Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1946 — Page 12

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GOOD ONLY FOR UNCLE JOE So : A NEW YORKER named Morris Muster helped to organize the C. 1. 0. furniture workers’ union in 1987 and has been its international president ever since. He has just ‘resigned because, he says, "my record as a trades unionist will not permit me to remain head of a Communist-con-organization.” | | union has 42,000 members, of whom Mr. Muster & estimates only about 1000 are Communists. But he asserts | "(hat this small minority—*professional politicians first and | trades unionists only incidentally” dominated the ‘union's | | recent Detygit” convention. Through “chicanery and in-

90 hgsays, a hand{yl of 0 tes “who never saw the " inside of a furniture factory,” defea

ted "the" HRYOFItY wi phan or the whole ‘union.

oN Fh i thom get rid of leadership. Mr. Muster says he decided he eould do most to remedy the situation by resigning and “exposing it to pub- | ic view.’ :

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OF COURSE, ne will be denounced violently by the Communists and criticized by some non-communists in C. 1. 0. who prefer not to have such situations exposed. But

service. Plentiful evidence supports his charge that the Communists’ chief purposes are to attack the American | government, extol Soviet Russia and insist upon prolonged 4 strikes when disputes could be settled quickly by amicable ~ negotiations. : «And Mr. Muster speaks by the book when he adds: 3 “Those people are dangerously vicious. They are not " in the union to help workers, Anyone who goes along with them on the theory that that is the liberal thing to do is a f fool. I know, because I have been one. It is better to rid | the labor movement entirely of these people. They are no yood to suyone but Uncle Joe.”

: | PRICE CONTROL MUDDLE the price-control omelet can be unscrambled ; is today’s $64 question for congress and the country. i Putting that Humpty-Dumpty together again, with needed © improvements, looks like one of the toughest jobs on record. e If. we were—heaven forbid!-—a congressman, here's | what we'd try to do: | 1. Revive for a short time the law that expired Sunday | midnight. 2. Use the short time to rewrite the OPA extension bill President Truman vetoed Saturday, making a real effort to meet his ‘main objections. He

" . - . ” . ‘MF TRUMAN called the vetoed bill “impossible.” said it offered no more than “a choice between infla. tion with a statute and inflation ‘without one”—that it would continue the government's responsibility to stabil ize the economy and at the same time destroy the government’s power-to do so. And he made it plain that his choice, unless congress sends him something more acceptable, is to let congress take the blame for inflation without a statute. ; But he did not condemn everything in the bill, He = = was willing to accept some of its provisions, in some cases © with modifications. In fact, his veto message contained © about the first and only administration admissions we can + recall that price control could be changed in any respect ¢ = without being “crippled.” § If a few such admissions had been made earlier, the bill congress sent to Mr. Truman last week might have reached him sooner in more satisfactory form.

His party leaders in congress are pessimistic as to the | | chances for an improved measure. And his obvious effort | to make a political issue out of the amendments bearing | the names of Republican Senators Taft and Wherry was no olive branch: But, with a little good will on both sides, it might still be possible to devise a bill that would continue price controls for a year and yet remedy the faults of admnistration which, unquestionably, have tended to disourage maximum production. : Resignation of Chester Bowles may soften the atti- | tude of congress. Mr. Bowles, as head of OPA and as i economic stabilizer, has worked hard and zealously, But * the unfortunate fact is that a great number of congressmen & question his judgment, doubt many of his theories, resent | what they consider his excessive propaganda efforts to.ini timidate them, and conceivably would be willing to trust | some other man with much of the power they have tried to | take away from Mr. Bowles.

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» » » . be a further advance of many prices. We would much | prefer to see it wisely controlled and restrained by the | | government for the next few months. But neither such a bill as Mr. Truman vetoed nor failure to revive the expired

law would make an inflationary runaway inevitable.

: In the present situation, Mr. Truman, the OPA and | almost everyone else is advising producers, distributors, wage-earners and consumers to exercise self-restraint. The advice is sound. Without self-restraint, no law can save | us, With it, the American people can save themselves. And the reasons for exercising it are clear and compelling. If industry, business and agriculture grab for more than fair and reasonable profits, they can price themselves out of a market. If labor grabs for more than fair and reas‘onable wages, it can price itself out of jobs. And if consumcompete recklessly for scarce goods, they can spend of buying power. :

we think he has done a courageous and valuable publie |

say, but |

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death

your right to say it." —= Voltaire.

