Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1946 — Page 14

IS THE ANSWER THERE is welcome evidence of realistic thinking on the labor front:

ONE: The United Automobile Workers, in line with |

new C. IL. O. policy, has abandoned any thought of new wage increases in favor of an all-out effort to preserve the present purchasing power of the dollar, it is reported. ~~ TWO: Walter Reuther, president of U, A. W., has invited heads of the automobile industry to join union representatives in a conference on how to increase production, voicing his deep concern that automobile output is only 40 to 50 per cent of the 1941 rate. If labor will follow through on this program all along the line, we will begin to go places. Purchasing power can be stabilized only by increasing the production to the point where supply meets market demand. Wages seldom, if ever, keep pace with an upward price spiral, and wage increases defeat their own ends in a scarcity market by increasing the number of dollars bidding for the same limited products. 4 Inability of the automobile industry to satisfy demands for new cars is an important contributing factor to the present inflationary trend. If labor and management can solve this problem through co-operative action, a long step will have been taken toward stabilization of both prices and wages, for the two are interdependent.

OPA DECONTROL BOARD couldn't be Baruch and Baruch and Baruch for that three-man decontrol board, because Mr. Baruch isn't

~~ "triplets, and besides he has a job with the atom. Such-an

ideal appointment being out, we believe the men selected are as good and as practical a choice as could be made. Roy L: ‘Thompson, chairnmn, seems an excellent balance of the practical and the theoretical. He is a banker with a professorial background. George H. Mead is of the highest type of American businessman. He has met many a payroll. And he also has done conspicuous federal service before and during world war II, : Daniel W. Bell rose the hard way in the U. S. treasury, starting as a stenographer and bookkeeper and going up to directorship of the budget. He then became undersecretary, succeeding the extremely capable John W. Hanes, who highly approved of the Bell appointment. All this, before Mr. Bell went into the banking business in Washington. He knows that dollars, prices, debts and deficits Bray just playthings, There is nothing starry-eyed about

Working with OPA Administrator Paul Porter, who is giving evidence of being much more realistic and less cocksure and schoolmasterish than his predecessors, Hen-

derson and Bowles, the decontrol board may get some

But we've got to be shown. For never in our time was there such a job. It calls for unscrewing the inserutable and controlling the uncontrollable. Hercules, the big stable cleaner; Atlas, the heavy weight man, and Canute, who admitted that his “administration” couldn't stop the ocean waves—they faced toil no less awesome than. trying to subdue and restrain the law of supply and demand. All we can say is that we wish the newcomers luck. But we desire to add that the real measure of their performance will be how soon they can work themselves out of their job.

OUR POLICY IN CHINA

HE developing political situation throughout the world necessitates re-examination of American policy in ‘China, where expedients we adopted during the war have been outmoded by the present totalitarian threat from the

left. When we became engaged in the war with Japan, that part of China not occupied by the enemy was disrupted by civil war, Armed forces, using the Communist label, but pretending to represent Chinese liberalism and agrarian reform, were in active revolt against the government. This fratricidal strife stood in the way of a united front against the Japs. It was the sensible, as well as the expedient thing, to try to compromise the differences between the warring factions in order to consolidate their forces, The Communists refused to consider a merger of their troops with Chiang Kai-shek’s national army unless Chiang first agreed to form a new coalition government in which would have substantial representation. The United with the approval of Russia and Great Britain, this proposal as a basis upon which to initiate negotiations between the Chinese government and e armed Communist opposition. Russia at that time had disavowed international Comission i Seneral,o and the Chinese Communists in h to desire a China unified on a

But the wartime negotiations failed to bring about a union of Chinese factions, and today, with Russia again ; ding the Trojan horse of international Communism, the pro tion has lost its original ented ginal purpose and . ¥ » » » » T WAYS lita, Somaucniom operates as a Russian ae column parts of the world. I icy i ea ts policy is ii 18 There is no assurance, and little probability, that the 0 so-called civil war in China would be terminated should ~~ Chiang Kai-shek divide his government against itself by inviting the Reds into his official household. On the consuch ent to the Communists might give impetus to their cause that the Red molehill in ‘become a real mountain. t want a Red China. And we do not a Russian satellite. nterest, and to the interest of a peacehave in that part of the Orient an d nation, founded upon democratie

want to

ud be directed toward that goal.

