Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1946 — Page 14

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V-J DAY , headlines one year ago today, on our first V-J day .* extra, told an excited Indianapolis public that: FINAL JAP SURRENDER ACCEPTANCE ON WAY, TOKYO RADIO REPORTS

and Indianapolis and the rest of the world celebrated the end of world war IL Today, on the first anniversary of Japanese acceptance of the allied unconditional surrender demand, ye print on page one the observations of three members of the editorial staff who were overseas at that time, These men were selected from among many veterans because of the posts they filled at the time of surrender. Times staffers who give first-hand accounts of. their VJ day experiences and chronicle their reactions to this year of peace are Richard Lewis, who was in Paris at that time on the Stars and Stripes; Earl Hoff, a major on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff, who attended formal signing of the surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, and Donald D. Hoover, on Gen. MacArthur's staff as a colonel in command of a counter-intelligerice detachment. Mr. Lewis was wounded in Normandy and received the Purple Heart. Mr. Hoff and Mr. Hoover, both recipients of the Legion of Merit, went from G. H. Q. in Manila, where they were on V-J day, to Japan before the surrender. . We believe you will be interested in the reports of these trained observers, both of the reception of the big pews in the European and Pacific theaters and of their views on how effectively we are winning the peace to which war was a prelude.

OUR GOOD FRIEND TITO IT will be difficult for most Americans to understand Yugoslavia’s official indignation over the fact that a U. S. army passenger plane crossed a corner of Marshal Tito’s territory while traveling betwéen Vienna and 4 destination in northern Italy. " Even granting that such technical “violations” of Yugoslav “sovereignty” have been frequent, what possible harm has been done? American aid to Yugoslav partisans helped recover that coun from the Germans, and made Marshal Tito’s gov. ent possible. Qur planes were welcome then. Since that time, Yugoslavia has been given $190 million in

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"Unite Nations Agreeing With Us And Let Russia Go on Her Own Way"

By N. S., Indianapolis

the words of President Wilson at the peace conference in Paris? I can recall how the American people failed to back him in his issue then. Here is what he said, “It was surprising to me when the enemy surrendered to find so many new weapons of war discovered by science. How terrible it is to note that science has turned all her knowledge and efforts toward something so destructive to our civilized world, instead of something constructive to benefit mankind instead of destroying it.” President Wilson was a leader and a very brilliant man, but even now we do not seem to heed his words. Before Germany invaded Russia, Russia had decided to join Hitler.|“C, 1. 0. IS WILLING TO Then when Germany invaded Rus- | SETTLE AT CONNERSVILLE" sia by complete surprise all Russia |g, waiter Frisbie, did was yell for help and assistance| CIO Council from the United States. Odd, isn't The Times editorial, “Peace at

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UNRRA supplies for the relief and rehabilitation of her people, most of the money coming from the United States. Surely, that was a manifestation of our good will. So we get a kick in the pants! ' Our relations with Marshal Tito reminds us of the congressman who, when told a certain constituent was bitterly opposing his re-election, remarked: “That's funny. I can’t recall ever having done that man a favor.”

G. 0. P. ECONOMIZERS

treasury department reports as follows on the ™ federal government’s income and outgo for the first 89 days of the current fiscal year:

Expenses ........... $4,474,758,234.07 Receipts .....cv000.. 3,161,472,346.63 Deficit .............. 1313,285887.44

President Truman's economy drive certainly is not getting off to a very impressive start. Less than two weeks ago he said that possibly the federal budget would be balanced in this fiscal year, and at worst the deficit for the entire 12 months would be held to $1.9 billion. In 39 days it has grown to more than two-thirds of that amount. Maybe the future prospect isn't as gloomy as it looks at this point, but Republican politicians are making the most of what they call Mr. Truman's “belated and idle” gesture at economy, and his opposition to further tax reduction at this time. This, for example, comes from Rep. Harold Knutson of Minnesota, top Republican member of the house ways and means committee: “There is only one sure cure. Cut off the source of much of the federal government's income by reducing taxes and compel the government to retrench, live within its income and at the same time start paying off the debt. “The first step is the election of a Republican congress in November. Then in 1947 individual income taxes will be reduced 20 per cent.” That's a promise. Af a Republican congress is elected in November, Mr. Knutson and his party will be responsible for whatever is done toward keeping it. And it will be instructive to see what they do with their responsibility.