Inflation Is Too Serious to Play With; Write Congressmen"

By E. T. 0. Veteran, Park ave. “Hello, sucker!” is not a gresting that we ex-G.1’s welcome, but if the men who have seen the results of uncontrolled inflation from France and Belgium, to China, allow such a deadly and insidious foe to gain even the slightest foothold, it is a greeting which we deserve. In-the last few weeks we have seen goods deliberately withheld from a ready market in order to break the back of the consumers’ only defense against a rise in price of essential products—products which are

WITH or F without a statute, we believe, there is sure to |

EW. J. MAY (D. Ky.) of the house dmmittee, has been accused of bringinois "Phapton”. firms- handling

is ble for a legislator to attempt I ts. This is particularly true “ did exert such : jPressute he

Look at your wages. How great an increase can you afford in the prices of food, housing and clothing? Will your wages increase in proportion to the increase of price of these items? Have they ever done so in the history ‘of the world? There are about twelve million of us veterans. A note to your cone gressman reminding him that the government of the United States is still to be “for the people” might give us some measure of protection until such time as the "manufacturers get tired of waiting for maximum profits on a minimum of production and decide to accept the small profit on individual items and allow the mass of production to make these profits attractive. This is too serious a matter to play childish politics with, It concerns the well-being of each and everyone of us. ‘Think it over, fels lows, and let's hear your pros and cons loud,

gy. 8 & “HERE'S ONE WHO DOES NOT WELCOME NEW TAXES” . By Eunice Surface Betis, Greenwood As a resident property owner in Greenwood, I would like to protest your article in The Times on July 1, 1046, headed “Greenwood Welcomes Tax.” I am not cheerful about being saddled with a tax rate in excess of $5 to erect a school building here. I certainly don’t welcome a tax rate that places a property owner in the position where he can’t afford to live in his property and cannot find a buyer for it due to an exorbitant tax rate, Especially, I don't welcome such a tax rate when there is a solution to the problem, whereby both the children and taxpayers would derive greater benefits, : . » » “WHY DOES BUSINESS OBJECT TO PRICE CONTROL?" By L. N,, Indianapolis If businessmen, as they claim, have no intentions of raising prices, what is their objection to continuance of price control?

essential to your very life, not to comfort, alone.

“BEAT INFLATION BY TIGHTENING YOUR BELT” 4

By D. 0. B., Indianapolis Well, the lids. off.. Why put it back on? OPA died Sunday at midnight? Why dig up family skeletons? Price control is a thing the American people have to fight, Will we put off until tomorrow what we can do today? Do we run, from a fight? Not if guns and bombs are involved .'. . there's far less personal danger involved in fighting price increases. . Congress is = Weak -kneed. It proved that when it sent the Taftriddled OPA bill to Mr. Truman. The presi§ent did a brave thing. He isn't afraid to fight. When the people will not follow a leader who has done the right thing, our country is in a sorry mess. If a new price control bill is passed, Monday will be repeated a year from now. There's no point in assuming that when a manus facturer is told he can't have more than $1 today ... but he can have $2 tomorrow . . . he won't take the two bucks tomorrow. What happened Saturday, and in the days before the president got the bill, was a disgrace to representative government. Whom do congressmen profess to represent? They fall down in their duties’ to their country . . . then many of them try to distract public opinion from their ‘shameful act by tossing punches at a man who has done the right thing. The Taft-OPA bill wouldn't. have solved our problem. A new bill won't help it a bit. But the American people can do the trick , , . and the method is simple: Don’t buy a single thing unless the price is fair , , , if the price is too high, tell the butcher, baker, yrocer, manufacturer or dealer to go to the devil, tighten up your

Side Glances— By Galbraith

belt and stay in the fight. That's how to beat inflation.