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Hoosier Forum

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

"People Coming to Believe That Government Will Take Care of Them"

By R. A, Indianapolis On Tuesday evening The Times printed an editorial on taxation with . particular reference to subsidies. ’ I wish it might have very broad circulation. There has appeared to develop during the past few years as a result of many things, the increasing attitude on the part of beneficiaries of government benefits that their personal concern for their own future may be subordinated to the assurance that whatever happens “the government” will take care of them. Too many seem to! consider that “the government” is a mysterious entity occupying the city hall, the capitol building, or Washington from which largess may come in unlimited amcunts. When it is generally appreciated that nothing comes out which is

serviceman had at least enough to take him back to camp. Yes, they really turned on plenty of that old familiar flattery and hero worship during the war years. Now that the fighting is over, and the worst war in American history has been won, it is an altogether different story. People have gone back to their pre-war

individual contribution may be, perhaps a different, more intelligent and more hopeful, attitude may be expected. Until then we may anticipate a continuance of poor thinking. Quite: apart from the risks governmental functions is the fact that this constant reliance upon a superior political force may, and

During the war years and afterward, many G. 1's in fact thouI think now is becoming increas-|sands have married, and now find ingly harmful to the political mor-|it practically impossible to find a nation {decent place in which to live; so bad that some are living in silos, barns, tents and any place they can find that offers some shelter. We know of one who is living in a chicken-coop. Landlords of America, how can you sit back and see our servicemen and women practically kicked out into the gutters? They are the same people who were showered with the best in the land during the war; they are the same ones who risked their lives and won the war, sleeping in foxholes and stinking, filthy trenches while you enjoyed your pleasant homes and the freedom they saved for you. Have you so soon forgotten what you owe to these brave men and women? Shame on America!

» % . “RANDOLPH CHURCHILL PRESUMES TO ADVISE U. 8.” By Sigmund Ewen, 30i4 Central ave. For quite a while we are presented with master-pleces of Mr. Randolph Churchill's advices how we should run our state department and its foreign policy. I wonder how much indignation would it touch off in this country it Russian Ilya Ehrenburg would try to tell us how to run our state

something apart from himself,

» ¥ “ “HAS AMERICA FORGOTTEN DEBT TO ITS VETERANS?” By Mrs. C. IL Stout, 556 N. Highland ave. Back in peacetime servicemen were no more than common tramps ‘to most civilians. A serviceman could wear his thumb off trying to flag a ride and motorists would laugh and call him a sucker for being in the service. If he wanted to “stand in” with the girl's mom and dad he had to shy away from his service uniform. Byt when Uncle Sam went to war with the Fascists, it was counted a sin to be seen with anyone out of uniform. Folks would beg soldlers, sailors or marines to spend their leaves with them, and would treat them to all kinds of drinks and entertainment, becoming very peeved if they turned down their invitations. If he were short of money, they would always see to it that the

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OCOPR, 1946 BY NEA

"I think people LIKE a little exaggeration when you tell a story! Don't you just eat it up on | call you ‘Darling’

and ‘Precious’ and stuff?"

department? Why no object to Mr. R. Churchill? It seems to me that the majority of our fellow Americans don't.real-

as we associate with England. The record of the last three centuries shows that the English fought almost as many wars as the rest of the world combined together (tribal suppression, expeditionary offenses included). I'd like to tell Mr. Churchill if there is any government in need of advice it is the English government whose leaders are the known Attlee-Bevin. In my opinion, for the latest criminal acts of the English government in Palestine and elsewhere, Attlee, Bevin and the high commissioner of Palestine, Cunningham, ought to be put on trial at Nuernberg the same as Goering and Ribbentrop because they are in the same category. I think Mr. R. Churchill ought to advise his government to revise its policy against the Jews in Palestine, It will be the best facesaving for England right now, because England will lose this time, then the 800,000 Jews in Palestine will fight to the very last as did their brothers and sisters in the ghetto of Warsaw against the same brutality, and every decent man and woman who believes in liberty will help them to win freedom from the English oppressors. I guess England ought to know by now that to suppress the Palestinian Jews isn't as easy as to suppress an Arabic or Zulu tribe. . ” » - “COMMITTEEMEN TIRING OF GENERALS DISCUSSING FATE” By Precinet Committeeman, Indianapolis Being a committeeman from a ward of 18 (we are Republican com-

mitteemen) we are getting sick and

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By ©. C. Miller, 2141 Singleton st. “We did it before and we can do ii

again, and we will do it again® (Apologies to the composer of the

and were told the cupboard was bare? Deny ourselves the use of commodities which have been shelved while we needed them sorely, until they have Become rancid and ynfit for human consumption? Save our used fats, and get more “soft soap”? Save our money (?) Save our face and “pants”? Remember, we did it then, Why don't we do it again, and how,

