Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1947 — Page 14

this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth—

. Will Find Their Own Way

8 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

“This is the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Washington,” said Mr. Lincoln. “We are met to celebrate

long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.”

IT MIGHT HAPPEN HERE AMERICANS cannot afford to be complacent as they read of the coal crisis in Britain. There is no assurance that it can’t happen here, _, - . Only a few weeks ago one man‘was threatening to bring / the same sort of catastrophe upon this country. For all we know, he may undertake, in another seven weeks, to shut down the coal mines again and carry through the threat. In the industrial heart of England and Wales all fac-

% X ¢ HAM LINCOLN made an address over in Illinois ; A on George Washington's birthday in 1842, and it is a |}; {; | tribute that could well be made today to both of those ¥ if:

"tories are closed and millions of workers are idle. ' In other sections, the use of fuel and power is drastically restricted.

Homes, stores, offices, restaurants are forbidden to use elec- |

tric current fivethours a day. The cold is bitter and suffering is intense. Britain's crisis is due to a combination of bad circumstances—a run-down. and inefficient mining industry, a ~ shortage of mine labor, a war-worn transportation system, the worst winter weather in 50 years. It is hard to see how the Labor government can fairly be blamed for the situation, except as it failed to ration fuel and power sooner. But that government might fall and the British experiment in Socialism might end, if the coal crisis continues long. . 8 = > n » ’ MERICA’S danger has a different cause. Laws and policies of our government have helped a few men to gain dictatorial power over key unions and monopoly power over vital commodities. The boldest, most ruthless of these men is John L. Lewis. Earlier this winter he used his power for three weeks to stop the mining of coal. A few more weeks and the people of the United States would have been in straits as desperate as those of the people of Britain today. Lewis ordered the miners back to work last October because President Truman, standing firmly against surrender or compromise, resorted to federal court injunction to protect the fountry. But what Lewis granted was only a

reprieve, good until March 81. And he appealed to the U.

S. supreme court to hold that the President has no legal right to protect the country by the means he used. Two months have gone. Monday was another “decision day” for the supreme court—but there was no decision in the Lewis case. Meanwhile, Lewis and the mine owners “are making no effort to negotiate a new contract and so to avert another strike on April 1. They are waiting on the | court, 5 Meanwhile, congress cannot know what new laws it may be necessary to write in order to make certain that | America can prevent a crisis as damaging as Britain's.

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Hoosier Forum

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will defend to the death

your right to say it." — Voltaire.

"Few Teen-Age Doings Over by 10 P. M.; Curfew Would Be Error"

By a Group of Beech Grove High School Students There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the teen-age curfew. We wish to express the teen-agers’ viewpoint on this subject. This country has always been called the land of the free. Does this mean that you are free, only if you are over 18? We always thought that it meant everyone. As it is now, there are almost no forms of teen-age entertainment that are over by 10 o'clock (the proposed curfew hour). Movies, athletic games and dances all last later than that. ; 2 Of course, as many adults say, we can take our parents with us, but who wants to take their parents x 8 8 . on a date or to a teen-age dance? |“CHURCHWOMEN WELCOME Mokt adults would feel slightly out | ELSEWHERE; WHY NOT HERE?" of place there. Besides, manyip, g ¢. c. City parents are not well enough to be| The United Church Worfien are dragged out all the time by their not the only religious group unable children. This would especially 'to hold a convention in Indianapolis affect parents who have more than |pecause of the unwillingness of local in several places at once. On several occasions, the Women's This curfew would certainly not society of Christian Service of the help the law. It would do away Methodist church has made ine with a great deal of teen-age re-| formal offers to hold its convention spect for it because most YOUNg in Indianapolis. Always it has been people would repeatedly break this found impossible because of the ho{law, and that would e e them | tals’ “color line.” in breaking more t ones.| The W. S. C. 8. convention are This would be a very serious con- neld each year in Columbus, O. dition. {where state law prohibits discrimiEditor's Note: The above letter Nation against Negroes. Is there any was signed bY I sr shal Chag- 2cceptable hotel guests in Columbus lene Jones, Shirley Ann Williams, Should be less aceaplabls here? Juanita Headley, Lynne H. Hall) IL, Henri MeLaughton, Mary Jean| T™ FOR 100 PER CENT Hurt, Normal Grubbs, Loretta UNION SHOP” Biggerstaff, Raymond Medsker, Iris By Paul Seay, Indianapolis Switzer, Robert A. Spall, Robert] In answer to “An American” I Conrad, Werner A. Thompson, Would like to state my side of the Jeanne Paugh, Marilyn Hughes, | story. First IT would like to ask Mr. Rita Diekhoff, , Phyllis Templin, [American just what he would be Janet Harover, Ethel Davidson, making if it werent for union Margie Simpson, Carolyn Allee, labor? He states that he is a union

