Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1946 — Page 8

Saturday, July 6, 1946 HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE

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THE HOBBS ACT

if they denounce President Truman Hobbs anti-racketeering bill into law.

hy s, ineluding: the right. ‘to strike, t

That never should have been open to

that language.

had tried to prosecute.

actual violence, compelling their owners to after collecting the money they demanded. abused by numerous unions, and that is all their frenzied campaign against the Hobbs

the worst. When they oppose legislation

to other matters.

rights.

THE AMERICAN WAY

of July.

race nor creed. has withdrawn and surrendered “all rig the people of the Philippines. spire terror and submission for an hour.

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DON'T VOTE IN MISSISSIPPI

A lot of people in other states resent the

tion to say so.

state, resent what they consider outside

ard apparently gave Bilbo just the issue h a majority in his state.

mouths shut, the Mississippi voters quite li made a better choice.

REAL AMERICANS ACK in America today, after two and a

ancestry,

Unit eitations were numerous. up of no retelling hers,

trained for a year in Mississippr.

but “colored.” : guarded German prisoners of war w

Wiig Japs.”

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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Orn Way J FADERS of the big labor organizations will be foolish

or what Mr, Truman did was right and a ‘genuine | ‘service to unionism as well as to the general public. i Phillip Murray of the C. I. 0., William Green of the © AF. of L. and others had demanded a veto, charging that “anti-labor” courts could interpret the Hobbs bill to make | penal offenses out of legitimate union activities. : But that charge, as Attorney General Clark has shown, Was: unadulterated bunk. . Mr. Clark, who analyzed the bill for the. President, could find in it no possible danger to that “it was Dot intended and |. — to ‘picket, and" ; ako pther lggitimate gnd peaceful concerted-action.” “The new law was drawn with great care to accomplish a single necessary purpose—namely to make it plain that congress intends union officers and members to be liable to criminal penalties, just as all other persons are, if they obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion.

ever, in 1934, when congress was gonsidering the original federal anti-racketeering law, labor lawyers asked for the inclusion of certain language which they said would safeguard legitimate union activities, and congress wrote in

5) 2 . =» IX 1942, a “pro-ldbor” majority of the U. S. held that congress thereby had indicated it didn't mean the anti-racketeering law to punish such conduct as that of certain New York union teamsters whom the government The teamsters had been holding up trucks entering New York City and, by threats and

union drivers whose services were neither wanted nor needed and who, in some cases, refused to do any work

The new Hobbs act repeals that supreme court decision and withdraws an evil special privilege which has been

The big labor leaders have made many mistakes, and

mistakably sound and fair and in the interest of honest workers, they encourage public doubt of their sincerity as

If they keep on, they will find the American people less and less inclined to pay any attention to them even when they have a good case to present against legislative proposals that actually could endanger labor's essential

is particularly fitting that the new Republic of the Philippines should have come into being on the Fourth

Birth of that nation proves anew that the spirit of 1776 lives on in the United States and follows the Stars and Stripes to the far corners of the earth, knowing neither

The United States, in the words of President Truman, supervision, jurisdiction and control of sovereignty” over Flaming banners of tyranny and oppression may in-

which can be lowered with honor and dignity can be symbolic of true power and uncompromising principle.

ENATOR BILBO'S re-election proves only that people living outside of Mississippi don’t vote in Mississippi.

sits in the senate and has a voice in national affairs. many of them—including us—couldn't resist the tempta-

But a lot of Mississippian, like a lot of people in ev ery

their affairs. The loud anti-Bilbo campaign in the rest of the country artificially inflated a grubby, bigoted little politician into a public figure of seemingly huge importance,

If we outsiders had all been able to keep our big

seas is the 442d infantry combat team, made up entirely, except for a few officers, of Americans of Japanese

It is one of the most decorated units in the army, man out of every five, on an average, won decorations | ranging from bronze stars to distinguished service crosses. The combat team, an infantry regiment, a field artillery battalion and | a company of combat engineers, fought both in Italy and | France. The story of its gallantry and achievements needs

