Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1947 — Page 12
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the streets of Indianapolis are dangerous with ice the third time this winter, for the eighth or ninth last three winters. el Ee And, again, they just seem to stay that melts. No cinders. No salt. No protection. We've been wondering about that, all these icy winters, | listening to the cars crash into one another and into curbs and into light standards. Wondering why Indianapolis streets are not made safe for traffic promptly, when they get icy, as other cities’ streets are, especially when they | § do get icy two or three times every year and we ought to | be prepared to meet it. : And here they were, dangerously icy and getting steadily worse by 6 o'clock Monday evening. And no better Tuesday morning. So we asked Luther Tex, the city’s street commissioner, about it. i Mr. Tex said he had put eight.city trucks to work at i 8 o'clock Tilesday ‘morning “spreading salt and sand at | intersections inside the Mile Square area, but they hadn't got outside that zone yet, along toward noon, Tuesday. | +1 “Maybe,” said Mr. Tex reflectively, “maybe I ought to add some more trucks.” We think you've got something there, Mr. Tex. More. And sooner. :
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'% DON'T LET IT HAPPEN ELSEWHE | (GEORGIA didn't necessarily get into this mess just be‘cause of the general cussedness of Georgians. ° Framers of the state constitution—and it was rewritten in the Arnall administration—made no clear provision for the death of a governor-elect before he was sworn in. “As a result, Georgia has two governors, both solemnly _sworn in, each eager to serve, but neither quite sure that
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—~Rarely has any incom= ing officer of the government ever been greeled with such welcome as that accorded Gen. George C. Marshall. Assuming the duties of secretary of state, he has been hailed by every section of the press— left, right and middle—for his character and achieve- . ments. That this is well deserved no one can ‘deny. George Marshall proved himself over and over again ih the ordea] of the war. “is
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BUT AT THE SAME TIME, it is well to recognize that this overwhelming vote of confidence puts the. new secretary of state, who took office yester-
he’s the McCoy. Eventually, it is assumed, the courts of Georgia will decide. ¢ While Georgia struggles to restore constitutional gov“ernment, it might be a good time for our state legislature and those in other states to-examine their own constitutions _ to see if all contingencies are clearly provided for. The federal constitution, itself, is far from foolproof on _ succession to the presidency. One hundred and forty-three years ago, after the Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr mixup, an oversight of the founding fathers was corrected, to provide separate balloting in the electoral college for President and vice president. Again, in the so-called lame duck amendment of 14 years ago, another omission was corrected “by stipulating that if the President-elect should die before , being sworn in the vice president-elect should become President. / Rep. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, co-author of the act to reorganize congress and a lawmaker who tries to look ahead, has proposed a constitutional amendment to provide the election of two vice presidents and clear up some of the confusing procedure on succession.
MORE ON ‘INTOLERABLE STRIKES’ DZ WILLIAM M. LEISERSON, former member of the National Labor Relations Board and an authority we greatly respect, has written to us about last Wednesday's { “ye. editorial on “Intolerable Strikes.” His letter appears in the Hoosier Forum on this page today. : He suggests that we write another editorial on “how forbidding are forbidden strikes?” Well, here it is: ~ We don’t believe that boys—or wage earners— should | be chained to stakes. _ But we don’t believe Dr. Leiserson would argue that children have an abgolute right to stay out late nights and should be entirely free from parental restraints. Nor do we believe he would argue that wage earners who want more money have an absolute individual or collective right to get it by depriving people of food, fuel or any necessity of life. What our previous editorial said was that there are some strikes no government can tolerate and remain a government. We believe that is true.
h! » » » » » » .!, AMERICAN employers once had, and many of them : abused, preponderant power to prevent settlement of labor controversies by persuasion, reasoning and compromise. That power was cut down by laws—by taking
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If our forbidden don forbidden strike created the food crisis for the British labor government, ought we not to have another editorial on how forbidding are forbidden strikes? “Verboten” was an effective word in Nazi Germany, and the Russian equivalent works, too, because Communists have no qualms about compulsory servitude. But aren't free workers a little like children whose parents try to rule by prohibitory admonitions? A recent newspaper story told of a father who chained his son to a stake because the boy stayed out late nights. Is that the kind of | remedy we need for Tecaleitrant | Ce to run from danger. . earners who aren
"Can American Freedom Survive
Without Sound Attitude on Problems?"
By Dr. Wm. M. Leiserson, former member National Labor Relations
Board, Washington, D. C.
