Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1946 — Page 15

its can’t

wer than with a all wool

10 to 18,

Pay: rred v!

ASHION SHOP |

Sensible Me WASHINGTON, Aug. 21,--A mysterious organization is spreading through our government, hacking away at time-honored institutions of democracy

such as neckties and shirts with sleeves on 'em.

Three years ago six underminers of the current way of life met in the park across from the commerce department and with appropriate mumbo-jumbo burned a consignment of stiff collars. So was born the brotherhood of sensible men. Today more than 3000 brothers go coatless, hatless, tieless and sleeveless to their labor at desks in every department of government. The thing is spreading. The brethren are hoping for the day when President Truman turns up in a sports shirt, they're campaigning for a law to make the vest illegal, and they're demanding that all shoes have holes punched in ‘em. The movement Is serious. Without further ado 1 present an interview with Brother Charles Planck, an official of the civil aeronautics administration. If it weren't for Mrs, P., he wouldn't even wear a necktie to church. « “Our platform is a barrel of eels,” Brother Planck said, flexing the muscles in his neck, unbound by tie, or collar, either. “You can't pin us down’ on anything,

No Membership Campaign “WE ARE sensible men, We have no meetings, no dues, no constitution, no bylaws. We can't break . the rules, because there are no rules. We wear what's comfortable and that consists of sports shirts and slacks, as of now. Some of the members advocate kilts instead of pants, because they don’t have to be pressed. “But kilts are like shorts, They expose knees.

(Donna Mikels is on vacation.

7 Printers’ H COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Aug. 21. ~The main five-story stone building of the Union Printers’ Home here sits on the crest of Nob Hill facing the west, Patients and residents in the west side rooms get a magnificent view of Pike's Peak and the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains. You can understand how all of them would want a west-side room, and how those who didn't get them would be envious of those who did. The architects and executives of the union met that situation in advance. They built long sun porches, like the promenade decks of ocean liners, for the patients in rooms on the east side. Their rooms have two doors—one opening into the corridor, the other opening on the sun porch. That sort of makes up for the view their fellow residents have over on the west side. The eastsiders look out over the plains, and their panorama is pretty, too. Most of the residents have rooms to themselves— well furnished, homey-looking rooms, very neat and clean. A few rooms are shared by two residents. It was over half an hour till lunch time when we reached the main dining room on our inspection tour, but a big group of veteran printers was already lined up along the wall, sitting in chairs, waiting. One gray-haired old printer was pacing up and down, pulling out his watch and glancing at it every 10 seconds.

Eating Main Interest

“EATING is one of our main interests and activities,” Supt. Dowell Patterson said. “There's always a gang here ahead of time.” The food is served cafeteria style, and the residents kpow in advance what they are going to get. Menus

are posted on the bulletin board. That day it offered .

chicken noodle soup, baked hash, cucumber and onion salad. rolls, bread and butter, milk, coffee, tea, cream. The kitchen is well equipped. Trays for bedridden patients go upstairs by dumbwaiter, and the food reaches them only a minute or two after it leaves the kitchen. v i "Cleanliness is emphasized not only in the kitchen but in all the rooms.” . Te Hal

Scienc BILLIONS OF neutrons are released when an atomic bomb explodes and these constitute a source of radioactivity fully as dangerous as the initia] blast of gamma rays let loose by the explosion. To explain why this is so requires a brief excursion into the realm of nuclear physics but it will pay the reader to follow even though the path seems a little involved at times. Failure to understand the atomic® bomb may cost civilization its existence. When the bomb explodes, the atoms composing the charge of uranium 235 or plutonium in it undergoes fission. That is, each atom splits in half. One tenth of one per cent of the mass of these atoms is converted into energy in this\process and, this constitutes the bomb's source of explosive violence. Part of that energy is released in the form of gamma rays, that is, radiations of extremely short wavelength like the lethal rays given off by radium. The explosion of the bomb is the result of what is known as a chain reaction. This begins when a neutron strikes an atom of uranium 235 or plutonium. The atom splits in half but at the same time releases two more neutrons.