“The interesting thing about this unit is that it was |

Not the least part of the 442d’s record is its perseverance over Hoare oe corded the persormel by people in that state in its trying formative period. To many Mississippians—there were | 1otable exceptions—the Japanese Americans were not only | And in Alabama, when the regi-

heard to say they'd feel better if the Germans

» Americans triumphed over r this dark for they were convinced of their | - a goss They have proved. not never was a matter | of the

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Hoosier

Forum

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

“employ” local

Will you please be kind enough it does. two cents’ worth regarding all the bill was one of |oPeras in Garfield park?

that is so un-

Side—practically everything in that I was sure that most of the resi. dents would not object to the general confusion created by the numerous concession stands which the park board is planning to allow to be built.

cast at our intelligence—we understand and appreciate really fine music and plays just as thoroughly a8 anyone from another part of our city—we just do not find it necessary to have our photographs plastered all over the society pages -when we attend these functions. And incidentally, we do mot care to accept !‘passes’—we prefer to buy our tickets.

hts, possession, operetta last winter and was em-

barrassed that our city would allow such farces as “Hansel and Gretel” and “Pagliacci” to be presented to the public—as operas they made much better slapstick comedies. The operetta “The Desert Song” was very fine—at least the characters were not ready for thelr old-age pension. As to the argument that the amphitheatre would aid in discouraging juvenile delinquency, it is a lot of bunk. How could the average youngster afford the prices of admission that théy are planning to charge? 1 recall that there were to be a “few free seats for the underprivileged children.” Now, isn't that just too touching! I can well imagine how much any child’s mind would be improved by anything he would hear or .see from the distance of these allotted seats.

The: children from all parts of our city and from all walks of life

But only a flag

fact that Bilbo And

meddling with

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{ keep it that way.

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We also resent having aspersions

I attended four operas and, one]

have enjoyed many carefree hours)

"Let's Keep Beautiful Garfield Park Without Walls and Charges”

By Betty Pattmann Sexson, 2208 Ransdell st.

to print on your editorial page my unfair and unkind remarks directed

toward the folk on the South Side who are not in favor of the proposed

I am a South Sider by birth and feel just as the others who resent the natural beauty of the park being marred by having a wall erected around our theater and charging admission to enter. We are definitely in favor of having this project moved to the North

direction has gone commercial and

“DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS NEED DEMOCRATIC FLAVOR” By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville, Before that strange foreign dicta~ tor, our state department, gets us into another war, let's throw off his yolk of authority. Let's get us an all « American state department. Let's spend as much money as it will take to educate and train the largest and best state department in the world. .And when we send a foreign representative abroad, let's send him over to represent the | American people full time—not part

(“STRAY FAR FROM HOME

TEACHING OF RESPONSIBILITY” By R. C. E., Washington blvd. I heartily agree with the Forum writer who says we have a generation. of sissies because today’s men and women weren't taught to take responsibility when they were kids. However, he was a little rough on the overseas service men. Not all of them were belly-achers by a long shot or they wouldn't have won the war. On this point of the responsibility of instruction at home, I received a letter from an in-law in Cleveland

yesterday enclosing an editorial from

a Cleveland paper entiled “Hoosier Psychiatry.” This clipping commented on a statement of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, who apparently is from Indfana, that the present generation suffers from its parents’ desire: to see their kids have an easier childhood than Pa and Ma did. - The general says the job of keeping the woodbox filled might have helped many of the 2,000,000 men rejected in the draft for mental instability to make a proper adJustment to life. If that's Hoosier psychiatry, I'm for it. Those daily chores we used to know when we were kids—mow-

|time the American people and part|ing the lawn, washing dishes, tak-

| time some private interest of his| own—as is the policy in the present state department. During the last war we had a sort of unwritten or unagreed agreement with Mr. Roosevelt whereby our newspapers.could call him any black name or criticize his domestic policy to any extremity as long as they gave him and his state deparfment a free hand in secret international conniving. It was ex~ cused under the alibi of “security,” and it is stl excused to an extent under that alibi. We are now paying the price for that breech of democracy which we allowed, Even more, we are showing signs of accepting it as a precedent to establish a secret dictatorship over American foreign affairs, The road to peace is democracy. Democracy in foreign affairs as well as in domestic affairs, All over the world today people in the British sphere of imperialism are crying: we'll let Britain rule us if you will feed us; and in the Russian sphere they are crying: we'll | let Russia rule us if you will feed | us, America is feeding them. What lis our objective? *

