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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MINERS THE lawyers for John L. Lewis talked about “cruel and unusual punishment,” about “unjust, improper and outrageous penalties.” They waxed indignant over what they said the government was doing to the coal miners and their families. _ They talked for the record. "But what does the record show? In two weeks the miners and their families have Jost more than $40 million in wages because Mr. Lewis used his power over their union to cause this reckless, needless, suicidal strike. : Other workers, made jobless by this strike, already are losing wages at a rate of more than $8,500,000 a day. If Mr. Lewis should prolong this strike for six more weeks, at least five million full-time ‘workers would be thrown out of employment in American industries, their wage losses exceeding $1 billion a month. (CONSIDERING the enormity of his conduct, considering the damage he has done and the greater damage he seems determined to attempt unless the government bows to him, the $10,000 fine imposed on Mr. Lewis is a pinprick. The country will be glad, we think, that he was not sentenced to jail and given opportunity to pose as a martyr —though a shabby sort of martyr he would have made. The $3,500,000 fine against the union, which has nearly four times that in its treasury and many millions more in other funds, is a mild penalty under the circumstances. And it does not represent any desire of the government to injure the individual miriers. ' There was, as Judge Goldsborough said, no way to punish the union except by a fine. That the union must be penalized because of its irresponsible leadership is unfortunate, but necessary for its own good. The judge explained why: “Unless those who are undertaking to direct the affairs of this union are corrected, they will destroy the union. For, if worse comes to worst and it becomes a question of destroying the union or preserving the republic, the republic

They didn’t provoke the strike. They didn't vote for it.

system and tradition, they quit work when Mr, Lewis gave the word. They did not realize, they do not yet realize, that he was playing upon their loyalty to the union to gerve his own ambition and hurt the country. The government's obligation now is to help them see the truth—to show them how they have been betrayed and how they can rescue themselves and their union from . bondage to a dictator. ‘It should appeal to them, by every means and medium available, to return to work. It should protect those who do return. It should assure them of fair treatment, in full accordance with the government's generous contract with the union. Fining Mr. Lewis and the union won't mine coal, we hear it said. Once they understand that it is for the true welfare of themselves and their families, their union and their country, we believe that American miners will mine coal.

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JUDGE JAMES A. COLLINS

NDIANAPOLIS lost another of the older generation of lawyers and politicians yesterday in the death of James A. Collins, former judge of criminal court and for many years a leader in Republican politics. Judge Collins contributed much to the legal structure in Marion county, having been active in obtaining establishment of a juvenile court before he was elected judge of the old police court in 1909. In 1914, he was elected judge ,of criminal court, served until 1930 to become the only judge of the court to be elected to four terms. He Sig had been a deputy ‘county prosecutor. While he was city police “court judge, he instituted the system of adult probation and payment of fines by installments in the cases of needy defendants. Although active in politics ‘and with a wide acquaintance, his court gave the same consideration to all defendants. Specially interested in the problems of the foreign-born, he was one of the founders of the Immigrant Aid association, now the American Settlement. The Yugoslav government conferred a decoration on him for his work among its people in Indianapolis,

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COMMIES OWE LEGION DEBT

gratitude for the front-page publicity the Reds of the / state ave receiving through the inquiry on communism in two of the state's largest schools.

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THE Communists owe the American Legion a debt of

The Legion demanded the investigation and Governor A party which drew 806 votes out of 1,250,000 cast in last month's election gets . wide publicity and, perhaps, some sympathy because of the obvious lack of justification for he inference that their

@ president of Indiana Sniversity's board of trustees id yesterday that “no witnesses heard thus far have ‘any evidence of subversive teaching or other We have a hunch

