Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1947 — Page 18

d generation, knows hate and prejudice

sioiti er One of the most sincere manifestations of

Sh a rm n ch the theme of bro In Indiatapolis sh is being emphasized throughout

Indiana council for unity, born administration's anti-hate bill houses of the legislature, has ambitious plans for creating understanding through |

brotherhood

which could be made by the general assembly would be to pass the house bill prohibiting discrimination in the schools. This bill would end the segregation policy of the Indian-

apolis public schools, a policy that to say the least is not

one which makes for better understanding.

The war brought, among its benefits, a much broader

knowledge to our people

places of the world. But we still don’t know

of other peoples and of the far

one another

h here at home, Brotherhood should be observed

the year—its so frequent absence is the reason the President of the United States must single it out for

‘special attention.

As Mr. Truman said in his proclamation:

“We can-

not hope to commend brotherhood abroad unless we prac-

tice it at home.”

ACHESON AND McKELLAR

INDERSECRETARY Acheson’s observation that R sian foreign policy “is an aggressive and’ expanding

one” was a frank answer to a question, and made in line of

duty, Secretary Marshall has told Soviet Foreign Minister

Molotov,

“You characterized the content of his statement as a rude slander and hostile to the Soviet Union,” Mr, Marshall {other parents and their children. Then, too, to assure a happy and said in his reply to the note from the Russian government. [successful marriage the husband and wife must consider themselves “Under our standards, a restrained comment on a matter of public policy is not slander. Therefore, I know that on . second thought you will not attribute hostility to frank-

ness.

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reply was commendable for its dignity as well as candor. The exchange of notes may convince the

Russians that the new secretary is not a man to be pushed

around. If so, the incident will have served a useful pur-

pose.

However, overlooking Russia's baffling chip-on-the-

shoulder attitude, the origin of this controversy deserves

more than passing attention.

Mr. Acheson’s statement was, as his superior plainly [Al these

stated, a restrained comment on the question at issue. But that was due wholly to the undersecretary’s poise,: under |these lines will do much to decrease severe badgering by Senator McKellar, who was trying to put words in Mr. Acheson’s mouth to bolster his phony case |«pgopLE AGAINST BONUS against David E. Lilienthal. The senator obviously sought to provoke the undersecretary into criticizing the Soviet Union and its fifth column in this country, presumably on the theory that this somehow would reflect upon Mr. Lilienthal. Fortunately, Mr. Acheson declined the bait. State department spokesmen should not be drawn into controversial discussions of our international relationships

under such circumstances.

There are times and places for congressional review of foreign policy, but Mr, Acheson's appearance at the Lilien-

thal hearing was not one of them,

EANWHILE, we rise to thank Milton Mackaye, author, for a bouquet he sent us, It came because of an editorial we had, dealing with that marriage of convenience

between Republican Majority Leader White and DemoSenator White showed Senator

cratic Senator McKellar.

McKellar for approval the White kick-off statement against

Mr. Lilienthal.

Mr. Mackaye wires: “I am no world thinker, but as an old-time police reporter I know a frameup when I see one, I have read faithfully all the testimony before the senate committee, I trust my instincts more than my intelligence,

but both instinct and intelligence tell me there is some-

thing rotten going on: I can smell it.”

WHY OF THE WRECKS

R EMEMBER back before the war when railway passen- _ 7, %er cars were decorated with reassuring signs boasting about not a death in an accident in a year, or words to

that effect? A proud boast and well justified.

Then came the war and the wear and tear on transportation—and an alarming increase in death and disaster. The latest is the terrible tragedy on the Pennsylvania near

Why? Wear and tear first. Second, scarcity of repair and maintenance materials and labor. Third, a federal tax policy of forcing out dividend payments which has restricted the railroads’ ability to plow back what it takes to keep equipment and roadbed fit. In net, a disproportionate

allocation of the railroad dollar,

Avoidable,

eat for the e

ith SLE conta fox wages and

i A recent advertisement from the Association of American Railroads shows that only 2.7 cents of all railway dollar receipts goes to cover both improvements and dividends. 18 not enough, even to cover improvements. And that’s hy of the tragedies, which by tHe record before the

sting to note how the railway dollar is split or employees in wages and salaries, 33 cents 6.6 cents for insurance policyholders, inAnd for renty, and 6.2 cents for taxes. A lightenment of the Philip eft Nathans and the others who rave fits, that only 2.7 cents out of the | of both improvements and

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do not agree with a word that you * say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire.

in life.

