Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1946 — Page 14

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y, Jul 17, 1946 OKRO _ HENRY W. MANZ Editor. : ‘Business Manager SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER % Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by . Indianapolis Times Publishing Co. 214 W. Maryland oe | su Postal Zone 5. . Methber of United Press, Scripps-Howard News- | paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Price in Marion County, 8 cents a copy; deliv- . ered by earrier, 20 cents a week. “Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, U. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, §7 cents a month. : » © RI-S85L. — @ive Light and the People Will Find Their Orn Woy OF POWER POLITICS

""vitch would be found guilty and executed by a military tribunal appointed by his bitter enemy and erstwhile rival, Marshal Tito. Indeed, the Chetnik leader's guilt was proclaimed by spokesmen for the Yugoslav government before his trial a begun, That farcial proceeding simply served to provide grist for the Communist propaganda mill in its campaign to create ill will against the United States and Great Britain. ‘Gen. Mikhailovitch was a controversial figure in an area of the world of which we know little and understand Jess. Leadership in Balkan politics seems to demand more courage than scruples, with survival and success virtual synonyms. But about the time when we first began referring to the Russians as democrats and friends of freedom we regarded the Chetnik general as a great patriot, because he was one of the pioneers in the Balkans in the war against the axis.

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on our side. If his record was spotted in some respects, his time and place were to be considered. Certainly, his conduct could have been no more inconsistent than that of Russia, where he is regarded as an arch traitor. He signed no friendship pact with Hitler.. When in one of our several dubious deals with Moscow, we transferred our support from Gen. Maikhailovitch to Marshal Tito, the Soviet puppet, we lost a prospective friend in the Balkans, and placed in power a leader who is an avowed enemy of everything in which we believe. So it wasn't a good trade for us. And the man who was a mere pawn in the game to us paid with his life. The record of the United States and Britain in all this is not one of which we can be proud.

TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA

ITs about time something concrete was done to stop the flood of propaganda that pours out from official WashIt's getting so any routine announcement is accompanied by special pleading of a political nature. For example: The agriculture department recently announced that America this year will- have the biggest grain crop in history. It gave various official estimates of the probable size of the crop. ~ This is part of the regular routine work of the department. But it isn’t part of that work to include the following, taken from the story secured at the department: “There is still the problem of procuring the grain after it’s produced,” one official pointed out. “If congress fails to provide price controls or decontrols meat, poultry and dairy products, it's going to be much more difficult.” That, of course, is a matter of opinion. It is a matter ‘of congressional policy. : But. it isn't a matter for the agriculture department to slip in a propaganda plug in the middle of a routine statistical réport.

THE GREEKS FOUGHT BACK i GEN ALEXANDER PAPAGOS, commander in chief of i the Greek forces during the war, now visiting this country, is one of the most distinguished military figures in Europe. Paris had fallen, and six countries in Europe had been swallowed up by the Nazi tide, when the Italians invaded Greece in October, 1940. The heroic Greeks under General Papagos put up such a stubborn defense that in April, 1941, Mussolini finally was forced to call upon Hitler for help. Retreating before the combined invasion forces after his left flank had been exposed by the collapse of the Yugoslavs, General Papagos checked the Nazi war machine for + another month on the Greek-Bulgarian frontier. The general's visit recalls the substantial contribution his country made in the war against the axis powers during a critical period of that conflict. Had all other invaded countries resisted with the same determination as the Greeks, the history of that time might have been different.

LEARN TO LISTEN

FEW things profit a man more in politics, business or even ordinary conversation than to learn to listen willingly and attentively to what is being said to him. How often, when arguing with someone, you can tell by his wandering eye and restless movements that he is thinking far more of what he himself is going to say next than of paying the slightest attention to what you are

saying to him. HER How often, even in serious debate on serious matters, a debater has just reason to complain that his chief point i has been either unheard or ignored by his opponent. It always pleases, not to say flatters a man to see you + have at least carefully listened to and noted what he says. on betters your chance of convincing him. And it holds true on all planes of controversy—from a family squabble Tight up to a dispute between nations.