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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ing care of the furnace (we didn't happen to have a woodbox), carrying out the ashes, running errands, etc.—were a definite responsibility we had to meet. ‘I believe they developed a sense of responsibility that seems to be lacking in s0 many boys and girls today. So few youngsters-have a regular job 0 do in their homes. Instead, they're allowed to have their own way in almost everything they do, whether it’s avoiding helping out around their home or. staying out too late for their health. I hope I'm not letting my viewpoint get ossified, but I do feel we have strayed pretty far from the teaching of individual responsibility in and for the home. . =n = = “YOURS FOR COOLER BANKS AND FOR HOTTER MAILMEN” By W. E. Whaley, 2410 Central ave. I wish to extend my sympathy to the poor unfortunate bank teller who swelters during these hot days. I've carried mail for a few years and sauntering down a shady street th the breeze blowing is sure ok with me. ’ But I'm sorry to say about onehalf of my deliveries are on the side where the sun hits. Now, if I could get these sunny-side guys

jon the west side to move across the street in the a. m. and then

return home, taking the residents of the other side with them in the p. m,, I'd say this poor, hot, sweat ing teller was right, and oh yes! the breeze must blow all the time. Man, that would be Utopia! No sun, no rain, no snow, no freezing during delivery hours is my platform. Of course, we are handicapped by not being surrounded by piles of money. Whew! What a complaint, Yours for cooler banks and hotter mailmen. We can take and always

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|“FOOD WILL DECIDE

NATIONAL ELECTION”

By R. HP, Indianapolis

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I don’t believe the next national election will be decided on “foreign issues or on political platforms. It will ‘be decided on -just the same basis as foreign elections, I think, t is food, If the women of can't get food in plenty they'll’ vote against the party .in power. Unless we can get bread and buttér and milk and meat on our tables, then we'll Taga it out” on

“I the Democrats,

DAILY THOUGHT

|. Discretion shall preserve thee,

understanding shall keep Whe | Proverbs a.

THERE is no knowledge that is not poor nersen, pn :

h | its machinery to the younger veterans . .

T's OUR BUSINESS .

ORGANIZATION ON a state-wide basis this week of AMVETS, or American Veterans of World War II, brings another national organization of service

‘men and women into the picture.

There now are four major groups in Indiana ‘appealing to veterans of the last war . .. the Amerfcan Legion, with a majority of its membership now drawn from that source; the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which is limited to those who saw overseas service; the American Veterans Committee, which is essentially an action group, and AMVETS, which has as its slogan “We fought together, now" let us build together.” There are other smaller organizations, but none which will have the impact on public affairs that can be expected from these four,

Legion Has Greatest Influence

THE AMERICAN LEGION has great prestige and considerable influence along with its large member ship. It early decided that it wished to pass on « but control still remains in the hands of the older men who have been its backbone since its early days. With size and greater maturity, the Legion has become quite conservative. The Veterans of Foreign Wars are a bit tougher in their approach to national problems, and sometimes, more vocal. It was they who urged a buyer's strike this week following repeal of OPA. They are tireless, along with the Legion and the Disabled American Veterans, in demanding that their .comrades of all wars and their dependents be properly cared for. . ~The ‘A. V.-C. leans to the left in its. liberalism and progressiveness. It polls its membership whenever time permits before it takes a stand on a

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oY | WASHINGTON, July 6.~The British loan bill is in a precarious position in the house, where debate is scheduled to start Monday. A counting of noses by administration lieutenants reveals a close division. Administration leaders were derelict in the matter of timing. Had they pushed the bill ahead fairly promptly after its passage by the senate nearly two months ago it is likely they would not have encountered the trouble that now seems in store. Delay has helped the opposition.

Palestine Is Factor

HANDLING OF THIS important measure is unfortunate. - For it is one of the keystones in the arch of international co-operation which President Truman, thus far with the help of congress, has been building. Canvass of the situation in the house discloses that recent events have contributed to whittle down what Jooked to be a safe majority for the bill, One was the Nebraska primary election. There Governor Griswold favored the loan and was defeated decisively by Senator Butler, who voted against the loan in the senate. The international issue was emphasized by the personal campaign on Governor Griswold’s behalf by Harold Stassen, who is making international co-operation a major issue in his own campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Senator Butler's victory served to embolden many Midwest Republicans in the house and laid bare again the underlying isolationist hue in that numerically large and influential group. Another development that has shaken support for the loan in some quarters is Britain's handling of the Palestine problem. This has created uncertainty

REFLECTIONS .