“Here Are Four Points to Assure A Happy and Successful Marriage"

By Jeannette Booker, City

outside the home. Most parents desire their children to do well

If we just must have social workers, why not employ mothers (even

life four points are at issue. First, consider each grown-up. Second, don’t let jealousy creep into your imagination to the extent that you must open each other's mail or search the pants pockets of each. Third, the wife should know that a true husband dislikes cursing, * drinking, use of or rouge to the extreme, partly

A little careful thought along

ALREADY HAVE HOMES” By Jee Mills, Indianapolis I read the article in The Times about the bonus. I wholly agree with the veteran's wife who wrote it. . I am a wounded veteran from the navy and I have been out of service since February of ‘46. I am married and I will be a father in Apri. I am making $36 a week and my wife and I are living with my mother and father, I can say that I didn’t join the navy when I was 17, expecting bonus money and everything free when I got out of the service, But I would like to have enough money so that I could get my wife and I started on an ordinary life. The way things are now we will be living here the next two years if something isn’t done for us. The people who say they are against the bonus are the ones that have a home and dont know what it is to want a home of your own. They have their money and se-

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DEBATE ON FULL CREW BILL” >

You say that the unions get paid for something which they do not earn, and further that the public pays for something they do not get. If your editor had taken the trouble to read the so-called full crew bill he would have seen that it {is purely a safety measure and nothing else, The laws of our land say there

curity, We would like a start on ours, How about it, people?

are many things that are unlawful to be done even tho it is entirely

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~ ” » By G. §. MeArdle, Indianapolis “Four Killed in Crossing Crash”; “Three Die as Train Hits Car.” As long as the newspapers are! full of stories like that how does anybody dare make any “deal” that means we keep MORE grade crossings, kill MORE people? The Indiana legislature . . . egged on by the railroads and their unions for just voted approval of a deal to keep safety off the highways . .

What you called a “cynical deal” to save millions for the railroads on grade crossing safety ought to be called . . something a lot worse. An extra man with nothing to do on board a train does not save any lives. . One grade crossing that is not removed can cost plenty of lives. That deal you reported a number of grade crossings that ought to be made safe will not be made safe. = - s By J. J. O'Reilly, Terre Haute The “extra man” put on trains) by the full crew law does not work,! because there i$ no work for him to, do ... it is just “featherbedding.” Your editorial should start a hot’ argument.

» » » By Henry J. Small, Indianapolis Your attack on railroads . . . was ‘unfair. Ralfiroads are not responsible for the safety of people who drive automobiles . . . should not pay any part of the cost of removing grade crossings. "” ” » By Guy Roby, Frankfort If anyone can swallow that Times! editorial and keep it down, he is a good one. A full crew is necessary | ‘0 handle the long freight and pas- | senger trains of today with safety. From my experience as a railroad man, I am sure the extra man is needed.

” » » By George B. Rose, Beech Grove The “full crew law” contributes nothing to safety in the operation of a steam railroad. . .'. Adjoining states which had such laws found that out and repealed them.

Editor's Note: Safety? o ” n “SCHOOL SEGREGATION ALSO IS UNECONOMICAL” By Andrew W. Ramsey, 450 N. Senate ave. The Civil Liberties committee, a non-partisan, non-sectarian, interracial organimation of freedom loving citizens, wishes to express it's whole-hearted endorsement of the stand The Times took in a recent editorfal favoring the abolition of racial segregation from the public schools of Indiana, We feel that segregation In the schools is not only undemocratic and un-Chris-tian but that it is uneconomical. We are agreed also that if the remainder of our press and radio would join you in a campaign of mass education on this issue our schools could be made into instruments to educate for democracy rather than for castd as is so often the case under our present set-up. May you continue the good work.

