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GEETIRCUEENEE Give LioM end the People Will Find Their Own Woy

WANTED—A MAN WITH A SCYTHE

THE chance of your being killed or injured ‘in a traffic accident is much greater than at any time since Pearl Harbor. Which is the reason for traffic conferences to lay down broad programs aimed at reducing the increasing toll. And they are all to the good. But what about the missing “stop” signs and the rusty warning signals that pepper our country and state highways—the accident causes that pop up so often in news items from day to day? Or the high weeds which obliterate the markers at road intersections? i Maybe the departments of government responsible for maintenance of such things could reduce the toll with a few paint brushes and mowing machines—or even a man with a scythe.

Srt—————— MORTIMER SNERDS °° on HADES of Cassie Chadwick, Ponzi, Coster-Musica, Ivan Krueger, O. Henry's Jeff Peters, the Gentle Grafter, and all the other J. Rufus Wallingfords who ever went gunning for suckers! : This Garsson-Andrew Jackson May 78-million-dollar paper empire story outdoes them all and makes Tex Guinan’s place in history dim indeed. But what is not so easily understood is why men of age and experience who have been around, and should have been dry behind the ears long ago, will let the same hoary ‘and smeary old thing happen to them that has happened through the decades, not to say the centuries. The country koy in his first trip to the county fair— he's easy to figure out, when he bets the pea is under the middle shell. He hadn't been there before. But when mature Washington politicians let a bunch of Wallingfords move in and practice their influence—how come? And we say that, without imnlying anything else beyond the question Charlie McCarthy asks of Mortimer Snerd—*“How can you be so dumb?”

CLEAR IT WITH HORACE \ THE state administration and the Republican state committee are going to “co-ordinate” their publicity from now on. % : Horace M. Coats, secretary of the state committee and former reporter, undoubtedly will turn to good use his journalistic experience plus his political responsibility to paint a pleasing picture for the voters. And for the taxpayers who support the group of “publicity writers” with which the state administration is surrounded. Reporters covering the statehouse can expect to be flooded with releases on every phase of state government, crediting each and every step forward to the wisdom of the present Republican administration. At least, it’s logical to assume such will be the tone between now and election time. : And one can be sure credit will be channeled to individuals whom the statehouse machine wants to keep in the - spotlight. In fact, some Republican state committee officials complain that state-paid publicity men were boosting their bosses’ stock and “ignoring the welfare of the Republican party as a whole.” Lo, the poor taxpayer.

STEADY JOBS, STEADY PAY

HE auto industry shies away from guaranteed annual wages but is deeply interested in steadier, year-round work—and sales. Trouble is that practically everyone wants the new car in the.spring, a custom originating in the early days when the gas buggy was an open job, useless in bad weather and jacked up in the garage all winter to save tires. Present buying habits involve production at full blast until late summer when plants idle down and workers are laid off by the thousands. One scheme, now being re-examined by auto officials, would vary the price to the season. Cut rates would coax customers into the market as the year wore on. . Packard tried something of the sort in 1926-30 and NRA said it helped establish “one of the best records of stable employment in the industry.” Pressure for steady pay checks comes increasingly from the unions and is socially and economically sound. Union members are directly interested in the year-round grocery bills and year-round work would mean more economical use of costly machinery, more efficient production, surer profits, cheaper cars. t It is probable that the annual wage system cannot be established by law or uniform national system. It must come, industry by industry, as the leaders of business use | their heads to change seasonal buying prejudices such as | this one, _ Alternate rush and layoff is a particularly severe problem in the auto factories and, since they are so large, it acts as drag on our whole economy. Improvement here would be definite progress in the struggle against boom

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"Here's My Report on Trip to That Farm Run by Labor Union"