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1 do not recall that we ever took in very much money, or had any left after we got the taxes paid and the interest on the mortgage, at the same time theré is no doubt that farm labor was pretty badly underpaid, and had to work long hours for very little, so there must have been a profit someplace for somebody. Maybe now we'll know what it was and who got it. I believe you are a little bit late with the news, however. Seems like I heard some talk last spring about how some union had started to do this very thing, and was operating according to modern union practices, as to hours, wages, and working conditions, in a project that must now be well advanced. That I got to see. So I am taking off right away temorrow, as soon as I can locate that farm, afid observe for myself a development that may be, as you folks that write the editorials say, very significant. I will be glad to report to you what I find. » > > “EVERYONE DOESN'T PAY TAXES; TIMES WAS WRONG” By G, C. L., City Your editorial July 12 “Hats Off | To Grocers” was very enlightening to we readers. Same old baloney, only without mustard as usual. Read it friends. Note especially paragraph five, which reads “of course there will be price increases, due in part to removal of federal subsidies which everyone has been paying through his taxes.” The trouble with this statement, my friends, is that everyone doesn't pay taxes and the editor knows it, but fle will not tell you that the 100 million or more of the American consumers who do not pay taxes, the low income groups, wounded veterans, old-age pensioners, orphanages, and many more too numerous to mention will pay seven cents per pound more for

"Unionized Farming Ought to

Revolutionize Agriculture”

By Richard Poor, East Ananle 1 see by your paper last Saturday where some big unions are talking about buying some farms and operating same so as to show up some of these farmers who are asking such high prices that consumers now have to pay away above the ceilings for food, The idea will be to pro-

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treat the laboring man right who does the work. This is a very fine thing and if successful, as I hope it will be, it ought to revolutionize agriculture the same way labor has revolutionized industry in the last few years. I grew up on a farm myself and while

meat, five cents more for butter, two cents per quart for milk, one to three cents more for canned fruits ‘and vegetables, cheese, eggs, poultry, and other foods without the aid of subsidies, No, he will not tell you why subsidies were ever paid on food by the government in the first place. I am just sure it was for the purpose of protecting the abovenamed group from at least that much of the rising cosi of food which the poor, aged, lame, as well as all others must have in some quantities to live. No, instead of telling you the benefits everyone would receive lowering food costs, he prates about a free economy. I would like to know how subsidies would in any way interfere with production. It doesn’t. Who loses? No one. Who gains? Everyone. Even we that pay the taxes. How, you ask? Because we will still pay taxes, subsidies or no. The very first week of the free economy we hear so much about cost the people of Indianapolis nearly two million dollars in the loss of subsidies alone. This is not all guess work. I can prove it. Come on, Mr. Editor. Give light and the people will find their own way. Write your congressman. Do it today.

Editor's Note: Everyone who eats, wears clothing or lives in a house, pays taxes as part of the price of everything he buys; no government and no economist ever has found a means of taxing business and not consumers of the sroducts of business. Subsidies are paid out of tax money, government’s only source of revenue, eventually are paid by consumers with interest added, and the bill falls most heavily on those with lowest incomes who have no way to pass their taxes on to their customers.

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“ACTRESS WASTING MILK FOR BATH IS REVOLTING”

Have you ever looked at a picture that made you boiling mad? I have. I saw it in a Sunday picture section of one of the country’s largest newspapers. To say it is in utter bad taste is a flat understatement. Today, when millions of people are starving in Europe and in Asia, it is abominable, The picture shows a singer who is “introducing herself to press and public at New York” by taking a bath in milk. She is shown sitting in a flower-embroidered bath full of milk. She is pouring more milk out of a quart bottle. UNRRA is doing everything in its power to feed the starving peoples of Europe and Asia. The press and conscientous leaders throughout the country have informed America of the great need and its responsibility in winning the peace. Men like Herbert Hoover have unselfishly given their time, ability, and humanity to aid suffering humanity, We do not condemn the singer She obviously yielded to unscrupulous publicity men. From a realistic point of view the gallons of milk wasted in the stunt is a drop in" the bucket to the waste in food products which goes on every day allJover the country—in Indianapolis—in your kitchen. We do condemn, however, the tempo of our times in which a picture of this sort is permitted to be taken, published, and distributed. The tempo in which not one Ameri-

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow * Heroic Indian Drama Unfolded He

THE GREAT BARRENS of Kentucky, just within the border of which Abraham Lincoln was born, were

one of two things thdt brought a tragic teuch to

Indiana's Indian folk. In the spirit of Alfred E. Smith of New York, “let's take a look at the record.” . Kentucky was the happy hunting grounds of the Indians, where Indians might hunt, but not live, as none did. The barrens were a 6000-square mile tract lying immediately south of the falls of the Ohio, the forest having been burned off by the Indians and turned into an oasis of grasslands to attract the migrating buffalo as they passed that way each year.

