weighed in the balance and found wanting. This fellow was a Hoosler,.and speaking of Hooslers, nobody oan define one. You can say that a Hoosier is one born in Indiana, and, by birth that is true. You éan decide that a Hoosier is a state of mind, and that could be true; or a way of life, and that also might be true. For instance: A man stood in front of his little shack at the edge of a 10-acre berry patch on the low, rolling foothills of the coast range mountains, a county or so north of San Francisco. He had been lured to this patch by a marr soaked in the berry lore of the section. As he glanced it over, he sald to an admiring caller: “Yes, it's all mine, but every fime I look at the lousy thing, I think ‘how good God was to Indiana.” Thus the rosy dream of a good Hoosier had died in a litle berry patch of California, These two Hoosiers were realists. They had taken

IN WASHINGTON .

WASHINGTON, July 3.—~There was a hush, as in a church, and the faces of men and women of congress. were sober and serious. So were those of the cabinet and the supreme court and others who had - gathered in the house. President Truman sat on the front row below the

Roosévelt sat back of him, her face drawn, A minister prayed. . Speaker Rayburn spoke briefly of this hour set aside to honor President Roosevelt. Someone sang. John G. Winant delivered a tribute. A bugler blew taps. Someone else sang. There was a benediction. The ceremony was over,

Cant: Escape Histo br a: iat the final estimate of

rn D. key would not be made here and now but later by those who would judge not only him but all of us. He quoted what Abraham Lincoln had said in a message to congress in 1862: “We can not escape history. We of this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The flery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor .to the latest generation.” He quoted President Roosevelt: “To some generations much is given; of some generations much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.” This place and this hour seemed set off somehow from everything. The noise of the atomic bomb did not reach here. Nor even the nolsy voices of conflict in the world outside. But the man who was being honored, in this brief, quiet moment, a time lifted as it were out of the tumult, knew about the atomic bomb and its portentous meaning. He knew about the voices of conflict in the world outside, so often had he heard them; and the voices of the vlain people, which he understood so well.

REFLECTIONS Lively Trends of

NEW ORLEANS, July 3.-—Along about this time of the year when it starts to get hot in New York, there is a slight depopulation in the .intellectual 3d ave. bars. This means that, coincident to the first attack of prickly heat, a great many writing people have decided to go out and prowl the countryside in search of trends and a cooling breeze. * They feel the public pulse. They pick the public brain. They investigate something called grass-roots, a plece of horticultural research which somehow has gotten mixed up with journalism,

From Gulf to Pacific

THAT IS WHY I am down here in the cornpone country. That, and because of loneliness. Practically everybody I know in New York is off secondguessing the atom, beating the bushes for homely Americana, or philosophizing—another word for thumb-sucking—in the social-minded strata of Hollywood. I was running out of people to talk to. Well, I figure that if the other fellers can go out trend-stalking, then neither am I a bum as a trend guy. I can probe the public mind as well as the next

nearest village idiot and asking him what he thinks of thie atom, the late OPA, Mr. Truman, and the Louis-Conn fight as a social symbol. It sounds a little. silly to swap New York heat for New Orleans heat, but down here you sweat romantically, like in Cuba, and you don't have to share your heat with your fellow man in subways. As a matter of fact, war has done a great thing for New Orleans. It has mechanized the art of keeping cool. The mint julep now is made on an assemblyline basis. That's to say, when one pickaninny plucks the mint, another hands you the finished product, while six guys in between concern themselves with frosting, pounding, and sticking the ‘sprigs in the right spot.

TODAY IN EUROPE Feeding World ls

PARIS, July 3.—The most important fact in the current world food shortage is one that ‘is seldom mentioned—there is nothing very new about it. §ince the dawn of time, there has never been enough food in the world for all its inhabitants to have three square meals a day. In all except the most advanced

_communities, populations have always tended to breed up to the subsistence level,

Except in bumper years, scores of millions of the human race have always gone hungry. And in years of famine, millions have died. What is new about the present shortage is that, for the first time, the world is hearing about it and its conscience has been aroused. In the past, no one Shep bothered to plan the distribution of the world’s

Shronges and Richest Eat WAS ALWAYS ENOUGH for the richest and strongest countries. . Whoever else went hungry, frenchmen and Germans, Englishmen and Americans, Scandinavians and Italians always had enough to ward off starvation. Even if their owh harvests failed, they had reserves of gold and foreign currency with which, in a free world market, they could buy enough to keep -body and soul together. Very different was the position in Asig. There, enormous primitively organized communities have lived for countless generations rooted and chained to the soil. Scores of millions of them have always lived and died on the borderline of starvation. And in bad times, they have died off like flies. The general victory of the allies has niade them responsible for the welfare of hundreds of millions of people who had to shift for themselves in the past. This has been partly due to occupation of Germany, Italy, Japan and other places.» You cannot occupy a countfy without accepting responsibility at least for ‘suryival of its inhabitants. y But what had, underlined the tftespanaiviity of the

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bank of flowers about the speaker's rostrum. Mrs. °°

man, because it is merely a process of rounding up the *

an X-ray picture of California ballyhoo, the world's greatest. . They did not have to guess whether there wére bones~or boners, in the hands of this ballyhoo, They knew--with the X-ray penetration of the realist But these men were idealistic, too. The bus driver still nursed his: idealist’s hopes of Indiana, and the berry man Btill cherished ‘ the goodness of God to Indiana, This strength of Hooster realism and Hoosier idealism Is the marvel of their balanced combination. In them is the duality of all things—action and reaction; top and bottom; male and female: odd and even: motion and rest. They are as basic as that. This balanced combination of realism and idealism that runs deep and strong in Hoosier folks and things stems fundamentally froth the location of the state in its patch of North America.