By Richard Poor, East Ananias As 1 promised you in my last letter I hunted up that farm that I heard was being run by a labor union to grow food at lower prices under modern labor conditions, and found it without much difficulty, located appropriately enough not far out of Uniontown. After a visit there I can report that it is going very well, although, as was to be expected in blazing a new trail, there have been a few minor obstacles to overcome. This 250 acres of land was bought last winter by the United International Brotherhood of Widget Polishers; Finishers and Helpers, at a total price of $07,350, which is a rather high price for farm land in this section, but, as the uncle of the international grand president who was its previous owner pointed out it is very good fertile land. The widget, |claimed to represent a majority of as you of course know, is an in-|{the employees. The brotherhood tegral part of the clysterometer, 80|committee explained to both that you will realize this union is deeply|they were only trying to be fair implanted in what you might calliabout it all, and wanted to make a basic Industry, is in excellent|a contract with their employees, financial condition and hence well or with whatever union the emable to finance such a progressive ployees preferred to belong to, and venture. } asked if they couldn't all get toNaturally the brotherhood would gether. The business agents of the insist on hiring only organized la-|twd unions said this was anti-labor

in the ground and therefor& were miners. Assured that the dispute constituted an emergency affecting the national économy during the period of recopversion, the NLRB gave it high priority, rushed its hearings through, and by the 20th of May held an election. This was won by the C. I. O. United Tillers’ Guild by a vote of 181 to 179, The [NLRB thereupon dismissed as fir{relevant the brotherhood commit{tee’s inquiry as to how 360 votes could be cast by 27 employees, and on June 17th handed down a decision naming the United Tillers’ Guild as the sole bargaining agent for workers on this farm. By this time the Tillers’ Guild had decided to withdraw from C. I. O. and establish an international of its own, but agreed, anyway, to negotiate a contract. Negotiations proceeded apace. The brotherhood farm management offered a 40-hour week and wages of $1 an hour, but this was rejected, land the Tillers’ demanded a closed {shop, a 30-hour week, $2 an hour, |four weeks vacation with pay to

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bor, but when they took over the farm last March they found there was no union there at all. All the work had been done for years by old man Freysnagle and his two sons and in busy seasons his bachelor brother, who lives down the road a piece, but when approached about union affiliation they took a most unco-operative attitude and it became necessary to engage an entirely new working crew. Although the brotherhood is not A. F. of L it leaned that way, and hoped to get an A. F. of L. Agricultural Workers Union installed on the farm. As the word got around, however, a number of C. 1. O. men turned up and applied for jobs, and when the brotherhood committee didn’t hire them threatened to complain to the national labor relations board of unfair discrimination on account of union affiliation as forbidden by the act. The Brotherhood was very anxious to obey both the spirit and the letter of this law so they quit asking about union cards when they hired a man, and by the second week in March they had taken on 27 men and were ready for business. The morning they were going to begin plowing on the back forty, however, they were served with two demands for contract negotiations, one from the A. F. of L. Federation of Plowers, Planters and Harvesters and the other from the C. I. O. United Tillers Guild, both of whom

and constituted a company union, De taken between April 1 and Ocand both of them established picket | tober 1, 11 paid holidays per year, lines around the farm, with banners (3 guaranteed annual wage, paid reading “This Farm Is Unfair to | accident, sickness and death beneOrganized Labor,” “This Farm Sells | fit insurance, no reduction in workWatered Milk and Rotten Eggs,” |ing force for any reason, and 10 and so on. One man turned up/Per cent of the gross sales from

with a sign that read “Workers of the World... Unite,” but it turned out he did not belong to either union, and had only stopped off here on his way from Buffalo to St. Louis to picket a children’s music festival. This impasse might have gone on all summer but for a little mishap around the 2d or 3d of April. One of the pickets for the C. I. O. had picked up a stone which he intended to throw peacefully through the front window of the farmhouse where the committee had its office, but which instead accidentally hit one of the A. F. of L. pickets behind the left ear. In the fight that followed the C. I. O. men were all driven four miles down the road, and the next day they appealed to NLRB for an election to determine the bargaining agent for workers on the farm, At this point the Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers intervened, claiming jurisdiction because some of the men drove horses and tractors, and the United Mine Workers, District

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the farm for a union welfare and annual picnic fund.

The season being very well advanced by now for farming, and there being very little choice in the matter anyway, the farm management yielded on most points, but did succeed in getting wages pegged at $1982 an hour, three weeks vacations, and five per cent of gross sales contribution to the welfare and picnic fund, the picnic, however, to be held on management time. It was now the Fourth of July, which was a holiday anyway, and union and management spent the afternoon together on the shady lawn drinking iced lemonade in a spirit of complete friendliness and good fellowship.