DAILY THOUGHT The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by any reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.~—Psalms 90:10.

” » ” TIME glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the

|IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover | Army Operates Washington Lo

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urglars and Are Act

Bandits, burg] owlers were ou L ht. Oharles Dosse) ‘ashington sb, oppped him af n sts, last 2 pld him up witl grabbed for t red severe cut: he bandits fled. Isreal Rokerts, ., said two wom gun and the ¢ pbbed him of $6 ight. Miss Dorothy 1

Y BY the comptroller general of the States before a senate yes terday to the effect that a “terrific of army officers was operating points to a disgraceful condition’ the ‘capital.

Discredit to the Service

THE GENERALS WHO ACCEPT gifts and enter. tainment . , . and the war and navy departmen’ officials who tolerate lobbying in the congress . .

\ Inut st, s reflect discredit on a branch of our governmen We : . man who foll which has an honorable record. ome last nigh bbed her and

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pm him twice © b run out into help. The a Walter Graebe 1bot st., said hi prowler in h ht. He didn’t anyone, . Mrs, Mildred ¢ arnes ave, said esterds am POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Bl vec ono sai ‘Bcad with a pipe * : os . A burglar sma Bossism Is Tennessee Election Issue Jz BF. Tilindis st, las NASHVILLE, July $0~The primary in this stats withous tags hut now a recognized Crump man, th, [oon OU6 of Thursday attracts national interest because i ju- anli-Crump forces srs piling, in absentia, execor he street said th volves, among others, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, 8tessman Gordon Biowaing, who bsd » diamab ing dawn an all ” tn Bo withis Wwemendous power TRE with the bots durlay his régime ss geverno | See. Jeazs in compress, who w POWEr severe] years ago. Hs is in tae Amerleen a | in the senate as its president pro tem. and as chiair- in OUISIANA man of its appropriations committee. Defeat of the 77-year-old senator would be wel- 0 ‘MAKE J comed by the New Deal and progressive wing of the A group of a!

puisiana w.l cc 3 nexs month fo ysiem of puch

party because of his retreat in recent years into orthodox conservatism. This has expressed itself, among other ways, in attempts to cripple TVA, the

outstanding Néw Deal monument in Tennessee. antiot, a But beyond that, this coming election has re- 0 De ’

oard printing lz klature. The law he Indiana stat ere will be mad into effect. Among officials ith ‘Governor G oard director C James 8. Rus

Hard to Find Opponents BOSS CRUMP IS BACKING Senator McKellar,

nee director The opposition in this state always finds itself op. Ao hard put for a candidate to challenge the Crump 1 be in Indian ruie. This time its hopes rest, so far as the sena- Mr. Clifton sal

torial goes, upon Edward Carmack, 48-year-old world war I veteran, lawyer, and editor at Murfreesboro, in middle Tennessee. He is the son of a former U. S. senator, Edward Ward Carmack, who was shot to death on the streets here in 1908 in a political feud. tion by pressures he has exerted for campaign con Less hopeful are anti-Crump prospects in the gov- tributions upon firms of all sorts that do busines ernor’s race. Against Gov. -Jim McCord, elected with Memphis and the state,

SAGA OF INDIANA . .. By Wiliam A. Marlow Johnny Appleseed Traveled Indiana

state to

campaign. TVA managers were not yet ready fo hethods after th

these additional dams in the orderly program of de velopment.