Has Touch of All Sections THIS 18 THE PICTURE: Indiana is far enough cast to get the touch and poise of the older, séttled east. It Is far enough north to catoh, the vigor and the virile’ push of a colder north, and its dynamio machine-age slant, It is far enough west to know’ the feel of wide-sweeping plains, of far horizons, and thrill of the clarion eall of hope from an expanding, Jorward-looking west, It is far enough south, dipping down at its “toe” to mid-Virginia latitude, to sense the soft feel, the modern flair, and the smoothing ways of the deep south. Thus a» Hoosier is a fast automobile with a good brake: a humanitarian with one hand on his heart and the other on his pocketbook; cautious about a dark room and deep water, but moving boldly with great aims to high gains, Bo, speaking of Hoosiers: real man;

A good Hoosier is a

. By Thomas L. Stokes pg Truman €peaking for Plain People

They do not seem to make themselves heard so well any more. Mr. Winant said: “We. can speak of Pranklin Roosevelt as a living man.” And, truly, the great house chamber seemed to be filled with his presence for this few moments. . The service over, Mrs. Roosevelt left, with her son, Elliott, and his wife. President Truman rose and walked up the main aisle and out of the house, The mantle has fallen upon him. Over this last weekend he had assumed it. He spoke out in behalf of the plain people. . After the service, the big issue of the day thundered again in the house, so quiet only a few minutes before. The issue was stated clearly by President Truman—whether the people are to be protected against inflation, or _shether greed for profit is to be triumphant, The issue is simple,-the solution is not.” The solu~ tion is not simple because it involves far more than price control. It involves the issue that Pranklin Roosevelt grasped so well. Spelled out, it is simply: “Who owns the United States?”

To Save Government for People ALL ABOUT US are signs that the destiny of the people, as it relates to jobs and homes and security, is ‘controlled by fewer and fewer men in industry and financé. Concentration of economic power went on swiftly during the war, and this private government is getting bigger than the people's government. Proof is plentiful. There was.the recent report of the Smaller War Plants Corp. showing that during the war big corporate interests grew bigger. War plants built with the people's money have gone to big interests to make them bigger. Concentration of economic power is going on in numerous other ways. The fight for price control is only one skirmish in the over-all war to save the people's government for the people.

. By Robert C. Ruark

the Public Thinking

I haven't decided what trends T will track down here, but I have seen no bulletins lately on a colored piano player who used.to play in one of the old absinthe houses, and who was a trend all by himself. Nobody has bothered to tell me what food restrictions have done to coffee and square doughnuts with no holes at the morning call, down by the market. I figure to find out whether life is still interesting on the Vieux Carre after 3 a. m. before I succumb to the local occupational disease, caused by overdose of shrimp Remoulade and absinthe frappes. When that happens I intend to buzz off to San Francisco. Apart.from that old blond trend, whose name escapes me, there are sufficient fascinating things to keep any searcher after truth amused. I haven't any idea about what's happened to the abalone industry of which the finished product is best with tartar sauce. While in San Francisco, I intend to do some power« ful pieces about scenery. There is an especially colorful bit of optical debauchery to be observed from the top of the Mark Hopkins hotel. The natives say that the view of the bridge, seen mistily through a Tom Collins, has been known to throw an observer into such raptures that he immediately orders another Tom Collins,

Ho, Hum! YOU GET NO deep thinking out of Ruark. until he hits Los Angeles, the city of grease-painted political consciousness where, surrounded by girls with false eyebrows, false facades, and a penchant for calling everybody including the garbage man “darling,” I intend to knock out some shattering commentaries on mankind's foibles—unless I am too busy going to parties. ’ : Get set for some potent pulse feeling, people. For wrapping my expense account arqund me and gazing regretfully at the setting sun on the neck of a Broadway bookmaker, I am off to observe life. w

. By Randolph Churchill

Permanent Problem

allies and made their duty inescapable has been the ending of the free world food markets which used to exist before the war, To fight and win the war, all food had to be controlled and distributed as carefully as any other munition. Hence, establishment of the combined food board. This organization has at its disposal the distribution of practically all the world’s surplus food outside of what is grown in Russia. Before the war, under operation of a free market, no one Mothered much about how their neighbors fered. If 5,000,000 Chinese died of starvation, few

‘people heard about it outside of China. Those who

did might perhaps organize some form of relief that barely touched the fringe of the problem. Now, through accident of war, food problems of the world are being tackled on a world-wide scale, At the same time, there is coming into being the United Nations. And in all civilized countries, there is a growing conviction of the interdependence of all nations and races.

Will Have to Carry On

"WE CAN BE QUITE SURE that the responsibility which the United Nations and the victorious allies have inadvertently assumed can never be - shelved. Having started to plan distribution of the world’s inadequate food supplies, we shall have to carry on, “Poverty in the midst of plenty” has long been an anomaly of the modern world. Until modern oy there was-no means of rectifying food shortages in. . one part of the world with abundance from another part, Now means are available and, by pure~chance of war, a mechanism has been created for doing this job. That mechanism may be primitive today, but 1t is inconceivable ‘that it will be allowed 0: SoTiapse with signing of the peace. Without doubt, the world has got a new Job on its hands, one which will inevitably change the whole. t putue, of world sonomy, : 2 J . rk yi a : 4 - -

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