Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1947 — Page 14

TIME FOR WISER TACTICS tala IR U, 8. supreme court “decision day” has gone -.#% ith no decision on the John L. Lewis case. None can come now before March 8. Four weeks after that date, the voal-strike reptiéve Lewis granted the country last Decemhap pokes a-waisting. And it's a mild statement to say {hat the American people are apprehensive. They do not ow how or whether any law or power of government can protect them if Lewis undertakes, on April 1, to resume the ~The hg labor committee, studying legislation to protect the people from abuses of unionism’s power, yesterday began fo hearsfrom those who profess to speak for nized labor—from William Green, Philip Murray and others, including Lewis, who have been asked to state their i : 1 aay employers have testified. Union offi¢ials should be heard. If they present their case reasonably, most of congress—and most of the people, under whose plain mandate congress is preparing to act—will consider fairly what they say.

ss = = = = 3 EITHER congress nor the people will be impressed by tirades to the effect that the only demand for corrective law comes solely from “enemies of labor” —that the real purpose is to “shackle the workers”’—that unions and their leaders should be left “free” to do as they please—that “labor legislation can never bring industrial peace.’ Tf labor legislation cannot bring industrial peace, then the Wagner act is a fraud. That law, under which the federal government has fostered a mighty growth of unionism, was passed with a“declaration of purpose “to diminish the causes of labor disputes” and to remove “sources of industrial strife.” In the 12 years since the Wagner act reached the statute books, the number of labor disputes resulting in strikes, and the magnitude and cost of industrial strife, far have exceeded anything known before. The union leaders will not call for repeal of the Wagner act. Nor do we, though we believe the unfair bias of the act must be corrected, and can be without endangering any essential right of workers. But it is absurdly illogical for the union leaders to insist upon keeping legislative protection for themselves and their organizations, while at the same time opposing legislative protection for the public. They have strained and shouted to put across the notion that- labor's welfare depends upon legal guarantee of rights without legal requirement of responsibility. They liave not succeeded, and we think they neveg can. It is time for them to take a wiser course.

“700 DAMNED CLEVER” SENATOR WHITE (R. Me) showed his statement to Senator McKellar (D. Tenn.) for approval before he, White, attacked David Lilienthal. Mr. White is majority leader of the United States senate. :

gation that, as director of TVA, Mr. Lilienthal had been | ; 330 a week. No, we want what|to the Hoosier Forum and also in“restive and defiant of congressional restraints,” and that |we fought for, a home. he therefore was “tempramentally unfitted for the chair- |

manship of the atomic energy commission.”

payroll with political appointees named in and from Wash- | ¥ can’t see where all the money deserve every little hregk we can

ington. This consultation between Messrs. White and MecKellar fits too nicely to suit us into the whole pattern of what ig going on. It confirms our impression that a carefully staged plot is unfolding. When the majority leader of the Republican senate

joins with the ancient Democratic enemy of the TVA across the tracks.

director it is too much for us to stomach. Also we believe the incident will nauseate a lot of others, including senators and the general public. Especially, since Senator McKellar's scalp-hunting expedition against Mr, Lilienthal ig of such long and disgraceful standing, motivated as it has been hy such a thirst for patronage as we never have seen equaled. And more especially, since not the least, and we might even say the most important, factor in Mr. Lilienthal’s conspicuous success with TVA was that he was able to keep the patronage addicts out. If Senator McKellar had had his way, TVA would have been a different story—and not a success story. sx 3 s x = , RUT now we see the majority leader of the party that opposes Mr. McKellar's party “getting into the act” that Mr. McKellar originated. And we see also a too obviously arranged parade of other Republicans joining up— Senators Bridges, Wherry, Moore and Brooks. There even has been talk that the at-present powerful Taft might varticipate—though we hope he is too wise. All of which begins to present the main aspects of vhat beat Franklin D. Roosevelt's supremz court packing plan—because it was “top damned clever.” It looks like dirty political pool. The Republicans for lo, these many years, have exhibited a tiger instinct for knocking themselves out. Maybe this is just another one of those things. Maybe they'll do it again, this time using Senator McKellar for the club. We here quote for their contemplation the old adage, that those who lie down with dogs get up with fleas.