MR. DULLES’ FORMULA

JOHN FOSTER DULLES, American delegate to the United Nations, believes Soviet Russia can be kept within tolerable bounds—provided it “comes up against | something vigorous,” but not if it encounters “mushiness.” ~The danger is that war will be provoked by a retreat on the part of other nations which might cause Soviet leaders to become reckless, he said, adding: “Political leaders who are dynamic and who have had great initial successes often become over-confident. They are apt to take even greater risks until they find to their chargrin that they have made a bad calculation and have got into trouble which they never wanted or expected.” That is exactly What happened in the case of Hitler. Munich convinced him Britain and France would not fight, no matter what he did in central Europe. So he marched into Poland and provoked a war he didn’t expect. Appeasement of Russia at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam failed to buy Soviet co-operation or good will. “Something vigorous,” and less mush, may get better results.

NATIONAL SECURITY WEEK

THE period between Lincoln's birthday and Washington's birthday has been designated as National Security week by Governor Ralph F. Gates. The observance is ‘sponsored by the Reserve Officers association of the United States. During that period, the association will conduct an educational campaign to inform the" public on the merits of universal military training. The organization also strongly favors unification of the armed forces. As Secretary of State Marshall says, the United States cannot buy peace by words alone. We must be willing and .. prepared to fight for it if our foreign policy is to be strong. The activity of the Reserve Officers association will help focus attention on this important defense measure, a measure congressmen generally won't have the courage to : support without prodding from their constituents.

INSULT TO POLAND = -

WE should not think either the American or British : a ents would entertain seriously the proposal carpetbag government in Poland that the Peace treaty be signed in Warsaw. ‘Poles were the first victims of Nazi aggression in II, but the allied victory did not release them dom, It merely exchanged one master for an‘participation in a hypocritical ceremony eBtablish the German defeat as a Polish sult to injury, and condone one of the post-war period. ~~

|dall, Sally Mae Jennings, Mary so far as it is-to his advantage,

UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS”

j assistance recipients with a lien give it to us? Brother, how wrong

Elizabeth Reynolds, Barbara Ken- man. Bosh. He is a union man in

Jane Bailey. The point they raise never a union man because a union is a good one, {man will walk the bricks from now 2 8 on to make working conditions for “OUR REPRESENTATIVES a union man. Coca-Cola never was fair to union labor and never will be unless we of organized labor {compel them to be so. I see that two of our elected rep-| I would like to ask Mr. American resentatives are up to their old just where-labor has got its place tricks again. They are trying to/in the sun as of today? Does he add more worry fo our old age think that capital has seen fit to

By Times Reader, Indianapolis.

on the old homestead. These old-|you are. Plenty of good men shed timers are very worthy of any|blood and died that you are able to assistance that can be given them.|draw the wages you draw today. They are law-abiding and tax-pay-|also enjoy the conditions of your ing citizens, a credit to-any com- shop. So brother, I say as a good rhunity. The mere pittance they union man, go slow on the talk receive should not worry any party land a little longer on the good whose slogan was “Had Enough?” union talk. Yours for a 100 per cent This sort of thing should not be. union shop. And I'm not scareqd to Let's get behind this and stop it. [Sign my pame.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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* COPR 1947 By NEA BERWICE. INC. Y. M. REG. U8. PAY. OFY 2-712

"If she's going to stay for dinner, get out the good silver<I| don't ~ want 4he whole town talking about our bent forks and knives with broken handles!"