The boss has indicated some anxiety in this clec Prof D

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put in a ct ing shop opera A NOTED WASHINGTON COLUMNIST once New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginie dered into | said, “We should roust Dies out of his retirement, and Over most of these years, and much of this terri and “attacked” yank him around the country like a political Johnny tory, Johnny Appleseed roughed it. He slept in camp ards, an employ Appleseed to talk to small groups of people.” * of friendly Indians, He lodged in log cabins of th Capt, Davis 5 This was in 1945, 100 years after Johnny Apple- pioneers. He curled up alone in some friendly spo “unruly” dis

seed died. In that century he had been forgotten and become an American tradition. But it was no chance thing that this happened to him-rather, it was fate’s consumate touch to highlight him to greatness,

Bibles and Apples Were Wares JOHNNY APPLESEED, whose name was Chapman, and came from substantial English and early

Through long years he was thus ceaselessly on th move. He planted nurseries at widely scattered spot He sold, bartered, or donated appletrees as an almo: daily routine. While about this he was ever doin some kind deed to animals, Indians, or pioneer foll The helpless of all these, especially the wounded, tk needy and the’ little ones got his unfailingly kin attention In turn, they loved him—all of them. The personal appearance and the individual traii |

using to talk u br owner—arrive

SOFT TOU OF TAVER

CHICAGO, Ju 'avern operator

own as “Poy American stock, was born near Worcester, Mass, on of Johnny Appleseed were etched indelibly on ever nds because h Sept. 26, 1774. His grandfather, Edward Chapman, living creature that saw him as he ceaselessly move puch,” was fount who settled in Boston in 1770, was from the Chap- over his chosen realm. Even the birds and the ani hind lis bar e mans in England and Scotland. Many of them were mals knew him and responded to his call. To a Flynn's body w

these he was a man of medium height, dark bly

clergymen of the Church of England. One, at least, * eyes, slender, lithe, and quick-moving. He wore

was a poet, a contemporary of Sh Johnny Appleseed had just two jobs

aulov, a cab driy e had entered t! telephone call.

es anyone, Mr. poked hehind t Generally ound Flynn, dea he died on March 18, 1845, a stretch of 53 years, he the year he went bareheaded, with an old coffee sac ound in the che

sold appletrees. He sold Bibles

because Emanuel Swedenborg, & IMES SERIA

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CHAPTER TI SALLY COUL hat she ate that pr in her pocket he knew it w regory. What hi anything? He t something els L tten. .

In her room so rew out the type aned them wit ntence stood o n letters of flame “Capt. Blair C Washington on ime he is to 1 greastonsl Medal of the Presiaen

States.” ” i SALLY BAY ¢ nearest chalr, 0? What could

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Charles T. Lucey Streamlined Congress Will Cut Cos!

years’ service, will not be candidates to succeed them-

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years hence. Many have wished to retire, reach in all the paj selves s¥9 y 6 yould know she Reorganization sponsors say the provision can pise here. She p invaluable if heads of

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younger, reduction in the average congressional age sult. Today 188 of the 465 house members are past 60,

number Washington, Oh ti 3 stg pash 50. d from hosen that name New Check by Experts to four had possessed he

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DEPARTMENTS which have been ation Richard (

EXECUTIVE able to outsmart congressional committees for many years, because the committees had no effective means of checking on them, will meet an entirely new situation. ,

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“The elder Car ions in the Eastny dear—in Lint

3 o stop off in annually, and the hope is to get men ready to mak J." oi certair

goverhment a career, The executive departments wil SEM © 4 this is be kept from raiding these staffs by a provision pro here is to be n hibiting taking an executive job for a year after leav. MN, taining —just a ing the legislative service. ’ I ogether. I knew No congressmen are eligible for the new pensio ame somewhere unless they have served six years. They pay 6 pe , cent of their salary into the pensjon fund and this i matched by the government, and are eligible for pay, ments at 62. Special provisions are made for olde members which do not make it necessary for then | to contribute on a full scale basis for all past year, |

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The departments will be forced into strict account. ing of operations they have escaped heretofore. The appropriations committees will have expert staffs to study affairs the year around, rather than limiting their knowledge to testimony presented by department witnesses in often brief hearings once

a , Hn trying to ascertain departmental expenditures will be aided by what Rep, Monroney calls a system of “showease accounting.” The idea is to force the departments to come to Capitol Hill with a simple statement, broken down by classifications much as a business balance sheet, to show just where the

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days flee away with no restraining

money goes.

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