DAILY THOUGHT For great Is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept “the word of the Lord.—II Chtonicles 4:2 :

HAIL I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine

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IN WASHINGTON « «+ « By Marquis Childs Good Men Won't Be Bullied by Solons

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Lo, the poor bureauHis fate in these times is a luckless. one as

vided between Jealous Republicans and suspicious ts. Within each party there are divisions just as sharp as those between the two parties, . The gov-

the senate committee on civil service. all bureaucrats do these days, Berge felt a al His division in the depart. ment of justice is not likely to find favor with economizers. Prospect is for a cut in appropriation for anti-trust instead of the small increase Berge feels Necessary. He was berated by the new Republican chairnfan, Senator William Langer of North Dakota, because he had not put anyone in jail for violating antitrust laws. Berge tried repeatedly to explain th® judges and juries would not, except in unusual cases, apply criminal penalties to businessmen. Virtually all antitrust actions are civil cases intended to impose fines on corporations and prevent them from repeating monopolistic practices: Yet Langer persisted. This is a sample of cross-

| examination:

Langer: “Your section has a suit pending against the Tungsten manufacturers?” Berge: “That case is being tried right now.” Langer: “Those people are buying that at $24 a pound and they got together and raised that to $480 a pound.” Berge: “$453, I believe.” Langer: “And it cost $24, and not a single living soul went to jail!” : Berge: “The case is being tried now. I know they will probably not go to jail.”

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow , ‘Gerard Troost Enriched New Harmony |

THE PIONEER housewife on a farm down in southern Indiana, after the second suds on washday, rinsed her clothes in a tub of clear water, into this she put a bit of bluing. The bluing gave the water its own bluish touch, and removed from the clothes their yellowish tinge. This came from the home-made lye soap, based mainly on lye from her ash hopper, and grease from fat farm porkers.. The bluing was the relieving touch on wash day.

Surpassed by Few : GERARD TROOST, like the pioneer housewife's bluing, clears the twin social experiment at New Harmony. He removes much of the tinge of frustration, unfortunate guidance, and the failure of this social experiment, * Of all the men who made the New Harmony social colonies an outstanding touch in Hoosier life, few surpassed or matched Gerard Troost. .There was about him the solidity of the Dutch, the urbanity of the mdn who knows the world, and the simplicity of him who can be, and often is, great. Troost came from the solid men of Holland, where he was born at Bois-le-Duc, March 15, 1776. He specialized in chemistry, natural history, and geology at the University of Leyden and Amsterdam, served as a private and as a health officer in the army; was a pharmacist in Amsterdam and The Hague. In 1807, Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, sent him to Paris for study in science, and later employed him to collect minerals for his cabinet. After an ill-starred attempt at a scientific mission to Java, he decided to become an American citizen. Early in 1810, he came to Philadelphia, where he established a pharmaceutical and chemical laboratory. Very understandingly and naturally, he took “a little time off on Jan. 14, 1811, to marry Margaret

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.— The London decision to let the United Nations wrestle with the Palestine problem will smoke Soviet Russia out of the underbrush whence, for a long time, she has been sniping at British policy throughout the Middle East.

info the writer that Cairo has become the center of Communist intrigue reaching across North Africa” and far to the east of Suez Its main job is to play both ends against the middle—stirring up Arabs and Jews against the British and the western democracies in general, including the United States.

Russia Will Favor Arabs IN A SHOWDOWN, however, there is little doubt that Russia will -favor the Arabs, There are only some 14 million Jews in the world as against more than 200 million Mohammedans scattered across a strategic belt from Morocco to India and beyond. Significance is attached to the fact that of the hundreds of thousands of uprooted Jews in Europe, only a negligible few seem to have turned eastward since VE-day to make their home in the Soviet Union. In the American zone of Germany alone there are now 125,000 Polish Jews yearning for Palestine rather than Poland which has become a Soviet satellite with a Communist-dominated regime, The Soviet Union is approximately three times the size of ' the United States with plenty of room for immigrants. - Yet the Jewish exodus is moving westward, not eastward. . Moscow's attitude toward Palestine has beeri’ carefully balanced as between Jews and Arabs. However, it is definitely hostile to Britain. Izvestia, voice of the Kremlin, charegs that London's policy 1s to. preserve British rule in the Holy Land, create a

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British-controlled near eastern bloo and suppress the independence of the Arabian east. ifs

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of the big fellows, so that every motion picture house will be independent. And that is going to the supreme court.”