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“CAPEHART STATEMENT ON RENTS SHOWS INCAPACITY”

By Del Mundo, Indianapolis Judging from a recent article in

The Times by Daniel M. Kidney, it would seem that Senator Capehart, in the course of his campaign in Washington to raise the rents and thereby bring on still more inflation, concluded that the best thing would be to let the states handle the whole rent control

matter.

Senator Tobey (R. N. H) summed

this philosophy as being a

philosophy o f“let them (the ten-

ants) sink or swim, starve or die.” To this Senator Capehart was quoted as replying, “That's right. That's as it should be.”

Later when the senator had his

attention called to certain headlines in the newspapers that his rémarks had brought about he said that he had not referred to the tenants but rather to certain states that don't want rent.control. In the final analysis it had to be the tenants he

was referring to. because it is the

tenants who will pay the increased rents, if any.

This may have been a slip of the

of Indiana,

tongue on the part of the Indiana Mad. reason why churchwomen who arefSenator but it reveals the true attitude of Capehart toward those ‘who have to rent their homes, let them sink or swim, starve or die. Any man who thinks like this is a disgrace to the party of Abe Lincoln and is no credit to the state of Indiana. This man, I think, should resign from office in order not to contribute jo the defeat of the G. O. P. in Indiana in Governor Gates would find no difficulty to finding a man to appoint to the senate who could more properly represent the good peopie

“DID YOU EVER SEE A POOR MAN ELECTED TO OFFICE?” By Robert Long, 2212 N, Keystone All the squabble to find a way to bring in more money through taxes comes to light now since we read of the proposed increase in pay for

the governor and a few more.

a taxpayer, and I mean a laboring man with plenty now drained from

my earnings, may I ask this question: Just how can things as this

be done without the consent of

“We the people?”

ployers of these officials and if

We are the em-

more money is to come from our earnings to raise these men in salary, why not put this to a vote by

the people.

Let's put a stop to

this, We have been the suckers long enough. These men knew what these jobs paid, and another thing, did you ever see a poor man elected to these jobs? Today the working man pays out so much of his earnings to work, and he’s net as

good off as the man that doesn't] Bo let's make use of the

work. ax in taxes.

8. “THIS ATTITUDE

DOESN'T MAKE SENSE”.

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Dig for Hot Pennies

FOR ONE thing, it had a sinister dark greenish color; for another, it had ja pungent gaseous odor, Even more surprising was the discovery that the pile was warm; so much so, that one could detect dozens of tiny tongues of smoke curling up from the most unexpected places. f The smoking pile was in charge of Joe, a garrulous but lovable Negro, who apparently was stationed there for no other purpose than to treat the whooping cough. I still remember his technique. The first day I turned up, to begin a series of daily prescribed treatments, Joe demanded to know whether I had any pennies in my pocket. I produced eight whereupon Joe immediately confiscated five. Then, to my utter amazement, he pitched every one of the five pennies into the steaming pile of coke. His aim was so accurate that, in every case, the penny landed near the sources of a tongue of smoke. The fact, too, that Joe was a southpaw enhanced the performance considerably.

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President Truman

WASHINGTON, Feb.'12.—Visitors to the White House continue to marvel over the transformation that has occurred in scarcely more than three months. The President today is in almost every respect a dif ferent man from the worried, unhappy prisoner of last October who kept talking about his impossible job. One incidental result of this transformation is the speech which Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan recently made in New York. Both Mr. Hannegan and the White House could say quite honestly that there was no collusion in that speech.