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COPR. 1946 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, T. M, RES, UV. 8. PAT. OFF,

“CITY HAS NO ROOM FOR BULLIES, POLICE OR OTHERS”

By 0. A. 8, Indianapolis Recently a young lady of this “fair” city was stopped by a traffic policeman for running a red light. To keep the records straight, the light was changing when she drove through. In the course of the questioning she was asked for her driver's license--she didn't have it A technicality which the law does not condone. That too is of little concern here. What is more important is the treatment she received from this officer. -This man pried into her private affairs. She was recently married—he wanted to know the why and the where of the cere mony. He asked how long she had lived here—where she was employed, and consistently used an overbearing tone in his questioning and lecturing. Mr, Editor, is our police force a law-enforcing body—a correcting and helpful body, ‘or is it an overbearing, forceful - offspring of the despicable idea that might makes right and intimidation is the keynote of the day for our constabu« lary? It seems to me an officer of the law should not inspire fear in the citizens, That is not the idea behind a law-enforcing body. Friend liness and courtesy, coupled with

with her,

| Just application of the statutes and

ordinances where and when they are broken will do much more to promote a better Indianapolis. Our city has no room for bullies —whether they are” in uniform or private citizens. We need friendly “cops.” Very little can ‘ever be acs complished by stick and bitters except more bitterness and resentment, I say “leave us be dovent. about things.”

28 2 “WHY NO ACTION TAKEN TO HELP VETERAN HOUSING?”

By G. IL Wife, N. Illinois st, I've noticed that you have published several letters from G. L's. It seems to be about time someone did something about living conditions in this city. My husband spent over three years, in the army and eighteen months overseas—but the details of those years are apparently unimportant to the majority of people, because on returning, he (and all the thousands like him) are without a place to live. Well, that’s not quite the truth—they can find a place to live, if they can live in hovels and, if not enjoy, at least tolerate bedbugs, cockroaches, mice and rats, If a returned soldier happens to be married, the unfortunate fact remains — he can’t afford to live in a hotel at the present “transient” rates, so a house~ keeping room is what is needed. The only thing is—the kind you like are not to be had—the king

~ Aren't you wasting time reading, Dorothy? J only thing m men Fk ! voom to notice in summer is figurei—t ‘i 2 about brains il winter!"

hey don’ t Think,

you find (and, incidentally, can af- | ford) are such a horrfble travesty {of the so-called “American way of | living” that even Europeans, un{used as they are to modernity, would be shocked! The purpose of this is to try to find out if there is any board, organization, or committee to which | this substandard of lving can be | sows, and by means of which a | decent standard of living may be |attained. Apparently, even the board of health doesri't waste time | inspecting various rooming houses lin which people have to live—par« | don me, exist. Landlords and owners are re- | sponsible for this slum-type existence, Is the board of health too | lazy, or too politically involved?

DAILY THOUGHT

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WHEN THEY NAME the baby, it is an event. When a woman changes her name at martiage, it is a custom. When actors emerge as stars, their new names for the stage nudge Glory and Hope, But when “Hoosier” betame Indiana's nickname a Pandora's hox was opened. Out of it flew all the blessings of its new name except one-—the hope of knowing beyond question how she got the name. Though the world promptly acclaimed her tholce, the state has ever been intriguted by the slippery origin of its nickname, k

Origin Lost in Past . AMATEUR ATTACK on the problem has usually been through some specific incident. For example: from “Who's year?" asked in a saloon the on

morning after the night before, the “year” lying the ‘saloon floor having been bitten off in brawl; from the Hungarian “hussars” “hooshers” by the natives; from “Who's yere?”

7h ; First of all, the word “Hoosier” has the ping and the ‘punch of the Anglo-Saxon “hoo,” meaning high, It blends with “Hooss,” a coast parish of England. It has the dialect English touch of “hooger” of Cumberland, England, meaning some. thing unusually large. Thess three basic English words naturally grow

‘felled into “Hoosier,” had long been used in sections in a casual, offhand way, . by al clase o people, much as “country jake” and “hiyseed” have been used in other places and more modern times. " Out'of this welter of possibility, amateurish conjec-

WASHINGTON, July 5~The fate of price conirol through a renewed OPA is now before the people and congress.