Work began the next morning. When I approached the farm yes- | terday I was a little surprised to see tractors busily plowing up the turf, but when I asked about it I was told they were getting ready to plant corn. In reply to my questions they said yes, they knew fit was a little late to plant corn in {July, but the work had to be done anyway, otherwise the management would make a big profit at the expense of labor out of not having any corn planted and thus saving the cost of all the labor they had | planned to employ in planting corn. Whether the corn grew or not, they assured me, was a problem of management, rather than of labor, but that labor's hard-won social gains could not be infringed.

By this time it was a quarter to two, and allowing 15 minutes to get |back to the barns in time to check {out at.2 o'clock, they wheeled their tractors about and thundered off homeward in af imposing and stately parade,” their day's work done, It certainly did my heart good to see it, especially as 1 remembered the long hard days we used to work on the farm when I was young, and I realized that a new day has, indeed, dawned. I am going back there again, from time to time, to check on the progress of this farm, which seems already to be running nearly as well as’ industry runs under our modern system of labor, and I will be more than glad to keep you informed of its progress,

DAILY THOUGHT

So ye shall not pollute the land , wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.—Numbers 35:33,

BLOOD, though it sleeps a time, yet never dies. The gods on ‘murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ”

~George Chapman,

| to the friendilness, likeableness and industry

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ~~ G. |. Business Loans Are Successful

.- IF ONE APPLICANT for a business loan under the @G. I bill of rights had succeeded, he'd have $385,000 to enter politics and start a new party. But he didn't . . . although he came back to the G. L loan center in the War Memorial building and confided to guards that he was all set anyway, he'd been financed elsewhere. All of which everyone concerned took with several grains of salt. In comparison with that ludicrous request, most veterans who seek business loans under the bill , , . which provides for a government guaranty of up to $4000 for purchasing or starting a business . . , are deadly serious. At the War Memorial center, operated by 18 county commercial banks, they may clear the way for a loan just as for a home, which was described in thif column Thursday. The same procedure is followed for farm loans, which may be repaid within 40 years, except that the veteran must have sufficient farming experience to gualify.

Business Loans Not Understood

THERE IS MORE MISUNDERSTANDING about business-type loans than all the others . . . many vet-

erans believe they are equipped to go into commercial . | aviation, trucking ‘or some other business because of

their army background. Purpose of the G. I. bill is specific . , . to provide funds for pursuit of a gainful occupation. ‘The banks

| usually won't make such loans unless the veteran

possesses the necessary training or experience to succeed. And that is for his own protection. Through the center, they will place him in touch with experts in the field he seeks to enter so that he can get practical advice before committing himself to a debt that must be repaid in 10 years. The government pays the interest for the first year only on the part of the loan which it guarantees «. « not on all the loan. As in the case with home loans, the local banks apparently give the veteran a break if he's a proper risk for the remainder of the amount he needs to get started. Unless the would-be borrower is a skilled tradesman or a merchant. and has the background to operate a business successfully . . . whether he buys a

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going outfit or starts from scratch , , . he wouldn't ‘have much luck with local banks. In either event, he ‘must show a statement of the past year’s operation of a carefully prepared estimate of income for the next 12 months. g . Lah As is the case with a home or farm purchase, sn independent appraisal must be made. In many instances, sellers request exorbitant amounts for “good will” not justified by earnings. . In view of the various swindles reported from over the country, it is sug-

gested that the veteran take advantage of the service. -

at the center for counsel of men already in the business they propose to enter. . It they do that, they'll have a better chance of success . . - aswell as a better chance of getting a loan. With few exceptions, loans financed in this manner in Marion county are operating profitably and, in some cases the businesses are expanding. Here

radio and electronics shops, furnace repairing, oil distribution, water softeners, plumbers, filling stations, variety stores, dry cleaning and many oth And, to add some that fall in a different ” doctors, dentists, lawyers, undertakers , , , tuners, carpenters and tree-removers,

Procedure Is Simple PROCEDURE OF GETTING a business been expedited to the point that, in most loan can be closed as soon as the title is be clear. One piece of sound advice is given to every cant. That is that he consider well the of success in the chosen business and its income meet the debt he is incurring. A bad loan is Jurious- not only to the lender, but also to the rower whose credit would be impaired in future actions,” It is to understand that th must be paid in full and all payments met promptly, A few requests for loans are absurd , . . for $5000 to operate punchboards, $200 to get married, $300 to get a divorce . . . but most applicants are seriously seeking a livelihood of independence and receive help at the loan center, 2

IN WASHINGTON . . .By Daniel M. Kidney Tired Congress Waits for Final Gavel

DEAR BOSS: YOU CAN COUNT ON both senators and congressmen working fast and hard from now until July 27. That is the 'latest tentative adjournment date, If there is one thing upon which both houses and both parties have their hearts set it is to get out of Washington pronto. If they can’t do that, even the usually optimistic Majority Leader Barkley (D. Ky.) will be very sad indeed. In fact he not only will bé feeling sorry for himself and colleagues, but for the country as well. He frankly said so during the debates this week.