Increase to Many Billions

THESE NEUTRONS, in their turn, strike and split other atoms which, in turn, release more neutrons. Thus the number of neutrons goes from two to four to eight to 16, to 32, ete. ete. In the 10-millionth of a second that it takes the bomb to explode, the number of neutrons increases te an incredible figure, literally billions upon billions. At this point, perhaps, I had better say a word about what a neutron is. A neutron is one of the

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday In the past week, the world has lost a great author, a man of imagination who had many friends—H. G. Wells. I remember an evening when he dined with us at the White House. He sat at my right. I knew nothing of him as a person, though I knew his writings. And so, when someone spoke in a high falsetto voice, I looked around the table in some surprise. I am deaf in my right ear and always have difficulty with my most important guest, as I have to turn around almost completely to talk to him. I did not turn around to Mr. Wells because it never occurred to me that the high squeak was a remark from him.

Got On Well with F. D. R. MY DAUGHTER tried to tip me off and looked at me with some annoyance. Then I suddenly realized that I had heard that Mr. Wells suffered from a voice which was not impressive. From then on; I did a little better. I am sure that he and my husband got on well throughout the evening. However, as we sat in the big oval room upstairs after dinner, I was unable to hear what they were saying, and so I cannot say that either the evening or the conversation left me with any very deep impressions,

Inside Indianapolis will be resumed on her return.)

by F rederick C Othman

There is nothing you can do about knees and: being sensible men, we probably will leave them covered. “We had thought of making an intensive campaign for members, but that wouldn't be sensible. It would be an effort. But eyery day sensible men throw off the shackles of the haberdashery trade and join us. Now that's sensible. And no trouble.

Make Some Compromises “THE LONG-SLEEVED, white shirt people, I understand, are against us.. So are the necktie fellows and the torturers who make vests, not to mention the straw hat trust. But we are sensible men. We not only ignore them, we ignore their products.” Brother Planck said a sensible man had to make | some compromises. Take his own case. He owns two | neckties, both given to him as Christmas presents | in 1922. He keeps one at home and one at the office. | They are for emergencies. { “If T am invited to lunch at a fancy hotel,” he | said, “I wear a necktie. That's sensible, because otherwise they throw you out. Sailors can eat in these hotels without wearing coats, because they have no coats, and eventually I predict that sensible men will be allowed inside, too. The brotherhood admires Winston Churchill for the jumper suits he used to wear, “We are coming out flat-footed for the combina- | tion shirt and pants,” Brother Planck said. “All in| one piece.” . This would do away with suspenders (including Gene Talmadge's red ones) and belts, such as make Brother Planck's middle look like a sack of cement with a rope around it, “Lookit,” he suggested. .“There's nothing sensible about my belt, except to keep my pants up. I want pants that stay up by themselves. That's sensible.”

By Eldon Roark

There are two large five-story brick buildings to the rear of the main buildings. One of them is a dormitory for residents who require little nursing or medical attention—just old folks—and the other is a tuberculosis sanatorium. It is operated as a separate unit—has its own kitchen, recreation room, and sun decks. Patients there do not have ‘contact with other patients or residents,

Resident for 31 Years THE GROUND floor of the sanatorium is the dormitory for a group of old men who, because of the | infirmities of age, rarely leave their rooms. They | are just’ waiting for the final call. The doors of | their rooms were open, and we glanced in as we walked down the corridor. Some of them were asleep. | Others were sitting up listening to the radio, and others were just sitting, looking out the window or staring straight ahead. The Home has a herd of 83 Holstein cows and also has a chicken farm and a hog farm. But it doesn't have a vegetable garden. It had one during the war, but it was just a patriotic gesture. Supt. Patterson found they could buy vegetables a lot cheaper than they could raise them. Since this is a union home, only union labor is employed. It works out fine till they get-around to gardening. You just can't pay union wages and overtime to gardeners and come out ahead—not out in this dry country. Walter J. Willard, 85, of Kansas City, is probably the oldest guest in point of residence. -He has been there 31 years. For years Mr. Willard published country newspapers. After Tailing three times, he said he began to suspect he wasn't a businessman. I also had a little chat with tall, lean, grayhaired Carl Sumner from Memphis. He has been at the Home five vears. He had to quit his job after he had a stroke. He now carries paper routes downtown—morning and afternoon—and does a. lot of walking. > 3 The routes not only bring in a little spending money, but they also Help him pass the time, “I'd go erazy sisting .here doing nothing,” he says. ?

By David Dietz

two basic particles which compose the nuclei of atoms.

One, the proton, has a positive electrical charge. The other, the neutron, is electrically neutral, ’

Intense Neutron Stream

SECOND SECTION

ARPES

The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1946 HARD WORK PUTS GROUNDS IN SHAPE—

Road machinery is being worked overtime at the state fairgrounds where Lester Beechler, 4408 Caroline st., grades one of the roads.