V. M. C. A. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

‘THE annual campaign of the Young Men's Christian Association for new members is under way and deserves ~.mmunity-wide support, During its 92 years of serving the city, the Y. M. C. A. _ 1as made an enviable record in war and in peace. mployers can make a sound investment by presenting mberships to their personnel, and an even greater by assisting the association in developing its t Rock river. iil Pity napolis association has a strong claim on the -city. It is to be hoped that the current Ys JS Sycogaat ul 7 38 7 t by the time its 100th 7 had, the heen of an adequate camp

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[it who have families, with housing the V. PF. W. stand and why no His criticism of Mr. Lilienthal was based on hig alle- [0 herd to get. You can’ expect support on this important issue?

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"Have People Forgotten War?

Veterans Should Receive Bonus"

By H R. E, Indianapolis T'm a veteran and I've been discharged a year, and I've never had such a feeling toward the people of Indiana. I don't see how people could be so wrong about the bonus. Coming home on furlough, everybody seemed so friendly and ready to help you in any way. Where is that spirit now? Are these the same people I knew when the war was on? WHat has happened? Are they too selfish? I don't think they realize what is going.on. I'm talking about the veteran, the boy that was away, or have you forgotten? Yes, you have. There's a lot of talk about In- . diana giving a bonus. Well, I think sider. Whenever the bigwigs, such

legislation to improve their position, promptly engaged a good lobby t it to its fullest use, slong proper publicity. Why 't we veterans have something the sort? To my knowledge, the only repIresentative that tried to help us before the current legislature was the

are many

I can't see how veterans can make which was not enough. Where does

|these families to live ip “foxholes”|All of us veterans should write in

form our American Legion and V. I think it's time for people in F. W. organizations to get behind Indiana to wake up. Veterans gre the issue and bring it to a success|trade for a new one. 2 { I, for one, believe we veterans |goes. What happens to the money get. A bonus of four or five hun|that “comes out of our pay «each dred dollars would really be a big | week and all the taxes. They say help to veterans. Haw about it {we have to raise the money. Well,' American Legion and V. F. W., are | there is money somewhere that has you going to secure a good lobby |gone for something else. land get us our just dues? This | Yes, we are asking for the bonus, veteran and member of both orlevery G. 1 that came back and |ganizations is wondering. °

went to work. 1 mean the gW| pauopg Note: The V. F, W. has

See if we want a bonus, and hear , ‘*¥ a stand in favor of a bonus. our side, not by some white shirt $ 8.2% fellow, but the regular G. L | “LACK OF SAFETY 8 & % ISLANDS HAZARDOUS” “BONUS WOULD BE {By a. Citizen, Indianapolis BIG HELP TO VETERANS” A traffic condition exists in our | By Thomas E. Davidson, 4338 W. Naomi |downtown area which is hazardous | Ihave been reading the comments to the citizens of Indianapolis. |of different parties on the question Other hazardous conditions exist of a state bonus for veterans for “ ° As - = = | sometime. I now wish to express throughout the city. I think it yill ‘my sentiments. be & clvic duty for you to publish | Attention you veterans that are such things in a series of articles. |sitting back and waiting, doing I speak of the lack of safety is{nothing toward achieving this goal.ilands in the downtown greas. I I is the duty of each and every saw a student of our local high veteran to voice his opinion and tp school almost run down at an ingive the project his support. |tersection alighting from an B. i Here's another thought to con-|Michigan streetcar.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

I who can say they are doing t./state American Legion commander, |any

“IS G. 1. BONUS GOOD

a vote-getter, if this be the case, there are other big could be worked on the public. Why not try the free textbook idea again. Veterans have minds of their own

be swayed one way or.anothgr on a subject of such vital inferest to them. Come on veterans, veteraps’ wives and everyone interested in a bonus for the boys who fought for this country, state your vieys. Maybe welll get some action—before the next 30 years!