Congress Is War-Weary THE JUNIOR SENATOR from Indiana, Senator Capehart, long has been saying the same thing. Although he has been here but two years he says he has already witnessed a great slump in “statesmanship.” “Since the war,” he sald, “the congress as well as the country has undergone a great let-down. I think the country can recover if the people don’t count too much on the government to solve their problems for them. “This war-weary congress, which has gone for years without an adequate vacation recess, just isn't in the proper frame of mind to solve everything. We are supposed to be the legislative branch of the government. But since the administration has been weak in leadership in solving post-war problems, our constitutents have looked to us to do so. Its a mankilling job to try to write administrative rules into basic laws. And this hard work has made many in both houses completely tired and sorely in need of rest.” A classic example is the discussion in both houses of OPA. Each party was trying to blame the other for killing price control. At the same time they both were saying that the whole matter was completely divorced from politics. A few excerpts from one of our own Hoosiers, Rep. Noble Johnson (R. Ind.), will illustrate what I mean. He hopped all over Chester Bowles, the admin-

istration and OPA and ‘then concluded: “Price control should not be considered as a political issue. The New Deal has attempted to becloud the issue in order to cover up is own mistakes and shortcomings and is trying to put the blame on the Republicans . . . We did not change from a nation of plenty to a nation of scarcity by accident. This change did not just happen. There had to be a cause. It.was brought about because the New Deal ‘planned it that way’.” Senator Capehart proved to be a smarty when he hurried to Capitol Hill and at once cleared his ‘name in the Mead committee investigation. It only took a few minutes on the witness stand and Senator Mead (D. N. Y.), committee chairman, thanked him «for coming. y ’

A reporter, doing a summary of the Garsson- '

May case, called committee headquarters and asked how many witnesses had been heard to date. The girl who answered replied: “There has been a total of 51, if you count Senator Capehart as a whole witness.” His appearance was so prompt and short-lived that she wasn't sure.

Halleck Stumping for ©. O. P.

REP. CHARLES A. HALLECK, dean of the Indiana Republican delegation, will be out keynoting the Colorado G. O. P. convention next week when a big powwow of the party is to be held here. Republican State Chairman Clark Springer and Horace Coats, committee secretary, asked Rep. Robert Grant, South Bend, to get the delegation together for a dinner and campaign strategy talk at the Statler hotel Tuesday night.

Besides Mr. Halleck, absentees may include Sen. | who is back home in Indiana, and Rep.

Willis, Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville. Both were casualties of the state convention -and probably not too concerned about what happens to the senatorial candidacy of William E. Jenner in November. DAN KIDNEY.

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Charles T. Lucey G.O.P. Has Eyes on Senate Control

WASHINGTON, July 20.—President Truman's acknowledgement that he may have to take the stump in the fall election campaign, polls showing rising Republican strength, Democratic woes built on OPA, strikes, Rep. Andrew J. May's actions, and a host of post-war civilian irritations— All these things are giving the G. O. P. hope that after years of waiting, 194% is the year of the rainbow. A while back, Republican leaders were talking hopefully about winning control of the house in November. Today some are beginning to talk big about gains they may make in the senate, where they now have 39 members and need 10 more to take over. Favored to Win Several Seats y DEFEAT OF SENATOR Burton K. Wheeler (D.) gives the G. O. P. strategists hope that they may pick up a senate seat in Montana. They hadn't figured on taking the veteran senator's measure, but they believe they can trim Supreme Court Justice Leif Erickson, who defeated Mr, Wheeler in Tuesday's primary. Mr. Erickson drew most of his strength from the liberal and left side, and the thinking is that much of Mr. Wheeler's conservative support will go to the Republican nominee, State Senator Zales Ecton. In Pennsylvania, Governor Edward 8. Martin, Republican senatorial nominee, is believed fairly sure to knock off Senator Joseph F. Guffy, New Dealer who heretofore was able to cash in on President Roosevelt's popularity. Idaho is another state where the Republicans are high on their chances. Democrats gained a seat when the Democratic Governor Gossett became Senator Gosset on death of G. O. P. Senator John Thomas.

