Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1946 — Page 16

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE ONE WAY OUT THE coal miners, going back to work this morning, pro“4 vided an object lesson for us all. _ They had lost much, and gained nothing, by a strike. It was a strike they had neither caused nor wanfed— a foolish, needless strike ordered by a headstrong man whom they obeyed in part through fear, in part through misplaced trust. : It was a strike directed against the American people and their government, and therefore doomed to failure from the start. . ! The President of the United States, supported by an overwhelming majority of the people, stood firmly against surrender or compromise. The country took costly punishment, but the country

won. : The man who had called the strike backed down and

called it off. His words sought to make a virtue of necessity. But no words could conceal the fact that it was he who caiie to their terms—terms which the government had urged him to accept before the strike began, And now the miners were returning to the mines. For the most part, by all accounts, they went willingly and cheerfully, displaying an admirable good spirit. Now they must work.

So must we all. ” - - ¥ n o

THERE are many lessons to be learned from the coal strike. One of them surely is that never again, on March 31, 1947, or any other date, can the people of the United States afford to risk such a man-made catastrophe as they have just escaped. ; Monopolistic . pbwer to deprive the country of commodities or services essential to its life and well-being must be curbed, whether that power is vested in business magnates or in union bosses. The workers of America must have fair treatment. Their right to belong to unions of their own free choice must be protected. Whatever the provocation has been, there must be no retaliatory campaign of union-busting, no attempt to place those who toil at the mercy of those employers who have not yet learned their own lesson. But somehow, by agreement or by legislation—and we believe legislation is urgently necessary+-a way must be | found to assure the workers of a just and generous share _ of the wealth they help to create, without subjecting the country to domestic wars that can destroy all wealth and

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Board; Why Go to Ohio for Stamp?"

By Mrs. Josephine Wampler, Mars Hill I am a resident tax payer of nine years standing. I've taken the rise in taxes, OPA, rationing, war, etc., in my stride. I went to the mock (why mock? that's what this letter is about) ration board this week for a sugar stamp—not an extra stamp, but one due me. I found an office filled with persons sitting around, doing nothing but gazing around. One woman was handing out application forms saying, “Take this home, fill it out, send it to Cleveland, O., and you'll get a stamp from them in about two weeks.” Asking why I had to send to Ohio for a stamp when this was the Indiana board, a tart remark and shrug of shoulders, “I don't know.” Telling the lady I'd like the stamp as soon |and their mother. He went to Calias possible because I didn't have fornia with another woman and any sugar at all and the stamp was| they are out there living enjoying due me and four children at home, | themselves, while his wife and chilwho needed the sugar too. Another dren here are living on $60 a month shrug and smart, sarcastic question, given them by a charity organiza“And who do you think you are.”!tion. Yet if this wife and mother

hopevof wealth. There is a challenge to wisdom and statesmanship in labor and industry, in congress and in the administration.

~ " . ~ #” ” EANWHILE, the great immediate lesson of the coal strike is this: The one way out for America is production, and that means work by men and by machines. ;

We can’t get what it takes to be free in the world as it is, by striking, or by raising prices, or by fighting over the division of wealth not yet created. ha We still have the materials out of which we can build the greatest era of sustained, general prosperity the world has seen—the tools of production, the stored-up buying power, the vast demand for goods and services. : Some of them have been thrown away in the last year. But we still have enough to work with. All we need is | the will and the determination to use them. cured in a hurry if we all go back to work. There is nothing wrong with America that can’t be cured in a hurry if we all go back to work.

MENTAL HYGIENE NEEDS HE current issue of the magazine Public Welfare in Indiana, published by the state department of public welfare, is devoted to the subject of mental hygiene. This subject, which touches one out of every five families, is one of the most important to come before the legislature which convenes here next month. An effort will be made to obtain adequate appropriations for Indiana mental hospitals, to improve archaic conditions of treatment and increase salaries so that qualified personnel can be obtained for those who handle mentally ill patients. The leading editorial in the state magazine properly declares that public welfare is a state responsibility, not a federal responsibility. Emphasis is placed on the determination of Governor Ralph F. Gates’ administration to operate on a state basis, free of federal mandate.