4-5 “I, EQR ONE, AM ALL FOR A BONUS” Bx H. L, Indignapelis I am a vetergn’s wife, gnd I for one favor a bonus. Why not give them something? Don’t you think they have earned it? Of course we know the war is over, and there are no more heroes.

ten there was a war. And that my husband for one was fighting for him, as well as his own family. If it had not been for us the war where would the big shot have been today. My husband before the yar was making ny $100 a week. But he was draf into the navy. His navy pay was $1i4 per month. So you can see what he had to give up to go to

War. : But did he holler? No. But in return for what he did, what thanks does he get? Well, I'll tell you: The same as the rest of the veterans gre getting—s kick in the seaf of the pants. Sp come on, veterans wives, vs r what you haye to say about a bon I, for one, am all for it. td ”

" “LOTS OF OLD FOLKS PAID TAXES, T00”

By Mrs. Mary Smith, Indianapolis : Just read a notice in your issue lof Jan. 21 on how much the welfare board had saved taxpayers from the allotment for old age pengions. So would like to know if you know how they did it? I know of several old and deserving persons - that really need

/|help and are just being put off for '|Ro apparent reason |and over. S '|for as they shoula be there wouldn't

. Somg are 70 Sp if they were cared

be quite such a substantial saving. And they should also remember a

'Itot of the ald folks have paid taxes

in their time, too. So it wouldn't hurt to look the other side up.

: _ .an,income tax expert, you know!"

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was the disclosure by Scripps-Howard newspapers that Senator Wallace White of Maine, majority leader in the senate, had submitted his statement attacking Lilienthal to Senator Kenneth McKellar for appfoval before it was made. :

Combination of Prejudice SENATOR WAYNE MORSE of Oregon, most articulate Republican liberal, confronted Senator White in the cloakroom. Morse was conscious that be did far more campaigning for his party last October than White has ever done. The senator from Oregon let loose a blast against the placid White. “You may,” he said, “be the designated leader of some of the Republicans in the senate. But you are not the leader of them all, and I want you to know it here and now.” eo How many Republicans will finally vete for confirmation of Lilienthal as chairman of the atomic energy commission is uncertain. Senator Charles Tobey of New Hampshire led off with a statement for Lilienthal that, in it§ forthrightness, was in striking contrast to the negativism of the remarks which White submitted to McKellar for approval. Other Republican liberals are expected to follow Tobey, Parallel with the fierce controversy that developed

PT. WORTH, Texas, Feb. 19.—The United States government lately has shown a lamentable hesitancy about confiding in me, so I cannot say whether the ‘state department will welcome the following suggestion. But if I were Secretary George Marshall I would take something they've got down here in Ft. Worth and fly it over every major capital of the world, and then I would lay odds that there would be peace for a long time. I am talking about Consolidated Vultee’'s XB-36, a bomber which is now in considerable production here.

“| It is the most completely staggering hunk of tin I or

anybody else ever clapped eyes on. Words and even pictures dog’t do much to convey the immensity of this hypertiroid k d. It is designed to hgul the fattest atomic bomb in the business to any spot on the globe, and then fiy right home again with no | stops gt the Ruling stations. ' Seeing Is Believin YOU HAVE TO SEE this baby, either in the air or close up to appreciate it. Then you call yourself a liar for thinking it can fly. Let's see what 1 can do with it. It's nearly as long as a Liberty ship, and a B-29, our biggest wartime aircraft, nuzzles alongside it like a'calf to & cow. Its bomb bay is 80-some feet long, about 10 feet less than the overall length of the B-29. I¢1l carry seven railway carloads of fuel in its wings, and the innertubes in its massive wheels weigh 225 pounds apiece, uninflated. It's got six engines, it flys as easily as a B-24— that's what they say, anyhow—and the top of its tail fin stands four stories high. Its bomb bay will hold four freight cars, roughly, leading me to suspect that the plane was not built for dropping propaganda leaflets. The most passionate nationalist on the globe, his

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—8oviet Pores Minister Molotov's attack on Under Secretary of Btate Dean Acheson almost certainly will prove a boomerang. To diplomats with long memories it recalls Germany’s attack on French Foreign Minister Theophile Delcasse in 1905 and ¥rance’s historic humiliation. The outcome of the Acheson incident, however, will be quite different. Because of Delcasse’s firm loyalty .to the Franco-British entente, Germany strongly intimated war unless France changed direction. Unprepared to défend herself, France was bullied and frightened into firing her foreign minister.