Your recent editorial, “Intolerable Strikes,” cites the “unauthorized strike” of food-truck drivers in London, and you seem to agree that this is one of Donald Richberg’s kind of strikes that our government should
But wasn't the London strike already forbidden by British law? Hadn't the dispute been decided by a wage board under the road haulage wages act? And wasn't our own coal strike forbidden by the Smith-Con-
strike paralyzed American industry, and the Lon-
Editor's Note: Dr. Leiserson raises 2 significant point, which is covered | in an editorial on this page today, under the title “More on Infol-
= = =» “OVERLOADED BUSSES ARE GOOD TRAINING FOR KIDS”
By R. J. Pielemeier, 31 W. Ohio I wish to take exception to Victor Peterson's view of the undesirability of school bus overloading. As I understand it one of the functions] of schools is to prepare children to cope with life. What better training can you suggest for future patrons of the Indianapolis, Railways, Inc.?|safer community to live in.
” = = “SEPARATE GOOD FROM BAD ON POLICE FORCE” By Sally Davidsen, 1503 Dawsea st. I was taught to believe that a police and a protector of the {since Dec. 16 I feel ashamed for every officer I see in uniform, because how could we feel proud of a man for shooting a young ex-
officer was to be respected
to be shot and killed by one of our
If we lose faith in our ability %0| m ers for such a minor crime. work out practical arrangements, based on persuasion, reasoning and co-operative compromises, for set- | ting our labor disputes, can We wguld4 that that nine out of 10 orhope to maintain American free- | ginary hunters could of stopped
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men on our force, to have to shoot times to stop this boy. I!
him in one’shot and it wouldn't of had to be in the back of the head
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and back. Why couldn't it of been the legs or ankles. It seems like these officers just had human target
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Then too why should his mother with all of her grief be forced tol pay the City hospital to receive his!
It seems like our police force needs investigation, our headlines: for the past few days prove that.| I'll admit probably there are some! good police officers on our force, | but let’s the citizens of of Indianapolis get together and’ separate the “STRANGERS CAN FIND good from the bad, making this a! EVIDENCE, SO CAN OTHERS”
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| from employers what many of them believed—though we didn’t agree with them—was part of their “American freedom.”
~ Under those labor laws unions have achieved much the same sort of preponderant power, and in some cases | { it is also monopoly power. If unions have power to get | . what*they want by strikes that would freeze or starve the public, some of them or their leaders will attempt to use that power, as some have. And a government cannot long be a government if it sits helpless while the public | freezes or starves. What, then, can our government do | ~ | about such “intolerable strikes”? | i$: It might try to break them by force. The British Labor government used troops in the London strike. We _' don’t like that method. At might repeal the laws that have given unions pre.ponderant power. We don't want that, though we think those laws should be balanced so that neither employers nor unions can refuse to attempt settlement of disputes by good-faith bargaining. = It might weaken unions in industries essential to public welfare by denying them the closed shop, or breaking them up info smaller unions, etc. But itis responsible unions, - mot weak ones, that we want. 0 , facing the fact that some strikes are intolerable, ght forbid them. We fealize the great difficulty of pat, and the danger. Laws for the purpose would be written with extreme care and fairness, Workd would have to be assured of obtaining economic ‘Some method other than the strike. law, enacted after the general strike of 1926, fain strikes of the kind we call “intolerable.”
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“CITIZENS ARE BEHIND YOU, MR. STARK, GET BUSY” By RB. L. J, E. Michigan st.
enough evidence of graft and corruption in our police force to warrant conviction. Nuts! Patrolman Durham has all he needs. Remember Mr. Stark you promised to clean up the city and county. Come on now, don't let us down, or the condemnation of the people who elected you, alike, will be devastating to your political future. A lot of our police force should be behind bars if they are accepting bribes: Let's put them there. Another thing, Mr. Stark, something is screwy in the criminal court. Of all the: terrible murders that have been committed in this city in the past few years, how many murderers have people, but|to the electric chair? None. Why? {All they get is a few years so they can get out soon and kill a few more people. In Canada, when a person commits murder he pays the|’ sailor just because he was afraid|sSupreme penalty. The entire citi{come on and show us you mean h | Three years ago a mother gave business. . t satisfied |, only son to fight our battle in! with their station.In life and yearn... pacific We that stayed home, | for the seeming delights enjoyed bY | 4} ouont all these boys to be herces.' PREVENT HEARTBREAK” the big boys who have money and |g, this young boy came home only gy mr. p. A. B. Hiiside ave.