We can’t achieve higher living standards and security. | shells, made

Who am I? My husband fought|has him brought back she must pay in the last war, leaving me with | all expenses—about $400, and how three children, the oldest of which|can she on $60 a month? (She is 8. When the nation begged for can’t.) So he goes on his way know- | workers to help in factories, I man-|ing she can do nothing to make him |aged to get away part time, leave assume his responsibilities. All she my babies, and work for our country. can do is just struggle along on the Who am I? One of the women $60 a month, and being a good that their husbands left to go to mother that is just what she is war and struggled on a government | doing. allotment. I was final inspector on| I think it is time the state of Inparachutés, made diana passes a law to deal with such plasma bags and bags for food and |men, : supplies for isolated soldiers. When s ® = I could get no help to take care of “ANNEX SUBURBAN AREA the children the company sent a go IT CAN SHARE COST” power. machine to my home be-|, Lo . ¢ sone, 2763 Boyd st. cause those. things were needed. yy,ue heen reading in your paper

i 2 The housewife who |‘6Cently about certain adjoining

took rationing without a gripe, |COmmunities such as Ben Davis, asked for nothing at any time from | Mickleyville, etec., seeking water servthe ration board; didn't ask the fice from the Indianapolis Water grocer to hide soap, meat and lard Co. and as a suggestion, I think

nexed to the’ city of Indianapolis, and pay taxes the same as residents do in order to claim such water service, For many months I have been trying to seek, but in vain, water service in the 3000 block on Minnesota st, and the 2700 to 3000 block on State ave. and Boyd st. and Carson ave, and have been unsuccessful. We have sought the assistance of the public service commission, Indianapolis Water Co., Indianapolis board of public works and many other people who might use their influence. These particular streets have been in the city of Indianapolis for more than 25 years, and therefore I feel strongly the Indianapolis Water that will bring a husband and fa-|Co. under their franchise to the ther back who's deserted his chil-|city of Indianapolis should provide dren? I know of a case right here adequate water service in this city in Indianapolis where a father of | before reaching out to non-tax pay{four small children deserted theming units,

you, I didn't gripe then, now I am.! Why must I wait to get a sugar | stamp, due me, from Cleveland, when there is a sugar board of 50 people, paid by taxpayers, sitting at desks doing a job my 9-year-old son can do. Who am I? A poor taxpayer who is being fool enough to pay 50 people to look around because I'm {not high enough politically to do {anything about it. I ask you ecjtizens and taxpayers, is this a free and equal country? NM » n “NEED LAW TO RETURN DESERTING FATHERS” Mrs. C. B. Earle, 2603 Adams st. Why is it that Indiana has no law

Such a commitment is a refreshing indication that the

the coming general assembly,

UNION LEADERS, STEADY JOBS

urging their followers to a united front behind the coal strike, there is one thing Phil Murray, Bill Green, R. J. Thomas, Walter Reuther and other labor leaders have in common with John Lewis. They're all hired by the year; their pay checks keep coming steadily from their unions’ treasuries. They have a guaranteed annual wage. Theirs is a comfortable feeling not shared by all the coal miners, auto workers, railroad men and other duespaying union members who, because of the strike, were thrown out of work at the time when they need wages to tide their families over Christmas.

‘CHRISTMAS STORY

JN Richmond, Va., a department store Santa Claus listened "to the long recital of requests by a little girl, assured her ~ he would do his best to meet her requirements, and gave her a bright red apple. “What do you want to say to Santa now?” the mother | the little one. : "* was the reply. ; story, yes, but perhaps seriously symbolical. for a long time; have been looking to the govs'a Santa Claus. Maybe we need to find out that

Gates administration will tackle this important problem in |

Side Glances—By Galbraith 9)

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“GoM. 1986 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. Y. Wh. REG. U. 8 Pat or LL ny "Yes, | bought those white shirts for you the other day, but you can't wear them till | manage to find some laundry soap!

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“ORGANIZED LABOR HAS GANGED UP ON PUBLIC” Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis Every responsible newspaper in the United States should publish a front page editorial declaring that: “Today this nation faces a national emergency! Tomorrow we face a national calamity.” Organized labor has “ganged” up against our government's efforts to protect the general welfare of we, the people! Unless the national and state

protect the lives of our citizens, people are going to suffer and many will die for lack of fuel and other necessities of life. Therefore, our President should summon congress into special session, declare a national emergency and call on the governors of every state in the union to marshal every available facility —Ilegal, mechanical and military to

sary food and fuel to save their lives, - : » ” » “CIRCLE IS IDEAL PLACE FOR BUSSES” By Female Straphanger, Indianapelig I am not an habitual griper and have never griped when I had to stand and be pushed and shoved and walked on an E. New York bus, but now they are rerouting the busses to eliminate the congestion

who have to work walk two or three blocks farther, If they took time to look at the schedule, they could time the arrival of the busses so there would be no congestion. me if there is to be any rerouting

behind the counters for me, and | oco communities should be an- it could be that of the private cars | save used fat and papers. Mind!’