” . ” » SWEEPING statements about cutting taxes and compelling the government. to live on a reduced income may sound good during a campaign. But we suspect the country might be more impressed with the sincerity of Mr. Knutson’s ‘promise if he would back it up with a bill of particulars. What savings, beyond those promised by Mr. Truman, does he propose ? Balancing the budget and starting to retire the debt, on smaller revenue from taxes, can hardly be accomplished without trimming the benefits congress has voted for vet~ erans, scaling down appropriations for the army and navy, and cutting into other federal activities popular with large ~ groups of citizens and voters. But perhaps, with election day so near, it is too much to ask Mr. Knutson and other Republican advocates of stern economy to be specific about

such things,

ATOMIC DEADLOCK

OVIET RUSSIA'S objection to international inspection are blocking development of a program for control of mic energy. Yet without the unqualified right of intera inspection, granted and observed in good faith, any e b for the control of atomic energy would be a 8 scrap of paper. wiew is that such inspection would be an her sovereignty. She is within her rights that position. But we hold the atomic bomb can keep them to ourselves until a control ‘to us, is concluded. This is one place s will collect. no dividends.

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it, that Russia with all her hatred | Connersville,” presents a persuasive for democracy had time to stop|case based as usual on an incomand be friendly and ask our help, plete recital of the facts. Although full knowing that without our help|there is a profound principle at which included military equipment stake in Connersville, The Times she needed and did not have, she Picked a straw man, beat hell out would lose the war to Germany. of it, and said, “See, as we told you We came to her aid and helped [all along, we need some more labor her in time of stress, Now the war | laws.” is all over and daily we are get-| Ih a nutshell, the facts are these. ting our thanks from Russia, a very An A.F.L. union had a closed shop ungrateful country. I recall a peace- (contract at the Rex Manufacturing ful December morning when Ja- Co. A majority of workers wanted pan’s diplomats were in Washing- to change to the C.I.O. They tried ton talking peace and being friend- {to make the change. The company ly with us and at the same time fired some C.1O. sympathizers, did attack Pearl Harbor without gave a number of others reason to any warning whatsoever. Russia believe they were to be fired. The reminds me very much of Japan, workers protected themselves the she talks of world peace and yet|only way they could—they struck. does everything in her power to| They have just two demands: prevent it. (1) that all shall be allowed to I think the smairt thing fo do is come back to work without any disto unite all the nations that agree|crimination; (2) that there shall with us on our policies and govern- be a secret ballot election to dement and let Russia alone. We termine which union shall be the never needed her before and I bargaining agent. think we can get along without her| It is not the business of The now. To the many Communists Times, of the A. F. of L., of the in our country, I have a suggestion{C. I. O, or of the Rex Manufacfor them also. Let them all return turing Co. to say who shall repreto Russia, where they can have the {sent the Rex workers. It is their form of government they want and right to select their own bargainthey won't need a revolution either, {ing agent—if’ any. - Tt is true that and after all there's no place like they at one time selected the A. home. They all may holler you|F. of L. But it is also their right can't do that to us, we are Ameri- to change that representation. They cans. But no real American would have learned a lot since the first advocate destruction of his gov-|A. F. of L. contract in 1940.

ernment, a dictatorship as that Is, Before the Rex Manufacturing

through the streets of Washington!|by the United Electrical, Radio and asking our President to stay out of Machine Workers of America, C. I. war until Germany invaded Russia | O., that a majority of the workthen they all asked the United ers og signed membership cards in States to declare war on Germany. (the ©. I. O. At the time of the Odd coincidence, isn't it? But it's|strike, the C. I. O. had the signatypical of the Communists, {tures of nearly 85 per cent of the

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It seems as though the atomic age is here and nothing can prevent it. Yet I wonder if the scientists who developed the atom bomb recall strike has been one of the most

workers on C. I. O. membership cards. The strike was a peaceful one. The editor of The Times who claims some sympathy for and knowledge of labor should be the first to recognize that fact. The Connersville

tranquil in the state this year. Every sensible person knows that a strike is not a Sunday school picnic. There was some rough talk, some tough talk. There was doubtless some profanity, A few men were arrested for disorderly conduct. A judge issued a restraining order. The order was never violated. There were rumors, rumors galore. There were even stories in some newspapers about violations but the record is clear;

there was not a single violation of the judge's order. Governor Ralph Gates lost his head because a lot of excitable people brought him all the loose talk, the wild stories, the sensational rumors that had floated around the community. He sent in the troops and the state police. This was a provocative t whose implications The Times editor's experience should make clear to him. The Times itself, Aug. 6, in the