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day, under something of a handicap. Against the background of this chorus of praise, Secretary Marshall will be expected to perform miracles. ‘He is just now facing up to the hard facts of his job. In enthusiasm over the outstanding qualifications of the. man, we should not overlook the difficulties of his position. Marshall is the fourth secretary of state in little more than two years. That in itself is a sobering fact. Cordell Hull's resignation was dated Nov. 27, 1944. He was followed by Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and James F. Byrnes. A Conduct of our foreign policy has been interrupted three times in the past two years while a new secretary took up the assignment laid down by . Those who presumably will work with him most department experts in various fields— do not know his views except in general on the China problem. They must learn what is in his Jind, and he must get from them the background
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MONTREAL, Jan. 22.—-“Nobody loves me,” the fat old man with the big nose was saying, “but the people. Some time dey t'row me out, but next time dey always bring’ me back. The government is against me, the papers are always against me, but the people, dey like old Camillien.” °* I like old Camillien too. Old Camillien's last name is Houde, and he is the mayor of Montreal, It is his fifth térm--not consecutive, because some times the people get mad at old Camillien and t'row him out. Once, when campaigning afresh after a defeat, the old boy arose to tremenddus applause. He looked at his constituents for a long time, and grinned. “You were lonesome, hein?” he said. “You missed Canfillien, non?” He went back into office.
Spent 4 Years in Clink CAMILLIEN IS THE ONLY MAYOR I can think of right now who was elected by a heavy majority on the platform of having spent four years in the clink on a treason charge. When war came M. Houde publicly commanded his people to ignore the government's order for national registration, which he regarded as a violation of a previous political promise that there would be no conscription in Canada. He was offered a chance to backtrack, but refused, and readvised his people not to register. So a couple of husky M. P.’s were sent after his worship, and they took his worship off to a concentration camp, where he remained until the war was won. When finally sprung, Camillien was met at the station as a conquering hero, and he breezed into office again. The story I like best about Camillien happened when King George and Queen Elizabeth were visiting in Canada. There was a big official dinner, and the mayor was ‘seated between the king and queen. Pro-tocol-conscious officials had armed M. Houde with a book of etiquet on association with royalty, and had painfully briefed him on one fact: You should never speak to royalty until spoken to. So it happened that the king was chatting with the person next him, and so was the queen.
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help the juvenile court. In my opinion it’s the other way around, -judges have a great opportunity to help the public and juveniles. Yes, such a case as my own. A judge broke my home and took two of my babies in 1933 at the age of 7 and 5 years for the reason my husband would not care for them and I was sick. But he promised I would get them back when I got well. But I didn't. They are now 19 and 21 years old, wherever they are. So do you see why we should see that the right man’ should be in. It would save many families from heartbreak as my own for it is torn apart and will never heal until I
can see my two girls before I die. » = ”
By A. E. M., Indianapolis It is too bad our mayor, chief of police and other big shots who are the heads of our city government do
on in our city. It is very funny that find any kind of gambling he wishes
go in these places and: go. in the back room with the proprietor and walk out with a smile on their face. 1 guess the proprietor was telling them a funny story. It is too bad Mr. Stark can’t find evidence { enough-to convict any of our police
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{ 2 = = “BIG GIRLS, TOO, SHOULD AVOID BEING TOMBOYS” By Times Reader, Indianapolis i The article which appeared in The {Times Wednesday, “Mothers Should | Refine Tomboys,” is worth a lot of | publication, thought and consideration. Not only little girls but big and mothers undoubtedly should acquire lady-like habits and leave off smoking, drinking and ge back to skirts and win the respect of the opposite sex and be real refined women again. I think it con-
Congress Alert
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—It would seem a far cry from world disarmament to the Polish eléttions. Yet the fate of Poland will make disarmament—particularly atomic controls—much more difficult. Events-are placing the U, 8. senate more and more on the alert against possible loopholes through which designing signatories of the proposed disarmament treaties may crawl.
Reds Watched Especially IT 18 NOW CERTAIN that every comma, period and paragraph will undergo closest scrutiny. For members of congress are grimly and increasingly determined that the United States shall not scrap its defenses unless and until reasonably safeguarded against foreign duplicity. At one conference after another, it is recalled,
interpretation of an agfeement is different from everybody else’s. - Thus, feeling in congress long has been that in dealing with Russia you never know where you stand. And with her systematic absorption in one way or another of her weaker- neighbors, the impression is cumulative, Her treatment of Poland, in total disregard of the Atlantic charter and written pledges of Yalta and Potsdam, tends to clinch the conviction. “The thing I'm scared of,” a senator said to the writer, “is that one of these days Russia will suddenly agree to everything in order to get hold of the atomic bomb, Then, at the first real test, she will walk out on us. And what could we do? Once she has the secret, it can't be withdrawn.” 3 ! ?