{that circle and circle around the {Circle to pick up someone who has {been shopping all afternoon and could have been home before the workers have to go. Of course, this doesn’t mean anything and can possibly do nothing toward changing the plans of this wonderful (?) organization, but I still think the Circle is the ideal {place for busses instead of congre|gating on. the corner and having {to wait, and wait, and wait, and | freeze this winter. t 2°» =» “LABOR SHOULD RESPECT | LAWS OR BE PUNISHED” | By J. 8., Greenwood I see an item in the Hoosier |Porum of someone speaking in be-

‘half of John L. Lewis who thinks

Lewis is in his rights by tying up!

the mines and crippling transpor-

If they are not getting what they want, can't they let the public know three months in advance, one-fourth of the year, just what it will take to make them happy and content in mind. This man said he had been a union mine worker and sympathizer for 63 years. Has a man in that case depended on himself or looked ahead or has he depended on his union for his support. This man has served 63 years, so where does he stand? Is he one of our American men or not? Sounds hollow to me, If Lewis and his A, F. of L. miners are not satisfied with their wages, with the price of food going up and coal at $9.76 a ton, why don’t they apply to some old-age security. We draw in Johnson county from $13 to $22 every 30 days and appreciate that because we belong to this dear old U. 8S, A. It’s our home and with our friends we want to stay, but people like Lewis and his gang should move away. I am not down on union labor, but they should be Americans and respect our laws as others do or be punished.

DAILY THOUGHT

Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord thy God.—I Samuel 15:30.

THE sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven : By man 1s

cursed away, ; ~Nathaniel P. Willis.

government heads act—at once—to |

provide our people with the neces- |

It also seems to |

THE RECENT ALPINE RESCUE of Capt. Ralph Tate Jr. and the 11 passengers in his U. 8. army

| transport recalls Charlie Gilbert, a 22-year-old Butler

boy who, back in 1881, climbed to thé top of the Matterhorn. The coming down wasn't so good, though, Charlie came to Indianapolis by way of Rockford, Ill, and picked Butler college as the place to get his education. That was back in the days when David Starr Jordan was professor of biology and Melville Best Andersen taught English. I mention their names because they went with Charlie to tackle the Matterhorn. Everybody said the Butler men were crazy when they heard what they were up to. Not only that,

the horrible thing that happened to him. Seems that Mr. Whymper, a Briton by birth and a wood engraver by profession, had been sent to Switzerland in 1861 to make some lliystrations of the Alps. While

tains. French Alps, he decided to try the Matterhorn which up to that time had not been conquered.

Hit on Head by. Rock

AFTER SIX ATTEMPTS in almost as many years, Mr. Whymper got to the top in 1865. So did.his four companions and two guides. In the descent, however, the rope broke, and everybody except Mr, Whymper and one guide was hurled to the glacier 4000 feet below. They lie buried in the churchyard of Zermatt, the village at the foot of the mountdin. Well, that scared the daylights out of everybody with the result that for many years after that, mountain climbers let Matterhorn alone. All except those in and around Butler college who had never, climbed anything higher than Crown Hill. The Butler mountaineers, as foolhardy a bunch as ever¢came out of Irvington, went to Zermatt, engaged guides, and at 1'o'clock qn the morning of Aug.

| DEAR BOSS: “PEOPLE ARE FUNNY,” but more particularly

when “people” also happen to be politicians.

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f There wefe more men with lightning rods at the Republican national committee meeting here last | week than there are farmers at a county fair.

Halleck for Majority Leader OUR HOOSIERS, who whether Democrats or, Republicans always are hopeful for higher office, ac- | quitted themselves quite proudly. Governor Gates | made a delightful little speech covering the point of | his availability for the vice presidency, after he was { presented by his predecessor, Earnest Morris, South Bend capitalist. ! Best speech of the day, according te the concensus of reporters present, was made by the dean | of the Indiana Republicans in congress, Rep. Charles A. Halleck. It is conceded that he will be the new | majority leader. But the man who hag tried to throw | a monkey-wrench into the Halleck boom, Rep. | Clarence Brown (R. O.) also was present and made | a speech. ° | He was a director of the national committee dur- | ing the campaign, supposedly functioning undér National Chairman Carroll Reese. In his blustery way he said the national headquarters did the best job | in modern times. Present at the speakers’ table, was | Herb Brownell, predecessor’ to Reece, who noticeably ! winced. There was little or no applause. | Nevertheless, getting back to the politicians are | funny angle, even though Halleck’s name is likely to | be the only one presented for the leadership at the

party caucus, his colleagues are cagey at this point.