(One of a Berles)

By ROBERT BLOEM INDIANA'S, 1946 state fair is even bidding to set a new record for breaking records. Besides anticipating a thumping new all-time high attendance, here are some of the others: : Biggest premium list in history— a total of $217,000 in prizes for all events, Biggest Grand circuit purse in history—#$95,000. ‘ Biggest horse show ever put on, necessitating building extra ‘temporary stalls to extend facilities of the saddle barn. Biggest radio show ever staged for an opening—the “Hoosier Parade” of radio celebrities.Saturday evening, Aug. 31. Lafgest number of exhibits ever to be shown, » - - FARMERS who, in past years have come to the fair to see the agricultural and farming develop ments of the previous year will come this year to catch up on five years, Particularly in the case of farm machinery will the visiting farmer take a greater-than-usual interest. Wartime shortages of materials and post-war strikes and price problems have deprived many farmers of the benefits of new developments in machinety. :

Fair Features fo Be Biggest Ever

fair in newly built stalls. Durisg store army air foroe paris.

Along this raised platform in the Women's building during fair time will parade beautiful models wearing the latest clothing creations. Paul Moore (foreground) and Charles Carroll measure the platform for carpeting while Robert Bonke puts finishing touches te newly laid flooring with a sander.

Many Hoosier farmers have items of machinery on order that Shey never have seen. The 1048 fair, in many instances, will give them an opportunity to see new machinery and check its performance.

ELEVEN new western classes have been added to the horse show this year, first time western classes have been included. Three new Tennessee walking classes also have been added. Fair

Now empty, this cattle barn will house prize animals during the

on attendance although no one rec-

the war the building was used te

officials are hoping to put the horse show on the best financial footing in 12 fairs. From the standpoint of attendance, fair officials point out that it would not be surprising to see interest bring in 700,000 for the eight days. The previous record was something under 500,000. . » . » TO AVOID peak crowds, they point out, patrons should remember that Labor day and the Thursday following, which is Farm Organization day, are normally the heaviest days at the gates. Traditionally the last. day is the lightest

ommends waiting until the closing day. In at least one instance the 1046 fair will mark a turning point—the conservation exhibit, The fish and game building, rated the “eyesore” of the whole grounds and currently in decrepit condition is scheduled to be torn down and 8 new conservation exhibit is planned for the 1947 exposition.

. s . . LOCATION of the new fish and game setup on the opposite side of the grounds near the youth buildings will keynote a general plan to spread the fair more thinly over its 216 acres. By moving this exhibit in the coming year, planners hope to increase the “draw” in the northwest corner of the grounds, spreading. the crowds and relieving con{gestion on the south side where near{ly everything now is coneentrated.

DETROIT, Aug. 21.

BUT LET US get back to the bomb explosion.

~ Studebaker

(Second of three articles) By CHARLES T. LUCEY Secrippi-Howard Staff Writer —When Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers president, tried to gét the auto industry's big

shots together recently

Part of the energy of the burst goes into the-speed| qi... the critical production lag, most of them sent regrets.

with which these billions upon billions of neutrons are hurled out “of the bomb so that along with the initial blast of gamma rays there comes an equ intense stream of neutrens in all directions. These neutrons are extremely penetrating, far more so than protons or electrons which, because of their electrical charges, are soon brought to rest by their encounters with the atoms of the air. The most powerful beams of protons released into the air from a cyclotron travel only a few feet, but neutrons have a range that exceeds a mile. Physicists found in the years prior to world war II

that beams of neutrons were quickly absorbed by most

substances and had the effect of rendering their atoms radioactive so that they in turn gave off particles and gamma rays just as does radium. In this fashioh physicists used beams of neutrons to render sodium, phosphorus, carbon and many other substances artificially radioactive, Incidentally, they learned the need for extraordinary precautions when working with neutrons. early experiments, when care was not sufficiently rigid, physicists found that silver coins in their pockets had become radioactive. The effect of the neutron streams released by the atomic bomb, therefore, is to render radioactive whatevery they strike. I shall discuss this in greater detail tomorrow.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. Wells’ books give the real measure of the man and his death is a loss to the world. One never feels, however, that anyone who has had a long and full life 4nd has made his contribution can evoke, among those left behind, the same sense of sorrow and regret which the death of any young person brings.