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headlines: “State Guard Leaves Connersville, Gates Orders Withdrawal, Tension Eases.” » We underline the words “tension eases” because by accident the headline writer hit the nail right on the head. The tension that the coming of the troops and police caused eased when the ‘troops were taken out. The reports that we have received from Connersville indicate that sentiment there is running heavily in favor of organized labor, specifically the C. I. O. Of course, this is the sentiment of the working people. It would not include the bankers, the manufacturers, the chamber of commerce. There is a real issue in Connersville. It is this: Does a worker have a right to pick the union he wants to represent him . . . and that by a secret ballot election? Or can the company, a minority union, the state police, the militia, be used to intimidate workers into remaining members of a union they don't want, This is an important prin-

The C. I. O. is willing to settle the strike any minute that the company will take back all the workers and give them the right to vote for their oollective bargaining agent,

treason, and wé Americans don’t|Co. and the A. F. of L. renewed the| ciple believe in treason. It's amazing present contract earlier this year, how the Communists paraded|the company had been informed

2. nn “WHY COMPLAIN ABOUT CONDITIONS; DO SOMETHING”

By Mr. A. M,, Beech Grove Why keep beefing about all such things as $1 for a haircut—don’t go to the barbers that charge $1, if they all charge the same do without, long hair is no disgrace; then barking dogs In the neighborhood— pass a law, no dogs in the city limits, it will take a little away from the politicians but the people can have it that way if they get down to business; high taxes—well, you elect these people to office, then they find a ‘place on the government payroll for their wives and family relations and friends at the taxpayers’ expense (40 per cent of the working people are keeping these people in their white collar jobs); the new OPA—what a joke, more extra burden on the taxpayer, well, there is such a thing as refusing to pay taxes or otherwise donating a certain per cent of your earnings each week to keep this up. So wake up. Let's clean house. For one time let's have the people talk and someone else live up to it instead of the way it is now. Last call for American liberty. Wake up.

‘DAILY THOUGHT

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also love one another I John 4:11. " » » How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all week to be

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ONCE UPON A TIME in this column, in a casual - allusion to the weather, I mentioned Aug. 9, 1900. That was the day Robert Martindale picked to peel his coat and vest, and walk unabashed through the

| streets of Indianapolis attired in nothing more than

a pair of pants, a pair of shoes, a straw hat and & pink shirtwalst,

integral parts of the garment. On the same occasion, I believe

the people of Indianapolis would think enough of Mr. Martindale to commemorate his courage which, when you stop to 'take stock, approximated that of Lady Godiva. And that, I believe, is as far as I carried the story of the end of the boiled bosom shirt and the start of Indianapolis civilians going coatless in the summer time. Well, today I want to tell you something about the struggle the letter carriers of Indianapolis had to get permission to do what Mr. Martindale did of his own free will Two weeks after Mr. Martindale strutted his stuff, the newspapers carried a sensational front page story about the strange behavior of the postmaster of Newark, N. J. Believe it or not, the New Jersey postmaster had posted a bulletin permitting his carriers not only to go coatless, but to wear shirtwaists as well.

Can't Doff Coats

MR. McGINNIS AND MR. SHIDELER, respectively our postmaster and his assistant at the time, hit the ceiling when they heard of it, and vowed that the shirtwaist could invade she Indianapolis

postoffice only over their dead bodies. Eventually, however, they cooled down and consented to consider the wearing of thinner coats. But as for carriers appearing in shirtwaists, they wouldn't stan for it a minute. Accordingly, the carriers had a meeting and petiitioned the local postal authorties for permission to wear snuff-colored coats and, with Mr. Shideler's consent, a committee was appointed to look. into the matter. The committee shopped around and finally

WASHINGTON, Aug.-14.—The time-worn political strategy which consists of playing up what is called “outside interference” is being exploited in primary campaign this season more than in past years.

Emphasized particularly with regard to the south, it is by no means confined to that section. “Outside interference,” as defined in the political lexicon, is when someone or some organization outside a state dares to say something about the personalities and issues in a state election, either from a distance or on a visit to that state.