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so essential to continuity of policy. That cannot be done overnight. i The Big Four foreign ministers are to meet in Moscow March 15, to start fixing the peace for Germany and Austria. Persuasive arguments have been made for Marshall to stay on the job and send a deputy to Moscow. Staying here, he could direct the reorganization of the department and fix Amer. . ican policy. Byrnes had no chance to do those jobs, since hé was preoccupied with day-to-day dealing in London, Moscow, Paris and New York. If Marshall does not go to Moscow for at least the beginning of the conference, his action would be interpreted as a shift in U. 8. policy. It would start & wave of spgeulation in every foreign office in the world. Moreover, the other three foreign ministers
“are now completing plans to attend and our secre-
tary could hardly at this point change the plan agreed to by his predecessor. Among qualities for which Marshall has been praised are decisiveness and ability to reduce an * issue to its most concise form.
Long Range Problems
IN MANY WAYS, problems of diplomacy are far more complex than the issues that come to the fore in even a global conflict. Diplomacy is, in a sense, an art. It calls for subtlety and finesse of a high order. Let's give Secretary Marshall a chance. It take years of patient endeavor to work out of peace that has any chance of lasting. ‘The ma fold problems of building in the world cannot resolved by magic. In accepting this assignmen the new secretary of state has shown once again patriotic devotion to what he considers his duty. But he cannot work miracles.
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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark
Mayor, Out of Clink, Loved by Many
Poor Camillien was left sitting in the middle, with a tongue full of words and ‘no place to spread them. This went on for some time, until finally the king was seen to burst into loud guffaws, and the queen came-down with a hard case of giggles. From that point Camillien ruled the table, and: chattered happily all evening. Afterward, somebody asked him how he had managed to break the deadlock. “Well,” Camillien replied, “I am sitting there, looking at my little card, which say I cannot talk to the king and queen unless they speak first to Camlillien. But there is nothing on this card which says Camillien cannot talk to Camillien. So I speak, in a
; normal voice, and I say:
“Poor Camillien. Here he sits all by himself, while everybody else has a good time, and poor Camillien has nobody to talk to. So, for lack of an audience, Camillien must converse with himself. It is sad, but necessary. In a minute the king is laughing, and Camillien has conversation from there on.” The mayor is not overly bitter about his wartime confinement, apart from the average hostility of the French-Canadian toward British rule.
Grudgingly Adored by British IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING that he was offered several chances to get out of the concentration camp if he would retract his statements and promise to be a good boy. He is adored by his own folks, and some~ what grudgingly admired by the English, for his stub born refusal to compromise. v Mayor Houde is less angry at his incarceration than at the fact that the city saw fit to curtail the powers of Mile. Marie, while he was in the jug, to a point where the mayor of Montreal now is little more than a greeter, with city administration taken out of his hands. A pure politician, Camillien is mildly out-
“It was not—how do the Brtish say—quite cricket,” says Camillien, ;
‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms ; to Foreign Duplicity
From the first, Poland was regarded as the test, Russia and Poland had a treaty of non-aggression. In 1939, Russia disregarded that treaty and, with Nazi Germany, partitioned Poland. In 1941, Moscow, renounced the Polish partition only to insist, a few months later, on retaining .the eastern half of the country just the same, True, at Yalta and at Potsdam, she promised that the rest of Poland should
remain “independent and strong” under a gov: t
_selected at “free ‘and unfettered elections,” But Sinday that promise, too, was scrapped, : Congress, therefore, is increasingly skeptical of Kremlin pronouncements. When Chairman Vandenberg, of the senate foreign relations committee, says
“We shall not trust alone to fickle words” when ft .
comes to arms reduction, it is safe to say that 90 per cent of congress behind him. «1
Cost of Broken Faith : AND THAT GOES FOR atomic control most of all. We will gladly outlaw that, said Senator Vandenberg —congress is also with him there—and our price is small. All we ask is a truly effective system of inter.
national control “which makes certain that no international brigand shall hereafter break faith with us and the world.” All we want is “protection against
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