Nephew. Dies IN THE LAST few days, we have lost a young relative. My nephew, Henry Parish Roosevelt, was a sweet and gentle person. He gave much of himself to those who knew him well, As a boy out west, he picked up one of those terrible bone infections, which necessitated many painful operations and treatments. These had resulted in long periods of illness and, in the past year, after another operation last winter, he had gone through a great deal of suffering with his leg. When, with several members of my family, I stopped overnight recently at the farm which he ran

in Limerick, Me, we not only enjoyed seeing his| ..4 nursing-care are advisable, to mother, Mrs. John Cutter, but found Henry a most | > Da ¢

charming host. I am glad to remember him as we saw him that evening, thoughtful as always, having even prepared carefully to receive our two dogs and give them all they could want.

Unemployment Now Decreasing in England

Times Foreign Service

a downward trend. Ministry of Labor figures released |

ployed from the peak figure of June more persons are 17 which was 376,000, about 50.000 married women.

teresting because it represented in- million.

. creased jobs in all districts of BritLONDON, Aug. 21-—British un-|ain except one. Also indications are|fewer men employed than there | employment has at long last taken that the upward trend in employ- | oe in mid-1930 but the number | 5% because of the short period of |The infection is not present in the {ment has continued since June. J et { Another interesting fact is the extoday for June, the latest month for tent of change in type of employwhich totals havé .been compiled, ment which has taken place in this show “a decrease of 17,000 unem- | first peace year. Nearly four million

including | civilian home and export markets _ |than a year ago. ) Although small, this figure is in-|ure in the U. 8. would be ahout ten |

There are still

The mines remain the threat to continued improvement,

today working for rected, voal shortages may force in-

{dustrial shutdowns during the coming ‘winter months. Copyright, 1048, by The Indianapolls and The Chicago Daily News,

A comparable fig-

almost 90,000

But not Paul Hoffman, ‘president of Studebaker, rated one of the car schedule completed eight weeks models. ally | country's more progressive business leaders and a

He said Studebaker would attend the meeting. But he also| March 25—Midland Steel Product man listen 20 more items up to Aug | Co. strikes. Settled April 20. :

| relations. wrote Mr. Reuther a letter in which ihe showed just what strikes had | done to Studebaker in the last year. | | The week-by-week record of how suppliers’ strikes have hobbled | Studebaker is as arresting a docu- | iment on industrial strife as has {been put together Somewhat abbreviated, here's the chronology: Aug. 14, 1945—VJ-day—Pottstown, | Pa., plant of Spicer Mfg. Co., supiplying Studebaker propeller shafts, {goes on two-month strike. Sept. 26—Werner Gear division of Borg-Warner Corp. supplying|

In|car and truck transmissions, strikes. model 50 passenger cars to fill up

| Oct. 1—Toledo plant of Spicer| | Mfg. Corp., supplying axles, begins! { one-month strike. Oct. 8—Warner Gear strike delays! scheduled car and truck production | start.

and Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co,

tled until Jan. 21. Oct. 22—Slowdown

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D,

THE OUTLOOK for recovery from infantile paralysis varies with the extent of the infection and the degree to which the spinal cord is involved. There is no known medicine or serum which will combat the infec-

tion, and neither penicillin nor any lof the sulfa drugs is of value in (treatment, Prompt medical

attention and

|prevent complications of the infec-

| tion, y » ~

IN THE MILD type of infantile paralysis (that which is without paralysis) the patient is kept in bed and is given plenty of liquids

and, if necessary, sedatives. 1f the child victim is disinclined

{locks and keys, strikes.

{M-15 trucks after nine weeks’ delay

Oct. 20—Pittsburgh Plate Glass ner Gear strike.

at Midland resumed.

fair man in labor

Steel Products Corp. Cleveland, | sole Studebaker source of frames. Nov. 2—Cleveland Graphite, Bronze Co., engine bearings, strikes. |

Nov. 15—Yale & Towns, supplying |

Nov. 20—AC Spark Plug Co., supplying fuel pumps and air cleaners, and Delco-Remy Corp. ‘making horns, strike. Both last to March 20. Dec.’ 3—Production started on

due to strikes in suppliers’ plants. Pec. 7T—Production started on

lines in anticipation of Warner, Gear strike settlement. Dec. 11—Production started on model M-5 trucks. after 10 weeks’ delay due to suppliers’ strikes. Dec. 14 and 15—Car and truck production stopped because of War

Dec. 25—Warner Gear and Cleve- |

both supplying glass, strike. Not set-{jand Graphite Bronze strikes end.