Senators Provide Example

IT 18 “OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE,” for example, when the President raises his voice against a member of his own party, even though the member is from the President's native state where the President several times has been elected to public office. The issue, too, in that case, was national. For the member of congress from Mr. Truman's Missouri, Rep. Slaughter, was trying to block the President's legislative program, which affects the people of the whole nation. It is “outside interference” when people in other parts of the country, political writers, magazine writers, or others, have something to say abouf Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, for instance. This, despite the fact that what Senator Bilbo does in the senate affects people all over the country. Furthermore, political reporters who cover Senator Bilbo's activities daily probably know a good deal more about the senator and his influence on the affairs of the nation, as well as on the affairs of the people of the south and his own Mississippi, than do most people who live in Mississippi. It is “outside interference” when a political leader of the caliber of Harold Stassen, a Republican, goes to neighboring Nebraska to advocate nomination of another Republican who, in his opinion, will best serve in the senate the interests of the whole nation

VIENTIANE, Northern Indo-China, Aug. 14.—With the “Free-Laos” movement now underground and the protectorate of Laos swinging into line, France now has two complacent kingdoms—Cambodia and Laos— in Indo-China to pit politically against the Vietnam republic, even when the battling Vietnamese finally agree to join its Indo-Chinese federation. : As a buffer state of the Asiatic “Balkans,” Laos prefers to be under the protection of a big industrial power like France,

Still Have Stiff Opposition THE LAOTIANS, numbering hardly 1,000,000, are rich in land, gentle and uninflammable by nature, friendly to the French and disinterested in independence, by contrast to Vietnam's more than 12,000,000 dynamic Annamites who, crowded into the flood-ridden deltas of northern Tonking, are landpoor and hungry. The Laotians have always feared the Annamites even more than encroachments by Chinese or Siamese. The “Free Laos” movement was not aimed at a free republic like Vietnam, but rather at a constitutional monarchy, with King Sisavong on the throne but the French completely barred from political in fluence.

REFLECTIONS . .". By Robert C. Ruark | ‘Front Page’ Revival Still Undated

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NEW YORK, Aug. 14—I haven't been in the racket long enough to remember the days when all reporters had zinc-lined stomachs and the privilege of calling managing editors harsh names, but the business doesn’t seem to have changed too much in the last 20 years. Maybe there are less legmen, more Brooks Brothers suits and more social consciousness, but intrinsicially the newspaper business—and the world around it, for that matter, are pretty much the same. Vd I reached this conclusion by sitting in on a rehearsal of the old Charlie MacArthur-Ben Hecht. number, “Front Page.” It could have been a fresh new play, instead of a revised opus that ran a year in 1928.

Paris Peace Conference Then, Too

MR. MacARTHUR, a celebrated imp, was a lean, hairy and hungry ex-reporter then, as opposed to the current MacArthur, who is considerably less lean, hungry and hairy. He and Hecht were steeped in the raffish glamor of-chasing murderers in Chicago, and they put together a play which is about as ageless as any. As a matter of fact, that's. why it's to open again in September, after having been combed over by two movies and Lord knows how many months on the

Hunt Stromberg Jr., who built a rather fabulous success of an exhumed “Red Mill,” is producing “Front Page” because Stromberg has an idea that all’ good plays have been written, and it's better to lug back

the sound ones than to stick out your neck with a new-hatched, ungainly original, , : According to Charlie, the old script hasn't been

touched, although it's coming on to two score years

since he and Hecht took their first full cut at the | business and thrust them’ into a million bucks. It 15 a little eerie tq sit and listen to such dated stuff, come out as timely as 's paper.

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v i : . «. > : : or a : & the Mail settled on a coat weighing four ounces and costing $2 (in wholesale lots). After the committee thought it had everything fixed, a loud and lusty group of 11 carriers kicked (mostly because of the additional expense) and threatenéd to expose everybody connected with the affair, even if it meant taking the issue up to Charles

Emory Smith who was President, McKinley's post-master-general at the tine,

with’ the result that nothing more was done to relieve the carriers that year. Anyway, by that time it was almost Thanksgiving day. The next year, however, the carriers got an early start. On April 13, 1901, 51 of the 100 employed in the Indianapolis postoffice at the time

petitioned Postmaster McGinnis “to allow us to wear | a regulation shirtwaist.” P.M. McGinnis, who by this |

time had been won over, suggested that a committee of married letter carriers be appointed with instructions to select a style and color approved by their wives. Whereupon the unmarried carriers went on record that no woman, no matter whether married or not, could possibly know anything about the fit and feel of a shirtwaist around a man’s stomach.

