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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

SHOULD WE OWN OUR OWN STREETCARS?

dianapolis buy and-operate its own street railway system certainly is one that deserves thoughtful consideration. : Presumably the C. I. O. leaders who made the proposal | pave given it such consideration, and obviously they have acted in what they believe to be the general public interest pather than in the narrower interests of their own, or other, unions. For unions notoriously do not do as well under public as under private ownership, a fact of which these union representatives of course are well aware.

Since they are willing, in order to obtain better street- ~ car service at lower costs, to forego whatever advantages vate ownership of the company might bring them, one important objection to municipal street railways appears pe removed. There are a good many other factors, pro i con.

. The objective at which the council aimed, of course, j the one the public wants—namely, the best possible awvice at the lowest possible cost to passengers. No matwho owns the street railways, there are certain exws that cannot be eliminated. They must pay wages, pust maintain rolling stock and tracks, and buy powftun their cars. Under private ownership they must y faxes, and under public ownership they either must iy the equivalent of the same taxes or the public—which pans the passengers—must pay an equal amount in extra faxes on something else. All these expenses, which have to be paid by the people who ride the cars, are about the same whether the city owns the lines or whether private investors own them, assuming that management in either case is equally efficient. 8 ” . a THERE remains, itiacially the matter of capital, and how much it will cost to rent it. Private investors have their own, or borrowed capital in the street railway company. The city would have to borrow the money if it bought * the company. In either case the investors who rent out money must have a return on it. The size of that return is about the one variable factor in a streetcar, or any other - utility, rate. E Could the city obtain money for less than the private owners of the company? What is a proper rate: Five per “cent, three per cent, six per cent? And what difference,

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other costs being equal, would it make in the price of a streetcar token? A cent? A half cent? A quarter of.a cent? Accusations that the rates the streetcar company now is asking would return too large a profit -on the investment have been made, and to thosé the company has replied that operating costs have risen, new investment is needed to expand and improve service, and the returns are too small, rather than too large. All those elements would be present ‘under public ownership. Could management responsible to the city handle them better? Would municipal management . be more efficient, less costly, less plagued by politics than private management?

Those are the questions the C. I. O. proposal raises, not all of the questions, but at least enough to ponder over for a little while. Maybe we should own our streetcar system, our water supply, and our power plants, as well as our gas fuel supply. At least it's worth discussing.

ACTION 1S NEEDED, TOO

PREMIER STALIN'S statement that he can see no real danger of a new war, and that he believes without qualification in the possibility of a long and friendly collaboration between the Soviet Union and the western democracies, will be welcomed by a peace-hungry world as the best news since VJ-day.

If his words of assurance are implemented in Soviet policy by Mr. Gromyko at Lake Success and Foreign Minister Molotov at Paris, a basis of understanding between the great powers should be easily obtainable.

Mr. Stalin’s view that there can be friendly competition between his system of government and economics and ours has long been accepted in this country. However, it has not seemed to us that that idea prevailed in Moscow, and it will be most helpful if we find that it does. It will be interesting to see if this view is reflected in a change in the party line by the Russian fifth column in various parts of the world. More than anything else, the world today needs ‘‘freedom from fear.” That must be attained before the long, uphill pull toward recovery and rehabilitation can begin. The drift has been toward chaos and confusion because of apprehension and uncertainty, ~" -

THE existing tensions which becloud the road to peace must be eased. There has been a sufficient exchange of views at Paris to arrive at a basis of understanding, if there is a real ‘desire for understanding. A purge of the frivolous, irritating issues on the agenda -of the security - council also would be a long step toward “friendly collaboration” between the powers. Mr, Stalin decries “warmongering.” Yet the Soviet practice of constantly presenting ugly charges of little or no merit against various nations has tended to pervert the | United Nations security council meeting and the peace consderence to the cause of warmongering. If the United Nations is to become the stabilizing influence in the world which is its ordained duty, it must not used as a sounding board for political propaganda, but #8 a forum for the exchange and composition of views by statesmen. So too with the Paris conference. Mr. Stalin demonstrates a real desire for better understa ng between his country and the western democ- , he will find the United States and other nations will- : him more than half way, in seeking a firm basis He has an invitation on his desk from to vis , him at the White House. Presi n on Russian soil during | ~ in order. Readed siow is action that ex-’ fine And what is needed

place when OPA was off. But really though, the Republicang should be given credit, I don’t know of any group that can speak better on the meat question. With all the “haws” they have in their party and the “bull” they put out the shortage should soon be over, even with OPA.