Jan. 2—Car and truck production RMA

pletely dry, to do away with any danger of their burning. They are

then applied directly to the patient’s body. The usual practice is to cover

the hot applications with oiled silk and. with an extra piece of cotton blanketing. They are held in place with safety pins and are changed at regular intervals, When a skin thermometer is placed under a hot pack, one discovers that the temperature starts to fall shortly after the pack is applied. » ” . THIS ALTERNATE heating and cooling brings more relief than do continuous applications of dry or moist heat. If weakness or paralysis of the muscles develops, special trainingexercises are started when the

to eat he should not be forced to do

{illness and the tendency to vomit,

8.46 8 < PIECES of wool-blanket material are immersed in boiling. water or

is Time in hot steam and are wrung com-

Ry -r

physician considers them advisable.

Not every infantile-paralysis pa

even after the muscle-power returns it may be difficult to move an arm

| paralysis,

SUPPLIERS’ WALKOUTS BLAMED IN CAR SHORTAGE—

Lists Strike Delays

Jan. 19—General steel strike is called. Also, Schwitzer-Cummins

Co., water pump parts, goes on two- |

month strike. Jan. 20—Copper strike begins. Lasts to June 1. Feb. 1—Steel strike settled. March 18—Model 5-G passenger

late.

March 27—Mclnerney Spring and Wire Corp, supplying cushion springs, strikes. Settled May 20. April 1—Coal strike called. Also Industrial Rubber Goods, making rubber parts for Studebaker, strikes. April 15—Ross Gear and Tool Co., steering gears, goes on six-week strike. April 18—Lamson & Sessions Oo. and National Screw and Mig. Co, both making nuts and bolts, strike. April 22—Production of 6-G passenger cars scheduled to start after nine weeks’ delay due to suppliers’ strikes, but postponed again because of Midland Steel Co. strike. April 25—American Stamping Co. hose clamps, strikes. April 26—Spicer Mfg. Co. Pottstown plant strikes. Ended June 10. April 29—Clark Equipment Co, axles, and Timken-Detroit, axles, strike. May T71—Production started on model 6-G Champion after 11-week delay.

May 13—Ooal strike settled.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Hot Packs Help Ease Pains of Paralysis.

Polio Defies Every Medicine

SPECIAL beds are important for infantile-paralysis patients. The springs are removed and are placed by boards, to provide a firm mattress - support. Footboards against which the pgtient’s feet may rest are also helpful in keeping the body in line. The back should be kept straight to assist in preventing spinal deformities. Most patients with scoliosis (curvature of the spine) are former victims of infantile paralysis. Patients with paralysis are usually worst off in the beginning,

improving later. » . .

IT MAY take months for some muscles to regain strength and to be trained to work with the others. Operations can be performed to move muscle tendons to new positions in which they may take over the job of paralyzed neighbor muscles. The respirator assists the. patient in breathing when the chest muscles

. : man : muscles; they are weak or para-| of female workers is 560000 greater. Hot packs (fomentations) are of lysed because of the injury to the affected, but hot packs can be

chief the greatest value in relieving pain- spinal cord. IE aay [ful extremities and back muscles. | poy Then} Rod OUD Shere OOK "{These can be applied by anyone tient needs special muscle-training. 3 pal ess COI after a short period of instruction. Some victims recover without it, but

used, in some cases of respiratory to relieve spasms and pain.

8.» QUESTION: Are enemas of value in reliaving nervous tension? ANSWER:

or a leg due to the unequal strength [ly used to empty the lower bowel

of the various muscles,

and not to relieve nervous tension.

Enemas are common- |

hie, »

| May 21—8ealed Power Corp., piston rings, strikes. s May 23—Rall strike ordered. Ends June 1. May 27-—Production stopped on model 6-G due to coal and rail strikes; also’on three truck models. June 3—Production resumed, all

Well, you get the idea. Mr. Hoff-

including another half-dozen strikes. The last notation was: | “Production stopped on passenger |cars due to shortage of body hard{ware as result of Dura Co. strike.” This suggests why Studebaker built 43,011 cars to midyear, instead of a planned 134,500. Labor leaders come up with a vigorous defense of strikes in suppliers’ plants. That, and management's arguments, will be discussed tomorrow.

| cee We, The Women

| Pushed About | Buyers Lose

| Their Spunk

By RUTH MILLETT AN OMAHA auto-dealer recently got the shock of his life. Into his show-room walked a normal-looking man who confided that he knew a fellow who wanted to buy one of the dealer's new cars, For 10 dollars, he said, he'd give the dealer the prospective customer's name and address. Maybe the fellow isn't crazy after all. Maybe he is just making it his mission in life to mind the world that there was once a time when a potential customer with money in his pocket was an important chap.