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by little and year by year he became more powerful. He didn’t stop with helping Germany; no, he wanted to kelp the entire world. People still say that America cannot and will not have a dictator. Well, don't forget again that we thought that about Germany, years ago after world I. I guess we have been so f te all these years that we have failed to realize that this vould happen here, » . “WHY ATTACK J. L. LEWIS, co OTHER ISSUES ALONE?” By H. W. Dascke, 2146% N. Illinois st. "iYes, Jay Gould was a piker"— Indianapolis Times, Nov, 29, 1046. (1) Sensational report on the report of the homes commission, ap-| pointed by a Roosevelt, which was delegated to investigate social conditions in the larger cities of the U. 8. A. Part of findings: Chicago's cost of prostitution, 20 millions, yearly. Conclusive evidence that the increase and decrease in same was governed by the seale of wages paid to women workers. (2) The never successfully challenged statement by the late Jane Addams, founder of ®Hull House in Chicago, that 50,000 children less than 1 year of age die of the lack

slums of Chicago, alone, annually. (3) The educational program of the U. 8. public health service pertaining to the venereal diseases, to the end that the new remedies such as penicillin could be utilized, was nullified by the protest of a minority group. All these are just as important to the general welfare as the mining of coal. To the best of my knowledge, at no time have I known The Indianapolis Times, by news or editorials,

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"Unions Not Protecting Labor, Are Inflicting Chaos on Country"

was Hitler, Hitler was a capable the rights of his certain party, country and the rest of our country because Lewis

American labor, strong But it seems by inflicting chaos to our country.

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to take up these vital issues, pro or con. (4) Coal Miners Strike—November, 1046. Four parties involved, the U. 8. government, owner-operators, a judge and the miners’ union representative, John L. Lewis. But in this last instance The Indianapolis Times immediately places its entry and by news and editorials presumes to prejudge, and find guilty, one, and only one of the four involved—John L. Lewis. Why this unjustified bias? The U. 8. government is not infallible. ‘To copy your expression, owner-operators have been “pretty snotty around the nose.” The history of American jusisprudence has many instances of injunctions, restraining orders, etc, set aside by superior courts.

~ ” ” “PAPERS SHOULD PROVIDE READER MORE BACKGROUND” Theo. Graves, Indianapolis ny subscribe to The Times because I like thé way it's set up. I like vour straightforward manner in presenting the news. With your {daily articles on boy, girl, and man delinquency, in this city, you've| done us all an invaludble service. Prior to the election you helped us| to think and vote straight. You'll] do even a finer job if you devote a small space to explanations. T need it.The people need-it. For instance: The word Europe turns up frequently in news print. Can you define it? What is left wing, right wing? I never did understand the word reactionary. Everybody appears to think John Lewis should be squelched. Why? Just what do the miners want? Tell me (I've done hard labor myself), and let me decide for myself. Tell me about the C. I. O. How does it work? How about A. F. of L.? What countries does England control at the present? Just what does a Republican stand for? Tell me something about city administration. How long

have to register before we voted? Take any man off the street, ask him questions like these and you'll find out why the majority of us

can’t think straight.

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“DON’T AID INEFFICIENCY WITH BOLSTERING LAWS”

By Del Mundo, Indianapolis The editorial in The Times “Floors and Ceilings” was, in my opinion, very good. It shows clearly that there are many inefficiently operated small businesses whose owners have been crying for what they would choose to call “free enterprise” who, in reality, do not want free enterprise at all. What they really want is for the government to bolster up their inefficiency. with legislation. A free enterprise capitalism intelligently applied simply means that any citizen, or any combination of citizens operating through a partnership or corporation, or any branch of government whether it be a township, county, incorporated city, state or the government of the United States may enter into any business if the transaction of this business is legal under the law of the land. In each and every case they must enter the business on exactly the same footing with regard to taxes and every other obligation. We want, we need and we must have efficiency in production, transportation and distribution. This is necessary in order to bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people, If we bolster inefficiency with legislation than we retard the progress of our people and also of {our nation. This must not be permitted. Under a properly applied free enterprise capitalism there would al- | {ways be employment for all ‘who| | wanted employment and at a good land sufficient wage. Therefore {there would always be an adequate {market for the products of labor. This condition would be what may be called a balanced economy. After first having proper *fair trade practice” laws on the. statute books I would say to both the large and the small business man “if you cannot stand the competition when it gets hot, then get out and get yourself a job.” n » » “BEING UNPREPARED IS NOT WAY TO AVOID WAR”