NEW ORLEANS, July 6—I suppose you could call Andrew Jackson Higgins, - the landing-craft magnate, a typical tycoon in the best Hollywood sense. Mr. Higgins looks, generally, as if he were being played by. Edward Arnold after a careful rehearsal in the clinches of American big business, A. J. sits in a smal office overlooking the canal just outside of New Orleans’ Chantilly section. It is full of over-stuffed red leather furniture, and the walls are covered with pictures of Higgins craft, manned by Americans generally engaged in shooting down Jap aircraft.

'Rugged Individualist' THE TABLES ARE CROWDED with war souvenirs. There are Jap stickbombs and polished 40 millimeter shells and a Jap helmet netted for jungle fighting hangs on the clothes tree with Andrew Jackson's panama. The boat, and now prefabricated nouse, builder believes in being comfortable at his work which usually stretches from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. A redfaced, beefy man, he wears a pongee bush shirt with open collar and the tails outside his white pants. Mr. Higgins is one of the finest free-style cussers I ever heard, including my grandpa, who could raise blisters on the paintwork at 20 paces.” Although his normal cussin’ voice is baritone, Mr. Higgins portrays contempt for what he thinks are lacy-drawered doings by cussing in falsetto, squinting his eyes derisively, shrugging his shoulders” and wiggling his hands. When Mr. Higgins talks of the local labor leaders (A. P. of L.) he touches all bases in libel. It was in order to win a point against labor that he recently liquidated all his enterprises, re-forming under a single corporation which now does business with C:-1.-0. .

WORLD AFFAIRS

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6.-—Local revolutionists are having an unusually peor season in Latin American this year. Armies, apparently, are getting harder to buy up. And there are indications that the training programs

conducted in the United States during the war may

have given thousands of officers a new conception of

the duties of any army. In the past eight months, there have been eight revolutionary attempts in eight different countries. Only two: have proved successful—a surprisingly low batting average. Time was—a generation or so ago-—when the “outs” figured their chances of getting in a 50-50 or better. :

Soldiers’ Duty to Maintain Peace

ONLY IN VENEZUELA and Haiti have revolutions panned out in recept months. Two new attempted uprisings in the past few days, in Uruguay and Costa Rica, were quashed before there was bloodshed. Others have been smothered in Paraguay, Panama, Guatemala and Chile. The Chilean unrest has been brewing for months and has been stopped on several occasions. As for the part armies have been failing to play. Lt. Geen. George H. Brett, recently retired from

that U. 8. training programs might change the whole picture in Latin America. “ Gen, Brett sald he was convinced that young officers who were taken to the U. 8. for army courses

were going home i, a ated slant on the duties of 8 soldier, 5

By Tiohorl [Stokes

the U. 8, army air corps es commander of Carib- be bean defense, ‘predicted before and after the war

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Veteran Coops Vie for Members

Wagner-Ellender-Tatt housing bill, and a strong United Nations. They have indicated an intention to participate actively in politics, perhaps as a part of a progressive movement , . . the other veterans organizations have relied chiefly on lobbyists in Washington. AMVETS remains to prove itself. Its purposes likewise are high-sounding . . . in Indiana their program is not yet clear. One of their main speakers at the convention here sald the principles of the

organization were “right .down the center for the’

American way. . We are not to be confused with © any organization going to the right or to the left, We are for veterans, not Just as veterans, but as citizens.” The new group is more friendly to the Legion ~. than is A. V. C, which considers itself a competitor for membership, or 'V. F, W, which almost always has been a lone- wolf organization.

Bonus Stand Affects: Membership THE QUESTION OF A BONUS is one which affects. not only the service man but also the rest of the tax-paying public , . . and that includes everyone in the final 818... Many veterans feel some form of COMpPOPAUOR is the due of the service man. The state executive committee of the American Legion has gone on record in favor of a bonus, ahd the question wil} come before the state convention here next month, ‘The Veterans of Foreign Wars are on record for coms pensation based on length of service. A. V. C. has indicated opposition to such a measure, and AMVETS _has taken the position this is not the time to cone "sider«a bonus.