Set to Resist White Invasion JUST OUTSIDE the barrens to the east was a

great triangle, also touching tragically Indiana's In-

dians. As its three corners at Buffalo, N. Y, the northeast corner of Indiana, and Cumberland Gap, where Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky meet, sat three- of the great Indian tribes of North America, They kept watch over the barrens of Kentucky and all the state as a neutral Indian hunting ground, and they sat tight. > These three Indian tribes—the powerful Iriquois at the Buffalo corner, the Cherokees at the Cumberland Gap, and the Miamis at the Indiana corner—not only kept an eye on Kentucky, but over all the Indians in their section of North America. : All this set the stage for the great drama of Indian life on the continent, as the Revolutionary war ended, and American folk trekked west to build one of the great nations of the world. Fate willing it so, the first act of this drama had told the story and sealed the fortunes of Indiana's Indian folk. This is the story: King George III of England, at the close of the French and Indian war in 1763, said that the land

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of the Northwest Territory belonged to the Indians and forbade American colonials to settle on it, Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States supreme court said substantially the same thing. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison gave William Henry Harrison, as governor of Indiana Territory, the same instructions, especially in the matter of nego= tiating Indian treaties. This is the tragic touch that lurks behind all of this: For the 12 years following the treaty of peace at the close of the Revolutionary war, colonial Amer= ica, especially the New England and Middle States, Yu in a dither about rolling west’ for a new start in e. toad War recovery, land hunger, and adventure spurred’ them on. So, regardless of land titles, Indian oppo= sition, the attitude of officials, they barged out into = great trek west, By 1787, with the Northwest Terri« tory opening up, they came streaming into it, at times on the Ohio river at the rate of a boatload a day. The barrens of Kentucky and the three watchful tribes at the -corners of its triangle had long been funneling the Indians into their section of the con tinent. As a result, the Indians of the section were braced to resist flercely the coming of the new settiers to théir land, .Here was drama on a heroie scale,

Anthony Wayne's Fight

THE FIRST CLASH of all this came on the morning of June 30, 1794, when Anthony Wayne's army. defeated the Indians led by Little Turtle, chief of’ Indiana's Miamis. By the treaty of Greenville thas followed in 1795, the Indians ceded to the whites abouk half of Ohio and the land in southeastern Indiana. Thus Indiana's Indian folk had their first brusM with destiny. They lost. They were silent, some sul« len, and some of them defiant. Destiny still watched over them,

IN WASHINGTON . .. By Peter Edson Truman Confuses Political Analysts

WASHINGTON, July 17.—There- has been considerable experting lately on the way President Harry 8, (for Soft) Truman has been knuckling under to labor bosses. His vetoes of the OPA and Case bills are cited as evidence that Mr. Truman “is afraid of labor's special-privilege lobby, which blandly promises support at the polls or threatens to withdraw it if he doesn't do its bidding. Anyone who is S. for Sucker enough to s. for swallow that line has either been away or hasn't been reading the papers. Such reasoning overlooks completely a number of recent Truman acts which the labor bosses have not liked a little bit and which they have not hesitated to say they didn’t like. It overlooks the signing of the Hobbs antiracketeering bill. It overlooks the signing of the anti-Petrillo bill. It overlooks the settlement of the rail strike, in which Mr, Truman threatened to call out the army and draft the strikers into the armed services. s It overlooks the maritime strike proceedings, in which the President threatened to call out the navy. It overlooks Mr. Truman's consistent and insistent demands for better control of strikes against the government, All these are decidedly anti-labor actions. Lumping them, there is reason to believe that Mr. Truman could do himself some good by courting the labor leaders a little bit more, if he wants to play politics. But, balancing the anti-labor against the prolabor, there is some basis for believing that the S. is for Smart, and that the man has been playing it straight down the middle, in a course that should appeal to the average independent and ideal citizen, who doesn’t want any special interest to be a White House pet,