Langer: “The attorney general's office did a mar-

velous job when they convicted Brown and Bioff, the :

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labor racketeers, and did a lot of good and helped keep union labor racketeers from taking advantage of

union members. It is just as logical if you put two

or three big movie fellows in the penitentiary for putting little fellows out of business in places like Devil's Lake and Grand Forks. That would also be a deterrent.” “~~

Public Servants Put on Defensive

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PATIENTLY, BERGE TRIED to explain how -

monopoly control had evolved in the movie industry over a long period of years. It would be wrong, he

told Langer, to “assess moral guilt on a few fellows and put them in jail to atone for the economic wrongs

of the whole industry.”

At times, the bystander would have thought that i Berge himself was a criminal on trial for hig life. * Members of the committee seemed to be accusing

him of some conspiracy to spend government funds. If able men in government are to be badgered and harried before congressional committees, the result will soon be no government at all.

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Tage of Philadelphia. They had two children, a | ‘daughter, and a son who became a civil engineer in i’ Mobile, Ala. When his wife died, in 1819, he married =

Mrs. O'Reilly. The real slant and caliber of Troost showed itself

in two moves he made in his first two years in Amer-

ica. As you watch him make these two moves you catch the bent and scope of Gerard Troost. The first move came in 1811, when he established an alum manufacturing plant at Cape Sable, Md. This was the first plant established in the United States to manufacture alum. Troost had been in the country only one year. While the venture eventually failed, his move plainly reveals him.

In 1812, Troost was one of the seven founders of ' the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. *

In 1912, the academy celebrated its 100th anniversary. Delegates and messages came to it from all over the world. It is a thing unsurpassed of its kind.

Troost came to New Harmony with William MacClure’s coterie in 1826. The two men were of the seven founders of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Troost being its first president for five years ‘till 1817, and Maclure following for 23 years |

‘til his death in 1840.

Lectured on Chemistry ; AT NEW HARMONY, Troost lectured on chem istry, to add his distinguishing touch to New Harmony just before it winked out in 1828. He closed his career as professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy at the University of Nashville, Tenn., and geologist of the state 'til his death Aug. 4, 1850. J Gerard Troost enriched Indiana as he touched New Harmony. He was a good citizen of America by choice and adoption. His kind are the essence of the stuff that has made America great. Indiana will long remember and fittingly honor him,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms : Reds Undermine British in Palestine

Similar articles, clearly of inspired origin, regularly i

appear in Cairo newspapers, One such article saying Arabian troops are already in Palestine “to participate in events to come,” was quoted by Izvestia to prove the existence of a British “Near Eastern bloc.”

Presumably Britain is preparing to transform her

Palestine mandate into a trusteeship under the

United Nations. Presumably also, she will lay the

matter before the general assembly rather than the

security council which deals more especially with “strategic areas.” a strategic base be set aside for her in Palestine as a condition for giving up her mandate,

However, Britain may ask that |

So far as Britain is concerned, Palestine has | become too hot to handle. The Zionists want an | independent state, and the Arabs won't have it. The Zionists clamor for the admission of 100,000 Jewish emigrants, beginning at once. The Arabs threaten |

bloodshed if they are allowed in.

A solution would require force and the British '

dare not go that far, Britain is doing her utmost

to cut her world-wide commitments—in Indias, Burma

and elsewhere—in line with. necessary postwar re-

trenchment. She cannot afford to risk war with the | Arabs backed, as they would be, by a large part

of the Moslem world throughout which Soviet agents are increasingly active,-

Has Ticklish Job

IN PALESTINE, the United Nations will Fave its

most ticklish job. It lacks police to enforce its : decisions. Yet, if Izvestia is right, and “complete independence” is the only solution, -the United Nations will: certainly need to back up the verdict. Complete independence for whom? The Jews? The Arabs? The two? :

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