Final Freedom from Jackets

IT WAS WHILE the benedicts and bachelors were wrangling that James H. Deery, chief of city delivery, entered the fight and upset everything that. had been done up to that time. Taking advantage of the split, Mr. Deery calmly remarked: “I don't want to see the carriers in shirtwaists; I am afraid they will look slovenly. The thin skeleton summer coats are cool enough.” And that, my children, is why the question of whether the carriers should peel their coats or not was again postponed. To tell the truth, I can't recall how many years it took the letter carriers to get permission to shed their coats. However, I have a dim regollection that some time in the latter part of Theodore Roosevelt's administration (1901-09) a smart letter carrier persuaded his senator to attach an innocent-looking rider to an appropriation bill, the non-passage of which would have left the members of congress without anything to eat.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Many Local Elections Affect Nation

in relation to the part it must now play in the world. When Mr, Stassen, or anyone else, travels the

comparatively short distance from Minnesota to Nebraska, it does not seem that he is entering a foreign

land. The terrain looks about the same, the people look and act and think about the same. It is “outside interference” by “smear writers’— the term applied so commonly—if anybody goes to Tennessee and, from first-hand observation, describes how Boss Ed H. Crump’s Memphis machine conducts elections, which is such a contrast to the way they are conducted in most other places as to be startling news now as in the past. Are we one nation, or are we 48 tight little compartments like European principalities of feudal days? What happens in one locality, whethef it is divided by an imaginary line from some other locality, is im-portant-to people who live elsewhere. This is true of elections, whether are are for state officials, such as that in which Gene Talmadge was returned to power in Georgia, or for national officials. Mr. Talmadge cannot live and rule to himself in Georgia. His influence spreads elsewhere. Likewise members elected to congress have their influence on many parts of the country.

'Interference’ Is Phoney Issue

IT SEEMS A LITTLE LATE for us to be dividing ourselves into isolated compartments here within the United States, when we have recognized, with the shrinking of the world, that it must be organ politically so that each nation can conduct itself fa the good of all nations. It is a sham issue and usually recognized for what it is, a last resort appeal to some sort of local prejudice against “outsiders” when other appeals fail. The nation is too inter-related and the“people have too much at stake’ to restrain themselves when something happens elsewhere that impinges upon their interest and their welfare.

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Prince Phetsarath, scion of Vientiane's broken royal family, engineered it and placed his brothers in key cabinet positions. Before putting the ailing King Sisavong under detention at his Riverside pal-

ace, last winter, the cabinet tried to win him over} by offering to expand his kingdom southward along §

the Mekong river. But the king preferred to stay loyal to the French,

feeling that they would match or better whatever

the leftists had to offer.

The Pree Laotian cabinet turned phantom when | it crossed the Mekong but is still linked by a formal

military alliance with Vietnam’s partisan army.

French Educational Background HOWEVER, THE ANNAMITES helped the Free

Laotians little, having their hands full with the army ; of French Commander Gen. Jacques Leclerc, who |

has since been succeeded by Gen, Jean Etienne Val-

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They were growing ulcers over the Reds when MacArthur and Hecht did “Front Page.” They were screaming about politicians. “The escapes of Mac~ Arthur's murderer aren't nearly as ludicrous as the recent wholesale exodus in Washington, D. C.,, when killers sauntered out of a cream-cheese jail at will, and somebody hung a sign on the jail door: “Everybody Home for Christmas.”

The popular pastime of hollering at England and ¥

viewing the Communists with alarm evidently was as current in the Chicago of '28 as now, because two of the best gaglines are found in the slogan of the incumbent administration: “Keep King George out of Chicago” and “Reform the Reds with a rope.” My spine crawled (a little when, at the end of Act II, Managing Editor Walter Burns barked into a phone: “The hell with the Paris peace conference! Spike it! Naw, leave the rooster story alone. It's good human interest.” “Damn the advertisers,” said Mr. Burns, in the present body of Arnold Moss, “this is a good murder. A good juicy murder still has more reader-appeal than anything else you can set before the customers,” and Charlie's Chicago vintage Capone wasn't much gaudier than the Chicago of Willie Heirens.

And Political Fumbling

MacARTHUR SHERIFF and mayor can still be used as a fine, vicious parody of the bumbling ma-

chine politicians around the nation, and their pompous §

platitudes and fumbling fatuousness in a crisis hasn't been reformed a nickel’s worth in 20 years. I still get of Mr. Hildy trying to go ness, and it wouldn't tang Page” in'1966. It'll probably be just as sound then

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