Books Not Yet Balanced

AS A matter of record, it can be shown that labor leaders have recently been against Mr. Truman more than they have been for him. Even that old Democratic wheelhorse, Dan Tobin, who used to get President Roosevelt to come to his A. F. of L. Teamsters’ Union banquets, recently let out a warning that the Democrats would be swamped in 1946 and 1948 unless they changed their conservative course, -

A. F. Whitney, head of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who once threatened to spend hie union’s millions to defeat Mr. Truman, now says he won't have to spend a cent, because Mr. Truman ie going to be defeated anyway. Jim Patton, president of the National Farmers’ Union, which works in cahoots with the C. I. 0, is so disgusted with the Truman record that he is: closing up his Washington office. ~ He says his 400,000 members in 32 states have lost confidence in the Democrats’ ability to do anything about legis lation they consider important. The whole C. I. O. hierarchy, in fact, has lam= basted the President liberally. They praised him foe his OPA and Case bill vetoes, yes. But those two acts by no means balance the books against the debts of other Truman actions on matters held vital to labor.

You Can Make Your Own Guess

POLITICAL dopesters trying to analyze these things are apt to get all tangled up in their own conflicting guesses, Guess one—Mr, Truman's anti-labor record will encourage the formation of a third political party, composed of labor, liberal and left-wing elements, which will sphit off from the Democratic party. Guess two—Mr. Truman's subservience to the labor leaders in his granting of wage increases and his vetoes of the OPA and Case bills strengthens the cause of the conservatives and makes Republican victories in 1946 and 1948 inevitable. Gallup and other polls. are cited to show thas ' the: country favors greater control over union activie ties. But if that is true, Mr. Truman can point to his good record in asking for strike-control legislation and in signing the Hobbs and anti-Petrillo bills. . And it's inconceivable that anyone in the labor movement would vote for a Taft or a Bricker im preference to a Truman, Frank Kingdon, National Citizens’ Political Action Committee head, has openiy said as much, although he considers Mr, Truman “a little man rattling around in big shoes.” Guess three—Truman is doing all right, and wil pull through, because the Republicans will nominate only conservatives. This is all the more likely if Mr. Truman has Henry Wallace for a running-mate,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Frank Ford Mamma Operating Her Own 'OPA’

WHILE CONGRESS wrangles over the bare bones of OPA there are increasing evidences of the operation of another kind of price control, which is mamma's, Mamma stretches the pay check over the week's

can had guts enough to say, “I; have a stake in the world we just! fought a war for, and this waste I} can't stomach—human beings are! starving.” Yes, citizens of this “one world” are starving. There is very little we can do about it now, except to say we hope not too many persons have seen the picture and those who have will voice their disapproval of such decadence. And for the sake of the destitute ‘millions. who have their eyes turned to America for help, we hope not one will ever see this example of thoughtlessness in a critical period of world rehabilitation.

“ ~ ~ “SPEEDBOATS ARE MENACE TO PLEASURE SEEKERS” By Canoeing Fan, Broad Ripple It looks very much like the speedboats have taken over the White river and persons in rowhoats and canoes had better stay off the river) or else risk a dunking. | One would think that after al speedboat had cut a canoe in half a week ago, owners of power craft would take heed of the danger and slow down or drive with a little sense and consideration for those who use their backs for powering their craft. 1 spent a dreary Sunday afternoon dodging maniacs who persisted in cutting capers on the narrow river. My day was spoiled, as it was, I'm sure, for others in my modest predicament. : I'm not denying the fact that it is fun to wheel a motorboat around —1 wish I could afford one” myself, but after hanging on to the sides of my boat several times to keep it from tipping over, 1 got pretty peeved at the clowns who give their friends a thrill by scaring the daylights out of rowboat enthusiasts. I'm going to continue to spend my Sunday afternoons on the river—in a rowboat—and hope for the best and a little courtesy—but at the first appearance of a P-T boat, I'm going to establish a beachhead at the closest bank and call it quits. . Take it easy, will ya fellas?