¥ 8 n “OVERCROWDING OF CARS SHOULD BE PROHIBITED”

By Thomas M. MoGuire, 1126 Eugene st. At the risk of being called inco-

herent I would like to answer two questions asked and implied, on two different subjects, in Tuesday's Mr. Charles T. See has made a very fair analysis of the streetcar situation in this town and I believe

it to be worthy of a straw poll in your paper, They waste our time and wear out our patience with cash and transfers, other disagreeable practice. I believe the mayor was wrong in vetoing an ordinance that would have put us on record as citizens complying with a state law. A non-smoking - ordinance has been easily enforced by our city police. Why not another that benefits the public and makes us better citizens? Now, Mr. N. Campbell of N. Illinois st. asks, “What is the matter with Tacoma Village?” Now 1 drive by them twice. daily and have observed this development from the first, and as a man who in the past has engaged in construction work, including the building of dwelling houses, I say first of all the construction is flimsy, Secondly, the only statements I have seen in regard to price, $4500 to $5000, is at least

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"Repullicans Avoiding Real Issues, Try to Make Race on Meat Shortage"

By Harry Gasper, 903 E. 11th st.. Don'tcha just love this time of the year, with the Sell of fall and | Forum of The Times, Sep) 23, 1946, politics in the air? ! But really I don't know if it's really fall I smell or some of the stuff the Republicans are putting out. Just thirk of it. with so much at stake, with the peace conference, atomic power, veterans | member to assist him in getting out housing and what not causing us so much concern, the Gates boys are of the C. I. O. waging their ‘campaign on the meat shortage. The real funny thing is, if ‘it wasn't for the Republicans’ fair-haired boy Taft's action in the Senate which caused the expiration of OPA there would now be.a normal steady flow of meat all over the country instead of the jam that took | of $1.50 per month of which he |

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“f AGREE COMMUNISTS INFLUENCE C. 1. 0. POLICY” By Union Member, Indianapolis I have Just read the letter by a dissatisfied union member of the] same local to which I belong. That is my .sentiment exactly, fellow union member, It may help you to know that you and I are not alone in regards to this bitter feeling toward the C.I.O. I would venture to say that not less than 75 per cent of the members would resign tomorrow if only we had the chance. I have talked to at least 15 in my department and we all feel the same, The greatest majority of the members were scared into the organization or |either just followed the crowd. The things that opened our eyes to what we had done was when we received handbills at our gate and they were signed “The Communistic Party of Indiana.” These handbills were sponsored by the C. I. O. and the Communist party. So why shouldn't we feel that we are contributing to that party. We can’t say that all C. I. O. members are Communists for that would include all of us. But we can't uriderstand why something can't be done to let us follow the dictates of our own consciences, I am afraid that some day, unless some change is made somewhere, we will all find out that the “C" in C, I. O. means communism, We are free to change our politics, our religion, our way of living or thinking, but we are not free to take our name off the union list.

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“C. 1 0. DUES DO NOT GO TO AID THE COMMUNISTS"

By Bert Barber, Chairman, Grievance Commitiee, Local Union No. 1543, United Steelworkers of America

In regards to the article in the

written by one who for some reason has failed to identify himself, only a “Link Belt Employee.” He has int! for some faithful C. I. O.

I am going to do that, but first he has voiced his objections to his union dues being advanced 50¢ per {month, making the enormous sum!

| thinks party. Now, Mr. L.. B. E, I have your number; you are one of those socalled ‘members that never attend your union meetings unless there is a ‘question of an increase in your pay check and therefore you do not knoW the procedure of your organ{ization or what is being done in it.