»~ . . IF 80, he has picked out a full time job for himself. There are plenty of folks who need reminding. They are the ones who keep saying that business is “too good,” who are annoyed with the buying public for wanting hard-to-get goods, who stopped being polite and giving service during the war and have never bothered to resume worrying about “good will.” The buying public, perhaps, needs to be reminded of its own importance, too. » »

~ BUYERS have been 30 browbeaten, so humbled by begging, so used to being pushed around, that they have lost their spunk. The buying public ‘doesn’t talk back any more. It just takes any kind of treatment without protest. , But things were different not fo long ago—and they are going to be different again, Some day the prospective customer is going to be a nice fellow to know—and that time may come sooner than we think. Perhaps that’s what the man who

U.S. May Find It Hard to Give Back Mines

By FRED W. PERKINS Beripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — The

first move to end the government's

three-month possession of more than 3000 coal mines, announced yesterday by Adm. Ben Moreell, may turn out to be no more than a gesture or a cry for help. , The government will find i¢ harder to unload the mines on their private owners than it was to seise them May 21. The reason is that John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work« ers, used his power over the nation's economic system to force the gove ernment to give him a labor cone tract more liberal than the mine managements were willing to grant, » w » THE CONTRACT was for the

period of government possession of the mines and was signed with Mr, Lewis by J. A. Krug, secretary of the interior. It conceded everything that the mine worker boss had been demanding from the coal operators, plus a number of other items which had not figured in public discussion, , Later a further concession was made, one of the most important from the operators’ standpoint, Adm, Moreell agreed to recognise in several “captive” coal mines of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, a union of foremen and other supervisors which is a subsidiary of the United Mine Workers.

= » ” ” IF THE precedent is followed

through—Mr. Lewis is promoting and the coal operators are resisting —foremen and the men they super= vise will be under the same union control throughout all this great ine dustry employing 500,000 men. The operators have lost two ate tempts to block this action by ine: junctions. The issue now is scheduled for a federal court hearing “on its mere its”"—that is, as to whether the nae tional labor relations act contem-« plated that foremen should be unionized with the men to whom they give orders. . . * THE OTHER question — which some say is academic and others say is more practical—is whether government should use its wartime powers. of seizure .to initiate fundamental changes in relations between employers and workers. i Various labor unions have seem the significance of this policy. It became. clear’ that if the.gove erninent: 8 mdnced to setse an industry involved in a labor dis pute, the union would be in position to use the Lewis method of forcing. a contract to which the private employer later would have {o agree before he could get his property . back. ; : The efficiency of this method ob= viously depends upon how much pressure the union can bring te bear on the government, ¥ ” ~ MR. LEWIS—whose strike of last spring brought dimouts in large cities and closing of some steel mills and other large industries had plenty of pressure. Other unions have not been able to show so much of it. President Truman has just ree fused to seize the farm machinery plants of the J.I. Case Co. and the Allis-Chalmers Corp. These are strike-bound—have been for months —but they do not affect as many people as the coal strike did. The record indicates that Presi. dent Truman became “wise” to this union strategy. Apparently he realized that if the seizure method were used indiscriminately it would result in abandonment of free cole lective labor bargaining. The gove ernment would be making all the | important labor contracts. Unions | as well as management might suf« fer in the end. ” » ”

THE EXCUSE for the precedent is that the country “had to have coal.” Neither the Truman administra tion nor the Roosevelt administra« tion ever went to bat successfully with John L. Lewis. His control over coal production has been tight enough to win every battle of the last decade. In urging Mr. Lewis and the coal operators to resume collective bare gaining here on Dec. 10, Adm, Moreell offered to serve as media

tor, This may produce a complication, since the admiral is involved in the foreman arrangement to which the operators object.

Take It... Or Leave It

@ While on vacation you won't want to miss a single local or national news story . . . in these exciting days. Puthere more the youngsters will be unhappy if they miss a single day on their favorite comics,

@® Make arrangements" with vour Carrier when he cole lects this week; or call RI-ley-5561 and ask for culation — right now you think of #. 8

knew a fellow who wanted to buy A CAI Was trying to get across

J . ¥.