Protest Surprised Washington THE DELCASSE affair served as a belated warning to France. Within six months after her humiliation, she spent $40 million putting her frontier in better order, replenishing her ammunition and repairing her fortresses. di The Molotov protest may have a somewhat similar effect. The charge of “inadmissible behavior” levelled

foreign policy is aggressive and expansionist) made before ‘a senate committee, provides a hint of what we might expect if we e weak, disarm by ourselyes, or give away the atomic bomb without ade-

‘| quate guarantees.

It ‘takes a great deal to surprise official Washington where Soviet Russia is concerried. But Mr. Molotov's protest accomplished it. In congress the attitude was: “What next!” Chairman Hickenlooper of the senate atomic committee observed that Mr. ‘Ache-

Holmes, | son bad merely Pf Into words “what is apparent to

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs - + Lilienthal Fight Is Disgrace to Senate

over confirmation of Louis D. Brandeis to be justice of the supreme court has been drawn. Brandeis was . nominated by Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Immediately there was a pained outery from the smug, respectable, reactionary which grew into an organized campaign

to prevent 0 Benind mich of the aitack on Brandeis

dignity of the individual; cherishing the individual

the cowardly and crav upholding the rights thas. have slowly heen man has evolved Irom the brute.

offered to Lilienthal. Lili have been better off to stay where he accepted the assignment.

Crisis for the 6.0.P.

the appointment By revert to military control, contrary will of congress and thé threat, That is e,

| REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Army's XB-36 Argues Well for Peace

soul shocked with expansionist fire, is a ) look at the XB-36 and rush off to join a Tibetan religious order devoted solely to meditation. , The Gargantua of the airplane world is stark in its argu ment for permanent peace-—more so than the A-bomb, which is a vague scientific fantasy unappreciated by few folks apart from the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But when you see old XB-36—and the X comes off shortly, meaning she ain't experimental no more —you deliver a short sermon to yourself like this: “Hmmm. Suppose I am a foreigner, and we got

the atom, too, and We decide to drop it somewhere

like Washington. So we knock pff there 41 & fey doen of thaws Piands Siting all over the country with aw full of atom-crack rd Thr yt a as the first thing you know we are | lava over here, too, and that of war because there will be so. spend the profits.” Unveil This Critter » ALL ALONG, the terrible potential of atomic war has needed a tangible h zer, a delivering t to impress the ordinary folk with the futile stupidity of starting another scrap. rE I think the XB-38 is it, in double spades. All big planes in formation are a frightening sight, especially during a war when the bet is even that they aren't yours ‘and the mental picture of a sky full of these flying Chrysler buildings, with their Himitless range and their unquenchable capgcity for destruction, is enough to send even a professional general shudder ing to bed. ~Unvefl thié critter, Secreta’y Marshall, and then let us get back to the quiet business of beating diplomats into play-shares

few people lett to

WORLD AFFAIRS «+ + By William Philip Simms ; - Russia Sheets at U.S. From the Hip

any impartial observer,” while Senator Knowland re~ marked that the under secretary “wag only stgling what wes common knowledge.” : Examination .of the Joanie committee's official transcript reveals no c¢ tever for Moscow's truculence. Questioned regarding Soviet-American relations Mr. Acheson, replied that he thought it “most ill-advised” for him to become involved on I Fe ; at “Rysian ore icy 18 an sive and expanding one.” Ey when taken in its content—is a notable understatement. The Soviet note, therefore, is ded as all the more remarkable. ‘While ready Laing swiy at the United States with the most sensational ‘and

wholly unfounded charges, Russia was plainly shoot- - | ing from the hip. She may be launching a new

technique hoping to frighten others into silerice while she continues her propaganda broadsides. : It was all right for her to create an axis, or set up

sa bloc composed Of herself, Austria-Hungary and

Tals but i was something else for Foreign Minister casse ds f . Thus when Er Wa In rd: a forced to walk the plank. : Small Nations Succumb to Moscow POLAND, ESTONIA, Lithuania, Latvis, Romania, Buigaria and Yugoslavia, ‘weak, have succumbed to Moscow. A lot of other count: Asia are forced to shape their foreign, if not their domestie cies largely under fear of their powerful

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