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ithe 50c¢ is staying right here in your own local union treasury and not going to the Communist party. You also ask what is to keep the dues from being $5 per month. Well, Mr.,, for your benefit the constitution of the International Union is as follows: “Where conditions justify, changes in the amount of dues or initiation fees specified herein may be made with the approval of the international executive board at the request of the local union concerned, but in no event shall the dues exceed one dollar and fifty cents per month, except in cases of |

the adoption of this constitution a higher level prevails.” The question again goes to show how little you know about your union. Mr. L. B. E, I'll bet you have never objected to any increase or an extra week's vacation this socalled Communist C. I. O. has ever negotiated for you. You also spoke of seniority. Where and how did that all come about? Now. getting back to helping you out from under the heels of the C. I. O. all you have to do, Mr. L. B. E., is to sign your name to an article like yogi wrote and I'm sure the members fthe Link Belt local union will up too glad to give you your release. » » » “MAKING THE PEACE WITH THE THOUGHT OF WAR”

By Charles R. Baler, 154 8. Second st, Beeoh Grove

The government officials and news commentators, during the war, suggested an everlasting peace; & e that would hold for years andl longer, but the way I see it we are planning to destroy peace. This isn't nasiism or fascism talking but an American who is reading betweén the lines.

about the “deadliest weapon,” supposedly deadlier than the atom bomb. An ounce of its contents would destroy millions of people, human beings. That, of course, is supposedly a guardian of peace to keep war from our doors. Will that frighten away aggressors? Do police frighten criminals? Some, but not all. 1f-the United States has a deadly weapon now, in due time it will not be as deadly as it was supposed, the reason being that -other countries will try to find a mgqre deadlier weapon than ours. That is one step to a new and more devastating war than has ever been. The new weapon will bring suspicion, jealousy, and the race for bigger and better weapons between all nations. It we can guard our country, so can the other countries. I think we should build a peace without the suspicious mind, for those new weapons might be the cue for the next probable war,

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FIELD MARSHAL BERNARD L. MONTGOMERY has returned to England, and simultaneously the Saturday Evening Post carries an article entitled “You Yanks Never Gave Monty His Due,” written by a former Canadian colonel who was one of Montgomery’s aides in the Mediterranean and European theaters. Because I served on the staffs at .Gen. Eisenhower's AFHQ and the headquarters between that top organization and Montgomery's 8th army . . . the 15th army group commanded by Field Marshal Harold R. L. @. Alexander , ., . I would like to speak my piece on the subject. And I might add that we

| yanks not only didn't understand ‘him and didn't like

him . . . but also many British officers shared the

‘| same opinion.

Was First 'Big Winner’ MONTY WAS THE TYPE of commander who never struck until he was sure of victory ... he was & Patton for discipline but certainly not for movement. Most typical comment about his tactics came from a high-ranking British officer at army group headquarters when Montgomery was stalled before Catania. We were receiving the morning intelligence reports and Patton's 7th army was sweeping forward while the 8th army made no appreciable progress. “Well,” said the. Britisher, “1'see Monty withstood another withering minefield attack during the night.” The Canadian apologist for Montgomery . . . whose path I crossed in Italy and in Japan, and who. enjoys an excellent reputation . . . claims Montgomery is & great strategist, ‘My view, based on numerous conversations with British and American officers, is that Monty is largely the creature of a propaganda campaign which built him up when his 8th army turned back Rommel literally at the gates of Cairo and thus made him the first big winner after a string of British defeats. Oredit for the strategy which is so highly hailed should go to his superior in the Middle East, Alexander, who also was his superior in the Mediterranean

Teampaign and who was urged by many Britishers

POLITICAL REPORT . Republicans Are

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—If this state is any index, and it usually is, the forthcoming congressional elections fail to present yet a clear picture, which bears out the privately confessed uncertainty of dopesters in party headquarters in Washington. Though no forecasts seem safe in Illinois, this is a good sampling starter for a check-up tour which this writer is making across the country. Illinois partakes of the nature of both east and west. It is a doubtful state politically, swinging back and forth through the years. Just now it has 15 Republican house members and 11 Democrats,

Mayor Kelly Vulnerable

, REPUBLICANS MUST BREAK INTO great urban centers this year if they are to capture control of the house., This city offers a test. If they can make an appreciable dent in Mayor Ed Kelly's Democratic stronghold of Chicago and Cook county, it is likely they can do the same in other metropolitan centers. They are conceded a good chance this year for some gains, Democrats hold nine of the 10 house seats in Cook county, six in the city, three in part city, part suburban districts, with the veteran Republican Ralph Church, six terms in congress, occupying the other in a part city, part suburban constituency. As the over-all state party situation is developing, Republicans are favored by the general political apathy. A small vote is to their advantage. To their advantage also is the lively interest of the Cook county Republican organization in capturing enough county offices this November to spark a real drive to oust Democrats from city hall in Aprils municipal election. Ed Kelly has shown himself vulnerable by a partly successful revolt against him for political control of the city school system. Democrats also may suffer, to what extent it is

SAGA OF INDIANA Industry Took

THE THREE DECADES following the organization of Indiana Territory in 1800 were Indiana's planting time. Through these 30 years, it planted many things for itself and on its soil. Not the least of these were the 337,300 people who. made all else in it and of it tick. Besides itself, through these years, the state planted farms, largely in patches cleared from heavy | forests. It planted the second state of Northwest Territory and the fourth state of the U. 8. A, west of the Alleghany mountains. It planted its own first state constitution, which became the working basis for everything else that as a state it has ever planted.