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British Loan Faltering in’ Congress

among some Democrats in hig city districts LVith Jewish constituencies, and may break the administrae tion front here and there. Another factor influential in big city districts, too, is the Irish vote. In fact,’ the tendency noted in our politics in ade vance of elections to yield to blocs and nationalist groups of one sort of another; or to capitalize upon them, again is becoming apparent in the house. It is easier than statesmanship ‘that takes the long view and considers an issue on its merits and in relation to the leading part we have assumed in world CO-Opera. tion and rehsdbilitation. . Some members of congress, too, are using the Joan to attract votes in what might be called the backwoods constituencies which can be aroused by appeals to prejudice against foreigners. This cheap brand of politics has been displayed in some primaries, as reports show.

Votes Are Only Sound Support -OURIOUSLY ENOUGH, the OPA issue has been mixed up in this type of prejudice campaigning in some sectiohs. Sleek politicians are uttering mock tragic noises from the stump to .equally well-fed au« diences that people in this country can’t get enough to eat while we are helping foreigners with food and loans. It is a strange demagogic combination. With some defections from theif ranks, Democratic leaders in the house must depend upon some Republican support. The Republican party, in fact, faces a rather important test ‘in the house on the British loan. Party leaders have been protesting the sincerity of their pledges of international co-operation and brush aside indignantly charges of isolationism, Their votes will mean more than their words, |

. By Robert C. Ruark

Higgins Tackles Diplomacy and Lokiot

He claims to have withstood 52 unauthorized strikes during the war, and to have declared opem battle on the A. PF. of L. locals when to quote him directly, “They claimed a proprietary interest in undeveloped projects and even in me, because they happened to work for the company.” I will skip his descriptive. phrases. The boat builder is equally vehement in defending his overtures to Argentina's Peron, in conflict with state department policy toward Argentina. He says, in part, that Peron is not a Fascist, is an enemy of fascism, is good for Argentina and a good man for us to do business with, 1s a student of the ideologies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of

nature's noblemen. His comments on Spruille Braden, |

state department's Latin-American policy former, are corrosive and extensive. “How thé so-and-so are you going to do business with people that pate you?” he asks himself and then proceeds to answer himself to his own satisfaction, “We spend all those this-and-that millions to make friends with South America, and then do our best to make them hate us.”

Better Boat Builder MR. HIGGINS WAS deeply scored by ‘the press for agitating against state department policy abroad, to which he reacted with new heights of robust speech. His argumeént, very much like that of visiting, pre-war businessmen who clapped their hands over the promptness of Mussolini's trains and" the absence of beggars in Hitler's streets, is that Latins need a strong man and that Argentina is incapable of threatening the rest of the hemisphere. I find. Mr. Higgins colorful and his Bourbon sound, his administrative ability and his vitality immense. B I think I would rather have him building boats than building international policy,

By Errie Hill Armies Stand Pat in Latin America

Normally, Latin American armies consider one of

their major duties tp be the kicking out of presidents and the installation of new ones. “But, in the United States,” Brett-once sald, “They are learning something entirely different. “They are learning that it is a soldier's duty to maintain peace and order and to support regularly elected governments. They are learning that armies should remain divorced from partisan politics. I think many of them will go home with the firm resolve to support their established government authority and see. that presidents are changed only by the electorate.” Gen. Brett's predictions have proved right in a number of countries. In Uruguay, a small group within the army tried to stage a revolution, but the

. great part of the armed force refused to go along.

Chile's army has remained firmly behind its gov~ ernment even during the period of unrest, when the late President Juan Antonio Rios was forced to take a sick leave. . The Brazilian army late last year virtually forced former President Getulio Vargas to hold the elections as planned, when he had been about to postpone them. : Attitude May Continue LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS may soon be recognized as a poor risk. ‘ Some observers pos that the current era may be only temporary and that the idealism acquired during the war may disappear after a few years. However, if training programs are continued under the hemis spheric defense plan, young army officers

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