By John A. Keyes, 930 N. Alabama st. I have read with great interest the excellent article of Mr. Richard Shufflebarger of Martinsville stating his reasons for opposing military training. His reasoning is perfect except for the fact that it simply will nét work. The record of what happened between the two world wars proves this beyond the shadow of a doubt. The United States sank "the greater part of its navy and ail but abolished its army and air force. Now what greater manifestation of good faith could be asked for than this? As a result of our undeniable proof of our intentions we had nothing but feeble protests to offer when Japan started to invade China and later when Hitler and company started on their mad rampage. There is no proof that preparedness will keep us out of war, but there certainly is proof that being unprepared will not. As to defense against atomic attack any .comprehensive plan of defense should include training men to handle ahd develop atomic as well as any other weapons that are invented and produced. It is, to be sure, pot a pleasant picture to contemplate, However, experience proves that spiritual persuasion is a poor weapon with which ‘Ito fight ambitious and ruthless dictators and their misguided subjects,

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it is his considered judgment that “the Soups cesupling Jiace hid 3 hetter Jecord personal contact with the population than the Amerjoan troops occupying Germany.”

Our Troops Not Really Controlled

THAT STATEMENT IS TRUE, in my opinion, and evidences of its implications turned up early in French in North Africa and Sicily and Italy proper, and with the Filipinos . . . all of whom complained that American soldiers had gotten out of hand. The criticism was not so severe against the navy, perhaps because the civilian population had less contact with its personnel , . . or perhaps because the navy’ control of its men was more rigorous and it is com~ posed of volunteers. In France, and especially In Paris, there was in addition to the factor of good discipline the desire of the Nazis to woo the French into closer collaboration. However, I was told in the early days of occu

'| pation there, as well as in Italy and in the Philippines,

that the personal conduct , .. and I emphasize the . of the enemy was superior to that of the liberators. There were official repressions, torture and abuse of the civilian population . . . but the officers at the top never apparently were . guilty of the general laxity that affects control of our troops abroad. The same lack of real control was evident almost every-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Republican leaders in the house now think they have it safely taken care of, but the future of most of the reforms passed in the congressional reorganization act last summer still hangs by a thread. When the house reconvenes in January, first order of business will be election of the new speaker—Joe Martin. After that comes adoption of rules. It will then be in order for some great statesman to move that the new 80th congress adopt the rules of the 79th congress. If it goes through easily, everything will be okay.

G. O.P. Victory Helps Chances

IF, HOWEVER, some cantankerous cuss wrinkles his dome and moves to amend the motion to the effect that the 80th congress adopt the rules of the 79th congress as they were in effect on July 1, 1946, the fight will be on. For if the house rules as of last July 1 should be adopted, practically all the highlytouted streamlining of congress will go right out the window. Any one of the 20 chairmen who stood to lose their jobs through reduction of the 48 standing house committees to 19 would be a likely person to protest. Most of the ground was cut from under these protesters, however, by the election of a Republican majority in congress. Today these Democratic ex-chair-men have nothing to lose through reorganization. On the other hand, the Republican majority sweeping into office has much to gain. And the Republican leadership—Joe Martin, Everett Dirksen, who co-authored the reorganization bill, Charlie Halleck and others—has gone on record in favor of carrying out the streamlining. From only a few corners of the Republican camp have there been hints of doubt. W, Sterling Cole of New York, ranking Republican of the old house naval affairs committee, might lose chairmanship of the new committee on the armed services because he is junior to Walter G. Andrews of New York, ranking Republican on the old hoyse committee on military affairs. Other ranking Republicans on expiring and

SAGA OF INDIANA

IT WAS EARLY in the 19th century. Indiana awoke to find herself at the crossroads of indecision. Here she lingered and squirmed for the first four décades of that century. It was a sturdy stance, but a painful squirm. But she gritted her teeth, emptied her pocketbook, and stuck it out—hopefully. > Transportation was the problem. It was both a hope and a headache for 40 years in Indiana. Nobody can clearly understand Hoosier problems through these years, nor grasp any broad perspective of them in the 100 years that have followed, without a clear picture of the problem of transportation that faced the state through these 40 critical years.