Markets Easy to Reach

NOT THE LEAST of Indiana's plantings in. its early years was its industrial plant. At the end of its first territorial decade in 1810, with a scattered population of 24,520, including all the old Northwest Territory except. Ohio, it had a greater industrial plant than any of the 21 states west of the Mississippi river had at the end of its first decade as a state, At random, as illustrations of this, Indiana, even in these raw early pioneer years, had a cotton mill; a nail machine, making 20,000 pounds of nails, value $4000; wheat, grist and horse mills, grinding over 40,000 bushels of wheat. Also, from its maple trees came 50,000 pounds of maple sugar. Along with these, the state also made leather, whisky, powder, lumber, all in good quantities. In the homes of the state also, through all these early years, over 50,000 yards of cotton cloth, nearly 100,000 yards of -flaxen goods, and about 80,000 yards of mixed woolen goods were made each year. And remember: The home-made stuff of this early Indiana was hand-made and home-produced all the

TODAY IN EUROPE Reds Fomenting

' ATHENS, Sept. 26.—Greece today is the cockpit of Europe. In Paris at the so-called peace conference and on Long Island at the security council meetings, the battle between east and west is still limited to bitter words. Here in Greece, a shoofing war has already bégun. -While in Paris it's still only a war of nerves, on the frontiers of Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia there are dally incidents and a mounting death toll. Here, in miniature, we can see deeds, not in words, the naked imperialist ambitions of Moscow sowing dissension, stirring -up trouble, and using every device of modern totalitarian gangster technique to extend the power of the Soviet Union.

Wallace Policy Unwise

disorders in. Greece are merely feuds between Greek right and left-wing extremists. What is going on is a carefully planned infiltration into many provinces of northern Oreece by the Communist governments of Yugoslavia and Albania working on lines laid down in Moscow. Nearly all the weapons captured from these terrorists come either from Russia or Yugoslavia. + 80 far as this danger to Gteek indepéndence is domestic, the Greek government b taking effective action. ® Under the circumstances, it was little ‘short of grotesque that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitri Manuilsky should appear before the UN security council pathetically asking that the Ukraine and the rest of the world be protected from aggressive inten-

Greece today constitute a threat to world peace, Misty Sule oir Sun E54 Suideh 3

. By Thomas L. Stokes

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ~~ Americans Did Not Like Montgomery

and Americans for co-ordinator of allied troops on the continent after Normandy. In the latter period, Montgomery again was causing friction and criticising American ps. For my money, Pleld Marshal Alexander , . . now governor general of Canada . . . was the greatest strategist of the war, in any army, with Gen. Douglas MacArthur second. But he was a quiet; unspectacula soldier, not interested in publicity. I don't know hi¥ views on Montgomery . . . I do know that when that officer waS being unco-operative, he oncé said: “Don't bother him during the battle; we'll discuss matters after he has attained his objective.” I am not attempting to take sides on the accomplishments of American or British troops ... I'm talking about Montgomery. I'm agreeing with Capt. Butcher's excellent diary written while he was Eisenhower’s aide, and with that part of Ralph Ingersoll's “Top Secret” which says of Montgomery that “in addition to being a boor," he was also a wery bad general.”

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TWO OUTSTANDING INSTANCES whilds reflect Montgomery's character of which I have personal knowledge are these: Gen. Andrew G. L. McNaughton, commander of the Canadian army, was refused permission to visit his own troops in Italy because “Monty didn't want him” and Alexander would not overrule his field commander. When Gen. Mark Clark's army joined the 8th in Italy, Montgomery refused to see the Hoosier general because of some fancied offense, despite the courtesy call from an "American commanding officer of equal rank. I'm one Yank who never gave Monty his due . . . if that due is either adulation or admiration, Neither did many Americans at his 21st army ggoup head quarters in the European.campaign . .. and many Britishers, too, at senior headquarters. In both lienters, Field Marshal Alexander was the man who ad both respect and admiration.