It is, essentially, a simple issue, ha to do with the cost of things we must have to ie explains the intense interest of everybody. ‘The fight here in

Washington, set off by President Truman's courage. ous veto of an unsatisfactory bill, is the chief topic of conversation in every city, town and hamlet, as are the price increases which some selfish interests al ready are making. ra

Other Threats to Pe ople OPA REPRESENTS ATTEMPT of the gov ernment, on behalf of the people, to prevent gouging of customers. Price gouging is something that happens also in many other ways. One of the chief abuses in our country, which has been with us grew up as a nation, is the fixing of

dustries—at a higher level than is necessary a decent profit. This also is a gotige on the pockets book. Monopolies are on the increase today through concentration of business into bigger and bigger units in fewer and fewer hands. To protect us against this costly evil, congress years ago passed the anti-trust laws. Their enforcement was entrusted to the justice department, which has an anti-trust division that acts as a public counsel, OPA is only temporary. The anti-trust function is desighed as a constant protection against those who are able to exploit because of their tre mendous power, .

"WASHINGTON, July 5. — atomic bomb dropped on Bikini was no ———— explosion than the one President Truman dropped in vetoing OPA exten-

sion. Question is, what's left? What can be salvaged? Which way do they go from here? Whatever the Bikini damage, it could not be worse than the economic rubble here. The majority of congress; apparently intent on wrecking OPA, succeeded beautifully,

Many "ifs" Involved

BUT SINCE THIS HAPPENED the way It did, there's no use erying about it. If you want to be an optimist, you can hope it will work out in spite of the confusion, This interval of the next week or so, in which congress tries to make up what you might odll its “mind” on what controls—if any-should be slapped back on, may give the country a chance to see. just how much inflationary pressure there really is. If prices don’t soar—if rents aren't raised—if there aren't a lot of noises that sound like increased wage demands a-coming—if people don’t flock into the markets to buy everything in sight because they fear prices are going higher than the Bikini bomb cloud—if stocks of merchandise supposedly held off the market aren't now offered at fantastic prices since they have beén freed of price controls— If all these things don’t begin to happen, then it will be a good demonstration that the country is now ready to have the controls taken off and a free economy restored. ¢ If these things do begin to happen befor¢ congress can act, it will demonstrate OPA should be continued. It will then be up to congress to get the OPA brakes

WORLD AFFAIRS

LONDON, July 5.=The British government, through a liberal and flexible program, is undertaking to train men and women for business and professional careers that were interrupted by the war. Part of its aim is to double the output by colleges and universities of skilled scientists, Otherwise, an Anvestigating committee has warned, there will be 26,000 too few of these workers to meet Britain's requirements 10 years from now.

Based on Occupational Needs OTHER FORMS of advanced education are not going neglected, however, and in some liberal arts schools new entrants will include up to 90 per cent veterans or those who served in other forms of essential war work. The plan makes no distinction between those leaving the armed forces, and those who were directed. to, employment of “national importance,” such as mining. It provides only that normal schooling or training should have been interrupted for a year or more. For meri and women with previous training, there are refresher eourses and “appointments” offices to aid them in their search for employment. For those who had no chosen careers before their war service, the labor ministry has prepared careful surveys of more than 150 vocations, ranging from brewing to social work and surgery. Requirements, costs of training, salaries, and future prospects are among the points covered, On a sliding scale veterans may recelve as much as$640 a year, with $440 more for a wife, and $160 for each child during the training period, in addition to tuition and books. . About, 5000 persons already have qualified under

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Ao SAGA OF INDIANA © By Wilam A Madow Whence Comes Name of ‘Hoosier?

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a strang when John Finley's poem, “The Hoosier's Nest," was | ournal, ve?

ture, undisputed facts, ‘the entire matter of " as a nickname for Indiana, was brought

e climax on Jan. 1, 1833,

published in the Indianapolis J Bo far as anybody knows, with four minor and unimportant exceptions, this is the first authentie public record of the word “Hoosier” as a nickname for Indiana state and Indiana people, Where Finley got the word, ‘nobody knows, Not even Finley, himself, knew. He just picked it up as he found it in use among people where he lived. This 1s basically important, because it blends with every« thing else we know about the word “Hoosier” As a Southerner, EE Eeooarre pouty, Virginia Fine

Rt 3 fevioation by, suiden Deeps. "Kao he wrote the first draft of “The. Hoosler's Nest” in 1830. There, in the upper reaches of thie Whitewater * valley, where many southern folk lived, the word Hoosler was used casually and naturally as Southerners used it. . But all this aside’ The “Hoosier” in Finley's “The Hoosier's Nest," was os Joi

Yet the toast of Davis was only the Kickoft, Within two years “The Hoosier” newspaper had been Maysville, Ky, Werd™ pub. Articles about the “Hoosier Stats of Indiana.”