Roosevelt Bickerings Missing

MR. TRUMAN AND THE political chief of his party understand each other so well that no go-ahead signal from the White House was necessary to prepare for the President's nomination in 1948. When Mr. Hannegan returned from his long rest cure in Florida, the President began by saying that, if Hannegan's health possibly permitted, he would have to. stay on in his dual capacity as party chairman and postmaster general. It was a new and authoritative commander who spoke to his lieutenant. To begin with, Mr. Truman feels that he has charted the executive branch of the government in such a way that, the line of responsibility is now unmistakably clear. The President's desk has diminishing layers of authorify branching away from it. Each man in the chain knows where to report, as the President tells it, and the chain of authority is not broken by the internal jealousies and rivalries which marked the Roosevelt administration.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The United States continues to take a serious view of events in Poland-—not only those before and during the rigged and terrorized elections of Jan. 19, but those connected with forced exodus of millions of inhabitants. But for the fact that our Warkaw embassy affords a sort of window through which something can be seen, however dimly, diplomatic relations might well be broken off. That still could happen. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane has been recalled for consultation. The President and secretary of state pointedly have announced that this country retains full liberty of action regarding the Warsaw regime.

Flagrant Abuses Continue

REPORTS INDICATE appalling abuses inside the new Polish borders. People are being driven from eastern Poland, which Russia annexed, into eastern Germany, which Russia gave to Poland by way of compensation. Inhabitants of eastern Germany, dis-, possessed, are left to shift for themselves, Many are housed and fed in the American zone at our taxpayers’ expense, “Some of the atrocities committed by the invaders,” according to a letter received by this writer, “are too gruesome to bear répretition.” In Streckenvack, Lower Silesia, the village butcher was strangled in his bed. His wife was found hanging from a staircase. The burgomaster and angiher man, were beaten to death. The schoolmaster and the town“

A WOMAN WAS STRANGLING to death in my young daughter's room, Suddenly there was a shout, the crash of a broken door—and a burst of machine gun fire, : Nothing to be upset about, however. It happens night after night at our house. Five or six persons had come to a violent end while I was reading the evening paper in the next room. But just then something disturbing happened.

Stephen S. Wise has joined ranks | There in the paper was a dispatch about Richard H.

with Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt in protesting the privilege accorded |

Dr. Martin Niemoeller of a speaking tour of the country.

Had Hitler ordered Pr. Niemoeller | purged as he did so many others and it's only remarkable that he |,

didn’t then by their same process of reasoning that prominent couple would have denied Dr. Niemoeller the right to a martyr's role. To me their attitude just doesn’t make

sense.

I think that Dr. Rustin and other

‘sponsors of his appearance here are

deserving of praise for so arrang-

Dr. Niemoeller.

ing it that the people of this city could have the pleasure of hearing

—————— ‘DAILY THOUGHT

_. And he said, If the Lord do

‘not help thee, whence shall I help thee?—II Kings 6:27. o

» When the sinner

is dismayed,

And the just man is afraid, Then Heaven be thy aid. ¢ S — <

ohn Brainard.

| McFeeley, headmaster of a school in Philadelphia. | Mr. McFeeley, the paper said, recommends report cards for the parents of school children. This as a means of putting the finger of blame on mothers and | fathers responsible for the pupils’ bad grades. And question No, 1 on his list of 12 read as follows: ‘Do I provide a quiet study for my children away from family, telephone and radio?”

Flunked First Test of Parent

WITH ALL THAT CARNAGE, shooting, shouting and sobbing filling the next room, and resounding throughout the house, it was obvious that Prof. McFeeley had asked a most embarrassing question. Clearly I had completely flunked the first test of a proper parent. So I went to, the door to do my duty. - There she sat, all twisted up on a chair and working on her arithmetic—apparently oblivious to the blaring radio. She became conscious of my presence only when my sudden turning off.of the radio filled the room with the sort of utter quiet that seemingly makes it difficult to do one’s home work. Came the inevitable argument. “That's “Crime Doctor,” one of the very best programs; and I was doing my work.” A : Incidentally, these progranmis are always “the very best’—the whole kit of them: Gangbusters, Inner Sanctum, Adventures of the Falcon, I Deal in Crime, y. LR i