DAILY THOUGHT For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.—The Acts 25:27. |

THE foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong;

dinner table. Back of our whole complicated economic system, our whole price structure, stands mamma and the stubborn level-headedness she represents. Mamma knows little of the law of supply and demand, and cares less. She's impervious to argument along ideological lines or otherwise. - She's as objective and impartial as a heat wave and has boiled the science of economics down into one brief declaration. If it costs too much, she won't buy it. Mamma’s family likes, among other things, butter. Butter heads toward a dollar a pound. So mamma starts her own rationing system with the family. If that doesn't work, she just stops buying butter.

Here It Is in Technical Language

EVIDENCES of the operation of mamma's OPA are coming in from a wide area, channeled through the department of agriculture which reports in a

‘| statistician’s version of the language, that ‘“con-

sumer sales resistance to advancing butter prices is creating a cautious attitude in wholesale markets.” Stores in retailing butter at 78 to 80 cents a pound report good demand. says the department. But other dealers, selling at 85 to 90 cents, are “feeling the effects of high prices.” Freely translated this means that these stores aren't selling much and may soon

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

PARIS, July 17—There are three good reasons why it's very much to be hoped that the compromise proposal of France's Premier Georges Bidault for interndtionalization of Trieste will finally be. con-

firmed. > .. First, it is the fairest solution for Trieste's inhabitants and for the large population in central Europe who have need of this port. Second, it is the only solution that can save the peace, at least to some extent, of all the interested parties, including the great powers. Third, it presents the United Nations with a splendid opportunity to show what they can do and, if they do it well, to illustrate in miniature the advantage of a world system of government,

Danzig Offers No Comparison

THOSE WHO, for interested motives, want to sabotage this proposal are raising the familiar but uninstructed cry: “A second Danzig.” Danzig was part of the Polish corridor, which divided two parts of Germany and, indeed, two parts of Prussia. The proposed international zone at Trieste would separate not members of the same race and nation but mutually antipathetic “Italians and Jugoslavs. ;

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have some mouldy butter on their hands. In some sections of Iowa, continues the depari« ment, there are “some reports of retail sales dropping as much as 25 per cent at the higher prices.” In Chicago some stores were featuring butter as 73 to 74 cents. Some Los Angeles stores reported they planned to feature butter at 80 cents. San Francisco was receiving butter from the ‘Midwest at 75% to TT cents wholesale. Receipts of butter in major markets were “up sharply” indicating perhaps that some of those holding back for higher prices had taken fright and decided to unlodd.

She's Our One Best Hope

ALL THIS price activity, without benefit of Paul Porter, is an effort to get mamma to call off her OPA and to lure her back into the butter market. Butter is a “basic” commodity. Mamma buys it every day. So its price fluctuations are more sensitive to mama's opinions. But just as certainly, mamma's operation of her OPA tends to govern the price of shoes and shirts and sealing wax, And so today, out from under the whimsical paternalism of the government's price ceilings, which were often price floors insuring maximum profit with minimum effort, our colossal business system cocks an eye again at the kitchen. There stands mamma, while statesmen chew the rag down at the capitol and statisticians crack their knuckles over slide rules. There she stands with papa’s pay check. After all is said and done mamma's the gal who in the end will regulate prices. She's our one best hope against runaway inflation,

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‘Internationalize Trieste, Is Answer

Critics of the French plan argue that the proposed zone is so small as to be economically unworkable and strategically indefensible. It is suggested that eithep Italy or Jugoslavia, through whose territories pass the lines of communication which connect Trieste with central Europe, would be able by tariffs and penal freight charges to paralyze the economie and commercial life of ‘Trieste. . There is no real substance in this argument. The charter to establish an international zone at Trieste must be ratified by all the neighboring powets and should include clauses guaranteeing the free movement of trade between Trieste and the countries of central Europe. The same applies with even greater force in the matter of the defense of the international zone from internal or external aggression,

Must Be Accepted Solution

FAR FROM REGARDING the proposed French solution as a half-hearted compromise agreed upon in order to produce accord between the great powers, many who have studied the facts regard it as an ideal solution of this vexatious problem. When I visited Trieste last January, before the city had become a serious bone of contention between the great powers, I found that most of the British and American ofcers working there in the allied military government favored such a solutibn and were confident it would, work, $ Buf 1t must be admitted that its success depends on its being handled with courage and hope, as something that holds great promise for the future and

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