Senator Gossétt was a primary election casualty, and the Republicans are claiming theyll win with their nominee, Rep. Dworshak. G. O. P. leaders say they believe ex-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who resigned a senate seat to go to war, has a good chance to defeat the veteran Massachusetts Democrat, Senator David I. Walsh, and that they have fair hopes of victory in Delaware over New Deal Senator Tunnell and in West Virginia against Senator Kilgore, Still another gain may come in Missourl. There Senator Briggs, who succeeded President Truman in 1944, is up for election in a state which elected a Republican senator in 1944 despite the Roosevelt tide, and which gave Mr. Truman himself only a small margin in 1940. New York is a question mark, with Senator Mead

-- likely to be named the Democratic governorship hope

and senatorial candidates still to be chosen. The Republicans say they have hopes in Washington of beating the incumbent Democratic Senator Hugh Mitchell with Mayor Harry Cain of Tacoma. There are somis who claim Republican Patrick J. Hurley may have a chance against Senator Chavez in New Mexico.

South Will Remain Democratic VETERAN SENATORS such as Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas, McKellar of Tennessee, Bilbo of Mississippi, whose terms end this year, are certain to

be returned. Alabama, Florida and Maryland are

similarly anchored to‘ the Democratic side. There are also Republicans safe from Democratic inroads—Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Brewster of Maine, for example. y Mathematically, it's possible for the G. O. P. to make sufficient gains to take over the senate and organize its committees if there should be a real sweep in. November,

REFLECTIONS . .. By James Thrasher

What Russia Is Being Told About Us

THE SOVIET WRITER, Ilya Ehrenburg, has set down some impressions of his recent American tour in. the current issue of Collier's magazine. It is an article of particular interest, not only because it makes available to the general American public one of the rare first-hand observations of their country by a Russian citizen, but also because it reveals what is perhaps the typical working of the Russian journalistic mind. Most of Mr. Ehrenburg's impressions seem to be unfavorable ones of the American press.

Reds Know Little of U.S.

MR. EHRENBURG PROCEEDS from two patently false assumptions. One is that all talk of Russian expansion and aggression is a malicious fabrication of American newspapers. The other is that these newspaper “attacks” are directed at the Russian people, But Mr. Ehrenburg ascribes all Russo-American discord to our newspapers. Not once in his whole article does he mention either the Russian or American government. He would have us believe that the sole cause of misunderstanding ‘is a war-mongering attack by American newspaper proprietors (whom he refers to as “slanderers” and our “worst citizens") upon the Russian citizenry. He waves aside the “iron curtain” and says that

“actually Russia is hidden from Americans by a

smoke screen. of lies, and this screen is the creation of many American newspapers.” Mr. Ehrenburg fails to note that the majority of American writers who have visited his country refer of the ap ; 2, i J ;

Russian people, and to their obviously sincere, though ill-informed, good will toward Americans. When he charges that “it is low and criminal to ascribe to our people aggressive designs,” it seems to have escaped his attention that our. “slanderous” press has not accused the Russian masses of any such thing. The writer admits that his people know little about American life, but this he ascribes to lack of paper, not lack of interest, However, he states that “never in our press can one find slanders against the American people; we know little, but what we know is thé truth.” That, of course, is more disingenuous double talk. The Russian newspapers’ quarrel is with our economy and policles. Soviet journals doubtless pity the American masses’ “exploitation by monopolistic cap« ital” (perhaps that's the “truth” of which Mr. Ehrep~ burg spoke so confidently) just as ours pity the regimentation and ignorance of the average Russian,

Writings Don't" Help Relations PROBABLY MR. EHRENBURG has been as dis«

tressed by American impressions of Russia as we are

by his of the United States. There is a tendency by writers of both countries to ascribe spotless virtue to their own land and all the vices to the other. Mr. Ehrenburg has indulged this tendency to the lmit. The unfortunate result. is that he has offended Americans’ good sense by distortion and weasel words posing as factual observation, and has done nothing to bring us closer to an understanding of the Russian people and their government's policies and intentions, or to let us see a friendly America through ) Russian eyes ;

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