National Road Constructed

INDIANA'S FIRST move to help this problem measurably beyond the buffalo trace and the Indian trail was made under an act passed by the congress of the United States on March 29, 1806. Under this act and its successors in congress, the National road was constructed. This road ran from the Atlantic seaboard at Baltimore, Md. through Pennsylvénia, Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana to Vandalia, Ill The National road was a major asset in the entire transportation problem in Indiana. As it brought the state into the national picture, it stimulated the construction of roads all over the state,-the Michigan road north ard south across the National road from the Ohio river to Lake Michigan especially included. Following these roads, settlers swarmed into the central and northern sections of the state by the thousands. Stagecoach lines, following the roads and waves of incoming settlers, formed a network of travel that blanketed most of Indiana. Out of this, activity and optimism ran high and strong all over the state. It was an era of dynamic progress in Indiana. ?

WORLD AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—~The booing of British Foreign Secretary Bevin at New York's Polo grounds ‘last Sunday may prove to be the straw that sways the balance away from the East coast in favor of the West coast as the American home of the United

Nations. _It is" ho secret that a majority of the members of the new peace organization favored San Francisco over New York from the beginning. If the United Nations was looking for a new site other than Geneva, Switzerland, San Francisco by long odds was the favorite. A year ago this writer was assufed by a United Nations official in a position to know that it wad “in the bag” for San Francisco.

Britain Changed Picture

BUT BRITAIN changed the picture. The British wanted the site to remain in Europe—if not at Geneva, then some other old world location. The Pacific coast, they urged, was “too far” for most of the delegates to travel. Sentiment in favor of the United States proved too strong, however, ahd Britain gave in with the proviso that an East coast site would be chosen. Many United Nations members objected to New York or vicinity on the grounds that all kinds of pressure groups were at their strongest there. The organization might be subjected to undue political, social, racial or religious stresses when what was needed was some Shangri-La permitting calm je

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with the xcupton of Japan under MacArthur, result was that where we once were welcomed a8 The erators, we now are disliked for the disregard which our men in. uniform show for the dignity and the rights of other nationals, ‘ That same feeling, by the way, extends even into the United Kingdom, our principal ally. In fairness to the top levels of occupation come mand, the blame for this condition should be placed where it belongs . . . squarely on the shoulders of a supine congress that didn’t have the guts to keep seasoned troops overseas until the job was done, In its report charging racketeering, smuggling, immorale ity and a variety of other abuses, the senate commit tee members quote a statement that some of the replacements sent overseas were “not even high-grade morons.” Certainly they are mostly juveniles who are in the service against their wishes , . . and lack of firm discipline enables them to vent any latent viclousness on the civilian populations who are without power .. . and often without much of anything else. The caliber of the officers, also, is far below that of the war-time army , , . those who chose to stay in the service were not dlways the cream of the crop. When you find such misconduct as the senate committee reports . .. and such as I have seen . . , it usually can be traced to lack’of discipline, which in turn can be attributed primarily to the commande ing officer of a unit. When it is widespread, it has file tered down from the highest levels.