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- torical background, does not intrigue a modern Hoosier, Rather, his Hoosier, tops in America, spurs -

hfm on to high endeavor. - Bo the "Old Hickory” and the “Old Abe” of Jacke son and Lincoln, and his own “Hoosier” stress a “whither going?” rather than the “whence comes?”

“of his once intriguing “Whence comes Hoosier?”

IN WASHINGTON + + + By Thomas L. Stokes Scuttling OPA Not Only Vital Issue

This leads to a reminder that the peopl might ag well keep their eyes on other things going on here, ‘as well as OPA. For instance~-what the senate interstate come merce committee did without mueh public attention a few days ago when it reported to the senate a bill, already by the house. That would restrict the people's counsel, the justice depgrtment anti-trust division, in its right to intervene on behalf 6f the public with anti-trust complaints against railroads, This measure, starting in the house as the Bul winkle. bill, would exempt from anti-trust prosecution agreements for fixing ratés and for many other purposes that were approved by the interstate come merce commission. But the ICC would have limited and vague authority under the bill, especially in ¢ the form reported This, also, is a into the cost of almost everything we eat, wear and use. So this is another way, invisible to most of us, to raise our cost of living.

Southern Democrats Lead Fight

A NUMBER OF SOUTHERN SENATORS have banded together to stop this bill. Its railroad backers sought to hurry it through congress to try to head off a suit brought in the supreme court by Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia against the Pennsylvania and other railroads. The suit charged there was a cone

spiracy under the anti-trust laws to fix rates diserime =

inatory to’ the South. That explains the interest of Southern Senators. The bill is a bold move to fastem a dangarous monopoly on the people,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson Is Country Ready for Free Economy?

relined in’ order to keep the country from going inte an inflationary skid over the brink, There are a couple of catches to any such test as this. If prices don’t go up much in the next few weeks, there may be o suspicion that the people who have things to sell are just being good for the period of uncertainty, and that they'll apply their squeeze later, If congress gets the idea that price controls are now unhécessary. and -goes home without providing for economic brakes of any kind, it will be flirting with the undertaker. When gongress adjourns is will go home for the elections, and it won't be back until they're over. A special session could be called to deal with inflation, if it got bad.” But any possibility of reconvening congress within several months - and trying to roll prices back to even present levels is clear out of the question. When an economic bomb such as sudden removal of price control is once dyepped, there is no way to suck it back after the borib’s away. That's the danger of this present horrible mess. Congressmen Dodge Blame IN TRYING TO BLAME for this snarled state of affairs, everybody is accusing everybody else, and they're all probably right. Congressmen going home to face their voters have a handy alibl. They can say: “The President killed OPA by his veto.” Congress passed the best pricecontrol extension bill it could agree on, but the Presi dent killed it.” That's a cheap argument, If congress was so convinced of its own wisdom, it should have passed

‘the bill over the President's veto, to clear its own

record.

By David M. Nichol

Britain Trains White Collar Worker .

For those seeking business training an entirely new program has been devised. They will have three months of concentrated schooling, and will then enter approved and co-operating business concerns for ade ditional training. The first intensive dourse began in April, with about 1500 enrolled. To assist trained men in finding permanent places, some of the wartime officer selection practices have been modified and applied. A study was made, through the Midlands industrial region, of the jobs which would be avallable and the special aptitudes they would require. Thirteen placement offices are functioning in Britain's larger cities. There is also a central “technical and scientific register” in London for those with university degrees or membership in professional socleties: ; tantly about 40,000 persons are listed in these offices. Alexander Gunn, labor ministry director of appointments, explains, however, that about 20,000 of them are veterans who exercised their rights in claiming their former jobs, but who now want te change,

Peak Is Passed OF THE REMAINING 20,000, he said, about one~

‘third are ex-regular army officers whose pensions

have proved inadequate under present living dif« ficulties. Another third are persons formerly in sales work for which there is 20 demand while there is nothing to sell. . The rest, Gunn sald, reprisent Britain's current total of genuinely unemployed white-collar workers.

this plan’and the number is expected to increase Labor ministry olgialy believe the peak WAL Jase proeeeds > Tat Janumry, ak i J

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