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

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Years Later | Caught On

“IS IT possible that the gas works is out Lincolniana besides caring forthe sick?" I nodded wondering what was coming next. “Well,” said Father, “I never thought 1'd live te see the day when a public utility could be classified as an altruistic institution.” It wasn't until years later that

of Father's remark. 1 caugin the ditty

Gaining Popularity At a recent off-the-record cabinet luncheon President looked around the table with a i ge benign good-will. Here we are, he said, all eleven of us together for the first time, and it is a most happy occasion. This was the first of these lunche eons at which new Secretary of State George O, Marshall was present, and it also marked return of Hannegan. The fact that Marshall had replaced James P, Byrnes in the No. 1 cabinet post has contributed to the harmony that prevails today in the White House. Between Byrnes and the President there was always a certain constraint which, on Byrnes’ part, was reested in a kind of condescension toward the Pres ent, Mr. Truman no longer talks about how he did not want the office. In fact, he seems to have adopted as his own the old axiom that the way to run for office—whether for election or re-election—is not to run,

Public Satisfaction Fluctuates

THE WAY IN WHICH President Truman's popularity has fluctuated is an interesting phenomenon, In July, 1945, in the aftermath of victory, the Gallup poll showed that 87 per cent approved him and only 3 per cent disapproved. Last October, the two figures were 32 per cent and 53 per cent. Today they are 48 and 39 per cent. The Democratic hold on the country had begun to slip long before the war. In 1940, President, Roosevelt polled only 55 per cent of the popular vote as come pared with 62% per cent in 1936. It was the war that sustained him in office.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Polish Problem Vexes United Nations

policeman were kicked to death because they refused to be separated from their families. Churches— mostly Catholic—were set on fire. “Clergymen were being hanged daily.” The pastor of the famous church in Bruckenberg was shot and killed because, they said, “he was too slow in leaving” Similar things, the letter said, have taken place elsewhere. The matter may be. placed before the United Nations. Secretary Marshall will discuss Poland at Moscow, This will be necesSary because of Poland's new boune daries. The U. 8. and Britain stand more or less committed to the Curzon line (approximately Poland's predent eastern border) but both have insisted that her western boundary (with Germany) would have to be fixed at the peace conference.

Pledges Are Violated

MEANTIME RUSSIA and her Polish_satellite have been proceeding wholly contrary to the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam. They have set up boundaries not likely to be changed short of force. Neither Britain nor the United States has any such plan. But the United Nations was created to handle just such situations. The Atlantic Charter and the United Nations charter are being violated along with the Wilsonian principle upon which both were based, namely, that “People and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were chattels or pawns in a game.”

REFLECTIONS . . . By E T. Leech ; Murder and My Daughter's Study Hour

Mr. District Attorney, Sherlock Holmes, Lights Out —and an almost interminable list of other blood« curdlers. Strangely enough, my examination of my daughs ter's home work failed to reveal any errors in addie tion or substraction or the other mysteries of fifth grade arithmetic. : Somehow kids manage tq do their wk with one mind and listen to _the radio with another. And I got to wondering. In this world of blast and bedlam, should you teach a child to concentrate only when it is quiet? How, then, will he ever concentrate? When is it ever quiet in this world of radios, telephones and crowded houses? : After all, isn't it a blessing to be able to read or study oblivious to the clatter that surrounds you? Children ‘seem in many cases to be able to do it. We oldsters who grew up before the blessings of the singing commercial and the tobacco auctioneer, can't, I enjoy reading while listening to radio music, but the announcer's reminder that after 40 you need something to promote regularity— or that people who smell bad don’t make friends—always- brings my train of thought to a sharp stop.

Maybe the Professor Is Wrong

IN THIS DAY when the housing shortage has :

forced so much doubling up, where can either pupil or parent in many cases find that ideal “quiet study”? Where except in his own mind, by developing the unique ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos? If these youngsters do anything and get anywhere. it will be in spite of the noise that surrounds them. 3 © Maybe this is all wrong and f. McFeeley is right; but there seem to be two sides’ to the question. In any event, Mr. District Attorney was vigorously defending the people as my young daughter set to work on her American history. ih

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