Optimistic in Illinois

not yet possible to tell, from the left and right-wing fight in the party dramatized by dismissal of Henry Wallace from the Truman cabinet. That has had a depressing effect on liberal elements, including C. 1. O,, which is needed to get out the vote. Mr. Wallace and Senator Pepper (D. Fla), had been billed for extensive rallies in the state. How much théy had been counted upon was plainly indicated when Bob Hannegan, national Democratic chairman, hastened to announce in company with Mayor Kelly, that the ban against party sponsorship of the two men does not preclude speeches under other auspices. There is thus a potential Republican uprising here. The questionable factor is that, while people are grumbling about many things, they do not yet seem to be mad enough to set off a real revolution. Prosperity is general, which makes it difficult to translate dissatisfaction into action.

Labor Vote Is Key

REPUBLICANS ARE CONCEDED a chance in three Cook county districts held by Democrats and in the East St. Louis district. If the Polish voters are as aroused as some seem to think, about administration foreign policy, they might switch to Repub licans in sufficient numbers to swing the seventh district in Cook county to Republicans. This year is comparable in some respects to the off-year election in 1942 when Republicans picked up 44 house seats. Labor was not organized politically as now, and a substantial labor vote was not registered because of migration to defense industries. If labor sits down this year, or makes only a feebl effort, that might switch some or all of these districts. Democrats held on to the second and seventh in

1942 by only thin margins and lost the third and

ninth and 22d. The vote was small that year, as it may be this year,

By William A. Marlow

Early Hold in State

way from the sheep's back and the hand-cultivated plant to the finished product. And as you consider all this, remember: It may not have had in it all the toil and sweat, blood and tears of Winston Churchill's world war II. It did, however, have within it much of the heartache and grim reality of the pioneer men and women who

struggled through with gnarled hands, and brave

hearts that sometimes yielded to tears. Even these early Indiana pioneers sniffed something of the reason back of their budding industrial success. .This was their relatively easy access to the markets of the world, either within or without the United States. Their Indiana, commercially and therefore industrially, could reach every part of their own country; either the front door or back door of every continent in the world; and the shore of every séa or ocean that skirted any civilized nation. Dropping over the edge of this industrial side and stretch of early Indiana is Cannelton, Ind. This town of 2240.people down on the Ohio river pioneered, even if just dutside pioneer Indiana, one of the unique manufacturing and industrial enterprises of the worl

Century-Old Industry

THESE mills, established in the 1840's, manufacture brown sheeting, known far and wide over the world. During world war II, .one year’s output of duck and muslin was 12,000,000 yards, on war contracts. Back in 1876, their annual output was worth $000,000. Their 100 years of unbroken production carries the early pioneer industrial machine over into the peak of the modern industrial days of the 1940's. Thus early in her career as a state, Indiana showed, in her industrial bent, her penchant for poise and balance--her population center, her politics, and for all things fundamental.

By Randolph Churchill

Disorder in Greece

Kremlin what is the reason. The strategical plan behind these tactics is very simple. It's part of Russia's drive to the Meditér~ ranean. Yugoslavian and Bulgarian pressure on Greece's northern frontier is intended to split Greece in half—allow the Bulgars to reach the Aegean sea at Salonika. Achievement of this would outflank the Dardanelles and enable Russia to put renewed pressure.on Turkey to cede bases in the straits, The Henry Wallace school of thought, which urges us to make renewed efforts to dispel Russian suspicions and to understand Soviet aspirations more sympathetically, .is doing a real disservice to peace. There's no dimétiity ty in understanding Russian. policy if you want to. The trouble is that most people would prefer to accept any explanation, however improbable, rather than accept the truth. It was just the same with Hitler's Germany. Those few who proclaimed the danger of Hitler were denounced as irresponsible warmongers.

Time to Face Danger

EXACTLY THE SAME PATTERN of human political behaviorism is being repeated today. Thosg who interpret the facts at their true valuation an draw attention to the dangers of imperialist world Communism. are denounced as Red-baiters. Those

who try to offer soothing explanations win applause

‘from the good and the simple, from the lazy and the cowardly. There is still plenty of time’ for the world to save itself from the dangers ahead. But it's high time that ‘way, and that messiires: nevessary 10 boldly put in hand

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