on committing themselves. Since Rep. Halleck long has been the highly successful campaign committee chairman in the house, I tried polling members of that committee regarding his leadership possibilities. Only a few answered forthrightly. Some here, such as Rep. Clifford Hope (R. Kas.) came right out and said-they were for him and felt that all the votes in their state would go the same

This Christmas ls

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—This shapes up as a rather strange Christmas, something caught betwixt the hung stocking and the jet-propelled Santa, an uneasy Yule, with the parents wondering if the tin train isn’t an insult to junior’s intelligence quotient,

and with Santa himself sweating out the correct procedure for inflitrating a reconverted Quonset hut. It is the first truly civilian Christmas we have experienced since 1940. There will be a great dearth of bulky packages, aimed at flyspecks on the overseas maps, and destined to arrive in May with the excelsior leaking out of the busted wrapper, the contents mashed and stained.

Christmas of the Scientists THIS 18 THE Christmas of the scientists; in Newark the ersatz Santas of the shops are as sanitary as a cigaret advertisement. They kiss not the clustered tots at their knee; every day the health inspector drops round to see that Santa is hermeti cally sealed, untouchde by human hands, that his gloves are clean and his breath untainted. Each sprig of mistletoe, I suspect, will be drenched in DDT, prewashed in Listerine, with’ a nurse standing by to pass out the sulfa-gum to every taster of his true love's lips. ' The pile of gifts beneath the tree—provided you can find a place to house the tree—will be a weird | hybrid, testifying to our state of flux. There will be | an electronic cannon, a radar-equipped choo=choo, | a variety of machine guns and rockets which will | fire under water. Sissy's dolly comes from the doll-

OUR TOWN hips By Ar fon Scherrer ny a “Butler Boy Reached Matterhorn Top

but people reminded them of Edward Whymper and’

working on the job he fell in love with the moun- . After making some briliant ascents in the

13, 1881, set out to duplicate Mr. Whymper's féats , What actually happened is contained in a letter re-.

ceived by Mrs. Andersen who stayed behind in Indianapolis—in Irvington, as a matter of fact—while her husband and his two buddies were wrestling with me Matterhorn, a 14,837-foot high snow-crowned peak. 7 “We finally reached the summit,” wrote Prof. Andersen. “It is only a yard or two wide and 60 or 70 feet long with a sheer descent of something like a mile and a half in all directions, We did not stay there long as the wind was: blowing a gale; it was bitter cold and the snow began to fall, It was soon after we started down that the accident to Gilbert happened. A fragment of rock unding down the mountain struck him just above the eyes. For a moment he was thought to be dead. : “With barely guides enough, two had to be taken to care for’ Gilbert and it was three hours’ scramhle from where he was hurt to the first cabin, Gilbért being unconscious the greater part of the way. From this cabin downward the journey was“enviroped with peril. It was snowing and growing dark and the rocks over which we picked our way were wet and slippery. At 8 o'clock that night the chief guide announced that the last difficult’place was passed and the lower hut was not far off. Late that night, the

wg guides turned up with Gilbert more dead thin alive.” .

Became Famous Educator

THE BEST, PART of the story is that Charlie Gilbert lived to tell the tale. As a matter of fact, he lived 48 years after that and accounted for every minute of it. He achieved fame as an ichthyologist which, when you stop to think of it, is a field far removed from the tops of mountains—in diametrically the opposite direction, to be exact. Moreover, he got to be professor of zoology in Leland Stanford university, With President Jordan of that institution as a collaborator, he wrote “Synopsis of the Fishes of North America”— the same Jordan with whom he went up (and“down) the Matterhorn.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Daniel M. Kidney Politicians Avoid Taking a Stand

way. But the answers to telegrams were evasive. Here is the wire I sent: “As Republican congressional committee member, will you please wire collect whom you consider likely to get support of your state delegation for house majority’ leadership? Also any comments.” Here are some of the replies: Rep. Hubert 8. Ellis (R. W. Va.)—“Have not had opportunity to confer with delegation regarding majority leader. No comment.” Rep. Karl Stefan (R. Neb.)—“I am the only member Nebraska delegation still in Nebraska. Have not conferred with the Nebraska delegation as yet.” Rep. William Miller (R. Conn.)—“Connecticut house delegation not committed as yet on leader, Will meet later.” Several just didn’t answer at all. There were two letters in reply. One was from Rep. John Jennings (R. Tenn.) and the other from Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R. Pa.). > “I am for Charlie Halleck for majority leader,” Mr. Jennings wrote. He has earned the honor, and he is able to do the job.” Mr. Simpson reported no action taken on the leadership by the Pennsylvania delegation as yet. Now all of this being cagey is pretty much nonsense, Charlie has the votes in Pennsylvania, New York, California and of course his own Indiana, Just to cite a few of the major G. OQ. P. states.