American Prestige Harmed AS THE COMMITTEE REPORT SAID, this coun« try's prestige is being harmed by this misconduct and the achievement of occupation objectives is being delayed. The nation is certainly not showing the same cours age in attaining peacetime objectives . , . abroad or that it showed in war.

merged committees, jealous of power they see slip« ping from their grasp, might also balk and insist on going back to the good old ways of life—lots more committees and lots more confusion. Of course, not everything in the reorganization act would be lost if the house decided to go back to its old rules. Senate rules continue from one session te the next, and all of the streamlining put through for the senate probably will stick. - a What is still not generally understood is that in addition to an effort to modernize the procedure of congress by changing outmoded rules, a lot of other reforms were thrown into the reorganization act. These other things were made a part of statutory law. : They are covered in five other titles: Increasing: congressmen’s pay from $10,000 to $15,000 a year; increasing the congressional staff and paying it more money; regulating lobbying; the federal tort claims act, providing for:the settlement of minor claims against the government by the heads of executive branches of the government, without action by cone gress in each case; the general bridge act, by which

congress granted the war department and the public

roads administration power to regulate building of bridges over streams; granting pensions to retired congressmen.

Other Reforms Are Safe

WHAT SPONSORS OF the reorganization act can’t see is how any congressman would be so low as to accept old age pensions and higher pay, while refusing to go along on streamlining. But then, you never can tell about congressmen. Incidentally, this claims act may be invalidated if the house kicks out the reforms. For one of the changes was to ban the so-called “private bills” which were formerly introduced by one congressman for the relief of his constituents having a claim against the federal government. If private bills were again permitted, the federal tort claims reform in the reorganization act would be a dead letter. This is how close congress is to making progress by going backwards,

By William A. Marlow Indiana Hits Transport Crossroads

But essentially all of this that brought strength and confidence to these early Hoosiers pointed to & disaster that could be averted only by immediate action. This was the unsolved problem of transportae tion that had been festering in the state for about a quarter of a century. Stated bluntly, this was a matter of getting the surplus products of Indiana farms to market at & fair profit to the farmer. This was a problem tha$ could burn anybody's fingers who ignored it, bungled it, or pondered it unduly. In modern Indiana, we call ita hot-potato. The thing that turned the solution of the problens into a dilemma was that it seemed possible at the time to solve it in several ways. This was the sebupd The best market for the surplus products of Indians in this period was New Orleans. The only means ef getting them there was on a flatboat, steamboat, of packet boat down the Ohio, lower Wabash, and Mississippi rivers. But this solution only begged the question. Northe ern Indiana especially was bulging with farm products

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the New Orleans market. But there was no adequate means to freight the stuff from a central or northern Indiana farm to the boat terminals on the Ohio and lower Wabash rivers.

Railroad Nosed In

INTO THIS MESSY transportation problem the railroad nosed in. It came to help, and ultimately i$ did. But at its early coming, it only mugddied the waters. The railroad party in the Indiana legislature in the early 1830's, spurred by the recent completion of the first 13-mile section of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, blocked all internal improvement plans for 8 whole session,

“By William Philip Simms

Booing of Bevin May Shift UN Home

certainly not that. Delegates have complained that their reception was lacking in warmth; that the public has been somewhat less than enthusiastic} the hotels have been none too co-operative, either with them or the press. And then_there have been “regrettable incidents” involving members of some of the delegations. To mention but one, the shooting by a bandit of the Ukrainian delegate, Gregory Stadnik, was blown up by the Soviet press into a “political” attack—a sensation which no amount of explaining by Secretary Byrnes seems fully to have allayed. And now comes the Polo grounds incident of which Mr. Bevin was the victim. Unlike Soviet bloo delegates, who are peculiarly thin-skinned in such matters, Mr. Bevin took the demonstration in stride but it could hardly have failed to leave a disagree= able impression,

Out of Place in Home of U.N.

AS THIS IS WRITTEN, the reason for the me cident—Mr, Bevin was booed “for several minutes poth arriving and departing,” said one report—is not altogether clear. But whatever it was, it was out of place in the home of the United Nations. Popular or unpopular, beloved or despised, irrespective of race, creed, nationality, political or other beliefs, delegates to the United Natigns should not bé subjected to any unusual demonstrations, Failure to observe this rule is a breach of common etiquette due from hosts— which we Americans have made ourselves—to foreign visitors here on the world’s business, Which means our business as well as theirs,

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