Watch Against Stumbling

+ REP, BROWN HAS NEVER announced his own candidacy, but Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins, dean of the Ohio delegation, is an announced candidate and reportedly doesn't like Mr. Brown's “butting-in.” Rep. Everett M. Dirksen has announced as a candidate from Illinois. ! But Halleck’s name has been coupled with the leadership as long as Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R. Mass.) has been with the speakership. And that is what makes politicians so funny. They never like to get on a bandwagon as long as there seems to be a single pebble in the road. DAN KIDNEY

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Rustk

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One for the Books

of-the=month~ club, as papa's cravat emerges from the tie-of-the-etcetera. The comic dolls will wear ragged mustaches and shout “veto!” when properly wound. The returned hero can wallow in a wide choice of loot; navy will sell him a slightly shopworn PT boat for about $500, and he can, if he wishes, beach it for use as a dwelling. Six bucks will get him a carbine, which may or may not have expunged a Jap, but which is equally suitable for deer and fellow huntsmen. War assets is stuck with 60,000 rocket launchers, and suggests that, at $100 each, they make nice toys. Bo do wooden army rifles, guaranteed not to shoot, at $2.88. Do not sneer at these futile weapons; they were good enough for the first victims of selective service, and should be very effective against the Indian tribes which lurk behind mother's portieres.

So Many Things to Buy SO MANY THINGS TO buy this year-—mink coats marked down to $4000’ (not including tax), 17 kinds of pens which will write on anything except paper, Marxman pipes ranging from $100 to $2500, solid gold shaving bowls (just what I wanted, Auntie, dear) for as little as $1875 (plus tax), and all. manner of bric-a~brac. : It will be a Christmas for the books. And don't forget the laymen’s guide to nuclear fission, because Junior will want to know all about it at approximately 5:15 on Christmas morn. That's what makes his steam engine run now, Daddy.

‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms 2-Zone Merger Hopeful for Germany

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.~The economic merger | of the British and American zones of occupation | admittedly is only a first step teward final peace | with Germany, without which the central European

| sorespot will get worse. \ It. has been over 19 months since the Nazi surrender, and 16° months since the Big Three agreed at Potsdam to practice “uniformity of treatment of the German population throughout Germany" Only now have two of the allies begun to implement that pledge. Russia is still holding out.

Russia Needed in Pool

GERMANY AFTER the war was divided into four sealed compartments, Russia getting the food section, Britain the industrial and the United States and France the scenery. As a result, Germany has been converted into a sort of huge poorhouse depending largely on the United States and Britain for most of her every-day necessities. The Netherlands, next door, was hit every bit as hard by the war as was Germany. Ten per cent of her farm lands were inundated, most of her livestock driven off, her industrial and agricultural machinery pillaged and mahy of her towns and cities looted and deftroyed. ‘Yet, today she is self-suporting, able to pay her way. : By contrast, Germany remains a huge burden on

show a deficit for the next three years amounting to

| $1 billion, half of which’ will have to be borne by

American taxpayers

the allies. The British and American zones alone will‘

Only by pooling the resources of Germany as a whole can the Potsdam promises be carried out. Thus far, according to Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American taxpayers have been putting approximately $200 million a year into our area, principally for food. The British have been putting in still more— around $300 million a year Next year our share may be a trifle more (if $50 million can be called a trifle) but if the Anglo-American agreement pays off, the defict soon may be eliminated. The hope may prove premature, however, unless Russia and France come into the pool.

Healthy Europe Vital ACCORDING TO the Potsdam protocol, the United States, Britain and Russia are pledged to a course of action. In addition to the foregoing, they declared they would disarm and demilitarize Germany. However, subject to allied control, the people are to be allowed a national economy sufficient to support themselves on a level with other Europeans. In due course it was promised that they could “take their place among the free and peaceful peoples of the world.” Sern Hitler was one of the monsters of history. His lieutenants were no better. And the axiom that people deserve the kind of government'they have is just as true today as ever. But Europe can never fully recover as long as a festering sore" is allowed to remain within its vitals. A healthy world demands a healthy Europe. Enlightened self-interest, therefore, demands an early, a just and a democratic

peace for Germany and Austria.

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